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THE TILDEN TRUST BILL. HEIRS AT LAW CARRY THEIR CONTEST INTO THE ASSEMBLE. Aner Warm Debate the BIll Incorpo. rating the Te Trust Fund is Passed, with Amendment in Favor of the Contestants. ALBANY, Feb.

plan of the Tilden heirs-at-law and men in their employ to defeat the Tilden Trust by making invalid the articles of incorporation was partly carried out in the Assembly this morning. On one side of the Assembly sat ex-Assemblyman James Oliver of Paradise Park and the contesting heir. On the other side of this chamber were John Bigelow and Georgo Smith, two of the three executors. As the fight over the bill went on Mr. Oliver fitted around the chamber.

Mr. Bigelow sat in his chair, and with an amazed look watched the power of the lobby to obstruct impair even so flawless a measure as the Incorporation of the Tildon Trust. When the bill incorporating the Tildon Trust was read, Mr. Ainsworth moved that the following be added: Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights or interesta or impair the rights and remedies of any parties to any action now pending. or which may be hereafter brought by any heir at law or next of kin of Samuel J.

Tilden, or any party who wold have any interest or right in the estate mentioned in said will if this act had not been passed, or to test the validity of trust or trusts created, or attempted to be created, any, or under said will in the same manner and to the samo extent as if this act had not been passed. Nor shall any action be taken by or on behalf of said corporation, or of the executors or trustees under said will, coward appropriating or using the funds of said estate In a building or library, or for any other purpose than merely investing said funds for safe keeping. until the anal judicial determination of the rights of tho heirs at and next of kin. Chairman Baker of the Judiciary Committee opposed the amendment. He said: The trustees of the Tilden Trust are not beneficiaries, only trustees for the benefit of the people of New York.

The incorporation of this trust will in no wise interfere with the legal rights of the heirs. The ture has not the power to interfere with these and similar rights, and the courts have so The this Inge; nuity of the lawyers employed to attack should find no reason to interfere with an honest, unprejudiced, and faithful legislator. The interest of the heirs cannot be hurt by an incorporation. It took the tireless energy of a tireless lobby to cause some one to suggest this ainendment on the floor of this House. They now onme here to pettifog over this bill.

Consider that Gov. Tilden is entitled to some consideration at our hands. We should not sit here and allow paid attorneys of outside parties to dictate on this floor amendments that others could not ask. We waited in committee week after week to give the heirs a hearing. No reason has yet been offered why this benefaction should not be passed, and carried out to the interest of the people of this State and the city of New York.

Do not doctor this bill to death and chest the people of New York out of this benefaction. Do not encourage the temporary barnacles who try to break want this to trust fatten to reunburse the Shy locks and lawyers that on the Tilden estate. The charge of misconduct against the lobby drew the attention of the Assembly to Mr. Ainsworth, who replied: I do not stand here as the paid agent of any lobby on this floor. want to say now and forever that if I make an amendment on this floor it comes from the bottom of a heart as pure as Steuben county ever sent to this Assembly.

I hope that ultimately the courts shall hold that this bequest shall come to the State of New York, but this amendment is necessary to secure the rights of the heirs. Judge Greene of Orange county offered An addition to the amendment: "Provided such action or actions shall be brought within two years from the paseage of such The addition was accepted by Mr. Ainsworth. Mr. Cantor opposed any amendment.

The grant had been made for the benefit of the city of New York, and it should be accepted without limitations or restrictions. The magnificent bequest should go where its great devisor wanted it to go. Mr. Ives said that the development of the bill had been peculiar. The executors had failed to appear before the Judiciary Committee to explain properly this bill, and there were arguments made by advocates of the bill on the door which should have been made in committee.

Mr. Baker answered that the bill was considered at a meeting when Mr. Ives not present. Mr. Ives moved to refer the bill Ito the Judiciary Committee for further hearing.

Mr. Kruse opposed the amendment, and Col. Hamilton said that a postponement of the aclibrary to city. Whatever vested rights might, defeat the trust and lose the there are, said he, "an action cannot affect. do away with any chance of failure.

We should accept without any Mr. Baker moved to strike out the OliverArnold-McCann amendment, tacked on in the Committee of the Whole: Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights of any Low parties of said Samuel action J. Tilden. or to any now pending, of any heirs at It is thought by some lawyers that this amendment would invalidate the trust, since it accepts conditionally an unqualifled bequest. Zerubbabel Erwin said that one of the heirs had come to see him, and objected to the bill because its terms did not coincide with the will.

He was in favor of retaining the amendment to guard the rights of the heirs. The previous question closed discussion, and Mr. Ainsworth's amendment was defeated on a viva voce vote. Mr. Baker's motion was (defeated-43 to 55.

and The incorporation act was then passed, rider all. Mr. Bigelow asked what effect the amendment would have. He answered that nobody except the Court of Appeals could tell. The amendment will cause interminable litigation unless stricken out in the Senate, because the heirs can now claim that the State has refused to accept the trust without qualification.

The Senate passed the bill limiting the price of gas in Brooklyn to $1.60 a thousand feet. The bill as originally offered by Senator Griswold provided for $1.50 rate, but the Senate committee added ten cents. There is A bill in the Assembly to reduce the price to $1.25. In the debate over the bill Senator Worth accused Senator Griswold of hypocrisy. This bill will kill every Brooklyn company but one," said he.

"I am willing to go down lower and vote for a $1.25 rate or a $1 rate. I do not want to be excluded from this atmosphere of Senator Griswold explained that bill was a fair one and allowed a higher rate than in New York, and that the accusations of his brother Senator were unfounded. That is a question of veracity," said Senator Worth. The bill got 27 votes out of the 32. Senator Traphagen offered two more bills to Its allow charter, the cable and road build to reorganize itself, fix up a road.

With the bills introduced are by Mr. MoIntyre in the Assembly there now almost a dozen bills to rehubilitate the cable road after its encounter with the courte. Senator Traphagen also introduced a bill to improve Spuyten Duyvel Creek at the expense of the city of Now York, and to take the assessmonts on the property owners benefited. The annexed district is working hard to make the rest of the city pay for everything it wants. The Speaker announced that Bacon, Arnold, Cole, Greene, and Cutler would be the committee to investigate Brooklyn.

There are ten Brooklyn Democratic Assemblymen, and not one was appointed on the investigating committee. There are twenty York Demooratio Assemblymen, and the Speaker had to 70 to Orange and Schenectady counties to fill the Democratic places, while Otsego and Schuyler counties are to aid in the investigation. This is one of the most mosaic committees the Speaker has yet appointed. and Fitch Assemblymen and Burns, Kimball, Emery, Ives, Senators Smith. Walker, and Parker were appointed to arrange for the Arthur momorial service.

The Young Man Primary Election bill came up again. and, after a fight, went over until the amendments were printed. It is being mutilated. to the great grief of its father. Chairman Arnold of the Constitutional Conto vention be reported Committeo favorably offered a bill that is likely by the committee.

It district provides und for one delegate from each Assembly thirty- -two delegates at large, no man to vote for more than sixteen. The election le the to be Convention held on is the last meet Tuesday in April, and to in Albany early In June. There will probably be two reports from the Coal Strike Committee, Chairman Hogeboom, and and Kimball Martin sticking and Collins for the coal companies, siding with the workmen. One of the big New York hotel managers has written to the Assembly, asking that a bill to prohibit adulterating liquor be added to the High License bill. Fatally Hurt on a Toboggan Slide.

