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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
KANSAS FLOODS GROW.
Great Damage in Oil FieIds-Many
Bridges Gone.

Kansas City, June Further rains have
fallen in Southern Kansas in the last twelve
hours and the food conditions in the Valley OF
grow worse. The streams are higher than at
any time in twenty years. not excepting the
rise year ago, and they stiU rising. The
Kaw, which caused the real damage from Kan
City west to Manhattan in the flood OF 1903,
continues to come up slowly at Topeka. Law
renee and Kansas City. but as yet no alarm is
felt the result of the food along this
stream.
Although the Missouri River at Kansas city is
able to carry off the great amount OF water COM
ing this way from the West through the Kaw.
AS the streams which the highest are those
off the Kaw watershed. and drain into rivers
south of Kansas City. whatever serious damage
IS done must affect Southern Kansas territory.
and will not do material damage at Kansas
city Lawrence and North Topeka, which suf-
fered the brunt of last years flood.
Railway service throughout the Southwest Is
still demoraliZed. and n dozen more trains
are stalled in Kansas The damage already done
by the flood Is immense Hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of bridges have been destroyed
and growing crops have been greatly damaged.
AS far known only two persons, a woman
and child, names unknown have been drowned.
The greatest damage wrought is in the great
oil fields Of Southern Kansas around and at
lola, Florence, Emporia, Fort Scott and further
west along the Arkansas at Wichita and other
places Scores OF oil tanks filled with oil and
many derricks and rigs have been swept away.
been abandoned. In some places the Neosho is
six miles wide.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
MORE GUNS GATHERING.
Italian Warship Joins American Fleet at
Tangier.

Washington. June Admiral Chadwick to-
day cabled to the Navy Department that the
presence of the American fleet at Tangier has
had a salutary influence, but that the COM
munity is in state OF great religious excite
ment. The cable dispatch also reported that the
Marietta. which sent to Gibraltar for stores
has rejoined the fleet at Tangter; that Italian
man-of-war had arrived, and that English
warship was expected to arrive at the Morocco
port
Admiral Chadwick's cable dispatch Is under
stood TO be in reply to certain criticisms. mainly
from British sources. on the wisdom of sending
American warships to Morocco at this juncture.
The British view is that the release Of Mr.. Per-
dcaris and Mr.. Varley be more safely OBJ
tanned by refraining from adding TO the anti
foreign feeling OF the Moors. England therefore
planned to send to Morocco waters nothing more
formidable in a naval way than a small dispatch
boat. the Surprise. and TO rely chiefly on the
efforts of the British Minister Resident.
The religious excitement mentioned as pre-
vailing among the MoOrS is believed here to be
incident primarily to of the annual Ma
hometan pigrimages occurring at this season
II is also believed here. however, that the pres
ence of the seven American warshtps at Tangier,
with promise Of reinforcement if necessary by
the big battleship squadron, Is regarded as
threatening Moorish integrity and the MahOm-
etan religion, and has contributed TO the excite
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
ACTOR GETS BLACK EYE.
Real Fight adds Variety to Final
Night at Wdlldck'S.

The last performance of The County Chair
man" until next September and the 23Ith per
forrnance OF the play In this city. was given last
night at Wallack's Theatre, before large audi
once who received bound and illustrated souve-
mir programmes
The performance was enlivened quite une&-
nectedIv at the end of the second act by some Of
the stage hands. The second act ends in a stage
fight incident to the political meeting in prog
ress and the scene is supposed to be decidedly
animated But for some weeks there has been
bad blood between some of the stage hands ana
the supers in the company, and last nght the
stage hands decided il was their last opporlu-
nity. So when the fight began they slipped IN
out of the wings and mixed in with the supers
and began to fight in real earnest. The curtain
came down speedily, but not before one Oh lhe
actors in the company, Claude G Boyer VINO
takes the part of the station agent had received
q black eye in the mix-up, and the second tenor
of the quartet was decorated with similar
souvenir of the last performance The stage
hands who started the affair escaped unhurt-
Maclyn Arbuckle made speech after the sec
ond act and after the third act the company as
sembled on the stage and presented to the man
ager, Colonel Braydon, a handsome diamond
ring. ,,.,-,- -
The same company viii reopen Wallack's on
September !.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
SHIPS WORRY FRANCE.
THE PERDICARIS CASE.
Would Like Fezcer american Can
non at TauSier.

