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SHIP SUNK TO STOP FIRE.
THE WILLIAM LAW SENT DOWH
WITH HER BLAZING OIL.

Fireboat ana TuEs were unabie % wake
Headway Against the Fire, &c she wa.
Towed Into shallow water q nd sunr-vVs,
Go Have Sailed for shanghai This Nlorn,us.
Fire was discovered in tho cargo of kerosene
oil on board the ship William Law, at anchor
of Stapleton. Staten Island. early yesterday
morning. The Law is q full.riRgod steel ship
OF 1851 registered tonnage. She was built 40
Greenock, Scotland, In 1891. and is owned By
William Law q Co., of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
Her cargo was for Shanghai. and consisted oe
1000 cases Of OIL each weighing sixty five
pounds and containing two five-gallon tin canp.
Tho ship finished loading at Hunters Point ON
Jan. 20 and had spent q week in rigging out for
her hve.months' voyage. She would have
sailed on Saturday and have been well out q
port when the fire was discovered had thero
not been head wind on that day. As IL was
tho pilot and tug were ordered for this morning.
Capt Byron A. Abbott was awakened at
about 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning by the
crying Of a cat which. being asleep'on the floor,
had been nearly suffocated by the smoke which
was rapidly filling the cabin. The crew, con-
sisting all told of twenty-five men, was turned
out In q hurry, and an attompt was made 70
find the fire. The after cabin was too full Of
smoke for any one to DO ablo to get to the small
hatch In tho sail room which opens of the
who tried to reach this hatch were overcome
10 es 9gs e ba the
lowered and burned blue FSts snd S sent So,rS as
rockets as signals Of HIS trouble.
Chief Mate w. 8. ossinger was sent ashore In
an alarm He boarded the steam steam lighter light n VII.
liam Coley at the Merritt. Chapman WreckinB
Company,s dock, and after considerable parloy-
e. e. sound sleep. took Mate ossinser for riSs1
o Sose ABOARD was
through the floor Of the after cabin. the msn
being able to work for about two minutes each
the cabin, which was flooded. OF course good
deal Of water went down the hold also, but 10
The boat e New e9o arrived ooo
and the steam lighter Hustler an hour later.
With the crews and pumps Of all boats working
Q good deal Of hesitation over opening the main
hatch, as II was feared that with the ctr 10
Sdms t o whole ship might %
gaining headway. however SO at 8 o'clock the
hatch was torn away, the cargo broken out and
vessels at hand was turned down the hatchway.
seSn after ths 4 sS;n that 4 would be
in the hold and the smoke.was growing less. BY
hs
the ship.
=. The xreckine tug =; y. Merritt had arrived in
lighter was placed beside the gro grounded ship
Of tho cases Of oil can be slipped In their pres.
ent state, as the cans would rust from their Inn
mersion In salt water.
cabin oor Who i, reported that sS tho & FIRE seemed
es h h1Sa a' S ss
terday. -
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sHATTERED BIZ PoLITI0R.
Former Police CommihsioneP Wollss q DFsSAs
Iyn HI in . Banitariun.

Former POlico ComminsioneP WelleS of DFoS6s
lyn HI I'm = Banitariuu.
Former Police Commissioner Leonard n
Welles Of Brooklyn has been for tho past month
an inmate Of O private sanitarium ct Plainneld.
N. j.. a sufferer from insomnia and nervousness.
but is said TO be slowly recovering. He u Ct
tended by his wife. When he was first taken iii.
after relinQuishing tho duties of his oflo0 60
Police Commissioner on Doc 81. Mr.. Wollos
desired to take o trip South. but his physician.
DR.. Kevin of Gates avenue. suggested that h0
should take rest In the sanitarium.
Mr.. Welles expected up to the last moment b
be appointed q member Of the present board a
Police Commissioners by Mayor Van Wyck. He
was greatly cheRrined when his namS was noe
Wellt SIS official life he had It in his power 70
promote over one hundred police ofaolals He
ordered examinations and eligible lists were
prepared. but before he could carry this schemo
out Edward O'Flyn. Democrat. secured an In.
Junction restraining him from making any pro-
motions on the ground that there was no money
in the police fund to pay tho increased salariea
Justice Van Wyck decided against Commits
sioner welles. The men who had expected to
be promoted blamed Commissioner Welles for
the state OF affairs.
The sun., 1898-02-07
WOMEN TAKEN SICK IN oHURou.
| Tho Neat and Lack or ventiIatIen Caussa
Thea 20 FaInt-The Sermon InIerrupiea.

