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OF HORRORS.
SICKENING SCENES IN INSTITU-
1ION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED.
Long List of Accidents --Committee
Hears of 167 Injuries—Girl Scald.
ed to Death in a Bath Tub.
Lincoln. IiL, Jan, 27.—As a result
of the new policy of "turning on the
logut, adopted by the state board of
charities in its admniatration of rtate
institutions there was an uncovering
of horrors in thio town. 'The occasion
was the first session of the legislative
committee inquiring into bhe conditions
at the Illinois Home for Feeble Minded.
Children. All the horrors, however, were
shown to have been due to accidents,
some avoidable, others unavoidable. The
presence of unprotected tndiatora in
rooms occupied by epileptic children
caused Horny of the accidents- and ap•
poaued to be inexcusable.
By the throwing open of the records
it was revealed that one death width
occurred at the home last summer was
the result of plain carelessness. It was
an appalling occurrence -nothing leas
than the scalding of an inmate, Minnie
Sterile'
in a bathtub of waster so hot
that it in
her death within a week.
Inquiry at the timo by Dr. II. G.
tarot, the ouperintendssrtt, led to the
discovery that another innate brut
been permitted by an attendant, to
bathe the Steritz child For granting
this permission she was held guilty of
carelessness and poor judgment. She Wits
discharged at once,
The reports contained the detailed aa
counts of 157 accidents at the asylmn
daring the administration of Dr, :Hardt,
who stiyedat Dr. Taylor, Gov, Yates
appointee, Feb, 28, 1907. In reply to a
question by Representative Manny as
to whether there was any knowledge of
the number of accidents sibling the long
administration of Sept, Taylor, Dr.
Hardt said that "nobody seemed to
know," as no reports of any sort were
left behind by Dr. Taylor,
tratalogue.of Horrors.
Following ,is a classification of the
more serious accidents among the 400
epileptic fnmatos, most of theca having
ocotured ,since lett February:
l3urnfnga,; from radiators, eta„ "roast
Ings, as they are called ' 27
Falis athat resulted in wounds or
serious abrasions . , . , . 34
Seratohea from falls, etc 67
SerioyectaepidenLs from machinery, ne•
cess : ting in one case amputation
of atm.,,- 5
Ot es from machinery mei-
• 11
llfiadt r eoua injuries to limbs, ate„
froth. geldonts fn play- or mischief 22
In the,tsjport from Secretary Graves
was Indorporated a letter in which Dr.
Hardt: oontraated the state of things as
ho found them with the improved condi-
tions which, he asserts, he has labored
during,tie last eleven months to bring
about e.,.
Ho toldof•finding "spooning rooms,"
where -young men from this'tow'n and
the sutronnding country were wont to
send the evenings in the company of
the women attendants and teaclera
while at the same time babies were
chained and "padlocked" in cribs and in
two instances 7 was found that children
had been "tettered with dog chains to
the floor."
The committee had Dr. Hardt before
it for two hours. Ile gave frank,
straightforward answers to lull their
questions, appearing to be anxious to
give the investigators all the information
in his possession, He was a sworn wit -
11088,
Ho said he graduated from Rush Med-
ical`College in 1000, after working nights
to pay his way through college, that he
had been six years In Jacksonville Asy-
lum as assistant physician, and that he
also had been assistant physician to the
Elgin Asylum and at E.nnkakee.
Radiators Are Being Covered,
"There ware lots of roasting accidents
from radiators before your time, What,
have you done to get the radiators cov-
ered?" he yuan asked.
'Everything possible is being done to
rush the work of covering the radiators.
The trustees have ordered that all be
covered, and no time is lost in going
about It. Personally I favor covering
every radiator In the five buildings—not
only those in the epileptic building, but
In ,the others as well."
Dr, Hardt was questioned closely by
Chairman Hill and Representatives Hope
and Manny in regard to his own duties.
He said that he "made it a point" to
give his personal attention every day to
the special needs or shortcomings of one
building at least, in addition to his work
as general superintendent of the five
big buildings in the institution.
He explained that he held the three
assistants and physicians—Dr. J. Cald-
. well, Dr, Harriet Hook and Dr. Carl
Rocbow—to strict account for the medi-
cal work, and that only incases of ur-
gency or extreme gravity was be able to
give the time to make a personal dMagno-
ele or prognosis of the accidents to any
Mahe inmates, This work, he pointed
but, was not in the customary line of
uty of a superintendent of an asylum,
Some Specimen Accidents.
