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HOLLY CHIEFTAIN.
CURRENT COMMENT.
IX 22 ports along the United States
coasts modern defenses are under cone
struction.
TWENTY-EIGHT girls in Omaha, Neb.,
have formed a socicty to suppress the
tobacco habit.
Tur chance that a passenger will be
killed on a railway in this country ir
one in 2,827 474,
A RECENT dispatch from Havana said
that people there were dying from
starvation at the rate of 45 a day
MONTANA'S total output of gold, sil
ver, copper and lead during 1566 was
valued at 850,732,000, or over 81,000 for
cvery voter.
AN insurance society, to be called In
dustria, is being formed by employers
throughout Germany to insure against
loss arising from strikes.
Tue Spanish minister of tinance ad
mits that the Cuban war costs $0,000,000
a month, and that the amount of pay
due the Spanish soldiers is §60,000,000,
Cor. Axtnosy Il Kuser, of Trenton,
N. J., has entered upon the experi
ment of ostrich raising in the climate
of the east. The attempt will be widely
watched. 3
V. D. Davip, a converted Hindoo,
who has preached in India. Australia,
England and Scotland, is soon to open
acampaign in Chicago. He has been
known to preach 1% hours at a stretch.
Monrg than 55000 persons will, di
rectly or indirectly, draw pay from the
city in the first administration of May
or Van Wyck, of Greater New York.
The salaries of 33,000 of these whose
names will be on the city’'s pay roll
will aggregate $33,000,000.
Tie new congressional library at
Washington, which has been in course
of construction for the past six years,
is now open to the public. Everything
is on u complete scale and the auto
matic arrangements for the delivery
and return of books is satisfactory.
Two American women went to Lon
don to claim an estate of £300,000
which they believed they had inherit
ed. When they arrived there they
found that there was no such estate in
existence. The American consul had
to advance the money for their return
to America.
Tue total production of distilled
spirits, exclusive of the fruit brandies,
during the fiscal ended June 30, 18507,
was 62,455,548 taxable gallons, a de
crease in produnction as compared with
1806 of 24,123,055 gallons. There were
produced also 50,462,522 barrels of beer,
a decrease as compared with 1506 of
1,396,428 barrels.
WirLias R. Cremer, a British labor
leader, recently left London for the
United States, bearing an address to the
United States senate for an arbitration
treaty between the two countries,
signed by over 7,000 workingmen, each
of them being an officer of u trades
union, and representing altogether
2,750,000 British workingmen.
DEPARCIEUX kept & record of 48,540
deaths in a French parish. He found
that 112 married women to 14 unmar
ried and 43 married men to six bachel
ors reached the age of 0. According
to French figures, by marrying at 30 a
man adds 11 years to his theoretical
and statistical chances of life. Ry
warrying at 40 he adds six vears.
Tue United States consul at Zurich,
Switzerland, recently gave some data
as to the total telegraph line mileage
of the world and said that the total
length of the world's telegraph system
has reached 4,008,825 miles, exclusive
of 151,440 miles of submarine cables.
This mileage is apportioned as follows:
Europe, 1,764,790 miles: Asia, 310.605
miles; Africa, 90,419 miles; Australia,
217,479 miles; America. 2,516,545 miles.
Tue Ohio legislature will be asked
at the next session to repeal the wom
an suffrage law of the state on the
ground that it costs the people $i%,000
a year without any material increase
of vote cast. In the spring of 180 y,
after the passage of the bill, 53531
women registered and 4,045 voted. In
the spring of 1806, 2,728 registered and
1,652 voted, a falling off in one year of
8.103. In the spring of 1597, 405 regis
tered, a falling off from the first year
of 5,423, and 228 voted. At the last
registration only 82 women registered.
Tue sixth auditor in the post oftice
department at Washington, in his an
nual report, says that his office is re
garded as the largest accounting office
in the world. Its employes, nearly 500
in number, are engaged in the impor
tant work of adjusting the accounts
of the entire postal service, with its
$176,446,750.59 of receipts and expendi
tures. A separate ledger account is
kept with each of the 70,000 post oftices
in the country. It receives checks,
assorts and files each of the 26,000,000
money orders issued annually in the
United States, aggregating in amount
£3064,118,010.95.
CHICAGO is to have a “*Labor temple.”
The Building Trades’ council and Chi
eago federation will appoint a commit
tee to devise means for raising the
money necessary for the erection of a
large building suiinble for the perma
nent home of over 500 flourishing
trades unions. It is proposed to raise
the funds by popular subscription and
by small per capita assessments. It is
estimated that £500,000 could be raised
within five years by the unions alone.
