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STABBED ON An EXCURSION.
Two Newarkcrs Renew = Feud-One PIunGea 4
Knife in tho Other and Escapes.

Two hownrkcTs Renew . Feud-Ono PlunHoa o
Knife In tho Other ana Escapes.
Tho Young Mems German-American Benevo-
lent Society OF Newark gave a big excursion yes
terday to Riverside Park, on the Hudson. Tho
steamer Bay Queen and barge Coxsackie carried
over 2 1000 pleasure seekers to tue park. During
the afternoon Lewis Schefig and Fred Gurrett,
who were formerly shopmates at Heinsch's
cutlery factory In Newark met ut the dancing
pavilion and renewed a feud of a years standing.
After some words they came to blows. and
schefig. drawing a large clasp knife. stabbed
Gurrett over the right kidney. inficting q
wound three inches deep and two inches in
length. There was a panic among the excur-
sionists; Several women tainted. and Schefig
took advantage OF the commotion to secrete
himself. on the steamer. Gurrett, who was
seriously injured, was placed on a tug and taken
across the river TO a hospital in Yonkers.
In response to a telegram from Yonkers Capt,
DAILY and a squad of twenty police met the ex-
cursion when 1t returned to Newark last night,
They made a thorough search of the steamer
and barge, but failed to find Schefig. It Is sup
posed that he WAS taken off In a boat by friends
when the steamer landed, as many persons told
Capt. DAILY they had seen the man on board ON
the return trip. Gurrett lives on Jones street
and Scheffig at 81 Livingston street, Newark.
Both are young.
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cENTENARIANs At CHURCH.
Three Negro Women whose Combined AEes
Amount to asa Years.

huiuuutt IL uCAEhs
CHICAGO. July 25.-Three women attended
Quinn Chapel's "colored " jubilee to-day whose
combined ages span 352 years. 1t seems natural
to combine their ages. because they live to-
gether and, sitting side by side day after day in
the same room, await the end OF lives that began
before the century. The three old women are
inmates of the Unity Home for the Aged at 3l35
Dearborn street. "Aunty" Ellen Stuart is the
Oldest. She thinks she is about 125 years old.
and the acquaintance and friends of the ven.
erable woman are sure of it. "Aunty" Sophia
Jobe Is the second in age. She is 100 years old.
and although she is not able to walk far without
help, she is positive that she can see a mile.
The youngest Of the three is Mrs. Adele Brooks.
She Is 100.
"Aunty" stuart's memory is clear enough to
go back to revolutionary days. when she was
but a child, for she was 4 years old when the
Declaration Of Independence was signed. She
is in good health. and might read without
glasses. u feat that all real old people are sup
posed to accomplish, but, unfortunately. her
masters never wasted much money sending her
to school. and she never learned to road. Both
she and "Aunty" Jobe were born on pIanta-
tions In Virginia and were slaves. "Aunty"
Brooks, the baby of the trio. was born Away
down In Gawgy."
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mUrDnnED ON Hrn war HohA.


nSiiea On the rsishvay.
CRTsrAL FALLs, Mich. July 2b.-within .
mile Of this place last evening Miss Pearl Nor
rison, one OF the city's most highly respected
young women, was murdered. Miss Morrison
had spent tho afternoon visiting friends at Great
Western Mine. and left the residence OF the
Misses Brooks at about 8 o'clock 10 return
homo. sho never reached there. and her father
went in search Of her this morning, but could
find no trace Of her.
Three largo parties started out TO make q sys-
tcmatic search of the woods on the east side Of
the river. They had hardly entered upon their
work whom they were mot by Miss Brooks,
who reported that a tramp to whom she had
given supper the evening before had returned
to her house shortly after dinner to-day and
said that he had found q dead girl In the
woods. and guided her to tho spot where lay
the dead girl, whom she found to DO her friend
and guest Of the day before, Pearl Morrison.
Miss Brooks took tho party to tho place. The
girls face was badly battered. and her throat
showed the finger marks Of the man who had
stranslod her. The tramp who says ho discov-
cred the body 10 being held on suspicion.
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ANCIENT FORT IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Outer ana Inner walls Clearly Defined. with .
Ditch Running Between Them.

