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hon. HUBERT WILLIAMS MISSING.
Left Home in LnEfvine, Conn.,, on Oct. =
OverwOrk May Have Unbalanced His Mind

Left Home in LnEfvine, Conn.,, on Oct. =
OverwOrk May Have Unbalanced His Mind.
The Hon. Hubert Williams. Postmaster Of
Iakeville. Conn, and q member Of the Con-
necticut Legislature for the past four years.
left his home on Friday. Oct. z. and has not been
seen since by his family or friends. Forthe past
year Mr.. Williams has been an active member
OF the committee appointed by the Governor OF
Connecticut to investigate and report upon the
State expenditures. The work involved the
investigation Of the accounts Of numerous and
widely scattered public institutions. and SUBJ
jected him to all OF the d~iscomforts attending
absence from home and constant travel. His
friends have noticed that of late he showed
signs Of physical exhaustion.
Mr.. Williams is very well known in Connecti-
cut political circles and is highly respected. He
was the Chairman of the Committee on Bor-
ouRhs and Cities in the last Legislature. was
for several years President OF tho Connecticut
Fish and Game Commission and q prominent
memhe of the Connecticut eound-money dele
cation to the st. Louis Convention. MI. Will
liams Is 40 years OF age and Of fine physique.
So far as is known he had no financial Difficult
ties.
1t is feared that his mind has been affected
by overwork. His fellow Commissioners are
causing inquiries to be made in all directions.
but their efforts have thus far been conducted
through private channels. II is learned that
he passed the night OF Oct. z at a hotel in
Winsted, Conn. twenty-five miles from home,
and took an early train for Bridgeport.
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TRIED TO KILL Mr.. FoeG's COOK.
Negro Coachman Attacks His Wife to Small
Purpose ut Her Employers.

Negro Conchmnn Attacks His Wife to Small
Purpose ut Her Employers.
William Bagby. a colored coachman. went
yesterday afternoon to tho home Of William
FogG. a real estate dealer living at 130 West
Ninety fifth street. with the alleged intention
Of killing his wife, who is a cook employed in
the Fogg household.
Bagby was convicted recently OF assaultIng
his wife and sent to the penitentiary. He said
at the time that he would kill her as soon as he
reCalned his liberty. In answer to Bagby's
ring at the basement door. his wife went to q
window and asked what he wanted. He de-
clared he wanted to reform and would Ike to
begin by getting her forgiveness: The cook
opened the door. Her husband pushed his way
in and pointed n .3S-calibre revolver at her.
Before he could fire she struck tho pistol
with a rolling pin and knocked the magazine
out. Bagby then slashed at his wife with n
razor and inflicted "a bad wound under her left
eye. She ran out into the rear yard and es-
capped by jumping down a ten-foot embank-
ment into the adjoining yard.
In the meantime Mrs. Fogg, who had heard
the cooks screams for help; had run down the
street shouting Police" Policeman Peterson
OF the West Tooth street station went back to
the house with her and caught the negro in
the yard. The prisoner was arraiGned in the
West Fifty-fourth Street Police Court and held
in 81 COO for trial.
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Her Testimony as to Guy II. Reynolds's AL
legged Marriage Believed to Be False.

Her Testimony as to Guy II. Reynolds's AL
legged Marriage Believed to he Fnlse.
Magistrate Flammer rendered a decision
yesterday In the Harlem Court in the Cornell
reynolds -Klopman perjury case. Mrs. Amelia
j. Cornell Is accused Of perjurinG herself in
swearing that Guy II. Reynolds married Mrs.
Lillian Allen Reynolds-K lopman In Saratoga.
At the last hearing. which took pace in JEFF
ferson Market Court. Guy II. Reynolds testi-
fed that he had tried to find the Rev. Charles
Sidney Dudley. who. 1t was alleged. married
him to Mrs. Klopman In 1898. He went to
Toronto. Saratoga. Buffalo. Syracuse and sew
eral places where it was supposed the minister
resided, but could find no trace of him.
Ii was at the last hearing that benjamin
SteinhaTdt, counsel for Mrs. Cornell. accused
the other side Of trying to hatch a conspiracy
10 prosecute his client. This was denied later
ny Charles J.. Brooke. lteynolds's attorney.
Magistrate Flammer decided that a clear case
had been made against Mrs. Cornell and in
structed MIR. Steinhardt TO have her In court
this morning when she will be rearraigned and
held in $1,000 bail for the Grand jury on a
charge of perjury.
cited the main facts Of the case. bringing up
questions of law which Mr.. Steinhardt took
exceptions to because he said they were irrele-
want and had been passed upon by the Su-
preme Court. He remarked that even II his
client was held, the Grand Jury would not in
diet her. None Of the parties In the case was
in court.
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PASSED BOOMERANG cHECxss
Wanamaker and Altman & Co. Among the
Co~mpIainants Against the Prisoner.

