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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGL Hi FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1896. VOL. 56. NO.

343. 14 PAGES. THREE CENTS. A DISASTER IN SPAIN. GAS CHARTERS REVOKED.

400 PERISHED ON THE SALIER. NATIONAL DEMOCRACY TO STAY HALE MAINTAINS A SAFE LEAD, FATHER MCDONALD'S RECORD person who may be able to give further details of the terrible calamity. The agents of the North German Lloyd company here have been instructed from Bremen to spare no expense in searching for the missing passengers and crew of the sunken steamer. It is known, however, that Captain Wempe was not to blame for the disaster, as the Salier had a pilot on board when she struck. The weather, which the steamer experienced is described as being in the nature of a hurricane.

Another theory of the cause of the disaster is that Salier's steering gear carried away while she was heading around the rocks for Vlllagarcia and that she thus became unmanageable and was driven upon the reef, which is about two and a half miles from land. German Ship Rajah Lost With Nineteen Men. Swansea, Wales, December 11 The British ship Springwell, Captain Kinman, from Liverpool on December 9 for Galveston, has arrived here with two survivors of the German ship Rajah or Bremen, which left Cardiff on Wednesday last for Hong Kong, and capsized in a gale near Lundy Island, at the entrance of the Bristol channel. Nineteen of the Rajah's crew were drowned. The two survivors of the Rajah had been drifting in a boat for twelve hours when they were picked up.

Seen Steamship Stokers Killed by an Explosion. Marseilles, December 11 The holler of the Messageries Marttlmes steamship Saghalien exploded shortly after she left Hong Kong recently, killing several of her stokers. The Saghallen succeeded in reaching Saigon. The Steamer Bernard Hall's Perilous Experience. Colon, Colombia, December 11 Via Galveston, Texas The British steamer Bernard Hall, Captain Bartlett, from Liverpool on November 19 for this port, has arrived here after having experienced five days of terrific weather, south of the Azores, during which her cargo shifted and was damaged.

SEOEETAET OUERAN KESIGtfS Eleven Bodies Recovered From a Collapsed Building. Madrid, December 11 A dispatch from Jerez announces that a large building has collapsed there, burying over one hundred persons. Eleven bodies have already been recovered. The Jerez where the disaster occurred is Jerez de la Frontera, sixteen miles north noTtheast of Cadiz. GOLD MINERS ENTOMBED.

A Cave in Costs the Lives of Several Men in California. Los Angeles, December 11 A special dispatch from Yuma says that news has reached there from Hedges, fifteen miles distant, in San Diego county, of a disaster in the Queen mine at that place, owned by the Gold Cross Mining and Milling company. Some time last night a cave in occurred in the main shaft, and, as a result, several miners have lost their lives and more are injured. Reports are meager and conflicting, but the generally accepted one is that four miners are entombed at the bottom otf the shaft, with no chance of escape, and four or five have been rescued badly injured. FREDERICK KAST DEAD.

London, December 11 Frederick Kast, described as a groom and one of the three male defendants in the suit for criminal libel brought by Earl Russell against his mother in law. Lady Sellna Scott and others, is dead. He has been confined in Holloway jail since his arrest and his illness caused a postponement of the trial on November 30. VENEZUELA'S OBJECTION. CONCERN IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES AT WASHINGTON.

The Agitation Against the Treaty May Imperil the Final Adjustment of the Dispute. Washington, D. December 11 The unofficial reports from Venezuela that a seriouB agitation has sprang up against the boundary settlement agreed on between the United States and Great Britain causes much surprise, and no little concern in official quarters here. Mininter Andrade and James J. Storrow were to have Bailed from La Guayra, the seaport of Caracas, yesterday afternoon on the Red D.

steamer Philadelphia and the boat was expected to reach New York the 16th. Mr, Andrade had cabled the time of his leaving and had added an official cable to Mr. Olney, stating that President Crespo approved the agreement and would call an extra session of congress to ratify it. For this reason the report that Mr. Andrade and Mr.

Storrow will not return at present owing to expected developments growing out the agitation againBt the settlement, is felt to embarrass, and possibly imperil, the final adjustment, which had been confidently expected at an early day. SNEDEKEE'S FATAL KLDE. RUN INTO1 WHILE WHEELING ON JUNE 11. His Demise, Which Occurred Last Sunday, Attributed to Injuries Sustained Then Coroner Will Investigate. Charles A.

Snedeker, the harness manufacturer at 111 Manhattan avenue, is dead, and Coroner George H. Nason will hold an inquest In the county court house on Monday night, because of the peculiar circumstances surrounding his demise. Mr. Snedeker was an enthusiastic bicyclist. On Thursday evening, June 11, he went out on his wheel and was riding on the right hand side of the roadway on Bedford avenue, near Heywood street, when Mr.

Malcolm, the brewer, drove into him with his carriage. Mr. Snedeker was thrown from his wheel to the curb and was severely hurt. It is claimed now that he died from the result of his injuries. It was not thought at first that Mr.

