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I THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. 1903 NEW NATURALIZATION BLANKS. -THINKS HE IS PERSECUTED. Farrell, Who Refnaea to Send Bey to School, Said to Be Suffering from Hallucinations. SCHOOL OF.400 PUPILS IS IIEED OF PJIIIT OF LOSS REGAINED LUMBER YARD WORKERS AGREEMENT Business May Be Resumed by Friday Morning.

I 1 Coal Strike Rumor Gives Wall Street a Chill 4 LOCAL TRACTION GROUP FIRM. Consolidation of Gould Linos East at Toledo Strengthens Wabash. The unexpected development of a threatened renewal between the anthracite coal operators and miners was A factor which introduced an element of reaction in th early stock market to-day. Th news gave an opening chill through the genera list but had only a limited effect. Delaware and Hudson sold down 1 per but Readings extreme loss was only and a little recovery soon followed.

Such additional engagements of gold which were announced bad'idight influence upon sentiment. There was an early reaction of lVi per cent, in St. Paul, but half the loss was soon regained. Missouri Pacific lost a point, but then steadied. Wabash preferred received support through official announcement of the progress in the plan of consolidation of the Gould lines east of Toledo.

Baltimore and Ohio declined 1M per cent, but speedily rallied nearly a point. Elsewhere the recessions as a ntle were only fractional. Canadian Pacific Opened at a rally of per cent, and held the improvement well. Soo preferred advanced 2 per cent, sad the common showed firmness. Steady buying of Twin City from the opening carried the price up to 3 per cent.

The Industrial group as a rule wss steady and a little higher. Amalgamated Copper sagged fractionally but was firm at slight concessions. The iron and steel stocks were somewhat neglected, bnt were fairly well supported. The local tractions group was generally firm. The speculation Is somewhat less active ahd a little hesitating, but undertone remains firm.

Government bonds unchanged. Railroad bonds were fully steady. STOCK TRANSACTIONS. Corrected dally by Harrison A Smith, membara of the New York Stock Exchange, 71 Broadway, New York, and 10 Montague gtreat, Brooklyn. TeWphont 7.S7 Cortland, and Main.

Queries Submitted to Would-Be Clt- iaeni Under Law Which Went Into Effect Jnne 1. New application blanks are being used by tho Commissioner of Naturalization In fhe examination of canditlatcs for citizenship papers. The principal change in the questions relates to anarchistic doctrines, and the applicants' belief therein. Another near provision Is that which almost doubles the penalty for making false affidavits in taking out naturalization papers. Some of the new questions to be asked are: Do yon disbelieve In or are yon opposed to all organized government, or are yon members of or affiliated with any organization entertaining or teaching disbelief In or opposition to all organized government? Do you advocate or teache the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, either of the government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character? "Have you violated any of the provision of the act of Congress entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States, approved March 3, 1903? SUCCUMBED TO HER INJURIES.

Lait Thought of the Dying Mother Thirteen Children Was of Her Sleh Boy. Mrs. Albertina Lane, of No. 131 Oakland street, who was shockingly burned late yesterday afternoon, by the explosion of an oil stove, died early this morning in St. Catherine' Hospital without regaining consciousness.

The last words uttered by th woman before she was removed to the hospital were a request for a priest and that, her four-year-old son, Robert, who Is thought, to be critically ill of pneumonia, should have good care. Mr. Lane was giving the sick boy her attention when her husband asked her to prepare supper. He went out for a few moments, and during bis temporary absence the nil stovp exploded and set Hire. Lane afire.

The blaze romtpuqjcated to the table cloth, and Mrs. Lane resembling a pillar of fire, ran into the bedroom where her child was, to save hint. The betiding was set afire, aud the boys condition was aggravated by inhaling smoke. Mr. Mary Nolan, a neighbor, heard Mrs.

I.ane's screams, and while trying to aid hen and the hoy, she was also severely burned. A priest from the Church of St. Anthony administered the last rites of the church to the dying woman, and a relative of Mrs. Lane took charge of tho boy, whoso condition to-day was reported as precarious. Mrs.

