The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1895, Page 8

+ Catherine Morrison Cut Her Throat SUICIDE IN A CHURCH. in a Confessional, Was Found Bying in the Church of the Ep'phan; She Was Well Educated and Given to Deeds of Charity. ‘There seems to have been no particu- Yar reason why Catherine Morrison should have selected the confessional of @ church in which to commit suicide, ‘The relig.ous fervor of which her friends have spoken since her death may have prompted her retreat to this sacred spot to die. Catholic Church of the Epiphany, ye terday afternoon, just before 6 o'clock. | No one had seen a young woman, well fy the station K ‘There were perhaps halt a dozen | Velon ‘women praying before the altar of the | at that add permit for its removal, four po.iceme! carried the body to the Eaxt Twenty- second street station-house. MISS CATHERINE MORRISON, The woman was about twenty-five ra old and very well dressed. In a book In her pocket was an en- upon which Was written: therine Morrison, of 179 Tam wt One Hun: Are George {x a builder, lives When sent for he came jouse. He said the woman @rensed and veiled, enter a few minutes ' had boarded with him and his wife for The Confessional Where Miss Morr! before—at least no one remembered to| the past six yen known her si have seen her. She evidently went di- rectly to one of the confessionals in the rear of the church, ‘The confessionals are small apart- ments, with curtained walls, in which fs placed a low bench, upon which the visitor kneels while speaking to the father confessor, on the other side of the partition, No one saw this woman enter the con- fessional, and she disturbed no one until) the praying women at the altar heard & groan which ended in w gurgle, fol-| lowed by @ falling Body. But in the! solemn stillness of the church the groan| right. | One fright: | Contents from memory “as follows: seemed almost supernatural, ened woman ran to the door to find some one who had the courage to in- Nolan and learn the cause of this noise 6he found Thomas Comiskey, the sex- ton’s assistant, who hurried to the rear of the church. “T think it came from there,” sald the woman, as she pointed to the nearest confessional! The man went to the little room, and lied back the curtains. He saw a| irk, irreguiar heap upon ths floor which looked like @ body, and when he had turned up the iights, a stream of biood flowing from a great weep cut in her neck Was visible, A shining stee? razor blade which caught up the light and reflected it back, was the weapon she had used. Comiskey, who saw the woman was still alive, ‘managed to get her out of the narrow confessional, and laid her upon the floor near the door. Then he gent a mesenger for Dr. Brady, of iid East Twenty-third street, and a’ police- man who was notified sent for Ambu- lance Surgeon Hu:mer, of Bellevue, ‘The doctora found the woman had first gashed her left wrist with a razor and then cut her throat. She died in a few minutes. After Coroner Meagher hi ted a NO COMEDY IN THIS. Plays with a Fire 4 Goes Up. night he performed the most “taking act of his life. “Let me show you how to have some fun,” he exclaimed to half a dozen friends as he emerged from a saloon at Coenties slip. Officer Kane heard the remark, and also watched for the fun, | Bullivan opened @ fire-alarm box and was about to turn in an alarm when the policeman interrupted him, His Spereciation of the fun was some- what faded this morning when, after Temaining in a all night, ‘Justice McMahon, in the Tombs Police Cour @entenced him to the isiand for one month. —_——~ > _ DR. HOUGHTON’S CHANCEL. | ‘The Li Church Around the Cor- ner Eularged and Improved. At the 7 o'clock service to-morrow Morning tn the “Little Church Around the Corner,” the new chancel will be used for the first time. This chance and other improvements are the gift of Mrs. Zabriskie, one of the who donated $& church. A house