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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
ANNOYED BY CLOUDS OF s0OT.
West Twenty-si1th Street Resi-.
dents Complain Of a Plant
Health Board Will Sue the Edison
illuminating Company.

Henry Steinert, attorney and coun
4 sellor to the Board OF Health. has beer
directed by city Sanitary Superintend.
ent. DR.. Charles II. Roberts. to begin
suit against the Edis~T Electric Illu-
minating Company. tor, 1t is alleged,
falling to obey an order OF the Board
OF Health to suppress a nuisance said
to be maintained by the Company.
Notice OF the action Will be served upon
II. A. Campell. Superintendent of the
Company, to-day.
For the last six months scarcely a
week has elapsed that one or more COM
plants against the Company's plant at
Al to 81 West Twenty street have
not been entered. The complainants were
residents of tho neighborhood, who stated
that the showers of cinders. SCOT and
dust coming from the big chimneys al
most continually made life in the vicinity
almost hardship.
Clothes hung out on the roof lines to
dry were smeared with SCOT and sprin-
killed. with cinders. II was alleged, and
when windows were opened to air the
rooms OF dwellings for any length of
time the deposits were so extensive as
to make the rooms almost unfit for
habitation.
To keep verandas ,nywheres near the
plant clean was out OF the question. The
air. the complainants allege, was at
times SO laden with the myriads of little
black specks that after sitting ouside or
near an open window for haf hour 1t
became necessary to indulge In an ablu-
ton OF soap and hot water In order to
present a clearly appearance.
Inspectors OF the Board of Health
began Investigations as early as last
In "a mr. a "a N n n
complained OF really existed. orders to
abate the same were issued, and the
Company promised to take heed, but
the complainants found no relief. The
until finally the City Improvement So.
ciety took hold of the matter and found
out what the trouble was.
1t was ascertained that there were no
draught was so great that at times when
extra coalins up was necessary SCOT and
cinders were belcned forth in little
clouds.
to put in screens and. II necessary, TO
make such other Improvements as
might be found necessary in order to
prevent the escape Of SCOT and cinders.
Whether the promise was kept or not,
does not appear Complaints. however,
kept coming in To the Board OF Health,
and inspectors kept on investigating,
but the hoped for relief was not forth
coming Finally, the authorities tired
Of dilly -dallying and determined to take
the matter t. the courts.
DR.. Robots says he has a strong case
against ~" company. and viii listen TO
no ovrrturrs fer compromise. The
peralty Is a line not exceeding $500, or
cnc We Ir's Imprispnm mt, or both.
TWO Of the COMPLIMENTS against the
m.,cm?any ar" Or. Wells Of ~ West
S,rld.. jr a son Of the celebrated spe-
els list.
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THAT 10 impossible" she finally gasped.
why. he was not sick when l saw him
last Monday"
eide by using a razor, Mrs CIR nm wrung
her hands and between sobs said in
German to another young woman who
HE said that he could get anything
for money in the .Tombs. suppose they
must have sold him the razor"
The young woman whom she ad.
a cousin of Miller, and lived in West
Hoboken. She refused. however, to give
her name. She had only shortly before
srrived and W was ;bs s9 Tnmh to accompany
Mrs. Mary Hoffman, who had visited
Miller in company with Mrs. Grimm
last Monday, is the landlady OF 524 East
solely by compassion. Mrs. Grimm said.
In calling on the prisoner.
Miller had lived with the Grimms for
but i knew him since he was a boy"
moaned Mrs. Grimm, ''and would have
trusted him with my life. He was not
only good and honest, but he was as
I never would have thought him capable
of committing crime.
Mrs. Grimm and the other young wo-
man afterwards left for the Tombs but
did not take the parcel Of food along.
Dougherty, who occupied the cell with
Miller, was instantly and closely ques-
had never seen Miller's razor, and did
not know that the man had one.
Dougherty Is race track follower. ac-
cused Of calling Ed Meyer. another man
of the same occupation, to his door at
1903 Avenue A, the night of July last,
and shooting him dead.
On the morning Of April 10. August
Loeffier, sixty-three years of age,
was found dead in the basement
of Henry Helde & Co.'S candy factory,
1888 Franklin street. His skull had been
crushed in with a club or some blunt
instrument and his face covered with a
handkerchief and an old gunny sack:
Loeffler was night Waterman in the
factory, and 1t. was found that his trip
watch had stopped at l A; NJ. The
cash drawer of the office had been pried
open and robbed of ST.
The scene of the crime Is only a
stones throw from the Leonard street
police station. Quick work on the part
Of the detectives fastened the murder
on Miller, who had formerly, worked in
charged about three weeks before.
He was seen hanging about the place
at 8 o'clock in the afternoon of the pre-
vious day. He subsequently admitted
OF bags, where he fell asleep. Loeflier
found him and shook him violently to
awaken him.
In the struggle that ensued, Miller
killed the old man with a club and
subsequently is believed to have used a
sure the job was well done. Miller then
rified the money drawer and fed.
Miller afterwards made statement
to the police that the encounter with
Loeffier occurred when the old man
caught him robbing the money drawer.
in Pfalz, Germany. He came to New
York eight years ago.
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SUPPOSED TO BE INSANE.
Blake Jumped from an Ambulance
and Is at Large.

