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stairway. but did not get INTO any OF
the apartments except h a OF the
Sheridans. the door OF which had been
left open. The damage was about 5000.
Battalion Chief Lynch reported the
nre OF incendiary origin. The police
say the Harlem iirebug Is at work
again. There were three suspicious
fires last night. and have been many
others within the past few weeks.
The police are Of the opinion that
the same person who started the blaze
In the Eighth avenue house this morn
ing klndled the two others repor..i of
suspicious origin. neither of which
amounted to much because they were
discovered In time.
Thirty-hve families were driven to the
street In their night clothes at 4 o'clock
this morning by an incendiary blaze In
the six-s,ory house at No. 200 West
One Hundred and Forty-eighth street.
a tenant getting up to go to work
smelled smoke and found the fire In the
barber shop on the ground floor. run
by i. Marine. Policeman Finnegan
found a bundle OF towels saturated with
kerosene and the woodwork had been
sprinkled with II.
The ire was put out before much dam
age was done. The police and fire mar
shall are investigating.
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FIRST RAcE,-Purse. 500; three
y0r.oid and up: ave furlonxs-Ynca.
100 CHophins). 9 to g, Z to 10 n I 10
4, won: Mark Anthony H.. log CMeTag-
gart), I to ]. s to 8 and z to 10. second:
Hannah Louise, 100 t0ordon). 6 TO !, 2h
ID ! and sven, third. Time. 100 s-5. Sir
Mincumeai. Bonn.a Bee. Dandy Dancer,
Rironi, La ga ia and Creole also ran.
SECOND RACE-Purse 500: ~two-year-
olds. six furiongs-Lady Mcdee. JOG
tForsythe). I 10 5. I TO 2 and out. first:
Republican. lis Hopklns). 3 to !. 1 to
n Q TO 5. second; Mamita. l03 (An-
dress). Q to I. 2 TO ] and 4 to 9. thTd.
Time. LA as. Electric. Re. LOWS. Billie
Murphy also ran and finished as named.
THIRD RAcE-Purse 500; tifree-year-
ODDS and upward; mile and seventy
ivAbei. Toe (Hopklns). Q 10 /. 3 to q and
cut. won: Camel. &c (Skirvin). <l-2 to I,
2 10 5 and out) second; Stlcker, AZ
(rorsythe). 2 TO ]. Z to 10 and out, third.
fime-l.% 1-5. Maromara, Herbert, Tur.
ner. Warner Griswell. Harry Sommers
also ran and finished a. named.
FOURTH RACE.-Purse e260; three.
,eAv-olds and up: i've and "A half fur
lAhys-Hofman. los Wopkins), 4 TO 1
6to 8 and out. frst; Helen Barbee, los
(Brucs), IL 10 r. IL TO 20 and out. sec
end ponau. 10 (Grand). s TO /, 2 e.
and out. third. Time, LOG 1t. Prime,
Ahmed and Eagle Bird also ran and
ouished as named.
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AGED LAWYER BREAKS LEG.
Joseph j. Marin slips When As.
cendinE subway stairs.

Ascending the stairs of the City Hail
subway station late yesterday after
noon, Joseph j. Marin. seventy years
old, senior member Of the law firm of
Marin & Marin at No. g Rector street,
slipped and fell to the platform. His
left leg was broken.
He was picked up and carried to the
ticket office. DR.. Orr took him In an
ambulance to the Hudson Street Hos
pital. Mr.. Martin lives at Sedgwick
avenue and l<ingsoridge road with hi
sons. Charles c.. his law partner. and
sidney, a contractor.
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TOOK THE FULL COUNT
TWICE IN ONE NIGHT
Burns Lost Second Time, Trying Il
Show Policeman What Stanley
did To- Him in Club Ring.

