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THE MILAN EXCHANGE. XV. A.. WADK, Iblllier. MILAN. TENNESSEE OVER TIIEW'aV. xt There's a monnn-h over the wnvt nenr on ht Imw no studded rrown, - He trn, ns In his tr ill no blood-red gown, H ii flnicr Hashes no signet ring; iluf his ll-pcd .k-on l. thit of Kins ' " This Lny over tbs way. ; i i Thorn' a d.'fpnt over the wayl No hallf-rd. no crested shield ho vnunta, ; From a h Imet peak no niuine be Haunts, No clutter nif horse Mt Ills h"c'.s attend; -But nil nt his luck In tbralldom bond J . i To tills b it ever tbo way. . r- j r j There's n wiiard over tbo w i.v! , - ! 'Anil to shards, beti're his tnllrl blue eyes, Aro crackled th old proprieties; - - 1 ho yestcr problems gr iw small and few, Anil tHll, In their stead, a thousand now Start up from over the way. Thoro's a prophet over tho way! " P'spellitis; the wilKj'-the-wlsps of doubt, Wlille clear the lantern of faith Humes out. And th rough the mint boonu. the anchored , b'U: . f ; . . ' " Ixi! (lod still re'srns, nnd must mean well lly such llttl" ones over tho wiy I" tv- Homhlvn. in i.tinKltan Union. A NKJflT ADVENTURE IX LOXDOX. The niirht wa? h'tlcous. Tho aut.nmn f$los were blowing a terrific hurricane. i wits ruiuinjr iu torrents. I had the misfortune t din m;j out, not far from llauipsttiB'U in Que of those numerous suburbs of London" Vhcro cubs oil a rainy niiht or on any ordinary morning are its scarce as pleasure yachls on tha stimm't of tho Rocky Mountains. I was, therefore, toiling ankle deep in water and drenched, to the marrow, when suddenly a piercing yell rose for a sec ond or two above the continuous up roar of thft tempest. I rushed forward. A young and active policeman, emerg ing at the same time from some invisi ble spot, passed me with lightning ra- i)idity. ' 1 quickly caught up with him. lis helmet, however, was already drifting on the overflowed gutter, and he was engaged in fierce conflict The villain h3 was fighting was a mechanic of ponderous weight, evidently an ex perienced rulHan, an old hand' at mur derous assaults, whom ho had disturbed in the act of kicking his wife out of ex istence. The. unfortunate woman was lying on the ground wailing. Accord ing to the training of the London roughs he had anticipated tho police man's intervention by trying to ram him down.'a trick which is executed by vigorously plunging one's head in one's adversary's stomach. - Unlike "most of the members of the Metropolitan force w hom I have genorally seen ' taken by that trick, the young policeman warded oil' the attack, and for a moment stunned his foe by lifting his head with a well-judged blow from the left t But it was only an ephemeral success. . The villain's head had come clear in time out of other mills. Tho policeman was soon overmatched, but he was an ob stinate young irishman, and he clun to the man as a wounded bloodhound to a wild boar. Ho refused to be shaken oil'. The situation was critical. Sud denly a band of half a dozen men, riot ous and drunk, who had just been turned out from a neighboring tavern, came toward us howling a low cantata to the incoherent strains of a tin whistle. "ll'illoa!" exclaimed one of them, "here is Jim a drumming on a hobby's attic." , "Smash 'is muzzle, Jim," said an other. "What are you jawing about?" in terfered a third; "bli-ter the M. P., Jim, and stiff him, anvhow!" "I'll swing for the bl iody 'og," echoed tho miscreant, by way of show ing him-ell worthy ol the encourage ment. The policeman, however, did not vis ibly care for anything but his duty. Ho liad just succeeded in blowing a whistle. Up to this time I had been occupied ia trying to revive the half-murdered wom an, but now I thought I would leave her alone for awhile. Fortunately the whistle had been heard, and just then : two stalwart policemen, long used to all varieties of ruffians, favored by the darkness of tho night and the noise of the wind, unexpectedly appeared on the ground and rapidly changed the physi ognomy of attairs. Jim was secured and marched off, and one of his friends, having made a determined attempt at rescuing him, was soon, owing to the arrival of two more constables, though unwillingly, added to the importance of the procession. As to myself, I was in vited