adjoining the church has been ought, thus giving room for @ chancel 20 1-2 feet wide an. % feet long, and a robing room for choristers, 28 1-2 by feet. The uddition is of or Tudor architecture. Bishop Potter ard Rev, rector of the church, are take part in the opening of - —— = rishioners, 0) last year to the ines Annual Reception. ir Knights fae oMcers of Be and Baltimore € the Grand Tempinr parade at Con ball, Thursday evening, at Matis estimated th he full uniform will be Dresent. auions are to be unia Music the bus in the elty and the sup Mazett! CRANBERRIES ARE THE MOST WHOLESOME FRUIT Now OBTAINABLE, AND PRICES ARE Vi: Mob. BRATZ. ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCI $HEM. WIOLESALE DEALERS SUPPLIED BY BENCH & CO. TITUS BROs., BARTRUPE @ VAN ARSDALE, mother died, leaving her. $900 a year.’ She was a Normal School Kraduate, class of 1889, and was a mem- her of Bt. Cecilia's Church, and much given to deeds of charity. with a ‘friend, Mr, Powers believes the woman had committed suicide while in a religious frenzy. Geterred me, but of 33 Baltic street,! Fire Engine 2 Brooklyn, 6 an amateur comedian, Last) on the way to a fire at East One Hun- et oat 6 | o'clock +his morning, came in collision n Killed Herself, ind that his wife had ni dood, Seven years Morrison's in income of She read in the newspapers of the Elbe disaster, and appeared to be much af- he left the houre at 1 ng she intended to lunch Mrs. Powers received a letter this morning bearing the signature of Mies Morrison, Mra Powers was much over- come when an ening World" re- porter saw her, She refused to let the Teporter wee the letter, but repeated its Dear Katie: My mind tn going. What @ pity that much « mind ‘should ba” destroyed! “Only” my. love. tor You provented me fram committing this deed in Your house. When with you your influence could. no fonger control myse over the mi for two weeks. Mra. Pc the young woman took her life, be- longs to Mr. Powers, “Miss Morrison,’ sald Mrs. Powers, was not connected with Dr, Burtsell's church, She was always a communi- cant of St. Cecilia's Church, One Hun- dred and Sixth street and Lexington avenue. Her mother died in 1888, leav- Ing h an orpoan, Bhe had a fortune of $40,000,and leaves no re‘atives. She was graduated 1889 from the Seveaty-ninth: street pol, and was a hard student, Sh ‘oted herself esp He to the study music and reading, ince her tragic death | think I can recall many things not noticed at the time, which m to me like symptoms of an unbal- anced mind Her hair was turning gray over the temples, too, and. perhaps, that was a symptom of mental troub! The body will be buried from the Church of the FEpiphan and will not be moved to rs, hou: WILL TURN OUT NEXT TIME. A Milkman Who Won! ton Fi ilve Way Capt. an, while dred and Sev nty-ninth str with a miik wagon and was much damaged. The wagon was demolished, and the driy Frank Merkel, y rs old, ares that Merkel re turt , and the collision unayold ne fire was only a chimney blaze, FIGHTING HIS “OLD ENEMY,” Mayor Strong Stim) Nu Rheumatic-Gout Member. Private morning that Mayor Strong would not his off ay, Itis understoot hat nis rheumatt gout or “old! PMY" {8 uot So Severe as it has been, |" but the Mayor didn't think it would be safe to come the enowstorm, His arm is swollen ly Mr. Hedges might safely be an- nounced that untess the “old my wets Worse the Mayor will be at his office on Monday Another So It ia coma Vanderbii ave but one child. The with who wedding was 1 16 i world’ good y boasted that ana te ney had paid her well, * A Woman in Dr Anna Willla jyer aat Termi American Muy f Natural History, 8M Aspects slumbia College, 10.30 4. D, om "Celestial Mechani ! HOWELL OSBORNE ILL, There Is Faid to Be but a Slim Chance for His Recovery. Some Escapades of This Gay Young Man About Town. His Estate Tied Up Because of His Fondhess for Actress At the home of Howell Osborne, 105 Went