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TORNADOINROOKLYNCAUSES A TREifKyDOVS EJTPEOS1OV-

vZ AND Ruofa HOUSESJUl Ilronhtyn Made aI LIght a N Day hjr

c Brent Ilache rom the Tank or theCltUen On Qompany numblloeNolce tnt Terrlfle the Whole City A

1 Deluxe of Water Vlthont TVamlnc The1 Fath of the Tornado Plainly Hnrked

I Through the City 1 Wreck and flute4 h The Navy Yard TliltedRoldler Thrown

3 Dowand a rart of the Marine feyI i racK Unroofed Domaite lewhereA ffonulno Wostorn tornado although not

4 en a glaantlc scale visited Brooklyn lost night

t between 7 and 8 oclock It flrst enDeared nearthe head ot Gowanus Creek In SouthBrooklyn whom In some unknownway It doubtless caused an explosion

tot the Citizens Gas Works and then

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whirled its way pretty nearly In a straight linenortheast unreeling houses in Its path anddoing Its last very damaging piece of work in-

k the navy yad where It unroofed a partof the marine barracks I was accom-panied ¬with the noise and all thoterrifying effects of a wild Western tornadoand a rumbling sound which was heard at thoxploslon of the flrst of tho tanks at the gas

but not at that of the second was un-doubtedly

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the gas explosion Tho sound of the wind an-drth deluge of water were hoard and experi-

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by all in the tornados track Otherparts of the city felt tho draught of wind anddashes of rain but with less force and volumeFor ton minutes the wind In this city blew-at the rate of fortyeight miles an hour but inBrooklyn tho ratwas torriflo In certain placesThe storm camo up the coast from the Southand met hera cold and strong wind from tholake region Tho wind blew harder bore than atany station hoard from at a late hour lastnight The barometer here was exceedinglylow After the blow it began to rise rapidly

At about twenty minutes before 8 oclocklut night Brooklyn was startled by a terrificexplosion There were more shaking of housesand rattling and crushing of windows taneven tho memorable earthquake of a tow yearsago produced The scene of the explosion waat the works of the old Citizens Gas LightCompany covering several acres and extend-ing

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along Smith street Fifth street and Luqueer street t the Gowanus Canal There-are no houses standing on the Smith or LuQueer street sides of the works andthe collection of smal tumbledownbuildings in Fifth steet oPpsItthe worksj ha Blven the title City to tho dis ¬tot For three or four yeath Citizens OasCompany has discontinued the manu-facture

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of coal gas end their valuable plantha not been used The company howevercontinued in business supplying their customen with the illuminating material manufac-tured

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by the Fulton Mncpa Gas Com-pany

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through the process Theclatterfrom its

companyworks h mans exendlnlCitizens Companys works where there wore

three immense tonka for storing the ena Onoof those tnwhich was known aNo1 andwhich wa the corner of Smith and Uhad a capacity of 600000 cubioItret feotad other two which were in a directwith it between Smith and Hoyt streets each

I 350000 onbio feet The big tank was fifty feetIn diameter and thirty feet in height It

I was In this tank that the explosion occurred-Int some manner which no one connected withthe workwaable to explain fire reached thevolume of imprisoned gas andalmost Instantaneously with what seemed topersons in the neighborhood to be an Itrnagambling noise the explosion took plae

The gigantic tank was blown into the air acJ

mpanled by 1 roar aI of heavy artillerypd a solid mesa ot flame spread In all dlrooIona jumping several hundred feet into theiir and brilliantly Illuminating all the South-

jiooklyn district even beyond GreenwoodQtmetery-

AI frightful wind which swept over the cityfci the same Instant served to Intensify to-

adfclarm people living in the Immediate iInlty became pantostricken and rushed wildyinto the street Athe houses within aJock of the works were completely deserted aew minutes after the explosion The big stoneAd Iron pillars which supported the tank fellnto the street with a rumble which resembledsecond explosiontThen the four fire companies of the district

Maehed the scene Chief Engineer Nevins dlteoted Ms attention to saving if possible theether two tanks and streams of water were

Jed on them from each side of the workshowever was beyond the powax of the firemen and in less thanfifteen minutes the flames from thefirst tank communicated to one of theether two it went up in a tremendousVolume of flame but without the explosionwhloh had attended the first or at least with-out

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the rumbling noise Tho second illumi-nation

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however waa even more brilliant thanthat whloh followed the Ont explosion but itdied out In a few moments Engineer Nevinsthin put his men to work to prevent the flames

tall the row of frame buildings in Fifthwere exposed to the IntenseIttand Blab City was savedDaly the watchman was the onlyperson In or around tho works at the timeDaly was standing near the front door In Smithstreet when the explosion occurred but inerne manner he escaped uninjured MichaelMaloney the foreman of the works arrived afew minutes aftor the explosion and almosthis life while trying to open a valve in thosecond tank to allow thu gas to Two-mioutesiltor eSlpotho flremen awayte went upfar as oould bo learned no person waskilled but many people living In the neighbor ¬hood were badly shaken up and some of themreceived slight cuts from flying glass Thegasworks aro a complete wrook and the losswill Probably roach ThetSlab City had tl5o rsldontslnence of their lives and almost eli of them lundto make tholr Into iourth btroel overtheir back OSCIP

Inert tho customers of tIm Citizens Com ¬pany In south Brookhn had their gas end ¬denly cut oil and had to substltutu oil amiandes but In less than un hour tho ItiltonSlunicipal Company supplied them with gas asUsuali

Tho eplosion was head to the remotestPart of tLcityr were broken andelectric lights extinguishedCitizensCompany has been In existencenearly twenty years Tho destruction of ItsWorks will not alToct IU customers who will IboSUPII led by 111 Fulton Mnnlclpil CompanyI Alihiolugli tl row of ohl1 frame IIOIIHOH iInfth t tt WI raved from doslructlon byfire aino not I house titciiiwil ilumaKarte liiiiifteHcntiKltt III at oiito from thlllthot of ihi nut that thot mruxs i t

j Darn of SI11a wits sinuiibed and oitolit tenant bed some thrilling story 01 hiM or herexperiences to tel Jeremiah Ducau lives nt16 Iiltiu Itreot JITh Opposite where the secondtank exploded house has one story and aPesement vitk a parlor bedroom and kitchenon ono floor Mre ugan an Invalid 60 yearsold was in he rout room with Jeremiah whowachmiKlnii his flothos to go out for tim oven1 boy lirul 1Ufl remarked that It wasiwHnijinH tnlntitoK pcHr when theIOnIlrM cx 0 I tu r < was itrum I I ii Rl llrI tl1tU VVri0rli I uhl IntloV miItniUHtllOIlooked In the yard and It reeraed allgnt i ran through the bedroom to theIet was stopped at the door by a shootthha ra coming In through the winfbeen J t99 1 p PW=

was afire In n moment jo my brother Johnsoil I liSted mother outof the back windowand we climbed out ourselves

At No ID a fmall onestory building theTIornoyfamlljMlvo Ail escaped without In ¬jury except young Patrick 16 old whowas partly undressed lie ran yearthe frontdoor In hl har feet right Into the sheet offlamo ho could net back nnd shutthe door his neok arms and feet were badlyscorched-

