The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-10
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
Men High in ammany's Councils
Received Part Of BIackmaiI.
THE MISSING TRUNK TRACED.
"A Sevcnteen-Year-O1d Girl, Whose
Unexplained Absence Created
Stir, Turns Up Married and Safe.
Howard Indicted for Bi.any.
THE MISSING TRUNK TRACED.

NEW YORK, Jan. o.-Forsaking the
process of elimination, Lewis Nixon yes
terday admitted that men high in the
councils of Tammany Hall We're mem
bers of the combination levyinS bIackmal
upon all forms of vice in this city. Mr..
Nixon asserted with much emphasis, how
ever, that these men were not supported
BY the organization in what they did.
1t is long since any political announce
ment created q sensation equal to that
which resulted from the formal state
ment issued on Monday afternoon by Mr..
Nixon for the Tammauy 4Antt-Vice Com
mittee, OF which he is chairman. Every
where the opinion is held that Mr.. Nixon
must now so further and tell who re-
ceived the money eXtorted from gamblers
and other law breakers.
For years it has been popular to ask
where certain men got their wealth. Now
that question is asked and Immediately
followed by who got the pay for pro-
tecton?" The two go well together.
Those who believe that NIr. Nixon has
ended his work of investigation may bc
rudely surprised. Those who know him
best are of the impression that Mr. Nixon
has just made IA fair start. For himself
he says that evidence against members
of the combination has been turned over
to the District Attorney, and that more
evidence will be sent to Mr.. Philbin from
time to time. Upon this he expects in
dictmentS to be founded.
TO BE DRIVEN FROM TA1IAIANY.
Il will not say that men high in the
councils of Tammany Hall are not MEM
bers of the combination that blackmails
gamblers and other law breakers said
Mr.. Nixon to a reporter for the Herald.
but | do say that these men are not sup
ported or Endorsed in what they do by
t,- Il
say that they will be driven out when
their identity is fully established. Tam
many has no use for men of that charac-
ter.
Richard Croker has only contempt for
men who use the name of Tammany for
dishonest purposes. He made that plain
| the afternoon that the committee, of
which | am a member, was first suggest
ed. The men who have sold protection
to other criminals will soon have use for
protection for themselves.
PHYSICIANS HOPEFUL.
1t is believed by the physician in charge
of the two aged men who are taking the
glycero-phosphate of sodium treatment
that his patients will ultimately show
| marked signs of Improvement.
John Raney. who is sixty-ninc years old,
spent nearly all day yesterday in the open
air. Henry w. Beerman. who has at
tanned the age of eighty-three years, had
a slight rise in temperature, and the ply
scian thought it advisable for him to re-
main in bed He arose later in the after
noon. He is subject to bronchial attacks.
! It is extremely difficult to give an ade-
quate idea of the effect of the treatment
| by daily bulletins. At the end of a'week's
| treatment it is thought that a definite
| statement may be given concerning the
| patients. The remedy which was en-
| ployed by DR.. Albert Robin, of Paris,
with such benefit in the case of Abram
| S. Hewitt builds up the system when 1t
| is successfully employed. and aids the
| nutritive processes. y thorough eNaml-
nation, chemical as we'll as physical, VIII
| be made soon to determine what acton
| the remedy is having
There are indications that John Raney
| will respond to the treatment more quick
! " than the older man. When he began
! the course of glycero-phospnate ne had d
| shambliug gait and seemed hardly able
! to drag his limbs along. He now walks
! with rather a springy gait and delights to
| take exercise. He finds the walking ana
| the open air good tonics.
| He is straighter than ne was and he has
| not that air of weakness which formerly
| marked him The physician went walking
! with him yesterday morning. Some work
| will be found for him, in order to give
, him not only physical exercise, but men
tai diversion.
!
Application was made in Trenton yes
| terdav for the appointment of a receiver
| for the Cuban Land and Steamship Com
! pany.
| According to the statements made by
| persons who believed the allurinS circti-
! lars of the company, no colonization
| scheme in many years promised so much
| to the coonists and Melted them SO little.
! The several hundred men and women
| VINO paid their money and went TO La
| Gloria had experiences which could only
| be termed as outrageous, and practically
| all of the coIonsts improved tile hrst
| opportunity to get back to this country.
! Three New York stockholders Of the
| company. Benjamin *. Taylor, Orrin N
| Lambert and Joseph Fl. Young, entered
| an action in the New Jersey Court OF
| Cnancery to have the Cuband Land and
| Steamship Company placed in the hands
| of a receiver. They base their app!lca-
| ton on the charge that the company has
been improperly managed by its officers,
| with the result that the stockholders lost
| large sums of money
| THE TRUNK TRACED
! The trunk full of $1,000 worth of French
| gowns iewelry and valuable biDelotS, for
| wh.ch $500 reward was offered by the
| owner j. Norman De Ruyter Whitehouse,
| OF NO 10 West Ttlrtieth Street, has been
| traced. three-uuarters of the property re-
! covered ana tiet-lS lpb-!i, sit-'tH' S|t-'-'
| Kelly, of No. 436 West Twenty-siXth
! Street, arrested and remanded to Po-
| lice Headqu> rters on suspicion of being
| the man who stole the trunk.
| Detectives McCaffery and Price, OF the
| Central Office, arrested Tcbin and may
| Law claim to the reward The gowns be-
long to Mrs. Terrell, Mr.. Warehouses;
| wife's mother.
Mrs Terrell spent the summer and fall
| with her daughter al Westburg, L. l.,
| and sent the trunk to this city on De
| cernber T. Mr. and Mrs. Wlitehouse and
| Mrs Terrell took the afternoon tram
| for the city TIE checks for the trunks
| were given to Gaffney's express to be
| delivered TO the Pennsylvania Railroad
| at the West Twenty-thcd Street dock
! Robert Cannon. hrother-in-iaw OF James
| Gaffney, the owner, drove the wagon in