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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. XEW V()KK. SUS DAY. DECEMBER 5. 11)01).

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We bar a I so 44 SV 1 A Ml I IS and OVEHtOATIMiS at j.OO, Thett are of the mosl choice election )t this Kaaon'a fabric. FIT ORKMAXSJIIP GUARANTEED 15 H. P. I ft I Fish Commission Protests Ideas Miss Josephine Baumaii of Astoria Stricken at L. I.

City End of Queensboro Bridge. Huge Structure Is Given Thorough Inspection by Brooklyn League Members. of Passaic Valley People. WILLIAM WISE SON, FLATBUSH Pulton Nevins Sts. Opals mounted in latest designs Brooches, Pendants, Scarf Pins, Rings, with and without Diamonds.

Inspection and comparison of prices invited. lit TOWN CAR t-andaulets and Coupes $3,500 The Only Car will turn In narrow cm IrreU without backing. PROMPT DELIVERIES Schumir Possisses delights tlut captivate ail the senses, Us charming fragrance, cious mellow ilavor, sparkling brilliancy, and creamy head combine to make it a beverage as irresistible as it is wholesome. In Splits If Desired. Hotels, P.esraurants, Saloons Oyster and Chop IS POLICEMAN'S DAUGHTER.

iSEES DANGER TO OYSTER BEDS SEE MANY WONDERS OF SPAN, 1 She Played Basketball at Bryant High 1786 B'way Retweon to the fits. Opening cf Great Work Public May Be Bay aud Gowanus Canal Already Con. taminated No Fish Can Live at Some Points. School Before Her Graduation, Three Years Ago. Ojiponile I'lntbusli Brooklyn O'REILLY'S ACCOUNTS 0.

MANY VESSELS WRECKED CHARLES S. SMITH'S WILL A TRIPLE MURDER Scores of Fishing Craft Driven Ashore in Newfoundland Storm. Surrogate's Decision Upheld in Heaney Will Case. Only One Bequest of $5,000 Left to Charity. Mother and Two Children Slain 1 in Cleveland.

Worst in History of Country. Old Fishermen Say Men on Wrecked Craft Faced Death. Alleged Deficit of $50,000 Was Due to Honest Mistake in Accounting. Appellate Division Decides. Widow, Grandson and Daughter-in-Law Warned as the Principal Beneficiaries.

Husband and Stepfather Suspected. He Disappeared After Quarrel Over Money Matters. Cleveland, December 4 Mrs. Josephino Mangiuo aud two of her children, Annio and Jiuimie Lupica, were murdered in the kitchen of their home here at noon to-day. In a quarrel over money matters.

Joe Lupica, the baby of the family, was fatally stabbed. Search to-niuhc was mado for Antonio Mangiuo, husband and step-father, who left the house uc 1905 East Orange stretit, immediately after the tragedy, bought a glass of beet' at a nearby saloon and after chatting with the bartender boarded a car running toward the southeastern part of town, where bis relatives are said to live. Mrs. Mungino and two of the three children were horribly beaten and stabbed. In each Instance tho victim's head waj crushed with a heavy iron bur and tho bodies were stabbed again and again.

Manglno's share In the tragedy was witnessed from a doorway by Angelic Lupica, four years old, and Mnry Kttorffo, a neighbor's child, but Jimmte Lupica, the elder boy, gave the alarm. "Mamma's killed, and I'm hit," be cried, running to the street, and then ran back Into the house iu an effort to save the lives of the other children, but St. John's, N. December 4 A vivid Idea ot tho disaster wrought by what the oldest residents along the west shore assert Is Newfoundland's greatest storm, which has driven scores of fine schooners ashore, among them three hailing from Gloucester, Mass the fishermen Clln-tonia, Henry M. Stanley and Mabel R.

Hines Is given ia late despatches to-day from Blrchy Cove. The Cllntonla, Captain Norman Ross, Ib fast ashore at Wood's Island, where she Is pounding heavily. When the shlp'B anchor had parted, Ross and his crew made their perilous way ashore through a surf flung mast high from the cliffs. After a terrific struggle with the tempest, the Stanley, Captain Arsenault, was driven ashore at North Arm, Bay of Islands, where she Is fast breaking up. For hours her crew were forced to cling to the hulk, at the mercy of wind and wave, the tremendous seas making it impossible to launch a boat.

Finally, during. a lull in the storm, they were taken off by heroic volunteers from the shore and were taken to Blrchy Cove by tho cruiser Fiona. The Mabel R. Hines went ashore at nearly the same place and now lies on her beam ends, with great seas continually breaking over her. Her 'captain and crew managed to reach the beach In their own boat.

The entire western coast is littered with wreckage from the uncountod Newfoundland schooners breaking up in the arms and coves along the coast to-night. ReportB from the south coaet also indicate great losses to shipping. The friends of Magistrate Frank E. O'Reilly congratulated Mm yesterday on his victory In the Appellate Division In the matter of tho estate of the late millionaire pawnbroker, Arthur J. Heaney, which has been Involved in litigation for BOme time.

