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A REMARKABLE CRIME OF TWENTY YEARS STANDING TRIED IN A GEORGIA COURT. Ashley Creech Puts Aside His Invalid Wife and Instals Another Womaa in Her Place-The Lawful Wife Neverthe less Lives Under the Same Roof, in the Capacity of Servant and Drudge, for Twenty Years. ATLANTA, June 30.-One of the most remarkable cases ever tried in a Georgia court was before Judge Van Epps yes terday in the city court. The case is probably without a pre cedent in the history of crime. The of fense charged has extended over a period of twenty years, here in Atlanta, and no notice of it was ever taken by the police or courts before. As the case was called yesterday the defendant was a white woman named Nora Herron. She is 40 years of age, but seems several years younger, quiet, intelligent and well dressed. She wore a white summer dress and white straw hat, and everything about the woman was quietly preposessing. THE STORY. Twenty years ago Nora Herron came to Atlanta. She had one child with her. One of her first acquaintances here was Ashley Creech, a machinist. She anplied at his home for work, stating that she was a young widow from fi -uth Carolina, with one child and nothing but her own labor between them and starvation. Creech's wife. was an invalid, the mother of two children. Under these circumstances Mrs. Her ron was taken into the family, and there she remained. Mrs. Creech has been an invalid these twenty years. W iTHOUT A DIVORCE. Soon after Nora Herron came into the Creech family there Ras a very quiet but radical reorganization of the family circle. Creech adopted Mrs. Herron as his wife, and his real wife became a servant in her own household. Creech, it seems, had always treated her cruelly. She was naturally a weak minded woman, and the change was made without a serious protest from her. Xora Herron was the acknowledged mis tress of the house, and until the matter was brought before the last grand jury not half .a dozen people living knew that she was not Herron's real wife, or that the real wife was not a servant. THE CHILDREN. Creech has had five children by his adopted wife, the last one two years old. .Th'e.two children by the first wife 'were brought up in the same house. Both were old enough to remember when and how the Herron woman came, but were frightened into silence when they were children, and have tolerated it since through a horror of the scandal that would follow its disclosure. So twenty years have passed. Creech'eneighbors were told that the real Mrs. Creech was an idiot and de pendent relative, kept through charity, and that Nora Herron was Mrs. Creech. How I wAS TOLD. Not long ago the daughter of the real wife was married to a man named Drew. She told him, after they were married, .ether mother's real position, and Drew ,kried the matter before the grand inry. This daughter was the main witness before the grand jury. She swore that for years after Nora Herron first came into the family there was only one room to their house. After Mrs. Herron was adopted as Mrs. Creechi, the wife slept upon a pallet at the foot of their bed. -Afzirwards a partition was built, making two rooms of one, and the real wife was .sent into a se ate room. It was the rel ite tnat dlid all the servant's wvorT cooked, nursed, washed and ironed. The Herron woman contributed towards thesupport of the family by working in Seligs pants factory. She has been there for years-ge of the best and most industrious workwomen in the fac tory. THE REAL WIFE A wITNESS. An incident of the trial yesterday was the introduction of the real wife as a witness for the defense. She is much older than the Herron woman and an P imbecile. She shielded her husband and the other woman as best she could. She de nied all that her children had testified, but her statements were weak and con tradictory. The testimony was simply overwhelming against the adopted wife and Creech, and the jury were out not jexceeding two minutes. There is a true bill against Creech, and he will be tried if he can be found. He learned of the grand jury's investi gation, and it is said left immediately. THE SENTENCE. The w~oman's sentence was $100 and costs or sir months in the penitentiary. A collection was taken up in the court room and over $70 was raised. Solicitor Frank O'Bryan, who had prosecuted and convicted her, contributed $20. and several of the jurymen contributed. The entire amount was not raised, how ever, and the woman went to jail yester day afternoon. The balance of the fine will probably be raised to-day and the woman released. married in Jest. Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum of Catletts burg and Miss Laura Duke Smith of Lexington attended a social gathering 'in Ashland, Ky., one evening last week, and a young minister and the County Clerk were among the guests. After a while some one suggested a mock mar riage and Mr. Marcum and Miss Smith volunteered to be the bride and bride groom. The County Clerk was appealed to and made out the license and the minister performed the ceremony. Nothing more was thought of the affair until Friday, when it was mentioned to a lawyer, who declared that the mar riage was a legal one. This view is ac cepted as correct and the make-believe bride and bridegroom are intensely dis tressed. To add to the complication,. Mr. Marcum was engaged to an esti mable young lady of Ashland. The courts will have to be appealed to for relief. Mr. Marcum is editor of the Cat ]ettsburg Demnoc-rat and Miss Smith, or Mrs. Marcum, is the daughter of Gene ral Greene Clay Smith. one of the best known men in Kentucky. The President's New England Trip. NEW YORE, July 3.-President Harri son and party, consisting of Secretary and Mrs. Noble, Adjutant General L. A. Barbour, Lieutenant Mason of the Navy Department, Clarence W. Bowen andI Col. Elliot F. Shepard, left the Fifth Avenue Hotel this morning at 9:35 and were dr-iven in carriages to the Grand Central Depot, where the 10 o'clock trein was taken for Woodstock. At the depot Secretary Tracy joined the President. A stop will be made at Hartford, and the President will visit the State Capi tol. What Tom Woolfolk Sighs For. The Georgia newspapers report that Tom Woolfolk, the Bibb County gentle man who defended the sanctity of his -home by killing the nine other trembers of his family who occupied it, ranging in age from five years to seventy, sits ini his cell and sighs that if he could get a change of venue to Charleston he would ;be sure of an acquittal and reasonably hopeful of an ovation.---Green ellle .Ne-s. Big Blaze in Idaho. H rLEY, Idaho, July 2.-Four busi ness blocks were burned here this morn SOMEBODY BLUNDERED. A Fourth of July Excursion Train Col lides with a Freight. DUBQrrE, Iowa, July 5.-A wreck oc eurred last night on the Chicago and Kansas Ci.