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1904 THE BROOKLYN DAILY AGL APR 1 3C4 FOUR O'CLOCK. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. MARCH liHM. VOL.

03. NO. 90. 22 PACES. Lim Jil fct(tr, audcr the la mt kUrrb THREE CENTS.

CENSUSES BUILDING DEPABT MENT I.O l. Klltlf I'RIIS IBII.ITIKK. Ha In. Milk sad I'rldayi llBhtlv Marmrri fr-ta (v hrlak rant la Mtili i ImiIm. GIG EMPLOYERS OF LABOR TO UNITE FOR PROTECTION JEROME'S THIRD DEGREE FOR L.

I. DEPUTY SHERIFF. IRENE SENT JO BUFFALO BY THE AID OF THETYPOS IS STRICKEN BY DEATH. WASHED FEET OF 12 OLD MEN. I Emperor Francis Joseph Observes Ancient Maundy Thursday Ceiemony.

Vienna. March 31 Etnptrur Framh Jon ph this morning observed the ancient ccr' motiy of washing tbe feet of twelve oltl men in the Crystal ill of tho llofburg. The hall was filled with distinguished personages, unhiding members of the diplomatic corps, th cabinet ministers, military officials and mutt functionaries. The Kmperor. who was In excclb tit h'alth.

asbisted by eight archdukes, prrt.onally wailed on the old men, plating before th- food and drink, which, however, they did not consume then, the refreshments being Immediately removed and later sent to their homes. Tha ceremony ended with the Emperor hanging around the neck of each of the old men a silk purse containing the traditional thirty pieces of silver. The Tnited States were represented at the ceremony by Ambassador Siorer and Mrs. Storer. Captain F.

W. Harris, the military attnehe; Secretary Hale and Mrs. Hale, Second Secretary Rives and Miss Dieht. r. CLAUSS MUST PAY WIFE $30,000.

Supreme Court Justice Truex. In Mnn-tauan, to-day signed a final decree nf absolute divorce in favor of Louisa K. Clauss, from John H. Clauss. The decree directs tlu; tne husband must pay his v.io 5j0.0"0 in lieu of dower and other rights In hie estate, and he can pay uer at the rate of H.GOi) per year If he ro choose.

Mrs. Clauss also authorized to resume her intideu name, but. what that noma is tne decree dees not stele. BIG TRUST COMPANY ASSIGNS. Cleveland Concern, rippled by a Disappearing Official, Merges With Another.

Cleveland. March 31 The Federal Trust Cutnpany to-day made an assignment to tc Guardian Trust Company. The action Is I slated to have been taken as a result of the disappearance of a prominent official. Reports are In circulation that shortage has been found in the funds of the concern. While no statement has been filed.

It Is understood it will turn over about II. 000. 00(1 in deposits to the Its total assets will be about S3.000.0uu. The Federal Trust Company has a capital stock of SI. 500.00(1.

It has a surplus fund of foO.OOU and about $140,000 undivided profits. According to its last report It had S2.1SS,; 3f2 In loans and discounts, J4S.SD0 real estate loans and owned $720,000 stocks, bonds and mortgages. Hbi Inst statement showed Individual deposits ot $1,593,328, hut ofneinls state Ihe deposits were about $1,000,000 at the close of business lest nlgbi. An agreement was practically reached between the directors of the Federal Trust Company and the Guardian Trust Company several dnys ogo, providing for the merging of the two concerns. The disappearance of the official of the Federal Company, however, precipitated matters, and the directors decided that, an assignment would probably avoid a run on the bank and protect all interests.

boston Trust company fails. Liabilities of Union Concern Are 81,800,000, With Nominal Assets for Same Amount. Iloston. March 31-The Union Trust Company dosed door to-doy. The company was Incorporated In 1S8S.

with a capital of $100,000. The president in former Represen: tatlve William E. Barrett. Mr. Barrett nisi i.i a publisher.

Frederick II. Itoh'-rts is treasurer, and the directors are William 15. Barrett, Charles H. Adams. C.

F. Donnolley. Jame W. lumpily, G. Edward Smith and Gulen R.

Stone. Th a liabilities are placed at Sl.COO.uno, wiih nominal asset's of about the am amount. to heavy wit lulrawals by depositor and the. inability of the management realize At Ihe omce-or 111" savings bank eommls- a oimra It wan Kintnd tha the compnnv hat Couit und that tho applimiion for a perma Hint injunction roturntilile to-niomnv, whnn tho court will be akcl to appcinl a ivpr. I In: or the company fctnin iba! nr.

omi inn will hn mmlo in recrlvprfhlp and that, the company will go; out of husiiiHHs. They Htate ponitively nVpositnr will lose nothing The nompanv I moved into new mari-M last. and made! preparations lo extend tin huinos. hut it )s i that snme of ii ventures, including ano. raiiu-av ft ufl in hit did nft! nrov.

i MURDERER REEVE SUED. I i i Grand Jury Presentment on Hotel Darlington Disaster. The March Grand Jury, which was discharged to-day by Judge Foster in the Court of General Sessions, Manhattan, filed strong presentment as a result of their Investigation of the collapse of the Hotel Darlington, on March 7, last. They censure the Building Department for the method employed by them In the erection of buildings in this city, and recommend that Inspector French be immediately discharged I rem his position as being a person unfit. An explanation Is given why Pole and fiepwandtner, the steel contractors, were not indicted.

