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Evening journal., 1900-10-23
HOBSON'S DEFENSE OF SAMPSON:
GIRL WEDDED HER FIRST LOVE
Hero Of Santiago Says American Public Is Not EOing
Admiral JuStice-Death Brings Relief
From Commercial Marriage

Hoboken, ~ J., Oct. 23.-As the pre-
face to her second marriage Mrs.
Mamie Gordon Johnson, p years Old,
of No. p Garden street, Philadelphia,
related a remarkable romance of her
sale to an aged sea captain as a girl
bride for $4,000, her escape from him,
her struggle to support herself. and
the news of her first husbands death,
which made possible the ceremony
which yesterday united her to the
sweetheart of her childhood. George
DeGraw, q years old. of No. 26 Will
lam street, Paterson, N. j., was the
man to whom Mrs. Johnson was mar
ried in this city.
According to their story they were
devoted to each other as playmates
years ago in Paterson. When the girl
was IA years old her parents moved
to Philadelphia. One year later they
betrothed her to William johnson, a
retired sea captain, 65 years old. john
son was wealthy and offered SOS, 900 to
the girls parents to compel her to
marry him. She still loved her boy
sweetheart in Paterson and refused to
marry the old salt until confinement in
dark room on an extremely limited
diet for three days compelled her to
consent. After tho ceremony Capt.
johnson locked her up in his house,
she says, for two days Then she es-
capped and went to Chicago and be-
came a housemaid.
She wrote to DeGraw. They re-
newed their childhood's betrothal and
settled down to wait for her liberty to
marry. Mrs. Johnson was urged to get
a divorce, but refused.
Capt. Johnson was a widower, with
three children, when he married the
girl, and they are contesting Mrs. De-
Graw's claim for dover in the estate
on the ground that she was not a
faithful and obedient wife.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23

Atlanta, Ca, Oct 23.-During his
present visit to his home In Alabama,
and wherever he has appeared before
the public, Lieut. Richard p. Hobson
has been quoted as saying that Admi-
raj Sampson is dying OF a broken heart
owing to the Sampson-Schley contro-
versy, which was the outcome of the
naval battle of Santiago. He is quoted
as follows:
when last Saturday (Oct. 1S) saw
In the papers that Admiral Sampson
was III took the next train to Boston
and Spent Sunday with him. His
health is declining. His physicians
are Datlled at his malady. His organs
are right, but his health does not i'm
prove.
I'VE touched on one or two subjects.
For little while he could not speak.
Soon he had to be carried to his room,
and | did not see him again. Mrs.
Sampson told me that this great man
was brooding, was breaking his heart
at the thought that his fellow country
men were so unkind.
81 said to Mrs. Sampson: When I
visit my southland. if the opportunity
affords itself, l wish to try TO tell them
something Of this majestic character
She replied: You dare not. Your
southland was quick and vigorous TO
resent what was thought to be an at
tempt to take away the larrels Of one
of its great men,
Il came by Washington and saw the
secretry Of the navy and tie president.
TO them ] also stated my intention and
they both gave their consent. warming
me. however. of what might expect"
Mr.. Hobson in his speech ct a public
reception here yesterday said Admiral
Sampson had not received simple JUS
tice at the hands Of the American pub
lie.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
OPERATORS FIGHT SHY
OF MITCHELL'S OFFER

Scranton. Pa. Oct. 2S.-The Hillside.
Temple and Connell Coal companies
are the only important operators in
this region to comply with the agree
ment Of last Thursdays conference Of
operators to post notices guaranteeing
the offer till April /.
When interviewed Friday as to why
they did not comply with this agree
ment the other big operators said they
thought. on second consideration. II
would effect only one thing. the graft
hcation of q whim of John Mitchell.
and they did not propose to do any
thing further until they were assured
some good would be accomplished.
These same operators, when shown
President Mitchell's announcement
waiving every claim except a compl-
ance with the agreement which they
themselves made last Thursday, would
only say they did not propose to do
anything more than they have done.
that there was no good reason for any
one doubling the good faith of their
offer, and that they would not be led
into what would practically mean an
agreement to have a further readiust-
ment of wages April /, 1901.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
-FOUR MANAGES RECAPTURED
THREE ARE STILL AT LARGE
Leader Of Cang Patrick GeOghegan Caught by Keeper
and Three Others Including Murderer,
Taken by Farm Hand
REPUBLICANS
HAVE MAJORITY
Registered More Than Demo
Gratis on Each Of The
Five Days

