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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE I STOCKS Credit Coupon. CUT THIS OUT. TO 2:30 P.M. NEW YORK CITY. TUESDAY.

JUNE 23. 1908.r-VOL. G9. NO. 174.

26 PAGES, INCLUDING PICTURE SECTION. THREE CENTS. I CHINESE ATTACK FRENCH. EJ. S.

PARTS OF MAN'S BOD? LOCAL WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Partly cloudy to-nlscht Wednrn-ility, shower! cast to noutlienxt wind, niootly Iljrht to freiili. KILLED COMELY WIDOW 10 SPURNED HIS LOVE IS IN SERIOUS STATE KILLS HUNTINGTON MAN CHILD FELL FOUR STORIES. French Had Four Killed and Chinese Lost Fifty Men. Paris, June 23 Details have been received here to-day of the encounter June 19 between a French force and a band of Chinese at Banmang.

on the Tonking-Chinese frontier. One hundred and llfty Tonking sharpshooters were operating in the region east of Lackay disarming revolutionaries whoh ad crossed tho frontier when were attacked by a Chinese detachment numbering tiOO men The French lost four killed, including two officers, and the Chinese had fifty men killed. Sufficient French reinforcements have arrived at the scene to meet any eventuality. Removed to a Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, From ex-Cov. Herrick's Residence.

One Hand Fell From Brooklyn End of E. D. Bridge Head Was Near Tower. Ozone Park Man, With Wife and Family, Wanted Her to Elope. Throws Him 50 Feet and Leaves Him Dead Beside of Road.

on Mr. Sherman's request, who sent word that he would delay his arrival twenty-four hours, In order to secure needed rest. Ho bas been in Cleveland as Governor Herrick's guest since Sunday morning, when he reached that city from Cincinnati, where be had been in conference with Secretary Taft. Mr. Sherman conversed over the phone with members of his family yesterday, and stated that he had practically recovered from the Indisposition that came upon him Sunday.

He decided tbat it would be better to get another night's rest at Cleveland, and so changed bis first' plan of leaving there by boat last night. He was entirely confident tbat be would be able to endure the Journey and face the thousands of cheering friends who would be waiting his appearance here. Utlca was to have been transformed for the occasion Into a roaring, shouting community, but now all this has been Scalp Wound and Bruises on Body His Only Injuries. Falling four Btorles and landing in a rubbish heap. Madrlso Lernica, a boy of 5 years, llvink at 216 Fourteenth avenue, this morning escaped with only a scalp wound and some minor bruises about the body.

The child was playing upon the fourth story tire-escape at his home, when he suddenly lost his balance and toppled over the low railing. Madrlso struck against the railing of tbe fire-escape on the second floor, which somewhat broke the fall. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon Holt of the Seney Hospital. HE MAY BE OPERATED UPON. LEGS OVER AT NORTH RIVER.

REFUSAL COST HER HER LIFE. CROWD ATTACKS DRIVER, I Is Suffering From Gall Stones Mrs. Sherman and Son Hasten to His Bedside. After Killing Her Victor Henry Sent Three Bullets Into Own Body and Soon Died. Some Car of Desbrosses Street Line Did the Killing Railroad Men Not Very Helpful.

Cars Collide at a Corner on Old Cup Course Mrs. Stern's Chauffeur. Badly Hurt. FIGHTING IN TEHERAN. Troops of the Shah Have Captured the Parliament Buildings.

Many Persons Killed. changed. Victor Henry, an Ozone Park painter, married and having a family, shot and SPAIN'S HEIR UNEXPECTED. Many Spanish Notables Did Not Reach the Palace in Time. TO FILL SHERMAN'S PLACE.

killed Mrs. Mary Cassldy, who refused to elope with him a week ago. In the back yard of her home. 95 Water street, Woodhaven, at 10:05 o'clock this morning, and then, turning the revolver on Special to the Eagle.) Huntington. L.

June 23 B. G. White, aged about 50 years, was struck by an automobile and instantly killed on New York avenue, in this place, last night, at 11:45. White had Just recovered from an attack of pneumonia nnd was out of work. His wife is In tho Woman's Hospital, Manhattan, where she recently underwent Policeman Dennis Kennedy of the Williamsburg Bridge squad made a ghastly find about 1:30 o'clock this morning when while patrolling along New street, which is practically the entrance to the structure from the Brooklyn plaza, he kicked an object which be was horrified to And was the hand of a man evidently torn with great violence from the wrist.

