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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
WiTTE NOT no BE REC,LLED.
London Times" Correspondent says Also
There VIII Not BE Another Foreign Loan.
Special cable Despatch 10 THE Sun.

Special CGbie DeSp7fch 10 THE SUN.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The ST. Petersburg
correspondent of the Tim s says the Liberal
organs are almost unanimously under the
impression that the recent Ministerial
visits presage another foreign loan. The
Okoeys, formerly the Russ, couples this
belief with persistent predictions of the
return of Count Witte 10 power. The
correspondent adds:
Il am in a position to state on u"ndoubted
authority that the question Of "A foreign
loan has not been raised, first because a
loan is not Immediately wanted, and sec
ondly, because the Government realizes
that the conditions which would be asked
would render a loan impossible.
As regards Count Witte, ! learn that he
is going to his estates in the Caucasus. He
was invited TO come through st. Peters
burg, but the invitation was subsequently
cancelled. Moreover, there has never been
any intention of recalling him 10 office.
His presence here was at one time desired
in connection with financial questions. 1t
IL stated that the reorganization Of the
state Bank will soon he Effected"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
TWELVE PASSENGERS HURT.
Trolley Gar I'm West Nutley Thrown COm-
plcIeIy Across the street.


PATERSON, n. J Nov I'm Franklin
avenue. West Nutley, this afternoon the
rear truck Of one of the heaviest Of the
new Public Service trolley cars took a
switch Unexpectedly near Kingsland avenue.
throwing the car completely across the
street, the rear mood cutting in two a large
telegraph pole. Twelve persons were hurt,
three Of them seriously Those injured
are "a follows:
Mrs. Lark, rs Pins street, Paterson;
Patrick King, ~ Chestnut street, Pater-
son; Ruth Brendesi and Alice Brendesi, 76
Thirteenth avenue. Newark; julius RasS,
~ Circle avenue, PasSaic; Frederick Salco,
142 Bergen street, Newark; John Busse.
2sI newton street, Newark; Mrs. James
Show, so Market street. Newark Allan
Salzman, Harrison; Mrs. Kaustper, 37S
Summit avenue. Newark; Mrs. Rose Hay.
II New York avenue, Newark; Mrs. Rose
Robert, Waverly Park.
The three first named were the most
seriously injured and were taken TO the
General Hospital, Passaic. All the Others
were cut by flying glass and by being thrown
about the car.
Edward d. House OF Paterson, the motor
man Of the car, stuck to his post until the
car was brought TO n standStill. He is an
experienced motorman and ms been in
the employ of the Public Service for a nun
Der of years. The car left the track about
a hundred yards from where il turns into
Franklin avenue from Nutley. There is a
slight hill at this point and the car gains
considerable momentum before il reaches
the switch, which is a temporary affair
placed at Kingsland avenue while the road
bed through Nutlry il being repaired.
G.. S. Smith, the conductor, says the ctr
was not going at high speed. II was thrown
completely across the street. however,
and had it not been for the telegraph pole
it would have turned on its side.
The injured were cared for in the homes
OF residents near by until the arrival of
ambulances and carria ges.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
CiyCHT PURSE SNATCHER.
County Clerk Rotterdam and city Clerk
Mccarthy Right on Hand.

A. City Clerk George NJ. Mccarthy Of
jersey City and County Clerk John Roth
"rham were leaving a printing Office in
Washington street late on Saturday night
they heard a woman scream at Washing
ton and Grand streets, a book and a half
away, and saw a boy ~sprinting along Wash
mEton street toward them.
The woman, t was learned afterward,
Wa Miss Adelaide Schroeder of IS Kearney
avenue. Jersey City, and the boy was Ed
ward Batterbsy, 10 years old, of 800 Cherry
street, New York city, who had snatched
Miss Schroeder's purse, containing SI3. "a
she was stepping aboard a Greenville
trolley car.
The two men tackled across the street
10 head off the boy and Mccarthy caught
hin after a sharp, short chase. Battersby
had a revolver in his rand and pointed it
at Mccarthy, but the latter slapped the
boy on the wrist, tool the pistol away from
him and told him to be good. Then he
turned him and the pistol over to Police
man Lockwood. Battersby had thrown
the pu rise away, but the cop found il.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
BLAZING can on BRIDGE LOOp
Comes Hack DOwnt the Incline IncOntrOIlri
aud Bumps Another Passengers shaken.

