The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-25
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
To Investigate Get-Rch-Qulck
Syndicate
UP GOES THE PRICE OF GAS.
A Wirc's Plea for Scparation-Hus-
baud Never Bathcd-Giri Re-
ccivcs ScurriIous Letters.
Not Killed 10y Hazing.

NEW YORK. Nov. PAS ecial.-The
Franklin Syndicate of Brooklyn William
f. Miller manager, has been promising
To Jay it's depositors 10 per cent. a
month on all money deposited. 1t Is
speculative concern and it il said that
the deposits amount to 100000. Promi-
nent bankers have placed the whole sub
fect before the Protective Committee OF
the American Bankers Association ana
tho conccrn viii probably be investigated
In May last war began between the
Consolidated and Mutual Gas companies
i'm this city resulting IN a reduc'loh III
the price Of gas from *-lO thousdnu
feet to 65c. 1ne New Amsterdam Cohn-
amy cut the rate TO soc. and RusseH
ICES standard Company met the CSC.
rate The New Amsterdam Company
rev announces mat 1T VIII raise It's price
on December ISL to $liO. ana inns Is
taken Go mean that the war is mt an end.
WIFE not SURPASSED.
Robert Gill, IL real estate dealer al East
orange. y. j.. WAS found dead IN MS
room al The 81. Nicholas Hotel yesterday
There was pistol wound in his right
temple and a revolver by his right hand,
indicating clearly that he had committed
suicide when his wife received the mes
sage she did not apr ear to be either
shocked or ast0nsled but simply SAID
all right. I viii 60 over TO the city.
OH was well-to-dO ana owned much I'M
proved real estate. lie was subject 10 al
tacks OF nervous prostration which left
him Respondent and it is supposed that
u. one of these fits he.onded his life
Mention was made yesterday OF the
leath OF young Bergen, student IN the
Lawrenceville school at Princeton. IL
was said that he died from the effects or
injuries received from hazing me
faculty made an investigation and found
THAT the boy had not been hazed, but that
De received the injuries in frolic ne was
having with some of his fellow-students
in his own room. The boys father seems
u be satisfied that the injuries were the
result Of innocent play.
A Prosecuted GIRL
Early in this year WHEEL the parents
OF Miss Marie Timpany eighteen years
of age. lived at so Seventeenth street,
Brooklyn. the young woman was annoyed
b. the receipt OF scurrilous letters. These
letters began 10 arrive soon after she
mad broken of her engagement TO Mathew
Clark. who lived next floor but the young
man declared that be had neither written
or inspired them. owing TO the mpleas-
ant notoriety over the matter the family
moved TO another part OF the city and
no further letters were received until
about week ago when they began To
come again thick and fast. The letters
are not exactly obscene but they are very
abusive. and the family have been forced
10 appeal 20 the Brooklyn police authori-
Nes for protection.
Mrs. Ouue Momeyer. who lives at
Greendale. l.. L., has brought action
against her husband for separation. Her
chief complaint against him IS that he
has not taken a bath since they were
married nine years OgO. Her lawyer dr.
gued that this was abundant grounds for
a separation.
\ QUEER GIRL
Mamie y Mcdler aged twenty-one
years. was arraigned iefOre the Second
Criminal Court yesterday and it develop
ed I'm the course Of the examination Of
her parents that she has most pecui1r
habit. They testified that since size was
a child she had manifested a rowing dis
position and had ever shown strong dis
INCLINATION to sleep in a bed. She pre-
ferred to sleep in deserted cellars or base
man two days ago was crawling out of a
cellar where she had spent the night. The
mother told a pathetic story, declaring
that the girl had brought shame and dis
grace upon them wherever they had lived
Miss Elsie Clews, daughter of Mr. aud
Mrs. Henry Clews. has just published a
book Of j26 pages which bears the tue
Educational Legislation and Adminlstra-
ton Of the Colonial Governments.
Mrs. Sydney Harris, Pretty Kitty
Brady. as she was known when as Judge
Brady's daughter she led New York s
smart younger set. is to eschew society
Tor the professional stage.
one of the most interesting divorce
suits ever tried in this city is that Of Mrs.
Mary l.. Haight against her husband
Henry Jansen Haight Both are deaf
niutes. and the testimony has been taken
largely in the sign language.