Harry A. Billany. chairman OF the
Republican First District Committee,
and Francis S. Bradley. chairman OF
the Union Republican First District
Committee. had a conference last
night relative TO the registration OF
voters in this city during the five days
on which voters had an opportunity to
qualify.
Democrats are claiming that they
registered 1000 more than the Repub-
licans on Saturday. This is disputed.
On each day OF registration the Re-
publicans have exceeded tho Demo
cratic registration, thereby now max
ing a substantial Republican major
ity.
Messrs. Billany and Bradley have is
sued the following statement;
We have compared the returns OF
the five days registration made to ua
by our committeeman, and we claim
unhesitatingly that the Republicans
registered a majority OF the men quail
fed on each of the five days
Tonight we jointly oanvasBed the
figures OF Saturdays registration and
claim that more Republicans than
Democrats were registered on that
day, although we cannot announce
definitely what our majority was then
We can add. to demonstrate the ac-
cmacy OF our estimates. that the fig,
ures OF the Union Republican COM
! mittee and Of the Regular Republican
Committee for first four days OF regis
tration did not dii1er by margin OF
fifty, and we are practically agreed on
the figures Of Saturdays registration
submitted to the respective commit
tees.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
One Maniac Shot in the Back
While Running
ESCAPE MADE IN ROWBOATS
All We're Without Their Hats, and
Two We're in Their Stock
ing Feet

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Oct. 2s.-The
all night search for the seven maniacs
who escaped Sunday night from the
Matteawan state hospital for the Grim
inal insane has resulted in the capture
OF four men. including the leader. a
notorious criminal named Patrick
GeOghegan. Two keepers came upon
Geoghegan above Lows Point toward
morning. The prison suit made him
conspicuous at a distance, and he was
covered by the keepers revolvers be-
fore he knew he was discovered. Three
more OF the men were captured In the
afternoon at Middlehope.
Since the three men we're brought
back to the asylum last evening Il has
been learned that two rowboats were
stolen at Lows Point Sunday night,
and It is supposed that all except Geo.
ghegan crossed the river to the west
shore and there separated. No trace
OF the other group had been obtained
thus far Geoghegan. though the lead
er In the revolt was evidently deserted
by his pals before they reached Lows
Point He has been suffering from
hemmorrhages for some time, and
could not keep the pace set by tho
others.
After leaving their rowboat the in
sane fugitives must have made good
time I'm their journey westward. for
late Sunday night the people Of Mid
dlehope saw them in the village. The
fugitives aroused suspicion at once, for
all were without hats and two Of them
were IN their stocking feet. while tho
third man had on slippers. During
yesterday the convicts walked about
the streets OF the village. They were
restless and seemed at a loss which
way TO turn. Before long they real
lied from the suspicious glances that
were almost continually turned to-
wards them that their identity waf
known. and shortly after noon they
disappeared in some woods near the
village.
About 4 o'clock farm hand named
Snyder noticed three men In an or
chard. sl1ulking under the trees and
seemingly seeking a place TO hide. Not
far away n young man was hunting
squirrels, and Snyder borrowed his
gun. The farm hand had heard about
the suspicious men in the village.
Armed with the shotgun Snyder went
to the orchard and commanded the
men TO surrender. One Of them stood
still, but the two others started 70 run.
Then Snyder fired. he says. to scare
them. The bullet struck Murphy. one
Of the patients. in the back. It did
not hurt him much, however. The
wound was only a slight abrasion OF
the skin. But the shot had the effect
Of bringing Murphy and the other man
to stop, and Snyder assembled the
three men under cover OF his gun.
They were soon taken back to Mat
teawan.
Superintendent Allison paid Snyder
S125 as reward for the capture of the
patients-S75 for Murphy who Is wait
ing trial for murder committed In New
York on May /. 1899, and S25 each for
the other two. Finn and Clark. There
is a reward of $50 for the capture OF
Johnson, and S25 each sfor Mccarthy
and Foster. Il is feared. however,
that the two last named have succeed
ed in getting away, as they had some
money with them, Attendant Scally
having been relieved Of $40, his silver
watch and chain during the fracas
that followed the revolt
Evening journal., 1900-10-23

