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New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
SCRANTON STRIKERS AHEAD.
THEY SUCCEED IN KEEPING MOST OF THE MEN
FROM WORKING.

Scranton. Penn, Dec. 25-Owing to the success
full work of the scouts of the striking men, ten
OF the thirteen men brought on from Syracuse n.
Y. to take their places were sent home to-day,
and two others induced to quit and agree
not to go back to work One of them was willing
to leave town, but refused to accept money from
the strikers. He said he would walk every step to
Syracuse before taking money out of the strikers
treasury. He also said he told that there was
strike here, and that if things were not salts
factory when he arrived here he would receive his
fare home. The twelfth decided to stay and
secure other work. The other could not be
corralled by the scouts
Three new were brought in from Syracuse
won over by the strikers. The other was kidnapped
by burly striker. who made overzealous by
drink He was bodily taken from a barroom TO
strike headquarters, and became badly fright
ened that he not only agreed to quit the city, but
gave the committee Sc by way of a thank offering
for not killing him
Only two cars were run in the whole county to-
day. One of these, which Superintendent Pat
terSon was motorman ran off the track at IL
O'CLOCK, ana was so badly damaged il had to be
taken TO the barn. No other sent to re-
cars was taken in and housed.
General Manager Sillman was not downcast by
the successes OF the strikers in converting his
CT IS. he says he can get all the he wants
other cities VIII be cut down and hundreds of men
become idle.
This evening forty men were brought up from
New YORK 10 take the streetcar strikers places.
pected tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
BLAZE IN 4 BOWERY MUSIC HALL.
BARTENDER-OTHERs TAKEN
DOWN A LADDER.

Fire broke out at performance last night in
the Manhattan Music Hall, Nos. 104 and 106
Bowery, which is run by Alderman Frederick F.
Fleck. The ushers quickly opened all the doors,
and that prevented any ones being seriously in
jured in the rush that the panic stricken crowd
made to get out.
4 song and dance couple had just finished their
scene, and Frank Cassidy who does a bag
punching act, just coming on the stage
when, without warning, the flames burst through
the floor in the centre Of the hall. In a moment
the place was filled with smoke. Cassidy tried
TO continue his act and called to the people that
there was danger, but they paid no heed to
him.
Seven or eight women performers were back
on the stage. with no way to get out. Jack
Martin, the bartender, who weighs about three
hundred pounds, helped them out through a
window and down a ladder. He was overcome
by heat and smoke. It was some time before
his friends could revive him.
The building is also used as hotel and in the
parlor on the second floor were Mrs. Fleck, Mrs
Keely and Mrs. Bertha Lloyd. Patrolman Cav
anaugh made his way to them through the
flames and smoke. Mrs. Fleck refused TO go out
till the patrolman promised to rescue her two
little black and tan dogs. The women were
helped down a ladder which the fremen had put
up in the front Of the building. The patrolman
followed down the same ladder with the two
dogs under his arms.
The walls of the building were not much dam
aged, but the floor burned away, and the
fixtures and furniture were destroyed.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TRACING CUDAHY KIDNAPPERS.
HORSE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN USED BY
THEM FoUND-sTATEMENT BY MR.. cUpAHY.

HORSE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN USED BY
THEM FoUND-sTATEAENT BY MR. CUDAHY
Omaha, Dec 25-Another important deveIopment
in the Cudahy kidnapping case has been reported
to the police in the discovery in a barn near Pa
ciflc Junction, Iowa, twenty-five miles south and
just across the river, of pony answering the de-
scription of the ridden by one of the alb
ductors 1t was left there apparently by some
agent Of the fugttives The saddle was in a neigh
boring barn and pair of trousers in the shed
in which the pony had been abandoned e A
Cudahy, in speaking of the case last night, said:
There important DEVELOPMENTS but for
ton. The detectives have found clews that
seem to point in the right direction. l think the
discovery OF the lantern which marked the place
The lantern has been identified by Pat McGraw,
who was with when 1 deposited the money. A
more important clew. however will be in hand
on the night of the kidnapping. A horse answering
the description has been picked up near Pacific
If this proves to be the horse used by the kid
nappers il ought to aid
The published story that there were only two
men implicated in the crime is incorrect, because
two men were in the buggy that carried off my boy
and third followed horseback. Ny son
thinks he could identify only one of the kid
house. This man talked a great deal and Eddie
thinks he could identify him by his voice.
1 received a letter this morning and another this
tells me that the men who did the kidnapping are
not in Omaha; that we are on the wrong track
altogether. These letters written the letter
paper of the Windsor Hotel. Of Omaha. and posted
from Cincinnati. The writer makes attempt tC
open negotiations with me for the disclosure of
written to divert from the right track. We
shall not pay any attention TO these letters
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
INSURANCE SOCIETY BURGLARY.
DISCHARGE OF EMPLOYEES FROM THE
PRovIDENT SAVINGS DIscLosEs
A SECRET.

