The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-24
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Comptroller CoIer is Gaining Strength
Every Day.
MISS LETTER HAS RETURNED.
Slow Detectives and Sly Burglars.
No Clue as Yet TO the Latest
Murder Myssery-nsrs. Bel
mCnt's Charity,
MISS LETTER HAS RETURNED.

NEW YORK, August 2j.-A1r. Bird s
Cole. is gaming IN strength every day. Last
n-gat he was assured ttlat tue kings couil-
- Democratic leaders, who have opposed
his nomination for Governor, were now
CONVINCED that Democratic sentiment was
too strong TO be resisted, and that tue
s.xty-tlreo delegates IRON. brooklyn would
be Unanimous tor nm IN the convention.
IHIf.ILL-lNC: PE1ftt'UtlAiANCE.
Miss Gayyoi, All aeroaaut, invuuntarHy
gave u tnrIlHns paAoon performance at
onion HUI, y. j., yesterday. She IS
daring performer, ana until yesterday mad
met with no accident. IL her custom
to ascend 20 height Of about five hundred
feet ana then descend on q lgh. trapeze
hung from parachute.
Her parachute became entangied in the
ropes vi the balloon gas Dag yesterday, anc
as the airShip scared towards cioudIaud the
thousands OF spectators saw her Strus-
Cling tranticdlly to untasten it. 1t seemed
TO them that me performer would certainly
die above the clouds.
But, in the efforts to loosen the para
chutc, Miss Gty!or accidentally tore d
great hole in the gas bag OF the balloon.
Had It not been Tor strong west vino
winch carried the swiftly ta4AnS oaiioon'
INFO the river, the woman. life wouio nave
been dashed out il the violent 4Sihu1i7.
AS she shot downward the Spectators
groansu IL sympathy Several "oi1t91-
tainted.
\ cheer went up from tho fnrohS 49,
the balloon Lightly landed on me "e'tei'
and n few minutes later four or five men
VINO mad besn near the point ot landing II
rowboats. cur Mss Gaylor loose from the
meshes OF the balloons ropes ana eaHt.eu
her ashore. She was badly schoched ana 1
little bruised and scatched, out not Sc
riously hurt 1t is said she VIII recover
from the shock.
Detectives saw four crooks enter whole
sale bakery on Fifth Avenue night be-
fore last. The detectives awaited outside
ali night for the thieves to come out, and
tho next morning it was found that the
thieves had scaled a fence and gotten into
the bakery thrca5h a broken rear window.
rhe5 found the safe unlocked and helped
themselves to its contents. They were
caught later after a long search.
HOME FROM INDIA.
Miss Nancy Letter, of Chicago, who has
been absent for eighteen months visiting
her sister, Lady Curzou, wife of the Vice
roy Of India, returned yesterday
she brought with her eleven trunks
stored with nnery from the Jar East. Sae
was met al The pier by her brother, Joe,
and drove with him to the Waldorf-Asto-
been engaged for her.
Miss Mamie Letter, her brother, Mrs.
L. L. Letter, and her sister, Daisy. sailed
for Europe in February, 1885,. Proceeding
to London, MIS- Letter and her daughter
spent several weeks with the family OF
Lord CurzJn, who had then been but re-
Gently appointed V:ceroy Leaving their
mother in England the girls sailed tor
Bombay whence they were officially es-
corted TO SiInIa, where the VLceroy then
was, and there they met their sister, Lady
Curzon.
Miss Letter will remain in New York for
four or five days, and will then so 10
Chicago.
WaiI Street puts little credenca in the
story that comes from London cha- Russia
is arranging with American insurance COM
panies for Dig loan. The Equitable and
New York Life Companies are ALREADY
large holders Of Russian securities, and
Russia's credit is undoubtedly high More
over, q representative OF tbs leading pank
in st. Petersburg was recently IN th!S city
Nevertheless, so far as IS known there Is
thought to be no likelihood OF any such
loan as is reported namely. SlSt,o0oot9-
MURDER MYSTERT UNSOLN Ed.
Up to this time the Kate Scharn murder
mystery is as far as ever from being
solved, and the police have lost the one
thread that promised TO lead 10 something
tangible.
The frecked man in gray" is myth
so far as his having accompanied the girl
on q buying expedition TO I. dry-soods store
is concerned,
Fannie Burke, shopmate and churn
of Katie Scharn, in the Eagle Pencil Com
pany's factory, told the police to-day that
She was with Katie on Saturday afternoon,
and they went uptown shopping through
the stores. In the evening Miss Scharn
said she was going home, and Mss Burke
never saw her again.
Police Inspector Harley says that the
dead girls brother, Frederick, who IS still
held or suspicion. is an '.unmitigated liar"
He learned to-day that the watch which
vounS Scharn pawned on August Sd was
rot his sisters but was one stolen on Au-
gust LIST from Mrs. Annie kehoe. OF No
61l Second Avenue. He discovered in the
box in which he found the pawn ticket a
full set OF ivory coverings for piano keys.
The foreman OF kranich & Bach's piano
factory, where the Scharn boy worked,
identified the set, and asserted il had been
stolen.
Charles jacobson fell from q scaffolding
Yesterday while working on the addition
10 Mrs O. H. F. BeImou.'s country house
near Hampstead, and received a serious in
Jury to his spine. Mrs. Belmont had him
sent 10 her private ward in Nassau Hos
pttal at her own expense, and he VIII be
treated IN the same way that Walter Dur
yea was treated, in the hope OF restoring
him to health.