Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1897 — Page 1

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Fair and warmer, Little man, little man, ('•) With your trousers new, <<s>) ;>< I wish that I were happy, (• ') Little man. like you. /Uw S4S Is there anything in life <*) That gives such pleasure < *). *) To this first pair of trousers ) >?> So stunning and so new? r .' ( Xflh WS.J') Just like the other men V.) He’s proud—contented—happy > • ( .7 With his new suit from the When. ). ( The First Pair of Trousers The first Suit—if it’s a VVHPN Suit—always pleases the boy and his mother. Boy-Clothes here are made by artists—They have style and life and strength in them. Maker’s prices like these: Short Pants Suits $1.65, $3.48, $4, $5 Long Pants Suits. . .$4.00, $5.00, $6<.00, SB.OO "JT 1a & W/uiera.

810 4 ROUTE CINCINNAf l and RETURN #1 —ROUND TRIP—BI Sunday, Oct. 17. Trains leave Indianapolis 7:30 a. m., and leaves Cincinnati 7:00 p. m. ##a.ooi To Chicago and Return October 16. Tickets will be sold for trains leaving Indianapolis 11:45 am., 3:50 p, m., Saturday, Oct. 16, and 12:30 a. m., Sunday, Oct. 17, and will be guod to return on trains leaving Chicago up to andincluding 9:00 p. m. train Sunday, Oct. 17. Cincinnati Trains c., H. & D. R’y. Leave Indianapolis: Arrive Cincinnati: “ 8:40 . m. “ 7;50 a. m. “ 8:00 n. m. " 11:20 a.m. ** *10:45 a. m ** *j;2sp. pj. “ 2:45 p. m- “ e.-00 p. m. “ 4:45 p.m. “ 7:40 p.m. ** 1 :05 p. m. •• lo :60 p. m. DAYTON TRAINS, C.H.&D. Rv. Leave Indianapolis: Arlve Day ten: “ 8:40 a. m, “ 7:49 a. m. “ *10:46 a. m. *2:25 p. m. 2:45 P- m. •• 6:30 p. w. “ 4:45 p.m. " 7:55 p.m. • 7:05 p. m. , luoo p. m. TOLEDO AND DETROIT TRAINS, C., H. & D. RY. Leave Arrive Arrive ndianapolle: Toledo: Detroit: *10:45 a. m. *.40 p. m. **:4o p. m. 7:05 p. m. 4:09 a. m. t:ls a. m. •Except Sunday. Tirket Offices, Union Station and N*. 9 West Washington Street,corner Meridian. Tlie l^opumy MOINOIN ROUTE ~ :„2, r o, ,I" CHiCACOi:,I4: HOURS FOUR DAILY TRAINS Leave Indianapolis—7:oo a. m.. U;SO a. m., 3:35 p. m., 12:55 night. Train, Arrive Indianapolis—3:3o a. m.. 7:46 a. in., 2:35 v. m., 4:37 p. m. Local deeper in Indianapolis ready at S;3O p. m. Ler.vaa Chicago, returnlrg, at 2:45 a. ro. Can be taki n any tfeie after 9:30 p. mTicket oltlcea. 2 West Washington street. Union 6tatlon and Massirhusstts-rvenue Depot. DEO. W, HAYLER D, P A Poinds We Offer $20,000 Indianapolis 6 per cent. Bonds, issued for the improvement of Parke avenue. Amounts to suit purchaser. Price upon application. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO. 205 Indiana Trust Building. Invalid Chairs Os all kinda and accessories for the *iek room. Trusses made and pioperly adjusted. Store open every Saturday night. WM. H. ARMSTRONG & CO., (New No. 127> 77 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind.

$24,000 IN HER BUSTLE, And. 940,000 More 111 Honda and Cnah Secreted About Her House. BOSTON, Oct. 13.—Mrs. Almira M. Perham, of the South End, was a woman of not a few eccentricities. She died April 12, 1596, but no one ever dreamed that she was worth a penny. She had then attained the age of seventy years, lived humbly in a single room by herself, and from her close way of living excited the pity rather than the envy of her neighbors. She had been a widow some twenty years when she died, and her nearest relatives were nephews and nieces. They numbexed about sixteen, and were widjiy scattered throughout the country. Llttie did they dream that by her death they were given a substantial llnancial lift. The surprising fact was that their aunt had left them $64,000 in worldly goods, but the amount was not half so interesting as the places in which it was hidden, perhaps for years. Who in the world would over think of looking into a bustle for bank bills or anything valuable! Somebody peered into the late Mrs. Perhara’s bustle and the look brought forth $24,000 in cash. “How funny,” exclaimed the tinder. “Who would ever have thought of it— dreamed of it. It is simply wonderful.” The iKKkttbook—the money bustlo—was carefully laid to one side and the tinder began to prosecute the search further. The closet was ransacked from the sugar bowl down to the bread can. The bed was turned tonsy-turvy, the pillows were shaken up and shaken down, and the tick likewise. The stock ngs and the shoes were turned inside out. The trunks and the old chests were turn'd upside down, all in search of more. The fire of hope had been kindled high by the surprising evolution of the bus tie. The search of the house was completed. The find was rich, gilt-edge bonds, savings bank books, cash—everything together tigured up to $64,000. Mrs. Parham's relatives, who were of very moderate circumstances, were profitably surprised. No will was to be found and her property fell to them bv force of law'. An administrator was* appointed by the Suffolk Probate Court. William P Frothingham was given the position and he has been engaged in settling up the estate. WINDOW-GLASS “COMBINE.” Manufacturers Perfect nn Organisation That Represents 9d0,000,000. PITTSBURG, Oct. 13.—The organization of the greatest combination of windowglass manufacturers ever formed in this country was completed at Camden, N. J., yesterday. It was named the American Window-glass Company, and Is composed of all the factories of the country except half a dozen small concerns. The capital stock of the concern will be iixed at $1,200,000, but the actwHouiigH represented in the com-

