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The Washington times., 1895-04-02
RENDERED A RECEPTION.

New Converts TO the Temperance Cause
Meet the District Officials
The ladies ofthe women's Christian Tenn
perance Union of the District rendered
a reception to the new members who have
lately joined the Union at the Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church last night.
The spa cious par lors adjoining the
church were brilliantly lighted and arts
ticaIly decorated with flags, and in them
was assembled large gathering of friends
and representatives of the Union from diff
ferent sections of the city.
During the reception, which continued
until late hour, the guests were treated
20 several solos, rendered by Mrs. II. n.
Boyd, and accompanied by Miss Jennie
and Mrs. S. NJ. Wescott on the piano and
violin. Refreshments were afterwards
served in an adjoining room. where boun-
tifuIly spread table was presided over by
the young ladies OF the Y w. G. t. q. Of
Vermont Avenue Church.
The reception committee was in charge
OF the presidents of the branches of the
Union In the city, and among those pres
ent were the following: Mesdames NJ.
E. Griffith, Cohen, Weightman, Shelton,
Wcscott, Williams, Smith, Minnick, Platt,
Brown, Faebtz, WaId, La Fetra, and
Misses Nellie Bradley, Bartlett. Drumm,
and Others.
Among those present were Rev. F. ID.
Power and wife; Mr.. NJ. j. HiIlman, Judge
Mcdowell. Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Shelton,
Mrs. C. E. Ritter, Harstock, Falconer,
Kessler, Maxwell. Mrs. Vivian and Stella
Bridge, Mr. and Mrs. Nevlns, Mrs. Knowles,
Mr. and Mrs. H. d. Gordon, Mr.. and Mrs.
sr.r
Misses AbbIe Power, Piper, Godfrey,
Rynex, Chase, Moore. and Mrs. Clafflin,
OF Georgia; DR.. Drew, OF Boston; DR.. Alice
Brown, and Nrs. II. Z. Brown
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
She CUT THEIR THROLTS
Two Young Children Killed by
their Inhuman Mother.
ONE DAUGHTER BEGGED orr
Mrs. w. H. B. Williams, of Grove City, Ohio,
Took Her Three Children to Columbus to
Meet Their Death-Gavs Them Opium
First but It Failed to Work. So She Used
Razor-Intsndsd to Commit Suicide.

Columbus, o., April Last Saturday
Mrs. w. H B. Williams, wife eof real estate
man, residing at Grove City, a village about
eight miles southeast OF Columbus, ar
rived in the city with her three children,
Annie. aged fourteen; Maude, aged twelve;
and Harry, aged seven. and registered at
the Park Hotel.
This morning, about 8 o'clock, Mrs
Williams left the hotel and about O'Clock
this afternoon chambermaid who went to
the room TO put it in order, found two OF
the children, Maude and Harry. dead in
bed, with their throats cut. There was
a bloody razor on the foot Of the bed
The boy had died without a struggle,
but there were evidences that the girl had
made fierce fight with her inhuman
mother.
DOMESTIC TROUBLE THE CAUSE.
Annie said that when her mother went
away she cautioned the girl not to go
to bed and not to say anything to anybody
about her absence.
Mr.. Williams arrived this afternoon aud
would not permit his daughter to talk.
Mrs. Williams has not been found and
it is believed she has suicided. Domestic
troubles are said to have caused the es-
arrangement betw cen Williams and his
wife and her subsequent acts, but he re-
fuses to talk
Later Williams and his daughter were
locked up at the police station pending an
investigation.
This evening Mrs. Williams was ar
rested. She showed no evidences Of fn-
sanity. and told the story OF the horrible
crime in a calm voice She said she had
made up her mind last week 10 kill her
self and her children, and came to Co
lunibus for that purpose.
GAVE THEM OPIUM.
She secured some opium. and all three
took the drug Saturday night 1t took
effect only on the little girl, Maude.
She then determined to secure a razor
and wait until this morning. She first
cut the boys wrist, expecting him to
bleed to death. and then she cut his
throat.
The body OF Maude was not touched BY
the razor Mrs Williams said she then
asked Annie TO let her cut her wrist, but
the child begged so piteOusly she lost
courage and left the hotel, intending 10
drown herself. She said it then occurred
to her that Annie might be accused or the
crime and she changed her mind and went
to the house OF a friend Mrs. John c.
Lester, in another part OF the town, where
she was found this evening.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
DIED.

