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THE BROOKLYN DAILY A GrLE ATUB AY JUNE 15. 1889 SIX PAGES. well as jjublic success among the French as FIZZLED AGAIN. HOW IT BEGAN. THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW Y0KK.

Annual Meeting the Hotel nrnnit wick tators. Last ovening tho anniversary of tho literary societies took Dlaco in the Opera House. The programme consisted of an address for each of the four literary societies of tho institution, the presentation of diplomas, and responses. Thero are forty graduates, but only twenty two are members of these societies. to the Government if it should be under the administration of that desperate man, James G.

Blaine perhaps more desperate in his present silence and reserve than in his most aggressive activities. The Undertakers and Their Itival. The United States Funeral Directing Company is the name under which several enterprising capitalists have joined forces with the SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 15, 1889. been arreBtod for receiving deposits, knowing that the bank was insolvent.

The North German Lloyd steamer Trave. from Bremen to New York, sunk tho Russian schooner David in tho North Sea. No livos were lost. The Washington Memorial Arch fund has reached $43,547.31. Two Uvea wore lost in a tenement house fire on Norfolk street, New York.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's losses by the flood will not exceed $3,000,000. Alexander Henderson (colored), hanged at Bainbridce, for the murder of Henry Jones and his 7 year old daughter, confessed on tho scaffold. Devoe. tho Hackennack weather prophet, is on hand with a prediction of a cyclone on the lflth fnst. While riding at the head of a nneral procession Rev.

W. F. Kramer, of tho Reformed Church of Lebanon, was struck by a locomotive and instantly killed. Governor Beaver says that lumber is tho great need of Johnstown just now. Four hundred Chippowas out in Minnosota are on tho warpath.

They have already killed seven men. Rev. Frederick W. Eason, of Crnston, was pummeled on the streets of that city by an angry husband. Tho Standard Sugar Refinery of Boston lias purchased 200,000 tons of Cuban sugar at 4 cents per pound.

An unknown woman committed Buicido by jumping over the falls at Niagara. Miss Leonora Bolles, of Now York, has left $30,000 to the Middlotown Insano Asylum. Henry Johnson, Aged 80. an esteomed farmer of Perry, N. blew out his brains with a shotgun.

He was despondent. Mr. Gladstone addressed an enthusiastic audience at Launceston. Fighting lias occurred between French and Italian navvies in France. Alexander Sullivan haH been released.

He furnished bail in tho amount of James Stubbs, a wealthy English salt manufacturer, died suddenly at tho Astor House of heart disease. A handsome $20,000 residence on West Sixtieth street, New York, whb destroyed by tho blasting mon sense views which it proclaims. These views, in the Eagle's judgment, will appeal to the sonso of justice of nine men out of every ten. Nowhere in the world is there so much litigation resulting from accidents at railroad crossings as there is here, and it is of the utmost importance that the principles of law governing such matters should be defined in the clearest possible manner. It is true that tho railroad system of the country is yet in its infancy, and that some allowance must be made for lack of means and opportunity to provide all the safeguards which characterize railroad travel abroad.

Yet because public sentiment is inclined to be lenient with railroad corporations in some of tho broader respects, there would appear to be all the more reason why such corporations should live strictly up to what is really expected of them. If they are permitted to cross thoroughfares at grade instead of being required either to tunnel or build above them, the very least they can do is to make such grade crossings as sufe as possible, and demand more than ordinary precaution on tho part of their engineers and other employes. Sacrifice of life and injury to limb are not things which can be smoothed over by mere payment of dollars and cents, and public sentiment cannot hold to too rigid a responsibility all corporations, railroad or otherwise, against which carelessness or neglect has been proved. The decision of the Court of Appeals in the Spooner case should be a source of general satisfaction, inasmuch as it clears thp atmosphere of a great deal of doubt regarding tho responsibility of railroad companies and does away with certain loopholes out of which they have only too long been able to crawl. We congratulate Judge Bartlett on the soundness of his rulings, every one of which was confirmed by the court of hist resort.

Police KcinfnrccmcHtii Needed. Tho recommendations submitted by Police Commissioner Bell to the Board of Estimate deserve tho favorable consideration of that body. The most important feature of the Commissioner's schedule is that which relates to the forco of patrolmen. At present tftero are about 900 policemen detailed for ho won with the English. For the very rea son that they are a theatrical people tho former will be quick to detect the theatrical quality of the show.

Nobody, of course, will question the reality of the Indians and their ponies or the genuineness of the mail coach which submits to daily attack on the plains But the setting and routine of the thing are histrionic. Even the amiable Red Shirt and the other mild mannered savages know that they are on view. William himself has felt the demoralizing effect of an effeminate civil ization. Involuntarily the spectators doubt that, if the acted scene were actual, he would undertake the business with the old time relish. The French will incline to think that they could produce as well appearing cowboys and scouts and aborignees in their own theaters if they took the trouble.

They might not care to take it, for they are scarcely in sympathy with the rude and adventurous life of a new country as are tho hardier British. The Samoa. it Settlement. The result of the Samoan conference is a tripartite agreement which was signed at Berlin last evening by the representatives of England, Germany and the United States, The. exact contents of the instrument are not revealed, but a syllabus of them reported by cable indicates that the line of ne gofiation marked out by Mr.

Blaine's prede cessor has been closely followed. In ad vance of more definite information a satisfactory discussion of the terms would be im possible. But there is one fundamental ob jection which has heretofore been mentioned and deserves to be mentioned again. That is, that the whole proceeding is a re versal of the traditional policy of the United States and a disregard of the warn ing given by Washington to his countrymen in the farewell address. Ho admonished them to keep clear of all entanglement in tho affairs of foreign nations, to stick to their own business and to resist every temptation to depart from a strict policy of nou interference.

We have had enough sad experience in this Samoan affair already to vindicate the wisdom of his advice. If the stipulations of the agreement are correctly reported they show that concessions were made by both the principal contracting parties. The United States consented to the proposition that Germany should receive a money indemnity for losses suffered, and Germany consented to the restoration of Malietoa and the status quo preceding his deposition. These were the. two points which gavo the conference the most trouble and occasioned the rumor of a "hitch in the negotiations." Our representatives maintained that the losses entailed were caused by the arbitrary and unwarranted acts of the Germans themselves, while the latter were reluctant to admit, by the restoration of Malietoa that his banishment was indefensible.

But the maiu feature of the treaty is the, plan proposed for the government of the islanders. It is obvious that Bismarck has totally abandoned the grounds of his original contention. His claim that Germany should exercise a controlling influence under any system of administration that might be established was the cause of the breaking off of the negotiations with Secretary Bayard. The State Department utterly refused to entertain the idea. Second sober thought and the instruction of subsequent events convinced the great chancellor of the.

expediency of following Mr. Bayard's proposal of an autonomous government for Samoa, and provision to that end is made in the agreement arrived at. The Samoans are to elect their own king and are to tie represented in a senate composed of the principal chiefs and a chamber chosen by the people. The local administration is under the joint control of Germany and the United States, England acting as arbitrator in the event of differences. The, American representatives made their adhesion conditional upon the ratification of the agreement by tin: United States Senate.

Unless that bod' shall decide that it is impolitic for the American nation to assume, obligations that may involve us in war on account of a foreign people there is little reason to doubt that the agreement will be approved. The Jones, Case. The Eagle yesterday printed in full the report of a committee "to the Board of Trustees of the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn." The document was favorable to that now somewhat well known establishment. Tho Eaoi.e also published yesterday an account, of an effort to find out who tho persons signing he report were, what they knew of the subject about which they wrote, whence they secured authority to make an official inquiry, who were the trustees to whom they reported, and other matters not wholly irrelevant to the ease. The report and the account should both be read, as each helps to an intelligent understanding of the other.

Meanwhile District Attorney Ridgway says that "the Drs. Jones' ease will be one of the first tried at tho opening of the Fall term." (Eailroad Itcwpoiisibilit v. As will be seen by an article published today in our news columns tiic Court of Appeals has affirmed, with costs, the judgment of obtained against, the Delaware, Dackawanu.i and Western Railroad by the guardian of Ethel A. Spooner, an 8 year old Brooklyn girl, who was injured on the. railroad in the of IWt.

The case, was tried before Judge Barrlett and a jury in January two years ago, and is interesting not only because the verdict is the largest ever obtained in this State for the loss of a foot, but because it establishes certain principles of law governing the duties of railroad companies in the matter of highway crossings. The girl went to the station at East Orange, N. to watch the arrival of a train and saw three children, all younger than herself, playing on the track. There was a train approaching. The children did not hoed Ethel's warning to get out of the way.

She then undertook to remove them, and as she did so. her foot was caught in the space between the planking and the rail. Unable to extricate herself she tried to attract the attention of the engineer, but, he did not see her until it was loo late. The foot and the ankle were crushed, necessitating amputation four inches below the knee. The opinion of the Court of Appeals is written by Judge Finch.

He first takes up the question of the alleged negligence of the railroad company involved in the defective construction of the crossing. The point, made by the defense, that inasmuch as the railroad was in operation before the highway was laid out the duty of maintaining the crossing devolved upon tho Highway Commissioners in the absence of statutory provision to the is hot allowed, inasmuch as the crossing belonged to the railroad. Ownership on the part of the company was shown by the proof it offered of a reconstruction of the crossing after the accident had occurred. This the Court construes to be "the dominion of an owner," with accompanying responsibilities. In dealing, too, with the alleged negligence of the engineer and the propriety of the child's presence on the track the language of the.

