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RUINED BY GAMBLING.
DR.. y. f. Enseli of Brooklyn Sends n Bull
let into His Breast.

Dr. j. +. EnselI of Brooklyn Sends q Bull
let into His Breast.
Dr. John Edwin Ense shot himself In tho
breast early yesterday morning in the hallway
OF his house. lbs High street Brooklyn. He
had become Respondent because Of business
troubles and continued losses at the race
tracks and other gambling ventures. His wife
and three children heard the report Of the pis-
toll Physicians found that the bullet had lodged
in tho breast and pronounced the case hopeless
Dr. Fnsell told them he had shot himself and
wanted to die. He made this statement to
Coroner Rooney:
Il shot myself in the right breast In fit Of
despondencS. | purchased the revolver With
reason l had for doing this was In conse-
Quence OF my losses at gambling and also be-
cause gave up a situation without proper
consideration. On several occasions | have
taken large doses of poison to produce death.
They Ind no effect / finally concluded to use
a PISTOL and shoot myself
DR. Ensell was 10 years old and we'll known
in the lower wards in brooklyn. Soon af er
graduating from Columbia College he became
the proprietor of n drug store in Bridge and
Sands streets, which his mother had pur-
chased for him for $1,000, His gam
lect his business. and a year. ago he
sold out for less than half the cost OF the store.
After squanderinE tho proceeds OF the sale at
the winter race tracks. he became manager for
q Smith street drug store. but he gave up the
place a couple o. months ago. and since then
Odd Fellow, and n member Of the Royal Area
num- and was regular attendant at Plymouth
Church. Last night. the physicians said. he
WAS sinking fast and could not live many hours.
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MRS SCHMIDT VIC7IMIzHD.
A Nice Young Man SELLS Her TWENTY-FIVE
Cents Worth OF Lamp Wick for OI4.

Nice Young Man Sells Her Twenty-Five
Cents Worth OF Lamp Wick for 0IA.
A nice-lookinR young man called at Mrs
Amanda Schmdt's notion store in Green
vile yesterday and asked for lamp wlcks
OF an unusual size. Mrs. Schmidt didn't
have them. buS she said she could
get them. Tho young man said he was
from tho Atlantic Broome Factory. and he
wanted $16.95 worth OF tho wtcks He asked
hcr to send them to the factory as soon as she
got them. Two hours afterward another young
man called ut the, store. He represented tho
American Lamp Wick Lompany. Mrs. Schmidt
WAS glad TO see3hm and told him she
wanted wicks OF the Size the Atlantic Broom
Factory young man had ordered. The Amer
lean Lamp Wick young man said he was a
drummer ard carried no stock rs rule. but
h. happened 70 lave lust enough OF that par
ticular size OF lamp wick with him. He charged
Sl4 for the lot. Mrs. Schmidt bought them and
when tho drummer had gone she sent n hoy
with them to tho address given by the broom
factory young man The place was q vacant
lot. She reported the matter to the police and
they are looking FOR the swinder. An appraiser
has valued tho lot OF wicks ut 20 cents.
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MISS CARLL ELOPES.
She Drives Out in Her Surrey by Agree.
ment and Meets Mr.. Arthur Wright.

