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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
THREATENED MRS. GOULD.
An Innpudent Begging Letter Writer
Silenced by Menace of Arrest

New York, Feb. pa very transpar-
ent attempt has been made to extort
money upon Mrs. Howard Gould, who
was Katherine Clemmons, the actress,
and has failed. The would-be extorter
is a young artist, whose name is not
given. 1t is said that he has practiced
his clumsy wiles upon other women
and has been successful in some cases.
Some time ago Mrs. Gould received by
express a package containing palette
upon which was painted something
which might have been meant to be or
namental.
The recipient thought little of 1t, and,
as no card came with it, it was put
aside. A few days later q. letter came
from an address in West Twenty-fifth
street embodying a request for payment
for the palette. The writer described
himself as an artist in hard luck, the
father of a family. Mrs. Gould did not
reply and a few days later a bill was
received which was also ignored. Then
came a postal card containing i1l-diS-
guised threats. The writer also wrote
to Howard Gould informing him that
the Vanderbilts and other prominent
families had given him money, and
there was no reason why the GouldS
should fall behind. When another letter,
insulting and threatening in tone, was
received Mrs. Gould referred the matter
to her counsel, A. H. Hummel, who sent
for the man and informed him that any
further proceedings on his part would
be followed by his arrest. Since then
the man has made no trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
STRICKEN WITHPARALYSIS
Composer Xavier Scharwenka is Very
Ill in Berlin.

New York, Feb. 22.-xavier Schwar-
wenka, the famous pianist and compos-
er. has suffered a paralytic stroke in
Berlin, where he resides, and it is a
question If he will ever fully regain his
powers.
Word of the calamity which has be-
fallen the famous musician was re-
ceived today by Emil Gramm, director
of the Schwarwenka conservatory in
this city, with which the pianist and
composer himself has been connected
until last October.
Seharwenka lived in New York about
seven years. He came here in 1891 and
founded the Scharwenka conservatory
with Emil Gramm. During his resi-
dence here he produced at the Metro
pOlitan opera house, with the Dam
rosch- Ellis Opera company, a heroic
opera, "Matiswintha." He is best
known, however, as a pianist, and as
a composer for that instrument. One
of his shorter pieces, "a Polish Dance"
is very popular. He has also composed
several fine concertoS. ,---eA
In April Scharwenka intended to come
over to the United States to hold the
annual examinations at Hardin college,
in Mexico, Mo-. He was to fill this en-
gagement for five years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
HIS FIRST GRANDSON.
William G. Whitney Rejolces Over the
Advent of an Heir.

New York, Feb. 22.-Wil1iam c. Whit
ney passed one of the happiest days OF
his life yesterday when he became the
grandfather of one of the chubbiest
and prettiest baby boys in the world.
The baby is also the grandson Of Mr..
Cornelius Vanderbilt. To be grandson
of both Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Wander
bilt gives the little one prestige, and
probably means the Inheritance of mil
lions of dolIars-4ater on.
The baby was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, at No. West
F'ifty-seventh street, the handsome
mansion of the Whitney family. Mrs.
Whitney was Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt
The wedding of Mr.. Whitney and Miss
Vanderbilt at 1.-The Breakers" the
Newport villa Of Mr.. Cornelius Wander
bilt, was a feature of the season of
1895. 1t took place on August Is.
The union of the Vanderbilt and
Whitney families was followed by more
rejoicing on July 90, 1897, when baby
girl was born to the young couple at
the Whitney residence in Newport.
The little girl was chriStened Flora
Payne Vanderbilt Whitney. She was
named after her paternal grandmother.
In view of the first baby being a girl,
both the Vanderbilt and Whitney fam
lilies were interested in whether this
child would be a boy or a girl. Their
high hopes were realized, and there
was rejoicing throughout the family:
Taking Commodore Vanderbilt as the
head of the first generation, the baby
is of the fifth generation of the Van
derbilts. He is of the third generation
of the Whitneys since that family came
into social prominence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
ASHBRIDCE
ELECTED
Mayor of Philadelphia by 1OO,-
900 Plurality.
An Anti-Quay Republican Sena-
tor Chosen in Lebanon
TO FILL A VACANCY.
TO FILL A VACANCY.
Harrisburg and Altoona Go
Democratic.
A Woman Defeated by Her Hus-
band i'm Northumberland.

Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-Samuel H. Ash
bridge (Rep.) was elected mayor of Phila-
delphia to succeed Charles F. Warwick
by a plurality of at least 100000 over DR..
w. Horace Hoskins (Dem-), and the Pro-
hibition, Peoples and Single Tax candi-
dates.
Mayor-elect Ashbridge's plurality will
be about $1,000 in excess of that received
by Mayor Warwick in 1896, when a total
of 214,7 TAB votes were cast for him and his
Democratic opponent, Ex-Governor Patti
son.
In Lebanon, DR.. Samuel Weise, an anti
Quay Republican. was elected state sena-
tor succeed General J. P. s. Goblin, lieu
tenant governor of the state, by an eSti-
mated majority of between two and three
thousand over Alfred.
In Cumberland county, Edgar S. Man
ming (Dem-), was elected to the state leg
islature to succeed his father, who re-
Gently died.
Democratic mayors were chosen in Har-.
riSburg and Altoona In a number of
counties there were interesting contests
for school directors where women were
candidates, and in Snydertown, Northum-
berland county, one of these, candidates
running on the Democratic ticket was de-
feated by her husband, a Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22

Spanish by. Christopher Columbus upon
his return from his first voyage and ad-
dressed to Luis Re St. Angel, February Is
to March A. 1893, announcing his first dis
covery of the New World. he alleges he
bought under a misrepresentation of facts.
He purchased the book in March, 1890.
from Gilbert Ellis of the firm of Ellis &
Elvey, London booksellers. It was not
until five years later he says, he was con-
WINGED that he was deceived as to the true
worth of the book. He has brought suit
to recover the sum paid for it. The case
was brought to trial in the supreme court
before Judge Leventritt and jury.
The contention made by Mr.. Ives is that
he was told that the book was printed
from old Spanish and was a valuable copy
Of the original letter, in the Ambrosian
library in Milan. Italy. He declares that
it is nothing more than skillful repro
ductiOn, by some means of Photographic
process. and that it is not worth more
than $3.50
The defense interposed is that the sale
was made in good faith, upon the belief
that the book was as represented, and
worth the. sum paid for it. Mr.. Ellis be-
heves it is copy of the original letter
written in Spanish, and that it is hundreds
of years old. If it has deterioTated in
value, he says, it is because Mr.. Ives has
discredited the value of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
CITED FOR CONTEMPT.
Newspaper Correspondent in Trouble
in Ohio.

Columbus, O., Feb. 22.-During the TAX
ing of testimony before a notary in the
and Buckeye Pipe Line company, Malcolm
Jennings, a well known newspaper man,
a list of newspapers with whom it was
alleged Jennings had, as the head of a
matter favorable only to the Standard Oil
companyS interests. The attorney for
the Standard Oil company protested that
such testimony could only be taken by the
master commissioner appointed by the su-
preme court A writ of habeas corpus
was Immediately applied for in behalf of
Jennings to prevent his incarceration in
Judges could not be found, the court de-
cided that the writ could be presented
Thursday and in the meantime Jennings
was allowed to go at liberty Jennings is
also secretary of the state sinking fund
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
LARGE SUPPLY OF GOLD.
The Treasury Now Has 1927, 10000
to Only $23, 100000 in Paper.

Washington, Feb. regard to the
condition existing in many places in the
country, except the far west, in that the
supply of gold in circulation is very
large while that of paper currency is
too small. United States Treasurer
Roberts said today:
There is now in the treasury and in
the sub-treaSurieS 1927 ,o00, 900 in gold
and $23, 000, 900 in paper. Pains are be-
ing taken to distribute as much paper
as possible among the sub-treaSuries.
Applicants for paper in return for gold
are informed, however, that they will be
required to pay bankers rates for
transportation in such exchanges, and
this information seems to prevent con-
tinued calls for paper money"
Mr.. Roberts believes that as soon as
the people become accustomed to using
gold coin the demand for paper will
gradually decrease. In his opinion the
scarcity of paper money in the banks is
due to the large volume of such cur
rency in use outside the banks to meet
the demands of increasing business
among the people. In other words, it is
a sign of good times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
TWO-CENT MILK
Has Come to Chicago Since the Trust
Was Formed.

Chicago, Feb. 22.-Two cent milk has
come as a result of the milk trusts eff
forts to freeze out small dealers. Not
to cause too sudden shock it is being
tried first on Austin. Three or four
small dealers and one of the larger
companies in the trust have controlled
the trade of Austin, but in the last week
housewives have been approached by
agents of the larger company with in
ducements in the way of prices and
with promises of superior milk as Well.
Sixteen quarts for 81 is the regulation
price for milk, but canvasserS claiming
to represent one of the trust companies
have been visiting the women of Austin
and offering to do better Twenty-Five
and thirty tickets are offered for 81, and
if that proposition is not accepted the
offer is increased to forty and fifty tick
cts for the same price
Milk dealers refuse to believe the ru-
NOR circulated to the effect that the
milk trust is dead. They say that mys-
terious men appear in all parts of the
city trying to buy out routes and that
they must be agents of the trust. 1t is
said that the stock of the trust was
withdrawn from the market until the
company could show options on con-
trolling interest of the milk business In
Chicago.
Forty dealers handling milk shipped
on the Grand Trunk railroad have COM
bined and will try to secure a six-month
contract with the shippers who supply
them with milk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
TANNERS IN A TRUST.
Proposed Combination of All the I'm
portant Plants That Produce
Upper Leather.

