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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1892)
KSING SHOW T] SOME QUEER THINGS SEEN AND DONE EVERYWHERE. r LONDON HAS A ItKKINlNO SEN* 8ATION JUST NOW. It Hu UNI Claud by ilie Uinalni of Hlle- VloUttc In Tn-rs-m-boom-iler-ny —A Prominent Couple Drift Apurt In Old Age. London hM a choice sensation in MU*. Violettc's French version of “Ta-ra-ra*boom-der-ny.” Mile. Vio letta la a protty girl of IT. who hus only been on the stage for a yeur or so. She graduated from n Paris sem inary, and finding the hum-drum of life In the suburbs too monotonous, sought diversion in the corps de ballette at the Paris opera house. ltelng very well cducuted in the English language she translated the song made famous by Lottie Col ... Ilffs and was soon able to sing it in Frenoh before the members of the > Frenoh Cabinet. She won a pro , nounced success and then went to Lou don. It cannot he imagined what a charm there is in the lines of the song Irons ~ ’ lated and sung in tlie soft, smooth flowing Parislian; and then Mile. Violette is as naive and daintily be witching a jeune femme as over exhib ited a pair of dimpled shoulders behind the Empire theater's footlights And, : ::t M for the chorus, that is to be heard, not desoribed. Mademoiselle is very conscientious, s'- and throws her wholo soul into it—not to mention some considerable quantity it lace and finery as well. Thu house never fails to bo “fetched" to the last eat MLI.lt. VIOI.ETTK IN Uh'H SONG, aftn, while the young rich hang' gen ’>■ -'). arously out of their boxes and appear ' - simply paralyzed. V 1 Among the audience the other night til a couple of privato boxes were His Royal Higness the Dulce of Cambridge, Lord Randoldh Churchill. Sir George Wombwell and Sir Henry James. After twenty-two years of married life domestic difficulties have arisen in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Edward it ’ John Woolsey, prominent and wealthy ; society people of New Vorlt, and which have culminated in the application for s divorce by Mrs. Woolsey. ... Woolsey is one of the host known of men about town, and is a lmember of ■ ■ the Union and Manhattan clubs. He I* is about 50 years of ago, and is the son sf the late E. J. Woolsey, a prominent resident of Fifth avenue, who died e : some ten years ago, and who made a V- ; large fortune in a sugar refinery ho iite owned in Williamsburg. The elder Mr. Woolsey also owned the old Woolsey farm in Astoria, which, as that village lit became incorporated with Long Island aity, was cut up into building lots, making Mr. Woolsey’s fortune reckoned ‘V into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Twenty-two years ago Miss Frances £Smythe was married to Mr. Edward John Woolsey, the inheritor of his father’s property. Miss Smythe was the beautiful daughter of Henry A. Smythe, formerly collector of the port of New York, and who was also promi nent in State politics. The marriage, at first, was a happy one, two sons be ing born, one of which is now in Yale MRS. WOOL8EY AT 23. , college, while the other is at a prepara ; ! tory school in Poughkeepsie. The two young men are 19 and 16 years of ago respectively. Although Mrs. Woolsey has filed notice of proceedings, no changes have yet been made. New | ■ York society folk is consequently on i the anxious seat waiting for develop- ! meats, perhaps of a startling nature. Sugar from Cotton 8eed. A German chemist is reported to I have succeeded in extracting from cot- ! K ton seed meal a sugar that is fifteen ; 'A times sweeter than cane sugar and I twenty times sweeter than beet sugar. SHE’S A WIRE PULLER. Glnclunatl Prodihth a Feminine PolHI* Cul ltnnlcr. A young woman hns turned up in Cincinnati in tlie role of a political wire puller. Her prominence prows out of a contest for the superintend eney of the Hamilton county hospital. Muporintcndcnt McLean’s term ex pires this month and the board may consider the question of a successor. Uocently there have been rumors that a lively contest would come up at the annual election, and a vigorous effort would be made to de feat t’ol. McLean. It seem* tlmt Miss • Anna Murray, who presides over the Training School for Nurses, has a candi date in the person of ^her brother. The inference has been that Miss Mur ray he r s e 1 f would anna Murray, control the tnanage mont. As Is well known. Blie tins the backing of muny prominent ami wealthy ladies, and lienee her report ed Intorcst in the election is given much weight Her action is creating consid erable ill feeling among the friends of the present incumbent. Miss Murray is a Republican. A TRAGEDY RECALLED. By a Mother Who Seeks to Avenge Her Son'* Death. At Columbus last week Richard C. White, a well-known private wateh inun, was arrested on a warrant charg ing him with murder in the second degree. The warrant was issued by Justice