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New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
SHOT AT SOMNAMBULIST.
He Entered House by WindOTc-
Taken for Burglar.

Shots were fired and most of the tenants living in
forty sixth-st, between Willis and
Brook aves., were aroused from their beds early
yesterday morning because James O'Connor seven
teen years old of No. 712 East One-hundred-and-
Forty -sixth-st.. walks in his sleep.
For several years the boy has been sonlnam-
bulist, but he had ventured outside his home
while on his seepwaking expeditions. About a.
m. however. O'Connor arose in his sleep. partly
dressed himself and into the street. He had
put his trousers wrong side before, his shoes vas
unlaced and his hair hung dishevslled down the
sides of his face
Still asleep the boy crossed the street to the home
OF his sweetheart. Miss Bertha Conley. at No. So
East One hundred orty-sixthst. He went into
the yard in the Of the house. pushed open a
window and climbed into the kitchen. As far as
could be learned the boy did not go into Of the
other rooms. but soon afterward went out through
the window he had entered He had not made
noise up to that time. but in getting out Of the
window he bumped against the pane of glass break
ing it,
The noise awakened Mr. Conley and Charles l.
GoeIIer. who lives next door GoelIer the
grotesque figure shutting down the street toward
Brook-ave.. and ne fred two shots AT the boy. I'M
mediately several windows in the Appointing houses
We're opened and more shots fred at the boy.
who continued TO walk slowly along the sidewalk
O'Connor seemed to bear charmed life for the
bullets although they struck the sidewalk near
him, did not hit him The shots brought Patrol
man Kelly, of the Aexander-ave. station. running
called mon him m 10 arrest tbe bov who was still
walking in his sleep, The policeman seized the lad
and shook him by the shoulder.
Where To- said the boy rubbing his eyes
and staring confUsedy the crowd of people
around him. No one in the crowd recognized the
boy. because Of his appearance although nearly
all of them knew him Even his mother, who had
Joined the others. did not recognize her son. and
said 10 the policeman. I'm glad you caught the
burglar
The boy was taken to the station and locked
up after a charge of burglary had been made
against him by Mr.. Conley. When the hSnts IN
the station shone the boys face Mr. Conley
recognized him. and on his told Mrs. O'Cou-
nor that the prisoner was her The woman be-
came frantic and rushed 10 the station. where she
tried to explain the boys sleepvalkng prOpensties
O'Connor however. kept in the cell several
hours. AT the Morrisania Court he was later dis
charged
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
ALMOST DIES IN BOOTH
Children's Society agent Locked in
While TeIephOning.

James Calhoun. an agent Of the children's
society. vas nearly suffocated in a sound
proof telephone booth in the Morrisana police
court yesterday
Calhoun had been summoned 10 the telephone
70 answer a call from the society rooms and
when he entered the booth he closed the door
after him The lock broken and when
the agent tried 10 get out he could not. 1t was
twenty minutes before he thought of calling up
the operator at Police Headquarters. and when
he did so he asked that the police sergeant in
the court be informed of his predicament. Sew
eral court officers tried to get The door of the
booth open but their efforts futile. At last
a locksmith opened the door after Calhoun had
been imprisoned Tor nearly hour.
Calhoun lying the floor of the booth
when the door opened. unconscious. He was
blue in the face from want of air, and it took
nearly fifteen minutes TO bring him TO his senses
The room in which the booth stands is just off
the courtroom. The booth is made of two sets
of doors. each being extremely thick. When the
door is shut the booth is absolutely sound proof
well alright
II considered remarkable by the court
officers that Calhoun unable to attract the
attention of some one in the courtroom. The
agents knuckles bruised and bleeding
when he was taken out. from his efforts TO sum-
mon help by pounding on the sides of the booth
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
WOMEN BE4T POLICEMAN.
Broad5cay Shoppers Try to Rescue
Drunken LOafer.