There are no fewer than 125,000 trades
unionists in Chicago. A per capita
tax of ten cents a month would raise
$150,000 a year.
Dr. HANs Froevicn, a Swiss physi
cian, who has been in America less
than two years, claims that he has
found a remedy that will drive rheu
matic aches and pains out of the hu
man body. He has explained his
method to the president of the county
board at Chicago, and six selected
cases of rheumatism at the Cook coun
ty hospital have been turned over to
the physician for treatment. Dr,
Froclich explains that his remedy is
of the same nature nth; linu-;:xiq
remedy used in the cure of diphtheria
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rheumatism in less than a week.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Gany isa pro- |
nounced candidate for United States |
senator in Maryland to succeed Arthur
I’. Gorman.
Mus. CELIA WALLACE, who resides at
the Auditorium at Chicago and is a
-hildless widow, has taken a fancy to
Evangelina Cisneros and has offered to
wdopt the Cuban maid and make her
an heir to a fortune estimated at 8500,
200
Tur New York Herald published a
tetter from Hannis Taylor, late United |
States minister to Spain, in which,
ifter telling of his strenuous efforts to
prevent a rupture of diplomatie rela- |
tions between the two countries dur- |
ing the dark days of the Competitor |
case, he asserts that the ruling classes |
of Spain are determined to refuse any ‘
- concessions which would be accepted |
by the Cubans. l
Tue official count of the ballots cast
iin the election in Maryland leave nc
room to doubt that the republicans
will control both branches of the legis- |
lature and that a republican will sue
ceed Arthur I'. Gorman in the United |
States senate
Tue Georgias senate on the sth de- |
feated & measure which, if passed, |
would have had the effect of making fi
Georgia a prohibition state. |
- SirJuriay PAuNcevore, the British |
- ambassador, who has come back from
London to Washington, will confer
with Secretary Sherman at an early
day concerning the reopening of nego
tiations for an Anglo-American arbi- |
tration treaty.
Tuere were no further developments |
in the legislative sitnation in Ohio on |
the 7th, the democrats having appar- |
ently abandoned all efforts to contest %
the election of republican representa- |
tives in close connties and the repub
lican majority of five on joint ballot
will not be changed, unless the fusion
ist members vote with the republicans. ‘
It was reported that the democrats
in the Ohio general assembly had de- |
termined to cast their votes for Gow 1
Bushnell for United States senator,
provided he could get enough repub- |
lican votes to aid in his election, and |
thus down Senator Hanna |
IT was reported that the Mexican |
government had decided to send to the |
Washington authorities a note favor- |
ing intervention in the affairs of Cuba. |
MISCELLANEOUS. ‘
Cuanrtes Jounsoy and Frank Kanf- |
man, bakers, were suffocated in their
beds, and Clara Erhart, aged 11, was
found dead at the rear stairs in a fire
at Erhart’s bakery at Hot Springs, Ark.
A rFire at Louisville, Ky., on the sth {
destroyed the wholesale stores of Bar
ford & Lawson, milliners, and Benja
min 8. Allen, boots and shoes. The
losses aggregated $150,000 !
TuERE was a $22,000 deficit on the
recent horse show in Chicago
Tne notorious desperado Charles
Clifton, alias *‘Dynamite Dick,” was
shot to death by a posse of deputy
marshals near Checotah, 1. T., while
resisting arrest.
A rErripLe famine is raging in the
provinee of Archangel, Ruossia. The
people are said to wander about re
duced almost to skeletons.
A NeGro named Burrell Shears, liv
ing about 12 miles from Lufkin, Tex.,
shot his wife three times, fatally
wounding her. He then blew his own
brains out, dying immediately. No
cause for the crime could be assigned.
IN a football game at Pittsburgh,
Pa., Robert Grange suffered a cerebral
concussion, from which he was reported
as lying in a precarious condition, and
Bert Ritchie received possibly fatal
injuries.
Eppie MAckilN, the champion waltz
er of the Bowery, while dancing with
a fat woman at Webster hall, New
York, slipped and fell and the fat
woman crashed upon his chest. Mackin
was carried away internally injured
and died the next day.
SeveERAL rich finds of lead and zine
ore on the Quapaw reservation, in the
Indian territory, caused quite a rush
to that locality recently.
AN Atlantie & Pacific passenger train
was held up near Grant's station, 95
miles west of Albuquerque, N. M., the
other evening. The robbers dynami
ted the express safe and set the train
on fire, theexpress, baggage and smok
ing cars being totally destroyed.
By an explosion at the Illinois steel
works at Milwaukee five men were in
jured, two fatally.
