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The sun., 1898-10-02
BELIEVE SHE IS DESPERATE
DR.. H. F. Wilson Says Western
People Think Mrs. Bot
kin Guilty.
He KNOWS THE WOMAN WELL,
Californian Says the Alleged Poisoner
Was Madly in Love With j. p.
Dunning. Occupying
Most of His
Time.
he KNOWS THE WOMAN WELL

DR., H. F. Wilson of Los Angeles, CAL,
son of Rev. j. A. B. Wilson, while
visiting in this city several days ago,
said that he was we'll acquainted with
Mrs. Botkin, the woman who is accused
of sending poisoned candy to Mrs. J. D.
Deane and to Mrs. J. P. Dunning al
Dover, and causing the death Of Mrs.
Dunning and her sister Mrs. Deane.
"The people in San Francisco" said
DR.. Wilson, "who are acquainted with
Mrs. Iotkin believe and think her cap
able of the deed. They say she has been
heard to say that she had often wished
Mrs. Dunning out of the road and that
she would have Dunning anyhow.
Mr.. Dunning and Mrs. Botkins were
very intimate during Mr. Dunning's so.
journ in San Francisco and their conduct
caused much comment, especially Mrs.
Botkin's actions, for she was completely
in love with the murdered woman's hus-
band and being a woman of a danger.
ously jealous disposition, suspicion at
once fell on her as the perpetrator Of the
foul and dastardly wholesale murder al
Dover.
Mr.. Dunning and Mrs. Botkin's names
were on everybody's lips that were ac.
quainted with them during Dunning's
dissipated career at San Francisco.
The two were seen together at public
places such as theatres, parties, balls and
frequented the race tracks together. The
woman was known on many occasions tc
have put up money for him during theil
race track gambling. They both lived at
the same house and he was frequent
visitor to her rooms. -.
The woman was madly in love with
him and insanely jealous if any other
woman occupied his time or attention,
although she is a married woman and
Mr.. Dunning had wife, who was living
in Delaware at the time and was OF one
of the best families of the state.
The lawyers are making great fight
and Mrs. Botkin and her husband are
spending their money to keep the wicked
woman from being brought to Delaware
to stand trial for the foul murder that
she is charged with committing. The
; people of San Francisco are not in favor
of keeping the woman from Delaware
They to great extent believe her guilty
! and think she ought to be punished fol
! the crime i proven guilty.
Mrs Botllin is good looking and has
rnruev, ar, ior ypa,j has lived fast
life.
The sun., 1898-10-02
CIRCULAR ADDRESS.
Democrats Reminded That Only One
Registration Day Remains by
State Central Committee.

John Biggs, chairman, Wilson 7.
Cavender, treasurer, and Edward D.
Hearne, secretary of the Democratic
State Central Committee, have issued
the following circular, under date OF
Dover, September Goth, addressed to
Democrats
"Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, were
instructed by the Democratic State Cen.
trail Committee, to call the attention OF
all Democrats in the state to the fact
that but one day Saturday, October 22d J
for registering remains, in order to quail
lily to vote at the general election on
November Sth.
"As you have not been registered, we
ask YOU to do so on the above date, and
see that your Democratic neighbors and
friends are also registered. Our op-
ponents are making We y effort to regis
ter their voters, and we hope every Dem
ocrat in the state will do his part toward
preventing Republican rule from being
fastened on our people, and to forever
wipe the disgrace Of Addicksism from off
the good name of our state"
The sun., 1898-10-02
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1898.
AIKEN away; blessed be the name of the

