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II 1 1I mr SATOTDAt DCCBUBCK 33 UMFair Fair and colder today fair tomorrowfresh I 0 I jj Jj 1 un fresh northwest windsVOL VOL miVKCl 113 NEW YORK SATURDAY 0 DECEMBER 22 19O6 Copurtoht ioe iy The 8 um Prinlinl1Gnrl PublieltiltD AIIOdtiali PRICE TWO CENTS FUGITIVE BROKER CAUGHTII 1 II MAXSFIELO ARRESTED OXrrriTi rrriTi PROCESSTurned I Turned I In tIP Offlce Building Where Hennre one nan Ills Bucket Shop and Itahried ahhdfleiRfl Jil Career In NewInlnd rulsml Then Found a New Field Heren rr noi I Mannlleld tray He war the senior partner of the firm ofi i II Mansfield Co which used to dotv tv xlln brokerage business atI I it Hiiil iiy Ho dlnup eared on July 20i i VIA IINMIMR I nuineroun company ofrciinliint rciinliint pnrwins who declared that horI Iwl f1 awny with their money the totalnii a nii fl 1111 Iu HOtiiPthlng Ilka 150000Mui IIInlo owe his capture to the facthi ihiii iinribitig led him incautiously toin in iin Klimpppft or his former financialminer1 1rIph IK linri been hunted vainlyiv iv flnviivri oiiiployed by his creditorsin in VIIt HIM a half and I security hudnot not nrttli him overlxjld ho might nevertiflM tiflM h1 anight He UI arrested yesirnii irnii noon ti Broadway in a civil suitmt mt liinr wn roliased on ballTh rh Utiplaint on which the arrest wanin in 0 aim Mgned by Charles Hchmelser whoillfiv illfiv that Mansfield got away with 0 iiini KiliMiRod to him in connection withvnri vnri Mock operations hOe made throughUiullpM ildllllhl UiullpM firm Keno lllllington nuwver uwver also of I Broadway is counsel forsrliineiser I srliineiser nnd for twenty other oomril ril imiutn till of whom once did businessmill mill Mansfield and whose losses amountin in fjU000When When Manitfield lacked a little sign upr Im door year and a half ago Anlnjnl inun tng Hint thp linn haa suspendedTinny Tinny petrous wished to interview himhut hut he had departed leaving no addressonher onher at the office or at the Raleigh 7 WestVinetyneeonil Vinetyneeonil street whore he had livedDetective Detective were promptly hired and theyfrar rllr tho fiiRllive to tho Saranao regionand and thence to Montreal where lie stayedt thn Hotel Frontmao with young womannamed named Violet with whom he had beenfrequently frequently seen in Broadways all nightrilllflt vu uralitiThence TIn thi tri led to Boston but heiiffn iiffn the i let motives out of that city bytwentyfour twentyfour hourand the next heard ofnin nin WHS from Paris and Monte Carlo Afterhut thit fhi ground of the Continent apparentlyup up neil and itwallowed him up for nothingfurther further wan heard of him until Thursdaymorning morning when a clerk in Mr Billingtonniploy niploy recognized him in I corridor ut 4 Broadway Mr Ilillinntou at once gotH wnrrnnt for hb nrlt from Justice VernouM DnvtA of the Supreme Court but by thetI1 timt Deputy Sheriff Cruise arrived Mansfield field had again disappearedHut Hut lw resembled the cat of lyric fumeHe He couldnt stay away A detective foundhim him in a lower Broadway saloon yesterdaymorning morning and followed him to the TowerHuildlnpHt Building It SO Broadway Mansfield becameniipictousi niipictousi that he was being followed andturned Ilur11 turned on til detective inquiringAre I Are you Mr BilllngtonThe The detective unlit ho wasnt whereuponMansfield Mansfield took to hll hooh and run throughthe the pa MUge that connects 60 Broadwaywith with I Broadway Tho detective camelawit IWI in I no street and told the deputyHpritV HpritV who hustled up the top of 4t andeninuntered eninuntered Mnnrfleld Just as he was gettinginto into th elevatorl want you said Cnili eAll All right said Mansfield amiablyHere Here IltmI i rtiiit took hll prisoner before JusticelMvi lMvi who held him in S50 bail whichwas was fiirnhlindTo To i ho little town of Rockland MOMIN York I indebted for 1 Mansfieldlfoii lfoii foniiug hero Manfleld ran a brokerage age ofliv there with John Ball Thei i pm fnled and a number of people loutmoney money by the failure Before that Manlieid lieid had managed a North Attleboro papercalled called the lailji Itnler1imling 1imling the limitationn of Xew Englandtoo too coiilliiiiiR Mansfield came to Xew Yorktnii tnii on March I 1005 filed articles of Inorponttion orponttion in thin State of JI MansfieldA A Co hankers The incorporators weroJ Mansfield his father John Mansfield field and Rosetta I Dressier Mian Breuslerwas was merely the flrmrt stenographer Nov ody hlninrn her for what subsequentlyhappened happened though in all the sit againstMsnnlleld Msnnlleld nliennd Mansfield pero are namedin ql defendintnlrlv lrlv 1 the following May the firmopened opened offices on the third floor of 41 Broadway way and began to advertise largely in various ous newspapers making the usual alluringpromikes promikes of big profits on small investments ments and alleging that the firm had numerous merous sources of inside Informationn to how the market waa to be manipulted lted from time to time That meansrevenue revenue for us and profits for you saidJ Mansfield Co Part of this statement ment turned out to be strictly accurateSplendid Splendid accommodations for lady trader Private telephones and telegraphs exChanges Changes tickers unrivalled brokerage andoil oil information letters read one advertisement mentThere There were In fact special arrangementsfor for the accommodation of women withmoney money to pend Mrs 1 1 Folllett wanplaced placed in charge of this department Lawyer yeT Billington says Mn Folllett was onoof of Dean tt Cos most valuable employee ployee However that may the ladiesdepartment department of Mansfield A Co did I thriving businessAccording According to Lawyer Blllington the advertiteraent vertiteraent alleging the possession ofPrivate Private telephones was a statement of plainfact fact He says the telephones were so privatehat hat the wie of mot of them terminateduader under the carpet of the room where theyere I were installed The scheme employed sayshe the lawyer was the anciently luc fulOM I ono