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The evening world., 1909-03-06
CHILD HOUSEWIFE
M0RTALLY BURNED
Ten-Year-Old Girls Dress
Catches Fire While She
Cooks Breakfast.

Trene Hess, ten years old, living at
No. 100 India street. Brooklyn, with her
aunt, Mrs. Matilda Babst, was mortally
burned about the face and body to-day,
when her clothing caught fire from an
overheated stove.
Mrs. Babst has been sick several
weeks and the child was preparing her
breakfast, when her lcothng got ablass.
She ran screaming into her aunts bed
room. afirc from head to foot. The
sick woman jumped out Of bed and at
tempted to Quench the flames by Wind
Ing rug about the child's body.
In her agony the little girl broke away
and ran into tho hall, still on fire.
Neighbors caught her then and tore the
burning clothing from her They put
out the hre that had started in Mrs.
Babsts fiat
When Surgeon Joffe came from tho
Eastern District Hospital he said that
he feared the girl had inhaled fire and
could not survive. She was taken to the
hospital. Her aunt was also attended
10y the surgeon, having suffered severe
burns about the hands and arms.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
SEEKS WIFE AFTER
He TALKED SUICIDE
Goldman, Who Did Not Die
in California, Turns UP
in Brooklyn.

When Isaac Goldman fell sick and the
doctors told him to so out to California
for a change OF climate he decided his
two houses to his wife and transferred 10
her name nearly all the money he had in
bank. They lived in the Brownsville sec
ton Of Brooklyn.
In the mild climate OF the Pacific
slope Goldman recovered his health.
but his funds dwndled and he wrote to
his wife for help. Why she didn't
respond isn't told, hut she didn't, and
one day desparing letter came say
Ing he had decided to kill himself. The
letter had been found In Los Angeles
at the place where he boarded, and had
been forwarded to his home In Brook
Ign after lie disappeared.
Announcement of his death was pub
llshed in a Brooklyn paper and soon
after Mrs. Goldman took her children
and went to relatives In Brockton.
Mass
Paul Goldman. a brother, lives at No.
s, Belmont avenue Brooklyn. Yesterday
there came rap at the door and In
came Isaac, much alive and very AN
cry. lie hadn't committed suicide. bu,
after wandering about California had
made his way back home by doing odd
Jobs and coming across the continent
by easy stages.
He is on his way to Rrockton TODAY
I to talk matters over with the wife who
/ didn't respond
The evening world., 1909-03-06
AUSTRIA'S HINT TO SERvIA.
Hopes King Peter Will Change His
Attitude and Assure Peace.

VIENNA, March s.-Count Forgach.
The Austro-Hungaran Minister at Bel
grade, has been instructed to inform the
Serv!an Government that owing to the
attitude maintained by Servia for the
last few months the Government Of the
dual monarchy, to Its regret, has not
been In position to submit renewal
OF the commercial treaty with Servia,
which expires March 81 for Parliament
airy sanction.
The Austro-Hungarian Government
Count Forgach Is instructed to add
cher!shes the confident hope that Servia,
who It Is generally understood has, in
accordance with the advice Of the Pow
ers, decided to change her policy with
regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina, will
notify Vienna OF this wise resolution as
well as of her Intention TO maintain
peaceful and ne!ghborly relations with
Austria Hungary AS soon as this noti-
Ncat!on Is received Austria-Hungary will
oe prepared to negotiate the questions OF
trade Intercourse pending between the
two countries
The evening world., 1909-03-06
STOPS DOG FIGHT
WITH AMMONIA
AND IS ARRESTED
Savage Bull Pup Comes Out
Of Fracas Blind, and Court
Discharges Druggist. a

