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Show BOAT) or DESPERATE THE BOUGH. IN JAIL-BREAK- TROUBLE. Blinla a FiEm IU IUartUi ta JIM ticgpe fro JaUataad Baa QueaUa Hard for Hlai a Bmp Oit at TmvMt. tbe wrench dli not loosen kta grasp. Outward and upward he swung until he reached the topmost point o the circumference The nicety of hm calculations had reaped its reward. The belt stopped. He leaped to hit feet, sprang through the window and was Bone before convicts or guard had recovered from their astonishmenL He caught up a guard's coat and hat. dropped from the wall and got away in the dusk of the evening. It was not long before Steadman was In trouble again. He itas arrest- ed bv Chief of Police Class of Los An- geies. and returned to his old quarters at San Quentin There are bars over that high w. dow above the big driving belt now. Not long after this In a Steadman killed a .fellow-convifight, and was then transferred from San Quentin to the new prison at Folsom, where he has been confined until recently. But he did not go free, as Capt. L. P. Hall, the assistant deputy warden from Joliet and Special Officer M. W. McClatighiv, a son of the major, were on hand and arrested Steadman at the doors of the prison. Steau-ma- n suspected that the Illinois authorities would send for him, and tha night before bis release from Folsom was caught in the act of cutting out the bars from his cell window by tha night guard. When searched the found him supplied with a eet of handcuff keys, whtch he Intended to did use In case the Illinois officers come for him. THEATKIOAL Ms TOPICS. 8 A VINOS AND DOINOB OF Maid. The other afternoon I witAt nessed a performance of -- ErmlBl the Casino, and Mlaa Russell waa as beautiful and fascinating aa ever. THE PLAYERFOLK. to Chl-cago- offl-re- rt tiiMSIw mi Lllf'i Ka4 SsmtotS Mis Wifes fortauos, clvsa t p by Bee His rfirnds, and Died A lose Without o feun). u4 edition . j l i i , 1 j ii -- nt Lea-lie- i An-se- ll, si There is something pathetic in the finish of every spendthrift even though we who feel the pathos are devoid of sympathy. Pathetic indeed wee th finish of Lloyd Aspinwail, who died a few days ago piuctically friendless, practically peimlleso, in the Metropolitan hotel, at Twenty-sevent- h street and Broadway. New York etty. The name of Aspinwail has been prominently Identified with the mercantile progress of New York for almost A century. In the old days William H. Aspinwail was the meichant prince of the city. His ships sailed to every port, his salesmen traveled to every clime. The business he had built up descended to his son, Lloyd Aspinwail, who had the Instincts of a warrior, and became a general. This Gen. Lloyd Aspinwail was the father of Lloyd the subject of this story. Aa the average young man of wealth ia reared in New York, so was Llbyd Aspinwail reared. He loved horses and yachts and the diversions that attend the possession of horses and yachts. From the time that be showed traces of a mustache he was a leader among the wealthy set of youths In hts daring 11s methods of expenditure. joined many clubs, including the Union, Racquet, Calumet and Manhattan. . Hia waa a familiar figure at the Rockaway hunt, the Tuxedo and the Westminister clubs, and no regatta was brought ofT by the Seawanhaka Yacht club that did not number Lloyd Aspinwail aa a participant, either as a practical sailor or as a guest of a sailor. He was also a member of tbe Corinthian Yacht club. Nearly all the young tneu who flourished at the time Lloyd Aspinwail started on his caieer of leisure have either married and settled down or are dead. The pace they started at was too hot for all but tbe nr--n who later died of its effects. One thing that kept him going when others dropped was hie even, courteous, kindly disposition. He was not vicious, he was and lndulgtni o others. It Is desirable that a fast ycing man in society should marry. Tb faster the young man tbe more beatreifui and lovable his bride, aa a gentral thing. Lloyd Asptnwall took to. wife Miss Nina Sutton, the daughter of Cornelius Sutton, a man of wealth and affairs. The wedding waa nioi e than an ordinary society event; the bride was young and gloriously beautiful, tbe groom was young, handsom wid'.had a past that made him aUracttye .to. m a n yyo u b g wptp Both had plenty of money. Gen. Lloyd Aspinwail went the way oi all flesh some ten years ago. Ills property went to hie eons and Lloyd cam in tor n goodly share. Nominally he waa an active member of the firm of Gardner & Aspinwail. In reality be was a burden to the firm, a continual draft on lta resources While partners and bleed men kept the business moving. Lloyd Aspinwail rode horaes over fences or sailed yachts. Time bobs along swiftly to men who live the life of Lloyd Aspinwail. As he drifted with the metropolitan tide he met a young woman called