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3 PAIRS WOULD CUTWEDDING TIES —~—— HOW | BECUM A SHTAGE SHTAR. —By Mrs. Mary Mack. Sure Jimmy Powers Kem to Me! and Axt Me to Be a Co-o-ok; Wid Him at Wan Dollar a! Night in the “Jol. Their Earnest Pleas for Di- vorces Come Up in Steady Procession Before Judge Blanchard in Supreme Court. FLUSTHERED ME AT FURST. AD STORY OF A RUNAWAY. y of Seventeen Dolefully Tells How His Bride of a Single Day De- camped with All of His Available Capital. | But Whin Thim Lallygaggin Chorus | Of the forty-three cases which filled Justice Blanohard's big divorce calendar 4n the Supreme Court to-day each of- fered a distinct type and each offered a story of blighted hopes and shattered brash agains! the side of = pail of soap: suds and told how she came to be a Sewel of Asia.” | eontradiction | Now York's great legal ma-| Her story was really a | ; devotes one day In each week|of the theme of the song which brings | ering of marital bonds. This|her on the stage, “You'll Say You'll Do} crucial issue in two lives is decided with|a Thing, but Then You Don't." | solemn expedition in each case. | “At fir-rst T sald T wouldn't, then 1 There ia the Judge on the bench, aus-| did. ‘The dear knows, Oi had no thought | tere, dignified and judicial: there ts the oy ever beln’ an achtrese, [ was clan- clerk, bristling with oMfcial Importance; |ing out wan o' th’ boxes in th’ thenyter | there aro the stenographer and attend-|when Mr. Powers, wid his olg mouth all} ants, silent and almost sphinx-lke; and | in a smile, comes over an’ sex, sex he: last, there are those in the rear of the| ‘‘Missus Mack, I belave?’ court-room whose drawn faces, tea hate me name,’ nex | stained cyer and compressed lps give; might yea be wantin’ o potent tesiimony to the unfortunate} met" crisis in their Ives. | Here Mrs. Mack made an impressive Khe Marricd = Sporting Man. — | pause. then continued: The first case cailed by Justice | Wanted Her on the Stage. Blanchard was that of Fannie Messner] “He towld me he wanted me to go | against Sigmund Messner, a prominent lon th’ tage an’ be a co-ok with him in de sporting man, Mrs, Messner. tty little woman, dressed in deep 4 the same old story of several year? of happy married life, followed by growing cooliess and finally desertion ‘An what kes th’ y wil you,’ sez I, wid half} a mgnd to take my dren to him, ‘don't be jokin’ a poor, ha-rd-workin’ woman.” “ta not jokin’ Tam, sex ha. ‘TH for another, Aw in all undefended d!- |pive you wan dollar a performance just yorce cases, when the brief testimony |{ sthroll on an’ off th’ stage with me. Necessary to comply with the statute | “tefore I knew it he had me back on han heen given, the Court reserved de- cision. Then Fugene H. MeGinnis, a bright- looking seventeen, told between his chattering teeth with court fright of | elopement with a belle of Waterloo. the etage thryin' to persuade me. ‘> sez IT, ‘I'll not be startin’ didoes at my time of life.’ “At this, a boonch ov thim fresh chorus girruls commenced guyin’ me, an’ said I couldn't go on th’ stage an’ git Y.. whieh had a sudden and 62d | away wid it, or some soorh slang talk termination, The youth said that his “Can't I? sez I. ‘Is that #0? Wel romance had been of the rapid-transit!y4) show you aiieacockalthatey order. terminating with a suddenness | oan" An’, turnin’ to Mr. Powers, T the: tonk ats breath away. ‘towld him he could dipind on me. He met her on a Friday In the spring- “‘Shure I knew you wud,’ sez he. time of last year. By the evening of th@!eyou wuz born fer th’ par-rt.’ sa7° day he besought her on his kne “*But what'll [ have to do? I axed to he his wife. She coyly consented— nim. she was also onty seventeen—and they hurried to the railroad station and that night arrived in Paterson, N. J., where the girl was solemnly mad> Mrs. Flor- ence McGinnis Uriie Got Wis Cash, Andt sald the boy. rolling hls eve and breathing hard, “she left me the “45 next morning, And—and she took all/awered, “I wuz a bit flustered about my money with her and J~I have notithe hear-rt. and abit afrald of shiippin’ Seen her since." Whatever has become} the way that lively divv!l was galavant- of the blushing Mrs. MeGinris, she WAS int around wid me." “Just hang on me arrum an’ look sour,’ sex he. You're supposed to be a ook lady.' "* “How did you pearance Monday was axed, Mined Sensations Hers, sinsations were mix',” she an- feel at your first ap- night?” Mrs, Mack present in court to rent the, “Dit you feel that Mr. Powers was severance of her hurried union toy ¢ynn for comfort? th» boyish plaintift, | “Oh, no; not at all, at all,” answered After a brief interval, punctuated by | Mrs. Mack, with a sweeping gesture. th» rustling of many legal documents, |“What's th’ good of a man who has no nineteen-year-old Anna Schwartz, who 's/fun in him? An’ Mr. Powers is a per- @s gracefu} and fascinating a type of Oriental beauty as one would wish to fect gintleman—off the stage, Indeed he ta.’ Girruls Begins to Guy Me | Med Up | 2 Me Mind to Shine on the Stage Be| 7 Night -nd Shine Floors Be Day. |? Mrs. Mary Mack propped her rcrubbing | 4 |joint star with James T. Powers in “The | 4 DOC THE CAUSE THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1903, MRS. MARY MACK, THE HUMBLE SCRUBWOMAN WHO DO BE MAKIN’ A HIT IN THE “JOOL OV A POISE ONHSHHOHIDOMHHOE SHORE SHIGE BSIOIS2E59O% OF A DIVORCE. Incidentally This Wife Didn't: Like Her Husband’s Looks and Said, Too, He Walked in}: His Sleep. 8 | | \o | | WERE MARRIED JUST A YEAR. | After a year of married life Mrs. May Julllerat has revelved a decree trom her husband, a Frenchman (she Is a Ger-! man), because of his temper, because he | @ would He on the floor and bump his head, because he was insignificant in | appearance, because he walked in his | sieep and because he was cruel to her pet dog. fl i The husband declared) in his answer. that he could not change his appear- ance; that outsiders interfered with him/ and his wife; that she had too much{ pride, and that the aforesaid dog had fleas and bad manners. SHOT 8 PEPOHLL HOE BY BROTHER YSHA."’| FOR A MAN'S BODY. HS FACE FROZEN ASHE WALKED | Subway Timekeeper Sent to St. ero from the Effects of the Freez- ing Weather. LEGS, TOO, WERE AFFECTED. John Guthrie, nineteen, staggered into a restaurant at No, 862 Hudson street at 3 o'clock thin morning and asked per- mission of the manager to get warm, It was evident that he was sick, and he was furnished with a chair while a waiter was sent for a cup of hot coffee. He tried to swallow the coffee, but it was impossible, because his whole fave was frozen, Policeman McDonald, of the Charles Street Station, was passing, and he sent to St. Vincent's Hospital for an ambulance. The doctor who came said that both of Guthrie's legs below the knees had been frozen, ears. At St. Vincent's Hospital, where he was hurried, he sald he had been walking the streets all night. Unti three months ago he had been employed as a timekeeper In the aubway and was then taken sick and went to Bellevue Hospital. He had been out of Bellovue only a week and had since then been working in the subwa On being discharged from the hospi(al he found a boarding-house in Green- wich street and his landlord last night asked him for pay for the week's board, As the subway contractors pay only every two weeks he was unable to com- ply and endeavored to explain that he would not be paid for a week yet. His explanations were useless and he was put out on the street. He said he had been out all night. walking as much as he could to keep warm. He had been in several stores untit they closed. He sald he had hoped to be able to walk all night until it was time to go to work to-day when he would try tu borrow enough money from hls employer to satisfy his land- lord. ‘The doctors serious, aid his condiion was CHAMBERLAIN APPEALS. Talks for Union of Races at Big Public Reception in Cape Town, CAPE TOWN, Feb. 18—Colonial Sec- retary Chamberlain and his party ar- rived here to-day and met with a hearty reception from @ crowd of about 10,00 persons awaiting them in Green Market Square. A number of addresses were presented to Mr. Chamberlain. During the reading of one of these Prime Min- ister Sprigg arrived on the platform and was hooted with much vigor. Mr. Chamberlain in the course of his speech made a powerful appeal for the |unton of the races. He admitted, how- ever, that since his arrival in Cape Col- ony he had become less hopeful of {m- mediate satisfactory results from his visit, as he found that the antagon! 