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The evening world., 1902-07-19
CHILDREN DYING,
DOCTOR ACCUSED.
Mother Says Her Babies Were
Vaccinated While III by
Health Department Physi-
cian-Had Objected.

Little Ellen Kelly, the te~n-months-oid
baby OF W J.. and Della Kelly, of No.
III East one Hundred and Ninth street,
is dying, IT Is claimed, from the effects
Of vaccination. the incubation having
been made by a Health Department
official when the babe was only hve
months old and, as charged, while 1t
was sick in bed suffering with pneu-
monia and w~hooping cough.
Another child, Anna Kelly, four years
old, sister of Ellen. Is also seriously sick
from the same cause and may also die.
While the two children were sick,
their mother says, the Health Depart
ment doctors, who are paid n fee tor
every person v~accinated. entered the
Kelly home with a policeman and in
sisted on vaccinating the entire family
with the exception of Mr.. Kelly, who
was absent. The mother explained the
sickness of the youngest two. but the
doctor said 1t made no difference and
exhibited the policeman to show tina
he had authority,
The Kelly family believe In vaccina-
ton. and the members who were well
did not object TO the needle. but the
mother did not think 1t proper TO vac
cinate the sick baby and her sister.
The doctor Is said to have pulled the
sheets back and TO have scratched the
little arms, although the mother pro-
tested.
The arms began to swell and the
children became worse. Since then they
AVE fingered between life ana death.
aech with an arm which bears no human
semblance, They are too weak TO stand
and amputation and death is feared from
The poison.
To-day 1t developed that Mrs. Kelly
had told the Health department doctor
that II 1t We're necessary 10 yaccInate
the sick children she would have her
own .physlcicn do II. But she was is-
DR., George e. C. Kelly. Of Lexington
venue and One Hundred and Sixth
street, who Is the family physician and
who was not consulted by the vaccina-
ton surgeon, Is bitter In his %denuncia-
ton Of the Health Department.
He says that the doctor who vacci-
mated the children should have known
better, tina! they We're too sick at the
time to stand such an operation and
further. he says that the doctor could
not have used antiseptically clean vac
cine, lie may fle charges.
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mouthed concerning the newly dis
covered witnesses and the nature OF
the disclosures they will make.
Police Captain Buchanan said he
would produce at least one witness who
has ,ot yet been mentioned In connec-
ton with the case.
Capt, Buchanan would not divuige the
testimony hiE new witness would give.
Not Talking Vow.
I'm not talking about the case any
more" he added, II cannot even say
whether the testimony by this witness
will be nj adonal. but o can walt
aid see. kObw that considerable
trouble was experienced In getting the
witness and the evidence will prove
worth the trouble"
A witness whom the police are seek
Ing to subpoena Is Mr., Rubrecht, a
n~eighbor of the Latimers. Mrs, LatimeT
mentioned him ~ her testimony. lie
sat OF the front stoop with the Lati-
mers on the evening before tne murder
and later went into the house for .
while, The police do not know the ma
ture of the testimony he will give, but
II Is understood that they are ANXIOUS
TO secure his attendance, lie Is at pres
ent out OF h city.
Detectlve-Sergeant Edward HaTring-
ton left the Gates avenue police station
early this morning, and It was said tina
he was going out OF the city 10 bring
back a much wanted witness.
Widow "a Testify.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
MASSIVE ENGINE, WHICH
FELL INTO PIT, is RAISED.
Sixty Laborers Worked All Night and Accom-
plished the Task Early To-Day.

aud Jacks were put into use. The work
was very slow. Grand Central Station
engines Nos. 0 and 10 were used tryins
to pull No. i,4li UP out Of the pit, and
three chains, the links OF ~one-tncn
thickness, and four ropes of four'inch
thickness we're snapped.
The accident caused considerable DE
lay in the outgoing of all trains, as tie
engines which should be attached to the
trains all had to go up to Mott Haveh
zone Hundred and Thirty-eighth street
10 he turned there, and then again re-
turn.
All efforts were In vain until the en-
CINE was raised by jacks to the ievei
of the road upon the dummy track
which had been built In order to pull II
out.
Success. however. came at SEP this
morning, when with three chains ana
two ropes attached the two engines gave
n sudden start and the colossal Las was
pulled out. IT was removed TO track
No. ]. in the Grand Central Station. the
most easterly track. out OF the way Oh
other trains.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
TRAGEDY OF A GOAT
AND A MAYNARD KID
Nanny and Bill Devoured q
Neighbours Tomato Vines
and Later Some Green Paint,
Which Proved Fatal.

