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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
ROMANCE ENDS HAPPILY.
Came From Old Country to Wed Long
Time Sweetheart.

BALTIMORE, July 1s.-A romance which
Germany, was brought to a happy climax
when Miss Martha Stricken of Cassell, Ger
many, and Henry Stuck of Gilbricnt Iowa,
were married by Rev. Otto Apitz.
Before he Gained his bride Stuck, who
is a husky young German, had a rough
road to travel. and got into all sorts OF
trouble with the officers OF the steamship
Main Sunday afternoon, when he arrived in
this city from the west to claim his tiance.
Stueck In his search for his bride-to-be SO
exasperated the officers of the steamship
that they finally ordered him from the ship.
been sent to the detention house he was
more than angry. However, he laier found
her, and then was married by Rev. Mr..
Apitz, as soon the necessary document
could be obtained.
Both had bean sWeethearts in the o.d
country. and as the match did not meet
favor in the eyes of the parents of Stuck
he decided to shift for himself. and came
to this country about five years ago and
located in the west. He soon drifted into
Gilbricht, and after saving his earnings for
several years purchased a small farm.
Prosperity again favored him, and he
finally accumulated enough money to send
for his sweetheart of former years.
AS soon as the young woman arrived
Commissioner Weis notified Stueck that she
was here. The young German lost no time
in coming east, and arrived Sunday morn
ing.
Immediately after the wedding tie young
couple went to Camden station and took
the first train for the west where they Will
~esGe on the farm purchased by Stuck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS,
Resolutions Adopted by Tammany
Hall Democrats

Cons derable comment has been occa.
stoned among democrats by the action OF
Tammany Hall at a monster meeting in
New York Tuesday night adopting reso!u
tions which propose radical reforms in the
governmental and state control of public
service corporations. The resolutions were
prepared by Bourke Cochran and covered
about coo words. Their essential features
these:
That the President Of the United States
should be a member of the board of d..
rectors of every corporation engaged in in
terstate commerce. with privilege TO name
a substitute to attend meetings.
That the governor of the state should be
a member oe state public service corpora
ton boards, and in communities the chief
executive officer should be en- local public
service corporation boards.
That the employees OF interstate com
merce and public service corpora lions
should have representatives on the direc-
torates.
These radical suggestions, 1t is thought
VIII be urged by Tammdny IN state and ma
tional conventions from now on They VIII
be offered, some democrats think. as sub
stitutes for the Bryan plans of government
ownership and initiative and referendum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
WROTE OF DEATH FEELINGS.
Invalid Mother Kills Herself With Gas
in New York

NEW YORK, July 1s-"Dear Ernest:
Forgive me. I feel that I never can get
well again, end our beautiful Marie would
be alone in the world without a mother. 1
am awfuly nervous at this moment when
we are SO near death Farewell and a
thousand thanks for all the good you have
done for me. l am looking at Marion, and
her expression is awful. Keep the flowers
for yourself. You will never know how
suffered. Farewell, again. HELMY."
AS the palior of death spread over the
face of her ten-year-old daughter Marion
by her SIDE Mrs. Henrietta Reuter- thus
wrote Of the effect of the gas which she
had turned on in her room on the second
floor of 400 East ODD street. AS the deadly
fumes slowly conquered her consciousness
the pen dropped from her hand, and soon
mother and daughter were dead.
Besides the foregoing lines, there were
many which were not readable. Sentences
started legihly would become a mere scrawl
after a word. The last dozen lines of the
note were nothing but wavy lines. A big
blot and splutter marked where conscious
ness failed.
Mrs. Reuter- was dead, but the daughter
was still warm when help arrived. The
wife lay stretched the floor
overturned chair, having arisen from the
bed in which she had been lying. The
daughter was in bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
American Interests Unaffected.
Two-cENT RATE FOR KANSAS.
State Railway Board Will Make Order
to Put It Into Effect.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 1S-Kansas is to
have a fiat two-cent passenger fare soon.
If the railroads will not put in this rate
voluntarily the state board of railroad
commissioners will make an order to have
it put int effect. The following letter has
been sent TO the legal departments of
five roads: LAS you are aware, the rail-
roads operating in the states of Nebraska,
Missouri and Arkansas have in effect two
cent passenger fare rates. The fact that
this law is in effect in neighborng states,
and the fact that conditions in these states
from a passenger traffic standpoint are
very similar to those existing in Kansas,
is creating general demand for the es-
Establishment of a two-cent maximum fare
in this state. The purpose of this letter
is to urge upon your company the impor-
lance of consideration of the establish
mcnt of an emergency maximum two-cent
passenger rate in Kansas, so that Kansas
may be placed upon an equal footing with
the surrounding territory.
The action on the part of your COM
pany will avoid the possibility Of order
of the board establishing such rate and
the attendant litigation in the courts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
THREE DROWNED IN FLOOD.
Bridge and Buildings Washed Away
in West Virginia.

