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THURSDAY. MAY 21. 1908. VOL. 69, NO.

141. 2G PAGES, INCLUDING PICTURE SECTION. THREE CENTS. TORNADO OUT WEST. CHICAGO EASTERN ILLINOIS.

SO KILLED, 100 HURT DRAGGED POND FOR GIRL LOCAL WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Clondy, with tog and occaHlonn.1 rain to-nlfrht and Frldayi light to fresh northeast to emit wind. FRANK H. PUTT BURNED HIS FATHEB'S LETTER! OROPPEO KOTE TO EAGLE ON HIS TO SI SI Company Offering an Issue of 5 Per i Cent. Equipment Notes.

William Salomon A Co. are offering an issue of Chicago and Eastern Illinois 6 per cent, equipment notes, secured by 2,000 new steul frame dump cars- Title to the equipment is vested in the trustee until all of the notes are paid The issue matures in semi-annual installments up to and Including October '1. 1917. and all maturities subsequent to 1910 are offered at prices to yield 6'A per cent. In tlteir -circular describing the notes, Messrs.

Salomon Co. state that "for the ten fiscal years. 1898 to 1907. Inclusive, published earnings of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois averaged: Total net income. fixed charges, surplus, $1,217,549." For the year ended June 30.

1907 tbe surplus was $1,670,168. ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS. Legislature Waiting to See if Hughes Sends In Gambling Bills. May 21 The Assembly adjourned to-day until Monday evening; the Senate will hold a technical "legislative day" to-morrow, but will transact do business. Speaker Wadsworth said this afternoon that he would send word to tbe members of tho Assembly that they would be expected to be present on Tuesday, and that next week would 'be a "working week" In that house.

This gave rise to a good deal of gossip, but nothing definite can yet be said as to what the result of the week may be. There has been much talk about a conclusion of the extraordinary sessiou about Thursday of next week, either by adjournment sine die or by the taking of a long recess even until December 31. Nothing has beeu definitely ducided, tbe whole matter depending apparently upon whether Governor Hughes will Bend In a message recommending consideration of the anti-gambling bills, ou Monday or Tuesday, after the new senator, Wallace, of the Forty-seventh district. Is seated, or will wait still further for the recovery of Seuator Foclker, who is 111 at Slants-burg, after an operation tor appendicitis. In short, "waiting aud drifting" is th'j phrase which best describes tbe situation as it stands at the close of tbe second week of the extra session.

Assemblyman C. IS. Foley of Niagara (Dem.) Introduced to-day a bill making mandatory upon political parties the adoption of the system of direct nominal-primaries. The direct nomination bill fo Senator Travis, already introduced, is a permissive measure. Tbe Foley bill would give tho electors the opportunity at the primary election to indicate their choice for town, city and sialu offices and United States The bill do-fines a new system of party management and states that party officers and committeemen shall be elected at the primaries.

The nominated state offlrors and tho chairman of tho Congressional district committees would meet to draw up the party platform in place of the state conventions. The bill also makes primary day the first day of registration. REFUSED TO GO TO WORK. Forty Dreamland Painters Complain of Alleged Delay by Contractor in Paying Wages. Forty young men who bad been employed to paint the tall tower, flag poles and buildings In Dreamland and make things bright and inviting for the opening on Saturday, refused to go to work this morning and marched la a body to tho Coney Island Court on West Eighth street, where they demanded assistance in getting about $200, which sum, they declared, is due them for services performed at the big park.

Complaint Clerk Fred Gross Informed the men they had selected tho wrong court, and he referred tlioni to the Fifth Distiet Court at Third avenue and Fifty-third street. According to the men. they pfe employed by a man named Laney, who, they said, had the contract to paint Dreamland. They said they received their money about two weeks ago on time, but when yesterday, which was pay day. passed and they did no! get any money, they held the indignation meeting and called on former Sheriff Buttling, to whom they slated their grievances.

The men wero assured that their money was all right and that Laney was paid enough money on his contract, on Wednesday, to pay the wages of all his men and to have some left besides for himself. The men retired and early this morning they went to the park and sought out iho contractor who, they claimed, had hlrel them. It was said this morning Ihat the contractor had assured them that their money would be forthcoming at the proper time. The answer was not satisfactory to" the men and they lefl tho park. At the park It was said that the work wnuM not he delayed any leneth of time and that tho place would be In an entirely new dress when Saturday arrives.

PITSSBURO BANKS' CONDITION. Reports of National Institutions Re flect Great Improvement. Pittsburg. May 21 Responses to yes terday's call by the controller of the currency for statements rrom tne national banks show that conditions among the local bankR are decidedly improved. Deposits Increased over $1,101,000 In the 90 days between February 14 and May 14.

