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Evening star., 1915-02-24
THEODORE NJ. DAVIS, NOTED
EGYPT0L0GIST, DEAD AT 78
Passes Away at Florida Estate of
Secretary Bryan-Excavated
Famous Tombs.

NEW YORK. February 24.-Theodore
NJ Davis, the noted Psychologist. died
yesterday at the Florida estate of Sec
retary Bryan, at Miami, where he was
spending the winter, according to ad-
vices received here today. He was
seventy-eight years old and a native
Of New York city.
Mr.. Davis became best known to
Egyptologists in 1905, when he was ex-
cavating in the fa-, GUS valley Of the
Kings Of Thebes and discovered the
tombs of the parents of Queen Teie,
the mother and inspirer of the famous
"heretic king" of Egyptian history.
This discovery was hailed by Egyptol-
ogists as the greatest one that had been
made up to that time. Two years later
Mr.. Davis found and excavated the
tomb of AmenHotep. "the hereto
king himself. which was found to adjoin
the tomb of Rameses IN. The king s
tomb was one of the most wonderful
ever discovered and was literally full
of gold, the walls. ceilings and even
the floor being covered with plates of
the precious metal.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Sees Wide Open Town.
PRESIDENT IS TO SPEAK.
Scheduled for Address Tonight in
Interest of Southern Education.

President Wilson will deliver an ad-
dress at the public meeting to be held
this evening at $3.50 o'clock in Conti-
mental Memorial Hall in the interest
of Berea College of Kentucky and the
Southern Highlanders.
Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court
of the United States will be the pre-
siding officer and the list of speakers
will include DR.. Hamilton Wright
Mabie, Frederick G. Bonser of Column
bia University and Dr. William GoodelI
Frost of Berea College. While tickets
have been issued for all the seats. 1t is
announced that the general public is in
vited and may occupy seats unoccupied
at S:45 o'clock.
The meeting, it is pointed out, is be-
ing held for the uplift of what Dr.
Frost has called appalachian Ameri-
ca" the mountain region of the south,
part of eight states, containing in it's
isolated valleys 100000 Americans of
Scotch-and English lineage and con-
stituting race. as he declares. wig
orous. prolific and of large promise,
whose characteristic traits are sur
vivals from colonial times
Evening star., 1915-02-24
FOOD TRUST"
PLOTS Scent BREAD
Representative Rainey Makes Argu-
ment for Passage Of Voll-
mer Bill.

In a wholesale charge against a
flood trust" the statement is made by
Representative Rainey of Illinois that
the trust" is endeavoring to force
the retail price of bread to cents .
loaf. Mr.. Rainey is chairman Of a sub
committee Of the ways and means
committee Of the House which is con-
sidering the Vollmer bill to repeal the
Spanish war tax on mixed flour.
The friends of the bill contend that
the tax on flour made of mixed corn
and wheat products raises practically
no revenue at all, and simply acts in
the interests of certain group of
wheat flour men.
Joker in War Tax.
Said Mr.. Rainey:
"It is doing this by attempting t. de-
feat the vollmer bill repeating the
iniquitous Spanish war tax, which
places the manufacturers of mixed
flour on the same basis as the pro-
ducers and dealers in alcoholic liquors
and tobacco. In 1899. through joker
placed in the war tax by former SEN
ator Billy Mason, the war tax was SO
milling trust monopoly on the manu-
facture Of flour. In 1902 all of the war
tax was repealed with the exception
of this provision. and every effort to
open the way for the manufacture Of
wholesome, nutritious and healthier
-four than is produced by the milling
trust has been defeated largely be-
cause the people of the country have
been deceived by the false claims Of
the representatives of the combine It
has never been a matter of pure food,
as it is acknowledged by all authori-
ties that a mixture of corn and wheat
flour is superior to that which is pro-
duced by the milling of wheat alone.
License Is Required.
yet if a manufacturer mixes corn
and wheat flour he is treated as a
'moonshiner.' Manufacturers of this
combination of corn and wheat flours
are required to take out licenses and
comply with all of the requirements of
the producers of alcoholic liquors. The
regulations are so strictly enforced and
so exacting that the only manufactur-
ers who have been able to stay in the
business of milling corn and wheat
flour are a few up in New York who
manufacture health flour and pancake
-four. AS a result the government Sc
cures a little over $4,000 a year in rev.
enue and the price of flour is kept up
Evening star., 1915-02-24
FEAST FOR ENDEAVORERS.
Presbyterian Young People to Eat
Turkey at lexington Church.

