The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1904, Page 7

> oh LEDMOB THAT LYNCHED & NEGRO Identified Him As Man Who Had Attacked Her, Then Put Noose | Around His Neck and Saw Him Hanged, SHERIFF AFTER SAVING , NEGRO HAD TO GIVE HIM UP. Denied That He Was Guilty of Crime, But Girl’s Word De- cided His Fate—The Crowd Threatened to Burn Him. (Special to The Evening World.) EUROPA, Miss, June 27.—Starling Dunham, a youtg negro, who was wanted on a charge uf having attacked the young daughter of John Wilson, a white resident of Bellefontaine, and at- tempting to attuck three other young women near this city, was hanged here tu the public square, the noose being placed about his neck by the Wilson wirl, who identitied him. Dunham was ‘cupuured near Vienna, Ala. He was taken alter a runuing chase, in which he was twice wounded, ‘Phe Sheriff of this county brought aim here after it was thought the exclie- ment had couled down. ‘A lurge mob met tue Sheriff and Lis prisoner al tue stuuun and made 4 effort to get the negro. Tesisied and tie negro Was Umer Lo tne Jail at Waithum, six miles iruia Gere. Another mob’ met tim there nd the leaders announced thelr in- tention of burning the negro. The Sheri! and nis deputies prevailed apon the mob to give up this intention, out only on the promise of turning the hegre to them tn the morning, He taken from the jail by the iob and led to the public square, where he was fdentitted by the Wilson girl. He protested his innocence and denied ever having seen her, He admitted having visited Dunn's place, where he Is said to have attacked the three Dure girls, but dented having attempted any crime. He was lynched CRAZED BY HEAT, SHOOTS HERSELF At First the Police Were Inclined to Think that Agnes Emmet Was Trying to Shield Some One Else. After an all night search the police to-day cleared up the mystery of woman who is a prisonerin Bel Hospital charged with attempted sul- :Ae. Because of stories told by the woman as to her residence and the char- aeter of the wounds they were inclined yo believe that it was not a case of | attempted suicide. The woman, well dressed, was brought to Roosevelt Hospital in @ cab about six o'clock yesterday after- boon by @ Woman who Bertha Barnes. hysterical ‘earned that she %5 West Fifty-fourth street. ‘There Mrs. Davis, from whom Miss Emmett rented a room, sald she had heard the shots In the afternoon and gan into her room to find she had shot jerself, A doctor had been called and ae advised she be taken to a hospital. om Roosevelt the woman was sent to Bellevue, where she Is a prisoner. The police ‘say she will be improved apMclentiy to. be arraigned in court ina few days. Miss Emmott sald the reason she at- tempted to commit suicide was that she was crazy from the heat. SHOOTING DUE TO LACK OF SLEP Trouble in East Side Tenement- House Because Some of the Lodgers Found It Too Hot for Comfort. A number of Hebrews living at No. 82 Ridge street, finding it impossible to sleep on account of the heat last night, gathered on the steps In front of their) home and proceoded in loud vyolces to} denounce evreything that did not please them, particularly the weather, The discussion Interrupied the slum= pers of Richard Fitzpatrick, who lived at No, 84 Ridge street, and he came) down ‘and entered n argument | with the men gathe nthe steps, | ‘The quarrel y rather animated and the men on ¢ set upon Fitz wiministering a se- Vere beating wien he drew a revolver and fired one shot, The bullet found jodgment in the breast of Wassil Molit- years old, of No. 82 e was taken to Gou- where It was sald was doubtful. aped and up to a late ween captured, ——— WATCHMAN FOUND DEAD. Strangulation from Gontritin Saul to Have Been the Cause, John Mulholtand, watchman in his | brother's store at No. entre street, | was found dead in the front | office. There wer i@irks of vio- | lence’ and an ambulance fsurgeon from | Bellev, the cause | fospital sald was strangula produced by | a drinking | patrick and w ski, twenty-three Ridge street, and verneur Hospi Ue hls 1 Fitapatrick hour ‘had Mulholland d. selling agent of passenger and froight elevators, arrived at the store later. He said his brother Was married and had three children and 4 formerly suffered from heart dis- Mulholland jived at McAvoy's at Howard and Baxter streets. James Mulholla