The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1903, Page 5

43 PAIRS WOULD [HOW | BECUM A CUTWEDDINGTIES nr Their Earnest Pleas for Di- vorces Come Up in Steady Procession Before Judge Blanchard in Supreme Court. SAD STORY OF A RUNAWAY. | Boy of Seventeen Dolefully Tells How His Bride of a Single Day De- camped with All of His Available | Capita | Of the forty-three cases which filled Jusiice Blanohard’s big divorce calendat in the Supreme Court to-day each of- fered a distinct type and each offered a} Story of blighted hopes and shattered fdeals. Now York's great legal ma- chinery devotes one day in each week to the severing of marital bonds. This crucial issue in two lives fs decided with | solemn expedition in each case. | There ts the Judge on the bench, aus-| tere, dignified and judicial: there is tho| cierk, bristling with official importanc there are the stenographer and attend- ants, silent and almost sphinx-like: and Iasi, there are those in the rear of the} court-room whose drawn faces, tear-| stained eyes and compressed lips give} potent testimony to the unfortunate} crisis in their Hyves. fhe Married Sporting Man. The first case ad oby Justice Blanchard was that of Fannie Measner against Sigmund Messner, a prominent enst-slde sporting man. Mrs. Messner, f@ pretty little woman, dressed in deep black. told eo same old story of several year: of happy married life, followed by growing coolness and finally desertion for a As in all undefended di- vorce cases, when the brief testimony necessary to comply with the statut han heen given, the Court reserved de- elsion. “Then Fugene looking his eh his elopen whien McGinnis, a bright- venteen, told between | ring teeth with court fright of nt with a belle of Waterloo, | had a sudden and sad HL termin fon. ‘The youth sald that his romance had been of the rapid-transit order, terminating with a suddenness | the: tonk als breath away, He met her on a Friday tn the spring- time of last year, By the evening of the san) day he hesought her on his knees to he his wife. She coyly consented— she was also onty seventeen—and they hurried to the railroad station and that night arrived In Paterson, N. J.. where the git) was solemnly mad> Mrs. Flor-| ence McGinnis | Uride Got | “And. sold the boy. rolling his eve and breathing hard, “she left me the next morning. And—and she took all my money with her and I—T have not Min Cash, seen her since." Whatever has hecome of the blushing Mrs. McGinnis, she was present In court to prevent the, severance of her hurried unton > boyish plaintiff. i a brief Interval, punctuated by , the rustling of many legal documents, nineteon-year-old Anna Schwartz, who !s @s graceful and fascinating a type of Oriental beauty as one would wish to feo, took the stand and told a remark- | fe story of a forced marriage at the | point of a pistol | Mrs, Schwartz, though she held her | head at a deflant angle, spoke timidly and hardly above a whisper. First she told of meeting Isadore Schwartz, “who,’' she said, “is, oa! so big and has such flerce mustachios," In her father's Store, where he came often to scil goods. Made Eyes at Her. “He did not actually make love to me,” deciared the young woman; “that {#, not In words; but, oh! how he looked! His eyes seemed to burn into me. “One day last September he stepped up to me in the store and said, ‘Meet me at the Brooklyn Bridge to-morrow, Your cousin will be there and we will go on an excursion.’ “T went, though I hardly belteved my gousin would be there. When I saw him he was waltzing up and down talk to himself, I went up to him and asi where my cousin was. “He sald: ‘Your cousin {a not here. @he will not be here. L told you she would be here so that you would come.’ Then he caught me by the arm and said in a terrible yolce: ‘I want you to marry me. If you do not I will Kill you and myself. He pulled out © tig Fevolver and pressed it against my side, Says She Wan Dased, “After that I became so dazed that 11 I remember is golng across City fal) Park and entering @ building, Ail appened in that building ts a blur though | remember when we got out in the street he pulled out the re- again and said that I was now fhis wife and if I told my parents or @ny one else about the marriage he Would kill me. He left me then, and I Rave not seen ‘him aince.”’ a - BOY GIANT INCORRIGIBLE. Martin Denni, whose cara says he is @ French and German humnorlet and Somedian, appeared in the Yorkville Court to-day th prosecute his son ay an fncurrigible. The son, Iuciea, is 6 fret in height and welghs about ww pounds, | althou, is only seventeen years o} The father sald he wanted his "bo: sen! away to some institution where he gould grow up into @ good man, Mag- Isivate Devel waid it would be better to Keep him et home and dismimed the chame. a ile lttle man and his bi leaving the court-room Denni inet what appeared to him to be a ge blue wall. It turned out to ve jpundeman Taggart. He in 7 feet in height and weighs over 300 pounds, After explanations and an exchange of weather signals the physical oppo- Biles parted. a wih of W. hermerhern, NEWPORT, Feb, 18.—The will of W. Schermerborn, cousin of Mra. William Astor, was approved in the Probate son were came up 'towld him he could dipind on me. SHTAGE SHTAR. —By Mrs, Mary Mack. — Sure Jimmy Powers Kem to Me! and Axt Me to Be a Co-0-ok Night in the “Jool.” Wid Him at Wan Dollar ais FLUSTHERED ME AT FURST.) But Whin Thim Lallygaggin Chorus | Girruls Begins to Guy Me | Med Up} Mrs, Mary Mack propped her scrubbing | brush agains: the side of = pail of soap- | and told how she came to be a joint star with James T. Powers in “The | Jewel of Aria.” of the theme of the song which brings | her on the stag ‘ou'll Say You a Thing, but Then You Don't | “At fir-rst T sald T womldn't. then T ‘The dear knows, Oi had no thought ov ever bein’ an achtrese, 1 was clan- ing out wan o' th’ boxes in th’ theayter) when Mr. Powers, wid his olg mouth all} In a smile. comes over an’ sex, sex he: “‘Missus Mack, I belave?’ Thats me name,’ sex I. ‘An what might yes be wantin’ o° th’ likes o' met" Here Mrs. Mack made an impressive pause, then continued: Wanted Her on the Stage. “He towld me on th’ stage an’ be a co-ok with him in 8 gong, “Go tway wid you, sex 1, wid hal a irgnd to take my brush to him, ‘don't be jokin’ poor, ha-rd-workin’ woman." “'T'ts not jokin’ T am, sex he. ‘Tl give you wan dollar a performance just to sthroll on an’ off th’ stage with me, “Tsefore I knew it he had me back or the stage thryin' to persuade me. sex I, ‘I'll not be startin’ didoes at my time of life.’ t this, a boonch ov thim fresh horus girruls commenced guyin’ me, an’ said T couldn't go on th’ stage an’ git away wid it, or some sooch slang talk Can't I? sex IT. ‘Is that 0? Weil, }T'll show you little peacocns that I can.’ An’, turnin’ to Mr, Powers, 1| “ ‘Shure I knew you wud, a wuz born fer th’ par-rt. ‘But what'll I have to do?’ sez he. I axed him. “Just hang on me arrum an’ look sour.’ sex he, You're supposed to be a cook lady." “How did you pearance Monday was aried, feel at your first ap- night?" Mrs, Mack Mixed Senm a Hera. “My Sinsations were mixt," she an- swered. “I wuz a bit flustered about the hear-rt, and w bit afratd of shiippin’ {the way that lively divyil was galavant- in’ around wid me. “Did you feel that Mr. toy funny for comfort?” “Oh, no; not at all, at all,” answered Mrs. Mack, with a sweeping gesture. “What's th’ good of a man who has no jfun in him? An’ Mr. Powers is a per- fect gintleman—off the stage. Indeed he ta." “Do vou tke being on the stage?” “Don't be askin’ such questions. Shure Powers was {t's no place fer an ould woman of sixty-five, who's a great-gtandmother in th’ bawyain, But the dollar f get j each time comes in handy.” “You intend to keep {t up, then?” “Til shtay wid th’ show as long as it's at the Criterion, but 1 won't travel, But serubbin' is aister than actin’, at that, {f you pl'ase “Now “that you've won't you pose for a picture?” Evening World man suggested. ‘Shure, I never was tuk in me Ifo, but if it's to oblige me friend Chanisy Frohman, I don’t mind it a thrifle. And s0'ahe was tuk. ——— ‘THREATEN POWELL WITH IMPEACHMENT New Jersey Sergeant-at-Arms Won't Obey Advice to Send in