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She even approached President Cleve-
land on the subject There are many
interesting facts in the story which will
prove useful and Instructive II you ever
want a place. The disclosures may sur
prise some OF the illustrious men whom
the reporter met Have YOU ever seen
"A Texas Steer" Perhaps you remember
the scene where young woman calls
upon the CONGRESSMAN.
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Denmark Budmet struggle Ended.

my Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN. March N.-The po-
lltical struggle in regard to the annual
budgets. which has lasted for years be-
tween the Folkething and the Govern
nent, ended yesterday in n compromise
arrangement. This Is the first time
since 1885 that the Foikething and the
Landthing have assented to the budget
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BurSlnr sho, by Policeman.


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vale tryt-s TO .,st, a. oEas1 t.-!y III, an
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strained the anti-TRmmany factions and
the Republicans are building up power
full organizations for the overthrow OF
Croker rlunkitt ct al.
In the Nineteenth.
Ex.Mnyor Hugh Grants old district
IL the Nineteenth. Police Justice Dan
lei Mcmahon Is the leader. but Grant
is n strong faCtcr. There has been n
good deal OF speculation about Grants
attitude lie is suspiciously silent. and
Is making the other fellows iO consider
nhlc thinking, and causing them much
uncaslnrsN. Recent events have con-
frmol the belief that Grant Is against
Croker.
Grants friends are with him on which
ever siln he T.. MrMlhon is In an un.
Cnmf0rl'hlc position. lie don't Ike ~
hc asked Are Nnu with croker or Ni.h
Graut2" lie has not answered the Qurs-
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flunLiu and his Enemies.


The samt clique contr,'S the seven
teenth ana EiGhtecuth DISTRICTS, which
were one ANA the same undo. the old
apPoruonmrnI The cOutrO,ltug splrii Is
the rt>toubtahlC George W rlgukttt
flunktts, Who Is for G;vOrEc WaShnEt,Y
flunkitt rrsI, hast and all the time As.
serted his Independence. ana Croker
torcTd him into political partnership with
his old enemy. Henry Murray pIunkt,t
Knew that Murray was placed hy MS
SIDE as a check On him, and Ne fnrvrt
Croker 10 NompromiSe. MURRAY MAS
sent 70 the Seventeenth with rlunkItt' -
man Dooling, and they appear 10 w.,
happy there together, Plunktu jOlneG
forces with eN-Asscmblyman Thomas ]
McMSnus. and they are taking every .
thing in sight rlGnkitt's habit ~ Grah.
hing every oftiec Is causing the
place hunters 20 revolt. rlunkitt stands
well with the Eighth Avenue Railroad
Company, and hr manages to remain On
a peace footing with the rank aud Tile by
plAcinS them as drivers conductors aud
stablemen on the road, but the btg fcl-
lows arc not plScated. Croker Would
not b sorry TO see l,lunkitt turned
down" and vice VERSA Both arv uying
to strengthen their position In the Two
districts, ard while the relations 81 the
factions are 6ecSming paore aud more
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The EXEMPT tlremsn say that their
treasury would be depleted II they are
deprived ~ their income. ANA, ms q re-
suit. untold suffering and hardship
would he cutaNri On many poor widows
and sick and disabled veterans who de.
pond for their existence on the dora.
lions and pensions they receive. To
show that the disbursements for eight
wears eNcSNuri the reCClpts from the
FAX. Clerk George u Patterson hos
prepared the following financial state
mcnt for the Information q the Legs
latUrc.
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There IL dissatisfaction because Loaf
err Thomas j. Dunn and his fellow con-
tractor aud associate leader. Thomas r..
Crimmins NJ 'hr TWrutLrtA. are not
spry enough Cor the onlcr- seekers. mos,
81 their time heinz taken up. ~ 1; IS
asserted. IN looking after contracts for
Dunn and CrImmius
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aat the SeVeathl

NJ, - pIth Alderman Joseph Martin.
Ne neE teaasr 81 the Seventh. lie in
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taeea ex-Coroasr Daniel Hanley ami
Leader Keenan,. the sixth District can
boast o. a happy family. Mr.. Keenan,
care u provide Ceoa pla>ss for mast u
rs -oays." and he Is on the hest ~
l<rns With Nanny Friend. Taerefore
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.'hcy scorn Lender Martin.
Fcnthrrson Not Liked.

