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7 u. NEW YORK CITY. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1910.

THREE CENTS. Pi NEW WITNESS BARES B.B. T. TO GET SAYS CONGER MADE PLEA I lion of its railroads, branches or extensions, from which sale it realized the sum of at least $105, 000. "That after June 6.

ISM. and before September 1. 14. the ilefendant issued HE FEIGNED SUICIDE JDST ONCE TOO OFTEN with it. I am connected with the Evening Dr.

Parkhurst was then asked if ho knew the names of any of the newspaper men with whom he hail talked yesterday, and he replied that he did not. Almost in the next breath, he named a man to whom he had given a dispatch yesterday, but pajthful Wife Had Always Saved Him Before, but This Time He Died. turbances arising from the strike of sugar I cane cutters. The strikers have gathered EXTORTED MONEY BY BLUFF.1'" eonsiderable numbers at St. Francois i and are pillaging the surrounding coun- I try.

They are killing domestic uuiinals he said that this dispatch, had nothing in it like the article in which he was quoted, and then when ho was asked to imint mil unmn tit ihn PVtiri'Diilfllln lK used in conversation yesterday which appeared in the allegedly fake Interview, he I I aid that he could not discover a single one of his expressions, although he had previously stated that a few the ex- pressions were nis own. 0nv for that the senators were impatient lo get through with the i session, it is believed tnat nr. I'arll-; hursi's memory would have been given a few sharp prods, for he displayed a very poor memory malting; his stau mont. nr isrnaip was s.msna wuu un? fart that it had one Hearst rmployfi pub- Uy and oath branding a story in a Hearst newspaper as a fake, and let. it go at thut.

Several reporu-ri who were i present v.hen Dr. I'arUhurst was on the srand. asked whv he had not noinled anTthcy "o'uW noTbe a'eusoTof "wrmng them. 'Oh, I notleed you looked ihe other way when Meade asked you to look around at was a good move, for otherwise, I think everyone would have eommented on the fact that you said you did nor. know me." 1 Dr.

Parkhursr said that he did not know whether Major Dickinson of the American staff wrote the article whicn he denounced, or not. Malby's Opinion of Nixon. i I I Kolr, with rl.InK temp ruin re? niiclit anil Saturday northerly to iarlalle winds. STRIKERS PIIXAGE COUNTRY. Troops and Warships Sent to Guade loupe to Preserve Order.

I'ointe-a-l'itre, Guadeloupe, February 25 I Fores ocf police have gone to 81. Fran-j eois to protect the natives there, several of whom have been killed during the dis- Governor Gautret today announced the arrival of reinforcements of troops from Martinique and that ihe French armored cruiser Victor Hugo was on the way here to aid in preserving TAFT BILL REPORTED Interstate Commerce Act as Re- vised by Wickersham Favored. Measure Cieates Court of Commerce and Amends Interstate Law. Washington, February I "onsidfTa- liou of the adiuIuiatraMon bill to oreate a court of commerce and amend the in- tcTRtate eomraeree laws was eon eluded to-day by the Senate committee on lertate commerce and It was ordered reported. Tho vote on the bill was 6 to The majority report will recommend the passage of the bill in form practically aa it was revised recently by Attorney General Wickersham.

The minority also will make a report. A BILL ij bpeaker Wadsworth Told Him It Would Reopen Door to Overloading Small Towns With Bridges. ANIMUS OF CONGER CHARGES. Ur OUNUCn Wnnui. Allds' Attorneys Will Attempt to Piove It Was Due to Part Accused Took in Killing This Bill.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany. February 23 At tho Allds-Conger bribery invcsl igation by the Senate to-dnv the attorneys fur Senator Allds tried hard to prove mat. uio mum cause behind Senator Conger charges was the part Allds took iu killing tho Heacock bill of last year, which would have restored to the bridge companies -i part of the advantages they enjoyed under the old highway bill. All hough hampered by a technical object ion. the uttorneys made it clear that I Referee Reoorts for Brooklyn i Heights in Suit Against Brooklyn City.

LOSER LEASED TO NNEH. I i B. H. T. Has 999-Year Lease Biooklvn City and Can Collect the Judgment.

Under a report or former Judge D-Cady Herri, sit jnr as referee, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad fompany. the chief sub- I sidiary of Ihe Brooklyn Rapid Transit recover from me I nit.utviiii niiiiruuti i 0111 Liii auviiic. subahliary. the sum of This is probably tlu IflrRpsi ju'lgmi-nt I ,,,,,1 srh the beer tlon rfi)nr'. 01 ine rivrer nas iiui jn, lonflrmed by the courts, ronflrma- will undoubtedly be announced iu thp near future.