Outer ana Inner walls Clearly Defined. with .
Ditch Running Between Thom.
81. PAUL, July 25.-Capt. Louis De Lesley Of
this city reports the discovery Of Q prehistoric
fort in South Dakota. The walls are very acute.
and the slope is on three sides at an angle OF As
degrees. Nothing could DO moro clearly defined
than tho outer and inner breastworks or earth
walls, with q ditch running between both of 9
depth Of Is feet and q width Of 10 feet
On the north side of this fort is q natural de-
fense in the shape Of q water course. The east
side almost joins the high prairie lands. At this
point was found a we'll marked entrance or
gateway. and the ditch between the earthwork
walls is almost unnoticeable.
Three mounds, located In o straight line north
to south. were evidently defenses OF this gate
way. From, each side Of the gateway run two
smaller bitches, connecting at tho outside Of the
outer wall with a straight ditch. at present oblit-
Grated. At the northwest side of the ~forti1ca-
ton was found q spring. At the end Of this pas.
sageway is a well.defined mound, evidently used
as q means OF defense for this important pas
sage.
Returning to the main gateway was found an
outer gateway, also defined by three mounds,
and from there q marked passage or ridge led
along the side OF q hill one-eiRhth Of Q mile. to
where a very largo spring still bubbles out Of
tho soil,
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ATKINSON WILL PROTECT HIM.
Georgin's Governor Orders Out Militia 70 At
tend the Trial or r. c. Flanagan.

Georgin's Governor Orders Out Militia 70 At.
tend the Trial or x. c. Flanagan.
ATLANTA. Ga. July 25.-Extensive prepara-
lions are being made here for the protection of
Edwin G. Flanagan. to be tried at Decatur to.
morrow on a charge of double murder. Up to
last Friday night Flanagan was incarcerated in
the tumble-down jail. at Decatur, which Is
practically a suburb Of this place. but q mob
scare got out and at 8 o'clock in the morning
the Sheriff hustled him and q. 8. Perry. a
murderer under sentence OF death. on n special
trolley car and brought them to Atlanta Jail
for safety.
Flanagan's trial will occur under a special
guard OF three companies from the Fifth Georgia
Regiment. of which John s. Gambler, the presld-
Ing Judge. is Colonel. There is a great deal OF
pneasiness as 70 tho prisoners safety. and no
been posing as q degenerate" with tho hope
that he might avoid conviction, but q special
session Of court declared him sane.
Gov. Atkinson. who 10 spending the summer at
Tate Springs. Tenn. has been notified by tele-
graph OF the danger and telegraphed instruo-
lions TO protect the prisoner II 1t necessitated
the calling out Of the entire military forco OF the
State.
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At THE RICHARDSON GAS WELL
The Drill Frozen Tight In the Ground At q
Depth or Loo Feet.

Deptn OF AsSOO rect.
HoRNELLsvILLE, n. Y, July 25.-A peculiar
condition Of affairs exists at the Richardson
gas well just north OF this city. The tools are
frozen in the ground at a depth of about 1900
feet and have been that way since Friday night,
all efforts to dislodge them having SO far proved
futile. The drill was pulled Up on Friday night
and ice was found at the bottom Of 1t. After the
hole was bailed out the drill was dropped again
and has remained there ever since. The reason
assigned for the occurrence is as follows:
Water is often poured into the hole, and II 10
believed that the strong pressure of the gas. or
else the amount OF paraftine II contains. causes
the water to evaporate rapidly and thus pro-
duces cold.
The rope was cut from the drill when 1t was
found that It could not be removed. but how far
from the drill cannot be told. AS the bailer often
brings up a piece of it. Salt has been used in
large quantities to melt the ice. but without
success.
The gas 10 now piped a short way into the
woods, and its escape can be heard a half
mile away; An indicator shows a pressure Of
MY pounds, and is said to have shown a hun.
4 was not thought, best TO test It any more, as
the force might blow the casing. out. This
weeks results will be watched with interest.
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CRUISE OF THE NAVAL MILITIA.
BattIeships Texas and Bgassachuaetts and the
Old Portsmouth NJ Hisher's Island.

