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New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
ARRIVALS OF BUYERS.

A G Kirbv jr MaysvfIe Ohio: drvgoods. Albert.
r Dallneyer Drygoods Company, jefferson City, MO :
Hoskins & Jones. Gonzales, Tex E. B. Hoskins dry
goods.
siegeI-Cooper Company. Chicago; =. Cozad drygoods
Imperial.
Goldman & Co. Monroe, La: NJ Goldman, 6rygoods,
Philip Joseph wife Comersville. Ind department
store, Imperial
Famous Company, Limited, Monroe, La Iheoiore
Marx drygoods Criterion.
Walbush & Co. Wichita. Kan; Charles G. Cohn dry
goods, Imperial =,
Hoskins &c Jones Gonzales, Tex Miss hate HarErlder'
millinery. st. Denis
John H Estes & Co Richmond Mo- John II. Estes.
department Thirteent-st. and University Place
W. a. & Co, Louisiana. Mo: W a. Smith, de-
partment store Thirteenth-st. and University Place
Interstate Merchandise Company, Winona, Mimi
Charles l.. Gray. department store.
Wenstein Company Helena Mont; Mrs F. M
Kempsey. millinery Broadway Central
H Gottschalk. Chester Penn; J. Gottschalk millinery,
II. Lowenhart and wife Lexington. Ky: clothing
Clemens Harding Charles City. Iowa; {. F. Harding,
drygoods. broadway Central.
A Scheuer. wife and Chicago. Ill; shirts and
clothing, No III West Eighty -seyentG-st
Baird Brothers Shreveport La; Lesa Muller drygoods
St Denis.
Mrs J. NJ Morris Lexington. Ky; ladies' tailor.
Miss VI. Summers. Freeport. III: millinery.
The Famous, st. Louis. No; e a Marks, department
Reich & Thoma Springfield. I'll; NJ o. Heimich.
dressmaker No. 212 West Fffteenth-s St
Ndrien nofi0ns CSpaRx 5 9s AaF0"
DeNoy & Trafarn. Camden N y: VI. Ella Dewey,
millinery No 446 East hundred and seventeenth St
Slaner & Flaxnlan. Hobart. Okla; =. Slaner, dry
William Donaldson & Co; Minneapolis, Mimi; NJ. Cree
dom drygoods. Normandie
KessIer Brothers Macon Ga; Kesser, drygoods care
of J. Conn. No. 80 Bond-st
r. Kirshbaum Company, Union City Ind; a Reitenour
drygoods Herald Square.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
HELD ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE.
Counsel for and Member of r. G. DUN & Co.
Arrested.

On short affidavit to by Central Office
detective Peter r. Gatens. counsel for r. G.. Dun
& Co, and Francis L. Minton a member of the
firm were arraigned and held before Magistrate
Breen in the Tombs court yesterday
The affida Wit charged them with conspiracy and
named Charles A. Henderson, of No. 346 Broadway
assistant manager of the International Mercantile
Agency. as the one who caused the arrests. Hen
derson did not appear in court. and the was
adjourned until this afternoon.
Messrs. Gatens and Minton arrested in a
sailors hotel in South-st detectives declaring
that they heard conversation between The de-
PENDANTS and named Fowler. formerly in
the employ Of the International Mercantile Agency.
About month ago Mr.. Ha wke representing the
International Agency. complained at Police Head
quarters that representatives of the Dun company
were doing things detrimental to the business of
the International Agency. AS a result of the COM
plants Detectives Gargan and Tinker placed
on the case, and the arrests Of yesterday followed.
Later Mr. Miuton said: Detective Gargan will
admit that he heard tell Fowler we wanted
this We got judgment against the Inter
national Agency in the First Municipal Court on
Wednesday last in action to recover possession
of two copies OF a book, under writ of replevin,
known The Mercantile Agency Reference Book
for the City of New-York, printed and copyrighted
by r. G.. Dun & Co. We claim that the Interna-
tiona Agency is using book in its business and
desire to enjon them from doing in the future -
Messrs Mnton and Gatens were released bail.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
THINKS DAUGHTER WAS HYPNoTIzED.
Mrs. Heath Mentions Prize Fighter-Gen-
eral Alarm Sent Out

