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The Brooklyn Daily Times. FORTY-THIRD A CYCLONE'S FIERCE HAVOC IT WAS A LITTLE LOCAL ONE BUT IT DID DAMAGE. Freight Train on the Lake Erie and Western Line From the TrackTwo Illinois Villages Wiped Out by the Hurricane, PEORIA, July -A small cyclone formed north of this city yesterday. The cloud moved slowly and caused much damage to timber. Three men walking on the railroad track were caught by the storm.

Fred Emerson was killed, his body being gurned black all over. The other men, Holmes and Gray, were stunned and the bodies of both were found to be striped with bright yellow, blue and red. They will probably recover. A Lake Erie and Western freight train came along just as the cyclone crossed the track. The wind took one car from the centre of the train and smashed it into kindling wood.

It was reported here at 7 o'clock last night that the town of Green Valley, on the route of the Peoria, Decatur, and Evansville line, and Morton, on the Santa Fee, were swept away. Telegraphio communication with those places was shut off, as the wires are badly demoralized by the storm. The cyclone traveled. toward Pekin and messages from there say that it approached the outskirts of the city and suddenly rose to the clouds and isappeared from view. It was also reported here Inst night that seven men were killed by the destruction of a brickyard at Westerly, but this has not been verified.

Had His Scalp Painted Red. JACKSON, July 187-Alph Abernatty, a well-to-do farmer residing near town, has been terrorizing the community, for the last three days. Monday, at the instigation of his wire, he was examined as to his sanity by the courts here and discharged by the fury. Immediately after leaving the court room he had his head shaved and the scalp and his bands painted red. Arming himself with a double barreled shotgun, a revolver and a couple of knives, he proceeded to begin a reign of terror, Yesterday a posse of fifty men was organized for Abernatty's arrest.

He was found in an open feld ana finally captured, but not without a desperate struggle. Caught Stealing Books. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind' July -James P. Brennan, an Instructor in St. Jobn's Academy, was caught carly yesterday morning in the act of stealing and was arrested.

There has been much stealing from the academy recently and detectives were employed to watch the place. Brennan was seen forcing an entrance at: 2 o'clock in the morning and the bullding was at once surrounded by policemen. Ho was allowed to break open a letter box and several rooms before he was arrested. Ho confessed his thefts and said he had an uncontrollable desire to steal books, sell them and hoard the money. The New Stockyards' Scheme.

CHICAGO, July 18. -The Tribune this morning says: The preparations for launching the new stockyards' scheme, the Chicago Junetion Railways and Union Stockyards Company, are at last complete. A despatch came last night giving positive instructions to open subscriptions for the securities Saturday morning. The prospectus is practically complete. Bubscriptions to the $23,000,000 of the securities will be opened Saturday morning in London, New York, Boston and Chicago.

Everything has been under written so the transaction is guaranteed." Poor Corn Crop in Kansas. KANSAS CITY, July Reliable advices from Kansas indicate an alarming conuition of the corn crop. Its condition grows worse day by day. Hot winds have blown for two days, causing great damage in the sections of the State which have had no rain. In some sections the farmers have about given up hopes of harvesting any crops at all.

At best not more than hair of the State is even fairly well watered. In many sections the farmers are marketing their hogs, fearing that they will have no corn to feed them, From Ocean to Ocean. CHICAGO, July Tribune this morning says: The Northern Pacific and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Companies are to Join bands at Chicago and form a continuous line from ocean to ocean. A purchase of 380 acres of land in Cicero marks the junction point. There will be erected car shops of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and through the property will run a new suburban railway.

The price paid for the land was $610, U00." Indianapolis Evil Resorts Indicted. INDIANAPOLIS, July 18. -Every keeper of a resort of questionable reputation in or near this city was indioted by the Grand Jury, which adjourned yesterday afternoon. The Law and Order League has been working hard to 80- cure this result. Nearly every one of the keepers were indicted on several counts.

Forty-five keepers of houses of ill-repute and the inmates of the same, together with about sixty speak-easy proprietors, are numbered among the victims. Overpowered by Prisoners. DAYTON, Ohio, July 18-Prisoners in the city workhouse attacked the guard last evening and, rendering him powerless and speechless by choking him, took away his keys and revolver. William Johnson, Frank Wilson and Charles Jackson escaped, but Mrs. Martin, wite of the Superintendent, barred the egress of the others.

A trusty prisoner who gave the alarm was attacked by some of his companions and almost killed, Shot by His Drunken Wife. CHICAGO, July 18, Capt. William Brown, saloon keeper at 251 Van Buren street, quarreled his wite last night and put her out of his saloon. She was partly intoxicated, and s6- curing a revolver, returned and shot her husband twice, once in the leg and again in the head, innicting wonnds that may result in Capt. Brown's death.

Mrs. Brown was arrested. Carlessness That Kills. LEXINGTON, July 18. -While James Moran, a conductor G.

H. McKeelan and George Hanson, brakemen, all. employes of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, were under the tracks repairing a draw bar at Sadieville yesterday Englneer James Smith backed his engine, striking the car and causing the three men to be run over and injured so they will probably die. The First Death Sentence in Wisconsin. July 18.

John Warpoose, an Indian from the Keshena Reservation, who was found guilty in the United States Court here of repeated assaults upon his daughter, was yesterday sontenced to be hanged September 301, on reservation. This is the first death sentence ever passed in the State of Wisconsin. From Four Years to Three Months. DES MOINES, Iowa, July Boies yesterday commuted the sentence of Fred Munchsrath from tmprisonment in the penitentiary for four years to three months. Munchsrath was convicted or conspiring to murder the Rev.

George F. Haddock, at Sioux City. Father and Son Killed. PARIE, Ill. July 18.

Lightning struck a barn belonging to Benjamin Morton, who lived five miles southeast or this city, yesterday after, noon and killed Mr. Morton and his son, Rutus, who were unloading hay, The hired man was stunned, bus recovered. A Restaurant Fire. Spreads. GRAND LODGE, July 18.

-Fire broke out in Pattenee'8 restaurant at midnight and destroyed it and Fowler's restaurant bazaar and Hixon's saloon, a drug store and Dr. Abrown's residence. Loss partly Insured, Owners Will Not Yield. EAU CLAIRE, July 18. Only three mills in the city and its immediate vicinity are running.

The, request for ten hours has been positively rotused by all the mill owners. Men' on Strike. PINDLAY, Ohio, July 18. -The section men on the Lake Erie and Western Bond have struck. They have been getting $1.15 a day and demand $1.25, Dog-Bitten Patients in Chicago.

CHICAGO, July 18. -Six patients are receivIng the special treatment at Dr. A. Lagorio's bydrophobia hospital, One Hundred and Five in the Shade. ATCHISON, July The thermometor registered 106 degrees in the shade at 2 p.

m. yesterday, The Weather. Variable winds and slight changes in tomporature. High water to-morrow Bandy Hook, 9:01 A. Governor's Island, 9:21 A.

Wallabout, 10:08 A. Hell Gate, 11:10 A. M. The following was the temperature, as Indicated by the thermometer at Levy. Thompson's, 121 Grand street 8A.

77 0 A. 18 9 A. 81; 19 84; 3 P. 87. Legal Result of a Row.

