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The evening times., 1899-07-27
MISS JEWETT REPuDIATED.
Boston CoIored People Excitedly Re
fuse Her Leadership.

Boston, July PA stormy meeting OF
the Colored National League here yesterday
revealed the fact that the colored people
Of Boston are not all of one accord in the
endorsement of Miss Lillian Clayton Jew
EFT as their leader. There isaa big row on,
and she has been insulted by the colored
leaders.
II is not that the colored people of Bos-
ton as whole are averse 10 having her
go TO Charleston. 5. c.. and bring he
Baker family North, as she declared she
would do in her recent address, but the
alleged attempt, as some members OF the
Coiored National League declare TO snatch
from them the credit which belongs TO
them on account of the Baker mur ler agi-
tation.
The discussion previously referred to was
precipitated by an address by Josephine
5. Ruffin, colored, who made an appeal
that New England colored people should
support the league. President Barnett, in
order TO show the priority of the league in
| the Baker agitation, had Secretary West
read the correspondence between the league
and the wife OF the murdered postmaster,
Baker. This showed that the Colored Ma
tional League of Boston had sent S35 to-
ward helping the suffering family OF Ba-
ker- Then Josephine Ruffin said:
nc Ol my pldu tLdl the CO..
ored National League of Boston, long
known for its work in this direction, should
take charge Of this business of bringing
Mrs. Baker and her family to Boston. It
should be its place to raise the money and
10 pay the fares of Mrs. Baker and her
MANNED family.
Rent house for them and see that they
are properly cared for. We must not be
governed by sentiment. We must be care
full how We move, for the position OF the
race today is a critical one, and We should
carefully analyZe the efforts of those who
are so anxious about our people. We should
not fly upon some chit of white girl who
rises and declares that she will so south
to bring up that family
1T may all be very we'll. but we want
to know who and what these people are
We don't know whether there is some ak
TO grind or what it is. I am. not carried
away by some person who shoots up like
mushroom and Is heralded all over tine
country as the new Harriet Beecher
Stowe"
The evening times., 1899-07-27
DUNGEON IN A STATE SCHOOL.
An Inmate Says She Was Locked Up
for Twenty-fOur Hours.

Trenton, n. J., July 27.-Katie Barlow,
sixteen-year- old inmate of the State In
dustrial School for Girls. has been trans
ferred to the Trenton City Hospital, and
DR.. E. B. Witte, the house physician, says
she is suffering from mercury in her sys-
tenn. She does not appear TO be more than
ten years old, so small and stunted is she.
Il never was in such place in my life, 3"
said Katie last evening. II was treated
badly and 1 hadn't enough to eat. They
put me in dungeon and kept me there
for more than twenty four hours. The
punishment was awful. 1t was because
disobeyed one of the teachers. She saw
me run upstairs and ordered me to come
back and walk-up, and / didn't do it. The
dungeon is an awful place. dark and scary.
They keep it to punish girls in.
Il was ordered to walk UP one flight of
stairs twenty-five times. l tried to beg
out of it. but the teacher made me do it.
l thought my heart would break"
Mrs. Martha Eyler. the principal of the
Whites assertion that the girl has been
overdosed with mercury is true She de-
MES that Katie was cruelty punished.
Katie Barlow said Mrs. Eyler. was
disciplined for striking teacher. She
has bad temper and she is very hard to
manage. The school is penal institu-
tion to which incorrigible girls are COM
mitted by the courts. The rules are strict
and so are the punishments, but there is
nothing cruel or inhuman about them"
The evening times., 1899-07-27
PRAISE FOR INGERSOLL
The Rev. Minot ]. Savage Sustains
the Dead Agnostic.
The New York Preacher Says He
Would Rather Die and End In
Dust Than Live In the Heaven Fur-
nished by the Old Creeda-Pre-
fers Agnosticism to CaIvinism.

