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THE BEOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1901. KILLED A MINISTER'S SON. APPENDICITIS, NOT" SMALLPOX. GOLIMBU REBELS AIDED YOUNG FLflTBUSH THIEVES BROOKLYN AS A FIELD FOR SERVANT GIRLS' UNION CUBAN IRON AND S'TEEL IMPORTS.

Increase of 62 Per Cent. During Last Tear. Washington, 26 A comparative statement showing the Imports of iron and steel and their manufactures into Cuba, has been prepared by the division of Insular affairs of the War Department. The statement, shows that during the calendar year 1900 the aggregate value of iron, steel and their manufactures from all countries was $4,751,395, as against $2,930,845 during the calendar, year 1899. an increase of $1,820,550, or 62 per cent.

The imports of thesfe commodities from the United States In the year 1900 amounted In value to $3,685,829 as against $2,395,203 In 1899, an Increase of $1,290,620, or 54 per cent. HOT WEATHER IN KANSAS. Topeka, August 20 Kansas was given another touch of summer yesterday after three weeks of very moderate temperature, accompanied by cool nights and occasional rains. The mercury In some places vn roporrtftd at 106 and at ToDnkn It touched Report That the Chicago Organization Has Designs Upon Homes in This Community. HOUSEKEEPERS MUST BEWARE.

In Case of Difficulties Steel Strike Meth ods May Be Adopted to Seduce Employers to Submission. A growing murmur made Itself heard here to day that the Working Women's Association of America, or, in other words, the Hired Girls' Union, had extended its shelter and protection to Brooklyn. Activity In Chicago, the city in which the. union originated, is to be supplemented by bold and decisive strokes elsewhere. As Brooklyn Is a prominent rendezvous of the hired girl, tho prime movers of the union no doubt fastened their gaze upon this community among the first, so no housekeeper need be surprised If, at almost any time, her cook threatens to establish a general boycott, should her demands not be granted.

The appearance of the union in Brooklyn, with the fall and winter approaching, would bring serious difficulties. It Is said one of the distinct stipulations, sanctioned by the union, is that no hired girl shall work in any suburban district during the cooler six months of the year, and therefore all Broolt lynites who have settled in various parks, woods, hursts and crests, will be obliged to seek city quarters during the winter if they wish to hire any female help. This is the ultimatum of the hired girls and, though severe, It is Just. It is also elementary, but a rumor arises which puts the supplementary proceedings in a very different light. It is asserted positively that a suburban family which declines to pack up' and accompany Its girl to whatever city locality she may select will be in acute danger of boycott from the entire union force when they attempt to engage help the next summer.

Here in Brooklyn the union will probably inaugurate a new and elaborate system of protection for its members. The woman who thinks that, she has a monopoly of the reference prerogative will hereafter find herself checkmated. The union will permit no further insults to girls In the shape of requests for "character." It is tho employer herself who will be forced to stand up and take the third degree. Before a member of the union will permit herself to bo hired she will demand from her prospective mistress a satisfactory record. She will demand also the name of the girl who worked for the woman last and if the last servant's recommendation of the housekeeper Is not satisfactory, then will the housekeeper be told to depart.

This type of measure, it is thought, will prevent housekeepers from treating their servants thoughtlessly. A report has come from the West that the new servant girl's union intends to revolutionize domestic arrangements and that, as a part of this plan, It will insist upon the parlors being placed at tho servant's disposal at least three evenings every week. This, on first rate authority, may be branded as a deliberate falsehood, as well as an attempt to libel the union. What the organization really demands Is a separate parlor for the servant force. In which employes of the household shall be free to entertain their friends at any and all times.

Thus, the main parlor of the house will not be entered at all and by the officers of the union this is regarded as a very great concession indeed. The servants' parlor will, of course, have to be fitted up equally well as any other room in the house, and those who are now building houses in the suburbs will do well to remember. Strikes, of course, will be probable at all times and one of the first, in all likelihood, will take thi shape of the difficulty now pending In the steel Industry. As soon as tne organization of the union is perfected, every member will be obliged to go out. In order that housekeepers may be given a chance to unionize every home against the damaging influence of scab labor.

The union will deny the right of any girl to exist independently. It will require prompt obedience from every housekeeper and any woman who attempts to employ scab labor in defiance of the union, will be subjected at once to rigorous measures. Following the example so often displayed by male strikers, the striking servant girls will antagonize every Independent worker. They will surround houses, break windows, pull clean clothes off the line and drag them through the new mown mud and otherwise Indicate to the housekeeper that she made a mistake in refusing to recognize the authority of the Servant Girls' Union. This has not as yet come to pass in Brooklyn, but various forerunning reports give credence to the story that the worst is at hand.

AT NORTH BEACH. Long Island City, L. August 26 Although yesterday was the hist Sunday of the summer season there was no falling off in the rush of visitors to North Beach. The crowd was one of the largest of the year and the cool morning breeze brought many early visitors to the beach. There was a big fleet of sailing craft on the bay and the day proved one of the besY of the summer.

