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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
BUNC0ED BY A WOMAN
SHE SWINDLED A RICH MAN OUT
OF COLD CASH.
How Ellen Peck Worked Her Game
Gave Mortgage on Lots-once
Beautiful and Accomplished A
Strange and creckered Career.

William B. Crinkley, farmer from
Tennessee, has appeared in co4rt in
New York against Ellen Peck, a no.
torious confidence woman, and Joseph
c. Metcalfe, real estate broker living
In Brooklyn, who he alleges has
swindled him out of a $4,000 tract
Of land and $1,000 in cash.
Mr.. Crinkley declared he was bank
rupt and his family destitute in con-
sequence of these two persons. He
told Capt. McClusky, of the detec-
tives, that he came from Hartman,
Tenn, where he owns 1000 acres of
land, on which is a magnesia spring,
valued at $4,000. A year ago he ad-
vertised that he would sell the spring.
Mrs. e. E. Knights, who, Mr.. Crinkley
asserts, was Ellen Peck, who has
lived checkered sixty-seven years,
answered. She said she had many
valuable building lots in Washington.
She desired to give lien on four of
her ten lots there and assume the val
liable magnesia spring.
She met him at the Ebbitt House,
Washington. ME-. Crinkley alleges she
was accompanied by Mr.. Metcalfe
The trio viewed ten building lots, val
ued, the complainant thinks. at about
$1,000,000. Mr.. Crinkley and Mrs.
Knights journeyed to his home. Mr.
Metcalfe arrived within a few days,
and announced that, according to the
custom in Washington, it was un-
necessary for the Registrar of Deeds
to certify to the paper.
Mr. Crinkley said the business look.
ed all right, and he transferred to
Mrs. Knights his spring She gave
him worthless mortgage upon prop.
erty of which she did not own a foot,
he claims. She now represented to
Mr.. Crinkley that she owned property
In Joplin, Mo-, which an English syn.
dicate desired to buy for 100000.
She said that she would purchase an
adjoining tract and sell the whole to
the syndicate for S150,000. Mr.. Crink.
ley gave her $1,000, he says, and she
was to supply the necessary $4,000.
~AA' OllhhlSy ulSCONoT6u lie was QUIZ
his 100000 spring and $1,000 in cash,
Ellen Peck has been in the TombS
some months, charged with swindling
Christopher Gini out of a large
amount of jewelry. She has been sen,
fenced to five years Imprisonment
E. Y. Bell, who defended Mrs. Peck in
the Gini case, went to the Tombs with
Mr.. Crinkley and induced her to re.
transfer the magnesia spring to Mr.
Crinkley.
Mr.. Metcalfe asserts that he was
not party to the alleged swindling,
and that he was as much deceived an
Mr.. Crinkley.
Ex-Supt of Police Byrnes has said
that Ellen Peck las probably made
$1,OOO,OO0 by her swindling, most OF
which she has spent. The late Jay
Gould was one of her victims. HeI
maiden name was Nellie Crosby, and
she was born in Spencer, N. H., where
as girl she taught school, She was
beautiful and accomplished. One OF
her foster brothers is Rufus A. Sibley,
a Rochester merchant millionaire.
She married Richard W. Peck. Ono
of her daughters married a minister
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
CRIMINAL.

Harland Whitaker of Butler coun
ty, Kentucky, has been held withou,
bail at Frankfort, on a charge of as,
sassination of Governor Goebel. The
case will be presented to the April
Grand Jury.
Charles E. Cole, President of the de
funct Globe National Bank of Boston,
has been indicted by the Grand Jury
in the United States District Court
for false entries on the books of the
bank and misapplication of funds. The
amount of the alleged misappropria.
tion is $1,O67,2S0. The How Lumber
Company, of Lowell, has assigned as
a result of the failure of the Globe
National Bank.
At the Carlisle plantation, neal
Chappell Hill, Texas, King Howard, in
a fit of jealous rage, struck his wife
with an iron bar, breaking her neck.
The man then shot Luke Taylor ia
death.
Vaults of the Farmers Bank, al
Pennington, Iowa, have been robbed
Of about $4,000
The safe in the office of the Hand
Brewing Company, at Darlington,
Rhode Island, was blown open March
6. and $4,000 in cash, more than ST.,
600 worth of revenue stamps and
checks aggregating $1,000 were stolen
Lon" Curry, one of the train rob
bers who engaged in the Wilcox, wy,
Cming, hold-up on the Union Pacific
last June, when 100000 was secured,
was shot and killed by officers at bod,
son, Missouri, Feb. 20. while resisting
arrest.
George Williams, negro. killed his
mother while they were following the
corpse of her husband to the grave,
near Pleasant Hill, Georgia, the other
day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
The Charm Eailad

Marguerite-They say If you hang a
wishbone over the door on Christmas
you Will marry the first man who
walks under it.
Esmeralda-That's all nonsense.
tried II once, and the first man. who
came through the door was as poor as
church mouse.-New York Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
BURIED IN A MINE.
Terrible Disaster In West Virginia
The Dead.

