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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
To Build Bic Iheater

CHICAGO, July 14.--Plans were an.
nounced today for a new 100000
tkeater TO be built here by Charles
Frohman and Klaw and Erlanger
which will be ready for occupancy by
February. The playhouse will be To-
Gated on Michigan-ave next door %
the Blackstone hotel, now being erect
ed. II will be called the Blackstone
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
Gives Life For Another.

ALTOONA. pa. July 14.-Frank V,
McMillana wealthy resident of
Greenwood. near here, late last night
shot and instantly killed his beautiful
young wife, after having found her,
IL Is alleged. iH the company of VIII
liam b. Mcdowell, At the Mcmillan
home. Mcmillan today declared that
the killing OF his wife was accidental
He says he discharged his revolver
four times at Mcdowell and that his
wife deliberately jumped in front of
Mcdowell and received the bullet In.
tended for the man.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
FINDS THIMBLE LOST YEARS.
Dropped in Back Yard and Dug Up
From Flower Bed.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 14.-Mrs.
Virginia Stein, librarian of the public
library, is again in possession OF a
gold thimble, a present forty years
ago from her husband. the late John
stein, and which she lost in 1889.
The old Stein home was at 1Ol1
Columbia-st. and Is now owned by
Mrs. Mary Mulcahey. A few days ago
her son, Michael Mulcahy, was dig
ging flower bed in the back yard
when his eye was attracted by some
thing that glistened in the earth. he
picked up the object and found 1t 90
lie a gold thimble and on the inside
was engraved "V. S. 1856"
Mr.. Mulcahy learned later that the
Stein family formerly owned the prop
erty, and took the thimble to the lib
rary and presented 1t to Mrs. Stein.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
DETRoITER is EXECUTED
Gary r. Barrett Claimed He Killed
Officer In Self-Defense.

EDMONTON, Alberta. July IA
Protesting his innocence TO the last
and claiming even from the floor OF
the seaffold that he killed Deputy
Warden Stedman, of Alberta, peniten-
tiary, in self-defense. Gary K. Barrett.
formerly OF Detroit was hanged this
morning In the corridor OF the prison
here.
Barrett was first sentenced TO death
at Prince Albert last year for killing
his stepson. This sentence was COM
muted TO life imprisonment. He was
then moved To Alberta penitentlary,
where last spring he committed the
deed for which he was executed to-
daT
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-15
Weekend Excursion To Buffalo via
Michluan Central

$3.50 for the round trip. Tickets
good on trains leaving each Satur-
day during the month OF July at 10:45
and 1853 p. m. good returning leav-
ing Buffalo at 500 and 1850 p. m.
Sunday. Tickets good In coaches
only. For full particulars see agent
Block, or Depot. foot OF Third-st.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03

mansion and riding through the Central
park behind pair of magnificent bays?
All this and more If marry the money
bags! What shall do-how decide? Send
your honily quickly, dear Lou Oh, don't
I know we'll what that will be! stick to
your principles, Mary, whatever
P. 81 think even you could not help
being pleased with Clifford Mason. There
is something grand and noble about him.
Willoughby sent her costly bouquets
and seemed to live but for her smiles,
yet, with a woman's intuition, she
knew that beneath his courtly manner
there was a hard selfish nature, but
she thought that he loved her as much
as he loved anything beyond his own
pleasure and comfort
Her heart fingered lovingly upon the
manly words of Clifford Mason, st
am poor, darling, but 1 could labor
cheerfully for you, for love you"
She asked herself, Do I love Gilead
Willoughby? If he were poor or i'll,
would | be willing to work for him?
Could l accept of shabby gentility"
and wear made over dresses for his
sake? If he should lose his wealth,
could l be a true, loving wife all the
same?
"Gilead is not man to die for a
woman. nor for woman to die for"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03

she added, and with the tears trem-
bling like dewdrops upon her long
iashes she struggled against the temp
tation Of being the envied wife of a
millionaire
And when the struggle was ended
and love had triumphed over ambition
it was time of joy when she prom
ised Clifford Mason to be his own true,
loving wife, in poverty or riches. in
sickness or in health.
It was a glorious day in June when
these true lovers were married at the
old farmhouse where she had passed
the happy days Of childhood, but she
was quite content when her husband
told her that he had provided plain,
comfortable home in New York city.
It was evening when they arrived,
and when the carriage stopped before
a stately mansion on Fifth avenue and
Aunt Della came out In the hall to
welcome them she felt as If it was a
pleasant surprise Could it be posi-
BILE, after all, that her proud Aunt
Eastman meant to forgive her for the
serious fault of marrying a poor man!
And when she had finished tour of
examination through the house and
duly admired the decorations of the
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03
l. Owe TRIUMPHED

