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ra | | \ \ ' LOVEDIN VAIN; © DIEDIN WAVES. Dead Woman Found Floating in the Bay, Richly Dressed and Be- jewelled, Was Bertha Schmitz, Jilted by Sweetheart, She Found Life Not Worth and Sought Living, Death in the Water. ‘The body of the beautiful, wel! resect | woman found in the water off Fort Hamilton yesterday was identified at 1 o'clock this afternoon as that of Rertha Behmits, of No. 54 Columbus avenue Maappointed in love and failing to re- cotve an expected inheritance she had frequently declared she had nothing to| ive for and would end her life. She) | Givappeared on May 4 The identification was made by Mre 1, Elixman, of 6 Columbus avenue, « the Brooklyn Morgue, DEAD WOMAN HAD MONEY. Bhe said that Miss Bohmits came from, Germany nine years: ago, time had worked ad appeared to be well money and was always well dressed Sne engaged to be married to a young man ng a lucrative position. He was deeply in love with her, Un known to him, apparently, Miss Senmita Was the mother of a child, now two years old. heoping Gap. Pa DEATH OF SWEETHEART. The marriage was to have taken piace + )ear Ago, but something happened be- fi bh gave the prospec tive bridegroom a shock. He died of Peart fullure. Mise Schmits was nearly crased by her misfortune Hut she soon recovered her spirits and ariother young man became attentive | her. Bhe seemed happy again and looke | forward to marr! Their friendly lations continued until ‘six months a« When the man, evidently hearing some thing to her discredit, declared he would never marry her and left her in tears There ts no hope for me—nothing ov ‘ (omnity at Delaware Water et te die,” she sald to her friend, Mrs eieman Then came the news of her father« death in Germany and the m ae that he had left her a snug legacy. And with that came hope. She waited week afier week for the legacy, but it did pot ar “NOTHING IN LIFE.” verything seems he sald. “There \s me—nothing She left the house that day dressed in her best apparel amt decked with her finest jewelry She war dressed for the wedding with death. —=__—_ GIRL STOWAWAY CLAIMED. ing against me thing tn life for The Twetve-Year-Ol4 Found on | Steamer Chrystenah ts Claimed by Wer 4 Little Mary Mi the twelve-year-old stowaway, who wind hidden on the Nyack steamer Chrystenah after the boat left her plier foot of Prince street, last night, was brought to Police Head quarters to-day by Constable MeNiehol, of Nyack. The child seemed to be in eed com dition. Bhe told the police that she went for & walk yesterday with a bay and tbat they played around the Prince @izeet pier She went aboard the boat! © see what it looked iike, and while ‘Wandering around it started yp the river. ‘Tren she hid herself away until, fright . she presented herself to the cap stele 4 * aunt. Panny Malft, of 2 Spring sireet, tools the little one home, WEATHER ER FORECAST, Forecast tor the thirty- thirty-six hours end- ing 8 P.M. Sunday for New York City and vicinity: Thunderstorms this »fter- noon; rain and cooler to-night; fair and cool Sunday, fresh to brisk northwest following record shows the imarnog ne Y Indlsted op oh er | Sgn as mometrr at rye « suppliet with! which she had placed in the! BERTHA SCHMITS. GAS WAR ENDED AND HATES MAY GD UP, New Amsterdam Absorbed by Consolidated, and Brooklyn Union in Deal. —==——— | The absorption of the New Arater- It has been agres \e | dam Gas Company by the Consolidated [of t..cae debenture bonds » ave the Company announced to-day br lege up to Decem! neat te com ing of yesterday's meeting of | vere them jie New Amsterdam directors in August | ar 190. | Belmont’s office nto Consolidated Gas stock ; Foulowing the absorption of the New of 16 Wall street. | York Gar and Klectric Light, Heat and ¢ New amsterdam stock. | Power ¢ pany, William CC Whitney, ths morning the following |Antiony Brady and Thomas F heen: mem'ere of the Consolidated board dtr. Brady was also a director of the New Amsterdam Company Ryan “Dear Sir: Arrangements have vee made and agreements entered into | by Which the