The little fire brigade organized among
the policemen of the Brooklyn Bridge squad
had a hard battle with n burning car at the
Manhattan end OF the bridge late last night.
DeKalb avenue car EOS. bound for
Brooklyn, had jus; passed the last loop
on the south road way when the fuse blew
out. The front end of the car was in
stantly enveloped in flames. Motorman
Frank Klein of 800 Stanhope street brook
lyn. was forced back into the car by the
blaze, and, uncontrolled, the ear started
back ward down the incline toward the
loops. About twenty-five persons, inclId-
ing several women, leIped of the car. All
escaped injury.
One hundred feet behind the burning
car Third avenue car 2lg9 was coming
of it, loop. A collision seemed imminent.
Policeman Reilly jumped on the DE kalb
avenue car, jerked Of the pole. shutting
of the power. and began To apply the brakes
on the rear end. BY the time the cars
collided the speed had so diminished that
little damage resulted The contact was
severe enough. however. TO throw several
passengers in III Third avenue car from
their seats. None was injured.
The flames, meantime. were shooting
above the roof Of the DE Kalb avenue car.
Reilly legan TO fight them with sand while
Roundsman Fitzgerald and Policeman Far
rem came ont run with two fire eX~tinguiSh-
ers. When they got to work the fire was
soon extinguished. The De kalb avenue
car was then pushed across the bridge
by the one with which il bad collided. The
surface lines we're blocked fifteen minutes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
LOCOMOTIVE WRECKS 4 SALOON.
Engineer and brakeman Killed -~Occupanls
Of saloon Narrowly Escape.

VI ~atVOu NaEEO"Iy tdsNdtNs
UTICA, Nov. A locomotive hauling a
train Of refrigerator cars eastbound over
the New York Central jumped the track
in Rome at noon to-day, ~ploughed through
a saloon which adjoined the track. killed
the engineer and a brakeman, wrecked a
number of the cars composing the train and
imperilled a score of lives. The engineer
was Adelbert Bro Wn Of Little Falls and the
brakeman was r. b. Nandervoort Of Albany.
The train was bound from Suspension
Bridge to New York and was travelling ut
high speed when it struck a crossoVer which
had been turned to permit il 10 cross To the
eastbOund passenger track. The momen-
tum of the train was evidently greater than
the engineer calculated. for as soon as his
locomotive struck the frog it jumped the
track, travelled "A hundred feet over the ties,
then buried itself in the building occupied
by THONGS Ferlaw a. a saloon and boarding
house. There we're more than twenty
persons in the lower part of the building
and these narrowly escaped with their
lives as the engine p%loUghed Us way thrOugh
the place.
The building caught fire. and the respond
ing firemen dragged Engineer Brown from
his cab. where ne lay dead pinned down by
a heavy rod. He had been scalded to
death. Brown might have saved himself
by jumping. as did his fireman, but he stuck
10 his post. Brakeman Vandervoort, who
was riding on the locomotive, jumped as
the engine struck the building, but was
caught in the debris and crushed to death.
The loss to the railroad company in wrecked
carr and their cont ent =, most ~ dairy prod
uCtS. will he heavy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
FIFTH FIRE ~ OLD CAR Barns.
Abandoned Cars Feed a Blaze Al I2sth
street and I'd Ave. -drOkPr BlamcS BOys.

A fire which started late yesterday after
noon badly damaged the abandoned car
barns of the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company at the southwest corner Of l27th
street and Second avenue.
The fire started on the second fioor of the
building, which is a " story brick affair,
and was fed by "A number Of old worn out
cars. Smoke penetrated Edward Bren-
mans livery barns adjoining on the west.
and the fifty or more horses we're led out
with more or less difficulty by the police.
In the scramble Policeman Gilbert of the
East l28th street station was knocked down
and bruised by one of the horses.
The blaze was ~eNtinguished after an
hours fight. in which time the Second avenue
elevated and surface roads were blocked.
Chief Croker, who was on the job, said
there had been five fires in the place in the
last two days, which he attributed to a gang
Of boys VINO hung about the barns. He
estimated the damage at $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
BLACK HAND BOMB EXPLODES.
FRONTS OF TWO HOUSES IN WILL
I4NSBURG BLOWN OFT.
Many Persons In Peril. but Nobody Hurt
"A Policeman a Block Away Knocked
Dow -NeishDorIng Tenements Emp
lied Of Their Screaming Occupants.