by the police to come to the sta tion as witness. The errand had but little attraction; the walk had none, as the tempest was still at its highest, un concernedly juggling with unroofed and unrooted stray fragments. The station was reached. Our gen eral condition was so lamentable that it seemed as if the wise inspector might have his doubts as to whom he would charge. Jim, however, was eventually jiut behind the iron bars where every prisoner is charged before being taken to the cell in which, unless bail is ten ' dered and accepted, he spends the hours which separate him from his appearance before the magistrate. A policeman stood by him outside the bar. Jim was a particularly repulsive man, with a low forehead, a curl of hair on the temple, a rough red beard under the chin, a broken nose and a retriever's mouth. The scale on the wall fixed him at five feet ten. lie had the back of a brew er's horse. His clothes were much torn, and he exhibited other proofs of the steadiness with which the Irish po liceman had played a losing game. Nevertheless, he bore his fate spirited ly. He listened contemptuously to the cause given for his apprehension by the constable who had arrested him to the inspector. When searched he grinned. When questioned as to his name, his j;e, his profession, his residence, he sneered defiantly, and as he looked quite refreshed and ready for another bout, more policemen f-ilently grouped themselves around him in order to quickly overcome all troublesome re pugnance that ho might manifest at be ing shown, to a cell- This display of force probably oouvinced the prisoner of the futil.tjr of a tally, for when or dered, to ret re he simply Indulged n a few extemporized imprecations, which rang in the police hall as if launched straight out of hell. I had to give my nmni) and address ft witness ; and was told by the inspector that he Would ex pect mo on the next morning at ten o'clock at tho Police Court. 1 was at this court at the appointed tinio. The access to the place resembled so much sino of the worst haunts that I hesitatingly inquired,- fearing to be lartjrhed at, from a rod ly vobbler if I was in the right direction. "t'an'you read that 'ere inscription" on that "ere door 'Police Court?' " said he,, indicating, an . unpretending building;.; and then, with .a-cKinuipg grin, pointing to various groups-if un attractive creatures who exclusively oc cupied tho approach to tho place: "Can't you see that you are at the right wicket? Hall of tho hupper crust 'ere, sir burglars, garrotersaud their sweet hearts. Real puro milk. There ain't one of them that don't deserve capital punishment." is'6 doubt it was a bad lot of ruffians. A lady had just alighted Out of licr car riage, and ns she liad to pass before them in order to reach the court, which has only that entrance, their looks and sneers would have been enouarh to an noy a divine, wh le some shelled out words that would have produced excite ment at a cuUuerr of marines. v V It is uncomfortable. to speculato on what might happen in such a place if policemen were not there to keep it, as it were, orderly. One of tho regretablo results of this state of things is that many among the nervous portion of tho community are afraid of going to theso courts, and that tho ruflian brotherhood knows it and turns it to account. It seems as if some were daily deputed to be there for the sole purpose of making the place unapproachable. The others come to show sympathy with . those of their f Mends who have had the mis hap to be found ouf, and to cheer them up as they enter and depart in the police van. It is just to add that much has been done lately to render the ap proaches of tho London police courts less objectionable. , , . . i (mo of the policemen who had appre hended Jim on the last night, having seen me, took me into court. It was a large, clean, lofty room, yet the air was unpleasant on account of the unwashed condition of the trreater part of the pun lie present. " This public was composed othe same set of wanderers described by my friend, the cobbler, as the "upper crust.", . three or four aoteitives scat tered in the place quietly watched all about them, taking particular notice of the prisoners at the Imr in order to say what they knew