Wanamaker and Altman & Co. Among the
Co~mpIainants Against the Prisoner.
Charles F. Forbes. who was formerly a
salesman for the Mosler Safe Company. and
became we'll known TO the trade through SELL
ing the Mexican Government 600 safes in one
order. was q prisoner yesterday in the Centre
Street Police Court on a charge OF passing
boomerang checks. 1t was alleged that three
weeks ago he had purchased two revolvers
from Robinson & Nesbitt OF 10 Chambers
street and had paid for them with a check for
$50 drawn to his order and signed by W. Nor
gan Robbins, "A Canadian guide. Tn check
was returned from the Rat Portage Canadian
Bank. marked Not sufficient funds"
Representatives from the following firms
were in court to prefer a similar charge in
case Forbes was discharged for lack OF evil
deuce: John Wanamaker. b.. Altman & Co..
Simpson. Crawford x Simpson. Crouch & Fitz-
gerald. McCreery Il Co. and the National Cash
Register COMPANY. In each case IL was
charged that Forbes had got cash or goods
on a $50 check signed by Robbins and that the
checks were invariably returned dishonored.
1t was alleged that Forbes pawned the goods
he received.
Forbes declared that he was innocent Of any
wrong intent. but Magistrate Pool said he re-
membered Forbes having been arraigned be-
fore him on a similar charge seven months
ago. Forbes was held for further xamina
tiOn
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CoMsrocK AND HoWE QUARREL.
Some PooIsellinE Indictments Were as Good
as squelched When Comstock Objected.

W. F. Howe and Anthony Comstock came near
punching each other yesterday in the corridor
leading to the District Attorneys Office In the
Criminal Court building. They had been
wranGling in the office of Assistant District
Attorney Grady. 1t was about 4 O'Clock In the
afternoon when Howe's voice was heard in
every part of the Criminal Court building. He
spoke so loudly that Recorder Goff. on the Sec
ond floor. stopped a trial which was in progress
and remarked to the clerk that Howe was
loose around there somewhere.
You are a damn liar!'' exclaimed Lawyer
Howe to Comstock. You know you lie!"
Just what Comstock said could not be heard.
Again and again Howe shouted at Comstock.
and when Comstock made toward the door
leading to the main hall Howe was at his heels.
but Joe Moss hurried after Howe and caught
hold of his arm. Neither Comstock nor Howe
would say what the trouble was about.
A batch of poolroom cases was on the court
calendar on Friday last for dismissal. Com
stock. it is said. remarked that some funny
business had been going on. and. discover
ing that the cases we've to be dismissed. had
insisted upon having them adjourned 30 that
the charges he made might be investigated
Howe. who was counsel for the bookmakers.
alleged that Comstock had possession Of a
large sum OF money which had been seized IN
certain poolrooms that were ratded.
Assistant District Attorneys Grady andTowns-
end spent. yesterday in looking into the cases:
Howe and Comstock were with the Assistant
District Attorneys for two hours. and when
they came out OF Mr.. Grady's room Howe's
voice was heard delivering his opinion Of Com
stock as above.
The cases were those in which indictments
had been nled against, Joseph +, Ullman; Alex;
VI. Chandler. Frederick Bradley. Peter Dow
ling and Harry Edwards. They were to have
been dismissed last Friday. but. as stated, Mr..
Comstock interfered and demanded an inves;
%tigation. The Investigation will be continued
to-day.
All the poolrooms are wide open now. and In
the case of many OF them anybody can walk
in, whether known to the booksellers or not.
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ever. 70 take nearly auusrter OF q mIlion dollars
away from the parks and make that sum avail
S SSIis al sns S Snd PfHIsSfbi III " KINGS ins % eo saS Se9's'
The Gomptroller !, th iad Eiy snd th 6s9 ediSttory oith
Tie new inSdeSine system, and says that the
law bearlng on the county general fund OF un.
expended balances was amended on March %,
By County Clerk Worth forthe work Of reindex-
ing, asserting and arranging the records Of the
S SSSFs a q law se on 2PTil a. 1n is9s, a Il%SRIaT tSo gene SS:
eral fund TO be drawn on for the expenses Of
sorting and arranging and records
yidcd that the bills for the work were approved
by the Commissioners OF Records In Kings
.DComptroller. -Coler says that, Comptroller
Palmer paid $4,000 to County Clerk Worth in
worih's vouchers we're not signed by the Com.
mlssioners Of Records. nor Is there any entry on
the minutes OF the commission that such OH.
thoriEation was ever given. The statement
Instead Of the. certincation Of the Commits
County Clerk Jacob Worth places his own
name on the vouchers where the Commission
eTs' Ss%e' rs should tnnss go Sou oh each h,s OF NJ theS %o lyS
departs from his custom of not swearing to the
CORRECTNESS Of his bills. and makes oath before
charges are just and the bills honest.
po",iutd will R be seen from from M ths reS %NLs Of The the
Comptroller Palmer must have been. aware OF
the nature Of the transaction. for the appro-
RBT Tig bcnr for ort thfs TGTs St was G tbSt Passed tSs d6 SrtsT It
sioners OF Records should pass upon the exc
Y AUDITOR Sutton or his deputy audited
all Of these vouchers. the Mayor passed them
and the Comptroller paid them, in direct viola.
ton OF the law and directly in contravention Of
the minutes Of the Board, OF Estimate regard
ing the same at O meeting when the matter
was discussed by the Mayor and Comptroller"
The statement also says that Mr.. Worth and
in 1897 for reindexing, OF which the latter
turned back $31. 340.15 into the county treas
ury: that all the money turned into the gen.
eral fund by Park Commissioner Squier was
appropriated for the work of reindexing and
were all improperly drawn.
In conclusion. Mr.. Coler says: THE above
statement does not include payments made to
either the Register or County Clerk for recopy-
maps in 1895. 1895 and 1897. nor special APP
preparations made for their offices for other
purposes. nor disbursements from other funds
than the two noted In this recapitulation.
Other payments to these officials. agRregating
many thousands OF dollars additional. are now
under examination"
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60 DAYS, JAZZ FOR o CENT THEFT.
Magistrate Pool Thought the Case Too In
significant for Special Sessions.