Court, is equally clear and emphatic. Ethel went on the track to save children younger than herself. Her conduct was inspired by motives purely humane. She remained upon the track from the first moment of her arrival, and the engineer, with due vigilance, might easily have seen her in time to stop his train, particularly us her actions were such as to suggest extreme danger. Tim court rules that engineers may prudently assume that, persons on the txuck will leave it as the tram approaches, and that they arc not to be.

blamed for acting on this assumption except in the cases of those "apparently incapable of taking cave of themselves." To such general assumption Ethel's case is held to be an exception. "She says the Court, "a child to whom more watchful care was due, and in a perfectly helpless position, of which her action and conduct gave a warning which might or should have been heeded." For while the engineer was not in a position to know that her foot had been caught, the signals of distress which Ethel held out, should have been sufficient to stop the train. Nor is the court willing to allow that the child was a trespasser. "If," it says, "she stopped upon the track in tho humane effort to save younger children from danger she was not a trespasser" a sentence about the interpretation of which there can be no quibbling. The strength of the decision is in the com At the annual meeting of the Holland Socidty at the Hotel Brunswick last Tuesday evening, ex Judge Hooper C.

Van Vorst was re elected president, Mr. George W. Van Siclen secretary and Abraham Van Sautvoord treasurer, and as trns teoB to boivo till 18:1 Messrs. W. W.

Van VOor his, John L. Rikor, liobort B. Roosevelt, Gcorga O. DoWitt, and Henry H. Bookman.

Tho following vice presidents wore also olocted: For New York City, Robert. 15. Roosevelt; Brooklyn, TuniB G. Borgen; Jersey City, Isaac I. Vandor Beek; Albany, Dr.

Albert Vauder Veer: Kingston. S. D. Coykendall; Kindorhook. Dr.

Peter V. Pruyii; Rockland County, N. Garret Van Nostrand; Westchester County, N. Rev. C.

K. Clearwater; Catskill, Rev. Everet Van Slyko; Schenectady. James A. Van Vorst; Amsterdam, N.

Walter S. Van Denbergh; Newtown, L. John E. Van Nostrand: New Brunswick, N. Rov.

W. H. Ten Eyck; Jiergon County, N. Georgo F. Schermerhorn: Passaic County, N.

John Hopper; Cobleskill, N. John Van Shaick; Poughkeepsie, N. Frank Hasbrottck; Monmouth, N. Augustus VanderYeer; Somerset County, N. Lawienc( Vandor Veer; Minisiuk, N.

Amos Van Etteu; Philadelphia, Eugene Van Loan; Yoikers, N. William L. Hccrmanco; Lansiugburgh, N. William C. Groesbeck; Camden, N.

Petei L. Voorheos. A committee consisting of General Egbert L. Violc, Edgar M. Van Winkle and Giles Y.

Van Der Bogort were appointed to represent the society February '3, 1800, at the bicentennial of the massacre of Schneutidy, N. Y. On motion of Theodore M. Banta it was determined to begin the publication of the records of the old Dutch churches of Anurica, all of which have been copied by tho society. A proposed inereaso of the initiation foe Mid annual dues was defeated.

A resolution was adopted looking to friendly intercourse with tho descendants of tho Dutch who settled South Africa iu 1 not long utter their relatives founded Now York; also a resolution of condolence with Hon. Mitrius Schoonniaker, father of Captain Cornelius Marins Scliooniuaker, U. S. who was drowned at Samoa. It waa also determined to offer a Holland Society cup for tho yacht races at Sneck on the Zuyder Zee, Holland, one of the places where the Holland Society were so handsomely entertained on their pilgrimage last Summer, an account of which was then given by Rev.

G. Howard Suydam. After ordering an oil portrait of its president, Judge Van Vorst, the society proceeded to sing: Y'e Jolly Dutchmen now arise, Stand in a long row, For singing of the ancient tiniOB We re going for to go! When this fair land on evory hand Was peopled by the Dutch; And all tho rest, however blest, They did not count for much. Cuonus I'm a Van, of Van, of a Van, of a Van, Of a Van of a way buck line; On every rugged feature Ancestral glories shine: And all our baud in kinship stand With all that's old and lino; I'm a Van, of a Van, of Van, of a Van, Of a Van of a way back line. IXATIIL'SII FIIIK DKI'AltTJIENr.

Tho members of tho Flatbusli Fire Department havo elected Chief Engineer Thomas, M. S. I.ott, William Willis and Petor Osman, a committee, to prefer charges of neglect of duty to the Town Board against Trustees Christian F. Wulff and William Flood. The annual election for department officers will be held July It, at the Town Hall.

A CRUISE UP THE HUDSON. Dr. F. P. Hudnut will take General G.

W. Win gate and family on a cruise up the Hudson tomorrow on his now yacht, the Elsie. The doctor will spend the Summer at Highlands, Ulstcl County. HUSIKUSS NOTICES. "SECURUS JUDIOAT OIIIIISS TEKttAltUM." APOl.LINAIUR, APOI.I.I.N'AIUS, AI'OLLIiVAKIS, "THE QUK15N OF TABLE WATERS." Tlio minir fit tho Hprine (in Khenish Prill.

sir) AmounU'tl to 11, 8' 14,000 iiottlusin 1887, nnd liottlosin 18S8, Of nil (iroenrs, DniffKists nil I Miiii rnl W'Mer IValerB. IJEWAnU OF IMITATIONS. 10 IM 55 l.t CA I HEAVEN ANT) HELL, By KMANUF.1j SWUDKNHOKU. I p.lpns, p.ipi;r iiriileil fur 1 1 iri nts, by tliu A niMi icftn Priiitini: iml Piihli. jllin So cinty, t', Coitjiur ITni.in.

Nti.v York Cty. ftlGlf ON BEACH U.S1C HALL. I UF.RIl ANTON SKIDL I Anil the Mi'tnU'Olitiui Oji. rti Or. liyslr.i.

Til IS, SATURDAY, A KTF.lt NOON, .1 UN 15. ATiiiHO. Ovm lilif, "I.oniwri'," Mo ilnncOfi tioin t'lti opura, I hv l.iuicn sinu Piioiinf" Cut (invoitu Oorleiio (a Fantastic Procession) Mns.Koivski Ovorliiro, "Tunnliaiisi YVn jncl Fiirlation (for srrrntr orclicslm) Sifijlf r.a 'oi I rami Itnili in tour li.lrl.s Wiilor WnlilMOtii'ti unit rlic; Kipl) VVnKnor Tr'o ot tlio KtiitiL'dilwlUt'ri from (iottordnni miiK) Wilier THIS. SATUItDAV. KN'I N( I.

JUiN'U lo, AT 8. Ovl'iI lire "Tlio Flyini; Onl I'llinnn" Wairnoi I.1 Arlt'Kioniio tSr nnil ii I T. lYelntJo to Snint Sacns Violin Solo, Mr. Nnhnn Franko. Sio'irie'l Plyll Wasnni Fairy Scnni'fl net Ovortiiro, Itoi D'ys" Ln'o Prizd Sontj from Warner Piottiiloauil Finnic (liioMo's IVntli) "Tristan" Wanel ftnill.S EVENING JL AT MA Ml I I If t'ir Niicht CAIN'S LAST lYS OF POMI'Ftl.

P. ill U.I ANT COItOI'OUS COI.OSSAf,. The ro'ro Im linn of tin' It n.itifu! Spectacle will io on a Scale of miiKiiitifen. unsiirpasriett, and at an lniinon. ie eiiii nse.

SO FN FK 1'ARAPllKItNAUA AI.lj NKW. oOO AUXILIARIES. (iltAND METROPOLITAN BALLET. 100. OlIOIU'S.

50, GYMN ASTS. FOUH.IHItlSTS. LA DIATOIIS. AN UNKlVAI.I'.l) Ml SK E.N SOU VI! ON SI'AOK AND LAKE. THE ANCIENT CITY EN FETE.

GATUERINO OF'ftlE IM PROCESSION OF WOESttf I'EKK. 0 1' IN! 1 I 1 1 PLE. WORSHIP Of THE OODS. ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS DESTRUCTION OF TIIE CITY, FINALE UOLOSSAL DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS. svairrtxtt.

CWney island jockey" clul SItEEI'SHEAl) HAY. OPENING DAY, SATURDAY, JUNE 15. SUBURBAN DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 18. june id, REALIZATION DAY, JULY Trains from Thirly fo rtli Ferry ami foot of tVhito Imll Hi. i WEST FOINT, NEWItUItC'l Ami POU'OIKEEI'SIE.

GRAND DAILY EXCURSION (incept Sundays) Fast anil eleijaiit IUv Line Steamers, NEW YORK and ALBANY. From Brooklyn, Fulton st (hy Annex) 8:01) M. From New York, Vestry si. pier 8:40 A. From Nflvv York, West J'nil st pier A.

M. lixcnrsioni its will havo ttmio hours at West Point, ono hour and Ihriie iiiinrters at Newlnirt, or eonuojl wittl down boat at Roturnins reaell New York at F.r.iO. Brooklyn P. A lino 011 OHESTKA atfaehuil to eaci lm.it. 171LEKT ST.