HAttieships Texas and Massachusetts and the
Old Portsmouth nj Piaher's Island.
FISHERS ISLAND. N. Y, July 2b Tho wa
ters in and adjacent to New London have a very
warlike appearance at the present time. The
battleship Maine, which was of Ficher's Isl
and during the past week having been assigned
TO tho Connecticut Naval Reserves for practice,
steamed over to New London on Saturday and
anchored Off the Pequot Colony. The torpedo
boat Ericsson Is moored at the Custom House
wharf there, having arrived early yesterday
morning. On the north side of Fishers Island
and but a few hundred feet from shore the bat
tleships Texas and Massachusetts, and the
man of war Port smouth arc at anchor. Tho
Texas and Massachusetts, arrived at 10 o'clock
this. morning with the First Battalion New
York State Naval Reserves on board.
The Portsmouth, with the New Jersey Naval
Reserves, arrived at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
having been en- route from Hoboken twenty.
four hours.
The torpedo boat Ericsson was of the island
this morning when the ships arrived, and Lieut..
Usher, Captains Wist of the Texas and Sigsbee
of the Maine had a consultation with Capt. HiR.
ginson, the senior officer on the Massachusetts,
In regard to the manueuvres of the week. On
Monday evening the Ericsson will start from
New London, eight miles distant, and attempt
TO run the gauntlet OF searchlights on tho bat
tleships, and to steal within 800 yards, II posi-
BILE, without discovery, and demonstrate her
powers as a torpedo boat.
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Patrick HAYES IN THE RACE.
The Penitentiary Warden Making Combina.
tions to Capture . County once.

The Pen,teptinry Warden Making Coub,na.
tIo,, % 1890. r.,.,~ on..
There promises to be n hot 6eht in the Demo-
cratic orga,ivo,ion L. p.oor,r. 49,,
AZ orooAAyh over the nomi-
peted for in Sovember md the di.,r,.t ,..d.r.
40 n.v,nn - 80. ~ oau un'
p"''he hAucn hiore attehtion 10 tnem tnan
the question of candidates for Mayor, Comp
troller, and President of the Council of the
Greater New york For ,ho nost r.st ~,
Register Hugh Mclaughlin has been at his
summer home Mt Jameanort 7, but be Ia
k..n;n- ~. -. y. no 10
Aeopihs III close touch Win MS Ieutenants. and
will II possible stop tho threatened factional out
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OF INTEREST TO MEN.

Commencing tomorrow morning at 3 A. NJ,
Messrs. Brill Brothers. at their three stores, will
inaugurate their semi-annuaI clearing sale of
clothing. Thousands OF our customers wait for
this semi'annual sale, and We take this means ot
notifying them. Tho former prices remain on
the garments. and reduced price 10 attached
thereto with a tag.
All $3.50 fancy business suits have been r..
ducod TO $500; all $3.50 suits to $500; all
$1,000 suits to $3.50; $1,000 suits TO SO. 90.
$1,000 suits to $ll 90; $500 suits TO Si3.Oa;
$1,000 and $1,000 suits To $1,000. Special re,
duction In the trouser department. AS well Hs
furnishings, shoes and hats.
sale at Q stores-279 Broadway. 2ll 9th ave-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-26
ANTI-LOw LEAGUE FORMED
IRIgH AND GERMAN REPUBLICANS
ANNOUNCE THEIR INTENTIONS.