There was a small Increase In loanable funds. The surplus and profit totals, except In one or two Increases, reflect the prosperity of tbe amerent insinuiimin. It Is a well known fact that the reserves hIH hv the local banks are larger now than for some time. Some Pittsburg bor rowers are looking lor an earner muu- market, now that the Controller has issued his call for a statement by the banks It Is expected that, the call for reporta of the state banks and trust companies will be made next week. R.

RS. INSTALLING TELEPHONES Big Systems Plnnning to Replace Telegraph System. Chicago. May 21 The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul is preparing to In stall telephones for train despatching be Man Killed in Iowa and a Woman in Kansas.

Ottumwa, May 21 Southern towa was swept to-day by a terrific windstorm, which, at Albia. assumed the form of a tornado. The Grant School In Albia was wrecked and the roof crashed through the rooms below just fifteen minutes assembly time. Pupils and teachers escaped injury completely. J.

M. Taylor was instantly killed by a heavy corncrib which the whirlwind picked up and dropped on him. Salina, May 21 One person. Mrs. Fred Grothe, was killed- and several others more or less injured in a tornado which struck Lincoln, a small town northeast of Salina last night.

Several houses were destroyed, a number were unroofed and many barns were blown down. EDWARD M. SHEPAHD BETTER. (Special to the Eagle.) Lake George, N. May 21 Edward M.

Shepard, who opened his country home, Erlewest, near this village, two weeks ago, is rapidly regaining his health. After a severe attack of grip at his Brooklyn home last winter, he did not fully regain his strength, and, therefore, came to his Lake George home for the summer earlier than usual. It is understood that he plans to spend the entire season quietly on his country estate. SUFFRAGETTES ARRESTED. Six of Them Harangued Crowd From Premier Asquith's Steps.

Were Sent to Jail as They Refused to Give Recognizances for Their Good Behavior. London, May 21 A number ofvmilitant suffragists, dissatisfied with the reply ot Prime Minister Asqulth to an important delegation of Radical members of the House of Commons yesterday on the question of claims of women for en-franchi ment, made a demonstration in front ot premier's residence In Downing r' eet this morning and the police reset i had to be called out in order to clear the thoroughfare. They arrested six of the noisiest demonstrators. The women appeared in Downing street by two and threes and sent in to the premier a petition asking that the franchise be granted at the present session of Parliament. Tie premier sent word through a constable that he had no reply to make.

The women thereupon mounted the stops of the house and harangued a crowd which quickly gathered. The six women taken Into custody all went to prison for periods of from one week to one month rather than give recognizances for their good behavior. CLOCK GAVE THEM AWAY. Stolen Timepiece, Not Silenced, Led to Arrest and Conviction of Great Neck Burglars. (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L.

May 21--An alarm clock heard ticking in a canvas bag, and an umbrella which established the real owner's identity conclusively, brought William Yeke ondNicholas Katchmark, Polacks, Into the clutches of the law last January, and resulted, yesterday. In their conviction on a charge of grand larceny in the second degree in the County Court. The clock and umbrella, with a number of shoes, a shotgun, belonged to William Matthews, a florist, of Great Neck, the articles being taken from his green house. An employe of the florist who went to Great Neck station the next morning after the burglary, saw Yeke and Katchmark standing on the platfrom with two well filled from one of which be heard the greenhouse alarm clock ticking. One of the Potacks had the umbrella.

The pair were followed on the train, and at Flushing were arrested by a policeman. Chickens nnd a lot of jam were taken from the premises of Henry Joslnki, a Polack, the same night "Matthews was robbed, nnd the sweetmeats found In the possession of the pair led to an indictment for burglary in the third degree in addition to that of larceny. VANDERBILT DIVORCE REPORT. Referee Orders All Papers Filed Ma-loney Case Precedent Followed. The report of David McClure of 22 William street, referee in the suit of divorce brought by Ellen French Van-derbilt from her husband, Alfred Gywnne Vanderbilt, the head of the family, and now coaching on the Brighton route out of London, was finally handed up to Justice O'Gorman in the Supreme Court, Manhattan, to-day.

The papers were served by a representative of the old firm of Carter. Led-yard Milburn, 54 Wall street, and promptly, under the orders of Justice O'Gorman, the papers were sealed and fllod. There is nothing iu the moving papers except the acceptance of tbe notice that the report was filed, accepted in the name of Anderson Anderson of 25 Broad street, counsel for Mr. Vanderbilt, to shew what the conclusions of the referee have been. In usual cases the papers would be filed with 'the county clerk, to be held for eight days, but under the rule of the court the papers in this and the Ma-lnnev case went direct to the Justice.

The motion is made to confirm the re port and award Judgment. MAN GARROTED IN STREET. Agent of Edison Electric Company Murdered in Chicago. Chicago, May 21 Robert C. P.