of them or to make their acquaintance-. Jim was introduced and placed at the bar., Jhs notoriously bad, character gained for him tho distinction of being attended by an extra policeman, ito fore even noticing the magistrate, he looked around and smiled to a. tew friends who wero in the court. Tho first witness called was the wife of the pris oner. Every one looked for her. Jim's fierce visasro turned deadly palo. Three times the usher called the samo name, but his summons remained unanswered. Suddenly a policeman entered the court oy tne puciio entrance and said a tew words to the inspector sitting by the witness box. This ofllcial arose and begged the magistrate to hear the agent, as he could explain the woman's absence. The policeman was sworn, and, hav ing given his number, proceeded to re late that, according to his instructions. he had gone to tho lodgings occupied by the prisoner and his wife to bring the woman to court He hail found no one on the premises except another lodger, a seamstress, who had told h m that Jim's .wife had disappeared. He was inadvertently eoinz to repeat the seamstress' conversation, when ho was stopped by the magistrate upon the plea that hearsay was no evidence. ' Ho only added that the woman was in court, if his Honor wanted to put any question to her. The seamstress was put in the box, and, having kissed the bible, on the conclusion of tho perfect ly unintelligible words of the oath, ir reverently mumbled as customary b the usher, she was invited by the clerl to say what had happened in the morn ing between herself and the prisoner's wife. She then narrated that early in the morning Jim s wile had got up, al though looking very i 1 and hardly able to stand, and that the had told her that she was going away rccause she knew that the police would fetch her, and take her before the court to depose against her husDand. Mie had sub sequently gone out, and the witness had not heatd of her since. The mag istrate directed that inquiries should be made to discover what had become of her. I was a'terward examined in my turn, and I told what I knew of the events of the last night l be next witness called was the po liceman who-e energetic interference had not a second too s on prevented Jim from killing his wife. This wit ness did not answer to the call of his name, but the inspector stood up and said that on . inquiring at the hospital where the man had been conveyed he had been told that he was delirious, and besides other bad injuries, suffered from a congestion of the brain. : The case . was, therefore,, remanded for another week, in order to permit the magistrate to hear the constable and the prisoner' s wife. Put neither on the appointed day nor ou the one fixed for a further remand were those witnesses in court. Six weeks elapsed before tho constable had mtliciently recovered to come into the court lie was pale and still very sickly-looking. A chair was given to him. The magistrate was just delivering a sentence of eighteen months imprison ment with hard labor on a miserable and starving-looking girl for the steal ingof a handkerchief. On the removal of this sad-looking ob'ect, who on hear ing her sentence fell into hysteric, Jim w as put at the bar. The magistrate lir-t asked if anything had been heard of tho prisoner wifo, and a policeman first entered tho witness box. Having been sworri, ho related that six nights since the body of a woman ld been taken out of the Thames, and that it had been tated at the Coroner's in inest that it was the b dy of tho prisoner's , wife. Answering a quest ion of the magistrate. tho witness added that the CVroncr's verdict was accidental death. ' This wl ness hnving retired, the con valescent constable was examined. His account of his encounter with Jim was straightforwArd und impressive.. J. he mag.Ktrate t.nen asked the prison er if he hid any question to put to the witness. "No, replied Jim, doggedly. Tho mn.(rttrn.tn 'iihpmiont.tv ' do. manded of him If he preferred to be dealt with by him at rnoe or sent to the Superior Court. Jim having sclocted to be dealt with at once, tho magistrate asked him if he had any .statement to make for his defense. "No," said Jim, lirmlv. Having lust hefiri the' magistrate' in- fl it eiofhtBen months1' imprison men t with hard labor lor tho theft of a hand kerchief. I was confident that this vil lain, who had half murdered his wifo,' and whoso long-tried cruelty, as it hap pens fi'Bq'iftnfTC EmoH'f 'thepoor people of this country, had likely deterred the unfortunate ,wtinna 'from appearing in court.