The discharge of two employees of the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance Society on charges
of giving confidential information to rival
company has disclosed burglary in the ONCE
of the company which has heretofore been kept
secret
1t was learned yesterday that about four
months ago several desks in the office were
broken open and their contents searched. In
desk which had not been looted was several
thousand dollars detective at once en-
ployed and put on watch at O'Clock each af-
ternoon, or at the close of business.
It was suspected at the time that the act had
been committed by employees Of the company, as
the work appeared 10 have been done by those
familiar with the place. The recent discovery
that several clerks had been disposing of conn-
Dental information has tended still further to
confirm the suspicion Extra vigilance on the
part of the company's officers is known TO have
been tcken.
Edward W. Scott president OF the company,
admitted yesterday that the burglary had oeen
committed but said that he did not believe it
had any thing to do with the breaches or trust
on the part of the two employees the names of
whom he withheld
Mr. Scott is carefully investigating the case
of these two men, 1t is believed that this in
curry is likely to implcate others higher in
authority in the company. The men discharged
have had access 10 many Of the books OF the
company and lists of present and prospective
policy holders passed through their hands. The
men are believed to have thus acted spies
not at present say that if the guilt of those
under suspicion proved he would turn them
over to the police.
the New-York Life Insurance Building, at No.
346 Broadway
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
WHOCAN CARRY NEW YORK
,fr7sT THE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR NEG
ESSARILY BE A REPUBLICAN
OR INDEPENDENT?

One of the noticeable facts about The Tribune
canvass for the Mayoralty is the NUMBER OF
democrats who are being put forward for the
anti-Tammany nomination. John D. Crimmlns
is TOO well known TO require any comment
Mr.. Fairchild, Hugh ]. Grant Mr.. Robo, MI
Hopper Henry d. Purroy, John c. Sheehan aho
MANY other men who have served in the Demo
cratic ranks for a generation are put tor"aFo
by many people as their idea of the only klhu
of man who can rout the hosts OF Tammahy
at a popular election. The Tribune allows the
utmost freedom of suggestion and discussion IN
this canvass, and we think we have done the
public a service already by bringing out the
names of so many excellent citizens ana set
ting the town to thinking.
Arguments pro and con are invited from ali
who can aid the city to thorough understand
ine of the merits of the different leaders.
Seth Low has now received 5,o06 Of the first
choice votes.
All names are now omitted from the pun
Iisbed list except those for which nj iehst
= h.Ilots have been east and those Which
onpear i'm the canvass for the first time. "A
oompIete record Will be kept, however, anu
All names viii be gazetted as soon as they
have received ballots.
MAYORALTY VOTE BY EVENING OF
DECEMBER "A.
The following table shows the results OF the
bauoting so far:
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WREcK

The body Of the woman who met death Monday
night in a collision between two trolley cars in
Brooklyn was still unidentified at late hour last
night Mrs. Maggie Frawley, of No. 152 North
Ninth-st, called at the Bedford-aVe station house
last night and said that she believed the dead wo
an was her sister, Mary Devlin. Her sister had
been employed as nurse in an asylum at Amitv-
vile, Long Island. Mrs. Frawey was told to go to
the Morgue.
It was said at the Eastern District Hospital last
night that the condition Of the two women. Mrs
Elizabeth Warren and Mrs. Emily Tommenan who
were injured by the collision was unchanged.
John Pagan and Benjamin Allen, the notorrnen
who We're in charge of the two wrecked cars were
srraignec yesterday in the Lee-aVe police court
1t was brought out that Allen entirely Innocent
ano that ne should never have been arrested
Magistrate Kramer adjourned the hearing pending
the action OF Coroner Delap.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
OFFERINGS AT THE STORES

JOHN WANAMAKER, Broadway, Fourth-ave
Ninth and Tenth SITS. viii display to-day the nsu,
cottons for 1901 in great quantities and lavish W.
rlety: cloth and velour women's capes at reduca5
ptlcss ana an assorted line of Office furniture in
eluolng cutter desks at special prices ~
STERN BROTHERS. West rwentv.,h,ra..
oegin their annual sale Of household linens -
ary z They will accept for a limited period or1e-s
tor ! tsllor made gowns. reception dinner ana 49,,
ihg costumes at reduced prices anu even
TIE GEORGE c. FLINT COMPANY, Nos A *
weathered oak and mahogany tr o1a ~a 10
e fofape Sapnets desks odd chairs and other srfs
SEtLL . sixth-ave. Twentieth to Twen+v-o-s,
,1s 'o-oAy ihe semi-annual sale Of wonoan,s
Forn1i NJ uloe5 wear az low prices The new "Trra.t
Frencb cout1i Gotssts are also offered in inport5
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN, Tribune 0ffiaa, Ha#-Yak.