A number of recommendations are made in the indictment, a copy of which will be sent to the various city departments. MARTIAL LAW IN FP.ANCE. Paris, March 31 Martial law prevails in the Department of the North owing to the menacing attitude ot the striking textile workers. One hundred and sixteen establishments. Including various cotton, linen and woolen mills, and 12,16 strikers are now involved.

Anticipating an outbreak in Rou-baix. that city occupied by cavalry and Infantry. The main streets were barricaded and several skirmishes between the troops and strikers occurred, but the sternness ot the military crushed tbe main disorder. The strikers, however, continue defiant. it DOZEN GIRLS MAY BE KILLED.

Squib Factory Near Scranton Blows Up and Many Employes Are Burned. Scranton, March 31 A number ot girls employed In the Dickson Squib Manufacturing Company's works in Priceburg, were killed by an explosion to-day. The number killed Is estimated from six to thirteen. Eighteen or twenty girls were employed In the building at the time ot tbe explosion. The cause of the accident is a mystery.

One story Is that one of the girls threw a squib into a stove and the explosion was of sufficient strength to wreck, the building and set the structure on fire. 'The known, dead are: Lizzie Matthews, Olyphant. Lizzie Bray, Priceburg. Bessie Lewie, North Scranton. Callahan, Priceburg.

Callahan, Priceburg (the last two named are sisters). Those fatally burned are Mary Gilgallon, Priceburg; Lizzie Howey, Dickson City; Martha Haybrown, Priceburg; Kezlah Falls, Priceburg; Oscar Ayser, Dickson City. The building was burned down and the flames communicated to two adjoining Lulld-irgs, one a butcher shop and the otker a hotel. Both of these were also destroyed. COAL $5.85 FOR SUMMER.

Forty Cent Reduction; Same as Last A' YearHPealera Organization i Beginning to-morrow the price of coal will be only $5.83 a ton throughout the summer. This-means a reduction of 40 cents a ton. The reduction will be uniform over the country, as it is, a cheapening of price by the miners themselves. The members of (he Brooklyn Coa Exchange have held a meeting in their new headquarters in the Johnston Building, and adopted tho new scale. The meeting was attended by about eighty dealers.

At the same time meetings of other coal dealers were held in other cities, and the new price ratified. "This is exactly the same reduction as was made a year ago," said President Marston, of the Coal Exchange. "There is nothing new about It. Last spring the price was reduced to $5.85 for the summer months. This year the operators have again made the reduction, and coal we have been selling at $6.25 will now be sold for The leading coal dealers in the city are already advertising the cheaper coal.

Last year a great many householders bought, their winters supply of coal at the summer price, but the majority believed that the price would go still lower. When winter came the price went up, and the consumers saw that the operators and dealers were so well or ganized that the price could be fixed, regard less of supply. TOO BAD FOR JUVENILE ASYLUM, Incorrigible Frida Tripp Won't Find Things So Pleasant in House of Refuge. Frida Tripp, 14 years old, who has been an inmate of various correctional institutions since her parents died, a few years ago, wqs committed to the House of Refuge by Justice Wllkins, in the Children's Court this morning, t'ntil a few days ogo, nbe had been in the New York Juvenile Asyiuiu. nut Elizabeth O.

Colburn, the matron, said she was so 'bad that she was ungovernaoie and asked Justice Wilkin to revoke that commitment and send her elsewhere. Tho judge had sent her to Miss Colburn's Institution because the Brooklyn Training School and Home for Girls officials refused to keep her owing to her incorrigibility. At tbe Training School she took a notion to smash things occasionally, and admitted ii.u faults to the judge. She said she was "awfully bad" sometimes and lnughed while tho court questioned her. Inasmuch as the Training School and the Juvenile Asylum could not control her, tho Judge committed her to the House of Refuge, where she will not find things quite as pleasant.

Frlds has been examined twice by physicians to determine her mental condition, and she was declared sane. FITOU UNDER THE KNIFE. Augustus Pltou, the theatrical manager, was to-day operated upon by Dr. R. H.

Gibbons of 68 East Thirty-fourth street, Manhattan. A brother of Dr. Gibbons, when seen refused to say anything about the operation, except that It was being performed. Asked if appendicitis was the cose, the physician's brother, who Is also a physician, refused to either deny or affirm it. SINGER KILLED BY GAS.

J. Harvey Briggs, 40 years old, a professional singer, was found dead In btd this morning In a furnished room house at 229 West Twenty-fifth street, conducted by Mrs. C. H. Lee and patronized principally by theatrical people.

Briggs had been overcome by gas, the Indications being that his sujipca-tlon was accidental. IOWA MINERS STRIKE. Des Moines. March 31 The loaa miners and operators failed to agree and 1.1,-500 miners are on a strike. Every mine In Iowa Is closed.

Over Snndny nl Atlnntio city ts a pnpulHr outins- Thiouch trains vl Ivmijiyt-vania Railroad leave Itrunklyn nt A. M. ami P. M. wenk day.

7:4:, A. M. Suniiaif. t'arlur ears daily, dining car Sundays. Adv.

