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1 corr rr; MAR OOMOKtlk MAR. 1904 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE I OOP FOUR O'CLOCK. FntrM it be nmrr at UnwUrn, ll. brtuitd litaa lUii lifttfa-r, uuUrr Ait 4 JhUitfa i ifT NEW YORK. FRIDAY.

MARCH 2 1901. VOL. 05. SO. 81.

21 PAGES. THREE CENTS. THE PANASIAN TROOPS DISBAND. aging botn engines and wrecking a number of cars. No one was killed.

ST. LOCAL WEATHKR PROBABILITIES. Showers and warmer -nishi Satar. and nrol.alilr taaailrrntornia. followed br rlrtrlx and rolderi in-rreaalas east to south winds, shilling; to weaterlr.

GIRL OF 8 LOST If! 1831 AWAITED BT HER PARENTS BULLET IN HIS STORM IN WEST WITH BIS CASUALTY LIST Half a Dozen Killed and 100 Injured Around Chicago by Wind. FLOODS AND BLIZZARDS, TOO. Record Kise of Waters in Michigan and Several Feet of Snow in the Northwest. Chicago, March 23 Reports to-day from the storm swept area in and about Chicago indicate that the havoc wrought is even greater than at first believed. The property loss from the wind, which was ot a tornado character in several districts, was augmented later by heightened floods.

There were hal a dozen fatalities and fully 100 injured around this city. In Dauphin Park and vicinity the water has risen until the first floors of many houses arc submerged and families are fleeing in panlo boats. Business in thiV-n is suspended and schools he saving of life and relict of BulrWruTfbetng given the first attention. The freight car shops of the Nickel Plate Railroad were the center of a miniature tornado. The large building used as repair shops was partly wrecked, the roof being hurled against an adjoining building.

About the shops were a large number of freight cars. Many of these were thrown from the tracks while others were unroofed. In Washington Heights several persons were injured and houses were blown down or unroofed. In Morgan Park and Fern-wood the storm reached tornado proportions. Five houses were unroofed, another blown from its foundations and miles of telephone and telegraph poles were blown down.

Twisted telegraph wires blocked the Rock Island and Pan-Handle Railway tracks. Sidewalks were wrenched from their places and thousands of yards of fences scattered through the streets. Among the injured in Washington Heights was Mrs. S. Scharpier, who was badly cut by flying glass.

The families of Peter Mellen and Mrs. R. Ray had narrow escapes. Mrs. Mellen and her daughters were in bed when the storm Btruck.

In an instant the root was carried away and the terrilicd women were drenched by the rain. The Ray cottage was 200 feet away. Mrs. Ray and several friends were in the parlor when the roof of the Mellen house crashed upon their dwelling, wrecking the upper story. A number of other houses and stores were badly damaged.

Traffic on the Calumet Electric Street Railway and the Chicago Electric Traction Company, operating between Blue Island and Auburn Park, was tied up for hours. Almost every house in Burnside was aged in the storm. Chimneys were blown down, roofs torn away, and there was scarcely an unbroken window left in the sub urb. No one wan the. nolieo wero able to learn.

In South Chicago the storm continued through tho night, sweeping down telegraph poles and flooding a part of the town. Fred Brunk and his wife, Rebecca, wero severely injured when the roof of their dwelling was blown off. Both were struck By bricks. At Seventy-fll'th street and Railroad avenue the wind blew the roof from a building occupied by Brown coal dealers and hurled it against a car on the Calumet electric lino, filled with passengers. The car was knocked from the track.

None of the passengers was injured seriously. In Dauphin Park tho Illinois Central sta tion platform and roof were torn up by the wind and thrown across the track, stopping traffic for some time. The situation there 1b serious. Many acres of land are under several feet of water and sidewalks in the south end of the town are submerged. Last night's storm added materially to the gravity of the situaiion.

The total damage there Is put at The wind put an end to the Rogers Park street car service in North Clark street. Between Devon and Greenleaf avenues fallen trolley and arolight poles and tangled and broken wires stopped all traffic and caused the calling of policemen and firemen to prevent fatalities. Throughout Lake View considerable damage was done by wind and rain. In Evanston tho wind blew down a num ber of trees and trolley poles, and all traf fic was suspended until the wrecking cars could string temporary wires. Tho business part of East Chicago was flooded, and much damage from wind and water is reported in the residence portion of the town.

Communication by wire with the affected points is badly crippled, and tiolley lines are practically tied up. The path of the storm described a curve, bending inland from the lake shore and leaving the heart of the city uninjured, compared to the damage which was wrought in the outskirts. From the district in which Evanston is situated the etorm ewept down to Rogers Park, thence inshore among the Tiosplaines River suburbs, south through Thornton and Chicago Heights, bending back toward the lake with the Calumet Valley and brushing every village from Blue Island to Chicago with destructive force. Then it blew through Hammond to Indiana Harbor, where tho loss of life and property was greater than at any other point. In Thornton, 111., the station of the Chi enso and Eastern Illinois Railroad was unroofed.

The German Lutheran Church was Ilfied into the air and crashed into an ad joining lot, twisting entirely out of shape. Great Damage Around St. Louis. East St. Louis, 111., March 25 Tho wind unci rain storm that swept over here lnat niht caused a large amount of properly damage, injured many persons and seriously crippled the local and interurban street car traffic, but no fatalities have been reported.

