The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-07-12
New York
Day By Day
New YoRK CRY, N. Y

ANhW AOhh Viii
Fifty thousand persons who entered
Manhattan borough through the New
York terminal of the Brooklyn bridge
were within immediate peril of being
blown to pieces by package of dyna-
mite.
The explosive, in three blasting sticks,
was kicked about for more than an hour
by policemen and citizens before Julius
Hochfelder lawyer, OF 90 East Fourth
street, stepped on one OF the sticks soft
ly, saw what il was, and, after spring.
ing to a safe distance, notified the po-
lice
After the character Of the package was
made known, Roundsman Farrell, on
duty at the terminal, remembered he had
kicked the package several times earlier
in the day. The dynamite was origi-
nally rolled up in piece Of brown paper
that bore the name and address Of
man in Williamsburg. No one has yet
been found who saw the package laid
in the path of the thousands that cross
ed the bridge. The dynamite was placed
in a pail of water pending an investiga-
ton.
oiCuNlly d odBdClOuh llllt ION lCIIltn
aided in the capture by the police of
four alleged burglars in the home of
Benjamin L. zimmerman, in West Sixty
fourth street, and frustrated their es-
cape with loot valued at $1,000
The intelligent little animal, which has
heretofore been homeless, will become the
station mascot. He will also wear a
handsome silver collar, to be purchased
by his bluecoat friends.
Policeman Sager had his attention at
tracted by the peculiar antics of the
friendless little dog, which had become
quite a companion TO him in the street
and tugged at the tail OF his coat and
whined and then ran into the areaway
of the Amermann home, where he shifted
at the bottom of the doors and looked
at the officer, as much as to say there
was something wrong going on inside.
The policeman understood him.
He summoned reinforcements from
the police station and the combined
forces, numbering six policemen and the
dog, entered the house, where they found
four young men, who, they alege, had
just finished packing $1,000 worth OF
silver, bric-a-brac and other articles in
bags, ready to be taken away.
The ntroduers did not surrender until
the policemen had subdued them with
their night sticks and revolver butts.
Annie Meister. a Harlem girl, II years
old, was drowned in Cromwells creek
in an effort to rescue her brother Will
lie, 7 years old. At this point the creek
is being filled in and artificial ground
has been made to level with the bulk
heads. The creek has overhowed, and
Willie, with some other children was
padding in the water. He padded along
until he stepped off the bulkhead into
10 feet of water The brave sister did
not wait, but plunged in after him. She
did not rise again.
The other children ran away scream
ing A policeman who hurried to the
place found Willie holding on to an abut-
ment and rescued him, when he said that
his sister was also in the creek.
Egbert Chamberlain, a bystander, dived
FIVE times, and finally reached the body
and brought it ashore, but the little hero
inc was dead
Surrogate Fitzgerald admitted to pro,
bate the will OF William Ziegler. the
bdhliS ONutI NllR ana OF
Arctic explorations The will bequeaths
the bulk of the estate, which is estimated
to amount to $3o,ooo.ooo to his I7-year-
old adopted son, William Ziegler.
There was talk that objection to the
probating of the will would be filed by
Mrs. Henry K Shields, of Los Angeles,
was filed.
After years of delay and discussion,
plans for permanent terminal at the
Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge,
with adequate facilities to meet the de-
mands of traffic at this point, were adopt
ed by the Board of Estimate and Appor-
tionment. The cost>of the new termi-
nal will be $3,eoo,ooo, exclusive of the
land. The city already owns a consid-
cradle percentage of the land needed.
The most important of the parcels TO be
taken is til Staais-Zeitung Building.
While the building is to be several
blocks in length and more than block
in width, traffic in Chambers street or
Park Row is not TO be interfered with.
Arcades for traffic and surface-ralway
cars are TO be provided through the
building.
The new edifce will be the terminal of
the Brooklyn trolley lines, elevated lines
crossing the bridge and of the Third
avenue elevated lines. 1t will include
offices for the Department OF Bridges.
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William A. Wheelock, president of
the council of New York University,
died at his summer home Easthampton,
l.. ]. Mr.. Wheeock belonged to the
New England Society, the Union League,
the Lawyers Club, the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, the American Museum of
Natural History and the American Fine
Arts Society.
Tom l.. Johnson, who has been brought
to this city by the illness of his mother,
said that there was nothing in a report
that a movement is to be formed TO nomi-
nate him as the Democratic candidate
for President on plank OF Government
ownership OF railroads.
81 am going TO be Mayor of Cleveland
for the third time, the people willing"
he said.
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