in the city of Brooklyn no public officer IN nv
opinion. has more faithfully discharged his duties
It seems to me that the citizens who have the
best interests Of city at heart wnetner OF MS
party or not will acknowledge that Mr.. Low won
the esteem OF the people of Brooklyn for his faith
full conscientious service during both Of the terms
he held the Mayoralty.
Were he made Mayor of New-York City
believe he would use his influence and authority
for the uplift of the city government. irrespec-
tive Of any advice or nducement offered or forced
upon him by any so-called legal advisers
Mr.. Low has proved himself to be an honest, uIl-
selfish loyal citizen, one in whom We may safely
place our trust, confident that he Will DO all IN
his power to further our best interests.
Many will agree with me in the opinion that ne
did more than any other man to hasten the
completion Of the Brooklyn Bridge.
II would crafty greatly to have him be-
''-o ROGER B TOwNER.
Brooklyn Dec. o. 1900
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
POLICY DOES NOT SWAY CRANE

IN the Editor OF TIE Tribune
Sir. 7 am much interested in your movement TO
obtain the popular view on available Mayoralty
candidates 1 am in favor OF Judge Leroy b.
Crane. I know his public career we'll AS an ola
resident of Harlem I have been In close touch
with all his movements. 1 recall the time wheh
he oreanized the Young Mems Republican Clup OF
Harlem when he declared his political indepeno-
ence when he had the courage Of his convlcuons
and d1rod maintain them. 1 remember when ne
ran as an independent candidate for Assembly on
nIatform of political integrity and was vtcto-
rfous remember how he defeated both the reg
Mar Republican and Democratic nominees. nave
not forgotten his magnificent fight and the glory
of his victory Press and public were in sympathy
with him. I know of his true party loyalty, not
withetanding his attitude at that time. He was
subseouentIy nominated by these when he ap-
neared for the office OF State Senator, He was
respected even by his opponents for his manly
frht and for the fearlessness with which he en-
tered into it He is with his organization when
it is right and against it when it is wrong. He
commends and applauds the right and as ag-
gressively does he condemn and oppose the wrong.
With him it is always matter of principle. Fol
lev does not sway his cause. His course IS always
a straightforward one for the public welfare.
AS Mayor of this city he would give US a clean,
sesses all the qualities that go TO make up re-
liable nd intelligent executive official His candi-
dacy would insure not only the solid Republican
vote but the votes of thousands Of appreciative
Democrats JOHN H. ANDREWS.
NeW-York, Dec %, 1900
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
IMPROVED WAY TO MAKE WHITE LEAD
From The London Daily News

professor Gustav Bischof formerly profAssor "a
6een al Gao Gasgow University has for years
Iaeturing white lead which differs from All 'ra nr
atots t patents and which, from points of heaitb
9paH6y and rapid production claims to eciinse @
css lining OF the sort hitherto obtained The pro
WaSPe sPeTimental works established in Hythe Road
Lead lSeh i+ Junction, consists in the Conversion of
SS1SPnsfe; The oxide of lead is then ground in
usspIool mill and Is next converted into tbe -.
oHlee OF Lead by heating II to temners+ ~ suo-
TrTdIly rei 3oo degrees c in current Of Water OF
1bor oonlc oxide and some carbonc acid The eron
vaIo+s ar5 ~ carried continuously by dustproof ein
orsd nG 5ne snnoxde escapes below When the T
If is Oh tne sub-oxide has been collected
place. 'N ~ yu'atloh nave taken
we nave II on the authority of Professor Rs,,s.,
rao @ IL Is not INJURIOUS to the health of the vgnri
70 nr6itarS ~ Its manufacture; that il is enIsI
nyoS,naS Duteh white lead. and that il can he
p'0uuceo al considerable profit ' oe
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
SIK MEN ASSAULT BARKEEPER.