Snedeker was fatally injured, but he had never been a well man since the accident and shortly after election he took to his bed. He died last Sunday and was buried in Greenwood cemetery on Wednesday forenoon. The circumstances were placed before Coroner Nason and he has ordered an inquest for Monday night. Mr. Snedeker, who lived at 109 Eckford street, was about 31 years old.

He was married but had no children. When an Eagle reporter called at the house to day Mrs. Snedeker was out and other members of the family declined to talk about the case. Deceased was a prominent member of the Nassau Republican club and was a delegate from that organization to the State League of Republican clubs at Syracuse and sent by that convention to the national meeting of Republican clubs which was subsequently held at Milwaukee. He was extremely active In Republican politics and was prominently spoken of as a candidate for the assembly from his district.

The club rooms on Nassau street are draped' and a motto Is hung above the door saying: "We Mourn Our Loss." The club sent a delegation to the funeral, comprising C. J. Finehout, the president; James J. Wall, George Armitage, Clarence B. Rodgers.

Louis Kupper, and Frank M. Davis. This delegation was also directed to draw out suitable resolutions of sympathy which are to be engrossed and presented to Mrs. Snedeker. Mr.

Snedeker was a very active and prosperous business man and a member of several societies, including the American Mechanics and the Legion of Honor. He came from an old and highly respecetd Long Island family. LILIUOKALANI'S "VISIT. The Ex Queen Is Reticent Concerning Her Plans. San Francisco, December 11 Ex Queen Liliuokalanl is extremely reticent.

To all questions as to her intentions she replies: "I have not yet matured my plans." She would not even say why she had left Honolulu. The Hawaiian consul, however, has received advices from his government stating that on the morning of her departure Liliuokalanl called on President Dole and informed him that she was going to Boston to see relatives of her husband, the late John Dommis. Representatives of Hawaii In this country have been Instructed to show the ex queen every courtesy while she Is In the United States. Washington, D. December 11 While no official information has been received as to the purpose of ex Queen Lllluokalanl's visit to this country, her coming at this time occasions much comment in official quarters.

She will be met here, it is understood, by Princess Kaiulanl, who has been sojourning in Italy and will come here for this meeting. Minister Hatch of Hawaii Is now In New York, and Mr. Cooper, the Hawaiian minister of foreign affairs, is en route to San Francisco, to take the steamer for Hawaii on the 16th Inst. This will bring him into close proximity to the ex queen at San Francisco. SCHOUVALOFF'S ILLNESS.

Warsaw, Docombor 11 General Sohouvaloff. the governor general of Russian Poland, is again pronounced to be in a critical condition. Brooklyn Companies Affected by Judge Chester's Decision. Albany, N. December 11 Judge Chester yesterday granted the application of Attorney General Hancock to have revoked the charter of several gas light companies, the principal offices of which are in Brooklyn.

The attorney general, in his application, alleges that the companies have not been in operation for over a year. The names of the several companies, with the date of each ceased operation, are as follows: Brooklyn Gas Light company, November 1, 1895; Metropolitan Gas Light company, November 4, 1895; Nassau Gas Light company, November 1, 1895; Wiliamsburgh Gas Light company, Fulton Municipal Gas Light company, People's Gas Light company, November 4, Citizen's Gas Light company, November 1, 1895. These orders were nothing more than the formalities required by the opinion of the attorney general written some months ago. GARBAGE CONTRACT AWARDED. City Works Commissioner WilliB this afternoon signed the contract with the Brooklyn Sanitary company for the removal and disposition of garbage, for the five years beginning January 1 next.

He then forwarded the document to Health Commissioner Emory, and it is expected that he will affix his signature to it to day. CIVIL SERVICE OFFICERS. CARLSCHURZ RE ELECTED PRESIDENT AT PHILADELPHIA. Letter Carriers Wait Upon the Association With a Petition Several Papers Read. Philadelphia, December 11 At to day's session of the Civil Service Reform association the following officers were re elected: President, Carl Schurz, New York; vice presidents, Charles Francis Adams, gustus R.

MacDonough, New York; J. Hall Pleasants, Baltimore; Henry Hitchcock, St. Louis; Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago; William Potts and the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, New York.

Archbishop P. J. Ryan of Philadelphia, was also elected a vice president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Right Rev. Stephen N. Ryan.

A committee from the National Association of Letter Carriers appeared before the general committee with a petition urging the continuance of a post office department order, which provides that no carrier shall be discharged from the. service until he shall have had an opportunity for defense; also, that in promotions to the office of superintendent of carriers, carriers alone shall be eligible; also, that if it is intended to establish an inspector force for the supervision of the letter carriers, that said inspectors shall serve at least five years in. the classified service. The petition was referred to the committee on res olutions. President Proctor of the civil service com mission, addressed the delegates on the work ing of the civil service law.

At the after noon session papers were read by Mrs. Low ell of New York; Colonel Ela of Chicago. Dorman B. Eaton or New York, Lucius B. Swift of Indianapolis, Francis E.

