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New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
IEFT,TUvIN.SIN H.4LLW4l
Priest Refused to Ch'1sfen 1hem ~
DLopye and CASTOR

Comfortably dressed In swaddlns ciotnes OF hre
.,,t,,ro two boys about days old. were found
Yesterday afternoon in the hallway of tenement
house AT No 20 Hubert-st They mad pech ie''
thor, bY \ Young woman fashonably dressed "ho
lad driven to and from the neighborhood in car
riare They are the first boy twins that haVe peeh
taken to the Bellevue founding ward
Mrs Kate Ryan. of No. 1S Beacn-st., iounu 'i'e
infants She was on her way to visit her sister
Mrs Patrick Saunders. who lives on the secohu
floor of thcN NHubert-st house. Both infants were
n-el dressed and as Mrs Ryan expressed H. o''s
people as have money could buy such ciothes
sides the regulation baby undergarments, an eA-
pensiyc long dress. The left sleeve OF one ui. 80
Was embroidered with pink silk and the other WIN
l,..o silk evidently as markers to tell them apdi'
,Trs RYAN is a communicate of the Roman Sdti'-
o,f, church and her first thought was to nave '"o
infants haptized She took them TO the Chufc" "'
&, Alnhonsus in West Broadway. near Cahal-s'',
and Father McKenna performed the baptislilai
ri,os Thinking of the Church caused desire III
tre beart of Mrs Ryan that they be caieu az
r,bons. and CASTOR but Father Mckenna oeciueu'
and they were christened Patrick and Joseph
ON the advice of Father McKenna. Mrs. Ryan
took the foundlings TO the Leonard-st s'atlo'' t
from there accompanied by policeman, she louh i
ties many questions about adoption. nut IhsS o."
nerhans wealthy home would be found IpI -
infants Or Warren. of Bellevue. VINO eNaii, eNIa.l ,J
the infants. said that both We're in Good ;,1ad in
three days the tv1rs viii he sent to the fou''uii"s
aSVIum RanddliS Island.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27

signal balls dc .ot always work perfectly. They
have failed to opercts twice The signals wer,
working the morning Of the accident.
electric signal and began to lower the gates [
saw the car coming down the street very slowly
and thought IT would stop. but when IL got 10
abou. twelve feet south OF the gates 1t seemed to
take a sort sudden start, and broke through the
gate and went over the freight tracks'
fle said the -aiIroad tracks were clear 90 snow
that morning.
The gateman said he had ATTENDED III. crossinz
about three years. lie described seVevs accidents
He said that sbout two months ot the
special High School cars had brOL' through both
rates.
What was The Of that accident"
f'The motOfman lost control
Tho witness said that had salt nus
on the tracks that morning
Theodore Co=des. conductor OF the I4ackaEsnua
train which struck the trolley car. testified thar
when his train left Roseville he was two minutes
late.
'sWere the tricks all right?" asked Mr.. Riker
The brakes worked very poorly. but the tracks
all right.
The fury thu went to the carhouse Of the North
Jersey inspected the wrecked and saw an
exhibition of Quick stopping Of another The
Jurors inquired about the sand box supposed 70
have been under the front OF the The sand
box under the other platform was intact and IN
good working order, but the one on the front
completely mashed.
The Board OF Works at it's meeting yesterday
passed third reading ordinance providing for
additional precautions at The crossings grade 0s
street railway and steam railway tracks.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
CAPT. BROWN THOUGHT 1T SUDDEN
His Application for Retirement Was Acted
on in Five Minutes.

