The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1900, Page 1

-4..BUNCO IN WRATHER-RAIV TO-DAY) FAIR SUNDAY. | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ] <== PRICE ONE CENT.” : == ‘FATE OF LADYSMIT GIRL WAS HEIRESSES. THE SPOOK. Sighing Swains Purchased Hand of $85,000|Bertha Stahl, Her Brother . Beauty for $5 Each and Were Both Fooled, A hot matrimonial chase after an) would go to the Berkshire Hills to re- $55,000 heiress who turned out to be @| cuperate. servant girl in an uptown doctor’s| "Oh, she went y, all right, Abeid fainily ended to-day tn the Yorkville| Klein, with a pained expression, as he Court when Mrs, Anna Berger, man-| told ¢ y to Magistrate nn. ager of 4 marriage bureau at Sixty-| “for si a chatabermaid in a doc- third street and Lexington avenue, was x a ind when the family went charged with getting money by fraud|to the Herkshires she went, too.” from two fortune-seeking swains. After “Miss Woodford” went to the The swains were Adolph Klein, a| mountains she wrote long, loving let- clerk, of 1% East Seventy-ninth street, | “J, y lere they are, and Mux Mashelmer, an auctioneer, of | itch of twenty: () 18 Hawt Ninety-fourth street, Both are |* (100°) ment about twenty-nine years old. lane of the ‘eateries, Their story, as told to Magistrate|other endearing terms were liberally Brann, was most remarkable. It began| used. The epistles were all written in in June last, when Klein read an ad-|a man's hand, but in his love and hope Vertisement teliing of the longings of | of the fortune, Klein did not notice this. a. @ wealthy heiress for a sultable hus-| Everything was going band, It was signed “Ideal.” when Klein met Masheimer, He told Kitin thought he would make the| Mashelmer of his gopd fortune. Proper kind of husband for the love-| “lucky dog,” the latter said, “Are Jorn heiress and wrote a reply. tiers 50 mate helresses at that club?” The, letter brought an immediate re- oa ore sponse. Tt came from Mra. Berger, |MIm Hermer, ‘whose matrimonial bureau was then lo- cated at 134 East Twenty-ffth street “It will cox: you 2 cents,” she wrote, “to open correspondence with the Klein said, handing to the MadAstrate. can fix you up.” Down went Masheimer. Mrs, Berger was delighted to see him. heiress.” “Cheap,” chuckled Klein, and he sent |enough for me.” Mashelmer sald. “Never the tw mind waiting to get an eighty-five-thou- vy Another letter soon came, asking him % sto call at Mrs. Berger's bureau. He eailed. Mrs. Berger informed him that| ‘ ; i to moet the wealthy heiress he would], Out of stm we aes merely have to join her “matrimonial be Worth #5, 000. Letters from the count: cub.” ry were pouring! Inckientally, she mentioned, this would Nae beens gut male cod alae involve a fee of 8. and a short time ago he wot J Klein wanted an heiress, and a small ame tl Mrs. | fee did not bother him. He paid the | fram aia Matas ins Aicne five and became a club member, He went to the bureau to wateh for (@pecial to The Evening World.) ymelected his own investigating commit- Mrs. Berger” appointed a meeting at {ine Mace age Mfntgte Getianes Siss| PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 9.—The Pat- | teen and they reported at the raloon the “club rooms’ (her bureau), with the | Woodford’ wae ta'the eeunity arson ghost has been laid. It consteted | 1M a week they ‘tad the spirite up- lein it and th ha Btahl, thirteen wetting beds, throwing sewing machines, of three poreone~Dert dancing stoves, singing and etMehing. years old; Jacob Stahl, her brother. {=I The Stable believed It themselves, and teen years old, aid Martin Curley, ao Stahl had nervous prostrasion. saloon-keeper, It was due to the efforts | Btahl laid off from work and wus afraid of the last named that the fame of the /t stir out of a chatr. ghostly manifestations were nolsed CURLEY THE WINNER. ebout. Curley beran to think of retiring from Jacob Stah!, an empioyee of the City | business at the end of the year, Gas Works, lives at Sixth avenue and| Arthur W. Bishop, of the Passaic Saat Fifth street, pretty two-story frame ccatage. With tim live his sec: ond wife, four children and his two chilfren by his first wife, Bertha and fimneet. canoe, helt hey covered he 5 hea "heen, correspon oh " same . Teer at haled Mrs, Berger Ennouncement fired the voung| court Oe sis ¥. he mide violent love. teal Ege oS could have aa husbands in a eek the ly it Kod Ceunty Calliren’s Soctety, had a talk edged throwing things. 8ne sald to-day she did it to tease ber mother. Curley only smiles when questioned. He is too busy to t ‘The Rapid Transit Commission met | 2 o'eleck this afternoon and dec'ded to ast the Legislature at Albany to 4 (he Ciimeter to permit the bonds for the road to be issued as the money ia need- ed, and without the approval of the Mu- nicipal Arsembiy. The latter provision, it is believed by [counsel to the commiasion, is realty contained in the original Rapid-Transit act, Dut it was thought beet to have it TP 3% 83 fai iigiii fee RDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900. 