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spoILING Her RIVAL'S BEAUTY.
A Neglected italian Girl Seeks Revenge
with n StilettO.

with n Stiletto.
Two Italian girls walked down the Bowery
together yesterday morning little before 8
o'clock, chatting pleasantly. They disappeared
In a building on the west side OF the street
near Houston street. A few minutes later they
came out again. and as they reached the street
tho smaller girl slashod the larger twice across
tho face with a knife and ran down the Bow
cry. Tho larger girl clapped her hands to her
face. The blood ran through her fingers and
dropped upon her clothes. Before the persons
in the street who had witnessed the affair
could interfere she gathered up her white
apron. pressed it to her face, and started rap
IDLY down the Bowery after her assailant.
Tho girl who had used tho knife ran down
the Bowery to Prince street. where she turn
al to the west At Elizabeth street the
girl turned northward, and after sharp run
disappeared in an alleyway. The girl who
was wounded dropped near the corner and
was taken into drug store. There were two
cuts on her face. one on tho right, running
across the cheek. and ono on the left side
across the bridge OF her nose her eye, and left
Policeman John Foley of the Mulberry street
station followed the running lta ian woman to
235 Elizabeth street, where she had been fol
the teneme ent in the rear and found her under
q bed in u room on an upper floor. He took
with the girl she had cut. and who had mean
time had her wounds sewed up Al the drug
store. In reply to question as to why she had
cut her companion. Rhe SAID: ,
Yes; me fixed her Me spoila her lace SO he
no Iowa her more"
She said she was Massuzza Derotto. aged IS
years. The othor woman said She was Rosetta
1anta and Of the same age. she was sent to
st. Vincent's Hospital.
Massuzza Derotto was taken to the Tombs
Police Court, where she said that she came to
this country when eleven years old and was
the companion OF blind father in his walks
through the city until she mot Carlo Pompa-
nello. a handsome Italian barber Of 33 Clinton
place. three years ago She went to live with
him. and had two children. Then he tired of
her. and she took refuge With Catarina SpinoZa
who lived at 266 Elizabeth street. Moanti me
Pompanello had sent money to Italy to bring
on young girl whom he had known there rs
child. This was ltosetta lanta She got here
about year ago. and. while still living with
the Derotto girl. the handsome barber raid fire.
quent visits to his now lovo; Three or four
weeks ago he attempted to leave the woman
who was the mother of his two children. and
took Rosetta homo with him.
MassuZZa admitteu in the police court that
she had deliberately plotted to spoil Eosetta's
beauty. Both work in tailor shors She called
on ltosetta recently and offered to get work Tor
her in the same shop whore she worked. Yes
terday morning NASHUA called for her and
carried under her apron the knife with which
she meant TO spoil ROsettas beauty. Massuzza
was held. in dofault OF $1,000 bail, to await the
result OF ROSettas injuries,
The sun., 1890-04-23
JULES ROSSEAU ACQUITTED.
NOT GUILTY OF TIN MURDER OF JOHN
MCRPRE.
The story OF tho RerkIev Arms Tragedy
ldtn Court-MurphY Mast Have shot
Himself Ac cidentA ally with Rosse aus Gun

