The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1895, Page 5

os. FRED DOUGLASS DEAD, ore aoe Passed Suddenly Away at His Home Near Washington, Heart Failure Ended the Career of a Famous Negro. A Runaway Slave Who Rose to Fame and Opulence. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Frederick Douglass, the negro orator and agitator, Gied suddenly of heart failure at his resi- ence in Anacostia, a suburb of Wash. {ington at 7 o'clock last night. His ‘death was wu although he was in his seventy- eighth lear, he had been ing the beat of health, and Gay afternoon was in atten FREDERICK the National Council of Women at Washington, chatting with Susan B. Anthony and other leaders with whom he had been on friendly terms for years. He seemed exhausted when he re- lerick Douglass leaves two sons daughter, the children of his first His widow fi ; | turned home, but attributed it to the effort of climbing the steep flghts of steps leading from the street to his home on the high terrace. He sat down to chat with his devoted wife about the women of the council, suddenly Gasped, clapped bis hand over his heart and fell back unconscious, He died Within twenty minutes, a wit mance of her iife was her marriag the biack-skinned ex. opposed bitterly by her family. Frederick Douglass was born at Tuck- shoe, near Eas! ‘Talbot County, Md., ja February, iui. ‘The date of the month he himself ‘did not know. His mother negro slave, and his father a man. The boy was reared as a ve on the plantation of Col, Edward ond, and at tea years of age was sent to live with one of Lioyd’s relatives in Baitimore, was an unusually intel- ligent child. and felt most keenly his ‘ig master end allowed him to hire gut his own time for $3 a week young Douglass secured work in a Baltimore shipyard. By the study of carpenter's on planks and timbers there he first learned to form the letters of the alphabet. At night, when his work was Gene, he would listen with eagerness to his Taistross as she read the Bible, and one day he asked her if she would teach him to read, She consented, and he made such progress that his master put @ sudden stop to further lessons. In » epite of obstacles, however, he learned te read, and started a Sunday-school, *whioh aroused much opposition and was brok soon afterwards, He entertained for a long time a H to escape, and on Sept. $38, a favorable opportunity presente if to put his plane into execution, fied from Baltimore to Washington on what were called sallor’s protection papers, which he had obra Fi At Washington train and succeeded in reaching New ‘Thence he went to New Bedford, where he married a negress. He ved at New Bedford for several years, himself and family by work- on the wharves and in various work- “ was during this riod that he hanged his name from Lloyd to Doug- lass, In his efforts at self-education he Fecelyed much ald from William Lloyd In the summer of 1841 he at- t an anti-slavery convention at Nantucket, and delivered a he Which attracted such favorab tl ‘was appointed agent Anti-Blavery Society, and travelled for four years ust few England Sta Murer. itis. graphic descrip ry and his great eloquenc: tracted 1 audiences everywher "Pfs fa 15 had spread beyond the confines of his own country, and, ter publishing in that year an auto- phy, he accepted an invitation to hire in’ Great, Britain. He spoke, to aiastio audiences in most o oa usteatie Oyiengland, Weles, Scot: Me and ‘Ireland, in 166 his British pathizors contributed $750 to secure umission in due form of law. in he returned to America. and home in Rochester, N. Y iblished “Frederick Dou i aa ot une wee sabes: wen anged to the North Star, Deny weekly abolition journal und sts Pubtlontion ‘was continued for some glass was then of magnificent figure and ife, a free ‘was an excellent housekeeper, tall, command Ailcmenly, bearing. dle nd their four children. were weil bred: lass home, on a hill south of Rochester. ‘was the resort of is} women and men. Mo iiners that he wrote hi My ‘Bordage and My ‘Ireedom, ot that