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V Weather Indication Ruin and Know j& SSeJ""- TwQ 's " V-"V. Weather tndlenllons l:in n.l "now. , a DTrODTTDdDK! waGiZ rtlfwmSft -vM (bO(!B KiQdDDSfE ' WANTED ADVT. OF 2o)) JJ rJtf 14iiT SSH "wNMrV tVf V ADVERTISEMENTS WERE V S CENTS IN THE WORLD. V ft I 111 iU' T C'XlTWU v"1 (( ( jl lJ I ll 111 J II I ING NOVEMBER. 1892. ifC "PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YOHK. MONDAY. DECEMBER 4. 18!):?. - PRICE ONE CENT. Situation Wanted Advts., 20 Words for 10 Cts., in The World, Daily or Sunday EXTRA. 8 O'CLOCK. DANGER IN DELAY. Never Before Were a Signal and Patrol Wagon Service so Much Needed. EVIDENCE OF II EVERY DA!. Another Chapter in the Historr of the Juggling Over a System. TWO OFFICIAL OPINIONS. Strangely Changing Views of the Matter by a Former Cor poration Counsel. Tha public tlomand fur n romplnte police nlgnal ryttcm and patrol-wagon service is now fully understood If anything: werr needed to demonstrate Its necessity the latest HfflirfJ of the Police Department published by "The Evening World' on Saturday WOUld be more than nufflclent. Tjiere are nto Indlcitions that the Police Ccvir.ilsfflonuiA.a-nd the otfaer officials who : Jjintlv responsible for the seven years' I ticlajr are awakening to the fact that m ira delay will njt be tolerate,!. From vv section protrsts are being received alnal Um present system and every iv furnisher new evidence of the dan gee the elty Incurs by Its continuance. There" was a time When In certain 1 .-rta tha city human life was not if mr certain hours of night. Men Hfi'l women have ev.n ben knocked down and rubbed in broad daylight. Bandbaajffera stood on many corners or In dark passageways. Gangs of all kinds, from the Whyos down, com miiterl crimes without number, and for a long time they seemed absolutely feur letl of the police. Gradually oiler was brought out of crian. If it might so be termed. Gangs were broken up. and the leaden were flthr executed for murder or sent t prison for long terms. That was only icoompllshedi however, after years of hard labor, and now there Is an Indica tion lliat other gangs even more deter mined are at Work. The brutal attack made upon the two Ward detectives of the Church i treat Nation on Thursday last is In Itself Bufflclent t demonstrate this. At a ilg- I'U nal from one of the men who had been jH pit under arrest for stealing R man's H Watch a cnr or more men fell upon iFB the offlcerii badly crippled them, beat jifl them with their own clubs, and took H away their prisoner. That was in broad HI da: light. FtM Bhould these gangp gain a foothold Ml SOW Without tiny Improved faculties for I polite signalling, and with no patrol I Wagon service, the task of exterminate I lnp them would bo much more difficult All than before. The city is larger now. 3H The population has materially increased ' I 'n' P then, while thousands of BUTO I l)Pna of all classes, many of them mad- H deiif.. Dy hunger and want of work, are uNI NtrolUns every block. Should a riot I bre-ik out now. hundreds of thousands N w '"',l1 df.mage mlRhl be H on" before the reserves from any one i I ireclnct could be called to the scene. B Th '" Evening World" stated on 8at- (Jfl '!' it ii proposi d to tell it;.- storj ' delay, which. In the light of j gj years, eeemi to huve been almost orlm- III '"' The Urst chapter. In the nature of lifj "'' oplnlona from n former Corporation ifH '' i laid before thi public to das I ll will Ih- Been that, although rendered (All "n'v ,v' ' and a half months apart, they VH ar" ,: opposite In charade. In III prps"ul:N' this matter, no mention Is P; f ll " nun '""' ani1 "M" ptor,e" llll fCUlated that city offlclaJl were years " r :u ' are now. Interested In favored 1N that generally get the "fat" ihm of .-,,.;. ,, ML, which tne cltJ 1;;( t0 pive ib . i the amount of stock the m t a4fl t , have neM and to hom In pUch II "s ven rnntloned. This article fsS, to-iay has imply to do with official dot WH Um- ts whi. h tell thi ir own atoi-j 11 ttI"'v"1 or ratlon Counsel Henrj l I IWBeekinaiL. unwittingly or otherwise, was TH 0"" ' " ' h,e' ,,fui8,,B wni' h ij '" n I ll'nal yatem echeme standing still. iiU l,'k wnch he aided In putting to (flfl ' carrying out of the project has ben H fj th,re by his successor. Mr. Clark. H . " Position. s Intimated, win be ! fr 1H K' about tiif time when the 1100.000 H Hs ipTtnipriated for experimental pur- l. f1" eiifht systems were examined. It IN I ! nnT "eesaary here to state in detail TN P.mwmnt of Juggling and wire pulling i jn indulged in, the facilities accorded orM contractors or the blocks put JM f o wuj 0f other competitora not in - JLwsa :-MaawawMSwsa- - the ring. It Is enough that In spite nf all difficult!) which at time seemed Insurmountable, the Herl0 Teleseme Company won. This If the resolution passed by the Police Commissioners at that time: Resolved, Thnt th "Tetettme1 svitpm ( t aiMtfd hv llta Ittnog TeleseiM rompun. nod I flrl in ilttall of eoSltmetleni s prpjmifj In the upeclHcallonn aoeomftflfljrlni ibrir intormal b!4l to u). tie n-l in hrrrhy aloplel as tho fyfltrm for