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WAGON WHEAT, 92c acme: milling co., Old 352 Went Wnsliington St. biration aggregates nearly $30,000,000. James A. Chambers, of this city, was elected president, and Pittsburg was chosen as the general selling agency. JURY FAILED TO AGREE a WIFE OF WEST VIRGINIA’S GOVERNOR NOT CONVICTED OF FORGERY. Seven .Juror* Stood for Acquittal and Five for Punl*hment—Brief History of a Sensational Case. a GLENVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 13.—The jury In the famous case of Mrs. George W. Atkinson, on trial for forging her former husband's name, disagreed to-day and was discharged by the court. The jury stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. It is not believed that the case will be tried again. The arguments and judge’s charge were completed at 11 o’clock last night. There has been a continuous session of the court since 9 o’clock yesterday morning, excepting an hour’s intermission for meals. _ Mrs. Atkinson had been on the stand ten hours. Her testimony was a general denial of all the allegations charged in the indictmerts. She did not waver from the statement on cross-examination that all the receipts in controversy given to Owens were written at the dictation of Judge Camden in. his lifetime, and that they represented what they show upon their face. She insisted that all the other papers and transactions relied on by the state to show criminal intention were genuine and instituted at the dictation of Judge Camden. She denied that she had any interest whatever in the Owens land or that Oivens had at any time paid her money or any other thing of value. The crossexamination was conducted by Robert G. Linn for the state and was very rigid. Mrs. Atkinson’s demeanor upon the witness stand was modest and unassuming. She made a favorable Impression. At the conclusion of Mrs. Atkinson’s testimony at 5 oOclock last evening, the arguments commenced, the court allowing each side three hours. John S. Withers opened for the state and w r as followed by W. W. Brannon, for the defendant. At the night session R. P. Kidd, Judge Brennon and John Davis spoke for the defense, and were followed by It. G. Linn, who closed the argument for the state. The court's Instructions to the jury were Impartial, and the case was given to the twelve men. At 1:15 a. m. the jurors asked for instructions on certain circumstantial evidence and returned to their consultation. At 2:30 a. m. they had not agreed, and the court adjourned until 7 a. m. At 9:30 the jury reported that It had failed to agree and was dismissed. There were seven for acquittal and five for conviction. The court Immediately adjourned. There is a hint that the prosecuting attorney will ask for a nolle prosequi at the next term of court.

Iniqne mill Sensational Case. The trial just closed was unique and sensational. The defendant is the wife of George W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia. Had Mrs. Atkinson been convicted, she would have been liable to a sentence of five years in prison, from w’hich there would be no escape, except by the clemency of her husband In whom, as the Governor, rests the pardoning power. Mrs. Atkinson was accused of forging the name of her late husband. Judge Camden. She Was at the time a rich woman. On June 24 she married Governor Atkinson. She was already under Indictment for forging the name of her former husband. The specific acts charged against Mrs. Atkinson w'ere the forgery of the name of the late Judge G. D. Camden to two receipts given to J. P. Owens and memoranda concerning the sale of land to Owens by Judge Camden. The receipts were signed “G. D. Camden, per Mrs. G. D. Camden,” and the defense' was that Judge Camden was ill and that Mrs. Camden, now Mrs. Atkinson, w as authorized to sign the papers. Even before her indictment Mrs. Atkinson was the most remarkable woman in West Virginia. The Governor is her third husband. Asa poor and obscure girl she married in 187$ Dr. Edward Davis, a man of prominent family. He drank lye for whisky one dark night and died. In 1888 the widow' married Judge Gidfon Draper Camden, the most prominent member of the famous Camden family, that numbers senators, Governors and millionaires in its list of notables. She was then thirty-eight, handsome, vivacious and lively—just tne sort of a woman to attract a millionaire widower of seventy-five, and that he was attracted and that the widow w'as not without business sense are proved by a marriage contract that gave her SIOO,OOO for marrying him and caring for him in his old age and also by the will that gave her ali of his estate except a few tive-nundred-dollar legacies to his children and grandchildren. A formal protest against the probating of the will was tiled by Martha M. Sommeis. Dora E. Ramsburg. daughters of tho deceased, and other relatives. This protest was liled by their attorney. Nathan Goff, now judge of the United States Circuit Court. After a hearing the court ordered that the instrument in question should be recorded “as the true last will and testament of G. L>. Camden, deceased.” Subsequent litigation resulted in a compromise, whereby the widow was to receive $168,000. When tho children of the judge regained possession of the estate they discovered there had been considerable waste in the outlying lands. One Joshua P. Owens, of Gilmer county, they discovered, had stripped the timber from a valuable tract and sold ft to Scott Withers. The Camden heirs began suit ugainst Withers for the money and against Owens for trespass. In answer. Owens filed four receipts for money in the handwriting of Myra 11. Camden, aggregating about SI,BOO, in full payment for 213 acres, the land on which he had cut timber. The four receipts bore the resjxietlve dates 1883, 1884. 1885. 1886. but a careful examination of the late Judge Camden’s papers disclosed no memorandum of such sales, nor did his bank books indicate the receipt of any such sums of money. An expert examination of the receipts filed by Owens disclosed, it is claimed, that although the purported to be written at different times, embracing a period of four years, two of them had in reality been written on two pieces of the surra sheet of paper and at the same time. Judge Camden’s children and grandchildren then laid the matter before the grand jury and the indictment of Mrs. Atkinson followed.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1897.

