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The evening times., 1900-03-09
CHARLES L. DAVIS WILL.
Most of His Estate Beaueathed 10 "a
Former Actress.

PITTSBURG. March Mrs. Margaret
Schriver Simpson. at one time member
OF the Alvin Joslyn'' Company. will get
most of the estate OF the late Charles l..
Davis owner of the Alvin Theatre here.
Mr.. Davis will was filed yesterday. 1t
is dated April 5. 1896. and. according to
a statement attached TO the paper. the es
tate at that time was worth Sl50,0Oo. o.
which one-thrd was in personal property,
Davis first bequeaths TO the actress, who
Al that time was not married. all Of his
jewelry, paintings rugs. brica-brac, etc.
Next he directs the payment OF sums
ranging from $500 TO 81 GOO TO employees
and others. These beQuests aggregate So
Gee. The residue he directs shall be given
10 Miss Schriver after all his debts have
been paid. She is now the wife of a bust
ness man living in Detroit. No mention
was made by Davis Of a wife. Mrs. Simp-
son will inherit about Sl00, Geo. Maud L.
Strain, Of Albany. " Y. is TO get $500;
Charles u. johnson. OF pittsburg. $1,000,
and Harry =. Stanley 81 600.
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BETRAYED BY A PHOTOGRAPH.
" hoIesale Horse and Wagon Thief
Captured in Philadelphia.


PHILADELPHIA. March 9.-Betrayed by
his photograph. which was displayed in
showcase in front of photographers es-
Establishment on South Second Street, Adam
Eckstein, alias Frank Brown. young man
who lives on EdgemOnt Street was ar
rested yesterday by Special officer Ritchie.
Eckstein. who is charged with stealing
several horses and wagons. evaded arrest
for nearly two months. All OF The detec-
tives had been searching for him.
The prisoner confessed. he admitted.
that he had stolen three teams. but the
police believe that he was responsb bic for
a number of other similar robhcries. lt is
alleged that on January j. he stole a horse
and wagon belonging 10 David Z. Thomas.
The wagon was loaded with butter and
eggs, all Of which he sold 10 the grocery
store keepers in Camden. There were
sixty-three dozen eggs in the wagon.
which he disposed of for : cents a dozen
He afterWard abandoned the horse and
wagon on the street In Camden.
He is charged with having stolen
horse and wagon belonging 10 Garrett z.
Brownback on January 80. This wagon
was also loaded with butter and eggs. all
OF which he sold. Another team he is
charged with stealing belonged TO J. H.
Price. 1t is reported that nearly fifty
wagons have been stolen during the past
elk months. and the police do not hesitate
20 blame the prisoner for a majority Of
the robberieS.
Special officer Ritchie secured a dupli-
cate OF one of Ecksteins photographs
Yesterday while walking along North
Eighth Street he noticed young man who
resembled the picture That must be
him. remarked the officer to himself.
And il was Eckstein. The young man
went into a restaurant and ordered din
Der. The officer also went into the place
and took seat at an opposite table.
He looked at the suspect and then he
gazed upon the Photograph. He was now
sure that the man whom he had followed
into the restaurant was the one whom he
WAS looking for He walked over to the
table where Eckstein was sitting and
said: Il want TO see you when you get
through
When Eckstein had finished his dinner
be was placed under arrest and was
marched TO Magistrate Moores office,
Broad and Bainbridge streets, where he
was subsequently arraigned. Eckstein
was held in 81 200 bail on the charge of
stealing Brow nback's team, and not being
able to furnish bail he was taken 10 city
hall and locked up pending a final hearing.
After being placed in a cell he confessed.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
WEST VIRGINIA CHARTERS.
A Large Number of Mining and Manu-
facturing Companies.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, March e.-The
Secretary of State has issued charters 10
the Downey Bros. Spoke and Bending
Company, of Lancaster. Pa. with capi-
tai Of $4,000; Northern California Gold
Mining and Milling Company, Of ST. Louis,
Mo-. capital 81, 600. O00 Shawmut Gold Min
ing Company, OF Boston, Mass, capital
$500 900; Carriboo Gold Mining Company,
OF Fairmont. w. Va. capital 100000; Ma
tional Rotary Engine Company, of Wheel
ing, w. Va capital 81, 200; Great Eastern
Gold Mining Company, of Boston, capital
81, $50, 900: Consolidated Mineral. Gem and
Mining Company, of New York, capital
S., ,000. 900; the Chicago Bolivian Rubber
Company of Chicago, ILL.,, capital $780,
600; Andes Exploration Company, OF Chi
cago. H.. capital 100000; Buffalo Oil
Company. of Cairo. W. Va, capital s25, 900;
the Havana Plantation Company, of
Wheeling, w. Va, capital 100000; Gene
va Red Cross Lithia Water Company, of
Buffalo, n. Y, capital $195,000.
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HoUNDED BY SHYLoCKS.
business Men Charged With sui
clde's Death.