'METHODIST "'EPISCOPAL SUNDAY SCHOOL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, To ROTON POINT OROVE. CONN. Stennier GRAND REPUBLIC Will lcavo Jowell's Dock at 8:110 A. M. M'isie hy Union Military Band.

Tickets 50 cents. AST OF THE SEASON TO POUHIIKHEP.SIE BRIDGE, KTOPPINi; AT NEWBURGH, WEST POINT AND YONKERS, SUNDAY. JUNE 1(1, 1X! STEAMER (IltAND REPUBLIC, Wharf, Brooklyn, I'icr O.N. West Tenth si N. West Twonty icon st, N.

Yonki rs, 10 A. M. FARE FOR ENTIRE EXCURSION, 00c. STEAMERS IDLEWILH AND CITY OF HUDSON. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS To Wliitestotie, Groat Neck.

Sands Point, lilon Oovo, Sea ClitF, Gteiiwoo I and Roslyn. From Peek Slip 0: 15 A. M. and 2 P. M.

From Ttitrty Iirst st, E. 10 A. M. nnd 15 I'. M.

IdlcwiM doOH not laud at STEAMER mr.EWILO SATURDAY AFTERNOON EXCURSIONS. From Peck Slip, I'. M. Tliirty tirst st, E. 3 P.

M. EXCURSION TICKETS, 50 CENTS. UP THE AMERICAN RHINE. Tho MaRnifk nnt New Palace Steamor f.i.'r urti.oii, CAPTAIN JAMES LYNCH, Will regular Sunday mnrninff excursions to NEW BUROH, Ian tins at Yonkors, lona Island, West Point and Cold leaving Bridge Doekt Brooklyn, at 8:45 A. M.

Faro, entire grand excursion, iiO CENTS. YRIE RAILWAY. KRIE I SPECIAL EXCURSIONS. RAILW'Y SllOIlOLA OLEN. j.oaro i wenty mtro si.

siauon, a. Leai Chambers st. station, A. M. greenwood lake (Warwick woodlands.) Leave Twenty third st.

station, A. Leave Chambers st. station. 10 .0 A. M.

EVERY SUNDAY. $1.00. iT RANI) SATURDAY AND SUNDAY XTEicurBion on Loin; Island Sound Steamer RIVEK OUEEN will make regular excursions to City Island, BayvlKe, Lloyd's Doclf, Sprine, llimtinlon, Oister Bay. Sat inlays, Pier tM, E. R.t foot liHekman st, P.

Thirty first st, E. 2: 1. 5 Snndai s. Pier E. (I A.

M. Thirty lirst st, E. 0:15 A. M. Arri villi; ill Noi York.

Saturdays. Sundays. P. M. Fire Jo excursion, 00c.

I RAND EXCURSION AROUND STATEN ISLAND. Sloamor II E. BISHOP, Sundays. June 0, IG.and orerj day alter June Tho most delightful water trip in Now York Harbor. Leave West Twenty first st 1 1.

line Pier 411. N. tool West 1 st, 1 15 P. M. foot Vesoy st, N.

2 P. M. Jowell's Vt narf. Brooklyn, 2jL rsi Aiir. iuu.

AUVTIO. SALES. UF7 OHN SON, FULTON ST. BROOKLYN, 00 LIBERTY "stTnEW YORK. ELEtiANT LOTS S123 AND UTWARD, In direot lino of Lia 'FElt'l'S PARK, Tho fourth irrand sub division of Batti Beach Juuetion.

And on STOOTIIOFF PA LSON FARM, Adminiiiff aristoevatio MORRIS PARK. For froo tickets apply i JERE JOHNSON, 00 I.itjorty st, New York, and 31)13 Fultou st, BrooUljn in LU EN GENE," AUCTION EE (i I1Y LUENQENE 4 WEEKS. Will sell TUESDAY, JUNE 18. at 10:30 A. At tho LAFAYEITE SQUARE AUCTION ROOMS, to 048 FULTON ST, Lafayette square.

manufacture its' sale Of ROOIvlNU CUAIR.S, Consisting of 500 rooking oliaiu of OTory description, rintfovm rockers, Iu oak, walnut aud chorry. Bout wooa and upholfltorQd rookers. Also, 100 odd chairs. ti14 positive. Trade invited.

Tho Aldermanic Committee and the Water Exteasion. So Mefitinsr Last Night Because, as Chair. man Ferguson Says, Commissioner Adams Did Not Appear Mr. James TV. Birkett on Hand.

Notwithstanding all the talk about tho intention of tho Aldermanic Committeo on Water and Draiuago to hold a meeting on tho water extension project last night, there waa no meeting of the committee. All of the members wero on hand save Aldorniau Schlusser, those present be ing Messrs. Ferguson (chairman), McGarry and Wafer. Aldormen McGarry and Wafer, who aro also members of the Railroad Committee, attend ed a meeting of that committeo which lasted until nearly 10 o'clock. Aldermen Ferguson and McGrath waited around until tho Railroad Committee had adjourned and then the former announced that the Water and Drainage Committeo would not meet because thore was no representative of the Department of City Works present.

He said that the committee had not invited especially either Commissioner Adams or the engineers, for he considered that the intention of the committee to take up tbo water extension matter was well known and tho simplo advertised call for a meeting of tho committee was sufficient notice for the City Works officials to attend. Ho thought it strange thai Commissioner Adams or Assistant Engineer Bergen was not present, for he hardly expected Chief Engineer Van Buren to appear if the latter was out of tho city and ill. When informed that Commissioner Adams had said yesterday morning that he did not propose to attend tho meeting because ho did not think it necessary, as the Aldermen had all tho necessary information before thorn, Chairman Ferguson exprnsscd surprise and remarked that he did not see why Mr Adams should talk in that way. The committee certainly expected tho City Works officials to be there to explain fully the plans, and the oomniit mittee could not meet without them Chairman Ferguson said the plans to be considered were those which were prepared by Chief Van Buren Beveral years ago, with an amendment for an additional conduit between Rockville Center (the terminus of the present water works) and the Ridgewoo.l station. He had always held that additional aqueduct facilities should be provided if there was to bo any such increase of the water supply as had been proposed.

The City Works Commissioner had sent to the committeo a plan or statement in relation to the additional conduit. Jlr. Ferguson was asked if that paper could be seen, and replied that he did not have it with him. Ho explained that it provided for a conduit of about five or five and one half feet, drain, etc. The existing conduit is about nine feet.

Mr. Ferguson, after conferring with his colleagues, said that the committeo would not adjourn to any specified timo, hut sinject to tho call of the chair. Then the Aldermen filed slowly out, probably to repent the performance next weok. Among the few outsiders who came down to tlio hall to attend a meeting of the committee was ox Aldermau Jamos W. Birkett, Republican politician and contractor.

Mr. Birkett was in the Board during tho early days of the water extension agitation aud he was just as anxious as any other member of the Board to stave off action. It was reported at the time that ho was interested in the Ramupo scheme, or some other plan, for supplying this city with water. He took the ground in reference to tho Van Buren extension that there should be an additional conduit, anil he explained last night that ho desired to appear beforo tlio committee to express his viewB on that subject and urge tho construction of bucIi an aqueduct, to bo made of steel and to connect directly with the mains running into the city. The existing conduit terminates at the Ridgwood Pumping station, on Atlantic avenue, in tho Twenty sixth Ward, the water being forced up into tho distributing reservoir on the hill, whence it Hows by gravity down into the city.

Mr. Birkctt's plan is to have Ihe new conduit run alongside the present one and lead directly into, say, the Atlantic avenue main. Mr. Birkett did not appear surprised at the failure to have a meeting. He had boon there before many a time.

TIIE REPORTER'S NOTE BOOK. Occurrences of Guu rcai in Itrookjyn and Vicinity. The regular meeting of Furniture Workers Union No. was held Thursday evening in the Labor Lyceum on Myrtle street. Five new members wero initiated.

The Dean Stars Base Bail Club were on Thursday defeated by a picked nine, by a score of 1 to 2. The son of Liquor Dealer Pfohhnaini, who assaulted Oilier Downey Thursday, will be sentenced by Justico Keuna on Tuesday. Frederick Horn got tired of pounding two drums which lie borrowed from George Henhceker and pawned them. Judge Kuima sent him to tho Penitentiary for five months. Joseph Seiter aud Thomas lleilly paid Justice each yesterday for corner lounging.

Antonio Clarctti, an Italian laborer, was yesterday fatuity crushed between two curs at the unfinished reservoir in the new ward. John Durkiii, iu Justico Retina's Court, acknowledged that he was a thief, and John Lamb, wlio was arrested with him, secured his freedom. Rev. O. S.

M. Stewart has been appointed by Bishop Littlejohn rector of Grace Church at Whites tone. William Barrett, 1 years of age, of 37 South Second street, fell in front of the Eaole office Thursday afternoon and received a severe scalp wound. John Crcighton and Frank O'Sluiuglmessy, who idled on a strooj corner, will rest in Jail for five days. Justice Tighe says so.