CAPTAIN Edmund Brown. of Brooklyn, famarly
known in the Police Department ''Pincher'
Brown was deeply SrieVed at the suddenness with
which Police Commissioner Greene acted on his
application for retirement. The captain. having
decided that the present regime was too strenuous
for his advancing years, prepared an application
for retirement requesting that he be relieved from
duty March l.
The application reached Commissioner Greene's
attention on Wednesday afternoon. after the ad-
iournment of the trial of Captain Devanney in the
Brooklyn headquarters In five minutes the Com
missioner had retired Captain Brown and sent out
a notice of the retirement to all the stations.
When Captain Brown received this notice in his
Office in the Atlantc-aVe. station in the evening
he almost had stroke of apoplexy. Il didn t
exactly expect they would send around commit
tee to beg me 10 stay i'll the department., he mused
but l didn't expect to be thrown out in this
sudden manner 1t is not dignified. and don't like
it. / asked to be relieved March l. and l pro-
pose to serve until that time.
at stated intervals captain. ignoring the notice
of his retirement. Yesterday he unfolded his woe
TO Deputy Commissioner Ebstein. The latter went
over to see Commissioner Greene, who laughed and
said:
why, certainly Brown stay in as long he
likes. I didn't notice that he named March as the
day for his retirement. / wouldn't have hurt his
feelings for anything ,"
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
S1LSBURYS H4SII WILL
Uoman Drezc 1t Up Years Ago.
He Vas to Sail In "Od Tho.

vine1and n j. Feb. 2S (SpeCiaD--Mrs hdnluhu
Johnson wife of Colonel Johnson. "A wealthy resi-
dont of VineIand and sister of the Princess Sam
saIn, of Prussia has Just returned from New-1 orl<
CITY where she was a witness to the pfopate ol
rho will of Nate" Salisbury. the partner or Coionel
cody G3uffaIo Bib. The will, which lhVolVes d
fortune Of over 81 100000, dictated years ago
by Mrs Johnson.
Tho "RufaIo RU'' show was travelling IN Ger
many when the United States Government recaIIfd
tho American Indians Being Strasburg at the
time the show company put the horses III an olu
convent there and stored all the saddles and Dag
gage in the garret of the nome of Colonel f'aHihu
Johnson the nearest United states Consul theh
at I<ie Ten thousand dollars was placed III the
hands of Mrs johnson for defraying the expenses
of the stock and paying wages to the ShowInen
Johnson because she had taken on herself the
band being ill. -
On the day before starting for the Chileu So"
Salisbury remarked that the vessel on Whlch ne
learning that he had not made WILL told h'nl
that as he placing his life IN danger II was ms
duty to make VIII providing for his wife, then IN
delicate health. "All right" replied SALISBURY put
I don't know much about the wording OF wills;
You show me" Mrs. johnson thereupon dlcttIeo
Salsburys will he wrote IT, tne CONT o,.
of the instrument being, in fact, entlreiy uhuet
Mrs. JOhnsOn'S direction g.. 5o,s
ago when she WAS summoned 10 New Vth ot Iii Iii
as a Witness She had forgotten ABOUT the VIII,
thinking the time that 1t was ior oniy GinpU it on M
when he had time, execute VIII ulIuei 'he
supervision of a lawyer
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
NO SILT OR SAND.
It5;tuesses at Nezcmk U'rech Inquest
F6HHd None