KILLED BY AN ELEVATOR. James Krause, while repairing an elevator this morning, was crushed to death underneath it by the parting of the cables. Albert Winter, who ran the elevator, was slightly cut on the arm by tho falling cables. CLOSE the' 105 mark. Wlch'i'ta recorded 104, Salina 105 and Atchison 102.

At Leavenworth there was several prostrations "form the heat. NUDE ART IN BUSHWICK CLUB. Interesting Question for President Quigley, Who Objected' to It, to Decide. The members of the Consolidated Bushwlck Democratic Club are wondering what the new president of that prominent social politico organization of ihe Bushwlck suction will do with the picture that hangs in the reception room of the Lafayette avenue club house, between the north window and the mantel. The picture is one that caused a commotion In the club some.

months ago, the noise of which never reached the public ear nor eye. It is a nude, done in a bromide print from a photograph of an oil painting and is a fine piece of artistic work. When it was first hung in the club reception room at the time of its presentation by John Weber, ex Assemblyman James F. Quigley, the recently elected president of tho club, then a plain member, objected vehemently to its presence in the reception room. He made a motion that the picture be removed to a remote room in the upper part of the building and the house committee, taking his view, had it removed.

Later on the then president, Adolph Petten koffer, and.others in the club persuaded the house committee to change its ruling and the picture was carried stairs and hung again, facing the door of the reception room, where all who entered tho club house might see it. Many of the members seemed to share Judge Quigley's opinion of its impropriety and every once in a while the picture would be found turned to the wall. The matter grew In interest among the members and some little feeling must have been created among some, because one night when President Pettenkoffer found the picture turned toward the wall and attempted to reverse it the supporting wire broke and It fell to the floor. It did not break, however. The picture was rehung and after the president announced that It would stay on the wall even if he had to get a new frame it stayed unmolested until the night of the first women's reception.

That evening he found the picture again turned toward the wall and being a great Joker and a student of human nature Mr. Pettenkoffer that time did not disturb it, he says, but instead watched proceedings. Discussing the matter of the picture with Mr. Quigley and an Eagle reporter Mr. Pettenkoffer said of tho reception night: "There wasn't the slightest objection to that picture hung upon the wall open to general Inspection and.

I don't think one woman who was present would have found fault with It on moral grounds, but the fact that It was turned to the wall made them curious and of course it created talk." "Well LbeHevo the picture is obscene and that hang In a club reception room," "said President Quigley. "Anthoay Comstock; if he knew it was exhibited, would take it down." "I am certain that it Is a valuable work of art and not obscene In any way, and I so stated at the time Mr. Quigley got after the house committee and urged them to remove it." said the former club president, "but it's up to the Judge, now that he Is tho club's executive, to deal with the matter." "What will you do with the picture. Judge." the reporter asked. Mr.

Quigley looked at It barely long enough to make sure that It was still on the wall and then said with a blush, "I don't know Just yet what to do. It's not a nice picture, I am sure, but the members seem to want it." It Is quite likely that the picture, before Mr. Quigley is president many weeks, will find a place In the same remote corner It once occupied. ACCUSES HER TENANT. Mrs.

Jensen Says Chambers Stole Several of Her Valuable Rings. Harry E. Chambers, who formerly lived with Mrs. Eliza A. Jensen at 554 Amersfort place, Vanderbllt Park, was arraigned before Magistrate Steers at the Grant street police court this afternoon, charged with stealing from her a diamond stud, a diamond ring' an emerald ring and a turquoise ring valued at $600.

He was held for $1,000 ball for the Grand Jury. Stephenson Judson, a 14 year old colored servant employed by Mrs. Jensen, says that one day last week Chambers gave him one dollar and said. "I have stolen Mrs. Jensen's jewelry.

I want you to take this and say nothing about it." ROOT IN WASHINGTON. Washington, August 26 Secretary Root returned to Washington to day and was at tho War Department devoting himself almost exclusively to insular business which had accumulated during his absence. BEHIND. Chicago Policeman Says He Fired While Defending Himself. Chicago, August 26 David Llndskog.

son of the Rev. Herman Llndskog, was shot and killed by Police Officer James H. Wiley yesterday. The shooting took place within fifty feet of the rectory, and the minister, hearing the shots, rushed out of the house and aided the police to lift hia dying son Into the am lance. Tho policeman declared ho fired while do fending himself against an attack by a ban 1 of young men.

He was badly cut and bruised in tho encounter. Later, three young men, said to have been companions of Llndskog in the fight, were arrested. STORM IN MINNEAPOLIS. Minneapolis. August 26 Minneapolis experienced a fierce rain, wind and hall storm about o'clock last evening which did much damage in the city and vicinity.