RUTLAND, Feb. terrible accident accurred on a toboggan slide here yesterday evening. James C. Barrett, a leading member of the Rutland bar, was fatally injured. A board that lined the slide on one side had become split, and loosened, and the narrow end projected into the slide, pointing Not kuowing a Barrett, his wife, and Charles P.

Harris mounted toboxgan and descended the chute. Mrs. Barrett Harris, was in who front and passed splinter unharmed. with custaining a was long in and the deep centre, gush on came the in outside contact of on one the thigh. Inside It and then entered one of Mr.

Barrett's thighs having penetrated came out from his back above the hip. tines. fo threw him the from abdomen the toboggan and und ruptured he was the taken interup now impaled. The man was taken to his home, where he under the induence of anasthetics, with no prospact of recovery. Mrs.

Harris in seriously but not dangerously injured. Nothing Like It. There is no other such compendium of news, or mirror containporary bistory THE WEEKLY BUM, $1 a year. 8. FOSTER DEWEF DEAD.

He Had Only a Few Hours' Warning, but Made his Will and Sold All his Stocks. S. Foster Dewey, who was the private 800- rotary William M. Tweed, died pneumonia, this residence, 222 Fifth avenue, yesterday, had suffered from lung trouble and been in delicate health for two years past. Last year he went to the Hot Springs, Arkan808, and they soemed to do him more harm than good.

He was able to be about, however, and was frequently seen walking on Broadway and Fifth avenue. He was a Blender man, with beard and moustache, and bore 8 resomblance to James R. Keene. He WAS down town on Saturday, and said he felt very poorly. He kept his bed on Sunday, and rapidly grow worse.

At o'clock yesterday morning the doctor told him that he could not live through the day. Mr. Dewey expressed no emotion, but called in a lawyer and made his will. He then sent an order to his brokers, Work, Strong to sell 12,000 shares of stock, Reading, Union Pacifle, New York, and New England, and Richmond Terminal, which they were carrying for his, account. His brother, William C.

Dewey, and family were with him. He bade them good-by, closed his eyes, and, fully consclous, waited patiently until 12:25 o'clock, when he died. He was born at Deweyville, near Turin, Lowis county, New York, in 1840. He came to New York at 16 and became a clerk of George B. Ferris produce dealers.

Later he went into the produce business for himself, and also traded in oil, accumulating considerable property. His, cleverness and pleasant manners attracted the attention of Boss Tweed, and it ended in his becoming Tweed's private secretury. He was with Mr. Tweed for several years, and later stuck to him through all adversity. Of Into years Mr.

Dewey had lived very quiet ly. He operated in stocks and was moderately successful. His chief amusement was in fast horses, of which his trotter Richard was the best known. Ho also had a very fast team, Boston and William H. He knew all the men who frequented the road, and was out on every fine was an intimate friend of William H.

Vanderbilt, and the death of Mr. Vanderbilt affected him very much. He at once sold all his horses. Of late be had taken up horse-back riding. The body will be taken to Turin to-day and will be buried from there probably on Thursday.

There will be no services here. Mr. Dewey had five brothers, one of whom is Mr. Charles D. Dewey, President of the Johnston Harvester Company, Batavia, N.

Y. THEOLOGIAN AND BRICKLAYER. They Make a Night of It on the River Front, and the Divinity is Drowned, A drunken man staggered along the East River front at Ninety-sixth street, just before daybreak yesterday, shouting for help. He was splashed with mud. Policeman Blagney questioned him.

His replies were at first incoherent, but he sobered up sufficiently to tell the policeman that a man was drowning at the foot of the street. The policeman ran down to the river, and saw a Iman's body lodged on a rock not far from the shore. He got it to land, but it was lifeless. Blagney took the drunken man to the police station. He said there that he was Henry Dunbar, a bricklayer, of 163 East 104th street.

He said he had met the drowned man at Ninetysixth street during the night. The latter was drunk and so was he, and they made friends and spent the night visiting saloons on the river front. In wandering along the piers early in the morning the stranger fell into the river. Dunbar was too drunk to swim, even if he had know how, but he pulled a board from a fence and threw it to the drowning man. The latter made no attempt to reach it.

and soon his lifeless body stranded on the rock. It was found that a board had been broken from the fence. On the drowned man's cuffs was marked the name Walter J. Murray. He had on a now black diagonal snit.

In it was a card inscribed Mrs. Bailey. 341 West Thirtyfifth street." and a proscription for dyspepsia signed by Dr. W. D.

White Plains. No monoy or valuables were found. The body was taken to the Morgue, and Coroner Levy was notifled. Last night Thomas W. Mead of 171 Madison He avenue said the recognized was the body Walter at J.

the Murray Morgue: man that he lived in White Plains. In 1886 he entered the theological seminary connected with Mt. St. Mary's Catholic College at Emmettburg. Maryland.

He had charge of the office there while not engaged in his studies. Mead graduated shortly after Murray came, and therefore did not know much about him. Murray had the reputation of being very steady at college. There were no marks of violence on Murray's body, and the police are inclined to credit Dunbar's story. He is still detained.

MESSENGER BOYS INDIGNANT. Manager Sanford Asks their Parents Keep them Out of Bad Company, The 1,500 messenger boys employed by the American District Telegraph Company are indignant. To each of their homes the postman carried a circular yesterday addressed Dear Parents and Guardians," and signed by W. F. Sanford, manager of the messenger department.

The circular says: "We send you notice that we are well informed from reliable sources that your son is in danger of falling into the hands of agents who are trying to bind together the honest working boys of this city, and lead them to com init acts against the laws of peace, good order, and honest industry. We also beg to ask you to be on the watch, and advise him to keep out of bad company and continue in the esteem of his employer as a good, law. abiding servant of the company." The circular is aimed at a Knight of Labor association that the boys have been endeavoring to organize in the various district offices for some time past. "The advice to keep out of bad company is a shameful piece of hypocrisy on Manager Santord's part." one of the young leaders in the new movement said. The idea of his advising us to keep out of bad company, when he knows that we are forced to answer calla from dives and other disreputable places under penalty of losing our situation if we refuse.

Manager Sanford thinks he can break down any organization with this circular. But he can't. will frighten off a few timid boys, of course, but it will have no effect whatever upon the More than half of the 1,500 are in the new organization. We are going to have a separate Knight of Labor Assembly of our own. It will be a peaceful, law -abiding association.

We have organized ourselves because we can't get our grievances righted any other way. We have petitioned without avail. We want to have ten hours' work a day, and pay at the uniform rate of 2 cents a message. At present no messenger in an oftice above the main one at 195 Broadway works less than hours, and some on double duty are kept at the office the whole of the twenty-four hours. They come on duty at 9 in the morning.

work until 2 the next morning, and then sleep an uncomfortable sleep of its and starta on the office benches until are released from duty at 10 A. M. They get cents a inessage. At 16 Broad street the boys have ten hours' work, but they get only cents per message." Manager Sanford said last night that he issued the eir. cular because unprincipled professional labor agitators were trying by glittering promises to luduce the messen.

ger boys to form a messengers' union. Mr. Sanford said that his employees the had no genuine grievance. a new Yesterday clock- work American that District looked Company introduced cheese, and register like a big Cheshire sengers and is break designed to automatically time the mosup suspected system of false time tallying by the clerks. It war put in in the two offices in Broadway at Canal and Thirtieth streets.

