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The evening world., 1894-01-09
POLICY DEALER AT 18.
Young Joseph Edwards Held for
Running Il Shop.

Joseph Edwards, an ungainly eighteen
year-old boy, was hclG in $500 bail IN
jefferson Market Court to-day for trial
in General Sessions for the alleged
running of a policy game at l6 West
Nineteenth street.
Edwards was arrested yesterday by
Detective Day, of the West Thirtieth
street station, who brought to court a
bundle of manifold paper and other
necessaries usually employed In the
writing Ct policy.
Justice McManon became very angry
at the detectives apparent stupldity In
Rnsw ering the questions put TO MN con
cerning the circumstances of Edwardss
arrest.
William Wood, arrested by Policeman
Reapon. of the West ~Thirty-seNenth
street station, for conducting a poiicy
shop at 43i West Thirty-seventh street.
August Geroille, of No. p Tenth
avenue, was held for eXamination IN
500 for renting a rear room In MS saloon
for a policy shop.
John Schwartz, arrested for running, a
policy shop at 73S columbus, avenue ,by,
Defective Killillea,. especially detailed
from Police Headquarters, was as
charged.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
IT WAS NOT THO MPSON.
The LOp-Sidcd Man INDUCED in IA
Case of Mistaken Identity.

one of these corpulent, benign-looking
old chaps, having a long. gray goatee
flowing down from his chin, was walking
up and down the depot platform, and
we noticed that the cross-eyed man with
the lop shoulders kept his eyes on him
as If deeply interested, says the Detroit
Free Press.
Now, any mar who is up on human
nature knowc that one of these old coons
with a perpetual grin on his face and a
fatherly demeanor towards the public is
a bad man to tackle, but the cross-eyed
man hadn't travelled. He shifted around
uneasily for a quarter of an hour and
then intercepted the benign man in his
walk and said:
Excuse me, but are you a Teller named
Thompson, who lives over around Nenia
somewhere?'
DO you mean to ask me IL my name
is Thompson" queried old benign as he
halted and looked the other man up and
down in a contemptuous way.
Yes"
No. sir; no, sir: My name is not
Wall, / thought you might be. you
and always looks as If he wanted to
obleege somebody, and
Sir, are you speaking to me?' de
manded he OF the fatherly demeanor.
Yes. l never saw Thompson, but they
say he wears just sucn wniskers a.
your,n and is fond of children. didn't
why, sir, do you mean to insult me?'
shouted old benign, as the color came tic
his face. Didn't | say my name was
not Thompson? If YOU are doing this
to &c, up a quarrel with me warn you
to look out!'
Quarrel? l never had a fight in my
life. 1t struck me that you might b,
Thompson, of Xenia. You've got tn,
same grin on your face-the same goatet
the same
You miserable loaf,r!' Missed old be
nign, as he made a pass at him anC
missed.
Here. hold on shouted the cross-eyec
nothing to get mad at! Stop that or IL
call the police! You've got a goatee Xix,
Thompson, and I've heard over a hundred
people say
The fat and fatnerly man seized thu
jammei him against the depot with ter
and cuffed him twice, Then he straight
ened him up and booted him five boot
and yelled after him:
You drunken ~loafer, but If 20,
ever look at me again III break ever.
bone in your body
While old benign was cooling off on
salt barrel at the other end OF the plat
form the cross-eyed man returned to tn
group of passengers who had seen an,
heard all and SAID:
feel bad about it, but what hurts my In
ward fee.in's the most l. tne idea that
took that old four-ply rhinoceros owe
there for a Teller SO blamed soft and mic
him a sure cure for rheumatism and no
charge MIN "A red cent
The evening world., 1894-01-09
CHARGED WITH CHILD MURDER.
Mrs. Lynch's Baby's Spinal Column
Was Severed.