The Presbyterian Christian Endeav-
orers are to meet at turkey supper
Friday evening at $50 o'clock at the
lexington Presbyterian Church. Rep
resentatives from the twenty-one
Presbyterian Christian Endeavor So
cieties are to be present.
The moderator Of the presbytery.
Rev. Harvey S. Durham of the West
ern Presbyterian Church, and Mrs.
Frank E. Edgington, secretary for
young people in the presbytery, are to
speak. The work of the union among
the mountaineers of North Carolina and
the sick and needy of KaZini, Persia, is
to be represented in unique form.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
FIRE IN PATENT OFFICE.
Crossed Electric Wires Start Blaze
Which Does 500 Damage.

Several companies of fremen re-
sponded to an alarm sounded about
o'clock this morning and found their
services were needed in a basement
room of the patent ONCE building
Some of the older men in the service
recalled the disastrous fire in the
building September "a, 1877, but when
they saw the location Of the fire this
morning they did not fear a repetition
of the f1re Of years ago.
This mornings fire was in a room
used by the publication division and
contained printed blanks and other sta
tionery. but no valuable records. The
fire was caused by electric wires be-
coming crossed. the police reported,
and 500 damage resulted.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Mission Study Class to Meet.

The Interdenominational Mission
study class is to meet Friday at 2
o'clock in the Public Library. Mrs.
George Thompson Prewitt of the II
Street Christian Church will review
the fifth chapter of the text book The
Child in the Midst Mrs. Wilbur F,
Crafts of the international reform bu-
reau will speak on The Child in Ice
land" and little Miss Adelina Willis
of Mount Rainier Primary Sunday
School will sing the national anthem.
These sessions are open to the public.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
ASKS FOR LEGAL SEPARATION.
Mrs. Jennie Fitzgerald Ayers Hus-
band Beat and Deserted Her.

legal separation is asked in a suit
filed by Mrs. Jennie Fitzgerald against
William Fitzgerald. They were mar
ried August %. 1912. and have no chill
dren. She declares her husband has
beaten and choked her and even threat
ened her that 'he would hang for
her"
her husband beat her and deserted her.
She forgave him. she says. out he has
since attacked her and she has been
compelled to call in the aid of the po-
lice.
Attorneys, NJ. c. oBrien and f. l..
Gies represent the wife.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
STRIKES LIQUOR SHIPPERS.
Supreme Court Upholds Conviction
in Indian Country Case.

Conviction of the Joplin Mercantile
Company and Joseph Filler OF Joplin.
Mo-. Of conspiracy to introduce intoxi-
eating liquors into Indian country by
shipping from Joplin to Tulsa. Okla,
was upheld yesterday by the Supreme
Court.
Congress Of 1895 against introducing
liquor into Indian country was not en-
forcible as to intrastate trafac so long
as local prohibition continued by state
law at least.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Capt. ]. P. McCrink Honored.

Capt. Joseph P. McCrink has re-
ceived his commission as national aid
de-camp to Charles Francis Palmer.
commander-in-chief. United Spanish
War Veterans. 1t is declared to be the
drst time that a member of the Naval
Camp has been raised to the rank of a
national off1cer.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Soldiers Fight Brush Fire.

