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4^»x^bbV >v^^^ jasV^amv Tw^* . ««w^bt* \^^^k I j^^f I *^H I 1 I I H MLJK^MsJr^^r JBiA J^'^£Srßj-Jy^yj^*^P''*m JB^BtL I M fci'~'»_ ww *^Ju^^^^B ' |^& I ' I ~~ I I 1 1 1 I I 1 -^iTIXATII.. *° 22,485. JTtO SUE HEARST lIGHT y ACTIOXS PENDING I V'n for -$4,000,000 <!.< Result of jlaiuion Square Explosion. ■ „ ■R-iiiia-- R. Hearst sets back from *^f about July I he will be served with a l l*** jn t j, f first of ■ serif of suits to be him by the city to recover dam **Vfcich in the aggregate may reach $4,000. <• ' 8r u r.t of the fireworks explosion in **,^ a gqiiare on Election Night. November 4. 2m fur Mi - Hearst had been elected to Con s***' _. *the 11th District on the Tammany IT* 1 - ■ Jf^j^j. hchivi dodged the subpoena servers luiiiiKwnt <*»* on May ~ 6 - by going on board ' ' Lorftania at 4 o'clock in the morning of the p£ * 'sailins: he also escaped, perhaps un '^.i— 't service of a summons in an affirms- IrkiJon 11 y the . iiy to recover the Et of a Judsroent which the city paid °^rcourt of the -nth of Dennis Shea, a | C Tolsaa- ■nh p!;e head XV9S blown off at tne j **" 4ov. This judgment was for $20,000 and i '*"* which amounted to about $5,000 more. ! !!? u «- Department has made all necessary j iiaMffltntS for serving tubpoenas and sum- ET« Mr Hearst as soon as he return? in j ftV ; ''rxrzbcr r.f important shifts have taken -*1b the iitica'.irn on account of the fire- fxplosinn since Mrs. Dennis Shea, widow j fix pitrolman. vfou her action against the j ".j, c j^osi important being that, while Mr. j «r«t ?ot decidedly the better of it in the j lJ cf Appeals decision in the Shea case, ! >£a tli* city attempted to make him jointly gr ~iM^ v.ith iis-elf. in subsequent actions • !_. rr v t by Saiiiuel Meiker and Lindau. involv- ■ SiOt same gfneral facts as to liability, the ; Counsel's office, represented by j rv-T«'Jus V. Collins and fosfali J. Stover. J^ed the tables en the publisher, putting him gt^jastticn where it is pos^ble that he will ; jate to either pay or contribute to the payment i *5r the kiili-S of eighteen persons and the j laisiEg and shocking of about sixty ethers at 1 tt. tise of the exrlosion. KECOUNT CASE SIGNIFICANCE. TTith tiis condition of affairs confronting Mr. ] vast and the Law Department, the outcome j d tfcf recount case assumes an added sig- j riSrsEce. for if Mr. Hearst should win. he might ! t;po:::t one of his own counsel as the head of | digs* Department, and then if he followed up ' tt pros* cution of the damage suits now ing ; ttc?"i ty ■ c c* tv . ne old be in the position ( tf t man suing himself. The entire staff in the I Law Department, in view of the affirmative ; trtcn by Assistant Corporation Counsel Pierce, ! s iii££, TVou'u he do it? ' Th« action of Mrs. Margaret Shea brought j a', pw-' and sensational evidence concern-; t% ncr iniEband's death. Since the Law De- | pnsatai up the case anew . with the idea ; cf nSfrtir; from Mr. Hearst the amount of : dasaftt paid by the city on the judgment of i sa Com. of Appeals, new evidence has been lacai One fart in the new evidence is excit ing til* atiial men It is that Shea walked a arose* otfftr- . feet after his he d had been . Aw»3^«B3SWr!y orf. While this has little j bes.*j£f on ihe legal aspects of the new action. t'scztef the things which has reawakened rarest is the proceedings. JLtlhea sued the city in th» sum of ?r»O,- j M, aßTging that her husband came to his \ cc: through the wrongful acts of the defend- ' Bis (aphorizing and permitting the discharge <it fireworks. Mrs. Shea began her action j siectr.ben IW2. Ccporation Counsel Rives, in his answer, set s»fierial of real or technical responsibility, i l»«sev. tried before Justice Fitz Gerald ciijury in May, ">•<;. the jury giving the i 'it* and children a verdict cf ?20.000 and \ ■SXibo^.- .<"■.<»:«.• ■ lOrie . &t celebration on the night of the explosion : is nominally under the auspices of the Na- ! taa; AsscKiation of Democratic Clubs, of which j *2»2 R. Hearst was ■•■ tent. The local j tejuar.er> were at the Hoffman House. Mr. I last wa.- on the Tammany ticket for Rep- ; ssctitive of the 11th District that year, run- j ■ " lower West Side district, where the i plurality is usually heavy. Ex- | «W Schrnitz of San Francisco was one of the j Jttcipacts a the celebration. &CLARED AN ADVERTISING SCHEME. : *fKai deal of the testimony for the defence I kfteSbin cas-e tended to show that there was v arular parade on the night of the ex &&£. asd Ftress was laid on this point for \ * xzson that the Hearst people justified : * 4u -f tfieir celebration because the aldermen, i 5 eticipation of campaigning methods, had ' *^-*3 the ordinance prohibiting parade* leaving the regulation of parades j solely -with the police. , «as: Corporation Counsel Collins moved ; *&=issthe complaint on the ground that the j * sist: 2 had failed to establish a cause of ac- j *^«?a:rst the dty of New York; that she j ™&j«*tab!ish that a nuisance had been per —-*k that shr- failed to prove that the city basal or permitted the creation of or ex- Js* <* Rich a nuisance; that it had not been , *** that there ■■ >.