Lane was the mother of thirteen children. WIRELESS MESSAGES. Explanation of How Electric Currents Cross the Ocean, When a wireless message is sent acres the ocean an electric spark is made to snap between two bras halls. The sparks may be said to make a splash In the ether, the high wire taking the place of the stone which when dropped into a pond causes ripples to flow outward in every direction. The electrical ripples similarly stream out from th wire in every direction at the speed of light, which Is 185,000 miles a second.

The number of waves which stream from a Marconi pole is from 500,000 to 2,000,000 per second. These waves are not to be confounded with the air waves which cause sound, though for the purposes of explanation they may be compared to them. Wireless telegraphy waves travel not by means of the atmosphere, but through the far more intangible substance, ether, which is held to fill up space and penetrate all matter. Many years ago it was found out that electricity passed through the space separating two long parallel wires. When a current of electricity was made to flow through one wire a magnetic influence spread out from the wire and on reaching the ether induced it in a state of electricity similar to the current flowing in tho first wire.

The current was transferred, as it were, across a bridge of magnetism. Tho waves which fly from the transmitting station almost instantly reach the distant receiving wire. The waves are then feeble and conld not operato an instrument, so that a "coherer and "relay have to be used. The coherer consists of metal filings whichi remain separate from one another1 snd offer resistance to a current until the waves strike the serial. Then the filings press together and the obstruction is bridged.

The relsy current can then act, and a strong current instantly Sowa through the circuit and operate the machine which prints the code on paper tape. Detroit Journal. Ds man who prides himself on hein a heap better dan his feller-men am simply a black crew whitewashed ober. It won't take but one good shower to git down to de true color. Detroit Free Pres.

PROPOSALS. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOR-riVOH OF BROOKLYN. ROOM NO. IS, Ml'-NIC! PA pnnoroH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE-relvM by th PrvHdvnt of th Bovough of Brooklyn 1 th nbovo offle until 11 ockxk mb on 'i WEDNESDAY, JCNB IT, 190b No.

1. FOR FI RNISHINO AND DELIVERING ENGINEERS' AND DR SUPPLIER TO THE Bt'REAf OS' PCHLIC BIULDINOS AND OFFICES IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. Tho tlm allowed tor th delivery of th r.rtl-vle. materials and supplies and the periorm-anre of the eontravt sxplres December St, ISM. The amount of sevurtlv required Il.mo.

No. FOR FCRNISHINO AND DELIVERING ENGTNEMFN StTPLIES TO THE BOREAL OF SEWERS AT THE TWENTY-SIXTH AND THIRTY-FIRST WARPS. SEWAGE WORKS AND SEWER REPAIR YARD. IN TUB BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. The lime allowed for the deiLery of the articles.

materials and supplies and th performancs of tha contract eaplrea December 31. The amount ot eeeurlty required Is M0. The bidder will state tbs price of each Item or article eontelned tn the spectUcattons or tched-ulee herein contained or hereto annexed, per pound, ton. deten, sallon. yard or other unit measure, by which the bids will be tested.

The evtenstone must be made and footed up. as the bids win be read from th totala The bids win be compared end the contract swarded at a lump or assreyate eum for each contract. Delivery will be required tn be made at fhe lime and In th manner and In such quantities as mav he directed. Blanh forma may be obtained and the plana nd drawtpya may be seen at the of the Asetstant Commissioner of Public Works Bor-oush of BrooFtn. Room No.

Municipal Build-In Boroush of Brookivn EDWARD SWANSTROM. President Dated June 1, imJ R-J Fil-fuAh ft Sew Reaeral litatrnctlwns to t)l1-der, last cttlama of Fas Tbre of this psper. According to the story told by bis attorney and wife in the Gates Avenue Court to-day, Thomas Farrell, the -proprietor of a laundry at Bergen street and Albany avenue, is suffering front the hallucination that the ofiicials of the city nre oppressing him. He was iu the court charged with failing to send his 14-year-old boy to school, and Attendance Officer James Beliewr told of his efforts since December to have the hoy go to school, and the several refusals of the father to send him. Mr.

