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£S±. a. * _ mm _ • * V OL - LXVIII... ,y- 22 AW. - GRAVE DANGER." SAYS LLNDESTRAL BKIDGE • DESIGNER SUG GESTS TEST OF MODEL. (if;/ Officials Admit Estimated Stress of 20,000 Pounds - Quebec Bridge Fell lender is, 000 Pounds. The statement hi The Tribune yesterday morning to the effect that there -was serious ap prehension among competent bridge engineers regarding the safety of the Blackwell's Island Bridge on account of the large increase in the weight of material put into the structure over t c quantities provided for in the original plans raised no end of a storm in the Bridge Depart ment and among city officials generally. Mr. Ingersoll. the chief engineer of the Bridge Degautssaart, asserted that The Tribune's story was absolutely without foundation, as did the assistant engineera of the department in per sonal charge ..f the work. James W. Stevenson, the Bridge Commissioner, characterized the ■tors as utterly absurd. Mayor McClellan face tiously renmriced that he expected the Bridge Commissioner to let him know whea the col lapse ■ v expected, bo that he might be present. The engineers of the Bridge Department admit ted, however, that the maximum stress t'> which the m3tn compression, oi carrying, members of the bridge wOl be subjected when the structure is completed 'was estimated at twenty thousand pounds to the square inch. "When this admission was made it was pointed out that the Quebec bridge fell under a similar stress of eighteen Thousand pounds ■ square inch. The reply was that the pacftj of the main compression mem bers to withstand s:---s> depended upon their de- Eigi . and that these members m the Blackwell's Island Bridge w«re so designed hs to withstand f=afely the maximum estimated stress of twenty thousand pounds ••• square inch if that stress ■uas • i er put upon them. Gustave Undenthal. former Bridge Commis sioner, who personally BBperintended the prepa ration Bf the origina] plans for the Blackwell's Jsiai:d Bridge ipon which the contract for the superstructure was Lwarded. stated In the most positive manner that the design of the main compression members of the Blackwell's Isiand Bridge ... erected was inferior to the design of The corresponding • nbers of the 111 fated Que l>€c bridge. He stated, also, that he was strongly of the opinion that if these members of the Blaclrweirs Island Bridge were ever subjected to the maximum stress of twenty thousand pounds « square inch there a'ould be grave danger of the structure- collapsing. AGREE WITH MR. LJNDENTHAL* The atatesaenl jnade by Mr. Lindenthal re garding the ill nla,ii .-f the main compression 22:?mbers of the ■• kveirs Island Bridg) bears not opinions pxpressed by other competent t ridge engineers, if it is tru - that the main (.ninpresFion members of the Quebec bridgewere better and more strongly designed, and still faiied under a stress of l&jOQO pounds a square inch, it is difficult to see how tl>e corresponding members of the Btackvetrs Island Bridge, if thej arr as stated : leas strongly designed, can withstand a stn of 2<\ooo pounds a square ln<~h. or 11 per cent more than the stresa und' r Which the Quebec bridge failed. It seems plain to the ordinary lay mind that -jTK5er such conditions the main compression members of the BlackweH's Island Bridge can not be expected to sustain a stress of *JO,<XX) pounds a. square inch and still be safe. There is, however, a simple and tnparatively Inexpensive way in which aii controversy re garding the safety of the new bridge can be pet at rest. Th'- same course, suggests Mr. Linden thai, could l-e followed as was followed in re epect tr» •■. g .- : ,f.,' bridge, only before and not af-er asiy possible . - st.-r A model of i'ie main compression members that may be subjected to this maximum stress of twenty thousand pounds a square inch of such proportionate s-ize that it Tnieht be tested in the largest existing testing ms-hine in the country could be made and aub mitted to a test up to the limit of the load it is *xr*cted to "-in. This would . monstrate satisfactorily ■ ether thf Bridge r>epartment has made the mi^tak* of providing for a stress upon th«se members past th« point of safety. Bu< h a test. The Tribune i informed, ■Id be made within ■ single month fcnj st a cost small enough to be Insignificant art* mpared with the cost of the bridge and ■ME great importance Of the issue. *T*>e Tribune has been banded a lemon this t*Tn c ." was the remark made by Mr. Stevenson •alien a Tribune re-porter joined the numerous lathering of newspaper en thai sieged the Bridge Commissioner's office yesterday morning. 'The entire story is absurd, and I am aston ished ThfeT it was printed wUh«~>ut first being re ferred to this department for its side of the case. With r'fei^-nce to The financial end of the sub ject there had been expended upon the Bla«k *eilp Island Bridge up to March 1 of this year tl4.