- ■ parade on that night. I *~ ** connection therewith a display of flre *tf* as a. re.< U !t of which Shea lost his life. ; - J * Commissioner Partridge reported that. *"]-? obs*rvf d hi "The American and Jour- I * &« an exhibition of fireworks would be j r5r 5 «a election night from the Flatiron Build- j , ** had communicated with James M' - ; "*"** «• "Jourr-al" staff, who had the osle- | t* 81 lr ' cliar S<*. - nr information as to place, i .'**'"' *° a * to r>* la position to make prop- < . race details Jor the protection of life. DISPLAY ABANDONED. swore that at 3 o'clock in the r^n ilr. M<Orath railed up the Police ttT' 11 * nPrT and told Servant Cohen that the t" 1 * display at th<» i-; : ,tiron Building: had and that a few bombs and t^^T *°' j!<3 *>* dlvj.layr^ at Madison avenue t!f jr^ " TT ** t - and that an airship would be fejZ^ abo%« th<? r , Mi - of Madison Square 1 I&J^'* col:rtt! ** v « lhe policeman's widow &»i r**' It# tad th Appellate Division and i^\ C ' Appeals in un sustained it. Having Yt *Tst lta in tr>iTiß to pr« v * ihat the clt y :n tr>it * '" r >r " v*v '* Ihat thf> city C'^i *"*"" Tor permitting a nuisance V jlij li . £? iT ha ' ; done what it could to protect ' or dttxena. i ■.- Corporation Counsel 5^ h * next damage action, the rase, of ** t|fc / ll " i! • Ei3flecn "y ear -° f;"y. through L ' <arno ul»u l» the Corporation Counsel *y a , * ca ** tending to show that the flre- I^6, s ," was not a part of a political ** but nas Panned and managed by Xz * fikM^ papers as a commercial enter ** *tfc!! > !! r yem * ell * rtion returns. A jury be- *a, „ ruAX gav^ the city a verdict, and Wt flf^"** int <i by the higher courts, the W*ate JusUfying its change of ju-lff- <f|1 '"'•*** o» SeroMd P««*s) I V£SZ M wtoa.. NEW-YORK, MONDAY, JUNE S. 1 90S.— TEX PAGES.— «?SSSi JScuS-. ANOTHER PARIS MURDER. Wealthy Banker Stahhrd ' -Mnneu ond Jncels Stolen. Tans. June T. -The nolic have b«B confront ed by a now murder n ystery in the discovery of the body of Aupi.it.' Romy, a wealthy retired hanker, seventy- seven years old. who was Mtifcfeed to death with a dessert knife at his house in the Rue de la Pepinierc The murdei occurr.fi snnif time last night, and money and jewels of great value aro missing. The finding of a carafe of wine and three glasses that had been used sagajesced that the three persons sup poaed to have been implicated in the Steinheil murder might be responsible for this crime. FURLED DOJVX WITH CAR. One Killed and Fort?/ Hurt in Trol ley Accident. I Rv Tfi^sraph to Th* Tribune] St. Louis. June 7. — Loaded to capacity and running at a rapid rate, an open car on the Creve Coeur Lake Suburban Line left the track on a sharp curve vest of Delmar Garden, near the St Louis city limits, to-night, overturned and whirled its cargo of human freight down* the rough embankment, or pinioned them, kill ing one man and seriously injuring more than forty others, many of whom will probably die. ley Accident. I By Telegraph to Th* Tribune.] St. Louis. June — Loaded to capacity and ; running at a rapid rate, an open car on the i Creve Co?ur Lake Suburban Line left the track ! on a sharp curve west of Delmar Garden, near I the St. Louis city limits, to-night, overturned j and whirled its cargo of human freight down" | the rough embankment, or pinioned them, kill ing one man and seriously injuring more. than forty others, many of whom will probably die. ■;• : ; i YALE SENIOR DROWNED. i | T:co Other Undergraduates Nearly Lose Their Lives. [By TVk-irravh to The Tribune.] New Haven. June 7. — Seeing a canoe buffeted by the waves with an apparently helpless man clinging to it. residents of Stony Creek to-day hurriedly wen; to his relief. They found him apparently lifeless and tightly strapped to the bottom of the canoe. He was released and slowly restored to consciousness. He said he was Arthur Ward Ruff, a Yale Junior, of Schenectady. N. T.. and that he started out yesterday with George Catlin. of New Haven, a senior; W. N. Sparhawk. of West Swansea. N. H.. and H. H. Burroughs, of Coeymans, N. V.. also Yale undergraduates. Fearing that the canoes would be upset. Bur roughs and Sparhawk went ashore last night and took a train to college. Catlin and Ruff started back this morning in their canoe, and were capsized in the Sound. Ruff says that they floated for hour?, and that as his strength be gan to desert him he strapped himself to the canoe. When he lost consciousness he says that Catlin was still clinging to the canoe. Search for Catlin's body has been begun. Wilbur Alonzo Curtis, of East Haven, a Yale junior, was fished out of the water at Wood mont this afternoon, unconscious, by three boys. .who saw him clinging to an overturned rowboat. He was nearly drowned when rescued. THREE DROWN IN LAKE. Only One Member of Canoeing