In No 13 a1o facing tho exploded tankswere throo families eleven persons in all ineluding Mr JloVoy and his sister

I hoard the wind blowlnjz remarkablytrona said Mr MoVoy1 and then therea shock and a sudden blaze that scared waland mado us think thero was an earthquakeUITho house took lire allthe back windows aolwe eBcped tlhJames Klrwlns family at No 9 had n narrowescape Mrs hlrwln kop n smell grocery onthe ground floor Her husband had not re ¬turned from work and she was sitting at work-at a Bowlol machine In the thIr room fromthe room which Is store Theshock of tho explosion knocked her ofther chair p mushed tho entire front-of the torn In and knocked outtho sash and glass of the windows In the thirdroom whore sIte was working Mrs Blakewith her husband and four children and MmDUly with her husband and two childrenon ho floors above the grocery rusheddown the stairs barely escaping the flamesand out Into tho back yard into which MrsKirwin had been assisted through tho windowby a young man Hut In the yard wo near ¬ly lost our lives by suffocation said MrsKlrwln for 1great body of gas had accumu ¬lated titer o hued to crawl along throuchthree alleyways befor could breathe againLittle los Duly old woe cut aboutthe Luckily my little girlTheresa OConnor KIrwin was with my fatherCharles OConnor at 3 Bonnet place and sheis safe

Yes said Mr OConnor the little one andI were together when sho orled Oh grandpahoar that thunder storm and then we sawthose fearful flames I shall never forget thisnight

The throestory brick houses 414 and 410Smith street were tearfully wrecked In frontwindows shutters and sashes all being shat ¬tered Mrs Hogans parlor floor at 414 was acomplete wreck The twoInch door Wasmashed In as U with sledgo hammerhogan her son was out In the face by a pieceof flying iron from one of the tanks MaryLynch of 416 SmIth street was knocked downand bruised by the explosion and a boy namedJames Oilllcan bad to be carried home

Halt an hour after the last explosion thesmell of escaping gas from the middle tank bncanto so strong that tho Flro Chief in commandfearing another explosion ordered all thelights out in tho houses fronting tho worksand tho police wore instructed to stop any onefound smoking IQ the

Nobody seemed to TalltYjlust what causedthe accident but among the many theoriesadvanced the most plausible one seems to btho wind caused the western tank totnt It partedthe old chains that held It Inits fall it stovo in a plate letting tho es ¬cape which may nave been ignited from 1street lamp

Police Captain Lowory reported last nighttbat the explosion w s caused by lightning

Wo thought that was allJrnttroot alesaid the toltaker Jkt FerryNew side Policemen and others rantoward tho glare which was on the housesfacing the south for several minutes fully ex-pecting

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to soo abhz Ore but upon reachlnthespot they turned and saw the true cuseTHE TOnNADO

The tornado caused considerable damage inBrooklyn Many houses were unroofed andwIdows wrecked and trees and fences blownstable In Third avenue and Flatbushwas blown down and several persons who werestanding alongside 1hrh fence adJolnlnlwereInjured by the Neldermann the Janitor of the public school InThird avenue received a severe scalp woundand John Olden was badly bruised about tnebody Policeman W J Mullen of theavenue station was struck on the FluBhlfalling prick while passing Dunlaps hatfand badlyI cuttry window in Cliffords groeory at 962street was blown In and Sirs Susan Cur370 Eighth street was severely out by the flyingas A large platoI glass window In SmIth t11 clothing store in Fulton street and atbUlb avenue was blowitin roof was from a house in Can ¬ton street and llyrtleavonun and landed onthe top of a big tree opposite The roots ofthree brick tenements In De Kalb avenue weroblow tand the window In a store in Hud ¬avenues was turned com-pletely

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around as iIf it worked on a IwheL Revemavenue

roofs were blown from I PorkUntil midnight reports wer oomll In toPolice Headquarters ofthe city caused by the storm The alloverincluding the destruction of thl Marine Barraoks willI probably reach

The block in Paoino street between Bondand Novins streets suffered Beverly Thetornado lifted tho tin roofs and424 and tore thorn almost completely 422Onelargo piece of roof landed In the middle of thostreet w th a ratt crash A big shadetree in front of 419 was split and dashed to theground and other shade trees on the block suf-fered

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In a corresponding manner Tho polio ofthe tornado was terrifying and the people arosein alarm from their donor tablos and rushedinto tho street whero they were met by fiercegusts of wind and pelting raid The streetlamps were almost instantly extinguished andten minutes later for unaccountable rea-son ¬the electric lights also ceased to burn1lndthat part of tho town was left Inness The tearing off of tho roof was accom-panied

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window panes which helped to frighten thewomen and children

HAVOC IN THE NATO TAHDThe tornado struck the marine barracks In

the navy yard at 7U but a very few minutesafter the explosion of the gas works It cameswooping along from the southwest I up ¬rooted an old treebranches and shook the brick buildingat the entrance on Fllshlol avenueuntil it was thought lt Onl would godow It threw dow Commandant ofCapt 0 Uaml1 who was in thebuilding Doth the big front doors wereblown open with groat violence The tornadotore through the carrying away tboupper stories of yar eastern end of tiebarracks Only about 25 feet of roof over thehospital which Is at the extreme eastern endremains The root over the dormitories inwhloh are sheltered raw recruits Wi liftedoff and then plunged down Into dining

on the first floor In which worehl1 50 raw recruits under Sergeant KenobThey were at the windows of the dining roomwhich la about the exact centreof the buildinglooking at the illuminations In the heavensmade by the gas explosIon SergeantKenoh says the shaken bymighty force and it began to rock Thencame a downpour of brIcks and Umbers Themarines bolted for the door De turned tosee that they haall geZ away gate and wacaught timDors and pinnedHe WllOt outnot badlY lrobate Abramescape soon enough He was hiton the head with aOylnl brick Bo was JohnCoyno another These were all re¬moved to the hospital and the surgeon dressedtheir wounds John Bowling a patient in theHospital said to a HUN reporter

When the big wind struck the building Ididnt know what It was that had come upon-us The building danced so that I got UPandI could see the gaslight dancing In romand it kept up dancing until it came upmouth and burned my tongue 01 I cant tellyou how it was done I only my tongu-es burned

The big furnaces set fire to the dubrls whichfell about thorn In the dining hal anil prettyoon the astonished marines In yard sawflames shooting up from the rubbish ThetIre engine was hauled out and ahose playedupon tho flames

Borgoant D M Morgan called the roll of themarines afterward and found they were alsafo about 200 In nil Two rooms of thotore of those marines who have been homeInm In tim norvlrol sustained a loss oftheir ronf The building altogether iii 450 pot-Ion and Is two nlorlps lilcli The roof upon 200feetIonly was destroyed Tho contro of the

ulldlncHiinuroil hovorely It win there thatthe tornado throw down the twelve Inches O-Beanll7iiHit child would the pllo of brick hobll18ln the street Sergeant Covurt saidbtamllng In front of our quarternwhen I say tho sky Illuminated In a very fewminutes the air to the southwest WD tilledwith dust hits of sticks haveboon In lntWAAtlnd I aWaotthat I tornadowits coming used to do In theWont wits to got In tho collar when a tornadowas at hand nut thero warm t anyollar tn ro to po I foil prostrate upon thoground Imiwlt kpncic Maurle Les-tttin hintlnilt on Biinril itcnrndoso to mo Itmud the mmo nol o and lutl nil the npjioar-nncii of nur WtMirn tornniln

