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THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY, MARCH 13. 1888,-TWELVE PAGES.
Stone Mountain Lady
Takes a Deadly Dose.
PERRY AND TALBOTTON MARRIAGES.
Buena TbtS'l Experience Willi nn Alllnnce
Store—Bevy nt ThomasvlUe—The
Fair at Fort Valley—Montem-
nin Taken Unaware*.
Special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Stoke Mountain, March 8.—A good
deal ol excitement was caused this morn
ing by the announcement of the attempt at
suicide of Miss Martha Dickerson, a lady
of forty summers, by taking morphine. A
physician was summoned, and, after sev-
eral hours of faithful work, succeeded in
bringing about her recovery. It is said
that her attempt at suicide was caused by
disappointment in a love ailair with a
prominent widower, who, on yesterday,
wedded another.
BUENA VISTA.
societies on Sunday night,
tntions and readings from some of the
voting ladies and children and an address
from Rev. Mr. Helm, of the Presbyterian
Church, a missionary to China a few years
ago. This able divine is conducting a
meeting at the Presbyterian Church in
Blnckshcar this week with good results.
! tured at every point by curiosity and me
mento seekers. The monument lias been
A*
, TIIO.HANVII.LE.
Til© Levy Company Take* the Town—A
(■rent Number of Visitor*.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Thoma.svii.lk, March 8.—The great
cornetist Levy played here last night to a
crowded house. As is usual witli him, he
captivated the audience, and was called
back for three encores after each adver
tised appearance. It takes a great deal of
encoring to bring him back, hut he always
rewards an audience truly energetic and
in earnest. He would have tilled the
house himself, but the interest of the Li
brary Association in the proceeds crowded
THE INDIFFERENCE OF CONCRESS.
broken and removed from its face, and tile
The Grave struck liy Bullet* at the Battle interior filling subjected to the infiltration
of Fredericksburg—It* Deplorable
Cunditlon, nml the KITortn to
Care for It.
The Central’* Survey—The Alliance Store
and It* Effect on Trade-Personal
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Buena Vista, Ga., March 8.—The alti
tude of Buena Vista being greater than
the surrounding country, the Central rail
road surveying corps find it difficult to
make the approach from any direction,
and at present are using a third line.
The Farmers’ Alliance has over 600
members in this connty. The alliance
store is run by Mr. W. J. Short, as pro
prietor, with Messrs. Short and Sheppard
assistants Contrary to the expectations
of outsiders the location of the store at
Bnena Vista has increased the trade of the
town very materially, and instead of doing
injury to any other merchants, promises a
business “boom” that onr trade has not
known for many a day. It is much better
for counties all over the State to give their
trade to their county towns, and eventually
build up brick blocks at home, rather than
elsewhere.
To-morrow the Marion County Patriot
will publish a certificate signed by many
.of the leading citizens of the town and
county endorsing the good standing, finan
cial status and sterling worth of the Chris-
Of the other members of the company,
Miss Edith Pond pleased the audience
verv much with her recitations, ami the
littie violinist, Miss Torbett, almost
rivaled Levy in popularity. She is a
dainty, spirituollc little miss, and her
smile is charming. Her music is inspir
ing, and this and her face make a combi
nation not to be improved on.
The company go from here to Macon
and this is for the benefit of those wtio ex
pect to hear them there.
The town is so packed and overflowing
with visitors that they could not get in at
the Mitchell House. ’The crowd here is
much larger than it has ever been before,
and lias been here twice as long as ever be
fore. The Masury House, about complet-
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Washington, March 4.—For years there
has been before Congress a bill to provide
for the completion of the monument to
Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fred
ericksburg, Virginia, and each year Con
gress, with republican ingratitude, lias
been too little stirred by patriotic feelings
even seriously to consider the measure. It
is among the eight or nine thousand hills
that have been introduced in the pn sect
session, and its prospects of passage are
still exceedingly remote. There is thi
of water and the disintegrating effects of
frost until the entire structure is an inco
herent mass of rubbish.”
