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mm? THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1896. V7 14 FIRE PAY ROLL HUNG UFC BRUM HELD CLOSELI GUARDED, LUCKY DOOLEY'S ALL RIGHT. 16,000 TAILORS ARE STRIKING, KILLED Bl HIS OWN BULLET, promised to do better. He always claimed to be a Nova Scotlan, but I learned that he was a St. Kttt's half breed.

Ho was a mulatto. As I said, we heard nothing against him and we would undoubtedly have given him his old position again. He was never short of anyv money and he was never short of any cargoes and he had at different times millions of dollars in his charge." Tho reported asked whether Mr. Joice had ever heard of Bram's entanglements with other women. "Only what his wife told me," was the reply.

"She said that once when he went to Yonkers he met a woman to whom he gave money." CEMETERY PROFITS. were compelled to go on strike and now, since we are in it, we intend to fight to the end. The treasury during the last three months has been, replenished and we are In fairly good shape to keep up the light." Another mass meeting of the strikers was held at 41 Seigel street this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Addresses were made by Messrs. Drubin and Solotovsky and reports were received from a large number of shops.

Two delegates from District Council No. 5 have been sent to New York to represent the council on the executive board. A contractor saiid to the Eagle representative: "We expect tho strike will last several weeks. We ajjmit that the agreement has been violated in a number 'Of shops but this has been owing to the poor prices prevailing." Five Hundred Tailors Strike in Brownsville. Five hundred members of the Brownsville branch of the Brotherhood of Tailors and Garment Workers went on strike at 7 o'clock this 'morning, causing between forty and fifty tailor shops to close.

The strike was ordered at a meeting held in Washington hall, Thafford street, last night. The Strikers say they will make a bitter fight for ten hours a day and weekly pay. They claim they work from fourteen to fifteen hours a day now and that their demands are only just. NEW COUNTY BUILDINGS. Question for the Civil Service Commission to Decide.

Flro Commissioner Lawrence appointed thirty one men in the absence of an eligible list, tho appointments being designated as temporary An eligible list was subsequently formed and Commissioner Bryant, the successor of Lawrence, ordered tho temporary men to be dismissed. The Utter appealed to the courts and the question of their status is pending. The men are still serving and Deputy Commisisoner Barrow, who is acting as commissioner in the absence of Mr. Bryant. does not feel disposed to remove them.

Ho has asked tho civil service commission to straighten out the matter. The pay roll of tho thirty one men for July has not been approved by the commissioner. President Orr will be neard rrom snortiy reierence to tne question. LASKER'S TRENCH DEFENSE. IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN TOO MUCH FOR STEINITZ.

Third Round of the Nuremberg Chess Tournament Pillsbury's Game in Good Shape. Nuremberg. July 22 Yesterday Lasker, Stoinitz, Tschigorin, Walbrodt. Janowski and Maroczy were the winners of the second round. For to day the fifteenth pairing was drawn, and in this, the third round.

Porges had the bye. If the pairing of Steinitz with Lasker made this round sensational, tho line of play adopted by the champion of the world much heightened the sensation. To the great surprise of all LaBker interposed a French defense to Stemitz's K4, and at once showed that he had something new to offer in this defense. Janowaki's ulay against Pillsbury camo near furnishing a second sensation for the day and "SVinawer'n conduct of the later part of his still unfinished game with Showalter is still another feature of the morning's piny. Walbrodt was the winner of the only finished game, beating Albin quite cleverly in the ending.

The summary bulletined at the 1 o'clock od journment was as follows: THIRD ROUND. XT Players. Openings. Won By, IH Walbrodt Albln French 150 Walbrodt. Janon sfci Pillstmry Rny Lopez.

81 Adjourned Tavrasch Schiffers G. dec 34 Adjonroed Steinitz Lasker French 92 Adjourned Tsohfgorln Sehlechter Two Knights Adjourned Charousek Marco K. G. dec 35AdJourned Blackbnme Maroczy Sicilian 33 Adjourned Telchmann Q. G.

dec ISTiAdjourned Show alter Winawer IQ. G'mbt 90j Adjourned Porges drey a byo. Both Charges Against the Bridge Policeman Dismissed BY PRESIDENT HOWELL TO DAY 'fl Dooley Was Caught by the Roundsman, in Some Unfortunate Way, But He Got" Off This Morning He Is a Member of Tammany Hall and Is an Active Forot) on the General Committee Has Worked Several Years on the Day Shift Said to Have Things Much His Own Way. James Dooley, a policeman on the New. York and BrooRlyn bridge, is singularly gifted with the most precious gift of the gods, good luck, or as his fellow members on the force that guards Uhe big span choose to say, he has what is even more precious in this busy world of ours, a political pull of the first water.

To which of these hii3 escape from punishment or dismissal from the bridge force this morning is due to a matter of opinion. It has been suggested that only another instance of Bridge President How ell's well known clemency. In the prosit dent's office Dooley was on trial on twi charges, one of being absent from post andi the ether absent without leave. Both charge were dismissed by Mr. Howell, and Dooley at once returned to his post on the bridge roadway, smiling a smile of great joy.

The story of the incidents leading up to these charges against Dooley are ImterestinE a well as a few facts regarding him. Some months ago charges were lodged against the commanding officer of the bridge police force. He was acquitted after trial. It was rumored that the information on which the charges were based was supplied by Dooley. After the incident had passed, Dooley admitted to several members of the force that he had given the information, and in consequence his popularity had a great fall among the larger proportion of the men.