re LAT y E DISCUSSED SUICIDE HELD WIFE'S BO THEN ORANK AI George A. Overbaugh, Wealthy Broker of Goldsboro, N. C., Mysteriously Ends Life in Up- town Boarding-House. HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM NERVOUS TROUBLE. Shortly Before Death He Said He Thought Any One Who Killed Himself with Carbolic Acid Was a Fool. George A. Iverbaugh, sixty-four years old, a wealthy broker, of Goldsborough, N. C,, ended his life to-day by drink- ing carboHe acid in the room he occu- pled in the boarding-house at No. 138 West Fortyeighth street. At the house a mysterious silence 1s maintained to the circumstances preceding the sul- cide, and the police have been able to learn nothing but the bare facts. Mr, Overbaugh, came to New York at the solicitation of his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffut and their son, William Jeffut, who Hye in the Forty-eighth strest boarding-house. The broker has been suffering from a nervous affliction for a number of years, and Mrs. Jeffut endeavored to convert him to Christian Science, He had tried Christian Scl- ence, however, and got no relief) through It He was sitting on the front stoop of the house last night disoussing Chria- tlan Sclence and suictde with young Jeffut. He made the remark that he vhought any one who killed himself by ald of carbolle acid was a fool. Then he went to bed. He was found to-day dead on his bed, a small bottle that had contained carbolic acid beside him. ‘The police say that stains of what seemed to be carbolic acid has been found on the stoop of the house. In- quiries, however, failed to agoount, for Overtaugh wos & the stains. Mr. bachelor and sald to be very wealthy. STONE THROWERS FINED $10 Boys Pu on the Harlem, Magistrate Baker, in the Harlem Court, to-day announced thet in the future he would show no mercy to stone-throwing boys, and began by fin- ing George and William Burke, aged seventeen and sixteen years, respective- West Twenty-eighth street. ‘They stood on Central Bridge yester-| day, each with a pooketful of stones. As rowboats passed under the bridge they would throw stones at people in them, Pollosman Francis, of the West) Ine Hundred and Twenty-aixth street saw several people struck by their mis- He finally arrested them. Summer and Porch Furniture at reduced prices. We will sell this week the balance of our stocks of Rush and Reed, Willow and Maple, Old Fiickory, Silver Btrch Chairs, Settees and Rockers, at very decided reductions. M. tsston F, urniture. We have marked down about 30 designs, which we purpose discontinuing, of this ever desirable furniture, to prices a little above 1% the original prices. Hammocks. We direct attention to our specially well selected stock from the best makers, at $1.00, $1.75, $3.00, $4.50 each. Mosquito Canopies and Nettings. Lord Taylor, Broadway and Twentieth Street and Fifth Avenue, OS hed for Annoying Rew- | k ly, $10 each. The boys live at No. 46 = Dy; Dennis Callahan’s Grief Over, Wife’s Suicide Caused Him to | Boars Make a Desperate Attempt to| The | Signature | Of ¢ End His Own Life. WAS KEEPING DEATH WATCH WHEN HE STABBED HIMSELF @ — SSAASSSSTSTT Odd 1kc.cach, The Kind You Have Always Bought STREET, REW YORR CITY. Assorted shap 10¢. cach, $1. “I'm Going to Be Happy with Bertha; Don’t Save Me,” Were Last Words Man Spoke —Dying in Hospital. Clasping the body of his dead wife in his arms Dennis Callahan, of No. 400 South Fifth street, cut his throat to- day and {x in a dying condition in the Eastern District Horpital, Brookiyn. On Saturday Mrs. Callahan, who was stout and suffered much from the heat, became suddenly fll. She declared that life was not worth the living, and. going | into one of the rooms of the house drank carbolic acid. She was dead be- fore a doctor reached her. To Callahan her death came an a great shock. He refused to leave the body, and all of yesterday sat by the aide of it, talking of nothing but the virtues of the woman who had ended her life, reproached himself for every fancled cross word he had spoken to her in their years of married life and saying he too wished to die. With him were his two brothers and a friend. They sat with the body far into the night, and at midnight en- deavored to get Callahan to lie down and have a little rest. A lamp was burning low In the room. and some one called attention