He lost no time in summoning assistance and was quickly joined by Policemen No Power Vested in Bepublican National Committee to Fill Vacancies. Berlin, June 23 The news has just been received here that the troops of the Shah of Persia have stormed and captured the parliment buildings in Teheran. The city is now being bombarded by himself, sent three bullets Into his heart. La Granja, Spain, June 23 The son who was born to tbe Queen of Spain last night came before be was expected, and as a result many of the personages, including the Bishoo of Segovia, whose dutv It is to After running twenty yards, following the shooting, Mrs. Cassldy fell to the Washington, June 23 So far as Is known here, no power is vested in the ground and died In ten minutes.

Henry The square in front of the pnrliment be present on these occasions, did not "ved for nalt hour, but was never Cleveland, 0., June 23 The illness of Congressman James S. Sherman, Republican nominee for vice president, who bas been ill here at the residence of ex-pov, Myron T. Herrick, since Sunday, assumed a serious phase early this morn- when the patient suffered a severe chill. Mr. Sherman's illness, which at first was diagnosed as a bilious attack, now turns out to have been caused by gall stones.

Upon the advice of Drs. Allen and Carter, who were called to attend the patient, he was removed to Lakeside Hos-p'tal. An operation may later be performed, but this step had not yet been fully decided upon. It was stated that Mr. Sherman suffered no ill effects as a result of his journey from the Herrlck residence to the hospital, which was made in an invalid carriage.

Ex-Governor Herrick Communicates With Mrs. Sherman. Ex-Governor Herrick rbis morning got into communication with Mrs. Sherman conscious during that time, and conse quently the motive for his act could not be secured from blm. Henry had a wife and three children, who live In a tenement Just north of Broadway, on Wyckoff James Mclnerney, Walter Hough, James McKenna, James Dobson and Sergeant Samuel Shattock of the same station.

Orders were Issued holding up all the cars of the Metropolitan system while the search along the car tracks was being ponducted. The policemen were provided with lanterns and the search was necessarily slow and tedious. Every reach the palace In time. King Alfonso presented the infant formally to the courtiers who had gathered In the throne room at a quarter after 2 this morning. The baby lay In a dainty basket filled with lace.

There were present, in addition to tbe dignitaries of the palace. Premier Maura, several members of the Cabinet, Prince and Princess Met- avenue, In Ozone Park. Republican National Committee to fill a vacancy on the presidential or vice presidential ticket that might occur between the date of the nominating convention and the first Tuesday In Novemmber following, when the people by their votes determine the status of the candidates, either by rejecting them at the polls, or by conferring upon them the titles of President and Vice President-elect. A hasty study of the precedents shows that no emergency has arisen In the hlBtory of the republic such as would result from the death or retirement of one of the candidates before election day. From the back stoop of her residence next door, Mrs.

Joseph Herzog watched every detail of the tragedy from Henry's first arrival at the house to the time that buildings is said to be heaped corpses. Teheran, June 23 A serious clash between Cossacks and members of political clubs ocoured here to-day. Karly this morning a force of Cossacks and soldiers surrounded tbe parliment buildinss and theadjolningMosqueand asketl parliament to give up Borne of the persons whose ar-rests the Shah had ordered. This parliament refused to do and tho members uf the political clubs fired ou the Cossacks, killing several of them. Reinforcement entered the city at 9 o'clock with artillery.

The tiring continued uutil 10 o'clock. Mrs. Cassldy breathed her last. At twenty minutes of ten she saw come through the front gate and walk the rear of the bouse where, in the thick shade of a grape arbor, Mrs. Cassldy, who was forty-five years old and comely, was bending over a wash tub.

They talked in a low tone at first, according to the story told by Mrs. Herzog Immediately ternlch, tbe guests of King Alfonso. Premier Maura. Marquis Devianla, the Duke of Santo Mauro and Count Serrello wltnesseo the ceremony of inscription of the birtb of the child on tbe state register. This took place in tho throne room, and in the meanwhile a salute of twenty-one guns was being fired outside the palace.

King Alfonso then drafted the form of a telegram to tbe chiefs of state Informing them of the event, after which he retired at a quarter before 3. Inch of ground covered by the north and south rails of the Metropolitan system was gone over carefully. By tho dim light the policemen came across evidence of some object having boen dragged along the center of the tracks both going and coming. On reaching that part of the structure directly over Bedford avenue the dismembered trunk of the man was discovered on the north tracks. It was headless and an examination showed that the head had been torn from the trunk.

There were no blood stains about the spot where the trunk waB discovered. A few feet further on the searchers came across the left arm with the hand attached together with some other pieces. The arms had also been torn from the socket. The remains were gathered an operation. A number of White's friends arranged an excursion to Valley Grove, an Eaton's Neck resort, for his benefit lost evening, nnd it.

was while returning from this outing, walking to the village, that he was killed. The machine that caused his death is owned by Robert Kelly, a son of the lata Eugene Kelly, and was driven by the chauffeur, Bert Hess. He was returning1 from Ihe excursion und, It Is said, was running Die mac hine at a high rate of speed, und it Is claimed gave no signal of his approach. Only one lamp was lighted. Just how While came to be struck no one knows.