To thin snutliue nf tlm now yard jIB tho bignlxstory handelor factory of OxIeyGlddlncaA Co Tho watchman who was on the streettiters said he heard the rush of wind and feltthe dust nod other rubbish in It but It did notseem to Dothos the building any A tree WWblown down on thin opposite sidewalk

Tho Htrurarr SfcGreccor thor INirv OitirANH Jan PA cabin to For

nnndrs IJlm liiriii SItI Cl liii Monlco todayiciurls tutu thu IIQaDshll McGregor fromNew Orleans for Belze Hondur0811B ashore atCabo CulBbra from this Jport with six passengers 10000 feetof lumber

doand 13 packages of assorted mer

IUB DKLATTARE SIHfATORSaiP

Treat 01rlnunex Conntr la In the Lead endI Very Likely to Via

DOT Del Jan DTrnt leads in thorace tonight It may bd that ho-hasgoneasferashecan It maybe that thespurt he has taken will enable him to win Hohas developed wonderful strength and unex-pected

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solldltyand It haLen a Treat davy tornmorning till night It has boon claimed that hissupport from Sussex was of an evanescentquality and that the votes ho would receivewould bo complimentary All tho other can ¬didates have claimed Treats supporters Mrlilggtnsa friends have mado the mostplausible claim Mr Massoy has claimed themwithout much ground to base his claim on andthe Bmltnors men too havo said they wouldget Mr Treats Sussex friends All of this hasbon said on the supposition that tho Treatwould not stick to tholr first choice

ltisonly to compliment tho mnn ono ofthe leading Republicans said today Wowant to show him that we appreciate tho fightIto made fur the party In Sussex county

Late last night and today Mr Trent hasdemonstrated that ho knows a thing or twoabout politics and tho developments ho hasbrought abput have utterly dispelled allthe talk of complimentary votes lila op ¬ponont realize that he moans business Inevery penso of tho word Toaay citizens havecome here from every of Uussox countyThey have all made a pnrset on tho Sussexmembers and the result has bon a greatstiffening UP of the Treat men

Mr Trails a wide awake man He has boonin Delaware seventeen years Ho came fromBath Mo where he went Inta business aftergraduating from Dartmouth College Ho wasnot successful in Maine and whon ho settledIn Georgetown Del ho opened a factory forthe making 01 woodwoar from tho wood of thogum tree tbat grows in groat profusion in thoSussex swamps Hi tailed again in Delawareand Is now engaged Inelearnjnway the heavyburden of tlebt not provented his having hosts of friends in the coun

Tho Delaware State Grange has appeared to-day

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as R strong faction in tho light ThoOrange a power In Delaware and of thocoven Republican Grangers who are in thoLegislature it is assorted that thore Is not ciowho has not practically pledged himself to voteagainst Massey who they regard an their na-tural

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enemy because of his legal connectionwith the Perlnsylvanla Railroad

Mr Treat being a Granger all tho memboisof the society in the Legislature from Sussoxwill support him Whether the Kent Grangerswill join forces with those from Sussex re-mains

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lo be Boon Should they do BO Treatwould be the maTHE KIOUT BEFORE Till BATTLEDot Work Expected When the Indiana

Senate Meets TodayINDIANAPOLIS Jan 9TIm caucus of

Democratic Senators tonight decided to makoJames F Cox temporary President at the or¬ganization tomorrow and to seat him In tho

Cai at all hazards To help in this jobdecided to make Green Smith Sec-retary

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of tho Senate Smith is tho man whowas elected President two years DUn whonthe Democratic majority of the Senate refusedto recognize the legality of the election ofLieutGov Robertson and who forcibly holdpossession of the char all through the sessionHis experience nero Is calculated upon toback up President in caso of 1 row to ¬morrow

Bulger the doorkeeper who distinguishedhimself two years ago by picking up Robertsonand flinging him bodily a dozen foot awaywhen Robertson attempted to ontor tho Senatechamber was defeated by tho caucus

The Republican Senators have boon caucussing all the evening In tho State House Theyhave decided to stand by Robertson steadyand it IIs thought that they vvIII take posses-sion

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of the Senate Chambor during the nightseat Robertson in tho chair and keep himthere until the organization Tho Democrats

arrangements today to keep all Repub ¬except Senators out of the chamber by

the doorkeepers to admit no onorae on presentation of a ticket obtainedtho State Librarianlate hour tonight both Democratic and

Republican caucuses aro in cession devisingplans to checkmate each other tomorrowThe Democratic House caucus nominated forSpeaker Mason J Nlblack a young lawyer sonof the famous Judge Nlblack who has beon aleader of Democratic lights in the State forfifty years past

YOUOI Niblack had a hot fight for the placeIndianapolis Democratic leaders andwon by one voto on thesecond ballot

Tho old Judge who retired a few days agofrom the Supreme Bench Is about tho hotelstonight rejoicing In his sons victory Re-ferring

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to the closeness of the vote ho sayswith evident pride I want you to understandthis wasnt no damn unanimous thing

MI iriUS IS DEPRESSEDWe Dont Goyern Oumelvr nt nil and Ite

public Ate Failures no ThinkCity Chamberlain William IInns talked-totheNineteenthOenturyClublast night aboutOur Ruler the Politician He saidWe are deeelreil In cur bellofbA In our democracy

we are Hi governed history of republican Insti-tution 1ta record of the future of people to coTtrnthemselves In every democratic Oovernment therichest have come t control the strongest and bestoleo I have never seen an honest man

publlo life I have never seen a carefulstudent who believed that the people could Orthemselvea We ire ruled by politicians ofare the dupes Were the people not dupes they wouldnot be ruled by any boss of Tammany Halt any bons ofthe County Uemcncracy or of hew York titate anyDave or Mike or Tim

Tammany Hall represents one half of the city Demooracy and the County Democracy thy otherle twothirds of the electoral vote of the city Tammanyhail says through Its leader to the County DemocracyYon vote for our candidate for Mayor and well votefor yours for Sheriff Where does tho voice of the peo-ple come tn In this urrangemrnt t

The Lets John ion once offered John Rellly the nombatten forWhat fPsrII Mr Rellly artedAbout Tammany chief repliedfloat Rellly answeredBut said Mr Kelly you uncut remember that I

not only offer you a nomination but an electionSuppose a competent business mau takes office He-

BO sooner does so than he Is charged with every evilAbram S hewitt one of the ablest one of the broadestone of the most sterling men who ever heldI tmblfaoffice wits defeated because he did not agree withPaddy This and Paady That as whether Ithe greentar should be placed upon the City Hall or whether

having disallowedthat he ought lo have reviewed theItalian procession

ExGov George Hoadley responded vigor¬ously to Mr lying Thin being a Govern-ment

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by the people be said It U the duty ofevery citizen to bo a politician Thor are twoclasses of people with whom I hMO nosympathy One Is a minority which Is unwill-ing

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to tan its medicine and another Is thopeople who are either too dllntyor too ab ¬sorbed in the pursuit of wealh pol-iticians

