The Standard Union from Brooklyn, New York • 1

7 ON Fair To-morrow. VOL. XXJL. NO. 347.

(Eatand the Port Office Brooklyn, M. Nov. 12, 179, as Hcond class mall mitur. under Act of March 1878.) BROOKLYN. SATURDAY.

JUNE 16. 1906: TEN 1.1 il 1 i LS REPLIES POOLE GUILTY OF MURDER MORROW 111 FID BALL T0 MANHATTAN BRIDGE CONTRACT AWARDED POLICE TO IN 1 James 0'Hara's Slayer Cool When That Hold Me for a While," JnterstateManagers' Association After Confab With Deputy O'Keeffe, Decide toJGo On With Sunday Games Contributions Will Be Taken at Gate, Arrests Will FollowTBuUhe Games Will Go On Brooklyn Will Play Cincinnati at Washington Park Mayor Mc-Clellan Puts Jt Up to Bingham to Enforce the Law. His Cell-Jury J4adBeerL0utJILNightHBert.njde.0'Hara, Pris-oner's Former Sweetheart, on Whom He Tried to Fasten Crime, Released Convicted Man Will Be Sentenced Next Tuesday. SLAUGHTER OF JEWS Mob Indulges in Unspeakable Atrocities, in Which Women Take Part. STRANGLE AND DROWN VICTIMS Casualties Placed at 200 Dead and 450 Wounded.

BERLIN, June 16. News has reached Jews here that the rioting and bloodshed in Bialystok, Russia, continues. The official assurances that preventive measures would be taken Immediately are misleading, as the local authorities at Bialystok are abetting the onslaught on the Hebrews. According to the news received here, the anti-Semitic fury of the mob is unprecedented and that It Is really another Klshineff massacre. The mere killing does not satisfy the passion of the people, for torture of victims is added.

Limbs are chopped off with axes, eyes are gouged out and skulls are battered In with Iron rods or hammers. Wounded Jews are left In burning houses and children are thrown from windows. The members of gangs of Jew-baiters have pursued original methods in killing the Jews. One of'the gangs did not mutilate, but suffocated or strangled their victims, while another gang would drown the victims. Women have taken a prominent part In the rioting, and the gentile women displayed a remarkable thirst for the blood of the Jewesses.

Their excesses In their fury are said to have been unspeakable. The German Jewish Association has sent emissaries to Bialystok to Investigate the massacres there. A preliminary report from these investigators shows that more than 200 persons nave Deen killed and 450 wounded during the outbreaks. Local Jews have assured the emissaries that a complete Investigation will show that there was far greater bloodshed than is Indicated In this report They repeat' the declaration that the official statement to the effect that Jews started the troubles is a mere trick to hide the infamy of the antl-semlte outrages. The "Vorwaerts" states that the banishment of political prisoners in Russia to Siberia is being carried on with even more than usual activity.

During tne month of May 7.000 exiles passed through Tcheklablnsk, a town of Russia on the Trans-Siberian railway, on their way to Siberia: i WARSAW, Poland, June 16. The massacre at Bialystok continued throughout last night, according to Information received here. The mob attacked patrols In the street, and there were many furious fights. The devastation continues uninterrupted. While the fighting was in progress the streets were lighted by the conflagration of Jewish houses, which had been fired by the rioters.

Many persons were killed on both sides The suburb of Bojary Is reported to have been completely destroyed. The massacre is extending to the neighboring towns of Czarha. Wies, Lapy and Starosieloe. It is feared that the growth of the riots will accelerate a civil war. ST.

PETERSBURG, June 16. The newspapers to-day express surprise at the unanimous vote taken In the Pouma yesterday to Investigate the Bialystok outrages. The "Novoe Vremya" explains the position taken by the press when It says: "The Douma must pardon the Hooligans who are massacring Jews if revolutionists who are assassinating Governors are to be pardoned." Jewish circles are enthusiastic over the hope that a new era will follow for them after the decision of the Pouma to Investigate such massacres. Three members of the Pouma have started from here for Bialystok for the purpose of inquiring into the origin of the disturbance there. One of the party is an ex-procurator, and another is a Jew.