Farrell was sent to the rear of the courtroom, and it was explained to Magistrate X'anmer that Farrell was laboring under the delusion that the city officials were making life miserable for him, and that this attempt to have his boy go to school was a part of the oppression. He was sick some lime ago, and about that time the city cut off his water supply. Then proceedings were commenced to acquire some of his property by conilrinmi-tion. These things seemed to affect him. Mrs.

Farrell said that she had tried to have the hoy go to school, but her husband opposed it. She said that the boy did not want to go to si hnol 89, which is tn the district in which he lives, but that he was willing to go to Xo. 83. Magistrate X'aumcr said that he would hold Farrell for Special Sessions, but that in the meantime an effort should be made to. have th boy transferred to the other school.

TO IMPROVE FLATBUSH AVENUE. Residents Want the City to Fay Fart of the Expense of the Work. Th residents of the Thirty-second Ward are making determined efforts to secure the improvement of Flatbush avenue. Th estimated cost of the complete improvement of the ivenue from the Twenty-ninth Ward line to Avenue as asked for is $165,600. The grading and curbing of the street has been approved and part of the work has dern done.

What the people want now is to have the street paved with asphalt and the city to hear two-thirds of the cost. The property owners are to pay the total cost of tho grading and curbing. The Board of Estimate has bad the subject tinder consideration on year to-day. It was sent to the board on June 3, 1902. The hoard's chief engineer, X.

P. lewis, has filed a memoranda with Commissioner Redfield, stating that he thinks the city can stand a portion of the cost of the improvement in view of the existing conditions in the locality, there being streets crossing and rectangles and the Thirty-second Ward not having had a dollar expended for its benefit since consolidation. With the city paying two-thiriis of the cost of the paving and the owners paying all of the cost of the grading and curbing, it will result in the property owners being called upon to pay more than one-half of the total cost of tho entire improvement. A petition is being got up to send to tho Board of Estimate, urging that body to take favorable action. The result of the improvement of Flatbush avenue will be of incalculable value to an immense area in the Thirty-second Ward, and will be of great benefit to the city in increasing the assessed Taluo of the propety there.

STORIESwipELYpiFFERED. Qnarrels of Parents Over Children's Disagreements Brought Into Folico Conrt. Quarrels between children led to the telling of two widely different stories in the Gates Avenue Court to-day, where Mrs. Roe Hart, of Xo. 81 Russell place, wife of Morris W.

Hart, a Manhattan attorney. was the complainant against Marcus W. Hayden, of 22 Russell place, whom she charged with assaulting her and using vile language. Both parties agree dthat on the evening of May 13 Hayden went to the Hart residence and that Mrs. Hart came to the door.

That is as far. however, as the stories agree. Mrs. Hart said that Hayden called her several harli names, made reflections on her religion and her race, stuck his finger in her eye and struck her twice. She says that she had a very sick child in the house and she tried to get Hayden to go away so the child would not lie disturbed.

Hayden said that Mrs. Hart called him names and followed him to the gate. He denied that he struck the woman. Mrs. Hart's testimony was corroborated hy her son and daughter, and Hayden's hy his wife and sister-in-law.

The only witness not connected with either of the parties is an unknown man, and both sides said they were sorry that the man was not in court. "I think this about siv of one and a half-dozen of the other." Magistrate Xaumcr said, after hearing all of the evidence. I will take the case under advisement and will render a decision on June 17." Mr. Hart took serious exceptions to the remark of the magistrate. "What does your Honor mean hy saying that it is six of one and a half-dozen of the other? be asked.

"Either my wife is telling the truth or I am married to a perjurer. Mr. Hart was somewhat excited when the magistrate rapped for order and said that he would, give the testimony of all witnesses due consideration. GIRLS SHOCKING STORY. Nine-year-old Loretta Larsen, of No.

678 Hiiks street, told a shocking story this morning to Magistrate Tighe. In hii private ofliee in the Butler Street Police Court, charging her father. Under a severe cross-examination by the magistrate and her counsel, C. B. Campbell, the girl implicated a near relative and a hoarder.

