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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-19

his rapid decisions. which invariably
prove TO be the proper thing at the
proper time. Notwithstanding the i'm
mense volume of business that must
needs come up for his disposition,
he is easy of approach, good ma
tured and lends his entire attention
to the subject under discussion. Al
though a very busy man. he exhibits
no unrest or nervousness incident to
most men Of affairs. In addition to
Mr.. Lund's arduous duties in direct
ing the affairs of his business, he is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-19
New Palace for CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, March 1S-The
commission which was charged with
the supervision Of the construction OF
the new building for the house OF rep
resentatives today awarded the con-
tract for the stonework 10 a New York
company at 81 .031. OO0 II was decided
that the outside should be marble and
the inside limestone
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-19
suIIy Would PAY All

NEW YORK. March 1S.-Daniel J.
Sully. the central figure in the collapse
of the big hull movement in cotton a
year ago, today announced that he pro-
posed eventually TO pay every one OF
his creditors In full. regardless OF his
recent discharge in bankruptcy
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-03-28
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lot Persian Lawns, worth
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1IOt India Linen, worth l5C.,
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lot figured Lace Mulls,
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lot Nicker Crepes, all COL
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1lot Printed Organdies, extra
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lot Muslin and Organdie,
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lot best Shirting Prints,
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8 $40. yard.
lot SO in. Sea Island worth
8 1-2c., week price 4 $40. yd.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
KING
KILLS HIMSELF
AT Navarro
w. B. Howell, Arkansas
Planter, Feared He Was
Becoming Blind.

w. B. Howell, a millionaire cotton
planter, Of Pint Bluff, Ark, committed
suicide last nigh: in his room at the
Hotel Navarro by shooting himself in
the head. He left kilograms explaining
that his act CT self-destruction was
prompted by the certainty that he was
going blind.
Mr.. Howell was known throughout
the Southwest as the Arkansas Cotton
King, About a year ago he began TO
have trouble with his eyes n was
told by a Little Rock specialist that
cattracts were forming.
Unable 10 secure reIlef at home. he
came 10 New YORK slA n4unlnS $50 VITA
ms sister, AITS. vi. ~. kuSseII, ana
placed himself IN The hands o. u.
travis GIDD, Dr. Wicks II Ulner emf
nent eye specialists. Mr.. Howell and
NaVarr with a servant, and the planter
speedily became a lavorlte with every
body about the house.
Mrs. Russell, feeling that her brother
was better and could spare her. left New
York last Monday for a visit to Staun-
ton, Va. Mr.. Howell mad an interview
with n specialist yesterday afternoon and
returned to the hotel last night seeming
! ydepressed. He explained TO those who
made inquiries that the neat had made
him III.
Late last night he had two gin rickeys
sent to his room and complained of the
hot weather TO the bellboy. Some time
the right ear, dying instantly. Tn sui
eide was discovered to-day by a cham
bermaid who opened the loo OF theh
room with a passkey.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
vILEST man
INDICTED BY
GRAND JURY
Three Bills Against Nsidinger
May Get 40 Years
in Prison.

Three Indictments were returned by
the Grand Jury to-day against Edward
ii. Neidlnger, OF No. l21 East One Hun
dred and Fourth street. who the police
n agents of the Childrcn's Society
say Is the vllest man in all New York.
All three indictments charge him with
ill-treating little girls. Under the first
bill he may be sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment and the penalty
under the crimes charged In the other
two Indictments is ten years In each
case. The prosecution of the three
charges would mean a possible cum
ulative sentence Of forty years impris-
onment with hard labor,
Six little girls were heard by the
Grand Jurors before the indictments
were found, They are Sadie Sokolin,
Ethel MILAN. Rebecca Beck. Margaret
Beck, Jennie Rlch and Julia Robin.
Agent Fogarty. OF the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Children. was
also a witness before the Grand Jury.
Niedinger posed as a man of piety
only the better to secure his victims.
lie formed what he called his Flower
Club, and by this means attracted 1T
tie girls to his home and there. accord
ing to the nj rles OF his Victims. proved
ukon their innocepcA. -,
The evening world., 1905-07-12
MOTHER SEES
LITTLE CHILD
FATALLY SHOT
Eight Year = Old Catherine
Donahue Hit by Bullet
from Boys Revolver.

