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TWO BECEI VERS APPOINTED. G. W. ALLEN'S HEARING. MAJOR COCHRAN LAID LOW.

STAY FOR NO FEAR THAT MAYOR ILL BE IN CONTEMPT. GIRL FATALLY HURT WHILE RIDING WHEEL. Sunday's Eagle WILil. CONTAIN MAN FINE SPECIAL FEATURES AND WIJjIi BE The Best Sunday Paper IN GREATER NEW Y0EK. Among the Articles Which Will Attract Attention Are A superbly illustrated description of the work of ALBERT LUCAS, a Brooklyn artist, who has made a great success in Paris, written by Emma Bullet.

The gossipy Summer Resort pages will contain as a feature an entertaining story on BAY SHORE, BABYLON, ISLIP and other South. Shore Summer social centers. This will deal with the well known Brooklyn People who have cottages there, the hotel life, the yachting and other sporting interests. It will be illustrated with pictures of handsome houses, swift yachts and other interesting things. A member of the Eagle's staff has been sent to Canada.

He has secured interviews with Laurier and Tupper which will make clear the attitude of the Dominion in the boundary dispute. This will be a leading news feature. The London Letter by JULIAN RALPH will be unusually brilliant. The problems that will face Elihu Root, the new Secretary of War, will be the subject of a careful study by one of the Eagle's staff correspondents in Washington. The Belles of Porto Rico will be enthusiastically described in an illustrated story by Frank Carpenter.

PHRADY, the well known sporting writer, contributes gossipy and up to date comment. Ered. B. Hinchman, a Brooklyn man, just home from Manila, writes a vivid description of actual conditions in our Eastern possessions. The Illustrations Include a Number of Beautiful Half Tone Pictures.

The News Pages Will Contain All the Doings of the Day, Reports of AH Sporting Events and Letters from the Important Summer Resorts. Will Take Charge of the New York National Loan Company's Affairs. William C. Breed and Clifford H. Hartrldge were appointed as receivers of the New York National Building Loan Association by Justice Stover in Supreme Court this morning.

Each is to give a bond in $50,000. Justice Stover granted a motion yesterday afternoon, presented by Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Coyne, for the appointment of receivers, but the names were not selected until this morning. The Attorney General seeks to dissolve the corporation In question since there was an examination in June last of the affairs of the company. It is claimed that the concern is Insolvent and that the officers have violated the law under which It was created, because it has endeavored to speculate In real estate.

VAPOR BATHS DID NOT SAVE HIM. Captain Bockhoven of the Corona Succumbs to Hydrophobia. Captain George H. Bockhoven, a steamboat pilot of 515 West One Hundred and Fifty first street, died this morning in New York Hospital from hydrophobia. Captain Bockhoven was master of the freight steamer Corona, a Sound boat.

A strange dog boarded the boat June 12 at East One Hundred and Fifty first street and the captain tried to beat him off with a club. The dog attacked him and bit him in the neck, right arm and left hand. Bockhoven had the wounds cauterized some hours afterward and they apparently healed. While at supper on Wednesday Captain Bockhoven found he could not either open his Jaws wide or swallow food and he suffered greatly all that night. Next day he remembered the fight with the dog and he went to the Pasteur Institute, where Dr.

Gibier said that the case was one of advanced hydrophobia. On learning that the captain had been bitten several weeks ago he said that the institute treatment would avail nothing and he advised medicinal vapor baths. These were tried, but Captain Bockhoven grew woree and he was taken to the New York Hospital, where he died. He was 55 years old. AN ALLEGED OPIUM JOINT.

Police Raid an Apartment on Livingston Street and Capture Six Prisoners and a "Lay Out." Detective Sergeants Brady and McCormick and Detective Officer O'Brien of the Adams street police station paid a sudden visit this forenoon to the house at 299 Livingston street, where they suspected the existence of an opium joint. They were not dis appointed, for they came away from the house with three young women who had a dissipated look and three somewhat flashy young men. beside an opium pipe, tray, lamp, cooking needle, cigar box almost filled with the cinders of cooked opium and pther appurtenances of a "lay out" of the opium fiend. It was evident that all the "dope" could not have been consumed in the one pipe, which led the police to the conclusion that in the bustle of the raid some of the inmates had managed to conceal some of the properties of the place. The house is of the furnished room order and the lessee is said to be a respectable woman of some age, who was not alive to the character of the occupants.

Tho prisoners, according to the blotter at the station, were Madelalne Palma, or Hawkes, aged 23 years, keeper of the alleged disorderly quarters; Richard Hawkes, aged 27 years, who, she says, is her husband; Madge Smith, aged 23 years, saleswoman by occupation; Lizzie Reed, aged 24 years, housekeeper by occupation; Albert Norman, aged' 27 years, and Charles McDonald aged 32 years, of Ocean avenue, Newark, N. J. The latter is the only one of the prisoners who says that he does not live in the house. When the police got into the place all of the women were in negligee attire. Tbey excused their appearance by saying that the weather was too warm to fuss much about dress.