Paul Crobach, Edgewater's village
blacksmith. had two goats as One a.
any along the Jersey Palisades. Moth
er and SON, Nanny and Bill.
were privileged characters In the
village, and doubtless thought they
were entirely within their per-
ogatires when they made a Doth.
some luncheon out OF the fine new green
and growing tomato plants set out ~
carefully and nursed so proudly by
Michae Hawkins. who works In h
Ellis Oil Works and lives not far from
the spreading chestnut tree under which
the village smithy stands.
Mr.. Hawkins thought otherwise, how
ever. and when he came home from a
hard days work to wander among his
tomato vines and found nothing but
Crobach's Nanny goat and her kid.
pulled out like balloons with his tomato
vines inside, 1t rolled his temper, md,
1T is charged by the blacksmith, he did
things that were unneighborly, to say
the least.
1T is charged that Mr.. Hawkins rel
back to the oil works and got two cans
Of paint. such as is used there to paint
oil barrels for a protection of the bar
rels from the weather. At any rate.
when Nan and Billy came homo to the
blacksmith shop in the dusk they looked
like two green beer-kegs navigating on
red legs. 20
Blacksmith Crobach at first thought
two Of Ed Motifs famous but extinct
wosslybobs had been overlooked by the
destroyer of the species. and he had
been vouchsafed a view of them. When
he found that the strange animals were
his own goats he said some words not
admitted to the columns of a family
newspaper.
But when Nanny. essaying to lick on
her neUN GOAT of green, got enough OF
the poisonous paint down her throat I
XIII her and little Bill quickly fol-
lowed his mothers lead, the village
blacksmith went to Recorder Hinners
and swore out a warrant for the arrest
Of Selghbor Hawkins, n Hawkins.
who can't invoke any criminal statute
against the dcstroyers of his beloved
tomato plants. is held a prisoner In de-
fault of SlO bail for the action OF the
Bergen County Grand Jury for cruelty
To animals.
The local Bergh society will prosecute.
1t is understood that Hawkins will de-
pend upon expert evidence hat no goat
can be killed by anything introduced
through the stomach. with tests on live
goats in court, tin cans&and broken
glassware being used in the tests.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
ARRESTS IN FIRST
REFORM HALF YEAR
Excise. Gambling and Dis
orderly House Cases Are
Largely Increased, While
Burglary Cases Are Dimin.
ished.

The table OF arrests by the police OF
Manhattan Borough during the arst hall
of the present year has beer made up
at Police Headquarters and shows that
during the first half year OF the reform
administratio the police have made
44,S97 arrests. as against 4s,2s4 In tho
corresponding period OF 1901. The details
show tha arrests for excise. gambling
and disorderly houses are largely In
creased. while there Is a decrease In
the number of arrests for b~urgtaries
and robOeries.
A few OF the interesting figures are as
follows: For keeping disorderly houses.
there were l70 arrests made as against
1874 in the corresponding period OF 1901;
poolrooms, 2J2 as against 70: excise.
l.1o as against $40; gambling. 2io as
against lS4; policy, a as against Is;
burglary, sO3 as against GA; robbery,
1874 as against ECO.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
MOTOR CAR STRIKES
BIC MOVING VAN.
Driver and Other Man Are
Hurt and Horse Is Killed,
While the Wagon Is De-
molished.