to the fact that it needed filling. “When the light goes out so will my life, said Callahan They did not think he meant it, and when, after waiting for an hour or more the light showed only a little flame. he was left alone with the body, while the cthers went into another room, ‘About’ o'clock his brothers heard a moan in the room, It did not sound like the utterance of grief, and the pair walked In. Callahan had eut his throat and then in his death struggle had taken the body for one last embrace, one before death, ie policeman On post, John Fation, near at the time, and no time was Brooklyn. Entire Block Fulton, Do , Tuesday, Stamps With Cash Purchases. That means we give 2 ROR Ee Green Trading Stamps instead of aweg 1 with cash purchases. ( $o0 For decorations, From Bridge to Duffield St. made Root. assorted shapes, | The Unusual Store. ENDED HIS LIFE y : Z Japanese elle See | ae Reds Wee || Paper Lanterns. For infants and Children {| We have them in nearly all sizes and in || a great variety of shapes and colors. 12-inch Deep Lanterns, Nn) | Assorted colors and shapes. Use |] Be. each, &5c. doz, $6.75 per 100, fa lo-inch Deep Lanterns, For || Assorted colors—regulation shapes || 10c. h, $1.10 oz., $8.50 per 100 Over Thirty Years Inch Ceep Lanterns, faney designs and shapes. $1.90 doz,$15.00 per 100, Box of 20 Lanterns. es and sizes 75 per box. Box of 25 Lanterns. Asst'd shapes, from 12 to 30 in. deep, $5-5O per box From 14 to 32 inches deep, ~OO per box Turkish Fans. of Kus-Ku Cu each and key, canvas lining | durable, 5 Co cach |) ff 95c.—Little Men's suit Cases, very | 10 in, 85c 11 in, 7Be 12in, B8c cute, strong and durable, of | 43in. 95c 14in, 98¢ 15in, 1. Pa Filed debit heavy silk duck, leather corners, | 46in. 1-20 17 in, 1.89 48 in, 1.49 Pp ellas. || leather handles, good lock, nicely | Fashionable Belts. A fine assortment for veranda and lawns, from 19 inches to 14 feet in diameter at 10. to $16.50 cach: The proper gift for the friend that sails away— A Vantine Steamer Basket. A.A. Vantine &Co., Bway, Bet. 18th & 19th Sts. LEXINGTON 10 “3 AVE 7 59°7060°ST. The Summer Sale of Leather Goods Teems With Valves! Our months of preparation or this great annual event vere not in vain, for we can safely say that you'll not find t more varied, larger or thor. vughly satisfactory stock nywhere in Greater New ‘ork—while we quote Prices 59", to 60", Lower Than Elsewhere. Svil Cases. | Club Bags. Horned Back Alligator cesig leather club bags, neat, strong an. 24-inch olive color Dress Suit | Cases, well made, with lock s| 9 dhe. ies and finished, in 12, 14 and to inch 51.48 —23-inch alligator pattern Dress Suit Cases, steel frame, | __sold by many dealers at $2.50. $2.95—The “Traveller” 24-inch Dress Suit Cases, made of russet leather, steel frame, stitched all around; English handle, tine canvas lining | 13.50 —These cases are regularly | sold at_many stores at from AU 48c—Genuine Calf Crushec | Leather Belts, peau de So: and taffeta silk belts. Beautifu fancy designs, Values up to $1.5¢ At 95c—A large quantity of gene ine Calf Crushed Leathe Belts, also fancy silk belts in all th most fashionable designs Men's and Boys’ Belts, in all leat’: ers, from 25¢. values up to 85c. Automobile Bags, Etc. uble o “S, & H"3 Room PLAT FURNISHED Snuely 4 5 wove wa: lost in getting an ambulance, The man | * was hurried to the hospital, but there is no hope of hia iife. Only’ once did he eak. That was in the ambulance hen he inanaged to gasp: “I'm going to be happy with Bertha. Don’t save Ah Sunday World Wants Work oy - Tess sro ’s 4 uy) A collection of some of the season’s greatest sell- ers in the suit AT stock s—com- =prising the 2s and 3s of akind, FULL SUITS, WITH | STS, in neat mixtures i and overplaids; also | SERGES in navy blue and CHEVIOTS: sizes to fit both regular and unusual builds. Summer Suits | | (Coats and Trousers), including the choicest Flannels, | Homespuns, Wool Crashes and Un- finished Worsteds—sin- gle or double breasted. Extraordinary C'alues. 