On the inst. Hiss Lena Shirk will tell Justice Tighe why Officer Carroll, of the Eighth l're cint, charges her with calling him vile names. The residence of Walter McLean. 3:4 Marey avenue, was broken into between 1 and 3 o'clock A. M.

yesterday and robbed of jewelry valued at $1()7. The Windsor Hose Company No. of Windsor Terrace, Fhitbush, will hold a strawberry festival at Union Hail, Windsor Terrace, on Tuesday evening, June I S. Washington Engine' Company, of I'latbtish, has completed arrangements for its annual outing to Ruffle Bar, Jamaica Bay, during the latter part of this month. The Rising Star Social, of Flatbusli, will hold its third annual picnic at Henry Lehman's Can arsie Grove on Thursday, Juno The Voting Men's Christian Association of Canarsie has elected the following officers: President, Charles McCroddcn; first vice president, William Silliman; second vice president, John J.

Matthews: secretary, Dr. L. M. Allen; treasurer, Daniel Rowland. This evening a meeting of the citizens of Oak lands and the Village of Flatbusli will be held at Buhner's factory in Oaklands to complete arrangements for a mass meeting to be held in the Flntbush Town Hall to adopt effective measures to prevent tho completion of the new contagious disease hospital now in the course of erection in the rear of the county buildings.

A male child, about days old, was found by some boys yesterday afternoon on Cator avenue, near Ocean, Flatbusli. The police took the waif to the nursery at Flatbusli. Paddy Smith, the South Brooklyn lightweight, has issued a challenge to match Mattie Dclacey against Jack Delancey, a protege of Billy Daeoy, for a fight to a finish, kiu tight gloves, for a purse and stake. TOM EARLY, BLACKSMITH. iHe Pays a Fine for Strilciu(r ISix Neighbor, Stephen Kcylaher.

Thomas Early, of 7 Columbia street, a brawny and bearded blacksmith, was placed on trial he fore Justice Tighe yesterday upon a charge of assault preferred by Stephen Koylaher, of Congress street. The latter is about 00 years of age, and is bent with ago. Ho had a bandago around his head that concealed a wound over his right eye, which ho alleges was the result of Early's assault upon him. The complainant said that on the day of the assault he was walking down Atlantic avenue when ho saw Early standing talking to mine ono. "I said 'Good evening, ho continued, "and was about to pass on when ho Bpoke up and said I owed him a little bill.

I said that Ididntt think I did nnd if I did I knew nothing about it. I said that it was he that owed me. Then he struck me on the side of the heail and felled mo to tho sidewalk, and I knew nothing more until I was having my head dressed at the hospital." You didn't say anything to him other than you lfave stated, to give him any reason to striko you 1 asked the Justice. No, your Honor, I said nothing moro and ho had no reason in tho world to strike me." What have yon got to say for yourself asked the magistrate of Early. Well," said the defendant, taking the witness stand.

there's ono thing I can swear to and that is.that Kcylaher has been telling your Honor lies." Never mind that: I want your defense, if you have any," interrupted tho justico. "All right, your Honor. It waa this way: I was standing talking to some friends, and Kcylaher came along drunk. It was Tim Leonard and his wife I was talking to. Kcylaher caino up and put his oar in and I told him if ho paid mo the $7 he owed mo ho would havo Iobb to say.

He told me ho owed mo nothing, but that I owed him and "Never mind said the judge, "did you strike him'" "I can't say exactly whether wo got into a collision or not, but I probably made a pass at him: but don't know whether I struck him or not. I was drunk and so was ho, and I am under the private opinion, it was the whisky that he had drunk that knocked him down." "You are guilty fast enough, according to your o.wn testimony," concluded the magistrate "and I will fine you $3." The fino was promptly turned ovor to Clerk Mc Garry. TIIE IBMIOBANT qUESTlO.Y. Ail important mooting of tho C. T.

A. Provincial Council will be held in the hall of St. Charles Borronico to morrow, at 4 o'clock. Tho immigrant question, in connection with suggestions received from Rev. Father Mahony, a St.

Paul (Minn.) priest, will bo acted upon: also tho question of organizing a diocesan union in New York City will receive attention iu view of the fact that tho Metropolitan Union is about to or has disbanded. Resolutions testifying to tho al logiance of tho council to tho Right Rev. Bishop will be introduced, in order to dcBtroy rumors which, of late, have been making trouble The Affray in Texas When Nine Men Were Killed. A White Refused to be Tried br a Colored Man Elected Jnstice of tho Peace Six Shooters and Winchester Rifles the Weapons Used by Both Sides. Austin, Jnne 15.

There are conflicting reports about tho cause of the bloody shooting affray which occurred eighteen miles southeast of this city Thursday evening, in which four white meu and five nogroes were killed and many others wounded. From one version it appears that in the neighborhood where tho trouble occurred a colorod Justice of the peace, Orange Wiokes, and a colored constable, Isaac Wifson, wero recently elected. Tho justice had issued a warrant for ono A. D. Litteu (white), and it was put into the hands of Wilson.

Soon after tho latter met Litten and informed him he had a warrant for his arrest and proceeded to read it. Litten remarken that it was no use to read the warrant, for he would not be arrested by a nigger." Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson's friends advised that he place the warrant in tho hands of a white constable. This ha did and Litten was arrested, but declared he would not be tried before a colored justice Notwithstanding his protest ho was carried before Justice Wickcs, whoso court was in session. The room was crowded with blacks and whites. In the court room Litten was very abusive and finally words came to blows, then to tho use of six shooters and Winchesters.

Justice Wickes and Litten wero riddled with bullets aud died immediately. Tho colored constable was also killed, as was a negro named Bell. A spectator was filled with lead, and died soon after. Houston Moore, a colored boy, was also killed by a stray bullet. Alexander Nolan and George Scliohf, both white mon, were shot down and instantly killed, as was another white man whose name could not bo learned.

The affair created intense excitement in the neighborhood, and it is said that at least one hundred armed mon gathered on the ground ready to renew tho fight, but all has been quiet so far as known here. Sheriff White, of this city, sont a strong forco down to tho scene of tho trotiblo yesterday, and ho anticipates no fimiher fighting. INTERESTING EUROPEAN NOTES. Comment ou Archduke Kainer'n Speech. to Wieet in 1'ariw.

LoN'nox, June 15. The Vienna papers are commenting rather excitedly upon the speech made hy tho Archduke Rainer, tho most liberal and popular of tho Austrian princes, at a meeting of tho Academy of ScienceB, over which he presided. Tho archduke said he was sorry to be compelled to state that a war against enlightenment and progress had been commenced, but that with all true men of science ho hoped that tho sad change would soon pass away. The archduke ovidently referred to tho establishment of denominational schools and the overwhelming influence of the clergy, The A'eue Freie. 'reuse extols the speech and predicts that it will be read all ovor Austria with joyful gratitude.

The Clerical journals naturally havo little praise to bestow upon tho sentiments expressed. The Socialists, who hold au International Congress in Paris next month, have addressed a manifesto to Socialist workmen in Europe and America. In it thoy say: "We Socialists who pursue the enfranchisement of labor, tho abolition of hired labor and tho creation of an order of things in which, without distinction of box or nationality, all shall have a right to the wealth crented by labor, invite the producers to meet us in Paris." The document is signed by loading Socialists of all nations. The employes of the London tramway companies are moving for a reduction of hours. Severn! prominent clergymen have interested themselves in the cause and are lending their aid to the men in perfecting a thorough organization.

When this is completed aggressive measures arc contemplated. Meetings are held nightly in different parts of the city. The voluminous and interesting papers left by the late John Bright will not be published for tho present. Mr. Bright's son came to this conclusion after an examination of their contents.

As in the case of Lord Beaconsfiold's papers it is felt that inconveniences might arise if publication were to take place during the lifetime of her Majesty or of Gladstone. THE SAMOAN AGBEEJIENT. Comment oi the Times on the Outcome of the Conference. London, Juno in. The Times, in au editorial on the Samoan agreement, hiij'h: Perhaps it is as well that Prince Bismarck has been made to realize that where American interests arc concerned tho American Government is very little affected by many of those considerations which restrain the action of those European governments with which ho iB more accustomed to deal.

It is easy to see there might bo many reasons why it would be inexpedient for England to follow the line of policy regard to German action in Samoa which it is natural and necessary for America to pursue. It is not less plain that even Germany must think twice or thrice before provoking a collision with America over such a question. Therefore, wo rejoice at the influence of America so moderately and effectually exerted." Hie Berlin correspondent of the Times says "Tliu Americans have undoubtedly emerged from the Samoa conference with Hying colors. Germany lias to content herself with much less political predominance in Samoa than she claimed at Washington two years ago. This result is much more due to the firm and inexorable attitude of Mr.

Blaine than to any political leanings of England toward the Power which it is her highest aim to conciliate." SLFFEItltiti A MONK MISERS. Indianapolis, Jmie ID. A committee representing the Clay County miners called upon the Governor yesterday afternoon and urged him to appeal to the public to contribute to the relief of the destitute people in the mining region. Thoy admitted that the condition of the miners had been exaggerated. There is no starvation, as tho relief committees have been able to get sufficient food to prevent suffering, but the situation is daily becoming more desperate.