The Palma woman denounced the arrest as an outrage and declared that she was living quietly in the house with her husband and that she knew nothing of opium smoking. She was asked by a reporter how it came that there was a lay out of opium in the room where she had been found with her husband and one of the other men. She declared that Hawkes had secured the pipe and the other properties of an opium joint somewhere in Manhattan, "but we never, never smoked she said. "Do I look like a fiend?" The other two women were arrested in the parlor of the house while Madelalne and the two men were in a room upstairs. The third man was found in the house Just as the policemen were going away.

They were all taken to court with the paraphernalia of the joint. The charge against the Palma, or Hawkes woman, and Hawkes, wer that they ran a disorderly house. The others were charged with being disorderly persons. It is not likely that Magistrate Brenner, who will hear the case, will reach It before a late hour this afternoon. NARROW ESCAPES FROM FIRE.

Steiner's Cigar Factory Gutted by a Fire That Threatened Many Tenants Living Above It. Workmen passing along the south side of Broadway shortly before 6 o'clock this morning saw that the cigar manufactory of Abraham Steiner on the ground floor of 372, was ablaze One of them caused an alarm to be sent in but before the arrival of the engines the entire room was in flames. Steiner and his wife and two children, who were asleep in a back room, were aroused barely in time to reach the street. There were six families on the three floors above who were awakened by the police and firemen. All reached the street in safety but not without difficulty, the halls having rapidiy filled with smoke.

James Godbold and Richard Williamson of Salvage Corps No. 2 carried a woman and her children, who lived on the top floor, through the scuttle to the roof and took them safely down by the stairway at 368. Those who suffered most were a Mrs. Benson and her family of five children, who occupied rooms directly above Steiner's store. The windows of their rooms were broken and the furniture scorched and damaged by water.

Steiner's stock as well as the furniture in the living rooms of himself and his family was totally destroyed. A second alarm was turned in. Steiner estimates his loss at $1, 500, which is fully covered by insurance. The building was also damaged to the extent of about $1,500. Fire broke out in Steiner's factory on the afternoon of July 3 last but was extinguished by a young man who lived next door with a few buckets of water.

THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILL P. M. TO MORROW. Washington, July 28 For Eastern New York: Fair to nlffht and Saturday; variable winds.

LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Fair to night and Saturday; continued warmer; winds becomlnc southerly. At noon the Eairle's mercurial barometer reentered 29.93 lnehea, having risen .17 of an inch since midnight yesterday. The Indication Is fair weather. The following Is the record of the thermometer ai kept at the Brooklyn Daily Basic Office: 2 A.

M. to day Ji A. 77 i a 1 if 79 i Ki' 2 P. 8 a m. AA craue temperature to day 77 Average temperature corresponding day last year .78 The sun will rise to morrow at 4:53 A.

M. and will set at M. HIGH WATER. Following Is the ofllelal announcement of the time and duration of hltfh water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, July 20: A. M.

it P. M. ji oi TimolHaight iKIm.I Fall Ih. m.I Feet. 11b.

M.I Feet. u. m.Ih. m. Mow York OrM.

4.1 II i li 5:54 Creditors Present Proofs of Claims, DUt No Examinations Asked For. A. J. Koehler, referee in bankruptcy, this morning held the first meeting of creditors in the petition of George W. Allen to be discharged from bankruptcy.

Mr. Allen's schedules name 262 unsecured creditors with claims amounting to and he requested the privilege of filing an amended schedule, which will include other debts. Several of the cre itors appeared, ul no one asked for an examination. In addition there were a few proofs of claims filed with Referee Koehler, but the majority of the creditors failed to do this, evidently being willing to allow the ease to be closed without a protest. David Wright, a salesman, living at S7S Broadway, filed his petition in voluntary bankruptcy this morning, naming forty unsecured creditors in and scheduling assets valued at $25.

William J. Wilson, a salesman, living at 193 President street, also filed his petition, giving forty six creditors in $51,461.04 and assets valued at $25. Max Spector. a grocer, at 455 Grand street, was a third petitioner, scheduling twenty creditors in and no assets. SUICIDE OF A BROOKLYN WOMAN Mrs.

Ogden Smith, a Widow, Hangs Herself in a Boarding House in Manhattan. Mrs. Ogden Smith. 50 years old. widow of the late Ogden Smith, an, importer, committed suicide this morning at 123 East Fifty eighth street, Manhattan, which had been her home for only ten days.

She hung herself to a bedpost with a piece of white ribbon an inch and a half wide. Mrs. Smith has a son, Lewis K. Smith, employed at 172 Fulton streel. She lived in Brooklyn for twenty five years, going to Manhattan a year ago, but returning to this borough in January.

Ten days ago she asked Dr. J. G. McCoy or 137 East Fifty seventh street to recommend a boarding house to her. He takes his meals at 123 East Fifty eighth street, and at his request Mrs.