0? the two races had become chronic. Rebellion was exulted into heroism and loyalty was discountenanced and ostra- cised, even the pulpit Joining in the pro- nda tending to intensify the separa- of the races, | Vincent’s Hospital Suffering! Year-Old Child, Dispossessed, also his hands, face and | First of a Gertes of Six te Be ored To-Night at the Majestic “The Life of Gosthe and the Spirit Bf Modern Culture” will be the of the firmt of etx lectures on Goethe | hia “Faust’ to be given by Bdward = Howard Griggs at the Hotel Majestl ithe Teotuse torent! Tee are the eighth senate Rterery Literature Society, of _ -wint Charles H. Brush, of the Hotel is Secretary. The representative — chi ts Goethe's work and his ¢: modern men of life will be the features of this evening's lecture. ALMOST FROZE INPATROL WAGON Man, Wife and Their Eight- Rode for Hours in Biting Weather. THE DRIVER LOST HIS WAY. Silks and Dress Goods A Special Remnant Sale of Colored Taffeta Silks in hundreds of col te. be closed out Thursday aud Friday at g SOC. ayard, — regular 75c. & 85c. a yd, : Another lot of Silk Remnants in plain fabrics will be put — on Fis for Thursday and Friday ai 75C. 2 yard, actual values$1.25&$1, 50° yi. Es All remnants sold at spe cial silk counter. a Dress Goods. * Almont frozen after being out since midnight in an open patrol wagon, George Herrer, his wife and elght-year- old child were carried into the Gates avenue police station, Brooklyn, at day- break in a eerlous condition. The wom- an had been ill, and with little protec- tion from the biting winter wind she was wo benumbed that {t was a long {ime before she regovered. ‘The Herrers, refusing to obey a dis- poxnces notice, had been arrested, and the driver of the patrol wagon lost his way while going across the lonesome, mwampy bit of Innd near their home at No. 963 Snedeker avenue, a mile from the nearest car Ine. For hours the horses wandered about {n nearch of the right road, until even the policemen with their great coats were chilled to the bone. Tho woman and child ‘had been taken from their bedw and were wrapped in rubber coats. At the station several {policemen took off their outer coats and | wrapped the half-frozen prisoners, and voffee and other food were brought from a restaurant. Herrer has been out of work for months, and unable to pay the rent, wag. ordered to move. His household goods were put out in the street, but, having no other place to go, he moved back in the house. ‘The agent then had a war- rant issued charging the man and his wife with “forcible entry,” and the order was served at midnight. Magistrate Tighe released them on parole until Monday. = — BRAKEMAN’S BAD FALL. Slipped from a Freight Car and May Lose H Andrew Burke, twenty-five years old, of No, 1117 Fulton street, Brooklyn, a 4 brakeman In the employ of the Central A special lot of : Railroad, slipped and fell off the roof Votle, lets frelgnt car In the Jersey City yards jay good desirable colori: He was cut about the face and hands and injured #o badly internally that a the Clty Hospital, where he was taken, the physicians have little hope of his re- covery and black, will be offered f sale Thursday at f TWO WOMEN CLAIM HIM. 6o Schiff In Locked Up by Order of Magistrate Flammer. Louls Schiff, of 21 Delancey street, was ordered to pay his wife, Roxsie, $10 a week for her support by Magis- trate Flammer, in the Harlem Court this morning. Not being able to do this he was locked up and an additional charge OF bigamy will be placed agaltiat 1m, Mrs. Bessie Schiff pointed out to Ju lee |Fiammer {n court another woman, who. she said. was posing as Mra. deal itlso. The second woman claimed that aay had merried Schiff a year igo und 4.18 now living with him as his wife. She refused to prefer a charze of bigamy against him, however, but this will be done later. Lord & Taylo Broadway & 20th BL _ Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning We: ¢ H. FOWLER, BISHOP M. E. CHURCH., ) feo, took the stand and told a remark- | “Do you ifke being on the stage?” ise \ « able story of a forced marriage at the | ‘Don't be askin’ such questions. Shure 5 point of a pistol. ‘its no place fer an ould woman. of i i i i Mrs, Schwartz, though she held her | #xty-fve, who's a great-qranomotht ANARCHIST AFTER Bullet in Her Brain and Small] Each Claims to Have Been the ae head at a deflant angle, spoke timidly | Qi", vamenin, But the dollar f get Chance that She Will { and hardly above a whisper. First she #} told of meeting Isadore Schwartz, { “who,"' she eaid, “is, on! so blg and has such flerce mustachios,” in her father's store, where he came often to sell goods. Made Eyes at Her, “He dil not actually make love to me,” deciared the young woman; “that 4, not In words; but, oh! ‘ow he looked! His eyes seemed to burn into me, B “One day last September he stepped up to me in the store and sald, ‘Meet me at the Brooklyn Bridge to-morrow. Your cousin will be there and we will go on an excursion.’ “I went, though I hardly believed my gousln would be there, When I saw him he was waltxing up and down. talkii to himself, I went up to him and ask ‘winere my cousin was “He pald; ‘Your cousin Is not here. Bhe will not be here. L told you she would be here so that you would come.’ Then he caught me by the arm and fad in @ terrible voice: ‘I want you to marry me, If you do not f will kill You and myself. He pulled out ® big Fevolver and pressed it against my side, Says She Was Dased “After that I became so dazed that 11° I remember js going across City 1) Park and entering @ building, Ail that happened in that building is a blur to me, (hough I remember when we got out in the street he pulled out the re- yolver again and eaid that I was now bis wife and if I told my pare or @ny one elfe about the marriage he would kill me. He left me then, and have not seen ‘him since."' ‘ J rr - Ni BOY GIANT INCORRIGIBLE. But Court Discharged 17-Year-Old Lucten Dennl, Who Weighs 200, Martin Denni, whose cara says he is @ French and German humorist and pei somedian, appeared in the Yorkville Court to-day tn prosecute hit son ny an fnourrigible, The von, Lucies, is 6 fret fn height and weighs about iW pounds, fe, is only seventeen year: her old although The tat id he wanted his “boy sent aw ome institution where he gould grow up into a good man, Mag- {strate Deuel said it would be better to keep him e! home and dismimed the ane. wa the ttle man and his bi leaving the court-room Denn inst what appeared to him to be a \ Boge blue wall. It turned out to be joundsmnan Taggart, He in 7 feet in helgat and weighs over 300 pounds. After explanations and an exchang of weather signals the physical oppo: @tes parted. —— WIN of W, ©. Sehermerhorn, NEWPORT, Feb, 18—The will of W. ©, Bchermerhorn, cousin of Mra, William ‘Astor, was approved in the Probate Court yesterday. l'uere are ni be- he will given $100,000 9a son were came up leach time comes in hand You intend to keep it up, then?" ‘TL stay wid th’ show aa, long as it’s at the Criterion, but 1 won't, travel, But serwbbin’ is alsier than actin’, at that, $f you pl “Now “that you've become famous a picture?” the won't you pose for Evening World man suggested, wwure, I never was tuk in me ffs, but if it's to oblige me friend Chaney Frohman, I don't mind It a thrifie.”” And 80 she was tuk. SS ‘THREATEN POWELL WITH IMPEACHMENT New Jersey Sergeant-at-Arms Won't Obey Advice to Send in His Resignation. =e (Special 40 The Evening World.) TRENTON, N, J, Feb. 18—Gov. Mur- phy, Attorney-General McCarter and Major Carl Lents, of Newark, held a consultation this afternoon on the case of George Powell, of Newark, Sergeant- at-Arms of the House, who went to the pastor of Grace Church in Newark and asked for $250 for the return stolen church property. It was decided to ask Powell to re- sign his State office. When Powell was informed of the request he refused. He was threatened with {mpachment, and he said; et them impeach me, then.” Later in the afternoon 4 Republican caucus of Assembiymen waa held to consider the matter ard find a way to force Powell out of office. ———— ANOTHER SET BACK FOR QUAY on Statehood Resolution, WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The reso- jutlop of Renator Quay, declaring that it ts the wense of the Senate that there should be a vote on the Statehood bill, occupied a portion of the morning hour in the Senate to-day¥ Mr, Bpooner op- posed it, saying that it was In a wense cloture, to which he we od, OF a ure Upon the minority whien he did hot think was right There w lengthy debate on the rights of the minority, but no action was taken on the resolution, the Ben- @ going into executive session to con- sider the Columbian treaty. ——————— Died ef Blood Poisoning. Gustave Kruger, forty-three years old fed? ole hem tan eit € = aaah raat, and on his of | fienate Afier Debate Fails to Act! cover. EMPEROR WILLIAM NEWARK J., Feb, 18—While on| CAMDEN. N. J., Feb. 18 German Engineer at Meeting in|®er way home from school this atter-| claim hoon little Elizabeth Denning, the nine-| port. a wealthy commis! Barcelona Makes Pledge to| year-old daughter of Thomas F. Den-| who died last evening at 4 ning, a well-known mineral water] pathic Hospital, this city. Kill the Monarch. dealer, of No. 121 South street, was ac-| The first Mrs. Davenport eldentally shot through the head with|to him in 1855, and has » a bullet from a revolver in the hands of| sons, all of whom were a BARCELONA, Spain, Feb, 18—/Pne|her twelve-year-old brother ‘Thomas, | cure the body. ‘This wom newspapers to-day publish an account ‘The little girl is unconscious in St.