The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-28
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
coIer Men Claim Fifteen of the
Brooklyn Delegates.
DEATH REVEALS MARRIAGE.
Man on Bicycle Plunses Through
PlateGlass Observation-Disclosures
Brave Effort to Stop Bril-
dlcicss Runaway.
DEATH REVEALS MARRIAGE.
Man on Bicycle PIunses Through
PlateGlass Observation-Disclosures

! n0uICemeUL lniS Hugh NcIiuSilIiIl Wouid
| not countenance q war with Richard
| Croker in order to force the nomination
| of Controller Coiar as the Democratic
| glthernatoriaI candidate, the order was
| passed among the minor district leaders
| in Brooklyn yesterday TO allow the names
! of none but tried machine men who viii
stand by the organization in any ener-
| gency upon the ticket for delegates To the
| States Convention.
| The leaders of the Croker-Murphy al
| lance in Brooklyn have determined that
no man who is for Coler first and the or
| ganization afterward shall be sent from
| Kings county, and the Controllers friends
| fervently hope for an uprising tomorrow
| night that will smash the district states.
| Notwithstanding these nadine precau-
tons the pro-Coler leaders asSert that the
Controller will surely win fifteen delegates
| in Brooklyn, and that these men will vote
| for Coler first last and all the time In the
| State Convention, and there form the
nucleus of an organization that will at
| tempt to reorganize the Democratic patty
! in this section and free New York city
| from the domination of Richard Croker
| Finding no place within the walls of a
| convent to which she had retreated as
result of an unhappy love affair. Mar
garet Aiinuehan cast aside her %eil and
| embarked on the French line steamGhip
| fort by the side of her brother, who is
| priest in charge Of a parish in Pennsyl-
! vania. During the voyage, however, she
| committed suicide by tingjns herself into
| the sea from the rail of the vessel. OF
| the wonan's life and antecedents no one
| on the ship could give any information
| other filan was cleaned from remarks she
dropped from time to time.
| PLUNGED THROUGH PLATE GLASS.
J.0Si1u IF his biryrla man
| plunged ten feet through a heavy plate
| glass store win,iOw, at Thirty-fourth Street
| and Fifth Avenue, yesterday afternoon
! bringing up in a showcase. Although he
| got a severe fall he apparently suffered
| only a few cuts on his hands ana face
| He reInounted his wheel, ana though pur
! sued by a policeman, escaped. He lost con-
| troll of his bicycle in descending the hill
| from Thirty-sNth to Thir1y-fourth street,
| in Fifth Avenue, at three o'clock. AS the
wheel struct the car tracks in Thirty
| fourth Street it swerveG to the southeast
| corner striking the curb with such force
| that the rider was hurled from the saddle.
| In the basement on the coner is a haber-
| dasher's store The wheeIman shot head
| foremost through the front window OF this
| as though he had been fired from gun.
The crash was heard two blocks away. \
few feet back OF the window is a show
case The man plunged into this and re-
manned there, stunned and bleeding
Instantly a crowd gathered Many
thought tie man had been killed, and Po-
liceman Gearty, of the West Thirtieth
Street station. was summoned
Before his arrival the wheelrlan had re-
covered and di9entangled himself from the
pile of shirts, scarfs and collars. He then
climbed back to the pavement. Els cloth
ing hung in tatterS and he bIed profusely
from cuts on his hands and face When
ne saw the crowd he made 4 dash for us
bicycle and started down Fifth Avenue
New Yorks race riots were renewed
yesterday following the shooting of John
Brennan, q White boy by John Davis a
negro. Davis, alias ''LamDNghter." shot
Brennan, messenger boy. i'll front OF 40.
20S West Sixty-second Street, al half-past
IL O'Clock Saturday night. The negro es-
capped. Brennan. who was wounded in the
abdomen, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital,
and Dr. Brewer yesterday removed the
bullet from. the young mans body. His
condition is critical.
Directly traceable to this shooting were
number of incipient race riots which
occurred yesterday in the vicinity of the
place where the boy was shot. Several of
them gave promise OF trouble, but the po-
lice suppressed every outbreak. Several
arrests vera made.
DEATH REV ItAI.S MARRIAGE VOWS.
Henry Coulter Brinizer. an actor, well
known to the theatre going public Of New
ark, n. J., fell from a window on the fifth
floor OF The Grand Hotel. in this city, early
yesterday morning and was instantly
killed His friends say ,here WAS no reason
for his killing himseht and they believe
that he fell through the window while
seated asleep in a chair.
Mr.. Drinkers death has resulted in the
disclosure Of his marriage to Mss Una
NJt,.Il f,,I ,iS.
1883. The marriage was keps secret for
professional reasons, until acknowledged
by Miss Abel yesterday.
lightning struck the tall brick steeple
OF the Remsen-Street Reformed Church
in Astoria, yesterday afternoon Bricks
were sent flying, but there We're no ser
vices in the church and no one was hurt
Portions of the steeple fell through the
root, damaging the interior
The s5eepie WAS $50 feet high and trimmed
with terra Gotta. 1t was sarmounted by a
big cross Of terra Gotta The bolt struck
the stceple about thirty feet from the top
and cut it off. The electricity continued
down the spire for a distance of about
forty feet, ripping it open 10 a width OF
three feet and making the remaining por-
ton Of the steeple dangerous The damage
to the church was estimated at S500e
Oronhyatekha, hereditary chief of the
Mohawk Indians. VINO lives in Toronto
Canada, is defendant in a suit for sICc, 0Oe,
and papers in The acton were handed TO
him Saturday shortly after his arrival at
the Hotel Manhattan. This claim is made
by DR.. Charles L. Coulter, of No 2sSi
Broadway, who asserts in the papers that
this sum represents loss on the value OF
/ q patent which Cronnyatekaa agreed TO
push, but failed TO.
Oronhyatekha's arrival at the Hotel
Manhattan caused considerable stir ana Gu
riosity. The rumor Immediately circulated
that he was an East Indian prince, and his
wife, who is also an Indian, and a grand
daughter OF Captain Joseph Brant, VINO
was head chief Of the Mohawks during the
Revolution, is known among the hotel en-
ployes and guests as the Princes" The
chief is more than six feet tall. With his
great shock of waving hair and broad
shoulders he would attract notice in any
assembly.
POLICEMAN'S BRAVE ACT
At the risk of being killed. Policeman
Richard OConnor. of the bicycle squad
stopped a runaway horse in Eighth Ave-
nue. at Thirty-siXth Street, yesterday al
ternoon, and was badly injured in so
doing Ia UaS rIGiDe. I'M TOWN ms