223 JOHN RUSKIN Great Critic Whose Life Was Marked this afternoon of influensa, aged eighty- one yeare 10:2. Mis father was a wine merchant. an austere, but cultiveted man who Ruskin “ re ——_ea ul tetas eae ties . FRENCH HENS THB BOERS IBritish Fortified Kopjes Near WOMAN PLANNED Suicing, | © Ladysmith, = DRESSED FOR BURIAL, © [Tat en an trss'a ms soos oar a The firing of field guns. cain" "oe *t omme firing THEN SHOT HERSE was heard early this morning ,cvzni* ere + no change te Mountain, ea by ‘ There was also a brief [ne cond’ detachment of the Voluntee ol musketry fire. to a reveliion of tie ota fon{ LONDON, Jan. 20.—A) rn. %ou"anern tadas 2 » {special despatch from Cape | ive Rims station, g Town, dated Friduy, Jan. 19,|vetore “daynceam. headed 1 P. M., says: nd the volunteers, “The Ladysmith relief force is steadily working north-| . , ,|ward. Heavy fighting oc- AT NEW ORLEANS curred yesterday. The Boers :Rplare retreating.” Thus in the midst of creasing enthusiasm the Vi r | ‘BULLER MOVING OW finally reached the station at 9.20, 5 the Duke of Connaught, the Lord Sheriffs and other military and dignitaries had assembled. i, The Volunteers were rapidiy for: Southampton and steamed the! strains of “Auld Lang “God Save the Queen.” large crowds met the Vol Sowhampton and gave them a send-off ap chey embarked on the ports Aricsto, Kinfauns Castle and Qi For a time the people contenteg tiem. es with cheering, and the og ry anced in good order until it Great George street, where the fi wives and sweeinearts of the sisted on joining them and arm-in-arm. P _ ¢ |e War Office Silent as to Bis Rattle for the Retiet Laéyemith. LONDON, Jan. %.--Telegrama from the front indicate that the northward march of the relief column moving to- waht Ladyemith is proceeding steadily. ‘The authorities here seem satisfied now Ger. Builer's forces are with- . nt of Ladyemith the besieged BOERS WATCHRD } piace is safe at present from serious pba | attack No news of real importance made ENGINEER GETS BAD FALL Saw Their Enemy Ge tate ons public up to 29) o'clock this afternoon, After Having Creseed the a and there was nothing to show that the Tesela River, s General enzagement so frequently ru-] BOER HEADQUARTERS, mored has yet commenced, though. ob-|TUGELA, Tuesday, Jan. 1 via LO. viously, news of such a battle te mo- | RENZO MARQUES, Friday, Jan, = memtarily expected. Afternoon.—“It_ became known today = | ‘Advices from Cape Town say Field |that 90 English had crossed the Pomt- Mervhal Lord Roberts has appointed | drift, over the Great Tugeia, and were Lord Staniey, member of Par.tament for|vn the Federal side. A display in foree Boutheast Lancashire and a former| tad been made (oward Colenso and ame == Weutenant of the Grenadier Guards, to | other hwart towerd Oliver's Hoek Gh press conest, Bridge, which was blown up by us a few, Prince Franets of Teck has gone to| !ay* the front Towarl 5 o'clock the alarm was gine -_—— that the English were coming. The toalte outs observed ‘ong, successive ines @f BOERS 70 QUIT COLESBERG|:".c""".c"s sc mat fi: Sia ish position, « bushecovered chein at hills, Known as Swarcnkop Tholr feces wer sometimes lost in the trees Jing the river bank. At 6 they in open order, and advanced ta RENSBURG, Cape Colony, Friday.jiines to the low koples on the riger Jan. %—A gentieman who has escaped| bank. At 620 they took ap a from Colesbera reports that the Dutch |amid complete silence on the Boer inhabltans who are aympathizers with} thelr horses tethered where there and Marred by a Strange the Boers are proceeding to the Orange line least danger from chance Pree ite, in anticipation of the evacu-lond the men prepared to make @ 4 t Al MAY HAVE BEEN WEALTHY Detch Inhabitants Leaving the DIES, AGED 31. —-—— etion of the town of it at thelr pasts Mr. Van der Wait, a member of the! Nient had noy fallen. With the Cape Assembly, has already gone. came fitful flashes of lightning The Koer force there te estimated to thunder clouds which had been number from 64) to 7.4) men. all day. The clouds There is also a strong force at Norval's! Opa, bowing the moon, il Pont taneously with the clearing ekg | The British shelis did much sree known Dutch hymns were repeated! periority of modern landscape paintere | *2*tard of the town. | The Boer lot) ysis to kopje, with « strangely up to date ts probably 28) men. fect, bighty tnapiriting etl to the old masters. greybeards and the beardiess LONDON, Jan. ®—John Ruskin died) When only fourteen years old he wrote Jon Ruskin was bern in London in lard Roberts Reports o Feriber a ee: —