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THE BEOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NE YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1900. 14 BTJBNED BY AN EXPLOSION. AVENUE CROSSING BURGLARS BOLD WORK WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY IN SEPARATION SUIT. BUT ONE FATALLY HURT.

PAWNED STOLEN SILVER. Man Arrested for Highway Bobbery May Be Burglar, Too. Alexander Turner, colored, of 130 North Portland avenue, was arrested Monday afternoon on a charge of attempted highway robbery In his possession was found a pawn ticket from the shop of Benjamin Fox of 72 Eighth avenue, Manhattan, calling for a certain amount of silverware. Yesterday Captain Knlpe of the Flatbush station and Mrs. Walter Moore of 630 Flattush avenue went to the pawnshop and found there the silverware that was taken from Mrs.

Moore's house by a burglar a week ago. COPPEB COMPANY ATTACHED. Justice John S. Lambert, in Supreme Court, special term, has issued an attachment against the Gold Hill Copper Company, a New Jersey corporation, in an action begun by J. C.

and W. B. Powers, to recover $89.92 for goods sold and delivered. The office of the company is at 71 BroaJway, Manhattan. It has a stated capital of $5 000.

street, James Wilaon of 260 West Fifty third street, James E. Harris of 22!) West Fortieth street, Ethel Harris cf 223 West Fortieth street, Richard Harris of 125 West Thirty seventh street, Willlan Knack of 12 West Thirty sixth street, Join A. Hughes of 110 West Thirty sixth street. Henry Miller of 135 East Thirty fifth stieet, John Sroadlck of 210 West Forty fourth street, John Benson of 137 West Thirty slxtt street, Richard Ben ning of 254 West Fifty fourth street. Nearly all of them were put under bonds to keep the peace for six months or held for examination where specific charges could be made.

There were no disturbances this morning in the district where the rioting occurred last night and negroes and whites appeared each unconcerned by the other's presence, but the police arrangements are of the most perfect character. To take the places of the 120 men from the West Thirty seventh street station who will attend the funeral of the murdered policeman Inspector Walter Thompson has caused other policemen from various precincts to take their places and. aside from these, he has as a precautionary measure scattered 150 more policemen throughout the precinct to see that order of the strictest character is observed. The precinct will be kept fairly alive with bluecoats until every vestige of the trouble between the whites and blacks has disappeared, and the first semblance of trouble will be quelled In the shortest order possible. With the additional policemen scattered about it is not likely, according to Inspector Thompson, that any trouble will arise.

If it does, he says, it will be of short duration. THORPE'S MURDERER ARRESTED The Hospitals and Police Courts Thronged With Bandaged Participants in Negro Riot. RACE WAR FINALLY QUELLED, But Police Will Cover Threatened District for Several Bays Thorpe's Murderer Arrested. A disturbance which had its inception In race prejudice broke out on the West Side of Manhattan, in the district embraced between Twenty eighth and Forty second streets and Seventh and Tenth avenues, about 11 o'clock last night and lasted until nearly 3 o'clock this morning. It grew to the proportions of a riot between whites and negroes and the services of nearly 700 of the police reserves under Chief Devery and Acting Captain Cooney were required to restore order.

So serious did the affair become at one time that the chief instructed the Brooklyn police precinct commanders to have their reserves in readiness to join him in Manhattan at any tlme. In the course of the riot nearly sixty persons, mostly colored, were injured, many of them severely, and some thirty five were arrested and locked up. There is much uncertainty as to how the row started, but it is generally agreed that the death of Policeman Robert J. Thorpe of the West Thirty seventh street station had much to do with the affair. Thorpe made an effort, early Sunday morning, to arrest May Eno, a negress, at Eighth avenue and Forty first street.

The black woman's lover, Arthur Harris, attacked Thorpe. He had a razor and cut Thorpe three times in the stomach and escaped. Thorpe died on Monday. The body of the dead policeman was taksn to the home of his sister, Lizzie Thorpe, 4S1 Ninth avenue, last night. The hearse had hardly driven away when Thorpe's friends began to arrive for the wake.

Considerable liquor was consumed, and a yearning for revenge began to rise in the breasts of Thorpe's friends, which gradually extended to the entire colored race. A woman, evidently intoxicated, issued from the house and raised an outcry for vengeance on Thorpe's murderer, and she was soon joined by men and women similarly stimulated. An attack was made on the first passing colored man and this was repeated. The negroes who fled got off easy; those who resisted were brutally handled. The infection of riot and destruction extended to certain gangs of white loafers, who infest the neighborhood, notably that known as the "Hell's Kitchen gang," and ihey readily Joined Three Hen Hurt in a Fire in Canal Street, Manhattan, This Morning.

An explosion of chemicals shortly after o'clock this morning on the second floor of the business place of the Hirschberg Company, manufacturers of gold and bronze paints and enamels, at 327 Canal street, Manhattan, caused a fire in which one fireman was slightly overcome by smoke and two other persons badly burned. The fireman was Edward Mulligan of Engine Company No. 27; the other two persons Injured were Herman Hirschberg, the senior member of the firm, 48 years old, of 130 East Ninety sixth street, who was burned about the hands, face, arms and head, and Sigmund Goldberg, the porter, who is said to live in Hoboken, who was burned about the lower part of the legs. Neither was seriously hurt. The loss was about $3,000.