Representative Browne says that the
present condition of affaire iB even worse,
if possible, and that the place is entirely
neglected, save by occasional sightseers.
The report of this committee estimated the
entire cost of restoring and completing the
monument nt $11,881, and that sum has
been the basis for the bills which have
since bc*>n submitted to Congress. The
one which was introduced tills year, how
ever, calls for nn expenditure of $20,000,
and authorizes the grading nml inclosing
with stone curbing and iron fencing a
space thirty feet square around the base of
the monument.
SHERIDAN A POSSIBILITY.
much encouragement, however, that in the lint lie Does Not Care About I.willing a I'or-
Senate the bill lias been favorably re-1 lorn Hope,
ported, and is now well advanced on the From the Philadelphia Times.
It ought to come up for passage ; Washington, March 6.—The hero of
within the next fortnight, and in the pres- j Winchester and Five Forks looks upon the
ent mood of the Senate it ought to get persistent mention of his name for the
through, for this Senate lias achieved the
reputation of being willing to pass almost
anything.
In the House the bill lias an earnest ad
vocate in its introducer, Representative T.
II. Ii. Browne, of Virginia. Mr. Browne’s
home is in Accomac Court House, whose
history runs back two centuries or more.
In liis Congressional district is the town of
Fredericksburg, where Mary Washington
made her home after the war of the revo
lution began, and where she was finally
ed, will help accommodate them next l nlr i c( J. where General Washington was
year and there is considerable talk of „; ven a ^ re at ball in honor of the surren-
imother lnfge hotel like the Piny Woods.
FORT VALLEY.
Tho Till Family—The Fair for the Bcnellt
of the School—An Investor.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Fort Valley, Ga., March 8.—The Till
Family played in this city last night under
the auspices of the Fort Valley Male and
Female Institute. They played to a full
house and their performance was highly
appreciated.
The fair for the benefit of our school
tian man and merchant, Mr. W. J. Short.
This is published from the fact that a re- j will begin next Wednesday and last three
porter for a merchantile agency of your i days. A large number of ladies and gen-
citv reported Mr. Short as “not in good
standing.”
Your correspondent has known Mr. Short
intimately (or the past twenty years—f6r
the greater portion of that time in the
capacity of a merchant. His record is with
out blot or blemish; his financial standing
is letter A, So. 1, and why so gross a mis
take should have occurred, we are all at a
loss to know. Query—Should not mercan
tile agencies be very sure of tho men who
report as to the standing ol others?
Col. D. C. N. Burkhalter, representing
the firm ol Harold, Johnson & Co., of
Americus, made our town, his old home, a
pleasant visit to-day.
Mrs. McKay, of Talbot connty, is visiting
her brother, Mr. James T. Walton, of this
county.
Maj. J. II. Lumpkin,a prominent lawyer
of Americas, was shaking the hands of old
friends on our streets on Monday last. Al-
wavs a welcome for you, Henry.
'the past week has been quite gay, with
numerous parties enjoyed by the yonng
people—among the number one at the
residence of John A. Sheppard, Esq., was
particularly pleasant.
At an early day Mr. Jas. T. Walton will
erect a large and commodious store house
on the burnt corner.
tlemen are expected from Macon, llyren,
Perry, Marelmllville, Montezuma, Rey
nolds, Powerevillc and other points, all of
wliom are cordially invjted and promised
royal entertainment.
A gentleman came over from Talbot
county this week Jo invest in Fort Valley
iroperty. He purchased several building
ots near the town. He has great confi
dence in the future of Fort Valley and we
can assure him that his head is level and
that liis confidence is not misplaced.
The Atlanta and l-'loriitu is laying
track toward tills point at the rate of one
mile per day.
UUTLEIt.
TAL1IOTTON.