Boston. July 27.--In an interview on the
late Col. Robert ]. IngersoIl the Rev.
Minot ]. Savage, of New York. who is
spending the summer near Boston, said:
Il do not think that It is fair to refer to
him as either an atheist or an unbeliever
in the future life. My point Is that he
was not dogmatic In those directions. He
said 4 don't know, and the God he did rot
believe In was the God OF the popular
creeds. 1ngersoll did sdenounce and deny
the popular creeds. feeling sure that he
did know that they were not true. He sai j
in some of his addresses on funeral occa-
sions that he did hots feel sure that there
was no other life. He simply was not sat
isfied with any evidence that had ever bean
presented and he did not believe there was
any such kind of God as represented in the
popular creeds. He found it impossible to
worship or believe in any such concep-
tions.
Let me say here ! think his position
was completely justified in its antagonism
to popular creeds Ii was natural reac-
tion from the old Presbyterian confession
of faith, and his, criticisms, for example,
would not touch at ell my opinions. They
would not hit or hurt the views of a lib
eral theistic evolutionist, but were per-
fectly valid in my judgment as against the
old time CaIvanistic creeds. The Presby
terian confession of faith teaches the dam
nation OF non elect infants and the Epis-
copal prayer book teaches clearly by i'm
plication the damnation OF unbaptized in
fants. AS against the kind OF God who Is
represented in such creeds, IngersoiPs po.
sition is unassailabie. and will say frank
ly if had my choice between the agnosts-
cism of IngersolI and belief in any OF
the old Calvanistic creeds l would side
with Ingersoll every time.
Il would a great deal rather die and 60
to dust and that be the end of me than TO
take any heaven that the old creeds offer
me at the price OF an endless hell for the
meanesi man that ever lived"
The evening times., 1899-07-27
ROBBED OF HER REVENGE.
Violent Death of Woman Who
Sought Her Husbands Slayer.

Altoona, Pa, July 27.sMarie voksra, a
Hungarian woman, who followed the mur-
derer Of her husband 400 miles to avenge
his death by her own hand. herself met a
tragic death yesterday on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad near Altoona.
After leaving this city three weeks ago
nothing was heard of the woman or her
strange mission until yesterday morning,
when the engineer of Pennsylvania Rail-
road train saw her on the tracks In front
of his locomotive. The engineer opened
the whistle wide, but the woman failed to
hear. She was struck and hurled to one
side cf the track with both legs and an
arm crushed. The woman maintained
consciousness until her arrival in this city.
At the Municipal Hospital she realized that
death was near and gasped out:
God was not with me- as I thought He
will averge." These were her last words
few minutes later she died
In the folds of her dress the dagger,
which she declared she would sink into
the heart of her husbands murderer, was
found. 1t and few silver coins, her sole
worldly possessions. were turned over to
the coroner
The evening times., 1899-07-27
BANK had VALENTINES NOTE.
S1I. 1880 Loaned to Him With No
Security Whatever.

$1I .3:s7.5 80 Loaned to Him With No
Security Whatever.
New Brunswick, n. j., July 2I.-More
misdeeds of Cashier George NJ. Valentine.
now undergoing a six-year sentence in
Middlesex County Bank. of Perth Amboy,
continue to come to light 1t has been
found that the bank had notes of Cashier
Valentine amounting to S11. .337-50, with alb
solutely no security whatever. 1t is said
that one man owed the bank for notes ag-
gregating $4,000, the security for which
Is property said to be worth only 500. 1000,
although the bank declares that it is worth
S12O.0
There are other notes of the defaulting
cashier for .0e0. with the endorsement OF
his father, r. N. Valentine. There are
also notes of the value of S13,S50 with Bay
State Gas stock, Standard Fireproofng
Company, and other stocks as collateral
There is still another note for S31, 100. the
security for which nobody seems to know
anything about. The ostensible security is
the stock of New Jersey Improvement
company. Lawyer James Parker says the
stock is not worth cent. The bank has
a total Of $145,3S1 on notes.
Prosecutor John S. Voorhees,, who has
mitting Valentine to plead before the full
extent of his peculations was known, made
the following statement yesterday:
valentine came into my Office and sur
rendered himself, plainly under a keen
and remorseful sense of the enormity OF
his offence. He confessed his crime, and
when brought before the court few days
later he rendered plea of guilty. / never
heard of an instance in which such a plea
was refused. But suppose that, in violation
of all usage, had refused to accept the
plea and said: No, you cannot plead
guilty, you must make fight in court IL
that event the case would not have come
before the grand jury until the following
September. In the meantime Valentine
would have been out on bail, as ii is ball
able offence under the Constitution. The
case would not, in the ordinary course.
have been tried until October. Then, if
his counsel made q fight. as there is no
reason to doubt that they would. post
ponement. on account Of sick or absent
witness or a score of other reasons, would
probably have been secured. The trial would
then have gone over to the January term
of court.
Assuming that he would then be con-
vieted, his counsel would have carried the
case by writ of error to the supreme court,
where it would have been heard in June.
and decided the following November. The
case would then have been appealed to
the court OF errors and appeals. and
argued at the following March term. II
would have reached a final determination
In November 1901. In the meantime the
culprit would have been at liberty all this
time, the excitement and ill-feeling and
demand for vengeance that surcharge the
air now would mostly have abated, and a
sentence OF six years would probably seem
after those delays quite exemplary punish
ment Instead Of this delay and the large
expense the trial would have involved, the
cuiprit is sentenced and in prison six days
after the crime IL confessed"
The evening times., 1899-07-27
TIME D1Ms Net HER LOVE.
A Woman Makes n Lonx Journey 1
Search of q Lost Sweetheart.

