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The evening world., 1903-04-13
One Rock Weighing Halt a Ton
Crashes Entirely Through a
House, Smashing a Piano on
the Way.
PANIC IN NElGHBoRHoop.
Several Persons Have Marrow Es.
eapes from sorlous Injury, Child
lis Hurt and Woman Nearly Dies
from Fright.

a child was injured. a woman nearly
frightened to death and damage amount
ing to l0.0oO was caused by q blast this
afternoon in One Hundred and Seventy
second street, between Third and Fulton
avsnuos. Houses over an area OF sew
eral blocks were shaken and fragments
of rock were hurled many feet.
One rock weighing about half ton
went clear through the two.story frame
building at No. 1915 Third avenue.
smashing plano and otherwise creating
havoc to the furniture. 1t tore through
three walls.
Several persons had narrow escape
from being seriously hurt or perhaps
killed by the flying rocks, and for a time
great excitement reigned In the neigh
borhood.
The one-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip We!tknIan was sitting In chair
with hts face pressed against the rear
window pane on the ground floor of his
home ut No. 1870 Bathgate avenue, two
blocks from the scene of the blast. The
window pane was smas shed and the baby
showcrcd with pieces Of glass. His face
was. cut slightly in two or three places,
however, and the family physician was
called ITO dress the wounds. On the top
floor of the house was Mrs. Weithmah'
She ipaS been troubled with heart alS :
ease for several years. When the o4aSt
shook tine house she fell on the floor In
fright aud her sister-in-law found ne.
living there unable to speak. A physl-
cian was hurriedly called, and after an
hours work succeeded In restoring her
to contscousneSj.
9 The blast was set off shortly betore
O'Clock. Workmcn are opening one
Hundred and seventy-second street
from Third avenue to Fulton avenue;
the two thoroughfares being separateu
by an immense wall OF rock.
At One Hundred and SeVenty,tnlru
street and Fulton avenue Is PupLc
school No S. This Is known as the
fremont school and is tho largest iI
the Bronx. One thousand three hundred
pupils attend the school and most OF
them were on their way there wneh
the blast went off According 10 "a
trolman Peterman. of the fremont sta
tion. many of the children were thrown
OF their feet by the cowncusslon. Ine
policeman said he only saved himself
from falling by clutching railing.
Peterman arrested the foreman, John
Carroll. OF No. 683 Wales avenue,
The prisoner was tken TO the Harlem
Court and arraigned before Magistrate
Hogan =, He was parolled until tU=mor
row after the policeman had been scolded
for not bringing witnesses.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
ACCUSES FRIEND
OF STEALING GEMS.
Olive Wilson Is Charged with
Robbing Family for Whom
She SeWed.

Olive Wilson. twcnty-four years old,
a prepossessing young woman, living at
No. 29eO Third avenue. was ar
raigned In tho Harlem Court to-day
charged with grand larceny. The COM
plainant was S. w. Monson, of No. l6
West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth
street, who alleges that while she was
employed by his wife TO do some sew
Ing some $500 worth OF Jewelry was
missed.
Hogan that as the girl was friend OF
the family In reduced circumstances, he
aid not wish to nave her arrested. but
upon going TO her old address found she
had moved, and no trace of her could be
secured She was located at the Third
avenue address last night.
The detectives who made the arrest
alleged that they discovered a stolen
brooch In pocket OF an apron. The re-
mainder OF the Jewelry. was not found.
The girl said the brooch was her prop
erty and she denied any theft. She was
remanded for further examination to-
morrow morning.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
ROOS. WILL WAR
IN COURT AGAIN.
Lawyer SomerviIIe, Who Is Ac-
cused of "AcceIerating" the
Death of Noted Art Expert,
Demands Immediate Trial.
CONTESTANTS COMING OVER.