Dooley's post Is on the down grade on one the roadways, and one day last week the roundsman in patrolling the bridee found the post deserted and Dooley sitting in the nouse at one or tne towers, peacefully smoking a pipe, and bliss.fully ignorant of fate, in the form of the roundsman, about to pounce upon him. Dooley was ordered from the house to his post and the roundsman preferred charges against him for being aff post. It is whispered among the members of the force that one or more policemen on duty on the tower saw the roundsman approaching the unconscious Dodley, but was not accu ated by the friendly feeling generally 6hown among the police force, for the reasons mentioned, and allowed Dooley to be caught. Last Sunday Dooley was excused from duty because he said Ins wife was sick, and on Monday he did not show up for roll call. Additional charges for being absent without leave were made against him and both were dismissed by the president this morning.

Dooley lives in New York and has been oa the bridge force for many years. He. is Democrat, a member of Tammany hall and a. member of Tammany hall general committee. He is said to have considerable influence The bridge poMce are divided into three platoons, and each platoon works eight hours a day.

The day platoon is, of course, the most desirable one, as the men in it go on duty at 8 o'clock in the morning and get through at 4 o'clock in the Bach platoon Is shifted around every month, so as to make each man take his turn at nigtht or day work, and every member of the force, of teh officers, work on each of the three shifts, turn and turn about That is, they all do but Dooley. who has for the nast fsix or seven years wcrked on the day shift vwmjr. xita i a ciuivu ojucny xjoouey. CARRIED A FULL LIST. The steamer St.

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Halifax, N. July 22 The crowds that have surrounded the polfce station here since yestorday when the crew of the lumber freighter Herbert Fuller were taken into custody were to be seen there again early this morning and during the forenoon the excitement prevalent yesterday showed no signs of lessening. The prisoners are still guarded and tho chief interest to day centered in the result otf the coroner's Inquest and the disposition of the victims of the tragedy. It was expected that the medical examiner would present his report this morning, but it was not finished. Consequently the examination before the city stipendiary, which usually follows the receipt of the report, was nor.

held. There seems to be a growing belief that others beside Chief Mate Bram. who is the one chiefly suspected of being the murderer, must be implicated in the affair and from incidents that have come to light since yesterday the possibility that a well matured plan to seize tho schooner and sell it to the Cubans had been completed before the vessel sailed from Boston, seems well founded. It has been learned that Monks, the passenger on board the Herbert Fuller, received a direct intimation that he had better not make his proposed trip on that vessel, but whether or not the warning came from Mate Bram is not positively known. There are many, on the other hand, who think that the triple murder was merely the outsome of a drunken attempt to assault the wife of the captain, which involved the killing of ber husband, her protector, and the second mate, who might have been a witness of the captain's murder, and then the killing of the woman herself to cover up the crime.

The bodies of the victims, which were too badly decomposed to permit of being embalmed, were placed in hermetically sealed caskets this morning and forwarded to Harrington. for burial. The body of Bram berg will be burled in Halifax. Bram's Career in Brooklyn and New York. j(H For eight or nine years previous to the 111 fated voyage of the Herbert Fuller, Thomas Bram lived in different parts of Brooklyn with his young wife, Hattie L.

Bram, who is just now staying with her mother, Mrs. Louisa Hatterworth, at 2S5 State street. The young woman secured a divorce from him in th eBrooklyn courts last September on the grounds of infidelity and desertion. The suit was instituted after Bram had repeatedly left her and Hattie has now resumed her maiden name. Since Bram went to sea, just a year ago this month, Mrs.

Hattenworth, who keeps a boarding house at 285 State street, has provided for her daughter's three children, aged respectively 9, 7 and 4, as well as for the mother. Hattie was out of town to day when an Eagle reporter called at the house, but Mrs. Hattenworth told the reporter what she knew cf her son in law. She said. "We have been living in Brooklyn for eight years, now, and my daughter, Hattie, marired Bram eleven years ago.

We were then living In New York on Newport street. He was manager for Dennett in various parts of the city and it was in one of those restau ants that my daughter first became acquainted with him. They were married in New York and almost from the day of the marriage he has scarcely done anything for Hat tie's support. He was in Chicago and in Boston, too, in charge of Dennett's establishments in those cities. He was a great talker but that was about all that he did.

When he and my daughter were ca Eighth avenue, South Brooklyn, he opened a restaurant on lower Fulton street and was crooked in conducting that. He paid nobody and ran up bills right and left. We did not know anything about this restaurant business till the place was closed up and then a lot of creditors came to my husband clamoring for their money. It was only then we learned that Bram had used my husband's name in the business. "On the very day thait he left my daughter for good he came to me and asked me for money.

That was on July 1, a year ago. I had frequently given him money before, but this time I refused him because I had become tired of giving him money when 1 didn't know what he was going to do with it. He told me that he wanted to provide a fiat for Hattie. but I didn't believe him. That was an oid story with him.

"He knew then that he was going away but even up to the last day he kept telling Hattie that he was going to provide a nice flat for her. That was the last I ever heard of him till I saw tills dreadful story in the newspapers. Then my daughter got her divorce. He must have heard about It, Ithink. in some way, because I have since learned chat about four months ago my daughter received a letter from him telling her that he had net deserted her, that he had never meant to do so.

and that he was coming home to look after her and the children. He was very anxious to make money, and frequently made the remark that he meant to make so much money before the year was out, he did not care how. He was six or seven times at sea, and every time, almost, something happened to him. The ship went down or there was an accident of some sort." For two years before he went to sea Bram was employed by the Manhattan Lighterage and Transportation company, 104 Wall street, New York, and at the offices of that corporation, this morning, the manager, W. L.