PiRnaMliiw hpimeen vnrtous itatlOB-lOtiaM ani nulling i"i-' it-,' : aerin an hii extennlnn nf th alKii.iIIInc lyaipm t prtMSt ex'kttni bttWttn ' hfadQdartem ant the s'atlon-hoinea. pruvtl! that IU8I t)oca. Infethrr with all lUtlofl onnertim n eomplete, can tie htraisBe4. irefited anJ dtllrartd, Ulltltf 'h termti an.l OontHtlOltl aet ffirtl. tn tho bids nf Hani (totnpeay; it being oadofitood thit j the rontra"tnra ar to have the BXOlttllvo rihf , rabjeet to th 'onent anJ OSBtrol of the Board nf Polled Coram tniontn to exteni the elrruit ayo- tpm tfhout rout to this deportment, fmm the airet tmxei tn the neifchborlnc ':h atatlooa. Police Justice Voorhts, then Poll 0 Commissioner, was strongly opposed t.j the Merzog Company, nnd whether be j was or was not Interested In the Pearce 1 & Jones Company. .Which usually got all 1 the city contracts of nn electrical order, nnd which was a competitor for the Signal System, doel not enter into the uegtlon Three Commissioners Voted fo the resolution, lie was against ll- I'nder the terms of that resolution, the Hoard ' of Police Commissioners should have gone on with the work. They did not. On May 1 following Commissioner Fitz John Porter was to go out of Office, nnd it was expected some other man would bo appointed to his place who would take Mr. Voorhis's view of the situation. It became necessary to obtain delay, and In order to do so the point was raise 1 that tii" action of the Police Commissioners was Illegal, an the Hoard of Estimate and Apportionment should first approve of the plan. -The law states that where It Is a case of patents the Hoard of Estimate shall only exercise a ilrst tight In case of patented pavements, not otherwise. Corporation Counsel Heekman, how ever, took the question under advise ment, and on March 17. 1SS. rendered his Opinion, the first part of which was all In favor of the Police Commissioners' action, nnd citing authorities to show that the Hoard of Kstlmnte had no power In the matter. That portion of the opin ion was rumored at the time to have been written by Assistant Corporation Counsel Dean, the lawyer of the De partment. The latter part, completely reversing the deductions of the former, ia said to have been written by Mr. Beekmsn himself. A story is still going the round's about that very opinion. It is to the effect that while Mr. Dean was at work Upon it Mr. Beekmsn entered his office and took up the unfinished document. After reading it. it is said, he wrote the lat ter part. "Hut, Mr. Heekman. that Is not the law,"' said Mr. Dean, after reading it. atoordlftg t this story. "WelK Mr. Dean." the reply fs asld to have been made, "I um responsible for the opinion." The document was then given out. and the extraordinary somersault taken Is evidenced by the fact that after sus taining the action of the Police Com missioners, Mr. Heekman goes on to say ; However that miv he, I am of the opinion that th. (acta reriiecl in the resolution of the Tulle llnjid. h.h aaeiTtn that UWuuafa examination Iioji tieen niali ot the f cam reft ani detail of in I nieriiUM svitrma of tlcctrlfi KlKiialllng. and that comptttthn tents hae UMB maie in the prest-n. e of the tloanl with the writing ulanta tnstallf.l Pv ih reepteUro ronietdiifK. ibow that trtrytblog latendaq id Kciired hy the pruiiai'Mi u stotlon (ii tn Ilia w' of ompetltlve rxamlnations "f rival aetenr. nan alre.id) teen ururod, an'l tinier ji. Riri'Oftt tonitruetloa o th- ict tt t onlj Bttcestary Dos to leetirs th approval of the Hoard i of BttlSiatV and Apprrtlonment U) the reaull of it.. .1 ....:).. ii ii by tbe Police Hoard. If the Hoard of Eattnate and AppoMtnnmpn' are MtlaOad t hat a fair and reaaonaole oppoitunlt f'jr eonpotltiaa hae beoa llvta, una that the con dltlona of 'l . prupoaH COntractl nlll r a tuat Itault, they may ratify th testa that have heen made, approve the propond purebau and MUietloo th arqultitloa ol the n-etem dettrsd If tM) re not satisfied with fne rompe'ltt n team already had. they tbould proaorlbo otbon be- for approvlni the purrhaae. Therefore, without Intending 10 reverse tha oplnloni pronounced by rr. predeeaseora In offtoe, whtih ware gives before the OoDMtldatlOB at ni tni It i yet. in view (f the rhsngM which tha provialon In queation haa undoraoBo ' Incor porated In that art). I eiiKKeft that prior tn tha pun haae. the matter ah-vi'd he eul'mltted 10 the Hoard if Est Into to and Apportionment, id Ibelr rraotmiun pro. utcl aanttiuniiif, thts proposed c n tr.irt I inclOSB herewith a firm if reaolutlfm VhloJl I rrrommenri to te tubmltted t' the Board caned. i remain, youri icpertfuiiy. HRNRY n. BBKKMAN, Counsel to tha Corpoiatlon. This was exactly what Police Com missioner V 00 I'll IS expected, and it had the desired effect, a block was put on evertblng until Commissioner Porter re tired and Charles Mac Lean twk bis place. The Hoard was then evenly di vided, anil it will be rememhered that on the question of a presidency it wan dead-locked for six months. The tirst Opinion having done nil that was required of It. however. Mr. Heek man gave another opinion, two and one i half months later, in which he took back all he had said in the Ilrst. This is his second opinion in full: US liivattmci'. oftVe of the t'outiKl to the Corporation, NEW YOHK -lone I. IMS To the Hoard of Kstlniate mil Apportionment Gentleman sin ia) letter f fitfa ult vsa written In relation to the termn f the proposed Contract wt'h the Herns; TtlOMBM ''om(any. my attention ha been 'ailed to the a t that It waa uaunied boUl by the PolP-e Depart meil on 1 by your HoaiU thnt In r opinion "f Mar fa 17. 