Joseph Malament, of 166 Driggs street, charged Charlos Cumisky and Frank Doyle, of 178 Union avenue, with. assault Justice Goetting's court to-dey, and Bortha Arapatch, of 178 Union avenue, charged them with breaking her door down. The complaints are the result of general row on Wednesday night. The defendanta were paroled. Prosperous Young Mr.

Sing. Quong Gee Sing, a young Chinaman who sald ho was 17 years old was arraigned beforo Juntlue Goetting this morning charged with driyIns an express wagon without a license, Bing does thriving business delivering goods for Chinese laundries and groceries and has two offices, ene at De Kalb avenue and another la Poll street. New York. He wan Aped 83 and paid it from a tat roll of big bills, YEAR. MR.

SCHAAF SUDDEN DEATH. He Fell from His Stoop and Fractured His Skull, A sad and singular accident, with a fatal result, happened to Mr. B. Schaaf at his home, 225 South Fourth street, last Wednesday evening. Mr.

Schaaf, with his wife, together with Mr. and Mrs. Harper, who 00- cupy the upper part of house, were sitting on the stoop enjoying the cool of evening and chatting pleasantly. In the early part of the evening Mrs. Harper arose and left the party for a few moments to get something up stairs that the two gentlemen were talking about.

Mr. Schaaf arose to allow Mrs. Harper to pass him on her way into the house. As he did so he carelessly threw one leg up over the iron railing, with the intention of resting upon it for a time, but unfortunately he lost his balance and fell into the area of his own house. He fell upon his head, and when those who were on the stoop with him hurried to his aid it was found that he was unconscious.

He was carried into the house and a phystcian was sent for. Dr. Zellhoeffer, who lives at 175 South Fourth street, was called in and tried as best he could to alleviate the suffering of the wounded man and to bring him back to consciousness if possible. In this he was not successful, and it was decided that the only chance of saving Mr. Schaaf's life was in performing an operation by which the pressure on the brain caused by the fracture of the skull should be relieved.

The operation was performed last night by Zellhoeffer, Burnett, Ruppel, Prof. Fowler and an assistant. 'The fracture was more severe than was expected and the operation lasted over an hour. It brought no relief, however, for at an early 'hour this morning Mr. Schaaf expired.

The direct cause of death as pronounced by the doctors was a fracture cf the base of the skull, with cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Schaaf was 65 years of age. Mrs. Schaaf has the heartfelt sympathy of the community in this sad and sudden affliction which has come upon her.

EIGHTH WARD IMPROVEMENTS. A Hasty Indication of the, Views of Mr. Jenks. The following opinion has 1 been sent by Corporation Counsel Jenks to the Commissioner of the City Works Department. It explains itself: LAW DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY) AND COUNSEL, BROOKLYN, July 18, 1890, To the Commissioner of City Works: I acknowledge your communication of July 15, 1890, relative to the Eighth Ward improvements.

You state the question, Whether or not after the general plan shall have been submitted to the Mayor by the Commissioner of City Works and approved by him we become, so far 88 that is concerned, functus officio, as it was your opinion was the condition of the Twenty-sixth Ward Improvement Commission when they attempted to rescind some action or determination previously taken, or can the plan be modified by the Commissioner of City. Works, with the consent of the Mayor, as the work progresses, it found desirable I am of opinion that Chapter 365, Laws of 1889, confers upon you the general charge of the improvements thereby authorized. That such is the legislative intention is indicated by the language of section 1 of the act, which, after authorizing you to take charge of the system," confers upon you in express terms the powers enumerated in the various subdivisions of that section. The provisions of the fourth section do not limit such powers. The primary object of that section is to regulate the expenses of such improvements, and this is attained by requiring the submission of a general plan before you shall incur any expense to the Mayor for his approval.

I think this primary object is indicated by the final clause of the section that the said cost thereof shall not be exceeded except with the approval of the Mayor." It may have been the legislative intent that such provision also should secure the approval of the Mayor fur the general scheme. If this be so, I am nevertheless of opinion that the provision, when read with the remaining portions of the statute, does not mean that on the submission of the plan and its approval you are functus officio and unable to change or modify the original plan. It does mean that the cost as estimated is not to be exceeded save with the Chief Executive's approval, but it does not mean that the plan or scheme when once approved is fixed and unalterable. Out of superabundant caution, however, I respectfully suggest. that all subsequent changes or modification, if any, should be submitted to the Mayor for his formal approval, Tho powers conferred upon the Commissioners undor the New Lots Annexation act, Chapter 335, of the Laws of 1886, were not similar to these devolved upon you by the act in question, There the Commissioners were directed to determine, i.e., to adjudged what streets should be improved, as well as what sum should be 0X- pended, and thereupon you were commanced to execute the work.

Those Commissioners were further directed at the time of such determination to fix and determine a district benefited, and to take other steps in the procedure of laying an assessment. I there held that upon the determination once made the board was functus officio as to the matters covered by such adjudication. In the present statute you are clothed with the general powers and placed in full charge of the work, not only by goneral terms, but by the express direction of the statute as I have already pointed out. While it is only upon the completion of the improvements 88 determined by said departments" (800, 9) that the cost is sent to the Asseseors for assessment upon the districts benofited. I have thus indicated hastily my views inasmuch as your request calls for my opinion at my earliest possible convenience.

Very respectfully, yours, ALMET F. JENKS, Corporation Counsel. ESCAPED FROM THE PENITENTIARY Patrick Cassidy Walks Away in His Prison Uniform While Breaking Stone. Patrick Cassidy was sent to the penitentiary on July 10 for three months by Justice Walsh charged with assaulting his wife. He was placed at work breaking stone in the street near the prison along with a gang of convicts.

This morning the prisoners, in charge of five keepers, went to work on Montgomery street. While engaged in this labor it was discovered that Cassidy was missing. A thorough search was made in the neighborhood, but no traces could be found of the escaped wife beater. He had evidently walked away in his uniform and made good his departure before the discovery was made. Warden Hayes at once telephoned the escape to Police Headquarters, and an alarm was sent to all the precincts throughout the city giving Cassidy's description.

He belongs to the Fifth Ward, and the police of the First Precinct are making a thorough search. Fined for Using Stamped Bottles. Detective Charles Looker, who is employed by the Consolidated Bottling Company to: look after their interests, appeared before Justice Cooper at Babylon on Wednesday afternoon and swore out warrants for the arrest of Peter Bannaham and Jacob Hartman, of Amityville, who he claimed were using stamped bottles. The trial of the above men took place at Halcyon Hall, BabyIon. yesterday Afternoon.

W. P. Reid appeared for the defendants. Hartman pleaded guilty to three charges and was fined $50. Bannaham pleaded guilty also and was fined $5,50, his being a much lighter offonse.

The bottles belong to Hempstead parties. The fines were A Fire and an Accident. At 8:45 o'clock this morning a fire broke out on thefthird floor of the four-story brick tonement house, 76 Rapelyen street, caused by a child playing with matches. It was occupled by William J. Fallen, whose loss on clothing and turniture was only $75.

The building is damaged to the extent of $25. Engine No. 3, driven by Michael Grogan, collided with a dirt cart on Hicks street, near Nelson, and the horse attached to the cart was killed. It is owned by E. 8.

Alexander, of 76 Warren street, and was valued at $200, Was the Boy Drowned Jonathan Dobson, aged 9, of 105 Sullivon street, le supposed to have been drowned yesterday. His father is a watchman on the steamship Cacan lying at the Atlantio Dock. Jonathan was sent with his father's dinner and after that went on board 6 canal boat and taking off hie shoes and stockings begun paddling in the water. That was the last seen of the boy. His shoes and stockings were found on the boat.