<EC#.<«rtO. of which amount >74."..<n;ii was for r%« estate. The rest represents the amr.unt of tatrr.' that ... bridge proper.** "If it true that after t'r fall of the Quebec bridge your . were Instructed to fio over the stresses?" the Commissioner was asked. AX INCREASE OF 2o PEB • j;nt "Tes, they did r.iake an investigation, but^no "KTitten report was prepared. The result of the Investigation was given to the chief engineer er^ myself verbally, and that result was that the actual stresses did not exceed the calculated stress** by more tl.an Hi per cent. The weight oj ii«. superstructure as originally aned was vv '' <x Vi.4* ju jKjunds. -ii>s the actu weight will V KC.CtfiO.OOO nounds. There will be an in <rtai«r <,f abuut '£> per cent in the amount of Rt»J used, but that increase in weight has been Jroviuf-<J for by "an ncrease In the carrying c «X~dty of the :naln compression members. "It iv not true that Hie whole increase <»f . *-^Jl<t.<)i»«) in the cost of the superstructure over , tbe •control price, as stated in The Tribune. :': ' t ] iC jjH-rease in the a mount of ma *«rtal put into the in nded part of the super *"!<"u--ture. Part of the amount will be used to J'f'nitle material to be used in other than these " *Vheii the original plans and siK-cifications *'**" the tsrid^e were prepared the work was evi dently done in a hurry, tor no detailed vorking were prepared by the i tment. 'b* contract consequently was awarded ui*»n ** lf tt;±>:s of weight a pound of material sup- X>h*<]. ar!< j t j )e con < r ton bad to prepare their <"*T wording drawings from the strain .-hr-.-ts ; ,S'ij gf.,) Cra | |,j ans o f the bridge. The original J-'«ari« were changed because It was ■■ s«d to | 6< J<l to the traffic capacity of th<- iiiidgi-. Natu n^y in ■'■. ng out the new jdans the arefzhti **re iii<-r«>ased over those estimated In the con '•"fi.-t sr"-<.iri< lions "Hill it is ridiculous to **>- '•' St the bridge is i i <■■».- i. ... Ul tMr-J i>a*«. To^o^&r^rX**.. YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1908. lOIRTEEN PAGES.- Th ffiJft- MURDER IX "J," STATION. Pugilist Stabbed in Presence of Passengers — Ix+ffery in Case. In the sight of several men and women leav ing a train at the uptown station of the Third avenue elevated road at l!8th street last night Thomas Perirr.o. a lightweight pugilist, was stabbed to death by two assassins, who es caped before the witnesses could recover from their horror and give chase. The victim left the train and was on his way down the stairs with several passengers when two men suddenly sprang at him on the first landing and plunged their knives into his breast. The wounded man sank against the railing of the stairs and the assassins ran to the street and in different di rections. Charles Sheridan, of No. 322 East .".Ist street. and Samuel Siheiman. of No. -14 Livingston street, Brooklyn, carried the unconscious man to a drug store. An ambulance was called from Bellevue Hospital, and Dr. Lowthian rushed the man to the operating table, but he died in forty minutes. The body was not identified until early this morning, when Detective Michael La (Jrua, of the Central Office, went to the morgue and said the murdered man was Thomas Perimo. an Italian, twenty-one years old. of No. s-j Catharine street. •>. lightweight pugilist, who has fought several battles under the name of "Kid Tempe" La (!rna says he was walking along- Park Row when he met an Italian he knows, with his bead handag'd. He said he asked the man what was the matter. "<»h. I had some trouble uptown," replied the man. "I went around to St. Gregorys and got my head wrapped up." La 'Irua says he knows this man knew Perimo well. The detective Is now looking for the man he met in Park Row. Hcnrgo KaiFor. a driver, of No. 512 West 10th street, was taken from his home lat*M- in the night to Bellevue Hospital, with two stab wounds in his thest and another in a shoul der. He said that lie had been attacked by ton men in Avenue A. dragged hit" a doorway and stabbed by one of them. James Paly, a crip pled pedler at the elevated road station. said Kaiser was <>ne of the men who rushed past him immediately after the murder on the "L" stair way. Suspicion fell on Kaiser soon after he was taken to the hospital because of his vague de scription of the men who are supposed to have assaulted him. The surgeons under whose charge he was placed in the hospital said that his wounds looked as though they might have been inflicted with an instrument similar to the one used in killing: the stranger. Kaiser was later taken to the prison ward of Relleviie. He refuses to talk about himself. TORNADO KILLS TWELVE. Starts in Omaha and Devastates \ebraska Towns. Omaha. May 12.— Twelve persons are known 1 i h.M\f* been killed and a score injured by a tornado which swept over the northern part nt Barpy County nt i o'clock this afternoon. Th« storm, which gained velocity on its way south. Murtrd in Omaha ab.