PLEDGED 70 work Against Seth Lows Nonina.
tisn ana Election-His Alleged Betrayal OF
Biainc, RH,s Arbitration synpathiea and HIS
Excise Peiicy Are Denounced In strong Terms
Twonty.four delegates, representing several
Irish organizations and the German Machin-
ists' Republican Club, met OH Saturday night
at 121 Hill street, Brooklyn, and organized an
Anti-Low League. Those arc some of the bodies
represented: Emmett Club of Williamsburg,
Celtic Club of ~Grcenpoint, Shamrock Club Of
Greenpoint, Emerald Club OF Astoria, Brian
Boru Club of South Brooklyn, and the Indepen-
don't Council Of the Irish National Alliance, Long
Island City.
p. Sarsleld Kerwin, President of the Irish
National Alliance, tho Chairman of the meet
Ing, explained its object. Ho declared that
there was q strong sentiment among the Irish
American voters In the Greater New York who
have for some timo affiliated with the Republi-
can organization In opposition TO tho move
ment to make President Seth Low Of Columbia
College the nominee for Mayor. He said that
Mr.. Lows attitude toward James G. Blaine
when he was a candidate for tho Presidency
was still wildly remembered by tho Irish voters,
and would never receive their forgiveness. Mr..
he never moved an inch to forward the interests
et the Academy OF Music. 1T is no wonder"
Mr. kerwtn said, that Mr.. Low became a Mug
Il was generally regarded that his betrayal Of
MT, Blaine sacrificed the Presidency
MT. Korwtn also said that Mr.. Lows admins
tration Of the excise department while Mayor
OF Brooklyn had forfeited the confidence of the
vast majority of the German Republican voters.
After speeches by Charleo j. Hickman and
others TO the same effect a resolution was adopt
9 every y gS SHORT e sns Sat tPe noi Dl aaa dee q Mr. 70 I SsS
and In case OF his nomination to beat him at
the polls. 1t was also decided to circulate TO-
600 copies of this notice and to request sigma
lures to the Same by those who favor the policy
Of the league:
He BETRAYED JAS, G. BLAINE.
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MISS BARRETT SHOT HERSELF
She Was Not KILLED by LLghtninr, M WA sup.
posed when the BODY wa Kouna.

She Was Not KILLED by LLGhtninG. rs VIas Sups
posed when the BODY Was Found.
BOSTON. July 25.-Alice Barrett of waltham
was killed by q bullet through her heart instead
of by a stroke Of lightning yesterday afternoon
at 40 Kilby street. Almost at the instant
when the young woman fired the fatal shot from
a 32-calibre revolver the building was struck by
lightning, and hre and its attendant confusion
followed.
Tho fremcn burst open the door Of the ofice Of
Goldman & Goldman. in which Miss Barrett was
employed. and. upon finding the body. removed
it to an adjoining room. Tho Emergency Hos
pital physician was early on the scene, and,
without ascertaining positively whether or NOT
the girl was dead. the body was taken to the
hospital.
1t was supposed that lightning had caused
death. but late in the evening DR.. Stedman,
Medical Examiner. found that q bullet had on.
tered the left breast, ploughed its way through
the centre OF the heart, and lodged in the muscles
Of the back. from which place 1t was removed
to-day. Miss Barrett was the trusted book
keeper and confidential clerk of Goldman 8
Goldman. At about 80 o'clock yesterday after
noon she lett the ofice for the day. as it was
Al las P. NJ. the janitor locked tho building.
ESQ and aH 3 o' sI6sE Ma! Mas f Bsrrs SToG mSst SsVe soa
turned and entered by the use of her own keys.
locked the door from the inside 4 her ksg,.
and then unlocked the safe. Why she opened
the safe Is not known. While she was out she
must have purchased the revolver and a box of
cartridges, which were near the body on the
floor.
When found her head lay inside the half-open
door OF the safe. Both members of the firm are
out Of town to-day and cannot be reached. but 10
10 not believed possible that there is anything
wrong, with her accounts, AS she had always
proved herself capable and trustworthy.
Among the things on her desk was q letter,
neither signed nor addressed. but evidently in.
tended for her mother. In this. Miss BarretS
mentions tho loss of $500 by an injudicious In
yestment. and 1t is thought that worrying over
this matter may have driven her to take her lifo.
Miss Barrett was the only laughter of Mira.
Ella NJ. Barrett OF 249 School street, Waltham.
She was born in Littleton. y. H. twenty-five
was a physician. Mrs. Barrett and her two
sons and daughter took up their residence at
Maitham. with Mrs, Barrett's father. p. w.
Taylor. with whom they have made their home
ever since. Miss Barrett was graduated from
the High School in the class OF % with
honors. She had worked for Goldman s. Cod
man about q year.
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a CRIPPLE GIVES UP rHE HI
Dependent william Davidson. Out or Wsrk
Two Years. Kills Himself.

