The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-01
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
STOKES CHECK LOST SIX YEApe
AGO HAS JUST BEEN FOUND
Hill Has No GubernatoriaI candi.
date, So His Lieutenants Saw e,,4
Rumor Hints That Judge Gray Will
Be Run-Woman Diamond Expert Is
Dead.


NEW YORK, July s1.-A check for
Soo0' mailed on June 25, 1896, by James
stokes, of sc Park avenue, q nephew
OF William Earl Dodge, to Theodore
roosevelt, when the latter was police
commissioner, and the loss of which
was not discovered until Saturday. has
Just been found in the treasurers of
f1ce in police headquarters.
Inc money was intended TO be an
pHed 10 the purchase of books for the
use OF the police of the West Thirtietb
street station. 1t was rendered bv Mr.
Stokes as mark of gratitude for the
way In which the West Thirtieth street
police had maintained quiet outside the
house in which his wife was lying i'll.
Saturday Mr.. Stokes called at the
station house and was surprised to
md that mahogany bookcase, which
ne mad given at the time he forward
ed the check to Commissioner Roose-
welt, contained a few books, nothing
like the number that $500 would pur-
chase Inquiry revealed that no books
had been received in the station house
When the story became known at
headquarters a search was made in
the treasurer's Office at police head
quarters, and the cheek was soon
found. 1t had not been casned. Fur
Their investigation showed that when
1T was received by Mr.. roosevelt the
communication which accompanied ii
was placed before the board Of police
commissioners.
No action was taken and the matter
was lost sight of, Mr.. Roosevelt soon
afterward vacating his office. 1t IS
expected that Commissioner Partridge
Will at once take action, and that the
proceeds of the check will be applied
TO the purpose intended by Mr.. Stokes.
Hill Has No Candidate
David B. Hill still declines to talk
IN regard to the political situation. He
is busy preparing for the fall cam
pa1gn, and his lieutenanIs say he has
good reason for refusing to make
known his plans.
They also declare that Mr.. Hill has
no candidate for governor, and who
that man will be is still an unsettled
matter. But the conviction grows that
John Clinton Gray, associate judge of
the court OF appeals, is the most like
ly candidate
Judge Gray's judicial term will expire
this year, and up to two weeks ago he
was slated for a denomination for the
bench. Since then his name has been
mentioned quite frequently in connec-
ton with the gubernatorial nomination.
Woman Diamond Expert Dead.
Mrs. Mary Ann Mills, the head of
the diamond firm of Mills & Coleman.
died at her home in Sixty-first street
this week. She had been in ilI-health
for several years, but up to last jan
uary was able to give her business her
personal attention.
Mrs. Mills was eighty years Of age,
and had been in the diamond business
for forty three years. She was con-
sidered one of the best judges of dia-
monds in New York, and had a national
reputation as a business woman among
diamond dealers.
Twice in the last three years Mrs.
Mills was seriously injured in acct
dents on the Madison Avenue trolley
line. On both occasions she was hurt
about the head, and it Is said that she
never fully recovered from the effects
of the injuries.
Mrs. Mills was an intimate friend of
the late Archbishop Corrigan, and was
among the most liberal of the members
of the congregation of St. Patricks
Catheral. She was the gfver or two Of
the chimes Of the cathedral, as we'll as
one Of the fourteen stations Of the
cross within the edifice. Her son,
George B. Coleman, was for twenty
years a trustee of the cathedral, and
is one of the prominent members of
the Catholic club.
Mrs. Mills was the largest single
contributor to the silver jubilee of the
late archbishop.
She was born in the city of Cork, and
came to America with her parents
when a girl. She was twice married,
her first husband being Lawrence Cole
man and her second Dudley M. Mills.