Following are specimen reports of Dr.
pn<eeretery-G 'y' s' of the State
r. Graves in-
to the commit -
tion nag the I ineeln insti-
tution n when you became superintend -
mai" uy
aIt would lie hard to answer the but
I would refer you to a letter oboutntipe
chained and padlocked babies. How,ser,
it-etrpck me at once that it would roe
quire a great deal of uphill effort to+
brim' the institution up to the standard
of 'similar inetitutiona in neighboring
States. There was a general lack of
tone and discipline and a complete lack
of interest as to the condition of the
unfortunates who are the inmates."
"What, if anything, have you done to
improve matters?"
"I have added to the nurses and at-
tendante, got an extra physician, im-
proved and enlarged the laundry, in-
auigurafed a new system of reports
whereby the responsibility for accidents
to the inmates could be quickly 01111
easily fixed, end put in new evinced,
walla end new fire escapes. 1 11111110 it
my 'aim to eliminate neglect and cause
all the employees to do their full duty.
Children are better clothed, better fed,
spend more time out of doors, and have
111)10 and bolter scbooliui "
May 3, ID07.—Deur Ste 1 desire to in•
form you regarding an sreidest we had
here yesterday afternoon. It seems while
one of the nurses was at dinner a Miss
Bertha Griffin apparently permitted an-
other patient to bathe a Minnie Seritz,
also a patient, resulting in 0 severe scald-
ing of the lower extremities of Minnie
Steritz, No report was made of ft until
the other nurse returned froth dinner and
discovered the accident. The nurse was
discharged, 1'1," btu•) is a severe enc.
Every attention is being paid to the
child,' (Minnie Steritz died May 10.)
Arm Lost In Machinery.
'Aug, 23, 1907:-1 desire to inform you
that about 3.20 p.m. on Aug. 28 Walter
Kaak, s0 inmate, while assisting at work
in the laundry, playfully put his right
hand in a perfectly empty ,extractor,
which was revolving at about 000 revo-
lutions per minute. This wide fly was
intricnted by a few :alleles of clothing,
causing a tremendous twist of the right
arm, producing an amputation almost
complete of the right arm close to the
shoulder. There was no one near hint at
the time of the accident, and it was
clearly carelessly. He is one of the
brightest children in the institution, and
we are sorry, indeed, that this accident
should occur.. Ile was taken to the St,
Clara's Hospital in town and was attend-
ed by Dr. Ewing, Dr. hook, of the hos-
pital, staff, being p f , in6 present,
"Doe. 24, 1007,—Fratk Giroux was
badly burned during an epidemic seizure,
by falling on the radiator, and lying
there. A place the size of a )tan's fist seas
burned, including the left side of the
neck, and under the chin. This burn in•
volved the true skin, and neatly the
whole substance of the cartilage of the
ear. The\ fingers on both hands were
badly blistered."
"Dec. 26, 11107.—Kate Foreman fell
downstairs during an epileptic spasm,
cutting a deep and jagged gash over the
left eye. Twelve stitches were taken,"
Under the Old Regime.
Following are extracts from Dr,
Hardt's letter in which 1,e Informed Sec.
retary Graves of the aftermath of his
discoveries relative to the Taylor regime:
"When I first went to the asylum I
)rade the rounds of the institution, The
'operating room nt the infirmary was
used for a conservatory for flowers, and
the adjoining medicine room has 0 piano
in it, and was called the `spotting room.'
"111 passing through tin dormitories I
discovered six Utica cribs in use, one of
which, at the girls' cottage, there was
a small, delicate -looking child locked in
the crib. Besides being locked in the
erib she, vvas fastened by an inch and a
1,18 wide strap joined by a podlnek. When
the temporary night watch was asked to
unlock the crib she stated that she did
not have the key nor could she find the
key, nor did she remember ever seeing
a key.
I don't know the length of time this
delicate little child had spent in this
home of torture. I liberated the child
by cutting the strap with a pocket
knife, and had the hasp of the padlock
broken with a hammer.
"At this writing there is no crib in
use. At the time when the cribs ,were
ordered dislposed of the ottendauts in
charge complained bitterly, stating that
they would be unable to take care of
the children without the cribs, but I
am pleased to say that the children are
healthier and less resistive out of the
cribs. Specimens of cribs and padlocks
preserved.
