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MAMES MIXED. feeble Ss ba ae. Mrs. George H. Franklin, No. 2, Whose Name Was “Mamie,” _ Found Husband’s Letter to George =H. Franklin, twenty-nine Years of age, good looking and the pos- @essor of a most susceptible heart, teld Magistrate Crise, of the Fitty-sevench Streot Court, to-day that he didn't know he could not have more than one wife @t the @ame time and was promptly held on a charge of vigamy in $500 bail, while two women who claimed him for husband istened to the proceedings with evident satisfaction. Wife No. 1 became Mra, Franklin on Feb, 15, 1898, in this city, and wife No, 2 was wedded to the alleged bigamist by *Dr. Eliott, of the German Reformed Church, on Nov. 1 last. ‘The former was a Miss Fannie Goldstein, ‘The Int- ter refused to divulge her maiden name. 6he wishes to be known simply as Mrs. Mamie Franklin until after the law has finished with the man she supposed was her husband until two weeks ago, @nd then she will resume her family cognomen. Got Their Namen It Franklin had been m the use of the| names ‘ and “Mamie in his letter-writing It Is Im- Possible to tell how long his dual life woull hhave-continued. He left the home of his brother-in-law, Benjamin F, Canham, No. 227 Hast Seventieth @treet, two weeks ag?, and went to Al- bany. Thence he wrote to wife No. 3, addressing her as “My Mamle Dear. That was all right, but when Mrs, Franklin ran across this In the body of the letter, “Fannie, dear, I suppose you think of me\every minute,” she began to wonder. "I showed the letter to my brother-in- ‘aw,” the second Mrs, Franklin to a reporter of The Kevning World, ‘and he started out to investigate. He found out that Fannie was the first wife. Then he made me swear out a warrant. I don't think that this would have been done, though, if my husband hadn't owed Mr. Canham two weeks’ board," Tho story Mrs, Fannie Franklin told in court disclosed that the money which enabled him to marry the second time was realized on a sale of her personal effect and the bedding and pillows that she had in her apartments at No. 1% Svanton street. _. Will_Prosecute to the Limit. “Wii 1 prosecute him? You bet your Ufe—to the limit. I could not be self- ing and 0." let % ‘ife No. % made the acquaintance of Franklin at Bath Beach last summer. iter, “A year after we were married,” sai wife No. 2 “we had enough money to start a little cigar more out in 'Eighty- third street, and he just sat down to gmeke up ali the goods. 1 my living making cigars,and I have kept wm and kept myself.” i Wife No. 2 gives her age as twenty- one, the other as twenty-seven, FLOPING PRINCESS IS LEFT BY TUTOR Prof. Giron Returns to His French Home Pending the Trial of the Divorce Case. GENEVA, Jan. 8.—The Crown Princess of Saxony and M. Giron, her lover, have temporarily separated by the advice of lawyers, pending the trial of the di- vorce sult at Dresden, M. Giron has fone to Lausanne, Word comes from Vienna that eat @ family council of the Tuscan branch of the Hapsburgs, at which Emperor Fran- cls Joseph was representea by his brother, Archduke Ludwig, has resolved to pay to Archduke Leopold who, in championing the cause of his sister, the Crown Princess of Saxony, re- nounced hi , &e., e share of the thinfty sertuneand to aise gles him from the family, LIGHTHOUSE MAN DYING? Victim of Street-Car Accident Not , Ponitively Identified, yet unidentified 4s dying at x right Hospital trom injuries received by being struck by a car at Bighth avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-Afth street last night. His skull is fractured and he has sustained In. lerna! injuries. From letters in bis pockets it . a” that he” is Theodore ‘age tn rower, & lighthouse tende i 4, ‘whose home is tn Bay Shore f° He was found yolous by a policeman and nothing is Jat of the accident | AUTOMOBILIST FINED. few of President Alexander, of the Baultable, Fined for Fast Driyi, Frederick Alexander, son of Jamea der, President the