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QUIETER OX WEST SIDE.
pOI.irE CENSURED FOB MTCH OF THE
TROUBLE.
. ,: NTY-FOUB PERSONS HURT IN THE DIS
TURBANCE, MANY OF THEM BY PO
LICEMEN — THORPE'S MUR
DERER ARRESTED.
Peace and quiet prevailed yesterday at the scene
of Wednesday night's disturbances on the Weet
Side. A stranger passing along Eighth-five., be
tween Thirtieth and Fortieth st».. would not have
■uaj> acted th&t negroes hod been hunted by the
police and ny excited crowds In that part of the
city until long after midnight. In the Bide streets,
■where many of the tenement houses were occupied
by colored people, there were no s'-gns of disorder
where a few hours before stones had been hurled
bj 1 ■'•»>■ hoodlums at fleeing negroac. The only re
mlr.rteri! of the disturbances were the presence of
a irger number of policemen than usual on the
sidewalk* and the gathering together of people !n
■mall crowds at Intervals to talk about the scones
of the previous night.
[1 was evident from the talk one heard on the
streets that the disturbance* had not been of a
magnitude to warrant some of the reports of riot
■.nd bloodshed That had been spread abroad. It
was paid freely by witnesses of the disorderly
Fcenes of Wednesday night that the police had
3one ax much an anybody to encourage and pro
mote the ebuse of inoffensive negroes In the dis
trict. Most of the persons who bad been chasing
negroes on Wednesday night. It was said, were
email boys, ha if grown men and policemen. Many
grown people ran with the crowd* to cc« what wa;
solng in. It was declared, but few except police
nun 1?1 i violent nand» on the fugitives.
What r-an «-n**l ir. nearly every case, witnesses
Faid. ■ :.k that a crov.d of hoodlums would make
a <lufl\ at some iiejrro, assailing him with stones
find other ml— ll— and crying, "Kill the nigger,"
and then policemen would Join In the chaise of the
frightened colored ma.i, catch him. club him If
he resisted, and then drag him away to a police
Ftatlon. The sympathy of the police seemed to be
with the hoodlums. Police hatred appeared to be
•directed against al! the colored people of the
neighborhood, because a negTo ruffian had killed
Policeman Thorpe on Sunday. The fact that few
persons had been hurt nerloucly In the disturb
ances was mentioned a* proof that there had not
been a dangerous riot. The only person supposed
to be injured fatally is Lloyd W. Lee. a negro,
who ]iud a tab bed a policeman in one of the npht«.
Twei '.v Btber cclored men were hurt severely
enough to be taken to hospitals for treatment.
Tnrts white men had bwn hurt, but not seriously.
SO TROUBLE AT THORPE'S FUNERAU
Pew people anticipated any trouble at the funeral
of Pol.reman Robert J. Thorpe In the afternoon
from the home of his sister, No. 481 Nlnth-ave.
The police were stationed in great numbers about
'the house and neighborhood. At Sp. m. there was
a large crowd outside the house. It contained not
a single negro. The people composing It were
orderly ar.d had gathered mainly from curiosity.
■ Chief Devery attended the funeral as a mourner,
and there were several other officers and many
patrolmen of the Department preeent. A force of
120 policemen had been detailed to march ahead
of the hearse In the procession to the Twenty
third-et. ferry. There was a short service In the
house, and when It had ended the pallbearers car
ried the coffin containing Thorpe's body from the
top floor of the house to the hearse in the street-
Many persona 'n the crovd tried to push forward
es the coffin was carried out. but the police re
strained thc-m. Tner» was no disorder.
The 320 policemen started ahead of the hearse.
end the procession l«?gtr. Ita march. The route led
to Thlrty-seventh-st.. to Tenth-eve., to Thlrty-
Flxth-et.. to Fifth-aye.. to Twenty-thlrd-ft., to the
ferry. The burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
When the procession reached Thlrty-F'-vr-nth-st.
a negro on a bicycle, who did not appear to know
what the crowd meant, tried to crofs the line.
Chl^f" Devery. who wes near, ordered a policeman
to escort the man to a place of safety. About ten
mir.utea later, while the crowd was lingering in
.Nini.il -a ve. at Thfrty-eeventh-et. a negro, respect
ably dressed, walked along Thirty-seventh-st. to
Nir.th.-ave. and turned down the aveme. He was
assailed by 8 number of email boys with garbage
and various mlselles. He sought refuge in a bak
ery rfUpNd^^Te Ninth-aye., almost directly opposite
the "Tliarpe home, and the baker kindly closed his
doors to protect the negro. A roundsman sent
four policemen to escort the man away.
POLICEMAN'S MURDERER ARRESTED.
Arthur Harris, the negro who killed Policeman
Thorpe, was arrested in Washington, D. C, on
Wednesday night about the time innocent colored
men were being chased through the streets in this
city. Arrangements were made here to get the
pioper requisition papers and have Harris brought
tack to this city as soon as possible. Reports from
Washington stated that Harris was arrested at the
home of his mother at No. 832 EJ-Bt.. S. E., Wash
ington, nearly opposite the Fifth Precinct police
station. Harris bad been known as a. boy to some
of the older officers of the precinct, but he had
been away from home severa.l years. The request
for his arrest was received from the New- York De
tective Bureaa.