188, addressed t.. tha Hoard of I'olt-e. 1 Inttndfld to aay that the approval of the terms of tha 1 ' i "' contract nf purbae mut be tan Honed i you The statute re-iulres 'I. at th Board ( Bl rate shall preacrlln.- . udU'.-.u to wi.re fair and reasonable opportunity for cum petti P n bo Iften rival patoated artriea. When however an-h ronlittona aa n Wb 01 lad the Departmrat, desirin to purrbsH Ii left a' 1 berty to 'he form of ontra t, iubj I tho appraval t th- Counsel to the Corporal I p 1 therefor- tdvlst thu' il 1 nl ne saan ' yo'ir Hoard to nay Srhether th'ie has been fair ard reMonal ; opportunity for rompeUtlon in tola tn- stan' e -ind If (Toll "-e ititflil that rich opp tunltv has beer afrordad, U autborlM 'n Polle pepiirtment to make the pur ha-e If however. yO' r'' not ao sa,tlafleo thin W sh- 't prs rlbe hv reMitution the ronllittrs v h h wilt tn roar eslnl n. Mcura fir and raaaoaabU opp - u'tv for eomp. tllli.n Th manner of determining tbi I nn n toe con tru ibi ltd however be ''t f 'n f'"'' ' ,J' panment and ibe Counsel to tfie lurpuntt n J remain t iurs r pi I'ul I lii.SHY K BBKKMAN Oonniol to the orporal m It will be seen tint before th" Pollt Cimiiiishloiiers pass" 1 that resnluti :i twenty months had been used In piling nn opportunity foi competition. The sec ond opinion, while tt set Mr P.kmtn right from a legal atandpolnt. killed off the Kersog Cumuan' for the time tOJ. It has been hem off lis the Police Com missioners, with the aid ot Corporation Counsel Clark, sv r since MvuiMttiltf tne city Is the loaei I DR. MEYER AT BAR. He and His Wife Accused of Wholesale Poisoninar. The Murder of Gustave H. H. J. Baum the Specific Charge. It Promlir, to Bit Another StUM. (tonal Trial, Tin- trial of thp third famout polnonlni case within two year, wns cHiieO this morning btfore Juatlcc Barrett. In lh ''oi:rt of oyer nmi Terminer. Th" defendant una Dr. lleniy C. W. Meyer, who ih i hiirg.Ml with erle of muruera by polionlnc. The atory of the iiu-Hod t rlmea reaas like a hoi-.tbie nightmare. C'arlyle v. iiarriB nnd Dr. C, V. Lurhaiian were convicted of pola oning their wii.i t death by meana ur opium ami belladonna. The itrt wanted to rid hlmaelf of a wife who waa unac knowledged to the world, and tvnp ot. noxloua because h- waa in the way r llarrls'e profenlona advancement. The other wanted to rid hlmaelf of wife wnoae properly he ou;ht to aecure in ilH 4 All ll. lllilH Dr. Meyer is charged with poisoning people whose lives he had heavily in- suredt and the' i urn; was nol done. the story eays. on brief deliberation In a sliiKle dose, but by a course of loni treatment In each Inatance, tte victim dying by Inches under the eyes of the murderer. ' Dr. Meyer Ih placed on trial for the murder of Qustave n M. Joseph Baum, and the victim, it Ih alleged, was a co conspirator with lr. Meyer nnd his wif Mana, to defraud several Insurance companies onto nnmir ancs agr. gating about (;!'" Baum, It Is alleRed. went through n marriage ceremony with Mrs. Meyer miner the name of I .u. ii- Brandt, l i i IcagO Fell. 11. IWS, anil obtiilned ixill- rl"S of I ii':; 1 1 ,i in i- mi hlu hf.- (n h... i':i,n These policies were of W.000 in the Washington Life; fl.liuo In the New York Life: $1,000 In the Btna Life, and H.5UU In the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Hy agreement Baun. or lirandt. sub mitted to slow poisoning. This was to Ko on till the patient was really reduced to a severe Illness, when a physician was to be called In. The plan worked too well. The trio came to New York and occupied a flat at 320 Bast Thirteenth street. When lirandt was thoiiKht to be ill enough Dr. Samuel Minden. of 118 Uast Twelfth street, was called in. The case was described hy Haulu as one of dysentery, and In. Minden prescribed. But the man was already beyond human aid, and on farcTiTfl 1S92, Hatim died. Instead o another corpse being substi tuted, and Bnum being spirited ewny to a place where he could get well at his leisure whllej he shared with Pr. and Mrs. Meyer the Insurance booty. Uaum became the victim of his own plot, and was burled under a certificate signed by Dr. Minden, giving the cause of death as chronic dysentery. Mrs. Meyer applied for the lnpurnnc mon.'y with such haste that the H-jsrl-clons of the Mutual I. lie Insurance Com pany were aroused and Inquiry was instituted. Or. Meyer scented danger, and he nnd his wife tied. They were tracked to Chi-' cigo. Toledo, Detroit and South Bend, Ind.. nnd finally arrested. lr. Meyer Is also ucctrsed of poisoning a score of other men nnd women. The list includes Ids own first wdfe and child, an alleged second wife in Toledo, Henry OMIdeman, of Chicago, and an attempt