taken away; blessed be the name Oh 'he
Lord"
After reading from the 39th and Goth
Psalms, DR.. Douglass took the lesson
from the 18th chapter of St. PauPs first
epistle to the Corinthians, beginning
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the first fruits of them that
slept"
The services were impressive in their
simplicity, there being an absence OF
music and preaching.
When the service reached the point
of the commitment of the body to the
grave, the casket was lifted by the car
riers, and. attended by the pall-bearers,
members Of the family, and others with,
in the church, was taken to the Bayard
burial plot in the graveyard adjoining
the church.
The casket was borne by Andrew
Dixon, r. S. Dripps, Harry W. Qulmby,
Marshall H. Yeatman, Walter Bennett
and Charles H. Grantland, from the
church to the Bayard family lot, short
distance south of the tower. Around the
ward, in all directions, great crowd had
assembled, waiting to see this, the only
public feature of the funeral.
Captain of Police Kane, with Sergeants
Black, Lucas and Massey and twelve
officers, prevented a crush when the
assembled thousands surged forward to
get glimpse of the casket, wherein lay
the body Of Delaware's greatest citizen.
Slowly and solemnly the body was
lowered into the vault, where lie the re.
mains OF Mr.. Bayard's father and his
first wife. In measured tones DIR.
Douglas read the commitment, the invo'
cation and the benediction. Then family
and friends took a farewell look at the
casket within the vault and the funeral
of Thomas F. Bayard was over.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Industrial Exhibition.

The Women's League, progressive
colored Organization, will give its second
annual industrial exhibition at Pyle's
Cycling Academy, Tenth and Orange
streets, commencing next Thursday and
continuing for two weeks. =,
During the exhibition addresses vii!
be made by the Revs. c. H. Tindley and
R. H. Owens, William L. Gaines, Will
liam w. Ayers and probably others.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Case POSTPONED.

At the opening of Municipal Court
Yesterday morning, Attorney Walter IL.
Hayes asked that the case OF the State
against Frank Jones, charged with shoot
ing Charles Smith, which has been set
for trial tomorrow morning be postponed
until Tuesday morning on account OF the
meeting of Superior Court in Kent coun-
ty. The request was granted.
The sun., 1898-10-02
WOMEN AS EDUCATORS.
Opinion of James MacAlIster. Presi
dent of Drexel's Institute.

OpinlOn VI Oalhes MACAIlstcF, AfCSi'
dent of Drexels Institute.
The question of placing women on the
Board OF Education i'll this city is being
widely discussed.
1t is wisely claimed that women on
the Board would prove a great factor in
the highest development of the city's
public education. The consideration OF
this question by the citizens of Will
mington has resulted in the likelihood
of a woman being elected to seat
among the city's educators, and trial
being given the mothers advice as
to the school government of her boy
or her girl.
Hon. James MacAlister in speaking Of
the value Of women as public educators
writes as follows:
Editor of THE Sun, Wilmington, DEL:
n DEAR SIR: The question of giving
women place on boards of education
has passed the stage Of discussion.
The value of the service which can be
rendered by them to educational work
is now recognized in every important
educational center of this country. The
same is true of England, and for several
years women have sat in the London
School Board.
In Philadelphia there are three women
on the Central Board, and women also
hold places on the New York School
Board. In Boston and other leading
cities of New England they have long
been members of school committees, and
in the Middle and Western states their
services are sought in every sphere Of
educational work. The mere fact that in
every community the great majority Of
public school teachers are women is a
sufficient reason why they should have
a representation in the governing body.
In nearly every family the mother
takes a more active interest in the educa-
| ton Of her children than does the father.
Experience has shown that wherever
women have been given positions on
Boards of Education, their influence has
been felt in promoting the improvement
of the schools as we'll as the welfare Of
the teachers.
Yours very truly,
JAMES MACALIsTER.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Minister Fined for Assault.

Before Judge Bali in Municipal court
Yesterday morning, Rev. Robert Nc
Cartey, colored, was fined $50 and costs
for committing an assault and battery on
Sarah Jackson, also colored, of No. AIS
Eat Eleventh street. The prosecutrix
claimed that the minister who was
boarding at her house, owed her $l9.75
board, and when she demanded it he
struck her over the head and back with
a chair, knocking her down and break
ing the back off the chair.
The sun., 1898-10-02
NEW CASTLE BAR ASSOCIATION
Great Tribute Paid to Bayard by Mem
bers of the Association.