Frltcliey upon an affidavit filed by Mrs Susan 10. Kell. The arrest of “Hick" White recalls one of the most startling tragedies ever enacted in that city. On Feb. 20, 1W)0, White killed Achilles Kell, his brother-in-law. lie had long suspected Kell with undue Intimacy with the former’s wife. He met Kell and Mrs. White together an the day mentioned. They were coming away from an assignation house on Gust Nagliton street White hurriedly approached them, and, drawing a revolver, fired two shots into Kell’s brain. The latter lived only a few moments and his last words were a denial of any intimacy with Mrs. White. White was immediately arrested on the charge of murder in the second degree. He en gaged eminent counsel to defend him, but the grand jury refused to bring in an indictment, claiming that ho was justified in killing Kell in order to pro tect his family. The case was then dropped until the other day, when, after two years, the murdered man's mother caused the warrant to be issued for White's arrest. It is said that she lms always been anxious to have her son’s death avenged, but just why she waited for two years before taking the preliminary steps does not appear. DEEMING THE DEMON. Can He lleally Be tlie Arch Butcher That He Claims He Is. Deeming, the Australian butcher, who has confessed to the White Chapel crimes, is said to be one of the coolest prisoners that over saw the inside of a jail. Few can have any idea of how the fellow passes his time. Letter writing is his tavorite mania. He ad dresses communications to acquaint ances everywhere reciting the story of his self alleged wrongs. • “The world lias been against me and why should 1 not be against the world” is a favorite expression with him. When not writing he traces the DKKM1NO. prison corridor and discusses his case with his guard. He speaks of the inquest as a •‘grand farce, “and says ho is sorry it is at an end, as he isnow deprived of all amusement. To the governov of t'le jail, speak ing of the vie um oi tne w mdsoit murder, ho said: “She is not dead; slie will appear again all right.” lie continues to ask for spirits and cigars, but is not allowed to have either. He said to the doetor one day, referring to the brandy given him after the conclusion of the inquest, "Why oid you give me that poison?*’ It is evident that he is doing his best to keep up the pretence of insanity. The White Chapel confession is conse quently looked upon with suspicinn by the police. AN OHIO MYSTERY. Mysterious Disappearance of Farmet Lewis of Wilmington. About three weeks ago Jacob Lewis, a well-known and Very well-to-do fanner of Ceuter Neighborhood, Ohio, left home and lias not since been heard of. lie gave no intimation either to his family or his friends that he in tended leaving home. At the time of his departure he owned a farm of 200 acres of good land, and possessed con siderable personal property. He is a brother-in-law of lion. N. M. Linton, having married Linton's sister, whom he has deserted, together with a beau tiful and accomplished daughter and a promising son. Ilis family and friends can give no reason for his disappear ance. Professional 8afe-Crnrker. At Uuttsville, Ark., the other night, burglars blew open the safes of Will iams, Price & Co., J. P. Cochran A Son, merchants, and Sheriff Ilutcliiuson, se curing §200 from the first named uqd 8»00 from each of the others, making altogether 81,000. They then stole a couple of fine horses from Carroll Shaver, the liveryman, and escaped. THE WILKES FAMILY TURNEb OUT SOME FAMOUS CRIMINALS. "OEOIIOE" WILIIES, WHO DIED RE CENTLY IN NEW YORK Was Ilia Leader of tho Hmt Desperate G'miii- In Three Continents—Ills nrotlier Tom In Slug Slug—Their lleanttful sister and Her Crimes. “Ueorge" Wilkes, wlio died in a New York liospital a few days ago, wu one of tlic lianilsomest, shrewdest and most accotnplised rascals that ever stood before a detective camera. Two days before his death lie was picked up in the streets of the metropolis a bleeding1 mass of humanity. Liis skull was crushed in and several knife marks were found in tho vicinity of the heart, lie was unconcious almost to his death, but managed to articulate the words—“they have killed me at last." Wilkes was the king of forgers and counterfeiters of three continents, America, Europe and Australia, lie groomed with the nobility of nearly all the lands of potentates. He called the Prince of Wales his intimate friend and died one of the few ever shown through the harem of the Sultan of Turkey. Yet for twenty years previous to his tragic end he was the leader in all the boldest robberies of the continents on which he operated. Wilkes last crime, and the one for which he may hove died, was com mitted in Italy in the summer of 1884. GEORGE WILKES. He botrayed the companions in the crime and they swore bloody vengeance at the first opportunity. He soon re turned to