A BAPTISM OF BULLETS I
Rebels Open Fire on the Pal
ace at Havana.
JiO SERIOUS DAMAGE WAS DONE
Unsuccessful Attempts Hade to Rescue
General Hi vera and to Capture
a Notorious Spy.
New York, Nov. 29. On Sunday
morning, for the first time in the his
tory of the Cuban war, rebel bullets
sought the pahice in Havana, says a
dispatch to the Herald from Havana.
The shots came from Casa Blanca, 600
raids across the entrance to the harbor,
and while no one was hurt, the palace,
with its electrio lights, was a shining
mark, and must have been hit. The
Spanish authorities attempt to make
light of the affair, but at the same time
a reporter for La Lucha who wrote up
jind attetmpted to publish the facts in
the case, was put in prison.
The attack on Casa Blanca was made
by Brigadier-General Cardenas and 50
rebels. They entered the town shortly
before midnight on horseback, and at
the end of an hour each man led out of
town a horse with one extra head ap
propriated, laden with clothing, pro
visions, silver plate and money. Bofore
they left they sent two volleys across
the narrow harbor entrance at the pal
ace, then oooly went to a friend's house
inside the Spanish lines and took sup
per. All this was under the guns of
Cabanas and Moro.
It is learned from an inside source
that the object of the rebels was to re
lease General Ruiz Rivera, and hang n
citizen named Fumiro who is known as
a spy. They failed in the first object
only beoause of some misconception of
the appointed time on the part of con
federates within the prison with whom
.arrangements had been made to admit
them into the fortress. Fumiro man
aged to esoape acrosB the harbor.
The whole affair was well planned.
General Cardenas came in the early
evening with two columns along the
seashore, and at 10 o'clock the men
followed. They first visited Cabanas.
Whey they saw that the arrangement
lad failed, the rebels went after Fu
miro. He fled across the harbor and
the rebels did not dare to follow. Then
the rebels went to Casa do los Fiailes,
the priest's houBe, where they took
blankets, silver plate and money.
This house is close to Moro castle.
The priest made a great outcry, but no
soldiers came. Then the rebels sacked
the store or iumiro, securing some
gold. They also looted other stores.
Working as quietly as possible, they
approached a oavalry outpost, securing
several horses.
For two hours they enjoyed them
selves, then rode to the harbor and fired
two volleys at the palace. This aroused
the Spaniards for the first time, but by
the time troops turned out the rebels
had gone. The authorities made every
effort to suppress the details of this
raid, though an official report admitted
that six rebels entered the town.
The rebels approached and fired upon
Mariana last night. There was great
excitement. The volunteers were called
out, and with the troops returned the
rebel fire. The residents were panic
stricken and locked themselves in their
houses. The rebels did not succeed in
entering the town. The lines have
been strengthened all about Havana.
Correspondence received from the
east states that General Gomez is mass
ing men near Sagua, and is preparing
to inarch westward to strike a potent
blow before congress meets. Unusual
activity of the rebels is reported ftom
'. all quarters. The Spaniards are also
making preparations for action, but as
yet each avoids the other. Where and
in what manner the blow that is com
ing will fall cannot be predicted, but it
is more surely coining than autonomy.
General J. M. Rodriguez, command-in-chief
of the western ' provinces,
is out in a manifesto stating that he
will accept nothing but independence.
Ho contrasts the treatment of Cuban
prisoners with that of Spanish prison
ers, and says only the Spaniards under
arms are considered as enemiee. He
promises equal rights to other Span
iards if independence is gained.
General Blanco's general shake-up
of the police force throughout the island
is causing some excitement. The heads
of departments of police were nearly all
ehanged. Wherever fraud or undue
eruelty was discovered drastic measures
were taken. Secretary-General Con
gusto's knowledge and experience
gained in America are of valuable as
sistance in this direction. Special re
ports from the Herald correspondents
in various parts of the island state that
the Spanish soldiers are as badly off as
the pacificos and concentrados. In
many places the troops have been forced
by circumstances to beg from door to
door. General Blanco is making every
effort to relieve their condition, and to
reform the hospital service.
