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COL. h. F. GOTT DEAD.
Was known As the Father Of the Attn
Regiment"-HadA = Long War Record.

Regiment"-HadA . Long War Record.
Col. Benjamin Frank Gott, a former
we'll known resident Of Brooklyn. died
on Tuesday in his home at $40 Upper
Mountain avenue, Montclair, N. j., after
a protracted illness, in his SEVENTEEN year.
He had a long military career, which
began as private in the Eighth Regiment,
New York National Guard, in 1850. At the
breaking out of the civil war he recruited
a company for the Fifty-seventh Regiment,
New York Volunteers, and also assisted
in the formation OF the Forty-seventh
Regiment, State Militia. He was subse-
quently known as the father OF the latter
organization. In 1851 he went to the front
as Captain in the Fifty-seventh Regiment,
serving under Cen. Mcclellan until late
in 1892 when he was commissioned Lieuten-
ant C olonel OF the 1l7th Regiment, New
York Volunteers, afterward being pro-
noted to the command OF the regiment.
He served with distinction until the close
OF the war.
He was engaged In the wholesale liquor
business in New York and resided in the
Seventh ward, Brooklyn. He was active
In Democratic politics and was one of the
founders Of the Andrew jackson Club,
W hich still fiourishes in the istrict. He
served as one Of the Charities Commits
sioners in Brooklyn from 1885 to 1893. and
for the last four years was president OF
the board. He was q member OF the Loyal
Legion and several other military organ
izations. He is survived by his wife,
son and a daughter
The funeral services will be held this
afternoon at Montolair, and the burial
will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
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JOE LETTER FIGHTING UNIONS
Serious situation in His New Mining Town
OF Zeigler, III.

BENTON, ILL.,, July ls.-The first trouble
at Joe Letters new mining town Of Zeigler
is now on. Mr.. Letter has refused to pay
the union mining scale for this district.
He has offered the miners what they claim
is II cents per ton less than the scale, and
he Ia said to want them to work ten hours.
The miners have walked out. They say
no union miner will work, and they intend
to use all peaceable methods to keep nom
union miners from working. Mr.. Letter
has ordered all the miners to lesve his town
by Wednesday. He owns all the land i.
houses and business in Zeigler. He antici-
pates trouble, and has brought seventy
five Chicago policemen and detectives to
Zeigler to protect the town around his
mine and power plant. he has built
stockade with an electric wire top.
In eighteen months Zeigler has grown
from forest to q town Of more than 600
inhabitants. and has 800 houses, q post
office, bank, department store, waterworks
and electric lights. The manager OF the
hotel was ordered TO leave yesterday within
twenty-four hours because he refused to
board the seventy-fve Chicago police
men. Mr.. Letter Is personally on the
ground directing movements.
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BOY CINDERELLA.
His Ambition to BE . Gentleman-Sent
to Juvenile Asylum.

His Ambition to Be . Gentleman-Sent
to Juvenile Asylum.
small crowd Of the neighbors Of Mr..
and Mrs. Wagenstein Of $40 East i02d street
were In the Children's Court yesterday
to prove that ll-year-old Benjamin Gold
berg, the son Of Mrs. Wagenstein, and
stepson OF her present husband, should
be removed from them and put into some
institution. Justice Druel, after hearing
the mother and the boy, committed the
lad to the New York Juvenile Asylum.
Young Goldberg was left by his mother
in Russia when he was three months old
She had married again, and came to Amer
lea. Since then she has had three other
children. 4 year ago she sent for the boy
The neiHhbors claim that the boy has been
treated with great cruelty. Mrs. Waeen-
stein claims he Is incorrigible and thief.
He stole pennies to buy candy she said,
sand never could tell where he was
'Stole pennies for candy!' exclaimed
Mrs. Hopper, who lives In the same house.
II he got a penny he was moro likely to
Miss Margaret Comfy, the laughter Of
With the Magensteins, said IAN winter
or stockings, and only a thin coat and no
we'll cared for. Now he In given thick
clothes. while the others are cool. He IA
Q good boy, but he had no chance there.
BE said TO mo the other day: II stay ct
homo III mover bo . geutleman.' It's 100
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NEW AQUARfUM srARs.
Fair Of Fine Harbsr sesis -lIriiiisnt FIsh
From Bermuda.


