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Copyrighted. COST OF LIVING SOARS: FOOD PRICES INCREASING Meat. Sugar, Vegetables and Other Necessities Higher Than a Month Ago. BEEF TAKES ANOTHER JUMP. Bradstreet's Index Shows That Commodities Have Made an Advance of Since July 1.

Although there is a general belief that the cost of living in New York City 1s already so high that it cannot do anything but go down. it was learned today that there is a steady upward trend in the prices of nearly all commodities used by the average household. Statistics which have just been complied show that meats, sugar, coffee, vegetables and other staples have not only increased in caring the past month, but that they show a stiff increase as compared with the prices of a year ago. Nor is this increase confined to foodstuffs. Bradstreet's index number for August 1, which reflects the prices ol commodities considered as a whole, shows an advance of 7 per cent.

over July 1, and the present number is the highest which has been recorded since March 1. This Index number is arrived at by taking the totals of the prices per pound of ninetysix articles each month. These ninetysix articles are selected to cover practically everything from chemicals and naval stores to building materials and textiles. Meats Show Most Serious Advances in List of Foodstuffs. The most serious advances during the past month have been in the price of meats, and, if the retailers advance their prices in the same proportion a8 the wholesalers, the repetition of the meat strikes of last year may be expected.

The increase to the butchers in the wbolesale price of beef ranges from 2 to 8 cents a pound on the choice cuts. The wholesalers throw the blame for the higher prices back 011 cattle dealers. They say that the price of live cattle has gone from 7.5 cents per pound to 7.8 cents per pound, a difference of 3-10 of 1 cent. When the cattle dealers asked what makes them charge higher prices, they point to the Government crop reports, which declare that maybe the feed crop will not be good this fall. The farmers themselves, who raise cattle in West.

have not yet been getting quore for their stock, and up to the present the increase in cost is being garnered by somebody who stands hetween the country farmer and the city beefeater. Some of the Brooklyn retail butchers have already shoved up their prices a little, but others are waiting in the hope that the present advance is only tempolary. Butchers who depend for their trade upon people with average incomes declare that if they push up their prices higher than they are now, they will increase the trade of the fish dealers and the delicatessen stores, while cutting off their business. People are much more willing to get along without meat in summer than at other seasons. Fruit Preserving Season Sends Sugar Prices Soaring.

Meat, however, is noot tthe only thing that has gone up. Within a few days after the Congressional sugar trust investigators moved their headquarters from New York City to Washington, the sugar trust quotations on boxed sugar moved up about 10 per cent. Brooklyn grocers. seen this morning, declare that they are selling sugar so close that every advance in prices by the trust will at once be reflected in the retail price. When asked as to tthe reason for the present advance, one dealer said that the trust usually raises its prices in the face of an increased demand during the months when housewives are putting up their preserves.

Fruits must be put up when they Are in season. so that just now the consumer cannot 89 easily fight the advance by curtailing his consumption. Every one of the followin garticles show 11 increase of price on August 1 as compared with July Wheat, corn. beeves. live hogs.

beet carcasses, hog carcasses. milk, eggs, pork, bacon, hams, lard. butter. sugar. rice, beans.

peas, potatoes, union leather. oak leather, hemp. lead. quicksilver. anthracite coal.

carbolic acid, opium. hops, rubber and hay. The following articles, also including a 2000 many of the staples of household consumption. show an increase for August. 1911.

as empared with the prices 011 August 1. 1910: codfish. coffee. sugar, bef. carcasses, salt.

peas. potatoes, apples, raisins. curants, hides. union leather. hemp.

Jute, standard sheetings. tinplates. copper, lead. tin. quicksilver, olive oil.

yellow pine, spruce timber. hemlock timber, carbolic acid. opium. hops. ground bone.

hay. With the except ens of short periods 111 1907 and 1910 prices are higher cow than they ever were before. THE NORTHFIELD CONFERENCE Takes Up the Problem of the Church and Evangelism. East Northfeld. August 12- The Northfeld conference has turned its attention to evangelism.

Special meetings Jem church and evangelism; many of have called to try to solve the a probthe most prominent workers in this line were present. At the afternoon meeting Dr. George L. Cady of Boston, chairman of the Congregational committee on evangelism, presided and the speakers were Professor John H. Strong of Rochester Seminary, who spoke of the relation of the seminary to revivals; the Rev.

S. M. Sayford of Boston. who is in charge of this work in New England, on rural evangelism, and Dr. R.

A. Torrey of Los Angeles, one of the most famous revival preachers in America. He defended the paid evangelist and criticized the coming 'men and religious compaigne" for their over -emphasis on advertising and business organization. Fred B. Smith of New York, the Y.