GRAFTON, w. Va, July 1S-ProSably
the wors; food that ever visited the towns
and country districts for forty miles to the
cas- Of this city, and particularly the
towns along the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, occurred yesterday, due to a cloud
burst that broke early in the day. Tracks
have been washed out, bridges and build
ings washed away and much damage has
bee n done to stock and crops
Three persons were drowned, and there
were a number of mira culous escapes from
serious injury.
Newhu1g. thirteen miles east of here, is
probably the wolsts sufferer. The property
loss there will be nearly $4,000 The storm
raised the waters of. Raccoon creek far out
Of its banks. Nearly al the residences and
stores in the town ware iil,ed with water,
and in the Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse
there was four feet Of water Five hun
dred people are kept from their homes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
is the heaviest loser at Newburg. The
tracks are washed out all along the line at
that point, and although large gang of
men ana twenty-five carloads of material
were sent to make repairs. not until last
night were the tracks open sufficiently to
enable trains to pass. 1t Is said that 800
carloads of material will be required to fill
in the washout of the tracks at that point
alone.
Washouts of similar nature are report
ed from Irontown, West End. Tunnelton,
Rowlesburg and almost every point east
ward to Terra Alta, forty miles from here.
Two and half miles of track of the re-
Gently made extension OF the Morgantown
and Kingwood railroad, from kingwood to
Rowlesburg, are reported to have been
washed away at the kingwood end of the
line Several small bridges were washed
out in the vicinity of kingwood, and the
farmers of that section report heavy dam
age to crops and stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18

Central of Georgia and the Southern rail-
way have made returns the valuation
of their tangible property within the state.
the former at less than one-half the amount
which the company officials declared on
oath in a judicial hearing was its value,
and the latter at one-th!rd such amount.
He urged that the taxation should be on
such valuation as these or other corpora
tons are allowed to maintain in a count of
law.
The southern railway. he declares, is re-
sisting a valuation of $2i.00o0o0 on its
property in Georgia when an officer of
the road at recent hearing in the fed
feral courts, swore that the properly IS
worth not less than $4S 100000. The South
ern returned the property for taxation at
S14, SS4 1913 in 1907
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TO SUE OVER THEATER DEAL.
Laura Biggar Claims Interest in Mil
lion and Quarter Deal

PiTTSBTRG. Pa, July 1S.-Klaw & En-
hangers s125a9no theatrical deal in this
city VIII meet some opposition, according
to an announcement made on behalf of
Laura Biggar, the former actress, who is
now resident of this city. According to
this statement, Mrs. Biggar is preparing
a suit asking common peas court No to
set aside the deed to the Bijou Theater on
the ground that P. J. McNulty and r. NJ
GUlick, of whom the property is alleged
to have been purchased, had not conpli d
with the terms of a mortgage.
DR. c. c Hendricks her physician, who
came here from the east some time ago,
and who is also attorney, is acting for
W. J. Biggar, Laura Biggar's minor SON.
his next friend. Mrs Bfggar inherited
an interest in the Bijou property from the
late Henry ]. Bennett, and McNulty and
Quick bought her interest in the estate
some time ago.-giving, it is said, a mort
gage on the Bijou building as part pay
ment. DR.. Hendricks said yesterday that it
is intended to name klaw & Erlanger as de-
PENDANTS in the suit If 1t be found that
they have bought the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
PHONE STARTED DIVORCE.
Wife Heard Husband Make Engage
ment With a Woman Over Wire.

