The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-21
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Gen. Greene is Senator Piatt's Candi-
date for Head Of Police,
CUSTOM OFFICIALS IN ERROR
The Alleged Uncu Diamonds Were
Part OF i. Worlds Fair Exhibit and
Not NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Grig.s VIII Open Law Office.
CUSTOM OFFICIALS IN ERROR

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| NEW YORK, November Cot is -e-
ported that Senator Platt intends to maxi
/ Cis.nerai Francis Y. Greene the head of thu
police department un6zr the State Con
stabulary law which IS to be passed at the
coming session OF thu Legislature
Senator Plat refused to confirm or dsny
The report, out he said: The C0nstaou-
| larry bill will be passed.
The officials in the custom house now
say THAT the detention OF the baggage Of
the dsntist, DR.. e D. Kelley, and his as
sistant. Miss ". Dorrance, of Peoria H.,
who came in on the steamship New York.
| Sunday. was without warrant.
| After their baggage. was ordered PASSED,
special representative. OF Collector Bid
well mada the discovery, he alleged, that
I, theirs was in the trunks over $500 worth
! OF uncut diamonds.
! Dr.. Kelley makes diamond filings a
! specially Ha proved that the uncut d.a-
| monds had be,-n part OF his exhibit in the
| Paris Exposition, Wihereupon he recsived
his baggage
WILL PRACTICE N NEW YORK.
Acknowledgement john W. Grisgs, uron
his retirement from President McKinley's
Ca5:net will open a law offs in New YORK
city, following THE example Of ey-Sp-lker
Reed and ex-Secrtary Carlisle. liz Will
also have an office in Washington, and w3II
make a special practice IN the United
States Supreme and Circuit Courts.
Mr.. Grigss has had Aattering offers from
several notscl New York law firms, and is
considering the QUESTION of entering an
established partnership. but; is tnciinsd
rather to form a new law firm, OF which
he will be ttlts head.
Mr.. and Mrs. BENJAMIN Boycott, thu
parents o. the woman who died IN ST.
Vinccnt's Hospital unter una nam OF
Edith Booth, admitted to-day thatd the
woman was thsir daughter. Mrs EG:.th ~
Van Bell, the young widow Of a wealthy
fhilaG53phian Mrs. Boycott. when asked
whether The husband of the ;:sad woman
resided in this city, said she did not know.
She continued: AS for this man Stack
hsrs, why, we never heard Of him until
we saw his name in the pap-rs We are
firmly convinced that she did not get proSer
treatment in the hospital"
Justice Biscf1off, Of the Supreme Court
yesterday signed a dscree of absolute di-
vorce in favor of Emma Livingston against
Charles Livingston.
The pair weya married at PHILADELPHIA in
1885. Tbs plaintiff asserted that her hys
oand had been guilty of improper. conduct
with woman. whose MANS was unknown
to her, while ne was in PHILADELPHIA. in
February.
There was an air of expectancy at Po-
lice Headquarters YESTERDAY. due to
runner that the long deferred promotions
to the rank OF captain wera about to be
made- When Commissioners York. Ai1aII
and Sexton went into executive session at
noon, a report that the Board was about
to take up the LIST of aIigtbles soread
ABOUT the building, and many serseants
who had Just dropped in were noticeal3lr
nervous.
There are at present fourteen vacancies
among the captains in the department,
and several sergeants kl.ve besn acSng as
captains OF precincts for two and three
years. This has been caused bv a differ
e1lce OF opinion between the Police Board
and the Civil Service Board as to the rat
ing Of the candidates, and "a this was re-
Gently settled promotions have been ex-
pscted for some time
Although the vice crusade has interfered
with the plans OF the Commissioners, the
names Of those to be promoted have been
whispered around headquarters for sew
eral days. 1t is SAID that the Chiefs office
IS to lose Sergeant Flood, who has pr1lcti-
ca!ly run the routine business of that Office
for years. Floods promotion to be cap
tain is considered certainty, and 1t is
said that Sergeant Cooney, VITO vas in the
West Thirty-seventh Street Station during
the recent rasce riots, is another fayorite.
OF the seven new captains four will be
Democrats and three Republicans. or the
Republicans Sergeant Churchill is the only
one mentioned as being sure of promo
ton.
THE, ATALANTA.
George ]. Gou,d's yacht, the Atalanta, in
the war equipment with which she was
armed for Colombn, whcl was 10 have
bought her, is to go to Coionbia's rival.
Venezuela. Mr.. Could has completed ar
rangements for her sale to the latter re-
1.ublic for Sl2o, GOO
The AtalaiEta is a fine three nasted
steam yacht, with al iron hull, built By
the Cramps, of Philadelphia. IN 1883, and
capable of steamins fourteen knots an
hour under ordinary pressure and doing
nearly two knots batter under forced
draugllt
Representatives of the Colombian Gov
ern1nent long thought that she would
make an admirable war vessel, particular
lly if it might prove necessary for that
country to aid in supprassing the Vene-
zue.an revolution. But General Cipriano
Castro nnd the revolutionary party have
triumphed in Venezuela. They have not !
only obtained the re;ns OF government but
they are gong 20 get the Ataianta' as
we'll.
INSURANCE FIGHT. i
One of the most prominent and prosper !
Gus firms of insurance brokers and con- /
tractors In this city has begun a light TO {
n finish against the Nsw York Fire lnsur-
ance Exchange. known as the insurance
Trust The war has already been carried
into the courts, in the form of an action
asking for an injunction to restrain the
trust from interfering w.thtths business OF
the firm. ard asserting that the eoEnnin ma
ton is exceeding It's legal rights. This &c
ton Is still pending.
Appeal IS now made to the public 70 help
break the Obnoxious rules OF the assosia-5i