Louis scher, druggist. Of No. 30
Lenox avenue. was arraigned before,
Magistrate Herman, In the Harlem
Court, to-day. charged with pouring
ammonia In the eyes Of 800 bulldoe
belonging to DIR. Nauen. dentist, Of
No. So Lenox avenue.
The dentist said tho druggist used the
ammonia while his dog was fghtins
with another dog and a. a result his dog
Ia blind.
The druggist admitted that ne had,
poured ammonia on the dog, but d.,
clared that he had been requested a.
do so by the dentist He denied thaSs
ammonia could destroy a dogs sight,
ana . veterinary surgeon backed uph
this contention. Furthermore. the ds~,
PENDANT proved by witnesses that q,
small boy had thrown mustard into,
the dogs eyes.
THAT dog" said the druggist. has,
been a neghborhood terror for months.y
He has killed six dogs that I know Of.
He Is savage. dangerous animal. Al
the tina complained Of he was killing,
another dog and DR.. Nauen requested,
me to throw ammonia on the streso,
under the lighting dogs, The bottle
slipped from my hands and the ana,
monia showered over the dogs head"
You were entirely justified In doing,
what you did," said the Court, adding
that he could not understand how q,
complaint In the case had been made.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
Z A. N. RAID ON PATK
ROW BY SUFFRAGETTES
Special Torch1ight Auto Pro-
cession to Run Down.
town Tuesday.

Armed with Chinese lanterns, CIR.
died with saffron sashes, carving
shriekingly yellow Votes for Women"
transparencles, and occupying half a
dozen big automobiles, Surrrasettes
VIII invade Park Row at 2 A. NJ. next
Tuesday. Afraid OF the COLLINS? Not
they.
The sortie Is said to be aided and
abetted by several gentlemen of Sur.
fragette proclivities. and Is directed
mainly at the unregenerate unbeliev-
ers in the newspaper offices.
Once arrived In the centre o, the news.
paper district the leading auto will
anchor In front OF the Tribune Building,
tine tra.! OF red fire and ladies' concluding
at the door OF the Pulitzer Building, and
from the depths OF the property car a
portable platform will De produced
When this is established Mrs Borr-
mann Wells will mount and cry aloud
to the listening stars for ballot. She
will be followed by Mrs. Lydia Com.
mander, Mrs, Olive Pierce. Miss Helen
Murphy, DR.. Sears and DR.. Glasgow.
The National Progressive Woman
Suffrage Union as the Suffrasertes are
known on their visiting cards, is now
the immediate protege OF Lady Cook
She has returned 20 this country to
push tie vote .or women with every
means in her power. Her contributions
to the Sufrragetes are said TO have
reachel into four figures. II the early
morning air does not prove too raw the
former Tennie c. Clafin will accompany
the raiders. Under her auspices an AL
bany branch of the Suifragettes is about
to be organized.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
CALLS GIRL THIEF,
BUT ADMITS SHE
LOST NOTHING
Mrs. Reynolds Causes Arrest
of Josephine Rapp, Former.
ly Employed as Maid.

Although admitting that she had lost
nothing, Mrs Mary Reynolds, a wealthy
woman. appeared In the Flushing Court
to-day and made a charge OF theft
against Josephine Rapp. a young
woman who was formerly employed by
her as a maid, and succeeded In got.
ting Magistrate Fitch to hold the
prisoner in $1,000 bail for the action Of
the Grand Jury.
According to the story told by Mrs
Reynolds In court to-day, she EN-
ployed the girl about two weeks ago.
but that after three days the girl left
On Thursday the girl returned to the
house and asked for her trunk. Mrs
Reynolds says she became suspicious
and opened the girls trunk and found
some Of her own wearing apparel, ST.
verware, and other things, which b.
longed to her, and valued In all to about
800.
She accused he girl OF attempting TO
steal the things, but this the girl de-.
MED. Mrs. Reynolds said Miss Rapp
fed from the house. The woman re-.
ported the matter to the police.
In court the girl wept bitterly and de-
MED that she took anything belonging
to Mrs. Reynolds. but her former EN-.
ployer pressed the complaint Of theft.
and Magistrate Fitch, to the astonish.
nent Of those in court, held the girl In
81 600 ball,
The evening world., 1909-03-06
Church CAN RAISE
CASH, COURT SAYS
Allows Mount Olivet Baptist
to Mortgage Property to
Pay Debts,

Supreme Court Justice Giegerich has
decided that the Mount Olivet Baptist
Church may put a mortgage on the
church property to pay for improve
ments to the edifce. DR.. Mathew W,
Gilbert. the pastor OF the church,
which has been in turmoil for
some months, cannot, however, use
any OF the funds OF the church for legal
expenses Of certain officers OF the
church in actions at law which have
been brought against them individually.
In this respect the decision says
After the present suit and other
lltigatlons are terminated, 1t can better
lie determined whether 1t Is permits
sibie or not to use church funds for
Leirnying the legal expenses OF such
Officers
.rhe Mount Ollvet Baptist Church is
situated In West Fifty-third street and
Is the largest colored Baptist Church
in Now York.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
LOST PULPIT AND
HOME FOR LOVE
Of AFFINITY
Pastor Thinks He Is "Better
Qualified to Serve the
Lord" but Is Ousted.