The boys in the latter office struck for two hours against the register. They sent a petition to Manager Sanford, stating that the Infernal machine didn't time them and then went back to work. Their complaint was found to be well founded, and will be remedied. Dr. Talmuge's Daughter Edith Married.

The marriage of Miss Edith Elwood Talinage, the third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Talmage, and Allan E. Donnan of Richmond, took place last evening in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. At 8:20 the bridal party proceeded down one of the central aisles.

Miss Talmage, who la described as a pretty, petite blonde, with blue eyes and a thoughtful face, preceded by the ushers and followed by her side two little sisters in pink, walked side with MIAN May Talmage, the maid of honor. The four bridesmaids, who of Were Miss Georgia, Colquitt, Miss De daughter Ford of of Senator A. Baltimore. H. Colquitt The Tucker, bride and wore a Miss Gallaudet of corded New York followed.

heavy whith silk, trimmed with duchesse lace, with diamond ornaments, gift of the groom. She carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley and orange blossoms. The maids of honor and bridesmaids were all attired alike in white tulle dresses, with garnitures of green ferns. They carried bouquets of ferns and roses. The Rev.

Dr. Talinage, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Dr. George Talmage, his brother. After the ceremony was a reception at the house of the bride's parents.

The presents Ailed two rooms. Gen. Sherman was one of the guests. It was near mid. night when the couple started on their wedding trip to Montreal.

Mr. Donnan is a young merchant of Richmond. The Foley Boys Put Out of Scheel. Judgo Bookstaver on Monday dissolved the injunction that John Foley obtained last November restraining Principal George White of Grammar School No. 70 from suspending Foley's sons and Masters Lind.

heim and Kahn on Miss charges that they had brought a fulse accusation against Macdona, their teacher. Miss Macdona was promptly exonerated at the time schoul trustees, and yesterday Principal White suspend. ed the accusers. They will not be taken back unless the Board of Education orders their reinstatement. Greely to be Chief Signal OMicer, WASHINGTON, Feb.

President sent to the Greely. Seuate Fifth today Cavalry, the nomination Chief of Capt. Adolphus to be Signal Offcer, with the rank of Brigadier-General. Children Cry for Pitcher's Casteria. perfect preparation for children's complaints BOHL'S TRUNK IN COURT.

ITS JOURNEY WITH ITS GHASTLY CONTENTS MINUTELY TRACED. Change in the Groping of Capt. Unger and His Two Daughters-The Son on the Witness Stand Against Him. The two Unger girls were grouped in a new way yesterday by their father's side as ho sat in the Court of Oyer and Terminer on trial for murdering and chopping up his friend August Bohl. Heretofore ti the two girls, who are very pretty girls, have sat immediately behind their father, forming a background on which the gray-bearded old man was projected in strong relief almost in front of the jury box.

Yesterday the girls were placed on each side of their father, and they put their arms around his, and the youngest one leaned her head on his shoulder, making a picture which, in dramatic effect, was decidedly more striking than the one Arst arranged. His oldest son, Edward, was in the court room, and, contrary to most peoplo's expectations, had been selected as the first witness by the prosecution for it was thought the Baltimore witnesses would be put upon the stand first. The prosecution, howover, commenced with the crime Itself, and then followed Unger's movements, step by step, until he had got the receipt from the Westoott Express Company and the trunk containing his victim's mutilated remains were on the road to Baltimore. Then Unger was dropped and the chain of testimony, without a link missing, followed the trunk to Baltimore, told of the discovery of the body, its return to this city, identification of the body at the Morgue, the swift tracing of the crime to Unger, and his immediate arrest. Young Unger testified to coming home about 10 o'clock on the night of the murder, Jan.

20, and at once missing Bohl and Bohl's trunk. Where is August he naked his father. Oh, he is no use to us," Unger replied: he has gone to There was no lamp burning in the room when he returned, but his father was sitting by candle light. He went to bed with his father, and went to work early the next morning. By Mr.

Nicoll-Did yon ever hear your father and Bohl quarreling! Sometimes, when they talked about business, they did not speak friendly, Father told me Bohl would not go into business with him. lie your told me August you had that some money he money! did father tell Bohl not tell me how much. It was when I returned to the room the second time, the evening after father had told me that Bohl had gone to Chicago, that 1 noticed that the room had been cleaned and washed, and it was then 1 noticed that Bohl's trunk was gone. Father told ane he did not want Bohl there any longer, and that he had gone to Chicago. The boy then identifled the trunk which had been brought into the court room as the one which had belonged to Bohl, and he also identifled a torn and blood-stained coat as one that Bohl had worn.

The cross-examination was short, and only brought out the fact that the boy had been detained by the police as a witness. Mrs. Wieland testifled that she was in her husband's hardware store at Grand street on the morning of Jan. 21. Unger came in and bought a butcher's saw.

He seemed in such a hurry that Mrs. Wieland only put a paper around the saw and did not stop to tie it up with a string. Charles Muller, who keeps a saloon at 449 Grand street. Brooklyn, testifled that Unger left a trunk in his saloon, and came back later and took it away on an express wagon. Muller identifled the trunk in court room as the one Unger had left in his saloon, William Bentz, who keeps a saloon at 395 Kent avenue, Brooklyn, also identified the trunk 88 one Unger had left in his saloon, and for which a driver for Westeott's Express had called.

In Bentz'e saloon Unger pasted the address, John A. Wilson, Baltimore, Md. To be called for." upon the trunk. Frank Martinus. John Leitz, and Thomas Eagan, express drivers, testifled to having handled the trunk in its transit from Bentz's saloon to the Adams Express office at 59 Broadway, thiscity.

Robert A. Rice, an employee at Adams Express office, this city, testified to putting a tietag on the trunk, having copied upon it the address which was on the white sheet of paper pasted to the trunk. John James H. Kirwin of the Adams Express office at Baltimore testified to the recelpt the trunk, the bad smell which came from it, to the opening of the trunk. the discovery of the body, and to its delivery to the police.

This testimony WAS confirmed by Mr. James Shuter, the manager of the Baltimore express office, and by Chief of Police Frey of Baltimore. During the testimony of Mr. Shuter objection to the presence of the trunk in the court was made by Mr. Howe, and it was removed with the dead man's coat.

On the reopening of court in the afternoon, the first witness called was Dr. Alexander Hill of Baltimore, the Coroner's assistant, who was summoned as 800n A8 the trunk was delivered to the Baltimore police station. how you found the remains. the trunk was opened there was revealed an empty till. Below this was a coat cut up the back just as under takers cut coats from dead bodies, especially after rigidity has taken place.

The trunk of the body lay underneath the coat. The left arm was folded under it. The right arm had been amputated, and was found under the trunk with the legs and feet, which had both been amputated, the legs just below the hips and the feet just above the ankles. The head was missing. About the body newspapers were tightly stuffed, evidently with the intention of preventing the remains from moving about.

On the bottom of the trunk several layers thick brown paper had been placed. Large photographs, mostly life-size, of the various positions of the mutilated body were then placed upon an easel, making a hideous sight. Unger looked at it unmoved, but his elder daughter grew very pale, and she and her younger sister were led from the court room and did not again return. Detective Sergeant Jacob von Gerichten of the Central Office testifled to starting out on the case, under instructions from Inspector Byrnes, on Jan. 27, and to the trail he struck, bringing him up at 22 Ridge street about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

(The morning newspapers had announced that the trunk bore the label, 22 Ridge As he stood there he saw Detectives Titus and Flick coming from different directions to the same place, they having been led there by the same trail which had led him there. Unger was arrested that evening. Detective Von Gerichten described the sofa in Unger's room as having only one support for the head, to its being bloodstained, and to there being a piece out out of it. The sofa was brought into the court room from the District Attorney's office, where it had been kept in readiness. It had two rests for the head, one at each end.

