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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
THIRTY OR FORTY KILLED.
Report That q Train on a Trestle Wal
Caught by n SnOwslide.

DENVER, Col..1 March ia telephone
message from Silverton, in the San Juan
mining region OF southwestern Colorado,
says a runor has reached there that a pas
senger train on the Rio Grande Southern
road has been thrown from the track by
a snow slide and thirty or forty pep pie
killed.
The disaster is said to have occurred on
what Ia known as the Ophir Loop, where
the train while on a ~trestle, was struck by
the avalanche and tumbled into the gulch.
The nearest point to which a telegraph
wire has been working late is Telluride.
This line broke down at 10 p. M, but just
before that the operator said he had been
receiving messag es from surrounding points
all the evening and had heard nothing
of a wreck.
1t will probably be impossible to verify
or authoritatively deny the report tonight,
owing to the breaking OF wires throughout
that region by the heavy snowstorm
which has been raging for a week and is
not over.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
REAPPORTIONMENT CIPHERING.
Republican County Committee to Make
Recommendations.

President Herbert Parsons Of the Repub-
lican county committee announced yester-
day the appointment Of this committee
to prepare a plan on reapportlonment Of
the Senate and Assembly districts: William
G.. Wilson, leader of the Twenty-seventh
district, chairman; W. H. Ten Eyck Of the
Thirty-ffth, John S. Shea of the Second ,
Senator Alfred r. Page of the Thirty-frst,
Abe Gruber Of the Twenty-frst, John p.
Windolph of the Eleventh and Charles s.
Adler of the Eighth. The committee held
a meeting yesterday and decided upon a
plan Of procedure. They will begin immedi-
ately to study the changes in the oity's
population, to prepare maps and boundary
lines for the making of recommendations
to the Legislature, which fixes the lines Of
the Senate districts, and TO the Aldermen,
who will lay out the new Assembly districts.
There will be radical alterations In the
boundaries of the present Assembly dis
tricts in this county. Because Of the trend
Of population uptown since the last reap
portionment. 1t Is expected that the, terri
tory south Of Fourteenth street will lose at
least Ave districts, which will be added to
the divisions above Fourteenth street.
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private safe Of the Comptroller will show
probably whore it went. In spending the
contingent fund money we simply did what
had been the custom In the office. We fol-
W the rule under former Commissioners;
that was all
Mr.. Howell's connection with the
Police Department aroused much comment
last fall. When Commissioner MoAdoo
wa of on his vacation 1t was common
gossip that Howell was running the de-
partment over the head Of Deputy McAvoy.
1t was knowni for example, that certain
transfers were to be made even before
Commissioner McAdoo had knowledge of
them. 4 storm broke over Howell when
Sergt. Eggers OF the vice squad testified
that Howell had ordered him not to make
a raid on May Livingstone place at 154
West Fifty-fourth street; because Howell
had a friendi a furniture man, who
wanted to get his goods from the place
first Howell denied this, and asked for
a public investigation. Commissioner
McAdoo promised one and said hat he had
found Mr.. Howell hitherto honest. Moth
ing came Of the request for an investlga-
ton.
1t wos common gossip about Police Head
Quarters hat Mr.. Howell did not end his
labors often before O P. NJ, and that's
having remained overtime; no was enabled
to 60 out to n ~neighboring hotel and charge
up the cost Of his dinner, and that Of any
possible guest, to the city.
The fact that the deficit in the contingent
fund practically equals what was paid to
the vice SOUND for expenses last year called
attention to tho ways of that squad. It's
members had practically carte blanche,
and many are the stories OF expensive din
ners and certain hilarious occasions in
which the members indulged on the pretext
OF hunting vice.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
FIRE IN MOVING CAR.
Burning Match Sets Umbrellas CeliuIoid
Handle Ablaze.

MoNTcLAIR, n. j., March l7.-Montclair
commuters who we're aboard the s O'Clock
train from Chambers street on the
Greenwood Lake division Of the Erie
Railroad last night are relating an
incident that occurred in the smoking
car shortly after the train left Forest Hill.
A Montolairite was doing in one OF the
rear seats when suddenly he arose and
leaped into the aisle with a cry. The
other passengers saw a sheet Of fame arise
to the roof Of the car, and in a moment
nearly every passenger was making frantic
efforts to e%xtinguish the flames, which
were confined to the commuters umbrella
and several copies Of the evening papers.
The smell Of burning celluloid permeated
the car. Finally the umbrella was hurled
through an open window. while the fire
In the papers was stamped out. The COM
muter said he had lighted a cigar shortly.
after the train left Arlington and had thrown
the match to the floor, where it must have
ignited the oelluloid handle of his umbrella :.
The oommuter left the train at the Walnut
street station.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
PINNED BETWEEN TWO CARS.
Conductor Caught While Adjusting the
Trolley Pole-Motorman Hurt.

