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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-22

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

above its predecessors in points Of exc
cllence and beauty as the habit fitting
skirt supersedes The gathered one in
gracefulness of outline.
The most striking feature about this
new cloak is its Trelawny fit. TAs
''Trelawny fiji" it may be explained, is
strictly English and is no more or less
than ''faultless adaptation Of the
wrap to the shoulders TO expose their
classic outline"
A handsome cloak worn over a siren
green princess gown was developed in
pale tea color velvet lined with en-
mine. The enveloping skirt was circus
lar in shape and was made upon deep
yoke of Gismonds pink satin plainly
stitched in sold. The yoke was finish
ed with deep, loose. corrugated band of
ed with deep. loose, corrugated band
OF the satin. The collar was cut into
the yoke and lined with ermine. 1t was
hooked with heavy gold clasps, which
also held several tiny ermine tails in
place.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

The narrowest ribbon is used for en-
brodery in place of silk. though it is
not drawn through the goods, but is
appliqued or gathered on one edge upon
the surface of the goods
II you have silk use it for the first
skirt of your dancing gown. Buy chif-
fon with which to make the second
skirt. Let the chiffon be floor deep and
set a ruffie twelve inches wide uDon
the foot of the chiffon skirt If you
are economizing, use a cheap chiffon
substitute-and there are many. Over
this drape your lace overdress, and. if
the lace is faulty from age, with some
of the figures torn out and defaced by
ineradicable stains, use applique work
of taffeta upon the bad places. Cut out
taffeta leaves and applique them all
over the lace, outlining with chenille
When your work is done you will be
rewarded by truly beautiful lace over
dress.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
HOW IT FEELS TO SPEND FOUR MILLIONS.
What Pretty Californian VIII do With Her Money and What the
World Will do With Its New fieiress.

I have just returned from spending an
efternpon with Mary Croker, the new
beauty and the richest girl in society.
Rather, ! may say, that have just re-
turned from spending an afternoon
with her clothes, for Miss Croker is a
much sought young woman, and after
greeting me and telling me how glad
she was to see me again, she hurried
away to golf. telling me to examine her
wardrobe as much as l pleased, and
lauEhingly cautioned me TO write very
little about her.
Mary Croker is the new girl about
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
snrr FOR EVENING

Only the soft. silky materials that
lend themselves gracefully to the out
line of the figure are used for evening
gowns this year. Chiffon made price,
less by its jeweled embroidery and silk
and null, swafhed IN ruffies of lace and
ribbon, are the fabrics par excellence.
A hyacinth blue gown made over a
foundation of the same color taffeta
has a skirt of chiffon embroidered in
silver in simple design. The figure
consists of three hair lines of graduated
length, the longest being in the center.
Around the foot are three frills OF pale
lavender chiffon lined with cream silk
lace.
The bodice is worked in most COM
plicated design with the figures cut in
silver threads. There is a narrow belt
of sapphire blue velvet clasDed in front
with jeweled buckle below which are
basque points Of chiffon embroidered
in squares. The neck is low, bordered
with ruffle of the lavender chiffon
lined with lace. A beautiful color
scheme, is it not-hyacin1h blue. pale
lavender and cream with silver en-
broidery?
Another beautiful gown developed in
striped eau de MI silk was made en-
princesses. The bodice had a tight back
and basque front, draped with a fishchu
of net which was finished at the right
side with a bow of black satin.
The skirt was trimmed with rufHes
of the silk over which were TWO shrred
headings of black ribbon.
Plaid mousseline de sole blending
delicate tints OF violet and pink was
used for still another evening gown.
The skirt was cut plain and made with
out trimming, and the bodice was
trimmed with frills of the same ma
terial edged with lace and headed with
narrow bands of peach blow velvet.
EVENING CLOAK.
After the most ingenious manipula-
ton, modistes have succeeded in de-
signing an evening cloak that towers
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