Paris. June 4.-Although no official intima-
tion on the subject has been given. it is under
stood that France would view favorably the
withdrawal of some OF the American warships
now at Tangier The presence of the American
ships there has had the effect OF attracting ships
of other nationalities. including Italian and Brit
ish. According to the French view, II a local
agitation occurred American, Italian and Brit
ish ships might land forces to preserve order.
and 1t is pointed out that this would involve
serious responsibilities upon the United States.
and would also have the effect OF discrediting
Frances paramount influence in Morocco.
The American officials say that the United
States warships will be promptly withdrawn If
France undertakes the entire burden of securing
the release of Ion Perdicaris- Thus far, how
ever. France while offering to do everything
possible. has desire to assume the entire
burden of settling the incident. The French Off
cials say they would gladly relieve the United
States government OF the embarrassment OF the
Moroccan affair, but they do not wish to do so
by placing themselves in a similar embarrass-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
MLANE FOLLOWED SUICIDE EXAMPLE.
Killed Himself After Reading of Others.
Alienists Think.
lBY rELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUSE.I

cIdes in this city, and anenists and specialists IN
nervous diseases say that people mentally depressed
read OF suicides and follow the example The sui
eide OF Mayor McI.ane has led to two others. and
IL is pointed out that. last Monday. the day the
Mayor killed himself. the local newspapers con-
tanned stories OF two suicides on Sunday. The
Mayor read how those men ended their mental and
physical sufferings: his mind. through worry. was
I'm a receptive state. and the impression proved
fatal
Mentally deranged from broOding over fancied
troubles and worrying over the suicide OF Mayor
McIane Mrs. Mary D. Schuler. fOrty-two years
old committed suicide last night by hanging her
self in a closet in her house She had talked of
nothing for three days except the Mayors suicide
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
ROBBERY IN BROADWAY.
Men assault Girl and Take Mones
Whie ThrOngs Pass.

Just before noon yesterday Miss Fannie Fiser-
man, nineteen years old, of No. 60 Anboy-st..
Brooklyn. was assaulted in the hallway of No.
AIS Broadway, where she is employed
stenOgrapher by Tafer & Ebstein dealers in adj
vertisng novelties and robbed of S525 which
she had just drawn from the National Butchers
ana Drovers' Bank
David Paley, Of No. 56 Canal-st has been ar
rested on a charge OF assault and robbery, but
two young men with him got away with the
money. the police say.
1t has been Miss Fiserman's custom for some
time 10 draw every Saturday the money with
which the employees of the firm paid or on
Saturday. She carried the money in a small
black handbag The men who attacked her. the
police say, evidently knew that she was in the
habit of drawing this money.
As she entered the hallway the three men
suddenly sprang on her. She alleges that Paley
struck her in the face. knocking her down. and
that the others wrenChed away the handbag
and ran out into the street In which thrOngs
were walking She gained her feet and ran
screaming into the street after her assailants.
stop thief Help. Police. Catch those
men, she cried.
The three men ran north. and a crowd fol-
lowed. Policeman Van Wrinkle, of the Elizabeth
St station. was at Canal-st., and. seeing the
crowd ran toward IT. The girl pointed at
Paley. Van Wrinkle grabbed him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
DISTILLERY BLOWS UP.
TEN KILLED; SIX HURT.
Bla@ing Flood of Whiskey Spreads
Destruction.

