Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 July 1893 — Page 7
JUST LIKE EVA MANN.
PiTTSBURG HAS AN EXCITING CASE AT LAW.
A YOUNG rHYSJCJAX THE OF A WOMAN
Who Pure hated to Falni It off Fortune—Career
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VICTIM
Haby and Attempted as Heir to Hi« Biff of Diamond Annie
HE DISASTROUS end of Eva Mann'» suit for the possessions of Robert Kay Hamilton, some years ago,has seemingly not taught a g. oi lesson to other women of her class. 'The courts of Pittsburg will soon be called upon to decide a case similar in its important de
tails to that of the Mann woman. The defendant is Frank E. Buffun, son of James C. Buffun, a wealthy broker. Buffun is 30 years o'd. Annie Wetmore, or "Diamond Annie," the woman in the case, was born in the year 1S40. BufFun has a good reputation. The woman is an adventuress. Strange to relate, Buffun did not inquire into the woman character before he married her. They met in 16S4 when young Buffun was attending a medical college in New York city. She kept a boarding-house. Though fiO years old she could make up so as to appear on the sunny side
ANXIE E. WETMORE.
of 80. After learning that the young physician was the he5v to a fortune running up into the unllions she became very attentive to him.
She soon found out that it would be necessary to deceive him rs to her antecedents. She claimed relationship with James Emmet Wctnvn e. a millionaire London bunker r. YVetmore of Now York city aiui ox-G oven or Wetmore of Rhode Island. In addition to this, it is said, she talked about her S8')0,000 clattn against the government for Southern property confiscated during the civil war.
Dr. Buffun went with her to Elizabeth, N. J., where a Methodist minister married thura. The young husband returned to Pittsburg soon afterward, leaving his bride in Now York. She followed him last summer, taking with her a two months' old baby which she said was Dr. Buffim's child. They were accepted into the family and matters run smoothly until the woman became ill. Her husband telegraphed to Dr. Wetmore of New York city that his niece w«s ill. Then the young husband learned, it is alleged, that his wife was no relative Of the New York physician. He visited New York oity and placod the mutter in the hands or Detective L. A. Neweotnb, who declared he had known the woman wheu he was a postofflce inspector. She had ruined one of his deputies, he asserted, and had broken up the family of the latter.
Dr. Buffun soon learned that thd woman had several husbands living, whilo the baby that he thought was his had been purchased from an unfortunate German girl in the house of a midwife. It was to bo used, so the allegation went, as the heir to the Buifun money. Th, birth certificate wao branded as a forgery. The detective even found the driver of the carriage which carried Mrs Wetmore and a Mrs, Lawson on their shopping expedition to buy an Infant Mrs. Lawson, according to the story, was found in her haunts about the Battery, wheivsho is alleged to consort with sailors, Mid she gave valuable information. This was enongh for the young physician. Then the father ejected the woman from her .Pittsburg home. She then, It is said, started on a career of drunkenness in the town and this disgraced them. Young Dr. Buffun is now taking steps to apply for a divorce, while she insists on getting a slice of his father's fortune.
It is said the woman interested President Johnson, Secretary Belknap and
Colonel Frank Sopollus in her $350,000
claim against the government and suh ceeded in procuring several thousand dollars on it. Prior to that she waa a Confederate «p\\ starting from the home of her father, .lames WhStimore, a poor farmer of Murry County, Ga, Here is where she was bom.
In New York she met druggist Hocodr, who was in partnership with
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cle rffcr tame was uoundea. She early displayed all arts of th»? coquette, and was the occ^g'on of many hostile encounters among the lovers, who each thought that he had an exclusive right to her favors. The circle in which she moved was decidedly humble, but was blessed with a strong sense of ittdependesce. The father of Annie was a small farmer who supplemented his earnings by the extraction of the juice of the corn. Among those who .'•ought the hand of the wayward girl in marriage was Pinkney Gentles, who liguicd in an elopement, carrying the girl to Dal:on, where they were married and spent such a honeymccn as the presence of General Sherman's armv rendered possible. The pair attracted the attention of the army officers and it was not long until a Captain Walltng'ford had supplemented the husband in her affections.