- road, about two miles Nortth of this eit's The G. A. R. had been holding a pieInic at Twin Springs, a re sort about thirteen miles from Dubuque. Over 5,000 people were in attendance. Trains were run every hour to and from the grounds. The excursion train had just landed 1,2C() people in this city and were returning for the remainder, which consisted of about 2,000 men, women and children, when it collided with a freight train en rouito for Dubuque. Only the most meagre particulars are obtainable and the railroad officials are extremely reticent. It is admitted that one man, a brakeman named Ryan, was instantly killed, and three others were seriously injured. There rere a large number of people on the excursion train who were going u) to pass a few hours in the re sort, intending to return on a late train. It is believed that many people were killed. Had the accident occurred to the Southbound excursion train the loss of life would have been fearful, No satisfactory reason for the accident has been assigned. ANOTHER. OTMwa, Iowa, July 5.--A Coliisoin occurred on the C. B. & Q. road near Glendale, thirty miles East of this cit y, yesterday. An Eastbound stock train, with two engines attached, collided with a passenger train Westbound. Express Messenger Blackburn was buried in the wreck, receiving what will probably prove to be fatal injuries. A few others were injured, but slightly. The engines were badly demoralized. Considerable of the stock was killed and injured. JUMPED THE TRACK. BALTIMoRE, July 5.-An Onancock, Va., special says: The Northbound express on the New York, Philadelphia and Nor folk Railroad jumped the track near Eastville station last night and plunged into a ditch. No particulars received. All travel below Eastville station is suspended. The Press and the Courts. The New York .Iournal of Commer:, a wisely conservative journal, which never loses its balance, thus criticises the verdict in the Mc)ow trial: When in the proper' judicial spirit the press tears the mask from hypocrisy, sweeps aside the plausible sophistries which wily advocates have spun over the face of crime to conceal or palliate its guilt, and dares to hold the criminal up to the shame he richly deserves, it is doing a noble work in the interest of truth and justice. We regret to say that some of the papers in this country seem to be in such fear that they shall not duly mag nify their vocation in this respect, that they substitute their own judgment of matters that have been, as far as all ap pearance goes, fairly tried by the courts, both for the opinion of the Judge and the verdict of the jury. A case in point is that of MeDow, recently acquitted at -:harleston, ot the charge of murder. There is no evidence whatever that the trial was not fairly conducted. The de fendant admitted the killing of Dawson, but claimed that he fired the fatal shot in self-defense. He did not shine in court'as a man of unblemished moral character. With a lovely wife at his home, he pursued with unwarranted dal lantries a handsome Swiss domestic in the family of Dawson. The latter heard of it and'went to Mclow's officee to call him to account for his conduet. in the altercation that ensued the visitor was killed. The slaver was indicted and the trial has just been concluded, his plea of self-defense having been sustainied by the verdict. During the ptrogress of the trial manyj or tle papers cmnmenten upOirn?~d evident unfairness, and since its close have been raging over the r-esult as a gross miscarriage of justice. We can see no excuse whatever for sach an out break of temper. If there had been a strong popular feeling in favor of the accused, it miight be said that the out side pressure had forced the jury to de cide against their own honest convic tions. But as far as popular clamor went, both in Charleston and elsewhere, the force of pressure wvas in the other direction. It is said that the prosecution was weak in presenting the case, but as it was assisted by the most eminent counsellors of a bar second to none in the country, this, if true, was undoubt edly due to the inherent weakness of all that the authorities could gather in favor of conviction rather than any ne glect of duty by the government officials. Quite a number of the papers which have been fiercest in their clamor for McDow's condemnation now insist that justice miscarried mn the trial solely thro~ugh "race prejudice in the jutry box." If the jury had been all white or all colored .this plea could not be so abso lutely disproved as to stop the mouths of its advocates, but when it is known that of the twelve men five wvere white and seven were black, we (10 not see where the --race" prejudice comes in force. Besides, it is claimed that the negroes were in favor of the criminal, and the mere statement ot this is enough to condemn the charge. If the whites bad been prejudiced in favor of McDow, and had demanded h:s acquittal, it would have been urged that they co ced the negroes to agree to that ver dict. Bat we do not think the seven negroes could have won five white~men to render with them a unanimous ver diet of acquittal after less than two hours' consultation in the jury room if the latter had not conscientiously con curred in. its justice. We think that this is a ease which may be safely left to the judgment of the court in which it was tried, and that tihe extra newspa per tribunal is wholly out of place. Furs Worn in Summer. It's English, but it's very sensiblo. Whatt The wear ig of furs all sum-n mer. The fashionable :itrl sends off her salskin coat and all her r-ealy heavy weight furs, but she recser-ves her mink or sable cape and her- black hear boa to wear with her- summer gowns. We laugh about furs and white miuslini and compare them to oliv-es and ice cre-am, b~ut while oposedI to the mixtture of edibles, vou can see the good sense thatt comes tirom wearing far-s all dluring tih- sumimer. In the mountains, at the seaside, or wherever one goes to get. cool, ther e is cirtain to be a chiliness in the ev enin", and then what is so pretty, or what so becoming as the full luffy hair oft the black bear or the soft bown of the mink or sable over a white gowin? T hese fur-s are not heavy in weght and (1o nOt possess, thank good ness, the dowdy air of white shawls. Tine latter always look as if a woman had just gotten over tihe mnaaria and was'i huntdling herself upt in one of them to avod dlike chills or fevers. Fraume orself, then, in the fur that is beconm ing' to yo. It will make your- hair look "O(loir it will make your skin look whiter, and, think of ir, vou will look just as Ldy Somebody or- the Duchess' of Somebody Else (does at her gardenm party, or what in tihe English society papei-s is called the fashionable function. A Large Woman's Vote Polled. EAU CLAIRE, W~\is., July 2.-Eau C'laire held its first electhin for- board of educa tion yesterda y. It hi-ought omit a heavy woman vo te, 1proinnent soeiety ladic-s spending the whole (lay with their car riages taking women to the ptolls. The anti-Catholic question was miade very prominent in sever-al wards, but cand(i dates alleged to represent the Catholic A HORROR NEAR BISHOVILLE. Five Negroes Assault a Young White Man and His Wife-The Man Beaten, Probably Murdered-The Wife Shame fully Abused. 'TsnoivtL.:, July 4.