CARPENTER-In Washington, d. c., on
March 30, 1895, at a. m, Mrs Mary p
Carpenter, widow OF James N Carpenter,
paymaster u s. n.
Interment at BerryviIle, Va.
CROsS-On Saturday, March so, 1895.
at $50 p. m, Frank P, youngest son OF
Anne NJ Cross
Funeral from bis late residence, zoe
Seventh street southeast, Tuesday, April
2, at p m. Relatives and friends IN
vited to attend.
GALLOWAY-On Sunday, March 81,
1895, at her residence No 4O3 E strees
northeast, Annie NJ. Galloway. aged sixty
five years
Funeral services at st. Cyprian's Church,
9 O'Clock q. m, Tuesday, April 2 Mem
bers of St Benedict's Society and friends
are invited.
CRIsT-On Monday, April 1, 1895.
at 9.2S a. m, al Columbia Hospital, Ada
c. Crist, wife Of Clarence Crist
Interment at Waiisworth, Ohio.
LOvELAsS-On Monday, April /, 1895,
at 1 O'Clock a. m, Margaret, wife OF ]. T.
LOveIass, at No. 239 Jackson street, Ana
costa, ID. c.. aged thirty y-nine years
Funeral Wednesday April 9 at
o'clock, from St Teresa's Church. In
terment at Mount OIivet Cemetery.
NICHOLS-Suddenly, on March s1&
1895, at 7:5O a. m, Charles K NicbG
beloved husband of Ida S. Nichols
Funeral from his late residence #
Carroll street southeast, Tuesday.
p. N. InterInent at Boston
ara invited A
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
MISS DELANEY is WORSE.
Her Condition Aggravated by Returning
Her to Jail and Not TO an Asylum.

Her Condition Aggravated by Returning
Her to Jail and Not TO an Asylum.
Miss Mary Delaney, the insane woman
who is believed to have made the attempt
to burn st. Patrick's and st. Dominic's
Catholic Churches some time ago, has not
yet found refuge in the insane asylum, not
withstanding the fact that she was certified
to the Secretary of the Interiorlast Thursday
as an insane person.
MI T. A Lambert, the lawyer, who has
interested himself in the case, appeared
before Judge Miller yesterday and said that
although it was ordered when the case was
closed that Miss Delaney should be con-
fined at No. 6 station-house until she could
be committed 10 the asylum, she had been
sent TO the Jail from the station last Friday
evening, and was there confined in a cell
with two colored women, and a decided
change for the worse in her mental condition
has been the result.
The clerk of the court was ordered by
Judge Miller 10 communicate with the
Secretary of the Interior at once, in order
that Miss Delaney might be committed TO the
asylum without further delay.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Deaths in Forty.eight Hours.

Burial permits for the forty-eight hours
ending at 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
were issued by the health office as follows;
White-Edward Boyle, % years; Eliza
Stealy, 75 years; Lewis Tiffany, % years;
Patrick White, Sc years; Anna L. Madi-
gan, 81 years; Thomas O'Beirne. % years;
Francis g. Smith, months; Lewis Gil
more, months; Francis Taylor, 8 months;
Kate E. Roby, days, and James Reed.
day.
Colored-AIice Coleman, "A years; Hat
tie Matthews, 81 years; SaIlie FantrOy. so
years; Henry Cant, 56 years; Harriet
Daniels, so years; Mary Wheeler, 26 years;
Willie Morris, years; Annie M. Gallo
way, 6S years; Fredericka Basil, month,
and Jessie Wren, days.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Marriage Licenses

Licenses TO marry were issued yesterday
to the following William STREET. and Annie
K. c. Brunner; Cephas Johnson and Susie
Myers; Martin Biba and Katie DiHginghaus;
George W. Simmons and Dora Mondy,
Thomas Walker, OF L0udOCn county, Va,
and Clara MahOTn; William Jackson and
Rachel Rebeeea Randolph; VIM. Douglass
Writ and Nina BARTLETT.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
"BLooDFIELD" IN A BLAZE.
Five Frame Structures Nearly Destroyed
by Fire on Half Street Southwest.