Harris was in bed when arrested, and tried to
make the office] believe that his name was Will
iams. At first he was inclined to be ugly, but
Feeing that there were too many policemen for
him to handle, he submitted to arrest. He soon
afterward admitted his Identity and started with
hi? captors toward the police station. Harris was
Ktill unaware of the nature of the crime charged
against him. He did not know of the death of his
victim.
"I'll pet out of this scrape all right," he said
to Sergeant Mulhall, whom he knew.
"This is more serious than you think," the ser
geant told him
Harris then told his version of the trouble that
occurred when he used his penknife on the police
man. He was at Forty-first-st. and Eighth-aye,
ca Sunday night, he said, with his common law
wife, as he called her, and he left her to go to a
restaurant for a cigar. When he returned, he
Bald, the officer, who was In citizen's clothes, had
hold of the woman, and he (Harris) walked up and
asked:
"What are you doing with my wife?"
"Don't meddle with me!" is what he says the
policeman told him.
Harris Bald he took hold of the officer, not know
ing of his official character, and when he did so
the latter struck him. "Then," he said, "I pulled
out my penknife, and 1 think I cut him twice."
He thought be cut him In the chest and stomach.
He paid he had no idea that he had killed the
policeman, and. not wanting to get locked up, he
got on a train and went to Washington. It was
not until after he had Been put In a cell that he
was told of the officer's death, and then he anx
iously inquired:
"Do you think It Is a case of the chair?" meaning
the electric chair. He added that he would save
his life if a fair trial was given him. The prisoner
intimated that his plea would be self-defence,
coupled with the fact that he did not know Thorpe
was an officer of the law. While Harris is willing
to come here without a requisition, the Washing
ton Been decided not to surrender him except
Upon presentation of the proper papers.
ONLY ONE VICTIM IN DANGER.
The only person injured in the fights on Wednes
day evening, who was in danger yesterday, was
» Lloyd W. Lee, the negro, of No. m West Thirtl
'th-Ft.. who stabbed Policeman Kennedy and was
phot la the jaw by Kennedy and beaten terribly
by other policemen. Lee was In Dalle rue Hospital.
Kennedy was taken there to identify him yester
day morning.
"That's him. damn him!" cried Kennedy. Then,
TAKING UP NEW IDEAS.
Whatever may be said about department
stores. It cannot be denied that they are quick to
find cut what people want. Inventions and ap
pliances coming Into general use they always
make a point of keeping on hand, /hat 's why
they are having bo much to say in their adver
tisements about gas ranges. They know how
the gas range Is rapidly superseding the clumsy,
old style cooking apparatus, and they know the
reasons why. With a gas range cooking can be
done BO per cent cheaper than formerly, with
one-tenth the heat and one-thoufandth the loss
of temper. No wonder the use of gas as a fuel
1b Increasing so rapidly, or that alert depart
ment stores keep gas ranges in stock just as
much as a matter of course as they keep cooking
utenetifl. It will coon seem Just as ridiculous to
Set along without a gas range as It would to try
to cook with nothing but an Iron pot and a
farneDit.
ffcnkins hi* nut at Lee, he exclaimed, "I'm up and
about, and you're down, damn you! I guess you're
down for good. I hope so."
Kennedy was one of th« pallbearer* lit Police
man Thorpe's funeral later In the day.
Three men who were taken to the Jefferson Mar
ket Police Court yesterday morning and were ac
cused of participating in the "riot" In Eighth-aye.
Mi Wednesday night, were fined by the Magistrate.
In the We Bide court John Halnes. of No. 241
Went Flfty-Bixtn-st.. wan charged by Patrolman
Ohm with firing three shots out of hi* window at
a policeman In a patrol wagon. The police say that
he Is the man who shot James Rice, white, at
Thirty-seventh-Bt. and Nlnth-ave. Albert Smith, a
negro, was Identified by Rice as the man who shot
him. but the police think Rice Ie mistaken. Halnes
was held In $500 bonds for hie good behavior for
fiU months. He was pretty well cut up and
bruised.
Albert Johnson, of No. 382 West Thlrty-seventh
et.. was charged with carrying concealed weapons,
refusing to move on when ordered and abusing a
policeman. His head was bandaged up and his
face bruised. He said that he and a number of
other negroes were In front of hie home when the
police ordered them to disperse. The men hurried
to get out of the way. and he tried to get Into his
own hall, but wan beat.m there by an officer.
Magistrate Cornell deplored the absence of wit
nesses for the prosecution, but held Johnson in
A PART OF THE NEGRO QUARTERS OX TflE
COO bail for examination to-day. William Banks,
colored, of No. 2^ \V«t Thirty-seventh-st wls
charged with being cne of a crowd ar Thlrty
seyenth-st. and Seventh-aye.. where white men
and negroes were "mauiingr' one another The
policeman had no witnesses to prove his as
sertion, and Dennis Hooper, of No 489 Sev
enth-aye., an employe of the Tnion League ("lub.
said he hsd Been Banks clubbed by a policeman.