Two frolicsome harbor seals from Booth
bay. Me-. were received at the Aquarium
yesterday. They are installed In the pool
80 long occupied by the Aquarium favorite.
Nellie. and later for time by the seal
known here as Babe.
Director Townsend has for weeks had
orders for seals placed at various points
along the coast. but seals are not 30 plenti-
full in these latitudes az they used to be.
and these'two are the first that II has been
possible to secure. In this harbor the
seals have been driven away by the great
increase Of traffic. while to the eastward
along the New England coast they have
been almost exterminated. owing TO the
bounties offered for thoir destruction by
State and county authorities on account OF
the injury supposed to have been wrought
BY them to tho fishing industries.
These seals were captured for and sold
to the Aquarium by Mrs. Jeannette
Mcdonald Of Boothbay. who. like her hus-
band before her. has for years been engaged
in the business Of supplying seals for natural
history collections and to trainers.
Neither Of these two seals is quite 30 big
as Nellie was. but they are both bigger than
"u| DoDo' Cmplc0 AioAb ~AoAAso ~ W.
press, and wet down with sea water oc-
oasionally on the way. they arrived In re-
markably good condition. the smoothest
ever received here. They are each = little
over. a year old. They took to the water
N the pool kindly on their arrival and
were active and playful at first Later
they, became little cross and nervous
in their new surroundings and in. the
presence Of 80 many people. as all seals do
when first brought into captivity. 1t may
be a week before they begin feeding we'll:
On Monday the Aquarium received it's
second shipment for the season OF Ber-
muda fishes. The lot numbered 2s4 speci-
mems and included twenty-one varieties.
All have been seen here before. but this
lot included q number Of fishes very not
able either for size or color. among those
being some beautiful blue. tang, a species
OF surgeon fish; two more handsome queen
trigger fish and some notably handsome
green parrot fishes and lady fishes, the
most strikingly and strongly marked tiger
rookfish the Aquarium has ever had and
orange and chocolate and ruby-colored
coneys. Included in the lot were 100 angel
fish
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SLEUTHS KEEN NOSES.
Young Ed Rooney With Annexed Rig Cap.
tured on Inspiration.

Fourteen -year-old Edward Rooney had
a good horse and carriage on Tuesday.
They weren't his by any right except that
OF discovery and in order to get them of
his hands he offered them to Abraham Gold
berg OF 2e4 Division street at a great sacri-
fee. Mr.. Gold berg refused to be tempted
by the offer Of $3.50 rig for $40, and before
the young financier could negotiate with
anybody else he was in clutches Of the
law.
He was in the Children Court yesterday,
and to-day justice will be meted out to
him. He lives at 404 East Sixteenth street
He saw the turnout OF John Callahan, the
contractor, standing invitingly at Lexing-
ton avenue and Twenty-fourth street, and
vision street when Detective Sergeants
Millmore and Butler observed him. With
out knowing why, they say, they scented
something wrong.
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Obituary Notes.

James @. Mageean. who was engag ged in the
linen importing business. died yesterday OF
typhoid fever at the Skene Sanitarium In
Brooklyn. In his thirty-eighth year He was
born in Ireland and came to this country
eighteen years ago. He was a member OF
the Brooklyn Club and the Crescent Athlete
Club. He had been living az the Hotel st.
other surviving relatives are in Ireland.
Col. Benjamin Frank Gott, who was at one
time Charities Commissioner OF Kings county
Tuesday in his SEVENTEEN year. Col. Gott
was In command Of the i7%th New York Volun-
teers at the close Of the civil war. He is
John Zeigler, 70 years old. dropped dead
at noon yesterday IN his home on Paulding
ayenue. Tsrrytown, N; T.. He was q veteran
Of the civil war and an old resident Of Tarry.
town
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SISTER FRANCIS ARRESTED.
Mount Vernon Woman Accuses Her Of
Petit Larceny.

SISTER Francis Mccormick who has
been running an industrial home in the
old House Of All Nations, at Ill West Thirty
second street, and was disposses ed from
there on Tuesday got into moro trouble
yesterday. She was arrested by Sergt.
Farrell Of the Jefferson Market Court squad
on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Wienall
Of "a Adams street, Mount Vernon, charging
her with petit larceny.
SISTER Francis" came into prominence
through her mission some months ago,
when she wanted the Catholic Church
authorities to permit mass to be celebrated
in her place and showed some priests how
proper 1t was They were rather shocked
to find that nothing had been done to change
the decorations and interior OF the famous
dive.
They refused to allow mass to be said.
and said she wasn't sister. On July 9
four women appeared as complainants
against the sister" in the West Side court
and each Of them asserted that the SISTER
had money of hers, ranging from $500 to
1900. When arrested yesterday she gave
her address as l04 West Forty-sixth street
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NO TRANSFERS AT 2SD STREET
on THE BROADWAY CORNER-AP.
PELLATE DIVISION DECIDES.

