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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Only a Year in Jail for Attack on Girl

NEW YORK, June 29.-The citizens of
Bloomfield and Chelsea, S. l., were aroused
yesterday over the attack made upon Elsie
Merrell, fourteen years old, of Bloomfield,
by George Prall of Chelsea. AS soon as the
story of the attempted assault became
known the entire population Of both towns
turned out in search of Prall. Fortunately
for the fugitive he fell into the hands of
the police while the towns people were still
looking for him. He was hailed before Mag
istrate Flemming and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
The Merrell girl left her home shortly
after 10 o'clock yesterday to go to Chelsea.
AS she was passing lonesome part of the
Chelsea road Prall jumped out from be-
hind a clump of bushes and seized the
handle bars of her bicycle, pulling her
from her seat. Prall tried to drag her into
the dense woods beside the road. She
fought desperately and her screams
brought assistance. Prall released her and
ran into the woods. 1t not long before
both towns heard of the attack. Posses
were Immediately formed and search of
the woods begun. 1t was several hours
before he was captured by the police Of
the West Brighton station.
The sentence imposed upon Prall is gen.
orally considered insufficient.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
LAW CUTS BOTH WAYS.
Jim Crow Statute Hits Whites as Well
as Blacks.

RICHMOND. Va. June ga decision Of
Importance to cities of the state where cleo
trio cars are operated was rendered yester-
day by Justice Crutchfield in the police
ccuIt when he imposed a fine of $40 upon
James r. Gordon, president of the cham
Der OF commerce. who refused to change
his seat on a street car when Conductor
Powell requested him to do So
Mr.. Gordon was sitting on the third seat
from the rear, smoking. The seat was
empty except for himself The two rear
seats were filled with negroes. Mr.. Gordon
told the conductor he would move to the
rear IL room were made for him. The con-
Guctor declined to move the negroes, or any
Of Them. to make room for Mr.. Gordon and
finally put him under arrest.
Mr.. Gordon has appealed the case to the
hustings court, and in the event Of an ad-
verse decision there 1t is not at all unlikely
that he will carry the case to the supreme
corr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Master Named in Eddy Case.

CONCORD. n. H., June 29.-Judge Edgar
Aldrich of Littleton was appointed master
to determine the competency OF Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy by Judge Robert N. Cham
berlain of the supreme court late yesterday
The muse. is named in connection with
the suit brought by Mrs. Eddy's son, George
w. Glover. of Lead. s. D., and others as
"Eext friends" for an accounting of Mrs.
Eddys property. Judge Edgar Aldrich is
Judge of the United States court for the
district { New Hampshire He is at pres
ent at his home at Littleton, having just
returned from a trip to Ann Arpor, Mich,
where he was given the degree of doctor
of laws by the University of Michigan, OF
which h. is a graduate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
New Kind of Carnegie Gift.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 29-County
Commissioner Hahn Of Cambria county yes
terday received letter from Andrew Car
negie presenting a tract of land near Cres-
son, Pa, valued at $4,000, to the county
fo- the purpose Of erecting an insane asy-
lum. The county commissioners had writ
ten to Mr.. Carnegie asking what price he
would take for the property. Mr.. Carnegie
replied as follows:
Thinking of the many happy days have
spent in Cambria county around Cresson,
it would give me great pleasure to present
the property desired to the county of Cam
nr.a" :, I,
All tire coal and mineral rights are In
cluded IL the gift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Button Saves a Bows Life.

MERIDEN. Conn. June pa button
which his tidy mother had just sewed on
his trousers yesterday saved the life of
twelve-year-old Harry Marvin. son of for
mer State Representative Charles R. Mar
vim of Deep River, when he was shot with
a revolver by Richard Johnson, his chum.
The boys, who were playing wild West"
knew the pistol contained ball cartridges
and intended to fire it in the air. The bull
let drove the button against young Mar
wins abdomen and thus spent it's force and
dropped with pieces of shattered button
from a small wound. which physicians say
Is not serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
TWO GIRLS LOSE THEIR LIVES.
Drowned in Early Morning at Bay
Shore Park Near Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. June 29.-Two girls en-
pioyed as Mattresses in the restaurant at
Bay Shore Park were drowned shortly after
l o'clock yesterday morning while bathing
In the Chesapeake bay, about 200 feet from
the end of the 1,OcO-foot pier at the resort
The bodies were recovered. The girls were
Miss Alice Brandau, aged eighteen years,
1885 Asquith street. and Miss Louise P
kumlehn. aged twenty years, 1885 East
Fayette street.
The girls had been employed at the resort
since the opening of the season. and after
the closing of the restaurant Thursday
night a party of five. Of which the girls
were members, decided to take dip in the
bay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Maryland Pharmacists Elect Officers