of pretending to call up some reputable ble and powerful stock trader and COnductIng Ing Imaginary conversation with him Inhich which the clients Hitting about the roome Were led to believe valuable informationa 11 receivedMoney Money cam in fast from th very startt but whatme Iee the fn retained so much of whit came in that some of Its clients grew HUMPiciou I Piciou Several of these confided theiritfpjciorw Iwp itfpjciorw to Mr Billlngton who preyedMawHeld i MawHeld for a settlement The latterwit I wit the lawyer ofT on one pretext or anotherIntil IInti Intil Mr Billlngton grew ImportunateThen Then late in the evening of July 2 wield I ield locked the doors nailed up his littlnIgn I Ign and Broadway knew him no moreHll intli lat Thursday Tho complainant in the suit upon whichto I I arrest was made says that the booki i of the firm show a profit on his account of 817U50 made in Louisville and NashvilleMetropolitan Metropolitan Street Railway Reading pre ferred and other stocks and that tI with tbI nta Investment amounts to 3000 Otherswhom wbol Mr Billington represents and theiiclaims claims arT Baker Hall of Freeport JJ4000 J4000 George Copper Boston 13000 Charles Hubbell Philadelphia S80 and Charles Dumont New York 12800Dumont Dumont Mr Billlngton says swore out awarrant warrant for Mansfields arrest in a criminal nal action charging embezzlementMansfields Mansfields operations extended all overthe th country lie lined to send out throughthe the mulls a circular letter to thousand ofjllt person advising investments II certainstockn stockn This was called MannfieldH Red Letter Under the firm name It bore the legend Capital stock IOomal paid InAtr After the smash the creditors filed abankruptcy bankruptcy petition against th firm bulthere there were no anuets except office furnish InK George I Enrle of 1 Nassau streetreprutentcd reprutentcd 1 group of the losersJohn John Man fleld father ofJ 1 vanished ished simultaneously with his son and hacthe the discretion to stay vanished The detective tective have never been able to get any trace of himMansfield Mansfield is not over 27 years old Apparently patently ho has not spent all his money for he was well dressed and wal er8d pixmperoulooking prprOUKloking looking when the deputy sheriff got himLEITERCIUXOX LEITERCIUXOX COOLESSfChicago Chicago MKH ii DlfTerences OverNettlemrnt Nettlemrnt of Marrlixe PortionCHICAGO CHICAGO Dee 21A series of Incidentconnected connected with the recent visit to Americaof of Lord Curzon culminating In his departure tire for England on a different vessel fromthat that taken by Mrs Levi Leiter and herdaughters daughters the Countess of Suffolk and MrsColin Colin Campbell has given Chicago peopleopportunity opportunity to guess that there has beenan an estrangementIt It is hinted that is tho outgrowth of thnsettlement settlement of Lady Curzons estate and thedisbursement disbursement of the 11500000 marriageHehlement settlement Today when it was learnedthat that Lord Curzon sailed on a differenteteamer steamer from that taken by his relativetho tho following incidents were recalledTho Tho morning after Lord Curzons arrivalIn In Chicago Joe Leiter his brotherinlawleft left the city for a routine visit to his coalmines mines at Zeigler I notwithstanding itwas was only the second visit his distinguishedrelative relative ever had made to Chicago andmight might be the latJoe Joe did not Invite Lord Curzon be thl guest at his apartments 231 Lincoln Parkboulevard boulevard but arranged for a suite at theAuditorium Auditorium Annex insteadJoe Joe Leiter spent only five minutes withhis his brotherinlaw according to his ownadmission admission during the latters stay In Chicago CIO cagoWhen When Lord Curzon was in Washingtonhe he did not visit the Loiter home but was aguest guest at tho residence of the Persian Ambassador Odor although Mr Letter and herdaughter daughter were In the city and the beautifulhome home In Dupont Circle was open at thetime timeAnother tml Another fact is that Joe Leiter took practically tically no part In the financial conferencewith with Lord Curzon but left that wlh Lrd Crn Ihntmats almost entirely in tho hands of Robert TLincoln Lincoln who Is one of the executors of thoLeiter Letter rotateJoe Joe Loiter today xx hpooh the ideaof of an estrangement and laughed at thestory story Hi admitted however that theWashington Washington Incidents looked funnyWhen When asked if he did not think i was oddthat that he should have looked after routinebuKineft buKineft at a time when his famous relative live won in the city probably for the lasttime time he saidWell Well I hadnt thought of that but Iasuiire assure you it had nothing to do with ourrelations relationsllSSEEtt rlatonlJIS llSSEEtt EXtttXE lUTCHKltCollision Collision on Northern Railroad or NewJersey YcrseyEngliiccr and Fireman HurlNYACK NYACK Dec 2tA collision occurredon on the Northern Railroad of Now Jerseya I quarter of a mite south of the Nyackstation station early this evening being the thirdcollision collision on the Eries lines in Itocklainlcounty county within a weekThe The regular passenger train which leaf Nyack for New York at 817 leftpromptly promptly on time with apparently a cleartrack rmpty tme alJpartnty track ahead and I goodly number of passengers sengers Alonzo Jewell the yardmanhero hero who runs the switch engine in puttingaway away cars for the night was nmning downanother another track ahead of the passenger trainto the switchWhen When he reached the switch whichcrosses crosses the main track on which the passenger senger train was running instead ofHtopping stopping to let the train go by ho ran nnhort short di tnc on the main track Thepassenger passenger engine crashed into the sideof of the switch engine and was thrown oneuide side of the track to the edge of a deep ditchwhere where i stoppedEngineer Engineer Frederick Handy of the passenger senger train reversed hw engine as soonas collision imminent butcould as he saw a clllon was could not avert the crash He was