Mary Lynch. a widow, thirty years old,
Of Al slime street, was arrested this
afternoon. charged with numbering her
hid
The baby MAS born Friday morning.
Mrs. Lynch arranged for its burial Fri
day night.
The undertaken was suspicious and
notified Coroner Strong, who discovered
hat TIE child's spinal column had been
severed, and that finger marks were on
its throat.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
SHE SOUGHT INFORMATION
But Did Not Get Much Satisfaction
nj the Complaint window.

Make your complaints here" read a
lady N what Is known as a Ratchet
at the Laclede Gas-i.ight Company's
office. says the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A strange light entered her black eyes
as she accosted the Clerk:
This Is where you make complaints,
Is it, she asked.
1T is, madam the polite clerk an
swercd.
"And do you provide the rcmedy?'
That Is what we are here for said
the clerk, taking on the air of one hay-
ing the entire English Navy at his back.
the woman APPEARED 10 hesitate,
- never was Il GOmplainer,' she said,
but things have been on my mind Tor
a long. time. My husband. George WIZ
lam turner has a red-haired tyne,
amount of business detains him down
town nights. That's one thing l want
The young man behind the wicket was
got very red in the face, but the lady
kept on.
a great deal Of attention to choir prac-
tice. He developed a remarkable ear for
music a week after we hired Il new
soprano. The way he attends choir meet
gregation is entitled to anything you can
do towards getting up a rumpus in thai
choir and forcing the soprano to resign.
We want to keep the pastor; he has
The young man behind the wicket
made some sort of an in~articulate ut
t~erance, and the lady proceeded:
II live next door to a woman who
keeps a carriage. l know she can't ar
ford it, but she does without some OF the
necessities of life just to have that car
riage stand in front OF the door. There
isn't n woman on the block who doesn't
think her a mean, spiteful thing. Blow
up that carriage with dynamite and be
come "a popular young man"
II don't think, madam, you quite
the young man said, hlushing as he said
IL"
1.-THE fact IL, we only attend TO COM
plants relative to gas. Perhaps II you'd
relate those things to a sewing socie-
ty"-
Rut the lady had founced out OF the
building,
The evening world., 1894-01-09
FOR KILLING KAIRER.
William Davis, Colored, Arrested
for the Camden Murder.
Well Known TO the New York Police
as a Burglar.
Believed that He Caused the Old
Bakers Death.

william Davis. niias Blackstadt. TWEEN
,y.six years Old. a colorad man. well
tr,vu bv the po,ico "A 81 burglar. was
arrested nv Detectives D'Brien and Nee
l,n. Of lnspector NIcLaughlin's sta II.
,n,rsed with tne murder of William
tuirrr. a barber of 42l Rocket street.
Camden n T.. per. 4 last.
rho arrest WAS made about & o'clock. in
n RON, IL, tho bo,s. Io5 uIaerker stree,
r,herc Dovis vas living with n Young
colored woma,
ue uale NO ,cs,,.,,cc and was nj once
,,uen IN poii,, tt.,Iouo
10 wos ,rr,igro1 in court later. and
ho,i Ga, ,ho i.rsoy ,,.hori,ies
".i v Nv '''e' .,.
Detectives nave oeeh iooklhs lor LAWS
for the mast ten DAYS. About that time
De,ec,,ve Gollarber of the Camden bis
-. ,,..'"''a a. iii ~, Insnan.
tflctAttorneS > o'iCe' 'aiich WI '""peI'
tor Mclaughlin and asked him to look
roSr Davis He had reasons. he said. for
~. -. .. -, l.. a.
belleNlhS Tue co'oieu imam W pe '"'
burglar.
Dayis ha said vas also known under
The evening world., 1894-01-09
FLORIDA ORANGES.
The crop VIII he Lnrrrr This lcnr
Thnn Was Anticipated.