BERLIN, June 16. Reports from Blalsystok estimate the number of persons killed during the massacres there at 600. FRANCE WOULD SELL ISLANDS TO AMERICA? PARIS, June 16. The "Patrle" says It Is currently reported in the lobbies of the Chamber of Peputies that the Government circle wishes to sell the French possessions In the Antilles and Oceania to the United States. The principal French possessions In the Lesser Antilles are Guadeloupe and Martinique, with a few minor Islands which are dependent upon them.

The French Oceanic possessions are scattered over a wide area In the Eastern Pacific. They consist of the Society Islands, the most Important of which are Tahiti and Moorea; the Tuamotu Islands; the Leeward Islands, comprising Raltea, Tahaa, Hushlne and Bora Bora; the Tubual and Ralvavae groups, the Isl and of Rapa, the Gambler Islands. Rurutu and Rtmatara Islands, the Marquesas Islands. Their total area Is about 1,620 square miles and their population about 29,000. COLER'S AUTO IN CRASH TO TO Admits He Was in Error on One Point, Otherwise Position Is the Same.

SUGGESTS" MANY" CHANGES. Substitute Amendment Could Be Whipped Into Shape. WASHINGTON, June 1C President Roosevelt this morning gave out the following copy of a letter written by him last night In answer to the letter from Representative Wadsworth, which so severely criticised the President for his attitude on the meat Inspection bill: "My Pear Mr. Wadsworth In the first place, I wish promptly to acknowledge the one portion of your letter In which you are In the main right. I was In error In the statement, which I accepted from Senator Beverldge, that there was no provision for making the plants accessible at all hours to the inspectors.

The provision was put In another place; but It Is not as good a- the original provision. The court provision Is the one to which I object. It Is one of many. As regards this I wish to repeat that if deliberately designed to prevent the remedying of the evils complained of. this Is the exact provision which the friends of the packers and the packers themselves will have provided.

It Is absurd to assert that any such provision is needed. Why have you not put such a provision In the post office law as It affects fraud orders? In the law as it affects fraudulent entries of homesteads, Congress cannot take away the constitutional right of the packers, or of any one else to the protection of the courts. But such a provision as that under consideration does not represent a desire to secure the constitutional rights of any man. It represents doubtless in some cases an honest, though wholly mistaken conviction. In other cases it represents a deliberative purpose to Interfere with effective administration by trying to provide that the courts shall in reality do administrative work which they would be the first to assert their Inability to perform.

"If the bill, as you reported it from the committee, were enacted into law you would have the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture narrowly limited so as to be purely ministerial. And when he declared a given slaughter house unsanitary, or a given product unwholesome, acting on the Judgment of the Government experts, you would put on the ludKe. who had no knowledge whjit- ftever of the conditions, the burden of stating whether or not the Secretary was right. In Chicago, for Instance, you would make any Judge whom the packers chose to designate and not the experts of the Department of Agriculture the man to decide on any question of any kind which the packers thought It worth while to dispute, while many remember the recent Judicial decision In Chicago with which the packers were concerned. "I wish to repeat that this provision Is, In my Judgment, one which.

If enacted Into law, will nullify the major part of the good which can be expected from the enactment of this law. Tou assert that the packers insist upon having a rigid inspection law passed. If they sincerely desire a rigid inspection law they will Insist upon this provision being taken out Leaving it in Is Incompatible with securing a properly efficient law. "To so much of your letter as speaks of my having made innuendoes about a committee of the house or of your knowledge of the English language, It Is not necessary to make answer. Tou state thst If I or my advisers will point out specifically wherein the bill fails to accomplish my purpose, 'It will be promptly I am happy to tell you that I have to-day seen a member of your committee, Mr.