hurledout out of the engine the bottom of the ditchand and was badly hurt but will probably recover cover George Davis the fireman hadone one of his hands crushed Mail AgentMorrison the trainhad Morrison who war on passenger had his nose broken and two passengerswere were slightly hurt The track was blockedfor for several hours and passengers whocame came up from the city were obliged to leavetheir their train at South Nyack and walk amile mile their homesWIVIM7T1V WIVIM7T1V JIEACH SOlltUrine Urine MIIOOOOO Lnder ForeclosureMay May Be Laid Ont In VlllaiThe The property of the Manhattan BeachCompany Company including the big strip of beachextending extending from Brighton Beach to Con yIsland Island Inlet the Manhattan Beach andOriental Oriental Hotels the fireworks enclosurennd and all the other buildings was sold atauction auction yesterday in Brooklyn under foreclosure aucton ytfter closure proceedings instituted hy the TltloGuarantee Guarantee and Trust Company There wasonhy only one bid 1100000 that of George CAustin Austin an attorney of 142 Broadway whowas was acting for the Manhattan Beach Soul ties Company The bid was IWOOtn lensthan than the mortgages on the propertyPresident President Austin Corbin Jr of the company puny said he was Interested In the purchase Jurch chase Ho also said that the propertymight might be continued as a resort or else cutup up Into lots I fit the opinion of real estatemen men that ultimately Manhattan Beach willbe be converted into a section of handsomevillas villas similar In some respects to the SeaGate Gate settlement on the extreme west endof of the islandAfter After all Vibtrl Ue ScotchIbat IIbt Ibat nude the hlcbball tsmousAdflerrfoot Dwfoot Farm ssssIeP3tad 3tad of the tender meat of dairy fed tat youocDarken Darken daintily tennnned with selected spIcesTn Tn AI a twpuDd loMnc Pewa or ImltloD 0 0 0 i i ot CONNECTING IS ASSUREDPEXXA PEXXA I AXD CITY OFFICIALSI I REACH AX AOHEEMEXT tI I I city Compensation Only 10 Ier OutMore More Than First Proposed but the ArtCommission I Commission will Have a Look In onthe the Bridge Job Years Deadlock ICnduThe The deadlock which has existed for morethan than a year between the PennsylvaniaRailroad Railroad Company and the city over theterms terms upon which the franchise for thoNew New York Connecting Railroad should begranted granted has been ended Mayor McClellanVIcePresldent VIcePresldent Samuel Rca of the Pennsylvania vania and representatives of the RapidTransit Transit Commission the CorporationCounsel Counsel and the dock department reachedan an agreement at a long conference heldyesterday yesterdayThe The proposed line has been planned toform form a link between the Pennsylvania andthe the Xew Haven and Hartford railroadsand and ia to be operated lu conjunction withthe I the tunnel which the Pennsylvania Is nowbuilding building between Jersey City and LongIsland Island City i It should bo decided to use thenew new line for passenger traffic but thestated stated purpose is for the present at leastto to use the new line for freight trafficIt 1 IN Intended to carry freight from Jersey soy City across the bay to Bay Ridge wherethe the freight earn will bo carried over thnLong Long Island Railroad tracks to SunnyBidea a suburb of Long Island City From thutpoint point the new line will start By means ofa a viaduct the line wilt taken to a spotopposite opposite Wards Island and will be stretchedacross tho East River by of bridge across Et Rver means a brdgo 150 fret high with supports on Wards Islandand and then extending from the Island to theMott Mott Haven yards of the New HavenThn The Rapid Transit Commission approvedof of the application and wan prepared togrant grant tho franchise but the Aldermen whoattliattirnehada at that time had a ole franchise mattersa a power which the Legislature has since deprived prived them of held up to grant Whenthe the franchise authority of the Aldermenwas was vested In the Board of Estimate thatbody body also refused to agree to grant thefranchin franchin on the terms which had beenaccepted accepted by this Rapid Transit Commission sion The commission consented to givothn the franchise to the company for a totalpayment payment of about 1123000 for the firsttwentyfive twentyfive year term of the franchise I was also agreed that In readjusting he termsat at the end of that period If no agreementcould could be reached the Appellate Divisionshould should be tho arbiter When the fhould 1 Whel application tion reached the Board of Estimate thatbody body exactly doubled the amount of thecompensation compensation I wan insisted that the adjustment justment at the end of twentyfive yearnshould should be fixed by a city commission thucompany company was asked to undertake the expense pense of street openings which might 0 made through the marsh lands In Queensand and many restrictions were Imposed suchas as charging not more than five cents fortin IlK nrrying of passengers between ilinboroughs boroughs the providing of footpaths acrossthn the bridge and the use of electricity formotive motive powerTho The company refused to accept these conditions ditions and for mom than a year the projecthas remained In abeyance Of late however ever there has been a growing demandfrom from people on the other slOe of the EastRiver River that the city should permit the building ing of the road The mere announcementof of the plans of the company hal greatlyadded added to property values in the districtthrough through which the line will assTwo Two weeks ago the Pennsylvania Olpny pany applied to the Board of Estimate forpermission permission to dope several streets in thnSunnysldn Sunny ldo section of Queens to provideterminal terminal facilities for the new tunnel railroad road Mayor McClellan took advantageof of this to bring about 1 reopening of thnnegotlHtlons negotiations F5 Pennsylvania respondedand and the agreement Is the outcomeIn In I statement issued yesterday on tI hal of the Mayor It was asserted that thncity city had got the best