Chained to the Floor,
"0n the third day, while passing
through one of the class -rooms, I found
two children chained with dog chains
to the floor, giving them a limited rad-
ius to move aabout. These chains ,are
preserved as specimens. In another
class -room a mule whip was found. This
is also kept as to specimen.
"The employees remained out late at
night, Borne until 2 or 3 o'clock in the
morning. A numhor of the males were
alcoholics and wore coop diselesrgetel
from the cervi,.. Even some of the
children secured whiskey and beeane in-
toxicated. Two boy's were furnished
bail to get them out of the ctiy jail, The
children seemed to have no respect for
authority."
Dr. .Hardt said such awful conditions
ns the foregoing hod been abolished dur-
ing his year of administration and disci-
pline had been introduced.
It. was discoveerd by the committee
that Katie Bass, an epileptic, fell last
Sunday on a radiator and that she sus-
tained burns similnr to those of the
Gorouse boy, though not so serious.
Half of Radiators Uncovered.
Giving their impressions of what they
say at the institutidn, the members of
the committee fond fault with the ad-
ministration for failure to cover the
radiators, especiallly in the wards of
Gm epileptics. It was explained that
the reason so many radiators were
found uncovered—more than half of
them, it is said—was because of repairs
to the steam plant.
It also was announced by members of
the committee that it would be shown
before the inquiry ends that at least
one—and possibly thio—of the physi-
cians in the institution are addicted to
the use of drugs, and have become
klo ad "eldrie. fiends,"
tlho ,','peril ttee adjourned subject to
tliet6oB''bf Chairman Hill, It "was,an-
nounced afterward by Mr. Hill that ems
next session of the committee prober
will take place next Wednesday rtt0
Springfield.
HAS 500 WIVES.
WITZROFF, WORLD'S CHAMPION
BIGAMIST, HELD IN ENGLAND.
Has a Chicago Career—Lovemaking for
Revenue Reduced to Science, Accord-
ing to Story of His Exploits. '
New York, Jan, 27.—George A, Witz-
huff, tato world's champion bigamist,
who is credited with having 500 wives,
is believed to be under arrest at Bris-
tol, England. Reports from the police
of that city say that their prisoner
Eves the t
gives c mom of ArthurHynes, but his
description and career fit blloee of 'Kite
Koff,
'Lynes or Witzhoff Was arrested on a
charge of matrimonial frauds. He is
w1(1110d in many cities in the United
States, scores of women being edmplrtiu-
ants.
The prisoner has the same hypnotic
eyes, the same German parentage, and
the 1141 1110 knowledge of chemistry as
Witzhoff, 111s matriuroniai advertise-
ments are worded "no triflers need ap-
ply." His areret was brought about by
a Bristol young woman who answers]
one of his advertisements and then loam
cal hint 4400,
Witzhoff married a number of Claw -
go women before he left the Veiled
States.
Matrimonial Exploits Remarkable.
\i itzloff is declared by those; who
are 'familiar with his exploits to be the
most remarkable bigamist that ever liv-
ed,
ryed, His knowledge of 1101001 is with-
out a flaw, and, compared with his slip-
pery methods. the lovemaking of the
unlamented Johann Hoch wax a cwnber-
sotte and awkward effort. Poch spent
the best years of his life in the 1u`cu-
mnlotion of fifty wives, while his distin-
guished contemporary 500015 to' have
been 0ble to increase 1»s list of better
halves at the not,, of two or three a
week at the rate of two or three a
with the (Chicago 'bigourdist, the love-
making of Witzhotf was directed toward
the sayings accounts of the women he
married, and once their money 1000
transferred from their keeping into his
own the much married dentist sought
greener pastures.