Ills skull was crushed in. his hack broken and one leg was fractured. One lamp on the machine was broken and bent, the frame of the radl ator was bent, us was the hood. White was carried fifty feet and thrown by the wayside. An angry mob piled Into the machine us soon us it slopped, and It looked as though they would do Hess Injury, but they finally desisted.

Coroner Gibson was summoned, and an autopsy will be performed to-day, after which Ihe inquest will be held. A daughter. Pearl, who Is residing at Hi I'ierrepont street, Hiooklyn. nnd ono son, George, survive the victim of tho accident. Two Hurt in Collision Near Roslyn.

Koslyn. L. Juno 23 Another serious automobile accident neeurod near Albertson's Station, shortly after 6 o'clock last over the long distance telephone. She was greatly agitated upon hearing the condition of her husband and declared her Intention of coming at once to Cleveland. An effort to persuade her not to come at the present time failed and Bbe and her son, Richard Sherman, an instructor in Hamilton College, Clinton, N.

started for this city. Congressman Sherman suffered a sim- tla. ittinlr In V.w Vn.l. Cll-w -a Of course, there can be no statutory law on the subject, because, after all, not only the national committee, but the conventions that create them are extra-official they bave no standing in law. Therefore, there Is nothing to prevent a committee from filling a vacancy on a ticket that is? no law of prohibition but, of course, that committee would be answerable to the outraged sense of the after the shooting.

In a moment Mrs Cassldy cried in angry tones: "1 don't want you to come around here any more. You have a wife at home. I want you to PRINCE HEME'S PLIGHT. Scurries All Over London to Get a Marriage License. CLIFFORD TO PLEAD GUILTY great party which it represented.

It bas been suggested in the past that the com stay away." With that Mrs. Cassldy resumed her washing and Henry bent over to make a reply, which was not audible to Mrs. Herzog. Henry continued talking for over two mittee be authorized to fill a vacancy In Former Alderman Not to Stand Trial for Perjury. Into a stretcher and carried to the Brooklyn end.

McKenna continued the search and between the south car tracks and the woodwork near the Brooklyn tower came across what remained of the victim's bead. The face had been ground away. The the event that one of the persons named as a candidate on the ticket should decline the honor, but that, after all, would be a clear case of delegated power and Finds That He Cannot Many Mme. Anna Gould Without Fortnight's P.esidence in England. minutes, when Mrs.

Cassldy again stopped her work and exclaimed: "What! My money?" Henry again made a short re very different from such a contingency An Example of Political Ambition, Says Counsel Getting a Jury to ply and then, with an oath, pulled the head was covered with hair alraoat black in color and very coarse and thick. The scalp was torn away for several inches above the forehead. The skin was London, June 23 Prince Helie de Sugui), who soon Is to be married to Madame Anna Gould, the former wife of Count revolver from his pocket, pressed It against the side of Mrs. Cassldy's hentl and fired. With a scream which could be heard for blocks, she Jumped toward her murderer and then ran wildly from under the arbor to the back fence, where she droppped to the ground, moaning and with the blood spurting from tho wounds Boui de Castellaue, spent his first uiorj swarthy and seemed to Indicate the victim was an Italian.

What clothing remained on the trunk was of cheap tox evening, when two high powered machines came together with an awful crash. ago while serving as chairman of the Republican Congressional campaign committee. He was tlien taken seriously ill, but no operation was performed. At Lakeside to-day it is said Mr. Sherman Is resting quite comfortably.

During the early hours of the morning the temperature of the patient rose to t02, subsequently, however, his physicians announced that it had again become normal. Congressman Sherman came here from Cincinnati last Sunday and at once went to the home of ex-Governor Herrick. There he was forced to take to his bed yesterday. The Illness, cauBed by gall stones, Is generally more painful than dangerous. The stones form in the gali bladder and if not dissolved by medical attention increase in slse until they are too large to pass through the gall duct.

Then It is often necessary to perform operation, and frequently the gall bladder Is removed entirely. The operation ttaelf la not necessarily dangerous. There is a large percentage of recdvWttn" Ing in London he arrived here yester ture and covered with blood and dirt. Mrs. John N.

Stern of Glen Cove In day with Maduiuu Could In making a tour Some strandB of a black striped alapaca as might arise through the inability of Mr. Sherman to accept the nomination. It has been a common practice in the nomination of candidates for state offices to authorize the state committee to fill vacancies, as in such Instances, with a large number of candidates, it is a frequent occurrence for some nominee either to drop out of the race, become ill or die. As the convention which nominated Taft and Sherman adjourned without day, Us existence is at an end, so that it is stated by men who are familiar with the practices of the parties, if it became nec of the registry oflices in an endeavor to car with a llmouslno top, was coming toward Roslyn. Welcome Presson was the shirt still clung to the trunk with sev hauffcur and Mrs.