At the Red Ash Mine, in the New
River region, West Virginia, an explo-
sion near the entra ace resulted in the
entombing of 100 miners. Thirty
seven bodies were recovered and
large rescuing party is at work. Cause
of the explosion has not yet been as
eertained.
Mourning, hungry women and chill
dren have all day surrounded the
opening Of the mine from which hero
ic rescuers, succeeding each other as
staggered out exhausted, have taken
ten bodies.
It is estimated that forty men-dead
or alive, are in the mines-a living
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09

Friend-What are you working at.
professor? ~
Chepist-Tm trying to devise a
method OF preventing milk from rnix.
ing with water. Then I'll organize the
Bigned Waterproof Milk Company
ana my fortune will be mede:-Puck.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
me War Department has received

Ine war Department has received
cabled statement showing that the
total receipts from the PHILIPPINE ISL
Rnds for February. 1900. were S426.
42S, of which amount 1857 900 was de-
rived from customs.
The winter herring fishery In New
toundland waters has been a complete
failure, and thirty American vessels
have left St Johns without obtaining
cargoes.
In revolt in the prison at Cairo.
Egypt, the troops were obliged to fire
upon the mutineers in order to restore
order. Five men were shot, two of
them fatally.
Edinburgh University is to confer
the degree of LII. ID. upon Ambassador
Choate
The Portland, Maine, Board of
Trade has emphatically endorsed the
views expressed by Congressman Lit.
tletield against the Puerto Rican bill,
and praised him for his COURAGEOUS
stand" in the matter.
An unusually heavy fall of snow
has occurred in Northern New York.
In some places the snow being two
feet deep the level.
Mrs. Anna Jory, aged 76 years. has
been found dead at her home in Balti.
more. Escaping illuminating gas from
leaking tube was the cause of her
death.
A San Juan de Puerto Rico despatch
says that four troops of the Fifth
United States cavalry are under or
ders to return to the United States
and that native troops are being re-
cruited to fill their places.
Steps to erect a monument over
the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
mother of Abraham Lincoln, were ia.
ken at meeting of the Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Memorial Association in In
dianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday.
An appropriation of 100000 has
been made by the Kentucky Legisla-
ture to be used in detecting and con-
victing the assassin of Governor Goe.
bel.
ExMayor Hugh j. Grant has been
hue Railroad Company upon ucejM
appointed receiver for the New York
Third Avenue Railroad Company up
on the application of the Old Colony
Trust Company of Boston, the Direc.
tors consenting to the application.
The finding of an empty mail pouch
near Long Island City dock dis
closed the theft of registerd mail, and
a discharged carrier who is missing
is suspected by the authorities.
Frederick Kahler. a dealer in books.
In Philadelphia. has been sentenced
by Judge Finletter. in the Criminal
Court, to one year Imprisonment for
selling copies of Daudet's novel.
"Sapho."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09

William H. Fer y, owner of the
Lake Forest polo grounds, was in.
stantly killed at Chicago March
while crossing tie tracks Of the
Northwestern Rail Dad.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09
NEW YORK MARKETS.
Flour and Grain.
Ut OHD