,rb inouest into the Clifton-ave- grade crossing
.ragadv in Newark resumed at Ne"aIh St7
terdav Joseph Shapiro, a high school pupll' wiz
s.a,ear ON The trolley, testified that as
.ho car neared the crossing he heard some one
shout; Jump for your lives! Shapiro JLipeL
from the car and he landed on Inc rodu eds- 90
of the trolley tracks he grabbed the sou1Il -,
cote He was asked if the gate was down wheii ~
H. reacbed it and he replied: Il think caushe II
lust as it coming down.
princinal stearns, of the high school who went
+o the crossing Immediately after the COLLISION sdu
he found no evidences of sand on the tracks He
could see the steel rails through rus III 'lle sli"
b,t that was all. He declared: There was aoou'
six inches of snow there. 1t was dry anu Ieoly ~
with no sign of moisture. 1t was sHshus "7o
oredu Mr. Stearns added that he hah Nlsi'eu
Supertntendent Chapman and spent sevefai nou9
in his office, trying to effect a reform III ui . 60
service He had asked for special high schooi car
and the limiting of the number of passengers pul
had been unable TO get any satisfaction Inc Ioie
man of the jury said to the witness
"a iuror requests me to ask If yon nave seen
-ohnoi chtldren on the front platform at any other
place. 49,, c,.&
ton-ave at the hour the children are coming 10
school I've noticed children on the front platform
That would be about six or seven times.
Professor William Wiener of the high schooi
faculty testified that the morning OF the aecl
dent he walked up Clifton-ave before clocA' anu
noticed the condition of the tracks between Orange
st and the crossing and found from one-halr men
to three-quarters of inch of snow on the rails
He was certain there salt on the tracks or
snow over the tracks at that time. "Ihere was no
moisture he said IF salt had been placed there
there would have been moisture; ,e, O,
.'How many children use the Clifton-aye. crossing
each morning? -. ,,,,5-ed
"Our records snow that between seven hunGFeu
and eight hundred children cross at that pollt.
DO you know how many trains pass pe'NS0N
and O'CLOCK each morning.
Il do not know how mainy trains there are but
they mass at Intervals Of three to four minutes.
Christophe Condor. the sateman for the "a n
awanna Railroad Company at CIifton-aNe. IeStLiSu
that trains were crossing all the tune ana theIe
was a lot of drilling on the freight tracks up "
DO YOU have signals for the drilling trains he
no: we have to go out and watch them The
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
GO TO JUSTICE HERRICk.
Jerome and Hagantan La7cyers Con-
ter 7ciM Him.
HEARING BEFORE SURROGATE TO-DAY

The principal step taken in the Delabarr
Hagaman yesterday was the visit of Henry
w Unger, counsel for the relatives of Mr. Haga-
man. and his law partner Abraham Levy. on
District ATTORNEY Jerome. Assistant District
Attorney Garvan called in while the pa
pers that Mr. Unger had given to Mr.. GarVah
wore gone over 1t was decided to state sew
eral facts to Justice Herrick. The latter was
sitting in the Supreme Court. but he called a
recess and Mr. Caravan presented seVerai docu-
ments which. it said afterward sho"eu
that a rigorous investigation was necessary.
MIR Jerome said later that no action had beeh
decided on except to continue the ihVest'sa-
tions 1t was declared that no steps to"dIu "a
the exhumation of Mr.. Hagamans oody Nouiu
no taken before the proceedings before Surro-
gate Fitzgerald to-day 1t is thought thd'
nothing will be done in that direction
Mfr Unger said that he had called on MI
Jerome to give him additional data ana lac'''
Refore going into the conference Mr.. unger
said: :.
THE other side has asserted all along that 1t
sottled with Isaac Hagaman and his two sisters
for = lump sum Of $4,000. Isaac Hagaman o'u
sign a release but he got a cent mat :
one o. the things want investigated: puo ou
there are others even more important Iii ~
nature of which | don't care to disclose u'ltu
after the District Attorney has had cnahce 10 ~
know all the facts in possession ana 10 iiIah
up his mind what he is going to DO a9oue a2C IT, an
Isaac Hagaman went to NeN-IidNt,l ""
"Wednesday night after his talk with Mr- UhSer'
hut he returned to this city yestefday' anu va"
in consultation in Mr. Ifnger's office.
DR. r. {. Flower yesterday reIterattu f ~
stat, nlent that he is being bounded ny ''l'iii.S
enemies He was in consultation "ltn I,.9 Ia "a
tornevs but he said that until the othet 9tne
took some action it would not be necessary lor
IL it IS r1Imored Yesterday that charges OF az
+cmpted blackmail had been made III col!heCtloH
with the necklace episode in AleXandria - I'dy
David NJ Rockmore, lawyer, l NJ p;"bn'an @
Por- and a son-in-aw of Louis i. R1chndl,
Ivould not talk on the subject. He sald ne hdu
nothing to say about that affair or the Fds"
man case but he intimated that he couio say d
sreat dea, about the latter il he wished 10. -,
A hearing of the arguments of counsel IN aile
Hagaman case will he held pelore
Fitzgprald to-day at 1890 a. m.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
SAYS HE KILLED FIVE WOMEN.
After Confessing Murders, Man Hopes They
viii Be Easy With Him"