CHECK WENT ASTHAY. Stroll May Have to Answer a More Serious Charge Than Vagrancy. Harry Stroh, aged 20 years, of 400 Douglass street, was arrested this forenoon by Detective Sergeants Betts and Langan of the head quarters squad and was locked up on a charge of vagrancy. Later Magistrate Furlong, sitting in the Adams street court, sent him to Jail on a short commitment pending rear-ralgnment in court when there may be another charge and a more serious one made against him. Harry was employed in store at 1.1S Fifth avenue, where he held a subordinate position and where he wss generally known as Hen.

On tbe 29th Simon Wise, the manager of the place, drew a cheek for $400 payable to the order of Flegenhelmer and put it in an envelope addressing it to the main store at 267 Kighth avenue, Manhattan. He sent Hen out to mall ii. but the check never reached Its destination. FOUND DEAD IN A SHANTY. In Farrell's Clothing Police Found Over $200 in Cash Was Employed on Caisson Work.

Patrick Farrell. 50 years old. was" found dead In a shanty at the toot ot Washington street this afternoon. Farrell was employed by John D. Bogers, who has the contract for constructing the caisson for the new bridge on this side of the river, but had not been seen lor the past two days.

When found Farrell's body was almost nude and his clothing was scattered around the floor of the shanty. In the clothing was found $260.03 in cash and nearby was a prayerbook. HALF HIS LIFE IN PRISONS. Man Accused of Larceny, Police Say, Has Served Ten Terms, Aggregating Nearly 23 Years. George Thompson, an Englishman, 59 years old, no home who was charged to-day before Magistrate Higginbotham, in the Myrtle Avenue Court, with petty larceny, 1 said to have spent twenty-two years an'd nine months in prison.

Patrolman T. L. Mur-tagh of the Bergen street station arrested Thompson yesterday lor stealing six razors, valued at $10, from Joseph Pllmlr, a barber, ot 233 Fiatbush avenue. Pllmir raug.it Thompson and made hlri Rive up the razors. Thompson, it is said, told Officer Mtirtagh In the presence of Officer Michael Ciuneen that be had been twenty-two years and nine months In prison, and that he had been out of prison just ten weeks.

He said he hnJ served terms In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Islsnd and twice in the Kings County Penitentiary. He closed his remarks by saying; "1 have always been a crook and I'll be nothing but a crook if I get out again." The defendant was held In $500 ball for the Court of Special Sessions. INDIANA FLOODS WORSE. Big Levee Breaks Again and Two Coun- ties Are Under Water, While Citizens Flee.

March 31 -The Belgrade "-vce nas uroneu anuin miiu me vtauusn i rising an inch an hour. Water is standing in the principal streets here. It has been raining hard for nearly twenty-four hours In southern Indiana and a still higher stage of wnter is feared. This county and Lawrence County. ore largely under water.

This being Thursday before Easter people are at- 'ending chinch In boats. In Lawrence County the water is in tho second stones of barns anil houses. In one house forty refugees are living. In one school house twenty-seven women and children are staying, while the men come here in boats for provisions. Water over the and landslides have again stopped rail, road triflic.

The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern tracks are in danger. The Indian-apolis ar.d Vincenucs Railroad has not sent out a train for a week. It Is reported that, a young woman was drowned in Pond's Creek while rescuing bedding from her flooded hout.c. Princeton, March 31 There Is no longer any doubt that the big fill on the, fivansville and Torre Haute Railway In Haleton will go out. Small streams are already going through it.

(irent damage is feared. FRANCES FLYNN MISSING. Sixteen Year Old Girl Has Not Been Seen by Parents Since Saturday Last. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island 'Illy, L. March 31 James Flynn, a Long Island City fireman, is much concerned over (he disappearance of his only daughter.

Frances, 16 years of age, who went out walking Sunday afternoon and has not since returned. A letter was found in the girl's ronir. yesterday afternoon by the mother, addressed to both parents, In which it is said that Frances had married and gone away with an employe of the same factory as thai ia which Frances was employed. Following is a copy of the letter: aii'l l'anH--I am KlnK away with 11. to In I know whether we will R'l to ('Hiuflii 'lewti South, hut will let you know later Kil.

iiml I have been married two months, lion't 1" -li' ve all you hear about ua meeting. tiooil on the public road und talked. We iv. i by a lirleat In (inn of the chur, he in ilieelty lion'l worry for me. I know 1 will li'U'l'V.

1'aiia makes Rood pay and can rilMior! veil all In comfort without my wattes. Tell linn net to tlirhl with mamma. It wan not her fnillt. She never knew Kd. and I were so frten llv.

If lie does tight with mamma we'll ttiei out and set leolle after him. We have arrant," tli.it if he doesn't behave he Rets shifted. If inn to know what Kd. In ask Senator Keeiian Mi. Hewitt or any of the politicians.

wrote to the iiriest of hla home town before I married hi'" "nd found out the family Is a re-sieiiibe one. and I'M. has never before open man led. n- senie claim. The father says that the "Ed" referred to in the leu rr Edward McNally, foreman of the paper mil; department of the works.