Iho STORY OF the BerkIoy Arms TrnEedH
Retoldin nCourt-MurphY Mast Have shot
Himself Accidentally with R0sse au'a Gun
Toms RIVER, April 22-The trial OF Jules
r Rossoau, the manager OF tho Berkley Arms
Hotel Indicted for the murder OF John MurphY,
was continued TO-DAY in the Orange County
Court OF oyer and Termnor. Rosseau ap.
peared nervous while prosecuted. Middleton
was cndeavorng to show by the testimony OF
number OF witnesses that Murphy
had been shot inside OF the hotol The
most important evidence presented by the
State was that there was trail
OF blood, leading through the hall Of the hotel
to the prla2za and to the spot where Murphy's
dead body was found. Evidence was also In.
troduced TO show that there was hole In the
lower casing OF the wall ut one end OF the hall
as II made by shot. After the shooting Q
mouse trap was found In front OF this hole.
The object OF this testimony was to show that
Murphy had been fired at and missed while he
was passing through the hall before he met
his death.
After the state had put in the testimony the
defense opened. Counsel said that Rosseau
did not shoot Murphy. and that the latter was
accidently killed while carrying Rosseaus
shotgun. The hammer Of the gun had como
In contact with the do or as Murphy was going
out on the piazza
Rosseau's story OF tho shooting was to tho
elect that Murphy while intoxicated rushed
UP stairs into Rouseau's room on the second
moor and seized tho shotgun, which belonged
to Rousseau. He staggered down stairs. drag.
GinR the gun after him. few minutes after.
ward Rousseau heard a report, and on hurry.
ing down stairs, found Murphy lying outside Of
the hotel shot through the heart.
Or. Beanjan, a physician, from a French hos.
the alleged blood stains In tho hall Leading to
the door and was sure that the stains were
human. but that OF eome kind OF fowl. This
testimony was In limo with a statement made
by Rosseau that he had killed chickens some
time before. and one OF tho bleeding chickens
had been carried through tho hall Of the hotel.
Osmond Vorling. an expert guosmith Of New
York testified that the gun by which Murphy
was killed had rebounding lock. and that II
the hammer came In contact with anything the
weapon was likely to bo discharged.
judge Van Sickles then delivered charge to
tho Jury which seemed to favor the defendant,
with a verdict of acquittal. Rosseau accord.
ingly was DISCHARGED.
The sun., 1890-04-23
RAN OYER A POLICEMAN.
DIR. Alfred N. spauldInE Arrested on Ri1
eruldo Drive.

DIR. Alfred N. sPauldInE Arrested on Riv-
erSldo Drive.
DR.. Alfred NJ. SpauldinR OF 8 East 126th
street was driving In buggy on Riverside
Drive near Seventy-second street about half
past o'clock yesterday afternoon. whom man
driving in another buggy tried to pass him.
Both animals dashed down Riverside Drive
at q forbidden speed. Park Policeman Thomas
Finnegan saw them coming and he resolved to
stop them or perish in the attempt Standing
before tho horses he shook his baton. but the
first dashed past him and the next knocked
him down. This was DR.. SpsuldnG's horse.
When the Doctor saw what had been done no
pulled up. and Roundsman Hall came along
and arrested him. taking him oyer to the
seventh street police station. Here his brother
was sent for and gave $1,000 bonds for his
release.
Meantime on ambulance had been summoned
from Roosevelt Hospital for the wounded po-
ltceman. An examination showed that he had
O 81 Rht concussion OF the brain. sprained
ankle. and several small bruises. He Is not
very seriously hurt
The sun., 1890-04-23

An hour and halt Of the night session in the
The syracuse Water bill. which was progressed
desnite the energetic Efforts OF Mr.. Sheehan,
that left him honrse and breAthless. Fifteen
million gallons OF water day to be taken from
q canal feeder was what made the question
bit OF serlous work was done In the killing
of the Lannon- Dempsey listing tax bill which
the farmer taxpayers have been led TO believe
would give them some relief from the burdens
Of taxation by taxing mortgages; Tho city
JJhn ConneIly, showed that disaster would
follow the enactment OF the law, and that the
fnrmera would especlallY suifer, as all over due
mortgages would bo foreclosed o. once in the
most expeditions manner possible. The vote
was: Yeas, Al nays, 6Z. :, .,, "
GARDINER OF Hudson distinguished himself
at the moment OF adjournment by putting In q
resolution and a notice OF intention TO suspend
a lot Of rules In favor OF Senate bill 57G. 1t re-
quired unanimous consent. but no one object
Of the HSneduct Arbitration bill were ready to
kick themeelyes when they discovered that
this bill was the one thus Sticky sent along.
Mr. Hoag got In a resolution, too. II was to
recall tho Reserve eward bill. which he wants
to amend by making the city pay Tor the work
instead or the surrounding property owners
The Senate passed resolution Introduced
hy Senator Stewart, and the Assembly one OF
Mr.. Dinkelspiols in favor OF tho bill In Con-
gress for raising the letter carriers salaries.
tees report in favor OF the Blumenthal Work.
Ing Lecture bill. and passed Senator Cantor's
$3.50 900 worth OF i'm provements on this Central
Park brldle paths. The Fass6tt bill reappro-
prialing tho une1rended balance Of the old ap-
the Uuarantine est ablishment was passed.
CORRUPT Practices bill annex on the line OF the
Governors recommendation. was also passed.
The sun., 1890-04-23
TO FoREoLosE PLUMMER MoRrGAeEa
Several Relatives Suing tho Dry Goods
Man and His AssiGuoe.

