The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-11
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NEW YORK, April 1d-SpeciaL-i.ne
story Of little Conrad Fecker,t 10 winch ,t1'si
reference was made yesterday, sro M II
The woman who Claimed 70 pc
his mo Their now says that she adopted the
boy when he was two years old rom l Lo1
Babies. Home, In Milwaukee. Moreover
she confesses that she herself was q
founding. She says that Joseph String
ham, who was formerly Mayor OF Osn-5
gkosh, Wis. was her father. sue succeed
ed in making him give her checks Tor
So, 500, agreeing on her part TO give MN IN
no more trouble and to expect notslnsE
from his estate. After signing the checSS
Mr. Stringham repented, and had .ner ar
rested She was finally released upon
giving the checks up. .Stringnam was a
wealthy man, and died some time ago,
leaving fortune OF $4,000. Mrs. F'ecker5
saws that she has not yet decided as to
ewhet her or not she will make q demand
for part of the estate. In the meantime
her husband IS trying to discover the
parents OF the child with a view to restor-.
ing him to them
"A GAY SUICIDE.
George w Sues rented a room In the
Union Square Hotel yesterday. and Inn,
Emediately fired two bullets into his breast,
from the effects Of which ne died in
few hours. Before he became unconscious
he told a policeman that his young wife
had become hou1esck and had returned
to her mother. who lives in Providence,
r.. Il. Sues said that HE could not stand
the separa ton from her and so determined
to take his Hfe. While writing his farewell.
letters to his mother and his wife, Sues.
wtlstled bits Of light airs fromnoperas and
seemed o.be as gay as a bird.
The New York Presbytery has accepted
DR.. McGifert.s resignation, and his name
hoe Mo -oS
bership.
Henry Keller, eighteen years of age,
had been known at Perth-Anooy for
years as ne'er do we'll His mother is
old and feeble. and the boy did not live at
home, but slept in barns and out-houses.
At an early hour yes terday morning there
was a cry of fire, and 1t was discovered.
that the flames came from the Keeler
house. Henry heard the alarm and forced
his way through the crowd to the house
In the hallway, he met his aged father stag
gering out. and asked where his mother
was. The old man replied "She is sense
1 less In her room; Z could not carry her
OUT. The boy ran up the stairway, and
while the crowd waited he appeared at the
doorway. bearing his old mother In hts
arms. Since then he has been the hero.
of the town.
MRS. LANGTRY'S FRIEND.
Miss Beatrice Young, an English woman.
twenty-five years of age, stopped at the
st. Denis Hotel on Sunday after arriving
in this country on the Etruria. She had
plenty of money, and said that she was u
friend of Lady Robinson, OF q Shaftes-
bury avenue, London, and that she was
also a friend of Mrs. Langtry. But she
drank so much liquor that she had to be
taken to the Bellevue Hospital, where
she is now being treated for alcoholism
# Rev. c. II. Elder. pastor Of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Trenton.
was requested to. preach sermon about
railroads. and railroad employees, and, in
order TO inform himself. took spin on a
locomotive, a distance of sixty miles. The
sermon will be pulled of next Sunday
night.