BALTIMORE, July 1S.-A little Sherlock
Holmes strategy on her part supported by
a bit of "shadowing'' supplied by detec
tive, caused Mary o. Yard 1910 ST. Paul
street, to charge her husband Theodore
H. Yard, with infidelity. on which Judge
Harlan signed an order in circuit court
No. yesterday granting her an absolute
divorce Mrs Yard was married September
90 1906 at the home Of her mother, Mrs
Sarah L. Wibon. in this city. The cere-
mony was performed by the rector of one
of the most exclusively fashionable
churches in Baltimore. and was an event
In the life of the younger set of the North
End.
Mrs Yard. who will be twenty-five years
old in October next, stated that they set
tied down in apartments at the Walbert
where they lived very happily until shortly
prior to April 90 last. when she discovered
that her husband of less than six months
was untrue to her. The discovery was made
In this wise.
Mrs. Yard stated that she heard her hus-
band making an engagement over the
phone She said she CHANGED to be in the
office of the Walbert on March % last, and
happening to notice the telephone switch
board. she saw that some one was 'phoning
from her apartment. her number on the
switchboard having dropped. Mrs. Yard
said she thought perhaps her maid was u.s.
ing the phone. and went quietly upstairs
phone she found her husband. She said
she heard him make an engagement with a
woman, telling her that he would be there
at such time on the following day, and
then rang Off
Her curiosity being reused to a high
pitch, the following day Mrs. Yard called
up central and had the chief operator tell
her the number that had been called by her
husband.
Not long after that, Mrs. Yard testified
she was in the bathroom of their apart
ment. and her husband, unaware Of her
presence. came in and called up the same
number and made another engagement
with the same woman
Mrs. Yard then confronted her husband
with the evidence of his duplicity, and,
she stated. he replied that he had kept the
engagement and that he had one for the
next day.
A detective was then called into the case
and detailed to shadow young Yard, which
he did The result of the detectives re-
port was a suit for an absolute divorce. in
stituted April p last by Mrs Yard through
her attorney. George NJ. Upshur. In the
meantime she returned to her mother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
YAMAMoTO IN CANADA.
Tells Canadians Visit Helped Dispel
Talk of War

OTTAWA, Ont July 1s.-"I have been
pleased more than 1 can say at the manner
of my reception in the United States. The
cordially with which 1 was everywhere
treated showed clearly that If there ever
had been any prejudice there against Japan
and the japanese it has been disspated
There never has been any truth in the re-
ports Of hostile feelings between the two
peoples, and l am very happy to think
that l have been in way instrumental
in helping to remove the false impressions
which unfortunately prevailed on the sub
ject."
This is what Admiral Yamamoto said at
Montreal Tuesday. He left that night by
special c. p. R. train for Seattle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
RAILROADS,
glyyI IEIEIRN RAILWAY,

" B.-Folowinr schedule figures published only
infurWa ton. and are not GUARANTEED.
200 m.-Iauvillc nj way stations
500 -liarTisouDurG and way stations.
900 s-ui.-SlvcIerS aud coaches to Atlanta and
New Orleans. Dining
I'll 90 a.m.-Scc. ers an! coaches TO Columbia,
Savannah AMI Jacksonville. Dining
ti-ul -HaulSoatUrg and way stations.
- - y Characteristics, Wafrunton and way
stations, StrastasG week days.
90! r-m.-Slcepers and COACHES to Atlanta and
Colr"llTS Ga. Sunset Route Tourist sleeper TO
sar lr"n,i>co trivcckly.
$40 pm Sl"cr'rs and 60. ches 70 Charlotte.
COLUMBIA and Augusta. Dining ear.
Il" 10 pm Slcrpers aud coaches via I.ynchburs
aud Er!si"!l to Chattanooga. Me.nlhls and New
Orleans. H!uir. ear.
~ 90 :.r'.-New lo:k aud New Orleans Ltd
SOLID l'uilEau 10 AshcFille. Atlanta, birmingham
aid New Orleans. Club and o. seryation ca $
Dining
Nptc.--bsily Week days.
llf"UEa ir- ms from the south arrive Washington
80. So and ";n5 am. go. 30 : i5 ii 30
and II ~ ~. daily. Local trains from Harrison
ttrg, II - I'm. week days a.d J:2o pm daily:
i:o!L tharlpttcSviile daily. aud Strasburg week
days 5 - = IN.
frequent trains to and frcm Rlucmcnt.
ilcL,t o.hCes: su,. 18th st. 81 Pa ave. and
ICuusy ], au5a station
o,HACk Ei:i WAC S.H.HARDWiCK. p T NJ
W II lA1lpE. GA. l.. =, BROWN A
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Train Delayed by Woman's Torn Dress

