| Show GRILL NO GOOD TO HOLS UP HAD LEFT HIS WATCH AND MONEY AT HOME gentleman with gun got nothing but mention in police circles tor his trouble another holdup hold up was added to agdens long list last evening when george F grill was confronted with a gun and commanded to hold up on lincoln avenue about eleven grill who lives at twenty third street wag on his way home from the theatre and when near twenty third street a man sprang from the darkness and commanded him to throw up his hands which request grill promptly complied with it appears that grill had feared some such thing and had left his watch and money aside from what was necessary to admit him to the theatre and when the robber searched his pockets and failed to beaure anything of value ha gruffly commanded grill to go on telling him that he was no good naturally grill went on but immediately notified the police of the affair but could only give a meager description of the thief so that it Is bradly lakely that he will be caught ATTENTION RED MEN HIAWATHA TRIBE there will be a council fhe n the union labor ball friday night feb 3 at 8 charp every member is urgently requested to be present tor important council ork and practice drill of degree team there will also be twenty applications of palefaces to pass upon for membership by order of the committee J G ALBRIGHT D G I 1 LOW PASSENGER RATES the denver newe has the following to say about low passenger rates the union pacific has taken the initiative in reducing rates in order to encourage immigration to colorado and now that the way has been blazed the other western roada will doubtless lall in line the new rates commenced yesterday arc effective during february and march and are claimed by the officials of the road to bo the lest ever between chicago kansas city and omaha and points in kansas west of manhattan and in nebraska west of columbus TAUNTS KILLED A BOY new york feb 2 heart failure said to have been brought on by taunts from classmates in a public school of the bronx has caused the death of joseph krauer 7 years old the lad with one or two others failed to receive promotion to the succeeding grade and WAS greatly annoyed by his more fortunate classmates he tell from hia seat in a faint after undergoing their jests for a time but was revived and returned to the room an hour later the little fellow again ml to the floora and a physician was he pronounced the boy dead from heart failure FRANK CROKER LEFT new york feb 2 frank croker killed in an automobile in florida a week ago at 27 years of age had piled up a fortune of this fortune he made out of the roe blang roofing co at the aging all the business attalea in this i country of hia that he had mode I 1 so much money on bis own account was unknown even to tammany men until john fox president of the democratic club and an intimate friend of young croker announced it yesterday few people know said mr fox that frank left a large private tor tune he vas the active head of tha roebling roofing company with offices in the flatiron building and it wa through his energy that the business was such a profitable one 1 I am reliably informed that he had mad a fortune of the company has outstanding contracts for roofing on a largo scale all over the country every cent of athla fortune was made by frank croker himself without aid from hia father and la a splendid memorial of what a young man of 27 can do provided ho applies himself to business frank crokers connection with the roebling concern was one of tho matters about which richard croker was questioned before the mazet committee an effort being made to show that the company had been favora by the van wyck administration richard croker res enteA the implication and one of his bitterest complaints against new york was that hia sons could not go into business without being hounded aa be put it NARROW the court jester bad been summoned to appear before to king we have arranged for funeral tomorrow said the royal personate and you are to occupy tha wagon with glass windows W why the clown w what have I 1 d done lo 10 d deserea athla 6 great and g wo have it from a reliable source answered tha king that you alluded to us as his knobs in tha kitchen last night oh sire cried the wily jester 1 I admit the truth of the accusation it was a new way I 1 had just of proclaiming that you were something Bom ething to adore see hia high alo had never been a camlo armanac aI manAc aa so that he proceeded to borrow half a dollar of the WHO fool after affie |