-ftnd -fnighfc have-driven her to, some rash act of despair, and who, fur thermore, had seriously m.ured a con stable would, have been aent to the assizes. - My .astonishment, however, grew more intense when, after a few very sensible hnl firm remarks of the magistrate,. I heard him. condemn this twice ,woulJ-be murderer , to only six months' imprisonment with' hard labor. In this country there are strong laws to . protect-property,"" and cruelty to beasts is deservedly punished; but to beat and kick one's .wife, to disable a Pliiieman, perhaps cripple him for life, l, - V i sl - r is out a Hugni ouenso. ijvnuun uur, y. Y. Sun. i.u . . The Expedition for the Kelief Lieutenant Greeley's Party. ol A telographio dispatch has been for warded by General Terry to the Secre tary of War giving the names of tho persons selected Ironi the Uepartment of Dakota to take part in the expedi tion which is to do sent out lor the re lief of Lieutenant Greeley and his party at Lady Franklin Hay in the Arctio regions. 1 he detail consists ol a commissioned officer and four enlisted men, who have been chosen as espe cially well qualified for the duties which will be required of them. The selec tion was naiTOwed down to the regi ments which had served longest in tho department, as it was thought that men who had seen service in the Northwest would be better able to withstand the hardships of an Arctic winter; but even with this restriction there has been no lack of applications, and ever since tne call tor volunteers was issued a month ago, tho list has been length ened until it included tho names of more than one hundred persons First Lieutenant Ernest A. Gartington, Sev enth Cavalry, who has been selected to command the expedition, was born in South Carolina and graduated from the Military Academy in 187G. The others of the detail are Sergeant John Kenny, Troop I, Seventh Cavalry; Corporal Frank Elwell, Company E, Third In fantry, O. F. Moritz, Company A, Sev enteenth Infantry, and Private J. J. Murphy, Company F, Eleventh Infant ry. Three of these have had experi ence as sailors, and all have been chosen with special reference to their physical qualifications. Lieuten ant Gartington is less than thirty years old, above the average h'ght, with a strong, well built, soldierly physique, and strictly temperate in his habits. Ho is very intelligent, and possesses more than ordinary quickness and en ergy. Ho is considered by all who know him especially adapted for such a command. In addition to Lieutenant Garrington and the above-designated four, others have been selected, and with two men from the signal corps and a medical otlicer will comprise the party. It is proposed that the expedition shall leave St. Johns. N. F., about June 15 next, so as to take advantage of all favor able conditions of the ice; and if possi ble reach Discovery Harbor. Should this not be possible the vessel would land the party and store s at Life-Boat Cove and return southward. The party would then establish itself for the winter and endeavor to open communication with Lieutenant Greeley by sledges and as sist him in his retreat from Lady Frank lin Bay. It would not be expected that the station at Life-Boat Cove would be kept up longer than August, 1884, when a vessel would bring the entire party away. Should the vessel sent in 183 reach Lieutenant Greeley, and his party be lurmshed with the necessary sup plies, it will be desirable that the sta tion at Lady Franklin Bay be main tained at least one year longer in order to realize the full purposes lor which it was originally established. St. Paul (Minn.) Special to Chicago Iribune. ' cme boys near Columbus, O., made a horse drunk, to see the fun, and he near'y killed half a dozen persons in his spree. FACTS ASP FIGURES. Eleven new churches in course of construction in New York will cost 000,000. There was 250,000.000 worth of beer drank in this country lat year, be ing !5,000,fX)0 gallons. .V. 