A Woman Makes n Long Journey In
Search of q Lost Sweetheart.
Pittsburg, Pa. July 27.-Patrons and en-
ployes of the Monongahela House are puz-
zled over woman who is registered there
as Mierzynska Helena, but did not desig-
nate any place Of residence.
This woman, who is about forty years
old, has been exciting interest and curiosi-
ty in the hotel for five weeks. 1t is said
she is of noble birth. Not only have her
exclusive manner and eccentric demeanor
enlisted interest. but the supposed reasons
for her being here, behind which is said
to be a romantic story, have caused her to
be called "the mysterious woman"
Through the British Consul in New York
''the mysterious woman" received today a
passage ticket on the steamship Lucania,
which will sail from New York next Sat-
urday, and she will leave here on Friday
night She received few days ago eer-
tificate of deposit of S12, 600 in an Austro-
Hungarian bank. Half dozen letters have
come to her from Canton. Ohio, but she
has sent them back unopened
When Mierzynska Helena arrived at the
Monongahela House she took one meal,
paid her bill and said she was going to
Canton, where she had a married sister
living. In few hours she returned to
the hotel in a half angry and half melan-
choly mood, and said she had given up the
trip to Canton and wanted to secure the
return of her trunk which had gone on to
that city.
The story is that during her absence
from the hotel that day she was in COM
munication by wire with Canton persons.
from whom she obtained information that
completely changed her plans.
According to the story which she has di-
vulged by piecemeal to the few persons
who have conyersed with her. she had a
sweetheart in her girlhood days in Austria
who deserted her and came to America.
Through twenty years or separation her
devotion to him was not warped, though
she had not, until recently, even had an
intimation OF his whereabouts.
Her married sister in Canton wrote to
| her few months ago that her longlost
sweetheart was in Canton and wished to
renew his betrothal. II she would come to
America, the Canton woman wrote, the
! dream OF her youth might be realized.
MieTzynska Helena at once set out for
the United States. When she reached New
| York she secured a railroad ticket for Can
ton, but left the train here, and her bag
gage was carried ON to the Ohio city. In
formation she received in this city is said
to have been that the man she was looking
Tor was not In Canton and had not been
there, and that her sister had written the
letter as, aaruse to bring Mierzynska Helena
to America. r,c
This deception and disappointment drove
her into seclusion. She has kept close to
her room and concerned herself about
nothing except the securing of steamship
passage for her return to Europe.
Numerous letters have come to her from
the dead letter cffice in Washington, which
were originally mailed in Austria
While "Mierzynska Helena" is the name
On the hotel register all the mail sent here
for her has been addressed Helena Won
Mierzynska."
The evening times., 1899-07-27
A saiIor Inherfts n Fortune

Norfolk, Va, July 27.-Calvin Levi Sib-
ley, rated as an able seaman aboard the
United States tug Alice, yard tug at the
Norfolk navy yard, has been advised that
he has fallen heir to a fortune amounting
to one and a half million dollars. The
money was accumulated by Richard Sib-
ley, Calvin Sibley's paternal uncle, who
amassed considerable fortune in Ports
mouth, Va, which place he left twenty
years ago. During his subsequent residence
in New York he added largely to this for
tune. He died. it is said, in October last,
since which time attorneys have been look
ing for hts heirs. They discovered the
whereabouts of Calvin Levi Sibley and ad-
yised him of his unele's death and his right
to inherit the slatterss. savings. Calvin Levi
Sibley can neither read nor write.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
MARTIN GROWS AGGRESSIVE.
Charge That He Ever Acted as a
lobbyist Denounced as a Lie.