There was no place visible where a piece had been cut out, and at a general glance no blood stuins were visible. That sofa will acquit Unger," said Lawyer Howe, turning to the reporters. Detective Von Gerichten also testifled to Anding blood stains on the wall near the head of the sofa. Dr. Cyrus Edson testifled that he had examined wall paper from Unger's room and had found human blood stains upon it.

The saw. knife, and a hammer were also shown to him, and he identifled them as articles he had examined and on which he had found the stains of human blood. The trial will be resumed at 11 o'clock this morning. Plotting to Kill Three Men. LOUISVILLE, Feb.

Grand Jury of Rowan county has returned true bills against Henry 8. Logan, Morgan McClury, and Lou Rayborn, charging them with the crime of confederating and banding themselves together for the purpose of killing Judge A. E. Cole, Col. Z.

T. Young, and his son, Allie W. Young, now Country Attorney of Rowan. The scheme to murder these men was detected just in time to save their lives. A suspicious character was seen lurking around the town and about the depot, whom the Sherif arrested and placed under guard.

He gave an his name James A. Harris, alias Pendium. He afterward confessed to his uncle that he had been hired to assist in killing these men, and bad promised to secure four other men to aid him. The men were to receive $100 each for their murderous work. Henry A.

Logan, the leader of the gang bearing his name, hired Harris. The five would-be as. sassing were to have met last night at Logan's to complete arrangements. The plan agreed upon was to shoot their victims from the brush or through the windows of the hotel. If both these plans failed they were to fire the hotel and shoot them as they ran out.

Work of the Committees. ALBANY. Feb. Senate Cities tee will report favorably Mr. Daly's bill empowering the New York Board of Estimate to construct criminal court building next to the Tombs, and Mr.

Plunkitt's bill for additional Aldermen from the Twenty-third and Twenty -fourth wards, New York. The Sextus Assembly Excise Committee heard an argument by Carl Kapi of New York in favor of Mr. Glegerich's bill to allow the sale of beer and light wines on Sundays from 2 P. M. to committee 12 midnight.

decided No one appeared for consideration of the House. opposition. The to report the The Assembly Judiciary Committee has agreed to report adversely Mr. Hoadley's bill to abolish the death penalty for women. Mr.

Ives's bill to increase the number of Judges of the Court of General Sessions by tour. and to allow the Dis. trict Attorney live extra assistants will be reported favorably, with a provision for one extra Judge and one extra assistant. Wins the Bookmakers' Third Prize. Bookmaker Hen Stedeker won the third prize of $100 yesterday in the cushion-carrom tourney in Billy Sexton's rooms.

He defeated Matt Corbett, 90 to 77, and averaged with a high run of The winners of the tourney are thus: J. Mahoney, Joe Cotton, and Stedeker. Commence at Once To use Pylo's Pearline, for easy washing PHILADELPHIA'S ELECTION. The Repablicans Elect Their Entire CIty Ticket. PHILADELPHIA, Feb.

Republicans have elected their entire city the H. Fitler for Mayor, Henry Clay for Receiver of Taxes, and Charles Warwick. present incumbent.Ifor City Solloitor. Four or five days ago George De Keim. who had been endorsed by the Democrats, although a Republican, was in an excellent position to sweep the city for Mayor.

Then the Republican bosses, McManes and Leeds, sprang upon the public an agroement made in 1882, by which Keim, it elected Sheriff, promised to divide the spoils of his office with the present insane Sheriff, Rowan who succeeded him in 1885. It WAS desporate act, for it showed that these same loaders were A to the agreement: but it was a winning expedient. While many Republicans have voted for De Keim, many Democrats have deserted him, and ho is beaten by a big majority. Infact ho was practically out of the race when the polls opened this morning. There was an exciting contest between Clay and Charles Benton (Dem.) for Tax Receiver.

Clay has been a reformer, but of late has sold out body and soul to McManes and Leeds. His price was the Tax Receivership. He was thus between two free. Reformers cut him for selling and the Stalwarts cut him because his heretofore. independent, proclivities.

But the publication of the Republicans Sheriff's office who did bargain not like brought the out methods a lot by which Fitler was nominated and who had intended not to vote. These pretty generally swallowed the whole ticket, and Clay is elected. but by a largely reduced majority. There was practically no contest for City Solicitor, and Warwick had everything about his own way. Fitler will have upward of 80,000 majority for Mayor and Clay perhaps 10,000 for Tax Receiver.

WITO MADE HER WILL FOR HER? Only a String of Queer Circumstances Abont Lugarte Heck's Sulcide. All that was done yesterday to clear up the mystery surrounding the supposed suicide of eccentric Miss Lugarte Heck in her room in Mrs. Annie Schaefer's house at 443 East Eleventh street on Sunday, served only to make more suspicious some of the circumstances. Coroner Eidman turned the case over to the police, and they think the woman strangled herself. Charles Schaefer, Mrs.

Schaefer's husband, was summoned to the Fifth street police station in the morning. He is a tall, muscular man. He said he could speak only in German, but once he forgot and disputed in English what reporter said in English. Miss Heck, he said, had told him on Thursday that she wanted him get to somebody to draw her will. He went to Broker Vlistimele Kyrelo.

It he said to him we must pluck the bird while it has feathers." he meant nothing by it. He went back from Kyrelo's and told Lugarte (he always spoke of Miss Heck as Lugarte) that he would go back the next day and have the will drawn. He did not KO back the next day because Lugarte raid nothing more about the will. I wrote the note to Dr. Muller telling him not to call again, because Lugarte said she didn't want him any more, because he did not cure her.

I never had any: thing to do with the will and I did not know that she had so much money till she spoke about having a will drawn. I did not know anything about her, except what my wife told me." He was asked to make the figures 8,300 with a lead pencil on a piece of paper. and they slightly resembled the ones written on the suspected will which purports to give Miss Heck's 84,300 to Schaefer. The body of this document is in a hand resembling Mrs. Schaefer's.

Schaefer said that he was not at home on Monday night when Miss Heck died. He was at the Clyde pier waiting for his pay. He is a shoemaker, but was out of work and hired out as a freight handler during the strike. The broker Kyrela testifled: "Schaefer told me that the woman had plenty of money, but that she was determined to throw it away on churches. He asked me how much it would cost to draw a will, and I told him $5.

When he was there the second time and saw my. partner he said, $15 and let me make a little out of It was then he spoke about plucking the bird while it had feathers." Dr. Muller of 20 Second street, testified that Miss Heck suffered from a mild form of insanity. She was a sort of medicine and had taken all sorta of patent medicines. on Thursday Schaefer Went to Dr.

Muller's and told the servants there that Lugarte Was out of her head and wanted to give all her money to churches, and he also said that she bad lots of it. Schaefer asked the Doctor why he had not called. Dr. Muller called on Miss Heck at 5 o'clock and found her much better. He saw her for the Arst time alone when Mrs.

Schaefer went out to change one of her $10 bills to pay the Doctor. Miss Heck told the Doctor that she wanted to to to Europe if she could. The Doctor to the morning. but at P. rut Schaefer's note requesting him not to call again.