Something went wrong with the trolley
pole on a Court street car as it was crossing
the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday afternoon
about one hundred feet from the Manhattan
end, on tho south roadway. the conductor,
Arthur Duffy, couldn't fxit. and summoned
two electricians. The electricians climbed
to the top Of the car and instructed Duffy to
hold the rope attached TO the pole. and
pull the pole down so that they could reach
the top of il. Duffy stood back Of the car
with the rope in his hand.
4 Bergen street trolley car in charge
OF Motorman David siegel came along back
Of the stalled car, smashed into it, caught
Duffy and crushed his lei> leg.
Women in the two cars tainted at the
sight, and tho motorman OF the bergen
street car was pitched over the front OF the
car and lay unconscious in the roadway,
leaving Duffy pinned.
Policeman Tighe backed tho brooklyn
car away. Dufy's leg had been broken and
siegel was in a serious condition from
shock.
The accident blocked the cars for over
an hour.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
BANK CLOSED. TuiO ARRESTS.
lis Promoters Accused OF Using Its Money
TO Float Other Schemes.

TO Float Other Schemes.
WI%LREsBARRE, Pa, March IF. NJ.
Everett, cashier Of the First National Bank
Of Freeland, and William Becker, a young
attorney Of Bloomsbury, who with Everett
and a man named McKillipp were the pro-
moters OF the bank, are in custody at Halle
ton, charged with wreckng the bank,
which this morning closed its doors,
Everett is charged with the embezzle-
ment Of a sum close to 500 900, and Beckley
with conspiracy. Everett refuses to talk
and is very respondent. Beckley has
merely said that the directors acted hastily
in causing the arrests and that everything
could have been Enlightened up at twenty
four hours notice.
The news that the bank was closed created
a profound sensation when it became
generally known this morning and scores
of mine workers, most of them foreigners,
who had savings deposited there quit
work and rushed to the bank. An excited
crowd hung around all day
The directors, who are all men of u b
stance about Freeland, say this morning
that while it will take a thorough investi-
cation to ascertain how much the bank
has lost, the depositors will not lose.
They estimated the loss from the exam
ination which has been conducted so far at
$50, 300.
In the pocket, OF Attorney Beckley
were found fifteen notes for IS 900 each,
drawn by the Pennsylvania Paper Mills
Of Catawissa on the First National Bank
Of Catawissa. Three blank notes, signed
by the treasurer Of the Pennsylvania Paper
Mills, were also found in his pockets. 1t is
in this institution that the directors Of the
Freeland bank believe hat Everett and
Beckley have sunk the money that is
missing.
Everett, Beclslcy and MoKillipp induced
a number Of prominent business men to
organize the bank with IA capital stock Of
$50, 900 in 1901. Not the least suspicion that
anything was wrong was entertained until
Wednesday, whom n bank examiner, although
finding the books apparently straight, dis
covered that tho outstanding accounts
with other banks were unusually large.
This led to inquiries which, it is said, in
dicated that the statements Of other banks
did not agree with the Freeland bank re-
garding these accounts. and it was then
discovered that about $50, 900 was missing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
r. ACCUSE TULLY.
~TiIliughast says This Court Clerk Never
Put Him on q Jury.