«ut 4:30 o'clock. At Belle. vue the college buildings were damaged to the extent of probably ?r<o,o(>o. and several persons were injured. The heaviest loss of life le reported at Louis ville, a junction point on the Missouri Pacific and Burlington roads in Cass County. Nf-ar the village of Ritchfleld, E3mes Leader was killed and his father was seriously injure.). Edward Miller, a fanner nrar Ritchfleld. was fatally injured. FIXE HOME DYNAMITED. House of G. D. Sherman, at Port Henry, N. V., Partly Wrecked. Fort Henry, N Y\, ..lay 12.— Dynamiters at tempted to wreck the $125,000 house of George D. Sherman near here, early to-day. A heavy charge of the explosive placed n^r the front <->f tli* dwelling store tore off the piazza and broke all the windows on that sid« of the house. The explosion started a fire which was checked ppfore it bad gained much headway. Mr. Sher man and his family were not injured by the shock. Th<"- dynamiters pnp warning of their Intend ed outrage in a note received by Mr. Sherman last night. The house, Idylhurst, is consider.-d one of the most beautiful in this part of the state, where the Sherman family is prominent. Detectives from Albany arrived to-day to in cestigate the dynamiting:. They consider the threatening note a valuable clew. Mr. Sherman had discharged three men from his employ on the day the note was received. / . RUN OVER BY TAXICAB. Man Said To Be Professor Badly Hurt in Upper Broadway. A man b<-lj<n-ed to bo Clarence Driethut, said to be a professor of chemistry, living at No. ill West 115 th street, was hit by a taxicab at 65t'i street and Broadway last night, knocked down and dragged eeveral yards. 11. received a scalp wound, a possible fracture of the skull and In ternal injuries which may result in his death. The man was crossing the street when two taxlcabs approached, running abreast. One of them struck him and knocked him over in front of the other. Before the second chauffeur could stop his machine the front wheels had passed over the man's body. The chauffeur picked him up and a detective called ; j n ambulance from Roosevelt Hospital. DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER TO AID Will Join Countess of Warwick in Ohio So cialist Campaign. It Is Announced. ii:> riltajayli toTb* T.-it>!.m». i EteUefoutalna, Ohio, May 12 Announcement was ni«<;e to-day by C B. Wharton, socialist nominee ongresfl In the Kb "hio District, that the ■ «,r ManctH ster, daughter <<i Eugene Zim- i n(! ,;,.■< | Cincinnati, w..ui-i j-.m the Countess of Warwick In stumping the district this rail against ;. i !.-. Republican, and EL K. Nivii:. Demo , ,']. nominee* MILLIONAIRE BANKER INDICTED. James Tread well Charged with Perjury Fol lowing Confession of J. Dalzell Brown. [By TcMaTSpIl to The Tribune.) San Kiancisro, May 12.— James rreadwell. mining millionaire an.] director of Urn wrecked California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, was Indicted for perjury to-day, alter the grand jury bad heard the uiifuaalnn •■• J. Dalsell Brown, manager ot the bank, who began an eighteen months' Mntence in San Qtientln to-daj Brown gave all the detsfla of alieged (Manipulation <<f tin- funds by Tread well and Walter T. Barnett. and corroborated hia •tatemenla with documentary proof. fraadwell and Baraeti boMi bwotb they had nothing i<> do with these transai t."!i-»- "THE" ALLEX DEAD (OliOSKli INVESTIGATING. Foul Play Suspected in Fate of Notorious Gambler. "The" Allen died last night at the home of his son-in-law, Clarence E. Owen, at Xo. 17 West Sth street, under conditions which war ranted Coroner Harburger. who investigated the death, in ordering an autopsy. He halted the embalming of the body, and early this morning examined the relatives and household of the | former poolroom man and gambler. Allen's physician, Dr. Hermann Boeker. of | No. 102 East 6Sth street, said his patient died I frcm locomotor ; taxia. but one of the dead ; man's brothers. Martin Van Buren Allen, of No. 250 West 14t>th .street, declared it his belief : that Allen was the victim of foul play. The cctroner was not apprised of the death until midnight, although Allen died at W.'-'M , o'clock in the evening. He was informed that ! Allen had been ill and out of his mind since ! last Thursday, and since that day had been in j the care of a trained nurse, who told the coroner be had found the sick man disturbed both physi cally and mentally, and had henn told that Mr. Allen was insane. Allen leaves three brothers — one a half brother — and all were in the house when Coro ner Harburger made hi.