This ease was also set forward. John F. Nolan,
"fiourlshlnp a razor in Seventh-aye.."
with hU in his
own houso and he hsd threatened no one. Magis
trate Cornell put Nolan under $100 bo .
good birhnvior.
CORNET. I. DENOUNCES "WHITE TRASH."
Spencer Walters, of No. 63 East Fifty-sixth-st.,
the negro who. according to the police, started the
trouble on Wednesday night, was fined $10. Rich
ard Williams, another negro In the same row,
held without bail. Albert Smith, Identified by
James J. Rice as the negro who shot him. was
similarly held. .lames Wilson, another prisoner.
was charged with disorderly conduct. Wilson said
he was clubN'.d at Thirty-seventh-st. and Kiwhth
ave., and that he was neither drunk nor fighting.
Magistrate Cornell discharge I Wilson, saying:
"It seems the white trash of the Twentieth Pre
cinct set upon the negroes last night to avenge
the atrocious murder of Policeman Thorpe by a
bad negro. Some Innocent persons were evidently
very much ill-treated. I should like to have before
me. some of the white persons who participated in
this riot. I have had just one white boy up, and
him I took pleasure in putting under 11.000 bonds
for his good behavior." This boy was Frank Mar.a
kue, of No. 255 West Thirtieth-st.
Joseph Lockett, a negro, and his wife were
charged with disorderly conduct by Patrolman
Ohm. Lockott was also charged with carrying a
pistol. The man was stained with blood from head
to waist, and had his head bandaged and a great
cut under his left eye. He was held in $.> r i on the
charge of carrying concealed weapons. The wife
was fined $5.
"If the accounts are true." said Magistrate Cor
nell, "some white men acted last night like beasts."
Professor W. S. Scarborough, of Wllberforce Unl
versity. Ohio, a colored man, Bald In this city
Bterday:
The rioting last ni^'ht shows that the r.T-f prfju- j
dice ie :: s s: ■ thai it
is as strong In the North as it la In the South.
The res white man In the South has noth
ing whatever against the ni It is the lawless
elemen 1 Ir the South that makes all the ti
and It Is the negro who seem Ing 131 3 justifies
the acts of ■ ■ '
T. THOMAS FORTUNE'S STATEMENT
T. Thomas Fortune, Editor of "The New-York
Arf." tne orK.in of the colored population of this
city, said:
No good citizen would for a moment Justify
the conduct of Arthur Harris in Rtabbing i 1"!i 1 "!
man Thorpe, nor would any one Justify th<
duct of the n. an who provoked the inception <>f
the disturbances last night. Those iw.. people
wen- violators "f the law, and It was the business
of ?hr- police and not th< mob to hunt them down
and frivf- the legal machinery an opportunity to
d*a! with them as the law provides Bla k crim
inals should be dealt with the same as white ]
criminals by the officers of the law.
Th» lawless conditions In the Southern States
have led a large number of colored peoph to
s<-ek refuge here and In the other laru-- ell
the North, and of course among th. ni ar.- some
Lad people. !.ut only in the proportion that woull
characterize a lik.- number of white refugees
forced fr< m home under similar conditions.
The police of late have had more trouble with
the Afro-American population In the Tenderloin
district than heretofore on this account, but It Is
all natural and thej have the same trouble wit 1 .
the other elements of th< population similarly cir
cumstanced.
It will appear extraordinary to thoughtful New-
Yorkers that the police should h;nv taken part
with the mob In chasing all the black men that
appeared unmercifully clubbing th.-m and th.-n
locking them up. These black people dldn
Btltute the mo>.; they were simply seeking to de
fend themselves.
\\V had this same conduct on the part of the
police in the Hells Kit. hen business. It Is about
time to find out how far the police are ponm to
continue this sort of business. If we can pet an
answer to that question we can easily determine
whether we are io be ruled by the mob In New-
York as we are In the ejtjes of tlr- South.
DEVERY PROMISES I ROTECTION.
Chief Devery and Other police officials sa:d yes
terday that the police would not be permitted to
encourage the hounding of law abiding colored
men in the West Side district. The officials heard
tna t „ 1 men were buying revolvers and
ammunition at pawnshops, but they said there
would be wich a strong for. f police In the dis
trl.-t last night that no serious disorder would b«>
possible, chief Devery had all the police reserves
In' the city ordered to be held In readiness for a
Dopstble outbreak, and be sent many policemen
from oth.-r precincts to perform patrol duty tn
the Nineteenth. Twentieth and Twenty-second Pre
cinct." last evening. ,
I>»wis Williams a pood looklnc. well dressed
colored man. twenty-sut years old, waj arrested
yesterday .-.fternoon by Patrolman Daly, of the
Broadway Squad, at Broadway and Twenty-eighth
s t Williams was with carrying concealed
weapons Williams had iust come out of a sporting
eooas st re when a <itizon, following him. told
the policeman that Williams had Just bought a
revolver and several boxes of cart ridges. The
citizen had heard :te colored man boast that no
white man was urolngr to bother him. Policeman
Daly stopped Williams and asked him if he car
ried" a revolver. Th. ne«r.-. replied that if he did
he had B riphr to do no. He was taken to the
Tfnderloin station and .1 hap th.\t he carried was
opened It revealed a 44-callbre Colt's Army re
volver fourteen inches lonK. In the bag were half
1 losen boxes of cartridges. They were taken
by the police .md Williams was locked up. It Is
thought by the police that Williams was supplying
other neproes with ammunition.