\ correspondent. writing from Marion
County, iloriGa, says: "Th" Florida or
Gugc crop, IL Is thought, will be II little
larstr thar over before. 1t was esti-
mated at from i,Opo,CUp to $4,000 boxes.
\ storm that prevailed in October over
tho eastern part Of The stat" has snort
cn'l the crop c"nsiderahIT. In some
places tn" estimate Of ddma"e was as
high rs - py~ cent.
IN" great hurricane that desoiatcd the
Louisiana and AississippI. coasts de-
st.uvol most of the Louisiana crop. y
Louisiana to raHl; the crop on the Brad.
i,h Johnson place, near IN. mouth ui
tnr hisal,sippl Rive, Ih@ crop on mat
4o,''D boxes. 1hry %lt Of 500 boxes be,,,
fore TIA, torn came. II destroyed al
that were l"'t on IT," trees ana bic"
down aevclul thuugund az TIE trees.
IIIenthcticdllN, ! Wi, say that Florida
enjoys harry Immunity rom severe
storms, cyclones axe Unknown and
""Thn, proluct 81 oranges has increased
in the last eight wars from G,l,'lj Ia
..Von Hp hoEos. and thrI amount Is about
rs mugh As can l." marketed ~ a preht,
"" knoT thta f'@m T., o SN S,rj5n e, ,T ~
"roaslng nor" rapidly than the demand,
Unless SON" -lrl, disaster uN"rtak"s
IN" ''an@' ar"',,', i WIZ not hG many
vrnrS l,frrr Iruiu'tipH rnlCurS 10 uJI.hF
boxes. The present crop l. very l'ae
Tlr.a la l..u no lack of rain this
s'asuu, and %~rritrr. pains have he d
flult hy more spraying, more trrtiiizin4
and hp,irT cultivation. IS ih' groves
lu,rcH-" In age ana proIu"iiv"ne-s, 50
= seems. that Wl'h greater llre increase
tee disease and parasites that inf,si
rhrm. In th'- way an ""eclua! check
-, DNerrrnduCtlpn my result.
rnr Ito Ni.ht no remedy has beer
rourl. Fool r.t is ameuahlc TO treat,
r-H.f 1rrf is lost TI.tnr TnLF1sl nIG at
The evening world., 1894-01-09
ACCUSED BY HIS PARTNER,


James Taniry, of the Nrn Of Hanl"v g
Berry. jewellers Mt 2li2 Fulton street,
brooklyn. Was held hy Justice Con-
nelly, in the Gates Avonue Police Court,
this morninr for examination on the
charge Of grand larceny. His partner. j.
l.. Berry. was the complainant.
Recently tho store Of the firm has been
entered WITH false l1'yg ana robbed of
icHclry valued at several thousand dol
lars. Mr.. I%iGnlet returned from a husl-
ness trip yesterday AMI brought with
htm 500 worth Of the ioweiry. which had
been stolen from the firms store. which.
he said, he nd recovered III Il room at
l01 York street. Jersey city.
This lei Mr.. Berry t. think that bis
partner was tho one .who lrh robbed the
store. ana to-day he cured linn!ey's ar
rest. The accused denied the charge.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
ARRESTED TWICE IN A DAY,
Thomas story's Love for Liquor
Keeps Him In Trouble.

Thomas Story. fifty years old. a resi-
dent of Fort Hamilton, enjoys the dis
tinction of having been arrested twice in
twenty. four hours for being drunk. AT
present he is In Bellevue Hospital, a pris-
uner. story WAS arrested for being drunk
and lisorderly on Sunday light, and on
Monday morning was arraigned in court.
on his promise tc return TO Fort ilam.l-
ton he was released.
Three hours later he was found sitting
on the Court-IIousc steps, stupid from
drink He was again arrested. His over
indulgence caused him to be severely III
last night while in his cell in the East
Fifty-'irSt street station, aud he had 10
be taken to Bellevue Hospital.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
OBJECT TO PRAYERS.
The Powell Family Claims TIM
Morning Devotion Is Disturbing.

