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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09
MRS. M'KINLEY'S MAKER
Mrs. ThOrne, Of Kansas, Sends Her the
Finest Piece Ever Made.
A HANDKERCHIEF OF $4,000 PIECES.
She Did the Work at Odd Times, while
Writing, Farming, and Doing House
work-IlIinks 1T Nice Pastime
for Other Women To Follow.
Copyright, 1871. for The Times.


WASHINGTON, May An unpreten-
tious little green paper box. done up in
brown wrapping paper through which
the green box showed itself, was ham
died at the Washington postofiice a few
weeks ago. Ii contained the most elab-
crate piece Of lace ever made in TINS
country. Its destination was the White
House, and il bore the name Of Mrs.
MIlnam Mckinley.
IL was lace Handkerchief made for
THE First Lady by Mrs. II. h. 1horne,
Of La COyne, Kansas, who worked
ever since the nomination Of Mckinney
TO get it done. II Mckinley had been
defeated, Mrs. Mckinley would have re-
ceived the handkerchief just the same;
for it was tribute TO her good qualities
and not TO the wife Of the President.
The paper box was a little broken
when IT got TO Washington, but the
handkerchief was safe. There was no
valuation placed upon il. ConnOisseurs
OF lace. however, can estimate its worth,
IL contained over $1,000 pieces, all made
with the point OF a needle. n similar
handkerchief was made for the Duchess
Of York by the Irish lacemakers. IL
contained 5000 less pieces, and was
valued al 500. IL took the twenty lace
makers three months TO make the lace
on cushions.
When Mrs. Mckinley received the box
she was so overcome with JOY that she
shed tears. She was pleased more at
the painstaking in her behalf than at
the value Of the gift. She told this Cab
met lady about il, and that one, and
pretty soon all Washington knew that
Mrs. Mckinley had received the finest
piece Of handmade lace ever done In
this country.
Mrs. Thorne, though she did this piece
Of work. IS not a professional lace
maker. This is what she says about the
lace.
THE little gift 10 Mrs. Mckinley Is
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09
MRS. r. +. THORNE.

permitting her TO have the two styles
for very little more money. and in enc
she IS deeply dmpled, while i'll the other
she smiles until you feel you can count
her teeth.
The woman with a beautiful mouth
has the pinkest of lips. the whitest OF
teeth and the most even, but they SIM
ply fash occasionally when the lips are
open. for after all there is only one po-
etical thought given TO teeth. and that
is the comparing them TO pearls
Pearls amount to little. unless they are
brought out by q good setting. Just
remember that. on maid of the teeth
and dimplcs' and when you are about TO
grin-dOn
THE IMMORTALITY OF STARCH
Ii Is certain that starch has a value
in the commercial world. Then, too, IL
is OF use TO make those powder bags,
used by people who refuse 10 recognize
the value OF a fire face powder, but
who strain al a gnat and swallow very
enormous camel. by banging q starch
bag at their faces and gaining as a re
suit. something very Ike the pictures
raved over by the impressionists.
You know what / mean. Those pic
lures where the sky is q blotch OF green,
the grass is a pale lavender. and huge
lump of pink paint and Another OF black.
represent TWO lovers parting.
or course the lady is another mans
wife. You wouldn't know It was two
lovers parting. unless YOU had that abil-
fly TO read the meaning OF paint daubs
peculiar 20 this school Of art But 70
return 10 starch. ] never knew laun-
dress who wasn't generous with starch
lin the wrong place.
The typical Madonna OF tho washtubs
makes your handkcrchiefs and the upper
part Of your petticoats as sun as boards
while your collars are as limp as a de-
featcd candidate.
Then. there Is no such abomination on
the earth as stiniy starched frock. II
is the JOY OF the laundress. The girl
who wears Il may be cool. nhat Is doubt
full though She will never convince the
world AT large that she is anything but
an ageravating blot on the landscape
The muslin frock adored by the poets
was. certainly what the darkies call
"slinky" II II had any acquaintance
with the washtub II had none with starch
consequently when a heroine's sylph-like
form was embraced the frock didn't
rattle and announce what was going on
10 the whole neighborhoJd.
History. as well as the Encyclopedia
britannica. tells MS that the old woman
who invented starch was hung as witch
was there ever a living being who de-
MED that starch was product OF the
EVIL Spirit;
IL ruins the temper and makes every
woman feel commonplace. You may
have the most beautiful petticoats In the
world. but II they're going 10 make a
dreadful noise az you walk by tho side
OF your adored one. you VIII yearn 10
ask him II he would mind immersing
you In the first watering cart that hap
pens along.
ssa1sh and the w.elders Of It. ere
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09

the centre of that chair IS. as the cush-
ions have horrid way of sliding round
and making the middle. or rather the
find Of the middle, a subject for the
X-rays.
When that chair was first seen and
bought by an innocent woman, IL was
accompanied by printed testimonials from
well-known people who had found 10
comfortable and couldn't live without
it. These well-known people must have
been saints who thought modification
good for the soul, and the hard, hard
floor. a place of JOY.
The morality Of the ancient chair was
great, but the immortality Of a modern
one cannot be surpassed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09