Holmes, purchasing agent for the Commonwealth Edison Electric Company, was found dead with the marks of garroters on his neck and his face black from the strangulation, in an alley In the downtown district early to-day. The body was found by an employe ot the Street Cleaning Department, and was identified by the contents of pockets. Not the smallest coin or the slightest article of jewelry was left on the garrottd man's person. His pockets were turned inside out and, besides the terrible decolorations on the neck and face, there was a gaping wound in the skull, made apparently by some blunt weapon. The skull was fractured.

The body was taken to an undertaking establishment and the' police begun a thorough search for the assailants. OPTION ON UNSOLD CITY STOCK. It became known to-flay that J. and W. Seligman Cp.

was the banking firm that had obtained an option on the remaining $7,000,000 of the $15,000,000 New York City corporate stock, voted last July, hut of which only $8,000,000 was sold. The option expires on June 15. and the terms are par and interest. The stock bears interest at 4 per cent, per annum aud becomes due in 1957. FLEET AT BELLINGHAM.

Eight of the Battleships Arrive at Washington Port. Belllngham. May 21 Eight ships or the Atlantic battleship fleet Hying tho double-star pennant of Rear Admiral Sperry, dropped anchor in Belllngham Bay at 11 o'clock to-day. and were formally welcomed by Mayor J. P.

De Mat-tos. The division of the fleet which arrived here was composed of the flagship Connecticut, the Rhode Island. Louisiana, Vermont, New Jersey, Kansas, Nebraska and Virginia, carrying 28 officers and 7,000 enlisted men. The remaining vessels of the fleet dropped out of line this morning and anchored in the harbors of Port Angeles and Port Townsend. LUSITANIA BREAKING RECORD.

Big Liner Off Nantucket Has Aver aged 25.02 Knots an Hour. Newport, R. May 21 The steamship Lusltania was reported by wireless today, 260 miles east-nortbeast ot Nantucket south shoals lightship at noon today. Tfiis is believed to indicate that she is maintaining tbe recordbreaklng speed previously reported from Sable Island. London, May 21 The Cunard Company declare that up to noon of May 20, the liner Lusltania.

which left Daunt's Rock last Sunday at 11:33 A.M. for New York, had covered 1,898 knots, at an average speed of 25.02 knots an bour. It Is understood that the present trip Is being run under the observation of the builders of the vessels with the view of conforming to the speed specifications of the government. MOORE AND GRESSER CONFER. Revision of City Charter Topic of Long Talk in Queens Borough President's Office.

Former County Judge Harrison S. Moore of Queens County, who is a member of the commission appointed by Governor Hughes to revise the city charter, called upon Borough President Lawrence Gresser in Borough Hall, Long Island City, yesterday afternoon to discuss matters relating to his work as Queens Borough's representative in the commission. Judge Moore wants the opinions of those who have been working under the charter as It now exists in order to better be able to judge what changes are necessary to improve the law as it now stands. The two officials were closeted together for several hours, and they must have gone over the situation pretty thoroughly. There is little doubt but those sections of the charter applying to the operation of the borough president's office were carefully discussed, and there may be recommendations for certain changes SAYS HE MET MRS.

GUNNESS. Man in Omaha Writes That He Saw in Ogden, Utah, May 4. Laporte, May 21 Sheriff Smutzer will tbis evening finish the sluicing of the debris of the Gunness house and to-morrow morning he will resume digging in hope of finding more bodies. Mayor Darrow has received an unsigned letter from Omaha, the writer claiming to have been In Laporte three times last year to visit Mrs. Gunness and to have met her An Ogden, Utah, on May 4.

when she said she was on her way to California to visit Jennie Olson. Inquiries were received to-day by the authorities regarding George W. Williams of Wapwallopen, and a Mount Yeager, man, both of whom are understood by friends to have come to La porta In. answer to matrimonial advertisements from a rich widow. Both were well-to-do farmers.

Neither returned home. GANG OF BOY BURGLARS. Captured When They Wanted Reward for Stolen Faucets Many Complainants. Dotectives Adam Mangold and Francis A. Canfleld of the Flatbush station succeeded in capturing a gang of small boys, who have committed a number of robberies in the neighborhood of Pitkin avenue and Cleveland street.

The boys are Percy MacDonough, 2370 Pitkin avenue, aged 14; Fiank Credolf, 13 years. 2787 Pitkin avenue; Robert O'Revardi, Pitkin avenue and Cleveland street; John Clap per, Jerome street and Liberty avenue; James Cueick, 2789 Pitkin avenue, and Adam Heldolf. corner Pitkin avenuo and Cleveland street. There are complainant and moro to be heard from. Samuel Carmo of 339 Eaton avenue, said that the store room of his house had been broken into, and three trunks full of clothes had been stolen.

