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THE EVENING BULLETIN.
VOLUME XXII.
MAYSVILLE, KY., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1903
NUMBER 259.
T Tt"v?'W.'''"lWi'v,.
A FILM) WOMAN,
Claims That She Was'Wedded to
Lieut Sidney S. Burbank,
Sixth Infantry.
THE OFFICER DENIES THE CHARGE
He Filed a Suit to Annul the Alleged
Marriage in Order to Clear
His Record.
Lieut. Burbank, It Is Reported, Is Be
trothed to a Society Girl of Leav
enworth, Kan., Where He
Is Now Stationed.
, Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 2C First
Lieut Sidney S. Burbank, Sixth In
fantry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth,
filed Bult In tho district court Friday
to annul a pretended marriage with
Mrs. Conception Vazques, a Filipino
woman. Tho filing of this suit Is the
outcome of o charge mado by Mrs.
iVazques to tho war department last
spring that Lieut. Burbank was mar
ried to her while In the Philippine is
lands and that she was his lawful wlfo
and wanted him to support her. The
first notice of this alleged marriage
was made public after tho announce
ment of the betrothal of Lieut Bur
bank to a society girl of Leavenworth.
Tho story of the Filipino marriage
of Lieut. Burbank, which he says is a
fraud, comes from Valladollld prov
ince, where Lieut Burbank was In
command of a garrison of United
States troops in 1901. Mrs. Vazques,
.who was a widow with three small
children, lived In the village where
the garrison was situated.
Lieut Burbank came to Fort Leav
enworth a year ago and a report fol
lowed him that ho was married to a
Filipino woman and was the father of
n newborn baby. The Filipino widow
followed this by filing copies of docu
ments, pretending to be a marriage
contract with Lieut. Burbank.
To offset this Lieut. Burbank and
Corp. Burns sent affidavits to the war
department stating that Lieut Bur
bank was not in the village but out on
a camplgn on the date of the pretend
ed marriage. Also that there was no
notice of the marriage posted or an
nounced by the town criers going up
and down the streets of the village
and proclaiming It according to the
Filipino custom, and that the pretend
ed marriage was a fraud and any doc
uments to back it was a forgery.
It is said that Lieut Burbank's solu
tion of the affair is that a justice of
the peace and president of the village,
where Burbank commanded troops,
was Imprisoned for six months for in
subordination; that the justice had
charge of the records and that in his
eagerness to get even with Lieut Bur
bank he permitted the woman to apply
and to make out a marriage certifi
cate. His object In filing the suit hero
is to clear his record.
Under the Kansas divorce laws the
woman has 40 days In which to an
swer. She will not have time to an
Bwer, as It would require at least
three months to prepare any defense
and file it by a person now In the Phil
ippines. CHARGED WITH PEONAGE.
The Trial of Aaron and Archie Dill at
Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 26. In the
case of Aaron and Archie Dill, on trial
before United States Commissioner
Birch for peonage, the testimony tend
ed to show that Charley Hudson, a
Negro, had been stopped on the public
road and forced to work on the farm
of Marshal Dill; that at night he was
placed In a cotton house without win
dows and only ono door and that when
he escaped Marshal Dill pursued and
caught him; and after tying him to a
tree, whipped him with a stick until
the blood came In a stream. Also that
ho waB paid nothing for hiB services
and that his clothes and a little over
ten dollars was confiscated by Marshal
Dill and that during the time ho work
ed thoro ho was beaten over the head
and knocked down and that guns had
been pointed at him and snapped.
Emporia, Kan., Sept. 26. Dr. ChaE.
Gardiner, ono of the best-known and
most successful physicians in the west,
dropped dead from heart failure while
performing an operation at the homo
of a patient
Mayor Indicted By the Grand Jury.
Mattoon, 111., Sept. 26. Mayor Fran
cis M. Menko, of Mattoon, was Indict
ed by a grand Jury on 29 counts charg
ing him with malfeasance and misfea
sance In office. Ho was arrested and
bond was fixed at $2,500.
Pensacola, Fla., Sept 26. Tho Ger
man cruiser Falke, Capt Musculus, ar
rived hero firing tho national salute aB
sho passed the forts and navy yard.
Tho vessel will remain until October 3
,when she will sail for Kingston.
CURTIS JETT 8ENTENCED.