Witzhoff canto to America from
Switzerland over ten yours ago. For
a while he maintained a dental office in
Detroit, and met his fust difficulty
when the American Dental Association
found that he was practicing without a
license. His action was pointed out to
the executive board of the association,
and he was fined $300 and warned not
to repeat the offense. After paying his
fine and promising to secure a license
Witzhoff left Detroit, and it is now
supposed be then rOuhed the conehusi011
that the mahying business offered
quicker and mos substantial returns
Dean was to be derived from the use of
117 drill and forceps
First Expose in New York,
His first exposure came after his mar.
liege to Mrs. Philip Pa'khilli, of New
York City. Mrs, Parkhill, a tall, land -
some w0711011. met the dentist shortly
after she WOO divorces' from her first
husband, and at the end of a few- days'
courtship they were married,
Parkhill had at soh, Herbert, and it Wats
while the boy's teeth were being treated,
in a dental parlor on West Forty' -sewed
etreeot, where Witzhoff canis employed,
that ebe first was attracted by the
etrilcing appearance nnai apparent re-
finement of the bigamist,
Sool after he had wenn her acquaint.
ante Dr, Witzhoff told 11rs. Parkhill
Oast he was a dentist of ability ;end ex-
perience, and 111111 he was working in
the Forty-sevoud street office only be-
cause he had no money to establish a
place of hit own. Believing 'nim sincere,
Mrs. Parkhill allowed him to make love
to her, and within less than two weeks
after they had first met the /rah were
naried,
Witzhoff then, went to Mrs. Pnrlihill's
father, who lived in Sayville, L. L, in an
effort to borrow 43.000 with which to
open an office in Bridgeport, Conn. Fail-
ing to get the money, he sent his wife
on the same quest, and her visit proved
successful. With the money thus secur-
ed the bigamist opened an elaborate of-
fice in Bridgeport and was juet getting
established when the Dental Association
got after him again. He then moved to
New York city, and it was while he 1505
hunting for a location that a friend of
the, former Mrs. Parkhill recognized her
husband as the man who had married
and deserted Miss Etta Randall, of Bos-
ton,
Changed His Name Again.
It subsequently was learned that Witz-
hoff had married Bios Randall in 1903,
and that he had lived in Soineville with
her under the name of Dr. George A.
Muller. For awhile Witzhoff made his
New York wife believe that tie Boston
and that ho had lived in Somerville with
patient and that an injustice had been
done him by the woman friend of Mrs.
Parkhill. To satisfy herself Witzhoff's
second wife went to Boston to investi-
gate the story. While she was gone the
dentist got ae many of her belongings
together as he could and left the city,
Since that time Witzhoff, with a new
name for each victim, pursued the career
of a bigamist. He studied hypnotism
and the fashions, and, as Johann Hoch
declared, "the art of promising." Tray
elling from city to, city, he adopted a
varying disguise, and in his capacity as
assistant in various dental offices he
met many women. Bending over Ms pa-
tients in the dental chair the young man
whispered words of love in their ears,
and seldom did he meet with reverses in
his conquest of feminine hearts. Always
it was the story about wanting to estab-
lish an office of his own in some town
where he and his prospective bride could
build themselves ,a little home and -live
happily ever afterward that made his
v"1`ctiime forget the nerve splitting grind
of the drill and the elutoh of the cruel
forceps ae he worked over their teeth,
Managed to Escape Arrest.
Witzhoff always escaped arrest in
spite of the efforts that .were made to
capture him, and within two years after
his experience with Mrs. Parkhill thero-
mantk dentist turned' up again in New
York as one of the managers of the larg-
est and most audacious marriage span.
eat es that ever 50;15 al tempted. Twenty-
seven young men were employed to 000
and wilt girls and women in the various
cities of the east, and of these Dr. Witz-
hoff and Harry Kaufman, who now is
serving 0 five year sentence in Sing Sing
penitentiary, were the slur lovers.
The mila•riages were arranged through
a "schatchen, or marriage broker, and
ess soon after the ceremony was perform-
ed as possible the ,husband would got
possession of the wife's money and jew-
elry and then desert her. The plunder
wits all returned to the syndicate office
in New York and divided equally among
the promoters of the scheme, The syn-
dicate finally was discovered by detec-
tives working oat of the District Attoe
nes' s office, and they, with the aid of
several Government secret service then,
arrested some of the neon and drove the
others .out of the city. On a charge of
fraudulently using the. mails 1{aufman
W115 sent to the penitentiary, and the
matrimonial agencies in New York found
hard sledding for several months after
the exposure.
MADE SPECTACULAR LEAP,
Frank J. Constantine, Formerly of To-
ronto, Dying in Joliet Hospital.