Tho Neat ana Lack or Ventilation Causea
Thsn 10 Faint-The Sermon IIisrruptsd.
PoUGHKEKPsIE. Feb. 6.-The sermon Of the
Rev. William Palen Swartz. pastor of the Pres.
byterlan church In this city, was interrupted
to-day by several OF his congregation becoming
III. Miss Alice Farnham OF Worcester, Mass,
a vassar College student, arose during the ser.
mon. and. struggling out of her pow. fell on her
bule and taken 10 the college In q sleigh A few
minutes later Mrs James Winnie and two
faces very pale. and with difficulty reached the
yestibule, whore one OF them. Miss Fowler,
tainted. Several other members OF the con.
eregation became Ill. and the Rev. Mr.. Swartx
was Obliged TO walt for the sick TO be removed
before he could finish his sermon. The church
had turned on the heat full head without hay
Ing ventilated the buildins.
The sun., 1898-02-07
LAST OF THE MoNrA uK ER1BEs

Death or Mrs. Tanner Wright. who Called
Herseif Fuil-Blooded Indian.
The funeral services Of Mrs. Tanner Wright
will be held at the homo of her daughter. Mrs
Stryker. at s56 Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn. to-
night. It 10 said that Mrs. Wright was tho last
full-blooded member Of tho tribe Of Montauk
Indiana. She had always declared that she was
born in . wigwam on Montauk Point. L. l.. and
that her father and mother were full.blooded
ber Of the Gardiner family and in 1916 took up
her home in Booklyn. She was married to an
Englishman. who died when her only child was
an infant. She had lived in the Atlantic avenue
house for twenty years. She wae member Of
st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church. and
at the funeral services.
The sun., 1898-02-07
ANOTHER LEYEE BREAK.

Temporary Structure at the Reid Cr0vnsso on
the Rsississippi Gives way.
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 6.-The protection levee
at the Reid orevasse. In Madison parish. broke
yesterday, letting tho wator in through the old
break. A force of over thousand mon was ct
work on this levee and It was hoped that 1t
could be held until the main levee behind 1t
could be constructed. The danger line In the
terday resulted in . break. the water running
through and over the old crevasso. The break
is 300 feet wide and 8 foot deep and 10 cutting
to keep the water of the BigRs levee 30 that
work on that will not be suspended. 1t Ia feared
in the lower part Of Madison parish. but not Of
O serious nature.
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cUBA's CHANCES ARE BR1GHE
~. hernandez sa,s the PatPist Cause Wa
Sever IN . Better way.

