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AGED w1DoWBE HARDING IN 1oTE.
Locked Up and Guarded by Ris Family to
Prevent Mis Marrying Again.

Locked Up and Guarded by His Family to
Prevent His marrying Again.
BrNoHAMToN. Jan. 15.-Some weeks ago Il was
announced that Lowell Harding, an aged citi-
zen and q widower, who livos in the fashionable
quarter Of tho city. was DESTROYS Of again bo-
coming q benedict. Tho object OF his attentions
is Mrs. Angie watrous, go yoars old. and the
matron at the Old Ladies' Home. Mr.. Harding
formci the acquaintance of Mrs. Watrous
through chance, and their acquaintance ripened
into love.
The fact that Mrs. Watrous was the matron
ut the homo proved tho first stumbling block to
tho happiness Of the aged lovers. Mrs. watrous
would not resign her place unless she could af-
ford to hire some ono to take 1t, and tho thought
OF marrying and settling down in tho Old Ladiee'
Homo did not exactly please Mr.. Harding. He
finally fixed matters by giving Mrs. Watrous
$1,000 to resign, which she did.
tion Of Mr.. Harding's two daughters and sons
to the fact that their father contemplated mar.
riage. Upon tho heels Of this discovery camo
$40, 900 upon bis bride. The isituation shocked
the sons and daughters.
Then the family announced that Mr.. Harding
MIND %Hn nS &c ~' IL 'p prevent a8 sS SiS' calling Il g n ISsI"t MRS. 1,s
Watrous, the old man was locked in his room
and guarded closely by tho family.
tho On o nau Esdiss. s'v aoms t %ss sn Ssia. F'f TSs aas al
love affair. the details Of which they are &C.
q fS.l ,Ss m with; and Sos sEPEEs Re Seau their eS confidence
During the evening there was a fiutter. Of OK:
element when Mr.. Harding walked in. He had
escaped. he said, and was made welcome by his
riage,. and his family are equally determined
that the m shall not occur.
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his father should % mutually agree, at tho pub
lilo interview. that they desired q private one,
then the two witnesses should be asked 70 TO
B~ooth-Tucker communicated with tho Con
oral" VIII accepted the stipulation. and the
meeting was hxed for this noon.
The most that 10 looked for. unless It be by the
Booth family aside from the BallinEton Booths,
from to-day's meeting is q personal reconcilia.
General and subordinate.
There can be no merging OF the Volunteers
the Volunteers, which body is Incorporated
under the laws Of New York State, prohibits II
from alternating itself or its governmeht. Its
collections are spent on ~evangolining work in
the United States, not cont abroad.
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rKo srsrnns p1slrrEAn.
me seeepa, whs Csue % Rina the Eirnt. Lake
TIRE Other. LEFT No Clue.

tbo Otnbfs h1tt No Ohues
The Rev. James j. Slobold, a missionary Of
Wyandotte. Mich, hasasked the police Of Brook-
lyn to assistsin a search for his two missing sis.
tors, ,.Miss,Amelia Siobold. a school'teache in q
village near Albany, and Mrs. Ella Nopenny,
tho widow of n florist who had two stores In
Grand. near Even street, Williamsburg. After
the death, Of Mrs. Nopenny's husband, q few
years ago, she continued the business until
about n year ago, when IL is said she sold out at
the request Of Lewis Ambrose, q c~igarmaker,
with whom 1t is said she was infatuated. Mrs.
Nopenny disappeared ono day, leaving behind
oil her effects. Nothing has been seen or heard
OF her since by any Of her acquaintance. At
tho time Of her disappearance Andresso also
went away. He returned n few days later and
disclaimed all knowledge of her whereabouts.
Tho incident was forgotten until last fall, when
Miss Sieboid, who had not seen her sister In Sow
eral years, appeared in williamsburg. Miss
France, and her object in going to Williams.
burg was to induce her sister TO cross the ocean
with her: When Miss Siebold learned of her
sisters disappearance she appealed to the police
for assistance. No trace Of Mrs. Nopenny was
found, and Miss Siebold left the house of a
friend In which she had been a guest ostonsibly to
return to Albany. Nothing moro was heard from
yesterday. when the Rev. Mr.. Siebold appeared
In Brooklyn In quest Of information about his
sisters. He went to Police Headquarters, where
he said that his unmarried sister had not been
heard of by her friends in the upper part of the
State, since she left there last fall. The Rev.
Mr.. Siebold is on his way to Rome. He told the
police hc couldn't imagine what had become Of
the two women.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-16
BoMBERGER's VIII PROTESTED
Fight In Court Ovor the Harrisburg Million
aire's Last Testament.

