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4 THE BROOKLYN TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1903. LOCAL GUARDSMEN SHOOT FOR VALUABLE TROPHIES Brigade and Headquarters Prizes Up for Contest at Creedmoor Today. SCORES UP TO ADJOURNMENT. Conditions Were Perfect and the men Did Good -Major Generals Match Open to Teams of Sixteen Also On. (Special to the Brooklyn Times.) CREEDMOOR, L.

Aug. annual rifle competitions at the State range here began this morning when representatives of the National Guard organizations of Brooklyn and Manhattan shot for the brigade and headquarters prizes, the latter being new. Every regiment and man of the other organizations, including the naval militia of the two boroughs, had teams entered for one of the two events above mentioned and the contests at the outset gave promise of some close results. Much interest was centered In this team of Regiment, which now includes two of the best marksmen formerly connected with the Twelfth Regiment, and on one of whose shots in fact depended the result of the State match last year, which was finally decided in the latter's favor. The Ninth has made several other valuable acquisitions to its rifle team.

The Twelfth Regiment team on the other hand 1s not so strong as in past years. The First Brigade prize was won last year by the Seventy-first Regiment and the special origade prize, as usual, by the Twenty -third Regiment. The Twenty-third has lost this prize only once since It was first offered, when it suffered defeat at the hands Fourteenth Regiment. The Twenty-third has also a long string of victories for the State prize, but none of late years. The State match will be shot next Saturday.

The brigade prizes are trophies valued at $100, the contests being open to teams of twelve, from the several regiments attached to each brigade. Five shots are fired by each competitor at 200 yards standing; 600 yards sitting, and 500 and 600 yards prone, the team scoring the highest aggregate being the winner. The headquarters prize is of similar value to the brigade prizes and is governed by the same rules, it being offered for competition by teams of twelve from organizations attached to National Guard Headquarters, and which, since the reorganization of the guard two years ago, have not been eligible to compete for the brigade prizes, including the Thirteenth Regiment, Brooklyn, and the Twenty-second Regiment, Manhattan. It is new this year. In this match carbines such as are used by the cavalry and light artillery are allowed one point at each distance.

Teams consist of six man, as in the naval militia matches, which are also similar, the scores being doubled. Twelve points are thus allowed at each distance, or forty-eight in all. Marksmen generally are of the opinion that this is too much, since KrakJorgensen rifle is now used by all other organizations, instead of the old Springfield, which had a longer barrel. The Major General's match, open to teams of sixteen enlisted men, at ten distances from 300 to 800 yards, will be shot this afternoon. The scores this morning follow: SECOND BRIGADE MEN.

FOURTEENTH REGIMENT. 200 300 500 McNamara 14 13 19 Yards, Yards. Yards. Farrell 18 Sledd 20 19 20 Murray 19 13 18 Harding Fahstock 19 90 17 22 Macumber 20 22 Foote 17 Russell 16 18 19 Trimmer 17 22 Pendergast 13 21 20 Wright 20 17 21 Totals 210 217 239 TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. 200 300 500 Yards.

Yarda, Yards. Dubois 20 20 23 Miller 20 18 21 Slade 19 17 00 Litell 19 18 21 Napier 20 23 22 Wills 21 20 21 Legiart Shiebler 19 19 18 23 Ward Potts 21 Codd 20 20 21 G. Bryant 21 20 24 Totals 237 230 259 FORTY REGIMENT. Yards. Yards, Yards.

Lent 19 0" 24 Jannicky 21 21 18 Kobey 15 21 20 Jackson 20 21 15 19 20 13 Baldwin Wolf 17 20 Christoftel 21 R. Nash 20 19 18 E. Nash 20 19 White 14 19 18 Collins 17 14 Muth 21 21 17 Totals 224 241 222 SEVENTEENTH SEPARATE COMPANY. 200 300 500 Yards. Yards.

Yards, Dooley 18 23 Clark 15 18 23 Brown 17 20 17 Tooker 19 21 Klein 20 Silkworth 19 18 17 23 Totals 108 117 121 These totals are doubled: FIRST BRIGADE MATCH. 200 300 500 Seventh Yards. Yards, Yards. Regiment 243 235 260 Eighth Regiment 220 215 214 Ninth Regiment 210 204 209 Twelfth Regiment 219 234 235 Sixty- -ninth Regiment 227 242 224 Seventy-Arst Regiment 248 244 HEADQUARTERS MEN. 259 200 300 500 Yards.