Maurice Fcatherson. leader OF the
Twenty second. has got himself disltk ed
hy a certain element lie looks after his
friends to the exclusion of others who
claim recognition for services rendered.
He is by one side accused Of selnshncss
and hy the other Landed for standing by
his friends The trouble has dsNelonei
into a ruction. The anti-Tammanyttes
hope TO profit ny Il by drawing the NAL
contents into their ranks.
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herited discord with the leadership. II
Is well known that Martin Is leader
more In name than In fact, and that
William Pitt Mitchell is the power be-
hind the throne. This Is gatling to Mar.
tin and his friends. but all the more ~ to
the real Tammnnyites who know that
Martin Is an eN-Rcpuhlican and Mitchell
was the former County Democracy
leader In the district when II was the
Tenth. To lead and not to be led Ia I'll =
amuition OF Harry lllwitzrr, Deputy
Chief clerk in the District Attorney
office. and Louis Harncmann. Corpora
ton Attorney. lllwitger announced pub
licly that he would succeed Justice
Roesch as leader. when croker or.
dercd otherwise. lllwitzer's chLgrin was
so great he couldn't nni choice words
enough to express his feelings. Deputy
Tax Commissioner Sohmer and Thomas
Clarke would also leaders Ice. Turn
where Martin may he Is confronted 10y
an envious competitor. He has gone to
Florida and left thc district to his as
sociate. Mitchell The consequence Of
the internal strife f. that the antl-rln-
many factions hold the balance OF power
In the district
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Soreness in the Thirteenth.

Ne sore" than ex-Alderman James Rar-
ker He was set aside as leader OF the
Thirteenth for Police Commissioner John
{ Sheehan, brother Of lieut.-Ciov. Shcc-
han and 10 make his downfall complete
Sheehan lef, him OF the General Com
mittee Barker fought his way up from
the ranks 20 command. Now he is
stripped ~ all honors and decorations
and sent hack to the ranks in disgrace,
There are hundreds " loyal Tammany
men In the district who believe with Bar
ker that he has been badly lreAtei.
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zUET FOUND INNOCENT.
Hut Ns York Detective. May Yet
IKE Trouble for Him.

Detecye- Sergt. George V. Zundt, OF
the BrdSlyn Central Office squad. who
was trh before Commissioner Welles
vesterds ona charge of failing to pay
to the blice Pension Fund 10 per cent.
of the .ewah which was paid by
Charles n. Peterson, New York mer-
chant. FIR tn recovery of a diamond
pin OF vhichhe had been robbed was
Officially leclaed innocent of the charge
this morning
Zundt, howyer, is in a worse pre-
dicament tina he was before. He has
testified unde oath that he acted as
agent for Il New York detectives,
McManus an Lang, in taking the
money from ltterson. The New York
men feel We bitter against Xundt,
because he ID them reduced to the
ranks. They ney now. come forward
and demand e $780, which, they allege,
Zundt never 'fered to give them, and
which he itself admits they were
entitled to REEVE. Should Zundt re-
fuse TO givet up, they might prefer
. charges again him.
Asked whetar anything further would
be done in he matter, Commissioners
Welles said:
THE matte is now out of my hands.
] am not ppared to say what might
be done if'le New York detectives
preferred chges against Zundt."
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RESULTS OF THE CYCLONE.
Incoming Steamships Bring Tales
Of Marine Devastation.
Dismantled and Disabled Vessels
Encountered Everywhere.

