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LIVES LOST in
FIRE 91 TROY. I. V.
Partial Destruction of the Troy
Club House By an Early
Morning Blaze
TWO PROMINENT TROY LAWYERS
AND A BUSINESS IRAN DEAD.
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Klniie> lliirneil to Heath.
Troy, N. Y., Deo. 31.—Moses T.
Clough. the nestor of the Rensselaer
county bar. and the las! survivor of the
class of 1848 of Dartmouth college;
William Shaw, head of ;he law firm of
Shaw, Bailey A- Murphy, and Benjamin
W. Kinney, manager for the Fuller
barren company, ot Boston, lost their
Jives in a fire which partially destroyed
tit? Troy club Wednesday morning. Al
though the doomed men were seen at
the windows, nothing could be done to
, *ave them, so dense was the smoke and
to rapid the progress of the flames.
Edward Capetifier. of New York, was
taken from an upper window bv the
firemen and removed to a hospital,
wheie he is recovering from the ef
fects of smoke inhaled. He was in
town preparing for his marriage with
a young society woman of the city. His
escape from death was regarded as one
ttf the remarkable features of the fire.
All the persons killed were occupying
rooms on the upper floor of the club
building, which is four stories in
height, and it was this part the flames
attacked first. The victims had re
tired about ten o'clock, and were sleep
ing soundly when the alarm was given
by the employes. An effort was made
at once to reach the sleeping apart
ments but the progress ol the fire had
been so rapid that the help at hand
could not make their way to the top
floor.
The fire is thought to have been
raused by a lighted cigarette being
thrown among some combustible ma
terial. The club house was built ten
cr twelve years ago at a cost of half a
million dollars. The loss by fire will
reach 855,000.
Mr. Clough was 89 years of age and
Mr. Shaw was nearly 70. Both resided
at the club, at which Mr. Kinney and
Mr. Carpenter were guests.
The police report that while the fire
was at its worst a man was discovered
trying to set fire to the building at the
corner of Broadway and Fifth avenue,
occupied as a news stand. The man
escaped. It is not believed, however,
that the club house fire was of incen
diary origin.
WRECK IN MONTANA.
The Overland I.lnitted On llir North
ern 1’ncAIAe llemlled at Tu»
cor, Mont,
Seattle, Wash . Dec. HI.— A message
from Sand Point, Idaho, says:
No. 4. overland limited on the
Northern Pacific, was wrecked at Tus
tor, Mont., a flag station, just over the
state line. Wednesday morning. Seven
cars were derailed, but no one was in
jured.
The cause of the wreck is supposed
to have been a broken rail. The North
Coast limited, westbound, will be de
layed 12 hours.
CHINESE HAVE PROMISED.
Chine*? ( «pj of Trent) iw Soon to lie
ft'o r it r«l e<t to \\ KNliiiiKtun
for IIat i tien t ion.
Pekin, Dec. 31.—The Chinese gov
ernment has promised United States
Minister Conger to soon forward the
Chinese copy of the treaty to Washing
ton. for the exchange of ratifications.
It is necessary first to obtain the em
peror's ^eal. After the treaty is rati
fied. the opening of Mukden and An
tons to the commerce of the world can
be pressed.
The Atlantic Irai titii^ Squndrun.
Pensacola, Fla, Dec. 31.—The At
lanta training squadron, under com
mand of Rear-Admiral Wise, reached
here, Tuesday, from New Orleans. All
vessels dropped anchor off the navy
yard after an exchange of salutes, and
immediately began coaling.
eccrctiipj It<■■<•*» Unuitliter Drntl.
Springfield. Ill . Dec 31.- Mrs. C.ilbert
McCoy, daughter of Secretary of State
Rose, died at 11:30 Tuesday night, at
St. John's hospital. Mrs. McCoy was
operated upon Sunday night for appen
dicitis.
« tin rued With I'tmlia-zs.lciiifnt.
St Louis. Dec. 31.— lsadore Richards,
formerly manager of a summer hotel
At Meramec Highlands, has been ar
rested on complaint of Marcus Bern
leimer, who charges Richards with em
bezzlement.
VI *• II-K now n Actor Demi.
rin<ago. III.. Dec. 31.—Jerome Sykes,
?fce well-known New York actor, wha
%a.« been playing the leading part in
"The Billionaires," died of pneumonia,
Tuesday night, at the Stratford hotel
tfter a four days’ illness.
I Minnesota I’luui'rr Dead.
St. Haul. Minn.. l>ee. 31 —Herman
Trott.who had lived in Minnesota near
ly half a century, and was an active fac
tor in the development of the railroad
interests of the northwest, died, Tues
4sy. aged 74 years.