Party Saved Near Worcester. Worcester. Mass.. June 7. Two young girls and a boy. who were members of a canoeing party of four, were drowned in Lake Quinsiga m"nd late to-day by the overturning of the craft. One of the victims was Frank H. Far well, seventeen years old, who lived with his aunt, Mrs. Calvin Gay. at No. 10 Walnut street, this city, but the names of the girls are un known, and may not be learned positively until the bodies are recovered. The fourth member of the party. Allison D. Watrous. thirteen years old. a son of D. E. Watrous. of No. 22 Maple Terrace, this city, clung to the overturned boat until he was res cued. He said that he and Farwell met the two girls while they were on their way to the lake, and that the girls accepted Farwell's in vitation to go canoeing. The girls were strangers to him and he did not learn their names. SLIPS FROM GRASP OF RESCUERS. While fishing with a party of friends off Scotland Lightship yesterday. John Hanaehnann. of No. .33 Baltic street Brooklyn, was swept overboard by the boom of the sloop. James Thompson, of No. Bl 13th street, jumped in .--id kept him afloat until they ranched the side of the vessel. Hanselmanr. was unconscious and his rescuer was almost exhausted. As several of the party were hauling the two aboard Hanselmann ■lipped from their grasp and sank. All efforts to recover his body were fruitless. Hanselmann was forty-five years old and married. SWIMMER DROWNS IN THOROUGHFARE. Ocean City. N. J.. June 7.— Herbert Morrison. twenty years old. son of John C. Morrison, of Philadelphia, was drowned in the Thoroughfare , back of this city, this afternoon. He was swim ming from a boat, and went down In deep water before his friends could reach him. His body was not recovered. TWO YOUTHS BELIEVED DROWNED. Auburn. Me.. June 7.— The "finding of their over 1 turned boat, caps and fishing tackle on the waters of Sabattls Lake, in Webster, last night, leads the police to believe that Frederick Glfford and Harry Currier, both fourteen years old, lost their lives in the lake while fishing yesterday. Currier was the son of Frederick Currier, a musician, of New York • City. The other lad was a cousin, the son of i Henry Glfford. of Lewisten. BOY DROWNED IN THE DELAWARE. Ml low ll, N. J . June '■ Albert Frank, thir teen years old, son of Albert Frank, of thin city. was drowned In the Delaware Ri\cr at Whitehill this afternoon. He went Into the river with other boys to bathe. He could not swim and was carried out beyond his depth. LIFEGUARDS RESCUE SEVEN. Lifeguards nt Brighton Beac-h rescued seven per rons when a B-fSOI sloop rapsized 150 f«et from gbore yesterday afternoon In attempting to "go about" the lilJerman upset the boat, throwing him self, tnrea other men and three women into the water They clung to the bottom of the boat until IBM ■flgsarrts towed them to the beach. After the boat had been bailed out the party embarked again without giving their names. m* FALLS FROM LAUNCH; DROWNED. (By T»>BTST>h to Th» Tribune. J Delanco, N. J- June -Falling backward from th« naphtha yacht Atlanta., near here, this after noun, George Jones, a decorator of Philadelphia, was drowned in the Delaware In sight of a number of friends and his brother. The boat was stopped instantly, but Jones went down before help could reach him. LIMB CRUSHES AERONAUT'S SKULL. SprinKfleld. 11l . J""* i— Luth«r Edward Jones, twenty-seven years old. a balloonist, attempted an ascension at Mildred Park this afternoon. As the balloon arose the paraehu» swung Jones a?ainet v sharp limb of a dead tree, .rushing his skull and killing ana Instantly. He leaves * wife m Hot Sr rings, Ark. She is also an aeronaut. XDRSE KILLS DOCTOR SHOOTS HIM IX STREET. Could Xot Get Justice in Court. She Telia Coroner. artin W. Auspitz, who with Dr. Philip S. Hlrtenateta conducted a sanatorium at No. 157 East 93d street, was shot and instantly killed last night in front of \ n 131 West 135 th street by Sarah Koten. a trained nurse who was for merly employed at the sanatorium, as he was answering a fictitious professional call which had been s-ent to his office by the woman. After the shooting the woman was arrested and taken to the West 125 th street station, where she ad mitted shooting the physician. "Are you the murderer of that man?" asked Coroner Harburger. pointing to the body of Dr. Auspitz as it lay on the station house floor. "He is my murderer, coroner." she replied. According to the story told to the coroner by the woman, who lived with a family named Sinkelstein at No. 1-4 West 135 th street, right across from where the murder was committed, she came to this country from Russia about two years ago. and went to work in the sanatorium last November. During December, she alleges. she was assaulted by the physician, and left his employ on April 27. On May 20 Dr. Auspitz was arraigned in Spe cial Sessions on a charge of criminal assault preferred by her. He brought forward two men. who alleged that her