1'. Herald. " The el y of Iondun, spreading out so as to inciudo its suburbs, now num bers 4,7tiJ,0-0 people, which is a million more than there aro in Scotland, with in 400,000 of the whole of Ireland, and more than in Sweden, Holland or Por tugal. No other country In the world of fers such facilities fur tippling as the populous and polished Kingdom of Bel gium, whose o'.QOD.OOO inhabitants an nually consume About (50.000,000 quarts of alcoholic liquors. There is an aver age of one public house for every twelvo male Belgians, ami in somo parts of tho country the supply is nearly twice as great. China is ahead on bridges, tho largest in the world being her structure at Lagang, over in arm of the China Sea. It is five miles long, built entirely of stono, has 800 arches 70 foet high and a roadway 70 feet wide. Tho parapet is a balustrade, and each of tho pillars. which are 7j feet apart, supports a pedestal on which is placed a lion. 21 feet long, made of one block of marble. Of the 40,000 envelopcs'sent ont by the managers of the Baltimore Homo for the Friendless, for Christmas offerings, but 1,010 were returned. In those re tnrned were three $ii bills, seven 2 bills, and forty-seven $1 bills;- th rty-live 50- cout pieces, one hundred and seventy- seven 25-ccnt pieces, four hundred and thirty-three 10-ccnt pieces, three hun dred and fifty-six 5-cent pieces, thirty nine 3-cent pieces, and seven hundred and J'orty two cents in all $207.44. . Fifteen Americans own $920,000.- 000, as, for instance: W. II. Vander- bilt, $:'GO,000.000: Jay Gould, $100.- 000.000; LelandSUnlord. $100,000,000; C. P. Huntington, SUOO.OUO.OOO: Charles Crocker, $00, 000, 000,000; Mn. Hopkins,. S.iO.UOO.HOO; l?USell Sage, $40,000,1)00. James Flood, $ 40,000. o00: J. G. Fair- $40,000,000; J. G. Mackey. $o0,0 H),. 000: .Cyrus W. Field. $2.-,000,000; Jamei Kecne, $20,00a,000; estate of Thomas Scott, $20,000,000; John W. Garrett. $20,000,000: Samuel J. Tilden, $15, 000000. N. Y. Times. . Some interesting statistics of street car business wore brought out at a meeting held in Boston recently, to form a national association of street-car otti cers. There are now doing business in this country and Canada 415 street rail ways, employing about 35,000 men. They run 18,000 cars, and more than 100,000 horses are in daily use. Calcu lating that tho average life of a horse in street-railway service is four years, it makes the consumption of hordes 25,000 per year. To feed this vast number of horses requires annually 150,000 tons of hav and 11,000,000 bushels of grain. These companies own and operate over 3,000 miles ot track. X he whole num ber of passengers earned annually is over 1,212,100,000. The amount of cap- ital invested exceeds $150,000,000 Boston 'Transcript. WIT AXI WISDOM. -Lime-Kiln Club Philosophy: "What wo have let us be thankful for. What we ha en't got let us hope would render us miserable if we had it" Detroit Free Press. Iho crippled beggar receives no sympathy from Mr. J. of this city, who always replies to an appeal: "Alamo excuse, sir; a lame excuse: lltitiuui- phi a Item. "I do wish you would come home earlier," said a woman to her husband. I am afraid to stay alone. 1 always imagine that there s somebody in the house; but when you come I know there ain't" A thing is said to bo transparent when you can see through it A German paper gives us two very good illustra tions lirst, a pane of glass, and second. a keyhole. . A man at 'a hotel fell the whole length of a flight of stairs. Servants rushed to pick him up. They asked him if he was hurt. "No," he replied; "not at all. I'm used to coming down that way. I'm a life insurance agent" Boston l ost. "Get right out of this," shouted an irritated merchant to a mendacious clerk; "this is the third lie I have caught you in since ten o clock this morning.'"' "Uh, well," said the new man, "don t be too hard on mo." Give a fellow time to learn the rules of the house." Chi cago Time.. Two English girls are romping with boisterous laughter at a hotel at Meo. Then conies the shocked matron: " For heaven's sake, Mabel, don't! They'll take you lor one ot those horrid Ameri can girls." One of this sweetly des ignated class, chancing to overhear, cavs gently: " I guess not with those awfullv big