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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
ANNULMENT ENDS
SEPTUAGENAR|AN'S
SEASIDE ROMANCE
Cupid and Bride Took Wing
Just Ten Days After
Marriage.

By a special masters report filed
today in chancery, Mrs. Henrietta
Davis, of 26 Sherman avenue, this
city, is released from a marriage that
had its beginning in a seashore ro-
nance at Ocean Grove, lasted exactly
ten days and ended when Mrs. Davis
left her 70-year-old husband at Ma
lone. n. Y. and returned to her home
in this city.
The special master, Francis Child,
jr., filed his recommended tions after
hearing the testimony of Mrs. Davis
and several witnesses from Ocean
Grove, but the most important wit
ness was DR.. John B. Emory. a ply
sician, of 81 Lincoln park. this city.
Mrs. Davis, then Miss Henrietta
Woodhouse, met Henry H Davis
through mutual friends on the board
walk one moonlight night in the sum-
mer of 1908. He had been in the
habit of going to Ocean Grove from
his home in Malone every summer,
and Miss Woodhouse had been leav-
ing the din of Newark for the quiet
oceanside town every time that July
and August came around.
Naturally. they met at last, and the
70-year-old, widower proposed mar
riage. Miss Davis. who says she is
46 years old, returned his affection,
and they agreed that they would re-
turn the following spring to the place
of their romance and be wed.
Miss Woodhouse became Mrs. Davis
on April is, 1910 They were mar
ried by the Rev. William P. Bailey.
rector of the Episcopal Church at
Asbury Park. and the same night
they left for Malone. Ten days later
Mrs. Davis returned to her home in
this city.
She has not seen her husband since.
He did not answer when she started
suit for annulment through Edward
S. Black, nor did he make any effort
to contest it, so her decree will be-
come valid when the masters rec
ommendation is ratified by Chancel-
lor Walker
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
WIFE SEEKS TO
STOP HUSBANDS
DIVORCE IN RENO
Files Her Own Suit, Declaring
William P. Mccormick Isn't
Nevada Resident.

1t became known today that Will
lam P. Mccormick secretary and a
member or the hffn of e. H. Me-
Cormick & Sons. leather manufac-
turers of Avenue C and Vanderpool
street, has begun an action in Reno,
New, for divorce from his wife,
Mrs Regina A. Mccormick, who is
now nurse in an out-of-town sani-
tarium.
The information leaked ont when
Theodore Marsh, of Raymond, Noun
tain, Van Blarcom & Marsh, applied
to ice-Chancellor Howell for an in
junction to stop Mccormick from
prosecuting his suit in Reno, so that
Mrs. Mccormick can continue her
suit for divorce in the New Jersey
courts, His reason was that McCor-
mick is not bona fide resident of
Nevada, and has been seen in New
ark not later than two weeks ago.
Mccormick bases his suit on the
ground that his wife was cruel to
him. Mrs. Mccormick says that her
husband deserted her, and places the
date of his desertion as June 2, 1909.
She filed her petition on November
25, 1912. Just when Mccormick filed
his is not known, not even to Mrs.
Mccormick or her lawyers The
whole matter has. been kept so secret
that no one outside of the lawyers
and few intimate friends knew any
thing of it until today. Mrs. McCor-
mick was served with papers In the
Reno action last March. The charges
of cruelty on which her husband bases
his suit were sworn to on October 2.
1912.
Cora NJ. Williams, of this city,
heard testimony in her suit, and last
April filed a report recommending
that she be granted a divorce. In
this hearing 1t was brought out that
she had been served with papers in
the Reno action. If the latter action
Is allowed to continue, 1t will in
validate the New Jersey masters re-.
port On the other hand. If it can
be proved that Mccormick is not
legal resident of Nevada, he will not
be allowed to bring his action there.
That is the present situation in the
case. The vice-chancellor asked Mr..
Marsh to file affidavits bearing on
McCormicks residence, and If it is
shown that he has been living in
Newark, the Chancery Court will
knock out the Reno action with an
injunction.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25