Tho Governor replied that while lie had no doubt that the people were in need of assistance he could issue no proclamation oailing upon the people of tho Statu to give asnistanco to the sufferers until the Mayor of Brazil or the County Commissioners appeal to him and declare that there is necessity for such action. FATIIKU UAMEN'S KNI 5KAI! AT HASP. O.v.uia, June 13. Father Dainc was resting quietly at 1 1 o'clock last night. He felt much better in the afternoon, but grew worse last night.

The doctors nay thero is no immediate danger, but think that the end cannot be very far away. The left side is paralyzed, and the left arm is entirely useless. The brain is also affected. Father Danien, himself, has given up all hope, and is waiting patiently for the final summons. He neonis to have full possession of his faculties most of tlio time, but there are periods when his mind is in a dazed nmwlUlm, lio ntlU' fHl'tltlv Cfl HI lim )l OtulH What i tt IS gOlllg Oil UUUUb lOIU.

Iiu buiiuio THE PKIXCK OF WALKS' SENSATION. Vienna, June Id. A sensation has been caused here by tho an nouncemont that the A'ouvelle. Heme, will shortly publish a letter purporting to be from the Priuco of Wales to King Leopold, in which the Prince states that Emperor William's body is seriously attacked by disease; that ho cannot get sleep savo" what drugB procure for him; that he suffers from intense headaches, compelling him to resort to morphine, and that ho easily loses his temper. The letter continues: "I shall never forgive or forget liia treatment of me on the occasion of tho funeral of his father, nor tlio insults printed in the lieichsanzetger." FLOODS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA.

Yin'cennks, Juno 15. The Juno floods havo worked disaster to the farmers of Southern Indiana who have crops in tho bottom lands. Tho Wabash River at this point is over sixteen i'eet iu tho chaiinolaud still rising. The White Itiver has created a great deal of the bottom farms and has washed out thousands of acres of corn and wheat, and farmers have been compelled to move their families and live stock to high ground. The damage to all of Southern Indiana and Illinois counties along tho White and Wabash rivers will amount to many thousands of dollars, and it is feared worse trouble may ensue.

KILLED IN4AN ALTEKCATION. Aberdeen, June 1 5. In an altercation yesterday between Locomotive Engineer Terry Smith and Section Foreman C. E. Eaker the latter fired twice with a pistol, both shots taking effect.

Smith died in about an hour. Eaker at once surrendered, claiming that he acted in self defense, aB Smith was advancing on him with a coal pick. Smith was a member of tho order of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. His remains were shipped to his family at Minouk, HI. SMALLPOX AND TELLOW FEVEK IN BIiA7.IL.

New Orleans. Juno 13. News has just been brought here by a gentleman from Brazil, who says that smallpox and yellow fover aro raging in a virnlent form, not alone in Rio Janeiro, but through all the States within miles of that city. Tho death rato for three days at Santos was 70 per and people who could do so were leaving iu droves. TWO NE0UOES DKOWNED.

Brownsville, June 5. Two well known negroes, Dan Springfield and Bob Taliaforro, wero drowned yesterday iu Hotchie Itiver, near this place. They wero crossing the river iu a skiff which overturned and not being able to Bwim, thoy were drowned. SHAH BATTLE ON THE CAMPUS. Iowa City, Juno 15.

Commencement week at the Stato University opened yesterday. The exercisOB of the afternoon wero a final dress parade of tho battalion and a Bhara battle, which took place on tho campus and was wituoaaed by thousands of spec MAKES A STARTLING STATEMENT. Neivcomo Did Not Attempt Suicide, But He Wan Shot at Instead. Wiohita, June 15. A sensational sequel to tho supposed attempted suicide of J.

A. Newcomo in the Clearwater Bank, May 20, promises to be forthcoming in the near future. Ever sinco tho shooting Newcomo has been moroor less unconscious until Thursday night, when he made rapid strides toward rooovory, and yesterday his brain was quite clear. Sending for his attorneys he imparted to them tho startling information that he did not attempt suicido. but that some one who waa in the bank at the timo had shot him.

He said ho had transferred to Tillinghast by trust deed some $30,000 worth of property, and that though he had frequently asked for restitution it had never boon made. Finally, ho alleges, Tillinghast induced him to meet him in his offico in Clearwater, and there ho was shot. At the time of the shooting Tillinghast announced that Newcomo was in dire financial straits and had been very despondent. An investigation has shown that this was not the case, so the statement made by the wounded man has all tho greater color of truth. Nowcomo came hero with considerable means from Painos ville, aud was at one timo promiueut in railroad circles.

The Knights Templar havo taken the caso in hands and startling developments aro expected. ENGINEERS MAY STRIKE. The Situation With the Union Pacific Locomotive Men. O.haiia, June 15. Unless a change takes plac in the controversy between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Union Pacific officials in tho next forty eight hours it is not improbable that a Btrike will be declared.

When tho Grievance Committeo submitted tlio engineers' side of tho caso Mr. Kimball referred the committee to tho president. The committee has telegraphed Mr. Adams and his reply is expected to day. Should he take a stand against the engineers a strikt, it is said, will follow.

The engineers hold a meeting ystorday afternoon in Brotherhood Hall and talked over the situation at some length. When questioned, one of the number said: "We will stand no bluff. If Mr. Adams dooH not booh reply to our telegram we will take it for granted that arbitration is useless and wo will follow out our own course for a remedy." Will you strike?" I wilt give you an answer to that question this afternoon. Manager Baldwin is new in the business, but ho may provo an expensive Bcholar to the Union Pacific." LIKE IXSUKANCE COMPANIES SWINDLED.

June 13. Tho insurance companies, through their agents, have fixed up tho reward and expenses for the capture of John Hillman, and he will be brought to Lawrence within a few days. Hillman is tho man who was supposed to have been killed several years ago. He had life, insurance policies for $40,000, and the insurance companies resisted payment on the ground that the body represented as Hillman was that of another man. His wifo finally won the case, however, and received tho money.

Hillman was arrested at Tombstone, Ari.i several days ago, and tho insurance companies claim to have positive evidonco of his identity. AN AGENT OF AI'PLETON CO. DISAPPEAltS. Bostos, June 13. Captain L.

Howard Dassel, who conducted a large subscription book business here, bus disappeared. It is said he leaves a large number of creditors, and soveral warrants for his arrest have been issued. He was prominently connected with D. Apploton it Co. in his subscription business.

His wife is bore, but knows nothing of hor husband's whereabouts. THE RESULT OF A QUAKKKL. BnowNKVii.i.K, June 3 3. A courier arrived here yesterday from the military post at Kauta Maria, bringing the account of a murder and suicide which occurred there Thursday night. Corporal Adkr Iliitchings and Private Marquaut, of I Troop, Thin Cavalry, while on their way back from a ball had a quarrel, which resulted in Hatchings shooting Marquaut fatally, after which ho blew his own brains out.

FLOATED BOWS FliO.H JOHNSTON X. Washington', D. June 1 3. J)r. Hubbell, of the lied Cross, arrived from Johnstown yesterday on a short visit.

He received last evening, the following message from Miss Clara Barton "Morrellville wants us to establish there. Sixteen hundred persons (loafed down from Johnstown and are helpless. We can get our Biipplies by the Pennsylvania Uailro.id." AN EPIDEMIC OK CIIAKBON. New Oiu.enn.h, June 15. The Times Yazoo City, special says: "An epidemic of charbon prevails among farm animals in this neighborhood and at other points in the 1'azuo Valley.

Famous veterinarians are en route to the scene of the scoiirgo and every effort will bo made to chock tho disease which has so far proved very fatal." DIED 'FROM OVKB POLITICAL EXCITEMENT. Portsmouth, N. June 13. John H. Locke, recently appointed postmaster here, died this morning, aged IS.

His death is said to bo due to sickness caused by eating.straw bcrries and over excitement, about his appointment. DUOWNED WITH IIEIi TWO CHILDItKN. Montreal. June 13. A distressing case of drowning is reported from Three Rivers, where Mrs.

Gelines and her two children have been lost by the swamping of a boat in Itivor du Loup. TEltHA COTTA SENT EAST. St. Louis, June 13. Terra Cotta, the crack of tlio Chicago Stables, was scratched in tho race for the Brewers' Cup yesterday and was shipped Ivist last night to run in the Suburban next Tuesday.

OAKSMAN O'CONSOIl AT HOME. Toron Juno 13. O'Connor, the champion oarsman, arrived here yesterday. He will sail for England iu about ten days to row Searlo. Wallace Ross will be his trainer.

IN IB PLUM EST DEALliJt KAILS. Toveka. June 13. L. A.

Bartlett, of Concordia, the leading implement dealer in Northwest Kansas, failed yesterday. Liabilities about $4 assets unknown. VIENNA'S AIlCliniSHOP CONVALESCENT. Vienna, June 13. Cardinal Gangluauer, Archbishop of this city, who recently sustained a stroke of apoplexy, is now convalescent.

MORAVIAN WORKMEN STRIKE. Vienna, June 1 3. Eleven hundred textile workers in Brttnix, Moravia, have struck for an increase in their wagea. BOTH HOUSES KILLED. Shortly beforo 7 Thursday evening a team of horses attached to a carriage, driven by Milton D.

Phillips, of Pacific street, became frightened on Brooklyn avenue and dashed down the street at a headlong pace. Mr. Phillips was unable to control them and at Atlantic avenue they collided with the gate of the Long Island Railroad. The horses were killed instantly and the carriage was demolished. Mr.

