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Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
lNWooD NOTES.

Mrs. Bernice Custer has returned
10 her home at Darkesyille after spend
ing few days with her sister Mrs
Matte Grubb,
Mr. Carter, wife and child, OF Ger.
rardstown, spent Sunday with Mr.. Jud
son Blue.
Mr.. Camel Blue and family OF
Stokes spent Sunday with Mr.. John
Blue
Miss Viola Grim has been sick for
the past week with measles.
Mr.. Harry Booth ard Mr.. Carl
Lloyd, Of Martinsburg, were callers
at Nh Mar, Armels Sunday
Mr.. Archie and Alyernon Mohler
called ON Miss Viola Grim Sunday e.
ening.
Mr.. Judson Blue shot two large
black snakes i'm = tree in his ward
sunday last, one measuring some
hing over four feet and the other
five feet Later in the week no lsiuo(
,wo large snakes in his ice house
Desirable neighbors. Mr.. Blue.
Mr.. Hans Timberlake and famjI,
called at the old Timber
place last Tuesday, the first since il,
was a mere bow
ROY Mitchell preached at coda,
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
FiSRlNG SEASON SOON.

The bass season Will open on Sat
urday, June l, and already local fish
ermen are making plans for the day
The river is clearing up and if nc
heavy rains occur between now anC
Saturday the river will be in fine con
dition for fishing. At present, the
streams are high but it is thought
that they will subside between now
and the day the season opens.-Ha
gerstown Herald.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
BEFORE CHAMsERsRURo COURT

Herbert Lewis, the colored youth
who was arrested on the charge of
robbing the residence of Mrs. Harry
J. McCabe, at Pen Mar, wanted to
plead guilty in court at Chambers.
burg to larceny but District Attorney
Niclllas will not permit this. 1t will
be remembered that Lewis compan.
ion, Stanley Jackson, declares Lewis
confessed to him that he had killed
Mrs. McCabe.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
SLIGHT FIRE AT HANCOCK,

A slight fire occurred at the home
of the Misses Mabel, Mary and Kath-
leen Brooks, Hancock, but it was ex.
tinguished with only damage to the
parlor, estimated at SIS. A lighted
match that was intended to light
lamp got into contact with curtain.
Neighbors helped
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
SENDING OUT CoNTRcTs.
School Book Commission Arranging r.
Supply Pupils Under New Law.


Supply Pupils Under New Law.
Charleston, W Va, May 29-The
state school book commission has
ust had printed and is now sending
hem to all prospective contractors to
furnish text books for the public
schools of West Virginia, the forms
contracts and list OF the books the
state will desire to be furnished by
the several contractors.
The contracts stipulates that the con
tractor will provide esponsible dealers
in three magisterial districts in each
county with sufficient quantity OF
books, and will, without expense to the
purchaser, deliver to any pupil, parent
or teacher in the free schools within
the state such text books as may be
adopted at 1..a o.ice fixed by the com
mission, ~ .ided the pay shall ac-
company der.
The b. re required to be in the
hands OF he -te school book com
mission on CT bore o'clock p. M,
Iune 3, and when the contracts are
made they will be for five years
Elective from July l, 1912.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
Standing of the Clubs.
N ationaI League.

National League.
New York, ); Brooklyn, 4.
Philadelphia, 10; Boston, 8.
Chicago, 10; Cincinnati, ..
st. Louis, 7; Pittsburgh, 4.
Where They Play Today.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
SAND PATCH WORKMAN HURT

John Jackson, colored, employed in
the construction of the new Sand
Patch tunnel was brought into Cum
berIand yesterday afternoon so ser.
iously injured that he may die He was
caught between a steam shovel and a
car and suffered internal injuries. lie
was hurried to the Allegany Hospital
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
Standing of the Clubs.

Mrs. R. S. Smith, of Clarksburg
was at Hotel Berkeley.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-05-29
BASE BALL SCORES.