On Tuesday last Rose Coghlan entered
St. Elizabeth's Hospital. New York.
there to undergo an operation not neces-
sarily serious. but which will prevent her
appearing on the stage for several weeks.
Constant mounting and dlsmounting from
the horse in THE Sporting Duchess" re-
suited in a spinal affection that necessi-
tates immediate treatment. Next season
Miss Coghlan will again go on tour with
THE Sporting Duchess"
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have suspected tho cause.
Driving dresses just now are more ele-
CANT than calling gowns. for II is spring
and in the sring a young w0mans
fancy turns lightly. but without devla.
tion. 10 fine gowns and outdoor air.
NINA GOODWIN
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09

Eminent tragedians perform before
begcarly audiences; matchless interpre-
tiers OF thrilling drama succeed in filling
the front seats OF town hall; peerless
fun provokers and melodious-voiced prima
donnas are happy 70 exc out . miserable
living in these days; but the deformed
and ugly Little Egypt. with her lascivi-
Gus dance. draws men IKE moths to 3
candlA~-Detroit Journal
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09

In Bernhardts new play. la Samari-
taine." our Lord conyerses with his dis
ciples. and the people OF Samaria come
out TO him. headed by the Samaritan
woman (BernhardO. when he performs
miracles. The play finishes with Pho
tines recital Of the Lords Prayer, which.
detained as 1t Is by Nine. Bernhard,
produces 2 huge effect
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-09
THE SMART GIRLS SPEECH.

All during Lent the smart girl has
been getting herself in condition. from
the standpoint of her vocabulary, to 20
for suppose" and guess" She would
rather die than say guess" because
then anybody would know she was one
of those horrid Americans. Anything
from a dinner to 4 ball she calls q
Junction" personally. / always think
of a funeral as a function. If you meet
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WOMAN SUFFRHGISTS.
Susan B. Delivers an Adj
dress. and Other Officers Report.

DIES MONIES. Ia. Jan. 26.-The National
American Woman Suffrage Associations
annual meeting opened to-day with a fair
attendance. Seventeen States were repre-
scented.
Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding sec
rotary. reported over zoos articles published
during the past year in forty-nine States.
Although national headquarters at Phila-
delphia had lone good work during the
past year at an expense OF s. .SO0. she rec
commended the removal OF headquarters to
New York to cooperate with the national
organization.
her annual address this afternoon. 1t was
devoted largely TO q statement OF the work
in California, which she regarded as very
satisfactory. She said that CALIFORNIA; de-
feat is simply victory deferred, Tor the
LEGISLATURE is sure to resubmit an amend
ment and they will be victorious in No
vember. 1888. Nevada, oregon, Washington
and Montana are also likely to have suff-
rage campaigns, and prospects Tor success
are good. She urged q more thorough local
What we need. she said. is house-to-house
educational work throughout every pre-
Ciuct. We may carry amendments without
education of this kind, but we are not like
ly TO.
REV. Anna Howard Shaw. OF Philadelphia.
reported on the work in California. where
she spent most of the past year with Miss
Anthony. speaking twice daily Tor several
months. and found only I'VE places in the
entire state where the largest hall would
hold their audiences.
Laura Clay. of Kentucky. spoke for that
State. telling of satisfactory progress in the
recognition of women on state boards and
in social legislation asked for by women.
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THE MINISTERS PROTEST.
To Make n United Crusade ASains;
Sunday Bali Measure.