William C. Clayton, a real estate agent, at Cleveland street, near Pitkin avenue, reported the loss of forty brass faucets. He offered a reward- of $3 for each faucet. The gang came to his office last night wltb the missing faucets, and nitcen otners, wnicn the boys declared they had found, aud demanded the money. Whereupon the officers arrived and arrested them.

The case was held over for June 4 for further investigation. MONETARY COMMISSION. Senate Adopts Aldrich's Resolution to Probe Finances. Washington, May 2' The Senate today, without division, adopted a Joint resolution reported by Mr. Aldrich from the committee on finance, creating commission to be called the National Monetary Commission, to be composed of nine senators to be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate, and nine representatives to be appointed by the speaker of the House, to Inquire into and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable, what changes are desirable or necessary in tho monetary sys tem of the United States, or the laws relating to banking and currency.

For this purpose the commission Is authorized to sit during sessions or In the recess of Congress at such times and as they may deem desirable. AMERICAN GOLFIST LOST. St. Andrews, May 21 Miss Anita Phlpps, the last of the quintet of American competitors left in the contest for the British women's open golf cham-ninnRhin wnu eliminated from the match in the fifth round this morning, being I vanquished by Miss Kyle in 6 up and 3 to Play. Thi VACATION nnd Ol TIM; ASO here.

Hudson Rlvr Lay Line on. Music. I -Adv. Antwerp Express Crashes Into Trainload of Pilgrims at Contich, Belgium. LOCOMOTIVE JUMPS TRACK.

Soldiers, Clergymen and Physicians Aid in Work of Getting Out the Victims, May 21 The worst railroad catastrophe ever recorded in Belgium took place near Contich. six miles southeast of Antwerp, this morning when, because fit A misnlacprl switch tha Anttoarn expresB, running at fifty miles an hour, crashed into a train loaded with, pilgrims on a siding. Every car of the pilgrim train, excepting the foremost one. was telescoped. The cars were literally ground to pieces, and all the passengers were either killed or badly injured.

About fifty dead people already have been removed from the wreck, and succor. is being extended to more than 100 injured. Surgeons, doctors and nurses arrived early from Antwerp at the scene of the wreck. Shrieking and helpless wounded persons are still pinned under the debris, and the scene is one of horror that beg- gars description. The station at Contich has been converted into a temporary morgue and hospital, and is rapidly filling up with the dead and wounded.

The work of rescue is being admirably handled, and everything possible is being done to alleviate the suffering of the injured. All the clergy and physicians of Contich, and the" soldiers from the neighboring barracks ar.e taking part in the work. In addition to the surgeons who hurried down from Antwerp, an ambulance corps from Amiens, also, is on the It now appears that the locomotive of the express train jumped the track and plunged into and completely wrecked the three passenger coaches of the train the siding. This train was carrying an excursion of pilgrims to a local shrine. The collision occurred at 9:06 A.M..

Just as the express from Antwerp to Brussels was entering the depot at Contich. The train. loaded with pilgrims, was bound for Turnhout. The work of extricating the dead and wounded from the debris appalled even the stoutest of the rescuers. The spectacle horrible.

Many of the bodies had completely lost all human shape and were reduced to pulp, heads, arms and legs having been off by the wheels and scattered through the wreckage. Three decapitated bodies were found twenty feet from the track. Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon thirty-e'ght dead and seventy wounded had been recovered. The occupants of the cars were mostly workmen and peasants. The wounded persons are being transferred from Contich to Antwerp and Brussels as rapidly possible.

Three of the wounded already have died. There are several women amom the dead. A second class coach was overturned by the force of the impact. The bodies of the wounded were so pinned down by wreckage that the rescuers had. to make use of axes to get the victims free.

Rescuers from Contich were at once on the scene and the labor of succoring the Injured and removing the dead was conducted with all possible haste Special trains with doctors, priests and nurses were sent to Contich from Antwerp and Brussels. The accident is now supposed to have been due to a misplaced switch. The engineer and the fireman of the express train were killed outright. The signal man at Contich saw that his switch was not -working just as the Antwerp express came thundering down the line. He leaped from the window of bis signal and heroically ran down the track toward the oncoming train, waving a red flag.

His effort, however, was too late to avert a disaster. i Contich is a junction on the main line between Antwerp and Brussels. It is a town of 35,000 people. Serious railroad accidents in Belgium have been rare, the most notable of recent yearB being one at Ottignies, in 1895, when seventeen persons were killed, and another at Forest, near Brussels, in 1899, when twenty-one persons were killed and over one hundred injured. JABBED GIRL WITH PITCHFORK Because She Would Not Love Him.