^ investigation. They are William Allen, the half brother; Martin Van Bure-n Allen and "rank Allen. Martin Van B. Allen said that he had been sent for last Thursday, but that persons^ in the house had told him "The" believed that he (Martin) was I trying- to poison him and that this so angered ! him be stayed away. I^st r.ight, when he was informed that his brother was dying, Martin hurried downtown. He was emphatic on the; subject of foul play. He told the coroner Theodore had said to at least a dozen people that he believed he had been poisoned. The coroner also learned that so fearful was .Mien that he would be poisoned that he would not take a drink of water without firsts seeing some one else take a sip of it. The coroner interrogated the other brothers, ■ and they both said Allen had been fearful of j being poisoned, but this, they said, was due i alone to his disordered state of mind. William Allen, according; to the coroner, at I first denied that his brother had talked of j poison, but when It was suggested that he j think again he is said to have made the ad- J mission that what Martin said was true. "The ' Allen, the "wickedest man in New York." who defied axe and crowbar and writ for more \ than titty years, was seventy-five years old. His career dates back to the palmy days of the Mer- j cer street precinct, when that place was the i "sporting" section of New York. It began in the ! 60's, when Allen, who had served his country hon- j orably in the Civil War. returned to New York and set himself up as the king of gamblers, the sport of sports. The records show that lie had been indicted time and time again: that lie had been arraigned in the police courts nearly two hundred times; that he 1 had been in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court three times; that he had been in the Court | of Appeals twice, and that he had been in the federal courts twic< . "When he w-a« first taken i' l . about two years ago. -Al!rn_-went to District Attoniiry Jerome and told j ' him that he was through with the gambling busi- j ' oesa forever. "I would have quit long ago," lie | ' said, "but i didn't feel like backing down under j . fire. T always thought the Percy-Gray law was un- , constitutional, and 'that to tine or Imprison me for violating it while other, gamblers were being pro- ' tected by the authorities was the rankest kind of ; injustice. That's why I hung on." BEGINNING OF GAMBLING CAREER ! Allen became a gambler through accidentally ; , meeting a professional who took an interest in him I and initiated him Into the business. He was born in the old 9th Ward and began to earn bis living when in was ten years old. Up worked in a ' butcher shop owned by "Bill" Pool, who was after- j • ward murdered by "Lew" Baker. During the civil I War he served as lieutenant in the 2.'> th New York j Volunteers and was honorably discharged at its close. His two brothers, Wesley and Jesse Allen, who j ' were better known as "Wess" and "Jess," wrr» briprht stars of tlie sporting life in N'i>w York some forty-odd years ago, when "Th"" was known as the wickedest man in town. Besides being known to the police as a gambler. "The" had the reputa- | Uon "f being one of the most successful barroom "acrappera" in N<?-v York. Once ho got Into n. I * Oght with an Italian named Carrera, who tried re- 1 1 peatedly to stab Allen. After a fow minutes of j rolling on the floor Allen managed to g^t bold of , a heavy sjlneraJ water bottle, and with it h" j knocked the Italian unconscious, after the latter ! had nearly hitun his nose off. "Kd" Malloy, •"The's" partner, was sliot and j killed by a pistol in the bands of Allen in 187 S. J Tb« murder indictment, however, was dismissed after Allen told his story in court. Of hia Civil War record he used to say: "My war record? I went Into the first battle of the Civil War, ami remained In the service untl the last one waa fought. Six months after enlisting I I was assigned to the secret service. 1 assumed the role of a fugitive from the Confederate States, j went to Montreal, had a reward of JGO.OOO placed on iwj bead, and, to get information for my govern ment, joined the raiders in tlieir attacks on St. Aibans, Vt. I as captured there by the United States forces rind sentenced to be executed the next day. A telegram from Secretary Stanton to Gen eral Scliofield, m command of St. Albans. ca>ed me. That, I suppose, was the narrowest escape from <l*-alli I evel had. It waa Henry \V;ird Beecher who, by telegram, informed Stanton of my plight. ! Beecher waa billed to lecture in St. Albans the day of my arrest.'' Allen's shsiit figure (he stood 5 fe<»t C inches in j h<-is!i!> was for the greater part of half a century i familiar In Greenwich Village. He was credited with running the West End Club, at No. SO Sixth avenue, for more than a quarter of a century. ATTACKED BY -BOSS" TWEED. 