Lillian Russell. She was younger then than she is today, and perhaps mors beautiful. Scores of men of tbe Aaplnwall stamp hungered for her smiles. Aspinwail bad a wife and two children when he m t tbe singer Hl little boy was old enough to talk. His llttls girl was fluffy and downy like chick. The wife was wearied with the tales she heard and Aspinwail was near the end of hia fotune. About this time tbe father of Mrs. Aspinwail died and left hia daughter a comfortable fortune Lloyd Aspln-wa- ll was soon on his financial feet ' Dan-gero- . cs j Dr- to llvs at etreeL She hag a place at Ccdr.rhuist, but it waa there the she had spent her honeymoon. Bb never visited it after, her separation. There waa no luck In Ufa for Uoyl Aspinwail after this.. He went Into Wall street, but was unsneeessfttL Not be managed to get entirely along, hut droDpt d steadily out of light of the crovd that had cdmlred him . .u.thv when he , srd was willing to spend hit. veu h H became rather - f .Ad lived cervletu. ahum 'in UhiiMimaa holiere .oom and oold. days of 1898 Mrs. Llod Aeii'i, uai1 was much about ths shops. Flie iau,ylit cold and on Jar 6, 18M, ehe tried Met husband did not know of It until he saw the notices in the newspapers. Just etght days afUr Beatrice, the daughter of Lloyd Aspinwail, died wife and child gone In a week. After the Ups of a little more than a month Lloyd Aspinwail, Jietng pushed for debU aggregating about IJ.Ot'O, mud? an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. He was not hat d of for ,i few months, and then appeared m a police court aa complainant against (he landlady Of a boarding-house-58' Wcr, Twenty- fifth street, near which his wife had resided. He had lived in the boardinghouse, and accused the landlady Of Wdlng papers and letters belonging him. Among the letters wars ninety from Lillian Russell. The landlady was not punished. Then Lloyd Aspia-wa- ll Was long eclipsed to h Twenty-firt- 'rt a; the-puJi- lU LLOYD ASPINWALL, For two months past hs had at th MetropollUn hotel. Finally death cam. gate. been sinking - They SPIRITS HELP A MINER. L4 Pete Martin la a Cold Mine That Mada film Utah. To be led to a gold mine through th agency of an unseen spirit would con- -, vert almost anybody to spiritualism. Even young Peter Martin of Ban Francisco admits this, though hs U. the least credulous of beings.:. A few week ago Mr. Mariu was. a rib and" ; contented young man, whose thought had never dwelt on the possession of fold mine, and who hardly realized! that there were such things as spirits and mediums In the world. Now h la the owner of a newly discovered gold mine, and will tell you that mediums are a very remarkable ciasa of persons. One day Mr. Martin met ob the street George E. Hail, the Turkish, consul. Hail suggested n visit to a medium as a diverting way to pus th afternoon. They went, and th medium told Martin and his friend thelfl names, histories, secrets and a great deal more beside. Among other that hs was things hs about to strike a rich mine on some property be owned. Martin laughed heartily at the, absurdity of 1L Th next week tha young man started off on a ramble through Southern California, and just for the tun of the thing visited bis ranch in tbe San Diego mountains. A big ledge runs through this property. He found great excitement prevailing over the discover!-Ju- st made along this ledge. They had found a quantity of apparently rich ore. Mr. Martin got mining men t Investigate and they reported that th ore was sylvanite, very like the Cripple Creek ore. Mr. Martin believe that be has every reason to expect th development of a new Cripple Creek on his own land. Since then Mr. Martin tried to find the medium who told him the wonderful story and cross- question him a little, but be has disappeared. told-Mart- in Took Tills to Avoid Coourlpdoo. Several doctor La Suisse, Geneva: of Cologne have been arrested on a cat-lik- 1 Mrs. Aspinwail went XII East LLOYD ASPINWALL ONCE WAS RICH AND POPULAR. Florence Wickes may soon retire from the stage. She confesses not to MU Artkar Waata la Make a I have made success she fancied she aa Bar On Aveoaat Md( MelaUsk would. She the is the daughter of the vice BrllrviS la Hava a Valor Balm H president of the Pullman Palace Car Jaw Yaaag af Daly's la Star. company. Maxine Elliotts sister Gertrude, who Julia Arthur seems determined to (Joliet. 