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THE WORTHIHGTOH ADVAH6E. ROBERT MOCUNJC, Editor and Publisher WOUTHINGTON, Noble* Cow. MINN IT took fifty-one serious accidents dur ing the last season to put and keep sev enty-seven foot-ball players in the Held for seven colleges. IT is said that Jane Cetheridge, of Kingston, Jamaica, has refused thirty seven offers of marriage. She has $1,000, 000 and is an orphan. RECENTLY compiled statistics show that during tip last ten years to every forty-nine marriages performed in New Jersey there has been yne divorce. A MOXTHEAL police sergeant says that there are many hundreds of men, women and children in that city in suoh abject poverty that they are almost destitute of both Are and.fpod. IK a little town of Schleswig-Holstein there is a tax exemption for dogs "that sleep with their masters and mistresses and so preserve them from gout, rheu matism and like pains." THE Harvard University catalogue for 1889-90 shows that in the current year the net gain in students is 180, the largest annual increase since Dr. Eliot became president. The total number of Btudents is 2,079. .• IT is all very well for man to insist, when struck by argumentative streaks, that woman is the weaker vessel but when it comes to the matter of holding up trains, she can\beat them "all hol low" and not half try. A DROUGHT which has prevailed in South Africa is said to be due to the same cause that ruined Egypt, Mesopo tamia and India, once the most fertile countries in the world. It is the de struction of the forests. INVENTOR KEELY looks old. He has changed a great deal in appearance dur ing the last five years, and his hair has turned white. The effort to keep his great secret has worn upon him, and his face shows deep lines of care. He still maintains a confident air, however, when talking about his motor. THE reorganization of the Cincinnati, Baltimore & Washington railroad is announced, with General Orland Smith as president. The capital stock is 95, 000.000, and the company will be known as the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, covered by the initials "B. O. S.," which, it is expected, will cause the line to be come known as the "Boss" road. JOURNALISM is looking up in China. There are now three newspapers pub lished in that country, and there is a prospect that another will soon be start ed. The prospectors are waiting until they can find out whether it will be a long-felt want. In China, by the way, if a paper publishes an untrue statement about any one not only are the editors punished, but all the readers as well. MBS. HABRISON has found in the base ment of the White House two old ma hogany cabinets which were used in the Executive Mansion when it was first built. The cabinets are of Dutch manufacture and were imported from England. Mrs. Harrison, who is a lover of antique furniture, is delighted with her discovery, and. will restore the cab inets to their former place in the White House parlors. TJIE Pall Mall Gazette records a freak in the way of handwriting. A little girl of four years writes with her left hand and writes her words backward as they are reflected in a mirror from ordi nary writing. Her friends have to read them by means of a looking-glass. The child was taught writing with a sister,' but would do things in her own wayj with the result that-she writes fluently in this fantastic style* A MAN once told me, says a writer in the Christian Union, how a party of In dians fresh from the wilds greeted their first view of a locomotive. They made no comment and didn't even get up off the ground to examine it. But when a lineman walked up a telegraph pole like a woodpecker up a maple, they fell into paroxysms of enthusiasm. Simply one thing was within' the range of their astonishment and the other wasn't. THE doctors who attended the late King of Portugal during the last few weeks of his 'illness presented bills f6r their services amounting to nearly $100, 000. One of them demanded 814,000 for ten visits, another demanded 817,000 for fifteen,while a third thought that830,000 was not too much to ask for his attend? anoe at eighteen consultations. Event ually the new King succeeded in effect ing a settlement of their claims by means of a lump-sum of $60,000. PBOF. EDWARD ORTON, State Geolo gist of Ohio, estimates that the natural gas fields of Ohio and Indiana will be exhausted within nine years, at the present rate of consumption, and that it will be thousands of years before it again accumulates in sufficient quanti ties to make its extensive use practical. As there are over four hundred thou sand people in Northern Ohio and Cen tral Indiana, according to recent fig ures, dependent upon natural gas not only for illumination but also for fuel this may