Franklin A. Plummer, individually and as
trustee OF Emily NJ. Plummer. Alice B. Plum
mer, and John F. Plummer, Jr.. has brought
suit against John +. Pummer and jeremiah
P. Murphy, as assignee OF John F. Iummer.
to foreclose mortgages executed March II
upon Mr.. Plummor's residence. "a East Fifty
sixth street. and another suit affecting tho
northeast corner Of 125th street and Madison
avenue. 1.S40 Third avenue. and property
on the north side Of Thirty fourth
street. 800 feet east OF Second avenue. The
$733s.26 TO Franklin A. Plummer. s1l. $40 80 to
Emily NJ. Plummer. $500 to Alice 3. Plummer
and $500 to John +. Plummer, Jr A third
same defendants by William L. Pomeroy as
trustee OF Alice T. Sayre. upon mortgage for
$1,000 given March IL upon 1884. $50. and
1888 Third avenue, near l61st street and a
fourth suit, brought by Albert I. Plummer as
trustee for Augusta T. Foster. Is on a mortgage
Of March lS for $7.Ol4l6 upon 1928, 1880.
1882 Third avenue
The sun., 1890-04-23
italian Veterans Rewarded.

Flags wero presented In Tammany Hall last
evening TO tho veterans OF tho Italian wars since
isIa The chief presentation that or large Italian
silk nag donated by King HumberL Consul General
Riva made tho presentation, CheyAlier NJ. LemmL
commander OF the veterans gave three handsome ban
Legion OF GAribRdi. The banners were rewards for
their excellent marching In the civic and iRdusrAlIpa
TAle.
Among those present were Gen. Buttern9ld CEN
HiCkles Gon. stephen NJ Wright Gen. J, X O'BeTns,
Gen, Morrison Hen, O. Levi ieu d UesnoIa Gen Fer.
zero O. BGrSotti p, GLORIA L. ContSnciu, u, BOuauno
Z. BriEzL S. CAntUnL and L. CerquA
The sun., 1890-04-23
IS 1T EPIDEMICP
Theatrical Managers Here and There who
are NysterIonsly MissIhG.

LONDON. Ont, April 22.-Harry Z. Moore,
advance OF the Hyers comedy company. left
that troupe while they were playing here. and
the town has not yet ceased to mourn for him..
He decamped with all contracts. bill trunks.
and railroad orders belonging to the company,
which has been slnGularly unfortunate. this
dsfaulting managers. Many merchants here
have complained to the police that before his
sudden departure Moore raised money from
different persons. besides getting clothes. hats.
Shoes and 80 on. giving orders on the conIpa-
ny's treasurer in payment
WHITE PLAINS. n. V, April PC. W. Travis
the manager of . theatre 81 troupe which per-
formed hero all last week. IL among the miss
ing: He left his company with unpaid wages.
and tho Standard House proprietor signs for q
large board bill.
The sun., 1890-04-23
HOW MUcu MONEY L GIRL NEEDS.
The Trust Company Doesn't Know. and j.
Alfred Davenport 10 to Find Out.