Miss Irene Heath. the Sayenteen-year-ol6 daush-
II Mrs. Eliza West Heath. of Mamaroneck-on-
the-Sound. who disappeared on Sunday, is still
missing Her mother. who is almost heartbroken
over her disappearance. asked the police last night
send alarm for her daughter all over the
state Mr. Heath declared that She would arply
10 Juds" Boyd. of Mamaroneck. to-day, for a waT-
rant der daughter. that if she is found in
1bis city She he brought hack Ia Mamaroneck
or the charge Of being disorderly child. As told
ia the papers Yesterday. the girl. after visiting
Mrs e. ". Herbert for three months, came last
week 20 this city on Saturday she returned to
Mamsfonecf. and sunday evening boarded a
trolley car and disappeared
Mrs Heath declared last night that she believed
her daughter under the hypnotic influence of
=, prize fighter who lived in Harlem. He gave her
a IocI5ct ABOUT three months which in
scrihed From Dan 10 Irene She added:
she seemed infatuated with him. and believe
bc exercised some strange power over her, rs she
dorS I received q letter to-day from stranger in
which hc SAYS he found q high hat and lady
handkerchief the trolley tracks near the spot
where Irene Sunday night That makes
D, suspicious What adds TO my Inference
isar she has been hypnotized S the statement of
pneck boys. who say they met Irene last night at
One hundred-and-tWCnty- y-fifth-st. and Lexington
axe. They say she acted strangely and cvaded
heir questions until finally. when they asked her
here she had been. she replied Il am preparing
go TarrytoNn. and from there to Albany -
Then she hurried away. and has not been seen
since. far aS l can learn. though Mrs. Herbert
declares she i in safe hands.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
REGTTL4RS IID 4DDICko.
TIco Join He Unions to SaUc p0fer s
assistant Lac.

Dover Del. Feb. 1.-THE Dill repeaii"S '''
Voters Assistant law was killed to-day ny W."
Regular ans-Representatlves AsPih
and Derrickson-but they both declared ''l'Vi
ward that their votes on the repeal olii olo ho'
r,eap that they would vote for Addicks for
United States Senator. On the contrary MI
Aspril said: Before 1 would vote for j. Ed
ward Addicks would butt my brains out, and
Mr.. Derrickson said that his vote had no bear
ing on the Senate situation.
The bill was called up in the House this morn
ing a special order by Representative Rose, VINO
introduced it. He spoke briefly, only saying
that it well known to all the people OIL the
State as obnoxious measure, and should De
repealed Then the vote taken Tyre and
Price. elected as Regular Republicans, were. or
course expected to vote with the Union Repuo-
licans but with he help of the other five Regu-
lar Republicans, the Democrats would have had
the necessary majority of the whole member
ship of the House to pass the measure 1t was
defeated, however. by Aspril and Derr1ckson, the
result being IL for to 10 against
At first there was general belief that Ad-
dicks had won over two more of his opponents
as he captured Tyre and Price. This would
leave just the necessary six Regular Republi-
cans to combine with the Democrats in Senate
election but with the Regulars so coy about
a coalition and detection of two-fifths of their
number already the situation had anything but
a hopeful appearance. Mr.. Asprifs reaffirma-
ton of his position Addicks brought much
relief and Mr.. Derrickson's statement added to
this feeling. If Mr. Derrickson's statement had
been stronger, though, 1t would have been ex-
ceedingly gratifying to his anti-Addicks col
leagues. His Il will not vote for Addicks' was
nothing like as firm as his No to the Repeal
bill
Both the explained their votes by saying
that there in their districts who
ded he
said that he favored amendment to the pres
ent law which would require a man to swear
that he needed assistant before taking any
one into the booth with him.
The ballots for Senator showed no change
from yesterday. They were as follows:
Long Term-Addicks, 10; Salisbury Dern)
10: Dupont. 8; Higgins, ,
Short Term-Addicks, II; Kenney (Dem), 49,
Higgins s; Hilles, 2; Richardson -
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
-. e. =, eea Nadison-ave.