Yarde. Yards. THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. Nash 14 19 Lewis 17 20 MeNevina 18 19 21 21 Dixon 19 20 Lewry 19 22 Barrett 19 Pendry 20 10 Becker 21 Reilly 19 De Forest 21 20 Warbasse 19 22 19 Harvey 19 18 20 Totals 226 237 236 Twenty-second Regiment, 217, 218, 198. Squadron A-229, 233, 193.

NAVAL MILITIA MEN. SECOND BATTALION. It a liton 10 19 Windquest 18 19 21 Free 18 18 19 Chapman 13 18 17 A. C. Forbes 19 14 19 Smith 11 10 14 Hoyt 16 18 16 Mitchell 17 18 20 Hodgkina 18 19 15 Martin 17 19 19 Vandersputten 17 16 13 Schoonover 20 19 17 Totals 204 207 209 First Battalton-207, 224, 213.

Sergt, Trimmer, of Company Fourteenth Regiment, made a clean score of 25 at 500 yards and Capt. McAlbert and Lieut. Casey, of the Seventh and Twenty-second Regiments, each made a clean score at 300 yards. There were few protests and the competitions proceeded without interruption. At 12:30 bugle sounded and the marksmen went to luncheon.

At 1:30 the teams went to the 000 yard ranged where match will be Anished. WAS IT GULDENSUPPES SKULL THIS BOY FOUND Was Alongside Rock in Swamp Area Between Ravenswood and Dutch Kills. GHASTLY CRIME IS RECALLED. Coroner Has Taken Charge of the Last Link in a Tragedy That Created Great Sensation Head Probably There Six Years. What is believed to be the skull of Willlam Guldensuppe was found late yesterday afternoon alongside of a big rock that stands on the old dividing line between the Ravenswood and Dutch Kills sections, of Long 13- land City.

Frederick Burns, eleven years old, of 212 Ely avenue, was playing near the rock which stands close to the junction ot Wilbur and Sunswick avenues. Few persons ever go near the rock, as it stands at the edge of a swamp of large area. Recently the work of cutting down Burden's woods to make room for the Blackwell's Island Bridge, has attracted children over that way Young Burns, with several boys of about his own age, was there yesterday, when he saw a couple of time-stained. pieces of newspaper fluttering. attention them at first.

Finally he was led to investigate and pulling the paper open discovered something Inside. There was the eyeless sockets of a human skull staring at the boy. He ran away frightened and after a time returned to the bundle and made a further investigation. The case was reported to a policeman and he took the package to the police station on Fourth street. Coroner Leonard Ruoff was notified and he arrived at the police station last night and took the head away with him.

The police stated a this morning that the skull was very large, and that its condition indicated that it had laid exposed in the open air for some years. The pieces of paper were almost a dark brown, and some of the print was. found to have been transferred to the skull. The newspaper was in such a condition that it was impossible to make out any of the print, not even the dates being left on it. William Guldensuppe was a bath rubber employed in a New York establishment.

He was a friend of Mrs. Augusta Nack, and she had another admirer in the person of Martin Thorn, a barber by trade. The murder of Guldensuppe was accomplished by his being enticed to a cottage on Anderson avenue, Woodside. It was on June 25, 1897. that he was killed.

His body was cut up sections. Part was found floating in a ferry slip of the East River, another part was picked up in some woods in the northern part of New York City. The arrest of Mrs. Nack followed. Martin Thorn was not captured until some days after the arrest of the woman.

He was finally taken into custody in Harlem by Detective Sergt. O'Brien, of New York. As the crime was committed in Queens County, the two prisoners were transferred to the jail in Long Island City, and subsequently indicted for murder in the first degree. There were two trials of the pair. The first had progressed for some days when Mangus Larsen, of Long Island City, of the Jurymen, was taken ill with appendicitis, in the Garden City Hotel, where the jury was taken at the end of each day's session.

Larsen was operated upon, and, of course, the case had tried over again, A resident of Corona named Thomas Morse was foreman of the jury that finally tried the two murderers of Guldensuppe. Thorn was convicted and indicted and subsequently electrocuted, while Mrg. Nack, owing to the aid she rendered in convicting Thorn, got off with fifteen years in State's prison. and her term is nearly up. The search for Guldensuppe's head WAS probably the most active feature of the long hunt to unravel the mystery of his death.