Adams, seeing him by request of the sneaker, and I went over with him. together with Mr. McCabe and Mr. Reynolds, the various points In which the bill as you have reported it falls to accomplish our purpose, and made the specific recommendations necessary in each case to remedy the failure. And in each case Mr.

Adams stated that he personally would accept the alterations we proposed. He agrees with me that the court review prosecution should be excluded. He agrees as to the dosen changes which we think should be made. If these changes, which Mr. Adams says he thinks should, be adopted, are adopted, your amendment will become as good as the Beverldge amendment; In Mr.

McCabe's opinion, somewhat better than the Beverldge amendment I care not a whit for the language of the amendment. What I am concerned with Is to have It accomplish the object I have In view, namely, a thorough and rigid and not a sham investigation. "The President must be brought to see his mistake." This is the sentiment that seems to rule the House to-day. The excitement over the correspondence between the President and Representative Wadsworth, chairman of the Houce Committee on Agriculture, about the meat inspection given out by Mr. Wadsworth.

Is twtense. Speaker Cannon approves the sharp tone of the Wadsworth epistle. In fact he has Joined with him in criticising the President for what they term his Interference with the prerogatives of the legislative branch of the Government. He and the House leaders resent the manner in which he attempted to selxeleglslatlon, yet in Its formative and his criticism of a committee which, according to their views, made honest efforts to get the best out of a very perplexing situation. What was formerly the President's most serious objection to the bill, the fart that It provided for payment of the cost of Inspection by the Government, seems to have been lost stirht of almost entirely.

The President himself no longer places great stress upon It. Thus far the exact character of the amendments desired by him has not been revealed, but conservative members do not believe that they will occasion Insurmountable difficulties. They hope for an amicable adjustment, although the disposition of the House Is such that much yielding Is cot to bo expected. COLLINS LOSES TENNIS MATCH TO ENGLISHMAN. LONPON.

June 19. In an exhibition tennis match played at Wimbledon today. F. L. Rlseley, an English player, defeated Collins, of the United States, by the score of 6 and 1, SECOND DEGREE Jury Announces Verdict He Says, When Taken Back to nounced and It was with difficulty thej, were soothed and quieted.

Constable Buhler tapped Poole on the shoulder and motioned to him to follow him, and as the prisoner turned to accompany the constable back to his cell he laughed In a sneering 'way and said: "I guess that will hold me for awhile." Poole will be sentenced next Tuesday, when Mr. Seudder, his counsel, will move for a new trial. The Jurymen would not talk about their deliberations, but it Is said that for a time at least eleven were In favor of a verdict of murder In the first degree. This, however. Is only rumor.

Gertrude O'Hara, who has been detained as a witness, was released after Poole's case had been disposed of. STORY OF CRIME. O'Hara disappeared one night last August, after he had spent the evening with" Poole and two Italians. Six weeks afterward his body was found In the woods not far from his home. There was little left but the bones, and It was Identified by the clothing.

Two bullets were found under the body, and. an examination showed that the man had been shot to death. At the trial Gertrude O'Hara testified that Poole came home at mld-nffht on the night of O'Hara's disappearance and confessed that he had killed her father. Mrs. O'Hara testified that Poole had made a similar confession to her and then had withdrawn iti Poole tried to fix the burden of the crime on Gertrude O'Hara, alleging he was In the O'Hara home when she and her mother came In, and that the girt said to him "I have killed the hairy old villain." The girl admitted at the trial that she and her father often quarreled and that Poolo on such occasions took her part.

FOR JORE LIGHT Ellison Wakes Up as to the Needs Queens. FEARS ADVERSE CRITICISM. Would Equip 9,000 Lamps With Mantles. Commissioner Ellison of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, Is going to make a determined effort to bring, the street lighting conditions of Brooklyn up to a beter standard. He declares that Manhattan and the Bronx are far ahead of Brooklyn In this respect and he Is going to ask the Board of Estimate to cut the appropriation for lighting for Manhattan and the Bronx tluu.OOO and give that amount to Brooklyn.