She Drives Out in Her Surrey by Agree
ment and Meets Mr.. Arthur Wright.
Pretty 16-year-old Maud CARL. the youngest
daughter OF Jesse Carll q retired shipbuider
OF Northport, l.. l., eloped with Arthur Wright.
a bookkeeper employed in the Havemeyer Il
Elder Sugar Refinery. Brooklyn ON her homo
IL Northport. L. l.. on Monday afternoon. She
attired herself In a becoming blue silk dress
and ordered her pony and surrey for drive.
She placed q small package in the surrey and
started Off as usual. Everything had been
carried on so quietly, that none OF the family
had any suspicion. Miss CARL drove about the
village and then took the road TO Huntington.
Here she was met by Mir. Wright. The pony
was turned over TO the hostler at the Suffolk
Hotel. while Mr.. Wright hired coach to take
them to Syosset-
When they arrived there they had Just time
enough 10 telegraph to the Suffolk Hotel to
take care OF the pony until called for when the
afternoon train for Brooklyn rolled into the
station. They boarded the train. and on reach
ing New \ ork city Miss CARL telegraphed her
father that she had mailed him a letter ac-
counting for her sudden flight On receiving
but becoming convinced that 1t was impossb
TO overtake the couple. lie Gave IN the chase.
Wright's parents live in MelrOse village, on
Woodhine avenue, Northport lie Ia IS years
Old. Mr.. CARL had refused him admission to
his house, and had forbidden his daughter to
correspond with him: 1t Is said their cores
pondence was carried on secretly while Miss
burndale. Mass. Wright,o parents are well to-
do. and he holds good place. James +. Ben
dernagle. the head cashier In the sugar re-
tpery, is his bruther-in-law
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SPARKS FHOM THE IELEGR4rH.

Tho young man who Jumped into the rapids and was
carried Niagara PAilr on Monday has been idon,
tined as Alexander II. WppeTt years old and driver
OF laundry wagon III BunalO No motive for the sui
eide Ia known,
Judge Churchill has vacated he Injunction in tho
Of MuiAm 1weU restraining the city " syracuse from
issuing water OOuda The Judge decides faVorabiy for
the cIiy all points affecting SkAnsatees Lake as o
water supply for syracuse
Waiter " Harris Of Bufnip and william Callapy Of
llnsiaD", " engineer and fireman OF "A West Shore
freight train Killed in COLLISION between their
train aui western New YORK and rh tram az
Genesee Valley Junction, n, y" yesterday.
PTeHirul Harrison sent to Congress yesterday the
recommendations Of the Committee on ENTAdiiiOn "
tho American conference They that the Latin,
American nations which have not aread done adopt
tho treaty OF penal International law made Monte.
waco by the south American Congress Of 1906 aud that
te,e uoyernmenls make special eHtTAdillon treaties
Win the United states
tho Precedent Of the New York state Bar Association
under authority ut Teso utun adopted by the kGecu
tive committee appoinel a committees ~ thirteen TO
hulmIt u the Omn to amend tho ATilCle OF tho
constitution relating 10 the JUDICIARY, such propositions
may accord Win the views OF the association and
particularly TO bring before the Commission the TesOu
ion adopted ~ the last annual maeug u the SBSociA
A1DsaA
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Il DESTROYER OF WAR sH1Pa
A Speed OF 20 Miles an Hour MaAe ny
Sims Edison Torpedo Boat


Sims Edison Torpedo Boat
Warner Miller was ono OF Q party OF excur-
sionists who went to Willet's Point yesterday
to witness trial Of the Sims Edison electric
torpedo The steam tug F. Is. Dal:el took tho
party from the foot Of Wall street early In the
afternoon. Besides Mr. Miller there were on
board. Everett Frazer, President of the Sims
Edison Electric Torpedo Company; W. Scott
Sims, the inventor OF the torpedo; Capt Am
brose Snow. Henry W. Munroe. Warren Z,
Hill, and about twenty others
The torpedo. appropriately called fish tor
pedo from It's shape was started from point
about 200 yards from the dock, and ran In an
almost circular course at IN estimated rate Of
surprised at the speed, and aDplaudei loudly
rs tho swift little craft shot past the wharf. 1t
Is propelled by electricity. and Its course was
directed from the shore by the inventor, W.
Scott Sims. 1t covered about mile In 2ls
minutes. The same wire drives and steers the
boat and explodes the torpedo.
One thousand volts and twenty-five amperes
Of electricity were developed during the run.
Expressed In units OF horse power, the force
amounted to thirty-tWo. The hull was loaded
for the purpose of the experiment with $50
pounds OF gravel. When the torpedo Ia on
business trip the charge consists OF an equal
amount OF dynamite.
The company is now building for the Gov
eminent Il larger torpedo. capable OF carrying
two miles of wire and $50 pounds OF dynamite.
The diameter of The boat containing the charge
Will be. twenty-five inches and the length
thirty three feet.
Lieut.-Col ". r. King had two submarine
mines each containing llfty pounds OF mortar
powder. exploded for the benefit OF the excur-
6iOntstS.
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BAD FOE Co1r1R1LL and ROBERTSON.
They've Got Se5. 900 Cash to Repay for q
Lot OF Worthless sugar Stock.