upon Mary Nelss, wno was a servant In Ills house. At the time one Carl Muller, or Wlmtners. It is snld. was In partner ship with him, but spotted the plot by falling In love wdth ihe girl, cloning with her and marrying her. The Mullers will tic Important wdtnesses in th trial of Dr. Meyer. District-Attorney Nleol! ar.d Assistant lohn F Molntyre. the abb st prosecutors if New York County, wilt conduct the case agninst Dr. Meyer. They will be aided very materially by all the legal and detective force of the Mutunl Idfe Insur ant , iiTiipn ii y. The eloquent Charles W Brooke will conduct the defense. Lewis Stuwsnnt Chanter, grandson of William It. Ast-.r nnd of Sam Ward, son of I'rof. Chnnier. Of Columbia, brother of the Afrlcun ex nlorer. and brother-in-law of AVftielle Reeves Chanter, wdll lend both financial nnd legal aid of no mean order to Mr Brooke, and the erudite lawyer, Dr William .Joseph O'Bulllvan, will conduit the expert part of the trial, putting himself against the most able chemists. pathologists and lexicologists In the country. Kx-Judge Fred (ledney wdll represent the Mutunl I.lfe Insurance Company. Instlce Barnett. who presides, won fame In the trial of Jake Sharp, the boodle Aldermen. Sheriff Flack, Joseph Weeks, and other celebrated etiminal cases. The Court Chambers in Ihe Tweed granite court-house, was alrea ly crowd ed to the doors wdien Sheriffs-Deputies Brown and Burke arrived from the Tombs with Dr. Meyer and h'r W fs Dr. Meyer had come up ; i the Tombs with the other prtSG.terS in the prison van. Mrs. Meyer, who. bv her quiet, gentle wavs, haa made Mentis of all the Tombs .iltlrialH. walked up Centre street a few paces ahead of Deputy Brown, who had live other female prison! is in his charge No one cast a second glance at th tali, rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed, graceful young woman In black, for no one re cognized her as Mrs. Mnrlu Meyer. charged with complicity In the most dastardly poisoning schemes the world ever marvelled at. At rne entrance io me , nun m gen eral Sessions Dr. Meyer stepped out of the black Maria and joined his wife, see ing In r for the first time since their arrest. Julv 12 last. In Detroit. Mrs. Meyer was approaching maternity at the time, and was permitted to re main In a Detroit hospital for three weeks after that Her husband had been brought on to New York, whei-e he hail I already been Indicted. Mrs Meyer fol lowed aa soon as her condition would permit. She tins been locked in the women's prison, he In the men"s prison, at the Tombs. Hotn have been model prisoners. Dr. Meved had recovered his natural appearance when brought Into court to day. Ills stiff yellow -g. dd h.nr w is long ,..ii combed high up on his head. He n m dressed In u black froi k cpal and trousers -.nil wore n standing collar and black ih. His queer gray .yes. which Viewed bv different people, are "as e presslonless a USierleSS marble," or i ep .ind wonderfil in exi reaslon, seem h iv ' i iook rtraight through tba i bj Which they are focused, fttttei and hli heavy brows knitted and tmoothei n rvousl Mr. Meyer, who mas be described as a woman of twenty-five, with a P'sas- lint intellectual face, lights up with ,, , earlly, and h.irliig no MRU of v i i. Inesa '.it outside the prisoner I v si., v.ure a gown of black cloth. ,, rm I with bead trimming Hef hat was .i i unconventional street hat of bLik beads and ostrich plumes. ' ",-t was 11 '.' o'clock when the extrnnr rtlnaiv (Band Jury was dismissed 1 and Hi. petit jury panel was tailed by Cleik M'tlWi DELFINO EXECUTED.: . i Murderer of Mr1-. Ge?rl! K';!aJ in ! tbe Electrio Chair. ' He Heard ihe Death Warra it Rca I v Without Emotion. .Sad I eave-Tnktng of Wtfe, Children "ml liroili r. BtXfl si:. il PRISON, M. V.. Dec, 4 -John Di dliio. the Italian murderer, was executed at 11.50 o'clock this morning, Del fl no arose cat ly thin morning, nnd, Jin splti of the Ignominious fate await ing him, appeared unwontedly cheerful He ate s light breakfast consisting ( chops and i ggs and yu.oi.'d sever I strung i iii'irs while awaiting the final 'isii of in- spiritual advisers I He bade farewell to his wife, children nn. I Inother yiMerdn afternoon, unl the iceue was most nffccllng, I 111 s relatives uok the Ma trnln back i to th city yesterday afisrnoon. and will return late to-dny to claim his dead I body. He will probably be burled In I Brooklyn. ! At mill Warden Inirston Visited Delllno j in nis cell and read the death warrant i in him. He wns apparently little af fected, As soon as the Warden left him Itev Fathers De Nisco, of Urooklvn, an I Mho. of Sing Sing, were admitted to the cell-house, and for the next hour were closeted with the doomed in in. hearing his final confession nnd nlmlnls terlng the last rites of the church. io the very last Deltmo insisted that he was not a murderer, lie admitted k'lllng Mrs QeSSSl, but claimed that the shooting was accidental. DBLFINO'B CRIME!. John Delflno'a crime was committed on the night of Dec. i!7. 