The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1909, Page 3

WOMAN WROTE THREATS IN PCEM END IN Lat son Mailed Messages to For- TIS, mer Husband’s Frie SHE IS HE -D FOR TRIAL. Magistrate Finn Puts Her Un- der $500 Bail After Hear- ing Threat in Rhyme. The examination of Mrs. 1. A Waring Johnson, divorced wife of Dantel A Johnson, a wealthy retired Maiden la who was arrested yesterday on a charge of threatening letters to Oscar A ner, a shirt manu tere, Miss Bertha A, and Hauptner, and also to her ne Jeweller, sending r, his two sts Anna V. former h {strate Finn in Court. After the Court had heard read the letter in which Mrs. Johnson wrote that she Intended to shoot her former husband and the Hauptners on sight, the Magistrate held the prisoner in $0 fall for trial Bessions. the Jefferson Market in the Co The defendant's former husband and all three members of the Hauptner fam- court for to-day's hearing. a Hau rned over to Magistrate § a hun- dred letters and seve Johnson had s seventeen year: No Cause for Jealousy. She de ing jeatou. her relatives were resp, livorce suit Until they b arital affairs, hie 1 his wife Nad ly for ft years on, his wife had pestered him with le eats, drivi im into ve- ausing him Mr, Ma a his business had also suffered through the extrava- gant cond i Miss Hauptne poem as a sample ¢ and press and interlaw- My name ts the one to endure axa mate ‘Whatever I do is none of your biz, Tell that to your brother and say that at he shall grow, ellect to overthrow hery that you sur- gth of The trick and tre round My name if you again dare—hound Can Pay the Postage. I can pay my own postage, I am not like you, And charge to some other the bill that die be- ju But justice is long, and I may fore up aga'n at y £1 should need A price of a meal-ticket from you for feed, Thanks for {t, awfully, you kno} The one who will manage the rest of the show. I have to expend for postage to you The price you spend so long overdue. To write to you now I quite enjoy, And I laugh to think It 1s my time to annoy. If anything happens your brother be- fore but I am not, Not to Go Hungry. He kills who signed that paper of your Til not go hungry—at least, tf I di The meal and the tickets I can deal out to you. Where another woman's husband dled , ° at your home, Did you pay the Tam the Valld one by law of state To say what I will to dispose of your fate. My lines I have laid ground— And the word LI’ ‘And your wheels Neill be struck on the expenses of that from under- hub. 4. Ah! Ha! Hat He who laughs last, All Johnson of! her own behalf was that Miss Haupt- ner had sent her a threatening letter. Bhe asked to make a counter-charge on that. +The Court would not enter-| tain a counter-charge, and held the| letter-writer for Sir: Did you find my watch, ting, pin, umbrella, suit case, pocketbook, fur coat, bonds, dog, necklace, &c., 1 lost the other day? If you did, won't you be kind enough to return them: to me and receive suitable re- ward? You'll find my name and address in the “Lost and Found” advertising columns of the Morning World. (Signed) MISS WISE. y in if A, Waring John- | band, was continued to-day before Mag: | of Spectat | annulment, | for Rich Man’s Daughter Who Wants to Go on Stage, and Actress Sister. ELE, SOO MILLIONAIRE CAN'T KEEP tls CHILD OFF STAG Helen Steck Says She'll Be an Actress When She Is of Age. Defeated in her effort to appear in the chorua of a musical Philadelphia comedy at its mndits Miss Helen § seventeen-y old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Baward Milton Stee the Ansonia, wher the family ng the winter, de- claring to-day she will go on the es of age 0 derful life sald the girl, “and shall h the work the minute yon Ww am 0 keep possi father. other ers to me. «fs a mil MY nalre coal opera- or, and his are members £ fashionat In Philadelphia nd are pop ew York. T © a summer home at Haverford, Pa, and a winter residence in Daytonla, Fla. but spend much of their time in New York. Mr, Steck ts an enthusiastic automobilist. Gave Permission at First. At first Mr. Steck gave his younger daughter per! on to try career. His other daughter, Mrs, Warner W. Croxton, a year older than Helen, began rehearsing in New York ut the same time as the younger girl several weeks ago and took part In the Phila- delphia performance from which Mi Helen was taken at the last minute. Miss Edna Steck etoped with W. W Croxton, a passenger agent for the Southern Railroad, on