The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-01-27
PICKINGS' j. =.


Fire Monday morning destroyed the
dwelling Of Mary Ann Miller, at Ham
mondtown, near Easton- The loss is
about 81 200. E
The postofice appropriation bill
was passed by the House Tuesday.
The pay OF carriers on the rural free
delivery routes is to be increased
500 each year by an amendment
added just before the final vote on the
measure was taken. An effort to sub
stitute stamps for the Thanking privil-
eye now In vogue was ruled out
The community about Rifles Cross
ing, W. Va, is astounded over
double murder surrounded by mys-
terry. The bodies of J. L. Nickel,
aged 81, a carpenter-contracto and
his son-in-law, Stephen Evans, aged
rs, were found riddled with bullets
in the barnyard of w. K. Fades Sat
urday The crime was committed In
broad daylight within short dis
lance of their home.
Benjamin =. Buppert, aged 40 years,
or Baltimore, was shot to death in ].
Bolgiano & Cos. store few minutes
before O'Clock Friday afternoon by
Samuel L. Showers aged % years.
The wife of Showers, who had been
separated from her husband, was al
20 i'm the employ OF the firm, and IL IL
claimed that Buppert's attentions to
Mrs. Showers were in a measure re-
sponsible for the tragedy.
A murder of the most cold-blooded
character occurred at point in the
city limits OF Newburgh, N. ", known
rhn .pfr-
cumstances are such that it is thought
to have been the Black Hand ven
geance. Vincent Minnescalo, better
known as Big Jim" Perry, was the
victim. His body was literally rid
died with bullets, five Of which passed
completely through his body.
David Graham Phillips, novelist and
magazine writer, was shot six times
and probably mortally wounded at
Las o'clock Monday afternoon In
front OF the home OF Schuyler Sceif-
fin, IFS Gramercy Park, north, New
York, just as Mr.. Phillips was about
to enter the former home of Stanford
White, now the Princeton Club, for
his mail The shots were fired by
Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, pro-
fessional violinist, a former student
Of Harvard, writer and Socialist
After shooting Phillips, Goldsborough
shot himself in the right temple and
dropped dead. Phillips died Tuesday.
At table occupied only by vacant
chairs in cafe at Thirteenth and
SAMSON streets, Philadelphia, full
course dinner was served to a dozen
vacant chairs, chairs that in former
years had held the surviving members
of the famous organization of the
Philadelphia Grays. Every year since
1855 the survivors have gathered
around the banquet table on jan
uary %. Last year the sole surviv-
or was Sergt. Harry Briggs. He died
in March and on his deathbed re-
quested his son, Samuel M. w. Briggs,
to hold the banquet as usual, and
when the last course had been served
to drink silent toast to the departed.
He did so.
A man and two women-one his
wife, who loved him with an enduring
love, but whom he loved not; the
other the wife OF another, who cared
little or nothing for him, but whom he
pursued with a blind infatuation
Such is the resume of the tragedy
which occurred early Friday morning
last in Baltimore. Two bodies lie
cold and stiff in death now. The Wor-
ry Of the little woman who would
have taken her erring husband back,
who pleaded with him but was laugh
ed at was in vain. Her husband and
the woman he loved, but who loved
him not, are dead, shot by the man
whose eyes were opened at the last
to the ruinous path that stretched
before him. Herman w. Ensor left
his wife to follow blindly Mrs Mat
tie Weakley Handlas. She also had
left her husband to shift for himself.
Mrs. Handlas cared nothing for the
man who followed her. In spite Of
the fact that the mans wife, Mrs.
Bella Ensor, who loved him, lived on
Denmore avenue, near Pimlico, for
the last two months Ensor had been
living with the woman he killed, Mrs.
Handlas, whose husband, Jacob y.
Handlas, resides in Washington.