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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY,- N. C, WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, I9II.
NO. 34.
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DEADLIEST PERIL
GOMES TO AIRMAN
TRAIN WITHBf INCH OP KILLING
HAMILTON, WHO ESCAPED
DANGERS OP FLYING.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. Special.
Death, almost claimed Charles K.
Hamilton, the aviator, Wednesday.
But it was not in any thrilling feat
of flying; it was in a race between
Ms new high-power automobile and a
train on the Berlin and Middletown
electric road that the little man who
flew from New York to Philadelphia
and back last year had the narrowest
escape of his life.
Though his machine was reduced
ta flinders and a gateman's shanty
was overturned, Hamilton got off
without a scratch, save a dent in his
hat. His wife and mother, who were
with him in the auto, suffered noth
ing more than a severe shaking up.
Just Came Home to Seek Rest.
Hamilton had spent the afternoon
in Hartford, and was on his way to
his home here when the accident oc
curred. He has Just returned from
Mexico, and is seeking a little rest
after some stirring experiences there
with the insurrectos. His mother,
Mrs. J. B. Beaudette, and Mrs. Ham
ilton had been to Hartford with him.
Mrs. Beaudette sat on the front, be
side Hamilton, who held the wheel.
Mrs. Hamilton was alone in the ton
neau. There is a dangerous crossing on
the electric road nearing New Britain,
and Hamilton slowed down as he ap
proached it. But as he saw no sign
of the gateman and heard no toot
from any train he put on full speed
again to cross the tracks.
Just as the machine got to the
track an electric train came rushing
round a curve. Hamilton slewed his
machine around so as to run paral
lel with the train and tried to get
ff the tracks and out of danger. But
-the gateman's shanty was in the way,
and as the train dashed by Hamilton
crowded the machine into the shanty,
TBpsetting it.
Auto's Rear Wheels Cut Off.
He had swered. the auto just enough
out of the way so that the train mere
ly sliced off the two rear wheels, leav
ing the machine a wreck, for the col
lision with the shanty had smashed
the other side of the auto.
The accident was witnessed by sev
eral persons, for the crossing is near
the station. The train slowed down
and everybody ran to the auto, fear
ing to find all its occupants dead.
But when the ruins of the shanty had
been pulled away and the Hamiltons
and Mrs. Beaudette were helped out
an inventory showed not even a cut
or a bruise worth mentioning. A
truck took the ruins of the machine
to the Hamilton home and a carriage
ended the trip for its passengers.
Hamilton telegraphed for a new ma
chine Wednesday night.
REV. P. D. CARROLL'S
"AT CAUSES A STIR
"WASHINGTON. Special. While
the question of hats is not usually
cause for a minister to worry, it is
proving a troublesome problem to
Rev. Francis Desalles-Carroll, assist
ant rector of the Episcopal Church of
the Ascension. Massachusetts Avenue
and Twelfth Street.
Dr. Carroll preached in a Wyoming
parish for eighteen months and form
ed a etrong liking for the wide-brimmed
black sombreros worn by Western
men. Some parishioners of the Church
of the Ascension expresesd a belief
that this style is not in keeping with
the office of a minister, and the criti
cism caused him to change to smaller
width. This caused other comment,
and now the minister has gone back
te the kind he prefers.
"I do not understand why a minis
ter cannot wear the kind of hat he
chooses," he said. "I cannot see any
ttking wrong in my wearing a cowboy
hat. and I certainly intend to keep it.
One cannot please every one, you
know."
Dr. Carroll is of the Duddlngton
branch of the famous Carroll family,
of Carrollton, Md. He is a descendant
f Daniel Carroll, who was a brother
of the Charles Carroll who signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Rev. Dr. Carroll has been the as
eLitant rector of the Church of the
Ascension for tive months. He was
born in Baltimore, Md., twenty-eight
years ago. Graduating from Ameri
can schools, he took courses in spe
cial studies at Barcelona, Spain, and
Rome, Italy. Six years ago he re
turned to America and enrolled in
the Virginia Seminary at Alexandria,
Va., where he completed his theologi
cal studies.
His first assignment was in Wyo
ming, near Spearfish, a few miles from
Deadwood, S. D. Five months ago he
was called from the West to the post
of assistant rectorship of the Church
of the Ascension, which position he
now holds.
Dr. Carroll has received a call from
Re Peter's Episcopal Church, of Al
bany. N. Y. Although the offer is a
flattering cue. Dr. Carroll has not yet
decided to accept or refuse the position.