Henry j. Hoffman applied yesterday to
Judge Barrett for an order directing the Farm
srs' Loan and Trust Company to pay him the
full amount OF the income Of his deceased
wifes estate for the support OF his daughter
Isabella w. Hoffman. now Is years OF aye. lie
the income the daughter was entitled to at
Sf6s3. subject to commission lie said that
the trust company hasn't paid her ANYTHING
company owned that 1t hadn't paid anything
and submitted . list OF securities aggregating
will be $6OQ0 Tho o1lcers expressed gno-
rance rs TO The. amount OF money needed by q
Alfred Davenport was directed to ascertain.
The sun., 1890-04-23
Say. she W.. stsbbea In tho Street.

Bella Simms, cigarmakcr living at Ala
East Twenty-third street. went to Bellevue
Hospital last night with a stab wound in her
left breast. She said that she had been ostled
in the street near her homo by three men, one
OF whom stabbed her. When her wound had
heen dressed she went home. She lives with
her parents and Michael Meyer, who she says
Is her husband. lives In the same rooms. The
police doubt the story OF u casual encounter
on the street with the man who stabbed her.
The wound Is serious.
The sun., 1890-04-23

Big RAPIDS Mich, April 22.-Samuel Mel
son. Hesperla, Mich. swede, this morning
shot his sweetheart, Annie Nelson, because
she refused to marry him. Her father had for
biddon the union and the girl objected to dlso-
beying his will. Having killed her as che was
fed Into the woods. and was found dead with a
bullet through his head.
The sun., 1890-04-23

New HAVEN. Aufil 22,-At 8 O'Clock this
morning freight trains crashed into each other At
Guilford on tho Shore Line division Of tho New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Portions OF both
trains were derRe. and one car fell OvoI upon small
f~itch house in which there was Swtchman named
juries which may prove fatal several hours were re-
uuired to the track Tho blame ID aid upon one OF
the train despGtchers in New Haven for sending the
eastern train out
The sun., 1890-04-23

SIGNAL FORECAST TILL p n. WEpSEsplN
For Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts
Rhode Island, Connecticut. fair; warmer; southerly
winda
Jersev Jdr JOtoWed BY Increasing cl0dnrs and it0ht
local shot>rS; Tdrmer; sontherly W'ndS.
For tho District of Columbia Delaware Maryland.
and Virginia, fair followed by showers Wednesday
night; warmer; southerly winds.
For western New York and western Pennsylvania.
light showers; warmer, SoutheAsterly winds.
The sun., 1890-04-23
The A1ea,ca, College for women

The twenty-seventh annual commencement
OF tho New York Medical College and Hospital for
Women was held last evening in tho hall of the Young
Mems Christian Association. Addresses were made By
frof PhTbe H. Wait the Rev. II. s Day. Prof Frank
H. foynton: and DootresS Gertrude Alborne Dr. bay,
graduates tho Misses Gcddes Alien. Edwards Long
Martin Dell. TyrreIl, RUSSELL Dietrich. TaIcott and
Van Buron. and MosdameS Durkee Eklns, Bauce, and
anfn
The sun., 1890-04-23

A. M.-7:OO 1880 Third avenue BENJAMIN
Richardson's. occupied by waIlcot Beecher butter
and eggs H. Cohen, halter and Isaac Cohen j. Holding
and j. Allen, total damage SdOOo; 10 lO59 First av
enue Charles Bruhn'S apartments damage 800; 1000
90 West Fourteenth street, Turkish Tablet Company,
damage 5000
d. M.-i2;9O II Thompson street, MrG CohenB GpArt
meBts damage e4DD; 41O $40 WoSt Fortyhrst street,
John HAmiltopO RpATtmentA no damage; $40 LAfAy-
Otts place. ". BSIaondA carpenter Sh0A damage &a0o
The sun., 1890-04-23
boston Carpenters Demand au s-Hour Day

Boston, April pa mass meeting was
held in fremont Temple tonight which was
attended by about $500 carpenters, Local
Speakers addressed them. and the following
resolutions wore unanimously adopted:
ErSo'prd That we. tho carpenters OF Boston, In IRE
mont Temple assembled. both union and non union do
hereby pledge another that on and after May ],
le,O, We will refuse to work more than eight hours
day.
Essolrvd That limit of eight hours for a days work
should be established In all crafts
The sun., 1890-04-23
Jersey City Not G.rrymandered Yet.