Phillips escaped with slight injuries of the head and face. His wounds were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon Sullivan, The loss on the horses and carriage was $700. CUMMIN fJS2 COM RINATION. William Ciimmiiigs, 22 years of age, of 1 77 Flatbusli avenue, was removed to St. Mary's Hospital Thursday night.

His symptoms indicated that ho had boon poisoned. During tho afternoon and evening he had been drinking, and eating ice cream with a companion. Some timo after 11 o'clock they went into Rocher's drug store, on Franklin avenue, near Greene, where CHminiHgs was given an emetic. As ho did not feel any better after it an ambulance was summoned. Yesterday he was considerably improved.

A PLUMBER'S PHEMOMENAL CATCH. To the Editor of the ISrookluii Eaqle. I wish to inform the readers of the Eaole interested in fishing of a catch inado by Mr. John Bonoho, a plumber, of Brooklyn, on Monday last at Rockaway Inlet. He captured a drum fish weighing fifty six pounds without hook or line.

Tho fish was struggling in tho surf. Donoho waded in up to his neck and succeeded in landing him. Alexander Oboftox. Brooklyn, Juno 14, I88. WAYLAID BY NED ROES.

While passing through Hudson avenue at 1 :30 A. M. yesterday Georgo Robinson, yours of ago, of 140 Nostrand avenue, was waylaid and assaulted by a gang of negroes. One of tho fellows stopped him and asked him for 5 cents for beer. He gave a 10 cent piece and waited for change.

Then one of the negroes struck him, inflicting an incised wound on his ear, which was dressed by Ambulance Surgeon Rickard. His assailant escaped. HER DAUGHTER HEK ACCUSER. Ellon Maher, a wretched looking woman, was arraigned beforo Justice Goetting yesterday on a complaint of habitual drunkenness and vagrancy made by her daughter Ellen, a rather pretty and respectable looking girl, aged about 17 years. The justice sentenced the accused to three months in the Po nitentiary.

DIPHTHERIA TREATED J1Y A DRUGGIST. Dr. Stone, of the Charities Department, treated Thursday what at first looked liko a case of criminal carelessness. Seven year old Edward Smith, of 'JtiS York street, was prescribed for by a druggist in a case of diphtheria, and died a few hours after. Dr.

Stone discovered tho case to be hopeless. The boy diod at 8 o'clook tho samo night. Tho steamer Grand Republic will make her lust excursion for tho season on, tho Hudson River to Poughkoepsio Bridge, NowbWgh and West Point to morrow, leaving Jewelta wharf, iSrooltiyn, 8:30 A. AL This Paper has tlio Largest Cirrnla tion off any Evening Faver jPubliwhed In the United States. Km value a.

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M. on Permit leaving town for the season and Summer traveler can hate the Daily and Sunday Eagle, mailed to them, postpaid, for $1.00 per month, the address briny changed as often 7. dfxrrd. The Eagle, vill be sent to any address in Europe at $1.35 per month, postage prepaid. The Water Extension.

The Witter unci Drainage. Committee of tlie AWerraeu did nothing about tho extension last night. In fact, no meeting was; held, the clitiirmau saying in explanation that the Commissioner of City Works was not present. Mr. Adams had previously expressed the opinion that the papers before the committee were so full and complete that liis attendance was unnecessary.

It is not novel or surprising for the Aldermen to do nothing about extension. They have been doing it for five years. Heretofore eom mont on the omission has scarcely been called for. It has been regarded as conforming to their fixed determination not to consent to the AYiJrk unless they were; allowed, di recfiy or indirectly, openly or surrepti legally or in defiance of law, a share in its execution. Now the situation is somewhat changed.

The sudden and more or less mysterious resignation of Engineer Van I5uren who has been the constant advocate of the measure and its sturdy de fender against doubtful conditions together With the simultaneous stir of the committee which has been so long the funeral director of the pluns, suggests to the least alert observer the possibility that this coveted is at last in sight. The ease takes on a new aspect. The failure to act or to meet may mean, not that the Aldermen are stiil resolved to do nothing, but that tho share has not yet taken clear shape, that the details of the agreement have not been perfected. At all events everybody concerned in the business will bear watching. Mr.

Schroctler on the Mayoralty. Ex Mayor Frederick A. Hcbroedcr is a gentleman whose views on local affairs are always perused with interest by his fellow citizens. His reputation as a sagacious and far sighted political observer is not questioned hyhis townsmen of either party. Than Mr.

chroeder the Ilepnblicans of Brooklyn never had a more capable or eminent leader. Although he rarely appears in the domain of actual "management" he still cherishes an inclination toward politics. As his preference has always been for municipal politics he not unnaturally exhibits familiarity with that branch of Ihe sabject. What the ex Mayor had to say in an exceedingly timely and en ertaining chat with an Laoj.k reporter on nesday concerning the approaching con test for the Mayoralty will therefore be re garded as suggestive by ins neighbors irrespective of party. From the frank answers of Mr.

Sehroedev to the interviewer it is quite evident that he realizes the advantages which accrue to the majority party in power. Consequently, it cannot be inferred that he is sanguine of Republican success. Indeed, he docs not perceive that the situation much from what it has been in preceding years. This is only another way of admitting that the outlook is most favorable to the Democrats. "There is, I am told," said Mr.

Schroeder, "considerable dissatisfaction among Democrats with some of Mr. Ohapin's appointments, but Mayor Chapin has given satisfaction to a great many Kepublieaiis by his course toward the needs of tin; city, such as the repaying of streets. The Republicans will have to nominate a mighty strong man to win." This is about as far as the ex Mayor could well go without discouraging his colleagues. To say more would be equivalent to confessing judgment before the trial of the cause. But Mr.

Schroeder does not confine himself to candid and sensible recognition of Democratic, strength. He detects, likewise, a good deal of Republican weakness in present conditions. His allusions to the squabbles of the Federal spoilsmen demonstrate that the evil influence on Republicanism of this unseemly contention has not been exaggerated. Many voters, lie finds, who have heretofore given the Republican party the preference in a local election arc with the. quarrels over the patronage.

Toli tics," he remarks in passing, should be something higher than the mere looking for places for a few men." On the more active Republican politicians this reproof from the lips of an experienced veteran ought to create an immediate impression. If they were, not too eagerly devoted to pursuit of office they would not fail to profit by (lie conservative and enlightened opinion set forth by him who has on more than one occasion led them from the valley of defeat to the uplands of decisive victory. Turning to the excise question Mr. Schroeder finds little comment to make. His few words on this point are, however, susceptible of a very broad interpretation.

Referring to the suggested alliance between the Republicans and the so called anti saloon movement lie observes, significantly, that such things cut both ways, sometimes." In this relation Mr. Schroeder shows how much superior his understanding of the situation is to that of his Republican colleagues who have entered into consultation with the professional temperance agitators. What he realizes, and what they are apparently unable to comprehend, is that by dickering with the temperance men the Republicans are in danger of alienating the sympathy and co operation of the German American element. Of course all voters of German birth and descent are not Republicans; but without a very large body of support from this quarter the Republican prospect must, invariably be regarded as hopeless. If there is one question aiore than another on which the Germans are sensitive it is the excise question.

By habit, custom and inclination they are irresistibly impelled toward the liberal side. Hence the gentlemen now engaged in "futile dalliance" with the anti saloon conferees have assumed the responsibility of antagonizing the element which gave them the only victory secret! on the local ticket last Fall, without effecting any perceptible gain in return for the sacrifice. Than this a more suicidal course could not be adopted. The individuals responsible for it may feel sanguine enough at present, but they are destined to a disagreeable awakening when the votes are counted. In conclusion Mr.

Schroeder announces that under no circumstances will he consent to be a candidate for Mayor Ibis year. His disclaimer narrows the arena of Republican selection and removes a formidable figure from the field. His utterances, which will greatly increase Democratic confidence, ought to set the Republicans thinking. That they Lave a difficult struggle before tlietii is not jiiore certain than that duty to their party and consideration for the i. it 's welfare involve the responsibilities of an orderly, courageous and aggressive opposition.

They may not bo a'ole to defeat the Democracy, but they can at least earn tin: respect of their own voters and maintain their organization in good form for other contests. This niii they cannot hope to accomplish unless they pay sufficient and seasonable heed to such friendly, dispisskmate and well informed critics as ex Mayor Schroeder. Two G'ivilizatioiiN. Tf. seems from letter nrinfed ill a recent Eagle that the wild West of the American continent is attracting a good vil of atten that Mr.

Cody Will score bo large a social ae view of conducting interments on the install ment plan. Judging from its manner of doing business, the company is a sort of "trust" or "combine," which proposes to drive out the regular undertakers by offering more convenient terms of payment to famil ies which require its services. To quote from a report it makes a contract with a man to bury him, or his family, as fast ns they die, for a certain sum. The company insures burial, aud the customer pays so much per week until the contract price is met, when he receives interest on his money and is finally put under ground with out additional expense." This explanation seems to be lucid enough, and however much we may be disposed to stand aghast at the grim spectacle of a man calmly arranging for his funeral, it must frankly be admitted that the plan has its advantages. There is surely just as good reason for attending to the details of interment in advance as there is for providing life insurance, only it is to be hoped that the company stands the loss in the event of one of its customers dying be fore his installment is paid.