Toronto, Jan. 27: -According to a des•
patch from Chicago Frank 01. Constan-
tine, formerly of 'Toronto, who is now
serving a life eertenee in Joliet 1'enitem
Gary for the murder of Mrs, Louise H,
Gentry, on Suoday last leaped from the
seventh gallery in the prison iu'at at-
tempt to connuit suicide. Coustnntine's
condition is said to be precarious. He
made his spectacular attempt to end his
life while under extra guard. He brood-
ed over the murder of Mrs. Gentry and
over the hopeless term of incarceration
which confronted him. Before )raking
his leap he smiled ami nodded pleusattly
to other prisoners standing nearby,
Constantine, who was born in Toron-
to, was taken to Joliet four months
ago, after he had been sentenced to life
imprisonment. The murder of;Irs. Gen-
try occurred Jan, 8, 1900, at her apart-
ments in La Salle avenue. Constantine,
formerly a boarder at the svonan's home,
fled to Toronto, and thence to Europe,
after the tragedy, and was captured in
New York 0 year later, when he ven-
tured to return to this cannily.
LONDON MAN WAS HELD UP,
Dazed by Blow, His Arms Pinioned and
His Pockets Rifled,
A London, Ont., despatch: Mr. cloy
Smith, a young man residing at. 21
Marley Thee, was held up last night
in a dark section of London South,
badly beaten and robbed of all he had,
a trifle o'ner SO. His assailants are un-
known, the affair occurring such a
way that he was not prepared to ,get
a good look at the Hien.
He was walking along the street'` at
8 , o'clock and noticed that , two men
were fcdlowing eleeely`at llis',heels. He
turned oui to them to pass, when
he, 5105 struck a severe blow in the
face, which dazed him for a few min-
utes, His arms were pinioned, while
his pockets were rifled,
MR. TROTTER'S GREETING. ,
Tells Britain Emigration Will Not Solve
Unemployed Question.
Landolt, Jan, 27.—Mr. W. It, Trotter
addressed a fraternal greeting on be-
half of Canada to the Labor Congress
at Hull to -day. He emphasized 'the
entire absence of demand for skilled
artisans in the Dominion, and point-
ed out that emigration agencies were
carrying on a propaganda unauthor•
ized by the Dominion Government,
while in every city in Canada there
was an unemployed problem. The
Salvation Arany, he said, ought to
cone into the open as emigration
touts. Mr. Trotter believed the solu
tion of the unemployed question in
Britain was not to be found in emi-
gration.
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FATHER AND SON DROWNED,
Their Dory Swamped in Big Sea Off
Westport, N. S.
A Halifax deapatch: A drowning acci-
dent took place off Westport, Brier
Island, this afternoon. Frank 1', Titus,
aged 50 years, and his son ,Blake, aged
20 years, were rowing in from their
lobster traps. Mrs. Uharles Buckman,
wife of the Northern Point lighthouse -
keeper, saw them pass the point. A big
sea was breaking on shore, caused by
a heavy ocean swell coming up the Bay
of Fundy. A few minutes after the
dory passed the point Mrs. Buckman no.
tired that it was bottom up, and iru-
mediately gave the alarm,
In the meantime both bodies had been
washed= asho'e, the father's body being
badly bruised where it came into con•
tact with the rocks. Prank R Titus
wee one of the most prominent real.
dent residents of Brier Islam,
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BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT,
House of Representatives Told That He
Will Be Nominated.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.—The in-
tention of the Democratic party to nom-
inate William J. Bryan for President
at the convention to 711 held in Denver
in July next was declared on the floor
of the House of Representatives to -day
by Representative Champ Clark, of Mis-
soturi, and evoked ,continued applause
mingled with cheers.` Some Republicans
joined with- the members in
the hand -clapping.
FIND HEADLESS
BODY IN LAKE.
POSSIBLE MURDER OF WOMAN IS
INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE.
Nude and Unidentified—Mutilated Re-
mains Are Drawn From Broken Ice
'Off Jackson Park,
Chicago, Jan. 27.—Floating in the
lake at the foot of Sixtieth street the
body of a woman 5100 found yesterday
afternoon. '1110 body was almost head-
less, and there was no clothing, The
lack of clothing is believed to indicate
murder almost to a certainty,
Frank Johnson, 317 Sixty-third street,
saw the body as he passed on the break-
water along the front of Jackson Park.
When he was almost opposite the Ger-
man building, which has been standing
since the world's fair. lie noticed a dark
object rising and falling in the waves
of ice and water,
As soon as Johnson saw that it was a
human forth ho summoned James Gavin,
a park policeman. They were unable
to take the body to land, and notified
the Woodlavn police station.