As the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com pany has a Wfl-year lease of the property of the Company, for which (t nav8 HU annual rental of thereis no question but the judRinont wih be collected. Accord ing to officers of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the miit which resulted in the announccnient to-day of the enormous award was not wha; is known as a "friendly action." It aros out or tne lease, wnicii was ip-i'io in nnd was Ik gun ten year ogo, the trial continuing down to the present It has all along been the contention of lectrlfying the Brooklvn City Railroad Company's system. It wa? iu June. that the Brooklyn Heights took posses- sion of the Brooklyn City a3 lessee, and on unnd her eleven-vear-old daughter. Congressman George R.

Malby. who ni Larsen was a victim of gas naa a iiaDit or wretnng wmsnjr; ttt-j? v. xruiii wilt: uy aui- ing On Gas. John Auzust Larson, a laborer of iho threatening to commit suicide. times he would carry out the threat half way and seare Mrs so much that Fhe was tl givc niin stop him.

After Larsen recovered from these suicidal bluffs he would go off and get drunk. Last night he tried this method of i preying on his wife's sympathies once too I often and to-dav he is dead. His body found in the bedroom of his honiM at 1414 Atlantic avenue by Mrs. Larsen poisoning, a gas jet having been his usual uiethjil of feigning suicide. Larsen approached his wife for money as usual last night.

Mrs. LarHen wait tired of supporting her husband, and she refused to give him any more money. "Yon use it all for drink," she said, and she upbraided him for not working and for making her support the house. "I haven't got a cent now, and you'll have to go wiihout It," she concluded. Larsen pretended to be deeply hurt.

He walked into the bedroom muttering that he was going to end it all. and the wife, thinking no more about him, slammed the door and went out witu her daughter. The husband tried the usual scheme turning cn the gas. and he drifted oiT into unconsciousness, fully expecting IQ be rescued as usual. Mrs.

Larsen was not in the house this time. As he lansed into unconsciousness he must have renl-ized his danger for he staggered from the bed and in an. effort to turn off the gas Jet fell to the floor. The gas still escaped, and pretty soon Larsen was dead. On returning a lew hours later.

Mm. Larsen and her daughter smelled the gas i There were three absentees when the the Rrooklyn Heights that, under the committee met to-day. They were Till- terms of the leasp the Brooklyn City of riouih Carolina. Foster of 1-ouisi- ppreed to issue worth of necuri-aua, and Taylor of Tennessee. With 1 ties in bonds and in these three Democrats absent the result stocks and to expend the proceeds in Allds had talked with both Speaker si10uld have a vote on such expenditures.

Wadsworth and Majority Leader Merritt After the bill reached the Assembly. Mai- i last April when this bill was in the by said. Speaker Nixon told him he fa-ot the Assembly Kults Committee in the vorpd fu was a foregone conclusion, resulting as follows: For the administration bill Senators Elkins OV. Va.) Cullom Aldrlca (R. Kean tX.J.), Crane Nixoti (New).

Against Clapp (Minn. Cummins (Iowa), and Hughes Xo contest was made against reporting the measure to-dnv. so far as the present at Ion of amendments was con- i losing days of the session, and raor any pro))Pry or than indicated that the action of this rc.garQ. t0 thiS legislation, and Ihe which Waditworth and Merritt ness replied: except what I have control, in putting an end lo this meas- staled." ure, was largely due to Allds' efforts. abul Mervlw Nixon.

Malby volunteered the state- Question of Admissibility of Allds' ment "that the late speaker was a very Conversation Will Indicate Atti- I ll'l menced, was carried on to completion. magazines are coming in. arrangements At that time the directors of the In delving among the e.urioa of Ihe li I Vu? n-thT for hi. releaVe Brooklyn Heights were large s.oc-khold- brary collection. Chaplain Fleming un-j 1 his fvVodorn ers in Brooklyn City system.

Con- I earthed two -ledge, used in the Greely 1 Gou" sequen.ly. when the Brooklyn City an- Relief of 1M4 and placed them ,3 aJv, the lat-nouneed that It had expended all of the in an upright position along ihe walls hp prop. and sold of its capital stock! I land of Its bonds, as provided: for in the fifth paragraph of the lease jset forth In the third finding of fact here-, in and rcrpjvprt for SIO( alI(1 b011ds morl than inai Kinc ine bin aav ot june, jth; dfffndani has jhUI and transferred! ovr to tho plaintiff or paid in its bchai! I for the purpohe of conHtrucf ion of sflid railroad, as provided for In the lease de- scrlbfd in the third finding of fact, here in the sum of t.25.74i.2, of which amount the sum of const ituted ihe value of supplies on hand in the pos session of the defendant June ti. 1 and which was transferred and charged to the plaintiff herein, and accepted by the plaintiff as a payment on account of the proceeds of the stock and bonds nvn-jtioned in the eighth paragraph of said lease. "That June 6, ISM, and before September I.

the plaintiff expended in oonversiun of the railroads specified in said lease dated February 1. ISM. in onvPiiig the said railroads from hor railroads to railroads operated by elec- rli.it,' than ti til Ok in i.v.-f. h. jjo tllP pJBtntin Or ItlOntes IiatU OUt.