Smith was given a roam there on the second floor. Mrs. Smith took with her only a handbag with some trinkets, dally necessities and a gold watch. She talked of a legacy she expected, but gave no details. She did not appear melancholy.

She visited this borough yesterday and when she Teturned only alluded to her visit by saying that the water she drank was not palatable. She retired at the usual hour. Miss Kelly, the keeper of the boarding house, heard what sounded like a fall from Mrs. Smith's room at 7:30 o'clock this morning. She paid no attention to the noise, but at 9 o'clock, as Mrs.

Smith had not appeared for breakfast, she went up to the room. She could not get in and could get. no response to knocks on the door or calls. She called Dr. McCoy, who broke down the door of Mrs.

Smith's room. The woman wa found hanging to the bedpost only partially dressed. Dr. McCoy saw at once that the woman was dead. Xo letters were found, but an envelope with the name and address of her son was among the effectn.

WANTS THE TICKERS BACK. Broker looram Seeks an Injunction to Restrain Interference With His Business. Matthew M. Looram, a stock broker of Manhattan applied to day to Justice Stover in Supreme Court, through Lawyer Henry C. Wilcox, for a mandatory Injunction against the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company, to restrain them from interfering with the transmission of stock quotations to the offices of the plaintiff and to compel tnem nut back two tickers in the plaintiff's offices that had been taken out.

Mr. Wilcox said that the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was leased by the Western Union and Looram in 1S98 got the tickers. The plaintiff stipulated that he would use the tickers only in the business conducted by him and not to r.tui a so called bucket shop. There was a contract that provided that the tickers could be removed at the option of tne Western Union. The tickers were taken out in April lat.

Looram wrote for an explanation and received a reply that the Stock Exchange committee had withdrawn its approval by which the instruments had been placed in Looram's offices. It was contended by Lawyer Wilcox that the Western Union Telegraph Company, under its general obligation to the public, was bound to furnish the stock quotations on the Exchange to those who desired them. The Xew York Stock Exchange had for many years admitted the employes of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company on the floor of the Exchange and allowed them to collect quotations for distribution. The question was whether the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company could give quotations to one broker and refuse them to another. The Stock Exchange had changed the arrangement and reserved the right of controlling the quotations, now collecting them through its own employes and selling them to the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company for $91) a day, the telegraph company agreeing to send the quotations only to stich persons as were approved by committee of the Stock Exchange.

Mr. Wilcox claimed that the old contract was in force. Justice Stover said in the course of the argument that if the transmission of quotations was a duty to the public then the company was hound to furnish them: but it appeared to him that it was not bound to throw broadcast to the public all of the information it received. Suppose a newspaper gathered news and gave it to the Western Union to transmit to certain persons. Was that property that the company was bound to give out to the public? Lawyer Wilcox said that the courts had decided that The company must serve all without discrimination and that the reasons why tickers were removed should be given.

Lawyer Rush Taggart for the defendants said that the company rented on the contract as valid. It contained a clause that the West err. Union must get the approval of the Stock Exchang committee before it could give out ions 'h. ti 'k rs f' 'd drawn at the pleasure of the Exchange. The question why the consent of the committee the use of the instruments hail been withdrawn was not a qucslion before the court.

Justice Stover took the papers and reserved his decision. FOUGHT IN A SALOON. Jacoh Geottel of Seventeenth street was arraignpd before Magistrate Xostrand in the Flatbush court this morning on a charge of assault made by James Browe of G8S Sixth avenue. Both men are employed in Greenwood Cemetery and are known as superintendents. Wednesday they did not work and celebrated the day by visiting a saloon at Xinth avenue and Seventeenth street, where they got into a fight at an early hour yesterday morning.

Browo alleges that Onottcl cut him twice In the left side with a pocket knife. Geottel had his collar bono broken. Browe. who was in court to day, said he did not wish to press the charge but the case was adjourned. SENTENCE SUSPENDED.

Sentence was suspended by Magistrate Worth in the Myrtle avenue court, this morning in the case of Hlldig Johnson, 15 years old. of Sixty first street and Fifteenth avenue, who was arrested during the strike for placing a broken tricycle on the tracks of the Rapid Transit Company. The boy said he had no lnt' 'iiion of interfering with the travel of the road. INDIA'S CROPS WITHERING. Bombay, July 28 Therains still hold off and the crops are withering.

He Didn't Take Any Chances With Strikers Who Cherished Grudges. KEPT OUT OF THE STREET CARS. Story of an Attempt to Poison Him Emphatically Denied He Served in 1895. A story has been going the rounds of the National Guard in Brooklyn during the past few days to the effect that Major George G. Cochran (supernumerary), formerly of the Thirteenth Regiment, remained in his house all last week because of the strikers, who were said to have had a grudge against him because of his prominence in the strike of 1895.