A bomb was exploded by Black Ian
men in the lower part Of a three story double
frame dwelling inhabited by half a dozen
Ttakan families at go Bushwiok avenue,
Williamsburg. early yesterday morning.
Damage sg~gregating thousands of dollars
was done not only to that building but to
adjoining houses, and hundreds Of windows
in neighboring buildings were shattered.
On one side Of the ground floor wherein
the explosion occurred was a tailor shop
carried on by Francesca Messina, who with
his wife and three small children lives over
the store. On the other side Of the hall was
a picture frame establishment conducted by
Salvatore Potassin.
Tn the early part Of September Messina
began TO receive threatening letters. Al
first 81 500 was demanded, but in subsequent
letters the amount dwindled to $500. No
attention was paid by Messina TO any of
these letters. At times he noticed suspi-
cious looking men watching his store, but
he paid no attention to them.
Shortly after ? O'Clock yesterday morning
the neighborhOod was awakened by ths
explosion. II was heard in the Stage
street police station, five blocks away.
Policeman Bremen, who was at Johnson
and Bushwick avenues, a block distant
was knocked down.
In a twinkling hundreds of people, among
them women and children who we're scream
ing swaTmed into the street from large
four story brick apartment houses EXTEND
ing from 267 20 PSI Bushwick avenue. Inall
Of these dwellings hundreds Of windows
were shattered. There were reports that
many persons had been badly hurt in the
explosion and a hurry call for an ambulance
was sent to st. GATHERINGS Hospital. Drs.
Miltemore and SpTpcht when they reached
the scene learned from the police that while
many persons had had narrow escapes
nobody was hurt.
The entire front Of the dwelling at $50
had been blown out. The front Of the
adjoining house. 2S2 Bushwick avenue,
had also been blown out. while the home
Of DR.. n. Kane at 2l3 Boerlm street was
much damaged.
Police Captain Murphy OF the Stagg
streAt station, with Detective Connor and
ROundsmen Twillman and lane. went to
work on the case and three hours after the
explosion they placed under arrest Frank
and Antonio Passamita. brothers, - and
~ years old, of $50 Flushing avenue. and
Baldassiro Panalfe. % years old, of 1888
Montrose avenue. The three were taken
to the Stage street police station, where
on being searched there was found upon
them note paper whose watermark cor
responded with the watermark on the
threatening letters which had been sent
10 Mes5ina. The prisoners we're locked up
and later on. being arraigDed in the Man
haitian avenue police court, they were held
without bail 10y Magistrate O'Peilly until
to-day.
In the neighborhood Of rsterday's ex-
plosion there nave been two similar eyplO-
sions within the last two months.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
FIREMAN KILLED, FIVE HURT.
Were Dragging Hose Under an Arch When
IL Fell on Them.

A fire started in the basement of the
live story brick business building, SO TO 90
Third street, Brooklyn, at Q o'clock yes
terday morning. 1t resulted in the death
OF one fireman, serious injury to five others
and the destruction of the building and its
contents. The lower part of the structure
was occupied by the New York Vitrifed
Tile Works and the upper floors by the
Pilgrim Laundry.
A passerby discovered a blaze coming
from the Fourth street end of the building.
In spite OF the work of the iremen the fire
ate its way from end to end and from floor
to floor.
An outburst Of fame attracted the at
tention of Battalion Chief Henry Kirk,
and he directed the men of 1903 Company
TO throw a stream on il. They we're in the
act OF dragging a line Of hose through an
arched gateway when the arch toppled
and a falling mass of brick fell upon them.
A score of the other iremen who we're al
work on another part of the building went
to their assistance and dragged them out
One OF them, James McCasker, was ~lifeless.
His skull had been broken.
Firemen Samuel Ward had a broken
leg, James Finley mad a similar injury =.
O"hh r~iCAPatrlCk TlBhV arm was broken.
John Kelly had cuts, bruises and contusions
OF his back and arms and John Black
had cuts and bruises on his legs, face.
shoulders and back. All these men belonged
to No. 1903. Excepting the driver, acting
engineer and the captain the whole CON-
pany was disabled. The injured men
were taken to the Long Island College
Hospital.
The loss is estimated at SIS 900. The
dead hreman was 80 years old. He lived
at 10 North Eighth street, Williamsburg.
He had been in the serNSce three vears
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
GRAND JTROR ORDERS ARREsp
or DrI, or Who a Coach Pole Through tho
Rig IN which lie Was Driving.