the eve of her coming out ball last Easter, but she soon asked, through her parents, for an saying she was too young to marry, and besides found {t !mpos- sible to ive with her husband because | of his Jealous disposition, Mrs. Croxton !s a clever artist and musician, and both girls posssess rare beauty. So in December the parents reluctantly save their consent to the two daughters Joining the ‘Havana’ company, and | they began rehearsals. Last week Mr. | Steck withdrew hls consent as to the younger daughter, and she was almost heartbroken, Her mother finally told) her, however, that she could go to) Philadelphia to witness the opening, and the left Sunday afternoon with a party neluding John Wanam jr, Alfred Sangeant, a chaperon and several other Philadelphia young folk. Telegram Shocked Mother, Mrs. Steck was greatly surprised nday to receive a telegram from her) daughter saying, "I would not give It nything; refuse to come off.” ‘The next train took Mrs. Steck to Philadelphia, where her presence was sufficient to Induce Helen to change her mind and turn her costume over to her understudy. The tallure of Miss Steck to appear wae a koon disappointment to the shart ‘set of the Quaker City, whare the family has been socially prominent | Dr several Yeara, forty’ daughter {s greatly distressed because she was forced to retire at the laste moment,”” said Mrs, Steck to-day | ac the, Ansonia. “She is not ‘stage struck,’ but she abhors an idle life aud is greatly interested in her work. } have no serious objections to the stage, DUCT think Helen fs too young to begin Ruprofessional career at this time.” up for EIGHT ORPHANS WIN CASE, Jury ex 810,000 Damages Killing of Motorman Walsh, ns, three to fourteen years powerful arguments to assist the plea of Lawyers Alfred and Charles Steckler to Justice Guy and a jury in tue Supreme Court to-day to compensate the death of Motorman Frank Walsh, who was killed at Forty-first street and Ninth avenue by a car of his emplayer, the New York City Raliway | Company. The jury gave & verdict fort $10,000, for * opening from the hall y It, restored PUT OUT A BLAZE HOTEER SAN DAUGHTER FROM Alh —>—- Mrs, Wangenhein Had Acci- dentally Turned on Jet Before Retiring. Uncons led room, Mra. In a gas: Wan) em Alexandrina th the Waldorf. her mother wife of an , was ¢ is morning in time ave her life, The Wangenheins floor of the live on the h use at No. m One Hun- dird street, 5S Riverside Drive, not far and Twent dred Mrs. Marla Roséranz, the mother, Who tn them had not the slightest Idea that | trail a can of gasoline occuples a room adjoining that of her iter, awoke shortly after 6 o'clock with nausea, which she found was due to gas fumes that came in the door She investigated and found her daughter unconscious, he ran to a window and screamed for help. The younger woman on retiring had thrown a skirt over the gas jet, and luminant. Policemen Fanning and Metz, of the West One Hundred and Twenty-titth street station, were passing as the mother screamed. ‘They summoned an ambulance from the J. Hood Wright Hospital. Dr. Rubel, who arrived with Mrs. Wangenhein to con- and said she would have only a bad headache as the result of her experience. ——__. sciousness, AS PUPILS SANG pee aay School Children on City Isl- and Didn’t Know There Was a Fire Nearby So well did an automa work that the only engine c City Island was extingy an outbuilding of on City Isiand ers and janitors had started, TI about the fire, About 10 o'cloc! dren had finished ¢ in tho assembly hall and gone to the varlous primary and grammar grade rooms, @ heating stove ‘in the lavatory, do Its pany on hing a fire in before knew t e children were not t ool just after the chil- which ts a brick building some yards | from the school proper, got too hot and | fell apart, setting fire to the woodwork. The automatic at once rang an alarm | not only in the house of ne Com- pany No, 71, flve blocks away, but in Bronx fire headquarters, across Pel- ham Bay, on the mainiand. The City Island firemen were driving up to the ol building when the principal, Prof. Charles “C. Holden, heard the whistle of the engine and Went out to investigate. Finding that the firemen had already gone to work ont ering blaze with axes and hand extingulshere, he hurried throt h the vartous floors, telling each te to start hs or her class singing, the nweters sang the fir the fire out with « trifling drove away. While men put loss and Sees SS AMERICAN BONDS COME BACK. BERLIN, Jan. 20.