Reports from the surrounding country show that the storm covered a comparatively small area and It Is probable that little damage was done to crops. EIGHT HURT IN TROLLEY CRASH. An Accident on the Culver Road Caused by the. Snapping of a Brake Chain. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company had another trolley accident yesterday, in which eight people were injured and had' to receive medical aid.

None of them is injured seriously, however. The accident happened on the Culver Road, within a mile of where the collision of a week ago occurred, and. like that one, it was a collision when both cars were in motion. The cars were run to Coney Island yesterday at such an increased headway that It seemed as if they wore not more than five hundred feet apart when traveling at their highest speed. The accident happened at 4:30 In the afternoon, when the rush to the seashore was at its highest point.

Car of the Vau derbilt avenue line, loaded down with passengers and in charge of Motorman John Carr and Conductor Bergen Farnham. had Just reached the corner of Gravesend and Fort Hamilton avenues, when a roar was heard behind it. Passengers in the Vanderbllt avenue trolley were horrified to see a Fifteenth street car coming down the hill by the Greenwood Cemetery at a terrific rate of speed. This car was 1,070 and was in charge of John Lynch, as motorman, and John Glee, as conductor. "Get out for your life," shouted somo one in the Vanderbllt avenue car.

"The motor man has lost control of that car behind us and we'll all ho killed." That was Just tho case. In coming down tho hill. Lynch, In putting on tho brake, broke the chain and the Fifteenth street trolley shot forward down the hill. Motorman John Carr of the Vanderbllt avenue car took the situation at a glance and hastily throwing around tho controller on the motor box started his car ahead, so as to get away from the runaway car, If possible, or, at least, to ease the concussion. Had he not done so, a loss of life might have been recorded.

As It was, his car had not attained great headway or gono very far before tho crash came. The eight people who were injured as a result gave their names to the police of tho Parkvlllo station, who were called out to the extent of a whole platoon, as follows: Rose Rubensteln, 27 years old. 128 East Eighty second street, Manhattan, left leg bruised. William Cavanagh. 4 years old.

263 Nassau street, cut on tho face and head. John Cavanagh, brother of William, same address, 12 years old, cut on the left log. Sarah H. Smith, 60, of 32 West Fifty eighth street, Manhatan, cut on the left log. Mary Finnegan, 32.

of Summit street, cut on the forehead and a tooth knocked out. George W. Marx, 4 years old, of 244 High street, cut on the left side and nose badly bruised. John G. Houghton, 23, of 497 Seventh avenue, Manhattan, cut over the left eye.

Lizzie Mark, 33, of 58 Harmon avonuo, Guttenburg, N. Injured in tho loft sldo and contusion of spine. Ambulance Surgeon Cran of tho Seney Hospital and Dr. John E. Kano, a passenger on the Fifteenth street car, patched up tho wounds of all the Injured.

None of them went to tho hospital, but all went homo with their friends. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CONCLAVE. Many Commanderies Arrive at Louisville Formal Reunions Held To day. Louisville, August 26 Trains bearing Knights Templar and their friends arrived In great numbers to day and by evening tho city will be crowded with visitors. The streets were filled with marching detachments.

Scarcely a building was without Its streamers or a gorgeotio dress of bunting. Even shop windows were trimmed in Masonic emblems and street fakirs, not be outdone, painted Maltese crosses on the top balloons they hawked about. At local headquarters the opinion was expressed that the conclave which will begin to morrow will prove tho most notable ever held. Among the commanderies which arrived during the morning were Connecticut, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia (accompanied by the famous Marine Band); West Virginia, New York, Ohio and Georgia. Tho Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio delegations are numerically the strongest represented.

To day was occupied with informal reunions and the escorting of commanderies to their homes whilo In the city. The festivities of the conclave will begin at 8 P. when the grand commandory of Kentucky and the subordinate commnn derles of the state will give a reception to officers and members of the Grand Encampment at the Custom House. POSITION FOR THE FARMER. Magistrate Furlong received a communication this morning from a man In Frocport, L.

who requested that his name be not made public, offering to give permanent employment to Frederick Nclmttz, a homeless Austrian farmer, who was urraigned before the magistrate in the Gales avenue court on Friday last, charged with vagrancy, and whom the latter liberated and employed as gardener. The sender of ihe communication stateil that he had read an account of the man's arraignment in the Eagle and that. It had Influenced him to make an offer of employment. is l.rntnble ihai ihe request will be compiled with by the magistrate. HAY TO RESUME VACATION.

Washington. Augu. Secretary n. iy will leave Washington this afternoon for his MT iit Wv. hnrv.

to resume the vacation Interrupted by the calls of bus Iness. in his short visit to Washington and Cnlmi tile secret a rv managetl to dlspohc of an accumulation Important business that would have required much correspondence and consumed much time had lie remained in New Hampshire. KILLED ON A BARGE. Hugh McGee. years old.

of fill West Nineteenth street, employed by the Me. chants' Ice Company to unload Ice from their barges at the foot, of W' st Thirty, fourth street, Manhattan, slipped ami fell Into the hold of a barge and was killed. PRIVATE BANK CLOSED. Marietta. August 2fi Tl)e Hank or Now Washington County, a private Institution, closed Its doors to day.