Hamilton Ohio. Feb. 26.-Alfred Knapp, who
was arrested in indianapolis yesterday on the
charge of numbering his third wife. has con-
fessed to killing his second wife also and three
other women as weh. After swearing to a writ
ten confession OF his various murders. Knapp
admitted that he had repeatedly assaulted
women He said: II cannot tell what made me
kill these people. 1 could not help it Some
kind of desire to kill took hold of me. and L
could not resist the temptation to Kill. am
sorry for my crimes but L hope they Will be
easy with me-
Knapp is afraid Of being lynched.
Cincinnati, Feb. 26.-Mrs. Sadie Wetze Al
bert Knapp's sister, on hearing of his confess
sion in Hamilton to numbering five women, went
to police headquarters and thence to Hamilton.
She said that her brother, when five years old,
was kicked by a colt and later was struck by
lightning, and only for her parents she would
have had him adiudged insane
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
TO ARREST KROEHL.
Nay Try also to Declare HIM In
Uofuntary Bankrupt

Asbury Park Feb. 2s-A warrant for the
arrest Of President Kroebl. Of the First National
Bank a director of the Monmouth Trust and Safe
Deposit Company has been issued at the instance OF
Prosecutor of the Pleas Foster Mr. Kroeh who is
now in Brooklyn. will come here Tomorrow it T.
said and accept service II is also given out that
a warrant for the arrest another Official Of the
trust company will be served this week The charge
against Mr.. KroehI is that the report submitted By
the trust company January % IS 70 It's condition
false 8Ir kroedI signed this report a. an
official Of the company.
IL is said that application will be made n the
United States Court 70 have Mr.. KroehTs assign
ment set aside and TO have l.iTn declared invoi-
untaTy bankrupt. on the ground that he assigned
with Ihe intent 10 give preference To his NevYork
and European creditors
meeting Of the stockholders of tho Frazer
Mountain Copper Company was held Yesterday.
Stockholders bought enough additional stock at par
to meet all the outstanding ObligatiOns and place
the mill. in NeWMexiC0 a working basis for
the next two months. Colonel George Harvey Of
New-YOrk. vfte-president the Monmouth Trust
Company bought the largest block Of stock sold
yesterday.
this evening from Washington. He was accom-
panied by two Secret SeTvI-e men, and II is hntcd
that something important is likely TO develop.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
PAPER MANUFACTURERS MEET HERE
They Elect Officers and Enjoy Dinner al
the Waldorf Astoria

The twenty-sxth annual meeting OF the Amer
lean PAPER and Pulp Association was helo yes
terday at the Waldorf-AstOra. Arthur G Hast
ings presided There about seventy-hve mem
bers present.
Officers were elected follows: PRESIDENT
George w Knowlton, of Watertown, n Y; wee
presidents ]. Sanford Barnes, New-IOrk; George
T. Bardeen OtsegO, Mich James \. ROBERTS,
New-YorI, Fred Bertuch, New-York: Frank Grubo'
New-York J. Richard Carter, Boston and B. D.
Rising Housatonic, Mass The election of sec
retary and treasurer referred to special
committee with power TO act later on. This action
was taken because there was proposition before
the association to establish permanent headquar-
ters which would involve engaging some one for
secretary and treasurer who could give his entire
time the work.
q In the evening the paper and pulp men mad
dinner in the big banquet hall OF the Waldorf
About 500 covers were laid Arthur c Hastings
presided At the guest table were John b wise,
the Rev. j. /. Lyon, of Holyoke. Mass; +. F.
Murphy and r. V. Welch, OF Niagara Falls. besides
the officers of the association. There were no set
toasts and speeches Mr. Wise and Dr. Lyon
kp briefly
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
THE OXYGEN OF THE BLOOD.

