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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 5

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1007 SON-IN-LAW DEWITT "THIS TIME DOESN'T COUNT! will apt ure seven treehlee ao many were attacked of our number and haps we an impress them with the porlance of the dignity of our class mi EXPLOSION KILLS TWO; ANOTHER Ail MISSING They Were Pouring On Into Inauguration New Service ACCUSED BY MR. WEBER Seven of the higfest fr shies found themselves engaged in obeying the wishes of the sophomore vigilantes al most before 1 he on t.ie sidewalk at 2:30 o'clock. M.Carty and the only original dog and monkey act of the vaudeville stage beaten to a frazzle in the first -two mtnules of the ebow. Monsell. Medm and Bindal, Ex'Otflcer of Cortelyou Club Plaintiff $250,000 Alienation Suit.

Sprinkling Wagon Who Tank Blew Up. SHOCK HEARD TWO comedy trio and facial 1 ontor; touts' made inny faces at the pretty maid. ti-that sa by. mi. otr I.

tongues a' every hnrh-h-'-l MhrldMl that happened to pass along and tarried on otherwise th- business ot heathen diplomats Jams and Bron gave ear to such sweet muti- 'ha- the reputa- Oflice 817 Hrodw7, teltplKme S5M Sprinj. VlRS. WEBER IS IN ROCHESTER. THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK.

FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER I I Husband Says Her $300,000 Fortune KIPLING IN CANADA, oles pherord in it and l'-r, Williams as telephoned for post -haste, lest som- Body of One Man Found Fifty Feet Away From Where He Had Been Working Damage 85.0 JSRV-W WW WILL HE PLAY HIP VAN WINKLE? SEVEN FRESHMEN MADE D8 SOME FUNNY STUNTS Author Arrives There on the Empress of Ireland. ling, the author, is somewhere on Canadian soli, but Just whore is at the present moment a mystery. The famous witter has -ngaged quarters the Plac Vlger hotel in this city and he is expected occupy fhem some time to-day by tht pin; Kipling rami England on the i-mi'i-, midnight last night. It is Stated, ly .1 morning paper that Kipling left the steamer at Rimouski.

about twelve hours run from ij (went ashore on the government mall lender. He mild lirre ee.l in anv Dart Z'J'T known, is heading for Montreal. 1 LSI train has arrived bur Kioitng I hown up ai the hotel eommodatlons If he comes up from Quebec on the special carrying the Empress of Ireland's, tirst -class passengers, he will not arrive here until this afternoon. LUSITANIA AT LIVERPOOL Breaks the Lucania's Eastward Record From New York to Daunt's Jock. large of Sflptaaber 27 The Cuaerd a met Lusitania, from Mew York, ber 21, arrived here ft 3:66 A.M.

the passage 1 us occupying flva hours and i'J minutes, or three minutes more than her out ward run. The only record broken was that ol the Lucania of the same line. Sandy Hook Lightrhip was passed at P.M. Saturday, September m. and the Lusitania bad covered 369 miles up to noon the steamer had added 52 1 mil.

her previous run. At noon Tuesday she had covered miles more, at noon Wednesday, she had made an additional run of miles; at noon Thursday, she had 52:1 miles more to her credit, and at 3:56 A.M. to-day she had run miles from noon yesterday, to Daunt's Rook, making the total distance, nautical miles, at an average speed of 22. 5S pet-hour. The comparative slowness of the voyage cannot be attributed to fog.

On only one day. Monday, was fog entered in the log, and the ship ran 524 miles that day. only miles below her best day's work. On Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, a strong northeasterly wind, with a rough, beam sea.

was encountered. The American coal was said by th, ng the wb trip, and the stokehole work was not. altogether up to the proper mark. But the confidence of the engineers in the Lusi-tania's ability to beat all competitors things are running more smoothly ed sather of the 1 three days of the trip aud the of the comfort PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. ie Eaale Paris Bureau.