When Margaret Brown, the 13-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
c. Brown, of 80 Eleventh avenue, was
taken i'll Decoration Day she called
her mother to her bedside and told
her:
Mama, I'm going to die soon. see
angels and saints and they are beck
oning to me-"
The mother, believing the girl to be
nervous, comforted and Gained her
But the girl had other visions of
heavenly things and she related them
to her mother each day as she slowly
grew weaker At last her condition
became SO serious she was removed to
the City Hospital.
She died today.
Before her death Margarets three
sisters, her mother and her father
were at the bedside last night, and
also the night before.
Little Sister Also Sees Angel
Adelaide, two years older than the
stricken girl, was the first to enter
the sick room on Monday night. As
she lifted her eyes from the bed,
what she declares was an angel ap-
peared at the foot of the bed She
called her parents and her sisters,
and they are sure all saw the strange
form.
Mr. Brown, thinking it was a
shadow, moved about the room and
stood in the doorways and before the
windows. but no change was made
in the bright, filmy light at the bed
side. Mystif1ed, the family watched,
while the sick girl, her face radiant,
muttered her prayers, half conscious
ly. After fifteen minutes the vision
disappeared, the group declare.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
MULL|K|N SCORES
CIVIL SERVICE BODY
Former President Tells Legis-
lative Probers Board Is
Extravagant.
IFrom a stan Correspondent.I

TRENTON, ". j., June 25.-Colonel
James r. Mullikin, of Newark, former
president of the Civil Service Com
mission. in testifying before the legis-
lative investigating board yesterday
charged the present Civil Service
Commission with being extravagant
and generally inefficient.
The legislative body which is known
as the efficiency and economy COM
mission will again probe into the
workings of the Civil Service Com
mission on Friday of this week, and
will also investigate the charge of
extra compensation paid to the en-
ployees.
Colonel Mullikin maintained that
the Civil Service Commission had
been paying rent unnecessarily and in
addition he criticized other expendi-
lures, which he declared were ex-
travagant. The witness took excep-
ton to $1,000 additional pay being
given to Gardner Colby, chief ex-
aminer and secretary of the commits
sion, for work in carrying out the
provisions of the election Most of
this work is done by Charles F. Hal
combe, who was appointed election
clerk of the department, said the wit
ness.
Another criticism was the paying
of additional money to office employ
ees for overtime While he was a
member of the commission, he said.
the women in the Office had asked for
seventy-fve cents an hour for over
time, and he compromised with fifty
cents. The practise was likely to lead
to abuses. he said.
Mr.. Colby contradicted the story by
Colonel Mullikin that discipline in the
Office force was lacking. Colonel
Mulhkin declared Colby had left a
directors meeting TO quiet the Office
force.
To this the secretary replied that
the clerks had been comparing notes
in the regular routine of office busi-
ness and had been unaware that q
meeting was in progress. The COM
mission will continue the examination
of this department next Friday
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
TWENTY-S|X MORE
VICTIMS BELIEVED
BURIED IN RUINS
Company Declares That Num-
Der Missing After Checking
Up Employees.
BODIES OF DEAD MEN
ARE SEEN in THE DEBRIS
Police Declare Death Toll in
Mill Explosion May Reach
Sixty.