Stern was the only other occupant of the car. Coming down discover a loophole by which his marriage with Madame Gould could be carried out without the delay which under Ihu law of England usually accompanies such ceremonies. Try Henry Clay Peters. The trial of Henry Clay Peters, formerly an alderman from tho Forty-ninth District, Brooklyn, who was Indicted for an alleged act of perjury, committed at a hearing before Magistrate Whitman on January 31, 1907, was commenced this morning in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court in Manhattan, before Justice Goff. At the magistrate's hearing Peters swore that there was no arrangement existing between the Municipal Ownership League members of the Board of Aldermen concerning the election of former Judge Cowing, who was a candidate to become recorder of New York County to fill the vacancy occasioned by Recorder in her head.

Henry never moved from the spot where he stood, but turned the gun on himself and dropped by the side of the half-filled waBh tub after the three bullets from the .32 caliber revolver had entered his breast. Arthur M. LaPage, who lives at 88 Water street, was also a witness to the murder and Buiclde. and when he saw Mrs, eral white buttons! The cloth of the coat was of dark striped material, while what remained of the trousers appeared to have been striped with a herringbone pattern. Later some other bits of the remains were found on the north tracks opposite Ridge street, Manhattan.

No other portions were found then, and later the the road from Ihe west was a heavy car In which George Kent, formerly of Roslyn, but now of Wesibui-y. was riding with another man. They were half a mile east of the famous turn on' me priuce orove in a taxicab after breakfast and only rejoined Mme. Gould essary to bave Mr. Sherman's place filled their hotel for lunch.

At all the ig- by another candidate, the National Com- Cassldv faJJLtc I optioned -to the. Richmond mangled rejnjns was removed to the fstry offices visited bn got th'e samc re Milteg would have to go through the the old Vanderbllt cup course. Whcrn. this roAd cronscii the Mineola turnpike liw" sides of the rond are banked and covered with trees to such an extent thut. it was impossible for either party to see the other.

As the Kent car reached the turnpike. morgue tc await identification. sponse, namely, that the only means same procedure In promulgating rules for slough, according to physicians, there is The search, however, was continued and tbe police were awarded by coming mil police Hiniiuu lur iuo auiuuiauio. Then he summoned neighbors, who rushed Into Mrs. Cassldy's yard and attempted to revive her with stimulants.

She died while they were attempting to pour whis the election of delegates and every other Uwaye danger of complications. across a horn bandied jack knife with detail that was gone through1 in creating Stern's chauffeur saw It, but he could nor. two blades and an old pocketbook con taining three cents which is believed be At noon Mr, Sherman was resting eas- Sy. He was suffering comparatively llt-e pain and, In fact, his condition was the convention that has recently ad journed. All questions of contested dele ognized by the law to avoid a fortnight's residence here before marriage Is the special license that can be Issued only by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

As Madame Gould is divorced It Is not believed that this license can be obtained. The archbishop in the past has always avert Ihe collision and struck tne ivenc car sauarely in Ihe center, sending It over Into nearby potato field, where ir. gatlons would come up again and would longed to, the dead man. A straw hat of a cheap quality with a black band and the rim bound with black braid was also found, but this could not be connected said to be better than at any time during the past twenty-four hours. It Is now believed that an operation will not be have to be decided without regard to any thing that was done in the recent con was nearly overturned.

Luckily, the engines were slopped. The occupants were) thrown mil upon the field of soft dirt Colt's elevation to the Supreme Court bench. At that time Earl Harding, reporter for a newspaper, caused the arrest of Alderman William Clifford, whom he charged, had received from him, not knowing who he was, $6,000, which he, Clifford, was to use for distribution among the Municipal ky down her throat. Forty-five minutes after the police had been notified by telephone, the ambulance from St. Mary's Hospital in Jamaica, arrived, but Ambulance Surgeon Voltz, who came In It.

found that his services were not needed. With his permission and the consent' of the police authorities, the bodies were removed to the morgue of Edward J. Ruoff, in Ozone Park. Mrs. Cassldy moved with her four children to the Water street house, from ventlon.

necessary unless the patient suffers an attack. been opposed to the rcraiirrying of divorced persons, and he Invariably has refused these special licenses for this purpose, and unless some Insuperable argument Is forthcoming there is uo reason to suppose that he will change his atti TJtica Alarmed Over Congressman's NATIVES REVOLT IN GUINEA with the victim, as frequently hats are found along the car tracks. Before tbe cars on the loops were allowed to return to Manhattan, each one was carefully examined for blood stains. Policeman Hough was also sent to the car barns In Grand Btreet, where he came across railroad hands engaged in cleaning several cars. He halted the men.

but an examination failed to reveal stains of Condition, (Special to the Eagle.) Ownership League aldermen to secure Cowlng's election by the Board of Aldermen. Clifford was subsequently Indicted TJtica, N. June 23 This city was Several Europeans Killed or thrown into a state of alarm this fore Newark, N. after the death of her husband, on February' 29. Henry appeared at the house for the first time, in the second week In May, nnd was assiduous in his attentions to the widow.

