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The evening world., 1894-06-05
STOCKS IN SLIGHT DEMAND.
Firmer Tone Prevails After the
Early Decline,
A Big Order for Burlington and
Quincy Filled.

Sugar monopolized the attention OF
traders on change to-day. There wasn't
much business lone outside Of that
specially. and while the general list I'm
proved fractIonaily at the start. 1t
yielded later from Is TO / IA per cent.
Now York Central fell 5-s. to ss: Ten
nessee Coal l-2, to l7l2; Wabash pref.
as. TO Is is; Denver & Rio Grande pref.
"a. to 20 l-2; General Electric IL, to 81;
Chicago Gas Ia. to "a, and Louisville
a. Nashville T-s, to Al "a.
Stocks were dun after IL o'clock, but
the undertone of speculation was firm.
The traders continued to Interest them,
selves most largely in Sugar. striving
hard to. catch the cighths and quarters
when the insiders happened to put in
their buying or selling orders.
a transaction which attracted. some
attention was the purchase Of LOO
shares OF burlington x quincy at 70 Is.
by Savin from Jones. Maury q CO.,
completing an order for 5000 shares.
with few commercial or security bills
Offering. Bankers GD-dav bills 4S7 10 a
4.S7 "a and sight drafts 4ss l-2 n ass 81.
, Money was easy at ! per cent: on call.
light.
Bar silver In London Is unchanged
at 2S SD. per ounce. Commercial bar
here sold at 60 s-s, and Mexican alllars
at 81 l-2.
The exports, exclusive of specie from
the port OF New York, for last week
were Sc. 40. ia. against S7.l72,9 O7 for the
corresponding week OF 1899.
For the fourth week of May the Cana
dian Pacifc road earned st73. 100. a de
crease of s72, 900; Texas Pacific, 1851. 206, n
decrease OF $32, 1872: International and
Great Northern. t6s, 775. a decrease OF
s3s,1s7; Norfolk & Western, s2i2, 1856. an
Increase OF | 1888; Denver q Rio
Grande. SIZE. 900. a decrease OF $57. 800, and
Louisville & Nashville, S4S9, 100. a de-
crease OF So, 6iS.
For the month of May the Northern
Pacific road earned $l,1S0,O77 q decrease
OF Sill .909: the Richmond & Danville
system. s90S. 1876. n decrease of S74. 1856, and
the Mobile & Ohio, s260.0l4. a decrease
OF $50, al.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
DID He INTIMIDATE VOTERS?
Churcbman John Heck Arrested at
Hillsdale, N, j., To-Day.
Sensational Episode Of Enstwood's
Borough Election.

H1LT.sDALE, ". j.. June 5.-John
Heck. OF Eastwood. an active Republican
and a prominent member of the Hills
dale Methodist Church, was arrested
here this morning for the alleged intimi-
dalton OF voters In the exciting borough
election OF Eastwood to-day.
JuYtice william IS. Saith, of Park
Ridge. placed him under bonds to await
the action Of tho Grand Jury at the next
term OF the Bergen County Court at
IiHckensRck.
Blauvelt Post and Adam Collignon, of
Eastwood. both swore that Heck told
them that N they voted or worked In
favor OF incorporating Eastwood as a
borough. he, W. Id have their hotel
licenses rev oked.
Heck denied hat he had made any
threats. but admitted that he had told
the hotel keepers what he could do II he
wanted to.
Eastwood IL a small community, eight
miles nor,h Of Hackensack. which petit
toned the courts ten lays ago for an
election order to vote for or against in
famous or account Of the lines drawn by
Edward Larson. who bounded the village
SO tliat not a single negro would be In
cluded wi In the borough lines.
Some zig-zag curves were made to get
desired sarmhouses within the lines and
to keep their colored farm workers out.
John j. .Bogert, a wealthy farmer who
aAh'' 80 fsa' f''
purpose to move HIS tenant-house inside
Of the borough and build another to rent
free to negroes.
Democrats and Republicans are making
a bitter fight In Eastwood to-day, be-
cause the members OF the County Board
OF Fr~eeholdeys from Eastwood Will de-
eide the political complexion of that
body which has never been Republican.
The Republicans had an act passed by the
last Legislature, as n result Of which.
enough Republican boroughs were In
corporated to wipe out the Democratic
majority n make the County Board
a tie.
II Eastwood Is incorporated It has
seventy-five Democrats to fifteen Repub-
Leans and will elect II Democratic Free
holder. Both sides are lighting hard.
The Democrats claimed that they could
win without intimidation and warned
the Republicans not to interfere by
threat or the use of money.
John Heck boosted Yesterday, 1t Is al
legged, in n railroad train, that he had
threatened four men and would keep
them away from the polls. Heck Is a
large land owner. He IL one of the lead
ing church and Sunday-school workers
here.
His brother, Herman Heck. is a Metho-
dist minister In the Southern part of New
Jersey. II Is claimed that his arrest will
carry the election in favor Of the Demo-
Gratis and Incorporation.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
ALL NIGHT IN A CELL,
Innocent Woman Arrested for
Trying to Collect a Bill
Clark Said Mrs. lie Mou.t
Was Drunk and D%isorderiy.
Case Dismissed OH the Evidence Of
tho Arrcsting Officer.