Leupp of wasnington an a snerman s. Rogers of Buffalo. MRS. CLARK'S SUDDEN DEATH DUE TO THE BURSTING OF A THROAT ARTERY. She Was Being Examined by a Doctor at the Time, in the Homeopathic Hospital.

A tvoH dressed young woman, apparently about 30 years of age, died in the dispensary ward of the Homeopathic hospital yesterday afternoon. The bursting of an artery as a specialist was examining her throat caused her death.On examination at the office of the hospital for treatment, she gave the name of Mary Clark, and was given a card to the room of Dr. Richard K. Valentine, of 25 Eighth avenue, a specialist in throat troubles. Then the woman took a seat at the end of the line of patients waiting their turns.

She was seen to frequently, press her hands to her throat, and when questioned, replied that she was in great pain. When her turn at last arrived she stepped up to Dr. Valentine and he took her to a window to get a better light. The physician told the woman to open her mouth and throw back her head: As she did so she gave a slight cough, which was' followed by a flow of blood from her mouth. Then she sank into a chair.

An effort was immediately made to stop the hemorrhage and everything was done to relieve the sufferer, but she died In a few minutes. The police of the Clermont avenue station were notified and the body was removed to the morgue. There is was believed that the name she had given was fictitious. The attendant who took it thought the woman had acted as though ashamed to accept free treatment and her dress and appearance would seem to bear this out. Her face and hands showed evidences of refinement.

Three plain rings were worn on the left hand. The mystery which was supposed to surround the affair was all dispelled this morning when a man, who gave the name of Thomas Clark of 129 Canton street, called at the morgue and identified the body as that of his wife. He said she had been a sufferer from throat trouble for some time and he removed the body to his home. The cause of death was the bursting of the left Interior carotid, one of the main arteries of the neck. The physicians believe the woman was suffering from an aneurism of this artery.

NIAGARA BANK SUSPENDS. There Had Been a Run on the Institution. Niagara Falls, N. December 11 At 12:30 this morning, after several hours conference, the directors of the First National bank of. this city resolved to close the doors.

Notice to such effect is posted this morning on the bank. It is stated that the depositors will get their money. A few days ago the Niagara Glazed Paper company failed. Several of the bank directors were hard hit by this failure. This was generally known, and there had been a run on the bank for a few days past.

These facts, and the failure of the newly elected president to qualify, caused the suspension. The New York: Herald's Christmas JTcmbeu, issued next SrxDAT, will surpass anything of the kind ever produced. Besides all the news, it will contain an Am Section of 3G BKAUTIFCI.I.Y IULUBTBATEP PAGES, which Will be a Makvel or AitT and Color. Artists of international repute have joined for its production. Famous writers contribute.

The Cashier," and An Ansel Child," two short stories of much beauty and strength. Features for the mistletoe and Santa Clans season. "A ChTistmas in Bethlehem," "Christmas Customs, Here and Abroad," kc. More artistlo and literary enjoyment has ever been contained in any newspaper. Order from your dealer in advance.

Price as usual. Adv. i Is Being Probed in the Course of His Suit for Libel. EVIDENCE ABOUT DEMIJOHNS. Washington Hotel Attaches Tell Things About Bottles and the Race Track and Hooker's Division How Mr.

O'Neill Nearly Lost His Case by Default Yesterday Afternoon Opening of the DefenseMuch Interest in the Case. The fourth day in the trial of the action, brought against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle by Father Patrick 0N'eil McDonald, had for Its principal witness Mr. William H. Kelly, private secretary to Congressman Willis Sweet of Idaho, in the Fifty first congress. He testified to a short acquaintance with "the doctor," as Mr.

O'Neill calls his client, in Washington nad his knowledge of the plaintiff's action during that period. Mr. O'Neill made his usual objection about not having been warned by the defense beforehand that they were going to produce such testimony, but the court over ruled him. Many lawyers were present during the morning session. President Swanstrom of the board of education, Assemblyman Taylor, Thomas S.

Moore and several others, prominent in city politics, were among the spectators. Witness Stryker added little to his testimony of the day before. William H. Kelly then took the stand. He was secretary to Congressman Sweet, he said, and lived in Spokane, Wash.

A. B. Atkins, the Eagle's correspondent, was requested to leave the room while this, witness testified. He did as requested. Mr.

Kelly said he met the plaintiff In the Eagle office, at Washington, where he was introduced to him. The acquaintance, witness continued, was renewed at the Ebbett house a short time afterward. Mr. Kelly testified he met Mr. McDonald at the Pennsylvania railroad depot, in Washington, and saw him take.

the train to the race tracks. Before departing the plaintiff asked witness, according to testimony, if he would take a drink with him and stated that he was going to the races. Later in the day, witness stated, Mr. McDonald was seen by him alighting from a train returning from the races. Mr.

McDonald said to Mr. Kelly that he had been betting and had won money at the races and witness said he saw a roll of bills in plaintiff's possession. Plaintiff was then, he said, in an apparently intoxicated condition. Witness continued that Dr. McDonald invited Mr.