". heFnaadez Says the Patrist Cause was
sever In . Better way.
DIR. Eusebio Hernandez. former Minister Of
poregn Affairs and ono of the candidates for
PRESIDENT OF the Cuban Government In the 70.
cent election. arrived in this city yesterday. DR..
hernandez spoke In confident terms Of the pres.
snt situation In Cuba. He said:
4. never. since tho beginning Of the war. have
.ne cuoans been In q better condition. Two
yeA's ago there was . lack Of vegetables and
meat In tho islands, but now all that
mas changed. The Oriental district, az
weh as Camagusy 10 crowded with farms.
vegetables OF all kinds have been planted. and
tlere Is not that useless slaughter of cattle
winch formerly existed. This 10 due in q great
measure to Gen. Calixto Garcia's discipline. He
aAs completely reorganized the province. and
nas control OF it, His officers report TO him daily.
WIN only 10000 armed men he has baffiod
nore than three times that number under Gen.
Pando. -'
he river Cauto. which 10 of vast Importance
~ " "e spAniards, Is held by the Cubans. It 10
,un OF torpedoes and unnavigable. Blanoo has
~" .u io'ooo men stationed along its banks for
s- sAs 'ASt Two months and half vainly trying to
I've away the Cubans. Only few weeks ago
s"oEuhooats' which succeeded in evading the
-. ""Su at the mouth OF the river,
~ contact with torpedoes and were do
soa' Every man on board perished. The
npan, nsniaraS have mortal fear of dynamite. Gen.
as artillery division, which includes two
Por,nnile guns, is commanded by Maior ]. M.
his sIiSHnao' siSs Capt Marti. jose Marti's son. is
Govi.oou You can say. and I speak not only for the
that s,tnht but for tho ontiro Cuban Army.
iauehS hinomy 10 failure; q complete and q
the WSr rIaiIure 1t will never put an end to
time H,. me Cuban insurgent has no notion of
will cdst S 3olect 10 liberty, and achieve it he
the mmodto "nat II may. Liberty or Death rs
universal cry. f'"e' aha !" 10 the
Js,S.e Geni !. PIaneos statement that Brig. Gen.
piaH ny ndoi would have surrendered had Sis
r R'an not been discovered is q falSabood RAN
amoe' zen Garcia's righthand man ana ,anIs
thS the hrst OF Cuba's soldiers' The rennrt
Itrdtd published In regard 10 fhis Inatfkr is
Siixs untrue. Both Ra6i and his brothsr ave -
ARM si ne general behavior OF the SpanIs6
chanSsstin since Gen. Blaneo took charge has eraa1IX
butcber.'a women and children are nd ionSar
oVtter manner. !" muon
him zen. Maxine Gomez Is in Las Villa II.,.
with on nnan nSanta Clara. WeyleY after attembtinS
Aha ndo," d,"vo " men TO drive him out was forcSS 20
thouaS inc enort. The old GoneraI n y-Sii ~ ~
bass me death OF his son greatly aifactaS ID,
Or Huouoied his hatred OF the SpaniSrds
with Gsn 'nahdeL WhdeL left this city two years 400
Hawkinss ~ StanxtQ Garcia He was on board Ar
Island coaS, Mnen that weasel sank Oh the IonS
sn opsh hnS, on Jan; ~, 1906. He left Ouhs in
''~' ABOUT two weeks ago.
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HER E1eHr oHtLDREx FREED nEk.
Their fearful Appeal In Court Moves HznEis-
trate Finmmer 60 Benity.

trnte Etnumer 70 benttys
John Moran, truokman, went TO Jefferson
Market Court yesterday with his eight children,
the Oldest OF whom is 12 years old. Tho young.
ost was babe in the arms Of the Oldest girl.
who was only IL. Moran asked Magistrate
Flammer to discharge from custody his wife,
Margeret, who had been committed for intoxi-
cation on Friday on his complaint.
"Its no use, your Honor" he said; 1T cannot
earn q living for the eight of them and be a
mother TO them. too
He stood one side so that the magistrate could
SEQ them az they wero ranged on the witness
bench. The magistrate counted up to seven.
Where 10 the eighth, Moranl' he asked. Tho
truckrnan went down and consulted with tho
children before he answered.
"The oldest one has gone home. your Honor"
he said. "He was ashamed" The seven began
to whimpor quietly. The 11.yoar-old girl trans.
ferred the baby to one Of her brothers. and went
along tho limo dabbing at the wet eyes with her
handkerchief Between times she furtively
wiped her own.
'Nothing sorrier than this ever comes into
police court" said Magistrate Flammer, after
the room had been silent q moment. Bring
the woman down."
When she appeared she looked at the pitiful
array OF children and at her husband towering
above them. She dropped her head on the rail
and began to cry.
Margaret" said the Magistrate. "they have
come for you. Thoy need you. man whose
wife bears him eight children as closely to-
gether as these must have great provocation to
be justified in complaining Of her conduct. But
you have been disgrace to them and him."
God knows have, your Honor"
Go back to thenl and be good woman. Stop
drinking. And you. Moran. remember that you
are responsible for these children as we'll as tho
woman who has given way under the strain Of
bearing and caring for them"
The sun., 1898-02-07
DIR. eRAVEs MAY LOSE FINo Err.
House surgeon at &c. Johns Hospital InJured
while Performing Operation.