A motor train on the Bath Beach d.
vieion Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system struck a huge moving van at
SiN;ieth street and New Utrecht avenue
this afternoon, injuring the driver. kill.
ing one Of the horses and demolishing
the van.
When the train struck the van a
piece OF the wrcckage was thrown
across the street n broke two plate
glass windows in n building being
erected on the corner.
Although the train was crowded no
panic occurred among the passengers.
a painter at work was struck on the
mead. by a part OF the debris and
Knocked from his ladder. but escaped
with a slight scalp wound.
The motorman OF the train did not
zee the van approaching and was run
hlng at a high rate OF speed. The
motoTman was uninjured,
The evening world., 1902-07-19
BALFOUR HOPEFUL
OF FUTURE PEACE.
New Premier Says British
Policy in the Transvaal Will
Be INDICATED - CompIi-
ments Mr.. Chamberlain.

LONDON. July l9.-At the opening of
n new Conservative Club, at Fabian,
this afternoon the Premier. a. j. Bal
four. made his first extra-Parlia mentsry
speech as Premier.
He said ne believed tina with the
cessation OF the war in South Africa a
new cru of friendly relations between
Great Brita.I and the Continental Pow
ers had set In and would continue.
The views expressed on the Continent
during the war reg riding the British
people n British roops had caused
surprise and Indignation. IA the con-
trorcrsics were now ndcd. He hoped
they would never he revived and hc-
iieved that those who accused the coun-
try Of wantonly attacking a free people
would see In rhe future OF the Trans
wal what British ideas OF liberty, colo
NAL self-government and purity OF ad-
n~inistgation could do 10 amalgamata
races ana make OF South Africa what
Great Britain had made OF SO many
other portions of the world.
Mr.. Balfour.o an attributing to the per-
sonaltty and policy OF Joseph Chamber
lain. the Secretary for the Colonies. the
credit for the unprecedented good rela.
lions with the colonies said he was
hopeful for good results from the CON-
ferencee of the Colonial Premiers,
III they result" continued the Pre-
mier. I'm anything which will lead to an
Increase OF the Empires prosperity o.
powersSof defense IN time OF stress, T.
will be well. But. even II no formal
arrangement Is reached then II will be
We'll also, We have seen What the colo
MES can and are willing TO do, and no
man henceforth can reRard the great
collection OF self-governing communities
OF the Empire as merely i paper glory"
The evening world., 1902-07-19
VOLCANO
SHAKES ISLAND.
Crater OF Soufriere Obstruct-
ed, and Burning Mountain
Causes Great Earthquake
Panic in st. Vincent.

JAMESTOWN. St. Vincent, Friday.
July B.-Sevcrnl shocks OF earthquake
were experienced here yesterday. There
wac a terrific n al aS in the morning,
II was accompanied by a loud, rumbling
explosive sound like thunder.
Furniture was. set in motion every
where, bottles and crockery were thrown
from shelves In shops. and several build
ings were damaged. There was no loss
of life, but a great panic prevailed.
The most severe shock lasted only
ten seconds. These shocks were prob.
ably caused by s"ubterranean gas or
steam explosions,
A few days ago 1t was reported that
the saddle between the TWO craters Of
the Souffriere volcano had collapsed.
resulting in the fall OF thousands nj
cubic feet OF sand and scoria rock Into
the funnel. thus blocking the throat of
the crater.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
TRYING TO GUST
CITY GOVERNMENT
Quo Warranto Proceedings
Begun Against Cleveland
City Council ~bytheAttnrney-
General of Ohio.

CLEVELAND, O.. July le-Attornoy-
General Sheets began quo warranto
proceedings in the Circuit Court here to-
day to Dust the Cleveland City Council.
and demanding that the members of that
body show by what right they hold Of
dee.
Judge Caldwell. OF the Circuit Court.
granted an order restraining the Council
from granting further franchises or
special privileges until the case is heard
and decided.
Attorney-General Sheets holds that In
asmuch as the federal plan of munl-
cipsl government has been declared UNI
constitutional By the State Supreme
Court the City Council is an Illegal
body.
IL has been alleged that Senator Mark
Hanna is behind the action TO upset
the present city government of Cleve-
land. The Senator Is said In be after
Tom johnson In particular.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
MINERS ADOPT
M|TCHELL'S PLAN.
Presidents Victory in Con.
vention Complete and All
Danger OF General Strike
Averted.