p.iIade!phia Feb 96-Some novel theories con-
rerning human physiology and disease have peeh
advanced here by DIR. c. Z. de VI. Salons. IN
raper Just presented 10 the local medical society
he declares that they the outcome OF fourteen
wears Of study Or Salons believes that the oxy-
gen absorbed IN the lungs by the blood is not
carried alone by the rcd corpuscles, but Is also
hor1lo about IN combination with substance
which he pretends to have discovered This is said
10 be secreted by the supra-renal glands, small
glands lust above the kidneys and hitherto thought
10 have no junction whatever. To the combination
OF this secretion and oxygen he gives the name
audrenoNin'' Health depends. in his opinion
,11,or INC activity with which the glands produce
a. According % DR. Salons the supra-renal glands
in -lirn arc controlled by the anterior tor front
,,i,st.vv hody which is situated I'm the brain. He
declares that ne has found nerves connecting the
NO THE kew 20 the whole situation, he says. is
me Nisor on weakness of the anterior pituitary
hodT.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
IMPROVEMENT AT CORNELL.
Plans for Student Work-New Cases OF
Fever Among Townspeople.
TRr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIRrNE.l j

Ithaca, y. Y, Feb 26--Most of the di1lefenl
college faculties held meetings to-day in accord
anee with President Schurmans letter yester-
day. and made plans for the making up OF pack
work by students who have been absent Inc
law faculty will defer the matter until after
Easter when all the students are expected 10
be back Special classes will then be given III
the work now being covered. The College OF
Architecture will give special problems to Jun
iors and seniors to be done at home The at
tendance at the classes showed a small increase
to-day although few students left the city
The citizens of Ithaca 90 not seem to be OBJ
; serving precautions against typhoid as care
fully as are the students. Eleven new cases
were reported to Health Officer Hitchcock in
the twenty-four hours ending at p. M last
night but none of these were students. One
death has occurred in the city, Many of the
new cases now reported said to be due 10
secondary infection and not directly to the
water.
The question of municipal ownership OF the
water plant is arousing much discussion among
the townspeople. and the election on Monday
rext is being eagerly awaited by both sides
The city Board of Health declined last night 10
begin patrolling the watershed of the present
supply, on the ground that such action n1lght
be taken as indorsing the water supply now be-
ing used.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION LACKING
Every Reason to Believe That Rock Island
Has Got the Frisco

Official confirmation is still lacking OF the re-
ported acquisition of the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railroad system by the Rock Island Company.
but there every to believe that the trans
action either has been or is on the point of being
closed Leading interests in the Frisco and the
Rock Island yesterday referred inqurers 10 j. T.
Morgan Co. who early In the day in;ima ted
that a statement would be issued before night.
Late in the afternoon however, George w. Perkins
the Morgan firm. when asked for a statement,
replied:
II have nothing TO say
The control OF the Frisco will give the Rock ISL
and n vast of lines, of aggregate length
of about fourteen thousand miles. This system
tends 20 Denver the west. St. Paul and Min
neapolis the north TO El Paso on the southwest,
Galveston. Sabine Pass and New-orleaus on
the south and the east TO Chicago, reached
both by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois now CON
trolled by the Frisco. and by the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific, and TO Birmingham, Ala. Ii is
reported that the Rock Island is also to take over
the Central of Georgia Railway Company, which
would give il outlet from Birmine ham the
Atlantic seacoast at Savannah. and also that the
Atchson IS 10 be factor in the deal-some Atch-
ison interests to enter the Rock Island board
and Rock Island men are to become directors Of
the Atchison.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
MORE JOHN DOE" SUBPGNAS.
Justice Mayer Non-Committal About One
Reported To Be for Devery.

Justice Mayer of the Court of Special sessions,
who is conducting secret investigation regarding
some police officer supposed to be an inspector,
and has heard testimony from Captain Herhhy'
ex-Captain Diamond. ex-Serseant Churchill and
several other witnesses who are supposed to know
about former police protection of dens OF vice IN
the district east of the Bowery, issued about forty
more subpenas yesterday Assistant District At
torney Morgan took the bundle of subpoenas to his
Office but would not tell who were TO be summoned
next in the inquiry.
There has been report about the Crmlnal
Courts Building that ex-Chief Devery would be
called as q star witness in the investigation JUS
tice Mayer was asked yesterday if among the new
subpenas issued there one for Devery, and he
replied:
II refuse either to confirm or deny that such a
subpoena has been issued.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
ORIENTAL ART GOODS SOLD.

