'THE PASSING SHOW.
r
k THE UNEXPECTED STILL CON
|* v, TINUES TO HAPPEN.
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VAN INSANE WISCONSIN O MIL’S
8TKANOK MANIA.
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tiring the Honte* and llurni of Farm
ara—A Brother Almost Murries IIl»
Long Lost Slater In Chicago—A School
V Teacher Who Hr* Clalnut! Notoriety.
V OIK IK COITNTY,
jl Wis., or those of
Calamus township,
rather, are resting
easy slnee Lydia
W a 11 h e r was
' placed in an insane
usyium. For sev
eral months past
the township lias
had more disas
trous con 11 a g r a
vions than any other township In the
State. In every instance footprints of
incendiarism were perceptible. Who
was the guilty party or parties was the
question everybody asked of everybody
slse. Finally Lydia Walther was caught
In the act in a remote section of
the township. When arrested she con
fessed to having burned several houses
and barns in tho township. She was
placed on trial and found guilty. Son
tance was suspended, however, expert
^testimony going to show that she was
LYDIA WOLTHER.
nuane. Lydia is only 23 years old and
gjj' Is said to be good looking. A love nf
(air which turned out unfortunately for
herself is assigned as a cause for her
Insanity. Her parents are wealthy and
move in the best society.
A romantle story was developed in
Qhicago the other dav. It seems that
in 1883 H. W. Williams, now a harness
i;
II. «. WILLIAMS.
W*l«r in that city, lived at Huron,
South Dakota. He was then about
18 years old. When Williams
ufas about 3 oyears old his father
died and he was adopted by a family of
U some name living near Springfield,
Q). The boy’s mother took her other
iWW. a girl, to California. They lived
bear Los Angeles for several years with
Mrs. James Todd, a half sister of Mrs.
Williams. The son grew to manhood
he learned the harness-making
Wade at Springfield. He never heal'd
from his mother, although he had been
told that she was living somewhere* in
California witli a half-sister. Aftor he
had finished his trade he went to
Huron, 8. D. Through a lucky strike
In real estate he made several thousand
dollars and then went to Chicago,
Where he started in business. In 1888
lye met Miss Helen Williams Todd at a
reception given in her honor by friends
living on Drexel boulevard. Chicago.
Miss Todd was from San Francisco.
Williams was very much taken up
with the young lady from the
Golden Gate, and upon her return to
the coast letters passed between them
for two years. In 1890 Miss Todd’s fos
ter mother died. Soon after that the
young lady returned to Chicago and
made her home with the family of
Drexel boulevard whose guest she was
when she met Williams, Williams con
T,
I W. VODD.
tlnued his devotion, and abont a year
a«o the announcement of their engage
ment was made. The marriage was to
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have taken place (luring the holiil y
season of 18nl. A few days prior to
the date of the ceremony Miss Todd
was looking over some pa pc rs left by
her foster mother and learned that she
had a brother named II. W. Williams.
LURLLA NICHOLS.
Slit; tumod to her betrothed for assist
ftiioe and the result of the investigation
proved that they were brother and sis
ter. The engagement was immediate
ly declared olT and Miss Totltl went
abroad.
Miss Luella Nieholls, a Carlisle, 111.,
school teacher, has jumped Into na
tional prominence nil on account of a
little article that appeared in a recent
number of the Public School Journal.
The article was in reference to the
appetite displayed by a certain class of
ex-soldiers with regard to pension
money. Miss Nieholls read the article
to her pupils,laying- particular stress to
the statement therein to the effect that
all honorable soldiers, able to earn a
living, and doing so, were dis
graced by the continual clamor
ing for pensions on the part
of the oilier element. Some of the pu
pils had relatives who served in the
late war and of course reported what
Miss Nieholls read. The result is that
she Is being denounced by every O. A.
11. post in the country and will proba
bly have to give up teaching. So far
not a single post has denounced the
real source of the objectionable article.
