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Tw Ca Aim uw4 MAR 1904 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. FOUR O'CLOCK. FtwJ at th Pf Office mt ftmotlvn. N. NAvmhrr IT.

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Trvde Mark "Kuif le it'-iiftlered. THREE CENTS. to maintain silence, neither advising nor THE PGR SHIP DOCTOR TAGGAHT HOLDS INDIANA LIM A I. WKITIIKII IMU)BBII l'IKX. I'alr and nllulitl rolder to-Hluhll ii nrilsrnla, falri frrxb to hrlk aort tart-rut WlHdM.

TOOK II "LEGAL WIFE" AFTER SECOND MARRIAGE TO HIT VLADIVOSTOK. CALLED "SPY" AT ODESSA. Caught While Looking at a Fort, but He Took His Captor Into Camp. intelligence and wisdom of the party should expended, and I am not going to suggest anything at this time. But I have some ideas on what should not be in tho platform if hope to carry Indiana and the country at large." "What is your position with respect to Judge Parker's candidacy?" Mr.

Taggart was asked. "I do not know Judge Parker personally, but from what I hear of him I consider him an available man; both Judge Parker and Senator Gorman have good friends In Indiana. Mr. Cleveland's nomination is by the Indiana Democrats; Mr. Hearst his some good friends in Indiana also, but I do n.jt believe the Indiana Democrats will support him In the convention." Concerning the mention which has been made of him In connection with the national chairmanship, Mr.

Beseke then itoisoned his wile, daughter. two sons, respectively, 11' and IS years old. HE'S NOW AT ATLANTIC DOCK. 81 military academy) and himself, "jwlih cyanide of potassium, which he seem- i ingly inserted In the mouth of each In the form of a pill after they had gone Inio a Physician Is a German and Without Jap drunken sleep He Is Against Radicalism and Probably Favors Either Hill or Gorman. HE WOULD TAKE JUDGE PARKER.

Frankly Demands the Shelving of the Silver Issue Organization in Excellent Shape. (From a Staff Correspondent of the Eagle.) Indianapolis. March 8 Indiana bai become the base of a Hill-Gorman campaign in the West, the first purpose of which is to prevent the nomination of Mr. Cleveland for President. To all appearances the Indiana leaders consider that event an Imminent possibility.

Opposing Mr. Cleveland, they are careful not to admit that he has material strength in the West, but he is the only man the Indiana men have taken the trouble to play politics against. Their artivitloa Blnp. Mr Hill wnti hi. niiti-Cleve- laud fight In the New York Democratic State ONE WORKMAN STILL MISSING.

Committee, last Saturday, have been ex- I tended over several states of the Middle West and Northwest and will, within the next thirty days, reach to the Pacific coast!" Is Believed That the Body of John assisting either party. The government here Is looking ahead. It can conceive of a time ohen It would be to Germany's advantage to have a portion of the Russian navy locked up. Austria and Italy are not moving In Constnntinople. where all the powers, there-fore, except Russia and Great Britain, arc qtl'escent.

Russia would not use the Iiardanelles no If she could, in the opinion of experts here, because her Black Sea fleet is not ready for a Far Kastern rampalgn. and If It were ready Russia would wall until her Baltic fleet is thoroughly equipped. It is believed that Russia could not hope for a decisive nova! success without the Baltic, Black Sea and Mediterranean squadrons uniting and proceeding East together, as otherwise thry would bo destroyed piecemeal. JEWS ARE SHOT DOWN TRYING TO ESCAPE THE ARMY. Adult In llnsala Held for DutrFlnna Join Jafianeae.

Minneapolis, March 8 A letter describing the shooting of six Jews, who were trying to escape Russian military service, has been received by M. S. Winthrop. The men were killed by -Russian soldiers, the letter says, as they were trying to pass from Russia into Austria In Novocelitz, a town on the boundary. They were without passports and were trying to get through In the night.

The letter says that all able-bodied men over 18 years old have been ordered to report for military duly. Many Jews and others who do not sympathize with the government are trying to escape. No permits to leave Russia are given since the beginning of the war. Duluth. March 8 The fact has developed that secret agent of the Japanese government have been getting recruits for their army among the large colony of Finns and Russophoblc sympathizers living on the Mesaba and Vermillion iron ranges of Minnesota.

Circular letters In the Finnish language have been distributed freely among those men, most of whom are miners, telling them that the time is now ripe for them to repay Russia for all the hardships and cruelties they endured before they were compelled to seek treatment in a foreign land, which was theirs by right in their native land. Word from Hibblng says that by the close of March there will be 400 men leave for the scene of conflict. Free fare has been guaranteed all who wish to go. VETOED ON TECHNICALITIES. Mayor Says South Brooklyn Market Resolution Should Be in Another Form, Mayor McCIellan to-day sent a communication to the Board of Aldermen vetoing the resolution providing for the laying out of a public market In the Eighth Ward, in the vicinity of Thirty-ninth street.

The reasons given by the Mayor for vetoing the measure were technical, he said. In the first place, the map of the district was defective, and it time for discontinuing the market arrives the Sinking Fund Commission may use it for other purposes or dispose of It, He says the measure does not specify whether the market Is to be used for the retail or tpr wholesale trade. The land proposed' to be acquired is 34 feet south of the (Southerly aide of Thirty-sixth street, leaving a strip of private ownership, which would deprive the city of any access tp Thirty-sixth st reet. When tho resolution in proper form, with suggested charges, comes up again, It will probably go through. Deputy Fire Commissioner W.