Boston, Feb 22.-Messrs Hatch and
Richter, attorneys of Chicago, are or
Eanizing an upper leather trust. A
representative of the firm is in Boston
to secure options on tanneries here
abouts and says he has obtained enough
The combination will be called the
American Hide and Leather Co, with
a capital of Sc, o00, 900. The promoters
offer to purchase the desired tanneries
in cool, half cash and half stock, or all
stock, at the option of the owner. 1t
is proposed to pay for the merchandise,
plants and good will according to ex-
pert appraisal, tanners to guarantee
their debts, but they will be allowed
to receive bills receivable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22

street. 1t contained old fashioned furni
ture. much in need of busting. Nellie BLY,
compared it to BLEAK House. The
couple did not get along well in it. The
Wife would not dine at home; she was not
pleased with the service. She took the
carriage and went out to restaurants. She
told her friends she went to restaurants
her husband selected because he had cred
it there, and she had no money with which
to dine elsewhere.
One evening she discovered she was be-
ing followed by a man in a cab. She
had him arrested. 1t was Hanley. Then
she discovered that she was being shad-
owed systematically. Hanley declared
that it was by her husbands instructions.
Mr.. Seaman denied this. There was rec
onciliation, and Hanley sued for pay for
his services a sleuth.
THE SLEUTH FORSAKEN.
Hanley did not think that the reconcilia-
ton obliterated his claim. He presented it
repeatedly with particulars of what he
claimed to have seen in his cab rides
about town in pursuit of Mrs. Seaman.
Mr.. Seaman ignored both claims and par
ticulars. He bought his, wife, some new
gowns, some fine diamonds and steamship
passages to Europe for them both.
Now, through the consul general of VII
emma, Hanley will ask Mr.. Seaman if he
was not directed to watch Mrs. Seaman,
and If he did not report that he saw Mrs.
Seaman meet such and such persons 1T
such and such places-in short, make the
report of a faithful sleuth, worthy of his
hire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22

for such services, have now become inter-
the value of his services at $l,265. and
brought suit to recover the amount. Upon
Yesterday. Judge Conian decided to di-
rect Carl Bailey Hurst, United States Con-
man a series of EMBARRASSING questions
relating to the detectives claim, which
WI" An De 3GnMffe8 OF he questions Which
the consul general at Vienna will have to
on the career of a young woman whose
nom de guerre is known the world over.
Many persons would call that career
romance, with chapters yet to be lived and
Publicity AND PROMOTION.
Jane Elizabeth Pink Cochrane was the
name her parents gave her. Her father
Elizabeth Pink might have led humble
though useful life of bread--making, not
to make a name. AS there seemed to be
little in the way Of a name to be made 5, in
newspapers, to which she signed the name
her parents had MADE for heT Inc edI56Ts
from the public gaze. Finally one of them,
christened her Nellie Bly," and 10! the
deed was done.
devastated the interiors of insane asy-
lums. 1t caused legislators of dubious
to qua Quake in their Boots. 1t gave dinners
to discontented women and related to the
Sonte9t 1t ereed the gobe IN ss than
eighty days 1t brought her to the notice
for her bank account of S. 100. g D'-9--@ =
LIFE HEARS ABOUT THE. $1,000
where N Td Bly sod dG her Wares sRe
needed money! She, the employee with a
Ramee o aiar "T 5e RRyKeTs of t gen
tleman intrusted with the combination of
Irregular. very Irregular must say"
he ; said Why don't ySg sigp cheek 2?
MY bank knows me more, aIasF'
And again she laughed;
Speculation The whiskers were hor-
Oh: %26; no ,;, 9nl j. lean, Loan" -. ,,.
An of it-about S. 600
Toto whom?'' The whiskers seemed to
dread the answer, for they were fatherly
"" !"To life"
And the whiskers swooned.
1t was all too true. An employee of Life
had heard of the name Jane Elizabeth
around the world in less than eighty days
He believed in the mission of Life to call
He RneW that me Life must
knew that S. 900 would keep the wolf from
took pains to celebrate the fame of the
worth Afterward it was heard from time
to time to speak wistfully ABOUT the 5000
and a IS aaRt t6 6F It B Tfs ft HotsF
Out in Chicago there seemed to be a
chance to add new lustre to the name Of
With With white hair and Of more thar 70 years
afterward he proposed, in Chicago that
she change it for SIN better name
The announcement caused a commotion
ing company 1t was understood that
| Edward Seaman did not approve. When
home he moved out. It was an old fam
| iiy home. at Ne. Is West Thirty-seventh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
NAMES ALL THE ELECT.
Mrs.Van Rensselaer, of NewYork Sued
For 5000 by the Founder of
the Order of thu Grown.