1S12. Ills victim was Mrs. Carolina Oesell, of 407 Degiaw street, Brooklyn. Mrs. lies. II was about twenty-one years old. and lived wdth her hus band and their three-yenr-old baby. Delllno was married, had several small Children, and was about twenty-six years old. He earned his living by ex hibiting trained birds on the stieet Cor fu is in Brooklyn. It is alleged that several davs prior to the shooting of Mrs. tlesell Delllno had Insulted her. she repulsed him. ordered him to leave her home and never come Into her house again. The afternoon of Dec. S7 nelllno wen; to the house of Joseph I'egor. at Vi7 I'.hz.ili'Uli street. New York. He hung ariimd there all day drinking and having a good time. He exhibited a revolver to Pegor. who told him be was "no good" because he carried firearms. Abour fi o'clock Pegor said he had to go to Brooklyn to order some furniture for his store. Delflno went wltii him. When In Brooklyn Delflno aked Pegor to go home with him nnd see his new baby. When they got to Degraw stree; tt was abjul 7 o'clock. Delflno asked Pegor to go wdth him and visit Mrs. Oesell. Peg.u refused to go at ttrsu but finally con sented'. When Mrs. Oesell saw Delflno she told him to go away, but he went In the room with Pegor. Very soon Mr. Oesell came In. Beer was Indulged In freely, and Mrs. Oesell prepared a lunch for the visitors, but Delflno would not eat. lie sulked most of the evening. Just before Pegor started to go home Oesell went out for more beer. Mrs. Oesell was sitting on a idinlr plaviug with her baby, which wns nn the floor. Pegor waa the only eve-witness to what followed. On the trial he said. "As soon as Mr Oesell left the room Delflno went over to Mrs. Oesell. and said: " 'Are you going to do wdiat 1 wanted you to?' "Mrs. Oesell said: "No. I am not that kind of a wi- Pegor said that was nil he could hear Deifino's back was townrds him. In a minute, he says, be heard a pistol shot, followed bv two others He ran to Delflno. took him hy the cellar, and pulled him away, the revol ver, which wns of the 'K-cnlibre bull dog type, falling on the floor. Delflno bolted out of 'he room and down the stairs, without his coat or hit Mrs Oesell died In the Long Bland College Hospital Jan 12. lftn. of blood poisoning, caused by a wound In her thigh Sh- had two other wounds Delflno was arrested Dec 2K I )n his trial. April 5. 6 and 7 Inst, he said that tic revolver fell un the door and went ofl accidentally. He was convicted an i nentenced by Judge Cullen April 5 to die during tha week beginning June 12 An appeal was taken, tiie Judgment of the lower court was sustained nnd Del flno was resentence.! Oct H to die during the week commencing lec. 4. Oov Flower wns appealed to by Delfllno's famllv to extend executive clem ency, hut Ihe Governor said that the law must take Its course. SHELLS FELLiLLKBOUT THEM. The Mount Lebanon Just in from Brazil Port?. A Month la Idas or Hello's and Pelsolo'a Klre. The British steamer Mount Lebanon arrived this morning from Braxll ports. She was In Klo hnrbor for a whole month discharging and loading largo. During that time there was continuous firing between Mello's war VSSselS nnd tbe loyal forts In he harbor. Numerous shots and shells passed OVSf tha Mo II Lebanon, but no damage Waa done t the ship. i i Oct 21 sailing dnv. while Capl Henry was being towed In his boat from the shore to his ship by four men, a pin II wns llr '1 from one of the land bat teries directed st one of M llo's Steam launches Th- shell exploded elose the captain's boat A SSI md shell iron. '1 : sane patter struck ihe launch, disabling hef Pieces ,,f tn- shell tell almost ir.ti Cat Henrys boat He "l h cray were obllgi I ' ink. refuge aboard a .I'mrnr ilosi- b) Ti- disabled launch " imnu-uiaiei picked up by ons of Mi llo's of, he I launches and lowed tn a I lc Of safiilv At Pernambiico Nov quid prevailed and at Para on th 11th an itnllff. n in feeling prevailed among the people .hey i.ne little as lo the hli.il r-sult so lo-g Lit- their trade and buslnesn are uot in lerftred with. THE PAINFUL RUMOR NOW IN CIRCULATION. They never 3peak as They Pass By. FIFTY FAMILIES EVICTED. Health Department Olear an Un healthy House of Tenants. I timed Oat Into the Cold liroumc of the Owner's Neglect. Fifty families were compelled by the jrder of Sanitary Miperlntendonl Hub erts, of the HealtTTTVpHrfmen'., to leive their homes and to go into the street, children, household effects and all, on this cold morning. Hergt. Cruise, the Chief of the Sani tary Squad, by order of Hupt. Roberta. sent six bluecoats to the double tene ment at 182 nnd 14 Madison stint, armed with the necessary legal papers. Kvery one of the ten floors of the tene ment was Inhabited by honest, hard working people, and. with, the exception of a family In which there were two children sick with pneumonNi. all were evicted. Those wdio wire thus turned Into the street hustled about to find shelter for themselves. The little ones suffer I much from the cold, but their parents found refuge for them in the bonus of sympathetic residents orethe neighbor hood, lending the search for permanent quarters. The lenenient-house Is In a bod sani tary condition and has consequently been declared etrlineiitnl lo the health of those who lived In It 