The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-24
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
The Missing Yachtsmen are Heard
From.
KING CROKER" BACK ON THRONE
Fighting to Pile Up Sig Majority for
Bryan-Two Prominent Young
lIen Held in 'atcr.
son Case.

NEW YORK, October 2s.-Like voice
from the grave came cablesram Sestet-
day from Port Antonio, Jamaica, stains
that the four men-Frederick and N1iA;tEn
Laagsten, Otto Seselke and Noah + Ma
son, Jr.,-who left Highland Beach IN the
yacht Allris last Tuesday for Bath Beach
were safe at that port. having been picked
up at sea and taken there by the steam
ship Ethelred, of the United Fruit COM
pany's line. The message says simply
''GAi safe aboard the Etileired. Home Mon
day. Notify Mason, Bath Beach; Seseike,
Putnam Avenue
The Aliris has been missing since last
Tuesday morning, and the greatest anN-
iety has been felt for her yachtsmen- Miss
Langston, the sister of the two IanSStons,
spent all Saturday. Saturday night and
Sunday until o'clock IN the evening on
an ocean tug securing the waters OFF
Sandy Hook in a vain and anxious searcn
for some trace of the missing craft.
BACK ON HIS THRONE.
Richard Croker is back On the kings
seat in Tan1many Hall. He has ahan-
doned the luxurious Hoffman House suite
Of former Senator Murphy for the back
room of the WiSwam in Fourteenth Street
He has left the State COMMITTEES IN the
st. James Building to work out its own
now until the polls close on November
9Th. in his old place as Tammany leader,
he will direct the work of trying to Keep
his promise that New York will give the
Democratic candidate majority big
enough to carry the State for him.
Mr.. Croker ever since ne returned from
Saratoga, has played politics between the
two Democratic headquarters and the
Democratic Club, letting John F. Carroll
carry out orders and look out for the rou-
tine work in Tammany Hall Mr.. Croker'S
friends assert that he worked in Close
touch, political and financial, with James
K Mcclure, chairman of the State Exc
cutive Committee, and he did what he
could to coax the national leaders who are
here into a sembance of activity. Now he
has abandoned them all and declared THAI
his sole ambition, and all that can be
asked OF him, is that he pile up big
vote for Bryan.
WILL ADMITTED TO PROBATE.
Three aunts and five cousins who ap-
peared after the death of Ellen Hamilton
10 contest her will, of November I'd, 1882
leaving her fortune OF 100000 to Charles
H. Bailey, an aged Brooklyn lawyer, have
given :tp the fight.
Surrogate Fitzgerald yesterday admitted
the will to probate.
Upon the announcement by counsel for
the contestants that they were unable to
prove mental incapacity or undue in
tluence. as alleged. the Surrogate imposed
the costs in the case upon them
Miss Hamilton, vino was fifty years old,
had lived alone with her cats and dogs, in
her house at No. II Stuyvesant Street, for
many years.
She had quarreIed with her father. and
after his death said that she had not q
relative left in the world
1t was not until after her death that
relatives appeared to claim her estate.
Miss Hamilton possessed also house at
Saratoga Springs, ard Government bonds
which brought her fortune up TO about
100000.
Mr.. Bailey had cared for her interests
for many years, and was made her heir in
recognition of his services \ rumor that
there had been compromise with the con-
testants to induce them to withdraw was
neither affirmed nor denied by the lawyers
in the case.
FRAUD CHARGED.
Assemblyman Henry C. Honeck, of the
Twentieth Assembly district, who is
candidate for reelection this fall, will
appear in the East Fifty-seven;h Street
Police Court this morning to answer
charge of aiding and abetting illegal regis
tration. The complainant is State Super
intendent of Elections John AIcCullagh,
one of whose deputies obtained a warrant
from Magistrate Deuel. yesterday after
neon.
An arrangement was entered into be-
twean Superintendent McCullagn and the
Assemblyman's lawyers. Stephen j. O Hare
and Thomas Duncan, for the production
of their client before Ma gistrate Deuel.
this morning rather than to adopt any
harsher methods. Honecl1 will enter a
specific denial to the charges, alleging
that those men who registered from MS
Raines law hotel, at No 2t4 East Twenty
eighth Street, are bona fide patrons Of the
place.
Captain F. Norton Goddard announced
Yesterday that ne had a fund of $4,000
which could be used for rewards in bring
ing election law violators TO Justice He
has already placed a check for $500 in
Superintendent McCullagh's hands which
is to be paid to informants causing the
conviction of colonizers in the Twentieth
District. There IS fund Of 1850 -
back that first check said Captain God
dard Il am not supplying the entire
fund Several men, whose names I cam
not mention, are contributors
TWO HELD.
George Kerr and Walter C. McAlister
of Paterson n. J.. We're Detained in Po-
lice Headquarters in that city last night
to tell what they know of the death OF
Jennie Bosschieter. Considerable mys-
terry surrounds the detention of the two
young men. each of whom comes from
a we'll to do family. Kerr is the son of
wealthy painter and q brother of for
mer Judge +. Kerr. McAilister's father
is a prominent coal dealer.
McAilister appeared at headquarters at
about 7:30 O'Clock last evening, and short
ly after was closeted with Chief of Police
Grau After an examination OF more than
two hours duration Detectives Titus and
Lord left the building and returned short
~ afterward with Kerr
The two young men are believed to be
those who were seen in conversation with
Jennie Bosschieter in front Of Kent's drug
store. in Main Street. late on the evening
previous TO the finding of her body.