IV I lie defendant for nl un bhalf uf thv plain- tiff. 1 I IHT' 11 II CM Ullf il II from 'tho said to Thn nlaintiff of1 with inif-reKt ihrn-oii from; jriptrabpr 1, 18H4, to ihe dat- hrt'of, bn- ing thf sum of 1 1 amounting; in all to the sum 01 TDC DIIDU IIIUIF flF 1 77R 'WnO UUMll fULUIllLO Ul 1 I I i Many Old Books Destroyed at Navy Yard. and Changes Many in Library Greely Belief Sledges Are Used as Decorations in Room. Substantial improvements are being made on thc library at Cob Doi k. Brooklyn Xavy Yard.

Tile library is used by the nu or tnt Receiving snip Han- cock, and is in charge of Protestant chaplain J. Painting and t-e- pair work sre being done, and new books; of the library. The sledges were th around lie world and wlio was one nf tlie officers of the Bear, relict ship iu the Greely expedition. the library made It The changes in necessary for several hundred of ver old books to be burned some days ago. A few of ibese date back as far as the Revolution, ne collection Hart ni-en noaruea lor many years hy navy of- fii-ials clear them out.

Among them were mis cellaneous volumes of hisiorv and travel. CLARK GOT HIS TELEPHONE There Was a Battle Between Workjng Crew and Women; 1 i. T- TI viwn jrroieaieu, Against Erection of Poles Ou Beautiful Streets, Joseph Clark of 7-'ti East Thirty-second street is sorry jmd Joseph E. Clark is glad. Mr.

Clark, former president the Thirty-second Ward Taxpayers Asso- ciauuu. puonc-spiriieu citizen ana nat'-r of all that is tiglv in our dtv streets is happy family. glid. beciuisi." ho now Li." has a murh-needed telephone in his houpe. Two weeks ago Mr.

(Marie moved trom Glenwood road to his new home at 72t -Fast Thirty-second street. He wanted to ge; a trdrpnone ino his new residence The Telephone Company would be giad to let him havp a telephone, but it would be necessary to put up some new polf-s on Bast Thirty-second street. There was struggle between the former president of the taxpayers ami the lawyer. The latter won, and tho company was told to go ahead, When the telephone erew invaded East Thirty-second stre'et. they were met by some women, bended by Mrs Katner and Mrs.

R. A. Godard. There a war of wor.ls. and a policeman was called.

The men retreated for a couple hours. They returned armed with the i i i 1 1 I s0" eerncd. The majorily ot ihe committee question was raised as to the accuracy of property of the States Navy and had made it plain, following the state- the report. In 185, however, former were brought to he yard years ago by nient made bv the Attorney General, that Governor Flower and A. X.

Brady, rep- (Admiral Lmory. who commanded the sec-it. would sutmort the bill In the form resenting themselves and other new in-! ond division of the fleet which went tude of Senate. Tho aucstlon or whether or not Alias conversation with Assemblyman Merritt nml Ihe (Speaker on this topic was ail-i mlsslblo evidence will be decided by the Senate probably next Tuesday. fcemUor Grady served notice he will demand fl roll call, and if he succeeds In his pur- in i pose, the results will the first re- nine: Senators on the Conger Although his attorneys already have leit no doubt what Allds' attitude was toward to the Headock bill, the admis- slon ot his actual statements will he a ,1, I I I desired by the administration.

The minority, therefore, contented itself with obtaining the adoption of a motion that any member might have the right to present his dissenting view with the majority report. YOUNG BIRD HAS FLOWN Thought to Have Induced Cousin to Go With Him. An'drew Bird Came Out of Truant School a Few Says Ago. Cousin Misled. Detectives of the Greenpolnt police station and the police in general are actively engaged to-day in searching fut two boys Albert Rossa, lii years old, of 127a Dupont street, and Andrew Bird, 1(i years old, who was at 149 Eckford street.

It was at first thought that" the Rossa boy had gone off alone, nut it was later discovered that Bird, who is tho Rossa boy's cousin, had also disappeared and a general alarm was sent out for both. ins that the bridge companies had been The Hcncock bill Increased th; niuount i fighting in former years. This measure, of money town officers were allowed to he said, was favorably reported on by the appropriate for bridge improvement with- irternal affairs committee, b'tt. lator, ob-out submitting the matter to w8a raisel was referred BRIBERY CHARGES AT TRIAL OP FURLONG Cotthelf's Uncle Tells of a Deai Where Defendant Is Accused of Petty Craft, and Gives Details. MAGISTRATE IS DENOUNCED.

pormer Acsociate Who Haa Police Record, Declares He Is Better Than Man Now Facing Allegations. I.con Cut if. tin um le of Jacob Ouulielf. chief accuser or Magisira'e Henry .1. Furlong, who is charged with having accepted bribe nionfy in his magisterial capacity, was the new sensation by the district attorney in Part V.