character was not good. and the case against the physician was dis missed. SENT CALL TO DOCTOR. According to members of the family where she lived. Miss Koten left the house about 10 o'clock yesterday morning It was about 11 o'clock that a woman called up Dr. Auspitz's office and told Louis Rosenheiin, brother-in-law of the physi cian, who answered the telephone, that an Ital ian, whose name she gave, living at No. 131 West 13.".th street, wanted to see the doctor at once. The name sounded familiar to Rosenheiin, and he told Dr. Auspitz of the call when he returned. The latter was busy all yesterday afternoon, and it was not until 7 o'clock that he was able to answer the call. After sending the call it seems that the woman returned to her own home and sat on the steps waiting for the arrival of the physician. Several persons saw her during the afternoon, but there was nothing suspicious in her actions. As Dr. Auspitz turned into 135 th street from Lenox avenue the woman saw him and crossed the street. If the physician saw her he made no sign, and on reaching No. 131 he walked up the steps, with the woman at his heels. He turned, and as he did so the woman, drawing a revolver from a black bag she carried, fired one shot. It struck him over the heart. He fell in the vesti bule, and she, with the smoking weapon in her hand, walked down the steps. A crowded 135 th street crosstown car was passing, and the motor man, attracted by the shot, stopped his car in front of ihe place. FIRED SECOND SHOT AT MAX A hundred panicstricken passengers gazed at the woman, but not one of them made a move toward her. As she reached the bottom of the steps she stopped, and, retracing h'-r steps, v.eru to the side of the fallen man and tired another shot into his throat, severing the jugular vein. Then she walked down and sat on the curbstone. An immense crowd had gathered, but she paid no attention to them until Patrolman Perkins, of the 3d Precinct, who lives across the street, ran over in his shirt sleeves and said: •"You have done all the mischief you can; give me that gun." "1 will give it only to a policeman." she said. "I am a policeman," said Perkins, but as he was in citizen's clothes she did not believe him. As Perkins edged his way toward her to wrest away the weapon Bicycle Patrolman Rochelle came up at full speed on his machine, and the woman, seeing him in uniform, walked toward him and handed the revolver to him. As the policeman attempted to take her back t.. the scene of the murder to await the arrival of the patrol wagon Miss Koten resisted, and they hurried her to a nearby store. An ambu lance had been summoned from the Harlem Hospital, and on Us arrival Dr. Ross said that Dr. Auspitz had died instantly. The victim's body and the prisoner were taken to the West l-."ith street police station, where the woman was cross-examined. She freely admitted her crime, saying: "I could not get Justice in the courts, ;md frit that 1 must take the law in my own hands. He ruined me in his own home. I'm all ali>ne in the world. My father i<= dead. My mother is dead. And— and— the father of my child unborn is dead." CORONER TO SEX SANATORIUM Then the woman told Coroner Harburger of some things that she said happened in the sana torium, which the coroner said he would in vestigate immediately. Dr. Hirtenstein. who had been sent for, was soon on the scene. When Miss Koten saw him she showed her first emotion. "He is another of the murderers!" she cried, and sprang to seize the physician by the throat. Dr. Hirtenstein tried to escape, but would not have succeeded had not Patrolman Harry White by sheer strength held the woman against a wall. There was another scene- when Mrs. Auspitz was told of her husband's death. The police would not allow her to see his body, and she became hysterical. She had to be taken from the station bouse by force. Dr. Auspitz came to this country from Austria, where he recei\ed his degree, ten years ag<>. He was an interne at Bellevue. He had been mar ried seven years, but had no children. JACOB BLACKWELL'S WILL FOUND. Dated 1779. and Transfers Island Bearing His Name to His Heirs. [Ry Telegraph Jo Th* Tribune. BtßSbantOO, N. V.. June 7.— County CWk John A. Brown has unearthed a novel will, .Irtt.d Feb ruary 6, I~P. It is a I'insr document and Is made by Jacob Black-well, transferring to his heirs the property known as Blackwells Island. He also had a farm where I»ng Island City is now situ ated. He gave his wife the use of one-third of the farm and the Island. He also disposed of sev eral male and female slaves to his various rela tives, Hn>l distributed various sums, ranging from £10 to £300. A tract of about eight acres of land in Harlem, together with certain negroes, was set apart for pale, the amount to be u*ed In the payment of his debts. He nlso provided that a quarter of an acre be forever used an a burial place for the family. WORRY OVER WIFE KILLS RECTOR. [By T>l*sraj>h to The Tribune.] Baltimore. June 7.