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Fitzsimmons Says It Will Not Affect ‘
His Fight With Corbett.
THE CHAMPIONS’ GGME’IENT.
If the Match Should Be Delayed, He Will
Wait For Fitz, and if Any One Elsi; -
Bobs Up, He “fill [Fight 'Him on
Time and Afterward Meet Fitz.
SYRACUSE, Nov. 19.——The funeral of-
Con Riordan was held at 8:30 yesterday
morning at the undertakers’ rooms. just
previous to the departure of the Fitzslm? '
mons troupe for the cast. Simply a prayer
was offered by a Protestant clergyman.
Fitzsimmons, who has been released on .
$10,000 bail, bears all of the funeral ex;
penses. A dispatch was received-by Fitz-
simmons from Richard Riordan of San
Francisco, a brother of Con, asking
that the body he sent to that city. ‘ The
expense would be $400, and a reply was
sent in return to that effect. In the‘mean-
time the body has been placed in a vault.
Fitzsimmons. before leaving the city,
said to your representative: "I feel that
at this moment I would not care if I never
put on a glove again: Mind you. I do not
say that what I did had anything to do
with poor Riordan‘s death. for I know
it had not. At the same time this affair
will have nothing to do with my meeting
Corbett. I shall meet him if I’m alive.
It is absurd to think that I would have
hit Con to hurt him. He was my spar-
ring partner. ’ I paid him a salary to
spar with me, and if I hit him hard he
would not go on with me. Before we went
on for our set Riordan said to me: ‘90
easy a bit tonight. Bob. I‘m not feeling
well.’ ,
“All there was of it is we got together,
and after a bit I touched him with my
left on the chest and face, and’I intended
that he should counter and mix things 11p
alittle. He led out with his right and
left, and I stepped back. As he did not
land, his effort seemed to jar him. Then
We came together again, and he asked
Captain Glori to call time, and I saw that
he was shaky, and pretty sd'cn he settled
down upon his knees and put his ,hands
behind him upon the stage and laid down. ,
I asked him what was the matter, and he
looked up and smiled and settled down
again, and he looked up and smiled a sec-
ond time. Then I tried to pick him up,
and some one helped me, and I fell over
Riordan. They helped him cif the stage,
and I went on with Dunfeo.
“I see that the newspapers say that
Riordan was not conscious after he fell on
the stage. This is not so. He was assisted
to a chair in the wings andsaid to one of
the attendants that be guessed he was no
good for this business any more.
“One of the men said a little later to
take off his gloves. and Riordan said; “No.
I’ve got to go on for another round.’ It
was all over in 30 seconds, and I‘shail
never think that I am in any way re- z
sponsible for Biordan’s death. I would
do anything in my power to bring" the
poor fellow back. His is a case of too
much liquor. Only the other day he re-
ceived from Billy Madden of Bufialo a
letter in which the letter said that Jim
Daly of Buffalo, Corbett’s old sparring
partner, had retired from the ring for—
ever. knocked out by drink, and that he
had heard that he was drinking very hard
and asked him to take warning by Daly’s
fate. We will give poor Gen 3. good fu-
neral and do all we can to show that we
feel his death deeply.”
Corbett on the Tragedy.
DECATUR, Ills.,' Nov. Ill—James J.
Corbett was seen in his room at the hotel
here. When asked for his opinion about
the death of Riordan, Fitzsimmons’ part-
ner, he said: _
“I was 3 Try to hear of the accident,
because such occurrences hurt boxing. It
makes it look as if the sport really was
Adangerous and brutal, when it is not at
all.
WOJIIEN IN SOCIETY
u-often need the strengthening sup-
ort of a general tonic and nervine.
hey’re tired out or “run-down.”
This is frequently the result of
“weakness,” and it makes life mis-
erable.
Are you weak, nervous, or ailing ?
Then Dr. PierCe’s Favorite Prescrip-
tion brings you special help. It’s a
remedy prescribed for delicate wo-
men, for all the derangements, dis-
orders, and diseases of the sex.
For regulating and promoting all
the to or functions, building up
and mVIgorating the entire system,
and restoring health and strength,
this is the only remedy that can be
guaranteed to benefit or cure, or the
money will‘bc refunded.
For every case of Catarrh which
they cannot cure, the proprietors of
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy agree
to ay $500 in cash. You’re cured
by 11,5. mild, soothing, cleansing, and
healing properties, or you’re paid.
{probably pull off the contest.