become a serious ques tion if Prof. Orton's theories are cor rect. MASSACHUSETTS appear* to he rioting in adulterated foodstuffs., Of a total of, 818 articles recently examined 304 were adulterated. The articles examined were milk, butter, cheese, lard, oil, spices, cream of tartar, molasses, honey, vine gar, tea, coffee, confectionery, other ar ticles of food and drink (five) and drugs. The Board of Health examined only sus picious articles of food, and the percent age of adulterations found in these was 39-4. But the probability is that Massa chusetts hail no more adulterated food than many other States whose anti adulteration laws are not so strictly en forced. A NOVEL cure was effected by the use of the dyhffnfo. recently at Westgate-on the-Sea, Eng. A Mr. Brown was fitting a false bottom to a grate and while chip ping it to make it fit, a very small splin ter of ifron 'flew off and struck him in the eye. An electrical engineer who met .-him' shortly after,- seeing his plight, 'took' him to a. dynamo that was working near by. Brown placed his eye as close as possible to the ma chine, and the magnetic attraction was sufficiently intense to withdraw the splinter of iron from' the eye, which was instantly relieved and gave no further trouble.'' y, JOHN G^IW,,wBb is considered one of the brightest Indians in the Sioux tribe, made a'reputation as a humorist at the Rearing given to the Siou* chieftains at the Interior "Department, Washington, jftye a graphic description of the re- a A— i.i_ trfrn ottfce chiefs to their homes. They would,' ile Bald, each carry a sacifjelj and „when/ they entered, their ^hortce-th© wotten- and children would surrouncf theriTand at onoe examine their /Baohels to see what presents they con tained. The chiefs, he continued, did not want todisappoint their families, lf they were and given thirty dollars apiece go hone In triumph. The News of the Week. BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. JPFLOM WA«HIN«TOW. I AT the leading clearing houses iarthe United States the exchanges during,the week etfded on the 28th aggregated 8947,888,340, against $1,134,401,850 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to.2.1. THE Commissioner of Education in his report on the SOtluilt. estimated that 8133,455,000 in round numbers was ex pended for the education of twelve million children in the United States the past year, an average cost of til a child per annum. IN the United States the visible sup ply of wheat and corn on the 80th ult. was, respectively, 33,971,643 8,099, 901 bushels. ON the 80th ult. the trade outlook was very promising, and business men and financier* all over the country ooncurred In the opinion that the next twelve months would be unusually prosperous. Is the United States the nsmber of persons who committed suicide during the year 1889 was 3,324, against 1,487 in 1888. Of this number 1,903 were males and 831females. The total number of murders committed was 8,867, against 3,184 in 1888. DURING the past year 7,719 lives were lost in various disasters in this country as follows: Drowning, 5,705 fires, 880 eyclones, storms, 103 explosions, 349 mines, 308 falling buildings, 99 light ning, 315. In railway accidents 3,438 persons were killed, against 1,554 in 1888. I® marine disasters 2,600 lives were lost, against 4,095 the previous year. IHE fire losses in the United States during 1889 foot up $143,903,670, against $100,000,000 in 1888. DURING the past year 83 centenarians died in the United States, of whom 37 were males atid 46 were females. THE total amount of money embezzled from corporations, private firms and the Uhited States Government during the year 1889 was $8,562,753. THERE were 98 legal hangings in the United States last year, against 87 the previous year, and 175 persons were lynched, against 144 in 1888. THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed the total debt to be $1, 610,569,053 cash in Treasury, $30,595, 143 debt less cash in Treasury, $1,052, 952,911. Decrease during December, $3,128,083. Decrease since June 30, 1889, $23,663,710. THE business failures during the year 1889 in the United States numbered 10,882, with liabilities of $148,784,337. The failures during the seven days ended on the 3d numbered 323 against 288 the previous week. THE EAST. A BROOKLYN barber named Frank Bruck killed his mother on the 28th and then himself, because the mother was sick and not expected to recover. EMPLOYES of Carnegie's Homestead (Pa.) steel works were notified on the 30th ult. of an advance of sixteen per cent, in wages to go into effect imme diately. Miss DOLLIE BROWN, aged seventy-one years, died on the 30th ult. while kneel ing in prayer at her bedside at Middle town, N. Y. BRADSTREET reports a total of 11,719 business failures in the