-On last Frida two young white -people, Mr. and Mrs. I)anieis, appeared in the neighborhood of Bethlehem Church, about three miles above here, and stopped over night with one Ransom J. Anderson, a colored man, and on Monday morning started out fox Bishopville to look for work. On their way to town they were met by one Ned Willinois, a young negro, who bears a very bad reputation, and were decoyed by Ned to his house, where he said they could remain during Saturday, and he could then pilot them on Sunday to a good place to stay until they could ob tain work. On Sunday morning Ned Williams went 'ff, ostensibly to Viee about getting a nouso for the young couple. His real object, however, was to summon four of his comrades, Ed Slater, John Williams, his brother Toni, Charles and Pres on Jefferson, to aid him in a scheme he had plannled. The five negroes held a meet ing just outside of Williams's house and in sight of their victims. A little after dark Williams told the young white matn and his 'wife that he would now coieuct them to the home hei had secured for them, and tney set out with him, but had only gone about 200 yards from the house whon Ned's four conpanions jumped on young Daniels and heat him, and drove him away. Then the five, with drawn pistols, as sanited the woman, each abusing her to his heart's content. The poor creature, half (lead, was forced back into Ned W liams's hone, and kept there until the next morning., vhen Williams's wife carried her to the house of Preston Jef fer on. and be took her to the house of Jmune Cupid, who resides on Mr. 0. C. Sca rborougil's place. Cupit and his wife are kind colored people, and she remained with them until last night, when the white people of the vicinity got the first inkling of the crime. Investigation followed and Mr. R. E. Carnes. our Trial Justice, issued war rants for four men, three of whom were parties wanted. The fourth, being innocent. was discharged this morning. andi two more were secured. At the preliinimairy examination all the parties made statements which amount in fact to a plea of guilty. Our town is in a fever of excitement and knots of men, both white cnd colored, are seen all about town discussing the question and a large guard is placed over the prison ers' to prevent any possibility of lynch Tihe prisoners will be taken in the morning to Sumter, where they will be hxlged to await the fall term of court. Mr. 0. C. Scarborough, our Intendant, and Mr. R. E. Carnes, Trial Justice, de serve credit for the manner in which they have worked up this matter. The young husband has not been heard from, and fears are entertained that he has been killed A searching party will scour the voods this evening. Our colored people are highly incensed and are loud in their denunciations of this atrocious crime. The young woman claims to be from Marion County, and was a Miss Nora Huggins before her marriage to Daniels.-Special to Yet's u(1 Courier. "BLACK FRENCHMEN." Fred Douglass on the Haytians-He Will Sail in September. NEw YORK, 3 uly 2.-A Tribune Wash ington special says: In reply to a Ti im ,e correspondent Frederick Douglass, the new Minister to Hayti. yesterday said: "I cannot say when I shall leave for my post. Unless some uepce emergencey'arie~pr~rer'tehave toli September 1st. The climate in H-ayti is very trying to an American. The mean temp~eratuire is about 80 degrees, and rises to about 104 degrees. Europeans, who are in business at Port-au-Prince generally reside in mountains a few mailes distant. There the temperature is d (elighttul in comparison. I do not think, by reason of my advanced age, that m' health wtill matcrially suffer." Mr. Douglass continued: "I atn well known among thc people of Hayti. You mayt'~ remember that some years ago I was assistant secretary to the San Do iningo commission. Then I was in favor of the purchase of San Domingo; now I am not in favor of it. I believe that non-coercion is the best in such matters. Let the people decide At the period mentioned 1 also visited Port-au-Prince. I know the character of the people. They are black Frenchmen. They are given to revolutions like the French and are condemnted therefor. 'Well. France has had twelve revolu tiojs since 1790. I do not think the Haytians would indulge in so many revo lutions were it not for outside ptersonis furnishing them arms. Some of the New York merchants instigate these revolutions by selling arms and muni ions of war to political factions. Were they' not so readily supplied with arnms by these New' Yorkers there would be, fewer revolutions. I have no means of knowing how the present revolutionh will result. Hippolyte is within fifteen miles of Port-a'a Prince, but fifteen miles in Hlavti cannot be measured as in this country. Great mountains intercept the line of'march. and the way to the Hay tian capital is strewn with difficulties to Hippolyte and his men. I hope the trouble wvill be settled beforc I arrive. 'Yes, Mr's. Douglass will go with mie. I trust that the climate will not affect her health. I leave my country reluct antly, and yet I appreciate thle high nonor conferred uipotn me. I should have preferred the office of Recorder of Deeds. Now I am glad I was niot ap pointed. When a foreign missio~n was suggested to mc I named Cairo, Egypt, tor the reason that I was interestedl in lie people for ethnological r'easons. I have sometimes thought Wlat I mi;ght with sufficient time discover a race re semblance between the Egyptians and he Africans. I have given much thought to the subhject." Another Sample of Protection. The wages scale of the Amalgamated As soiationm of Iron atid Steel Workers for 18S$-89) expir'ed Saturdlay. Sixteen firms inm Ohio and~ Pennsylvania have signed the scale. A number of other firms will (d0 likewise wh'len repairs to their mills are completed. There is no fear of a strike in the iron mills over the wage question this year. There will probably be a fiuht at the Honmestead Steel Works of C egie & Co. in Pittsburg, where 5,00)0 mein are employed. Saturday aternlooni word was given 1o close down the works for repairs. and the uien were given to understand that ttney will rnot be re-employed until they had consented to accept the firm's scale, which pro vidles for a reducetion of at least 25 per cent. on the wvhole. The -men assert that the scale will not be signed, and the firm say if the reduction is not accepted te null will be started with non-uiiion men. The Hailey, Idaho, Fire. SALT LAKE Cirv, July' 3.-Further de tails of yesterday's fire at Hlailey, Idaho, arc to thie effect that all the business portion of the towvn was destroyed ex ept Fiede~nthl's5 fire proof house. There is left but one hotel. two livery' stables, one Ilumbher' yard, omne grocery store, one saloon andl one dry goods store. The tire dlid not reach the resi dence poto of tihe tow~n, and no suf fering exists among the people. Los $500,000 with ligrht insurnne. DEATH IN THE PORK. SUFFERING OF A MAN WHO ATE IT IMPROPERLY COOKED. He Was Literally Eaten Up-Millions of Minute Worms Destroyed All the Mus cles in His Body. NEW YoRK, June 30.