Marriage ot Mr. K. II. Spivey amt M1** Kate
Leonnrcl.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Talbottok, March 8.—Last evening at
8:30 o’clock, at tlie Methodist church, ltcv.
II. R. Felder officiating, Mr. E. H. Spivey
and Mias Kate Leonard were married.
The atteadanta were: Mr. Walter Oalin
of Atlanta, Miss Mary McGehec of Colum
bus; Mr. R. S. Collins of Macon, Miss
Electro Wcekes; Mr. John Martin, Mis*
Bertha Martin; Mr. Will McKay, Miss
Lizzie ltoliins; Capt. J. M. Heath, Miss
Lollie Willis; Mr hi M. O’Neal, Mias Lucy
McCoy.
Flower girls. Misses Clara Mumford,
Maud Josaey.
Ushers, Messrs. T. A. Bardwell, Blake
Little. . *
Miss Eva (liddins, organist, played a
grand wedding march, anil keeping time to
the music the bridal party entered the
church. ,
The bride was beautifully attired in white
surah silk, bridal veil and natural orange
blossoms and diamonds.
Three bride’s maids were dressed in white
satins and pearls, and three in pink satins
and rubies, and the flower girls in real
lace.
The church was beautifully decorated in
hot house plants tnd holly.
The bride Is the beautiful daughter of
Mrs. M. E, Leonard and one of our most
popular young ladies.
The groom is a prominent grocery mer
chant of this place.
Alter the ceremony the bridal party re
paired to the home of the bride’s mother
where a sumptuous wedding supper awaited
them.
Rev. Geo. Chandler and wife of J uniper,
Mrs. W- It. Johnson of Columbus, Mrs.
Black of Columbus, Mrs. McKay of Upaf- 1
and Mr. E. C. 1-eonard, were in attendai
at the marriage.
HLACKslIEAH.
Cn tight No 1'IhIi, Hut Hail Lot* of fun—
Gnrilens Hilled Out—Pemoiuil*
Corroflpc.iKlcnce Macon Telegraph.
Butler, March 8.—Mrs. J. II. Mitchell
is spending the week with Mrs. O. T. Mont-
ford St the Moutford villa, about threo
miles from town.
Messrs. R. Montford, C. C. West, W. I
Edwards and W. G. Bateman returned this
morning, after having been fishing for sev
eral days. They say it was too cold and
they did not have ns much luck a* u-ual
but lots oi fun.
D. A. J. Willis and son, who have been
in Columbus nil the week, returned yes
terday.
Our people are complaining considerably
aliout their young garden plants lieing
killed. Home of them say they will linve
to plant the entire garden again. It is lie-
lievctl that fruit has thus far escaped in
jury.
der of Cornwallis, and where Burnside and
IA?c had their desiierate encounter, in
which more than 10,000 Union soldiers
and 4,000 Confederates lost their lives. Mr.
Browne believes in the American idea, anil
familiarity witli the historic places in the
vicinity of his home has only inspired him
witli the desire to see revived the memo
ries of the events and of the men and
women of a century or more ago. This is
his first term in Congress, and the first bill
he introduced was this one to provide for
the completion of Mary Washington’s
monument. He is very anxious to see the
bill go through, and he is working as hard
for it as the average Congressman works
for a chunk of pork out of the public
building barrel. He is laboring at a dis
advantage, however, for the members of
the library committee, to which the bill
wns not referred, are not easily moved by
sentiment, and have been reluctant to take
up the measure.
Mary Washington died in 1789, and for
more than sixty years there has been in
existence a project to erect n monument to
her memory. Stic was buried, ,;;s was
stated above, in i-'icdericksburg, ana about
the year 1825 the- citizens of that town
started a subscription toward a inurnment
fund. Mr. Browne tells me that a con
siderable sum was raised, and then die en
thusiasm waned for awhile, until a few
years later it Was revived by a romance,
A New York merchant visited the place.