The pair went back to the farm, where a'child appeared to cement the union which had been so nearly broken up. The child was named after the absent lover over the 'protest of the husband, and the result was that Annie soon deserted him, and, seeking out her gallant captain, then went down on his march to the sea with Sherman's men. She was heard of no more for several years.
It was in I6t7 that the then little village of Dal ton was startled by the appearance of a flashy female who put up at the best hotel and announced herself as Mrs Wallingford and the daughter of Mr. Whitmore. She engaged Gen. Jesse A. Glenn, a prominent lawyer of that town, to begin proceedings for the recovery of the cuild from Gentles A visit was made to the old home, but it was found that Mr. Gentles was not to be scared out of his rig. ts. He informed the woman that since she bad chosen a course which shut her off from all recognition, he would not trouble her, but that he would hold on to the child.
She then gave up the chase and regaled the citizens with wonderful stories of her alleged career as a Confederate spy,e xplaining her fl ght with the F« dcral captain as a sacrifice on the altar of patriotism in order that she might thus be enabled to render better service to her country. After her departure there were those who inclined to believe her story, and to this day there are partisans of hers scattered all through the mountains of North Georgia.
Two years later she appeared in Washington with a claim of more than 8800,U00 against the government The story she told there was that her father was a wealthy planter, that he had been a true Union man during the war, and that on the passage of Gen. Sherman's army through the State his estates had been destroyed.
The fact that she appeared there as the wife of a veteran captain who had followed Sherman to the sea gave plausibility to her story, and the presentation of great bundles of affidavits from many imaginary persons made out for her a prima facie case. In ad-
dition to all this she had all the assist-!
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SHE SWINDLED MANY $ It r* Xot Prudent to Seelc Wife Who Advertises.
Emma .1. Waters, also known as Jennie E. Rivers, is under arrest in iSJew York on a charge of using the United States malls for swindling purposes. She has been carrying on an extens've correspondence with several men in Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan and elsewhere, representing that she wished to marry. The descriptions she gave of herself and the photographs shv inclosed evidently won many victim's hearts. Several of them wrote to her to come on at once, as they were anxious to marry her. Miss Waters thereupon stated that her .brother-in-law was anxious to detain her, and kept her money away and that she was out of clothes. The victims generally forwarded money.
She first began corrcs pondetice through advertisements which she inserted in Western newspapers. She had a victim at Yankton, S. D.:one at Marine City, Mich., and another at Helloch, Minn
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As soon as he found he was imposed on by Miss Waters he informed the local postoffice inspectors, and they handed over Uie correspondence to Postoffice Inspector Jones. This led to her arrest. She received thirty letters a day. The extreme penalty for her offense is eighteen months* imprisonment and a fine of $m.
A Bb# Fiend's Crime.
The murder of Bertie Wiagner, the little son of Louis Wagner, a farmer near Howell, N. J., by George Wood, a boy employed by Mr. Wagner, has causei) intense excitement in that portion of Monmouth County. Young Wood ran away, and has not been arrested. Wood came from Williamaburg, where he lived with his widowed mother. He was a strong, sturdy lad, 14 years of age, but was The day of the crime he was an ugly mood, and Mr. Wagner decided to send him back home. Wood went upstairs. Bertie followed him. In a few minutes there was a load report. Wood ran down at&irs, and, meeting Mrs. Wagner, said "Bertie did it," The child was lying la a pool of blood, with the left sW iis face and head
to dfath in th. ve hours. The neighbors flocked to the house and stood in the door-yard discussing the tr. dy. There was no question but tin. taa eh Id had been shot by young Wood, trho was walking ^femit eoot *£3 »&• eonreraed. Wheu he beard the fa,ra* crs tal'Wnir about basing him amssted lie es rpni to th-- Wiod
DAINTY DRESSES.