NEW YORK CAMPAIGN DAYTON WILLING TO RUN FOR CONTROLLER ON GEORGE TICKET. - He May Alno Re Mailt* the Candidate ot the Citizen*’ Union if Mr. Fairchild Will Withdraw. + TALK WITH HENRY GEORGE HE IS OPPOSED TO THE EXISTENCE OF ANY EXCISE LAWS. Seth Low the Only Candidate He Doe* Not Feel Sure of Defeating—Speeches by Tracy and Low. e NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—The chairman of tho Henry George campaign committee tonight announced that Charles W. Dayton, until recently postmaster of New York, had declared his willingness to accept the nomination for controller on the George ticket. Henry George to-night issued a statement putting the stamp of approval on the deal made, between bis eommitee and the Citizens' Union as to the New York county ticket. General Tracy to-night addressed a big meeting on the Bowery, and Seth Low spoke three times on the East Bide. Tammany will hold a big ratification meeting to-morrow night. The process of lining up for the election of Nov. 2 is progressing steadily, though not without an occasional jolt or jerk. A gap still exists in the place where there should be a candidate for the office of controller on the Jeffersonian Democratic or Georgeite ticket. Colonel Waring, having declined the nomination in a letter so timed as to give tho managers opportunity to fix definitely upon another candidate, without undue haste, it remains to be decided whether the name of ©x-Postmaster Charles W. Dayton shall be substituted. Mr. Dayton, as stated, late to-night informed the chairman of the Henry George campaign committee that he would accept the nomination for controller on the Henry George ticket. He will probably be nominated tomorrow by the George committee and an effort will be made to withdraw Charles S. Fairchild, Citizens’ Union candidate for controller, and substitute Dayton, thus making him the candidate for two parties. Th nrotest against the Citizens’ Union ticket being given a place upon the official ballot is so drawn that almost any line of attacK may bo based upon it. The probability, however, is that the petitioner will seek to establish that the signatures to the petition which make Seth Low and his conferees candidates for office in the eyes of the law are not genuine and that they are not properly attested, the ground being taken that each signature should have been attested by a notary instead of, as was done, in “blocks of twenty-five. This latter plan was followed to save expense and because signatures were collected upon sheets headed by the petition and lined for twenty-five names. The issue will be tried before the Board of Police Commissioners to-morrow.

HEXRY GEORGE SPEAKS. He Is Opposed to Excise Laws, and Feels Sure of Election. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—1n an interview regarding w'hat he proposed to do if elected mayor of Greater New York, Henry George to-day said: "I will execute the excise lawaccording to my interpretation of the law; but I will tell you frankly what I think about excise: I think it is an injustice and absurdity, and I am totally opposed to the existence of any excise law whatever. That I can defeat both Van Wyck and Tracy, I do not feel the slightest doubt. In my opinion the issue is solely between Mr. Low and myself. I think I shall beat him.” Mr. George, who is the candidate of the Thomas Jefferson Democracy, to-night gave out the following letter concerning the recent combination with the Citizens’ Union: “On Friday, Oct. 5, in Cooper Union, I accepted the nomination tendered me—that of the people there assembled, upon the platform and resolutions there adopted—that of the United Democracy: that of the Democratic Alliance; that of the Manhattan Sin-gle-tax Club, and that of the People's party. In accepting these nominations it was my intention to do so for myself alone and to leave every question of w’ho should run with me for other offices to be settled by the organizations themselves, trusting that this might be accomplished either by a union on such offices or by my running for mayor on the tickets of all, leaving subordinate offices to be tilled in by each. "As the only way of satisfactorily settling those details in the short time allowed by the necessity of action under the law, I submitted this question of how I should run to a committee appointed by the chairman of that meeting, composed of men for whose probity, prudence and character I could personally vouch. After careful examination this committee has recommended to me that there be printed on the ticket, to be given official currency under the emblem of the rooster, such names for city offices as may be selected; that there should also be printed the names selected by the Citizens’ Union for candidates in the county of New York, by the Democratic organizations for the counties of Kings and Queens, and by the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson for the county of Richmond. “The judgment of this committee, unanimously expressed, commends itself to me and has my entire and unqualified approval. I am the candidate of whoever may choose to vote for me, and do not presume to ask him to vote for any one else. But. since we have not the pure Australian ballot, it Is necessary that I should take tho most reasonable means of being presented fairly to the voters for their suffrages. I do this in the manner recommended to me by the committee which has examined the question in all of its bearings, and to put. all the associations and organizations favorable to me upon an equality, leaving to the individual the responsibility of selecting whom he chooses for himself, I have at the same time withdrawn my acceptance of the nomination of the United Democracy, the only organization supporting me that has made a separate ticket. I thus carry out in its spirit and meaning the pledge made at the .People’s mass meeting at Cooper Union on Oct. 5.” The Evening Telegram has made a careful canvass of fifty-two representative election districts, in twenty-nine of the thirty-five Assembly districts in the territory which constitutes the present city of New York. Os 3,630 voters, 1.186 declared that they would cast their ballots for Van Wyck, Tammany candidate for mayor. Seth Low, Citizens’ Union, was the choice of f*2B; General Tracy, Republican, of 875, and Henry George, Jefferson Democracy, of 661. The same distric ts last year gave the Republican candidate tor Governor a plurality of 1,409. In the Telegram's canvass about one-third of all the voters were polled. Mr Charles S. Fairchild said to-day that he had no intention of withdrawing from the Citizens’ Union ticket for controller in favor of Mr. Payton or anybody else. He said he is in the race to stay. TRACY AM) LOW. Speeches by the Republic!! 11 and Citizens* l nton Candidates. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, the Republican nominee for mayor, received a rousing welcome from the residents of the lover East Side when he made his apt aranee to-night at a ratification meeting which was held in the Windsor

