The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-02
FRESH GO J SIP
FROM GOTHAM / |. ! /.
a Plunge in Sugar Causes a
Smashup.
.lMPO RIANT SUIT DECIDED
Miss Maud Come Has Crank Ar
rcsteh-Dr. Broushton Will Go
to EUROPA Husbands
NIisfortuncs.
.lMPO RIANT[ SUIT U DECIDED

I D.
to GIuropc-A Husbands
NIisfortunes.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1-special-The
plunge which> Tunstall & Co. took in
sugar has already been mentioned IN
,the financial news of The Times 1t
is a strange story. This concern had
bought large block of Sugar Trust
stock on Tuesday. during the last two
hours of business, and Wall street was
puzzled by the purchase Next day the
firms clearing sheet showed that 1t had
to receive and pay for 600 shares of
stock at an average price of about $40.
This would have required something like
s27 &c., 60, and the firm did not have any
such amount The result was a failure
The matinee girl has received a cruel
shock. She has been fairly, Swoi'shlpping
PetschniI1off. the good looking young
Russian viplinist, but: 1t turns out that
he is married, and moreover. that he
has been married for four years. This
is the greatest disappointment the matt
nee girl has had since d'aderewski took
unto himself wife.
WON HIS SUIT.
Colonel Albert II. King. Of Brooklyn
died last week, A few days before an
Interesting suit was decided in his favor.
He had fought for q principle. and 1T
seems n pity that he SHOULD have been
taken off without knowing that he had
won. In speaking of the case, one OF the
local papers says:
This decision establishes an important
point against the Pullman Palace Car
Company, ard carries a 81, 900 verdict Ii:
practically afirms the LIABILITY of a sleep !.
ing car company for cjectinS a passen r
ger Who while entitled to ride on tn 8
car carries a ticket issued by railroa
other than the one on which ;he isl trave /
ling. Mr.. King purchased in New Q =
leans in Gay, 1898, sleeping Der tn
through to New York. He had what is
known as strip ticket, composed of
coupons good over certain railroad lin HS.
The last coupon of his ticket EMIT BED
him to.a ride from Washing on to ! Jew
York over the Baltimore anu Ohio ssil-
road.
After his train had left NTashin gton
it was being run over the Pennsylv 'ania
railroad The conductor. demanded that
he pay regular fare. Mr.. King re fused
and was elected from the car at Balu-
more.
He then brought suit. Judgs Thomas,
in the United States Circuit Court, gave
q decision in his favor last F'e bruary.
The Pullman Company appealed. Less
than an hour before Mr.. King WAS buried
on Tuesday, a telegram was received
that the case had again been d ecided in
his favor
- ANNOYED MAUD CON. ne.
Philip Won 1Iuhl, an old man of disni-
fed bearing has been arrested on COM
plant of Miss Maud Come, he Irish
jean Of Arc
Miss Come had received a lsote from
the man. written on the hotel note
paper, setting forth that he was an ar
dent advocate OF the Boer cause. He
said that if she would assist Iii m in get.
ting subscriptions for the Beers he would
make her famous. He said That he did
not caro- for any Of the glory himself
all he wanted was to help the Beers.
He asked Miss Come to make an app
pointn,ent to meet him.
When Miss Come received The letter
she was fearful lest she was pursued by
a crank. SO she wrote to Captain Nc
Clusky, enclosing the letter from the
man.
The man was held in sl,ooo bail for ex-
animal ion.
WIFE, SPANKED Tim.
William Siedensticker left his wife on
New Years Day, and having learned that
she had lodged complaint aga inst him,
charging him with abandonm ent, sur
rendered himself to the police, in Will
lian,sburg. He is twenty-five years old,
DuC weighs only ABOUT one .Hu1 ana
twenty-five pounds, while his wife tips
the scales at two hundred. 1T was an
interesting scene when husban6l and wife
met.
Haven't I always been a g1,od wife to
you?" exclaimed Mrs. SieGen sticker
MOI fairly shouted the ns IN. ~ uve
beaten me and spanked me time and
time again It's true. judge, .every word.
When things wouldn't so TO s nit her she
tlIrashed me, and thrashed N well, too.
She would put her arms taround me
sometimes and squeeze the breath out
of me. Often she would spank me as
if We're child.
'I-Irotested time and time gain
he declared, "but twas mo use. People
laughed at me. and my children began
to think it was all strange. I warned
her never TO do it again. On New
Years Day got another. licking and I
went over to New Jersey. 1 heard she
had gone to the office OF the Charities
Commissioner and got q warrant so 1
came back to have it Sc ttled.s
Mrs. Siedensticker cri ed, and her nus
band called MagistrattI, Lemons atten-
ton to the difference in sizo between
him and his wife to diEsprove her state
ments. In, the end he, was placed under
500 bonds for trial on february 9Th
MIR. BROUGHTOE. TO LEAVE.
The Rev. DR.. Len G, Broughton, whose
views on several sub jects have aroused
considerable criticism, will leave Brook.
lyn on Tuesday for Atlanta, Ga, to re-
sumo his work in TIL Baptist tabernacle,
which is now in the hands of his, as
sistants. DR.. Bror,ghton expects to sail
for Europe in May.
Referring to the activity IN Norfolk
and Western stocks. he Tribune says:
lit is certain tha t thare will soon lie
sharp advance in btuminous rates. and
If it Is as much as 80 cents a ton the
81 ~.
inGs will, it is estimated, equal about
per cent on the stock.
SUPREME COURT OF.APPEALs.