LQbDyfst DenOunceu aS u Lie
Norfolk, Va, July 27.-United States
Senator Martin, of Virginia. who is can
didate for reelection, is here. He is op-
posed by Gov. ]. Hoge Tyler, and the
contest promises to be the fiercest waged
for years within the Democratic party in
Virginia Senator Martin has been bitter
ly assailed recently by opponents. who
charge him with being a lobbyist, and the
attorney for railway corporations.
Yesterday John Whitehead, prom
inent politician, and one Of Sem
ator Martins strongest adherents,
said that the Senator had au-
thorized him to make the statement from
the stump or for publication otherwise.
that the man who makes the statement
that he (Martinl ever lobbied for any bill
before the Virginia Legislature or that
he was the agent of any corporation is
common liar. He said that the Senator
attorney for the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway for five counties, at an annual SAL
airy of S1,ee0. and that he resigned this
position upon his election to the Senate.
and has not since represented any client.
Whitehead also stated that Senator Martin
said that NJ E. ingalls,. President of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, was an
ayowed Lee man, and supported Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee when the latter was a can
didate for the Senate. General Lee was
defeated. and Ii has been repeatedly stated
since that Martin was elected because as
sisted by the powerful interest of the CheS-
apeake and Ohio Railway.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
AFence war In New York.

New York, July 27.-As a first lesson in
art to elevate the taste OF persons in the
neighborhood, some one connected with
the National Academy of Design, at Am
sterdam Avenue and 1O9th Street, has per-
mitted the high board fence surrounding
the grounds to be ornately decked with a
fiamboyant advertisement for cigars, and
as a result the neighborhood is aroused
Ever since the announcement was made
that the proposed new building of the
Academy of Design was to be built at
109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue prop
erty owners have, been increasing rents.
At least. they did for time, but the bait
no longer tempts. The color work on the
big fence is the cause of all the trouble
This fence runs around Amsterdam Ave-
nue., 10th and 1o9th Streets, save where
the building faces, and across the easterly
edge of the lot from one street to the
other, and is used to advertise the merits
Of a cigar
The evening times., 1899-07-27
OLD DOMINION NEWS NOTES.

Major Eugene G. Peyton a well-known hotel
proprietor, died at Coyington, Va, Monday night.
Rev. John Fix has been called to the pastorate
of the Presbyterian Church at Round Hill, near
Winchester.
A fruit evaporating plant, with capacity OF
500 bushels of apples day, will be established
at Parkersburg at once.
An association of the alumni of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, in Orange county, has been
formed, with P p. Barbour president.
In the circuit court of Florence county Mrs.
Florence L. Wheat has brought siit for divorce
from her husband, Prof Leo p Wheat,
The Citizens National Bank of Parkersburg
has just occupied its bank building. which
is said to be one of the finest in West Virginia
The authorities Of Cabell county W Va. are
doing away with the old wooden bridges and re-
placing them with iron structures on substantial
foundations.
The Citizens Trust and Guarantee Company
has been organized at Parkersburg, W. Va j.
NJ Jackson lr-, IS the president, and J. B.
Finley secretary.
Grafton, W Va, has redeemed s17 500 of its
outstanding bonds follows: 81 1,590 street i'm.
prorements; 5000, electric light, and $1,000
waterworks extension.
The new sash and door factory at Keyser, w.
Va. is making $1,000 tent pins for the Govern.
ment, and has received an order Off s22, ,09G
worth of doors frame, and Ssh, for Government
use in Cuba
A committee has been appointed. consisting OF
Lieut.. Governor Edward Echols, Congressman J.
NJ. Quarles and others, TO invite William J. Bry-
an 10 make the opening address OF the Stauntor
street carnival, to be held there the first week
in October.
Miss Rettie Chamberlaype and Miss Amanda
Chamberlsyne, daughters of Mrs. S. ID. Chamber.
layne. were married in Richmond Tuesday, Her.
bert Francis and Churchill Graves, respectively,
at the home Of the brides mother Bishop Pen.
ick and Rev. Dr. Hatcher dictated The brides
are noted for their beauty.
Charles p. Faulkner, son Of former Senator
c. J. Faulkner, OF Martinsburg, who received
commission as second lieutenant in an artillery
regiment at the beginning Of the war. has been
transferred to the regular infantry. He is now
with the Fourteenth Infantry. in active service
In the Philippines, and is second lieutenant in
one of the companies.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
MARYLAND LAND CLAIMED.
Supposed Heirs of Andrew Valentine
House Hold a Meeting.


