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NEW YORK CITY. TUESDAY. JULY 18. 1911. 22 PAGES.

THREE CENTS. DAILY SLAYER DIES IN CELL AS GALLOWS IS READY Wife-Murderer Boasted That He Would Not Live to Be Hanged. BROKE JAIL; TRIED SUICIDE. Hickman Inhaled Gas Saturday Night--His Family Beggared to Save Him. (Special to The Eagle.) Beaver, July 18-Charles Hickman, wife murderer, cheated the gallows today, as he had said he would many times since his conviction.

Within a few hours of the time when the death penalty would have been inflicted he collapsed in his cell and at 8 o'clock this morning he was dead. Hickman murdered his wife, Mollie, in February, 1910. The circumstances surrounding the case and the persistency with which Hickman fought for his release attracted much attention in Pennsylvania. The man came of well-to-do parents and they spent all they possessed in the battle for his freedom. "You will never get me as far as the gallows, mark my words." he used to say to his guards.

They paid little attention to that prediction, but later on, when he twice escaped from his cell and on Saturday last when he tried to kill himself, they thought more of it. Hickman obtained permission to go to the lavatory on Saturday evening. His guards went with him, but remained outside. When he didn't emerge they became worried and went in after him. They found him with his mouth over an open gas jet inhaling the poisonous vapor.

on the verge of unconsciousness, and when he was revived, after the guards and a physician had worked over him for 8. long time, he murmured many times, "I'll never live to be hanged." Hickman was found last night to be ill by guards who were watching him closely, and two physicians were hastily summoned. They remained with him for three hours, at the end of which time he (regained consciousness, but was so nervjous that it was necessary to administer soothing portions. He became worse toward morning, and sent for Sheriff Hartzel, telling him he had made his peace with God and was not afraid to die. During the delirium following this visit, Hickman was heard to whisper, "I am going to meet Mollie," and the last word he uttered was the name of the woman for whose death he was to have been hanged.

Coroner Gormley decided to hold an autopsy to put at rest the persistent rumors that Hickman had ended his life, as he so often threatened to do. When the is completed the body will be turned over to the mother, who hastened to the jail when alie learned of her son's death. SUICIDE AT THE BATTERY. Well Dressed Man, Wearing a Diamond Ring, Jumps From Sea Wall. By jumping from the sea wall at the Battery, an unidentifled man, about 60 years old and well dressed, committed suicide, early this morning.

Efforts were made by the police to recover the body, but they were unsuccessful. William Green of 49 Whitehall street, Manhattan, and William McGohick of 90 Amity street, Brooklyn, were sitting on A bench near the wall, when they saw the man approach. He was mumbling to himself and walked up and down for several minutes. Then the man jumped from the wall into the water. The two men shouted for help and several policemen appeared, but the man's body did not come to the surface.

The sutcide, the two men said, wore A diamond ring and clothes of good material. He wore A derby hat and dark clothes. MORE BROOKLYN P. O. CLERKS Carriers Will Have to Spend Less Time in Stations--Other Improvements.

Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 18-First Assistant Postmaster General Granfeld, on hig return to Washington, Immediately got to work on plans to improve the mail servIce in Brooklyn, where he spent two days examining the situation. He had a conference Representative of Brooklyn morning and told with. Calder, the Brooklyn service would be improved. One of the most important reforms that Dr.

Granfeld is working on 1g that explained in The Eagle yesterday, which aims to have Brooklyn's Incoming mails reach the borough from one to two hours earlier in the day, by eliminating the Manhattan Post Office as a factor in their transmission. This will save one handling of the mails and will not make them wait until the Manbattan mails have been taken care of. Dr. Granfeld also expects to give Postmaster Voorbies more clerks. One of the causes of delay in delivertes, he belleves, is the fact that carriers have to do too much sorting for their routes before starting out.

This work can be done by clerks, and within a short time it 1s likely that the Brooklyn office will have more clerks than at any time in its histery. They will be distributed where most needed, and the carriers will have to spend legs time in the stations and will have more time for their routes. Dr. Granfield was much pleased by his eit to Brooklyn, which he had not seen a number of years. He says It 1g a magnificent city and ought to have a good mail service.