When the Leonhard r. Roos will con-
test was called by Surrogate Fitzgerald
to-day Frank Avery. counsel FOR Mrs.
Roos and the Swiss relatives who con-
test the will. asked for an adjourn
ment for a week. He said that the
purpose WAS to withdraw all objections
to the will by which the famous art
expert and dealer left his estate to his
five brothers and sister n Zurich, but
that he had no official direction to with
draw the action. and that his clients
We're on the ocean bound for New York
Surrogate Fitzgerald left 1t 10 Louis
j. Somerville, the attorney for the ex-
ecutors William A Chase. the artist
and james ID. Trask Ny. Somerville
objected, saying:
1T Is skiing too much and I will not
concede any further Adjournment OF
this case I have been charged with all
sorts of crime in this case. including
murder, and ! Insist that the contest
must go on
Whereupon the Surrogate examined
the subscribing witnesses to the will.
Mr.. Somerville and Miss Ellen Long, Of
Rensonnurst. the young woman who re-
fused TO admit Mrs. Maria Il. Roos to
the house when her husband was dying
and tried to exclude her from the fu-
neral, This she aftsrward justified by
showing n written request signed by Mr..
Roos TO keep his wife out
BY the will Roos left his estate OF
about $4,000 to his brothers and sisters.
and explicitly excluded Mrs. Roos on
The evening world., 1903-04-13
WIFE, BUT Of THE
WRONG HUSBAND
U. S. Supreme Court Decides
that Mrs. Winston's Okla
homa Divorce Is Invalid and
Marriage to Dr.. Ludden Null.

Now what are the DIR. James NJ, Lud-
dans going TO do about IT'S Much mar
red, much divorced, litigation. n.entangled
for eight years, the Supreme Court OF
the United states decided to-day that the
Oklahoma divorce of Mrs Ludden from
her former husband, Walker Winston,
WAS Illegal, and so the woman finds her
sell the wife OF the man she thought
she was free from years ago and finds
the man with whom she has been .iving
for years IL not her husband at all.
1t certainly Is embarrassing but It's AT
lanst settled for all time for there are
no higher courts to appeal 10 ON this
point. The question has been raised A
one :orn or another In the court or
Okla homa New York, New Jersey
Mas sachusetts and Connecticut, and IT'S
un wonder II took a Federal court to
unite all the knutsiha, grew with every
turn In tho case,
The Walkers were married in 1890,
They Ead one child In 1895 they sep
arated Mrs. Walker went 10 Okla
hama aud got divorce. alleging that
Walker had been unfaithful. Then she
married nr, l.udden, a dentist, OF No.
Si3 west twentieth street.
Walker sued FOR divorce on his own
hOnkk In New York, alleging that the
Oklahoma divorce wgs Invalid. The
coudt held thai this was true, but
wouldn't give him a divorce because he
had not disprOyed his wlfe's charges.
Both appealed and both lost, Another
aDpeal was taken.
Meanwhile Mrs, Ludden was arrested
for blgamy ON complaint OF her hus-
band. This action was resisted and a
iiRht arose over the ten-year-old child,
Walker got Ia away from the mothe.
ON habeas corpus proceedings, but she
mapping IN Massachu-stIs, She wac
also arrested ip Connectlcut and ~
effort made 10 have her tried In New
Jersey FOR bgamy, she having beer
married a second time 90 DIR, Ludder
| in that State 20 make the looseninE
! knot as tight as was possible. Extra
dltion failed,
Then Winston brought habeas corpus
| proceedings In the New York courts Il
get tho child back, but failed the Cour
refusing 10 interfere until the UnlteI
States Supreme Court mad passed OF
the validity of the Oklahoma divorce.
ID Is now probable that Winston vii
again go after his child. The Ludden
Will have 10 do GONE tall thinking Il
making up their m.ndH what they ar
eoinE 10 %. II y 0n-y fair 70 aay con
i lcefnlnG Mrs. i<udden that several Mag 4
trates have Commented on the evlden
spod faith IN which abe contracted he
ularFla9e With Dr. Lpdden.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
GEN. GREENE WILL AVENCE
BEATEN POLICE CAPTAIN. /.
Appears in Magistrates Court to Prose-
cute Charges Against Men Accused
of Brutally Attacking Commander
German, of the Mercer Street Station,
While Making an Excise Arrest