A brush fire near Fort Myer and
Arlington national cemetery last night
claimed the attention of a number of
soldiers and residents Of that section.
Very little headway was gained, 1t was
said at the military post this morning.
and no damage was done.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
BEATS CARTER HARRISON
BY 77,551 MAJORITY
r. M. Sweitzer Nominated for Mayor
of Chicago by Democrats-Re-
publicans Name Thompson.

CHICAGO. February 24-With four
precincts still missing early today. re-
vised figures of yesterdays primaries
| show that Carter H. Harrison, who is
serving his fifth term as mayor, was de-
feated for the democratic denomination
by Robert NJ. sweitzer. county clerk. by
a majority of 1851.
Votes cast for Mr.. Harrison. son Of
Carter H. Harrison,~sr.. who also was
mayor of Chicago for five years. totaled
104,Ss3. Women cast 3S,2o7 of them.
For Mr.. Sweitzer. 1s2,534 ballots were
cast. 1866 by women.
William Hale Thompsons plurality
over Harry Olson, chief justice of the
municipal court, for the republican
total vote for Mr.. Thompson was $1,000.
while Olson's was s4,735. The former
received 25,s42 votes cast by women,
and Olson, 1892.
The Candidates Nominated.
Mr.. sweitzer is a native Of Chicago
and is forty-six years old. The re-
publican candidate, Mr.. Thompson, was
born in Boston. Mass. in 1869. He is
.n,r1 former - alderman snn, ara was instru-
municipal M playground established. Mr..
thompson has been a patron of out
door sport for years, and was well
known as an athlete. He was captain
Of the Chicago Athletic Association
foot ball team which won the cham
pionship of the country for two sea-
sons. He has given much time to cat
tie raising in the west and also is in
terested in the real estate business in
Chicago.
Charles NJ. Thomson, who was un-
opposed as the progressive candidate,
is thirty-siX years old, the youngest
of the nominees. Mr.. Thomson is a
lawyer, a former alderman, and was
elected to Congress in 1912. He was
defeated, however, for reelection last
fall. Seymour Stedman was unopposed
for the nomination for mayor on the
socialist ticket.
Sees Wide Open Town.
Mr.. Harrison issued a statement an
nouncing that he would not enter the
race as an independent candidate.
THE vote seems to me- he said,
that the people of Chicago want a
wide open town.
Evening star., 1915-02-24

at least 81 per barrel. Under the pres
ent war conditions this will give the
country bread at cents a loaf. II it
Of bread there might be some defense
for this discriminating tax, but with
the advance Of the price in wheat 1t
is q tribute which the food trust pro-
table"
Evening star., 1915-02-24

of the District. IN an address before
the Parents League of the third di-
vision at the Wilson Normal School
last evening. stephen L. Kramer. as
sistant superintendent of public schools,
was another speaker
Evening star., 1915-02-24

Are you wondering what the
German soldier is saying about
this war? Are you wondering
how the proud French of North
ern France are facing the hui
initiation and heart-break of the
second German invasion? Then
read John Reeds "German
France" Reed was with the
German army. He came back
and wrote his story in America,
where the truth is safe from
censorship of the soldiers bayo-
net. This is the John Reed
whose war stories in the Metro
politan introduced Pancho Villa
to the world, and made Rudyard
Kipling and a million Americans
see Mexico as they never saw it
before.
And IN the remarkable and timely magazine will
read compelling and timely contribution by Theodore
Roosevelt Mexico and Japan Twilight Sleep in Amer
ca," by the pioneers of the this country,
Mary Boyd and Marguerite Tracy Four short stories,
of them big enough to be the headline feature for
the average magazine by Richard Harding Davis Rupert
Hughes Booth darlington and Fannie Hurst Washington
IN Pen and Picture, by Art Young. "How the Socialists
Met This War;" by Morri. Hlqut The Story of Pioneer,
BY Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Today and Tomorrow, by
Walter Lppnaann.
In the March
METROPOLITAN
The ZfDesx Az1Sazzzze z,z America
Out Today All Good Newsstands Is Cents
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Searches for Wife.

