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V" L LXIV X° 21,020.
PENT-EN THE CANDIDA!!;.
TATES QUITS THE FIGHT.
Illinois Deadlock Broken on 79th
Ballot — Factions U nited.
fi-T i::t :gei>ph ?.• m TRtnVNE.]
a-gtßgJleld. I".. June B.— Charles S. Deneen.
Elite's Att( T! ey of Cook County, was nominated
to-day tat Goeeranr by the BenuhHcan State
Convert '.c:i SB the sever. ty-ninth bailee, after
aflca d]nru urfaleh had lasted an even do=.>n days.
The codxt.i;-'". first met on May 12, and after
ballctin?; la -..In for sever, days took a recess
I gfricm Says, until ln-r Tuesday. The nomina
tion of *'• ° Cook '' mnty rnnn brofcs the moat
Mgetacular deadlock in the history of Illinois.
tnd the outcome is said to mark the nominee
it Bsotber tnan of destiny."
Or. Hiuisday. the leading candidate* who had
t*»n In '! ;m race Cram the Brat day of the strut*
ci*> rel*"; 1 *' 1 ' Omit respeetiwe ihViitii Iron; their
j nF ,. .. f : s 'ii ■ ■: foOoved the ascendancy "
Colcnel PYask < '. Loerden. who pot to a point
la the b'.Hotins wher>* he needed only 133 votes
It capture the nomination, ai-.d It seemed that
all v;.> tfur but fie shouting. Tlie rmtoa
tion of the other candidates, however, that
Lowfirr: .-':. oM not be noininat» j i'.. resulted In an
afJSßmnej I until this mornsac and that action
doomed I>«v. .1, n's chances. A combination < f
tj if Ta'^s. Hamlin. Sherman and] Pierce forces
la favor of [SJascn m.iile the termination of the
ba'.'.ot «ie-up possible.
The sad of the great struggle was brought
about at a conference in the parlors of the
executive ■Bxasssw after the convention ordered
a recess this morning. Governor Yates decided
to withdraw end host the pleaga) of his 401 dele
gfctes, i" writing, that they ■wold cast their
support to any man he might choose. He named
Deneer. Ilamlin arid Sherman saw the irresisti
hie ftm -"t !i of the new combination, and made
haste to ?et shaaffi the band wagon, and Con
psjsjnan Warner alone decided to stand pat In
J3ls candidacy.
Govei:. r rates went before the convention
and rrrmsllr BJHMSUWSd his withdrawal from
the sj the san.e time named Deneen
as his Bfeseranes for the nomination. .The Cook
Count:- • y thaw smn easily.
The i...:;.ir.nti r. I I Mr. Deneen Is regarded by
Kepu'. Ucan leaders hi the State as being excep
-••liiot a sweeping vic
tory ..t the ■'•:••..-' election. There Is no doubt
felt : Bareness in the State or
gariiz;.- | rnmnftj settled and the
party ur,it«d for BBOOSSS for the national and
tlcketa. ITtiiatu Ca:::. ■.•:: Frt-aks In eulo
|
•Then the Bewentjr-nfnth rolicall was ordered,
and Adams County k-d off with "One vote for
tatSS ar.d l.» for Deneen," the wildest exclte
ir.er.t prt\a:k-d. As the call proceeded It be
came evident that the new combination In
Illinois pottti s would win. but the original
Lowden men f^r the most part remained firm
and wer.t to defeat with him. When the call
was completed Ijowden moved to make the
nomination unanimous, and Chairman Cannon
fie, iar«d dbi moUon carried. All of the pent-up
enthusiasm of the delegates manifested Itself
jib rkanwi came to the 1 form and briefly
" Thanked the euuvention i w •>.. i. ■ -■ i- —
fponse to the demands of the assemblage. Colo
nel l*j'.\ :■ .1 made an address pledging his sup
port to the ticket.
The official count of the final ballot was aa
i< ::ows: DssMSw, M%: L<owder.. Ti22V 2\2 \ Warner,
SI . Yates. 1.
At the evening session the making up of the
ticket was rapidly proceeded with. L. Y. Fher
irsa:,, of Mrl'onoufrh, was nominated for I-ieu
tenant Governor; James A. Roae, of Golconda
nenmhsntib for Secretary Of State;
•*l*en" Rmall, of K:iJikrik'-e, for State Treasurer;
fanes B. MeCuUough. of Champaign (present
BcamhenXl. Bar State Auditor, and W. H. stead.
of Ottawa, for Ait.': (ieneraJ.
Charles •'v Deneen. born at Bdwmrdsvitte. ill..
