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MAUD GONNE COMES TO AID BOERS’ WIDOWS. Maud Gonne, the Irish Joan of Are, 0 & parse’ mn the belated Mandie and returned to the city muc! ence eee cation wilt ree dlappolated inte In. the grenine. "| THEIR PERSONAL HISTORY. eetve a rousing recention on the French yiah will be at the pier 10-1 ‘The detatie cf this union are numer- line vier when the ship lands, ‘addresass us and interesting. and will be duly A committee of welcome and several aprons 10 ef after a few introductory words hundred guest® cruised piaterday on tho steamb at Ge | Gibson in NEW YORK. Jan. 2% 1900. The Meee Masters, Dobbs Ferry, We a married and very happy. Don't de cross. You are not to blame. Mr. and Mrs, PRESTON GIBSON. ‘This was the telegram tecelved ye terday by the Misses Masters, proprie- tors of the boarding-school ai Dobbs Ferry. where only helresses are given the finishing touches of an effete educa- tion. It told of the marriage of Miss Minna Field, daughter of Mre, Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, D. ©, to Preston Johnson Gibson, son of the late United States Senator Gideon, of |ou- Istana, and nephew of Mr. Justice White, of the United States Bupreme Court. Tt also told the story of the utter futility of boarding-school mistresses trying to keep a boy and a girl apart when they had determined to be to- wether. Despite the reguiations lald down by the facutly of Yale University and the extraordinary precautions to keep Cupid out of the Dobbs Ferry Inatitution. Mies Field came to New York Saturday. Mr. Gibson left New Haven the same day. WIE, and by nightfalt they were married In wAUTE this city, and are now the happiest Starr awaiting the arrival of La Nor-| young couple you ever heard of, about the bay he it Mldows of Hoers killed Inthe present] Tewarding the personal history of the WIDOW IS EVIL EMIS John protege s Wife Says! In Gite bib Case Her Husband Is Hypnotized. Wearled and disheartened by her long and unavalling search for a lost atid) Hills, N. Y., i charged with haviug been {mothe “sl the Lighted renga Pg reereant husband, reduced al to|the confederate of Go orris, aperee: © ure for her, es and ear! helt capris land cciint~ and baron were trequent her lawt dol of John Harker, to the advertising Papers aesa gat eesort. jlec story, and strany lows Married in England fifieon years ago, they came to this country to seek thelt fortune and setied tn Chicago. a weak-willed, pleasant ‘ttle blond hair and blue situation in a Chicago department store, and there he met his was an attractive wid brunette, with a striking figure, Mrs. tie little Ey man, has tirned lumns of the news- pitiful to the inst as it de pititul, eye ol, dark and extremely pretty. She is the oldest daughter of the widow of Marehall Field's brother. Marshail Field te the drygoods merchant of Whi- bac and {a the richest man west of the kefellers, When his bro.her died he Heng to his widow a fortune of some such paltry sum as ten million doilars. @he. being young and attractive, met and ed the affeciions of Thomas Nelson Page. He was then a struggling author, with a penchani for writing stories of the Bouth. They were mar- ried, and have tived aappily. She dutit fan American palace ‘on New Hampshire avenue, Washington; he gained fame and some forture by his literary pro- dustions. WS NSIC OW Es WITNESS STAND Against Postmaster Reedy. PLANNING HER FUTURE. The marriage of Mrs tem Anthony Comstock testified this morn- ing in the “green-goode” cane on trial in the United States Circuit Court, in whieh Postmaster John Reedy, of Pocantico Field to Mr. years ago, when mn years old, The Page occurred Minna was but 1 ur Beoestocy sald he had been «| Sues! ar th Page home; ambassadors Post-OfMfice inspector since March, 1f,|8M4 secretaries of legation were not We corroborated the witnesses who tes-/@¥en a novelty: tifled to the receipt of the telegrame| And in order to fit Minna for some and “green goods” circulars in October, proud marital 17, which are a part of the exhibits ir ago to the school of the Misses agains the accused men, fs. Thin school te in reality a Mr. Comstock sald that he firet met|#mall colony, consisting of a mansion, Postmaster Reedy at Pocartico Hilin| Where live the Misses Masters, cniled on Dec. 6 IRM, but that previous to tha: | Windy Brow; a second mansion, called he had communicated with him under | Thornloe, where Lvee the head kueper, the name of “Aldrich, of Summit, N.