Mrs. Margaret lie Moult, a well-dressed
woman. thirty-one years old, who keeps
a florist establishment at 1876 Fourth
avenue was "a prisoner in the
Police Court to-day on a charge of
drunk and disorderly conduct, preferred
by Homer Clark. the lessee of II stylish
boa~rdins-house at 80 Gramsrcy park.
The woman vas arrested ut = o'clock
last night in Mr.. Clark's house by Po-
licenan L j. Farrell. of the East Twen-
ty-second street station. and, although
the officer assured Justice Noorhis in
court this morning that the woman was
perfectly SOBER, she WAS locked up all
night III = sta tion-house cell.
Lawyer Wright. who Is a boarder in
the house, mmonc the officer to the
house, n when she refused to leave
Mr.. Clark ordered her arrest on his
charge OF drunk and disorderly.
Mrs. lie Moult told His Honor that she
had never drunk anything intoxicating
In her life. She said that she went TO
Mr.. ClarE's house for the purpose of
collecting a bill of Si.3l from his wife
FOR flowers, which. she said. was long
overdue. She saw Mrs. Clark, who
asked her to wait and she would get
the money.
She waited, but Mrs. Clark did not re-
turn. This male her indignant, and she
said something about people not payIiy
their bills beng swind !ers. "A boururr
then approached and requested her TO
leave. Mrs. lie Moult SAID she came
there to collect III. money, and proposed
to get II.
Mr.. CLARK, who is said to be Il Gus
tom-House Inspector, then came to her
and ordered her to leave. She again re-
fused, and Clark then sent the lawyer
for the policeman.
When officer Farrell arrived he found
MRS. lie Mouit seated in a chair in the
halfway She was not drunk. he said,
but seemed somewhat excited. When
ordered to eject her the officer said he
had no right to do so.
Mr.. Clark ordered her arrest. saying
that he would prefer the complaint.
Farrell was then compelled to take her
into Gust ody, although he declares she
was perfectly sober.
When the case came up In court Clark
had the lawyer and an actor to cor
robcrate his story.
The actor was Jake Doblin, a well
known comedian. formerly with Froh-
mans Bijou Theatre Company. He told
Justic" Noorhis that she was a virago
by her actions. The complaint was dis
missed
The evening world., 1894-06-05
TRYING TO DODGE THE LAW.
Resolution to Huild n Speedway
Sidewalk by Private Contract.