Fight In Court Ovor the Harrisburg Million.
aires Last Testament.
HARRISBURG. Pa, Jan. 15.-When Jacob G.
Bomberger. the banker, died last Juno he left
an estate valued at one and a quarter million
dollars. With tho exception Of probably two or
three hundred thousand dollars, tho property
was left to his two nephows. Charles A. and
Samuel Kunkel Of this city, who are the execu-
tors. They Inherited the banking house at the
corner of Third and Market streets and have
continued the business without cessation. The
will. which was written by the aged banker him
self on May 9. 1896, contained o codicil dated
Feb. !. 1897, and this codicil will figure In the
contest which was begun to-day with a view to
breaking the will.
Helen K. Dolson of Philadelphia, who swears
that she. with her aunt and nephews and other
nieces. arc next of kin and sole heirs. made an
application to Judge Simonton for q citation
against the legatees under the will requiring
them to appear In court, and show why the do.
cision OF the Register should not be set aside
and the letters testamentary granted to the
executors revoked: The plaintiff Is q niece Of
the banker. and alleges that no was not capable
of making a will, and was Influenced unduly.
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Ell ECZRIcITY ON THE ELEVATED.

Representative or tho Walker Company Hero
to Close n Contract with Manhattan.
CLEVELAND. O.. Jan. 15.-Treasurer Ferguson
Of the Walker Manufacturing Company to-day
gave out the following statements:
IS. II. Short, general manager of the COM
pany. is in New York city. where no expects to
close a contract within two days for the cleo
trical equipment of the Manhattan Elevated
Railroad. The contract will call for machinery,
&C.. to a total value OF between 1000, 900 and
So. 200. 900. to be delivered at the earliest date
possible. II the contract Is secured our works
will be operated night and DAY. The contract is
upon"
The Walker Manufacturing Company is ono
OF tho largest electrical plants in the United
States.
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Mrs. west Tainted and Hicks Was Almost Dca.
Whom He Was Cut Down,

DANBURY, Conn. Jan. 15.-Alfrcd Hicks may
die as a result of a practical Joke which was
PLAYED upon him last night. Hicks works for
George West, n stock breeder on tho George
town road. He is not considered bright. Early
last evening Mrs. West heard a commotion in
the farmyard. and going there found Hicks
hanging by the neck from q limb of an apple
tree. Mrs. West tainted at the sight. Whom
Mrs. West and Hicks were discovered by Mr..
West @ few moments afterward Hicks was
nearly dead. He was unconscious when cut
down and it took an hour to revive him.
Hicks's story is that three men came into The
yard whore he was at work and proposed a joke
upon Mrs. West. Hicks was to permit them to
hang him. and they were to attract Mrs. Vests
attention and run away. Hicks saw something
funny In the fright Mrs. West would receive
and aseented to the plan: He expected that she
would lose no time in releasing. him. but when
she tainted the plan did not work well. The men
who arranged the joke were strangers to Hicks,
he says.
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AI.aals for rwsn.y-,hlra negInen. veteran.

A large crowd witnessed the veterans review
OF the Twenty-third Regiment at the Bedford
avenue armory. in Brooklyn. last night. At
the close of the usual military ceremonies
Gen. James McLeer, the brigade commander,
distributed the long-service medals. Lieut.
Col. Ezra Dc Forrest got tho diamond
medal for twenty-five years service. lie
will now retire. Gold medals for twenty
years service were presented to Second Lieuten-
ant Peter i. Hope OF Company b. Private Her
schel r., Hildreth, Company X, and Musician
James T.. Kinney. Seven silver medals for
fifteen years service and eleven for ten years
service were also distributed. Private g.. L.
smith OF Company won the gold medal for OBJ
the year. and the shooting trophy was carried
OF by Company i.
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DRANK 4 BOTTLE OF LINIMENT.
a Fourteen-Year.Oid italian Boys Attempt to
Commit Suicide.