Presidency with feelings akin to the re
serve and hesitation of Grant under similar
circumstances. The few persons familiar
with the inner surroundings of the head
quarters and home of the hero of the re
bellion in 1868 remember the recoil with
which he listened to the few party man
agers and citizens, not politicians who
were in his confidence, in their efforts to
secure from him an acquiescence nt their
desire to have him accept the Republican
nomination. Over-zealous reporters found
a sentry at the door, an insurmountable
obstacle in the way of information.
SHERIDAN STILL A POSSIBILITY
Notwithstanding a statement that Gene
ral Sheridan under no circumstances will
accept a Presidential nomination, a power
ful element in all parts of the country seem
to regard him as the dernier resort, as in
the cose of Grant in 1868 when the politi
cians were intriguing against eacii other in
their own selfish interests. The Republican
party at precisely the end of two decades
finds itself in the same position. In the
multiplicity of scntUing candidates the
Republican managers will soon sow a har
vest of contempt in public opinion. The
most sagacious of the lenders tear this con
dition more than anything else.
General Sheridan, referring to some of
the incidents connected witli the agitation
of the subject of his birth, said to-day:
“I do not intend to be badgered by a lot
of reporters into giving information which
does not concent them. At the proper time
I might think it due to the good people of
the country to say something on the subject,
and when’that time arrives I shall either
write the matter out myself or shall give
the information to the public through
some authorized channel, hut I will not
do it simply to gratify a thirst for a sensa
tion.”
DOESN’T WAST TO LEAD A FORLORN HOI-E.
In the confidence ol personal conversa
tions with tried friends who are not in tiie
habit of firing off their chins upon the
slightest provocation, lie exhibits a rc-
so the tradition goes as told by Utfgn**-, markable familiarity with political his-
man Browne^ and fell in love wUjj^a (air ; torv nnd events, and Ills judgment of poll
MONTEZUMA.
The Town on Tiptoe Over n Matrimonial
Surprise—I’ersonnl Mention.
Oorreapomlcnce Macon Telegraph.
Montezuma, March 8.—From tip pres
ent outlook there will be a private mar.
ringe in our little city before early morn,
Everybody Is anxiously awaiting develop
ments. His brother arrived from Macon
to-day, accompanied by a divine. Partic
ulars to-oiorrow.
Messrs. E. B. Lewis, J. C. Ellington, J.
E. Dt Vaughn nre in Savannah this week.
Miss Willie Holt and Mr. W.L. McKen-
zie attended a musicale at Fort Valley last
night.
Mrs. Hutchinson, of Jackson, Ala., is
visiting her daughter, Miss Willie.
Farming Operation*—Effect* of the Freeze
—Church Slattern.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Blacks it ear, March 8.—Our farmers
are quite busy getting ready for planting
their corn, some hare commenced planting
corn. They are using more guano this
season than they have used in one year in
aome time. Quite a number of our farm-
era made corn and syrup enough to do
them this year while many made meat to
last them until spring. Our farmers are
very hopeful for this year. ’
Our truck farmer* around Blacluhear
had very fine prospects for early vegeta
blea until the freeze last week, which kill
ed some and set other* back.
The young ladies league of the Metho
dist Church succeeded in getting their new
carpet down in the chnrcli last week.
These ladies deserve a great deal of credit
and praise for their energy and persever
ance. They have spent over $60 this year
in carpeting their ctmrch and upholstering
the put; it. We bad our Cut quarterly
Marriage nt Ferry.
Perry, March 8.—[Corre*[>ondcnce.]—
Last evening at 8 o’clock Dr. Kohl. Sims
was married to Miss Annie Schilling, Rev.
J. W. Robertson officiating. The ceremony
was performed at the residence of Mr. A.
B. Schilling, In a very qnict manner. Dr.
Sima is a young dentist from this place,
and Mi*a Schilling has been the telegraph
operator here for over five years.
