Death for a Dollar

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THE BUFFALO OOUWKB: TVESLMY. AUGUST 20, 188a APPOINTED FOR TO-DAY.

HEITZMAXXS H A L L - B l a c k Rock Business Men's AssociationS P. M.

COXCEBT HALLFlorists' Convention10 A. J*. BUFFALO LIBRABTMicroscopists' Convention

10 A. M. COCBT STWEET THTATKK"One of the

Finest"3:15 and SP. a GAIETY MUSEUMGaiety O i e a Company

and varieties2:30 and S E E MUSIC H A L L Capt. Mahan's Orchestral Con-

certsS p. M. CTCLOKAMA" Jerusalem oat the Oay of the

Crucihxion "9 A M. to 10 P. ife

A L L AROBNDi * 0 W N .

To-day's weatherShowers, fair weather.

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The Arounder got a new room-mate the other day, a sad young man who looked as if he had tasted of life's sorrows as well as jdys. About the first question he asked was what size hat the Arounder wore. When told, the young man breathed a sigh of relief and an-swering the Arounder's inquiring loos said:

" I suppose you winder at my question. At my last boarding house 1 had an experience which prompted it. My chum there and I wore the same size hat and we thought it a great convenience. He went away on his va-cation about two weeks ago. A few days ago, I was to take my girl to an entertainment. On finishing my work I hurried home, but it was quite lal#. I bad barely time to get ready. In my haste I twirled my straw hat into a bowl of dirty water, and on looking for my derby found to my dismay that nay room-mate had inadvertently taken it with him. I could borrow none from my fellow-boarders as they had gene out and could not keep my engagement, and now gha is going with anoth-er fellow-"

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A shriek, a moan of agony, a few convulsive struggles, and death in a horrible form had removed a faithful employee of the COURIER. Poor Try was dead. He did not look beautniul eveu then; the cold, metallic gleam ol the un-pitying electric light fell on his face, and re-vealed all its hard but honest outlines. His hair pushed back from a brow fast stiffening with the awful frost of death was tang, and tangled, and unkempt. His form was stoop-shouidered. gaunt, and ungraceful. For those who love mere beauty his was an unattractive corj se. But there were those gathered about t t e bit of carpet upon which he lay who had |oved him for his own sakeand their hearts were sorrowful He had been rough on rata

His last living moments had been spent in eager, faithful pursuit of the rodents Up on the fourth floor he encountered one. He made his last, desperate rush-*the elevator shaft was openhe darted through.

People having a good rat dog too ugly to be given away elsewhere, are respectfully re-ferred by the Arounder to Rightwatchman Frank Reynolds or Superintendent Dan Brown.

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"Come on, now, come on, come on, even money on the red or black and five to one on tl e star green; come on!" Thus merrily did the iiu-how voice of the professional gam. go i- . >ing over the heads at the Rochester Driv-ing Park last week, for the gamblers held high caiutvol in the Flower City during race days. Wheels of fortune clicked musically, faro was run almost openly, and there were even those who complained that they had run into the fascinating shell game with disastrous results not to the manipulator of the shells.

What a comparison between that gamblers' [ aradise at Rochester last week and the se-renity at the Buffalo track the week before, v. t.un only legitimate pools were sold,,, It is nu% to thy credit, O village by th Powers Block; and it is a wonder that thy famous f-jur corners, of which thou art wont to boast i freely, did not fall in their chagrin and crush thy multitude of sinners beneath them. Wuuld that thou, too, had a Sheriff Jenkins to guard with watchful eye thy precincts, stop gambling, prize fights, and such airy trifles. If needst be, perhaps we could lend thee a deputy or two, O musty city.

DEATH FOR A DOLLAR. PAVING J O B B E R Y .