OTHERWISE OX OTIC ED.
The Illinois tax rate has been fixed
at 52 cents on the floit.
Miss Frances Inez SticUney, a well
known violinist, is dead at St. Louis,
after a long illness.
W. H. Yoakum, brother of the presi
dent of the Frisco Railway Co., was
dangerously stabbed at Balias, Tex.
An electrical engineer at Chicago
rroposes to prevent railroad collisions
by the use of wireless telegraphy.
A thunderstorm, with snow, hail and
a terrific gale, Tuesday,greatly alarmed
the inhabitants of Newport. It I
The new Panama company at Paris
bars the representatives of Colombia
from the meeting of stockholders.
The hearing in the Smoot case in
Washington will he governed largely
by the reply of the senator to the
charges preferred.
1 he St. Louis board of engineers has
revoxed the license of Engineer For
man of the Transit company on ac
count of the recent fatal explosion.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
was slightly injured by a fall. Tuesday,
the news of the accident creating much
alarm at Vienna
Three men have been arrested and
lodged in jail at Carlyle. 111., on the
charge of killing Gerhard Braahlmann
at Damainsville.
Miss Ethel Hovel), of Birmingham,
Ala , heiress to a large fortune, has
disappeared mysteriously from Meri
dian, Miss., where she was visiting.
King Oscar of Sweden is to be the
recipient of a beautiful box containing
interesting facts and photographs ap
pertaining to dedication of Swedish pa
vilion at World's fair.
The Citizens’ Industrial association
of St. Louis offered a reward of $100
for the arrest and conviction of any
one guilty of violence in Interfering
with non-union men.
The secretary of the interior will rec
ommend that congress give his depart
ment supervisory control of the lease
and sale of lands in the Chickasaw na
tion.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor strongly advises
union labor to resist wage reductions
and urges employers not to force the
issue.
Gen. Black is to be chairman of the
interstate commerce commission. His
associates in the body yield him the
position on account of his length of
public service.
Japan warns China to resist Russia
in her attempt to force an agreement
legalizing the occupation of Manchuria.
It is thought Russia is showing some
signs of weakening.
Witnesses before the grand jury at
Kansas City, Kas., charge that mem
bers of the board of education solicit
ed bribes from teachers to insure their
reappointment.
The Westinghouse company has
bought a railroad for $6,000,000, for the
purpose of showing, experimentally,
the advantages of electricity as a mo
tive power in freight and passenger
service.
Ilnnk 4 axlilcr n Siilciilc,
Minot, N. D., Dec. 31.—W. C. Put
nani, aged 50 years, cashier of the bank
at Lansford, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. The af
fairs of the bank are said to lie in good
condition.
Tin*
_____ Stations.
1 ‘ittsburg
Cincinnati .
St. Louis .
Kvansvilk*.
Memphis .
Louisville .
Cairo ..
N» w Orleans
— Stage. * Fall.
THE MARKETS.
of flax- It I \ rra.
»'hange Rainfall
in 24 hrs
"4
WKDNKSDAV Dec. 30.
Grnln anil I’roi Uloiia.
Rt. bouts — Flour Patents ft 25<i4 pv
fiber grades, UbJ'it 1 2" Wheat No " red*
Corn No. 2 mixed. 44Ce'.
i ats No 2. .dtl'e u'iT. II i\ Timothy,
Is aOMi It’ So; prairie. JT.tfi'ii linn clover
12.25. bard choice steam. ii *.*«•!
1 ork New mess. $12 4i*x ltacon t’lear ril>#
”'«* butter -Creamery, fd/Jdc; dairy*
Klu-Jii,- Kggs Fresh. 27e Wool Tub
washed, L‘or<i3e'jc; Missouri and Illinois
combing. 2Ht21c* . other grades. Ktu'.’ii'-c.
«’hicago-Closing quotations: Wheat—
I leceinher. MV, "id. My,. May. M'w;
July, 7s< . September, TdV Corn —
December, 41'-c; January. 41T»t ; May,
4aJ.xr. July. 4114c. September. 41 ’■ „, Oats—
December. 31m . January May. 3Vij>
T'y1 . July, .ItbUCIV Pork January ID 43;
May, Ib’.Msi; laird January , }o 72'■ ,/>. 75;
M iv, tti.Kt1:. Kills January. !•; .25 * May.
10 05.
Indianapolis—Wheat—No 2 red, »K)o;
No. ,t red. sGl^c Corn No. 2 w hite 42i ;
No 2 yellow. 42c. Oats No 2 mixed.
37c. Hay—Timothy. IHi.Ow'ull .tr.i.