The girl, with reference to these men, however, wa careful to protect them in her testimony, while she admitted that she wanted to have her father sent to jail. The examination consumed several hours, nd when Magistrate Tighe concluded he did not know what to make of it. Apparently he did not place absolute confidence in th testimony of the girl as to her charge against her father. Magistrate Tighe finally paroled her father until Monday morning in ordepto investigate the case more thoroughly. TUMBLED OrF A CAR.

Henry Mathews. 17 years old, of Nd. 413 Nineteenth street, fell from trolley car No. 1039 of. the Seventh avenue line, at Sixteenth street and Seventh avenue, about 10.20 o'clock this mornin, and received a severe laceration of the scalp and contusions of the body.

An ambulance surgeon dressed his injuries and removed him to bis bom, Brophy Takes His Case -to President Swanstronu COMPLAINED TO VAN IDERSTINE Bt Was Referred to Contractor Who Ii Laying New Maine. The Rer. Dr. Joseph F. Brophy, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church at Coney Island, called on Borough President Swan- etrom to-day by appointment, concerning a complaint made by tha priest about the lack of water In bia church and Dr, Brophy made formal complaint some time ago, stating that there were 400 children in hii school, and that he had been trying for years to get water for them.

Tha complaint was referred to Deputy Commissioner Van Iderstine, who replied that a contract had been awarded to put in tha water mains, and he did not see bow the church -could secure any immediate help, eicept by applying to the contractor, Isaac Harris. In his complaint Dr. Brophy stated that -It waa too bad to hare hie church and ehoot children kept without water, while arery saloon In Coney Island could get all it'Wanted. When Contractor Harris was asked what he could or would do for the chnreb, sent a letter to James A. Rooney, Ruperyisor of -Complaints, Saying that the work of laying the mains waa de- luyed hy failnre to reeeire the piping ma- thrill Mm the foundry, and that this was i due to -there beiug labor troubles in the i foundries, causing delay in shipment.

Borough President Swanstrora was rery much Interested In Dr. Brophy' statement of tha conditions in his church and school nJ told Dr. Brophy that he would call Commissioner Redfield's attention to the matter and ask him to try and bare the work rushed tbrongh. Tho contract with Isaac Harris gives him 250 working days in which to com-'plete the' work of laying the wnter main. WORK ON THE BRIDGES.

Caisson for Manhattan Structure Launched Repairing tha Cables. Reports were giren out this moruing regarding the work on the curious bridges on which, the Bridge Department is now ipngaged. The caisson for the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge has been launched and will be towed to the site as soon as necessary. The field office has been located at Tike Slip. The repairing of the cables on the Williamsburg Bridge, damaged by fire, is well under yray, and the repaying of streets included, in the approach to the bridge has bean completed.

The Stock Quotation Telegraph Company has remoTed its six-wire cable, and the Gold Stock Telegraph Company has remoTed its ten-wire cable from tha Brooklyn Bridge. The contract for the steel nnder-floorlng for the Williamsburg Bridge has been awarded to the R. H. Hood Company, and the contract for the wood pavement has been awarded to the I'. S.

Wood Preserving Company. The accepted hid of tho former was $168,746, and the hid of the latter was 131.980. BEER CAUSED TROUBLE. Bnt Thomas Proved That He Did Not Throw Elisabeth's Stove Out of Doors. The growler hahit was the primary cause of Thomas Abrams, of Xo.

1709 Atlantic avenue," being arraigned in the Gates Ave-nue Court to-day. Elisabeth Thompson, who lives at X'o. 1707 Atlantic avenue, was the complainant, and both of the parties are colored. Shi1 charged him with throwing licr stove out doors. Thomas said that Elizabeth had "touched him for a nickel, so that she ould have enough to get a bucket of beer.