At the investigation before Chief Clerk
Tom Smith OF the City Court into the
charges connecting Edward q. Tully, a
City Court clerk, with the jury fixing
scandal William II. Tillin ghast failed to
c~orroborate the charges.
Tillinehast, who was sent to BlackwelPs
Island on his plea of guilty to the charge
of %personating q talesman, was brought
down to testify.
The charges against Tully specify that
he as clerk of the court called T~llinghnst
as a juror six times when T~lllnghast's
name was not on the panel.
Tilllnghast testified yesterday that he
had never had any dealings with FULLY
save once, when, he said, Stanley Bagg
Of the Metropolitan's secret service bureau
sent him to see the clerk.
Il told him Mr.. Pagg wanted me TO get
on the jury in a certain case" said Filling
hast. "He answered that the Metropolitan
people had not treated him or the other
court attaches we. enough to warrant his
granting my request. / took that answer
back to Bagg and he said he didn't blame
7ully."
Tillinghast then made some statements
rejecting on Alexander Smith, a Supreme
Court clerk. Smith, he said, urged him
to stick to the Metropolitan II he wished
to he taken care Of. On one occasion, he
said, Smith called with him at o2l Broad
a where the company had Offices, and
after a trip upstairs came down with s26
for ~Tillinghast. For that money. Filling
hast said, he served the company's in
terests "as best he could
Tully, who is a veteran, took the stand
and denied fatty that he had ever had
any dealings with Tillinghast. He adj
mitted knowing him, but insisted that he
had never had anything to do with Filling
hast's jury service.
The examination continues Monday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
ANOTHER STEUNENBERG ARREST
Fight OF Meyer and His Associates to Sci
Aside the Indictment Falls.

HtAut " uoyti aAu III FhboVCiatCS ~ SVt
Aside the Indictment Falls.
CALnwg1d, Idaho, March ia tele-
gram from Oakley, Idaho, says that j. l.
Simpkins, a member OF the executive conn.,
mittee Of the Western Federation Of Miners.
has been arrested near that place. An
officer has zone to Oakley to identify and
bring in the prisoner. Simpkins is wanted
for completely in the assassination Of ex-
Gov. Frank Steunenberg.
In the District Court here this morning
attorneys for Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone made a determined fight to set aside
the indictment returned by the Grand Jury.
The Court overruled each motion, A
motion that the defendants be admitted
to bail will be decided nex Tuesday.
MoNTRosE, Col, March 17.-Sheriff Rutan
arrived here to-day from Idaho with Vincent
st. John, former president Of the miners
union, who is indicted for murder. Sheriff
Rutan says he has no fear of mob violence,
believing that the people Of Tellurids will
await the action Of the courts in St. Johns
case, but st. John is almost palsied with
fear. believing he will be lynohed as soon as
he reaches Telluride tomorrow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
CHURCHILL. "BLENHETM PUP"
That's What Astor's Paper Calls Under
Secretary for the Colonies,

LONDON, March l7.--As Under Secretary
for the Colonies, Winston Churchill has been
the Governments m~outhpiece In the House
of Commons in regard to ite South African
policy. He has found the task one much
to his liking. What the Opposition think Of
him may be gathered from an amazing edi-
torial in the Pail Mall Gazette.
1t is unnecessary to quote from the arti-
Gle. It's heading and concluding sentence
will suffice. Its caption Is THE Blenheim
Pup" and it concludes as follows:
Lord Elgin, the Colonial Secretary, had
really better try to correct his Blenheim
pup. The animali is not clean in the House"
Such language in a political controversy
is without precedent in a reputable English
paper Of modern times, and it is so foreign
to the usual staid dignity Of the Pail Mall
Gazette that it is impossible not to conclude
that il must have been written by the pro-
prietor himself or at his direction. The pro-
prietor Of the Pail Mail Gazette is William
Waldorf Astor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
new AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRIA
BELLAMY STORER no RETIRE
FROM DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.

His Differences with the President Grow
Ing Out OF the Presidents Refusal 10
Transfer Him TO a More Prominent Tiu
ropean Decentralization Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE President
will send to the Senate on Monday the
nomination OF an Ambassador to Austria
Hungary TO succeed BeIlumy Storer OF
Ohio.
A friendship dating back to the early
'00s, when Mr.. Roosevelt was a Civil Service
Commissioner and Mr., Storer a Member OF
Congress, existed between the President
and his Ambassador at Vienna. and il was
more On account OF this friendship than
for any other reason that Mr.. Storer was
appointed to the highest grade in the dip
lomatic service. Previous to that, by
appointment of President Mckinley, he
had been Minister to Belgium and Minister
to Spain.
The grounds. OF difference which have re-
suited in severance OF Mr.. Storer's official
connection with the Government were due
primarily to reasons OF the President for
not granting MIR. Storer's desire to be trans
ferred to another European diplomatic post
Of equal rank but greater prominence.
Mr.. Storer has been in Europe as a dip
lomatio representative of the United States
for nearly nine years. President Mckinley,
an old friend with whom Mr.. Storer had
served in Congress, made him Minister
to Belgium in May, 1897, and he had served
at Brussels for nearly two years when
appointed Minister to Spain.
When Mr.. Storer was nominated for the
Belgian mission 1t was reported that Presi-
dent Mckinley had had great difficulty in
~persuading Senator Foraker of Ohio, be-
tween whom and Mr.. Storer strained re-
lations had existed for a long time, to con-
sent to the appointment.
Mr.. Storer remained at Madrid from
April, 1899, to September, 1902, when, by
the act Of President Roosevelt, he became
the American Ambassador at Vienna, the
position which he is now to ~relinquish.
Mr.. Storer was born in Cincinnati in ls47,
was graduated from Harvard in 1857, was
admitted to the bar two years later m
praotised law in his native city. He served
as the Representative in Congress Of the
First Ohio district from 1891 to 1895, and
after being out of public lifsfor two years
entered the diplomatic service.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
CAN YOU SPEAK ESPERANTOp
English ClerkshIp Candidates Must Learn
Proposed Universal Language.