Ex-Policeman Alonzo Powell lives in
225 East One Hundred and Fifth street.
Next door. at 227, Is the Hebrew Congre-
cation of Tahmud Thora. The congrega-
ton gets together at 5 o'clock every
morning, and sings and prays in Syro-
Chaldaic until the Powells claim they
are thoroughly aroused. and then 1t gives
wav to a free school OF $50 pupils, who
make the waking moments of the Powell
family a torment.
In reply, Rabbi Joseph l.. SossnitZ, who
lives in 227, and who runs the free
school. says he is doomed to listen
nightly to Miss Powelrs strains on Il
piano, which keeps his wife's eyes open
until their very souls are sore.
The powells seem the more az
grieved Of the two, az they have com
planned TO the Health Board TO have the
noise which disturbs them e%njoincd.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
TIERNEY Is THE FIFTH.
Another Arrest In the Arnold, Cons
stable md Co. conspiracy.

Thomas Tierney was to-day held foo
examination neXt Tuesday in Jeffersou
Market court, on n charge Of petit lar
reny. His employers, Arnold. Constable
& Co. are the complainants 57s'f
This is the NTH arrest In the alleges
conspiracy to rob the big ~dry-goods hrm.
Tiernev is forty-one years of age. and
lives AT New Rochelle. He has been In
the shipping clerks office at Arnold.
Constable & CO. = for twenty-one years.
A warrant was Cbtaincd yesterday from
Justice MCAlanon. anu Detective Doran,
of the Central ONCE. arrested Tterney
this morning.
He H. specifically charged with the lar.
ceny of seven yards of lining. 1t is ale
legged that he has been concerned In the
conspiracy which has cost the hrmi
$2t,uJ within the last year, and for
which Moore. Law, Shaw and Furguson
arr now awaiting trial.
None of the prosecutors would talk
this morning on the subject OF the thefts.
Tierney vas bai.cd. :,
The evening world., 1894-01-09
TRUNK LINE ASSOCIATION,
General Passcng"r Agents VIII
Talk Two or Thrc" DAYS.

The Trunk Lin Association began its
session at /! o'clock this morning.
Thc meeting wa attended by all the
General Passenger Agents Of the Trunk
Line Association, constituting the Joint
Committee.
Mr.. Leslie i. Farmer. COMMISSIONS
of the Passenger DE artmrnt Of the
Trunk Linz Association, said the meeting
was engaged in discussing pasrcng":
rates; but hat nothing definite could be
accomplished for two or three days
The session, he said, would probably
Inst that long.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
FOUGHT ALL THE PRISONERS.
Pembroke Whipped All the Men nno
Started In on the Women.

George Pembroke, thirty-lvc, was sent
for three months to the penitentiary IN
the Court of Sreclal Sessions this morn
ing for stealing a rocking-horse from in
front of the store of John Doherty,
Eighth avcnue II Thirty-seventh street
While in the prisoners pen. awaiting
trial. Pembroke created a disturbance
by fighting all the other prisoners; -,
I'm the best man N the crowd :! ne
shouted, sand can lick the lot OF you
with one hand tied behind me-
He was, punching every head M eo Nn
rushed into the pen and dragged him out,
He sat still for a while, but when the
officers back was turned sneaked into
the women's pen and declared war or
its ~upa Armstrong again rushed
to the rescue and stood guard over MN
until his case was called.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
POLICE METHODS DlSLIKED
Miss BarrowcliGc's FriendH Think
She Ia Watched Too Closely.