Miss Nieholls says that she believes
what she read is right, but says,as the
majority of veterans seek pensions, she
can get no justice from that source.
DIED UNFORGIVEN.
Connt Von ltlnclicr Dios Away From
Homo nail Friend*.
From the chapel of the Leo Home
for German Catholic Immigrants, in
New York city, Count Illucher von
IValstadt, third son of Prince von
Illucher, and the grandson of Welling
ton's ally at Waterloo, was quietly
buried the other morning.
He gained notoriety last summer by
eloping from a watering place near
Milwaukee with Miss Alma Loch, of
Brooklyn. The marriage enraged his
father and the family of his bride.
Prince Von Illucher promptly cut
down his son’s allowance of $000 per
month to $15 per week, while his wife’s
relatives induced her to leave him two
days after the wedding and to go to
Colorado to secure a divorce. Without
a wife or income, the Count took mod
est lodgings, where he fell sick with in
flammation of the kidneys. While re
covering he was attacked by grip and
died, llo was attended during his
sickness by Father Geyor of the Leo
Home, who notitied the Prince by cable
of his son’s death. "Bury him there,”
was the curt reply received, accompa
nied by a small sum of money barely
suflicicnt to defray the expenses of
burial.
HELD UP A TRAIN.
Marlon Hedspoth, Who Robbed a Train
In C'nllfnrnln, Recently Captured.
Marion Hcdspeth, who held up a
train at Glendale, Cul., some time ago,
has been captured by the San
Francisco polioe. It seems that
after the robbery, which was
accomplished with dynamite, Ileds
peth went to Frisco, where he pro
ceeded to live in luxury on the pro
ceeds of tliis haul. Two weeks ago
tlie police received a letter setting
forth that the man who held up the
MARION UEDSNtm.
train had been seen in San Francisco’s
post office. A watch was kept which
soon resulted in the capture. When
cornered lie gave himself up quite will
ingly- None of the money taken from
the train was found on his person.
The money and valuables taken
amounted to something like 58,0*00.
A Woman lturned Alive.
A fire broke out in the farm house of
James Whalen at Ardsley. N. Y., the
other morning. The inmates were all
asleep at the time and when they were
finally aroused by the smoke the flames
had made much headway. The inmates
could not get down the stairs on ac
count of the flames and made a rush for
the windows. Whalen and his wife
jumpett from the second story window
and neither received serious injuries.
Their son hung on to the window until
he was rescued by his father, who
climbed up by means of a ladder.
Bridget Whalen, aged 31, a sister of
Farmer Whalen, was burned to death.
She ran to the window in her night
clothes, but was afraid to jump out.
She remained by the window shouting
for help until the flames overtook her,
when she was seen to fall back and dis
appear. Her body was burned almost
to a crisp.
ui.'a 4Z ■ 'lit S Ai.r-iisi
J
THE HYPNOTIC SPELL
LYDIA KIMBALL, AN OPERA
8INOER, EXERCISES IT.
A QUEER CASE CROPS OCT IN NEW
YORK CITY.
An Aged Inventor Who la Skid To Ba
Cndor tha Spall of a Woman Who
Married Him for HU Wealth—Troth
Stranger Than Flctlou.
_ A queer caao is engaging the atten
tion of the New York authorities. It
involves hypnotism, mesmerism and
other istns of lesser importance. The
principal figures are Lydia Kimball, a
pretty opera singer, known in private
life as Mrs. James B. Tripp, and her
husband, an aged inventor, who is said
to be very wealthy.
The two were married less than a
year ago and went to live in apart
IVDXA KIMBALL.
merits on East Eleventh street, kept
by Sarah Lodewiek.
It was generally supposed that Miss
Kimball who is a petite blond with
large grey eyes, married old man Tripp
for his wealth. Very little was said on
tile subject, however, until recently.
A few days ago Mrs. Lodewiek had
occasion to visit the rooms of the
Tripps. She was horrified to find the
old man sitting at the side of the bed
cold in death, as she thought. On the
other side of the bed was the young
wife pale and motionless.
