The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-01


and half of dollars each, the principal to
60 10 his brothers at their death. Jesse
Hoyt feared his daughter and they stove to
keep her from him when he was dying, so
they put her In a lunatic as,lum. After
his death she got out and then began a con-
test about the will that cost over half a
million. With all of her immense wealth,
of which she was deprived the control,
there were times when Mrs. Hoyt Suffered
for the necessarles of life, and she had to
apply to the courts for an award of twent' :
FIVE thousand dollars TO pay her debts and
get what she required. Irene, her daughter,
has been travelling all over the United
States In charge of Mr.. Carington, Ben
Buffers law partner, TO avoid the process of
the courts. Two weeks ago he died in
Colorado and Irene arrived here in charge
of his body just in time to attend her
mothers funeral.
The Stewart will case is not dead yet
Here was another rich man who left no
heirs, and his wife was supposed to inherit
all his property. Instead of being immense
ly rich it now appears that she was miser-
ably poor. Single woman as she was, with
no house rent to pay, in seven years she
got away with six millions and six hun
dred thousand dollars and died, poor
woman, over six hundred thousand dollars
in debt. That was rather hard luck, but
there are the figures, and what are you 60
ing to do about itP 1t is unnecessary to
say that she did not keep her own books
Somebody kept them for her, and she is
dead and dead people tell no tales.
A few weeks ago l told you of the fight
to Canada of Frederick DeBaun, the pay
ing teller of the National Park Bank. He
had been trusted officer of the bank for
twenty years; he rose from the humble
clerkship to be paying teller, and was
about to be promoted to the cashiership
with salary of 1900 year, and there
was only one step between him and the
presidency, but he stole, and stole, and
stole and forged and while he stood
highest among the high in the city of
BROOKLYN, where he lived, pious church
man and swell clubman, orthodox and
straight in everything, he was daily indulg-
| ing in the practices Of common thief, and
sor five years past not day went by that
he did not commit some act that would
have sent him to the penitentiary. 1t is
difficult to understand those double lives,
but here we meet them every day. At last
he took all he could lay his hands on and
fed to Canada, that paradise of American
thieves and swindlers, and there he thought
himself secure. But Canada groans under
the infamous burden of her American
criminal colony and would be glad to gel
rid of them if she we're not tied hand and
foot by an infamous treaty. She had stood
good deal but she could not stand DeBaun
courts she delivered him up, and the pre-
sumption is that the American courts will
send him to States Prison for twenty years
to come. Well done, Canada, give us a
few morel Give us Keenan,, give us Emo
give us Mandlebaum; in short give us al
you can spare, we will take care of them
,ou will do yourselves a service and do us a
service. AT any rate we are glad to gel
DeBaun back, and we will make an example
of him.
A few weeks ago society was startled by
the announcement that Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt's sister had married an erratic
young Bohemian named Gill. There was
good deal of doubt about the nature of the
| frltr Nd ,ol
to insinuate that the parties jumped the
broomstick; be that as 1t may they parted
IInmediatel, after the ceremony and did mol
see each other for several weeks; she was
with her family and he occupied his bache
lor apartments up town. Then came the
report that the Vanderbits had determined
| TO throw him overheard, and some said
The lady had applied for a. divorce. Well
gossip was set at rest this week by forma
marriage ceremony, which took place al
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's elegant resi-
dence, when Mr.. Gill took formal posses
sion OF his wife. There was no great jubi
lee, nor many congratulations; for, to tel
the truth. the Vanderblts are not at al
cannot be undone for the present, and Il
looks as though Gill bad struck a goo(
thing. Still on this marriage question it /:
never safe to prophecy six months ahead.
Booth and Barrett opened here with
Shakespearian revival on Monday las
which has captured :he town. For years
have maintained that If Shakespeare wa
properl, put upon the stage, with compe
tent actors, that they would receive bette
support from the public than that afforded
, to the so-called society plays. NY judg
ment has been sustained, for the house ha
J been crowded nightly and ministers hay
not been scarce in the audience. l see tha
one snobbish paper, in speaking of th
, that while those at Booth and Barrett'l
we're respectable, they were not of the in
tellectual character of those that greete,
) dary Anderson. Now, be 1t understood
} that have not one word to say agains
, Miss Anderson as an actress or
/ woman. She has nobly sustaine,
! the character Of her profession
and preserved her own spotless; 70
this, to her honor She is here now wit
an entirely English company, and is play
1 ing a most successful engagement; a
$ which, in general terms, rejoice. Blu
when all editorial snob compares in inte
j lectuality the best of her performances wit
D the very worst of Booth and Barrett's, h
d either writes himself down an ass, or if h
. does not the public will do it for him. Th
d most superficial student of Shakespear
d knows th t the plays represented by Messr'
! Booth and Barrett, to be given in their fu
e ness, require the very highest intellectus
Il power given TO man. That these plays ar
e now rendered by these gentlemen In
Y manner never surpassed on this side of th