United States the past year, against 10,587 in 1888. The total liabilities were $140,559,490, against $120,242,402 the previous year. The assets-the past year were $70,599, 769, against $61,999,911 in 1888. ON the 31st ult. Mrs. Mary Smith, a giantess, died in New York, aged forty eight years. She weighed seven hun dred pounds. CHARLES KINO, of Middleton, Mass., celebrated his one hundred and ninth birthday on the 1st. AT Castle Garden, New York, immi grants, arrived last year to the number of 815,228,. which was a failing off from tl\e $g£r before of 68,367. ON the 31st ult. Mrs. Polly French celebrated her one hundredth birthday at East Templeton, Mass. GOVERNOR BRACKETT in his annual message to the' Massachusetts Legisla ture on the 2d commended the Austra lian system of voting, which was em ployed at the last election, and recom mended the extension of a similar method to the primaries. FLAMES on the 2d in the shops of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company at New York caused a loss of 8100,000. ON the 2d Horatio Allen, who invent ed the Allen paper wheel, and who ran the first locomotive ever propelled over a track in this country,"died at his home near South Orange, N. J., aged eighty eight years. SOME unknown person on the 3d cut the throats of Sarah Kelly and Ann Kelly, aged respectively eighty-one and seventy-nine years, who lived alone in a little frame house in Philadelphia. Robbery was the motive. CURTIS & Co., an iron firm at Roland, Pa., faile'd on the 2d for $200,000. The firm was established in 1810. STATISTICS of locomotive building for 1889 show a slight falling off from the product of 1888. Reports from about half the car-building companies show a decline of 20 per cent, from the product of 1888. THE death of Hon. George H. Boker, ex-United States Minister to Turkey and Russia, occurred at his home in Philadelphia on the 2d. BURGLARS entered the residence of Dr. Kniffin, a Trenton (N. J.) dentist, on the night of the 2d, chloroforming his wife and a young lady visitor. In the morning Mrs. Kniffin was found dead ia her bedroom. Her companion was ui^ constfous,"but Was revived.*' .THE Portuguese, schooner Veluria, which sailed from New York September 7, was oh the 3d given up for lost. 8he had ten men in her crew and carried nine passengers. THE death of «{ohn Carlisle, aged eighty-five years, "was announced at Portsmouth, N. H., on the 3d. He was Past Worshipful Grand. Master Mason of New Hampshire and was the oldest act ive member of the thirty-third degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the world. WEST AND 80UTH. MRS. ROBERT TYLER died in Montgom ery, Ala., on the 39th, aged seventy-four years. She was the wife of Robert Ty ler, eldest son of President Tyler, and presided as "lady of the White House" during the first three years of President Tyler's administration. THE death of Prof. Melville G. Blaine, brother of Secretary Blaine, occurred on the 30th ult at Salem, Ore., at the age ef sixty-three years. A CALL for organizing a National as sociation was issued on the'30th ult. by the provisional committee on the non partisan W. C. T. U. .The meetings will begin January 22 at Cleveland, O. ON the 30th ult. the Academy of Musio in .course of erection at St/ Loiiis fell in .a heap, owing, it was thought, to abed of quicksand under it. THE Legislature of Kentucky met at Frankfort on the 30th illt»* Governor Buckner in -his message showed the de falcation of Treasarer. Tate to'be $174, 094. At the Democratic J. C. S. Blackburn -was renominated for United {States rSenator. -Oir.the 1st the Montana Republican House and Senate met in' joint session and formally elected W. F- Binder* one of the United states Senators. MONROE GARLAND killed three men in Mitohell County, 8. C., on the 31st ult and wounded twelvt ia revenge for the death of his brother, who was killed Christmas Day. PASSENGER trains on the Pan-Handle road collided near Kokomo, Ind., on the 81st nit, and three train men were fa tally injured and fpur others were seri ously hurt AT Jackson, Tehn., four boys between the age* of six and eight years were suf focated by a falling sand bank on the 81st ult W. MCKINNEY was inaugurated Gov ernor of Virginia on the 1st NEAR Tacoma, Wash., a quicksilver mine that assayed from 55 to 60 per cent of mercury was discovered on the 3d. AT Frankfort, Ky., an ordinance was passed on the 3d prohibiting the sale of oigarettes within the corporation limits. DUBING 1889 the sugar manufactured in Kansas from sorghum aggregated 1, 393,275 pounds, against 698,374 pounds in 1888. Ow the 3d the Montana Legislature elected Thomas G. Power as colleague of Colonel Sanders in the United States Senate. AT Beebe's logging camp, eighty miles up the Tennessee river from Pa ducah, Ky., a