> An unusual spectacle presented to the
loafers at Broadway and Twentv-sixth-st
Yesterday, when crowd Of women and two or
three men tried to prevent the arrest of a
drunken loafer. who gave his name as
George Muller. No. 219 Bowery. was found by
Policeman Mcclure of the Tenderloin station.
sleeping the sleep of the very drunk on bench
IN Madison Square with his clothing disordered
Mcclure started TO take him to the station AT
Twenty y-sixth-st Muller began to fight. When
the Gust settled Mcclure was sitting on Muller's
chest and whistling for another policeman and 2
Patrol wagon
The streets were fun of shoppers at the time.
and a number OF women decided that the evil
smelling bunch of rags was a dear and that Nc
cure was brute. They tried to effect MuIIer's
release before the policeman could get help
Most of them were armed with umbrellas or
pafasols and they used them with striking
erect on McGuire's head and shoulders AS
olher and occasionally received the chastise-
ment intended for Mcclure Those who did not
possess other weapons still had their hands and
the polceman's face bears testimony that their
nails were i'm good condition.
he says he is glad he is bald. Two or three
men, who saw . chance to distinguish them
selves began kicking the demoralized repre-
height. and the odds were that Mcclure would
soon succumb when other policemen rescued
him. Muller locked up while Mcclure
whose clothing looked n if il had gone through
thrashlng machine or had an argument with a
buzz saw, went home TO recuperate
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
NO HOPE FOR RECOTERY
Organist of St. Patrick's Poisoned By
Z Railroad Restaurant SaRd7cich.

W. r Pecher, the Organist at ST. Patrick's
Cathedral. is seriously i'll. and not expected to
recover. He is suffering from ptomaine pos
oning. brought by eating a sandwich pur-
chased a railroad station while away
trip. About three weeks ago he was called away
in a hurry business affair, and not having
time TO get anything TO eat before he left town
was obliged TO buy sandwich the first
dining station the train stopped at. He was
away about week. during which time he was
ill.,
He noticed bad effects soon after eating the
sandwich. He returned TO his home here, No
lO3 East Eighty-second-st.. very sick and
decided TO go to the country. This two
weeks ago. He went at once to Stamford. y
y, where he collapsed entirely. He is con-
hned 10 his bed at the Hotel Terrace there, un-
der the constant care of two physicians, who
hold out hope of recovery.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS
Decrease from 1902, but Greater Than in
Last Year When There Was No War Tax
TFROM rHE rRIs;-NE BUREAU. I


Washington, July 25.-The income of the govern
ment from its internal taxation for the fiscal year
ended June 30 last stated to-day by Commits
sioner Yerkes of the Internal Revenue Bureau to
be S2}0. 7403Sz 81. The expense of collecting this
amount has approxmated 81 6g7,0oO The report just
made is for the first complete year since the repeal
of the war taxes, aud should be compared. for
correct idea Of the amount Of business done, with
the fiscal year ended June 80 1898.
In such comparison some OF the principal items
of revenue follows:
There collected spirits during the fiscal
year just ended S13 953 472 80 which increase
over the previous year of $40 5.459 % The colec
uon on spirits for 1898 was $92 sc. .999 -.
On tobacco there collected during the year
just closed s43.5i4SlO o. which decrease Of
sS423.ll4 % from the collections of 1902, when the
war tax in force The collections for the year
1928 on tobacco amounted to $50 go. .522 81.
Fermented liquors yielded revenue of s47,547-
$50 oS during the last year, which decrease of
$2444O46 81 from the year previous. In 1898. when
tme tax was exactly the same, the collections were
S39.5l5+2l H.
The TAX oleomargarine furnished a revenue of
only SS6 S 81 during the last year. decrease from
the year previous of 81 22l7, 09 Il. Filled cheese
yielded $64 % last year. compared with S24 dur
ing the preceding year and $1S992 3s during 1898.
Mixed flour yielded 81 795 80 last year, decrease of
waited and process butter paid N5l.5JS 81 last year
but only $500 the year previous.
From banks. bankers. etc, there was collected a
revenue last year of $S99 80, compared with col
lection of 1927 % the previous year.
The tax on playing cards yielded S422.5S) b last
year. which increase of $57.S02 60 over the
year previous. The collection on playing cards in
1888 S261 0S0 &c
Although the war tax is entirely eliminated the
collections for the last year Commissioner Yerkes
regards the collections showing a most salts
factory condition Of internal business.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
BLEEDING KANSAS, THOU ART A FROST
Such Is the Tale of a Yale Student. Lured
There by Wheat Field Fables.
lRT TELEGRAPH TO rHF TRIBUNE.