WOMEN TEACHERS
REJOICE AT RESOLT
GDIXATIOX HOAUD ADOPTS RESO
LUTIONS TO Cl'T PAV OP MEN -TEACHERS.
NEW YORK. Special. After a dis
cussion lasting nearly two hours, every
word of which was closely followed by
. crowded ga.llrv of women teachers,
the Beard of Education yesterday
afternoon adopted resolutions, prepared
by the Committee on Elementary
Schools, locking to the reduction of the
salaries of men teachers hereafter ap
pointed in elementary schools.
This was regarded as the first real
step toward equal pay for women
teachers, and was considered a victory
iy the Interborough Association of
Women Teachers. Miss Grace C.
Strachan and her assistants gave a
elgti of relief as they saw their five
yars' hard effort crowned with this
measure of success. After the meet
ing they held a small reception of their
friends, who congratulated them.
Wta t Wag Resolved.
The five resolutions were:
1. That the salaries of teachers
vliould not now be based upon posi
tion alone.
3. That it is the sense of this board
t&at every effort be made to aid in
harmonizing the conflict between the
ian and the women teachers in the
rstem, arising out of the discrimi
aatlon in the present schedules.
. That, with the view of ellminat
Jeer anjuet discrimination and as a
Stasia of preparing revised schedules,
1 Is the sense of this board that the
salaries of Ten teachers appoints
arfter sucV. schedules shall have been
dopted bs reduced.
4. That such proposed new sched
if any are adopted, shall pro-
Tlt that the salaries of the male
wMltifl now In the system shall not
be reduced, but that they shall con
tinue to receive the compensation
now provided by statute.
5. That the foregoing resolutions
shall not be applicable to High School
and Training School teachers.
The next step is for the president of
the board to appoint a committee of
five to frame a system of salaries. If
the board pass it It will be taken to
Albany, where, the women claim, it will
be settled finally in their favor.
HAD NUMEROUS
BANK ACCOUNTS
NEIGHBORS TELL ECCENTRICI
TIES OF WOMA X WHO STARVED
WITH FORTUNE IN BANK.
NEW YORK. Special. "Soda
Water Frank," of 433 East Fifteenth
Street, who says he once paid taxes
on a million dollars' worth of prop
erty in New York, but is now run
ning a little second-hand store, at
more than seventy years of age, paid
$2 yesterday for the household ef
fects of Mrs. Augusta Freitag.
She was the woman who was found
dead in her two-room flat, apparent
ly of starvation, at 523 East Fifteenth
Street, Tuesday night, but among
whose ragged and broken effects the
police found money, papers and bank
books representing $25,000 to $45,
000. After the police and her brother-in-law,
F. Buergal, proprietor of the
Grantwood Hotel at Grantwood, N.
J., and Mrs. Sophie Grau, the house
keeper, had searched through the two
trunks and her bureau the mystery
of why a woman who had so much
wealth had hidden herself in a dark
little rear tenement on the lower East
Side was as great as it wa3 when the
police first discovered that she was
an owner of real estate and had half
a dozen bank accounts.
Her body was taken from the
Morgue to an undertaker's yesterday
at the order of her brother-in-law.
All day the housekeeper was wonder
ing what should be done with the
many cats that made the rooms of
Mrs. Freitag ih.eir headquarters. She
used to pick up all the stray cats in
the neighborhood and take them
home. Often she went hungry her
self that they should have enough to
eat.
Looking very much older than she
reaiiy was, and dressing in frayed
garments of a fashion many years
gone out, she appears to have been
a strange combination of miserly
greed and open-handed generosity
when she heard of someone who w.s
ill. Her brother-in-law could tell
very little about her life in Mew
.rrk.
One of the mysteries unsolved was
the disappearance of her husband
two years ago. Herman Freitag, very
old and ill, had made a fortune with
her in his younger days in the opera
tion of cigar stores, cafes and hotels
in New York, but all their savings
appeared to have been in her name,
and two years ago, after a disagree
ment with his wife over something
that the neighbors heard them 'iis
cussing for days, he took $200 and
went away, hobbling down the street
on his crutch, for he was a cripple,
the old woman watching him from
the doorway and finally turning away
and going to the dark little flat to cry
for days.