LOOns
Minnesota Patents. 50 75@s3 so
Winter Patents, SO 500 3S5
Winter Straights 400 3 so
RYE FLOUR.
Fair to good, 3150 $50
Choice to fancy, 1850 8 55
RYE.
No. 2 Western, bushel COZ
State, Sc
BARLEY.
Feeding, bushel, 4S@ As
Mailing, bushel, 400 81
WHEAT.
No. Red, bushel, Tx
No. Northern, bushel, 81
No. Q, b. afloat, bushel, 431a
OATS.
No. 2, per bushel, 20
No. 8, per bushel, 28
Produce.
HAY.
Shipping, hundred lbs, ESQ rs
Good to choice, do. 500 SIS
HOPS.
State, 1896 crop, pound, 6
1899 crop, pound, 800 IA
WOOL.
Texas, pound. 14@ II
BEEF.
Family, hundred. 12 5O@1S 90
Mess, hundred, 10 80
Beef Hams, hundred, % 5OQ23 co
LARD.
Western Steam, hundred, 635
Continent, hundred, $3.50 30
PORK.
Mess, hundred, 10 25@1O IS
Family, hundred, IL 0O@12 so.
BUTTER.
Western Creamery, lb, 21@ 25
Factory, per pound, ITO 10
State Dairy, per pound. 1870 25
CHEESE.
Fancy small. 12%@ 10
Late made, 11@ II
EGGS.
State & Pennsylvania, 14@ Is
Western ungraded, 1870 IA
DRESSED POULTRY.
Fowls, Western, choice, II
Fowls, Western, fair to good, 100 II
Nearby chickens, 11@ 12
Nearby turkeys, fancy, 800 13
Western turkeys, choice, a IL
Ducks, Western choice, 100 IL
Geese, Western choice, a z
BEANS AND PEAS.
Marrows, choice, bushel, 1900
Mediums, bright, bushel, @222
Pea Beans, choice, bushel, 1860 222
Fruit and Vegetables.
Spitz, choice to fancy, Dbl. $3.50
Kings, choice to fancy, bbl. 5000
Baldwins, do. 2 a 8 25
Greetings. choice, ESQ 800
Mixed Winter varieties, 250@ 90
Potatoes, N. Y. & Western, $50 55
Porto Kico Conditions.
The people of Puerto Rico are
showing signs of Encouragement at
the failure of Congress to provide a
government for the island. The local
Spanish papers have printed many
articles criticising the American gov
ernment and the American people
and policy. The army and navy Off
GERS gave a ball there on the even
ing of Washington's Birthday, issuing
invitations to many Puerto Ricans.
The editor of Ell Diario stated in his
paper that he could not accept. He
said he did not feel that he could at
tend American celebrations nor OBJ
serve American holidays until the
American people chose to recognize
the people of Puerto Rico by giving
them government. and thus lifting
them from the commercial mire from
which they have sunk. The local
papers join in declaring that the pres
ent conditions are worse than during
the darkest days Of the Spanish re-
gime.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-09

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

blue sky, made bluer By the silvery
curves OF crescent moon. A garden
Of the old-fashioncd tangled sort in
the background. Some moss grown
steps into q box-Aned path, on the
steps girl, her tender eyes uplifted to
the crescent moon. in her hand sin
gle ascension lily. Under the canvas
the legend, Ascension Lilies"
Hedges turned toward his pupil with
both hands outstretched.
Dear boy, know not where you
got the inspiration for that canvas.
do believe, however, that your whole
soul went into it."
Then in lighter vein he told Teddy
the story of the evening and prepared
him for the social ordeal which was to
come so close upon the heels of the
exhibition.
Since Jane Grey's entire recovery
from her injuries and her removal to
quiet country home Teddy's mind
had been greatly relieved in one direc-
tion and the work received the benefit
of it. That he was still under a social
ban had been made clear to him by
his exclusion from the charmed circle
of Miss Maxwell's Lenten class at its
annual resumption.
Billy Barker had fumed, fretted and
stormed. There are no people on earth
more implacably prejudiced than your
truly good women.
st was utterly impossible for them
to admit man who had ever been in
Ludlow street JAIL Betty said, Sc
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Three.

verely, and If Billy wanted to break I'D
the class he could do so by merely pro.
posing Mr.. Holbrook's name
"But he was innocent" Billy snarl-
ed.
lat makes no difference"
"And proved to be-"
THAT makes no difference"
So then Billy withdrew from the
class himself. Betty fumed, but that
made no difference. He requested her
sternly to inform the class that the at
mosphere which was too pure for his
friends to breathe was entirely too
rarifled for him. which retort he
rather prided himself on. And Teddy
knew that his friend had made a sacri-
flee for him. But the matter was
never discussed between them.
After the two men had left her alone
Harriet flung herself face downward
among the cushions. Tears came, sobs
shook her slight frame. She was I'M
happy, desperately unhappy, that rich.
beautiful, young Mrs Monette, who
ought to have had the men at her feet
by the score!
Presently she got up and folded
away the invitation list Tomorrow,
she supposed. madame would persecute
her until she had secured stationary of
the precise color and size for the cards
and had actually begun the labor of
addressing the invitations. She was
great disappointment to herself. She
had anticipated so much more enjoy
ment out of her new life than it SEEM
ed at all likely to render. That had
been, however, when she thought
money could buy everything"
a mans love.
She remembered having heard that
crude little Colorado woman claim as
much. But she, this Mrs. Monette, who
had just been told that Ledyard FIELD
ing was idiotically in love with an
other woman--knew better-to her
cost. And If it could not win her that
what was it all worth?
She went upstairs to her own suite
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Coffee I'm a New Form.