Lot OF Worthless sugar Stock.
When the Electric Sugar Refining Company
was negotiating with Friend, the swindler for
his famous secret process OF slowing bags OF
raw sugar in hay loft and drawing Have
meyers Mould A refined sugar out OF q feed
chute on the stable floor, a lot OF the stock OF
the company WAS sold at 5000 a share In Eng
land, the understanding being that the money
was to be applied to buying Friends secret.
When the fraud was exposed the Britishers
wanted their money back, and a number Of
them who hal invested f54O0 among them
sued the cOmpany's receiver and its President
and Treasurer. William Ii. Cotterill and James
L. Robertson to get II.
Judge Patterson dlsmisses the suit as to the
company, but de"ldos that Cotterlll and Rob
ertson are individually liable TO the English
men.
Robertson and Cotterill denied that the
money va, accepted on tho condition speci-
fled and declared that tho stock was pur.
chased absolutely by the foreigners without
terms. Judge Patterson sRy7 that Robertson
and Coiterill. though it does not appear that
they wero in anv way connected with the stu
pendous fraud. know several days before any
of tho G5.4Op was paid out that tho purpose to
which they had agreed TO apply 1t could not he
accomplished. and they then had 1t In their
power To recall the money by cancelling tho
loan. and return 1t to tn" purchasers whereas
some oil the money was spent for another pur-
pose lie resciuds tho sale. and gives JudR-
ment for the amount
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THE STEAM CoMPANY,s PROTEST.
Il Claims Right TO n Trial at Law Before
BeIng Ordered to shut on Steam.

being Ordered to shut on Steam.
The New York Steam Heating Company ap-
peared before tho Board OF Health yesterday
afternoon TO protest against President VIII
sons order OF last Wednesday requiring the
company to shut or steam at four points. The
hearing was informal. Lawyer James w.
Halves. representing tho company, filed de-
murrer to the Boards proceeding, protesting
against each OF these orders upon seven formal
grounds.
The company asserts that the orders were
mado upon e1-parte testimony, without tho
notice to the company and preliminary hearing
usual In similar cases. Tho proper procedure
In a case whore chartered rights and great
pecuniary and public interests are involved
would be by suit or indictment, in which case
the party complained Of would have the pro-
lection OF a regular trial before u judicial
tribunal with tho right TO jury" 1t is also
averred that enforcement OF those orders
would deprive the company OF its property
without due. process OF law, and impair the
obligation OF tho contract existing between 1t
and tho city and State"
President w. G. Andrews said that his COM
pany had been doing business for eight years.
and had never Injured any one. II made only
400 street openings in year. while the gas
com rnnieS made 10000 in one year.
t2p VI,
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GOT THE ALL-NIoHr CARS OUT
They've Got to Run for n Month, Anyhow
Heavy Fines 10 Pay.