An effort is being made to And the body, Mrs. Stelzer Takes It Back. Mrs. Julia Stelzer, the widow, who charged Mrs. Johanna Hubbe, of 429 Broadway, with furnishing her with a prescription that hAR brought her to her death bed, yesterday denied to Detective McCormick that Mra, Hubba did such a thing.

She says if she made such a statement she inust have been out of her mind. Two Anna Maria Weiss'. Anna Marin Weiss, of 140 George street, was tried -before Justice Goetting to-day for n- saulting Anna Maria Weiss, of 138 George street, her sister-in-law. The case was tried with some little difficulty, owing to the similarity of the names. Anna Maria Welss, defendant, was Aued guilty and paid a fine of 85.

Hardware Store Entered. Thieves entered the hardware store of Grooling Brothers, 358 Mannattan avenue, last evening and broke into the money drawer, They got 26 cents for their trouble. Entrance WAS effooted by cutting their way through the door. Volunteer Firemen Meet. The regular monthly meeting of the Brooklyn Volunteer Firemen's Association took place last night at the rooms of the organization, at the City Hall.

Ex-Judge Courtney presided, The procodings were of a formal unturo, Jewelry Stolen, A gold and gold bracelet were stolen from the apartmenta of Mrs. J. Adler, 127 Cayler street, between 0 and 10 o'clock yesterday morning during the temporary absence of the faunily, BROOKLYN, FRIDAY, BROADWAY STABBING AFFRAY. Caused by a Peacemaker's Unfortunate Interference. Peter Griffiths, of 168 Myrtle avenue, aged 28, was charged before Justice Kenna this morning with stabbing George Karcher twice in the side with a pocketknife, in a saloon at 760 Broadway, on Thursday night.

From the statement of Roundsman Hayes, of the Thirteenth Precinct, who arrested the prisoner, it appears that the prisoner had been on a visit to some friends in Jamaica, and got drunk. On his return to Brooklyn he called in the saloon on Broadway his brother is a bartender. The two brothers began to quarrel about some money transactions and commenced to fight, when Karcher came between them and endeavored to make peace, when the prisoner drew a pocket knife and inflicted two severe stabs in the side of the unfortunate man. Subsequently his injuries were attended to in a drug store on Franklin avenue. He was this morning reported to be in 8 critical condition, and the prisoner was committed to jail to await the result of his victim's injuries.

WHERE IS THAT MILLION? TWENTY-SIXTH WARD CITIZENS WANT A NEW SEWER. Grumbling Over the Delay--Chief Engineer Van Buren Says it is Not His Fault--The Legislature Failed to Amend the Sewer Bill and That's the Trouble. Alderman Pickering correctly voiced the sentiments of the people of the Twentysixth Ward at the meeting of the board on Monday when he said he thought it was time something should be done in the matter of securing a sewer service for the annexed district. The people of the new ward are aware that $1,000,000 was set apart nearly two years ago for a sewer system there, but so far not one dollar has been spent of the money. During the session of the last Legislature an effort was made to raise the appropriation to $1,500,000, the amount considered necessary to complete the main sewer system of the new ward, but there was such a determined howl over what became known R8 the Linton bills" for improvements in the annexed district that the amendment to the Sewer bill failed to pass.

The Chief Engineer of the City Works Department was particularly anxious to have the amendment become a law, for it not only provided enough money to carry out his plans, but it also provided a method of getting possession of the farm lands through which the larger sewer mains were to be constructed. This, it appears, was the great hitch in the original Sewer bill. The act provided for the appropriation of $1,000,000, but it did not contain any provision for acquiring the right of way through the property of private individuals made necessary by Mr. Van Buren's sewer system. A TIMES reporter had a talk this morning with Chief Engineer Van Buren concerning the inactivity of the City Works Bureau in respect to the Twenty-sixth Ward sewers, and the Chief Engineer was not by any means reticent about the matter.

are not to blame," he said. "If the amendment to the law had been passed last year we would have been working on the sewers now. That provided a way to acquire the right to the land needed as a site for these mains, but the original law did not. It left to us the painful and tedious process of acquiring the land either by purchase or by condemnation. All that we are waiting for now is that right of way, for, of course, you see we cannot enter into any contracts until we have the authority to take possession of the land.

'These sewer mains are to traverse farm lands in the Twenty-sixth Ward, which are, owned by different people and different interests are involved. Commissioner Adams has employed Mr. Edward F. Linton to obtain the necessary consents or make arrangements with the owners, but AS far as I have been able to learn he has done very little. He has not been in 8 hurry anyway, and our work has been delayed until we can hear from him.

1 am A8 anxious 88 anybody in the Twenty-sixth Ward that this work should be commenced, for I would like to see it completed. Of course the $1,000,000 will not by any means complete the system of sewerage in the Twenty-sixth Ward, but we can expend that amount to great advantage to the people in the annexed district. It will be necessary to have a half million more to finish the main system, but that will come in time. As soon as we acquire the right of way, whether by condemnation or otherwise, you may be sure we will begin the work. The plans are all ready.

Charities and Corrections, has received a couple of letters within the past few days from J. H. Tivey, dated at Zanesville, Ohio. Tivey informed Mr. Short that while on his way to Brooklyn he fell and broke his leg in Zanes ville.

He was taken to the infirmary, where, he said, that he WaS receiving no medical attendance. He would be charge against Kings County, and so it was to the interest of the Zanesville authorities to keep him a8 long as possible. He asked Mr. Short to have him brought to Brooklyn. where he was born in 1868, and where he lives.

Mr. Short recognizes in Tivey a notorious character who was implicated in a revolt in the penitentiary about two years ago. When he was -released he was sent to Texas on his promise to remain there. Three months after he was in the Kings County almshouse. Mr.

Short believes that his talk about his leg and the lack of medical attendance is a dodge by which Tivey expects to be brought on to this city. MR. HIERS WANTED A FEE. TIVEPS TACTICS. The Neat Little Ruse by which He Hopes to Receive Railroad Fare.

Chief Clerk Short, of the Department of Saloon Keeper Knoth Gives an Explanation of the Opposition to His License. There WAS A hearing before the Excise Board yesterday on the application of William Knoth for a license for a saloon at 1,086 Fourth avenue. Quite a number of the neighbors were present and protested against the granting of the application. They were represented by Counselor Henry A. Hiers, who lives at 1,098 Fourth avenue, who did the talking.

After the hearing and decision was reserved Mr Knoth made a statement that Mr. Hiers had asked to represent him before the board and wanted $25 as a fee. Mr. Knoth refused and then says Mr. Biers became active in his opposition.

Counsel for Knoth told the board that some time ago an application for a license was made for a place near to Hiers' house and no protest came from Mr. Hiers. A Judge's Son Under Bonds. Richard Davis, the son of a Police Justice in Orange, N. was this morning charged with being intoxicated and attempting to assault John Wade, a one armed watchman at Dunlap's Hat Factory on Park arenue, Justice Kenna accepted a bond for the prisoner to keep the peace, and told him that if be was again caught interfering with Wade he would commit him to jail for six months, Kate Changed Her Mind.