— The Rev. Dr. Milton H. Mill, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer here, died to-day from typhoid pneumonia at the age of fifty-one. Worry over the condition of his wife who was recently operated on for appendi citis, had so weakened Dr. Mill, the physicians gay.' that he had no strength to resist th« diseaso that attacked htm. Health and Delight in the cool depth* of the Balsam forests of Rretton Woods Hotel repre iwUUvM. 11*0 Broadway. Tel. 47*6 Ma<3.— A«vt. F. G. BAILEY ARRESTED i\ crsTonr ix iioxdcras Crew of the Goldsboro Also Taken Into Custody. A cable message was i eceived in this city last night from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, savin? that F. G. Bailey, president of Export Shipping Com pany, of New Jersey, hie brother. A. W. Bailey, and H. H. Meyers, together with the crew of the steamer Goldboro, had been arrested there at the request of the United States government. F. G. Bailey is said to have obtained goods valued at many thousands of dollars under, as alleged, false pretences, and to have placed tlv-m aboard the Goldsboro, an old Clyde liner, which he had purchased. Reports from Hon duras told of his arrival there and contained the statement that he had purchased a banana plan tation and intended to establish an American colony. The commandant of the port of Puerto Cortex is Carlos C. Bolet, a former resident of Brook lyn, where he was an officer of the 23d Regi ment. The State Department at Washington was informed on Thursday that the government had ordered the arrest of Bailey. This was done solely as an -act of courtesy, as there is no ex tradition treaty. The Goldsboro sailed from New York on May 2. with F. G. Bailey, his brother, A. W. Bailey, and H. H. Meyers on board. The cargo was. discharged at Puerto Cortez. Bailey was charged with taking goods to the value of fSOOjOOft, the property of the Export Shipping Company. Magistrate Wahle issued a warrant for his ar rest on a charge of larceny, th? amount named being $3,200, at the request of the Star Machine Drill Company. The name of the vessel was changed when Honduras was reached to Atiantida. and she then flew the Honduran (lag. although she left New York flying the British ensign. The Brit ish Consul revoked her registry papers half an hour after sh;^ sailed. Bailey's creditors had him declared a bankrupt soon after his mysteri ous departure from this country. The Export Shipping Company was incor porated in New Jersey with a capital of $100,000. It was supposed to be a freight brokerage anil forwarding concern. CROWDED CARS CRASH. Many Hurt in Two Trolley Col lisions Xear Coney Island. Running at top speed along Gravesend avenue at Slfrh street, Brooklyn, yesterday, a car of the I."»th street line, loaded with passengers on their way to Coney Island, ran into the rear of a car of the Ninth avenue line, also crowded. Nine persons were injured. James Donnelly, motor man of the 15th street car, told the police he applied the brakes when he .*aw the car ahead of him stop suddenly, but his car slid along the *rai!s. Among the injured were Agnes Mullin. of No. l.">!( Sackett street, removed to the Coney Island Hospital with her left thigh lacerated; Mrs. Mary Mullins, her sister-in-law, whu was cut on the head by flying glass: Msss Annie Hart, of No. 242 Nintn avenue. Brooklyn. left knee fractured, and Mabel Hart, her sister, bruised and cut; Mrs. Mary David, of No. l.~»-J Sackett street, and Mrs. Stacia Veasey, of No. 41 Henry street, Brooklyn, were bruised and cut by glass. Mrs. James O'Connor, of No. l,"il» fc'ackett street, and her infant son James were injured inter nally and taken to the hospital. Patrolman William Trumpfeller, of the Coney Island sta tion, was cut by glass in trying to save several children. The reserves from the Coney Island station were rushed to the scene. Several of those who were slightly injured were attended by the two ambulance surgeons. When the Coney Island crowds were returning to the city shortly before midnight a car of the Keid avenue line rammed another of the ir>th street line. John Goinasa. of No IL'O Palistor Pla»c. motorman of the Reid avenue car. was pinned beneath the wreckage and badly injured. Several of the passengers were slightly hurt, but were able to continue their journey. The smash-up occurred at Gravesend avenue and Neck Road, half a mile from the scene of the accident in the afternoon. The firemen of Engine Company 1.",4, near by. pried the wreckage from Gomasas body and got him out. The] also cared for several of the women passengers who had fainted and repaired the car sufficient]] to enable it to be operated. The injured motorman was taken to the Coney Island station on another car. and through some mistake the ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident. He was finally taken to the Coney Island Emergency Hospital, where the surgeons found that his skull was fractured and that possibly he had internal injuries. KILLED BY GAS IX MIKE. *S'/> Dead and Many Seriously Af fected in Silierton. Col. Silverton, Col.. June I.