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The Washington times., 1906-06-20
JOINT COMMENCEMENT
CITY'S HIGH SCHOOLS

The Hon. Theodore z. Burton. Rep
resentative from Ohio, will make the
address tonight at the joint graduating
exercises of the Eastern, Western, and
Central High Schools. which are to be
held IN Convention Hall.
From the three schools there will be
H2 graduates with 81 from Eastern. IS
from Western. and rs from Central.
The Marine Band will furnish a musi-
cal program and the invocation and
benediction will be pronounced by Chap
lain Pierce. Of Fort Myer.
Commissioner NacfarIand viii make
the Introductory address and the award
Of scholarships VIII be made by A 4,
stuart, Superintendent Of Public Schools
The diplomas to graduates will be pre-
sented by Commissioner West
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Mr.. WILLIAMS SECRETARY
TO REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE

John r Williams. file clerk Of the
House OF Representatives. has been ap-
pointed secretary TO the Republican
State committee Of Pennsylvania
Mr.. Williams. who IS one OF the most
popular men at the Capitol. has had a
remarkable career. At the age OF ten
he was a slate picker IN the anthracite
mines Of Pennsylvania. He later be-
came bookkeeper in one Of the nninfng z
companies. and soon drfted into pOli-
tics. where he is a powe- today.
The Washington times., 1906-06-20

ator Plat. and that her marriage in a
New York hotel antedates the mar
riage Of the Senator TO Mrs. Janeway.
Mr.. OFlgherty was exceedingly re-
ticent about making any statement
connected with the case at this time
He acknowledged. however. that he
represents Mrs. Wood and says that he
intends to bring suit in her behalf at
the proper time. II Is learned upon
what appears 10 be good authority that
the lawyer is In possession OF a copy
Of a certificate purporting to be a copy
CT the original marriage certificate OF
Mrs. Wood and Senator Platt.
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Marriage Story Denied
By Mt. Vernon Preacher

NEW YORK, June 20-At Mt. Vernon
IL was denied last night that there was
any truth in the report that the Rev
Mr. Rice. Of that place, had married
Senator PIatt and Mrs Wood At the
Fifth Avenue Hotel II was said that the
records for 1901 had been destroyed and
II was impossible 20 tell whether Senator
Platt was at the hotel on the date men,
toned. Neither at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel nor the Gotham, where Senator
Platt lives now, were J. V. Jones or
Edward w. Rice known
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Believe She Knows Murderer.
Daggers and Sandbags Found.

Most remarkable of all the discov-
cries in the house yesterday, however.
was a collection Of weapons. There
were two guns. a rifle and a fowling-
piece. which were silver mounted and
Old-fashiOned. There were two fine
The Washington times., 1906-06-20
DOG BIT LITTLE GIRL
PLAYING IN THE STREET

Bitten on the arm by a dog. Ella
Anderson, six years old, OF 60 P street
northwest, received several painful lac
erationS yesterday afternoon while play
ing in front OF her home. The wounds
were cauterized by DR.. Reofern.
The Washington times., 1906-06-20
Mrs. Woods Lawyer
Says He Will Sue

RICHMOND. Va. June ao.-E. c.
O'Flaherty. OF the law firm Of O'Fla-
herty & Fulton, attorneys in Vir-
Einia for Mae Wood. who says she is
the wife OF Senator Platt. was seen
regarding the alleged threat Of the
woman 70 bring suit In Michigan for
maintenance. and her statement that
she has never been divorced from Sen
The Washington times., 1906-06-20
OLD RUTGERS COLLEGE
HAS NEW PRESIDENT
Dr.. Demarest Installed With Imposing
es-Representatives From
Many Universities Present.

NEW BRUNSWICK. y. J.. June 20
William Henry Steel Demarest was to-
day installed as the president OF Rut-
gers College. The Inauguration cere-
monies were attended by the reprcsen-
tatives OF a score or more of universi-
ties, colleges, and technical schools.
The Washington times., 1906-06-20
RICH WIFE'S DEATH
LAID TO PHYSICIAN
Noted Pittsburg Doctor Is
Held on the Charge
of Murder.
DEAD WOMAN AcCUSER
Wife of President Of Oakland Board Of
Trade Said to Have Confessed
Criminal Operation.