Theater on the Bow’ery. Congressman John Murray Mitchell presided, and when he mentioned General Tracy’s name in his opening address someone in the audience shouted: “He’s got more brains than all of them,” and the general laughed. Gen. Tracy, after describing the onerous duties which will fall on the shoulders of the coming executive of the consolidated city, said in part: “A modern school of doctrinarles has sprung up among you-college professors, who declare that political parties must not have anything to do, cannot be permitted to participate in this election in Greater New York, and therefore a self-appointed Citizens’ Union has risen in your midst to divide the vote and throw the election to Tammany Hall if possible. They have said ‘Wo—these 250 citizens—we will nominate your candidate and you must elect him at the risk of being accused of throwing the election to Tammany. They have insulted the Republican party, though its leaders over and over again scught conferences and were turned aside with contempt. The Republicans have therefore nominated their own candidate and will fight to a finish. The unorganized Citizens’ Union cannot succeed—cannot control even a considerable number of votes. Organization is as necessary in politics as in the army. The history of independent movements proves this. Discipline and association, acquaintance, trust and confidence in each other is essential in all great movements.” Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, and District Attorney Olcott also spoke. Seth Low spoke at three meetings on the East Side to-night. At ench he was vociferously cheered. His speeches were much the same in words and in the subjects discussed. He said that Republicans ought to feel free and happy to support the cause for which he stood. Some men had changed their minds since last election, and if changes did not occur elections would turn out all the same. He said the people this year were engaged in a great struggle in the interest of the Greater New York. Men who said they w'ould not go with the Republican organization this year because they thought the organization was wrong, fVere men. They w 7 ho east a thoughtful vote served their party best. Last summer, he said. 125.000 people had expressed their desire for his nomination and election. These were some of the reasons why good Republicans should indorse the Citizens’ Union movement. Mr. Low denounced bosses and said the hands of machine candidates would be tied by promises made to further their respective organizations in the event of their election. ItLISS IS FOR TRACY. Secretary of the Interior on the Situation :*.t New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—A letter addressed to General Tracy, from Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss, in Washington, bearing on the present campaign, was made public tonight. In the letter Secretary Bliss says: "I am most heartily in accord with those who are working for your election to the mayoralty of Greater New Y'ork. I have not failed to announce my position in conversation with friends, hut it has not until now seemed to me best, in view of my position here, that I should take any public action. Now, however, when the Republican party is menaced by some of those who have heretofore stood in the front ranks, it seems proper that every voter who is loyal to the principles of his patry should let it be known in no uncertain way where he stands. The contest of 1896 has been renewed all over the country. If my friend, Mr. Low, had been nominated by, and accepted the nomination of, the Republican party on its patriotic platform. I should, with others, have cheerfully recognized his sterling personal qualities and have given him such support as I could; but in view of the great conspiracy of 1896 against the honor and safety of our government, a conspiracy which is again seeking success right in the city of New York—l, with thousands of others, who have been formally identified with the efforts for good city government, can only find present success for the desired end in the support of a Republican who shall declare and stand by Republican principles and policies, whether in municipal or state affairs.” U bora I Party’* Ticket Barred. LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. ]3.-The Liberal party, silver wing of the Prohibitionists, will get their candidate’s name on the official ballot only by sufferance of the county clerk. To-day O !?. Bentley, late candidate for the presidency, appeared at the State Capitol with an affidavit that the party’s failure to certify the nominations by the legal limit, Oct. 9, was becauee the Lincoln postoffice had held the certificate received here Oct. 9 until Monday, Oct. 11, before delivering to Frank G. Odell, secretary of the executive committee of the party. He asked that the county clerks bo requested to print the Liberal party ticket on the official ballot. Secretary of State Porter w’ill recommend that the ticket be given a place, but no comity clerk can be compelled to do so.

