The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-13
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Stanley Riggs Took His life Because
ola Woman.
ola Woman.
ROOSEVELT VISITS A FRIEND [ !.
A Frenchman Will Try to- Go TO the
kIondike on an 5Automobile-H ns-
band aud Wife Reunited by
Their Little Daughter.

kIondike Oh an Automobile-Hus
band aud Wife Reunited by
Their Little Daus liter.
NEW YORK, March Especial Ia l ur-'
Their reports from Mexico go to show that
Stanley Riggs, who committee SUICIDE ].
| last week, was prompted to take ms
life by disappointment in love
Two years ago young RIGGS was en-
gagged to beautiful and wealthy New
| York girl. The wedding day was see' anu q
then a relative of the young man .l naoss
known his opposition to the mats
was a heated quarrel, and the young
man was told that If the marriage Etookl
mace his allowance would be stopped ana
his inheritance cut off, Then the young
man euarrelled with his hancee, anu DIT
her request the engagement. was lSe',is
| tinued. IL s .zsz.ss -,
Young Riggs went to Mexico and 8oo--55
tanned employment as a sciv1l .en sslsa:
with the Chihuahua and PACING Ram oao'
and remained with that company s LOT o.is
wear. Then he accepted a position VIII
The Mexican Central Railroad, ana mao
heen in its employ for six months IN the
vicinity Of Durango. Curry, who IS also
| q civil engineer, was employed oy the
same company He formed R1gss &C; &c
ouaintance, and says he learned TON ron.
him the story of his trouble
The climax came a short time aso' "nsn y.
R5pps received information that the reia-
tive who had opposed nus nlatlia Sc tts.e,
| himself Z married the young woman e 70
! whom. he had made objection. curry
saws Riggs told his friends he was oon-
WINGED s.he had been the victim OF con-
suiracy, and that his relative had pur-
! nosely opposed his marriage to the young
woman so that he might marry her him
self.
| Soon after receiving this message he
went to his room, destroyed all his let
graduate of Princeton, n. j., and a noted
foot7ball player.
a WOMAN editor.
The New York Daily News is edited
at long distance by a woman. The woman
| is Mrs Benjamin Wood, and she has
rooms at the Fdfth-Avenue Hotel. The
proofs are sent ito her by pneumatic tube.
She exercises her prerogative OF seeing
everything which goes into the paper.
! writes editorials and gives instructions to
others as to what she desires to have
| written.
She directs the policy of the paper. and
insists that it be conducted on the lines
which made it success under the con-::
troll Of editor Benjamin Wood ri
Joseph w. See, who lived on the farm
| at New Rochelle, formerly owned by
| Thomas Paine, the deist, was recently
| told by a physician, that he had Br1shts
disease, and not one chance IN tnou-.
sand to live. He called in two Christian
Scientists, two regular physicians. a Meth
| odist minister and Roman Cathoac
l to- fr-a11 h
Governor Roosevelt, who was here on
Sunday, dropped into the Presbyterian
Hospital to see his old comrade in arms
and first lieutenant in the Rough Riders,
John GreenWay,7 once CT Yale GreenWay
| was recovering from an operation for APP
pendicitis, and on the cot next to him
| lay his brother, Gilbert c. Greenway.
another Yale athlete, recovering from
the same kind of operation. Gov. Rocse-
welt met the men pleasantly, and gave
them word of cheer. Both patients
will soon be out again.
TO KLONlDIKE, by AUTOMOBGD
/ jaime DE Iamare has arrived in this
| city from Havre, and will start out We'd
nesday next to make trip to the klon-
| dixie by automobile. He has made several
! trips to the Klondike, and thinks he will
! be able to cover the distance with his
1 horseless carriage.
Mr.. sLamare will go direct to Montreal
and thence to Vancouver, where he Will
| ship the automobile by steamer, accom-
| panying it to the. Yukon River. He will
| embark on the automobile at Lake Ben
! nett, and will then ride into the hlondike
| country. He says he will have seven
i hundred and sixtY-three miles of rough
roads. to travel on the automobile.
i It will accommodate three more than
comfortably, and he is sure that neither.
he nor his companions will suffer any In
/ convenience. He expects to reach the
Klondike in the open season, and VIII
then obtain valuable claims which he
/ looked at on his former visit.
Mr.. Lamare will try part of the route
hon ice, using spiked tires and runners
on the automobile. He will remain at
Dawson City until the. ice breaks up on
the Yukon. His idea then is to detach
the wheels and place the automobile on
a canoe. He will substitute paddles for
the wheels, by means of which he hopes
l to make the passageEof the Yukon He
will also have along for the trip a three
emergency.
/ FOURTEEN OUNCE BABY
The doctors at the Bellevue Hospital
exerted themselves to keep alive four
i teen ounce baby which they had been
i treating, but the little thing died or Sun
day morning They said that it was one
of the smallest infants they had ever
seen. The child would not take nourish-
] ment, and could not be kept alive on
| whiskey and oxygen.
The crusade against lawlessness in New
Ycrkwa tire subject Of many pulpit
/ utterances on Sunday.
/ DR.. and 0Irs. William J. Cruikshank.3
i whose divorc eproceedings in the BROOKLYN
i courts caused such sensation two years
/ ago, have become reconciled. and Mrs
,Cruikshank has returned to the home OF
her5husband. The reconciliation was eff
fected bystheirs twleve-year-old daughter
To-day is remembered in New York as
the anniversary of5the great blizzard Of
which sparalyzed business.