house the con- Cuternet his proposed new republic. while not approving of had a great respect for ioe vin it thts Seated nia, made a 2 » ee lgiaees” arrest. ont the tion’ for round of Ria supposed implication in . Dow was then in Mich! Wnglan where he re- the. At the expira- that time he returned to Roche: tee desis elie Gina's chat glass froyed by fire in 1872, , GOUT? Paurucer Pace. LEHN & FINK, Agents, New York. | eee troops, and wi ier Vent atnaometsiauee efter oh he became editor o} in {9 the Commission to me a member of thi Council of the District of Colum In 1872 he was elected an elector-at- of New York and car: the vote of the the New ‘National inted fecre' ay ny ani large tor the Stat ted the return q torat College to W Was Appointed L the District of Columbla. His first. wife In 1844 he’ married Helen then forty-five years old, a nant of the Pitt family which set- Pittsford, and for years a clerk in this time Douglass had been looked up to as the Moses of his race, but this alliance with a white woman destroyed much of his prestige, and he ver fully regained his former popular- with his own race. 1 ved that eventually the in this country Veteran Turiman Hi white “and black race: would almagate, and as he was three- fourths white in blood, his fathel 4 white man and hi ter of a negress and a white man, he claimed to be an example of the results of such amalgamation, Douglass held ‘the office of Re- rorder of Deods in the District of Colum: bia till 1888, ‘Then he revisited Europe. pointed Mintater to July 80, 1891, becaune of dissatisfaction with the Harrison Ad- ministration, In his old age Douglass lived in retire- mother the daugh- xepected, for} 1889 he was era be sealed, an 0 accede to the reque Intend that the decree should be sealed; in fact, I didn’t know that {t had been."! t in a lovely home overlookin, ‘ Hs Aled with books 689 8. On the wall ts a por' of Peter Jackson, the colored pugilist, who was looked upon by Douglass as a great force In solving the race problem. Douglass was hale and hearty to the hour of his death; hi riage and a brisk manner. flowing white hair made his head con- In Summer he dressed in white flannel, id an erect car- His luxurious min J. Downer, of 32 Nussau stre Mr, Delahi Downer admits that n offered in behalf of Mi considered one of the in the United States, His wealth is estimated at from $250,000 lectures, and his Randsome sum, Beald m perience in_ Slavs id My Freedom,” iagifs and Times’ of richest negr. jorter of Para rubber at 1 Bi several y: by Mr, veteran. turfman the testimony mainly of former’ servants in the employ of Mr. and Mrs, Sears the divorce was granted. Shite, and the to- 4 ve, which was jerick” Doug: FRED DOUGLASS’S FUNERAL. Interment Will Be Made at Mount Hope, Rochester, N. Y. WASHINGTON, ments for the funeral of Frederick Doug- lags are almost complete, and they con- template the final interment of the body in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., early next week, probably on Tues- the latter, who Js about thirty years The body of a daughter who was eleven years old at the death now rests there, of his mother and brother, in Graceland Cemetery her doubt be removed to that place. authorities have stopped the interment of bodies in Greenland. Funeral services will be held here on Monday next, at 2 o'clock, at the Metro- time of her id the remaine who now lle at various times. recalled from John Hunter’ string in the Jays when he wae a le: in horse racing. M pear at the hearin; assisted by Dr. Rankin, of Howard University, a the exercises. ‘The re- mains will lie In state in the church for several hours preceding the funeral. During the evening the bod: ‘taken to the Pennsylvania tion and thence to pall-bearers will be B. K. Bruce, A. Wormley, J. ployers World, A 20-word ochester, Amon R. Lynch and John F* ———~ = MRS. BOURKE COCKRAN DEAD. ‘The Funeral Arranged for Saturday Francis Xavier’ Mrs. Rhoda Mack Cockran, of Congressman William Bourke Cock- ran, is dead Cockran had been in poor health years past, and for