PITTSBURG. June 20.-Mrs. Sadie E.
Chance. wife of Charles H Chance.
president of the Oakland board OF
trade. the second largest commercial body
I'm this city. died suddenly Monday. and
the death was reported 10 Coroner Jo-
seph Armstrong. DR.. James W. Chance.
one Of the most fashionable physicians
In PittsbUrg. who enjoys a large prac-
tice among the wealthy residents OF
the East End. has been arrested and
placed IN Jail to await the action Of thu
eoroner's jury on a murder committed
II Is charged that he treated Mrs.
Chance June and that her death re-
suited. c. II. Chance is one Of the
wealthiest real estate men in the city.
Was Suing for Divorce.
Mrs. Chance had entered suit for
divorce against her husband several
months ago. and since she entered the
suit she had not been living with her
husband. When she found she was dy-
ing. Mrs. Chance sent for her husband.
and in the presence Of three physicians.
as wel as her husband. is said TO have
confessed her own part in the operation
which was the cause Of her death. She
died at an early hour this morning. and
several hours later. Dr. Chance. whose
name the dying woman is said to have
given. was placed under arrest IN his
Offices IN Wylie avenue
On May ). as A result OF domestic
troubles, Mrs. Chance left her home,
taking her youngest son. John, who IS
seven years old. with her F'Qr several
days previous TO her departure she had
been unable 10 agree upon certain mat
terS with her husband Il is said, and
left, determined never 70 return Her
other three sons. who are aged ten. NJ
teen. and seventeen years, respectively,
she left with the father. She then in
stituted divorce proceedings
Chance Wires Wife.
Going to the home OF her brother,
Frank Ellis. she refused 70 have any
communication with her husband Ac-
cording 10 persons who profess 70 have
been In close touch with the marital
difficulties Of the Chances. ii was here
that the alleged operation was per-
formed.
Dr. Chance has been in Pittsburg for
some years, coming here from COlum-
bus. Ohio He had one Of the largest
practices in the city He was married
lately and his wife is now on visit %
rel1tiveS. When placed under arrest Dr.
Chance asked permission 10 send a wire
10 his wife, saying he preferred 70 have
her hear OF his arrest from him He
sent for an attorney, who advised him
10 say nothing
The Washington times., 1906-06-20
ROBBER OUTFIT
IN BRONX HOUSE
Police Find Weapons and
Valuable Loot Hidden in
Secret Chamber.
OLD WOMAN KEPT A~FENCE"
Authorities Now Positive MRS. Stenton
Knows Who Killed. Her
, Daughter.

NEW YORK. June 2O.-AIrs. Stenton.
mother Of the murdered Mrs. Kinnan.
and the dominating spirit in the Bronx
house Of murder and mystery, is to be
subjected 10 the police third degree.
1t is now the belief of the police that
the aged woman knows absolutely who
struck the blow which killed her daugh-
ter and the detectives working on the
case have determined upon Il plan to
extract the needed information which
will lead 70 the arrest OF the murderer
from the unwilling woman.
That she may come into the hands of
the police charged with a crime is now
said TO be probable. for Captain Price
declares that ne has evidence that old
Mrs. Stenton had Cor years, and until
the day Of the death of her daughter,
conducted n fence in the mysterious
Bronx mansion.
Hidden IN a Secret Room.
The finding in a secret room Of the
remarkable collection Of goods. includ-
ing new sllverware. clothing, tableware,
etc, declared TO have been stolen; the
sandbags used by highwaymen, the dag
gers, guns, and the spring catches and
other significant paraphernalia, has fur
nlshed a series Of remarkable disclos-
AEGS. az leaSL 10 the Bo-lGGr u At-G telA tGA
of Mrs. Stenton-if not actually throw
ing light o.. the crime of murder.
Efforts are now making by the deteC-
tives 10 get Mrs. SteltOn into their Of
flciai control so that the third degree
may be administered. The police do not
believe that the old woman is senile.
On the contrary. they describe her as a
most remarkable woman and a natural
born actress.
Believe She Knows Murderer.
If Mrs. Stenton chose to-" says
Captain Price ''she could unravel the
mystery of her daughters murder in
five minutes She knows who killed
Mrs. Alice Klnnan. and she has with
held this knowledge TO protect herself.
as well as TO shield the murderer.
There is everything TO show that the
old woman has been engaged in an
iuegitinate business. and that she has
many male associates. Mother and
daughter have been mixed up in strange
transactions
Daggers and Sandbags Found.
Most remarkable of all the discov-
cries in the house yesterday, however.
was a collection Of weapons. There
were two guns. rifle and a fowling-
piece. which were silver mounted and
Old-fashiOned. There were two fine
The Washington times., 1906-06-20