OLD FASHIONED MUSLINS AGAII^JHE ,RAGE ...FOR WARM DAYS.^ *U4.is Apple Green Seems to Be a Favorite Color
In the Jfevr Grenadines and Organdies. Trimmings of Jet and Lace—Wide Effects Still Hold Their Own, 1
The one object in life, in the opinion uf the New York Sun, at the present moment is to proctor* the lightest possible material in the coolest possible tints. And the choice is wide and varied, old fashioned muslins and daiuty organdies being added to the list of fashionable thin goods. Batistes, open net and monsselaine de soie are equally desirable, but the most popular i^.terial is soft, beautifully patterned grenadines, and when made over changeable silks, with the prevailing color brought out in relief on the waist for a becoming effect, they are exceedingly handsome dresses. A little jet for a finish is a pretty addition. There is a new fabric for gowns of similar style, which is a sort of a net in which are woven stripes of ribbon insertion or jet, and it gives the appearance of elaborate trimming without much labor in making. V-
FUEAKS OF FASHION*.
The old fancy for ruffles, which dates back to the days of our grandmothers, is revived again, and thin dresses are sometimes ruffled all the way up to the waist with lace, chiffon, or the same material as the dress.
A pretty striped batiste of any fancied color is made with a wide accordion plaited flounce at the bottom and a gath ered lace ruffle over it. Such a finish of ribbon is a contrasting shade. The waist is full and the sleeves have three ruffles trimmed on the edge with ribbon.
A dainty organdie dress is apple green in color, figured in pink and violet. The round skirt is trimmed with bands of
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Swiss embroidery or lace insertion,
as fancy dictates. Such a gathered wais'
mand from those who hoped to share has a wide belt of violet velvet, and I knots of the same hold in place the long The fact camo out, however, that organdie ends in the front. The deep tah.«7«rho hZBa\m°'h -He "ould I
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stories of her various intrigues since one style of dress illustrated. It is of then chronicled by the press have al- cream whito foulard silk, figured in a ways kept her memory green. The Dresden pattern, with a lavish use of woman's former husband still lives at the old homestead, where he has a wife and a large family. The child for whose possession Mrs. Wallingford first returned is now ayoung man, and runs as an engineer on one of the railroads of he State.
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desire for ruffles can be gratified in
I lace on the skirt. The yoke can be of lace or silk crepon, which is stripped around with rows of narrow beaded (trimming'. The short oversleeves are covered with lace ruffles
Another quaint style for foulard has a festooned flounce of whito lace caught up with bows of ribbon on the bottom of the skirt. The bodice is widely opened over a chemisette of silk muslin, gauged from the cliest to the waist with restoration revers edged with lace drooping over tho shoulders and meeting like a bertha in the middle of the back. The puffed sleeves end in a bunch of ribbon and lace frill.
QUAINT STYLES.
Avery tasteful dress and much brighter in tone is of pale pink batiste made over pink silk and trimmed with lace ruffles. The fullness in the waist opens over a plastron 'of lace over silk, and the puffed sleeves, which are of an agreeable length for warm days, are fin ished with lace. Bands of fancy insertion head the ruffles and form the belt.
Odd Portieres.
A pair of very odd but artistic portieres were made from nothing more nor less than one of those old fashioned blue and white coverlids woven by some old time ancestress, a copy of which is doubtlees laid away in many an attic. Zt had a seam in the middle, and when this was ripped it gave two curtains a yard and a quarter wide by two and rather more than a half long. English crewels in deep old pink, dull red, deep cream, orange and a contrasting shade of blue were used in working over the bine and white squares harmoniously with various fancy stitches. The work was quickly but effectively done, and the result, owing to the harmonious blending of the colors, was most satisfactory.
English Stew.
Cut up 3 pounds of rump steak. Di&eolve 4 ounces of beef extract In a quart of water, add beef and stew two hours. Sea with cayenne, salt, grated rind and Icr:— tablespoonfulof .ret ..J tabWrnonfuls of mushroom catchop, ates.-, tful cachofsojr&ndwo:. :it,. port JMfcw J5taiR«t«& -A.- -(g. jfV
Harness and Bujjgy.—Fiee Offer. A $10 set of Harness for only $4.55. A $ 100 Top Buggy for only §49.75. Yon can examine our goods at your place before paying one cent. Send for illustrated catalogue giving prices to consumers that are less than retail dealers actual cost. Send address and this advertisement to Alvah Ma-ufAcrrrring Co., Dept. E. E Chicago, Ills.