Kelly to his room ad said: "If you will bring a couple of nice girls, I will treat to wine." Mr. O'Neill objected to the testimony on the ground that warning had not been given in answer, but he was over ruled and took an exception. On cross examination the tea I timony of witness was not shaken. Mr. I O'Nell asked what was the population of Spo kane, and the jurors smiled at the question.

Finally the cross examination brought out the fact that Mr. Kelly had been at one time a detective. Thi3 led to an exhaustive examination, of the witness' career in that direction. Mr. Kelly's family next claimed the atention of the plaintiff's counsel, who went so far back in history that the court anally told him he exceeded the limits of examination in that line.

Witness testified he was worth $15,000 at least, over and above the income from his work. Mr. Dykman objected to the witness examining so far back In the relations of the witness; taking the ground that the subject had been fully covered. This led to a little tilt between the Judge and Mr. O'Neill, who said: "I understand judicial discretion is a great weapon." "And I intend to wield it Mr.

O'Neill," remarked the judge. "I surely hope with wisdom and justice," Mr. O'Neill said with a glance at the Jury. The court frowned. Mr.

Dykman objected to another question. Objection was overruled, and to the astonishment of the court Mr. O'Neill took exception to the ruling. "Mr. O'Neill," said the court, "you must have misunderstood the situation.

'I overruled the objection." "Yes, sir," said the attorney, "And I take exception to the ruling." The laugh that went round evidently brought the attorney to a proper understanding of the situation for he apologized then, and thanked the court. A long drawn out examination of the witness' antecedents ensued, and the court asked Mr. O'Neill to hasten things a Uttle. Mr. O'Neill stopped for a time to discuss with his client.

The court again asked him to proceed. He did not and witness was peremptorily dismissed under protest by Mr. O'Neill. Addison B. Atkins, the Washington correspondent of the Eagle, was the next witness.

He said he had gained the information on which the article complained of by plaintiff was written, from the three witnesses, Messrs. Kelly, Calvert and "Stryker. He was not permitted to tell the conversation he had had with the men. He said that he had never seen. Mr.

McDonald intoxicated except upon one occasion, when he entered the Eagle's Washington bureau and fell asleep in a chair. The Eagle's artist there tcok a picture of him. From the priest's words and actions, Mr. Atkins said he though Dr. McDonald was intoxicated.

His attempt to say what others thought was stopped. "Your honor," argued Mr. Dykman, "we simply wish to show good faith and the absence of malice in printing the article and that much less was really printed than was told to the writer oif the article." Mr. O'Neill's objection was sustained, however, and he proceeded with his cross examination. Mr.

Atkins said he thought the article was a straightforward and fair reproduction of what had been told to him. He was sure of this because Mr. McDonald was a Brooklyn clergyman and he. Mr. Atkins, considered it his duty to tell the truth about him to Brooklyn people." Objection to this statement was over ruled on the ground that it had not been made in time.

Mr. O'Neill objected to all the Judge's comments in addition to his rulings. John A. Lanner, 43 years old, of 93 Dean street, took the stand. He said he had been a member of St.

Paul's church all his life. Mr. O'Neill requested at this point that all witnesses to the alleged assault at St. Paul's church be requested to leave the room. The court asked that they do so.

Mr. Lanner then went on to tell what he, saw and hird in the church on the morning of February 11, 1894. Under examination he said: "Fathers Hill and McDonald were officiating at the mass in the morning. Father Hill wanted to read the announcements. The service had been half finished.

I sat seven pews from the front. Father Mconald said: "You sannot speak here, sir." Father Hill turned to mft.tr thfl Yin nom Father McDonald pushed him down the steps of the altar. Father McDonald afterwaT attempted to make some remarks, but the congregation would not listen and many left the uumtu. ramci strucK atner Hill trcvlce and knnp.kir1 him Arvwn caWAMi parishioners jumped over the rail and separ 'ow, icauiug raxnre iiicuonaio. into the vestry room.

Then Father Hill told the congregation to go elsewhere and hear mass. There was nnp nnllnnmon tfia a to him Father Hill spoke." Under cross examination the witness said he was inspector of plumbing under the city government at one time. ie said Father Hill was a friend of his and had written a mi'tted he had carefully read over the Eagle's story of the assault during the last few days. At this point court adjourned for the noon recess. Yesterday Afternoon's Proceedings.

At 'the afternoon session yesterday Judtra Maddox sat on the bench with Judge Goodrioh. The court room was even more crowded than In the morning and several well known lawyers sat through the hearing. District Attor ney Backus, Police Commissioner Welles, Mgr. O'Conuell andMIrabeau L. Towns were among tne spectators.

Lawyer Nelll came very near losing his case for the plaintiff by default. At 2:15 he Her Steerage Was Filled With Emigrants to Argentine. NOT A MAKT WAS SAVED. The Steamer Struck the Rooks Two and a Half Miles From the Spanish Coast. A Disaster Which Exceeds in Horror the Loss of the Drummond Castle.