silver-mounted and ivory-handled dag
gers with leather sheaths. There was
a murderous-lOOking clasp knife. open
ing with a spring. which had a blade
five inches long. more than the legal
limit In n closet between Mrs. STEM
toms bedroom and the dining room
kitchen, beneath old bOnnets and ar
ticles OF female apparel. were two sand
bags
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
CHILDREN OF NEW YORK Tenement HOMES
More Than Two and a Half Per Cent of the Next
Generation Are in Charge of Civic Guardians.
The Curse of the Pavements

served as institutional dormitories
few years ago have made way
for attractive home-like cottages.
Broad lawns, blue skies, fresh air,
pure food and healthful exercise are
depended on as a subtle, permanent
tonic for minds and bodies that have
grown unwholesome in the poison
GUS atmosphere of the brick and
mortar wilderness.
The New York Juvenile Asylum,
one of the oldest and most far-reach-
ing philanthropies in the country,
has succeeded in shaking off the
dust of the city, but only the most
necessary buildings have yet been
erected. The completion gifts Chill
dren's Village is still far off in the
future; it will take slow and patient
work, but it has shown itself so inn
portant to the great city twenty
miles down the Hudson, and, in
deed, to the vast country of which
the metropolis is the chief gate
way, that it is hoped its posi-
bilities may be expanded fast enough
to keep pace in some degree with
the grave problems it does so much
to solve.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
A GREAT FERTILIZER.

Manufacturers of Farmers Bone"
Largest Independent Company.
Elsewhere we print the advertisement
of the F. S. Register Guano Co., and
call the attention of our readers to the
same. The Royster fertilizer people
are the largest of the Independent
manufacturers remaining. These peo-
pie have had a most wonderful success
in their sales. Farmers Bone" is
their leading brand of cotton fertil-
izer, and we are told that it's sale ex-
ceeds that of any other single brand
of fertilizer sold in the south. Owing
to the fact that they use fish for am
moniates, their goods are popular
everywhere they are sold. They claim
theirs to be the original fish guano.
They have large works at Norfolk,
Va, Tarboro, N. c., two factories in
South Carolina and one at Macon,
Ca, and their goods are on sale in
nearly every town in the south where
fertilizers are used. Our readers will
find it to their interest to consider
Register fertilizer before making
their purchases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
NEGRO BANK AT ALBANY.
The First Bale Man Will Be President
of the Institution.

OF the Institution.
One of the very few negro banks in
the south will be opened for business
in Albany as soon as the necessary
preliminaries can be disposed Of
Deal L. Jackson, the negro farmer
of Dougherty county who has for
number of years been the "frst-bale
man" of Georgia, and who owns one
of the finest farms in their section, is
slated for president. The necessary
stock has been subscribed. The enter
prise is backed by the Metropolitan
Realty Company of New York, which
is also interested in similar institu
ton now doing business in Savannah.
The new bank will begin business
with paid-up capital of 5000, but
this amount will in all probability be
increased. Those who have subscribed
for the stock are the most prominent
and influential negroes of the county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
BEAUTIFUL AND RICH, BUT MYTH
Alabama POstoffice Flooded With
Mail for Girl Worth Two Million.


A paper published in northern
city contains an advertisement which
has been the subject of much discussion
in Alabama, and has caused an extra
amount of work to the postmaster OF
Motion in the handling of extra mail
matter.
The advertisement goes on to state
that a Miss Clara Phibbs of MoultOn.
a beautiful girl 20 years old with no
poor kin but with 81, 900, 900 instead in
the shape of valuable farm lands and
ready cash, is DESTROYS of taking unto
herself hubble who is a scientific
farmer.
AS a result of the advertisement the
Moulton postofice is being flooded
with letters of love and packages
of sweets from would-be-lovers of
Miss Clara, but as yet Miss Clara
has failed to call for these tender
tokens, and upon investigation no
person named Miss Clara Phibbs
could be located.
Moulton is the county seat of Law
renee county, and is 20 miles southwest
of Decatur. 1t is not on railroad.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
LEVIED ON TWO RAILROADS
EXECUTIONS ISSUED AGAINSTTHE
CENTRAL AND THE GEORGIA.