A. Doyle, the much heralded new ally of Charles F. Murphy in Brooklyn, is wedded to the scheme, and all his constituents of Eighth Ward want it. the GRAFTING IN CHICAGO. Committee Finds It Is Not "Systematic" hut Only "Sporadic" Segregation of Red Light Hesorts Favored.

Chicago, 8 After three revisions tho report of the municipal "graft" committee lias been given to the City Council. Alderman E. F. Herrmann, chairman of the committee, handed in the document, which concludes five months of investigation Into charges of City Hall corruption. The report finds there Is no graft in Chicago that Is, no "systematic" graft such as obtains in other cities Craft in Chicago Is only "sporadic." The report also makes recommendations for the reform -of public evils.

The investigation was started when Mayor Harrison, in an interview last tall, said that if be were to weed out corrupt lonisls he would have grafters jumping out of every window oi' the City Hall. The results before the report was Issued were tho suspension or discharge of more than fifty city employes, the Indictment of a dozen nnd the resignation of numerous others. As a solution of the problems arising from the social evil the report advocates the segregation of the red light resorts In certain quarters of the city to be denominated by the chief of police. The Chicago police, states the report, compare favorably with the peace officers of other cities, but laxity In the discipline of the department Is only too apparent. JUDGES PENSION BILL OPPOSED.

Republican Senatorial Caucus Decides Not to Support It. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, March 8 By a vole of 16 to 10 the Republican senators in caucus this afternoon decided to oppose the Finch judges pension bill as a party measure. "I don't propose to have the judges use the same tactics on us," said Senator Rainea, "that 'hey did on the Assembly." PATROLMAN CROW DEAD. Patrolman Frank Crow of the Bridge Precinct died at his home this afternoon. Last week Officer Crow was caught between a truck and the railing on the roadway of the bridge, where he was doing duty, was badly crushed and Internally Injured.

He was taken to his home and atteaded by Dr. Everet. YOUTH OVERCOME BY GAS. Albert Rinken, 24 years old, of 1,445 Fulton street, was found overcome by gas at his home this morning. Louise Havlnghorst detected the odor of gas at 7 o'clock and, forcing an entrance fround the young man unconscious In bed.

He was attended by Ur. Stolworthy of St. Mary's Hospital, and not removed. A defective gas Jet is said to have been the caU6e of the accident. SUICIDE IN A HOSPITAL.

Minneapolis. March 8 W. D. Ro-Romain, New York traveling man, whose mind had become deranged by fever, committed suicide in St. Barnabas' Hospital by shooting himself In ihe head.

He was admitted to Ihe hospital six days ago, suffer ing' from an attaek pneumonia. EleelrlcTreiument for Chronic DUriin glvfn by. experts. Coniuliatlon free. 34 Uiiitoii it.

Ad'- POISONED FAMILY AND SELF. With His Last Money Retired German Officer Gave a Banquet of Death. Berlin, March Carl Bescke, retired, nfter a long and steady decay of fortune, yesterday took his last money and I gave a splendid dinner In honor of his nlnc-t tecn-year-old daughter's birthday. I The sheriffs had taken charge of every thing In the house and labels bad been posted on Heseke's furniture, which would have been old at auction to-day. After a brilliant career and a marriage with heiress Beseke had reached the end of his fortune.

He won the Iron Cross in the war of 1870-1 with Frame, married the daughter! of a rich hotel keeper, thereby having to leave the service, as he married out of hta caste, and started a newspaper. The lieutenant wrote well, hut the paper was not successful, and he became sales agent for a manufacturer and then manager of a man making enterprise. Ho IheJ beyond his means for thirty years. Last night the Beseke family had a box at the circus. At 10 o'clock dinner was ordered from a caterer.

Beseke was especially gny and tender and pressed his wife nnd his throe children to drink lots of champagne. He died holding his wife's hand tightly. SHEVLIN DISOBEYED ORDERS. McLaughlin Told Him to Stand By Hill, but the Brooklyn Man Voted With Tammany. (Special to the Eagle.) Jacksonville, March 8 From a distinguished Brooklyn Democrat, who has just returned from Daytona, It was learned to-day that ex-Register Hugh McLaughlin is seriously annoyed at the stand taken by James Shevlln and those hitherto classed as McLaughlin men, who attended and voted at the slate committee meeting in Albany, N.

last Saturday. The correspondent's informant was told by Mr. McLaughlin that ho had written full and explicit Instructions a couple of days before the meeting of the slate committee, to Mr. Shevlln. These Instructions directed tho state committeemen chosen by the old McLaughlin organization, and still supposed to bo amenable- to Its discipline, to vote with Senator Hill and against Tammany on all propositions coming before that body.

The manifest purpose of Mr. McLaughlin's letter was that his Brooklyn friends should at least on any question constituting a test in the committee vote as Hill and the great body of up-state Democrats were voting. Kccent nistory snows how Mr. Shevlln disregarded the Instructions. The only test vote taken in the committee was that Involving the right of Fitzpalrirk of Buffalo, an antl-Parktr follower of William J.

Connors in Erio County, to a seat. On that question Shevlln and the other McLaughlin committeemen voted with Tammany. Mr, Slievliri. It is noted, from newspapers received here, shelters himself from tho charge of disobedience of Instructions by saying that he got no "dispatch" conveying the directions indicated above. Technically he right.