PADUCAH, KY. July 1S.-Supt. w
J. Ellis of the Nashville. Chattanooga
and St. Louis railroad office here, thinks he
has on file the oldest excuse ever made for
the lateness of a train. II was filed receptlv
by the conductor Of a train from the soutb
and reads:
Delayed five minutes for a fat woma,
to dress
The conductor explains that the portly
woman in question, who boarded the train
at Benton, was prancing up and down the
aisle, and when the car gave a lurch her
dress caught in scat. There was @ rim
ping sound and Shrek from the woman
in summer attire.
Men passengers fed to the smoking car
The train, which had arrived at the stout
woman's station, had to be held while her
garment Yves pinned together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
JAPANESE CONTROL OF KOREA
END OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE
HERMIT KINGDOM.
Event Indicated by the Withdrawal of
Its Representatives From Wash
ington-Recent Acts.

When the Japanese government last year
took over the direction of the foreign re-
lations of korea official notice of that fact
to the American government was followed
by the immediate withdrawal from this city
of the Korean legation. The occasion was
rather pathetic when the retiring charge
called en- Secretary Root at the State De-
partment and notified him that he had
been directed to turn over the conduct of
the business of his legation to the Japa-
nese embassy here. 1t was realized then
that this was probably the beginning of the
end of Korean independence, and that the
control of Japan of the foreign relations Of
Korea would in the not distant future
broaden into complete domination of the
Hermit kingdom. With the closing of that
Koreans OF the official class in Washing
ton. The japanese embassy here is not
very well informed to what is taking
place at home in relation 10 Korea so that
altogether there is lack of official infor-
nation as to recent developments.
Pressure From Japan.
The understanding here is that the
Korean premier in demanding the abdca-
ton Of the emperor was, of course. acting
under pressure from Japan, and that Japan
in turn TO and legal warrant for such action
IN the fact that through the dispatch OF
the Korean delegation to The Hague con-
ference the Emperor of Korea had violated
that part of the agreement entered into by
his ministers under which Japan was to alb
solutely control the external relations Of
Korea.
The ominous silence of Marquis Ito the
japanese resident in Korea, when the en-
peror's intimates sought to learn how ia
pan regarded the appearance of the Korean
de'gation to The Hague, had in a measure
prepared the officials here for a coup of
some kind. opinion in which they were
confirmed by two significant acts-the perl
mission by Japan to the Korean pretender
to return to Seoul, from which he had
been exiied. and the announcement of the
approa ching visit to that capital of Wis
count Hayashi, the japanese minister Of
foreign affairs.
American Interests Unaffected.
1t is not seen here how American interests
can be adversely affected by what has
taken place in Korea for although GER
tain Americans are in possession Of con-
cessions for railway and mining exploita-
tons in that country, 1t is, of course, as
sumed that Japan will faithfully regard
such obligations in the event that she
comes into control of the country. Ii is
true that by treaty the United States at
one time undertook to guarantee the integ
rity of Korea, but in recent years it has
been held that the developments in the east
have absolved this government from that
obligation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
Black PATHS Husband Shot

NORFOLK, Va. July 1S-Richard Jones
negro. claiming to be the husband of
Ssseretta Jones, the noted negro soprano
known as "rlack Patti" was probably ia
tally shot at Portsmouth, Va, yesterday by
two unidentified negroes. who made their
escape and have not been caught.
Jones said he went to Portsmouth with
the two men from Norfolk, and that when
they attacked him for unknown reasons he
ran and was then shot. He asked that in
the event of his death Hon. Charles An
derson. collector of internal revenue for
the port of New York" be notified, and
the latter. Jones said. would take charge of
his body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
pope Condemns the Modernists.

ROME, July 1S.-The first move OF the
Vatican against the ultra-liberal Catholic
campaign, in which, among others a secret
international league is said to be engaged,
has taken the form of decree promul-
gated by the pope tonight specifically con-
demnng sixty-five statements taken from
the writings of leading Catholic modernist
writers. whose names, however, are not
given. Among the statements condemned
is one approving total disregard Of the
prohibition of the Index Expurgatorius and
Of other Roman Catholic congregations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
Cannon Used to Quell Fire.