On Account of Western & Alabama
Stock Taxes. Appeal to United
States Court Will Prevent Sale.
Under instructions from Attorney
General Hart, representing the state,
Controller General Wright has issued
executions against the Central of
Georgia Railway Company for taxes
upon it's holding of $4,000 shares of
the capital stock of the Western of
Alabama Railway Company, together
with interest at 7 per cent for ten
years, from 1896 to 1905, inclusive.
The total amount of taxes claimed
from the Central is $85, 653 and the in
terest to Dec. 20, 1905, amounts to
1913, 238 Sc, making the total amount of
the ten executions issued Sl08, 981.66
These executions were placed in the
hands of Sheriff helms of Fulton
county with instructions to levy on
property belonging to the Central of
Georgia and to advertise the same for
the March sales.
An execution for taxes on a like
amount of the same stock was also is
sued against the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company. For the year
1905 the taxes amount to $40, 289. The
executions for the other years, from
1895 to 1904, inclusive, against the
Georgia Railroad have also been
issued.
OF course the sale of the property of
thess railroads will be prevented by
the appeal which they will take to the
supreme court of the United States at
once.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
UNCLE SAM WANTS SOME SCHOOL MARMs
the indians in the Territories Stunts in Domestic
Science Only White Women Need Apply.

ANY erudite mistress of the culinary
art. provided she is white, disposed
to instruct the first families of Amer
lea in modern ideas of cooking can
get a position from the government as
instructor in domestic science in the
Indian school at Chilocco, Okla, pro-
vided she can stand a civil service ex-
animation.
The test for these teachers will be
held shortly in st. Louis, and any
lady who thinks she can teach poor
Los wife how to prepar potatoes au
gratin, to concoct a Charlotte ruse or
to build lemon pie with a mansard
roof will be welcome at the examina-
ton and rewarded with a position, If
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31

she pleases.
Time was when Lo, Mrs. Lo and the
little Los ate jerked buffalo meat tri-
daily, with an occasional treat of yell
low dog, but the onward march of civ
ilization and breakfast food has given
the aborigines ideas of higher gas
tronomy, and returning studends of
Carlisle and Haskell abhor potatoes
and yearn for poomma de terre.
The woman who accepts a position
as culinary instructor to the Indians
will not be required to pass a salts
factory examination in the art of chop
ping wood, although it is said Mr.. Lo
still clings to the ancient tribal SEN
timent, 'rLet the women do the work. ;,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
MRS. wIGGs" HOME A SALOON
Original of Alice Hogan Rice's Story
Confirms Report.

OfISlnaI Oh AllCe deSan hlCeS story
Confirms Report.
The literary world is soon to have
one of it's most picturesque localities,
the house occupid by Mrs. Mary Bass,
the original of Alice Hogan Rice's
"Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, ;"
given over to the purposes of.a saloon,
says Louisville, KY, dispatch. At
least such is the program outlined by
David Klotter in an application made
to the license board to sell "vinous
and malt liquors"
Mrs. Bass, when asked if she intend
ed renting her home for such purposes,
replied that she did, and further that
it was none of the neighbors business
what she did with her property.
The weather-beaten shanty stands at
the edge of the Southern railway
track in Louisville, at what might be
called the beginning of the cabbage
patch, with the common stretching
away for two squares on each side.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
DREW LOTS FOR WIFE.
A Beautiful Social FavOrite Decides
Between Three Brothers.

Between Three Brothers.
The marriage of Miss Irene Depew
and Mr.. James William Mock, of
Rockville, N. c., is announced, and
a story comes from the home of the
bride that Mrs. Mock, who is we'll
known beauty and social favorite, de-
termined her choice of the brothers,
all of whom had been paying her mark
ed attention for number of years, by
chance. She allowed all three to
draw lots, and the Youngest Mock won.
The wedding that followed her de-
cision by this method was pronounced
to be the largest attended .and pref
test that had ever taken place in
Rockville.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-31
SHOES.

SHOES.
Ladies' dongola pat. tip lace
shoes, $3.50, sale price
07c
100 pairs ladies' shoes,
worth from $1.25 to $1.75,
63c
Mems shoes, worth from SO
to 81, sale price
81 %
1914 blankets, worth Is cents
to 81, sale price
47c
10-4 comforts, worth $1.25 to
$3.50, sale price
sc
Outing, worth &c, sale price
4I8c
Calicoes reduced to
&c
during the Clean Sweep sale.
Cotton checks, sale price
&c
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-28
BY MRS. NETTIE R. robson.