The happy couple left this morning on
the 6:45 train, and after visiting relatives
in llarnesville and Atlanta, will go to
Texas, their future home. The people of
Perry wish them peace, happiness and
prosperity.^
Death of Judge Center** Mother,
Gumming, March 8.—[Correspondence!.
—Mrs. Lester, mother of Judge Lester and
ex-Congressman Bell’s wife, died yester
day evening at two o’clock, at her daugh
ters residence. She has had very good
health until a few monthz ago. Old age
waa the cause of her death. 8he had lived
over four (core years aud ten. She will
be buried to-day.
Virginian, who was. related to the 'Wash
ington family. Grieved at the neglected
grave, tire New Yorker in the first flush of
liis new joy*offered to erect a monument at
his own expense. The work began, tho
corner stone was laid, and then came a
halt. Tiie merchant had gone back to
New York, and in ids absence the ficklo
Virginian maiden renounced her engage
ment and married’ another man. There
upon the New Yorker’s patriotic ardor was
dampened and he no longer handed over
sheckles for the progress of the work. So
weeds grew around the deserted sepulchre
and no man came forward to complete the
work which love’s labor had started.!
This is tradition. If Mr. Brinson ji. Loo
sing is to be believed it is not history. Mr.
Lousing says in his recently published
sketch of Mary and Martha Washington
that the aforesaid New Y’orker M Mr.
Silas E. Burrows, and Mr. LossingUnits
any intimation of romance. The monu
ment was not completed, he says, because
Mr. Burrows failed in business. This is
more matter of fact, but nut half so inter
esting os the Honorable Mr. Browne’s ver
sion.
The laying of the corner-stone of this
monument on May 7,18:13, was an occasion
of considerable ceremony. President Jack-
son came up from Washington to officiate,
and he was accompanied by hit cabinet
officers and a military escort. There were
many delegations from visiting towns and
a great parade was one of the features of
the day. At the grave President Jni-kion
|»>ke in eulogistic terms of Mrs. Wash
ington's character and showed how tnuch
to its influence were due tiie traits which
made her son great.
During the next four years the work on
the monument showed some progress,' then
atopjied and never has been resumed. 1 The
original design was for a base of mtrble,
erected in courses about ten feet square
and aixtecn feet high, njioii which wi* to
be placed an obelisk sixteen feet iu height,
making the whole monument shout thirty-
three feet high. The base had been com
deled anil the shaft for the obelisk had
>een drawn to the tomb when the Work
ceased. It haa laid beside the lialf-huilt
monument all these Intervening years, and
is still there. Mr. Lossing says that when
be visited the monument in 1848 it was per
fect aa far a* completed, “Year afteryear
the dust of the plain hud lodged upon the
top of the unfinished pile, and the seeds of
wild flowers had been borne thither upon
the wings of zephyrs; and where the base
of the promised noble obe isk fit.Mild n--t,
nature, as if rebuking insensrte msn, had
woven green garlands and lowery fes
toona. V |>on the broad tablet whereon w—
to he inscribed the .words:
Perfect food is that which, while prepared in tho most
appetizing form, is also tho most wholesome and nutritious.
It should never be necessary to sacrifice the wholesomeness
of an article in order to make it more palatable, nor, as is
too often the case, should we bo compelled to take our
bread or cake bereft of its most appetizing qualities in.
order to avoid injury to our digestive organs.
The Royal Baking Powder possesses a peculiar quality,
not possessed by any other leavening agent, that applies
directly to this subject. It provides bread, biscuit, cake
muffins, cr rolls, which may bo eaten when hot without
inconvenience by persons of the most delicate digestive
organs. With most persons it is necessary that bread raised
with yeast should lose its freshness or become stale before
it can be eaten with safety. The same distressing results
follow from eating biscuit, cake, pastry, etc., raised by the
cheap, inferior baking powders that contain lime, alum,
phosphates, or other adulterants. The hot roll and muffin
and the delicious hot griddle cakes raised by the Royal
Baking Powder are as wholesome and digestible as warm
soup, meat, or any other food.