the pa: three weeks her condition was consid- She died at the Hol- Fifth avenu She A ered precarious. Golden, and ie six yea land House, born shortly after McDonnell was sent to prison for a term of seven years, He did not see her until he attempted to kidnap her yesterday. ‘The immediate cause of death, accord- ing to Drs, hemorrhage, yesterday morning, Mrs. Cockran was the daughter of John Mack. a wealthy brewer, and was married Cockran’In 1888, u her family were with her at the last. occur at St. | Xavier's Church, West Sixteenth street, at 10.30 Saturday was removed at midnight land Houre to Mack, 9 Park avenue. which began ‘The funeral | a rom the Hol- the residence of Mr. ‘Mr. Mack, who ged, ie prostrate by his daugh- Cockran was an accomplished refinement and intellect; | 4 Runaway Believed to Hi ‘ving high honors in the fi Sational and local in Washingto: W There was a taclt agree: ment between the two that politics and society were In no Wise related, and it was through the exclusivene: Cockran that the first breac tween her husband and Riel and other lead At their Washington home, teenth street, the social gatherings were Mrs, Cockran was ht, and owned a town house at 20 Madison avenue, and | 4 Villa at Sands Point, Long Island. Mother Dead, hirst, the Lawren: from her brother’ boy, and came to this city Mond afternoon, has managed to ‘slude h pursuing ‘relatives an evidence to indici the ocean. ook and also John Brown, while Doug- eat, planned the raid on Har- Gerry.” “Brown wrote out in Tammany Hall. n her own rij Otto Kempner's ena Kempner, aged fifty died Wednesday 109 Kast Pifty-sixth street, five hoys and three at her residence, leaves eight children. Bhe was connected with many socte well known on the r ‘Mrs. Kempner had been She wil: be buried to-morrow, e sisted in enlisting colored! many ¥ RECOMMENDED FOR Gravel, Caleules, Lazy Liver, and all Uric Acid SO PIPE DIVORCE KEPTSECRETIPOLLY HOLMES The Sears Decree and Beferee’s Report Sealed and Looked Up. Judge Dugro Admits That a Mistake Has Been Mad ir Named as the Co-respondent. A Way seems to have been found for dodging the rule of the Supreme Court compelling the trial of all divorce suits in open court when there {s no contest, a rule adopted uranimously by the Jus- tices to make {t sure that no fraud should be perpetrated on the courts through the collusion of the parties to a divorce suit, the ignorance of elther party to the suit, or the crookedness of lawyers, The rule, was adopted after the expo- sure by “The World” of the fraud by which Sheriff James A. Flack we- cured, through the secrecy of a refer- ence, a divorce tor his wife from him- self without her knowledge, so that he could be free to continue his relations with Sarah Cherr Of course, Mr. lack did not oppose this kvpposed action of his wife for a divorce, and, as the whole matter was done before @ referee, Mrs. Flack got @ divorce she had not asked fo: nthe action of Richard F. Sears for absolute divorce from ‘his wife, Emma Sears, the same secrecy was se- cured; there ‘wai decree of divorce was signed by Ju Dugro, of the Superior Court. — Con- trary to the custom, this decree was sealeu up with the report o1 and is now locked In a safe in the Co ing eyes. But, the reporters have ferreted out the fac no real contest, and a the referee inty Clerk's office, secure from pry. sin the Flack The rule of the Suprcme Court Judges Ip not iaw, and it ts no way binding on the Superior Court. Probably the inten- tton of edo to the sult, their at- torneys ani and highly proper; they desired to pro- tect, the parties involved from exposure to the pubiie, but the proceeding was a violation, in the spirit if not in the let- ter, of the rule of the Supreme Court, and the sense of propriety voiced in that rule, the Court, was ‘honorable Judge Dugro, when asked why se- crecy had been’ observed in the matter, “The attorneys requested that the pa. d I had a perfect right ; but I did not rumored that the papers were sealed because a JOdge of the court was named as one of the co-respondents, A contention is established when the defendant to a suit serves an answer upon the com} done in the case of Sears against Sears, A referee was therefore ap cording to a custom founded on public Morals and decency. Mra.” Sears also BE eed at each ee rel nant, and this was ppointed, ac- aring before the eree, but when the testimony for the plaintiff was in, no witness was sworn to contradict them or to explain the situation, nor was a word of testimony taken in’ behalf of Mra. Sears, #0 that there was in reality no ntest. ‘The lawyers in the case were Henja- unty, of 280 Broadway.’ Mr. testimony was Sears. dealer and {i Richard F. Sears is ie and his wife had been se} ‘The co-respondent named was John Hunter, the nd clubman, and on Beal When Mr. and Mrs, Sears separated, 'y beautiful, took up her residence in East Seventy-sixth street, where it is said the sexagenarian turfman was a frequent visitor. John Hunter hax been a conspicuous figure on the turf for a generation. He ig white-haired and passed sixty years of age. He was at one time Chairman of the Stewards of the Jockey Club; he 1s Oy, an ex-President of the Board of Control, ex-President of the American Jockey Club in the palmy Ways of Jerome Park, and a member of the Union and other clubs. Mr. Hunter's career began before the war, and he is still looked upon as a Sport, though his youth has departed and he is frosted with three-score years, B.D. Wither “Billy” Travers and John urdy were racing partners with him Dagonetand Kentucky—| der Hunter did not ap- before the referee. — Four hundred and sixty-eight em- sked for help in to-da: MRS. GARRETT ARRESTED. sted Her Brother im an Ef- fort to Kidnap His Daughter. Mrs. Ann Garrett, who, with her brother, Daniel McDonnell, yesterday morning from public school No. 13, in the Lafay- ette section of Jersey City, was arrested {his morning on @ warrant obtained by fi tempted to kidnap his child Dimick, the grandmother of the 11d, who charged her with kidnapping. ‘he child {s now known as Charlotte old. She was During his imprisonment, Mra, Mc- Donnell secured a divorce. She then Golden, and Charlotte took his alno. Golden fri ed last Winter, and M when McDonnell was released from jail he and his sister tried to take Char- lotte away from her grandmother, Mrs. Garrett was arraigned before Judge Roe and held for examination a week from to-day. McDonnell has not yet been arrested. GIRL IN BOY'S ATTIRE. Shipped as € BOSTON, Mass. nm Hoy, Feb. 21.—Lucy Dew- girl who ran away home attired as @ the police ha’ that she is now on It ix believed that Miss Dewhi@t suc- ceeded In getting the position as oapir.- boy on the Leyla tonian, and that she sahet on that steamer for Liverpool yesterlay. Her | brother helleves xhe will her old home in Biackpoo! nd line steamer Hos- England. —— -- Female Department Grammar Schoo! Ne. 11 | this marning celebrated Washington's Birthday, Mra. U. G. Secord is the principal, Many pat- Fiotic. song - | Inspector certification, He ‘on Fequest of the pi the se by the scholars. School jatributed the semi-annual hed Trustee McCue to pick out, Mr tated for a few the Flag. She Suffered from Bronchial Caterrh, ment Aoted Like Mi Discouraged Becau: R Doctor Treatment During Treatment. POLLY HOLMES. ‘Twas indeed discouraged wh Doctors McCoy and St, John. 1 had by so many physicians ( vractice wil of them, told Doctors McCoy and St. John just thin momth. It tw positively limited how I felt, and they told me not to be discour- | thone Leginning treatmes ing over m Revere attack of | 1. Al periectly wretched, My voloe | ment Teould hardly sing, 1 had | eld pal severe headaches—o severe that it was all 1 could | (reared wi do to goon and si felt discouraged. the grip and w was so badly uffecte: Thad a bad cough, and bron- 1 was also hort of breath, and | ne increase In rat had pains in my chest. To-day I feel Ike thing of the past. “ My voice In clear wink to visit perform my professional duties with ploam {ully appreciate the good work of Doctors ‘They are thorough ty