It will be remembered that Magistrate O'Reilly, who Is the executor of the estate, was charged by young Arthur J. Heaney, the son of the pawnbroker, with being responsible for an alleged deficit of $50,000 in the estate funds. Magistrate O'Reilly therc'upon applied to Surrogate Ketcham for permission to go over the accounting which he had originally filed and to file a new account should any errors be discovered. This motion, made by James P. Judge, the counsel for the magistrate, was granted by Surrogate Ketcham.

some months ago, In the face of vigorous opposition by Walter Jeffreys Carlin. the attorney for young Mr. Heaney. A new accounting was filed soon after. In which it was shown that the magistrate had made an honest mistako In the first statement he rendered of the assets of the business.

Magistrate O'Reilly asserted that the mistake had been caused by misstatements made to him by the employes in the pawnbroklng business. After the surrogate had received the corrected accounting, which showed conclusively that no deficit existed, young Mr. Heaney appoalcd straightway to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, seeking to reverse the order of the surrogate opening the former decree. On Friday, the Appellate Division rendered a unanimous decision affirming the order of the surrogate In Magistrate O'Rellly'e favor. Death came suddenly yesterday afternoon to Miss Josephine M.

Bauman, a bright young woman, who was once one ot tho star women athletes of the Bryant High School and a player on the basket ball team of the school until her graduation three years ago. She was on her way home at 237 Fifteenth avenue. Long Island City, about 4 o'clock, when she reached the plaza of tho Queensboro bridge and there alighted from one of the brldgo cars an4 received a transfer for another car. As she was waiting In a small gathering of men and women she suddenly threw up her arms with a cry of pain. Mrs.

Freida Linsky, of -65 Poplar street, Corona, who was standing near by, rushed to her, and tho young girl fell Into ber arms. Patrolman Patrick Kelly, who was on duty at the plaza, came, and picking up the prostrate girl, carried ber into tho hotel of Gus Roberts, at 374 Jackson avenue. A call was sent to St. John's hospital, and Dr. Joseph Boardman responded In a lew minutes.

Ho pronounced Miss Bauman dead and said that heart trouble was the cause. The body was taken to the Hun-tors Point police station. Miss Bauman, when she fell, had In her arms two books taken from the Broadway branch of tho Queensboro library: "Tho Diva's Ruby" and "Don Orsino," and carried in her hand a leather hand bag. The library cards bore the name of Josephine Bauman and the identification card stated: "in case of accident my name Is Josepblno M. Bauman, and notify John A.

Bauman, Astoria Police Station." A messenger was at once started for the Bauman home, when it was found that Patrolman Bauman was not at the Astoria station at that time. As the messenger boarded a Stelnway car he met Mr. and Mrs. Bauman, who were returning from Manhattan. Bauman was told that he was wanted at the police station.

He sent his wife home, and when he got to the Btatlon he was shown the body of the young woman which ho Immediately identified aa that of hl3 daughter. Mr. Bauman said that his daughter always enjoyed splendid health. She was an enthusiast over basketball and all kinds of athletic sport. She played on the Bryant High School team until her graduation and during tho past summer she did considerable cowing.

Her appearance was that of a young woman in splendid health. She had a position as a stenographer with a large firm in Manhattan. The father was overcome with grief when he realized the fact that his daughter was dead. As soon as he could give a statement to tho police at the station house he took some ot the belongings of his daughter and started for his home. Besides the dead girl his family consists ot his wife and one son, sixteen years of age.

Bauman an old Long Island City policeman and is held in high regard by his associates on the police force. fell dying on the threshold. According to the story credited by the i police Mrs. Mangtno had sold the house," which was left her by her first husband, 1 Giuseppe Lupica, who was shot in a street fight two years ago. From tho saio of this house she was reported to hava 'realized $1,700.

Mangino, who has been out of work for three months, became involved in an argument over the situation to-day. It was heard by the neighbors, who paid no attention regarding the situation as a purely private one. METZ ON SALARIES. The will of Cbarlcs Stewart Smith, former president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, was filed yesterday ia the Surrogate's office, io Manhattan. Mr.

Smith died at his residence, 25 West l'orty-seventh street, Manhattan, Tuesday last. The will was executed on June 15, 1007. The estate is said to bo worth over $50,000 in realty and over $100,000 iu personal property. To his widow, Anna Walton Smith, Mr. Smith leaves all jewelry, silver, ornaments (not including paintings, works of art aud bric-a-brac), library and household effects, except some special books, bequeathed to his sons.