But the Man who Threatened Murder Got the Worst of I t

A B l o o d y A f f r a y B e t w e e n N i c h o l a s M o i c h -l e r . A r m e d w i t h a B a t c h e r K n i f e , a n d

S t e p h e n L a o s ' , w h o D e f e n d s H i m -s e l f W i t h a n V i .

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" If I don't kill you before 6 o'clock to-night that dollar is yours!"

So saying, Nicholas Moschler threw a bright silver dollar down on Lang & Hasselbeck's bar at No. 553 Jefferson Street, and then, leaning over th? bar, he glared defiantly into Lang's face, waiting for his fearful wager to bo re-fused or accepted.

The dollar bounded off the counter and lay where it had fallen among the bottles. Mosch-ler continued his abuse and threats and was at last put out of the saloon by the proprietors.

This was about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Six hours later splashes of blood on the chips in Lang's back yard on Love joy Street told that Moschler's threat meant something more than idle talk..

Stephen Lang lives at No. 85 Love joy Street, and besides being a saloonkeeper, he and Has-selbeck are contractors and builders. Nicho-las Moschler lives directly across the street from Lang. He is also a saloonkeeper.

Last spring Lang & Hasselbeck took the contract of building a house for Moschler. When the house was completed it was not satisfactory to Moschler, and since that time a fierce quarrol has been kept up between the three men. The contractors maintained that they had fulfilled their contract and were un-willing to make any discount, and Moschler has constantly followed them with threats and abuse.

Yesterday morning after announcing his intention to kill the two men, Moschler went h^me and prepared for the bloody job. The instrument which he selected for the execution of his threat was a long and murderous-look-ing butcher knife. Th s Moschler ground to a keen edge, and a little before 4 o'clock started out on his gory errand.

Walking across the street he found his neigh-bor quietly at work splitting wood in his back yard. Stepping up to within a few feet of where Lang was at work, Moschler stopped and spoke. Lang looked up and seeing the gleaming knife in his neighbor's hand knew in an instant that he had come to carry out tho terrible threat he had made in the morn-ing.

t l What do you want ?" asked Lang.

"That's what I want," replied Moschler, brandishing the knife with an oath," I'm going to kill you I n

With this he sprang at Lang, and began catting an i thrusting at him in a deadly man-ner. There was but one thing for Lang to do strike Moschler to the ground or be killed himself. For an instant he backed away from his assailant, avoiding his thrusts as best he could, but seeing that he could not long avert a deadlv thrust from the knife he dealt Mosch-ler a heavy blow on the head with his ax, which during the struggle he had held in his hands.

Moschler sank to the ground with the blood spurt in? from a deep gash in his skull over the right eye.

Lang immediately ran to No. 8 Police Sta-tion, where he told what he had done, relating tho story of the quarrel and its fatal ending, as he supposed. After telling his story he started to walk out of the Station, but greatly to his surprise he was told to tarry, and was soon locked up in a cell.

The patrol wagon was at once sent to the scene of the affray, and there Moschler was found lyiug where he had fallen, with the

M a y o r B e c k e r Says H e H a s V e t o e d T w o Q u e s t i o n a b l e R o l l s ,

Mayor Becker was seen yesterday relative to tbe Tonawanda and Wilson streets paving rolls which the Council confirmed, and in re-gard to which serious charges of forgery and fraud have been publicly made by interested taxpayers.

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'* I have vetoed the resolutions confirming those rolls," said His Honor, " but you must excuse me from going into the merits of the cases before the matter comes up in the Council

A lawyer, who was seen last evening, gave it as his opinion that the Assessors are a good deal wiser than they were before these peti-tions came up. " I think," said he, "the Assessors mean to do the right thing, but they had no right to change the maps on the executory contracts without inquiring whether any conveyance had actually been made. I understand that this thing has been done right along to help paving jobs, but in future I think yon will find thai; the Assessors will see to it that there is an actual convey-ance of the property before the names of par-ties claiming to be owners of property are put upon the maps of the city. Of course it was done to enable the contractor to get his work in, but it is unjust to the general taxpayer who would have to pay the piper when the expense falls on the General Fund.