It Is said the bank had deposited with the Superior Street Savings and Hanking Company. Cleveland, which closed last Friday. Bf OTHER RE Intrigues in Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombiaand NicaraguaThreat en International Trouble. A DISRUPTED FEDERATION. Talk of a New Consolidation Colonv bian Government in Financial Straits.

Colon, Colombia. August 23. via Kingston, Jamaica, August 26 The censorship hero prevents the transmission of political news or news unfavorable to the government. The revolt of the Liberal Colombian rebels, now two years old. lately assumed a more serious aspect by the Liberals' concentration on the Isthmus.

It is believed they are contemplating aggressive action. Consequently, uneasiness prevails at Panama, the Liberal objective, which was nearly captured a year ago. It is not believed the rebels will molest the railroad or interrupt traffic. The recent rebel raids along the railroad amounted to bloodless raidine: and tho robbery of Chinese storekeepers, which the presence of a few government troops apparently stopped. There is a report that the government is bringing troops to protect tho isthmus.

This will bo difficult without exposing to rebel attacks the points whence they arc taken. The area of the revolt is extensive. A noticeable and distinguishing feature of the revolution is the actual and moral support the Liberals arc receiving from Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua, In which countries Liberal governments prevail. Colombia's conservative government is not popular with the governments of the countries mentioned, but is popular with the revolutionary elements in the same countries. The situation can be likened to a disrupted federation, composed of Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua, in which Liberal and Conservative partisans are helping each other and intriguing together.

But, being separate nations, the political and armed intrigues threaten international trouble. It is reported that the Conservative revolt In Venezuela against President Castro is receiving actual support from the Colombian Conservatives. Nicaragua's threatened revolution will probably be similarly aided when the occasion arises. These conditions give ground for the reports of actual or threatened international complications between the countries mentioned, In which tho Liberals aro generally opposed to Colombia's Conservative administration, whose prophesied downfall Is accompanied by talk of a federation or consolidation of some or all of the countries mentioned, under the Idea of a "Greater Colombia." The Colombian government Is in straits, financially, at present: At present forty Colombian paper dollar are equivalent In value to one gold dollar. The government is printing paper money Indiscriminately, lately established heavy export duties, payable in gold, and has sold monopolies and privileges of all kinds, all of which has greatly injured commerce.

The conditions in the interior are bad. Ths government is well supplied with ammunition and this week unsuccessfully tried to become possessed of consignments of tha same to Ecuador and Nicaragua In transit over tho Panama Railroad. The rebels on the Isthmus aro hampered by a lank of arms and ammunition, and aro reported to he awaiting tho arrival of shipments and tho presence in the field of certain leaders before commencing activities on the Isthmus. General Albans, governor of Panama, who was recently granted extraordinary civil and military powers on both sides of tho isthmus, is now at Sa van ilia. He is supposed to be bringing troops for the protection of the Isthmus.

He lately Invited a number of friends at Panama to his house, put a guard at the door and forced his friends to contribute liberally to tho government before releasing them. A Colombian holding monopolies under the Conservatives Is being forced to contribute liberally to the payment of soldiors and. police of the isthmus. The Liberal revolutionary movement In Colombia Is well supported throughout the country and It is generally believed that It will eventually succeed. If the Liberals could win without too much bloodshed, the foreigners on tho isthmus would welcome their administration.

Somo decisive turn in the present state of affairs is wanted, as being preferable to tho present perturbations. But there Is nothing to show that the Liberals would govern the country any better than tho present administration. Judging upon political principles, the Liberals are no better than the Conservatives, and vice versa. The situation contains many of the opera bouffe conditions generally attributed to similar revolutions in South and Central America. The present revolution has heen bloody, and certain encounters have been stubbornly fought, but.

the deaths1 and suffering have been very largely among, tho Ignorant soldiers of both sides, whom the leaders manijiulato for political ends. Tho government has nbout 400 soldiers on the Isthmus, while the whole army amounts to from to 35,000 men. The Namouna, now called the General Pin zon, is useless, because she lacks a crew. Tile natives seem Incapable of properly handling her, and lack of proper can is likely to render the vessel permanently useless. It is understood that the government is trying to get American officers for the Namouna.

The loss of the gunboat La l'opa. the remainder of whose crew Is now reported snfo, was a blow to the government, which now has only two small gunboats on the Atlantic and three on the I' clfic. Interior communication, traffic nnd transportation are bail, especially between the isthmus nnd the rest of the country. Commerce the Magdalcna River continues at a standstill. The government, is occasionally running armored steamers connecting with Hoico'a.

but til. river traffic Is subjected to rebel Interference. Tb Isthmus district of Colombia In prae ilcailv distinct from the other parts of the country, canal and railroa 1 treaties facilitating transportation and making Colon and Panama almost free ports. Cenc. continued absence causes uneasiness in uovernrnerit circles.