In a report to the Board of Kstlmate on the needs' of his department of Brooklyn and Queens, Commissioner Ellison said: "The pressure of the public for Improved lighting and for more lighting In Brooklyn and Queens has become such that It Is Impossible to withstand It without severe adverse criticism and the city's interest suffering materially. Those boroughs are now filling up very rapidly under the effect and promise of improved systems of transportation and yet they are In many sections without any light at all. While It is not intended now to light all the sections, at tha same time, a considerable amount Is settled and without light. From the funds at hand we are unable to follow the lines of population with lighting. "In addition to this the lighting of these two boroughs Is of a type that is old fashioned, that has practically been abandoned elsewhere as Inefficient In 1904 the open flame lamps in Manhattan were changed to mantle lamps and the lighting In candle power for each lamp changed was Increased about four times, whereas, the cost has decreased 70 per cent.

"With the funds, It Is proposed. In addition to installing new lights, to change the open flame lamps In Brooklyn and Queens to mantle lamps and to re-arrange the light so as to obtain a better effect by this needed Improve-' ment. The present open flame lamps are as much out of place as the old form of kerosene oil light. The number of lamps to be changed amounts to about 8.000 and the Increased candle power In Brooklyn and Queens will be 5O0.000. "The electric lighting in Brooklyn and Queens has been of an Inferior type to that of Manhattan.

The lamps supplied are 1.200 candle power and the equipment in large sections of these boroughs has not been Improved In several years and has not kept pace With Improvements In either the borough of Manhattan or the Bronx." ORDER TO KEEP GHILDREB OFF STREETS Numerous serious accidents, some fatal, to children playing In the streets, frequently attributed to the negligence of parents In permitting those under their thargs to use the public roadways for play grounds, has prompted Peputy Commissioner O'Keeffe to Instruct th.s Inspectors and captains to i.rder the police to see that children are kept off the roadways. The carrying out of this order the Peputy Commissioner thinks will avert the death of triay. Children. MAKE TEST CASE the wires busy at Police Headquarters this morning trying to ascertain what the Commissioner proposed doing, should he accept contributions at me gates. As a result of the efforts of the managers of the Interstate League, Mr.

Eb-bets will be nermit ted to play the Cin cinnati to-morrow at Washington Park, weather permitting. The game will not be Btopped by the police, but arrests will be made, as will be the case with every other game where contributions are ac cepted. MAYOR PlfT IT UP TO BINGHAM. On Wednesday afternoon a committee of the Interstate Managers' Association waited upon Mayor. McClellan at City Hall, and were assured that the Mayor was a warm admirer of the great national game, but there had been so many complaints from the Sabbath Society and others and threats made that the matter would be referred to Gbv.

Higgins, If the Mayor refused to act. that McClel lan placed the matter entirely in the hands of Police Commissioner Bingham. The committee was referred to Bingham and when it called at 300 Mulberry street Gen. Blneham put the case before Pepu ty Commissioner Mathot, who Is handling baseball Just now. Deputy Mathot heard the arguments of the committee and personally was very much in favor of permitting baseball games on Sunday for many reasons, but oficlally he had to live up to the law.

However, Bingham, O'Keeffe and Mathot conferred by wire this morning and It was agreed to allow all games scheduled for to-morrow to be played and arrests to be made for the purpose of testing the Sunday law in the courts on Monday. BOBBED UNITY CLUB DF POTTED PIGEON New Policeman Captures Two BoysJAho Were Making Off With Forty Birds. Policeman WinianT Secelnger, of the Ralph avenue station, who recently finished his probation period, caught two burglars, whose booty was forty pigeons, it Is alleged, they had stolen from a cote In the attic of the Unity Republican Club, 1250 Bushwlck avenue, a few doors from Weirfleld street. The prisoners were Joseph Weis, 20 years of age, of 165 Hamburg avenue, and Jacob Bender, 19 years old, of 263 Hamrod street. Secklnger, while patrolling Weirfleld street, near Bushwick avenue, about 4 o'clock this morning, heard footsteps, and stepped Into the shadow of a nearby doorway.