Incoming steamships arc almost daily
bringing reports OF vessels which were
either wrecked, dismantled or injured.
and frequently abandoned. owing to
the recent cyclone that swept along the
Atlantic coast and out to sea. FREE
quently the reporting steamships them
selves sustained considerable damage
from the storm.
The German tank steamship Deutsch-
land, Capt. Scherhorst, from Rotter-
dam, arrived off Sandy Hook shortly
after o'clock this morning and sig
nailed that one blade of her screw had
been carried away. presumably by the
force of the storm.
The Ward line steamship Nigilancia,
Capt. Mcintosh, which arrived this
| morning from Havana. reports that
| Sept go in latitude 2S 20 north, longitude
| 1888 west. she passed three masted
schooner In dismantled condition. with
jury RIG. Her huh appeared to be sound
and she was headed southeast.
The same day, In latitude q. 80 north,
longitude 1883 west. she passed a bark,
light loaded or In ballast, with her sails
all gone. Her hull and spars. however,
We're apparently sound. She was steer
Ing northeast, although she had no kind
OF sail whatever set.
Last SUNDAY III latitude si,ls, long tuue
1945, the Nigilancia exchanged signals
with Il British ship bound north, show
ing signals u. h. n. y. and wishing to
he reported "al we'll" Yesterday.
seventy-five miles south of Absecom. she
passed spar projecting ten feet above
the water. apparently attached TO sub
merged wreCkage.
The Wlson-Hll line steamship Color
ado. Capt. Abbott, which arrived this
morning from London, experienced a
terribly rough passage OF fourteen days.
oct. Ii she experienced hurricane in
latitude $3.50, longitude 1880, which
caused mountainous seas and did con-
siderable damage to her cattle fittings.
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BLAUTH GONE AGAIN.
Retired Butcher Missing the Third
Time in Three Months.

Adam Blauth, sixty years old. of 1856
Bushwick avenue. Brooklyn, has dlsap-
peared from his home for the third time
within the past three months. AS a
butcher he amassed a comfortable for
tune. Three months ago he sold all his
real property for $1,000 and disappeared
with his money.
Several weeks later he was found wan
dering around Evergreen Cemetery
where his wife Is buried He was taken
home. but ten days later disappeared
again. About a month ago Mrs. Elgen, of
"a Morton street, this city, found him in
rags and hungry near the North River.
Mrs. Elgen had once been engaged to
Bauth, and when she saw him in such a
plight she pitied him and took him back
to his four children, who had nearly
gone distracted over his disappearance.
Now Blauth has again left his home
and his children are afraid that he has
committed suicide for grief over the loss
of his fortune.
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BROOKLYN NEWS.
FELL DEAD WHILE SPARR|NG.
Wallace Had Forced His Antag-
onist to Accept a Challenge.
Then Dropped to the Pavement Be-
fore Blow was Struck.

While sparring for an opening in the
fight in which he was about to engage
T. II. Wallace, aged twenty-five. OF %.
Adams street. Brooklyn. fell to the pave.
ment and died in few minutes late
last night.
Joseph Loader. alias English, with
whom Wallace was about to settle a
dispute by resorting to blows. disap.
peared Immediately afterwards. and has
since eluded the police. There are nc
marks of violence. on Wallace's body
except a slight cut on the back of his
head, and only an autopsy will deter
mine what caused Wallaces death.
The police of the Adams street sta
ton learned of the case a few minutes
after midnight, when a man rushed into
the station-house and asked that an am
bulance be sent Immediately to attend
a man who had been taken with an
lane, running off from Myrtle avenue,
between Adams and Pearl streets.
Ambulance Surgeon Hamilton went tc
on stoop. The body was removed tc
the station-house Wallace was EN-.
ployed as a helper by Dodd's Express
Company, of 50 Nassau street.
Thomas Reilly, a bartender in Thomas
3laney's saloon, Myrtle avenue and
Union alley, gave the detectives the first
clue to work upon. lie said that Wal
lace, Joseph Louder ana a man KNOW
as Blink" O'Bren, who lived with
Wal lace, were discussing their merits
as boxers In the saloon shortly before
midnight. Wallace wanted to fight
Loader. and the latter finally accepted
the challenge. Walter Russell. boy,
living at 46 Prospect street, says that
while standing outside the saloon he
heard Wallace say to Loader: I'm GO
ing to give you good fight"
English replied: Il don't know you
and l don't want to fight" Then the
three men emerged from the saloon
but Loader returned. When he came
out again Wallace dared him to fight
anu said: You've got to fight me-"
All right; I'll give you a chance" the
boy says Loader replied. The men start.
ed to go up the alley, but changed theii
mind and went to Pearl street, intend.
ing to fight by the old convent wall. A
policeman was standing on the corner
and they returned to the alley.
wallace and English assumed pugilis.
tie positions. and started the bout. The
police say they boxed scientifically for
several minutes, during which time
neither landed blow. Suddenly Wallace
seemed to collapse, and he reeled over
upon the ground, striking his head
against the pavement. His companions
carried him to "A stoop.
I'm all right" he said. 'l'll go on In
a moment" Some of the witnesses got
frightened. and ran to the station-house
Wallace gasped a few times and eX-
pired. OBrien and Loader disappeared
The police have learned that Loader
and Wallace knew each other, and had
mad quarrel over some matter on Sun
day night. Detectives are now looking
for Loader.
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NOMINEE BADLY WANTED
Brooklyn NTH Assembly District
Demoolts Can't Agree.
An AII-Nigh Convention Adjourned
UntiThis Afternoon.