The autopsy showed that Miss Heck died of strangulation. She will be buried to-day in the Lutheran Cemetery by her brother. JACK M'AULIFFE'S BENEFIT. Jem Carney of England Watches 1 kis Fatare Adversary Spar, Jack McAuliffe had a benefit last night in the City Assembly Rooms in Brooklyn. The first bout of three rounds was between Abe Fer.

nandez and George Young, both of Long Island. Some sledge-hammer blows were struck by Young, and some sharp clinches took place, Young doing the most etfective work. In the third round Fernandez got a blow in the pit of the stomach, and had to give up. The next event was a collar-and-elbow wrestling bout between Martin Dempsey and John Mott. Dempsey gained the frat fall by a lock.

Mott got the second. and Dempsey the third fall and the bout. Jack Hopper and Jimmy Nelson then showed in three rounds what they could do in a scientific way with the gloves. They were heartily applauded. Jem Carney was then introduced as the light weight champion of England, who is to contend wilh Jack Me.

Aulitte. In reply to the cries of "Speech, speech," he said: I'm no speaker, and I'm much obliged." He then sat down amid thunders of applause. Next Jack McAuliffe and Billy Frazier of Boston had four rounds. It was scientific but tame. Sain Holligan of the Nassau Athletic Club and Robert McCormick of Brooklyn sparred three rounds of a give-and-take order.

Mike cAulife and Jimmy Donnelly fought three rounds. Capt. Tuthill then stepped up and offered to back Jack Hopper to fight Billy Frazier at some other time for from $250 to $500 a side, to a finish. Frazier jumped on the stage and said he would fight any wan at 133 pounds. Hopper then took the platform and offered to put up 8100 as a forfeit.

The money was quickly put up by A friend. Then came the wind- up of the evening. It was a set-to between Harry Gilmore of Toronto, Canada, and Jack McAuliffe. McAulide defeated Gilmore recently in a hard glove fight of twenty -eight rounds. It was a fine exhibition.

Much science was shown on each side in evading blows and countering. Jem Carney watched every motion of McAulide. Obituary. Ex-Mayor George H. Thatcher of Albany died yesterday in St.

Augustine, Fla. 1 He was 69 years old, and went South for his health some weeks ago. He was the father of the present Mayor. Frank for Rivers Charles of New York, aged 65 years, a travelling agent Scribner's Sons, died suddenly at the Bensler House, Buffalo, yesterday of apoplexy. John J.

Swezey, retired hardware dealer, died of cancer at his homie in Newark vesterday. William Currie, an artist, 05 years old, died of apo. plexy in his room at 18 Chariton street yesterday. A tol. a powder flask.

$24, and a lot of papers showing that Currie owned property in Pennsylvania and in the upper end of this State were found in his roqin. His landlady knew little of his history. He had been a landscape painter, he had told her, but recently worked for Albert G. Bushnell, a dealer in engravings at 114 Nassau street. The wife of Baron von Schleinitz, Governor of German New Guinea, has died in that island.

Mrs. Annie McDermott, the wife of Hugh F. MeDer. 20 mott, Hoboken poet and journalist, died yesterday at her home, avenue, Jersey City, A Gloomy Joke. Frank Raub, proprietor of the saloon just north of the bridge entrance, known as 'Hillen's." found a brown paper parcel in one of his closets yesterday morning.

It was bound with cord, attached to which was a wooden and wire handle for convenience in carrying. The parcel looked as if it might contain dry goods of some kind. This note was pinned to the paper: WILLIAM: Here's your valentine. Mr. Raub had the package opened, and was shocked to And a dead female baby inside.

It was apparently about three weeks' old. A knife out extended, the entire length of the body, from the neck downward. Whether the wound was inflicted before or after death is a mutter of conjecture. practical William is joker, Mr. Raub's inimical head barkeeper.

Some ghastly to William, may have, it thought, selected this mehod of taking revenge. Progress From Poverty." About half the members of the Nineteenth Century Club were present at the club's meeting last night to hear Mr. Edward Atkinson's lecture on Proggress From Poverty." An improvement in the present condition of affairs will come from evolution, not revolution. AID an advocate of the American hen. I said to a Congressman: you will not repeal the bill to buy a bill $2.000,000 of silver every month, for Heaven's nuke pass to buy $2,000,000 of hens' eggs every month.

and store them in the vaults below the House of Representatives, until you are convinced, if not by an appeal to your intelligence, by one to your The solution of the problem of housing the poor lies in the American frying pan. If fat used and wasted were converted into rent, the dwellings of the poor would be doubled. Pauper labor is to be feared only by those of pauper intelligence. Pop Whittaker's Burial. PHILADELPHIA.

(Feb. Keen. Treasurer of Buffalo Bill's show, and Charles Brooks Treasurer of Forepaugh's circus last season, arrived here this, old afternoon from New York in charge of the remains of Pop Whittaker. The local lodge of Elks' followed the body in carriages to the cemetery, and at 8 o'clock the coma was lowered into a grave in the Elks lot in Mount Moriah. Many floral tributes were offered to the had memory of the old man.

Frank Moran, the minstrel, charge of the funeral. Acting Chaplain Dietrick read the burial service, and Past Exalted Ruler Dr. Hartley conducted the rites of the Elks. Beautiful treatment fragrant and rosy gums result from THE GERMAN. ELECTIONS.

FRANCE'8 PACIFIC INTENTIONS DISCREDITED IN BERLIN. The Pope Denounced for Interfering with Germpns'. Politics Emperor William WIll Not Issue An Election Manifesto. BERLIN, Feb. Jacobini has sent a letter to Bismarck thanking him for the concessions in the revision of the May laws.

Commenting on the recent article in La France, asserting that France's disposition was pacifle, and that the responsibility for a war would rest with Germany, the North German Gazette says: It requires all the entrontery of reranche journalism to dish up perversions of this nature. Articles in the same ment would not be long delayed, and proclaimed the ready to fight, expressed the wish that the decisive a mopaper on Oct. 11 and Dec. 18 announced that France WAs Arm intention of the French to retake Alsace- Lorraine, adding that war would be inevitable at the first opportunity. Kreue Zeitung publishes a manifesto signed by Count thirty-six members of the Rhenish Catholio nobility, declaring that tho Centre party, instead of pursuing a great national policy, has adopted a policy of frivolous bickering, now ending in an open alliance with democratic progressist principles, and that the whole course of action of the party is thus opposed to the urgent admonitions of the Pope.

The signers, therefore, call upon the Rhenish electors firmly and loyally to stand by the Emperor and cooperate in his support with the Catholic Conservative party. Prof. Virchow, in the course powerful speech to the electors of the Second Berlin circle. denounced the Vatican's interference as coercion of Catholic electors, which all Germany should resent. Toward the close of his speech he said: If militarism be the supreme law -the sovereign good to which we inurt sacrifice commerce, industry.

everything -Germany has a bad future in store. War will not be averted by one State's making always greater preparations than a neighboring State. On the contrary. these preparations must of inevitably result in a collision. Our position, in the event an external attack, is the strongest defensive position, and if a foreign State means to attack us it will certainly not be hindered by a difference of 41,000 men.

The Anal passage was received with enthusinstic cheers. The state of siege established at Stettin affects the neighboring towns of Grabow and Altdamm, and four adjacent districts. The report that Crown Prince Frederick William was going to Rome to visit the Pope is semi-officially contradicted. The North German Gazette confirms the statement that no imperial electoral manifesto will be issued. It says: The Emperor, when recently receiving the deputation from the Oberhaus, so clearly expressed his wishes in regard to the septennate, that it' is impossible to throw new light upon his position.