Ho got no dispatch, as the communication ho received from his leader was not a telegram, result of which might have left some doubt as to Its authenticity, but a letter written by Mr. McLaughlin himself, sigued by him and indisputably his own production. Tile statement that the old time leader of Brooklyn Is angry but faintly conveys an adequate conception of his feelings. It is likely I hat when he returns some of his lieutenants will experience an unpleasant qtinrter of an hour. NO OLD BOATS FOR THE CITY.

Staten Island Ferry Company Must Keep Its "Junk," Says Corporation Counsel Delnny. Dock Commissioner Maurice B. Feather-son has been advised by Corporation Counsel Delany that the terms of (he present lease of the Staten Island Ferry Company do not, oblige the city to purchase the ferry structure at the foot of Whitehall street, Manhattan, nor the ferryboats now operated by that This decision is received with much pleasure by ihe administration and makes it unnecessary to buy the old boats, which it was believed at first, would have to be taken over at an expense of several hundred thousands of dollars. Two of the boats are of fair value and were offered to tho city at $110,000 each. The others are very old and marine exports refer lo them usually as "Junk." This decision, it is exeeied.

will very much expedite the building and operating of the new nuiniclpnl ferry to Slaten Island. Bids for the construction of the live new high-speed boats will he advertised for tomorrow or the day following In the City Record. SMITH WILL UP AGAIN. Mrs. Corwine Seeks to Break It E.

M. Shepard, Opposed, Secures an Adjournment. Cx-Jusiieii Augustus Van Wyck, counsel for Mrs. Ella Oorwlne. appeared this murniiitj before Justice Iilekcy, who bit-ties ii the euulty term of the Supreme Court, and made a motion lor a new trial of her suit to set aside the will of her father, the Into Thomas C.

Smith, which waf: tried last month before Justice Ulekcy. iu Part II of the Supreme Court. The trial resitltri: In a disagreement, a majority of the jurors siiiint; with Mrs. Corwinc in her effort to break Iht father's will. The pliim raised by Judge Van Wyck on his moil'in ibis morning was that, the only question of fact left for the Jury to deride or.

th' 5 i I was whether undue lnftuene ha.l li'in against the plaintiff by the defenrtati's. her brother and sister, Charles Smith and Mrs. Chase. Counsel claimed that tin- le-iameniary capacity of the lesta-lor also should have been sent io the Jury, This, however, was ruled out hv Justice lihiii'v. Ivhvard M.

Shepard. representing the Si. i'li estate, strongly opposed the Errant ina new trial on the ei nim.ls raised by Jud.tR Van Wyik, and asked for nil niiji.it, iinieni in nruer t.at he further n-e'-eiit. sotnn teehnical points. This wi'S ll-'' Ulckry.

MUTINY PRECEDED WT.ECK. i.vn.:,iel;;ia. March 8 Tim Itruiniiivati hr( Cizi iiiz. from Liverpool for this port, Banrs otztinilz, mutinied Sunday nighi ami io gei loose and Meii'lii" morning when the pHoi ii.u in found them in possession nf the forward in" deck, armed with knives. 'I h- JEROME GAMBLING BILL FAVORED AlhHM.

Mreh 8 The Senate Codes Com- Ur- decided io report favorably m-oKuir iinviinn s'. reianv to Ueblimoiiy id K-imblinx casta. Official Admission Made That Assault on Stronghold Is Pa't of Campaign. FOUR ARMIES FOR THE JAPS. Land Forces to Move to as Many Points, tsuitan won Jet uut BiacK Sea Fleet.

Toklo, March 8 The report of the naval attack upon Vladivostok Is not confirmed officially, although the Navy Department admits that an attack was planned. A report Is expected from the fleet commander before long. The Marquis Ito is going to Korea on a special mission for the emperor, but the purpose of the trip Is not understood here fey those outside of high official circles. The liarquis Ito will carry an autograph letter from the Mikado to the Emperor of Korea. He will depart on March 13 and will be absent about three weeks.

Count Tsuzoko, secretary of I he privy council; General Hasega-wa. Admiral Sakamoto and Viscount Hlga-shizo will accompany the marquis. Shanghai, March 8 The mobilization of Japanese troops proceeds regularly, but much slower than expected. Once landed in Korea and Manchuria, the- Japanese forces will be divided Into four armies. The points of concentration selected by the Japaneso general staff are not yet known.

VLADIVOSTOK CHEERS UP, BUT EXPECTS JAPS BACK. All Snilurn Impressed Into nvy ami St. rpterhnrK Hna Theory for Scare. Vladivostok, March 8 Despite the appearance of the Japanese fleet off the harbor yesterday and the bombardment of Sunday, the Inhabitants are In good spirts. Crowds promenaded the streets aa usual, includins many women.

A performance at the theater is announced for to-night. Many suspected Japanese have been arrested, but, when examined, they were proved to be Chinamen or Koreans. Commanders of merchant vessels and pilots, who have a thorough knowledge of the coast and of -navigation, have been enrolled as ensigns in the Navy. Snow has been falling for the last two days. St.