53 Rue Cambon. through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Secretary of Stat meets with the Jamalra Plank village of Jamaica. New York and Queens County Railway company at the intersection of Jacksoi avnue and Thompson av nue, Long Is land City, thcr.ro easterly along Thump nonman uouievani. to 1-111 with double traek.

mm braided in same color, lace collar and messallne tie. RAILROAD EXTENSIONS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany. Sept. of ex- laion of route have en Hied with the iretary of State by the following rall- ro.l companies: Brooklyn Cti Railroad Companv, along iron, l-'iiHon street 1 coniie.

is with the Menhnitan Bridge appronch. Hrooklvn. Queens ami Sobnrlian Railroad Company, by double track, along 'he Borough of along Metropolitan avenue 10 a point where 11 ronnevs wiili tin a Plank I "the nierprlslng theairiral naaafCr I and valuable- tianimous adherence to th. lode of the day. BUI the race reds be nrnv.

led dors ties of pnssionate colors hung in 1 1.. 1. fiv- rs carefully exam ned the nether extremi and ascertained 11:1 ail hosiery tile-proof and all clasps of the standar rlety ami having ascertained also thr angular proper with the Packer maidi pretty hove beautifully THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs.

G. Polhnus, With Chil dren, Grandchildren and Friends, Celebrate Anniversary. The children living are Berlin. Germany, and Carl Walleniers. (iermany.

The Rev rhar.lt of St. Luke's Lot he. REGISTERED IN PARIS. Eagle Bureau, Hue Cambon. Paris, September -Kdlih Neville of lilooinioKt'in.

111., is registered at the Eagle Bureau. AMUSEMENTS. rORPHEUM.iV'V--, GERTRUDE HOFFMAN 1 WINSOR KAY i a i CA ELLI'S midget DOCS i ti a i. i EDWARD CONNELLY CO. MONTAUK MR.

Wl AMTELL GOTHAM NOVELTY BLANEY'S CHILD of the REGIMENT MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. -I II Ml I M. I 1 1 I 24-HOUR AUTO RACE mUKNIb PARK 8 P. M. TO-DAY -iiiui r.

carnegie hall suhday PUPiLLA'S'BANb EDEN IVSL5SEE i '-CINEMATOGRAPH I music Belasco i The Rose of the Rancho I Is Being Wasted by De Witt-Tells Story of Wrongs. When Son-ln-Iaw Dewitt ate all the ijelery aud made Papa-in-law Weber ride in the smoker. Mr. Weber bore up bravely, but when Son-lnlaw Dewitt made him leep in the "built-on" and Wouldn't lei lm play cards with his own familv. as more than poor Mr.

Weber could en- he is suine his son-in-law for 1 101 "ie alienation of Mrs Iffeetions. as related In the Eagle ves iraay aiternooi Mr. Weber has had many trials 4nd tribulations. His daughter rpnnl9tln ..1 swimmer, and -hen got lots of notoriety 1 uy marrying David A. Weis, the th.

brought 1 he John F. Weber family before the public very prcminently. When Mrs. Wets sued for divorce it was a sensation. She got the divorce.

One of 1 he saddest blows to Mr. Weber's life was when his pet child, Maude, a mere girl, married Owen Dewitt. Mr. Weber opposed the unlor, with great sirenuosity, but with Mrs. Weber playing the part of matchmaker, young Dewitt won out.

The marriage took place in November, 1905. Dewitt was then about 28 years old, hailed from Rochester, and -had a little place in Rcade street. Manhattan, where he turned out golf The trouble began at once, so Mr. Weber says now The public iHidu't learn of it until Septemb. I when the Kagle published the story that Mr.

and Mrs. Weber had separated. It was announced then that the separation was caused liv trouble over young Dewitt. The news of the separation was a sensation in Flat-bush, where the Webers had bfon socially, in addition 10 their prominence in the newspapers. Mr.

Weber had been first vice president, of the Cortelyou Club for two years aud his wlf had been head ot the annual progressiv. euchre and reception of the club. After the separation was announced nothing more was heard of the Weber troubles until yesterday when the Eagle told of the suit lor which Mr. Weber has brought against his son-in-law. Mr.

Weber Is very bitter against I)e Witt. He says DeWitt has taken his family away from him, has stolen his wife from him and has got control of the large fortune of Mrs. Weber. "He made my wife turn me out without a cent and now he is living on her money like a king and is keeping tin-. automobiles in a little place like Rochester." Mr.

Weber said to-day: "Since that fellow came into my home I've been no more than a rank outsider After he married my darling daughter, Maude, he came to my home 1, Flm and established himBelf. He took my place at the card table just as naturally as if it had belonged to him always. He became bosB of the house. At the dinner table he was the whole thing. "DeWitt always boasted about his proud lineage and his superiority to Flatbush people, but from the way he ale I was led to believe that be wasn't used to much good food.