Act Punished by a Term in the "Pen." (Special to the Eagle.) Mineola, L. May 21 Fritz Ulick. a who jabbed a pitchfork into Annie Wonshaw, with whom he claimed to be In love, but who would have nothing to do with him, was sentenced to serve eleven months in the penitentiary yesterday by County Judge Jackson. Ulick pleaded guilty to an indictment of assault in the second degree. His counsel, former District Attorney John B.

Merrill of Queens, sought to have Ulick saved from further imprisonment, contending he bad already been In Jail for a number of months. The crime which Ulick committed took place at Roslyn, where he and the young woman attacked worked for Oscar Seaman, a hotel proprietor. GOULD TO PLAY MILES AGAIN. London, May 21 Jay Gould of New York and Eustace H. Miles, the English tennis player, will meet in the finals of the Olympic court tennis competition, each having defeated his opponent in the semi-finals at the Queen's Club this afternoon.

Gould beat Page in the easiest fashion in three straight sets, the score standing 61, 0, 6 0, while Miles also won three straight sets from N. S. Edyt-ton, but not so decisively. Miles' scores were: 6 4, 61. 63.

MARK YALE-HARVARD COURSE. New London, May 21 When the Yale and Harvard boat crew, It is announced, come to tbis city next month to prepare for their annual regatta on the Thames River, June 25 they" will find the four-mile course all flaggedThe purpose of this early flagging of the course Is to give tbe men the benefit of practice work over the actual course, and also to aid the coxswain in preparing for the race. Received a Blackmailing Letter From Hummel and Paid $10,000 for Documents. NONE REFERRED TO MARRIAGE No Such Letters In Package as Ma C. Wood Says She Received From Senator Piatt.

Mae C. Wood, who Is suing Senator Thomas C. Piatt for an absolute divorce, alleging that she was married bim on November 9. 190L appeared again In the Supreme Court, in Manhattan, before Justice O'Gorman to-day. She did not appear In the court room yesterday when Senator Piatt was on the stand and was examined for more than two hours, denying all of her allegations of marriage.

Considerable Interest hinges On the alleged marriage certificate and expert testimony will be adduced as to the time the paper was engraved. Frank II. Piatt, son of the senator and a member of the law firm of O'Brien, Boardnian, Piatt Littleton, was called and identified the letter written to Senator Piatt from the office of -Howe Hummel, saying that thev had been retained by a young woman to sue him. "Whom did you employ?" "De Lancey Nicoll." Mr. Piatt also stated that he met Hum mel In Mr.

Nlcoll's office and Hummel said be had been retained by Mao C. Wood to suo the senator for breach of promise of marriage. The letter from Hummel was in October. 03, and the Interview took place a day or so after the letter was received. "What letter did Hummel have?" "Ho had some letters that were in the handwriting of my father and sets of proofs of a Newark papor and some photographic plates of the letters." "Was the question of the amount of money to be paid for the release of these letters discussed?" Paid for the Letters and Then Burned Most of Them.

"It was not discussed. It had been arranged before by Mr. Nicoll." "What was the amount?" "$10,000," "Did you give thu money to Nicoll?" "I did." "What did he do with It?" "Turned it over to Hummel." "Did yuu get the release at the same time?" "Yes" "Do you recall what you did with the letters?" "Yea. i bundled them up, sealed the package with sealing wax and locked It up in ray desk," answered Mr. Piatt.

He later opened the package, read every letter, and with the exception of some half dozen of the letters, ho testified that hu burned thu remainder in the-grate In his office. "What waa the method of address? Did you notice It and tho signature?" "Yes." The witness was thou shown the typewritten letter beginning "My-Little-Brlde-to-Be." and asked If there wai any such letter In the package. "Thcru was not," was tho reply. All the copies of letters that Mae C. Wood alleged to have received from the Senntor.

and. us she averred, go.t by her from Hummel, were shown thu witness. and he declared that there were no such letter received from Hummel. None of the Letters Contained Any Reference to Marriage. Mr.

Piatt said that none of the letters contained any reference to marriage. "Are you able to state how many letters wero turned over to you?" "To the best of my recollection, 1 should say thirty sir thirty-five," was the answer. Mr. Sianclific-ld then turned the witness over to Mr. Lellarbler.

The court refused tho request of Miss Wood, made through her attorney, that she be allowed to cross-examine the witness. Wood is a lawyer, a member of the bar of Nebraska. "A great many of the letters wero brief notes of invitation," responded Mr. Piatt to questions put to him by Miss Wood lawyer. "What was tho reason for paying $10,000 for those letters?" "My father was just about to be married for the Bccond lime and we thought best to get rid of tbo woman," "Did you ever havn any dealings with J.