" I understand that the manipulation of the Wilson Street petition is even more serious getting a lot of names for a water petition and deliberately attaching those names so ob-tained to a petition for stone pavement It is high time to put a stop to such practices in City affairs, and Fm glad to hear that the Mayor has consented to send in his veto."

j tsr is TIME;.

TYLERM JAIL I I II l l l l

His Attorney Doe* J k t Get Into Town Soon Enough to Bail Him Oat

*' Truly policy is a funny game," obsorved a devoted slave of the mystic figures the other evening. *' If a person once sets foot in the mire of gambling, it is always hard to draw it out, and in no game of chance is this difficulty encountered in as stubborn a form as in policy. The game always beats us out in the long run, a-id yet we persist and drop our little item as [ regularly when we win as when we lose. It is enough to disgust one to think how often he has missed a big stake by a hair. Some time ago when I was in Chicago 4-11-44 came out, an 1 if youTl believe me there wasn't a cent on the gig. I can tell you there was weeping.and wailing at long the faithful for awhile after, and it was rumored that one young fellow who had been playing it for over a month and quit the day before it came out, had slit his throat in disappointment."

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That season of the year in whl h Memory is brought most actively to play is rapidly ap-proaching. What influences can turn back the withered leaves of time so readily and completely as the hazy atmosphere and in-spiring breezes of an autumn day. The trees will soon be tinted with the various colors of the rainbow now and thickly will the ground be covered with a fragrant land of fallen leaves. A pine woods is a beautiful spot on an autumn day. The dead needles fall slowly to the ground like so much snow and often the fall winds drift them fully as high as winter's fleecy coverlet. The lazy crow and thievish black bird float leisurely through the golden shower and to the listener far below comes the faint echo of their wild notes. Saek out a spot like this and seat yourself on some ancient stump and if the half forgotten thoughts of days long past do not come crowding over your tired brain, the Arounder is much mistaken.

The H tel McComb is an Meal summer re-sort The people of Buffalo hardly appreciate the beauty of the place. The Arounder spent yesterday there, and the thought came into his mind more than once, why is it that the residents of the city will go to some alleged summer resort where they will live in a small unsanitary cottage and think they are happy, simply because it is distant, wb.io for a small

i. they can take a ride on a commodious feu.-um.er and enjoy the comforts of a beautiful resort when they arrive. The hotel is good, the grounds are verdunous, and a ride up the river, with your ladylove by your side, and the m. v-ii shining on the water, is a joy that is xv.: surpassed.

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That horrible atrocity, the Iroquois Hotel sign, has been painted out The painter has dvhe a good j^b at last

knife close by his side. He was not d >a J, but unable to speak, and apparently in an un-conscious condition. The ambulance from t i e General Hospital was sent for, and the wound-ed man was removed to that place.

The gash in his head is about four inches long and the skull is fractured to such an ex-tent that trephining wi l l be necessary unless the man dies before the operation can be per-formed. Coroner Haberstro was called and took Lang's statement at the stationhouse. Moschler was unable to ta lk It is thought that both men had been drinking.

At milnight last night MosobLr was resting very comfort-inly but the physicians at the Hos-pital were not sanguine of his recovery. He is about 45 years old, married and has three children. Lang is married and has seven children.

L O C A L G L E A N I N G S .

The public schools will re-open on Tues-day, September 3.

Judge Titus presided at the re-opening of the Special Term of the Superior Court yes-terday.

Tom Lynch, "the Irish giant" was fined $10 for creating a disturbance on Lloyd Street Saturday night.

John Stanaslauski, who was injured at Hollowav's stone yard August 15, died at the Sisters' Hospital Sunday.

In the case of Nathan C. Francis against Frank T. Gilbert, Judge Hammond yesterday granted an order for a new trial.