| the glass and IL cut my hand badly.
II then grabbed TIrelli and got him Out
OH the floor. lie shouted 20 the men In
the place to kill me. One OF the bar
tenders struck me on the head with a
beer glass. and another with a club
made OF the butt OF billiard cue. The
fifty customers in the place went to the
aid OF Tirelli and his men and tried to
trip me. I fought them on as we'll as
I could. dragging them 10 the door. so
1 could summon help.
IT did not wish to use my pistol, as I
knew IL fred should kill some one
and I did not want to Kin n man in
making a simple Excise arrest ] felled
several OF the men who were intent on
throwing me to the floor. ] made use
OF an early trick OF wrestling that l
learned when a boy. and whenever one
OF my antagonists threw out a leg TO
trip me 1 lifted my knee and jabbed
him IN the stomach. l saw several
knives raised, but the men welding
them appeared to be afraid TO use them
on me. A stout fellow-I think he was
an employees OF the plhce-wielded =
billy and struck me several blows on the
side OF the face and on top OF my head.
a Brave Man to Ills Aid.
81 was now covered with blood. and
blinded by 1t as 1t trickled into my
eyes. l knew l must gef out into the
street, or l was n dead man, for several
OF the men drew pistols.
II smashed the thick glass OF the
door with my elbows. and found myself
In narrow vestIbule. Men were Try
ing to hold hie doors shut. Men got
against the outer doors, that had glass
panels similar to the others. and sue
ceeded in smashing them, too. The
noise Of the glass and the shouts OF
the men attracted Carroll 10 my aid
He is n wonderfully brave man, for he
plunged into the crowd, hitting right and
left. Tbs crowd, however. turned on
him and knocked him down, and kicked
him In the face and body. tried to
get to him TO protect him. but Just then
l received stunning blow from club
and sank 10 the pavement just outside
the saloon.
Meantime some one had tciephoned to
the Mercer Street station, and Detec-
tlyes John l.. sullivan and james Wren
came running up The crowd scattered
and ! became unconscious. When / re-
covered | found myself In this cot
Detectives Sullivan ana Wren arrested
the following men, charged with at
tempting to Kill Capt. German and Car
ron Tirelli. the proprietor OF the place;
Emile Georsias, John Bounine, Joseph
Houris, Charles Poiona and Angelo Sc
MILL, all OF No. 40 Bleecker street; Emil
Grozzio, of No. AZ Carmlne street; Cas-
Engernian. OF No. Sc MacdoIsai street;
street. and Charles Murray, OF No. Is
West broadway. All were held In Jei-
ferHon Market Police Court by Magis-
trate Barlow IN $1,000 bail each for fur
ther examination to-dav. Tho only
one to obtain bail was Tlrelll Ills
bondsmnn was Angelo Alpi. dealer In
artificial flowers.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
GooDY-eooDY coNEY CROWD

Coney Island had record day In
some respects yesterday. The number
OF visitors was about $1,000. There have
been bigger crowds. but there never
was a crowd so nice and orderly. A
squad OF Police Headquarters detec-
tlves looked the visitors over and didn't
find pickpocket or confidence man.
Acting Captain Sheehan claims that
Ave men arrested for intoxlcation
brought their jags to Coney Island from
Manhattan or Brooklyn. One arrest
was made for violation of the Sunday
law-that OF Charles Pampas, who was
charged with keeping open a billiard
room. All the dance-halls were crowd
ed to their capacity.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
4,4oo WANT TO BE COPS.
ApDItcations Poar Into Department
for Places on the Force.