Petersburg, March 8 There. Is no truth in the reports that the Japanese fleet bombarded Vladivostok all day long yesterday. According to the latest information, the fleet simply showed itself and sailed away without firing a gun. One reason for the appearance of the Japanese iu Northern waters advanced here Is their probable desire toregain possession ef the Island of Sakhelien, which was ceded to Russia by Japan. It is pointed nut that the whole of Northern Japan will be threatened with famine If the food supply derived from the Island of Sakknlien fisheries is cut off.

Nine-tenth of the exports gp to Japan, In addition to which Japanese boats have been carrying on piratical fishing along the coast, which has exhausted the flsh supply of the Amur estuary. The native tribes there are suffering from hunger and typhus. The authorities will prepare a gunboat flotilla on the Amur to operate for the protection of the fisheries as soon as the river is free from ice. The wife of Admiral the former commander of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, has returned here from Port Arthur. She is indignant and denies the report that the admiral and his officers were ashore attending a ball at the time the Japanese attacked the Russian squadron.

Mrs. Stark declares her husband did not pass the night ashore after he took command of the squadron. On the night of the attack. February all the officers and crews were on hoard at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and at 8 o'clock at night the admiral held a council of war on board the flagship, Instead of opening a ball In honor of his wile's birthday. This was followed by a sham Japanese attack at o'clock that night, confirming in this respect the Associated Press account of the attack as cabled on March 5.

On the day of the bombardment a shell exploded over the head of Mrs. Stark's daughter, but did not Injure her. About .10.000 Hurlnt tribesmen inhabiting the Trans-Baikal territory have petitioned the Czarina to be allowed to continue their tribal relations and net be placed tinder the Russian administrative system, with the alternative of permission to migrate to Mongolia. The Czar telegraphed declining to grant lhe irlbeamen's request. Count Orloffrfnshlioff has given another $100,000 toward the fund being raised to strengthen the navy.

Port Arthur, Mnrch 8 Vice Admiral Ma-karoff. the iee-hrenklng specialist ef the Russian navy, arrived In Dalny yesterday and Is expected here to-day. Complete tranquillity prevails throughout this district and nothing has been seen of the Japanese. Blagovetchensk. East Slnerla, March 8 The last detachment of the Algun Cossack Illfles has left here for Tsltslhar.

Manchuria. The Jcranese remaining here will bo sent to Stretensk. SULTAN UKGEJJ BY CZAR TO LET OUT BLACK SEA FLEET. Grent Rrltnlii Oppose, null Porte liitifKon Condltioim IluHNlii Cannot Acerpt. Berlin, March 8 The Porte has thus far met tho requests of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, M.

Zlnovleff, to permit the Black Sea fleet to pass the Dardanelles by naming conditions wholly by Russia. One of these conditions naturally Is that Russia shall break off or evade the fulfillment of her agreements with Austria respecting the Balkans, give the Sultan leave to settle the controversies by his own methods and assist Turkey should Austria or oilier powers dispute the Sultan's decisions. Russia rejected these proposals as preposterous, but she renewed her request, to which there seems little likelihood of the Sultan yielding, as British diplomacy Is active In Constantinople In urging on the Porte a strict observance of the Berlin treaty. France, so far as can be perceived here, has not seconded Russia in this matter. Such a step as permitting the Black Sea fleet to pass the Dardanelles would be regarded diplomatically as a breach of neutrality on the part of Turkey, though Great Britain's opposition to it, being aimed at the maintenance of the status quo, is not so considered.

Russia's diplomatic weight in Constanll-nole has been somewhat reduced by the occurrences In the Far East. The Porte will give nothing without a heavy price. Germany expresses no opinion on the subject. The most Germany will do in the presence of a bargain between Russia and Turkey for the release of the Black Sea fleet would be Apostle's Son Says First Wife Was Not Dead When He Espoused Second One. COHABITS WITH NO.

2 AND NO. 3. Smith's Prospective Successor, a Polyg-amist, Says He Expects to Continue to Violate Law and Church Rule. WashinRion, Marrh 8 Mrs. Clara Mabel Kennedy resumed tho stand to-day in the Senator Rood Smoot.

caso before tho Senat Committee on Privileges and Mr, Worthington, for tho defense, continued rross examination of tho witness, and In quired as to thi reasons for her marriage, being solemnized at Juarez, Mexico, lnate4 of at the Mormon settlement at Diaz, wher she lived. She said sho. know of no reason and hfcS no information regarding an attempt to have) the ceremony performed elsewhere. She said she did not tell any one that the. man to whom she was to bo married had another wife and so far as she knew those perform- ing the ceremony did not, know tho marriage was to be a plural one.

Later Mr. Worthlnglon asked Mrs. Kennedy if she did not know that application had been made to Apostle Tcasdalc and that he hal refused to conduct or to authorize the plural marriage. "What did he asked Mr. Worthingtnn.

"Ho said it could not be done, an nil thit had been don' away with," said Mrs. Kennedy. Mr. Worthingion called attention to the inconsistency of the Hint ementa and he asked why she had said she did not, know a request, had been ma do lo another to perform tho ceremony. "I don't know how I happened say that." said the witness.

Continuing, she said with some emotion; "It was not pleasant for mo to think about, those things, and I tried to put them aside. I tried to forget nil I could about It." In response to further questions from Mr. Taylor the witness said her mother told her of the request lo Apostle Teasdalo and that she had no other knowledge of the attempt io get him to perform tho ceremony. Son of Apontle Merrill Testifies. Charh'H K.