end of the deal butas as a matter of fact the company seemsto to have secured the advantage on the mornimportant important points of dispute Part of thisstatement statement readsThe The railroad grant an increase In moneycompensation compensation or to per rent over the termsoffered offered the road by the liapld Transit Commission mission These are the terms which theMayor Mayor took IHMIP with at the time Tlinrailroads I railroads contention In refusing additionalcompensation compensation then 8 that the city wouldI I be lamely compensated by the great IncreaseIn In Hie value of property by this great puhllcImprovement Improvement This argument wan purelyhypothetical hypothetical when Itwasrnade Since then Inmere mere anticipation of the construction of theroad road property values along Its route haveIncreased Increased 33 per cent ample evidence ofthe the soundness of thl railroads argumentWith With this proof before him the Mayor feltjustified Ju tlnP In fixing the money compensationKt Kt an amount to per cent In excess of theterms terms proposed by the Rapid Transit ComnilHftlon nilHftlonThe The happy result of this conference justifiesthe the delay which was necessary to let termsfair fair to thl city Tho plans for the bridgeand and any and all passenger stations whichmay may be erected are to be referred to theI I 1M commission for approval All advertising tising matter on the property of the railroadcompany company Is to be excluded and the companyagrees to th coot of additionalwork agrees pay COlt any additonalfork work made necessary by their constructionin in the regradlntt of streets or the rebuildingof of any portion of thn sewer system affectedin in the boroughs through which the railroadJX1SKP8 JX1SKP8An An important advantage obtained bytho the company that the readjustment ofterms terms at the end of every twentyfive yearn I in to bedetermined by tho AppUte DvllnHhould Ishould should the city authorities and the cmI 1 pany fail agree upon terms The effectof of this will to prevent any forfeitureof of the franchise by the city in case of dispute pute Further in the matter of streetopenings openings the company is not asked to bearthe the whole of the cost as waa demanded bythe the Board of Estimate No attempt wasmade made at the conference to compel the comTILLMAX pny to provide roads on its bridge for tootand I and vehicular traflc ITIUI TILLMAX MIRKKS WITH FOHAKKR IS Sas the President Han No malt to Punish Innocent HoldlpnMARION MARION Ohio Dec 21In an interview jhere I here today Senator Tillman who spoketonight tonight on the race problem upheld wena I tor roroker In his stand against the President dent II the Brownsvlo alalrI I Asked what ho thought of orkerHlatft Ilatest latest speech on the subject Tillman reI Iplind I plindWell Well Foraker and I are of the sameopinion I opinion I dont believe President Rot Ivelt velt can punish an Innocent man whftbprblack Iblack black or white Roosevelt wants to be thenationalOovernment IntonlOovernment national Government He overrode the lw iin in discharging the negro troops but he hasgone Ilone lone outside the Constitution before 1 M1KO SHOOTS HIS OtlICKItThe The Latter apt Marklln niiimsiiilrilCompany aCOlpn Company it nromiuvllleFOHT Posy RRNO Oklu Dec 51 Cupt EdgarA A Macklin was shot and dangerouslywounded Iwounded wounded here tonight by a member of hlncompany company of the Twentyfifth Infantry Itwas compny TWlntylfth Infantr IWMe was a negro soldier who did the shootingCopt I Capt Macklin and his wife and child werepreparing Iprparng preparing to seat themselves for their evening ing meal when some ole rapped on the sidedoor door of the residenceWho Who is there Inquired MacklinComo Como to the back door and you willsee was the responseMacklin Macklin went the back door and uponopening opening it with revolverin olln a covered I in the hand of a negro wearing a maskThe The negro commanded him throw uphin his hands and give up UK money CaptMacklin Macklin did an ordered and no sooner werohis his hands raised than three shots were firedin 11 rapid successionThe The Captain is dangerously if not fatallywounded wounded Two shots took effect In hisleft left jaw and one in tho abdomenCapt Capt Edgar A Macklin is commander ofC Company of the Twentyfifth Infantryone one of the companies of negro soldiersrecently recently discharged without honor by theorder order of the President Capt Macklinenlisted enlisted in the ranks and received a cornmifwlon missIon in 1804 Ho saw service in thePhilippines Philippines and was one of the officers whoserved served under Gen Jacob Smith in the Unitcampaign campaign against the natives in SamarMacklin Macklin wan tho officer of the day at For Brown the night of the Brownsville Texriot riot which caused the discharge of the threenegro negro companies Of the officers of thebattalion battalion Capt Macklin and Major Penninewere were ordered tried by courtmartialCapt Capt Macklin is the son of a retired BrigadierGeneral dierGeneral His wife is a daughter ofBithop Bishop ALwell of Kansas City MoN 1 CEXTRll TMfV IHHIAIIKitnrhliir rhine lIeu nap and Right Cars anilLocomotive Locomotive ieae ItallfBOSTON BOSTON Dec 21Tho oclock train fromNew New York for Boston over the Boston nndAlbany Albany division of the New York CentralRailroad Railroad wan derailed near tho AlUtonstation station at 1020 tonightWith With tho exception of pne locomotivethe the entire train left the rails but no one waskilled killed Some passengers were severelyshaken shaken cut by flying glass and bruisedbut but not seriously enough to necessitate theimmediate immediate attention of physiciansOne One of the bmkemcn had his arm brokenThe The train which consisted of eight can drawn by two locomotives was late reaching ing AI ton and was going at high spendThe The driving rod on the oecond locomotivea a big mogul snapped and thn whirling endderailed derailed the train with the exception of theforward forward locomotiveNone None of the cars was overturned butbumping bumping