whom you are beginning to hear so
fmuch. Until few weeks ago she was
school girl, just home from Paris.
Nut when she came eighteen, all thai
changed. She came up from the family
country seat one morning to pay
visit to her lawyer, and when she went
back she knew that she had four mil
lions to spend just as she pleased. If
she wanted to do so she could go out
and squander il ali in q day It is
hers in her own right, in cash" if she
wants it so; and she can use it or the
interest Of it, or give it away, just ex-
aetly as she desires. Of all the great
heiresses she is the Only one who can
do this.
When Colonel Charles +. Croker lost
i his wife five years ago, people Won
dered what he would do with his pretty
daughter. Thirteen is. for a girl, just
the age when she begins to need breed
ing. But Colonel Croker placed Miss
Mary in boarding school in the East,
and her sweet disposition made friends
for her.
HER LIFE.
Two years afterward her father died
and Mary Croker a great prospective
heiress at fifteen, went to Paris to COM
plete her education.
She came back finished" and went
to live with her grandparents.
Now she is of age and the money,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

they are easily torn and, consequently,
are worn little shorter than the din
ner dress if meant for dancing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
CENTURY. OF THANKSGIVING
Continued from Sevente nth Page.

President Hayes was most grateful
for the exuberant harvests, productive
mines, ample crops of the staples Of
trade and manufactures that have en-
riched the country; for peace with all
the nations and the general prevalence
of the blessings of health"
During each year President Cleveland
recommended that the last Thursday
be spent in prayer and fasting and re-
Numbering and endeavoring to make
happy the poor of the country.
President Harrison was most thank
full for the marvellous prosperity which
attended the country and like Presi-
dent Arthur, no special event was men
toned in his proclamatfons.
President Mckinley is thankful, this
fall of 1899, that No great pestilence
has invaded our shores Liberal en-
ployment waits upon labor. Abundant
crops have rewarded the efforts of the
husbandmen. Increased comforts have
come to the home. Churches and
schools have fiourished. American pa
triotism has been exalted. Those en-
gagged in maintaining the honor of the
flag with such signal success have been
in large degree spared from disas-
ter and disease. An honorable peace
has been ratified with a foreign nation
with which we were at war. and we
are now on friendly relations with
every power on earth
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

That the skirts are not as tight as
they were, many of them having a box
plait in the middle of the back.
That three skirts all of the same
length are fashionable, one falling over
the other. and the third skirt falling
over the ether two, each skirt being
differently draped so as to show the
skirth beneath it.
That sleeves on evening gowns are
different one sleeve may be velvet
puff, the other a jeweled band; one a
sleeve of princes plumes, the other a
strap of velvet.
That evening gowns have long lace
cverskirts so thin as to show the silk
underneath plainly.
That figured materials are used for
evenings gowns, even figured silk chal-
lies being seen. Figured mulls, figured
crepe de chine and crepe crepons with
silk figures are fashionable at $3.50 per
yard.
That the deep old-fashioned founces
is very fashionable looped with flowers
as they looped it in 1880.
EMBROIDERED DRESSES.
That the most elegant evening dresses
are made cut OF taffeta embroidered in
silk cord Sometims the entire gown
IS embroidered, any sort Of design be
| ing used. One shows a swirl Of the silk
cord put on apparently without pat
tern. wavy and curry always as it
wends its way across the silk.
The new geranium taffeta. which IS
very much ike the old cerise, is en-
broidered with white silk cord for even.
ing. and with black silk cord for calf
| ing.
Turquoise blue silk and green chiffon
are combined for gas-light wear.
! Ecru green and lavender look won
derfully well together. especially in the
windmill bow: there are four leoYs OF
each all standing out, as suggested by
the name.
Evening dresses are 50 fiimsr that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
REUBEN AND CYNTHIA.
Reuben, Reuben, I've notion.
TX the men We're sent away