Merrill, a son of Apostle Mcr- rill, was then called to the stand. He said ho was the son of hiH father's third plural wife and Is him If a polygamis1. In answer to questions concerning his own marriage Mr. Merrill said he was married first in ISS7 to a wife ihat died in ISM. and thai he mar- ricd his Chloe Hendricks.

In and had five children by her. Me married another wife In IXhH, the ceremony being performed iu the Logan Temple by M. C. Kdwnrdson. He has had four hildrt by that wli'e, the oldest of which Is It years and the youngest i.

years. Their mother's was Anna R. Stoddard. "The marriage to my legal wife In 1S01." paid Mr. Merrill, "was solemnized by my father." "Wire ytn: living with Anna R.

Stoddard wh you married the woman you call your local wife?" won asked. "I was. although she had no house. She stayed tho home nf her and her mother and lived with my mother." answered the R.n ess. Cohabiting With Two Wives.

In iinswer to uiiesiloiis from Chairman Ruirows Mr. he now has two whes and lb cohabiting whh both. Sona- lur KoraUer risked the witness: "Is not the woman you married in Isss vour legal "No. sir." Mr. Merrill exolained itiai when he mar- I in I SUN lie hud a wile living nnd that.

he understood that under the laws that I marriage was ih I Icnl and that, therefore 1 his marriage In ivU, after the death of his iirst wife in l'i made his last marriage a legal one, Senator Overman asked for a description of the marriage ceremony in sss and the wltnc declared I hat he could net rcniem-; bee now it wis performed except hat ho weui to lee lemjde in Logan and it was perform' i in response to question hy Sena i or Miihois, Mr. Merrill said that there v.iin im insued, no record, or a ny document a of any ind so i far as he Knew. Ho said there wat no music. I and no oiicsiious Ihat he could reiiM mber. "There wim not hi tig but he marriage eeri'tiieny." said with emphasis.

"Well, i. II us about that," mein- ef Ihe eetlllllitlee demanded. "I eail't It," said ihe witness. "I lo ymi nieji ii lo i hat you do not now he nrdinarv ma rriage cen monv In vour chui ih'" asked Si mttor Hoar severely, "Ye-, I iitiv I hat ns we red he lt- II' SS. "A iid wasn't thai what was he waa I The It ness said it was.

He was told cive the Miihsiniiec nf It. He said ho and li 1 4 wile htood up and j-Ined hands. i "The- nnde mi pi utilise sit me i did inquired S'-iutor Hoar. sir." "Ilui ni; have forgotten what It was," the remark with a "Oh. no I haven't fni(ot ten," said Mr.

M- rrill. Hi then paid H-al he hud pmmlMed io love, and support th" woman, "And did you continue lo cohabit whh her I after yi.ii married ihe vornan you cell your wife? r'haituuiii Ruirows askid. Th' wltii'sK said lie lived with both wlven, but thai they had different homes In Jtleh-! I tah. ulioin a mile apart, "You say you were living with your mother whMi you were married i he second Itne. i Where wh'i your father?" Apostle Merrill, at that time was asked.

Apostle Was in Hiding, "He was on the underground most of the I iuie." sa id he wit ness Jocularly, "What do von menu by "on I he tinder-j yj asked Mr. Wurthlnnton. "He was in hidliiif." "Why was he in hlditu?" asked the chairman. 1 "Heeaiis1 about thai time there were koIiik on for polygamy." Mr, M. r-; nil He said ihat he would not see his lather for a month.

Mr. Merrill said that he taken his lsy wire to bis mother's home occasionally, hut hi; she bad never a vd all niwht (here and that ho far as he knew his father did not know thai he had a wite already when I be was married by hh laiVr to the woman I he calls his I wife, Mr, Merrill said his faiher is mill livin an I is still an ap-1 i of the church but that he i.s very feeble. Dock Not Know How Many Relatives i He Has. In retard to his family. Mr.

Merrill saM lie In-d a lather whh six wives and that he had twiTiIy brut hers and seventeen s-isrere. Hi- wjis linked how many nephews and niceet he had and said be did not know, bm rhoupht there were more than hundred. "My faiher liven wiih his nisi and to ihe home oi my mother probably not than once a month." he said. "Mv irttln-r Is a very buy man." (he witness supplemented. Mr.

Merrill thought three nf bin brothers havti married plural wive and that two ot Taggart said: 'I'm not a candidate, if certain circumstances arise, however, and 1 am asked to servo I'll have to think about It. Nobody ought to be a candidate for that place; It is like a private secretaryship to the candidate for President and be ought to designate the man he wants. Mr. Bryan did that in 1900, when Mr. Jones was made chairman.

Some of my friends wanted me to serve then." Mr. Taggart and Mr. Fanning were In cago on Monday and tbey were visited at th.Mr hotels by a acore or more of Western leadtrs, among them were ex-Mayor Hopkins of Chicago, Mayor ise of Milwaukee and National Committeeman H. H. Smith of Armour, S.

D. N. O. F. Connolly Will Be Found in 'the Darlington Ruins.

Captain Lanlry of the East Fifty-firm street police station said to-day that it Is believed only one man is now missing, whose body be in tho ruins of the Darlluglun Mold al West Forty-sixth street, which collapsed last Wednesday. This man, he said, is John Connolly, 35 years nld, a laborer, of 1.84ti Second avenue, Manhattan. Captain Lnntry euM that he was making a search of all the hospitals to-day lo see if by chance Connolly was In any of them. Th.1 (aptain an well as the searchers at. the ruins said they believed thai if any more bodies arc recovered, there will not be more IImii one, and that will he the body of Connolly.

