The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-31
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Hill and CoIer |gnominiousIy Defeated
by Croker.
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An Uncle of the Late vice-President
Killed Himself from GrieGBody OF
Man Weighted With Flat
Irons Found in tho Bay
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NEW YORK, August .2e--Richnrd Croher
is master of the Democratic organization
in this State Unless some OF the men
who are now his allies desert him before
the State Convention meets IN SaratoS1
on September 11th, he Will name the ota.e
ticket regardless of the wishes OF DAVID
E.. Hill. Coler's candidacy has gone down
with Hill.
1t requires 226 votes to control the STATE
Convention. Neither Croker nor Hill VIII
have this number without the siXty-tnree
votes of Kings county, which is controlled
absolutely by Hugh Mclaughlin. who al
lowed his lieutenants to make an alliance
with Croker, and his votes are now count
ed in. the Croker column, giving the TAM
many chief more than $50 delegates III the
convention.
Mclaughlin himself however, has not
declared his position, and there is PROB
ability that he may in the end take up
Coer. He is in a position to dictate
neither to Croker nor to Hill. He VIII
probably make the best terms he can 1or
Brooklyn without offending Tammhny 10
the point of open rupture
HILL HAS NOTHING TO GIVE.
Croker as the dispenser of Greater Ne"
4orkss patronage, holds the WHIP ose'
Kings, while Hill has nothing TO give.
Hills friends are saying that ne So"
fall. When Brynn and the Croker state
ticket have been defeated, they declare
he Will turn upon Croker and drive MIN
from his stronghold here.
Croker declares that he has no canot-
date for Governor. The HUI men say lAdI
whoever he dominates Will be beaten.
Grief over the death of his wife made
William Winters, of kearny, y. j., an
uncle of the late Vice-Presdent Garret
A. Hobart, crazy, and yesterday ne Jump
ed out of a second-story window OF his
home. No. 26 Kearny Avenue, fracturins
his skull and dying almost instantly. Mrs.
Winters died on Monday after a weeks
illness. Mr. Winters was Seventy-SiX
yenrs old. The bodies of the old couple
were buried in one grave in Fairmount
Cemetery yesterday afternoon. They had
no children and lived entirely alone.
WEIGHTED WITH IRONS.
The body of a man, probably forty-two
years old, weighted down with two flat
irons, was taken from the bay to-day.
Letters in the pockets Of the clothing
bore the address of A. ]. Rank:ne, No.
15 Dundas Street, Grangemouth, Scot
land; James Rankne, No. 50S Walnut
Street, West Bay City, Mich, and No 1113
Vine Street, Philadelphia.
On slips of paper were the addresses
of the Diamond Storage Company Nos
1U2-1tS Diamond Street, Philadelphia. and
Walter Batenan. No. 66 Van Dyke Street,
Brooklyn, n. Y.
1t was discovered that the body was
that of James Rankne, a shipwright,
formerly of Bay City, Mich, and later
of Brooklyn AT Bay City when strike
was organized Rankine refused to go out
with the other men. When he got work
in Brooklyn men who were his shopmates
in the West recognized him and caused
him trouble This made him leave and he
got work at the Seabury yards at Morris
Heights, n. Y. Two weeks ago he came
back to Brooklyn for his clothes and Wal
ter Bateman. his Brooklyn employer, sup
posed he hnd returned to New Jeresy. Mr..
Bateman has a suspicion that Rankine
was murdered.
Richard Croker to-day denied a report
that he intended to go on the stump dur
ing the campaign. II am not stump
speaker" he said, 'nnd couldn't make
/ speech before big audience if I tried;
SO they need not expect to see me go into
the spell-binding business. I wish I were
a speaker. so that I could go out and tell
the people all about the trusts"
julius Steger, light opera tenor. who has
long been looked upon as a confirmed
oacheior, now turns out to have been
married for the last fourteen wears. The
first tidings of his marriage came to his
friends yesterday In the report that his
wife had obtained a divorce from him
somewhere in the West.