BALTIMORE. June 29.-The third and
last session of the annual convention of
the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association
was held yesterday morning on board the
steamer Atlanta. on the return trip from
the jamestown exposition. The election of
officers resulted as follows: President, Owen
c. Smith, Baltimore; first vice president, ].
X. Farron. Baltimore; second vice presi-
dent. w. c. Carson. Port Deposit; third
vice president; J; u; stadelmeyer, Hancock;
secretary. E. F. Kelly, Baltimore; treasurer.
]. ". Westcott. Baltimore: executive COM
mittee. Messrs. w. ]. Lowey, R. E. Lee
Williamson and Guy c. Wisotski.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Anniversary of Battle of Monmouth.

NEW YORK, June 20.-Yesterday was
the anniversary of the battle of Monmouth.
and the Colonial Chapter of the D. A. X.
acted as hostesses for the celebration at
Valley Forge. 1t was the last meeting
for the season, and besides the Colonial
Chapter all the other branches of the So
ciety had been invited.
Luncheon was served at the Washington
Inn at 1 o'clock Then came a short serv-
ice in the Washington Memorial Church.
Later a meeting was held in the old log
hut which formed part of the original
shelters Of tire colonial army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Virginian Kills His Mother.

ROANOKE. Va, June 2o-Char!es Per-
due, the sixteen-year- son of Mrs. Mag
gle Pers'ue. at Glenlyn, Mercer county, w.
Va, hal prepared for hunting trip yes
terday afternoon and started to leave the
house with a gun loaded with squirrel shot.
carrying the weapon across his shoulder
His omther called to him and as he started
to turn around the weapon was discharged,
the entire load finding Judgment in Mrs
Perdues right Size. Death was instanta-
neOuS.
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KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING.
Carriage Load of People Struck by Elk.
press Train

DANBURY, Conn. June 29-Mrs A.
Cooke Seeley was killed. while two of her
companions. Mrs George Decker and How
ard s. Hoyt were badly injured when the
Pittsfeld express struck their carriage as
1t was crossing the tracks OF the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
at Greenwood avenue. Bethel, last night
Mrs. Seeley was about sixty years old,
wife of a former postmaster of Danbury
and a member of a prominent family. Mr..
Hoyt Is a wealthy retired business man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Suffolk Woman Killed by Train.

SUFFOLK, Va, June 20.-Miss Mildred
Norfieet met death Thursday night in a
very unfortunate manner She had been
out shopping. and while on her return home
she was crossing the Norfolk and Western
railroad. She was struck by the fast pas
senger train which is due here at s O'Clock.
When she was picked up by friends life
was extinct. Her thighs were broken and
her skull was crushed. Her body was
found about thirty feet from the track. At
the time she was killed she was accom-
panied by her brother, who warned her
not to try to cross the track. Miss Nor
feet was sixty years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
News of Kensington, Nd.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
KENSINGTON. Md, June %. 1907
Miss Eckhardt had as her guests last
Wednesday evening Miss Irene sherwood
Miss Ruth Kontz, Miss Mary Kugler, Miss
Helen Hunt, Miss Edith Carter. Mr.. Ralph
sherwood Mr.. Dohn. Mr.. Bernard Isher-
wood, all of Washington Grove. Nd, and
Mr. Leroy Paddock of Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall b. Cushman and
daughter Bessie will spend the summer at
the home of Mrs. r l. King.
Miss Annie Gayly and Miss Anna Wilson
have gone for an extended trip through
Europe, to be away all summer.
Miss Annie r. Murray and Mr. Garry
Tucker of Washington were the recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. James VI. Proctor
of Baltimore street.
Mrs. Don Carr has as her guests Mrs.
George NJ. BeltZhoover, Miss Katherine
Beltzhoover and Miss Nellie N. Eutter, all
of Shepherdstown, w. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29