A special meeting of the Ministerial Asso-
citation of the city was held in the Y. NJ.
c.. A. Hall yesterday morning for the pur-
pose of protesting against the S~unday-base-
ball bill now pending in the Senate. The
matter was discussed by the ministers pres
ent, all of whom were very decided in their
opposition TO the bill. Revs. r. ". Hunter,
NJ. II. Appleby, T. 1. Coultas, j. E. Pounds
and ]. A. Sargent advocated that active
and immediate steps be taken to defeat the
bill. Letters of sympathy and cooperation
in the attempt to prevent the bills passage
were read from Revs. @. A. Christensen, NJ.
l.. Haines and G. G. Lasby..
a special committee, consisting of Revs.
r. Y. Hunter (chairman), D.. r. Lucas. VI.
II. Appleby. j. T.. Shannon. c.. A. Carsten-
sen and Q. ID. Fisher was appointed to take
active measures in opposition to this and
other bills before the Legislature. II was
also decided TO call a mass meeting TO pro-
test against the bill for next Sunday after
noon at one of the central churches. The
city Christian Endeavor Union has secured
over fifty petitions. with many signatures,
TO be presented 10 the Legislature.
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DUESTROW MURDER CASE.
Serious Charges Made Against the
Missouri Supreme Court.

ST. LOUIS. Jan. 26.-Governor Charles
+. Johnson, Charles holland and John W.
Booth, attorneys for Arthur ID lestrow. the
millionaire murderer" have completed
their motion for a new trial of the famous
case, and it will be forwarded to Jefferson
City. The motion will prove a sensation.
If the allegations contained in it can be
substantiated it will involve the Supreme
Court in a scandal of serious proportions
The principal point on which the motion
for a rehearing is based is n direct charge
that the court did not read the record IN
the case, as is required by the statutes
The motion attacks the opinion itself. and
claims TO find in that document ample
proof that the court never read the record
of the case. Duestrow's attorneys virtu-
ally charge that the States prosecutor wa:
preme Court.
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LOCATION OF THE BATTLE"
Corbett and FitzsimmOns TO Fight
Probably i'm evada

CHICAGO. Jan. 26.-The dispatches from
Nevada as printed in the newspapers to-
day on the passage of a bill under the
provisions of which Dan Stuart could pull
off" the Corbett-F itzsimmons battle, set the
sports here agog and all manner of gossip
was INDUCED in. George Siler, who is to
referee the big mill, and who. in conjunc-
ton with Malachie Hogan, is To run a
special train from Chicago to the ringside.
would not commit himself as to the loca-
ton of the proposed ring. "All the world
will know in a day or two just where the
ring is TO be pitched" said Siler. We have
the train already engaged, and yet the gen.
eral manager OF the road with whom we
are doing business does not know. except
in an approximate sort OF way, just how
far he will have to haul us. [ will say
this much. however. we will be at the ring
side sixty hours after we pull out of the
depot in Chicago. Mr.. HogGl and myself
have been kept busy for the past week an
swering letters of inquiry from out of town.
Thus far we have advised our correspond
ents 10 bide their time and when the prop
er moment arrives We will acquaint them
with all the details they can make use of.
The sports from New York. Philadelphia,
Boston. Washington, Pittsburg, Detroit.
Cleveland and other cities east and north
OF Chicago will undoubtedly go 20 the fight
on our train from this city"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-27
M'IxINLEY's VISITORS.
Mark Hanna and Other Politician
Confer with the Minor.

CANTON. o.. Jan. 26.-National Chairman
NJ. ~ Hanna called on Major Mckinley
this evening. He came from Cleveland at
$40 O'Clock and will remain over until to-
morrow He had nothing to say when
called on by reporters.
Mr.. Clarence Bowen. a prominent pub
Usher of New York city. and an intimate
friend of Major Mckinley. was a visitor
to-day. He said he was here on private
business and his visit had no prominent
political significance. Mr.. Bowen luncbed
with the major ana returned to New York
on an afternoon train.
NJ noon five Brooklyn gentlemen called
The party consisted of NIessrs. Walter r
Atterbury. r. Ross Appleton. Theodore II
Willis. city works commissioner. r. ]. Kali
tenhach and George Roberts. jr. They are
~ IN IN interest or congressman Fran
presented his name for Major NcKinley's
consideration. Mr. Appleton also presented
rme hane OF Andrew Jacobs for appoint
York. We"
Among other callers were W. p. Cham
berlain, OF Knoxville. Tenn. who said
many complimentary things about Hon
Clay Evans as Tennessee's choice for a
cabinet, positions; William L. Rohrer. of
Judge McKenna; NJ. +. Mann. Of PincIl
NEVILLE. Ill. who probably came i'm the in
terest or Senator Cullom: and George Rich
ards. of Cincinnati. who merely Daid his
respects TO Mr.. Mckinley.
IL was definitely arranged to-day that tho
iarswel reception to Major and Mrs. Nc
p The reception Will be TO Canfonians IN
general who wish 10 bid Major and Mrs
auspices of the Business Mems Associatforre
which Will arrange details. At . o'clock this
morning the major received a message frora
ia Chicago.
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BREAKING SIBERIAN STONE.
sixteen American Sailors undergoing
P~uni.huent for Illegal Sealing.