Mrs. Smith is also left any automobiles or horses and carriages Bhc may choose, and also the book containing signatures ot the citizens of New York inviting him to a public dinner on his retirement from the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce, and any articles iu the Stamford house sho may select, not to exceed $2,000 in value. She is also to have the use and enjoyment of one-third of her husband's paintings, one-third of his other works of art and one-third of the bric-a-brac. If she so desires, she may sell her life Interest in the paintings, works of art aud bric-a-brac to her son or erandson. Mrs.

Smith is requested to distribute the testator's scarf pins, matchboxes and gold insignia connected with the Chamber of Commerce, and to beaueath the library so that it will go to the children. To Mrs. Adole W. Smith, the widow of his son, Stewart W. Smith, the testator leaves six acres of land at Stamford, another portion having been already conveyed to his deceased son.

To his soa and grandson he leaves in equal shares all his paintings, works of art and bric-a-brac, with the exception of tho one-ihird left to his widow for her life. To bis grandson, Charles Stewart Smith, ho leaves the bound book with the resolutions of tho Chamber of Commerce constituting him an honorary member of that body, and also tho certificate of honorary membership, and the large gold medal given him by tho Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Smith leaves his widow $25,000, his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Adele W.

Smith, his grandson, Charles Stewart Smith, $25,000, when he attains his majority, and another $25,000 when he reaches the ago of 25; and his sisters, Susan W. Smith and Maria L. Smith, 510,000 each. Several legacies, of $1,000 each are made to cousins, and each ot bis servants who have been in his employ for ten years $500; each of them over five years, $250, and each o( them over three years $100. To tho West.

Side Nursery he leaves $5,000. this being the only charitable bequest in the will. To Mrs. Smith ha leaves his New York residence for life, or until she marries again. In case of her death or marriage, the property is to be divided equally between the son and grandson.

The residue of his estate is to be divided into three equal partB, of which one is to go to his son, Howard Caswell Smith; the income of one part to go to Mrs. Smith for life and on her death to be equally divided between his son and grandson, and the remaining part Is to be divided into two equal parts, and the income paid his grandson until he reaches 21, when he is to receive half. The income of the other part will be paid him until he reaches 25, when he is to get the remaining half. Mr. Smith appoints his widow, his son and Samuel P.

Avery executors of his will, and gives them power to Invest or all his estate. WANTS BUT LIFE STATION SITE Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington! December 4 Tho United States Fish Commission has warned the officers of the Passaic Valley Sewer Commission that its plan of projecting sewage into the lower harbor of New York is liable to have a bad effect on the oyster Industry of Jamaica Bay. Raritan Bay, Princess Bay. Great Kills and other points In that vicinity.

In this connection it has developed that certain waters along the Brooklyn water front are so polluted by sewage at the present time as to have killed all fish and every tbi-tlgo of animal life. The Fish Commission received a letter the other day from the Passale Valley Sewer Commission, asklns whether Its plan to empty sewage Into New York Bay would have a harmful effect on the commercial fishes living In those waters. The commission has a $15,000,000 project under consideration to carry tho sewage of Newark and Paterson by a monster trunk sewer Into the harbor at Robblns Reef, a short distance from the South Brooklyn water front. Conditions in Gowanus Canal Already Bad. The officers In charge of the project explain that their Intention is to obtain a thorough mixture and assimilation of sewage water, with an enormous volume of oxygen saturated by water, before the sowage can rise to the surface.

They stated tbat this method would not appreciably reduce the aeration of tho bay water, even at the point of discharges To back up their claim that the sewage would not have an unusually harmful effect on the fish of the bay. the sewer commission quoted the results of examinations made In the East River to determine the effect on oxygen saturation of the present method of disposing of tho sewage of New York City. The observations were made by Messrs. Hazen and Fuller. The results have startled tho officers of the United States Fish Commission.

It seems that in Gowanus Canal, opposite Centre street, the percentage of dissolved oxygen was zero. The percentage of saturation was also zero. The same conditions were reported In Gowanus Canal at Ninth street, both at the surface and at depths of fourteen feet. No Fish Can Live in Slips Where Observations Were Made. "This means that no fish or any living animal can exist in those slips where the examinations were made," said a Fish Commission official.

"Normal conditions represent a saturation of 100 per cent. Bass aud shad can exlat where the water shows oxygen saturation of 60 per cent. In view of these figures I should say the waters at the points named must be veritable cesspools and a great menace to health." In Gowanus canal, 200 yards below Hamilton avenue bridge, near Eighteenth street, the percentage of oxygen wa.j 1.S2 and saturation 24 per cent, on the surface. Nowhere else were conditions so bad. The percentage of dissolved oxygen ranged from 5 to 7 per and the percentage of saturation ran from 75 to D5 per cent, elsewhere.

In the East River, under the Brooklyn bridge, east side, there was 5.75 per cent, of dissolved oxygen and 77 per cent, of saturation. At the mouth of Newtown Creek the percentages were 5.O8 and 67. At the Narrows there was 100 per cent, of saturation. It Is stated that the average fish dies from suffocation when the oxygen is reduced below 1.5 per cent. Oyster Industry Only One Menaced.

