l H .1 : .4- ' ”on, 4-;"1 Hills 1118 CHILDREN. Demoniacal Conduct of a Drink Fren- zied New York Paints ‘. HE USED A HEAVY CLEAVER. Sat on the Boys’ Legs and Brutally Chop- ped at Them In Turn—Barry’s Wife Is Now Laid Up as a Result cf His Ban-barons Treatment. NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—-William J. Barry, drunkard and wife beater, put a climax so shuddering to his malignant career today that the like is not found in the annals of the police. Barry is a painter. When he drinks, he is at once a fiend and a loafer. His home was on the third floor of the tenement 765 Columbus avenue. Three weeks ago, when in one of his fits of drunken rage, he knocked his wife from a chair and broke or so injured her back that she lies, a hopeless invalid, in the hospital on Randal-1’s island. Within the week he drove the oldest of the boys into the streets. Barry’s maltreatment of his wife was no new thing. It had gone on until, sick and weak, she was hardly able to offer a protest against his violence. Eight times in 14 years she had complained to the p‘blice, fearing that he would kill her, and as many times he had been sent to the island. He used to tell her with a. laugh that he liked the island, whereupon, to show that he meant it, he would pull her around by the hair and beat her until the tenement came to expect, as a foregone conclusion, that some day it would end in murder. And the woman bore it, remembering that she was a mother. While the blows fell upon her bruised body, at least the children were spared. There were three of them—William, 14; John, 10, and Arthur, '2‘. None of them' knew how badly their mother was hurt the night Barry threw her from the chair and kicked her on the floor until they came home to find her gone. That day an operation was to be per- formed upon her, but without hope of re- storing her to health. Yet no charge was made against the painter. Barry’s Only Friend. A single friend the painter had in the house, Michael Flood. He was of the same trade and lived directly under the Barry flat. After Mrs. Barry had gone to the hospital his wife tried to do for the chil- dren what she could, but to little purpose. William, the oldest, was driven out of the house by his father, and for two weeks crouched in an outhouso in the yard in terror of his life. To flee the neighborhood would have been safest, but the boy hung around the house on the lookout for a chance to get the other children away. 'He actually did get little Arthur out and down into the shed once, where he defied the enraged father behind the locked door. A few days ago he stopped drinking and became, if anything, more violent than ever. The madness of delirium was coming on. The-two little boys were yet in the house, in his power, defenseless. Early this morning no one in the tene- ment shut an eye for the goings on in the Barry flat. Children’s cries mingled with the angry roar of the maddened man. By and by he roared alone. The tenants who listened in the hall heard only an occa- sional sob from the little ones, between blows and oaths. At the end of an hour Mrs. Flood couldstand it no longer. “Mike,” she commanded her husband, “go up and see what he is doing to the kids. Go, I tell you!” ‘ Flood wont I'eliictant‘v~ He came back scared and said that Baggy sat on the bed and talked wildly. His wife ordered him to go out and got a policeman at once. He Went. Down in the street he met Pa- trolman Morrison and told him. Mor- rison got the policeman on the beat, whose name is Reed, but when they questioned Flood as to what the man was doing that called for interference his courage gave out. Was he abusing the children? Oh, no! Barry was a good family man and hardworking. . He had nothing to say against him. So the policeman told him to go up and watch and to call him if anything was wrong. ' They would hang around. And Flood went, only to come back, sent by his indignant wife to bring in the police. A Ghastly Sight. Flood went ahead and opened the door. Barry met him on the threshold with a meat cleaver in his hand. Its blade and jagged edge were smeared with blood. There was a maniacal glare in his eyes. ' “See what I had to do to them,” he said and pointed to little Johnny. The child stood against the wall,.with head and face hacked by the cleaver and his little hands out where he had caught it trying to stop the blows. The blood ran over his face and clothes. He sobbed si- lently, too frightened to cry out. Flood ran out in the hall, horror strick- en, and shouted for help. In an instant the policemen were in the room and had the nippers on the madman. In the front room‘ they found Arthur, the youngest, crouching in terror of his life, hacked liked his brother and bathed in blood. Their