Wells were drained, ponds dragged and every swamp and patch of vacant ground and woodland was carefully gone over, but no trace of the head was ever obtained. The spot where young Burns found the head yesterday is only a few blocks from the dry goods store at Jackson avenue and Jane street, Long Island City. The store was kept at that time by Max Riger, and it was through a letter his wife wrote to a newspaper that the fact of the sale of the oil cloth became public. The police stated this morning that the condition of the skull and the paper in which it was enclosed clearly showed that the bone had not been scraped by a surgeon's knife and then thrown away, but that the head must have been complete when it was. first thrown into the swamp or buried near its edge.

The deep brownish yellow stains on the paper suggest that It had been buried in clay. There is probably nothing about either the head or the pleces of newspaper that were wrapped around it that will lead to the identifcation, but there are many reasons that suggest it being the much sought and long lost head of the unfortunate Guldensuppe. The cottage where the murder took place has since become a wine room and one occupant one night jumped out of a window declaring he had seen Guldensuppe's ghost. He ran to the railroad station at Woodside with a blanket wrapped around him and fought his way on the train and was later arrested in Long Island City. STORM CURVES INTO GULF.

West Indian Hurricane Coming North and Will Affect South Atlantic Coast. WASHINGTON, Aug. Weather Bureau issued the following bulletin this morning: "The West Indian storm is now in the southeast portion of the Gulf of Mexico, and still beyond the limit of observation. It is apparently recurving to the northward in the direction of the middle Gulf Coast, and hurricane and storm warnings have been continued from Port Eads to Charleston. "Gales dangerous to all classes of vessels are indicated for.

to-day and to-night over the middle and east Gulf. The wind will probably increase in force and become high on the south Atlantic Coast, Friday." Burned While Cleaning Bed. HOLYOKE, Aug. Alexandria Arsno, aged 70 years, was frightfully burned by gasoline exploding and igniting her clothes. She was, it is said, cleaning a bed in one of the chambers with gasoline, and to assist her in the work she used a lamp.

North End Bank, Boston, Afire. BOSTON, Aug. fire which caused a loss that is estimated at $10,000, started this morning in the rear part of the North End Savings Bank on the first floor of the buildIng at 55 Court street. Most of the damage was done to the bank premises and the cigar store adjoining. The news and yenty of it, served dally, has made the Brookly, Times a welcome household friend.

MAY ASK HEALTH BOARD TO RELIEVE BRIDGE JAM Should B. R. T. Four Loop Plan Not Solve the Problem. CITIZENS PREPARED TO ACT.

Commissioner Lederle is Not Certain, However, That He Has Power to Act in Matter--President Winter Replies to Mr. Poulsen. It the additional four loops at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge do not relieve the crowded condition of traffic durhours, it is likely that the various Boards of Trade and the Manufacturers' Association. who favor the Poulson plan, may make an appeal to Health Commissioner Lederle. Mr.

Poulson and his friends are very much chagrined over the refusal of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to give his plan a trial, and they are determined to adopt stringent measures if the company's promises regarding its own plan are not made good. Under the Charter, it is the duty of the Health Commissioner to enforce all laws for the preservation of human life, and the promotion and protection of the health of the people of this city. The wording of the Charter on point is very clear, and Mr. Poulson is confident that Dr. Lederle will avail himself of this power, inasmuch that the dam and the crush which exists nightly at the Manhattan terminus of the bridge is a menace 10 the health of the people, and endangers their lives as well.

The work of Installing the four additional loops is progressing rapidly, and should be completed by fall. Chief Engineer Brackenridge, of the railroad company, is sanguine that they will alleviate the congestion and that the people who live in this borough and are in Manhattan, wIll have no further cause for Mr. Poulson, on the other hand, declares that Mr. Brackenridge is mistaken in his optimistic opinion, and that the loops will prove a failure. The four new loops Mr.

Poulson contends will increase the danger that already exists, and he predicts that the number of accidents will almost be doubled. As long as the loops are continued in their present position and passengers are compelled to cross them to reach the tracks of the respective car lines, he believes the congestion will not be alleviated the slightest, and there will be the same crowding and jostling every night. "The loops," said Mr. Poulson, "are a distinct menace to the life of every passenger who crosses the Brooklyn Bridge by the cars, and the additional four loops will enhance the danger of being crushed under the wheels of the B. R.