M. C. A. evangelist. spoke at the big evening meeting.

He has addressed more men on religious topics than any living 12.11 and he is the leader in the revivals which are being planned for this fall. At the ministers meeting this morning Dr. J. A. Hutton stated that science and religion were coming closer together all the time and that soon they would support one another, A large collection was taken toward the $4.000 defeit of the conference and greetings were received from Russian delegates.

According to Joseph White, a negro, of 274 East New York avenue, his nephew, Cornelius Schermerhorn, 19, of 7 South street, Jamaica, sartorial thief. The older man had Cornelius arrested today charged with the theft of a pair of trousers from his home. Cornelius was wearing his uncle's clothes, and he was taken to the Brownsville police station and made to change back again into his own. When he was arraigned in the New Jersey avenue police court he pleaded guilty, but he was held for examination. CAT BLAMED FOR FIRE Officer Sheehan, 0n1 Reserve, Did Not Know His Own Home Was Ablaze.

While Mrs. James Sheehan, whose nusband is a mounted police sergeant, was asleep in her bedroom on the second floor of a two -family brick dwelling at Bay kidge, at 8 566 stret. o'clock this morning. Are broke out In the kitchen at the other end of the apartment. Mrs.

Sheehan says she remembers distinctly dreaming that she WaS being woke up, and when she came to she heard suffocated with smoke just before she Are roaring in the kitchen. As she tried to open the door she was met by flames. Down stairs she rushed in her dressing gown and 011 the steps she met Frank J. Walsh, who had heard the fire from his apartments on the first floor. He turned in an alarm quickly, and the firemen, who made quick time from the station at Fifth avenue, near Fifty -first street, were able to put out the blaze after A damage, roughly estimated at $500, had been done.

Sergeant Sheehan 1s attached to the Fouth Avenue Station, seven blocks away, and he happened to be on the reserve, So that he was sent out to And out where the fire was as the alarm came in. He did not know it was his own house till he arrived on the scene and saw all the neighbors in the street, some of them but partly dressed. Among them was his wife, to whom he had been married only a few months. It is thought that the Are was started by the overturning of the gas stove, and for that the Walsh pet cat gets the blame. He has been in the habit of exploring the Sheehan apartment all by himself.

Some of the wedding presents were destroyed, though fl part of the furniture was safely gotten out. MR. VON CLAUSSEN DEAD. Father of Mrs. Von Claussen, Who Had Controversy With Roosevelt.

Adolph Von Claussen, father of Mrs. Ida Von Claussen, Who prefers to be called Countess Von Claussen, and who has gained much newspaper notoriety on account of her controversies with former President Roosevelt over her fallure to be presented at the Swedish Court, and with many other prominent men, dropped dead 011 the boardwalk between Manhattan Beach and Brighton Beach last night. Mr. Von Claussen, who was 14 years of age, had been visiting his daughter, who is staying at the Manhattan Beach Hotel with her 10-year-old daughter, and was on his way back to the city. He WAs going Brighton Beach to take a car for New York.

when he was stricken. He was carried into an open- air cafe by sons who were on the boardwalk at the time. An ambulance was summoned, but Mr. Vou Claussen expired before it arrived. The father of Mrs.

Von Claussen lived alone at the Hotel Empire, at Sixty- -third street and Broadway, Manhattan, for several years. His wife was the daughter of Matthew Byrnes, A well- known contractor. Mrs. "Ida Von Claussen first came into prominence a few years ago when, after being unable to have Mrs. Charles H.

Graves, the wife of the American Minister to Sweden, present at court, she threatened to sue President Roosevelt for damages. She later entered suit for $1,000.000 against the former President. Since that time she has had various other experiences. once having whipped a banker. WEATHER MARS AVIATION MEET Outlook This Morning Was That Birdmen Would Have to Post.

pone Flights Till Tomorrow. Chicago, August 12--A dark, dismal morning, with frequent thundershowers, threatened to mar the opening of the international aviation meet here this afternoon. In spite of assurances by the United States Weather Bureau that nine days of fair weather and clear skies were due, the present outlook is that but few fights can be made before tomorrow. Nevertheless, the thirty-five aviators, the known in this country and Europe, were up at daylight making their final preparations, overseeing the last possible touches to their machines and assuring themselves that no mechanical defect would prevent their having a Anal trial for the $80.000 in prizes to be given. The meet will be the first big demonstration the Middle West has seen, and the promoters declare it is to be a genuline competition, not a mere exhibition of flying.

It will embrace races and contests every day, contests in accuracy in flying over prescribed courses, in quick stopping and starting. in duration of Aight, in alighting. in passenger carrying and in such warlike developments as sending messages and dropping bombs. Aviators declare that there Is every likellhood that many records will be broken. All of the better -known machines, both monoplane and biplane, will be pitted against each other; the aviators.

many of them recordholders, will have the incentive of seeing their rivals in the air. and the prizes themselves have a sufficient value to warrant the utmost efforts. SIEGFRIED HAYMAN A SUICIDE. Slump in Stock Market and Failure to Stave Off Creditors the Cause. Siegfried S.