The German Ship Rajah Sinks With Nineteen Men. London, December 11 A special dispatch from Berlin concerning the loss ol the North German Lloyd steamer Sailer, says she was wrecked on the night of December 7, lour miles north of Vlllagarcia, Spain and two and one half miles from land. The dispatch further says that she must have broken up almost Immediately, as parts of the steamer have already washed ashore. A dispatch from Lloyd's agent at Corunna says that 381 poisons lost their lives by the wreck of the Sailer. Madrid, December 11.

A despatch received here from Vlllagarcia estimates the number of victims of the Sailer dlsater at four hundred. Berlin, December 11 A despatch to the Cologne Gazette from Corunna says that while It Is true that fcho NorUh German Lloyd steamship Sailer left Antwerp with only 210 passengers she embarked many more at various Spanish ports and the correspondent estimates the number of victims of the disaster at 400 to 600. Corunna, December 11 The Sailer was commanded by Captain Wempe when she was lost. The steamer was loaded with a general cargo. The disaster occurred during a dense fog and very heavy weather.

The Sailer had a fearful passage from Bremen to this port. Two of her boats were swept overboard by the heavy seas which beat over her, and she sustained other damages from the same cause. I tls believed that about 400 persons perished. The steamer struck during the night of Monday last on a ledge of rocks about two and one half miles off Cape Corubedo, on her way from this place to Villagarcla, where she was to ship another lot of steerage passengers bound for Buenos Ayres. A large amount of wreckage is reported to have washed ashore.

The search made for possible survivors of the wreck has so far been without result, and but little hope is entertained of rescuing any of the passengers or the crew. The Sailer was an old vessel, which the North German Lloyd company had agreed to sell to an Italian firm trading between Italy and American ports, but, owing to some slight disagreement as to the terms, the deal. was not completed and the steamer was sent on another voyage. She was considered to be in every way seaworthy and the only reason the North German Lloyd company had for, selling the Salier was that there were more modern boats of the same line in readiness to take her place. Her last trip across the Atlantic was made in September last, when she, left Baltimore for Bremen, arriving there safely on September 23.

Although not a modern vessel, Sailer had many years of work be her, for she was only built in 1875 at Hull, England, and had since been fre quently thoroughly overhauled, improved and strengthened. She was of 3,000 tons gross register, was 351 feet long, brig rigged and had a single propellor. Captain Wempe had charge of her for a number of years previously and was thoroughly Informed regarding all her good and bad points. Owing to the fact that there seems to be no survivors of the wreck, there is little else but theory to fall back on in order to account for the disaster. Experts her look upon the loss of the Sailer as having been due to causes probably similar to those whicj led to the loss of the British steamer Drummond Castle, of the Castle line, off UBhant, on the northwestern extremity of France, in June last.

As In the case of the Sailer, the weather, previous to the wreck of the DrummondCastle and the loss of nearly two hundred and fifty people, had been very heavy and was followed by thick fog, which prevented Captain Pierce, her commander, from seeing the light. When he believed he was Tar enough north, Captain Pierce ordered the helm of the Drummond Castle to be ported, and In a fine rain and fog, headed her, on the night of June 17, on a northeasterly course for the British channel. But he was apparently out of his reckoning, for the Drummond Castle seems to have run at full speed upon a ridge of rocks extending from the island of Molene, half way between Ushant and the mainland of France, to other and smaller islands. The concussion, it was generally admitted at the time, must have ripped the steamer open from stem to stern. She apparently pitched over the reef and sank almost immediately afterward in deep water, for no trace of her was found.

In the case of the Sailer the weather was thick and heavy; it was night, and she had run far enough souch to clear the rocks off Cape Corubedo before starboarding her helm and heading southwest, gradually pointing up westward and then in a northwesterly direction in order to head into the bay leading up to Vlllagarcia. But Captain Wempe seems to have been thrown out of his reckoning by the fog and rain and to have headed to port too soon, with the result that he failed to clear the rocks below Cape Corubedo, and went down with his ship and all bands. Like the Drummond Castle, it is believed that the Sailer was making the best time possible under the circumstances, for after leaving Bremen the SalieT had touched at Antwerp and this port, and her commander was anxious to have his vessel's head pointing southwest on her voyage across the Atlantic ocean. The passengers of the Salier, it is conjectured, must all, or nearly all, have been in their berths in the steerage at the time the steamer struck and it is thought that the majority of them were drowned before they could tumble out on deck, for no bodies with life preservers on have been found, so far as known as present. Of the steerage passengers, there were over 100 Russians, about 35 Galicians, some Germans and about 200 Spaniards, according to the estimates, all on their way to the Argentine Republic, looking for new homes and prosperity for themselves and their families in the western world.