America and tried to live an honest life in New York city, where his parents and living brothers and sisters are highly respectable people. The companions in his last crime went to prispu at Milan, Italy. Wilkes had a fine physique. His hair and moustache turned gray when he was quite young. He had regular fea tures and a ilorid complexion, always dressed well, and was a clever conver sationalist. Though he was invariably known as “George,” his name is Henry Wade Wilkes. Wilkes began life as a clerk in the general office of the Erie railway. He became an expert at dealing cards and when 27 years old left regular employ ment to follow gambling as a means of livelihood. He subsequently opened one of the leading gaining houses on upper I!roadway. Ho began a rapid pace which even the immense proceeds of his establishment would not meet, so he took to forgery. In a few years time he cleared over a quarter of a million. One of his checks on ethe Board of Education of New York amounted to S10.000. He cashed it successfully, but was subsequently arrested for the crime. His tracks had been thoroughly covered up, however, and he was discharged on a techni cality. His brother, Thomas U., who also went astray, got caught in the same deal, and is now serving a term iu Sing Sing for his penmanship. Mary, a beautiful sister, who also had crimi* nnl inclinations, died as a result of the disclosures which unveiled her own double life. At the time of her death, she was the wife of John Redfield, president of the Hart ford National bank. It was through MART WILKES. her agency that several of her brother's big checks were cashed. The cider brother’s next job was to engineer a'big whisky deal by bribing the New York appraiser. As a result he cleared 840,090. He then went West In company with an English crook by the name of Dederan. They met Joseph Chapman, whose wife was mur dered in New York not long ago. The trio started West from Chicago on a forging tour and when they reached San Francisco they divided something like a million dollars between them. They “owned” the city of the Golden Gates for the next three months.spend . ing money so lavishly that all three went broke. Then they started South, by .steamer, to Panama. On the Way they held up the boat and es caped with 8100.000 cash. They next turned up in Europe. In Liverpool they opened a bank on their otvn ac count and managed to unload some 9Tv llflll flfMI wrtflli /nerroil liviuainnn THOMAS O. WILKIES. railroad bonds. It was In 1881 that Wilkes and his gang, including the famous Silvio llixio, “Shell” Hamilton, Baranoff, Ed Burns and a dozen other noted forgers, counterfeiters, burglars and confidence men swooped down on Milan, Italy, with forged and stolen bonds and bank notes with over $1,500, 000 total value. There Wilkes met his Waterloo and had his first taste of prison life. He could not stand it and secured his release late in 1884 in con sideration of making a full confession of all the crimes of his confederates and himselfa. Many of them are still serving time in various prisons. One of them, John Jennings, preferred death and cut his throat in the Des brosses street, that city, ferry house on being arrested. After returning to America Wilkes went from bad to worse.; {The police believe that he received his injuries at the hands of some member of the gang he had so selfishly betrayed. RAVACHOL. THE MURDERER. The litter Coolness of His Crimes Has No Parallel. Itavachol, the Paris anarchist, who has just been sentenced to life impris onment, is probably the coolest of all the red handed murderers of our times. One of his most atrocious crimes was the killing of two uromen who jointly kept a shop at St. Eilenne. The story of the crime is told by a friend with whom the arch murderer was hiding in that place. They were sorely in need of money with which to effect their es cape. In the vicinity were two old women who were quite well off. Re ferring to their wealth, Ravacliol said: “We need money; wait for me and you will see,” he took up a hammer and went out. In half an hour he returned, coolly announcing that he had killed RAVACHOL. the shopkeepers, but that he had not been able to find anything. This is the man of whom one of the members . of the party has I just said that he / was an excellent ' fellow and the best of friends, kind to children and self sacrificing in every way. His admirers declare that they were completely fas cinated by his harangues, which thrilled them with emotion, so fond was he of talking of the time when all men would be brothers. The accom panying portrait of Ravnchol is copied from one printed in the Paris Journal, and is said to be a very striking picture of him. Killed by Chloral. JA peculiar accident of which Dr. Charles H. Lent of Brooklyn is the vic tim occurred in that city the other day. The doctor had been practicing medi cine at