The three days sale of antique Chinese p0rce-
Iains jades snuff bottles. japanese faIenee, metal
work ivory carvings and other cabinet OBJECTS
opened at the American Art Galleries yesterday
afternoon when over two hundred lots were auc-
80 rs brirsire- 81 ri The buyers included
Mrs F1brtdce T. Gerry Mrs. George Bliss Ms
lanes Cunningham Mrs Austin sands MS
isUes + Morris Willis Munro. Philip G. Bartlett
- m Drew and DIR. q. w. kOsnak- ,
Mrs Bliss obtained wood carving focT anu alu
baIf inches high signed So+in. depicting en- ans;
tiger crouChed IOr the spriDE- at 80 aa fs.J ,1-
lars purchased for Nrs- West heavy WhlIe StS
chinese shawl twelve feet four inches III Si'stS -
srJ fbfrtV-tSO inches in width. exclusive OF tl0
knotted fringe; for Mr.. Durrant. solid en- snl5
broidered silk temple hanging. with pure ST. 81
J,rOcade border and for Mr.. kOOpman- an eAiL
efghteruth century gsliipot shaped temple jar oi
old kutani porcelain. sixteen inches hlSn-
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
A MAN HUNT IN CONNECTICUT
Negro Suspected of Murder Pursued oy
Woodchoppers.
lay TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIFuNE.j

IRY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRifuNh'J
Derby. Conn., Feb. 26.-Vowing that theE VIII
have a negros life. a dozen woodchoppers are
searching the woods between this city ana oA-
ford for Fred Jackson. farmland, Who they
assert murdered Henry Resnett, a fellow "oou-
chopper at Resnett's cabin. in oxford Inc
ca bin was seen to be on fire Monday night anu
the owners charred body, gashed IN seVe'al
places was found in the ruins. Men VINO ran
IN the fire met Jackson coming from the burh-
ing bin with freshly cleaned knife in his hahu-
He was arrested and held until last night Wheh
Coroner Mix ordered his release on the Srouno
of insufficient evidence jackson went 10 tIie
oxford Hotel barroom. where Resnetts tlends
had gathered and denouncing the cor
oners action. They Immediately SET upon nm .,
ond heat him severely and only a ruse by the
bartender saved the terrified negros he. JACK
son had a good start into the woods pe1ore ms
assailants gave chase and thus far ne mas
eIuded his pursuers All Oxford is angry over
Jackson's release. 1t developed to-day tnat ne
bought a can of kerosene oil few hours pe1ore
the fire
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
CROSSES COUNTRY WITH SMALLPOX
italian Sent to North Brother Island After
Spending Night in Boarding House.

Angelo Retto, thirty-sx years old Italian
has travelled the brea 18th of the country suffering
from virulent form of smallpox He from
California by the Southern Pacific Railroad. ar
irving here on Tuesday last. He went to the
furnished house kept by family named
CALI at No III Sullivan-st. He i'll on
Wednesday that he sent to the Bureau for
Dependent Adults.
On his arrival there DR.. Biauvelt. of the Health
Department, was asked to send a physician to
have the examined An inspector sent
and he found that Rotto was suffering from well
North Brother Island
New-York tribune., 1903-02-27
CONTEST IN WEST SIDE CLUB.
]. Van " OlcOtt Candidate for President;
r. T. Greene May Be.

There is to be a contest in the West Side Repuo-
ican Club at the annual election of officers on
March l. unless te hetehet is buried hetVeen the
factions before that time. The friends OF J. van
Vechten OIcott have prevailed upon him TO run
for the presidency, and the friends OF President
Richard T. Greene want him te run asaih ne
does not want a denomination. Assistant corpora
tion Counsel lie Roy d. Bail says that the issue
is Cugr and anti-Cuigs, and that Mr. Olcott IS the
AlIic-g canG. iate.