The doctors reported this morning that
Miss May Earrowcllfe was resting easily,
but nothing would be said of her mental
condition. The inactivity of the police
detectives is taken to indicate that all
cues have been followed to the end and
found vlluelesa.
Miss BurrowclIffe's friends are vigorous
Is Directing 20 the methods the police
are adopting In pressing Inc young wo-
man for some statement with regard to
treated fairly az long as Warden Os-
borne was in charge of the sick room,
bat now that two tralne nurses, anxious
10 make records as detectives Also are
The evening world., 1894-01-09
CAPITAL REDUCED 0NE-HAlF
southern National Brnk Directors
Tnnc This Action.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Southern National Bank took
place At noon to-day at the banks
rooms, rs Wall street. The proposition
by the Board of Directors to reduce IL
ClDital from u, ODl,0D to S5O0,OO0, was
voted on and adopted. There was prao-
ticiIly no opposition.
The 100000 taken from the capital WIZ
go To the surplus.
The election Of President was wariy
contested, and W. w. Flanagan. who
was IA candidate for reelection to thai
office. was finally defeated by the seiec-
pion of ~. Iiosenwald.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
E. NJ. FIELD TO BE TRIED.
Dcputy-sheriT Burke Will Bring
Him 20 New York.

Edward NJ. Field will be brought to
this city To stand trial for forgery. Dep
uty-Sherin Burke will leave for Buffalo
ut $50 O'Clock t. morrow morning, and
IS due to arrive here at $50 o'clock
THURSDAY afternoon. -
When Field was placed on trial In
March. 1892, he was pronounced insane
at Buffalo.
Justice Van Fruut in the Supreme
Court Yesterday signed an order placing
l'iy'd in III" custody OF the Sherif OF
this county. This was done on the
certificates Of the asylum authorities
that h. has regalned his senses.
The evening world., 1894-01-09
Peoples Party Lectures.

The hrst OF a series Of lectures under the aus
plces O, thu Peoples party viii he held this
evening at Populist Hall, 1902 Court street. Brook.
lyn. MIS-, Cora Lane Chapman, Of the Universal
Suffrage League. will lecture on 'lniversil Lib
erty." and T. II. wakeman on History and
will be free,
The evening world., 1894-01-09
Insurance President Indicted.

Wy N0'TNIFEVI TTF5NT NJ
MANCHESTER, y. H., Jan. s.-Ths
Grand Jury Yesterday reported two in
dictments against j. C.. Moore, President
of the defunct Peoples Insurance Com
pany. for swearing to "A false statement
of the ~COmpdnys condition, and for
mailing an illeElL loan 70 himself. VIZ
The evening world., 1894-01-09
Richmond County pnrtic" Organize

NEW BRIGHTON. :, l., Jan o-Thc Rtchnood
County Democratic General Commit tee has organ
lied as follows; Chairman. Nicholas Muller, ir A:
Nirr-uhatrman In. John /. frc@v. Trrasufrr,
Matthew :. Tully; So-rctarics, frInlin G. VII
J, I'M J. EerUy. T. W owens and Forrest L. e.
whght. The Republican General Committee VIII
meet At Stnnleton this afternoon and organic
Tor tho onsulry year. W. A. GALWAY, uf South.
hrId. VIII he elected Chairman,
The evening world., 1894-01-09
BRADLEY PLEADS GUILTY.
He's the Crank Who Shot Foreman
Matthps, of the Postal Building.

James Bradley, the crank who shot
Frederick l.. Matthcs. foreman of the
New Postal Telegraph Company's Build
ing, on oct. 81 last, pleaded guilty to
assault before Recorder Smyth. In Part
Ill, of the Court CT General Sessions
this morning.
lie was remanded until Friday for
sentence.
The evening world., 1894-01-09

The following are the closing quota
lions of mining stocks at the Con
solidatel Exchange to-day:
The evening world., 1894-01-09

watching for every word the patient let's
drop and questioning her every hour or
30, Miss B~arrowclife's friends fear that
something she says may be m!sconstrucd.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10