Young johnny Burns OF No. a
West Sixty-frst street. a blacksmith
by trade and pugillst by profession. va
knocked out last night by Tommy Stan
ley In the third round Of a bout at tn
Circle Athletic Club. He went 70 4,
neighboring saloon and stood awhile II
''ufflsh" thought Cat least that II whs
the literary bartender says he did.
Policeman Joseph McKenna then cam
along as Burns went into the street.
IN show you what Tommy Stanle,
showed me a little while eHs,' sail
Burns. lie swung isis hight at the 20,
liceman. When next Burns became con
scious they were dragging him off tn.
floor of the patrol wagon to carry hin
into the station.
You should conflne your fighting II
licensed athletic clubs" said Magistrate
Herbert In the West Side Court to-day
"There Is no recorded license for tn
sidewalk at Columbus avenue and ox
ty-fourth street. Fined s."
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OLYMPIC TAKES 1860
BALTIC BRINGS IN "a
White Star Liners Pass Each Other
in Bay With Contrasting
Passenger Lists.

White go FIRST cabin passengers. go
second cabin and 100 stecrago pas
sen gers sailed on the White star liner
olympic to-day. the Baltic OF the same
line had only twenty-four passengers
IN her cabins when h arrived AT
Quarantine. Among the exclusive
twenty-four were SIR Horace Plunkett.
SIR John Pringle, the Richest man In
the West Indies; Arnold DAILY and
Nine. Jeanne Jomelli, the singer.
because of the mist on the river the
Baltic was held at Quarantine until the
Olympic had passed down the bay.
Just before sailing time the olympic
Wal overrun with sightscers ana
friends of the passengers. There were
several thousand persons on the great
steamship when the sigma was given
for all those who were not sailing to 20
ashore.
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COLUMBIA ENTRIES.

COLUMBIA. q c.. Dec. s.-The entries
for Monday. races are as follows;
FfReT .RtCEIrwo. yearolis sailing; n,e AMI
one half futonss.-'Reine Marvot, l0s; E.csii'
Ssccss; H. bs,s sAi E, Srlm Y61 n::Amsi;ess, t Ia. ifSu0'
LOON RA9E1.rhree lsarSld' nd vpwsSs
Slfli2id y. M.~ III .RoFsqTs q. az
NERD. iii swell 'i2o: ". Pewrn. 'iot; 'br
s. Fain b. n nlss -qis %, y, AZ c.r md W.;
s$llns ssssn isr,ons " nss ~ G-t' ies
os pSihI lSS h. .Jsy %s; sssr-d aS. selling, st. fur
Issf: 0.Ai, 10 s'sss ,sI,, % |aiSs rt s0y w.. i q
sss..is y, y "; v''psi. Dr. L~~'' i0Oi Fan
HfrE 'RNcE-rhrss, year old and. upward
ia ssioiseSas "a 'Dssor H,ala.. 10, .iisii
iiS:i KIS..' 100, ..pats. .ef Brdssssta, lie
ccls% Jrsssnrs 100 Msdi: ~; '"aiiO' loo; ;,
s%salins; I've and :Ss:h.f t%srlgns, versnids no
stuion JMk. los ssaivolatle. los.
sATrentiee allowance. Track fast.
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those TO whom he talked OF the letter
before woang to New York to kill HIM
self, WAS worse than rejection OF his
money claim.
why md t. ne said to them with
the tears dripping down his cheeks, put
my self In the class with the thousands
who take pensions which they have not
earned and did not need? I am like u
beggar showed into the gutter. oh.
| what's the use! I'm through. have
lived my life and at the end OF It ! am
an unworthy beGGar.'
Mr.. Barnes has taken charge OF LswiSs
papers ana his few other possessions to
AolA them for his relatives.
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MYSTERY IN DEATH BY GAS.
Police say Miss Emmcss KILLED
sslf-Accident, Say Friends.

MoNTcLAIR. n. j.. Dec. s.-Miss
Virginia L. Emmens. a dressmaker. who
had been employed for many years BY
the wealthy families OF Montclair. was
found dead from gas s~spnyxiation to-
day In the rooms she occupied At No.
sss. Bloomfield avenue. She had been
dad .nty.four hours or more when
her aunt. Ars. c. NJ. Cooper. OF valley
read, called 70 SEQ her.
Mrs. cooper smelied gas In the hall
way. and when she Eoe no response
from her rIngs called \ policeman. The
dead woman was In bed and there vera
no evidences Of preparation for suicide.
Gas was flowing from a Jet hear the
bed. The police record the caso a. q
suicide, but the woman's relatives de-
clare the turning on OF the gas was an
accideat. ts~r,
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Valuable Book for Women
Free.