111., Letter.) make a reputation as an independtnt hag been described a a "pocket j The Joliet prison authorities reactress. While she was playing an enof her beautiful sister, who js the ceived notice this morning of the arIn Baltinioie last winter ike wife of Nat Goodwin has become a gagement rest In California of the notorious conhad the rurtaiu rung down bcuse a great favorite with Ixmdon audiences. vict and Frank Steadtheater party annoyed her with Heir She is playing Mldgein "The Cowboy man, alias- - Vi heeler, alias Ohio Fatand still .more re-- ! and the l.aJy loud conversation, ty," whose criminal record is known man ejected Iron a she a had cently to the police of most large cities, aqd New Haven theater because he attempWriting of composers. It Is said that who has effected escapes from the ted to flirt with one of the ladies m the late Johaun Strauss, Just thirty San Quentin, Cal., prison, and once her company. Mlsa Arthur and Henry years ago, wss Inspired to writs the from Joliet, and also has the distincj Miller are about the only two sta tion of having stabbed his cell mate to who are willing to defy public opinion death while an inmate of the Folsom and do wbat they please wheu they tie prison. disturbed in their siting, but these Steadman was first sent to San put their whole beau amt soul Quentin for burglary in 1888, but soon into their characters, and the leau escaped and came back east. He next noiae In the house annoys them ex-- I 's figured in a big robbery in one of tremel). suburbs, and was aentencad to a seven-yea- r term in Joliet, in 1893. Although Olga Nrtlieisoles support In May, 1894, he effected a clever eswas severely criticised during lbs past cape from the engine room at Joliet season, there was one memlier of her One Sunday afternoon hia keeper took company who deserved decidedly jnore him to the engine house to do some commendation thuu she received. work. The keeper bad stepped into a refer to Madge Mclnlotli. Her work as small tool room to get something, Delroes. In Caimen, was absolutely when the convict slammed the door to flawless. This lather "weepy" pait ts the tool room shut and fastened It hut Miss McIntosh overdone, easily WOMEN AS TRAVELERS. with a hook, securely Imprisoning the never once let the character become unwary officer. Steadman found plen- - Nat Aloaa for tliv Ileaiura of It, Bat tiresome or boring As Ellean. In she Second Mis. Tanqueray, j "The for RdrIumi. MADGE MTNT03H. made a most colorless part plausible As the world grows smaller the numBlue Danube." and having nothing Miss roles other Her in Nethersues ber of women travelers grows great. This Is merely another form of say- lepertoire affoidtd hei but scant op- - more cmiyenlent, Immediately trana- i he ihlef charm about Sirlbeil the theme upon his ruff. Th ing that the greater security, economy porttiui'les. is the fue.iug sticiets of "The Beautiful Blue Danand rapidity of travel have opened new Mies McIntoshs sue her work ube" began In tl.e United States. It and into women. At sintei.tc for ambitious puis opportunities Miss NrtN'i'-e'e- , i; might be fid led, was first sung In Vienna by a choir of the present time there are the travellisle yoiiu, sad made no great imby an entitely Amei-iiuing companion, the courier, the war will be cupjiorted li-- '. , eason pression mm,. any the correspond-correspondent, foreign ent, the commercial traveler, the misThe compo.-e-r Massanet is extremely Miss Laura I'.uit .an be called withsionary and the rtudent, who, paraIn bis habits. me versatile one methodical of most out Early as teacher. is a question doxically enough, usually I would leave out of consideration the actresses on the Amman stage today. 0 in the morning he sits down at his traveling companion, because she is an From the sympathetic role of June In table and composes, as at that hour annex or attachment to the traveler "Blue Jeans," whose lxmdon success there Is less noise than at any other proper and Is not a traveler per se. I was larpelv due to thD little ladys time of the day from the streets. Hs might also add the woman explorer, because In the past ten years Mrs. Alice Le Plongeon and Mlaa Kingsley have won name and fame In this field 's of activity, says a writer In Frank FRANK STEADMAN. Popular Monthly. ty of tools at hand, with which he soon Women are both fitted and unfitted eut the hook from the outer door and for travel. They have less strength gained access to the prison yard. He and daring than men, but, on the othran to the west wall, forty feet in er hand, they have more tact and a height, which he scaled In a daring greater regard for the rights of others. manner, by means of frail rope lan- In many parts of the far east small der, which he had made from thread mobs of criminals are apt to attach from stolen the shoe shop. The guard the within tbelr gates. When who was locked in the tool house this stranger occurs, the male traveler usually raised such a howl that the prison gets off better than the 'female. Os was sopn aroused, and. la lew mln-nte- a the other source el band, the walls were surrounded, but trouble springs from the wanton oi It was soon discovered that the bird ignorant violation of 'native jeustomi had flown, the rope ladder pointing and laws. Here men sin fifty out the way. This being the first escape timesreligious once. where