NEW YORK. March 9.-"If this poor,
frail body Of clay could rise up and be-
come flesh and blood and the tongue Of
the dead speak. you would hear the voice
accusing and the finger pointing to many
of you who are here now az those re-
sponsible for his downfall and death"
Rev J. Slater pastor OF the Cropsey
Avenue NJ E. Church, used these words
over the body Of James Wakelee in
Bath Beach Wednesday night. Around
the coffin we're Magistrates Ncrhees
and Ferguson and many Of The best
known men and women of the ! lace. 1t
was at these people the speaker pointed
his finger as he made the startling state
ment. following it up with:
Two years gao he was a GJd-fearing
and Christian man. Bad associations
caused his ruin. You are resp .nsib.e for
it. many of you who are nov here as
mourners.'
Pastor Slater further declared many
of the Bath Beach business men are
modern Shylocks who had bounded the
deceased by demanding a poGnd of Il sh
when they knew full well that he was
financially embarrassed. Tho women,
the pastor declared, had courted Wakelee
and been entertained by him when they
knew he was unable TO pay his bills.
At this many of the mourDers left the
Creston cottage, where the funeral
service was held. and waited about
in neighboring hotels, where they de-
nounced the minister.
Yesterday the body was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery. After the mourn
ers had left carriage was driven to the
graveside from which a closely veiled
woman alighted. She placed large bunch
of yiolets, without any card attached. on
the fresh earth.
Several members of the Gravesend
Bsy Yacht Club. OF which Wakelee was
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DEATH DUE TO PRIDE.
A Young Bride Commits Suicide Bc-
cause of Her Poverty.

NEW YORK. March 9.-Ask anybody in
'the Sunken Village" why Bessie Honey
bein committed suicide and the answer
will be. she was too proud" The Sunk
en- Village" lies thirty feet below the
street level. behind a high board fence
which surrounds the block bounded by
Broadway, Sixty-first and SiXty-second
Streets. 1t consists of a dozen novels.
one story high, with peaked roofs, patched
with tin and with mildewed clapboard
sides. But the villagers are proud.
Bessie Ketchell was eighteen years old
last autumn when she married Henry Hon
eybein. Her mother is the widow of po-
liceman who was assaulted and killed, 1t
is believed, blythe "Slaughterhouse Gang.
Honeybein. twenty-five years old, stall
wart fellow, has eked out a living as
ruckman When he married Bessie he
took her TO live in a three-room shanty in
the "Sunken Village" She put up bit
of lace curtain al the crookedly hung front
door and tried to make the squalid place
home-like. But Henry liked to go out
nights. and Bessie went back TO the tene-
ment in West Sixtieth Street where her
mother lived.
On New Year night the outlook seemed
so dismal that Bessie and her young hus-
that were married lived in more preten-
tiOus places than the 'Sunken Village,
and the young wife seemed dissatisfied.
She got some carbolic acid and tried TO
take it, but her husband prevented.
The rent of the shanty was only 81
month, but the Honeybeins fell behind in
paying il. Then, a week ago Henry lost
his place as a driver Wednesday night
Henry rose to go out. His wife called out:
Don't go and leave me alone, Henry
But he shook his head and disappeared.
Then Bessie put on her faded straw hat
and went TO her mothers.
After little while she arose and said:
"Good-by. you may not see me again" The
mother tried to cheer her up in vain. The
girl went to store and bought some fin
cry, went TO the hovel she called home.
dressing herself in her best clothes and
scrawled on the bottom OF an empty match
box:
Dear Henry: You can go out any time
you like now BECKY
'Good-by forever"
Then she swallowed some carbolc acid
and was dead when her husband came
home at midnight.
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POISONED BY MERCURY.
Serious Allegations Made by Cou-
sin OF Mayor Van Wyck.