— Six men are dead, eight others in a critical condition from breath ing foul air, and thirty more are temporarily confined to their homes by gas poisoning suf fered in the Gold King mine, at Gladstone. On Thursday night fire destroyed the engine house and shaft house of the mine, and to pre vent the spread of the flames to the workings the main shaft doors were closed temporarily the men working the night Phift being in structed to withdraw. When the flames had been extinguished these men failed to come out of the mine, a sere or more of rescuers entered the mine, and .-.» mo of them soon appeared at the foot of the ele vator shaft carrying the unconscious forms of miners who had succumbed to the Doxlous air Lrfiter a party reached the surface bringing the dead body of Victor Krickson and the al most lifeless bodies of John Sumston and otto Johnson, the three men whose absence caused the necessity for rescue work. The others who perished or were injured were of the rescue parlies. A. B. SPRECKELS SECRETLY MARRIED Wife of Second Son of Sugar Man Was For merly an Actress. 1 By Telegraph to The Trtbunr. ] San Francisco. June 7.— lt was announced here to da that Adolph B. Spreckels, second son of the old "Sugar King." Claus Spreckels, secretly mat ried Miss Alma de Brett last month, in Phila delphia, and sailed a few days ago for Europe. The bride came into notoriety here in IMI by a breach of promise suit against Charles Anderson, ■ wealthy Klondike miner, from whom she recovered $1,250. The news of Mr. Spreckels's marriage has created a urination here, as he was regarded as a conflrmt->l bachelor. He has a horse breeding farm at AptM and a country home near Napa. Miss De Brettville was formerly an actress, and is a beautiful woman. FIRE AT BLACKMAILERS, i William Pollock Again Threatened — Decoyed Italians Escape. % ■ ■ (By Telerraph to The Trtbune.l Pittsfield. Mass., June 7.— William Pollock, of New York, received a second Black Hand letter last Friday demanding $5,000 and threatening death It was sent from Pittsfield to Holmes dale. Mr. Pollock's country place, two mites south of here, and described where the money was to be placed. To-day a dummy package was left, on the spot named in the let ter, and two Italians appeared for it. Mr. Pol lock had armed his employes on his estate, and they shot at the men, evidently Italians, whs ran to the nearby woods, "where ■ third man, armed with a gun. Joined them. Mr. Pollock's, posse was halted by the stranger with the gun and the three men escaped. The police were in formed, but could find no trace of the men. Mr. Pollock lives on one of the handsomest properties in Pittsfield. It is the former country seat of Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is isolated and back from the highway. A week ago he received the first Black Hand letter, which made a demand for $3.000. Mr. Pollock thought at first that It was a joke, and paid no attention to it. On request of Mrs. Pollock he informed the police. The second letter stated that the writers would blow up Mr. Pollock's house and would get him if it took a year Mr. Pollock has engaged armed watchmen to patrol his property day and nigiit. Precautions Will be taken to guard Mr. Pollock o n hi? daily dilves about the country. The police believe that the letter is the work of some New York Italian who has had experience iri writing such letters. Mrs. Pollock was formerly Mrs. John Ker nochan. of New York and Lenox. GRAFT IX HIGH PLACES? Charge^ Made in Connection nith Pitt.sburg Postoifice Site. [By TeJegiai'h to The Tribune] Pittsburg. June 7.— The allegation is made here that officials in Washington connected with the selection of a site for the new postofflce, in Itsth street, shared in a graft fund ol $6*200 which caused the site to be selected in opposi tion to the wishes of the members of the Cham ber of Commerce and the leading business in terests of the city. The amount paid for the property was 99i2£2840t Jesse H. Wise and Williatn E. Minor, at torneys, and Timothy J. Wisecarver have entered suit against John H. Armstrong. Snow den G. Lennox and their associates," demand ing .S^.lHMl as their share of the fund for obtain ing options on a piece of land necessary to till out the plot. Armstrong alleges he paid the plaintiffs $4.'.mim and holds their receipt in full. He also alleges that he was at an expense of 158,000, which was paid certain parties foi tbeif assistance in having the site selected. A list hi in existence containing the names or" those who are alleged to have received the money, and it is headed by one of the most prominent men in the country, whose initials stand opposite the sum of $1&,O60. A Washington correspondent for Cincinnati and Louisville newspapers is said, to have lieen the go-between, and he is alleged to have re ceived $5,000 for his services. HOLDS POLICE AT BAY. Insane Pension Office Employe Sui cide — Fires Fifty Shots. Washington. June 7.