CAREER OF A SUICIDE. Xellle Anderson, a California Re-lie, Who Became an Artist’s Model. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 13.—Nellie “Norman,” a pretty tw r enty-three-year old girl who committed suicide here yesterday by taking a dose of carbolic acid, was Nellie Anderson, a former belle of Fresno, Cal., whose father is one of the wealthiest men living there. Her story is a most romantic and In some respects unusual one. Several years ago she ran away with and married, against the wishes of her parents, Matt Mathowlch, one of her father’s gardeners. They went to Stockton, where her father found them. He took the blow r as philosophically as possible and set his son-in-law up in business. Two weeks later he heard that his daughter had left her husband and gone East. It became known afterwards from a letter sent by Nellie to her mother that she had gone to Chicago, where she got employment in a cloak house. This she left some time afterwards because of an insult offered by her employer. Miss Nellie then became an artist’s model and she was in great demand because of her beauty. She posed for one artist, the acceptance of whose medallion over that of the other artists, undoubtedly superior, caused a lot of trouble in the world’s fair board. It was while posing for artists that the girl maintained she was ruined. Then she changed her name to Nellie “Norman.” Bovle, the sculptor, whose works of art in the transportation buijlding of the w’orld’s fair are well remembered, had been searching in vain for a suitable model for one of the figures in his group “Navigation.” He finally selected Nellie “Norman," w r ho became famous as a model. Her Bohemian life, however, was too much for her. and In six months the form over which artists had raved w’as gone and her beauty faded. Lying sick and discouraged she finally decided to end aer struggles by death. ARREST OF STRIKING MINERS. Fifteen Marchers, Including n Ilnnd. Captured by Deputy Sheriffs. PITTSBURG, Oct. 13.—The deputy sheriffs at the De Armitt coal mines made a raid on the strikers at Sandy Creek this morning and arrested fifteen men, including the members of the brass band. The strikers were marching on the public road and were halted by the deputies about a quarter of a mile from the tipple. The band refused to stop playing and the entire party was placed under arrest without any resistance. The prisoners were brought to this city and taken to the sheriff’s office, w’here a hearing was given them. The members of the band took their arrest good natuiedly and played their instruments as they were escorted from the railroad station to the sheriff's office. Chief Deputy Van said the men were rioters and he feared trouble. This is denied bv the strikers. Superintendent De Armitt claims that three mines of the company are now running to their fullest capacity. THE LATTIMER SHOOTING. Austria'* Representative Seeking Light on the Great Tragedy. HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 13.—Governor Hastings has received a letter from Secretary Sherman stating that the Austrian minister at Washington has filed a communication with the Department of State claiming that there was a violation of the rights of Austrian subjects in the firing on the mob at Lattimer. Pa., when a score of miners were killed. Secretary Saerman requests the facts and status of affairs in relation to these cases. Governor Hastings has referred the communication to Sheriff Martin and General Gobln, with the request that they enlighten Secretary Sherman as early as possible.

LIKE HIS LATE WIFE JOHN ARMSTRONG CHANLER ILL WITH NERVOUS TROUBLES. Ex-Hnslinnd of Amelie Rive* Reported to Have Been Committed to Blooiningdale Insane Asylum. * HIS MIND SAID TO WANDER REPORTS OF HIS INSANITY DENIED BY IIIS LAW PARTNER. 1 A Great-Grandson of John Jacob Aator YVho Married the Author of the “Quick or the Dead.” ♦— NEW Y'ORK, Oct. 13.—John Armstrong Chanler, the divorced husband of Amelia Rives, and a great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, is reported to be insane in the Bloomingdale asylum. Mr. Chanler left the city suddenly last spring and it was said by his friends that he had gone to Europe. The fact has leaked out that he is in Bloomingdale under treatment. It is denied by his friends that Mr. Chanler is insane or that his mind is affected in the least. He was taken to Bloomingdale, these friends assert, to gain a much-needed rest and treatment for nervous disorders. The affection of his nerves and a general physical breakdown was due, they say. to overwork. Harry Van Ness Philip, his law partner and closest friend, said of his illness to-day: “The report of Mr. Chanler’s insanity is entirely unfounded. I saw him yesterday and conversed wdth him on business matters and he conversed in a perfectly rational manner. His mind is not affected in the least. Mr. Chanler was simply broken down in health and w r ent to this retreat for rest and treatment. He is now 7 much improved.” The Evening World to-day publishes an article, signed by Arthur Brisbin, which says, in part: “Mr. Chanler was confined against his will on an order issued in the regular way by the court. Mr. Chanler’s family, in committing him, acted on the advice of physicians and especially on the advice of the doctor who had been for many years Mr. Chanler’s regular physician. They acted further on the advice of Dr. Starr, a specialist in mental disorders, and who signed the application for Mr. Chanler’s commitment. Mr. Chanler was committed, not because of any overt act demonstrating insanity 7 , but because of the fear of his relatives that his mental condition might result at any moment in some violent outbreak. He w 7 as committed to Bloomingdale rather than to a more quiet private resort because of the fear that a man of his determined character could be kept in confinement only by the most rigorous and systematic supervision. “Soon after Mr. Chanler’s commitment, Senator David B. Hill, who has known him for some time, paid him a visit at Bloomingdale. Senator Hill, after a long interview, decided that it would be better not to interfere in the matter. Mr. Chanler is not a violent lunatic, but, it is alleged, is subject to hallucinations. In the statements which formed the basis for his commitment, his hallucinations included the belief that he succeeded by will power in changing the shape of his face and the color of his eyes, believed himself to be the reincarnation of Napoleon, and that he would make a great fortune by a system of play at the Monte Carlo gambling tables. The affidavit upon which ha was committed averred that he was a victim of the hallucinations suggested above, and furthermore that there was insanity 7 in his family—an aunt having at one time been insane. "Mr. Chanler’s main grievance and his greatest objection to his commitment follows: He declares that he is a resident of Virginia, not of New r York, and that his commitment is illegal in that w 7 ay. He further alleges that he was lured to New Y'ork from Virginia—‘kidnaped,’ is the term he uses—although he admits that it was done by well-meaning, but misinformed friends. Mr. Chanler’s relatives and friends entertain a belief that he will soon be removed from Bloomingdale, possibly to go abroad in the hands of careful nurses and physicians.”