| Mise Brown: and numerous cottages, | J." warning the defendant that tele-| There live the cightythree boarding] grams passing through his office were Barker, hap, with found a Bhe me 1! genius. a hand: the case may be, send to the Misses! YALE MAN AND HEIRESS ELOPE! ‘®' ‘ ‘Minna Field Secretly Leaves School in Dobbs Ferry and Is Wedded to Preston Johnson This City. Privilege of two accredited correspond- erits, but the letters af these two ac- credited correspondents are subject to the scrutiny of the Misses Mastera and Mise Brown, ¢ When Mr. Gibson reached Vanderbilt Hall, where he lives when in New Haven, the very first thing he did to alt down and write thirty-neven sh to Minna. was duly matled, but, fall- ing Into the hands of the Misses Mas- tere, Was promptly sent back to him, postage prepaid Again he wrote, and again, but ever with the same result | USED CIPHER CODE. ‘There must have been some secret understanding between Gibson and the Uttle Field girl the Mieses M: think now-—for after im City there came numerous tele- me, firet was as foliows: j Ynele is much improved in health. He sends his love. PRESTON. t day this telegram was re- by the Misses Masters and “Unele is slightly worse to-day but no fears are entertained. PRESTON.” Last Friday came this message: “Uncle te better, and will be in York Saturday. PRESTO: PREPARED FOR FLIGHT. | The oighty-two other $2,000 girls recall | that when Minna receiyed this despatch, | annooncing the Improved condi ot} her uncle, she sang and caroiled about Cottage No, 3° with every evidence of Joy and delight. They recall, tpo, that she slipped a few things Into a small valine which had long stood on the floor of the wardrobe in her room. But no one thought for an in- ant that she contemplated visiting New York to see onvalercent uncle. | Buch a thing’ was quite imposall Tho $2,000 girls are not alowed to walk from one cottage to another without a chaperone, ant they are only ed to Vialt the big olty once a month, and | then there are a doren duennas in the | party, and seats for the matinee are engaged two weeks In advance. Bo the fact that Minna was putting Diis of lace and curling Irons and such things Into her valise awakened no sus- | picion. ! SHE CLIMBED A FENCE. | The Misses Masters were sleeps that 1* evident, for at 11 o'clock Satur: day morning Minna, wrapped in a long fawn-colored coat and carrying the va- Hse in one trembling hand. emerged from the rear door of Cottage No, 3 Brealthily ee crossed the broad lawn, | avid, climbing @ tall fence, plunged into accommodation for New Into the station at Dobbs! Ferry who bad been secreted somewhere about the building, timidly boarded the (rain. She had walked neariy four miles and she ve a great sigh of relief when the train plied out O; course there war the ponsibility of her being intercepted by a telegram | puptis, whose parents dr guardians, as| addressed to the conductor and signed ton, by the Mirece Masters; fo ehe sat very low In her seat and 6 ans.duously | Barker saya, and apparently with | OPiS, Set and received by “sreen- | Mastery ceriified checks for $2.00, goods” swindlers. , the witress bell without 7 hi plenty of money ing ane | O2PE without extras, the an ‘The widow became infatuated with|*!