The major is a food inspector in the Health Department and did not report at the local office at all last week. This, at least, was the information given out there this morning. It was also said that an attempt was made to poison the gallant major. To an Eagle reporter this morning the Major said: "Because of the part I played in the 1S95 affair, and in order to avoid trouble, I deemed it best to keep out of the cars as much as possible until the affair had been settled. It is wonderful how well the strikers remembered me and on Sunday, the first day of the present trouble, as I was riding down Fifth avenue in one of the old Nassau cars, they singled me out and applied numerous pet names." The poison story was that a small but mysterious package had been received at the Cochran residence on Benson avenue, Bath Beach, a few days ago and when the doctor's address was observed on the outside of the package, the colored servant, who is supposed to have received it, carefully placed it in the office and then stepped out on the piazza and waited for his employer to return from a call.

The parties who were supposed to have sent the package to the doctor are said to be strikers who were employed by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company during the big strike in 1895. The Major was then in command of a battalion of the Thirteenth Regiment, and when It attempted to pass through Hicks street in order to quell a disturbance the men received a shower of bricks and stones from the roof of a building. One man on the roof, thought to be a leader of the rioters, was ordered away by the soldlerB, but he refused, so it is claimed, and' was shot dead by one of the solidera. It was claimed by the strikers that the order to shoot the man was given by Major Cochran, and since that, time the employes of the trolley lines have, it is said, sworn vengeance. When the strike of 1S95 had been settled a large number of the men who were not taken back to work secured positions on the Atlantic avenue railroad lines, which included the old West End route to Coney Island, and when Major Cochran, who is a doctor, settled down in Bath Beach he was recognized at once by the conductors and motormen as the officer in command of the soldiers who did the Hicks street shooting.

Major Cochran has always until last week been able, however, to travel back and forth to the office of the Department of Health without being bothered by any threats. When the strike of two weeks ago wasc ailed, however, the Major, after considerable thought, decided to keep away from the busy part of the city, not because he was afraid of any one man, but simply to avoid trouble. Concerning the poison stery the Major declared: "I think I have been on earth long enough to know when to receive packages of poison, and the rumor that an attempt had been made to poison me is ridiculous. I have not received any package whatever." ASSAULTED A CONDUCTOR. Three Young South Brooklynites Arrested and Locked Up.

Detective Jepson and Officers Delaney and Bohmke arrested Michael Layden, 19 years old. of 213 Twenty eeeond street: 'William Redigan, 18 vears old, of 223 Twenty second street, and Henry Dunn, 23 years old, of 698 Sixth avenue, to day, for assaulting James A. Roberts, a conductor on the Fifth avenue trolley line. The alleged offence was committed about 7:30 o'clock this morning, on a car while the latter was on Its way to New York. The assault was begun by several men who escaped.

The three young men arrested, it is said, took part in the crimmage. Roberts said that stones were thrown at him. that he was knocked down and kicked. He admitted, however, that he struck at one of the young men. The three defendants were held In $500 ball each by Magistrate Brlstow and the examination was adjourned.

RECEIVES THE HABIT. Miss Marian Whitlock Becomes a Novice of the Visitation Order. On Wednesday morning Miss Marian Whitlock, the neice of the late Joseph Carroll, received the habit of the Visitation Order of cloistered nuns at the Visitation Convent, Clinton and Willoughby avenues. Miss Whitlock entered the convent as a postulant in November last. She will be a novice for one year when she will be professed for life.

Her name In religion is Sister Joseph Carmelita. An aunt of the young woman was a member of the community, but died several years ago. Miss Gertrude O'Connor of Connecticut also received the habit of the order at the same time. She will bo known as Sister Gertrude. Mgr.

McNamara, the vicar general of the diocese, officiated at the services in the absence of the Bishop. REACHING A SETTLEMENT. i Manhattan Tailors Claiming a Sub stantial Victory, but Brownsville Operators May Go Out at Any Time. The striking tailors in Manhattan are already claiming victory. They say 'that they Jld not intend to present their demands to the bosses before to morrow, but that the influx of demands for settlement was so great that they had to consider them at once.

The system of settlement they pursue is rather elaborate. If an employer wants a settlement a shop meeting of his employes is called and between themselves the employer and workmen reach an agreement. The boss then calls on the executive committee of the strikers at 145 Suffolk street and if the agreement Is approved he is given credentials and referred to the settlement committee that sits at 177 East Broadway. This committee sees that the proper agreement, in legal form, is drawn up and signed by the employer and representatives of his employes. The employer is required to give a cash note to insure his keeping his part of the agreement.

The amount of the note is fixed by the number of machines or "sets" at work in his shop, $50 being required for each set. A baster, finisher, presser and operator compose a set. The settlement must be one applying to all branches of the trade. According to a settlement made to day the pressers who do piece work will receive an allowance of 15 pur cent, over the old price. The scale provides that the operators shall receive $18 a week, the basters $1C, the finishers $12.

and the helpers $13. There are several hundred small shops that employ but a few sets affected by the strike in Manhattan. The Brownsville and other tailors in this borough refused to strike until they could be assured thai the New York men would strike unanimously. The leaders expect now that they will go out almost at any moment. LOST $7,000 IN PANEL GAME.