In Its reply the Fish Commission stated that the sewage plan of tho Passale Valley people Is not likely to have a seriously harmful effect on the commercial ftehes of the harbor. The commission then gives the following warning regarding the posBiblo effect on the oyster Industry: "This occasion is taken to point out that oyster fisheries of New York and New Jersey are intimately concerned with the sewage disposal of the municipalities tributary to New York Bay and to suggest that the change in distribution of the Passaic sewage has possible elements of danger over that already existing to the oyster beds of lower New York Bay, Jamaica Bay, Raritan Bay, Princess Bay and Great Kills. Over some 01 the regions a freshly discharged sewage will immediately be spread, while at present the same sewage is advanced fa in conversion and purification by tho time It reaches the isame bed." Through the courtesy of James W. Stevenson of the Department of Bridges, the Brooklyn League, led by George W. Brush.

John B. Creighton, Gilbert Elliott and 300 prominent members of the league and others Inspected the new Manhattan bridge beginning yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The delegation spent about an hour on the bridge and pronounced it a most satisfactory and grand structure. They were shown about by Kingsley L. Martin, chief engineer of the bridge construction, and others, who explained the many wonders of the bridge.

The league members assembled at the Brooklyn end ot the bridge and marched In twos and fours along the carriage way. Tho line extended half way across the bridge. At tho two-thirds point the members stopped to view the concrete foundation work going on there. Here they had pictures taken. Some went back shortly, while othera tarried over' the water and compared the Manhattan with its sister structures, the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges.

All Have Praise for Bridge. All in the party voted the bridge under, taking a great proposition and predicted much commercial advancement to Brooklyn as a result. Many were doubtful, however, if the structure would be open for transportation and passage on the date promised, Christmas Eve, and during the administration of Mayor McClellan. Quite a number of the League members, more daring than the others, ventured down the narrow stairs from the bridge to Pike street Manhattan, a distance- or about 120 feet and almost straight down. Col.

Robert B. Woodward and Carll H. De Silver led the party, and were the first to alight on the street. All went to the other end of the bridge. They returned by way of the subway and the Brooklyn bridge.

Among all the men present there was only one woman, Mrs. John B. Lord ot 135 Joralemon 'street, wife of Attorney John B. Lord, both of whom accepted an invitation from K. E.

Pabst, president of the Ocean Hill Board of Trade, and also of tho league. Mrs. Lord descended to Pike street with her husband. Construction Work Explained. After the majority of tho league members had filed back across the bridge en route to tho city Mr.

Pabst explained several features of the new structure. Pointing to the immense double cables, he said: "Those cables are 21 inches through as against 16 Inches for the Brooklyn Bridge and 18 inches for the Williamsburg Bridge. They carry 9,700 strands of wire. The elevated trains will run above, the pi euade will be on the extreme sides, the trolleys will run on either side of the middle of the bridge aud the vehicle-way will be down the middle. Tho flooring will be of wood block." Mr.

ventured the opinion that electrolysis might in time affect the bridge by taking the flexibility out of the iron, thus causing a situation that would be of a great deal of concern to the cf. "This it was feared was what was tho matter with the Brooklyn Bridge under the Van Wyck administration, but an investigation failed to substantiate such a theory," he said. Those Who Inspected Work. Among tho League members present were George W. Brush, Gilbert Elliott, John B.

Creighton, Herbert F. Gunnison, Colonel Robert B. Woodward, Carll H. DeSilver, T. B.

Ackerson, the Rev. L. P. Armstrong, Daniel Arthur, F. Atkinson, Herbert L.

Bridgeman, Edward Barr, Francis B. Beers, H. C. Bohack, D. F.

W. Bursch, I. H. Tary, Frederick Bruckbauer, F. W.

Conn, Herman De-Selding, John W. DeVoy, W. L. Douglas, Louis L. Flruskl, William H.

Hale, Henry W. Miles, William B. Niter, Frank L. O'Dell, E. E.

Pabst, Edward Packard, John H. Perry, Elwin S. Piper, Fred E. Heitman, J. B.

Hoecker, Gilbert Howe, ex-Congressman James R. Howe, Judge John F. Hylan, J. J. Chambers, Nelson B.

Klllmer, Clarence B. Kingsley, Samuel J. Kornblum, Albert Kreinbrlnlt, Albert Lucius, G. A. Koos, P.

S. Lynch, Walter Mathison, M. L. Miner, Arnold Nummerich, Henry L. Quick, James S.

Quigley, John C. Rellly, I. S. Rerasou, Alfred Richardson, Postmaster George H. Roberts, Harris Fallit, Silas Tuttlc, Walter G.