The Jersey City Board OF Aldermen last
night appointed Alderman Michael j. oRourko Inspeo-
tor of Weights ard Measures at salary of 81 900
year Tho Democrats In tho BOARD did call the
ordinance Eerrymanderng the city so as TO make ave
OF the six AldormAnic districts Democratic Jordan
and onney were not present and without their
1t could not be passed There will be another meeting
OF the Board Friday and effort will be made then
to pass tho ordinance.
The sun., 1890-04-23
srARxs FROM me TELAGnAPM

The House Committee Oh the Judiciary has ordered
Representative CuherSon VI Texas 20 report fHNorA0y
aud without amendment the Senate bill 10 prohibit
trusts
Tho fourStory building at 251 and 2as Wabash Ayenps
Chicago. occupied by tho Adam Press Manufacturing
Company, xai partially Destroyed By are ySsISEdAy'
LoGA O5QO0Q
The sun., 1890-04-23
i. B. Moauads Taken to tho Utica Asylum.

John y. MCQulde, the Son OF Gen. james
McQuGie. who was found week ago wandering about
A West fortythird street under the influence OF
phine and Was committed to Bellevue for examination
As his mental condition, declared By DR. Douglass
TO be insane His friends have tAkSa hin " the uTloA
Asylum
The sun., 1890-04-23
ExcurnIou 10 VyashIukton

RxcurSlon tickets 10 Washington are sold via Jersey
Central Reading and and q at $40 round trip Tick,
cts good 10 days F1et tIainL fIlman pArlSr and
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09

shotgun. Jim's got one. Say, ma,
teacher says I've been late twice, and
it's only just once Jim's been late a
dozen times and never got marked.
did ten examples to-day. | wish |
had new slate. Oh, ma. the circus is
coming next month! Can't | go every
dayp | wish | was circus, or a me-
nagerie Wouldn't | have jolly old
times! Going to school is awful slow!
Toms dog bit Mike Lane. They think
he's got the hydrophobia. 1t was in
the leg, and he had two white ears and
a white tail. and he'd sit up likc-like
well. like anything. | should like to
have dog. Say, ma, amt there any
custardp Tom has mince pie all. the
year round at his house! Oh, say, ma,
can't | have three kittens? Mikes
mothers cat has got five, and they II
give me three! Mike said so! Amt
they real good? Hello! there come
the boysl They've all got their poles!
Where's my line? Don't let Minnie eat
up all the cake! shall want some
when get back! You won't let her.
will you, map
And with whoop and q hurrah,
he dashes out of the house, and leaves
track OF mud behind him, and a gem
orally disordered room for you to clear
up.
But you do not mind it. You 90
about it maybe with a sigh, but you
are not unhappy in doing it. You are
only tired. He is no doubt pest at
least. he would be to anyone el-e-but
not to you. He is your boy-the brave
generous. wide-awake boy who oyes
yea, and who is to be the prop and stay
OF your old age.
You look after him as he scampers
off along with the other boys. Tanned
and torn. noisy and boislerous. his cap
on askew, his shoes uutied-but still
your boy.
How glad you are that he is yours!
How you pity those women who have
no boys like him! How you recall his
good qualities. and allow his faults
| and Heaven knows they are many
to retire into the background! 1t i,
true he pulls the cats tail to hear her
growl, and he likes to set the hens all
to cacklng, and it is fun for him to tie
tin cans to the stray dogs; but you ex-
cuse him by saying that he is not cruel
it is only his fun; and YOU miss him
when he is gone, and YOU long for him
to come back; and when he sneaks in
about dark, with his feet soaking wet,
and his face bitten by mosquitoes. and
his hands scratched with briars, and
two frogs and small-sized mud turtle
by way of trophies, you listen to his
dolelul story of how Tom pushed him
into the brook, and Jim caught all the
fish that he scared up-and you clean
| him. and comfort him. and love him,
for is he not your boyP-Ka!e Thorn,
IN ". J. H'eekiy
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.
Bad Effects of This vandalism ON the GU
mate OF the Country.