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HOUSEMAID'S DUTIES.
Everything in the bathroom should be rubbed, washed or dusted daily. The soap dish and everything that is on the washstand must be washed and dried. The soap should be left in neat condi tion, and the soiled towels removed and replaced by fresh ones. All the plumbing must be kept perfectly clean ami bright, antfeach part should have its exclusive whisk broom and cloths carefully marked. It is almost always necessary to caution a new servant about allowing matches or hair to be emptied into the sinks, as negligence in this particular often causes the greatest amount of trouble and expense, and people are very apt to throw small things of the kind into their slop jars in their rooms.
Hot water should be poured down the sinks every day, and they should beeaiefully scrubbed with sapolio and water, and once a week copperas water shouM be poured down. The housemaid should haVe a broom closet in which to keep all the articles used in chamber work. Convenient ljqoks should be providg^ for every article, and each one should have its own particular place. Do not keep coal and kindlings in this closet. If there is no regular place for them, have a box made on hinges about the length and height of a trunk. This will hold kindlings and two scuttles of coal, and if neatly upholstered makes a good hall seat. The bedroom closets should have all tho clothes removed and be well washed out once a week.
Fits—All Fits stopped free by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after the first day's use. Marvelous cures, Tteatise And $2.00 trial bottle free toFi cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Fa.
Old Fashioned Workstand.
In this year of revivals of many sorts, when we are going back to the early years of the century for our gowns and farther still for our inspiration for our homes, a good old fashioned workstand may well be brought to the light of day
A REVIVAL OF THE ANCIENT. To make such a serviceable stand as the one the illustration shows requires only a foundation of two circular pieces of pine board with an upright joining the two. Over one board, that which is to form the top, is tacked around of handsome cretonne, tight and smooth. Then to the edge is also tacked a slightly full strip of the same, somewhat wider than the distance between the two rounds, which is again made fast to the second board at the lower edge. Full pockets of the cretonne are made with frilled edges and are attached to the edge of the top of the table with ornamental nails. Gimp is used to finish the lower edge and, lastly, the cretonne is tied close to the upright exactly at the center with a handsome ribbon bow.
"Woman's Danger. No man can ever know the devoted martyrdom of many women.
Unselfishly a woman works and suffers that home and loved ones may be happy.
When it seems as though her back would break, when she grows irregular, faint, irritable, loses all interest in society, gets the "blues," is crushed with that indescribable feeling of "bearing-down," she "drags along," day after day, suffering agonies that would appal a man.
The cause of all her trouble is some derangement of the uterus or womb, perhaps the development of a tumor, or cancerous humor, anyway, give it instant attention.
Lydia E. PinkJiatris Vege~ table Compound* is the sure cure. It is recommended by thou-, sands of women. Its cures are un-, parallelled.
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Hints to Young IIousol ccpcrs In the Care of the House.
In explaining her duties to anew housemaid great stress, the New York Tribune thinks, should be laid on a systematic care of all the closets in the house, and particularly the bathrooms, slop closets, etc. The bathrooms should be put in order as soon as the rooms are finished the tub should be washed out daily with soap and water and dried, with a soft cloth. The porcelain lined tubs which are fairing the place of the old fashioned tinned ones area great improvement, but with careful washing the latter may be made to look always very bright and fresh.
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POCKET KNIVES
1st. That ill-health is not the normal condition of the sex.
2d. That Ul-health is not uwn'oidable.
3d. That it is asocial crime to be ill when one may be well.
4ttu That there are no "Iwpelcss cases."
5th. That VIAVI is curing the so-called ''hopeless cases" everyday,, Hi**:,
6th. What every woman, who Itas proved its value, has to say about VIAVI. This may be learned by calling at Boom 6, McKeen Block, where free consultation may be had with lady of experience Health book free to any address.
GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST.
SAVE THE TACS.
One Hundred and Ssvenly-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
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Each package containing tags must bo marked pi State, ana Number of Tags in each package.
Martin Holtinger, Attorney, Office my, Ohio street.
•VTOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. State of Indiana, County of Vigo, in the Igo Circuit Court, May term, WfL
No.
16JB74.