Chicago, July 28 A wealthy Western merchant, whose Identity the police dlBguise, was robbed last night of $7,000 through a "Panel game." Tne woman has ooen Justice Goodrich Unwilling to Take Action Which Would Annul Hurd's Decision. ARGUMENT IN COURT T0DAY. Mr. Field and Mr. Hirsh Differ Over the Interpretation of the "Word "Eecommend." Michael J.

Dady applied to Justice Goodrich as the presiding justice of the Appellate Courtthrougb his counsel, Frank Harvey Field, this morning for an ex parte stay pending appeal from the decision of Judge Hurd, compelling him to file the liste of election officers submitted by the executive members of the various wards by noon to morrow. Justice Goodrich denied the motion for a stay. The proceeding was an attempt on the part of Mr. Dady to reverse Judge Hurd's order, as the appeal would not be heard until the October term of the Appellate Court and a month afte' the election officials, as already selected by Mr. Dady, would have begun their work.

Lawyer Field was accompanied by Walter B. Atterbury, in his trip to the chambers of Justice Goodrich this morning to make the application for a stay. Hugo Hirsh, counsel for William J. Buttling, and the other three executive membens contesting the Dady lists, had not been notified of the intention of Mr. Field to try to secure the stay, and Justice Goodrich consequently refused to hear the application, unless Mr.

Hirsh was given a chance to appear in opposition. Mr. Hirsh was found in court before Judge Hurd on another matter, and he at once went to the Appellate Court chambers. The argument by Mr. Field was for the most part a reiteration of the points brought to the notice of Judge Hurd and he dwelt strongly upon his construction of the word "recommend," from which he said he interred that, from the definition of that word, it clearly was shown that the chairman of the executive committee had the power to select or refuse the persons recommended, otherwise that would have been used.

Mr. Field declared that he as the chairman of the executive committee, was required to authenticate and file a liEt of men for election officers and that it was absurb to think that his powers should be delegated to thirty two men from different wards in the city. It is absurd to think," he continued, "that the word 'recommend' takes all the power of the chairman away and makes him no better than a bump on a log. To 'recommend' does not mean to appoint. The law distinctly means that these lists are to be submitted to the chairman for his guidance." Lawyer Hirsh declared that Lawyer Field's construction of the word "recommend" was absolutely wrong and said: "I even call your honor's attention to your own experience as chairman of that committee." "His honor's experience is ex cathedra," interposed Mr.

Field. "Not in this case," returned Mr. Hirsh. "Your honor knows well that the usage has always been that the chairman of the executive committee should act only as the agent of the executive members and authenticate and file their lists." "We deny that," interrupted Mr. Field.

"Mr. Field says it is absurd," continued Mr. Hirsh, "that the power of the chairman of the executive committee should be spread ou't and given to thirty two men. Let us look at it another way. Suppose the power is confined to one man, the executive head of each party.

Those two men may get together and collusively select the men who will do the nominating and electing." "You mean the tneu who count the votes? asked Justice Goodrich. "Yes, and I don't think your honor's memory is so bad as not to go back to the time when the men who counted the votes were the men who did the electing." "They don't do it now," observed Mr. Field. "Well, I don't want to give them the opportunity," returned Mr. Hirsh.

Neither the Dadys nor the McKanes should have the opportunity to defeat us. Just look at the provisions in these rules. Not a soul has the power to appoint. The executive member may 'recommend' and the chairman may 'authenticate and The Police Board only can appoint, and that, too, is a ministerial duly, for, unless the men designated are fit to serve, the Police Board must appoint them as they are named on the list. The power of the executive member is as high as that of the chairman of the committee.

The rules are adopted to prevent fraud, Just such fraud as the Dadys and the McKanes were guilty of in the days gone by. No strongc language than the word 'recommend could be used under the circumstances. "Oh, yes it could," said Justice Goodrich, "either one of us, if we wanted to, could make it stronger now that our attention has been directed to it, and perhaps the attention of the Legislature should be called to it." in denving the stay Justice Goodrich said: "Counsel for Mr. Dady in the above proceeding has applied to me under section 1 343 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as a Judge of the Appellate Court, for a stay of proceedings pending his appeal to the appellate division. My associates being absent it is not possible to convene a session of the court for the purpose of hearing the apeal instanter.

The order of County Judge Hurd directs Mr. Dady on or before July 29 to authenticate and file with the 'Police Board of the City of New York, for appointment as Republican election officials of the Fifth Ward of the Borough of Brooklyn the list of namea recommended to him by the said William J. Buttling, executive member of the Kingo County Republican General Committee, representing the Fifth Ward, as the law requires. "With the approval of Mr. Field, counsel for Mr.

Dadv. I called before me Mr. Hirsh. counsel for "Mr. Buttling, and having heard both parties upon the question of a stay.