Vienna, Nov. 29. -The unparalleled
violence in the lower house of the
reichsrath yesterday is about the only
subject of conversation throughout Au
stria today. The German progressist
party has published a note expressing
regret at the outbreak, and disclaiming
any responsibility for it. .
Made a Clean Sweep.
Chicago, Nov. 29. The three re
maining buildings spared by fire, which
devastated the little town of Willow
Springs two months ago, were totally
destroyed by fire last night, while the
members of the fire department were at
a dance. The comparative isolation of
the buildings prevented the blazo from
spreading, and what now remains of
the town was saved. The loss is esti
mated at $20,000. It is spread around
uong a number of small retailers.
THE AMERICAN NAVY.
Its Fresent Condition Summed Up by
Secretary Long. ' ,
Washington, Nov. 29. The report of
the secretary of the navy was made
public today. It shows that the pres
ent effective fighting force of the navy
consists of four battle-ships of the first
class, two battle-ships of the second
class, two armored cruisers sixteen
cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six, double
turreted monitors, one ram, one dyna
mite gunboat, one dispatch-boat, one
transport Bteamer and hve torpedo-
boats. There are under construction
five battle-ships of the first class, six
teen torpedo-boats and one Buomarine
boat.
There are 64 other naval vessels, in
cluding those used as training, receiv
ing and naval-reserve ships, tugs, dis
used single-turreted monitors, and
some unserviceable craft.
There is, further, the auxiliary fleet.
This consists, first, of more than 20
subsidized steamers, which comply
with the requirements of the postal act
of March 8, 1891, with regard to their
adaptability to naval service, an:l to an
armament of main and second batteries;
second, of a very much greater number
of large merchant marine steamers,
which can be availed of at any time of
need.
These auxiliaries, ranging from 2,000
to 12,000 tons, will, if occasion re
quire, form a powerful fleet of ocean
cruisers, capable of swift and formida
ble attack upon an enemy's commerce.
Their great coal capacity will also en
able them to remain a long time at sea
in search of the whereabouts of hostile
vessels.
The country is congratulated upon
the results obtained in the rebuilding
of the navy. While its ships are not
as many and it is not necessary they
should be as those of some other great
powers, they are, class for class, in
power, speed, workmanship and offen
sive and defensive qualities, the equal
of vessels built anywhere else in the
world.
Five additional battle-ships are un
der construction, which should be com
pleted by the end of the year 1899.
One gunboat and 17 torpedo-boats are
also under construction.
The first cost of the gunboats was
about $250,00 each. That of the cruis
ers nearly $2,000,000 eaoh.
Bids for the torpedo-boats were from
16 firms, covering a variety of designs.
The contracts of these 80-knot boats
were awarded to the lowest bidders"as
follows:
To Harlan & Hollingsworth, one 840
ton boat, at $236,0000; to Gas Engine
& Power Company and Charles L. Sea
bury Co., consolidated, one 235-ton
boat, at $210,00; to Wolff & Zwicker
iron works, one 247.5-ton boat, at
$214,500.
It is of interest to note the naval
programmes of. the principal foreign
powers which show the great activity
prevailing among them in the matter
of naval consturction.
NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION.
Nearly Wrecked an Entire Town In
Indiana.
Andersonville, Intl. , Nov. 29. Ches
terfield, Ind., was almost wiped off the
map at an early hour this morning by
an explosion of 80 quarts of nitrogly
cerine in an oil field half a mile from
town. James Gol's house, about 300
rods distant, was torn to pieces. The
explosion tore a hole in the ground
down to the water line. A three-ton
engine was torn to fragments, and ev
ery animal in the neighborhood was
killed instantly.
The little-town of Chesterfield is a
mass of ruins. Every house was moved
from its foundation, and windows weie
shattered, doors smashed in, every
light put out and the plastering shaken
from the walls. Several people were
shaken out of bed.
At Dalesville, two miles away, and
at Yorkiown, five miles distant, the
damage .was almost as great. Many
people were injured, and it is miracu
lous that many were not killed. The
shock was felt 15 miles away. The
damage cannot be estimated.