One day she read in a German pa
per of a poor woman deserted and
left on a sick bed with seven chil
dren, and she disappeared for a week
from the house. A butcher boy found
her, after four days, with her dress
pinned up and her fat arms bare,
scrubbing the floor of the sick wo
man's rooms and feeding the new
baby.
She went to a telephone and call
ed up some number far uptown and
a woman dressed in the height of
fashion came in an automobile and
left food and clothes enough to put
the family on its feet again. Then
Mrs. Freitag appeared a' her wo
room flat again and fed her cats.
"She told me once in a burst of
confidence," said one of the neigh
bors, 'tha.t she and her husband had
made much money in Wall Street, and
that her husband had been a sport
ing man in his youth, ard that theirs
had been a wonderful love match.
She was always going from one to
another of has banks taking out a
few hundred, dollars from one and
putting it into some other bank.
"She used to give money to beg
gars, I found, but Jat summer she
lost 50 Cf-nts and she cried about it
for days."
OLD LEWIS PITPPETS
199 YEARS ON TOUR
LONDON. Special. Arrange
ments have been made to hire a fash
ionable West End theater for a maj
inee performance for "Old Clun
Lewis," a celebrated English charac
ter, whose puppet show has been
touring the provinces for 199 years
under the same name. It is the old
est marionette show in the world and
one of the smallest.
Clunn Lewis himself has been
trudging along with the show for
forty-five years, and his father before
him, not to mention his grandfather
and great-grandfather, playing "Maria
Martin," "Jack Sheppard" and "The
Murder in the Red Barn." Lewis-says
he would like to put his show in a
swell London theater just once before
he dies, for the benefit of the young
folk of today who are forever fussing
about the "new drama."
The old showman was born in Ire
land. "I am poor, but honest," he
says in an interview, "and I have en
joyed myself in my own way. I be
lieve, if I had my life to choose once
more, I would risk it all again for
the open life of the road. I am about
the only puppet man left."
Lewis was prepared in early man
hood for the Catholic priesthood, and
he was patronized by Cardinals Man
ning and Vaughan. His wife is an in
valid and has to be wheeled around.
Her husband, on days when he sees
no hope for his puppet show, sits at
the wayside and plays his old Irish
harp to any audience that happens to
jog by.
With the show travels a ten-year-old
son of Lewis' niece, and to him
the puppet outfit will descend for an
other generation. Lewis says he ex
pects his show to go on for 1,000
years to come. Lewis began to act in
the show when he was four years old.
He was altar boy in the morning and
nunnpt nlaver at nisrht. At nineteen
he married a singer, who was also an
actress. .
Tfiftv vears aero the Lewis now
always looked to clear $500 and ex
penses at Canterbury Fair. Now the
cclr there averaerea S25 Droflt.
Lewis and his wife at one time had
a repertoire of seventy plays. She
made all the dresses for the marion
ettes and her husband painted the
CHARGE HIM WITH
AIDING REBELS
American Citizen, Rebel Sympa
thizer, Lured Across Border
and Is Arrested.
NOGALES, ARIZ. Special.
Arrested upon information fur
nished by a woman spy in the
employ of the Mexican Govern
ment, Abraham Saleeby, an
American citizen, is confined in
chains in the jail at Hermosilla,
Sonora.
Saleeby is said to have been
lured across the line, then arrest
ed, charged with giving assist
ance to the insurrectos.
PADDLING BARREL
USED ON CONVICTS
MARQUETTE, MICH. Special.
From within the walls of the State
prison here 300 convicts are crying to
the people of Michigan" beseeching
that the State Government abolish cor
poral punishment. For three days a
legislative committee has been taking
the testimony of prisoners under the
eye of Warden Russell and his guards.
Warden Russell admits that prison
ers are "paddled." At the hearing, as
a witness, he showed statistics to the
committee proving that seventeen con
victs were flogged twenty times in
1909, sixteen were flogged in 1910 and
there have been four floggings this
year.
The warden's own figures proved
that a convict named Smith received
seventy strokes from the paddle on
August 5, 1910, and fifty strokes next
day. -
E. G. Timmins, a former guard, de
scribed Smith's agony:
"I hear cries coming from the cigar
shop," said Timmins. " 'Oh, Lord!
Warden, forgive me. Please stop, war
den; oh, my God!'
"You could hear the paddle strike.
Several convicts came out from the
kitchen, stood in the doorway and lis
tened until they were ordered back.
The cries grew fainter, then ceased. I
heard only the strokes of the paddle.