—The Deutsche Bank has sold $4,000,000 worth of bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, to a syndicate headed bial g Ga, the New York bankers, ENS WARNER YW. CROXTON GAS ANY SACRED BY MORO TRIE T0 APPEASE SPIRIT Gen. Bliss Reports Case and Tells of Others Since Amer- ican Occupation, N, Jan. 19.—That human sof childrey have been made in the Philipp! and old people up to within a few months Is disclosed by a report made by Gen. Tasker H. Bh Governor of Moro Province, He discov ered that the sacrifices of human Itves going on du the entire Amertoan sovereignty in the and that those who took part had been perlod of nd they way. Allen Walker, District Governor of Davao, heard rumors on Dec, 2, 197, that there had been a human sacrifice at Digos by members of the tribe, Those people live In the moun- tains, and until very lately left their homes on the approach of white men or the native constabulary and hid out in were doing anything out of the a stage this apparently had turned on the fl- the bush until the visitors were gone. | Persistent efforts by the United States officlals have made them less timid and more communicative of late, and as a result the horrid story of their religious rites came out, ' Told of Sacrifice, Mr. Walker went to Dir moned the Inhabitants of Yulon, lage in which th | to have been ‘he }him, One hundred a the vile sacriiics Was reported cone down to @ and children called upon nox day Their chief, Hatta Ar x, cheerfully acknowledges ' tribe had mere.y 1 rial custom, wld the ne tan ain times ef the year there ave ction of certain stars which fix) + of atonement to the spirits, If the tribe has not been aiiicted by evil spirits no sacrifice {s held to ba nes The older chiefs of the trie judges of the Tn early De- onement, two i Addy and Obby, came in and | complained that the spirits of their de- parted husbands were annoying them 1 must be appeased, {nelined favora’ ‘the are ney of the emerg les had Sacum, eyed, deat an seas a futtre lab trifling sum. rit » had Mi been © invited to tiver Inolia f hotel nute don a bam~ Women Killed Victim. aked, was tied to a tree, ter a praser to the spirits, pUL A Spear at the boy's: sii It two women pushed It througt nild’s: body until {t came out on the other side Two Bagobo men then took the bods down and cut it in half The a off small ‘bits of the rned that the s Was that of an tice en- ed w th great sim steatvalt smuch th was Bliss, disagreed. with He ordered the trial of ch widows and the two p ped the body in half. They nvicted And sentenced to { imprisonment suspenied on the would be enforced at o1 ever any talk ny e if of anoth there was sacrifice, Bagabo | and sum- | _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1909. BAD DACHSHUND ENDSPCLICECAREER CODnCUND Bologna Dog Steals Death's Warm Coat, While Hairless Pet Bites Destruction. JTHE Horrible Treatinent on First Scent Causes Prostration of Pair on Probation, Death and De! ands that Bingham rotntorce his sleuthing cious” Con from Pough- keepsie to de- and ra Manning ent, were crated to-day to thelr owner, Mr. ind, a well-known dog fancier and of double-scent, high-action centre-fire ihounds. were gent back at Mr. C t, for the reason that fies parti land's reque were not treated with the vensleness and | here at $10 than any other three es- Slteltude that thelr owner conside y PY Re their due, It le said that Death devel- tablishments in New York. wed a severe case of nervous prostra- n and that Destruction was weeping jMMmgelf into a premature grave from | nomesickness, | Dachshund Stole Death's Siero When the two anima and were turned ov Deputy ¢ n ) for exp (he dogs) vent they wore added jacket* and felt shoes Cleveland requested that during the enap they should retain thelr Jai jand tootsie slips. as they were very del- | |icate likowise that they stould be fed | {on mush and crean tures taken twice a day. "At night they should be tucked in flannel blank- Jets aud provided with feet warmers. | ‘These instructions were carried out to the letter, but alas! on the first day scented hodo across Fort Washington Park he met an ill-disposed dachshund e dachshund got {n Death's way and allenged him to. battle, ‘Go ‘way, you bad doggie!” Death, “Tam trailing a tramp, bloodhound.” “You're a long-cared stift,”” replied the dachshund, stretching forward his front feet and eelzing Death's padded coat ip his teeth. ‘Oh, please