The electors know what the Emperor expects of them. The National Gazette comments on the interest which is being taken in the pending German election by the Socialists in every part of the world, and the support which they are furnishing their party friends in Germany. The paper refers especially to the activity in this respect of the Socialists in the United States. who, it avers, have already cabled $5,000. One American Socialist newspaper alone, the National Gazelle says, has collected and transmitted to Germany for campaign funds $2,000.

The Socialist Liebknecht has been expelled from Offenbach, where state of siege has been declared by the Government. A Paris correspondent, in a letter to the Schlesische Zeitung, dwells upon the propagation throughout France through Masonic lodges of a feeling in favor of a war of revenge. He says the number of lodges affiliated with the Alsace-Lorraine lodge, which was recently 45, is now increased to 135. LONDON, Feb. negotiations for a reof the entente cordiale between Italy, Germany, and Austria continue.

Italy desires extend the scope of the agreement 80 as to cover the Mediterranean and Balkan questions. CHAMBERLAIN'S SCHEME. He Would Like to Establish Two Parlia. menta in Ireland. LONDON, Feb.

Chamberlain and Sir George O. Trevelyan to-day resumed their conference on Irish affairs with, Baron Herschell, Sir William Vernon Harcourt Mr. Morley. Mr. Chamberlain presented the draft of a scheme for the Government of Ireland, which is a modification of his former proposals for the establishment of provincial councils.

He would now establish an Ulster Parliament at Belfast and another Parliament at Dublin. both to be subordinate to the imperial Parliament. the Irish bodies holding executive thority within their own limita, but the Crown retaining the appointment of Judges and the control of customs and excise matters. The conference lasted several hours. Mr.

Morley declared his emphatic opposition to Mr. Chamberlain's proposals. He said it would be impossible to obtain the assent of the Parnellites or of the bulk of the Gladstonian Liberals to the scheme, which had already been rejected by Mr. Gladstone. Austro-Hangary to Get Ready for War.

PESTH, Feb. Government has submitted to the lower House of the Hungarian Diet a bill appropriating 7,460,000 florins to supply the Hungarian Landwehr and the army reserves with stocks of war material and to equip the first band of the Landsturm. All the parties in the louse, after a conference, agreed to vote for the passage of the A bill without debate. The measure was at once referred to the Military and Financial Committees of the House, which have approved the credit. The preamble of the bill says that in view of the military incasures which the other European States are taking it would be a Serious omission for AustroHungary to longer refrain from equipping the sturin.

'The empire, it is added. is interested in peaceful progress, the efforta of the Government are directed to maintain peace, but if it is not desirable to be surprised the Government must, like any one unwilling to sacrifice vital interests, be prepared, in case of necessity, to sacritice everything in defence of the monarchy. Irish Patriots on Trial, DUBLIN, Feb. the Commission Court to-day Messrs. Dillon, Sheeby, Crilly, and O'Brien pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to induce tenants to refuse to pay their rents.

The Crown then proceeded to swear in a jury. Several Catholic jurors were ordered to stand aside. The counsel for the defendants protested. and for a while there was much commotion. Mr.

0 Brien, one of the defendants, declared he would rather be sent to jail at once than submit to trial before a jury composed so unfairly that because a man's name was O'Brien he was excluded from it. Mr. Crilly denounced the Crown's conduct as ruffianly. Justice Murphy refused to interfere with the exercise of the Crown's privilege of challenging the jury. After a long wrangle a jury of composite character was Anally sworn.

Its character portends disagreement. Joy In India's Prisons. CALCUTTA. Feb. thousand of the 75,000 prisoners at present contined in the different jails throughout India will be released to-morrow as an act of clemency to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria.

In selecting the prisoners to be liberated especial pains have been taken to show leniency to females. All persons imprisoned for debt throughout India. in cases where the debt is under 100 rupees, will be liberated to-morrow. also in commemoration of the jubilee, and in these cases the Goverument will pay the debts. Wrongs of the Crofters.

LONDON, Feb. the House of Commons this evening Mr. Cameron moved an inquiry into the harsh and administration of the law in the crofter districts. The Lord Advocate of Scotland denied the truth of the charges that had been anade against the Scotch executive. He contended that the crofters had been treated AN leniently as possible in the face of the agitation against the payment of rent.

The Government refused to grant any further inquiry in the matter. The Pope's Intentions, ROME, Feb. Moniteur discards the idea that the Pope is fomenting a European war, hoping thereby to obtain the restoration of the temporal power of the Church, but declares that the Pope is justitled in securing. the friendship of powerful empires, in order eventually to subinit the position of the Papacy to the vote of the Powers. Evictions on a Large Scale, DUBLIN, Feb.

extra police have been drafted in County Clare, the authorities fearink further outrages. Evictions on a large scale have commenced on Lord Cork's estate, on the opposite side of the bay from Glenbeigh. Little resistance is ottered, but police are being boycotted. Railroads In Central Asia. BERLIN, Feb.

Vossische Zeitung has despatch from Moscow saying that the Indian au thorities have coucluded to extend the Quettah railway to Northwest Afghanistan in order to secure an outlet for British commerce in Central Asia, and that the Czar has sent a number of Russian officers to Afghanistan to investigate the matter. A Missionary's Assallante. MELBOURNE, Feb. from the Tonga Islands say that six natives have been sentenced to death for 1 assaulting Missionary Baker, and that the King has refused to grant a petition presented by Wesleyan missionaries on the islands asking that mercy be shown the condemned men. Burmah Invaded by Chinese.

LONDON, Feb. from India say that news of Chinese invasion of Burmah has been conveyed in a letter to Thebaw, who in visiting Mandalay. The Gazette and Pioneer of Bombay confirms the news. Au official despatch from China denies it. If easily irritated or vexed, use Carter's Little Nerve Pills.

25 cents. -adu. PECULIAR MURDER CASES. Reasons Why a Pardon le Asked for Two Convicted Murderers. HARRISBURG, Feb.

new Board of Pardons of Pennsylvania met for the first time to-day. Two peculiar cases were argued betoro the Board. In 1874 Charles Larrabeo was convicted in Franklin county of the murder of Low Wallace, a negro, and sentenced to bo hanged. His sentence, was commuted to imprisonment for life. His pardon is now asked for on the ground that his crime was not murder.

Wallace and Lorrabee wero hunting on the day the former was killed. Wallace was lending an unhappy life. It was proved that while in the woods he told Larrabee that ho wanted to die, but that if he killed himself he would go to hell. He prevailed upon Larrabee to kill him, which the latter did by shooting him through the head. Judge Trunkey, now of the Supreme Court, was the Judge who tried and sentenced Larrabee.

He recommends the pardon. The Hon. W. U. Hensel appeared before the Board to argue the case of James P.

McCabe. who is under sentence in Wayne county to be hanged on March 24 for the murder of his neighbor, Michael Riley, in December, 1886. The peculiar feature of this application for a pardon was the presence before the Board of sevon of the jury that convicted McCabe. The jurors ask that a pardon be granted on the ground that they were forced to find a verdict of guilty by public clamor. No decision has been reached in either of these cases.

MRS. STERLING'S DIVORCE SUIT. She Sage her Husband Not Only Tore her Dresses, Bat Tore her Hair. The trial of the suit of Mrs. Emma J.