Assistant District Attorney Max Unger criti-
cised yesterday as illegal the disposition made
by Magistrate Pool OF two eases of petit lar
ceny which came before him on Saturday and
Sunday.
John Battorbury OF IL West street was mr.
raigned on Saturday charged with the theft Of
n quantity OF onions worth 80 cents. On the
advice OF Magistrate Pool the prisoner pleaded
guilty and signed u statement drawn up by the
Magistrate waving all right to trial by jury or
10y the Court OF Special Sessions. The Magis.
trate then sentenced Bntterbury to sixty days
Imprisonment in the City Prison.
In II second similar case Edward Burton OF
100 East Tenth street waived his right to trial
aud was sentenced to three months imprlson-
Warden Hogan reported the cases to the
District Attorney. saying that he did not know
what to do with the prisoners lie was ad-
vised TO refuse the commitment and discharge
the prisoners. but decided to hold them until
he received definite instructions from the SUI
preme Court. lawyer Cherry, counsel FOR Bate
tcrbury. announced Yesterday that he would
present a writ of certiorari before Justice Cohen
In Part II. OF the supreme Court this morning
demanding his clients release.
When questioned in regard to the matter.
Magistrate Pool said:
Il acted within the scope OF my authority as
a City Magistrate. | have done the same thing
before and may do it again. II the District At
toTney is not pleased with my disposition let
him do what he wishes. The matter has left
my hands, The, idea of trying a man in the
Court OF Special Sessions for taking a few
onions when he was hungry is. preposterous.
/ am confident that the District Attorney has
been misunderstood"
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Business Troubles.

Thu Gibson Art Glass and Decorating Com
pany Of 142 East Thirty-third street made an
assignment yesterday to George H. Gibson.
Vice-President and Secretary. The company
was supposed to be doing a good business. and
in July last It's statement showed: Assets.
$St. 741, and liabilities, $3.50. On Saturday
last a bill OF sale OF the fixtures was given by
the company to Treasurer Charles W. Allen
and Vice President Gibson for 81 $50.
Eugene b; Bachr 4 Bro. Eugene Il. and Her
man q. Baehrl. dealers in musical instruments
at 7 West Fourteenth etreeA made an assign
ment yesterday to j. M. Shefhbarger.
Executions are out against Chris PluRer,
grocer. Of I'll Sixth avenue. and George Bull
mann. grocer at 30 Avenue A., The stocks OF
both have heen disposed of by bills OF sale.
L. NJ. Harris, dealers in secondhand cloth
ing at 81 East Broadway. have, shut up their
shop. The police got some Of the stock. and II
street station.
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AARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
bishops Reject All Substitutes for h
proposed Canon on the Subject.