BROOKLYN WOMAN AN M.D. Among sixty-five candidates to 91C- cessfully pass the scrutiny of the New Jersey State Board Medical Examiners WAS Miss Ida R. Shields Brooklyn. cal The only woman In the class, Miss Shields took her examinations June 20 at Trenton with the others and until tothe board had been busy at work on the papers. Miss Shields will be granted a license to practice medicine in New Jersey.

BRITISH FLAG IN SCHOOL. The United Irish- American Societies have complained to the Board of Education about the conduct of Principal Rowe of the Wadleigh High School, who, they charge, displayed the British flag In one of the schoolrooms about Coronation Day and had it saluted by school children. SCAFRE PON, 509 FULTON ST. 10 degrees cooler than any other Restaurant In Greater N. or 1 EAGLE FOR DIVORCE IN BAY STATE' (Special to The Eagle.) Worcester, July 18-Charging that her husband failed to provide for her In Brooklyn, Nellie G.

Morison of Medford has sued Eber E. Morison of New York for a divorce. They were married ever thirty-six years ago. In the Massachuetts Superior Court Anna F. O' Brien of Lynn has sued Frank J.

O'Brien of Brooklyn for vorce, charging him with desertion, cruel and abusive treatment, and neglect to provide. She also asks for leave to resume her maiden name of Anna F. Donnelly. PHILLIES IN THE LEAD. Philadelphia, July 18-The Phillies got a flying start in the first game of their double header with Pittsburgs to-day scoring four runs.

The batteries are Moore and Dooin, Camnitz and Gibson. Neither side scored in second innthe ing, the Phillies leading by 1 to, 0. The third was also scoreless. In the fourth the Pirates made two runs, making the score 4 to 2. SHOTS AT WHALE IN SOUND.

of Saybrook, July 18-The crew Cornfield Point lightship report that they have been having small arms practice for several days with whale as their a target. It appears daily near the lightship and seems to delight in swimming close to the ship. 5-CENT FARE TO CONEY GETS A HEARING, JULY 24 Commissioner Cram Suggests Reduction for Morning and Evening Rush Hours. Commissioner Cram forced the issue on the 5-cent fare to Coney Island question and the Public Service Commission adopted an order to-day a a public hearing to be held at 11 directing, A.M. The order contains a new suggesfor a 5-cent fare during the early morning and evening rush hours to Coney Island.

The order, after directing a public hearing, reads: "To, inquire whether the rates, fares or charges demanded, exacted, charged or collected by the South Brooklyn Railway Company, Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company, Sea Beach Railway Company, Electric Railroad Company, Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad Company and the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company, for the usportation of persons on their lines of railroad running to Coney Island in the City of New York, or the regulation affecting such rates are unjust or unreasonable, and to determine the just and reasonable rates, fares and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as the maximum to be charged for the service to be performed, and to determine among other things, whether a 5-cent rate eastbound between the hours of 6 and 9 A.M., to Coney Island, would be just and reasonable, and whether 8 5-cent rate westbound, from Coney Island, 'between the hours of 4 and 7 P.M., would be just and reasonable." $500,000 IS FORTHCOMING Brooklyn Practically Certain to Have New Municipal Building, Prominent Official Says. It was stated positively by one of the chief executives of the Brooklyn to administration, that the $500,000 appropriation for the new municipal building would be granted at the meeting of the Board of Estimate on Thursday, July 27. He assured The Eagle that it could predict the of the appropriation and the commencement of building operations. From another source it was learned that this assurance WAS given by more than one member of the Board of Estimate yesterday, who maintained an unfriendly attitude at the meeting, which laid the municipal question over for ten days. When Borough President Steers was asked to condrm this statement, he would not commit himself.

may say," howover, "the president answered, "that 1 am far more confident to-day of securing the appropriation for Brooklyn that I was yesterday morning even before the board meeting." The borough president requested The Eagle to correct a false Impression of his actions at yesterday's board meeting in which he was reported as losing the appropriation through falling to force the matter to a decisive vote. Mr. Steers said: "There was absolutely no chance to secure the passage of my resolution, for the reason that eight out of the sixteen votes were against the appropriation. I made every effort to win over even one of those votes, 80 that I might have a majority for the resolution, but not one would yield. The only thing that could possibly save the situation was a postponement to allow for persuasive efforts being brought to bear upon some one of the opposition." Commissioner Pounds, who was present at to-day's interview, corroborated the borough president.