Hayman, a member of the I New York Stock with offces at 74 Broadway, Manhattan, committed suicide the yesterday afternoon in his at City Club, 55 West Forty-fourth street, by shooting himselt through the head. Business reverses and his Ina bility to meet his obligations drove Hayman to kill himself. The break in the stock market that has continued for the past three weeks affected Hayman'8 Operations greatly. He had invested heavily in stocks, and most of his suffered in the depression. He borrowed in the hope of saving himself, but the continued slump wiped all prospect of his making good on his loans.

He had hired the room at the City Club an dhad telephoned to his creditors, asking them to meet him yesterday afternoon to confer over a compromise. None fthem turned up excepting Harry W. Newberger of 2 Rector street, his attorney. It was the latter who discovered the body. Hayman WAS to have been one of a party at his sister's house to celebrate the anniversary of her wedding.

Mrs. Hayman, to whom the dead man had been married about a year and a half, was also to be of the party, which was to be held at Elberon, where the Haymans had A summer home. Newberger and Hugo Hayman, the suicide's younger brother, communicated the news to the wife, who is left with a child legs a rear old. BURGLARS LOOT HOMES IN FLATBUSH SECTION Two Bold Daylight Robberies on Exclusive Lenox Road Block. NO ARRESTS ARE MADE.

Believed Thieves Were Frightened off, as Much Booty Was Left Behind. Since the discovery yesterday of two broad daylight robberies in the exclusive section of Lenox road, Flatbush, the residents there, between Nostrand and New York avenues, are much perturbed, and are wondering which house will next be visited. The homes of Mr. and Mrs. William H.

Smith and of Mr. and Mrs. David Hargan, both living in the same house at 319 Lenox road, were entered some time between 9 and 10 o'clock yesterday moraing. William H. Smith, who is a lawyer, with offees at 154 Nassau street, Manhattan, left with his wife last week for the home of Mr.

Smith's parents, Mr. and Mra. Charles Smith, at Patterson, N. Y. Mr.

Smith commutes there every day. His parents decided to live at their son's Flatbush home while the couple were away, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith left tor a trolley ride yesterday, and It was while they were away that the house was burglarized. Mre.

J. Channing Halleck of 465 Marlborough road, mother of Mrs. Smith, who had a key to the house, went in at about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She found everything topsy-turvy. The house had been ransacked from top to bottom and looked for all the world as though a clone had struck it.

It was evident that Mrs. Halleck bad come none too 6001. She must have disturbed the burglars 1a their work, for they had left a number of bundles containing loot on the beds and the diningroom table, all ready to take away. Mrs. llalleck notified the police at the Flatbush station.

Detectives who were Immediately dispatched to the scene discovered that the intruders nad effected an entrance by way of a cellar window. It is surmised that in making their escape they passed through the same window and into a adjoining vacant house. where they probably remained under cover until the excitement had subsided somewhat. This is the supposition, for no one in the neighborhood saw any suspicious characters making the time of the discovery of the burglary. The burglars had aiso visited the g4n, upstairs.

Mr. Hargan is an inspecapartments of Mr. and Mrs. David A Hartor for the Clyde Steamship Line. His wife is away for A vacation at Peep's Lake, near Brewsters, N.

Y. Hargan later told the pollee that oniy a gold wetch, valued at about $50, was missing. Other valuables were packed up in bundies just as they had been in the apartments of Mr. And Mrs. Smith.

Fortunately, most of the valuables of the Smiths, including jewelry and silverware, were put in storage before they went away. N. Y. Y. C.

FLEET DISBANDS Yachts Covered Many Miles in Annual Cruise- -Trophies Were Well Divided. Newport, R. August 12-A long blast of bugle and a blank shot from one of the forward quick-firers at 10 a.m. today disbanded the fleet of the New York Yacht Club after nearly fourseore yachts had been in squadron formation for eight and one -half days. Commodore C.

Ledyard Blair, in ordering the dispersal, congratulated the fleet on the success of the cruise, both from a cruising as well as a racing standpoint. The schedule was carried out with the exception of the rowing races for the Ow! and Gamecock colors by the crews which were postponed several times on account of late harbor arivals, and finally called off altogether. The Beet cruised and raced a total of 307 miles, from Glen Cove to this port, including the races for the Astor and King's cups. The squadron racing runs totaled miles and the entire racing covered 251 miles. The four big schooners divided honors, for the Elena won three of the five equadron runs, the Westward carried off the Astor Cup and cup of the Naval Alumni Association, the Enchantress captured the King's Cup and the Irolita secured the massive siiver vase offered by Commodore Blair for the longest run of the cruise.