Hay 4. l^i-'J, was «-du<'iited In the public schools
at ]^-!.:i!,i.:i. Hi., an i at afcXendn s Colleffe, that
city, where be was graduated hi the classical
Coarse i)i l^M" and in the bur course In 1885.
la IWB he sms ele< t»-i a member of the Illinois
Uegtslalure. Thi raara later be was chosen
artoroei . r the Sanitary Dnard of Chicago, but
ISSliued n befng nominated for State's Attor
tif-v- In l~'.«i. Mr. r>*>r.e»-ii sea sawed as state
Anomej nearly *-.prht rears, having been sleeted
to the (."lh • both in »". and !'.**>. Me has re;,
resented his ward In the Republican <"lty and
county »•••!:. intttffs tor fourteen years In nucces-
Rion. an : I as represented his Congress district
for ben years on the State committee. He was a
<!<-!->;. ilh- to ii • National Republican Convention
ct Philadelphia, ii v.««" and has taken much in
ter, .-t In all tbs paasna of his party In re
cei:t j. ;i!S.
BARKER liOOM IX BAD WAV
Result of Gorman-Guff 'ey-Bailcy
Conference — Texan a Candidate.
UNION AGAINST THE JUDGE.
The i'.:rk«-r uoorr. iafc? nicht flew the signal of
Thobe ca;.t;i.i:.s of political Industry. Senator
Arthui P. Gorman, of Maryland: Colonel JsmsS
M. Qbftey. of Pannsytsajßla; Senator Joseph W.
akuer. of T^xus. and J. P«?r*eant Cram, acting
to Charles P. Murphy, of Tammany Hail, yes
terday pert c-n many obstructions in the way of
the Parker bouin that it resembled an auto
mobile picklxip it way through Forty-seeond-st.
When that thoroughfare was at its worst. It is
believed that Ifessra. Gtarssan, Guffey and
Murphy have formed a coalition against the
Parker men.
A« a Msvtt of the .iay'j "harmony" proceed
lh£* Senator talley started for Texas. Eaylns
that he neve- had said that he was for Parker;
thai Jame« S. H^es. the Bryan enthusiast,
would be o:ie of the delegates at large from his
State, end thr.t ho (Bailey) would not be at the
Gt. Lci::s convention at all. Tnis means that
Mr. ri.i'.>y l:; a ca:idi''aie for the Presidential
awsssßatisa himself, sx4 thai he has rone home
«o the ad-.-jre of Ifessrs. Gorman and »3afiey
**• sal his frie:;da chat in the present mixed up
condition of affairs It will be v.eil for the State
conver.tica. which 1* called for June '21, not to
lauruct for Parker, as was contemplated.
The news of Bailey's d-fection from the Par
litr ranks was most depressing to the friends
sf Juags Parker. They had counted on th«
tst'starxe of Senator Bailey, both In and out
*f the convention, and they certainly count on
Sss Texas delegation In order to nominate Judge
barker on the first cr second ballot.
"* am going home to Texas to-night, by v.ay
c ' Washington." taid Senator Bailey at the
WtJfiorr-Aetorta lai«t night to a Tribune re
l*«rtrr. "I cat;. beta Hi gey little toy. to
*»ye him treated by ■ speeUttsL After stop-
Mnt in Washington for one day. I shall go
*trol-ht to my home (a OaS:i«svllle. I am rot
litre on politics. I pa-.v Colonel Guffey and Sen
ator Cssraaan, Slit 1 <:i«i not talk politics with
Uxai. I never sai«J 1 was for Parker.. I am
_ ''•jutfnjtxl «a third twee.
th» PREKHxiajrf or TUB FAIR
u£Vi-:~ «tm«nJven»«». Pennsylvania fuilroad
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L C. HUPPS GETS GIRLS.
SPEEDS AWAY IX "AUTO."
Wife Pursues Steel Official and
Asks for His Arrest.
A successful attempt on the part of Lawrence
C. Phipps. an official of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, of Pittsburgh to get his two children, girls,
who veto staying with their mother at the Hol
land House, was Ihs cause early yesterday of
exciting scenes at the Pennsylvania station at
Jersey City and at the hotel from which the
children were carried off in a red automobile.
Lawrence C. Phlpps is a nephew of Henry
W. Phlpps. the steel maa, and a son of
a Methodist minister of Pittsburg. His wife,
whom be married live years ago, was Miss Gen
evleve W. Chandler. of Charteroi. Perm. At the
time or th* formation of the Steel Trust, it Is
said. Lawrence C. Phlpps received a large
amount of steel stock.
Mrs. Phlpps came here from Plttsburg five
weeks ago as a result, it is alleged, of differences
with her husband of some months' standing.
With her were her two daughters and two maid;*.
No legal steps had bass taken by either hus
band i.r wife, but it is said that the father lad
agreed voluntarily that the wife should have the
custody of the children.
Mrs. Phlpps weal to ih«» Holland House, where
she was staying until yesterday. The husband
apparently repented Of his agreement, for three
■peeks .■'.£" !.'* came hare from J'ittsburK and etn»
. private detectives i;i efforts to get the
children. Private detectives, with the co-opera
tion of the two nurses who bad been won over
to the father's Bide. t.K.k the children from their
mother's *uite in the hotel, and. acootnpaniod.by
the nwrsea and a mas fai' 1 . to have been Mr.