AN UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE. John Armstrong Chanler an<l Amelia Rive* Not Well Mated. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—John Armstrong Chanler inherited an income from the Astor estate of moie than $30,000 a year. He was educated at Columbia and Rugby and has spent much of his time since attaining his majority in Europe. He is a member of nearly all the prominent clubs of New York. He married Amelie Rives, the authoress, in 1888 and the couple spent a long time abroad. They were divorced in 1895. Mrs. Chanler later married Prince Trowbetzkoy. Early this summer she suffered severely from nervous troubles, and is reported to have been treated in a Philadelphia sanatorium. Soon after her nervous troubles began a correspondent wrote as follows: It was nearly ten years ago that the English-speaking world was startled by the appearance of a book whose title, ‘ Quick or the Dead,” caused it to be talked of from one end of the land to the other before the novel had reached its third installment In Eipplncott's Magazine, in which it was published in the early part of 1888. The story itself was condemned and praised with equal vehemence. The personality of the author became the popular theme of the day. and. to the complete surprise of both the novel-reading public and the novel-reading critics, it was discovered that this story—condemned on one side by men and women as the erotic imaginings of a jaded realist and praised by critics on the other as the outburst of a pure mind, an expression of feeling whose very exuberance stamped it with innocence —parodied, burlesqued in theater and comic opera, denounced by preachers from the pulpit as shockingly immoral, upheld by many literary lights as the creation of a mature genius—was, in fact, the achievement of a country-bred Virginia girl scarcely out of her teens—a patrician of patricians, with the blood of the first families of fair Virginia running in her veins. Many of the self-constituted critics did not at all fancy the riotous way that blood had run in the veins of Barbara Dere, the heroine of “The Quick or the Dead?” and forthwith they proceeded to inundate the young author with an avalanche of letters, varying from the most hideous persona! attacks upon the writer's character to effusions of exaggerated and unbounded praise and admiration. Soon after her literary success it was announced that Ameiie Rives, the intirh-dis-cussed author, was about to marry Mr. John Armstrong Chanler. a great-grandson of the original John Jacob Astor. and a cousin of the present William Waldrof and John Jacob Astor. The marriage was solemnized at the Rives homestead, which has been for generations in the familv, at Castle Hill. Va. Immediately the gossips declared Mr. Chanler to be "the quick.'' and relegated Mr. McCullough to the role of the ghost in the novel. For a time little was heard of Amelie Rives Chanler, except that from her pen came ''Herod and Mariamne,” a Syrian tragedy, shortly after her marriage. The critics were forced to treat it seriously. Os one accord, they declared the author possessed of great talent, true fire, "the pure, shining gold of genius.” <=tc. Despite the social success which has always attended her. Mrs. Chanler shortly after her marriage left America for Paris, where she resided for several years. Not a breath of scandal ever attached itself to the beautiful author's name, but in Paris, even six years ago, Amelie Rives Chanler's

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friends were convinced that her marriage was one of the many failures history is so busily repeating, and the brilliant woman, whose exceptional genius was by this time acknowledged freely enough, evoked the keenest sympathy from those who knew’ her and who Realized her unhappiness. The Virginia woman rarely complains of her marital disappointments, more rarely still does she seek to evade the responsibilities of the “for better, for worse" of the marriage contract. Anielie Chanler was and is a typical Virginia woman. There could be no anguish more exquisite than life with a man who had not realized this girl’s ideal, who was simply out of harmony with her own nature. It was not a nature to adapt itself, the woman's personality was too strong; she could not be changed. She knew it, and it is an actual fact, although not of public record, that Anielie Hives knew before she had been married three months of her mistake and that she religiously endeavored to prevent every one, including her husband, from sharing her knowledge. Four years after her marriage Amelie Hives Chanler wrote "According to St. John,” a short novel, for w’hich she received more than $5,000. When this book was written its author was an utterly hopeless woman. Mr. Chanler became aware of his wife’s real feeling about this time. There was no quarrel; there never has been. There was a tremendous sacritice, a great renunciation, and then there was the almost unique sepctaele of a man courageous enough to look the situation in the face, and, weighting it carefully, decided that the woman was not to blame; that it was on her part an honest mistake; on his, perhaps, a fool's paradise, but, in any case, the woman w’as guiltless, and, with a courage so unique that it seems incredible, John Armstrong Chanler resolved to help the wife who was wretched with him to be happy away from him. This is the true story of the Rives-Chanler separation. Mrs. Chanler came to this country, the divorce was secured by common consent—indeed, the attorney acting for Mrs. Chanler was her husband’s partner. There were no charges, no grounds, save incompatibility. The divorce was obtained with refreshing decency, and Anielie Chanler was permitted to resume her maiden name of Amelie Hives. A year before the divorce proceedings Mrs. Chanler visited the Princess Troubetzkoy. in Milan. At that time she met Prince Pierri Troubetzkoy, a man who comes apparently nearer her ideal, both In appearance and character, than any other. He is a magnificent-looking fellow, six feet two inches in height, of splendid physique, a handsome face, and with a strong, sweet nature. His tastes are all artistic, and he is a painter of no mean record. There is no question that the pair were instantly attracted to each other, and it is possible that Amelie Chanler now acquiesces in the divorce which she refused to apply for two years before when Mr. Chanler suggested it, because of this man. Jf she did she was the woman to frankly tell her husband the truth, and there are those who honor her for her courage. One thing is certain, Prince Troubetzkoy, unlike the modern type of lover, religiously kept away from Amelie Chanler until she was a free woman, and then he cam-, and shortly after they w’ere married. In writing to a friend a year after she became the wife cf Prince Troubetzkoy, the princess says, with the charming directness of the Amelie Rives of ten years ago: “My happiness is indeed now complete.” PILGRIMS FROM ALASKA 1 ARRIVAL OF THE REVENUE CUTTER CORWIN AT SAX FR AX CIS CO. 1 Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Others Aboard—Territory of Lincoln to Re Organized. ♦ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.—The United States revenue cutter Corwin, Captain W. J. Herring commanding, ten days from Bering sea, dropped anchor in the bay this evening. She brought down from the north Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States superintendent of education in Alaska; Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, from the cutter Bear; Whaler J. A. Peters, of the wrecked whaler Navarch, and Richard and Rollo Camden, who went up on the Eliza Anderson, but who returned to wait until spring before going to Dawson. Dr. Jackson has been spending the summer in the Yukon river valley in the interest of the United States government. Pie reports the reindeer herds as doing finely, 150 trained deer being ready for freighting. The cutter Corwin, after carrying dispatches to the cutter Bear, sailed from St. Michael’s on Friday, Sept. 24. Only two parties of miners remained at St. Michael’s and they were expecting to start in a few hours for Dawson. On the 26th the Corwin called at St. Lawrence island. Dutch Harbor was reached on the 30th, where she met the steamship Portland bound for St. Michael’s. After taking on coal and leaving her cargo of ship-building material she sailed on the 30th for St. Michael’s. The original purpose of the North American 'l l.l importation and Trading Company to build additional steamers for their Yukon trade this winter at St. Michael’s has been changed and the steamers will be built at Dutch Harbor.

