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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
SHOOT PEOPLE IN STREET.
POLICE FUSILLADES INTENDED FOR
HIGHWAYMAN HIT PEDESTRIANS.
ONE BULLET STRIKES UNDER MANS EYE.
ANOTHER. wOMAN'S ANKLE-THE
FoOTPAD UNSCATHED.

Two persons walking in City Hall Place last
evening were shot by policemen of the Eliza
beth-st. station, being mistaken for a highway
man, whom the police were trying to capture.
The injured persons are Daniel B. Murphy,
thirty years old. OF No % City Hall Place, shot
under the left eye. and Mrs. Mary Farley fifty
seven years old, of No. IL City Hall Place. shot
in the ankle
Policeman Van Wrinkle and "Suspender" Jack
MCGEE, of the Elizabeth-st. station. were stand
ing at Duane and Centre SITS. at S:15 p. M when
they heard shouts for aid from City Hall Place.
They in that direction, and on
the sidewalk, with another man. about twenty
one years old, bending over him and apparently
rifiing his pockets. The police chased the high
wayman, who darted down the street Both
officers drew revolvers. but they say before they
had time to fire the fleeing highwayman fired a
shot at them. Neither hit Each then fired
one shot. Murphy fell to the street. Murphy
had been walking with a friend named Regain.
He was shot under the left eye. He was hur-
riedIy paced in truck and taken to the Hud-
son Street Hospital. where DR.. Coche immedi-
ately performed an operation. He will probably
not lose his eyesight.
The policemen continued full tilt after the
highwayman. They declare that he seemed to
disappear in blind alley at No. % City Hall
Place. The shadow of person in the alleyway
again brought forth a fusillade from the police
men. This time there were screams of pain
from an Irish woman. who hobbled into an ad-
joining hallway and fell. my poor ankle my
poor anklep she shouted.
The policemen by this time decided that
enough blood had been spilled. They sent in a
hurry call for ambulance.
Dr. Rea took Mrs. Farley to the Hudson
Street Hospital, where her injured ankle was
attended to.
At the Elizabeth-st. station. after the high
wayman had completely disappeared and the
two policemen had reported the shooting of two
lnoTenstve persons, the police tried to place the
blame for the injuries on the highwayman.
The policemen who did the shooting said it was
undoubtedly fact that both of the injured
persons had been hit by the bullet of the fleeing
man. Murphy's friend Regain placed the entire
blame on the police. He said it was impossible
for both the injured persons to have been hit
by the one bullet sent by the thief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
FLOUR TRUST BoNDHoLDER'S DENIAL
CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY SAYS 1T DID NOT
BRING FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS
UNDER COERCION

Af1davits read before Vice Chancellor PIT
ney, at Newark, yesterday to refute the charges
OF fraud and conspiracy In connection with the
proposed foreclosure OF the SIS 0O0 mortgage on
the assets of the United States Flour Milling
Company The Central Trust Company of New
York is trustee for holders of the bonds that are
secured by the mortgage. The sale of the four
teen different properties constituting the COM
panys assets was to have taken place on Febr;,-
airy IA. but was postponed by temporary injunc-
ton obtained by five of the bondholders The su.t
Is against the trust company, the milling company
and the reorganization committee John w
Griggs, OF Paterson, and 4. j. Baldwin of New
York. appeared for the complainants, and Richard
V. Lindabury and Sherrard Depue. OF Newark and
Adrian II. Joline and Albert Rathbone OF New
York. for the defendants. The answer of the Cen
trail Trust Company says that the trust company
became trustee for the bondholders and denies
that the value of the properties on January %
1860. was sufficient TO pay more than half the
amount due on the bonds. 1t was denied that
there had been any fraud or conspiracy on the
part OF the defendants The trust company was
ignorant Of the plan OF reorganization adopted by
the stockholders committee II was denied that
the trust company had brought the foreclosure
proceedings under coercion by direction OF tha
Teorg anizauon committee. An affidavit by BRAY
TON Ives, chairman OF the reorganization COM
mittse specifically denied the allegations OF fraud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
HIRES PRIVATE DETECTIVES.
CHURCHILL FOOLS SOME LIGHTHOUSES
BY PosTPoNING RAIDS