Seventy-second atreet, It was eald this morning that he had passed a fairly comfortable night, and that his condition, In consequence, is much im- proved, While Mr, Osborne ts still a very sick man, and the chances for his ultl- mate recovery ure not very encourag- ing, his nurse said there was no im- mediate danger. To make his condi- tion more serious complications of long standing have ste in, in addition to the grip. Howell Osborne's name figured in Newspaper stories, none of which re- flected much credit upon the young man, these fifteen years, or ever since he reached his majority. His father, Charles J.Osborne, amassed an immense fortune in Wall street, and his boy had been reared to the notion that his own caprice .was his only guide to conduct, ‘Thie tather died in November, 1885, when Howell was twenty-six years old; but the son had already shown @ dispo- sition to scatter money to the four e and the will of the father, pro- March, 1886, left all his es- tate, household effects and $00,000, In cash to his widow, Mirin sborne, ¢ of which Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, ut of the way of the and $500.00 in trust, the In was to go to Howell. Howell Osborne had spent much time in chasing after the gilded butterfiles of the varlety, burlesque and comic opera Stage. He ‘had married one of them, Alice Burville, an English girl appearing in “Billee Taylor,” in this city. Osborne nenior succeeded in separating the cou- ple after a few months, and, it Is sald, pald $12,000 to the young actress, After his father's death the ‘son be- came a broker as partner of W. L. Stowe, and made some astounding deals, but retired, heavily in debt, to resume his old habits. At one time hs marriage to Lillian Russell was announced, ‘Then he formed an alliance with Fay Templeton, who had secured a Chicago from Billy West, the minstr or 8 eral years Osborne and Fay have, it ts said, been faithful to each oth For years Howell 0} "4 creditors kept his name before the public by thelr frantle efforts to t what he owed them, for his Income of $35,000 a year wax not nearly enough to foot the bills incurred In his peculiar existence. \ tli OSHORN: In 1891 Mirlam A. Osborne, his widowed mother, «die nit Was thought Howell’ Osbe Htors would get their due. But when Mrs. Osborn's will Was opened it was found that she had carefuly tied up her great fortune of Hot less than $5,000,000, so that her son’ would get only ‘an tnorease of his In come, making his annual allowan about $75,000, Rut even this was made contingent on his not entering into mar- man who had aver Mm the publle issue of any marriage with any person never co 1 with th orne him: 1 that he oo) worth ants to Templeton, who was a slender, sprightly Fay whi she first met Osborne, but is, ‘The stories of Osborne nears startling, Onee he amir Bar- low when singing In Les Manteux Noirs at the Standard ‘Theatre. He saw her from a box, and sent an invt talon to to sup with him that night Then he ordered) a $150 1 waite As some else of ndthrift never fl 1 when ex of his excap: were told He seemed to be proud of them, He was a “ool thing” to a lot of peopl World aver MGR. SATOLLI SAYS MASS. lon. hin Morning: Him, arrived tn this etty from yesterday afternoon, accom ary Hedges said this Morris Mf on Tae Vegeadle World a GW. HL La | om ander, of the Sixth ley Place Italian Mis ration in a ter Das been ¢ Corrigan from the Atchb-shop of | lag nin hen qineriied , nersonally i ropaganda 2 ongtatalating | narrowly ‘aped receiving ontenty | Sald he was a stockbroker, kan on the cor noof Stoste: Jor Fleming's shotgua, — Mleming fred | West Tatrty SS TL phen's and pra father Colton, re 1t Valentine and the shot m him, | Known to men as Edward Kingman phenn Bae ke j shattered the glass in the door of Mors | When searched he counted out $L_and Baila wenger enters handed over a handsome gold watch, RAMS AND SINKS A LIGHTER. The Stean Lowell