New Territory Proposed. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.—Special correspondence of the Call from Alaska brought by the revenue cutter Thomas Corwin to-night via St. Michael’s, conveys the news that it is proposed to establish anew territory, to be known as Lincoln, out of the northwestern portion of Alaska. Its boundaries have not yet been fully decided upon, but it will include the Yukon river country and extend north to the Arctic ocean. The scheme meets with the approval of the North American Transportation and Trading Company, the offices of which recently held a conference on the matter with Senator Carter, of Montana, and several other United States officials. The new town of Wenrt, situated on the Yukon river, about half way between Dawson City and St. Michael’s, has been chosen for the capital of the proposed territory. It is understood that Ely Gage, son of the secretary of the treasury, is a prominent candidate for Governor in case a territorial organization is effected. RETURNED FROM KLONDIKE. Cupt. G. G. Harrow Say* There la Work and Gold for All. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Oct. 13.—Capain G. G. Darrow, of Montpelier, spent a few hours in this city to-day, between trains, while en route from his home to Indianapolis and Anderson to visit friends whom he has not seen since returning from his six months’ stay in the Yukon gold fields. “My years of experience in the mining business of the West hP-d much to do with my success in the Yukon,” he says, “and I expect to return to Berness Bay, where I purchased a claim, within the next sixty days. A young man is a fool for staying here if he has enough money or nerve to get him into the new gold field. He can readily earn from $5 to sls ptr day and eventually carve out a fortune. I will venture the assertion that there will be employment for all, and those persons who are advising people to stay away from the country know little or nothing about the country, or have reasons of personal gain by keeping others away. There is no danger of starving, as nature has provided well a supply of meats, but of course there are not the luxuries of life to be found there. Just before starting home I shipped from Juan 900 pounds of gold dust, and here is the receipt for it.” In addiion to the receipt the captain produced a wallet filled with bright, shining nuggets, and he had a portmanteau filled with quartz as It is taken from the field, and its weight seemed to be at least twentyfive pounds. He stated that he was taking these samples with him to Anderson and Indianapolis to show to his friends. He will be accompanied on his return trip by a large party of Hoosiera. I’ll I scat or Makes a Deal. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Oct. 13. Frank Phlscator, the man who brought back several bags of gold dust from the Klondike, has been negotiating with an English syndicate for the sale of a twothirds interest in his property. He wanted $1,333,0 i for it, and it is alleged that yesterday he received a telegram from London stating that his offer hud been accepted. He expects that the deal will bo closed as soon iu: representatives of the syndicate can at live in this city.