They stand to drink it with some other persons on the front steps, and Elizabeth asked them to come into the house. Ho and that he did not do the things charged, 1 and fiad a witness to prove it. Magistrate A'aumer discharged him, and as Elizabeth left the court, she announced, If I can't justiiv heab, i will just take the law iu my own bauds. CANT SPARE SWEEPERS. Commissioner Woodbury Discourages the Idem of Vacations in His Dcpartm ent.

The resolution adopted ytbe Board of Aldermen yesterday, doctoring that the em- ployees of the Street Cleaning Department should have a week's vacation with pay, Waa not received with hilarity at the office of Commissioner Woodbury this morning. have al-out one thousand em-, ployees, it was stated, "and if that resolution wefie to go into effect, we wouldn't be able to do any work during the summer at all. The whole thing is simply a politics! move. If we grant it we will be blamed for not doing the work properly, and if we refuse, we will ho blamed for working the men too hard. But there won't ho any vacations.

simply can't grant them, and that is all there is to it. JOCKEY STALLING INJURED. Oocar Stalling, 19 years old. a jockey employed at tha bheepsbead Bay track, while riding a race horse this morning or the track, was injured hy the horse run. mng away and dashing into a fence.

Stall-ing'a left leg was broken. After Ambulan. Surgeon Low had attended to him, he taken to th Emergency Hrepital Coney Island. Th hors was owned Robert Plart. GEORGE H.

FOSTER DEAD. PAWTLCKET. R. I.p June 3. Georg H.

foster, one of the oldest minstrels in the country and formerly with the Morris Troupe wss found dead in bed this mom-' inc. U)hT Slayer of Whalen Is Now Ready to Whimper. FEARS LAWYER MAY QUIT HIM. Elderly Widow of the Viotim Relieved Tharedhe Whole Family Was NoWiped Out. Charles rreseott, also known as Mahoney and Dujio, who shot and killed Patrick Whalen at No.

330 Court street on Monday night, has stopped talking and expressing regref that he did not wipe out the entire family. This morning, with a great effort, refused to discuss the murder. Aud it was a great effort for a man so lacking in intelligence as this creature. It is robbing him ot the reward ho so relishes notoriety. i Foster L.

Backus, who has been retained as counsel for the murderer, ordered him to talk to no one yesterday, hut Prescott could not stand for that. He talked and talked. The reporters could not come too fast for him, hut now that Mr. Backus has threatened to abandon the case if liis client does not stop gloating over his deed to the newspapers, fear keeps him silent. While Mr.

Backus has not as yet decided on his line of defense, it is understood that it will he self-defense. This may be changed, however, in view of the manner in which the man has been talking. To all appearances Prescott is net insane, impresses one as a man totally lacking of the finer qualities, of a ldiver calibre than the average, bnt still possessing sufficient intelligence and the power of distinguishing right from wrong. That he ia intelligent in a way is shown by the mass of manuscript found in his room dealing with gun powder and other explosives and firearms and their use. Of this ba made 'a study with just tha end in view Monday's tragedy brought forth.

That he is a degenerate is evident In the first glance. He will lok no man In th face not even now when boasting of his crime. His appearance would re-pell almost anyone. He is unkept and unclean. Even the keepers loothe him.

Preai'ott slep well last, night and ate heartily. He utterly fails to appreciate the enormity of his crime hut the probabilities jare that when the time for the trial comes around he will and will have to be dragged about, ne apparently strong in the belief that Mr. Backus will secure his acquittal, The mtuugementa for the funeral of the murdered man have been completed. The body will be taken from the house to the eemetarj to-morrow, the funeral taking place at 2 oclock in the afternoon. Burial 'will be in Holy Cros Cemetery.

Th little front room of the flat was filled with weeping women relatives of the dead man when a reporter called this morning. Mrs. Whalen, a frail little woman hid ceased to weep. In the kitchen of her home she talked with the i porter. It has been a terrible shock, but oh, I am so thankful that we are not all murdered.

Why. that man has threatened us all before and has pointed a revolver at my sons. We have compluined to the landlord, but it did no good. "On one occasion when a doqr slammed in our apartments he came to the head of the stairs with a revolver in each hand and demanded to know what it was. When told the wind bad blown the door shut he laid: Well it may have and you may have done it.