-Joseph Palmi, a laborer, died at the Bellevue Hospital Wednesday, of that fortunately rare, but extremely painful disease, trichinosis. This disease may be described to the non technical reader as the propagation and infinite multiplication of minute living worms in the muscles of the entire sys tem. It usually arises from the incau tious use of raw or partially cooked pork. On last Saturday afternoon the police summoned an ambulance to No. 49 Mul berry street, to remove a man who was supposed to be suffering from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. Dr. Henderson, the ambulance surgeon, so reported the case on his arrival, and it was thus entered on the books. But when Dr. D. H. Williams, Jr., proceeded to examine the patient in his ward, he could not find any of the customary symptoms of inflammatory rheumatism. in interpreter was summoned, when Joseph was closely examined as to his experiences. Ile stated that the acute pains of which he complained had begun June 5, and continued to increase in in tensity and extent until the ambulance came for him. As these pains had first developed in th'estomach and then spread through the body, Dr. Williams decided that it must be a case of trichinosis. Palmi at first denied that he had been eating pork. but finally admitted that about a week before the pains appeared he had pur chased some pigs' feet of a butcher in Mulberry street, near his residence. His wife and children had eaten the food with him. The man suffered terribly, and the physician was compelled tp administer opiates, both internally and hypodermi cally, to ease the excruciating pain caused by the myriads of worms invad ing every muscle of his writhing body. Though the patient was able to take slight nourishment he continued to grow weaker day after day, until death finally put an end to his Sufferings. "Although I have not yet completed my diagnosis," said Dr. Williams yes terday, "I have no doubt that the case is one of trichinosis. Palmi acknowl edged having eaten pigs' feet during the last week in May, but he must have eaten other kinds of pork, for pigs' feet contain very little muscle, being princi pally composed of tendons, cartilage and gelatinous matter. According to his statement his wife had a slight attack of abdominal spasms, which are the first symptoms of the dreadful disease. She. however, seems to have recovered, though I should not be surprised if the woman was brought here in the same state as her husband was. Trichinosis consists of the breeding of minute worms in the muscles, and they go on multi plying until the entire system is filled with them. Being in the muscles of the pork, which has not lbeen properly cooked and it must be submitted to a heat of 255 degrees to kill the worms-they are taken into the stomach. Here they begin increasing and produce the ab dominal spasms which are initial symp toms; then, following the intestinal track, they finally pass through the ab dominal walls and so enter the lymphatic organs. From that moment the patient is doomed, unless he is so constituted that his system can resist the trichina when they become encysted and die. If they are too strong for resistance they go on living in the muscles until the latter decompose and death ensues very took a piece of muscle from his forearm and discovered that he had previously suffered from the disease, because there were eneysted wortfis visible in it. After lie died portions of the muscles in the calf and shoulder were removed. and these we intend examining under the microscope just as the portions arc and then they will be hardened and their transverse sections prepared for further examining. But there is no doubt that our diagnosis is the correct one. One of the symptoms is an intense thirst and agoniz ing pain, both of which were present in this case. Usually triebinosis is developed from pork which is eaten raw, and neo plc frequently have it who are in the habit of eating raw Westphalia hams and bologna sausage. But pork is not the only meat which is capable of de veloping trichina, for they arc found in the muscles of dogs and cats, rats and mice, and even moles, all of which ani. mals eat pork. The origin of trichina is unknown, and they may be muherited for all we know." Palmi came to the United States in 1885, and ho was 34 years of age. His wife is also a native of Italy, and they had three children. No. 40 Mulberry street is one of the many densely popu lated tenements in that overcrowded and filthy district of the city. Wben in quiry was made in the neighborhood re garding the identity of the butcher who sold the diseased food to the Palmi family, the occupants manifested ex treme reticence and refused to give any information. So far as could be learned the children of Pamli have not suffered any of the symptoms which were devel oped by the father, and Mrs. Pamnli seemed to be in good health, thgugh in terrible grief over the death of her hus band. The surroundings were, how ever, so filthy and the manner of living among the occupants of the house so wretched, it is no wonder that diseases of all kmnds should generate among them. HOYT'S HAUL. The Paying Teller of a Hoboken Bank Goeg Wrong. JERsEY Crrv, N. J., July 5.-Frank Hoyt, paying teller of the First National Bank of Hoboken, was arrested and locked up this morning upon complaint of President R. Symns upon the charge of embezzlement. The bank officers sus petedl Hoyt of wrong-doing and exam ined his accounts yesterday. A short age of least $15,000 was found. Hoyt has been connected with the bank for fiteen years, and bore an unblemiished character. He is 3:3 years old and resided with his wife and family at Orange, N. J. The bank will lose nothing, as Hoyt's bonds arc ample to cover the amount of the shortage. TEN BLOCKS BURNED. The Probable Result of Fourth of July Pyrotechnics. ELLENsBU-RGH, Washington Territory, July 5.-Ten blocks of the best portion of this city are ini ashes. - Nearly one hundred families are homeless, and what was yesterday a thriving and imposing business cntre is niow a mass of ashes ad burning cinders. Owing to the ex :itement and confusion that p~revatils at this hour, it is impossible to ascertain ow the fire originated, but it is pre sumed that it wa the result of the cele bration of the national holiday, as it was started soon after the inauguration of a display of fireworks last evening. The Parnell Investigation. LONDON, July 2.-Michael Dav-itt was xamined before the Parnell Commission to-day. D~avitt declared there was no truth in the account given by LeCaron before the commission concerning p~ro posals of John Devoy being submitted to Parnell. Mr. Parnell had nothing to do A WIDOWER WINS A BRIDE. He Had to Carry Her off by Force from Her Mother and Sister. LOUISVILLE, July 3.