BY PoSTPONING RAIDS.
Acting Captain Churchill, of the Ffth-st. station
with thirty of his men, made raids on five alleged
disorderly houses early yesterday morning He took
forty-nine prisoners.
The first place entered No so East Fourth
st. where Mary Jansen, the alleged proprietor, and
eight women and were arrested. Jennie
Klein, said to be the housekeeper at No. Second
ST.. found to be too Ill to remove. She was
made a prisoner and policeman stationed at the
house TO prevent her escape. Other places entered
were No. Second-st where Rose Engel and
twelve women and three men were captured; No. IL
tlrSt-St, where Annie Eisen and ten women were
taken, and No. IL FirSt-St, where Mamie White and
nfteen women and four men were made prisoners.
The raids were to have taken place at 10 O'Clock
on Wednesday night Captain Churchill had as
station he noticed four young known
lighthouses" on the opposite side of the street
watching his movements. The captain returned to
his room and dismissed the reserves. He believed
the raids were expected by the disordery element
of the precinct, and he is satisfied that he fooled
them by making the raids early in the morning.
The warrants on whic&i the raids were made were
sworn out evidence presented by two private de-
tectives who have been in the employ OF Acting
Captain Churchill. Their expenses paid by
Churchill out of his pocket. The old detectives
well known in the precinct that the acting
captain was forced to obtain help from the outside
In the three months he has been in command of the
In the Yorkville Court yesterday the and
women inmates of the houses were discharged by
Magistrate Pool. The alleged proprietors were held
In $500 bail each.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
JURY BELIEVED 1T WAS sELF-DEFENcE

Reinert Christensen. twenty-six years old. of No
4ol West-st, was acquitted yesterday in the Grim
inal Branch Of the Supreme Court. He was charged
with shooting and killing John Kennedy a long
shoreman, II. a saloon at No. 400 west-st. ON No
Yember Is.
At the time OF the shooting Kennedy was under
nan. OF the Charles-st. police station His arras.
on that charge had been brought about by informs
ton given by Christianson. ~ i ma
Christianson alleged that he was attacked b,,
Kennedy who attempted to strange him The tu,o
men struggled for mastery and Christianson DuiIed
a revsover from his pocket and fired over his
that he shot in self-defence. "'e was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
PROF. WHITES MURDERER EXECUTED.
ExoNERATEs PERRY AND IVORY. ALREADY
KILLED.

Philadelphia Feb. 27.-Amos Stirling a young
negro, who was the accomplish of Henry Ivory and
Charles Perry in the murder of Professor Roy VIII
son White of the law department of the University
of Pennsylvania. the night of May 10. 1900 was
hanged to-day in the county prison The drop fell
at 1907 o'clock.
Stirling made a confession to his spiritual adj
wiser claiming the sole responsibility for the muir
der of Professor White. He said he did not know
either Perry Ivory, and asserted that neither OF
them with him when the crime committed.
His statement is not credited by the police authori-
ties.
Professor White was attacked by three colored
in a dark street the university. One OF
his assaants struck him the head with an iron
bolt and after the victim had fallen the ground
he beaten TO death. Robbery the motive
for the crime. Perry. Ivory and Stirling were ar
rested several days later and the two first named
made confessions accusing Stirling of being the
actual murderer. The three men were convicted
together and Ivory and Perry executed Octo-
Der of last year The condition of Strings health
caused four postponements OF his execution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
QUIET WEDDING A SURPRISE.
MARRIAGE OF MOUNT VERNON COUPLE IN
LAST SEPTEMBER, MADE KNOWN.

The marriage OF John A. Robertson and Grace
Rohrig both of Mount Vernon. on September q.
1901. announced yesterday, created considerable
surprise among the friends of the young couple.
The majority of their relatives and neigh
bors unaware, OF their marriage. but the bride
yesterday declared that while the marriage had
not been made public before, because of lack OF
forethought it was in elopement- II
is said that the couple disliked the conventional
style OF marriages.
daughter Of John F. Rohrig; of No Elm I'm ST.
while her husband is employed in the office OF the
general manager of the New-York Central Rail-
road. at the Grand Central Station The rev.
gationa Church. Madison-ave. and one-hundred-
and-twenty-rst-st, this city. performed the cere-
mony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
LEDERLE REsoINDs Tunnel 0EDTRs
DECISIONS ONLY GIVE HEALTH BOARD POWER
OVER ITS SANITARY CONDITIONS