If the disaster occurred after the Salier had touched at Villagarcla the loss of life would have been much greater, as It is understood there were nearly one hundred more passengers, men, women and children, awaiting at that port to embark for Buenos Ayres. The whole coast in the vicinity of the scene of the wreck is being searched for survivors of the Salier and all hope has not yet been given up of picking up some Ellfht Tons of Kelaer J.ouffhHn' ruro Lehigh Coal equals ton tons of some other kinds. Adv. Permanent Headquarters Will Be Established in NW York. W.

D. BYNUM TO TAKE CHARGE. The Executive Committee Issues an Address From Indianapolis Active Work to Be Carried On, With. Hope for a Reunion of the Party on Sound Governmental Principles To Extend the Organization. Indianapolis, December 11 The executive committee of the National Democratic party at 1 o'clock this morning Issued the following address: "The commltttee on a 'statement for the press' respectfully commend the issuance of the following statement: "The executive committee of the National Democratic party this evening decided not to issue an address at the present time but gave out the following statement: "The National Democracy will permanently maintain its organization in full vigor in the states in which party machinery already exists, and will endeavor to perfect organisations in those states in which such do not now exist.

It will at once open and maintain permanent national headquarters in the city of New York. The headquarters will be in charge of the chairman of the national committee, who will give his immediate supervision, and so much of his time as may be required to the work that may be undertaken by the committee. "That work will comprise not only the perfecting and extending of the political organization, but the disseminating of information and the forming of opinion upon political questions by means of literature to be prepared and circulated under the direction of the committee and of addresses to be delivered by prominent speakers under its auspices. It will be the endeavor of the committee not only to" confirm those Democrats who are already in sympathy with the National Democratic movement In their adherence to the principles of the Indianapolis platform, but to secure the adoption of those principles by all others, of whatever previous political affiliation, that it is possible for it to reach. It is the unanimous opinion of the members of the committee that any alliance between the Democrats who have been opposed to the Chicago platform and the Republicans is entirely Impracticable.

These two elements represent radically conflicting and seemingly irreconcilable theories of the functions of government. "All National Democrats, however, earnestly hope for a reunion of the two wings of the old Democratic party upon a sound and patriotic platform of principles such as time and again they have stood upon and together in the past. "The National Democracy, however, is Irrevocably committed to that governmental policy that accords equal rights to all, special privileges to none the traditional individu aliistic policy of the Democracy. This policy, of which the Indianapolis platforms is the current expression, the National Democracy, whatever the course of political events may be, will defend and promote. In this, its mission, it will welcome the co operation of all those who are actuated by the unselfish desire to promote the welfare of our country and who believe that all schemes of paternal Ism or class favoritism, no matter from whom they may emanate, are fraught with peril to the prosperity of our people and to the perpetuity of our government.

"Headquarters will be maintained in New York, with W. D. Bynum in charge." MANY MINERS MAY GO OUT. No Agreement Reached at the Conference in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, December 11 When the joint convention railroad coal operators and miners met this morning, the scale committee appointed yesterday reported that they were unable to agree.

The miners' ultimatum was 74 cents per ton from January 1 to March 1, and 79 cents for the following ten months, while the operators offered 60 cents for the first two months and 65 cents for the balance of the year. An exciting discussion then followed and the committee was discharged. The convention is now trying to patch up a temporary agreement until the conference Is held with the Ohio operators, to fix the differential. If a settlemen is not effected there will be a general strike, involving 6,000 miners in this district. WILL GET NO EXCISE MONET, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS VICTIMS OF A MISTAKE.

Board of Esttmate Neglects to Comply With a Recent Law Legislature Must Be Appealed To. There will be no appropriations of public moneys to the charitable institutions this year. There are between eighty and ninety of these institutions which for years have been helped from the excise funds. The legislature of 1896, however, passed an act stopping all division of the excise funds and providing that they must be turned into the city treasury. The same act provided that the board of estimate might fix a sum annually for the charitable institutions, the money to be raised In the tax levy each year.

A short time since the board voted to appropriate $100,000 from the revenue fund for the charitable institutions, entirely forgetting, apparently, the law of 1896. It had taken no action under this law. There was a meeting of the board to day, when Corporation Counsel Burr advised It that it could make no appropriation this year and that the legislature must pass a bill to cover the defect. A similar course must be taken in respect to the police pension fund, which formerly benefited by the excise moneys. The board authorized the issue of $700,000 of tax certificates to meet old county tax certificates for which no other provision had been made.

ICEBERGS APPEAR EARLY. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11 The naval hydro graphic oflico haB issued a memorandum stating that according to reports receivod thore are signs of an unusual season of icoborgs on tho North Atlantic. The bergs are not only making their appearanco very early in the season (which does not ordinarily begin until January or February), but are gottlng dangerously near the westbound trans Atlantic steamship tracks. COURT OF APPEALS.

Albany, N. Docombor 11 The motion oalendar of the court of appeals for Monday is: 1,208, 1.209, 1,210. 1,171. 1,202. 1,214, 1,215, 1,216, 1,212, 1,217, 1,213, 1,218, 1,220.

