The National tribune., 1909-08-12

johnson, IS said. snatched Helms
cane, snd -.ruck hifl on the head with
t bsLorS 80 AtlaA could be wrested
..o1n him. Mr.. 5ames and two Other
Congressman 1pst then interfered. and
prevented further bioodshed. II there
was any. and Mr.; johnson and the
by a side door
Gov. shallenberger is another big
man who was held up by thieves last
week. While coming across Iowa he
stopped at Marshalltown, and while
walking around the waiting room there
he got into crowd and was jostled
about for an instant He thought moth
ing much about the matter at the time.
but shortly after getting on the train
he found, to his sorrow, that he had
been robbed Of a wallet containing $3.50,
and when he got to Omaha he had to
borrow money to get Il ticket to Lin
coin.
Mrs George Law, a woman who let
herself be sued in a London court re-
Gently is setting foreigners wild with
her alleged beauty. Her beauty and
her clothes have been the talk of two
continents for number of years. Mrs.
Law was Miss Olga Smith, who near
ly 20 years ago married an old man.
She Immediately began 10 put on airs"
and employed a press agent, at salary
Of $500, to keep her name out of the
newspapers. Now that she is a widow
there is q suspicion that she employs
q press agent to keep her name in the
papers. Mrs Law was q guest of the
Roosevelts during q portion of the Win
ter of 1907, and attended two or three
of the state dinners and receptions. She
didn't impress this writer as being of a
brighter or more gracious or more styl-
ish manner than the average pretty girl
of Washington. She is tall or slender;
You would Immediately call her skinny.
She didn't have a particularly good
complexion, and what she did have was
lips and blackened eyebrows. OF
course, she could gown herself magnifi-
Gently, because she has the money to.
and she seems to revel in startling COM
binations and form-outlining princess
gowns. OF course, If London likes that
kind of beauty she can have it, but for
the American we prefer natural tints
Of hair. lips and cheeks.
William B. MacMaster, United States
Consul at Cartagenia, Colombia, was
attacked and seriously wounded by a
Colombian and a stranger, according
to news received in this city. 1t is
said that the attack was without appar-
ent cause. The Colombian Government
of course, has promised punishment of
the culprit when found. The Consul
will recover.
The wife of the Vice President of the
United States will come into quite a
considerable fortune thru the death of
her aunt, Mrs. Mary F. Dickerson, one
of the wealthiest women in the West,
xrrhn of har N CltV
last week. She left fortune of $780,
000, which will be inherited by Mrs.
Sherman's mother, who was her only
sister. Mrs. Dickerson. who was 6S
years old, was the widow of former
prominent physician of Kansas City,
and had passion for automobiles, own
ing the finest one outside of New York
City. A few years ago she erected a
handsome home for her attorney, and
gave a great deal of money to charity
during her life, but ii is not known
whether she left anything for that pur-
pose
Once in about so often we get a word
on Lotta, the once famous actress. Lady
Crabtree is a very wealthy woman, and
has given much to charity and much to
the actresses of the country. She was
tremendous favorite for 20 or 4C
years, but is now retired to private life
A long time ago, IT years, in fact, Lotta
Crabtree had stolen from her in money
ern Pacific Land Company. The broker
who got away with her stock died. and
the administrator of his estate, unable
to give the stock to their original owner
| when dividends were paid. kept them
For IT years Lady Crabtree has been
trying to get hold of these dividends
| and the stock itself The par value OF
the stock was $4,000 and the accrued
dividends nearly $4,000. She has al
last succeeded In securing $96,965.
Another tempest in a tea pot, OF
should we say lobster pot" is blowing
over. The trouble to be cleared up Is
between Mark Twain and his secretary
Isabel " Lyon. over the Lobster Pot
the cottage he gave to her at Redding
Conn. Mr.. Ralph w. Ashcroft, who
married Miss Lyon, and who is manag-
er of the Mark Twain Company, of New
York, has hurried Mrs. Ashcroft home
from their honeymoon in Europe be
cause of an attachment gotten out by
Mark Twain to secure money advanced
by him for the repair of the cottage
In the haste of her resentment Mrs
Ashcroft decided back the cottage to
Mark Awain, but it is likely that the
bill for repairs, matter of about
$1,000, will be settled, and that she
will again be mistress of the Lobster
Pot" The unpleasantness of it all is
attributed to the jealousy of the Misses
Clemens mark Twain's daughters)
who resented the influence of Miss Igor
over their father in the management oi
| his affairs since the death of the hu
morists wife in Italy in 1904. Both o.
the daughters were in a sanitarium fol
two years after that affiiction, and the
affairs of the family were conducted by
Miss Lyon. Mark Twain was entirely
satisfied with the way she conducted
both his private and personal affairs
and in a letter quoted by Mr.. Ashcroft
| which was written two years ago BY
Mark Twain to one of his daughters, ht
says: Il give Miss Lyon instructions
she does nothing of her own initiative
When you blame her you are merely
blaming me; she Is not open to criticism
| in the matter. She does all of my mat.
| ters well, and altho they are often deli.
cate and difficult she makes no enemies
either for herself or me-" Mark Twain
placed all his financial responsibilitie:
on Miss Lyons shoulders, Mr.. Ashcroft
says. She followed the custom In vogu,
under the regime of Mrs. Clemens NJ
| books of account were kept, excep
| check books. There was no record O.
cash expenditures. 1t comes In i'll grace
Mr.. Ashcroft says, for Miss Clara Glenn
ems TO charge improper use of sucl
cash, considering that it was freel,
| concert tours. Failure of these tours
he urges, furnished no just cause 10
resenting the successful management
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