Will Hasten Dimmit's Execution.
San Francisco, Nov. 29. Acting Attorney-General
Carter has received
word from Attorney-General Fitzgerald
that he will advise Warden Hale to
carry out the execution of Durrant, re
gardless of any legal proceedings that
may be instituted by Durrant's attor
neys, after the present legal quibble
has been decided. Durrant will be re
sentenced as soon as the controversy
now pending is settled, after which the
attorney-general of the state believes
no legal step can accomplish further
Vslay in the proposed execution of the
prisoner.
Marshal Blanco' Assurance.
Madrid Nov. 29. Marshal Blanco
has cabled to the cabinet an assurance
that he will be the arbitrator in con
nection with the customs tariff, -and
that the interests of the peninsula
shall not suffer thereby.
An excellent effect has been pro
duced in official circles by the publica
tion this morning, in the official ga
leae, of the two decrees extending to
the Antilles the universal sufferage law
of 1890, and applying also the laws in
scribed in the rim chapter of the Span
ish constitution.
There is a white
ette, Ind.
sparrow in Lafay-
The Concord Ketnrns From A lank a.
Fan Francisco, Nov. 29. The gun
boat Concord arrived from Alaska to
day. She will go to the navy-yard for
an overhauling, after which she will
be sent to China to take the place of
the Yorktown on that station.
Maxim's New Oun Teated.
Portsmouth, Nov. 29. Hiram Max
im's new quick-firing gun was tried
here today with remarkable results.
With 25 pounds of cordite it showed an
affective range of 16,000 yards.
M'KINLEY IN GOLD.
A Statue to Be Expiliited at the rails
Exposition.
New York, Nov. 29. Ada Rehan in
silver is to be outshone by William Mc
Ifinley in gold according to the Herald
of today. The added fame which the
actress aoquired by posing for the Mon
tana statue of solid silver exhibited at
the world's fair is to be approached if
not eclipsed by the president of the
United States who will furnish the fig
ure for a life-sized statue of solid gold.
This will be the most costly lump of
precious metal the people of the mod
ern world have ever seen. So says F.
D. Higby, of Chicago, who . has been
retained by Western millionaires to
furnish such a statue for exhibition" at
the Paris exposition in 1900. Mr.
Higby was in the city yesterday on his
way to Washington to get the consent
of President McKinley to pose for the
figure.
As Mr. Higby took a prominent part
in the headquarters management of the
late campaign, and has asked for no
office he is confident of success in this
mission.
"You know," said Mr. Higbv "that
I designed and built the Montana
statue at the world's fair for whioh
Miss Rehan posed. I suppose it was
beoause of my experience that I have
been retained to build this statue,
which with the Txise will contain bul
lion to the value of $1,050,000.
"While it will be designed primarily
to first exhibit the statue at Paris in
1900, the directors of the pan-American
exposition to be held in Cayuga island,
in the Niagara river, in 1899, are anxi
ous to have it completed in time to ex
hibit there first. It is likely that this
arrangement will bo made.
"I cannot say yet who the capitalists
are who are back of this projeot, but
there are a half dozen of them, and
everything is ready to begin work on
the statue as soon as a design is com
pleted." '
OREGON LINEN MILLS.
Reported That Flax Will Be Made Up
Into Wares at Salem.
Salem, Or., Nov. 29. There are
prospects that the "Scotch Mills," in
Salem, which have long'stood idle, will
be oonverted into an important manu
facturing plant. It is understood that
Mr. T. B. Wilcox, who' owns a control
ling interest in the mills, has submit-
ted a proposition to Dr. Deimel, the
importer of linen goods, whereby a linen ,
manufacturing establishment is to be
located here, and Mr. Wilcox is to be I
one of the stockholders. The details of j
the negotiations, pending between Mr.J
W'ilcox and Dr. Diemel, have not been !