{ Any woman who possesses a
{ volume Of Mrs. Plnkham's
Text Book upon the Ailments
} Peculiar to Women" has at
( hand such Information as may
{save her sci lous illness, or, If
{she is ill, it will give her an
Intelligent understanding of
! her case and suggest a cure.
This valuable SO-page bound
{ text book is not an advertising
}pamphlet, and is only obtain
! able by mail or at Mrs. Pink.
hams laboratory. 1t will be
mailed in plain envelope abso.
lutely free to any woman who
will write to the Lydia E. Pink
ham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass,
asking for it.
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Choate Takes McCleIlan's Lecture
Place.

PRINCETON. N. j.. Dec. ~s.-Joseph
II. Choate. LID. and d.. c. L.. for
mer United States Ambassador to
Great Britain. has accepted the position
OF stafford Little Lecturer or Public
Affairs, according to an announcement
from the University authorities.N Mr..
Choate will succeed former Mayor
George b. Mcclellan, who resigned to
accept a profesorship Of public AFFAIRS
In the university,
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AID RUSHED FROM PITTSBURGH
TO BURIED MINERS.
M WARDEN SUES CITY,
ralIon says His Quarters Are Not
Fit 10 Live In.

That the quarters assigned to him in
the Tombs were unfit for a human
being to live In" was the charge made
to-day by John j. Fallon. the Warden.
who started suit In the Supreme Cour,
against the city for 1896.
Fallon declared he was compelled tc
hire apartments outside the prison. In
his complaint he says he IL legally en-
titled TO quarters that are tit for habi-
tation.
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FOR LIVES
|NF!RE S|XTyFEET
UNDER BROADWAY
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was no time to do anything but start
to shin up the ladder to where Lubiano
was pounding on the steel door.
Woods led the way. Cosgrove and
Donovan scrambled up behind him.
Schmidt. blinded. was cropping for the
ladder when Walsh guided his hands
to the blisterinE rungs.
60 on up. smiddy." yelled Walsh.
I'll watch out for you!"
Halfway up the ladder Schmidt lost
his hold. He would have fallen to ,ie
bottom Of the lock again had not
Walsh caught him and put him owe
his shoulder.
HELPS ALL FIVE CLIMB INTO
SECOND CHAMBER.
Before starting up the bladder Supt.
Woods pulled an emergency signal noti-
flying the locktenders outside that some
thing had happened. The locktenders
started the machi, cry which opened
the lower door and Lubiano scrambled
up into the second chamber. Then he
| helped through in succession Woods
Cosgrovs. Donovan, Schmidt and walsh
The clothing was burned off all the
men but Lubiano. But there was an
other climb Of twenty-five feet before
they could reach the top OF the lock and
tho fire had followed them up from the
lower chamber through the open door.
Donovan. with his eye burned GU
and all the skin burned of his hands
was led to the ladder by Walsh ar
Cosgrove. He was the irst TO start up
After him went Lubiano. Woods ant
Cosgrove. Last Of all climbed IN
heroic Walsh carrying the unconsciou
foreman slung across one Of his blistere'
shoulders.
So they came forth into the light o
day and the sound Of the roar of tram
OF Broadway-one by one. with hair an
clothing burned on and their flesh al
scared and blistered. Poor Donova
staggered around on the top OF tn
caisson with his charred hands over hi
slghtless eyes, moaning:
where's the doctor. boys' Where
the doctor?"
FOUR OF THEM HURRIED TO
HOSPITAL.
There was some delay In getting al
ambulance from st. Gregory's Hospital
Woods, Schmidt Donovan and Walls
were hurried to that institution wrapped
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workman hit Live Wire.

Timothy sullivan. a young cleo
trician's helper OF No. 3l West TWEEN
ty-third street. was severely burnct
about the face and hands this after
noon, when he dropped a wrench on
an unprotected wire In the transmitting
station OF the 1nterboro. at Nc. ?s4
West N~inety-sixth street. The curren
was turned off and Dr. Neville removed
the injured man to the J. Hood Wrig'ii
Hospital. -
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Age,. Woman Suicide by Gas.