-Mr. C. R. Har mon, a wealthy widower of Maxwell, Washington County, and Miss Unite Kimberlin, a young lady of the same place, eloped to Louisville yesterday morning and, crossing to Jeffersonville, were married. Mr. Harmon had to carry off his bride almost by. force from her relatives. Day before yesterday, while Miss Kim berlin's father was absent. Mr. Har mon, who had long been her suitor, and had been objected to by her parents, called and asked her to marry him. She agreed, but her mother and sisters, who were present, objected, and attempted to carry her off by force to her room. Mr. Harmon likewise laid hold of her, and attempted to pull her away from them and into his buggy, which was waiting in front of the house. Between the two parties, the young lady came near being torn into pieces, but as she lent her own strength to that of her lover, the latter prevailed, and drew her from the grasp of her mother and sisters, carrying her off in triumph to his buggy. He placed her in it, sprang in himself, and, dashing off to Lebanon, took the first train for this city. Last night they telegraphed to Mr. Kimberlin that they had just been made man and wife. AN INSANE CIVIL ENGINEER Jumps from a Window of the Palmer House, Chicago, and !!Sustains Fatal Injuries. CHICAGO, July 2.-Persons passing along State street, in front of the Palmer House, this afternoon, were horrified at seeing a man, clad only in a sheet, climb out of a window and walk along the projecting cornice. Suddenly, with a shriek, he fell to the projection below. A ladder was procured and an attempt was made to rescue him, when, with a scream, he threw himself to the pave ment below, fracturing his skull and re ceiving other injuries which will proba bly cause his death. He was evidently insane, and proved to be George W. Howe, a prominent young civil engineer of Leadville. He was on his way home from Washington, where he had been in attendance as a delegate to the conven tion of Patriotic Sons of America. THE CRONIN MURDER CASE. Another Alleged Important Arrest Made by the Chicago Police. CHICAGO, July 5.-At a late hour last night several detectives from the centrai station took a prisoner to the Harrison street station and locked him up in the witness cell. The greatest secrecy was observed by these officers, and from their action it was evident that they had made an important arrest. They refused to say who their prisoner was or why be was arrested, but it is known that the arrest was made in connection with the Cronin case. It was also said that the prisoner was none other than the man who drove Cronin from Conkling's to the Carlson cottage. Rev. John Poster Shoots Rev. Tom Otti son. Last Saturday Rev. John Foster shot Rev. Tom Ottison with a pistol. They are both Baptist preachers of this city. Rev. Tom Ottison had been boarding with Rev. John Foster, and had alienated the affections of his wife and had even captured her person. Rev. John Foster demanded his goods and chattel, and on Rev. Ottison's refusal to give ner up, he shot the Rev. Ottison in the rear. The wound is not serious-less serious than. he deserved. The Rev. Foster i~s linjail. They were..botl-eelored.-2partanburg RIcasoxD, Va., July 2.-Local rains this evening backed up the water in Shockoe Creek. which runs through an archway into the river at the foot of Shockoe mill, and overflowed the streets of the city from Franklin to the river. Lower floors atdd cellars of at least.fifty business houses were submerged. The damage will perhaps exceed $10,000. The rainfall was at the rate of two inches an hour. Another French Cabinet Crisis. PARIs, July 2.-The belief exists in political circles here that a Cabinet crisi4 will result from the charge made by M. DeCassagnac in the Chamber of Depu ties last Saturday, that Thevenot, Min ister of Justice, was the accomplice of Meyer in the Credit Mobelier frauds, for connection with which Meyer has been sent to prison. It is rumored that both Thevenot and Rouveir, Minister of Finance, have determined to resign. Chicago Greatly Enlarged. Chicago has annexed a wide stretch of territory so as to take within its lim its alt suburban towns. Its area has been increased thus, it is stated, to 147 square miles-a phenomenal area for a municipal corporation. The population is, of course, greatly increased by the annexation, some estimates making the present population over a million. The city's modesty has not, it is feared. been proportionally increased. Washington Notes. WAsHINGTON, July 3. -- Mrs. Harrison, her father, Dr. Scott, and two grand children, left Washington this; afternoon for Deer Park, Maryland, where they will spend the summer. The First National Bank of Hunts ville, Ala., has been authorized to begin bt~siness with a capital of $125,000. The bond offerings to-day aggregated $694,350: accepted, $613,700 at 128 for four per cents, and 106k four and a halfs. Providing for the Royal Cubs. LONDON, July 3.-The Cabinet has de cided to appoint a committee on allow ances which Parliament will be asked to grant to Prince Albert Victor and Prin cess Louise The powers of the commit tee will be limited to the settlement of amounts to be asked. The Pope Contemplates Leaving Rome. LoxnoN, July 2.-The Rome corres pondent of the Chronicle says: In re ceiving the Spamish Embassador, the Pope alluded to his possible departure from Rome. It is certain that arrange ments for his refuge in Spain has been e >mpleted. Bought by a Foreign Syndicate. STAL3TON, Va., July 3.- -Prof. R. N. Pool to-day closed the sale of rhe Terrel iron property, containing 6,000 acres, to a foreign syndicate for $70,000 cash. The parties purchasing will take . posses sion at once and move and ship ores. A Kew of Powder Explodes. OMAHA, iNcb., July 5.-Just as the celebrators at Kenesaw, Neb., had fin ished firing a national salute yesterday a keg of powvder exploded in Emil Shultz's lacksmnith shop, instantly kill ing Shultz and wrecking the building. The Georgia Legislature. ATLANTA, July 3.-The Georgia Legis lature met to-day in adjourned session. To-morrow the new Capitol, just finished,4 will be accepted by the State through Governor Gordon. The Pope's Position. RoME, July 5.-The Pope has sent a] copy of his recent allocution to each of ] the powers, asking whether or not they would interest themselves in his position. His decision as to his future action de-|1 pends on the nature of replies re- | THE BARBAROUS SHAH Shown Undeserved Attention in London by English High Muck-a-Mucks. LONDON, July 3.-The Shah, accom panied by several members of the royal family, members of the Diplomatic Corps and otber prominent persons, was to day escorted by procession to the Guild hall. The streets through which the procession passed were decorated with flags and bunting, and lined with troops. Immense crowds gathered along the route. Lord and Lady Salisbury were late in starting for Guildhall, and dis covered on reaching the Strand that the Shah had already passed along that thoroughfare. The troops there had also broken up their lines, and crowds of people were roaming about at will. Owing to the dense crowds Lord Salisbury's carriage proceeded very slowly, without its occupants being re cognized, until Cheapside was reched. Here it was obliged t' come to a stand still, and the oflicial uniform of the Pre mier was recognized by sightseers, who bantered His Lordship until a body of troops was procured to escort him and Lady Salisbury to the Guildhall], which they were obliged to enter through the door assigned to ordinary visitors. Tie police on duty at the entrance stopped several detectives who were following the Premier and would not allow them to enter until they had explained who they were. ANOTHER FLOOD IN JOHNSTOWN. Cambria City Threatened With Inunda ticn Great Alarm Among the People. JOHNSTOWN. Pa., July 3.