Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-03-13
HARDLY CREDlTABLG.
A Sensational Story Concerning Mr.
William sons Treatment.
STORY OF HIS LANDLADY.
She Says the Sick Room Was Rigidly
Guarded and Claims to Have Once
Restored Him After He Was
Declared Dead.

PHILADELPHIA, March 12.-Scarcely
had the remains of the late philan-
thropist and millionaire, Isaiah Nansant
Williamson, been laid in the grave when
strange and sensational stories began to
circulate concerning his last illness and
death.
The stories had their origin with Mrs.
Whitman, at whose house, 1929, Chest,
hut street. Mr.. Williamson lived and
,lied.
Mrs. Whitman does not stop with the
declaration that she and her daughter,
after having carefully attended the
stricken man. had been shabbiiy treated
and excluded from his room by the at.
tending physicians, Drs. Henry and
Penrose, and Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, the
lady being a second cousin of the mil
lionaire.
She goes on to declare that on Tues
day evening, after DIR. Henry had de-
clared Mr.. Williamson dead, she and her
daughter detected signs of life, and that
by the use Of hot irons and other simple
remedies they succeeded in restoring
the sick nan SO that ne wanted to go to
his Office next day.
Mrs. Whitman says she told DR.. Henry
that his medicines were too strong, and
that he threatened her with arrest if she
said any more about it.
She states that from that time she
was excluded from the sick room. DIR.
Penrose, Miss Wilkinson, William
Brown, a strange nurse, and George
Brown, the coachman, were with Mr..
Williamson when he died.
Mrs. Whitman said Mr.. Williamson
was very grateful to her for her kind
ness and attention, and had asked her
not to leave him. She and her daughter
had seen him before in as critical a con-
dition as he was just before his death.
Miss Mary Wilkinson, the landlady al
leges, threatened to remove Mr.. Will
hanson from the house if she said any
more, after the Tuesday episode.
Friends of Miss Williamson and of the
are of no CONSEQUENCE, and that they re-
suit from her feeling that she has a
grievance in her exclusion from the sick
room, where, they say, she interfered
with the regular treatments
In concluding her strange allegations,
Mrs. Whitman declares that the door of
the sick o was kept locked until Mr..
Williamson died, and that the body was
hurried out OF the house before she knew
of It's proposed removal.
Attorney Franklin F. Gowen, by
whose advice Mr.. Williamson add ed to
his will a codicll to remedy some
technical errors, declares the stories of
a will to be untounded. He saw none
was made. The eodioii was left un-
signed, and he says it made no change
of any moment in the former disposition
of the property.
A Famine Threatened In South Russia.
VIENNA, March 12.-Notwithstand-
ing the abundant harvest in
South Russia last year in the interior,
whole provinces are suffering from a
state bordering on famine. The inhabi-
tants of entire districts in the gov
eminent of 0xenburg are actually dy-
ing of starvation. Four years Of bad
crops have totally exhausted the poor
peasants, SO that numbers of villages
there have eaten the last seed corn. The
adult population allow themselves the
luxury of a piece of bread once in two
days, whilst children crying for bread
are FED several times a day with very
small bits OF millet cakes, which in
ordinary times the poorest peasant
would not look at. These cakes when
they are just baked and still warm look
more like cement, and when they be-
come cold, are harder, if possible, than
stones.