and Is at Large.
The police are looking for John j.
Blake. under the general description Of
an escaped lunatic.
Blake, who Is thirty-two years old,
and who lives at So Pike street, pre-
scented himself at the Madison street
police station yesterday, and requested
that he be sent to hospital, as he felt
that he was irresponsible. He seemed
to be on the verge of delirium tremens
and he was accordingly escorted to
man.
Blake was quiet enough on this trip.
but as soon as the policeman left him he
began to make things lively for the
attendants and physicians at the hos
pital. He was finally Gained, and, as
the hospital authorities were afraid Of
another outbreak, they decided to
trolling violent patients.
Blake seemed SO rational when the
ambulance started with him that he
was not bound in any way. AS the
ambulance was passing First avenue
and Twenty-second street, he suddenly
sprang to his feet with yell, knocked
the surgeon off his seat at the rear.
leaped into the street and disappeared
at a run in the direction of the river.
The surgeon does not think, however.
not seen about the piers; general
alarm has been sent out for him. He
had not returned to his home this fore
noon, and nothing has been heard of
sible that his course led him as far as
the river
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WAS HE DRUGGED?
hcbcs's Mind n Blank After Drink
Ing with a stranger.


Leon Liebes. eighteen years old. was
arrested early this morning by Police
man Grimshaw, OF the Madison street
station, for being drunk. lie was found
sitting on stoop at 81 Market street.
Liebes was unable TO walk and tho
OFFICER carried him TO the station house
In his arms. He appeared to be In a
dazed condition. when arrsigned he
fore Justice Simms in the Essex Mark o
Police Court to-day. he claimed that he
had been drugged and robbed.
To Agents Dietz and Schmitt, Of tho
story:
About Sly months a,So his aunt, Mrs,
brought him here from England. About
stN weeks ago he was sent To Rath
Reach for his health. He boarded there
with family named Strauch.
Last night he came to the city, he
g. He walked as far AZ the Battery,
where he met a stranger. who invited
him to take u drink. They went To ~
81 ioon IN South street. where the stran-
ger :. eated him. He remembers that he
drank 3 glass of ginger and mixed ale.
After that his mind is a blank. lie
claimed that the 81 that his aunt had
given him was taken from him. When
placed under arrest for intoxication, 3
censt was found in his clothes.
Justice Simms instructed the Gerry
agents 20 summon an ambulance from
the Gouverneur Hospital. When the
surgeon arrived he declined to diagnose
the case before consulting with the
other physicians at the hospital. and
Liebes was taken there. He said that
he was an orphan and that his parents
died In England.
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INSANE AND A SUICIDE.
Disclosures of the Autopsy on the
BoMery Ray beach Unknown.

NEwTOwN, L. l.. Aug. s.-After hav-
ing made an autopsy on the body of the
man who drifted ashore. with his hands
strapped together, at Bowery Bay
Beach. yesterday afternoon, DIR. A. c.
Combes. gave 1t as his opinion to-day
that the man was insane and had COM
mitted suicide.
The doctor said that he found that
the man had been suffering from dys
pepsia, and that he had had nothing to
eat for at least a day before he was
drowned The doctor Is convinced that
the man was out of his mind, and from
the manner in which his hands were
tied he thinks he manacled himself and
then sought death to get relief from his
sufferings. ...-, .,
man killed himself and they think that
possibly he escaped from some insane
ssylum. The fact that he had nothing
in his pockets, and that his hands were
soft. showing that he did not perform
manual labor, Is looked upon as coniir-
nation OF this theory.
Coroner Brandon will hold the body
for some time. and will probably COM
municate with asylum authorities pro-
vided the body Is not identified soon.
The Inquest will be held next Wednes-
day.
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CHARLES MILLER.
Che suicide.)