Mary Harold's father was a farmer
ia small way, and, although he could
not afford expensive dresses for his
daughter, he gave her the benefit of a
fair education Mary was by no
means an ignoramus.
Her fathers only sister, Della, mar
Kied q wealthy city merchant, and
when Mary was nineteen she was in
vited to pass the winter months at
their elegant house ON Murray hill
Mary's instincts and ideas were high
toned and her tastes artistic. She liked
soft laces and jewels, she delighted to
wrap Aunt Delias costly shawls about
her shapely shoulders and let them
arail gracefully over the velvet carpet
and to fold the dainty laces against
ahe clear white and pink of her ex-
Iuisite face and imagine herself some
9air princess.
Aunt Della encouraged the girl in
this. She arrayed her in the finest and
introduced her into society and was
proud of the sensation her rare lowell
ness excited.
Marys thoughts are best expressed
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03
by reading over her sisters shoulder

by reading over her sisters shoulder
the letter that she received somewhat
later. This sister, Louisa, was the ED
est, very plain and very good. Mary
confded in her without reserve
Dear Lou-Oh, that you were here But
you wouldn't enjoy it all as do. I am
in my element.
Aunt's house is marvel of beauty
Thanks to her generosity, I am attired as
daintily as a kings daughter She will
have it so, although rebel, for shame.
Lou, I fear 1 can never don by plain
dresses again.
Let me whisper to you alone that
have two admirers. OF course there are
score or so of danglers ready to do
homage, flirt or carry wraps, but there
are but two eligible for matrimony
One of them, Clifford Mason, is per-
feet Adonis. Oh, Lou, he is handsome! I
like him ever so much
He's a gentleman; but alas, notwith-
standing all this, he is poor. Aunt says
that he'll have to ''take a back seat"
Poor folks must, you know.
Gilead Willoughby, the other candidate,
ated and always ready with covert
of course, that will atone for all his
faults.
What would you say, sister mine, if you
saw your pet blazing with diamonds and
dressed in Worths marvellous toilets?
What would you say to spending your
winters at Mrs Willoughby.s elegant
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03

rooms, each perfect in its way, she
congratulated her aunt upon the pos.
session of SO fine mansion. 81 loved
the dear old place on Murray HILL
she said, because it was there that /
first met Clifford, but this is fit for a
kings palace"
do you regret having rejected the
millionaire for the sake Of one who
has but loving heart and willing
hands TO offer your" inquired her hus-
band.
II own that / was tempted, Cliff;
but, you see, love triumphed."
Clifford Mason wound his arms
around her and, looking into her beau
tiful face, radiant with love and hap
piness, said:
'Then welcome home, dear Mary,
for you are sole mistress here"
s'Whatw she exclaimed in astonish-
ment.
''Wiil you not love me just as well
for having deceived you? For this is
my excuse: l wished to be sure that
you loved me. Mary, l am not the
poor man that you thought. l fear
that you will have to put up with the
incumbrance of my millions, after ALL"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03
Astounding Vitality of the Turtle.

The vitality Of this strange sea crea-
ture, the turtle, after decapitation is
almost beyond belief. A large turtle
was once sent to a hotel in Newcastle.
The chef cut the turtles head off and
hung the body upside down to bleed.
Twenty-four hours after that turtle
knocked down a man cook with one
blow of it's fin. The green turtle is
not a vicious creature to handle, like it's
swapping Japanese brother, but it's fins
are very strong, and one blow from
them is quite sufficient to break
mans arm.-Wide World Magazine.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-04-03
LineoIn's Freedom From Cant.