XECROES MKET IN BOSTON.
Boston. A up. H— There was rather a small gath
ering to-day In the North Russell Street African
Methodist Episcopal Church, at the tirst session
of th« Non-Partisan Conference, called to bring
together leading colored men of New-England "to
take such steps as will arouse the country to a
Just sense of duty, and to emphasize the race"s
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 1900.
eternal hostility to being deprived of Its Inherent
political rights."
Some of the leading colored men of Boston were
present to-day, but few from other cities came. W.
C. Mitchell called the conference to order, and Ed
win G. Walker was chosen president. On taking
the chair Mr. Walker made a strong appeal for the
negroes to assert their manhood. He :-aiu:
It Is a terrible thine to contemplate the condi
tion of the negro race 1 0-day, outraged .t.." minr
dered by the people of the South. But the South
alone Is not to blame Ninety per cent of these
murders could have been averted had the United
States Government acted. This condition exists in
the South, and It Is gradually working North
Murders of colored men In the South to-day, and
the same in New-York to-morrow. That Is the
order of events lately.
Don't allow any man to tell you that you shall
not go into the same place as a white man. You
are citizens of the t.'nited States, Just as much as
any white man. Assert your manhood— that is the
remedy.
POLICE USE CLUBS FREELY.
keep ckowds moving and make
many arrests-no serious
disorder.
From early last evening until late last night th*
sidewalks of Elghth-ave., from Thlrtleth-st. to
Forty-second-st., were crowded with people who ex
pected to see a repetition of the disturbing* of
Wednesday night. There were several hundred po
licemen in the avenue, many of them in plain
clothes, trying to keep the crowds moving and
looking out for possible trouble. Hundreds of
hoodlums were on the avenue, watching tha electric
cars and eager to throw things fit any colored man
who might appear. The colored people k-pt off the
avenue. In the side afreets many colored people
kept within doors and were afraid to venture out
on the walks. There were a. few scenes of dis
order, and the police arrested mom every negro
who appeared in the streets, clubbing some of the
prisoners.
Early In the evening the patrolmen begnn to
bring in jirlsoners at the West Thlrty-?evf»nth-st.
station. The tirst om> registered was William
Elliott, colored, of No 327 West Thlrty-!Uth-st. He
works at the Imperial Hotel He was ppen coming
out of an Eighth-aye. pawnshop wit!: a new re
volver. He decll to sum nd. r th< weapon and
•>■■■■ <>n the way t>> thp station the
policeman use<l his Hub. When Elliott was broticht
into the station he was bleeding from two scalp
wounds and h<* was hardly abl<» tr> talk. Ms
wounds wt re dressed by an ambulance s'iri;e<i"i
and he v. .i locked up.
I far d ley Johnson, a ri<>Kro porter, of No. 330 West
Fifty-third-st.*, was s»>^n with a loaded revolver in
an Hlghth-nvo. car. Policeman "iaynor Jumped on
the car and jerked Johnson out of It. and beat him
with his night stick until Johnson begged for
mercy. The prisoner had a four Inch gash In his
face when locked up.
Robert Myrick twenty-eight years old. of No. 414
West Thlrty-nlnl I a n^ro, was ordered t" e-'t
off the corner at Elghth-ave] nd Thlrty-el^hth-st.
He took his own time about it anil was arrested.
A razor was found in his pocket.
Inspector Thompson was near Kiphth-av>\ ami
Fortieth-st. when V- noticed a tumult aboard an
Eight h-a \ ■••. car Me ran with a couple of men to
investigate an.l found that, a negro passenger was
being attack) .1 Inspector Thompson arrived a!
the car Just in time to see a paving ■ ■■■■ •■ crash
through th( car window and lay the negro nut
with a .stunting blow on the head. Louis Swnrtz,
eighteen yesrs old, of No. 348 West Thirty-ninth
st.. threw the ton* Inspector Thompson arrested
him. On the way to the station Jacob Geniber, of
Thirty-sevcnth-st. and Eighth-aye.. undertook to
take Swartz from the policeman ho had him in
custody. Gembel lives .-it No. ::i". Manhattan-. ive.
1!.: was irrested for interfering with the poll
man, who gave him an egg sized lump over the
right eyt.
Mrs. James, a colored woman, of No. 340 West
Thirty-seventh-st., went to the police station and
begged for a policeman to protect her and her baby.
She said the tenants of her house were terror
stricken. They had been warned of an attack In
the late night. Captain Cooney assured her that
she would have ample protection, and she went
home.
Vincent A Streets, a negro painter, who says he
has lived for twenty-two years at No. 819 West
Forty-flrst-Bt., was arrested near his home, fight-
Ing drunk. He carried a policeman's billy loaded
with lead, a large revolver, fifty cartridge*, a r../.or
and a razor-edged knife.