Hardly had he done so when he saw Weis and Bendern coming down Weirfleld street and turn the corner. Still keeping in the shadow of the doorway, he waited for the two men to reappear. Scarcely five minutes elapsed before the pair came back and scaled a board fence that runs behind a store on the corner. They climbed to the roof of an extension of the house, and. walking along the extensions of three houses, disappeared.

Stickinger drew hia revolver and stepped up to a corner of the fence and awaited the return of the men. After a wait of ten minutes, the two appeared over the top of the fenjll. They seemed to have grown very" stout. They dropped from the fence and stood stock still when they found themselves looking into the business-end of a revolver. Etlckinger marched them to the station house and discovered that their stoutness arose from the fact that they had stowed away forty pigeons that had been kept In a coop in the attic of the Unity Clubhouse.

In the Gates avenue court, to-dav John Relss, the Janitor of the club appeared ns a complainant. They were held for the grand Jury In $300 'FRESCO SHAKEN BY QUAKE, FOUR SHOCKS; NO DAMAGE SAN FRANCISCO, June 16. Four distinct earthquake shocks were felt In this city and Oakland last night, the first two being felt at 9:40 and the other two at 10:35. No damage was done. The movements were from west to east and were several seconds In duration.

Oakland felt the earthquake plainly, the vibrations being full five seconds, and the audience at Ye Liberty Theatre a momentary scare. The theatre has a temporary tin roof, and plaster from an adjoining building which is being repaired fell upon it, giving a good Imitation of stage thunder. The audience was frightened, but the leading man reassured them. CHAUFFEUR WHO RAN OVER CHILDREN FREED. i i John Pavls, of 773 Atlantic avenue, the chauffeur who yesterday ran down 3-year-old Frank Suplnsky, of 217 Twenty-third street and 4Mr-year-old Frank Bruce, of 211 Twenty-third street, was discharged by Magistrate Dooley In the Butler street court to-day.

The Bruce child was attended by Ambulance Purireon Baumgard. of the Norwegian Hospital, and found he had concussion of the brain. Pavla was going along very slowly, and the children ran in front of the machine, it Is said, and made the accident unavoidable. Commissioner Gets Busy and Closes Deal for City With Lowest Bidders. TO BE FINISHED IN -1909.

Rivals May Find It Hard to Get Courts to Interfere. Rival bidders will-be surprised, if not nonplussed, to-day to learn that the contract for the 42,000 tons of steel work on the new Manhattan Bridge has already been executed and sealed as well as awarded. Ryan Parker, whose bid of $6,643,233, was' protested by the John Pierce Company, are the successful contractors. Work was begun to-day, and by Pec. 15, 1909, the bridge, according to the terms of the contract, should be completed.

By a little stroke of diplomacy on the part of Bridge Commissioner Stevenson the starting of the work has been accomplished. Every effort heretofore to execute the contract has been defeated by litigation. In fact the history of the bridge is a court record. When the last batch of bids for the steel work were received one Injunction was filed to prevent the Commissioner from opening tbem and another to enjoin him from awarding the contract. These Injunctions blocked the Ryan Parker bid, which was, in lump sum, the lowest, the John Pierce Company, the next highest bidder, claiming that the bid was "unbalanced" and that the company's sureties were not good.

The Board of Estimate was appealed to. Edward M. Grout, counsel for Kyan Parker, then produced two substitute securities of unquestionable standing. The Board sent the bid back to the Commissioner to do as he chose with them. That was yesterday forenoon.