T. juggernauts. The conditions, I think, call for the interference of the Health Commissioner. but we intend to take no action until the is now under way is thoroughly completed." We want to give the railroad company a chance to make good on their promises." Health Commissioner Lederle was asked to-day if jurisdiction in the premises and whether he would take action. He replied that he did not care to discuss the subject until it had been brought this attention officially.

The commissioner, however, when pressed, declared that he was not positive whether the congested traffic conditions on the bridge came within the meaning of Section 1,169 of the Charter, which describes his powers and duties. "I think the Corporation Counsel will have to decide that point." he said: "At least, if complaint was made to me, I would consuit him first before taking any action." Acting Corporation Counsel Sterling said that he did not care to give an offhand opinion. in view of the fact that the matter might come before him officially in the near future. President Edward W. Winter, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Company, in reply to the statements Mr.

Poulson, yesterday, made the following statement to-day AS to why the railroad company had not adopted his plan for the relief of the congestion at the Manhattan end of the bridge and generally explaining in brief company's feeling toward the Poulson plan. He said: Mr. Poulson misses the point. I quite agree that if of practical utility, the adoption of his plan would benefit the Transit Company. I simply say that we are committed to a very large expenditure for work urged upon us by the Mayor, who doubtless nas somewhat influenced in his preference for the -loop plan by the recommendation of his engineers.

That in the midet of it to take up a series of essentially elaborate experiments in test of this or any proposed substitute would prove utterly ineffective. except to hamper and embarrass the work in hand. It needs no diagram to demonstrate this. I haven't studied Mr. Poulson's plan for four months: I haven't discredited it, and I didn't say it wasn't amusing.

John B. Creighton, Secretary of the Brooklyn League, called on Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal this morning and made an appointment for 1:30 P. M. 1 to-morrow afternoon for a conference on the subject of taking further action in urging the adoption of the Poulson plan for the relief of the Bridge crush. A committee from the Brooklyn organization will call at the Bridge Departwith the Commissioner.

It is stated at the ment to-morrow and go over the question department that Mr. Lindenthal is powerless to do anything further, but he is willing to give the committee the benefit of his opinions. WANT GARIBALDI TO LEAD. Son of Great Patriot Popular With Bulgarian Insurgents-Guerilla Fighting Still Going on. ROME.

Aug. hundred volunteers have enlisted for service in 'he ranks of the Insurgents in the Balkans, are trying to induce Gen. Ricelotti Garibaldi, son of the great patriot, to lead the troops. Gen Ricciotti Garibaldi took a prominent part in the war between Greece and Turkey and was looked upon as a great leader by the Greek troops. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug.

received here to-day state that a number of Turkish soldiers were attacked by the Insurgents at the village of Prileptzl, near Prelip, and that several insurgents were killed. There were encounters between the Turkish troops and the rebels also at Voden and Volonitza. A detachment of 150 men under one of Chief Sarafoff's lieutenants, claims to have defeated the Turks with a loss to the latter of 140 in killed and wounded. SOFIA, Aug. organ of the insurgents, the Autonomie, boldly prints to-day the names of the chief leaders of the insurrection in the vilayet of Bitolia.

The news from the interior to-day Indicates that the adherents of the revolution are showing 'a similar fearlessness the new condition of things. BELGRADE, Aug. customs officials have imposed a fine of 21,000 francs on the Bulgarian Government for attempting to smuggle Into Servia elght wagons loaded with ammunition. The ammunition was packed in bales of paper. EPIDEMIC OF SCARLET FEVER AN ASYLUM Twenty-five Children Quaran tined in Brooklyn Orphans' Home.

CASES ARE OF MILD NATURE. There Have Been no Deaths and it is Believed the Disease is Now Under Control--Hygienic Conditions Are Excellent. An epidemic of scarlet fever has broken out among the 320 girls and boys in the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, corner of Kingston and Atlantic avenues. It was said the asylum this morning that the epidemic is now under control. The first case was that of a little boy, six weeks ago, one of the recent admissions, who was quarantined in the hospital ward on the top floor of the asylum, but in spite of precautions several new cases developed during the first week, and from that time on new cases sprung up every day.

There are no wtwenty-five children in the hospital suffering from scarlet fever, two-thtrds of whom are boys. The authorities will not give the exact number of cases of scarlet rever there have been in the hospital during the last month, but it is believed it cannot have been less than thirty-five. There Were very few new cases last week and none within the last four days, which leads the doctors of the asylum to believe that the epidemic has been stamped out. Mrs. S.