Joyce, threw a sidelight on tho character of tho alleged murderer. Said he: "Bram was in my employment for over two years and left a year ago this month. He was captain ot trie steam barge Mystic, a vessel of 500 tons. He was away, above tho average as regards intelligence, and we always found him a sober. Industrious and trustworthy man, and we have absolutely nothing against him here.

A year ago this month his boat was laid up with others on ac count of dullness of trade, and of course we had to let him go. When he came for his money ho said he was going, and wo assumed, of course, that ho was going to sea. Before he camo to us ho had been the master cf a ship. He was known among the oldor seaman as a sea lawyer, on account of his volubility. He was a great talker.

People used to come to us and ask us what wo wanted with a man who was always talking and blowing so much, but our invariable reply was that as long as he did his work well we had nothing to do with his talking. "The only other peculiarity about Bram," continued Mr. Joyce, was a perfect mania he had for getting wealthy. He was all the time talking of some scheme of making money, and on one occasion he told us about a ship that he was building. I never however, knew anything against his character until after he had left our employment.

Subsequently his wife came to me and told me things about him that surprised me. She told me, for example, that bo had deserted her and that it was the third time since their marriage. She added that he had loft her with three children, in poverty, and that she had been obliged to send the children to some institution in Brooklyn. 1 pitied her and did what I could to assist her, securing her a position as cleaner in tho Metropolitan Opera houso, which she held during the eason. "There was nothing about Bram of a bloodthirsty nature and if he did the crime of which lie is suspected my theory is that he must have gone insane.

One strange thing that his wife told me has coine back to me since he was arrested. Ho told her several times: 'Now, if I ever get In trouble and you hear of It, don't talk too much about it, but notify my masonic lodge and they'll pull me through." During the last two months he was in our employment he seemed to mo to be a little negligent. Very often when I sent for him he was not to be found on board his boat. I reprlmmanded him for it and he Lawrence Shot at His Wife, in Drunken Eaee. BHE GRASPED THE WEAPON And the Fatal Missile Pierced Her Husband's Brain Death Was Almost Instantaneous Tragedy in a Pearl Street Home Mrs.

Lawrence's Story of the Shooting A Previous Shot Had Been Fired at a Young Man. George Lawrence, a photogravure artist, hot and killed himself at 12:50 o'clock this afternoon in the front hallway of his residence, at 376 Pearl street. As far as his death was concerned fiho shooting was accidental; the fatal bullet was intended for Mrs. Lawrence, but she knocked up the barrel of 'the pistol just as he pulled the trigger, and the leaden messenger found a lodgment in his brain instead. He dropped he stood and death was almost instantaneous.

The first news of the tragedy was carried to the police hy Charles S. Glfford of 62 One Hundredth street. New York, a lawyer, with an office at 1G2 Reade street. Mr. Gif Jord had just called at the house to see Mrs.

Lawrence, who was known to him as Flor ence M. Horton, about some proceedings to enjoin Cora Granville, a New York woman, Jrcni foreclosing a chattel mortgage on the piano. Gilford ran into the telegraph room at police headquarters at 1 o'clock this afternoon trembling and excited. 'There's been a murder ait 37G Pearl street," he said. "1 Just saw a dead man, bathed in blood, lying in the hallway there." A message was sent over to the Adams street station for an immediate investigation and the tip was given to a number of reporters, who reached the house in a crowd a few minutes later.

It was difficult to get at the facts, for Mrs. Lawrence and her sister declined to give out any statement at first. Later, Mrs. Lawrence told her story. The deceased was 39 years old and was interested in a photogravure business at William and Rose streets.

New York. He "was a man above the average height, of heavy frame and, as his wife declares, a periodic drinker. He was married ten years ago and last December his wife, who has no ohildren, leased the pretty two story and basement frame house at 376 Pearl street, a short distance from AVilloughby, and rented furnished rooms. Three weeks age Lawrence, his wife says, went on a spree and he had been drinking steadily for that period. He made occasional visits to his home and, whenever he went there, he quarreled with his wife.

He was in the house at 10 o'clock this morning and made himself obnoxious to the inmates by his boisterous talk. He threatened to kill his wife, but as he had often done that before Airs. Lawrence was not at all alarmed, on the general theory that a barking dog does not bite. The family had luncheon in peace, for Lawrence was in the front parlor. It was hoped, asleep.

At 12:45 he began making a noise again and walked out into the hall still threatening to kill somebody. A young man named John Halligan, who does odd jobs around she house, ran up the basement stairs to the parlor (hall to quiet him if possible and simultaneously Mrs. Lawrence emerged from the rear parlor door into the hallway. Lawrence had a .32 'caliber revolver in his hand and as Halligan reached the head of the basement stairway the infuriated man fired point blank, it seemed, at him. But his aim was unsteady and the wrench of the trigger tipped the muzzle of the weapon so that the bullet went up to the celling.