I have concluded to deny the same, as the granting of a stay would practically annul the decision of County Judge Hurd. and on the further ground that it was stated by Mr. Field that even after Mr. Dady shall have complied with the direction of the court he could file a supplemental list of election officials under the provisions of the election law. and thus secure the appointment of the election officials designated by Mr.

Dady Is Prepared to Change the Lists by To morrow. An Eagle reporter asked Mr. Dady this morning when he intended to send the Buttling list of Fifth Ward election officials to the Police Department In placs of the one already submitted by him. "If I n't get a stay I shall have to make the change by to morrow." "Is there any truth in a report that you intend to resign the chairmanship of the executive committee?" With a smile, for Mr. Dady appeared to be in particularly good humor this morning, he replied "I will resign when the executive committee asks me to do so and not before." FOUR CHILDREN ABANDONED.

S. P. C. C. Officer Seeking the Whereabouts of Patrick H.

Short. Superintendent R. J. Wilkin of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is anxious to ascertain the whereabouts of Patrick H. Short, who, it is alleged, has abandoned his four little girls.

The children are Amy and Fannie Short, twins, 10 years old; Jennett Short, years old, and Theresa Short, 5 vears old There Is an older girl, who Is living with her aunt. Matilda Short, of 199 Forty fourth street. The mother of the children Is dead. The aunt says that the father of the children has left thctn without means, and that she is unable to support or care Tor them. Special Agent Joseph Cos china has charge of the case.

CLEANED A VACANT LOT. Health Department inspectors yesterday disinfected the vacant lot in Greenpoint bounded by Meserole, Norman and Humboldt avenues and Diamond street. Two sewers run through the lot into a creek. Complaints have been made of odors coming from the lot and the Department had the sewers cleiaed. and disinfected.

City Law Officers Ridicule the Attempt to Class Him With the Councilmen WHO HAVE HELD UP BONDS. It Is Claimed That the Chief Executive Is Not Even Technically Guilty. The attempt to cnake it appear that the Mayor also is in danger of punishment for contempt of court growing out of the new Hall of Records bond issue, because he signed yesterday the resolution adopted Tuesday by the Municipal Assembly, asking the Corporation Counsel's opinion of the mandamus granted by Justice Fitzgerald, is regarded by the law officers of the city as utterly ludicrous and without any basis of fact. The Mayor is not even guilty of a technical contempt. An officer of the Corporation Counsel's of fice, speaking of the matter to day, declared it an absurdity.

"The Council and Board of Aldermen," said he, "were served with an order of the court. This order they by resolution referred to the Corporation Counsel for advice as to what to do. Any city official served with such an order would take the same course. The Mayor, as a matter of course, signed the resolution, as being a perfectly proper one. If he had held it until the next meeting of the Municipal Assembly the advice which that body is entitled to could not have been "given, because the order of the court will undoubtedly be obeyed and the bond issue in question authorized at the first opportunity.

"The Mayor Is not even technically in contempt. He has repeatedly shown his "anxiety to have the bond issues approved and has exerted his influence in that direction. At least three times he has sent special messages to the Municipal Assembly urging action on bond issues, including that for the Hall of Records. "The Mayor did the only thing there was to do under the circumstances. It would take a vivid imagination to discover that he is in contempt.

Undoubtedly the Corporation Counsel will advise the Municipal Assembly that it must authorize the bond issue for the new Hall of Records." Serving Notice Upon the Recalcitrant Councilmen. An energetic search is going on all over the city to day, but especially in Brooklyn, for the Councilmen who defied the Supreme Court's mandamus last Tuesday. The search is being conducted by clerks of S. Laflln Kellogg, who secured yesterday from Justice Giegerich an order requiring the Councilmen to show cause on Monday why they shall not be punished for contempt of court. Last night Mr.

Kellogg's clerks succeeded in serving Councilmen Hottenroth, Foley and Murphy and this morning service was effected upon Councilman Bngel. Before 10 o'clock Thomas A. Healy of Mr. Kellogg's office started for Brooklyn and began a long day's work, following up the Brooklyn Councilmen, against whom the order is directed. It is hoped to have service made upon every man named in the order before to morrow morning.

William J. Kelly, who has been retained by four of the Councilmen individually, will appear for them in court Monday to answer the order. Speaking of the situation to day. Mr. Kellv said to an Eagle reporter: "I represent Messrs.

Cassidy, Doyle, Conly and Murray, members of the council, I appeared for them yesterday in the application of Mr. Slierrill for a mandamus, which was postooned at the request of the Corporation Counsel to August 8. So far as I know neither of the councilmen named has been served with any order to show cause in the contempt proceding, which the newspapers say has been commenced by Contractor Pierce and which Is returnable Monday morning. "If such a proceeding is pending I am very sure that my clients will be present in court. I think we should wait until the court hears these men before listening to the criticism which Contractor Peirce and his counsel make upon them and upon their motives.