I'hipps, dashed away in s rt<i automobile for the
Jersey City ferry.
Soon afterward Mrs. Phippa discovered her
loss and laised an outcry 'n the hotel. She
started in immediate pursuit. Passengers were
pourinp from the Twenty-third-St. ferryboat to
the trains, when Mrs. Phipps ran alonK the plat
form screaming hysterically, "Stop them! For
God's sake, stop their.'. They are stealing my
children!"
Phe w;is followed by two men. one in the prime
of life and the other an elderly man. A crowd
of curious passengers were soon in her v ake.
She pursued her children ar.d husband, with
whom there were two men and two young
women, is they entered the Philadelphia ac
commodation train.
The excited woman entered the car, and two
of the men of the party, said to be private de
tectives. stepped into and blocked the aisle and
prevented her from advancing.
•'Give me back my children, you monster;"
she shouted at her husband, who was holding
them, while the two nurses were striving to
pacify them as they began to cry. "Let me go
to mamma 1 ." and endeavored to reach her. The
mother ntruKß]<-d with the dete lives as she
shouted. "Give me my children! Ton have
stolen my children, you brut»:"
A crowd surged at "Uf the car without, nnd th»
passengers within clambered on the peats. Po
llceman Boyle arrived, and. as he walked down
the elide the mother frantically cried: "Arrest
that man! He has stolen my children."
One of the men who had accompanied tho
woman Introduced himself to Boyle as J. C.
Thompson, a lawyer of New-York and counsel
for the woman. He asked that Mr. Phlpps be
nrr- stei for abduction. When the policeman ac
costed him. Mr. PhlpP" said:
"This woman." pointing to Mr*. Phlpps, "is
my wife, nnd these children. In care now of the
two maids, are our children. Our home is in
the West. My wife ran away several days ago,
taing the children with )i<r. I followed her to
New-York to recover the i hlldren, have recov
ered them, and I . m taking them home, where
they belong. n«t with hr , anil I have in no way
-impress. -d th" law."
"This is not a Western train; this is a local,"
remarked Boyle.
"I understand that," was the reply. "I en
deavored to avoid this -ej ; »-. We came over the
Oortlandt-at. ferry. Intending to t.ike the trolley
car to Newark and board th<» Plttnlmrg train at
Newark, but found we could not get to Newark
In time to m.ike the connection, and came over
and took the local train to Newark, still hoping
that we would be looked for on the express train
here, but my wife came over early and saw us
as w*> vere passing down the platform to the
train. My action Is perfectly legal, oncer."
The lawyer still Insisted that the father b*
taken Into custody.
"What for?" Inquired Boyle. "I have no ri^ht
to arrest him without a warrant unless he is
breaking the ;«eace. and he is certainly not doing
that now." The lawyer declared that the. father
was not the legal custodian of the children, bnit
the obdurate officer Insisted that that was a
question for the civil court, and said: "You are a
lawyer and ought to know what to do."
Th" elderly man and the lawyer turned to
the mother and had a whispered conversation.
She shook her head sadly and began to weep
as they led her from the car. One of the chil
dren exclaimed: "Don't go 'way, mamma." She
turned as it' to go to them, tattered, began cry
ing hysterically, and was assisted from the car
by the lawyer and the elderly man, who was said
to be her father.
A messace w«j received by the jersey city
poHee about 7 a, m.. asking them to apprehend
for abduction a man in fashionable attire with
two children.
It WU learr.e.J that the fnth»»r nnd his party
continued on the train to Philadelphia, there
purchased tickets for Pittsburg and boarded the
fast mall train which left Philadelphia at la X!
o'clock.
Later In the day, according; to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Johnstone. J. Campbell Thomp
son visited him. and was closeted with him for
some time. Mr. Johnstone would not admit that
.Mr. Thomrsor/s visit was connected with the
Phipps case.
"I have known Mr. Thompson for several
years." ho said, "and his visit mr.y have- been
purely social."
Last night Mrs. Ph'pps waa at the Hotel
Netherland, where the clerk aald that she was
registered aa Mrs. Lawrence C. Phlpps, of Pitts
burg. Mr. Thompson was also at the Nether
land.
"Is your client Mrs. Phlpps. of Pittsburgh?" he
was asked.
"I must refuse to answer that question." he
replied. "I will only say that I waa not In Jer
sey City yesterday, and have not b*en there for
several day.--." he added.
Mr. Thompson refused to answer a question
as to whether his clerk or representative was
'.he man who accompanied Mrs. Phlpps at tho
Pennsylvania station, and also declined to make
any Btatesnent as to whether his client intend*
to take legal steps for the recovery of her chil
dren.