Special Gable Despatch 10 THE SIN.
LONDON, March l7.-Esperanto, the pro-
posed universal language, has just achieved
Its most notable triumph in Great Britain.
1t is now recognized as a language by the
London Chamber OF Commerce, whose COM
mercial educational depa rtment has in
cluded 1t In the list Of subjects for examina-
ton. The rules Of examination will be the
same as those in regard to French, German
and Spanish, comprising TRANSACTIONS, an
essay, a dictation test and colIoquial fit
ness by conversation.
The London Chamber Of Commerce in
stituted it's education department sixteen
years ago in order to fit English clerks for
competition with foreigners, on the ground
that English merchants prefer English
clerks II they can get them properly edu-
Gated. Since the first junior examination
the number Of candidates has risen from
05 to 2,723 last year and since the first senior
examination from II 10 1895.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
JOKE WAS on THE sTOWAWAY.
Passage Back for Him Engaged in Midses
by wireless.

The steamship Alliance Of the Panama
Railroad Company, when $50 miles out
from New York yesterday, sent a story
ashore by wireless which is calculated to
discourage ocean stowaways.
The other day at Colon a Frenohman
struggled himself aboard the Alliance
in the effort to get a free passage to New
York. On March Il, when his presence
was discovered, the Alliance sent news
Of her find by wireless to her sister ship,
the Colon, then outward bound from New
York for Panama. The steamers met and
stopped between Castle Island and Fortune
Island and the ~stowaway Frenohman was
transferred to the Colon by a small boat
and is now on his way back to the Isthmus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
FEVER SUSPECT IN NEW ORLEANS.
Health Oficers OF Other States Called In
to Pass on q Doubtful Case.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March i7.-Health
officers of Alabama, Mississippi and Ten
nessee will meet in New Orleans tomorrow
to investigate a case, suspected to be yellow
fever, now under treatment In the charity
hospital of that city.
DR.. Bachelor, superintendent of the
hospital. says that the patient. Jules Ebernz,
an oyster opener, is suffering from catarrhal
jaundice only, and with n exception his
staff agrees with the superintendent.
DR.. Hamilton Jones, the dissenting mem
Der, declares that Ebernz undoubtedly has
yellow fever. Rather than risk any chance
Of error the Louisiana and New Orleans
authorities have asked Memphis experts
and also health officers from as many
Southern States as care to make an in
vestigation to view the suspect and pro-
nounce judgment on the case.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
AGAINST PASTOR MANCHESTER.
Verdict That He De R~cprimandrtl ny
tho Bishop.

NEW BRUNSWICK. y. D., March I7.-rhe
jury in the trial OF the Rev. L. o. Man
chester of Sharptown, a member of the
Methodist conference here, found him guilty
of ministerial misconduct, last night, but
stated that all the charges had not been sus-
tanned by the evidence. 1t was also recon-
mended that the Bishop reprove him in
executive session, which was done. The
septuagenarian minister shook as il with
palsy while Bishop Goodeell, al kindly as he
could in the circumstances, ad ministered
the reprimand. Mr.. Manchester served the
First Church at West Long Branch. When
transferred to S~harptown he borrowed
$500 from a p~srishioner. This is still I'M
paid. The conference passed his CHAR
acter" and he was continued in the con
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
NIECE OF CARNEGIE ROBBED.
Mrs. James &. Greenway Loses Jewels on
Trip TO Augusta,

AUGUSTA, Ca, March l7.-Mrs. James c.
Greenway, a niece OF andrew Carnegie,
cam to Augusta from Jersey City direct In
a private car and upon her arrival here went
to the Hampton Terrace Hotel. Two days
after her arrival she had occasion to open
her jewel case, and discovered that nearly
all Of her valuable trinkets were missing.
The bag had not been out Of her posses
sion except for a few minutes while on the
rear OF the Pullman car bidding friends
good-by and she at once suspected the
porter. The city detectives got the trail of
the negro and learned that he had pawned
a loose diamond worth over $500 for $40
with another negro. His arrest followed.
Many Of the jewels have not yet been
ecbyere
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
HAVEN'T SENT ron TEWKsBURY.
Police Waiting TO Sec IL the District AttOr.
ney's ONCE Wants Him Brought Here.

