The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, December 04, 1924, Image 7
MYSTERY IN PASTOR’S WIFE’S DEATH IN FURNACE I DlAffi . Fltt^AC#' §> SH£A$i'M--V FAMI W- r : ^ Great mystery surrounds the finding of the charred body of Mrs. C. V. Sheatsley, wife of the pastor at a Columbus, Ohio, Lutheran church, in a burning furnace in the parsonage, the furnace door being closed. Dr. Sheatsley. at first charging murder, finally indicated his belief that his wife, stirred by religious fervor, purged herself of fancied sins through the ordeal of fire, as practiced by the ancients of Europe. He said knowledge she gained during eight months in India, when he did missionary work there, may have shows her the ability of human beings, through religious fanaticism, to make their bodies practically Insensible to pain. A strange episode in the woman’s death was the admission of her sixteen-year-old son, Clarence, that 3to saw his mother's body in the furnace, but said nothing about it until his father found the body. Above are shown Rev. and Mrs. Sheatsley and their children and the death furnace. BIG HOTELS BURN IN ATLANTIC CITT. I * c.xan«r fhs^:. ____z\ i_—s->—— -*—i----:---—11 .•:. l * _* ■ • ' ----—— ——————— » At least two lives are known to have been lost In a $1,000,000 fire which destroyed the Hotel Both* well, the Senator Hotel and the casino on the $1,000,000 Steel Pier in Atlantic City, N, J. This photograph •hows the ruins of the Hotel BothwelL RUSSIA DEMANDS RETURN OF HER FLEET I P2lT??IAI>r TlSZKm. svzr,. , ^ •'? I J". -j-rnr-T-r- -r^tt-T..I.. vnt.r y11'1'1 l ag-.-i . '**" ^ -1'TTtt- ' m". '-I Here In the Russian fleet. Interned by the French since the World War, the return of which has been demanded by the Soviet now that France and Russia have resumed relations. Actress May Join Walt* CELEBRATE 62ND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY P*rty‘ L. gASMV <SERVAX.fr } At least 10,000 persons felicitated Mr. and Mrs. JJasll Gervals, at 8t I’aul, Mina., on the recent celebration of their »lx,Tsecond wedding anniversary. Mr. Gervais. now eighty five, was the first white child born In Minnesota, which has been his home since his birth, Septem ber 4, lUt, Governor J. A. O. Preus wan one of the many eallers, Suzanne Bennett, New York chorua girl, sailed for London on the Olympic, exhibiting a telegram from Olt-wa. Can asking krr to sail on the vessel and telling ber Uiai the Prince of Wales would bo delighted. She danced wlta him several times while ho was la Mea Terk. Wants Millions in Suit for Lost Love x*Q7£Xm ' Mrs. Roselle Butler, of Los Angeles, ex-wlfe of Cooley Butler, copper king and capitalist, la suing her ex-husband for $3,000 a month, $100,00 as attorney fees, and Interest In community pro perty valued at $15,000,000, al leging he was enticed Into suing for a divorce by the present Mrs. Butler. She also sued Mrs. Jen kins Butler for $1,000,000 for al leged alienation. Society Woman at Trial of Slayers Efrray £.y. Mrs. Edward N. Breltung, New York and Newport society leader, wife of the multi-millionaire mining magnate, was a constant attendant at the Chicago hearing to determine the fate of Dickie Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., slayers of youthful Bobby Franks. Gore Will Succeed Secretary Wallace Washington, Nov. 22.—Howard M. Gore, governor-elect of West Virginia, was today appointed secretary of agriculture to suc ceed the late Henry C. Wallace. He will serve until March 4 when he will assume his guber natorial duties. Summer a Failure In England This Year London.—Summer was ai dismal failure in England this year. Officially, summer begins In En gland on May 1 and ends September 30. Statistics recently issued show show that of the 153 days between May 1 and September 3C eighty of them were wltliont rain, hile on 73 of them It rained continuously. During that time only on 15 days was the temperature above 70 de grees, while on 29 days It did not reach the 60 degrees mark. The number of hours of possible sunshine during the English summer Is 2,059. According to the statistics, the actual number of hn the sun ( really did show Itself was 660. No Human Mail for U. S. Airplanes Chester N. Weaver, San Francisco automobile man. bought I71S.0S worth of airplane mail stamps, at 24 cents an ounce, and in the presence of Postmaster James EL Power “posted" himself as “airplane mail" for New York. Officials in Washington, however, ruled against human mail and Weaver was denied the trip. Famous U. S. Fortunes Linked by Marriage Two of America's greatest fortunes, totalling $200,000,000 were united with the marriage In New York City of Miss Anne Eliza beth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores magnate, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, Inter national banker and phllanthrop 1st. The wedding presents wsk> valued at $1,000,000. * Youth Pays Tribute to Old Age De b u t a ntea and home of Mrs. George H. Martin, of Pasadena, Cal., when Mrs. Martin, entertaining in honor of Mrs. George S. Fleming, seised the golden oppor tunity to pay tribute to six great grandmothers and more than fifty grandmothers who gathered under her roof. The photograph shows sin great grandmothers. Seated, left to right, Mrs. Clay Holmes. Mrs. C. W. Leffingwell and Mrs. J. C. Fttsgerald. Standing, left to right, Mra. John Hk Dwight, Mrs. Frank O. Bartlett and Mrs. J. H. Woodward.