A. Hill, the matron of the asylum, told the Times reporter this morning that she did not regard the attack as epidemic in its character. "We have twenty-five children in the hospital now," said Mrs. Hill, "but none of them have or have had the disease in serious form. It is a very light form of scarlet fever, more like scarlatina.

The cases have been strictly quarantined, and I believe that there is now no possible chance of further contagion. Dr. Shaw and Dr. Waugh are in attendance on the children, nearly all of whom are convalescent. There have been no deaths.

The entire building has been fumigated from top to bottom. "We had not had a case of scarlet fever in the asylum since four years ago, when a few of the children were taken down with a light form of the disease. I cannot account for scarlet fever securing a foothold in the asylum. The hygienic conditions here are perfect and we have good water." One of the nurses told the reporter that the disease spread from the one case of the little boy who was admitted to the asylum six weeks ago. CUTTER PETREL WAS RIGHT.

State Department Sees no Basis for Any Complaint at Present. WASHINGTON, Aug. State Department has not yet been officially Informed of the attack made on the American fishing boat Silver Spray by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel, yesterday. in Lake Erie. opinion of officials of the State Department, the matter will not be of any international Importance and can, at the best.

result in only a claim for damages by the owners of the Silver Spray. Of course, per.ding receipt of details of the occurrence, no statement will be made at the State Department. but if the American vessel was in Canadian waters she should have stopped when hailed by the revenue cutter. If the vessel was in waters under the control of the United States. which is not believed, the matter might be extremely serious.

FULTON STREET TUNNEL. Big Dry Goods Merchants Will Take Steps to Protect Their Interests on Monday Next. Acting upon the request of a number of Fulton street merchants, James Matthews, of the Arm of A. D. Matthews' Sons, has sent out invitations to a conference to De held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Brooklyn Club, when measures to protect the interests of business houses on Fulton street, along the route of the Rapid Transit subway, during Its construction will be discussed.

Mr. Matthews said to-day that the movement contemplated the formation, if necessary, of a merchants' protective association. He added that while the heads of a number of the department store firms are absent from the city, he expected that ail would be represented at the conference. "Personally, I do not anticipate that the subway contractors will operate in Brooklyn in such a way as to occasion any greater obstruction traffic than Is necessary, said Mr. Matthews.

believe they will do all they can to conserve the commercial interests of the street during the progress of the work, but there must be inevitable loss and inconvenience to the merchants, and to the public. "What ought to be done and what I believe will be done, is to first widen Livingston street, SO that the congestion of Fulton street may be relleved. This would enable the loss and inconvenience to be minimized. "Just what plans are to be followed in making this part of the subway I do not know. So far as I can learn the engineers and contractors themselves have not yet decided just how to proceed.

They know that a tunnel is to be built and that is about all. It would seem to me, however, that 111 view of the fact that the shaft must run so near the surface in this section the openIng of the surface of the street will be unavoidable. If the shaft were to run deeper and under A loamy soil it might be easy enough to bore from either end without opening the surface because then the earth would form a sufficiently firm bridge to prevent settling of the ground at the surface and sides. But as I understand it, the tunnel will be only a few feet below the surface and with the sandy nature of the ground the earth above it would not be stadie enough for safety." Mr. Matthews expressed himself as being strongly in favor of the widening of Livingston street at once to offset the effects of the subway work on Fulton street.

According to Chief Engineer Parson, of the Rapid Transit Commission's force, the Fulton street section of the subway is not to be begun until the result of an experiment made in building the section under lower Broadway: in Manhattan, is known. The contract for the. latter work was LEt first and it will be carried out first. When the tunnel builders are ready to proceed in Brooklyn It will be with plenty of experience to indicate the best methods to follow. It is guaranteed by Mr.

Parsons that tratAc shall not be stopped at any time, that the work shall be progressed with all possible speed, and that should it be necessary at any time to open the street, the openIng will be properly bridged. JOHN C. SHEEHAN IS NOT FLIRTING WITH Has No Intention of Deserting Fusion in Municipal Politics. MURUHY ALSO DENIES RUMORS. Has No Idea of Negotiating With the Leader of the Greater New York Democracy Richard Croker's Friends Bitter Against Sheehan.

Politicians throughout the city are to-day in what is commonly called a "stew" over the political situation. When the announcement was made in the morning papers that John C. Sheehan, leader of the Greater New York Democracy, was all ready to go bag and baggage into the Tammany fold, and waited only until he should meet Charles F. Murphy at Saratoga to arrange the u- 3. tails, the Citizens' Union people at once manifested an inclination to get busy.