given out, but assurance is given that
the prospects for the establishment of a
large linen manufacturing plant here :
are very bright. Mrs. Lord received a
letter from Dr. Deimel last night,
stating that he sailed for Germany
Tuesday. He further says:
"I have now more offers for shares
in our present company that I am able
to accept, and if $500,000 or even $1,-
000,000 should be required tb organize
a company mr me spinning oi yarn anu
the weaving of linen, including linen
mesh, it can be had, on the showing
that you can grow and will grow flax of !
a quality equal to the best, and that :
your people desire the locating of our '
industry there by offering us such ad- '
vantages as you mention in your let-1
ter." I
Legislation for Alaska. 1
Washington, Nov. 29. The presi- .
dent in his message will recommend
speedy legislation to insure the best
possible government for Alaska. He
will point out the difficulties which the
people living there are undor, and will
urge that something be done to protect j
the property of the government. He
will allude to the fact that the govern-';
ment is losing large sums because there I
is no way of protecting timber from j
indiscriminate use. A better system of !
permits for the cutting and inspection i
of timber, not only for the mineral '
states of the West, but also for Alaska,
has been presented to the president, I
and he will endeavor to have legisla-1
tion speedily enacted for the better pro
tection of the forests.
bearing- a Settlement.
Washington, Nov. 29. Hawaiian
Minister Francis M. Hatch, who has
just arrived in this oity on his return
from Honolulu, expressed the opinion
today that the trouble between Japan
and Hawaii has been smoothed over, i
andean be Bettled now without diffi
culty. The Japanese government seems
to bo disposed to have the matter sot-1
tied in as amicable a spirit as possible, j
Canada's Itepljr. i
Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 29. A reply has
been prepared by the Dominion govern-1
ment and forwarded to Washington in
respect to the negotiations which are
going on between those countries. The
government will not say what the reply
is until it reaches Mr. Foster, at Wash
ington, but it is understood that it is a
refusal to stop pelagic sealing for one
year. j
Chicago, Nov. 29. The Luetgert
case will be called for a second trial to
morrow morning, in Judge Horton's
court. The state will announce its
readiness to go on with the trial at
once, but it is very probable that At
torney Phalen, for the defense, will
ask for a contiWnce or a change of,
venue.
A Four-Handed Fight.
Mandeville, La., Nov. 2. From
Bayou Lacombe, a small settlement 11
miles east of here, news has been re
ceived of a desperate light between Ar
thur and Edward Jolie, on one bide,
and Laurence and Edward Cousin, on
the other, in which all concerned were
killed. Shotguuns and pistols were
the weapons used. A long-standing
family fend led to the fight.
To every 192 persons in the United
States there is a telephone.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidenfe of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns of
the Thriving Sister States
Oregon.
Willamette valley fall-sown grain Is
looking fine.
Several Oregon towns roport "not a
vacant house."
.The late storm was the severest
known in many years in Clatsop county.
Last week five carloads of wheat and
five carloads of wood were shipped from
Sheridan, in Yamhill county.
A Modford man has ,sold 10 carloads
of Ben Davis apples to a New York
firm for 75 cents a box, f. o. b.
A Buck Hollow rancher raised $300
worth of silver-skin onions on one acre
of land in Sherman county this year,
and sold the crop for cash.
The run of steelhead salmon in Coos
bay has commenced. Quite a number
were brought from Coos river to Marsh
field last week, and were sold for 50
cents each.
Three steamers now ply between Ya
quina and San Francisco, the Presi
dent, Truckee and Scotia. The latter
carries only stone, while the others
carry all kinds of freight. ,
The finanoial condition of Grant
county shows some improvement.
Treasurer Hazeltine has funds on hand
for the redemption of outstanding war
rants bearing date of registration prior
to January 24, 1891.
State Treasurer Metchan s account
with the several counties of the state
shows that Baker, Benton, Columbia,
Coos, Curry, Grant, Jackson, Klamath
Lincoln, Umatilla and Wallowa have
paid their taxes and interest in full for
1896.
A Grant ceunty paper says more
i wheat has been threshed in the sur
rounding country this year than ever
before, and that enough of it will be
ground into flour to supply Grant coun
ty with fiour until next season.' Usual
ly it has been necessary to bring in flour.