The Civil Service Commission has been
flooded with applications for appoint
ment TO the Police pepa rtmsnt since the
announcement In tho papers that Com
missioner Greene had asked the Com
mission for tha names OF 100 eligible
tor palTolmen and was abba 70 get but
So Tar 400 applications HAYS been
The evening world., 1903-04-13
Mr.. Low Announces After Con-
ference with Assembiyman
Bostwick that Rapid Transit
Measure Will Not Be Passed.
CAUSED MUCH CRITICISM.
The Whole City Was Aroused by the
Charge that the Bill Would Give
the Belmont Syndicate acompIete
Monopoly Of Rapid Transit.

As result of conference between
Mayor Low and Assemblyman Charles
Ii. Bostwick the amendments 10 the
Rapid Transit law introduced at Albany
by the Assemblyman al the request OF
the Mayor will be allowed TO die in
committee. This measure aroused mu,h
adverse criticism because It practically
left ;he field to the Belmont-McDonald
syndicate to construct branches of the
Rapid Transit Underground road TO the
other boroughs without allowing others
an opportunity to bid.
When the criticisms were made the
Mayor said Gne would take all rcspon-
slbility for the amendments Then he
had interviews with President Orr and
other members of the Rapid Transit
Commission and announced that the bin
would be altered In several respects,
but he intima ted that 1t would not be
passed ~ the Legislature during It's
present session, which will end next
week.
it WAS therefore, something OF a sur
prise when the Mayor announced to-
day that he had held a conference with
Assembyman Bostwick and that the bill
will be allowed to die in committee.
The bill" said the Mayor. "ls now in
condition Of statue quo. IT Will re-
main in that condition. 1t has been de-
cided not to urge its further passage.
We have decided thai it is impracticabe
and the criticism which it has received
may in O measure be merlted.
Its framing was an outcome of the
bill presented at Albany a year ago TO
prevent re-occurrence OF the catas-
trophe which took place in the Park
avenue tunnel. That bill, too, was vetoed
after numerous conferences with the
management of the New York Central
Railroad. We decided upon changes in
construction and grade and the subst-
tuition OF electricity as a motive power.
The Bostwick bill. which was intended
TO safeguard other tunnel projects as
well as develope our rapid transit system,
Is now declared to be impracticable.
''Well, We shall now have a full year
In which to better study the demands
of the situation and for the preparation
of bill which will protect the city and
afford best results"
This is believed to be a complete sur
render of the Mayor to public opinion.
r. Fulton Cutting. President of the
Citizens Union, when apprised OF the
Mayors surrender. said THAT Is in
deed good news. 1 am glad to learn
that the Mayor has yielded TO wise
council and agreed to let the bill die
in committee
The evening world., 1903-04-13
LOCKED UP FOR
AIDING MOTHER.
Reta Matterossi Was Trying to
Reach Her with Medicine, but
a Policeman Pushed Her Back
from the Fire Lines.

After being looked up for hours In the
company ~ d!ssolutc women OF the
Bowery, Retn MatterosSi. little more
than child. was fined 81 In the Centre
street Court to-day because she had do
fed policeman who attempted TO keep
her from her mother, who was H..
The girl, who In seventeen years old.
lives at No. 81 Mott street. Yesterday
n physician attending her mother. who
Is seriously III, wrote prescrip ion. say
ing It must he filled Immediately. The
girl went 20 attend to H. al drug store
neal bE,
After a considerable wait the clerk
handed her the vial and she started on
run for ths house. As she turned into
Mott street crowd that had gathered
to watch Are In Nos. and 3 blocked
her way After struggling for half a
block the girl reached the edge OF tho
crowd and attempted 60 pass.
"Get back there'" said the policeman.
You can't go through here" She was
showed b| X into the crowd.
Frantic. at the thought her mother
might then be In dying condition, the
girl forced her way through the crowd
and into rhe open space In which were
the hren,en and policemen, ~
Patrolrian Hofiernan caught her by
the arm ana forced her back. saying
You can't go through here"
But must" pleaded the girl, MY
molhe IL H., Sec, have medicine tor
her" and she held up the package Ia
the policeman
You can't go through here, that il
all there Is about IT," said the police
man.
u am going through only live al
No I." said the girl,
she was stopped again and again by IN,
policeman, Who nnally took her by iht
arm 10 the Elizabeth street police sta.
tion. She was bailed out later,
llonernan said In the Tombs to-day
that she had used vile language and
had threatened him.
| size admitted she was mad and might
! have said tho policeman was u mear
Z man, but did not swear. she said
/ The charge was dis0rderly conduct
/ Magistrate Mayo fined her a dollar
which was paid by her father,
The evening world., 1903-04-13
HER BODY FOUND.
IN THE MILESTONE
Beautiful Woman, Vassar Grad
uate, Thought TO Have Killed
Herself.
tsps..a. TO Tho Eyenlns World }