Mrs. Kate Petrenek, ~sIxty-hve years OF
age, committed suicide By gas IN the
Kitchen of her three-room flat at No.
s45 East Ninety-third street to-day. Ed
ward Kohler, ~janitor OF the building.
found Mrs. Petrenek sitting In front OF
the stove with a a tube tied In her
mouth with a towel. Her son. Louis,
who Is a driver. said he knew OF nc
reason for the suicide except that pos.
ably his mother was lonely.
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Flagstaff Ian IL Burned.

The Flagstaff Inn. one or the most
popular roadhouses on the Merrick
road. near Rockville Center. L. J.. was
burned to B ground early to-day. Il.
is supposed that the furnace became
overheated and set nre to the wood.
work. The manager. Mrs. Braxton. and
three servants barely escaped with their
Avss. Ths building was owned by csss
Davis.
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GOVERNMENT REJECTED III
APPLICATION FOR PENSION.

Az a civilian employee OF the Gov
eminent the law did not provide any
pension for Is wis. Until last August
he always said that he would refuse
a pension II one were offered to him,
just as he had refused support from
his daughter. May Lewis Of No. Goa
Prospect avenue, In the Bronx. and from
his brother. William Lewis, . prosper.
Gus man OF Waterbury. Conn.
But the friend, Anton Barnes, an at
torney Of No. 40 Nassau street. Man
haitian. At last convinced him that this
country really owed him q living. lie
reluctantly consented that Mr.. Barnes
should apply Tor a pension for him. The
application was turned back because OF
insufficient Information. An amended
application was sent IN and on We'd
nssdAy morning nnaA notice Of rejection
WAS sent to him.
! Tue blow to his pride. according %
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D.n.er 10 George G. Van TuyI.

George c. Van Tuyl. state Superin-
tendent OF Banks. wall be the guest OF
honor at a dinner to be given at the
Piazza Hotel tonight by the New York
STATE bank examiners. Gov. Dix and
~ guests will be present.
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BROKE UP BAND OF INSURANCE
SWlNOLERS, d

He found work with the Equitable and
saved the company from the payment Of
many thousands Of dollars worth of
fraudulent claims. His last big exploit
was his feat OF getting the secrets Of
the organized insurance swlndlers over
the Mexican border. who made a prac-
tice of killing each other to collect
death claims.
Always aggressively loyal to the man
under whom he worked. Lewis went out
Of the Insurance company In the big
changes OF four years ago with the man
who ma engaged his services. He was
too old to start anew. A man whose
son had died In Andersonville when
Lewis was there. and whose last words
and trinkets had been brought home by
Lewis, paid his rent n helped him
from time to time.
The old man lid his own cooking. and
when he was not trying to repay his
| r!end's kindness by running Strands was
mulling over the papers and letters
which were reminiscent OF his war days.
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RELATIVES OF VICTIMS WAIT
HELPLESS At MINE.