over the tins imnshertthff wlndownand and threw some of the passenger to thefloor floorThe The train ran ceverul hundred yardsbefore before It raine to a stop Then the frightened ened iwuvengern left the cars All were ableto to get out unassisted One baggage carwas was thrown thirty feet from Its trucksblocking blocking the nicks for some timeHICKS HICKS STILL IX HIS ItEKI HIIIRlculr Rescuers Morklng Near Him Iuountfr jDangerous Dangerous Loose KarlliRAKFRHriKin I RAKFRHriKin Cat Dec 21It in nowtwo two weeks since the oavein at the EdisonElectric Electric Companys tunnel in which sixminers I miners were buried alive and it is morethan than ten days since the discovery thatL Hicks one of the miners who wanswallowed I swallowed up in the avalanche of earthstoned stoned and timber was aliveDespite Despite the hopes that Hicks itould lwfreed freed from time to time obstacles havefust fust as often appeared to baffle the workersl Lots this afternoon when the gangs ofrescuern rescuers were changed it was the belief ofall all that Hicks would lie released tonightThn Them rescuers am still under the tramcarthat that covers Hicks and in the most dangerousspot I1t spot they have yet foundAll All night the men have been pushed ackby by falling earth and every move madeforward forward seemed endanger Hicks a wellas as themselvesHicks Hicks gave useful directions and toldhip ihis his companions that dirt was falling onIllsface Ihilal Illsface whenever they took away ubtance from beneath the rails Little if any progress ress was made during the last twentyfour four hours on account of this unstablecondition condition 1 close to the entombed mAl IHick Hick received pourishment through thetube tube usual He Is bearing up bravelyand and although he has not closed his eyesthe the last fortyeight hours ho is apparentlyin in good physical conditionIlLAMK IlLAMK FOIH1ERIES a A OMAXIff Wife of Ha nesburK flank omclal Slay BeArretletlMIrl ArretletlMIrl Clerks IHsnilisedPITTHBURO PITTHBURO Dec 2iIt In now allegedmd that mOlt nt the ford notes of the Farerand and Drovers National Bank of Waynesurg burg were executed by a woman the wifef of one of the officials of the bank and thatshe she will be arrewdIt It was also announced today that theneven seven young women clerks who were inthe the bank under Cashier Rlnehartare are under suspicion and that they mY be Implicated In the failure These youngwomen women were all dismissed by Bank Examiner aminer Cunningham when ho took chargeof of th banks affairsToday Today Thompson of Uniontowntook Itk took 200 acres of coal land off the hands ofRlnehart I Rlnehart for 120000 The money was immediately imediatly mediately applied to the two 10000 notesheld held by the Oreensbtirjt Trust Companywhereupon I whereupon the latter withdrew time chargeof of forgery against RlnehartThin I Thin afternoon a Baltimore trust company pany in which Rinehart had cmI stock wired him offering tOOOfK cash forhis his holdings Rlnehnrt immediately ae IIpted cepted the ofer i In an Interview here today Rinehart dt jclares dares that politics was responsible forthe Ithe the failure of time hak He declare he Isinnocent innocent of any wrongdoing but admit I that he might have been negligent Helank insists however that the affairs of thebank bank will be straightened out and that noerson person will lose a pennyIatest italent talent hy Marconi HlrelemS Philadelphia for New York was reported by Irtrtlewi wireless 130 mIles east of Nanturket lrht Mp at7o I 40 1 yesterday jriMEIIUIMTCAHDEMFLOIllDA riMEIIUIMTCAHDEMFLOIllDASeaboard Seaboard Air Lln ahorteat quickest pletunt at route omc un Arimadway Yaw orlll KEEP IN KILBURNS PLACEHES II HES IICKS A NEIl STATEI4VK I I4VK SI PEHIXTEXnEXTnil nil Appoint Charles I Iteep Now sumAssistant Assistant Merrrtoo Dr the TreisRrylUnnt lUnnt let Decldeil the Manlo lo Take Franchaf PIle Governorelect Hughes announced lastnight night that it was his Intention to appointCharles Charles Keep of Buffalo nowan AssistantSecretary Secretary of tie Treasury to the office ofState State Superintendent of Banks succeedF Kllbum of Malone who will resignat at the end of the yearJust Just after the election Mr Kilburn sentword word to Mr Hughes that he would giveup up his place before the beginning of thocaw caw year in order to leave the Governorelect elect free to appoint a new head of thodepartment department Mr Keeps nomination willhave have to be confirmed by the State SenateIn I making know night the selectionof of Mr Keep the Governorelect said1It I hat been most gratifying to me to securethe the services of Mr Keep for the Importantposition position of Superintendent of Jianka Herepresents represents the bent type of public official andU a man of tbe highest character and of rareadministrative administrative efficiency He a resident ofBuffalo Buffalo an expert In financial matters andhis his departmental work In Washington I amInformed Informed has been of the greatest value MrKeephas Keep has agreed to accept the position at myearnest earnest solicitationMr Mr Keep was born in Look port S1 in 1881 Ho graduated from Harvard In1b2 1882 and from Harvard Law School In1885He He practised law in Buffalo from that yearuntil until 1003 when he was appointed an Assistant ant Secretary in the United States TreasuryDepartment Department The salary of this office i 14600 An State Superintendent of Bankshe he will receive 17000 yearGovernorelect Governorelect Hughes told his friendsthat that he had not yet selected the man forState State Superintendent of Public Works tosucceed succeed Nicholas Krnnchot Onlythree three names have been under consideration tion for this place Henry A Van AlstyneWinslow Winslow lead and McDougall HawketiMr Mr Van Alstyne Is time candidate of thnOdellPayn OdellPayn wing of the party Mr Meadis is time candidate of George Aldrldgonnd und his friends and Mr Hawkes has had acertain certain support from President Parsons ofthe the Republican county committeeThn The Btatemont woo made last night thatr Mr