Warner, George W. Wilson, Albert Zapfe, David Porter and Judge Hiram R. Steele. Others present were Kingsley L. Martin, Mr.

and Mrs. John B. Lord, Deputy Police Commissioner Booraem. Bird S. Coler and Police Captain James Gillespie.

THEIR FATE STILL IN DOUBT. Says if the City Wants Services of Good Men It Will Have to Pay Them. Government Has No Designs on the Other Parts of Bockaway Beach. Five Missing Bluejackets of the U. S.

S. Marietta Not Yet Heard Prom. Eagle Bureau, COS Fourteenth Street. Washington, December 4 The government officials here maintain an air of mystery in connection with their Intentions at Rockaway Beach, where surveyors and engineers and other federal officials have been busy of late, as told In yesterday's Eagle. Captain Kimball, superintendent of the life saving service, admitted to-day that he was in the party which visited the life saving station at Rockaway Beach on Wednesday of this week.

It seems that there Is dispute between the Neponset Realty Company and the government regarding the title to tho land on which the life saving station Is located. Things have advanced to the point where Captain Kimball hasr placed his case in the -hands of Attorney General Wlckersham. The latter has given the matter to Special Attorney Strickland to manage. and Strickland has advised everybody concerned to keep mum. It was admitted to-day, however, that the government has no designs on any part of Rockaway Beach save the site on whbli the life saving station is located.

Controller Metz said yesterday tbat he intended to raise salaries in his department where he believed such raises would be for tho good of the service. When asked whether he had intended, at the meeting of the Board of Estimate on Friday, to convey the information that he would secure salary raises before the end of the year, despite the turndown to the Balary Increase proposition, the Controller said: "I have tho authority to increase salaries here so long as I have the money and put men in grades that I have to fill, and that authority I Intend to exercise. It is a strange thing that anyone should be surprised at methods which have been consistently followed out during the other years of the administration. The trouble is that some people do not know what authority the Controller has under the provisions of the charter. "It is unnecessary to say that 1 do not make increases that are not for the public benefit.

I have stripped away dead wood and have had installed a system ot keeping accounts that puts New York City on the best basis financially. The money with which these salaries are to be increased Is money saved, for it moans that we will have "the right men In the right places. In my own business office I have more $5,000 men than in ray office here. Good men must bo properly paid or they won't stay." TWO BOYS DROWNED. Broke Through Thin Ice on Deep Pool at Syracuse One Perished After Rescuing Chum.

Washington, December 4 Possibly tin only hope now entertained by naval officials for the five bluejackets ot tho United States Steamship Marietta, wbo were carried out to sea in the disabled whaleboat from the gunboat, is that they have been tossed by some stroke ot tal on an Insular coast. There is a bare possibility that they were carried to Nicaragua, and are unable either to return by land or to cou-municale with their ship on account of the revolution in that country. No one In the Navy Department believes they are still floating about on tne Caribbean Sea in the whaleboat. The five men were lost from their ship last Friday night, November 26. Reports came to the Navy Department from Commander Hill that five members of the deck crew of the Marietta had drifted out to sea in the ship's gig and five others iu a whaleboat.

It was added that searching parties had gone out to rescue thorn. How they came to be lost from tho ship was not explained, nor has it been explained to this day. Tho department asked for the namuB of tho absent men day before yesterday, aud iu a dispatch received to-day by tho Navy I Department Commander Chlpley of the Des Moines gives the following as the names of the missing men: Robert L. Meyers, Orange, N. and Roy E.

Smith, Reading, both boatswains mates, second class; Seamen F. L. Jackson, New Bedford, David Tuchcrman, Columbus, and l. Miller, Chicago. Tho Marietta and the Eagle, which are enroute for Colon are searching for the missing whaleboat.

HORSE'S KICK WAS FATAL. Syracuse. N. December 4 Harold Luther Stevens, of Buffalo, 7 years old, and Erford Hler Coon, 11 years old, son of P. A.

Coon of this city, students at Verbeck Hall, at Manllus, were drowned at this place this afternoon. The lads, with Carl Verbeck. 8 years old, son of the bead master of the school, and Colllngwood Arnold, 8 years old, grandson oj? Conway Hlllyer Arnold of New York, of the United States Navy, were playing about a pool 12 feet deep, coated with ice, near the school. The ice gave way and the little Verbeck boy was precipitated into tho water. Young Coon plunged into the cold water and puBhed the little fellow to safety.

In the meantime little Stevens rushed out 011 the Ice and, in trying to aid in the rescue, went Into the water. With the Coon and Stevens boys in the water little Arnold ran for help. Five students of the school stripped and dove Into the water and recovered the bodies. The parents of the Coon boy sailed from New York for Europe to-day. Harold Stevens was the son of Harold Stevens, a superintendent of the Lackawanna Steel Company.