New York. Feb. 22.-Mrs. John King Van
Rensselaer,, who has just been sued for
SIS, 600 libel by Charles H. Browning of
Detroit, is regarded as the dictator of fam
lily pretensions in America. Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, ridiculed, in a periodical pub
LEGATION, the "Order of Runnymede'' and
the ''Order of the Crown the latter aris-
tocratic organization founded by the De-
troiter. Hence the suit for libel.
The New York society leader is reckon
social eligibiiity; She is the bod and the
down Ward McAllister's 400 to IS. and Of
late she has been busy with book in
which are to, be told secrets about family
descent, the bare thought of which makes
some prominent Gothamites shudder Mrs
Van Rensselaer, pronounced Van Rensler)
was formerly Miss Mary King She was
a great beauty-and is yet beautiful-and
when she was maiden she of
the most petted and courted in New York
society. She is the daughter of the late
A. Oracle King of New Jersey, and her
mother, who is still alive, is the daughter
of William Duer. who in 1880 was made
the president of Columbia college.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, has two sons, John
A. and Harold both married. She is said
to have at her fingers ends the pedigrees
of all the people in New York that are
worth knowing, at least from an ances-
trail point of view Her knowledge and
her force of character make her greatly
feared by all those who have ambitions in
a, social way. Mrs Van Rensselaer, is a
writer of ability.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
MUSICIAN A SUICIDE.
He Could Not Live His Life to It's
Natural End After Death
of His Wife.

New York, Feb.22.-"It's no use, Will.
1t amt the same since mother left us"
remarked Frederick Paten, 60 years old,
a musician. just before he ended his life
yesterday by inhaling Illuminating gas
in his home on E Third street. He lived
with his son William, and the latter's
wife.
The old musicians wife, Mother" as
he called her, died two months ago. For
years familiar sight on Sunday morn
ing was Mr.. Paten and his wife. as they
went arm in arm to church. When the
weather was fair they usually spent the
remainder of the day in their quiet Ger
man way, either visiting or receiving
friends.
Since his partner was taken from him
the old man never had been the same.
Beside the corpse on his chair, rubbed
bright and clean, as if the old man had
intended to part on kindly terms with
an old friend, lay his violin, the strings
of which were purposely loosened. 1t is
thought he meant that the instrument
should not again be used. AT all events
this is understood, and his wish will be
respected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
BURIED IN SNOW.
Novel Method Employed In Treating
a Pneumonia Patient


Hartford, Feb. 22-Dr. John B. Bouch-
er told the Hartford Medical society last
night how he had raised a man from
the dead by burying him in snow.
The patient was Charles T. Robertson
of No. % Buckingham street, who had
been ill weeks from pneumonia. When
he was beginning to recover, his second
lung became affected and the relapse
appeared to have a fatal ending last
Friday morning. Apparently he had
passed through all the last stages OF
the disease.
His rawlings had ceased, his tempera-
ture was 1O7, his pulse began to weaken.
his breath came in short gasps and
every evidence of the end was at hand.
At 9 o'clock the last test to show lire,
that of the reflex action of the eyeball,
doctor that the man was practically
dead. The family took the fact for
granted, and preparations were started
to remove the lifeless body.
To the doctor there was one desperate
hope left.
Placing a rubber blanket under the
man he caused snow to be brought in
and made into a. bed, on which he laid
the patient, stripped naked.
Not a culver of an eyelid, not a single
gasp, came as he was laid in the frigid
mass. More snow was brought. 1t COW
cred his arms, his legs and his body.
Everywhere the mass was packed tight
ly around him. The order was to keep
him there till his temperature goes
down to 101.''
For As minutes the man lay in the
snow with signs of returning life. In
fact everyone believed him dead At
the end of As minutes the doctor had
the snow taken away and again tried
reflex action. AS he put his finger on
the eye the lid Quivered and a minute
later the first Pickering pulse beats sent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22

a thrill through those who were anx-
iOuSly waiting.
Then came another surprise. The doc
tor, a man of experience, suddenly
struck the insensible man a blow in the
face. The eyes opened
who am I?' asked the physician.
Hello, DOCTOR said the patient.
Mr.. Robertson is still very i'll, but the
crisis is past and he is on the road to
recovery.
The treatment of DR.. Boucher is not
exactly new, but the method of applying
it is novel, to say the least, and the
result is gratifying to the family of
the sick man.