CARuTHERsv1LLE. Mo, March s.
The Rev. Lyman F. Jackson. pastor Of
the Methodist Church. says he Is WILL
ing to stake everything on his love for
Miss Cora Short, q school teacher and
church worker. He has been expelled
from his pastorate.
The Rev. Mr.. Jackson has wife and
family, Mrs. jackson with her three
children has left for her parents home
In Wichita. Kan. As she told Jackson
goodby at tho train she said: Illus.
band, II the time ever comes that you
can live with me a. you used to let me
know or come.'
The minister says he kept his wife
informed from the beginning Of his
affection for Miss short and that he
has not deceived her. They both. he
says. have decided that the old love of
their early married days 10 dead, and
that II 10 better for them to take sepa.
rate paths.
Pastor Jackson has publicly con.
fessed that his heart has wandered
from his wife. He says that through
the potency Of this great. new love
he 10 better qualified than ever ito
serve the Lord"
His first confusion to his parishion.
ers was made when 4 self-constitutcd
committee Of women members Of the
church waited upon him following ser.
vices recently. He admitted without
hesitation that he loved Miss Short,
asserted that Mrs. Jackson had baen
told the facts and denied that he had
done wrong.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
BUNCO MEN LOSE
$4,000 VICTIM
ON ROAD HERE
Telegram to Train Put Mr..
Wadsworth Wise and He
Got Off at Albany.
STEERERS ARE NABBED.
Pair Arrested on Tip From
Ottawa When They
Reached City.
STEERERS ARE NABBED.

When the Montreal express. due at
the Grand Central Station at 80
o'clock, left Harlem this morning It
had aboard Detectives Dale and Detsch
who had been sent to One Hundred and
Twenty.nfth street to rescue Joseph
wadsworth, Of ottawa, Canada. from
. pair Of bunco steerers. They found
tho alleged bunco steerers, but Mr.
Wadsworth, Of Ottawa, had apparently
found them out first-at any rate, he
had quietly dropped off the train at
Albany.
Inspector McCafferty. Of the Central
once, had a telegram from the Chief
Of Police OF Ottawa early this morn
Ing asking him to be good enough,
please. to get Mr.. Wadsworth. we'll
known and influential business man,
away from the two crooks and fur
Their informing him that Mr., Wads-
worth had on his person $4,000 In cash
and letters Of credit for 5000 more.
His S1O,OOO IN PERIL
It was presumed that Mr.. Wadsworth
would be separated from this SO
very soon after his arrival In New York
either BY the overlapping game or by
the process known in the West as the
Big Store" classified here as the sick
engineer trick" and practised with great
success by the eminent Mr. Lawrence
Summarized, some time OF Sing sing
and now OF Detroit.
In this game the sucker is persuaded
TO put up the capital for buying from
an ignorant holder of securities Il
bunch OF stock which accompiices Of
the operating crook persuade the
sucker" will be bought by them at a
great advance on the ignorant SELL
er's price. or course, the securities"
are always worthless. and the willing
buyers disappear about the time the
sucker" acquires them
Nothing doing" said a man whom
Dale found on the last car Of the Mont
real Express this morning and who
tpiI espOu'I'u " wv t'sNI 'SN''H va '''N
Of the crooks tclegraphed ottawa.
You're under arrest" said Dale.
II know--I know" said the man.
But there's nothing doing The sucker
flew the coop at Albany, Somebody
sent him telegram that put him wise
TO US and he ducked.
Arrested as Suspicious.
Nevertheless the detectives took the
man and his companion to Magistrate
Neinert In iorkville Court and ar
raigned them as suspicious persons.
The first said he was Edward Mines.
and came from Detroit. He so!emnly
asserted he did not know Mr.. Summer
field, who is also staying in the Mlchi-
gan city at the urgent request of the
Board Of Pardons of this State, who
let him out of Sing Sins month early
on his promise never to come back to
New York.
The other man said that he was Will
lam Buckingham, OF Hamilton, Ontario.
Mines was recognized as one whose
picture Is In the Central Office colec-
lion as that Of one who has carried on
overlapping and other swindles here.
Magistrate Steinelt regretted that
there was no lawful excuse for holding
the prisoners and dismissed them with
the cordial suggestion that they go back
to Canada. And stay there.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
YOUR STOMACH DISTRESS AND
INDIGESTION ENDED FOREVER