.lames Bpellman, recently arrived from North
Carolina, and now living at No. 136 West Twenty
ninth-st., fought with John Wagner, white, of
No. 346 West Thlrty-elghth-st., at Nlnth-ave. and
Thlrty-nlnth-st. Wagner had ■ loaded whip '!■
used it with telling effect. Both men v. •. c
locked up
Alexander Robinson, a ni>ero. and a colored
friend were on a Thirty-fourth-st. car. Bon one
set up a shout as the car neared Eighth aye, that
the two negroes ought to be lynched A man with
a clothesline appeared, and the two negroes were
pulled off the car. The rope was thrown around
Robinson's neck, and fifty or more, pulling at <t.
started for a lamppost. A squad •>!' police appeared
before the crowd had gone far. and with much club
bing dispersed it. The two negroes got away in
the scrimmage.
"Sol" Russell Wright, a negro, of No l- 1 West
Twenty-seventh-st.. was Intoxicated near Twenty
seventh-st. and Seyenth-ave. and displayed a large
and expensive hunting knife. Two policemen
closed in on him, and with some clubbing managed
to disarm him. At the station he protested that
he was a lawablding colored man.
"1 belong to the Standard Oil Company," he pro
tested.
"Well. Sol," asked the sergeant,- "what do you
do for Mr. Rockefeller?"
"I oil floors." the negro replied solemnly
Robert H F'eters. of No. 221 West Thirtieth-st..
had a revolver, which he used recklessly at Thir
t th-st. e ) ai~d Seventh-aye. lie whs locked up.
Alexander Bradshaw, of No. 2\« West Twenty
s« venth-st.. was arrested in Flfteenth-st . near
Sixth-aye . by Policeman Brown for having a loaded
revolver in hi? pocket. He resisted and Brown
clubbed him. inflicting a scalp wound.
Chief Devery snld at 10:3<i p. m. that he was
tired of having white pe>>pl* from other part? of
the city coming Into the troubled district. He said:
1 warn those white people who are coming Into
this district that 1 will not put up with them . -iy
longer. f will stoo them with the loi-usts. They
will find that coming here to look for trouhlr
doesn't pay. If they dlsreKnrd this warning they
win have "to take the consequences. They must
leave the negroes alone. The further they keep
away from this part of the town the better f<T
them I find that all this trouble has been started
hv boys. The parents must keep th^lr boys at
home 'until after this trouble Is over. I have had
five hundred men in this district to-night preserv
ing order. l*p to this hour we have been success
fill
Watts— A man can't really be a gentleman on
lepc than ?10, 000 a y.ar.
Potts— And when he has that much he doesn t
have to be a gentleman.—^lndianapolis Pj^ss.
CHARLES W. LANE KILLED.
BATTALION CHIEF HURLED FROM A
BUGGY BY A TROLLEY CAR.
Battalion Chief Charles W. Lane, of the Fire
Department, was killed last night at Jamaica.
A buggy in which he was driving was hit by a
Brooklyn Rapid Transit trolley car. The Chief
and his companion, a young woman, were
thrown out. The young woman escaped injury
beyond a few bruises, but Chief Lane sustained
injuries which caused his death within a short
time.
Chief Lan^ lived at No. 64] Blackwell-st.. As
toria, ani was in command of the fire apparatus
in that part of Queens. Last evening, in com
pany with Miss Louis. Stockzlne, twenty-five
years old. of White Plains, he went out for a
drive. They drove from Astoria down the Hoff
man Boulevard, toward Roekaway. As they
started to props Fulton-st., in Jamaica, a car
on rhe trolley i; ne | n that street was rapidly ap
proaching the crossing. It was too late to try
to stop, so Chief *^ane made an effort to get
across. The car hit the huggy near the rear end
and smashed It to pieces. Thief Lane was
WEST STDF
hurled severn! yards His companion, eyewit-
Bay, was t!ir..un with more force than
ne - illir thle ■■ (n her overtaking him In
the aii- and striking against ; !.. : . This broke
r her Right, and she dropped to the
i with comparatively no injury. The
■■ was hurled down hard. He was
Injured Internally
' • ospitai it was not thought the injury
was serious, md after a time he went to si.-ep.
H» p. m. there was :hange for
Tn " woi i within twenty minutes.
711 o SIECES OF GEX. IT A LPIX DROWNED,
NO DETAILS of THE ACCIDENT TO THE YOUNG
WOMEN*. '■'.:.!■ • ERE ENGLISH.
A cahl* m-^race was received In Sing Sing yes
terday by William Brandroth. t.-Kingf-f ttte drown
ing of th.' Misses Eugenia nnd Virginia Brandreth.
twtnty-fonr and twenty-two years old daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Brandreth. Mr. Bran
dreth being the head of the Hrandreth pill and
porous plaster house in England. Tb.-j- •ensmtece*
of General Edwin a. McAlpln, William Kajph and
Franklin Brandreth and John K. BarW». Wt "
No details have been received as' t>» {row they
were drowned. They were well known In Sing
Sing, having frequently visited their cousins in that
Village. The Hrandreth factory Is In Sing Sing.
/1 B RET AOS E DELATED HY 1
BHE LEAVES HAVRE THREE DATS LATE WITH
\ P*>RCE OF WARSHIP STOKERS.