Very few politicians of this organization cared to speak for publication, but it came from the highest sources. that the Citizens' Union leaders intended to call a meeting of the Executive Commitiee alternoon unu have Mr. Sheehan state just what he Intends to do. It was intimated that there might be some spectacular proceedings when Mr. Sheehan was declaring which political party he loved the better; it was all fixed to have an understanding.

many Then Hall, Charles was F. interviewed. Murphy, Mr. leader Murphy of Tam- carried a puzzling smile on his features as he denied in detail any knowledge of any overtures that have taken place, of any proposed conference with Mr. Sheehan at Saratoga, or, in short, of anything pertaining to the matter.

It was all news to him. And then came the twist to the already complicated political knot. John C. Sheehan issued a statement in which he also denied in detail every feature of the story. He said that he did not come down from Saratoga yesterday to talk with Murphy; he has been at his office every day this week; regarding the statement that his brother, Sheehan, at the bidding of David B.

Hill, had brought about this attempt at Democratic harmony, the Greater New York Democracy leader said that his brother has been in Europe since las: April, and unless there is some wireless connection between the continent and Wolfert's Roost, it is not at all likely that his brother has been mending fences in this country. Finally, Mr. Sheehan said that the Greater New York Democracy will work to secure the nomination of a Democrat for Mayor on the Fusion ticket, but if this cannot be secured they will turn in and work for Mayor Low They are for fusion in any event, and the story that he is about to turn over his organization to Tammany was branded as unfounded. Mr. Sheehan has been a regular visitor at the office of Mayor Low, and the heads of the departments, and has declared at all times his distrust of Charles F.

Murphy's leadership and his opposition to the return of asserted Tammany that to it power. He has repeatedly was absolutely necessary to defeat the Tiger again, before the independent Democrats who supported Fusion two years ago would return to the support of A straight Democratic ticket. No later than last week he gave out an Interview, in which he characterized Murphy as an instrument in the hands of Croker, who, he said, was just as potential in Wantage when he was in Manhattan. For these and other reasons the Fusion leaders do not credit the report. Murphy, it is said, does not take much stock in the Greater New York Democracy.

and believes that the showing made by Sheehan at the last primary in the Ninth District, where Chief Devery won, does not entitle him to much consideration. In other Assembly districts the organizations are only on paper, and that there is no real strength. Some of the old Croker guard up in arms, and will not stand for Shechan under any circumstances. They say that the idea of allowing him to nominate the candidate for Borough President and also for Sheriff, in consideration of his return, is absurd. One of them said to-day that if Charles F.

Murphy was a party to such a deal, it would result in an uprising of Croker's friends, and would mean a bitter fight against Murphy. The consensus of opinion to-day among Democrats was that if Sheehan returned to Tammany Hall, it meant that Murphy, Tim Sullivan and the combination now running the affairs of the wigwam were control, and had Croker licked. Many of them, however, doubted that there have been any real offers made and that if the leader of the Greater New, York Democracy re-entered Tammany, it would be without condition. What is known as the contractors' combine is suspicious of him, and will never let him get in very far. RUSSIAN CONSUL MISSING.

Successor to Victim of Monastir Murder Not Hoard From. VIENNA, Aug. despatch to Die Zeit from Constantinople says that the members of the Russian Embassy there nre anxious regarding the fate of Consul Maudelstamm, who, at the news of the murder of Consul Rostkowski by a sentry at Monastir, immediately started for that place from Prizrend. Since he began the journey across the country nothing has been heard of him. NO REPLY YET FROM LOW.

German-Americans Await Opportunity For Hearing on Excise. Deputy County Clerk Henry Weissmann, President of the German-American Municipal League, said to-day that no reply had yet been received from Mayor Low to the letter asking that a hearing be accorded to the Organization Committee of the League, on the excise question. In the meantime meetings have been arranged in a number of Assembly Districts to discuss the excise policy of Mayor Low's administration and record the sentiment of the members. The Executive Committee of the League will meet on August 28 and decide what stand shall be taken in reference to the question of the rigorous enforcement of the Sunday laws. Another Strike in Lynn Shoe Works.