American League.
Washington, 8; New York, 3.
Boston, Z; Philadelphia, 8.
Detroit, 5; St. Louis, 0.
Detroit, 6; St. Louis, .
Cleveland, 3; Chicago, Z.
Where They Play Today.
Washington at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Chicago at Cleveland
Detroit at St. Louis.
Sfandinn of the Cluhe
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26

Ait1ili . POpAA
M. Durrieux has long been a we'll
known frequenter of gambling houses,
and for years before Leopold's death
he was friendly with the Baroness
Vaughan.
Nine. DurrieuX's counsel, in an eight
minutes speech, rehearsed the story Of
her wrongs. He related how. on the
day after their marriage, DurrieuX
violently demanded money for use at
his gambling club. Counsel declared
that Durrieux often insulted his wife
in the presence of her children and OF
the servants, and frequently returned
home intoxicated.
On october IS, 1910, Nine. Durrieux,
said counsel, was forced to leave her
home bearing the marks of her u
bands blows. She returned later, and
on February G. 1911, there was a violent
scene.
D%urrieux's counsel made no contra
diction of the facts alleged by the
plaintiff. Nine. Durrieux, he said, had
constantly visited her husband since
the suit was begun, spending her days
and nights with him.
Judgment was reserved.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
SEES MAN SLASH
THROAT OF ESCORT
Mysterious Attack Made as
Couple Leave New York
Theatre.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-The physicians
at Bellevue Hospital had a mystery
thrown on their hands yesterday when
a young man staggered into the main
building with his throat cut and with
a young woman accompanying him.
AS he was being taken to an operat-
ing table a version of the affair was
given by the young woman. who said
she is Miss Florence Sullivan, a tele-
phone operator. living at -1S1 Grand
street, Hoboken.
Miss Sullivan said that the injured
man is Daniel Wayne, 20 years old,
who lives in this city at 532 Sixth
street. She went to a Fourteenth
street theatre with him last night, she
said, and when the show was over
they walked over to Third avenue and
turned north on that thoroughfare.
when we reached Sixteenth street"
she said, IT saw "a man attired In a
SLOUGH hat and long overcoat approach
Mr.. Wayne. Neither sale a word
The mans right hand was concealed
in his overcoat pocket. He suddenly
drew it out and 1 saw it held a razor
and I screamed. Mr.. Wayne attempted
to struggle with the man, but was I'M
successful, and the razor was slashed
across Mr.. Wagne's throat"
When Wayne was revived later he
told a story In confederation of that
which had been told by the young
and insisted that he did not
know the maj Who assaulted him and
was ignorant of the fellows motive.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26

In short Brandt declares hat the
real reason fer his having been in
prison nearly five years, with a long
stretch of more than a quarter of a
century ahead Of him il his story goes
unbelieVed, is not that he attempted to
kill Schiff, but because he was in love
with a handsome woman IN the house
with whom he was keeping an alleged
tryst in the Schiff mansion, in Fifth
avenue, and that. rather THAI see this
woman's name dragged INTO a scandal,
he was willing to go to prison, think
ing he would get only a short term.
Brandt is one Of the ~best-behaVed
prisoners in Clinton prison, is a mem
Der OF the office staff and is trusted
and beloved in every way by the prison
officials. There is nothing common in
his II or pose and as he sat easily
in the warden's big chair his long,
well-built form and easy poise sug-
gested rather the scion of a noble Nor
wegian family thar a valet.
After telling how he secured work
in the Schiff home, Brandt said:
81 was directed to report to the Schiff
summer home at oyster Bay at once,
and | did so. In addition to working
as a valet / found that | had other
duties sometimes of a secretarial ma
ture and sometimes as a sort of butler.
At first everything was most pleasant
in the Schiff home.
AT the end Of the first month,
though, I began TO learn that every
thing was not as 1t appeared on the
surface and that there was considera-
BILE u~nhappiness in the Schif1 home be-
cause of the way in which MT. Schiff
sometimes acted.
lat this time ] was little more than
20 years old and she was about 80, but
in some unexplainable way this discord
drew her to me / felt sympathetic
and l presume 7 showed It and soon
the woman was in the habit OF telling
her troubles to me. II |, of course,
sided with her. although all thought of
wrong was as distant from my mind as
my Scandinavian home was from Oys-
ter Bay.
Some time in August, Of 1905. Mr..
Schiff announced that he had to go
West for a railroad inspection and
said he would be gone about six weeks.
ut was shortly after his departure
that the unfortunate affair began.
With no desire to injure the m in
the household and with q deep sym
pathy for that the is necessarily tenn
pered by my own horrible plight, / am
compelled to say that I did not make
the first advances. Nothing in the
world would make me say this except
that 1 think I have done myself injury
enough in my desire to protect this
lady, and, since no one else seems in
clined to save me, I must save myself.
'It was in the library Of the oyster
Bay home that the Irritation began.
She called me over to where she was
sitting and showed me some photo
graphs. Then we talked Of other
things and soon were talking of Il r
selves. 1t was not long before we were
both using 0~ndearfng terms, and then,
I am sorry to way, we fell in love. I
with I could bi,t out that day for her
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26