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ThOMPSON LOST ON A FOUr

He Had Schiller Nearly TVulpped andThen Struck Rim VIeD He wit DownNABnvniiT Jan 9Tho most exciting

prize fight ever witnessed In this State occurredlate last night In a barn three miles west of thocity between Mervlne Thompson of Cleveland-and Bert Schiller Iwas for t500 a side Lon-don ¬prize ring It consisted of twentyeight rounds and both men woro terriblypunished The purso was awarded to Schilleron ii foul Thompson haying struck him whiledown About fifty persons wore presentThompsons woleht was 105 pounds und BchllerA wee 185-Thompson had practically the host of the

fight nil the way through catching Schilleraround the neck and pummelling him In thoribs and also striking hint over thl eye Inthe first round Kohlller landed right ouThompsons nose following quickly with hisleft on tbo cheek Thompson landed his rightwith terrible force on ono of Kchlllors OTORand as It closer first blood was clalmrd andallowed on With lila loft armaround Hdiillors nok lioldiuiT him as 11 nvice Thompson routed HcdKinninmor s-on bin niiponentH back anti In tho ehcrt ribs

XliompudnH logs Men covered w lih blrodwhich Illnwod fioiu HdiillorH nose anti mouthand n cut on the cheek Thompson too wasbleodloltreelY Hard blows wero given andlast Thompson struck Schillerwhile on his knees and lost the fight

The Centennial Commlaalon Iiiucue at-tbeLawyera Club

An informal meeting of tho Btntoa Comnlloners to the Contonnlcl Colebrntlon of-1Vs limtoni Inni icuiiiilon Viti litlil Iu use Ii

Iniovei ni iris JiOtlit I IIhn Ilty itnll yibtenlajAfterward they attended a luncliooii at theLawyers Club in tho Uqultable building I

Boyal flaktagPowderbolately Pure IFor twwityflTe years the standard Ada

COLES COMMITTEES NAMED

KBJT YORK DEMOCRATS GET MIGnTFEI4ND POOR PLACESMany otLetutTears Chairmen Reappointed

A Hill to Hop Gambling In conThe Senate Fill the Hopper of Pecula-tion

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with some Local SchemeALBANY Jon Speaker Cola announce

his committees this evening asonEpiscopal service of prayer for the Legislatureof tho State had boon read by a young curate-of Albany Tho exWicked Qibbs and MrCharles Silver Dollar Smith tho two Republi-cans

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from Now York who aro not approved byMr Crosby did not tare ell Mr Crosby wasmade Chairman of tho Committee on Citiesagain Col Hamilton Is second on the commit ¬too and Ham Fish Jr thi The Assembly-men ¬with ancestors out on top con ¬trary legislative custom Tho Committee onCities is I fairly righteous committee Thisis the committee that has to do with tho affairs-of New York city Its members are ErnestHoward Crosby of New York Cot Robert RayHamilton of New York Hamilton Fish Jr ofPutnam Andrus of Buffalo Frank BperFolgors old private secretary Bauer ¬roe Saunders of Ronesotaer Blumonthal ofNow York Hasan of Now York Hltt of Albanyand Conln of Queens Sperry it the only manfrom Brooklyn Tho County Democracy has norepresentative ou the committee U both Bin¬monthal and Hagantho New York members areTammany men llaganlu the man who hasjust supplanted Splnola as loader of the Sixteonth district Cronin is a friend of PresidentAustin CorbIn o tho Long Island RailroadMr CorbIn had Spoaker Cole put CronIn on thoCities Committee to neutralize the Influence oftho lion Patrick J Oloason Mayor of LonlIsland City Crosby Hamilton FishthaI and Unsnn are the ablest on tho com-mittee

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The Brooklyn Democrats have no rep-resentative

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Speaker Colo at first lotonde to put on thelargo committees Democrats toeight Republicans but Mr Sheehan and Sena-tor

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Cantor called on him this afternoon andremonstrated with him They Insisted that theDemocrats wore entitled to at least four mem-bers

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of the largo committees Tho Speakerpromised that ho would give them four Theygot four on the Cities Committee tho JudiciaryCommittee and one or two others but on theWays and Moans Committee there are onlythree Democrats and on the AppropriationCommittee there are only three

Whon tho list of the committees was read bytho Clerk Mr Sheehan rose to object to tim un ¬fair treatment of tho Democrat minority Inhaving less than a third of the members ofsome of the largo committees GeDBustedwas recognized first and moved to adjournMr Sheehan tried to protest but tho Speakerruled him out of order

Tho Chairmen of most of tho important com-mittees

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are as they were last year Tho BaldKaglx of Westchester perches at the head oltho Ways aotMeans Committee as ho does an-nually ¬tie Is not Speaker Gen Goo 8liatchellor of Saratoga bal the second place ontile committee as a pence ofTorlng to the menwho antehim aeChairmanof the Committeeon The Delaware and HudsonCanal Company had tho Chairman of theRailroad Committee last year and Itwould have been unfair to the other railroadsof tim Btato to hhvo the same corporationthe Chairmanship 0fenImportant committeeagain Mr Moses spiel Is the sole NowYork member of this committee Alnsworth ofOAWCCO Is again Chairman of the Appropria-tions

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Committee John ff f< New York Istho Now York member urn of Waynecounty Is again Chairman of Judiciary Roshof New York Is again the Now YorkNo New York Republicans are on any of thesethree committees Col Robert Ray Hlmlton of Now York Is ChairmanCommittee on General Laws He was Chair-man last year The oxWicked Olbbs Is thefilth man on this committee The committee-dons not amount to much The committee Inwhich Mr Olbbi takes greatest pride Is theCommittee on Charitable and Religious Soclotio4 Mrlibbsls tho third memberon thisend will to legislate for thewidens anti orphans of hIs district NouschaforiIs tho only Democratic Assemblyman front NewYork on tho General Laws Committee

Gallup of Onondaciv was made Chairman oftho Committee on Canals Senator Hendrleksof Onondaga and 0100 Warren of Buffalo satby Speaker Colons bedside last night andwrestled with him for tin chairmanship of thiscommittee Senator Hondrlcks wanted Gallupand Ojoo wanted Andrus of Buffalo Andrusof Buffalo got second place FxHenatorThomas J Creamer IB tho sole New York mem ¬her of this committee Old Capt Huntllncofthe eastern end of Long Island is Chairman ofthe ommittee on Commorco and NavigationMr Korrlsran Is the only New Yorg member

Mr Klmbull of St Lawrence who was Clnilrman of tbo Committee on ExciseI last year IsChairman of tho Committee on Railroadsj thisyear ExSenator 1 hoe J Creamer is the onlyNow York member of this Important commit ¬teo The New York least twomembers of this committee tho Brooklynstreet car roads one tho Long Island Rail-road

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ono tho Delaware anti Hudson a fractionof one anti the Rome Wntortown and Ogdous-Inirgh a small interest In one and the Eriemail provided for There are eleven members-of this committee nnd the people of this Statehave a smaller number than the Democrats-The Democrats havo three

