'THE PASSING SHOW. r k THE UNEXPECTED STILL CON |* v, TINUES TO HAPPEN. ;■ ;v*. - VAN INSANE WISCONSIN O MIL’S 8TKANOK MANIA. ^ - 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 ■'% '■c ■ y>.. 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 ‘ ,