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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
MORE WINTERS LITIGATION BEGUN.

A suit has been begun In the Supreme Cour: by
Emily Bliss. Henrietta Meade and sever' other
nieces Of the late Anne Maria Winters qcs,n''
Byron L. Winters, her husband 10 have the deed
for all real estate which Mrs Winters conveyed 10
her husband and a bill Of sale executed by Mrs
Winters 10 her husband for all Of her personal
property set aside; 10 have Mrs. Winterss will
unset and to have Mr.. Winters enjoned from In
any manner interfering with the estate and 20 have
a receiver appointed for the property. A contest
over the will is now pending In the Surrogate's
Court
The piairiNs allege that Mrs. Winters was
mentally incompetent 10 execute n Will, and that
undue influence was exerted upon her. She was
over seventy years old when she was married 10
Winters the defendant IN the present action. He
was then young lawyer. a her death II was
found that she had left everything 70 her husba nd
10 the exclusion II a host OF near relatives. Mrs
Winters. her relatives assert. was worth about
81 600 900 at the lime ~ her death. She had been
M rred twice before she net Waters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
OVERCOME BY GAS ~ BROADWAY.
TWO woRKMEN AND A POLICEMAN LOSE COS.
sCIOUsNEss THROUGH THE CUTTING


OF A GAS MAIN.
In cutting down 9-inch gas main At Twenty
ffth-st. and Broadway about neon yesterday. TO
lower tho main To make room for the cleo
trio conduits OF the trolley road. airbag used for
stopping the flow OF gas from the main failed TO
work. and two workmen and Policeman Thomas
Rordan. OF the West ThIrteth-st. station. were
overcome. one OF the workmen. Erwin Custard.
was taken to the hospital. All three however,
will recover
Almost as soon the bag failed to work Gus
tards Fellow workman was overcome Custard
had Just strength enough to crawl out OF the
trench. He shouted for help. and Policeman
Riordan hurried to MIN. Custard knowing that
his companion. jumped into the trench and tried
% lift the man: but fell across his body uncon-
sclous The policeman at once jumped down and
seized Custard's companion. He threw the man
out OF the trench. and seized Custard. getting him
out. tco with some difficulty. Then he also was
overcome but was helped ou' by workmen
An ambulance was summoned. and the victims
were soon restored. while the workmen stopped
the breach large crowd gathered abou, the
trench, hut the rush OF gas from the big main
was so great that the atmosphere at that point
not brtHthabl. with safety. and the crowd quckly
hurried away. leaving at the trench only the work
men a I'd the police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

At meeting Of the City Council yesterday the
resolution passed by the Board of Estimate au-
thorlzing the issue Of water bonds 10 the amount
OF $4,000 introduced and referred TO tho
France Committee. These bonds are not affected
by the debt Init.
President Gugsenheimer appoir ed Councmen
oakley. Hottenroth. Bodne. Cassidy and McGarry
a committee 10 cooperate with other committees
IN the work Of preventing tho diversion OF trade
from the port OF Ne~-York 4 r. port was received
f. the Aldermen recoWme aiding the reduction
Of peders' license fees, but was laid over.
During the deliberations Of the Council a COM
plaint was made that there lack OF attend
nnts and President Guegenheirner ordered the
sergeant alarms 10 get more men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
SHAKER TRUSTEE CHARGED WITH FRAUD

Robert G. Valentine. Of Lebanon. y. Y. a trustee
OF the Shakers community. was arrested by
Deputy-sherin Terry al the Grand Union Hotel on
Monday night writ issued by Justice Pryor. Of
the supreme Court. charging him with fraud. The
v.r,, was issued on behalf OF restaurant keeper
~ No II West HoustOn-st. who alleges that Val
eiilne representing himself as trustee Of the
cbokers borrowed s. GOO from him. The complain
ami AYERS that while Valentine Is trustee OF the
shaker. ne was not authorized 10 make the negO-
ttafions Valentine who Is eeventy-six years old
was released on bail last night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
STATE SUES TO AWFUL A GAS FRANCHISE.
COUNSEL FOR THE ATroRNEY-GENERAL SAYS
1T IS BEING .HAwKED FOR SALE
AFTER LONG DISrSE.