ANDREW B. MARTIN IS DEAD Andrew P. Martin, the oldest expert accountant in the City of New York, died to-day of diseases incident to old age at his home, 1086 Bushwick avenue. Mr. Martin was born In Ireland In 1830, and came to this country when 19 years of age.

He lived in New York until 1861, and after going West for four years, came to Brooklyn in 1865. Some years AgO he was a member of the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn, and especially interested himself in unearthing the defalcation of the late Secretary Stuart of that board. Later he was engaged in investigating the accounts of the penitentiary, and afterward the BCcounts of County Treasurer Harry H. Adams and of his assistant, Mr. Gardiner, which were much involved.

Mr. Martin was appointed a Commissioner of Accounts by the late Mayor Edson of New York City, and was Chief Accountant of the City Works Department of the City of Brooklyn. He it was who prepared the bill for simplifying the accounts of the Commissioner of Accounts, and 80- cured Its passage through the legislature and the signature of Governor Cleveland. Mr. Martin was a thirty-second degree Mason and belonged to Ridgewood Lodge, F.

and A. Ridgewood Chapter, R. A. and Clinton Commandery, K. T.

He also belonged to Kismet Temple, Mystic Shrine, and was a Brooklyn Masonic Veteran, and a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites. He leaves 8 widow, Amanda M. Fash, to whom he was married on January 15, 1856; three sons, William Clarence A. and Harold and two daughters, Lettie A. and Margaret.

The funeral services will be held at his home on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, with the Rev. Henry N. Pfeiffer of the South Bushwick Reformed Church oMciating. Credit Coupon CUT THIS OUT. Must be redeemed Or exchanged within NIX months JULY 18, 1911, BIG WAR MANEUVERS IN LONG ISLAND SOUND WILL BEGIN AT MIDNIGHT Two Squadrons Will Fight for Possession of New York's "Backdoor." NAVAL MILITIA ON SHIPS.

They Come From Eight Coastline States--Seventeen Battleships in the Attacking Fleet. Watch HIll, R. July 18--The most extensive war game that has been played on this part of the Atlantic coast in nine years will be declared at midnight -night. and for forty-eight hours thereafter two squadrons will maneuver and probably fight for the possession of the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound, or what has come to be known as New York's "backdoor." The game will be played principally for the benefit of the amateur tars of eight coastline states, New York, Maine, Massachuetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and also from the Digtrict of Columbia, while Assisiant Secretary of the Navy Winthrop Beekman will watch the play from the cruiser Chicago. The problem for the attacking "Blue" fleet, composed of seventeen battleships of the North Atlantic fleet, which has been assembling at Provincetown, is to penetrate a defensive line drawn from Montauk Point, through Block Island to No Man's Land, six miles off Gay Head the southwestern extremity of Martha's Vineyard.

The defending "Red" fleet is composed of cruisers and torpedo boats, and one of the most formidable squadrons of submarines that has ever fought an enemy--sham or realin American waters. The weather off here to-day favored the attacking fleet, for a thick fog hung like a curtain over Block Island Sound and extended well to the eastward. Reports from Gardiner's Bay, where the defending forces have been assembling for the past two days, were to the effect that the naval militia men were on their respective ships and that the fleet of submarines, composed of the Grayling, Bonita, Narwhal, Salmon, Snapper, Stingray Tarpon, had left Newport and probably would reach the rendezvous early in the 'afternoon. It WAS expected that the submirines would go to sea at midnight and would spend the greater part of the next two days in prowling off Block Island in search of the attacking fleet, while the torpedo boats and cruisers will establish a secondary line of defense. The battle will be fought without the aid of telegraphy, while naval militiamen.

will be distributed among of both the Blue and Red fleets. Unlike the war game off the Southeastern New England coast nine years ago, the contest this year is confined to the navy, and the army will remain silent. OUT OF WORK; SEEKS DEATH Crazed by Trouble, Jobless Baker Becomes Violent When His Reason Flees. Otto Dietz, a baker, raved and struggled in a cell ac the Eastern District Hospital, to-day, crying out that ne wanted to die and would put an end to himself in spite of all efforts to restrain him. Dietz's violence and his persistent attempts commit suicide made it necessary for the surgeons to remove him from the open ward to a padded cell and then to put him into a straitjacket.

