The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-15
FRESH GOSSIP
FROM GOTHAM
The First American To Win Cuban
Bride.
LAUGHED HERSELF TO DEATH.
Two Passengers Disappear Mysterious
~ From Ocean Liner : Student
Dcmentcd by Ovcr-Study
Found in Rays.


his pretty Cuban bride, Alexis E. frye.
former superintendent CT schools in Cuba,
arrived here yesterday from Havana on
the transport MCPHERSON. Mr.. and MIS-.
Frye went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel
and Will proceed to-day TO Boston.
Filled with romance was the courtshlp
and marriage of former Superintendent
Frye and Senorita Mania Teresa Arrue-
5arrena Their wedding took place on
New Years Day. and was noted social
event in Cuba. Mr.. Frye was the first
American official to win a Cuban bride,
ard Senorita Maria Teresa was known as
one of the most beautiful young women
in Cuba. Governor-General Wood ana MS
entire staff and twenty-five hundred
other invited guests witnessed the cere-
mony.
except by hearsay, that there was suca
a person in Cuba as s norita Marie Teresa
Arrubarrena She had heard of him, be
cause he was superintendent OF Schoois,
and she was a teacher in CardenaS, her
native city. They met in August. when
the pretty senorita became one OF the
party Of $50 Cuban teachers VITO pad
a visit to the United States.
MYs.rERY OF THE SEA
Edward Hermann and his wife treuda
who were second cabin passengers on the
steamship cKoln, which arrived yesterday
from Bremen, disappeared during the
voyage, and it is believed they threw
themselves overheard.
Mr. and Mrs Hermann were about
fifty-tive years old. They come from Al
tenbrough, Germany, ard had intended
to make their nome in America lheE
had told persons they had met on the
ship that they had had trouble with their
son and were leaving Germany to be
rid of him Selling their few belongings
Hermann said he had a brother in
Chicago. and that lie and his wife would
90 10 that city and there make their
nome.
1t was on the evening OF the third day
out that Hermann and his wife 0is2D-
peareG. Soon after dusk they We're notl2ea
leaning over the rail forward. They We're
heard talking excitedly by officers OF the
ship.
When the call to dinner sounded half
an hour later they werS nowhere to be
found After a thorough search OF the
ship had been made, their stateroom door
was opened. Their baggage was there
but that was all
is not thought they could have acciaenl-
aily fallen overheard. The suicide theory
was adopted by the officers of the snip
The KoIn belongs to the North German
How'd and this is her first trip on the
Bremen TO New York route. she was III
Chinese waters during the war as nos
pital ship. Her commander Is captain
I.ongsenter.
AWAITING THEIR DOOM
living in their cells in the Paterson
iai last night, four young men, whose
autumn night orge began in merrlment
and ended in death and disgrace, were
awaiting on the rack of suspense the
ordeal Of the morrow. This morning they
face the majesty of New JERSEYS out
ragged law. which may declare their ilNeS
forfeit to the Commonwealth.
Whatever their thoughts may nave
been. however grim their forebodings
thev promise to wear a bold mein when
t;7er come into court this morning to meet
The issue of possible death. Three OIL
them yesterday morning joined IN the re
Iigious services in the Assembly room %
the prison Kerr alone held aiooL: pc
cause he is a Catholic. But NcA!!sLel,
Campbell and Death-he OF the omlnous
1,a-,n na,-er 50 ominous as it sounds to-
6ov-vere conspicuous among the seventy
nrisoners who listened to the words
Of exhortation from the representatives
of the Paterson clergy and OF the
Woman.s Christian Temperance Union,
FOUND IN RAGS.
T,anented l,y overstudy in St. Johns
College where he lee: his class, 80
Allen Jr sixteen years old. VINO mas peeii
missing from the home OF ms faIheI, q
wealthy horse dealer, in West Farms,
since Wednesday. was found SeSteS ti
afternoon wandering along tIle aii>e''te''
near Hudson Heights
His clothes were oattefed an" ite "'''
enaciated. ,o,,,c NOV,
orI- vas partially restored He was LED 10
his; mothers bedroom. where she was
prostrated with grief. When she saw 5tlS
lad she cried. My son has returned:
and springing up. she ciaSpeo MN III l Ne,
arms. The boy recognized her' ne re-
heated several times the word mother
and returned her caresses:
Mrs Allen BECAME i'll on Thursday, "hen
she learned that her son hau dlsa ! Gu
Almost convinced that she would never
see Matthew again. her illness increased
and on Saturday physicians told her IAN a
lily that her ultimate recovery dep PEI Ifsa
upon the successful termination Oh 'iAe
quest for the missing boy.
ASPHYNIATED BY GAS.
Mrs. Martha NIahon, forty years Old
wife of ex-Internal Revenue Collector
William NIahon. was found dead III her
home, No. COZ Bloomfield Street, Hobo
ken Yesterday morning. She had been
asphyxiated by the sas from half-open
Jet of a stove. 1t is supposed that the
during the night, or that il had gone out
when the pressure was turned down in the
gas-house at midnight.
Mrs Mahon accidentally shot and killed
her fourteen-year-old son about eight
months ago while handing to him (; re-
volver with which he wanted to shoot cats
in the yard. For months she brooded over
the accident and it was feared that she
might attempt to end her own life Mrs.
Mahon has two sons and one daughter
living.
I've been laughing SO hard I'm almost
dead
Mrs. Ann Lake little knew how truth
fully she spoke. She had entered West
woods bakery Saturday night, at No. SS3