Alderman Saul, at the meeting Of the
Board Of Aldermen to-day. introduced a
resolution II permit the Commissioner
of Public Works, with the approval of
the Corporation Counsel, to have the ad-
litional speedway sidewalk constructed
by private agreement instead OF by con-
tract.
This would relieve the Park Department
of doing something which the courts have
ordered 1t To do.
Jus; why the law should be evaded and
the work done by private agreement
and by the Public Works Department
was not explained.
Alderman Saul introduced the resolution
under orders. and did not know any
more about 1t than the man In the moon.
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Parks.
The estimated cost of the second side
walk Is al the way from SCI 900 to
SiS2. coo.
Alderman Oakley, Chairman OF the
Law Committee was absent, and the
report on the resolution to keep trucks
Of Fifth avenue during certain days and
hours was in consequence not presented.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
At a meeting of the Amateur Athletic

Union, the committee having charge of
were Instructed to obtain propositions
for holding this meeting. which has
been scheduled for Sept. Is. The condi-
lions are that the Amateur Athletic
that the net profits of the meeting, II
any. be paid into the treasury. of the
Amateur Athletic Union: and that the
teur Athletic Union shall have control
OF the management OF the meeting. as
sisted by a local committee selected by
the Club or Association. In whose city
the championships may be given.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
NICARAGUA PROPERTY SOLD.
Receiver Atkins Reports That He
Got 12o7 U.5 for Il.

Thomas Ii. Atkins, receiver of the Mic
aragua Canal and Construction Com
pany reported to the United States Cir
cult Court to-day that he had sold at
public auction to John Il. Bartlett. for
the sun OF 500, Go. all of The property
and assets of the Canal Company.
bartlett paid $4,000 cash and gave notes
for the balance.
The property disposed of consists of
lts.7 I'll IL shares OF the canital stock of
the Maritime Canal Company, of
Nicaragua: II contract petween the Mar
thine ANAL Company and the Nicara-
qua Canal and Constructor Company;
an obligation OF the Maritime Canal
Company, dated Jan. 5, 1880. to deliver
to the Nicaragua Canal and Construc-
ton Company $685., 900 of it's first mort
gage bonds and 2.6iS IL shares OF the
:easury stock of the Nicaragua Canal
and Construction Company.
The instructions of Judge Lacombe. OF
the United States Circuit Court, were
that the property should be sold for the
minimum price of 1904, 900; but that. in
the event of the failure OF the receiver
to secure such a price, he might subsc-
quantly dispose of II to the highest bid
der at n price exceeding slO0, 900.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
10 GUST a TRUSTEE.
l[fh Paran Stevens Takes Action
Against John L. Meloher.
Shs 10 kcting for Her Daughter,
Mary Fiskc Paget.
Charges that He Is n Plungcr at the
Gambling Table.

The charges which Mrs. Paran Stevens
has from time to time made against John
l.. Melcher, one of the trustees Of the
large estate left In trust by the late
PAran Stevnns, took definite form to-day
when she began proceedings In the Sur
rogate's Court for the removal of Mr..
Melcher from his trusteeship.
The action lis brought by Mrs. Stevens
as the attorney-in-fact OF her daughter.
Mary Fiske Faget. who Is the
beneficiary OF a large trust estate. OF
which Mr.. MeIcher is one OF the trustees.
II IL charged that for the last sixteen
wears Mr.. Melcher has been a habitual
gambler and that he has f~requented ana
still frequents gambling-houses IN ms
city, where faro, poker. roulette ana
rouge-et-noir are played, ana that ne
stakes large sums of money.
It Is stated that the application Tor MS
removal has not been made before be.
cause not until last March could proof
OF his misconduct be secured.
With the application papers is an am
dayit made by James II. Prior, who Tor
twelve years prior to 1901 was special
oficer at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He
swears that he has known Mr.. Melcher
that time and 1901 he has seen Melcher In
q gambling house at 5 West Twenty,
fourth street. which was run by Reed
He has seen Melcher in this house, he
says. sitting at the gambling tables with
Melcher denies the charges against
Elm. n says that similar proceedings
were begun against him In 1889. but after
q full hearing wee dismissed.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
SHORTS BUY WHEAT FREELY.
Prices Advance for This and tn,
Other Cereals.