His Resignation. become famous the aa, (Special to The Evening World.) TRENTON, N. J., Feb, 18,—Gov, Mur- phy, Attorney-General McCarter and Major Carl Lentz, of Newark, held @ 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 of 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 impachment, and he raid: “Let them impeach me, then,’” Later in the afiernoon 4 Republican caucus of Assemblymen waa held to consider the matter ard find a way to force Powell out of office. ANOTHER SET BACK FOR QUAY on Sta WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The reso- lutlop of Benator Quay, declaring that it te the sense of the Senate that there should be a vole on the Statehood bill occupied a portion of the morning hour in the Senate to-day Mr, Spooner op- . saying that it wa n & eonse fe to which he we: 6, OF a censure upon the minority which he ala not think was right. ‘There wi lengthy debate on the rights of the minority, but no action wae taken on the resolution, the Gen. going into exeoutive session to con- elder the Columblan treaty, en Me Mind to Shine on the Stage Be| > Night -nd Shine Floors Be Day, | Her story was really a contradiction | 4 nN Do| ® he wanted me to go | | DOC THE CAUSE OF A DIVORCE. Incidentally This Wife Didn't i Like Her Husband’s Looks | ‘ Died Guetave Sey ef Bleed Poeisontn, “three yea! @3 r io. Sl Avenue Boling! ie ‘oa bia lett et THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1903. MRS. MARY MACK, THE HUMBLE SCRUBWOMAN | WHO DO BE MAKIN’ A HIT IN THE ‘JOOL OV AYSHA.”’} SOPESHSOSHHOHHHSHHLOHHLHHHOHHS and Said, Too, He Walked in His Sleep. After a year of married life Mrs. May Julllerat has recelved a decree from her husband, a Frenchman (she !s a Ger- man), because of his temper, because he | 1 the floor and bump Hae wee would Ile on head, because he appearance, because he whiked was insignificant in his sieep and because he was cruel to her| pet dog. The husband dec! he could not that | ed) in his answer 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. ANARCHIST AFTER EMPEROR WILLIAM German Engineer at Meeting in Barcelona Makes Pledge to Kill the Monarch. BARCELONA, newspapers to-day Spain, Feb. 18.—The publish an account of an anarchist meeting, recently held here, at which a German engineer, who had been and who has started for England, de- clared he pledged himself to make an|*POt Within a few f attempt on the life of Emperor William of Germany. —————s WATER-TUBE SHIP FAILS. Another Defeat Brith LONDON, Feb. of the British ‘Hyacinth second class and Minerva, for the System in p Naval Trints, 18.—The second trial cruisers fitted with Belleville water-tube and Scoten cylin- drical boilers respectively, has resulted in another defeat The warships left system, for the water-tube Plymouth, with an equal quantity of coal, for Gib- hours after the were emptied, jraltar, and the Minerva steamed twelve Hyacinth’s bunkers The vessels recoaled at Gibraltar and wtarted on the race homeward on leb, remult reached Portsmouth at 1 A, M elghteen bollers broke down in the Bay y on Monday. em 15, with the averaged efnth' of Bise that the Mi: aving knots. hi EX-MAYOR AMES GETS DELAY Hearing on Reaw' Hin Re! itt petition for the extradition CONCORD, N ing on thi ot ex-Mayor apolis, A ition Postponed ent. Feb, 18 The hear- A. Ames, of Minne- was to-day postponed unti] to- morrow wpon request of C. J, Hamblett, counsel for ter waa called Mr, Hamblett ur be postponed, as tunlty of pavers which Mr, Ames. been wet for to-day, and when the mat up examining had been A hearing had by Goy. Bavhelder ed “that the hearing he had had no oppe the requisition presented by herift J. W. Dregar, of Minneapolii Following the postponement istrict Attorney Hamblett said that no attempt would be made methods the return of ex- end to Minnese postpone by dilatory Mayor Ames sent would not oppowe extradition it was found that his n Barcelona for a fortnight | #ight hopes of her recoy SOOHDHE EHEPOROLHHRGE HS F2DOBS 1¢ \¢ LITTLEGIRL WAS [TWO WOMEN FIGHT SHOT BY BROTHER Bullet in Her Brain and Small Chance that She Will Re- cover. (Speotal to The Evening World ) NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 18.