Luis Siuiceo, the Mexican govern
ment colonization® agent, is making
the final arrangements for taking 115
' to 120 families, comprising 500 persons
or thereabouts, from Luling, Corpus
Christi, Prairie Lea, Taylor, Gonzales
and elsewhere in Texas and settling
! them in the state of Tamaulipas, Mex.
On an average each family will receive
100 acres of land.
JEsus MEJIA, a Mexican, applied for
a burial permit for his child at Tucson,
Ariz. His actions aroused suspicion
and the child was found to be alive,
although in the throes of death from
poisoning. A few days before another
son of Mejia expired under peculiar
circumstances. He has been arrested
on a charge of child murder.
Neanr Lawson, Neb., Willis Dunn.,
aged 21, and two younger brothers
found what they supposed wus a bottle
“of whisky in & wheat bin, Each drank
'of the contents and all will die. The
‘ stuff proved to be horse medicine.
- Tue commissioner of pensions made
public his annual report on the sth.
The whole number of .pensioners on
the rolls June 30, 1807, was 976,014, o
gain over the previous year of 5,336.
The number of western pensioners is
as follows: Missouri, 53,257, Kansas,
40,543; Indian territory, 2,630; Okla
homa, 6,172. The aggregate annual
value of all pensions at the close of
the fiscal year was §120,705,428, exclud
ing the cases held up. {
Tuk large hay sheds of the Ardmore
(L. T.) Oil & Milling company, contain
ing abont 40 cars of baled hay and
me machinery, were destroyed by
AT Norman, Ok.. the nine-year-old
son of Thomas E. Berry, while leading
a cow to water, tied the rope around
his waist, and the cow ran away and
dragged him to death.
A DISPUTE over business matters oc
curred between George Jackson and E
V. Yongue, publishersof the A berdeer
(Miss.) Ledger, and the former was
fatally shot by the latter.
Tur United States supreme court on
the sth affirmed the decision of the ¢ir
cuit court for California in the case of
William Henry Theodore Durrant, un
der sentence for the murder of Blanche
Lamont in San Francisco. This deci
sion permits the law to take its course
with the condemned man.
INSTEAD of building new soldiers’
homes for the accommodation of those
veterans who cannot getinto the pres
ent ones because of their erowded coun
dition, Inspector General Breckinridge
will recommend an allotment of $S or
$lO a month for those old soldiers who
would prefer to live with their fami
lies.
TEN cars of a freight train ou the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad
were wrecked near Siloam Springs,
Ark., the other morning. All were
loaded with wheat and corn. Eightof
them were so badly damaged that it
was necessary to burn them.
Ravrrn Vax Hors killed his child
and then shot himself at Unadilla,
Neb. It was thought that his mind
was unbalanced by a lawsuit in which
he had sued his father-in-law for €lO,-
000 damages for slander, but was only
allowed $1 and made to pay the costs.
A RECENT special from Havana to the
New York World gives details of the
horrible condition of some 50,000 stary
ing Cubans. - Hundreds are declared u«
be dying daily.
Tre steamship Idaho, which left
Buffalo, N. Y., for Chicago on the sth.
foundered the nextday off LLong point,
Lake Erie, and 19 wmen were drowned.
Two sailors were rescued The boat
had no passengers.
Frask B, Genumax, at Brocton, Mass.,
broke the American 24-hour bicycle
road record on the 6th, riding 542
miles. The former record was held by
Davis, of Cleveland, 0., of 316 miles.
German also broke Davis' 12-hour rec
ord of 176 miles, riding 192 miles.
Tne Eutaw guards were picketed
around the jail at Eutaw, Ala., the
other night because theauthorities ex- ;
pected an attack from an armed mob
to lynch Buad Beard, a negro assailant
of a seven-year-old white girl. The
prisoner is a brother to Andy Beard
who some time agoeloped with a white 1
girl, but was caught by a mob. tied to |
a tree and shot to death before lhvi
girl’s eyes. ‘
Forn children of Michacl MeNulty
and wife, who live near Mont Calm |
Mills, Que., were brutally butchered I
the other day. The parents had gone
to St Julienne to transact some busi- |
ness, leaving their three daughters |
and a boy at home. During their ab
sence a neighbor found two of the
girls on the kitchen floor with their
throats cut. The body of the oldest
davghter was found outside the house
in a similar condition and the boy's
remains were discovered in the barn. |
Posses were organized and hunted over |
the vicinity for the miscreant. “
GEN. NELSON A. Mives has suggested |
to the supervising architect for the
new Chicago post office building that
it would be a wise plan to make provi
sion for mounting a few gatling guns
over the several approaches to the
new structure. Gen. Miles has bad
‘ some experience in handling strikers
| and riotous mobs and he thinks that
some precaution should be taken to
protect the building from being sacked
and destroyed in atime of great excite
ment or local commotion. Loeal labor
1 leaders denounce the scheme.