An order issued yesterday by Health Com
missioner Lederle resembling the order issued BY
John B. Sexton president OF the Board OF
Health. compelling the New-York Central Railroad
Company to make certain changes IN the Park
ave tunnel. The order issued by President Sex
ton specified too much. it is said; the Board OF
Health, according to decisions OF Corporation
Counsel Rives and the State Railroad Commission,
have power only to issue an order regarding the
sanitary condition Of the tunnel.
President Sections order provided for the removal
of the stone brick walls dividing the tunnel and
also declared that the tunnel public nuisance
The opinion rendered by Corporation Counsel
RtveS on February held that the Health Depart
ment had no power over the signal system and
train schedule, and that such authority TO change
conditions in the Park-ave tunnel rested solely
with the State Railroad Commission The opinion
dealt only with the question OF authority.
The grand jury continued its investigation into
the causes of the disaster in the tunnel yesterday
The witnesses examined yesterday included Presi-
dent W. H. Newman and Superintendent J. II.
Franklin of the New-York Central The latter had
been recalled several times. he being compelled
leave the stand on account or engineer witnesses
who were not always able TO be present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
WIDOWS GRIEF ENDS IN SUICIDE
SHE LONG BELIEVED THAT HER HUSBAND
WAS MURDERED.

Mrs. Augusta SHERMAN, forty years old, of No.
Sc East Ninety-fourth-st. committed suicide yes
terday by shooting. She the widow of Marcel
SHERMAN. jeweller. who was mysteriously killed
February g. 1901 in his jewelry store at No 1855
Third-ave. The police said ii a suicide but
Mrs. SHERMAN insisted he had been murdered
Since that time Mrs. SHERMAN had brooded over
her husbands death, and. according DIR. Rosen-
baum, of No LASS Lexngton-ave, her family physi-
clan, she has frequently threatened to kill herself
Mrs. SHERMAN was found In chair with a deep
bullet wound in her head. She had shot herself
with an antique pistol, which had been a curfo in
her husbands jewelry store. Mrs Silberman had
discharged it by forcing modern cartridge into
the barrel and swapping the lock on 1t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28

and conspiracy that he or any other member
of the committee sought by the plan Of reorgan-
ization otherwise to compel the owners of first
mortgage bonds to surrender their priority of lien.
1t important, Mr.. Ives asserted. TO every one
Interested that the assets of the corporation should
be realized upon quickly possible The only
opponents to the plan OF reorganization were the
complainants. whose holdings would be less than
4 per cent of the bond issue. Afidavits were also
made by E. Francis Hyde. yice-president Of the
the same company; Edwin Gould, Warner Van
Norden, j. Edward Simmons and William Lanman
Bull, OF the reorganization committee. The case
will go to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
ALIMoNY FOR MRS. RosEyoUEST.

Mrs. Minnie Rosepquest yesterday received from
Justice Truax. in the Supreme Court an order for
ss5 a week alimony and 5000 counsel fee pending
the determination OF her action for separation
against ]. Wesley Rosenquest the proprietor of the
Fourteenth Street Theatre Mrs. Rosenquest al
ieges that her husband has for a long time treated
her with cruelty.
Hosenauest in his reply. charged his wife with
extravaganza, ana alleged that she persisted in
associating with her sister. Lucy coote a chorus
girl at Weber & Fieldss. He says no has asked
her TO give up going about with her sister, but
she has refused to do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
NOT AFrER CONTROL OF BRooKLYN RAYK-

r. w Jones. vice-president OF the Seventh Ma
tonal Bank. denied yesterday the story that that
institution seeking control of the BROOKLYN
Bank. in Brooklyn. Certain New-York men, he
added, had recently asked the cooperation of the
Seventh National In conducting negotiations for
the purchase by them OF controlling interest in
the BROOKLYN Banks stock, but these men. al
though customers OF the Seventh National. were
neither directors or that bank stockhotders
They we're, however. identified with other banking
properties In this city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
ADDITIONAL GOLD ENGAGEMENTS.
LA CHAMPAGNE CARRIES ss.oOo.oOo FOR PARIS

LA CHAMPAGNE CARRIES ssoooooo FOR PARIS
Additional engagement of gold made yester-
day morning at the Assay Office brought the
total amount shipped to Paris by La Cham
payne to $S500000. The National City Bank
increased it's shipment from 81 600 900 to
81 500 900; Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co en-
gagged another S250,000, making 81, 900, COO for
them, while Lazard Freres are sending 81, 000,-
000
The last preceding shipment of gold was on
February 5, when 81. 250, 900 in bars was for
warded on LAquitaine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
NOTICED BEWARE!
. Grafters Fakirs, Gamblers. short-Change Men,
Knockout-Drop Dealers,
NO MORE PROTECTION OR GANG RULE.
THE ISLAND Is GOING TO BE CIiEANI