Kate Collins was arraigned before Justice Goetting to-day charged with calling Mary Hecker, of 106 Hoebling street, vile names. She was found guilty and find $5 which she said she could not pay. When she was taken back to the pen and found she would have to take ride to jail she fished out the money and paid her Ane. Drank Too Much Liquor, James Marshall, of Prince street, got drunk on two drinks of whisky on Tuesday night and threatened to whip several store keepers on Myrtle avenue. Justico Kenna this morning sent him to prison for ten days to enable him to sober up.

Appointed Treasurer of the Gaiety. Mr. Joseph J. Hild, until reeently manager of the Brooklyn Theatre, has associated himself with the management of Prof. Galety Theatre, in this city, in the capacity of Treasurer.

At present Mr. Hild is enjoying his vacation at Point View, Long Island. Overcome by the Heat. Irene Gordon, aged 98, living in Westchester County, was prostrated by the heat yesterday afternoon at Jay and Sands street, and was taken to the City Hospital. William Kingston, aged 32, of 10 Tallman street, was a victim of the beat at Catharine Ferry yesterday.

He was taken home. John Miller Held. John Miller, the horse dealer charged with stealing $1,400, the value of seven horses entrusted to him by Frank another horseman, was held to await the action of the Grand Jury by Justice Gootting to-day. Theft From the Person. Eugene Woods, a youth, was committed to the penitentiary by Judge -Kenna to-Jay for six months for stealing $5 from Julian Rankopper, or Floyd street, JULY 18, 1890.

89,000 INVOLVED. The Result of Real Estate Operations Between Two Brooklyn Dealers. Samuel Parson, a real estate dealer, of 80 Third avenue, was charged before Justice Kenna to-dhy with stealing nearly $2,000 from Edward Birmingham, a retired builder, of 552 Quincy street. From the complainant's statement it appears that for sometime past he has been making advances of money to the prisoner upon bond and mortgage, which was to be repaid by installments. Pamson gave the complainant several checks in part payment of his loan, but they proved to be utterly worthless, being drawn upon bogus banking accounts.

At the time the loans were made the property, which consisted of several houses on which the cash was advanced, was shown to be the property of the accused, but hins since been transferred to his brother-inlaw, according to the complainant's statement. The accused was arrested on a warrant issued by Judge Kenna on a direct charge of issuing a fictitious check for $335, and he was held in $1,000 bail. A WOMAN'S MISFORTUNE. THE SORRY STRAITS OF MRS. LENA PAESSLER.

Deserted by Her Husband, Driven From Home and Children, She is Arrested for Crime of Which She Seems to be Innocent -Her Pathetic Story. Lena Paessler, a young German woman, was arrested by Detective Donlon, of the Seventh Precinct, this morning, on a charge of disposing of goods on which there was a chattel mortgage. The complaint is made by Jacob Kessler, who represents Lang flour dealers, of 30 Moore street, New York, who says his firm loaned the woman's husband $1,000, taking as security a chattel mortgage on two bakery wagons, a horse, harness and stable utensils. These articles, he charges, were disposed of by Mrs. Paessler.

The woman was brought to the Lee avenue police court this morning, and while waiting for the appearance of the complainant told Justice Goetting her story. Her husband, she said, used to own a bakery at the corner of Franklin street and Oakland avenue. On July 3 he ran Away, going, as she since ascertained, to Texas. She and her two children were left nearly penniess, and the bakery had been losing money for some time. Business was discontinued, and she and her children went to live with a friend of her husband named Engelhardt at Corona.

The foreman of the bakery took one of the wagons, claiming that a large amount of wages was due him, and Engelhardt took the other wagon, the horse and the harness 8.8 payment for board, he said. Mrs. Paessler knew nothing the mortgage on these things. Yesterday, the woman says, Engelhardt drove her from his house, telling her that it was all her fault that her husband had deserted her, and that he didn't intend porting her in charity any longer. He would not let her take her children with her, declaring he would account to their father for them.

Driven from home and family, the woman came to this city, intending to leave this morning for Philadelphia, where she has a sister living. She would have done 80 had not her arrest prevented. She said she had just $5 in the world, $4 of which she was going to spend for a ticket to Philadelphia. She cried bitterly several times while telling her story to the Justice and reiterated her statement that she knew nothing of the existence of the mortgage and that the horse and wagons were not disposed of by her consent. Justice Getting said to a TIMES reporter that in case it was proven that Mrs.

Paessler was ignorant of the mortgage she could not be held responsible. On the arrival of Mr. Paessler this afternoon the case was adjourned. BARREN ISLAND. Wail of Sorrow and Complaint From the Senside Resorts.

John G. Morrison. Bee memorandum, Financlal Terms. Merchant Traveler. A floating debt What a man's yacht is in about two cases out of three.

For years residents in the vicinity of Barren Island have been trying to get rid of the nuisance created by rendering and fertilizing factories existing there. Buits have been brought in the court and injunctions obtained, but apparently all in vain, for the evils still exist and the injurious results arising from them are as great and objectionable n8 ever. The subject has been brought to the attention of the Grand Jury of this county, and to-day they made a presentment in the Court of Sessions characterizing the nuisance and suggesting that the authorities take steps to abate it effectually. The presentment reads thus: Complaint has been made by citizens of Rockaway Beach, Far Rockaway, Lawrence and Woodsburg of the existence of a publio nuisance on Barren Island, in the town of Flatlands, in this county, caused by the operation of certain factories on the island. "We find that the business carried on at Barren Island by Thomas F.

White and Andrew White, E. Frank Coe and the Barren Island Fertilzing Oil and Guano Company is of a most offensive character. The garbage, offal and dead animals which acoumulate in the City of New York are bronght into this county to Barren Island and are rendered, boiled and treated in such a manner as to create nauseating and offensive odors, which are carried by the wind for long distances, causing great discomfort and injury to those encountering these vile smells. Fish oil factories on Barren Island allow fish and fish scrap to accumulate on open platforms and rot, causing most sickening stenches, and fertilizing faotory which mixes the refuse from the other establishments for fertilizing purposes, using sludge acid and other offensive compounds, all causing an indescribable foul smelling vapor which is carried into the houses of the complainants, causes much discomfort, damage and sickness. The existence of a business of this description in a locality which is rapidly filling up with dwellings and private residences, and adjacent to the breathing spots of the citizens of Brooklyn and Kings County, should not be permitted.

At the time Barren Island was first occupied for these purposes it was isolated and the noxious character of the enterprises was not so noticeable, but with the marked improvement and development of the surrounding territory Barren Island has become a crying publio nuisance, calling for action on the part of the publio authorities looking toward the prohibition of the offensive trade carried on. Decisions by Judge Moore. Judge Moore this afternoon filed the following decisions: Frans Heuel vs. William P. Blackman.

Motion to punish for contempt denied. Joseph Stern and others re. Patrick Labey and others, Motion to punish for contempt denied. Frederick W. Davis and others George W.

Evans, Motion denied, Amcrose M. Morgan, respondent, vs. Alphonse A. Faust, appellant, Judgment amrmed. Mary G.

Martin, appellant, vs. Arthur Lamb, respondout. Judgment affirmen, Emily Curtis, vs. W. J.

Rowland. Motion denied, without costs. Frederick Medhurst vs. John White. Motion denied.

Thomas A. Bates Va, Clark D. Rhinohart. Judgment reversed. George R.

Brown vs. Hefry Dundas 00. Moton denled. Alfred Gaskell vs, Mary A. Detweller.

Motion denied. Elesuor Bernard v. George Somers, Motion denied. Mary E. Fox Va.