1 Away back in the old days "Boss" Tweed at- \ tacked Allen. There may ha\e been a reason for the attack by Tweed and bis subordinates, but Allen never "gave up, " as lie put it. This was after tlie death of Malloy. and Allen dated liis 1 "solitary life" from the hours following liis arrest after the killing of Malloy, when he found himself friendless,' saying: "It's me against the world j from now on. On this side of the Jordan River I'll never stand and deliver." "The" Allen's wife was a very religious woman, ! and "The" us<-<1 to "butt In" on some of her pri vate work among the very poor in the old Green wich Village section.' "The" was known to the majority of garrets and basements in the section and his money was always given freely and plenti fully. In hia lifetime lie paid the funeral expenses j of nearly four hundred persons, men, women and children. They us«d to '-all Sixth avenue at about I Mil street "Rock Hollow." i Allen adopted Bye children In his lifetime. His | own daughter, Minnie, died young, but a grand daughter survives. One of the adopted children is caihier In a Kg bank in this city. This baby Allen found on December 1. twenty-nine years Hgo, in a doorway at canal and Thompson streets. Tlie father of "The" Allen was a Methodist min ister. He died in 1873. "Tlie" was then proprietor I of the 31. Bernard Hotel. Prlnc« and Mercer streetal ! Allen promlaed Ills dying father to provide for the | other Allen cllilaren ("The" whs the second oldeal of foui boys), and he kept the promiaa at h gr«at 1 Kpenae to bunself. ' After many nnsuccsssful attempts to close his ! place .11 No. I* Hiiokir street in 18st, Inspector liiuUiiwi an fuurLh oiur* FL\D CLINTON'S BODY EXHUMED AT CAPITAL. ' Bndj/ of First Governor Will Be Reburicd at Kingston. [From The Tribune Kur»au. 1 Washington, May 12.— The body of George j Clinton, twice Vice-President of the United ; States and first Governor of the Empire State. I of which he was the executive for twenty-one i years, was yesterday exhumed at the old Con i gregational Cemetery and transferred to the I United States Naval Hospital, where it now lies, awaiting removal to the old Clinton home, at j Kingston. N. Y. The body was found to be in ! a most remarkable state of preservation, in spite ' of the fact that it had rested in the leaden coffin for ninety-six years. The chemicals in the soil ! had seemingly petrified most of the upper por : tions of the body and head, and even the cloth I of the coat and silk of the long stockings seemed I to be as strong and substantial as when new. ! I The granite monument which has so long marked the grave in the old cemetery has been '. \ taken down, and started on its way to Kingston ' last night. The coffin will follow within a tort : night. The exhumation was witnessed by Louis F. j ; Ganet, a great-grandnephew of Governor CUn- j ton; Benjamin M. Brink, of Kingston: Chaplain j H. R. Hoes, of the navy; Brigadier Robert M. O'Reilly, surgeon general of the army, and Dr. 1 Marcus Benjamin, one of the leading officials of > the Smithsonian Institution and president of the ! Society of the War of 181' J. After workmen had been engaged for two veeks in removing the monument and its foun dation, and an excavation ten or twelve feet in depth had been- made, no trace of the coffin h;id yet been found. By the use of a pole driven in ■ the earth as a probe, exactly after the method ! pursued by General Horace Porter in seeking : for the body of Paul Jones, and after consider able exploration, the metal box was finally struck, at a depth of nearly twenty feet. The digging was then renewed and finished and the leaden box brought to light. It was immedi ately transferred to the Naval Hospital, where Dr. O'Reilly presided at an autopsy. Measure ments of Governor Clinton's skull were taken and a minute examination of the entire j^ody was made. The upper portions of the body were found to be in a better state of preserva tion than the lower, but, considering the fact that the body had been in the coffin for nearly a century, all agreed that its lifelike appearance was remarkable. It is the intention of Governor Clintons de scendants in New York and New England to make the reburial the great feature of King ston's Memorial Day exercises. On that day the old town will celebrate its 250 th anniver sary, and it will be a source of the greatest pride to all the citizens to be able at the same time to pay fitting homage to the memory of their most distinguished townsman. If present plans are carried out the l>ody of Gov ernor Clinton will be accompanied to the Union Station in Washington by an imposing military escort,, led by General Bell, chief of staff of the army. In the procession wiil be representatives of patriotic organizations, companies of ma rines and soldiers from the various branches of the service, and a large attendance of govern ment officials and private citizens. President Roosevelt has been invited to attend, and if ho cannot be present will send a representative. The body will be accompanied from Washington by a guard of honor selected from the patriotic societies and will make the Journey from the capital to New York City by train. The rail road company has signified Its desire to trans port the coffin as well as