—While on her way home from school this after- noon little Elizabeth Denning, the nine- year-old daughter of Thomas F, Den- ning, a well-known mineral water dealer, of No. 121 South street, was ac- eldentally shot through the head with a bullet from a revolver in the hands of ther twelve-year-old brother ‘Thomas. The little girl is unconscious in St James Hospital, with the bullet lodged in her brain. The physicians entertain ry When Thomas and his sister reached a t of thelr home the Jad drew the revolver from hia pocket and playfully pointed {1 at lis sister and a number of other children. A shot was heard and Elizabeth fell to the sidewalk, while her brother and the rest of her. companions ran screaming through the street Mrs, Denning, who was in her home, ran to the street and fell 5 rate over the form of ther daughter, An anvn- Jance was summoned and the tot was hurried to the tat! An operation will be performed late this afternoon to save the child's tite PADEREWSKI SELLS ESTATE. Pinulat Spent $300,000 on and Finds it Too Contty, BERLIN, Med. 18.—A despatch from Cracow, Ausirian Gavicla, states that P prewsk!, the pianist, has sold his beautiful estate at Kahnagorna because it is too expensive for him to ke: properly HH» paid about $100,000 for It Aye wince ‘spent on It enue. Tt 1s ade reweki intends to settle in years 4,00) th NATURAL LAXATIV! Avoid Unscrupulous Druggists, who try to palin off un the unsuspecting public, which are worthless aud often abate Li Hunyadi Janos PHEODE GHGS “ FOR A MAN'S BODY. Each Claims to Have Been the Wife of a Camden (N. J.) Merchant. | \ (Special to The Evening World.) CAMDEN, N. J., Feb. 18.—Two women claim to be the wife uf Thomas Daven- port, ealthy commission merchant, a who died last evening atthe Homoeo- pathic Hospital, this city. ‘he first Mrs, Davenport was married to him in 1865, and has se sons. all of whom were anxious to se- cure the body. This woman secured a divorce from bed and board from Davenport ten or twelve years @go In Philadelphia, whereupon Davenport Fe- cured a full divorce in the West and married the other claimant for the body, The fight for the body was purely a matter of sentiment, as no legal rigats | could be determined in that way In Now Jersey. ‘Phe second wife secured | ithe body afier a spirited fet, but the | first wife declares that she will get his property. ral grown BIG FAREWELL FOR BOOTH. | Hanna to Pe sine at Meeting io ation Genera Honor. an a LEGS, TOO, WERE AFFECTED. |8 o'clock this morning and asked per- | epeech made a powerful appeal for the | unton of the races. ; Rebellion was exalted into her: HS FACE FROZE ASHE WALD | Subway Timekeeper Sent to St. Man, Wife and Their Eight- Hitorature Soaety, Vineent’s Hospital Suffering from the Effects of the Freez- ing Weather. John Guthrie, nineteen, staggered into @ restaurant at No, $62 Hudson street at 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 face was frozen. Policeman McDonald, of the Charles Street Station, was paselng, and he sent to St. Vincent's Hospital for an ambulance. The doctor who came said that both of Guthrie's legs below the inees had) been frozen, also his hands, face and! ears. At St. Vincent's Hospital, where he was hurried, he sald he had been walking the streets all night. Unth three months ago he had been employed as a timekeeper in the subway and was then taken sick and went to! Bellevue Hospital. He had been out of Bellevue only a week and had since then) been working In the subway. | On being discharged from the hospital he found a boarding-house in Green- wich street and his landlord last night askod 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 w: put out on the stre He said he had been out all night, walking as much as he could to keep warm, He had been in several stores | until phey closed. He said 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 Ha his employer to satisfy his land- ord. ‘The doctors said his condlion was serious. CHAMBERLAIN APPEALS. Talks for Union of Races at Big Pablic Reception in Cape Town, | CAPE TOW Feb, 18.