DR.. Richard s. Graves. house surgeon of st.
Johns Hospital in Brooklyn. is threatened with
tho loss of the index finger on his left hand as
the result of an injury received while no was
performing an operation upon Leonard w.
Jerome several weeks ago. Mr.. Jerome. who
was cousin OF Lady Randolph Churchill. was
run over by a rapid transit train on the Long
Island Railroad near Morris Park and his legs
were 80 badly crushed that they had to be
amputated, Gangrene set In. and DR.. Graves was
advised 70 be careful in performing the opera
tion. When at a delicate stage OF tho operation
tured the end of the index finger on the left
hand. Several days later the finger became In
famed and then extended to the whole hand.
hand. and DIR. Lewis informed SUN reporter
last night that IL was thought that the hand
saving the finger
Dr. Graves was for a long time in charge of
the ambulance at St. Johns Hospital.
The sun., 1898-02-07
slipped on q Bauapa Feel ana DIED.

ST. LOUIS. Feb 6.-Instant death resulted
from slip on banana peel last night. George
T. Bowles. an aged peddler. was the victim. He
was turning the corner Of Sixth and Market
streets and stepped on the skin Of . banana
His feet shot from under him and his body
struck the granite sidewalk with great force
His neck was broken. He died instantly and
the body was removed to the Morgue. At one
time Bowles was a travelling salesman for
New York dry goods house.
The sun., 1898-02-07
LEFT ACHING JAWS BEHIND HIM.
Deniist Condict's Singular DisspDearance Re-
ported TO tho P0Ilee

DOFteu FOHco
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Feb. CDR. J. @. Con.
dict. 80 years old. a successful dentist OF this
city, has been missing since0esterday afternoon
and his wife has asked the police to search for
him. DR.. Condict had been busy all day with
patients at his office, 36l George street. He took
luncheon with his wife In the same building at
noon and appeared to be IN his usual good
spirits. When his wife went into his Office at
o'clock she found the place full of patients. One
man said he saw DIR. Condict go out at 2 o'clock.
He believed ho was going TO the Post Office and
had waited for him To return.
DR.. IL. @. Condict OF Trenton, brother OF the
dentist, said tonight: II can imagine no reason
affairs are in fine shape; He left q good bal
ance In the bank and 800 with his wife. He
bad been well and happy. and since he came TO
New Brunsyick four years ago had been very
DIR. J. c. Condict Is OF medium stature, with
fair complexion and short. light sldewhfskers.
He weighs about $50 pounds. When he went
away he wore trousers Of steel color. black
waistcoAt, brown check sack coat, and black
lately.
The sun., 1898-02-07
ADRIFr ON ICE ON LAKE ERIE.
Five Workmen u water works Tunnel Cut
or while Walking 10 shore.