‘llOO to $l0.000.00£).
whether the amount would reach $14.3
Forcolds and Coughs
RECEIVED
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V “I knew iiiorden in Sun 14 r'uncrsco, and
-Iknew he was vccal: from d‘seasc. H!
was in no cur dlxion to go in such an ex-
hibition. if he had run 100 yards, it
might have killed him. He was Without
life from hard drinking, and so when he
got a little tap on the jaw he was knocked
senseless and never came to. But if he
had been sober it would have made no
difference. The only thing I would blame
Fitzsimmons for would be for taking such
a man to box with. A man like Fitzsim-
mons does not think how much better a
man he is than his partner, and he gives
it to his partner too hard—harder than he
can stand. But that did not have any-
thing to do with this accident. I know it
was because Riordan was unfit to do that
kind of work. It has been the same with
these boys who have been killed in the
boxing exhibitions. I have known of oth-
er ca‘ses like this. A man gets a little
tap on the jaw, and it knocks him sense-
less. He never comes out of it because he
‘has not life enough to get over anything.
“If this accident to Fitzsimmous do-
lays our match, I will'wait for him just
as long as necessary and then give him a
fight. Or if anyone else steps in in the
mounting I am ready to meet him. then
meet Fitzsimmons afterward. I am sorry
for Riordag and sorry for Fitzsimmons
that he has got into trouble, but as I said,
it will be of no consequence and won’t in-
terfere with our match.”
The Feeling In New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. ISL—Local sport
ing peop'e do not think that the killing
of Con Riordan will have any effect on
the Corbetth‘itzsimmons fight, which
they generally believe will be fought here.
The state legislature does not meet for
nearly two years, and there is no strong
public sentiment against fighting in New
Orleans. The fact of the death of Rior-
dan, while regretted among Fitzsimmons‘
friends and the public, will have no effect
on the local clubs, the officials of which
said today that their fights would take
place as announced, and that they could
In poms
Quarters the opinion is expressed that the
tragedy will have an effect on Fitzsim-
mons’ confidence in himself.
THE NEVV BONDS.
“’ithdrawals of Gold From the Treasury
\Vith ‘ileicl: to Buy Them.
\‘VASHINGTON, Nov. Iii—An official of
the treasury department said yesterday
that the amount of gold withdrawn from
the reasury by subscribers to the new
bond issue will probably be from $8,000.-
He doubted greatly
1100,0120, the figure named in reports sent
out yesterday, and is inclined to the be-
lief that the New York bankers would
make an effort to subscribe for the full
$50,000,000 without calling for much of
the government gold.
Saturday’s withdrawals of gold from
the snbtreasury in New York presumably
to be used in the purchase of bonds
amounted to $427,000 as against $975, 000
withdrawn the previous day. The total
amount of gold withdrawn from tho sev-
eral subtreasuries since the bond call is
$2,058,025.
A 'Kansas Protest.
TOPEKA. Nov. ISL—Lieutenant Govern-
or Percy Daniels issued a circular, which
be has sent broadcast over the state, call-
lng upon the citizens of every school dis-
trict to hold meetings on Saturday even-
ing, Nov. 24, to protest against the pro-
posed issue of government bonds by the
secretary of the treasury. With the circu-
lar, which argues against the necessity for
the proposed issue, is a resolution, which
the meetings are called upon to consider
and act upon. _
This resolution protests against the is-
sue of any bonds for any purpose and calls
upon the Kansas members of congress to
make an effort to pass an not providing
that the principal and interest of all bonds
issued after Jan. 1, 1895, shall be paid
from the proceeds of a tax levied upon the
property and estates of millionaires.
Johnson’s Great Riding.
LOUISVILLE. Nov. 19.—-Over the new
asphalt track at Fountain Ferry course
John S. Johnson yesterday broke the five,
four, three and two miles standing start
wheel records and the two flying start ree-
ords. He made the five miles in 10 min-
utes 22 3-5 seconds, the four miles in 8:15
3-5, the three miles in 6:19 and the two
miles in 4:01. He made the flying start two
miles in 4:02 4-5. The flying and stand.
ing two mile records were formerlyheld
by Harry G. Tyler. All the ogher records
broken were Johnson’s own.
Used Their Axes.
TRENTOX; Ky, Nov. 19.—Two wood
choppersgfought abloody duel here yester.
day, using axes as weapons. The arm and
shoulder of one man was completely sev-
ered from his body. The other man was
badly hurt.
Pennsy Still \Vinning.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.——The football
game betwoen Pennsylvania and Cornell
- was won by Pennsylvania by a score of e
to 0. '
An Fuginecr Killed.
MASSILLON, 0., Nov. 10,—1n a. railroad
collision here yesterday Engineer Rosen-
butq of Lorain was instantly killed.
THECORPSEWASBOGUS
_‘_.—_
But It Buncoed an Insurance Com-
pany Out of $10,000 In Cash.
THE WORK OF SMART ROGUES.