Hughes who is to leave for Albanyon on Thursday will not seriously considertho the appointment of the successor to MrFranchot Franchot until he arrives there and eventhen then ho inhy not make a selection for sometime time but that th department could lierun run by Mr Mead the Deputy Superintendent tendent until I permanent selection ismade made The point was made that FrederickSkene Skene the new Democratic State Engineer neer and Surveyor is to some extent inexperienced experienced ami that it quite necessarythat that the State Superintendent of PublicWorks Works should be a man familiar with thedoings doings on the canalsHXK HXK CLERKS eEl ItISTIAStlrst Hnl National Will Slake Salary InrremeaR I as aruThe The First National Bank yesterday announced i nounced change from the custom prevalent lent among most of the Wall Street banksof of distributing year end gratuities amongmnployens employees The Christmas bonus amounting ill to from 5 to 10 per cent of salarieswill will lie distributed this year as usual but onJanuary January 1 there will go Into effect a newsalary MOl scale affecting most of the employeesammO and similar salary Increases will in succeeding ing years take the place of Christmas giftsThe The advances in salary for time year to cotnowill I will range from 2 to 23 per centThe The management of the bank considersthat Ithat that employee will more benefited byincreases increases in than bonuses in tlump InclHt salary IUn by InUSl3 I lump sum at the end of the year Thesalary salary increases will be rated accordingto I to length of service The largest beneficiaries dariex during the coming year will lm WilliamJ Novius and Bishop both of whomhave I have been appointed assistant cashiersThn Thn former is head of the loan departmentand and the latter in charge of the transferdivision division Both have been in the employof of the bank more than thirty yearsChristmas Christmas gratuities were distributed bymany many of the Wall Street banks and privatebanking banking houses yesterday Generally theseamounted amounted to i per cent of a clerks salarywhere where senicn covered less than ten yearsand and to 10 per cent for those whose tenurewaslongr was longer In some cases bonuses amountIngJo IngJo 5 per cent of the annual salary weregiven given In others they were regulated on nprofit profit sharing basis as well as by tur 1of of employmentSHOT SHOT ATJIItCiE IX COLttT HOlSEDissatisfied Dissatisfied Litigant Fire at Clone Dn5eutkl iQuickly Quickly IndictedCHICAGO ICmcAoo CHICAGO Deo 2tAn attempt to murderProbate Probate Judge Charles Cutting was madeIn In a corridor of the Criminal Court buildingtoday today The bullet barely niissed its mark andthe the wouldbe murderer was truck In theface face by the jurist immediately after It wanFrederick fired Frederick Elerbrock was the man whotried tried to kill udgn Cutting A tttniggle todisarm disarm Klerbroek followed the shootingin in which Judge Cutting took partThe The shooting took place about 8J3 A 1 when Judge Cutting was entering the building lug Thu asxallant after he had ben putin in a cell declared that he shot at the Judge I HO that a case in which he had figured as alitigant litigant might get the attention of the publicElerbrock Elerbrock denied that he contemplated assassination sassination and Insisted his only motivewan wan personal notorietyWithin Within two hours after the shot was firedthe the matter had been brought to the attention lion mttr States Attorney Healey takenbefore ton before the Grand Jury and an indictmentreturned returned against Elerbrock charging alault kill sault with a deadly weapon with intent tokill The attempt at murder was made infront front of the elevator on the ground floorwhen when the corridor was crowded It1 camn so suddenly however that no onebut hut Judge Cutting and a few directly athis his side realized what hud happened tillthe the pistol shot directed attention to Llerbroric brockInstantly Instantly Judge Cutting who was onlyfour 1 four feet awny when the shot was llreriturned turned and struck his assailant a blowin turne face almost knocking him downDeputy Deputy Sheriff John Broderick and AWilson Wilson HtniCRled with the man to get possession session of the revolverBack Back and forth over the stone floor JudgeCutting Cutting and the Deputy Sheriff struggledwith with the man Finally the revolver wastaken taken from him and he fell almost exhausted hausted to the floornarn narn tt Vanilla I Par FoodAlwajra Alwajra CI Burnetts take no lubitltutc Mi i XEir nlxnoHs ix HOP EVESVienna Vienna Murgron Best ores Mint by Transplantation I plantation Unman Corneaxpecloi xpecloi able Deipalclt la Taa SUMVIKNKA VIKNKA Dee 2At a meeting of theMedical Medical Society today Dr Zirm showeda a man on whom he had successfully performed formed transplantation of thin corneaThe The patient had loot the sight of both eyesBy By chance the surgeon had to take outthe the eye of an elevenyearold boy Theeye eye was ruined by I steel splinter in theInterior Interior but the cornea was intact Theoperator operator therefore cut slits in the opaquecornea cornea of the mans eyes and insertedpieces pieces from the boys eyeThe The experiment failed us to the righteye eye arf the transplanted window also thickened ened but in the left eye it retained itstransparency transparency and almost normal visionwas was restored A very close examinationrevealed revealed a slight veil over the left eyewhich which however does not prevent thepatientfrom from reading mal print From belugstone stone blind he is now able to go about hiswork workThe The surgeon attributed numl erlesflprevious previous failures to the fact that the cornraof of animals had heretofore been employedwhereas whereas In this case human material wanprovided providedTELEPHOXIXd TELEPHOXIXd FROM A THA IXConversation Conversation Carried On Irom lltinnlncCar Car an Clearly as In CityLouisVIUK LouisVIUK Ky Dec 21A most sueoeegful oeegful demonstration of telephoning froma a moving train was given Ihil