Martin Althaus and others, Motion kented. Samuel 0, Scott vs. Henry Rowland, Motion granted with costa, as prayed for. Louis Wurmser Va. Bernard Motion dented.

Erun M. Fuller vs. John Foster. Motion dented, Charles Roosch, respondent, vs. Austin Stevens, appellant.

Judgment airmed, George Rohre, respondent, ve, Nicholas Mo0ormeck appellant. Judgment affirmed. Aunie Styles, respondent, ve, Herman H. Cordes, roveliant. Judgment amrmed, Elisa Gottaberger, respondent, 78, Earn Payne, appellant.

Judgment affirmed, In the matter of the assignment of Robert Nellson. See memorandum. Abraham Worms vi. Patrick MoManus. Motion for attachment denied.

The People, Frederick Sherer. Motion for discharge granted. The People, V8, Homor Brannagan, Judgment of Justice Scheillein reversed. The same the same, Judgment of Justice Scheillein reversed, Do reaccounting of James Glimore assignee of and calla" -Not infrequently putting out tor Canada and calling scroas the border that you'll give back half for immunity. Margin The verge of bankruptoy.

Interect The deop concern felt in you by a creditor. Staring a note -Applying a rafeer to what can be got out of ft. TWO CENTS. FOR THE SUPERVISORSHIP. AN INTERESTING CONTEST IN THE TWENTIETH WARD.

Supervisor Anderson and ex-Supervisor Bennem Already Measuring Swords While Mr. George Smith is Lying Low -A Novelty in Local Campaigning. The action of the Board of Supervisors yesterday in rescinding the resolution appropriating $2,500 for an excursion to the battle field of Gettysburg on the first Monday in September is generally approved in veteran circles. After the mess the city authorities made of the business the old soldiers of Brooklyn who took part in the great engagement realized that there was nothing for the Supervisors to do but to rescind their former action. Meantime, though, the War Veternns' Association of the Fourteenth and the Aldermen to accompany them to Regiment have invited both the Supervisors Gettysburg in September, and the invitation to both has been accepted.

The City or County Fathers who now desire to participate in the pilgrimage of the survivors of the Fourteenth to the battle field in which the latter played 80 gallant a part will foot their own bills. There is no monument to Brooklyn dead to be unveiled this year at Gettysburg, and had the Boards of Aldermen and Supervisors stuck to their original resolutions it is fair to presume that it would have set a precedent for an annual appropriation of $5,000 or $6,000 from the city and the county for a junketing trip for a handful of politicians to a ground that is sacred to every old soldier in the land. There is a very interesting contest already going on for the Supervisorship of the Twentieth Ward, where the Republican nomination is equivalent to an election. Mr. Malcolm Charles Anderson is the present Supervisor from that ward and is serving his first term.

Of course Mr. Anderson is a candidate for a second term, and if the faction in the ward now led by United States District Attorney Jesse Johnson should carry the primary for the election of delegates to the local nominating conventions in October he will be likely to secure another term in the county board. Mr. Anderson is personally a very popular young man, with a strong following in the ward, but it is claimed in some quarters that he is of too lively a disposition to suit some of the swallow tail and silk stocking Republicans on the Hill" who train with the Johnson faction. However, Supervisor Anderson is a hustler from Hustlerville, and he has prepared a genuine surprise for those who are opposed to his renomination to the Supervisorship in a monster free excursion up the Hudson, which he proposes to give himself to the Republicans in the middle of next month.

He has already contracted for a steamer and barges and he will issue the invitations in his own name. This will be A decided novelty in Republican campaigning even in the tumultuous Twentieth Ward, and Supervisor Anderson figures that he can spend his spare cash to better advantage that way than in making a barroom canvass immediately before the primary election for a candidate for the Supervisorship. Any Republican, male or female, who desires to attend the excursion can go along by application for a ticket to Supervisor Anderson. Mr. Anderson's principal opponent is exSupervisor William M.

Bennem, who is already making A quiet but industrious canvasa among the influential Republicans of the ward. Mr. Bennem used to train with the old Smith-Beard-Johnson faction in the ward association, but since his defeat for 0 nomination two years ago he has swung round to the Ni lace side of the house. It is said that the followers of Quarantine Commissioner John A. Nichols will support him against Supervisor Anderson next October, although Mr.

Buckley, a real estate dealer, has a good many friends in that quarter. Mr. Buckley has been a standing candidate for the Supervisorship of the Twentieth Ward for some years and although neither Mr. Anderson nor Mr. Bennem professes to dread his success at the primary each of them would be glad to see him retire from the contest with a promise of support from each two years hence.

Mr. Buckley's friends say that this is an old gag of which he and they have become very much wearied. While Supervisor Anderson and ex-Supervisor Bennem are already hard at work and while each is claiming victory in advance, there is a quiet gentleman with political aspirations lying very low, whom it would not be surprising to 800 at the front when the votes at the primary are counted. This is Mr. George Smith, the President of the Lafayette Club, who would, it is said, like very much to represent the Ninth District in the Assembly, and who would not be unwilling to serve a term in the Board of Supervisors as a stepping stone to the State Legislature.

MATTLE BURROUGHS NEW JOB. One More Place Made in the City Works Department. Mr. Martin Van Buren Burroughs, for some time the chief clerk in the Bureau of Locnl Improvements of the City Works Department at a salary of. $1,750, has been appointed pay roll and disbursing clerk under Accountant Martin, at the same salary.

The change is due to the necessity for additional help in the accounts office by the operation of the Weekly Payment bill. Mr. Burroughs' place in the Bureau of Local Improvements has been filled by 8 good and true machine Democrat of the Twenty-third Ward, namely, Michael F. Kerrigan, who dropped into the chief clerk's seat at the same salary when Mr. Burroughs left it to-day.

The place is graded in Schedule of the Civil Service Board, which does not require the formalities of a competitive examination on the dreaded and hateful eligible list." OLD SCANDALS STIRRED. Foster L. Backus' Claim Against Mrs. Mason for Legal Services. Judge Cullen this afternoon took testimony respecting the claim made by Lawyer F.

L. Backus against Mrs. Emma J. Mason for $3,000, less $150, for legal services. Mr.

Backus also claimed remuneration for services in connection with the publication of a story, in which at was represented that Mrs. Mason had procured her husband's detention in a lunatic asylum in Naples, Italy. A good deal more stuff of a second-class nature was stirred up during the examination. Mrs. Mason was the daughter of the late Mr.

Heath, and is the wife of Dr. Sumner A. Mason, Mr. Backus claims part of the sum named for successfully contesting a claim to two houses on High street by a woman claiming to be the wife of James. Scott, to whom Mr.

Heath had conveyed the houses as security for a debt which was subsequently paid. Commissioner Hayden at Work. Police Commissioner Hayden this morning tried a number of policemen for violations of department rules. Edward Deering, of the Tenth Precinct, was dismiased from the force for drunkenness. Hubert Duffy, of the Second, lost tour days' pay for being absent without leave.

Robert Quinn, of the same precinct, lost five days' pay for misconduct, Thomas F. Murphy, of the Fourth, was ou post and it cost him five days' pay. Charles A. McDermott, of the Righth, was off post in a liquor store and three days pay was his dose. Daniel Carroll, of the Fifth, disobeyed orders and got off with ten days' pay.