"The next thing I saw was the war
den coming from the shop with an
other man, laughing and chatting
pleasantly. The convict and the officer
followed. The convict carried on his
back the ladder on which the 'pad
dling barrel' is Dlaced. He staggered
and his face was drawn from pain and
he fell after having gone only a few
feet. He was ordered to rise and pick
up the ladder. He did. Then he
staggered on until he reached the
kitchen, when he fell again.
"At least one other guard beside my
self saw this."
The committeemen saw Robinson,
a negro convict, "strung up" in the
regular course of discipline. The fel
low had cursed the warden and his
brother. James; another convict, f
stool pigeon, nromntly told the war
den. Robinson was taken to the "bull
pen" and his wrists were handcuffed
to the grated door high above his head.
There was little doubt of what the
outcome of the investigation would
be. Most of the comitteemen display
a strong friendly feeling for the warden."
DEFECTIVE HOSE
WAS RESPONSIBLE
Say Hose Attached to Standpipe
in New York Factory
Was Rotten..
NEW YORK, Special. Three
employes of the Triangle Waist Com
pany, who escaped death in the fire
which cost 1.45 lives last Saturday,
testified before Fire Marshal Beers
this afternoon that the hose attached
to the standpipe on the eighth floor
was rotten. It was folded, the wit
nesses said, and there were holes in
the creases. Louis Brown, a fore
man, testified that nine months ago
he turned the water on for a joke.
The hose was so bad that the water
leaked through.
HOWARD ASPIEES TO
SEAT TO SENATE.
LYNCHBURG, VA, Special. Vol
ney E. Howard, a prominent member
of the local Bar Association, and a for
mer partner of John L. Lee, today ad
mitted that he would be a candidate in
the Democratic primary for the nomi
nation to the State Senate from the dis
trict composed of Lynchburg and Camp
bell county. He will issue no statement
now.
Howell C. Featherstone and Eugene
Ould, both former members of the
House of Delegates, are al.so candidates
for the nomination. All. are residents
of Campbell.
Judge Frank Nelson, of Rustberg,
ha-s also decided to be a candidate for
the House to succeed himself.
ABATEMAGGIO !S .
ONLY A HIRELING
V I T E R B O, Special. That Gen-
arro Abatemaggio, the Camorrist trai
tor, was a paid hireling in the employ
of the Carabineers was the charge
shrieked at him from the prisoners'
cage when the informer went further
into the details of the Camorra's
crimes today.
When the doors of the Assize Court
were thrown open today, resumption
of the trial of Enrico Alfano and his
fellow Neapolitan Camorrists, one of
the largest crowds yet in attendance
awaited entrance. Among them were
many members of prominent families
in Rome. '
There was a long line of automo
biles outside of the court.
Among the notables present were
Signor Marconi, the famous tenor
singer. Alfano, or "Erricone," and
his fellow defendants seemed ill at
ease when Abatemaggio again
plunged into his story, revealing fur
ther dark secrets of the neapolitan
band. Their rage overcame them as
the witness proceeded, and loud cries
came from the steel-barred cage.
"You and your wife are both trait
ors to the 'Beautiful Society,' "
screamed one. -
"You are detestible spies in the em
ploy of the carabineers," cried an
other. As the time for Alfano, the head
of the Camorra, to take the stand ap
proached the terrorist chieftain be
comes more nervous. It is evident
that he dreads the ordeal, despite the
show of bravado which he has worn
to hide his feelings.
DEAD AFTER BEING
ENGAGED 53 YEARS
ssr
Mill ll Hi -:v " t? h1:4' ;
mm I : $i f s P&rX h
mm Kli ' 4 :K
b t. ;: I 1 1 g ' ' - I f 1 'si f i
The little Church of the Scalzi, Vue rbo, Italy, where a score of Camor
rists are on trial for their lives, oh arged with a long list of murders. The
trial of the "Black Handers," p.s the y are known in this country, has
aroused all Italy end attracted the a Mention of the world. Abatemaggio,
who turned State's evidence, unfolded a tale exposing the secrets and
telling of the crimes of the .Camorri sts.
seventy-four, who for fifty-three years
had been engaged to the Rev. Charles
Lord, of the New Jerusalem Church,
died here yesterday.
