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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
SHOT DOWN BY A WAITER.
MIG HT MANAGER KILLED Nv n
HkRLEM RESTAURANT

ne HAD Discharged the waiteE, Whe n ne
Son or y Millinery SALESMAN - HorseFiy
IN the Envy-He F1red ut the Manager rrea
Behind Arrested when RAINING Away.
John Russell, the night manage Of Charles
Cornell's restaurant in Third avenue, between
126th and 127th streets, was ahot and mortaIly
wounded last night by Henry Homer. Q waiter
whom he discharged last Saturday. Homer was
arrested. Russell died at 1:oS O'Clock this
morning.
The restaurant is kept open all night. Russell
hired Homer about SIX months ago to attend to
the late customers. They got on amioably to-
gether until early last week, when q customer
reported Homer to Russell for inattention-
Russell reprovcd the waiter and they quarrelled.
They continued on bad terms, 30 Russell decided
that they could not get on together and dis
charged Homer.
Russell went to work last evening at Q o'clock.
Business was brisk, and at 7:3o he left his chair
at the cashiers desk and went to the pie counter,
to the right Of the entrance. to cut q portion Of
pie. As he stood there with his back to the
entrance the door was thrown open and Homer
walked in. He had a pistol in his hand. He
raised 1t and fired at Russell, who was less than
ten feet from him. The bullet entered Russell's
head through the right ear. The wounded man
fell to the floor unconscious.
Homer did not stop to sec what the effect Of
his shot was. He ran into the street Just in
time to be caught by Detective Reed Of tho East
126th street station. Reed had been on tho OPP
posite side Of Third avenue with Detective Hal
lahan. When they heard the pistol shot they
ran across the street They called an ambulance
from Harlem Hospital. and Russell was taken
there. Russell is unmarried. and lodges at ALI
East 125th street.
.Homer's brother. who lives at the Mount Nor
rs Hotel. went to the station after tho prisoner
had been taken there. He said that Henry was
20 years old, and that their father was q sales
man in a millinery store at 602 Broadway.
Henry. he said, ran away from homo when he
was 16 years old and Joined tho navy. His
father traced him to tho training ship, and
through the influence of friends procured his
discharge from the service. Since then the young
man has worked at various trades, and finally he
became a waiter.
On the way to the police station Detective
Reed asked Homer why he shot Russell
God told me to do II, nswered the prisoner.
In the station house Sergeant Delaney put the
same question TO him.
We'll" replied Homer, "he did me dirt"
William J. Homer, the prisoners father, who
lives in East Orange, said last night that Henry
was q ne'erdo-well and had lost several good
jobs through his bad habits. Mr.. Homer told
him a year ago that he must shift for himself.
Mrs. Homer IL an invalid. The Homer family IL
well thought OF in East Orange.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
OBVIOUS ERAup sHoPs.
Consolidated viii Expei Any Discretionary
Pool Men-Odd Plea for the Dean Rot

Consolidated Will Expel Any DtsoretenAry
Pool Men-odd Plea Tor the Dcan Rot
Tho directors Of the Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange have several times sus-
pended or expelled members suspected OF irregu-
lar methods Of trading. As q result Of the do
velopments since the collapse OF the 4. g Dean
Company, whose President, Myron l. Bernard,
was q former reporter Of the World. the d.
roctors of the Consolidated have adopted the
following amendment TO the bylaws:
ANY member OF this Exchange who shall. either dL
rectly or through . partnership, advertise In any
newspaper. magazine. or by any other public method.
or who shall issue any circular or market letter orer
ing to do q Discretionary business. or conduct any so
called syndicate business, shan be deemed guilty Of
obvious fraud. and the Board OF Direotop, after In
vestigating the facts Of the case. may in its discretion
suspend said member for such time ~ they may deem
proper, or may inniot the penalty provided for in the
nrst paragraph OF Article XIII. Of the Constitution"
Tho penalty referred to 10 expulsion. Tho
action ofthe directors was generally commended
in Wall street yesterday.
Many drafts have been received By banks upon
the collapsed e. 8. Dean Company. Ono such
draft for 5000. which came from tho South. was
shown at o bank yesterday. Other drafts upon
concerns whose offices arc still open have been
cashed without delay. The runs upon a number
Of tho concerns has amounted to many thou
A couple Of attorneys put out yesterday q
statement on behalf OF the Dean concern declar-
ing that It's customers were mere gamblers who
ought to take their losses philosophically and
that the company went broke legitimately by
carrying wheat for q rise; that the customers
didn't lose more than a million anyhow. and that
40 per cent; OF that was velvet;- also that the
officers of the company are in New York and
will BIO pleased to give the public all the infor-
nation 1t wants.
Fraud orders were received yesterday by the
Post Office authorities here against the Metro
politan Collection Agency. 22s Broadway. and
The examination Of Leslie Lathrop and Roy
nolds MacAlpine (Lathrop s. MacAlpine).
were arrested on Thursday on q charge of keep
ing a gambling house, has been put of until April
% In Essex Market.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
SAN Domingo Want. Reciprocity.