-The heavy rains of yesterday and last night flooded five families in Cambria City. The water came pouring down the mountain last night, filled the first floors of houses. destrovin all the furniture that had been saved from the big flood. T;sere is great alarm among the peple over t.e condition of the Conemaugh River. The water rose five feet this morning in three hours and carried away the foot bridge above the* Pennsylvania Railroad station. There was danger of the temporary bridge erected by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad giving out, and six loaded freight cars were run out on the bridge to save it. -About 10 o'clock the abut nients began to sink. The temporary bridge erected at the lower end of the Gautier offices is almost a total wreck. Orders were given at General Hast ings's headquarters at 10 o'clock to get everything in shape for quick removal. as it was feared the tents would be washed away. The portable bridges over Stoney Creek were only saved after very hard work by the engineers. At 11:30 it was thought all danger had passed, when a fresh storm broke over the valley. Rain is coming down in torrents and the people fear that the Conemaugh will yet sweep over its banks and flood the town. UNCLE SAM'S DISHONESTY. How the Government 'Has Profited by Funds from Unpaid Money Orders. For seventeen years after the estab lishment of the money order system in this country, the funds secured through unpaid money orders were stored up and hoarded, just as though the United States government had made a good speculation. No attempts whatever were inaugurated to ascertain the real owners of this money which had been trusted to Uncle Sam's care, but the sum went on accumulating until it had reached the enormous figures of about $1,700,000. Then Congress took hold. The legislative branch of the govern ment decided that the money thus held was illegally held, and that no pains should be spared to ascertain to whom it belonge', and a clause was attached to one of the bills appropriating money C authorizing the'empl. ment of a num ber of clerks, whose Uuty it shouild be to ascertain the.rightful owners of this mouey-order fund, and every effort made to restore it. Congress also pro vided that hereafter, whenever an "ad vice" in relation to an order, which should remain unpeid in the hands of a postmaster a certain number of days without the money having been claimed, was received, it should be the duty of that postmaster to notify the payee. If this failed to secure the payment of the money to the rightful party, the sender was to be notified, and steps were de vised by which he might secure the money which had not been paid to the person to whom he desired it should go. Under this latter Act there has been a great falling off in the accumulation of money to tLe credit of the money order fund in New York, and under the in structions of Congress some clerks in the Money Order Department hav.e been engaged for some years in making out a list of all unpaid orders, together with the names of the purchaser of the order and the party to whom it was sent. These lists make an enormous bill of manuscript, and although they are not yet completed, they have been instru mental in restoring a great deal of the money to the rightful owners. Just how much has been paid back cannot be as certained at this time without a great deal of work, but that there still remains more than $1,000,000 piled away in the sub-treasury in New York to the credlit of the money order fund is beyond dis pute. Ordinary business honesty would have demanded that this fund should never have been allowed to accumulate, but Uncle Sam, in his business dealiugs, is the most dishonest of mortals. He never pays a debt that he can possibly escape. but insists upon prompt payment from all his debtors.- Washington Letter. Mormon Missionaries in West Virginia. A dispatch from Wheeling says: "The persistency with which Mormon mission aries arc carrying oii their work in some parts of West Virginia is beginning to excite a great deal of indignation. There is likely to be trouble very soon. Ritehie County is at present the scene of the most active operations. Two elders have taken up permanent quarters there. Oin Indian Creek there is quite a large con gregation and meetings arc held weekly, at which polygamy- is-not only openly preached, but attetnpts are being made to carry the theory into practice, at least one convert having taken unto himselfa second wife. In other parts of the some County like success has attendled the ef forts of the missionaries, and in all there are fifty full-fledged Mormons in the. County. No efforts, it seems, are being i made to transplant the converts." Sight Recovered After Thirty Years. John McDonald, aged 64, of Water-r bury, receives the congratulations of his friends on the restoratioin of his sight, I which was totally lost for over thirtyc ears. Recently he has recovered from sickness, and wais much surprised toe lad that he could dliscern his hand when y eld a few inches from his face. ~ince then he has seen and reognized(e riends of his early (lays and~ othier 0')-o ects. He says that during his illness he I ~uffered very peculiar dizzy sensations.p t one time he heard a strange snap- a )ng sound inside of his head. Thep loctors say it is an unparalleled ease.- p: ~Irtford (C'onn.) Times. 1 The Kentucky Republicans. LEXINGTON, Ky., July 5.-The Repub ican State Convention yesterdlay was s argely attended and enthusiastic. David fr. Colson of Bell County was nomi- t ated for State Treasurer. Although N ut 27 years old, he is a member of the s kgislature and has been in publie life s DANDELION GOLD. Like bright gold dollars in the grass The dandelions lie, And if they would like dollars "pass," I know what I would buy. At first I'd work with all my might To gather up the gold. And stuff my pockets just as tight As ever they would hold. Then I would find Dame Nature's store, (She has the dearest things) Boldly knock at the very front door. And ask for butterflies' wings. Then I should want some fine gray gloves. Made out of spider's silk, And feathery cloak from breasts of doves. And soft and white as milk. For shoes. I'd buy some lily leaves With snail shell buttons bright, And, made of thread the thistle weaves. Some stockings snowy wite. But, most of all, I long to buy The new moon for a boat. That I each night. far down the sky. Among the stars might tiat. Oh, round and round the earth I'd range, So glad and free and bold And never a cent I'd ask of change From dandelion gold. -The Cottage Hearth. Trying to Hoodoo Patti. The alleged rows in the Metropolitan Opera .ompany are mere child's play to the ex periences which the veteran impresario, Col. iapleson, has