One Of the delightful things about
Lincoln was his freedom from cant
He never set out to "set an example"
He lived his life simply and naturalls
thought. out and spoke the thought
that was in him, did the work he
found to do and let his example shift
for itself By consequence it is one
Of the great examples, one Of the great
Inspirations of human history. -Har.
per's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
STATES PELLAGRA
HAS 1000 VICTIMS
FINDS RECORD OF DISEASE IN
THIRTEEN STATES
First Assistant Surgeon of the United
State Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service Tells of
Investigations

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-There are
1000 victims of pellagra in the United
States. This approximation is on the
authority of Dr. c. H. Lavinder, first
assistant surgeon of the United States
public health and marine hospital
service, who finds records of the
dreaded disease in thirteen states.
Medical men find that it is not COM
municable except through the eating
of poisoned food or, as occasionally
happens, the drinking of alcoholic
liquors made from poisoned grain. Al
its inception it is durable in some
cases, but when it affects the reason II
is necessarily fatal.
Little attention has been paid to
pellagra in the United States, but now
it is believed that much of the scurvy
and insanity which was prevalent in
southern military prisons during the
civil war was pellagra. The diet, for
the most part, was maize in the form
of meal which was often wormy and
seldom, if ever, thoroughly cooked.
The indictment against corn as the
cause of the disease has been partly
lifted by the report of DR.. Lavinder
from a Peoria, ILL.,, insane asylum
which contains twenty-four pellagra
patients. Some of these cases have de-
veloped in the asylum, where corn
rarely has been used in the diet.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
FOUR CENTS A WEEK TOO
SMALL FOR CHURCH FUND
Chicago Pastor Scores Members of
Congregation for Tiny Pittance
Put Into Collection Box

CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-In Pilgrim Con-
gregational church the Rev. F. E. Hop
kins yesterday commented on the fact
that the collection at a great revival
meeting amounted to only 4 cents for
each person in the congregation, say
ing in the churches during the same
weeks contributions did not average
8 cents from each person in the con-
gregation.
TT is high time" he said, that the
notion that churches are managed ex-
travagantly and that preachers have
fat salaries was exploded. With nearly
every one of them it is a tremendous
struggle to make both ends meet. If
is was not for the love of God and man
they could not press the shiny coat
and dust the antique derby and look
neat so long as they do.
1T is doubtful whether there is a
church in Chicago in which so per cent
of its members pay as much as 81 a
week for the support of ministers,
choir, janitor fuel, light and the usual
expenses. In good many 25 cents,
the price of an ordinary lunch, is all
that a family of three or four with a
good salary will contribute"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
BANDMASTER'S LOVE STORY
is OF SHORT DURATION
Report from Cincinnati That Orestes
VesselIa and His Heiress Wife
Have Become Estranged

CINCINNATI, Oct. 1S.-The Times
Star prints today a dispatch from At
lantic City, N. j., saying that Band
master Orestes Vessella and his young
wife, formerly Miss Edna Egan, daugh-
ter of Thomas p. Egan, millionaire
manufacturer and former president OF
the Cincinnati chamber of commerce,
have separated. 1t became known here
today that Mrs. Vessella has been liv-
ing with her parents in Cincinnati for
two months.
Vessella, with his long raven hair, is
well known on account of his peculiar
mannerisms while welding the baton.
He married Miss Egan five years ago,
following a wooing that excited wide
spread attention. During the summer
visit with her mother at Atlantic City
Miss Egan fell in love with the Italian
bandmaster Vessella reciprocated and
dedicated a dreamy waltz to the object
of his admiration, and played 1t every
day.
When Miss Egan returned to her
home here Vessella carried on his
courtship by telephone daily, at dol
lar a minute. The wedding occurred in
Cincinnati three months later.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
TO BUILD FORTIFICATI0NS
TO GUARD PANAMA CANAL
Joint Army and Navy Board Will Go
to Isthmus and Inspect
Ground