women do that had occurred from Joliet In yeara, Travel brings out tbs deep ethical every effort was made for Steadmans difference between the two sexes. In recapture, but not the slightest trace London I have often noticed that the of hia whereabouts was obtained until average American gentleman makes a a year later, when, under the name of bee line for the famous inns, pubs and Frank Wheeler, he was arrested for a music halls, while the average Ameriburglary at San Francisco and sent up can woman goes to Westminster, 8t. to San Quentin prison, where he waa Pauls and the Tower of London. In at once recognized as the person who Paris the former patronises the cats had made a most daring escape from chantant and the Moulin Rouge, and tha place a few years before. Steadthe letter the Louvre, Notre Dame, the man was a burglar by profession, and Madeleine and the Hotel dee Invalldes. a machinist by inclination. When he To be e successful traveler demand was sent back to San Quentin to finish nothing more than the small virtue kit unexplred term he waa put to work forethought, common tense, patienoe with other convicts in the machine and, It may he, a little resignation. shop. It was here that an idea came into hia brain that for absolute dar- YOUNG GIRL HANGED IN LONing and fearlessness waa typical of the DON, man. He had noticed that every evenFLORENCE WICKES ing at the time the men working a The English papers are still finding the machine shop were lined up to be fault with the government for permitmarched away the machinery was ting the. execution of Mary Ann never opens the piano while writing talent, to the part in Ledereis (topped at exactly the same moment the h comMaid, wherein she was one of music. The opera "Nanon girl who waa He had observed as well that a win- hanged th other day In London for ths duellists, thence to the name part posed nt a hotel, locking himself In hli dow leading to an adjacent roof waa In "The Purple Lady, w hose chsract-eristlroom, not even allowing his most innot far from the top of the big driving are best told In the title, then timate friends admission. There art belt of the engine. From that roof it to the extravaganza, "The Man In the differences of opinion in reference tc was possible to reach the outer wall in which she succeeds Marie his new fairy opera Moon, Clndrlllena. of the prison. Beyond the wall was Dressier in the part of Viola Alum, a Some Paris critics think It common- freedom. He had escaped from vaburlesque In every way. She has been place, while others think It charming rious prisons so many times that uis likened to that c!eer artitt, Yvette It is said to be decidedly original; II mind reverted again and again to the Guilbert, by the American prevs, and any suggestion at all of Imitation, it window, high up on the wall of the for her versatility there could be no ia of an older school of musicians thai 'room. Apparently It was beyond all greater compliment. She Is the cnly even Wagner. It is noted as slngulai possibility of being reached. No ladder American actress we tan recall to that all the principal characters except was to be obtained. Had such a thing whom that praise is accorded From that of Pandolphe are Impersonated been even standing In place against emotional to burlesque, she is at home, by women. In this It Is similar tc the wall, to break from the line and yet by her pictures she still wears the Mascagnis anetto," which is ons e scale It with same sized hat. We have a faint sus-- J - continuous duet .for soprano and alto,, . dexteiity, al- though the work of hut a tew seconds, plcfofi khefbcgins heMetters the 'samehe well knew would be futile, possiSarah Bernhardt, after her season la way, too. bly fatal. Bullets travel faster than England, will make a long tour of Eulegs, and the guards were not bad James Young will retire from Dalys rope, visiting Norway, Sweden, Denshota. But desperate deeds demand company at the end of the run of The mark, France, Switzerland, Austria-Hungardesperate means. Some minds may Great Ruby, and will star next season Bulgaria and Turkey, returnwork with an Ingenuity born of dela "Lord Byron, written by Louise ing to Paris in November. was formerly Mr. spair, but Steadman's was of a differJohnson, who ent caliber. He never ceased to MARY ANN ANSELL. A young Italian woman recently had Young's leading lady when he wasatar-rln- g scheme, and he never ceased to hope of romantic plays. on of her works performed st s cona in repertoire effor liberty. One day there came to the murder of her sister. A great Mr. Young is not the only member of cert In Genoa, and conducted the orhim as if by inspiration the thought fort was made to procure the commu- the Daly forces who aspires to win chestra herself. Such of an that the big belt might be the means tation of her sentence to imprison- fame as a star. Marie