cabin in the woods caught fire on the 3d and four inmates were burned to death. GALVIN MORRIS (colored) was hanged at Houma, La., on the 3d for the murder of Alfred Harrison, October 5, 1888. ROBERT COLEMAN, an engineer, and John Raimsey, a brakeman, were killed by a collision of freight trains near Wichita, Kan., on the 3d. Air unfinished trestle on the Brier field, Blocton & Birmingham railroad near Birmingham, Ala., fell on the 3d, oarrying down twenty-five carpenters who were at work on the structure. Two men' were killed and twenty in jured. JOSEPH LEMONG was frozen co death while drunk at East Atchison, Kan., on the 3d. THE collapse of a bridge at Ilalletts ville, Tex., on the 3d threw twenty-two freight-cars into the river, and three persons were drowned and many injured. ON the 3d seven people lost their lives and four houses were almost entirely wrecked, including the Roman Catholio church, by a snow-slide at Sierra City, Cal. DEMOCRATS of the Kentucky Legis lature renominated J. C. S. Blackburn for United States Senator on the 3d. THE death of Judge Samuel Rice, once Chief Justice of Alabama and in 1848 elector on the Taylor-Fillmore ticket, occurred at Montgomery, Ala., on the 3d. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HUNDREDS of the foreign residents of Brazil on the 30th ult protested against the naturalization scheme of the Pro visional Republican Government, by which they were to be forced to become Brazilian citizens. AT Havana, Cuba, twenty-two fire men were injured, three of them fatal ly, at a firemen's exhibit on the 30th ult THE failure of L. A. Bergavin, a whole sale dry-goods dealer at Quebec, Can., occurred on the 30th ult. for $100,000. ON the 30th ult M. Rothschild pre sented 100,000 francs to the municipality to be devoted to the relief of the poor of Paris afflicted with influenza. FIRE destroyed the royal palace of King Leopold,- near Brussels, on ihe 1st, together with all the private papera of the King and the Queen's jewels. IN the Old World the whole list of casualties during the year 1889, where the loss of life' was important enough to be telegraphed, including those who per ished by disease and battle, was 96,380, against 66,107 in 1688. AT the industrial school in Westham, Eng., on the 31st twenty-six lives were •lost in a fire. IN Madrid Senor Gayarre, a noted Spanish tenor, died on the 2d of influ enza. AT St Petersburg thirty-two officers were arrested on the 2d charged with being members of the secret society whose object is to abolish the aristoc racy and to establish a constitutional monarchy. THE Cabinet of Spain resigned on the 3d, and Senor Sagasta would attempt to form a new Cabinet on a basis that will reconcile the various Liberal groups. THE steamer Britannic of the White Star line collided with the brigantine Czarowitz in the "Irish sea on the 3d. The Czarowitz sank and her captain was drowned, the crew being rescued by the Britannic. THOMAS WILLIAMS killed his wife and himself with a razor in Montreal, Can., on the 3d. Domestic trouble was the cause. A PLOT to take the life of the Czar of Russia and the entire imperial family was unearthed at St Petersburg on the 3d, and many persons in high official circles were placed under arrest for their connection with the plot A FIRE at Port Arthur, Ont, on the 3d destroyed property valued at over $10L' 000. UTER. On Fire Fonr Days. CHICAGO, Jan. 6 —A combiLation of mice and matches started afire in one of the lire-prof vaults cf the oauncil chamber on the top story of the city ball last Fri day, and it burned until this morning without being discovered. Fortunately, only some unimportant papers were de stroyed, but the authorities were scared when they discovered that the city hall had been on fire for four days. CooKed to Death. Sioux CITY, Jan. 6.—John Me'sch, hot ftt«4aaetriktag gle* ductor pipe* eteead were heed a half-witted fellow at John Arenadorf's bottling, wi sd a steam valve, the lla ia moat have the face, knock* in* him dewa aad killing him. His strag been terrible, as the con- badly bent His imd tiee were eeoked so that the Skin aad flesh sloughed toeehed. off whenever ANaptha Bxplosion. LIMA, OT Jan. 6.