Henry De B. Parsons, the expert consult Ihk engineer engaged by the District Attorney, was at the ruins this morning. He mid that nothing new had been discovered to show the cause of the disaster. He thouxht thai prc-l-ahly nothing would lie found until the progress of elimination more complete than It is at present. QUIETNESS FOLLOWS LYNCHING.

Springfield "Believes Lesson Was Good for Lawless and Mob Leaders May Escape Punishment. Springfield, March 8 Great crowds today visited the HCine of last night's lym-b-Ins of Richard or Dixon, who had killed Patrolman Colli. At hu court house and residence, which Htfind side by side, ciil.cna gathered and disoitHBed the tragedy. There in pppuruufly no disposition to make an rffuii to dltrover the mob lenders. While the lynching Ih deplored, tho community Is almost a unit in believing the Inwlrss u.iment of the city learned a wholesome lesson.

Mayor 'IiptIoh J. Hovlua did everything possiblt! to uphold the law and Major T. J. Klrkpatriek called Companies and Third Ohio, but it was impossible to get thu io'KPih In tuic to prevent the lynching. Judge ,1.

K. Mower of the Common PUiis Court deeply chagrined over the action of tho mob. He wan making arrangement lo call special Grand Jury to try Dickersrn. EXPECTS NO BALKAN WAR. (unman Envoy Says Powers Have Taken Stern Attitude Toward Bevchilionists.

Paris. March ti Count vim Wnlkensieln Troisbcrn. the Ausirian ambassador, who has jusi retuneil here from Vienna, was iitnoilS lie c.ltlet-Si flu I'liftril Sifili- hassadof i'urt. to-day. The "luil.o- Itlllirrirlnii Hit I lul.

ita iirinK his visit Vienna ihe Austrian ainbasKiidor had an opimi'tiinny iiarn the feeling oil Ihe Hllhjeel ill the llinhesl Hilar lie returned fully satisfied that there mil not be a dlsl urhaiii-e in ihe llalloins this spring, ha lias I Rem-raily iiri'dii'lrd. rhielly lie. -ails' uf tile SI'TII allilll.lc the powers have laki-n toward ihe various revolutionary The ambassador's iew of Id" improwtl rondillon excites llltl'-h interrsl hi illiln. Ilialie ijmtrlers, owliiK lo the ticlti'f tlmt prsi-e in the MalUum rcltevrs Ititssia from i-oiuiilieai Ions in ibai quarter. Srrviii.

Man x- The. Si-rvliin Macedonia Commit iei hdH derided to break oil nil reliitlons wiih the eomm it i in Maendonia nnd HiilKuriti In ennm-ci Inn the Miii-edonin revolutionary movement. FIVE TRAINMEN KILLED. Exnresn Golnc SIxtv Mil. an Hour Meets a Freight.

Birmingham. March The wontli-bound limited express on the Alabama Creat SOUlheril KilllrOIld rUlinitlg PlXtV 11 1 i I a tl collided head on wild a nnrihbr .1 Southern Hallway freight, near Kcwanee, "'TV received here no pflsscnKerM Here killed, hut five lust, their liven, sv eriil wer Injured and purlin of both trains re bunnd. The dead a re P. I'. rk In, ciikI net Henry Rank, colored, fireman; Robinson RIkkk, mall clerk; D.

D. Nicholson, mail clerk; .1. M. express mesNenRcr. Rut mails use the same rack near Ke.

wanee. WORKMAN INSTANTLY KILLED. At 1:10 ihM afternoon John (iiupsky, SI years old. living at Twenty-second si reel and Sixth avenue, was Insta nt killed hv 'a falling Iron shmur from the Rush nare-' house at the foul of l-'ort y--ei-ond siieci, (ifupsky was a employed by Hie Rush Company, find wus helping in raise a bab' of'KOods io the top siory oT the ware-hoiifi'. As the bille was Kcendhn ii caught under the partly open shutter jffir Ii from its hinges, (iltipsky wa struck on the head and his skull eleved( killing him tu-Hia uty.

MARSHALL HAS BROKEN 1MB. (Special to the KaKle.) Alnany. Man Siuaior Marshall Rrooklyu is suf rnig from broken rib. the fa dm not become known until uj-'hi, 1.8 rt; Wednesday ni'ht while on a chair in bin room attempting i rai- transonic, the chair and 11 over it. Though suffering great patn.

h-' chiio up to ihe Capitol on Thursday and conirnisslon'-r of records bill. 11" went imi OIt Thursday afternoon and was a' his depfc again to-day, done up iu plaster of paru. Sympathies, but He Had a Very Lucky Escape. To be arrested as a Japanese spy In Odessa Is no Joke at the present time, but that is Just what happened to Dr. Dnlens of the Sloman liner Pisa, now discharging a cargo from the Black Sea and Levantine ports at the North Central pier, Atlantic dock, where the ship arrived on Saturday.

The Pisa is under charter to the Hamburg-American line, and took from Newport News 18,225 packages of agricultural machinery to the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Hal mini, most of It going to the former. This machinery was sent from here by German importers and is Intended for use in Siberia, consisting almost entirely of harvesting implements. It was while discharging his cargo at Odessa that Dr. Dalens had an experience that nearly turned his hair white. He is a bright young German, of rather sallow complexion and talks no English.