Ellenville, N. Y., until a year ago, when he went to Bermuda for his health. He returned a short time ago and took up liis resi dence with his friend, E. B. Olney, of Brooklyn. He was1 under treatment at Dr. Matthews’ san itarium where he became violently ill. Early the following morning he aroused Mr. Olney and told him tlmt he had taken chloral. Two physicians tried in vain to ward off the effects of the drug. It is said that he was addicted to the chloral habit and that by mis take he had taken too big a dose. Driven Insane. J. W. Montgomery, a Jackson county man serving a life sentence at the Ohio pentltentiary for murder, suddenly be came insane last week. He had charge of the prison stock room, and saw four imaginary butcher knives in a pile of broom-corn. He hastily called a guard and urged him to set fire to the broom eorn. One of the physicians -was called and had lura removed to the prison asylum. Montgomery’s crime was committed at Jackson four years | ago. A young lady riding in a merry1 go round appealed to him for protec tion, claiming that she had been | grossly Insulted by a bystander. Montgomery drew a revolver and shot the man dead. Since his incarcera tion his wife has secured a divorce from him, to which fact is attributed his insanity._ A Queer Bet. At Youngstown, Ohio, March 23, Fred Morris, of the Opera-house orchestra, and Thomas Clark, both young men, made a wager that if the other was married within forty-two days the loser was to forfeit $200. Morris was married April 27 to Miss Mabel Hall and called on Clark who re fused to pay the wager. Clark claims to have won, insisting the wager was made March 10. Tie offered to take Mrs Morris’ $150 and a cornet to settle the' matter, but Morris declined, and, will try to collect the wager. .... ] OUT FOR NOTORIETY. A CLASS OF WOMEN FOND OF SURPRISING FOLKS. HOROSCOPE OF SORE RECENT START LINO EVENTS. When a Woman’s Natural Talents Fall to Attraot Attention She Docs Some thing Very Startling—A Class of Fair Ones Who Do Strange Things. You never know just what a woman is going to da Yes, you may feel positive, very positive, but you are laboring under a delusion. The man ivlio said that woman cannot keep a secret, overlooked one exception—she always keeps her own. A writer on women, speaking of the peculiar fads of the sex, in, “upper tendoih,’ particularly, says that her one ambition is to ' surprise her acquaintances. This she will do with dress if she can, but she will do it just the same. It is not entirely improbable that Mrs. Astor envied the notoriety at tained by Mrs. Parker-Deacon. They were women of the same notoriety seeking calibre, who, for very good reasons, could not astonish the “four hundred" with natural talents. There ire probably now some women who would trade places with either of the one’s named, but they are very scarce. Mrs. Tyson of Grand Kapids, Mich., PRETTY MRS. TYSON. may have been impelled to her indis cretions by the Astor and Deacon Affairs. Mrs. Tyson is one of tho most beautiful women in that city. She was a leading member of tho leading Jhurch there, and sang in the choir. She helped along in charity affairs and was esteemed in Grand Rapids gener ally. Few homes were not open to her. She had a hankering after notoriety and a few hinted that that is why she so interested herself in church work. A few days ago when she was arrested at a Grand Rapids hotel in company with a Chicago merchant by the name of Mortimor, a bomb fell in the midst of her former associates. One would think that site would have broken down completely under the load of circumstances. Not her. She took it all as serenely as an Empress takes a crown, and no matter what is proved against her, she will, in ill probability, feel that she has accom plished the object of her ambition. SISTER THERESA, THE ACTRESS Probably the same ambition prompted Sister Theresa of Nqw Haven to leave the convent three weeks tfio and go into training for the stage. Sister Theresa took the veil four years ago. Two years previous to its acceptance she embraced the Catholic faith, leaving a home surrounded by manifold luxuries to go into the exile afforded by convent life: Her aristocratic relatives dis owned her. The novelty of convent life, like the notoriety she received, disappeared with time, and she prob ably sought some new method of at tracting attention. The New York manager who is to take charge of her theatrical venture, is having some pretty lithographs printed of her in different positions. She will make her iebut in comic opera during the sum LAITUA K. GIDDEY. mor season. Tlic accompanying por trait of Sister Theresa is from a print by Sarony. It is doubtful if her venture trill be a financial success. [ Bob tranciaco also has a society woman who wants to figure before* tv public in a sensational light, p name is Laura E. Giddey and her i“*r band is a leading real