11 Is ow n-d by D.ivtd H King. sr.. of 2:i:i West Fifty-second street. Af cording to the Health Depart-in-lit records, Mr. King has been served With six different orders within twelve months, and with one exc ptlotl, It i.'i al leged, he has failed to lomplc Willi the law apphing to the i ase He was at the Health Department Oftles last week, ani promised to remedy the defects lii his Mud I son stict tene ment, nnd on th- strength of "us prom ise Supt. Hoberts allowed the tenants to remain Ikit the work wis not done, and the tenants were evicted by the Health D-paitinent. The eviction mandate loiiiid the ten ants in a poor condition to vacate the premises, and. of course, entailed man. hardships. Hupt. Roberts said to a reporter of Tin" Evening World" tow morning "Mr. Klnn is one of tie most 'i "ihle. some leal-e'ilste owners we haVf I i leal with. He has been repeatedly n t'.ned of Infractions of the sanitary laws, an ; has refused lo phi e his propert) In a h ilthv tondltlon. Aboul four months ago the building at 21 Pell street, owned l Mr. King, was coniletnm I. and lh tenant! evicted, because he did nol comply wan the law." DIED IN AN L TRAIN. Uu-cnown Elderly Man fOi.tid Dead la tho Seat. When on" of the ra' i s on Ihe B ond Avenue "U" roal pulled Into the ter minus Of the road at line Hun Ind and Twenty-eighth street al c o'clock this morning, une of he guards saw a man i.i one of the cars apparent)) asle i When he went i.i wake the man up, In si, w he was Ji ll-l lie was about seventy years of age, five feet six inches in height, gray hair and smooth face. He had on a brown overcoat, lersey lacker buy k derby hal, I, mils shirt, trousers ot dark mixed ma terial, an I two pair of undo rd law, i li. his puck-ts were fount -' In money, a sliver woti h and chain, , plpi a bunch of keys, a pair of sue Is ' II I a knue He was evidently .. lab ring man The guard at one- notified Ihe poller at the Kast tine Hundred and rwenls ilxth -it-el ai.uion. si. I Policeman lames Hoke to ,k tl.e b Sly 10 I II III' "I Morgue. From t'n re it wis aken in ll regu lar M irg.i-. .it th- foi 1 C. Rail I t iXlll III THE CCLOBELCV OF THL 69TH. Mo Interference With theFree Clioicu of the Heg'ment Prr.bube. tP- ..i-C 1 f'r A i.li v V, li. 4 Uov I iver I I : in. ,i . and will not n rn ttillll to nlgl t. Ills private pi i i t. i . ' "ol W 111 lams. said. In re it'on t 111 '"" i ' inent ol s suci s ii ' ' " I'aysnaglt , r thi sin nlni h llj It i ill ' d in believe that tin Uovi rn i III Injerfi i t . inskli st api o mm nt He I i not linlli at- I that fl( w 111 A ljt -'leu p it. i is nol lr.s city. .rn l nn Information i o il d u dn ip i in ihal office b it It li- Pi llevi d lh.B 'it ig oen Fttigerald will be nrder.nl t, .all an , ledion it once and Ihal nwllhei tin Adjutant-Oeneral rtoi th, ijovernoi will -.I, to infltiei,. the officers Ot tll rvl uttnl in iht li Chi Ive WEAK STOCKS HAMMERED. ... Droo in Erie Kates Creates Un - easiness in Wall Street. President Porter Sees Belter Future fur tbe (.rangers. There was a pronounced bearish feel lug In stock circles this morning. The fact that prices came lower from London and that the foreign houses had liberal selling orders caused many of the local traders to change their tactics, and In stead of .vol king lo get prices up the-.-hammered nil mocks that were found lo be without effective support The notifi cation by the Krle of n reduction In tales to the figures established by some of Its competitors, occasioned some uneasiness. n-s it is feared the troubles mav spread unless heroic measures are taken to keep rates strlrtlv up lo Ihe official schedules. Oeneral Electric declined 2 1-8 to MS-4; Western I'nlon, 1 7- to xit:i-4, Burling ton gulncy, l to 7S7-S; Louisville a.- Nashville, V-s to .".I T-S. Luke Shore. 1 to I2S. American Cotton (ill. 7-H to :t 1-S; Hi. Paul. 7-K to ;, 1-4; New Fnglnud. ;i-4 to ID 1-2, and Union Pacific. :!! to 2 1-2. Distillers -fier s-!llng down 6-8 to 20 1-4. lose lo .7 1-.' Among the specialties. Wheeling & Lak- Erie preferred advanced .' l-s to r.4 7 S, and Louisville. New Albany Chicago preferred, 2 to 42 1-R American Sugar rose 1 1-4 to ttl, and declined to II .:-!. The meeting to declare tlie next divi dend mi Sugar stock will In held within a few il,i'i The apprehension expressed bv tiie managers of the Bugai Company as to the effects of ihi pronoi I t.nlff Iliads I i a belief that the dividend will be reilil, - I The Chicago, Burlington .t; Northern gross earnings t.u fJctobei Increased Jw.,',17. nn I nei Increased lli'.''i- For ten months gross increaaed $170,S01, nnd net inci i ise.i $7'i 83a President II II Pinter, of ths Chicago iv Eastern Illinois. ,.i- --i am not at ail alarmed about the future i will go n i ord predicting thai the Burlington, Knelt Island, st Paul, Eastern Illinois and all of ihe Granger roods win mike out compat itlvely better next year than they did last, dross earnings win be as huge, but operating expenaes will bo much lighter, so that the net results will ti- a great deal better than laymen have OnV Idea of " The estimated gross earning of the Rock island for November an- l."