Tho next meeting of the Erie County Board of Pharmacists will be held at the Niagara University, September 7.

Yesterday a telegram was received from Hamilton, Ont , by Supt Morin for Isaac Siekle, stating: "Your mother not expected to live. Answer immediately." And signed "James Sickle."

Mrs. Eliza Reynolds, 85 years old, is lying in a critical condition at her home on North Division Street on account of a fractured hip occasioned by a falL She is one of the oldest residents of the city, having lived here since 1810.

In the suit of the People against Frank R m, undertaking on appeal, Jud^e Hammond yesterday approved of the undertaking, and of the sufficiency of the sureties who signed the same. Rosi was convicted-of petit lar-ceny and sentenced to 60 days in the Peni-tentiary.

The yacht James C. Fullerton has been chartered for Wednesday by Lawyers Fuller-ton, Becker & Hazel, for a trip on Niagara River. The start will be made from the foot of Amherst Street at 9:30 A. M., and many lawyers and other prominent people will par-ticipate in the excursion.

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"This is a strange example of economy," said a gentleman who stood looking at the Soldier* Monument last evening. "The city is paymg out several thousand dollar, for il-lumination, and here just as the great fair is about to open they begia

p u m n d o W Q Qa6 ^ finest ornamenu on Main street There are few places thai; attract strangers more than this and now it is about to be turned into unsightly heap of stone and dirt c- ul m*t this work have been after the f a i r !

postponed

an Why until

S u m m e r S a l t i n g s . In all the light weights and colors, an endless

assortment to select from, from the K ? E manuiacturar* In the country, a perfect f jTiarantesd awl at our usually l o T t r L *

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PERSONAL. 1

W. J. Connors and City J. Meyer have returned

*' Ald.-aWarge " Treasurer Aiphonse home.

Branch N o S, C. M. B. A., has made ar-rangements for a public reception to Monsig-nor Gleeson on his return from Ireland.

The Rev. Dr. George E Ackerman of S t Mark's M. E. Church departed yesterday on his month's vacation. He will spend most of his time at Grant University, Athens, Tenn,

At the last meeting of the Hornung Bene-ficiary Association of the Buffalo Fire Depart-ment the following citizens were duly elected honorary members: Andrew J. Sandford, Henry A. Richmond, ^G. Reed Wilson, Michael Schneider.

At T h e P o l i c e B o a r d ' s E d i c t s .

the Police Board meeting yesterday afternoon the charges against Patrolman Car-mody of using obsoane and profane language on the street were not sustained, but he was reprimanded by the Board for an unjustifiable

Sergt John A. Bodamer was reduced to the ranfcs and transferred from the Fourth to the Eighth Precinct Patrolman Robert Merkle was transferred from the Fourth to the Ninth. James Bird from the Eighth to the Fourth, John Hanoran from the First to the Ninth. Charles Lambrecht from the Ninth to the Fourth. Aetin^-Sergt William Jordan was reduced to the ranks and transferred from the Ninth to the First Patro.ruau John JL Me-Ciure of the Ninth was detail*! to do duty as acting sergeant. Patrolman Thomas Mc-Maughton was detailed to do duty at the Smith and Seneca street crossing.

E l e p h a n t J o s e p h s I n s t r u m e n t a l In S a v i n s a W o m a n ' s Li te .

Joe Josephs, better known as Elephant Joe, was sitting on the stoop at No. H>1 Eagle Street Sunday evening, opposite the place where Mra Grinton caught fire from a burn-ing lamp, and performed a heroic act which has not so far been chronicled. The story told in his own words is as follows:

" While sitting on the stoop my attention was arrested by seeing a woman come out of tho house with a great blako apparently In her hands. She dropped what proved to be a lamp, the cause of all the trouble, and in try-ing to kick it off the stoop her clothes caught fire. She ran up the adjoining alley and came back more ablaze than ever, while without waiting to ring the bell, I yelled "Murder 1 Murder 1" at tho pitch of my voice. The door was opened and I made a rush for a heavy cloth m a t overcoats, and anything I could lay hands on.