The Istalena won the principal sloop cups for the squadron runs, while the Avenger captured one run and the Astor Cup for single stickers. As the big schooners were anxious for more racing, the Newport Yacht Racing Association arranged a 38-mile contest today for which of them, the Elena, Westward and Irolita were entered. At a.m. no word had been received of the Karina and Atlantic, which left here yesterday for the Ambrose Channel lightship and return for the Brenton Reef Cup. The weather this morning was clear with a light northerly breeze and the big yachts were not expected back until afternoon.

MRS. SEAMAN IS ILL So Iron Clad Manufacturing Case Goes Over Again After Motions Are Renewed. When the case of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company came up again before Judge Chatfield in the United States District Court yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Seaman did not appear in person and it was learned that not only was she ill, but that she had succeeded in evading personal summons in the order to show cause why she should not be punished for contempt of court: why she should not permit Appleton L.

Clark, receiver of the Iron Clad, to inspect the plant of the Amerlean Steel Barrel Company, Mrs. Seaman's $2,000,000 concern, to learn it there were any Iron Clad assets there, and why she should not return to the recelver certain Iron Clad property alleged to have been removed by her ordere. Adolph Kiendl, counsel for Receiver Clark, went to Mrs. Seaman's home Wednesday to serve the papers. A negro who came to the door stated that Mrs.

Seaman was out West. He refused to take the papers. Later Mr. Klendl returned with a witness, threatened the negro with contempt of court and scared him into taking the papers. In court yesterday Mrs.

Seaman's counsel, James A. Allen, did not question that his client had received the papers. Judge Chatfeld said he had received a letter from Mrs. Seaman to the effect that she was sick, and most of the motions were adjourned until August 17, to give Attorney Allen a chance to submit reply to made In the orders directing Mrs. Seaman to show cause.

During the proceedings yesterday E. T. Rice, counsel for the petitioning creditors of the Iron Ciad, charged that on the night the receiver was appointed certain property removed from the Iron Clad plant "with the connivance of Mr. absolutely false," said Attorney Allen, springing his feet. "I challenge you, Mr.

Rice, to prove that stateinent." The lawyers faced one another defantly and Judge Chatfeld Interposed sharply, directing the opposing counsel to quit arguing, explaining that what they were talking about was not relevant with the motions of the day. Mr. Rice renewed his motion to nave Mrs. Seaman compelled to answer questions regarding the connection between the Iron Clad and the Barrel Company and to produce the records of the latter concern 30 that United States Commissioner Morle might And it there was such connection. Judge Chattield said ne would Inspect the minutes and that, If he decided that the documents ol the Barrel Company were material, he would limit his order to Mrs.

Seaman to produce them, to include only those mentioned in the testimony in the examinations that have been going on before Commissioner Morle. OBITUARY John Townshend. John Townshend, Jurist and author of several textbooks 011 slander and libel, died yesterday afternoon of general debility at his home, 302 West Seventy-third street, He was born in New Buckingham. Norfolk, England, ninetytwo years ago, and came to this country soon after being admitted to the practice of law. General Alvred Bayard Nettleton.

Minneapolis ibune. Martha A. Girard. General Alvred Bayard Nettleton, from 1890 to 1893 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Acting Secretary on the death of Secretary Windom, died at his home in Chicago yesterday, aged 73 years, At different times he was editor of the Sandusky Dally Register, publisher of the Chicago Advance, managing editor of Philadelphia Inquirer and founder of the Martha Ann Quackenbush, widow of Frank Girard, who for twenty-five was the stage manager for Tony Pastor, died at her residence, 607 Flatbush nue, Thursday, from neuritis. She was born in New York City September 20, 1842, the daughter of Cornelius and Mary A.

Quackenbush. and Was a member of the Ebenezer (Old School) Baptist Church of Manhattan. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George H. Kean, and a son.

Edgar F. Girard, who is stage manager for the Brighton Beach Music Hall. Jennie E. Cunningham. Jennte Elizabeth Cunningham died Thursday.

at her residence, 291 State street. She was born on Third place, July 23. 1892. Her father, Lawrence J. Cunningham.

died suddenly in May last and the shock hastened her death. She was 8 student at the Manual Training High School. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Cunningham: a brother, Frank, and three sisters-Mrs.

Frederick Hammer, Laura and Gertrude. A mASS was said this morning in the Church of St. Charles Borromeo. Aaron H. Rathbone.

Aaron Henderson Rathbone died Monday, August 7, at the home of his son. He was 83 years old, and was engaged largely in the real estate and insurance business in Manhattan. He had at one time the largest private library in Brooklyn. He married the daughter of Captain R. F.