followed. Every pane Of glass in the
cab of the locomotive was broken. but
no one was wounded. Two of the
worknen on the locomotive jumped
of and were knocked down and kicked,
but were rescued by the police. Brad
ley Hoffman was so badly injured that
he had to be taken to a hospital. As
the officers were returning to head
quarters the electric car on which they
rode was stoned, all the windows on
one side of the car broken and Police
Sergeant Hall and two other passen-
gers slightly injured. Mayor Nichols
soon reached the scene and warned
the mob. His speech had a good ef-
feet, and the mob slowly dispersed.
A number of Polanders, who have
been working at the West End Coal
company's colliery at Mocanaqua all
through the strike, were returning
from Glen Lyon Sunday night, when
they were held up by some strikers
and their sympathizers, who called the
Poles "scabs." The foreigners at
tempted to resent the insult. but they
were overpOwered and had to retreat
to place of safety under q shower of
stones. One man was badly cut On the
head.
Mayor Nichols, of this city, sees
trouble ahead if the strike continues.
He is seriously considering a propo-
sition to arm the police force with
guns, so that they will be able to cope
with a mob should they be called upon
20 quell a riot.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23

Chancellor Nicholson. in the Court
Of Chancery this morning handed
down a decision in the celebrated in
junction case of the Mayor and Coun-
Gil and the Street and Sewer De
partment VS.. the Oxy-Hydrogen Gas
Company and J. Edward Addicks,
which involves the right Of the com
pany to lay gas pipes in the streets Of
this city.
OXY-HYDROGEN LOSES CASE.
The opinion of the chancellor is an
exceedingly lengthy one. covering every
detail of the case. which has been
pending since 1891. It grants the in
junction against the Oxy-Hydrogen
Company simply for the purpose OF
maintaining the status quo. and pre-
venting irreparable injury pending
the adjudication OF legal rights by
mandamus proceedings in the Super
ior Court 1t is therefore a modified in
junction. At the next term of that
court Austin Harrington. Herbert H.
Ward and c. Berkeley Taylor, solicitors
for the defendant company, will begin
the mandamus proceeding suggested
by the court to compel consent or per-
mission of the Street and Sewer De-
partment to lay the pipes of the Oxy-
Hydrosen Company in the streets OF
the city.
Upon the question Of the jurisdiction
Of the Street and Sewer Department
over the condition Of the streets Of the
city, as was raised by the defendant
company, the chancellor holds that the
department has the power TO grant or
recall any or all franchises IN tbs
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
CHANCELLOR DEGREES AGAINST
OXY-HYDROGEN CO.'S PETITION
Injunction Against Gas Corporation Is Modified One
Court Holds That Grievance Can be Settled by
MandamuS Proceeding in Superior Court

streets Of the city that may be held by
corporations.
Referring to the fact that the Oxy-
Hydrogen Company had attempted to
lay its pipes without first obtaining the
consent of the Street and Sewer De-
partment to open the streets of the
city for that purpose, the chancellor
says:
1t is TO be regretted that the OXy-
HydrOgCm Company did not pursue the
course adopted in these cases, at the
outset of its controversy with the city
authorities, instead of attempting 10
enter upon and excavate the streets of
the city of Wilmington in spits Of its
failure to obtain the permit required
by the city ordinances. For, If II had
failed TO obtain the coveted permit
after making application for one to the
Street and Sewer Department in the
manner prescribed, and then at once
applied to the Superior Court for a
writ Of mandamus to compel the Street
and Sewer Department to grant the
permit. all the questions that have been
raised successfully in the course Of the
long Chancery litigation which l have
outlined first. by molten to dismiss
the bill; second, by demurrer; third.
by plea. and finally by answer). would
have been necessarily passed upon by
the Superior Court in their decision Of
tho mandamus suit; and had appeals
been taken by either party they could
all have been finally and authoritative
ly settled by the appellate tribunals
long ere this"
The injunction bond is fixed at S.
0G0
Henry C. Conrad, William S. Hilles
Arthur w. Spruance appear for the
city
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
Stove Pine