The story of his trouble with the Russian authorities was told to an Eagle reporter this morning on the ship by Captain Feudt. He said: "The doctor Is fond of rambling around strange places and seeing whatever is to be seen. At least, he was until bis experience at Odessa; I am inclined to think he will le more careful In future. He is fond of climbing hills and mountains and while we were lying at Odessa trying to discharge ho had lots of time to rove around. He strolled up the hills and was gazing down upon a fort commanding the harbor.

He was suddenly seized by the neck and on twisting around found himself in the hands of a burly Russian guard, policeman or gendarme. "The Russian screamed his equivalent for 'Japanese while the doctor what it was all about. It was manifest to him that he was a prisoner; there was no doubt about that. The Russian could speak no German and the doctor couldn't talk Runs. There was a deadlock and each glared at the other.

Dr. Dalens Is a slender young fellow, as you see," pointing to the medical officer of the ship, and had no show In a struggle i with the Russian. In some way he made the latter comprehend that he was a German from one of the ships in tho port nnd so the guard hauled him up to a hotel kept by a German, whero after some timo the affair wus eo untangled that the Russian was lan- gled up In another way. He finally agreed the way down the guard slipped and fell. "There was lots of mud around, and when the doctor succeeded In pulling his captor upright ho was a sight, simply a mass of mud.

The captive became cnotor, and towed the luckless Russ down to the ship, where -th -mates to- him in charge, had his clothes scrubbed and himself washed, gave him good dinner, filled him up and sent him on his way "Ho reported the matter next morning, however, to the commandant, and we were called before that official the next day. With the aid of the German consul and myself the tangle was unraveled, but I don't think Dr. Dnlens indulged in any walks around the forts after that experience. In fact, I think he wa. mighty lucky in escaping as well as ne okk in tor Instance, any person found carrying cameras Is arrested, and captains have been glad to get out after an imprisonment of three months.

Travelers are warned by the consuls not to take snapshots, and this holds good in many oilier places in the Far East." Had Dr. Dalens once been confined, it might have taken a long time to get released. It would be no more arbitrary than the course any government would take when engaged in war, Spies around fortifications or doubtful strangers are first locked up and Inquired about afterwards. Dr. Dalens recognizes this fact and is glad to be in New York, instead of some fortress in Odessa.

Captain Fendt says there must have been fully 100 steamships either loading grain or waiting a chance to load while he was 111 the port. There are a couple of small floating elevators, with about one-half tho capacity of those in use here, but as a rule the wheat is dumped on the pier from an overhead railroad and then filled Into sacks and carried on board on men's bucks. As many as 200 or 300 men, chiefly Hebrews, are engaged in one gang at this work. Ho added that discharging or loading is a slow process at the Black Sea ports, owing to tho amount of red tape. Every door, hatch and water tank i salid at 4 o'clock and not reopened tint II or o'clock next morning, so that ihere are actually nol much more than six working hours.

At Baloun there Is an Immense oil business being carried on. Formerly this came to port in tank cars, hut now the oil is piped from the wells. Just as It is here. He said that he beard that another shipload of 20.000 cases of agricultural machinery Is being prepared hero for the Black Sea ports. Captain Fendt believes that when the Russians wake up there Is a great future for the country as a grain producer.

Grain is not well handled there and Is far more mixed with foreign matter than American wheat Is. SICK MAN HANGED HlMSEEF. William Blehl, a German, 32 years old. committed suicide In his room at 146 Mes-crole. street, by banging himself with a rope, whllo in a fit of despondeney due to illneos and lack of employment.

Blehl was a palmer, single, and had been slek for several months past. Ho had frequently been heard to say he would kill himself If he did not recover soon. When he was discovered this morning by some of the tenants in the bonne Dr. Woods of St. Catharine's Hospital was notified and said the man had been dead for several hours.

870,000 FOR FLUSHING ARMORY. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, March 8 Tho Assembly to-da. passed Assemblyman Degroat's bill, appropriating $70,000 for the rebuilding of ihe Flushing armory. This bill has been here for years without getting any favorable action. It is difficult to obtain the consent of the Legislature for an appropriation for an armory in any of the large cities.

FATHER AND SON KILLED. Valden, March 8Wwa reached here yesterday that In a fight between Aaron Stewart and son on one aide, and W. V. Hill and two sons on tho other, tho Stewarts shot and killed W. W.

Hill and his son, John mil, una seiiuum, nounueti Hunter Hill, line. nummary AEBITHATION TREATY RATIFIED. I Madrid, 5 iving Alfonso has signed decrees ratifyi.ifi the arbitration conventions between Spain and Great Britain and Spam and France. Dewer" Part ine anil Jnlr i Ar for your nick nrn B. T.

Lrewcy hvnj IZ6 Vulton 4 Vurfc. Adv. i in Oregon, Washington and Montana. Thomas Taggart of this city, the Deiuo cratic National Committeeman, began the anti-Cleveland movement last Thursday by collecting the opinions of forty of the most prominent Democratic party men In Indiana, thirty-eight of whom were opposed to Mr. Cleveland, and publishing them In tho Indianapolis Sentinel.

As soon as this broadside was fired, the state committeemen and district organizers fell Into Hue against Mr. Cleveland. These men Include W. H. O'Brien of Lawrenceburg, chairman of the State Committee; Joseph T.

