Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Subduing Spaniard In Chrystie Street.
The Slaughter of Birds-He Took
Long Sleep Women Masons.
Especial Correspondence.I

Especial Correspondence
New Workers. are VIGOROUSLY conserv-
alive, and no one has been surprised at
the calmness with which all kinds Of
business and labor have been carried ON
in the city during all the weeks of talk
of and preparation for war. Very rarely
has anything out of the ordinary occur
red because of the strained relations"
with Spain. In almost every case of un.
usual excitement or disorder it has
turned out that hot headed foreigner
was at the bottom of the trouble. A
case in point is that of Andrew Kriso Of
Pell street, who stirred up little row
on the Bowery the other night by tear
ing around with an open jackknife in
his hand shouting: "Ah, hal You YAM
kee pigsl We will blow you and your
nation to piecesi"
II happened that two sailors from the
cruiser San Francisco were standing on
the corner of Canal street and the Bow
cry, talking to a policeman. All three
took after Kriso, who turned into Chrys-
tie street crying, death to the Yankee
dogsr"
The pocket edition of Weyler ran into
a crowd in front of livery stable in
Chrystie street. and, as one of the Bow
cry boys said, "Dey didn't do ting to
i'm" The sailors caught up with the
procession in time to give the blood
thirsty Spaniard few hooks and upper
outs before the policeman, who seemed
to be out of training as a Splinter, ar
rived on the scene and rescued the ter
chile Yankee hater by arresting him.
Kriso kissed the policeman's hand
and begged to be saved from the crowd.
His head looked like a war map when
he was arraigned in Essex Market po-
lice court charged with disorderly con.
duct. He couldn't pay the So fine as
sessed by the judge, and so he went to
the workhouse, where he will be pre-
vented from blowing the Yankee nation
to pieces.
Wanted to Take a Long Sleep.
A delicate looking young man entered
the Puritan House at 1873 Bowery and,
registering as Otto Schwartz. asked for
room without windows.
~ want to take long sleep, be
said
He was assigned TO a small apartment
on the third floor Two houls later Err
nest Schmidt, the night Waterman,
smelled gas Schwartz was found uncon.
scious on the bed
A bottle that had contained carbolic
acid was on a table and gas was flowing
from the fixture over the bed. Police
man Casey summoned an ambulance
from Gouverneur hospital, but the map
died before it arrived.
In the suicides pockets were found a
sealed letter addressed to "Mr. Klein,
care Of Mrs. Annie Baumbusch, 8 Cen
trail avenue, Brooklyn, and photo
graph of handsome young woman,
apparently Jewess On the back of
the photograph was written in German,
"This is my murderess. The picture
was from the Photographic gallery of
Strofregen, Flushing avenue, Brooklyn.
woman's Mystic Masonic Lodge.
New York women have organized a
lodge of Masons. They call it Manhat-
tan Mystic lodge They met in a real
lodgeroom, with queer insignia and a
delicious air Of mystery Rumor says
much of this mystery was occasioned
by doubt whether the real Masons
would recognize this new feminine or
der. But fate and the Masons-a real
lodge-were kind to the women.
Mrs. May Banks Stacey, who is the
head and front of the movement, was
formally initiated, and a few days later
she swore in, with mysterious rites 90
of her followers.
The principal requisite for member
ship is that one must be the wife, wild
ow, daughter, sister or granddaughter
of Mason. 1.-THE ritual used In Man
haitian Mystic lodge will be that of the
first woman $ lodge, founded in France
sephine was a member " said Mrs. Sta
cey.
The Slaughter Of Birds.
An investigation by the New York
Geological society into the destruction
of bird and animal life in the United
! States has shown that in fourfifths of
the area Of the United States, exclusive
of Alaska, bird life is being annihilated,
edible birds are rare and on the point
of extinction, and plume birds are prac-
tically extinct. w. T. Hornaday, direct
or of the New York Geological park,
in paper read before the section of
biology of the New York Academy of
Sciences, referred to the society's inyes-
tigation and used considerable of the
data to be published in the report. He
said:
"A series of questions regarding the
decrease and its causes was sent TO cor
respondents in all parts of the country.
Eighty per cent of the correspond
e1ts declared that the decrease in bird