At special meeting of the New Castle
County Bar Association yesterday, Presl-
dent Lewis c. Vandegrift presented the
following minute which was adopted:
The Bar of New Castle county has as
sembled here today to offer its tribute
at the bier of the Honorable Thomas +.
Bayard, Delaware's foremost citizen. In
this forum he early attained distinction.
Most of us now present entered upon our
active duties in this place after he had
gathered the highest honors it had to
offer. and had departed for wider fields
He was scarcely past forty when the
state, recognizing his worth and integrity,
honored him with a place IN the high
est councils of the nation. From thence
on, his course, ever to higher planes,
demonstrated that the state in honorlng
him, was but honoring itself. From his
service to the state, the nation called him,
and still his ideals were beyond and to
loftier heights. With AL the honors
he gathered in wider fields, his heart
and mind ever turned to Delaware. In
this association, representing MS
earlier intellectual triumphs, he was
always at home, and its members ever
accorded him their warmest affection
and highest admiration. They did not
know be had grown old The world
where he was, ever bright and warm and
pure, the outward reflection OF his in
ward life and thought. He uplifted his
surroundings and by his life taught the
vanity of mere material gain-the per-
manency and stability of character
founded upon strict integrity, broad
charity and love for his fellow men. In
whatever direction duty pointed, ne
moved at once, without question or hesl-
tation. Petty shackles may at times
have annoyed, but never deferred him:
He lived as one recognizing that he had
mission to perform. Toward that mis-
sion he ever advanced, and when the
great Master unfolded it, it was not less
than the peace of the world, the brother
hood of man. 1t was the same peace
on earth, good will toward men" before
which he had in that same venerable
edifice where now his body lies, SO often
in the earlier years of his life bowed his
head in reverent recognition.
He lived always toward his his high
est ideal. With that as his handspring
he touched, moved and strengthened
the peace of the world. His work
being then finished, he but stepped
forward in the line of his lofty asplra-
tions.
These thoughts are our feeble en-
deavors to. record somewhat our
measure of Thomas F. Bayard. Let the
life he lived stand in the state he loved
as its great signal post, pointing the road
to civic virtue, political probity and hon.
orable craftsmanship.
Let his example as practit''" or at
The sun., 1898-10-02
Philadelphia Woman Deserted Child

The police department have ascer-
tanned that the baby boy deserted on
Friday night in this city, belonged to a
woman who came here from Phlladel-
phia on an early train. The Quaker
City authorities are investigating the
matter
The sun., 1898-10-02
WOMAN HURLED
INTO ETERNITY.
Express Train Struck and Killed An
Unknown Female Yesterday
at Chester.

at Chester.
An unknown woman about 55 or 60
years of age, was struck and instatly
hurled into eternity yesterday afternoon,
on Welsh's crossing at Chester.
The woman was seen by the watch
man going around the end of the closed
gates and he tried his best to warn her
by cries and gestlculations but all to no
avail, for the woman was either deaf or
the approaching train drowned his cries.
She stepped on the south bound track,
and was struck by the fast express and
thrown from the track to the pavement
where she was picked up a mangled
corpse.
The accident happened between and
2 o'clock and the train that killed her
was No. 81 and is an express which
leaves Philadelphia at LIP and arrives in
Wilmington at l.50 o'clock. Whining
ton is the only stop the train makes be-
tween Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The unknown woman would weigh
probably l3O pounds and was dressed in
light calico basque with black flowers
through it. She had on a red flannel
petticoat, stamped with black around the
bottom, blue stockings, low black slip
pers, brown sunbonnet and had dead
latch key tied to the second finger of her
left hand.
The body was placed in the coroner's
morgue at Chester and up to a late
hour last night no one had identified
her.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Church Anniversary.

The eighth anniversary OF Wesley M
E. Church will be observed on Sunday
October 20. The anniversary of the
Sunday school will take place in the
afternoon, when all the former superin.
tendents, Presiding Elder Watt and
other speakers will be present. Mrs
John A. Fitch, the noted cantatrice, has
also been engaged for the occasion.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Rnth House { Closed.

The Wilmington free bath house closed
its doors yesterday, after providing en-
ioyment for 25,497 bathers during the
summer. The highest number in the
house any one week was $500 and that
was for the week commencing June ~.
The sun., 1898-10-02
Frame Barn Destroyed by Fire.

Through the explosion of a lantern in
the frame barn Of Henry Cruger at
Thirty-secor and Munroe streets, at 10
O'Clock last night, the building was en-
tlrely destroyed. The loss was $500.
The sun., 1898-10-02
See page 9.