The police are making every effort to get at Ihe Tacts In lb'' case. TWO PERSONS MISSING. James Maydcn, used 12 years, has been iioni hi? home at 1.1 Fourth street tire 1 m-ra liitil. lie 11' yt i. iiridgi'i onion, aged n.

years, or Ills Thiid i night not if mi loft home at o'clock Inst to St. Mary's Church. She has home since. ENGINEER ON FAST TRAIN HURT. ('lev Twelll Shor -In I lithe of tie of Hi' ,1 Man pi i ne westbound i Century Limited on the Lake collided with a swlirh engine le.HaiMt yards to-day, resulting In is Injury of Joseph Polite, engineer i.

entieth Century engine. None eimers was hurt. fori Wine and tirHiie fur your nick one un IS Pultun New York. I T. Li Dr.

S. B. Truex Fell Beside Operating Table in Bushwick Central Hospital. DIED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. Other Hfuids Finished Obstetrical Operation He Had Begun His Case Was Heart Disease.

Dr. Stephen B. Truex, a well known physician of the Bedford section, dropped dead early this morning at the operating table in the Bushwick Central Hospital. Dr. Truex had been called to the hospital early In the morning to perform an obstetrical operation and when he had half completed the operation he dropped to the floor and died in a few minutes.

It was shortly after midnight that he was called from his residence. 257A Madison street. He said he expected to perform an operation In the Bushwick Central Hospital. Ae soon as he arrived at that institution he eat down In a chair and said that he did not feel well. He drask a stimulant and then commenced the operation, usy'n which he had made quick and halt finished.

Suddenly he reeled over and fell to the floor beetde the table. Drs. Brown and Harrlinan of the staff of the hospital carried him Into another room and tried every means to revive him. He was able to say that he was suffering from heart trouble and before anything could be done for him he died. While Drs.

Brown and Harrlman attended the physician. Dr. Everson of the hospliel etaff completed the operation upon the patient and her condition was reported to be as well as could be expected this afternoon. Dr. Stephen B.

Truex had been a lecturer and a post gradur.to student in the New York Hospital and be was one of the founders of the Bushwick Central Hospital In 1893, sinco which time he has been a member of the satff of the hospital. He was, a member of many socbtles, Including the Kings County Medical -Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Brooklyn Pathological Society, the Brooklyn.Surglcal Soclty. the State Medical Society and the tata urglcal ociety. V. He was born in Owego, New York, in 1858, and came to Brooklyn when a young man.

He worked for his father during the day and studied in the evenings at He entered the Long Island Medical College and left three times, but finally returned and graduated. Then he established, a large practice in the Bedford section, where he has lived for fourteen years. A short time agd he suffered a slight attack of the grip and since then be has not been wll. It was said at the Bushwick Central Hospital this morning that the attack of heart failure had' been Induced by iverwptk. The funeral services will be held on Saturday evening at his late residence.

2f7. Madison street, 'anoTtho Interment, will be in Greenwood Cemetery. FORMER ACTOR MISSING. Lew Carroll, With Mind Unbalanced by Overwork, Left His Home Yesterday. Mrs.

Lew Carroll of 265 Pacific street called at the Butler street police station last night and told Crtptain Devaney that her husband was missing from home. Mre. Carroll said her husband's mind was unbalanced. Carroll bad been confined in the Kings County Hospital, but, she called on tor am and brought him home. Mrs.

Margaret Kelly of 69 WycUpft brought Carroll's coat and hat to the station house. Mrs. Kelly was standing in the hallway of her houso when a stranger came in. Taking off bis coat and hat he asked her to hold them while he went out to look for his wife. The Cnrrolls are members of tlia theatrical profession.

Kor years Carroll was connected with the Palace Theater In Boston as manager, where he overworked. One of the freaks that possessed him was to go to Europe. He insisted that the people abroad wanted to see him. Mrs. Carroll saiil ishe consented to go abroad with him.

"We were well received satd Mrs. Carroll, "and my husband seemed to be helped by the trip." Carroll, however, steadily failed after lite return to this country. AN ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE? Autopsy to Be Performed "on Body of Mrs. Alberta Tysh, Who Was Killed by Chloroform Liniment. After a conference with Assistant District Attorney Carvan, who last night ordered that an autopsy be performed on the body of Mrs.

Alberta Fysh, who died from the Inhalation of the fumes of chloroform at her home, 021 West One Hundred and Eleventh street, Manhattan, it is expected that Coroner's Physician Schultze will perform the autopsy to-day. After being embalmed last night the body was left in the Fysh which are in the Kendall Court apartment building, and a policeman Is on guard at the place to-day, as is usual In cases where an autopsy has been ordered. Coroner Scholer has expressed himself as uncertain whether the woman's death was due to suicide or accident and it is not thoight that the autopsy will throw any light on this point. Ponce Captain McGlynn and Detective Hawthorne of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station, have completed their Investigation of the case, and Dr. Charles H.