Crashes at pler ran inte at the ss the ¢ ushing in” the Kina few Capt «oaries Olin and several of th crew were aboard the Midas at the time, but managed to Ket off before she | went down, = ee a One More Victim t s Finnegan, Afiy-seven yeare olf, of 40 burned about fare and boly by le explosion of « kerosene Wea: Thirtyealxth street, was ba: Vamp in her room at 6 @'clock this morning THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, | to Protest against pi “MACY. & CO. WIXTH AVE, 13th to ——¢ Look Out For Our Great Sale, SILKS . . DRESS GOODS . . . . . . SILK WAISTS . : s 6 . . . CHILDREN'S NAINSOOK DRESSES . . AT LADIES' SHOES AND SLIPPERS. UMBRELLAS . . 7 ‘ . . HOSIERY . . . . . . ABOUT LAC. s 3 ‘ e 4 ~ 8 . EMBROIDERIES . 5 : fu . SOFA PILLOW ‘ ‘ : . . . IMPORTED CAPES AND WRAPS. . FURS . : . . . EMBROIDERY SILKS. . . NOTIONS . . . . . SILVERWARE... Ow. OHINA 6 ss es GROCERIES AND FINEWINES. . . CIGARS ee) oe ee VALUE! CURTAINS AND PORTIFRES . . RUGS 5 5 OU HOUSEFURNISHINGS. . } This is the first of a series of Extraordinary Weekly Offerings that will continue throughout the season. Lodges, Societies & Meetings. | Lod; MASS Societies & Meetings. EETING wapicen of Committee of Seventy, Confederated Good Government Clubs, City Vigilance League, City Club of New York and German-American Reform Union, ii ba in behal POLICE REORGANIZATION AND REFORM, 6 Police Pats At Cooper Union, Monday, Feb. 4, 8 P. M. The followi: nkern will address the m: ONLY THIRTEEN AND A BRIDE, Pretty Alica Bich, of Meri‘en, Married to Her Cousin. © immediate passage of Reform The Mother Separates the Couple and Will Go to Law. MERIDEN, Conn., Feb. 2.—The elope- ment and marriage of Alice Rich, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Dan- fel F. Rich, of this city, ts likely to involve both her husband and the Meth- odist parson in legal trouble. Alice is a pretty girl, with golden hair hanging down her back and dresses just reaching her shoe tops, Her father died in an insane asylum two years ago, and her mother has since been en- xagel as housekeeper in a number of families here. }Honest Zee ney ame, moa son? BONE Cut cake REE atin seaetdl § Picture Coupons. sin of All was em- wie vous were no vone| p Oldw.22°¢Ot. NewYork as to cause remark among the 20 Coupons still good for a Handsome took her Paster 4 a the] FAQS ZABaN MAA AH y morning A busket luncheon and start village school, returning to the “usual um he next mo: when Mrs. Lyman reminded Alice that it mats time (owed ready. for school, shel ORE AT PANTS SALE Was surprised with the reply: “My school days are over, I'm a matted wonuane! *-TO-DAY-—« to Portland, rlage license PANT! on his atfdavit sj foe) They then wen Ss e mon Eh OW MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS, London#Liverpool, secured it Lyman and young, statem Miam Rich declars aim 86 & 88 BowERy, d-wife by legal process, if other Cora & Ho ter mt, ns fail Mrs, fich retorts that if he pena Jaw he can get any quantity|> = ae =e Bellevue, and, though very nervous, iven Clear,’ intelligent answers to HUNTING FOR VALENTINE, Ve their questions. Her temper is re- perved fOr net inva family, and she is Nita 4 ee |Multe rational in the presénce of out- Hine FD ber Shot Once | Mitts. . atth _—_ el a e i LYNBROOK BROKER KINGMAN’S PLIGHT. ment has not yet died away in the -- — seandal involving ward W. Valentine,| Me and Jessle Ward Were Drank of St. James's Methodist fm Clarion Restaorant, it par pale. ala rd, of soubrette row, and Brooklyn as a clan and Kman were — arreste Brookiyn Sixth avenue cafe at 1 A t ntinues ters street police station, J D8) cated, “Her the on in the vile |,,She Informed the WAN a Wreck To Jefferson Market Valentine formery owned a butehs » a cab. Kin) in Lynbrook. “He recently sold cut} Went isiness apd told his frien to Seran Va ship . Ans ama se prostr eming Ww dice Court the th sealskin, They paid $ fine each, EMMET