LYNN, Aug. the Knight of Labor stitchers, cutters, slashers and lasters employed by Karney Brothers, struck to-day because the company refused to discharge a number of stitebers who remained at work during the recent conflict between the Knights of Labor and the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union. Dry Dollar 'Sullivan for Head Eagle. ERIE, Aug. Dollar" Tim Sullivan.

of New York, was heartily endorsed for Grand President at the election in the National Convention to be held the Arst week September by the Fraternal Order -of Eagles for the State of Pennsylvania, in convention, here, to-day. For Infants and Children. (900 DROPS I CASTORIA CASTORIA The Kind You Have Vegetable Preparation for AsAlways Bought similating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Bears the INFANIS. CHILDREN Signature Promotes Digestion.Cheerful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. of NOT NARCOTIC.

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Thirty Years Arb TO 35 DOSES -35 CENIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. WILL OF COL. E.

W. BLISS. Estate Left to Wife and Daughter, With a Few Bequests to for Christ Church. The will of Col. Eliphalet W.

Bliss, who died suddenly at his home, "Owl's Head," Bay Ridge, on July 2, Was filed with the clerk of the Surrogate's Court in New York County on July 29 last. Deceased leaves estate to his wife. Anna M. Bliss, and daughter, Eva M. B.

Lane, with a few bequests to his sisters, nephews and nieces or their issues. The only other bequest, amounting to $10.000, is given to Christ Church of Bay Ridge, of which deceased was a member, and from which he was burled. The residuary legatees are requested to make proper provision for the E. W. Bliss Kindergarten, which was founded and supported by Mr.

Bliss. Many belleved that Col. Bliss would leave his residence and grounds to the city, to be used as a park, as he had often expressed himself in favor of the city acquiring the property for this purpose, but it is left absolutely to Mrs. Bliss and his daughter, Mrs. Lane.

cancelling all former wills, deceased bequeaths to his wife, Anna M. Bliss, all household furniture and effects. including silverware, plate, pictures, bric-a-brac and works of art, and all horses, carriages and other equipment of his stables. To his sister, Frances S. Mathews, wife of John Mathews, testator gives absolutely the house and lands at Bay Ridge where she now resides and which is situated on Second avenue, Sixty-seventh and Senator streets.

He further bequeaths $25,000 to Frances 8. Mathew, providing that if she should not survive him, but shall leave lawful surviving testator, the children are to share alike the sum mentioned. The testator's nephew, Lucian H. Gould, and niece, Florence N. Gould; niece, Mary E.

Bowens, wife of Howard Bowens, and niece, Elsie B. Whittlesey, wife of James Whittlesey, are given each $20.000, providing that in the event of the death of Lucian I. Gould or any of the nieces mentioned before death of testator, but leaving lawful issue surviving, then in that case the legacy the nephew or niece would have been entitled to is to be divided equally among the issue. To Christ Church, of Bay Ridge, is given $10,000 to be applied to the use of the church. All the rest and residue of the estate and property, both real and personal, wherever situated, is given to testator's wife, Anni M.

Bliss, and daughter, Eva M. B. Lane, wife of James W. Lane, equally, share and share alike, provided, however, that in the event of the decease of testator's wife before his death, leaving Eva M. B.

Lane surviving, then the residue of the entire estate and property is bequeathed to testator's daughter. But in case of the death of Eva M. B. Lane, not leaving her mother, Anna M. Bliss, surviving, all of estate is to be divided equally between children of Eva the M.

B. Lane. Testator provides that in case of the death of his daughter, leaving no issue, one-quarter of the property left to her shall be given to his son-in-law, James W. Lane; onefourth part to Frances S. Mathews; onefourth part to the children of deceased sister, Mary E.

Still, and one-fourth part to the children of Sabine E. Gould, deceased, and in case of the death of Anna M. Bliss, before that of testator, one-fourth part of that bequeathed to her is to be equally divided between James W. Lane, Frances S. Mathews, the children of Mary E.

Still and children of Sabine A. Gould. Testator specially requests that the restduary legatees will proper provisions for the E. W. Bliss Kindergarten, which has 'been supported and maintained as a branch the Brooklyn Kindergarten Association by testator.

Mrs. Anna M. Bliss is made executrix and James W. Lane and William A. Porter, of Sea Cliff, executors of the will.

It giyes them full power to sell and convey any and all of the real estate. No bond is required of the executrix or executors. The will is witnessed by Howard C. Seamans, of Maplewood, N. Frank C.