The chief feature in yesterdays session
OF the commission investigating the case of
Sheriff Shipp, at Chattanooga, was the an
nouncement that his case and that of all
the other defendants was closed. Two
witnesses were introduced to impeach the
character of Ellen Baker, the alleged moon
sinner, who had sworn that a jailer told
her the day that Johnson was lynched that
there was danger of a mob.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29

A number of farmers in Talbot county,
Nd, began cutting wheat Thursday, but
harvesting will not be at it's height until
about the first of next week. So far the
wheat that has been cut is showing up
we'll and the yield throughout the county
will be much larger than was at first ex-
pected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
Contractor Killed bv Rlast

ROANOKE Va, June 23.-Maurice Foley.
a well-known railroad contractor of this
city, was killed by a blast near WEIGH, w.
Va, Thursday. He was forty-five years
old and leaves a widow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29

J. F. Kreger, son of william Kreger, was
killed by train at Confluence, Md. He
had just purchased new suit and was at
the station waiting for a passenger train.
A freight happened along and he thought
he would board 1t. He fell under the
wheels and was ground to shreds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29

OMAHA, Neb.. June 29.-The Martin
flats, a large apartment house. caught
fire early today. All the occupants were
rescued.
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as well as the spiritual good of his parish
toner's; he was their confidante and ad-
wiser in financial, commercial. social and
domestic affairs and was very often
dictator.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-07-25
Hosiery Department.

Gents Furnishings.
This department especially we call
your attention to. All our Spring and
Summer purchases at Greatly Reduced
Prices.
All mems straw hats at Half Prre
~. mems 50c Underwear o9c
Mel Working Shirts Goc and u.s. values, 39c
Aud al goods in this department reduced accordingly
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-23
OBITUARY..
WILLIAM HiRsT.
Was an Iowan for Fifty-six Years.
Subscriber of the Courier

Was an loWan for Fifty-six Years
| Subscriber of the Courier
| for Half Century.
In the death of William Hirst. which
occurred recently, Wapello county lost
one of ner most respected and loyal
pioneers Mr.. Hirst had been a resi-
dent of the county for fifty-six years
and was widely known for his honesty
and integrity.
Mr. Hirst was a republican in poll
tics, although his first vote was cast
for Franklin Pierce. He had served
on the school board of his district for
great many years. He was also one
of the Oldest subscribers of the Cour-
Ter, subscribing in 1851, the year he
moved to Wapello county and has been
on the list from That time until his
death.
Mr.. Hirst was a native of Yorkshire,
England, where he was born Sept 10,
1919, the son OF Thomas and Phoebe
Hirst. He came to America in 1S47,
settling in Steubenvilie. O., where he
spent three years, coming to Iowa in
1850, first locating in Burlington. He
removed to Wapello county in 1851,
and after a short residence at Eddy
vile settled on farm in Richland
township, which he occupied until 1892
since which time he had been a resi-
dent of Kirkville.
Mr. Hirst was first married to Eliza
Kershaw, who died in 1851, leaving six
children, Sarah A., Thomas, James,
Martha, John and Lincoln. His Sec
ond marriage was to Elizabeth McNair
Marshall, native of Ohio, who sur
wives him. One child was born to
them, Rose, now the wife of David
Wittenmyer. With the exception OF
Thomas, who died one year ago, the
children are all living. Sarah, now
Mrs. Hayes. lives in Lamar, Colo;
James and John are residents of OF
tumwa, Lincoln is located at Hite-
man, Martha, wife of Thomas Kirkpat-
rick, at Kirkville, and Rose and her
husband occupy farm near the old
homestead Mr.. Hirst's stepdaughters
by his second marriage were Eta and
Lou Marshall, the former now the wife
of l. N. Strawn of Hopkins, Mo-, and
the latter the wife of w. G. Waters of
Des Moines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-23
Mrs. CHADWICK ENJOYS MANY
PRIVILEGES NOT PERMITTED
OTHER coNvIcTs
LIVES LIKE EPICURE
Woman Of Frenzied Finance Fame
Holds AIoof From Gaze of Visitors
Allowed to Have Meals Brought to
Her.