Reuhen, Reuben, I've a notion.
IL the men were sent away
Ear beyond the stormy ocean
Female hearts would all be gay
1&nthl3s cynthia, I've been thinking.
II the men would take that trio
All THE women in creation
tdSht away would take that shin
Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinking,
W hat strange thing Ii would be-
II ali streams Of drinking water
All turned salty as the sea
CXathia. Cynthia. I've been thinking.
You can hardly take my word.
More than half the population,
Wouldn't know IL had occurred.
Reuben. Reuben. I've been thinlzinS.
VIII yen tell me where or when
Women Will be forced to stop this
Dong things Just like the men?
1Nntni3, cynthia, I've been thinking,
And can answer with dispatch,
she must cease her manmsh notions
When she comes to strike q match.
Reuben Reuben, I've been thinking.
W hy do people risk their gold
Betting on the wicked races.
knowing they are bought and sold7
CYNTHIA Cynthia, I've been thinking
That is where The laugh comes ia
Each man thinks that he has Axed IL
50 the horse he backs VIII win
Buffalo News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

ladylike and beautiful in all she wears.
As friend Of the family it would not
be fair TO tell too many secrets. But
it is said that after Miss Croker has
worn an automobile cloak once she does
not wear it again until it has been re
lined; tha- she wore a blue-lined cloak
one day and next day had it lined with
red.
She chooses her jewels each day in
the week, and wears her turquoise set
once in ten days, her diamonds once in
ten days, and by alternating in this way
never repeats her toiletttes.
In her bodices she has hard sense and
chooses the soft things with ruchings
around The neck and designs that drape
over the bust in that classic sweep
which is the delight of all artists.
FINE CLOTHES.
She is little bit inclined to be eecen-
trio in dress. But on a beautiful girl
it is not noticed. One of her hand
soonest pictures show her in evening
dress, the low necked bodice bordered
with very heavy ruches of tulle. Her
long, shapely arms are clasped behind
her, but on one she wears long black
glove reaching to the shoulder; The
other is deliciously lovely by contrast
with its gloved mate.
In gloves she is a veritable little
spendthrift; she wears fresh pair
every day and purchases them in boxes
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

TEA COLORED VELVET LINED WITH
ERM[NE
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

held in trust for her, has been paid
into her hands Mary Croker, Cali
fornia's prettiest girl, is one of the very
richest in the world.
Always very well dressed, Miss
Croker became extremely well gown
ed, after coming into her money. Her
debut in society required great ex-
penditure and she spent the money
freely She Is the most elegantly
gowned girl in the West. Her cloaks
are the longest, her bodices the fussi-
est, her skirts the most clinging. She
wears the extremes of style and looks
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
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FATE.


She paints dainty pictures on plates
And enlbroiderS for hours and hours
Writes verses iEnploring the tates
To sprinkle ambition with showers.
She always is I'D with the lark
And IS seen with her cheeks rosy red
Walking rapidly down through the park
With her nose pointed strsightway ahead
She lectures on mummies and things
That survived in the long ago hence
Snes a corker ON solarize6 rings
As a linguist she's counted immense
Adroitly she pulls at an oar
Can she act on the stage? Well she can.
She has gained all her wants and some
more
But she never has coliared . man.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
WHY THEY WERE SILENT

Doctor-Did your teeth chatter when you
had the chill?
Patient-No; they were on the table
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26
EVENING GOWNS
FOR THANKSGIVING
Dresses fer Dinners, Tanoes and In.
formal Evening Entertainments.

ALL THE NEW EFFECTS-DEEP
OLD FASHIONED FLOUNCES
ARE LOCPED WITH FLOWERS
Erred TO MATCH ECRU, GREEN
AND LAVENDER.
NEW YORK, November 24.-There
are many new rUmors in fashion circles.
They say:
That evening dresses are very pro-
fusely trimmed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18

the information at hand, 1t is certain
however, that ~Erne is on his way to
this city, and that a prearranged affair
exists between himself and Mr.. Haw-
kins.
The National Club has postponed the
Mcconnell and Neil twenty-round fight
until the evening of the oath inst, as
Neil had asked for postponement be-
cause he did not have sufficient time to
condition himself for a hard battle.
Rather than see him enter the ring in
inferior shape the request was granted.
The preliminaries are of high-class or
der. Cocker" Tweedie will meet
Charles Tye of the Acme Club of Oak
land in a bout of fifteen rounds at 135
pounds. and prior to the main event
a rafting ten-round go" will be wit
messed between Jockey" Maynard and
Willie Cole-who also represents an
Oakland club-at 115 pounds. All in
all, the National Club has mapped out
a first-class evenings entertainment.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18
SKATER DUE ON FRIDAY.
His Public Reception Will Be Held on
Monday Next.