Why start forever rid yourself of Stomach roubs
Indgon dieted stomach the blues and gmbes
then take Dappsn digestive juices working
dyspepsia bechng undgested
your
with odor
Dapes large
will obstinate Indigestion and
ach
nothing take from Stomach cleanse
besides tangue will digest
for assimilation your healthy
would do It.
Dpepsn works stomach ese itself In order cleans
table
cd will do good
all waiting for
Tell druggist that
The evening world., 1909-03-06
Marie BaSSot'S Strange Story
Told in Court Interests
Paris Society.
PUT IN INSANE ASYLUM.
TO Separate Her From Mile.
De La Note, Head Of a
Religious Retreat.

PARIS. March 6.-Socie,y has been on
tlptoe this week to catch every word
OF the remarkable story that Is being
told In court In the suit which Mile.
Marie Jeanne Bnssot has brought
against her mother. Madame Ia tho
wife OF Gen. Bassot one Of Frances
most eminent men and member Of the
Academy.
Mile, Bassot. who Is about thirty years
old. accuses her mother OF Kidnapping
her to a Swiss asylum for the Insane.
The case turns on Nine. Bassot's al
legations that her daughter has de.
serted her home and family that she
may live In religious retreat. tho
Maison Sociale. conducted by Milo,
Lefer de la Motto, Nine. Bassot de-
clares that Mile. de Ia Motto has q
powerful and mysterious influence over
Mile Bassot, which Is harmful! 10 her
morally and physically,
Incarceration and Release.
Only part Of the strange story was
narrated in court this week. but It de-
veloped that Nine. Bassot abducted her
daughter In the most melodramatic man
ner last summer. Failing in every eff
fort TO coax her daughter home from
the Maison socale, she employed de-
tectives. and they seized Mile Bassot
while she was going to mass and car
ried her, shrleking and struggling, to an
automobile In which her mother was
waiting. Then the whole party was car
ried at top speed over the border into
Switzerland. Mile. Bassot continued TO
shrek for help, but the detectives made
signs TO those who halted them and
showed an inclination to aid her which
plainly indicated that they we're dealing
with lunat!c.
Mile. Bassot was placed in prl-
vate asylum in Geneva, hu. she con-
trived to pass note TO n peasant, who
telegraphed It to her lawyer in Paris
ana she was soon teltdSeu
Nine Bassot engaged the famous
lawyer Maitre Labor Really the WON
all who seems to be on trial IL Mile. dt
la Motto. n striking looking woman
about forty years Old dark complex
toned as Spaniard, obviously one
possessed Of extraordinary beauty
MaItre Labori read in court letters
which Mile. de In Motto has written t
! c!ale: letters which seemed to prove
that she possesses remarkable influence
over them She is nomnaly secretary
but practically the managing head, OF
the organization, which Is under the
control OF the Roman Catholic Church
"sIster Mercedes"
Labor read other letters which Mile
de 10 Motto signed Sister Mercedes"
You read only fragments OF my let
ters," angrily cried Mile. de la Motto to
Labori Tell me how did they come In
your possession
They came from Rome" answered
Labor calmly. They were delivered t.
Gen. Bassot by certain persons who
were touched by his pleas. The letters
were sent to Rome BY Mile. Duha!nie. "
Mile. Duhaimc. who was in court.
sprang to her feet.
Those letters should not be here.
she cried. Il sent them to Rome.
demand that they be returned to .le.
You sent them to Rome that they
might be used in a legal proceeding
there to end the existence of the Maison
Sociale," retorted Labor.
"Yes, Am For the Church.
Yes, am for the Church" exclaimed
The evening world., 1909-03-06