Eight-year-old Catherine Donahue
daughter of Patrick Don,hue. a car
pentcr, who came to this country from
Ireland a few years ago. died in Roose-
welt Hospital to-day from a bullet
wound she received while playing in
front OF her home at No. 22l West Six
ty-sixth street last night.
Two youths have been arrested, and
the police have learned from them that
the bullet came from the revolver OF
Benny Graham. a Contemporaries boy
who lives on West SiXty-seVenth street.
He has not been found.
Before gong out to play at $50 o'c4ock,
little Catherine had been helping her
mother, who is Ill. Her twe!vc-year-old
brother was with the throng of children
in the street. n sick mother was
watching Them from the window, when
she was startled by a report. { she
saw her little girl topple over IN the
street and a crowd close aroun her
The bullet from a 5S-cal!bre revolver
had vtruck the chilG in The head. Her
frantic mother rode with the child In
the ambulance n waited at the hos
pltal Until the surgeon told her the 1T
tie gin was dead.
Capt. Cooney. Of the West sixty
Street Station, II his detectives
made an investigation In the neighbor-
hood and arrested Hank Davis, SIX
teen years old, and William Brassell,
eighteen. both of No, 2O7 West Sixty
seventh street. The two boys had as
sisted In carrying the wounded child 10
a drug store before the ambulance ar
rived. Both had big revolvers in their
pockets.
From them 1t was learned that our
te~en-year-old Benny Graham. who, they
thought, lived somewhere on Sixty
seventh street, got possession of two
revolvers and a quantity of ball cart
on July 4, He has been cele-
brating with them eve since. n was
at cats in the open lot across
from the Donahue home last night.
The police We're alsv informed that at
least thirty young men and boys in
the immediate nelghborhood were going
about with loaded revolvers.
A roundup of these young terrors Will
be made to-day.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
MAGNATE, HEAT
CRAZED, A SUICIDE.
Especial to The Evening WORLDLY

BOSTON, July l2.-Hal Corder, of
Nashville. Tenn, a wealthy, hne-look-
ing man. f~fty-three years old, walked
into the barber shop OF John MuI!eo,
on Federal street. near Franklin, to-
day, got shaved. then after the man
who shaved him had finished, Corder
looked at himself in the mirror. DELHI
erately took up a razor ana cut his
throat. severing the jugular vein.
He first cut himself perpendicularly
on either side of the neck, then slashed
himself crosswise two or three times
almost from ear to ear, He was hur-
ricd &c a hospital, where he died.
Blood-staincd kilograms Were found
in his pocket addressed TO Jacob j.
Shepard, Hotel Beacon.
Mr.. Shepard when notiehd said he
could not understand why Corder had
committed the deed.
He mus; have been temporarily in
sane through heat" said Mr. Shepard
He left the hotel this morning in his
usual spirits
Mr. Shepard said that Corder has
large interests In lead and zine mines
in Joppa. Mo. His business was in
splendid shape, He leaves a widow and
three children.
The evening world., 1905-07-12