CONVENTION HALL. NDTAEAPO.
LIS, Ind. July le-The mIners ,o.dav
,aoo,nd pr...., M" oua'
auop''u 'fesiueh' MitcheiIS recon-
nienda tiohs. with q few notifications.
All danger OF A general e.,aI s,r,ks
l. 49,. .v.. ~
70 lnuH a'sTteu'
Al N.b the special COMMITTEES reported
itu ndatIons M foIloxa.
rI,., -,rh,, A.. Na,.s., -
Treasurer OF the United Mine Workers
lie authorized 10 appropriate no ooo from
IN. r,,d. n, ,ha n.,Ir..I .s.~-
'ne ,uH"s .me nA''oaa, treasury TOT
The b<nsnt of districts !, 7 and Q (these
are the anthracite d:strictH),
The evening world., 1902-07-19
GEN LEES INTERPRETER
IN CUBA STRANGELY MISSING.
Eustace B. Probst, with Good Income, Disap-
peared After Starting to Draw Money.

druggist. of Clark and Bond streets,
Newark. who acted as young Probst
financial agent. The money was paid
to the young nan in four instruments
yearly.
The lnstalment due July 10 is still IN
the possession of Mr.. Crooks Proost
having failed to call for 1t.
The young man was summerins al
Greenwood Lake and left there for the
purpose OF coming to Newark to draw
his money. He was seen in this city
in mpan with a stranger. The miss
ing man is ) feet in height and OF
lie speaks French, Spanish. Italian
and German %fuently and was the off,
cial Interpreter at the United states
Consulate at Havana under Gen. Lee.
lie was the last American 10 leave
Cuba after the blowing up of the Maine
and the declaration OF war. He super
intended the emba rkation of the .Ameri-
cans who fled from Havana.
The evening world., 1902-07-19

Sixty laborers worked all night in the
yards at the Grand Central Station try
ing 10 raise the twelve-wheel engine.
No. 1.414, weighing 10 tons, from a turn
table pit into which 1t fell at Sis yester-
day afternoon.
1t arrived at the Central Station and
was switched back to the turn-tahle
above Forty-seventh street bridge, to
he turned ready to go out with the 6.l5
Croton local.
The turn-table had not been set In time
for the engine to stand on 1t, and the
engineer could not reverse his lever In
time 10 back his engine. The colossal
front OF the engine went down with a
bang, breaking the ~cow-catcher ana
knocking the ire-box down upon the
wheels.
The engineer escaped Without any in
juries and the fireman received a slight
burn on the hand, caused by leaning
against the hot boiler when the engine
toppled.
A gang of sixty lahorers was put to
work In preparing to lift the engine out
The evening world., 1902-07-19
PRISONER DYING,
CORONER IN CASE.
Police and a Doctor at Odds
Over Man Who Says He Was
Mohbed Had Stabbed An
~otheGSon Ferry-Boat.

John Saoarbin, who stabbed John Van
Brunt on the Williamsburg ferry-boat
Florida. is dying, while his victim LIEF
in a critical condition. Sarbarbin is in
the Williamsburg Hospital, and doctors
of two hospitals and the police are In
something OF a furry over his case.
Sabarbin was operated on early to-
day for an injury to the spleen, and as
II was feared he might die Coro.ler WILL
Jams took his ante-mortem statement,
The patient said that after the stab
bling ne vas beaten and kicke by a
mob and dubbed by A policeman.
This statement has brought the police
OF the Bedford avenue station, where
the man was locked up. and DR.. Mo
Entee, of st, GATHERINGS Hospital, at
odds.
Some hour after Sabarbin had been
arrested he was found grooming in his
cell and declared he was sick.
DR.. McEntee, who was called. exam
ined him n said he was rot. Yester-
day, when the prisoner vas arraigned In
the Lee Avenue Court, he collapsed and
was taken to the Williamsburg Hospi-
tai. where, after several hours spent
diagnosing the mans case, 1t was found
he had an injury to the spleen.
DR.. McEntee declares that he made a
thorough examination of the prisoner
and could find nothing the matter with
him.
III he sustained internal injuries" pc
added. then he got them after he left
the station-house."
The police in answering this say that
sabarbin's statement sustains them and
proves that he did not get his Injuries
In the station house.
II the patient dies, an investigation
will probably follow. Sabarbin lived a:
No. % Havemeyer street. He Is thirty
five wears old.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
Especial to The Evening world.)