CLEVELAND, o.. Feb. 6.-Five workingmeA
employed in constructing water works tunnel
under Lake Erie were adrft on q cake Of Ice
nearly a mile Off shore for an hour lato this
afternoon. The party attempted to walk to the
land from a crib a mile and half of shore.
Provisions had nearly given out, and the Ice was
SO thick and badly packed that the tug owned
by tho firm Of contractors could not roach the
crib.
Twenty men were stranded on the crib with
little to eat. Unable to work on Sunday morn
safety. Five attempted the same feat Just be.
fore dark this evening. They found the Ice had
were n half mile from tho crib. When they
turned TO go back they discovered break be-
hind them also They were seen from the shore.
and the hre tug was sent To their rescue. The
workingmen were nearly exhausted when taken
off the Ice,
The sun., 1898-02-07
Il FACTORY FIRE IN Wr11rAMsB une.

Howard. aDellmAn q Co.'s Glasod Kid works
Destroyed.
The glazed kid factory of Howard. Spellman 6
Co. of Boston. SO to SO Russell street. williams
burg, was burned yesterday afternoon. The build
ings were Of frame and three stories high. Near
ly 100 men were employed. Mr.. Howard, tho
resident manager, was unable to account for
the fire. He said that when the factory was
closed on Saturday night every thing was APP
dozen pairs of skins were glazed each day and
that the machinery alone was valued at moro
than $60. 600. Mr. Howard was not able to
estimate the loss. Tho buildings were owned
BY Jacob Lemhardt. a stone dealer of East
Twenty-third street, Manhattan. His loss 10
placed at S4, 1900.
The sun., 1898-02-07
Grand Arny Colouy In TsuAs.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex Feb Gall preliminary
arrangements for the establishment Of Grand
Army OF the Republic colony in Mamgorda
county have been made, and the first Install
ment Of eight hundred families from Minnesota
about two weeks. The colony will occupy
22, 900 acres of rich land, Some ~ the coloniSts
win come from the New England 6tate1s
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SET THE MEN TO WORK.

GPand kaDids Newspaper Makes Coed Its
Assertion That There De work for All.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 6.-The Euenfn0
Press said editorially on Thursday last that any
man in Grand Rapids who wanted work could
get It. About eighty men marched TO the office
yesterday morning and represented themselves
out Of snployment. The paper immediately
and shovols and Invited all who wanted jobs at
0I,26 day shovsllinK snow 10 fall In. About
thirty responded and the others disappeared bo-
toro operations were beEuA.
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HOTEL AT AIKEN, s. O., BURNED.
The Highland Park Establishment Destroysd-
Guests Escape Easily.

CHARLKsroN. 8. O.. Feb. 6.-The Highland
Park Hotel at Aiken was destroyed by hre at 4
O'Clock this morning. The blaze originated in
tho laundry department. Slow progress was
made at first though it was not long until tho
entire building was doomed. All Of tho 1873
guests. most of whom were from the East, wero
baggage. Some of tho hotel furniture was
saved. The loss is $4,000. with S9s. 900 In
Burance.
The hotel was owned by J. H. whittlemore
and Franklin Farrell of Conn neoticut. Most OF
the tourists who were In the house have pre-
pared TO go further south.
The sun., 1898-02-07

Villagers Iese Heavily In Their nesistanoe 70
Turkish Outrases.


spectai cdbts Dsspasoh to THE SUE.
ATHENS, Feb. cit IL reported that Turkish
troops have captured and burned the villages
of Mosakion and GralitSa in the neutral gone of
Thessaly.
The villagers made stubborn resistance and
lost heavily. One hundred and twenty Of them
were captured BY the Turks The rest fed to
tho mountains for refuge. The Turks mum.
bered 5000. panic prevails throughout tho
neutral zona
The sun., 1898-02-07
Invlups New RnElaas mills to TsIas.

DALLAS. Tex. Feb. 6.-The Dallas Commercial
Club has sent circular letter TO New England
md oIher Eastern cotton min owners whore
!no,e 20 trouble over the wagS sS@.e 10 come 70
UslllaA GRd start DlAnt1s
The sun., 1898-02-07
Northern Paeino Passenger Train wrecked.