@F
Thomas Ryan. a coach driver, was ar
rested late yesterday afternoon in Central
Park on a charge of reckless driving after
he had run the pole of his rig through the
rear of a coach in which Mr.. and Mrs.. John
Bake Baker OF 20 East Forty-eighth street
were driving. Mr.. Baker. who Is a member
of the present Grand Jury, was very ms.
dignant and ordered Mounted Policeman
McClinchy to arrest Ryan.
According to the story told to the police
by Mr.. Baker and his coachman, Ryan came
down the Fast Drive at a fast clip behind
Mr.. Bakers carriage, Mr.. Bakers coacn-
man says he called out TO Ryan to slow
down but that he paid no heed to him At
Ninetieth street the pole of Ryan's coach
crashed into the Baker vehicle. No one
was hurt but the Baker vehicle was badly
damaged.
Ryan was first taken to the Arsenal police
station and then to the East Six~ty-seventh
street station. where he was locked up
Ryan was employed by the Albemarle
Stables, at S2s Seventh avenue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
JACOB n. SCHIFF IN A UNION.
Made a StOnecuIter Before lie COnId Lay
Synagogue Cornerstone.

A large congregation witnessed the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new Ohab
Zedek Synagogue of the First Hungarian
Congregational New York yesterday after
noon in Itch street between LenoX and
Fifth This is the oldest Hungarian
Hebrew congregation in this city and for
the last thirty-five years has worshipped in
the synagogue on Norfolk street. The new
building is TO be in Gothic style Eugene
Schoen IL the architect.
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band opened
the ceremony with The Star Spangled
Banner. followed by PRAYER and an address
in German by Rabbi Philip Klein. Moritz
Neuman. chairman Of the building COM
mittee. then introduced Jacob II. Schif,
who was TO lay the cornerstone. but before
Mr.. Schitf was allowed to proceed ne was
initiated into Union 81, Journeymen Stone
Settlers of New York. by Delegate Skinner
Of the Internationa Bricklayers' Union.
Mr.. SohiR in a brief address congratulated
the congregation and officers on their sue
cess and added his best wishes for it's con-
tinuance. Other speakers were Leopold
Herman, president of the congregation.
and the Rev. DIR. II. Pereira Mendes.
The following letter VA read:
WHITE House, MASHINGToN. D. &.
To First Hungarian Congregation
Your letter of the 10Th received. The
President heartily appreciates the invitation
extended TO him by the First Hungarian
CONGREGATION, lie regrerS that his en-
gagements prevent his accepting your kind
invitation and wishes me to extend to you
his best wishes for your success.
WILLIAM LOEB, Secretary.
Otbar Istter. were rend from Gov HIGGINS
Comptroller Metz and Judge Samuel q.
~ raanh nm
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
NEW YORK BROKERS' BIG DEBT.
They owe Ontario Bank So o 600. Ac-
cOrding TO EX-Manager

OTTAWA. Ont. Nov. IA TORONTO de.
spatch to Ottawa tonight says. Accord
ing to ex-Manager Mciiills statements on
record ct thc Ontario Eank it is said that
big New York brok' rS are shown TO owe
the banI about $1,000, 900. The proSecu-
ton may send "A commission to New York
To look INFO the facts thoroughly. The
court inquiry. beginning on Tuesday. will
include IN its scope the probing Of all the
ex-manaEer's speculationS. On NondIy
the shareholders committee will meet to
decide whether to emp low special counsel
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
THAW TRIAL THIS WEEK, MAYBE.
Hes Now Second ON the Homicide List
waiting Their Day I'm Court.

Harry Thaw may be put on trial this week.
He is nov number 2 on the list Of muir
derers confined in the Tombs and awaiting
trial. Since October l, when the District
Attorney began to try murder cases. he
has reduced the number from thirty-one
(the largest number OF men held in the
Tombs for homicide in the city's history
to nine Thaw is second of those left.
1t is possible the trial may be delayed
because of the writ Of prohibition secured
by Thaw's counsel forbidding the District
Attorney from further examining wit
nesses in the case on Grand Jury subppnas
Recorder Goff has that matter under advise
ment now and il is not known when he will
give a decision either sustaining or nullify-
ing the writ,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
$500 REWiRD ron POLECEMAN
vino Convicted Two VIOIatOrs Of the PrI-
mary Election Law

just prior to the recent primary elections
Chairman Parsons of the Republican county
committee offered a reward Of $500 for detec-
ton of violations Of the primary law. Mr..
Parsons sent a check for 500 yesterday to
Pat rolman James Hastings for securing
the convict ion of two men who sought to
vote under false names. In sending the
reward to Hastings Mr.. Parsons said:
Il thank you for your effective and per-
sist ent work in pursuing these men and
procuring their conviction. | sincerely
hope that the Commissioner Of Police will
permit you to accept the reward"
The mea arrested were Edward Walsh
and Charles Murray. They voted under
false names in the Third election distri It
of the Eighteenth Assembly dist riot. Muir
lay rot six mon be and Walsh sixty DAYS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
TLLEG 81 REGISTRATION.
Three Well known Politicians In ia, Onne
Inder Accusation.