Peoria, H.. June Am explosion which
CURED in the eleven story warehouse of the
Corning Distillery, the second largest in the
world, this afternoon wrecked the building. The
ruins Immediately took fire, and the flames COM
municated to three adjoining buildings. burning
them to the ground. Ten men were buried be-
meath the ruins and burned to death and six
others were seriously injured.
The loss on buildings and whiskey and spirits
stored will approximate S1,O00OOO. The fire
spread to the stockyards district. where dozen
large cattle barns, filled with cattle for market,
burned.
The cause of the explosion cannot yet be
determined. The widest excitement prevailed.
The plant was surrounded by thousands of
persons, who. however were unable to get close
TO the structure on account of the intense heat
The warehouse, containing in the neighbor-
hood of thirty thousand barrels of whiskey, was
instantly a seething caldron. and it seen
that no one inside the big structure could es-
cape The warehouse in crushing the smaller
structure nearby set that on fire. and the whis-
key from the bursting barrels flooded every
thing in that section. Large streams down
grade toward the river, a1G in q short time
there was foot of blazing ~vhskey in the cattle
pens east of the warehouse. where thirty-two
hundred steers were chained fast. Their distress
lasted only a few moments for they were soon
roasted to death suffocated.
The firemen got near the fire with difficulty,
and the water had little effect. high
wind was blowing and tanning the flames in the
directions Of the Monarch Distillery, and for a
time it was feared that the fire would sweep
along the entire river bank, but the firemen sue
ceeded in preventing the further spread of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
BOUND AND GAGGED HER.
GOT IN BY FIRE ESCAPE.
Mrs. L. C. Phipps Vas Helpless
attempt at Reconciliation.

1t was not till last night that the sensational
manner in which Lawrence C. Phipps, of Pitts
burg, kidnapped his two children from his wife
in this city Friday was learned. Then it be-
came known that on Friday morning when the
father was fleeing in his automobile with the
two little daughters the mother lay in her room
in a hotel. where she had been bound and
gagged by the emissaries of her husband.
These men accomplished their purpose by
climbing a fire escape and entering her room by
the window. The children were in a room with
their two nurses The mother occuP!sd ad-
joining room. On Friday morning, it is said,
the door between the rooms locked on the
childrens side, and the mother unable 10
see her children after the invaders entered. The
nurses 1t is believed assisted in carrying out
the plot
1t is said that Mr. Phipps spent 100000 in
getting possession of his children. He succeed
ed in spite Of the fact that his wife kept herself
surrounded by private detectives and servants
whom she supposed she could trust.
The report was circulated yesterday that
Henry Phipps. Of No. East Eighty-seventh-
St the original partner of Andrew Carnegie
and an uncle OF Lawrence c. Phpps. was
seeking to reconcile the couple through his at
torney, Percy S. Dudley. Of Moore. Wallace &
Dudley of No. % IAberty-st. Mr.. Phipps was
not at home last night and Mrs Phpps would
make no comment the report. friend or
the family said, however. that the report was
correct, and that Henry Phipps had known OF
the trouble in his nephews family for some
months He said that Mrs. Lawrence Phlpps
visited her husbands uncle last winter unac-
companied by her husband. although he was IN
this city at the time. 1t was said then tnat
the visit was TO ask the uncle to effect recon
ciliatiou.
J. c. Thompson was asked last evening If he
had been approached by Henry Phipps or his
attorney on the subject of reconciliation. He
besitated for moment, and then said. I can
not answer that question"
At the Hotel Netherland it was denied that
Mrs Phipps had been staying there, in spite
of the admission by the clerk the night beioi
that she was there. A man who said he was a
clerk of J. c. Thompson waiting there last
night TO meet Mr. Thompson, presumably for
conference with Mrs Phipps.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
TO STOP BULLFIGHT.
Governor Dockery Acts on Protests
of Religious Bodies.

St Louis. June 4-As the results of protests
filed with him by the Congregational State AS
sociation OF Missouri and other religious bodies.
Governor Dockery to-day ordered Prosecuting
Attorney Johnson OF ST. Louis County to enforce
the law against the projectors of the proposed
Spanish buIlhght advertised for tomorrow near
the Worlds Fair grounds and TO arrest all vio
lators of the law. Sheriff Henoken says that he
has been assured that there will be no cruelty
or brutality incident TO the fight, and adds: Il
will be there with enough deputies TO see that
the law is enforced"
Richard Norris. president OF the amusement
company under whose auspices the hight IS
scheduled to take place. declares that the law
will be observed In every particularly. The law
prohibits bull batting bull fighting as prac-
tiSed in Spain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
STOLE s12,50O TO SPECULATE.
Bookkeeper in Baltimore Bank Lost $4,000
in Cotton in Two Days.
TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TmBUNE.l