A~ appeal has been made to the bu
i reau of animal industry at Washington
to investigate the disease which is
prevalent among the horses in the
‘ coast country of Texas, the mortality
being alarming.
Tue Chesapeake & Ohio express train
from Cincinnati to Washington was
wrecked near Charlottesville, Va., on
the 4th and four persons were killed
and 17 injured. An axle broke on the
locomotive track.
Tne annual session of the church ex
tension committee of the M. E. church,
at Philadelphia, decided to ask £100,600
from the various conferences this year
for church extension.
A RECENT special from Joliet, 111.,
said: There is a rumor in circulation
here that the operators at Carbon Hill
are planning to import Chinese labor
ers to take the place of the strikers in
the mines. The company will build a
stockade to inclose both houses and
shaft. As soon as the company can
get readv to receive them 600 China
men will be shipped. and if this ex
periment proves a suceess other oper
ators will follow it
Turee little negro boys were struck
by a westbound Cotton Belt train the
other afternoon near Greenville, Tex,
They were knocked off a bridge and
killed.
A SHOCKING state of affairs in the
Illinois soldiers’ orphans’ home at
Bloomington is being revealed by a
committee of the Grand Army. Wit
nesses upon their oaths stated they
had seen little children knocked down
by the superintendent and that girls
had been kept in bed two days as pun
ishment for trifling offenses.
TureE colored desperadoes held up
the mining town of Marquisville, la.,
the other day. They wulked into the
pool room and, calling on 50 miners to
hold up their hands, one of the party
went through their pockets. The min
ers had just been pu‘i’d and quite a sum
- was taken.
~ Tur three-story wooden block ocecu
pied by the Central hotel at Mariboro,
Ind., and a block adjoining were com
{»leuzly destroyed by fire, causing a
oss of nearly $150,000. All the guests
in the hotel escaped.
ONLY the interference of friends at
Niles, Mich., prevented the marriage
of Kelly, a white deaf mute, and Miss
Lottie Haggard, colored, also deaf and
dumb,
Fovr negro workhouse prisoners
made n desperate break for liberty at
St. Louis the other evening. Twenty
shots were fired by the guards and
fugitives. One managed to escape, but
the others were oar?ured.
In 1804, Lr. Menry K. Carroll, agent
of the census, made a special report of
the numbers of the religious denomi
nations in this country, and according
to his figures the Catholic bodies,
Roman, Greek, Armenian and Re
formed, had an aggregate membership
of 7,501,489. The various branches of
Methodists came next, with 5,121,636;
the Baptists were third, with 3,785,740;
the Presbyterians ‘being fourth, with |
a membership of 1,416,204, -
The new 40-inch lens thus far reveals
no signs of life on the moon. But it
brings our satellite no nearer than 100
miles and the human eye is uncertain
at that distance. o
ALDERMEN HISSED
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| An Uproarious Scene in the Philadel-"
f phia Common Council.
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|GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
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» The Coming Mecting at St. Lonis Expected
to Be the Biggest Gathering of the
! Kind Ever lHeld—-The Mary
| Jand Senatorship.
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% PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.—Amid jeers,
catealls and hisses, which the police
! vainly endeavored to prevent, the com
| mon couneil of the city of Philadel
; phia yesterday voted to give away the
! most valuable property now owned
by the city, namely the gas works,
worth at least $10,000,000. All day
long the 182 men comprising the lower
branch of the city legislature had sat
in thelr chamber while some of the
| members spoke bitterly against the
proposed legislation. Finally Mr.
| Van Osten arose and moved the pre
vious question. The question being
{ordered, the roll was called and the
| vote stood 78 to 52 to give away for
|9O years this immense property. A
| scene of great confusion followed.
| “Shame,” some one in the gallery
| shouted, and there came in a moment
I such a storm of hisses as had never
| been heard in the council chamber of
| Philadelphia before. “Bribe-takers.”
| some one shouted, and this was fol
-5 lowed by cries of ‘robbers,” “‘thieves”
|and “‘perjurers.” In vain President
| Hartman pounded his gavel on the
: desk in an attempt to secure order. He
| tinally called upon the police and a
| dozen or more officers ran into the gal
| leries. but no sooner was one man
lq-jcclml than others took up the cry.