BUFFALO, n. Y, June 25.-Oficial
checking of the list of employees of
the Hustled Milling Company. whose
elevator was blown up by a dust ex-
plosion yesterday, shows besides the
eleven known victims, twenty-six
men are still unaccounted for and are
believed to be in the ruins.
The police started early today to
make house toulouse canvass and
tour of the hospitals where victims
were taken. They were provided
with lists of the employees who re-
ported for work yesterday The can
vass completed at noon showed that
there were forty-four men in hospi-
tails, half of whom are not expected
to recover; twenty-five were found
safe or only slightly injured in their
homes; ten employees are dead, not
counting John Conroy, the nickel
Plate" engineer, who was blown from
his cab and died later at the hos
pital twenty-six missing.
Clifford M Hustled, superintendent
of the elevator company, said of the
missing:
I'VE have been unable to get any
trace of these men. They were In the
mill at the time of the explosion and
we fear that they are buried in the
ruins"
Taking the police record as a basis
as to the number of missing and the
statement of the hospital physicians
that half of the injured have no
chance of recovery, with the known
dead, elevea, the probable ultimate
toll of the tragedy approaches sixty.
Three bodies were dug out of the
smouldering ruins of the elevator this
morning, two more are visible in the
debris and two of the victims sue
cumbed to injuries, bringing the total
of the dead list from the explosion
and fire up to eleven. The bodies re-
covered today were so badly charred
that Identification was impossible
Anthony Kruger and William Wild
owsky, both of whom we're fright
fully burned, died at the Emergency
Hospital. OF the sixty explosion vic
tins in the hospitals many are SO
badly injured that recovery is not ex-
pected
High up in shattered cupola of
the mill two companies of flremen
are battling to recover two and possi-
bly, more bodies of dead men. From
the upper windows of the concrete
section of the elevator and from the
Elk street viaduct the bodies are
plainly visible. Great clouds of.
smoke rom the burning ruins be-
low make the recovery of the bodies
difficult.
Just how many bodies are in the
cupola neither the police nor the fire.
men are able to say with certainty.
No men were at work there, and it
is believed those who died there fed
to the tower following the explosion
and were overwhelmed by the flames.
Firemen poured streams of water
on the ruins all night and this morn
ing, but the debris Is piled so high
that it will be days before it can be
cleaned and complete search made.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
YANKEES ADD TO
TENNIS LAURELS
Mclaughlin Defeats Mavrogor-
dato, of Cambridge "BIues,"
Leading Player.

WIMBLEDON. England, June 25.-
In the third round of the English
lawn tennis singles championship
here today. Maurice E. Mclaughlin.
of San Francisco. a member of the
United States Davis team, beat T. NJ.
Mavrogordato, a leading English
player.
He took three straight sets, Ga,
6-3, 60.
Mavrogordato is blue of Oy-
ford University and a formidable
player. Mclaughlin took the first
two games in the first set easily, but
then appeared to lose his grip. He
lost his service and Mavrogordato
won three of the next five games,
pulling the score up to four all Then
Mclaughlin braced and the Oxford
man never got another chance, Nc
Loughlin following all his strokes to
the net and smashing with terrible
effectiveness.
In the second set Mclaughlin after
establishing lead of five games to
nothing. mainly by drives from the
back of the court, grew careless and
netted repeatedly. losing three games
in succession. However, he quickly
braced off and finished off the set with
a love game. his cross-court smashing
being most spectacular.
Mavrogordato gained a lead of two
games love in the third set. but after
that Mclaughlin went right out with
little trouble. Mavrogordatos returns
of the champions lightning drives
were weak.
James c. Parke, the hero of the last
Davis cup competitions. beat A. E.
Beamish, another member of the Brit
ish Davis team in 1911 by three sets
to one
Stanley N. Doust. the Australasian
Davis cup player. defeated P. M.
Dawson by three sets to two.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
MAUSERT MAY GET
THREE-YEAR TERM
Fate Under Minimum Provision,
One Year-Friends Plead
for Him.

Speculation as to the sentence that
will be meted out to George E. Maui
sert, the convicted proprietor of the
Hotel Broad, by Judge Osborne Fri
day is an absorbing topic around the
Court House as well as in many other
places in town.
The extreme penalty that can be
imposed is imprisonment in the Tren-
ton State prison for term of three
years and a fine of $1,000. while the
And the guesses on the penalty to be
imposed range all the way from the
maximum to the minimum, the ma
jority of the guessers, however, being
of the opinion that the sentence will
be one about half way between the
two extremes with the imposition Of
the full fine of 81 900
It is pointed out that in case a
State prison term is imposed it
cannot be less than for one year.
The law now requires both a mini
cCAhCAASS ohN AAA
this instance the minimum is not less
than one year. If the sentence should
be less than one year it would be
served in the county penitentiary at
Caldwell.
There is just one man who knows
what the sentence will be. Judge
Osborne. and no one else will know
what the punishment is to be until
after he has pronounced sentence on
Mausert Considerable pressure, it
is understood. is being brought to
bear on Judge Osborne by friends
of Mausert, seeking to have a light
sentence imposed.
Mausert's wife and two children
have visited Judge Osborne to in
tercede for the husband and father.
and so have a number of personal
friends Of the convicted man.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
COUNCIL TO HELP
LEATHER FIRMS
To Provide for Measures to
Meet Bay State Law at
Special Session.