NEWARK, n. j., July 1s.-Eustace
B. Probst. the twenty-one year old son
OF Frederick s. Probst, a wealthy re-
tired merchant, has mysteriously dis
appeared from his home. at NO. i4S
Fourth avenue, this city. and the Police
Department has sent out a general
alarm, Young Probst is "A nephew OF
the late John d. Probst. at time
one of the leading figures in the bank
ing and importing business in New
York, and the senior member of the
firm of Probst. Wetzler & Co., of
Wall street, auctioneers in the South
American trade.
The missing young man enjoyed an
income of 5000 a year from an estate
In Germany. This money was handled
by a Philadelphia trust company and
paid to him through Henry Crooks, a
The evening world., 1902-07-19
BOY PURSUED WAS -
HIT BY TROLLEY.
Seven-Year.O Old. with Italian
laborers After Him. Caught
Under Wheels and Fatally
Crushed.

While Italian laborers, who acclaimed
he had annoyed them, were Chasing
seven-year-old Edward Hilderbrand. the
boy ran down a hill and directly In
front of a trolley car. He fell under the
wheels and was taken out mangled and
dying.
brands home. No. ~ Morgan street.
West Hoboken, at the time. and mem
bers OF his family We're among those
attracted TO the scene by the excitement.
The boy was hurried to Hudson Coun-
not recover,
The Italians who pursued him were
cleaning the oed of the West Hoboken
Iiilderorand and other boys had thrown
stone at them.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
STEAMER
SINKS AT HER DOCK.

GAhDlNEE, Me-. July ls.-The steam
er Kennebec. OF the Eastern Steamboat
company's Kennebec and Boston pivIs-
ion. sank at her dock here to-day.
The steamer struck a sunken pier
Gardiner. while bound up The river. and
a large hole WAS stove In her bow.
She was backed on and proceeded 10
this city. where SHE filed and went
down soon after her cargo and furnish
ings had been removed.
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CONTINUED from First Page.)

lieve that he has simply gone away
on q business venture and that he
will turn up all right within a few
days. Still all are %anxiously await
ing reports from the Plnkerton
agency ss to his whereabouts.
August Schmitt, the public hack
man at Hastings. who meets every
train from the city. waited I'm Il
long past midnight. when the las,
train m in, for Capt. Strong TO
take him back to the cottage. but he
failed to appear.
DON'T CARE" SAY MISS YoHE.
Miss Yohe frankly admits that she
does not know where Capt Strong
is She says that he left for the city
without telling her when he ex-
pected to return and that she has
heard nothing from him.
Miss Yohe when seen to-day by an
Evening World reporter at her cot
tage gave the impression that Capt.
Strong would not return to Hast
ings. She was dressed in a beautiful
silken Japanese kimona and was
surrounded by the pets which she
and Capt. Strong brought back from
the Orient.
With one arm resting on a table she
was idly feeding the beautiful cockatoo.
"Capt. Strong has gone" said Miss
Yohe. That's all / know about him
Where he went ! do not know. Naen
he will come back. II at all. ! don't
know. ! do not know whether he left
here to attend to business matters or
anything about him. ] have nothing TO
say as to his leaving.
"A quarrel? Really I CAM say. His
la wyer. Emanuel Friend. can probably
where he has gone, l can only refer
to him. I do not know Capt. strong's
whereabouts.
please say nothing in h village
about Capt Strong having left here. 1t
would only create idle gossip. II he
wanted TO 60 away l suppose he had a
perfect right to 30. He ought to be
permitted to 60 wherever he wishes. 1t
is nobody's business whether he is here
or anywhere else"
That Capt. strong's disappearance has
affected Miss Yohe is plain. She was
very irritable in discussing him. and de-
had gone should would not tell.
do you think Capt. Strong will ever
come back to Hastings?" was asked.
~ don't care II he he answered
Miss Yohe when interrupted by a warn
ing from her mother, Mrs. Yohe.
MOTHER GIVES CAUTION.
BE very careful, May" cautioned
Mrs. Yohe.
That's all / care to say about Cept.
Strong she said. twisting the ear Of
the Boston terrier which lay at her feet.
Amy further information regarding him
you must get from Emanuel Friend
Mrs. Yohe. the mother Of Miss May.
sat listening to everything her daughter
had to say, She is a sweet-faced woman
of more than sixty years OF age. Her
face is kindly and is framed in a fnuny
mass of snowy white hair. She had
been writing letters when Interrupted
by the inquiries concerning Capt.
Strong. After listening to the statement
OF her daughter Mrs. Yohc supple
mented 1t with a denial Of any knowl-
edge Of Capt. Strong's whereabouts.
IVA know nothing about him He has
The evening world., 1902-07-19
BIG JUMP IN OATS.
Price scared to 90 Gents a Dushei-
Almost n Panic IA Pr.