Baltimore June Jesse Baker, a bookkeeper of
the National Howard Bank, who embezzled $l2 800
of the banks funds. said to-day that he would
plead guilty and beg for mercy for the sake or
his family. He broke down in telling the story OF
his downfall through speculation. He said:
,os. co ooo IN two davs on cotton. That was the
time when SuIly failed. Then felt All was gone
and I could not recover L was terribly worried.
anS NV fIrst thought was to kill myself. Then
thought OF my dear wife and my little boy, ana |
6aterYnined that ] would home, face it all
and take my punishment. II is a desperate game
TO speculate, and will never do II again.
President Clark OF the bank said that Baker
issued checks and passed them through Miller d
CO stock brokers' of New-York. He charged the
oroount To some large account in the bank, and.
when the check came back through the Clearing
Houte. would watch for it and take it. There were
only q few items one check being for 1880 Miller
e. Co have g branch here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
ELopING HUSBAND WRITES HER.
cIerpyman Sends Wife 500 Draft-Puts
Blame on a Certain Man.
rnY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

New-Brunswick, n. j., June AIRS. ). f. Cor
Ava yyifa OF the South River Methodist pastor
,,ho eloned with Miss Julia Bovine. of the
choir singers receiver a letter last night from
her husband mailed in Texas where the pastor
has brother. 1t is believed this was done TO
throw people Off the track as Cordova ana MISS
Rov,ne have been seen in Canada. Mr. Cordova $
brother at FL Paso. Tex, is in sympathy with Mrs.
Cordova and has offered to aid her.
The pastors letter contained, IT was said to-day,
500 draft in favor Of his wife, and said that the
writer had had many sleepless nights since he left
home because of worry over the children. The let
Ter also stated II is said that the wrieer blaInes
certain man for bringing about the elopement
through his expressions OF disapproval or the con-
duct Of the pastor and Miss Bovine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
TORNADO DEALS DEATH.
Tozcns Wiped Ont and Farms Laid
waste in Oklahoma.

Lawton, o. T.. June IA tornado in the Kiowa
and Conanche Nations has demolished a great
number of dwelling and business houses at nu-
meroLs small towns and laid waste dozens OF
farms. One person is known 10 have been killed
and about a dozen are believed to have been in
jured, fatally. Il is reported that the towns
of Chattanooga and Faxon. small places, have
been wiped out. They known TO have been
in the track Of the storm. Wires down and
details lacking. The town of Helen also
is said TO have been destroyed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
CANFIELD ASSAULTED.
Former Employe Angered by Failure to
Get $40.
GBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rnIBUSE.l ]

Providence. r. l.. June 4-Richard Garfield.
who is spending the summer at his home IN
Moore-st., in this city, assaulted in the foyer
OF the Narragansett Hotel last night by Harry
Gardiner. local sporting man. Gardiner is al
legged to have attempted to borrow $40 from
Garfield. and. when Canfield refused. turned
upon him and struck at him with his fists.
The two men We're separated before there was
any further trouble. The police say that Can
field has made no complaint to them. Gardiner
was in the employ OF Garfield when he operated
poolroom In this city. Garfield refuses TO dis
cusS the affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
R. G. VANDERBILT COMING
Il Member Of the Nelson Family
Erpected Him T0-day.

Reginald c. Vanderbilt was expected to repeat
his visit to this city to-day in the hours when
the process server comes not. Soon after /
o'clock this morning member of the Nelson
family arrived at the home of Mrs. Frederic
Nelson, Mr.. Vanderbilts mother-in-law. at
No 100 Fifth-ave. When asked by Tribune
reporter if Mr.. Vanderbilt expected, the
man said that Mr.. Vanderbilt would not arrive
before 5 o'clock in the morning. Then he mOdi
fled this by saying that Mr.. Vanderbilt might
be here to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
CANDIDATE AND REPORTER FIGHT
Republican Nominee for Governor of Mime
sofa Uses His Umbrella for Weapon.

St Paul June A fight in which umbrellas were
the weapons and Robert c. Dunn. Republican
candidate for Governor and c. Il. Cheney. political
writer for a Minneapolis paper. were the principals
furnished some excitement In one OF the pfihcipa
hps,ness streets of Minneapolis to-day Mr.. Dunn
made sarcastic references 10 the paper on which
Cheney is employed. and several blows were struck
before the msn were separated
The quarrel was the result OF the bitter cam
pagn waging in Minnesots over the GoVernorshp'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
FATALLY SHOOTS WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Vermont Trapper Informs Authorities After
Early Morning Tragedy.