Into the water, and never saw any
thing more of her. Everything possible
was done to loca,e her, but 1t was 10
use.
Il camc straight t. New rk after
landing and went To the Dodge home
10 break the SAD news. That's all there
Is to t."
The first thing that Mr.. Rudd did after
the accident was to report the matter
to the Ionkers police. He V very
measre information at the time and nc
n'cnt TO mis- own office in the American
District Telegraph Company. at No. 10;
Is! 1ad"ay, told of the accident and Their
wen; 70 the office OF Mr.. Dumont, at, No
mi 'o.atre PUBLISHER of books n the
oNhe: Of the NOrmandie.
he .rharierel the vdcat to Mr., Rudd
Tor the month Of July. and understood
4ir. lDumont. after a talk with Mr..
~ !. insis'ed that the latter tell tha
eniire story of the accident TO Tie
EvcA.as World. and Mr.. Rudd there
upon gave tho following statement:
Mr.. Rudd : Statement.
u ne, Air. J Z. Green, who is a
Glpl'&lis;, with nm office at No. ITO
81 1d"ay. and WHO has been a friend
81 MN" for many years, at the Column
IN Yacht Club landing at G~igh;y-sixth
'''''' Ntu lINe -NOENN river. li.S was
NJ II o'clock ycste d Y morning. I IA
chartered the Nosmahd.e for the montn
~ JAY from Mr., Du.ront, and had in
" " MIR Green to sail up the river
with me,
Mr.. Green had u young lady with him
w ~ he introduced TO me as his niece.
Ihe name was either Daisy or Gladys
dD%ege' ! am n2t sure which. ! mad
join US. We sailed up to Pecksiill and
U"cIdtI TO return hu..4C.
ION our way down we were steaming
.ionS at a rapid rae. Mr.. Green and
deck N %settces. ! was In the p.lot-hors
WIN Air. Storms, the pilot. when | $ -
the ramp steamer rushing down on us
The steamer whistled once to inform
US that she would pass to s%tarboard
Thea when size was hardly one hundred
ard fifty feet from us she whist!ed
tw.ce. ! saw at once that a mistake
had been made in signals ana that a
collision was unavoidable.
Il rushed cut OF the pilot-house tc
do what | could in lowering a boa OF
SAVING my guests. But before l had
a chance to turn the prov of thu
! steamer hit us amldshlps, there was ar
explosion and We were all in the water
The Nlrmandie went down in about
8 seconds"
An effort is now being made to trace
the steamer that ran the Normandie
down. She is described as being about
30 . long. bt7ck. with a single back
funnel, flying Swedish colors and car
ry!ng plaster In barrels on her decks,
She was apparently bound for Yonkers
and there ought not to be much diff
Guilty In tracing her, as vessels as large
as this are not numerous along the
Hudson River.
.trly to-day, when the Identity of the
drowned woman was still enshrouded In
mystery, a woman, who said she was
he sister OF the woman drowned IN
the accident last night OF Dobbs Ferry
called up the Yonkers pollce and Offered
a reward of 5000 for the cover OF
or he name Of the dead woman, bul
1t 10 now believed that she wa the sis.
ter OF Miss Dodge, whose name is saic
to be Miss Daisy. This woman sac
over the telephone 20 Sergt. MCGOWAN
Of lOnkers, that her sister mad severa
thousand dollars worth of Jewelry anC
considerable money on her when sh'
left lone.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
GIRL NOT MURDERED.
Death In Cellar Was from Natural
Causes,

An autopsy performed by Coroner's
Physician Weston to-day shows That
Hannah H%artigan, the young woman
whose body IA found In the cellar Of
the apartment house at No, ia West
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh
street yesterday. died of natural causes.
The immediate cause of death was fatty
degenerate of the heart,
1t is believed that she wandered into
the cellar when she was taken III. ON
Monday she had visited the house to
inquire for friends, and probably came
back to make further Inquiries. Last
month she was employed as a servant
In the Mount Sinai Hospital
The evening world., 1905-07-12
GIRL LOST IN
RIVE CRASH WAS
BANKERS GUEST
Miss Gladys Dodge Wa Taken on Fatal
Yacht Trip by John E. Green
She Lived at 225 West
End Avenue.

The Young woman who was drowned in the Hudson River off Dobbs
Ferry list night, when c. w. Dunonts steam yacht Normandie, char
tered by John A. Rudd, of Yonkers, was run down by a tramp steamer
flying the Swedish flag and supposed to be the Veone, was Miss Gladys
Dodge, of No. Us West End avenue, this city.
Coroner Russell. of Yonkers. this afternoon ordered Rudds arrest a a
witness in the case. A detective a. sent from Yonkers to this city to get
Rudd.
Mss DcdGe. a beautiful young woman of twentythree and a membe.
OF a family of wealth and social position in this city, wen IN the Nor
mardIc carly in the day with John E. Green, a banker, who has offices with
Stewart d Browne at No 10 Broadway. Mr.. Green is a friend of MI. Rudd
and had been invited to spend the day sailing with him. Mr.. Rudd took
, the Normandie to the house of the Columbia Yacht Clue, 1t the foot Of
West Eshty-ixth street, early yesterday morning to get Mr.. Green, and
found Miss Dodge with him.
Ia Immediately invited her to Join them in the sail and she accepted
MI Green introduced Miss Dodge IS his niece. The entire day was spent
in sailing IN the river. the Normanuie going as far as Peekskil. 1t vas on
the return trip last night that the Normande net the big tramp steame
coming up the river. There was a mistake in signals and the big steamer
cra-hed into the little yacht, almost cutting her in two.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
CRAzED BECAUSE
NOT BEAUTIFUL,
KILLS HERSELF
Strange Mania Of Rich Eliza
beth Girl Leads Her to
Commit Suicide.
Especial to Tho Evening Worldly