{diverce from bed and of an anarchist meeting, recently held| James Hospital, with the bullet lodged | Davenport ten or twely. here, at which a German engineer, who In her orain, The physicians entertain] Philadelphia, had been Barcelona for a fortnight] @light hopes of her recovery cured a full divorce tn t and who has started for England, de-| When Thomas and hus sister reached a] married the other claimant spot within a few feet of their home the} body. clared he pledged himself to make an attempt on the life of Emperor Willlam|/4d drew the revolver from hla packe! ne fi@ht for the body was purely a} PiGuenann: and playfully pointed it at his sister| matter of sentiment, as no legal rigats | — and a number of other children, A shot} could be determined in that way In} was heard and Elizabeth fell to the| New Jersey, The second wife secured | WATER-TUBE SHIP FAILS. sidewalk, while her brother and the rest! the body after a spirited flebt, but the | of her, companions ran screaming! @rat wife declares that she will eet his Another Defeat for the System in| jirouieh the street property | British Naval Trints, Mrs. Denning, who was in her home, 4 - | LONDON, Feb, 18—The second trial| ran to the street and fell prostrate over] BIG FAREWELL FOR BOOTH.! of the British second class cruisers|the form of her daughter. An anya- ee Mynanly and ilnereas, “Sites wis lanes mn summons nus the tot *>| Hanna (o Preside at Meeting anil Belleville water-tube an’ be ot eylin- | hurried to t hospitat An operation Grica! boilers respectively, hag resulted ie Sac tarotal lata thie axtarcon: to ation Gener jonor. in another defeat for the water-tube| save the child's life Joy and sorrow will be minglod at system, The warships left Plymouth, .—— farewell tag 10 be xiven t with an equal quantity of coal, for Gib- William Booth at th faltar, and the Minerva steamed twelve |PADEREWSKI SELLS ESTATE. House on Tuomlay ¢ } hours after the Myacinth's bunkers path atone dness which will were emptied, Pianist Spent $300,000 on Pince the revered h ‘The vessels recoaled at Gibraltar and ees ita ut twerConlir, Army o started on the race homeward on Feb. Mie 15, with the result that the Mincrva| BERIAN, Feb. 18—A despateh from reached Poriamouth at 1 A. M., having | Cracow, Ausinian tela, states that averaged elghteen knots. ‘he tHya- | pagerewsk!, the pianist, has sold his Cinti’s boilers broke down in the Bay | yee ei edeate at Kuhnagurna because of Biscay on Monday. (Speolal to The Bvening W it Is too expensive Re-| Wife of a Camd Merchant. \ ) (Special to The Evening for him to keep up EX-MAYOR AMES GETS DELAY | "2" pis «mou sina tor 1 youre a han the revenue, [ths J that Hed tponed reweki intends (o settle in Switzer at Hin Requent, CONCORD, N. H., Feb, 18.—The hear- Ing on the petition for the extradition of ex-Mayor A. A, Ames, of Minne- apolis, was to-day postponed until to- morrow upon request of C, J, Hamblett, counsel for Mr. Ames. A hearing had been sot for to-day, and when the mat- ter was called up by Goy. Barhelder Mr. Hamblett urged that the hearing be postponed, as he had had no oppo tunity of examining the requisition pers which had been presented by herift J. W, Dregar, of Minneapolis Following the postponement District- Attorney Hamblett said that po attempt would be made to postpone by dilatory methods the return of ex-Mayor Ames Be ure o to Minnesota, and that his client would Mt you buy Rot oppowe sxtradivion in any way if it was found that his physical condition would permit of his return at this time, “Habeas corpus proceedings will noi be Instituted,” sald Mr. Hasmblett, “un- yor Ames's health 1 tates health me ig ready to return if < aia ry who try to which are worthless and often hurmful, Hunyadi Janos ‘Thie Ni Mii iW i to easton remedy for 8 CONSTI eo that poe ORT Hangom Cecil aaah iin ict ais Sei bs Avoid Unscrupulous Druggists, Detitutes, all of palm off un the unsuspecting publi When buying NATURAL LAXATIVE MINERAL WATER. by the bottle and alweys ask for Husyadl on, (Kul Ser aie ett ee clcaupens wnvey diets by: Hey ach trouble, and is @ positive cure fur Label on bottle, ia blue with red ceakre. be the wife of Thomas Daven- whereupon Davenport fe- bed by Physicians ell over the World, and ATION. len (N. J.) World.) wo women jon merchant, the Homoeo- married al grown nxious to se- an secured @ board from years @go in wi ev Ms f West and for the he ame ade pa 1) emer : Ma r9 486 FRANKLIN GTREET; _ QUFFALO, WV, Sth. 703 e