I ll e Stock Market x.
St. bonis—Cattle Fancy exports $<«>vj
5*1; butchers'. J3 75'<j’5 3n. stock* t - I.: ««,fi
:■ 75: cows and heifers. |2 5b'*M Hogs -
Packers. It tjoV(i-4.72'v . butchers . |l I15'u4 m*
light, |4.2oV(i4.tj6 She*,;- Mutton shtaqi;
|3.254t3.50; lambs. $l.iny<i6.ti0
Indianapolis Cattle clood to
Sto rs. $4.7SKti6.25. Hogs Good to
h*-a\Jcs, J4 SOfyq So; medium and
If AVii 4 mi. Sheep Good to * hoi, ,
I3utx<|3.5u; lambs. It 7,o',if, 77,
prime
prime
mixed,
sheep.
Kansas City- Cattle Native steers,
;4Kfi-4 t>»; south* rn steers, $2 X ►'</;; »5;
southern rows. $1.5of«/2 > native cows and
heifers. st"ck>Ts ami feeders,
$3 ♦».», calvts. $j f*y</f» >•. western steers,
25»i4 I I. Western COWS. $1 4>4K(i2 ‘HI lio^S -1
11• -.i v \ . $ 4 ;m►</-4 • «•; packers. $4 504/4. tj*'; pij^-i
and flight. $4 2LV./4m» She j. Muttons. $;*. J5
fplL't', lambs. $4 7r/<iG.5*». range wethers,
v'Xfl4"", eWes, $2 25 b 3
( hioago—Cattle (loud to prim*- steers,
J4 *“</'- po<*r to medium. $3 f**/ 177.;
s!t»t kers and fetniers, $1.75*«i4.oo; cows $1 .rJ
i 1 H*. heifers. $2. •*»'</ 1 tif». camu-rs. $1 .VXfi
2 4' . calves. $2 500/44.;:». Hogs Mix. 1 and
butchers . $4 ,'*o4 v‘* good to choice heavy,
$4 7*»h4x‘»; rough heavy, $4 .>#(/4.7<>. light,
$4 .-•'•/4 t** Sheep- -di)(Kl" to choice Wet he! S,
$3 77ml.5o. fair to choice mixed. $,->.utk/2,.75;
western sheep, $:* 25 u 4.25; native larnbd,
$4.25i/€.10; western lambs. $i »>m*; lb.
Cjuotutions for mi.Idling rang, a
lows. St. l.ouis, i::V; Now York
Memphis, I3'~c.
- fol
c;
l’inn ncial.
Now York, lire, ill i ’los. Monev on . il,
strong, 3"n7 por cent.. closed no‘bid: of
fered nt 2; time loans ensv. tin ;itid !«J
days i |» r cent.; six monttis 4-VuG i’rima
mot. untile paper 5«m; Sterling o\.
Heavy. with actual business in t.ank. , s’
bills t?3.S0(j 483.6U for demand and tv TV,#
ts, mi for tiO day s: |,.,stod rates 4vi>..,i|vj
and 4Wn 4C*-_. commercial bills t».>4 It.ur
silver 557«. Mexican dollars t:-;1. Govern.
Utcal bunds Weak, tajlroad b .mlj uu).
In the Dawn i
of the Day ?j? i
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JOHN RANSOM was experiencing the
bitter disappointment that too
often comes with the realization of a
long-cherished hope.
In his little cabin, far up the mountain
side, he sat at a table counting a heap
of gold. After long years of struggling
in the mines of California he had at
last struck a rich lead, and in one hour
had bounded from poverty to wealth.
During all the years of his striving his
dreams had been of this hour, and now
that it had come he was not happy.
Presently he pushed the gold from him
and walked to the door, where he stood
looking out into the night. Over the
valleys and mountains the moonlight
lay soft and warm, while all around
there was silence, save for the soughing
of the winds among the pines, and the
subdued strains of a violin which floated
up from the camp down in the gulch.
Upon a small cabin just below him
Ransom fixed his gaze. It was a mean,
unpretentious place, but for him it held
a treasure greater than all the gold in
tlie world.
Presently there floated up to him the
faint w hisper of a weary sigh, and look
ing more c losely, he saw a woman stand
ing near the cabin. He saw her indis
linctly. but to hint it was enough. He
needed but a glance to recognize her.
That woman was the cause, innocent
and unconscious, of all his bitter dis
appointment, and all day he had been
cultivating a resolution never to see
her again Hut in an instant his resolu
tion was gone, and the next minute he
was by iter side. She was standing with
her arms folded against a tree, and her
head pillowed on them, weeping bitterly.