Criminal Branch of ihe Supreme Court, his morning. It is there that, the trial of Magistrate Furlong is taking place. Loii CotMielf Hwoi-e that he. while employed as a messenger in the Raymond Sireet jail, made the lirst arrangements for securing bail for Simon I'ltnl. Simon Fital is the man who was adjudged guiliy a.i a disorderly person by Magistrate Hylan.

Vital had been twit in-rendered by his bondsmen, and it is nargiil that Furlong got for a bail bond In the case. The epi-ioile is tile iigal t'otllnla; ion of the charge laiinil int. hl-i til' a It I II lllagiS- owner through whom bail bonds were secured for Furlong's signature. He swore that Magistrate Furlong and Jacob (jonhelr retired to a room at. 3'i7 Full on Jacob (iotthelf's office, af- llu nr8( fieps secure bail tor I'ttai i hat after Jacob Got.

lu'lf and Furlong had been in the room a few rmnheir came out wiih a paper. "'It's aH Jacob 'old me." witness testified. -He said' Furlong had signed ih discharge for L'i i a 1 Tin lrtiirr Tlnii nun cecl In Tlvnmntic. Mall ner by Witness. To-da'-'s hearing was enlivened by a dramatic denouncement of Furlong by Jacob Got belt, alleged lo have been his former "capper" in the graft conspiracy.

Willi all my record. I never did the ihlims Furlong did." he cried, when hit WM rferrod to uouriia -ii'Man. Some liitle heat was injected into the proceedings by the clashes between Um district attorney and his assistant. Mr. Elder, and W.

Bourke t'ockran. Lon unifying said: was anxious to get hail, ut he said Hylan wouldn't accent bond. I spok -to Jacob nbov il. I told Lt.nl I could get bail. I told him it would cost bin; He gave nie J2o and a watch.

"Jacob GotMielf called up his sister. Mrs. Arnstein. to sign the d. Jacob also called up Magistrate Furlong.

Mrs. Arnstein igned some paper and I tlit, ot.1 vn; m. mJ. of fl- til. h- hi.r The wiiness tesi ified that ttal wan let out of the prison tho next day after FurloiiK signed thc discharge.

Witness, under cross examination, defended his conduct in bail for Vital by saying that this ts an everyday custom among all messengers at all jails. "We get. no he said, "and that's the only way we earn our money." been Cochran said. "As a Tammany politician." "What far?" "Obstructing the sidewalk. It was a shakedown." Gotthe.lf Tells of Threats Made While in Jail.

Gotthelf was still on the stand when the Furlong trial was resumed this morning. The former runner in the a'- unless he I Furlong) got him bail, whibi Gotthelf was recently in jail, he woul tell the district attorney all he knew about Furlong. Witness said this friend, Silsberger by name, had been sent to him after he (Gotthelf) had been arrested and placed in Raymond Street Jail on a change of bribery. Go'thelf denied, however, that he had demanded that Furlong pay him $1,000. which amount Gotthelf is alleged to have embezzled while acting as a receiver in a bankrupt proceeding.

Gotthelf was indicted by the Federal Court on this charge. isiratc Hylan had given him "hell" for having freed Uttal on bail. Gotthelf sail he told Furlong there would have been no question had Furlong told Hylan than he iGotthelfi had brought the Vital bail bond to him. He said Hylan knew he (Gotthelf) was all right This statement oroused Bourke Cockran to sarcasm, and he asked the witness if he thought himself better thau Magls- trate Furlong. "Do you, a former convict, a perjurer and a man who has had three wives, say this?" demanded Cockran.

"Yes. I do; even though I was Magis trate Furlong's catspaw and did his dirty work, I never did what Furlong did." Gotthelf cried, dramatically. "I don't earn what I was. I never was guilty of sucli things as Furlong." Marcus Pius Makes Several Interest ing Revelations. Marcus Plus, formerly owner of the much-talked-of properly at 025 Glenmore avenue, was called.

He said he knew Rutherford W. Knthan by sight. He wnS asked to tell of the deal whereby he sold the Glenmore avenue property. He said P.T"-5': T. through Gotthelf.

for $150 for 't. The property carried three mortgages, which explains why it brought so little actual cash. Cockran and Elder had a warm clast' 1 froiu julj. vote. This amount was lowered by the highway law of 1SKI5 to a point which is sa'd to have forced 60 per cent, of the bridge companies, in this state out uf bLslness.

Last April the measure passed the Senate nnd went to the Assembly rules committee. Speaker Wadsworth Says Conger PleaUed for Heacock Bill. Sneaker Wadsworth took the stand to-i day and testified that both Conger and visited him while the bill was Alids had before his committee. Conger, ho satd, Pleaded for the measure but thc Speaker said: "I told him that the committee was apparently opposed to the bill and there was Utile chance of a favorable i.i.m. i tni.i Mm i Kin I 1 I iti.n00.000 in the direction Indicated, no terests, entered the situation, organizing I what is known as the Brooklyu Rapid Transit Company, The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, in lS9ti, took over all the siock of lie Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company.