DUG UP HUMAN BONES. White engaged in digging an excavation in the vicinity of old burial grounds at Samuel street, West Farms, this morning, workmen brought to light a number of human bones. They are believed to be those of persons who were buried In the old graveyard years ago. Policeman John J. Ryan of the Tremont station was notified and he Bent word to the Coroner's office.

MRS. GRACIE INJURED. Her Eight leg Broken Ninety Years Old and a Long Time Member of Grace Parish. Mrs. Sarah Gracie, 90 years of age, who for sixty years has been an influential member of Grace Church on the Heights, is confined to her residence on State street, from the effects of an accident, through which her right leg was broken.

Mrs. Gracie has been a familiar figure in the parish for many years, where her charities have been extensive, and her character has been much admired. She is doing as well as could be expected and Dr. Rushmore, her physician, hopes to see her soon restored to health. Mrs.

Gracie belongs, on her mother's side to the old Middagh family, for whom Mld dagh street was named, and to the Sands family. AT THE GERMAN LLOYD PIERS. The Steamer Barbarossa Sails and the Ocean Liner Kaiser Wllhelm II Arrives In. The North German Lloyd steamship Barbarossa sailed at noon to day for Bremen, from the Amity street pier. She passed out through the Buttermilk Channel, much to the surprise of the spectators on shore.

She was drawing twenty eight feet as she left the pier and is undoubtedly the largest vessel that ever went through the channel. That there is enough depth of water for a ship of her class at high tide is a matter of great importance to the owners, as It cuts off the long circuit around Governor's Island. The ship was scheduled to sail at 10:30 o'clock, but eight bells were chiming Just as two tugs hauled her out into the stream. A strong flood tide was running and it caught the huge ship broadside on and carried her up stream as far as Woodruff's stores. It looked at one time as though the tugs would be unable to stem the tide and round her to.

They finally straightened her out and she at once set her stern for the Buttermilk Channel, keeping well in toward the Atlantic Dock. She was saluted by a number of vessels. She passed out into the upper bay at a good rate of speed that soon brought her to the Narrows and out of sight. As she left her pier, the band of the Koenigin Luise, struck up on that ship. The Barbarossa carries 60 first cabin, 110 second cabin and 150 steerage passengers.

This will probably be her last trip here for some time, as she has been chartered by the German government to carry troops to Clf na. Just as the Barbarossa left her pier the white hull of the Kaiser Wllhelm II. rounded Castle William. She kept well over to the Manhattan side, giving the dangerous Diamond reef a wide berth. A fleet of five tugs took hold and brought her up to the Warren street pier.

Her lines were got ashore, but the flood tide made her docking on the south side of the pier a matter of difficulty. Six tugs got their noses against her starboard side aft, but were unable to move her for a considerable length of time. The Kaiser Wllhelm II. comes from Genoa. She brings about 100 cabin and between 500 and 600 Italian steerage passengers.

They are of the usual type, but there are many good looking women in the lot, apparently natives of northern Italy. Incidentally, work has been begun dredging the entrance to Buttermilk Channel, Just opposite the German Lloyd piers. For several days past a launch has been engaged in making surveys and taking soundings off the point named. To day the dredge appears to be working on the outer edge of the channel, which was dug out several years ago. WHEELMEN AT BEBGEN BEACH.

To day is Wheelmen's Day at Bergen Beach. Sixteen thousand free tickets have been distributed to bicycle riders, entitling the holders to a seat at a special matinee of the "Mikado," at the Casino, a view of Pitz in training, a ride in the wheel, admissions to the Old South Church Mystery, the Mystic Maze, the Casino pier, Trocadero and the various other board walk shows. Three handsome silver cups suitably engraved will be awarded as prizes to the club having the larg est membership at the beach, to the club having the largest number of uniformed men on the board walk and to the club having the largest number of followers. MUST BE TBI ED HEBE. Justice Giegerich in the Supreme Court, Manhattan, to day, handed down a decision, denying the application of Cornelius H.

Van Ness for a change of venue from New York to Orange County, in the suit brought against him by F. K. Harmon, as guardian of his two daughters, Harriet B. Harmon and Marie B. Harmon.

HEBE'S THE EINEST BABY. Ned Jeffries, who is a little over a year old, is the prize baby. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N.

W. Jeffries of 23 Kenmore place, Flatbush. At Atlantic City he was entered In competition for a beautiful solid silver cup at a baby show and out of the 950 votes cast, he received 250, the highest of any of the fifty competitors. INDEX the assaults upon the negroes. "Kill the ni i tne meantime the necessarv requisition pagers was the slogan of the lower west side pers wln be obtained and the colored man PLEASES Improvement Promises to Aid Materially in Development of Flatbush Property.

WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE. Temporary Structure Will Give Property Owners an Opportunity to Use the Thoroughfare. The action of the Railroad Commissioners in Albany yesterday in establishing a crossing at Avenue XJ, at East Eighteenth street, la being generally accepted as the best compromise that could be effected when the property owners and the Long Island Railroad Company were bo far apart in their propositions. The fact that the street will be opened for traffic Is a matter of congratulation in that fast growing section of Brooklyn, and that the work will be put under way at once adds to the victory of the property owners. The compromise effected through the Railroad Commissioners provides for a depressed roadway and elevated tracks on the Manhattan Beach branch of the Long Island Railroad at'that point.

