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THE TBIES-DISPATCH: RICHMOND YAV6ATURDAY MARCH J5 1913 WOMAN IS RESCUED No matter how pure a water may be as it flows from the spring unless it is handled and bottled in a sanitary manner it is liable to become contaminated before it reaches the consumer Broad Rock Water is bottled in a complete and up-tp--minute sanitary plant and every bottle is scaled at tne the-minute spring White teeth billions of them! This Is Latest Development in Tangled Affairs of Widow He Jumps Into Water to Save Stranger Who Attempts to End Life Bpeeteito The Tlmee-Dlspatchj Norfolk Va lUfcK Despondent beciuM of domeatle troubles lift Mary Keating of Boston Jumped ever-board from the Old Dominion' Steam-ahip Company wharves at the foot ot Church Street thla morning She was readied however by Sam Thomas a negro' employe and wan cent -to St MoapltaL where It' la aaid Broad Rock Water Reaches YOU Wonderfully Pure Where? Everywhere chewing wcGimi CAVALIERI CH EX-WIFE WILL WED MURATORE TENOR aha will recover '-The nature of her domeatle unhappiness or when or why aha came to Norfolk to attempt to take her own Ufe haa not been teamed Mho la aald to have told the phyaldan aha haa a huabaad and dve 'children 1 The woman walked directly to the end of the wharf without atopplng to apeak to any one and put down her umbrella and handbag and Jumped overboard In plain view of a doaen or more persons While aeveral of thoae Who aaw her take the plunge were looking for a rope and ladder to throw to her the negro Jumped after her andnwam to the piling with the woman Thejwo came aahore on a Udder that waa lowered for them' every minute Special to Tho Tlmea-Dlapatch New York March Philip Van Volkenburgh to-day filed In the Supreme Court a summons la an action for absolute divorce that he has started against Mrs NeVada Van Volkenburgh The summons was served on her nt the Hotel Vanderbilt last Thursday Little could bo learned to-day about this latest development In the matrimonial affairs of tha S100t0000 because the complaint In the action haa not been filed and Samuel WaldelL attorney for Van Volkenburgh declined to discuss tha case Mrs Van Volkenburgh since a short time after her marriage to Phillip Van Volkenburgh haa been seeking relief from the courts She first brought a separation action charging her husband with abandonment and inadequate support He replied with a counter suit In which the name of a prominent lawyer waa aald to have been mentioned- The original answer In thla suit was -later amended and finally the separation action was quashed Then Mrs Van Volkenburgh started an action to recover SI 90000 from her husband alleging that this sum was due her as recompense for her living expenses during the past two years The trial of this action haa been set down for next Monday In the Supreme Court Mrs Van Volkenburgh was the widow of William Hays Chapman when ah met Van Volkenburgh It waa reported that she inherited $10-00000) from Chapman but she declared this waa an exaggerated estimate of her fortune Soon after Mr Chapman's death she went to Europe and was eourted by noblemen Many reports of her engagement to titled minors were cabled from foreign correspondents-Upon her return to New York she waa sued by artists who claimed that they bad painted her picture on order and had not been paid for their services Mrs Van Volkenburgh retained her counsel Edward Lauterbaoh and be always won her suits for her On tbe witness stand at the last trial he admitted he was an sdmiter of Mrs Van Volkenburgh and had her photograph In his apartment LIST OF DEATHS Smiles are appetites sharp Purify your' breath for the evening ki with thegoody i Continued From Flrat Page) 7 7v- ities and oven to-night only an ap-1 proximate eatlmate wax poxelbla Five persons were killed la Madison and Hendereon Counties Tenneaaea At Lexington Tenn three pereone were killed and 100 houaea were wrecked Four children were killed at lluling Tenn Provencal La la reported to have been virtually wiped out Eight persona were killed In North-era Mississippi 1 Frier manager of the New Miaa office of the Cumberland Transportation Company was one of the victims Six persons were killed la tho vlcln-tty-of Gadsden 1 A Soul hern Railway train that left for the tornado-swept 1 territory this morning was wrecked in the vicinity of Atlanta five sons' are -known to-be dead At Dalton Ga tremors of earth were felt rafter the cyclone passed and many houses were rocked infsnt was killed In Sabine Par-? Ish La (Continued From First Page) i- -ii: vv Agfa! v-r: p-vViTdagg therefore declined all Invitations away from the city "Will yefu not eonvey to all ooa-cerned In this very kind Invitation by which I feel highly honored my appreciation of their klndneea and consideration and express to them my deep regret that I cannotbe prssentT" V' Hilled by Llghtalag Baltimore Md March Lou I a Sampson a wealthy Chicago man was killed early to-day by a bolt of lightening during a terrific thunder etoraf which was a part of the tornado that swept over' this Stale Mr Sampson waa struck while riding -horseback along tbo bank of Patuxent River Mia wife -la thought to -be a guest at the Hotel Manhattan New TorkClty Mleves Kssns Dead V' Calhoun Ga March 14 Eleven IT BY THE vrv I 'l i It cost less-of aioy dealermul LINA 'fi'i Special to Tho Tlmes-Dlapatch Detroit Mich March Lina Cavallerl the world-famous diva la to be i known dead thirty injured and great' uli damage to property waa tha- reauit of its freshness until iiaeiL 1 'L-- i u't kT -F Look for the spear Avoid imitations Will Net Be Candidate Princeton N-' J- March President Woodrow Wilson has declined to become a candidate for election to the board of trustees of Princeton Univer for which he wee proposed by a number 'of the alumnL He hue notified the alumni that the press of duties would prevent hie acceptance If elected nt thle time Ths office Is similar to that ht Harvard and Yale held by Ex-Preetdents Roosevelt end Taft respectively President John Grier Hlbben took the opportunity In chapel thle morning to make brief mention of the great gratification which the university naturally felt over the announcement ot the gift of the lets Ferris 8 Thompson which will net the university about 9S00(M00 1 the -aiortn which swept Calhoun and vicinity laat night Revised list of dead: Mrs Mary Reehley Mrs Jasper Walrsvrs Lesler alravrs -Mrs Msare BaraelL Five children of Lewis Bolt between ages two and fourteen Child of Jack Bed rJ U1 yiartls married In Detroit on March 21' to Lucien Muraters leading tenor of tha Paris Grand Opera with whom aha la now touring ths United States Notice to make suitable arrangements for the-ceremony was received today by her advance manager In Detroit i Since tho divorce of Mms Cavallerl from ex-Sherlff Bob Chanter numerous rumors of now matrimonial alliances have been abroad one connecting ber name with that of William K' Vanderbilt and the laat one with Murators with whom she sailed for thla country In February Within a week after they landed they were reported married but at that time they denied even an engagement Tho telegram tq her manager however makes It look- like a sure thing thla time ureas Ads ji Taken Saddealy III Boaton March Mms Una Cavallerl who was to have sung In "Carmen to-morrow at the Boston Opera House was- taken auddenllll to-day has forbidden her appesranen Dr Emerson to-night Issued A statement thet the diva la so 111 that tha use of an opiate is necessary The nature of the illness is not disclosed Indicated may not fill tho vacancy for tlan Church -The body Is to beitakien'l everal weeks --v to Wythe vlllq ior burial Sunday aftsfi noon In addition to her aged bu4'is bend Mrs McWane la survived 'h the following children: Henry 5 Wane of Lynchburg: McWane otM Birmingham Ale Robert CL McWane Mj McWane ef'jjg Veteran Gloucester Soldier and Legte- later Wants to Come Back Toms Creek: with the President on tho tariff situation unless invited Two sessions wera held to-day Chairman Underwood expects to finish the work by the close of this month so that the Democratic caucus may pass upon the revision plan qutekly upon the convening ot the extra session Emerson and her physician Dr CWans ef Lynchburg VfrsJ Mahoney irg: Mrs Guido Kegley of Wythi- viSioMPh Hurt ofr Radford Sets lee One' Walt 1 Asked fee Cheseh Address Washington March 14 President Wilson will be asked to-morrow by a number ofmlnlstera and othera Interested in a movement to get all men In the District of Columbia to1 attend church to address a large mass meeting probably tha last Sunday in April under the auspices of The local Christian Endeavor Union They will call upon Secretary Bryan later to ask him to deliver a eerlee of four or six lectures ot an evanga-Uxtio character at meetlnga for men vnisr- Wythe- Hesly MINT 1 to The Lynchburg Ve March lSS-TOe MTee Mary Ann Healy-whe afternoon at her- home lnV-' Rlvermont took place this morning at Si an Major Stubbs of Gloucester who has probably had more years of service in the General Assembly then any other living man' has announced hls candidacy for tha House of Delegatee from Gloucester in -the ensuing election He states that he has no platform at this time and hopes a State convention of Democrats will bo