go way, you bad doggie!” |howled Death, but the dachshund held on until hts front and rear legs wer eight feet apart, when Death's jack slipped off and he slid from the vicious jdachshund's grip. The cruel bologna dog instantly ran away with the blood- hound’s coat, and Death caught a bad cold, Furthermore, he became so nerv- ous over the encounter that he aban- doned the scent of the tramp, Lapdog Bit Destruction. Lieut. Whitaker called in a “vet” for Death that night and he was tenderly | min'stered to. The next day Destruc- tion was taken out to see If he could ross Dykeman | street. He was doing very nicely when ja Mexican hairless lapdpog attacked him and bit him on the right ear, yelped lama lowered his tall between his legs and scampered back to the Fort Washing- ton Park kennels. He developed a bad se of shivers and two “vets were called in. They advised mustard baths and a flaxseed poultice for the brulse on Destruction's right ear where the Mexican hairless had bitten him, ‘The delicate canine sleuth did not re- spond readily to the treatment, how- ever, and Deputy Conimlasioner Wood telegraphed the fa to the dogs’ owner Immediately on the receipt of the tel- Jegram Mr, Cleveland seut a trained nurse from Poughkeepsie, nurse found Destruction weeping and sobbing bitteriy, and Death looked all in fom nervous prostration. The bloodhound ‘nurse was greatly Incensed and heaved several stin |and Mr. Wood Too Delicate for the Force “you must have been very harsh with lthese doggies,” sald the nurse fave alowed them to beconie fright by str y noises, asd vulg dogs have attacked them knew that bloodhounds are the most delicate and timid of creatures, gentle, docile and doe-iike In their disposition? |} Do you not kiew that is all absurd pop t bloodhounds are | ferocious? Mr. arid willl bor very much put otit and will insist on taking the poor darlings home The nurse was Tight, Mr, Cleveland was quite angry and ordered that Death and Destruction should; be bundled in 1 expressed bh ora pale, However, Mr. Cleveland intimated that he would sell Death and Do vou not ruction to the city *) ead Wood is not likely to. tndorse the proposed sale, he and the preparation sis on | Blood hounds” oir unfitness ty bloodnoundir JENKINS CASE STANDS Re Tried in Another Wanker Will County, oa Scudder to-day dented the ap- of District Attorney ¢ to be allowed to re-arg n for a char f venue for the Jenkins brothers—Frank J. G. and Fred- erick—charged with bank wre Clarke said that the ne trying tha case {n another passed wit h the dying out of uniare exe Jtement in Brooklyn at the me when Axteen banks were in trouble: all the banks but that of the Jenkinses have resumed business Justicn Scudder sald that to re-open the matter -would start waateful {tiga tion and dented the order, ——__$<»—_—_—. ACTOR JOHN E. INCE DEAD. John E. Ince, the comedian, is dead at his home, No. 29) Bast Thirty-seventh straot, Sheepshea! Hay. Mr. Ince nt cold during the s st § day and waa stricken suddenly Monday | night. Tha dead comedian six yeary old jow and é @ Sons are on ruction, the two “fero- | were sent to! - APPENS DECRE «J have (heir tem- | Death was taken out to track a highly | This completely unnerved him and he! ng Ines at Lieut. Whitaker ' elty | ike ature was aixty-| two sons! : | GR_s7_A te Priced Suits Now Reduced to ; i. 10 $20, $22, $25 Values MRS. TOWER, WHOSE HUSBAND FIGHTS ¢ OURT DECREE You wilt be surprised at the exclu- sivene:s and beautiful tailoring of these stunning suils. Over twenty different medels of charming orginality, all to zo. in a whirlwind rush to-morrow \ Thursday). Elegant Directoiie Models Swell Hipless Coat Suits Semi-Box Coat Suits Coats Richly Satin Lined a diversity of style and conspicuous pleasing individuality, they are un- matched. Made of the swellest fabrics available in all the most pleasing and | c= Z \ becoming shades, Exquisite trimming jeflects of satin and buttons Superb { Directoire models, with high collars, | ‘arge revers and novelty pockets, also part “tailormades,” are included in this remarkab'e collection. More styles Alterations FREE SALE AT ALL THREE STORES, GRANTED 10 | “Millionaire Who Wed Tele- phone Girlin Court for | a New Fight. tartans 4604462 Fulton Street BROOKLYN | 64510651 Brads Street 3 LARGE stores, NEWARK (Special to The POUGHK | Albert \ Evening World) > rr SIE, N. Y., Jan, 20.