At'' o'clock this morning, as on every
day OF the year, the cells were thrown
open and the prisoL ers allowed to go out
into the corridors for an hours exer-
else. Mller's cell, which he shared with
George Dougherty. also held for homi-
eide, was No. CT on the second tier of
the northeast section of the old prison.
Keeper Henry Lane had charge of
that part OF the prison, and promptly
on the hour walked down the tier, open
ing the cell doors.
Dougherty came out Immediately. and
although Miller remained within the
keeper put Off inquiry until he returned.
Five minutes later he turned back.
searching the cells in the reverse order
to which they had been opened. Cell
q was the third.
In the few minutes that had elapsed
Miller had drawn the door close and had
pinned a newspaper over the grating.
Lane pushed the paper aside and peered
In.
Miller lay upon his left side upon his
cell, with his head towards the door and
his face close against the wall. There
was big, fresh blood spot on the wall
In front of him.
Lane jerked the door open and sprang
inside. On the instant Miller raised him
SER on his elbow. and before the keeper
could seize him drew a razor across his
hroat' which was already gashed with
Agsping wound.
AS Lane tore the razor from his hand
miller fell back with a convulsive
movement OF his entire frame and be-
came unconscious
ms throat was cut literally from ear
ear The windpipe and most of the
Aportant arteries of the neck were
|sn~'efed torrent OF blood rushed out,
| s"ch Lane tried to stanch with the
aclothing, while he called at the top
nelly.
he latter ran up and, seeing the
rs o. affairs, rushed downstairs. no
80 deputy Warden John T. Mcmahon
sent IN an ambulance call.
nv ambulance promptly answered from
Nue Hospital, and, after the appli-
ThriNen to'the hospital at full speed.
woe s the arteries were ligated and the
M sewed up, but the man had done
A.. ~n'destructive work effectively, and
At l".5j o clock.,
n1,a e IN the surgeons hands at the
dsn, n Miller partly revived, and evi.
Isv"S struggled to speak, but as he had
eIo.'u the windpipe below the vocal
ne could not do so.
Puty Warden Mcmahon and the
a. OF keepers were very much agi
Ma, over the event. Warden Fallor
das OH on little vacation last Mon
a., ana Deputy Mcmahon was in hopes
LM ue would have an eventless report
Miller got the razor Is Just now
q, A~ry' but the prison authorities
'ermlned TO clear It UP.
VISIBLE clue Is offered In a visit
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
BARBER JAIN WANTS $1,000.
He Says that Landlord Husing Bar
ricaded His Shop.

August jain has brought suit, through
his attorney. Louis Steckler. against
August Husing for $1,000 damages.
In the month of May last jain hired
the first floor OF the premises 4s Hudson
street. from August Husing, a saloon.
by him as a barber shop. jain wished
to place signs upon the building, adver-
Using his tonsorial shop. to which
Husing objected. and. finally, jain
jain claims, Husing locked and barri-
caded the entrance to the barber shop.
so that Jahn's patrons were unable to
get in.
The case will be tried in the City
Court.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09

Tranic Was delayed for quarter ~ an hour
On Park Row above Chambers street At
o'clock this morning, owing 10 the failure o.
the grip Of south bound cable No. :3l 70
take the cable,
Mary G Kennedy, wife Of Policeman KENNEDY
OF the Leonard street station, had her hands
badly burned while attempting To eXtinguish =
are in some window curtains last night
A IRE was started at 10 O'Clock this morning
by the upsetting OF an oil-stoNe In the apart
ments Of Louis Bergman In the tenement ~
Hester street The damage was slight
charles pehauEen. thirty mine Years old, OF .
Avenue A. was stricken with epilepsy early this
morning at Jacob street and Vas taken ~ the
Chambers street Hospital.
Ernst Eitel thirty-tNo years old OF it Ser-
ond street. vas held for trial In the Essex Mar
ket Police Court to-day on . charge u burglary
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
ACCUSED OF BURGLARY.
A Woman Says Williams Broke
Into Her Apartments.

Josephine lie Grande, of 2j7 West
Thirty-ninth street, was the COM
plainant against Joseph Williams,
charged with burglary in Jefferson
Market Court this morning. She stated
that william entered her fiat last night
and stole a clock and some papers,
broke into the SANK place and made of
with o gold watch and some neckwear
Justice Martin held him II. $500.
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SAYS SHE ROBBED HIM.
Pcninon Accuses "A Young Woman
lie Met on the street.