had to form a platform Falling' this ha will announce hla principles later -Hls public service in tha Legislature began in 1ST1 whan one-fourth tha members of tha House of Delegatee were negroes He served through the troublous times of reeonstru tlon and again In tha etorjny days of Roadjuster agitation Ha haa been -In both tho Senate and House serving' In most of tho sessions In the last forty years' Captain Baker whoso record Is nearly aa long is again a candidate from Chesterfield County Ho will probably bo opposed In the primary by Brucs of Chester Captain Baker has high rank bring now- chairman of tho Committee on Insurance and Banking and ranking member on Flnancs- Its Work fa Teuaeeeee Memphis Tenn March Twenty-seven parsons ware killed In the storm which swept through five counties Is VNiiltra Tennessee and part of Tennessee yeeterday and thirteen 'fatalities are reported fom aevea countiea In Northern Mississippi Ea-' timates as to the numbed Injured be made with an degree of ac- CuVacy The property damage' la it roughly" estimated at approxlraasely 'i half a million dollar Wlr commu-ntcatlon to a number of points In the path of tho tornado la atilt Interrupted The 1 principal towna damaged are Gunlown Baldwyn and Beldon- Miss gad Laxlngton Camden land Hinson Springs Tenn The atorm pteyed great havoc howover on the plantations and small farming setUements -J Of tha larger town Lexington was probably tho moat aaverely damaged Fifty-seven buildings 'Including the Cumberland and Christian' churehes -were wrecked The property damage is estimated at $16flfl00 Twelve rest- dencea were demollahed at Camden and -at Hinson Springs the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad station and several other buildings were wrecked At Guntown Baldwyn and Beldon Miaa' a number of residences were '''damaged buildings In tha business district unroofed and in' one InaUnce at Gun town tbe aid of a bank build-si' ing waa blown -out' On tho plantations hundreds of farm houses were torn to plsee barns do-i moIished and tho wreckage of lnnumar-able negro cabins la atrawn over corn and cotton fields 10 olic Rev at the Holy Cross Cemetery Maria Bril Phrisa to The Tlmes-Dlapatch! Bell Phfllpi widow of '5 ofher mnd nT7F the homo Death was duo paralysis Bhe was seventy-two years axs Mrs Phelps was a native of Appomattox County 8h IUniniiI': Appomattox County Bhe is survived Washington Marsh The ctvll ervloe as applied to ths eoneula ear-vies of the government is a subject that will be ecudled thoroughly by Secretary of State Byyaif In tbo near future and la expected the matter wUl be taken' up with President Wilson as soon ea Its effectiveness Is dte-termlned It has been reported to XtSryri-that of ths candidates for conaulhr pooltlona who have passed tha clvH ssrvics test and those now occupy Ins posts under civil service appointment IS per cent ere Republicans That only per cept of the successful applicants were Democrats administration lead-are are Inclined to regard as somewhat unusual Secretary! Bryan aald to-day however thet many things of more pressing Importance were engaging hie and tha Presldanfs attention Juatat this time "Tho consular said Mr Bryan leas wait until other things of more urgent importance have bean determined It will be considered thoroughly when wo come to It" (Bimetal In Tka Cabinet Members Need Rest -Washington March 14 Half of the members of President Wilson's Cablqet will spend ths week-end or longer at their homes driven from Washington for rent after ten arduous days in of-floe or by tho necessity of arranging personal affairs preparatory to an extended atay at tha capital Office-seekers have worried some of the Cabinet officers -to a point whero relief was demanded Secretary Mc-Adoo leaving for New York to-day declared vhat city -would seem "like green fields compared to Secretary Garrison left for his homo In Jersey City and Secretary Wilson for Blosaburg' Pa -Secretary Houston Is en route to SL Louis Secretary Bryan will leava Sunday for hla home at Lincoln Neb to attend a dinner In honor of hla fifty-third birthday anniversary March 1 He will be absent from Washington about ten days 7 Bmlthfloldp Va- March Jamca Air veteran i St hl! ftr Hngeri3: The funeral services will conducted from ths Methodist Clifton Forge Lawyer Likely to Enter the Race for Attor- -f ney-GeneraL So much encouragement haa been given Floyd King of Clifton Forgs who' is considering the matter of entering the race for the Democratic nomination for Attorney-General in the August primary that It la quite probable bis announcement of candidacy will be made within a short time Mr King