• • French bine.
iterday fr^ni Havre. A» that
; • f was delayed thre* days sailed.
a weel • Wednesday On her scheduled
the fin Be were on strike.
- • ■ ;■■■ ernment took up the
• nse for : a Brel . ■ c shi rries French
rom warships In th.> harbor were
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RELEASED FROM HOFFMAS fSLAXD.
Miss Mar) C Fl ■ ■•. „ two years ago marl*
a horseback trip through Cuba In th.
in magazines, was among th*
passengers on the New-York and Cuba Une
steamer ' 1 ,■. ma, from Havana who have been de
tained several days at Hoffman Island. She waa
landed yesterday wit'; th< (thers pt th.' company's
pier, X'> 17 K..s! River Among the others were M -
JOl PI Hip Mothersill. depot commissary in Havana
He spent ins time at Hoffman Island, he says.
Ij thing, he asserted, there
do there W. T. F. Letcher, a United States
postal Inspector, ms alt a passenger on the
Havana Tntil he has made his official report he
sa d he would not talk f.': publ •atlon.
II '' Strack, general manager of th»» Strack
Plantation Company, another passenger, said that
he had lust pur< tracl of one thousand
acres within five miles of Matanzas. on which
• • and fmit plantations will b< developed.
VESTMAKERfi HIV/ 1 fO.VTiP.4rT SIGNED.
Nearly three thousand vestmakers employed
mostb on the East Side went '»v strik.- yesterday.
independent of the union to which they belong, to
compel the bosses to sign a new yearlj agreement.
Most of the strikers had an enjoyable time yester
day. Tiny held meetings, or rather picnics. In
halls The Kirl workers turned out in force.
and th.-r.' were speechmaklng and dancing until a
late hour' Chairman Feldstlner of the strike com
mittee said that many of the contractors were
so much surprised by the suddenness of the
strik' 1 that they were totally unprepared for it. and
expressed a willingness to come to terms with
thi-lr employes A Btrike of Bye hundred more
vestmaktrs is expected to tak-- place in Browns
ville, a suburb of Brooklyn, to-day.
VR. HAM LETT RESIGNB.
Washington, Aug. i« -It has been decided to per
mit linirs-- B. Hatnlett. postoffice Inspector, former
ly chief inspector, t" resign, Instead of severing
his connection with the Department by formal r»
moval, as had been originally decided. Mr. Ham
lett has tendert-d his resignation, and It will he
accepted. He was charged with permitting a
private Individual to use his Government railroad
pa M in t;o!n<; to and from Landover, Md.
RUSSIA'S MINERAL PRODUCTS.
Washington, Aug. 16.— There are now only four
works In the Ural region of Russia where gold I*
obtained by means of chemical process says Vlct»-
Consul-General Hanauer. of Frankfort, in a letter to
the State Department. The former gold mines have
given out, and consequently are not worked any
more. While the world's annual sold production
has increased 16.3 per cent in the last decade, that
Of Russia has remained as before, amounting to
86.M8 pounds yearly. Platinum, however, of which
the Ural Mountains furnish 95 per cent of the en
tire world* supply, has Increased in both quantity
and value. The amount of this metal produced in
the Ural region last year was 13.242 pounds, almost
double the output of 1890.
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS.
Washington. Aug. 16.— The Texas, of the North
Atlantic Squadron, has gone to Casco Bay for
.sub-calibre target practice. She will reach Boston
about August 19. The Montgomery has arrived at
Rarbadoes. The Monongahela Is at Havre. The
Iroquoia is at Honolulu, and the Dolphin at Port
land.
EX-SEXATOR IXGALLS DEAD.
THE WELL KNOWN KANSAN PASSES
AWAY IN NEW-MEXICO.
Las Vegas, N. M.. Aug. ltf. — Former Vnited
States Senator John J. Ingalls died at East Las
Vegas at 2:'_'s a. BL to-day. He was surrounded
by his family. The funeral will be held in
Atchlaon. Kan.
Senator In^al'o's illness dated from March.
l s i''.». when at Washington his throat began to
trouble him. He worked steadily, writing po
litical articles for newspapers throughout the
country fur a considerable time, and waa treat
ed by several iperialwttf, bw v- •<-'w 1 no r°liof.
and on their advice returned with his family to
Atchison. At home be great no better. Ten
months ago h-- s.>usrnt another chan^f in cli
mate, travelling througn New-Mexico and Ari
zona. He waa sriii aMc to write occasionally
for the newspapers. Prom •Ime t< ttane reports
of the Senator's s.-rt<>us Ulnetsa were ehrculated,
but invanal.ly denied by th.' Senator, who did
not consider his case hopeless by any mtans,
and only two months ago planned to return to
Atcbison.
After a consultation of physicians he decided,
however, to remain In New-Maxtor*. Mrs. In
galls went immediately to Las V C; On Au
gust 14 she telegraphed her sons, Ellsworth and
Sheffield, that their father was sinking. They
arrived in time to see him before he rii.-d.
The body of the dead Senator was taken to
Atchison this afternoon, accompanied by Mrs.