preferred and common stock of the New Amsterdam Ges ne | Company will be exchanged for je |dated controls the # | dentures of the Consolidated Gas |company, and, it d. das an option Company, Will you pleare call at fon suffleen: ok oof the Brooklyn this office at your earliest conven Union Gas Company co virtually control enee to sign the agreement referred |i to? We will giadiy give you « formation on the subject. Y¥ truly, H. B. HOLLINS & CO. in Man- Under the agreement of the exchange | hattan. the Bronx and Brooklyn and the of securities the common ock of (he erection of a general gas plant on Ber- | New Ameterdam will be taken at 2) 'l# Island | and the preferred at @ The Consoli-| Under the new dated Gas Company will issue 6 per | expected that cent. debenture bonds city's gas The Consoli- jard Gagignt This widespread consolidation has re- the real re order of things It the price of will soon! be raised to the olf rate of $1.06 in the store and from her employers. | The Rev. Fathers Po Phelan and} O'Keefe received the body at the door | Mamie MeCarthy Sinin by Aaron °! (he church After a brief prayer the Malle, Ner Gatien: Laid adres Pn acolytes he the procession e main altar in ont of which the behets Psp. 2 coffin Was placed on a catafaique The, Funeral * prievta song & solemn masse of requiem | Carthy, the shopgir! who war murdered and then the office for the dead. which Thursday in Reinhardt, Sons @ Co.» Concluded the ceremony. There » dry-goods store, Bighty-sixth street and **F™On. The body was interred in wy | Third avenue, by her rejected suitor, “F# Cemetery Aaron Hallé, were held at o'clock ~_ gpintiga this morning in the Chureh of the Awnings an@ Slip Covers in Second avenue, between Pw A “ie to aa er oy oof “ot Fon! and Twenty-second streets. | Sun te tet trom ‘hom homes ~ | i The funeral cortege left the MeCarthy | + ei Travel Is Rest home, at 513 East Nineteenth street, | Four T: OF hare, Lime Xe carking er about 0) o'cloek. were many) the Me gd je to Pittebers 0 eek pre Brety promect pieaore” floral tributes {fom the gili'e eo-worktrs , Gaise of ihe lite poctauy oot TSM oom -- NEW YORK, os MORRI 5 SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1900, \NERS, CElorld. re “ Cirenlation Books Open to lL” | _ BY INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR POWERS URGED Tt TO PEAC BRING HOSTILITIES TO AN END. BERNE May 18 —The Committee of the International Peace Bureau, in ses | medating power, as defined at The sion here, has decided to ‘address to the | Hague. ought not only to take stepe to twenty-five powers who ate lap ries | conciliate the conMcting claims of the of The Hague Convention a list appeal | Meputing Staces, but ought (6 suggest for their assistance to secure peace | a means of conciliation, whieh has not jbDetween Great Brijain and the South | yet been done in the present dirpute African Repunit + The committee therefore begs (he pow The appeal serks ere woo Vave gained the respect of the, |clauses providing for the settlement of | world in signing The Hague Convention international disputes apply not only to| to ask themselves whether the hour hae conficts arising between the signatory | not come to consider an offer of media- powers, but to ail international differs | tion on thelr part, as merely a fulfilment ences, Therefore, it is claimed, the of- | of ihe obligation to humanity, or, to fer of mediation by the powers ’in the use t | present confiict comes within the | gory Of canes anticipated by the ference and could wot be regar Greet Briain as an uniriendly act. The commitiee further argues that a to show that the eapression employed at The the fuifiiment of the duty im- posed upon them’ by membership in \@ Society of Civilined Brates ey MAFEKING WAS RELIEVED BY 2,000 ME Mafeking was Imperial Yeomanry and the Kimber. ley Horse. | “They left Kimberley on May 4 with thirty-five wagons of stores and y € t Te perine Wy Oe mee munition, four horse artilery way that the Mafeking relief column guns, two pompone and two Max- consisted of 2,000 picked men from jms and took a route to the @est- tne South African Light Horee, the | ward of the railway LONDON, May 1s relieved on Wednesday, May 16 ‘ape Town says A despatch from sp @ roar of cheering, which was echoed eflageed LONDON May 19.