The management of the Holland House pro
f«-K.x<-<l last night to l>e In complete ignorance
Of the alfalr :it-d denied that Mrs. Phlpps had
l^een staying at the hotel. He intimated that
the trouble occurred at the Netherland.
BUsTim im< >W N AND TIOE GONE TO EUROPE.
Bond two-cent stamp to POND'S EXTRACT
IX V. ;« Fifth Avenue, for copy of Buster
d's birthday buok.— Advt.
W. J. TRAVIS, CHAMPION.
HE WIXS AT SAXDWICII.
Defeats E. I). BlacktceU, 4 Up
and S to Play.
London. June :*,.— Walter J« Travis, three times
holder of the American amateur golf champion
ship, won the title of amateur champion of
Great Britain on the links at Sandwich to-day by
defeating K. D. Hlackwell. of the Royal and
Ancient Club, four up and three to play. Travis
is now entered for the open championship of
Great Britain, to be played on Juno 7 and 8.
He will sail for home on June l.">.
The sky was overcast, with occasional flurries
of rain, while a stiff, raw wind from the north
east rendered it difficult for the two men to dis
play their best form. The weather, however,
appeared to have little effect on Travis, who
played with the same coolness and accuracy
that had characterized his game throughout
the tournament. His putting and approach
work were particularly notable.
The gallery numbered about five hundred.
Although their sympathies were practically
unanimously with Black well, they could not re
frain from applause at Travis's brilliant game,
.■nd the American's superiority over the Scotch
man was admitted, coupled with expressions of
regret that one of the older and more representa
tive r.iii.-o golfers was not pitted against the
visitor in the final.
About .1 score of Americans followed the game.
Including the competitors In th* earlier stages
of the championship and Simeon Ford, of New-
York.
TRAVIS WINS FIRST HOUS.
Starting the morning half, Travis won th<» first
In •"> to <;. and running down one of his. long
puts on :!.•• second green, was - up. Black
well miss d a yard pui (or the third, "hl« h was
halved. He !o«t the fourth, whore. Tihvlm holad
out by a long put. The American also won
thr ftftn ny grtr'n* C.>t»i, ;4; 4 1 ."■ >;>rd r*u£ siuii,
then missed a short put for the ith, where
he sustained in- Him loss. The seventh was
halved and T».i\ii won the eighth, where
Blackwel] missed a 5-fooi put. The Scotchman
took the ninth bole, where Travis drove Into
a bunker. The American was -'I up at the
turn. his outward score approximately b«-itiK ■".."»
Strokes.
Th.- American found the wind extremely Jiffi
cult and lost the tenth. The next two were
halved, and Blackwell ought t.. have reduced
M-i deficit t<- one .i! the thirteenth. His putting,
however, was bad, and he lost the hole. There
after he never looked Uk" drawing level, and
Travis finished the first round with 4 up. His
score by strokes was H>, Blackwel] taking 83.
Travis throughout gave the same remarkable
display of putting which baa gained him here
the. reputation of being the •■ . si exponent In
the World of the short game. Us was never In
the slightest danger throughout the round.
On restarting In the afternoon Travis pulled
his second shot Into a rough and was bunkered
from his third. Blackwell played his second
Into the fame bunker and took two to recover,
but he won the hole in «i to 7
Travis won the next, but lost the third, where
he failed at a .".-yard put for a half in :;
The American, however, was again 4 up at the
fourth, where Blackwell was weak on the green
Two HtriiKlit shots and a 10-yard put gave
Travis a .1 at the fifth, where ha stood "> up.
Travis took the sixth and lost the seventh. The
eighth was halved. The American lost the ninth
and turned 4 up.
The next five boles were halved, Travis going
somewhat off hi* long game, but saving notes on
th<- 1.1 «isns Travis htmim dormie 4. halved the
next and won I>> 4 up and II to play.
CLIMAX OF METEORIC CAREER
Trarls*s performance In winning the golf
Championship of Great Britain Is the climax •'
a rather meteoric career In the annals of ama
teur golf no tble side of the water. Taking up
the clubs for the first time In the summer of
ISM. he at once became an enthusiast. His
progress has been marked by more cups and
medals than that of any other American player
He Is the present amateur champion of the
United States, a title which he first won In
1900, end has held ever since, except In 1902,
when Louis N. James, of Chicago, was the
champion, Travis having been put out In the
third round by E. M. ByenL Travis began his
career at the Oakland Coif Club, of Bayatd*.
Long Island, whose course was laid out in the
fall of l^'.H). For the last three years, however,
be has lived at Garden City, and owed
allegiance to the Garden City links.