The depression of the roadway will begin about 160 feet on either side of East Eighteenth street, with a gradually contracting width until, for a distance of about 50 feet under the tracks, the roadway will be 20 feet wide, with sidewalks on either side of 5 feet 6 inches each. The elevation of the railroad tracks will be on about the Bame degree of rise, affording a headway of 14 feet 7 inches. The engineers for the property owners estimate 'the cost of this work to bo about $6,000, those for the Long Island Railroad Company estimating about $10,000. But whatever the cost, the work will be done by the railroad company and paid for by it, and the city will reimburse the company for half the cost when the work is completed. Assistant Corporation Counsel Stapleton stated this morning that, work on this crossing would begin to morrow.

A temporary structure will be installed at once, so that the property owners will have use of the thoroughfare within a few days. The trouble over the crossing at Avenue and East Eighteenth street has become very aggravated of late on account of the Long Island Railroad refusing to take the fence down or to agree to any measure that would afford the property owners the facilities to which they reasonably claim a right. Avenue at this point has never been legally opened, although street opening proceedings were gone through with and an award made to the Long Island Railroad. But the latter company, it appears, was never notified of the proceedings and claimed the right of way at the crossing through this neglect. As the population along Avenue has increased the obstruction of the railroad at East Eighteenth street not only became vexatious, but also dangerous.

It was necessary, In order to cross the railroad tracks, to drive either to Kings Highway or Neck road, a half to three quarters of a mile away. The local public school Is at the corner of Ocean avenue and Avenue and many children would risk the danger of climbing over the fence and crossing the railroad tracks rather than walk the long way around. The fire engines will now save from seven to ten minutes in reaching fires when the tracks must be crossed. The improvement will mean a great deal for property for a considerable distance on both sides of the railroad track. Howard P.

Wheeler of Flatbush has been the representative of the property owners in the fight against the Long Island Railroad Company, and much of the success in the proceedings before the railroad commissioners fs due to his work. As soon as the crossing la completed Avenue will be actually and legally opened for its whole distance. NAVY YARD NOTES. Naval Constructor Bowles is on a thirty days' leave of absence. He will spend a month with relatives and friends in the East.

Engineer Hill has been ordered to the training ship Dixie, to succeed Lieutenant Herbert, who returned home on the vessel from Manila as engineer. Lieutenant Hill goes to the Dixie as chief engineer. Lieutenant K. McAlpine, engineer on the Montgomery, returned to Brooklyn last night on sick leave. To day the Navy Department began advertising for bids for the erection of the new electric pumping plant for timber dry dock No.

3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The bids must come within the $80,000 appropriated. Bids will be opened at Washington on September 8, at 1 P. M. OBJECT TO WATEE TAX.

Canarsle citizens propose to make as organized protest against paying the assessment for laying water mains. They say there are no sewers in Canarsie and that flowing water Is useless without sewers. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 itt "That's the real thina is what your friends will say when you take them to your side board and regale them with a glass (or Pare Rye It is REAL the very SOUL of the rye. Sold Everywhere CAHN.

BBIT OO, BALTIMORE. MD. LOST AND FOUND. LOST GENTLEMAN'S GOLD WATCH AND CHAIN from toilet room of saloon, 64 Ralph av. Finder will be rewarded If returned to above ad dress.

LOST ON BRIDGE ST STATION, 14TH police sergeant's OVERCOAT. $5 reward if loft at B. SCHELLENBERG SON'S, 100 and 107 Myrtle av: no questions asked. V. 2 LOST ON TENTH ST OR SEVENTH AV.

BE tween Tenth and Twelfth nts, Wednesday, ladles' gold and pearl PIN. Finder will bo suitably rewarded Dy returning same to Mrs. H. L. POET, 5S1 Tenth St.

LOST 10 REWARD FOR RETURN OF WHITE fox terrier DOG, lust August 5, to 2S3 Adelphl Brooklyn: answers to name of Snip: black each side of face, black erect ears, black atumpy tall and three black sputa on body. 13 2 lli T. George P. Treiss' Home Ransacked and Considerable Valuable Property Carried Off. JIMMY USED ON FRONT DOOR.

Detectives Are Looking for the Burglars Mrs. Treiss' Comment on the Police. Constantly searching for new fields of operation, some of Brooklyn's burglars have lately Invaded South Elliott place, between Fulton street and Atlantic avenue. Last Saturday the house of a widow named Campbell, at 100 South Elliott place, was broken into. Yesterday, by means of a jimmy on the front door, during the hours of broad daylight, thieves forced their way into the residence of George P.

Treiss, who lives at 151. The Campbell family was away at the time of the burglary and the house is still closed, but in the case of the other housebreaking the occupants were gone only for the day. Only about $100 worth of miscellaneous stuff was taken at the latter, and it was not the amount lost which makes the theft unusual. It is the fact that the thieves entered the house between the hours of nine in the morning and seven in the evening without being seen by any one in the neighborhood. Generally the street is filled with children playing, but yesterday, although inquiries were made at many of the neighboring houses, none, young or old, could be found who had seen the man or men.