The apple crop on Burnt river is re
ported to be three times that of last
year and of good quality. The price,
also, shows a very material advance
over last year's. Last season's yield
brought 40 cents a box, which this year
has advanced to 75 cents, nearly double.
Both dwelling and business houses
are needed in Vale, Malheur county,
says the Advocate. Every available
room in town is occupied, and the
great demand for more is increasing
daily. Little three and four room oot
tages that can be built at a cost not
to exceed $200 each will bring from $5
to $3 a month rent.
Samples of Eastern oysters that wore
, planted in Xaquina bay Have been on
j exhibition in Newport. The oysters
j have increased very much in Bize, and
have improved much in flavor, oyster
experts Bay, but whether or not spawn
discovered on mussel shells and other
objects near them is the product of the
foreign or native oyster cannot yet be
determined. Samples were sent East
two weeks ago for settling thiB point,
but no report has yet been received.
Washington.
There is a good demand for logs on
Gray's harbor.
The lumber shipments from Wash
ington in October by rail were 750
cars.
The shingle shipments from Wash
ington in October were 1,806 cars, or
298,560,000 Bhinlges, notwithstanding
the car shortage and drop in prices.
A Gray's harbor fisherman says that
the falling-off of the catch in silverside
salmon there this season is fully 50
per cent. The pack of the cannery at
Aberdeen is only 10,000 cases, against
21,000 last year. The new hatchery
on the Chehalis river will, it is expect
ed, check this diminution in supply and
restore the industry.
Washington has a law against alien
ownership of land in- that state. A
Scotch company is desirous of building
a beet-sugar factory near Spokane, and
this law stands in the way. There is a
case in the supreme court of Washing
ton at the present time which will de
termine whether the law is constitu
tional or not, or whether aliens can
own land in the state or not.
By the breaking of a sheer boom at
Stanwood, in Snohomish county, tho
other day, between 5,000,000 and b,
000,000 feet of logs went out into the
Bound, and that of this amount prob
ably 500,000 feet will go out to sea
through Deception pass. The boom
company expects to be able to save all
except those carried out to sea by the
tides.
The state auditor has had printed in
pamphlet form the opinions of the attorney-general
relative to revenue and
taxation. These pamphlets will be for
warded to the different county treas
urers throughout the state. Ho many
inquiries were received by the stato
auditor relative to the construction of
the revenue law that this step was
deemed advisable.
The famous Rnby creek, over which
there was so much exictemont 15 years
ago, promises to furnish the state with
another rich district. A resident of
Burlington was in Mount Vernon last
week and brought with him and sold to
the bank a little over $1,000 in coarse
gold taken out of placer claims on Can
yon creek, a branch of Ruby creek,
j W. A. Woodin and others, who were
contemplating building a shingle mill
in Fairhaven, have changed their
minds, and will put up a salmon can
nery with a oapacity of 20,000 cases. ;,
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Office of Downing, Hopkins & Co., Chicago
Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Cham bur ot Com
merce BuikUng, fortUiul, Oregon.)
The event of the week in the Chicago
wheat market was a jump of 4o in one
day in the price of December options.
The sentimental figure of $1 was
reached for a moment. The bulk of
the wheat in Chicago is in the hands of
a powerful clique, who are in a posi
tion just now to dictate to the short
sellers of December. These people
keep on declaring there is to be no cor
ner, but a squeeze is almost certain.
The outcome of the May price de
pends altogether on the world's statis
tical position. Europe would not be
taking 6,500,000 bushels of wheat and
flour from America in one week if there
did not exist extraordinary necessity
for it. But no one knows how long
this demand will keep up or whether
the prioe fairly discounts the situation.
A good illustration of how little can be
decided with exactness about so vast a
question as the wheat supply is the
conflict of two respectable authorities in
the mere interpretation of an official
Russian crop report. The Corn Trade
Newe declares it shows a shortage of
102,000,000 busfiels, compared with
last year, whilo Beernohm makes the
shortage only 1,000,000 bushels. The
profession of crop statistics is like the
ology. It is so big a field as to permit
of all sorts of differences and to enable
each teacher to pose before those imme
diately around him as the only really
authoritative one.
