Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-23
4 STRANGE WORLD.


women.
.....l Times
.-rs.ncement Of the death in the
stands of the eminent English
rraUcilr philanthrOpist and
....s.. John Bidduph Martin,
naturally 20 mind TWO OF the
..u.r kaUIe and notorious women
ever gave birth to-Mys. Vic
woodruff. now the relic of the
r..fsLmau, and Tennessee Claim
.r Cook. What a career they
. To what a remarkable
..ev have risen i'm foreign
from ,he 01e-Jime depths OF Luz
r. Jail in America. They are
and of the tive Mrs. Martin Is
-.rrably the brainiest. the other
mon. Eifted with merely physical
Thew came TO New York, II
....-1r is not mistaken, from Gin
- where their purse was poor and
v.vs peculiar In the metropolis
started openly q free love abode,
,rf.hsCol Blood who was Mrs.
..us husband. presided. They
4 .- ...- the world owed them a living
-.s- were determined 10 collect the
f they did. Vic Woodruff had
for figures. and this, and per-
-ua-hiag else, suggested the
.. herself and her sister, Tennie c.
---r.r correct name was Tennes-
..c- a s1-called brokers' Of
.- N..I street. They did not pa
bout that busy thOrOughfare
.r .r- mostly remained in the Of
. novelty of the new enterprise
r large crowd about the office
windows every day, but no
..-.-- 81 least not many cuSto-
LID. veI enc who was better than
.......rf others. That one was Com
Vanderbilt who greatly admir-
....-fa WOOdEulrs brains and Ten
c.c piQuant face.
rec.On with the brokerage
l5 firm printed a publication
@ W0odhul < Clafin's Weekly"
r. his sheet which preclpirated the
cher trouble. and thus its pro
-- became part Of the history Of
most remarkable clerical scandal
.- fr the history of this or any 9TH
.rfrv The weekly. while Osten-
soy e....- -. ~ rs,1l,. largely davot-
r-.r public exposition OF Victoria
w nufr- peculiar ideas upon the sub
.r warriaee and free love. There
e.~e foolish enough % say that the
WAS unfit for circulation. but,
however tina. may be, no effort was
made .l suppress !, r-..- ,-' ,..- - -
zion o- t15 issue "A.cA C'-',.'-'-1'' -.
@ l' me elllo..-s ,','' - M. -
Ward aea.LeI an" B i-eO..c'0 49, - -
coming the .atle'S WE 80. -
l.N.ra- not % magnify ."e i-,,--''
which had not taea Gss.ll'.- us 80 .1,
on. pr1po-'-lAs' Do was ~e1--.., ~ go ',,
rs'"a 90 arrest me Two women pun
fishers for giving clrcu.a,'oh 10 'I-7 al
H-eL ana so d -.eA1 VS. "-'''-,
o.. mother article in Jue same issue VI
tho Weekly containing t-- most
'-tttrl ALLEGATIONS o- inquiry against
I-ter G. CAclls. Oh -4r- beecAe' $
church. .-,-
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-.. r----s-r ob-or-i-,- NJ tbs sr-ic1e
,i-s7 If was bevord ouesric1 As
... r.-s-.rl~-s of tbsr occasion 1ater d.
, --.tio ,ri-icism f. NAV be veil IN
-.-, s-.-, m o#oieI s,rrca rho svoct
---s- +.- thar acoritt91 The ORIGINAL
~ Congress- maxine uurisb7ble the
.---f.si7n If obscene literature
.-..--r tho mails failed I'm terms ~ ex-
-..'. ~eve09rers. Congress then pass
o. second Get of almost exactly the
-- -r~-seologv as the first. but in
.-- rrwsnqnars bv title and that
declared 10 no I'm renesl Of the
.-e The Indictment against
T r-r e Cb3Ain was found under
second act but If was afrorw2rd
'.-. .ret the offansa 10 which the in
related had boan committed
.rs rqesara Of +ba reDe2ling act.
r- ---rer act was clause which d.
.sf tta- arv CffcDse committed
.-- 10 IT'S massage should be punisha-
under the original act When the
t.1 r-7r sworn and the testimony
-s witness boo1-n and a trial thus
---res, for woodruff & Clafin
- r-s--s m. co,rt the DroDosition that
---.-rtr~ ,.+ cou1d nor rsneal mart
t.. 80. -,:.., IL.