Paul Peninon, OF li2 West Twenty-tifth
street, and Eva Foster, twenty-five
years old of il3 Waverly place, met last
evening on Sixth avenue and became
great friends IN few hours
Peninon took Eva to dinner and spent
some time with her after that. This
morning. however, he asked "A police
man to arrest Eva, saying she had stolen
81 from him.
In Jefferson Market Court to-day PenI-
non preferred "A complaint OF larceny
against her. She denied the theft, but
was held for examination,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
MAYNARD CAISSON LOST.
CareIessness Mt Mnre Island May
Lead to Court of Inquiry.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. "a large
iron caisson. which closed the dock at
Mare Island Navy-Yard. broke from its
fastenings last night and fell outward,
sinking out OF sight. Through careless
ness large quantity of water was let
in the big basin after the docking of
the United States steamship Thetis.
When the tide went out the weight of
the water inside forced the heavy Gals
son outward. tearing 1t from the fasten-
ings
at a cost OF $500 1t is likely there
will be a Court of Inquiry to fix the
blame for the accident.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
Weather Forecast.

The weather forecast for the thirty-siI hours
ending at s p. NJ tomorrow 10 as follows:
Generally fair to-day. with probably q thunder
shower tonight; cooler; fair on Friday; south
winds, becoming northery.
The fOlOwing record shows the changes In the
temperature during the morning hours, az In
dicnted by tho thermometer at Perry's Pharmacy
A. MTG A. M,..Hl9 A. M...,s0ll2 M..,H
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
Anarchist Is PenItcnt.

BARCELONA. Aug. o 80 Salvador
Franch, who is under sentence of death
for causing the explosion in the Liceo
Theatre In November last. when more
than thirty persons were killed, has
written the Bishop requesting that he
visit him He says that he desires
10 make a confession. lie Is despnnd-
eut and pentent and suffers contln-
ullly from self-inhicied wound.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
BOMB KILLS SEVEN.
Property Also Damaged In the He.
brew Quarter OF Corfu.

LONDON, Aug. "a despatch to The
Standard from Athens says that bomb
exploded with terrific force in the HI
brew quarter of the city OF Corfu last
evening. killing seven persons and do
ing considerable damage to property
There is 40 clue to the perpetrators
OF the outrage.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
Canadian Belle Commits suicide.
(By Associated PressD

NEHVVTaR'U
BEI.LEyILLE Ont, Aug 9.-Twenty -year-oid
clarence ostrom, one OF BelIeviIle's bellies. com
m,,,ed suicide last night by drowning. Her
,o,h., ,.tus.d In let her marry the she
loved and thla II II thought unbalanced her
mind The body Las been recovered
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09

ny NN'F l"NeN i''a~s'
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. "A number
OF passengers who landed from the
White star line steamer Britannia,
which arrived here last night from New
York. were fined for smuggling tobacco.
John Slattery, whose clothing was
found to be lined with cigars, was fined
fl:.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
Kansn. cay Cashier Sentenced.

KANSAS CITY Aug. s,-Elmer c, satterlee,
cashier OF the detunct kanSAs city safe Deposit
and savings Dank. which failed last June. Was
Ias, evening found guilty Of receiving deposits
hon he knew the bank was inEolyept, and was
sentenced 20 four yeArS In state Prison. An APP
neal Was taken.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09
su,c,de of a Railroad Contractor.

BIRMINGHAM. ALA. Aug. s.--w' L. Webo'
contracting railroad ccusSruotionist' OF L.rnont'
ILL.,, committed suicide last night In the sou'n
crp Hotel by shooting himself through the head
LIN = nistol He left q letter. addressed to the
PROPRIETOR Of the hotel stating that he was
in lis right mind and that the cause Was hhA"'
ulal troubles.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09

ST PAUL. MINI, Aug. 81, ROYAL McMurriu
formerly a we'll known capitalist OF this city
has been arrested In Memphis and last alsht an
orhcer LEFT Ter that city With requisition papers.
he 10 charged With the smbeIElsment Of $780,
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| asst EDITION.
;U|C|OE IN
The 1oMBs.
Murderer Charles Miller
SlasheS His Throat
with a Razor.
DIED THREE HOURS LATER.
flo.
Suspicion that Two Women Visi-
tors Provided Him with
His Weapon
RIGID INQUIRY TO BE MADE.
The Suicide Killed Aged August
Loeffler in Heide's Candy
Factory Last April.
RIGID INQUIRY TO BE MADE.