FISKHILL LANDING, y. Y. March g
this place, yesterday afternoon published
4 card in the "Fiskhill Herald" offering
reward of SIS for the arrest and ~onyc-
tion of the persons who placed mercurial
poison in his milk and food. For some
time Mr Van Wyck has been the victim
of some malicious person who evidently
has had designs on his life. Mr. Van
Wyck Is cousin of Mayor Van
Wyck of New York and comes from old
Knickerb0cker stock. He says that for
some weeks he has been harassed by at
tempts TO poison himself and wife and he
is determined that il shall be stopped. On
several occasions he and his wife were
made sick by drinking milk which had
been left at the door by a milkmaB. They
finally discovered mercury in the milk.
They decided TO move out of town and
took "A house across the river, just outside
Newburgh In q few weeks their enemy
had followed them. They found mercury
in the milk there and were forced TO pur-
chase condensed milk. At last they de-
cided TO move back to Fiskhill Landing
and they have again been bothered here
by the alleged poisoner.
Mr.. Van Wyck said today that the mo-
tive for such work was clear to him. His
wife was a daughter of John Graves. in
his time an influential and wealthy citi-
zen of New Haven. He introduced gas in
that city and amassed a fortune With
Mrs. Van Wyck and her husband dead,
says Mr.. Van Wyck. the person who is
suspected of poisoning their food would
be the sole heir to the property. which is
worth over 100000. The police are at
work on the case.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
TO KILL OFF MOSQUITOES.
Virginia scheme TO Improve a
Summer Resort.

WINCHESTER, March 9.-The city
council passed law this week which is
designed to break up the mosquito pest
here. The law. which is based on expert
ments made by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, requires that each
property owner shall pour kerosene oil
over every pool, sink. or drain on his
premises from time TO time. and the po-
lice force is empowered TO see that the
ordinance is enforced The theory is that
the kerosene breaks up the breeding
places of the mosquitoes. killing the young
which stay on pools and sinks.
The law is regarded here as very unique
and its operation will be watched with in
terest, because upon the destruction of
mosquitoes depends the success of the
town as a summer resort. Only few
years ago there were no mosquitoes here,
and in summer the town was crowded
with visitors. Now the summer board
ers go elsewhere, as the mosquito pest is
upbearable.
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sued for preach of Premise.

TOLEDO. Ohio. March 9.-Miss Antonia
Cerny. of New York. has wedding trous-
seau and a handsome collection Of furni-
ture and household goods on her hands
which she purchased. but not the husband
she expected She has brought suit for
$40. 900 damages against Mr.. Heinrich Lip
pold, whom she came here on February 13
to marry, for breach of promise. Miss
Cerny says her preparations for the we'd
ding have exhausted her resources. Her
lover was consulted In many details of the
house furnishing, she says, and gave her
no intimation that he would not live up to
his promise 10 marry her until the day Of
the wedding. Then he fatty refused.
The evening times., 1900-03-09