In spite of this, there was unmistakable evidence that the burglars entered the house from the street and left it the same way. The marks of burglars' tools can bo plainly seen on the front door. Mr. Treiss, with his wife and children, left early yesterday morning to go with the Saengerbund excursion to Roton Point, on the Sound. Heretofore the family has gone away for the summer, but this year it stayed at home and yesterday was the first full day Mr.

Treiss had taken off from business. On his return, at about 8 o'clock, he realized that it would have been cheaper to have stayed in town. The house is a three story one and it had been ransacked from the top floor to the parlor. Strange to say, the dining room was untouched and none of the silverware gave evidence of having been disturbed. The burglars got several silver watches, opera glasses and other articles not dissimilar in character and in addition the collection of gold and silver coins, which has represented one of Mr.

Treiss' hobbies. Mr. Treiss notified the police last night and the detectives immediately set about to find someone in the neighborhoood who had seen the men, but without success. Although the thieves had undoubtedly walked up the front stoop, closed the outer doors and operated leisurely on the inner losk, no one had noticed them. MrB.

Trel6s was asked to day If such a thing as a policeman ever found lte way along South Elliott place. yes, sometimes," she said; "whenever the boys play shinny." AT THE PABIS EAGLE BTJEEAtT. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. Paris, August 16 The following Americans have registered at the Eagle Bureau: M. Loie Davidson of Brooklyn.

C. M. Clarkson of Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Chesebro of Brooklyn. Miss Jennie Naughton of Brooklyn. Miss Catharine O'Brien of Brooklyn. Miss Mary O'Brien of Brooklyn. Denis O'Brien of Brooklyn.

Mrs. Dean Holt of Brooklyn. Mrs. M. B.

Holmes of. Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Howard K.

Wood of Brooklyn. Elliot Dubois of Brooklyn. Miss W. P. Copeland of Brooklyn.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Longmire of Brooklyn. The Rev. John Vogel of Brooklyn.

Dr. Charles E. Gardiner of Brooklyn. Mrs. A.

C. Smyth of Brooklyn. Miss Mary Leary of Brooklyn. Mrs. E.

J. Bresee of Brooklyn. Miss E. Kermann of Brooklyn. Mr.

and Mrs. G. T. MathewB and family of Brooklyn. William H.

Rorke of Brooklyn. Edward Rorke of Brooklyn. Miss Mary Rorke of Brooklyn. TWO VOLTXNTABY BANKRUPTS. Adolph Llpkowitz of 251 Myrtle avenue, this morning filed with the clerk of the United States District Court his petition as a voluntary bankrupt.

He schedules debts amounting to $4,947.53 and no assets. Fanny U. Warden of Woodville, Suffolk County, L. filed a similar petition. She gives debts In $26,309.56 and assets valued at $240.

THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL 8 P. M. TO MORROW. Washington; August 16 For Eastern New York: Local rains to night and Friday; light to fresh Bouth winds.

LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Occasional rains to night; Friday generally fair: light to fresh westerly winds. At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30.00. having fallen .06 of an inch since noon yesterday. Record of the thermometer as kept at the Brooklyn Dally Eagle Office: 2 A.

M. to day 78 I 10 A. 78 4 A. 78 I 12 83 6 A. 77 I 2 P.

85 A. 77 3 P. 86 Average temperature to day 80 Average temperature correopondlng day Last year 71 HIGH WATEE. Following Is the official announcement of the time and duration of high water at New York and Handy Hook for to morrow. August 17: A.

it. ,1 TlmelHelKht P. .1 TlmelHeJEht h. m. Feet.

I Dnrft'n el Rlie Fall h. u.b. m. M.I Feet 0:38 I Baddy I 3'9 4.2 1:27 4 5 II 5:54 8:35 4.8 II 0:08 6:25 The sun will rise to morrow at 5:10 A. M.

and will set at 6:57 P. M. SHIP NEWS. Incoming At New York. La Bretagne, from Havre.

Barcelona, from Hamburg. Kervla. from Liverpool. Eiffel Tower, from West Hartlepool. Douglass, from Bocas del Toro.

Hc rschel. from Santos. Katahdin. from Newport News, of Macon, from Boston. Fournel.

from Havre. Kal.sor Wllhelm. 2d, from Naples. Matanzas, from Tamplco. Tryg, from Havana.

City of Blrm Ingham, from Savannah. Vo3per. from Philadelphia. Foreign Shipping. Plymouth Arrived Columbia, from New York.

Newcastle Arrived Salerno, from New York' Dantzln Arrived Paula, from Baltimore Hamburg Arrived Arcadia, from Phllndelphla BrlKtol Arrived Xxter City, from New York I rrlon Arrlvad Florado. from Quebec Glen roy. from Darlen: Monte Vldean. from Montreal Liverpool Arrived Manchester Commerce from Montreal; Roman, from Montreal; Waesland from Philadelphia. Marseilles Arrived Rossall.

from Manlln Hull Sailed Aladdin, for Quebec. St. Lucia Sailed Huffon. for New York Lizard PjLSsod Amlrul Aube. Havre for Halifax; Bolivian.

Montreal, for Antwerp liellona Montreal, for Lelth: Ohio. New York 'for Hull OnHow. Paacagoula. for London: Rod'dam Pen rac ola. for Dubbledam; Saturnlna Pensacoin.

for Dunkirk. ror DIED. DAY (nee DWYER) On Wednesday August '5 1900. ANNIE DWYER. beloved wife of Edward Day and sister of James Dwycr and Mrs.