Loper, the well -known veteran yachtsman and shipbullder. He leaves three children-Mrs. G. J. Busse of Manhattan, Mrs.

Ralph W. Kenyon and Richard Loper Rathbone of Brooklyn. Elizabeth Johnson. Elizabeth Scott Johnson. a native of Killarney, Ireland, died yesterday at her home, 157 Crystal street, aged 62 years.

She was a member of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, where requiem mass will be said Monday morning at 9:45 o'clock. The interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. She was formerly a resident Boston. Charles Wanner. Wanner, a professor of musle, Charles, his home.

426 Carlton avenue, aged 62 years. Funeral services will be held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Adele Wiskotzil, 216 Elm avenue, Ridgewood Heights. Sunday afternoon, 8t 2 o'clock George S. Byrnes.

George only child of Dr. John and Florence Shady Byrnes, died yesterday at his home, 224A Sixth avenue, in his 13th year. He was A student at the Brooklyn College. Funeral services will be held Monday morning and the interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Catherine Murray.

Catharine Murray, wo died Wednesday at her home, 703 East Second street, was born in Ireland 86 years ago and was formerly a member of the Church of St. Gabriel, Manhattan. She had latterly belonged to the Church of St. Rose of Lima, where a requiem mass was said this morning. She is survived by 2 nephew, T.

J. O'Shaugnessy. Verner Clarges. Verner Clarges, famous ans an Interpreter of the character of unctuous old men and for the years the principal support of Jefferson "The Rivals." died yesterday at his home, One Hundred and Ninety -sixth street and Decatur avenue, The Bronx. He came to this country as a lyceum entertainer in 1886, then becoming an actor.

He appeared with Mrs. Fiske in a "Tess of the d'Ubervilles." and was afterward with E. S. Willard. Chauncey Olcott and other stars.

He had been retired for several years. John Randolph Quinn, M.D. Dr. John Randalph Quinn, for thirtyseven years a prominent physician of Brooklyn, died of apoplexy yesterday at his home, 314 Greene avenue, after all illness of four days. He wag born in Bangor, N.

64 years ago, and was graduated in 1872 from the Long Island College Hospital and belonged to the Kings County Medical Society, the Brooklyn Pathological Society, the International Red Cross Society, the Tammany Hall Society of Kings County, the Montauk Club and the Church of the Nativity, where a requiem mass will be said Monday morning. He was connected with St. Mary's Hospital, to which he had donated several beds. He leaves a widow, Ella S. Smith, and a son, John Randolph, jr.

Theodore A. Kohn. Theodore A. Kohn, a retired jeweler, formerly of 351 Fifth avenue, Manhattan, died yesterday morning at his summer home at Bay Shore, L. of general debility, induced by old age.

He was born in Bavaria in 1832, and coming to this country in 1851 began the jewelry business in 1860. He leaves three sons. Albert and Amiel, who are his successors in busineess, and Robert, an architect of Manhattan. Mr. Kohn's city home was at 202 Riverside Drive, Manhattan.

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Realty and Imp. John F. Coffin. Brooklyn Trust Co and ano. va.

Frankel et John F. Canavan. Matter of Laing. Irving Katz. Sands vs.

Quinn and Guy T. Murray. Matter of Cantwell, Jamees W. Hyde. Sutus vs.

Spelman and Henry Steigel, jr. BY STAPLETON. J. Noyes VS. Danzilo et David Siegelman.

Goldberg vs. Malzman and Thomas M. Simonton. BY PUTNAM, J. Lawyers Mtge.

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Pelligrino vs. Carroll, A. Burton Reed: Nor. ris McLellan, William A. Russell: Martin va.

Groll, John R. Nunk: Koster vs. Stanley And Theron H. Sammis: St. Joseph's R.

C. Church vs. Walker Burt, L. Rich. BY SCUDDER, J.

Bauer v9. Briekman Realty David Spiro; Bauer Jeffrey, William H. Halleld. 200 AT NEW BATH. Within an hour after the opening of the new Municipal Bath House at Coney land today two hundred persons had taken advantage of it.

It is expected t.but before the day is over 5,000 persons will have gone bathing from the place, as the crowd has been Increasing throughout the 4 y. POPE APPEARS STRONGER; FEELS SURE OF RECOVERY Temperature a Little Above Normal, but General Condition "Relatively Satisfactory." PAINS IN KNEE LESS SEVERE Pontiff Remains In Bed, and Depression Is Not Entirely Overcome. August 12-At noon today the Roma, general condition of Pope Plus scribed by his physician do as "relatively The Pontiff somesatisfactory." atronger. Hie temperature remained slightly above normal and the which has characterized his depression illness at times had not been entirely overcome. This afternon the approach of a violent electrical storm caused A headache and a feeling of oppression on the part of the Pope.