‘‘Is ho dead?” asked the terrified
woman. “No, he is only sleeping,”
the other replied after some hesitancy.
“1 hypnotised him and now he is in a
far off 1 and looking for my first hus
band. I feel sure that he will suc
ceed. ”
“I’ll send for the police," frantically
gasped Mrs. Lodewiek as she made an
effort to turn around.
"No, you won't," retorted Mrs.
Tripp. “Stand where you are. You
I will be with him in a moment.”
j The landlady remained in a standing
; position. The color had left her faoe
and she was like a marble statue. One
, of the boarders who happened to be
; passing by tho room heard the words
and then noted the stillness. She ran
into the street and called an officer,
i The latter, a late arrival from the
i Emerald Isle, after taking the situation
in, decided to give the fair hypnotist
her own time in reviving her husband
| and Mrs. Lodewiek. He finally decided
to arrest the woman who called him.
, At the station she told a wonderful
story of Mrs. Tripp's hypnotic powers,
a posse of officers were dispatched to
the scene and soon returned with Mrs.
Tripp, Mrs. Lodewiek and the husband.
The latter two had been restored to
their normal state. Yet neither be
lieved that anything unusual had hap
pened.
j Under close examination Mrs. Tripp
admitted that sho was a hypnotist and
that she had the husband under a
spell. In the middle of her story she
fainted and was conveyed to Bellevue
hospital. The attendants there are
afraid to go near her for fear of her
spells.
James K. Tripp is a man well known
in tho sewing machine world. He is
said to have invented more valuable at
tachments for machines than any
other man alive.
He was born in Cleveland about fifty
five years ago and worked at first on
IN A TRANCE.
the wooden model which Gibbs made
of the first Wilcox & Gibbs machine.
Then he learned the toolmaker's trade
and went abroad to study foreign sew
ing machines. When he returned to
Cleveland he was employed by the
White Sewing Machine company as an
expert for a number of years.
After this he came to New York and
went to board with Mrs. Lode wick.
She became ^auch interested in his in
ventions and advanced him some money
to take out patents on a rotary shuttle
machine known as the Leader.
The case, is to say the least, very re-*
markable. The authorities hope to get
further details.
Catharine the Cotter.
Catharine Rhodes, a girl of eighteen,
was arrested at Toronto, Ont., the
other day, on the charge of utteriug
counterfeit money. Her plan was to
cut up a number of bills and fasten
them together again, minus a small
portion. Of these pieces she made a
new bill, making one extra out of every
eight. She was remanded for trial.
ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR.
Kleliard Purioni Fought and Than Slcnted
for the Hand of Coy Min Urtver.
At North Plain*, Coon., last week,
Miss Alice Grover was changed by the
rending of the marriage service to Mrs.
Richard Parsons. The marriage was
the sequel of one of the most energetic
and novel courtships ever conducted in
Connecticut. Hi chord Parsons and
Alexander Koyce, prosperous young
farmers, began two years ago pay
ing attention to Miss Grover.
As tbe months, rolled by the
two suitors commenced to eye
each other jealously. Parsons called
at the Grover home last May to invite
Alice to attend a picnic. He found
that she had already gone with Iloycc.
Parsons drove to the picnic grounds
and managed to work up a fight with
Royce. The friends of the two finally
got them apart. A week later Parsons
I challenged Joyce to a jacket-whipping
: contest, in which jackets were to play
no part. The men were to stand bare
above their waists. Their left hands
were to be tied to their bodies and they
were to thrash each other with wal
nut whips until quarter was
called for. The worsted suitor was to
allow the victor to win the hand of
Miss Grover if he could. Parsons' chal
lenge was promptly accepted, and the
contest took place in a barn in presence
of a dozen friends of the contestants.
The thrashing lasted until both men
fell to the floor from exhaustion. Miss
Grover, hearing of the affair, refused to
have anything more to do with cither
of the men, but they continued, so fur
as possible, their addresses to t.ie
young woman until she once more
smiled upon them.