la now Richmond add will talk with cltixens bora to-day: Ho -has-been in many parte of tbo State and feels much encouraged over tho outlook' Hie service of ono term In the State Senate put him 'In touch with public affaire He wee the author of the law creating pension which Is now tho unanimous policy of ths Virginia State Teachers' Association While In the Senate he addressed him- elf especially to' educational matters 1 Mr King Is an attorney of Clifton Forge and la wall known to lawyers So fsr Attorney -Gen Aral Samuel Williams has no avowed opposition but It appears that he will have It IvTeA widow's two-M Ports-Hjv'fe-? daughters flelil- and mouth Btase Special to The Tlmea-Dlapatch Mra Cowling Mrs Benjamin Pond Breaks Bey's Leg colored boy of 757 North Seventeenth Street was run over by a wagon yesterday afternoon- at tho bottling plant of tho Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company His right leg was broken below tho knes After bring treated by Dr Taylor Hawkins of tha city ambulance ho the City HoepltaL 'A'5- Wilmington Ni March i of Wilmington's forsmoati: Represents Him at 'Benefit Per-' formance for Alum Chine Survivors Baltimore Merck Secretary of tha Navy Josephue Daniels this afternoon made his first public address sines becoming a member of President Wilson's Cabinet He represented the President 'at a theatrical performance 4n the Academy of Music hero for the benefit of the' sufferers from tha Alum C3iln dynamite explosion last Friday Actors from all the companies playing hero gave their aervlees and the on-tire receipts' -from the sale of the tickets wUl go to the families of those who were kilted or' Injured In the disaster The theatre was crowded Mr Daniels' was the guest' of Mayor Preston at a luncheon preceding tho and the Mayor Introduced him at the theatre "The President requests ms to say" aid ths secretary "that he vie very sensible ot the spirit of human sympathy prompting this generous movement for the alleviation ot the suffering' caused by the terrible catastrophe last a catastrophe drhlch sad-I dened the whole country In behalf of the government at Washington and especially In behalf of tha Department of the Navy-1 have come here to-day to express the President's appreciation of this laudable manifestation of brotherly love and charity "And I would add to this message from the President my own grateful acknowledgment of the quick response to the cry of suffering by the generous-hearted oltlsene of this city I must add an appreciation of tha noble spirit whloh prompts the members of that profesaioq 1 always responsive to the cry ot humanity In giving thla Stone one cltlakna died here this afternoon lowing en pperatlon for- appendicitis performed eeveral days ago He was' about thirty-eight years of age and waa prominently connected "with Wll- commercial ilfa: a commercial ilfs At one Merries A marrUgs lleesss was Issusd rssterdsr by ths clerk of the Hustings Court to Mstthsw MseDoussll and Is Estelle Weds Negro Flaed llts Henry Peel colored was lined IlN and coate yeeterday morning in Police Court on tho chorea of carrying a concealed weapon kill Pollard and threatening to 1 Daniels Disapproves Pisa -Washington March 14 Secretary Daniels of ths Navy in disapproving to-day recommendations of ths turret board which called for many expensive changes In older vessels went on record as opposed to tho reconstruction of old naval craft Ha estimates an annual saving to the department of more than 1100000 by turning down the recommendations and declares that experience here and In other countries hows that- tho reconstruction of old vesssla does not pay Tho proposed work Included tho substitution of steal for woodwork In the magaalnee of a numbr of battleships and cruisers time he was in politics haring served 999 Oh Day la ML -Charlaa Jackaon waa triad yesterday In the Hustings Court on tha charga- of patty lareoncy and sentenced to a fine of ft and to serve one day In Jail Ho paid tho Sna and will oomplata hls jail sente ace this morning Burleson Developing -Hla Plan 1 Washington March 14 Postmaster-General Burleson to-day began developing hla plan to prescribe a civil service examination for fourth-class post-' masters He consulted with- Civil Service Commissioner John A Mcll-renny who told him It would bo practical to hold examinations that would ba true teats of the applicants' ability The fourth-daea postmasters nearly 40000 of them now are In tho classified service having been placed there by executive orders under the Rooee-velt and Taft administrations Post-nfkster-General Burleson said to-day that the spirit of the civil service was