— After holding the noli c at bay for six hours Dr. Joseph Pospisiei. an employe <«f the Pension Office, shot himself through the brain this morning while insane. Laboring under a delusion that an attempt sras being made to murder him. he fired at pedestri ans and into the homes of his neighbors, and when the police came he reloaded his pt.-t>l and fired or. them, preventing their near approach to the house. Altogether he tired about fifty shots in this way. n->ne of which, however, took effect. Before arming himself. Pospis-el passed hi. three little children through the windows to persons In the adj. lining house. His wife re mained with him. endeavoring t<- qu!"* him. but. becoming alarmed when he opened tire on the policemen, sh • joined her children in the neigh bor's house. At the time be shot himself P '■- siel was sitting in the second story window of his home. He first rolled up his sleeve and injected cocaine in his arm to steady himself for the fatal shot. He plunged forward to the ground, and died on the way to the hospital. Dr. Pospisiel came to Washington from Wis consin about eighteen years ago. He has rela tives in that state. HIGHWAYMEN KILL MAX. Woman Will Probably Die, Too Posses icith Hounds Seek Criminals. Chattanooga. Term . June 7.— In a hold-tip in Dossvllle avenue last night Joseph Knight, a business man. was instantly killed rind Mm Sallie Pool was prcbably fatally wounded. Knight and Miss Pool started for a drive. When they were just south of th* city limits three negroes stepped into the road and com manded the driver to halt This Knight de clined to do. One of the negroes sprang to the horse's head, while the two others covered Knight with pistols. Knight resisted the attach, and the negroes opened fire, killing Knight instantly. .Miss Pool was struck by two ballets, end there is little chance of her recovery. After the shooting th>- negroes took to their heels. .Armed citizens are our Ing the country with bloodhounds for the criminals. W1X1) FILLS :>", HOUSES. Tornado Works Havoc in Charles City, lowa— Two Killed. Charles City. lowa, June -A tornado struck Charles City this evening, demolishing about two hundred houses and killing W. R. Beck and a child. Three children are reported missing. Wires are down, and details as to the destruc tion wrought In the country ar.- meagre. The tornado started three miles southeast of this town, tearing down farmhouses arid barns and killing many head of stock. It struck the southwest part of Charles City, ploughing a path through to the northeast side, and spent itself a few miles from town. Many had warning of the approaching tornado and sought safety in cyclone cellars. The I >rnado Just mirwd the buildings of Charles City College. Barns were carried sev eral blocks, trees were torn up by the roois. and In some instances crashed into buildings Wucr was blown from the channel of the ri\er which flows through town. PRICE THREE CEXTS. "ALLIES" YIELD TO STRENGTH OF TAFT give rr n.ix to niTii- IlOLli VJIUKXCE. \ Their Overtures for Compromise — Discussion of Second Place. By Telegraph to The Tribuae.J Chicago. June The. bottom has dropped out of the opposition to Secretary Taft's nomination. The "allies." under the guidance of Senator Crane, of Massachusetts, decided to-day to abandon their scheme of withholding the cvi- I dence in further contests to be adjudicated by i the national committee, and will proceed from now o.i in ihe regular order. Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, has been seen by Senator Crane ; and has consented to refrain from the. ex | treme speech which it was announced yester i day he would make to the committee. The "allies" declare, further, that they will not ac cept the decision of the committee as final, but that their course is dictated by a desire to com ply with the requirements of the national com mittee before appearing before the credentials ! committee of the convention. Those in a posi | tion to Judge, however, regard the action de | elded upon to-day as constituting the end of, the | organized opposition, which has been, by tho way. largely disorganized from the beginning. The fact is that there is no ground whatever to support the claims of the contestants. The , "allies" risked their all on being able to con- I trol the national committee, and they now find, they have sadly misjudged the situation. One of their leaders admitted this evening that they could rot control more than six votes in the : committee on any proposition. There has been 1 no diversity of opinion in the committee regard ing the merits of the contests thus far heard. This lent is made on the authority of a. large majority of the national committee. Senator Lodge, who holds the Philippines proxy, said to-day to a correspondent of The Tribune: '"There has not been a single case presented in which the national committee could possibly have