the monument to New York free of charge. At New York the coffin will be transferred to a revenue cutter and will probably be escorted up the ludson by several torpedo boats. The transfer from the boat to phore and from shore to the cemetery at Kingston will he marked by appropriate exercises. BA XK 'S LOSS , $ l,j:>o,o<><h Bail of Cashier of Allegheny Xa tional Increased to '$100,000. [By Telpßrarh to Th<- Tribune.] N Pittsbursr. May T_\— On being informed official ly by National Bank Examiner William 1,. Folds that the defalcations of Cashier William Mont gomery of the Allegheny National Bank would reach at least $1,250,000, George Tener, bonds man, this afternoon issued bonds and a bail piece for Montgomery, and had him delivered up to tlie United States marshal. Tener was on Montgomery's bond for . S«».<V)O, and it has been noised about that Montgomery had publicly an nounced that he would commit r-ui.-idp. The United States authorities decided to in crease thp bail to $100,000, and. after Montgom ery had beeti "sweated" for four hours and made a signed confession of how he had looted the bank. Tenet again signed his bond for $50,000, and R. R. Quay, son of former United States Senator Quay, also went on a bond for $50,000, thus freeing Montgomery. Montgomery was forced to give over all his bank stock to the directors to-day. His Tono pah extension stork was given up yesterday, and, dumped on the market here, caused a small slump. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN SIX McNTHS. So Prophesies Authority on Subject at Car negie Lyceum. A large audience at the Carnegie Lyceum last night vißorously applauded specimens .>r I.uml^re colored photography shown on the screen by Will lam D. Murphy and J. E. Brulatour at tiie annual entertainment of the Camera Club of New- York. J. K. Brulatour, introduced as an authority on colored photographic work In this country, said that small pocket kodaks would soon photograph in colors. He added: "I rrean by this that 1 have personally investi gated the wonderful strides that the Lumiere Brothers, of Lyons, France, have made in this art, and I believe that .-.mall kodaka will take pictures in beautiful colors within six months. The process has already been Invented, and only minor details of a mechanical nature have yet to be compketd." VILLAGERS KILL CHURCH ROBBER. Twenty-seven Knife Wounds Found in Body Near Courtrai Seven Arrests. Courtral. May li\ Practically the whol# popula tion of the village of Belloghem. a short distance from Courtrai, armed with clubs and knives, at tacked and killed a man who was caught in the act of robbing th<- Chapel of the Virgin to-day. The villagers had been highly incensed at previous church robberlee. notably that of the Church of Notre Dame, In this city, last December, when Van Dyck's masterpiece, "The Klevatiun of the Cross," was stolen. Seven of those Implicated in the. killing of the burglar wer« arrested. Docton who made an examination of the body fuund twenty-seven knife wounds. Soeasy and delightful! Spencer's Torlc eiegi*t>t>cs with Hold-firm e-uards. Now ."I Maiilrn" J^n?, Ail i I . GOV. HUGHES GRATIFIED Sa>/s Wallace's Election Is "Begin ning 0/ End" -Camegic Happy. Washington, May U. — ' It is the beginning <>f the end." was the way Governor Hughes Of New York characterized the election to-day of Will iam C. Wallace as State Senator to till the va cancy in the 47th New York District, caused by the death of State Senator G. P. Franehot. The election is regarded here as a triumph f>>r Gov ernor Hughes in his fight against racetrack gambling In the Empire State, and h*- waa the recipient of congratulations on returning to his hotel after the dinner in honor of the Governors at the White House to-night. "I am gratified at the result. " said the Gov ernor. "It Is what I have been expecting all along." His face beamed with pleasure as he was pressed to hold an informal reception in th-? hotel lobhy. Andrew Can:egie was OSM of the first to congratulate the Governor. "Nothing I could have heard would have pleased me more." he said. "I knew you would win. I am so happy I shall sleep less t<>-night than usual, and if I were a drinking man I should invite the crowd to have one," he added, turning to the group of Governors, Senators, Representatives, newspaper men and others who had gathered about Mr. Hughes. "But. of course, all of you would refuse," added the laird of SkJbo with a twinkle. "It would no doubt surprise y.m." said the (iovernor. "how many of us would accept the in vitation were it given." "What effect will the passage of the anti gambling bill in the District of Columbia have on the situation in New York?" Governor Hughes was asked. , "I do not care to say," he replied. "Y'>u may draw your own inference. It shows the feeling of the people on this question."