violated In putting all these officers Into tho classified service and that he proposed to piece theqi on a strictly civil service basis "Many of those who to-day hold fro-sltlons as fourth-class aald Mr Burleson "secured them as a the city as alderman and In other cai'! parities He is survived by a-- wife and eeveral children Jonaes Hubbest Brsre Special to The Tlmes-Dlapatch Blacksburg Vs March James Hubbert Brocs thirty years old' the only non of tbs late James pHsi Brocs died at the family horns two miles from Blacksburg fate -Wedns irm day night The funeral was held -thlaf-'l afternoon at o'clock at the horns conducted by Rev Hubbert of the Lutheran Cburnh and burial made In the family cemetery nearby-Mr Brocs graduated In the claee ef ISOS at the Virginia PolytechnlO'In- 1 JudffnMttt FBtsrgil In the ease ot tha Oraeherger Vahkle Co agalnet Thomas Bydnor triad yeeterday in tho City Circuit Court Jury' verdict and Judgment were entered for list OBITUARY FORREST HALSEY Author of Tha Batcltr-Oul" dc 1 Frestea Parr I tuts In tha horticulture course au for several years had basil manager or the Virginia Wholesale Nursery Com- result of pernicious political activity la be The Post-Office Department shoul Million to Be SerrenAers- i Washington- March -14 One-half million dollars will be surrendered by the Federal Treasury to Corporations which during tha past three years have been penalised for failure to ihade corporation tax -returns -within the time limit Congress authorised the refunding of such penalties In excess of $100 provided the delay In submitting returns was dua solely to neglect The new lew also authorises such refunding In ths futurs end It Is said virtually will reduoe to $100 the- maximum penalty which will he assessed against corporations for failure to make reports by March 1 of each year of earning! on which tho tax was 8perlal to Tha Times-Dispatch Bedford City Vs March Preston Parr died thle morning at the yd Clay The fu home of his daughter Mrs Boyd Clay-tor aged sixty-eight years The ry funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon Ha leaves beelded Me a business institution run on seien tlfle business lines I Intend to use tho weight of my-influence to make It Ha added that the plan on which ha was working was hls own that he had not discussed it with President Wilson widow the following childrens! Mrs psny whose property was near hla horns He Is survived by hls mother end two Mieses Lillian end Georgia Brocs ot Montgomery County4' 'i DEATHS -Died et hls restdencs Sf of entertainment to help those who were suddenly brought faoa to face with want' A Boyd Cleytor Mrs Bell and Preeton Farr Jr of Bedford Cltyy Mrs James Hamilton of Austin Tex and Robert Mitchell Parr of Mexico He was in business In Richmond for several years Mrs filtaa MeWeee A young inherited mania lor stealing brings her before a' heartless judge Her attorney discovers an extraordinary relationship' between the two There is an immensely dramatic scene at the trial which alone raises the story out of the ordinary AT YOUR BOOKSELLER'S $125 NET I' 'i A Browne Go Publishers Chicago East Clay Street Thursday at FRED CpMOLI lathe eventh of hls WUl Hear Cowptalsts The Council Committee Bn Finance has sst nsxt Tuesday nlxht at o'nlock as tha time for -hearing any complainta that may be mode against the annual llcanae He Jeeves 99) year age besldqshls widow Special to The Tlmea-Dlapatch 1 Va March Mrs ujrnrnuHtH) tha follow ing' Nash Misses i Tans and one so Tens and one sate Oemeslttee Forging Ahead Washington March -14-Tha House Ways and Meana Committee Democrats ars forging ahead with their work of preparing the tariff rsvlstop hills upon the expectation that the extra session of Congress will- convene about Monday April The comm't teemen do not expect to confer again PswbM Charge Washington March James A Fowler assistant to tho Attornay-Gsn-oral Is acting ns solicitor-general ot the United States pending ths appointment of successor to William Marshall Bullitt rrssldent Wilson It is children: Mrs Emms Teresa Joe Comoll of Hayden Rows 'Maes're-to mourn Ms death Funeral' from St Patrick's Church SUNDAY AFTERNOON at 4 e'clock-SaS Interment in Mount CalvOry Mrs Western Injured Krai Wont era of ui Oakwand Avenue was struck br a street car while cross- Elisa McWane wife of McWans who had been til for weeka at her home at -Radford died yeeterday afternoon her death having been expected for some tlms Mrs McWane had been a lifelong member of the Chris- thtreet In front uf hsr residence and -o '-'-r'-1-'--' 1 1 -v' I 'f -X 7- 1 j- 1 1 77 Ih.

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