he rs PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS IN THE STREET
CONDITION SAID TO BE CRITICAL
Dr.. William Cornish of Ninety-second-st. and
Fort Hamilton-ave.. Brooklyn, found an uncon-
scious early yesterday at Ninety eighth-st. and
Fort Hamilton-ave. There was a cash over the
mans right eye. The doctor took him home, and
after two hours succeeded in reviving him. He said
he was Patrick Reilly, bartender. employed in
the Dewey Hotel, near where he found, and
that about midnight a man named Pander ran into
the place crying that a mob was after him.
Pander hid In the closet just before six rushed
in Reilly tried to quiet them and treated the
crowd. They kept shouting for Pander, however,
and finally Reilly ordered TWO of them out of the
place. Then he assaulted
Reilly was removed to the Norwegian Hospital in
a critical condition, il is said. The police were
notified. and Peter McGoyn, of Eighty min III st.
and Fifth-ave., and William Haines, of Ninety
hfth-st and Fort Hamilton-ave., were arrested and
locked up in the Eighty-sixth-st. station house.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
DIES WHILE FRIENDS WAIT FOR EER.

M-s1c TEACHER. APPARENTLY IN GOOD HEALTH.
WAS TO PARTARE OF CHRISTMAS DINNER.
Mrs. Ada Benedict Gray, music teacher who
for the last two years had boarded with Mrs
John p Ludeman in Greenburg-aye, White
Plains was found dead in her room at noon
yesterday. A few moments before she died she
sitting in the parlor OF the house talking
70 several young women. She said she would
retire TO her room and return in few moments
10 partake Of the Christmas dinner.
A half hour passed, and when Mrs. Gray did
not appear cne Of the party ran to her room.
She tapped on the door and, receiving no answer,
entered Mrs. Gray lay upon her bed dead.
Mrs. Gray forty-eight years old, and a
widow. Her husband was a New-York business
man. Coroner Birch will hold an inquest Mrs
Gray's death probably resulted from heart fail
IRE
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
sUN4rRA TOBACCO IN CONNECTICUT
GROWN UNpER SHADE AT PROFIT OF 800 AN
ACR-PosSIBILITT OF SAVING THE
MILLIONS SENT ABROAD

Washington. Dec 25--Nilton Whitney. chief Of
the Division Of Soils in the Department Of Agri-
culture. reports the successful termination Of ex
periments conducted in cooperation with the Con-
necticut Experiment Station in the production OF
Sumatra tobacco near Hartford One-third OF an
acre was planted under a cheesecloth shade nine
feet high. and cultivated and fermented under the
direction OF N L Floyd tobacco expert Of the De-
partment- The yield OF cured tobacco was seven
hundred pounds. making an estimated yield for one
of 2I0O pounds. This lost about 10 per cent in
fermentation. The crop has Just been sold by L. B
Haas Co.. OF Hartford to Nicholson & Hibbard
OF Kansas City. for sf7S 10. making an estimated
value for Of 81 421. The cost OF production
including the whole cost of the shade the frame
for which will last five years, will not exceed 500
This was an average price Of u cents pound. The
fermented in the same way yielded about the same
quantity and brought q cents pound or at the
rate OF S5o7 81 DeduSting the cost OF cult
vaton fertilization and treating. this would leave
profit Of about $500 an acre
The ordinary crop OF the Connecticut Valley
brings the farmer about 20 pound or $3.50 an
acre, and, deducting the cost Of expenses leaves
profit Of about $3.50 acre. The Sumatra tobacco
Grown under shade has been submitted to New
York and Philadelphia business men and has been
pronounced entirely satisfactory and fullV
imported Sumatra- These facts. taken IN cCnnec-
ton with the award at the Paris Exposition OF
two points for the Florida grown Surnatra over
that given for the imported Sumatra show that
grown in this country. saving between $4,000 600 and
SIOc9OO which is now sent abroad annually for the
soil survey made in the Connecticut Valley two
years ago. and as good results can be expected
matte conditions resemble those in the Connecticur
Valley and Florida. -
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
HANNA SAYS NO SUBSIDY BILL LOBBY

Cleveland Dec Ex-senator Hanna was informed
to-day Of statement which Is IN circulation 10
the effect that there powerful lobby in favor
OF the subsidlzing OF American shipping at the
Philadelphia Convention and in Washington He
said:
The only lobby OF that kind know ANYTHING
about Is a lobby OF foreign steamship conapanies
which is trying to defeat the bill. There WIS no
lobby at Philadelphia at all. The Subsidy hiu iS
business measure and there Is no desire to force
II through Congress We want IL 10 go through on
its merits IL has been three years in prepa "a fio
and has been amended twenty times. The PreSi,
dent in all his messages has urged the necessity Of
some SUCH measure, and u was made a plank in
the ST. Louis platform and the Philadelphia plat
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
ARE THESE YoUTSErS CARTRIDGEsp
DISCOVERY BEARING ON THE GoEBE1 MURDER
CASE