Miss Richmond and Mr. Lord were
engaged to be married at the age of
twenty-one, but for some reason the
ceremony was postponed, although
some weeks ago:
It is a far cry from the fall o
1859 to the fall of 1910 a little mon
than half a century. Fifty-one yean
ago John Brown old "Osawatomie
Brown, as he was trequenuy cunet-
who had thrown the whole oountrj
into a state of wild excitement by hi
raid on Harper's Ferry and his at
tempt to incite the negroes to insur
rection, was captured and placed i
jail at Charlestown, Jefferson countj
f await his trial. A? wa natural
there was always a crowd near th
jail, seeking to get a glimpse of the
noted criminal. Among the numhei
one day, there was a sprightly me
chanic, twenty-eight years old. Wil
liam A. Martin by name, who wa
tapped on the shoulder by the deput
sheriff and told that he was summor
ed to sit as a juror in the case. '
is the only survivor of the jury tha;
tried John Brown. The trial Inster
from October 27th to 31st, both in
clusive. Brown was found guilty and
was hung on the 2d day of December
1859.
On. Saturday last, while a few gen
HempTi were conversing in the clerk's
office of this county, a venerable
looking old gentleman entered and
asked for "the man who issues mar
riage licenses." Mr. Richardson, the
clerk, being absent, his accommodat
ing deputy. Mr. E. R. Holbrook,
luickly tendered his services, as he
is always nnxions to promote matrt
measles. There he refused to say why
he kept the goat and where he got
it. He asserts that he will recover it.
Some few years ago it was quite
the vogue to hold cock fights in the
dormitory rooms and at one time a
full grown cow "mooed" at a visiting
professor.
ROANOKE MAY
. OUST ITS MAYOR
Grand Jury Brings in Charges of
Both Misfeasance and Malfeasance.
iri Alb?-- !" the custody of Lieutenant
Governor '"inway, who was acting as
interni'- y between the two factions.
GYCLOil PLAYS
H VQS IN SOUTH SEA
Hamlets Destroyed Many Lives
Are Said to Have Been
Lost.
MOBILE, ALA., Special. Be
lated reports from the section of Mon
roe and Ciarke counties, devastated
by the cyclone, indicate that many
ives have been lost. Advices from
Gainstowp this morning stated that
theMown had been practically wiped
out by the cyclone with a loss of six
lives there. Forty persons were ln-s-red
and scores of buildings demol
ished. The mark of destruction ex
ended for thirty-five miles md
Tainstown, and many small h.-inlets
are believed to have been completely
destroyed.
ONE THOUSAND
KILLED IN BATTLE
Women and Children Killed Aa
Place Is Stormed Diaz Troops
Make Several Attacks in
Futile Attempt to Re
capture Ures.
BROCKTON, MASS., March 31.
Mias Em try Fanny Richmond, aged
ROANOKE, YA Special. This
city was shaken from renter to
circumference tills morning; when
the special grand jury's report,
after twenty-three days of Investi
gation, was made public The re
port clirrges that Mayor J. U.
Cutchin and Police Sergeant S. T.
Lemon were guilty of misfeasance
.and malfeasance In office and of
gross neglect of duty, and asked
that the court take steps to remove
them.
Three Indictments were returm-d
against II. 12 Meyers, designated iu
tUe report as the "lixer." One In
dictment charges blackmail ab
stracted from W. li. Mahouey, keep
er of a gambling bouse. One
charges petty larceny, aud the third
contempt o court, in preventing
witnesses from appearing before
the grand jury. The report al
leges protection to the gambling
joints and other disreputable
house., and that Mayor Cutchin was
toe recipient of a diamond ring, au
oiuce suit of furuiture, and three
rugs sent to his home by a notori
ous woman.
Judge Staples stated this morn
ing that the report had been filed
and he would request Governor
Mann to uame some other Corpora
tion or Circuit Court judge to hear
the charges against the Mayor aud
his police sergeant.
ALBANY, N. Y., March 31. All in
dications this afternoon pointed to
the election of James A. O'Gorman,
Democrat, Justice of the State Su
preme? Court of the First District, as
United States Senator from New York
to succeed Chauncey M. Depew.
Today's developments in the sena
torial deadlock were the most excit
ing that have marked the situation.
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, was the .center of the
storm that broke as soon as the Tam
many chieftain arrived here unexpect
edly from New York to take charge
of the situation. He presented to the
insurgents the name of O'Gorman.
Some of the insurgents bolted at
O'Gorman's name, and for a time it
looked as though the whole situation
was agnin a chaos.