was also very foggy, and this I
thought helped my chances to get into
the Schif home, so l went boldly but
quietly to the door. peered in. put the
key in the door and the next instant
[ was inside listening for sounds. All
was quiet.
THE door rom the bedroom leading
TO the hall and thence to the library
was kept locked. 1t is extremely !m-
portant to keep this in mind. That
locked loo ost me my liberty. II
meant that n person nee in the bed
room was in a cul de sac, the only
other exit being through the bath and
then through the dressing room to
reach the real stairs ut the back end
of the hall.
81 went to the dressing-rooln and
smoked for awhile. AS they passed 1
became decidedly nervous and thought
l had better get away. but ] did not
believe Mr.. Schiff would return until
very late. Once / heard the servants
coming and | tried to think of an es-
cape. Later my nerve returned.
"As | sat there thinking, after a
wait Of about two hours. L suddenly
heard the front door bell ring. Mr..
Schiff entered and went directly to the
library. Suddenly the sounds indi-
Gated that he was approaching. He
would have to go into the hall, walk
to the rear end OF it and enter the
dressing room. My brain was in a
whirl,
81 thought only of one means Of
escape. That was to get out of the
dressing room to the rear stairs be-
fore he renched the door of the drasS-
ing room. and he might mistake me
for some one else.
"As / reached the DRESSING room, the
thought entered my mind to make II
appear that l was a burglar In case
1 met him. 50 I grabbed two jeweled
pins from the chlffonier dressing room
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
Deposed as Hero,
Shot and Burned
Former Ecuador President Is
Lynched in Court.

GuAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Jan. 20
General Pedro Montero, who recently
was the popular hero of Grayaquii. was
yesterday shot by the angry pop iiace,
dragged into the streets, beheaded and
burned.
General Montero in November last
was proclaimed president by the
troops stationed in GrayaqEtl, but
handed over the leadership in h pro-
Visional government to General FlaVio
Alfaro.
General Montero. with other leaders,
was captured on January %, and last
evening General Montero was brought
before "a court martial and sentenced
To sixteen years Imprisonment.
Some of the people rushed INTO the
courtroom, riddled General Montero
With bullets, seized his body and
dragged it into the open air. There they
hacked the head Off the shoulders
gathered fuel with which they started
. fire and then cast head and trunk
into the flames.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26