Identification seems nlmoot impossi-
ble. Aeoordtng ,to Lieut. Monahaat, of
the Woodlawn station, the body proba-
bly has been in the water for two
months. The police were unable to die -
coven whether the woman's head had
been crushed in the ice or had been
chopped off,
At the undertaker's it was aaid that
the body was that of a woman weighing
frail 130 to 140 pounds, It ie estimated
that she was about 5 feet 4 inches in
height. From the condition of the,
hands and fent it is 'believed that ahe
was net an old woman. Seemingly, she
was between 25 and 36 years old,
Detectives Leahy and Walsh, of the
Woodlotvn station, were detailed on the
mystery by Lieut, Monahan. They made
0 search of the records of the missing
women last evening, but were unable to
fix the identity of the dead woman by
the names of those who have disappear-
ed and have not been found.
At the place where the body floated
to the shore there is a long shelving
bench of undressed rock. During the
colder months there are few visitors in
the parka The buildings are closed, and
except for the occasional passing of a
park policeman there is rarely a sound
to break the stillness,
The cold weather of last week filled
the southern part of the lake with
broken ice. Being hemmed in by the
pier that runs into the lake, a. little
south of the German building, the ice
piled high until it filled the space on
tato incline between the water's edge
osln the sidewalk paving, When the
south winds of the lost two dans car-
ried the ice away the lake Was left with
the smaller fragments tossing on it. It
was in this sea that the dead woman
was found.
"If this woman's body had been cloth-
ed, 'we should have agreed at once that
she had committed suicide," said Lieut,
Monahan. "It is impossible that her
head was crnehed by the foe in the last
few days, but it is equally possible that
she was killed, her head severed, or al-
most severed, from her body before she
was thrown into the lake,
"Until the coroner's pliysician makes
an examination of her lungs, and deter.
mines whether she was dead when she
was placed in the lake, or died in the
water, it will not be possible for the
police to make ma0h headway."
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THREW TILES AT POLICE.
More Socialist Outrages in Streets of
Berlin.
Berlin, Jan, 27.—There was a serious
oollision late to -day between the polios,
of this city and a numiber of unemploy-
ed, who earlier in the day had attended .
one of the five mase meetings organized
and addressed by the Socialiets, The
police used their sabres When the crowd
hurled missiles at them, andbefore
order was restored many menwere
wounded.
The demonstrnnts,' when they enooun
tered the police, vyere,rnarehihg down
the Schiffbauerel+anal, near the Lust,
paten. The authorities tried to die
perse them, The men at once took up
a position around several piles of tiles
before a new theatre building, and he -
gen hurling the tiles at the police. The
policemen were at once reinforced by
a mounted detachment, which charged
the crowd with drawn sabres. The men
scattered and fled, but not before many
had been injured.
Several Socialist members of the
Reichstag addressed the mess meetings
and called upon the State and the mu-
nicipality to provide employment for
those without work. They declared
that among the unemployed in Berlin
there were 24.020 skilled artisans be.
longing to trades unions,
INFANT WAS MURDERED.
Body Found in Culvert on Queen Street
West, Toronto.
Toronto deepateh: At an inquest held
at the City Hall las',. night the jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect that a
male infant,, found in the culvert at the
corner of Ohloiavenare and'Quoen-'etrdet,
had";been deliberately, 'murdered, At the
inquest last night Chief Uoroher Johnson
and'. Dr. Harrington 'gave' the medical
evidence. This showed that ; the child
had certainly been it live, healthy babe.
It was slightly decomposed, but could
not have been in the culvert' long. There
were marks on the head that clearly
Indicated violence.
TWIN SISTERS
SEEK FREEDOM FROM MARITAL
YOKE.
Husband of One Testifies for Othe'r—
Maude and Mabel, Each Suing for
Divorce From Erring Spouses, Ap-
pear in Court Same Day.
Buffalo, Jan. "27,—Tho nevem Twins
1111(11,' their debut in special term of the
Supreme Court before Justice Brown ycs-
tovlay--both mutely, broth 0110i0US to
be rid of their respective husbands,
The first of the twiva to appear was
bus. Mande M. Lambert, > tall, pretty
and well groomed. She sued John E.
Lambert, Inn., for absolute divorce. She
told the court that her home is in May-
ville, and that her husband lives at 107
'Phomas street, He is an mini/mer, Iler
maiden name was Caldwerl.