Fearing something wrong, Mr.. Cock
rell boarded the next train and came
here. and probably passed along 14th
street in front of the Monument about
the time his wife made the leap to the
bottom of the shaft. He made in
quiries for her, and went to the house
of his sister, thinking. she might be
there, and was surprised and alarmed
when told she had not beeh there
There were several passengers in the
Monument elevator on its $3.50 trip up,
officers on duty at the Monument stated,
among them being Mrs. Cockreil There
was nothing about her appearance or
conversation to suggest there was any
thing wrong $ith her.
Descending from the top of the shaft
to the third landing below, Mrs. Cock
rell addressed Miss Edna Rockefeller,
said to be distant relative of John D.
Rockefeller. and Miss Elizabeth Seger
trained nurses at Walter Reed Hos
pital, who were out on a sightseeing
trip yesterday afternoon.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Announces Intention to Jump.

Mrs. Cockrell made the statement that
she was, going to climb out from the
rounding stairway and jump to her
death Her words were not taken Sc
riously at first, her tone not suggesting
that she was laboring under any undue
excitement or mental disturbance, but
when she made a move in the direction
of big steel bar from which she later
made the leap the nurses became
alarmed.
Miss Rockefeller begged her not to
jump and held to her sleeve to prevent
her from doing so, but Mrs. Cockrell
pulled away from her and jumped,
leaving part Of her sleeve in the nurses
hand.
Floorman Charles Rented responded
to Miss Seger's call for assistance. He
reached the third landing just about
the time Mrs. Cockrell made the leap.
He quieted a number of visitors in the
shaft and remained on duty until the
visitors had departed and Col. W. w.
Harts. superintendent of public build
ings and grounds, reached the Monu-
ment.
Coroner hewitt reached the Monument
about thirty minutes after the tragedy
occurred. Bicycle Policeman c. w. Lip
pold was on hand with the note that
Mrs. Cockrell had left, and Monument
employees told of the circumstances as
tHty hdu uccu Tcidlcu ny tHc tWO
nurses.
Col. Harts directed that the Monu-
ment be closed for the day. and scores
of visitors, some from distant points,
called and were turned away. A police
patrol wagon was called and the shape
less form of the suicide was taken to
the morgue. Practically every bone in
Mrs. Cockrells body was broken.
Certificate of Suicide.
Coroner Nevitt gave certificate of
suicide after making an investigation
at the scene of the tragedy. Mr.. Cock
rell and other relatives visited the
morgue last night and had the body
taken to an undertaking establishment
in Alexandria to be prepared for burial
1t was arranged to take the body to
the home of Mrs. Varney, mother OF
the deceased, in Del Ray, Va, this aft
ernoon.
The body of Mrs. Cockrell was this
afternoon removed from the undertak-
| ing establishment in Alexandria to the
home Of her sister, Mrs. John Gary, at
| Del Ray, and prepared for burial The
arrangements for the funeral will not
be completed until tonight, pending
| the arrival of a brother of the de-
ceased from Chicago.
Relatives of the deceased residing al
Del Ray include her mother, Mrs. Mar,
Varney; Mrs. John Gary. Mrs. A j.
Nails and Miss Dora Varney, sisters
and Walter U. and John Varney, broth
ers. William P. Varney, another broth
er. is a resident of Chicago.
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Left Note to Husband,