PHILLIPS SUED, an attra mestle Trouble, in the Supreme Court for limited di against her husband, Emmet Phil He is attor Christine ‘Tarbox, the twenty Union T nter of William Tarbox, of in ber p ist End avenue, has developed | unkindly md does not su ort her, trolled | Lips be times kn two months ago she broke |ing to kit her. At} mother’s nose, and a short time later | with a revolver, and sb tried to commit suicile by turning on|with him any. ‘longer the gas in her room, Her hext step was| She started business in Ne an attempt to throw h old brother out of the window. Bhe has been examined by experts to support her, Woto treat her unkindly FEBRUARY % 1905 + DV FUNUAUSHUNOOUUOURUURODNOOUODDDOEERERMEUORURREDAONAOADUAIRURAEI HU Beginning Monday. Feb. 4, or WEATHER. An Interesting Forecast for Every Day in FEBRUARY. PASTE IT IN YOUR LUTTE 2 | The Author “ AFTER LUT BALL.” INTERESTING PAGE FOR - WOMEN. Feminine Fashions = : YNAM'TE FACTORY. One of The World's Coura- geous Young’ Women spends a day watching the Making of Ex- plosives. Theatrical and Social Au- thorities Declare That This Nuisance Must Be Stopped. SOME FEATURES IN TO-MORROW'S SUNDAY WORLD. DISASTERS. Memorable Steamship Horrers of Past Years Recalled with Vivid Ptsturce, (Napoleon's Brilliant General) TED HIS EXECULONERS. He dodged the soldier’ bui- lets, fied to America \ UI TUTTI TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT STANDARD AS GOLD. FOR EVERY MAN. ONLY $1. Alice told how she had driven with | aggNeN & CAMSIMERE AND CHEV. r cousin the day be: 16d Woitereu TANTS An EY W. H, PARKER, THE MOST EME _ For Sate. ‘DIAMOND RINCS. MOLITALIREN, or sot with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, &e,, In artiatic vesigns, of andless vari ely. at prices 80 low as to astonish our patrous, Good goods, No rubbish—we sell none, The secret Is that WE ARE PRACTICAL Pr OP DORs” aud” precious one DENOLA MENDES & U0. 51-58 MAIDEN LAN, N. Y, (Takeelevator. ) cutting factory can he seen in operation. Connultation In person, ON 125 livaluable ‘mie diseases, fu Nouiy' wt Od. double ms Dentistry, NEW YORK DENTAL PARLOnS. | oor, sew IN these a Wome Waite, M. to-day, and taken to the Thirtieth 19 paid UF bad Feaull& Applied Lo We gue AD sie was intoxt- | eoiuiely paiaie, tbe undersigned. ba: had teeth extracted at the New York Dental machioen 4 vw ra Ww. eon TE od rowos without the least he had been in wore a new | ane nm Jessie had a great black felt | ao pay. with ostrich plumes and a full a and present it at Jon the OLD FAMILY RYE WHISKEY, BACHELOR CLUB Attorney for Weateru Union Han Do. | sh THE ANNUAL MEETING of the stockholders of Mrs. Jennie Philiips has brought action for the ensulog’ yi ih BKANDY (Cog CHAMPAGNE (Jul ie before the meeting, inthe oly of for the Western legraph Company, She alleges Pi ae the above prices as bona Bd. that Phillips has treated her nit Help ‘Wanted—Male. el barkeen one need apply without good rete: Ma for trying to kill people. When} Mrs Phillips is thirty-one years old, was thirteen her h th and mind) and was married in 1s imme- e down ‘om overstur id she i diately after the union, she says, Phil- t to fits of une DIED. King her down and threaten- he shot at her refused to live ¥ York, but Feb. 4 at 230 P.M, jurteen-year-|was unsuccessful and ran into debt, T HENRY GEORGE wi She now brings suit to compel Phillips Feugisites in stooc Wrap, Jackets Capes an suit all the latent at dengns, op ary weel migachly payments rtekteve a Paar if.’ Mat Pine watch repairing fin Hotel VALUE 25¢, IF YoU CUT THIS. COUPON 716 7th avi y store, on oF before the tat of 1695, w the holder thereof to a reduction of 25 c eE KoOds Kegul Rewular pri ERRY W Rt WINE. fegutar price Ta "with ticket. 0 x “price 0%, ‘with teket :¢3 ‘Mums eguiar pri CC Nt, 718 78 Ave PLAVANO’ te restaurant 29th. ar. BY ENTS redyed and ali RMEN’ y , late with C. 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