Many of the councilmen who had
| voted for the measure were alarmed.
| They betook themselves to the variouns
| ante-rooms and then left the eity hall.
| It was over half an hour before the
galleries could be cleared.
Convention for Good Rosds.
Sl. Louvis, Nov. 10.--The meeting of
| the good roads state convention to be
held in this eity the latter part of the |
| present month is expected to be the
| biggest gathering of the kind yet held,
i and the proceedings will be of interest
| to all who are concerned about good
| highways. It is admitted that the
I chief drawback to securing good roads
is a lack of revenue. County courts
! are confined to very narrow limits by
| the constitution in the matter of levy
| ing road taxes, and on two occasions
| within the last 15 years a proposition |
| to amend the constitution has bfl:ni
‘[ voted down. The meeting will
| endcavor to find some general
i plan for road improvement out
| side of the old method of relying upon
! the revenue. The plan is to work con
| victs on the public highway. Many
‘mlvm-uu's of good roads think that a
law should be enacted compelling
farmers and others who use heavy
wagons to have them provided with
wide tires, so as to prevent the cutting
fup of roads. A great multipligity of
| suggestions will be offered at the con
| vention, as even the farmers do not
| agree very well on the subjeet of im
| proving the highways. One plan that
{has been tried in the east will be
| brought to the attention of the con
| vention. It consists of a steel bed of
\auflic'\eut width to fit the wheels of
vehicles, and thus obviate the neces
lai!y of so much macadam being used.
| Many claims on behalf of this new
| plan haave been made, but it has not
| yet invaded the west.
l The Maryland Senatorship. ‘
| Bartivore, Md., Nov. 10. —ln the list
| of candidates for the United States
1 senate to succeed Mr. Gorman, a man
whom some knowing politicians think
will carry off the honor is scarcely
‘ mentioned for the place. He is Charles
| J. Bonaparte, the well-known Balti
| more lawyer and reformer, and grand
nephew of Napoleon the Great. A few
weeks ago, when the republican cam
paign in Baltimore city was in serious
shape because of no funds, Mr. Bona
parte is said to have come to the res
cue with the nceded $25,000, after
other senatorial aspirants had refused
to put up a cent. Mr, Bonaparte is
known to have the senatorial bee in
his bonnet. He is no half-way man and
the delivery of the money, it is relia
bLly stated, was made with the ex
plicit understanding that the manage
ment was to throw him its support for
the senatorship.
Gov. Lowndes will be a big factor in
the fight, despite the effort to belittle
his boom. He will bave five and prob
ably six votes o‘ Alleghany, three re
spectively of Garrett, Calvert and St.
Mary’'s and the vote of Senator Steven
son Archer Williams, of Harford. The
governor has an immense patronage to
dispense, some 4,000 offices. All Mary
land appointments are for two years
only and this will be & mighty lever
| in his behalf,
WHITE MINERS EXCITED.
| The Announcement That Chinamen Will
Supplant Them Regarded Seriously.
STREATOR, 111, Nov. 10.—The an
nouncement that Chinamen would be
| placed in the mines of the northern
Ilinois field has caused great excite.
ment here aud a call has been issued
for a full convention of the district, to
be held Wednesday, In the meantime
the various organizations will get
together and take action. It is
claimed that if the Chinamen are
allowed to go to work here
and elsewhere -it will only be a
matter of time when mines employing
that kind of labor will be able to un
derscll those employing skilled hands,
and thus the price will be again forced
down. The situation here is looked
upon by business men #s most serious.
It means to Strestor alone the dis
placement of abous 3,000 men.
Npolls » Golden Wedding.
WaterLoo, la., Nov. 10.—After 4¢
years of married life, with every out.
ward appearance of happiness, Sarah
| Poyner has petitioned the district
- court to grant her & divorce from her.
husband, a wealthy farmer of thiei
county. The plaintiff 1566 and the de
fendant 78 :
| Man and Wife Found Dylog.
PiNeviLLE, Ky., Nov. 10.—Andrew
Vaughn, a prominent farmer, and his
wife were found in their house in a
dying condition this morning. It is
supposed Vaughn h*me mentally un
balanced and while in this state shot
his wife and then himself.
Disastrous Wreck Ia Texas.
Forr WoRtH, Tex., Nov. 10.—An east- |
bound cattle train on the Texas Pacific
railroad went through a bridge near
Benbrook this morning. Several cars
of cattle were destroyed. A brakeman
was killed. 5
CHINESE ROMANCE.
A Chinese Girl Sold in Marriage, Her Es
cape and Baptism.