x Another greatly superior quality possessed by the
Royal Baking powder is that by which the preservation of
important elements of the flour is effected in raising the
bread by tho mechanical operation of the gas, without fer
mentation. Yeast, and all halving powders that produce the
leavening gas by fermentation, as is well known, destroy a
portion of tho nutritive elements of the flour, and particu
larly those which aro the most healthful and tho greatest
aids to a perfect assimilation of the food. The Royal
Baking Pow der, while perfectly leavening, retains without
change or impairment all those elements which were in
tended by nature, when combined in our bread, to make it
literally tho “ staff of life.”
No leavening agent-or baking powder, except tho Royal
Baking Powder, possesses these great qualifications.
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II IN LAST, vVlLDKST PLUNGE.
ticians, great ami small, t* interesting nnd
unerring. As a politician lie is as grent|as
he WB> a soldier. He bae th? incisireness
of a statesman in forming nn opinion, and
his convictious are ns firm as a rock.
In a little ride talk nbont the promi
nence of the mention of his name for the
Presidency, be said: “I have led forlorn
hopes enough in the army. I do not feel
like being pushed ahead to lead the forlorn
hope of a political party. This being
pulled and hauled by politicians does not
suit a soldier.”
~It is apparent that the General takes the
liigli ground that President Cleveland, who
is his commander-in-chief, will be the
nominee of the Democratic party, and this
agitation of liis own name in the same con
nection as his antagonist, could not be as
sented to as a matter of propriety. These
rclstions, therefore, place him in’a peculiar
attitude as regards the approaching cam
paign.
MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON,
The Chronicle* of the Town,
C. W. It. In Americus Republican.
The file* of the .Sumter Republican con
stitute the history of Americus—those
bulky volumes can be studied with profit.
They record the aspirations, enterprises,
hopes, disappointed or realized, of our peo
ple for more than a quarter ol a century.
bf the many who have "passed over tiie
river,” the Sumter Republican, seldom, if
ever, failed to speak a tender word of ap
preciation and regret. • In those same files
the young of the present generation may
read the marriage notices of their parent*.
Identified a* we have been so long with
long with
the interest* of this community, how could
we otherwise than have faith m the future
of Americus. I hrve lived to see the lit
tle village of 300 souls increase to that of
dark-green fringe had made its humili
ating record instead.”
'J he progress of decay since has been
steady and sure. The grave was part of
the battlefield in the contest liclween Lee
and lluntside in 1862, and the monument
was struck by bullets and shells. Belie
seekers have despoiled it worse than im
plements of war. In 1874, when a special
edort was making to complete the monu
ment to Washington in this city before
the centennial year of 1876 the select com-
mtltec appointed by the s|*akerof tiie
House of Representatives was also charged
with inquiring into the practicability of
completing the monument to WashiBg-
ton’s toother. They vi*ited Fredericks-
burg, accompanied by Lieutenant W. U
Marshall, who at their request submitted
Tli© Next State Fnlr.
From the Savannah Morning News.
The protqiccla for the State Fair to be
lu-hl in Macon next October are very flat
tering. They have not, perhaps, been so
good for a number of years. Although the
time for holding the fair is yet distant, the
interest taken in it ia very great.
Most of the railroads of the State have
already agreed to transport all agricultural
exhibits both ways free of charge, and
those which have not will probably do so.
Tills liberal action on the part of the roads
will add considerably to the number of
county exhibits. One of the most attract
ive features of the two exhibitions in
Georgia last fall was the county displays.
These displays were not only interesting
and instructive, but tliey were highly
creditable to the State of Georgia and an
honor and beuefit to the progressive coun
ties that made them. The thousands of
■eople who saw those of l'utnam, Sumter,
iloyd and Talbot counties at the Pied
mont Exposition and of Hancock and
Monroe at the State Fair, went away with
the impreasion that the counties named
offer very great advantages to persons de
siring to settle in this imction. Perhaps a
display even more creditable*can lx made
next fall, ami the State Fair premium
committee; which has lately been in ses
sion, doubtless concluded to offer such in
ducement* as will make it in object for
these and other counties to show their
wonderful resources. The cash premiums
to lie offered in the different departments
of the coming fair amount to about
$17,000.