/ Governor Hughes said he would return to Al bany to-morrow night, as his presence Is re quired th^re. TWO SEIZURES OFF CUBA. Revenue Cutter Fires Shci Into Tortoise Fishing Schooner. Havana. May 11.— The schooners Emma Smith and General, carrying crews of twenty and seventeen men respectively, have been seized for engaging in tortoise fishing among the keys south of thfe Isle of Pines. The Emma Smith was anchored and was readily captured, but the General tried to escape and was not stopped until a revenue cutter shot her amidships, after firing three shots across her bows. The two schooners hail from Nassau, and aboard of them was found all the paraphernalia for tortoise fishing. Hundreds of pounds «f tortoise shell also was discovered. It was in this locality that the British schooner Exceed, with a crew of twenty-one men. was captWd a few days ago. MR. TAFT LEAVES COLON. The Secretary's Successful Trip as Peacemaker. Colon, May l'J.— Secretary Taft sailed fr"m here at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the Prairie for Charle'storr. During his"stay orr the ti.irtiiifs. whk-h has lasted six days, the Secretary has had not an Idle moment. So many affairs of impor tance had to receive his attention that he «as unable to accept any of the m.my social invita tions extender! to him. Secretary Taffs efforts were directed mainly to improvements in the administration of the canal zone, the consideration of the ■un-larv dispute between Panama and Colombia and the relations between Panama, Colombia and the United States. There have been many confer ences in which Secretary Taft. President Ama dor, Foreign Secretary Arias, Mr. Squlers. the American Minister; Sefior Arango. the Panaman Minister, and William Nelson Cromwell, the legal adviser of the can;ii company, have taken part, and while no offi'-jal statement has been given out relative to much that has been ac complished. it is announced that a satisfactory agreement has been reached. The matte* of the boundary Une will be taken up by Mr. Taft with President Roosevelt and Secretary Root when he reaches Washington. Havana, May 12. Governor M-aeonn to-night an nounced that he had received a dispatch from Sec retary Taft ov Saturday inviting him. in the name of the Panaman administration and people, to co to the isthmus to settle disputes whi.-h had arisen Governor Magoon <=pnt Secretary Tafl a message saying that he would give two weeks, beginning June 1. to the consideration of these qnestioM As >et Governor Magoon has not »pecuV'd whom lie will appoint Governor ad interim, but pre sumably it will be Major General Barry. Th* •;<■•. ernor recently received a <lisrM'ch from the Secre tary of War JTsHi in ting Mm not to withdn the 27th Infantry from <'i]Ki until after the Governor's conference with General Barry. IDAHO FOR TAFT. Delegates Instructed in Harmonious State Convention. Wallace, Idaho. May -RcpnMleaaM of Idaho* in state convention to-day, elected a delegation to the national convention, headed by Jama FI. Brady, or Pocatello. the acknowled:;?*! bead of the party organization. The delegation is pledged to use all honorable means to bring about the n'-mi nation of Secretary of War Taft for President. The other riH^gatrs are B. F. i>N>il. Warren Truitt. C. C. Cavanmigh. .1 VV. Hart and X M Heigho. The convention was entirely harmonious, transacted all its business and listened to four speeches in less Than three hours, and every ac tion taken was bjr unanimous vote. NEW WAY TO SAVE THE DROWNING. Surgeon Advocates Cutting Open the Chest and Working Heart by Hand. [ By T*!pßraph to Th<- Trlbur.e. | Hartford. Conn.. May 12.— it la betieved by Dr. D. K. Sullivan, who, while operating on Nuncio C. Chial at rft. Francls*a HoapffsJ on Sunday, sa toM in The Tribune, twice sav«'tl his patient from death by gently grasping <\>e heart and aajacesSßS it in time with its normal pulaattona mtll it beat agata of its own a.-.0r.1. th.it many liv.-s mta I be saved by this method of artUcia] rcspsratlesv T« all h\< pearancea th- man was dead twice, and jrsl he lived again arksfl the heart was aajnscaad, sending the blood coursing through the arteries. Dr. Sullivan thinks thai if a yerson could be osn'ratad upon immediately after being t.tk- u from t*ae water In many drowning 1 v ■ life mi^ht be cotiservi <1. He advoeatea opsning the bod] and removing the rib." until the heart is \i-.i'>!e .tn.l Is accessible, in order that the ring, rs may be In strted to handl<- It. In ni.niy BjecMaati Hfi still lingers lons after the person «e< ins to have ceased to breathe TO CROSS CONTINENT IN AUTO. Portland. Me.. May t2.— Mrs. E. E. Teape and daughter, Mrs. Vera MacKelvle. <>t idaho. left this City •' noon to-day on <tn automobile trip to Port land. Ore., for their health. Tfasy will make no at tempt •to »r.eed and will travel only u» the «la> time. PHK E THREE CENTS. WALLACE ELECTED IJY i\> FLUBALITr 0 CARRIES ORLEANS COUN- 7'}' HUT LOSES XIAGARA. Victory for Governor's Anti-Gam* bfing Poiicn Claimed Light J'olc in Distriit. Lockpcrt. N. T.. May 12.