His powers give him unrestricted sway over the Isthmus, and the link of communication with liogota, the capital, renders more or les Independent of the Government. The arrival of American warships Is expected. The Impression prevails locally thnt In of trouble on the Isthmus the United States will tlvey imerrcro. ODD FELLOWS TO MEET. Attendance of 100,000 Expected at An I mini Convention of Grand Lodge.

I Indianapolis. Angus' Preparations fur ih" sev. seveni annual convention of the Odd Fellow. Sovereign Crand Lodge. in this city, iw.

ninnii.t; three weeks from to i are prn'li. aliy Imbibed. The commlt tees are rooming an attendance of 100. Ooi'i lnrludl.vi: visitor and deP i aics. Kvery Stan in the Colon is to be represented, (nhcr visitors "ill eorie from Canada Nova Scitia.

M. xleo ami Kurope. The Patriarchs Militant, ihe military branch of th" order, will be In camp at tbo Plate Kair grounds and appear In daily drills and parades. REDDELL STEWART. Saturdny a' P.

M. at the Church of tho Kplil'baay. M' HonouKh street and To. np'tin avenue. Kob.

ft Rcddoll of 1. Atlantic avenue, was married to Miss 'harlot te Stewart, who re. Ides at IS Agate Court. The ceremony was performed by the llev. Dr.

Dean Richmond Iiabbett, rector of lb" parish. The official witnofcseK were Arthur Taylor and Mr. K'jsauua, UlbbQaa, Illness of Passenger on the Arundel Created Panic. Rochester, N. August 26 Sensational rumors were current yesterday at Charlotte that one of the passengers on board the steamer Arundel from the Thousand Islands had been left at Oswego suffering from smallpox.

The report, however, was denied by the vessel's officers. Harry Reed, 20 years old, came on board the Arundel at Alexandria Bay and soon afterward was taken, violently ill. When the steamer put In at Oswego at 8 o'clock last night Reed was removed to the Oswego City Hospital, where the physicians pronounced his case to be one of appendi citis. The passengers, numbering about 600, were at first badly frightened, but were reassured by the Oswego physician diagnosis of Reed malady. BOSTON MAN INDICTED.

Cleveland, August 26 The special Grand Jury called to Investigate the crib disaster has returned an Indictment against W. G. Marshall of Boston, charging him with selling and disposing of bogus stock In a deal with W. B. White, general manager of the American Chicle Company and son of ex Congressman W.

J. White. It is alleged that White was given bogus stock in a St. Louis' lead company in exchange for a tallyho, a $2,000 horse and four notes for $2,000 each. OBITUARY.

Gustave Kreutzer. Gustavo Kreutzer, who died Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock of acute Brlght's disease after an illness that confined him in bed only twenty four hours, for many years conducted a drug establishment at 13 Chauncey street, opposite Troy avenue, and was a widely known and popular fraternal man. At the beginning of last month Dr. Marion told the druggist he was a sick man, but he persisted In attending to business as usual. A few.

months ago the druggist removed from the Chauncey street store and opened a new place at 222 Bushwlck avenue, corner ot Montrose avenue, in the Sixteenth Ward. Deceased was born in New York City, March 24, 1859. He was educated at Union University in Albany. He was a member of Cexes Lodge, No. 225, I.

O. O. of which he was past noble grand; and Franklin Council, No. 253, Royal Arcanum. He was a collector of stamps and geological specimens and leaves a collection of value.

A widow and one daughter survive the deceased. Dr. Bow dish, who was an intimate friend of the deceased druggist, will officiate at the funeral services, which are to be held to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the late residence, 703 Bushwlck avenue. The Interment will be in Lutheran Cemetery. POLISHERS ON A STRIKE.

Effort Is Being Made to TTnioniz the Greenpoint Metallic Bed Company Plant. The polishers and buffers employed at the Greenpoint Metallic Bed Company, at Franklin and Green streets, are out on a strike. The polishers left the shop on Saturday afternoon and the buffers went out this morning. The strikers number about thirty five. There are about four hundred men employed by the factory, but the strike affects only the employes named.

The men on strike are endeavoring to make a union shop of the factory, that Is, as far as their particular branches of the trade are concerned. Several of the strikers that were on the street in the neighborhood of the works this morning informed the Eagle reporter that there was no question about wages, and the only difficulty was that it was not a union shop. They said, however, that there was some danger of them being superseded by foreigners sooner or later if the union was not recognized. One of the strikers said that only a short time ago there was a strike of some of 'the polishers that were not getting the union wages of $15 a week, but after being out for a day and a half the employer acceded to the demand and paid the men what they askeo. an enon was being made to unionize the shop.