father, they said, had awakened them, sitting on their bed with the cleaver in his hand. He saton their legs to prevent them from rising and hacked first one, then the other. As they cried out in terror and pain he threatened to kill them on the spot if they uttered another sound. And for every sob that escaped them he cut them afresh. . They had to break down the door of the shed in which Willie, the eldest, was bar- ricaded in the yard. He would not believe they were friends come to protect him. The boys were taken to the Manhattan hospital and are reported to be very low. The skulls of both children are fractured. Johnny, the oldest, is in danger of his life. Little Artie may recover more eas- ily, but both will bear the scars of the cleaver as long as they live. Barry was locked up in the West One Hundredth Street station. He went to sleep in his cell forthwith. Ingersoll. PITTSBURG, ' Nov. 8.—Colonel Robert G. Ingcrsoll admits that he is still pagan Bob. A telegram was shown him which said 15 years ago Ingersoll had remarked that when Kentucky went Republican he would believe there was a hell. Ingersoll wrote this answer: “This is idiocy Ken- tucky going Republican tends to prove that hell does not exist.” ‘ Cold Steel Wins Again. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8.——The Liverpool Stewards’ cup was won by Sir R. Waldle Griffith’s Cold Steel. This was a handicap race for 3-year-olds and upward for a trophy of 400 sovereigns, the second to re- ceive 40 sovereigns; six furlongs. Advertise in tbOZGAlr ta. 1‘: . A, , wig. Eu 1. r l lheresallaurhn, ills Eamon this", _ ~ Says llse tr. Shane’s Nauru. There are few more beauliful women or popular singers than Miss Theresa Naughn, whose refined and exquisite singing In the burlesque, “1492.” will long be remembered in every com— munity. 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The other victim was a niece of the father, the daughter of a brother whom he buried last Sunday in Holy Cross cem- story. In many respects it is one of the saddest stories ever told about a fire. To read at first that all died of suflocation would lead to the belief that they had suffered no pain; that they had died while asleep. Instead, however, all the evidence, par- ticularly the position of the bodies when found, proves, beyond a doubt, that they were fully aware of the fate in store for them; that they were aroused from slum- ber with death staring them in the face; that they tried to save themselves and sank before they had time to do so. This is the roll of the dead: Charles Ryan, liquor dealer, 45 years old. Ellen Ryan, his wife, 40 years old. Sarah Ryan, his eldest daughter, 18 years old. Maggie Ryan, another daughter, 14 years old. ' Elizabeth Ryan, the youngest daughter, 11 years old. Hannah Ryan, aniece of Charles Ryan, 9 years old. Where the Fire Occurred. Ryan was well known in the liquor business. Until two years ago he rana liquor store at the corner of Union and. Van Brunt streets. Then he moved down to 300 Van Brunt street, but gave up the latter place in August last to open a sa- loon at the northwest corner of Van Brunt street. so he took apartments diagonally opposite on the third floor for himself and family. It Was in the latter place that the fire broke on .. It is an odd looking building. On the ground ficOr is a saloon, conducted by Michael Finnegan and his brother. The floor overhead was occupied by Mrs. Mar- garet Welch and her four children. The next floor above was vacant, while on the top floor lived Ryan and his family. There is no entrance to the tenement on Van Brunt street. On the King street side, however, is a doorway. and a stair- case in front connects with the saloon, then goes up a story and winds half way around to the rear. Some time ago some of the tenants ob- jected to being obliged to enter from the saloon side. So, to accommodate them, a little wooden staircase was built as an ex- tension on the King street side. It goes up- two stories and then leads into the hallway proper through a window that has been enlarged to the size ‘of a door. Right here and in the cellar was where the trouble began. - How the Fire Started. The boys in the vicinity built a big bonfire in front of the house where Ryan lived. The police put it out; but, nothing donated, the boys started another bonfire last night. It was blazing away merrily .when the police of the Hamilton Avenue station ar- -rlved and kicked it about the street. Among the people who had the run of the cellar was a Norwegian who has since disappeared, and whose name the police do not know. He is inclined to be thrifty, so when he saw the waste of wood, barrels and other materials for fuel in the street after the police had kicked them about he proceeded to gather them up. 