Equitable fe Assurance Bociety, was fined $50 in Oogurt of Special Sessions this atier- poem one charge of speeding his auto- @obile above the itmit fixed vy \aw. 3 # art at Bighth avenue and and Dwenty-fifth street on GOT NO WIFE; LOST CASH TOD Lone Bachelors and Widowers Who Answered Matrimonial Advertisement of Mrs. Mou- selle Are Out of Patience. NOW SHE IS UNDER ARREST. Post-OMce authorities In this city are much Interested in the errest of Law- rena Raynor, alias Laura Stackhouse. alMlas Irene Mouselle, who has been arrested in Marietta, O., on @ charge of using the matis as @ vehicle for swindiing, She ia young and handeome, and whet directly interests the authorities in thie elty 1s the fact thet she claims New York as her home and says she has rela- tives in Jamaica and Greenport, L. I. Strange Double Arrest. Mise Mouselle advertised fot a hus- band and received a great deal of money through the matls. New York ‘author!- tlos are also interested because the Western Post-Office inspectors seem to have made a bad blunder. Being on the trall of the Mouselle woman, and hav- ing only her photogreph and general description to guide them, they arrested Mrs D. O. Hazelrigg, of Williamston. Mrs. Hezelrigg is a wealthy woman. o | ater the inspectors dropped hot on the trail of the Mouselle woman and ar- rested her. id | the inspectors gasped ‘The women were brought together and in amaxement. Both were of the same general eppear- ance. Hatr allke, eyes of the same color, height and build almost Menti- cal, it was diMcult to tell them apart. Moreover, the women were dressed al- most exactly alike. The inspectors were greatly puzzled and could only arrive at & solution, of the problem by aurmising that the Mouselle woman, knowing her resemblance to Mrs. Hagelrigg, copled her style of dress so as to throw the officers on to a false trail. Advertised for Husbands, Mrs. Haselrigg has been released, but she threatens heavy sults for damages against the authorities, Mra. Mouselle advertised for husbands under various names. She was clever in her adver- tisements and there was nothing in them that could be construed as crimi- nal, She received hér mail at various polnts sometimes at Williamston, again at Beupre, and had post-offlce boxes at Marietta and Parkersburg. Soon complaints began to arrive trom all over the country, Men claimed that they had answered @ certain advertise- ment and had received answers aif tlonately couched. Attracted by the re- Pilea, the correspondence would go on for eome time, when the would-be hus- and received @ photo of @ beautiful woman, Made $5,000, It Is Said. ‘Tals latest communication would be quite warm, and in it the woman plea ed poverty as the only reason why s! did not come on at once and throw herself into the arms of her waiting husband, Naturally, some of the loving swaine snapped at this bait at ance and ent on money or checks. Others were cautious and inclosed only ratiroad tlekets. When arrested yesterday Mrs. Mou selle had letters in her hand containing $50 In money and tickets to Buffalo and loux City, It ts believed thet she hag recelved as much’ as $5,000. ‘The Post-OMce inspectors secured a Gescritpion of the Mouselle woman and accordingly pounced on Mrs. Haselrigg, who fitted the description exactly, Th soon found shat Mrs, Hazelrigg Was probably innocent, and, continuing the chase, located the Mouselle woman at Marietta. Menselle Just Laughs. When brought together Mrs, Haze rigs vehemently declared that she never seen Mra, Mouselle before, ‘I Yatier laughed as if the matter was a good Joke on the other, Mrs, Mouselle acknowledged she had received money. Her alleged husband has been arrested a for complicity. rameter VANDERBILT EATS NOW, Has Noi eas THE MIXING OF CAUSED YOUNG HUSBAND’S ARREST FOR BIGAMY. if phd mG WHOSE NA NICE YOUNG MAN THIEF IN DISGUISE. Won the Landlady’s Heart and Then Proceeded to Rob a Silk Factory Next Door. If the nice young man who rented a room at Mrs. Brosky’s furnished-room