Justice Cohen yesterday transferred 10 Spec'ai
Term. Part I. OF the Supreme Court. motion
made on behalf Of Theodore E.s Hancock. state
Attorney General. for leave TO bring An action TO
annul the charter obtained Ivy the city Gas COM
pany. OF New-York thirty-three years ago ire
motion was the resAlt Of application made 10
the Attorney General to take action IN the matter.
Il came before Justice Cohen week ago. ana
the hearing OF arguments was adjourned by him
TO yesterday
Ehu Root representing the Attorney General.
said that the city Gas Company had secured
franchise thirty three years ago. which gave that
corporation the right 10 lay mains In the CITY.
The franchise had never been used. Under the
charter. the city row could not grant trancnises
for than twenty years. THIS PARTICULAR
charter he understood was now being hawked
about nv the holders 1t had been granted IN
order that the company. oy carrying out It's 90
tects. should benefit the community not mat after
many years n should he suddenly brought into
operation to nuify the law and deprive the city
OF the advantages OF it's new charter
Lewis l.. Delahed opposed the notion and at his
request Justice Cohen transferred the hearing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
WINDING Up A CORPORATION.

Judge Pryor granted an order yesterday dissoiv-
ing the Buffalo Investnlen; Con pany. whose on .
was at No as broadway. in proceedings brought
by tn officers for the voluntary dissolution or the
CORPORA lion and appointed Frederick 7. Huntcy Of
this city. receiver The proceedings merely a
matter OF form. the company has assets and
no liabilities and went ont of active business in
April 1896 II was capitalized s5ooo and was
formed to sell some property In building lots and
vil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
DEAD AT THE AGE OF 100.

Berefonte. Penn. Nov. Mrs. Nancy j. Barger.
Centre County's centenarian. died this morning at
the age Of lO6 years and one month Two months
ago Mrs Barger fell and broke limb. and owing
10 her advanced age the injury would not heal.
finally resulting in her death, She was born on
Middle Ridge in Cumberland County. In 1872 With
her husband she came to this county in 1874, and
She had lived in the house more than sixty
Years. Five children survive. the oldest being
Samuel T}argar aged elGhty-'our Mrs. Rarger was
in possession OF Ill her faculties until her death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
ANTICAT LEAGUE ~ NADTSON-AVE.
HALEs BROTHER PRACTITIONER TO
COURT ABOUT 1T.

COURT ABOUT IT.
Dr. Hubbard W Mitchell Of No. IA Madison
ave. SUMMONED to the Yorkville Police Court
yesterday by Or. r. W. Wilcox. of No. Ii9 Madi-
son-ave The latter explained TO Magistrate Meade
that when he moved into the house he now occu-
pies Or. Mitchell called him and told HIM that
there was an Anti-Cat League in the immediate
reighborhood. which 1t was hoped he would JON.
As he had 7 cat that he wanted TO keep Or wilcox
said he did not join the league. little while
aftcrward his cat was mysteriousiy poisoned lie
had had altogether three cats killed mys:erousy.
and a. No AS Madson-ave a ca: and two kittens
strangely disappeared DIT Wilcox added That he
had ono Of the cats subjected to an autopsy by
DR.. T. VI. Leavy. OF the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty TO Animals and d.. Leavy informed MIN
that the animal had been poisoned WITH carholic
acid.
Magistrate Meade asked Dr. Mitchell II he know
anything about the disappearance OF the cats. ard
the doctor said thai he did not. He denied thar
he had spoken to Dr.. Wilcox about an Anfi-'at
League. The Magistrate said that as there was
evidence against Dr. Mitchell he would nave TO
dismiss the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
VACATIONS END or TIE ST. MARTS.

The vacations of the boys Of the schoolship ST.
Mary; ended yesterday. and they are all back at
work study and play. They have been away
since their commencement. October II. Eighty
students returned to the ship yesterday Four OF
them have seen service for their country. having
been engaged in the late war with Spain. II IS
thought that the ship will be taken into European
Wal this winter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
HALLOWEEN PRANKS LEAD TO DE1

Columbus Ohio. Nov Arthur Smoke eighteen
years Old OF Kirkersville, near this city while
out Halloween lark into tho cornfeld
OF Thomas Randall last night 70 procure some
Smoke mistaken for thief by Randall.
who shot him in the head killing him instantly.
Detroit. Nov. IA Tribune dispatch from
Muskegon Mich. says: Leslie Parker. a sixteen
year-old boy. was shot dead last evening. He was
with other boys having Halloween sport
about the premises OF Michael Burns. aged
man. The latter fired charge Of buckshot at the
bow killing him"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
ETTE-FLYING EXPERIMENTS.

