The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-17
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
A Feud Between the VanderbiIts and
BeImonts.
REPUBLICANS ATTACK ICE TRUST
The Wealth Of the Astors Has
MISUNDERSTANDING Suicide ola
Rich Youns Wife-Bold
Burglars Captured.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ICE TRUST

NEW YORK, August 16.-New York has
a sensation in nign society which is second
only TO. the race riot. 1t Is a feud between
the house Of Vanderbilt the house of Bel
mont and the house of Ogden Mills. Mrs.
oliver IL T. Belmont, VINO was Mrs. w.
X. Vanderbilt, has made complaint TO the
police against Ogden Mills, Jr, and
warrant for the young mans arrest has
been issued.
The facts In the case are thus given by
the correspondent of an out-of-town paper:
Young Mills and Harold Vanderbilt, Mrs.
Beimonts son. are neighbors and play
mates. Mills saw Fanderbilt's motor trt-
cycle standing in the street, and in
spirit of fun pushed it INTO a clump of
bushes. completely hiding it.
Vanderbilt did not find the machine for
two days. When ne did 1t had been dam
aged by exposure to the weather. He
complained to his mother, who was angry
at the trick played on her son. She sum-
moned the police authorities ana had a
warrant issued charging young Mills with
taking tricycle. without permission.
Mrs. Mills was greatly distressed when
the police notified her that she must bring
her to court to answer the charge.
She had prepared herself for this ordeal
Tomorrow. but was greatly relieved to-
night when told the complaint had been
withdrawn and the case against her son
dropped
POLITICAL CHANGES
Edward NJ Shepard. gold Democrat.
has come out for Bryan. For years he
has been leader of the anti-machine Dem
ocrats, but as he is an anti-imperialist this
year he will support Bryan. On the other
hand Thomas F. Ryan, who is intimately
associated with William c. Whitney in
various enterprises, says that he will vote
for Mckinley, although until 1856 ne had
been staunch Democrat.
After having superintendent the burial
of $500 bodies in the Kings County Pot
ters Field. George Ferguson has found d
grave there himself.
He died on August 18th, aged sixty-eight
years, and, as the authorities could find no
trace of his relatives. a grave was dug
for him among the thousands which had
been filed with the bodies of other I'M
fortunates under his direction, and a
board bearing his name was placed upon
it. like those with which he had been ac-
custo1ned for many years to mark the
graves OF others.
BATTLE WITH BURGLARS
Jacob BONNER and John Fisher were
arrested yesterday in the home Of Arnold
Wood on East Thirty-fifth Street, while
plunderins the place
They had $1,000 worth of bric-a-brac.
pictures. silver, linens and laces piled up
ready for removal.
When the police surprised them a bloody
battle ensued. and the men were only
taken after a fierce struggle.
The Republicans have issued a pamphlet
in which they show UP the Democratic
Ice trust" In the pamphlet the charge is +
made that former Judge Augustus Van
Nyck wrote the antitrust plank in the
Kansas City platform. Notwithstanding the
fact that me is one of the largest stock
holders in what is known as the Tammany
Ice Trust"
a SIGN OF PROSPERITY.
AS showing the advance in the value of
American securities. one Of the Astor
trustees has given out the following state
ment
Under the will of the late William Astor
a trust was created to provide an annual
income of S5O,0 to the widow Of the tes-
tator during her life time. In pursuance
OF this direction certain securities were set
aside which have produced an income
greatly in excess of the $4,000 directed to
be paid by the will. The recent suit was a
friendly one, brought with the consent OF
all parties. to decide legal questions as 70
the disposition of the surplus income only.
and has no bearing whatever on the $50,
coo annually paii TO Mrs Aston More
over. she receives an additional annual
income from her sons estate.
YOUNG WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE
A strange case Of suicide Is reported in
one of the local papers. Mrs Rose Loudon.
tina young wife of Joseph Lou1on, OF the
firm OF Ivan, Frank & Co, hanged hersei;
at her fashionable home. When her nus
band left home she was In good spirits.
She went out shopping and upon her re-
I1nI yaI
the door, When the door was broken open
the woman was found dead hanging by
a rope which she had made fast to
bracket in the wall Nervousness as the
result of ill-health is the cause assigned.