~ Oh HI ouDJCCLs
,"AsHfNGToN. Oct, 1.-THE House OF Blshopa
~ morning resolved to hold u special com
=. 1g'oh service in connection with tho House
= deputies at st, Johns Church tomorrow
Ss W'nlnE at 1880 O'Clock. when special mention
~a 20 mace OF Porto Rico in the prayers. To-
oootHIo" VIII be st. Luke's day. The house
Insured with the action OF the House o!
dNroputes providing for the erection OF a new
VsesS IN northern Indiana. and also adopted
shn vSsII'tion that q missionary jurisdiction
TSu ne formed In southern Indiana.
=, ~ bishops this afternoon. by a decisive vote
~ % "a rejected all substitutes for the pro-
~ canon OF marriage and divorce aud
Th's 70 leave the canon as it now stands.
~, ,n' sc'loh was decisive. as IL would require a
t,Eo .n'tas vote under the rules Of the house to
Vic te matter up again. and It is possible. in
And y, y. inc sentiment in the House OF Deputies
c,ro u action OF the House OF Bishops. that the
NJ" wiz not be brought up In the House OF
1lno",e AZ this convention. As the house is
'eertain to reject the canon proposed by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-18
JACK FROST BULLS COTTON.

Gave Prices n Lift of 10 to IL Points
Trading in Futures Increasing.
Jack Frost was the chief bull in cotton ~yester-
day, and he gave prices n lift of ten to twelve
points. There was killing frost at Amarillo. in
northwestern Texas. which is outside of the cot
ton region. but at Palestine and Abilene. further
south in the same state, the temperature was
down TO Az. and besides there was light, frost
we're predicted over night in many parts Of the
South. All this made the bears cover freely
and with celebrity. They also got polite hints to
ket and a brisk demand for cotton goods at
Manchester. Big receipts were ignored.
AS to the cotton crop. it is late, the plant is
green and sappy. and killing frost it is feared
would greatly curtail the yield.
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GOING A PEG TOO FAR.

Instances of Justice Al Administered in
Bergen County, n. j.
Aman was imprisoned two months in the
Bergen County. N. j., Jail for stepping into an
orchard and taking four or five apples.
After being dispossessed. an old man and his
daughter went into an unoccupied house in
their neighborho3d to rest during the night.
glary.
When these cases were brought before the
Grand Jury. they were dismissed. Fifteen
prisoners. held on charges similar to the
foregoing. were discharged recently from the
inil.
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jew Charged with Stealing Ham.

The inconGruous spectacle OF a Hebrew ar
rested on a charge OF having stolen ham was
presented in the Centre Street Police Court
yesterday. When l.. Hahn. a restaurant keeper
OF Is Frankfort street. appeared as complainant
against Moses Kaiser. who had up to yesterday
been in Hams employ.
We missed four hams on Saturday night"
said Hahn. and / kept watch last night and
saw him leave the place with three more"
".ChudRe." weepingly cried Kaiser. II am a
Hebrew; undo ham iss nodt kosher. All l gan
Magistrate Poo held Kaiser in $500 bail for
trial.
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Cabman Needs a Pull, Not q writ.

Justice Freedman OF the Supreme court has
held that the rule OF the Park Board under
which certain cRbmen have certain places
about the parks and plazas assigned to them ia
valid. He dismisses the test case brought by
James 7. Fox. Fox has been insisting on his
equal right TO = stand on the plaza at Fifty
ninth street and Fifth avenue. which the PARK
Board had assigned TO twenty-five other cab
men. When one cabman goes on a call his
place is kept for him under the rules OF the
made vacant he was arrested and was lined
so. He had himself brought before the Bu-
prone Court on hAbeas corpus.
Justice, Freedman says that the Park Board
had q right to make its rule.
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THE NAN IN GRArEsEND BAY.
Was n Cook on tho Berlin, Who Cut His
Throat and Jumped Overheard.

"HB CUUk UH IHo DerIIH, WHO Vut IIID
Throat and Jumped Overheard.
The man who was found in Gravesend Bay
on Sunday with his throat cut was identified
yesterday at the Coney Island MorGue as John
McKenna. 23 years old. OF S3 Degraw street.
Brooklyn. The identification was made by the
young mans father. Bernard McKenna. Young
McKenna was an assistant cook on tho United
from Santiago last week. He was anxious on
the arrival Of the vessel to 20 to his home, but
couldn't get shore leave.
He told his ghipmRtes that he was going to
swim ashore. He stripped and plunged into the
bay whtlo the ship was anchored off Liberty
Island, He was seen to throw up his hands
and disappear. II Is thought he cut his throat
before jumping overheard.
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Nnn Down hy a nrIoL sohooner.