Heavy Flnob u EhS.
The Board OF Aldermen adjourned yesterday
until Aug. 10 without altering the ordinance
requiring all the street-car companies to run
all-night cars. 1t was expected, by the compn-
MOS at least. that tho ordinance would be
amended to exclude some lines upon which
all-ni ght cars are not needed.
Tho ordinance went into effect on Saturday
July 5. but the companies paid no attention to
it. Last Friday night the policemen along the
various lines kept watch along those lines
which do not run all. night cars. and on Satur-
day they mnde complaint against the compa-
MES for violation OF the corporation ordnance.
Over a hundred complaints were received at
tho Office OF tho Corporation Counsel on Mon.
day. The summonsos were made out and
given to process servers yesterday, Suit was
begun against these roads:
Dry Dock. East broadway and Battery, broadway
and seventh avenue North and East River tolt lineJ
Central Cross Town Forty second and Grand streetE
Avenue and ravonia ferrN. Madison street aud
Chambers street Second avenue, ana Fourth avenue.
Suit was brought In each case on one COM
plant to recover 500, the penalty for one
offence. The penalty L. 500 for each twenty
minutes between | O'Clock and "A A. NJ. In
which no car Is run. and the amount due tho
city Tor violations already L. nearly $4,000:
The suits are brought In the various civil
courts which have jurisdiction
The effect has been immediate. The Forty
second street and Grand street cars began
Madison street and CHAMBERS street line began
on SUNDAY. So did the Broadway line, and the
Central Cross Town line Tho Fourth avenue
line began last night,
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A BOSTON YACHT WRECKED.
Capt Locke and Two Others OF the Marion
Drowned On Rye Beach.

PORTSMOUTH, n. H.. July 1j.-On Saturday
last the small yacht Marion. belonging to tho
Bay View Yacht Club. South Boston, left Bos-
ton in charge Of Can't. Vernon Locke with T.
G. W. Kimball. F. Goldsmith, and BENJAMIN
Cobb OF Boston, for a two weeks trip along the
coast. About 0 o'clock on Monday night the
yacht struck u sunken ledge Off Rye Beach
Tho Captain ordered al hands into the tender.
which rGapsl%rd; III, tnr0WlnE tH9 men ne me
tho keel of the tender, whore they remained
%0 inc feH nbPsdSi M oy n
drowned. Capt. Locke md Cobb tried In vain
TO work the boat toward shore and ~ the Cap
the boat again he was. washed away. Gold
smith and Cobb hoated for some distance fur
Their when n hugo wave washed them both oil.
Cobb succeeded in eachlng the bout again. but
Goldsmith was lost; This morning at : O'clock
condition and brought him here.
Cap. Locke leaves a widow and several chill
dren in South Boston. Tho others were un-
married.
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A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED KEGS oFPoEDER
BLOW UP IN OHIO.

| At Least Ten Persons Killed and Thirty In.
| Jured-1lOuses Wreck ed for MiIes Around
Tho Little Miami River Blocked by
Earth and Makes Itself u Now Channel.
CINCINNATI. July ia terrible explosion
occurred late this afternoon ut Kings powder
mill on the Little Miami railroad, twenty.
nine miles east Of this city. Six persons wore
killed and dozen seriously wounded. Two
empty freight cars were being rolled on TO
| side track whore car containing 500 kegs OF
Gunpowder was standing. As the cars struck
| thero was n terrific explosion, and inn
mediately afterward another car containing 800
kegs OF gunpowder exploded, making 1900
kegs altogether. William Frauly. a brakeman
In the service Of tho Little Miami, was stand
Ing on one Of the empty cars when tho ex-
posion occurred. His body must have been
blown TO atoms. No trace OF it has yet been
found. Five other persons. supposed to bo
employees OF the powder company were killed.
The King Powder Companys and tho letters
Cartridge Works have works on both sides OF
the river along the railroad. Tho explosion
occurred on the south side and the destruction
was enormous. There are number OF cot
tages occupied by workmen in tho powder
factory and close to tho track. These wore
shattered by the explosion and their inmates
injured. Twelve or fifteen girls at work In the
cartridge factory were crippled by the explo-
Sion. Inc railway station or the freight house
belonging to the Little Miami lIail-oad to-
gether with all the adjacent buildings were
burned The track and ties are fairly torn out
and great hole ploughed In the ground The
Peters cartridge factory was burned.
Nothing but a mass Of blackened ruins re-
mains to mark the spot where tho building
stood.
The names Of mono Of the killed or wounded
are as yet obtainabe. News from Kings Mills
at o'clock tonight are that ten dead bodies
hayo boon taken from the ruins and thirty are
known to be wounded.
Another dispatch says great trees were
shattered, and mass OF earth half as lurRe as
u mountain was hurled into tho bed OF the
Miami liver. damming that stream until it
flooded the adjacent bottoms and tore great
Rnllics through folds Of corn, cutting O
new channel that runs hundred Of miles. The
forco Of the explosion shook the earth for
miles. and every one know u terrible disaster
had happened a. the powder mills;
tho Depot a quarter OF mile from
Houses were demolished and wreck and ruin
were on every hand. Tho depot caught fire,
and In the excitement and terror OF the mo-
mont the flames had their own way, and what
the explosion left the fire sought to consume,
spreading from house to house with dreadful
rapidity.
fire Is still raging, and not vestige Of the
place Is likely to remain.
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WHITE CAPS IN NEW MEXICO.
A band OF Mexican Marauders Taking
Life and Property.