A Clever Swindling Scheme That Was Con-
cocted and Carried Out With Consum-
mate Skill—One of the Rascals
Caught by the Pinkertons.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.-By the arrest
of H. H. Holmes, alias Howard. in Boston
yesterday a gigantic swindling scheme
has been unearthed by detectives of the
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance associa-
tion of this city. On Sept. 30 last the
corpse of a man was found at 1316 Cal-
lowhill street, this city. and was buried
by the coroner under the name of B. F.
Pitzel. Now it appears that the corpse
was a bogus one substituted for the pur-
pose of defrauding the insurance company
of $10,000. B. F. Pitzel rented the house
on Callowhill street during the summer
under the name of B. F. Per and while
there conducted a patent me icine busi-
ness. The last Week in August he disap-
peared. and on Sept. 3 a man with whom
he had had business relations went to the
house and found Perry dead on the floor.
Death was attributed to the explosion of
a jar of cleaning fluid. On the body was
found a small sum of money and two let~
ters dated St. Louis, evidently from the
man’s wife, in which she signified her in-
tention of coming to Philadelphia. The
body lay in the morgue for 11 days with-
out identification, after having been to
all appearances dead for four or five days
before the original discovery. The coron-
er’s jury called it a death from burns ac-
cidentally received.
Presenting the Claim.
After the body had been buried in the
potter’s field. a communication was re-
ceived by the Fidelity Mutual Life asso-
ciation dated St. Louis and signed by an
attorney of that city, J. D. Howe. It
stated that he had seen the death notice
in Philadelphia newspapers, and that he
represented the dead. man’s widow. The
letter further stated that the real name
of the deceased was B. F. Pitzel, a benefi-
ciary of the company, the name qf Perry
having been assumed on account or finan-
cial difficulties in Tennessee. The attor’
ney’s request for blanks to make the usu-
al claim was refused by the company,
but it sent to the general manager in Chi-
cago. where the policy had been issued, for
a description of the man who took it out.
The policy had been issued through the
agency of a reputable business man, but
when he was questioned he referred the
inquirer to H. H. Holmes, who had had a
desk in the same building with the de-
ceased in Chicago during the World’s fair.
The general manager could not locate
Holmes at first, but found his wife and
by her was told that her husband was a
traveling man. and she would communi-
cate with him. The manager left her a
clipping referring to a body found in Chi-
cago, and a few days later the officers re-
ceivod a letter from Holmes offering to
come to Chicago if his expenses Were paid.
The next day, however, Holmes wrote to
the Philadelphia ofiice, stating that he
had learned that the death was in Phila-
delphia. and that as he expected to be in
Baltimore soon he would stop in Phila-
dolphin.
They Get the liIoney.
Meanwhile Attorney Howe appeared in
Philadelphia, accompanied by a young
girl, whom he represented as the daughter
eftho dead man._ He also produced a let—
tor of introduction to Superintendent of
Police Linden from a former assistant
district aitorncy of St. Louis, and Super-
intendent Linden sent him to President
Fons of the insurance company. Holmes
came to hand about the same time. and,
though ewamined separately and denying
acquaintance witlreach other, both men
gave a corresponding description of the
dead man.
It was then decided to exhume the
body, which was done by officials of the
coroner. The officials of the company
werc‘satlsfled, and the body was reburied,
and Attorney Howe received the $10,000
representing the sum due Mrs. Pitzel.
The insurance company never doubted
the truth of the identification, although
they had a belief that the case was one of
murder rather than accident. A month
ago, however, one of the company’s
agents, while in St. Louis, became cog-
nizant of some of the facts, and he formu-
lated the theory of conspiracy. " Working
on slight clews, he discovered that Holmes
and Howe, who in Philadelphia had de-
nied knowledge of each other, had been
related in the character of lawyer and
client in a case where Holmes had been
arrested under the name of H. M. Howard
for obtaining goods by false pretenses.
Then it was found that Holmes and Pit-
zel'had been in business in Chicago dur-
ing the World’s fair, when they conducted
a hotel with secret rooms, in which they
hid goods obtained by swindling mer-
chants. The place was called the World’s
Fair hotel and stood at 701 Sixty-third
street, while they assumed the names at
Campbell, Yates & Co.
The Fraud Unearthed.
While here Pitzel took out a policy with
the Fidelity company, and Holmes fol-
lowed his example a month later, both
giving notes for the first payment.
Additional detectives were put on the
case, and Holmes was chased all over the
country. The mother of the supposed dead
man was found, and from minute descrip-
tions of her son it at once appeared that
the corpse found was not .his. In the
meantime it was'discovered that Holmes'
real name was Herman Mudget and his
home New Hampshire. His aliases wore
legion. He is known in New York, Chi-
cago, Fort Worth, St. Louis and almost
every other big city.