The Democratic caucus met in se
cret and adjourned until 3 o'clock this
afternoon. In the meantime Senator
Roosevelt, the insurgent leader, tele
phoned to New York for the record of
Justice O'Gorman. Indications were
then, if this were found to be favor
able, the justice would be accepted by
the insurgents as their candidate.
The prediction was made that O Gor
man would be chosen and that his
resignation from the bench was already
EL PASO, TEXAS, SpeclaL
The bloodiest battle of tne Mexi
can revolution Is reported raging
around lite io.ui oi I res, State
of Sonora. Oite thousand are
said to be dead. Ures lias fallen
into the bands of the revolu
tionists, and the nearby town of
San Kafael has been sacked and
destroyed.
The federals are encamped
about Ures, and a long range
battle is being fought while both
sides wait lor reinforcements.
Reports from Mexican border
towns received here today related
details of the lighting about Ures,
which is east of the city of Chi
, huab.ua and thirty-three miles
northwest of Iiermosilia. Many
women and children are said to
have perished in the bombard
ment of the town.
Fighting Sinee Monday.
"The battle, which started on
Monday when the rebels march
ed upon Ures, has been in pro
gress ever sint e, the federals mak
ing several attacks in attempts to
recapture the town after it fell.
The insurrectos trapped twenty
five federals - In the municipal
building, then poured a galling
fcre into the structure, killing all
of them. The regulars fought
gallantly to their death.
The federal forces are commanded
by Colonel Arzamendi.
There are 200 Yaqui Indiana in the
regular ranks under command of
Chief Bule.
The rebel forces are under Gerterals
Garcia, Cabral, Gandarita, Giren,
Villareal, Ainze and Manage.
The federals sent to Parral for re
inforcements, while messengers were
dispatched by the rebels to Generals
Madero and Orozco, who are encamp
ed near the city of Chihuahua.
Look for Ammunition.
Latest reports from the front
stated that the rebels were . running
short of ammunition, and had made
a night attack in an attempt to loot
an ammunition train of" the federals.
The rebel forces quietly concen
trated about Ures unknown to the
federals.- The estimates of the size
of their combined force varies, but
it is generally believed to be more
than 1,000 men.
By forced marches the rebels sur
prised the garrison and a hand-to-hand
battle in the streets of the town
ensued.
In the march upon Ures the rebels
attacked the town of San Rafael,
burning a large portion of it, looting
stores and carrying away a large
quantity of foodstuffs and arms and
ammunition. ,
Heard on the Street.
"The beginner on the bicycle runs
into the very object he seeks to
avoid."
"I wish I could think as charitably
of the chauffeur."
SUPJUE NEVER
i Ci
u r
AD .HER HOME
WOMAN CUT SELF OFF PROM
TILE WORLD AT HER SIS
TER'S DEATH.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Special.
For the first time in nearly a quarter
of a century sunlight has entered the
little dwelling at 809 Corinthian Ave
nue, for its former occupant and
owner, Caroline Furber, lies dead.
She passed away just as the last rays
of the setting sun she had so long
excluded from her home and life were
gilding the western windows of the
German Hospital, where she had been
taken, fatally burned from a fire, the
result of her infirmities and self-imposed
isolation.
Miss Furber lived at 809 Corinthian
Avenue since she was a compara
tively young woman. With her up
to her sudden death twenty-three
years ago, this coming April, lived
her sister, Sarah, a woman whp had
not only been a sister, but mother
to the dead woman. At ther.time of
her sister's death Caroline was prin
cipal of one of the prominent Phila
delphia schools and gave up her po
sition, as she gave up everything else
that had to do with a normal wo
man's life.
At that lime it is said that she
made a vow that the sunlight, which
had gone out of her life at her be
loved sister's death, should never en
ter her home again, and that vow she
kept, for until the axes of the firemen
broke open the shutters of her home
yesterday the light of day had never
penetrated into the rooms.
True to the traditions of New Eng
land ancestry Thanksgiving was the
great day of the year for the sisters,
and every year saw a family gath
ering at their home. On the last
Thanksgiving: Dav bfor Rnrah-c
death the family were there. From
mat uay until now no human being
had talked with Miss Furber, other
than the conversation remiiro hv tvi
actual necessities of existence.
jyilss urter never used gas after
her Sister's death, nnd tlia -wi i v.
- "11
she burned was probably the cause
"oaiu. r ii teen empty car
boys which had contained oil were
found when the honso woo onci
by police and firemen, and the wo
man iouna nearly burned to death.