Ingalls and her young son. Sheffield Ingalls. It
will arrive there on Friday afternoon, and the
funeral will be held from the old homestead on
Sunday afternoon. In accordance with a special
request of Senator Inpalls, every feature of the
funeral will be simple. The burial at Mount
Vernon will be private.
The direct cause of death was bronchitis.
Senator Ingalls had been growing weaker grad
ually for some time from inability to assimilate
his food, and there were also heart complications.
He had been able to sit up last evening, how
ever, and his condition then was considered
slightly better. He had made all plans to start
for Atchison, where he had expressed a wish to
die. and it was intended to start not later than
Saturday next.
John James Ingalls was born In MMdleton. Ess»x
County, Mass., on December 9, 1833. and was the
son of Ellas Theodore and Eliza Chase Irgalls.
His father made some noted Inventions In shoe
manufacturing machinery. The son was educated
in the Haverhlll schools, and at Williams Collage.
where he was graduated in l»5o. Then he began law
Studies, and was admitted to the bar in 18ST. Th©
next year he moved to Atchison. Kan., where he
made his home for the rest of his life. He soon
secured a good reputation and achieved success a?
a lawyer, and entered politics, in which field, by
reason of hi? strong personality and vigorous
methods, be became speedily prominent. In in
he was a delegate to the Wyandotte convention
that framed the first State Constitution of Kan
sas. In 1860 h» served as the secretary of the
Territorial Council; in 1881 as secretary of the State
Senate; in iVi2 as State Senator. In IBS 2he was
the Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor,
but was defeated with the rest of the Republican
ticket. Then he became editor of "The Atchison
Champion." and acted as such for three its.
From !Sfi3 to 365 he was Judge-A.lvor of the
State militia, with the rank of major and lieuten
ant-colonel, doing staff duty on the frontier. In
the State campaign of 1888, he was again Republi
can candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, and was
again defeated.
For the next nine years Mr. Ingalls devoted him
self continuously to practising law and to news
paper work In 1873 he was elected United States
Senator from Kansas, taking his seat on March 4
of that year; he was twice re-elected, in IST? and
18S5. At the end of the third term, in OH. he was
defeated for another re-election by W. A. Peffer,
Populist.
After the rise of Populism In Kansas In 1890. Mr
Ingalls made an effort to secure Populistlc support
by espousing some of the radical doctrines of that
party in a speech in the Senate. This alienated
EX-SENATOR JOHN .1. INT.ALTA
Who died yesterday.
from him many of his supporters In Kansas, and
he Increased the alienation by his conduct In re
spect of Senator Lodge's Elections bill in 1831.
Having signed the famous "round robin," pledging
himself to vote for the bill, he was afterward found
to be paired against it. He received little support
in IS9I. when he came up for re-election In the
Kansas Legislature. In 1896, when the Republicans
again had control in the State, he appeared as a
candidate, but cut little figure in the contest, which
resulted In the election of Senator Baker.
After 1891 Mr. Ingalls was a contributor to various
magazines and newspapers. In the Senate he won
a reputation as a brilliant speaker and aggressive
debater, especially on account of the picturesque
ness and pungency of his language and the fre
quent virulence of his personal attacks. He was
an Interesting figure in the Senate, and the an
nouncement that he was to speak always at
tracted as large an audience as the galleries of the
Senate chamber would hold. He also had an ac
curate knowledge of parliamentary law and pro
. , ,!ir> as waa shown by his record as President
pro tern, of the Senate from ISS9 to 1891.
Senator Ingalls was married In 1565 to Anna
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DR. EDWIN EVANS.
Rome, N. V.. Aug. 15.— Dr. Edwin Evans, a well
known physician, died from heart disease to-day
after an Illness of three weeks. He was In his
fifty-sixth year. He was prominent in Masonic cir
cles, and in lsy* was District Deputy Grand Master
of the Twenty-sixth Masonic district.
RUDOLPH HESSEL.
Washington. Aug. IS.— Dr. Rudolph Hessel. the
German scientist, who has been in charge of the
propagating ponds of the United States Fish Com
mission, died to-day at the Emergency Hospital.
Dr. Hessel was the victim of a sunstroke, which
he suffered late yesterday afternoon. He was sev
enty-nve yean of age. and had no relatives in this
country as far as can be learned.
Dr. Hessel was born in Baden, and received hi*
earlier education in France. He afterward grad
uated from the universities of Heidelberg and.
Strasburg. He went around the world with th»
scientific expedition led by Professor Sebold. He.
was a member of the Horticultural Society of
Frankfort-on-Main. and was once chief land*.
gardener on the estate of the Grand Duke of Baden,
bland of Mainau.
Dr. HessH's rirst trip to America was made In
iv" 1 H~ afterward returned to Europe, finally
settling in Washington ahout 1«77. Since that tlma
he had been connected with the Fish Commission.
Dr. Hessel. It Is said, was the first successfully M
Introduce and propagate the German carp in Ameri
can waters.
CHIEF JUSTICE HENRY GREEN.