The committee on arrangements for the
public reception to be given to Major Gen
er"l Shat er met yesterday and completed
all the necessary details. The reception
will be held next Monday evening in the
parlors of the Palace Hotel. The recep-
ton committee Will meet in the parlors
at $3.50 o'clock. This committee will be
composed of the most prominent citizens
of San Francisco and will represent all
of the social clubs and commercial organi-
cations. The committee of arrangements
will to-day issue 1000 cards of invitation.
Colonel j. c. Currier, who is a member of
the committee of arrangements, said yes
terday that while the reception is to be
a public one and while any one is free
to come, still, the cards, were issued for
the purpose of keeping out any objection
able persons. The reception committee
will consist of about 100 gentlemen. The
committee will request General Shafter
to make some few remarks, and there is
no doubt that General Shafter will, like
Lieutenant Hobson, address the public
from the gallery on the first floor
General Shafter is expected to arrive
here on Friday evening or Saturday
morning After leaving Washington he
telegraphed Colonel William r. Smedberg
from Charlottesville. Va, that he was on
his way to San Francisco and that he
would stop a day at Los Angeles and
possibly one at his ranch near Bakers
field. Colonel Currier stated that in view
of the harsh criticism that had been
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18
THE ACCUSING LETTER SENT TO CORONER HILL

a portion of the contents spilled. This is
another barrier to the investigation, as 1t
is possible that there was not enough
left in the stomach to analyze.
for some time before her death, was
called to DR.. Hills Office last night and
asked his opinion of the case. He stated
to the Coroner that, while he said nothing
at the time and made no objection to the
opinion of DR.. Zabala that death was
caused by strangulation. he had thought
that the lungs were not sufficiently con-
gested for person who had died from
If the woman was murdered and then
hanged to the door of the closet 1t is the
when the rope was placed around her
neck He bases his opinion on the fact
that when the body was found the. eyes
and tongue were protruding; Had the
would not have been the case.
The brother of Mrs. Slinkey attributes
her suicide, as he calls it, to. the fact
that she was respondent over the loss OF
suicide theory he quotes DR.. Hughes, of
whom Mrs. Slinkey made inquiries as to
whether death by strangulation was pain
full. He says she had read the suicide
of Mrs. McQuewan and talked a great
deal of 1t.
One point which was overlooked by the
authorities when the body of the woman
was found is that the nails to when the
handkerchief. This was evidently done
to keep the rope from slipping. Should
the handkerchief be found and identified
though it is admitted that Mrs. .;;linkey
hal free access to her husbands effects.
DIR. Hill places little credence in The
charge made in the letter. but ne VIII
nevertheless make thorough investIga-
ton CT the case.
J. e. Slinkey. in an interview late last
night, stated that the report that his late
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18
Prompt Action of In
speCtor DoCkery.
FOUND FILTH UNDERSTANDABLE
COOLIES SMOKED AND SLEPT ON
UNWASHED CLOTHES.
In Both Places the Roofs Were Leaky
and the Seepage Was Allowed
to Collect and Lie Inches
Deep on the Floor.