For a little while he gently stroked her
hair in silence, then, bending his head
dose to hers, he said, in tender, plead
ing tones: "Don’t, Clem. Please don't.
It hurts me for you to weep like this.”
She made no reply, nor did she look up,
but she continued to weep. He longed
to take her In his arms and hold her tr
him, and kiss away her tears and
troubles. But he did not forget himself
so far.
"What is it, Clem?" he spoke again
presently. "Has your father been cruel
to you again to-night?”
Site shook her head, but remained si
lent. He waited a moment, stroking her
hair softly, then went on, more gently
still:
"Poor girl! 1 wish I could do some
thing to make your life happier, for you
deserve it. There is nothing I would
not do for you, even to giving you my
own life to shield you from hardship and
borrows. It kills me to see you suffer,
and when you are cruelly treated it is all
I can do to refrain from interfering
where I have no right.”
She raised her head and looked into
his eyes, and in a broken voice said:
“You don’t know what you are say
ing. You are crueler to me than anyone
else has ever been.”
He looked at her in astonishment.
“Clem!” he said. "What do you
mean? 1 cruel to you! Why do you
say such a thing as that?”
"It is true,” she answered. "You are
the only friend I have on earth, yet you
have been crueler to me than all the
world.”
He looked at her intently for a mo
ment, then slowly shook his head. In
low. hurt tones he said:
"You have no right to say that, Clem,
for God knows I would not injure you
by so much as the weight of a finger or
one harsh word.”
"1 know,” she replied, “but there are
things that hurt more than blows and
words.”
He came closer, and took her hands in
his. She tried to draw them away, but
he held them fast.
”1 do not understand,” he said. “If
I have ever been cruel to you I did not
know it. I want you to tell me what 1
have done.”
She shook her head, and again at
tempted to draw away her hands.
"No,” he said. “You shall not go. Not
until you have told me.”
"I cannot tell you,” she answered,
with her head bent low. "You have no
right to ask.”
”1 have every right.” he asserted.
"Tell me. Clem, wherein 1 have been
cruel."
”1 can’t."
"But you must. I will not let you go
until you do."
"You"—she hesitated a moment—
"have broken my heart. You are going
away.”
Her voice was scarcely more than a
whisper, but he heard and slowly the
truth dawned on him. For one mo
ment he forgot himself, and, throwing
his arms about her, drew her to him and
kissed her. There was love, overpower
ing love, in his actions, and she under
stood.
Her tears gave place to a happy smile,
and. turning a radiant face up to him,
she placed her arms about his neck and
drew his head down and returned his
kiss.
"I thought you didn't love me." she
whispered: "and I love you so much."
"Love you!” he repeated. “Oh, Clem.
God alone knows how I love you. There
is no language to describe it. I worship
you. and everything you touch is sacred
to me.”
bhe drew closer to him. and laid her
head on his breast. At that moment she
tasted the sweetest bliss the human
soul ever knows in this life. Looking
up at him trustfully, she said:
"And you will never leave me, my
darling, will you?”
Then it was he realized his situation
Quickly taking his arms from about her. ]
he staggered back against the tree and
covered his face with his hands.
"God forgive me,'1 he said, 1 oarsely.
"I forgot!”
She looked at him with wide eyes,
her face turning deathly pale. She
Could not understand the change in him,
but she knew there was something ter
rible back of it.
■‘John,” she cried, “tell me what it Is.
I can bear anything so long as it does
not part you and me. Nothing else mat
ters.”
"No,” he replied, “nothing else would
matter. But that is the cruel part ol it.
We must go our different ways, and
after to-night we must never see each
other again.”
"John!" Her face was ghastly white.
"Oh. God, w hat are you saying?”
"If is the bitter truth, Clem. We
must walk our separate paths alone. We
should never have met. 1 wish to lleav
ien we never had.”
"Then you do not love me—not as 1
love you. Nothing on earth could make
me regret our meeting, and nothing
could make me give you up. Nothing
on earth nor in Heaven."
“You think so now," he said, "but wait
until you know the whole truth. Then
you will despise me as I deserve, and
never want to see me again. You will
wish with all your heart that you never
had seen me."
She shook her head slowly.
“1 cannot believe that," she said. “I
cannot believe that anything could cause
me to regret our meeting, for it has
brought me the only happiness 1 have
ever known.”
"It has brought me the greatest hap
piness of my life,” hesaid; “but with that
happiness has come my greatest sorrow.
You, too, will find it so. I have quaffed
the sweet and the bitter, while you have
quaffed only the sweet. But the bitter
is at your lips, and soon you must drain
it, even to the very dregs.”