house, No. 88 University Place, will come back, he will be arrested and charged with stealing several hundred dollars’ worth of etlk from Blum's cloak factory, next door to Mrs, Brosky’s. He got a room at the house last Fri- day, Mrs. Brosky giving him a key without question, because he looked to be so nice. That night he brought a friend with him to stay all night. The next days some of Blum employees ame over and said their place had been robbed overnight, and they suspected by one of Mrs. Brosky’s roome: them indignantly to the roof and found that the stranj hed clambered to the factory next door, in the young man's room were found a lot of boxes which had contained silk. some of the silk which they had been Supe Chapman set Is Wosiey Hall end nied jchermerhorn MoGuire, his wardmen, to work on the case, but they were #0 upseg by thelr having to do some real ‘work in uniform that they never caught the nice young man. Now some’ of Coot, Langan’s Central Office men are doing the looking. GROUT’S BIG COLLECTION. Takes in $1,219,037 of Back Taxes More Than Last Year, Comptroller Grout's bureau for the collection of assessmenis and arrears for the year deat closed shows an in- crease of $1.21 (37 over the amount col- lected in 1901, Yr 1902 wi 14,- whit rad Sp ae Ba WORTH KNOWING At This Season of the Year. Any cough accompanied by expectoration which lasts over three or four days re- quires attention and treatment; this does not mean a visit to the hospital, nor to your physician, nor wholesale drugging with patent medicines; but it means that some simple, harmless, effective antiseptic remedy lke Staurt’s Catarrh Tablets should be used to ward off any possible termination in Pneumonia, Chronio Catarrb, Bronchitis or Consumption. All of these formidable diseases start from ite course, and it caution to cure @ cold as quickly as possible, not so much for what it fe at (he moment, but what it may become ed. , reliable and t to stop a cold or obstinate cough 's Catarrh Tablets, extract of blood root contained in them, combined with the red gum of the Eucalyptus tree, seems to put the mucous mombrane of the nose, mouth and throat in condition to throw off the germs of ca- tarrh, bronchitis aid consumption, and as they are taken internally they seem to equalize the circulation and place the body in that condition of health which restets and throws off the germs of disease ‘A person in perfect health rarely catches cold, and if he does, throws it off in a da: or two, but where the cold hangs on, stop ping up the nostrils, irritating the throat, nt, annoying cough, It Is SIN LOVE NOTES | Mrs. Morton and thelr two daughters, the Misses Lena and Mary Morton, sailed to-day on La Lorraine, ter, the Countess Boso de Perigord in Paris. uy 's OURDNY BRIDE Mrs, William H. Bradley Gets Fortune of $40,000,000 by Demise of Wealthy Lumber- man. MILWAUKEE, Jan. &—Mrs, Willlam H. Bradley, who wan a pride four days ago, 1s now a widow and helress to an estate of $40,000,000, Her husband, Will- fam H, Bradley, millionaire lumberman, dled early this morning, He left one adopted son, but no heirs by his former tharriage. For more than twenty years Miss Marle Hannemyer had known the big jumberman and for many years she had been his secretary, A few days ago when the doctors told him that he could live only a stort time he said he wanted jo marry the woman who had been as- sociated with him so long, and she con- sented to the wedding, i They were married as he sat ina dig (Arm-chair, and it was in that same H | chair that he went peacefully to sleep and breathed his last. Mrs, Bradley, a doctor and two nurses were with him when the end came, So quletly did he die that those in the room scarcely realized that he had gone. Mr. Bradley seemed to have a hope | that he would resover after the wad- him he had no chance. His bride was with him almost constantly, and as he | sat in his chalr he chatted pleasantly with her, Just a few hours before hin death he taliced to those