Take a pill from your pocket, drop It
In cup OF hot water, and in a twink
ling Of an eye have coffee as black as
your hat and as strong as a team Of
Pereherong.
That sounds ike an apoehryphaI tale.
but Il Is true. This new preparation Of
caffeine. which Ia 70 DO away with all the
boiling and clarifying and fuss whica
makes the coffee barely worth while. has
just been discovered by two German chem
lists. II their expectations are realized the
making Of coffee Will be simply tho matter
Of compound pellet, containing the coffee
ingredients. along with the milk and sugar.
This is the only one Of the almost sncredf-
bic triumphs Of German chemistry. which
has already produced a quiuins which can
not be distinguished. 90 far as thsrapeutia
quality goes, from the original article.
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was loosening her hair. It fell in
FURNISHED mass of reddish brown about
her bare shoulders. Mrs. Desb.ow
would hardly have recognized it as the
reddish mop that needed brush"
Settled over the embroidered scarf
upon the dressing table was lavish
display of toilet articles. She selected
brush and getting a trimmed
dressing saque seated herself before the
glass to use it.
Why her entire past should have
marshaled itself before her on that par
ticular night she could not have said.
unless, indeed, little Hedges was re-
sponsible for it.
He had put her past before her in a
new light. While quietly and pur-
posedly growing away from her old
self with a resolute desire to win the
love of the man who had started to the
top, she had been constantly pursued
by sense of unworthiness. Little
Hedges had lifted that portion of her
unexpected load, and she thanked him
for it fervently. She repeated his com.
forting words to herself, looking se-
verely at her reflection in the glass,
with eyes too deeply concerned for
vani reflections.
Nothing can cast us down irreyoc-
ably but our own misdeeds. The wrong
doing of others may cast us down
temporarily, may make life a heavy
burden, may blot out the sunshine for
while, but it cannot consign US to
the purgatory Of the hopeless in this
world, or in the next. And will not
be consigned to the purgatory of the
hopeless," She stood up with her arms
upstretched in supplieation.
Dear Lord, the supreme gift of love
thou mayest see fit to deny me. lat
help me to attune my life to higher.
more unselfish hopes and wishes.
Help me to live that l may reach that
purest heaven, be to other souls the
cup Of strength in some great agony:
enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love
witness the happiness Of others without
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OF rooms on tho second door and locke
ed herself III. One social regulation
she had violently negatived. Madame
wanted her to have . maid. Che
would not. She smiled q tribe bitter
~ as she began the task Of unrobing
| tonight.
A maid. Does one ever entirely lose
sight of their own dear selves? Would
not she have been fancying always
always-that her maid and that other
self would have been good friends in
that long ago?
She scourged herself needlessly thus
very often. Never, until tonight. had
she looked her good fortune squarely
in the face without any sense OF per-
sonal abasement She stood upon the
defensive with conscience.
81 have done no wrong. Even to that
poor little child, whom put into bet
ter hands than mine. | was but a
frightened, ignorant child myself. half
crazed by the brutality of man lost to
honor! I wanted to save it from the
terrors had to face myself! My lit
tie tender child! My baby girl! After
that there seems to be no volition OF
my own in any of it! I have peen
swept onward on food of good for
tune, until here stand. What-how?
Why?
She was standing in front OF her
dressing table. On Dresden ring
rack the diamonds she had just taken
from her fingers glittered under the
gas jet fastened to the mirror. She
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| heard It. SO did Mrs. Monstte. Hedges and
Holbrook.
THE audacity of it,'
In turning more fully to move away. she
discovered Teddy. Their eyes met. red
| rush Of blood dyed her cheeks for a second.
receded and left her as pale as he was.
| The mute appeal in his eyes wa. lost on
her. So might faithful dog looked at
| his oppressor.
| To her he was the man who had lived an
| unciean life. How dared he perpefuats In
memory even the moment OF her conde-
| scending kindness 20 MIN, Her eyes were
| full Of superb scorn. she let them drop
slowly from his troubled face TO his feet
| then. without one gIimmer Of recognition
| in them she turned and forced passage
through the crowd
| Billy Barker gasped. Little Hedges
| ground his teeth in impotent rage. Hos-
brook stood stunned and white, staring
| stupidity at his picture Of the ascension H.
les.
she has almost killed him." Hedges
| groaned into Harriet's ear.
| Introduce him TO me-" she said, and,
| putting her hand upon the artists arm.
i she swept swiftly toward Teddy
| Hedges obeyed her with grateful aiae-
i rfty A woman had dealt the blow-only
a woman could save the situation. Mrs.
/ Monette's name was already one 10 quote
| with Difference He made It very distinctly
heard In presenting Teddy.
/ In a high. sweet tone, much more dis-
| tinc<ly audible than her usual conyersa-
ttona1 voice. Harriet came TO the rescue:
/ II am 80 xiad. Mr. Holbrook. to know
you personally. Mr.. Hedges has promised
to bring you TO me on Thursday. but !
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That Wasn,t Much.