BODIES NOT IN CELLAR. Pennsylvania Police May Have Been Hoaxed by Story 'of Blackhand Murders. IN NEW HUNTING GROUNDS. Bock Boy and His Band, Chippewa Braves, Occupy Reservation in Montana. Bloomsburg, December 4 The last act In the "search for evidence to connect the Calabro brothers, tho alleged West Berwick Black Handers.

with a charge Iceman Killed by Animal He Had Driven Twelve Years. As a result of being kicked in the abdomen by the first horse he purchased when he started In his business, twelve years ago, Charles L. Gerken, 35 years old, a boss iceman, who lived at 288 East One Hundred and Forty-eighth street, died in St. Francis Hospital. Manhattan, last evening.

Gerken was currying the horse, a big white animal. In the stable adjoining his home on Friday afternoon, when the horse suddenly lashed out with his hind legs and struck his master with his hoofs. Gerken was hurled backward for several feet and he then fell to the barn floor unconscious. One of his employes found him in that condition soon afterward, and he was immediately hurried to the hospital at the corner of Brook avenue and One Hundred and Forty-second street. The surgeons had little hope of saving his life when the extent, of his Injuries was ascertained.

The horse had always been supposed to be gentle and free from vicious habits. of murder, was concluded to-day, when DADY LOSES IN CITY SUIT. Justice Blackmar Hands Down Dt cisiou in Pumping Plant Case. the cellar under their former home was excavated to a depth of sixteen feet, the county commissioner paying $60 to have tho work done. Absolutely nothing of an SYBIAN A BLACKHANDEE? incriminating nature was found, and the I local authorities are now of the opinion that tho state police were hoaxed by the HOPE FOR NAVY YOUNGSTERS.

GAYN0R AND CASSIDY DINNER. Much Speculation in Queens as to Whether He Will Attend the Affair. General Board Is Preparing a Bill Which Will Make Promotion More Rapid. Washington, December 4 Chief Rock Boy and his band of one hundred and twenty-five Chippewa braves are now officially at home on their new hunting grounds on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and 1,300,000 acres in Valley County of that state which were withdrawn to make a homo for tho Indians have been opened again to settlement. Rock Boy and his tribe got a real example of rapid transit in Indian affairs.

Tho Department of tho Interior had Intended to let them locate in Valley county near the Fort Peck Reservation. But the white Bottlers protested and the department became convinced the red men would do better in a land where ihey could hunt and fish. On November 1 Superintendent W. R. Logan of the Kort Belknap Indian School, was instructed to find a new place for Rock Boy and band, and within two weeks he had them all on a special train speeding for tho new hunting grounds on the Blackfeet Hazleton parties who furnished them the information regarding the burial of the nine alleged victims of the Black Hand.

The Calabros will be given a hearing next Tuesday, when Sergeant Cady of the state police, it is reported, will spring his trump card, by which he expects to have the men held on a charge of murder. He refuses to divulge tho nature of the evidence he holds. Columbus, Man Under Arrest on That Charge. Columbus, December 4 Salvatore Dcmma, a Syrian, formerly of Bellefon-taiue, is under arrest in connection with the Black Hand cases. He la charged with misusing the mails' to send blackmail matter, and will be tried In Toledo with tho fifteen others who have been arrested during the last few months following disclosures ot the unsuccessful effort to extort $20,000 from John Amicon.

a Columbus fruit dealer. Postal authorities say Demma's brother was killed in Bellefontaine three years ago by a member of a Black Hand society, who was himself killed later by a relative of Demma. CULBERSON IN ILL HEALTH. "Will Mayor-elect Gaynor attend the informal dinner to be given to former Borough President Joseph Cassidy by tho members of the Queens County Democratic committee at Astoria Schue-tzen Justice Blackmar in the Supreme Court of Kings County has decided against tha claim of Michael J. Dady.

who sought to obtain the sum $2,298.77 from the City of New York for extra work done while he was Installing a pumping plant and infiltration gallery at Massapequa. The claim was fought by the corporation counsel. This work was done outside of the provisions of the contract which Colonel Dady had with the city, according to Justice Blackmar's opinion, and the city is not liable for it, although it was done by direction of the chief engineer of the Department ot Water, Gas and Electricity. The orders given were to connect; certain wells with the pumping station, to construct a coal box, and to install certain lines of pipes. Tho original contract called for the expenditure of over $327,000.

Although the city has benefited by the extra work done, JuBtice Blackmar says that neither in the charter nor iu the general laws governing the payments for extra work can l. fin.l (itiv niilhoritv under Iflw fop the) LIBERIA WANTS MORE POLICE To Aid iu Controlling Wild African Tribes Seeks Aid of This Country. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, December 4 The general board of the navy is drawing up a bill for Introduction in Congress providing for promotions by selection and for retirements by elimination in certain cases. Secretary Meyer believes In this plan, with certain limitations, although previous secretaries have been opposed to it, on tha ground that it brluga too much politics into the navy. One of the plans under consideration Is to provide for the promotions of a certain proportion of officers by the usual rule of seniority and of others by selection.