Kansas City. No. July 25.-Harry J. wilkinson
o. NlAso'rough, \ Y. Yale student pa ssed
uf"1Eh here Tonight his way home from 1he
Kansas wheat fields. kansas is a frost" he said
u i'-l Wi'sborough June Is on a freight train
"ilh tafFE langsle!. friend. We figured that
me harvest would last least month and we
would have $l2 TO apply on next years expenses
8' sen"o'- We'll. We Got TO Kansas City on July S
aho topeka the next DAY. We came on box and
'a''le cars once rode The rods The trip cost
= ""'I' -. We understood that at Topeka We
No-il hho farmers hungry for harvest hands We
.a' 'heE would pay any price.
At Topeka were told tbat tbers ,-as all
xmas oi "oTk Al Usage City. Iangsley started for
mere Al Usage City the people said there were
plenty of men for TIE harvest fields. The second
aaH We ramped from morning until night There
Va some Work 10 90 ~ 81 80 dav u5li thara il
zoo ltucn dlHerence between 81 % ~ 4 inc I1ronl-
so = ial night We slept on the t,rairie saw
lhdi y .. wa the limit ] hired out 10 ra~n1e,.
s-fd worked nine days for q - 2 da,- ana nv
H'irc- ! slept IN a barn on q straw stack We
went 70 Work ~ > clock in The rnor,7irn and
worked Gntl 80 D. m I got g3 ~ from him He
recommended me 10 his neigh bors and arorl,aJ
York. 80" ~ 10Y -Ne"-
Mr. Wilkinson is a tall broad sholldered a+b
lctc Young man. twenry-tllrae Years old ne Ta"a
was bfonZed and slInbu-ned. and his bardS u-oro
bfstered and calloused. 9 W
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
THOUGHT YOUNG MAN MURDERED.
Found He Had Been Dragged Home Drunk
Heart Disease Killed Him.

Long Branch. n. j., July - CspeciaD-Roh-
berry and murder were the theories advanced for
more than five hours to-day IS the cause OF
Harry Kreif's death. Kneif was a clerk in
Stenbach's department store His body was
found in the yard adjoining the cottage where
he boarded. His clothing was covered with
dirt his pockets turned inside out and he had
an abrasion or two on the face.
While the police were looking for the supposed
murderer, Harry Moore fellow clerk. and Ed
ward H. Emmons. jr, revealed the truth hnelt
had been drinking ana was unable to reach
home without assistance. The young men tried
TO take him home using different methods, and
finally succeeding by dragging his prostrate
form. When they left Kneif on the grass in
front Of the Montrose cottage, in Second-ave"
they say he seemed ell right, except for his
drunkenness. They decided not to awake the
household, hut to let him sleep it Off kneif
evidently died after the young men left
him
An autopsy revealed that his death was due
to heart disease. superinduced by alcoholism
The young mans parents live at No. II Grove
St, New York.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
DON'T WANT EITHER CEMETERY.