The creates difficulty is being expe-
rienced by tn delegates to the regular
Dmocratic Asmbly Convention in the
First ana Nth Districts of Brooklyn
to select CANDIDATES, and there was a
prospect this morning that the First
District woulthave no nominee.
For the ThH time the delegates in
this district nvened last night. but
failed to nonaatc. 1t was 4 o'clock
this morning hen the convention adj
1t was necessg to poll fifty-one votes
ror the nominaDn.
There have len numerous candidates
in the iild, bu none of them has sue
ceeded in gazing the requisite number
of votes. Lasnight the delegates bal
lotted for eighhours and only succeed
ed In recordir thirty-seven votes for
the lea2iRg hdidate. IA, At J. o'clock
Candidates WITTY and Platt, the next
nearest. only He'd 10 and II votes each
Tine remainn votes were distributed
between nearl as many. candidates.
At o'Cloclit was decided to ad-
journ the Corention and meet again
this afternoOrin Jefferson Han. I'm
less the deleges agree on some candi-
date to-day e regulars in the First
have to vote u either the Republican
or Shepard noinees, as this is the last
day for the tilgj of certificates
The Ninth strict delegates will also
reconvene toy They claim to have
nominated Beard +. Nelson.
The Kicker allege that Nelson 5
nomination 1t night was illegal. as
there We're 1t twenty-one delegates
prestn at the invention. A notary was
about this mOing trying to get afiida-
Wits from tho who were present when
Nelson was minated. These aftidavits
will be placebefore "A joint session of
the delegate to the Convention and
the membersf the General Committee
who will deCh whether Nelson is to be
the nominee.
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WATCHIN FOR C0L0MIZERS
Brooklyn Police Very Active
Around he Registry Places.

There wer so many applications n
the various gistry booths in Brooklyn
this morninlhat it was estimated that
this, the send day of registration
would surps last years record. The
order ISSUED by Police Commissioner
.Welles yestiay caused extra vigilance
on the part the police captains in the
lodging-hou districts. Policemen In
citiZen's drs We're about the streets
early watclg for fraudulent registra-
ton.
There areeventy-two cheap lodging
houses IN / city, and the police have
the name ID description of each of the
2,65G lodgeri.
Last yeaihe greatest amount OF col
onizlng wadone in the lodging-houser'
at the foo6f Atlantic avenue and on
lower FUN street. Special attention
was paid Those who registered in these
districts IL morning.
The regfation for the second day
last year is 52.972. The total for the
four days as 11S,92S.
The frs day this year there We're
76.O27 vote registered, against g., 26i
last wear. id 1t Is estimated that by to-
night the lumber will increase proper.
tionately er last year.
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Pc. BISHOPS IN SESSION.
The First Assemblnge in the New
Fourth Avenue building.