Mile. Duhaime. "but I sids with neither
party In this affair"
When Mile. de Ia Motto was testify
lag It was duel Of wit and brains be.
tween her and Labor
Labori read to her a letter which Mile
Bassot wrote to her. II expressed ar
IDENTIFY Mile Bassots affection and said:
You possess me. soul and body"
Drs, MareChal, GeOltroy, Saint Hillaire
and Seglas. all noted physicians, testi-
fled that Mile; Bassot Is In perfect pos
highly Intelligent. indeed. Hut, they
agreed that she Is not entirely normal.
The hearing OF the case was ad-
journed until next Tuesday other
prominent persons Will bs called as w.t.
nesses,
The evening world., 1909-03-06
COLD FELLS BEAR HUNTER
Companions Too Weak to Care fo1
Him When He Collapses,

RIDGEWAY, Pa, March 6,--wllliarit
F. Schll, a travelling man from Lam
caster. Pa, was brought to the ElkI
County Hospital here last night suffer-
Ing from the effects Of an experience In
the woods while bear hunting. schell,
with Claude Lobaugh and William j.
Ryan, experienced hunters and woods
men. started from this place two days,
ago to walk to Stewards camp, eight,
miles distant, where bear tracks had,
been seen. The party planned to be-
away several days. Two miles from
camp Schel became exhausted. Ryanp
was weak. too. and Lohaugh attempted
to carry Schell. le
The thermometer was at 10 below zeror
and after a struggle for one mile, Lo-,
baugh left Schell and with Ryan shut
fed to a woodsman's camp. The woods
men found Schell unconscious, buts
rubbed his limbs vigorously and applied /,
snow TIL his body began to show signs
Of life.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
TAFT INVITED TO TEXAS.

AUSTIN, March GA resolution was
offered in both branches OF the State
Legislature to-day. and unanimously
adopted. inviting President Taft to visit
Texas, and 10 make as long stay as
possible He is asked TO address the
legislature. should It be In session.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
TRIP COST HIM AN EYE.
southerner In Washington for In
auguratiOn Hit by Negro.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-As the
result OF dispute with negro wal
ter. DR.. Lonnie Robson, Of Charleston.
8. C., who came here with the Ger
man Fusilier Company Of the National
Guard OF South Carolina TO attend the
inauguration will go home minus one
eye and with the sight OF the other
seriously impaired.
The trouble occurred last Thursday
night in n fashionable restaurant here,
the negro striking DR., Robson's eye
glasses and driving a portion OF the
tense into his left eye. Dr. Robson
was removed to a hospital, and yester-
day the injured eyeball was removed.
The right eye also IL In a serious con-
dition The negro escaped and has
not been arrested,
The evening world., 1909-03-06
MEN HAVE NO MORE RIGHT
THAN WIVES TO BE OUT LATE
No Use Trying TO Reform Hubby
Must Calch Him Before He
Is ~ Years Old,
By Nixola Greeley-.Sni1b.

Ct" am some times inclined to think that the saying The
only good Indian is dead Indian applies equally we'll to
husbands"
Such was the startling statement made at a meeting Of
The Legislative League by Mrs Margaret Holmes Bates dur
ing discussion Of Signoria fiudobros recon. assertion
that questions should be asked Of the husband who
strolls home at A. NJ
asked Mrs Bates to-day what she meant BY it. For #
one may judge by appearances there no mder or more
feminine within the city limits than this latest of
husband baiterS
The evening world., 1909-03-06
SHOCK KILLS LiN:MAN.
fright Meets Death While i.e,nir-
Ing Eroken Circuit.

John w. Wright, an electrician and
lneman. employed by the Flatbush Gas
and Electric Light Company, was killed
while trying to repair broken circuit
At Avenue C and East Eleventh street
platbush, this morning at o'clock.
Wright was on pole about twenty
feet from the ground when he was
knocked by heavy charge ~ cleo
tricity. He fell to the pavement, and
was dead when an ambulance surgeon
arrived.
Wright was thirty two years old, and
lived at Clarkson street and Nostrand
avenue, Brooklyn.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
puRlM BEGINS TODAY.

The Feast OF Purin. gladdcs, day IN
all the year TO Jewish children and
revered by their elders, will be cell
ebra,ed beginning to-day, by The ortho'
dox throughout the land. II COM
m emnrates the delivsrance OF the Jews
~ u. c. from Persian bondage.
The evening world., 1909-03-06
CRIME TO SWEAR OVER 'PHoNE,

AUSTIN. Tex, March 8. The bill
making II a criminal of,ense for per.
son to swear over the telephone has
passed both branches OF the Legislature
and awaits the signature Of the Gov
ernor. Tho use OF obscene language Is
also prohibited In tho bill.