it Was feared that he would eventually have to be sent to the Kings County insane Asylum. Dietz had been out of work, and yesterday after vainly tramping the streets in search of a job and hearing with monotonous regularity the same answer 1.0 his question for work, "No, we haven't anything for you," his mind seemed to give way under the strain. He returned home in a despondent mood and in the evening sent his wife and four children to A moving picture show. They returned to their home at 137 Dupont street sooner than expected. Receiving no answer to her calls, Mrs.

Dietz went into the dining room and there found her husband with 8 gas tube in his mouth and all but unconscious. An ambulance was called. At the hospital Dietz expressed regret because he had not killed himself, and tried to choke himself in bed. He was removed to the padded cell and there tried to beat his brains out against the wall. E.

M. SHEPARD IMPROVES. Physician Says He Will Be Able to Return Here in the Fall. It was said to-day that Edward M. Shepard, who has been quite ill at Lake George, will probably be able to return to Brooklyn in the fall.

His condition has slightly improved. Dr. C. I. Henning made the statement that he thought Mr.

Shepard would be able to return 111 the fall. He declared that the improvement in the patient's condition was 80 gradual from day to day as to be hardly noticeable, but that progress can be noted from week to week. POSTAL HEARING, AUGUST 1. The hearing on second-class mail matter by the commission appointed by President Taft, which was set for to-day at the Federal building in Manhattan, has been adjourned to A August 1, so as to permit the Post Office Department to prepare its evidence, which will be introduced first AS the basis of the inquiry. EMPEROR OPENS REICHSRATH.

Vienna, July 18-Emperor Francis Joseph opened the Reichsrath at the Hofburg with the customary ceremonial today. The speech from the throne, which the Emperor read in a strong, clear voice, showed no traces of his recent illness. BRITISH CHIEF RABBI DEAD. London, July 18-The Very Rev. Hermann Adler, D.

chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Britlab Empire, died HOT WEATHER DRINK. ICE TRUST m.o (ITS TOO RICH N.H Ice Trust Nerve Tonic--Take all the ice in sight, put it out of reach; select a few sample cakes, add plenty of high price bitters; reduce number of iceboats and handlers, add more high prices; flavor with "short chestnuts; sweeten with "lower next-year" supples. bunk; put in "liar" coloring matter, serve with hot wave and expect public to swallow it. ALDERMEN ABOLISH TOLLS FOR WAGONS ON BRIDGES Vehicular Traffic Across East River Spans to Be Free Hereafter. The collecting of tolls from vehicular traffic on all the bridges under the jurisdiction of the City of New York was abolished by a unanimous resolution passed by the Board of Aldermen this afternoon.

This includes the tolls on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Williamsburg and the Queens spans. The payment of tolls by the elevated and surface railroads will, however, be continued as at present. The resolution was introduced by Alderman Dowling of Tammany Hall. The motion was carried without a dissenting vote. The abolition of the toll system over the bridges is in line with the attitude of Mayor Gaynor, who has claimed that the bridges of New York are in reality municipal highways and that the public should not be taxed a special toll for the use of such roadways.

This resolution to-day will cause 8 big bridges, but it is proposed to prolarge deficit in the the the maintenance of the vide for this expense by the issuance of special revenue bonds of sufficient amount to cover the deficit, together with the revenue paid by the railroads. Another action of the board taken later in the day was the of Fames J. Molen of the Aerombly of Brocklyn to succeed Alderman William J. Heffernan, who resigned yesterday to accept appointment as Deputy County Clerk of Kings. Mr.

Molen lives at 150 Twenty-third street, and Is an active Democrat in the Forty-eighth Aldermanic district. He is a well-known real estate operator, and has a host of friends, who congratulating him upon his election as a city father. KILLED AS HE USED 'PHONE. Rockville, July 18-Arthur H. Ramagge of Hartford, 25 years of age, was killed by an electric shock Ag he stood at a telephone early to-day in the local sub-station of the Connecticut company, through which high power wires run.

