Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1898 — ASKS FOB A FORTUNE. [ARTICLE]

ASKS FOB A FORTUNE.

RAVAGES OF TIME HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED. Denver Woman Sues the Man Who Took the Contract to Remodel Her Face-Her Wrinklea Increase—Will Sent to the Dead-Letter Office. Dimple Is a Fake. Because, as she alleges, her hand-made dimple did not show when she smiled, and for other reasons, Miss Helen Brooks feels damaged in the sum of $50,000. She lives in Denver and wanted to become beautiful. With that end in view she engaged a dermatological institute of New York to make extensive repairs and alterations to her face. Miss Brooks says the job was a, fizzle, and she has begun suit in the Supreme Court to recover damages. Her face will be offered in evidence as people's exhibit A. Having read voluminous advertisements, Miss Brooks made, she declares, several trips from Denver and paid $275 to have her features remodeled at the institute. That was in April, 1806. She asserts that the two wrinkles in her brow were to be obliterated by removing some of the scalp and drawing the skin back. This was also expected to make the arched eyebrows horizontal. Incisions in the upper eyelids would, she was told, render the optics larger and brighter. Her ears, site also claims, were to be whittled down and brought in contour with the rest of the face, and a cunning little dimple in the chin was to complete the rejuvenating process. A doctor overhauled and made these extensive repairs on the face of Miss Brooks, she says, and the lady weeps now every time she looks in the glass. The dimple that was to be, she contends, is nothing but a scar, one ear is shorter than the other, and the lobes curl outward like the edge of a gooseberry tart.

IN DEAD-LETTER OFFICE. Eccentric California Miser Left an Estate of SIOO,OOO. Teter Christensen, a wealthy bachelor farmer who died a few weeks ago on his ranch near Waterloo, Cal., left an estate worth upward of $160,000, and so far as known no heir of his resides this side of Denmark. No will has been found. Now comes a story that he made a will several years ago and left it with the late Judge Baldwin. After the death of Baldwin the document was mailed to Christensen, and after lying in the postoffice at Stockton thirty days was sent to the dead letter office, and is now in Washington. Efforts are being made to get the important document, which, it is said, will give large bequests to old friends of the eccentric miser. LIVES WITH A BROKEN NECK. Case of an Emporia, Kan., Man Puzzles Surgeons and Doctors. William Kibby, a hostler employed by W. H. Gilchrist, is baffling the surgeons of Emporia, Kan., by living with a broken neck. While clipping a horse Kibby was kicked in the back of the neck. He at once became unconscious and an examination showed that the fifth vertebra of the neck was dislocated. When the doctors pulled the neck back into position Kibby’ consciousness, but when he was Jed in a chair the neck again became dislocated. The doctors fitted up a har.ness for the man’s head, and Kibby is able to talk. 'Hopes are entertained for his recovery.

Tells of Murder at Revival. Henry Naggles, a Grant County, Wisconsin farmer, at a revival meeting confessed that six years ago he and two companions murdered a peddler near Fennimore, Wis., and, after robbing the dead man, cut his body into small pieces, which they buried. He said that one of his companions was now serving a penitentiary sentence for another murder and the other was living somewhere in lowa. Naggles has been arrested and officers are looking for the accomplice. Defeats the Old Party, General elections for the Ontario legislature took place throughout the province and resulted in a virtual, if not actual, defeat for the liberal government, which has held power for more than twenty-five years. Tried to Kill a King. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate King George of Greece. One of his assailants, Karditza. a minor employe of the Mayor’s office in Athens, has been arrested. Bnrglar Is Asphyxiated. Edward Evans, a burglar who was being pursued by the police at Portland, Oregon, ran into an old gashouse, where he remained until he was asphyxiated. Loaded with Real Estate. Mayor Oscar F. Price of Jamestown, N. Y., has made a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors. An overload of real estate was the cause. Southern Postmaster Shot. J. F. Freeman, a white man who was appointed postmaster at Ada, Ga., in February, was shot in front of his house by unknown persons in ambush. Fleet for Cuba. The United States fleet at Key West received orders to hold themselves in readiness to start for Havana at the tap of the drum. Fatal Fire at Kalamazoo. Ten men met their death as the result of a fire and an explosion in the Hall Bros, pharmaceutical works at KalamaKoo, Mich. Prohibition in Kansas. A druggist has been refused a permit to sell liquor. This is the first permit applied for in Olathe, Kan., under the present law, and it was for signing 'this druggist's petition that ex-Gov. St. John, the former prohibition leader, was denounced a week igo by the W. C. T. U. Fire Makes Many Homeless. Fire broke out at midnight in a fourstory tenement house at Brooklyn, damaged property to the extent of $30,000 and made seventy families temporarily homeless. Fight Fire on Shipboard. The British steamer Legislator, Captain Tennant, bound from Liverpool for Colon, was burned at sea in latitude 31.23 north and longitude 44.10 west. The fire burned fiercely for three days, during which time six men lost their lives and four were severely injured. La Roca Dock Completed. Consular Clerk Murphy reports to the State Department at Washington, under date of Colon, Feb. 8, the completion of La Boca dock, the Pacific terminus of the Panama canal. He says that as the tides run twenty-five feet there the value of (he work ia yet to be demonstrated.