WASHINGTON. April e.-The Government q
San Domingo has made overtures to Secretary
Sherman for tho negotiation OF q reciprocity
treaty between the two countries. Most OF the
San Domingo sugar is grown on plantations
owned by Americans. Between six and eighS
million dollars OF American capital Is invested
there.
Nearly all the sugar is sent to the United
States, but IL cannot leave San Domingo withouV
the payment OF q heavy export tax. Al the
machinery and most OF the manufactured arti.
States. and tho San Domingo Government Ii
willing to modify the import duties levied on
them and the export tax on sugar II this Gov
eminent will modify the tariff ON articles grown
there.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
JAMESON ON THE RACK.
Ne Rxplains the Discrepancies Between 4
and Winoughby's Testimony.

LEO AxDlDlbD u D14CEOD9ho40 !" ~
and vSinoughby's Test1mony.
LONDON. April 9.-The Parliamentary South
African Committee resumed It's sittings in West
minister Hall at noon to-day. In view Of the
warning given to Major Sir John Willoughby at
tho last sitting on Tuesday. that both he and Dr..
Jameson would be m to-day. in order
that their conflicting evidence might DO recon-
ciled, there was q large number Of conspicuous
persons In attendance.
DR.. Jameson and Major Wflloughby arrived
carly. Immediately after the committee was
called to order tho Chairman explained to DR..
Jameson tho necessity of his making q state
ment as to what no had said to Major Willough-
by in tho private conversations alluded to by
willoughby on Tuesday. in which, Wiloughby
alleged. he had been led to understand that the
proposed raid INTO the Transvaal had the sane
ton of imperial authority. DR.. Jameson said
that Major willoughby's letter. in which he as
serted his belief that the Transvaal raid was
undertaken with the assent OF tho imperial au-
The COMMITTEES had attached to It. Wiiioushby,
no said, had learned suddenly that the officers
be deprived OF their commissions, In which event
they would DO ruined, and had therefore written
TO the War Once in the strongest and most con-
else terms, with q Wow to staving OF the loss Of
The Chairman asked DR.; Jameson Il the eI.
P Gessr owiiIoashSy In his reference eSt 70 priTa Gs
conyersations with the witness, meant the
authority OF the Cape Government. DR.. jane
son answered:
Eyes; in most cases 1t meant the British High
Commissioner
II am not In the habit OF lying"
He added that he had not said that the Gov
eminent backed tho Transyaal movement,
though Major Willoughby, might easily have
got that impression from the character of tho
talks which they had had together.
Sir William Harcourt put the witness through
a severe course of questioning, drawing from
him an emphatic denial that he had communi.
his projected raid into the Transvaal. Jameson
admitted that at one time he was undecided
whether the expedition would not be moro bone
fetal with Pretoria as its objective point instead
OF Johannesburg.
the women and children In Pretoria instead Of
Johannesburgf
ter for sarcasm
After the examination OF DR.. Jameson. Major
Sir John Willoughby was recalled TO tho witness
stand and made a statement corroborating tho
testimony given by DIR. Jameson.
Major Heany, one OF the messenger who was
sent 10 forbid Jameson to move Into tho Trans
vaal, and DIR. Wolf. ono Of tho leaders Of the
johannesburg reform movement, testified TO
facts already known, and tho committee ad-
journed until April 80.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
JEERED BIZ FELLOW HoRKMEn.
Ior1er str1hsrs ReJoioe at the Downfall e G
Deserter.