The lean and rusty denizens of the peculiar burg
by the sea, when they saw the poster yesterday
hailed 1t the first sign of spring Next Sunday.
if it is at all warm, they'll Straighten some OF the
winter kinks out of their joints physical and other
wise, and start right in to do as they have been
doing for the last ten years. The Law and Order
League is a formerly by Frederick
Bruce Russell, who has had lot of trouble with
the police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
TAx ON UNDIVIDED PROFITS

There was conference among the lawyers for
several large banks In the Wall Street district
and Internal Revenue Collector Treat yesterday
regarding the levying OF taxes on the undivided
profits OF banks which the Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue has upheld The lawyers all pro-
tested against the levy. Considerable interest at
taches to the decision 10 be reached In fhe test
case TO be brought in the name OF the Ieather
Manufacturers Bank
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
ROSA STILL HAS HIS FOOT.


SAYS AMPUTATIoN STORY FROM THE WEST Is A
MISTAKE.
O'Donovan Rosa, Editor of 1.-THE United Irish
man." and an agitator who attained notoriety IN
connection with a Fenan raid In Canada years
ago. expressed surprise yesterday because of tele-
graphed report that his left foot had been cut off
at Colorado Springs and he was not expected TO
recover. Rosa was at the office Of his newspaper.
at No. Is Vandewater-st.. yesterday morning,
although he had been i'll recently with stomach
trouble In his home at Mariners Harbor, Staten
Island. He said he had a son in the West, and
the report might that his son had a foot
amputated but he had received no word from his
son recently.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
LYMAN J. GAGE ACCEPTS.

TO BE PRESIDENT UNITED STATES TRUST COM
PANY-Ex-sECRETARY NOW IN FLORIDA.
ex-Secretary Of the Treasury had sent a letter tn
the directors Of the United States Trust COMPANY
accepting the invitation recently extended 10 him
TO become president of the institution successor
10 John A. Stewart, who is to retire from the
office. Mr. Gage has gone 10 Florida for a vaca-
ton of a few weeks $500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
THREE STEAMERS BRING immigrants

EXTRA POLICE KEEP sHARPERs AWAY FROM oa.z
ITALIANS
Nearly twenty-five hundred immigrants arrival
here from Italy yesterday. The exact number was
2Ss7. They came three steamers from Nanles
the Lombardis. the Latin and the Stella Ovyiro .
the number OF runners for Italian boarding houses
and the unlicensed expressmen who hang arou,d
the large Once whenever steamer load of Ttal,n
immigrants is landed the immigrant officials an
pileo 10 Police Headquarters for extra detail ~
police. rounosman and three patrolmen gere
sent 10 protect the landing immigrants from the
sharpers. '-N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
CONEY ISLAND MUST BE GOOD
so SAY THE LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE, AMI
IT KNOWS.

Coney Island has got to be good! So says an or
ganization with the impressive name of the Law
and Order League. Yesterday there appeared on
the dead walls land at this time OF the year the
most OF the walls of Coney Island dead a
poster printed in bright blue ink. Some OF its lines
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
RECEPTION FOR DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT.
TwENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS coNNEC
TON WITH THE OUTLOOK"

NON WITH THE OUTLOOK
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott will completes to-
morrow the twenty-hfth year OF his connection
with the editorial department OF The Outlook"
An Informal reception held yesterday after
noon at the offices Of the paper. No. PSI Fourth
ave.. in honor OF the anniversary. All the mem
bers Of the STAFF and about fifty friends were prss
emit There were music and a luncheon.
A silver tea service was presented to the doctor.
IL was the gift OF all the people connected with the
paper. Hamilton w. Mabie. the associate editor
sponded.
Dr.. Abbott at first associated with Henry
Ward Beecher in editing the paper. which was
then called The Christian Union" For many
years he has been the editor-in-chef. On March y
he Will sail for the Mediterranean and the East
going as far as the Black Sea. He expects 10 bs
gone nine months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
GRACE MINES SOLD.
MEXICAN SILVER PROPERTIES WILL Ba,
WORKED TO THEIR FULLEST CAPACITY

IBT TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUNEI
Syracuse n. Y, Feb. 27.-E r. Chapman, a New
York broker: Charles NJ Warner. Jacob Amos and
Arthur r. Peck. of this city, have bought thu
famous Mary D. Grace Mexican silver and gold
mines. in Durango. Mexico. The price Is not made
public, but the deal involves several million dollars
Mrs Grace the principal OF the Thompson
School, in this city Her mines were in litigation
for many years. and she finally gained possession
of them About a year ago she sold them to Sena-
tor B. Clark Wheeler OF Colorado, from whom thu
Syracuse and New-York capitalists bought them.
They will be worked to their fullest capacity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-28
STEP NEARER ORDNANCE TRUST.
JOSEPH H. HOADLEY BUYS OUT THE
briggs sEABURY COMPANY.