'He carried them all carefully into the cellar and stor- ed them away. That was about 9 o’clock last night. The police believe that half of the lum- bar was still smoldering when he carried it into the cellar, but he did not know it. It must have ignited the boardwork of the cellar when, at 12:40 o’clock, Ryan closed his saloon and started for his apart- ments. ‘ Ryan, it is said, had been drinking rather freely, and he was tired and worn out when he sought his home. When he got there, the woodwork underneath the staircase in the collar was in flames, and the (draft caused by his opening the door simply fanned the fire, but he did not know it. He made his way up the stairs, rickety at that, to the top floor of the tenement. lie entered the kitchen, and finding all the members of his family asleep stole into the little dark bedroom between the kitchen and his wife’s room. A 'window looks out on the landing, and he opened it to get some air. That was the only thing needed to send the flames roaring through the house. Ryan threw himself on a lounge, with the window open over his head and the doors leading to the other room standing 3 ar. 3 , The Awakening to Death. He could not have been lying on the lounge more than ten minutes when the flames had seized the staircase below, and in almost less time than it takes to tell it had jumped clear up to the top floor. It was only the staircase, hOWever, but it sent ahead of the flame a volume of smoke that filled every nook and» crevice in the tenement. , Mrs. Ryan must have been awakened by a sense of suffocation and have made a jump from the bed in an effort to escape. Right beside the bed stood a clothes. horse, used for drying handkerchiefs, socks and other articles that had been washed. In her terror Mrs. Ryan forgot all about it. She had, just time to make one spring and get her feet entangled in the clothes on the horse. Then she sank down unconscious. The eldest daughter, who slept with the mother, had been awakened, probably by her mother’s cry, and tried to get out of bed. She, too, was overwine. Ryan must also have been aware of what was happen- ing, as he had jumped 01! the lounge, only to fall in the middle Of the little dark bedroom. Perhaps the saddest sight of all that met the eyes of the firemen later was the bodies of the three younger children. They slept in a room adjoining the kitch— en, and all being aroused .by the smoke had crawled out of bed to reach the room occupied by Mrs. Ryan. To do so they R0 a There were no rooms to rent up stairs,- l Advertise in .ue.liuarra Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking. ‘ Powder ‘ AhSOLUTELY PURE had to pas‘s through the kitchen, which was filled with smoke. The three little ones struggled through it bravely until they reached the kitchen door, which was closed. They opened it in hopes, no doubt, of getting a little fresh air. They got it open perhaps four inches, when the full volume of the smoke which filled the hallway rolled in upon them. Their agony was of short duration after that. All three sank in a heap, or rather in a kneeling position. and when the fire had been extinguished later the\ fingers of six little hands were found clutching the edge of the door, and three little dead bodies lay behind it. COLT DIVORCE SUIT. Counsel For All Parties Interested Start For North Conway, N. H. PROVIDENCE, Nov. 8.—The application . of Francis Colwell, , counsel for Colonel S. P. Colt, for a. stay of proceedings in the taking of depositions of Witnesses in be- half of Mrs. Colt in her suit for divorce, has been denied by Judge Stines. Colo- nel Colt’s attorneys were notified that depositions would be taken at North Con- way, N. H., tomorrow. A stay was at once asked for on the ground of insuffi- cient notice and the great inconvenience counsel for respondent would be put to in going to the place named. The judge’s action is claimed to be of great benefit to Mrs. Colt, as by the taking of testimony at once she will have the benefit of some depositions it would have been impossible to obtain had the delay asked for been granted. Rathbone Gardner, who represents Mrs. Colt; Frank Colwell, who represents Colo- . nel Colt, and Samuel B. Heney of New- port, who is one of the counsel for J. J. Van Alen in the $200, 000 suit brought by Colonel Colt for alleged alienation of Mrs. COlt’s affections, all left for North Con- way today. Smith Probably Elected Judge. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8.—Although the Republican plurality in this state for Haywood for state treasurer exceeds 170,- 000, the Democrats appear to have elected Peter P. Smith of Scranton as the seventh member of the new superior court by a plurality of more than 4,000 votes over Harman Yerkes (Rep). Ex—Judge Smith showod surprising strength in the coal re- gions, running 4,600 votes ahead of his ticket in his own county and 2, 600 in Lu- zeI-ne. David F. Hannigan’s Trial. NEW YORK, N ov. 8.