sHNtiu " AAo NoAAA "otiN''
ELIZABETH, N. j., July l2.-M1ss
Mathilda King, daughter of the late
Col. Rufus King. committed suicide at
the home OF her aunt, Mrs. D. p.
Thomas. on West Jersey street, list
night by severing an arter. In her
wfdst and turning on tne gas In the
bathroom, where she was fouAd dead.
1t was reported last night that she
dropped dead .
she was Gnirty-fve years old. 1t is
said that she became derunged brood
ing over the fact that she was not
a beautiful woman.
She had often been heard to exclaim
as she looked in the mirror:
oh, why am l not good looking like
other girls"
The family have made every effort to
keep the suicide from being made
public.
moved in exclusive society throughout
the State.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
F|REBUC DIVES
NINETY FEET
FROM WINDOW
Prisoner Plunses ThroughHigh
Easement at BrcoklynsPo-
lice Headquarters.

Samuel Levine, twenty-five years old.
Of No. 80 Norfolk street, caught in the
act Of attempting to set fire to a Will
iamsburg tenement, the police say,
plunged from the top story of Police
Headquarters, Brooklyn. to-day. while
the official photographer was preparing
to take his picture for the Rogues' Gal
lery.
Levine was arrested with Phillip
Davis, a saloon-keeper, at No. 81
Gouverneur street. and the pair are al
legged by the police TO have been con-
nectei with nan incendiary fires in
Williamsburg in which lives have been
lost.
Owed Ninety Feet.
Levine fell ninety feet, into an open
lot adjoining headquarters. at State and
Smith streets, landing on a pile OF
heavy iron building girders which are
stored there. That he was not instantly
killed Is a marvel. He was picked up
conscious and able to curse the failure
OF hts plan to bring about instant death.
Levine mad been in custody OF the de
~tectives who made the arrest and was
about to step into the Bertillon room,
In order 10 be measured and photo
graphed for the police record. after hav-
ing been exhibited to the stan of the
Brooklyn Detective Bureau. This room
is on the fifth floor of the building.
The prisoner was taken up in the
elevator in custody Of Detectives Lydig,
Hensler, Dugan and Graham. A mar
ROW passage cad from the elevator
TO the Bertillon room, and the detec-
tives showed Levine into this ahead or
them. walking in double file behind.
as they neared the room Levine spied
an open window overlooking the open
twelve feet from where he stood. With
a hasty glance at his custodians the
prisoner dashed for the open easement,
GLIDING the clutch of Graham. WIN
OWNED his intention too late.
Fell en- Iron Critters.
tives Lev!ne Owed straight through the
window. The detectives reached 1t in
time to see Levine plunge down head
foremost. give a turn when about
thirty feet down and land on his back
upon a pile Of iron beams in the lot
ninety feet oelow.
Tle prisoner was round on the heap
OF Girders, not only conscious, out ready
to use his senses to deplore the failure
OF mis- plan. He was carried inside.
and on the arrival of an ambulance
from the Brooklyn Hospital DIR. Hulst
him.
Lives %FrightfuIIy MangIed.
It looked at first as II every bone in
the mans body had been broken. DIR.
Hulst found compound fractures OF
both hips, cuts and bruises all over the
body, and evidences of internal Injuries.
Levine was taken to The hospital. ev!-
IDENTIFY mortally hurt.
Davis is rich. He is said to own much
property in Williamsburg.
Through one of those mysterious
channels known only to the police a
conversation between Davis and Levine
was reported to Inspector O'Brien yes
terdnv.
Police Heard Conversation.
The conversation was reported to
oBrien without delay. The police had
a record of an attempt to set fire to
the big tenement house at No. 3lS Union
avenue. Brooklyn, on Monday.
Levine was arrested while entering
the place last night. In his pockets
we're found a bottle containing a mix
turc of gasolene and Kerosene, a fuse
ard a quantity of matches.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
PEARY Gets
$4,000 FROM
MORRIS JESUP