It 18 suppohed that the wires became crossed with those of the telephone 60 that when the young man answered the bell he received the heavy current. HIT WITH STONE; DIES. Anna Weim, 5 years old, of 96 Jeffer601 street, died early this morning at the German Hospital as a result of having been hit on the head with a stone several days ago. CONCRETE MEN WIN A POINT Mayor Sees No Reason, at Building Code Hearing, in Restricting Reinforced Structures. The cinder -concrete Interests in their fight against the discrimination in favor of the hollow tile Interests gained an important point at the public hearing which Mayor Gaynor gave to-day on the proposed bullding code.

The code, as drafted, restricts the height of concrete buildings to 100 feet. The Mayor announced during the course of the hearing that he saw no reason why any restrictions should be placed on the height of buildings constructed of concrete. Chairman Kenneally of the aldermanio committee; Alderman Dowling, Tammany floor leader, and Water Commissioner Thompson were present when the Mayor made this announcement. Kenneally and Dowling have always all the changes suggested in the new code by the cinder -concrete and building trades interests. The declaration of the Mayor to-day will undoubtedly be taken by them a8 A formal notice that the section restricting the of concrete buildings must be eliminated from the proposed code.

T. M. Vinton, speaking of the code, called it "Alderman Kenneally's and charged that the alderman was trying to mislead the Mayor. Ernest Flagg said that the entire code was wrong in theory. He is the architect of the Singer Building.

Mr. Flagg said that the code was drawn with apparently one aim in mind, and neglectjing safety in construction. SONS OF TEMPERANCE MEET. South Manchester, July 18- Delegates numbering about one hundred and and also Canada, ASrepresenting, most of the northern sembled to-day for the fifty-seventh annual convention of the National Division, Sons of Temperance of North America. RACING BILL UP AGAIN.

(Special to The Eagle.) Albany, July 18-The Gitting race track bill, which would permit a resumption of horse racing in the state, may come up again a vote late this afternoon, It 1s not expected to pass. THE REV. FATHER COYLE DEAD. Hartford, July 18-The Rev. George Coyle of Waterbury, a well-known Roman Catholio clergyman, and at one time professor at St.

Thomas' Seminary in this city, died here to-day after ah Illness of several weeks. It was said that he was the only Cathollo clergyman in this state who held the degree of doctor of philosophy. CAT LOOSENS GAS TUBE; AGED SISTERS OVERCOME Margaret Henry, 76, Found Dead Beside 86-Year-Old Sister, Who Was Unconscious. FLUID ESCAPED MANY HOURS. Survivor, Elder of the Two, Is Taken to Hospital, but May Not Recover.

Two aged sisters, who lived a recluse life in an apartment house at 535 Sterling place, were found overcome by gas at 9 o'clock this morning by Policemen Baker and Casey of the Grand avenue station. The younger of the two, Miss Margaret Henry, years old, was dead when the police arrived, but the elder, 16. Miss Ellen Henry, 86 years old, is still alive in the Swedish Hospital, where her case is regarded as one of the most remarkable on record. The sisters had four cats, and last night when they went to bed they left a plate of food on top of the gas stove. The gas was turned off at the burner, but turned on at the wall and the rubber tube from the cock to the burner passed near the plate.

It is believed that in jumping for the food, one of the cats tore the tube from the cock, allowing the gas to flood the apartment. The overturned plate of food partially eaten a and the dead cat told the story. Mrs. Moran, who lives next door, at 531 Sterwling place, was the first to smell the gas. Her bedroom windows open upon the same air -shaft between the apartments as the windows of the Henry sisters; SO that by the time she retired to bed the odor of gas had become so offensive that she was forced to close the windows.

She never suspected that it was coming from next door, believing it was from her own cellar. It was her intention to notify the gas company in the morning. This morning Mrs. Moran discovered that there was no leakage anywhere in her apartment, and the strong odor then led unmistakably to the house next door. She notified other tenants there, who called up the police of the Grand avenue station.

The tenants in the house were too terrified by the great volume of gas which had issued from the rooms of the old women, to render the police any asgistance. Aged Women Found Lying on Floor of Their Kitchen. When the two policemen broke down the door leading into the apartment, which was locked, they found the women lying on the floor in the kitchen, with the body of a pet cat near by. Both of the sisters were apparently dead; but when Ambulance Surgeon Mabee of the St. John's Hospital arrived, he found that there was still little spark of life in the body of the elder woman.