The Czcne Park Citizens Association has called
an;i-cemetery mass meeting the Long Island
Athletic Club hall ground at Broadway and
Waker-ave Woodhaven. for Wednesday. The
Board OF Aldermen recently passed a resolution
permitting the Cemetery Association OF Jewish
Soldiers of the Spanish-American War 10 buy
twenty-five acres Of land fronting the South Road
Woodhaven. Mayor Low subsequently vetoed
the resolution in compliance with the protests Of
the Ozone Park Citizens Association the president
of the Board of Health and the Commissioner of
Water Gas and Electricity The object of the
meeting is 10 protest against the aldermen
overriding the when the matter comes up
again July 81 1t is said that effort will be
made to acquire, also, for cemetery. l25 acres
fronting in Lberty-ave, and extending from the
present Jewish cemetery TO Woodhaven-ave- II Is
declared by the opponents of the proposed GENE
teries tha5 they viii menace the local and BROOK
lyn water supplies 1t l. alleged that the tWenty-
TWO acre plot is too close 10 the Spring creek
pumping station in Cedar Lane. and that the other
in dangerously close TO the WoodhaVen pumping
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
INJURED BOY LIKED AUTO RIDE
Taken Home in Machine He Ran Into
Said II Was Worth Getting Hurt

Joseph Long. Of No. 9ss Atlantic-sve. grookl,-n
q hoy who drives grocery wagon in tho dsvfirne
and rides bicycle in the evening bad his first
roe IN an automobile last night under somewhat
Unusual circumstances While riding through Dean
s. between Bedford ami Franklin ayes a. .
o'clock he ran into m automobile owned ana
aFi ~ By J. II. Thismer Of No 1853 Futon-st
The ooy hurled from his wheel TO the side
wax and tie bicycle was bent and broken Mr.
lflener stopped the machine and carried the ln-
conscious boy into doctors Office. As il was sun
pseo that he had been seriously injured a can
Was sent in for ambulance When il arrived
4oNe1eT. the boy sitting up and discussing his
a,p" escape from death. Aside from a long
-elp wound and slight wound under the eve he
escaped uninjured e
4l Ihiemer expressed regret al the accident
mo ttd Long ne would take him home. The bo,
a. 50 delighted with his first experience IN =
lefh wagon" that he said he was glad he had
rten struck. Al that Mr.. Thtemer took him for n
ifrtoFt spin on the Eastern Parkway before tax ng
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
NOT CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.
". F. King Says He Is Prouder of Being
Director of Merchants Association.

William T. King. formerly president Of the Mer-
chants Association announced last night that the
rumor that he a candidate for Mayor was
absolutely without foundation.
This rumor" says Mr.. King is not only an in
justice me. but the Merchants Association,
Of which have tho honor 10 be a director. I am
not candidate in any way. shape manner any
more than l was two years ago. and would not
accept the nomination under any circumstances
whatsoever. Were / TO DO l should be prosti-
tuting the purposes Of the association, which 1
have given twenty years OF my life build up.
Il proud of being a director Of the Mer-
chants Association of New-York under present
conditions than / would be of being Mayor Of the
city As long the assOciat lion is conducted on
its present lines | shall hope to remain director.
but the moment il Is used for personal ends or 70
advance any mans desire hold public Orlce l
wish 10 il wound up. for under such Circum-
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
DEvERY HAS 1000 SIGNATURES.
His Young Men Get Half Required Number
in the IXth.

