The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-18
2ER EsH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM.
"A Poker Game n (which Million.
Changed Hands.
PORT oRlCo TARlF FsTo 3 EiTEsTED.
Death From Toothpiciz-I.awyer
Goes to Jail Rather Than Pay an
Excrbitant Bill-Newspaper
y Enterprise.
0ker Tame IN which z
Chan ed Hands.
PORT 0RlCO TARlFFSTO BETEsTEDS
Death From Toothpicl<--I4awyer
Goes Jail Rather Than Pay an

NEW YORK, March 17.-SpeciaL--The
Sun of this morning tells of a great game
of poker that was recently played In this
city between five Chicago men and a
New Yorker. THE game started week week
ago, when the Chicago men, who are m
terested in certain Industrial enterprises.
started out from the Windy City for New
York in a private car. II Is sara tn nat 4
the owner Of the car lost $500. coo at poker
on the trip. The game thus begun was
continued after the party arrived in New
York. and rumor Is that more than a
million dollars changed hands before
the game was concluded; thatsone OF the
players lost 100000, another. 5000. and
another s25O000. The names OF the men
are all known, but, Of course, are not
made public.
The New York Journal has undertaken
to test the Porto Rcan tariff bill II
announces to-day that Hon. David q.
Hill and the law firm OF Einstein &
Townsend have begun proceedings - on
behalf OF the Journal by which, they
hope the question as to whe tner or not
Porto Rico is a part of the United states
and whether or not its inha bitantsl are
entitled to all the rights. guaranteed py
the Constitution will be adjudfeated WITH
out delay in the United States supreme
Court
IT was mentioned yesterday that the
present crusade against vice would pro-
badly result in making trouble for ram
many. This is indicated Nm recent IN
terview with DR.. Parkhurst. Dr. park-
hurst believes that the present crusade
will quiet down and that all the gam ollns
dens will soon be running again, but ne
hopes that there will be an uprising OF
the people and that Tammany Will pc
driven out.
Eve are aiming" he said to-day. a
the system that underlies this matter.
and are endeavoring to break down the
machine. The powers will, of course,
drive some scapegoat into the wilder
ness Ut may, be Devery and It may DE
Thomas Devery lis specimen or colos-5
sal indscretion, and it may be that the
powers are going to substitute a shreWd-5
or and more dangerous man. The con-
sua1ation of this present agitation will
come later. when the men at the top
will be aimed at.
| BROTHDR-IN-LAWs TO HIS SON.
George III. Greed, member of the
Queens County Board of Supervisors, is
brother-in-law to his own son, having re-
Gently married the sister OF his sons
wife Since the marriage the Supervisor
and his son have been trying to figure
out what rela tionship they bear to each
other The conclusion arrived at Is
something like this:
While Greed Is brother-iE-law. to his
own son and father-in-law to his sister
in-law. his wife becomes mother-in-law
;.fa op al Stcfer-fn LAW
to her stepson. Should both couples have
children the relationship will be further
complicated.
The children of the elder Creed will be
both aunts and uncles to their cousins,
| the children of the younger Creed. Then
| the elder Creed and his wife will serve
| In the dual relationship of grandfather
| and grandmother and uncle and aunt to
young Creed's children. while young
Greed and his wife will be both uncle
and aunt to their own step-brothers and
sisters.
| Tiffany & Co. have made up their eN-.
hibit for the Paris Exposition. The value
of the collection, it is said is between
81, 5C0, 900 and $1,000, GOO. Siost5of the artis-
| tic designing was done under the personal
| direction of Pauldins Farnham- The ar
tistlc effect of some Of the vases and
trlnkets are remarkably fetching. Inc
| figures have been carved out of the solid
metals and not e st and then attached TO
the pieces, as is 90 frequently done.
JAIL RATHER THAN ExTORTIoN-
Edward ]. Burton, Brooklyn lawyer,
| was locked up in the police station on
! West ThirtIeth Street last night on the
complaint of restaurant keeper. Burton
| and a friend went into the restaurant
| and ordered steak with mushrooms "A
| bill for $3.50 was presented, which Burton
refused to pay, claiming that 1t was an
| overcharge The restaurant keeper, who
| was a woman, called a policeman. and
! Burton was arrested. In the Ponce
4 Court he said that his bill should have
/ been s1.35, and that he offered to pay
| that sum. but determined to go to prison
| rather than permit the eNtortton.
/ It is announced here that Mr.. Charles
/ F@rohman is to have q new theatre IN
/ London The site has been purchased.
| and he expects to have the new theatre
opened by the beginning Of next year.
| In the same connection it might be
mentioned that Mr.. Frohman has Sc
cured the, English rights for NJ. Edmond
i Rostand' s new play, IL Aislon," and Miss
tNaude adams will play the role here
which Nine Bernharat originated In
/ Paris.
/ The New York Times announces that
twill be published every day at the
Paris Exposition. twill appear there
in it's usual New York form. with eight
/ to ,thirty-two pages every day. and viii
/ be printed on a Goss press. The exhibit
will give a complete demons ira ton i OF.
the methods of publishing an American
/ newspaper.
KILLED ny A TooTHPIck.
! An autopsy was performed at Bellevue
Hospital yesterday on the body OF Peter '.r
/ A1cCue, who. while working as a street
i payer. was accidentally struck IN the
stomach by the iron he used for pound
/ ing cobbles.
The au topsy showed that at some time
in the forgotten past McCues had swal-
lowed a toothpick. and that the blow
/ from the iron forced the point OF the
toothpick through his stomach into his
mites tines thus causing an abscess and
peritonitis.
The Medical Board.
Alexandra Va. March s. 1866
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