After working over her for an bodr and a half, Dr. had her removed to the Swedish Hospital, where she still lies unconscious. Physicians at the hospital say that the vitality exhibited by the aged woman is wonderful, on but little hope of recovery is held out. The rubber tubing which connected jet with the gas stove, which stood in the kitchen, was found disconnected. The rubber was very loose on the jet, so it is believed that it had slipped off.

Mrs. M. O'Donnell, the janitress of the apartment house, advances this theory in regard to the tragedy. She believes that the two recluses were at work in the kitchen, after eating an early supper, and that finally the elder, Miss Ellen, retired to the bedroom, leaving her sister to finish the work in the kitchen. It is evident that Miss Margaret was boiling some water, for a kettle full of water was found on the stove this morning.

In some way, accidental or otherwise, the tubing fell off and the younger sister was overcome while attempting to fix it. Mrs. O'Donnell belleves that Miss Margaret noticed the absence of her sister from the bed some time during the night, and groped her way into the kitchen to see what was wrong. She probably was overcome while trying to help her sister. The two women have lived in the apartment for the past two years.

They kept aloof from all the neighbors, and little is known in the vicinity about their history. The police have found at least two of their relatives in Brooklyn. They are a niece, Mrs. Sarah Williamson, who lives at 1238 Pacific street, and a brother, Aaron Henry, who is an inmate of the Old Soldiers Home. SAVAGE FINDS A NEW CARUSO Icilius Caleya Resembles Great Tenor and Is Expected to "Make Good." When the North German Lloyd liner Kronprinzessin Cecille arrived to-day from Europe she brought word of a new Caruso and a championship battle to come.

The new tenor is the property of Colonel Henry W. Savage, who discovered him in Milan, at the opera. Icillus Caleya is his name, and he was born on the Island of Malta of an Italian father and English mother. Colonel Savage will star Icilius in the forthcoming English production of "The Girl from the Golden West," in the fall. saw this man coming down the aisle," said Colonel Savage.

"The striking resemblance he bore to Caruso made me think for moment a that it was Caruso, who was in Milan. I knew Caruso was In Paris, and then I saw that it was only a striking resemblance. Icillus is 8 stronger singer and with a little practice will make more than good my fondest hopes. I have also some other fine singers for the production." Billy Papke, the middleweight champino, arrived with his pretty wife and 6-weeks-old baby boy, after an absence of ten months, during which he has fought Ave battles, four in Australia and one in London. He will now take on Sailor Burke and expects to best that husky fighter.

G. Cornell Tarler, the American charge d'affaires at Bangkok, Siam, arrived ou the Cecilie and told of seeing Prince Chakrabhongs, heir-apparent to the throne of Siam, go up in an aeroplane during the February aviation meet. Hugo Blumenthal, banker and reorganizer of rallroad properties, said that 11 the prosecution of the trusts in the United States would cease Europeans would be more eager to take our securities. In Germany, the government favors the combinations, according to Mr. Blumenthal, and nurses them.

"The United States the only laggard nation in the matter of prosperity," said Mr. Blumenthal. DIES OF TROLLEY HURTS. William Nesbith, 65 years old, of 118. Manhattan avenue, died this morning in St.

Catherine's Hospital from the effects of a trolley accident, which occurred on June 20, SHIP TO PROTECT AMERICANS. Second Warship to Be Sent to Haitien Waters. Washington, July 18-At the request of American Minister Furniss at Port au Prince, the United States will send another gunboat to Haitien waters to protect Americans their interests, now seriously threatened by the revolution againat President Simon. The warship will go to Port au Pringe, the capital. The gunboat Petrel is already at Port Liberte on the north coast.

TYPHOON IN LUZON. Manila, July 18-Damage amounting to $1,500,000 has been done by the typhoon and floods in Luzon. The tobacco provinces have been isolated. MAS. BULL'S CHILD DIES; WAS TO WIN WILL SUIT Settlement Was to Have Been Made To-day in Mrs.