~ AE-Oh ~ tOaap -
Commit Suicide.
Frank Teporte. a 14.year-old Italian boy.
attempted TO commit suicide yesterday after
noon by drinking a bottleful of camphor lini-
ment. He was pumped out at the New York
Hospital and will recover.
The boy was sent to this country six months
ago to learn English by his father. who is said
to be well to do. Monthly remittances of money
have supported him. He lived with his aunt,
Mrs. John Monfrini. Mt $40 West Broadway.
This month his remittance did not arrive. He
seemed greatly annoyed. Yesterday afternoon
he went to the bureau In his aunt's room and
taking out the bottle of liniment drank tho
stuff. Then he threw n note into the hall and
slammed the door. On the note were these
words in Italian:
~ want to die. To all good.by."
up the note. Then she sent for a policeman.
After the boy had been pumped out. he was
taken hack to the Mercer street police station,
as he WAS in no danger, and thence he was sent
TO the Gerry society, a prisoner.
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YALE UNIVERSITY BENEF1Ts.

Entitled 10 . Quarter OF the Residue Under
Miriam Osborn's will.
The defeat of Leila o. Henriques and Mary A.
Mason In thoir action to have the will of their
sister. Miriam A. Osborn, mother Of Howell
Osborn, declared invalid, leaves the estate of
several millions to be divided as she prescribed.
Most of II was given to the Miriam Osborn Me-
mortal Homo. but a quarter of the residue goes
to Yale University.
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STRIKE IN FALL RIVER.
The spInnors in the King Phiiip mills object
TO Reduced WAGES.

FALL RIVER, Mass, ian. 15.-The first decided
stand against tho reduction in wages was taken
to-day at the King Philip mills. When the ring
spinners. mostly women, received their pay this
forenoon they stopped their machines and loft
the mill. Tho mule spinners. forty-eight in
number, remained until noon, md then were in
vited in to q conference with Treasurer Chase.
At the end Of an hour and a half no agreement
was reached. and tho spinncrs. in leaving. in
formed the Treasurer that thoy would not re-
turn to work under the present rate of wages.
They will endeavor to bring the wenvers into
the strike.
The King Philip is one Of the largest finc goods
mills in the city. and the new trouble may affect
all of the mills engaged In the manufacture of
tho higher grades. Us the operatives have main
mills is unnecessary. as all are making money
OIL large orders.
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The Degree Conferred by Rutgers College, from
which He Was Graduated in ,9e.

bSN4
Which He Was Graduated In 'se.
New BRUNSWICK. N. j.. Jan. 15.-The Board
of Trustees of Rutgers College last evening con-
ferrod the degree of LII. d. upon State Senator
Foster NJ. Voorhees, Of Union county. Mr..
Voorhees, will become Governor of New Jersey
when present Gov. Griggs becomes Attorney
General under President Mckinley. Senator
Voorhees, was graduated from Rutgers in the
class OF '76.
At tho same meeting last evening Edward F.
Brooks. Superintendent of tho New York Di-
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was chosen
AS q member of the Board OF Trustees. Tho
statement OF the colleges finances. which was
read at the same time. showed these figures:
Received from private individuals In gifts in
the last seven years. 5000, 900. OF this amount
1857 900 was for permanent endowment, $Sl, 900
for buildings and equipments. $4,000 for the
library fund and books, $500 for collections
provements, $25. 900 for beneficiary funds and
gifts for current expenses.
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United sIino Workers Adjourn.

COLUMBUS. o., Jan. 5.-The United Mine
Workers adjourned to-day after agreeing to the
report Of the Scale Committee demanding a gen.
eral advance OF 10 cents a ton for pick mining
and three ffths of the pick price for machine
mining. Tho complete abolition of screens is
recommended. Indianapolis was selected as the
place for the national headquarters.
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Thres ALLEGED Bro.LIyn hi Nabp.a.

Frank Norton OF 22O Fourth avenue. William
GIL OF 500 Carroll street. and Edward Burke of
500 Washington avenue have been arrested and
identified as the three men who smashed the
window IN Mrs. Ann Quinn's little fancy store
night and carried of a considerable part of tho
stock. Mrs. Quinn surprised the three men In
the hallway just before they committed the rob
berry. and H. positive In her Identification. Tho
prisoners. who have all been In trouble before,
have been held for examination BY Police JUS
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New steamship Line to phnadslDhl,.

The New York and Philadelphia Steamship
Company. recently chartered at Trenton. with
a capital of $500, 900. will begin the operation
OF u tri.weekly line OF vessels between Phila,
delphia and Now York. by the outside route, on
and pasSen9ers.N Tke passage viii take sixteen
hours, and 1t Il PfYpoSod 70 make II popular for
short summer tFipA
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uir Term,unl warehsu.o I'm r~,ttsburs.

PITTsBURG. Jan. 15.-william Brenton Well
ing. a Wall street broker, is here. completing a
project in which he and other Now Workers and
some Pittsburgers are interested. They have
formed the Pittsburg Terminal Warehouse and
Seven acres OF valuable ground on the south
side have been purchased. A steel storage
warehouse will cover more than half of the area.
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Researches Among Merloan unalans.