% told him that a man giving the | of an education ai ihe Aniahing echoo! at| name “A, B. Crumb" had given him aD] Doss Ferry, There are 13 tay pu @he pretty little Saxon well, there is the mys He did not do wha tempted by a woman. to his wife and told her “f wanhot understand |i,’ I want to be hlidren. Ble woman's eyes f2!l on me 1 feel an love you, dear; You and to our dear He went atraignt and Barker— in the sory. taimen do when order to deliver all despatches address- ed to him to « messenger, and thay he jdid not know what business (he cus: | inept teary? | RICH AND AN ATHLETE. pits, who receive finishing polisher at a cost of $00 per annum—bul that Is a I. way ee The defendant also admitted, Comstock ! rate to| Aald, that messager had also been re-| Mr. Gibson, whose mother was a Misa But when | ceived for “W. Garela,” and these on! Montgomery, of New Orleans, wad who order were forwarded to Brooklyn. The/left her son, upon her death, 1 bemgariy witness then tol that “Crumb and | $71,000, Is a junior 1 Yale. He pitched uence stronger thin T can bear | ore To obey her wil, What Is it, witch, “Garcla” were one and were the se- [on the ‘Varsity nine, and played end rush! jf He te not yer! eraft of hypnotism By his wife's advice he threw up Dis) situation and moved further West widow followed and found him. husband came toy two yoare age the New York. “I promised to me that he had got rid at last, and | who tnfiuence ot “L want to fad him see our two-year-old child whom he has All the other children are never seen. dead. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE, Clarence Isane Hawk! United Sates O@ecer, Vissing Since Lact Monday. The police of the « for Clarence Isaac Y day, Jan, 2 Hawkins, who ts forty . He har a wite ant a AF ve been have also ‘vee instituted fn home, but but without result a 4 , shamming , vw him,” Barker through her tears. all my furniture and} a 1 tearn Hawkins, deen missing from his home at No, 28 Rochester avenue, Brooklyn, since Mon- and a warrant Officer on the United Btates steamship Anuapolls, we on duty six months before kof the Spanish war. from the navy on half pay tively helpless, Hi accetnpanied sd an aitend- left He home. the eleven lag: se2 son of age, but he has a great cape ving. He went to Warhington fio visit bis uncle and guardian, {august Justice of the Buy J names under w...ch the swindle arried business. At the game ‘the (Ne charged Postmaster Reedy wit Then, | elma in the pay of the “green-good men Reedy, Comstock said, denied that he said Mee |RDe® elther “Crump” or “Garcia.” | and Minna wer\ He wrote to | latter, however, he a e4 that he | her mother, There the ‘of the woman | 144 complained ie 4 me Union| When Qtbron returned to New Haver officlain that * ean ped men were! there wos 4 deop and mirerabie throb-| be was | bing of hie heart. Mlinnz went back to mind wis own business! Dobbs Ferry in the same conditins. He phomised to write he every day, a are even ity tor] t December! the aut she hired Misco r if she funked in her 1 want him to “hare ter reckoned without the Minsen! :| STOLEN CHILDREN FOUND, |= | Taken Weet hy Wre. Travtman, a Restored to Pare . | been looking after impressionable young AZo, umbie nome wil be made Sie far over my yearn, hare Frew wise and have adopted measures whic: the homes of Dora Rosenthal, 2:8 West One Hundiedih street, and Mra,| ould do much crepit’ to « mother au- 4 West Pitty-elghth a Retires | perior. ‘They allow their boarding pupiis to write to mommer and popper and brother and sister, and algo give the: ry AT DBATH AGOnY Seighbers Theagh! Sebnatier, weal Mad Been Married Four Times | 64 Took Feleco, Shdmmed. | Having married four women before he was twenty-three, Abraham Sehnai- ter. @ ae, ms of work, living with | Wife No. 4 at 1G 1-3 Lewis street, mixet this | neighbors stood because they be) are searching who hax ‘Their ‘ie ones, stolen almost a year ago, are coming back. To-day they will reach home. Across the continent, from Sar Diego, California, they are coming under the care of a rkilful nurse. ‘Thither they had been taken by an ad- venturess, a dirs. Trauman, calling her- self