At the office of the factory St was said that the men left because they wanted them to make it a card shop, but that the company would not accede to their request. As yet no inconvenience was being experienced In getting out the work. WILL PUT IN SWITCHES. Rapid Transit Company to Adopt the Suggestion of State Commission. It was said to day at the office of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company on Montague street, that in all probability the suggestions made by the State Railroad Commission as a further means of safety to passengers, after its investigation of the recent disaster at Kensington Junction, would be adopted.

It is likely that a derailing switch will be pieced in the south bound track of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad about 10(1 feet from the clearance point at Kensington Junction. A switch of the same kind may be placed In the southbound track some 200 feet from the point of clearance. These derailing switches will be connected and Interlocked with the switches and signals of the Junction and operated from the tower. DEATH OF SAMUEL YOUNGS. (Special to the Eagle.) Oyster Bay.

L. August 26 The funeral services of Samuel Youngs, eldest son of the late David Jones and Cornelia Townsend Youngs, of Oyster Bay, took place at St. George's Church, Manhattan, at 11 o'clock this morning. The interment will be in the Youngs family burial plot at Oyster Bay. Mr.

Youngs died suddenly at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia', on Thursday last. Mr. Youngs, who was for many years a member of the firm of Jones Youngs of this town, was brother in law of ex Assembly 'man William J. Youngs, and was related to the prominent Jones and Townsend families of Queens County. TWO ITALIANS EIGHT.

Paoquale Cordello, aged 21 years, of 590 Sixth avenue, was arrested last night at Seventeenth street and Seventh avenue, accused of stabbing Antonio Rignor of 309 Ninth avenue In the neck, body and arms. The Injured man was taken to Seney Hospital and there Identified Cordello as his assailant. The assault is said to have resulted from an altercation between the two men. Cordello was held to await the result of Rlg ner's injuries. MAY HAVE LYNCHED NEGRO.

Macon, August 26 It is possible that Henry Stewart, a negro hackman of this city, has been lynched. Stewart, It Is said, went into one of the suburbs and Insulted a young white woman. Some of the men in the neighborhood got after him, and It is said they were seen at a late hour last night with the negro, going in the direction of the swamps. PARTRIDGE'S NEW ASSISTANT. Albany, August 26 Superintendent of Public Works Partridge to day appointed J.

WInslow Meade of Rochester as deputy superintendent of public works, at a salary of $4,000 per year, with $1,000 for expenses. Mr. Meade has been chief clerk in the department for the past six years. WOMAN ACCUSED OF THEFT. Kate Dunn of Sunnyslde, L.

pleaded guilty to the charge petty larceny in the Manhattan avenue court this morning, and was held for the Court of Special Sessions. The woman was arrested on Saturday night by Patrolman Kelly o.f Stagg street station house, on the charge of stealing articles valued at $6 from a Manhattan avenue dry goods store. She Is said to be the wife of a brake man on the Long Island Rallrad, and has three BY KEEPING OPES SUNDAY They Declare New Closing Measure Is a Clear Discrimination Against Fresh IVleat Business. WORKS HARDSHIP ON THE POOR. Butcher Says if a Man Can Buy Flour on Sunday He Ought to Be Able to Buy a Steak.

There is great dissatisfaction among butchers and fish dealers and their patrons over tho provision of the new Sunday closing law, which makes it a violation for butchers and fish men to sell their meats on Sunday. An effort may be made to have the law declared null and void on the ground that it is a clear, discrimination against the butchers and fresh meat business, and, therefore, is not a fair ami just measure. The new law is to go into effect on next Sunday and the butchers are considering the advisability of defying the measure and keeping open their places as usual on Sunday. Some butchers say they are disposed to keep open until 10 o'clock, In common with other lines of business which are permitted to be opened until that hour. The butchers point out that in making the law the Legislature enacted a clear discrimination against them by the insertion of the following language: "The provisions of the section, however, shall not be construed to allow or permit the oublic sale or exposing for sale or de livery of uncooked flesh foods or meats, fresh or salt, at any hour or time of the day." Preceding this provision the law enacts: "All manner ot public selling or offering for sale of any property on Sunday Is prohibited, except that articles of food may be sold at any time before 10 o'clock in the morning, and except also that meals may be eaten on the premises where sold or served elsewhere by caterers; and prepared tobac co, milk, ice and soda water in places other than where spirituous liquors or wines are kept or offered for' sale, and fruit, flowers, confectionery, newspapers, drugs, medicines and surgical appliances may be" sold in a quiet and orderly manner at any time of the day." A number of leading Brooklyn butchers were seen by a reporter for the Eagle today and the consensus of opinion among them is that the law Is unfair and some denounce It as an outrage.

They say it will work a hardship against the poor people, especial ly in the summer time, and that there Is no reason why the meat business should be sin gled out for adverse legislation. A prominent butcher said: "This law Is very unfair. It discriminates against the meat market men and will Injure their business apparently without reason. Under the law grocery stores, restaurants, drug, tobacco and other lines of business may be kept open on Sundays, It being per missible to sell articles of food up to j.u o'clock. Why should a person be privileged to buy a bushel of potatoes and not allowed to buy a pound of steak on Sunday? There is no more necessity for buying a sack of flour on Sunday than there Is of buying a pork chop.