Health Inspectors Dockery and Lenahan
yesterday afternoon closed two Chinese
laundries that for reeking, siCkening filth
could hardly have parallel
Both the houses are in the Mission. The
first one visited was the establishment of
Wing Lung at 1908 Valencia street. This
place is not only vile in appearance, but
1ts occupants live with an utter disregard
10 health or cleanliness. 1t is a miserable
ricllety shanty, and the half-dozen or
more of its occupants live, eat, sleep and
work in the same room. A long table
runs the entire length of the one room,
and the unwashed clothes are gathered
and thrown in heap under this table.
When night comes each Celestial takes
his comforting opium pipe, crawlS under
the table and settles himself for a COM
Portable smoke and a nights rest on the
very articles Of clothing which the white
patrons Of the filthy den wear the next
week.
The roof of this establishment is also
in a ieaky condition, and tubs and buck
cts are set on the floor to catch the seep-
age which il continually oozing from the
roof. when a bucket gets full it is al
lowed 10 run over, and the filth is inches
thick on the floor, while tt hangs like
stalacites in a cave at every leaky spot
in the ceiling. Mr.. Dockery did not wait
TO make Il very close inspection. He i'm
mediately ordered all work quit and had
the fires put out a guard of men was
placed IL the laundry TO see that no more
work was done in the building and Wing
Lung was given twenty-four hours to
pack up ana move out for good.
The other place was the establishment
of Hop Moon at Twenty-second street and
San Jose avenue. 1t was, if anything,
viler than Wing Lungs filthy howell. At
one time it had had a concrete floor, but
this was worn away and broken into
holes. These holes have been filed up
with sacks and, as the roof is leaky, the
sacks were soon saturated with the seep-
age from above. When the sacks became
top Of them, and the result is that all
are reeling, filthy and nauseating. The
laundrymen were working in bare feet,
frequently sink up to their knees in the
slimy mass of rags. Mr.. Docl1ery at once
gave ORDERS that work be stopped, the
feave his disease-breeding laundry within
twenty-four hours and seek a cleaner
oh
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18
The POrch-Climbing Burglar Is
Identified as Jules
SimOnSOn.
He Is Recognized as the Brother of Nine
SaVile, Whose Voice Captvated
the Critics of London.

TAMES STEWART, the porch climb
ing burglar, who was arrested Sun
day night while in the act of ran
sacking the residence of A. R. Hey
~ man at 623 Eddy street, was last
night identified as Jules Simonson,
brother of Nine. Savile, the celebrated
opera singer.
Simonson is also a well-known opera
singer. About a year ago his voice lost
its sweetness and he started on a career
of crime Since that time he has en-
tered a large number of houses and stolen
valuable property.
For some reason Chief Lees is deter
mined TO shield him, Notwithstanding
that he realizes he is a clever burglar
who would not hesitate to add murder TO
his numerous crimes. Thus far only one
charge of burglary has been entered
against SimOnson, although Detectives
Crockett and Silvey have sufficient evil
dence in their possession to show that
Simonson has committed at least twenty
burglaries in the past few months. Lees,
in his feeble way, last night not only tried
TO shield the prisoner, but also positively
refused to give his true name.
1T matters not TO the public" he re-
marked, with a knowing wink to one of
his trusted sleuthes. whether this sup
posed burglar is named Stewart or some
thing else. He comes from a good family
and / propose not to reveal his true name.
I'm Chief of Police, and intended t. run
this Office to suit myself
When asked If he intended to place adj
ditional charges against the desperate
burgler, Lees childishly remarked that he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18

Hughes was that shaughnessy fired side
the bullet
Shaughnessy was taken to the City
Prison and a charge of assault to murder
was booked against him. His face showed
the marks of the beating he got the pre-
vious night. He admitted that he in
tended to kill Hughes.
ANY man who would hit my old father
with a pick he said II would kill. He
is 63 years of age and never harmed any
body. Hughes used pick upon him and
me and wanted revenge. l got the re-
volver and made up my mind to kill him
this morning
Hughes denied that he used pick or
anything else upon Shaughnessy or his
father. The Shaughnessys got into a
hight and who struck them he did not
know. AT one time he was witness In
the Police Court against Shaughnessy,
who, he said, had been threatening him
ever since.
Judge Conlan was in his chambers
when the shots were fired. Clerk of the
Court Rice was at his desk and he made
a break for the Judges chambers. Bal
LII Kelly ran into the corridor and Of
ficer Maurice Behan remained at his post
and Kept his eyes on the prisoners in the
dock, as some of them were attempting
to climb over the railing to make their
escape in the confusion. Behan had to
get long pole and whack them over the
head 10 compel them to desist In their
attempts. Judge Mogan was on the bench
and remained there. Bailiff Barry and
Ohcer Coughlin rushed for the corridor
and the prisoners in the dock began to
Chamber over the railing, and one of them
they were subdued. There was a general
rush from police headquarters, but the
Danger was over before any one could
reach the scene.