The Irish Eider Kept Up His Fast Pace All Night. FORSTER CAUSED TWO SPILLS. It Took Less Than One Hundred Hours for Hale to Pass the 1,4 00 Mile Mark. Rice Was Encouraged by a Visit From His Townsmen and May Get Second Prize, as He Is Being Better Handled. Teddy Hale, the Irish rider, was still ahead of the other fourteen contestants in the six day international bicycle race at Madison Square garden this morning.

He reeled off his mile in 99 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds, shortly before 4 o'clock. Exactly three hours later Rice covered the same distance, and at 8 o'clock Forster passed the 1,400 mile mark. The three leaders are sailing along smoothly. Gllck rested a great dead during the night and scarcely put 18 miles to his credit between 2 and 8 o'clock. Maddox, who seemed in the pink of condition yesterday, also slept several hours.

Gannon, Cassldy, McLeod: Shock and Pierce were off the track for two or more hours, while Hale steadily Increased his score. Unless he breaks down, nothing can now prevent him from winning first money. Rice, the Wilkesbarre lad, was much encouraged this morning when a delegation of friends from his home visited the garden and presented him with a floral tribute. He is being better handled than he was and should come pretty near landing second money, although Forster was eight miles ahead of him at 9 o'clock, and Reading only four miles behind. All the riders except Hale were out at 9 o'clock.

The Irishman was then 140 miles ahead of the record and the other first eight were also beyond it. Glick, who had been resting, came out at that time. He was low man, having been passed at 6 o'clock by McLeod. Forster rode erractically during the early morning. At 2 o'clock he ran Into Schock and both tumbled on the floor, but remounted and continued to ride.

Three hours later Forster collided with Rice at the Fourth avenue turn and Maddox, who was a few feet behind, sprawled over both of them. Forster was then warned to ride more carefully and his trainer gave him some stimulants, but he was still very wobbly and rode at a very slow gait for several hours. A tall and portly man of middle age. who looked as though he had been up the better part of the night, took a position on the Madison avenue side of the track shortly after 8 o'clock and jeered at the riders. A trainer warned him to keep quiet but the intoxicated individual did not desist and two blue coats took him in charge and hustled him over the bridge and into the street.

"It took two of you to do it, anyhow," he said. The score at 10 o'clock this morning was as follows: Miles. LapB. Miles. Laps.

Hale 1,456 Piece 1.314 nice 1,416 Forster 1,428 ,1,407 Schock 41,376 Tavlor Jl.362 Smith .11,350 Monre 1,345 .1.267 Maddnjc 1,254 Cassldv 1,247 Cannon 1,100 SIcLeod 998 Glick 974 Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning Major Taylor, the Brooklyn man. was the victim of a plot concocted by several of the other contestants. He was caught in a pocket and held there for six laps, but enjoyed the fun hugely. On the seventh lan he manasred to break away from his tormentors, and laugh ing jouaiy ne lea tnem a lively chase for several turns around the garden. Rice dismounted shortly before 11 o'clock.

Taylor was less cheerful as the morning wore, and Hale was more asleep than awake. The same could be said of Smith. McLeed seemed In better spirits after he had passed Glick. Schock was riding smoothly and Forster was again in second place at 11 o'clock, having passed Rice while the latter was resting. Frank Lee of Cohoes, N.

the short distance rider, was taking a spin about noon when Pierce's trainer crossed the track at the Twenty seventh street side. Lee was coming around the oval at lightning speed and collided with the trainer. Both were thrown heavily and were badly bruised about the limbs. They were carried from the track to the tents. The referee says that Rice will be allowed a milo or two more for lost time as the result of the collision he had this morning with Forster.

Rice is very weak and fell off his wheel shortly before 1 o'clock, but luckily remounted and rode a fast alf mile. Hale turned in for a rest after reeling off 16 miles between 12 and 1 o'clock. He passed tho 1.500 mile mark shortly before that time. At 1 o'clock over half the contestants in the race had over 1.000 miles to their credit. At 2 o'clock the score stood as follows Name.

Miles. Laps, Name. Miles. Laps. Hale 1.515 4 Pierce 1.3M Forster 1,485 Rice 1,470 Reading 1.4G2 Schock 1,430 Taylor 1.410 Smith 1.393 Moore 1,379 2 Ashinper 4 M.iddox 3 I Cassldy 4 I Gnnnon 1.314 1.305 1.287 1.122 5 I HcLeod 1.041 Gllck 1,000 DARING ROBBERY ALLEGED MRS.

SIEFKE SAYS ACID WAS THROWN IN HER FACE. A Burglar Seized Her Earrings and a Breastpin Claims to Have Been Robbed Before. The police of the West Twentieth street station, in New York, are investigating an alleged robbery of a daring nature. According to the story told by Mrs. Henry Seifke of 327 West Twenty sixth street she was confronted by a.

stranger in her house at about 7 o'clock last night who threw a burning liquid of some nature at her face and then tore earrings valued at J500 from her ears and a diamond breastpin from her clothes and made his escape. At the police station this morning Mrs. Seifke's ears showed no signs of laceration and no burns were visible in her face. This is the second time that a robbery of a similar nature has been reported to the police by Mrs. Seifke.