Vaughn's Favor. West Lebanon. July 18-Six hours before the time set for the hearing in the Probate Court at Alfred, for the settlement of the famous Bull will contest in her favor, Mrs. Ole A. Bull Vaughan, the contestant of the will of her mother, Mrs.

Ole Bull, died here to-day. The death of Mrs. Vaughn was due to tuberculosis and was not unexpected. During the will trial at Alfred she was unable to be present owing to her illness. Her deposition was taken and several of the lawyers interested in the case interviewed her, but the court did not require her attendance at the hearing 111 which she was so much interested.

The will of her mother, Mrs. Ole Bull, the widow of the famous Norwegian linist, bequeathed the greater part of the property, estimated at half a million dollars, to cercain persons in India. The trial lasted nearly two- monthe and ueveloped an unusual line of testimony in which the contesting lawyers sought to show that Mrs. Bull's disposition of her property had been influenced by reason of her beliefs in certain Hindoo doctrines. Before the hearing in the Probate Court had been finished, an agreement was reached and the case was continued until to-day, when it was expected that lawyers would assemble, present the agreement and obtain the approval of the court to its provisions.

Mrs. Vaughn died at the home of Miss Abby Chapleigh, a nurse in the Bull family for many years. She was 42 years old and was separated from her husband by a decree of divorce, which was issued about the time the litigation over the will began. Her only child died eral years ago. Biddeford, July 18-The agreement by which the contest over the will of Mrs.

Bull was compromised recently was confirmed at special sitting of the York County Probate Court here to-day, the will and codicils being ordered dismissed. Ralph: S. Bartlett of Boston. counsel for Mrs. Olea Bull Vaughan, who died in West Lebanon to-day, filed a petition for administration of the estate.

Mrs. Vaughan leaves three adopted children, her own daughter having died some years ago. INDICTMENT IN STOKES CASE Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad Charged With Attempted Murder and Assault. The Grand Jury, in Manhattan, to-day filed an indictment against Lillian Gra- ham and Ethel Conrad, who shot Millionaire W. E.

D. Stokes, proprietor of the Ansonia Hotel, while the latter was in their apartment in the Varuna Apartment House, a few weeks ago. The indictment was handed up to Judge Crain, in Part in the Court of General Sessions, In Manhattan. It contains three counts against each of the women- one charging attempted murder in the first degree, another charging assault in the first degree, and the third assault in the second degree. Counsel for the women was directed to produce them in court to -morrow to plead to the Indictments.

WOMAN'S ODD WANDERINGS Entered Wrong House, Fell Down Stairs, and Is Now in the Hospital. After 8 night of wandering Alice Reilly, 21 years old, a domestic who lives at 134 Third avenue, was taken to the Long Island College Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon Gordon, after Dr. Scott of the Brooklyn Hospital had refused her attention on the -round that she was Ill with alcoholism and was a case for the police rather than the hospital. told Lieutenant Fay of the Butler street station this morning that she entered the hallway of a house on Bergen street, near Third avenue, late last night, thinking it was her home. She climbed the stairs and tried to open the door to the second fat.

Concluding, finally, that she was in the wrong hous she turned to leave and fell to the buttom of the stairs, injuring her left leg badly. She Anally reached the sidewalk. From that point on to the time she was found by a patrolman her story is very vague. The officer called for An ambulance and one responded from the Brooklyn Hospital, with Dr. Scott In charge.

He treated the woman for alcoholism and a probable fracture of the left leg, but refused to remove her to the hospital. Then Alice was taken to the Butler street station house. From there she was sent to the Long Island College Hospital. At that institution this morning it was said that the only injuries she sustained were several contusions of the hip. THIRD CHARGE AGAINST HAUCK Another charge of burglary was made In the Flatbush avenue court to-day against Henry J.

Hauck, arrested last Thursday. John J. Cullins, 1103 Carroll street, connected with the Brooklyn College, recognized an Elk fob, presented to him twenty-three years ago, among the things found in Hauck's room. Mr. Cullins was robbed on May 26.

The charge was the third one made against Hauck, SHONTS OFFER TO BE ACCEPTED Prendergast, Steers and MoAneny Favor Interborough Guarantee, TO PASS "TO-MORROW" Board of Estimate Will, It Is Said, Take Action Then. INCOME TO BE $11,250.000. Company Will Put $75,000,000 Into Subway Construe. Willcox's private office. Shonts Decides He Needs More Time.