No, not as much. Flour and potatoes and sugar and almost every article kept In grocery stores are not perishable and can be bought on Saturdays or other days of the week and kept over Sunday without danger. It Is different with meats. Fresh meats must be kept on Ice or in very cool places during the summer months. Comparatively few people are able to maintain refrigerators and they are unable to buy ice for them.

This class of people are as much entitled to a nice piece of steak on Sunday as any other class. The keeping open of tho butcher shops on Sunday morning enables patrons to order their meats on Saturday and have it kept in the market Ice boxes and preserved. It is called for or delivered fresh and cold on Sunday morning. If it is taken homo and not placed on lco or In refrigerators the chances are that it will spoil cr taint if the weather is at all warm. If everybody had refrigerators and Ice boxes It would be all right to close the meat markets on Sunday.

"This law is a severe blow at the poor people and it works a great inconvenience and hardship upon a great portion of the people. The butchers do not believe the law will stand if taken to the courts bo cause it is unjust and is a distinct discrimination against the butchers in favor of other lines of business. The constitution of tho state and the United States provide that all laws shall be uniform and fair. Nobody with ordinary intelligence and a sense of fairness will say that a law which makes It legal to sell a pound of soap and Illegal to sell a pound of beef on Sunday Is uniform or Just. It Is absurd.

On the ground of necessity or because of the perishable nature of fresh meats and fish there is far greater reason for allowing the sale of meats on Sunday than there is for other articles of food which may be sold under the law. "The talk of keeping open the butcher shops under the pretense of selling groceries Is Idle, as the law will no more permit tho sale of meats in grocery stores than It will such sale In the regular butcher shops. This fact more clearly indicates the unfairness of the law. It singles out the fresh meat business directly." Several of the principal market shops in the downtown district have posted signs in their places stating that on and after next Sunday the markts will not be kept open on Sunday mornings as heretofore. Patrons are being notified of the law and advised to buy their Sunday meats on Saturdays hereafter.

The result is there Is much complaint on the part of consumers. The boarding house contingent is especially angry wltn the law makers. As usual, the poor seem to bo taking the new law as a matter of course, regarding it as one of the many blessings cast upon them by a kindly legislature. They will try to reconcile their necessity of eating hot and perhaps bad meat on Sundays with the privilege of the more fortunate who can have good cold meats from their refrigerators. FOUR AGAINST ONE.

Uneven Contest Between Italians in a Hallway, in Which a Woman Used a Razor. Four Italians, one a woman armed with a razor and a big carving knife, were lunging at a man, another Italian, with marked success, at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when ratr'olman Michael HInes, of the Iiergon street station, came along. The light was occurring in the hallway of 24S Fourth avenue, and the single man was evidently getting the worst of it whim the policeman appeared. He had several bad cuts about the head and body from which In was bleeding profuselv. Hp was trying to get up stairs.

Patrolman Hincs managed to Hank tho whole partv and, though they made enough noise to arouse a nearby undertaker, who telephoned to the Bergen street station for assistance. HInes held them all at b. in the hallway until aid arrived. They were arraigned before Magistrate Naumer for assault this morning and the assailants gave the names of John Rosso. Mathilda Rosso.

Joa Poncr and Joseph Rosso. The Injured man, who was Vnntrili fiomlnlra. had been taken to the Seney Hospital. The party of four pleaded not guilty and were held in J.V) ball each for further examination Wednesday morning. Dominica Is likely to be in tbo hospital for some time.

THE COURTS. MOTION TKItM. Supreme Court, special term fer motion. War tin I. stiver.

.1. Kx I'art. t'iuUneH at 30 o'clock. Motion cnl mlar culled at 11 THE LIMIT OF FAITH. He studied Christian Science, Till he said, without a blink, "The thoughts we think are unthoitglit.

For we only think we think." Baltimore American. IIT THEY ARE GUILTY. Robbed Vacant Houses of Valuable Electric Lighting Apparatus. MANY RESIDENCES ENTERED. Young Thompson Declines to Admit That He Had a Hand in the Robberies.

The! police the Grant street station, who have been reviled many times for their to capture the burglars that have infested: Fatbush for several years, covered themselves with glory late Saturday night when, arrested three young men on a charge of stealing electric lighting apparatus from 'vacant houses. The police have been watching out for petty thieves of this caliber for long time. men arrested are Cyril Van Winkle. 18 years old. of 3S Sterling place; George Hall.

19 years old. of 3,222 Avenue and Frank Thompson 18 years old, of 1,003 Flat bush avenue. It is charged against them that they entered a house on Ocean avenue, recently completed by John P. Bickford, a real estate agent of Flatbush avenue and Avenue D. but which had never been occupied, and from which, it Is alleged, they took a quantity of electric lighting apparatus.