An enameled stove pipe helps to
beautlfy both the stove and its sur
round.ngs. No article about the home
becomes unsightly so quickly as
stove piping. Bryan's Stove Pipe
Enamel is made especially for pre-
venting iron work from rusting; will
stand exposure TO heat. steam or the
weather. One coat gives a beautiful
enamel surface. Directions on all
labels For sale only by James NJ.
Bryan & Son, 10G West Eighth street.
For a Cold in the Head, Laxative
Tablets
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
WORKMEN ARE ROUTED
BY STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS

Wilkesbarre. Pa, Oct. 23.-Discon-
tent among the striking miners OF the
Wyoming valley is growing, and un-
less the strike is settled soon they
will be hard to control. A majority
of the men are willing and anxious to
go to work. and If President Mitchell
should call the strike off today, even
with the powder question unsettled,
he would receive more credit from his
followers than to allow the contest
10 drag on with the chance of losing
in the end.
The strikers say they are well or
ganized now. and they can afford 70
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
Rush for Seats

Last evening it was announced that
young men and women entering the
night school OF Goldey College. Eighth
and Market. would be entitled to spe-
c.al cash prizes. also a low rate of tu-
itiOn. and as result there was a rush
for seats last night The November
opening Of the might school will be
large. and those wishing to enter
should have seats reserved at once. Of
flee open tonight, to 915.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
The Evening Journal

Issues a sworn statement
of its circulation. $3.50
copies sold on Saturday,
which means that the
merchant who advertises
in its columns talks direct
to that many families who
buy just such goods as
he is selling, and he can't
reach these people with
out using the columns of
The Evening Journal
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
To Cnre a cold ln ono par

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money II II
fails TO cure. E. w. Groves signature
Is on each box. 25c.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06
DR.. RAIKSFORD'S OPINION.

While many Of the distinguished pur-
veyors of the gospel have scored small
successes Is benefactors of the public,
compared with the unselish labors of the
local clergy throughout the land, some
of them have developed a capacity for
doing a great e Of harm when they
touch upon the crises that from time to
time call for the best thought of COOL
headed men. In speaking on the shoot
ing of Goebel, DR.. William S. R~ainsford.
rector of st. Georges Protestant Episco-
pal church in New York. uttered the fol-
lowing:
What are we to do with such criminals
as those who have disgraced the nation
with the recent tragedy in Kentucky?
Hang them? Yes. hang the guilty assas-
sin. for the more of such brutes are
hanged the freer will society be.
1t would be hard to imagine more bru-
tality condensed into a few lines than
the foregoing. Had the expression come
from a p~in-headed partisan it would have
excited no comment. Or. had the noted
divine entered into a defense of capital
punishment per Sc, as a means to an end,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06

England primness. and she had never
seen a foot ball match before. With the
other young people of the house party
she attended the big Boston game last
fall; though she expressed not the slight
est interest in the event. n was evil
IDENTIFY prepared to maintain an impas-
sive. " not disappearing, demeanOr. The
others We're afraid she might act as y
brake upon the enthusiasm of the entire
crowd. But there's no reckoning with
the foot ball frenzy, just as there's no
accounting for the primal instincts of
man or woman. The first half wasn't
half over before this demure girl from
the country was Outyelling all the Others.
There was no gradual working up" in
her excitement: it seemed to come over
her with a rush at the very first hint Of
the real warfare of the game.
s"Ye gods!" she shouted whenever Har-
mar in the role of the under dog this
ward made a point. an expression she
had probably never made use of in all her
life before. and why it should spring to
her hips jusC then was q mystery.
At sight of a poor, ~unoffe1ding Yale
girl would spring to her reet, and, with
plnce-neZ bobbing and boa waving shout
Kill him.! Kill him." in a bloodthirsty
way that actually brought conjunction
to the heart of the most devoted Har-
vardite. r.
"Oh, I was born too late" said the girl.
adjusting her pince-neZ on the way home
from the match. II ought to have been
a vestal virgin in the good old gladiator
ial Police Verso days."-New York Sum.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06