W A. Eddy. OF kte.fying fame. yesterday per-
formed experiments Liberty Island with a Wow
10 ascertainin2 the effect OF the immense amount
OF bronze in the liberty statue upon the electrical
condition OF the surrounding atmosphere. An
electrical collector sent up by means or Kites.
and II was found that the statue did not absorb the
electricity from the atmosphere beyond one hun
dred feet away. Mr.. Eddy Will make furthS ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
CARGO or 4 WHALING BARK.

San Francisco Nov. THE whaling bark Ho-
ratio has reached port from the Arctic Ocean with
so barrels ~ sperm OIL go barrels OF whale oil and
go pounds OF bone tho whole being valued at
over $500 It Is estimated that the whaling fleet
will put over $4,000 In circulation In San Fran
cisco this winter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
THE ADMIRAL rARRlGUT LArycHED

Philadelphia. Nov. 1.-The Admiral Farragut the
fourth and last OF tho big steamships under course
of construction fcr the American Mail Steamship
Company uhe Ward Line. was successfully
launched from Cramps shipyard this afternoon A
large party came from NewYork 10 witness the
launching headed by X. A. C. Smith, president OF
the American Mail Steamship Company. The vessel
named by Mrs. r. A. C. Smith.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
ONLY TWO DAYS MORE or THE FOOD SHOW

The Food Show at Madison Square Garden which
has been an attraction for more than month. will
positively close tomorrow night. In the mean time
there are the pretty souvenir spoons for the wom-
en- the cooking lectures in the afternoon by Mrs.
Iemcke and the Santa Claus bags. which are given
orr upon coupons a the gve-away box. each hav-
ing something for the housekeeper TO take home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
Court CALENDARS FOR TO-DAY.

Appellate Dvislon-Supreme Corrt-Reeess.
Supreme urt-Appelate Term Recess until Wednes-
day. November .. lsiN
-Motlon calendar called at 1890 m
Supreme Special Term--fart T-Before Cchen.
court opens at 1910 4. m. FIX pnrte matters w
supreme Court-Specia: Term-Far,s III. ~. Y. VII
ard NIlI-Adi0urned for the term
supreme Court-Specal Term Part Ni-Befors Bischon.
VII VIII IN. Y XI nd XT--Adlourned for the term
Surrogate court-CAam her'-lsfore ATnoh srS9ur'
Emil Roessert John y. D!sEio. Albert T. Ungsr John
M,Mahon at 1870 a. m Thomas 6 Rlsnsy At p n
Surrogaies Court-Tral Term-Before Fnzserad. -
Court orens a 1890 q. m. No day calendar
CITY Court-Special Term Before rltzsmons. & j.
Court opens at 10 a. M Motion. ~ 70" a, ~
CIV C'ourt-Trial Term-Parts |. II. III and iF-Ad-
journed for the term.
REVIEWERS APPOINTED.
Supreme Court.
BY Dschon. jr.. j.
Frederick X seSgsrraann ast Carpenter r. sworts-
Virsin,a BrusneI aet Paultn. wit,mer 1.-TWO cases.
''"e' ~ BY Pryor
Matter Of Buffalo Investment pany-Frederiek =.
Hunt!ey
REFEREES APPOINTED.
Supreme Court.
Kent ar' O'Calagnan-Chnuncey = Truax.
Miller AT. CRlhoun-Eugens II. Pomeroy.
rs Cohen. }.
Amslnck aE, Mofle-Fyerstt r Wheeler.
Flanagan ag, Crsvelins-James Nealis.
National Broadway Bank ast Ssnders-Ehert Crandall
Greenwood Ag, Pettit-John s Smith.
Matter Of Nctor-Chares Sch~iek.
BY Bisehon. jr.. j.
ssxsGmann ags. sworss-Nathanlsi a. Prsssr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
SURVIVORS OF TIE UOHEGAN RETURN
ONE DECLARES THE CAPTAIN PAID no ATTEN-
TON TO COAST GUARD SIGNALS.