?!.00u. n decrease of Mf.UvS The posted rate f,-r demand sterling w .. reduced from IN7 1-2 lo 4.7 Sixty day bills ivin.iin at i ,M I 2 IT WILL BE COLDER. a Drop of Ten Dftgreen To-Mc.rrow, Save Mr. Dunn. The cold wave which this morning caused Qothamltea t sh.ver has not ,. reached top notch, but will Increase in intensity until after to-morrow At c nllng to Forecaster Dunn, tonight and i , morrow the mercury will reglater lower than it ha so far this yeai The nercury register! I 2 al I o'clock this morning, and will fall pi degrees, the t ,i caster says The disagreeable stotm which kipt p. ,;i- Indoors yeeterda) ha enltrels disappeared -ff in- bunks of Newfound land. It h.in bet-n follow I I-, in area r high pr.-ssnre. with clear, cold weath in d a bk fail lii tlie temperature in all the siat.-s nei of the Mississippi As far south as New (irl-.i-s 11 - tii-r-oiitv was oni) I legrees shove freealng point ond i't Vlchsbura il was is low is St degrees Chleagoaim shivered with the mercur) st er while at Willi Buer it i.ns 42 degrees below. nun- is ii heavj storm off the coast f the Cnmllnas. moving northeast, but It w i,i hardl i me Inshore It is a. i out ii ie I by high winds and win men ,,i all o "in vest Oerman Traveller lieatod L'ke a iiy tn B-. rmlt. .... ' li .- i '.i i i i iN 1 1, 4 A Hi ' Itn desp iti h . ... n s that ll-ri Ehli i -. . ,. Herman Ira II' ' li ! I'M " r' "I i fori tl it ographli il aocletj In inat ,-iu related ' lial he wan lieati a pi i: 'ii- on thrinia llurma I -Tonkin lasi v ii r I thai hi hinted ... .. .i ,. French p mpteil ih attempt ..,- u i..- Ilf. I ,,,'i: News -1 Hr af ,-,.. - nary lm nf t ium o w . .i . 1 ,ti, , . t , n ITS ' An ..tk -...' m--- - . " HI I' r l w. ..!., at Hln;boi IUII l i ti hi.. i v llohrrl 11 llnhi tteestk SBll rt( UKH ,,:..-. ti tl . puon iioamj Hall ' setsesUJ ...... ani rifts svsssi CENTRAL MEN MAY STRIKE. Committee Gone to Faton for a Oonference. All Quiet tn tba Yards at Jrrtey t'lty. Lahlgh Valley nfTlclals In Jersey City persisted this morning in muklng the stereotyped statement: "There Is no I strike." This In the face of the fart tha the road Is not doing half Its usual bislnesa In either the freight or passeii- I ger departments. What little Is being done Is per formed In n most unsatisfactory manner, with less than half the usual number of employees nnd green hands, at that. It was said at the Jeisey City station this morning tha; a New Jersey Central Qrlevanca Committee had gone to Easion t i meet a Committee from the Lehigh strikers and dlst uss the question of the i Central's men Joining the strike. I Several Jersey Central brakemen. who were Interviewed this morning, said In effect thnt, should a strike on the Cen tral be ordered. It would be only out of . ' I. .. i i I . tlie 1 . l.o-li men The Central employees, ihey said, are on excellent terms with the road's otll Clala, and a strike. If ordered, would be only to compel the Central officials lo use their Influence with the Lehigh peo ple, nnd thus bring about a settlement of the difficulties, with victory on the men's side eneral Bupt. Olhausen refused to see reporters or evn receive a note asking fi i a denial or confirmation of tha story The police regulations al the freight v.-iris are the same that have existed I Since the mike begun, over two weeks ago N Cnnt. Craig, who has charge of the spectils during the absent f Chief Gregory, tried to-day, evidently for politl reasons, to give the impression that ll" specials hd only blank cartridges lii their revolvers Th. Lahlgh Vallev trains went on s hedula time to-day from Jerse) City, bui fiere was a dearth of passengers Incoming 'rains were all lale. owing li i lis irganlsed state of aff.urs al nig the I.ne of ihe roud. lohn I'-nti and John Warner. Central mployeea and b-ith members of the lit.ikcmi in' I'nlon. were called before Supt Olhausen to-dny for a reprimand. ' It was burned that I'ystt and Warner wire ai the i tens of the collision be tween President Wilburs private car "Dorothy" an I a light engine at Phlllips burg on Saturday. s th" Dorothy was hauled oul of I he wmk some one elled. "Oet out you s -abs " Supt Donelly stick his head out of the window and ordered Pyatt ami Var- nei to report ut Jersey city for a repri mand. Nell ner mnn looked very mu.-h crest fallen when thev came out of Mr t il hausen's oftY e lo-da GHlDER FAILS TO APPEAR. Rumor tbat the Ei-Bauk Presi dent Has Gone to Europe. He Was Expected to Surrender to the lHstrict-Allorney lu.Day. w Wetmore Cryder, who w .. Presi dent of the Madison Square Bank, pre vloue t ' ti"- administration of Joseph F. lllaiit. and who was In 1. I 1 along with in- oth era of the bank, -1 - not aurrendci himself to the Dlstrl t- Attor , ,.i- morning, as i was expected he Weill 1 .... It was inou ed on naturda) that Mr. i'i i : was n this ilt . an 1 , it I ,i .,,,,,- m ihe Oeneral hesslons building fhl irnlng, to furnish bsil Tins, it .. n, would do upon the advice ol i li , isel i ,i I-. u e p i , i: --,;. w -ft io ,- i Ingt i last ac- aid 'h re lean I ih it Mi t'ryder ha . li fl rai Si ' '" ' ;c ' 9 - , i j jjr, t'n tl 0 I, is all i i lid i ai h ,. - ip n-iii ,- il the l 'i- .n --- - i n- s o till:- N'li il' n hen spok ' iho'tl ii it. i- ,-,i ha ha i nol h ard front Mi i a:.,! i., aged ' be ex used fl I I : .cussing it. There is a rep irt cut rent Ihal Ml 'ri let I as tied 10 I mope. Franklin Uartletl Mr Cryder's c unsel i. I , lusln, calle l 't th Dist. Mor i,. . .tn - and had a bi li I alk with v-sistant Dlstiu t-.tlorn- I ngcr. W hn ask, 1 where hut cllen wa he sail that he did not know, anJ declined ; j discuss any rumors. , EXTRA. 