The 10000 required to start the Peary
expedition in h direction OF the North
Pole was completed to-day by a dona-
ton of s25, 1000 from Morris X, Jessup,
who has been the main inspiration of
the project from the start. This eft
enables Commander Peary to complete
the outhtting OF the Roosevelt. and he
hopes TO sail by Friday OF Saturday.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
GIRL SLAVE TELLS
WHY SHE KILLED
HER BRUTE MASTER
Fragile Berthe Claiche, in the Tombs,
Gives for First Time, to The Even
ing World, Pathetic Story Of Her
Suffering.
BY EMMELINE ~PENDENNIs.

woman's prison in the Tombs and told to-day, for the first time, to The
Evening World why she killed Emil Gerdron, tie giant who was her
master and who made her a slave, living on her earnings and giving her
wages Of mercness teatings.
Berthe is a frfl little pc Nm, rather short but so slender and smar
that she seems of average he.ht, at least. She looks the wreck of a once
beautiful girl, whose cheeks have fallen and faded, but whose gdd-brown
hair. frank brown eyes and dainty red lips are proof of what she was once,
and what If rest and happiness aree ever her lot, she may find herself again.
The evening world., 1905-07-12
Brought by Way Of Canada.

How and when did he bring YOU
over?"
Five years ago. But we did not
come here, He took me first to Can
ada. / was only seventeen. He was
afraid We would be arrested
The girl explained how the money for
their cabin passage on the Canadian
steamer was borrowed from a friend OF
Gerdron.
He skipped with the money. And
hen / knew 1t l had to send the money
back to the MANTLE money l made"
BERTHE told how she was earning
seven francs a day at embroiderlng
evening gowns with pearls and STUFF
when Gerdron first courted her. She
attended public school, receiving a GER
The evening world., 1905-07-12
TWO KILLED IN
HOUSE

PwTsBURG, July 1.-Two persons
We're killed and several seriously IN
iured In an explosion In a dwelling
house at Fortieth street n Liberty.
The cause of the explosion has not
been a%scernined, but Is thought TO have
was wrecked,
The two adjoining buildings causat
IRE.
The evening world., 1905-07-12

Her voice Is low and soft, and her &C.
cent decidedly French.
In spite of her life as the victim of a
hend, the worst of his vile type, Berthe
has the manner, the look and the per-
feet artlessness of the ingenue.
She talks readily, with trust in her
big eyes, inc a seeming sureness OF
sympathy.
Remembered Only Wrongs.
Am I happy here? Non-non! How
could I? I think Of mother n home
and my little sisters. II I could be with
them I would be really happy. How
could any one be happy in %prison?'
But your family come to see you and
help to cheer things up a bit, don't
they?"
"Oh, yes. But then they go away
and then-and then l cry"
DO you know why 0 are here?'
I asked her.
"They tell me Emil Is dead" said
Berthe, dropping her voice gravely.
do you remember killing him.
The recollection OF her old lover came
into her eyes and she cried Il don't
know: I don't remember anything, but
how crazy and sick I was for days. foI
DAYS. How he said to me. I will Kill
you,' and l know II he said 1t he
would"
It seems tina the vents of the day
OF the shooting have faded from the
girls consciousness. She remembers
her suffering and her fear that Gerdron
would kill her, and she knows thai he
is dead. She has no actual recollection
Of the fatal day.
But hadn't he threatened to kill you
before?"
Yes. always; that Is. after the first
three month When l first knew him
he made love to me at all times. 1t
was always 'Je Z aime-je t Anne and
he promised to marry me, sure. Then,
when he brought me here, 1t was al
ways beatings and cross words and I
will kill you"
The evening world., 1905-07-12
LAUNDRY wANTs-MALE.


STRONG luUAG MAN. .eApe.!s"r6d "a
Mrnsers 4Al to maze himself useful.
wages 20, WaIlacA Laundry, l.lO ~ as.
WASHER wanted. who can 'tu,n out best
mlnE.e WORK IN Now York must DO =
sohar steady man. Byron Algrr 80 and
81 ElIT1lo'h st. anplv bciHorn . and 10.
STRONG yuuuE man wanted lnul" cllum-
Nh ets1m I 1nu1r, ~ W l"--n =
The evening world., 1905-07-12
LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS.

.OST-'acNagc printing platus, Iucsday;
near Pearl and Chambers, reward ~
ENltmn u.