— At 3 o'clock this after noon one of the large 1,000 barrel stills of the naptha works at the Standard's solar refinery explodei with a terrific force tbat was felt all over the city. The still was located in the naphtlia works at the east end of the grounds. The shouk shook all the houses in the southern part of the city. At the South school build ng it nearly caused a panic amen the children. The still was No. and it was being emp tied when, in some way not yet explain* 1 it exploded, tearing away a portion of the roof. Eight men who were working near were covered with the debris, and all of them seriously if not fatally injured. TDIKVKS broke into the tloman Catholic church at Dundas, Ont, the night of the 6th. and carried off the silver used in the services, broke moat of the altar orna ments and otherwise desecrated the sa cral edifice. There is no clue to the per petrators of the deed. JOHN J. KNOX, of New York, has pre pared a bill that will be introduoed in congress, the principal object of which ia to provide for the use of silver bullion as a. basis for national bank circulation. THE South Dakota legislature convened at Pierre the 7th. IT was announced the 6th, by private ^dyices that thq-Brazilian government bad increased {he export duty on coffee from 11 to 15 percent JUDOS WALLACE, in the superior court, Bah Francisco, Cal., the 6th, annulled the charter of the American Sugar Refinery Company and rendered a judgment of i5,000 against the company because of its having' joined a sugar trust A SRVKRE blizzard awept over Kansas the night of the 5th and continued the 6th. The fall of snow waa heavy and the ther mometer ahowed 24 below zero. JTFTMU DAVIS J. BSSWEM, wai sworn LO as assistant just'oe ot the U. 8 Bvpromc Court at noon at the 0th. .. BOUGHT UY BRITONS.H BagUsh Capital to the Kxteat er (£•*,• SOB,OOO Ia vested la Amarleaa ladastries the Past Bgktws KMths— Mbrny Mora Millions Ukaly te|wj|ir. i| NEW YOBK, Jan. 6.—Nobody lee4 have any fear that England is btmnf* up all America oris putting *-Mg^»KrP gage on the country. Genuine invest ments of foreign capital which ajfp 'in trinsically enormous have .fieen made in this oountry during the past eighteen months, but"" in comparison with the busibel^ of the Nation the total amount repre sented i* almost insignificant. The sum of English capital placed in the United States within that period may reach $200,000,000, which minrese^tewa maximum earning power of $20,000,000 annually—a big sum, btit until compared with the income of even a single big town in this couiitry. The first big venture of English capital among American industries was ii* the summer of 1888 when the New York Brewery Company was formed tot ihe purchase of several breweries in New York and New Jersey. Messrs. Samuel and Isaac Un termeyer negotiated the sale, and the enterprise was capitalized at $4,500,000. The project was spread be fore the London public and there was an astonishing rush for the securities. The public subscriptions amounted to $35,000,000,nearly eight times the amount offered, and the shares were distributed pro rata among the subscribers. The success of the first venture led to the organization of the same projectors of the United States Brewing Company, capital, $5,500,000, which purchased breweries in New York, Newark^ and Albany. All the stock was taken in a day or two. From this point the business grew with amazing rapid ity. The Messrs. Untermeyer have acted as American agents for the placing of more than $32,000,000 of English cap ital in this country, and they now have deals on hand approaching consumma tion amounffng to many million more. The following are among the largest enterprises in which English capital has been placed since May, 1888: American breweries and general se curities trust 185,000,000 Bartholomae Brewing Company 3,100,000 Car Trust Investment Company 5,000,000 Chicago breweries 4,000,000 Chicago elevators 4,500,000 Cincinnati breweries 3,000,000 Dickens Custer mines 2.100,000 Denver breweries a,000,000 Eastman Pork Packing Company 3,000,000 Frank Jones Brewing Company 6,500,000 Gatling Oun Company 4,000,000 Golden Gate Alluvial Syndicate 260,000 Iron & Land Company of Minnesota. 5,000,000 Indianapolis breweries 3,000,000 Law Debenture Corporation 15,000,000 London & N. Y. Investm't Company. 5,000,000 Land Mortgage Bank of Florida 2,500,000 Linotype Company 5,000,000 Mono Lake gold fields, of California.. 3,000,000 Mortgage trust of America 2,500,000 Mexican Land and Colonization Com pany (under Connecticut law) 10,000,000 New York Breweries Company 4,500,000 Middleborough Town and Land Com* pany 10,000,000 Otis Steel Company 4,900,000 Pillsbury and ash burn flour mills.. 10,000,000 Pacific Mining Company 3,375,000 Peter Schoenhofen Brew'g Company. 3,000,000 Phoenix and Emerald brewries, 3.500,000 United States Debenture Corporation 15,000,000 St. Louis breweries 13,000,000 United States rolling stock 4,000,000 United States Brewing Company.... 5,500,000 andeusen elevators, Minneapolis... 