WASHINGTON July 15.-The Secretary OF tho
Interior has received from gentleman now
IN Now Mexico a circumstantlal account OF tho
outraGes committed in that Territory during
tho last few months by white Caps" This
lawless mob. the writer says, consists OF sew
eral hundred Mexicans who. armed. masked,
and mounted. almost nightly parade through
the country for thirty miles around Las Vegas.
destroying crops, fences houses. and bridges.
shooting and terrifying citizens upon the plea
that the land belongs to tho people,.
and that they are, underpaid for their labor.
Tho writer describes miEutely twenty-five
distinct acts OF, violence. and asks that tho
Government take cOgnizance OF the matter.
and furnish relief to the terror str cken people.
Hundreds Of miles OF fences have been cut ard
carried away. houses pluudered and burned.
haystNcks fired; and agricultural implements
broken up and destroyed. Several people have
been shot and severely wounded and anumber
OF railroad bridges burned.
The Secretary has referred the papers in the
case to Gov. Prince OF New Mexico for full
report. He has also asked tho Governor to
suggest a remedy in case he finds tho situation
such rs to require aciion by the Govern
II is not unlikely that troops will be sont into
the Territory to protect the lives and property
OF tho people.
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The second trial of John McGuinness for the
muir Ter Of his hrother-in.l law Daniel Lyons, at
the house Of the latter In John street Brook
yn, in February last, was continued yesterday
before Justice julien in the Court OF Oyer and
Terminer The testimony Is substantially the
same as on the first trial. II wa1 shown that
McGuinnoss suspected thHt nm improper in
tImacy existed between his vie and brother
in-la =. and. accompanied hv HIS wife, her
mother. and her brUlhe he went to Lyons
house. TO demand an Apology. lie directly
charged ly' MS win imrrOui"ty. Ynns mniS
no reply, but AlCGulnneS7's wife admit ed that
the accusation was true. Tho ta,al shooting
followed immediately.
The defence is that murder was not Intended,
and that McGulnnesS had become 30 distracted
over his wle's confession thai he was not re-
spOnsible Tor his actions. McGuinnes7 testi-
fed Ibat he procured the revolver with the in
tGntion Of Killing him- self and that Il had mover
been his purpose to Kill his brother-in-
His mint was in q whrl when he confronted
his wiie,s betrayer, and To haI II" DISTINCT
recollection Of what suhse, uenty occurred.
The tIial will o finished to-day
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Tho Weather.