five story apartment house No. 1,SsS Madison-a'e'
The lot is 25x1O0 feet t-
William Richtberg has sold for EDWARD 'oIo az
the houses No. 67i Eighth-ave. and NO z't NeS0
rortv-tbird-st These houses abut each otner me
former Is four story building on lot 2xSo feet' anu
the latter a frame building ON lot zoxso iee'' Ai
buyer is an investor -.o+o
lanes N weIiss Sons have sold Tor the e9'' ~
Of Julia Bruce to Josephine w ColPy pt5 nrg tbird-
etorv dwelling house. No 42f west ~ is 95x,
SIament c. Moore leasehold Inc loI y --
1l7.6 feet. -. -. -o1s IN a client of A J.
11onb for T Sternberg, the three story anu oad aTd
rnent dwelling house. No 40 East @ hoI,Ss No
f p 81 Peftigrew the similar dwelling nouse NJ
3SS East Fiftieth-st. The lots are corner of
exineton ave and Sixty-second-st lILeS
md basement dwelling house, on lot zo2xeS & lse- 20
Henry e Zittel has sold for LOUIS s,n On lot
rhnnnas riIIon the three story dwelling mousse on loc
70 o1n0 feat No 210 East Sixtysecond-st he mas
sold also for Mrs. Margaret Cough 20 ,ara Va, 10
Tho three story and basement dWeinnS no1 1rto Iof
i269 Lexington-ave.. near Eighty-sA'h-s'- INC "
is 20x3S. He feet ,..oouo cor,nanv has
sold to Silverman Son. for !mproVe IIe rnJ
i(slx1O2 feet on the north side OF One-nu @ GU
st 275 feet cast OF EigntIi- -d't
Jackson e Stern have bought from MIS- ~ q
b no. story and basement dwelling house. No III
E,ast Observation-Disclosures, between Fourth ana LA
iIpton ayes The lot is 20x9S.9 feet c;.L
SIauson e Hobbs have sold for pierre j. SLnIIri
he four story and basement brick ana stone % u" t
house No. III west SeNeiitS-IOuith
is 20x1022 feet ley, 1oeenb u
William J. Roome, in conjunction with Joseph pm a. ~
Dav has sold for Frederick s. Myers to Emil 1 fSuuI @
the two four story tenement houses NOS 4oo dIIu
4.o West Fiftv-folirth-st The plot has a frontage
of 90 feet. Mr.. Myers bought TINS properly "OO
three months ago through Mr.. Roone
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
LIKE .NEW.1Rk -4CCIDENI. 4.
7sco Trolley Cars Crash Through
Gates at Orange.

orange y j. Feb. q (Specap--"lIhih zen 'hiii-
,Ites this morning two trolley cars On 'iie oi"'e
ard Passaic Valley line got teyend the cohuoi
f rno,err,en and crashed across the tracks of the
Iackawanna Railroad at the Cone-st CROSSING
The first car ran through the gates and INTO d
train which was standing in the station. Inc
,no,orman got il under control just as the fenue'
str1,ck the train The second car ran into a mllh
wagon and knocked down horse. Other"lSe
there was no damage from either
The first car was in charge of John Ober, motoi-
man 1t contained about dozen passengers. Some
of them urged him to make good time gong
down Cone-st as they wanted to take the tram
for New-York. Ober admits that in goihs uo
the slight incline he forgot about the snppeiS
rails and that when his car got beyond ms Gun
troll he forgot to any sand on the tracks. As
the car crashed through the gates the tram was
lust about 10 pull eut but the engineer Was
stopped by tie shouts of people who saw i tne
danger that the trolley passengers were IN onel >
his father with his breakfast. Ober assumed ali
the blame for the collision and said that IL was
John 6irds. the motorman of the second ear
also admitted that he forgot to put any sano on
tracks Both were discharged After. the, acciI
dents the company sent out man with III, noeia 1 q
runs Ht1a from p Orange valley to Bioomhed and only
about enough regular men are empoye@a @ 10 creHs
rather tied up the line and this afternoon Jonn a
Ely. the superintendent was Obliged 10 ac' do
Notwithstanding the dangerous nature epa @a te foe
Cone-st crossing there is no eI device tnere ioi
Both cars that slid down the hill are practlcaiiE
ment only on H few months ago With new cars About
three weeks ago control of another car Was Iose
across the tracks passing within fifty feet of the
pilot OF weStbound train as ii rolled into the sti
tion At that time the gateman saw the car COM
ing and raised gates just in time to allow it
free passage Had the gates remained g down the ne
impact might have halted the car just enough 10
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
Ex-cApTAIN DIAMOND EXAMINED.
Testifes in Jerome's Secret Inquiry Against
Some Police Officer.