Smith and Undertaker Corson, who reidcred services after Mrs. Fysh's death, say that it was due to accident or suicide. Two empty bottles that had contained chloroform liniment were taken to the coroner's office this morning by Patrolman Will- lam Rooney of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station, with the customary police report, which states that Mrs. Fysh Has "overcome by chloroform liniment which had accidentally fallen from her hand in STONi THROWERS DETECTED. (Speci.l to the Eagle.) Long Islind City, March 31 Lewis S.

and Bayne Thompson discovered this afternoon tre two bojs who threw the stones that struck tho fWe of ihelr chauffeur, resulting In the wrecking of their $12,000 40 horse power Merddes automobile, which the chauffeur, nehg disabled, ran Into a stone wall. Orders Vtave been issued by Captain parcy oi tnc recmct (or tho arrest of the culprits. Closely Guarded Conference at the Waldorf Discusses Ways and Means. MANY INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED No Hostility to Labor Unions, Except Where They Overstep Reasonable Bounds. A conference of tremendous import to the business world was held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday evening.

At it was a representative gathering of large employers. They met to evolve some method of self protection against present and future attacks front labor unions. They adjourned without having attained definite results, but will meet again In three or four weeks, when the matter will again be threshed out and a permanent protective organization formed. The meeting was shrouded with the very greatest secrecy. The call issued enjoined the absolute confidence of every man who was invited to be present.

It was stated In these Invitations that under no circumstances was a word of the conference or of the ends it might reach to escape. The conferrees arrived at the big hotel by all of Its several entrances. They quickly passed upstairs to a small meeting room, well guarded, which had been reserved for their purposes-. Practically, every heavy employer ot labor in this city aud the metropolitan district that surrounds It was represented. The lithographers, who have trouble with striking unionists at tho present lime; the Typothetae, which represents the job and book printing trades; the jewelers, the iron founders, tbe building trades, embracing among them the Mason Builders Association, the Building Materials Dealers Association and the Employers Building Association; the National Jewelers Security Alliance, organizations of small shop keepers, such as butchers and grocers, retail merchants protective organizations, manufacturers associations and even the traction interests and contractors.

A Brooklyn man was chosen chairman of the meeting, which first resolved Itself into a sort of experience recital, where each employer offered Mb testimony. Almost each and every one of these men had the same story to tell. Each of thorn had felt the strength of unionism in some form or other and the experiences only varied in detail. Each wanted some protection, but few of the ideas to gain that protection were alike. Several men advanced rather original ideas for tbe combating ot what they consider a dangerous and a powerful force, and from these Ideas will bo formed at the later meeting an organization which may become the most formidable alliance of employers yet effected.

Its organization and work will, of neces sity, at all times remain confidential. The men who are backing it believe that they can accomplish more in battling with labor i unions in this way than by any other. They I believe, however, that nothing Is, to 'be gained by fighting wrong with wrong, and I for that reason they say that they will earn- estly strive to avoid the methods that they nllege are used against them by their or ganized employes. Naturally enough all of the parties to this conference have been reticent in speaking of It. One of them said to-dfy that tho out- come of the matter was audi that, the entire project was still in a very I nebular state.

We do not want to deny to any one of our employes the right to belong to a protective organization," said he, "but we do wish to deny to some of these protective organizations the right to run our business, in its every detail, for us. We have some it- i 1 lie Hiite lilt; iigni. ui jJiuiuoLing against. m- underhand methods of attack that are used against us, for instance, and we "have a right to try and do our level best for employes, ourselves and the general public, "Right there is the third parly who catches it in the neck, no matter what happens. If there Is a strike it Is the outsider who stands the discomforting delays and who eventually pays the bills that are raised by both the belligerents.

These big strikes cannot help but increase the productive cost and, in consequence, the retail prices of" every commodity, necessity or luxury, which they affect. "Let a man start to build a house. May heaven help him If he does not send for the walking delegate as soon as his architect gives him the plans and has that functionary tell him how much the maHonry Is going to cost, how nitieh the housc-smllh-ing is going to cost, just what the carpenters, electricians, painters 'and steam fitters arc going to soak hltti and finally what tribute he Is going to have to pay ihc walking dele-gale himself to nave even a dim possibility that strikes, sympathetic and maudlin and all the rest of theni, arc not going to delay i he building's completion for five or six years to come. "It is against such outrages as these that we are organizing for protection. We stood this tribute system for a time in order to save trouble, hut that, was a mistake of policy, for we are in pecks of trouble all the time now because of It.

We are going lo have the maxim of defense that we should have adhered to from the beginning, 'mill-Ions for.defense but. not one cent, for We are not. going to pose as union busters. Union check valves is to be our role." QUAY "SEES" THE PRESIDENT. Washington, March 31 Senator Quay of Pennsylvania had an extended conference with the President to-day.

They discussed political matters generally, including one or two federal appointments. One of these in the office of appraiser of merchandise, in Philadelphia. Senator Quay recommended the appointment of Frederick F. Vincent, the deputy appraiser. The President will send tho nomination of Vincent to (he Senate.

TUG SUNK BY CLYDE LINER. The tug George P. Taylor, or the Rogers Towing Line, was cut in two and sunk this morning by the steamship Navahoe, oi the Clyde Steamship Line, at a point In the North River, opposite the Pennsylvania docks. Captain Moriarty and his crew of nine men jumped from the Taylor Into the water. They were picked up by the crew ot the tug Ocean.