MISS CISNEROS SAFE * SHE ARRIVED AT NEW YORK YESTERDAY DIRECT FROM HAN ANA. —• ' Walked Aboard the Steamer Seneca, I>lgui*ctl in Male Attire, nml Tricked the Simnlzh Detective*. ... 4 STORY OF THE GIRL’S ESCAPE PASSED AS SEXOR JUAN SOLA UNTIL OUT OF CUBAN WATERS, When She Changed Her Clothe* and Became “Senorita Junna Soln"—How She Who Rescued from Prison, NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Evangel!na Co*sio y Cisneros, who recently escaped from a Spanish prison in Cuba, was a passenger on the Ward line steamer Seneca, which arrived to-day from Havana. At quarantines. Miss Cisneros asked to be excused from saying anything about her imprisonment and escape, as she was not yet recovered from sea sickness, from which she had suffered during the entire passage, and which kept her If* her state room during the whole voyage. On the passenger list she was registered as Miss Juana Sola. She was traveling under the care of a gentleman who accompanied her from Havana. When the Seneca reached quarantine the towboat J. Fred Lohman, with several newspaper representatives and four women went alongside the steamer, and after the health officers’ inspection was over they went on board and accompanied Miss Cisneros to this city. Immediately on landing the party took carriages to the Hotel Waldorf and were assigned to roomp on the second floor. While Senorita Cisneros was fatigued, she appeared in the very best of spirits and exultant over her arrival in America. She does not speak English, but her face is very expressive, and she seemed to intuitively understand the questions put to her and answered in Spanish. The senorita retired as soon as she reached the hotel and refused to be seen. Among her party was Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Washington, president of the National Women’s Republican Association. Miss Cisneros’s escape from prison, as has been detailed in previous dispatches, was one of the most daring feats ever attempted and successfully carried out. It was less sensational, however, than her escape from Havana. While she was still in prison her friends secured a passport for one Juan Sola and stateroom No. 3 on the Seneca w r as held in the same name. This was three days before the boat sailed. On the Saturday, when the Seneca was to leave Havana, detectives watched her gangways with extra caution. Adi day long they remained at their post, examining the passports which all passengers have to show before leaving Havana. Their vigilance would prob.bly have prevented the departure of Miss Cisneros from Cuba, had it not been for a little refreshment which was served to them by friends of Miss Cisneros, who were aboard the Seneca. The refreshment included wine. The chief of police of Havana came aboard while the refreshment part of the plot was In progress and It is alleged that lie, too, fell a victim to the wiles of the Cisneros party. A few minutes before the Seneoa was ready to pull out from her dock a slim young fellow came running across the wharf. He had no baggage and was fashionably dressed. He walked quickly up the gang plank. The detectives stopped him. “My name is Juan Sola,” he said, and showed his passports. Everything was satisfactory, so the senor was ullow’ed to go aboard. It is said that if it had not been for the wine the strange treble and rather curious figure of Senor Sola might have excited the suspicions of the Spanish detectives, but the scheme worked successfully. Miss Cisneros's friends, when they saw that everything was satisfactory, disembarked and watched the ship puli slowly out under the frowning Spanish guns, carrying the fugitive to spfetv under the stars and stripes. Miap Cisneros did not court danger any more than was necessary, and at once went to her cabin. The next day, however, when Mono Castle wo* left fur behind, she appeared on deck, transformed from Senor Juan Sola into Senorita Juana Sola, alias Cossio y Cisneros, and dressed in a becoming red gown. Captain Stevens, commander of the Seneca, was angry when lie discussed the Cisneros incident with the reporters. Said lie: “Since the commencement of the present insurrection it lias been customary for the Spanish authorities to post a couple of Spanish detectives at the. head of tin gangway of ships lying at Havana. We arrived at 6 a. m. and left at 8 n. m., during which time the detectives did not leave the head of the gang plank. Just before the Seneca sailed, the chief of police, his deputy and his secretary came aboard. Senorita Cisneros had escaped two days previously and. yet they asked no questions and made no search for her, although on three former occasions they had searched the Seneca from stem to stern and keel to promenade deck, while looking for suspects,” Captain Stevens saifi that, to the best of his knowledge, the only persons who went aboard at Havana were the Lastie family, the Del Real family, eight Chinamen and a man whose name appeared on the advance passenger list as Juan Sola, and who must have had a passport otherwise he could not have gone aboard. When it was discovered that “Juan Sola” was a girl the “Juan” waa changed to Juana,” and Miss Cisneros came in under that name. Miss Cisneros was given some articles of feminine wearing apjiarel by the stewardess of the Seneca. A. C. Stewart, an Englishman, who embarked at Tampico, and who speaks Spanish, said that he sat opposite to Miss Cisneros at the tabic during the voyage and that when she saw the Cape llattera* light, she fell upon her knees on the derk and prayed devoutly. Mr. Stewart says lie found the rescued Cuban a most pleasant companion. She had had her hair pinned up in a coil, worn under a sombrero, when she embarked, disguised as a ranchman.

HER RESCUE FROM PRISON. Story of Mia* Clneri’ Escape from the Casa De IteeojidaM. NEW YORK, Oct. 13,-Charles Duvall, the Cuban correspondent of the Journal, in a letter from Havana, dated Oct. 9, the story of Miss Cisneros's rescue: I came here three weeks ago, having been told by the editor of the Journal to go to Cuba and rescue from her prison Miss Cisneros, the niece of the former President of the Cuban republic, a tenderly-reared girl, descended from one of the best families in the island, and herself a martyr to the unsatisfied desires of a heast in Spanish uniform. I arrived at Cienfuegos late in September, telegraphed to a known and tried man iu Santiago de Cuba to meet me in Havana, and then went to Santa Clara, where I picked up a second man, known to be as gritty as Sahara, and then proceeded to Havana. Hero I remained in almost absolute concealment, so as to avoid the spies that dog one's steps whenever one may go and make impossible any clever work of this kind. Both the men who accompanied me, Joseph Hernandon and Harrison Mallory, pursued the same course, and remained quiet until all plans had been completed. The tact that Miss Cisneros was incommunicado made the attempt seem at first b*> yond the possibility of success, but we finally, through Hernandon, w ho was born on the island and speaks Spanish like a native, succeeded in sending a note to her through an old negress, who called upon one of her friends in the prison. A centen got this note through two hands to Miss Cisneros, uu*{