''You--you were in the late war;" hs
qusried Of the man who had been tsliine
about the battle Of Santiago.
Certainly" was the reply.
And you marched and suffered ana
fought and was a heroT'
mo. sir: nothing Of the kind simply
landed at Santiago: decimated the ranks Of
the enemy. forced him 10 surrender and
then brought about the end Of the war"
'oh, that was all? Beg your pardon fca
the interruption"
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The Turkish woman 10 rnaTiageable AZ
the age OF years. and by Turkish law.
at that age. II married. she - competent
to manage her property and dispose Of one
third Of her fortune. The law allows her
to abandon her husbands house for just
cause and viii protect her IN 50 doing she
cannot be compelled to labor fo4 the sups
port Of her husband
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AN ODDLY LATED PAIR.

Here is a very charming little picture
of domestic felicity. It shows a bulldog
who took an extraordinary delight in tho
companionship OF a small kitten and All
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one selfish pang; I've lsss and lees M
to or for myself.
It was the hour Of recommendation a
remuneration that was complete. And
her mirror reflected face alight with
the enthusiasm Of the hour.
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lowed no one to touch the little feline while
in his company. This strangely mated
pair Of household pets, which belong to a
New York broker. often romp about to-
gether in the most playful manner. But
this same bulldog, strange to say cannot
abide the ordinary cats. and on several
ing them.
Morris tribune., 1900-12-29
CANNOT RBCOYB
Prominent Indiana Mason the
Victim of a Mysterious
Shooting Affair.
Three Shots Are Fired, All the
Bullets Taking Effect in
the Mans Head.
Retains Consciousness for a Time
and Tells a Strange Story
of the Crime.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 28-William H.
Smythe, grand secretary of the Masonic
order of Indiana, was shot and prob.
ably fatally wounded at noon in his of.
fee in the Masonic temple. The shoot
ing is mystery. The story told by
Mr.. Smythe, who retained conscious
ness for several minutes after the
shooting, is that blonde woman en-
tered his Office and asked to be allowed
to use the telephone. AS he was busy
he told her he could not be bothered at
the time. Without further words, he
declares, the woman drew a revolver
and fired at him. He felt the sting of
the bullet but did not realize what had
happened until after the woman had
made her escape.
The police quickly reached the scene
and threw line of patrolmen and d,
tectives about the Masonic temple, but
no trace of the mysterious woman was
found.
Lewis A. Coleman, an attorney who
had gone to the Masonic temple to
transact business, discovered Smythe,
who, he says, was lying on the floor
half way between his desk and the
door of his Office in pool of blood.
An examination showed that three
shots had been fired, each of which
took effect in smythe's head The
bullets have been removed, but it is
not thought Smythe can recover.
AS no trace of the woman had been
found up to a late hour, the theory was
advanced that Smythe had attempted
self destruction. Members of his fam.
lily, however, declare that this suspicion
is groundless. -
Morris tribune., 1900-12-29
FINANCE AND TRADE,

The Minnesota railroad commission
has ordered "a reduction in iron ore
freight rates.
London investors have purchased
nearly 100000 shares of American
stocks during the past 10 days.
George Campbell & Co., Philadelphia
wooden goods manufacturers, have
failed with liabilities of 81, 300, 600.
Clyde shipbuilders recently placed
orders for $50, 900 tons of plates in the
United States, at saving of $50, 900.
1t is stated that money panic is on
in Mexico. The government is about
to let out the silver reserve, amounting
to nearly $40, 100000, to relieve the sit
uation.
The commerce of the Sault canals for
1900 amounted to 20, 643, ,073 net freight
tons, of which 20,532, ,493 were east
bound business and 5,110,580 were
westbound.