An old landmark, known as tho Custom Mills, occupied as a boarding House by a doz en miners, was blown down. The occupants esciped with bruises. The homo of Thilip Riplipcer was overturned and Riplingnr and his ix children were rescued from the dehris. All were bruised. At the aluminum works of tho Pittsburg Reduction Company, one building, contaln- was aemoiisned and tile dec trie lii-'ht plant was badly damaged.

The entire west wall and part of the roof of the Suburban Railway sub-station were demolished. I'lunK stflewniKs were blown away, telegraph and telephone poles broken olT and all over the city homes were Traced. I.r.sansport, March 23 A fierce electrical and wind storm passed over this city List night, doing great damage to business houses and residences. The wires of the electric car lines and the telegraph and tele phone wires were mown down. me Pennsylvania tracks are washed away in Crown IMhit.

Ionia. Mich, March 23 This city In darkness last night, tho electric light plant hi'vinK been abandoned on account of fl iod. Tenants in Bayard Flats were forced to flee from their homes in boats. The wasnn works was forced to shut down last night. i Tierce Blizzard and Heavy.

Snow Fall. Winnipeg. March 25 A fierce jnrd Is raging throughout Manitoba and the Northwest. The Bnow Is driven hy a high northwest wind and trails are In bad shape. ijnllwnvs are also blocked.

The Canadian Pacific trains are late and branch lines are snowed up. The Assizo Court in Brandon wa postponed until the weather moderates. Two Canadian Pacific trains collided in the yards during tno storm, Dauly dam Grand Forks. X. Mareh 55 Rennrta from northern North Dakota.

Montana and Canada, say the worst storm of the winter is raging. Snow fell all day yesterday In the northwest part of this state. Minot reports a snowfall of two feet, and Langdon an equal amount. Culhertson. Montana, re ports snow drifts from five to ten feet deep.

HEAVY FLOODS IN MICHIGAN. Grand Rapids, Lansing and Battle Creek Are Experiencing Record Rise of Waters. Grand Rapids, March 25 The flocd situation is serious here to-day. Owing to the rapid riae of Grand River, which is now three inches above the high water mark ot three years ago, forty large factories have been obliged to close, and thousands are out of work. Basements of all the larc buildings in the wholesale district are flooded, and the damage is already heavy.

The entire southwest section of the resi dence district is under water, and people are using rails to go about. Three lives have been saved at Wealthy avenue. A nan, who came floating down the river on a timber, was hauled ashore, and two boys were taken from a drifting cake of ice. The Lake Shore Railway bridge has gone out. The other bridges are in danger.

Towns further up Grand River report un precedented floods. In Lowell one-third of the town is under water. Tile Grand and Flat rWers are so swollen that they meet in Main street, one mile from their regular confluence. The trestle work of tho Pere Marquette Bridge is under water, and the old bridge Is so weakened that it is prob that traffic will have to be suspended over the Saginaw division until the water recedes. Portland reports that the greater part of the electric light dam there has been washed away.

The city will be left in darkness. Through traffic on the Detroit branch ot the Pere Marquette has been checked by a washout of 80 rods of track near Portland. The west side of the town is under water, and many people have been rescued by boats. In Lyons the water is three feet deep In the village streets, and Wagar's electric plant has gone out. Lansing, March 2a The Grand River has reached the highest point in its history here, and the flood has caused heavy damage.

The water has overflowed for two blocks to the westward of the river, and the lowlands on tho east side of the stream are all flooded. Tho Lake Shore Railroad viaduct Is under three feet of rushing water, and all trains are delayed. The Kalamazoo street bridge went 'out last night, floating down and bringing up against the Michigan avenue bridge, which was not injured. Casoieno floating down on tho flood from a leaking tank ran into the boiler fires at the Gates and Edmonds gas engine plant, resulting in a fire that gutted the plant. The loss is $20,000.

Two other fires along ho river were caused by slaking lime. At all three the firemen fought tho flames In water waist deep. Battle Creek. March 23 Flood con ditions here as a result of the unprecedented rise of the Kalamazoo River and Battle Creek, both of which run through the town, are the most serious In the history of tho city. All streets cars are stopped by the high water.

The three depots, tho Grand Trunk, Michigan Central and Detroit, Toledo and Muskegon are surrounded by water and one of the three bridges connecting tho bur-i-noss and residence sections of the city has gone out. The water is now within a few Inches of the Jefterson avenue north bridge-. Owners of uptown stores are moving their stocks out of the basements and lower-floors while many of the down town stores are already flooded and their owners are getting about in the district with boats. It is feared that the rivers will continuo overflowing until the two streams meet. There is much danger of buildings along the river, built on foundations of piles, going out with the flood.

Several small bridges over the creek went out in the night. Niies, March 25 An extra westbound Michigan Central freight train was wrecked four miles west of here by a washout. The engineer, Edward French, and a brakeman, Frank E. Young of Jackson, wove scalded to death In the engine by- escaping steam. The firemen, Ross Moses, of Jackson, was terribly scalded and may die.

Ten freight cars were demolished. After 1" o'elook to-morrow morning: the telephone nnmlier of the Brooklyn llnlly EnRlc, nil department, will he G2II0 Main. $3,297.86 FOR KELLY'S WIDOW. Mayor Turns Over Fund Raised by Citizens of Baltimore in Memory of Brooklyn Fireman. Mayor McClellan this morning turned over to the Knickerbocker Trust Company the sum of $3,297.86, that being the total sum of money raised by citizens of Baltimore and others for the widow of Fireman Knrk Kelly, of 582 Ovington avenue, Brooklyn.

