The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-04

the road runs. They came to this country
three years ngo, aud went to live with
Their, daughter, farmers wife, in
All went well for two and half years
and then their son-in-law had his arm cut
OH by a reQping machine Tho son was
no longer able to care for the old folks.
The home was broken up, and the old
people were thrown on their own re-
sources.
lage and home in Denmark. 1t was good
enough for them. But they were 5000
miles from home.
The people of Okalla. Neb., are notvery
rich. However, they raised a snbscrip-
ton, and got together enough money to
buy the old couple tickets to Chicago.
Then they put three broiled chickens, six
minee pies, some bread and butter and
huckleberry jam into their. basket, and
gave them "a to buy food with in Chicago.
The aged Dane kept the "a instead OF
buying anything to eat with it, and
closed q contract with Chicago railway
company to take him and HIS wife to
Pittsburg in freight car for "a. They
reached :Pittsburg. a month ago, pen
niless and without food.
Thence they set out on foot. Day after
day the old couple trudged over hill and
through valley. They slept in the fields
and on the roadside.
down, the Pennsylvania farmers let them
sleep in their barns. They had shelter
on the months journey only when it
rained. '-,
frequently they were refused food and
sometimes they had to walk many miles,
weak with hunger and almost furnishing
They suffered q great deal, and yet they
endured the journey better than one
would have supposed to be possible. The
commissioners have no power in the
case, but 1t is probable that charitable
Danes of New York will provide the
plucky old people with passage back to
their native land.
Plans for the Quadri-centennial.
Suggestions pour in upon Mayor Grant.
of New York, in his capacity as the pres
ent head of the quadri-centennial move
nnent Among them Is the proposition
for meeting at which subscriptions to
the guarantee fund shall be collected. Il
is likely that such u meeting will be held.
Among the newly discovered sites is
Fleetwood Race Course and adjacent
land. Names for the committee pour in.
1t is said that the men so far agreed upon
are Franklin L. Sunther, representing the
fur trade; William L. Bull, the New
York Stock Exchange, and Charles A.
Moore, machinery trade.
Mr. D. H. Elliott, who has Just returned
from Paris, where he arranged the exhibit
Of the State of Florida, suggests that as
soon as the organization is perfected, a
committee be appointed to go to Paris to
study the present fair for the benefit of
our '92 exposition.
The general sentiment of the country,
Judging from the letters received from all
localities, is strongly In favor of New
York as the most available place for hold
ing the great exposition. Among the
suggestions is that of Charles T. Southland,
who would like to see "a typical American
home built by building and loan asso-
citation" placed in the list of exhibits.
The Queer FlaclS Divorce Case.
The discovery of Mrs. raymond" sup
posed to be at the bottom of the Flack
divorce scandal, has added new interest
to the case which has been the principal
sensation of the week in New York. This
woman in he mysterious correspondent.
The allegations briefly are these
Judge Bookstaver July IL, 1889, granite d
q divorce to the wife. of Sheriff James A.
Elack on the statutory. grounds. Ben.
jafnin Wright was supposed to be Mrs.
Flack's attorney and Joseph Meeks was
the referee After the decree was
granted Mrs, Flack's statement that she
anything about the proceedings created a
vast amount OF surprise. The question
was, II Mrs. Flack didn't get the divorce,
who dida And the answer which receives
the most credence is;-Sheriff Flack him.
self.
y Yesterday the discoveries in regard to
Mrs. Raymond showed the possible mo
tive for the deed It Is alleged that Flack
is Raymond, and that he has been leading
a. double life for many years, boarding
with this woman-who was previously a
Miss Cherry-at several different places in
7 New York. They have one child, Ed
ward, now seventeen years old, who is
being educated at the st. Pauls prepar
atory school, Concord, N. H. Mrs. Ray
mond Is described as plump, pretty
woman, now about thirty-five wears old.
Mrs. Flack says that she did not appear
before the referee at all Sheriff Flack
says that she did. Lawyer Wright and
Referee Meeks say that she did not
Lawyer Wright will not say who re-
tanned him, and it probably was not Mrs
Flack. Altogether the case is very mys-
terious, and suggests the strange posi-
sibility that somebody personated Mrs
Flack through it all, Mrs. Flack will
push the case and the result cannot fail
TO be interesting. 1t Is said that it will
result in such change in the law as
shall make so much secrecy impossible in
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