Local wheat shorts started in this
morning To buy enough wheat to cover
their short interest. This caused a "a
advance at the start. July selling here at
rs "a and So l-4 in Chicago. One of the
strongest features was the unexpected
advance In foreign markets. A good
deal OF wheat was sold and some excite.
ment manifested.
Corn was active and strong, selling
at A IL for July here. and 80 is at Chi
cagn: Oats We're firm, July selling here
at II, an advance OF / cent. The Chi
cago price advanced about lis cents.
The feeling In oats is quite nervous.
The cotton bears were surprised this
morning by a sharp advance at Liver
pool and New York. The market abroad
opened a little lower. but advanced dur.
Ing the day about three points. The
local market opened about ten points
better than II closed yesterday. June
and July selling or the call at 7.l5 a ZIG,
and August 40 a 7.20. The market i'm
proved II little more later In the day,
and was more active h 1t vas yes
teruay.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
GUNBOAT GOING TO SAMOA.
Rebels outnum bering h Kings
Army Are In Battle Array.
tBy Associated Press

WASHINGTON. June "a United
States war vessel will be despatched to
Samoa within a few weeks, Recent de-
spatches from the islands Indicate that
the situation is very critical, with an
armed force OF natives numerically
stronger than the Kings army drawn
up in battle array and threatening to
overturn the government.
The situation gives rise 10 grave appre-
hension, for as the foreigners resident
on the islands have steadily given aid
and comfort TO the present government
in which their interests are bound up,
its overthrow might result in serious
loss OF life ana property.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
HIGH WATER NOT REACHED.
Floods Along the Erase River SIN
ON the Rise.

VANCOUVER. D.. c.. June 5.-The
Fraser River liz still rising. ana high
water may not be reached for another
week. Vancouver Is about shut of from
the world except by steamer. All tele-
graph wires are down east, and the
Canadian Pacific Railroad has stopped
selling tickets. At Westminster the
wharves. and It Is expected that Front
street VIII soon be flooded. All the mills
along the water front are shut down,
and many houses and cabins in the lower
portion Of the town are afioat.
II the dixie at Lulu Island has given
way. as reported. the best agricultural
district In the whole Fraser valley will
be flooded. Reports from upper rivers
state the water Is still rising RAPIDLY.
The large railway building at Mission is
still intact. but 1t Is expected 10 20
shortly.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
BASEBALL CHAT.
Where is the man that named them

Where is the mar that named them
Giants?.
The crowds at the Polo Grounds en-
perience actual relief when the visiting
team goes to bat. There is life on the
coaching lines then.
AT any rate there nre ball players In
Greater New York. The Brooklyns are
now In the game.
Pitcher Knell seemed to be a sort OF
death knell to Lou.sville's hopes yes
terday afternoon at Eastern Park.
Eighteen base hits in one game shows
that David's warriors know how to
work an easy thing for something Ike
full value, Daub was quite too liberal
with his allowance OF hits, though, and
It took some gilt-edged fielding TO keep
the Colonies tally down to four.
Tom Burns Is looking for a better bat
t3ek OF Charley Horse almost com
sprinters In tn. Continuous perform
ance" game.
shindle signalized his return by tally
chane to do any fielding. however.
W the TWO nara luck teams, the
Dubs seem TO be M against fate IN the
more hopeless condition.
Connor's de.icacy prevented him from
hainmering New Works pitchers out OF
the box 80 soon after donning the brown
socks of Won der Ahe's aggregation. But
look ut that homer over the fence In
philadelphia yesterday Rather healthy
corpse Ii this same "Old Waterbury,
Breitenstein Is the Tim Keefe of this
seasons League pitchers. Strategy and
skilful curves are still factors in the
box. and "Breit's' jugxlery Is better
than the speed Of some OF the heavier
twirlers.
There Is more dignity and less base
oall ability In the New York club than
In any other aggregation In the League.
What was it the umpire said?
The Epiphany Juniors defeated the La
fayettes at lnwood Sunday by. the score
~ % to 10 Battery for Epiphany. was
hear from teams averaging thirteen
East Twenty-second street.
Pitcher Brown has left the Baltimore
team. He was discovered by the Orioles
last year and has been pitching winning
ball this season. He wanted his salary
doubled to 800 per month.
Why not sign Jap Zanfretti, who
catches the hall Mt Roster & Balls with
the aid Of n fork? He would at least put
an element OF humor into the game.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
DOWD IS AN EN0CH ARDEN.
After Twenty Years absence He
Visits Mrs. Dovd-Higgins.