Kelly was one ot the New York Bremen who went to Baltimore during the recent big fire there. He caught a cold which developed Into pneumonia and was the cause qf his death. The money was to have been turned over this morning to the widow, Mrs. Catharine Kelly, but sho sent a letter to tho mayor asking him to turn the fund over to the Trust Company. At her request he named H.

B. Walmsloy as trustee in- charge of the fund. OVERCOME BY GAS. Frank Lees, 20 years old, of 410 Withers street; Peter Rolf, 32 years, of 170 Union avenue; Tony Koff, 30 years, of 231 Second street, laborers working on a gas main at the corner of Clinton and Nostrand avenues, were overcome by escaping gas at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. They were dragged out of the excavation In which they were working by companions and were attended by Ambulance Surgeon Staenvethy of St.

Mary'B Hospital. They were able to proceed home without assistance. EXPECT FLOOD ON HUDSON. Saratoga, March 25 Mild weather and sunshine have again set in motion the surface waters in the lower Adirondaeks, where an Immense body of snow Is being lowered by the melting conditions. A continuance of the present will precipitate a freshet in the upper Hudson Hiver Valley.

HOLLAND TO GET RUSSIAN SPACE. St. Louis, March 25 It has been announced that the space originally allotted to Russia for a national pavilion at the World Fair has been awarded to Holland, upon the request of Commissioner General Gcrritt H. Ten-broeck. MAB.INE TEIED SUICIDE.

J. J. Farrell, a marine at the Navy Yard, attempted suiefdo on Wednesday by hanging himself from the door of his cell. He was awaiting court martial on a charge of desertion. Ho was cut down just In time.

Tho news was not made public until to-day. WSMEN'S FALLS WEBE FATAL. Margaret Rcilly, 38 years old, of 18 Cedar street di'j to-day from the effects of a fall. Amelia Rind. 54 years old, of 19(3 Boerum street died to-day from the effects of a fall from a ladder.

Clynla Table Wntern-Purntand Bt. 5 sal, Mc: half cat. 40c. 30 Clinton t. Tol.

4218 Main. AdT. V. k-' AU Republic to Navy and Depend on Oh Skt'alion of Soldiers. 4)y recent decrees the second batuBea of Pmiaman troops on the Isthmus Is distended, leaving only one bat talion undtT am, snd the vessels lorni-1 log the Parwmun navy are offered for sale.

Owin to the recent fire in Bocas Toro. I the four govenruent secretaries have been -sent there by President Amador to study' the mi ns to taken to repair the damages sustain by the town. Tin sailed from Colon lust right, taking with them some relief supplies for the Inhabitants. President Amador vesterdav cave a ban quet for Second Vice obal.lia. William" W.

Hii-sell. the retiring secretary. of the I'nlted States legation, and now min- istcr to Colombia: Colonel J. R. Sluler.

tin-! superintendent of the Panama Kailroad Company, Senor Arango and other prominent persons. The Legislative Assembly adjourned yesterday afternoon. Colon, March 25 The Newark (flagship of Rear Admiral Slgsber-i. Montgomery and Detroit of the Atlantic squadron arrived here yesterday. The Olympta (flagship of Rear Admiral Coghlant, Castine and Newport of tho Carib bean squadron and two torpedo boat de stroyers left Colon bound.

yesterday, homeward After lo o'clock tn-mnrroiT mnrnlnjt the telephone Ittuiihrr of the Brooklyn Dully KiikIc, ull ileiiiirltiientN. Mill lie UUU Main. AGED MAS KILLED BY GAS. George Burghard, 78 years old, well known at one time as the proprietor of a restaurant at 5 Frankfort street, Manhattan, was found dead this morning in his room at the homo of his son-ln-Kw, Ralph Linkiewirz, In a third floor apar.ment at 3 West One Hundred and First street. Ho had been asphyxiated by gas and Coroner Scholor, after making an investigation, declared that the death was due to accident.

ARRESTED AT THE ALTAR. Riverhead Polish Merchant Violated Compulsory Education Law and Was Haled to Court From Church. (Speclal to the Eagle.) Riverhead. L. March 25 While assisting at a service in the Polish Roman Catholic Church here, this morning, Joseph M.

Victoria, a polish merchant, was arrested by Constable L'Hommedieu on a chargo preferred by tho Board of Education that ho refused to send a boy in his care to school. Victoria was arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Buckingham. To-day Is one of tho Polish feast days, known as Annunciation Day, and the Rev. Father Wllk, in charge of tho church here, was conducting the usual services. Victoria took the place of an absent altar boy, and was assisting the priest.

The arrest caused a little commotion at first, but Victoria immediately went out of the church peaceably and the service was not interrupted. Victoria promised to send the boy to school at once, and sentence was suspended. READY FOR THE FIGHT. Corbett Rules a Slight the Mill Against Britt To-night. Ran Francisco, March 23 "Young Corbett" and Jimmy Brltt meet to-night.