secretary, and Of the Marine and field
Club met yesterday afternoon in the home
OF one of Wakelee's friends 10 decide how
to obtain a retTaction from Mr.. Slater.
They adjourned without reaching any con-
clusion.
Dr. Cochran. who attended Wakelee
some weeks before he committed suicide
said yesterday: Il cannot understand why
any such remarks were made Another
Of those at the funeral, DR.. John Noor-
hees. said: Mr.. Slater had certainly been
misinformed, thinking Of him as kindly as
possible, for the total Of the debts Of
poor Wakelee was not $3.50 and he could
have obtained that amount from anyone
The fact that he committed suicide shows
that he was mentally unsound at the time
he met death, for he knew that he was
among friends"
The evening times., 1900-03-09
STORY OF A RESCUE.
Commander Everett Reports ON Saw
ing English Passengers.

ing English Passengers.
The Navy Department has received the
following report Of the rescue of the pas
sengers from the English mail steamer
Airlie January u. by the supply ship Cul-
goa, plying between Manila and Australia:
''C. s. S. Culgoa,
"Cooktown, Australia. Jan. o. 1900.
Sir: ! have the honor to confirm the
following telegram of this date:
Sydney.
" Secretary of the Navy, Washington, d.
c.:
Landed passengers and mail stranded
steamer Airlie. EVERETT
AT 4:15 p. m, Sunday, January Il, the
United States steamship Culgoa, under my
command. en- route from Manila, p. l.. to
Sydney, \. S. W, sighted a steamer which
proved to be the English steamer Airlie,
Of the Eastern Australian Steamship Com
pany, aground on Chapman Island reef,
latitude IL degrees So minutes south, lon
gitude 143 degrees 36 minutes east, and
flying the signal 1 want assistance /
ran within safe distance of the Airlie,
and her captain and first officer came
on board The captain reported that he
had run on the reef at a speed of eleven
knots at a. m. Of that date was aground
as far aft as his smokestack, had a large
hole in the bottom. and desired me TO take
his passengers and mail. to which request
assented.
The Culgoa anchored and received on
board the following passengers and thir-
ty-two bags of mail: ]. O. Calender, ].
H. Duff A. II. c. Barker, Mrs. Cove and
two children. Mrs G. H. Powell, ID. o.
Rosemarne Holtze. W. Beaumont,
Farnsworth Welsh, Mrs FiIston. Master
S. Filston, ". Manton, Mr.. Lawless. Glib
bins, Rev. J. T. Tack, Mrs. White, Quar-
termaster Sergeant Forbes, MIR. Koyimo-
TO, ]. Owens, Kerrison, and eight South
Sea Island natives
The transfer completed, the Culgoa. at
daylight Of the 22d instant got under way
for Cooktown, that being the nearest port
on the route to Sydney, where she an
chored at midnight Of the same date.
AT daylight the agent of the company
was notified regarding the stranding of
the Airlie and the passengers and mail
and all transferred to his charge. Very
respectfully, W. H. EVERETT,
Commander, L. S. N, Commanding"
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ENDED HIS LIFE WITH GAS.
A Despondent New York TniIor's De-
Iiberate Suicide.


