The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-20
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A Preacher Wins Suit Against His
Church.
REED ADMITTED TO THE BAR.
Girls Arrested for Dancing on the
streets-Mrs. Benedict Again -
Bride - George DAILY Scores
Richard Croker.
REED ADMITTED TO THE BAR.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19-SpeciaI.-In ac-
cepting the Republican nomination for
Supreme Court Justice former Judge DAILY
made a severe attack upon Richard Crok-
or. He said:
Il accept the nomination now rendered
me, with the assurance that it means
an earnest effort to free our city from
the grasp Of a power which has prac-
ticaly destroyed our political institutions
and substituted the will OF one man for
the Will Of the people. There is no need
to rehearse the discreditable catalogue OF
Ills from which we suffer. 1t seems IN
credible that, with so much that is good,
honest, charitable pure and brave among
US, we should continue 10 suffer such
Ills. IL should be inconceiyable that any
man should be permitted by the simple
scheme Of using votes as an industry. 10
hold the purses and property of the whole
community as his personal emolument.
IL is even more astonishing that when
the remedy is in the hands Of the citizens
when he has only TO register and vote
in order to regain control Of his govern
mcnt and rule his municipal servants.
instead OF being ruled by thein-that any
should be found SO slothful or negligent
as TO refrain from that slight cXertion
10 preserve his rights"
DR.. POTTER WINS.
Rev d. G. Potter. who sued the New
York city Baptist Missionary Society for
10000 damages for being elected from
the parsonage Of the Tabernacle I'm Sec
oud avenue. Of which he was formerly the
head. obtained to-day a verdict for $500.
John r. Parsons, on behalf Of the socie-
~. moved for a new trial
Real estate belonging to the late Amos
r Emo Was disposed OF at auction yester-
day, the amount OF sale being S2.oo0000
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.
Adolph Lebes, a furrier. yesterday com
mitted suicide in his store. No. 98 Greene
street II was apparent that he went 10
the store with his mind made up 10 take
his life. After looking through his mail
he went into the basement. tore his shirt
from his breast. and fired three bullets
into the region OF the heart When found
by a friend just before ne expired he
said. you never thought this, my boy,
but you never knew what troubles / have
had for the last few years" lie left
letter for his family but the contents
were not made public.
Henry Frohman. father Of the theatrical
managers, Charles and Daniel Frohman,
IS dead.
The Society FOR the Prevention OF Crime
has arrested two girls for dancing on the
street. IL had become a practice IN New
York for organ grinders to employ girls
from fourteen to sixteen years Of age
10 follow them around and engage IN inn
modest dancing on the street IN order
10 attract a crowd. The Society for the
Prevention Of Crime determined to put
a stop to the evil practice and hence the
arrests
MR.. ROBERTS GIFT
Congre sman-elect Roberts, OF Utah.
who is soiourning I'm this city, received
news the other day that one or his better
halves. Mrs. Roberts No. 3 had presented
him with a boy. a brother 20 the famous
twins. Air Roberts declined 90 discuss
the new arrival as a political factor.
The wedding Of Mrs. Howard r. Bene-
dict and Rufus Billings COwing, Jr., son
OF Justice Rufus b. Cowing. was quietly
celebrated yesterday afternoon al Sher-
rvs The bride is a daughter Of Col.
Harlan PAGE Lloyd. OF Cincinnati. She
married Howard r. Benedict on March
g. 1897. he was then very ill Of typhoid
fever and died a few hours after the we'd
ding at his rooms In the Seventh Regi-
ment Veteran Club.
John BOrkowich is Of the opinion that
am empty whlskey barrel is more danger
Gus than barrel fun OF whskey. AT his
apartments on Metropolitan avenue yes
terday he inserted a lighted taper through
the bung hole 10 see III the barrel was
clean. There was a terrific explosion,
caused by the ignting of accumulated
gases BorkOwich was burned and hurled
across the room, his wife and infant child
were stunned, his furniture was broken
into splinters and the house was set on
fire.
Father Bill Dicey" q well-known cab
man Of this city who has been driving
ever since the war Between the States,
is dead His special patrons were MEM
beers OF the Knickerbocker and Metropol-
itan Clubs.
A NEW WEAPON.
The police recently found in the coat
lining of a notorious criminal a remarka-
BILE weapon as deadly as it is insignlh-
cant looking. II is thus described;
The origin Of this deadly implement was
an ordinary hypodermic syringe. 1t is
the hypodermic syringe adapted TO crime.
The slender hollow needle with which
the puncture is made and the drug in
iected I'm ordinary use is made into "A sort
OF tiny blow-pipe dart which. when the
piston is pressed. will fly for a distance
of several feet with sufficient force 90
puncture the flesh and remain buried In
the almost imperceptibe wound it makes.
It's hollow core is large enough 10 carry
sufficient quantity Of a drug 20 cause
speedy Inconsistencies or death itself.
Pressed against a PERSONS arm or leg or
body in a crowd and the piston showed
hard the deadly dose would go through
any ordinary thickness Of clothing and
carry its fatal dose deep into the flesh.
Commissioner Lantry, Dr. Campbell OF
the prison medical corps. and a number
Of experts in criminal devices have exam
ined the weapon. and all pronounced It
not only something new in the implements
OF crime but something more deadly I'm
its possibilities than they have ever seen.
LAWYER REED.
The Hon. Thomas 3. Reed. ex-Speaker
OF the House Of Representatives, was add
mitted 10 the bar OF the State Of New
York Yesterday Gen. Thomas n. Hub
bard moved in the Appellate Division Of
the Supreme Court that Mr. Reed be adj
mitted 10 the bar. Justice Van Brunt
administered the oath 70 Mr. Reed and
maid him the compliment OF receiving
H.. ,vftho,tt suhfaetfng him 10 the usual