F2rattIeboro VT June A message was received
here TODAY from East Putney thirteen miles from
this place saying that Mrs. Eunice Dickinson
Bailey was shot and killed early to-day by her hus-
band sydney Bailey. Bailey has been held pend
ing an investigation.
Bailey says that he heard some one moving about
the house and fired IN the dark. thinking burglar
was there On lighting lamp he discovered that
he had killed his wife. and he later informed the
authorities Bailey is hunter and trapper. thirty
FIVE years old. His wife was about ten years
younger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
BOARDING HOUSE BLOWS UP.
Natural Gas Causes Catastrophe from Which
Four Will Die

Fairmont w Va, June -Four people were
fatally hurt and eight others seriously injured to-
dav In an explosion of natural gas which wrecked
a large boarding house here Immediately follow
ing the explosion fire broke out. and the occupants
who were buried in the ruins. We're rescued with
difficulty The explosion caused by natural
gas leaking from rubber tube and ignltins with
q kerosene lamp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
THE BEAR IN A COLLISION.
Revenue Cutter Badly Damaged-Loses
Rigging.

San Francisco. June 4.-The United States
revenue cutter Bear. which sailed from here for
Seattle on June > IN collision with the
four masted schooner Spokane yesterday thirty
miles northwest of Point Reyes. The Spokane
was lumber laden from Port Gamble to this city.
The Bear was badly damaged and returned to
this port to-day for repairs. Her rigging was
carried away, and she was cut to the waters
edge.
The Spokane also sustained some injury
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
NO POLITICAL WILL BY QUAY.
Richard r. Quay May Fill Out Fathers Un-
expired Term.
IBr rELEGRArH TO THE rRIsUSn.I

Pittsburg June 4-Richard r. Quay to-day said
that his father. Senator NJ s. Quay, did not leave
any political WILL has been stated. II has been
reported that Don Cameron and Senator Quay
talked over the succession Friday before the
Senator died Major A G. c. Quay said that his
brother ''Dick' would undoubtedly accept the ap-
pointrlent for the short left unfinished by his
father if 1t were offered TO him. but that Dick
would not make Tight for the place. Whether
his brother would go into fight for the long term.
Major Quay said he not prepared to say
The feeling here is that Senator Quay should be
honored by giving his the shcrt term appoint
rnent. Politicians generally willing that 1t
should 20 TO him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
TEACHERS TO SUE G. w. VANDERBILT.
Trouble at the Biltmore Parish School Has
Just Begun.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Asheville n. c.. June 4-CieOrge w. Vanderbilt
has not seen The end OF his Biltmore parish school
trouble. which terminated in all the teachers re-
signing. Some interesting developments are prom
ised and the indications point to more big
damage suits.
Miss Non. of the teachers, against whom II Is
said a complaint was lodged the ground of
incompetency, thinks that her reputation mas
suffered thereby, and her brother, Samuel u. Noln
a lawyer of Pittsburg, has appeared on the scene
and an investigation is 10 follow All the teachers
in the school are back OF Miss Noin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
PHIPPS BOUND FOR DENVER.
Servants Met Him at Pittsburg and Boarded
the Train.

P,ttsburg. June 4-Lawrence c. Phipps. OF this
c,+v who successfully captured his two young
daughters in New-York. is now on his way TO ms
home in Denver, Col. 1t was learned to-day 'iie'
Mr. Phipps passed through Pittsburg last evening
-, HE uav 10 Chicago with the two children. lie
was met at the East End station here 1t is SAID
by i've servants from his Pittsburs house one OF
whom is the old OF the children. Al hlS
T,ittsb,rg home Il was admitted that the serVant9
had ioined Mr. Phipps here. expecting 10 go to
DerN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-05
NO STAMPS ON BOOKS FOR BLIND.
Reading Matter in Raised Letters to Go
Through the Mails Free.

washington, June POSTMASTER General Payne
p-oay Issued an order FOR the free transmission
through the mails Of reading matter in raised let
'efs FOR the blind. The order directs that such
ieaalng matter may DE sent by public library
O. institution 70 blind readers a loan and re-
turned through the mails without postage. The
leckages are restricted II weight 10 not more than
'oar pounds, except IN case OF a single volume,
Which must not exceed ten pounds.