Sterling against Aaron D. Sterling, separation, was begun yesterday before Justice Brown, in Brooklyn. The defendant is the chief grain inspector in the Produce Exchange. They were married in 1861, and have a son, aged 16. They had a bitter, quarrel a year while they were stopping in the Mansion House in Brooklyn, and separated.

Mrs. Sterling testifled that almost her entire married life of nearly a quarter of a century had been unhappy, owing to the neglect and ill treatment of her husband. She painted her husband as nothing short domestic monster. He not only, she said, tore her dresses but her hair, and finally she compelled to take to flight, fearful that ho would carry his murderous threats into execution. She will be cross-examined to-day.

Coachman and servants represented Mr. Sterling as gay and festive while around town, but morose and quarrelsome at home. He spoke his wife, some of them testifled, as the nigger." A ROW BEHIND THE SCENES. Actress Kate Singleton's Missing Pocketbook Found On a Drunken Gas Man. Henry Bropson, a gas man, went to the Third Avenue Theatre Monday night late, and drunk, and made himself so offensive to William Welsh, the chief of the supernumeraries, that Welsh knocked him down.

Bropson went away, but returned, and Actress Mary Stewart warned Welsh that he had a knife in his hand. Bropson immediately afterward attacked Welsh, cutting him slightly in the hand and neck. Bropson was arrested. A pocketbook containing some found in his pocket. Actress Singleton identitied bangles, a penny of 1787, and a gold, Chinese coin WAR the pocketbook as her property, said its contents were worth $100, and that it had been stolen from the dress.

ing room. Other actresses complained of having missed articles from the dressing room. Bropson said he had found the pocketbook. Justice Duffy, at the Yorkville Police Court, yesterday held Bropson in $50 bail for larceny and $1,000 for felonious assault. FREEZING IN THE WATER.

Terrible Experience of Two Men -Other Flood Disasters. STERLING, Feb. Friday afternoon Hugh Ramsay and McClellan Flack started out in a skiff for the residence of Mr. Ditman, which is in submerged district known as the Como bottom, for the purpose of rescuing a family. The heavy current upset the skiff, but its occupants managed to catch hold of a clump of willows.

In this condition they remained until Saturday morning when they were rescued, after having been in the water for sixteen hours, with the mercury below zero. Flack is likely to die, but Ramsay may recover. The river at this point is higher than for twenty years and everything is at a standstill, the mills and factories all being closed. The ice has gorged for miles, aud grave fears are entertained. At least twenty families were driven from their homes.

The water came with such a rush that not one of them was able to move any housebold goods. The Larchwood Breeding Farm is submerged, and some of the stock is in a critical situation. Los ANGELES, Feb. rain storm which has prevailed here for twenty four hours has precipitated three and a half inches of water. The river rose rapidly, causing persons dwelling near its banks to leave their houses and seek safety in other parts of the city.

A portion of the Dowey avenue bridge was carried away. Washouts occurred between Tehachapi and Colton, on the Southern Pacife, and in Cajon Pass and Temecula on the California Southern. All through trains are delayed, but the breaks are not serious, and will be repaired in a day or two. SAN PEDRO, Feb. night's storm caused two wrecks at this port.

The ship Kennebec, from Liverpool, laden with coal for the Southern Company, and the barkentine St. Louls, with lumber, from Coos Bay, slipped anchor and drifted on the reefs, where they came total wrecks. The Commissioner Thinks It Would be Fraud. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Woman's Suf- frage Association, at 80 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, yesterday, Mrs. Goff advocated the appointment of matrons at the police stations and at the police courts at salaries of $600 a year.

A committee, she said, had just called on Police Commissioner Carroll, who had said it was a grand thing, and he would be glad to second their efforts to secure an appropriation would for the purpose. Mra. Goff said that an appeal now be made the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen. Outrages, she knew, were frequently perpetrated on women in the very teeth of the law, which the presence of police matrons would prevent. Mrs.

Robinson's Assailant Gets 20 Years. Jack Purdy, the negro who was accused of committing the assault upon Miss M. S. Robinson, the authoress, pleaded guilty in White Plains on Monday, and he was sentenced yesterday to twenty years in Sing Sing prison. Miss Robinson's story of how she was driven out of her queer little house by the burglar, how she successtully appealed to him in her night dress in the moonlight on hillside, in the cold air, to spare her person, and how she quoted scrapture to him, was so remarkable that many persons, who did not know her thought there WaN no burglar and that she was the victim of a delnsion.

The confession of Purdy shows that she was right, 4.8 her friends have maintained. How to get Kid of the Baby, Margaret McCafferty left the Emergency Hospital yesterday her infant, ten days old. She calls the baby Hugh Mulroy, after its father. She applied at the Foundling Asylum, but her infant had sore eyes and it was not received. She knew of no other place to go to, and finally concluded that she must rid herself of her incumbrance.

She laid the baby down on a pile of stones in Eighty eighth street, between Madison and Fifth ave. nues, and started off. But she had been observed and was arrested. She Got Married Without Knowing It. Sarah Unger, a Jewess of 18, is suing in the Common Pleas to have her marriage with Samuel Unger set aside upon the ground of fraud.

She says that on Oct. 1, 1884. Unger took her to a rabbi. pretending that the ceremony would simply be an engagement of marriage, but after it was over she learned that it was marriage ceremony. She has never lived with Unger.

A Victory fur Monteverde, July the Queens County Court of Sessions convicted William T. Monteverde, the proprietor of the Grand Street Park, in Maspeth. of maintaining a nuisance in allowing ball playing on his grounds on Sundays, and fined him $250. Yesterday the General Term, in Brooklyn, reversed the decision. Water Works for Patchogue.

The Town Board of the town of Brookhaven met yesterday and granted the franchise to supply the village of Patchogue with water to John Lockwood Co. of 52 Broadway, New York The company are privileged to lay two miles of mains. It must supply water to all public buildings, for sprinkling the streets, and for two public fountains. Tom Gould Actually to be Tried. Tom Gould, indicted for running concert dive, tried yesterday to get his trial in the General Sessions postponed ou the certineates of two doctors that he is sick.

Recorder Amyth refused to let the case go over, and the trial will go on to-day. Col. Fellows Meets Billy Moloney, Col. Fellows returned to this city yesterday, after having spent several days at the ice carnival Montreal. stopped at the Windsor Hotel, and Just before leaving saw Billy Soloney, but they did not speak.

SPARKS FROM THE TELEGRAPH. Adelina Patti appeared in Denver last night before an andience 22,000. The receipts amounted to over The President has nominated Horace E. Morse of New York to be Collector of Customs for the district of Cape Vincent, N. Y.

Omaha is to have a second cable car line, to be built by Kansas City syndicate. It is intended to have three miles in operation by next fall. Howard Wambough, the railroad station agent at Nutferns, Rockland county, has disappeared, and Daniel Cooper has been appointed in his place. There is a shortage In Wambough a accounts, but it is believed that he will return and make it good to his bondsmen. It you prefer pure OR A use Charles 8.

Higgina's German Laundry Soap." de. PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK. ABRETT'S MEN OUT OF SIGHT, UNDER LOCK AND KEY. After Sewell' Have Adjourned the Assembly They fire Reappear and Demand to be Recorded as Present Bolters TRENTON, Feb. respective armies here have been marching up Senatorial hills and down again all day to-day without any one over getting near enough to another to fire a shot.