Charles Htrlpp, at her residence, Henry st, Brooklyn, N. Y. Funeral Saturday, August 18, at 2 P. M. 16 2 SKIFF The members of De Witt Clinton Council No.

410, It. are requested to attend the funeral services of our deceased brother CORNELIUS H. SKIFF, at his late residence! 30 Woodbine St. on Thursday evening Kith at 8 o'clock. 7RAN0IS N.

PENN, Regent. J. F. Chumasero, Secretary. Husband Declares the Trouble Was Due to Presence of Her Parents.

SAYS THEY UNNERVED HIM. A Physicians Affidavit Which Apparently Favors Both Sides of the Case. Lawyer Frayer, counsel for Mrs. Mary White Moore of West Brighton, S. this morning asked Justice John S.

Lambert, in Supreme Court, special term, for alimony and counsel fee in Mrs. Moore's action against Hudson Moore, a traveling salesman, with an ircome of $1,200 from a trust estate, for a separation on the ground of cruel conduct to her. Lawyer D. Arthur, for Mr. Moore, denied that the defendant had been cruel to his wife, and said that a reunion of the couple is sought.

Affidavits were handed up by counsel on each side, and among them were affidavits by a physician that seemed to favor both sides. Lawyer Frayer said Mr. and Mrs. Moore were married in December, and that Mrs. White accused her husband of conduct which made it no longer proper to live with him.

Mr. Moore, counsel said, has been addicted to liquor to excess for some time and has become violent and abusive. On one occasion, according to the complaint, he threw the plaintiff on the floor, injuring her spine. Finally he threatened to shoot her and she feared him so much that she occupied a separate room. At last, believing her life to be in danger, she left him.

Subsequently she became so seriously 111 that she went to a hospital and was kept alive by the administration powerful drugs. Her physician deposed that her condition was primarily, if not wholly, due to the defendant's treatment. Lawyer Frayer said the defendant derived an income of $1,200 a year from a trust fund and earned a $1,000 a year from his business. His conduct and language were such as to render him unfit to have the care of the children, for whose custody the mother asked. Lawyer Arthur in reply said he went to boarding school with the defendant, and had known him for many years.

Since Mr. Moore's marriage, counsel said, he had been on friendly terms with Moore's family. Mr. Moore first made the acquaintance, of his wife in 1S87 at a boarding house, where she was living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Skelling. She was a school teacher in her 27th year, and she is now 40 years old. Her parents supposed that Moore's mother was very rich, and they became very intimate with her. Mrs. Moore took Miss Skelling away with her and supplied her with clothing.

After Mrs. Moore died, a Isaacs took care of her. After young Moore became engaged to Miss Skelling, her parents found that Mrs. Moore was not so rich as they had thought, and their opposition to the marriage was so marked and Intense that Miss Skelling came to Brooklyn to board, leaving her family at West Brighton. An officer had to be employed by Miss Skelling to get her clothing from her parents.

Subsequently she was married to Mr. Moore at the Church of the Holy Communion, Manhattan. Moore's parents were there, but Miss Skelling's folks remained away. For seven years after the marriage Mrs. Moore's parents never communicated with her in any way.

Moore sent his wife away to the country every summer and they kept one or two servants. They lived happily enough up to 1897, when Mr. and Mrs. Skelling came to see them, without an invitation. They stayed two weeks, went away and returned to stay seven weeks more.

While they were there counsel said, they quarreled and Insulted the neighbors. They never conversed with Moore and their conduct was such that he at last told his wife that either her parents or he must leave. "Then, perhaps," Mrs. Moore said, "you had better go." Moore left his home and went to the Grand Union Hotel. He returned on the following Sunday for his clothes and found Mr.

and Mrs. Skelling still there. Moore was so unnerved that he became sick and his wife took him home. Lawyer Arthur said that he had an affidavit by the same physician who had made an affidavit for the other side. It was flatly contradictory of the other affidavit.

Either the doctor never signed one of them or the other was perjury, counsel said. Lawyer Frayer said he had affidavits to show that the defendant was not a drinking man and that he and his wife never quarreled until Mr. and Mrs. Skelling forced themselves upon their household. More affidavits are to be submitted.

EMPIBE WILL REOPEN. The theatrical season in the Eastern District will be in full swing early in September, according to the bill boards. Many people have been under the impression that the Empire, on South Sixth street, would not open this season, from the fact that the stage is in the path of the bridge approach of the East River Bridge and that some thirty feet more of the building will be required, thus destroying the use of the building as a theater. While the Bridge Commissioners have been purchasing property in the immediate vicinity of the theater, they have not so far as could be learned to day, made any proposal to the owner of the Empire building W. W.

Cole of West Twenty ninth street, Manhattan. At the theater the stage manager said to day that he believed that bookings had been made up to March next year, so that it was hardly probable that the owner expected that the building would have to be taken down before then. The Empire, as well as the recently renovated Lee Avenue Academy, will open September 3. CHABGED WITH LABCENY. John Gross, who lives at 435 Hamburg avenue was last night placed under arrest by Detective Meyer of the Hamburg avenue police station on a charge of petit larceny.