3,000.000 Total 1305,806,000 Samuel Untermeyer, in explaining the workings of the great system which has sprung up in London for" the pur pose of securing American investments, said that the money had come from small investors and not from capital ists. Regarding the prospect of a further influx of English capital Mr. Untermeyer said: "Within the past four weeks there has been renewed aotivity in the investment in Ameri can industrial enterprises, and there is every reason to believe that the new year will see a far greater amount of capital introduoed into this country from abroad than was brought here in 1889. I believe this great influx ot foreign capital will greatly assist the development of our industries. The United States is not a rich country. It is too young to have become rich, and it is so vast that it can properly employ all the capital that can be diverted to it. The small amount of profit that goes to England from in dustrial enterprises in the shape of dividends upon the business is trifliag compared with the amount of money that the Englishmen must spend here, especially in the employment of labor to earn that dividend. The man who has a business here and seHs to an English company employs his oapital in a new direction and creates a new demand for labor, while the English companies which suc ceed to the business must continue to employ the labor before engaged so the faet that the net earning* go to England is not, in my judg ment, an offset to the grand benefits acquired by us from the use of that capital. "Within the past four months companies have been formed in London for the purpose of investing in industrial enterprises in America with an aggregate capital of not less than $100,000,000. The last company ot that kind re cently formed is a corporation known as the Law Debenture Corporation, for the pur pose of acquiring mortgages on industrial en terprises. It has a capital of 115.000,000. The trustees for the debenture-holers are such men as the present Attorney:(Seileral of England, feir Richard E. Webster, Sir Charles Russell and the Law Guar* antee and Trust Society, while the board of directors embraces members from all of the leading law firms in London. Tbis is only one of a series of companies that have been formed to further the investment in American enter prises. One point that especially tempts En glish capital to this country is the fact that we are free from all warlike complications." MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6. The .Angus Smith system of elevators, "A** "B" and "C," located on the South side, were on Saturday sold to an English syndi cate. The price paid is not given, but is understood to be more :than $1,000,000. Their storing capacity is 2,000,000 bushels. Mr: A. K. Shep hard, a former Milwaukeean, who has recently returned from London, and who, it is said, represents English cap ital in some other ventures, engineered the deal. The syndicate is the same one that bought breweries in Cincinnati, O., and Syracuse, N. Y., some time ago. Wreck on the Hack Island Road In Whleh Two Lives Are Lost. MALCOLM, Ia., Jan. 6. Two east bound freights on the Rock Island col lided near this place about 11 o'clock Saturday night William and Elmer Meyers, of Glover, Pocahontas County* who were in the forward caboose, were so seriously injured that they died Sunday. A stockman named Rhodes, of Dallis Center, was paralysed and will probably die. A number of others were more or less injured. The accident was caused by the failure of the rear train to see the signal of the forward train owing to the dense fog. Yellow Fever In Rio Janlero. LONDON, Jan. 5.—The Times' Lisbon correspondent says that a Brazilian paper reports that the Government at Rio Janeiro intends to expel the Ryazan Envoy in consequence of Russia's re fusal to recognize the republic. Private letters from Rio Janeiro say that in tensely hot weather prevails there and that yellow fever of the most malignant type has appeared in the city. Many Victims of Diphtheria. OTTAWA, ONT, Jan. 6.—St JTohns, N. F., in eighteen months has had 2,064 eases of diphtheria and 401 deaths by the same. .Two Men Killed. WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 6. Deputy Marshals in No Man's Land, near Beer City, assisted by a posse,, in attempting to arrest three desperadoes had a chase of ten miles. Marshal Logan, of Paris, Tex., was killed and a member of the posse wounded. Jim Higgins, a noted desperado, was killed and two of his as sociates arrested. Beats the Skating Reeord. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 6.—Joseph Donohue at the Palace' Rink Sunday nighi I'Ated five miles in seventeen minutes and eight seconds. This beats .the best previous world's reeord ly nine jieeonds. A TRIPLE TBAQEPV. Bnltat of Williamsburg, N. Y., Kills Ills wire and Child and Himself-He jlsons and Shoo^ Hls OTlfe and 8trar- tfgp feith Their Remains'fcr Two Dfjjre, imiati Solelde. j|£oi||, Jtn..v6j|l-In «oH|ii Saturday the 'discovery was made that Louis M. Franken, an Anarchist, had choked his child to death, poisoned and then shot his wife, and, when discovery made the'I#w*s retribution certain, sent a 44-oaiiher buUet^hmugh hli heart Death followed instantly.' Tor*' t#& days,and nights, b? bad .eaten'and slept alongside the" de6pjbpo8ing bodies of his wife and ohiId.