500 Patrs of Wen’s White Duck Grousers at 75e. These Trousers have turn-up bottoms and belt loops. from 29 to 46 wai Lengths from 30 to 37 inseam Although they were made to be sold at more, your choice at All sizes 735e Monday Morning Wonders. In Connection with the Auditorium Features on the Fifth Floor There are offered in all Parts of The Big Store MAMMOTH STOCKS OF Seasonable Merchandise Of a Superior Character at Specially Lowered Prices. No expense is ever spared to make it the most attractive and en- Beautiful Decorations— SUMMER SERIES OF SPECIAL SALES AND AUDITORIUM ENTERTAINMENTS will more vividly accentuate that fact than anything we have planned for some time. There will be con- stant changes of program and decorations. EIGHTY STORES UNDER ONE ROOF OFFER THE PUBLIC INNUMERABLE BARGAINS IN MOST WANTED MERCHANDISE. News of these will be given publicity in the daily and Sunday papers throughout the Surrmer. Woek from 8,30 Till 12 0’ Clock. Guesday in the Wen’s Store. | Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders, GOhere Are Yumerous Changes Peerage In the Auditorium Entertainment Program. ye » ewe pepo ere ve = aonmmar TEGELCOOPERG!' | Pe, tertaining retail store in the world, and this Patterns are neat and effective. WOMEN'S KIMONO SACQUES of lawn, in pretty. clear washable patterns; gathered back with belt; special. in the da‘ntiest patterns; made with large sailor collar border trimming; regularly 95c., WOMEN'S KIMONO GOWNS of fine lawn, in pretty, clear, washable patterns; made with double yoke back and front with wide border trimming of white lawn; cut 59 generously fulland long: regularly 79c Cc WOMEN’S KIMONO GOWNS of ex- cellent quality lawn, in dainty strines and figures; double yoke back and front, with border trimming of white lawn, cut vf 4 vfextra full and long; / regularly 98c., for ROOM APALTM furnished at RTMENT 0 Kimono Sacgues & Sowns Women’s Ideal House Garments, To-morrow’s offerings consist of the most attractive- ly made and finished Lawn and Dimity Kimono Sacaues and Gowns that a woman would want to wear. Prices are decidedly low- ered, as comparison with the regular quotations will show. tucked front and IIe WOMEN'S KIMONO SACQUES, in finest lawn and dimity; back with belt; collar. belt and sleeves have fancy all and Make Your Own Terms. Cash or Credit. 3 49.58 69,28 at NT 4 FMR’ 89,88 QBN NANT 109.88 149,75 riders. Thereafter, Single Stamps Until Closing Hour. The a variety of and gathered 5Ic Freight $5 to $5.50. They are of 3 o7. sole , leather, have reinforced corners, | At 59c, 69¢ & 88c —All the mos: French’ stitched all around, easy | shapes and. stvl > eplombh carrying handle, lined with’ extra LE recente ASA Automobile, “Peggy” and envelop Bags, assorted colors, with purs to match. Values up to §: Women’s Serviceable and Smart Bathing Svits, $1.98. These bathing suits are made in ons of this season’s newest styles, of excel- lent quality brilliantine—the yoke, front and round collar are trimmed tastefully with two-toned braid. $1 98 Sizes 34 to 44—special quality of canvas, fitted with good, | strong lock and key; strong, ser- ticeable and stylish. | Wotan Bathing (jhe ons eTiteceay Fibs Bathing Suits— ne quality | thveoodll REE brilliantine: Sat Sacto made with iantine and all- shield, collar wool flannel— and revers of ctive polka dat ga all effectively atea —— choice trimmed—spe- of pointed or cial, $1.98 sailor collar— and ....., $298 sizes 34 to 44 Second Floor, —speciai.. $2069 | moth Here's an opportunity to pur- chase a splendid watch at the rarest sort of a bargain price. They are of solid silver, with hunting cases, and there's a va- riety of beautiful designs from which to choose. Every one is fully guaranteed a perfect time- keeper. Regular $8 watches, $3 65 special at - vien’s Handsome Watches. in solid silver and gold-filled hunting case and openrface styles; fitted with standard Ame: movements; $3 96 a bargain at 81 ale price... ak ne (on > Boys’ Silver Open-Face Watches, engraved and engine - turned 3.50; sale price ses, set with jewelled Swiss movements; value Best Copyrighted Books, Bound in Cloth, at 39c. Interesting books for old and young will be found in this list. They're all by well known authors and are bound in good cloth covers and well printed on Hent paper. Many of them are the egular $1.50 editions. Some of the titles are: Red Rock. KOE —On Ast For Love | — In Pirate ‘ale of th avy. ot The Two Grip of - Brakes: ~ That he Adven- ‘apt, Horn ud GrauKe: THANE T—The Heart of rothy Vernon. nilegher ard the World's Arthur Bon aks Oe pantime St 5 Doinee Ways of The The In Jeassamy | All Cars Transfer to Bloominsdates. ee ( i