rs HV"o VI Nv eAplOSlOn SDTedI
about the Bryceville district throngs Of
women n children rushed to the mine
entrances and clamored to be allowed
to make their way inside to aid In
the rescue. Many Of the women knew
their husbands had entered the mine
before the blast. Most of these wives,
however. maintained brave hearts until
the fire began to squirt from the mine
and the rescuers we're driven back.
Then they abandoned themselves to
despair.
Members OF rescue squads who were
driven from the mine by flames and
smoke declared that they had advanced
a mile into the main shaft before they
were forced to retire. and that in that
distance they had discovered no signs Of
the imprisoned men. Just before these
rescuers were driven out by smoke they
encountered a cave-in In each Of the en-
tries. 1t was of such character as to
almost positively confirm the early the
DRY that dust" had caused the explo-
sion.
OF all the men who went into the mine
this morning three have escaped. They
q John Lang. Sam Farmer n Bert
Haymaker. THEY wero In one OF the
lateral shafts at the time Of the explo-
sion. Warned by the blasts rumble.
they escaped before they were over
taken by the flames.
These men observed bad signs as
they entered the mine. They believe the
exact location OF the blast Is at least
two miles In the interior and a thousand
feet from the mountain crest.
The number of men entC..Ibed is now
~variously estimated at LIS TO 2Gs.
ON account of the cavern and the
smoke and flames 1t Is impossible for
volunteer rescuers to proceed into the
mine. They must az ait the coming OF
the Federal rescuing apparatus, due
here late to-day.
TOWN ecENE OF DISASTER 4
STORM CENTRE.
Briceville as a mining town has had
a stormy history. It was the scene In thu
early nineties of rioting when miners
rebelled against working Wits convicti
leased by the State. Troops were sen
there to quell the trouble.
Briceville IL In Anderson Couny. A
Coal Creek. near there. on May 10. 1902
two Sindred men were killed In the Fra
terville mine explosion.
AID RUSHED FROM PlrTseURGt
TO BURIED MINERS.
PITTSBURGH. Dec. al. J. Rutledge
mining engineer attached to the Arsena
station OF the Bureau of Mines here
received word of the explosion at Brice
vile. Tenn. soon after 1t happened
with an order that he leave by the irf
train to take charge OF rescue opera
) lions at the mine. Rutledge ID familla
with the Briceville region and the min
in which the explosion occurred. Fed
erul rescue car No. 7, In charge
William Burke. Is in Eastern Kentuck!
and Il was also ordered to Briceville.
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T'sf:$;sr$i3;s;::;st
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COMPANION CONFESSEO, lEWI
WAS CONDEMNED TO DIE.


/. Lewis broke Jail at the head OF q band
OF other prisoners. but was recaptur.d
twenty miles from Richmond. Scully
broke down and confessed on the prom.
ise that his life would be spared. Web
1te was hunted down and hanged on
his information. Lewis was sentenced
to be hanged.
Lewis appealed to the British Con-
sui for the second time In his spy's
career. and at the Consul's request was
r%eprieved. Apparently in fear of Of
Tending its friend. the British Govern
me nj, the Confederate administration
put on ngi him from WEEK to
week. He was transferred to Castle
Goodwin to Castle Thunder, Castle
Lightning and Libby Prison. 1t was
nineteen months before Pinkerton could
, send enough Confederate prisoners
South to eject his exchange. In that
time his hair had turned perfe, ,ly
white, though he was but twenty-nlne
years old.
With scully he was forwarded TO
Annapolis to be sent to WASHINGTON.
Gen. Chamberlain refused to believe
their story and would not give them
transportation. saying that he had no
authority to do so for civilians. They
were too weak to walk all the way, and
Lewis pawned his coat to get them
transportation over the last part Of the
forty-mile Journey.
In his broken health. Lewis was ap,
pointed TO an easy post as balliff of tn,
old Capitol and Carroll prisons in Wash,
ington. He became disguised with srafr
In the prisons n lodged complaint
against many OF the officials. which wer'
ignored. He resigned In disgust an,
went to Chicago, Joined William Il
Scott, who had been an assistant super.
intendent OF the Pinkerton Agency. ant
orened the private detective bureau o
Lewis and Scott. Later they moved tn
business to New York and prospere,
uttll scott died. Lewis was not a bust
ness man,
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200 MEN BURIED
IN BLAZING Mine;
NOHOPE THEM
Trapped by Explosion, Two
Miles from Pits Mouth, in
Tennessee Colliery.
FLAMES HALT RESCUE.
Life-Savers Only Begin Work
When Fire Drives Them
# Mourn.
FLAMES HALT RESCUE.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Dec. 1.-TWO hun
dred men are doomed 30 death IN the
main mine of the Cross Mountain sys-
tenn. nea BrycevtIie. which IL thirty.
four mdles north OF Knoxville. Follow
Ing q dust explosion At 7.N A. M. to-
day fire broke out IN the colliery and
rescucr who had entered at three DIFF
ferent places were driven from the
mine by flames after less than an Hour's
work at rescue.
This afternoon flames were shooting
from the mine and as all the men were
working two miles from the mouth OF
the pit at the time of the explosion, all
hope OF reaching them has been aban.
doned.
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patch runner between the Confederate
capital and Southern sympathizers in
the North. The mailbags he sent North
wen straight to major Allen" who
steamed them open. copied the contents
and forwarded them. frequently arrest
ing the recipients after raiding them
and examining once more the original
letters.
Nothing was heard from Webster for
several weeks. lewis was ordered to
20 to Richmond and find out what was
the matter. He did not want to 30.
Richmond was full of people he had in
vestigated in the North. The assign-
ment. he said. was equivalent to a sem
tence to be hanged. But he went.
He found Webster bedridden with
rheumatism and vas trying to devise a
new underground mail system when he
was denounced as a spy by the wife of
Senator Morton of Florida. whom he had
sent through the lines to the South after
arresting her husband in Washington.
Lewis. with a man Pinkerton had sent
with him named Scully. was arrested
and locked up In the Henrico County
jail, familiar to newspaper readers re-
Gently as the ramshackle prison OF
Henry Clay Beattie. the wife murderer.
CnhnAAlnA Fec .SAs,,
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FELL IN WITH GENERALS AIDES
AND SAW TROOPS.