their Tgludty recommend them to all who | are suffering, aud feel it my duty to all to express de to there doctors for ym 10 w'elock A. M MeCoy and St, John, my pleasure and grat what they have di HOUSE LOST BY AN ERROR. |SAYS SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED. mpany Neslected | Mrs, Lindh's New ted Property. seuston of I The suit of Mrs, Susanne L. Ehmer to recover $5,000 from the Title Guarantee and Trust Company now on trial before |Justice Bartlett in the Circuit Court, | year-old daughter, now makes the sur- Brooklyn, from Mrs. Ehmer’s complaint shows apparently loose methods on the part of the Company. Ehmer complains that in 1891 she verbally agreed to buy a nouse at 1 Fourth avenue and contracted with the defen purchase, contract price being age for the full amount lons costing about $1.14). A year after, she says, ane was told c tgage, of which s! t plaint, was foreciored, and ghe lost, the She held a guarantee deed, Which ‘vas drawn for 12 Fourth avenue, | ‘vor of Mra, Ball. the description being that of the prem-|qrewae this morning D_ Benedick, for the Company, sald that the houses were new when the sale | Oni and had not been numbered O'Neill sold the house as 125 Fourth a) nue, which statement the Company ac cepted. No survey of the premises wa 8 his Company had agreed to he second mortgage, and move mer into 125 Fourth avenue, and ims the Company made no erro: ee taal MAMIE REPUDIATES HIM. for me. arantee C y War from John M. James Swarts {i low, with a drooping mustache, and he says he is a fon of the Bheriff of War- New Jersey, and but after standing all long opposite the house where] William G. lived, 82 Great Jones} June for and gazing at her window, was arrested by Policeman Maloney this | w morning for intruding his person into] Matilda Darlington to recover a $25,000 hote, is again in trouble ren County, ther's deputy, love upon Mamie and was fined $10 for it in Jefferson Market although he protested to Police | Bank now demands payment of Justice Simms that Mamie was his wife notes he iu the policeman was escorting the house and his Mamie with a hh y, and {t took all the persuasive pow ers ‘of the officer to prevent the Digla weakness for y Jerseyman from He cried like a he was led into the Jefferson Market prison after sentence. The woman de- hies that he is her husband. MRS. RAINSFORD A TRUSTEE, The Clerayman's Wife € the Eighteenth Ward ‘The Board of Education yesterday ay killed last night by a 8, Rainsford to serve asa Public School Trustee for the Likh-| attending prayer meeting teenth Ward. This action was du petition received from Dr. Hunter, of the Normal College, axking that_ women on school boards. Mre. Rainsford pointed Mrs, be chose 60 direstly to| George's Church., taken an active interest ine affairs, and has great executive ability nd woman in New York pacity of School Trus it woman who has held the position since 1887, Her term of tee. it Was Thrown a of Bey Thie Bhe is the nec to serve in t tee, and the fi office will eng in girl of | Might and tried 4 lant ei were committed to the care of the Gerry bo THE OVATION SHE RECEIVED AT TONY PASTOR'S WAS T MENDOUS AND THE GREATEST OF HER LIFE. joG: Offer to P lungs. ‘The tubes be instances become p aymptom y Jun In as freely her own lips and janquage. BRONCHIAL CATARRH THE TROVBLE.| The pain whten a Holmes Became Discouraged Because | Wo Physicians Could Help Her. Misa Holmen ta delighted at the complete rea- toration of her voice, She was awlully worried about her condition. three hundred dollars a week te Bhe ts Junt an vivactous off the stage an bebind thi ind she wan very happy when she was interviewed yesterda, i | for several others ' firvt taxes of brone Her voice ts worth Just dence of the disease streaks of blood mi are apit up, whi of m bard, chalky of cheesy or chalky catarrh the volce of hoarse. ‘There ts T wan nervous, and truly | ta, in the cane of different person, entirely disap. a | paying $400, the | br Bhe gave the her daughter, Treprésentanions, Mrs, Ball, the hearing to stig. nanavonet*'-| PRETTY FACES HIS RUIN. his fa-] Wau yr Mrs. he caught sight ofl nae rete nishing his rival. that they nomi hipped spaniel when | heap of ‘trouble. Pare iD to Ml Vacancies |extricates they ts the wife of Rev.