Two weeks ago she told Parsons and
Royce that she believed she loved one
j as well as the other, and that she had
! decided to bestow her hand upon the
I man who could prove himBelf most
worthy of her In a skating contest.
The shores of Colton’s Pond were lined
with spectators when the contest be
gan. Miss Grover witnessed the strug
gle. The first night Parsons caught
Royce after nearly three hours’ skat
ing. On tho second evening Royce
failed in his efforts to catch Parsons,
and the referee declared the latter
thew inner. Koyce took bis de
feat very much to heart. Miss Grover
seemed to be well satisfied with the re
sult and readily consented to an early
marriage.
A CHOICE OF DEATH.
One of tbe Scenes at tbe Great >ew
York Fire,
Among the many heartrending scenes
at the recent New York fire was one
of an unknown man who rushed to
one of the hall windows, closely pnr
sued by the names. Throwing up the
sash he seemed to hesitate for a mo
ment. He looked at the horrified
throng 200 feet below, at the dying in
j front of him, and at the dying behind
him. He was choosing between two
modes of death. He chose to jump,
and in a few seconds more lay an un
recognizable heap of flesh and bones on
the stone pavement.
Betrayed by a Burglar.
In the sensational divorce suit
bvought by Elizabeth T. liemis against
her husband, Charles A. liemis, a
prominent physician of Medway, Mass.,
which is now pending before Judge
Maynard there, the manner in which
; ■ iove letteis alleged to have been
ten - the doctor by Miss Knowiton came
iuioMrs. Bemis’ possession has been
revealed.
It appears that one night a burglar
entered their dwelling and ransacked
the lower part of the houso, breaking
open a desk in which the doctor kept
his private and professional papers and
documents. The morning after the
burglary was discovered the doctor
went out to notify the police. In his
absence Mrs. lieinis looked into the
desk, and found the large bundle of
love letters which led her to bring the
action for a divorce.
She Onlv Whispers.
Mertie Summers, a young woman of
20, the daughter of Mrs. Enos Horna
day of North Manchester, Ind., has for
nearly three months been unable to
‘talk above a faint whisper. She was
one day speaking to her mother when
her voice left her in tiie middle of a
sentence. She has no cold and the
physicians say she is free from throat
disease and admit they are baffled.
Years ago, when she was quite small,
she was similarly afflicted, but recov
ered as suddenly as she was stricken.
Slaves Killed.
Emin Pasha, writing from Nsua, con
firms the stories of cruelties practiced
by the slave-hunters. Emin says that
he pursued one hunter for six days,
during which be counted fifty-one
bodies of slaves wbo had been recently
killed. The bodies of all were worn to
skeletons, and the skulls of thirty-nine
had been beaten in.
|A MICHIGAN CHIME.
I WILL MURDER EVER OUT IN
j THE MORRIS CASE ?
i THE PEOPLE OF VAN ItUKEX COUNTY
AKE ASKING*
Story of a Crime that Convulsed the
Wolverine Slate with Horror In the
Fall of 1870—A Hint that Develop
ments are ou Tap.
. HARLES II. MOR
ris, a rich young
i 9 farmer, and his
wife, tlie latter
S0 about to become a
mother, were foul.y
murdered at their
home in Prairie La
Ronde, Michigan
township on Sun
day night, Sept. 29,
ism. 11 was not suppowi liuil youny
Morris hail an enemy in the world. He
was a jolly youth, an affectionate
friend and devoted to his family. His
father had been a rich man, as rich men
go in the country. The old man died
fifteen years ago and left his son,
Charles II., about 840.0"0. lie left
three other sons 830,000 each—810,000
less than Charles. One of these other
sons, at least, resented the discrimina
tion and made, or tried to make
a good deal of trouble. He
was joined by a brother-in-law, who
had the same sordid impulse. How
ever, matters ran along. Charles If.