Ko Is to Hang December 18 For tho
Assassination of Jim Cockrlll.
Cynthlana, Ky., Sept. 26. In tho
case of Curtis Jett, convicted for as
sassination of Jim Cockrlll, at Jack
son, Ky., on July 21, 1902, Judge Os
borne ordered Jailer Craigmylo and
Sheriff Leach to bring Jett into court
Friday morning at 10:20. Judge Os
borne ordered him to stand up, and in
tho most unconcerned manner In the
world, ho did so, at tho same time
chewing a stick and looking about the
room as the judge was reciting to him
the indictment in tho caso and then
asked him what he had to say why the
death sentence should not be passed.
Jett said: "Judge, I havo several rea
sons, but I suppose that it is not worth
while to mention them here."
The judge told him that he had tried
to give him a fair trial and to get all
the witnesses here for him. Then he
said to him:
"You aro ordered to be taken back
to jail, and it is the judgment of this
court that between sunrise and sunset
on December 18, 1903, that .you be
hanged by the neck until you are dead
by the sheriff of the county."
Mr. Blanton, Jett's attorney, said:
"Well, judge, there will be many sun
rises and sunsets before he has been
hanged."
To which Judge Osborne said:
"Well, It won't grieve me," and Jett
said to the judge: "There are people
in this county who will be grieved if
I am not hung. But, judge, I do not
think it would you, as you have given
me a fair trial in this case."
Judge Osborno then said he would
send him for safe keeping to another
jail, and Jett asked him please not to
send him to Lexington jail, as he did
not like that place.
Mr. Blanton filed Friday morning
grounds for a new trial and he will
Friday afternoon make a motion and
it will be In all probability overruled,
and then the case will go to the court
of appeals at Frankfort, Ky.
DYNAMITE UNDER A BUGGY.
Contractor Kilted and His Book
keeper Badly Injured.
Washington, Pa., Sept. 26. Samu?l
T. Ferguson, of the Ferguson Con
structlon Co., of Pittsburg, was in
Stantly killed and his secretary, Chas.
L. Martin, of Cincinnati, was proba
bly fatally injured Friday by tho ex
plosion of a stick of dynamite, which
robbers placed under their buggy as
they were driving along the road car
rying $3,600 In a valise to pay off the
men employed on construction work
along the line of the Wabash railroad.
The explosion tore the rig to pieces,
killed Ferguson outright and throw
Martin 200 feet, tearing the left arm
almost from the socket. The satchel
containing tho money is missing.
Two men are under arrest In the
camp of the construction company
and several farmers believe they have
one of the dynamiters cornered in an
abandoned coal mine.
It was In a ravine flanked on one
side by a clump of small trees and on
the other by a sloping field that the
robbers placed the dynamite In the
middle of the road and connected the
explosive with a small insulated cop
per wire to a battery. At the proper
time they pressed a button, and the
dynamite exploded. In the middle of
the road was torn a hole 12 feet long,
seven feet wide and four feet deep.
Both horses were thrown 60 feet and
both were blown to fragments.
AN ENGINEER MURDERED.
Private Detective Held Pending
Investigation.
An
,New York, Sept. 26. Frederick A.
Verdu, a consulting engineer of the
Holland Submarine Boat Co., was as
saulted Friday night in West G5th
street. At the timo of tho assault
Verdu was in company with a private
detective, John Phillips, with whom,
it is said, he had been engaged for
two days in watching a certain house
In the street for some unknown pur
pose. Phillips, who also bore marks
of having been beaten, was detained
as a suspicious person, pending an in
vestigation by the police.
Verdu died early Saturday morning.
PRISONER SHOT TO DEATH.
The
Sheriff and His Posse Battled
With the Mob.
Lynchburg, Tenn., Sept. 26. After a
desperate battle at the Jail door be
tween the sheriff and several assist
ants and 25 white men, in which one
of the latter was shot and seriously
wounded by tho sheriff, a Negro con
fined in jail on a charge of assaulting
a white woman, was taken out and
shot to death by tho mob. Three of
the lynchers were captured Inside tho
jail by tho sheriff and held. One of
them has confessed, implicating 13
members of tho mob.
Middiesboro, Ky Sept. 26. John
Jones shot and killed Lawrence Duffy
on ono of tho principal streets of Mid
diesboro Friday.