morning ontho the railroad between Worthville and Carrollton th ralrd btln Worlhvie tarrHtn rollton by Dr A Jones of tautavillnthe th inventor of the appliance A newspaper paper reporter who Is with the demonstrating strating party called his office shortly before fore noon and carried on a conversationwhile while tbe train was running at thp rat oftwenty twenty miles an hour The connection was perfect and the service was as BOOI asthe the regular city pervioeEach Each member of tho party conversedwith with various points in the State and outside side One of tlw newspaper men calledup up a New York paper and carried UII ionventation ventation as satisfactorily ns though lomtedin in an adjoining roomRELIEF RELIEF FOR HROOKLYXUorernorKleet UorernorKleet Hushes Interested In HieTransportation Transportation ProblemThe The Allied Boards of Trade and Taxpayers payers Association of Brooklyn sent ucommunication communication recently to GovernorelectHughes Hughes in reference to the pressing necessity ally of transit reform Mr Hughes in hisresponse responds tidI I should he very glad if home nieutio iuklbe be found either throuiclt conference of organization ganization or lu oilier Hiiltahle manner ofexpressing expressing the sentiment of the citizens ofBrooklyn Brooklyn with regard to the bet menus forobtaining obtaining relief from the present Intolerablesituation situation Meanwhile I HIII giving tmulithought thought to the mutter and nm desirous to seeyour your transportation prolilem solved In a satisfactory factory manner and with the leant piwwibledelay delayIAS IAS OIIPI1 niXS 0 APPEALAppellate Appellate ll 1on IphohU Loner CourtIn II Refusing an InjunctionThn The Appellate Division affirmed yesterday day without opinion the decision of SupremeCourt Court Justice Bischoff in refusing grantto to Harry Dinkelspicl of 219 East 113thstreet street a ixremptory mandamus directingthe the Consolidated Gas Company to supplyhim him with gas at 80 cents per thousand feetJustice Justice BischofT based his refusal on thnground ground that there was an issue of fact ralrtedbetween between the parties concerning the production duction cost of gas and that where wichan issue in raised mandamuswill an ue ralll a peremptory mandamulwi will not be granted on mere affidavits butonly only where necessary after a trial A large number of similar applicationswere were dependent on the Dinkelspiel cawand and time action of the Appellate Division inaffirming affirming this decision without opinion isconsidered considered a victory by counsel for thegas gas companyroirVBs roirVBs TmniTE TO 11 HIESllellrlnc llellrlnc Judge Says That a I ull TbeyAre Are lloneslJudge Judge Rufus I Cowing who will retirefrom from General Sessions at the end of theyear year paid 1 tribute to juries yesterdayThe The December panel of jurors presentedto him a silver loving cup and he made aspeech speech in which he saidAfter After having been a Judge for twentyeight eight years I am convinced of one thingand and that Is that jurors as a rule are fairand and impartial and as a rule do their dutyOno Ono of Judge Cowlngs last official actswas was to suspend sentence on Lawyer Frederick erick Nugent who wan convicted oflarceny larceny last week It was explained toJudge Judge Cowing that Nugent had maderestitution restitution and his family needed hisassistance assistanceJudge Judge Cowing will practice law with hisson son Rufus Cowing Jr at 49 Wall streetCOXORESSMEX COXORESSMEX GO TO PAXAMANenalor I Senators and Representatives In Investigate gate Need of Chinese LaborUnited United States Senator Flint of CaliforniaRepresentativert Representatives MoKlnlay and Knowlandiof of the same State Representatives ulker son of Missouri Dlckerson Elves McMinney ney and Smith of Illinois Howell of UtahAincard Aincard of Nebraska and Steenerson ofMinnesota Minnesota sailed yesterday for Colon aboardthe the Panama steamship Alllanca to look intothe the problem of digging the Panama Canalby by Chinese laborThey They will spend five days on the IsthmusIncidentally Incidentally they will make an effort toflnd find out whether they believe the canalshould should built by contract or by the Coyernrnent ieminent eminentEXPRESS EXPRESS CO RORItED 01 930000Well Well Fargo Treasure lox From TonopahMysteriously Mysteriously Stolen at RenoRENO RENO Nay Dee 21Ite last night theWells Wells Forgo treasure box containing 30000 in gold was stolen from the companys panys officeThe The gold came from Tonnptih in custodyof of Express Messenger Edward CroftonThere There is much mystery surrounding therobbery robbery and Crofton refuses to discuss thematter matter No action has been taken thecompany company other than placing detectiveson on the case Crofton Is not suspected ashe he ha been in the service of the companymany many years and has always been straightand and steadyThere There Is no clue the robbersFLORIDA FLORIDA INFORMATION BUREAUBroadway Broadway cor KHh St 3 crt trains MonthAUaatlo AUaatlo Coast Lies Railroad Atr ROOSEVELT HAD HER BURIED Xn ACCEPTED THE CATS 1M15GKOYEK GKOYEK DEQVEAT1IED HIMDirer I Direr Hunt for Relatives or Knlcldo WhoMule Mule lbs Sole Legatee and I JSFound I Found Left Some Moner Seat PDt lo Teddy Jr and Wrote Many LetterWhen When Mrs Lulu Grover a widowcommitted Icmited committed suicide about two weeks agoIn In her apartment at 2089 Lexington avenueafter after she had willed all of her propertyto to President Roosevelt It was thoughtthat that her estate would barely pay the expt4flseM Ml of her funeral Within the lastfow fow days however Secret Service scantcooperating cooperating with tho Public Administratorunder under directions from Washington hnwfound found hidden In th apartment about 11000wotlm worth of jewelry and a pans book showingbetween between 1000 und 0 standing IA MrsDrovers Drovers credit in a saving bunk It ispossible possible that other property may uncovered coveredThe The President has taken steps to have thewill will probated and the womans rotativelocated located