Bolh men will bo in the best possible condition for what Is expected to prove one of the most sensational fights between lightweights ever waged in America. The men will fight straight Marquis ol I I i.tt1nu llnth tnon nuKtti.rl r.nii't dav. although Corbett did some light work during the morning. The betting has bmi brisk, each boxer having many friends and admirers. The heaviest money is behind toe Denver boy.

with the odds as a rule 10 to B. A good deal ot Eastern money has oca coming inlo town, most of it from friends of Corbett, but Ihey arc asking 8 to 10 in utust cases. The house has been ull sold out and it Is calculated that tho proceeds will amount to tully It is estimated that 5,000 pi'op'o will be turned away, the accommodations at Woodward's Pavilion being limited. "Spider" Kelly will be behind Llitt when ho enters (ho ring, with Harry Tut hill and Tim Metlrath In Cornell's corner. Eddie Graney will referee the contest.

COUNT BONI MAKES A SCENE. His Objection to Loubet Visiting Rome Snowed Under in Paris. Purls, March 25 Count lion 1 do Castellane (Repub'ican) created a scene In the Chamber of Deputies to-day. When Foreign Minister! Deleasse asked for a credit of Jfi.oun to defray the expenses of President Loubel's visit to i Home the count said it was understood that! the President would not visit tho Popo and yet would visit the representative ot the dynasty that bad H.oliatcd the papacy. Ilrissoti, president of the House, Interrupted the speaker, declaring that his words wero an insult to the French nation.

Amid great, disorder the Count continued speaking. Ho asserted that Loubel's visit was to ho made to a king who owed his throne to Freemasonry. In seeking tho I friendship nl luily, tho speaker added,) France wan sacrificing the friendship of tho I Vatican. Several replied to the! count. Deleasse, in supporting the credit, made a significant allusion In the Franco-Russian! alliance, which brought out.

much enthusl- asm. He said Loubel's trip to Koine was another evidence of Hie rapprochement be- i tween nations. I he Foreign Minister did not reply to the criticisms of Count Itonl, and the credit was voted by an overwhelming majority. REBEL GENERAL EXECUTED. Mar.

Responsible for Killing of Yankee Naval Machinist Is Dead. Wnfihingtnn, March 2 I'nlted States Minister Powell cables the State Department from San f'liy, under yesterday's date, that I has captured nnd cauHe.j to lie promptly executed General Niche Arias, the Insurgent leader, who was ttt ed by druuiheni court, martin and convicted of killing Machinist Johnson In the Hteum launch of the Cnlted State Bteanter Yankee a few weeks ago. ECUADOR MOSQUITO CRUSADE. Guayaquil, Ecuador, March 25 An ac'lve campaign against the Rpretid of yellow fever asd malaria, Involving the destruction of mosquitoes, has been started here as the result of sueg'-sttons of Dr. Grtiver, the resident officer of tho I'nlted Stiit.s Marine Hospital Service.

The municipality Is printing thousands of pamphlets, general distribution, embodying Hit. p-nuhitlons of the Stati a Marine Service for the prevention of the spread of yellow fever. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Washington. March 23 The President today to ibn Senate the following nomi-ntitions: I'nlted Stales Attorney for tho Northern District of New York- n.

Curtlss. Secretary of leut Ion 'harl Dunning White, Now Jersey, at liueuos Ayres, Argen. tine Republic. Postmasters New York: Charles P. Barnts, Brighton.

IS BID OF ESTIMATE. Littleton Alone Stood for Having City Pay All the Cost of Improvement. JHIS PLAN WAS VOTED DOWN. ri.HU WHO VUltU lUVVrt. But Majority Favored the Widening if One-third cf Expense Vas to Fall on Neighborhood.

The Board of Estimate this morning, almost unanimously, voted dovvu a resolution of BorouKh President Littleton irovuling for the acquiring of the land required for thi widening of Livingston street, between Court street and Flatbush avenue, with the understanding that the cliy was to bear the whole of the expense of the iiiiiToveuient. Borough President Littleton woa the only one who voted for the resolution. It seemed as if the Borough Presid-nt nia-lo a tactical mistukc in dealing with the proposition before tho Board of Alderman. liven while the board was considering the resolution providing that the city bear the entire expense of the Improvement Borough President Ahearn of Manhattan offered to propose an amendment stipulating that the property owners In tho immediate area of assessment who would be benefited by the Improvement of Livingston street should bear one-third of the cost and tho city two-thirds. If such an amendment had been offered there was hardly any doubt that it would have been adopted, as not only Borough President Ahearn, who favored the widening, but also Controller Grout would have voted for it.

Borough President Littleton, however, declined the good olilccs of the Borough President of Manhattan, asserting that he would not vote any resolution to put any of the cost of the improvement, aside from Its proportionate share, on the property owners in tho area of assessment of the proposed Improvement. Alter the Board of Estimate had voted down the resolution of Mr. Littleton Controller Grout left his seat In toe board anil came over lo Mr. Littletun ami urged him to bring the matter again before thu local board ot th Heights district and havo that board pass a resolution providing that the Livingston street properly owners pay one-third of the cost of widening the thoroughfare, and the city the remaining two-thirds. Borough President Littleton, however, would not say what he would do.

Tho Hoard of Estimate gave a hearing on tho resolution of the local board of the Heights district recommending tho acquisition of the property for the Livingston street wmening, with ine proviso tnat the expou! of the Improvement shall be assessed on the whole of the city or on ilie borougiis ot Manhattan and Brooklyn, and not ou any particular locality. Joseph A. Burr, former corporation counsel of Brooklyn, appeared for the owners of property on Livingston street who are opposed to tha widcuiiig altogether, Nelson B. Klllmer for those who favor the widening provided the cost is assessed on the city at urge, while former Assistant CorporatSatl Counsel- Willlum J. Carr appeared for UMM who favor tho widening generally.