"They have no desire to defy the Supreme Court or to disobey its mandate. The notice of the Peirce application for a writ of mandamus, for some reason, was never served on either one of my clients. They had no hearing, they had no knowledge of the pendency of the proceeding until the morning of their meeting. they were served with a writ of mandamus. "It Is not right, to say that they refused to obey the writ.

They had been commanded to vote for a measure which, so far as they knew anything about it, was illegal, improper and wrong, without any notice to them. The city charter says they are and subject to the liabilities and duties of trustees and that they are civilly responsible in damages if they vote for illegal appropriations of the city's money. "The theory of the charter is that they are the immediate representatives of the people, and that they are a check on the other departments of the city government. This may or may not be a wise provision of law, but it is law and neither of my clients had a hand in drafting the provisions of the act creating the Greater New York. They did what any one in their situation would do they arc not lawyers they referred the matter to the Corporation Counsel for his advice and asked him for information as to the claim of Mr.

Peirce. "The only information they have concerning it, is that it is a contract let in the last days of Mayor Strong's administration and that Mr. Peirce was not the lowest bidder by some $300,000, and surely the secrecy observed by the contractor and his failure to give them any notice of the application isn't any guarantee that his claim will bear investigation. "Are they not entitled to know the facts? There is no contempt of court, no defiance of the court's mandate, but simply a request for a hearing. If after hearing their reasons the court decides that they have no discretion, no judgment to exercise and that Mr.

Peirce is entitled to collect his debt In this way, instead of by action at law before a judge and jury, then the responsibility will rest with the court. But why refuse them notice of such an application?" STOLE A TEAM. Merrigan Caught in the Act of Trying to Sell a Neighbor's Horses. Joseph Mcrrigan, a young man, residing at 221 Bedlord avenue, was held in $1,000 ball Id the Lee avenue police court to day charged with grand larceny. It is alleged that Mer rigan, about 10 o'clock yesterday mornlag, entered the stable of John Graney, a feed merchant at 220 Bedford avenue, and stole a team of horses, valued at 5250, the property of John J.

Gaynor, a furniture dealer of ISO Grand street. Graney reported the case at the Bedford avenue station and Detectives Duan and Kennedy proceeded to the horse market in Ridgewood, where, at 4 o'clock In the afternoon, they came upon Merrigan in the act of selling the team to a farmer. On being placed under arrest Merrigan admitted to the officers that he stole tho horses. The police are now on tho lookout for an accomplice of Merrigan in the theft. THE PLAGUE IN INDIA.

Bombay. July 28 There were 151 cases and 121 deaths from the plague at Poona on Wednesday. The cases include four Europeans. THE COURTS. SUPREME COURT.

Supreme Court, special term for motions. Stover, j. Ex parte business at 10 o'clock. Motion calendar called at 10:30. Referees appointed Matter of application of May, ct aL, Jose E.

Fldgeon. Miss Adelaide Miller Dies From the Shock of Having Both Legs Severed. HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. She Was Run Over fcy a Trolley Car While Riding on a Dangerous Spot in Atlantic Avenue. While riding her bicycle on Atlantic avenue last night at 7 o'clock, Miss Adelaide Miller, 20 years old of 110 North Oxford street, attempted to pass between a rapidly moving Douglass street trolley car and the iron fence that parallels the car line, only five feet away.

Her wheel struck a rough Belgian block, throwing her under the car wheels, which cut off both legs and caused injuries that resulted in the young woman's death at the Brooklyn Hospital at one o'clock this morning. The accident occurred at a point just a few feet below the junction of Cumberland street and Atlantic avenue. Miss Miller was an expert bicyclist and her confidence in her ability, to control her wheel led her to make a reckless turn immediately in front of the car that crushed her to death. She and a friend. Miss Olive Rippingale.

who was visiting her from Islip, were on their way lor a spiu in Prospect Park when the ac 2 ATLANTIC I AVE LONCv ISLAND IX WHERE THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. The Dotted Line S'hnws How Miller Crossed the Tracks and to Avoid the Trolley Tracks. cldent happened. The two young women started tvom the Miller home at four o'clock, but were Forced to iurn back by the heavy rainstorm of the afternoon. They waited until 6:45 when the rain had stopped, and then started out at a rapid pace to make up for the lost time.

They rode up Oxford to Myrtle avenue, to Washington Park, to Cumberland street and had just turned into Atlantic avenue when their 'pleasure ride was ended by Miss Miller's fatal mishap'. The Lor.g Island Railroad tracks are enclosed by two iron fences, and at Cumberland street there are gates in the fences that admit of pedestrians passing through and across the railroad tracks, over a narrow plank walk. The gates on either side of the tracks kept oi. except wr.en trains are passing, last the passageway was open when the two wheehvomen reached it. The gates are only about three feet wide and the plank walk is still narrower, but Miss Miller, who was several yards ahead of her companion, rode through the first gate, across the tracks, and tcroi.jh the second gate without dismounting.