But the pistol had been fired so close to Halligan that 'his shirt ivas stained by tha exploding powder. An instant later Larwrence had wheeled around and the weapon was aimed at his wife. "Johnnie don't, for God's sake." She screamed in alarm and at the same jnooment with her left hand she struck the The would be murderer at that moment pulled the trigger and received the entire charge in his mouth. The bullet went into his brain and ho fell backward with blood gushing in a stream from his mouth. At that moment there was a ring at the door hell and Mrs.

Lawrence mechanically opened the door. She encountered her lawyer, Gifford did not speak. He simply gave an awe stricken glance at the body and hurried to police headquarters. Then the police came and several of Captain O'Reilly's men took charge. Lawyer Gifford subsequently went around to the station and gave Captain O'Reilly the following statement: "I knew Mrs.

Lawrence as Florence M. Horton. Under that name she had borrowed from Cora Granville, a woman "Who loans cash on furniture, and gave a chattel mort on the piano in return. Mrs. Granville brought a suit to foreclose the mortgage, which was for a sum very much in excess of the amount borrowed, and Mrs.

Lawrence came to me for advice. We were preparing to begin injunction proceedings, and I received a telegram from my client to visit the house to day. I took a draft of the order oi injunction along with me, and Mrs. Lawrence's affidavit. "When I reached the house I heard a.

woman eay, "Johnnie, don't," and almost Immediateh I heard two shots fired. I rang the bell, the door was opened, and as I walked in I saw a man lying on the floor on bis back In a pool of blood. Then I ran out and notified the pclice." Coroner Coombs will hold an inquest when all the facts in the case will be carefully elfted. Mts. Lan rence was very much overcome by her experience, and as she told her story, frequently interjected, as she looked down at the body: "Oh, Jchnnie, I did not think it would come to this.

I'd rather be there now than you." CONTRACTS AWARDED. Charities Commissioners Accept Bids for Semi Amiual Supplies. The charities commissioners at their regulars weekly meeting this morning awarded the semi annual contracts for supplies needed in the institutions under their care. Tho bids were opened Monday at noon. There wore 87 of then, a larger number than was ever botore received ait one time.

To those Who remember the old days of the" charities board, the names of most of the bidders would seem new. The J. W. Birkett Manufacturing company, that used to figure largely in charities contracts, did not even submit a bid this year, while Newman who used to supply almost half of the department's needs, got only a paltrv contract for napkins. The bid this time for spoons la 12 cents a dozen or J1.50 a gross.

In former years for the same spoons tho price paid was $3 a dozen, just twenty four times as much. Charities departmont supplies cost about as much as they do in New York cltv, where the amounts required are almost double. The present commissioners have succeeded in securing a healthy competition and low prices are tho result. At the same time the quality of all goods is strictly maintained, everything at all below grade being re Jected. The commissioners are well satisfied with the results obtained in the present com petition and were particularly pleased at the large number of bidders.

ANOTHER MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. George Haggity of 220 Forty fourth street nd Joseph Carroll of 120 Thirty third street picked up a bottle while out fishing off Sixty seventh street yesterday afternoon. There was a note in the bottle that read as follows: Sunday, July 19. 4 A. M.

Drowned; out iu a yawl boat. Captain Johnson. The police do not jrat much faith in the note, as they doubt the ability of a drowning man to take time to write a notification of tho event. AN OLD SOLDIER ARRESTED. Some person maliciously or accidentally broke a window in the store of Samuel Baran Bki, at 801 Fulton street, this morning.

Gus tave Diotz, a war veteran, aged 56 years, was the only "person in tho neighborhood at tho timo and no was arrcBtoil on suspicion. He Srotestedathat he knew nothing about it. but was looked up ponding an investigation. He savs that he is an inmate of the soldiers' home at Marion, Ind. Tho police will communicate wjtn tno autocrines mere Nearly Every Shop in the Two Cities Is Closed.

4,000 STRIKERS IN BROOKLYN. The Men Claim That tho Contractors Have Gone Baok the Old Sweating System and That Their Condition Is Intolerable Great Crowds Around Headquarters Joseph Solotovsky Running the Strike in This City. The edict of the Brotherhood of Tailors, issued last night in New Prospect hall by Leader Meyer Schoenfold, summoning the east side tailors to arms against the contractors and incidentally against the manufacturers, will result in probably tho biggest tie up in the clothes making trade ever witnessed before In New York city. If the attitude of the striking tailors may be judged from the enthusiasm displayed by them when they congregated in Orchard street this morning, it is safe to say they are fully determined to fight the issue to the bitter end. The grievances of the tailors now, as on all former occasions, are against reduced wages, longer working hours and principally against the revival of the sweating system.

The tailors are not only determined but are confident of being led to victory in their conflict with the contractors, middlemen and manufacturers under the leadership of Meyer Shoenfeld. Fully five thousand garment workers who had quit work at 7 o'clock this morning were in and around Prospect hail, formerly Wal halla hall. The indications, judging from the work of the notifying committee, pointed at noon to day to the closing of 800 shops employing 10,000 garment workers. At the meeting held in Prospect hall at noon the exact situation was explained to the men and special deputies were appointed to visit this city, including Brownsville section, and also Newark, N. J.