——-The trial of David F. Hannigan for the murder of Solomon Mann, his sister’s betrayer, was continued today. The principal witness was John P. Levins, the defendant’s partner in the plumbing business. He testified at great length both concerning Hannigan’s pre- vious peaceful disposition and his appar- ently irrational acts since his sister’s death. ' The Elections and the Senate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—-The elections of Tuesday last do not affect the present membership of the United States senate. Mr. Brice of Ohio, Mr. Gibson of Mary- land and Mr. Blackburn of Kentucky all remain in the senate until March 4, 1897, so that they will participate in the two full sessions of the congress which begins on the first Monday in next December. Germ in "Liberty of the Press.” DOETMUND, Westphalia. Nov. 8.—I—lerr Lutgenau, a Socialist leader, who has been returned to the reichstag after a reballot in the district of Dortmund, has been sen- tenced to five months’ imprisonment on the charge of leze majesty for reproduc- ing in his newspaper, The Arbeiter Zei- tung, an article headed “Another of These Imperial Speeches.” A Freight Train Collision. WINDSOR JUNCTION, N. 8., Nov. 8.—A serious collision occurred here today be- tween special freight trains on the Inter- colonial railroad an on the Dominion Atlantic railroad. Both trains were going at a good speed when they came together, and both Were badly wrecked. Several trainmen were injured, including a con- ductor and fireman. English View of Our Elections. LONDON, Nov. 8.—The Globe this after- noon, commenting upcn the recent elec- tions in the United States, says: “We think no question is likely to arise before the presidential year which will bring the Democrats back to power. So far as our relations with the United States are con- cerned, the issue is of exceedingly light importance. " Artist Gibson Married. RICHMOND, Nov. 8.—The most notable Wedding of the season took place today when Miss Irene Langhorne became the bride of Charles Dana Gibson of New York. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Virginia were largely represented, and the scene in St. Paul’s church was a Very striking one. Woman’s Boar-ll of Missions. BOSTON, Nov. 8.—The second day’s ses- sion of the annual meeting of the wom- an’s board of missions was opened this morning with devotional exercises, led by Mrs. H. ,P. Deach of Springfield, Mass, after which Mrs. F. L. Holmes of Plym- outh, Mass, presented a paper on “A Certainty For an Uncertainty.” ‘Comedian Cranc’s Silver Wedding. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8.—Comedian W. H. Crane, who is playing at the Grand Opera House, celebrated his silver wed- ding here. Mr. and Mrs. Crane were pre- sented with a magnificent silver loving cup by members of the company and were serenaded by all the theater orches- tras. ‘ A Detective Robbed. HAMILTON, .Ont., Nov. 8.—Dctective Dubois, the Peoria (Ills) officer who came here to take Sidney Slocum, the Chicago World correspondent, back, was attacked by thieves and robbed Of his gold watch, several valuable diamonds and a sum of money. _ New Jersey’s Population 1,672,942. TRENTON, Nov. 8.—The census of the state of New Jersey has been completed. The enumerators worked hard, and their efforts show that the state has a popula- tion of 1,672,942. , This is an increaselin population of 228,009'in five-years. l THE PORTlilllLAll “n Situation In Turkey Is Critical and Trouble Is Imminent. THE SULTAN THREATEN ED. A Note Gives Him the Choice of Abdica- tio'n or Assassination—Another New Grand Vision—Moro Reports of . Recent Butcher-lee. LONDON, Nov. 8.—A Vienna dispatch to The Standard says: “The portehas re- plied to the identical representations of the powers that the reserves are being summoned to stop the outrages upon Ar- menians. The powers, however, consider that these measures are inadequate." The Constantinople correspondent of The Standard says: “It is rumored that decisive European action is imminent. A great Moslem demonstration was an- nounced for last Friday, but the sultan, fearing the consequence, notified the Turk- ish newspapers of his intention to proclaim a constitution, whereupon the demon- stration was countermanded. The sultan then ordered the papers not to publish the announcement. and arrests began to be made. Last evening the police raided the Turkish quarter of Sedik Pasha. A fight ensued, and several persons were killed. “A fresh crop of revolutionary placards was scattered broadcast today. Even at the