estate man R»id to be worth nearly half a million Ti were married four years ago and are childless. A year or so ago Mrs. Oid dey created a sensation by wagin' large sums of money on a tug of war contest that was going on there. Later she took an interest in pedestrianism and pugilism. Now she means to “can the climax” by riding a bicycle from San Francisco to New York in a stak'd number of days. It is probably need less to state that she and her husband have separated. She will leave for New York on her bike about June l. Devkheaux. A THRILLING SCENE. A ltrewer Caught In the Belt ot an Im mense Fly-Wheel. A horrifying scene was enacted in the malt room of a New York brewery one day last week. The fly-wheel at tached to the engine Is almost forty feet In diameter, and has a velocity force of 1,000 revolutions a minute. An immense belt stretches across the room to the gearing, The wild cries of "help! help! save me, save me” brought Engineer • Freeling to the room. He arrived hi time to see Ed ward Grindlicli being. carried around one of the big wheels by the belting in which he had been caught. Freeling quickly stopped the engines just in time to save the man’s life. Grindlicli is otio of the brewers, and was oiling some part of the machinery when he got caught in the belting, lie re ceived a terrible crushing and was ren dered unconscious. When the machinery was stopped his almost lifeless body was extricated from its perilous position. He was taken to Bellevue hospital where it is be lieved he will die as a result of his shake up. LOVELY FANNY CONNORS. Fatlietie Story of Her Death In the Philadelphia Fire. The big Philadelphia fire claims among its list of victims one—a young woman—who will be missed in a sense that attaches to no other. Her name is Fannie Connors, or perhaps she is better known as Fanchon Conyers, hex stage name. Miss Connors was 20 years old and vory beautiful. She studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and had her first trial with Mrs. George S. Knight. Afterwards she made a hit in a leading part in one of Hoyt’s farce comedies, “A Brass Monkey.” 1 Four weeks before her death she appeared in miss Connors. “The Devil’s Auetion” at the Hay market theater, Chicago. The news of her death was received with ex pressions of genuine sorrow by those who knew her well. She was poor and by hard work and study had won the admiration of many people old in the profession. The appearance of her body when taken from the mass of ruins the day follow ing the fire indicated that she had made a desperate effort to escape. In her hand was a crucifix which she al ways carried. There is something very pathetic in this circumstance, as it is popularly supposed that profes sionals are not on friendly terms with emblems of Christianity. MAD DOC AND MAN. Terrible Encounter Between Nelson Galiphian and a Rabid Brute. A mad dog took possession of the house occupied by Nelson Galiphian on Washington street, Bellville, N. J., re cently,and for a time made things very lively. Galiphian and liis family were at dinner when the animal rushed into the room. He sprang at Galiphian, who succeeded in warding hjm off with a chair until his wife and children suc ceeded in getting upon the table. Fighting the dog, he backed off to the stairway and dropping the chair as a barricade, ran up stairs. The ani mal bounded over the chair and up the stairway. Upstairs the man and brute had a. desperate battle, when suddenly the animal, having been knocked over by a blow from a club, sprang up and. dashed through a window, taking the sash with it. Poormaster John Smith happened along just then and succeeded in shoot ing the dog. Upon his entering the house, Galiphian was found lying un conscious in the room upstairs and Dr. Wynans had to be called. HE WAS THERE. An Escaped Convict Attends His . Mother’s Funeral. A sad scene was enacted at Rich mond, Ind., the other day when Will iam Black, an ex-convict, entered the room in which his mother lay a corpse awaiting burial. It seems that in De cember last he was sent to prison for a criminal assault. lie sub sequently escaped and sought shelter in his mother’s house. She turned him away, telling him that lie must never see her face again. The sor rowing mother was at the time in the last stages of consumption. She died April 23 and with the request that her way wai'd son should not be allowed to view her remains. The funeral oc curred two days later and he attended, contrary to her wishes. During the ceremony two detectives appeared and placed Black under arrest. The house was filled with mourners, and it caused a profound sensution. Black was taken back to prison to serve out his time. Flannel Made from Pine Leaves. Germany contains a number of estab lishments engaged in the manufacture of flannel and similar textiles from pine leaves. When spun and woven this material resembles hemp.