NEW YORK, March 9.-Edwin B. Trott.
OF 61 East Forty-first Street, a merchant
tailor, with places of business at l31
Broadway and % New Street. after max
ing deliberate announcement by letter to
his lawyer OF his intent to kill himself,
after providing amply for his pet birds
and fish, and after an unusual explanation
of the cause of his act, by means Of
newspaper clipping, turned on the gas in
his apartment and ended his life.
A lawyer appeared last night at the
West Thirtieth Street station and exhib-
tied a letter from his client. To detective
Lockwood the lawyer said the letter had
enclosed a key to Trott's fiat. Trott
wrote that business had been very bad;
that the writer feared he would become
bankrupt, and that he intended making
away with himself.
The detective. accompanied by the at
torney, hurried to the Trott apartment.
They found the main door locked. En-
trance was gained by climbing the fire.
escape and crawling through window.
In the front room the body of Trott was
found on the floor. A long tube extended
from the gas chandelier. telling how the
suicide had been accomplished.
The detective and the lawyer were as
tonshed to hear the songs"of dozen ca
naries. Four cages were covered care
fully with towels. Each cage was well
supplied with water. seeds, and bird food,
SO that had not the body been discovered
in two months the caHaries would have
had enough to keep them alive. Red and
golden fish swan about an aquarium. and
on top of. the water 1oated abundant food
for them.
Among his effects were several letters
from his wife, now visiting her sister in
Frankfort, Germany. She wondered why
the husband wrote so infrequently, and
why. when he did write, he always COM
plained of his business affairs.
A newspaper clipping was found which
told the story of the suicide of De Witt
Knox several days ago. The article was
headed His Wife Gone, He Kills Him
self He had changed this BY writing in
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STABBED WITH A DIRK.
a HagerstOwn SaIoOnLeeper Hurt
During n BrawI.

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, March 9.-Joshua
NJ Davis, saloonkeeper OF HagerstOwn,
lies critically i'll. the result OF being stab
bed with dirk in the left arm near the
elbow Wednesday night in his saloon by
William Shaffer. young son Of Solomon
Shaffer An artery was severed. Both
men were said to have been drinking and
Juggling with knives for fun. They got
into a quarrel and Shaffer is alleged TO
have stabbed Davis. Shaffer stayed all
night with Davis who twice. during ira
tional moments, tore the bandages from
his arm, causing the wound to bleed
afresh
Shaffer this morning walked ino police
headquarters and told Chief of Police AL
exander the stabbng was accidental. Da-
Wis refuses to talk with the officers. say
Ing: Dead men tell no tales Davis
does not want Shaffer ARRESTED, but
States Attorney PoffenbeTger said the
matter would have to be enQuired into.
Davis condition was critical last night,
and his arm may have to be amputated to
save his life.
The evening times., 1900-03-09

ink so that the lines read: His Wife
Gone, But He Is Still Alive
The landlord Of the house, Eugene
Stannsendt. said last night that TrOtt.
who had lived in the apartment twelve
years and always paid his rent, came TO
him several days ago and said he must
ask some grace in paying the rental. Ii
was granted. The pockets Of the dead
man contained S36.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
Sold n Big Duck Farm.

FRONT ROYAL, Va, March 9.-The big
duck ranch at Riverton, this county was
sold to a Winchester capitalist this week.
The ranch has nearly 1000 breeding bird:
in the yards and fifty large ineubators are
used to do the Matching. Large matches
are coming off now, and it is eyrpected
that $1,000 ducklings will be sent TO mar.
ket this season.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
y,IuabIe Black walnut Log

RALEIGH, n. c., March "A walnut
log was this week shipped from Burke
county to Germany which was six feet in
diameter at the butt. 1t was seventy feet
from the ground to the first limb on this
noble tree The farmer who owned it got
500 for it, but it was worth $500 at least,
exDprts saw
The evening times., 1900-03-09
Travel n Luxury,

The "Royal Limited" finest day Il .in :, th.
world, leaves Washington, p. & o. st s,;a, Na,'.
osise' '' - VI, Aiy = p. M, ar
Ire i've Ne" r9.n D. w. "piehuleg dining and
The evening times., 1900-03-09

Prove that you love me by orday;na o.so ..
Maerzen Senate, or Lager frofn tba Ilin,,to,,
Bottling Co by 'phoning 634.f
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Hechts' Greater Stores.
Hechts' Greater Stores.
SOC for ladies' ST to 81 gloves.