This will enable the department to puih the bright, energetic officers ahead 11 a rapid rate and have them reach command ranks before they are gray and ready for retirement. I Park, Long Island City, on December 20?" is the question that is being asked by every Democrat in Queens since the announcement was made yesterday that the committee was to give Mr. Cassidy a ban- jquet and that the mayor-elect has been I Invited. I It was announced yesterday that on Wednesday Mr. Cassidy visited Mr.

Gay-inor and that he hd an hour's confer A DROWNING MYSTERY SOLVED Texas Senator Will Resign as Chairman of Democratic Caucus. Washington, Dceniber 4 At the first conference of the Democratic members of the Senate in the coming session of Congress. Senator Culberson will submit his resignation as chairman of the Democratic caucus. ThiB determination on the part of the Texan has been reached because of his serious Illness, which will probably prevent hlin from attending the sessions of the Senate for at least two or three weeks. Senator Culberson succeeded Senator Blackburn as chairman of the caucus two years ago.

In discussing his probable successor, several senators to-day expressed the opinion that Senator Money of Mississippi, vice chairman of tho caucus, would be chosen. Pour Arrests Made in Connection With Death of William Cordes, in 1908. in Illinois Lake. 1 1 payment VI too Bum asnvu uy vuivu- ence with hlra. At llrst It was thought that Mr.

Cassidy was discussing patronage in Queens with the but It wan later learned thai he asked him to attend the banquet. is not known what the mayor-elect said, so the politicians throughout the borough are making all iiiu v. GETS BEQUEST OF $40,000. CONSIDERING CANDIDATES. GOODSELL JACKSON.

(Special to the Eagle.) Hartford, December 4 The wedding of Miss Katherlne Seymour Jackson, daughter of General and Mrs. Joseph Cook Jackson ot New York and this city, and Percy Hamilton Goodsell of East Orange, N. took place this afternoon at tho residence of the bride's grandfather. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Francis Goodwin of Hartford, rector emeritus of Trinity Church, and was followed by a reception.

The bride had her sister. Mrs. Martin Watts, as lady In waiting. Frank Leavitt of Brooklyn attended the bridegroom as best man. and tho ushers were J0sef.I1 C.

Jackson, Martin Watts, Charles B. Clark and Nathan Hale Mull. The brido wore the gown in which she was presented to Queen Victoria. was of white satin, with a tulle veil caught up with orchids and orange blossoms. 'sorts of predictions.

I Magistrate Matthew Smith, of Long Isi- and City, is chairman of the committee in charge of tho affair. Washington, December 4 The Republic of Liberia has requested the assistance of the government of the United States In organizing a large police force with a view of controlling the many tribes of natives who Inhabit tho African Hinterland. The officals here have not yet decided to comply with the request, but with a riew of observing the operation of the police and seml-milltary forces employed by the European powers to subdue the wild tribes in Liberia, it has designated a military attache for Liberia. This officer is First Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis, of the Tenth Cavalry, now stationed at Fort Ethan Allen.

Vermont. It is hoped that tho information which Lieutenant Davis may be able to acquire as to the management of the interior tribes of Liberia may be useful to the United States government in handling tha native inhabitants of the Southern provinces of the Philippine Islands. Lieutenant Davis recently served a tour as professor of military science and tactics FIGHTS JAUREZ RACE TRACK. El Paso Chamber of Commerce Asks Revocation of Mexican Concession. Sister of Late Dr.

S. B. Smallwoodl Receives Large Inheritance. Eliza B. Smulhvoud, sister of the lata Dr.

Sautuel B. Smallwood, one of tho most prominent physicians of Astoria, secures a lump sum of $40,000 by tho will of the late physician filed yesterday with Surrogate Noble of Queens, and executed two days before his death. Tho remainder of the property, value unknown, is given to the two children ot the testator, William M. Smallwood, of 120 Franklin street, Astoria, and Annio Oakley of Oyster Bay. The son William gets $5,000, and two thirds of tho residue of the property, while to Mrs.

Oakley is left tho other third. William, the son, and George B. Blaokell are made executors. Tire will was made whilo tn i. hn Post Graduato El.

Louis. December 4 A mother'3 long and devoted search for a solution of the mystery attending tho drowning of her 16-year-old son in Pittsburg Lake, near East St. Louis, more than a year ago, led to the arrest 10-day of a woman and four men. They are Frank and August Ruhr, their aunt. Mrs.