The House of Bishops OF the Protes-
tant-Episcopal Church of America as
sembled for the first time this morning
in the elegant new Church Missions
House, Fourth avenue and 1wenty-sec-
ond street, to elect a Bishop to occupy
the position in the missionary jurisdic-
ton of Olympia, Wash.
The vacancy was caused by the death
OF Bishop John Adams Paddock, which
occurred in March last. 1t was said this
morning that the session would probably
occupy to-day and tomorrow.
| The conference OF Bishops was held
behind closed doors.
When Bishop John Williams. Of Con,
1880 o'clock hfty-nine were present, in.
Guiding Right Rev. Drs. J. Williams, OF
C9nneStiGpt H. b; b, WWhippie' Of M Ynni
Medley, Of Maine; futile, of Missouri
Doane, of Albany; Huntington, of Cen
trail New York. Whitaker. of Pennsyl-
! vania; Wills. OF New Hampshire; Gar.
Kentucky; Jaeger, Of Southern Ohio
McLaren. of Chicago; Perry. OF
io eyti = PuWFg ss virginia Of o9s.ney Pc
Knickerbocker OF Indiana; Henry c. Poi,
ter of New York; Walker, Of North
Dakota; Watson, of East Carolina; Rul.
braska; Gilbert, OF Minnesota; Thomas,
of Kansas Talbot, OF Idaho; Johnston,
of Western Texas; a. Leonard. Of Ne
vada and Utah; Coleman, of Delaware
Kendrick, of New Mexico and Arizona
Grafton, Of Fond d hs Lac; w
OF West Missouri; Sessions Of
Springfield: Ktnsolving, of Texas; Wells,
of Spokane: Gray, OF Southern Florida
Barker, of Western Colorado; Capers, OF
South Carolina; Lawrence, OF Massachu-
sets; Cheshire. of North Carolina; Hall,
of Vermont, and Newton. of Virginia.
Bishop Williams sat in an antiquated
chair on the platform. which the late
Bishop White, the first Bishop of Penn
sylvania. once occupied.
Rev. Prot. Samuel Hart. of Trinity
College, was the secretary.
After the usual deVotions the first
business was the reading of the mortu-
airy record among the bishops since the
last meeting In this city in March.
These were the names read:
The Right Rev. DR.. William InFrs nAn
Kip, Bishop Of California, died April Z
1S93 Right Rev. DR. William Henry Au-
gustus Bissell, Bishop Of Vermont, died
May a. 1888: Right Rev. DR.. Alexander
Gregg, Bishop OF Texas, died July II
1893 Right Rev. DR.. Theodore Benedict
Lyman, Bishop Of North carolina, .Gied
Dec. 49, 1893; Right Rev. Dr. John ADAMS
Paddock. Bishop of Olympia, died March
4. 1884: Right Rev. DR.. Iioratio South
gate. for some time Missionary Bishop
In Turkey. died April IL, 1884,
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QUARRELLED ON THE TRAIN
Miss Starr Went on to Washington
While StaufHer Sought Death.

Miss Lois Starr. who Is mentioned In
connection with the attempted suicide OF
w. Il. Stauffer. has been stopping for the
past month with Mrs. Shafer. widow.
ut $50 Jersey avenue, Jersey City. Her
brother. r.. G. Starr. boards with Mrs.
Shafer and she came here to visit him.
Miss Starr Is the daughter of an army
officer and lives in Ashland, Ohio.
Stauffer has been living at $50 Ocean
avenue. and had been visiting Miss Starr
for the past two weeks. He urged her
to marry him, but she preferred to be
married at her home in Ohio. where her
family Is prominent
Yesterday afternoon Stauffer and Miss
Starr took a PENNSYLVANIA train for
Washington. where both have friends
They have quarreled. Stauffer got off a,
Philadelphia, and going to hotel at
tempted to Kill himself. Miss Starr KEEP
on to Washington. She did not know Of
the attempted suicide of her lover unit
she read of 1t this morning.
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NEWJERSEY.
TO KILL HIS ACCUSER.
Mead Frantic on Seeing the Man
Who Made Charges.
Held a Prisoner Eighteen Days
Through Alleged Perjury.
Released When the Charges Against
Him Were Proved False.