Richmond, Ind, July 27.-At the home of
Mrs L. r. Adams here yesterday. meet
ing was held by a large number OF per-
sons from various parts Of the country who
believe they are heirs Of Andrew valen-
tine House. Mr.. House is said to have
owned vast tract of land in Maryland in
the vicinity of Harper's Ferry a century
ago.
According to statements by the supposed
heirs, their ancestor was obliged TO forfeit
his entire estate for ninety nine years be-
cause of his failure TO comply with then
existing laws, in making improvements
along the streams that traversed the es-
tate. 1t is said that the ninety-nine years
have almost elapsed and that the land must
in consequence revert to the heirs. The
meeting was for the purpose of taking in
itiatory steps to litigation. II is said that
careful investigation has been made with
in the last year and that the claim of the
heirs is well founded. Charles Ellison, of
Noblesville, Ind, was chosen president of
the organization that was perfected and
committee was appointed to raise funds
with which to prosecute the litigation.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
AN EPIDEMIC OF ANTHRAX.
The Dreaded Horse Disease Breaks
Ont in Pennsylvania

Carlisle. Pa, July 2T-State Veterina-
rian Leonard Pearson, who was here today,
says that anthrax. a dreaded disease
among horses has broken out in Bedford
county and has assumed epidemic form
Six horses have died and two men were
bady affected, enc of them dying from
blood poisoning.
About year ago. it is said, two tanner
les owned by the Leather Trust became
impregnated with anthrax germs, brought
into this country in hides from China A
number of cattle died after drinking f.om
stream running near one of the tanner
les. The tanneries had to be abandoned.
1t is also alleged that gypsy camIed
one night at the abandoned tanneries aud
several days later horse which he owned
died of anthrax. The horse was skinned
and half buried. AS a result an epidemic
of anthrax developed in the county.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
A BIG SUIT OVER LAND.
Fifty thousand Acres in West Vir
Sinia Involved

Sfn1a Involved.
Parkersburg, W. Va, July 27.-Rollan H
Smith brought suit against the Consolidated
Investments Incorporation and the Webster
Coal and Lumber Company in the United
States court here yesterday. and similar
proceedings will be instituted in New York
city where the principal Offices of the COM
pany are located. More than $4,000 acres
of land in Webster county, this State,
which Smith transferred for development
to the company. then capitalized at 81, 1,5G0.-
600 receiving therefor 5000, 900 in stock, ar
in controversy.
James N Houston. former Treasurer Of
the United States. is president of the COM
pany, and the directory includes Congress
man Livingston of Georgia, Secretary OF
War Meiklejohn, Rear Admiral Franklin,
Public Printer F. A. Palmer, and Major
Gen. G. B. Stanley, U. S. A.
Any disposition OF the property by either
company was prevented by the court grant,
ing an injunction against each corporation.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
THEIR BURIAL PLACE CHANGED
Remains of Mrs. Grants Grandpa
rents Disinterred Mt Cumherland

rents Dfsinterred Mt Cumberland,
Cumberland, Nd, July 27.-The bodies OF
George Dent and his wife. grandparents
of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, were disinterred
Tuesday from the old Methodist burying
ground ON Cumberland Street. placed in
collins and removed to vaults in Rose Hill
Cemetery, pending instructions from Mrs.
Grant. TO whom Governor Lowndes has
written. The removal was made by l. F..
Wilson. who found the graves from de-
scription given him by the late Charles
Ridgely.
Colonel Dent was a surveyor. He laid
out the city OF Cumberland in 1855. He
was surveyor of Allegany county in 1901
'02. The old burying ground will be CON-
yerted into building lots.
The evening times., 1899-07-27
A VICTIM OF LAUDANUM.

Robert Craig Found Dead in His
Room mt n Lynchburg Hotel.
Lynchburg. Va, July 27.-Robert Craig
who seemd to be about ffty-fve years of
age, was found dead in his room at the
Mansion House yesterday afternoon
Craig came here about month ago and
has been engaged in organizing frater-
nal insurance order. 1t is said that his
wife and family reside in Baltimore. He
was in the habit Of taking laudanum to
make him sleep and several empty bottles
that had contained the drug were found in
his room His body was removed to Dui-
guilds undertaking establishment. where
the cause of death will be Investigated to-
daY.