,250.00
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In valuable Presents to be Given Away In Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS.
1,165 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES *84,050 00 6,775 PINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES. MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,875 00 23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
11 5,500 SOLVED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH PICK&
11 5,600 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them 28,875 00 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO $173,250 OO
The above articles will be distributed, by counties, among parties who chew SPEAR HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom. We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this conntjr as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from thia conntjr we will give. I GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatost number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, wo will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSES* To
the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we Will give to each 1 POCKET KNIFE
fo the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us tho next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, wo will glvo to each 1 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK ....100 TOOTH PICKS. To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will glvo to each 1 .LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS ....7 100 PICTURES.
Total Number of Prises for this Conntjr, 926.
CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before. January ^lsti lfiW,jnor aftcr^Fobruarjr lat,
READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other SPEAK II AD la plug tobacco produced. It 1b the sweetest^ the toughest, the richest. absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any oilier plug tobacco, A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller or anj iro itl
shape and style on earth, whloh proves that It has caught the popu people. Try it, and participate in the contest for prizes. 10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Sena in quantity. Very sincerely,
PRICE, 25o„50c^ and tt.00 A BOTTUE.
Artificial Stone Walks,
ami Plastering:,
Mondy & Coffin,
Leave orders at 1517 Poplar St,, 12*1 South Fifth fit, 901 Main St., Terre Haute, Ind
Laura Ellis vs. L. May Crawford
and Joseph II. Moore et aJ, In Partition. Be it knows, that on the 8th day of June, 1803, it was ordered by tbeeourt that the clerk notify by publication mid Joseph £L Moore. Mary winterfoottom, Fannie Bryce. R. U. Moore (whose christian name is unknown),' Charles W. Moore, Thomas L. Moore, Julia A. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Curtii James Q. Warrington, 8nr*h E. Bean, John H. Warrington, Leah J. Hawk, Ueonre M. Warring* ion, Francis Fisher, A lenso W. Warrington, Halite Fox. Amanda Stevens, Elvira Puckei, Haniuel E. t*. Moore and Ttmcy Pierwon flrnpieadad with I* May
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Tnly with'Name of Sender, Town, All oharges on packages must bo
It is the largest seller 'piflar taste and .... See that a TIN TAG is on every
TjHCZE OLID IiE
XCELSIOR Steam Dye Works
has made great improvements, owing to Increase of business, and is now ore* pared to clean and color all kinds of ladies apparel to any desired shade. Geo* tlemen's garment* cleaned, colored and repaired. All work guaranteed not toshrink, smat or fade. ~$P. T? TT^Th~E?.?=3 Practical Dyer and Rcnovater, fi65 Waba*h avenue*
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dents of tb« penden, -f t' action j. -t tbe*-i H».! Moisti.-iaiiuc thmnpfore hmbritnU'
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Very sincerely,
THE P. J. 80RG COMPANY, Middlbtown, Onia
A list of the"people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published in this paper immediately after February 1st, 1804.
DON'T SEND MY TAGS BEFORE JANUARY I, (894.
DO YOU KEEP IT IN THE HOUSE?
PAIN-TILLER
Will Cure Cramps, Colic, CholeraHlprbus and all Bowel Complaints.
L. I. I.ETKQUK, Attorney. 225 Ohio Street.
ATTACHMENT NOTICE.
No 2ffl4. Before A. a Felsenthal, J. S*^ Harrison Township, Vigo County, Indiana. Timothy F. Kelley vs. William K. Yost. In attachment and garnishee.
Whereas It appears by the affidavit of the plaintiff Kelley that the said defendant Is non-resident of the state of Indiana, and whereas also it appears from the return of the constable to the summons herein issued, that the said defendant was not found In bis bailiwick: It is therefore ordered, that duo notice of the pendency of this action be given to the said defendant by publication In a r^nip#p"*oi general circulation published 1: nty. id defendant. Is thfreforo i. hy the pcnrf«*ncy of said action, ust mm ami t" *, tb? same will stand for on the 1st of
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n. tix.. st my ferns ffaote, Indiana. my hand and sea! this lOtii day of
A. fc- m.«&E!*THALr, J. P. [SKAL]
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