about him, and until he went to sleep for the last time his mind was clear, His first wife died only two months ago, ——— MISTAKEN IDENTITY: HE SAYS Prisoner, Accused of Theft, Claimn to Have Been In Chicago at Time, Detective Firneisen, of the Central Office, arraigned a well-dressed man, who gave his name as Harry Ru nick, twenty-one years old, of No, Delancey atreet, in the Essex Market Court this morning. The man was ac- cused by Samuel Kaskel, a tobaccon- ist, of No. M7 Bowery, of ntenling a gold_watch and chain from him, valued a THE MORTONS GO ABROAD. Former Governor Lev! P. Morton, t_ $75. Tne prisoner said it was a case of mistaken {dentity, as he was in Chi- cago on the day of the robbery... H was remanded to Police Headquarters. They will visit thelr married daugh- OW RICH WIDOW ding, although his phystclan had told’ Also Perambalating Cans and Bags. to Help Keep Streets Clean. Street-Cleaning Commissioner Woods bury wants twenty-five new paper rt In a hurry, He ham designed a light ts from being dis- ds or violence, v be used solely for gathering paper and will be manned by wo expert paper-chasers to each vehicle. ‘The Commiastoner also wants 200 more combination can and bag car- ter contrivances which is part of the equipment of an up-to-date sweeper. IMPORTANT - SHOE SALE FRIDAY and SATURDAY. 600 pairs Women’s Colt and Calfskin Button and Lace Shoes, closing out at ig } value $4.50 100 pairs Women’s extra high cut Vict Kid Lace Shoes, closing out at ‘2.00 value $5.00 | 750 pairs Women’s fine | Colt and Calfskin Button and Lace Shoes, closing out at t2.00 value $6.00 [cDeatiller os West 23re Street. rs. She led | me Feavon te germs whieh wesistance ts given by the destroying an- iets, whieh 0 for ebil necessary, and thi use, of some barm| ene tabletn at 60 oi higher in price . rough syrups, but si coutaln " antive gctually cure cold id lupe trouble, notorious fact tbi ps are Half-Yearl The unloading time has come—this entire to go out now to thousands of thrifty buyers at years. Not a garmentis reserved—it is always a S. N. Wood & Co. other occasions. Our Clearing Sale Prices ALWAYS brin goes with every garment. OVERCOATS. 500 Men's Overcoats in Friezes, Kerseys, Mel-| 550 Men’s Suits, tons, Oxford Cheviots, in all colors, all Styles, all worth $15 and $16; lengths, swell make, 1 5) during this sale at,. ] loose back, so patterns; also 750 Men's Stylish Overcoats in very high grade]675 Men’s Sul that the coat hangs from collar and shoulders; none worth less than $12.50; most of them none worth less worth $18 and $20; choice during this sale at. worth $18 to well | dressy garments; special, ri | An immense stock comprising TROUSERS | this season’s newest stripes and | mixtures, to go now without [ regard to cost or value, at,,., Closing out Fancy Vests, were $2.50 and $3,00, all OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS TILL 9 O'CLOCK, SNWooDds ce dak als a splendid all-wool Cheviots and Cassimeres, in this Season's most popular plain colors; avell made and finished; all sizes; 40 —— Styles to select from; than $12.50; most of them worth $16.00; choice Kerseys, Meltons, Friezes and Oxford Cheviots, hand- blue and black Cheviots, Mixed Cheviots and somely hand tailored; 11) Cassimeres, in very equal to thoroughly nobby effects; also ie good custom work; (I ) ) in rich subdued mix- (1) none worth less Interatadna al tures; handsomely acted than $16; _ most . tailored; none worth less than $16; most v4 ChOICE at sseeereeee 675 flen’s Overcoats of finest Vicunas, Thibets,| 475 Men's Suits of richest custom fabrics, hand- somely hand tailored; 50 styles to select from; none Friezes, Kerseys, Mellons, Oxfords, the rich im- ported fabrics used worth less than by swell custom $20, most worth tailors; beautifully $25, yet having all made; value $25, aeaandnimiae the appearance of and full to custom garments custom tailor gar- costi ments costing $35 cost of #33 and and $49, atiereree $40, Abesereeeene f XEDO COATS | They