CoRDovA. State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Jan.
15.-Prof. Fred @. Starr Of Chicago University
is making researches as TO the origin and racial
characteristics of tho Indian tribes of Mexico,
and has arrived here on his way to remote Sec
tions of this State, where no will spend some
time with the Indians. He has just completed
his Investigations OF the tribes In the state OF
Michoacan, where he had some exciting ex-
nnriannaa
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THREE THREATS AND SUICIDE.

Wakefield Was Drinking CnrboiIc Acid when
Poiicen.an REACHED Iais House.
John II. Whiting of 333 West Twenty.ninth
street went to the West Thirty.seventh street
police station last night and said that Harry p.
Wakefield, who lived in the same house. had
threatened three times during tho day to kill
himself. Policeman Powers went to the house.
When no opened the front door he saw Wake
field drinking from a bottle containing carbolic
to sei Roosevelt Hospital. Ills eon dit anH IS s %eriti sah
Wakefield Is % years o d, married, and a
clerk. He 10 said to have been drinking heavily
of late.
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POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATOR'S
A Bill with That End In View Introduced In
viFEinia's Legislature.

ViFEinia's Legislature.
RICHMOND. Va. Jan. ia bill was intro
duced in the Virginia House of Delegates to-day
to permit the people to express a preference for
United States Senator at the same time they
vote for members OF the Legislature. Tho bill
is In line with the popular demand. and
is an echo Of the contest in the State
Democratic Convention when Congressman
W F. a. Jones onered u resolution with similar
aims Tho resolution was understood TO be
aimed at Senator Thomas ). Martin. Senator
Daniel went to tho mid of his colleague, and by
his personal influence and the further fact that
the convention was about to adjourn. the reso;
go through without serious opposition.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-An unidentified man
jumped from the sixteenth story in the Masonic
Temple rotunda this morning. At the third
floor the body struck q heavy iron railing and
bent 1t. The dead man is supposed to have
been a workingman
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AMT aIu palms,
the average doctor attributes it all to indi.
gestion or heart trouble or anything else
but the real cause. The fact is, that three
tourths of the ills from which women suf.
fer are due to weakness, disease or derange-
ment of the child-bcaring organism. II
woman sees to it that she is always healthy
and strong in a womanlv way, she Is nearly
sure to always enjoy good general health.
There are tens of thousands Of women in
this country who owe their health, both
local and general, to one marvellous remedy,
and thousands of them have testified to this
fact in writing. That remedy is DR.. Pierce's
favorite Prescription. 1t is the discovery
OF an eminent and skillful specialist, Or.
R. V. Pierce, for thirty years chief consult
ing physician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. Tho
y. Favorite Prescription " acts directly upon
the delicate and important organs that bear
the burdens of maternity. 1t gives them
strength, vigor and elasticity. 1t cures all
weakness and disease. 1t allays infamma-
ton. soothes pain, heals liberation and
tones VI the tired nerves. 1t fits for moth
erhood and makes baby's introduction TO
the world easy ard comparatively painless.
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DIR. Pierce's s 5sS.;'Ss;'a: =: y =
cured in a thorough, natural. scientific way
by DIR, Ficrce's Pleasant Pellets, Thry
clear, the superiuous bile out of the
blood tore the tomach and cause the
f H:sS.s sGSS Pleasant IS fS=: ss SS$ S@ !
biliousness, pimples and palpitation OF
the heart are all caused by constipa.
ton, and constipation is cured positively
and permanently by DIR. nonoko
fistee's Pleasant PslletA etieTSs
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OBITUARY.