Four thousand men and women in the garment trade In the latter places have already quit work, and by noon to morrow fully 16,000 tailors, operators, hasters, finishers, pressers and women bushelers will be idle. All arrangements thus far in the matter of engineering the strike are in the hands of a strike cammit'tee and the executive officers oE 'the Brotherhood of Tailors. These will receive formal instruction each day from Meyer 9hoenfeld, to whom tbey are instructed to report the progress of the strike and 'the willingness or tardiness of the strikers to hold out until an amicable adjustment ot the differences le reached. To morrow afternoon the executive board will meet to draft a new form of agreement to which the contractors will be required to append their signatures, giving cash bonds as a guarantee of good faith in keeping the agreement with their employes. To day will be entirely devoted to meetings and the appointment of various committees.

"The fight which has now begun," said Leader Shoenfeld this morning, "will be one of firm resistance on the part of the tailors. They went out this time with the determination to continue the struggle for their rights until the contractors, middlemen and manufacturers give the workers better wages and shorter hours each day." "The officers of the Brotherhood of Tailors, I will say, were at first opposed to the strike and withheld consent until all efforts to better the condition of the tailors by the granting of concessions from the contractors had failed. Our funds are strong, in fact, stronger than ever before, and now being the busy season I think wo can bring the employers to their knees in short order." Leader Shoenfeld said the present strike would in all probabllty last over three weeks and he would not be surprised if, like the big strike ot last year. It lasted two months. The contractors deny being responsible for the present situation of affairs and accuse the manufacturers, who in turn say the situation is due tom fierce competition in the trade.

However this may be, the strikers, even in the face of starvation, aro resolved to continue the strike until their demands are acceded to. As an instance of the tailors' many grievances Ike Meyers, an operator, living at 329 East Seventieth street, earned $20 per week ten years ago. Now he says he can't make enough to buy salt for his family. Jacob Davis, a finisher, of 90 Cannon street, received a salary of $10 a week two years ago. He can only earn $2 and $4 a week now, having to work from twelve to fifteen hours each day.

Philip Cassel, a baster of 256 Monroe street, was accustomed to earn at an average $17 a wek two years ago. His highest weekly earnings since was $7.65, which he received last week. Morris Saltpeter, a presser, of 49 Pitt street, had his earnings dwindle from $11 to $6 a week within the last year. He is required to work from thirteen to sixteen hours a day. The strikers are orderly and Acting Captain Hogan of the Eldridge street station says he does not expect any trouble, but the tailors will be kept moving and not allowed to block Orchard street from Grand to Division street, 4,000 Garment Makers Strike in This City.

After two weeks 'parleying with contractors and manufacturers the garment workers of the eastern district and Brownsville, numbering about four thousand, struck this morning as a protest against the sweating system which they claim the contractors are still tolerating, and against the resumption of task work, contrary ito tho terms of last year's agreement. The strikers have established headquarters at 41 Seigel street. Every part of the building was filled with them all the forenoon. The adjacent streets, too, wore dotted with groups of the strikers, who were to be seen everywhere discussing events of the morning. Same of the scenes of last winder, when the lockout occurred, bid fair to be repeated.

The great majority of the strikers are Polish Hebrews and they are among the poorest class in the city. The decision to strike was reached at a mass meeting held at 99 Ewen street, last night. Samuel Rothenburg, presided. Among the speakers were: Joseph Barondess, Joseph Solotovsky, Louis Druhin, Max Alexander and other members of the United Garment Workers' organization. The grievances of the people were explained in detail.

A committee was present from the New York Brotherhood of Tailors. While the meeting was in progress a dLspatch was received from the executive board of the United Garment Workers in session in New York, to the effect thai, a strike had been decided upon. It was then unanimously resolved that the workers go out in a body this morning. At many of the workshops In the eastern district tho work people merely presented themselves at 7 o'clock and then went out. A few remained until 8, doing unfinished work.

By 11 o'clock it was reported at headquarters that 3,000 had gone out and at noon this number had Increased by about another thousand, showing that there are really very few operatives at work in the eastern district to day. Joseph Solotovsky, who recently resigned from tho position of leadorof the strikers, has again assumed command. Ho Is to do the work of the strike without salary. "The executive board considered that this Is an opportune time to strike," he said to an Eagle representative in the eastern district this mormln "I will try and do all I can for the strikers. The contractors have repeatedly violated the agreement for the past three months, and the complaints of our people from tfne various shops have been without number.

Some ot She coiKractors have actually refused to pay any wages for the past two weeks. What they want is taBk work and fifteen to sixteen hours' wont a day from their om ployes. For threo months our best mechanics have been making but from $5 to $10 per week, and second class work people $2 to $4. The condition of the garment workers 13 perhaps the most miserable of any class or people in this country. They aro practically in a condition of slavery or Just as thoy were forty years ago and we do not propose to stand this any longer.

We sent several communications and a committee to the large manufacturers two weeks ago explaining to them clearly the condition of our people and asking thorn to adjust our grievances in an honorable way. We have given them fourteen days and they have done nothing. I cannot blame somo on the contractors for refusing to give wades agreed upon when tho manufacturers dol not give them tho proper price. The working people; EDWARD R. BENNET CLAIMS THEM AS HIS OWN.

Asks for a Receiver for the Interest of the Criswell Estate in Washington. Cemetery. Application was made by Thomas Hooker for Edward R. Bennet before Justice Osborne in tho supremo court, to day, for a receiver for tho intorest of the estate of the lato Corolla H. Criswell in the Washington cemetery, that lies between the towns of Gravosend and New Utrecht.

The originator of the cemetery was the late JamesA. Bennet, who in 1863 sold several hundred acres of land to the Washington cemetery, incorporated, and he himself controlled tho property. The corporation was to pav him 840 for every lot sold and S3 for every' grave to beopencd. It was patronized largely by Polish Jews and became a souroe of conaiderablo revenue for the Bennet family. Mrs.