There is "Reminiscences of Anthony
Trollope's early days in the postofiice--
when, according to his own account, he
was terrible boor--which has never ap-
peared in print. At that period some OF
the Junior clerks took it in turn to attend
TO friends who came to the Office to make
inquiries, for whose accommodation q
waiting room was provided. One day,
when Trollope was on duty, young wo-
man came to make some complaint, and
she went away much displeased and upset
by what she considered TO be the gross
rudoness with which she had been treated
by him.
Next day. Trollope being again on wait
ing room duty, two stalwart young men
appeared, and, having ascertained that
they were in the company OF the clerk who
had been IN attendance there on the pre-
vious day, they shut the door and proceed
ed to give A. 4. most severe thrashing.
The pair together completely overpowered
the future novelist, whom they informed,
when they had sufficiently chastised him,
that this was punishment for bis insolsnce
10 the young woman who had called at
the Office on the previous day, and who
was their sisterl-Wcstminster Gazette.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10
Photographing Cinnamon.

Chinese are the most obedient subjects
that the photographers has ever had. They
seem 20 be In awe OF the big camera when
IL is pointed at them aud apparently are
ready 20 believe that picture taking is a
process in which they are as likely TO be
required 10 stand on their heads as not.
They awkwardly try TO fix themselves in
positions suggested by the photographer,
md some of their efforts have grotesoue
results. Nearly all Of them pose with fix
ed faces and staring eyes. II In their pos
ing they were trying to bring about the
production Of pictures in which it would
be impossible TO distinguish one China
man from another. they could not select
more effective methods.
Those To whom proofs have been given
act like delighted children when the rolled
sheets bearing the counterfeit presentments
Of themselves are submitted 10 them.
Some of them act "a though they feel that
In the picture taking they have taken nm.
other degree I'm becoming "Melican man. "
Providence Journal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10
OUR MINISTER'S WIFE
Some Things Which She Knows
and Tells.

The position occupied by the minister's
wife enables her TO hear many things OF
great interest, and people are always curl
GUS TO talk with her. AS she is sure to
relate facts just as they are, 1t makes her
conversation all the more important.
Mrs. Rev. w. Il. Worthing, of West
Berlin, VT, is a most charming and esti-
mable lady. She has lately been bes.eged
TO such an extent regarding certain in
cident, that she writes the following let
ter for the public benefit;
Last March had the grippe which
left my stomach in such condition that
it would not digest anything; could not
eat even baby food without the greatest
distress. My nerves were in fearfully
weak condition, and j could sleep but
little. was also full of rheumatism from
head to foot, and ached awfully night and
day.
II was in terrible state and feared
should never get well. tried physicians
and medicines but got no better. Having
heard the most astonishing reports OF the
good done by DIR. Greene's Nervura blood
and nerve remedy, determined to try
that this time instead OF physicians.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10

much that is vile in the way Of books
from being foisted upon them.
THAT gallant sailor General Paine Of
Boston is making sloop Of Volunteer
and proposes to sail her this season.
Volunteer defended the Americas Cup
against the Scotch Thistle, and was later
turned into schooner-the fate OF
several Of the big cup defenders. Now
she is to be in the sloop class again and
will be new element of interest in the
yachting world this summer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10

IT is gratifying tnat SO many old
friends Of the Methodist ministry are to
be continued in their Providence pulpits
by the Brockton Conference. Some will
be missed, and, without invidious dis
tinctiop, the loss of Rev. s. McBurney,
who has participated earnestly in public
affairs outside his modest church, will
be keenly felt without and within the
ministerial circle. We trust their lines
will be in congenial places. THE News
especially congratulates its friends in
Olneyville that Rev. j. A. Rood is to
continue his splendid work so well begun
at the Tabernacle established by his
earnestness and enterprise.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10

"THE News is the best penny paper in
New England" is the compliment a
reader pays this newspaper. "And," he
goes on to write, "if it were published
in Boston it would have 10000 circula-
tion by this time" Thank you. The
News expects some day to have the
biggest circulation in Rhode Island. 1t
now is proud to have several thousand
more readers than it ever had before. IL
is going to be better paper every day.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-10

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know surely, for left it of for one meal
and plainly noticed the difference.
"After taking three bottles my diges-
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:" / was entirely cured of ell my troubles,
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1t is the discovery of our most success
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