On Thursday evening the regular
monthly meeting Of the Board of Trade
will be held in the Crosby & Hill build
ing.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1898-07-09
An American Luxury,

1.-The thing I especially enjoyed after a
somewhat lengthy sojourn on the other
side was real, genuine American CRATE
fire. commented the traveller. "In Lon
don I felt as if was burning something
very precious with the landlady charging
sixpenoe scuttle for coal. I remember
sitting around a stove In an English hotel.
The weather was cold, and the coal in the
stove punched together. I took poker
and stirred it up.
"'That makes it burn faster, comment
ed the landlord gravely.
That's just what / want replied
"A red faced, hearty Englishman broke
In, You Americans are deucedly thin
blooded, don't you know?'
Then In Italy you shiver about all
winter, and in Germany those big, high
crockery stoves never seem to thaw you
out. So when I arrived in America in
midwinter 1 had a jolly big fire in the
room at my hotel and piled on the coal,
knowing that 1t would not break my
bank, in spite of the prices of the big,
abominable coal trust. But after one has
paid sixpenee scuttle for mighty little
scuttle of coal he does not feel disposed to
criticise the trust. felt like lord, thin
FLOODED American though might be- and
was just in the mood to read and appreci-
ate that agreeable little volume, THE Rev.
cries Of Bachelor Those reyeries would
not seem half SO pleasing when read before
the smudge of O peat fire in Germany OF
before the little skinny CRATE fire of few
pine cones in Italy-not the Italy of sun
shine, but the Italy of the cold, disagree
able, wet days. New York Herald.
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An Easy Victim.

Flips Is back from Chicago and the ex.
perienee following is gradually gaining
circulation among this friends Flips is
one OF those men for whom flies are sup
posed TO have no affinity. He knows the
ms and outs of the world. He rather likes
to encounter the people who live by their
wits and show them that he can beat their
many games.
Flips walked into one of the big hotels
OF the Breezy City, shook hands with the
clerk as an old acquaintance, wrote his
name with an extra flourish, had a room
assigned him and was half way to the door
when he was stopped by fine looking
man with extended hand. He called Flips
by name, asked after several Detroit peo-
pie and showed a disposition to keep up
Talk. But Flips declined to thaW out,
winked at the clerk and congratulated
himself that he knew a bunko artist when
he saw the article.
The stranger passed through to the bar
and Flips was at once accosted by a large,
well dressed, rather long haired young
fellow. Did that man try his game on
your was the salutation. "Out our way
he wouldn't last long. But it's different
here. Let's follow him and see If we can't
land him
"Oh, what the use. 1t isn't worth the
time, and Flips looked superior. Then
the two fell into conversation and Flips
was delightfully."- entertained by the stories
Of the Wcsterner. At length they went out
together just to look about In the morn
ing lips walked up in one chair while his
feet occupied another. 1t was dingy place
In dingy neighborhood. He diyed for his
watch to ascertain tho TINA II WAC mot
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SUGAR EATING NATIONS.


Figures That Indicate That Maritime Peo-
Pile Excel In Its Consumption.
IIn snpar crou az fhe world amounts In
a normal yoar "a about 5000. 900 tons, Of
which the larger mart. about 4. SOC. 600
tons. comes from beets and the balance,
3. 500 o00 tons. from sugar cane. OF the
latter the largest proportion comes from
the West Indies and large amount from
the island of java. Among the countries
producing beet sugar Germany comes first
with about one-third of tho worlds crop:
then Austria with about as much, and
then France, Russia and Belgium and
Holland together, with substantially the
same quantity.
Among scientiets the opinion has been
general that moderate amount of sugar.
ike moderate amount OF salt. should
enter into the dietary Of the people of each
nation, but it is only when tho figures Of
the consumption of sugar are examined
that it is seen that the quantity consumed
varies radically, and it is a curious fact
that In those countries in which the mari
time spirit-the spirit of navigation, COM
merce, travel and colonization-is strong,
there is very considerable consumptiou
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Curry the Fnrm Horses.