Criswell was the oldor Bennct's daiieh ter. and after the father's death her nephewr tne piaintnt in tne piea lor a receiver, made a contract with his aunt for the delivery to him of her share in the cemetery, for, as it is alleged, $14,000. The contract was made in 1890 and Mrs. Criswell died before tho contract was sought to be fulfilled. Suit was brought by Mr.

Bennet after Mrs. Criswell's death to compel her executors to perform tho contract. The interest of MrB. Criswell's estato on lots sold now amounts to $23,000. A referee.

Frederick A.Ward, has been appointed and Mr. Bennet has had a report in his favor. The question of appointing a receiver was postponed until next Friday. General George.W. Wingate appeared for" the defendant.

Isaac Marx, executor, and for the Washington Cemetery company. PEFFER'S ADMIRER LECTURED. The Court Tells the Widow Not to Annoy the Doctor. Dr. Henry Petfer of 158 West Twenty eighth street, New York, nephew of United States Senator Peffer ot Kansas, appeared in the Jefferson market court this morning against Mrs.

Jane Dietz, 61 years old, of 208 West Twenty sixth street, whose arrest he caused at 9 o'clock last night, because she annoyed him and refused to leave his office. The doctor said In the station house that the woman had bothered him for the past two years, declaring that she loved him and that he was all the world to her. When arrested last night by Policeman Ryan of the West Thirtieth street station she was sitting in his office, and refused to leave the premises under any circumstances. In court to day Dr. Peffer told the magistrate that he believed thie woman was trying to ruin his business, and to that end that she had entered into a conspiracy with Dr.

J. Candes of West Twenty sixth street. She circulated false statements about him among his patients. Last nlghf she stood in front of his office, shouting that she was his wife and daring him to deny it. Then she entered his office, and bothered him by protesting her love for him and refusing to go anvay.

He wanted the nuisance stopped he said. The prisoner, is a widow, admitted that she had been in the doctor's office. She claimed that he had wronged her three years ago. She was the widow of a Union so Idler, who died In Andersonvllle prison. She was merely trying to force him to right the wrong he hiid done her.

The doctor denied this story, and said the woman was undoubtedly insane. Magistrate Deuel lectured the prisoner and discharged her with a She not to molest the doctor again. Magistrate Deuel said that if she did so she would be severely dealt wltfii. FROM WORDS TO STABBING The Result of Doubting a Man's Story of Travels. Gerardo Higgene of 52 Oliver street, Now York, was to day held by Magistrate Brann in the Centro street police court to await the result of injuries he is charged with inflicting on Joseph Laguardia of tho same address.

The men quarrelled last evening while drinking in tho saloon at 70 James street. The prisoner said he had visited various places in Europe and became enragod when the complainant doubted him. There was a wordy war, and blows were struck. Tho bartender tried to eject the men, but was unable to do so. He started in search of Policeman Bennington, who was on post nearby.

During his absence Higgene, it is said, drew a knife and stabbed Laguardia. Tony Higgene. a brother of the defendant, iB also charged with having stabbed Laguardia, who had tour wounds, two on the head, one on the left wrist and one on tho left side. Tony escaped. Policeman Benningor arrived on the scene in time to capture Higgene.

Laguardia was taken home by friendB. after being attended by an ambnlanco surgeon. He was unable to appear in court to CHINESE TROOPS KILLED. Rebellious Mohammedans Slaughter 6,000 of Them. Vancouver, B.

July 22 Steamer Empress of India arrived last night from tho Orient, bringing advices to July 8 as follows: Imperial Chinese troops were recontly sent to Lanchon to suppress tho Mohammedan rebels who had risen against the authorities. The rebejs routed the imperial troops and seem to have totally annihilated them, although the imperial troops were better provisioned and equipped. Thore were 6,000 troops sent to curb the rebels, and all are either killed or missing. Tho rebels aro now mad for blood, masBacreing all in authority, killing and pillaging on a triumphant maroh" through tho country. Eight thousand troops will be sent, but it is thought they will bo killed off as wore the" rest.

It is stated that an army of 50,000 will bo necessary to subdue the savage Mohammedans. DIVORCE DECREE REOPENED. A Wife's Statement Will Lead to New Legal Proceedings. Justice Russell in the supreme court, Now York, to day, signed an order vacating the decree of divorce obtained by Vlncenzo Ca puta, an Italian banker, against his wife, Marie. The latter through her counsel, A.

H. Hummel, alleged that she lived with her husband until last March, when he coolly Informed her that ho had obtained a divorce from her in July, 1895. In the divorce suit It was alleged that Mrs. Capu'ta was served with the papers In April. 1895.

This the wife denies and on this statement the judgment of divorce was vacated and set aside and the case will be retried. Caputa accused his wife of Infidelity with one, Giuseppe Russo. MAYOR STETSON'S WILL. Boston, July 22 Probate hearing on tho will of tho lato John Stetson, was ended to day on the completion of tho testimony of tho three attesting witnessos, and Judge Grant has taken tho case under advisement. Counsel will submit briefs to the court on the law in tho cuho.

and. whatever the decision may be. it is announced that an appoal will bo aken so as to bring tbo full case before a jury. TOOK SOUVENIR SPOONS. A man abont 30 yeara old.

tall and welt drossed, entered tho honso of Dr. Balkin, 380 Seventh street, and sat down in the parlor to wait for the physician. As Boon as tho girl left the room, the stranger disappeared, taking with him some $14 worth of silver souvenir spoons. k5 'f I I i i WORK MAY BE COMMENCED AT ONCE. The Cost of the Improvements Will Be About $35,000 Relief Has Been Sought for a Year.