Quick action having been found
necessary to protect local leather in
terests, the Common Council will
meet in special session Friday night
to adopt an ordinance covering the
measuring of all leather which is
shipped to Massachusetts,
Action to this effect was found
necessary by the enforcement of a
law in Massachusetts, which will be-
come operative July l, prohibiting the
shipment of any leather into the State
unless it is first measured by a
sworn measure..
The purpose of the new ordinance
Is TO give the city sealer of weights
and measures power to swear in
:nea surers at each of the local fac
tories so that the local interests may
continue their shipments into Massa-
chusetts A. present none of the city
authorities is vested with this power
BY provision in the city charter
an ordinance which does not affect
personal liberty nor necessitate the
expenditure of city moneys can be
.sassed OH the third reading at one
sitting and become effective as soon
es the mayors signature is applied.
The ordinance which the leather
manufacturers seek to have passed
comes under this provision. Mayor
Haussling has already signified his
willingness to sign the ordinance as
soon as it is passed by the council.
The question was taken up at a
meeting Of the leather interests at the
,-ity Hall last night, when practically
.ve-y firm in~thc city was repre-
scnted. President .Tohn H. Donnelly,
81 the Common Council. who was also
nrosen,. assured she meeting that the
councii would take any necessary
reps 20 protect their interests. To-
src-ssrnc5 ~ 1-se 2 Cain'lsss kA
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
ANGEL Is Seen. at
Dying Girls Side
Radiant Vision Appears to Relatives and Nurses of 3Year
Old Margaret Brown at City Hospita-chd Said Celestial
Visitants Had Long Before Predicted Her Death.

BY Tuesday evening, when they re-
turned to the hospital again, doubts
as to the correctness of what had
been seen took possession of them.
At exactly the same time they had
seen it the night before, the angel
or form reappeared. Mr.. Brown en-
tered the room a few minutes after
the rest and he found them gazing,
awe-strieken at the place on the wall
where they had seen the sight the
night before. Hurriedly summoning
the nurses, Mr.. Brown pointed uot
the cause of their wonder.
TITS the Angel of Death"
Its the angel of DEATH whis-
pered one of the nurses as she
hastily left the room. The girl be-
came unconscious and the physician
was called. She died few hours
later.
Catherine. another of the sisters of
the girl. was positive that it was
not a shadow or anything earthly
that she had seen. Mrs. Brown was
equally sure. Mr.. Brown and his
eldest daughter. Agnes, while at the
time believing they had seen an
angel or spirit" think there may
have been some shadow that they
could not find the source Of
Six little playmates, members of
the Angels Sodality of St. Rose of
Limas Church, will act as pallbearers
at the funeral on Friday morning
Margaret was a pupil at St Rose of
Lima's School, and since she was
taken i'll was visited daily by one
of the sisters and schoolmate or two.
The dead girl was noted in school FOR
her piety and she wss looked upo n
as model student.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
MINISTER'S TRIAL
ON IN ELIZABETH
Rev. w. S. McRorie, in Court,
Accused by Young Woman
of His Congregation.

ELIZABETH, n. j., June PA
number of challenges were used by
the prosecution and defense here this
afternoon when the trial of the Rev.
Willis S. McRorie was started before
Judge James c. Connolly in the Court
of Quarter Sessions.
The minister is on trial for an al
legged offense involving young wom-
an in his congregation at Mt. Horeb,
near Plainfield.
The charge of "indiscretion" in the
same matter was brought against the
clergyman at the recent Methodist
conference in Newark.
1t took the church court several
days to arrive at decision, when Mr.
McRorie was suspended from the
pulpit.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
Legislator Hits
Trainman in Eye


WASHINGTON. June 25.-Repre-
sentative Martin Dies, of Texas, had
row with street-car conductor
last night. The conductor came out
Of the fracas with a blac keye, the
car came out with a smashed win
dow and Mr.. Dies came out un-
scathed, but with ruffled temper.
The railway company officials said
today they were investigating and
were inclined to stand up for the
conductor
1t is said that Mr. Dies found it
difficult to open a window and
punched the pane out of the sash
with one swipe of his elbow. When
the conductor demonstrated the con-
gressman virtually repeated the
movement. but on the conductors
eye with his fist.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
G|LLEN TO BRAVE
THREAT OF PAVING
COMP ANY TO SUE
Will Make Specific Charges
Against Bitulithic Con-
Germ Tomorrow.