CHICAGO, Nov. %.—Among the persons
admitted to membership in St. James
Methodist church Sunday was a young
Chinese woman who had been living
here two years under the name of
L.ena Brown. Rev. Robert Mclntyre,
pastor of the church, baptized Ler,
and told the congregation the story of
her life. The young woman was born
in Hong Kong. Her father was a phy
sician and was teaching her his profes
sion when his sudden death occurred.
The girl was taken by her uncle, and
a few months later was brought to
America by him and bought by a Chi
nese merchant of Los Angeles, Cal.,
who married her. Rev. George L. Cole
and wife, formerly of Chicago, now
engaged in missionary work in Cali
fornia, found her, and through them
she first learned of Christianity. Upon
learning that her busband had a wife
in China she decided to leave Lim.
One morning soon after breakfast, she
gathered a few articles of wearing ap
parel and, picking up her child, es
caped, and, under the protection of
two police officers, was taken toa place
of refage. Mr. Cole soon found it ne
cessary to send her further away, as a
large reward had been offered for her
return.
WHOLE FAMILY SUICIDES.
Financial Reverses Prompt an Extraordi
nury Tragedy in Paris
Pamis, Nov. 9. —A man named Drey
fus, who is believed to be a cousin of
Capt. Dreyfus, the deported artillery
officer, imprisoned on an island off the
coast of French Guiana, and his wife
and their three daughters, respectively
13, 11 and 7 years of age, committed
suicide yvesterday morning or Sunday
night at their residence at. Mareceu.
The porter of the house found
their bodies ir their apartments
carly yesterday. They were lying
on the floor in the bed room of the
voungest child. Dreyfus left a letter
for the commissioner of police of that
district enclosing 400 francs with
which to defray the expenses of the
funeral of the family. The deceased
husband and father was so terribly
upset by the sentence imposed upon
Capt. Dreyfus that he changed his
name to that of his wife. Financial
reverses caused the terrible tragedy.
FATAL HOT SPRINGS FIRE.
Three FPersons Dead sns the Result of the
Burning of a Bakery.
Hor Sprinags, Ark., Nov. 9.—Fire
broke out last night in the three-story
brick building occupied by Erhart's
bakery on Central avenue, and when
the family living on the upper floors
were awakened the stairs, both front
and rear, were ablaze. Erhart and his
wife and two of their children and two
employes escaped over the tops of ad
joining houses, and Walter Erhart,
aged cight, was saved by firemen en
tering the room. Charles Johnson and
Frank Kaufman, bakers. were suffo
eated in their beds, and Clara Erbart,
aged 11, was found dead at the rear
stairs.
ANOTHER SEDALIA OUTRAGE
Miss Juda Burke Dragged a Hlock and As
saulted by a White Man.
SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 9. —Juda Burke,
16 years old, was the vietim last night
of a most brutal outrage. She was on
her way home about seven o'clock
from a shopping trip arnd was over
taken by an unknown white man, who
followed her from Broadway. Stepping
behind Miss Burke he threw one arm
around her waist and threatening to
cut her throat if she gave analarm, he
dragged her for a block to an alley,
where he assaulted her. Miss Burke
can furnish only a poor descripti on of
her assailant.
JAILS DO NOT HOLD HIM.
Thomaas, the Tennessee Forger, Makes His
Third Sensational Escape.
Mespuis, Tenn., Nov. 9.—J. A. Thom
as, the forger who mysteriously es
caped from jail here April 15 and was
recaptured by local police and Pinker
ton detectives at Moberly, Mo., Octo
ber 7, again escaped before daylight
this morning by sawing iron bars and
scaling a wall, a rope for the latter
purpose as well as a saw for the
former having been furnished from
the outside. The escape was Thomas'
third, his first having been from a Chi
cago jail, when wide attention was at
tracted. |
NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED.
Foar Desperate Indian Territory Outlaws
Glven » Nurprise Party.
SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 9.—
Deputy United States Marshal Cope
land and posse made arich haul yester
day near Stilwell, Cherokee nation, in
the capture of Ridge Jones, Ice Chock
atan, J. W. Goodrich and Sam McLe
mire, four of the most desperate char
acters to be found in the territory.
The outlaws were surrounded and
taken completely by surprise, not a
single shot being fired on either side
WILL GET THE 'FRISCO.
Guthrie Citizens Kalse a Cash Bonus of
30,000 for the Extension.
GuTHRIE, Ok., Nov. 9..—At a mass
meeting of citizens last night the full
850,000 cash bonus for the extension of
the 'Frisco railway from Red Fork, I.