Justice Mayer of the Court of Special Sessions,
yesterday presided magistrate at another
secret session of the investigation which District
Attorney Jerome Is conducting to get evidence
against some police officer supposed to be an in
spector. Mr.. Jerome away. but Assistant
District Attorney Morgan examined ex-Pohce Cap
tain Diamond. who was called witness. No
information as to the testimony of Diamond was
given out but it was said that the former captain
assured before he was questioned that nothing
he told the inquiry would be used against him
personally. The same promise. 1t is understood.
made to Captain Herlihy when he was ques-
toned at the investigation last week.
In addition Diamond. it said a former
'police collector in the district east Of the Bow
cry examined Among the witnesses who have
been called il the secret inquiry thus far are
George Bissert, the former wardman at the Firth
station. who convicted and obtained new
trial: James Churchill, the former acting captain
at that station. who was dismissed from the force;
Lena Schmidt, Minnie KurtZ and Rose Greenberg,
who witnesses in Bsserts case, and others
who were in the district east of the Bowery when
Inspector Cross had charge of the district.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
TO ABOLISH CONTRACT SYSTEM.
REPRESENTATIVES of $4,000 Tailors Organize
for a Crusade.

Representatives Of about seventy-flNe thousand
5silors throughout the country held a convention
yesterday in Florence Hail. Second-aVe- ana trst-
St. to take measures for fighting the contract 5!
TEN. Fifty-nine local unions we're represented py
DELEGATES from New-York Newark, Boston. Phla-
.elphia Pittsburg Baltimore. Syracuse, St LOUIS
Chicago and a number OF other cities All the
clothing trades represented except the cutters
To carry the objects Of the convention lhe
Following executive committee Was appointed: l.
Drubin president: William Chuck. secretary; H.
Nsprnar. treasurer: Max Forgotsky and W f6lull-
Alter the convention was over the chairman maoe
The following statement: - -.
Our objects are 10 DO away with the contract
system in the trade to bring about A uniform sys
of wages ami hours OF labor 10 nghI IoI .lS s
Substitution OF electricity and steam power for
footwork with sewing machines and TO hrihg dooat
other reforms This is the biggest movement IN
rhe trade Vet undertaken Strikes viii not neces-
sarily be weapons in the fight II we can accom-
rliSh reforms by peaceful agitation
HEADQUARTERS win be established in this city
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
DE4FMOTHER Il WII.NESS
<fnsscers Questions By Watch'nt
N,y {. b. Duryea's Lips.