Charles A. Wehr died in his ffty.eighth year
on Friday at his home. 1927 Bushwick avenue,
Brooklyn. He was born in Herzogthum, Ger
many. in 1910. and at the ago of II his parents
brought him to America. For twenty-threc years
he was in the employ of tho firm of Tilton, Nc
Farland & Co.. and when that firm dissolved he
came q real estate dealer. At the time of his death
9. f.; Schiller Lodge. No. 800, F. and 4. M;
Kader E~ncampment, No. 90. l. d. o. f; Canton
Lodge. No. 80. /. o. o. f.; Odd Fellows Maenner.
ch0r; Kings County Waissenhans Verein. and
williamsburg Exempt Firenen's Associh ton.
For fonr years he was the Grand State Treas
urero OF tho Odd Fellows. He leaves a widow
and four sons.
Wien Forney, a WILDLY known retired editor
and special correspondent. di9d in Harrisburg
Yesterday afternoon Of paralysis. He was a
or Lancaster. In early days he learned the
printing trade and began reporting in Washing.
ton. He left there for Philadelphia and ass. sted
r%dniGn.. In 1855 he est blishod a weekly PAPER
In bellefonte. Pa. and when the civil war came
went TO Washington as u special correspondent
Tor the NcU YORK HeTdid. Lator he went to
Harrisburg and became associated with the
DdHy 1eteGrOph and afterwRrd with the Har-
rlsourE Stnr-IHdep pendent. He was also State
old. WIT
Miss Carrie De Voc, q sister OF A. J. De Voc. the
weather prophet. died on Friday night in Hack.
ensack, after a few hours illness, Of ACME
Bright's disease. she WAS seized with faintness
while walking along Main street. and MAS taken
into a residence. where she became Unconscious,
She remained in that condition until her death
she was 5S years old.
John Young Love Dater, one of tho best known
residents OF Troy. died suddenly yesterday Of
heart disease. He was about 55 years old.
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salts Against the SIntieawan Water Company
Discontinued.

NEwBuRo. Jan. l5.-JudGe Hirschberg to-day
granted orders for diBcontinuance in all the
suits for damages against the FishkIll and Mat.
teawan Water Company for the loss of lives and
property and injuries to people by the bursting
OF the Two MelZinRah dams on the Fishkill range
s:iLh All claimants on advantageous and sAtlss
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yOhfb uBO. W winch can DuE hQO
that l have already asked for an Interview on
the occasion Of my present visit. Whether II
will DO granted to ME In the form l have asked
Tor it-that Is. without the presence or inter
ference of any other ~person-remains to be seen.
Gentlemen. i need not say that this personal
question is very painful one to me. or that Il
appears likely for some time TO come to be q sad
He refused to answer a direct question ms Ia
70 get him to return TO- tho Army or attempt to
bring the Volunteers into the Army, although
% SH tas lst 4 sb poi Rth he said Ss ! that 3Ish o sY isW was
Ballington Booth did not go TO the steamer to
meet his father. nor did he see him. but he can.
In The city ali day and over night to await word
OF the progress OF the negotiations looking 70 a
mesttng between himself and his father. Mr.
Strong TO him TO try to arrange u meeting. DR.
Strong was engaged at the. task the best part Of
DR.. Strong both sides entered into the following
"Flrst.That there be arranged an interview
between Gen. Booth and Commander Booth al
"Second-Tha they meet not in an Off ial ca
'"T6ird-Thst tho Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong be
permittet to be present, and that he shall give
the results of the interview TO the public"
from his home in, Fordham, whittier he had
taken his father-in-law at tho conclusion OF the
old mans address to the reporters, and called
on DIR. Strong with two amendments proposed
by the General" to the agreement. They
we're SSsE - Ant f. that ,aos, Dr. b. Hall he present al
Or. Strong as friendly 10 the Volunteers and
DR.. Hall to the Salvationists; and, second, that,
after the intoryieT In presence OF the two min
listers. father and son should agree TO hold a
private interview TO follow. The General
wanted this second amendment to the preliIni.
and his son agreeing TO hold tho private inter.
view after the one IN presence OF the witnesses
~ StipulRtedf What IL should read hat IL he and
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-19
TO TAKE VIGOROUS MEASURES.
IL is Likely That More Troops Will lie
Sent to Santiago TO Preserve Order.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-Dispatches OF
Importance were received and considered
at the War Department early to-day.
Immediately after the arrival OF Secre-
tary Alger at the War Department ne
had a consultation with General Ccrhin
and denied himself TO visitors. The con-
ference was a protracted one. They were
considering dispatches received from
General Merritt and Santiago.
The conditions at Santiago are causing
q great deal Of uneasiness, and IT IS be-
lieved that more troops will be ordered
there very soon. Already orders have
been issued directing the Fifth Regular
Infantry, now az Tampa, 20 proceed az
once TO Santiago Inquiries have been
made as to the condition Of the immune
regiments. which have not yet sailed,
with a view Of sending them 70 Santiago.
The Government intends 70 take vigorous
measures 10 preserve the peace and keep
order in Santiago and the territory under
United States control
As a further step In this direction, the
President to-day directed that the rwen-
tv-third Kansas Regiment (colored) be
dispatched to Santiago 10 form part Of
the army OF occupation Of Cuba.