Until quite recently Gross was in the. employ of Nicholas N'. Hunterburg, a tea merchant, at 519 Grand stret. Since the young man left Hunterburg's service the latter claims that rebate tickets which he had been in the habit of giving out to attract custom were being returned to him and that he suspected that Gross had stolen and had been distributing them. The tickets so gathered in.

Mr. Hunterburg stated, amounted in value to $11.00. The accused was held in $100 ball for Special Sessions. 29 DAYS FOB INTOXICATION. Carl Meyer, 50 years of age, a heavily built German, was sent to Jail for twenty nine days by Magistrate Kramer, in the Manhattan avenue police court this morning on a charge of Intoxication.

Meyer is a cigar dealer at 33 Greenpoint avenue. He came home last night late and abused his wife. Toward midnight she ran, terrified, to the Greenpoint avenue police station and said that Meyer had threatened her life with a shotgun. Policeman Vance went to the house, disarmed Meyer, and arrested him. Meyer had broken several show cases in his own store before the policeman reached there.

SMITH GBADTJALLY RECOVERING. Lawn.nce Smith, who was severely burned in Sonnies' sulphur works at Kent avenue and Ross street, in the Eastern District, last Monday was, it was said at the Eastern District Hospital to day, gradually improving. It is feared, however, that Mr. Smith will not wholly recover his eyesight. BODY OF PAtTST POUND.

The body of Edward Faust, 19 years old, of 56 East One Hundred and Eighteenth street, was found in the North River at One Hundred and Fifty fifth street, Manhattan, this morning. Faust was drowned there on Saturday afternoon while bathing. COAL STEAMEB ASHOBEP The coal steamer Simon J. Murphy from Newport News for New Haven is said to be ashore on North Brother Island. MRS.

FRICKE IS FREE. Marriage Annulment Granted Ground That Husband Had Another Wife Living. Justice John S. Lambert in a special term of the Supreme Court has granted an order for annulment of the marriage of Mary E. V.

Fricke and William D. Fricke. They formerly lived at 127 Pacific street. The time to answer or demur in the case having elapsed, on motion of Horace Graves, attorney for the plaintiff. Justice Lambert de clared the marriage void.

Mrs. Fricke was married to William Fricke on March 10, 1891, by Judge Van Wart, and it appears that Fricke at that time was married to another woman, who was living in St. Louis. He married the latter in Brooklyn on November 5, 1890, her maiden name having been Emma A. Schaub.

Subsequently, she began an ac tion for Qivorce against Fricke, on the ground of absence for more than a year, in St. Louis. As soon as the second Mrs. Fricke learned that her husband had been previously married, she left him and has not since lived with him. The action to annul the marriage was brought on July 24 last, but Fricke has not appeared in court to answer.

There are no children of either marriage. Justice Lam bert allows Mrs. Fricke to assume her maid en name of Mary E. V. Grant.

AMERICAN ATHLETES BACK. Five Members of the TJ. of P. Team Arrive on the Servia. Track Five of the University of Pennsylvania athletes, who competed in the English championships at London and in the Olympic games at the Paris Exposition, returned this morning on the steamship Servla from Liverpool.

The men who returned are J. C. Mc Cracken, I. K. Baxter, W.

P. Remington, T. B. McCloln and E. R.

Bushnell. The Quakers report having had a delightful time while abroad. In regard to the treatment received while in England and Paris, the Pennsylvanians highly commended the courtesy shown them by the English and French officials. They were not, however. very enthusiastic over the very childish man ner In which the Frenchmen conducted the Paris games.

As one of the boys said: "The games were managed like the sports of a county fair." The other members of the Pennsylvania team are spending their summer touring Europe, but will return in the course of a few weeks. FELL FROM THE ELEVATED. Six Year Old Boy Was Walking Along the Girders Mother Died Yesterday. Henry Schlattmann, 6 years old, of 318 Lexington avenue, is lying in St. Mary's Hospital in a dying condition from a fractured skull, received by falling from the structure of the elevated railroad last night near his home.

The boy with a number of companions had been in the habit of climbing up the pillars of the structure and walking along the girders. It was while he was in the act of doing this that he lost his footing and fell striking the pavement on his head. He was unconscious when picked up and blood was oozing from his nose and ears. He was carried to his home and later removed to the hospital by Dr. O'Connor, where It was found that his skull was fractured at the base and that death would probably result.

His death to day was said to be but a question of a few hours. Edward Schlattmann, the father of the boy, Is an engineer in the employ of the L. His wife died suddenly yesterday and this, followed by the fatal injuries to his son, has made him frantic with grief. PATTPEBS' GBAVEDIGGEB DEAD. George Ferguson, aged 60 years, died August 5 at the Kings County Hospital of heart disease.

He had been an inmate of the Almshouse for several year3 and his duty was to bury paupers in potter's field. Ferguson was of this class, and he, too, was laid to rest in the ground where he had helped to bury so many. Nothing was known of him, save that he was born in Ireland and was a carpenter by trade. LINEMAN'S PATAL PALL. John McGrath, a lineman employed by a telephone company, was fatally hurt yesterday by coming in contact with a live wire.

McGrath was repairing a wire on a high pole at Cropsey avenue and Bay Seventeenth street, Bath Beach, when he touched a charged wire. With a scream he fell to the ground, a distance of about forty feet. He was picked up unconscious. His back was broken He was about 48 years old and lived somewhere in Pacific street. NO CONTBACTS YET AWABDED.