Thereupon Colonel T. S. Williams, as vice president of thc B. R. as well as the representative of the new interests, began an inqulrv to determine how the Brooklyn City Railroad Company had ds- charged lis obligations to the Brooklyn Heights, lis lessee.

One of the first, dis- closures in the invest Igal ion was an hp expendedniost (6,000.000 In acrordsnce with the terms of te lease. Examination seemiiy demonstrate i .1... wi, diverted to dividends, operating ex penses- and' lo other debts of the Brooklyn City Railroad. Company. Expert accountants.

In going over the books, apparently 'corroborated the disclosures of the inquiry, with the resul' thai in 19'M the directors of Ihe Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company instituted an aetioi. ag-iinst the Brooklyn city, for the pur-j pose of recovering the unexpended bal-; ance of the $. (sill. 000. then estimated to: be about J2.

000. (inn. It was this ictioi. on which ex-Judge Herrick. as referee.

I reported to-day in his report, tne lormer juuge ueeities that KI.74n.25S.38 Is due the Brooklyn the testimony taken more i ,7 .111.. pages of typewritten matter. After inrorporating the usual formal! ties in his report, former Judge U-Cady Herrick proceeds: "That crior to the execution of thc hereinafter referred to in the third finding of fact ths defendant, the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, had for some time been engaged in transforming its railroad from one operated by horses one to be operated by electricity, and had entered into contracts therefor, which were rhen outstanding and in effeci; and for the purpose of raising money for; such transforming and construction it had i issued and sold its stock and bonds to a considerable amount. on fhP 14th aaT of the parties hereto executed an instru-1 meni wherebv the defendant, the Brook- Iyn Hty Railroad Company, leased unto 'he Brooklyn Heights Railroad Compa T.iwoaa and ra any nnd its successors, the railroad and rail-j i I I. I I i 1 I I.I.

of From the circumstances surrounding He'ghis Railroad Company as principal. Irr- heeause the New York "Were vou present when Judge Furlong the case It Is evident that Ihe Rossa boy, and 1. 8Up Company has succeed in defying public m'tioT hntnC see Judge Furlong sign the ant school since Uncoln's birthday, and learning of ihe immense amount of t-rmmed opposition on the part of Van- discharge?" then he was only released on parole. It "mP of case would involve IK" drrvrer Park residents, put up some uew "No. He and Furlong went into a litis believed that he Induced his r0usln aml ier' telephone poles on Rit Thirtv-serond le room and left me outside.

Later to take $45 whloh had been saved by Atrial more" tan do'-i Joseph Clark, the Jacol came ou, with a paper and said it hi parens, for a vara, ion fund. I 1111 i i was alright. He said Judge Furlong had Young Roasa has ber a favorite In Tre "iiAS -r 'ilTi fr "Ud tho clm.HW." filled than i.5w I Is w. testified, tl.000 was delivered to would reopen the door to the bridge mi, hi. nfflco ot tho Cnnimi The i 'it luunu Israeli prosirait-u, aim hurry call was sent for an Ambulance Surgeon Crriffln responded from John's Hospilal, but after working over the man for some time pronounced him dead.

Larsen, according to the wife's statement, was of the good-for-nothing sort. had begun to bring court proceedings -n Kit ii si mill i or ia i in re suiuui i mi, hMt hr lifl he was not aware of her intentions. The victim was 43 years old, and left, besides his wife and young daughter, a son John, it) years old, who is in thy United States Army service iu Illinois, OLD SOLDIER TIRED OF LIFE Edward Axman Turned on Gas and Went to Bed. Found by Landlady in Time to Save His Life Temporarily-J-Ex-pected to Die. Edward Axman, 80 years old, who occupied a furnished room on tho third floor of an apartment house at.

1549 Gates avenue, which is owned by Mrs. Sophie Dlrton, attempted to lake niKht bv lnhaiing gas. Mn his life last Dicton de- the odor ot gas and traced it to 'he man's room, where she found him stretched out on the bed, bleeding from the nose and mouth. She opened tho wjndow and lhen suumoned Ur. Gilmar- tin from the German Hosiptal, who re moved the man to that Institution, and he Is not expected to live.

According to Mrs. Dicton, the old man hired a room at her place Sunday night and yesterday afternoon talked with her about a son who, he said, was not doing the right thing for him, aud at times the man wept. Axman is a veteran of the Civil War, and his only means of support Is a small pension which he receives from the government. He told the housekeeper that he was very lonely, and would willingly give his pension money over to anyone who would take him and care for him the rest of his days, or el3e he would like to go to a home. His son.

of whom he talked, resides on Ralph street with his wife, according to what Axman told Mrs. Iiietou. It is alleged that this is the third time the old soldier has tried suicide. SAYS WIFE SOUGHT HIS LIFE. Mnn Declares Woman Tried to Slash-and Chased Him With Knife.