A witness had testified to Lanbert's
rv'ron doings nt ( istel Reach in July
of last year, four years after the m;u'-
riage ceremony. Francis Lambert, bro-
ther of the defendant, is biiy, took the
stand for his complaining sister-iu-law,
ate snore that he had found his brother
and a girl named Mabel Fransworth in a
house at 4711 Maingan street during the
Elks carklival in 1005. After Mfrs, Lam-
1
bent had testified, Judge Brown a0-
uouuced his intention of granting an
interlocutory' decree; During the pro•
ceedngs .Lambert looked steadily at his'
pretty wife, who steadfastly refused to
return his glaze.
"\ars. Graham," railed George N.
Pander, attorney for both sisters, and
the plaintiff in the action irf Mahal II,
Graham against William F. Grnhamtook
the. stand. Twin No. 2 is considerably
shorter that het' sister, but resembles her
strongly*, and is good-looking, She proved
her marriage iage on arch 18, 1004, She
said she was living with her parents in
SontJl Park avenue, near West Seneca,
and thr,at her husband was a steel plant
worke
Then, to the amazement of those in the
court room, Lambert, the ex-husband,
tool: the stand in behalf of his former
sister -indent Ile aware that lie and the
plaintiff's husband had gone to the Can-
andaigua hotel in June, 1900, and had
remained all night. Graham's compan-
ion he called Helen, and said sem was
tell, with incandescent hair,
Then Lawyer Bander asked the court
to postpone filial ,jtidglnent,uptil'to=day
that he might present an affidavit by
Wallace La Forge, of Bird avenue, who
is 1100' in Toronto.
As the party left the court moth, twin
No. 1 smiled softly at her ex-hnsbanl,.
who hal helped to free' her sister from
an irksome yoke.
CANAL OVER THE ALPS.
Plans Prepared to Connect Genoa.- With
. Lake Constance.
Rose ,Ian, 27.—To float'veosels ovar
the Alps is the latest engineering 'marvel
projected in Europe. Signa' Canieada,
an eminent engineer, proposes to connect
Lake Constance with Genoa by a ental
built on at entirely new plan, which will
enable hoots to cross the Alps,
Instead of the usual system of locks
by which canals are raised to higher
levels, the trans•Alpine, canal will be
constructed 011 the apparently impossible
basis of inclined 'tubes." There will be
a double line of tabular canals ten miles
long and divided by loekgates into 137
sections.
The water will descend through both
canals, but will cross to each alternate-
] ly, so that while a boat descends with
the sinking water in one section of -'one
tube, another vessel will'risc with the
rising water 111 a lower section. These
iuclinetl female will be constructed of
masonry and tete gates will be of iron.
The highest point of the waterway
will be at Isolate, in the Splugen
alfopt 3,000 feet. -
GOOD T1MS.'
Van Horne Says Business Will Soon'
Boom.
New 3 oil , ,7art,'?7.—sit 11'111, C. Van
Home, Chauumn of the Canadian Paci-
fic who:urrived.here from Cuba, yester-
day, 101 optimistic on the business outt-
look, lie expressed the belief that the
wheels of business would soon revolve
at their eorinal speed.
"This has been a very severe depres-
sion," he said, ':and in my ,judgment
the rebound will be speedy. One caul sec
why steel and copper industries have
been paralyzed so that not fifty per
cent. of the normal production or manu-
facture is the case. The large corpora-
tions, could not get money because they
could not sell their securities except at
ruinous • prices—now stoney is beeoniying
easy. The securities market especially in
bonds, is better and 50011 corpor'atiens
will be able to sell their securities ngaiu,
11'ibien securities are being sold one Will
God an immediate response 1n 1)1111s -
trial circles, Bush,ess vvia imedatnly- im-
prove."
IMMIGRANTS' EVANCES,
Parliament to Enquire Into Charges
Against Shipping Companies.
Ottawa, Jan. 27.—Recent allegations
by immigrants of poor food and unsure
Story condition' on 'shipboard will lead
to a Parliamentary, enquiry as to bliair
truth, Mr, Ralph •'Smith, 111, P., 4111,
at the first meeting of the ComMittee
on Agriculture and Colonization, move
to munition several witnesses to testi-
fy as to the conditions under 'which
they were conveyed to this country.
Representatives of tete steamship cone
panies will also be subpoenaed.