— William C Wa!la«r# Republican) wa3. elected to-day Senator frona the 47th District, eivjngr a plurality of 24§ votes over Henry A. .McMahon. the Democratic candidate. The total '.ote was: Wallace. 7.601: ■fcMahoa. 7,353. This is about two-thirds ot tha normal vote in the district. The total vote of Niagara County was: Wal lace. 4,1)82; McMahon. s,uSl; Mc.Mahon'3 plural ity. r>ff.». Th" total vote of Orleans County was; Wallace, '-'.'".X*. McMahon. 1,77_\ Wallace's plu rallty. - The 47th Senate District is made up of Niaaj ara and Orleans counties, and the election to day wa3 a special ope to fill the vacancy »- « WILLIAM C. WALLACE. OF NIAGARA FALL& Who was elected State Senator in tho 47th Dis trict yesterday. created by the death oC Senator S. P. Franchot. a Republican. An unusual feature of the b"u:f • but active campaign that pneadad the election was the obliteration of. party lines, the real issue beins the actl-gamMlng attitude assumed by Governor Hughes. The newly elected Sen ator will have a seat in tii* present t--xtra. ses sion of the IgssMattsn; and 1 'fee hr* * i rtp^' i f» j »l "t»» act with the friends of the Governor when an other attempt la made t» pass the racing bill 9. which would prohibit public betting at the race tracks in the state. The>*> bills failed of pas sage at the regular scsssasi by a tie vote. TMf vote was taken sobm thw after the death of Senator Franchot. and It was expected that th 9 stand taken by his successor would determine the lafs of tbc bills at the extra session. Early in the raaspaljji lha Republican candi du--- ■.< .-s committed to the support of the Gov ernor, while McMuhon was generally understood to hold/ viewa in opposition to thosM of . Mr. Hughes >>n the matter of racing. Accord in z\y. th*- outcome to-day is claimed as a victory for the ti-gambtlmj policy of the Governor. While this hi true in a sense, the expression at the polls cannot bt regarded purely in th< light of a sjani Ming lr=sue. A;.other factor in the right was the objt-i-tion expressed chiefly throiii the farm ing communities te the special election. The) election havolved considerable expense, and it was frequently threatened that many who thonghi this eTipens unjustified would trot© against the Republican candidate witliout regard to their sentiment on Rambling. Tha revarrai show thai the light vote waa daa to a great ex tent to the failure of the farmers to eto to tr«» polls In IWW Franchot polled ll^ltivosaa and Fluhrer. Deasociat, 10.474. From a party point el t*pw, MrXaiMMn macl<9 h»r>vy gnins In Nirtsrara County. He carried hf* home city of Niagara Falls by 435. a normal r>en\ocrati^ vot». and in Lodtpori received a majority of MS, a decided gain. H» carried Kiagar* Caajatj by Ml The ertmtry rote was not polled ro nearly its full strength. Similar conditions existed in Orleans County so far ns the country vote was concerned, except iii thoa* districts where the issue had. be>-n *sTbj t l ** subject of Sunday sermons in the ui'.neeji la Orleans County', however, the normal ReptSt lican plurality was held proportionately. in the few days yamsdJiis; the election rass> ernor Hughes made a speaking tour of the dis trict, accompanied by Wallace. The Governor addressed several mass meetings in tli? interests of th«» Rfpu^r.oan candidates, and other meet ings were hei«l at which demonstrations in sup port o* Wallace were rial*. The Prohibition vote was an inconsiderable factor, totalling about • r* hundred. The Prohibition candi date, Hartman. durinsc the eampaisn announced that be WO« be satisfied if the Prohtbitior.ista vnt*»:l for V.'alSace. The election throughout th» district passed on* quietly, and the use of voting machines in many Instances made the early de termina'ion of the contest pos.-nb:-. HAXDU RITI\(; OX W ILL* Albany Considers Wallace's Election Great Hughes Victory. JBy Tt'l'sraph to The Tr:hun». ] \ ■■.-.:-: election of Wai an h reg^r.: here as a great victory for Governor Hushes. Warns Hughes men have never doubted the result for a moment, though they hay* recognized that M wosdd be close, because all conditions were against the Governor. They t'e.i now that its fffsd on the la^asTratSsaj situa tion asm will be salutary. "Ouimaaf Hughes remarked In on« of his ■IHIthTT in the district that there «asjM b* handwrltirs on the anal very soon in thia state." declared one Hughes man. "Mr. Barnes, of Albany County, who has defied and de nounced the Governor, always has declared that the real test of public sentiment was at the bal lot box. i wonder if this handwriting on th» nail won't appeal to him a little. It strikes m* that it ou?!ir to make the Governor's enemies In the Legislature pause a little before carr>'in« out their dSra threats." Politicians are *tud>ins with keen Interest tha> details of tne v«>te in the several districts, and coiwDaxUw; nctes to the eCect «t the result