by Fire on Half Street Southwest.
The fire department was called out at
1870 o'clock last night to a fire which
at one time threatened to clean out the
east end of ''Bloodfield." The flames
started in the two-story row of frames
on Half street, between NJ and N streets
southwest, occupied by colored families,
and soon brightly illuminated the entire
southern end of the city.
The blaze was caused by the overturn-
ing of coal oil lamp in the second story
of the house occupied by Mary Green,
No 1241 Half street. 1t spread rapidly
TO the other four houses, one of which is
vacant, and the others occupied by James
Cross, David Evans and j. Brown.
The upper floors OF the five structures
were pretty well burned out. Damage to
the buildings, about $500, and the same
amount to the occupants furniture. The
row OF dwellings is owned by Dallas Nolan
and insured.
The tenants, being poor colored people,
feel the loss of their property greatly.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02

catgut and forms the crosse. The netting
must never be more than foot wide, and
ii is in the printed rules that the netting
must not sag ever so little. Sometimes,
INSCRIPTIONS players have tried to form
a bag OF the netting, 20 as to get a
grand throw from the crosse, but this is
as bad form as stealing a base at base
ball, or cheating at croquet.
On evenings ''crosse" party is very
pleasant, indeed We obtain through the
day, long sticks OF ash or hickory, and
bend and rebend them, until they get very
supple. Then we wet them and allow
them to dry stiff and hard ali except the
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Medals in Union veteran Legion.

At the regular meeting of Encampment
No. 50, Union Veteran Legion, last night
the recommendation of the committee on
the state of the Legion was unanimously
adopted It was to the effect that the
comrade bringing in the greatest number
of new members to the camp before the
seolonel's successor takes the gavel, should
be presented with a gold medal The
report also provided that similar medal
under similar conditions be given to the
comrade who presents the greatest num-
Der of accepted and mustered recruits dur
ing the term of office OF the National Conn
nlander.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Murdered an Infant Chi

CrawfOrdsville, Ind, ApTil -
Flora Hall, Mrs. Samuel WoIliver, and Chas-
Wolliver, her son, were arrested for the
murder OF the infant child of Miss Hail.
The child disappeared last Tuesday, and
last night Coroner Barcus and Dr.. Leech
made a midnight search in Cra1 fOrd's .
woods. The grave OF the child was found
covered withIeaves at the foot Of bluff.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Another Cashier shnrt.

St. Paul, Mimi, April IA Winona,
Mimi, special TO the Pioneer Press says:
George n. Scott, who for four years has had
the position OF cashier at BeefSlOugh for
the Mississippi Logging Company, is re-
ported to be $50, 600 short
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
BOARDING HOUSE LETTERS.
Prizes in "The Times" Contest to Be An
nounced Next Sunday.

The committee of judges in charge of
The Times letter contest are now at work
examining the hundreds of letters sent in.
Their decision viii be announced in next
Sundays Times, April z.
The prizes are two in number, first of
$40 in gold and second of $40 in gold,
TO be given respectively to the best and
second best answer received.
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
A post.office Robbed.

Omaha, Nebr., April 1.-The South
Omaha postoffice was robbed of So 900
last night by cracksmen The work was
not discovered until to-day A large
amount of stamps We're also taken
The Washington times., 1895-04-02
Hotel Be,rord oyster Roast.

The guests of the Hotel Belford were
treated to a grand oyster roast by the
proprietors last night. at which large
and jolly assemblage was present.
The representative., 1895-09-25
JAMAICA SUPERSTITIONS.

National Review: There is curious
superstition that if a death occurs in the
house all the water in it is poisoned at
once, and must be thrown away the
reason given being that death cools his
sting" after destroying life in the first
water he finds; and as no one can tell
death being invisible-what jar he may
choose, it is safest to throw it all away
Careful people, to save trouble, even car
ry all the water out Of the house imme-
diately before death is expected.
A mulattO girl told me of one woman
who was brave or curious enough to stoop
down over a jar Immediately after a
death had occurred. She was rewarded
by hearing a curious noise; but, although
she knew it must be death, she dared not
look up. She described it as the faint
fluttering of a bat, which it probably was
"a bat" meaning in Jamaica any flying
creature that is not a bird. Very possi-
bly, it was a huge moth; but, if the kind
known as the "Black Witch" the Sight
would only have increased the wOman's
fear, for to have BLACK Witch" flying
about the room is a sure sign of DEATH
1t may be mentioned by the way, that
there is a similar superstition to this last
in many parts of France about the hum
mingbird hawk MOTH
1t is customary to remove the pillows
from dying persons so that they may die
lying quite fiat. For what reason the me-
groes do this I know not, but 1 am told
that 1T is always done by them 1 have
heard that the same thing is done in some
country districts in England under the
belief that it makes dying easier. 1t
probably has assisted to help some un-
fortunates out of the world in the West
Indies, for have heard that the pillow is
IN many instances positively snatched
away.
The representative., 1895-09-25
DRINK THAT WAS A NEW ONE ON
THE KENTUCKY BARKEEPER