ToIor STRIKERS neJoico at the Dsvnnhn e .
Deserter.
PATERSON, n. j., April 9.-when the Phonix
Silk Company opened their gates to those strik-
ers who wished to return to work, . young man
named Walter B. Fairclough was the first to re-
turn. He stuck to his loom, and twice a day,
until tho end of the strike, no was hooted and
escorted from the mill to his homo by strikers.
He was persistent in having tho strikers Ar
rested, but failed in his efforts to have them
punished. This morning he was sent to the
county jail for thirty days for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, and also placed under bonds
to await the action of the Grand Jury for assault
and battery.
Yesterday afternoon Fairclough hired Q horse
and wagon and drove recklessly up Main street.
The carriage bounded over the pavement, and
sparks few from the horses hoofs. Patrolman
Mcguire tried to stop the reckless driver, but
Fairclough paid no attention TO him. An cleo
trio car was passing at the time, and tho officer
boarded 1t in pursuit. A crowd gathered to wit
ness the chase. When tho car reached Fair
clough's carriage the horse had been stopped by
Pstrolman Moore. The policemen put Fair
clough under arrest, but not before he got
Maguire's hand in his mouth and chewed the
fingers.
When Fairclough was arraigned In the Re-
corder's court this morning the room and Hobbies
were crowded with weavers from tho Phoenix
mill. who had left their work to rejoice in his
downfall. On his way to the jail after sentence
they jeered at him
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
rAMMANY TACKLES CONSTABLE.
But the Tiger wouldnr Howl for Anything but
the Chicago Election and Brynnisn.

But the TiEor wouldnr Howl for Anything but
the Chicago Election and Brynnisn.
The Tammany Hall General Committee took q
whack last night at its monthly combination
service at the Building Department and its
management by Superintendent Constable.
Resolutions were adopted at its meeting which
accuse the Superintendent Of being arbitrary,
dilatory. inefficient, and extravaganza of treat
ing architects with studied rudeness," and
subjecting builders and property owners to
every species of petty tyranny" and OF dis
eliminating in favor of certain architects and
builders- An old story that appointments have
been made In defiance Of the civil service laws is
told, and 1t Is even limited by tho resolutions
that employees paid for their appointments. 1t
Is declared that tho inspectors OF the depart
ment are Incompetent, and that "kinship. rather
than competency. has been the door to selection
and q passport to promotion" 1t Is set forth as
publicly charged and not denied" that the ap-
prevail OF Q brother OF the Superintendent must
be obtained by manufacturers Of %hreproof mate
rails before the quality of their wares will be
s sion SsHou NJ sn the GponcoarSe c HnHndss se' Siii.
Leader Sheehan presented another denouncing
Mayor Strong's Commissioners OF Accounts for
their report on tho administration Of the Park
Department. which was declared to be an at
tempt to besmirch tho private characters Of
gublic.spirited citizens who have served as Park
Commissioners.
Justice John Henry Mccarthy declared that
the Mayor vetoed tho Charter bill because he
the Greater New York MAyoralty fight.
He did not stir up the tiger until no adverted
to the Chicago election. Then the tiger howled
in q way to warn tho orator that he was tread
ing on dangerous ground and he quit
Lyman W. Reddington followed and evoked
demonstrattons OF disapproval when he declared
that national issues will not control in our next
campaign.
with a whoop and three cheers for Chicago q
resolution was adopted ~giorying In the result Of
the election there and promising to duplicate 1t
in this city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
sYAPArHETIo STRIKES BEGIN.
One Ordered Yesterday On the View Eerk Ath-
leuo Club Building.

One ORDERED Yesterday On the New York Ath-
leuo Club Building.
Tho first sympathetic strike on account Of the
present quarrel between the master steamntters
and the stesm1tters' union took plaoe yesterday
morning on the New York Athletic Club build
ing. Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth street. AL
tho union mechanics except the carpenters,
whose delegate was out Of town, were ordered
out, about 100 men in various trades stopping
work Tho carpenters will 60 out to-day. Tho
strike was on account Of the employment of nom
union steamitters by q. A: Suter & Co. who are
members Of the Master Steam and Hot
Filters Association, which recently locked out
the union men until they agree TO a new set of
rules-
There was a report on Thursday that Suter &
Co. had taken of the non-union men, but instead
OF turning them of they added to the force on
the building yesterday morning. The firm has
the steamhtung contract for tho Columbia Col
lego buildings, but has put no non-union men to
work there so far.
At the regular meeting Of the Board Of Walk
ing Delegates in tho afternoon 1t was reported
that non-union steamftters were at work on
several buildings, including tho Brown soap
factory at Fifty-second street and tho North
River. No now striker wero ordered. but 1t il
thought some will be to-day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
STRONG CASTS ABOUT FOE Il NAN.
Lets or Applications for RooseveIt's PlAoe and
. Number OF Advisers.