His record for the first season's play In
11-!*?1 1 -!*? embrace) two victories, of low score honors
In Qualifying rounds of open tournaments, and
one tie for the Basse distinction; he twice won
gross and net honors at handicaps, and had
the beet gross score in three other handicaps,
and he won four cups at match play. This
nummary Indicates the gradually increasing
skill with which he mastered the game at the
outset. Having great endurance and being al
ways in training, Travis has been since 1897
practically invincible on the links of this coun
try. In 1900 he was rated In the Metropolitan
Golf Association's handicap list at three strokes,
Findlay S. Douglas being then the scratch man.
In the Metropolitan championship of lUU>>
Travis was put out by 11. M. Harrlman. the
subsequent winner. From that time until now
he has been rated as a scratch man, first with
Doug-las and later alone, until now Douglas
and several others are rated at three strokes
and Travis stands alone as the scratch man.
FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN IT.
Travis Is the first American who has ever won
the English golf championship, for, though born
In Australia, he is a naturalized American citi
zen. In 1901 he made a trip to England, and,
ConlLiuetl un u;uiu page*
SQUADRON A EX ROUTE FOR rEEKSKILL.
CAMP AT VAX CORTLAXDT.
Squadron A Makes First Stop on
Journey to Peek-skill.
Van Cortlandt Park presented a martial ap
pearance at • • : no last evening, Vhn Squadron
A, of the National Guard, York's crack
cavalry troop, SCO strong, reached then and
pitched camp for the night. Saddles were thrown !
off, horses picketed and shelter tents dragged
from the baggage wagons, and by the time mess
call sounded, at 7 o'clock, camp was as orderly
as though the men had been on the grounds for '
a month. There was little Inclination for cook- i
Ing. and mesa was mainly a cold luncheon. At
0 o'clock taps were sounded, in view of an !
early reveille this morning and a long march j
ahead.
A larye crowd watched the troopers as. clad
In their new olive drab uniforms, they left :
their armory, at Nlnety-fourth-st. and Madison- '
aye., at 4:oO p. m.. and started on their fifty-six !
mile march to Peekskil] for the annual en- !
campment and field manoeuvres. The squadron \
marche! with full field equipments of a. regular !
campaign. Major Oliver 11. Brldgman Li in '
command. The troops, Nos. 1, - and 3, were '
commanded by Captains E. Mortimer Ward, j
Howard (J. Badsjely and Herbert Barry, re- j
spectively. The squadron took with it its own !
commissary department and cooks, and it was
Intimated that the stay In Peekskill would not
abound entirely in hardtack ami salt pork.
The troopers formed In the north side of Nine-
-fourth-st.. the right resting on Park-aye.
They were scheduled to leave at 4 o'clock, but
many of them were delayed by business, and
the start was made at Just 4:.">>. The mem- j
bers who were late arrived mostly In auto
mobiles and cabs, and there was a great scram
ble to get ready for the start. About twenty
did not arrive m time, but followed the squad
ron and raucht up before Van CorUandl Park
w.ms reached.
Accompanying the troopers were four camp
wagons, ati ambulance ->!.! a special wagon for
the signal corps.
Tlie line r,t inarch was as PirW->\«-. to Ktat
.■:.->!. tq Ktfth-.iv.'. to Osjs hiliullfrti
i».iK -.'.. to St. J'ir-i'.i>l.is-a vc. to Seventh
to Sfaeamb'i Dam Bridge, to Jeionii -aye., to
Van Cortlandi Park.
Reveille will i•• sounded at 3:30 o'clock this
morning, mess tall at •"• o'clock, and at 7 o'clock
"Boots and saddles*' will start the horsemen on
tbHi Stay. They will stop a; O— lnlitq Saturday
night and will arrive in po-kski;i Sunday morn
ing. Th. y expert to reach camp in Peekskill
with Troop C, of Brooklyn, which starts .if day- \
break to-day, and will camp to-night m Tarry- ,
tow
The ftatarc of the encampment this year will
be the unusual number of cavalrymen present.
Kit the Brat time In the history of the State
camp •h.-r.- will be an »-Titir. regiment of cavalry
in formation. Major Brldgman, of Squadron A
win command the regiment. Othet Iroope In
the regiment will be Troop p., of Albany and '
Troop i >. of fljiaV u> ■ • I
The '_'" 1 Regiment, of Brooklyn, which will
reach ppckskin to-day, win open the ramp.
Major General I: «•• win hare ■ large Staff at
headquarter! this year. it win Include Lieu- '
tenant Colonel <;. Hurry, commissary; Colonel
Frederick Phlsterer, *sslstanl adjutant general-
Lieutenant < '■ lonel <:-..r^.- a. Wing it. assistant
adjutant general: Ootone] \\\ H. Chapta in
spector. Ueutenam Colonel N. i;. Thurston, In- ■
■peetor of small arms and ordnance, and three
aides-de-camp The Governor WO] be rent*.
tented by Nelson H. Henry, adjutant general
and Ins Haft*. ' |
»—» —
NIXE KILLED IX WRECK,
Head-On Collision On Missouri
Pacific Near Kansas City.