Mrs. Thornton beeaure ner hus- bard, Trautman. ts in Sing Sing. She had a manta for making money out, of chlidren, posing as a destitute mother, ‘Thus she ralsed goodly sume from char: itable wersans, The Evening World started the search for the kidnapped children, and pub- lished pe. ing ler Sere Be ery five years old para- He six-mon'hs-old is in a! vain, Kratt, of Paseate, Mabbed to Meath Dertee 2 Fight with Veatians. Warnaar Kraft, twenty-six years old, mull hand of Passaic, N. J., was stabbed) she told him she would ¢ 4 maguzine rhe had purchased from the | news vende: IN HIS ARMS. nied at the Grand] Gibron, who show: | Por when she a Centra! Station, an jed no signe of having undergone a se- | took her in his arms, she went to vere illness, cried a little the parson. Up In Dobo's Ferry they are just be ginning to understand now the Lt Fleld girl did |). ‘The tolegraph « tor recalls that once of twice pupils of the Misses Masters have ited the station with the usual ac. hand animent of chaperones, be hae had with the vor d therein, to and then they ot amount of me pay the tulle exton Johnson Othaon a lerbilt Hall, New Haven, Conn. | ik the Little Pie! irl | be known by the f Mrs. Gibeon~ wil! reopr' se of this bit of romance After the ceremony Saturday little | Mrs, Gibson and her big husband went to the Holland House, but they left that event morning the bride's Mr. Page: arrited in the chy a to ‘the Holland Mouse, He engaged here and 0 ent in search f net found them at) "ivening oWr'd report | every hotel of prom! ¥ Tt is very eviaent tha: Mr. and Mrs. Gibaon are avoiding public ty, which is entirely within the province of a young ii have to leave Yale, be- re forbidden ma’ hs B..- 3 4 braved man who caute guns caneraregvates 9 iow rath of of the Mi ARMY PORGER aR CAUGHT. Yugitive Jobe aaa im Ten- mensee by Poat-Ofice laspectors. Post-OMce Inspector Jacobs this mor ing received a celegtam from Bri Tenn., announcing the capture yeste day of Imac T. Jobe, who jumped his ball in this elty last Pall. Jobe. who served in the United Mates army in Cuba, but is said to Rave been vathiered out for caure, was arresied here lart June for oresenting to the Penney!vania Ratiroad Company, a re- quest for transportation ame the Hotel’ on mat ‘ort of cipher code, | the Jast letter had been returned to the! |regle you must hav | non, Walter Williams, Yorkville Court to-day AB WORLD: MONDAY, EVENING, JANUARY %, 1900. DIED OF ALCOHOLISM, DAVID B. M'CLURE. It was whiskey or a bludgeon, that killed David BE. Ce- Homoeopatnte Hospital Coroners Physician Emil F performed an autopay morning and said there was absolutely no trace of foul play, but every dence of chronic alcoholism. “He died of cerebral hemorthage of the brain DREAN-MURDER 1S EPIDEMIC. Latest Exponent cf the Art Is Mrs. Abraham Cohen. yngestion of sald Dr. A year ago It was the proper way If you wanted to kill some one to send him a polsoned gift by mall, Now, if you desire some one to die, to be wirictly en the Milting In your sleep, Prof, Alfred Morrison, of Mount # Mow in Jal! for dreaming o klars ahd shooting his wife. Dr. Charles R. Corey, of Tacoma, 4 similar nightmare and “awoke” his wife dead from his bullet, and now Mrs, Abraham. Cohen, of 8 Ei Thirty-fourth street, follows with a dream in which she tried to cut her husband's (throat Despite her dreams and her prosira- Cohen had his wife arrerted for trying to kil him, but when she war arraigned this morning he refused to prosectite Cohen and his wife went Schinsky'’a, at 31 Bast reet, on Wednesday ‘ok brother. Ing Cohen was awakened by his slashing him with a sharo knife as badlycut but t# now out of danger. ‘The woman was arraigned before Ma- ing in the Harlem | bur- bad John He is dream. and when. NG woke up her hus- band and her brother were hokiing her by the wrisis, After she had quleted per husband her rhe had im. 1 wan said Cohen. *\ safely live wh Magistrate Paiece down told 0 as T “DUFFY, | of 