Gustave Rosenzweig. a painter, of 677 Franklin avenue, charged his wife Cus-sie in the dates avenue police court this morning with threatening to murder him with a huge knife Iiisl Monday. He said she called him a coward and a cur, and then grabbed the knife and chased him round and round the room. He is tall but very slender: his wife Is heavy and robust, besides being tall. Mrs.

Rozen-sweig said her husband struck her with a can. and to prove it brought a can to court. She startled the magistrate In- declaring herself the mother of eighteen children in her twenty-eight years of iifu she eho was in the Senate in Ut'il, and introduced the first of the bridge bills for the defeat of which Conger saya the bridge companies put up $6,000. said that he had Introduced the hill at the reouest of the pe0ple of Mulone, a town hi his dlsirlct. The townspeople had an Indignation meeting, he said, over the report that the, town commissioners of highways were about to replace a stone bridge with a stell structure, and yet in Ihe absence of laws on such matters, they were powerless to prevent, such an act.

He introduced the bill to take away such power from the hands of town official. and tn fflve ft lo the Inwnsneonle who i ance Ot.o Kclscy. who was a member the Assembly ruls committee In IWH. tfjil ha nrt pofnl inn nf fliu. ki" i mm cll69ion of thc stPVPns highway bill lo the committee thai year.

ni, nui. ni.k Measure, Before hi ginuine the investiani ion this mnrninsr ihn Snn i dpeidcil ro ndioiiru at oVolU ex, Tuesday morninR. i ne nnme or ueorge ubukhiv 01 in- wood. iDrnier cnairman or me scinbly Internal Affairs Committee, ap tile testimony in, Ihe early iinrt nf tn-flnv's nvesi entlon. C.

s. Brldgeman or Kendall. Orleans County, who was an Assemblyman in 11103-04, said he introilueed a highway bill In 190.1 which contained the llmitsllon on bridge build- i back to the committee and there killed. Asked who raised Ihe objection he said It was Doughty. Brldgeman declared that he made several -unsuccseeful efforts to get his bill out of the committee after this.

Bridgeman and F. J. Brill of Oneida, an Assemblyman In 1901. 1902 and 190D. de- clared they never had been "approached" by any one regarding bridge legislation Brill was a member of the Internal Af- fairs Committee where so many of the antl-bridgo conmanv bills met their end.

Ex-Senntor I.uke A. Keenan of Long Island City, a member of the Assembly Affairs Committee in 1901 said way without cross-examination. Louis McKinotry of Fredonia, clerk of the late Speaker S. Fred Xixon, was ques- regarding his recollection of he OI APrii w'tien. ana witness said he had no remembrance of seeing either Moe or Conger that morning.

THIS DOG GETS A BAD NAME Said to Have Attacked Children as Well as Adults. The police of the Bedford avenue sta tlon, under the direction of Captain Dooley. has started a search for a large black dog which has been running loose in me vicinity oi avenue ami North Sixth street for several weeks past. The captain has given Instructions to kill the animnl. because it has been attacking adults and children, and 1 it ten them.

The latest victim of the animal's attack was James A. McXally, a mechanic, 26 years old. of 273 Manhattan avenue. He was passing Metropolitan avenue and North Sixth street this morning when the dog leaped at him. and bit him on tho left hand.

The dog then disappeared. The wound was cauterized at the Eastern District Hospital, and McNally was advised to go to tbe Pasteur Institute in Manhattan for further treatment. Another victim of vicious dog was Mrs. Helen Sweeney, 47 years old, of 120 South Second street. She was visiting the home of her friend.

Mrs. Anna Mar-low, at 291 Hooper street, last evening, and was suddenly attacked by a pet dog.) owned by Ihe latter. The animal had been a pet In the faintly for over a year, and never had exhibited a vicious temper. Mrs. Sweeney, at the time, wbb making no effort to fondle the dog.

When she failed to pay any attention to It It suddenly sprang at her and fastened its teeth in her left hnnd. Mrs. Marlow drnvo it away. Mrs. Sweeney was assisted to thc Kastern District Hospital, where the wound wns cauterized by Dr.

Cohen, after which she was advised to go for further treatment to the Pasteur Institute. HE WANTED TO BE SHOT "Shoot me, shoot me. I want to die." With these words a wild-eyed individual rushed up to Policeman Thayer of the Atlantic avenue station at Fulton street and Troy avenue last night and gave the guardian of the peace quite start. "You need a padded cell more than anything else," replied tho policeman as he placed tho man under arrest. He had considerable trouble before he landed him at the station housel When Lieutenant John J.

AVood began to question Ihe man, the fellow begged him also to kill him. ''Shoot mc and put me away," said tho man. "I'll put you away all righl, but I won't shoot you." said Lieutenant Wood. It's the hospital for you." Surgeon Griffin of John's Hospital was'notilled and found that the man was Buffering from dementia. Ho was removed to the Kings County Hospilal.