As she passed through the second gate and turned down Atlantic avenue, a downtown car the Douglass strett line was moving rapidly toward her and in the same direction. The car trajks of the trolley line run parallel with the railroad fence and only five feet away. The space between for a distance of from three ar.d a half to four feet from the trolley tracks is paved with fairly smooth Belgian block, but the remaining space is an unpaved dirt strip. This strip of roadway is about fifteen inches wide and it not on a level with the pavement. There is no curbstone and the rough Belgian blocks made a jagged and irregular pavemfi just where the paving stops.

The ends of some of the stones project several inches above the level of the dirt strip. Miss Miller rode about thirty five feet down the narrow str.p of street between the fence and car line, looking back to see that her frjnd was safe. The car was now within a few feet of her, and to give it a wide berth she rede close to the fence. At that particular spot there are several blocks that are higher than the others ar.d the ru.idway is very uneven. Miss Miller's wheel struck one of these stones, which mused it to swerve and run on to the dirt.

In trying to regain the stone paving she lost her baiancu aud fell in front of the car. Her clothing became entangled in the bicycle pedals and as she struggled to extricate herself, she rolled nearer the car and across the north rail of the down town track, juut as the car struck her. The ear, No. 121. was in charge of John Lenahan.

who did all in his power to stop it, but did not succeed umil the first wheel.s of the forward trucks had passed over Miss Miller's legs, the car pass in front of her. jumped from her wheel and began to scream wildly when she saw her friend beneath the wheels. The car was crowded with women and nearly all joined in the screaming. Three of the half frantic women fainted and had to be lifted out and carried away. The trolley victim Buff.

red terribly for fn'ti en minutes, while a hundred were trying to lift the heavy car from her body. It was impossible for enough men to get around the car to lift, so Iron bars v. rp torn from tb for.ee and with these wheels were jacked up sufficiently to remove lie young woman. She did not lose consciousness until the car was lifted from the ear was moved it was found that both legs had been completely severed just below the knee. AmbuLmoe Surgeon Walling had by this time arrived and the injured woman was carried to the Brooklyn Hospital.

At the hospital an operation was performed. Miss Miller, who ha 1 regained consciousness, bore the pain bravelv. She talked with her mother, who had been summoned, and with Miss Rippingale. She was conscious up to 1 o'clock, when she died. Several hundred men attracted to the scene of tie accident by the screams of women, wanted to lynch Mot rman L.

nahcin. but he waG saved by the appearance of twelve policemen sent by Police raptain White from the Bergen street station, only two blocks distant. Lenahan was carried into a car, stable near bv and kept until the mob went away. This morning he was arraigned fore Magistrate Charles E. Teale of the Third District.

Magistrate Teale paroled the motorman until August 16. when the case will be tried. Miiis Ripplngtle. in a statement, exonerated the motorman from blame. Mrs.

Miller was wild with grief over her daughter's death. She would speak to no one and her pastor, the Rev. Mr. Henderson, of Simpson M. E.

Church, sent his deaconess, Mrs. Willis, to console her. Miss Miller lived with her widowed mother and her sister. Miss Hattie Miller, who is a teacher in the public schools. Miss Adelaide was a graduate of the Brooklyn High School and was to begin teaching in it Queens Borough school thi.s fall.

She had already taught as a substitute. She was a member of the Simpson M. E. Church anil Sunday school. Her pastor, the Rev.

Mr. Henderson, said to day that she was one of the most popular members of his church. He will hold funeral services over the body some time Sunday. MOYLAN PLACED UNDER BOND. Joseph.

Moylan of 102 Hall street, the 18 year old son of Roundsman Moylan of the Vernon avenue police station, who was ar rested on the charge of attempting to ground a trolley wire at Park and Grand avenues, was plaoed'under a bond To keep the peace by Magistrate Worth, in the Myrtle avenue court this morning. The young man's sister went his security. ERROR IN PORTUGUESE TREATY. Washington. July 28 The error in the Portuguese reciprocity arrangement which caused it to bo withheld for revision may prove more of a complication than was at first supposed The arrangement will have to be resubmitted to the Portuguese Diet, thus causing considerable delay.

The error relates to the rate of reduction on still wine. ORDER AHEAD. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, July 30. PRICE 3 CENTS LOST AND FOUND. LOST ON JULY 10.

CHECK. DRAWN TO THB order or Isabella Merrill for $140, on the Fifth Av flank. Notice is hereby given that payment on said check has been stopped. Suitable reward. Address CHECK.

Eagle Fifth av branch. '7 3 LOST A POCKETBOOK CONTAINING A SUM of monev and a commutation ticket over L. I. R. R.

Brobklvn and Far Rockaway. A liberal reward win be paid for return to 28 Schermcrhorn Bt. Rrooklyn. LOST 520 EACH FOR RETURN OF GOLD WATCH and CHAIN, name inside; lost South Brooklyn Wednesday night; absolutely no questions asked. T.

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