The resolution ot the board of aldermen a few days ago authorizing the commissioner of city works to proceed with the construction of a drug building, a house for male nurses, a building for female nurses and a ward for convalescent patients, puts an end to the delay that has prevented the construction of needed county buildings. It is expected that Commisisoner Willis will have the work gotten under way at once. The plans for the new buildings were prepared by P. J. Lau ritzen Co.

They are to be brick structures. The architects' estimate of the cost was about $35,000. The successful bidder, Thomas G. Carlin, offered to do the work for $39,600, all of it to be completed within ninety days after the signing of the contract. The new buildings are to stand on uhe old county farm lands, near the Kings county hospital.

The charities commissioners have been trying to secure this relief for almost a year. They appealed several times to the old board of supervisors for permission to erect these additions with money saved from their annual appropriation.but owing to fights in the board, it was never given. The proposition to erect these, buidings was submitted as an alternative when the commissioners gave up all hope of securing the new hospital asked for and opposed by Supervlsor at Large Thomas Fltchie. That hospital is a dead Issue now, but the county owns the plans, having been compelled to pay the architects, P. J.

Lauritzen the full amount claimed by them for their services, something like $8,000. BOY BURGLARS CAUGHT, A Motorman While on His Way Home Makes a Discovery. Thomas Smith, the 15 year old son of Edward Smith, who koops a Baloon on tho southwest corner of Ninety seventh street and Columbus avenue, New York, was held for trial in the Harlem court this morning on a charge of burglary. The shoe store of Philip 8ohs, at 772 Columbus avenue, was entered by thieves this morning and a number of pairs of shoes carried off. Bernard Bohrens, a grip man on the Columbus avenue cable line, living at 78 West Ninety eighth street, was on his way home at 2 o'clock this morning when he heard the'door leading to Sachs' Btore open and shut.

He saw two boys leave the store carrying a bundle, the contents of which appeared to bo weighty. When they caught sight of him they both took to their heels and ran along West Ninety seventh street. Beh rens started in pursuit and was joined in the chase by Patrolman Enright. One of the boys managed to escape. Smith was overhauled and arrested.

When he was taken back to tKe shoe store tho policeman found the bundle which had been dropped in the flight. He also found a key which fitted tho front door of the Btore. Smith when taken to court this morning denied the charge. He said that he was on Mb way home. He saw some excitement and stopped to see how it ended, and was then arrested.

1 00 PER CENT. OF HUMIDITY. Farmer Dunn Explains Why People Feel Uncomfortable. "If your clothes stick to you like the proverbial poor relation you'll know it because there is just 100 per cent, of humidity In the ailr," said Weather Forecaster Dunn as he took up a triple barrelled telescope in his New York shop this morning and scanned the horizon for icebergs. Tho forecaster linen went on to tell how almost one quarter of an inch of rain fell during the thunder stoma early this morning.

"This state of things," he said, "was caused by the generally unsettled conditions and a low area of pressure which contained great quantities of moisture." Cloudy and showery weather was reported from the Ohio valley to the Middle Atlantic and New England states. The warmest weather reported north of Mexico was 84 degrees in Key West, and the coolest was 42 degrees at Williston, North Dakota. All Indications point to a continuance of cloudy and stormy weather to day and tomorrow morning, followed by fair and cool weather in tho evening and on Friday. WILL TALK ABOUT BURNS The Eov. Archibald Eobb of Brooklyn will deliver an eulogium on Burns in Newark, N.

on July 28. THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS TILT, 8 P. M. TO SfORBOW.

Washington. D.C.. July 22 For Eastern New York, partly cloudy weather, with showers in southern portion to nleht and possibly Thursday morning; clearing Thursday afternoon fair and cooler Friday! southerly, nnlrtlnir to northwesterly winds. LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Showers this afternoon, to night and Thursday; fair; cooler Thursday night and Friday southerly, shifting to northwesterly winds.

The followlnu Is the record of the thermometer as kept as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle office: 2 A. II 77 tA.M 7C GA.M 75 8 A.M 76 10 A. 73 12 74 2 P. 76 3 V. 77 Average tempeiature to dny 754 Average teinpcraturo corresponding day last year 7iH HIGH WATER.

Following is the official announcement of th timo and duration of high water at New York and Handy nook, for July 13: A. M. TlmtlHolght n. 11. 1 Feet.

1. P. If TlmejHejght In. M.I Feat. of Rlae.i Fall.

Now 0:38 I Bandy Hook I S.8 4.2 7:12 I 5.0 B.4 I 5:54 I 6:08 0:31 6:37 MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN VESSELS ARRIVED WEDNESDAY JULY 22. Ss Clrcassia, from Movlllo. 8 Kottnrdam, from Rotterdam. 8h Iberia, rryin Gibara. Ha City or Savannali.

from Savannah. Bh Advance, from Colon, ba Noordjand, Irom Antwerp. Btate of Nebraska, from Glasgow. Bs II. H.