Edwin Milton Royle, author of
Friends" and the new romantic drama.
Mexico" which will be seen here at the
Grand Opera House all next week tells
a good story, apropos of Kentucky, and
It's devotion to the whisky principle.
Passing through a Kentucky town re-
Gently, he stepped into bar-room and
asked for glass of apollinaris. The bar
tender looked puzzled, and Mr.. Royle.
thinking he had not been heard distinctly
repeated twice, 'apollinaris, - "a glass of
apollinaris." The barkeeper did not seem
entirely treasured, but began to move
nevertheless, and producing small whis-
key glass put in some ice and a piece
of lemon. He was about to add some su-
gar when Mr.. Royle said: mo sugar.
please"
The puzzled look reappeared on the
barkeeper's visage, but nothing daunted,
he reached for bottle of Angostura bit
tiers and began adding a dash to the con-
tents of the glass. Again Mr.. Royle
stopped him. Then the barkeeper be-
came discouraged "What was the name
of that drink, once more, Colonel?" he
asked
"Apollinaris," Mr.. Royle repeated. A
sort of four of a kind against a straight
flush and you take the pot expression
saddened the barkeeper's features as he
rejoined: Colonel, I'll have to confess I
don't know how to mix that drink
Nothing so mild had ever been called
for across that bar before.
The representative., 1895-09-25
SWISS WINES
SOMETHING ABOUT THE PREPARA
TION OF LIGHT DRINKS.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE PREPARA-
TION OF LIGHT DRINKS.
The wine in Switzerland is left in the
casks until the following spring, and it is
here. that fermentation takes place and
the mout is converted into wine, says the
Cornhill Magazine. The change begins
almost Immediately; the liquid becomes
turbid, carbonic acid gas is evolved, a
scum is thrown up on the surface and the
temperature rises. A climax is reached
the intensity of the fermentation dimin-
ishes, subsidies: the scum settles as a
Shiny deposit at the bottom of the cask
and a clear yellow fluid is left above.
The grape supar has almost entirely dis
appeared, corresponding amount of al
cohol has taken it's place and the sweet
taste of the mout has given place to the
characteristic vinous flavor of the wine.
In the early stages of fermentation enor-
nous quantities of carbonic acid gas are
given off and huge fires are made in the
cellars to drive it away. But at the time
1 write of, October, 1893, when the vim
tage was the finest of the century. when
barrels to hold the mout could not be
purchased for love or money, when every
cellar on the lake, from Geneva to Vile
neuve, was packed with casks of mout.
so great was the amount of carbonic acid
gas in the air that, in spite of every pre-
caution, several deaths from suffocation
took place among the workers. In the
spring the wine Is drawn of clear into
other barrels, then bottled; vim ordinaire
The representative., 1895-09-25
NTH HEAD TOWARD THE ENGINE
PULLMAN PORTER GIVES SOME
POINTERS THAT ARE OLD BUT
THEY ARE GOOD.

PULLMAN PORTER GIVES SOME
POINTERS THAT ARE OLD BUT
THEY ARE GOOD.
I'm riding on a Pullman car" said a
servant, "sleep with your head to the
engine. There are not so many head
on collisions on the railroads, experience
has shown, and besides the danger is
less from rear-end collision. The rea-
son for this is that every passenger
train has it's own right of way and runs
regularly and is looked out for by all
trains running ahead of it. The great
est danger is from train behind which
doesn't know when we have stopped or
broke something and been forced to stop.
This is the chief reason for sleeping this
way, but there are others.
"You get the draft in the right place" "
the porter continued, with your head to-
ward the engine. Your head feels cool
without being exposed to the flood of
air you would get were you pointed the
other way. But the most important rea-
son for travelling this way is the matter
Of tie circulation of your blood The
motion of the train is so strong and
steady that it sends all the blood toward
the end that is furthest from the engine
Put your feet to the engine and all your
blood rusheS to your head and gives you
a restless night. Put your head to the
engine and the blood goes away from
your head, leaving it cool and easy so
you can rest like child. When you
have got yourself fixed this way, and
moreover have got in the middle of the
car because it is the safest, then you are
ready for good nights Sleep"
The representative., 1895-09-25
NE WS FOR BOOK BUYERS.