1 never saw y. man eat an much and so ravenously. One time I watched him sit. down and eat all the nice heart pieces of the celery without offering any of it to the ladles or to anyone. He had been married jut when he lost his temper game and talked to his wife and the account, of one poor link child in the parlor ear." Mr.

Weber said that he wa mally forced to sleen or ry ension to his Pli said that he did not sleep in 'he exie slon because his son-in-law ordered 10, but because his son-in-law had so di runted the faintly tin in the shed extension, or have the fami "I told my wife it would be better iami(y togetner, Weber told of going to Al bany to develon his Lagoon Island property. Lagoon Island is a sort of Coney Island for Albany and Troy. "While I was up there working hard." said Mr. Weber, "this man DeWitt poi- 1 old her stories fhat false. Why.

she was a tually told that 1 took performers from the ihe island and spent the nighi with them: in Atoany. 1 heard ot these stori-s I came home and tried to prove -h-in untrue. I called up Mrs Weber on the 'phone and b'gged her to see me. She on- of -lie house and I have ni any word with her since. She and the where DeWitt is now posing as a real man.

while he is wasting my wife's hine to himself that he wife to keep my other daugl traveling all the time. She Europe all this summer. "For nearl ytwo years now. I have beer without my family. My sons, two 0 whom are Ithaca, preparing for Cor nell.

have been true to me. and so ha.i rv Dut. Maude has become bitter against me. The sending of my sons to uewiiis noia 1 over my wife. Before he came Into the family all my urging that the sons gc to college served only to make my wlft angry.

She would fly up and say thai slu was going to keep her boys right money at ail i his trol of more than that belongs to my wife and I'm suing him for ali-n- ating her affertions. I rould talk to you for hours of the things that fellow has done, but there are some things I won't tell." business. He says that it is SUtrafNU! ihat his wife should shu him out withoul doing something for him. All the mone and propeny was in her name, Mr. Webei 1s quite friendly wi-h his divorced son-in-law.

Dave Weis. who used to run lb." Columbia Theater in Brooklyn Weis ll now in Texas and writes occasional letters to hit ex-father-in-law. Weber say" there is no ehanee of a reconciliation be-tween Weis and his divorced wife. rd king car all the way Ro.h. s- office." I to I as .1 to 6 nue mv bora "in i been killed by explosion of oil tank in Ihe yards of the Bi and F.leetrli Company Purd nar West Farms Road.

I'nioupoi arly morning Th. ad are: oM-nh Cooler Lhlrty-ftye years old. of Middle-own road, W. st Chester, an cm-ployr of the Morris Park race track. Anoiher holy was found who could be Idem.

II. I. Just ho the axol leioa 01 1 urr-1 will probably u-v be kiious The only wn- dead. be an automobile ra. at used to 1 to keep the hile Coope 1 going me Wo 1 when the 1 xpl a terrific detoi working lr of flame si causa Bn and is tie liny of the City Island EXCURSIONS.

Brooklyn Day Excursion JAMESTOWN Battlefields of Ihe South Leaves New York Oct. Z. Returns Oct. 20. a party of Brooklyn' lending Bureau, ourth I'loo-, r.aule Building.

Telephone Charming Autumnal Excursion. BOSTON ANNUAL TOUR Via Albany, Oct. 1st. $5.00 Round Trip, HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE. ALL FOR $5.00.

CHARMING EXCURSIONS West Point. Newbury and NEXT SUNDAY uestN and GLEN ONOKO New Jersey Central l.i iberty VI. DUNTAIN EXCURSIONS. It I P. II IIMI.

K.il.van Pin a. tT3k THE MAXWELL MOURNERS DIDN'T KNOW OFA WIDOW But Formir Miss Lynch Took Millionaire's Bcdy to Bensonhurst. QUICK DEATH MAKES HER RICH Children of Mr. Maxwell in Manhattan Not Satisfied Funeral From Bay 31st Street House. The death on Monday lai hurst of Charles Maxwell.

11 ident of this city. revel vealthy that the aged man had left a young wife who was all unknown to the sons and daughters. 1 also made ihe young widow a very wealthy young woman. The widow, before she married 1 lie aged man. was Miss Gertrude Lynch, who had resided for several years with her brother.