Wblpple of Cattarauitus Indian In ¬vestigator Is Chairman of count onInsurance with James William Rusted secondand two Now York members The Committee-on Ranks has not ono Now York AssemblymanTho Chairman Is Rhodes of Wostehostorcounty Jon Newton Martin Curtis of fitLawrence county Is Chairman of the Committoo on Excise Kimball of St Lawronco countyis second Savory of Cayuga county third Car¬son Whlpplo Lewis Meslok Bush of Chomungand Young Sohoharlo are the other momhors Multnney and BtrasburR representNow York Mullany In from theand Strasburg Irom the Twentyeighth BothBro Tammany men though Btrasburce waselected as a County Democrat

It Is hard to find a New York Assemblyman-on the committee list untilI the minor commit-tees

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near tho end are reached Thomas SmithJr Htriisburg and Hoffman are on the Twothirds and Threnfifths hills Mari on Expen ¬ditures of the Houfto Dlnkolsploland Dry DollarbulllvanouExpendltuiecof theEvnciithit Department Connelly on IndianAlTalrritthere Mr exWicked Ghbslsalso putDully Mullany and Glbhslroof Aliens may have threeblllH In the course of the year Hayes Dlnkolspiel anti Kerrigan are on Trades and Manu-factures

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which seldom meets Mr CharlesSilver Dollar Smith Is on tho Manufacture ofSalt Speaker Cole repays Mr Smith for IonIlnnlsons majority In the Eighth district byputting him where bo will nave lent ofleisure

Horo Is tho committee list In fullWays and Moans Huctcd Wostehestor

Ratchellor Saratoga Enz Tompkins CheneyOnondaen McKenrlo fieneseo Loder Mon-roe

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Mo lck llorklinorMoflltt CIInton8heeImnYork Ere Bush

Chomuug Dlnkelsplel Now

Appropriation Alnsworth Oswegotroll Allegany Huglion Lewis Brown CtClark Livingston Carson Yates StevensFranklin Larmon Washington GreeneOrange Martin New York ONell Renssolaer

JutllciarySaxton Wuvnn Aineworth Os-wego

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Coon Oswego Whlpplp Cattarauguti-Acker Stouben Vita Uonler WyomingTowneErie ChaltnuqulOreonoOrlnrelhechan

General Lnw Hamilton Now York GallupIKings Nixon ChauOnolllllll Asplnwnl York McMaster Bteu

lion Dunlap Montgomery Mead DelawareMcCann Kings Guenther iirio NewschaferNow or-

kCluasGalup Onondaga Andrews ErieTeift Waihlnston Lo HoyAlbany Groat Wayne Llttlo Niagara BakerOnulda Creamer New lork Endros Eriellluncliflpld Klngu-

AllnirHoi CltluHfrnsliy NawYork Ilnmllton NeuVnrl HMi 1ulniun Andrews Eriefr orcy Klnts limiur Ionrof jtilW loJItonsHolaer liluimmlhul Now York HuganNBW York Hltt Allianv i fronln Queens

Commerce and Navigation Mantling Suf¬folk Youngman Albany Adams OrangeDlnohart Columbia Lane Jefferson Fluherty St Lawrence upson1 Onondaea Treadway Essex Molauuhlln Kings Kelly luauKefrlcunThVwYork

RallroadsKlmball St Lawrenco AdamsOrange Comstock Jofiorson niece DutebossYntos Bclnuioctmlv McAdll Oneida BakerKio lluUr OiHliin J JnI8 dreamerN pvr Ynik 1 iiMiidt I MKI-

OIIInMJimwttwwiKI t nUiraueiit Hurtedv-Vixttcbwitor Llinls bt LIUVJJ nco Smith Builiven Maynard MadlhouS Walters GreeneDecker Tloga KinjrNew York IU gertyKings Demarest Bookland ClarSe NewYork

Banks Rhodes Dela-ware

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1 lloody O WsstohestsrJ ea pofr r

Cortland l Fltts Cay Pearsall CbonaneoWest nn Kings Town-send Queens Dunham Seneca

Internal AlalrNlxon Chatitanqna Huntting Dante OtBego Hllolk Cayuga Lodor Monroe Mosto-kllerklmnr PearsallI Chenango GrahamKings Townsend Queens Btisli Ulster

ExciseMessrs Curtis Lawrence Him ¬ball St Lawrence Uavnry Cayuga CarsonJatcs Monlck Horklmer Bush ChomllYoung Bcboharie MullaneyBtransburg Now YorkI Whipple CattaraugusLewis BroomsAffairs of villages Messrs Cheney Ononda-ga

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Batchellar Saratoga Comstock JonersonHughes Lewis Dlnohart Columbia LarmonWashington Barton Warren TefJt Washing-ton

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Miller AlbanyI Hatwood Niagara RicoUlsterI

Roads and Bridges Moody Ontario AIDworth Oswego Clark LivingstonMonroe Davidson Ulster Motf ClnlonUoPeystor Dutch RBwood Niagara hush Ulster Cronin Queens

Public lrintingEnz Tompkin Alnsworth-Qswogo Gallup PutnamWalters Greene Teflt Washington Le IloyAlbany hutton Warrens Borsch Now YorkYoung Schoharie Yetman Richmond

Publlo Health Baker Erie Youngman Al-bany

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Rhodes Wostohestor Charles SmithNew York Mo Adam Oneida Lane JeffersonCarson Yatos Dliiehart Columbia lushYorkhomung Sullivan New York Uafner 10V

Ohntabl andLivingstonReligious Boolet9DQckarWest Cattaraugus Brownoll Fulton andHamilton Ackar Weubon SperryKings Moody Ontario Greene Or ¬anfleent Onolda Graham KingsPublic Education Coon Oitwogo SaxonWayno Carson Yatos leckCorlandDo-kc

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Tloga Le RoyOtsego Thomas Smith Jr New YorkYoung Scbonnrle Murray Wostehestor

Military Affairs Yates Schenectady CurtBt Lawrence Batchcller SaratogaOtiogo Savory Cayuga Hughes LewisBauer Monroe Larmon Washington KentOneida Sullivan Now York Clarke Now York

Claims Towne Cbautamiua YouncmanAlbany Lewis Broomo Comstock Jelloisoii-Donaldson Saratoga Cottroll AlloganyBaker Oneida Duulan Montgomery MoLaughlln Kings Blake Now York Blanck-flold Kings

Federal Relations Groat Wayne CheneyOnondaga Hunttlng Suffolk Crosby NowYork Edwards Orleans King Now YorkEnz TompkIns Loroy Albany Longleylungs Roesoli New York Ryan llonssolaer

Game LowsStevens Franklin DonaldsonSaratoga McKenzie Oenesee LoderMomooLittle Niagara Mollltt Clinton llnggertyKings Haves New York Miller Albany

btato PrisonsSrverv Cayuga bholilonMonro Marnard Madison Muso DutcheesOtf ogo Mend Delaware HornldsoNol York Dunham Seneca Hltt AlbanyCharitable InsttutonsllcholorSaratoga oda Crosby Do PeiBtor DutchOSH Groat Wayne Blumonthal Now YorkDunham Seneca Ml ley Kine-

s1rhlulellnd Elections AndnisErie SayKt Lawrence SmithSullivan Hunttlng Suffolk t Dlnohart Columbin Thomas Smith Jr Now York lnkolspiel New York Clarke New York