BARS LIQUOR MEN.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge 1. 0.
0. F. Voted Down a Resolu
tion to Admit Them.
NO FIXED SALARY FOR GEN. RANEY
A Proposal to Admit to Membership
Persons of Mixed Blood Was
Defeated on a Vote.
In the Prize Contest For the Exempli
fication of the Degrees Several
Indiana Lodges Carried Off
$150 Silver Cups.
Baltimore, Sept. 26. At tho session
of the sovereign grand lodge, I. O. O.
V., Friday a proposal to admit to mem
bership persons of mixed blood was
defeated, as was also a resolution to
grant the patriarchs militant a direct
representation in the sovereign grand
lodge.
Tho resolution to fix the salary of
Gfn. M. A. Raney, commander of the
patriarchs militant, at $1,200, was lost.
His remuneration will consist of the
profits on the sale of supplies to mem
bers of that branch of the order.
i After a spirited debate the resolu
tion to permit liquor dealers to join
the order was defeated.
Prizes for the exemplification of de
grees, contests for which occurred dur
ing the week, were announced Friday
night as follows:
Initiatory degree, Meridian lodge, In
dianapolis, Ind.; first degree, first
prize, Federal City lodge, Washington
D. C; second prize, Woodward lodgo,
Woodward, la.; second degree, first
prize, Woodward lodge, Woodward,
la.; second prize, Meridian lodge, In
dianapolis, Ind.; third degree, first
prize, Columbus lodge, Washington, D.
C; second prize, Woodward lodge,
Richmond, Ind.; Itebekah degree, Syl
via lodge, Indianapolis, Ind.; encamp
ment degree, Cynosure lodge, Syra
cuse, N. Y. The prizes consist of sil
ver cups valued at $150 each.
MRS. DAVIS' CONDITION.
The Woman Is Still Critically III
the Castle Inn.
at
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept 26. Mrs. Jeffer
son Davis is still in a critical condition
at the Castle inn. Drs. Harles G.
Stockton, Roswell G. Park and Allen
Jones have been in continuous attend
ance on the patient throughout the
day and night At 11 o'clock Dr.
Stockton said Mrs. Davis condition
was unchanged.
There were some signs of improve
ment at noon, but they did not con
tinue and toward evening Mrs. Davis'
condition again assumed a more seri
ous aspect A telegram was sent to
Mrs. J. A. Hayes, of Colorado Springs,
a daughtor of Mrs. Davis, summoning
her to her mother's bedside.
Castle inn, where Mrs. Davis is ill,
was formerly the home of Millard Fill
more, president of the United States.
FOR A COLLEGE AT DES MOINES.
Wealthy Iowa Citizen and Wife Con
veys Property Worth $5,000,000.
Des Moines, la., Sept 26. Frederick
M. Hubbell, one of the wealthiest citi
zens of Iowa, his wife, Frances E.
Hubbell, Joining, has conveyed prop
erty to tho value of about $5,000,00')
to himself and his sons, Frederick C.
Hubbell and Grover C. Hubbell, of Des
Moines, "trustees of the said Freder
ick M. Hubbell and estate," and to
their successors in trust for the trus
tees and their lineal descendants with
a "limitation over," as tho lawyers
term It, to the stato of Iowa to be used
in founding a college of learning in
the city of Des Moines.
JUDGE PETER S. GROSSCUP.
No Tender of the Position of Counsel
Has Been Made to Him.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 26. It was an
nounced Friday night by a high offi
cial of the Northern Securities Co.
that no tender of the position as coun
sel for the Northern Securities Co. had
been made to United States District
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of Chicago,
and that such a tender is not and has
not been contemplated. This state
ment is made in justice to Judge
Grosscup.
Ruth Bryan's Wedding Day.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 26. The mar
riage of Miss Ruth Bryan and W. H.
Leavltt, of Newport, will take place
Saturday evening, October 3, at Fair
view, tho home of tho Bryans. Rev.
Dr. Swearlngen, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will officiate.
Wise, Va., Sept 26. Clifton Bran
ham, ono of the most vicious outlaws
that haa invested the Cumberland
mountains for years, was executed
here Friday at noon "
TROOPS ASSEMBLING.
Gen.