Kansas City. June ;j Nine persons are re
ported to have been killed and many injured in
a collision of passe trains on the Missouri
Pactflo Railroad, near Martin city, fifteen miles
south of Kansas City. Th- trains, which met
head-on, wen the westbound Colorado Knitted,
No, I, and the eastbound Hotsmgton, Kan., ac
commodation, No. 'M.
A message received by Missouri Pacll
ncfani hen ordered them t" send a relief trai-i
;'.ls .--.on as possible jnd to K<t all the surgeons
obtainable, from which it is Inferred thaf many
«.-rs were hurl Newspaper men wr-r.- not
permitted on th<- relief train, which left about n
o'clock to-nißht. and details 01 the accident can
not he learned until the return of ike train with
the dead and Injured.
RATTLER SWALLOWS A RATTLE.
Infants at Play Are Unharmed by Snake Be
fore It Is Killed.
Washington. N. J. June 3 (Sp»ctaDi~.Warres
County has more snakes this year than ever were
heard of la past year?. Thpy havo beeOBM trouble
some since warm weather set in. The ..'.her day .1
five-foot rattier crawled up on th<? back porch of
Harry Cooper, one of the men employed on the
estate of Rutherford Mwjrvesaat, at All.imuchy.
Two infanta of the Coopers were ptoymg upon
the porch, but were not harmed. When Cooper saw
the sna'tvf It was coiled up under a bench. Cooper
killed It, and when he went to skin it. intending to
1 reserve the skin, he found Insult- of the snake a
white doorknob, a full grown rat and a baby's rattle
Each article had been swallowed Intact. The rattle
was one which one of Cooper's children had owned.
William Smith killed a blacksnake at Mineral
Springs a couple of days ago which measured seven
feet three inches. He saw it going up a railroad
embankment with a live chicken in Its Jaws. Al
though the chicken fluttered desperately, it could
not release itself until Smith had chopped th«
snake's head off with his shovel.
BELIEVES IN GOOD MUSIC.
IBT TELEtslt\rn TO THE TRI3I ]
Indianapolis. June The unique feature of a
candidate for Governor heading a g'.ee club will
add to the attractions and interest of UM campaign
in Indiana this year, if the present plans of Frank
Handy, Republican norninte for Governor, arc car
ried out. In addition to being a talented speaker
and ati earnest drbater. Mr. Handy is a Rood singer
anil plays on ■evefal Instruments. Ha»has just or
ganized a glee club of six voices, and the dub will
attend him .it all meetings during his canvass of
the State. Mr. Handy will carry the bass at some
of the meetings.
"1 believe in good music," he said to-day, "anil
the singers I Khali have will not be 'ragtime 4
warblers and clog dancers."
WORLD'S FAIR VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAIL
ROAD
Jun» 3 Special train; standard coaches. I. i..
round triD. — Advt,
ELIAn HOUSE MOBBKI*.
MOT CALL FOR POLICE.
Throng of Curious Ugly After
Then Think Woman Is to Appear.
Police reserves from the West Forty-seventh
and West Sixty-eighth-st. stations were sum
moned by a riot call last evening to quell a dis
turbance by a thousand or more curious persons
who wen massed in front of the horn? of Mrs.
Hannah Elia«. at No. 'j;:r. Central Park W<»st.
The disturbance was started by two young
mulattos, who, after pushing through the crowd,
went to • the basement door and asked loudly
enough to be heard by those on the sidewalk if
"Clarisse" was in. This aroused the crowd,
which had been awaiting: something exciting.
Cries of "They've got her!" "She's going '* be
arrested!" and so forth, as se, and the crowd
pushed forward to see all that might happen.
Two mounted park policemen and two or three
patrolmen had been having their hands full
since dark trying to make the crowd move on
and keep the sidewalks clear, and when this
trouble came they were powerless. One of them
telephoned to his station, and In a short time
the reserves appeared, but before they came
the stoop of the house was literally stormed.
It was an uglj crowd, and it refused to be
beaten back by the frail force of police. When
more reserves came the throng was loath to
leave the place, and it was half an hour be
fore the street was again clear.
When the crowd poured fa seated them, the
two mulatto youths who had Started the trou
ble, gave up their attempts to :ir.d "Clarisae"
and disappeared as Quickly as they could. They
got no answer at the basement door.
The crowd in front of the Ellas house last
night was greats* than at any time since the
revelations concerning her and John R. Platt
came out. This was partly due to the pleasant
weather. The Central Park wall, affording com
fortable i>eats, was lined for several blocks
either way. After the police drove the crowd
away, few returned, htft r»y It o\!ock the street
was net,
JEROME IX ELI AS CASE.
Mai/ Go to Grand Jury — Crouds
Still Watch House.