Immediately and very quietly Commissioner Stevenson got busy. Experience taught him that any slip between the cup and the lip, or rather the contractor and the Job, was due on his announcement of the award of the contract. Usually a week elapses after the award before the execution and sealing of the contract, the time being consumed In approving sureties and so forth. But no sooner were his hands than Commissioner Stevenson made the award to Ryan Parker, summoned the firm and Its sureties to the Controller's ofiee, where all the formalities of executing and sealing the contract were duly observed and witnessed. Then Commissioner Stevenson went one better.

As soon as' the contract" a he gave an order to Ryan ft Parker to begin work. "It Is one thing," said the Commissioner to-day, "to hold up a contract by court action before It Is executed, but it is more difficult once that contract Is sealed and the order for work given. The Commissioner expected an injunction, and he is not sure yet if legal action tj prevent Ryan and Parker doing the work may not be attempted. But now that the work is actually started, it will take a pretty good argument to convince a Justice that further court consideration of the contract Is necessary to the public benefit. "SMITH" COULDN'T PAY FOR HIRE OF AUTO A young man, who said he was plain "John Smith," was arrested last night by Patrolman Rice, of the Adams street station, and taken from an automobile on the complaint of Percy Phillips, a negro chaifffeur, employed by Alexander Pastere, owner of a garage.

Phillips told Rice that his passenger owed $9 for a three hours' drive. A well-dressed and pretty woman was In the automobile when "Smith" Vas arrested. She Immediately left the machine and hurried away without revealing her identity. When searched at the Adams street station the prisoner had less than $1 in his clothes, although he had, Just previous to his arrest, ordered Phillips to drive him to the Clarendon Hotel. Puring his ride "Smith" had spent some time at Mlnden's roadhouse, and the supposition Is that he spent whatever money he had In entertaining his companion.

It was 4 o'clock In the afternoon when he engaged the auto. It was nearly 7:30 o'clock when Phillips decided he ought to see some sign of cash. Pr. C. W.

Sickle, of 128 Jefferson avenue, bailed "Smith" out, and this morning a friend came and paid the 39 claimed for fare. As there was no complaint made In court, "Smith" was discharged by Magistrate Dooley. CONGRESSMAN LESTER LIES AT DEATH'S DOOR. WASHINGTON. June Rufus K.

Lester, Representative In Congress from the First Georgia District, lies at the point of death at the Cairo, where he fell through the skylight in the cupola last night, and barely escaped being Instantly killed. Col. Lester has not regained consciousness since the accident. It is believed he climbed Into the cupola of the hotel to look for his two grandchildren. Shortly before the accident Col.

Lester had appeared upon the hotel portico, asking for his grandchildren. The conclusion la that he started for the roof to find them. Out on the skylight his weight collapsed the structure and the Congressman fell to the twelfth floor, thirty feet below. Since the accident a number of surgeons have given attention to the Congressman, but he has shown no Improvement. Col.

Lester Is 69 years old. Is serving his ninth term In Congress, being the dean of the Georgia delegation. DR. H. E.

WEBSTER DIES AT ROCHESTER. ROCHESTER, N. June 16. Pr. Harrison N.

Webster, ex-president of Union College, died here this morning, aged years, A committee of the Interstate Baseball Managers' Association, composed of William A. Rafter, president of the organization) Joseph F. Joyce, manager of St. Michaels; Thomas J. Evera, manager of Uticasi Martin Uultz, manager of the Oak Field Club; Ambrose W.

Hussey, manager of Rldsrewood, and George Perkins, manager of the St. Bavlour I Lyceums, waited, upon Deputy Police i Commissioner J. O'Keeffe at 'Police Headquarters this morning for the purpose of getting permission to allow icvery baseball game scheduled In Brook-jlyn to-morrow to be played. After dis-J cussing the subject thoroughly with the committee, Deputy O'Keeffe communicated with Commissioner Bingham, and It was decided that the polTce will do their duty In order to make a test case of Sunday baseball, to permit voluntary (contributions to be accepted at the gate as the spectators enter the grounds. TO MAKE TEST CASE.