CHICAGO, July is.-Fear that they
could not secure enough Of the new
standard contract oats TO MI July con-
tracts created great excitement among
shorts on the Board Of Trade to-day,
and July oats scared 10 s. cents, the
highest price since 1874,
This point marked a gain for the day
Of ~ cents, and OF Is cents for three
days,
The market had been excited for the
past three days Owe the weather, and
II needed only to-day's reports OF the
deyAstat.ons OF the weather 10 bring on
. ss1ni-panie.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
STURGIS MAKES CHANGES.
Names Two New Battalion Chiefs
and Transfers Foremen.

Fire Commissioner sturgis to-day ans
nounced A number OF transfers and pro-
motions OF the men In his department.
There Is no special significance in any
OF tho appointments, Foremen william
b. Clarke, OF Engine Company No, g.,
and John J. Dooley. OF Engine Com
pany No, 100, were promoted TO chiefs
of battalion.
In the Borough Of Brooklyn Battalion
!Ghiet John ] Fee was transferred ~
me Ihlrty-slhth to the T~wenty-thIr1
Battalion A number of transfers
among the foremen and engineers were
also announced.
The evening world., 1902-07-19
VAN BUREN, DENSLOW DEAD.
WsIl-k BOWS Lawyer VIII be
Buried In yoaksps
Tomorrow.

Van Buren, penslow, an attorney. died
at his home In this city on Thursday.
~ the age OF sixty-seyen years. He was
AT one time connected with the editorial
department o. The ch!essS, ietsr;os.sn
Union school OF Law. He VIZ suthyr
OF = work on the "Princlplfi OF ESQ
nomie Philosophy.
II. recent yeats he. had ban INC .'n'
sul,inE partne' IN a law n.m m trook-
Ign. The funeral s'ryi rs viii lie lslI ~
his lAto rssidene1 n th,s NY a INFLOW.
and the inlsrp;snt vul D. in e.. to,iIis
cemetery, fonksFs.
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SENT HIS FISH HOME ALIVE.
New forker PrererS - His Catch
of BaHs Ina n Tank.
Especial to The Evening World

PORT JERvIs. N. Y. July p-I-ewis
Grinda, of No, % Nassau street, New
York, who, with his wife, has been 4
guest at culver's Lake, Sussex County,
n. j., for a week, has returned home.
Of his time fishing. and during his stay
he caught twenty-one bass. the largest
OF which weighed five pounds and three
ounces.
He kept all OF his large catch alive
until he WAS about to return home. Al
Branchville he bought a large tin tank,
and partly hlling II with water, stored
his FISH, and they were expressed TO
his home alive.