Daniel McGuinness, of the Tenth, was absent without leave and was fined two days' pay. Albert Derholz, of the Thirteenth, was drunk and off post. Ten days' pay was his sentence. Brothers In a Fight, Henry' Kenny, of 197 Tillary street, and Kenny, 69 Prince street, New York, brothers, got Into a fight yesterday afternoon a few blocks AWAy from the Lee avenue station and before the contest was ended found themselves under arrest. Officer Martin was the member of the police force who took the fighters to the station.

This morning they were fined $2 encl by Justice Goetting. John Was Not Sober. John MoNichols, aged 40 years, of 401 Bouth Fourth street, fell from a second story window to a yard at the rear of Polhemus' stables, on Division avenue, last night, and was badly out and bruised. John was not perfectly sober, and that they sAy, accounted for the accident. He was taken to the Eastern District Hospital, The Sohlueter Association.

At the meeting last night of the Edward H. Achlueter Association, of the Sixteenth Ward, committee was appointed to make arrangements for trip to Rockaway Beach in August, The affair will be termed an outing and will be a pionia' in the boat sense, Merry Companions, The annual excursion of the Merry Companiona of Greenpoint took place yesterday at Riverview Grove on the Hudson and was largely attended. Prof, Roden formished the music, when the party arrived at the foot of Kaut street: FLAMES AT WORK. The Main Office of the Western Union is Gutted. A FRANTIC RUSH FOR LIFE.

Exciting Scenes on Lower Broadway, New York, To-day. A BOY GIVES THE ALARM. Panic Stricken Men and Women Flee to the Roof of the Burning Structure-Their Rescue by the Firemen-The Origin of the Fire Unknown It is Thought to Have Originated From the Crossing of Electric Wires Losses as at Present Estimated. The big Western Union Telegraph Building in New York was gutted by fire at an enyly hour to-day. The building is eight stories high with a cupola and contains the offices of Jay Gould, the Pacific Railroads and the New York Associatad Press, together with the operating rooms of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

There were several narrow escapes from accident, but as far AB reported no one was seriously hurt. The tire broke out at 7:20 o'clock in the great operating room on the seventh floor. According to all accounts there were about twenty persons in the operating room at the time, including fifteen women and five or six men. The first sign of fire was discovered in one of the divisions of the operating room fronting on Broadway, known as the 66 wing." A puff of smoke came up through the chinks in the floor. Then the men in the room seized the fire axes which are provided plentifully about the place in the event of an emergency like this, and ripped up the floor as fast as they could.

The moment the flooring was removed great volumes of blinding smoke poured out. The employes, both men and girls, seized the hand grenades which hung ou the walls and threw them into the opening. For a moment the smoked ceased to pour out in such great volumes, but only for a moment. It was then apparent that the fire was beyond their control, and they were ordered to flee for their lives. The employes fled to the staircase through which smoke WAS coming from the floor below.

Several of them made their way down the staircase, while others, according to statements of the people in the building, went down the fire escapes on the New Church street side of the structure. Before the people on the seventh floor had fully realized their danger smoke was making its way in clouds into the rooms on the eighth floor, occupied in part by the New York Associated Press and by an apartment used as a restaurant for the use of the hundreds of employes in the building. In the restaurant were six women and a man. They all made their escape without accident by the staircase, but one woman, Julia Lyuch, the colored janitress, was partially suffocated by smoke and was hurt by falling on the iron staircase. Her bruises were not serious enough to necessitate her being sent to a hospital, and she recovered her senses completely when she was led out into the air by her companions.

There WAS the wildest excitement in the neighborhood of the burning building. Although that part of Broadway 18 comparatively deserted at so early an hour in the morning, the street was BOOn filled to overflowing, and before the police had drawn the fire line the greatest confusion prevailed. Flames sprang out from the two upper floors of the massive structure and sent clouds of smoke soaring away over the city, which was seen for blocks in every direction. The firemen came in response to Alarms sent out by the public and poured great streams into every side from Broadway, Dey street, Fulton street and New Church street in the rear. The most exciting rumors were spread among the crowd about people who were said to have been burned while attempting to escape.

It was also said that some of the employes were taken from the blazing upper floors by means of ropes which were shot through the window by the aid of rockets. All such reports were said to be false by the police. Inspector Steers, from Police Headquarters, hurried down to the scene when he learned that the fire WAS 8 serious one. to some difficulty in working the fire alarm wires the most meagre account of the disaster was received at the Police Central office. The only information received at Headquarters concerning the fire was conveyed by the following short despatch: Fire in 195 Broadway, Western Union Telegraph It was not until information was received by telephone that the police knew that anything unusual was happening down town.

Then the reserves from the down-town police precincts were ordered out by authority from the central office. The upper floors of the building were damaged and were partially ruined by the blaze, but the whole building was completely drenched with water, which rolled down the staircases in torrents and flooded the offices on the first floor to the depth of many inches. The pavements on Broadway and Dey street were covered with pieces of broken glass, which had fallen from the lofty windows shattered by the firemen to give vent to the flames. No estimate of the damage done to the building aud to its contents was ventured by those who were in a position to even guess at it. It was said later, however, that the loss would not fall below $100,000.

The operating room, with its multitude of costly instruments, is a total loss. It WAS said, also, that there was not a dollar's worth of insurance on the building or its contents. The results attending the fire are likely to prove most disastrous to the business of the country. Not a telegraph wire can be worked from the Great Western Union operating room, which is the centre of the telegraphic system of the world, and the Western Union Company will be forced to establish offices elsewhere temporarily. The offices of the Associated Press were completely wiped out and the officials of that corporation began at once to find for themselves new headquarters.

A large amount of valuable matter and instruments were burned among the Associated Press belongings. The building of the Western Union Telegraph Company has been for A score or more of years one of the great and imposing landmarks of lower Broadway. It fronts on Broadway, facing east, and 00cupies half a block on Dey street. On the ground floor are the necessary offices of the American District Messenger Company, with entrances on Broadway and Dey street. The building runs up eight lofty stories which are surmounted by a cupola.

Running up from the cupola is a staff on which hangs the time ball which drops at the hour of noon and tells the country the standard time. The building is filled with offices on its five lower floors, which are occupied by some of. the greatest railroads and railroad magnates in the world. The vast system of the Pacifio Railroads is operated through instructions given from the Western Union Building, and there are the private offices of Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon and Marvin Green and others who are famous through the length and breadth of the land. The loss is a question that it is very diffcult matter to estimate and the Western Union officers are unable to give any figures that will approach it accurately.

The switchboard, which was the largest in the world. is a total loss and cost when new $250,000. The loss on the instruments and other fixtures is immense and in round numbers about $1,000,000 will possibly be reached. The Associated Press at once made arrangementa to handle their business and, throughthe courtesy of the United Press, established a temporary office at 187 BroadWAR, with the United Press people, where they immediately began sending out bulletins over the country. Later an office was established in the Western Union office at Jersey City, from which all their business was handled.

To-morrow they will move back to this city and locate at 415 Broadway, at the corner of Canal street. A large force of men is now at work stringing wires to that point. The loss to the Associated Press cannot be estimated, as the fire has destroyed all their recerds, books and papers. The Western Union Company have distributed their large force of operators throughout the city at central points and in Jersey City and Hoboken and hope in this manner to handle their business without any delay. The fire was discovered by a messenger boy named Matthews, who first saw puff of smoke under a table in the checking department on the floor below the operating room.