That I don't know, but you bad betted look "Again one morning we rapped on the water pipe for water as we have to do in order to get any. He came out on the staira in a great rage. My son went went out to pacify him. As I heard him talking in a loud voice I went out and tried to explain that we had to do it order that even he might get water. There he stood with a revolver in his hand pointed at my non.

We quieted him and my son withdrew as quickly as he dared. have had trouble with people before and I won't have any more. he said on that occasion. You see this, well it is apt to start at any time. rrescott'a room locked to-day, the key being in the keeping of the police.

All the mans effects with a hearing on the cae were removed yesterday afternoon and last night. To the keepers at the Raymond street jail the prironer said he had $4,000 ready to spend on his defense and that he would surely get off. LOADED STEAMER GOES DOWN. Two Hundred and Forty Children Aboard Boat la Missouri River. HANNIBAL, Mo.t Joni 3.

Th ptosmor Flying Eagle and a barge with a party of 240 Sunday school pupils aboard, struck the diaw span of the bridge here today, loih the barge and steamer sinking. So far is known only three lives were lost, though there are rumors of many more missing. The known dead are: Lonni B. Curtiss, aged 13. jumped from steamer; 8-year-old child nntned Coppettje; 6-year-old child named Eichenhergcr.

Mrs. Francis H. Flynn wa caught lie-tween the bridge and the boat and prob-ahly fatally injured. The accident oecnrred at 10:25 this morning. The steamer, with its barge in tow, had jut left the wharf here with members of the Park Methodist Sunday School, who were going on in excursion to Quincy, 111.

BIDS TOR COAL OPENED. Bids were opened this morning by Commissioner Redfield. for 1,350 tons of white ash anthracite coal, to be used in the Sewage disposal work in the Twenty-sixth and Thirty firat wards. The bids were in lota according to the station at which the rout is to he, delivered. The totals of the different bids were: Harry Blinn.

A Hum, Rudolph Reimer. $6.0, .1.50. There were only the three bidders. and according to the figures. Mr.

Mc-f ullom was the lowest of the three on the total amount. Th contract is to be awarded in lump. Important Meeting at Bridge Street A. M. E.

Church. SEVERAL STATES REPRESENTED Froteat Agalnat Discriminating Legislation la the South to Be Adopted. Over a hundred delegates, representatives of the colored voters in the Slate of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and other nearby States, are in Brooklyn to-day attending the convention which is being held in the Bridgo Street African M. E. Church.

The purpose of the convention is to enter formal protest against the disfranchisement of the Southern negroes and also to elect delegate to attend the National Suffrage Convention, which will he held within a short time in Louisville, Ky. Delegate attending to-day's convention comprise clergymen, physicians and leaders of thought among the negroes in this and other States. It is a representative assemblage. There were a number of colored women in gathering. F.

II. Gilbert, of Brooklyn, called the meeting to order at noon. Dr. M. C.

Brooks waa chosen as temporary chairman. Mr. Brooks spoke briefly, referring principally to the outrages perpetrated upon the negro by the denial to him of the right of suffrage. Delegation from Massachusetts afid Rhode Island reached Brooklyn this morning. Heading the New England delegation is J.

M. Trotter, ff Boston. George E. Wiherean was chosen chairman of the committee on resolution. Lawyer John H.

Hayes, of Virginia, ia In attendance nt the convention to-day. He has hern holding mass meetings about the country of late, striving to foster a sentiment favorable to the nullification of south ern, anti-suffrage lws. Among the well-known Brooklynites who have been asked to attend to-day's convention and to speak, are the Rev, Newell Dwight Hillis. the Rev. Dean Richmond Babbitt, and Thomas.

P. Peters. Dr. Hii-lis is out of town, Mr. refers has sent his regrets, hut before the convention closes tho delegates hope to hear from Dr.

Babbitt. Much difference of opinion exists among the delegates as to the proper way to proceed in order to gain universal recognition for the negroes. There will be a session of the convention this evening. It i expected that addresses will then he made on the negro question by prominent delegates. KEARSARGE SAILSFOR KIEL.