Columbus, April 20.-Though fifty
years Of age and in period of her
career when most other women ac-
customed to lives Of luxury are ready
to retire from activity in social or
business walks Cassie Chadwick, of
Cleveland and New York, celebrated
as the witch of finance, goes on day
after day in the barred workshops
OF the United States federal prison,
operating a sewing machine, which
Tor tile next ten years will serve as
her punishment in paving her debt to
the United States for a series of
crimes unparalleled in the banking
annals of the country.
Mrs. Chadwick, who was received at
! the Columbus institution January IL,
| 1906 to servo ten years has already
assumed the peculiar pail which marks
the face of all prisoners. But the keen
] eye Of the shrewd woman is still there
to materially brighten her careworn
worn face In a measure Cassie is
hardened to her present surroundings,
having passed five-year term in the
same institution during the early nine
ties for crooked flnanciering in North
ern Ohio. In those days she was
AhAAoW ~ 10 AaAoNcAAiG DSNCIC, WHICH dIlds5
was brought into the testimony at the
trial resulting in her sentence to pris-
on again in 1906.
Cassie Prison Star.
| Though just an ordinary convict in
the female quarter Of the prison Cas-
sic shines alone in her element. HIM
dreds of visitors to Columbus daily
journey tc the penitentiary merely to
catcn glimpse of Cassie Chadwick.
And these same hundreds of the "cur-
ious once pass from the towering
gates with a positive assurance that
they have seen the woman whose
crimes startled the world in recent
years.
But the sfghtseers have in most in
stances been disappointed, for Mrs.
Chadwick is not ION exhibition" to the
morbid rnrong. Instead, she deity
slips her wrinkled face behind the
pages Of a newspaper and covers up
4 until the visitors have passed out Of
the shop, when abe resumes her daily
drudgery of sewing buttons and bands
on the neat gray clothing issued to the
male conyicts. Few If any of tho Or.
binary visitors at tne pen" have ever
seen Mrs. Chadwick
On Sundays, when all the inmates
are required to attend services in one
laf the chaDela. Mrs. Chadwick is the
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only favored one on the clock book
who is permitted to remain in her
cell. She was granted this courtesy
by Warden Gould Immediately litter
her reception at the prison. On ho!i-
days when the prisoners are liberated
within the immense courtyard of the
institution, or the more trusted ones
given the privilege of disporting on
the lawn surrounding the outer walls,
Cassie persists in sitting in her barri-
caded room.
Eagerly Reads Papers.
Newspapers are eagerly scanned by
the celebrated prisoner every evening"
when, between the hours of $50 and
$3.50, she is permitted to read or idle
the time in her cell or in exercising in
the main corridor with the sixty odd
other women crooks. On Sundays she
pores over the Chicago papers.
Suffers From Indigestion.
The ordinary boiled fare on which
the prisoners subsist has proven dis
tasteful to Cassie and chronic indiges-
ton from which she has suffered dur.
ing the last year, has kept the prison
physicians busy dispensing medicine
to the woman.
Shortly before the holidays Cassie
was seized with a serious attack of i'll
ness and the doctors, after a close di-
agnosis, PRONOUNCED the trouble to be
neuritis. Remedies were prescribed
and soon the suffering bankwrecks r
was on the road to recovery. This
same neuritis has since extended to
the nerves of Cassie's right eye, caus-
ing her intense pain.
Each evening at 5 o'clock carriage
driven by a livered coachman stops ut
the entrance of the female quarters
and the coachman delivers a basket Of
specially prepared viands from lead
ing Columbus grill room to the mat
ron who in turn conveys the food to
Cassie. This spread is always eaten
in the privacy of her cell. Porter
house steak smothered with onions or
mushrooms is one of the favorite dish
es called for by Cassie. Friends on
the outside pay for the delicacies.
Satisfied With Prison.
The announcement of United States
Prison Inspector Brewster recently,
while in Columbus, that Cassie would
be transferred to the Moundsvi1le, w.
Va. prison for the remainder of he~
sentence. greatly disturbed Mrs. Chad
wick, who declares she is contented
with the OHIO penitentiary. The ru1nor
that occasioned her keenest displeas-
ure was one said to have originated
in Washington to the effect that Cas-
sic could be lodged" at Moundsville
| for twenty-three cents a day, while
the Ohio authorities demand thirty
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-23