are of splendid q TU unfinished Worsteds and ‘ SILK LINED tailored throughout and very CLEARING SALE. Biggest in Years—-Everything Reduced. fine Clothing Stock is the biggest savings in clear, clean sweep with Our Regular Prices are Lowest—no other clothing that is nearly so good as ours is ever sold as low as our regular prices. There are sound business reasons for this; we have explained them in these columns on you the greatest op- portunity of the year—7TH/IS YEAR GREATER THAN. USUAL because of greater variety and many little touches of improvement in the workmanship. During this sale, as at all other times, our guarantee THE SUITS. single and double breasted, of its of rich Fancy Worsteds, $20; |\* 7* $5, at $1.55 uality black Thibets ; ARRAN PAPER CARTS WANTED. | 140-742 Broadway, Just South of Astor Place, it ‘ ARI ¥e Re NANEY We are to add a number of new departments our store. This means a campaign of tempot concentration; we will be compelled to en upon the space now given to the boys’ appa Instead of crowding things, we will try to plac our boys’ suits in service; we have reduce prices almost one-half as an incentive. © Boys’ Sailor Suits in red, navy, brown or royal Serge, lar and shield prettily trimmed with braid or embroid Sizes 3 to 10 years. Formerly up to $6.50. Formerly up to $8.75. Now at Boys’ Norfolk Suits of Mixed Cheviots and Cass! well tailored and serviceably lined. Sizes 8 to 15 ate Formerly up to $10.00. Now at $5. 4 Boys’ three-garment suits of mixed cheviots and cassi= meres; sizes II to 16 years. Formerly up to $9.50. Now at $6.50 — Boys’ double-breasted suits of mixed cheviots, cassimeres and imported Scotch tweeds and cheviots; sizes 9 to 16. years: cd Now at $6.75 Formerly up to $15.00. Shoes for Women at $1.95 instead of $2.50 and $3.00. They are identified by our label; we will answer for them so far as style, comfort and service are concerned—especially the style. They include those for street and dress wear, of Patent Leather, Vici Kid and Box Calf, in this season newest lasts, in all sizes and .widths; either lace or button, heavy or medium soles. A Sale of Millinery. We Will Offer the Remainder of Our simply but tastefully trimmed, at the following :eductions in prices: Formerly up to $2.00, $3.50 and $4.00. Now at 75c., $2.00. and $2.50. Hats of Panne Velvet, in assorted colors or black velvet Formerly up to $5.25. Now at $1.9! Hats of fancy colored Braids or Camel’s Hair Cloth. Formerly up to $3.50. Now at $1.25 Colored Felt Hats, or Felt Hats with black velvet crown and binding. Formerly up to $3.00. New Ribbons. Spring novelties, a number of which are im: ported, suitable for neckwear, sashes and kindre uses. The prices at which they are offe; would be low even at the end of the season. 396 inch Taffeta, soft finish, high lustre, with dots of same color 354 inch soft finish Louisine, with bunches of grapes of same color, 356 inch Taffeta, with hemstitch and dot effects. At 15¢. per yard. 344 inch fancy stripes in Taffeta and Swiss effects; blue with white, pink with white, nile with white, and lavender — and white. 534 inch plain Louisine, in all light colors, 4 inch Taffeta, Chameleon effects. At 19¢. per yard, 534 inch fancy Taffeta and Swiss, soft finish, high lustre, exquisite shades, with cord and hemstitch effects; in pink and white, blue and white, lavender and white, turquoise and white, maize and white; also all white and all black. 6 inch Mousseline, with six rows of hemstitching, plain colors, soft finish; all the most desirable shades. At 25c. per yard.’ A Sale of Gloves for Women. There is nothing about these that suggests their low price; neither style nor quality is lacking. They are really high-grade gloves, that under other circumstances would cost almost a half more. Women’s Lambskin Gloves, one or two clasp, pique sewed, Paris point embroidery, in Tans, Red Tans, Modes, Browns, Grays, Pearls, White or Black. Special at 950. per pair. Sale Ten Milhon Boxes a Year. CANDY CATHARTIC