Heavy showers fell in tho central States yesterday
with over an inch rainfall at Chicago Milwaukee,
Springfield, and Kansas City aud over two inches at
Keokuk. Threatening weather prevailed throughout
the entire Mississippi valley Elsewhere tho weather
was generally fair. dense fog hung the In
the early morning and 1t was hazy in the afternoon
The centre from the Mississippi valley had moved
to the ST. Lawrence valley. having drawn the warm
to the Ohio valley and the lake regions and
caused increase of heat tho Atlantic coast Tho
high pressure and cool advanced into the upper
Mississippi the upper lake regions and greatly
moderated the excessive heat there To cool wave
will reach the Atlantic to night and keep tho thor
mometer slightly below normal for 4 day two
The highest Government temperature yesterday was
800. lowest So, humidity averaged ~ per cent wind
fresh, south.
To day and TO morrow promise DO fair cooler to-
night and &c. morrow.
The thermometer at Forrys pharmacy In THE Sun
building recorded tho temperature yesterday as
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DIED IN an ELEVATED STATION.
Mr.. Malloy Was Late and Ran Up tho
Steps to Catch - Train.

Mr.. Mnlloy Was Lnte and Kan Up tho
Steps to Catch ~ Train.
John Malloy, a lawyer. So years old dropped
dead at 8 o'clock yesterday morning on tho
down town station Of the Ninth avenue ele-
waited road at Eighty-first street. Mr.. Malloy
had not practlsed his profession for several
years, but was employed by Sweetzer Penn
broke & Co. as correspondent. Since last March
he had been troubled with dropsy OF tho lungs
can Continued 10 60 t. to t work daily. He was
few minutes late yesterday. and ran up the
elevated steps. Ticket Agent De Witt noticed
MalIoy had gone about half way to the station
door when he uttered Groan and fell at full
could DO nothing. The body was taken to the
West Tooth street Iolice station, and at noon
was removed to Mr.. Malloy's late residence at
"a West Eighty third street. Mr.. Malloy WAS
born in Halifax. He leaves wife. but no
children
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rrohlb,tlonl.t. Aga,n-t nalot Reform.

TRENTON. July 1.-THE Prohibition State
Committee met at Library Hall to-day. State
Chairman Bergen OF JorSey City presided
Other prominent Prohibiionsts present were.
George Lamont. tho last candidate for Gov
ernor; Secretary W. Winans Of Plalnheld,
Cortland Parker OF Amboy, William Nicholson
and the Rev. DR.. J. b. Graw Of Camden. A
recommendation from the Executive Commit
tee to raise $500 for tho State Committee in
sl25 subscriptions WAS adopted, as were roso-
lutions OF regret with respect to tho death Of
Gen Clinton i. Fisk Then o long haired
member from the pines moved t. exclude re-
pOrtera and tho motion WAS agreed TO-
At he AFTERNOON session tho committee dis
cussed the Ballot reform law, and came 70 tho
conclusion II was n grand scheme of the old
parties to freeze out Independent voters. They
believed II was contrary 70 the provisions Of
the Constitution. which guarantees the right
OF free citiLons TO vote for every election OIL
GER They criticised the features Of tho law
which provide that Mt east 2OU persona must
petition for the nomination a. q candidate he
lore he can be pu' in nomination. A commit
tee oil seven wa appointed 20 consider tho rev
law and 10 reuOri ut II iullc" mcot'ng Tho
prohlbitioIist prrp, 70 to have conventions In
every Assembly district neat fall.
good air purifier Is essential 10 the home soap
and water, Use the "SAnitA1" DtnlnfectAntk-Aal
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A Lawyer Arr.sted for Passion Frauds.

WnHEsDARRE. July lb-Oscar Nicholson. an
old lawyer here. was held by tho United States
Commissioner this afternoon In the sum OF
$500 for securing fraudulent pension afIldavits
IN tho case OF John Hebisch. whose widow was
arrested r short time ago for having drawn
pension money to the amount of 81 400 upon
fraudulent affidavits secured By Nicholson, 10
the eject that Heibisch died from Injuries re-
the IAto war As a matter OF fact. Ieiblschs
death was cRused BY Rn assault committed
upon him by some fellow prisoners while no
WAS confined In the Wilkesbarre city prison.
Mrs. Hsiblsch refunded the pension N oney aud
was admitted to bali.