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Published Every Saturday at 3 East Fourteenth Street. New York, May 2,1896.
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Fire Attacks
Century Piano Co.'s Stock
Flechter Guilty.
CARL HOFFMAN S WAREROOMS AND CHICKERING
HALL—DAMAGE FROM $ 1 5 , 0 0 0 TO $2O,OOO.
INSURED.
GOES TO SATISFY A JUDGMENT.
ICTOR S. FLECHTER, the violin
dealer, who has been on trial in Part
1, of the Court of General Sessions, during
the last two weeks, accused of having had
in his possession the Stradivarius stolen
from the late Professor Jean Joseph Bott,
was found guilty of receiving stolen goods
at twenty-five minutes past two o'clock
yesterday morning, after the jury had been
out more than eleven hours. For ten and
a half hours they stood 11 to 1. The juror
was brought around finally by the reading
of the testimony of August Gemunder, the
violin maker.
Flechter wept bitterly when he heard the
verdict. Recorder Goff remanded him un-
til Monday, when sentence will be imposed.
**I TELL, you can turn over the shares
VY to the Sheriff, and let Henry F.
Miller & Co., of Boston, look out for them-
selves."
That was the way Judge Smith looked at
the application of the Northern Trust Co.
in an order to show cause whyC. A. Stickle
and M. A. Paulson should not be punished
for contempt for failing to turn over 108
shares of stock of the Century Piano Co. to
the Sheriff, on an execution issued upon a
judgment in the assignment of the
Farmers' and Merchants' State Bank.
H. D. Stocker claimed that the shares
were in the safe of the company, but Mr.
Stickles made affidavit that Mr. Paulson
had turned them over to him to be sent to
Boston to Miller & Co., as security for a
debt of $5,000; so that while they were
technically in his possession, they were
really in the possession of the Boston
parties. Judge Smith thought, however,
that as the Boston parties were not in the
case, they had no rights there, and so or-
dered the shares turned over. — Tribune,
Minneapolis, April 29th.
HICKERING Hall and Carl Hoffman's
piano
warerooms, Leavenworth,
Kans., were attacked by fire last Saturday
morning, and pianos, organs and other
musical instruments valued at $16,000 were
damaged by heat, smoke and steam. The
auditorium of Chickering Hall and the an-
nex were filled with the smell of smoke, and
the walls and ceiling discolored and
cracke'd. The stage accessories are ruined
by water and smoke.
The fire started in the packing and ship-
ping room in the basement and worked its
way to the elevator shaft, and in the room
between the base of the shaft and the alley
door reduced two pianos to ashes, and then
rushing up through the shaft destroyed the
pianos and other contents of the small
rooms that opened to it. The black track
of the fire extends from basement to
roof.
The general salesroom fronting on Dela-
ware street at the east side of the building,
escaped entirely, and in the office the only
damage done was caused by steam. It was
estimated last Monday that the damage to Wili McKinley be the Proper
the stock would not fall far short of $13,-
Patent fledicine?
000; damage to building, $2,500. The
insurance is ample and will cover all
R. L. CAVALLI is pretty much inter-
losses.
ested in political matters these days,
In an interview with Mr. Hoffman after and when we came across him yesterday he
the fire, he said: "Just as soon as I can was engaged in figuring out what the pres-
have the losses adjusted by the insurance ent Administration's free wool policy has
companies I will have a force of men at done for this country. The following are
work immediately to rebuild Chickering his conclusions:
Hall and to make it better and handsomer
Grover Cleveland's free wool has reduced
than ever."
our sheep flocks 9,000,000, and our wool
C
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The Dyer & Hugnes P ano.
E would remind dealers who are look-
ing for a reliable and profitable in-
strument to handle, to keep in mind the
Dyer & Hughes piano, manufactured by J.
F. Hughes & Son, Foxcroft, Me. They are
turning out an honest instrument, attrac-
tive in design and carefully made, and their
enterprise is worthy of support. The deal-
ers handling the Dyer & Hughes piano find
it salable and an instrument that gives the
utmost satisfaction to purchasers.
W
clip 50,000,000 pounds from that of Janu-
ary 1, 1893. At 20 cents a pound the
farmers have $10,000,000 less to spend an-
nually than they had three years ago.
That amount of wool could be exchanged
for the product of 20,000 mechanics at $500
each yearly. That amount of money rep-
resents a trade of 1,000 merchants each
doing a yearly business of $10,000. Grover
Cleveland's "free wool" is transferring our
woolen manufacturing to England and our
wool raising to South America—thus drain-
ing us of our gold and playing into the
hands of the free silver party.
V
Autoharp Recitals.
| U R . W. B. WILSON states that the
I I popular Saturday afternoon Auto-
harp recitals at the Autoharp Studio, East
Twenty-third street, continue to draw large
audiences. Mr. Aldis J. Gery, Autoharp
soloist of Gilmore's Band, appeared in con-
cert at Rahway on Thursday evening last
with great success. The following is the
program for to-day's concert:
1. Overture, " Poet and Peasant"
.
.
Suppe
Symphony organ—ALDIS J. GERY.
2. Autoharp Duet, " Good Luck March,"
Pugh
MESSRS. ALDIS J. GERY and Louis MFLCHER.
3. Song, "Louisiana Lou,'"
.
.
Stewart
Miss ILMA PRATT.
Autohorp Accomp., ALDIS J. GERY.
4. Autoharp Solo, "Speak to Me," Fabio Campana
MASTER EDWARD GABLER.
5. Banjo and Mandolin Solos,
.
.
. •
FRED. B. CRITTENDEN.
6. Mezzo-soprano Solo, " Don't be Cross."
From " Der Obersteiger,'
.
Zeller.
7. Autoharp Duet, "Tyrolean National Song,"
Melcher
MESSRS. GERY and MELCHER.
8. Autoharp Solo, " Fantasie Carnival de
Venice,"
Wilson
ALDIS
J.
9. " H o n e y m o o n M a r c h , "
GERY.
.
.
.
.
Rosey
S y m p h o n y organ—ALDIS J. GERY.
STRICH & ZEIDLER report good business
for April. They are working full force and
time, and orders continue to come in most
satisfactorily. Mr. Robert A. Widenmann
is still in town, but takes a short "flyer"
from time to time.