800Y OF MISSING
WATCHMAN FOUND
ALBANY, if. Y. SpeciaL
Workmen excavating in the ruins
of the Capitol west wing this
morning found the half-charred
body of Samuel J. Abbott, the
State Library watchman, on the
fourth floor.
When the body of the State Li
brary watchman was found it waa
lying on- its side under a mass of
burned literature. The head and
face were well preserved, but the
side of the body, which was up
permost, was considerably burn
ed. Identification was easy, owing
to the fact that the features were
in no way injured or marked. The
white moustache of the dead
watchman was not even singed.
In Ore search for the body
thousands of burned books and
documents were found. Charred
leaves were caught up by the
wind and wafted through the
Capitol windows and fell thous
ands of feet away from the build
ing, t
VA. STATE CAPITOL
IS WELL INSURED
Commonwealth Pays Premiums on
dearly $200,000 and May Get
Further Protection.
RICHMOND, VA, Special.
Should a fire occur in the State Cap
itol or in the Library Building, the
Commonwealth of Virginia would fare
much better, so far as insurance is
concerned, than have New York and
Missouri, whose State houses have both
been burned since January 1st.
On the Capitol and Executive Man
sion the Commonwealth carries $123,
000 insurance $ 92,50 for the CapitoJ
and its furniture and $30,500 on the
Mansion and its furniture.
In addition to this, the State Library
and its equipment are insured for $50,
00 and the State Law Library for
$20.000.. The Library Building, how
cver, is not insured, and Colonel John
VY. Richardson, the Register of the
Land Office, intends to take steps to
give it protection against fires. It is
his purpose to have a conference with
the Governor about this matter some
time today.
Both the State Capitol and Library
Building are practically fireproof, ac
cording to the accepted meaning of
the word. While the Capitol has
wooden floors, these are laid on a
concrete base, so that even in the
event the floors ignited, the flames
could not make much headway. Save
in the Governor's office there are no
open fireplaces, the whole building be
ing steam heated, while the electric
wires have all been carefully arranged
in conduits.
But Colonel Richardson Intends to
take no chances in the way of court
ing fate. If any of the public build
ings need further protection in the
way of insurance he intends to have it.
BRINGS MESSAGE
OF PEACE WITH HIM
ENGLISH MINISTER ARRIVES
SAYS KING GEORGE IS INTER
ESTED IN TREATY.
' Mildly Curious.
"You asked me If I would hare tea
or coffee," ventured the new boarder,
"and I said I didn't care."
"Well?" snapped the landlady.
"Would you mind informing me
which thia is?"
NEW YORK. Special. The Rev.
Dr. J. H. Jowett, of Birmingham,
Eng., arrived here early today upon
the Cunard liner Mauretania to as
sume the pastorate of the Fifth Ave
nue Presbyterian Church, bringing
messages of peace and good will from
Great Britain.
"I regard my coming here at the
time when the arbitration treaty is
under discussion by the peoples of
England and the United States as a
happy coincidence," said he. "I come
almost as the appointed representative
of the free churches of England to
express their united feeling in favor
of President Taft's peace proposals.
King George said at a dinrsr which I
attended shortly before I left England
that I come to America with the good
will of himself and Queen Mary. It
is almost a new thing for a King c
England to interest himself in the af
fairs of non-conformist churches."
Speaking of his work here, Dr. Jow
ett said he would devote much of his
time and energy to the upbuilding of
missions.
DEFIES KING GEORGE;
LOSES ROTH CASES
LONDON. Special. The slander
suit of Baron De' Fores.t, one of the
best known figures in the British fash
ionable set against his brother-in-law.
Henry Milner, was forced to trial to
day, and ended in a verdict for the de
fendant. A second suit, brought by
the baron against his mother-in-law.
Lady Gerard, was also tried today with
a similar termination.
The baron, in bringing the cases to
open trial, acted in direct defiance of
the expressed wish of King George,
who has attempted to prevent the
making public of certain scandals In
connection with the case.
"We shall show," declared Barris
ter Clarke, representing the baron. In
opening the case, "that this defendant
circulated defaming stories alleging
that Baron De Forest kicked his wife
down stairs, beat her and otherwise
treated her in such a manner they
were forced to part."
When court opened this morning
the room was thronged with men and
women of social prominence. It la
said Baron De Forest has blacklisted
himself in social circles by pressing;
his suit and has incurred the enmity
of King George and Queen Mary. The
Baron has boasted that he would be
smirch some of the proudest name
in the empire before he is through.