l have been asked to describe the
volcano as it looked to me. l herewith
submit the following:
l was one of the party of ten, which
left the Volcano House at five p. m,
December 18th, 1906, We followed a
narrow trail until We reached the lava
beds, which is three miles of barren
waste. Here we dismounted and left
mile to the volcano.
"As 1t looked to me-" 1t Is a great
round pit perhaps thousand feet deep
Down its dragged sides, are siftings of
powdered sulphur, like snow on the
mountains, so artistic, that no artist
would attempt to improve, for the
King of Artists drew that picture in
all Its beauty and in all its horror.
And as / stood on the rim of the
crater so vast and deep, the thought
came to me, If at some time, long ago.
that two flint rocks might have rolled
down the mountain side and come to-
gether with a force that caused the
spark which ignited the sulphur beds
far below, in that bottonless pit, which
is now a lake of fire. And as / gazed
down in that vast inferno of the I'M
known, l could see cities of fire with
their beautiful streets and lights Qar
more beautiful than any earthly lights
l nave ever seen, rolling landscapes of
trees and flowers. fountains of rocks
and sand, hundreds of feet high, which
fell kissing in the brine, and as / look
ed on that weird city of fire and heat
a shower of flame shot up far into
that Egyptian darkness like the tossing
torches of a million demons sent from
hell to conquer the world by blood.
on the other side of the crater, 1 see
Royal throne and on that throne
see His Majesty's chair nodded in per-
feet shape of pink sea shell, and by
1t side stands a demon with open
mouth. too terrible to describe. l stood
speechless, ana as raised my eyes
from that 'Hrithing scene below to
the calm and beautiful starlit sky. /
imagined saw two paths, one leading
to sure destruction the other to peace
full rest
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-28
BY WALTER G.. SMITH.

l have seen the volcano OF Kilauea
twice before, but each time the monster
was asleep; so when l made my third
visit the other day and found him very
much awake, the spectacle was new
ana fresh, People ask whether the
eruption is as fine as some previous
ones, but being only able to Judge of
the others by pictures of them, none
made at the same primary stage in the
development OF the lava flow as that
WHICH l had the privilege of viewing
one week ago to-day, l do not think |
can give satisfactory answer. But
let me say in summing up what was
to be seen, that there is fire in the bot
tom of the crater Of Kilauea and that
the display Is, to a novice, fascinating
by day and splendidly so by night.
The great eruptions of Kilauea usual
~ begin mildly, First is seen a glow
OF fire on the floor of the pit, say 500
or 1000 feet below the level of the en-
comprising outer crater, Halemau-
mau; then gradual filling OF the abyss
with mass of lava from which at
times Jets, or fountains and even gey-
sers OF fire leap fifty feet In air; final
~ the crater full t. the brim. a bub-
ping, red pond, spectacular to the last
degree, whether in pyrotechnical throes
or not.
The painters of Kilauea usually
choose this final period of activity in
which 10 get inspiration for their can
vases and that is why tourists, who
30 there AT other times, think they
have not had all that is coming to them. |
They want Peles clock to be striking
twelve at all hours. 1t is not enough
mat the spectacle is absorbing at any
umei the tourist wants Pele to throw
fits.
Before went from hotel to pit the
other day, I saw a red signal There
was great cry after sunset, THE Vol
cano' The Volcano!" and all the COM
fort-seeking loungers beside the crack
ing wood fires at the Volcano House
ran out TO see the show. Away OF
over the black plain OF Halemaumau.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-12-28

AS watched the lava squirt and flow,
was awed by the werdness of 1t all.
and I thought of that Shakespearean
play and the three witches that heat
ed the cauldron to boiling over, while
they danced around 1t chuckling and
gloating over the vengeance that must
surely come.
Outside the pit in all directions the
grounds are pouring forth hot steam
and smoke. The sulphur beds are al
most suffocatlng from the fumes that
constantly rise from them, and the
hand held six inches above the escape
of steam would be burned to blister
in n seconds time.
Out in the crater I burned many
postal cards in the heat that pours
from the cracks in the lava. A card
held In the cracks four inches below
the surface will be well scorched in
half minute. and in one minutes time
1t would be burned to a flake.
One of the old pits in the crater emits
heat as II from furnace. There each
night visitors make coffee and dry
drenched clothing. Yet one may walk
in perfect comfort and safety above
llOse SuDttTTdHedl lITeS, anu Wow ia
wonder the splendor of 1t all.
Fearlessly l stood on the brink of the
pit and sent the power of my lungs
across that turbulent chasm, In an
instant the perpendicular cliffs n half
mile away took up my voice and sent
the echo back. Again and again I
shouted to hear the waves Of my voice
Iloat back across the pit.
AS I retraced my steps over those
miles of lava waste, where once burned
fires as fercely as those now raging
n Halemaumau, / was struck by the
oueness of the sky and the brightness
If the sun.
How majestic! How sublime! are
he infinite laws that control the uni
,erSe