NEW YORK. Jan. 26.-The World says:
Seaman Matthew Hunter is one of the crew
of the American ship COnqueror. when mas
inst arrived from Japan and tied up on
the outside of the Atlantic dock. Brooklyn.
Hunter shipped in May last out OF
San Francisco on the American bark Wilma
for Vladivostock. where they found sixteen
American sailors and seal fishermen who
were prisoners of the Russian government,
breaking stone on a fertilization. Through
the help of Mr.. Smith, an American gun
expert i'm the service of the Russian gov
rnment Seaman Hunter and three ship
mates secured a short interview with four
of the prisoners in the presence of Russian
soldiers with fixed bayonets. The sealers
slipped two letters to their friends in San
Francisco up Hunters sleeve. In the let
tiers. which Hunter was permitted to read
before sealing and mailing them, they de-
scribe their hardships and abusive treat
ment in a Russian prison and the injustice
with which the Russian courts dealt with
them. Their crime was clubbing seals on
the Siberian coast. While their ship, the
Golden Fleece. ran to sea to escape a
storm. the Sixteen men were captured,
thrust into a room twenty by twenty, with
q dozen Cinnamon and Coreans and four
Russians. and kept for two days without
food. The dungeon was alive with Vermln.
Jan. a. 1886. they were sentenced to hve
months Imprisonment. But the Court or
Assizes at Irkutsk tried tnem again ana
sentenced them TO eighteen months i'm
prisonment. When that term is finished the
stone breakers expect 10 be resentenced
again.
The crew of the United States war ship
Olympia subscribed SIS for the prisoners,
but the governor of the prison TO whom
the money was intrusted was transferred,
and they never got it. they said. The
names of the sixteen are: Henry Ross, sec
ond mate of the Golden Fleece, now named
the Salpan, A. b. Hill. James Hill, James
Mahoney. James Mccarthy. James Riley,
Charles Nelson. Harry Carlson. Andrew
Andersen. Edward Gafkin, Charles Evans,
Alexander Lerache, Stephen Brennan,
Arthur Wilde. Charles Campbell. James
Wilson and Edward Howe.
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FOR TO-DAY.
Warmer, Cloudy Weather and Occa-
sionai Snow Prcdicted.

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for
the twenty-four hours ending II p. IN. Jan.
27-Warmer. cloudy weather and occasional
snow on Wednesday.
General conditions yesterday-The area of
high barometric pressure covering the
country is diminishing slowly A low bar
ometric area approaches the Florida coast.
The temperature has risen from the Mis-
souri, valley northward. the Ohio valley
northward and near the Atlantic coast.
Freezing temperature continued south TO
the gulf ald zero to IS degrees below zero
southwark TO Wyoming. Colorado. Nebras-
ka, Iowa and Indiana. Snow has fallen
Iron Colorado. Kansas and Missouri south
ward 10 the Sulf. local snow near the lakes
and in Tennessee and rain is falling in
Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-For Ohio-Fair
in the morning. with increasing cloudiness:
probably local SHOWS in the afternoon or
night; not so cold: north to west winds.
For Indiana and Misunderstanding
cioudiness; probably light local SHOWS; not
SO cold; north winds.
The weather bureau issued the following:
The temperature has risen slowly from the
Atlantic coast westward over the Ohio and
upper Mississippi valley and the North
west. II continues low and has fallen
slightly in the Southwest, and IL has fallen
decidedly on the central gulf and Florida
coasts. where ii IS below freezing. There
has been little change in temperature i'm
Florida 10 TO 5 O'Clock tonight. and as
this region is covered with IN area OF rain.
II Is probable that the cold wave may not
extend south or Jacksonville with sufficient
intensity TO cause injury TO crops. although
the temperature may reach freezing in the
interior OF the extreme northern portion.
The temperature viii remain about station
airy Wednesday In the middle Atlantic
States north of Virginia. with fair weather.
and il will rise slowly in the central val
leys. with light local SHOWS. The barometer
has risen in the St. Lawrence valley and
New England aDG in the Southwest and IL
mas fallen from FLORIDA northwest 10 Mon
tsna. There is a second depression central
over Florida which is apparently moving TO
he northeastward. The high winds which
have prevailed on the Atlantic coast north
OF Hatteras, due to the depression in the
lower St. Lawrence valley. have been sue
ceededs by brisk northwesterly winds which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-27
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Patrolman John Boylan returned from
Cincinnati at midnight with Joseph Griffin.
who is wanted here to answer to the charge
of stealing an overcoat.
Rev. Sam Small delivered two character
istic sermons yesterday at the Y. NJ. c. A,
one at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon to women
and the other in the evening to a large
company OF men. The sermon at night was
a pungent exposition of the need to men
of spiritual regeneration. The meetings
continue daily at 3 p. m. for women and al
S p. n. for men only.
The monument which is being erected at
the grave of John II. Butler, while being
placed in position yesterday. fell and was
broken IN three pieces. The shaft was
thirty-two feet in length. Sidney Speed. OF
Charlottesville. Is the contractor. and wi
lose $1,000 by the accident. which was
caused by the breaking Of a book in the
derrick.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-27
COSTLY RAILWAY WRECK.
Nearly 81 100000 Paid to Victims. and
More Claims to BE Settled.