—The whole Britteh Pmpire has deen carried off ite feet vy ite by the news of the relief of Mafeking inhabitants of the feven the demonstrations on Lady smith Day pale before transporte of delirium recorded in cable world strata the pent Memoradie the spanianeous grams ftom ail parte of ine he Union Jack had been where foals thhaes om Ho proceeding outside the Ma Overstramed British feelings have ‘ early morn! found vent in a roar of heartfel! ©m sessing yende : kn thusiaem which starting from the var onal colors, formed an undroken pia {owe news centers, epread like a prairie form over the immense open spare | h the United Kingdom and ‘trttching far up the adjacent streets = ee ° "he membere of the Stock Exc nang the Coloniee and converted every (0% qusiered early and Dought all (he Mags | ine a mod-invading ce of shouting, and bunting avaliable = ne eer 1 Union Jack 1 badge cheering. vit aif frantic but for sported a Un , some sort The opening of haviness was the mos: part orderiy humanity, @)- siaved owing to the excitomen though the rowdy element nere is mak-| Bur the jubllant stock mers ha ing the most ot “” vt tie jnotination for siness and t mited amused themselves ectiow bY | feeling the effe ee Big reg | ariniee oo. thet at Save the Tre Empire is en frre and it If mo Quee aed migh AaKeration | y the me heard . i ag ; As the od ¢ wild turmo! eee toe: Saeed and e® seed, and when the tually taling « holida - . » tusinene cloned tet fers of the praipie oatpoet be veus! half ¢ released nee in the metropolis to-day oe arene outrival the Ladyemity demonstrations as ae Ga Many ‘housands gave up al! thought of aeitemen: of the throngs Work, and their employers were only of whose volleys of neers Kept up an increasing roar Ail) (he neve: and military ent Ae hundreds of loaded trains journeyed | ssnored the secasion by dressing ship wom the suburbs (heir occupants kept end Gring salutes. tao giad to join in the holiday-making Finally, the Committee expresses aad IWHOLE EMPIRE IS REJOICING AND LONDON IS IN A WILD FRENZY. opinion that the efforts of interma- Aigna! diplomacy. if skilful, honest and authoritative, would secure (ae secepty ance of proposals which would be ad> vanced in the name of the civiliged: world and chat tiey would quickly e cure the conclusion of & peace honorable to all the parties, WASHINGTON, May 1.—The follow+ ing question was put to Boer Delegate Fisoher tals afternoon; ‘Will the Transvaal entertain any proposals that recognise the peace suserainty of Eng.and?” “It England wants saserainty Ofer the he replied, “ane will or to come and take it." swarthy companions Repadlice Hie two tall nodded assent eee N ON MAY 16. 2 Short official bulletins have ar rived at Cape Tewn from time to time etating that their advance was not being opposed. It is believed im official circles here that the relief of Mafeking was effected with the most trifling loss. ‘The force was commanded of Capt. |. B. Mahon. The American colony at Cape Tewn disp ayed great satisfaction at the news of the relief and (he prospects of @ speedy (ermination of the war ‘The mort intense excitement prevails at Cape Town. where the Dutididngs are aviage with Cram. A Te Deum service was held in Ot Paul's this afterncon, The Cord Mager and the Sheriffs had intended to be pret. en! ar the services, but tney were forced slephone (hat (t would be hopeless for hem to attempt t which wee passable crowd KEARNEY ANSWERS COLBR, ' gaye Clty's Creditors Were Gtad to Get Anything Wom the Comptroller. Commissioner Henry @ Kearney a letter t mptrotier Coler to-day anewer to the latter's charges thag goods were bought for the ctty by MF Kearney # departmen a bigher rate than they sd be st in the open market Mr. Kearney says (hat the fact (hat sonciades dy 1 the man: ying that be needs at tions, while

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