TACOMA. WASH. Feb. Gan east-bound pas
senger train on the Northern Pacific Railroad
was wrecked at 2 o'clock this morning. two
miles east of Pasco. in Eastern Washington. A
sudden flood had washed out or weaken the
trestlework, causing the engine and forward
two men were killed and two others injured
The dead are reported TO be tramps who were
saved Themselves by jumping. The railroad
officials report that no passengers were injured
Late this afternoon the wrecked train was
started eastward, going over the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation line TO Spokane.
why Net Bsy . Aew DsskI
The sun., 1898-02-07

CRAwFoRDsvILLE Ind, Feb 6.-Gen. Lew
Wallace has announced that at his death his
well.known study will become the property Of
the city OF CrawfOrdsville for a public library.
The edifice has just been 90 pleted In his beech
grove at a cost OF $40, 900. and this spring will
be surrounded by an artificial lake.
The sun., 1898-02-07

why Not Buy New DsskS
Hals Co. 10 Stone -. nsIt PFodHss ExchAnss.
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-10-21
THE JEWISH SOUTH.

'iei VISITS was TO the grave of Heine, in the Mont
martre cemetery, but being Catholic to themarrow
~ ner oones she was uneasy for his salvation on ac-
count OF his having mentally returned back to Tuda
ls and each of her visits to the tomb of the great
lsraelte was preceded by prayer offered up in the
-Victoire church for the redemption
OF ms soul In piece of poetry she composed in
Helnes honor, the invocation is made to the Christ
Ian Saviour that in his mercfuness he NAV receive in
ms bosom the spirit of her favorte singer Jewish
World
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-10-21
Che Small 3erusaIem."

At how early date Jews were settled in Holland
cannot tell The first notice can think of now IS
OF the fourteenth century. The great catastrophe
winch came over the Jews in Spain in 1892 was the
beginning OF larger immigration into the Neither
ldnuS, Holland had gone far ahead Of other Euro
pean States, and in 1879 had set herself resolutev
on the road towards political and religious freedom
No wonder that Amsterdam was soon called J" The
small Jerusalem
Out tnese Spanish and Portuguese Jews were not
.ne Only race IN Amsterdam. There were German
jews already settled there" Hoopduitsche, +hev
We're caled-and in 1875 number of Polish LEWIS
who had been driven out of their own c,nn+rv h,
the Cossacks, joined them But curiouslv ENOUGH
tnough they belonged to the me race and worshin
peu very much IN the same manner these two divis
IONS OF the Jews kept divided The stav of the 1ex
IN Spain and Portugal had given them a LITTLE more
oI culture and breeding and they held a1oof from +b
Others 1t IS certainly they who were the flower Of
tne amsterdam community, for from among these
Nederlandsche-P ortueguesch Israeten hav We come
many men who have left their mark in the history Of
Holland -
These Jews Of Amsterdam always remained 6rn
~ thelr love tor the synagogue. The first place for
eoinHon worship was gotten in 1898 a second in
.ooo' thlrd IN 1913, SO quickly had the community
ihcreas cd IN numbers In 1859 all these three were
: ,'eu nilo one co immunity of Portuguese Jews The
oeiin nan Jews mad synagogue in 1856 On the 9TH
OF April 1911 the first stone was laid for the hand
some portuguese synagogue in the square which IS
now called Jonas Daniel Meijerplen
Durlng It's existence of over two hundred wears +
mas seen many strange sights. They still speak Span-
ish III ABORTION to their Dutch and some of them He
oieW' lt was IN that tongue that talked with the
ouns STUDENT VINO was my cicerone. And they still
keep apart from the "Hoogduitsche Jews. whose
large synagogue is the same square and directly
opposite Each community has magnificent he.
prev lbra'y-the German one founded bv Baron
Kosenthal and part of the Universal library. the
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1898-10-21

other the gift of Mr. Montesnos and used by the
seminary attached to the Portuguese Kerkgebouw."
Richard GottheH in Helpful Thoughts