Civil Divisions Upson Onondaga BrownOtsego Acker Bteubon Edwards OrleansBrownell Fulton and hamilton Sauudors-Renssolaer toklal Kings Straaaburc NewYork Rico

Trndes nnd MnnllnturlDonaldon Sara-toga¬

DanteHIOUonOtsego Davldfnn Ulster MonroeLlttlo Niagara Hayes Now Yorl DlnkolsplelNow York Kerrigan New

Manufacture or laltln order WyomingChoney Albany AspIn Kings Sheldon Monroe CharleswilNew York Kelly Kings NowschafurNow York McCarren Kings

Public Lands Flaherty St Lawrence Ste-vens

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Franklin Walters Greene TreadwayE-HSOX JI A Smith Sullivan Comstock Jef-ferson

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Martin New York Hornldgo NewYork r McCarren Kings

Agriculture Cottroll Alelaoyll A SmithSulllvnn Do Peystor Mon-roe

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1earaiUI Chenango Lodor MonroeOVcll RonBselaor Rice Ulster UarwoodNilann Affairs West Cattaraugus Ed-wards

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Orleans Gibbs Now York GallopOnondaga Maynard Madison Lllte Nl-ngara IMoLaujhlln Rnl NowYork lamer New

Petition of Aliens Asplnall Rnl KimballSt Lawrence Fish Putnam Now YorkLeroy Albany FlIts Cayuga Duffy NowYork Mullaney Now York Hokaaf King

Twothird and Thrcoilfths BullsMoad-Delnware Enz Tompkins Edwards OrlelDDonaldson Saratoga Aspinwulllap Montgomery Thomas Smith Jr NewYork fatrassburg New York Hafner NewYork

EncrosRed Bills MiKenzlo Gonosao Nixonrimutannna Peck Cortland Baker BartonWarren Davidson Ulster lingua New YorkMiller Albany Murray Wostohcster

Grlonncusolrlll Chcnango Rhodes< Cattaiangiis DockerWebcheTowne Cbautauquu Bauer MonroeHayc New York Kent Oneida KerriganNw York

Expenditures or Inn House Carson lutesYates Schenectady Youngmau Albany Ad ¬ams Orange Andrus Erin liarton WurrenGuenther Erie Martin Now York RyanRenssolanr

Expenditures of the Executive DepartmentClark Livingston HamiltonMvnn rrhniitnnniiA Yitn unipr vornfniMeiuk Horklmor Sanudaro Ronssilaor-Dlnktdflplel New York Sullivan Now YorkMrCarron Kings

Revision Acker Stonbon Coon OswegoAeplnaall Kings Longloy Kings DemurestHock land

HulosHustor Westchetter Hamilton NowSheehan Erlo Blumon¬thai New York tho Speaker

Joint Library Dnnfap Montgomery CharlesSmith Now ioik Treidway Lssex McCuiinKings McLaugbiln IloulSubCommlttoos of WholePock Cortlend Flaherty Bt Lawrence Upnon Onondarn Fish Putnam HuizhoH Lewis WaltersIntone Groat Wayne Danto Oteogo PittsCayuga Troudway Essex Little NiagaraDavidson Ulster Sullivan New York KellyKings Blake Now York End res Erie

Assemblyman McCarren of Kings willcountIntroduce tho following billlog ItsobjoctlstosuppresscambllnglncolToo

HECTIOY I All ccmtrACta written or verbal for the eelGr transfer Cr any itlo Mntoi or other Orazlllan entice

be absolutely voltl unlem the inrlr conuaitbal to eel or tranafrr the same sieli nt the timeot malice such contract be In the actualpouoiion of said relIes or the bill of lading or invoiceor other evidence of title In said coflre ot bv other isoentitled in his own rIght or be duly aUlboiiZetl by ajme-perion sto entitled In hit own rlllit to sell or transfer thesaid toffee ao contracted for

SecT 2 All conlracti written or verbal for the paleand future delivery of any tile Santo or other Hrazlltoo coffee shall be absolutely void unUna the number ofbogs anti tile port wherein flald coffee li then held bementioned In the contract and the name of the vowelnoon which said coffee IU to arrive be given by the sellerto the piirchiier within thirty days after the executionof the contract

ftec J Alt wafers cnnrernlnc the price or pricesresent or future of any future Kk canton or other13rarlllan coffee shall be vuM-

Feotlons 1 and 5 make violations of the actmisdemeanors and punishable as euch Theact Is to take effect Immediately

The Senate sat for tbreoijuarlArs of an hourand received bills Senator Van Cott Intro-duced

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a bill adding to the registry list In NowYork City by requiring that In addition to thequestions at present asked euoh votermust givelila age whether or rtothe voted at the lasttion and where he voted from Senator OCon-nor Introduced a bill abolishing the presentPark Commission of Brooklyn which consists ofseven member anti replacing It by n commis-sion

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of ono Democrat and ono Republican HPpointed by the Mayor tacit to receive u salaryof 13000 u year kite Mayor Is to bo ox ofllcloa member the commission Senator OCon ¬nor had another bill amending the penal codeso that barbers butchers and bakers may sup ¬ply their customers on Sunday

Senator llussoll presented a bill abolishingthe offloo of State Agent for Discharged Con-victs

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This bill was offered last your SenatorMurphy offered his bill providing for the oroclon of a 1260000 gateway at the southeastentrance ol Central Park lit commemoration ot-ho Noldlors of Now York city who dlud Iu the

clvii warSenator Cantor Introduced n bill allowing

decorations to bo put un throughout the cityand over the streets at thin coming centennialcelebration Senator Laughlln had a bill tokeel the New York city mubournu and art galhones open on Sunday

Tho bill changing the arrangements for theelectors of the State which was passed the firstsitting of the Legislature was recalled andsome defects wore corrected The bill wasthen ret aesoti

the Assembly will sit dally from 11 A M tilli P M oiroiit on hundnv MAnday and fiaturlay OnMoudn > It vUllcononuatb15 P II

Cttmpanlul Singing with lie tumiinBOSTON Jan Campanlnl sang In Oar

men wltn Do Lussan in the Boston Theatreonlght Ills voice was In splendid conditionThe hou o was crowded and the popular tenorreceived an ovation on hU entrance and at thelosing scene

Featiier Workrr Threaten to HtrlkeMembers of the rca Iter Workers inion any

that thor will Le A Mrlko liii rjtornli in the factory oflanion I Green liloecker and Merter streets Twohundred hands will to out The firm refused to sign anagreement for this year Thus tar ssvtotesu ot the

onrd JMire slned the atreemeot-kvuccem Dray annonnoe that ihor are about to

uaflvj pen ulaa cpuatltM and p57 hlf ktr wage

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A anooKLTtr XIHVP THIUfAYDThe Railroad Ioetdent > to Meet Today t-

Act OB the Demands of the Men-The strained relations between the rations

surface railroads In Brooklyn and their em-ployees

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continue antI unless some concessionsare made today on ono side or the other ageneral tieup may result The fight againstthe companies is led by the employees ot theCity Railroad which controls twelve lines

The 2300 employees ol the company have al-most

i¬voted unanimously to reject the proposi-

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submitted by President Lewis and toInsist that their own should be accepted by thecompany There were only 37 men who fa-vored the acceptance of the companys terms