The storm broke over the city with a succession of terrific thunderclape and blinding lightning. One flash seemed to pass directly before the windows of the room occupied by the pontiff 29 though to And a mark in the Vatican gardens. However, no damage was done and when the sky was cleared the air was much better and the patient was soon refreshed. The Pope's eldest brother, Angelo, who is living in northern Italy, has been rendered anxious by the reports of his holiness' condition and today telegraphed that he was to start for Rome as he wished to embrace "my beloved Giuseppe. should his end be near.

The sisters who received the message repiled that the pontiff was wholly out of danger and that it would be unnecessary as well as unwise for him to come to Rome where the intense heat wight endanger his health. The Pope's sister, Rosa, who has been affected by the warm weather, was better today and this news afforded relief and consolation to the pontiff, who expressed the hope that he might see her soon. Pope Has Long Talk With Papal Secretary of State. This afternoon the Pope, in a conversation more prolonged than has been usual during the past several days, urged Cardinal Merry del Val, the Papal Secretary of State, to go, as he had planned, to his villa at Monte Mario tomorrow. The Cardinal had expected to be absent from Rome for the remainder of the summer and His Holiness wished him to take a rest, saying that as for himself he feit sure of recovering from his sickness.

Dr. Petacel and Professor Marchiafava were at the bedside for more than an hour this forenoon making another close examination of the patient. Attention was given to the kidneys, nothing unfavorable in this respect being discovered except insignificant traces of calculi. The Pope did not get up this morning, explaining that he felt better in his bed than in the chair which occupied at times yesterday. He thought that he rested better in a reclining position.

The pains in his knee continued but were less severe. The swelling which diminished yesterday has since remained stationary. Last evening the physicians were optimistic, saying that the patient showed marked improvement and predicting a complete recovery, barring unforeseen complications, within ten days. The Pontiff, however, had. a rather restless night and toward midnight was awakened by a return of the burning sensation in his gouty knee.

The doctors were able to relieve him and two hours later he was said to be sleeping well. The physicians thought that the heat and over exertion of yesterday afternoon when he felt 30 much better were responsible chiefly for his restlessness. Austria Not Against Rampolla. It is reported that Cardinal Rampolla, while at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, met a prominent Austrian who notified him that. independent of the bull issued by Pope Pius forbidding Catholic powers to veto candidates for the papacy, should a conclave be held, Austria would not oppose the election of Rampolla.

Cardinal Rampolla was secretary of state for Pope Leo XILI and was frequently mentioned as his successor in the pontificate. It WAS reported that his Arst year of his reign Pope Pius procandidacy was vetoed by Austria. a In the of every kind of intrusion of civil aunounced a denunciation and a prohibition thority 01 influence in the election of the Roman pontiff. SPY STORY INVESTIGATION Soldier at Fort Totten Accused by Western Woman May Be Court-Martialed. Eagle Bureau.

608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, August 12-General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, has forwarded all the papers in case of Private George Petr of the 135th Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Totten, who is charged by Miss Clara Anita Dyer with being an Austrian nobleman, acting as a Spy in the United States army, to General Frederick D. Grant, in charge of the Department of the East, for investigation. Instructions have been given to General Grant to order a court martial if. after his investigation of the case, he should deem one necessary.

OMeials here do not take seriously the idea that Petr is a spy in the employ of the Austrian government. Miss Dyer's affidavit states that Petr declared he was Prince or Count Windisch-Gratz of Austria. Petr's record at the War Department says he was born in Klatovy, Austria, and that he he is the son of Jareslau Petr. a professor at Prague, Bobemia. There is no blemish on the military record.

He Is now serving his second enlistment in the coast artillery service. BRAINERD. FOREIGN NAVAL OFFICERS. One From England and One From Argentine Arrive in New York. The Cunarder Campania came in this morning with a host of notables from abroad.

Among those from England was Captain A. McNab, engineer, British navy. Captain McNab is the inventor of the direction indicator, a device for enabling the captain of a vessel at sea to know from the bridge whether or not his engineer obeying the signals sent him. The captain's visit here is to broaden the scope of the invention. From Argentine Republic came Captain Ramon Gonzales- Fernandez of the Argentine navy.

He is president of the Committee of Survey of Artillery for the government. Captain Gonzales- Fernandes is going to Bethlehem, to see about the construction of the armor plate for two Argentine navy dreadnaughts, which are being built in this country, one at Camden and the other at Fore River. Each is to be of 27.000 tons and both wilt cost $10,000,000. These, with twelve stroyers, which are being constructed by English shipbuilders for Argentina, will make her navy the most formidable of the South American countries. WILLIAM WISE SON, Jewelers Silversmiths Beg to state that business Is resumed as usual, after the water damage.