Morris married a Miss Jones, of Cass
county, and the two went to live on the
old Morris homestead, which had fallen
to “Henry,” as C. H. was called. It
was a fine farm of 300 acres or more,
and the house was richly furnished as
country houses go.
On the day of the mui'der Mr. and
Mrs. "Henry” Morris drove over to
Lawton to visit Mr. and Mrs. Gould, i
They spent the day there, and drove
home in the evening. They got home
about 7;30. Mr. Morris put his horses in
the stable and Mrs. Morris fixed up a
little Sunday night lunch after
their long ride. They were
both tired, and retired early
after the lunch. About 10 o’clock came
a vigorous rap on the back door.
Young Mr. Morris got up in his night
clothes, and crying out, “Wait a mo
ment!” lighted a small lamp and opened
the kitchen door. He had not time,
poor fellow, to ask wliat was wanted
before a heavy pistol was thrust against
NR. * MRS. CHARLES H. MORRIS.
his breast—one shot—and he fell dead
on the doorstep. He was shot through
the heart. His lamp was ex
tinguished as he fell. The assassin
lurked in the darkness. The poor wife
heard the shot but mistook it for the
slamming of a door. She listened a mo
ment and then thought "Henry” had
locked himself out. She of course got
up to let him in. She entered the
kitchen in her nightclothes, and, before
she had a chance to see her surround
ings, a blinding flash, a loud report
tnd the shock of a bullet in her arm
□early knocked her over. She ran
screaming back to the dining-room.
The fiend was after her. He fired
again, but this time missed her.
Shrieking as only a woman can, she
fled to her bed-room, the assassin at
her heels. He fired again. This time
the bullet struck her in the back, and
the blood, which choked her lungs,
stifled her cries. She sank moaning
and gurgling to the floor, her young
life flowing out in streams from her
lips. As she lay prone on the carpet,
the wretch put the muzzle of his re
volver to her breast for the last shot
and fired. The great bullet went clear
through her body, through the floor be
neath her and into the cellar below.
Silence reigned in the desolate
household. Young Morris owned
among other animals, a horse
that was famed the country around
for his speed and tremendous endur
ance. It was a white-faced horse. Be
cause of his value he was always kept
at the far end of the stable in a box
stall. To reach him all other horses
had to be passed. It ,was argued from
this that the man who committed the
deed knew all about this horse and
how to find him in the dark. That horse
was taken out of the stable that Sun
day night. The assassin hurriedly got
him out, probably with help, saddled
him and started on a wild ride for
safety, obliyicn, anything. The house
which the Morrises occupied stands
back from the main road and is reached
by a lane an eighth of a mile in length.
A young country yokel, driving up the
main road fresh from a country “spark
ing,” encountered the assassin just
after he had got out of the lane in his
flight. The horseman dashed by him
on a wild gallop, but though the coun
try boy was so badly scared that he
lashed his own horse home and, leav
ing him with his harness on, crawled
Into bed in all his clothes,
he remembered enough next day to say
that it was “Henry Morris' wlnte-faced
horse and the devil himself was on it."
Asked to describe the man on the horse,
the poor boy could only say that "he
had a peaked hat, a red thing about his
neck, that out of his mouth came fire
and smoke, and that he was lushing
the horse with his tail.” Nothing could j
ever convince that simple boy that he
had not seen the evil one right there, j
The next morning the horse which 1
had borne the assassin away in his
flight was found exhausted in South
Bend, Ind., twenty-five miles from,,
scene of the tragedy. ra tl'«
J->om that day to this this awfnl
murder has been unatoned and it."T
petrator undiscovered. There t
been numerous theories, and manv •
cumstauces in support of all of i®*
but not one clue has led up to a J.
turn of the mystery. For a lon,, til"'
one “dim” Mattison, brother of T
■diloD. llattison who had had moB„
troubles with the Morris brothers »■
believed to be the assassin, but’ tiro
theory has Ion* been abandoned, 'j i.!
nearest the authorities ever
to a hot trail was
when
eaiae
e'ffht or
nine years ago, when a man ,vns
sent to the Michigan penitentiary
fora term of years for a murderous as
suult in Berrien county. Ashmen,|
kept a saloon in South Bend at tin.