Martin Miller?" "Never had any dealings with him. He was the nian who brought the first payers to my father offlne." "Did ho say mcffiey would have to be paid for the return of the letters?" "Yes, in substance. He said Miss Wood had come over from Washington to have the letters printed and the best way to get rid of her wns to pay her. This was before tho arrangements for the return of tho letters were made." "Blackmailing Letter From Hummel and Knew What It Meant." "What did you say?" "I told him I wanted to think it over and then we got that blackmailing letter from Hummel and I knew what It meant." A by Mr. LeBarbier to strike out tho adjective was denied.

'What was your opinion of Miller?" "Well, my own belief was that he started with her In her enterprise and then got scared." "What was your object in destroying some of the letters?" "Well, the plaiDMff was writing for tho letters and going to the newspapers, and I didn't think that ahe had stayed bought, and so I destroyed all but a few of the knew about the letter In which the senator Is alb gei to have admitted the marriage to MUs Wood. "Well, on Christmns Pay. IMS. my father got a letter from the plaintiff, and while we were talking about it the telephone rang and I answerer) it. A voice that said she was Mae Wood replied and wanted to talk to my father.

I told her Bhe could not talk to him. and if she had" anything to say to come down to rny office and say it to m. Rowland was In 'the room, overheard the conversation, and Certificate Not Engraved Until After Date cf Alleged Wedding. The deposition of Frederick E. Hafe-ley, who is In Philadelphia, was read by.

Mr. Sianhfleld. He said that he waa ptesident of a stationery firm at 27 Easfe lw-eniy-sixm stppi. i no purpose ot inn deposition was to prove that the alleged, Riverhaad Had a Big Sensation With Miss Florence Walton as Cf nl Figure. ALMOST WHOLETOWN IN TEARS Just as Grifflngr's Lake Was to Ba Drained, Missing Girl Appeared.

No Thought of Suicide. (Special the Eagle.) Rlverhead. May 21. Florence Walton. 19 years old, daughter of George Walton, of this place, caused big excitement In town yesterday and was the means of a party of men dragging the mill pond for her drowned body, but she turned up smlllngat 6 o'clock last uight, after having given her family a bad scare The affair throughout was a drama ol comedy and tragedy closely Interwoven.

Her parents knew nothing of her absence until after lunch time. They immediately notified the sheriff's office and Acting Sheriff Preston started Warden Furey out on the case to see if tbe young woman could be found. The girl is employed as a domestic in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H.

Alberteon. According to Mrs. Albertson she left the house soon after 6 A.M. yesterday, having first started to get breakfast, which she left on the back of the stove wbeu she went away from the Albertson home on GrifBng avenue, No one saw her leave and so no one knew which direction she took. When she failed to return, Mrs.

Albertson became alarmed and began a search of the house. She found that Miss Walton bad left her pocketbook containing $11, her bank book, and several other valuable trinkets. Looking closer Mrs. Albertson discovered a scrap of paper In the handwriting of the young woman. Willie," it read, "I hope you ara all well, for I am going to drown myself." This was on a torn piece of paper and was not signed.

Mrs. Albertson recalled that "the girl had been acting queerly of late." She hastened to inform the girl's parent They, In turn, started a hunt and notified the sheriff's office. Walton when told of the disappearance remarked: "Why, the girl has been threatening suicide for a week, but I never paid any attention to It. I thought she was only fooling. Only Sunday she said she was going to jump off the 'new Warden Furey, Mr.

and Mrs. Walton, Daniel R. Young, F. L. Grifflng, an Eagle reporter and several others proceeded to the bridge, got boats, and began to drag the mill pond.

Nothing resulted b.ut a couple of hours of hard work. Mrs. Walton made almost a systematic house to house canvass through the village during the afternoon asking all If tbey bad tidings of her Florence. Many of the good women of the town hadn't heard of the disappearance. To see the mother Wringing her hands at their doors and bemoaning the loss of her daughter orougot tears from tbe hearts of the tender Bex.

so during the' afternoon there waa almost universal weeping In tbe village there waa hardly a house but contained some one saddened by the affair. In support of the suicide idea a friend of the family said to an Eagle reporter. "She had a lover in Brooklyn named William Walters. He lives at 58 Concord street, and is a bricklayer, who makes good money. He came here to see her Sunday and promised then that he would send for her early In the week and marry her in Brooklyn.

The girl waited until this morning and no message came. It seems to me a sure case of suicide over a love affair. I learned that after she Was reported missing a letter came from the young man to Miss Walton. What this letter says is as yet unknown." Mr. Walton said to the reporter later: "She left another note saying, 'If you want to see me any more you will find me near the new However, search as they might, no trace of the young woman could be found in the mill pond.