312 Rivers! Detve| Have the Heodeo Yam- ber on Hie House. Wipe 13° Riverside Drive from directory! For P Duffy says hoodoos oa his bill of fare superstition, Peter Duffy, Mr. Duffy is rich, He in President of the shuber: P o Company, Hit house is one of « handsome row of gray five- at stone-front places. ———S | fol S06, lew ear Teighioor ‘Dutt | @ between 21 refuses to & mat mI the Duffy owns it and Petor there stall be no thirteen If this be make the most of it, rivers of delivery wa sees pa meagents sorts and coi * of cal ania rt od round nae the ay, bell an lam to find the Duff; are up in arma aay it Pag 4 hulsance, They have ined to the Commissioner of aye fd on Friday (untucky day) rig have to ee in the ‘ourt to che charge of Ing and trampling on 4 city or s mation =... WENT BALL FOR HIS VALET Aeete = Pist. Neebeed tives Reade for tiame, Whe Hit Neotel steward. Robert Pusford furnished $89 bali for his lored valet. in hen Willliame held for trial on (he charge of ting with an ine pitcher Jamee B. of the Westminster urday. Puitore was the tusband of Annie Pix- tm the he actress. had rooms sent Williams to get er, Williams 0 po and Hartung pn the body this evi- a dream and do to find | t “ Ne on by chronic “There was | and no chloral in the stomach. The polite have dropped the murder feature of the case and are now looking for the men who robbed McClure, if he ale Clure, the wealthy Scotchman, who joame here Dec, 2 from Glasgow and] evidently been a lwho died yesterday in the Brooklyn! jong ume.” NOCK OUT DROPS. not knock-out drops) Hartung, “due to degeneration brought holism. frac hard drinker for # was robbed as reported MoClue boarded at Sl Concer Brooklyn, with Mrs, Mary i was twice arrested and fined during Inst intoxleat Bai nigh kt he was found. Inser of the hobinanbnded Bridge. in | Dr. ed the | Poveety te the only. janpardanable Ix only the power of the € whieh cam stem thie tide terday Highty-first !classer Mrs. poswible only Far.y the next morn- contracted for life * commission of erime a is for wlivoree which | by which her. PULPIT TAL ON ONORCE. Prof. Adier Advises Sep- aration--De Costa Scores Society. vie a | sqmiy under Mary, the iminacul fand purity —-— A LOVE STORY FOR GIRLS. ine mai pathett Mr “oe Don love nrineinal role in bas ma voree courts, with charged the moral decay ur large cltles againat “Brother Officers.” ange into iit ization y aot managing to ail the atmowp jerest of tie play he c ne baer lrelation be maintained in ite strength his rendering of the of Fayersham's her Officers Jan i 1 n The Rveniog World Wetnesda mumps has Divorce was differently discursed yea- Prof. Felix Adler from the point of view of ethical religion, and Rey. Dr, De Costa from his new position is & Rosman Catholic. Adier took the position that tem- | porary separations might well be resort- in many cases where now the di- I the subsequent @o- cial prejudice against the divorced, are appealed to Neither the Roman Catnolie ner the Protestant solution of the great problem of diverce as it confronts lawmakers and moral- iets of the present day nald, No theory can founds martiage on the subordination of one of the partners to “What is wanted to-day is a theory of marriage and divorce which shail ap- pea! to the reason of the Intellectual The highest self- ‘on jul tn a win Bet “The Bve int \ : Warld on Wednesday. ta ommvints 60:¥e vi This Is the latest whotoxrap’ of Will: | ‘ies. ton jam Faversham. leading man ne Depes! e Theatre stock company. Faver- Emperor. | sham Is now engaged In moving matinee SHANGHAI, Jan. 2.