It would bo in teresting to know how many people die in Brooklyn every year without leaving means sufficient for burial purposes. Large or small as the number may be, the individual who is able to produce a certificate guarantee ins interment may bo said to be better off than a great many of his fellows, Of course, discrimination should be ex ercised in showing such a document, for there are those whoso sensibilities would be shocked if, under circumstances far from melancholy, they should be so forcibly reminded of the end common to us all. Tho effect would not be unlike that produced on tho young woman whose sofa companion suddenly announced that ho was an undertaker by profession, and that "he had a velvet foot when he went into the house of mourning." It is not altogether clear, though, that tho Funeral Directing Company has an easy, road to travel, however skillful it may be in attending to the obsequies of those who, in a speculative mood, claim its services. The local undertakers have taken up arms against it, and have already withdrawn their moral aud financial support from a livery stable keeper named Johnson, because that unfortunate person, iu a moment of weakness, consented to give aid and comfort to the intruder. A meeting was held and the undertakers virtually decided to boycott Mr.

Johnson unless he abandoned his dealings with the "trust" and took sides with thom in their fight against it. I was notified," says the unhappy carriage owner, that unless I ceased to have further transactions with the company my business would be cut off. The effect of the boycott has been apparent. I have had nothing to do and my business is practically ruined." There were 300 undertakers at tho meeting in question and their resolution of defiance is said to have been passed with surprising unanimity nnd enthusiasm. The struggle between tho trust and tho undertakers will bo watched with interest by the people of this city.

It is said that competition is the life of trade, but perhaps the statement does not apply to the undertakers, because in one sense the less life and more death there is in a community the greater their prosperity. Should the warfare result in a general reduction of funeral rates, as may possibly happen, there will, we are certain be no cause for regret. The 13 year old boy named Walter Burke, who was sent to tho Truant Home yesterday by Judge Goetting, was iu the habit of composing verses and reciting them iu saloons in return for beer. He would not go to school, being evidently of the belief that a genius should not be subjected to the trammels of ordinary mortals. Master Burke's abnormal for ardent beverages seems to be the only thing about him in keeping with the poetic idea.

His mother has acted wisely in sendiug him to the Truant Home. There is an old saying to the. effect that tho poets anil philosophers of thirteen and fourteen are the blockheads of one and twenty. There is some consolation in knowing that the numerous Italians who claim to be direct descendants of Rienzi are not all in the peanut trade. Signor Bellochio, whoso marriage to Miss Edgeworth Starritt has recently received no small share of newspaper attention, points to the last of the Tribunes as his illustrious and much beloved ancestor.

It would, perhaps, be unfair to assume that the family has deteriorated since Rienzi's time. An Italian who can cut out all the dudes who hang about a stage door and carry off a charming American girl accustomed to tho footlights must be possessed of at least a little of the stuff which entered into the make up of tho old Roman heroes. There were 2,000 persons, colored people, admitted by immersion to tho Baptist communion at Richmond, on Monday. The Associated Press dispatch says: "It required only two hours." On the Day of Pentecost the record is that there were 3,000 converted 'ind baptized. Tho Baptists have always insisted that they wore immersed.

The non Baptists have maintained that "They must have been sprinkled because there were so many of them." The Richmond incident on Monday indicates that 2,000 were immersed in two hours. If so, 3,000 could be easily immersed by twelve apostles iu one day. The modern instance appears to make in favor of the Baptist claim as to the ancient instance. The Eaoie never has wasted any sympathy on Mr. "Butch" Miller, and probably the public has been equally continent of its emotions.

Since the county took charge of him, providing him with a suitable bed and regular and wholesome food, ho lias probably been more comfortable than ever before in his life. Beside, he has been kept out of mischief. Nevertheless, the taxpayers are not obliged to maintain Mr. "Butch" Miller indefinitely, and the law requiring the speedy trial of accused persons should bo enforced. Judge Cullen is therefore eutiroly right in ordering that he shall be tried or discharged next month.

There is a city ordinance which prohibits the firing of pistols, guns, fire crackers, etc. in the streets of Brooklyn. This law is allowed to be set at nought on July 4th for alleged patriotic reasons, but there is no excuse whatever for its non enforcement by the police on other days. It is the custom to violate the law from the middle of Juno to a week after the Fourth of July. Cannot this dangerous nuisance bo stopped More runaway accidents are due to the startling of horses by fire crackers than to any other cause.

Beside it is an annoyance to oyerybody except small boys, who are never so jiappy as when engaged in lawless Fire cracker practice ought to be stopped at once, Tho line is $5 for every violation of the eity ordinance which prohibits it. Not the least of the dangers to which ocean travelers are exposed at this season of tho year is shown by the accident to the North Gorman Lloyd steamer Saale, which arrived in port last night. The vessel struck nn iceberg of immense size, and only by marvelous good fortuno escaped serious injury. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and it was consequently impossible to see the danger ahead. The iceberg is reported to be in the track of more than one of tho big steamers now at sea.

Information concerning them will naturally be awaited with the greatest anxiety. RIJCE.NT EVENTS. Arthur A. lilothon and A. G.

Foster, big shoe manufacturers of Lynn, have failed. The Boston aud Concord anil Montreal railroads arcrcuortcd to havo consolidated. A younc man named Frederick GrcRgiiiH drank a quart of whisky at Rome, N. on a wager, and diod in one hour. Wotson Goodspeod, of East Pateruon, fatited thirty niuo (layn and then cave up tho ghost.

Ho wan trying to boat Dr. Tanner's record. Burt Harvey, a 14 year old boy recovering from tho measles, hung himself with a halter at Gilbortvillo, Mass. Judeo McLain, president of the Savannah Havings Institution which failed lust week, has of rooks iu the vicinity. PERSONAL MENTION.

President Harrison is to take a sail down tho Chesapeake. Rose Coghlau is selling hor household effects. She has a threo yeara' engagement in California. Lawyer George B. McCloskey, of New York, has mysteriously disappeared.

According to tho Salt Lake. Tribune Brigham Young, is living in Washington with one wife, while another is entertaining Federal officials iu Utah. Mme. Carlotta Tatti do Mnnck, sister of Adoliua Fatti, is seriously ill in Paris. diaries Morloy.

a nephew of John Morley, iB on the staff oftlio Pall Mall Gazette. Mrs. Oscar Wiklc has taken to tho lecture platform. It has been discovered that Eiffel is a direct descendant of William Tell. POLITICAL POINTS.

Tho Connecticut Legislature passed over tho Governor's veto tho bill creating a new criminal Court of Common Pleas. Tho Samoan treaty has been signed and Secretary Blaine says the protocol is eminently satisfactory to the Unitod States. The Connecticut Legislature passed a bill de signed to prevent tho sale of a majority of the Pheiu'x Life Insurance Company's stock to a Philadelphia Syndicate. The study of professional Irishmen furnished by tho Cronin inquest is very interesting but not surprising to those who havo road tliu history of Ireland and who know that her chief enemies during all that time havo boon blatant traitors posing as patriots, but really in tho employ of tho English Governmeut or expecting reward therefrom. Whatever may bo tho truth about tho Ci'onin Sullivan affair, it has boon mado pretty nlain that somebody wasted or Htofe the Clan na Gaol funds, and that the miserable toola sent to England on missions of violence wore betrayed by tlio mon who sent them.

This exposuro is one gooa fruit of the Cronin murder. Philadelphia jA'U'jer. Tho Minneapolis Tribune says that the danger of a dynasty of plutocrats is, under the United States Government, more imaginary than real, and quotes the familiar Baying that in America "but three generations usually intervene between shirt sleeves and shirt sleeves." This is very true. Tho people of the United States have a facility for dissipating fortunes quite as great as for ac quiring them. The Trilmite, however, is a little wide of the mark.

No thoughtful person has ever feared a hereditary aristocracy founded upon wealth, but an aristocracy, or, rather, the over weeuing influence of wealth, iu whatever hands it might be. Tho nabob of to dav may give the world a spendthrift son and a grandson wlio is a dock laborer, but his money is still somewhere and others are accumulating as he did. In the undue influence exerted by tho ie who have by any accident acquired wealth is tho real danger. Detroit Free Press. One act of President Harrison's Administration we can unreservedly approve is his refusal to act as ex officio president of tho alleged "National University," when it presented its diplomas to him for his signature.

It was well douo. There is no real National University id this country. Tho Constitution provides for none, and no alleged in stitution of that kind has the right to demand the President's signature to give a fictitious value to diplomas, which, if they are not shams, are, witii the great majority of American diplomas, open to tho suspicion of being humbugs. Louis lieimblie. It is somewhat interesting to note that Mr.

Henry Cabot Lodge is tho most persistent and successful patronage seeker in Washington. Ho has tho proverbial zeal of the convert to the spoils system in politics. Proeitlrnce Journal, CONTEMPORARY" HUMOR. Merchant Tailor I am sorry to say it, Mr. Goodhenrt.

but as this is to bo your wodding suit I must demand cash on delivery. Mr. Goodhcart Eh Why, I've had an account with you for years, and 1 ve always paid promptly to cue nour, tho very hour, sir. "Yes, Mr. Goodhcart, but you were a bachelor and bad the handling of your own money." A'cio York Veeklu.