Following a personal investigation
made yesterday in company with En-
gineers Hallock and Howell, of the
Board of Works, and Francis Sher-
rerd, a nephew of Chief Engineer
Morris r. Sherrerd, and represen-
.tative of the Standard Bitulithic
Company, Commissioner Charles P.
Gillen today declared that he would
make definite charges that the btu
lithic people had defrauded the city
of Newark In a statement issued to
the Evening Star Mr.. Gillen says that
he has been pressed by Mr.. Hoyt,
vice. president of the company, and
by Mr. McCarter, their counsel, to
make definite charges against the
company.
The statement in full is as follows:
Replying to Mr.. Hoyt's statement
in defense of the bitulithic trust, l
simply wish to reiterate that l am
fighting the operations of that COM
pany in this city for the following
reasons:
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25

+ SAN FRANCISCO, June 25. = Mr..
McNab has given out a formal state-
ment as follows:
THE President has accepted my
resignation and the incident is closed.
the President and his fulsome but
necessary certificate of character to
his attorney general cannot change
the facts. The attorney-general states
that his reasons for continuing the
Caminetti-Diggs cases was that the
secretary of labor desired the pres
ence of Mr. Caminetti, the father OF
one of the defendants. Why. then.
did he insist upon continuing the
case against the defendant Diggs.
which had nothing to do with the
case of Caminetti, who was sepa-
rately indicted? Why was it neces-
sary for Mr. Caminetti TO be present
at the trial in San Francisco when
he was not a witness. and when his
son was represented by seven emil
nent members Of the California bar.
one of whom has since been indicted
for conspiracy to suborn perjury in
the same case to save his client7
THE excuse given for the continue
ance of the trial of the Western Fuel
defendants is that the attorney-ge gem
eral. who had had a secret and pri-
vate conference with these defend
ants and their attorney. was fearful
that they might be convicted and
that possibly they might be innocent.
May as Easily Declare Men Guilty.
IF they were innocent they should
have insisted upon being tried. II
the attorney general can thus declare
men innocent in spite of overwhelm-
ing evidence submitted to two grand
guilty against whom there is no evil
dence.
IF the attorney-general is to be
constituted a court for the trial Of
facts, the sooner the. constitution is
amended the better. If rich and in
fiuential defendants, with powerful
political influence, can gain access to
the ear of the attorney general and
have their cases throttled and JUS
tice choked. then it is time that the
American people should know it.
The attorney general had before
him my repeated warnings that po-
litcal corruption was at work; that
subornation of perjury had been
practised, and that if the Caminettf-
Diggs cases were continued the evil
dence would be destroyed and that
the power of the government to con-
vict would have disappeared. He
was informed that this office would
be directly charged with corruption
if the cases were postponed. With
indifference to the rights OF this Of
fee and the honor of the department.
of justice. he continued the cases
until autumn.
THE President announces that the
department will be rushed IN hot
footed haste to try these cases. Why
is it necessary to hasten now when
II was unnecessary to make haste .
week ago2 II 1t was right in May tc
Continued an Pare = CalRe@a ~ 4
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
WOMAN FOUND OVERCOME
BY GAS ON FLOOR OF HOME

Found unconscious in her home, at
"a Barclay street, at noon today from
the effects of escaping Illuminating
gas. Mrs. Bessie Stickler, 26 years
old, is in st. Barnabas's Hospital in
a critical condition.
She was found there by neighbors,
who traced the odor of escaping gas
TO the front bedroom of the Stickler
home There they found the woman
lying on the door fully dressed.