Just before the hearing opened, the members of the hoard had an Informal discussion of the proposition, In tho course uf which the question was raised of the legality of a resolution of tho local board of tho character of that dealing with the Livingston street widening. Controller Grout was of tho opinion that the recommendation for tho acquisition of the property for the widening 8liould be independent of that providing for an assessment upon the city at largo for tho cost of the improvement. Borough President Littleton declared that he could not. vote for any resolution providing for the widening of Livingston street wiili.li did not contain the condition that the coHt was to he borne by the whole city. "I think it will be demonstrated," said the Borough President, "that the mutter ought to bo dealt with as a transportation problem and not as a purely street opening proposi- President Form's of the Hoard of Aldermen said he was not prepared to stiy whether or not he would vote for the Improvement if the cost was lo be assessed up in the city.

Then, after sonic further discussion, McClellan onened the hearing. Mr. llurr spoke llr.it, outlining the history of the movement for the widening of Livingston srreet and nliiting tile asons for the opiiosiiioii of his clients to the Improvement. Mr. llurr dii-hm-d that the petition presented id Borough President Littleton In the beginning nf the present year contained the names of men who ure not residents of street, who own no property there, ami many of whom, as a matter of fact, live In other purls of the borough.

Duo why the property owners bo repn seined did not want the liiipcoveinetu, suid Mr. Mu i r. is that they think there Is an utter absence of utility in it. If the street is Mr. Burr said, it will In Kin nowlure end nowhere, so fur n-lievinir ton on Fulton street Is concerned.

Tile relief that, is being sought will be ol.toitii-.l l-'hitbuak iive-mi" is the SJM ilil' uecllrod. "If the street is widened to Ml Vet," said -Mr. llurr. "It will tail to accof qillfll an y-liiiriK, first, lt- ansi- will not. fv-rii thru he tiijliiciwiily wvU-, nd, si-i-onit, b'caust' it will nuTfly transfr tin point of uod-gcHtinn." Mr.

llurr that tin- viuninii of LivinpH'on stu'i-i iiPTdy mi wHw? that in ultimately to the witl-cniiiK f-f Court mpTi, ami IT to tho former Improvi'inent is a'Mrl the cost of tht- Hfcond tho cxp-tnlli ure for hot will hi' Id tho luhborhood uf between, and Grout nslint Mr. llurr if thvs Viouiil not he some local benefit. Mr. llurr lep'i'd that tiu niily persons who would bj benefited lire those who own property on thu north side of the street, but the benefit to 11. public Jit l-irpe would be very hliRht.

"Of what aecounl Ik NivmtfMnn hi reef, ua-n pent-1, unwid' ird asked ItoroitKh I're-l-dent Littleton. "Is any parallel hroiiKhfare to l-'ullon street, throusi whi It tratlh' may K't. thrown!) wlibh lire enirlnes may be hcM 7 Is the sireet of any at all a'-: hi laid out now?" Mr, Mu rr replied that AMantfe avenue nn- 'verfl Oh purpose to whit it was pt oimK-d to put Livingston street if the thoroughfare ere widened. "Yet' n't form traflle where ra fhe baa no lm Dilation to fro," declared Mr. Hurr.

"The neople did not want Atlantic avenue, ni whi nvenue opened they will not want to une Livingston, str'-et." Controller Grout replied that, through ravt to Manhattan niiirbt he sent through atreet were it widened, whieh is an odvantRc In Itself. N'eioon H. Klllmer read a Iouk typewritten Rtatometit KtathiK the position of the property ownert on Livingston Kln-ei, who nb- Ji ft to the. widening of the ui.b'Mfl the city hears the cost. The st-ite-I ment wni, nn Iouk that after Mr.

Milliner bad consumed twentv minutes in readier It, Mayor called him lo order, and called on William J. t'arr io present the arguments of hne who favor the widening, Mr. Curr said that the movement looking to the widening of Livingston street noni tif'een nr ao. It. ban never been amied, sail Mr.

Carr, that the im-' provement is for the benefit of the penplp Ik '-e a 1 oiie. On he coin rary it hn. I-: vavs l- claimed that the widening: of the K.ire.-t Is Koifi? to solve the troublesome transportat ion nrobb ni. Th trouble with all arguments In connection with public improvement proposition BfTnctln(t Ftrooklvn, Mild Mr. Carr.

In tnut they are confined only to the present nnd do KILLED BY A LIVE WIRE. Employe of Edison Light Company Meets Sudden Death. Robert Herbold. 26 years old, of 93S Kent aveLue. an enulcye of the Edison Electric Light Company, was killed at 10:30 o'clock this morning while changing carbons on an ilectric light pole at tho corner ot Wyckoff and Greene avenues.

Herbold had the pole and was in the act of reaching lor a new carbon when his body came in contact with a live wire. He was thrown to the around bv the shock. a aistance of twenty feet. When Dr. Ludwig or the German Hospital, who was summoned, arrived, be fronounced the man dead.

After 10 o'elnek to-morrow mornlns; the telephone number of the Brooklyn Dnlly Knitle all departments, will be UZUO Main. MONEY EOB N. Y. IMPBOVEMENTS. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, March 25 The sundry civil appropriation bill reported to the House today contained the following New York items: I Continuing Improvement to Bay Ridge and' Red Hook channel, 4175.000; continuing Im- provement of Ambrose Channel.