Public Safety FOrbids Transfers at Con.
Eested POints-Leased Roads Also Ex.
empted by Law-Mr. vreeland Says
ThereTl he Plenty Of Continuous Routes
That the New York City Street Railway
Company Metropolitan) need not give
transfers at all connecting points, and
especially at Broadway and Twenty third
street, is the decision OF the Appellate
Division OF the Supreme Court. e.
Henry R. Topham sued TO collect 500
penalty because OF refusal to give him
transfer at Twenty-third street and Broad
way. The Municipal Court decided against
him, the Appellate Term reversed the
Municipal Court, and the Appellate Division
reversed the Appellate Term.
Justice Hatch bases his opinion on the
broad rule that the public safety and con-
venience should be taken into account,
and that it is proved that danger to traffic
and person might result from wholesale
transfer system at such q crowded spot
as Twenty-third street and Broadway.
Justice Ingraham. in concurring opinion.
says that the law requiring that transfers
be given for a continuous trip does not
apply to leased roads where the lease. as
In this case, was executed prior to May 1,
loel, dIlu buCu ledS6u TOtNlb arc expressly
exempted from issuing transfers. Justices
Van Brunt and Laughlin agree with this
view, while Justice O'Brien dissents, hold
ing that under the law the transfers
must be given and the penalty should be
exacted.
In several other suits for penalties at
other points, decided yesterday, the judg-
ment awarding the penalty to the plaintiff
"a upheld, because the leases for the roads
involved were executed after 1901 and NO
danger to public safety was alleged.
President Vreeland Of the Street Railway
Company said Of the decision:
dosss e Rsd sns s
ties. In the main instituted for private gain.
but because It snstatns the position which
ths discussion Of the trsnsfer question. MSiie
ths opinion. or Or eon.Slttins Counsel stnSs so shs
relieves the company. IRON. the Obligation Of
transferring at . number Of oongested points,
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The public need not fear that as the result
q n poe, Hyhch 5 ss1 s s
propose to continue the policy which we We
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simply desire 70 sssrclss The M psivIisSs fta Of SO
he srd .y.sm shs ds. a Snds
those On Brosdway and Txsaty.tSird Str t eet
TO lines on other streets whore the traffic s
of h eos viii Ss pSSoy no ss
than the company.
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DUGAN,s FOURTEENTH RESCUE
Policeman Helped Him Get Unconscious
boy Out OF East River.

Twelve-year-old John McDermott Of
5l7 First avenue, in trying to circle the
crowd waiting for the Greenwich boat
on the East Thirty-first street pier yester-
day afternoon, fell over the edge. His head
struck a stringpiece. and he landed in the
water unconscious.
John Dugan OF 1872 Second avenue, life
saver and superintendent OF the dock,
jumped In and was having trouble with
the boy when Policeman Maroney Of the
East Thirty-fifth street station, plunged
in and helped get him ashore.
When Mrs. McDermott heard of the
accident an hour later she rushed ex-
ing around merrily in the floating bath.
Yesterdays rescue made the fourteenth
for Lifesaver Dugan. He hauled out an
old woman who attempted suicide two
weeks ago.
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AUTO HIRE AT 81 A MINUTE.
Cost Party 500 to Beat Coroner Campbell
TO the Wreck.

PATTERSON, N. D., July 13.-lrOuDl0 De-
tween County Physician Mcbride and a
Coroner OF Paterson. N. j., named Nicholas
Campbell, was the cause of costing the
County Physician. Cordher ]. Mortimer
Blauvelt and two New York newspaper
men "a minute for twenty-four minute
ride in an auto last Sunday to the Mid
vale railroad wreck. At least the bill wal
made out at that rate.
For three months past every death In
Passaio county which has required an in
quest has been the cause Of friction be-
tween Campbell and DR.. Mcbride. Camp.
bell has not had case for such a long time
that his time honored position has become
merely an honorary one.
Last Sunday the news Of the Mldvale
wreck did not reach Paterson until after
o'clock. The County Physician heard II
while at dinner in q restaurant A news
paper man came In and said:
aThere is big accident on the Green
wood Lake road and Nick Campbell has
gone up. to take charge of it..
. The doctor called up Andy Fletcher's
Say, Andy. said Mcbride, there Is an
accident at Midvale. want the fastest
auto you have In the shop
Blauvelt was reached and he and the doc
tor were upon the point Of departing when
two newspaper men from New York hove
in sight and asked to be taken along.
The auto was eating up the last mile OF
the Wanaque road when Campbell was
discerned in the foreground. Unwittingly
he turned out to let the auto pass.
Hello Nick" cried DIR. Mcbride,
there's a big wreck at Midvale Are you
going" but all other words we're lost.
Until yesterday the joke was thought to
be on Campbell. Then Blauvelt got the
bill for the auto. 1t was 500. Each man
who rode In the car was assessed $24. One
of the newspaper men paid up, but the
doctor, the Coroner and the other reporter
disputed the BILL
The sun., 1904-07-14
M,KAY DECLARED CHIEF.
North Shore, s. l.. Fire Representatives
Give Him ONCE on Recount Of Ballots.