gone through with during his :areer as an operatic manager. He had Patti and Gerster in the same company at once. ro the initiated that means a great deal, as they well know what the successful manage mcut of that team means. Gerster always tad an idea that Patti was giving her agreat leal the worst of it, and Patti firmly be lieved when she was announced to sing that Cerster pronounced some mystic spell upon her which injured her voice. One night Cerster sang. Patti was to sing the follow ing night. -he and Nicolini retired to their partments at an early hour, and just before turning off the gas Nicolini opened the door to throw his shoes into the hall for the boot black. He opened the door suddenly and there stood Gerster and her husband, Dr. Gardini. Both were making hcodoo passes with their hands toward the Patti apartments, presum bly with the idea of qu ding Lue nihht gale's voice for the following evening. Of ourse Nicolini raised an awful row. For half an hour the hall was blue with Italian profanity, and the redoubtable \1apleson finally had to be called from his couch to pour oil upon the troubled waters. The guests of the house were disturbed, and had rho people not been celebrated opera singers they would have been bundled out upon the idewalk, bag and baggage. No, the Ger tans are lambs alongside of the fiery Italians, Chicago Herald. United States Mining Laws. There are certain general principles of mine Law which may be mentioned: All lands of the United States containing gold, silver, Lead, tin, copper or cinnabar in workable 1uantities are mineral lands, and not open to omestead or pre-emption entry. Nor doesa and grant to a railroad convey title to min lral; nor is there any distinction between surveyed and unsurveyed public land. If there is mineral in workable quantities in the and it belongs to the locator and miner and to them only. Second, and most important, n all uses of doubt, the law is to be con t:rued in favor of the prospector and ocator. The burden of proof is upon l who claim title in opposition. Third, ,f the lanl is within a known mineral region, t is presumed to be mineral land, and the urden of proof Is on those who dispute it. Even if the land has been thrown open to ttlement, it will be withdrawn from narket at any time before vested rights ac :rue, upon proof that it is mineral land. In short, the United States government designs to extend the greatest possible encourage aent to prospecting and the development of nines, and therefore directs that all doubtful egal points be conxstrued in furtherance ot hat desgn.-J. H1. Beadle. There Has Been an Improvement. The rules of etiquette laid down now re ~arding court functions are comical, but ion't compare with the following regula ions, which were prescribed by the lord oflicers, many of them belongin-g to noble families. When invited to dine with royal persons they were to be neatly dressed, with elan coats and boots, and not to enter the room in a half drunken condition. They were warned not to drink after each mouth ful, as that would make them drunk too soon, nor'to empty more than one g&oblet for every two dishes. They were not to put their hands in the plates, their bones under the table, lick their fingers, wipe their noses on the table cloth, or drink so much as to make them fall ofr the chairs or unable to walk straight. These are extracts from a guide carefully drawn up for the guidance of oficers and gentlemen of noble families, which shows that manners have improved since 1GN. -Chicago Tribune. Darling Dildn't Come. A young man from Rocheport made us a pleasant call one day last week. While here e informed us of a piece of newys that will be of interest to a student of Kemlper college, Boonevile. He informed us that several days go a negro woman in Rocheport was stand ng on the bank of the Missouri river catch ng driftwood, and while waiting for a log eap) to float down, a beer bottle floated by amd she pulled it in. -Upon exaoining the ottle she found that it contained a letter wich read as follows: To My Fa'iz~ns: BoNEVtLLE, Mo., April , 18I.-l am a student at Booneville, Mo. heard of a friend of mine who got a wife in his way, and I thought perhaps I might get oe in the same way. Now whoever finds his must answer it. Yours, etc., etc.. --. P. S. -Come to me,. darling. As yet the old negro woman still resides in Rcheport. -Columbia (Mod~ Herald. The Old Theme. Hotel Call Boy-Madam, you must hurry If ou would save your life. The hotel is all on re. This is the third time I have warned ou. Lady Guest-Well, tell the firemen to keep the f!ames under control until I take out my uri papers and friz mny hair. I just know here's a great crosed of men down there and ome of them :are newspaper reporters. )mha WorhL A Generous Foe. Fany-Why, Emma, how cordially you hook hands with Miss F'rizbair at the party ast night: I thought you were deadly one- . Emma-Oh, that is all past. I have for tiven her everything, she has grown so plain oking. -New York Mercury. A mong the curiosIties of London food sup. iy may he reckoned quails from the Falk ad islands. These delicacies are brought er alive from their distant home in the outh Atlantic and command a lirge price the niarket, as they are highly esteemed by ~otrets. Liquor Licenss is a Tax. A liquor licnse is not a contract, ac ording to thc Supreme Court of In lana, but a special tax. The decision. of great interest and significancee to ~rohibitionists. for it knocks on tile tead with the arm of the law their chief ibjection to supporting high h~euse as a leans to theC supJpressionl of the rum ower-thie claim that a license of any i~d is a reognition of the mrlrights f the traihie and a bargain or corn romise with sin. H ere is the language f' the court: 1The grlanit of a license iipalI authiti . for a licenise is not ai m ract. The license may be changed r even annuiilledI by the supriemie legis ir e p)ower of the State whlenevetr abiic welfare dlemnands it. A license is restrictive special tax imiposed for the tblie good and in the exercise of the olice power of the State. "-Yew York Survivors of the S amoan Disaster. NW YORK. Juily '.--Among tile pats ~nges on the steamer Newport. from .spinwall, whliich arrived last night, are e band. numbering 13 men, of the 1 ipsie, four seamen from the same yes 1 and three seamen from the \iandtiaal, irvivors of the Samoan disaster. All e in charge of Boatwain Me~nughlin. h WILD WATERS' HAVOC THROUGH SEVENTEEN CENTURIES. Rome a Great Sufferer from the Tiber's Overflows-A Millon Lives Lost in the Eleventh Century-The Rhine and the Danube Have Also Added to the Horrors. About the year 130 B. C. the powerful na tion of the Celts, after having suffered for a long time great losses in possessions and lives, were forced by continued destructive floods to forsake their abodes along the shores of the western ocean and emigrate to Italy, the up per Rhine and the Danube. Likewise about the year 113 B. C. several Teutonic tribes were driven further south from the uorthern set tlements by like causes. Among the older towns of the world the eternal city. Rome, suffered frequently and extremely from in undations of the Tiber, which to fill the cup of the sufferings of the people were generally accompanied by dearth and pestilence. Nota ble among these floods at Rome are those of the years 44. 