T., through the Creek coal flelds to
this city, was raised. This will give
Guthrie and all Oklahoma direct con
nection with St. Louis as well as Kan
sas City, and put coal in here at $2.50
per ton instead of $5.50.
Business Partner Shot.
ABERDEEN, Miss,, Nov. 9.—A tragedy
occurred in the Aberdeen Ledger office
Saturday night which resulted in the
death of George S. Jackson, one of its
publishers, at the hands of his part
ner, E. V. Yongue. They had been
associated in the publication of the
paper about two months and the killing
was the result of'a misunderstanding
incident to partnership business. It is
said that Jackson advanced in a violent
manner with a piece of iron bar, when
Yongue fired two shots from a revolver,
one of which took effect in the shoulder
and the other entered:the neck and
passed entirely throngh.
A Double m
LurkiN, Tex., NoVv. .B.—A negro
named Burrell Shears, living abount 12
miles from here, shot his wife three
times, fatally wounding her. He then
blew his own brains out, dying im
mediately. No' cause for ‘the c¢r'me
can be assigned. . =
Had an Arm Broken.
New HaveN, Conni, Nov. 9.—The
Chicago Athletic association football
11 left yesterday for New York. Their
men Are recovering from their hard
game of Saturday against Yale. except
Paul Mann, center, whose arm was
broken. He has gone home.
DURRANT MUST HANG.
‘Supreme Court Overrules Appeal for the
; Convicted Ban Francisco Murderer.
Wasnivatos, Nov. 9.—The United
States supreme court to-day aflirmed
the decision of the circuit court for
California, refusing a writ of habeas
corpus to William Henry Theodore
Durrant, under sentence of death for
the murder of Blanche Lamont in San
Francisco in April, 1805, The case bas
attracted attention throughout the
whole of the United States and to
day’s decision permits the law to take
its course with the condemned man.
Chief Justice Fuller announced the
court’s decision but made no remarks
in doing so. save to cite a few authori
ti.eg on which the court based its de
cision.
SOLDIERS'HOMES.
The Inspector General Has a Plan for a
Monthly Allotment to Veterans.
WasHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The annual
reports of the board of managers of
the United States soldiers’ homes, soon
to be submitted to congress, will show
that all the homes are filled to the full
limit of their capacity and thatin cer
tain localities there are many worthy
and dependent soldiers entitled to
these privileges who have to be turned
away because of the present over
crowded condition of some of the
homes. Additional appropriations for
new quarters consequently will be
asked for by the board and will, of
course, receive the earnest support
of those representatives who have
homes located in their districts But
these recommendations will run coun
ter to a new proposition which In
spector General Breckinridge will
submit when this subject is taken up
for consideration. This contemplates
the use annually of about SIOO,OOO
from the regular appropriation for the
support of the homes for allotments to
those dependent soldiers who can
not be provided for in the homes be
cause of lack of accommodations. A
number of men at present are in homes
who would much prefer to go outside
and live avith their families if they
had an allotment of $8 or $lO a month
—the equivalent of what it costs to
maintain them in the homes. In this
way, Gen. Breckinridge figures it out,
a sufficient number of vacancies will
be made in the homes to pro
vide for those who are unable to ob
tain admission.
TAMMANY IS ANGRY.
Ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant Sharply Criticlses
W. J. Bryan.
New Yorg, Nov. 9.—The Journal
prints the following letter from ex-
Mayor Hugh J. Grant concerning W.
J. Bryan and the recent election:
The conelusion of Mr. Bryan that the results
of the recent election indicate popular dissat
isfaction with the policy of the republican
party is undoubtedly correct. His declaration
that they “presage the overthrow of the re
publican party” is not entitled to the same cre
dence as his conclusion. I heartily hope that
the rcpublican party will be overthrown in
190), but it is early for anyone but an enthusi
ast like Mr. Bryan to make up his mind what
will happen three years hence.
Mr. Bryan did nothing for the local democrady
this year. Every suggestion of his words or
acts was to our disadvantage. The secretary
of the democratic national committee, Mr.
Walsh, who Is presumably very close to him in
sympathy, repudiated the candidacy of Van
Wyck on the ground that Van Wyck did not
stand upon the silver plank of the Chicago
platform and gave to George whatever support
he had to give. The trouble with Bryan and
the secretary of the national committee is that
they cannot adapt themselves to changing con
ditions. Many things are likely to happen be
tween now and 1900, If they happen <s Mr. Bryan
thinks they will happen, they will justify his
sssumption of the roll of prophet: if they do
not, Mr. Bryan will be grieved. In any event
the democratic party will remain.
SITUATION IS IMPROVING.