All of the police captains in Brooklyn (were ordered to report at uepuiy kYTCeeffe's off ce this morning, and they (will probably be instructed to allow all (games scheduled to-morrow 10 oe piay-ed. They will, however, be instructed to Jarrest the managrer and a player of (each team. The game will then proceed without any Interference and a test Mill VV limv un wvhuuj of the Brooklyn Baseball Club, and his attorney kept iPoliceman Halts Wagon Loaded With LootTwo Arrested. Boys YOUNGSTER GOT AWAY. Stolen Goods Worth More Than $500.

The appearance of two youngsters driv ing an express wagon loaded with brass bastings through Kent avenue. Just before daylight this morning, attracted the attention of Policeman Wrlghtman of the Bedford avenue station, who was standing at North Sixth street and Kent avenue. He stepped out In the road- Way and ordered the driver to halt. As soon as the young men saw the policeman 'one of them Jumped from the seat and a third youngster, who was lying in the wagon, Jumped over the tailboard and ran. caught driver and asked him where he was tolng with the brass.

The driver was mable to give any account of himself ind he was taken to the Bedford ave-tue station, where he Bald he was Joseph Allaire, 16 years old, of 137 North street. He admitted to the po-ice that the expres wagon belonged to his father. Upon questioning Allaire the police forced him to admit he had stolen the rass from the foundry of Leopold Leiser, 175 Kent avenue. Allaire also admit- ed that one of his companions was John I. Chesclnek, 17 years old, of 97 North ixth street.

Detectives were sent to me atter's home and arrested him as he was reparlng to go to bed. In the Lee avenue court to-day Allaire rind Chesclnek pleaded not guilty to a tharge of burglary which was, made against them and they were held for further examination by Magistrate Hlg-ginbotham. This is the third time the brass foundry has been entered within a short time. Upon ench occasion the burglars got away with a good haul without attracting the attention of the police. The brass stolen last night is valued at more than (500.

OF ICE TRUST COLUMBUS, June.16. The agitation here for the past month on the jubject of the control of Ice market jind Ice prices bore fruit last night when fhe Graiiu Jury, after a session lasting I "or more than two weeks, returned eight ndictments against prominent members jf the Ice Trust. i Although the names of the persons and corporations Inriloted have been with- leld from the public ponding arrests, It said that twelve Individuals and six korporations have been caught under the irovl8lons of the "Valentino Anti-Trust aw, and half a dozen Individuals Jointly ndlcted with the corporations on the I fame charge, MINEOLA, June 16. The Jury In the case of Grover Cleveland Poole, on trial for the killing of James O'Hara In Port Washington last August, brought in a verdict this morning of murder In the second degree. JURY OUT ALL' NIGHT.

The case went to the Jury at o'clock yesterday afternoon. At 7:30 o'clock the Jury came, Into court and the foreman announced that It could not agree on a verdict. Justice Burr ordered the Jurors to return to their room for further deliberation, and the foreman asked that the court again define the degrees of murder. Justice Burr carefully explained the degrees of murder and manslaughter. At 8:30 o'clock, the Jury having come to no decision, was locked up for the night, and Judge Burr to his home in Brooklyn.

Vj'" As soon as court opened at 10 o'clock this morning word was received that the Jury had agreed upon a verdict and it was admitted to the courtroom. When the Jurors had taken their places the clerk asked whteher they had agreed upon a verdict and the foreman replied in the affirmative. "What is your verdict?" asked the clerk of the foreman. "Murder In the second degree, answered the foreman. PRISONER, UNMOVED.