feet" Dolls never answer back, no matter what their little mistresses may say to them, or however they may treat them. All little girls become accustomed to dolls, and when the girls grow up to womanhood it is but natural that they should expect their children should pattern after the dolls. This is what causes no end of trouble in even the best-regulated families. A tramp rather got the better of KosioSko Murphy last aunaay morning. Kosiosko was just leaving his house to go out for a day's hunting, when the tram) asked him lor a voluntary con tribution. "Ain't you ashamed'to be begging on the Lord's dayr" "Ex cuse me, Colonel, for stopping you," said the tramp, looking at the gun, but I'll not detain you any longer. You niirht be late for church.'' 'i'.cw Sijtings. THE "EWHALL HOUSE HORROR. Arrrt ff Oeor Hrhellrr. t.frm ttt th Krn lmtl lloniw Urn-room, on Charg or llMtlug Net lr to the Hotel Through Silte. ' - Mn.wAtTKMt, Jnnuitrr IS. Woiy. Peheller, proprietor of the Newhsll nonm tnr. wm in-rented nt onn o'clock this nfternnon on wurrnnt irorn out by Oftlocr ! an n flu rbnrftlntr bim with nutting tho Are which octroyed tho NewtaMl Houe Weilncft flnjr niovntnjr. Th srrwt wiw minis by Uen- trnmit Jminen ami Ollicer llannltln. In ltoth'S quiet hoiine," corner of Mutton street and BmnrtWHy. - Kobeller did not Mem very much etirpripcd. nn I mivlu no statement. He looked pretty bndly broken up. Ho hns been drink Inir henvlly slncu the tire, BiiJ his face shows the efforts of tho spree. The prisoner Icx ke iup onthe chnrge ot "arson," and was immediately transfenod to the county 3 nil, where he was locked up in nn upper cell. He did not speak to the Juller. The officers aro very reticent about tho details of tho arrest. It is reported that Hcheller was arrested prin cipally on the statement of I.lnehan and nnnther employe, who claim that they saw S-'obellor In the wood-room, where LInehan says the lire originated, and that ho was there after three o'clock a. m. Application was mado at the Sheriff's ofBco for an opportunity to talk with tho prisoner, which was refused. District-Attorney Clark also refused to let any one see chellcr, his excuso being that ha is afraid an attempt will bo made to lynch him. The warrant sworn out by Detootive Hann flu n ads: "John Hanninn.belnirdiilv sworn.complalns totb'i Alun cipal Court of Milwaukee County thai .eiruo -chelli'r Inliiisi. on the 10th nay of Januiiry, A. !., IsM, at the stiil oily of Mil waukee, in emu county, at nnoutthu hour or three o'clock of tho night-tinvi of that day. then and there, with force ami arms, a certain dwellinir-housn th"ro situate 1 known as th Ncwh ill lluu e, of which lie, the all ive-n imed (.eoruo Pohcller (lla) was there and then the tenant, then and there feloniously, willfully ntiil iiHiliclmnly (I'd set fire t tho said house. then ami by the kindling of such lite did fel' nloiKly, willfully nnd maliciously burn and consume, o mlrnry to tho statute In such ease iiiHrte ami movule'l. and niriiirmt the D Miee and dimity of the Male of W isooiiHin, as said de- pom-tu verily believes, and prays that the said Oeoige hcheller (alias) may be arrested and dealt with according to the law." Linehan, ctitflnoer of the Nowhall House, is out of his room to-day. lie states that the va rious tales about the tiro orlgin;s4iiig in theseo ond or third stories is nil bosh, let people say what tiny will. Linehan, when tho announce ment of the fire was made, went Into the wood room In tbo basement, nnd there found a pile of wood burning In a corner. The brick walls wero blackened, which was caused by the burning against it some time, as may bo seen at present, and that there was noothorflre aboro or below nor in any other part of the room. The smoke was ascending through the floors above and spreading throughout the building. In further proof that the fire originated la that very spot where It was found burning brijflitly by the engineer, there can bo found no other blackenod wall from tho same or other cause In any part of the basement or elsewhere. I.lnehan recuses no one of lighting the torch, no matter what ho may think conoern- insrlt,l)ut he does not hesitnte to say that that lire never came tho e by accident, as there wns no tiro anywhere near, and