ports a letter was found on the sul- tan’s table giving him the alternative of abdicatidn or assassination. Reports are reaching the embassies from all directions of wholesale massacres, and the victims now include Greeks and Maronites. “The report is gaining ground, even in diplomatic circles, that the sultan has or- dered the extermination of the Armenian race. The excitement is spreading to SyriawBagdad and Mosul. ” A di'spatch to The News from Constan- tinople fully confirms the foregoing and adds that the British consul, Hampson, telegraphs from Sassoun that the distribu- tion of relief has ceased there, and that the missionaries have been obliged to leave. “The embassies do not make any secret of the fact, ” The News correspond- ent adds, “that throughout Armenia fa— natical‘disorder is rampant and that the lives of Christians are in danger. It is as- serted that several military students at the Pancaldi academy have been arrested as revolutionaries. " The Chronicle’s Constantinople dis patch contains similar serious statements and says: “One of the oldest English resi- dents, who has .business agents through- out the empire, informs me that the situ- ation is worse than anything he .has known for the past 40 years. The num- bers of the illed must not be reckoned by hundred or by thousands, but by tens of thousands, and reports from Syria dc- clare that the Armenians have been mas- sacred under direct orders from "the gov- ernment.” A Berlin dispatch to The Daily Tele- graph says that hews has been received of an important success by the Armenian rebels, they having in one place defeated the Turks and captured 400 prisoners. The Armenian committee in London has received a telegram confirming the stoppage of relief which was forwarded by it to be distributed in Armenia. The Constantinople correspondent of The Times in reference to the antidynas- tic movement declares that the discontent and disaffection are widespread not less in the army and navy than elsewhere and are the cause of dismay in palace circles and of a feeling of impotence at the ports. The Matter of Finances. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 8,—The minis- ters and Sir Edgar Vincent, governor of the Imperial Ottoman bank, have assem- bled at the palace to consider the financial crisis. Sir Edgar Vincent has been finan- cial adviser to the Turkish government for a dozen years past and it was through his efforts that Egyptian finance was re. stored to prosperity. Hall Rifat Pasha, the Turkish minister for the interior, has been appointed grand vizier in succession to Kiamil Pasha resigned. The Turkish minister for foreign afi fairs, Said Pasha, has promised to give the ambassadors of the powers a definite reply within two days as to what steps the porte intends to take in order to' restore order in Armenia and provide for the pro- tection of Christians in that part of the Turkish empire. This was the point especially a: Ended to by the ambassadors on Tuesday last when they called separately and represented. that the present state of affairs in Armenia could net be allowed to continue, and that if adequate measures were not shortly taken to bring about the restoration of order the powers would be compelled, act- ing in concert, to take their own steps in the matter. No combined action of such grave importance upon the part of the powers has been taken for years past, and - the ports was reminded of the interven- tion Of the powers in Syria at the time of the massacre of 1860. This is considered as a direct warning tothe sultan that Eu— rope will restore order in Armenia unless the Turkish government does so promptly. As each day passes, however, the situa- tion becomes more and more alarming and adds to the difficulty of the task before the porte and possibly before the Euro- pean powers. The most alarming reports are in circulation as to the number of Ar- menians who fell during the recent mas: sacres, some of the statements having it that tens of thousands hays been massa- cred. Although this estimate is believed to be exaggerated, there is no doubt that the situation is much more grave than anybody here is willing to admit. From Syria especially the most disquieting ru- mors are, coming, and that they are based on facts is shown by the ‘mobilization of 20 battalions of redifs out of the 60 avail- able and the steps being taken to dispatch them promptly. Labeyrie Succeods Christophle. 'PARIS, N 0v. 8.—M. Christophle, govern- or of theCredit Foncier, has resigned, and M. C. Labeyrie has been appointed to .1111 the vacancy. Ex-Llcntemnt Governor Alvord Better. SYRACUSE, Nov. 8.—Physicians report , “Old Salt” Alvord much better and like- ly to recover. 1
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