| for the ehild Rainsford, rector of Bt] A moment: lat For years she has other churen opt rational cants, and Buro Fire, starting | Micheel a Mever. 118 Bowery, | et hf "| flames. Th bar et nev were [the family. pp fan, "Phe tka saunsent | thtew. it, out Dreman, id Doctor McCoy ic, After the Sweet sin Other Physicians Failed to Help Her— in or Ronew arch fins existed In the head and the upper part of the throat for any length of time, And the dineane has been loft uncured, the catar windpipe and into the brouchtal tubes, which tibes convey the wir into the different parts of the ed from the awell- im eatarrh, and in some up so that the alr can: Ing nod mucus artaing f felt tnt Jer the shoulder Innt m fow days ‘hent behind the breast Intervals, i8 hacking In charactor w | Most troublesome In the morning oO golng to bed at night, and may be the test evt At fret there may be nothing cough; then there Isa little, tough, ens, which the patient fnds great dimen bringing Sometimes there are fits of cough: Ing induced by the tough mu cause vomiting, Later on th {s found to contain anal! part tes that Lungs are now affected fo violent as to mucus that ts rained es of yellow mat small tubes tn th With thin there are oftes | price everywhere. when pressed between the fingers, emit # had o: ure are spit up, ‘The raising: chiof at work In the lungs. Adisiike for food, whi taste, cause the patient to of tha@tomach Instead 0 A weak stomach and | wine tobave lost Its hink he has @ diseane es weak, husky burning pan in the with diMeulty in swallowing. THE LOW RATE FOR FEBRUARY. not be continued alter treatment before YOU CAN BE CUR treated at home. loctors’ offices or write um It will coat you noticia, ity. OMter hours, 9 oO P.M. dally. urge to Get P © Daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lindh, who for a month Past has been fighting in the Supreme Court for the possession of her four- prising charge that she was hypnotized by Mrs. Mary Ball, and induced to sign a deed of adoption agai t Mrs, Ball adopted when she was two weeks old, Mra. Lindh at that time being unable to care for Subsequently, Mrs, better circumstances, endeavored to get her child back and obtained a writ of in the Supreme Court. Justice Andrews Application was made to Justice An- j*how cause why there should not be a argument of the writ of habeas corpus ¢ ground that Mrs, Lindh had evidence to submit. ‘iM support of the appli Lindh's attorney sald that ‘ j false, fraudulent and gimost distracted and overburdened with grief by reason of her great trou- b Mrs. Lindh feasoning, and was therefore governed | y the will of Mrs, Ball, who seemed to Blumenthal. attorney for an adjournment of Wood Sued for } Exchange fu- Love, Wood, who was sued note of $535, he} given by him to H. F. Birdsell, and who | se sued again in mi | uo rey The Riverside 000 in exchange ideome man across the | and affection. - Wood is an elderly man, and owns to nes “gel A man into a PRAYED FOR TROLLEY VICTIM Hoy Killed we The vas fille fout, unt was: Were PHILADELVIIA, + Was struck and instantly of @ chureh in which the accident brought out the entire con- &regation, and while the poty was being heads in the street, offering up pr Orchard stre BABY’S BODY SAVED. tory at 49 Drign terday and was | orto The bors entered in tix coffin, While K wife nay Hur Dewan was carry teen words i0 siraet below, where It was caught by THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2:, 1895, *$ VOICE RESTORED,|A Sensibt Shirt For the business man fa the colored shirt. It is styl- ish, comfortable and economical when made by the right people. Keep’s Fancy Shirts wear well because they are made right, and wash well. because they made of fine imported madras and the best French percale. 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