sake as well as for my own. 1t is most
painful for me to have to talk about IT..
after that the incidents that rap
pened were, l presume, to be expected.
She told me that It would be safe Tor
me to visit her boudoir after the SER
wants had gone to bed but l pointed
out that this. was a daring chance.
ON the night Of my arrest [ went
to the Schiff house in answer to an
invitation from a member OF the house
hold and with a key that had been
given me.
81 well recall that it was about 8
o'clock on a sloppy. slushy night. 1t
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
Family of Rich
Man FleeS Fire
Blaze Causes Much Excitement
in MilliOnaire's Colony.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Fire this
morning routed themembers of he
family of Paul A. Sorg, the millionaire
tobacco man, from their apartment in
East Eighty-seyenth street, and
caused much excitement in the mil
lionaire colony in the neighborhood.
The home of Bradley-Martin adjoins
the house where the fire occurred, and
Henry Phipps, the Pittsburgh million
aire, lives just across the way.
Mrs. Sorg was awakened by a sen
sation of s~uffocation and found the
suite filled with smoke. She and her
husband awakened other members of
the family, and with their eight SER
wants fed to the street. h fire was
confined to he suite, which was
Quilted.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
THUGS ATTACK ANOTHER
GIRL IN BROOKLYN STREETS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Another vic
tim was added last night to a list Of
young women who ave been attacked
and beaten in the same section of
Brooklyn when Miss Hanna Blixt, 10
years old. a -dressmaker, was struck on
the head by an unidentified mar within
q block of her home. Her creams for
help frightened away her assailant,
who, she said, jumped from the side Of
the street and dealt her a staggering
blow with a blunt instrument.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
Many Killed in
Island Quake
Several Villages Destroyed Near
Grecian Coast.

ATHENS. Greece, Jan. 26.-Hundreds
were killed by earthquake shocks
among the islands of the Ionian sea
yesterday, according to reports re-
ceived today upon the resumption of
communication. Sixty were killed on
the Island of Zante, nine OF Cephalo-
mia and fou others on smaller islands
of the group. Warships with supplies
for the homeless have been dispatched.
Many villages are destroyed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
NAMES CHAPLAIN
TO BE MADE BISHOP

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-An uncon-
frmed report has 1t that Rev. John P.
Chadwick, who was chaplain of the
battleship Maine when It was de-
stroyed i'll Havana harbor, is to be
made bishop of San Francisco.
Father Chadwick is president of St
Joseph's Seminary at Dunwoodie. 1t
is understood the appointment to the
vacant bishoprlc was brought ron
Rome by Cardinal Farley, but has not
yet been announced.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
DEMENTED, HE TRIES
TO SEE PRES. TAFT

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2d.-Patrick
Barrett, who said he came from New
York, was arrested at the entrance to
the White House offices today, after
he had made the statement that he
was Jesus Christ. He demanded the
opportunity to talk religion with the
President, but a secret service agent
demurred and led the visitor to police
headquarters for examination
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26

and also grabbed his bath robe
ut was my misfortune that I should
reach the inside of the only loo of es-
cape at the same instant that ne
reached it on the outside to enter the
room, and I a against him. The pins
I had taken cut his face. but not seri-
ously.
II didn't want to hurt him and all
lowed him to push me back into the
room. He turned on the electric lights.
and there we stood looking at each
other,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
Joy RIDER" TO TELL
STORY OF FATALITY
LFrom a staff CORRESPONDENT. J

TRENTON, Jan. 26.-The coroner's
inquest to fix the responsibility for the
Foster automobile accident, which
caused the death of five young people,
is scheduled for this afternoon.
About two score persons have been
summoned to testify. Fred Foster, the
sole survivor, is expected to tell his
story Of the affair either today or to-
morrow. Except for one or two inter-
views with newspaper mon, Foster has
not discussed the tragedy with anyone
but members of the Foster family.
The taking of testimony win require
several days.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
South American
War in Balance
Argentine Fleet Ready to Fire
Upon Paraguay.

tween the Argentine Republic n
Paraguay hangs in the balance today.
Following the refusal of Paraguay to
reply favorably TO Argentina's ultima
tum that Paraguayans cease firing on
Argentine g%unboats, Senior Martinez
Campos, Argentina's minister to Asun-
cion, has been recalled.
An Argentine fleet Of four warships
is cruising in Paraguayan waters
awaiting orders to begin hostilities.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
ACCUSED OF KILLING
MINING PARTERN