It was then decided to use big lanterns at night, it being believed that tbe radiance from these would penetratj the water, revealing what lay on the bottom of the pond. Failing in locating any body this way County Judge Grifflng. through his son, Frederick L. Grifflng. gave orders to run the pond off, leaving the bottom dry.

Early in the evening Mr. Walton and other men went to the mill pond armed with lanterns, drags, spears, boats, prepared to make a systematic hunt. A crowd of people were there watching for gruesome developments. Before that time the girl had walked back Into town from East Main street, but the searchers did not know it. Everything was ready for the fire light search, but Just then a messenger came to them telling that tho young woman had found herself.

It was a joyful father who heard the news, but he swore nevertheless, as he thought of what a lot of hard work he and others had been put to, and he himself could not help but laugh some as he trudged back through the business part of the village shortly after dark, carrying his lanterns, etc. While the men were preparing to search the mill pond again Warden Furey began investigating a pond up in the Woods back of the New road. Shortly after he got there he learned that tho young woman had returned, going to the residence of a Mrs. Vail on First street. The warden sought her out and talked pretty sharp to her.

Miss Walton denied that she had attempted suicide or even thought of it. She denied writing any notes saying she was going to drown herself. The only thing Bhe would Bay was that she decided all of a sudden to take a day off and go visiting. Where she went she would not divulge. It was reported from the sheriff's office this morning that Miss Walton went back to the Albertson home early in the evening and cooked dinner as usual.

STRIKING COAL DRIVERS. Have Threatened Trouble in South Brooklyn Strike Breakers Housed at Bush Docks. Since Monday afternoon, when three eoal drivers were attacked by a gang of strikers at Fourth avenue and Seventy-first vtreet, but little trouble has been experienced In South Brookyn. The Z. O.

Nelson Coal Company, which has a branch yard at Second avenue and Fortieth street, has secured guards to accompany every truck that leaves the yard, and Captain Summers of the Fourth avenue police station has a detail of men on hand to that no trouble Is experi-enced when an attempt is made to deliver the coal. When the Btrikers learned last night that temporary headquarters had been fitted up for the use of 150 strikebreakers employed by the Nelson company In one of the Busn warehouses at Second avenue and Fortieth street, nearly 200 of them gathered about the place and threatened violence, but the police dispersed them. No violence was reported. Dewey' Old Madeira or Sherry Sherry bfore dinner, Madeira after. H.

I. Deway Sons 138 Fulton Si. -Adv. 'Railroaded to Prison," Said Curtis' Cigarette-Box Message. STRANGER MAILED MISSIVE Found Near Track at Hastings No Evidence That Crook Was Wronged, but Wife Complains.

An appeal for holp. scribbled upon a torn-open clgaretto box. by a convict bound for Sing Sing and tossed out of the window 6f a New York Central Railroad train, reached the Eagle to-day, bearing the charge that the convict had been railroaded to prison, and that he had been convicted through a conspiracy. It was only by the merest chance that, the convict's message reached the Eagle, for It was written upon the red paper box of a cheap brand of cigarettes Just such a box as one may see by the dozen every day In the streets and gutters of Brooklyn. The cigarette-box message was Intended for the Eagle, and the chances were a thousand to one that it would never reach its destination; but, as luck would have it, Harold Relche of Hastlngs-on-Hudson saw the torn box, picked It up, read the massage and mailed It to the Eagle.

The remarkable message was written by Marquis Curtis, a young Canadian, who was sent to Sing Sing last Tuesday to serve a sentence of nine years for carrying burglar's tools. He got his sentence on Monday from Judge Cantlne, the upstate Judge who was borrowed by Kings County to do Judge Fawcett's work. Curtis was very bitter over his sentence, because It meant nine years more before be could complete the honeymoon which he began with bis young bride, Florence, seven years ago. He has been In trouble so much since his marriage that his honeymoon has been sadly Interrupted. The Message to the Eagle.

After Curtis was sentenced ho deter mined to get his name before the public in some way. He had arranged for his wife to meet him Tuesday morning at the Wrand Central Btation to say goodby. and ha expected then to send a message to the Eagle; but his wife missed him, because he went oh an earlier train than was expected. Curtis knew from past experience that he would have to wilt a montn to writo a letter from Sins Sim so on the way to prison he scribbled his message on a cigarette box and dropped It out of tbe window near the Hastings aepoi. on the Inside of the box he wrote: "To the Brooklyn Eagle: I have been railroaded to prison for nine year without a legal trial and it is being hushed up.

Get the history of my trial from those eutside the district attorney's office. Ask all the keepers at the Jail. Ask the man I worked for, Jim Form, Sixth avenue, N. and 372 Eighth ave nue. Ask my wife, who has to hide at 229 West Fifteenth street from persecu tion, can prove a conspiracy.