Then it Was learned that Pitzel and
Holmes obtained by some means or other
a corpse from the New York hospital,
brought it here, surrounded it by the
evidences of a violent'death in the Gallow-
hill street house and obtained the $10,000
as above described. ‘
Holmes was arrested in a west end
boarding house in Boston by Pinkerton
detectives, who are now after the atlas:
consolrator. Pitzel.
“insure
Against
Sickness
Take Out
A Policy in _
Sanford’s (linger
And Laugh at"
Summer Ills
And Epidemic;
Influences ,5
Containing among its ingredients the ur-
est of medicinal French brandy and the est
of im orted ginger, it is :vastly superior to
the 0 cap, worthless, and often dangerous
gingers urged as substitutes: '
Ask for SANFORDS GINGER end look
for owl trade—mark on the wrappzr. Sold
everywhere. ‘ ~ ,
POTTER Dune a: (1mm. Conn, Boston.
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LUNG I
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Will quickly cure Diphtheria, Quinsy, oughs,
Colds, and Sore Throat. All druggists sell it.
[Perry Davis do Son, Providence, R. L,
4 rear: Sole Manufactures and Proprietors.
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Stdrer ‘to Lead th'e Fight.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-—Bepre§entative
Bellamy Storer will, lead the fight in the
house against the'policy of the adminis-
tration in regard to the China-Japan war,
and he has already drawn up a resolution
which he will introduce as soon as con-
gress meets calling upon the state depart-
ment for information as to the authority
under which it proposes to act as media-
tor between the warring governments.
Starvation In Nebraska.
OMAHA, Nov. 19.'—-The secretary ofnthe
Nebraska relief commission has issued an
appeal for the Omaha: people for aid for
Nebraska drought sufferers. The report
declares that in the counties of Boyd,
Custer, Lincoln, Chase, Hitchcock, Frans
tier, Sherman and others great destitu-
tion prevails, and in some instances starv-
ation is prevented with difficulty.
A Threatened Lynching.
KANSAS CITY, * Nov. 19.'—Two more
houses were burglarized in West Atohison
last night, and the police arrested George
Smith, colored; who had some of the plun-
der on him. Smith was identified by Miss
Cain as the man who choked her Friday
morning and attacked Mrs. Cain, who
was sick in bed. A mob is threatening
to lynch Smith.
E2311 From a. Train.
MANSFIELD. 0., Nov. 1.9.—-The dead
body of Broker Jeremiah Sullivan was
found just east of Shelby yesterday. Mr.
Sullivan, accompanied by his wife, left
Chicago via the B. and 0. road. He left
his wife near Chicago Junction to go to
the smoker, after which nothing was
heard of him until his dead body was ~
found.
A Double Tragedy.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Nov. 19,—Last
night at Magdalena, south of this city.
E. D. Horn of the mercantile firm of
Horn, Reiton & Graves, and Scott Reid, a
cowboy, got in a quarrel and began shoot‘
ing at each other. Reid was killed in-
stantly, and Horn died in half an 'hour.
Mayor Matthews Accepts.
BOSTON, Nov. 19.—Ma’yor Matthewa
has zicceptcd the presidency of the Bay
State company of Delaware. which con-
trols the Boston, Roxbury, Dorcester, Bay
State of Massachisetts and Bay State of
N ow Jersey gas companies.
Breckinridge to Lecture.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 10.—It has just
leaked out that Colonel W. C. P. Brock
inridge will go on the lecture platform.
No details can be learned other than that
he will be under the management of C.
D.'I~lcss.
Z'Icrbcrt- to Participate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 39.—-Secretary Her-
bert has‘leit for Alabama to remain a
week. He will participate in the presen-
tation of a silver service to the United
States steamer Montgomery at Mobile.
Cheated the Gallows.
HUNTSVILLE, Tern, Nov. 19.—-.—I’.oason
Forbush, the negro murderer so badly
wounded in an attempt to escape from
jail, has died of his wounds. He was ts
have been hanged Wednesday.
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Knickerbocker suitings at 12:} cents.
Illuminated diagonals at 15 cents.
Colored caahmeres at 19 cents
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All wool mixtures at do Cents.
‘ Silk and wool mixtures at 39 cents.
hill: and wool suiiings at 50 cents.
54-inch chevio.‘ mixtures 28 59 cents
Rough novelty squid-gs at 75 cents
One dollar cashmeres at 75 0. his.
Silk mixed novelties at 3!.
All wool cheviot novelty at 351.
French rough novelty at SLZ-S
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We cannot say too plainly for the public good what is going on here in
Dress goods just now.
The prices on the newest and
son have been out into the very marrow.
most fashionable Dress Goods of the sea-
Storm Suitings, 60 inches wide, $1.75 and $2.00. Finest show-
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Fancy Silks
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Velvets ,
30 inch Velour du Nord for ladies’ capes.
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