The New East River Bridge Commissioners did not meet to day and In consequence no award of the contracts for the bridge approaches will be made this week. The commissioners are to meet next Thursday, however, and It is possible some definite announcement of their decision will follow. The engineer Is meanwhile examining carefully the various bids and accompanying specifications for the purposo of making a report upon them to the commission. ATALANTA AT MOBSE'S YABD. The steam yacht Atalanta, recently sold by George J.

Gouid to the United States of Columbia, was towed from the Erie Basin yesterday to the Morse Iron Works, foot of Twenty sixth street. There she will be fitted out as a training ship and equipped with guns by the Driggs Seabury Company. She i Intended as a nucleus for a Columbian Navy. She will probably leave here within three weeks. DIED FBOM A SCALDING.

Sally Rowe, colored, 2 years old, of 32 Erasmus street, died to day from a scalding received yesterday. The little girl and her mother were going upstairs In their home, when by accident a boiler of water which the mother was carrying was upset. The child was frightfully burned and her death resulted as stated. BABCELONA ABBIVES LIGHT. The Sloman line steamship Barcelona arrived to day from Hamburg very light.

She brought 107 steerage pateeogera. The absence of inward cargo from the German ports is becoming very marked. Arthur Harris Taken at the Home of His Mother in Washington Detectives Sent After Him. Washington. August 16 Arthur Harris, who is wanted in New York for the murder of Policeman Thorpe, was arrested in this city this morning at the home of his mother.

Harris arrived here yesterday morning about 3 o'clock, unaware of the serious charge against him, and sought the house where his mother lived seven years ago, but found she had moved. By reason of his inquiries concerning her present address, the police authorities learned of his presence in the city and hastened to his mother's home, where he was taken Into custody. The New York authorities were notified. Assistant District Attorney O'Reilly said this afternoon that the murder of Policeman Thorpe would be presented to the Grand Jury Tuesday next without the formality of a coroner's inquest. It is the intention of the District Attorney's office, he said, to give Harris a speedy trial, and, if he should be guilty, "the trial and sentence would act as an object lesson to the rowdy element of the colored population that they cannot murder policemen in cold blood with impunity." Chief of Police Devery announced this morning that a telegram had been received by him from the police authorities at Washington.

D. announcing the arrest of Arthur Harris, the colored man who murdered Policeman Robert J. Thorpe of the West Thirty seventh street station. A warrant for the arrest of Harris was sworn out before Magistrate Cornell in the West Side Court this tnoning charging him with homicide ana placed in tne Hands of Detective Sergeant Phil Werner, who started for Washington at once in company wito a colored man. a friend of the murderer, who brought back to this city.

n.Vrf. ftr. i Etabbed the policeman, was' traced to New lark. N. thence to Cranneld, and on to Philadelphia, in which city he eluded the detectives.

There appears to be no doubt In the mind of Chief Devery that the man under arrest In Washington is Harris. HUNGARIAN WHISKY JAG. I.e'wis Couldn't Tell His Address, Even Whether He Was Married. From the windows of the Adams street i station at 8 o'clock this morning the police men there noticed an undersized man, in the uniform of a guard of the elevated railroad, stagger out of the saloon at the corner of Adams street and Myrtle avenue. The guard vainly tried to get his bearings, then piroueted around for a minute or two and fell flat on his back.

The policemen did not notice until then that the man was without shoes or stockings. He had the trim cheese cutter hat and the tidy uniform of the road, but the absence of foot covering puzzled the officers. After he fell he lay prone on the street and there was a suspicion that he had been badly hurt. A detail of four brawny policemen went out from the station to bring him in. He was apparently lifeless and there was a look of death in his eyes, which were staring open.

Two of the stout officers got hold of him by the arms and two others took his unclad feet and he was carried into the station and a hurry call sent for an ambulance. It 6eemed to be clearly a case for the coroner, but Sergeant McCauley thought It would be as well to have a medical opinion cf the cause of death. The doctor came after a wait of ten minutes or so. He looked at the prostrate form on the assembly room floor, felt the pulse which was feebly flickering, pulled down the lower covering of the eyes, looked at the pupils, smelled at the almost imperceptible breath and then staggered the official onlookers by declaring that the man was dead drunk and might get his senses back in an hour or two. It was hours before he came to his senses.

Then he first managed to tell the police men that his name was Jake Lewis, but he could not for the life of him tell where he lived. "It's all a blank to me," he said wearily. "All that I know is that I went over on Monday night to some, place on East Houston street and got drinking some kind of Hun earian whisky that tasted like medicine and I was all right when it got down, i don't I Irnnu ii nnvthliif. tiinrp a dnn't know PVP11 where I live. Maybe I am married.

Don't know. How did I get here, anyway, and where am He was put in a cell for further observation and may be well enough to morrow to appear in court. GOULD YACHT A TRAINING SHIP. Atalanta to Be Befitted for Its Purchaser, the Colombian Government. It was said at the Erie Basin this morning that the steam yacht Atalanta.

formerly owned by George J. Gould, and recently sold by him to the United States of Colombia, would be taken to Morse's Yard, foot of Twenty sixth street, in the course of the day. She will there be converted into a training ship for Colombia's Infant navy. She Is to mount four three inch guns and a 15 pound rille. The repairs that have been made upon her at Robin's yard were in fulfillment of an old contract with Mr.