He was well-known In Woodhaven, and his visits became a scandal In the village. blood. The under body of the cars, how Taken Captive. noon, when a telegram from Harry E. Devendorf, private secretary to Congress for bribery.

When Clifford was arraigned before Magistrate Whitman after his arrest Peters appeared as a witness in his behalf, and swore that there was no understand ever, had been washed down, and if there had been stains they' had been washed away. He so reported on his return to this borough. man James S. Sherman, the Republican vice presidential nominee, notified the Anxiety Felt, as the Natives Are Can tatter's family here that Mr. Sherman.

The police notified Police Headquarters nibals and Even Devour Their Own Dead. ing or agreement existing between the eleven Municipal Ownership League members of the Board of Aldermen In connection with Judge Cowlng's candidacy. who bad been indisposed for a couple of in Manhattan, and while Lieutenant uoie-man was taking the report the police of KENNY SUTHERLAND WOKE UP the Leonard street station notified headquarters of the finding of a man's legs and escaped with a few bruises. When the Stern car struck the other, the former turned completely around ami faced the direction from which It had come, and fell on Its side, almost a tola! wreck, wheels gone, lanterns and front smashed, and the large lop damaged. Mrs.

Stern was sheltered by tho top nnd owes her escape to that. She was thrown violently forward, but tbe cush-Ings In the auto saved her. When she climbed out of Ihe tonncau her hat. was gone and her hair disheveled, but shi had no serious Injury. The chauffeur seemed hut little bruised at first, until it was seen that he was bleeding from wounds in the leg and In the forehead.

He pluckily refused at first to go to the Nassau Hospital. Mineola, but a passing auto purty toik both him and Mrs. Stern there. It was found that Presson was seriously Injured and he was given attention at once, hut Mrs. Stern returned to (ilen rove, leaving her wrecked car hy Ihe roadside.

Mr. Kent drove off in his own car, which was little hurt. At the hospital this moruing, Presson's condition was said to be serious. Cm- Wrecked and Nearly Goes Into Lake at Sayville. Sayville, L.

June 23 Mrs. E. V. Connett nnd her two young sons an I daughter, of 14 Washington place. Manhattan, who are spending 'he summer In Blue Point, had a narrow est ape from Before the beginning of the examination of the talesmen for tho Peters trial to Lisbon, June 23 News has been re near the Desbrosses street ferry.

Patrol days at the home of ex-Governor Herrick, in Cleveland, Ohio, had experienced a change for the worse, and that he had been taken to the Lalrbslde Hospital in that city at 4 A.M. to-day. The message further stated that It was impossible to celved here of a serious state of affairs man Collins, stationed near the ferry, Heard Screaming on Beach, Saved Girl From Suicide. day, Abraham Levy, counsel for Clifford, appeared in court and addressing Justice Goff, said: In Portuguese Guinea. The natives reported that a car had been stalled there from 12:15 to 1:30.

Another car everywhere are reported to be in revolt. Even on the Island of Timor several in "Your Honor, it is the intention of my client Clifford to plead guilty to the In tude In favor of the prince and Madame Gould. The couple were hopeful that the wedding could take place the enil of this week, but the authorities declare that this is impossible without a special license. If It ultimately develops that they can be married only under the ordinary license, the prince will take up his residence In London for the necessary fifteen days, so as to comply with every legal formality. These Include a statutory declaration before the French consul general here tj the effect that all the formalities of the French law have been complied Willi.

This 1b rendered necessary In virtue i the recent Anglo-French agreement regarding the marriage In England of French citizens. The prince and Madame Gould have registered in their own names at their hotel here. They have given Btrlct orders that no cards what ever be brought up to them. The prince Is reported to have changed his religion from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to marry Madame Gould. It Is declared that after the wedding the prince and the princess will retire to the Gel- definitely determine the seriousness of after a long delay, coupled up to the stalled car and pulled It away.