THS K6RRI3 RESIDENCE..
time of the murder and it was in front
of his saloon that, the Morris white
faced horse was found on the morning
succeeding' the tragedy. Nobody sus
pected Ashmond at the time, for all
eyes were turned in the direction of
“Jim” Mattison. .Soon after Ashmond
was sent to the penitentiary he caused
the attorney general of the State to he
informed that he, Ashmond, would like
to see him on an important matter.
The attorney general went to the
prison and saw the convict. lie was
told that if a pardon could be had for
himself, Ashmond, he would reveal
the facts about the Morris murder.
Governor Jerome was so impressed
with the importance of the proposition
that he filled out a pardon blank, and'
he and the attorney general went to
the prison together to sec Ashmond.
They told him if he would tell the
whole truth about the Morris murder
and furnish corroboration of it the
governor would sign the pardon right
there. ligt Ashmond insisted upon a
full pardon, not only for the crime of
which he stood convicted, but of all
other past offenses, whatever they
might be. This the governor could
not grant, and Aslimond’s lips
were at onee tightly scaled.
Of late years there has been a remark
able degree ot apathy in Van Buren
county respecting this murder. The
authorities long ago ceased to follow
clues or take any interest in the mat-’
ter. The family of Morris, that is his
brother’s, never offered any reward or
paid any money to ferret out the assas
sin. Indeed it is said here that on the
contrary they fell to quarreling over
the dead man’s property even before lie
was under the ground. There is a great
field there for an amateur detective and
a sharp prosecuting attorney, if such
could be found, to take up the case.
ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.
An English Woimiu Punished for Strang
ling n llaby.
At Plympton, Kngiand, last week a
coroner's jury, after a hearing of seven
hours, returned a verdict of man
slaughter against Mrs. Hockley, who
was charged with neglecting the ille
gitimate child of a general servant.
Mrs. Hockley was at one time in good
circumstances, her father having been
Queen’s Harbormaster at Shanghai, and
four years ago site was left a legacy of
4,000 pounds. Since then she has tried
various vocations, settling down at last
as a baby farmer. Some other chil
dren placed with her have died, and,
in two instances at least, after she had
insured their lives. The present case
was a horrible one. indeed, the child's
limbs having been bout and brokon
until they grew in all directions.
A CHICAGO MYSTERY.
A Philadelphia Girl Disappears Very
Suddenly In the Dig City,
The accompanying is a portrait of
Alice Barnes, a pretty 15-year-old girl
who is missing from her home in Phila
ALICE BAKWEi.
delphia, Pa. Sonic weeks ago the g>rj
was taken to Chicago by her father and
placed in a fashionable boarding-house
on Prairie ..venue. A few mornings
after her arrival in Chicago she left the
boarding-house to go to a stationery
store half a block away. She bought
some writing paper and envelopes a
the store and since then nothing lias
been seen or heard of her. She was
such an innpeent young person that her
friends are afraid that something tem
ble has happened to her. This w as t le
first time she was ever in Chicago an
she knew no pne. She was a pronoun
e who would attract
here.
blonde and
tention any
ii need
at
Fo
Capt. Ga
sealing sell
drowned a
day, whil
boat. Tl:
schooner,
search of
ing the
drowned.,
Jobloti
heaven tl
Tliirdly
won't ‘
,<l Watery Grave*.
t and four seamen of the
liner Oscar and Hattie were
Kostucca. Ore., the other
ttempting to land in
captain and men loft tne
liieli was lying 0’1;s,(| ' j.
2ven deserters, and in •
oat capsized and all
about
CThere is oiie thing
it I shall like immensely.
iVhat is that? Joblots-t
fclosed Sundays.