This material the boys were to sell to Hurst Meyers, electricians, of 889 Flatbush avenue. The young men made their first call on the electricians on Saturday afternoon, but Mr. Hursts being suspicious, asked them to call again at night. In the meantime the police had been notified and when ihe young men came to dispose of their goods. Captain Knlpe and another officer stepped out from behind a screen arid arrested them.

Van Winkle and Hall, who is said to be a cousin of John R. Corbin. a. well known builder of Vanderveer Park, confessed that they had stolen the goods, but Thompson refused to implicate himself. He was given the third degree in the captain's office on Saturday night, where It.

is said that Mr. Bickford identified the push buttons and wire as having been taken from his house. "How' do you identify It?" asked Thompson. "It there any mark on it?" replied Mr. Bickford, dubiously, "but I know what I bought." "Well, they're selling thousands of things like, those every day and they're all made so I don't see how you're going to prove your property." Van.

Winkle and Hall pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary yesterday and were held to. await the action of the Grand Jury. Lawyer, William Adams Robinson, who represents all three of the prisoners, attempted to secure ball for Van Winkle last night, and after he had done so he says that Magistrate Steers refused to accept it. Thompson's case be heard on Thursday morning. He was brought back from the jail this morning and taken before Magistrate Steers, where It planned to have him confess and others, but Thompson refused to be drawn into the game and gave no information whatever.

The police are trying to prove that. Thompson is the ring leader of the but Lawver Robinson expects to secure his acquittal. Among the many houses from which electric lighting apparatus has been stolen were ones, owned by the following firms: Christopher Brown. Flatbush avenue and Avenue. John R.

Corbin of Vanderveer George J. Crageu. Bogers and Church avenues; Flatbuh avenue and Mnlbone, street, and John D. Bickford. The police have also secured a woman's fur cape, an umbrella and various other articles of Cress, and household use, but they refuse to say whether they will 'try to prove that the young men arrested took them or not.

ERIE TO ABSORB: ROAD. Statement That Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Will Be a Part of the System. Indianapolis, August 26 The Sentinel today says: Railroad officials high in rank made the statement here last night, on what they said was authoritative Information, that the Erie system has finally taken over the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad and that tho negotiations that have been In progress for some weeks have at last been closed. The final steps are to be taken, it is said, at a meeting In New York the first of this week, when the transfer will be made. President F.

D. Underwood of the Erie system, with a party of Erie officials, including the. auditors of the road, were in Cincinnati Saturday making a detailed examination cf the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road in that city. The merging of the two properties, it 13 said, has been very closely guarded and this Is the first time the announcement of the deal has been made. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton officials were ordered to report early at their offices should the Erie people desire to ask any questions.

It Is stated also that President Woodford of the Indiana. Decatur and Western may turn over the road to the Erie owners as the system is the Cincinnati, Hamilton ana Daytons Western feeder. Inquiry was made of E. B. Thomas, chairman of the Erie Board of Directors, to day as to a report that absorption was Imminent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and the Indiana, Decatur and Western by the Erie.

General Thomas declined to talk concerning the report. The supposition has been held for some time that the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton was destined for absorption or combination with another system. Gossip at one time Dointed to the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville as the absorbing road. But rumors of the Erie plan have been current several times and Erie stocks have been in large demand on the Stock Exchange for several days. There is reason to believe that the accounts of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, and the Indiana, Decatur and Western are under investigation on behalf of the Erie.

TO PROBE DETECTIVE BUREAU. Chicago, August 26 The Civil Service Commission will begin its investigation of thf) city detective bureau this afternoon. The specific charge to bo Inquired into will be that Lieutenant Joyce and Sergeants Tracy and Cramer collected from the state of Illinois $75 as expenses for bringing a prisoner named Larkin back from Cleveland. The matter really goes further than this, however, and it is the purpose of Acting Mayor Walker and Superintendent of Police O'Neill to uncover the entire workings of the detective bureau. TWO MEN STABBED.

Seneca Falls, N. August 26 Justin Apple and George Smelzer of Geneva and James Colgan and Edward Relfe of this village became involved In a quarrel at Bull's Grove yesterday afternoon. At 10 o'clock, while on the way to Cayuga Lake Park to take a trolley car, the men met again and resumed the quarrel, during which Apple and Smelzer were both stabbed with a large pocket knife. Apple died this morning and Smelzer is not expected to live. Relfe 'and Colgan were arrested.

BOY'S LEG ON CAR TRUCK. Poughkeepsle, August 26 A boy's leg which had been severed near the thigh was found on the truck of a car on the Montreal express bound to New York to day. The inspector here refused to remove the grew some object, so It was carried on to New It Is supposed the accident happened somewhere on the Hudson River division last Saturday night. Nothing Is known here of the other parts of the tody. Dlnnett Do you ever follow your wife's advlcef Killett I nevor havo the chance.

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