1t announced yesterday that the plant and
business of the Driggs-Seabury Company, of Derby
Conn, had been bought by Joseph H. HoadIey
president Of the American Ordnance Company.
The plant is engaged in the manufacture of the
Driggs-Seabury rapid fire gun. 1t is said that this
purchase practically gives to the Hoadley- Cramp
syndicate the control of the manufacture of rapid
fire ordnance.
The purchase price Of the Driggs-Seabury pIant
is said TO be about s130oO00 is stated that the
rapid fire ordnance plants will. with other prop
critics. eventually be amalgamated with the Amer
lean Ordnance Company, which is TO have a cap
ttalizarion Of $1,000. 900.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-11-29
One Hundred Years of Trousers.

Most people viii be surprised to hear
that trousers, as at present worn by
the male portion Of humanity, have
just celebrated their centenary, but,
according to Fashion, such is undoubt-
edly the case. They .came in" on ac-
count of the high living prevalent a
hundred years ago. This produced a
good deal of govt, whose twinges the
tight-itting costume in use at that
period made ~nnbearRble. Hence the
invention of the wider form Of gar
ment, which o became popular and
was adopted by many royal personages
ut home and abroad. Among the dam
dies of the period, however, the new
style was regarded with contempt, and
when Almack's was at its height as a
fashionable resort, the great Duke OF
wellington was once refused admission
because he presented himself in trou-
sars instead OF the for that timeo or
thodox neither garments. So far has
their sway now extended that they
threaten to supplant even the Scottish
kilt,-Lnndog Xs5aGraDh.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-11-29
Is GOOD FOR JEWELERS..
Ping-Pong Hard on Watches, and TIL

Ping-Pona Hard on Watches, and the
Man Who Makes Repairs Profits.
Ping pong is q fine game" said a
jeEeler, who does a lot Of repairing,
to a New York Sun man. No outdoor
or indoor sport has ever given us SO
much to do. 1t is surprising how many
persons have broken their watches
since the game became a fad.
"You see, people play the game with
out removing their coats or waist
coats. In the excitement they forget
about their watches, and the first
thing a man knows his timepiece
bounds out of his pocket. Sometimes
it strikes the table, but wherever it
does fall the watch is damaged.
THAT is not all. a player may tie
his watch to his pocket, but still it
gets out of gear. The constant jump
ing around and the swinging OF the
arms disturbs the works SO the watch
has to be brought to us to be regula-
ted.
81 have had as many women's watch
es as mems to repair. The women
are even more careless than the men.
Their watches dangle from their shirt
waists, and as a result the watch
jumps around like a weathercock ID a
gale Of wind.
Surprising as it may seem, my in
come from repairing watches has al
most tripled since the craze for ping
pong began"
The Opelousas courier., 1902-11-29
Cost Of Nee,act,ng . Flint.

In 1881 a physician, DR.. Finlay, sug-
gested that mosquitoes are the trans
mitters Of the germs of yellow fever.
The profession ignored the suggestion.
This fact has a many sided signifi, ,
canoe, the chief Of which is it's cost In
human lives and suffering. The inan.
cial expense cannot be estimated, and
in only one small part of the world can
we estimate the life expense. In Ha-
vana yellow fever continued to claim
its victims as it had done for two GEN.
turtles. In 1900 there were 1914 cases,
with 80 deaths. Then came a most
dramatic and startling r~ediscovery and
demonstration of DR.. Finlay's discov-
cry, and there was a sudden end of yell
low fever. The last case was on Sep
TENDER %. 1901. But during the twenty
years that have elapsed over 5000 lives
have been lost. Major Gorgas in his
report may well say. to the immortal
honor of the army medical corps, that
1.-THE discovery made is only excelled
By that Of Jenner. and as time goes on
it win stand in the same class as that
great boon to mankind" - American
Medicine.