The Executive Committee of District Assem ¬bly No 75 which is empowered to act for themen will again confer with Mr Lewis todayTho committee will not It Is said make anyconcession A mooting of the directors of theCity Company is to be held today and If MrLewis Is unable to make an arrangement withthiS committee the controversy will be referredto thorn

President Richardson ot the Atlantis AvenueRailroad is also threatenedwitnn tieup unlessho gives in to the proposition of the men antthe Presidents of all the other roads are in asimilar state of apprehension

It was reported last night that before a strikeit ordered State hoard ol Arbitration Commis-sioner

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Donovan wilt be asked to use his effortsto smooth over the difficulties in the way ot asettlement

HUDSON COUNTY tlQUOR DEALERS

They Dont Like the lUll Which Assembly-man ONeill Re Prepared

The Hudson County Liquor Dealers Asso¬ciation mot yesterday in Jersey City to discussproposed legislation on the liquor Questionthis winter The association at Its last meet ¬ing adopted a bill embracing many of the Im ¬portant points In the present Republican lawIncluding a license too of 250 and sentit to the Assembly It was not satis-factory

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to many and Assemblyman ONollof tho First district ot Jersey City drewup another bill making tho license 250but allowing the dealers to keep their saloonsopen on Sunday all day except between thohours of 6 In the morning and 1 In the after ¬noon It provided a very severe punishment forLccplnc open tinting these hours

Title bill was road at the mooting of the as-sociation

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yesterday but it didnt suit the deal-ers

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Many of thorn wanted to close their sa-loons

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all day Sunday and others objected tothe high license A vote showed a largo ma¬jority against the bill and It was decided toforce the original bill prepared by the asboclu-tlona lawyers

The dealers are not unanimous for the ques-tion

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of the rooeal of the Republican law Thelarger dealers down town are satisfied to lot itstand They have more Influence and moremoney than the other dealers and It Is possi ¬ble that the law will not bo repealed If it isthe now law Is protty certain to contain manyof the features of the present law including ahigh liconso cluueo

urns xuoRFEs STORY OF IIOOBERY-8he Hays Two Men DrncRed tier Into a Ha

loon and Stole her DiamondJust before 11 oclock last night Policeman

Warner of Capt Relllys command found agoldenhaired young woman who wore a seal-skin

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ulster wandering along Seventh avenuenear Twentyfourth street in a partially dazedcondition She told the policeman that shewas Mrs Ellen Thorpe and that two men hadlust robbed her of her diamond earrings and adiamond brooch worth 3000 Warner tookthe woman to the Thirtieth street station housewhere she told Sergeant Lane that while walkIng in the street toward her home at 250 WestTwentythird street two young men one olwhom was lame got her to go into John Sackmans saloon in Seventh uvouuo fleer Twentyfourth street gave her some Urugged Hijuorand led her to their lodgings at 150 West Twe-utylourth Street where tney pulled the earringsfrom her ears toro away her brooch and lied

Pollcemau Warner found the womans busband in a lit of great excitement at his homeover her prolonged absence Ho said that hiswltahad the brooch and earrings when siteloft the house Capt Rollly discovered thattwo men tutu really been to the Seventh ave-nue

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saloon with the complainant and he alsodiscovered the identity of the men who are ac-cused

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of robbing her The jewels were boughtnot long ago at 23 Maiden lano

Union ofKnlKht or LaborBELEFONTE Pn Jan9 District Assem-

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229 Knights of Labor embodying assem-blies

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In Clinton Cloarflold and Centre countiesIn convention today discussed the proposedunion with District Assembly 151 composed ofBlair Huntingdon and Cambria countiesDistrict Assembly 227 has about 4500 momhors and 161 has about COOO The Conventionratifies tho union and It will likely be con-summated

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making u powerful district assem ¬bit

A Htrauger Death In the HtreetAn unknown man died suddenly last night

on the sidewalk corner of Second avenue andSecond street Ho was about 05 years old hadgray hair and board and was dressed In graystriped trousers darkcoatimd vest arid gaitersHis body was taken to the East Fifth streetpolice station and the Coroner was notified

Kilted by n South Brooklyn RotorTlllle Martin aged 25 years while on her

way from her home at the foot of Sixtyfifthstreet Brooklyn last night to church was ranover by a motor on Third avenue and Flltyseventh street anti killed The driver andconductor were arrested

Agncllo Partner Die ethic WoundAntonio Dl Napoll the Park row bootblack

who was cut in the neck by his partner Ulovannt-Amtcllo on Tuesday nlcht diet soon after be was takentn Ht vincent llonpltat Aguffllo was held withouttall at the Tombs Police Court yesterday

The Weather YelterdarAs indicated by Ponrn thermometer In THE

fun building1 3 A Jl 4I 8 A M 42 tf A >Ll8i 11-Jt iflI tiitO P JL 46 i 8 r >U 46 I II r M 4 i Umdntzhr 41 Average 4434 Average on Jan alobe ttdt°

Signal Office PredictionFor Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecti-

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eastern New York Mew Jersey clearing weathermuch colder high westerly winds dtmlnUhlni In forceThursday night

For the District Columbia Maryland Delawareeastern 1ennsylvanlo Vlrrlnla North CaroUna androuth Caroline fair much colder westerly wlnda di-minishing In loran

Fir western NBW York western Pennsylvania Indi-ana lower Michigan and Ohio clearing weather ex-cept along the tahoe contlnuedtllirht snows much cold-er high westerly winds dimlaUhlnf tore Thursdaynight

JOI2JhU8 ABOUT xotryJ-

uJire Patterson has granted an absoldte divorce U-Gurtnv Koch from Anna A Koch

The Board of Education appropriated 110000 yester-day

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to put the lire alarm telerraph wire In the schoolin the lectrio subway conduits

Dr timid C Ilamrquette wee fined tVMO In Specialteutons yesterday for practising medicine withoutbeing registered In the County Clerks office

The second annual Convention of the Church StudentsMlesionsryl Association wilt be held at the General Theological seminary In Chelsea square oa rlday and Saturday next

Albert Palleta 13 years old of M Rut 123d streetwan knocked down by a cable car In 133th street nearSloth avenue yesterday and sUchlly hurt The frlpmanwas arrested

The Olenham Hotel on Fifth avenue between TwentyIrnt and Twenlysecond streets has been sold underforeclosure proceedings by J Warren Ureene refereeto the executors of Hoben u Cutting the price patti was3Mt5o

The United Elites Menhaden Oil and Guano Assoclalon held us fourteenth annual meeting at the UnitedSties Hotel yesterday and resolved to do Just as littlefishing as uaulble before July 1 The onlcen of last yearwere reetected

Policeman Morris Cohen of the EMrldge street sullenwas made a prisoner on Tuesday night by Kluou MeyerMeyer fancied himself a policeman rotten wont withhim to the station where Meyer was luckedvp liewill be examined as 10 his sanity

Hamuel Fniltli SO years old of SIR Rail Eighteenthstreet while working yesterday on a seafTold suspendedfrom the Third avenue elevated railroad track at Sixeenlh street felt tn the street and was severely hurtUewasseut to llellevue ilosplut

Arthur ColwelL 33 years of axe a bartender fortRoberta at 810 Sixth avenue was found dead In bed yeaerdaf morning In his room over the saloon with thedoors and windows closed and the gas turned on fullIt is supposed that he ctmmilled suicide Ue war un-married