Fanning of Indianapolis, chairman of tho District Committee; Mr. Faulkner of Michigan City, ex-Congressman Benjamin F. Shlvely of South Bend and many other Democrats of rorce and reliability as Inside party workers. Mr. Tnggart's leartoishlp of tho Indiana Democracy is undisputed.

Mr. Fanning, his chief lieutenant is recognized as one of the best organizers the West. Mr. O'Brien, as chairman of the state committee, has already got 60 per cent, of the Indiana counties organized for the presidential cam-tialen. The ln.lluiin machine In Hnlil to he In the cumlltlon In It" history.

And II minltprnlil iiseil lo Mr. Cleveland. It" It'll nl linn were Invtnrd Chief Alton II. I'nrker. month nun, Mr.

Tniucnrt iIi-i-IIiicm lo imiiiiihII hlniNPir now. Iioirevcr, he ttnyM Hint In-dlnnn prc-fi-r. liofore foiiimltlliitf II-hcH (o any c-unilldiue lo nnult the tarn of evrntN In other tatrn. Mr. Taggart is a very great friend of Mr.

Hill and his relations with Senator Gorman are cordial. More than a year ago he said some pleasant words of Mr. Hill In discussing the presidential nominal ion. Taggart JorHill 6r Gormun. It Is In Indiana considered likely that If the responsibility of selecting the candidate were to be thrown on yir.

Taggart he would select Mr. Hill, with Mr. Gorman as his second choice. Judge Parker was believed a month ago to have supplanted Messrs. Hill and Gorman at the top of the Mr.

Tng gart's list of availables. His inlimale friends believe that the New ork jurist will turn out to be his preference upon tho theory that neither Mr. Hill nor Mr. Gorman Is a candidate for President, and that both are promoting in their different ways the judge's Interests. The Indiana leaders to whose advice Mr.

Taggart usually listens are nearly alt favorable to Judge Parker on the ground that his nomination could not reasonably be resented by cither the Bryan or Cleveland wings of the party In their state. To explain the modification of the Indiana attitude toward Parker, certain Indianapolis Democrats have suggested that II is not desirable to widen the breach which Mr. Hill has already made in New York between the Parker and Cleveland Democrats. For that reason they say the Cleveland fight in West will not be made under Park standard, but under the standard of Mr. i Mill, and Mr.

Rorinnn nnd Williams of! Illinois, and Mr. Wall of Wisconsin. In Illinois the conservatives intend, it is said here, lo Instruct the delegation for Mr. I Williams and in Wisconsin for Mr. Wall.

While Mr. Cleveland is the special object of machine antagonism in Inilana and pn.b-! ably would not receive the Indiana vote In Ihe convention even It' Charles I1. Murphy I succeeded 111 laklm; the New York delega-jtlon to St. I.oitis for him. there is nevertheless a strong undercurrent of sent intent in the state lor him.

Rut two Democrats i have carried Indiana since 1S72. Mr. Tllden 1 curried It by plurality In 1S7U. Mr. Cleveland carried it twice by (U12 In l.l and by in Wi2.

Mr. Bryan drove the state into Republicanism In by IX, 1M votes, in VMM hy 20.470 votes. The Itepub- I i Hcans won In Ihe election of Secretary! i of Stale by 35,554. To many Indiana Demo- era IB I ho hp fiuroi; spook olofjmmly in Mr. Cleveland's hohalf.

But the Rryrni Demo- I rraia of Indiana hflvo considerable strength ..1.11. Iha lr.ailt.ru rlr. nnl 1... I in the party If Mr. Cleveland Is the nominee.

No Show for th Radicals. 11 Is itot considered likely here thiit In i dlanfl ran be cnllrrd Into tho radical camp. The Democratic loader are anxious to win They are opposed Io Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst.

They believe that, with a eoiiHerva-1 tlvi platform and a candidate who will et the, conservative votes they can carry the I slate. Mr. aU: "Conditions arc more favorable for Deino-i cratic hucccsb In Indiana Hum they have since lHtt'2. Tho Republican party Is not united and will not. net cut 'nun last it.

for ('resident Roosevelt. We nee uctilou the Mtnlr oruaiilF-pi! In uooil nlmpe for mi uuitrMNi vr ffiitiiiiiluti ih lc will win It wr iioiiitiiiilt' ii in nn Im Iiiim th. mi nil tie ne of I lie people iitnl ulm 1 i 1 1 not re 1 i' I be I roulilen of i he ihm. i lie enmllriitle mtit lie moiiiiiI.I Hfeotm, i rnwt vt oit mini, mill iiiiinI lnive McliHllile. iHinttieMnMUe pint form tit nt MiitlMfy Ihe people of the I fltnle.

i Indiana Democrat:) do no: favor a re-; afflrmat ion of the Kanpua Ci; phi if or ru. Indiana Democrats desire a platform of live new issues, ubroasi of the times and haviitR nothing to do with dead Issues. 'J hey Hre i not concerning themselves with dead isKir-s. There is no monetary issue rhi year. It si tiled, so far as frer- silver is and tl not In Ihe domain of present -day policies.

There are plenty of Ihhuch of vital i concern to the people upon which the party! can take a strong and popular stand against! thr H'ptiblieann. What these issues shall be will be a question upon which the wohle 1 I i I I i.