J50.000; en-I larging Governor's Island. removing oDsiructions in jew York Harbor, J73.2U0; widening ferry at Ellis Island, J9.000; dredging channel, new tug, $75,000. "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Note Left by Mrs. Marion Dane, Who Is a Prisoner at Eellevue, Charged With Attempting Suicide. Mrs.

Marion Dane, a prepossessing woman of 29 years, was this morning removed from her home at 324 Sixth street, Manhattan, to Bellevue Hospital, a prisoner, charged with attempting suicide. The woman lived on the second floor of the house with her husband Frederick, a machin ist. Dane returned home from his work unexpectedly this morning, the police say, and after a quarrel With his wife told her he was going to move his furniture out of the place. Dane, the police say, went out to get a wagon, and when he returned a few minutes later found his wife lying on the bed with the end of a gas tube in her mouth. The other end was fastened to a jet and the gas was turned on.

On a table in the room was a note written by the woman which read: "The wages of sin is death." Patrolman Kiefer of the Fifth street station was summoned and he sent for an ambulance from llevue Hospital. NO OFFER YET FROM SULLY. It Mar Be Two or Three Days Before Anything Definite Is Arranged With Creditors. So far as could be learned In Wall street this morning Daniel I. Sully, the bankrupt cotton broker, has up any definite offer, for his creditors.

It seems to be tne disposition on the part of the creditors to permit the committee of five, named yesterday afternoon, to represent them and negotiate with Sully through the receivers. Other creditors are insisting that this committee go ahead and try to arrange a settlement at once. It looks In Wall Street today as if Sully were trying to arrive at a settlement with his creditors, but if such is the case, it will take two or three days before anything definite ia. arrived at. The ginning report ot tho United States Census Bureau was received at the Cotton Exchange at noon and was the basis of an abrupt rise of thirty to forty points on the market.

Counting round bales as half bales tho report put the crop ginned for the year of 11)03-1904 at 10,014,454 bales, an equivalent of bales of 500 pounds each. The estimate is 9,350,472 square bales, round bales and 75.393 sea island crop. PLAINTIFF, THEN DEFENDANT. Young Girl Appears in Court Against Friend and Is Herself Accused of Theft. Minnie Hulnian was defendant this morning in the case in which yesterday Bho appeared as complainant.

The girl is 17 years old and gave her address as 432 Thirty-ninth street. She was accused in tho Butler street court by her late employer, Mrs. Hannah Rosenthal of 4,705 Third avenue, with stealing a diamond ring valued at $30. Mrs. Rosenthal missed the ring March 10 and asked tho girl, who was working In her house as domestic, if she had seen it.

Mlnnlo at first positively denied any knowledge of tho rinn, but later told an officer of the court that sho did havo It and wore It to a dance. After the diince, she said, sho took homo with her llllmi-r Anderson, a girl who lived in Manhattan. Sho accused this girl of committins; the theft. Magistrate Tlghe discharged the Anderson girl yesterday. Thereupon Mrs.

Rosenthal made a complaint against the Hulnian girl. The case came up to-day and the girl, waiving examination, was hold for the Orand Jury. Magistrate Tighe remamli-d Minnio to tho Wayside Home pending action by the Grand Jury. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS DIVORCED. Light Thrown Upon Social Life in Army Barracks.

Justice Gaynor has confirmed the report of Referee Cromwell G. Macy awarding the plaintiff a decree of absolute divorce In the buit of Captain John W. L. Phillips, U. S.

A afrainst Mrs. Myrtle G. and tho testimony in the case was 31rd under seal in the office of llic County Clerk this morning with the oilier papers. That part of tho papers which is niost Interesting Is tho evidence taken before the reioree, throwing, as it does, upon barracks foeiiil life. Captain Thomas F.

Dwyer, a brother army officer, is named as the co-respondent by Captain Phillips. Captain I'liiUips lives at 9-11 President street, but serving with the Twenty-levcnt'h Infantry, statiom .1 at Fo. Sheridni- Captain Dwytr is now sta tioner! at 'iirt Micning, uui a', mo inno or the happen incs Dwyer and Mrs. band was station which affected Captain Phillips, the hitter's used at PlaUslwrgh, N. Y.

FOUND NEW BORN BABY'S BODY. While pi' ''onl on dump at the corner of Kust New York and Utlca avenues, lo-'lav. Jumes McKay the body of a There were nn rlo' hes on it by which it might bo idtntificd. Pa! second which wns i.lman Laulkner of the Fifty took charge of tho body, sent to the morgue by Coron-r yorl, Ht-mlil's Knator nmlier. March 27.

ri fiiperb nations In color; full I.v ri.nmuH ortlwtH. Kxuiilftto ti-JrmvInK In F'" h' "amlln Garland and Myra Kt-lly- "-ur Despondency Over Loss of Business Motive of Well Known German's Suicide. ENDED LIFE AFTER BIG PARTY. Host Had Sung and Made Merry With Guests Just Before He Fired the Fatal Shot. After a night of merriment, which he spent in entertaining his friends on the occasion of the thirty-sixth anniversary of his birthday, Charles Schoeneman of Knickerbocker avenue and Stockholm street, one ot the best known and most popular Germans in the Bushwlck section, committed suicide by f-hoollng himself in bis saloon less than half an hour after bidding bis friends good night.