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S-The impor-
tant work of constructing fortifications
for the entrance to the Panama canal
it was said today, will be given careful
consideration by joint army and navy
board during the coming winter. This
board will visit the isthmus and go over
the entire ground, investigating condi-
tions so that congress may be pre-
pared to act intelligently.
Col. Goethals, chairman and chief en-
gineer of the canal commission, has
promised the canal shall be ready to be
opened by January 1, 1915, and the pres
ident and his cabinet feel that the work
of placing that waterway in an impreg-
nable position should be finished or at
least we'll under way by the time the
canal is ready for practical uses.
The board will consist of Brig. Gen.
William L. Marshall, chief of engineers;
Brig. Gen. William Grocer, chief of
ordnance; Brig. Gen. Arthur Murray,
chief of coast artillery; Brig. Gen w.
w. Witherspoon, assistant chief of
staff; two canal officers yet to be
selected and possibly others.
The general question of the fortif1ca-
tions for the canal has been discussed
by the army and navy for years.
1t is possible if the report of the
board is made in time congress may
appropriate money for the work at this
session.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
PROBE RATES AT
SAN FRANCISCO
COMMERCE COMMISSIONERS
HEAR SHIPPERS
Gases Are Presented - Joseph
Loeb Supports Southern
Contentious
[Ry Associated Press. ]

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1S.-Sitting
for the first time en- banc in San Fran
cisco the interstate commerce commits
sion met here today to consider rate
cases in which the Pacific coast and
the southwest are interested.
Today's session was occupied by ar
guments in the San Francisco and Los
Angeles switching cases, testimony in
which was taken some time ago by
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane at
hearings held in this city and Los
Angeles.
In both these cities the railroads
make a switching charge for each car
and as no similar charge is collected
in other cities shippers of the two
coast points contend that the charge is
unfair.
Joseph Loeb supported the conten-
tions of the Los Angeles shippers and
the grievances of the San Francisco
merchants were presented by Seth
Mann.
The Southern Pacific was represent
ed by Peter f. Dunno and Assistant
Counsel Dubrew. The taking of tes-
timony in the San Francisco distribu-
tive rate case was set by agreement
for December 15, when the commission
will meet in Washington.
Tomorrow the commission will take
up the hearing on the alleged excess
siye rates from coast terminals to Ne
vada points. These charges were pre-
ferred by the Merchants Exchange
Traffic bureau of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
SAILOR IMPRISONED IN
FOREPEAK FOR 10 HOURS
Vessel Is Towe5 Ashore and Turns
over, Which Causes Man to Roll
Out Barely Conscious

CRISFIELD, Md, Oct. 1S.-When the
George NJ. Collier was wrecked in
Chesapeake bay last Friday and turned
turtle, James O'DonneIl, one of the
crew, was caught in the forepeak. He
was rescued eighteen hours later weak
from hunger and exposure, his life hav-
ing been saved by the compressed air
which formed. in a chamber under the
hull
ODonnell's escape is regarded as one
of the most remarkable in the history
of bay shipping. He was given up
for lost by the crew which clung to
the sides of the boat for hours, only d
few feet from their imprisoned com
panion.
About noon Saturday when O'Don-
nell had been a prisoner fully eighteen
hours the craft was towed into the
ship yard and turned over. O'Donnell,
now barely conscious, rolled out. He
was bundled into blankets and a few
hot drinks were given him and before
night he was able to tell of his ex
perience.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
SECRETARY BALLINGER is
GUEST OF YUMA CITIZENS
Head of Interior Department Pays
Visit to Laguna Dam and Later
Is Toasted at Banquet

YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 1S.-Secretary of
the Interior R. A. Ballinger arrived in
Yuma, this morning at 5:35 o'clock and
was met at the station by large dele
cation of representative citizens and a
brass band. Mr. Ballinger, accom-
panied by his private secretary and
Louis G. Hill, supervising engineer Of
the southern division of the reclama-
tion service, are guests today of the
officials of the reclamation service
here, the Water Users association and
the citizens of Yuma in general.
Frederick Haynes Newell, director Of
the reclamation service and Arthur
Powell Davis. chief engineer, who are
both in the west, are expected to join
the secretary here during the day Ac-
eompanied by the officials of the recla-
nation service. Mr.. Ballinger this
morning made a trip of inspection to
the government project at Laguna
dam and returning visited the work
of the California Development COM
pany at the lower heading.
The afternoon was passed in an auto
mobile tour of the Yuma valley and to-
night the distinguished guests headed
by Mr.. Ballinger were rendered a ban
quet at the Southern Pacific hotel to
which a hundred invitations had been
issued. The party left for the east on
the $3.50 train.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
MRS. BATONYI
SEEKS DIVORCE
WIFE OF NOTED WHIP WILL
AGAIN CONTEST
ATTORNEYS OUTLINE CASE AT
SECOND TRIAL
Alleged Unfaithfulness of Husband
to Be One of the Grounds
on Which Decree Is
Asked
tBy Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The second
trial of Mrs. Frances Burke-Roche Ba-
tonyfs divorce suit against Aurel Ba-
tonyi, the noted whip, was begun here
today
In outlining her case, Mrs. Batonyi's
attorney told the jury that two of the
questions to be decided related to the
defendants alleged unfaithfulness. Ba-
tonyi was on hand when the case was
called, but his wife had not appeared
by the time jury was obtained.
Mrs Batonyis first suit was discon-
tinued last June, when her attorney
walked out of court after he had failed
to obtain a delay to find an absent wit
ness.
The horseman pressed his suit for a
separation and won it, but his victory
did not interfere with the present ac-
ton.
Four women were mentioned in Mrs.
Batonyis complaint, but her counsel
announced today that charges involv-
ing two of them might be withdrawn.
Chauffeur Witness
The first witness was Eugene Ar
court, a chauffeur. He said that on
March 4, 1908, he drove Batonyi and a
oman, whom he did not name, in his
taxicab as far north as One Hundred
and Fifty-ninth street, and then re-
turned
This taxicab trip is the basis of one
of Mrs. Batonyi's charges. Arcourt
said he did not see anything wrong in
the actions of the defendant or his COM
panion that night.
Other witnesses testified about the
taxicab incident. A druggist related
how Batonyi entered his store to pur-
chase some aromatic spirits of ammo
MIA, while the taxicab, with the curtain
drawn, remained standing at the curb.
In a moment, he said a woman alight-
ed from the vehicle and entered the
store against the defendants protest.
Not needing him, she stood before a
mirror and smoothed her disheveled
hair.
Mrs. Batonyi's lawyer called other
witnesses in an attempt to prove the
defendant visited a woman in her
apartments on Riverside drive.
Mrs. Batonyi also testified. She was
asked but two questions-one her name,
which she said was Frances, and when
she was married to Batonyi. on March
4, 1908, she replied, and was then ex-
cused. The, case will be continued to-
morrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
STATES THAT DE LARA
WILL BE GIVEN TRIAL

WASHINGTON, Oct 1S.-The war
rant for the arrest of Gutierrez de
Lara, a Mexican attorney and author,
in Los Angeles, Cal, today, on the
charge of uttering threats against the
United States government and of being
an undesirable citizen, was signed by
Ormsby McHarg, assistant secretary of
the department.
The papers in the case were at the
assistant secretary's office, so that he
could not when seen tonight, recollect
the details, but stated that the infor-
nation contained in the Associated
Press dispatches, according to his rec
objection, was in accordance with the
information he had received.
The accused man will be given trial
to determine whether he is an anarch-
ist Under the law, a person found
guilty of such an offense as giving eX
preston to threats against this govern
ment can be deported within three
years after his arrival.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-19
RUSSIAN CZAR WILL DODGE
BAVARIA AND SWITZERLAND
Emperor Nicholas to Change Itinerary
on His Way to Visit In King
Vctor's Realm

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 18.-An i'm
portant and unexpected change of itin-
erary has been made on the eve of
Emperor Nicholas departure for Italy.
1t is understood it was due in part to
recent criticism Of the emperor in the
Bavarian landtag, but as we'll to other
and deeper reasons, which, according
to the best information obtainable here,
resulted in the emperor's decision to
avoid Bavaria and Switzerland, and
make a long circuit through eastern
France to reach his destination.
The new route chosen is by way of
Odessa, Posen, Frankfort and Besan-
con, France, and involves a railway
journey of nearly 200O miles.
meeting between the emperor and
the president of France during the trip
is possible, though nothing official on
this point can be obtained.
The elimination of Switzerland from
the itinerary causes no particular re-
gret among the Russian authorities re-
sponsible for the emperor's safety, as
the small force of police and military
in the mountainous country constitutes
a most serious problem in the safe
guarding of the emperors train.