— G Edward “Tower, the millionatre | = fate > pees © ee Nee eet founder, hus filed a notice of ap-| from the judgment of the Supreme | Court awarding his wife a separation | and granting her $70 a month alimony, Mrs, Tower in her sult made sensa- | |tlonal charges against her husband, She accused him of bestowing money and favors on a woman guest on his | yacht, his attentions being so marked, she said, that she left the boat, Mr. | Tower dented the charges Before her marriage Mrs. shorn dy bh OUTER ilips GARMENT SHOP, 12 West 23d Street wer was Mr. Tower's first wite killed herself a CA — and her son some years ago and soon after Mr, Tower met Miss Bogardus, | ° ° They were secretly married in New G S t Sk t performed at the bride’s home in this city. Smartest 1909 Models, ip Gove mime) ay (bo Bb Extraordinary Values Park road has been closed by Mrs Tower, to whom the publicity of her 1 litigation with her husband was dis- tasteful. She has removed to White 22.50 Gowns at 12.50 Plains, Mr. Tower has also. given up i i i eT f his residence here and tw living in New Exactly 135 Gowns involved in this special purchase—we ex- | York, pect to sell them all to-morrow, pas to the extremely Para age low price at which they are offered, Fine Messalines and WANTS JUSTICE FOR JEWS OR REVOKE RUSSIAN TREATY new patterns of Foulard in all the modish colors, in Empire and Direc! eflectively trimmed. For this sp ire styles, 12.50 ilsale, Congressman. Jfogel Holds That | None worth Iess than 22.50 Canr's Governinent Violates L | Agreement of 188: WASHINGTON, tlve Goldfogle the treaty States and Russt presenta: tn 2) Representa Special Dress Skirt Purchase tween the United Of tine Panama, Worsted sais Ot fine French Voile, every skirt A abolished unless re other fashionable materials. Ined with extra heavy taffeta. ration Wa 7.50 values - - at 3,90 15.00 values - - at 7,90 American Jews, asi declares to be a d country against has Introduced a Jotnt resolution bring. . ing about this result 9.50values - - at 4,95 18,75 va'ucs - - at 9.50 The resolution Is preceded by a long preamble, fn which it Is declared that Ruseia he from time to time, refused | of Aine 1) Snrnie of the Je The torme of the treaty the Inhabitants of to recog sports | 40.00 to 60.00 Tailored Suits at 18,75 Fine Chiffon Broadcloths, Cheviots, Worsteds and Velvets in twelve distinctive models, including Direc Long Coat etfec npire and Hipless stytes. olre, | All fashionable colors, lined with best 18 75 Poot remon | quality satin; special to-morrow at... O : v ‘tie re | None worth less than 40.00, some as high as 60,00 iolders 0 HER MOTHER- Brake Proved a Wine, Good Erie A young woman out {n Ia, found a wise, good friend in her mother-In- law, jokes notwithstanding. She writes: “It is two years slice we began using Postum ue our house, I was greatly troublsd with my stomach, ee omplexion Re blotehy and yellow After meal uffered sharp patns and we to ie down My mother me it was the coffee [ drank meal: Sut when I'd quit coffee I'd have a severe he [LAST WEEK OF SALE Low Shoes and Slippers for Women A larre and varied assortment in Kid, Patent Leather Tan Russia Calf Ties, etc, Also fancy Slippers ina variety of colors and styles egaln orleen $6.00 & $7.00 4.60 & 5,00 3.00 & 4,00 Mixed lots (broken sizes) T often have told Srla Prices. $3.75 2.75 2.45 1,75 ; her-in-law she made und asked her to laughed and toid such aoa coffer tell me f was ” it to make good th o’ when you use Postum About 500 pairs left of sample ties and slippers; sizes [ began to use tum as soon as 4A, 4t;A and 4b, Regular prices $5.00 to $8,00. I got home, and now we have the of game good ‘coffee’ (Postum. every $2.25 and $2.75 and [hi no more ube, Indigestion thing of the j Corresponding reductions {n Women’s Boots; also and my complexion has cleared beautifully Men’s and Children’s Shoes. y grandmother suffered a grea deal with her stomach. Her doe told her to leave off coffee. She took te that was just as bad, “She finally was induced to try ( Postum, which she has used for over SIXTH AVENUE AND NINETEENTH STREET | a year. She travelled during the J winter over the greater part of Iowa, visiting, something she had not been able to do for years. She says she owes her present goo! health to Postum.” ON SALE EVERYWHERE. 1903 World Almanac Name given by Postum Co., Rattle Sreek, Mich, Read "The Road to Wellville,” in tkgs. “There's a 01." yr read the above ‘appeara from tine are gonuine, true end interest, letter? A to time They full of human | | |