to two political organizations, thereby
making himself eligible to the support Of
the Anaconda faction, had to wait. But
it appears that he had plenty of time to
wait. Following the testimony of State
Senator Connolly to it's logical conclu-
sion, as it applied to political movements
in this state, the conviction is forced
upon the average reader that the sena-
torial gold brick which was given Hart
man-like the thirty pieces of silver
cessor in the days when n Pontius
PLAT had a habit of purifying his con-
science by washing his hands-has been
~revarnished and is still on duty.
Having co-operated with Campbell in
the fight to dispossess Clark of his sena-
torial seat, Hartman has earned the ap-
pointment to fill the vacancy, as soon as
the sitting senator shall have been ex-
PEELED; and it looks as if a part of the
plans of the Anaconda faction contem-
plated this possibility. as Governor Smith
will obey its bidding in this matter. In
fact. the governor has already given it
out, in an interview in Washington, that
he will not the legislature
after Clark is expelled. but will appoint
some one to fill the vacancy.
With Hartman sliding around on the
stuffed cushion, trying to fill that vacant
chair. it is urged hat his influence in
Montana would be SO largely magnified
that it could at least be detected with a
powerful glass. This would enable him,
with the help of the potential ~pocketbook
of the Anaconda faction, to %reorganize
the silver republican movement and get
W a fusion for the Forthcoming cam
paign. with the understanding that a
legislature elected OF that basis would
regularly select Hartman for the balance
of the %unexpired term now being filled by
Clark-provided the editor of the Ana
conda Standard will waive his claim to
the seat!
This is all a very pretty scheme where
with to reward Hartman for %betraying
the silver republicans and populists in
1896, and it seems to have reached the
plane of a settled purpose with the Ana
conda leaders, but the people of Montana
may take a hand in the matter of elect
ing the next legislature. If so, Hartman
may again sequester himself on the
messy ank of the classical Sourdough.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06
SCORING The SOLDIERS.

A report of the graduating exercises at
st. Patrick's school yesterday contains
the following paragraph:
Francis c. Walker spoke of the "Volun-
teers' Return" He scored the soldiers in
the Philippines for committing outrages
upon the church's consecrated property.
He thought the Filipinos We're prose-
cutting a just cause, and that if the Beers
were right in their struggle against the
English, the Filipinos We're certainly
right in their contention that they were
fighting against an invading admy. He
Is not an expansionist.
While no one can blame a beardless
youth for giving expression to the views
outlined in the foregoing, and no one
would take issue with him We're he to ex-
plot the alleged fact that the moon is
made of green cheese, no right-minded
citizen can fail to deplore the influences
that lead him to believe that he was tell
ing the truth. The young Mr.. Walker,
whoever he may be, has had his mind
poisoned by men who ought to know
better, and whose only purpose in cir
culating f~alsehoods about the conduct Of
our soldiers in the Philippines is to stir
up political feeling and disturb the pat
triotic impulses of the community.
If the young man has been taught the
disgraceful and reasonable idea that the
Filipinos are right and the American re-
public wrong, and that our flag ought to
be trampled in the dust, it is certainly
his misfortune rather tina his fault. But
to be permitted to score the brave BOYS
who have maintained the dignity of the
nation and the honor Of the flag in many
a hard-fought battle, and to repeat, with
out a well-timed rebuke. the exploded
scandal that they vandalized the prop
erty of the church, is neither the fault
nor the misfortune Of the enthusiastic
young orator of yesterday. The respon-
sibility lies behind the lad, and reflects
credit upon no one..
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-06
THE RIGHT THING.

(By Walter Lincoln Cclby.) r.,
The kind of stuff, the editor is always
glad to read, g. ~
Is the thing 50 very catchy that the pub
lies sure to heed. So
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that he clips from some exchange
On some quaint and ancient sub.er:y
Or on something New n strange
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Or perhaps a contribution so fresh 3
and bright and terse, - II
he knows some extra copies y
will be wanted to disburse. :"
Because the things so clever u 30
that to show 1t to the RESI-
Every fellow wants Q clipping
for the pocket Of his vest.
For he cannot rest contented
till he's passed it all around.
And at hast by his swee. partner
in his pocket it is found.
So the thing starts on another trip ,
among the fellows wives, i.
Till at the editors own home r
1t finally arrives. ,r,
Then when his wife extends 1t
with a smile and a caress. 81
And says. Here's something nice to
print" he knows twas a success.