Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-29


AIT O'Clock last night Miss Bertha Won Hill
lern started, at Odd Fellows Hall, Oh her one
hundred mile walk inside of twenty-eight
h0nrs-the NEST difficult feat she has yet at
tempted, as she has to make in this hall no less
IMAM 20 turns TO the mile. or a total of $500
| turns. There are some doubts, for this reason,
whether she will succeed in making the one
hundred miles in the specified time. There
was much larger company present at the
start last evening than at the previous walk,
and made mp generally of the better classes of
society; Many who came in just SO they might
say that they had seen the famous V on Hillern
seemed TO have become fascinated as they
watched her lively fitting around the track and
Long past midnight ladies fingered in che hall
and before starting was examined by DR.. Pat
ters0n. Her temperature was 9a.S, her normal
temperture being 50, and her pulse was 50. She
completed her first five miles in l hour min
utes and "a seconds, first ten miles i'm 2 hours
III minutes and ID seconds. first twenty miles in
4hOurs, Ks minutes and 81 seconds, and first
&hirty miles in hours, 81 minutes and % sec
"a seconds.
PIFrY-rHREE MILES IN LESS THAN TWELVE
HOURS WITHOUT REST.
she started out TO wal fifty miles without q
rest, and expected to have completed it this
morning about O'Clock. The Temperatures of
continuing at very even gait she, at 6:52
o'clock this morning, more than fulfilled her
promise, performing the unparalleled task Of
minutes without rest.
After rest of one hour and thirteen min
ntes, during which she took a light breakfast
she again appeared at :i5 O'Clock, and made
her first (54th) mile in l2:49. Up to :15 o'clock
she had made % miles, averaging a little over
10 minutes to the mile. 1t is surmised by spec
tators that having plenty of time on her hands
She is Outstanding her strength for tonight,
and that she intends before she closes to make
The fastest time ever made.
At The end OF the seventy-fifth mile Miss
Won HlEern retired Tor rest preparatory for
the home-stretch tonight, the most difficult
part Of her walk.
THE GRAND JURY today returned the fol
lowing indictments Endorsed true Bills
Chas, Honesty. Alfred Dover, Frank Dover
and W WIn Carrieo robbery; Nancy Bohanan,
office stamps: George Washington, Phillip
Johnson, Samuel A. Clark Vincenzl Bernar
dMlni, al,as Ben Vincent murder; Chas Honesty.
intent to kill: Warren Johnson. 90. Frank
Parker and Laura Parker, alias Stewart, forg-
ing money order: Andrew Ashton, Daniel
Charter and i:avinia Henson, Robert Camp
bell alias Williams and David Marten and
Sidney Henning alias Ann Henning larceny:
Taylor Frye alias Frank Brown alias Thun
der, Abraham Page Nathan Ashton and VIM
stewart petal larceny, second offence.
DEEDS IN FEE have been filed as follows:
samuel Carpenter ct al. to j. H. johnson.
Matilda Tyler to Elizabeth Scott, s9S.4l, lot 43.
So. So: L.G. Hine ct al, trstees, to j. II. Row
i3n har fly; part lot 8, ST. A. }. $. Miller to
White to Ezekiel Hughes, $500 lot 10, in Hol
mead,s addition to GEORGETOWN j. +. Staub
To l.: z. Morgan, 500, lot q, in Beatty and
Hawkins addition toGeorgetown. Robert Y.
and part H. reservation II. 6. J: Bond to II.
5 Bundy, $500, lots 2, IL, % and 81 to 81, sub
lots to4 and 20 So. iii; s. 900, lot "a Of sub
lots to 3. So. 81. Carrie Mccarthy to same
$500, lot 231, so. 615.