Schoeneman was a well known figure in German circles for a number of years and had made many friends. He ran what was known as the Friendship Hall over his saloon on Knickerbocker avenue and the hall was the gathering place for a number of German societies that kept alive some nf the old German customs. Schoeneman was a member of all of them and prospered In his business sufficiently to retire a tew years ago when he took his wife and four children to Germany for a year's visit. They returned a year ago and when Schoeneman found that the new proprietor had failed to keep alive the customs of the hall, he bought the place back again and resumed business. Several of the societies that had formerly met at hie place had gone elsewhere during his absenco from Brooklyn and Schoeneman was unable to induce them to return and this matter seemed to prey on his mind.

A few weeks ago he announced to bis friends that he would soon celebrate his thirty-sixth birthday and intended to give them a good old fashioned German time on that occasion. Last night the invited friends, to the number of 150, assembled in the hall and the night was spent in merrymaking, feasting, singing and dancing. Those present repre-senetd four or five of the societies of which Schoeneman was a member, and as each society entered the hall they serenaded their host and drank to his health in accordance with their custom. Shortly after midnight the guests began to depart, and each society this time sang a parting song, the host joining In and seemingly In the best of spirits. The last ones to leave were Henry Klocker and F.

Frank of the Druiden Liedcrhahn, two personal friends of the suicide. Schoeneman escorted theso men to the door, where a toast was drunk, with another parting song. The host watched his friends go away, and as they turned back to shout a last good night he waved his hand to them and went up stairs to his apartments. After talking with his wife for a few minutes he observed: "Carrie, I must go down stairs. There is something I have forgotten to do." Schoeneman went down stairs through the hall leading to his saloon, and locked the doora.xcw minutes later his wife was startled by tho report of a revolver, and a second shot rang out almost immediately afterward.

Mrs. Schoeneman rushed down stairs into the saloon, but found the door barred. She called to her husband, but receiving no answer broke in the door and found him lying on the floor, dead, with a bullet wound in his head. Her screams aroused somo of her neighbors, and Policeman Donigan of the Hamburg avenue precinct, who heard tho pistol shots, camo running in. When Donigan reached the scene ot the shooting he found Mrs.

Schoeneman lying senseless across the body of her husband. A hurry call was sent to the German Hospital, but Dr. Ludwig, who responded, said death must have been instantaneous. Investigation showed that the dead man had evidently Bred the first shot to try the revolver, as an empty cartridge was found on the floor and bullet was imbedded in tho woodwork of the saloon. The revolver was clutched in the man's hand when he was found by the policeman and had but one empty cartridge in it and the theory is that after firing the first shot he quickly threw out the empty shell and then turned the weapon on himself.

No reason could be given for the act, but it is thought to have been due to despondency owing to lack of former business. The married life of the Schoenemans was said to be most happy. The dead man, beside his wifo, leaves five children, the youngest 6 months old and the eldest 9 years. LID NOT LIFTED HERE. Inspector McLaughlin, Irritated hy Morning Newspaper Stories, Talks to Subordinates, Police Inspector Patrick H.

McLaughlin, who is Incidentally holding down the job of Deputy. Commissioner of Brooklyn just now, uutil Commissioner McAdoo makes up his mind to fill tho vacancy, declared with much emphasis this looming that there was no lift to the "lid'' anywhere in this borough, and he'd stake his official and social and personal reputation on inat. no was iritatel by a story that was published in one of the morning papers, to the effect that the lid had been blown off the seething pot of Infamy, and that all sorts of viciousness, particularly gambling was going on In Brooklyn, just as if thore had been no Low administration. That he was irritated was plain from the fact that he called all ot the Inspectors In the Brooklyn and Queens districts into his private office and gave them a sound talking to. Inspector Kane was called In from Jamaica to hear what McLaughlin had to say and tho Brooklyn inspectors present were Baldwin, Diuhan, Murphy and Wlegand.

"I spoke to them all about what I wanted," said the inspector to an Eagle reporter, after It was all over. "I do not want to have any trouble here in Broklyn and I mean to keep things tightly shut. Not only gambling must cease hut all other kinds of law-breaking. And let me tell you there is less gambling in Brooklyn to-day than there ever was before." FREIGHT DEPOT BURNED. Philadelphia, March 25 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's freight depot at Twenty-ninth and Market streets.

West Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire early to-day, entailing a loss estimated at $35,000. The depot was filled with freight received yesterday afternoon. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defective electric light wire. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE SUCCEEDS. Louis Young, 28 years old, who cut his throat yesterday in his room at 6C6 Third avenue, Manhattan, died this morning In Bellevue Hospital.

Tho man had severed his windpipe and was nearly dead from loss of blood when found by the landlady of the lodging house In which he lived. Young often had threatened to end his life. NO ANGLO-GERMAN PACT. Berlin, March 25 The foreign office says that tho report that Great, Britain proposed an arbitration treaty to Germany In January and that the matter has been under consideration since, that time is unfounded. TnrUIh HnlliK, Clinton St, Alwuys opun: prtvuto room: elcsunce.

comfort, rest Louise Vilbia: Has Been Found Near Syracuse and Will Start for College Point. FATHER ASSERTS KIDNAPPING. But Special to the Eagle Says Louise Has Known Where Her Family Were, All the Long Years. There will be a big family reunion in College Point to-morrow when Louise Vllbig is restored to her parents, after a disappearance of more than ten years. She Is expected home to-night or to-nmrrow, from East Syracuse, whore her sister Matilda has gone to make suru of her identity.