William 5. Devery's young men IN the INth Dis
trict have secured one thousand signatures
To the petitions which will place Mr. Devery in
nomination for Mayor of this city This is the re-
suit of one weeks work. All these names those
of voters in the IXth Distrc5. The Board of Al
dermen at a recent meeting unwittingy appointed
twelve Devery men commissioners of deeds, and
these twelve will this week circulate the Devery
petitions in other districts ON Thursday night
the Deveryites will hing a campaign banner
to the breeze at Eighth-ave. and Twenty-eighth-
This viii be Mr.. Deverys leadership banner
After he has been nominated for Mayor il will be
changed to his mayoralty banner.
Petitions nominating DR.. William J. Stewart the
Devery candidate for Alderman. will be circulated
this week Five hundred names are needed. There
will also he petitions for the denomination of As
semblyman Richard J. Butler. Only 1000 names are
needed for the mayOralty petitions. but DcveTy
says that the petitions will be circulated until they
contain about ten thousand names.
I've got cottage At Ocean Grove said DR..
Stewart last night Inats a rather quiet place
far politics is concerned, but Saturday
night of last week when ! the boardwalk
there with my wife We ran across a lot or boys
and girls singing 'Mr. Dooley.' with 'Devery in
place of Dooley' II is surely enough Devery
everywhere. The Devery Hebrew Association is
forming the East Size. and have received
inG that the people there ready fall into line
4
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AMONG INSANE
In Week Two Patients Escape from Wards
Island and Drown Themselves

Twice within the last week patients in the Hos
pital for the Insane Wards Island have escaped
from their attendants and committed suicide by
drowning themselves In the river The first was
on Tuesday when Charles Rega found TO have
esca ped. It was until Yesterday afternoon
when a body which had been found in Westchester
Creek on Thursday was identified by Charles
Rega. OF No. 7S2 East Sixth-st.. as that of his
father that his fate became known.
The second escape on Friday afternoon.
when Josephine Felker. who had been inmate Of
the hospital for the last two years. AIDED her al
tendant. Miss McGovern, and threw herself into
the river Her absence noticed after about
fifteen minutes. and search hegun. Her
body found in the shallow water. the
shore. and was taken to the Morgue. The woman
formerly lived 1T No. III First-ave.
DR.. Knapp. of the hospital. when seen last night,
would assign other reason than the warm
weather for the suicides.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
SCARE OFF NEGRO ROBBERS.
One Baltimore Woman Badly Hurt-An-
other Escapes Unhurt.
InY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.

Baltimore July 25-In the last week several dar-
ing robberies have been committed here by negroes
Al the home of Ernest Ayres. in Lanvale-st, this
morning Miss Blanche FOssett rose early As she
entered the dining room a negro sprang out Of the
pa ntry and struck her terrible blow in the face
knocking her unconscious When she revived. in
half an hour she called Mr.. Ayres. who found that
tho negro had packed in a sack all the family sill
yer and herlooms was frightened by Miss Fossett
and dropped the sack in the garden Miss Fossett
IS badly hurt
The pluck of Mrs EdmOnia Beveridse probably
saved her life and her property at her country
place Gwynn oak, near here. She was alone IN
the house, and seeing a negro hanging about the
pIace put two bulldog revolvers on the manteL
Presently the negro came up and demanded money.
threatening 10 kill her Mrs. Beveridge pretending
10 he greatly frightened told him 70 wait until she
could ger the money. She then got the brace OF
revoIvers and returned. The negro fed
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
RUSH BEGINS LEADERSHIP FIGHT.

ducted by Thomas F.. Rush Tor the Tammany iiali
leadership of the XXINth Assembly District was
made yesterday by the Osce0la club at Seventy
eishth-st. and LaNingto ton-aye.. when a banner was
displayed announcing M. Rush ii the Tammany
Han candidate for membership in the executive
committee The contest which begun against
John r Carroll by Charles f. Murphy through
Mr. Rush a year ago. has been waged relentlessly
against the present leader Of the district desiE-
mated f,y Mr. Carroll and l. the pUrpcsr "f the
present loader ~ Tammauy Hall 70 establish IN
.,er. Assembly district an organization IN com
plc,e strapathy with himself The osceola tinb
xas started ny Mr Rush immediately after the
primary clection last September.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
CIVIL SERVICE EXEMPTIONS.
Basis of the Compromise with the Register
Of Kings County.