"Then let me drink it. John, so that
1 may suffer as you have suffered. It is
a Heavenly privilege to share your sor
rows and pains. Tell me the truth—
the whole bitter truth—and you shall
see how 1 can bear it for your sake.”
"May God forgive me. as I know you
never can. Clem! I—I have a wife.”
She did not taint. She did not cry
out. For a moment she was like one
dazed by a hard blow. Then, placing her
hand over her heart, she gave a low
moan of anguish, and cowered and
shrank like a green plant under the heat
of a scorching blaze. God alone knew
how hard upon her that blow had fallen.
Kansom hastened to her, and would
have put his arms about her to support
her, but she held up her hand to stay
him.
"No,” she said; "never again.”
There was no anger in her voice, and
her tones were low and sad, but he knew
that she was in earnest, and would never
waver. He looked at her for a moment
compassionately, then humbly and con
tritely said:
"1 do not ask your forgiveness, Clem,
for I know you can never grant it. but,
as Heaven is my witness, 1 never, meant
to deceive you. 1 should have told you,
but my wife is worse than dead to me,
and 1 never speak of her if 1 can help it,
and I never thought that you could care
for me like this. You will despise and
] then forget me, and 1 can ask for noth
ing better; but of my life you will al
ways remain the best part, for as long
as 1 live I will remember and love you.”
He paused a moment, then added:
"May God bless you, Clem. Good-by.”
He waited aw hile, but she made no re
ply, and then he started slowly away.
But w hen he had gone a step or two he
heard her softly speak his name, and
he stopped, facing her.
"I cannot let you go like that," she
said, "for I do forgive you with all my
heart and soul.”
He stepped quickly back to her and
reached out his arms impulsively.
"Is it true, Clem?” he cried. “Can
you forgive me, after all?”
"A woman,” she answered, slowly,
"can forgive anything In the man she
loves.”
There was a long silence, then she
went on wearily and more slowly yet:
"We can say no more, and now we
must part forever. We must each fol
low where our paths lead. Yours leads
to your wife and your home. Go there,
forget me, and be faithful and true in
the discharge of your duty.”
"And your path?” he said.
"My path—it leads where God wills
But you must go now. We have no right
to be together here.”
"Yes, 1 must go. Good-by, Clem.”
"Good-by, John.”
Far toward morning, Kansom, sit
ting in the door of his cabin, looking out
on the still world, drew a deep sigh and
murmured;
"Poor Clem! Motherless and friend
less, and all alone in the world, except
for a drunken father.”
And Clem, sitting at a window down
below, staring dry-eyed out into the
night, thought of all the kindnesses
John had shown her—the only kind
nesses she had ever known—and, wom
anlike. all her pity was for him.
When the day came. Ransom went
down to the camp to take the stage for
his journey home, and while he was
waiting there the postmaster came down
to him with a letter. He took it and
glanced at the postmark, and saw that
it was from home. Then he tore it open
and read it eagerly through.
"I thought you ought to have it before
you went,” the postmaster said, ”l
didn't know but that it might be im
portant.”
“It is." Ransom replied. "It is so im
portant that it means the life happiness
of two people.”
“I'm glad I brought it, then. But
there's the stage, and you’ll have to be
going.”
“1 have charged my mind. I am not
going.”
• But your wife will lie expecting you.”
“I have no wife. She has got a di
vorce and married another man.”
OLD BARBEE.
IaJ The Whiskey that Made Kentucky Famous.
J':a7garbee&[Q.
1.0 W: S V i
At the Green Tree Saloon
IKE MALLORY, Prop.
The Fall Season of 1903
IT' FINDS OUR, —=
MAMMOTH STORE
in iho front as usual with the
most stupendous stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
in Forrest City. Cull arid examine our
various lines.
Clothing. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps and Dry Goods,
especially, and all kinds of Furniture, Hardware,
Stoves, Harness, Saddles and Groceries.
BRANDON & BAUGH.
J.W. Beck & Co.
GENERAL
Merchants.
Highest. Market Price paid for
All Country Produce.
If you A <$> Wyou
buy for can
Get bargains at Beck’s
The Brady Jewelry Co.,
Dealers In
Fine Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Diamonds
and Silverware.
We are now located at Duna
vant’s Drug Store.
Repairing of all kinds a Specialty
Pace Marble Works,
_W. A. PACE, Proprietor.
Marble and Granite Monnments,
GraYe Stones, Coping, Etc.
Patronize Home Industry.
PRICES THE LOWEST.
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED.
South Sole of Kail road. Second Door West
of S. P. McDaniel’s Plumbing Shop.
Forrest City, : Arkausai.