T he increased interest manifested in the
fair is due in great part to the thorough
organization of the State Agricultural So
ciety and to the efforts of its officers. Par
ticularly is it dne the efforts of Hon. W. J.
Northcn, who is a gentleman of advanced
ideas and indomitable energy. With him
at its head, the fair promises to grow in
popularity each year, and to present, bet
ter than ever before, the vast possibilities
of the State.
llrldRO-Jumpor Willi*? Kurz** Leap Into
Eternity.
From the N’pw York World.
Willio Kurz put a -fitting climax to his
short but turbulent lifo last evening by
shooting himself in the abdomen. Willio
was 19 years old, a lithographer since his
fourteenth birthday, and employed by W.
M. Ilalsted’s establishment, at 8 Spruce
street. His father died when he was 3
years old, and he lived with liis mother
and her second husband, Louis Rufenacht,
on the third floor of 616 East Ninth street.
There were three younger children. The
lad had always been eccentric in hit ways,
and sometimes drank heavily. On Nov.
39 he smuggled himself out upon the
Brooklyn bridge on u truck, and when
about midway between the two piers, at
the highest point of the span over the
water, he took of his coat, kicked off a
pair of slippers, tied the le^s of his trousers
at the bottom, and stepping out on the
driveway and swinging nis arms leaped
into midair.
He turned adozen somersaults in his de
scent, but struck the water feet first, lie
was picked up uncouzcious by a lighter,
arrested at the wharf, taken to the Oak
street police station and from thence to the
Chambers Street Hospital, where he was
plunged into a hot air bath and resuscitat
ed enough to be able to say that he waa
sorry that he had awakened, for he did not
wisli to wake again. Ilia reasons for his
act are various and Indicated mental aber
ration.
Kurz’s leap was the greatest ever made
from the bridge, the {xiint being higher
than that selected by Steve Ilrodie.
A few weeks ago Kurz threatened to
shoot his mother. The latter says that her
son always gave most of his wage* to her.
A month ago he fell deeply in love with
Lena Conkle, who ia pretty, petite, plump
and seventeen years old. With her father
she keeps boanlere in the' tenement house
130 Ridge street, and four weeks ago Kara
took uti nis abode there.
On Sunday he asked Lena to marry him,
but 1-cna replied that while she loved him
her father would think she was crazy to
marry so young, and befo.e h»r two elder
aiatere, neither of whom is yet even en-
havo no pistol.” to which he replied, “I *il|
hock my watch and get one.”
11c left tho house and returned aftrri
hour or two, sat on a bed and seemed del
|,undent. Allot her caller "Ot , - j
beer. After it had been drank Knn toctj
out a 22-calibro revolver nnd prt
to load it.
Mrs. Wagner protested and then h«Sn
it off. The report was like *that else
nnd no one paid any attention to it. Af
a little while Kurz began to vomit sal
then was still. Wagner essayed to i
him and found that he was dead.
TIIE TICIIRORNK CLAIMANT.
Ills New Rally nml Ills Old 8alt-To Item
Ills Suit.
7,000 inhabitants, and the half dozen stores report describing the present condition of
A Teller Commit* holddfs
Albany, N. Y., March 7.—This afternoon
the sezton of the church at Castleton, dis
covered in the cellar Charles Downing, teller
of the Castleton National Bonk, who has
been missing since February £$. He had
been wandering about demented, and a re
ward waa offered for information of hi>
whereabout*. He died shorty after being
discovered. There waa a pistol wound in
his left temple, and a weapon waa found in
the cellar. How long he baQ been in thr
church or when he arrived in the village i
not known. Ilia accounts are all straight.