Albany. July 25.-'The State Civil Service Com
missioner has effected compromise with the
Register of Kings County in the litigation besr.a
by that official because the commissioner refused
10 exempt from examination certain places IN his
once Tne basis ~ the compromise Is thar the
commission win certify payrOlls containing rha
names OF persons employed continuously since a
gate prior 10 the claSsihCa ton under dispute The
REGISTER agrees TO drop all controversy over the
his term. --e
me ne commission mas approved OF the exemption
from examination OF the following Offices in th.
NeW-Ao ork Cl-y service. Clerk the Coroner in
Richmond County; probation Ofhcer. City Magis-
trates Court secretary in the Department OF Taxes
and Assessments and one appraiser OF real estate
In the Department Of Finance.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
REFUTEs TYPHOID EPIDEMIC REPORT.
Eleven Cases Out of Thousand Children at
Juvenile Asylum.

DR.. Alfred F. Spaldng. the physician in charge
of the New-York juvenile Asylum. At Tenth-ave.
and One-hUndred- and-sey nty-siXth-st., seen
last night in regard to a rumor that there was an
epidemic of typhoid fever at that institution. He
said that since February / there had been only
eleven cases among the children under his care,
and that eleven out of the thousand children
was very small proportion which base a
story epidemic
He said that there had been for
over six weeks. and the sanitary condition % the
buildings was perfect. The Board Of Health in
Spects the INSTITUTION a month. and DIR. Spald-
ing would be required 10 report any unusual num-
ber of cases il. that proper precautions could
70 taken.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
C4NNIBALS ON TIBURON
.Mercan Prospect6rs Killed and
PARTLY Eaten By Indians.

Tucson. Ariz, July pa party OF miners from
this city returning from Guayamas report the
arrival OF a detachment of Mexicans with six pris-
oners from Tiburon Island The Indians are charged
With murder and cannibasm Some Mexican pros
pectors who landed the island two weeks ago
are said have been captured and killed and
partly eaten by the Indians. The Mexican Govern
ment sent a punitive expedition to the island The
soldiers ha a fight with the Indians and, according
II the story from Guayamas, killed number ana
captured six, who are I'm prison at GuayamaS
The Indians described as large. strong OF dark
complexion and wearing long hair. llouron or
Shark Island is in the Gulf of California and be
longs Mexico. 1t is about thirty miles long by
twenty wide MANY remarkable stories have been
told of the great size strength and ferocity of the
Indians by which il Is inhabited.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
RUN DOWN AT sAUGERTIEs CROSSING.
The Rev. Mr. SherwOOds S Son Killed, and His
Friend Seriously Injured.

Kingston, \. Y. July 25.-CIarence Sherwood
twenty-oue years old the of the Rev. Henry W
Sherwood killed, and William J. Turck IT.
was seriously injured tonight while crossing the
West Shore tracks al Saugerties road crossing in
their automobile They had escaped a northbound
freight train, but did not the approaching
sOuthbOund passenger
Mr.. Sherwood had just left school All his rela-
tives are in Maine Mr. Turck is the son OF Will
lam j. Turck, well known lumber dealer. The
young is not expected live
When DR.. Sahler went 10 Sherwood he said. AT
tend TO the other fellow I'm too far gone.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-26
STEAMSHIP MONGOLIA LAUNCHED
The Vessel Is the Second Largest Ever Built
in the United States.

Camden. \. j. July 25--The steamship Mongolia
Was launched to-day at the ward Of the New-York
Shipbuilding Company The Mongolia is the sec
ond largest ship ever built in the United states
She is 10 be used in the Philippines and china
trade Her sister ship. the Mauchuria will BE-
launched in October. Miss Lucy Bell KENNEDY OF
F1ttsburg. named the Mongolia.
The MOngolias dimensions are. Length Sl5 feet
S inches; breadth IS feet. depth 81 feet inches:
Indicated horsepower l2.O0O, speed IS knots: dis
Placement. 265l4 tons; gross tonnage 1850 pas
senger capacity first cabin $50. second cabin. 6S:
steerage 100 When laden she will draw thirty
two feet of water. She is constructed wholly OF
steel