Lets or Applications for RooseveIt's PlAce and
. Number or Advisers
MAJOR Strong WAS pleased yesterday to learn
that Police Com missioner Theodore Roosevelt
had arranged not to assume his now place as
Assistant Secretary OF tho Navy untn April 10.
II asked him TO give mo two weeks" said
he, Il am glad he Ia to remain ten day.. It
10 NO easy Job to select Q Police Commissioner"
The Mayor has received o lot of applications
for tho place. He ICONS llted yesterday with
William Brookheld. Gen. McCook. and Police
Commissioner Andre ~s. he also had . talk
Cornelius ". Bliss.
Mr.. Roosevelt Is said TO desire to accomplish
some things in. the way of prl motions In tbs
departmsnt before he goes out. Chief OF po.
lice Coniin visited the Mayor Yesterday at tho
%latter's request. Tho Mayor asked him what
he thought about his tthe Mayor's) proposed
amendments TO the police provisions OF tho
charter. The Chief said no considered them
bad. He said that they would create i've diff
ferent departments. with as many separate
heads, and that they seemed 70 no specially
designed TO deprive tho Chief Of Police of ali
power while holding him TO the ~strictest re-
sponeibility for tn. acts OF men whose only &C
countability seemed TO bs TO tho deputy COM
missioner
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
Il $3.50 VERDICT FOE JAYNE.
Resuif or His $50 900 Damage ,suis AEaanas
Scribner's Magaxine.

Result or His $50. o DamaEo ,suis AEainas
seribner's Magazine
The-four days hearing in tho $50, 900 damage
suit brought by Banaiah G. Jayne, q former
special Treasury agent, against Charles and
Arthur h Soribner, owing to an article pub
lished in Scribnsr's Magazine In 1895 was
concluded yesterday in the United States Cir
Quit Court, Judge Shipman presiding Tho
Jury was out five hours and returned with .
verdict Of $3.50 for tho plaintiff. A motion
for a new trial was denied.
The article to VIII CHI Mr.. JAYNE objected
formed q portion of the History OF the Last
Quarter nf q Century in the United States"
written by President Andrews of Brown Uni
varsity. Mr.. jayne WAS referred TO by namo
as being the chief and most notorious OF IN
formers" through whose alleged irregular
methods importing and other firms wero
Obliged to pay large compromise damages to the
Government for trivial and unintentional er-
rors. Jayne'was accused OF having received
uformers.rewards Of $500, 900. of which he
retained as his share between S14o. 600 and
Sl60, 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
ON 4 MOUNTAIN CURVE
Accident Hear Mount Ivy That MiEhs HnS
Deen . Disnstor-Four Hurt

been . Disnstor-Four Hurt
6PR1No VALLEY. n. J., April 9.-An acc1den1
occurred on the New Jersey and Now York Rail-
road near Mount Ivy last evening. The rail-
road, q single track at that point, winds around
q long curve on the side Of the mountain which
slopes down precipitously fifty or sixty feet b.
low the roadbed- A gravel train lay on the
northern side of the curve ut ESQ, when the
Haverstraw express from New York ran into II.
Engineer William French had time only to APP
ply tho air brakes and reverse the lever before
the crash came. Although French expected to
SEQ his engine hurled down the precipice, no TO
manned In the cab with his hand on tho lever.
Three or four Of the gravel cars were wrecked,
and tho head OF the locomotive was damaged
slightly, but neither 1t nor the coaches left the
track.
There was a Wild scene in the passenger cara.
One man was hurled over into the seat in front
Of him, but was not injured A young woman
was thrown forward upon the floor. In tho
smoker a red-headed fisherman threw his pole
and gripsack out of a window and was with dif-
hculty prevented from following them The
more seriously injured were:
ANDERSON. Mn. KATHERINE Garnervtlle, thrown
against stove and very critically hurt; unable 20 hello
hsrself; subsequently, taken home In q carriage.
BrRIEI. EDWARD. conductor OF eKpress' badly hurs
IN back.
GvnSEE- Mr. MARsAnrr. Mount Ivy; severe coutn-
Gtons on face-
PRICE. MlcaAfL Z, hrainmAn, several contuI,oaI.
Several other persons were slightly hurt 1t 10
said that there was nobody at al on the gravel
train at the time OF the accident
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
SIX DEPUTIES MOVED THEN.
hst water. Red Pepper. and BseP Bottles 11g.
ure In an Eviction In