NEWARK, N. j.. June 5.-'Patrick
Dowd arrived In Montc.air from Mon
tana on Saturday, and went to the house
Of Thomas Higgins.
When Mrs. Higgins saw Dowd she
nearly tainted, for Dowd was her first
husband, whom she had for many years
thought to be dead.
He had left her nearly twenty years
ago in England, and come to this country
10 make his fortune as a miner. Thir.
teen years ago Mrs. Dowd received word
that her husband was dead. and she
then married Higgins. who brought her
to this country.
Dowd entered the house of Higgins lust
~ the latter was going to work: MRS.
Higgins screamed, for che Thought
she was looking at n ghost. When
Higgins saw the condition OF affairs he
left Dowd to explain matters to his wire.
He says he will make the best OF the
matter. and does not attach any blame
20 the wife.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
WALLWITZ TO HANG JUNE 26.
Formulation to Exhume His Victim,
BOtIy Denied by Justice Abbett.

TRENTON. N. j., June 5.-Justice Alb
bett to-day rendered n decision denying
the application OF counsel. made In be-
half of Condemned Murderer Wallwita.
for an order to exhume the body Of
Deputy Keeper Lipplncott for the pur-
Of obtaining the bullets.
Wallwitz, while IA convict In the State
Prison, according to the evidence on the
trial, killed Keeper Lippincott while try
Ing to escape from the prison. The de
Tense was that Wallwitz did not fire the
fatal bullet.
Justice Albeit decided thai the Court
had no power to grant such an order,
and advised counsel to make a similar
application to the Court OF Pardons.
In his way. Justice Albeit said. the mat
ter would be brought before Gov. Werts.
who In turn would lay the case before
Gov. Pnttison, OF pennsylvania, I'm
which State Keeper Lippincott's body l.
buried
Justice Albeit then sentenced Wallwitz
to be hanged on June oG.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
NEW LAKE STEAMSHIP LINE.
The ~Northvert VIII Formally Omen
the Hny Lake Channel.

BUFFALO, June 5.-Promptly at Q
o'clock tonight the steamer Northwest,
of the Northern Steamship line, starts
for Duluth, on her maiden trip. She
expects to reach her destination in
tifty-siX hours. including four hours for
stops. Nearly one hundred nrst-class
passengers are booked for the trip from
Buffalo. and as many more VIII take
passage nj Cleveland and Detroit. No
freight or sccond-class passengers will
be carried.
on her way mp. the Northwest will
formally open the Hay Lake channel in
the Sault, being the first vessel to pass
through. She will return to Buffalo
next Monday,
The evening world., 1894-06-05
MISS POLLY PRATT MARRIED.
Daughter of the Supreme Court
Justice WEEDS Nr. Emory

Miss Polly Pratt, daughter of Supreme
Court Justice and Mrs, Calvin L. Pratt.
was married at noon to-day to Mr.. Lily
ingston Emory at the Church of the
Reformation. Gates, near Franklin ave
nue., Brooklyn.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. j 6. Bacchus. Miss Anna Pratt.
mister OF the bride, was bride smaid: Mr.
CHARLES Hodge acted as best man, and
the ushers were Messrs. Charles BEN
nett, Andrew Peters and Edward Pierce
Casey.
Owing to the recent illness OF Justice
Pratt the wedding vas a very quiet one.
After the ceremony a wedding breakfast
was served at the home of the brides
parents. ls83 Pacific street, Brooklyn.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
A NICE DAY TOMORROW.
That's Whnt FOrccnster Dunn
Promises New Workers..

II hPve been showing off a job lot of
stale weather for the past three weeks
said Forecaster Dunn. of the United
States Weather Bureau. to-day, but
tomorrow you can. count on a nice, pleas
ant day-the real thing this time. I won't
promise more than one just now"
1t Is foggy and cloudy all along the
Middle Atlantic and New England coast
to-day, while the rest OF the country Is
enjoying pleasant sunshine. 1t is cooler
over all the Northern States, especially
In the Dakotas ana Minnesota. The
81. At S o'clock the thermometer regis
tered 81.
In the Northwest 1t dropped to the
freezing point, and at Huron, Man. Just
across the Dakota line, II was two de-
grees below freezing.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
POLICEMEN FINED.
Brooklyn Biucconts Punished for
Drunkenness or Other oacuEss.