Apparently, the net result of the day's mancuvring leaves the Republicans on a little higher and the Democrata on little lower ground than when they broke camp this morning. The Republicans have secured the signature of the Labor man, to the report of the Republican members of the Camden County Election Contest Committee, thus making that the majority report. Two more Democrata have also bolted Abbott-Senator Chattle voting in the Senate ballot this afternoon for Bedie and Senator Chase for George C. Ludlow. This leaves Abbett's effective strength at 37 at the highest.

The Democrats have again secured control of the physical portion of Kinney, who dered off to Philadelphia last night, and have a committeo engaged in sitting upon it. He strolled up to his hotel about noon, and the Domocrats, falling upon his neck and weeping, welcomed him to the fatted call's hond and other delicacies of dinner bill. All he said was that ho went to Philadelphia. The Democrats have continued their last night's tactics preventing a show of their strength or weakness by absenting themselves from the chamber, thus preventing any action upon the Conden case, and also preventing the ballot which the law required to be taken for Senator, this afternoon. In the morning the Republicans waited an hour before adjourning, were unable to get 8 quorum.

'TICi Democrats were locked up in one of the thoroughly upper rooms of the building, fortified against any assaults of the Sergennt-at-Arms and his cohorts. After the adjournment they held a caucus, but there were several absentees, including Mulvey, the new kicker from Middlesex, and Throek morton. Nothing was done. It was alleged that Kinney's absence was the cause of the Democratio flight in the morning. Upon his return the Democrats announced that they would attend the afternoon session and join in the ballot for Senator, but would leave the chamber as soon as any attempt was made to take up the Camden case, which they are determined shall not be voted on until after they have had the benefit of Turley's vote for Senator.

Up to within one minute of the calling of the House to order, it seemed 118 though the Democrats were going to keep their word. So far as could be seen they were all present, and they had hung. up their conte and hats and acted as though they were going to stay a while, but the moment that the Speaker took up his gavel every one of them sprang up and scrambled for the doors, so that when the roll was called they were all absent. They again sought refuge in their upper-story hiding place. The Republicans waited half an hour and then adjourned until to-morrow.

drawing up and ordering, put on the minutes a protest, signed by each of them, against the act the majority in interfering with the taking of the ballot required by law. In just about the time it would have taken a messenger to carry the news to the haunt of the beleagured Democrats and for them to come down, they poured into the Chamber, each demanding that the Clerk record him present. after the custom when members arrive late during a session of the House. The minority have no right to adjourn this House: demand to be recorded present!" shouted Mr. Hudspeth.

Everybody laughed, and the Clerk, thinking it was a joke, laughed, too. Hudspeth and a score of others repented the demand. "You're not serious, are you?" asked the Clerk. The demand was repeated from all sides, and threateningly. Finally the Clerk said: All right, I'll record you present," and added, reflectively, now." There was more laughter, and the Democrats subsided.

They assorted that they had intended to be present all along, but had gone out for a while because three of their men had disappeared, and they didn't know where to find them. As soon as the missing ones were captured, they said, they returned to the chumber, and were surprised to find the House adjourned. They say they will all be on hand at the joint meeting to-morrow. The ballot in the Senate was taken according to law and without any incident beyond the bolt of Chase and Chattle, which a great disappointment to the Abbett men, but not altogether unexpected. All the Republicans voted for Sewell and six Democrats for Abbett.

One Democrat, Baker, was absent. The bolt of Corbin, Hawkins, and Young last night effectively broke up for the present the arrangement by which Sewell was to withdraw in favor of William Walter Phelps. The latter is urging every Republican to stick to Sewell. Sewell says, ho will remain a candidate. All the same it is believed that the Sewell-Phelps scheme will finally be carried out.

Both Democrats and Republicans are secretly anxious to, bring about some, trouble over the joint meeting to-morrow which will result in one side or the other being able to get a quorum together and elect Senator by themselves. The Republicans, the Labor men, and Baird could do this, or the Democrats, with one Labor man, and without Baird. A majority of this quorum could then elect either Sewell or Abbett, as the case might be. This is the only apparent chance for the election of either one of these men. Gov.

Green to-day sent in the nominations of Joel Parker, Democrat, and William J. Magie, Republican, to succeed themselves on the Supreme Court bench. They were both confirmed. movement is said to be on foot among Knights of Labor to secure the election of Edward F. McDonald of East Newark as United States Senator.

A leading member of the order said last evening: Carroll and Donohue, the two Labor Assemblymen, will vote for him, and the Republienna. rather than see an out-and-out Democrat like Abbett or Stockton, will follow the lead of the Labor MeDonald was chosen as a Cleveland elector, but he refused to allow his name to go on the ticket. Ho declared in favor of Butler and stumped the State for him. Since then he has been a sort of Mugwump Democrat. Among the workingmon he is a favorite.

He is said to have done good service for them during their recent troubles. Signal Once Prediction. Local rains, variable winds, lower tempersture. JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN. Acting Mayor Beekman refused yesterday to grant a license to Gunther's Palm Garden, 140 East Fourteenth street.

The Emigration Commissioners elected Commissioner President yesterday, No violence accompanied the election. The United States Steamer Ossipee, Commander John F. MeGlensey, from Nagasaki and long Kong, anchored off Sandy look last night. At the next annual reunion of Society of the Army of the Potomac, at Saratoga Springs dies in June, Chauncey M. Depew will be the orator and Wallace Bruce the poet.

Jaines McGee. a striking messenger boy, was fined AS yesterday afternoon at Jefferson Market for assaulting some of the new boys at Thirtieth street and Broadway. The Aldermen yesterday directed the Committee on Police and Health to report by the 24th inst. the tion of Alderman Mooney, asking Gov. Hill to remove Gen.

Shaler from the Presidency of the Health Board. The Broadway Arcade Railroad directors met yesterday afternoon and discussed plans for the building of their road. It was proposed to extend an invitation to property owners along the proposed routo to examine the plans. The Board of Trustees of the Mount Morris Baptist Church have filed plans for the erection of a new edifice on the site of their old church in Fifth avenue near 127th street. It will be of stone, 75 feet front by 110 feet deep, and will cost $75,000.

Gay W. Foster, the swindling commission broker, was sentenced in the General Sessions yesterday to six years and one month's imprisonment. propose to make as example of every swindler who is convicted in this Recorder Smyth said. Judge Donohue has granted an absolute divorce to 4 Elizabeth Carpenter from George 0. Carpenter and limited divorce to Emma V.

Bell from Nathaniel G. Bell Chief Judge Larremore has granted a limited divorce to Lydia Williams from Joseph Williams. Edmund S. Wilson, an agent of the York Dairy Association, was examining milk in store of James Tully, NO Catharine street, yesterday, when Tully. he says, knife.

sprang on him and attempted to stab him with Tully was held at the Tombs yesterday. Martha Hoch, whom 15 two years old, of 116 Centre street, for abducting" or three men have been arrest. ed at various times, and one named Huber sent to state prison, was committed to the House of Mercy yesterday an incorrixible. Several ladies have tried to reform her, but had to give it up. Matthew P.

Breen. who was compelled to go to the Court pointed of Clerk Appeals of the to Tenth establish District himself as the legally np. Court, has presented bill amounting to 89,190 for expenses, which he asks the referee city to pay. Hooper Van Vorst has been appointed to pass on the bill. The Harlem Commons claimants have fed a bill to claim equity in the United section of States low Circuit lands Court, in which they a from great the of Harlem ten ning buy vel.

East Simon P. fourth street and Ave. A to Spuy. Morgan of Greenboro. is complainant.

and he represents some 1.400 claimants. The Feb. 28, argument will be quade before Judge Wallace on.