HACK ENSACK. y. j., Oct. l7.-Franl,
Mead. Of Hillsdale. n. j.. the executor
of the estate of Mary Ann Butler. OF
New York, who was arrested her and
held pending requisition papers. Oh
charges of Incorporating the funds
OF the estate. was released from the
Iackensack jail to-day. The charges
against him were found to be abso.
lutely false.
The warrant for Meads arrest was
issued by Police Justice Hogan, OF New
York, eighteen days ago. and the man.
who is well known and respected here
has been In prison ever since. The
direct charge was that OF using $l2jOt
of the estate to pay his own debts
His accuser was Caroline Post, one oi
the heirs.
She received her Information concern.
ing the alleged frauds, II Is said, from
Arthur llisCoCk u detective, who lives
at Hillside, and she at once soughtPolicc
Inspector Mclaughlin, OF New York
who brought about the arrest.
Mead protested his innocence all along
Park Row. New York, was here yester-
day asking Il hearing for his client
next by Justice Van Nalen.
This morning, however, the following
telegram was received from Inspector
Mclaughlin:
"Our District Attorney refuses to
send for Frank Mead. Please discharge
him."
Justice Van Nalen at once served the
discharge papers on Sheriff Bogert, and
Mead was released.
Before the telegram was received
HiscOck called at the Sheriffs office t.
see Mead and tell him he was doing al
in his power to secure his release.
Mead got furious on seeing him. and
he was with difficulty restrained from
jumping at him. He said he would like
to tear Hiscock limb from limb, and
He Will now sue Hiscock for false
arrest and perjury
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GOT BOTH THE MILLERS.
Policeman Ferguson Found Them
Hanging About the Saunders
Hestdence

Residence.
Charles and Henry Miller. who say
they live in the lodging-house at 81
Bowery, New York, were held In the
Lee Avenue Court, Williamsburg, to-
day on a charge OF vagrancy.
While Policeman Ferguson was pass
ing Charles Saunders's residence, 212
Broadway, shortly after / o'clock this
morning, window was opened and a
w0man'S voice was heard crying
"Policen'
As Ferguson opened the gate to in
vestIgate, Charles Miller rushed into his
arms. The policeman kept Charles quiet
by showing him revolver. and then
with his prisoner in tow pluckily
started to search around for other
burglars. He found Henry after some
time crouchng against the wall of the
house. Ferguson handcuffed his two
prisoners together and then marched
them away.
Ferguson is n smaller man than either
Of his prisoners, but he has always had
the reputation of being plucky. Mrs
Saunders says she heard the men try
ing to force her basement door, but
as 1t would he hard to find the men
guilty of burglary, they were charged
with vagranCy instead.
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FOUGHT FOR A DUDES SMILE
Two Widows and IA Beer-Cnn Mixed
Up Mt n street Corner.

Mrs. Mary Sullivan. white, and Minnie
Ives. colored, were brought into the
Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, Police Court
this morning by Court officer Tom Tracy,
who charged them with fighting on the
corner of Bergen street and Schenec-
tady avenue. Before the bench one of
the little romances OF Crow Hill was
developed.
William Harris, colored. is the Berry
Wall of Crow Hill. He Is by far the
king of the dudes in that district. accord
ing to reports. Chief among his many
admirers are the two prisoners, both
widows.
This mornin~ as Harris was standing
on the corner Minnie Ives came along
with a can of beer, and invited him to
walk home with her and take a social
glass. Mary Sullivan happened to see
this occurrence.
She rushed out and In another minut e
Mary, Minnie and beer can were hope
lessly mixed, while Harris stood by and
cheered them on.
The fight was at it's height when Po-
liCeman Quigley brought 1t to an end by
arresting both women. Justice Quigley
sent them to Jail for ten days.