100, sit,,atiop occurred Yesterday in Part III
of the Supreme Court. where testimony was Us Us
taken in a suit for separation brought oy MI ..
Chester Burnell puryea. When Mrs. DurSea .
mother Mrs Franklin Waldo Smith was caiieu
to the witness stand it was explained ina' sue va, W.
stone deaf Mrs. Smith was one OF the oeeu''iu
Bevan sisters. of Baltimore. and was coIlspicuo
AT the inauguration President Lincoln ier hoii'o
;s ,n fsoacon-st Boston Her testimony was Wahleu
in the separation suit, and counsel asked 'iei' M
Duryea be permitted to repeat queStioiis " -0
witness saving that Mrs. Smith could reau 'ie
lips of her daughter. 80 -
ti6ed freely repeating the questions put TO her
and then answering them. keeping her eye Oh MI :.
Duryea's lips all the time. She corronorateo III pa
the story told on the witness stand by her daughtei
Mrs Duryea testified yesterday that she was suo-
iected to much cruelty by her husband. When they
were living at Sioux City, in September is9s. sre
said her husband was abusive to her IN bnm 1n9 and
finally ordered both TO leave the house IN th tle
house she said her husband entered the sitting Ing
room and said he supposed she was telling the5 he5
about him. That evening he was so Vioent iildt
she, frightened and took refuge M IF IN benF her
= n Later the he beT LATER 0 on she
said, he threw all her clothing and eweiry oG rtv ~
his o room ,,1 and said; Get out anu take S00i
Mrs Dryea said that one occasion her d haf 1aft
her without carfare and she obliged to peg LOT
the aaf PACE TO ne m her of being drunk
AT Palm Beach, Fla. when she was Ill. slle .ri
her husband compeieu ner 10 seep
window ledge while he occupied a comtor iS .aoiS
bed Before she driven to separate mel S SCI =.
from her husband she said, she was compeleo 70
% TO a fancy dress ball when she had measles, anu
Vas subjected to many other insults and hardsh1ps M
,Tloir reeiationshp ceased in July, 1901. and her
b,,sband had been compelled to pay $40 month 10
her by order of the court .,. e +hn Starch
General Hiram Duryea, president OF lne .ifed
rust who is Mrs Duryea's father-in-Iaw ttstiGu hi
for the defence in the afternoon re & Salu ~, to
daughter-in-iaw made complaints WneS SionS me
-;stad the Young couple at their home IN olouA
cifW hut later She complained OF bad treatment
and sent written statement OF her thst If anv
wrong had been done her | would stano og S nsa
IovaIy She told me that If my son disputed 5 one
+Gnty that she said she would take legtil proceeu
ings / told her if she was going TO act 'ha@ way
SeneraI Durvea was directed by the court 10 pro
d1ce the written statement sent to hn' anu ne ne
nromised 70 produce it to-day when the tes'lhoh!
SC
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
THE BEST FRIEND OF THE NEGRO. ;
Southern Whites Way of Proving Their
Defenders Assertion.

Shreveport, La, Feb. 24.-Frank Brown, a
negro, was Hnched at McDade station near
here. early this morning Brown shot a man
named Connell. but not fatally.
Griffin. Ga, Feb 2i-William Fambro, a
negro. was shot to death the outskirts of this
city last night by mob of who fired on his
house. Fambros wife. who was in the house. es-
capei injury. More than thousand shots were
fired into the house before the mob went away.
The negro some time ago was arrested on d
charge OF insulting white woman and her
child, and sentenced TO term in the county
chain gang. His fine was afterward paid by his
employer.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
REAL ESTATE.
I7C0 important Wall Street Sales
Reported.