TON TO COAST GUARD SIGNALS.
Two survivors OF the wreck OF the steamship
Michigan arrived here yesterday on the Atlantic
Transport Line steamer Marquette They were
Thomas Mitchell. OF Boston. and James Ward. OF
Jersey City. Both men had shipped on the Mo-
hogan as cattle punchers. Mitchell helped save a
number OF lives from the wreck. lie would say
little about the disaster yesterday Ward said that
the lifeboai in which he left the sinking steamer
leakel like a sieve. and only frantic baine kent
her a..oat until the arrival OF the coast guar
boat He does not understand how the ship came
to run upon the rocks. as II was clear ana the
shore was perfectly visible. He declares that the
captain OF the Monegan paid no attention 10 the
rockets fired from the shore warning the ship 20
keep of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
LOCAL BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS.

Deputy Sheriff Radcy yesterday opened the safe
OF David NJ. Torrey, money broker and banker. ut
No AZ Nassau-st. who made an assignment on
October "A. In il were lot Of American and for
eign copper silver and gold coins. Canadian and
Confederate bills. g in Greenbacks. postage STAMPS
and .nternn, revenue stamps. The value Of the
money Is not known. som. OF the coins being rare
and valuable 10 collectors Among the lot wer.
two bags Of copper coins. about 800 In old goi1
coins $50 in dimes and nickels. about S2j IN 5O-cent
pieces and silver do1rs and probably 80 IT. stamps
The inventory not completed yesterday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
&nrouenn Aouertisem:1.s.

EUROPEANS AND TRAVEL
IERS will find the London Office OF The
Tribune, $40 Fleet Street, a convenient
place to leave their advertisements and
subscriptions for The Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.

Arnold s Rukeyser and Henry Bash. who com
posed the late firm Of Rukeyser & Bash. filed a pc
tition In bankruptcy yesterday. Herman Joseph.
their attorney said the firm were manufacturers ~
1cckwear. formerly at No. 60 to 6li Broadway
are $50 4N and nominal Of $50 sos in worthless
accounts. Mr.. Bash has individual assets OF @552'
Consisting Of a house at No. 66l La Salle-ave.,
Chicago valued at 5000. mortgaced Tor 5000:
@quit, 900 and fourth interest," In l@ acres OF
farm lands nj Newton. H.. value, $3.50. mort
gage, 81 80; his share of equity. 1882
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

Emanuel S Kuh filed petition in bankruptcy
Yesterday WITH nominal liza hilites sss.44 and no
assets with 81 PAL direct liabilities to four creditors
the largest being the Standard oil Company. Ns.26l
on A Judgment which was obtained against him
Liabilities to the amount OF s512ic are insert cd
without admitting anv liability thereon as they
were claims included in the assignment OF f.. ;.
Kuh & Tuska. on March s 1897. In which 1rm he
was a partner and which he asserts are outlawed
Mr. K,h has been I'm the horn. hoof and bone IN AZ
ness for eighteen years and since the failure or + \
Kuh & Tuska he has acted agent. with an Office
in the Produce Exchange Building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

many generations. the home that their fore-
fathers built and the woods that they planted
are put up to auction and sold for whatever
they will fetch Well. as 1t has been with them
so In the fulness Of appointed time II shall be
with those who supplant them. for against this
ultimate fate the boarding OF moneys and the
LAYING of field 10 field are no defence"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

Harris p Goldman OF No 2lo East One
hundred nd eiGhteenth-st.. has filed petition
ir bankruptcy with liabilities 5000 Que 10
eight creditors, and sssets He has been
in the glass business In Harlem for many
years. and the petition ia to get nd OF severa!
Judgments obtained against him in ls2
Since the bankrupt act went into effect there
have been filed in this city ol voluntary petitions.
To-day is the first day fo- filing involuntary petit
lions by creditors. They could not be filed until
four months after the passage or the law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