Rcgina Koolsch, and Alexis Holder and Fred Dlnnchi, all of St. Louis. They will be held pending investigation. When Mrs. Anna Cordes, following the drowning in 1'JnS.

of her son "William, learned that he had when bo went on a fishing trip to Pittsburg Lake, was missing, the refused to accept the coroner's verdict of accidental drowning. The raiding of a broken and nHr mp clew that ed to tho arrests made to-Jay. SANBORN FOF PCKHAM'SFLACE Minnesota Congressmen Indorse Him for Vacant Judgeship. Washington, December I Tho Minnesota delegation in Congress has laid bc-joro President Tafl the unanimous endorsement of the delegation for Judge Walter H. Sanborn as tho of the late JuM'tv Peeklnun, Supremo Court bcn.ii.

The deletion's endorsement is based upon the lability of Sanborn as shown in his recent decision iu the Standard Oi! case. at the Wilberforco University, unio. Vcetiy of Grace Church, Jamaica, Seeking to Fill Vacancy. The voBtry of the Grace Episcopal Church last week has been considering applications for the post of rector of the church left vacant by retirement of tho Rev. Horatio Oliver Ladd.

Among the names which have been suggested by Borne of the members, especially among the younger element, is that of the Rev. Richard Pope, rector of tho Episcopal Church of Tivoll-on-the-Hudsou. He is Br, id to be a good preacher, to be espe-cli lly popular among the younger men of the congregation, and to possess excellent business ability. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the General Theological Seminary. The members of the vestry declare that a choice of a rector will not be made for a month or more and deny' having seriously considered any candidate.

The voluntary choir is still singing Dt. the Grace Church. The two Intrepid oitiGioi'i, who were kept out of the church few weeks ago, have not put in their nppeurance since, nor has any action been taken for the recovery of the money on the alleged contract made with the rector emeritus. It is expected that the boy cooir under tho direction of Mr. Hopkins will be called to the church in a shoit lime, 1- CORONER'S PHYSICIANS.

Legal Opinion in Regard to Their Appointment and Length of Terms. Supreme Court Justice Garretson yesterday, at Flushing, handed down a decision granting a writ of mandamus to Dr. Timothy J. Flynn, one of the coroner's physicians lu Queens, who wants Controller Meta to pay him $500 salary duo him for the months of March. April, May and June.

1909 which was held back on the grounds that he was not properly appointed a coroner's physician. Justice Garretson reviewed at length the right of the coroners to appoint physicians, and ruled that Dr. Flynn and Dr. Walter G. Frey have been legally appointed to the office of coroner's physicians, but that Dr.

W. If. Nammaek, who has also been serving as a coroner's physician, lias not been legally appointed by tile coroners in Queens, and Hint it is unimportant that Dr. Nammaek was a volunteer fireman. Justice Garretson also declares that the duration of the position of coroner's physician is coterminous with that ot cor-onir appointing.

CONSPIRATORS PAROLED. me uoctoi who in Hospital of Manhattan on November Jo. El PaJO. Texas. December 4 A crusade against the race track In Juarez, Mexico, opposite El Paso, has been started.

At a mass meeting lost night of the Chamber of Commerce. It was decided to ask the Stato Department to make an effort to have tho concession for the race track revoked. This is tho flrfit serious opposition to the racing enterprise. Eastern racing men. amon then) James It.

Keeno, Jameu Butler and othern almost as prominent, have sunk about $1100.000 in the plant. iho State Department takes the El Paro protest, it is quite possible Mexico may act. It, will bo remembered a concession was given to Los Angeles promoters for a track aerosu the line from San Blego. but thiss was revoked on representations mode throusrh the State Department to President Dip.z, by residents of California. He died November 2s.

WINDOW CLEANERS FINED. DIAMOND CLUB BALL. The Eugene V. Diamond Association last night held one of Its best affairs since the club was organized. The association gave it's friends a ball at Teutonic Hall.

Harrison avenue and Bartlett street. The dance was very well attended, an exceptionally large delegation from South Brooklyn. being present. The officers of the association arc: Eugene V. Diamond, standard hearer; Samuel Woodburn, president; Joseph Lynch, vice president; Lawrence Hanlon.

secretary; Ftank O'Rourke, treasurer; John Fox. recording secretary; Edward Rooney. corresponding secretary; Joseph Barney, scrgeant-at-arms; Thomas McAllister, assistant sergeant-at-arms. William Wilson was floor manager. Nine striding window cleaners worn A Defrauded City of Boston on Flagstone Purchases.

Boston, December 4 Michael J. Mitchell, a former alderman and superintendent supplies, and Thomas F. Maher of the firm of Mahcr contractors, who were found guilty last July on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the city in the purchase of flagstone, and sentenced to serve one year each lu the House of Correction, at Deer Island, were late to-day released ua parole. fined $3 each aud one $10 bv Magistrata Krotel yesterday in Essex Market court. 3 The nine were cnargea wiiu pni mid Julius Newman, two non-union cleaners who were at work as fj 3 at Qtnntn 1 a rtrnir a nri) riaav umm iand Norfolk streets.

Manhattan.