Dependent William Davids0a. Out or work
Two Years. kills HImseir.
William l. Davidson, a cripple. 25 years old,
who boarded with Mrs. Asbell at 960 Bedford
avenue, Brooklyn, committed suicide on tho
Eastern Parkway, near Brooklyn avenue. early
yesterday morning by taking carbolic acid. The
body was removed to the Atlantic avenue police
station. Davidson left q letter addressed TO his
brother, Frederick q. Davidson OF 100 Ainslie
street. 1t was as follows:
DEAR FRED: l have been chased out OF the housS
under injured circumstances, have nowhere to 20
and no money. II may he well for all hands n I am
out of the way. ! am writing In the dark where
hope to be soon. Give my love to all and think of
me Is kindly Us you can. w. l.. d.
Mrs. Asbell said Davidson. had been out OF
work for two years. She said he always paid his
board, and when he did not have the money his
brother Frederick, who was a bookkeeper. ad.
yaneed 1t. She said she had always treated him
kindly, and she was astonished at the statement
he had written that he had been chased out OF tho
house. The only reason abe could advance for
his suicide was that he was Respondent because
he was unable to got work.
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A Deserted Husbaud,s suicide.

CoHoEs. July 25.-0n Thursday last Charles
Rogers OF North Adams, Mass. came to Cohoes
in search of his wife. who. he said. had eloped
and como here. The man wandered about the
city making, inquiries until Friday evening.
when he suddenly disappeared. Late last even.
ing Rogers's body was found floating In the Erie
Canal. He had been driven to suicide by his
failure to find his runaway wife.
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AS GREEN GOODS MEN.
Three Prisoners In BroOkIyn Arc Aoeusoa or
Bwindling Immigrants.

Simon Balas of Brooklyn. Thomas Wright of
80 Ridge street, and Ludwig Petven OF $50
Second avenue were arrested In Williamsburg
yesterday on complaint OF John Schevick OF so
Grand street, Williamsburg, who accused them
OF trying to Bwindlo him with green goods,
SchevIck was standing in the door Of his home
and the three men approached him. He called
Policemen Riley and Cornell, who arrested
them. Schevick said that the men made a great
deal of money by exchanging bogus bank notes
for good foreign notes with Polish immigrants.
station in this city were looking for the alleged
sWindlers.
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NEEDLE LOCATED By THE RAY.

Il was Thea Extracted from Mrs. Lenker's
Thumb without DImouIty.
While Mrs. Freda Zenker Of 1886 Eighth ave-
nue. was rubbing a child's dress vigorously on a
washboard on Saturday q needle In tho garment
was driven nearly Its full length into the end of
her thumb. She broke tho needle of In the
wound In trying to extract It.
She went to the Manhattan Hospital to have
tho remainder extracted. but her hand had
swollen. and was so intiamed that 1t could not
be operated on until the next day.
Yesterday. the doctors discovered that tho
needle had shifted. They located 1t by means of
the x ray In the fieshy yart of the thumb, and,
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LITTLE Lou A PRISONER.
oAia % Mnve worked . Confidence Game On
Guest or the Imperial Hotel.