PICTORIAL Pickwickana" is the title OF
forthcoming volume containing nearly four hun
dred pictures Another Dickens book Is Mr..
Ktton's Dickens and His Illustrators" pre-
senting seventy plates by Leech Cruikshank.
PHI" Fildes and others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02
Judgement Tor re57 was entered Yesterday agains,

Judgment TOT NftE WIZ "II'T"H F'NT"rUHy HEdITIs-
the David Tullorh Steam Stone Works. former
at No 3oS East One cumberland eighth-st.. in
favor OF Benjamin g. Odell, jr and Edward II
Hobbs as receivers Of the Murray Hill Bank on
two notes of the concern made In June and July.
1896 which were fourd among the assets OF the
bank.
Deputy Sheriff Rim received an execution yeste--
day against Joseph J. zimmerman. builder. OF No.
lD5 Broadway. for 50 s3l. in favor OF the Blue
IW Granite Company. OF Maine. for balance due
on grant" for building AT the corner OF Hubert
nrd WnsGincinN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

In the "Whtefoord Papers" 10 which refer
ence has recently been made in this column, this
interesting little anecdote has been found by the
editor: when Sterne read some of the loose
sheets Of the copy Of 'Tristram Shandy TO
select company assembled ut Mr.. Crofts Tot
that purpose after dinner they fell asleep al
which Sterne was so netted that he threw the
MS. into the fire. and had not luckily Mr. CROFT
rescued the scorched papers from the names
the work would have been consigned to oo-
liviOn'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

Mr. Rider Hagsard. in the course Of his farm
Ing "reminiscences in "Longman's." says that
fev Io5r,r except those who are more or less
behind the scenes hnow the straits 10 which the
English ou ners If land. and especially Of en-
tailed lard have been put o, late years at any
rate In Eas, .Ang In.
'l,van II they are totally unencumbered. most
OF such properties barely produce enough to pay
outgoirgs and kcer ur 'the place upon very
modest scale And II they are encountered, as
Is he case IN eieh: out OF ten Of them, either
with mortgages or with jontures and charges
in favor Of younger children executed or scale
OF iberaity dictated ~ prosperous times then
the position Is lad indeed. In nearly every IN
stance he history IS the samoa long ana pti-
ful struggle on the part Of the sinking family,
then ~ las: foreclosure, rLin and sale at any
sacrifice Who docs no, know cases Of parishes
where the property has been held for centuries
by a single family? But long their day may
be. at length II comes TO on end. and the lands
which they owned from father to for so
, 1898-12-10

"When not in meditation or reused
to anger by stupidity or impertinence,
Wagner may well be said to have been
boisterously gay" writes Houston
Stewart Chamberlain Of 1.-THE Personal
Side of Richard Wagner" in The La
dies Home Journal. "This was, so to
say, his normal state when in society,
which accounts for his being go much
beloved by children and by animals;
hence also he never could endure the
society of pedants and seekers for no.
toriety. The men he preferred were those
full of fun and repartee. The ready wit
Of a peasant entertained him more than
the learned sayings Of a savant. He
walked very fast. scrambled up Noun
tains like d channels, and was partiou-
larly fond of long excursions on foot.
Being very small in stature and wiry,
he preserved his extraordinary agility up
to the very end.
"As a youth he was renowned for
gympastic feats, and at so years Of age
he used still to climb tall poplar trees
and to frighten his family by all sorts of
daring antics. Even within a year of
his death he would occasionally, when
IN high glee, astound his sedate Ger
man friends by suddenly standing ON
his head or by playing leapfrog over
the armchairs of his drawing room."
, 1898-12-10
REM

One night you touched the harp beside tho
stair,
The harp that, long uningered and unstrung,
Had silent dreamed of hours when 1t was
young,
And those who loved it blithe and frail and
fair.
Beneath your careless hand a faint, sweet air
Leaped back to life and told with tender tongue
OF loves forgot, and soft the strings among
The dying music fingered like a prayer.
How long the harp had waited for your handi
So long my heart lay silent till you came.
How strangely sweet the strain you made to
rise
From eachl And yet you cannot understand
That now can neither ever be the same.
All, love, ah, love, how slow the music dies!
Guy Wetmore Carry in Hnrper's Magazine.