AUBURN, Cal, Jan. 26.-Herman
Bremen, son Of Il wealthy brewer of
Charleston, $. c., is locked up acre
today pending action of a grand jury
which will be called to investigate the
murder OF Thomas Rafileton. who ac-
companied him on a mining prospect
ing trip. He was arrested in Mont
gomery. Ala. Bremer's father, who is
here, said he was confident Of his sons
innocence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
ACADEMY OF ARTS NOM IN
SESSION AT PHILADELPHIA,

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26--Authors.
poets, sculptors and musicians gathered
here today for the annual meeting OF
Letters and the National Institute of
Arts and Letters.
William M. Sloane, chancellor of the
academy, presided at the morning ses-
sion, and papers prepared by Hamil-
ton Wright Mabie, Brander Matthews,
George Mclean Harper and Edgar
Stillman Kelley were read.
A gold medal will be awarded for
distinction In poetry during the past
year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
FRANCE AND ITALY
REACHES AGREEMENT

ROME, Jan. 26.-Conferences over
the Manouba affair continued here to-
day with Premier Giolitti, Marquis di
San Giuliano, the foreign minister, and
NJ. Barrere, the French ambassador, as
the principals. There was an exchange
of ciphered kilograms with Paris this
morning in connection with the con-
ferences. The settlement of the affair,
now practically assured, will, it is be-
lieved, be satisfactory both to France
and Italy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
CITY OFFICIALS TO CONFER
ON CANAL ABANDONMENT,

A conference on the Morris Canal
abandonment proposition will be held
in the Board of Trade room this aft
ernoon at 4 O'Clock. William Mungle.
former president of the Board of
Works, viii preside.
Others present will be members OF
the City Planning Commission and the
canal abandonment committee of the
Board OF Trade.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-26
Brandt Tells OF Love
Affair in Schiff Home
Declares Handsome Woman, Whose Name Is Withheld, Made
First Advances, and When Surprised by Banker he
Feigned Burglary TO Shield Her.
PLATTsBURGH, n. y, Jan. 90.

w OR hours Folke Il. Brandt, the fai r-haired young man who is serving Il
a tirty-year sentence behirI the grim, gay walls of Clinton prison be-
n aus Of a plea Off robbery and a sau1t with inhnt to kill Mortimer L.
Schif, banker. sat yesterday in the office of Warden Kaiser and unfolded a
story tina. rvaed any fiction eve writ ten. 1t IA a story too daring or an
fiction writer to weave, a story more like a tale of the baronat days, with
their grisy castles and torture chambers than the simple narrative of a
notwithstanding convict.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-25
Dinners and LuRcReons

Chief Os-ApIe. princess Wanda and
their retinue comprised a jolly party
who took dinner at the Harvey house
on Thursday. evening previous to going
to the carnival, where they took in the
shows. The personnel Of the party was:
Chief Os-Aple princess Wanda Misses
Anna Lee Gaines, Lemira Nebeker,
Carrie Race, Alice WuIff, May Mahoney.
Thalia GIlett, Eileen Walz, Martha
ThUrmOnd; Messrs. George Wines, Ted
Davis, Joe Wellington, Vance Stewart,
W V. Sterling, Gist Russell, Tom New
man, Lieut. R c. Holiday. The party
was Joined later by Russell Hunter and
J. Oakley Sharp.
DR.. and Mrs. J. ". Yard entertained
a few friends with an eight course din
ner Thursday night at the Sheldon.
The personnel OF the party was; Marie
Kennedy, DOna Klugel, Mrs. J. W
Yard. E P Hughes, DR.. Frank Hughes
and Dr.. Yard
MI and Mrs D. c. Booth had as their
guests Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings at dinner at the Valley Inn, Miss
Nyra Prater, Mrs W S. Robinson and
Bob Moore.