He said- his name was Joseph Micplasky. 42 years old, a tailor, ot 172 Harrison avenue'. 1 i I I I necessary legal document. The poles arejlojd a 0f 'Magistrate Furlong thai ''I am sorry that the protest of my roads owned, constructed or operated by neighbors against this further Invasion the said lessor in the City of Brooklyn for was in vain but 1 am glad I got mv tele-the period of 99S years. That the said phone." said Mr.

Clark to-day. lease was dulv ratified and approved by erected SEARCH OF YEARS ENDS. Covered Two Continents and Terminated When Father Found Slayer of His Daughter. companies to overloading the small country towns with bridges." Conger's reply, according to the witness, was that tho bill should pass be cause voters In small towns were 'narrow-minded' on questions of appropriating money. Speaker Wadsworth said Highway Commissioner Hooker also condemned tho bill.

Before ho had Ibis conversation with Conger, the Sneaker said, he had talked with Allds. In the discussion over the admission of Allds' statement Senator Grady declared: The basis of this investigation Is what i occurred In 1909," and said that Allds had a right to show the motivo that might have Influenced Conger to make his charges after finding he was "balked" by thc defendant in his desire to amend the highway law. Parkhurst Eepudiates Statement Attributed to Him. Utlerly repudiating a statement attributed to him In a Xew York morning paper about the Allds-Conger Investigation, the Itev. Dr.

Charles H. Parkhurst took tho stand soon after noon and neatly extricated himself from what "seems to be a serious situation." as counsel Allds put it. His repudiation was of the interview in which ho was quoted as saying: "I have talked with many senators of both parties and not one of (hem has told me that lie has not already virtually made uo his mind against Senator Allds." The clergyman, who is iid here in the interest of another one of the Hearst papers "writing tip" his Impressions of the Senate Investigation, was called sharply to task by Senator Meade and others, who demanded that he make an immediate explanation of the statements attributed to him. The spectacle of an employe of one of the Hearst newspapers being called on to explain away the enterprise and overzeal of a fellow employe who had seized a chance to make copy by "Interviewing" him, affected the risibilities of several of the senators, most of whom had never seen Dr. Parkhurst before, and not one nf whom had talked with him with anything like the freedom which tho article would Indicate.

"I would like to be sworn," said Dr. Parkhurst. who appeared to enjoy the Interruption of the Investigation which he had caused, as he was called to the stand between Otto Kelsey and Congressman Malby. Tho clerk administered the oath, and then Parkhurst, standing In front of the witness chair, made the following statement: "Mr. O'arr could hardly have been niore surprised than I was tn find Hint article in the paper this morning.

I was especially surprised to see the quotation marks. I did recognize a few of the sentences as my own. I have asked uo Senator about his vote," "Hr. Parkhurst, do you know who wrote thai article?" sternly demanded Senator Meade. "Xo.

sir. I had general conversation with a number of gentlemen yesterday, and I remember having lised some of these expressions, but I said nothing about the vote of any Senator." 'Tiid you send any telegram to the American?" "I had no communication whatsoever wllh that paper. I am not connected W. Bourke Cockran went exhaustively Chicago. February 25 The story olWa'hno Gonhelf's past record yesterday and father's three-rear search in two contl-' moring- "id developed the fact.

neuts for the slayer of his daughter was i hn'' beVl of iceny when hut 18 or vears old. revealed to-day when Kleebntes Hiotis cockran treated Gotthelf with scant 20 years old. was arrested with the aid 1 courtesy throughout his eross-examina-of a government immigration inspector. tion, repeatPdly declaring, for the benefit According to the police, the prisoner lha! he believe Got.t-admitted his identity and confessed ,0 trrX imV killing the girl, Filipici Pamaskls, 17 1 years oil. but insisted the tragedy wa3 Witness Touches 011 Mysterious Uttal accidental.

I Case. loved my daughter." said Peter; Gotthelf told of a conversation he hal the neighborhood in which he lived. He has been a close student and was also a member in good standing of the Green-point V. M. C.

A. He was sent to the latter place a short time ago because. 7ZTJ tall and extremely thin, and his parents decided that a gymnasium course would build him up. Mr. Young, one or the directors of the V.

M. C. says that the boy had no bad habits. WIFE NAMES ACTRESS Mice ctauane Maria OM-Aennnrl PIISS Oievens IVIdae orespona- ent in Divorce Suit. eio.