Thousands pairs the best gloves the market at
will sale morning 59c These
gloves which when tried on by retailers in the
taken back by their makers and mended They
stronger than gloves usually found be- and be
been virtually tested depend that they will
not rip The mend scarcely be detected hence at 9c they
wonderful bargains In black white red champagne
. and clasp.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
Another furOre in shoes.

crowds should
for announced for Monday because they greater
they exclusive prices by a third
The evening times., 1900-03-09

Child's hand turned button and I
Ia lace ezs Shoes &c. sizes . to S-instead 4yt
Cbild's Box Calf Button and Late
Shoes-sizes IL to 10-instead C0C -
of $1.25. for ..........-........ =. W ~
Misses Tan Button Shoes-siZas 2
II IL 10 2-the regular $1.5e zoe
grades, for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -
Misses Spring Heel Button and Lace
Shoes-with square toes only
sizes 2 i2 to l-2-the s. grade, 0EC /
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zCalf Bals-instead of 81 and Il 40
S2.Jo, Tor .-.................... ~
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Boys Genuine Wax Calf Lace Shoes
finest made-newest styles-sizes
1-2 to ) 1-2-best $3.50 shoes 81 40
possible 10 buy-fOr ..........I'fJ
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new shades; excellent quality; splen
didly made; Just from our own work.
rooms; equal 10 most $4.9S 81 40
skirts At.........-......... -'f1
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New shape. made Of a very fine
quality of black briliantine. which. II
We bought them. would be q 40
$3.50. For. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. - ~
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sia Calf, and Wei Kid Balls S1 QQ
regular $3.50 and So shoes, for. Di'JO
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Handsome suits OF all-wOol eheyiot
serge, with the new shape skirts and
jackets; instead Of $40, are 81 5(
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need the Bit
ters immedi-
ately. Ii cures
quickly and
. e r m a nently
where all other
so-called rem
edies fail. 1t
is the king of
all stomach
tonics.
The evening times., 1900-03-09
Separate pants greatly reduced.
Spring top coats here in profusion

taio
f more han a a tailor
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Price 25c at any drug store
Munyon's Doctors Are Free.

A timely consultation with his skilled specialists
upon all diseases may avert threatened illness.
There is no charge for advice Open from a. m.
TO p. m. on week days; TO ) p. M, on Sundays
No. 623 Thirteenth st. n. w.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-01-25
POULTRY HOUSE FLOOR
One Made Of Boards, Covered with
Gravel and Litter ON Top OF
This, Is the Best.

One of the NEST important things
about a henhouse is the floor, and all
things being considered, to mother earth
for a floor, there is very serious OBJ
lection. Some people tell us it is ma
lures floor" However, as we all
know, natures floor" is a clean floor,
as fowls when wild in their native
land roam far and wide, and the
ground over which they go (nature's
foor) does not become soiled and
filthy, as an earth floor Ga thousand
times smaller than natures floor')
is bound to become, unless great
amount of unnecessary hard work is
given it. Of course it can be kept rea-
sonably clean by taking out four
twice a month, and replacing with
new; but as the droppings cannot be
removed without SO doing we surmise
they will not be removed as often as
they ought, writes E. L. Banks, in the
Poultry Advocate.
1t is said an earth floor furnishes a
dust bath, and that the grain can be
scattered on the ground, thus giving
the fowls the much needed exercise.
Just think of it.! A mixture of dust
bath, feed, litter and droppings, and
we might as well say disease. A nice
"mess," is it not? This is not all; an
earth floor is conductor of moisture
and will draw moisture from the out
side ground, thus making it more or
less damp.
The best and the nearest to a natu
raj floor is a board floor, covered with
sand or fine gravel and litter on top
of this. Having the dust bath in Il
shallow box by itself, this kind Of a
floor can be easily kept clean, and the
grain can be scattered in the clean lit.
ter, thus giving the fowls exercise just
the same, besides adding Il great deal
more to their health and comfort, than
filthy piece of earth. A cement
floor, although great improvement
over mother earth, is not just the
thing, as it is conductor of both cold
and moisture and is much colder and
damper than wood, which is non
ductor of cold and moisture; there
fore a good, tight board floor is the
ideal floor