hst water. Red Pepper. and BeeF Bottles 11g-
Hre In an Eviction In A~Iilwaukee.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. April 9.-There was Q riot
On Jones Island this morning. Deputy Sheriffs
RW. Davidson and Palmer went down to tho
hAnd to servo q writ Of eviction on Jacob
Ausha, on behalf of the Schlitz Brewing Com
pany and by Its authority to take possession of o
building occupied by Musha as q saloon and
eAnoe hall. Musha informed tho officers that
10 did not propose to get out, and furthermore
nat neither Davidson nor any number of tho
SShertfs force could put him of the promises.
EsWas backed up in his boasts and defiance by
N. Musha and another man named Musha.
davidson tolephoned to the Sheriff. and four
poie ofiicers were soon on the ground. The
Satle that followed was short. Mrs. Musha
nieW soalding water on the deputies, being
sSy assisted by her husband, Musha No. .
EHasf Deputy Elmer oyer the head with q beer
que badly cutting his scalp and face. and
usn NM. Musha tried to blind tho men with
~ pepper. There was too much wind to make
We latter ammunition effective. Finally Jacob
Iesha was handcuffed, his wife was taken In
narge, and Musha No. Q was subdued and placed
- nons, Six deputies conducted them to the
y"ounty jail, and the remaining officers remained
" guard the property. Some OF the officers
"us injured severely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
sHor HIMSELF IN THE zEMe1H
Love Leads Gerbey to Attempt s~uicide-AIin
steckler,s Sensible Letter.

Love Lendn Gerbey to Attempt euicide-NIiD
steckler's Sensible Letter.
On tho trolley route to Flushing there is Q
trestle about q mile long from Corona to Flush
ing. Midway on the trestle is q switchman's
shanty. In this little house Joseph GerSey,
the ~switchman, tried to take his life yesterday
Afternoon by shooting himself Ia the right tenn
pie. He is still alive aLd conscious, but as the
bullet is lodged,in his Train it /. thought he will
die. A letter WAS rece we'd OF Gerbey yester-
day morning from his sweetheart, Cora Steck-
Ter. II years old. now In the employ OF Mrs.
Unger OF West 1s5th street and Wadsworth
avenue. this city. Gerbey Is 90 years old. He
took the letter unopened 10 the switchhouse.
In tho letter Cora told her sweetheart THAI
maj riaRe was out OF the question Tor q time.
That he was not earning enough TO su oport .
wife and they had better wait. Marriage was
o serious thing. and she thought they should
pause uatl both were sure their love was last
ing. Basiles, she wrote, they were both worry
young. She thanked him for a Wedding rtnR
he had purchased for her and told him to keen
Il and be patient, and The time would coma
when he might put II upon her finger.
Whom Gerbey went homo to dinner he ate
little and said nothing. On hts return to the
shAnty he took from a shelf q revolver and shob
himself.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
Author. EatsrtAln Author-Dipisna,..

A sort of ministerial reception was held last
night at the Authors Club roOma. in the Carnegie
Hall building. In honor Of the two recently
appointed foreign Ministers. Gen. Horace Porter
and John Hay. Oscar 8. Straus, who L. an er-
Minister to Turkey, represented tho council Of
the club In tho formal part of the affair and
TO which Gen. Horace Porter responded by tell
ing how much American men OF letters had done
TO make this country respected by tho nations of
Europe. Mr.. Hay did not reach the club until a
late hour: Among those present were Carl
Schurz. Gen. Ringer, Chanoell9r McGracken.
ton. Clinton Ross, Ripley Hitchcock, Thomas B.
C0nnsry, Daniel q, Thompson. and Henry Abbey,