This gave the spy exactly the oppor-
tunity he sought for a study OF Wiss's
command. The members OF the Cen
era's stan were much more sociable
shan thcl" commander and entertained
Lewis with discussions OF their prob
'ems ana ~ their force and disposition.
He was invited TO see the troops pass
In review and to 60 through the quart
ermaster's stores. comparing the Con-
fcderate ration and system with that
OF Great Britain. By this time he
know nearly as mich about Wise's
force as did the General himself.
Lewis was beginning to be uneasy.
| He did not know Just what would hap
pen when the messenger from the Brit
lsh Consul returned, The problem was
solved for him when Wise moved his
whole force toward Parkersburg. leav-
ing the roads about Richmond %unguard-
cd. Lord Tracy's chaise started as
though to 10 to Richmond, but turned
back for Cincinnati. At one point he
pretended he was the British Consul
going TO his own rescue, lie was going
In the wrong directlon for a Confed-
crate sympathizer and had to Invent a
new lie every mute
At Ironton. ION the Ohio River, he
found a Federal detachment and was
able to reach Cincinnati by transport.
Gen. Mcclellan at once ordered him to
report to Gen. Cox at House Landing.
Tor whom Nise's attack was intended.
Gen. Cox thought that Wise was
much stronger than Lewis reported
Lewis nnally convinced him that II
would be safe to take the aggressive,
He went after Wise. cut him OF from
|, Charleston and made Western Virgins
a Federal State. altogether as the result
OF Pryce Lewis's work. The follower
OF the Union cause. who had been des
l perate since the Bull Run disaster, tool
new courage The border States wer,
. prevented from going over to the Con
federacy.
LEWIS BECOMES PRoTEcToF
OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
y With Mcclellan and Plnkerton. Lewil
went TO Washington. Pinkerton. under
the name Of Major Allen. organized tn,
United states Secret Service. Lewil
, was his right han man For a tint
!, his duties were the hunting down o
' Confederate spleD and stirrers-up o
y -dd.s IN Northern cities. particular!
IA Philadelphia and New York. as wei
as In Baltimore and Washington. III
was also assigned TO the protection o.
: the President. The picturesque char
= acter amused and then c~aptivated Ian
' coin ana they became close frtsnds.
. Timothy Webster. a secret servic
. Spy. was IN Richmond posing ~ . az
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SPY,
DENIED PENSION,
WAS DOME SUICIDE
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nant. and said he was going to ge. that
pass II he had to send TO the British
Consul In Richmond to get It.
Send away" said Wise. But you
don't get beyond Charleston until It
comes"
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FOUR OF THEM HURRIED TO A
HOSPITAL.

There was some delay in getting an
ambulance from st. Gregory's Hospital
Woods, Schmidt Donovan and Walsh
were hurried to that institution wrapped
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Acting Battalion chisf Lynch sent In
3 sscoad, alarm. which breu0ht Deputy
chisf Hsosstea- Trs are da9assd ths
building rem collar to roof lrbout the