CAMDEN, y. j., Jan. 26.-The railroad
accident which occurred on the Atlantic
City meadows last summer, when a Phil
adelphia & Reading flyer ran into a West
Jersey train. and resulted in the killing
of ~forty-four people and the injuring of
about 100 more, has proven a very costly
one to the railroads. Since the accident
the companies have been settling the claims
for damages outside of courts. 1t is esti-
mated that thus far they have paid out in
damages a sum amounting to nearly 81, O00,-
0U1.
One OF the latest claims to be settled is
that OF Mrs. Samuel Mita. She brought
suit for - 1000 damages for the death of
her husband and one daughter, and the
injuring of herself and a son. The COM
pany. it is said, has given her $50, 600 in
settlement.
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WRECK In NEW BRUNSWICK
Two People Killed and Six Injured i'm
n Railway Accident.

ST. JOHN, N. B., Jan. 26.-Word was re.
ceived here from Dorchester, n. B.. to-day
that the Canadian express from Halifax
for Montreal, on the international Railroad
line left the rails just before noon and went
down ar embankment. Two persons were
killed and six injured. Those dead are.
Arthur Edgecomb. of St. John, postal
clerk; Mrs. Patrijurn. of Bloomfield, y. b
The injured are: James Linkelletter. brake.
man. seriously; Hon. DIR. Borden. minister
of militia: Charles Fawcett. Sackville,
N. B.: r. j. Smith, express agent; Charles
Thompson, train hand. and a Pullman
porter. Wrecking trains have started for
the scene.
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The Ohio Senatorsb,,.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-General Gros-
Venor. OF Ohio. declines to-day 10 discuss
the rumors from Ohio as 10 the probability
That Governor Bushnell will appoint
Lieutenant Governor Asa Jones 10 the va
cancy In the Senate on the retirement OF
n Sherman. except 10 say that the
sentiment In Ohio. as expressed in tho
newspapers, seemed to him overwhelming
~ In favor OF Mr.. Hanna. With regard 10
the runor tia Senator Sherman might
reconsider his acceptance OF the state mort
OLD In case Dir. Hanna was not appointed
10 succeed him. he expressed himself most
emphaticaly. "Nr. Sherman said he.
WAS rendered the premiership by Mr.. Nc
kinley on his own merits. He accented
AMI ne would ave no right now TO re-
puciate his acceptance because OF dissatis-
FAC Ion with matters growing out of his
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The Ice Harvest Is On.
The Indianapolis journal.

Special 20 The Indianapolis Journal.
HAMMOND, Ind, Jan. 26.-The ice har-
vest in this county has begun and fully
one thousand men are at work storing
away the supply. This force will be nearly
doubled tomorrow, when cutting will be-
gin at Cedar Lake. A great many OF these
men will find work for the first time in sew
eral months. The wages will be reduced
to 81 a day for common laboTers. 1t is ex-
pected that if the weather continues favor
able 1000 men will he at work by Thursday.
They VIII be divided in three shifts of
eight hours each, giving employment to all
WhO annIN
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Thatcher Sill I'm the Lead.

SALT LAKE. Utah. Jan. 26--The joint
session of the Legislature took six ballots
for United States senator at this after
moons session without material change in
the situation. Three of the Populists
changed from Lawrence to Hogan and the
three Republicans voted for George NJ.
Cannon. The last ballot was: Thatcher,
%; Henderson. IA: Rawlins, is; Hogan, 4;
Cannon, 2; covers, i.