FLATBUSH AVENUE Fulton Nevins Sts. TWO BROOKLYN WOMEN ARRESTED IN BOSTON BLACKHAND VICTIM TO HIDE. Former Brooklynite, Whose House Was Wrecked, Will Leave St. Louis. St.

Louls, August 12-The police have found no clew to the perpetrators of the bomb explosion, which Thursday night killed two persons and injured several others on "Dago Hill," an Italian colony. The officials hold the theory that the unidentified man who met death was one of the plotters, as his presence in the colony is unaccounted for. Tony Romano; the grocer who recently received two Black Hand letters from Brooklyn, N. demanding $2,000, has to abandon his interests here, and will return to the East and endeavor to hide his identity. His store was in the building destroyed by the bomb.

DENIAL BY HARVESTER TRUST Townsend Report Based on Erroneous Claims, Says Statement to House Committee. Washington, August 12-That the arguments and conclusions of the so-called Townsend report are based upon clearly erroneous statements of well-known facts is the opening assertion in a reply by Edgar A. Bancroft, counsel for the international Harvester Company, filed today with the House Steel Trust investigating in answer to charges made by Burdett D. Townsend, special agent of the Department of Justice, in 1908. The Townsend report was filed with the committee a short time ago, "Nearly every important statement of fate relating to the purpose of the investigation," the reply continues, "ig elther grossly inaccurate or entirely udtrue." There is no patent whatever on the essential part of any type of knotter, and there has not been any such patent and force since 1896, when the Appleby patent expired.

The statement of the Townsend report that of the nine different types of grain binders purchased by the International, all but three have been abandoned, and that repairs are not furnished for any others. is branded as "notoriously and absolutely false." "The report's charge of a 'binder twine trust' is without any foundation declares the In reply to the charges that competition has been "largely suppressed," Mr. Bancroft cites the names of eight firms which, he declares, are all active competitors. the charge that the International receives rebates from railroads and special concessions from the United States Steel Corporation, the reply declares that the harvester company's "relation to the United States Steel Corporation is not different from its relations with the competitors of the steel corporation." As to the charge that the International is a "trust," the reply is that it was not merger of existing corporatione, but a new one. in which $20.000.00 was invested by persons not theretofore in the harvester business." All the plants have been enlarged.

improved and have eulployed more men than ever before." CANADIAN MISSING WITH $700. Left Mother at Brooklyn Bridge Entrance While He Went for Drink. Mrs. Maria A. Denault, an aged woman of probably 65 years, who gave her address 88 277 Ontario street, Montreal, Canada, reported to the police last night that her son.

Jean, 35 years old, a diasond broker. had disappeared while she was standing at. the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge, She said that with her son, who lives at. 17 Place d'Arms Hill. Montreal.

she came to New York yesterday morning. Jean brought with him a white stallion, which he disposed of during the day for $700. The two decided to go to Coney Island and reached Brooklyn Bridge, when Jean left his mother, saying he was going to get a drink. She waited for him for probably a couple of hours, and then passer -by Sho told him, and he directed to the asked her for whom she was, waiting. Oak street station.

Mrs. Denault was then sent to the Detective Bureau and detectives were assigned to took for her son. A general alarm was also gent out tot him. He had the $700 with him when he left his mother. Mrs.

Denault had only $7 In her DOSsession. and that was Canadian money. However. the detectives sent her to the Broadway Central Hotel, where she registered. She fears that her Son may have been waylaid and robbed of the money, She said that they intended to go to Maine today.

TWO JOKERS KILLED Posed as Car Breakers and Were Not Recognized by Friend, Who Shot Them. Detroit. August 12-Frank J. Cook and Daniel Vreeland, special detectives for the Lake Shore Railroad, were shot and killed last night by Special Officer Willlam Burnett ot the Michigan Central Railroad. The men met death AS the result of a joke that they attempted to play on Burnett.

They were all on the best of terms and met at the junction of the two roads every night. Last night Cook and Vreeland, knowing that Burnett had had trouble with two car breakers, decided a that they would hide behind a car and spring out on him as he passed. Burnett, not recognizing either of the men in the darkness, drew his gun and shot four times at them, three of the bullets taking effect. Burnett stated to the police that he would not have shot at the men had they not shouted that they would "get He said that about 8 week ago two prowlers on the tracks had sworn to 'get him." HELD ON STABBING CHARGE. Pasquale Valentino, 25 years old, of 2364 Six 7-fifth street, was held without bail for the Grand Jury, by Magistrate Nash today, in the New Jersey avenue court.