Floods, cyclones and droughts belong
TO the same family.
The Ak is father Of them ALL Human
stupidity is their mother. Nature is no
more to blame for them than is the
blind earth which the digger under
mines till it falls on him.
The AK kills trees. With the trees
killed the SHOWS of winter melt more
quickly under the rain and snow OF
early spring. With the trees killed.
swamps, fallen logs and leaves that
once held back the waters for months
no longer act. The waters rush to
their natural outlets without opposi-
ton. The rapid transit of the waters
clogs the great natural channels, and
they overflow into new ones. carrying
devastation wherever they rush. The
more the AK is used the higher rise tho
WI rs. Bad goes on to worse. The
end no human wit can foretell.
The destruction of the forests has
eliminated the principal factorin mol
flying the movement of the air cur
rents, accordn to the Cleveland Pres.
Like the trade winds on the ocean. the
air currents over sections denuded Of
forests flow freely and persistently for
long periods without change. As
change is necessary in the movements
of the air in order to have change in
the rainfall, it follows that pcrsistcncy
in air currents caused by forest de-
struction means long spells Of dry
ness at one period and long spells" OF
wet at another. Thus floods are some
times aggravated AS much by unusual
wet spells" as by the rapid transit OF
the waters to their natural channels in
consequences OF conditions just men.
toned. When both causes conjoin
terrible floods are inevitable. Destruc-
tive droughts must follow excessive
raiufalls, for the average rainfall varies
but little from year to year in given
locality. An excess at one time means
n scarcity at another.
So. too. cyclones. like simoous, are
only possibly where enormous areas of
country unbroken by forests exist.
The winds gather force az they go. or
rather freedom to move easily, which
means that they will 90 quicker than if
INSTRUCTED. A point of refraction
means that the surrounding atmos-
phere will rush in to restore equilibrl-
um. If there is nothing to oppose the
oncoming xir, it will move rapidly.
The forest is the greatest of moditier.
to wind-storms. holding them back
and checking them. and, doing so, tend
to modify sudden and rapid cases OF
rarefacton.
The food, drought and cyclone, adj
monIsh tine people of the United States
to be wise. If they heed not the adj
monition they must pay the penalty.
The spectacle presented in the valleys
of the Mississippi and its tributaries
and along the track of the cyclone that
devastated Louisville should be enough
to cause some serious thinking. These
speclaces can % eScelled. Give the
AK time and bride it to do its uttermost
aud horrors now seen will be mercies
compared with horrors that will inev-
itably follow.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
The Race With the Press.

DR.. Wendell Holmes, SAYS: 1t IS
Just as we'll to recognize the fact that
If one should read day and night con
timing himself to his own language, ne
could not pretend to keep mp with the
press He might rs well try to race
with locomotive. The first discipline
therefore, is that of despair II you
could stick 10 your reading day ana
night for fifty years, what learned
idiot YOU would become before the
century was over! Well, then, there
is no need of gorging ones sell WIN
knowledge. and no need OF sei-ie-
proach because one j. content to re-
main more or less ignorant OF MANY
things which interest his fellow creal-
ures. We get good deal Of know-
edge through the atmosphere VIC
learn great deal by accidental here
say, provided we have tho mordant ID
our own consciousness which makes
the wise remark. the significant TACT
the instructive incident, take hold UP
on it. After the stage of despair cones
the period of consolation. we soon
find that we are not SO much worse on
than most Of our neigbbors a we sup
posed. The fractional value OF lne
wisest shows a small numerator di,
vided by an infinite denomination q
knowledge