Mrs. Gary learned of the contents Of
the note written by her sister from a
Star reporter. The note was addressed
to MIR. Cockrel1, in care of Mrs. Gary,
and was written on a prescription
blank of DR.. N. E. Webb, the name and
address of DR.. Tom A. Williams, spe-
cialist in nervous diseases, being writ
ten on the blank.
Forgive me, sweetheart, but this is
my only way out" the message to her
husband read. always remember I
love you, and you are the dearest hus-
band in the world. Please burn my
body. NAE"
On the reverse side of the prescrip-
tion blank Mrs. Cockrell wrote: Il
know I can never get we'll. dear. so
this is best. Be as happy as you can.
l am burden to you, as l am. NAE"
Mr.. Cockrell was at the home of Mrs.
John Hanford. his sister, 1902 A street
southeast. when he learned of the fate
OF his wife. He was in Alexandra
yesterday on business, it is stated, and
when he returned to Del Ray he
learned that his wife had come to this
city on the electric train that left
Alexandria at 2:3O o'clock,
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Advocates Amusements Censorship

Censorship of amusements in Wash
ington was advocated by E. 8. Martin,
director of the municipal Fairgrounds
Evening star., 1915-02-24
Mrs. Mae CocMeII HurIs. Her.
self 500 Feet Down WASH
ington Shaft.
SHATTERED NERVES
CAUSE OF TRAGEDY
Woman Left Note to Husband Ex-
planning Deed-Visitor Tried to
Prevent Desperate Act.

Suffering from a general breakdown,
unable to sleep and her nervous sys-
tenn completely shattered. Mrs. Mae
Varney Cockrell, twenty eight years
old. of Covington. KY. yesterday after
noon committed suicide by jumping
from the third landing from the top of
Washington Monument to the bottom
of the elevator shaft a distance Of
nearly 500 feet. She was the first per-
son to commit suicide in the big shaft
that has been visited by millions Of
visitors from all parts of the world.
William Frank Cockrell. husband of
the suicide. was searching for his wife
at the time she was in the Monument.
He had feared she had come to this
city from the home of her mother at
Del Ray, Va, for the purpose of sui
eide. it is stated, the wife having
threatened to take her life.
She said she would do it, said Mrs.
John Gary, sister of Mrs. Cockrell, at
her home in Del Ray yesterday after
noon when Star reporter told
her of the tragic scene enacted in
the Monument. But there was no rea-
son for her to die. Mae had everything
to live for. She had one of the best
husbands in the world and was given
everything she desired"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
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 BRIDGEPORT As IT WAS
 ~S>cGS%ooSS0 1OO-5O-2O-YEARS AGO
CTalien from the Files of The Evening Farmer) 
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driver at Pleasure Beach, driving piles in front of the pavilion. The big drop hammer was half way up and in some way Westnnan got his head and shoulders in the grooved frame under the weight. Down came the hammer and hit Westnan on the head> opening a gash four inches long Then the hammEr landed be- tween his shoulders, making a severe confusion on his back.
 The injured man was released from his eramped position by his brother workmen who believed he must. have been killed outright But strange to relate, Westman was not even knocked sAnseleas. His head and face were covered with blood and he complained. considerably from the injury both to his head and back. He was assisted to 8 boat and taken to Lehnan's shore house, and the arn- bulance was sent for.
 At the Emergency Dr. Osborne closed the scalp wound with seven stitches after which Westman walked to his home. He is 55 years old. The hammer weighed 250 pounds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
NOT IooNY BUT sruDrous.

Passers through State street last evening, about e:3o, were somewhat surprised to notice young man very comfortably seated under one of the street lamps just In front Of the post office busi1y engaged in reading a book. Some doubts were expressed by observers of the. youth as to his sanity, others wondered if his tsrnother knew he was out
 We learn. however. that the seeker after knowledge under dtf1fculties.a was one of the active post office clerks, driven by the heat and the poisonou Black Republican exha1a- tfons of the post office to the purer atmosphere Of the streets.
 2 It may interest those who saw the studious youth. with eyes intent on book, to know that the work he was perusing, was not How to Be q Postnaaster' The Whole Duties Of Post Of1ce Clerk. An Essay on the Quick Distribution Of Mails" or. How to Annoy and Irritate the Public" but was one of those precious yellow ktvvered's affairs. of the stamp Of the Flood thfrsty Puttyhead of the Lower Beacon or the SnugEler Of Long Beach, ;, The clerk Is willing to loan the interesting narrative when he has finished his gas-Iight reading of it. Public. take notice, Melody Home in the Post On1ce.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Ho! TALIY-Hoi

