The times., 1898-02-07
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.


1 chairman of the New York State Demo
cratic Committee, is on his way to the
| South. There is just little doubt here
as to whether he goes in search of
health or to promote a propaganda. If
for the latter purpose it Is evident that
/ Mr.. Danforth never read Albion w.
Tourgee's "A Fools Grand" He is
David b. Hills CLOSEST political friend,
and local paper declares that he ex-
poets to arouse sentiment in favor of
the WoolfertS RooSt statesman some
thing like that kindled in 1892, when
twenty-three votes from south of the
Potomac were cast for Mr.. Hill in the
convention. The Southern people will
doubtless be glad TO see Mr.. Danforth,
who was loyal Democrat in 1886, but
he will find them 'sOt" in their ways.
With them David p. Hill is only a men,
ory, and a fast-fading memory at that.
There is something of conflict be-
tween the military and the civil au-
thority at Willets Point. Private VIII
liam Klein, of Company ID, T. s. En-
gineers, was found dead in haymow.
The local coroner demanded the body
for inquisitOriai purposes, the man
neck being broken, and the command
ant advised the local coroner that
while he might be big man among his
constituents he wasn't even large
enough on the reservation to attend to
the proper certificatinn of a defunct
private's death Later, the command
ant asked the coroner for a burial per-
nit, it being irregular to bury regu-
lar without one. The coroner respond
ed that while the commandants epau-
lettes We're emblemS of greatness on
the reservation. that in civil life there
was not enough magnetism in them to
draw forth even one small legal favor
for certification TO the bureau Of vital
statistics. Meanwhile Private Klein
hasn't word to say.
There was touch of nature in the
Harlem Hospital yesterday that serv-
ed to narrow the breach between the
exalted and the lowly. Antonio Zuoc-
co, Handsome Tony" he was called,
lay dying of a bullet wound in his side.
All his neighbors believe that. goaded
by jealousy, his wife inflicted the
wound. The police accepted this view,
and yet Zuocco on his deathbed ac-
quilted her. Il did it myself: / alone
am responsible he said. as he sasped
and died.
And yet Tony didn't love his wife. He
was the lady killer of the colony, and
notoriously unfaithful Why, then, did
he lie to save her? The explanation is
simple. He was an ex-soldier in the
Italian army and his name would be-
come by-word among his former COM
Iades should the news reach Italy that
he was killed by woman.
William Riley Foster. who as an
nounced in The Sunday Morning Times,
is on his way from France in custody.
will arrive in New York about next
Saturday. He is the son of a rich New
York flour merchant. Owing to his le-
gal ability he was made financial agent
of the gratuity fund of the produce ex-
change. About this time he became in
fatuated with q beautiful woman. Lola
Belotte, upon whom he squandered
money.
September %, 1888. was the day that
the trustees Of the gratuity fund had
appointed for the examination OF Fos-
ter's books. On that day he disappear
ed. They found that he had raised
sis3, 900 by means OF mortgages that he
had forged.
Foster travelled all over Europe, al
ways incognito. The woman who had
caused his downfall accompanied him.
In September. 1885, a former ac-
quaintanee of Foster recognized him
in Zurich. Switzerland. That was the
clew detectives followed for two years
before they finally found him in Neu-
ily France. His kind of crime did not
technically come within the limits of
the treaty. His extradition has at last
been granted as a special act of courte-
sy by the French government.
Three side lights Were turned upon
New York State and Greater New
York. city politics within the past three
days.
First, John B. Stanchfields declara-
tiOn at Albany that he was an open
candidate for the nomination for gov
ernOr
Second. Perry BeImont's Endorsement
and defense of Senator Murphy's vote
on the Teller resolution.
Third, the turning down in the bor-
ough of Brooklyn of the leaders who
have been showing kindly feeling for
Mr.. Croker and Tammany Hail.
There are other straws which show
the winds direction, aud one of them
was the criticism that Mr. Hills friend
Assemblyman Palmer. made upon the
incompetency of Minority Leader Dom
nelly in the weak fight the Democrats
made for the canal bill.
1t is said on seemingly excellent au-
thority that Mr.. Hill. while in WASH
ington a week ago, advised Senator
Murphy to dodge voting on the Teller
resolution or else vote against it and
thus avoid giving the Republicans a
chance to make the coming State cam
paign ON national issues. Mr. Hill. it
is said, sees no course open but to come
out i'll the open and fight for control of
the State convention.
The Wilioughby street Democrats,
who follow Hugh Mclaughlin, James
Shevlin and John McCarty. are saying
ugly things about Tammany and Mr..
Croker. They say Mr. Croker started
in from the day he went to Lakewood
to lay plans to make the Kings county
Democracy a branch of Tammany Hall.
AT their primaries they took prompt
means to stop that plan.
Bernard r. York, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee. was suspected of
being too friendly to Tammany and he
was not allowed to go back to the
county committee.
Thomas F. Byrne, friend of Mr.
Croker. and the first Brooklyn man to
go into the Democratic Club, lost his
district and will not go back to the
county committee.
To-day the Mclaughlin men claim
that their organization is stronger and
more compact than ever. Either former
Senator McCarty or Senator McCarren
will succeed York as chairman, and
there is no doubt that the delegates
from Kings will go where Mr.. Hill
wants them, unless Mr.. Croker can
head them off in some other way than
any so far tried. Greater New York