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. Oct. 1T.-While Con-
rad Deiusr and his sons. Felix and John, were
hshinK in the Raritan River yesterday n
schooner laden with brick cut their boat In
two. The younger boy, John, WAS drowned.
Mr.. Deiner and Felix were rescued.
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Howard Gould and Bride ut Newport News.

howard Houid ana brlde mt newport Ne"h'
NEWPORT NEWS. Va. Oct. 17.-Howard Gould,
accompanied by his bride, arrived here this
morning from Old Point Comfort and spent
the day in the yard OF the Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Company by invitation
Of General Manager Post. Besides Mr.. and Mrs;
Gould there We're Mr., and Mrs. L. "; Sells and
Capt. Shackclford l. OF the Niagara. The visitors
returned to Old Point Comfort this evening.
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The Weather.

There was an extensive storm covering all the CEN
trail States yesterday. with It's centre over Missouri
and Illinois. 1t was moving eastward, attended by
high winds and heavy rainfall; between two and
three inches of rain fell in Missouri and one to two
inches in the surrounding States.
The storm Is preceded by warmer weather and fol-
lowed by a decided cold wave over the Northwest.
The cold weather is likely to push we'll into the
yellow fever districts in the next twenty.four hours.
In this city yesterday it was fair; highest temperA-
ure d1o, lowest 427; average humidity 81 per cent;
wind northerly. average velocity 10 miles an hour:
barometer corrected to read to sea level, at 8 A. n.
3O.32, o p. NJ. 1924.
The temperature as recorded by the onicial Their.
momcter and also by The suS's thermometer at the
street level liz shown In the annexed table;
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STEP TO REDUCE PORT CHARGES.
Exchange Committee Abolishes RaIf- Cent?
BusheI Charge on Stored Grain.

IKUIT-NUHI"H~
BuShel Charge on Stored Grain.
The Grain Committee OF the New York
Produce Exchange has abolished the charge
OF one-half cent a bushel which by q usage Of
the trade has been charged on grain stored in
railroad elevators. because such grain is en-
titled to free liRhterage to ocean steamships.
from tie BrookIyn Wharf and WWHrehouse
Company. which stated that the company
would agree to lighter its grain from the stores
road companies lighter theirs If the equaliza-
ton charge, on the railroad grain was abolished:
The adjustment Of ths charge is looked
upon as q first step In the movement to reduce
port charges in order to attract larger ship
ments.
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FOUR KILLED By EXPLOSION.
Freight Locomotive Boiler Blows Up and
Crew Lose Their Lives.

READING. Pa. Oct. 1.-THE boiler OF a 100
ton freight locomotive on the Wilmington and
Northern Railroad exploded this afternoon.
killing William Herficker, engineer: George
Mills. fireman: Harry Suydam, conductor. and
Willis Woodward. brakeman. all OF Birdsboro.
The locomotive and four freight cars were de-
u,nIiahnI
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MAYOR n4s an ATTACK OF DISGUST.
Caused by the Civil Service Boards Estimate
or It's Mistaken Footing.

or Its Mistaken Footing.
The Civil Service Commissioner asked the
Board OF Estimate yesterday for 100000 for
the expenses Of the department for 1899.
The estimate should be $4,000" said Pres
ident. Knox. There has been a mistake in
addition"
Pretty bad bookkeeping" said the Mayor.
looking hard at Lee Phillips; Secretary OF the
GIlytl Service Board. Then he turned TO Mr.,
Knox and said: we must have a detailed
statement OF just what You want to do with
this money. | assure you that | nm seriously
Disguised with this estimate. We will consider
your figures in executive session"
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Killed Herself Because of Husbands Ill

READsBoRo. Vt, Oct, 17,-Mrs. George Dix.
wife OF a farmer OF Nottingham. committed
suicide this morning by shooting herself. She
sat down beside the bed and by pulling a cord
attached TO the trigger discharged the gun and
blew her brains out. Mrs. Dix had been de-
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Says Mrs. Colgate Is Not Engaged to the
Earl of STAFFORD.

SARATOGA. Oct. 17.-Andrew W, Smith OF New
York and Ballston Spa is considerably eXer-
cised over the reports printed by metropolitan
Mrs. Cora Smith Colgate. to the Right Hon.
Henry William Charles Bying, fourth Earl Of
STAFFORD. England. He says that the rumor Is
entirely grounulesS.
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James Grown of BrOoklyn Shot at Elkhart

LA PORTE. lad. Oct. l7,-,James Brown OF
Brooklyn. N. Y. was shot aad fatally wounded
at Elkhart to-day. He was attempting TO ss-
cape from an of1icer who had arrested him.
charged with . miSdsmOAnoE.