SCHAEFER LEFT $310,000. The will of Maximilian Schaefer was filed for probate In' the surrogate's ofllce, Manhattan, to-day. The petition says that the value of the real estate Is about and the personal estate about Mat). late Is divided among the three sons, Emlle, Rudolph and Henry Schaefer, and his daughter. Lina J.

von Snal, and other members ot tho family. DIED SITTING IN A CHAIR. Albino Delesant. 3" years old, of 213 Navy street, while seated at the table his home Just before midnight, was suddenly taken ill. and died before medical attendance could be secured.

Ambulance Surgeon L. II. Smith of the Brooklyn Hospital was summoned, but the man was past aid. It Is thought that death was due to heart disease. F.leplrlcTreotnieiit rnrChronlo ntm.r, Sinn by txpcrle.

Comuilalion Un. Cliuiun tl. I I They Liked Her Late Papa, Who Was One of Themselves, and Thwarted Stepmother. UNCLE'S HOME FOR GIRL OF 16. Mra.

Fierce of 279 Sixth Avenue Isn't Likely to Try to Upset the New Arrangement. Irene Pierce, the 16 year old girl who was reported by her stepmother, Mrs. J. F. Pierce, of 2Tt Sixth avenue, as missing, is safe and sound with her uncle and little sister In Buffalo.

An order was granted by the Surrogate of Erie Connty yesterday appointing her uncle. James F. McNamara, ss her official guardian. Mrs. Pierce was apparently opposed to such a step being taken and wished to keep the child in Brooklyn.

She was aware that an attempt was being made to meet the child's own wishes and send her to Buffalo, but she was not aware that the typesetters of the big Manhattan daily upon which her father worked had carried out arrangements with her uncle for such a step. It is hardly likely now that Mrs. Pierce will take any steps to offset the court order and force the child to return to live with her. According to (he story told by Mrs. Pierce to the reporters on Monday, the stepdaughter who had run away from her two nights before might easily pass for a young woman of more mature years.

She described Irene as being "Spanish" type of beauty. Tbe printers say that the little girl herself Is no glowing young woman of any particular type of magnificence, but merely a very lonely child in 3hort skirts, whose black hair Is still in pigtails and whose eyes have been often red with weeping. She was a nearly friendless little girl, or was until recently, when thoy came tu her assistance, Irene's father died on Monday of last week. Her own mother died years and years ago and for a long time past she had been under the care of the stepmother, from whose commands and rulings she was apt at times to run to her father for protection. He was a ilnotye operator in Manhattan.

Wheu he died thu little girl refused to be comforted. Her stepmother added a bit to her loneliness by telling her lo get rendy to quit school and go to work. In all this unhnpplness her thoughts found a single refuge. Her uncle troin Buftalu had cuitie to her father's funeral. With that uncle, whom Irene bad come to think was always Just aim good, pet naps tatcauso was her fathur's nrotner, llvcu lrcue's Bls-tor, Hazel, whom she nua not seen since her mother's In Buffalo was happiness, aud calm.

Mlie besought her uncle to take her back with him to Buffalo, but he pleaded his financial' inability und said tnut much as be wanted her he could not adorn to do it, Alter he went the world seemed lonelier to thoughts! were constantly upon Biiilalo atltl uptTn nut. Utile sister that dwell' there. Months and months before Irene's father had taken her to the place where he worked. It was a sirangti ison ot room very large, very dirty and Vtry noiiy. All her father friends had worked there, and, tunny enough, as it hud seemed to her tnen, they worked niter supper and far into the nignt.

They sat In long rows, each at. a strange, black machine, with a long reacding aim and with the alphabet In front ofihjm, and there they mude the ncwfc'paper. Her latner had once cxj.lalne.1 that machine to her, but how could one expect a little girl such as she wan lo understand such a woiidenul thing as She hid liked it far belter when her father's friendei had crowded about her and ait of liiem had talked to her. So Irene went to the printing office one night of Inst week. She crept like the timid girl she is into the elevator, and when she told the elevator man who sec really was he took her to the men of the coinpotitii; room.

To them site told how, above all things, tie wanted to go to Buffalo, the place of places for her in this world at present. The men stood about, her and laiked to her as they had talked that other lime, and then they went away and whispered amoug themselves. Finally one of them took her back to Sixth avenue and told her that she had a lot of Iricnils In the priming office who fell themselves linked to her by her father. The upshot of this all was that the camaraderie ot Ihe printing craft again assume, llself. On Saturday evening last Irene was taken to the llrapd Central station and there put on one of the big expresses that go swinging across the state tinder cover of the darknees.

Her happiness knew no bounds. Her new friends. had written her uncle and he had promised a home to the forlorn little girl witli her sister and before she boarded that car step a fai roll of greeiiliaeks wns pressed Inlo her hnlld. She left with the further assurances that there was more coining to her. a new yellow hank book with her own name beautifully written across Its cover, and that both she and her sister will have a snug little sum when all the details of her father's estate shall have been arranged.

POOR SCHOOL FACILITIES. School Board Committee Reports on Bis-graceful Conditions in Brownsville. The School Board of Dlstriet No. better known an the Brownsville, District, has made a report to the Hoard of PMucal Ion, setting forth the conditions as they exist in the district. The report shows conditions such that In comment lng upon them members of tho Board of Education and members of the committee on elementary schools have characterized the district as being one of the worst off in regard to school accommodations in the city.