LIMA, Ohio, July 1s.-In a terrific cleo
trical storm which swept Alien county at
noon Tuesday lightning fired one of the
huge tanks of the Standard Oil Company
A quarter of a million barrels OF petroleum
were ignited and the city was at once en-
valoped In clouds of darkness, almist sti-
fling Cannon were brought into use to
prevent a spread of the flames. to other
tanks near by there being millions of bar
res of crude oil in the Immediate vicinity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
HoKE SMITH AFTER RAILROADS.
Says Central of Georgia and Southern
Are Undertaking Property.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 1S-Gov. Hoke
Smith, in a special message to the legisla-
ture yesterday, asks an enactment to fix
the value Of corporate property within the
state as a basis for taxation. He calls
attention to the fact that when the valu-
alton returned by q taxpayer is not ac-
ceptabie to the controller, a plan of arbi-
tration is provided, but the arbitrators
under the present law. are not sworn and
have not thu power to administer the
cath to witnesses
He calls attention to the fact that the
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CHARTRAN NO MORE.
Great French Portrait Painter Dies in
Paris

BALTIMORE, July 1S.-A cablegram
reports that Theobald Chartran, the
famous French portrait painter, who was
in Baltimore at the time Of the great fire
in February. 1904. and painted portrait
OF Cardinal Gibbons, died Tuesday night in
Paris after a long illness.
From the roof OF the Hotel Belvedere
Chartran made several sketches of the
great coafiagration in Baltimore while the
FIRE was at its height His portrait of
Cardinal Gibbons is considered by many
to be the best ever painted Of the dis
tinguished prelate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-18
SENSATIONAL DIVORCE.
Startling Charges Made by De Remers
at Denver

DENVER, Col, July 1S.-Denver society
is extremely alarmed over divorce court de-
velopments in the extraordinary matrimo-
NAL difficulties of Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie De
Remer and efforts are being made by pow
erful people to persuade the Parry family
on the wife's side and the De Remer fam
lily on the husbands side to agree to a COM
promise. Many young society girls are
with Mrs. Hazel Parry De Remer at va
rious places.
The story of the entanglements reads like
novel by Guy de Maupassant or Emil
Ga boriau. 1t had its beginning IN a chance
meeting of schoolboy and girl at a dance at
which the young couple became greatly
enamored of each other. This was fol-
lowed by a forced marriage last January,
the bride being but nineteen and the groom
twenty-one; then followed the alleged dis
covery by the husband of the drifting into
fast habits by the wife: the employment
by the husbands mother of a woman de-
tectve to shadow her daughter-in-law; al
legged discoveries by the sleuth of improper
acquaintance made by the bride; charges
by the latter's father that his daughter is
the victim of plot, and that the detective
was hired for the express purpose of running
the girl that the young man could get a
divorce; the separation of the couple a few
days ago and the drawing up of two COM
plants in divorce.
Mixed In the case are the names Of WI
fred Walker. son of a well-known literary
man, John Brsben Walker; a scion of an
other wealthy New Yorker by the name of
Best; I. C. Cockey and Harry Schley, also
members OF prominent New York families
Young De Remers father died last year.
leaving his son heir to about so5o.oo
Mrs. De Remer and her son, Leslie, say
that the latter forced into the mar
riage with Hazel Parry. The elder Mrs.
De Rener states that the first time she
visited the home of Mrs. Parry was when
she sent for TO hear the story of the
devotion that existed between the young
couple.
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BARRIERS Dismissed by Grand jury.

BALTIMORE, July 1S.-The grand jury
yesterday dismissed all the BARRIERS who
were arrested last Sunday on the charge
of working on Sunday. The arrests were
the result of their places being raided by
the police. Those arrested were charged
with shaving faces and cutting hair on
Sunday.
The action of the grand jury was the
subject Of much favorable comment about
the court house. The general opinion ex-
pressed was that law prohibiting a per-
son from securing a shave or a bath on
Sunday is too fogy to be tolerated
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

WASHINGTON & POTOMAC STEAMBOAT co.
tkaudall i.ine)
STEAMERS FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.
Str. Harry Randall. Monday and Wednesday at
pm. and Saturday, am, for river landings
10 W!conico river and Nouini creek landings.
Lower MachOdoc creek Monday and "Wednesday only
Returning. steamer arrives in Washington Wednes-
day aud Friday mornings and Sunday afternoons.
Steamer Wakefield, Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs
day at am, for river landings including Port
Tobacco creek and Maddox creek. Returning ar
day afternoons
Steamer FOR Glymont. Grinders and intermediate
iyl6-f