CURTIS." At the bottom of, this message he wrote: "He who finds this send to the Eagle." On the red outside of the box Curtis wrote a complaint against the way his lawyer had conducted his case and eaid: "I can prove my innocence in any court if allowed. "Help! Help!" Mr. Relche sent the box to the Eagle with a note explaining that he had found it near the depot at Hastings. Ho thought perhaps it was a case of a man being punished wrongfully. No Evidence of Illegal Trial.

The history of Curtis' case doesn't indicate that he has been given any longer sentence than he deserved. It appears that he Is a crook by occupation, and that his charge of an illegal trial Is entirely untrue. Nathan L. Spltalsky, of 132 Nassau streel, is the lawyer who represented Curtis. Mr.

Spltalsky saw that be had a bad client as soon as he learned tho facts and learned that Curtis had served several terms already. However, the lawyer went into court to do the best he could for his client. At the very last he begged Curtis tj plead guilty and take a short Bontence. but Curtis wouldn't hear of such a prop-J osltlon. Ho was tunous at the suggestion and, according to court attaches, he broke forth into abuse of his lawyer in the courtroom, and threatened to his own case.

He refused to' plead guilty and entered a plea of not guilty. There were two Indictments against him. one charging attempted burglary and the oiher charging him with carrying burglar's tools. He was tried-on the second indictment. It was shown on the trial that Curtis had been arrested on the Park Slope by Dotectives NeggesmlU and Wood, after the detectives had watched him for an hour.

They were on the Slope looking for daylight flat robbers. They saw Curtis and watched him as he went from fiat to fiat trying doorbells. He went Into the apartment house at 758 President street and stayed a long time. After he came out he was arrested. Detective Noggesmltk said afterward that Curtis tried to shoot him.

but that' he got Curtis' loaded revolver first. Curtis had a Jimmy, a knife, skeleton keys and a wrench. An examination of the President street house showed that tbe doors to four apartments had been Jimmied, but had not given way. Claimed He Was Canvassing. Curtis claimed that he was canvassing for a magaiine, and he explained the wrench, tho knife and keys by saying that he needed them In hla work of taking down signs for Jim Form.

He was convicted deBplte the efforts of his friend Form to show that he was legitimately in possession of the tools. Curtis' wife is now living at 229 West Fifteenth street under her maiden name. Florence Reed. She said to day that her husband's conviction was altogether unjust and illegal. She told of her marriage to him seven years ago and of the prison sentence that Interrupted the honeymoon.

Her husband was arrested for grand larceny right after they married. While be was awaiting trial at Hudson, she rented a room across the street from the Jail, and they were able to chat together between her room and his cell. He would always wave her a good-night kiss. Curtis got three years and eight months for grand larceny at that time and the bride had to make ner own living. child was born, but it died before Curtis; got out of prison.

The police s.iy that Curtis recently ended another three year term. They sav he has had at least four terms In prison, and that a limp in one of his legs Is the result of a bullet wound he received in San Francisco while running arvay froin 1 a house which he had enterel. Cucis will have an occasional gllmnse of hi, brother In Sing Sing, who is doing a bit for burglary on his own account. The brothers wife w3 sent to Bedford R- lormatory r- for receiving stolen 'goods. Slcklenbnrit falclum Oiloi-Me Water purlfl'- the bltort and makes jou fel young, Bt wawr fir klo diea.

Sold tvtrywnere. Adv. tween Chicago and Milwaukee, and be- letters. There was no suggestion oi rnr-iween luiiuKo ou. divorce or disgrace In any of tbe tween Chicago and Savanna dis- tance between the former stations destroy eighty-five miles while bet.

en la It is Vi miles lh 'B senator's former and how he- adopt a telephone letters. There was no suggestion or mar- also making plans to svs'em. The first switchboarq to no ailerl in the svstem will be at Topeka, for the Kansas division of the southwest district. It Is estimated that it will cost, in the neighborhood of $10,000. It is plantfed to have it in operation by Julv 1.

Other railroads are contemplating also replacing the telegraph by tele, nknnpj among ihem the Alton. The li'irl'niron and tho New York Central if .1., already Installed telephone lim-s nut. I sy ms on part GETS $10,000,000 MORTGAGE. about the two women going to father room in Washington and ask-Sn It l.ak-, ftah. May 21 The Tel- i jnK frir hl8 autograph on iho blank sheet luride Power Company, which owns elec- paper." irl-al plants in nan.

loano ann i.niorauo, and which supplies most of the mines ith electric power, has recorded a hre for $10,000,000. One-fourth of ih" $10,000,000 Is to be used in redeeming oifitanding bonds and floating lndebted-nin and the remainder In purchasing properties aim extending the Business iae 1.