The Wall Street district the centre Of activity
in the real estate market yesterday Two sales
reported. a third report denied The
City Real Property Investing Company has sold to
the International Banking Corporation it's option
Nos. 5s and 90 Wall-st No. 81 WaH-st has been
sold by the United States Realty and Construction
Company. 1t is believed that the buyer of this
parcel also was the International Banking Cor
poraton. The option held by the City Real Property
Investing Company extended to Nos 63 and g. Pine
St. which abuts on Nos. IS and 60 Wall-st in the
rear The price paid s525,0c0 The option held
al s45000o, and for three years The propertv
is owned by Edith c. Iselin, wife of c. O'D IseIin
The dimensions of Nos IS and so Wan-st are 3, sx
l126 feet. The Pinest parcel is 4S11x7S7 feet The
frontage of No. 81 Wall-st is 255xI16 10 feet The
price paid was $25OOOO. 1t brought $4,000 in 1902
1t is understood that the International Rantino
corporation will eventually improve the property
The International Banking Corpora tion v,aS ~
canned last year to conduct an international hank
ing business In all parts of the world II has
Singapore and San Francisco It is the sea aaen
Hl & tne CRed states in China in charge of the col
G seIiGn OF the Chinese indemnity. and is also the
Scai @ agent gent for the civil government OF the Philip
It was also fepored is tat Wam Nn1 4 M9yer
ana Nos; l6l and l6S Pearl-st had been sold To a
less the sale Of N6 M was n6 not sd confirmed and doubt
90 with the report. No 6S Wall-st is owned by the
clear title until sixteen months after the deatb of
the owner; Ihls period will not elapse for many
The Alliance Realty Company has sold ' to oit the
United States Realty and Construction Company
to Beaver-st. These are old buildings having a
frontage of 67lO feet in Exchange Place and of a
the Post building. is 1853 feet the west it ad-
Farmers t oaR snd Trust R1ns sug T and the
connected with the Custom House by an over
head bridge. The price paid was said to be $4,000
Richard NJ. Montgomery the broker.
The buyer OF Nos. 81 and g Wall-st the sale of
which was reported a week ago, is the United
Construction COMPANY
New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
PLANNED TO ROB ABROAD
Bell6oys Had Lists Of Coronation
Guests and JescehY.

According 10 a confession which the police say
they obtained yesterday from Louis Z. Messier.
he Hargrave Hotel bellboy. he and John Gull
len both arrested for robbing guests OF the
hotel planned not only 10 rob hotels all over TINS
country hut intended to steal from the patrons
Of English hotels. too. Maps and diagrams or
The interiors OF hotels i'm various parts of
The United States. the names OF prominent
guests who made habit of staying in thenn'
and synopsis. written in shorthand under the
name of each hotel. describing its plan, were
found among the effects of the prisoners
a diagram of the route of the coronation pro-
cession of King Edward VII. with the names Oh
prominent Americans and lists of the Je"e"E
worn 10y them at the celebration. was also 1ouhu
in a trunk in the prisoners rooms the ponce
say In his confession Messier is SAID TO nave
told the police that the graft in America hao
been so good that the trip 10 Europe had oeeh
abandoned.
Detectives Coleman and Douglas, of the West
Sixty-eighth-st station yesterday went TO 'he
rooms occupied by the benboys, at No AS West
Forty-fifth-st and arrested Charles Trautner
twenty-one years old, who was employed IN
Broadway restaurant. Trautner associated with
Messier and Cullen, and the police thought lha'
lie might he implicated in the roboerles- me-
however, was discharged in the West SIDE court
hv Masistrate Pool II was learned, however
that he had implicated blond woman. known
As Rose ia tie roblperies with Messier He de-
s.iared the police say. that the woman and Mes
sier worked together. the bellboy stealing the
jevelrv and the woman disposing of it.
The value Of the property stolen by Messier
and Cullen amounts now. the police say 10
S10no0 Complaints have been made by the
Hargrave Hotel. ST. Hubert Hotel Hotel blhs-
ham Ninetv-sixth-st. and Broadway; the
Racquet and Tennis Club and the Reform Club
Manager Arthur Schriner Of the Reform Cup
charges Cullen with stealing valuable Watcn
and chain last October. The day after the Inert
was discovered Cullen. who had been employed
there and Messier. who was also working there
went away The watch was of curious design
and belonged to one of the members. III was
worth nearly 600.
JeweIry worth S2.4eo has been recovered by
the police and Yesterday detectives, through
information they say. received from TrautneT,
found a valuable manicure and toilet set in a
fawnshop with the initials j. L. r. raised IN
silver ever piece
Cullen the police say. is an expert steamship
baggage thief They declare they have found
evidence that viii implicate him in many thefts
in the baggage OF passengers on various steam
ship piers