If the Si yet! of John R. Platt. the old man who
Is BOteg the n* Kress Hannah Kliis to recover }BK.tW>.
have eiksmce enough Is win than suit there will
be erbßinal action Instituted at once. Whatever in
funriatii'ii they have has bees, turned over to the
Dtstrtrl Attorney's esßre , whlCB. will begin an la-
TCStlsation. T.i 1"- conducted by Assstawt District
Attorney >r-l. When I>lntrlct Attorney Jerome re
turns on Monday fr.>rn I.akevtlle It hi expected that
he win take personal charge si thai rasa
Th.> grand Jury will meet on Monday. At th.it
law, seeaedtag t>> the story an>u»d the •'rlmin^l
Courts BulMins yesterday, wttneasea in thai case
will !••■ nsmtnrd .i".! material fvs possibly more
than one criminal pcimrutlnn will ':•>■ brought out.
Whatever la learned from th.se witnesses will b«
psssented to the sran<l jury.
If any extortion were practised in the piatt case
more persons th in the negress were Implicated, it
is believed. Those who have come in contact
with her s.-iy thai she is a woman of no I irs;"
amount of Intelllspii - • and of no education; shrewd.
but slm;>l, ■: certainly without the Intellect neces
sity to .-mtv on alone ■ eansssasßji la which she
would a.-.i i.-s a larK«- fortune. Kit", the Japanese,
had a WOnderM Influence over the. WK-nnn, but if
any systematic blackmail wen planned, it was
ilon«- by more mteUlgeßt heads than K.'tt.Vs. th^
lawyers beheve.
Lysaaa K. Warren, lawyer for the old man. took
a c.rtitH'.l o>p> "f th.» complaint to Acting District
Attorney R.ind yesterday. This eras Imasd over
to Assistant District Attorney i-.T>i who will se«
just what material for a criminal prosecution si
contained th>r.i-i Mr. Warren aba wants to get
permission Is serve the papers in the action on
Mrs. Ullaa by substitution, or by leaving them at
her door. If this permission Is granted, and Ike
r.e^ress doesn't BBOWSt the complaint within twenty
days, a. Judssaesit could be obtali sgalnsl her.
woman is SAFE IN* UMM Hoist:.
As loag as the mihh keeps SB her bouss she is
safe, unless some criminal action is brought. The
lawyers lot Plntt may starve her out financially by
tying up her money, but it is har.'.'.y likely that
they will break Into her castle, hScasJH Ike garri
son Is starved physically Barlj yesterday morning
a goodly supply of provisions of various sorts was
left there by tradesmen, which would seem SB show
that the inmates are going to hold out for some
time yet.
Washington flisnns. Mrs. Eliass lawyer, and the
companion who was with him on Thursday visited
the house late yesterday afternoon and stayed for
an hour. It was the lawyer's second visit. He
■pent most of the morning in the house remain
ing for luncheon with his client. His end of the
case is unchanged, he says. He ■ making no
overtures to the other side, and is in receipt of
none. At the proper time his client's .side will be
heard, he says, and there will prevail a vastly dif
fer*!.t imrression.
He was in communication with the District At
torney's office yesterday. He will have the- negresa
ready for an interview with Mr. Jerome or hia
representative at any time, ho declares. Mean
time, he wants it understood that she is not going
away, and had no intention of ever leaving town.
save for a short time at the seashore, because of
her health.
More of interest concerning the negress came to
light yesterday from the owner of the house No.
424 Lenox-ave.. where the latest child was born.
It was this child, which Dr. Van Tine, t'm attend
ing physician, says i.< white. John Olson, of No.
West One-hundred-and-thirtv-second-st.. the
own* r of the house, communicated with the negress
after rending an advertisement for a house mag
nificently furnished. He round, hi» said yesterday,
that W. W. Baseeck. a real estate agent, had
Inserted it. ■Bhsesk was actinsr for a woman, he
told Mr. O":on. who wonldo't care about the price
if the house suited her.
Mr. Olson s.i;. he stated a good price, which was
Instantly accented, and a woman came to see his
house. She was dark, well dressed, with many
diamonds, and spoke broken English. Her name,
she said, was Mrs. Maria I>enton. She said 9hr>
and '..<r sister, for whom .-::•• » i ■< taking the house,
Continued on MuaJ P*S*>
PRICE THREE TEXTS.
BESIEGING PORT ARTHUR.
FIGIITIXG AT FORTRESS.
Borne Hears of Outer W< <rk ? Taken
— Guns Command Defences.
Dispatches from Tokio to Rosa* icported
the fall of Port Arthur's outer line of fcetin
eations after a weak resistance, the pi^hn of
heavy artillery on heights rwmnsniiing the
town and an attempted sortie of the war
ships, which wrn* driven back by the Jap
anese fleet. The news lacked confirmation
from other sources.
Russian officials scout the reports that a
large force was moving south to relieve Port
Arthur, saving that the Emperor has not lost
confidence in Genera) Kuropatkin, and has
made no attempt to interfere in the plsa) of
campai;*n.