-—-The and novelizat re of the ekull and. elopment is such alliances an are 1 infidelity oken out) To believe that’ low prices and good ¢ could go together in any but the largest’ ing plant, run by modern business and backed by ample capital, prices and good clothes have made possible here by tireless ¢ in building tip @ great trade reputation, The fame of our Suits and Overcoats is national, af keep our force of skilled men tailors en on full time between seasons and to. stock we make this special offer twice a year. SUITS $47“ OVERKCOATS, and which we at no other time make for than $15. The Winter Half-Yearly Sale. Now in Reveal Began January 8 and Ends March 10, Choice of fabrics, including the new and fashien> able Oxford gray—BSlate and Cambridge in rough ef- | LOOK FOR RED Balloons and Red Si Covering Entire 73 CHURCHES IN BIG. SALOON WAR Plan of Crusade Arranged that Be Prosecuted All Over the E of Manhattan. ‘A great fight is on in this city between | O90. church and saloon. It was inaugurated n the Harlem district yesterday, where the Anti-paioon League atarted the re- form wave. Meetings were held in twen- ty-three churches and halls, and the plan of campaign arranged. This ts only the beginning of the war- fape in Manhattan. When Harlem has been “reformed,” other sections of the city will be attacked. The crusade Is to be carried on in only one district at a time, and it ie by this method that the Promoters hope to crush what they call the “organised liquor traffic.” League Weane Business. The League means business. There is no doubt about that. Si years ago it began the first crugade in Ohio, It swept the State and its progress alarmed the politicians. Since that time {t has established ite crusade in thirty-two oth- er States, It began its work in this State up in Poughkeepsie jast May and met with encouraging success. The fight is carried along on inter- denominational ines, ‘Through the | churches the Le hopes to reach the lawmakers and. voters, Meetings will be held ently, and every man nominated 4n elective office must pi#dge higfsupport to the cause of the League's work or buve | disayiroval set upon hi . 4, Q A. Henry, 4) tédent of the League, led to the first tack at the services held int ‘ Ave ene Methodist-Episcopal i He had street, He “offers a 7 we want to accompl.ah » federation ju of the churches to worl inst the sa- rary | ona.” he detlared, “There. tea tnt | Bi woclety. | the Church and the The satoon yy At ds the first ch to Work against this tury Crisis Faces Them. Figures show MAY PROSECUTE. in ie} * ‘The Haines law is vicious features. The are chambers of Lg unicipal local option decrease in the saloon arringe | : “We are fas a efi Emperor Kwangsu creates tisfaciion among the Chinese: in the Yang-tse Valley and SCHOOL TEACHER |Publisher Niglutcch De+ | mands Apology for | Assault on His Boy. in RTERSEURG, Je na, dan, a. papers here are paying tention to events ia Novesil expresses the option pe ng My it last for a te ome, but adds that China wil restored to her former condi Francis R a publisher *! thay che “unavoidable i ® East Ninete reet. and whose Will be mcco plished peacetuily, inoue nme |e OF @ Hondret and Tween. perhaps. in ‘the distant future.” : y-fourth ye he will not prose The Rossija asserts that it te a oo a sary that the control of the nal cute for phe "a injuries if ce TAEy CNet eS of China inte the hands of the pM or Germans MRS. J.J. HECKSCHER Her Firet and Second ace Fought a Dect Over Mer. Mre Mary Travers Heckscher, John G. Heckscher and daughter ‘ ‘late William R. Travers, is dead. ete home, Tl West Seventy-ffth She had been suffering for years, aocer_and died y In 1873 her ion tusbas G slleged to have inflicted M. Frida One of ats was bleeding Kani returned nome a aitered from head & losed, hia nm aud» mo: r who wae ays during had f he reqular rifttss | temain in school lemtsacd me "a * wer ver and | were alone ordered me t . e tence “and h ) wits hie fis to defend mye They | rap, seteaming, and be ran) afier me, and would have caught me if hedn't tsien and sirack hie head There was a gash were he struck his) ‘quentiy married. The duel gecurred in | Heckscher. who reserved bagel disonarged ine pletol in A nis FH, strong imei. spologines the boy Have fia arterte: panied Emil We #2200. Ewenty “asth About one hundred! reporte! Nye far | pga be fi