Frank Lynch, In a handsome house at 15 Bay Thirty-first street. Bensonhurst. It appears that the members of both families have been old friends, but no one supposed for a moment that the aged Mr. Maxwell would marry siderably surprised when ihe Information came to the effect that Mr. Maxwell and Miss Lynch were married at Atlantic City, September last.

The news reached the members of both families when Mr. Maxwell died last Monday. Mrs. Maxwell, as soon as her husband died, left her home in Bensonhurst. and went direct to the apartments maintained by Mr.

Maxwell ip West Ninety-fourth street, Manhattan, and claimed the body. Explanations followed and Mrs. Maxwell's brother, Frank Lyn.h, attended to the remqval of the body to the Lynch home in Ben- Although it was said to-day at the Lynch home that, no ill feeling existed between the two families, Ihe statement was not. indorsed by Mrs. Emma Bronncr, a daughter of Mr.

Maxwell by his first wife. Mrs. Bronner declared her brothers were shocked at the news. It was intimated that Mr. Maxwell's mind had been unbalanced lot some time, and that arrangements were about to be made for of tjie family will be 1 however, of then hrlnir no will.

Mrs, dower right of one-third of the entin estate left bv Mr. Maxwell. Among th, holdings Is the Standard Storage Ware house at. 1681 Broadway, and other valu The fui vices weer held this ynch home in Bay and the interment no: tl. tie.

Thirty-firs' Wnortlawn Mr. Maxwi Wife died in April last, and it was said children. That is given as one reason why he did not inform them of his intention of making Miss Cerirude Lynch his wife. Mrs. Maxwell's sister witnessed the marriage and immediately following the ceremony the bride returned to her liens home, while her husband went to his apartments in Manhattan.

Mr. Maxwell was seized with an internal hemorrhage on the morning of September last, end died within an hour. The statement made in some newspap-pers thai Miss Lynch was employed by ell P. N. CASSIDY INDOBSED.

At a meeting of Eureka Loge. Nn 4.14. International Assoeiation of Machinists, held at Clinton Hall. Tuesday, September 24. a resolution was unanimously adopted Inilnrsing I'hlinp uasaiuy date for the nomination for Sheriff.

WEATHER FORECAST secure it by unlns telephone No. r.71 Mnln from A.M. to (1 P.M. week days. Niylits am SmeltlM, Mulll.

Local probabilities General Weather Con HIGH WATER, x.M.-nr km ifirnof 111,.. Fn SHIP NEWS. at New York To-day. eign Ports To-day. BROOKLYN AND QUEENS FIRES.

Reports of fires and alarms of fire received at Fire Headflunrters. Brooklyn, for the twenty-four hours ended ai SAM, Friday. September 117: CLAIMS BOYS ARE BURGLARS. David Hadd. 12 years old, of 3111 Jamaica avenue; Alvar Smith, 12 years old, of 2D4 Jefferson avenue and I.awn-nee Blile, 13 years old.

of SUM Jamaica avenue, all in Richmond Hill, were arrested rday by Detectives RdallliM and Rlnee KiRtuy ffliW JP H1K Regiment of the Younger Boys Attacked Seven Sophs, Who Vowed Vengeance. VAUDEVILLE ON THE STREET. Likewise a Foot Race That Was Spectacular Two, Who Tell Out, Punished. stpiare and along day afternoon. The the higher grades.

1 outraged ones laid their jefore the class vigilanles sunderson, Ross and Grif-er much wise- counseling AMUSEMENTS. suou ii vi 1 SQUAW THE FOLLY 1 1111 11. THE GREAT EXPRESS ROBBERY star GAYETY morning glories GRAND RQ MAINE "theTon'don MAJESTIC Theatre i ttttiR iiasu fcWm.fl bway mfirtu AVI CARLOTTA The u.W,,, NILLSON in Three of Us PAYTON'S iee av. STOCK CO. THE SIGN OF THE CROSS BBK IH I OKI Hill COLUMBIA JOSIE the Lillle MADCAP II I I inn Brooklyn.

Lower Rates Than All Others. On Household I'innr CiirriiiKes and Trurks, witlumi iViTlC Kennedy 2t9 Fourth Near 23U St. "1 TWi TlV- j1'1 jj abri WEDDING INVITATIONS Exclusively handwork Executed on the premises Prompt delivery assured The Gorham Co. Fifth Avenue Brooklyn Jockey Glub mx KAOBI BACH day at 3i30..

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