Repairs Were Finished Yesterday, and the Battleship Took Her Departure This Morning, The Kearsage sailed this morning for Kiel. At ten minutes pat eleven, the ropes were cast off, and to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne. she backed out Into tho stream. Then, with the hand playing Home Sweet Home, amid the waving of handkerchiefs and shouts of good-bye, she steamed slowly down the river. The Kearsage goes to Kiel to represent the Government in the regetta that is to be held there next month.

Work on the Kearsage was completed yesterday, in compliance with orders received from Washington last Thursday. Rear Admiral Barker yesterday hoisted his flag over the Mayflower. The Admiral has been occupying the Kearsage, but changed his quarters to the Mayflower. owing to the former's intended departure. MAYOR CONCEALS NOTHING.

If He Knew of Startling Facts Affecting the Last Administration He Wonld Make Them Fnblic. The attention of Mayor Low was again railed to-day to the remarks of Commissioner of Accounts William Hepburn Russell about reports he bad made regarding the conduct of various city department under the last administration, and to rumors that he bad in bis possession facts of a startling character. "I had not read the newspaper reports yesterday." said the Mayor, "and was therefore not able to discuss the matter. Since then, howerer, I have read them, and I desire to say that I know nothing of any sirh information a was referred to. would like to have It made clear that I would not be a pa'yty to any plan for withholding information that might bo of interest to the public." The Mayor said that although the suspension of the street traffic ordinance by resolution of the Board of Aldermen had been for the purpose of receiving suggestions and preparing a new code of rules and suggestions, no suggestions had thus far been made.

MRS. YOUNG'S DEFENSE. Case of Woman on Trial for Murder Opens. ROCHESTER. Juno 13 Tho Young murder trial has broken all records for celerity in Monroe County.

District Attorney Warren completed bit ease yesterday afternoon, taking but on day for the presentation of evidence. There wa nothing bnt tho bare statement of the people's rise. Lawyer Charles Van Voorhi then opened the rae for the defense. He called attention to the coming of Florence McFar-lane into the life of Mr. Youngs.

On one o-rasion Mr. Richardson, sister of Mrs. Youngs, went to the room of her sister at the Jenkmsnn Hotel, on Spring street, and there fonnd Mis McKarlano with Frank Youngs. Ho s'so mentioned other occasions when Youngs was found in the company of Miss McFarlane and other women, and when discovered, the attorney raid, held a revolver at the head of bis wfie and threat-ened to blow out her brain if she revealed hi relations with Miss McFarlane. WANT BUM "ad' In "Tha Cltlsen always brines satisfactory reau.ta, ABANDON FIGHT FOR DRIVERS.

Decision Affect the Navy Yard in Common With th Rest of the City. Indications now point to the opefflug of tin. lumber yards Friday morning. The coufercncc yesterday hctweou tho employee ami the employer revolted iu hii agreement, lti.li, if accepted by tho unions this afternoon, will briug peace as soon ns the formalities connected with the signing of the agreement can he carried out. The representative of the unions of the i killed men have agreed to abandon the tight for tho unskilled driiers, and on this basis it is expected that the yards will be opened and that building operations will he resumed.

The deiennn nffocts the Brooklyn yards, in common with those of the rest of the city. Tho conference yesterday afternoon waa held at the headquarters of the dealers, at No. 18 were present the members of tlm Strike Committee of the Unitpd Board of Building Trade and the joint Labor Committee of the Lumber Dealers' Association, covering all the boroughs of the city and of th Masons Material Dealers Association, covering the boroughs Manhattan and the Bronx. 'The meeting lasted all the afternoon and into the evening. Considerable secrecy was maintained at the ilosc of th session as to the terms of compromise agreed upon.

This afternoon meetings are being held hy both the employers and the unions, tho former at No. IS Broadway, and the latter at Brevoort Hall, No. 134 East Fifty-fourth street. The terms of settlement arranged at yesterday's meeting will he acted upon hy the United Board of Building Trades to-day, nd the docisnn will be sent at once to the headquarters of the dealers. At the latter place it was said to-day that even if the unions agreed to the terms, it will not be pos-thle to complete arrangements in time to open tho yards tomorrow morning.