B. Page, of 314 Macon street, Brooklyn, and A. Rudhalson, of 230 Jefferson avenue. OBITUARY. Louis Monock.

There was a solemn requiem mass yesterday morning at St. Anthony's Roman Cathelic Church, for the repose of the soul of Louis Monock, father of John T. Monock, a well known clerk in the Department of Charities Correction. Mr. Monock was over 70 years of age, and had resided in Greenpoint many years.

He died on Monday after a long illness. The requiem mass was celebrated. O' by Hare, the LL. Right. and Rev.

he was Monsignor asslated by the Rev. Fathers Schenck and Clean. There were many pretty floral tributes. The funeral was largely attended. The interment was made in the family plot in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Catherine Kennedy. Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, wife of Daniel J. Kennedy, of 621 Grand street, passed away late yesterday afternoon, after a lingering illness.

Deceased was in her thirtyseventh year, and was the daughter of the late Capt. Charles Brown, a veteran of Civil War. She was born on Dean street, rear Utica a avenue, this borough, and lived here all her life. Mrs. Kennedy was a devout Christian, and a member of the congregation of the Immaculate Conception Church, on Leonard street.

She was noted for her womanly virtues, and charitable nature, and will be missed by many whose hearts she gladdened by acts of kindness. The funeral services over her remains will be held on Saturday afternoon at her late home, and the interment takes place at Calvary Cemetery. RIOTING IN INDIANA. 400 Mad Servians and Hungarians Clash at Whiting, With Considerable Bloodshed. CHICAGO, Aug.

and bloodshed have marked the of a fierce race war now in progress Whiting, Ind. progress, Already three men have been serlously, if not mortaily Injured and infuriated Servians and Hungarians fought with each other in the streets of the Indiana city last night. Clubs, bricks, stones are the weapons em-1 ployed by members of the mobs with which the Whiting police are utterly unable to cope. Eighteen of the rioters have been arrested, but hundreds remain who defy the law guardians, each faction declaring that nothing but the expulsion from the city of members of other band will satisfy. The battling is the result of strife between the Servians and Hungarians employed In the plant of the Standard Oil Company.

ANCHOR CHAIN TUNNELS. Bids Invited for Important Work on the Williamsburgh Bridge. Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal this morning invited bids for another important part of on the Williamsburgh bridge. The proposals call for the furnishing and delivering of all plant and materials necessary for the concreting in the anchor chain tunnels and granite masonry in the cable openings on the anchorages of the bridge. The amount of security required is $60,000 and the work is to be completed within sixty consecutive working days from the time when the Commissioner orders work started.

It may be explained here the anchor chain tunnels are the spaces through which the anchors of cables pass down through the masonry of the anchorage. The top part of the anchorage is, of necessity, left open until this work is finished. When the cable work is done the spaces are filled in with and at the top, granite blocks are concrete, conform to the appearance of the granite of which the sides of the anchorages are constructed. ROOSEVELT'S WINONAH IS HIT. Collides With Steamer Falcon and is Badly -Owner Was Aboard at Time.

NEW HAVEN, Aug. sloop yacht Wenonah, 70 feet in length, owned by F. M. Roosevelt, a member of the firm of Roosevelt and Schuyler, of Twenty-seventh New York City, put In here this street, In tow of the steamer Falcon, of morning, Huntington. The Wenonah and.

Falcon in collision off Faulkner's Island durwere ing the night, in the Sound, and the yacht is almost a total wreck. Mr. Roosevelt, who is a cousin of President Roosevelt, was aboard the yacht at the time of the collision, with two guests. Mr. Roosevelt states that the steamer, which is a fishing vessel, tried to cross and that in attempting to avoid his bows, them the collision occurred.

The yacht was badly In, and the mast and rigging were all away. Two of the carried overboard, but were sallors were rescued by the steamer's crew. After the collision the steamer stood by took the passengers and crew of the and aboard and towed the vessel to this yacht city, proceeding on her way. The yacht was leaking badly when she reached here and will require a thorough overhauling to put her in shape. She was bound from Larchmont to New London.

Dropped Dead on the Bridge. Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning Norman Pearson. 70 years old. a resident of Berkshire County. who was visiting Brooklyn with his SOD.

dropped dead on thy Bridge nea: the Brookly terminal. His death was probably die to heart failure. The body was taken tot Emergenoy Hospital In Manhattan. 16-Year-Old Boy Tries to Wreck Train. WILLIAMSPORT.

Aug. Alexander, aged 16 years, was arrested this morning for trying to wreck a Northera Central train at Cogan Station. He placed plankasand stones on the track, He confessed. un.