Meanwhile, the family is waiting anxiously for her arrival. The house at Twentieth street and Fifth avenue, College Point, was besieged to-day by neighbors, who carried with them presents for Louise and provisions for tho feast that is to ct-lcbrate tho girl's return. On her eighth birthday, ten year3 ago, Louise disappeared, and has never been seen since by any member of her family. Her father said to-day that she was kidnapped and that he had papers and letters to prove the kidnapping. He declared that she had been held for ransom and that demands for money had been made on him, but he had nono to give.

Two weeks before her eighth birthday, her mother asked her to go to the corner grocery to get some extra delicacies for the day's dinner. The little girl went, but did not return. Her parents made every effort to find her, but failed. She had been gone a week when a woman named Clavey, called at a police station in Hempstead, L. and left Louise, saying she had found the girl wandering in the streets.

Louise was taken homo. Louise told her mother she had been picked up on tho street by a strange man. She gave the naraoa of persons known to her parents, but her father decided It would be best to say nothing about tho matter. A week after her return, Louise disappeared again, while her playmates were helping to celebrate her birthday. Mrs.

Vllbig was sure her daughter had gone to visit Mrs. Smith, in Winfleld, L. I. This Mrs. Smith had been an intimate friend of Mrs.

Vilbig, nnd had such a fancy for Louise that she begged to adopt her. Louise had spent days at a time in the Smith home and was very happy I here. Tho most vigorous search failed to find Louise. It was two yoai-H before there came a letter from a Long Island town in which the little girl told of her life after she disappeared. The parents went to Hempstead and found that Louise had been living there under an assumed name in the family o( a physician.

She had gone before her parents reached Hempstead. Mrs. Vilbig was sure a woman, who lived, near by. her home in Lon.tt; Island City, wat: responsible for tho kidnapping, and her dc-lief was supported by an investigation she tnado in Hempstead. There she learned facts that convinced her that a prominent politician of Long Island City had had a hand in the kidnapping.

No news came from Louise until last Tuesday, her birthday and the tenth anniversary of her disappearance. The letter was dated from 514 Crouno street, Syracuse, and was as follows: "Dear Mamma: "I have been thinking of you always, and would like to see your loving I'aco once more. "I know you would like to see me. Mamma, if you get this letter please answer right back so I know. I am so lonesome without you: I cannot live without you any more.

"Mamma, you may not know who I am. Yet 1 am sure you have not forgotten your wandering daughter, Louise. I write this letter with tears in my eyes. Mamma, if you cannot come please send me your picture. I would like to see your dear face once more.

"How are Mary and Lillian? I hope Ihey have not forgotten who I am and I long for home more than ever. I hope you are all well and happy. I am so lonely I don't know what lo do sometimes. I hope to hear from you soon. Address my letter as above.

Louise Smith is my name." Mrs. Vilbig communicated with Chief Wright of the Syracuse police. The chief set to work and located tho girl In East Syracuse. He wired to Mrs. Vilbig to send some one to Identify Louise and bring her home.

Louise's sister left, for her last William Vllbig the ftirl's father, said to-day he would probably take action to punish the girl's kidnappers. The following special dispatch to the Eagle from Syracuse tells of finding the "111 there: Syracuse. March 25 Louise Smith work-u until a week ago for John V. Whclaii. of the Tnlted Cigar Stores Company.

To his family she never gavo Intimation of any sorrow In her life. She was a domestic when she left. She asked that her mail be forwarded to East Syracuse, a railroad hamlet four lulled from this city. Sho there and got. a New York loiter yesterduv just before Postmaster Kyne received word to apprehend her when sho called for her mall.

He did not know where she was working. Chief Wright wired yesterday -that, ho had located tho girl near Syracuse. Sli" was found by Detective O'llrleti in Hast Syracuse, and will be held there until her sister arrives from Now York. Tlio gli-I Is willing to return, but doe not seem anxious. She has never worked long In one place.

She was located at East when sho called for mull this morninio The girl knew where her parents were, and could have returned at any time had she cared to do so. HERERO FORCE REPULSED. Germans Lose Two Men in a Fight With Rebels. Berlin. March 25 A cable -lUpatch wis received to-day from ColonM Leutweln, the governor of German Southwest Africa, announcing thsjt a fight occuiTr-d at Omatako Mountain, March 11, which resulted In the Hereros bdng repulsed with tho Irws of ten men killed.

The German loss was two men killed and two wounded. The Germans surprised a lierero village, March capturing many hea of Tho region north of Ok lbandja to the River Omuramba Is free Trotn the -nomy. Large numbers of iiowever, havo assembled on the Waterberg, tile Lower Oui-urnmba and tho I'ppor SwaUop. The Estorff column arrival at nk.ihandja yesterday. FAST TIME ONTHE CENTRAL.

Little Kails, N. March 25 Tho Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central Railroad to-day ran the 74 miles from Syracuse to Little Falls In 71 minute, It -eluding a three minute stop at I'tit-a. This Is the fastest time ever made over the Mohawk Division. TWO CHARGED WITH THEFT. Margaret White, 22 years old, and William Welch, 21 years old, were arnnted this afternoon by Detective Sergeants James and Frank Kelly, charged with having melon a gold watch worth $100 from James Cassidy ot 763 Herkimer street.

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