Inspector Mclaughlin was asked yester-
day what action WAS being taken by the
Detective Bureau in regard to the arrest Of
Lewis !. T%ewksbmry in Philadelphia on
Thursday night on an order from the New
York police.
aThere is A bench warrant on our hooks
for the arrest OF Te%wksbury, and when l
heard he WAS in Philadelphia We had the
police arrest him. What is to he done with
him is the business of the District Attorney.
II the Dist riot Attorneys people want him
they will notify us and we will then send
after hin. No one has gone to Philadelphia
to bring him here yet"
PHILADELPHIA, March 17.-Inclined at
frat TO blame a woman for his arrest. Lewis
G. Tewksbury Is to-day Of opinion that
the police we're set upon him by real estate
men who wished to interrupt a transaction
he had under way here.
He took his detention at Moyamensing
quietly, believing that he is certain to be
released Monday. His friends say The
New York authorities will find that his
arrest was ordered under an allotment
that should have beer quashed.
Tewksbury had entered into business
in New York two months ago when he made
a flying trip to Philadelphia and had his at
tention attracted by the old Bellevue prop
erty. why in the world Is that building
not occupiedf he asked members OF the
Bellevue Stratford management.
After learning that the building might
be idle for some time he cancelled his New
York plans and jumped into the promotion
Of a building upon the property hat was
to be a sort Of combination Of Delmonico's
and the home of an Indian Prince.
Despite his arrest Tewksbury is by no
means hopeless of being able to carry his
nrn ionf ihrnnnh
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
GOLDSTICKER'S WILL INVALID.
Surrogate Finds Him Insane-h Love with
Woman who Never Knew II.

Surrogate Thomas decided yesterdaythat
the will made by David Goldstioker, a real
estate operator, three months before his
death In October last was not a valid instru-
ment, as the evidence was clear that Gold
sticker was insane. He left the greater
part of his $50, 900 estate to his brother
Samuel, with whom he lived. Ihe other
brothers contested the will.
His principal delusion was that he was
being prosecuted because Of his love for
the daughter of Isidor Wormser the banker.
He had never seen the young woman, but
he wrote letters to President Roosevelt,
Grover Cleveland and others complaining
of his stipposed treatment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
ROLLINS STAYS MARRIED..
Does Not Appear when His Annulment
Suit Is Called.

The suit brought by Charles A. Rollins
for the annulment of his ma rriage to Bla nche
Naohman was dismissed yesterday by
Supreme Court Justice Scott because Of
RolliHs's failure to prosecute.
Rollins alleged in his complaint that he
was forced into the maria &c on August "a,
1904, through threats made by Miss Mach
man and her sister Nettye. who told him
that they would inform their father and
brother unless he entered into an immediate
marriage. The male Nachmans, Robbins
alleged, would shoot him on sight, accord
ing to the girls.
Mrs. Rollins denied the allegations abeo-
lutely in her answer and was ready TO de-
fend the suit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
u RONI rs ILL.,.
Attack Of Grip Causes Delay In the
Castellane Divorce Case.

Special Gable Despotch to THE SUN.
PARIS, March flowing to the illness Of
Count Boni de Castellane, the proceeding "a
in the Countess's suit for divorce have heen
delayed. The parties were to have APP
peared before Judge Ditto In the Civil
Tribunal to-day for the formal attempt at
reconciliation required by the law. This
appea rance was post noned. Count Bon
has AT attack OF the grin.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
Clerk Thos. r. Donahue Killed.

Thomas F.Donahue, clerk Of the Board o (
Examiners, was killed by falling down
an elevator shaft in the Knickerbocker
Hotel Twenty-fifth street and Third avenue,
at midnight last night. He took a door
leading TO the shaft to be one leading TO
the dining room. He was an old newspaper
reporter.