After the two cars had gone Patrolman Collins found the legs of a man. The trousers terior posts have been driven in, set dictment against him charging bribery, and I ask that we be permitted to wait tlements have been destroyed and Euro Political Leader, Barefoot, With Two Friends, Hushed Out to Rescue at 2 A.M. until to-morrow before entering that had been torn away and the limbs were peans have been killed or carried off into captivity. The Portuguest troops have horribly mangled. These were taken to the Leonard street station.

Patrolman Collins said that the stalled taken refuge at Bisseau, where they are pica, so that I may confer with my client. Clifford is an axample of political ambition- He has been deserted by all his friends. When he was an alderman he bad friends a plenty; now that he Is in trouble the old timers have forsaken him. surrounded. A French warship has arrived for the protection of French sub car had been No.

698 or 698. Detective Sofsky was assigned to make an Investigation. He looked over cars with this jects. There Is nothing for him to do now but number in the Grand street car Darns, The newspapers here attribute the re plead guilty." but found no trace that they had run volt to the cruelties practiced by the Clifford. ssld Justice lion, "you have over a man.

troops while collecting the "hut" tax. beard wbat your counsel has said; do you coincide with him?" On the bridge at the Manhattan end, It tls their cnustom frequently to levy very serious injury, yesterday, when their nuto collided with a heavy farm wagon, driven by Charles Kdwiirds. on the hlght nnd narrow dam the Roosevelt pond, east of this village. Chief Clerk Kenneth Sutherland proved to be a hero early this morning, when he pounced out of bed at 2 o'clock on hearing the screams of a woman and succeeded in saving the life of Blanche Campbell, a telephone operator, who, according to the police, had attempted suicide by wading out in the waters of Gravesend Bay. Sutherland lives at 215 Bay Thirty-first street, near Cropsey avenue, and a block from the beach.

He was awakened by loud screaming and quickly dressed himself he rushed out In his bare feet and headed for ths I do, your Honor, and I shall plead guilty." heavy sums, and If payment is refused to flog the natives, burn the villages and That is satisfactory; call the talesmen sometimes rtpaure the wives and children man estates of the prince. at about Attorney street, the police found signs that something, evidently a body, had been dragged along the car tracks. This was followed all the way across the bridge and around the loop in Brooklyn, where traces were found that a body had been dragged between tho tracks. On the bridge small pieces In the Peters matter," ordered the Jus tice. of rich chiefs and bold them for ransom.

The work of getting a Jury was pro A chief of the Coulage tribe started the gressed with rapidly. Peters is being represented By Lawyer revolt by seizing a sergeant and Beven Portuguese troopers, decapitating them the congressman's condition until the physicians here made a more careful examination. Secretary Devendorf also stated in his message, it was believed Sherman was suffering from an attack of gall stones, in aggravated form, and that the vice presidential nominee was suffering intense agony and was greatly weakened as the result of a night of almost unbearable pain. He urged Mrs. Sherman to hurry on to Cleveland, and she left this city at 9 o'clock this morning, accompanied by two of her sons and a nurse.

Mrs. Sherman herself has been ill tor nine weeks, and to-day was the first tlino she has left her borne since she was stricken with a nervous breakdown on her return from Washington, at the close of the congressional session. Her physician advised her against attempting to make the trip to Cleveland, but she could not be dissuaded after receiving Secretary Devendorf's telegram. Subsequently this statement was received over the long-distance telephone from Cleveland. "Mr.

Sherman was seized with cramps in a train, going from Cincinnati to Cleveland; this was about 2 A.M., Sunday. When he arlved at Governor Herrick's home be went to bed and remained there. It was thought Sunday that we would be able to leave for his borne in Utlca Tuesday, but at 4 A.M. to-day he was seized with chills. However, at 5 A.M.

be had been brought to a materially normal condition for a sick man. At 9 A.M. Mr. of cloth were found caught on slivers of wood In the flooring of the bridge. There are many theories as to what BODY FOUND IN CREEK.

Indications Are That Stranger Taken From Water at Amityville Was Murdered No Water in Lungs. beach. He was accompanied by Roy and and displaying their heads on poles. Adolph Roger, of 80 William street. The prosecution Is In the hands of Assistant District Attorneys Smyth and Murphy.

Anxiety Is felt for the Europeans ctp- bad happened but It Is the generally ac tured, as the natives are cannibals cepted one that the man was struck by PRACTICE OF THE CREWS. After a recent engagement the troops ob Lyman Crossman, two young men who reside In the house adjoining the Sutherland home, and when they reached the beach they saw a young woman up to her neck In the water. Sutherland waded In. followed by the young men, and succeeded in dragging the girl to the beach. He an eastbound car at Attorney street, on the Bridge, that the body was wound around In the gear and dragged around served the natives devouring one of their own dead like a pack of wolves.