NEW BRUNSWICK, April l3-Ihe
hat and cloak of Mrs. Mary sundford.
wife ot Daniel Sanford, were found
floating In the Milestone River. between
Princeton and Kingston to-day, She had
been missing some hours from her home
IN Princeton,
seaTchers at once set to work drag ging
the river and finally Mr., Packer and
dShcrs found the body after II had been
in the water nine hours.
Mrs, Sandford belonged to a we'll
known Philadelphia family. She Was
thirty-siN years OF age, a graduate o'
Nassar College, a woman OF the highest
culture and great personal beauty. Re-
sides her husband she leaves seven small
children.
There is little doubt that Mrs. Sand
ford committed suicide while temporar-
lis deranSed
The evening world., 1903-04-13

That tho Police Department intends 20
prosecute TO the limit of the law An.
gelo Tirelli and the ten saloon loung.
ers who assisted him In ali almost fatai
attack on Police Captain Michael DOR
man in Tirellrs place at No. lts Bloeck-
er street. was evident to-day when
Deputy Commissioner Gherardi Davis
the legal adviser OF the department, sat
beside Magistrate Barlow In Jefferson
Market Court while the assailapts Of
German were arrtigned.
Inspector Albert .. Smith. wh6is Cap
tain Germans immediate superior, was
also in court TO oppose an application
from the prisoners attorney for re-
duction OF their bail. He said he had
u strong case against the prisoners ami
expected TO land most OF chem in tha
penitentary.
Inspector Smith told Magistrate Bar
low that Capt. German was suffering
from a conclusion OF the brain, but the
surgeons expected he would be able 20
appear in court by Wednesday,. and no
asked that the hearing be postponed
until that day. He said II was i'm
possible to tell when Joseph w. Car
roll could be In court as the hospital
surgeons intended to remove Carrolls
eye this afternoon.
II want TO say for Mr.. Carroll" re-
marked Magistrate Barlow, that but
for his bravery and courage Cnpt Cor
man might have been killed"
After the hearing had been set FOR
Wednesday. Frank Boland. attorney FOR
the prisoners, succeeded In having the
ball of Tlrell. his bnrkeeper, Georgias.
and a prisoner named Parventlni, who is
said to have struck Capt German over
the head with club. reduced TO 5000.
The other eight prisoners were held In
81, 600 each.
Capt German, who was the first
roundsman to be made n sergeant by
President Roosevelt when he was Com
missioner. and who then had record
OF saving twenty-six lives from fire and
water, found TlrellPs saloon open al .er
midnight yesterday morning and or
dered him to close. He was Immediate
ly set upon by all of the fifty men in
tho place, and while the captain Is in
St Vlncent's Hospital, whore he will
probably remain two weeks or more,
he Is able to describe graphically the
heroic fight he and Carroll made. He
said:
when / had taken a drink. to make
1t legal case, told the bartender he
was under arrest.
"ktl Hint" Wa. the Cry.
"He shouted to Tlrelli. who called
out. XIII the fellow!' Tirelll ran up
and declared I couldn't arrest any one
In his place ! then made q lea at the
bartender and Tirelli and the other
bartenders jumped at me and dealt me
heavy blows. One of them. l don't
know which one. threw beer glass Mt
me. / put up my left hand TO ward Off
The evening world., 1903-04-13

NO sLuMPs. BUT DAILY. REGu-
LARLY, month In and month out. In
New York City circulation The
World maintains = lead Of Tens OF
Thousands oysr any OtAer paDsr.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
TWO FALL WITH STAGE.
Ropes nrop Painters in
Midst of Children.