Poole stood unmoved and there was not even the suspicion of a smile on his face. Mrs. O'Hara, the widow of the murdered man; her daughter, Gertrude. Poole's former sweetheart, upon whom he tried to fasten the guilt of the murder, and Poole's cousin. Buryea, burst out crying when the verdict was an BAKER DECIDES TO KEEP OUT OF JAIL President Baker, of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, this afternoon announced that he would obey the order Issued by Justice Mareat compelling klnv rerate PoUi', ql sjs Pepper.

i- fcis standing on the list for roundsman. Mr. Baker was desirous of spending Sunday with his family and did not like the Idea of going to Jail But President Baker will consult with Assistant Corporation Counsel Bell next week to see what can be done In the matter. Mr. Baker does rot like the idea of giving In all the way, and It is understood that he will make every effort to keep Klepper down to the rating he believes is correct, but which Justice Marean has decided is incorrect BIG OILCLOTH WORKS AT CAMDEN ON FIRE.

CAMDEN, N. June plant of Fair Bailey, one of the largest oil cloth works In the country, Is on fire. A general alarm has been turned In. CROOK SPOILS ORPHAN'S MOMENT OF LIBERTY. Victim of a contemptible swindler, according to his story.

James Booth, an orphan. 18 years old, was arrested last night at Coney Island on complaint or Mrs. Hester, of West Twelfth street near Avenue who charged him with stealing a bicycle and $24 from her. She did not appear against the boy In the Coney Island court this morning, but Immediately after his discharge he was rearrested and taken to Manhattan. Booth said that when his parents died he was placed In St.

Joseph's Home. Manhattan, and later indentured to a farmer In Indiana. He left there some time ago. returned to Manhattan, and after a brief stay In the Catholic Protectory was turned over to Mrs. Hester.

He said what money he should have received for working for the woman was taken by the Protectory and that when he expressed desire to go out and earn his own living he found himself penniless. That was why he stole the bicycle and money. At Coney Island yesterday he went In bathing with a stranger. The stranger got dressed first after the bath, and when Booth went to claim his valuables he found that the other had been there first, FOUR SAILORS BRUTALLY ASSAULTED BY POLICEMEN. PORTLAND, June U.

Four petty officers of the Cruiser Chicago were brutally beaten by two policemen this morning. The men hal been at the Elks Lodge and were on their way to the cruiser when assaulted. The victims ars: J. Leasman. master-at-arms; Charles Henry, chief machinist's mate: A Osnell.

chief yoeman, and John Falconer, chief electrician. Patrolmen Isak-son and Klenlan were arreted and held In 3400 bonds each. RAN AWAY FROM HOME IN PENNSYLVANIA; Florence Roth and Olive Farraday, good looking and well dressed, were charged with vagrancy in the Adams street court to-dny. and held for. examination bv Magistrate Dooley until Tuesday.

Olive Farraday said her home was In Chester, Pa. She ran away about a year ago and came to New York. Both young women were loitering near the Navy Yard gate last night when Detectives Ward and Cunningham arrested them. Borough President Coler will have to forego the use of his official automobile for a few days. The machine was badly manned yesterday In Manhattan In a collision with a truck.

Mr. Coler loaned his auto and his chauffeur yesterday afternoon to President McGowan. of the Board of Aldermen, who invited ex-Congressman Townsend Scudder to take a trip with him to the Bronx. AVhlle spinning along Elahth avenue at 126th street on old woman who had attempted to cross the street blocked the way, too Uar-strlcken to hore. Continuing on the way meant the death of the old woman.

President McGowan yelled to the driver to swerve the" machine to the right. His order was obeyed, and the auto crashed Into a wagon. All three occupants of th auto were thrown out. No one was seriously hurt 1 HOTEL MAN IS HELD FOR EXCEEDING SPEED LIMIT. Jacob Aulonrelth, a hotel man, of keun al'rkwny and Catnn avenue, was leld by Magistrate Steers, in Flatbush -ourt.

In ball for trial, on a charge if exceeding the speed limit. He was urested, while driving his automobile Ocean Parkway Inst evening, by Policemen lUnnls and Mcponald..