^^ It was shortly after 9 o'clock in the m^|^J^1^t |£^ward Kjgtsena£$in re ihe« police (thikt the& was something wrong in the little shanty at the rear of 180 Maujer street. Officers went to the spot and rapped at the door of the shanty, but ro tseived nv. response.^ An officer r*i*ed $he front window and climbed in.. 4s hMid so a maniac with matted hair .'and beard and wild, rolling eyes bounded from the rear room. In his hand was a huge revolver. It was lev eled at the officer's head. "Get out of here!" cried the madman, at the same time snapping the trigger. The officer retreated, but a pistol shot' was Nheard within the shanty, and he returned. A terrible discovery was made. In the rear room—there are but two—lay the bodies of the suicide's wife and child. One—the wife—bad been killed by him at her own request. The child he had strangled to death with a rope, never onoe heeding its pit eous cries. The shanty in which the family lived gave evidence that Mrs. Franken was a neat thrifty housekeeper. She sympathised with .her husband and when he said the entire family would be better off dead than alive she agreed with him, but she wanted to die easily. She suggested that he poison her. With this end in view he purchased paris green. He tells this in one of the letters he left In it he also says his wife died at precisely 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. In another letter he says that he is insane, driven so by poverty and the prospect of never being able to better his condition. Franken and his Wife discussed this matter calmly, and finally agreed to go out of the world together. The child, a pretty blue eyed thing, not quite 3 years old, they decided to trice with them. The husband and father became the executioner. Tuesday the wife lay down upon the bed in the rear room. She had previously cleaned up the rooms. Her husband brought her a dose of paris green in water. She drank it. When she began to suffer, rolling on the bed in intense agony, she begged piteously for relief. Franken hurriedly loaded his revolver and placed the muz zle against he? right temple. Another cry of agony from the woman and the report of the pistol rang out simultane ously. Relief had come. The child was next called into the room. It had been frightened by the noise and was crying. The father cut a piece of clothes-line. Holding £he child in his left arm he grasped both ends of the rope in his right hand. He sat on the edge of the bed. Placing the rope around the child's neck he drew it taut. Instinctively the little one's chubby hands raised in defense of its life. But the murderer's work went on. Tighter and tighter the rope became, twisted by the muscular hand of the father.' The child gasped and struggled feebly. 11 was going fast Tighter and tighter was the cruel rope drawn, until it cut into the yielding flesh. Tying the rope thus, the father laid the now dead baby beside its mother. Here the coward in Franken manifested itself. He failed to carry out the contract for he did not kill himself. Since Tuesday night ho had remained in the rooms with his murdered wife and child. The last time he was seen by any of his neighbors was Tuesday. He cooked his own meals and lived alone with death. CROWDED TO THE WALL. The Year's Record as to .'Railway Fore closures and Receiverships—Some Big Figures. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—The Railway Age publishes a' review of the foreclosure sales and receiverships of 1^89. The year makes a less favorable showing thanits predecessor, although its record is not as discouraging as were those of the three years preceding 1888. During 1889 twenty-five lines, with 2,930 miles, were sold. on foreclosure. These roads had a total funded debt of $84,864,000 and a total capital stock of $52,951,000, making a grand total of $137,815,000. For the fourteen -years, which closed with 1889, 448. roads with a total of 4(5, 700 miles and a combined- funded debt and capital stock of $2,682,740,000, were sold at foreclosure. The number of roads which passedinto the hands of re ceivers in 1889 is the same as in 1888, with about'the same mileage and cap ital. Twenty-two companies, with 3,803 miles and a funded debt of $84,702,000 and a capital stock of $99,664,000, went to the wall. The most important failures of 1889 were the St Louis, Arkansas & Texas, 1,170 miles of road and $58,506,000 capi tal International & Great Northern, 775 miles and $24,755,000 Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw, 323 miles and $20,349,000 Chicago & Atlantic, 248 miles and $19,617,000 Kentucky Central, 217 miles and $13,374,000, and Kanawha & Ohio, 129 miles and $13,354,000 capital. JSnd of the Four Weeks* Season of Pattl and Tamagno at Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—The season of Italian opera at the Auditorium closed with a matinee Saturday at which "The Barber of Seville" was presented, with Patti in the leading role. Six thousand 'persons were present the receipts for the performance reaching ^he enormous sum of $14,230. The gross receipts for the entire season each week were as fol follows: First week, six performances 960.087 Death of a Chicago Judge. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Judge J. C. Knick erbocker, of the probate court suffored a stroke of paralysis at 3:45 o*clock Sat urday afternoon and at 3:20 o'clock Sun day morning died. He was in good health up to the time he. received the stroke. He was 52 years of age, and had been judge of the probato court for twelve years. Selling Pools on the World's Talr Sit*. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.—The book-makers •in this city are selling .pools on CATARRH. Catarrhal Deafhess-Hay Few-A JTM Home Treatment. Batterer* are not generally aware thai these disease* are oontagious, or thatthej •re due to the presence of living: parasite* lit the lining membrane of the noSe and the result of this discovery is that a simple remedy has been formulated wherebj Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness are permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made atflhome by the patient once in two weeks. N. B.—This treatment is not a snuff or an ointment both have been -discarded bj reputable physicians as injurious. A pampb let explaining this new treatment is sent or receipt of three cents in stamps to pay postage by A. H. Dixon & Son, cor. of Johs apd King Street, Toronto, Canada.—CArte turn Advocate. Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should carefully read the abova TIGHT shoes may be classed as article* oi hard wear. Acid in the Blood Accnmuatlng In the Joints, Is believed to be th« cauaeOf rheumatism, from which so many suffei at this season. Hood's Sarsaparilla has had won* derfal success in curing this complaint. It neu tralises the acidity ot the blood and restores tb vital fluid to healthy condition. If you suffer from rheumatism, try Hood's SarsapariUa. "I have been suffering from an acuta attack ol rheumatism Induced by a severe sprain of a onc« dislocated ankle Joint, which caused great swelling and Intense pain. Hood's Sarsaparllla restored clr culation.olea :sed the blood and relieved the pats so that I am nearly well again. L. T. HUKT, Springfield, Mo. Hood's SarsapariUa Sold by all drugztsts. 11 six for S5. Prepared onlj by C, I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Masa IOO Doses One Dollar AZINESS Weakness, Indisposition to Work. Headache, Dullness, Heaviness, .? Appetite, Constipation, all indicate that you need a few doses of the genuine Dr. Ci McLane's Celebrated Liver Pills, The/ strengthen the weak and purify the BLOOD They are prepared from the pur est materials and put up with the greatest care by Fleming Bros., PiUpburgh, Pa. Be sure you get the genuine. Counterfeits are made in St. Louis. WALES ^kkAKKV«¥EKS.,,y ,UR RUBBERS. The best Rubber BOOTS and SHOES 3a SSjS?rJ3»*re^Eande1 WALES OOOUYEAR SHOE CO. When you want rubbers call for WALES Goodyear. and do not be deceived by buyingotber rubbers with T?™ Goodyear" on them, as that name is used by other companies on Inferior goods to catch the trade thRt the Wales Goodyear Shoe Co. has estab* liahed by always making Rood goods, which fact JWrAJBXiMIEDglP GOOB- 1870. 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BUCKREE, I Seed Fans* ORGAN 45 Second week, five performances 54,807 35 Third week, five performances 52,735 85 Fourth week, six performances 06,333 35 Total «EK,A54 00 Hie Mind Thought to Have Given Way. OPORTO, Jan. 6.—There is every rea son to fear that the mind .of the ex Emperor of Brazil has given way iinder the great strain upon it resulting from the death of the Empress last week. He has had fits of hysteria ever since that sad event Friday when the body of the ex-Empress was taken in state to the Lapa Church Dom Pedro was not among the mourners. Every body remarked it but few guessed the reason, namely, that the mind of Dom Pedro had given way. He sat half smiling all day on his couch muttering to himself and counting foolishly on his fingers. STOOLof KIAUBUNU OUT OELAT, •PIVWlWISw put your c'alm in of ,*0«KJ»n IS. HUNTES, ATTORNEY, WASHINGTON, 9. PENSIONS $5 linHC DUE ALL 80LDIER8, If disabled pay,etc. De serters relieved Lawsfree. A» W. 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