Lamour (for- emancipated womanhood example is rare in of carrying him to the goal of liberty. ment for life. One hundred members merly known aa Marie Murphy) will Italy. He found that it was impossible to of the bouse of commons signed an open with a company of her own some count the revolutions of the driving application to the home secretary time in Jnly, appearing In "A Mrs. Alice J. Shaw, the whistler, and wheel, but there were lacings in the asking for reprieve end an application Woman, a farce by Wilfred Clarks. ker two daughters sailed from England the to even was made her favor in broad belt which he was able to disrecently for South Africa, there to fill In spite of all, how tinguish as a sort of blur as it passed queen personally. A great amount of interest is being u professional engagement. onL was carried sentence the ever, a given point For days and days he of Mrs. The girl poisoned her Imbecile sister manifested at the appearance counted, and In his cell at night he in In "Vanity as Fisks Edna Wallace Hopper will be starred Becky Sharpe. 60 on her insurance obtain to order He spent his time In calculations. The production will be a greet Jointly ith Jerome Sykes in "Chris Fair. for she needed which wedding life, discovered the exact number of revolusat one from every point of view, while her and the Wonderful Lamp," next season. tions the wheel made per minute. He expenses. H?r betrothed husband company will be ths best she hs trlaL as learned also by constant observation by bar side during the Ethel Barrymore is the guest of Mrs. had, Maurice Barrymore appearing Just how many times the belt went man. Nat C. Goodwin (Maxine Eiiiott) at her leading Tha Sick Man's BarAca.' round after the engine shut down. Jackwood, England. Mr. Leland, the proprietor of tbs One evening when the line had been It teems remsrkabte that tlUton formed as usual at the close of the Hotel Grenoble, New York, where Mr. Russell has not succumbed to tbs dart Tke centenary of llalevys birth was bed days work, and as the big wheel be- Kipling lay during hli Illness, hasbulleOf Cupid lately. She has been divorccelebrated In Parla recently. His best the of the physician originals gan to lose Its momentum, suddenly from Peruglnl about eight months, known work is, of course, "La Julve." a convict sprang from the line, leaped tins bound into an elaborate album ed n word been spoken about and to the belt with outstretched arms, bearing thd Tltle "The Sick Mans Bur. n not all thishastime. Strangs. Mr. Henachels new opera, "Nubia." wedding grappling both edges of the broad den." He presented the volume to Mr, itr miter Jones 1 Th Man to th Rklch will be n Dresden, produced leather. He had calculated well the Kipling on tbe day that he sailed for Moon. "A Lillian Bussell xt Is In three seta. year. bis with would be family. required, for England strength that treat THE PACE THAT KILLS charge of having. Id consideration of considerable monetary paymebts, administered to a number of conscripts certain pills which produced the symptoms of heart disease, with the result that the conscripts were declared to be unfit for military servlce.Tbe death of a young man who took an overdose of the pills led to tbe discovery of the ingenious fraud. It transpires that the doctors had caried on this lucrativ game for a long time. Population af Clavalaad. A public school census of Cleveland bae Just been taken, showing that the city bat 101.808 children of school Agaw ASPINWALL. again. It was said that a house that Lillian Russell occupied was bought witA his money. But bis splergs did not last long. He was arrested In 1893 at tbe instance of his brother, WilUm H. Aspinwail, who accused him of forging a note for 2,40. Lloyd Aspinwail spent ten day? 4n Yorkviile police court prison. When the case came to trial there was no prosecution, and when wife Lloyd Aspinwail went home his reto Efforts had children gone. and unite tbe family proved unavailing. Mr. Aspinwail had three sisters, Mrs. Goodwin, Mr. Crosby and Mrs. They said, and their said, that Lloyd Aspinwail had squandered the money of his we. Th Aspinwail children .were placed with an nunt of their mother, Mrs. Kings-lan-d, at Fifth avenue and Twentieth Th Clevelanders multiply this sum by 3.04, which they claim to be the multiplier used in such Instances, and thus show a total population of 401,134. They calculate that this figure place them about 1L000 ahead of Cincinnati and 26,000 ahead of Buffalo, and sxpect that Cleveland, when the national cen- not he far from sevsus to taken.-wl- ll enth place in the list of the largest cities. : Pkaoo. Xew Market ( Cuba and Porto Rico used to buy annually 85,000,000 worth of shoes of Spanish manufacture and a clumsy article they were. A much better grade of American ahoea Is selling In the cent lest. now for rd. hua-ban- da la-la- nd t |