An attempt will be made this afternoon to straighten the very tangled situation in the iron trades. A meeting will he held in Manhattan of the Metal Trades Asso-ciaMon. of which the employing boilermakers and proprietors of engineering works throughout the city are members. At present strike are tinder way in many of the establishmentsrfor higher pay, while in others the union scale has been agreed to, and there has boon no interruption of business. The unions are willing to arbitrate the question of pay, it is said, and thisqnestion will he discussed this afternoon.

If it docs not meet with favor an attempt will be made. to have the employers stand together and take the same attitude toward tho onions. This may bring on trouble generally through all the establishments. Brooklyn is a particular sufferer just now, a large part of the strikes under way being located here. The Ross Iron Works, at the foot of Twenty-sixth street, have not had a machinist at work thit week, tho strike going into effect Monday evening.

The manager stated to-day that as this was the slaik season in the business, ho proposed to stay out the tight, and would at least delay until if could be seen what the a-sociation would aceomplish. Hall Hnrlburt. boilermakers, at the foot of Twenty-fourth street, have nlo beta without maehinists sine Monday, and ore likewise awaiting the action of tho Metal Trades Association. At the Columbia Engineering Works, at Irnlay and IVilliants streets, on the other hand, the manager stated that he had agreed to pay the nninn scale of wages some time ago. and that he had no trouble and had beard no talk of a sympathetic strike.

The question between the employers and the men is simply ono of pay. The International Association of Machinists has ur- ranged a scale of wagos in which the lowest pay for a day's work is S3. Tho strikers are heing ordered to enforce tho acceptance of this scale. MYSTERY IN GIRLS ABSENCE. When Nettie Smith Returned Home Her Mother Would Tell Nothing.

The police of the Vernon Avenue station sent out a general alarm last night for Nettie Smith. 18 years 'old of No. 335 Stockton street, employed as stenographer in Manhattan. Instead of coming home she sent a telegram to her mother saying that sh was going away with some friends and would not he bark until Monday. She did not return Monday, and after hermother had made an.iiusuc-.

ressful effort to locate her she reported the matter to the police. When a reporter railed at the home of Mrs. Smith to-day she came to the door, and in answer to a question said: "The girl is home and there is nothing further to say ahont the matter. She would answer no question as to where the girl had been, but one "of the other tenants In the apartment house said that it was understood that the girl had been visiting relatives near Bolton, J. BIDS FOR BATTLESHIP.

WASHINGTON, Jnne 3. Bid were opened at the Navy Department to-day for the construction of the three 16.000-ton battleships authorized hy the last Naval Appropriation act. The three lowest bidders were the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, of Newport News, which bid $1,110,000 on one ship, to be finished In forty-two month: th New, York Shipbuilding Company, of Camden. N. I one ship, in forty-two months, at $4,165,000.

and the Fore River Ship and Engine Company, of Quincy, one vessel in forty-two month $1,179,000. The other hid received were from William Crimp A Sons of Philadelphia, one in forty-two month, at $4,190,000. or two ship at $4,181,000 etch and the Eastern Shipbuilding Cnmpanv. which is a subsidiarv of the United States Shipbuilding Company of New Loudon, one ahip at $4,192,000. V.

i 1 I i i HI i'1! fir I 4 if I i i Hi- GRAVESEN DTRACK, June first rase resulted as follows: Froper, 25 to 1. first; Yardarm, 1 to 3, second; Sungold, third. Time, 1:10. Promises, Promises, Jim Do you believe in the candidates ante-election promises? Jam Why, I dout even believe in their promises to the public that they wont make promises of city jobs to their followers. Baltimore Herald.

Miss Anne Teaque I'd just like to catch sny roan ssking me to marry him. Miss Vera Terte-Yes, dear; and I'm sure you wouldn't wssle much time. In de ini It, either. Brooklyn.