Coach Ten Eyck Discounts Fast Time the loop In Brooklyn, where parts of It commenced to fall off. The legs. It Is then called up police headquarters and Trial by Syracuse Badgers Out Early. believed, were jammed up under tbe car ENJOINS L. I.

R. R. COMPANY. had an ambulance called. The woman had lapsed Into uncon sciousness when Ambulance Surgeon Poughkeepsle, N.

July 23 The crews Injunction Granted Restraining Cor Fisher of the Coney Island Hospital and It was these that finally caused the stalling of the car near the ferry, and that when the stalled car was pushed backward by the second car the legs were unwound and dropped out onto the tracks. The police have little doubt that the body was struck by the car that was practiced this afternoon under a cloudy poration From Burning Soft Coal and Blocking Highways. ky, which betokened showers. The water As soon as Edwards saw the auto coming around the curve In the road, ha attempted to turn out. hut the auto was moving too quickly and struck the hind, wheel of the heavily loaded wagon.

Th' auto swung squarely around and dive. I over the embankment, which is twenty feel high at that point, and. crashing through the guard feme, was prevented from going to the bottom of the lake by fetching up Into a pile of stumps. Although the car was badly smashed, the four occupants escaped serious In-Jury. Connett made profused apoIorT to Mr.

Edwards, saying that It was entirely their own fault; h'-r son shoul I have slackened speed. and In her fright; she left her bank book and money in tho, wrecked car, which was afterward recovered by Mr. Edwards and returned to the owner. Car on Fire at Jericho Pike. Jericho.

L. June 2-, -Traveling alon? the turnpike near this place on Sunday, at a good speed, the motor car of lien-drick Hudson of in which, with the owner, was Miss Alice Anderson of Far Itoc kaway. suddenly caught fire. Mr. Hudson shut off the power and applied the emergency brake, and the pair leaped from the car when It speed.

They land-d on the grass aul were unhurt. 'although their clothing wei scorched I'slng his tap as a scoop. Mr. Hudson threw sand on the flames and extinguished after they had consumed, atom half of the ear. Tin- loss wan was smooth, but as the air wag humid reached her and she was hurried off to that Institution.

Policeman Llngren went to the court to-day and made a charge of attempted suicide against her, but the girl was too 111 to be removed from the hospital. the work was compjaratlvely light. Most stalled at Desbrosses street. The street car people have not helped any, and have Justice Clark at yesterday's session of of the ccrws were late In coming out. the Superior Court granted to several The police say the girl told them she perhaps retartea tne progress or tne police In learning the details of the matter.

(Special to the Eagle.) Amityville, L. 1., June 23-Thc body of an unkonwn man, thought to be an Italian or a German, agtd about ti'l years, was found floating, head downward, in the creek near Ireland's Bridge, about 9 A.M. to-day by Captain Walter Keteham and his crew. Justice Wells, In the absence of Coroner Savage, granted Undertaker White permission to remove the body to his morgue, Tho body lias not as yet been identified. The man was dressed ns a laborer, wearing lean trousers, outing flannel shirt, mixed gray vest and a cap.

An examination revealed that there is practically no water In the man's lungs. Indicating that he was dead when placed In the water. Then- are. however, no marks of violence. The man's pockets were empty and there Is no way of Identifying him.

Those who have viewed the remains are more than half inclined to think he murdered. A careful Investigation will be made. citizens and property owners of the vll. Wisconsin was the first to appear, and had finished before most of the others were on tho river. Coroner Harburger decided that as long had no friends and did not care to llvt any longer.

She said Just before she be lage of Queens an Injunction restraining Syracuse rowed south about four miles, nd returned to the boathouse. Shimer, as the trunk and head of the body were In Brooklyn the kgs should be brought here and they were delivered to the came unconscious mat sne was yeari old and lived at 138 Concord street. She No. 2 in the varsity, ia still nursing a was neatly dressed. About a month ago Sherman's temperature was 102.

Dr. E. T. Carter of Cleveland was In attendance. Dr.

Carter says the trouble probably came from gall stones. He was in conference over the long-distance pbooe Brooklyn Morgue and the coroner was sore hand, but his physicians say be will notified. be In aood shape by race day. James a young woman wno lived in tms borough committed suicide by walking into the water at almost the Identical spot where the Campbell girl tried to end her life. Ten Eyck, the Syracuse coach, questioned this noon about the report that his eight went the four-mile course yesterday In better than nineteen minutes, said: "I TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

Greenville, S. June 23 During the with Dr. Finney, a specialist In Baltimore, who has treated Mr. Sherman before, and he will start at once for Cleveland." don't care to tell the time, but It was progress of the Sunday school convention the Long Island Railroad Company from burning soft coal in its engines going through that village; from permitting manure trains to stand upon the tracks In the vicinity of the village, and from permitting trains of eight cars from standing on tire tracks across Farmer's avenue. A referee was appointed to compute the amount of damages already suffered by the plaintiffs, whose names are as follows: Franklin B.