seated the anti-Taft delegates, regardless of their political affiliations It is in conceivable that any national eommitteeman. ir respective of his political affiliations, could have voted to seat the Alabama or Florida or Ar kansas or Georgia contestants in the face of the evidence presented. The delegates seated were supported by overwhelming evidence of their regularity, and the cases of the contestants were perfectly silly." "I can heartily indorse every word that Sen ator Lodge baa said," declared Frank B. Kellogg, national eummllteeasan from Minnesota, who was standing close by. "It is extraordinary that sober men should have had the effrontery to as!c I the national committee to seat delegates on the evidence presented by the contestants; in fact, they could not have clone <•>> had they believed! \ that the committee would act from a judicial point of view. But the "allies' were doubtless misled into the belief that the committee woulil . seat their delegates regardless of the equities or : th. law in the cases." CLAIMS OF CONTESTANTS "FUMf." Senate* Fulton, of Oregon, expressed |he san 3 view. ■*! came here." he said, "fearing that aw would have some knotty problems Is solve, but there has not been a case when We had to thinlc twice. The regularity of the Taft delegates ha* been perfectly obvious from the start. There > has not been a contest where a '•"mmifteeman I could have had the face to vote for the con testants or could have stood for his vote on tlt?i ■ evidence, if be had. Why. the claims of tni contestants have been of sort a flimsy character • that eves the representatives of the 'allies* on the committee have not had the courage to de- I mand a rollvaU. Of course, they could ha\*3 ; had one .it any time. Bad there once been a i deman.J for * roMrall there would have been j plenty of members of the committee Is help j them get it. In fact, there are a good many member* of the committee whs would like to see a ttn*-up of the forces, but they have re frained from demanding a rollcall because of the earnest pleas of the minority. Senator Craw ■ baa begged members not Is demand a rollcall. ! and I nave refrained from a.-km* for sac only i owl of respect to his wishes and because I had i no disposition t-» rub it In to them." There hi a strung suspicion that a gr>o<J deal of the tall: of refusing to appear further before the national committee baa been a bluff en the part of the "ailies."* designed to get a compro ii!)—- from the Taft people on the Kentucky dele gation. Be that as it may. as soon as it was definitely known that the Taft people would ' make no soßroromlse Use widely adverts l scheme ft the 'v.!!:?s" promptly collapsed. Yesterday Senator Crane conceived the Id a ; thai be might save a remnant of V. c Kentucky _.-.-( 'ion for Fairbanks by some form of com promise. To that fnd he first won over Ma [colleague, Senator LossT*; Comrnitteeinan Hart, : of lowa, «md <*<">mmitteeman Mulvane. of Kan sas, all loyal Taft mem Messrs. Hart in.i Mul vane then went to Manage* Hitchcock ml sut> ! mined the proposition, urging ban to accept it. I Mr. Hitchcock positively and asjeniilimiiTW re ' fused. Us said that be was ..-kin? Tor M j favors, but was merely demanding that the m«»n j itiTiTle.l to feats in the convention b? SSSJtadi ! The men who h;td made the tight for Mr. Taft ! and who bad b^'-.i regularly elected la the oss> ! vention. Tie -,iii. were clearly entitled to their -•if- and he. as manager for Mr. T.ifr. had n> right whatever to barter away their rights, even in the interest of party harmony ssm! hi order "to if a United St. -: Senator (Mr. Bradley, <-f Kentucky) down easy." The proposition sub mitted Mas to seat the Taft delegation fr«>m "ru: Kentucky district and the Fairbanks delegations rrom th* thr»e others. When it was found that nothing wouM llaBlMI Mr. Hitchcock in hi* decision, a visit was mads lo Charles P. Taft, and be was besought in the interest of Mi brother's success in November to overrule Mr. HitchcocK and order As compro miss. Mr. Taft. while giving no encouragement to the would-be compromisers, reserved his de cision. Whether or not he communicated with Washington before finally rendering it cannot to said definitely, but it may be affirmed that tho attitude of Secretary Tafl i- that no man en titled to a seat in the convention shall be de privtt! of it— certainly without his consent— in order that Mr. Tuffs genera*, political welfare may be promoted. This nsorahßg «'hi. P. T.. "t rendered his derision, and it was in n.i un certain terms. There would be absolutely no compromise. Mr. Hitchcock would be sustained at every point. The Taft people asked only for Justice and would consent To nothing less. "ALLIES' MAKE ORDERLY RETREAT. The echo of Mr. Taft's words was still ringing In th«? ears of th« ••allies" when Senator Crane invited representatives of the allfet! candidates to luncheon at the Cntcagn Athletic Club, far from the haunts of the newspaper &.•»>