The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-01
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Hill VIII Accept No Compromise
Without Co!er's Nomination.
BAREFOOT BURGLAR" BURIED.
Republicans DON'T Take Kindly to
Suggestion of Woodruff for Lieu
-Governor-Wonan Tries
10 kidnap Her Children.
BAREFOOT BURGLAR" BURIED.

| 10 hluudp f1cr SnllUfens
NEW YORK, August 3l.-Jotln B.
S1anchtield, of Elmira, is still the choice
| of the Croker-Murpny faction Tor Gov
ernor.
William F. Mackey, Of Buffalo, IS slated
! for second place on the ticket, WITH the
! consent of his friends.
David 3. Hill will present Controller Co
| ler's name to the State Convention Tor
| Governor and will accept no compromise
| except on the basis of Coler's nomination
These are the facts of the Democratic
| facuonal situation, in spite OF denIais, III
I spite of the fact that Fries delegates are
| pledged to Mackey for first place. and
notwiths landing Stanchtield's assertion that
he could not take a nomination WITHOUT
Hills consent, and that his friendship for
Mr.. Hill is undiminished.
Mr. Croker and Mr.. Murphy. having cap
tured a majority OF the delegates to the
| State Convention, arc now looking for an
| I'D State candidate who is willing to stand
| and who can enter the ring against Coler
without riskng individous comparison. They
i have encountered a difficulty in the tact
that nearly all the eligible material Is IN
| the Hill corral.
! There has been some talk OF making
| Judge D. Cady Herrick, OF Albany the
|
| Judge Herrick the nomination two years
! ago, and the Judge, after considering for
fortv-eight hours declined. He would have
! to resign from the bench in order to be-
| come a candidate, and it is not believed
| that he would sacrifice five years of his
| term to run this year.
| TRIED TO KIDNEAP HER CHILDREN.
| Mrs Thomas H. Watson, of this city,
| who, in company with q Count was
| found by her husband in a hotel at Point
| Pleasant N j. on Wednesday, made
bold attempt yesterday afternoon to Kid
nap her two children, VITO have been living
with their father at Highland Beach, n.
Mr.. Watson left Highland Beach yester-
day morning as usual for his place of
business at No. 1862 Broadway. About noon
the nurse took the two children to the
beach for their morning bath AS they
were coming out of the water. a closed
carriage drove up in front of the bathing
pavilion. Mrs. Watson. who had arrived
only a short time before by TRAN. alishted.
and taking both Of the children. hurried
them up the beach. placed them in the
carriage and started away before the as
tonisletl nurse could make any attempt to
stop her
AS soon as she realized that her charges
were gone, the nurse appealed to the near
est man, VINO happened to be Albert Reilly,
Gle. Reilly started in pursuit and overlook
the carriage between Nornandie-b blythe
Sea and Navesink.
The Republican managers in Brooklyn
don't appear to take kindly to the susSes-
ton that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Woodruff
might be placated by again getting the
second place on the State ticket Chair
man Walter B. Atterbury said: Under
no circumstances do T believe Mr. Woodruff
would accept the nomination for Leuten-
ant-CfoVernor. again.
No factional Ill-feeling has cropped out
as a result of the primaries, and all sides
are now looking forward to a rafting
campaign in which the Republican forces
will be solidly lined up. The machinery.
however. will not be fully started until
after the State Convention. These are
the most promising candidates for the Con-
gresss nominations: Second District, Her
bert V. Ketcham: Third District, Magts-
Harry Hamburg; Fifth District Jacob
Worth: Sixth District. Bert Reiss.
CROKER-HILL HORNETS NEST.
William J. Bryans Eastern campaign
managers have no sooner arrived IN the
city than they find themselves involved
in the Croker-Hill hornets nest. They
had been warned in advance of
the delicacy of the Democratic
situation, but their diplomacy did
not save them from the fractional gridiron.
They began by visiting the Croker-AIur-
ply anti-HilI headquarters. in the Hoff-
man House, before they went to the regu-
lar State headquarters. in the ST. James
| building, where Hill sentiment is In the
ascendant. Arthur P. German and James
ID. Richardson were closeted with Mr..
Croker and Mr.. Murphy. when Daniel j.
iCampau. desiring to join them, asked
where they were.
He was informed that they were "at
- YJ1l-
| to see Chairman Campbell. of the State
Committee Mr.. Campau FASTENED 10 the
ST. James building and was usherrd into
Mr.. CampbellS room. When he found only
Mr. Campbell there he looked blank and
made a motion if to retreat, but it was
too late.
SLOW do you do. Mr.. Campau?" said
| Mr.. Campbell, who knows the Michigan
leader well, having served four years
with him on the National Committee.
Glow do you do Mr.. Campbell?" said
RIr. Campau, shaking the chairman's ex-
tended hand.
"Have a chair said Mr.. Campbell. and
! then, by way of opening the conversation,
| he added:-..'Well, have you elected Bryan
yet?"
| 81 see you are busy" replied Mr.. Cam
! pau, rising hurriedly-
I'm not too busy to talk to my friends
said Mr.. Campbell, in surprise. St
| down"
.No,'' said Mr. Campau. 81 can see that
| you are a very busy man. Good day.
| and he boted out of the headquarters.
THE BAREFOOT BURGLAR
| In suicides grave in the Potter's Field
| of Tarrytown was buried yesterday John
Hammond, the barefoot burglar OF
! Mount Vernon. who is believed TO have
! been Frank Sturgis. Harvard man, the
| misled son of wealthy Boston family.
Detectives last night searched the rooms
! in West Thirty-fourth Street that had
| been occupied by Grace Lester. Ham
! nond's sweetheart, hoping to find there
| evidence that it was she who had con-
veyed to him the morphine that enabled
| him to escape the ten years imprisonment
awaiting him.
Miss Lester did not appear at the funeral.
An undertaken and two grave d!gsers OF
| the dead wagon conveyed the unmourn-
| ed suicide to a pauper's grave E,lo OFT,
made to serve subpoena to attend ths
! inquest upon Miss Lester were unsuccess-
full.
Miss Lester had not visited Hammond no
for threa weeks and was out OF the cry