The new proposal of Interborough Rapid Transit Company, in which the city is asked to give the company a preferential income amounting to $11,250,000, now seems sure of acceptance by the Board of Estimate, owing to the new alignment between Controller William A. Prendergast, Borough President Steera and Borough President George McAneny, who are all believed to be in favor of it. As late, however, as 1 o'clock this atternoon President Theodore P. Shonts of the Interborough was in a sharp tussle with Chairman William R. Villcox and Mr.

McAneny, in the conference room of the Public Service Commission, over some details of terms. People in the Commission's offices heard Mr. Shonts' voice raised in anger. The president of the Interborough stormed at the commissioners and the elty confer. ence committee and charged them with departing at the last minute from an agreement made with the Interborough Company, in a talk last night.

talked that matter out with you for two hours last night," said Shonts, his voice rising so high that everyone in the immediate vicinity heard him, "and now you sayAt this point Mr. Shonts lowered his voice and one of the commissioners burriedly closed the transoms of the conference room which abuts on the Keneral sitting room adjoining Chairman It was understood in the early afternoon that the new Interborough proposal would be considered by the Board of Estimate at an adjourned meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock, but the programme was interrupted by the usual postponement. It was announced that Shonts could not whip his proposal into shape until to-morrow morning, when he would submit his plan for action. The new plan will contain the offer of the Interborough to put $75,000,000 into subway construction and will be on terms 80 arranged that the Interborough shall take out 9 per cent. for a period of years and then the city shall get an equal amount.

The Interborough financiers have objected to this point on the ground that the eity its money cheaper than the borrow Interborough can, but the point will be In the proposal. Gaynor Not Present at Morning Meeting. ence. Mayor Advocates a Broadway Subway for the Interborough. The members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment met at 10:30 o'clock this morning.

Mayor Gaynor did not attend. Previously they talked the subway situation over in the office of Mr. MeAneny. Controller Pendergast and Mr. McAneny had previously won over Borough President Steers.

In the talk they influenced John Purroy Mitchel to some extent. They told him of the status of the negotiations with the Interborough company and requested that he put to one side the resolution he was to introduce to-day calling on the Board of Estimate to turn over the amplifled system from Fifty-ninth street north to the Bronx to the B. R. T. The attitude of the Mayor was one of the subjects of discussion.

It WAS learned afterward that in yesterday's talk the Mayor put forward the idea that the subway situation should be taken out of the hands of the committee composed of Mr. McAneny, Mr. Miller and Mr. Cromwell, and placed in the hands of the transit committee of the Board, consisting Aldermanic of Controller Prendergast, President Mitchel and the Mayor himself. On committee the Mayor would be In control, as Mitchel has gone over to his view of subway matters.

The move would have isolated Controller Prendergast; but it was defeated in the confer- In addition, the Mayor proposed that It would be well, if it could be worked out, for the Interborough Company, as well as the B. R. to have a subway through Broadway, Manhattan. The public meeting of the Board of Estimate was held in the regular board room. Mr.

Mitchel presided. The subway situation was the only thing taken up for consideration. "I have my resolution ready upon the Board of Estimate to award the calling completed system, including the lines In Manhattan and the Bronx to the B. R. said the President of the Board of Aldermen, "and I was prepared to ask for A vote on it to-day.

However, If there 1s any hope that An agreement can be reached with the Interborough Company which will be satisfactory to the city, I have no desire to complicate matters and prevent action. What I am after is to expedite action. I would like to ask the committee it there is any chance of a report to-day." "Why, yes," said Mr. McAneny, "I am going to move an adjournment until 3 o'clock this afternoon, at which time I believe that my committee will be in position to present definite recommend1- tions." Mitchel Withdraws His Resolution Calling for Action. "Then I withdraw my resolution," sald Mr.

Mitchel, "tor I shall be only too glad to give you the additional The common understanding in the board was that the Mitchel resolution would have been lost of presented. Mr. McAneny said that it would not be necessary for any outsider to present 1 resolution of the sort Mr. Mitchel had prepared. "Just as soon." he said.

"as it becomes apparent that we cannot do anything with tion..