He had scarcely time to investigate the cause when a wooden table was in flames and the fire was spreading with lightning like rapidity. He rushed up stairs to inform the new arrivals that the building was on fire. They were compelled to go through the A panic result of the messenger's checking department to go down stairs. warning, the young women screaming and the men rushing pellmell down stairs to escape the pursuing flames, which in less than two minutes had spread throughout the entire checking department, burning up wires, instruments and tables as if they were so much tinder. The entire room, when the panic-stricken crowd passed through it, was filled with a dense, stifling smoke.

They fell over each other in their wild efforts to reach a place of safety. The little messenger, with an operator named Skidmore, were the only two persons who retained presence of mind enough to take in the awful situation. The boy rushed down stairs and out of the building and sent out an alarm, while Skidmore got down a fire extinguisher and endeavored to quench the flames. This he saw was impossible and he had to flee in a very few minutes. The flames ate through from floor to floor in short order.

Just about this time it flashed upon the minds of the frightened persons who had escaped that there were seven others in the restaurant floor who had not been warned of their danger. All exit had by this time been cut off, but the imprisoned people succeeded in reaching the roof through the trap door. Under the eaves of the big building the flames were shooting and the edifice seemed to be crowned with fire. When the great crowds of people on the streets saw the men and women rush out on the roof 8 cry of horror went up, for it seemed impossible that they could escape the fire burning between them and the street. Screaming women on the roof wrung ther hands and men cried out: For God's sake do something to save us." The first engine had arrived before the terrifying events transpiring on the roof were made visible to the crowd gazing upward from Broadway.

Soon a volume of water was pouring into the burning building and the sounds of crackling and breaking timbers was added to the confusion of the awful scene. A second alarm was sent out and it was immedintely followed by 8 third. In an almost inconceivably short space of time fourteen engines and hook and ladder companies and a water tower rushed from all quarters of the lower city and were at once engaged in the fight with the fire. Water in tons was poured in through the windows, but for a time the stubborn flames seemed to lick it up and convert it into new fuel as it fell upon them. A part of the water vomited forth by the engines poured from the roof like the heavy spray of a cataract, and, falling to the streets, was dashed hundreds of feet in every direction.

Upon the roof of the towering building the helpless men and women still moved like uneasy spectres in the midst of the swirling smoke and mist. As the houses surrounding the great telegraphic temple are on all sides much lower than its roof, the human beings thereon seemed, in the heart of a great city, to be isolated from their kind and destined to meet in midair death in its most frightful form. Help, however, was near at hand. A long ladder was rushed upon the roof of 8 Dey street and placed against the rear of the building. It did not reach within fifty feet of the roof of the big telegraph building.

Undaunted, however, two firemen scaled the ladder and threw a rope one to the roof. It was caught and tied by one of the imperiled people. The two firemen pulled themselves up hand over hand until they reached the roof, and amid cheers from a thousand throats from below they let the seven down to a place of safety. It was accomplished just in time, for the flames burst up through the cornice and soon enveloped the roof. The tower of the building next fell a prey to the flames.

The tons upon tons of water thrown upon the flames began to have a telling effect. It was a beautiful and at the same time terrifying sight to see the fire shoot out from the windows around the entire building fully fifty feet and blown back like great fiery tongues to lick the roof of the building. No one seems to know how the fire originated, but it is surmised that two of the company's electric light wires became crossed and set the flooring on fire. Had the fire broke out an hour later the loss of life might have been enor Fully 2,000 hands are employed on thus floors. QUEENS COUNTY CRIMINALS.

Number of Them Sentenced by Judge Garretson To-day. In the Queens County Court, in Long Island City, this morning Judge Garretson sentenced the various condemned prisonors As follows: John Troy, convicted of highway robbery from the person of Henry Horst on May 24, Sing Sing four years and two months, hard labor. Henry Hicks, a young colored man, charged with attempted rape on a little girl, Genie Stubenroch, of Hempstead, assault in third degree, Queens County Penitentiary six months. George Wilson, caught picking pockets in Lutheran Cemetery on Decoration Day, Sing Sing, four years. John Metzger, grand larceny, in stealing horse and wagon from the Kev.

Ernest Gutwieler, of Hicksville, Sing Sing, four years and five months. Ex-Justice Joseph R. Huntting, of North Hempstead, was. taken to Sing Sing this morning by Warden Joseph Hargrove, to begin his long sentence of nine years at hard labor. After the disposal of these cases the court adjourned.

Next weeK the Court House will again open to admit of the session of the Oyer and Terminer Court, Judge Cullen presiding, when several important cases will come, up including the Newtown Sunday nuisances, the Long Island City pool selling cases and probably J. Melville Bassett. The Grand Jury will also convene on Monday. MILLIONAIRE NEWSPAPER MEN. It's Said Now.

that One of the Vanderbilts Will Join the Craft. The millionaire infinence in newspaperdom is becoming more pronounced every year in New York, It is whispered that there will soon be a new and inost distinguished accession-nothing less than a Vanderbilt- and, it Dame Rumor is to be credited, he is to be the principal backer and by no means an inactive figure in the conduct of A Republican daily of extremely conservative tendencies, It is nearly a decade since the millionaire element began to make itself felt in the metropolitan press, and its experience has not always been a happy one. Gould, Huntington and Field have each had their hands in up to the elbows, and have paid roundly for the privilege of disseminating golden opinions through the medlum of printer's ink. Shepard and Mille, too, have felt the same fascinating spell, although, up to the present time, none have wielded the quill to the extent that the doughty Colonel himself 8 related Vanderbilt-does in his evening paper. The millionaire President of a very prominent insurance company is said to have been figuring at different times on the cost of a practical exporiment in the same direction, but the Indifferent fortunes of his predecessors have probably de-terred him thus far from making the venture, although he may be heard from any day.

A Vanderblit in Park row, however, would be a veritable sensation, and when he comes he will have a rousing welcome. He will be the first of his tribe to embark on a sea that has more shoals and quicksands surrounding it even than Wall street. a pertinent question to ask what these men of millions want in journalism. Some enter the ranks confessedly to subserve business enda: a few have political viewa which they consider of sumolent importance to pay well for their diesemination; the majority, probably, do it because they recognize in the press a business and political lever combined. Schemes in Wall street, and big jobs in Congress and State Legialatures have to be advocated and taken care of, and the independence of the daily press makes this an impossibility, so the only recourse is to control a publication themselves.

This is a growing danger, but it is one that carries with it its own remedy: for the moment a paper becomes a inere vehicle of personal opinion and an undiaguised advocate of personal interests it conses to be attractive to the public and ite influence 18 gone. The best eridence of the truth of this statement la to be found in a few New York newspapers whose millionaire backers have sunk fortunes on them with a rapidity that is simply appalling. Charged with Beating a Woman. Frank Lucia, Rossi Lucia, Rosario Rupperto and Frank Pasqual, four Italians, were charged before Justice Kenna to-day with assaultIng Mre. Mary Pattison, of 1.027 DeKnib avenue, on July 4 last.

The complainant said that she remonstrated with one of the prisoners for destroying the flower beds In her garden, and the gang armed themselves with baseball bats, mere and shovels and boat her about the head and body, bit her little Anger and wound up their celebration of the national liberty jumping on the woman, after knocking her down, Owing to the absence of an important witacas tho case was adjourned until August 8, THE CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. NEW ONES BEING BUILT AND OLD ONES REPAIRED. Four New School Bulldings Under Way of Construction, One to be Ready for the New Term-The Girls' Central School Addition--Improvements Suggested. The schools are closed excepting to the janitors and carpenters, and yet one department of the Board of Education is working its busiest. This is the one in charge of James W.