At the police trials in Brooklyn to-
day Patrolman William J. Gillen, of the
Eleventh Precinct, was fined thirty
days pay on three charges OF being
absent without cave and getting drunk.
Dugan, Herman, Knoblock and Smith.
OF the Twenty-irst. charged with In
toxication. were each fned ten days
pay; James NJ. ROrke. OF the Eleventh,
lost thirty days pay for being drunk,
me James Kelly, e. ths Fifteenth, will
The evening world., 1894-06-05
wanta $50 for Wire and chuttI..

carmelo canoa. OF Gates and Hamburg avenues,
hrokiyn. was RENAMED In the Gates Avenue Po-
lee Court. this morning. on a complaint OF Car.
msio Dspiatro. OF No. 2s IIimrod street, who
AYERS that canoa robbed him OF a gold plst ted
watch. $40. all HIS furniture, and a wife. The
entire damage. which includes his wife, DepiRtrO
estimates at $50. Canoa was arrested this morn
lnE. In company with Depiatro's wife, They were
using the dasefted husbands furniture.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
81" ROAD GAINS A POINT.
New Trial Granted In the Suit tn
Compel an Accounting to the city.

ny Associated Press.)
ALBANY. June 5.-The Court of APP
peals has reversed the judgment of the
lower court in the case of the Mayor Of
New York against the Manhattan Rail
way Company, compelling the latter to
make an accounting of the net earnings
OF the New York Elevated roads, AMI
pay thereon 3 per cent. to the city.
A new trial Is granted to the road.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
Monday Circle Won.

A hne game Of ball was played at New Dorp.
s. l.. yesterday between the Monday Bowling
Circle and the Tuesday bowling Circle OF the
Columbia Club Of Harlem. Although the Tues
days were the younger, the Mondays. by the dis.
play OF more mettis, won the game, About one
hundred and ATTY persons from the clubs witneASed
the contest.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
CREDITORS TO GET 100000.
All of the Effects of Two Telegraph
Companies Sold.

Nathan ID. Bates. receiver for the
American Rapid Telegraph Company. OF
Connecticut. and the American Tele-
graph Company, OF New York, reported
70 the nnited states Circuit Court the
sale realized 500, 900.
Judge Lacombe allowed the receiver
800 as final payment for his services.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
WANTS PAY FOR SERVICES.
Second Trial OF Lawyer Karge's
suit Against Mrs. Earle,

The second trial Of the suit of Lawyer
Ladisias Karge. son Of the late Prof.
Karge. OF Princeton University, to re.
cover $l.S15 from Mrs. Clara n. Earle,
Tor professional services. was resumed
before Justice Lawrence In the Supreme
Eourt to-day.
tsn the former trial, a few months ago.
enc q the Jurors, after consenting to
result was about TO he in
court n withdrew his assent. The
verdict ut that time was In favor OF the
lawyer. but not for the full amount he
Gued for.
The evening world., 1894-06-05
Observation-Disclosures.
ouiet Wedding OF CnIifornians nj
II st. ThoInrs's Church Here.

st. ThOInns's Churc Here.
Mr.. George Croker. of San Francisco,
brother of Mrs. Charles Il. Alexander. Of
this city, married this morning, In St.
Thomas's Church, Fifth avenue and
Ftfty-third street, Mrs. Emma II. Ruth
erford.
The wedding was very quiet. There
were no bridesmaids. The bride en-
tered the church with her father, MIR.
Hanchette. Of San Jose, Cal. The bride
er. was best man. Rev. Dr. John Wes-
ley Brown. rector of the church, per-
formed the
Mr.. and Mrs. Crocker. with Mr.. Han
Ghetto and Col. Charles f. Crocker,
drove to the Waldorf Hotel, where the
wedding breakfast was served In the
state apartments.
M and Mrs Croker will sail for
Europe on the Paris tomorrow.