One of the members of the committee said that the state of affairs presented in the report was nothing short of a disgrace to the city. The report says In part: "The condition of the school accommodations is fur from satisfactory. There are now In the course of construction School No. 114 of 4S rooms and an iH-room addition to School No. S4.

It will be some I imp before hrse buildings i will be ready for occupancy nnd when corn- pleted will accommodate only about I pimils. There are now in the district, In the neighborhood of School No, 144 alone, pupils on part time and pupils In need! of classrooms." PETTIGREW THREATENS BOLT. Sioux Kails. S. March 31 After announcing an intention to boll the National Democratic Convention if (irover Cleveland or any Democrat like him Is nominated, former Sena i or R.

M. I'ct ilgrew was lo-day elected chairman of the siae delegates. TRIAL OF CRUISER DENVER. Hoslou, March The cruiser buiH by Neafie and Levy of Philadelphia i lef; the hnrhor to-day for Ivt trial run ov mat run over weather was wicd. the lioone Island course.

The cloudy with a brick southerly Wells cf Suffolk Sent for and Plied, He Says, With Insult ing Questions. HAD LOCATED STOLEN HORSES. Hut Long Island Men Wouldn't Give Up Animals on Complainant's Say-So. Wells Is Indignant. iSpecial to Ihe Eagle.) Riverhead, L.

March 31 John S. Wells of Sayville, a deputy sheriff of Suffolk County, and formerly under sheriff, says he has been charged by ihe New York district attorney's office with being a horse thief; that he was given the "third degree" by officials of that ofllce In the Criminal Courts Building, Manhattan, lasi Saturday; that he was threatened with arrest on an extortion charge, and also with an indictment at tho hands of Manhattan Grand Jury. To tny the least, Mr. Wells was angry "clean through" when Interviewed yesterday In his place by an Eagle reporter. However, the accusations made against him baVo resulted in nothing at all, and the threat, or Implied lineal, that he was to be indicted was all there was to he Indictment, as the proceeding has neen dropped.

This phase of the recent sensational horse thieving cases In this county makes ihe trouble more complicated than ever. Why Manhattan district attorney's office is a "IT and the Suffolk officials cannot understand. Mr. Wells Is well-known liveryman of Sayville. and Is known as a man of good reputation throughout the county both in a business and an official way.

hen the recent horse, thieving troubles cnuie up Sheriff Preston was alck with an abscess on one of his feet, and, being unable to walk without crutches, he put the cbbc In Mr. Wells' hands, "because he is the beist dcpuiy sherltf I have, because he thoroughly understands horses," jib Sheriff Preston told an Eagle man yesterday. Mr. Wells Immediately set to work on tho case. Inside of two days he had rouud'd up five stolen horses and had Samuel Fine-berg and Harry Bennett In the county Jail, charged with being horsu thieves.

Thesa men are still here, and will probably remain inn next September, when their cases will be heard by the Sepii.niber Grand Jury. "Last week," said Deputy Sheriff Wells lo an Ragle man yesterday afternoon. Meyer of II Brooine sireet, Manhattan, came to see Sheriff Preston. He brought with him a representative of Ihe district attorney's office In Manhattan. Meyer claims to have lost three horses.

He believed I hey were on the north side of the l3land. and asked Sheriff Presion to go over there and help him find them. The sheriff being laid up and ihe horse thieving case being In my hands, I was communicated with. I replied thai 1 would go with the men ihe next day If they would pay my expenses. This was agreed lo.

"We found three horses that Meyer recognized as his. One was In possesion of Thomas X. Unyles at Stony Hrook, one in possession of .1. W. Hick, Stony Hrook, and the oilier In possession of Isaac Hawkins, South Seiauket.

These three men refused to give tho horses up, or even tell where they got ihetn. Meyer was Ihus compelled to go buck to Manhattan without his horses. "I went, to cw York wiih Hum. When I arrived I was asked what inv bill was. and i 1 said to Meyer.

Is between 57 and i and I have got lo remain in New York over i "'Km and get to hayville In the morning. I 'hrce live dollar -Tha't'is mwh replied (lb. let It go ai i said Meyer; 'you'vs earned "With that I purled with Meyer. The nelt 'lav 1 s'trprised lo hear that Dit inc. 1.

H. Mcili ll of SuvviHe. a Hijeniil Jcu- uty shcrlfT. was Mnii fur by ihr lis-; irii't Ai uirnoy'8 otlii U'o wi-m i Ikth iih- (Jill hoilllt under sub nena i i in a (Icriricdly nasiy whv showing that hr nt dial time knew nf the thai hai bocn paid me by Meyer, mnl Implying that. I and other Suffolk ('nuniy ofneinls wctp in length MP 'apuiM-i uiose hi 11 1 "Vn V'V 811,1 lhi" 1 in 'i''n 11 1 vvas abou.

the enmity tn.ding hors-a. and "nv 1 h''1" tln'" so reHuny; i Minn i know er. im horse trailers of ill repute; why 1 aecpieU from Meyer, mid if I whs not shft-bllng ot her hieves. etc. In fuel, it was pin up to me ns being praeticallv the ringleader in horsn thieving because I happened to be in my vncHtnilnry to exprevs my pcntlmenis aw to William Jerome nnd hbi nftl'ial staff, When 1 left the offtcp on Saturday I wn vir- tiially i old thai 1 was be indicted for' accepting tile Hedell and JTtVHclf were I also served wiih subpena bill day I ap- pear before ihe (Jrand on Mondav.