Through the breaking of the ropes
holding a stage on which Emil Bienen-
hauer and Arthur Wagner. painters,
were at work on the house No. lO5 Ora
ham avenue, Brooklyn, both men sus-
tained injuries to-day which are oon-
sidered mortal. They are now in the
Eastern District Hospital.
Children on their way TO school at the
time of the accident narrowly escaped
being struck by the falling stage,
Among the first to reach the injured
men was Rev. Father James Mcclure,
Of the Church of the TRANSPORTATION,
who did all he could for them until the
arrival of an ambulance surgeon.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
KILLED BY A FALL.
|FIelsIayer warkinR an Building
Taslnlea frola n seanoId.

('hai1eS Allison. a bncRstyer. fell from
<t4li6i0 On 4 aew building Al No. 7i3
Ninth street lo7dey and was In
..I.I Killed.
81 1>1> Nse asnf % me MorEps A.
The evening world., 1903-04-13
Laundry Wants-femaIe.

.NPERIENCED shakers and receivers. Yale
Laundry Co., 1l6 Fast 43d st.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-05
THE PLOT EXPOSED.
Sensational Evidence in Waterbury
Strike Murder Case.

Waterbury, Conn.,, June 4.-The
prosecution in the cases of the eight
striking trolley men charged with
murderous assault on Conductor VIM
Merna and Motorman George Morris
settle, on the Waterville line on the
night of Feb. 2S, caused a sensation in
the superior court, this afternoon, by
placing on the witness stand Irwin H
Wolcott, proprietor of the pool room in
which it IS charged that the plot origi-
mated.
The most sensational of Wolcotts
testimony was to the effect that Willis
Vandemark halted the crowd, who had
started for the attack at a certain point
and said:
Now, we may meet q lot of sheriffS
up here. They may be on the cars: II
any of you meet any of them, hold
them escape Don't shoot, boys, if you
don't have to, but if you have to shoot
to kill"
The witness also said that Vande-
mark made them all take an oath that
they would never tell a word of that
nights proceeding.
He identified Edward B. Winnegar as
the man who first entered the car and
who struck Merna the first blow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-05
THE ALLOPATHS
Elect Officers for Year and Enjoy Ban
quet in the Evening.

Portland, Me, June 4.-The sessions
of the Maine Medical Association We're
continued. today. At the Maine Gen
eral Hospital in the morning several
unusual cases We're examined and in
the afternoon a business session was
held. These officers were elected:
President, DR.. Augustus S. Thayer of
Portland; treasurer, DR.. A. S. ellison,
Portland; first vice president, DR.. F. l..
DIXON, Lewiston; second vice president.
f. L. Shaw, Machias: corresponding
secretary, A. H. Sturtevant, Augusta
board of censors, Drs. Addison S.
Thayer, Portland; Herbert F. Twitch-
ell, Portland; Daniel w. Hayes Hen
derson; Stanley P. Warren, Portland !:
Fl. l.. Bartlett, Norway: committee
on publications, Drs. Walter e. Tobie,
lex -officio), Portland; j. E. Heating,
Portland; c. E. Wilson, Hiram; F. w.
Searie, Portland; W. H. Payson, Dam
Richard d. Small, E. G. Abbott, Port
land
At the Lafayette hotel, this evening,
a banquet was held which was attend
ed by q large and brilliant company of
ladies and gentlemen.