Naughton, the Superintendent of Construction and Repairs. Mr. Naughton, his draughtsmen and the contractors whom he is supervising are busy preparing plans and building. Four schools are now under way. One will be opened with the new term, the others shortly after.

School No. 79, on Kosciusko street, is now entirely completed and is being fitted with furniture. It will be a primary school and will relieve No. 25, of which it is branch. It includes eighteen classrooms and will seat 950 pupils with ease.

The next to be finished will be "the branch of No. 35. It is situated on Decatur street, at the rear of the old school, but detached from it. It will include eighteen classrooms and will seat 950 pupils. Mr.

Naughton has not yet received the grades for which the rooms will be furnished. Another building well under way is No. 80, on Hancock street, near Bedford avenue. It is a branch of No. 8, and is built at the rear of that famous old school.

The new building has twenty-four classrooms and an assembly room and will accommodate 1,200 scholars. It takes the place of the rickety old frame building on Bedferd avenne. By a special resolution of the Board of Education the number of the school will not be carved over the door. This was done 50 that it may still be called No. 8, and thns perpetuate the memory of the old school.

No. 77, on Second street, near Sixth avenue, also nearing completion. At the August meeting of the board Mr. Naughton will submit three sets of plans to the board, and upon the approval of that body will advertise for proposals. One set will be for a twelve-room addition to No.

81. The new wing will front on Engle street and will accommodate 650 pupils It will greatly lessen the pressure in the Greenpoint schools. Another set of plans will be for 8 new building to take the place of the present old frame, on Nelson street and Hicks. It will contain eight rooms and 450 pupils. The other will be an addition of fourteen classrooms to No.

86, on Stage street, and will include considerable changes in the present building. The draughtsmen are also at work on plans for the Girls' Central School addition, new colored school on Schenectady avenue, and other proposed structures. The architecture of two of the buildings now under way may deserve mention as being a credit to the city. The schools thus being erected are No. 80 and No.

77. The exteriors will be of buff brick, terra cotta, and the fronts will be of graceful though simple designs. The roofs will be tiled and surmounted by cupolas. With regard to the general architecture of the schools Mr. Naughton said this morning: 46 We Are endeavoring to improve, in our new buildings, upon the plain and box-like appearance of the old.

The designs for No. 2 are being made, and, considering the limitations which have been imposed, I think that we need not be ashamed of what we have done. A schoolhouse is not like a clubhouse, a dwelling or a public building. The primary considerations are light, nir and floor space and economy. Appearance must be second.

We cannot throw out a projection here or a bay window there simply for beauty. If we did we would sacrifice more important things. Heretofore also the endeavor of the board has been to secure enough accommodations and as quickly as possible. Now this is no longer so iniportant and attentiou can be paid to exteriors as well as interiors, facades as well as floors." A CRACK SPORTING OLUB. The Brooklyn Doesn't Want to Lose Its Land and Its Birds.

The Brooklyn Gun Club, through Gen. George W. Wingate, moved in the Supreme Court, before Judge Cullen to-day, to continue a temporary injunction restraining G. Herbert Newton from entering or allowing others to enter on certain lands near the clubhouse of the plaintiff. Mr.

Wingate said that the club had forty members and owned a clubhouse and farm at Smithtown, Suffolk County, and held leases of lands for hunting and shooting purposes, having stocked altogether about 7,000 acres of land with quail. Newton WAS the club steward under salary, his duty being to negotiate and obtain leases and watch over its tenants' rights of renewal. He tendered his resignation on February 17, 1890, but continued his services and drew his salary until February 28 following. On July 22, 1887, he got a lease for the club of 1,500 acres from Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence for one year from date, with the privilege of renewing it on the like terms for the further period of three years from July 1, which will be in the year 1887.

The 1887 ought to have been 1888 and the club claims the lease has now expired. Judge Callon reserved his decision. FOURTEENTH WARD DEMOCRATS The Chapin Club Listen to an Address by the Hon. Thomas J. Kennn.

There was quite a good attendance of mem bers and guests of the A. C. Ohapin Club of the Fourteenth Ward at the meeting held last evening at headquarters, corner of Grand street and Bod ford avenue, the attraction being the announce ment that Police Justice Thomas J. Keuna would exemplify (the new ballot law. President John P.

Donnelly was in the chair and Secretary John Callahan recorded, the latter official ancouncing that nine new members had Joined the club at the last meeting. large number of well-known Democrats were among thom being noticed Henry Doyle, Edward Stanton, Frank Clancimina, Martin Kerrigan, George Camp bell, John Corcoran, Richard Clery, Janies Short, ex-Supervisor Lawrence F. Carroll. Charities Commissioner Francis Nolan, Patrick Farrell, Daniel Hurley, Charles Cassidy, Daniel Bunce, John Reel, Thomas Reagan, Charles Cotfey, H. Rosenson, Thomas Shanley, Edward Murk tagh and Thomas Gallagher.

The Hon. Thomas J. Kenna on entering the room was greeted with much applause, and after being introduced by President Donnelly addressed those present and explained in detail every point of the new ballot law. Tho discourse was an exhaustive one, and wea certainly an admirable ex position of the methods which will have to be tole lowed prior to and at the next November election. Of course Mr.

Kenna daring his address made a great many remarks of a partisan conracter, calculated to arouse the enthusiasm of Dis Demo cratlo auultors, who frequently testined their Apt probation of his hits by loudly applanding him. His references to his long time former residence in that ward before he removed to the third Ward were well received, and altozelber the occasion proved to be a notable one in LILO history of the club. It must be paid that Justice Kenna shows proof that he has closely studied the new law in all ite minute, and his explanatory methods could hardly be improved on. The address lusted until 11 o'olock, after which those present partook and its concomitante. HYMENEAL.

Stubbert-Hillebrand. There was a very pleasant wedding Thuraday evening at the residence of Theo dore Eillebrand, one of the Superintendents of Standard Oil Company, on Huron struel, Grosnpoint. The contracting parties were Edward F. Stubbert and Miss Rosa Hillebrand. The mony was performed by the Rev.

J. It. Stubbers of Putnam. uncle of the groom. Miss Paul Ine Schubart was the bridesmaid and Mr.

whiling J. Helme was best man. There was a arre of wedding gifts and an elegant collation. parlora were tastefully decorated with flower and vines. The young couple departed for their wedding tour with the best wishes of their friends.

On their return they will reside in dreck point. Home Thrust. Licht. ting along as nuely in your studies. dime to put in your bank, Horrified See here, you young ner, your mother informs me that you have bringing home pencils that belong to the school Don't you know that you are stealing when yo do that 7 Innocent Son -No, sir; cause when you all that statiouery from the office tho other plate you said that was all -the company conid stand it.

Flustrated Father- Ahem I How did you stand In philosophy to my boy? Astute Son- One hundred, air. Diplomatic Father-Ab, I ant you are got Snaploiously Cordial. Rashel this summer. Doss that eccensa Take Cure be rid of I Miss Honeysuekle (in some Here's the bill for my bounds papa. Mr.

Honeysuckle that's remarkably cheap and how well is becomes vi Mien Honeysuckleting ready to tell.