there was no possibility of it originating by combus tion, nnd consequently the o mcTuslon Is In evitable th it some ono In tbo still watebus of the n ght struck the fatal matob in tho in- tnetof somj one else. Derhtu s. but to tha horrible lo s of hundreds an 1 then crept to his retreat to avoid his damnable reward. behoiler was spoken to shoitly before his ar rest. He wa told that there was some talk of warrant being out for his arrest. The news startled him, and he raid that such surely co ild not lo tho ease. " I would rather drop dead than to be so aoousod," he said, and if bis up earnnce bad anything to do with the manor he whs telling the truth. 'Iherewns talk that ruho lor had set his bouse on tire at Nor h Point, which burned two years ago. It was afterwards clearly proven that he was not at home at the time of tne nro. benouer mis always imrno a good reputation, but his unfortunate oonnect:on with the ditr -putablo Mascotte saloon on Mar ket street caused many people to loo respect for bim. He ran a saloon place of low repute. contrary to the wishes of all his fiiciuls, as well as everybody in the vicinity of where it Is locate 1. Scheller Is about thirty-threeyears old. and has a small family bchciior has 0 en in llmineini straits or into. An attempt made last Friday to raise f000 on a chattel mortgage from Charles Kcholcs, the gambler, failed. Tbo liquor-dealer who fur n shed the bar-room holils a note of tXfi against Seheller, which ho offers for ten cents. The afternoon before the Are. when Fehe lor was intoxicated. Landlord Antisdcl gave him a talking to, warning bim to mend his ways. rVbcller was afterwards talkod to by Tib, chief clerk of the hotol, andloltin high dud geon, proceeding on a regular carouse. Ho claims having left the bar-room In the hotel at 1::ih. m. the morning r the nre, but con clusive evidence has been secured to show that he was out until 8:80 a. m. half an hour before, the Are with Will Sanderson, of Kd ward Bandorson & Co., Tom Dunbar, of the Milwaukee Driving Park, and Joe Hendorer. a saloonist under the gambling den of Sholes ana rsewoauer. The feeling is Intense, but a great many people who know r'chcller will declare he is, not capable of tho deed. Four Hundred Tersons Burned to Death. St. PrrKTtsnenn, Russia, January 14. During a performance yesterday at the cir cus In Berdltcueff, Husslan Poland, a tire broke out, and before the operators oould escape the whole structure was ablaze. Three hundred persons perished. JANUARY ID. The Are broke out towards the end of the performance, and was caused by the careless handling of lire-works on the stage. The cur tain Ignited and the flames quickly spread to the walls and roof. The members of tho or chestra were tho first victims. The audience. numbering 800 persons, rushed to the front door, but It opened Inwards, and as the crowd pressed forward It could not be opened. A rush was then made to the two side doors, both of which ware nailed up, thus compelling the people to take to the windows, from which many sprang Into the streets withthelrclothes a sheet of name. The fire brigade arrived within half an hour, but It was impossible to extinguish the flames, as tho water In the tanks was frozen. The fire lusted two hours. Eye-witness es State that when tha doors were finally opened a mass of burning persons was via ble witb'n. The horses and propertiea of the circus were all destroyed. The Ice broke while the Bra brigade was crossing tho river, thus prevent ing them reaching the (Ire more promptly. It 1 estimated that ninety men, one hundred and twenty womea and sixty children lost their Uvea. The victims include a Colonel of Police and the Vice-President of tha Berdib. che ft Bourse. Tho audience oonsisted mainly of Jews. Another account fays the Are was caused 3 groom having thrown a lighted cigarette oo tue straw in tho stables, setting it on nre. An- oiner groom irieu to stamp out tbo nre, but a strong araugbt fanned the names an I caused them tospivMd. The author of the Are ier- Ishod, also two clowns, believed to be English men. Tha el reus was a warMlon structure. Hon I running about wildly incruusedtbe cnnfu-don. A stili laieraocouni says tour nunureu per rons were sutrocuWd, crushed or DUfoee -A 1 dwatb.