The biggest surprise in Bayonne's excit-
ing campaign was sprung last night. when
warrants were issued for the arrest Of three
Of the hest known politicians in the First
and Fifth wards. They are accused Of
padding the registry list. More arrest,
will be made to-day and still more, IL is sad,
tomorrow. The men for whom warrant
were issued are Thomas Mcllugh Of the
Third district Of the First ward, William
FeacekO and j. y. Long OF the Second dis
triCt Cf the Fifth ward.
McHugh II accused Of having registered
Peter Creighton, who, It is sad, H. not "A
citizen. Long ~ charged with having
registered George SoHranko, who, IL IL sad.
has no papers. and Fe2c"ko with having
Registered Henry Fernarn, who has only
his frat papers. There are 3d. illegal regis
~trations in BayOnne, and those men will lie
arrested ~ soon ~ they attempt 10 vote.
Tho arrests were made by the police. who
have been verifying the registration. The
names Of dead men appear on the list.
Try Gold A. Black Label /. : a . Crown ShsT.
rles, only standard sheIIIc1 bottled Abroad.-Adv.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
GIFT FROM MRS. RUSSELL SAGE.
To Present another window 20 . Syracuse
Church.

Mrs. Russell Sage has arranged to make
another gift to the First Presbyterian
Church OF Syracuse, where she and her
parents used to worship. 1t will be a
stained glass window 80 feet high and Il
wide on the subject Of st. John baptizing
the Saviour, and is now being executed by
Miss Anna Tillinghast. IL is in memory
Of the Rev. John Watson Adams. d. d.
who was the first pastor OF the church
and who baptized Mrs. Sage as a little girl.
The window will occupy a place opposite
another window, also by Miss Tillinghast.
which Mrs. Sage presented several years
ago in memory Of her parents. The win
dow will cost about SIS, 900, and will he fin-
ished by Easter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
Candidate for Congress Quits All Tor.
pOraIlOns.

DIXON, ILL.,, Nov. Prank q. Lowden!
the Republican candidate for Congress- in
the Thirteenth district. yesterday stated
that he had disposed Of all interests held
10y him In the American Radiator Com
pany, Central Trust Company, National
Bank Of the Republic. London Guarantees
and Accident Company. National Biscuit
Company, Pullman Company and the
Pullman Loan and savings Bank.
u was charged 10y the Democrat, that
Iowden WAS director Of these concerns
and that IL would influence his action In
Congress.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
OPERA Unions SUSPENDED.
a.. D. 4. DIscIDlInes the stage Hands and
the Musicians Organizations.

the MuSlclanS DETERMINATIONS,
The Theatrical Protective Union. com
posed Of stage hands. AMI the Musical
Mutual Protective Union. otherwise known
as Local $40 Of the American Federation Of
Musicians. were formally suspended at
yesterdays meeting OF the Central Fed
Grated Union for disobeying the order
given last week 10 withdraw their members
from the Metropolitan Opera House in order
to force Director Conried TO reemploy the
members Of the old chorus. The chorus
is organized as Local II Of the Actors
National Protective Union and is repre-
sented by a delegate in the CentralFederated
Union.
Before the decision was taken the dele
gates Of the suspended union made a
strong fight against the suspension order
They will appeal to the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
After the suspension had been announced
it was decided TO appoint a committee to
act with the suspended unions in trying 10
got the old chorus r~eemployed IT they
succeed the suspended unions will be re-
instatRd
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
PRIZES no SPUR MATRIWONY.
BABY Fiat" Landlord 10 BJSid Home for
Bachelors and Bachelor Maids.

babN flal' l.anutOru 10 buNiu Home for
Bachelors and Bachelor Maids.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 4.-The originator OF
the Baby Flat in Milwaukee has taken an
other step to help keep the world from be-
coming depopulated.
Louis Auer, TO show his ideas on the sub
ject Of race suicide, a year ago built two
fine apartment buildings, with floors spe-
cially deadened and with other dew ces
desirable to families with children He
then announced that babies we're welcomed
and that he would offer a months rent
free for every child born in the apartments.
This week he will let contracts for tna
largest apartment house in the city, 10 be-
built in two wings. with a court between.
One half will be devoted TO bachelor maids,
the other 10 bachelors
The apartments will be specially fitted for
those living singly, To every couple occu-
plying apartments in the building he will
give a month"; rent free upon their mar
rage.