2 O'CLOCK. I i j f y. SHOT BY A BURGLAR. ii Baker Kairer, of Camden, Killed V in His Own Parlor. ji The Thiet Fired Three Times at Him Through the Open Window. j He Kirepes. and There la No Clue 41 to tils Identity. j c.iMDFN, N. J. Dee. 4 -William Kairer, ,i well-Hnown bnkee, nf 4i Heck- S lit rtreet, whs Aot nnd killed early this f morning by a burglar who nnd entered J the house ll A few minutes before 5 o'clock this j; teornlng Kairer was awakened by a J noise dowtistatis lie got out of bed, X and, without waiting to dress himself, j went to the h'-ad of the stnlrs nnd lis- f lened lie heard footsteps and was con- '. vlnoed that some one was trying to force i ; n entrance Into th- nojse. H Hul seipienily he w ent downstairs and j . ii ,1,-in ,.,i ll, . ,...,,), 'I'll.. I,i,r"l,,r h - -" -... ........ .... . . - .. - l.ad opened the parlor window, and aa Kairer culled to him the Intruder fired j tl ree shots in rapid succession. One 1 shot pass.sl through the baker's breast. nnd he fell to the floor. The noise of the shooting aroused the other inmates of the house and they -1 found Kairer Ivlng on the parlor floor. 1 breathing heavily and bleeding from the 1 bullet wound In his breast. He did net regain consciousness and died before a j physician arrived. 1 The burglar and murderer fled with- out leuvlng any clue to his Identity It S Is not known whether he succeeded In j carrying away any property with hlm. J The. .supposition Is, that he wan sur prised by Kairer before he could steal anything, and that he shot the baker down so as to Insure Ids escape. The police have been at work on the case since daylight, hut to the present time, as far aa known, have no clue to Ihe murderer. During the past few months numeoua burglaries have been committed In Csun den. and on a number of occasions th burglar or burglars have resorted to the pistol. In one Instance a cltlxen whose house wis broken Into looked out of a second st iry window, when two shots were fired him by the Durglar. Neither took effect. WILL DEFT THE POLICE. Dnnccrs Will Court Arrest This Afternoon. Inspector Williams ta Suppress III Kxhlbltlon. The management of the Worlds Fair exhibition at the i Irani Central PalaoS) Intend to revile the danse du ventre Hit afternoon, aid In that oaae arresta are sure to follow. Howe & Hummel, act ing for the management, advised this course, and have practically Invited ar rest. Inspector Williams stopped this dance Saturday night, as Indecent. Counsellor Abe Hummel said this morn ing : "We don't propose to accept Inspector Williams's ukase or edict in this affair we have invited arrest to test the affair lu court We never Intended to apply for an Inunction, for we know very well that is useless The courts do not act In that way regarding an affair of this kin i "The dance will go on this afternoon, and we shall be prepared to carry the matter through from the magistrate la the- Police Court to the Special Sessions, and there have the matter settled one w or another. " inspector Williams said to the re porter. "If that dance Is attempted again I shall have It stopped. It la Indecent and offends the morals of our cltixens." Ferlda. the Kgvpllan. whose gyratlona astonished Inspector Williams Saturday night, will probably be the only one of the groups that will be arrested, al though the entire lot may be gathered In by the Inspector. WILLIAMS S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Judge Ingraham Will Decide tbe Case To-Miirrow. Hubert Q Williams, wh) has been con lined In tr.e Tombs upon a charge of swindling Col, Uenjamln 11. Oroom, of Kentu ky. out of $l,.1i". was brought nit i Supreme Court Chambers to-d.iy ,;, hi .i writ of halica- corpus. Issued by Judge Beach list Baturda l CI If chamberlain T. C. Craln.whj apepared for the prisoner, argued that then wus absolute!) nothing in the com p, i n il lirouii lo show that a crime ha 1 been committed. At worst he said. Williams hut only b,.-n guilty of a I, i, -iiti of , uitrncl and should be pro ceeded agilnst In a civil action. Even, however. ! n crime had been coni nu ted, Lawyer train argued, the mm m , m ,f fjro in showed that the alleged nwindllng transaction had occurred in Chi ago and was therefore without the lurisdictlon of the Police Justice in this Assistant Distrlct-Attornev Martin asked time in which to examine mors clnsciv Ihe complaint of Col. tiroom. h. Ige Ingialuim. who has succeeded Judge Hiueh In Supreme Court Cham ttera for this term, granted the time asked by Assistant tilslrlct-Attoiney Mai line, and remanded Williams a i it Tombs in. 1 11 to-morrow, reserving de cision until then. j M