Yellow Fever Has Lost Ita Terrors for the
People of New Orieana.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 9..—~The yeilow
fever situation continues favorable.
There has been little change since yes
terday. and yellow jack has lost its
terror for the people, who are greatly
elated over the gratifying turn of af
fairs. Good news has been received
from all points, and it is predicted that
trade will have assumed its normal
condition by the middle of the month.
though ithas been deait a terrible blow
by the plague.
Favor the Gold Mandard.
Loxpox, Now. 9.—According to a spe
cial dispatch from Shanghai the em
peror of China and the board of reve
nue have approved a memorial pre
sented in favor of establishing a gold
standard and prohibiting the export
of gold. It is doubtful, however,
whether this will have any pncfica,"
result. |
Loulaville Wholesale Stores Burned.
LouisviLLE, Ky., Nov. 9.—Fire in the
wholesale district early this mornlng]
destroyed the buildings sud stocks of'
Barford & Lawson, wholesale milli
ners, and Benjamin 8. Allen, wholesale
d;qlqrai in bt').oh‘nnd shoes. 3&00!(3 in
adjoining structures were damaged
ThJe lougc aggregate $150,000, ‘
Terrible Fumine In Russia. ‘
St. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9.—A terrible
famine is raging in the province of
Archangel, a government of European
Russia. Many have died of starvation.
The people wander about reduced al
most to skeletons, their heads swollen
to the size of baskets. Tea is the only
means of subsistence.
Father and Bon Get Life Sentences.
GLADWYNN, Mich., Nov. 9.~ Benjamin
Nunn sad Roy Nunn, father and son,
‘were both sentenced to life imprison.
ment In the stnte penitentiary at Jack:
son to-day. Their crime .was murder
ing Curtice Wright.
Tried to Kill His Family,
TorxxA, Kan., Nov. 9. —Fred Manter,
An express messenger, who hus been
sick at the home of his brother-in-law,
William Bowers, went violently insane
and. took an ax and tried to kill the
family. Mr. Bowers subdued him in a
tossle for pomsession of the ax and
beld him until the officers arrived.
—— I
Disastrens Boller Xxplosion.
STONERORO, Pa., Nov. 9.—The bollers
at the Mercer Iron & Coal company’s
works exploded at noon while the men
were &t lunch, Three men were killed
umlmcn injured. = bl
OPENING AN ACCOUNT.
‘ Woman in'a Bank for the First Time
| Makes Trouble, ’23
| “A woman opening a bank account for the =
first time is a peculiar creature,” said oneof =
the clerks in a national bank. “Onecamein
a few days ago and Elanred around suspi
ciously. Then she ambled up to the window
and =aid J
e 'l:l vou please, I want to deposit some
money.’ 5 Y {
“*Yes'm; just go to the next window.” !
“She stepped over in a careful way, as if
«he was breaking some rule or other, and, al
most in a whisper, said: : z
“*ls this where they deposit money ?
“+Yes, ma'am. Do you wish to open an ‘
rcount ¥’
m:'”~‘(‘:ix. no,” she said. ‘I don’t want to have ¢
anvthing charged. T {:ut want to deposit
my money. Is this bank really safe?
*She was assured that it was.
«“Thi= bank is as firm as Gibraltar,
madam. You have come to the right place.
We will have to have your aut’ng’mph. Just
write your name right there.
“iOh, I can't write without a stub pen.
Haven't you got a stub pen and some nice
violet ink?
”"".:h(- was fitted out, and in the most care
ful way imaginable she wrote out her full
name. Then she was provided with a de
posit book, which she looked at in an in
quiring way. She produced her money, hung
on to it for a minute, and then handed it
in, all rolled up and tied withathread. The
receiving teller counted it in a rapid way
and threw it in with the other receipts.
““Now,' she said, ‘this ain’t a good bank.
You've just gone and thrown my money in
with all the rest, and you can never pick
it out again. Take vour old book and give
me my money. And scratch my name off
that big autograph album. Mother said you
couldn’t tell anything about a bank.” -
“She wns given her little roll, the a i
graph was scratched off and the d S
ticket destroyed. She flounced out inade- =
cisive way, as much as to say: ‘They can’t.
cheat me, if |am a woman.’ "—Cincinnaty °
Commercial Tribune. §§
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address J. R. Tapp, Traveling Passenger
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not the one to slu{p you; but, I declare, it’s
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She—Well, on’t blame you, Harry,
after I eat them I can hardly -Lny whe'tf:fi
am myself.—Judge.
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The Young Man (who is on the football’
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Washington Democrat. "
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