The only part of the bequestwhich which he will accept are two Angora oatswhich which were mentioned specifically in thewomans womans testament They have alreadybeen been sent to tho White House The President dent if the relatives are found will peethat that they the property if not willglvn give it to some charitable institutionMr Mr Roosevelt ksueJ instructions evertbefore before it was discovered that the womanhad had left any property that she should harta a decent burial She was cremated alI aLong I Long Island institution in accordance ellaher her written wish and her ashes were laidaway away a day or two ago in Woodlawn CcmVtery tery onl or two friends the undertakerand and a Secret Service agent befog the onlymourners I mourners ot the funeralHome I Home of the development since thewornanended woman cndfd her life by drinking chloroform form became public yesterday and UnitedStates i States District Attorney Henry Stlmsomwho who has been representing the PresidentIn I tho matter willingly gave the detailMrs Grover i will be recalled left In herapartment apartment this letter addned thnCoroner Coroner or the first police officer whoshould should find her by 1 beg of Ton to telephone in Pre id ntItoosevelt Itoosevelt He will have mr body crtnutedI I I have written to him lutvn made mar willand I and all I have Is his He will have everytlilnKatl I tlilnKatl MidwltoJu 81 Uvrl It to be and allwill will be right He knows where to find eTerythlnif thlnifPlittKe PlittKe find eiieloMl mid I hit AHd1111k thanks for your Uiiiilne Pleie do nt letnil nil poor Ultleii be frlithteueil orlreidemmt amwerlPresident President Hooievelt will take them an soonbe be receives mr letter I mailed loiilcht lo himPlease Please let them slay hen until then Mylieurt heart is broken 1 take my own life in thefninlllur fninlllur way I Know by drinking chloroformSo So one Is to Maine hut myself I rmmt rmiplrit I spirit und future life to I merciful Rld tovlnl Uadnho knovmind Jmlues our serrovThn I The pollen turned tho property over tot the Public Administrator after they hadsearched I searched the rooms and found practicallyno no valuables except the furnitureThe I The letter referred to in the nota to thepolico polico wan received at the White HOUMthe the day after the account of the sulddnappeared appeared in the newspaper Thin letterInformed Informed the President that he might rindthe the will and a bank book sewed hi the liningof of the cat basket and the jewels Inhiding ahiding hiding place under tho hearthThe The President forwarded the letter without out delay to Mr Stimson with orders thathe he should cooperate with the Secret Bremen men and turn the will and all the propertyover over to tho Public Administrator Thundertaker undertaker wrote the President but this time wanting know where be should 7look look for bin pay and it won In response teetimis ithis this letter that Mr Roosevelt Instructedtary Stimson through Seerstary District Attorney Stmlnthru8b tary Loch that the woman should cot beburied buried in I paupers graveAsearchloftheapartmentqulcklybrough puperl A search of the apartment quickly broughtto light the things referred In the lettefA4which which Mrs Grover had written to the Prealfj dent The cat basket was a neat wickeraffair affair lined outside and in with ell this basket slept Mrs Gravers two PefejiAngoras JlAngor Angoras Magistrate Joseph Pool wdfjQueen Queen Fairy Snowdrop The bank booUyund und the will were under the wide UD The biding place under the hearth wharthe the jewels were secreted In a leather handbag Sbag bag consisted of a niche In the c1dmneywhich iwhich Jwhich which was reached by running ones armup up into the smoke vent of th fireplaceThe The jewelry consisted chiefly ft emaildiamond diamond plfCA Jhe The Public Administrate ba4o dun iculy culty in taking core of these and othw finanimate inanimate things found In the apartmentbtit but when it came the cata bo vaa puzslodTho Tho will provided explicitly that they hod fbe taken by the President Tha people lathe the house had been cia for them a the woman died and they wr bejirmlntto to complainThe The public admlnistratorj VlUiant MHoei Hoes held a conference with United StatesDistrict District Attorney Stimaoni and the Presidents dents representative in turn got into communication munication with Secretary Loeb Wordcame came back from Washington to Bed thcats cats on and Joseph Pool and Fairy QueenSnowdrop Snowdrop left this city in the care of avetorlnary vetorlnaryTho The will having frt disposed of the catsjmade made tho President the sole legatee of thesittato Iptto entato and also the sole executor I tamed one sentence to the effect that whatshe she bequeathed could not in any measureexpress express her gratitude for the klndnewieswhich which he had done herMr Mr Stimson said yesterday that tbXPresident President had no idea of what the womanwas was referring in this sentence of the iriUHe He did not know who she waa and neverto to his knowledge had met herThe The Presidents secretary when theletter letter announcing tho existence of thswill will in Mr Roosevelts favor was receivedrecognized krecnized recognized the handwriting of the womanas as the same as that on several other letterswhich which the President and members of hisfamily family had received in ths course of the lastRooMveit eight or ten tel yearsWhen When Mr RooMveit a Governor hisson son Theodore Jr received three or fourpresents presents from Mrs Drover One of theprevent prevent was a watch another a cmp vand and a third a At that time the senderof jof of the gifts signed the letter in auoh a way that it was impodslbl to tell whether a manor or a woman was the writer Theodore anewered 1awered awered the letters addressing the sender Ias as Dear Sir or Dear Madam Finally MrRoosevelt PRoosevelt Roosevelt wrote a letter requesting tImS Heend eend kindly to dieoontinue tho practice alSinosthiun Sinosthiun he had4bard cnlyonoy 1tc4 tc4.

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