Meier, irom Bremen. Sh LMninaut. from Hamburg. Sm mnurl, Iroin Havana, etc, Bs Mississippi, from London. ARKIVKD AT FOREIGN PORTS.

Ss CharlolH. from New York, Rotterdam. Ss Pontiuc. from New York, Gfnoa. Bs Massachusetts, from New York, pnssed Lizard, 8s Oodam, from Now York, passed Lizard.

Bs Phoenicia, from Now York, passed Prawio Pt. as Elsie Mario, irom New ork, pasHed bcilly, Bs 1'ntria, irom New York, passed Sagros. iif Muncbou, from Now York, Bremen. Ss Teutonic, irom New York, Liverpool. SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS.

Bs Algeria, for New York. Marseilles. Bs Moutauk, ior New York, Rotterdam, Bs Lucfgon, for New Vork. Liverpool. Sm Benlarlg.

tor Now York, Aden. Bs Llsnacrlevo. for New York, Palermo. Delaware, lor New York, Avonroonth. Bs British Queen, for New York, passed Prow 9.

lit Francisco, for New York, Hull, It can be said of tho unfinished games that Lasker played great chess throughout and has Steinitz now beaten. Janowski should have won from Pillsbury, but. not knowing how to do it. has now to reckon with the greatest end game player of the world. The position in the game between Tarrasch and Schiffers is very interesting, with many possibilities on both sides.

8howalter's game seems to be desperate, but it is possible that he may be able to make a draw of it, having still some chance against Winower. The other games are so full of fight on each Bide that no prediction can be made as to results. Ply recommences at 4 o'clock this afternoon. DR TALMAGE'S HOUSE SOLD. IT IS NOW THE PROPERTY OF MRS.

ANNIE A. COLE. The New Owner Applies for a Reduction of Assessment and Her Re craest Is Granted. The four story brown stone front house, 1 South Oxford street, owned and occupied for many years by the Bev. T.

DeWitt Talmage, has passed into the possession of 3Irs. Annie A. Cole of Washington. D. who is a sister of General Horatio C.

King of Brooklyn. For a long time the assessors placed a valuation of i25.000 upon the property. This year the assessing committee fixed the amount at S21, 000. Mrs. Cole demurred and applied, through General King, for a reduction to 312.000.

She claimed tha the full value of the property was not more than 318.000. The house was in the market for six months at "with no takers" (so read the application for a reduotion of valuation), and Mrs. Cole was unable to ecure a tenant at a higher rental than 61.000 a rear. She sad that property in that vicinity had depreciated in value, not being wortn nearly qb much as it was when Dr. Talmage purchased 1 South Oxford street.

Tho assess ment committee, after a careful consideration of the case, decided to reduce the valuation to 19,000. The board to day heard the application of the Western Union Telegraph company for a reduction of the assessment on its poles, wires, in this city from S20.000 to 12.000. The company alleged that the assessment was in excess of tho value of the property affected. Decision was reserved. THREW GINGER ALE BOTTLES.

A New Yorker Uuder Lock and Key for Assault. William McYity is 40 yoar3 old. Ho is employed as an engineer in Muller's carpenter shop at 510 West Thirtieth street and lives with his wife Jane, at 530 West Thirtieth street. New York. Mrs.

McYitv is said to bo jealous of her husband. She has had him arrested several times, because of his weakness, it is said, for the company of other young women. Mrs. McVity contributes her share to the support of the family by conducting a grocery store. Last evening MeVity returnod homo' partly intoxicated.

Mrs. McYitv was in the "store at the time. Some words passed between the two and during the quarrel MeVity picked up several boltlus or ginger ale anil other "soft stuff" and hurled them at his wife. Soino of the bottles went through the plate glass window. One of them struck Mrs.

MeVity on the arm and breaking cut her severely. Ho then became frightened when he saw what he had done and ran from tho place. He went to the carpenter shop and locked himself in. Mrs. MeVity obtained tho services of a policeman and followed him.

McYity submitted quietly to arrest. MeVity was sorry for if all when he appeared in court to day but Magistrate Flammer told him it was too" late. He held him in 3300 bail for trial. WHISTLER PURDY IN TROUBLE. Arrested for an Alleged Attempt to Commit Suicide.

Walter Purdy. 22 years old, who was once known as a professional whistler of some note, was a prisoner in the Lee avenue police court this morning on a charge of attempted suicide, preferred by Policeman Charles Quinn of the Fifth precinct. Quinn, in his complaint, alleged that Purdy jumped off the South Fifth street pier into the East river yesterday afternoon for the purpose of ending his life. Patrick Savage of 35 South Sixth street saw Purdy when he leaped into the river. He notified Policeman Quinn, who was on post in the neighborhood, and then jumped Into the water and rescued Purdy.

The prisoner in court this morning denied that he Intended to take his own life and said he jumped into the river as he feared he would be run over by a big truck whioh was on the pier at that time. Purdy told Justice Schnitzspan that ho left his home, at 315 Bedford avenue, 3 csterday afternoon and went down on the dock to get the air and keep cool. He said he was a printer by trade and never had any intention of committing suicide. Justice Schnitzspan adjourned the case until July 28 and held Purdy for examination. A VICTIM OF THE HEAT.

At 2:25 o'clock yesterday afternoon William Cullen. aged 40 years, of 353 St. Marks avenue, was overcome by the heat on Halsoy street, neas Italph avouuo. He was attended py an aniDUiance surgeon ana was lajccn nomo. I 1.