The complainant was Angelo Pontalillo, A fellow workman, whom, it is claimed, Valentino stabbed In the back, face, chest and elsewhere, on July 12, last. Pontalillo has been in the Kings County Hospital until a few days ago, and when he appeared it court today he displayed his wounds to the magistrate, who seemed 10 think them serious enough to warrant the refusal of bail to alleged assailant. Goods That Were Shipped Here by Them Are Believed to Have Been Stolen. "RECEIVING AGENT" MISSING. Detectives Visit Room of "Al" Silver and Seize Many Boxes and Packages.

The office of Acting Captain Coughlin, at local police headquarters on State street, is littered today with an interesting collection of articles, the proceeds, it is claimed, of a number of robberies in Boston and in other cities away from New York; and the Boston police have iu custody two women who, it is believed, have been active in the collection of the articles. The two women are from Brooklyn, and they held in default of $1,000 bail each, pending a further atare raignment for stealing from a dry goods store in the Hub. The women are Elizabeth Smith and Hannah Krofft, each about 30 years old, who claimed that they lived, the former at 1298 Broadway and the latter at 1516 Broadway, in this borough. The Boston officials got the 1 idea that the women were not only exceeding: ly expert thieves in their line, but had shoown much activity. Arrest Followed Shipping of Big Bot.

tles to Brooklyn. Before they were arrested they were seen in an express office shipping three packing boxes to Brooklyn. They had done the nailing on of the covers awakwardly, as if they did not wish to have anyone see the character of the merchandise in them, and the police of Boston found out that they had shipped them to a man named Silver, at 358 Bainbridge street, Brooklyn. So the local detectives were asked to look up Silver and to find what the boxes contained. Word was sent tc Acting Captain Coughlin and he detailed Detectives Murray and Seleske on the job.

They went to the Bainbridge street address, but they did not find Silver. a They discovered there that he had moved from the premises and the woman of the house could not tell the police where they could find him. They learned, however, that Silver was Silver, a bartender, who now out on bail on a charge of violating the liquor tax law. The detectives Were permitted to AX amine the room in which Silver had lired and they found there the boxes and packages which, it is believed. will prove of much interest to the Boston police.

There were bundles boxes and cardboard cartons, all filled with new materoals. The detectives the boxes all of which had come by express to Silver, from Boston, and which had not been opened--for it was plain that Silver ouly a receiving agent. Detectives Open Packages and Make Interesting Discovery. The detectives opened the boxes and packages and found stockings, sox, shirtwaists, skirts, silverware, perfuinery, cigars, cigarettes; tobacco, cutlery, trousers, suspenders, pieces of cloth, neckties and a plated service. A rough estimate of the property found in the boxes set the value at about $1,000.

It was plain that the goods had not been taken from Boston alone, but from other cities in the United States and in Canada. The police, in looking up Silver's antecedents, found that he was at one time a boarder with the two women and that he had represented that he was gaged to be married to one of them. The discovery of the police was telegraphed to Boston and the chief of the detectives there wired back that he would send some people to Brooklyn to look over the goods. PLAYWRIGHT ARRIVES. Herbert H.

Davies, Author of "A Single Man," Comes on Campania. The author of one of Charles Frohman'5 new productions, "A Single Man." which is to be put on at the Empire Theater, in Manhattan, in the fall. was aboard the Campania, which arrived today. He 18 Herbert H. Davies, author of "The Mollusc" and "Cousin Kate." Lyn Harding, an English actor, WAS taking a trip to have the fun of celebrating his majority as an actor--twentyone years on the stage.

He will be seen here during his stay in "The Earth." by James Fagan. Mrs. Fagan accompanied him. She will have the leading woman's part of Lady Susan. The play opens in Montreal and will be put on here at the Playhouse, W.

A. Brady's theater. He is managing production. Allen Aynesworth, who will be in "The Earth," was another passenger 011 the Campania. He was with the Harding party.

Eva Marlow, the "Pony Ballet" girl, who has been in England looking for ideas and new business for the ballet, has come back to join Lew Fields' company again. FUNERAL OF GATES IN PARIS. Services in American Church--Body to Be Shipped Here Wednesday. Paris, August 12-The funeral of John W. Gates was held today at the interdenominational American Church in Rue de Berri, in the vault of which the body of the American financier has rested since his death at a hotel here last Wednesday.

service was conducted by the Rev. James Lee, pastor of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church South, assisted by Dr. Hyatt, pastor of the American Church. In his discourse the latter mentioned that Mr.

Gates and he had played together A8 boys, but had never met again in life. Some 200 American friends and quaintances of the family, from all parts of the United States, were present Nearly all entered their names on the reg. ister in the vestibule of the church Beautiful floral pieces filled the chancel. The body will be taken to Cherbourg Tuesday and placed on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which will sail Olt the following day for New York. Mr9 Gates and Charles Gates will accompany the body, going to Cherbourg in a special car attached to the boat train Wednesday..