Whitestone Society Wcman Chaiges Husband With Improper Relations With Fair Member of Theatrical Co. Florence Stevens, also known as Flor- ence Cook, who Is described as an actress, and who had part In tho play, "The Gentleman from Mississippi," Is named as co-respondent In a suit Tor divorce that was on the ready calendar in Special Term of the Queens Supreme Court at Flushing to-day. Justice Keliy presiding. The plaintiff is Olive M. Rliterbusi wife of Conrad Ritterbtis.

an architect, with offices at 15G Fifth avenue, Manhattan, and a home at Whitestone, in Queens Borough. Mrs. Ritterhusrh charges her husband with improper relationa with the actress at a hotel In Manhattnu a rear ago. The Ritterbusch family has lived ai White- stone a number of vears. maintaining a nave a son HI years 01.1 A large delegation of prominent White stone people were in court to-day.

waiting to be called as witnesses. WRIT OF ERROR FOR HEIKE. Claim of Immunity of Man Indicted in Sugar Frauds to Be Examined by Supremo Court. Washington, February 23 The claim of Immunity of Charles R. Heike, under indictment in connection with New York sugar frauds, will be examined into by me Sunreme Court ot the United States.

Justice Lurton to-day issued a writ of error, bringing the matter to the Supreme Court for review. AMERICANS AT YOKOHAMA. Tokio. February 25 The steamer Cleveland, Tvith 700 American tourists aboard, arrived at Yokohama to-day. TnrklKh nnth, Clinton St.

Atwayi oprn for gentlemen. Ladlts 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Air. rights and meant to preserve them and "np home in the fashionable section, and hat she would not allow her husband In I figuring prominently in society.

The cou-the house again. The magistrate said she 1 uee married twelve years, and Damaskls. the slam girl's father, "but with Furlong in the lital matter. Fur-my wife did not want him for a snn-in long told him. the witness said, that Mag- the stockholders of the plaintiff and fpn(lanf "On the 17th day of April.

1S9S. the plaintiff and defendant, authorized by the boards of directors nf the respective com panics, duly executed and delivered a eon- tract, by which, among other things, the defendant agreed to deliver the lease set forth In the third finding of fact herein to the plaintiff upon the 17th day of April, W3. if nt that date there should have 1 been deposited with the Xew York Guar- i antee ami Indemnity Company as trustee two hundred and seventy thousand shares of the capital stock of the Long Island Traction Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the state of West Virginia. "On the 6th day of June. 1 S03.

the New-York Guarantee and Indemnity Company caused to he deposited under article 35 of the lease the M.O'lO.noo guarantee fund therein provided, and the plaintiff took possession of the road. That up to the 6th day of June. ISPS, the defendant continued to operate the lines of road mentioned in said lease, nnd to receive the proceeds thereof, paying the employes and operating expenses of said road up 10 and including the 5th day of June, 1893. "That after the execution of the lease mentioned in the third finding of fact herein the defendant, continued the work of construction iu transforming its lines into an electric railroad, prior to the Gth day of June. 1803.

and expended in such work of construction aud transforming Its lilies of railroad into an electric InBtead of a horse railroad the following sums of money: "Between February 15 and April 17, 1803, 571.H59.62. "Between April 17 and June 5, "After June 6. it expended he sum of $56.51104. such" expenditure being made for and on account of work of construction done by the before June 6. 1803.

"That at the time nf the execution-of the lease referred to in the third finding of fact herein the defendant, had on hand as the balance of the. proceeds of sale of stock and bonds, or stock and bonds, the sum of which amount was applicable to the work of construction. between February 14. 1803, and the 6th day of June. 193.

the defendant sold certain real estate, not necessary or iiuird lor the maintenance or opera- must sllotv her hnshsnrl In his own hnnau and. an she maintained a strict silence. It was taken as affirmation. More will be heard from both sides on February 28. PANAMA LIBEL CASE APPEAL.

Washington, February 25 As a result of the cabinet meeting. Attorney General Wickersham to-day telegraphed to District Attorney Wise in New York to note an appeal from the decision of Judge Hough, dismissing, for want of Jurisdiction, the Indictment against the Press Publishing Company (New York World) on the charge of libel in connection with Ihe Panama Canal cases. The defendants In the cose. If. was stated, are anxious to have Ihe appeal lakett In order that the matter may be set I led by the hluhest authority.

BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED, Kausas City, February 23 Ilyron h. Church, former president of the Holyrood State Bank of Holyrood. was arrested here to-day. A' special examiner has discovered evidences of forgeries to cover alleged shortage. In the bank funds estimated at more than (90,000.

law. They quarreled and Hiotis killed the girl." Hiotis denied that he was in love with the girl. The tragedy was enacted at Paleohorion in Greece, on July 21, 1007. according to A celebration was being held i following the marriage of a sister of Hiotis. During a dance the Daniaskis girl fell dead with a bullet in her neck.

She had been dancing with a supposed rival of Hiotis. Hiotis came to America immediately after the shooting and has lived in Chicago for six months. DamasUis also came here with the hope of finding Hiotis and to-day's arrest was the result. MUST RAISE $50,000 TO-DAY. Cleveland.

February 25 With $50,000 still to bo raised to complete its half million dollar building and endowment fund, the Y. M. C. A. committees entered Pom- whirlwind finish to-day.

At mid nieht to-nicht the full amount must hn pledged to retain the first donat ion, $100,000. offered by John D. Rockefeller. Dr. A.

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