Baron De Forest nas had an event
ful career. He is the adopted son of
Baron Hirsch and his title was con
ferred upon him by Emperor Frana
Joseph, of Austria. When he waa
twenty-one years of age he startled
society on the Continent by marrying;
the widow of Menier. the late million
aire chocolate kir- of France.
This marriage was subsequently an
nulled, and in 1904 De Forest married
the only daughter of the second Haron
Gerard, a god-daughter of Lord Rose
bery. Suddenly the baroness disap
peared. At the same time Lieutenant
Ashton, a dashing young soldier and
friend of the baron's, was also missing.
Lady Gerard upon hearing this news
is said to have exclaimed:
"Ashton would have been much
more than human If he had not run
away with my daughter. De Forest
was entirely too gallant In his asso
ciations with other women."
De Forest's suit against Lady Ge
rard was based upon this utterance.
GOT GOAT OF
HARVARD SENIOR
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Special.
John Emerson Stiles, of Gardner,
Mass., a Harvard senior, has lost his
jroat and is a patient' at the Stillman
Infirmary. No one but he knows where .
Stiles got the animal and no one will
tell where it went.
K. K. Smith. Proctor of Gray's Hall,
where Stiles lives, was informed by
the woman who looks after the roome
that she didn't mind taking care of
students' rooms, but objected to clean
ing out a goat's kennel. She said ,
there had been a goat in room 28 for
six days.
The proctor entered Stiles' apart
ment and found the goat reclining on
a chair. Smith told the senior he
couldn't keep such an animal in his
room and Stiles waxed wroth aud de
fied Smith and the whole college.
Mysteriously, Saturday evening, the
goat disappeared. Stiles hinted for
it in vain. The following day he was
taken to the infirmary suffering from
they have often exchanged visits and
a correspondence was kept up. They
have also attended many social func
tions together.
"MURDER WILL OUT"
SAYS AUTHORITIES
Confession of Chicago Greeks
Striking Illustration of Old
Police Axiom.
01ICAG0, ILL. SPECIAL,
Achilles Pantarakas and his wife,
Angelica, self -confessed murder
ers of Frank Barbarosos, wore
brought back to Chicago today
from Kansas City. The arrest la
pronounced by the police here to
be (he most striking illustration
of the detectives axiom "murder I
will out" that ever has been j
brought to their attention. Bar- v
barosos was murdered on Satur- j
day. His assassins got as rfar
away as Kansas City without even ;
the fact of their crime being dis-
covered. There, preyed upon by
their terrible secret, they confess- i
ed. Their arrest followed. This
afternoon at the inquest over I
Barbarosos' body the young Greek
and his wife are expected to re
peat their admissions.
Inspector Stephen K. Ileal y i
sail! i hat he had secured evidence j
tcmliii? to show Barbarosos was
murdered for his money. He had
saved nearly $1,000.
HE'S SURE HE WED HER;
WOMAN SAYS HE DIDN'T
NEW YORK. Special. Eugene
Folkes, of 319 West Forty-sixth Street,
is quite sure that he married the young
woman who had him haled to the
Tombs Court yesterday on a charge
of annoying her. The young woman,
Anna Belle Merry, of 123 West Nine
tieth Street, told Magistrate Freschl
that she had never married Folkes.
She said that she was the wife of Eu
gene Merry, of 123 West Ninetieth.
Street.
Although the young woman appear
ed against Folkes, she herself was un
der arrest at the time. Folkes had
charged that in marrying Merry she
had been guilty of bigamy, and she
is being held for extradition to New
Jersey, where she has been Indicted
upon Folkes' charge.
Folkes told Magistrate Freschi that
he and the woman had been married
at the Borough Hall in Brooklyn in
1906. His wife lived with him, he
said, until 1909, when she left him
and married Merry. Tw6 months ago
she had Folkes arrested for annoying
her. He was placed under a $1,000
bond for good, behavior, which meant
in this case that he keep away from
the woman.
-Magistrate Freschi decided that
Folkes had not forfeited his bond, and
set him free.
WANT METHODISTS TO
MEET IN LYNCHBURG
V
LYNCHBURG, VA., Special.
The local Methodist Protestant
Churches last night decided to invite
the Maryland Annual Conference ef
that denomination to meet here in its
next session. The last conference
here was twenty-two years ago. The
conference has 28,000 church mem
bers in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.