Sprague, David T. Mashall, Abraham J. Debevolse, Ferdinand Slevers, Frederick W. Huber, Frank K. Warren, Benjamin Keith, Rose I.

Newel, Richard A. Homeyer and William Muller. WOMAN FELL THREE STORIES. fast, all rlcht. At the same time the con Demonstration in TJtica Postponed In at Sandy Springs church yesterday after noon a bolt of lightning passed through the roof of the church and Instantly ditions were so exceedingly favorable that I have discounted the trial somewhat, and mnot patting the boys on the back on definitely.

As a result of the severe illness which RAILROAD LOSES CASE. account of It." has seized Mr. Sherman, the great home- Persons Injured in Sunday's Collision There was certainly no patting on tne killed Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Lenderman, at the same time knocking their year old baby from Mr.

Lenderman's arms. When the bolt struck several leaped from their oming demonstration arranged In his Haws Says He Will Sue It Now for back in the way Ten Eyck talked to the crew through the megaphone to-day. He was at them constantly to do betetr. honor for to-night, bas been postponed In-Geflnitely, and It is now doubtful if it Near Mineola Doing Well. Mineola.

L. I June 23 victims of the automobile collision near East Meadow on Sunday. In which J. Arose- seats and the infant was seen to roll on Unlawful Arrest. the floor from Its father arms.

The be carried out on the originally Cornell and Pennsylvania passed each Magistrate Celsmar this morning, In the child was picked up unhurt. other during practice, and as usual ex- laborate lines even when Mr. Sherman of New Rochelle was killed und a I nieiiH Fifth avenue court, dismissed th ase loes reach Utlca, assuming that he sur- ih river and arnitnri LIGHTNING STRIKES OIL TANKS his present serious illness. The Tumbled From Window of Astoria Home Badly Hurtbut Will Live. Petina Borgia.

43 years old. of Cornelia street and Hopkins avenue, Astoria, fell from the third story window of her home sustained a fracture of the niihi leg. a at 6 A.M. to-day and was badly hurt. She bad wrench of the left and various contusions of the body.

She also from shock. She Is now at St. John's Hospital, and will probably recover. It Is supposed that, unable to sleep, she went to the open window for air and leaning out too far, lost her balance and fell. Ilrwrr'i "Jieclal See" 'hnmpnKne Fermented In th bottle.

French methf-d. It. T. Liewey Buns 131 Fulton N. Y.

-Adv. Washington. June 23 During an GRANT WINS AT TENNIS. Wimbledon. June 23 Wylle C.

Grant, of the New York Lawn Tennis Club, won his match to-day in the third round of the all-England lawn tennis championship by beating C. G. Smith comfortably three sets to one. The scores were 4-6. 6-3, 7-5 and 6-2.

electrical storm which passed over this 1111 (i. whom are at the Nassau Hospital, wero re porn to be doing well this morning. The hospital patients are William J. Imgan. brother of "Eddie" Pugan.

ttv Joe key, and the former's wife, and Chauffeur Henecllct. who had chHrge of the car which collided with 'hat of Mr. Arose-mena coming from an opposite direction. against William Haws, of 320 Twelfth street, who was charged with having willfully and maliciously destroyed about sou of high-tension table, owned hy the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad, by driving his horse and wagon over it. Sydney Fry.

attorney for Haws, an vicinity early to-day three large tanks of the West Penn Oil Company at Crum Elbow to Hyde Park and return. WILLIAM B. GOURLEY ILL. William B. Gourley.

formerly chairman of the Democratic State Committee of New Jersey, was very III at his home, Paterson. N. to-day. Mr. Gourley was stricken three weeks ago.

Physicians In attendance fear that an abscess bat formed in the abdomen. ommunlty to-day Is plunged In despair iy the news fnem Cleveland. Every de-all of the elaborate arrangements for he tremendous welcome had been per-ected, and already thousands from many itles and towns In this section of the tate bad arrived to participate. Th-i emonstration as originally planned, was xed for last night, but It was postponed Meadowlands, nea here, filled with oil. were struck by lightning, throwing the burning oil high Into tbe air and causing Imitan Is r-ported to be the worst in nounced that he would institute a suit a torrent of fire to spread over the sur fer $10.

nnn damages against the railroad. Mured of the trio. alleging that bis client was faikcly Im- Justice c. F. Oittens of Hempstead prisoned.

I called at the hospital yesterday aud toot rounding territory. The amount of oil Thrnnarh II. B. Ticket. ht.

N. Y. and Albany accepted un the Hud. Br. DAY LINE.

-Adv. destroyed ia valued at $100,000..

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