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Mary Attn Stanley sued the Manhattan and Vfttropoltan Klevated Hallroad companies In the superior Courtfr damages Ceased ty being deprived of light air andaccess by the elevated structure In front or her premfate at IJO snil i2 West Iiroadway Judge Frtedmanyesterday awarded licrUXH

The Slate Association ot School Cnmmluloners antiluperlntendenis discussed at the lui ura of Naturallutory yesterday the township and district school sratents Eilltor U W Bardeen of the Huliain publishedat Uyraeose was empowered to draft an outline abill to establish the township system In this State and to-abnlt the draft to the auociatlen to day

DIATfl i A TORNADO IIFrightful Lose of LIfo in Beading

and Pittsburgh

MORE THAN 100 PERSONS KILLED

Eastern Pennsylvania Swept by theStorm

A silk Mill In KoatUg Blown Down sadfrom Rtxtr t JElghtr ftro M itlyYoung Women Killed and Unity MoreInJarcdA Railroad Baop Ale Cn k4and Fired and Your Men Burned t Death

Meet of the Victim Still la the XnlM-AppalllBK BUaaUrla PlltburhBulU >tags Crushed by the Tornado The Of-xenpanta Bnrled In the Rains Mid Fifteento Twenty KllledKnny Other Bn ly-InJaredA Bnlldlnie flown Down In HUBbury and Your Men Killed Thorn

READING Jan 9At 515 P M today atornado terrific In Its velocity struck this cityfrom the southwest resulting In wreck andfire and loss of life never before equalled la-the citys history Not less than sixty personahave been killed outright and 100 InjuredHow this torrlblo calamity occurred Is aboutas follows

It was raining very hard all the morningToward noon It ceased almost entirely and by4 P M there was every Indication that therainstorm would soon cease Half an hourafterward the sun made every Effort to poretratn the clouds and the tints of a rainbowwore seen In the eastern sky portending abeautiful evening sunset There was a clearsky overhead This continued for half an hourlonger Then the scene changed with jj-

a suddenness that was appallluc The pfleecy clouds save way to the ominous isigns of the coming storm Dark heavy banksof cloulds marshalled themselves towardthe front and a gloom seemed to hnve settled tover the city There was a stillness u ofcoming danger The wind whistled roaredand toro in mad contusion Tlio storm cloudsgrew heavier still and louder roared the windIn the western sky the storm was seen ap¬proaching with a thundering noise Theswath It cut was narrow but its effect was t diterrible Persons residing along the track ofthe storm say that they saw the first signs ofdanger In a funnelshaped maelstrom whichseemed to gather up everything within iureach and cast it right and left Out In thecountry houses and barns wore unroofed farmoutbuildings overturned crops rooted up anddestruction spread in every direction

The track of this destructive tornado was t Inot more than 200 feet wide and it is luckythat it only touched the suburbs of the city Itcame from the west but passed along the inorthern border of Heading First it touched rthe ML Penn Stove Works Here the corner ofthe building was struck and a portion cf theroof was cut off as nicely as though done witha pair of scissors Then the storm cloud tour t

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vied across some fields took off a portion of theroof of J H Slernbercha rolling mill and a Inumber of dwellings were unroofed The tor-nado

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tracks Hero a passenger oar was standing tThis was overturned us neatly as though It WHS ta toy audits splinters scattered in every direc-tion

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Meanwhile ho rain poured down In tor-rents

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The atmosphere became heavy arid op-pressive

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and it was almost as dark as nightAlongside the tracks of the ralliond was the j4

paint shop of the Reading Railroad CompanyIt was a onestory building about GO by 160 jfeet in size Here about thirty men were em-ployed

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in painting passenger There wora 1jeight or nine of these cars In the buildingThey had boon built at the companys shops lathis city at a cost of 6000 each The build ¬ jlug wits struck square In the middle and thebricks scattered about as though they wereplaythings The cars wore turned topsyturvyand the men were burled under the dtlbrlsSome of the bricks were carried a square away IThe chamber of each of the passenger cars wasalready tilled with gas as they were ready tobe taken out on the road In a few days These rexploded one after another with the fearful 1bong of u cannon Band bang bond they re Isounded over the city causing the people torun out of their houses thinking that It wasthe sound of on earthquake There was a 4largo quantity of gasoline In the building andthis added fuel to the flames A sheath offlame shot heavenward with the roar of mus-ketry

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to crawl out of the dabris but four of their r Itlcompanions wore enveloped In the embrace ofthe flames Their cries wore beard for a mo-ment

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by the terrified workmen anti then their tvoices were hushed forever They were quick-ly

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roasted to death and the fire from the ulnapassenger cars lit up the heavens for nilesaround It wee a beautiful sigh and could havebeen enjoyed but for the awful calamity which ffbrought it about In the meantime the lire jDepartment was called out but its serviceswere unavailing The building and cars wore 4consumed In fifteen minutes and nothing was I Ileft but blackened smoking ruins under which olay four human beings burned to a crisp Theirnames are John Fabler Albert Landberger iSheridan Jones and George Schaeffer It was 4rumored that several others had been killedbut these are the only ones who It is knownhave lost their lives Aaron BewaIl anotheremployee in the paint shop had his arm broken janti George Knabb was Injured internally no It idoubt fatally The loss to the railroad companyis fully J75000

Whllo this was going on the storm was tray ¬ °elliot forward with frightful rapidity It must Ihave travelled at the rate of one hundred milesan hour It struck some more private housesand unroofed a dozen residences The hutsshoots ot tin were carried halt a square awayand deposited In a lot Directly in the path ot t t lthe tornado at the corner of Twelfth and Mart ¬on streets stood the Reading silk mill ooe ofthe Industries of the city In which the citizenslook the greatest pride Here about 175iiappy girls wore working The buildingwas a large structure most substantially built tour stories in height antibad a basement besides It occupied anentire block of ground The building Itself wasnearly 3UO feet In length and about ISO feetwide It was surmounted by a massive towertully 100 feet from the ground The funnel tshaped storm cloud struck the building direct-ly in the centre on its broadest side whlca Iflaced the west It fell to plecen as though com-posed

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ot 10 many building blocks Nearly 200human beings went down In the awful wreck jHuman tongue can never tell tile teirlbloscenes of that hour Th wallet gave win theloom fell down one on top of tho otherand carried their gratmim of human hungto the bottom The bricks were iriled ufIn the greatest confusion while amid the hur-ricane

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nrrlble cries for succor were sent HPtoleaven Almost simultaneously with the fallftie ullldlng came tbe awful orlas for relief

3Iris with blaolcened facet bruised and brokenlimb tnelrolothlng tattered and torn dragged

ihemsefves from the ruins Probably 76 to100 escaped or were dragged out by theirfriends These ot course worked on the upperloom and were thrown near tbe top of thinddbrls At some places the bricks were piled t fjtwenty teal deep and underneath are lyingtonight human bodies by thin score About250glrls and young women are usually em-ploted In the mill but at 4 oalvca bout eightywere relieved from duty for the slay They returned to their homo before the storm cameThe most trustworthy estimate of tonight

places the number in the bulldii jcaitvc-

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