"Thomas N. H.aylrs ad .1. W. Kirk of vilnnv Krnnk 1 1 Vl 1 it nf Xfiin Sp- of ood Mullock of (Jiiokhc nnd Henry lionet's of llrldnehiiinpioa were also served wiih sub- penas to come before ihe Grand Mon day. We alt weni i here, but have nexcr yet been, called upon.

"Kim-berg and hennett the Jail hcr are merely a couplo of tools In the hands unnie rrnokeij horse i ineves in Ma una tsB. 'his I am convinced from invest. Rations have made In that city. There arn 1 three other in the Long Island gsng. hut.

I hive not been able in locale them yet. 'I he five men are given stolen horses' by tho head I m--n In New York and are eent out to mftko trades. So far twenty horses have been found. There sre in all at least fifty stolen homes tn this county. bpnto a lot of har-ncs and wagons, in nil about JlU.OO'i worth of stuff.

Two men from Knst Mlp r-kipped nut as soon as they heard of the arrent of Klneberg and Hen net asked Kinrherg 1 bis afternoon 'Where d0 vnu mtn(! om ln NVw Vnrkr lie m'pim-u. I limy null KCPpH ft 1 livery -tablo opposite Ludlow Sireet Jail, I and It su'-h a notorious place that the I rTnln Uiltir tn their r.l 1 v. ntillno Ki CiiilU nn t.st ue, ui 1 1 Inciting them out of ihe Jail hvre. "He- heVlil get out. if you only ntl(, oxnlain when "Ot all the you can interested In 1 1 cane," one of the read.

Then I Hera uUo showed that Kineb-Tg and Hen-nett welt ai'ouaiute with a number of leaders "horse trading." View of Jerome's Assistant. ASfdsWmt District A I torney 'orrigan of New York County was wen by an Kagle reporter this afternoon in reference to We Mr' plaint. Me hushed he recalled the facts in ihc ease. "Why," he. "Wells has no kick coming a you can rcf-1 assured i hat he was put through ro third decree in thin office, Him Hiory is all stuff and rubbish.

To stand i lie ti u' of the hole mat ter von mux i know ihai for a long time past thrc men whose names we know have been steal- ins hnrne around here and felling them down Suffolk County way. Tho thing has become a pf si this wf.ifr and all the horses neero to have gone in one direction. So wheu a man a liveryman, and had had the Una of loent-: tiK 0j- (ho horses stolen. If man ever bad the 'third drgn-e pni on him, I Civii Action Acninfit Him Begun by was that one. 1 haven'i words bliter i nough Widow of Warden Willinm H.

Knffoid. (Special to the Kaule.) Uiverhead. March 31 Just before A. Tut hill hcvp, murderer of Warden U. was a ken a way to Ma 1 1 en wan to-day, papers ill a civil suit lo recover (laniaccs, for Ihe death of Mr.

Dafford were served on him. Mrs. Itaffortl. the widow. Is the plaintiff.

Sheriff 1'restnn is bringing the suit for her and T. M. drifting of Ulverhend is attorney. The exact amount sued for cannot be learned here this noon, but It is not be Ileved to be large, ns the alleged murderer has practically nothing Saturday a suit Is to be tried here, seeking to set aside a clause of Reeve's mothers will so that Reeve will own absolutely the property in Aquebogue. If this ease i decided for the plaintiff, certain Judgments will he paid from the pio-eeeds ot the sab of the place.

Then, there will be about left. It is the object of the present civil suit 10 get possession of this money for Mrs. Kaf-ford, uh there Is practically no other use for It. as Reeve will not likely ever have use for it, as he has no family BOTH HIS LEGS BROKEN. Paul Williams, a laborer employed In the lumber yard of the Alexander orr Company, Klnnberg and Bennett, In the Jail here, nt the foot of Java sireet.

Idle unloading eharged with being horse ihleves. H'lll Mout-lnmhur from Ihe barge Hessle van 1 'V tnaiinain their Innocence. Yesterday they struck by a sling and thrown from barge to he yard, breaking Mis rliii and also the latcjla of ihe left ig. ''1; Jured man lives at Merg. b'ree, and was attended by Ambubinc h.i.K.

on wood of St. Catharine's Hospital. MOTORMAN THROWN FROM CAR. Michael N'wel, years old. of l.niiO Manhattan avenue, a motor man on the n-point line, while running bis car Ihe corner of Krunklln and Quay streets, was thrown over the dash board of Hie ear and landed on the pavement, ciiiting a long gutth In his scalp and biiMaiiiliiK a possibly fractured skull.

lie was attended by Surg on Shanks and removed to 'he Kasi rn Dist rici Ho.spha I. tlnn1lc it nt r- tl i verv Vf nr, Ti 1 nri in I r'niifvivmiiii itJiiiT int run I ttvuiKh traiiM in AtUntiu 'It v. mg i A. no-1 1' wt-k dv. arel I.e.

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