" I pulled my niece along, and we both ran to the assistance of the suffering woman. We dragged her down the steps and wrapped her with matting and clothing, and thus extinguished what in another moment must have proved a fatal blaze. When the dames were subdued, I fell senseless on the couch and have not recovered from the shock y e t The Fire Department was also called, but fortunately not required.

"On in inquiring thif afternoon I was glad to learn that the unfortunate woman though very badly burned was feeling much easier, and it is hoped will recover."

PASTOR BALL'S WRATH. H e H a s Snpt . W h i t n e y o f t h e K e n k a

A s s e m b l y A r r e s t e d t o r F o r g e r y . ROCHESTER, Aug. 19.[Specmi.]~Much ex-

citement was occasioned on Keuka Park and in Penn Yan this afternoon by the report that O. C. Whitney, Superintendent of Keuka As-sembly, had been arrested on a warrant for forgery sworn out by the Rev. George H. Ball, vresident of the Central Baptist Association. The warrant was Issued by United States Commissioner Gorham at Rochester, and Mr. Whitney was arrested on the Park this morn-ing by Deputy United States Marshal Bard-well and taken to Rochester on the noon train.

Over a year ago, when the Keuka College building was begun, a New York draft was scuthere of $100 payable to the order of George H. Ball, The money belonged to the Association, and in the absence of Dr. Ball Mr. Whitney consulted with the other mem-bers of the College committee and with the bank officials in Penn Yan, and indorsed the draft * th*y needed the money for im-mediate use on the College building, and turned over the proceeds to the credit of the College fund. The indorsement was made " George H. Ball, by O. C. Whitney,' on the back of the draft and, it is stated, was only done after consultation. Of late there has been considerable bad blood between Ball and Whitney, and the latter started what was known as the Keuka Assembly Herald in op-position to Ball's paper. A rupture occurred between them on Saturday, when the clergy-man came to Rochester and swore out the warrant as stated.

Whitney was brought to this city to-night and released on $1,000 bail to appear for ex-amination Wednesday in this city.

C a p t . H . L . F i s h , J r . , C a s h i e r f o r t h e S h e r -m a n B r o t h e r s , D o e S N e t S h o w V p w i t h ,

t h e B e s t o f t h e R e g i m e n t T h a E x -c h a n g e T r i a l T o - m o r r o w ,

Yesterday morning Detective Arthur Quinn returned from Duluth with Frank p . Tyler, former manager of the car department for Sherman Bros. & Co., limited. {^Detective Quinn left Buffalo last Tuesday nigt*, and has been constantly on the road since than.

Mr. Tyler was taken to Police Headquarters upon his arrival, but as his attorney, Mr. James F. Gluck, was out of town, bail could not be procured at that time.

At 5:30 p. M. Tyler was brought into Police Court by Detective Quinn, and after a secret conference between his attorneys and Justice King, he was taken over to jail, whero he re-mained during the night On account of the lateness of the hour, i he persons who were ex-pected to become suretieefor Tyler could not be seen, consequently his liberty was denied him for another 12 hours. It is expected that he will be bailed out this morning.

The amount of bail lias not been fixed, but as that of Loveridge did not exceed $2,500 in all, it is thought that bail to the amount of not exceeding $8,000 to $4,Q|p will be accepted for the appearance of Mr. Tyler.

He has signified his intention to undergo pre-liminary examination before JudgsKing. He maintains that he stood in the relation of ser-vant to master obeying orders.

The disappearance of Wilson H, Sherman may make it*a little difficult for M*. Tyler to get the required bail, but his friends hope to

j secure sufficient sure iea, and regard him as having been used as a tool by others more unscrupulous than ha

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Tyler is looking very bad and It i