Atlantic City. N. J.. Aug. 16.— Chief Justice Henry
Green, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died
at the Hotel Tray more to-day from Mate poison
ing. His death was unexpected, as he ha.l b*en 111
only one day. The Chief Justice, who had been
staying here for several weeks, had apparently
been in his usual health until yesterday morning,
when he complained of a severe headache after
arising. At noon he went into convulsions, and
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Justice becama
unconscious. He died at 11 o'clock this morning
without regaining consciousness. The body was
taken to his home at Easton, Perm.. to-day, ami
the funeral will be he: on Saturday or Monday.
Philadelphia. Aug. 16.— Following is a sketch of
Chief Justice Green: Henry Green was horn In
Warren County. N. J.. In IS^S. He was educated!
at Lafayette College. Easton. Perm.. ami wan ad
mitted to the bar of Northampton County. Perm..
in 1549. In MU Mr. Green, was appointed a Justice
of the Supreme Court to fill a vacancy, and in 18&J
he was elected for a full term of twenty-one years,
which would have expired in 1!"«">2. Justice Green
succeeded Chief Justice Sterret In January of this
year. Justice Green was the first Justice of the Su
preme Court bench of this State who came directly
from the bar to the Supreme bench without
previous judicial service. Justice Green was a Re
publican, and sat In the first National Convention
of that party.
Harrlsburg. Perm.. Aug. 16.— Justice J. Brewster
McCullom. of Mont rose, Perm.. becomes Chief Jus
tice of the 3upreme Court of Pennsylvania by th»
death of Chief Justice Green. Justice McCullonj
ranked next to Justice Green in seniority. Tha
new Chief Justice is a Democrat, and his commis
sion does not expire until the first Monday of Janu
ary, 1910. Governor Stone will probably not be In
a hurry to appoint a Justice to fill the vacancy
created by Ms death, as the commission of th« ap
pointee will not expire until January. IMS Had th«
death of Chief Justice Orw>n ooeurr<»<J three months
prior to the next general election his successor
would have been chosen In November.
THOMAS C. THORNR %
Thomas C. Thome died on Monday evening from
apoplexy at his home. No. 133 Monroe-st.. Brooklyn.
Mr. Thome was born In Lakevllle. Long Island, on
October IS. IS3S For twenty-five years -•■ was In
the employ or" A T. Stewart & Co.. working his
way up to the place of manager of the receiving de
partment. Mr. Theme was subsequently connected
with E. S. Jaffrey & Co He retired three years
ago. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum
Franklin Council No 2.V?. His widow two sons
?nd a daughter survive him. Th funeral will bo
held at his home this evening. "Hie burial will be
In Cedar Lawn Cemetery.
WILLIAM H. WOOD.
Word has nepn received \ n Flushing. T.o n Island 1 ,
of the death of William H. Wood, formerly of that
village. in Wo—mem*. R 1., on Monday. Mr.
Wood was fifty-eight years old. He invented the
Patrick torpedo. He was Interested in the Lan
ston monotype machine, and wa* the Inventor of
the keyboard. Mr. "Wood was married twice. He
leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters.
LAKE TRAFFrr BLOCKED.
ONI.T VESSELS OF LIGHT DRAUGHT CAN PAS 3
THE VESSEL AGROUND IN ST. MARY'S RIVER.
Cleveland. Ohio. Aus. IS fSpeclalV— The arrivals
at this port to-day of Lake Superior ore carriers
were few. Tha cause is 'he jam of about two hun
dred and fifty boats in the St. Mary River. caused
by the grounding of the schooner Mania. One of
the arrivals was the steamer Cumberland, drawing:
about fourteen feet of water, which forced her
way through on one side of the Maida. She hail
little trouble getting by. with the assistance of
tugs. Engineer Ripley was at the wreck to-day
taking soundings*, to see if it is safe to pass boats
drawing seventeen teet ast?rn of the wreck.
Tugmen are of the opinion that this can ho
safely done by the employment or two tug« This,
if Mr. Ripley decides favorably, will relieve the bis
blockade to a certain extent. Boats have been ac
cumulating for Ohio ports since Monday night.
The added pumps on The M.ii.'.a have lowered the.
water four feet. Ships are having no trouhle get
ting through the channel when running light.
There is still the belief that the wreck will be
out of the way and navigation resumed by Friday
night, but some of the lake mariners in Cleveland!
freatly doubt that, after studying the condition oX
he Maida,
TEE CLIFF DWELLERS' PARK.
Santa Fe. N. M.. Auk. 16.— An order has been
received from Ringer Hermann. General Land
Commissioner, to withdraw from further entry and
sale all the public land in about nine townships
west of the Rio Grande River, around Espanola.
for the purpose of establishing the proposed park
In which are situated hundreds of clift dwellings
2nd thousands of communaj buildings, which, are
being rapidly demolished by relic hunters.
SUFFERIXG FROM HEAT A\ D HUMIDITY,
The temperature of the city at its highest yester
day was 84 degrees. This was reported at 3:*3
p. m. The lowest came at 6 a. m. and was 74 de
grees. The moisture in the air caused more suf
fering than the heat. The humidity advanced to
SO per cent as early at 8 o'clock in the morning
and had not fallen below «* per cent by 8 o'clock
in the evening. Several prostrations were reported.
For to-day the Weather Bureau has this forecast:
"Generally fair Friday and Saturday: stationary
temperature: light to fresh northwest winds."
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