Bates Is On Hand For the
neuvers at West Point, Ky.
Ma.
Camp Young, West Point, Ky., Sept
26. With the commanding general on
the ground and all preliminaries die
posed of, the regular troops from tho
department of tho lakes began arriv
ing here Friday, while others wero
leaving the stations in the different
pnrts of the country for the second se
ries of instructive war maneuvers.
About 14,000 troops, including mili
tia from Indiana, Illiois, Ohio, Michi
gan, Kentucky and Wisconsin, will
participate. The regular troops tak
ing part represent all branches of the
service except the heavy artillery.
The maneuvers proper will not be
gin until October 2, by which time all
the national guards will have arrived.
ANOTHER FEUD POSSIBLE.
Tom Caskey, Who Killed His Cousin
Recently, Shot Down.
West Liberty, Ky., Sept. 26. Tom
Caskey, who killed his cousin, Forrest
Caskey, a short time ago in this coun
ty, was shot to death Friday at Elk
Fork, four miles from here. Tho
brothers of Forrest Caskey are accus
ed. The sheriff and a large posse
havo gone to make an arrest. The
excitement Is high. It is predicted
that this Is the beginning of a bad
feud, as tho Caskey families are among
the largest In the county and are
about equally divided. All are fighting
people.
Stung By a Poisonous Bug.
Newport, Ky., Sept 26. Miss Jen
nie Sproull is suffering from the ef
fects of an unusual and annoying ac
cident that occurred to her a few
nights ago. While asleep some kind
of a poisonous insect stung her just
on the edge of the left eye. The next
morning her eyelids swelled to almost
twice their natural size and an ab
scess formed. For a time it was fear
ed she would lose her eyesight.
A Young Woman's Deeds.
Marion, Ky., Sept. 26. Miss Agnes
Travis, a young woman of good family,
Friday cut the throat of Milton Car
ley with a razor and then wounded
herself in llko manner. They will die.
Carley had for five years paid court
to Miss Travis, but a week ago mar
ried another girl and this Is thought
to have prompted the deed.
Soldiers Turn Carpenters.
Jackson, Ky., Sept. 26. Tho sol
diers, stationed here, have turned car
penters and have been repairing the
sidewalks. Capt. Longmire proposed
to the board of trustees that if th
town would furnish lumber and naih,
he would have his men repair the side
walks, which aro In bad condition.
Sells All Mineral Rights.
Madisonville, Ky., Sept. 26. The
Gordon Land Co., of this city, has sold
all its mineral rights, consisting of
sevoral thousand acres of fine coal
lands, to the St. Bernard Coal Mining
Co., of Earllngton. The St. Bernard
Co. now controls over half the mineral
rights in Hopkins county.
Woman Died In the Depot.
Guthrie, Ky.. Sept. 26. Mrs. Jemi
ma Thomas, while en route from
Plattsburg, Mo., died in the passenger
depot hero of heait failure. Sho had
$38.05 in money and a note in her
pocketbook saying that she was on ho
way to her daughter, Mary Cole, of
Elizabethtown, Ky.
Will Go To West Point.
Covington, Ky., Sept. 26. Company
I, of Covington, Kentucky stato
guards, 57 strong, will leave for West
Point, Ky., on next Tuesday, where
they will take part In the array ma
neuvers to be hold there. The Cov-
Ington company will be part of tho
First battalion.
New Railway Bridge Collapsed.
Hopklnsvllle, Ky., Sept. 26. Tho
Tennessee Central Railroad Co.'s new
bridgo over the Canton pike collapsed,
causing a loss of several hundred dol
lars Hands were at work on the abut
ments when the accident occurred, but
escaped injury.
Salvation Army Cavalry Welcomed.
Mayklng, Ky., Sept. 26. The Salva
tion army cavalry which Is Invading
the Kentucky feud district will be nsk
ed to conduct services at Bentley, Ky.,
and Pound, Va., villages on the route
between Whitesburg, Ky., and Wise
C. H Va.
Boy Accidentally Shot Himself.
Paducah, Ky., Sept. 26. John Pop,
aged 13 years, was fatally shot at
Woodvlllo, this county, while taking a
Bmall riflo down from a rack. Tho
weapon was accidentally discharged,
the bullet striking him in the head.
Cynthlana Select Team Defeated.