It ia thought be waa rendered insane
overwork.
iged. This discouraged the young lover,
ad lie threatened to dp something des-
From the Evening World.
Another heir to the house of Tichbon
has been born, and is now being nourtil
on condensed milk in a Chatham sqm
tenement.
Tho interesting event occurred twoj
weeks ago, when Sir Roger Charles Dongl j
ty Tichborne and Lillian Rosa Tichbon
his wife, found themselves the parents of i|
little mite of humanity, who is known i
the archives of tiie health department j
this city and on the record in the
Bible aa George Henry Tichborne.
Up the three flights of narrow sum
which lead to the little back room wta"
baby was born, an Evening World report
and artist climbed this morning, and »»™
greeted by the massive claimant to w
Tichborne estates, who cessed tobM
English ticket-of-lcave man on
perate.
lie did do something desperate. He got
drunk and returned with hut hand in his
pocket. He talked wildly about shooting,
and threatened to shoot the family cat.
Lena and a irivnd, Mi-, Jennie Heaver,
laughed at him, and he took a penknife
from his pocket and said he would stab , lI1B
his sweetheart. Mis* Heaver tried to j christened in Tichborne chapel. H*
wreat the knife from him, ami in the ucuf- Canada now I think. There tf »1#>
fle was cut slightly in her hand. ril . tla Kcliciia, 17 vears old, the y*
Kurz left for home and confided to a po- | by my finit w if e . 'Both the girls »r*
iceman that he had stabbed a girl twice . and living in London.”
in the abdomen, and waa little leaa than a 1 - - * -
red-handed murderer. The policeman
satisfied himself that this waa little Ii
than the fabrication? of an intoxicated an j WM returned to the arms of it*
brain, and the boy went on.
Yesterday he visited the home of Josef
in the seclusion of her chamber.
The claimant ia 59 years of tgr>
154 Forsyth street, and talked wildly about u had been the intention of Sir
Jiw rejection of Miss Conkle. He h»d | m1 i f or England UMiay to rot**
lavished attentions upon her and had
given her many little tokens of love. He
vowed that be would see tier again, and if
she did not return a ring he had given her
be would shoot her.
Wagner went with him lest he should
do aome violence to the*girl, but Lena was
not at home when they called.
On bis return to Wagner’s Willie said he
would shoot hia mother if she did not give
Sir Roger had just risen from bed,
waa caught en deshabille. The rest w '
family scurried into an adjoining r*
room at the approach of the callers,
the mother kept in seclusion.
The baby, however, agreed to receirj
visitors, and was brought from the
room by the proud father. . , ,
Sir Roger’s great bulk, which left Iff
room for hia visitor, in the apartment
decorated by a bit of pink hunisniti o
ing somewhere in the northeast c ’’ n ?*
the claimant's expansive bresgt »
sembled greatly a crimson flower wont
the doughty knight as a boutonniere. J
“This is not a new claimant,
There are four ahead ol him. , J
Theresa Mary Agnes, who was bern^
Australia, March 18, 1886. Then then
Private Roger Joseph Tichlxtroe, o
Fourth Hussars, stationed at Ballr"
Ireland. _
“I le’a twenty years old. The"
James Francis, aged 18, named for m
thor, and the only one of my r
( ami living in ixmaun. , . -i
Baby had become reative during t n
- , cital of the family chronicle*, ®
weak little protest to continued exm.
rail U»r Esil^iauu Itrun; 11
fight for the possession of the Tie
estate, but the limited state of n«
prevented. _ ___
if.- had depended for passage®
upon the sale of his bbigTapS’y, ^
bargain be expected to make was >•
stimulated • ,
“It’s the story of my life from "JYg
lioyh.Nsl in France until I kl* , ,
for America,” he said; and added.
him money and wonld then shoot himself. rarB ,,, anything about my <
Mrs. Wagner teased him by saying, “You hen-.”