The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-26
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOT HAM.
Croker Received His Lieutenants at
the Democratic Club.
A CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Run Over by a Crowded Car on Borden
Avenuc-Woman Cuts Her Hus-
bands Throat and Then Fer
Own With a Razor.

+ NEW YORK, June 25-Speciaa.-RlchaE.d
Croker held high court at the Democra1lc
Club yesterday, being kept very BUSY re-
ceiving his lieutenants within the lam
many organization, accepting their reports
and giving orders He has not yet eA-
planned mis- intentions in regard to the re-
organization of the executive end OF IAN
many Hall, but says that he found alfa4fs
in much worse tangle even
than he had been given to IN
derstand existed before ne left the
other side. Rumors were many about
the Democratic Club last night, but con.
frmation could not be had for any OF
them. Perhaps the most persistent rll11lor
was to the effect that the Board OF PUBIC
Commissioners is TO be reorsaniZed with
new members to supplant President York
and Commissioner Abel. Mayor van
Wyck also comes in for a large snare OF
MIR. Croker's displeasure, but few peileve
that there is any possibility OF his being
called upon to resign.
CRUSHED UNDER CROWDED CAR.
While running across Borden Avenue
yesterday little Donate Camaldi. four-years
old, was crushed to death beneath a crowd
ed car. The child was killed before those
on board realized what had happened. Inc
crossing where the child was killed Is one
of the busiest in Long Island City, but 1t
IS not guarded by policeman.
The Manhattan Congregational Church
is to erect a new editice for worship on
Broadway, near Seventy-siXth Street. The
building will contain an auditorium, seat
ing about 900 persons, as we'll as rooms for
Sualday-school and other parish purposes.
CUT HUSBANDS THROAT
Adoplh Wolfe while taking a nap yester-
day, dreamed that he was chased by
fierce robbers in the mountains Of his ma
tive Roumazlia. He ran for his lifa and
the bandits followed He came to the
edge of a. precipice and attlnpted TO leap
across, but missed his footing and fell. He
was whirl1ig down into the abyss when he
caught his chin on a vine that stretched
across. The vine sawed his neck, while
he hung there until he could feel, to his
intense horror, the warm blood come. lie
awolse with a start and discovered that
his wife had cut his throat with razor
while ne slept. He ran into the street,
screaming and creating a great dead OF eX-
element A policeman went into the
room, where the assault was made, and
found Wolfe's wife lying on the sofa her
husband had just vacated with her throat
cut She admitted trying to kill her nus
band and had then attempted to take her
own life. she said that she and her nus
band had planned to commit suicide to-
gether, but at the last moment ne had re-
fused. She said that they were in stTSiten-
cd circumstances and she was tired of life.
About 1000 members of Christian En-
deavOr Societies will sail for Europe this
week and next. Their main object is to
attend the worlds Christian Endeavor
Convention, to be held in London, begin
ming July 18th, but they win also visit the
Paris Exposition and other points of inter
est. The Pennsylvania delegates, number
ing 500 will sail on the steamer Traye
July 7th.
SAID SPIRITS CHASED HER.
Mrs Fanny Senaner, forty-two years OF
age. a dressnakel, living at No. $50 Column
bia Avenue, has had some family trouble
brewing on her mind for quite a while.
Recently she has been complaining that
she has been greatly troubled by spirits
which were chasing Der. she went to the
West Sixty-eighth-Street Police Station
yesterday and told the sergeant there
about the spirits. AS the woman seemed
out of her mind it was thought best that
she be taken to Bellevue Hospital. On the
way there in a patrol wagon she kept cry
ing that spirits We're chasing her. She was
sent to the Insane Pavilion for eXamina-
ton as to her sanity
Tasn.nany Hall VITA hold its usual ceie-
bration of the Fourth of July, although
most of the big braves viii be in Kansas
City on that day. It is announced that
Michael ]. Ryan. of Philadelphia. will de-
liver the principal address.