Charles Miller, twenty-six years old,
awaiting trial for the murder OF August
Loeffer at Heide's candy store in Frank
lin street. April IS last, cut his throat
with a razor in his cell in the Tombs
Prison this morning. and died a few
hours later at Bellevue Hospital.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-09

VITALITY is supplied by the ELECTRoPoIsE.
Cures without medicine. ll22 b way.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-12-06

George ". Marsden, of Bing
hampton, New York, arrived in
kingwood last week for a visit to
his family who have been visiting
in this county for some time. and
will remain all winter with Mr..
David Morgan, of Marsdeu.
l.. NJ. Albright has just placed q
new patent force pump and oil tank
in the ware.room of his store. with
a siphon and measure attachment,
so that any amount OF oil can be
drawn instantly and accurately
without cup or funnel. 1t is a
great convenience.
The Central Hotel at Grafton
will change hands May LIST next,
and the GENIAL Thomas j. McAvay.
who has had charge the past ten
years, will retire from the business
and Edward Curtis, Of the Hotel
Luzernc at Belington, will take
charge.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-12-06
HttI.I.tstgSPoIyT.
Core,pondenee ~ The Arxus.

correspondence OF the ARGUS.
Mud is only knee deep. but so evenly
distributed that not even the profes-
sionol kicker finds solid grounds TO
kick about and is at present engaged
in mud-slnging
William Oscar Miller is teaching nm
excellent school with an attendance OF
50 pupils The authorities should have
respected him enough 20 put the school
house i'm better trim. hut. possibly
Kingwood districts Republican MISS
rule cannot stand it,
This community like all Others.
seems to bc pestcrcd with few bipeds
whose measure 90 value IL easiest cN-
pressed by non compus mcntis homo
genus who having nothing else to do,
like To- amusc thems Ives 10y circulat-
ing febricatious OF the teacher or
schools Such Migrants will continue
To exist tiu some body springs SEN
Sation 10y jumping ON them with both
feet and kicking them seventeen times
in sixteen and onc-half seconds with
the velocity OF deer and tbs zeal of "A
forty-year-old billy goat having half
mile down hill centrifugal force OF at
traction,
Our farmers are trying their hogs in
the scales and buclSwheat ctlses and
sausages are once more in the land
There was very interesting aud
lively joint debate on the tariff question
at No 10 school house last Friday even
ing between Mcssrs. J. II. ). and G.. r.
Barlow and j. A. Sterling and Jpo. =
White. Where was fair attendance
in spite OF the rough weather. We be-
hcvc such exercises should loo moro
frequent in our schools for the benefit
of both patrons and pupils.
DEMOCRAT
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-12-06
A Card From Rev. Berkey.

In the last weeks issue Of The
ARGUS | noticed an item. stating
that Rev. a. +. Berkey has stopped
preaching for the Minority side OF
the Evangelical Association. Where.
upon | feel it my duty to inform
the public, and especially the in.
dustrious readers Of The ARGUS,
that the said item Is u gross viola
tlon OF the truth. and furthermore
| DO say that /, A. f. Berkey, have
not stopped preaching for the
Minority side Of tho church, and
even more than this, / do not in
tend to stop for tho SIMPLE reason
that preacher on the opposite
side, or Esher faction Of the church
has merely supposed in his own
mind, that while the compromise
affected in Pennsylvania gave them
the church property in Preston coun-
ty, w. Va, ! would also turn over
on their side. ! would advise that
correspondent to get little more
Of the particulars, before he goes
to write for the public.
A. +. BRRKEY.
st. Joe, Preston Co., w. Va.
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correspondence ot the Argus
Rain and mud and mud and rain
The signal service company was in
our midst during tho past week.
Leroy Shaw gave us call for taxes
on Friday and Saturday
Our Literary is progressing nicely at
this place. In the near future they
propose 20 discuss the question
Resolved, That man can not bc
patriotic aud eoligious ut the same
time.
Daton Feather is recovering from n
severe attack of humps.
Distcmper is raging fearfully among
our horses.
ID. c Feather, OF Mt Lake Park, was
calling with his parents and his sup
posed bcttcr-half of this place, during
the past week.
Our schools across the line in Gar
rett county, will close on Friday, after
n term OF seven weeks watch makes
the educational advantages little
limited in that section.
George Mackoll shipped fine lot OF
Xmas trees from this place to Pitts
burg during the past week
The coming week will prove dcs'ru".
tiv, TO our swine, since quite number
OF our pcopls believe in killing their
hogs in the moon We think all that
is nee sssary is TO have the pprlSers fat
and not hungry when killed. II the
meat should shrink in cooking IL will
he all the better by having the lard
enI, rninn f,n,n