We have furnished a great numbe r
of sets of Chambers Encyclopadias,a as
per advertise ement in another column,
to our subscribers. and everywhere
they have given excellent satisfaction:
but in several instances parties have
written us to enquire whether there
was any chance to get them in cloth
binding, so that they would be in a
more durable shape. We accordingly
wrote to the publishers and they
write us that they will furnish sets,
to subscribers for THE REPRESENTA-
TIVE, in cloth for 1915 per set of
twelve volumes, containing all the
matter of the 80 volumes, in paper de-
scribed in our advertiseme Mt. Or for
$500 we will furnish a better edition,
on good paper, in II volumes, SUBJ
stantially bound. In each case 81
would have TO be paid extra, as per
advertisements, for one years sub
scription to THE TIVE;
and the books would have to be sent
by express, the consignee paying the
express charges.
This is a grand opportunity to OBJ
tain for small sum a splendid En-
cyclopadia that can be used in the
family for the next half century.
The representative., 1895-09-25
CHAMBERS ENCYCLOPEDIA.

We print upon another page of this
paper an advertisement of Chambers
Encyclopedia. When the matter was
first brought to our attention it seemed
to us so impossible that thirty volumes
of an Encyclopedia, as famous as Cham
bers' great work, containing over twelve
thousand pages, could be sold for $3.50
that we ordered set sent to us at Hast
ings, expecting to find some sort of
"fake'' like the man who advertised
"fine steel engraving of George Washing
ton" for $1.00, and when the dollar came
sent a postage stamp! We have three
encyclopedias in our library; one of them
cost us $120 and another something
more; and thirty volumes of Chambers
work at $3.50 seemed so improbable as
to be absurd. But to our great astonish-
ment along came the books, great pile
of them. We opened the package and
found the thirty volumes, each the size
of an ordinary novel, bound in paper,
the type small but clear, and the articles
covering the whole field of human
knowledge, and exhaustive in character
Such work at such price is one of
the triumphs Of modern civilization; and
we feel we are serving our friends by
introducing it into their houses. 1t
would not have been possible 100 years
ago to have published such work for
less than $25000 per set: instead of $3.50;
but many new inventions have been used
to achieve such a surprising result No
royalty is paid; the copy is, we believe,
transferred to plates by some photo
graphic process; and this once made the
only cost then is the press work, (made
by great steam presses, running day and
night, and the paper. And yet it would
seem as if the mere paper in these 80
volumes would cost more than $3.50.
Send in your orders. The work is
library in itself, and wherever you have
a family growing up they should have
the advantage of access to it. The man
who could read those thirty volumes
through and remember it all, would be
the most learned man in the United
States.
See our advertisement as to terms and
conditions, in another column. Old sub
scribers can get them as we'll as new
Ed Rep.
The representative., 1895-09-25
At DEATHS DOOR
GAIL HAMILTON DESCRIBES HER
RECENT SEVERE ILLNESS.

GAIL HAMILTON DESCRIBES HER
RECENT SEVERE ILLNESS.
Hamilton, Mass, Sept. 21.-Gail Ham:l-
ton, or Miss Abigail Dodge, the we'll
known writer and biographer of James
G.. Blaine. is slowly recovering from her
paper, which is given out by her pastor,
Rev. J. G. Nichols.
''In the Valley of the Shadow of Death,'
is her subject, to which the writer was
able to give realistic touch. She said
she was taken ill last spring while locked
up in room in the Blaine mansion at
Washington. She felt she was falling
and realized something serious had seized
her. Her most intense feeling was the
shock her friends would receive when
they broke open the door and found her
dead upon the floor. She felt the shock
would be lessened to them if they should
find her lying in a natural position upon
the sofa, and she made a mighty effort
with her fast ebbing strength to cross the
room to the sofa. She reached it, but
stumbled and fell on the floor beside it.
She realized the situation when her
friends found her and could hear them
cbo luCy OpOhC dDOuI ucI, dIIuOuSu dD-
parently she was unconscious. Then
came long blank that lasted, how long
she knew not. At times she would part
ly recover consciousness and wonder
whether she were dead or not. Her two
brothers, Stanwood and Brown Dodge,
both of whom are dead, one of them dying
less than a year ago, appeared to her and
cOnverSed with naturalneSs. She some
times felt she would like to speak and in
quire if she was really in the other world,
but found it impossible to enunciate syl-
lableS.
She felt no especial sorrow in leaving
life and laying down its burdens, but she
had marked sympathy for her relatives
and friends, who she knew would mourn
long and deeply at her death
"Do not have horror of DEATH" was
her thought. 1T is blessed thing"