ders was wounded in the head by a
cash that caused the blood to flow
over his cheek. His clothing was Co
piously stained Romanoff, it was
found, too had received a thrust in
the leg, of which he made light, but
which was bleeding profusely. The
general ordered him below.
While the men were washing down
the decks, Hardy went into the pas
sage leading to the cabins. He wished
to reload his rifle, and possibly get a
little sleep. He wondered how the
Princess had Jared during these ter
rible moments of uproar and carnage
Her cabin door was open and he saw
her within, comforting her maid and
Smulders' Julia, both of whom were
in Mysteries The two girls, clasped
in each others arms, were lying on a
BERTH with blanket drawn over their
heads, sobbing and praying.
1--WE have driven them off Madame, y
announced Hardy. II think there is
no further cause of apprehension at
present" The Princess, leaning over
the girls, pulled the blanket from
their heads, and made them under
stand that the enemy had fled. They
sat up, disheveled, tear-stained, white
as ghosts, and, both being Catholics,
began to cross themselves and mutter
thanks to the Virgin. The Roman
ovna advanced to Hardy and offered
him her hand.
II had no fears of the result" she
said simply, with such heroes on
board" Her face was pale, but 1t
flushed and her eyes flashed as she
cried: "Oh, why am not man, that
might have helped you?"
you have helped us thousand
times more by giving us such cause
to fight for" replied Hardy earnest
ly.
you are good at making pretty
speeches to women" said sneering
voice behind him II must tell her
Highness of the effect which they
produced in Japan" rs
Hardy turned and beheld Boris Ro-
manoff towering in the passage be-
hind him.
But he is wounded, my brave Bor-
isl" cried the Princess, as Romanoff
entered the room, limping painfully.
AS the Princess sprang anxiously to
neF cousins size ana assisted MIN TO
couch, Hardy turned away and went
to his cabin.
She had not been able to understand
her cousins remark REFLECTED Hardy,
as he made it in English.
But the man is perfectly unprinci-
pled,' he soliloquized, "and will be
sure to prejudice her against me. But
what difference does it make? At
Stryetensk become storekeeper,
and she remains princess. And, no
doubt she admires this Romaneff; per.
haps she has enough of the savage in
her own nature to admire such acts
as the stabbing Of that wounded Chin
csc. And she will no doubt nurse
him. How did Romanoff manage TO
get wounded, anyway, and escape
scot-free? Am l to be logged by Ill
luck all my life?"
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HIGHLAND CENTER.

Highland Center:- Mrs. j. w.
Garner and granddaughter Gertrude
Kerns of Ottumwa, spent a part of last
week with Mrs. w. H. Grain. s.
Gretna Grain has gone to Washing
ton for a visit with her sister Mrs.
Harve knapp.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Stevens were IN
Ottumwa Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. win Stevens are visits
ing with friends and relatives.
Ered Sour shipped car load OF
cattle Sunday.
Mrs. G. Dennis is quie Ill.
Joe Grain went to Batavia Monday
on business.
c. H Payton is on the sick list.
Will Sylvester and Frank Utterbeck
unearthed den of young foxes, sons
Is or 16, Sunday on the Steve Buck
Dr. Lawson was called to Fremont
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Denny spent Sunday
at the William Denny home in Dahl.
lonega.
The four year old son of DR.. Law
sons got badly burned last Saturday
but is improving. II
y. ". McCOTUlcR anu Mr. ana MIS-.
Will Stevens spent Sunday at the
G. Holconb home In Hedrick.
DR.. Lawson went to Hedrick Tues
day.
A number Of the Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs are expecting to go on +ht
excursion to Oskaloosa next week. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Bane of Kirkville
spent Sunday at the Geo. Bane home.
The ]. B. g. will have an all day
meeting at Mrs. Mae Shoemaker'ay
today
M G. Bowlin is putting a new roof !
on his house in town.
Mrs Frank Utterbeck has been ON
the sick list. g
There will be regular preaching SER
vices at the M. q. church Sunday
morning at II o'clock.