North Shore, s. L.. Fire Representatives
Give Him once on Recount Of Ballots.
An adjourned meeting of the board Of
representatives OF the North Shore Fire
Department was held in Port Richmond
last evening to receive the report of the
committee appointed several weeks ago
to canvass the vote of the annual election
for chief last May and to inquire into the
protest filed by Joseph P. Mckay, one Of
the candidates, against the vote OF Union
Hose Company No. 8 OF West New Brighton,
which has the biggest membership Of any
company in the department.
The board by a vote of 20 to ~ rejected
the entire vote OF Union Hose Company,
and declared Mckay elected chief engineer
his opponent, who was declared elected
after the vote had been counted in May.
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THE SUI. THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1904.
MRS. ABBorr ARREsrED
Fer Debs--Had 10 sen Effects to Get Money
10 Como 10 New York.

AsHBvILLs, N. c., July 1s.-Just before
Mrs. George F. Abbott, wife Of the muir.
dered Brooklyn junk dealer, left to-day
for New York she was served with war
rant Of arrest by creditor, who had her
trunk attached, but friends interceded and
Mrs. Abbott was allowed to 60 on her way.
She will reach New York tomorrow morn
ing over the Pennsylvania road.
In order to raise money for her railroad
expenses. Mrs. Abbott was forced to sell
all OF her personal effects, which went for
a mere pittance. She sold her sewing
machine for ~. Since Mrs. Abbott came to
Ashevil,s with an invalid son, who has
since died. she has depended mainly upon
charity for her support. The Flower Mis-
sion here has contributed largely to her
aid. Her husband wrote to her often,
but did not help her; now and then he would
q clairvoyant, and was known az Madame
Monk. She Ia 90 years old.
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SAY THEY BEGGED FOR A CHURCH
One OF Band Of IL Women Caught and
Sent to tho Island.

julia Terry, a colored woman was sent
to the Island for six months yesterday in
the jefferson Market police court. Her
arrest and conviction was brought about
by Director James Forbes OF the Charity
Organization, who found that she and ten
other women had been collecting money
from business men in Fifth and Sixth
avenues for q oolored Baptist church.
Another woman, who was with her yester-
day when Detective Barry pioksd her up
on Sixth avenue, ran away
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LOTS IN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY.
New Game Of Money Lender - Beat the
Usury Lawn.

Firemen Joseph F. Campbell and Frank
lin Ferguson OF Brooklyn were recently tried
by Deputy Commissioner Doyle on COM
plant of a money lender named P. Smith
who asserted that they owed him for cash
loaned. Ferguson said he got go and paid
back 20. He also said the lender had h-
troduoed q now wrinkle in his business.
To get loan from him, . borrower had
to 60 through the form Of buying . lot IN
st. Lawrence county and agree to pay
Smith monthly installments thereon. That
was done, he said. to enable the lender to
evade the usury laws. Commissioners
Doyle ordered the men to pay. FerRu son
hurried to the District Attorneys once
and made q complaint AGAINST Smith.
Campbell said he borrowed the money
to play tho races and had PAID up. The
Deputy Commissionsr ysstsrday dasnaiassd
" a.si ~ ) -,>-.ss- Ls.-> .,Na 49,. 81.
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Bather Stricken with Heart Disease.