General Stotssrl's report of the nghtim
at Nan-Shan adds little to the Japanese ac
counts of the fighting. It puts the Russian
- - at 813 killed and wounded, and says
th.it the Japanese turned the position so
rnnidly that the mines could not be use i
lisp.itch from TwUs fs)sas. V. .;0l as the total
Japanese casualties in this ution.
FALL OF FORTS REPORTED
Sortie of Russian Fleet Said to Have
Been Repulsed.
London. June 3.— The Rome correspondent of
the Central News telegraphs:
A Tokio dispatch to the "Giomale d' Italia"
says that the Japanese have occupied the first
line of th-» outer fortifications of Port Arthur
after a feeble resistance.
The corresopndent at Tokio of the news
agency Liberia says that four divisions of
Japanese troop's have occupied Kwan-Tuns
Heights, en which they emplaced heavy artil
lery dominating Port Arthur.
The same correspondent adds that the Rus
sian squadron attempted a sortie, but was forced
to return, being threatened by the Japane.*i
fleet.
Che-Foo. June 3.— Steamers which have ar
rived here from Xew-Chwang report that firing
In the vicinity of Port Arthur was heard last
night. Th-v saw only two Japanese cruisers.
Chinese Junks which have reached this port
from the Cha River, west of Taku-Shan. report
that the Japanese have captured two Russian
officers and forty soldiers disguised as Japanese.
Llao-Ynng, June 3.— There are persistent
rumors that another great battle Is In progress
near Port Arthur. Continuous cannonading has
been heard from the south.
An addition;.! force of fifteen thousand Japan
ese la reported t<? have landed at Taku-9ha.n.
Since practically all news from Tokio In official
and must pass a rigid censorship, the fa:lure of
other news associations sa obtain conrtrmatl of
the dispatch from the Japanese capital to Rom.;
should cause the report to be accepted with re
serve.
VAMAGATA IS COMMAND.
Field Marshal Appointed Supreme
Commander of Fit Id Forces.
London, June 4— A dispatch from Tnklo hi
"The Dally Express" says that Field Marshal
Ynmagata has been appointed commander in
chief of all the forces in the field. He is ex
pected Is proceed to the Llao-Tung district
shortly.
CARXAGE AT XAX-SHAN.
General Stoesxel's Report of Action
— The Russian Lasses.
St. Petersburg. June 3. Lieutenant n<*ner»l
Zllinsky. chief of stiff to General Kur>pnticirt.
transmits la the Minister of War. as ■ r date
of June 2. a report of General StoeMMl. dated
Port Arthur. May 2S. as follows:
After a fierce battle lasting two days. I or
dered our losirions at Kin-»'hov- to he evacuated
in the evening, for we had opposed to us at
least three divisions with 120 guns.
The enemy's fire, particularly that from four
gunboats and six torpedo boats, completely an
nihilated our batteries mounted at Kin-Chow.
The ."th Regiment, which was posted on this
sjior. stood Ms ground heroically. The fire of
this regiment. ;ta well as that of our batteries
and Iks gwnbont Bohr, off Khounoueza. inflicted
enormous losses on the Japanese.
Our leases amounted to thirty officers and SOO
men. killed or wounded. We Mew up or dam
aged .II >ur guns which the Japanese had not
put out of '-tlon.
It wou'.l have be*-n inexpedient, certainly, to
feeing up s>ie;j:.> artillery during the fierce fight-
Inp.
The battle of May ■_••"> began at 5 a. m.. and
lasted until 8 ■,■ ny, when I ordered the position
evacuated gradually.
The espsMsafl of s number of our mines and
fbogadsl was rendered impossible because tha
Japanese turned our position immediately.
The Japanese advanced through water up to
their waists under the protection of their ships.
The spirit of our troops is excellent.
The method of the transmission of General
Bsasssel'9 report is not disclosed, but it Is pre
sumed it was taken by a Chinese junk to New-
Chv.ang. Evidently It was written under stress.
as it was hastily pencilled.
General Stoe3sel refers in terms of the warm
est praise to the skill and courage displayed
by General Fock. whom he recommends tor the
St. George's Cross. He does not mention that
Fork was wounded, from which the general
staff assumes that the report to this effect vu
untrue.
As the general especially praises a regiment
which was not In General Fock's division. th«
general staff concludes that five regiments, or
about 12.000 men. were engaged on the Rus
aian side.
JAPAN'S LOSSES OVER i.OOO.
Seven Hundred and Forty-four Killed .8
N.in-Shan Battle.
Tokio. June 3.— The total of the Japanese eas»
- at the kOfJtSI of Nan-Shan on May 28. la
They are divided as follows: Thirty-eno
officers. Including one major and five sergeant
majors, and 7 3 non-commlsstoned dfWesrs aed
one major and twelve sergeant m-\j---m.m -\j--- m . and