The four-horse brake Richmond, which is to make regular trips from Fairfield to Stamford and retur n, made her first regular trip Saturday,
 ExComnodore Lottimer was on the box and with him were L.. T. HoWes and wife Mrs. Frank Weed, Mrs H. A. Perkins, Mrs. Malcolm Pitt Mrs. Samuel Pierson, Frank Phelps, Rus sell Perkins, Charles l.. Howes and Edward Sanborn. The party left Stamford at 10 a. na. and arrived at Hotel Fairfield at 12:3s D. m.. their schedule time: Fhe party left for Stamford at 3 o'clock on their re- turn trip.
 The coach stops at Dams stables in Norwalk for a relay of horses. With the exception of Fridays and Saturdays the brake witIl leave Stan- ford each week day at 9:3o a. m. and return at 3 D. m.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
)NE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
VERMONT ELECTION.

Extract of a letter from a, gentle man of intelligence, dated tsBenning- ton,' Sept. g, IS15.
 '"The election in Vermont took place last Tuesday. The news receiv- ed as to it's results, are very pronais- ing and exhilerating to a Republican. Bennington county stands in it's rep resentation. eight Republicans to five GAIush's gain from last year is "A votes. Rutland county is compoEa- tive 10 more Republican in the House Of the Assembly. Here there is. a change of five members.
 g'tThe representation in this county stands 20 Republicans to 6 Federal. Increase for Governor Galush Is in this county from three to 400 votes.
 "P s.-The Eastern mail has just come in and brings an account of a
 Republican gain in the county of IfVVfndhaIn.'s
 We have. in addition to the above, accounts from the most of the residue towns on the west side of the noun tain. The Burlington Sentinel of Fri day contains returns from 35 towns, which give a Republican net gain of sos. There is a Republican net gain in the west half of the state Of more ithan 1,600, and we are warranted in saying that no doubt remains of the election Of Republican governor and council by a handsome majority.
 We sincerely facilitate the Repub- 1icans of Vermont. and of the union on the brilliant triumph of American principles. Argus.
 Sufficient returns have been re- ceived from different parts of the state, to satisfy us that many Feder- ists Cor those who claim the namea have been grossly negligent of their duty and that Democracy will be re warded for it's zeal and exertions by the direction and government Of it's affairs during the ensuing year We conceive it unnecessary to give the list of votes. TFIE FEDERAL Eingten1an 6Federal)
 9The Republicans of those days i were the orfginal Democratic party Of the present day.-Ed.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
NATIVE GRAPES.

We have seen many fine speci- m ems this season of native grapes. Charles Meeker has some of the Con cord variety, that are quite extra, of which he has sent us several large punches as samples. But the largest and best punches we have yet seen, of this variety, were sent us yesterday by Eli Thompson. We think it would be difficult for any one in these parts to beat them. MT. Thompson's vines have an excellent southern exposure. an advantage which others do not al- ways shave. and this, n a measure, accounts for their superiority
 TWENTY YEARS AGO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
MRS. SMITHS PURCHASE.

Mrs Eli c. Smith. of ths city, has bought the Daniel Crossrnan home stead on Riverside avenue, opposite Ball mountain, in WestportS It is a beautiful location. with the SSauga- tuck river at the foot of the garden and the avenue with rose railroad on the other, and close to the village The consideration is not named, but there are seven aged white oak trees besides many other trees on the place which enhances the value of the estate.
 Mrs. Smith is the wifeaof the treas+ urer of the Wheel & Wood Bending avenue. H@t