Wallace Meyer, 23 years old, Of 678 MoDon-
ough street, Brooklyn, went In bathing
with a friend shortly after O'Clock last
night Oh the Captain's Pier at Bath Beach.
After being In the water . few minutes he
was seen by the crowd on the pier to throw
UP his hands and sink. His Body was re-
covered after an hours search. DR.. VIII
liam MoynAn Of 80 West Thirty-eixth street
examined the body and found that Meyer
had died from heart disease.
The sun., 1904-07-14

Milwaukee Buying Up Chicaso Cattle.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, July 1s.--Mfwsukee
packers are not affected by tho strike.
Firms here have bought up large supplies
Of cattle wAtoh chicaso houses had On
hand. 81. !.
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at the latter's country place on the Pelham
Road at New Rochelle. On November l9
Mr.. Baxter got up little party to attend
the Yale football game at New Haven the
next day and Kingsley Joined in. The party
came here from New Rochelle on Friday
and spent Friday night in this city
The next morning Kingsley decided that
he wouldn't go to the football game, but,
instead. would leave for Rutland, where
his father was then i'll. He bought ticket
for Rutland at 10 o'clock that morning at
the Grand Central station and checked his
trunk there. That was the last his cousin
or any OF his friends ever saw Of him.
,Kingsley had told them that he would
take the 1910 train on Sunday morning,
the day following. for Rutland. 1t was
found that he visited hat store at IL o clock
Saturday morning, and there all trace Of
him ended for several days.
When Kingsley did not turn up at Rut-
laf,d, inquiries were made and finally Ale1-
ander T. Mason, his lawyer, aske d the police
TO look for him. At first IL was thought that
he might have met with foul play on the
however, 1t wss ds-oovered that he had been
In this city a. ls,e a. the Tuesday following,
- on that daJ he went to book store and
bought some books, which be ordered to be
sent to Rutland. 1t was only when the
had been at the book store three days after
he was to rave started for Rutland became
known. Why Kingsley did not telegraph
his father and let him know he was not
going to start when he intended remained a
mystery.
:. 70 those who saw him In the book store
he APPEARED to be possessed OF all his farul-
ties snd there was nothing unusual In his
appearance. His movements from the time
he left the book store on that Tuesday
wer9 9,peyer learned, although the family,
sctihS through Mr.. Mason, mads every
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s! faaSs sesa g s1'tss sss
hat H. s ysn Dc os Es adn h know n NSR
hHd 5 5SSt4IPs ,sS % Do VIII Killing NJ; Abbott
killed. All I know is that johnson said he
would AZ the old man and that he went into
Sssn he sd
before Magistrate T7ghe in the Adams
street police court yesterday. Both pleaded
not guilty They will have no opportun-
ity OF communicating with each other, and
between now and July q, the day set for
again.
Capt. Harkins caused a search to be
made vest erday afternoon Of 178 Fulton
street, where Dahlgren had his lodging
and in the basement found a shirt with
and which will be subjected to chemical
examination.
Wild rumors were aioat day about
vast hordes Of money slowed away in the
inoonceivably confused mass Of rubbish
heaped up In Abbott's junk shop Walter
Thorn. whose ofiie Is in the Arbuckle
Building. and who was counsel for Abbott
In the foreclosure proceedings when his
house In Pearl street was sold. said he did
not believe that sale Of all Abbott's pos
sessions would bring 500.
He tried desperately hard. said Mr..
Thorn. -to meet the mortgage. and APP
pealed to relatives and friends to help him.
But his relatives had helped him time and
again. and Il had been Of no avail
stands belongs to Abbott's widow. She
has bean for about two years at Ashsville,
N. c., and q telegram was received from
her yesterday that she would be In Brook
lyn to-day. A postal card from her to her
brought to The junk shop hts ysstsrday
afternoon. = =
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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-29
WEST BRATTLEBORO.

Mrs. Sophia Chamberlain is at home
again.
Miss Augusta Fox is spending the
week at Wilmington.
Mrs. Baker and daughter OF New
York are at the Melrose.
Miss Leila Cook is back again
stopping at Mr.. Morses on Guilford
street.
Mrs. w. Z. Terrill and daughter OF
Middletown, Conn, are boarding at
Maple lodge
There win be no service at the First
Congregational church Friday even
ing of this week,
Mrs. n. A. Woods sister, Miss Nell
lie Hollis, has come to the parsonage
for weeks stay.
Rev. Mr. Baker has been spending
his vacation at West Brattleboro, re-
newing old acquaintances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Weatherhed
are spending a part of their vacation
with his father Luke Weatherhead.
Rev n A. Wood goes to Northfield
saturday. His vacation of three
weeks will be spent in Mortified and
at the Vineyard.
The Baptist church and Sunday
school enjoyed a picnic at Mr.. lie
Roy's Wednesday There were los in
Ball games, etc, were
in and the weather was per-
feci,
Pickens, the colored orator of the
south. will speak at the First Con-
gregational church Monday evening,
Aug. l. at s o'clock. Mr.. Pickens
graduated from Yale this year and
was one of the first seven in class
Of 500 In 1908. he took the first
prize for oratory The public is in
vited to hear him.