Lexington, Ky., Sept 26. Kentucky
stato college defeated a Cynthlana se
lect team Friday In a football gamo
by tho scoro of 39 to 0. Stato college
will mako a strong bid for tho Ken
tucky championship this fall.
POLAR EXPEDITION
Steamer America Encountered
Unusual Artie Conditions Dur
ing the Month of Juty.
A LETTER FROM ONE OF THE PARTY
Immense Quantities of Ice Were En
countered in Barentz; Sea With
Absence of Animal Life.
Many Dead Birds Were Seen It Is
Thought There must Have Been
Some Unusual Disturbance
of Nature.
New York, Sept. 26. The steamer
America, which is bearing the Zlegler
polar expedition northward, encoun
tered unusual Arctic conditions during
tho month of July, according to a let
ter Just received by William Zlegler
from Anthony Fiala, who is in com
mand. The letter was written in tho
Barentz sea on July 20, and was
brought south by a sealer, which the
America met Immense quantlti03 of
ice wero encountered; there was a
strange absence of animal life, and
many dead birds were seen on the
cakes of floating ice. It is thought that
there must havo been some unusual
disturance of nature. Tho letter Is as
follows:
"We left Archangel on the Fourth r,i
July, but were delayed by a storm In
the White sea, reaching Vardo, Nor
way, July 9. At Vardo we took on ad
ditional coal and water, leaving there
the evening of the 10th. Since thpn
we have been skirting the edge of the
ice pack vainly looking for a lead. Wa
made a direct course from Vardo,
striking the Ice at 38:30 longitude
east, 77 north latitude, and then went
into the ice to 75:38 north latitude
but It was so cold that we returned
and went eastward and southward
along the edge of the pack looking for
a lead until we were near the shore,
in plain sight of Nova Zembla la3t
night in latitude 72:45 north. Net
finding a lead of any character worth
going Into the Ice, we are returning
northward and westward, where we
Intend to push into the Ice between
the 46th and 47th parallels of east lon
gitude as Capt. Coffin thinks It will bo
the best place t try to force our way
"Instead of being a particularly good
year as to ice conditions, the Indica
tions thus far seem to prove other
wise, and the strange silence, the lack
of life that broods over this waste of
ice Is peculiar. We have, indeed
struck a pecular season. Numbers of
dead birds strew the cakes of ice and
not ono polar bear has been sighted
and only a stray seal once In a grea
while. It either indicates immense
fields of Ice north or lots of open wa
ter; let us hope for the latter. Every
thing aboard has been pleasant and
harmonious. Men are In splendid con
dition and happy, although Impatient
to get north. The horses and dogs
are in particularly good form and we
are particularly thankful for the coal
we took on at Vardo, for we shall need
every ounce of it, as we look at the
long, unbroken mass of ice."
EXTRAORDINAY SCENES.
A French Landlord Narrowly Escaped
Bodily Harm.
Lille, Franco, Sept. 26. Extraordi
nary scenes were witnessed at Armen
tieres. A landlord having decided to
evict a defaulting tenant, the father of
12 children, a crowd of about 3,0uo
persons oragnized a hostile demonstra
tion before the landlord's house which
the police protected. During the even
ing a polico magistrate attempted to
arrest a demonstrator who had thrown
a brick at him, whereupon the mob
burst through the police lines and en
tered and sacked the house, tho in
mates of which hastily escaped by i
backdoor. Tho rioters next attacked
the magistrate's house, adjoining, anl
he and his wife and children werQ
compelled to escape over the roofs.
Reinforcements of gendarmes finally
dispersed the mob, but the officers
were unable to make any arrests.
THE SEALING FLEET.
The First Schooner Arrives at Victoria
From Behrlng Sea.
Victoria, B. C, Sept. 26. Tho seal
Ing schooner Casco, the first of the
fleet to arrive from Behrlng sea, re
turned Friday with 645 skins. She
brought tho first news from tho seal
ers. No seizures were made. Tho Vic
torla fleet of 19 schooners mado
catches averaging from 400 to 600
skins to tho beginning of September.
Moro Japanese vessels than ever en
ter Behrlng sea this year. There were
13 in all, and all wero using firearms
and sealing within threo leagues of
tho rockeries, the Japanese not allow
ing themselves to bo governed by mo
dus vivendj.