The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-04-07
1t Will Be Held i'm Washington
April ~ i'm Aid of the
Red Cross Society.
COUNTESS CASSINl AT The HEAD.
Wives of Cabinet officers. Senators.
Diplomats and Navy officials and
Others Are PatrOnesses.
II viii BE Attended Practically BY
the Entire Cabinet. Members Of
Diplomatic Corps, Supreme
Court and Congress.

Washingtrn. April 4.-"To relieve
the wound # friend and foe alike
left on the ttlefelds of the wrr." In
these few C.ds the Countess Mar.
guerite Ca mi. the daughter of the
Russian am assador told correspond
ent at the embassy the object of the
fair which. Tldcr her direction. will
be held in Washington April q in aid
Of the Rus IN Red Cross society. \
week ago ScNday the countess deter.
mined to do something for the aid of
the Russian Red Cross. and at once
started the cables to Paris and st. Pc
tersburg working, the articles for the
fair were ordered and hundreds of In.
vitations for assistance were sent to
all parts of the United States. In max.
ing her appeal to the American people.
the countess emphasizes the fact that
the undertaking was not partisan in
its object. THE Red Cross society is
an international humanitarian organi.
zation wholly divorced from politics.
II is in the aid of that society that my
fair is to be held" said the countess,
in outlining the plan to her friends.
The past week has brought to the
countess,over $4,000 in cash subscrip.
tions to the Red Cross funds and arti.
cles valued at hundreds of dollars for
sale at the fair.
Heading the list OF patronesses is
Mrs. John Hay, the wife Of the secre-
f. A. Hitchcock, wife Of the secretary
of the interior; Mrs. Henry Cabot
odge. wife Of the senator from Mas.
sachusetts; Mrs. William s. Cowles.
wife of Commodore Cowles. of the
navy and sister of the president; Bar
oness Speck Won Sternburg, the Ger.
man ambassadress: Nine. Jusserand,
the French ambassadress; Lady Du-
rand. the British ambassadress; Bar.
oness Moncheur, the wife of the Bel
gian minister: Sonora Calderon. the
wife Of the Peruvian minister; Coun.
tess Cellere, the wife Of the Italian
charge daffaires Mrs. Ogden Mills. Of
New York: Mrs. Potter Palmer, Of Chi.
caco. and many others.
The affair will be attended by prac-
tically the entire cabinet. the members
court and members of congress. The
countess, however is desirous that its
guests shall not nv confined to the
official set, but that all who desire to
aid the Red Cross shall be present at
the fair or contribute.
Sunday the countess sent kilograms
to Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan and Mr.
Andrew Carnegie advising them Of the
entertainment and its objects. The
proceeds of the fair, together with the
cash subscriptions, will be forwarded
promptly to st. Petersburg.
A man who gave the name Of Walter
W. Wilson walked into police head
quarters New York, and announced
that on August ], 1908 he and part.
ner, who were drivers for the United
States Express Co., in Pittsburg. stole
2 package containing $1,1S0 from that
company.
The president sent to congress a
long report on the progress Of the beet
sugar industry of the United States
during the year 1908. The industry
can no longer be treated as an expert
ment. Beet raising and sugar produc-
Ing is an actual fad.
The new wing of Rideau Hall. the
official residence of the governor gen.
eral at Ottawa, Ont. was destroyed by
fire. Some anxiety was at first felt
for the safety Of Lady Mimic, who was
lying in one Of the apartments with a
fractured leg, but her removal was ac.
complished without difficulty.
William F. Church, who was arrest
ed in Philadelphia and taken to st.
Louis to answer the charge Of having
murdered Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w.
Yeater, his benefactors, of Warrcnton,
Mo-, last August, confessed to the po-
lice that he committed the double
crime just because he felt impelied to.