Frankfort, Ky. Dec. 25.-One of the clerks in the
State Auditors office, in searching the vault for
old records to-day. found cartridge box containing
eight metal patched snokeless powder cartridges,
1856 calibre. corresponding exactly to the bullet
found in the blackberry tree. and which was be-
neved to have passed through Senator GSoebePs
body. The significance Of the discovery lies in the
fact that Henry Youtsey, convicted of participa-
ton in the Goebel assassination in October.
clerk in the Auditors Office at the time of the
assassination and had access to the vault where
the cartridges were found, and that George Barnes
another clerk ia the Office testified he saw YoutseV
with a box Of cartridges
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
DIEp At AGE OF NINETY-EIcHT

Miss carmelia Underhill. well-known resident OF
Tuckahoe, died Monday at the home Of her nephew,
Samuel S. Horton. in her ainety-ninth year. Miss
Underhili was born in Tuckahoe and had lived
there all her life. She was the daughter of Law
Cnde-hiu and the sister OF the late Lancaster
Cnderhill, who died recently in his ninety-sixth
wear after having been postmaster and station
agent al Tuckahoe for more than half a century.
Up 10 the time of her death Miss Cnderhil ate
three hearty meals q day and had never worn
glasses. She was prominent member Of the Epis-
copal church in Tuckahoe. II was her desire TO
live 10 be centenarian, but she expired suddenly
while eating her dinner
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
LIES BETWEEN SARGENT AND ELLISON.

LIES BETWEEN SARGENT AND ELLISON.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: regard the vote for Mayor, shown in
your issue of Sunday, TO lie between two men. as
a matter of practical action These men are
George Henry Sargent and William B. Ellison.
Seth Low is a strong man. but the forces needed
to elect a Mayor will not unite upon him.
Isaac a Hopper is a good man. but the Re-
Iublicans of this city will support man who
has Sat in the secret councils of Tammany Hall
and who is a Tammany official to-day. Mr. Hop
per would make good Mayor, but he cannot be
nominated.
Mr. Sargent and Mr.. Ellison are therefore, the
real leaders in this contest ! do not personally
know Mr. Ellison but hear him we'll spoken OF.
l Go know Mr.. Sargent No better man could
be named for Mayor. He possesses all the needed
requirements. He is an honest man, a strong
man a brave man. / inclose vote for him
EDWARD G.. SMITH.
Nnu-Ynrk Dec 2S 1000
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: am pleased TO notice that Judge Leroy B.
Crane is being voted for by many OF your readers
Crane is man OF breadth of mind. of fulness OF
heart and of those noble characteristics which
prompt the right act at the right time in the right
way. As Mayor of this city he would be the friend
of the poorest OF the poor He would not discrimi-
nate because OF a mans social or commercial posi-
ton All would be treated alike. Justice and
equity to the citizens and taxpayers irrespective
of class creed would be meted out by him.
Crane In the Mayors chair would be the right
mai in the right place. JOHN N.
NeW-York Dec. % 1900.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
GENERAL CLoUS's CAREER.
ROSE FROM a MUSICIAN TO HIS PRESENT RANK
AUTHORITY ON MILITARY Law.

West Point. n. Y, Dec. q (speciaD-The central
figure OF the investigation now going on al the
Military Academy is General John ". Clous Deputy
observation-disclosures General CIous is no
stranger to West Point AS professor of law he
spent four years here His acquaintance with the
post dates from an earlier period however. He was
member OF the band and lived a year in the old
barracks near "Logtown." General Clous entered
the Army as private musician in the 9Th Infantry
on February 1851. In 1861 he promoted TO cor
poral and quarJermaster-sergean In November
1862. he received commission as second Ieuten-
ant OF the 9Th Infantry, and three years later be-
came first lieutenant He was promoted to captain
in 1861. and nearly twenty years later became a
major in the udge-Advocate-GeneraPs office. Ger
eral Clous is regarded as the best exponent of mill
tary law in the United States He is genial cour-
teous gentleman. who was extremely popular while
stationed here.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
TRIBUNE POPULAR BALLOT.
'3or MaNor Of New York.


the
public but the
be published nd WILDE treated strictly confidential
Address all ballots aadno
New-York tribune., 1900-12-26
BRY4N's POLITICAL FORECAST.

Leavenworth. Kan. Dec. &.-WuIiam ]. Bryan
to-day telegraphed from Lincoln, Neb., TO The
Evening Standard" the following:
Please present greetings to my political friends
of Leavenworth and of Kansas The principles OF
Democracy still live and the policies for which the
Fusion forces fought will yet be vindicated- We
can enter the twentieth century with the confident
belief that the people will return the teach
tngs OF the fathers and to the traditions OF the
Republic