27, 23, 22 and 13 B. C., and 5, 15, 36, 51, 6 and 70 A. D. In the year 5 the city was navigated by boats for over a week and a large number of buildings were de stroyed by the flood, as were also hundreds of lives. GERMANY INUNDATED. A. D. 170 the fertile table land of Marcb in Arabia was turned into a permanent desert by the breaking of a dam and the inhabi tants were forced to emigrate. In 174 larga tracts of Italy and adjoining countries were under water. The year 36 saw the greater portion of Germany inundated. In 444 the city of Is, on the bank of the bay of Douar ney, France. formerly quite famous, was swallowed by the floods. In 587 and 50 dermany suffered immense losses by water. The Rhine, having always been a source of great and frequent disaster, again did euor mous damage in 6i4. Ninety years after even Charlemagne was stopped on one of his victorious marches by the waters iliing the lowlands everywhere. In 71)3 the sva flooded the whole of East Frisia. The year 800 wit nessed the swallowing up of a very large part of Heigoland by the insatiable element. In 815 the Rhine by another overflow did more damage than ever before, and in 886 its waters devas t all the adjoining regions along Its entire course. During the Ninth century the English coasts suffered terribly from floods, and in 980 all the rivers of ce-_.. tral Europe overflowed their banks and caused great loss. The Eleventh century had no less than for ty-seven great floods. At one time fully 125 geographical square miles of the Netherlands were laid waste. At this time there also dis appeared a number of the larger islands near 1% e southwest coast of the Baltic, making the entire number swallowed up by floods on the same coast from the time of the Roman occu pation to the close of the Eleventh century, fifteen-all large islands. The loss in human lives through floods dur ing that century alone was over 1.000,000. Some of the most disastrous floods during that period were that of 1015, putting a large part of Holland under water and taking more' than three years until its last traces had finally disappeared; -then the overflow of the Elbe and Weser, destroying entire towns along their banks; further, the inundation of the Pomeranian coasts in 1044, reaching in places as much as twelve geographical miles into the country, and then the fearful floods in the Alpine regions and Germany in 1000. In 1106 the old and important town of Ma lamocca, near Venice, was devou red by the Adriatic sea. Other great floods through overflows of the Rhine and Danube occurred in 1124, 1150 and 1152, when large tracts of fruitful lands were devastated and buildings and numerous lives were destroyed in the towns. The year 1162 was another sad one for the north of Europe through its repeated disastrous floods, taking the lives of thou sands of human beings and cattle. Again, between the years 1212 and 1324 there were hundreds of towns and villages destroyed by foods in that part of the world, and in 1218 a single catastrophe of this kind killed 10,000 uman beings at Nordstrand alone. About Christmas, 1277, the city of Torum and fifty smaller towns aroud the mouth of the Enig sank into the sea IN LATER YEARS. and put the Dollart into its p which mighty revolution of nature 80,000'td~ 100.000 human lives we re lest and many towns were wiped out forever. The second so callpd "Marcellus" flood in 1300 destroyed twenty-eight towns in Sleswick alone, and with them 7,600 human beings. It also swept away another half of what had been left of Helgoland, so that only about one fourth of the original Island remained. The year 1317 was a most remarkable -one in France, Germany and Austria. All the riv ers in these countries overflowed their balrs, 2nd the water even spurted forth from the -epths of the earth. In 1537 a large portion of the province of Zeeland, containing seven dioceses and fourteen villages, were buried beneath the waters. The year 1342 saw the most disastrous of floods which ever visited Germany. On the 8th of December the Ger man ocean leaped, as It were, upon North Frisia and swallowed up more than 100,000 men, women and children, together with all their habitations, scattered through thirty dioceses. Again, from the 18th to the 20th of November, 1421, 100,000 people were de stroyed by a flood near Dortrecht and Rot terdam, together with seventy-one villages, of which twenty-two have never since been seen. Other calamities happened in thoe regions in the years 1425, 1449, 1475, 1497, 1500, 1511, 1530, 1541, 1013, 1625, 1634, 1717, 1784, 1803, 1809, 1825 and other years, destroying human lives by the hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands. In August, 1568, there were gen eral inundations in Switzerland, occasioning a loss of 200,000 forins. The year 1570 was the most disastrous for Holland. Large tracts of valuable land were flooded and 400,000 peo ple drowned. In 1571 a part of the beautiful city of Lyons was torn away by the river Rhone. The year 1588 saw the destruction of the proud Armada, entailing the loss of 20,000 men. In 1595, June 4, an inundation in Switzerland, caused by the outbreak of a glacier, swept away 500 houses and 145 hu man beings..-Chicago Times. Working Girls in New York. Girls who get positions as "salesladies" in stores must begin at $2 per week, and thE highest pay they can hope for is $8, and they must dress nicely. The higher in the social scale the position, the more is required in the way of dress. Shirt makers get 28 to 35 cents a dozen for men's white shirts, and two dozen is a big day's work. Women and chil dren's underwear and wrappers are as badly iid, and the most expert operator, by work ing every hour of the day and far into the night all the time, can-scarcely pay for the barest existence, let alone save anything for her ineritable day of need. Cravat making and men's underwear are paid for at starva tion price, and one of three things is bound to happen-the girl finds a husband, a grave ar worse, for human nature cannot stand the rwful strain.-New York Letter. Ways of Our Best People. Barber (to customer)-Oil, sir? Customer (emphatically)-No! Barber-You are right, sir. None of our best people are using oil on their air nowadays. (To next customer)-Oil, sixr? Customer-Why, yes, I guess so. Proper thing, isn't it? Barber-Yes, sir. All our best peo ple are using oil on their hair now days.-Cicago Tribune. Not to Be Discouraged. Ipstein-Shoe-strings, collar-puttons, susbenders Miss Ann Teak-Go 'long, there! We hain't got no men folks about this iouse! Ipsein-Ah, madam, it vas a good bing to lay in subblies in adfance. An iddractivo lady like you can't tell vat nay habben some tay!-Pck. -Most of the lords and dukes who narry American girls wed for~ a title ut it is title to real estate they are fter.-Puck, There are 20,000 persons in OJkla ama.