Last winter she said she had been robbed by a man who in the middle of the day went up to the house and rang the bell. She answered the call and the stranger attacked her. At that time she said the robber had stolen among other things a sealskin sack. The thief was never captured. The Seifkes would say nothing about the robbery last of night.

A DOUBLE SUICIDE. San Francisco, December 11 Mrs. Sarah H. Cooper, president of the Kindergarten society and Harriet Cooper, her daughter, were found dead in their home this morning with the gas turned on and every evidence of suicide. Mrs.

Cooper was widely known as an educator, philanthropist and writer. FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD. John Streiven, aged 25 years, a butcher employed at the slaughter house, 264 Hudson accidentally fell from a scaffold on which he was at work this morning and fractured his skull. The physicians think his injuries are of a fatal character. MARQUIS OF MONTCALM DEAD.

Paris, December 11 Tho Marquis of Montcalm, tho last malo descendant of the dofender of Quebec, died yesterday at Montpellier. ZOLA GOT ONLY FOUR VOTES. PariB, December 11 M. Emile Zola received four votes at the election of members of the academy. AFTER SERVING TWENTY YEARS WITH BROOKLYN TRUST CO.

He Will Become Assistant Cashier of the City Bank of New York CityGeneral Ofcristensen's Indorsement. James Ross Curran, secretary of the Brooklyn Trust company, on Montague and Clinton streets, resigned from the company today to take the position of assitant cashier in the City bank in New York city. He spent the afternoon in straightening out the work that demanded his attention before retirement. The directors of the company, and especially the president, General T. Christensen, are very sorry to lose the services of Mr.

Curran, who is an old and tried employe. Christensen, In speaking of the resignation this afternoon, said: "We are all very sorry to lose Mr. Curran, but he goes to. New York to be assistant cashier of a large bank and we cannot stand in the way his betterment, bnr association has been very pleasant and we recognize in him a very efficient and faithful servant. We hope that his new place will be successfully filled." Mr.

Curran has been connected with the company for over twenty years. He became an officer during the administration of Ripley Ropes. When he took hold the company was sunermg irom tne effects of previous mismanagement, but since that time It has grown with slow but sure step until to day, when it is on a strong Mr. Curran. is a resident of eNw York city.

P0LT FOOT BALL MONET; THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION WANTS IT. A Foot Ball Association May Be Formed to Control the Profits of the Eleven. Among certain members of the Polytechnic Preparatory School's Athletic association a number of objections have recently been current over the manner in which Polytechnic's share of the gate recoipts obtained in the Thanksgiving foot ball game with the high school were expended. This money, it is claimed should have been turned over by the foot ball management to the treasurer of the athletic association. This official nas not yet received a dollar.

Statements havo also been made accusing the foot ball eleven, its managers and coachers of spending more money for dinners at the season's close than is customary. Manager Smith of tho Polytechnic eleven said to an Eagle reporter this morning: "It is true that the foot ball management has as yet transferred no money over to the treasurer of the School Athlotic association. The fact is that the foot ball team is the only one in the school which makes any money above itsl expenses. For this" reason, we are net especially anxiouB to have the baseball nd track teams spend in the spring all that the football eleven has made during the past autumn' We intend, if possible, to organize a football association here in the school, which shall be entirely independedt of the present athletic association. ThiB is about the only way in which our financial success next fall" may be assured, for otherwise we will start the foot ball season of 1897 in a condition similar to that of last September when the management was practically bankrupt.

IFor all the expenses of this year's eleven we wero obliged to obtain credit. Our expenditures have been heavy, so that of the $387 whioh the Poly received from the High school game less than S100 will remain when all the team's accounts are settled. "The athletic association did nothing to assist the foot ball team last fall, and naturally we are not especially anxious to place our cash balance in the general treasury. If, however, the proposed plan of forming a separate foot ball union should not materialize, I will then see that the font ball funds are regularly transferred to the keeping of the athletic association's treasurer." RAYMOND AND BRILL. A Dinner in Their Honor at the Mon tank Club.

At the Montauk club on Tuesday evening, a complimentary dinner will be tendered to Dr. J. H. Raymond and Mox Brill by the members and officers of the board of education. Dr.

Raymond and Mr. Brill lately resigned from tho board. The former being chairman of tho Manual Training high school committee and tho latter chairman of the attendance committoe which has charge of tho Truant home. Mayor Wurster, ox Mavor Schieron, Police Justico Teale and William Harknoss havo boon invited to attend. DISLOCATED HER HIP.

Mary Carney, 15 years old. of 192 Dnpont Btroet, sustained a dislocation of the right hip, at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, whon she was accidentally knocked down by an unknown man at Manhattan avenuo and Eagle street. The caso was reported to the police of tho Seventh jprooinct this morning. Continued on Page.