UA1d % MnVo worried . Condolences Game On .
Guest or the Imperial Hotel.
Central ONCE men were loose in tho Tender
loin last night on q hunt. After spending SOW
eral hours looking over the people In Broadway
and Sixth avenue. Detective Keely found two
well-dreesed men in Riggs's restaurant, In Sixth
avenue. near Thirty-sixth street.
He called in Policeman Keifers from the street,
and the officers arrested the two diners and
carried them OF to Police Headquarters. Ono
Of the prisoners was Little Lou" a confidence
man and pickpocket.
II 10 said that the mon were arrested for q con-
ddenco trick OF nome magnitude played on q
guest of the Imperial. little Louis name 10
Frank Dwyer: He has been in Sing Sing for
anne Mahoney was the other prisoner.
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Engineer Rich Has Been Studying the Route
from Pekin 20 Hankow.
SAN Francisco, July 25.-Chief Engineer w.
W. Rich OF the 500 road Is back from nine
months work in China, where he has been
making a reconnaissance for tho Chinese Gov
eminent of the route Of the proposed railroad
between Pekin and HAnkow and its extension
across China to meet the Siberian railroad.
he said that when, completed the line would
be 700 miles long. The route presented many
and a network OF small rivers. and construction
would DO costly. No survey has yet been made,
cost. This is tho line the construction Of which,
syndicate,
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CYoLIsrs FALL DUE TO HEAT.

Overcome while wheeling. He Receives Con-
cuaaion or the Brain.
Gerhard Rieckes. a young bookkeeper of 1888
Amsterdam avenue. went bicycle riding yester-
day with his friends. II. B. Lambert and E. A.
Jones Of 43 South Washington Square. As they
reached Manhattan avenue, near lOSth streef.
on the return trip after a hot ride, Rieckes
pitched forward and fell heavily with his wheel.
from no apparent cause.
He struck on his head and was picked up I'M.
conscious. He was removed to the Manhattan
Hospital. suffering from conclusion Of the brain.
The surgeons believe that his fall was caused nv
his being overcome by the heat.
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BROOKLYN CoLoRED voTERs.

they Have Organized . LeaGuo 70 Secure .
Share OF Patronage.
The Independent Colored League is the name
Of an organization which has been formed by the
colored voters in Brooklyn. These are the OH
GERS: Fred B. Wolkins. President; Mason Con-
over. First Vioe-President; Macon Brooks. Soc
ond vice-President; George Willis Burrill, Cor
responding Secretary; Harry Williamson. Re
cording Secretary; J. NJ. Dixon, treasurer; John
Wolkins, Sergeant-at-Arms.
The organizers Of the league contend that tho
claims OF, the 1000 colored voters in Brooklyn
have not been fairly recognized by either the ma
tional or municipal Administration, and they
propose to make a bid for their fair share of pa
tronage In the Greater New York. mo party
utilization" Ia TO DO the motto of tho league.
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Baby AceIaentamy sunocn,ea.

Catherine Louise Dunn. the four.weeks.old
child OF James and Kate Dunn of 5l2 West
Forty.ninth street, was accidentally sufocated
yesterday morning. About z O'Clock James
Dunn. the father. awoke with a nightmare, lie
dreamed that something was the matter with
the baby. He found the child with her head be-.
tween her mothers arm and breast. The little
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Killed . Man cl,ms,.u Int. i. w,.aov

ERIE, Pa, July 2b.-William Beta. a young
farmer living in Girard township. undertook to
scale a ladder to reach Mrs. Mary Hess's second
story window this morning at 2 o'clock. Frank
Butes. her half brother. and Mrs. Hess's son
Willis went out and opened fire on Belts.
,va his az, desd p0ay; which vas Iouhd on the side
the man had been killed. Butes and Hess admit
the shooting. but soy 1t was done only To
frighten the man away.