Gould. WHITE HELD FOB HEABING. Frederick White, aged 48 years, pleaded not guilty in the Adams street court thij morning to a charge of grand larceny, which had been made against him by the manager of the Horton Ice Cream Company. The accused, whose home is at 265 St. Marks avenue, was employed as a driver and collector for the company and it is claimed that he failed to turn In $93 which he had collected.

He was arrested last night by Officer Howard of the Adams street court. This morning he was held ponding a hearing on Tuesday next. THE HESPEBIA ABBIVES. The Anchor line steamship Hesperla arrived last evening at the Union stores from Genoa, Leghorn, Palermo, Messina and Naples. She brought 293 Italian steerage passengers and a large cargo of fruit.

for blocks around. Finally the disturbance assumed such pro I 'hat Vie PlicemeI1 on beat realized 7. 1 telephoned to Acting Captain Cooney. The captain not only turned out the West Thirty seventh street reserves, but called up Police Headquarters, and from that point the policemen on reserve in West Twentieth street, West Thirtieth street and even as far up as West Forty seventh street were routed out and ordered to the scene of riot. For the next hour the streets were filled with the sound of flying, clanging patrol wagons, ambulances, the rushing of angry thousands, the shrieking of women, the lamentations of children.

From that time until 3 o'clock the police found they bad all that they could do to subdue the crowd. Driven from one neighborhood the mob surged into other streets, searched tenements for colored men and women whom they dragged forth and proceeded to kick and pound all over the streets until the victims were rescued by a rush of the police. In the meantime the negroes themselves were not backward in their own defense. Revolvers, knives and razors played a prominent part in the engagement and several persons suffered from gunshot wounds, cuts and stabs. In one encounter Policeman John Kennedy was cut in the arm and shoulder and seriously but not fatally hurt.

In return he shot one of his negro assailants, Lee, through the jaw and breast and he was otherwise so badly injured that it is thought at Bellevue Hospital that he will die. From the roofs of the tenements the negroes showered the police and rioters both with bricks, stones and sticks and inflicted some painful injuries. Not satisfied with attacking such blacks as could be found in the streets and tenements, the rioters boarded the Eighth and Ninth avenue cars and dragged negro passengers over the laps of the other passengers to the street where they were kicked and pounded into insensibility. James Rice, the conductor of a Ninth avenue car, was shot In the left leg by a negro passenger who was trying to defend himself, and was taken to Roosevelt Hospital. The mob invaded the various restaurants and attacked the negro waiters, and in some cases the restaurants were closed.

The police gradually restored order, but were not withdrawn from the neighborhood until late this morning. The arrests were numerous. The blacks were in the majority in the lists of prisoners. In several cases the police absolutely declined to arrest white men. IB one case on Eighth avenue, a ruffian in the mob even ventured to ask a policeman for his club to attack a negro bicyclist, who was already lying prostrate in the street.

The reserves of the station which had been on duty nearly all night were called in during the morning and after 5 o'clock there were only spasmodic troubles, a policeman once in a while bringing in a prisoner. Twn mono woj ttc'o Timet v. and Ethel Harris on suspicion of being the Harris who killed Thorpe. The man and his wife live at 22!) West Fortieth street, and two detectives hearins that a man named Harris lived there with his wife and that they were negroes went up and arrested them on no other evidence. They were taken to the station house and locked up.

They denied knowing anything about Thorpe, and said they had had no part in the disturbances. They were finally discharged, but were afraid to leave the station and were finally given cells for the night. The precinct was very quiet during the later hours of the morn ins. There were no signs of a renewal of the troubles and colored and white people passed one another without any sign that the terrible limes of last night had happened at all. Fifteen patrol wagons were required to take the prisoners of the West Thirty seventh street station to the West Side court this morning.

The rioters arrested were in a bad ctate. They we. bandaged up in many instances, but very many of them exposed their cuts and bruises, and they did not present a very cheerful appearance. David H. Tarr of 215 West Thirty fifth stre'et, the negro charged with cutting Policeman Kennedy, was arraigned by Policeman Dorsey.

He said he found Tarr running through West Thirty seventh street, toward Seventh avenue. His clothing and collar were bloody, and he arrested him. He was told by another officer that Tarr had stabbed Kennedy, and Kennedy identified Tarr as one of his assailants. Lloyd Lee, another negro, was arrested at the same time on the same charge, but he was bruised and bleeding from participation in the rioting, and they took him to Bellevue Hospital. Magistrate Cornell held Tarr without bail to await the result of Kennedy's injuries.

Other prisoners were arraigned, but the police were so unprepared as to pause the magistrate great annoyance. Many of them had no witnesses, but the magistrate, in most cases, held the prisoners for examination on the officers' simple statement. In the Jefferson Market court this morning the following prisoners arrested by the officers of the West Thirtieth street station were nnaigned: John Shank or 631 East Thirty seventh street, Richard Wilson of 51S East Thirty seventh street, Margaret Wicksman of 500 West Thirty seventh street, Charles Penis of SfiP West Thirty seven! street. Net tie Thevltcfc of 200 West Thirty seventh I To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. CLASSIFICATION.

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