The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-16
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Breach Over Effort to Nominate Golfer
Grows Wider.
FOUGHT OVER W0mAN'S LOVE.
Residents OF Bath Beach Asitated
Over Report That Fitzsinmons is to
Reside There-Jockey Went to
Sea on 4 Horse and Drowned.

NEW YORK, August 15.-wider than
ever grew the breach in the Democratic
| party yesterday over the efforts of David
! B. Hill to nominate Controller Bird s.
| Coer for Governor, but the fight seemed
! 70 be going against the Controller
Hugh Mclaughlin. the aged leader of
| Kings county, whose delegates Will decide
whether or not Mr.. Coler is to be the can
didate. a JamespoEt yesterday made it
/ cle,r that ne would like to have Mr.. Coler
nominated ana believed that Coler would
/ be elected and could pull Bryan through
/ in New York.
A. tna same time he indicated that Kings
| county would not force Mr. Colers cand-
| dacy to the extent of breaking with
| Talnmany. This means that if Mr. Croker
| is not Induced 10 fight him Brooklyn is
+, likely to support some other candidate.
| In that event Coler is gone and Hill with
him, unless they so into the primaries to
! be held on August 18Th to elect State dele
gates and fight the NcLaughlin-Tamm
| combine.
| Mr.. Coler's friends hope that there will
| be such an irresistible demand for his NOM
| iration that Mr.. Croker and all his allies
will be forced to yield AMI consent TO his
nomination. They expect a demand from
all over the State-from New York city
| as well as from the rural counties. They
also expect pressure in Mr.. Coler'S behalt
from national Democrats.
1t Is reported from Saratoga that Rich
ard Croker has absolute assurance from
Kings county that the organization will
not break with him even for Coler.
THE E. Z. T. RAID.
Charles Thomas Davis, who is now in the
Tombs. pending the hearing of his appeal
from the sentence of three months i'm
D~ic npr,t md q fine of SoS0 GOQDtC-
ity in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit con-
spiracy, tells 4 remarkable story of mis-
part in the raid on the stock. Davis as
serts that he made S1G1.G1n out of the deal,
all without the aid of Cioslin. and without
violating the law. He also asserts that
the same operation turned 100000 into
the pockets of James r. keene. and about
100000 into those of we'll known Stand
ard Oil men.
Davis was full of a grievance yesterday
and that was the amount at which his bail
had been fixed. He is in the Tombs, I'M
able to raise $4,000 bail, while Goslin has
been released in $4,000.
Davis said that his new attorney, Am
brose Fl. Purdy, would soon apply for
writ of habeas corpus and get his bail re-
duced il the Supreme Court.
Seventy-one unfortunates have been
taken to New York's Marshalsea in Lld-
low street lDT lllIeDiSuueSS SlllCS july -t
Some have escaped after a few hours;
others have spent the long. hot miisum-
mer days in the courtyard of the Jail. in
cnmnanv with men charged with violations
OF the United States laws.
Poor fellows whose only offense has been
that they could not pay an instaiment due
on their furniture or on finery bought for
their wives are placed on a level with coun-
terfeiters and postal thieves
FOUGHT OVER WOMANS LOVE.
In hand-to-hand conflict. all the more
fierce because it's motive was jealousy,
John Carter and Hugh Carter, brothers,
cienchel and rollet! over and over off the
brow Of the Palisades on Monday evening
Hugh Carter fell hundreds of feet, and
was picked UP fatally injured at the foot
OF the cliff. John Carter saved himself
by hanging to a. shrub half way down and
although severely, but not seriously hurt,
will offer his hand to the pretty young
woman over whom they fought as soon
as he gets out Of the station house. where
the Police now have him locked up.
Bright eyes, sweet smiles and fluffy hair
belonging to a seventeeu-year-old little
beauty in West Hoboken have wrecked the
Carter family. One of the brothers fell
under the spell of this bewitchns belle
and was SO proud of the conquest he really
supposed he had made that ne introduced
the girl to his brother. Then she became
very uncertain. one day she thought she
liked Hugh better, and the next day she
was sure it was John. She was very
happy with either with the other brother
away
Homeward bound from Coney Island last
night crowded Brooklyn trolley car ran
down a truck, overturned it and threw the
driver and boy VINO rode beside him into
the street The boy was instantly killed
and driver probably mortaIy wounded.
The motorman. terrified at the result OF
his carelessness, sprang from the car the
moment he got it under control and dfsap-
peared.
The boy was Michael Griffin. He was
twelve years Old. Up TO a late hour last
night the police had not been able to learn
his address. The driver is John Deerfng.
twenty-one years old, of No. 81 Ferris
Street, Brooklyn. He was taken to the
Norwegian Hospital in a condition so crfti-
cal that it was impossible to question him
about the accident
WENT TO SEA ON A HOKSE.
Under peculiar circumstances John
Hooks, nineteen years old. jockey of
Baltimore. Md, in the employ OF HARDY
Druhan, was drowned at Coney Island
yesterday. He was swimming the race
horse Marito in the ocean when the ami
NAL became fractions and .nr-i.f LIo1Lyc