Mr. Phonyman You have got a lovely garden. Do you raise many vegetables? Horticultural Friend Yes, indeed; my vegetables are a success. I had green peas a week before anybody else in the neighborhood had any. "George, let mo congratulate you." "Why do you call me George "Becauso yon aro first in peas." Texas Kiftitujs.

A Free Kick: Ella Footo (aged 14) Mamma, see me kick tho mantelpiece! Does it.l Mrs. Foote For shame, Ella! Only ballet girls kick, and they do it for their living. Ella Foote What do you kick for, niannua7 Mrs. Foote hy, nothing." Ella Foote That's just what papa said. Put.

"I owe you an apology, old boy," said Giles. 'Nevermind the apology," replied Merritt; "just let me have the Xip. A Summer Gorge Wickwire Yon look a little warm, Yabsley. Yabsloy I am, somewhat. Just boon looking at an ice gorge, too.

Wickwire Ice gorge? Yabsloy That's what I said. Took that new girl of mine down town and she got away with four plates without turning a hair. Terre Haute Express. GONE TO NIAGARA FALLS. The Members of the Sacnsrerbnnd En joying a Three Pay' Kxcnmion.

Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Saon gerbund about threo hundred ladies, gentle men and children assembled shortly before 0 o'clock this morning at the foot of Fulton street for a three days' trip to Niagara Falls. Beside the members and friends of tho Saengerbund many others availed themselves of the opportunity given them to participate in an excursion of such extent and under such reasonablo conditions as offered by the Rac ngerbund. The committee consists of Messrs. George Zipti, C. F.

Eisenach, I. Lehrenkrauss, Adolph Dol moyer, George Rehn, Anton Weber, Charles W. Muehlhausen, Theodore Kanselira aud Fritz Handricli. The party left Brooklyn hy special Annex boat, and after landing at the foot of Jay street, in New York City, where the last and late coiners were taken aboard, went to Weohawken station, where the excursionists found a special train of the West Shore Railroad in readiness to carry them off. The first stop was mado at Kingston, N.

for breakfast. Some of the German singing sacieties at Rochester and Syracuso will meet the party at their respective stations aud some Buffalo singers will join the Saengerbund at Niagara Falls. The re turn trip will be via Bnffalo, tho party arriving in Brooklyn at 10 o'clock Monday evening. The committee has had priutod handsome and most appropriate programme or traveling guide, which was distributed among tho participants and which not only contains the rules for the excursionists, but also the names and geographical description of the more important and conspicuons stations and places along the route. SUPPLIES FOB DR.

KKMPIO'S PULPIT. The authorities of the Hanson Place M. E. Chinch announce tho following supply during tho absence of Rev. Dr.

Juno 2, Rev. Henry Roissy: June 9, Rev. J. M. Buckley.

D. June iti. Rev. J. M.

Buckiey, I). June 23, Rev. J. O. Peck, D.

June 30, Rev. J. O. Peck, D. July 7, Rev.

Henry Roissy; July 14, Rev. George E. Recd.D. July 21, Rev. Goorgo E.

Reed, D. July 28, llev. Emory J. Hayncs; August 4, Rov. Henry RoisBy, August 11, Rev.

Wallace Jlc.UiU leu; August 18, Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. AngUBt 25, Rev.

Charles W. Holden: September, icev. Henry Roissy. FIS111S0 FOK CLIENTS. T.

itvvnr TTenrv It. Djivis comnlaincd to Justico finottinrr in tlm TliirrV District Police Court on Thursday, that Lawyer Alonzo Ravel hart stolen a client away from lnm. said ho didn't. There is a rumpus among the attorneys, who fintipp in ilin ennrfc hpcanse some of tho legal pnnt.vv wnvlav clients at the entrance of tho court and represent that they have pulls with tho idge, thereby getting their business. THE MEAD IUVOKCE SUIT.

The old divorce suit of Henry O. Mead against his wife, Maggie J. Mead, waa tried Thursday af ternoon in the Circuit Court, and yesteruay the Jury gavo a vordict for tho husband. Tho wife was accused of infidelity with ono Frank J. Riehell, a bartender employed in a Sheopshead Bay hotel which was carried on by the Meads.

The oaae has beeft beforo the courts several times. regular duty. Commissioner Bell desires to increase the number to 1,200. Even after this addition is granted there will only be one official guardian to each 0117 inhabitants. The Commissioner is correct in saying that an officer to each 500 of the population would be a proper proportion.

He prefers, however, to modify his demands to the moderate figure which will insure the affirmative action of the Estimate Board. Compared with the police forces of other cities our own is ridiculously small. Yet we have, an orderly and peaceful community, less afflicted with crime than many other towns of smaller size. This is attributable, first, to the exceptionally good character and discreet behavior of the great majority of our people, and secondly, to the admirable discipline which has been maintained in the I'olico Department. Under Commis sioner Bell and Superintendent Campbell a pertinent illustration is furnished of what ram be accomplished by a compact and well trained organization.

Notwithstanding the excellence achieved by the present force the time has arrived when largo reinforcements are indispensable. The growth of tho municipality makes the duty of authorizing the addition imperative. Several other recommendations of the Com missioner will also commend themselves to well informed citizens. Mr. Bell points out in convincing language the.

desirability of affording better police protection for'the water front. The police boat Judge Moore is altogether inadequate for the service to which it assigned. Indeed, it is nothing more than a single launch. A suitable steamer can be. purchased for $50,000 and there is no reason why the purchase should not bo consummated.

As to the extension of the system of patrol wagons and signal boxes there can bo no difference of opinion. The operations of the system have resulted in a manner which justifies its introduction in every section of the city. The proposed increase the com pensation of the uniformed force is not so urgent a necessity as some others that the municipal authorities have to meet, and it may well be held in abeyance by the Board of Estimate until conclusive reasons for granting it are presented. Latent IMisinfn of the Cronin C'ae. I'he interesting chapter of the history of the transactions of certain members of the Clan na Gael in this city, published by tho Eahlu yesterday, is in keeping with tho history of the Chicago branch of that organization in its relations to the conspiracy that resulted in the murder of Dr.

Cronin. Men like Justice Walsh and John C. Maguire quitted its ranks none too soon. There were collected a majority of the shifty adventurers who made merchandise of the misfortunes of their country and practiced on each other all the arts of treachery and dissimulation. A i at 7 society tutu, liiirusieii us accounts 10 tant General James McDermott" might well have been suspected of harboring men capable of the acts which the Investi gating Committee disclosed.

What was left of the Clan after tlie.se revelations will scarcely survive the Chie.igo chapter of its exploits. If there is any honest lover of Ireland remaining in it he can no longer hesitate to sever a connection so odious. Within the last twenty four hours the prospects of unearthing the assassins do not seem to have improved. Alexander Sullivan has been admitted to bail in $20,000. There was no other course for the court to pursue.

Suspicion is not evidence, and the case as it came before Judge Tuley rested on nothing but suspicion. His vindictive language in denunciation of Dr. Cronin was proof of his hatred of the man, but the, law requires more than evidence of vindictive language to dissipate the presumption of innocence. Mr. Sullivan was entitled to his liberty and he got it, with such guarantees for his reappearance in court when required as ought to satisfy oven the excited Chicago public.

The (rail (hat led up to the two other "suspects," Moroney and McDonald, also appears more vague than it did at first. There is a party by the name of Melville, who comes forward to say that he registered at McCoy's hotel about tho time that the Melville alleged to be identical with Moroney was there. If the latest comer is to be believed his story seriously affects tho weight of the circumstantial evidence against Inspector Byrne's prisoner. An easy test of the man's veracity would be afforded by gettiug him to sign bis name and by comparing such signature with tho signature of the Melville registered at McCoy's hotel. But this phase of the matter does not alter the remarkable, fact that the photograph of Mo jn was promptly picked out among the photographs of several other persons and identified as the photograph of tho man who purchased the furniture for the Carlson Colt ige, who rented the house opposite Dr.

Cronin's office, who called for the doctor at Mrs. Conklin's on the night of the murder and who assisted at the removal of the body. It is a little singular, however, in view of thoso identifications that the Chicago Grand jury omitted to indict, Moroney, knowing that an iudictment was required by Governor Hill and that there was a possibility of the prisoner's release from custody under habeas corpus proceedings in tho Supreme Court to day. An Eccentric Testator. The latest report of the contest of the will of the eccentric Mr.

Merriam says that the relatives are greatly encouraged by testimony recently taken and showing that the testator would sometimes blow a tin horn and sing at 4 o'clock in the morning which is hardly worse than the practice of the amateur flute player or tho performances of enthusiasts who refuse in the public highway to "go home till that ho wanted to get rid of a red haired teacher; that he paid scholars 5 cents a piece to behave themselves that he expressed a desire to kiss a teacher so as to induce her to resign certainly a gentle method of expulsion that ho was even willing that the school house should bo burned in order to get rid of her which was a less tender plan that he occasionally called himself a cent monkey a characterization which in some cases might be merely a candid and wholesome confession. Yet there (ire doubtless Mugwumps 'who believe that those sayings and doings furnish far less conclusive evidence of insanity than Mr. Merrium's inclination to bequeath his money.