Horses on the farm do not have the sleet
look that horses in the city liveries have
Neither will they accomplish so much
work. The difference is partly owing te
the fact that the horse in the city has O
large proportion of grain, while the farm
horse, even while working, gets most OF
his nutrition from hay. But grooming
has also o great deal to do with the supe-
rior sickness of the city horses coat. The
currycomb Is not so much used as it should
be on farm horses.
Weknow, says The Prince Edward Island
Agriculturist, many places where the brush
and currycoInb are seldom used, except
while the horse is shedding his coat. But
used ut any time 1t promotes the secretion
of oil, which moistens the coat and makes
1t shine, A well groomed horse Is usually
well fed But If the grooming were thor
oughly done at least once day, the horse
would keep in good condition with less
food than 1t now receives.
Good grooming undoubtedly aids diges
ton, as rubbing the body promotes diges
ton IN people, and Is an excellent substi
tute for exercise for those who do little
muscular work.
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GOVERNMENT PAY DAY.
Every Department Goes on Its Own Hook
In Remunerating Employees.

Every Department Goes on Its Own Hook
In Remunerating Employees.
One of the most peculiar things IN
connection with the department service, +"
remarked a disbursing officer, is the al
most entire absence Of legislation regard
ing the question of when payments are to
be made. The whole matter of paying is
left with the head of each department., SUBJ
ject to any rules which he wishes to adopt,
and this is governed by custom rather than
by direct or expressed law. Thus in some
of the branches of the treasury department
there are weekly pay days, notably In the
redemption division, while in the others
there are semimonthly pay days. In most
of the branches Of the other departments
there are semimonthly pay days, though to
the clerks of tho headquarters of the army
In the war department, who are paid by an
army paymaster, there Is but one pay in
eaoh month. Congress has been appealed
to time and time again to regulate pay
days by legislation, but for some unknown
reason it has always refused.
Though there are now, and always
have been, advocates of frequent pay days,
1t is not sure that weekly pay days are the
best for department clerks. Getting their
money in four parts, one-fourth each week,
seriously interferes with them, for, as q
rule, all of one week s money is expended
by the time the next week comes around,
leaving nothing to pay off their boarding
house or rent bills, which come due every
month. All through Europe department
clerks are paid but once in three months,
and it is said they manage to save more
money by that method than is saved by
those who receive their salary mora fire.
quently. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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DtAz The MAN.
A Pen Picture OF the Idol OF the Mexican
Pponla

- y GA II Actuk6 "a lit AkUA VI thtS As&e Ahu<sA&
People.
A man Of 5 feet s, erect as the Indian he
Is disproportionately COMPOUNDED with,
quick as the Ibcrian he far more nearly is,
q fine agreement of unusual physical
strength and still more unusual grace,
with the true Indian trunk and the mus
cular European limbs, Diaz is physically
one man in go, 600. The single infusion of
aboriginal blood land that at the begin
ming of this century, is an inheritance
much more visible in his figure than in
his face.
There are young old men everywhere, but
this is the freshest veteran In my knowl-
edge BY the 1.-the step, the fine ruddy
skin whose capiilaries have not yet learned
to clog or knot, by the keen, full eye, or
the round, flexible voice, 1t seems palpa-
BILE absurdity to pretend that this man has
counted not only 81 years, but years of SUI
preme stress. If in 40 of them he ever
knew comforting certainty, it must have
been by faith and not by sight, for from
boyhood to middle life his face was always
against overwhelming odds.
1t might be rash to lug into any COM
parison the Iron Chancellor, but of actual
rulers, republican or dynastic, there GER
Ibtuly Is UOO HlOJutr--il tllCIo may UdN6
been one-so posted" as the man of Mex
leo Offhand, without hesitation and with
accuracy, as have often been at pains to
verify, he gives whatsoever detail is desired
of whatsoever branch of government. He
Is moro ready than the contractors them
selves as to the men and money using in
some great work. The commanders of the
military zones can tell you in twice the
words as much each of his own scope as
Diaz can tell you of the entire field. Tho
superintendent Of education in district
may be as informative, II you give him
time, about the schools In his charge as tho
creator of the Mexican public school sys-
tenn is about the districts en- masse. 1t is
an open secret in the capital that the
president frequently worsts his ministers
in their own fields. And-a genuine test
Of breadth-he is not afraid to say, 81 do
not know" He ventures no opinion in
things he has not measured. Charles T.
Lummis In Harper's Magazine