—Colonial Sec- retary Chamberlain and his party ar- rived here to-day and met with a hearty reception from a crowd of about 10,000 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- {ster Sprigg arrived on the platform| and waa hooted with much vigor. Mr. Chamberlain in the course of his He admitted, how- ever, that since his arrival In Cape Col- ony he had become less hopeful of im- mediate satisfactory results from his visit, as he found that the antagonism o? the two races had become chronic ism and 2 eae reer -—e " ALMOST FROZE WNPATROL WAE Year-Old Child, Dispossessed, Rode for Hours in Biting Weather. THE DRIVER LOST HIS WAY. Almost 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 serious condition. The wom- an had been fll, and with little protec- tion from the biting winter wind she was so benumbed that !t was a long time before she regovered. The Herrers, refusing to obey a dis- posnesx notice, had been arrested, and the driver of the patrol wagon lost bis way while going across the lonesome, swampy bit of land near their home at No. 963 Snedeker avenue, a mile from the nearest car line. For hours the horses rundered about tn wearch 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 thelr beds and were wrapped in rubber coats, At the station several policemen took off their outer coats and wrapped the half-frozen prisoners, and coffee and other food were brought from a restaurant Herrer has been out of work for months, and unable to pay the Trent, 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. = ——e BRAKEMAN’S BAD FALL. Slipped from a Freight Car and May Lose His Life, Andrew Burko, twenty-five years old, of No, 117 Fulton street, Brooklyn, a. a brakeman in the employ of the Central | Ralirond, slipped and foil off ‘the soot | of a freight car in the Jersey City yards early to-day. ane t @ Was Cut about the face and } and Injured @o badly: internally: thet ot the City Hospital. where he was taken, the physicians have little hope of his re: covery TWO WOMEN CLAIM HIM. 6o Schiff In Locked Up by Order of Magistrate Flammer. Louls Schiff, of No. 21 Delancey street, was ordered to pay his wife, Moasie, $10 a week for her support by Magis- trate Flammer, in the Harlem Court this morning. Not being able to do thin he was locked up and an additional chirge of bigamy will be placed against iim. Mrs, Bessie Sohiff pointed out to Ju lee |Flammer in court another woman, who. she said, was posing as Mra. doal ils: |The second woman claimed. that #1. had married Schiff a year igo and « loyalty was discountenanced and ostra- cised, even the pulpit joining in the pro- Paganda tending to intensify the separa- | tion of the races. now living with him as tis wife. She refused to prefer a charse of bigamy against him, however, but this will be done later. First of a Gertes of Six te Be ered Te-Night at the “The Life of Goethe and the Modern Culture” will be the the first of six lectures on Goethe | his “Faust” to be given by u Howard Griggs at the Hotel Mujestio this evening. ae The lectures are interestls ith season's Hterery. work ot wih les H. Brush, of the Hotel be bet character ¢ ¥ ciate RSM a chaagE modern men of life will be the features of this evening’ lecture. Silks and Dress Goods. A Special Remnant Sale of Colored Taffeta Stiks in hundreds of colorings; te. be closed out Thursday and” Friday at ¢ JOG a yard, regular 75c. & 85c. a yd, Another lot of Silk Remnants in.plain fabrics will be put on sale for Thursday and Friday at 75C. 2 yard, actual values$1.25&$1, 50 ye All remnants sold at spe cial silk counter. : Dyess Goods. A special lot of Votle, in good desirable colo and black, will be offered for sale Thursday at : G H. FOWLER, BISHOP M4. E. CHURCH., Ms 485 FRANKLIN STREET; Marrabury an hw, Joy and sory farewell mer Wiliam Be Opera Hou! 8% ‘The sadness wh: departure of mingled at the! given Me event h will be Gen sal Mareh| jt at the head of the xed with Che of seaing Be presiding the revered will 4 will ¢ Hanna p for mom) Hbxtitutes, all of buying, B MINERAL WATER. 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