Nothing would affect the sentiment
at Chicago quicker than a falling off in
Northwestern receipts. But on this
comparatively simple problem there is
no unanimity. Pillshury a . fortnight
ago predicted confidently that the car
lots at Minneapolis and Duluth by No
vember 20 would be down to small
figures, with not over 20 per cent of
the crop left in the hands of the farm
ers. There has all through November
been perfect weather for marketing;
but the authorities at Minneapolis are
now predicting another two weeks of
free movement. The weather is to
count a great deal on the price between
this and Decmeber 10th. It will make
eaBy or difficult the continued move
ment of wheat between Duluth and
Chicago; it will keep open or close up
navigation between Chicgao and Buf-
alo, and will influence, too, the move
ment from the spring wheat farmer into
Duluth and Minneapoiis.N
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 70 77c; Val
ley and Bluestera, 78 79c per bushel.
Four Best grades, $4.25; graham,
$3.50; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 34 35c; choice
gray, 82 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $30 per ton.
Millstiffs Bran, $15 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $1212.50; clover,
$10 11; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per
ton.
Eggs 22,'625o per dozen.
Butter-Fancy oreamery, 50 55c;
fair to good, 4045c; dairy, 80 40c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, H'c; Young
America, 12$c; California, 910o
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.75
2.50 per doezn; broilers, $2.002.5O;
geese, $58; ducks, $3.004.00
per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 10c per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 8540o
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yol
low, 80o per cental.
Hops 814o per pound for new
crop; 1890 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 14 16a por pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7 12c; mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best bheep, wethers
and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton,
5c; spring lambs, SJ-c per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $3. 00 4. 00; dressed,
$4. 50 5. 00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00;
cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45)o per
pound.
Veal Large, 4)j5o; small, 5Jg
6o per pound.
Seattle Market.
Butter 1 ancy native
brick, 27o; ranch, 16 18c
creamery,
Cheese Native Washington, 13B'o;
California, d',2c,
Eggs Fresh ranch, 80 32c.
Poultry Chickens, live, por pound,
hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50
8 00; ducks, $3.603.75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22 por ton
Oats Choice, per ton, $120.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef.
steers, 6c; cows, 5,'c; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7,
Fresh Fish Halibut, 45c; salmon,
8 4c; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders
and sole, 8 4; ling cod, 45; rock cod,
6c; smelt, 24e.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 60c$1.25 per
box; peaches, 75 80c; prunes, 85 40c
pears, 75c $1 per box.
Han Francisco Market.
Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon, 13
14c; Northern ll12o per pound.
Hops 10 14c per pound.
Millstnffs Middlings, $2022; Cal
ifornia bran, $17.50 18.00 per ton.
Onions New red, 7080c; do new
tilverskin, $1.401.60 per cental.
Eggs Store, 182c; ranoh, 40
41c; Lastorn, 1724; duclc, 25o per
dozen.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 12lcj fai
to good, 7 8c per pound..
THREW HIS MONEY AWAY.
Was Bich Once, but Died Fcunileaa
and a Morphine Fiend.
"Tom" Coffin, a mysterious spend- :
thrift who lived near Wlnthrop, Me..
Is dead, ills end was In keeping with,
the strangeness of his life. He di?d iu
the little town of Lovell, Me., from tha
effects of the morphine habit and leav
ing uo friends or money to bury Mm.
The selectmen of Wlnthrop have
received word that Coffin has been
buried at the expense of the town of
Lovell and that Wlnthrop would bo
looked to to make good the costs. How "
Coffin got bis money no one seems to
kuow. His life away from Wlnthrop
Is a mystery. Some say he got his
money as a bookmaker at the New
York race tracks; some say lmlnted
mine and land enterprises. But this Is
known: He was there twelve years
ago with money with heaps and stacks
of money. Cotftn was a Wintliroa boy
find lived there till nearlng young man
hood. Then he got Into trouble and had
to leave town. Nothing was heard or
thought of him for years, when sudden
ly he reappeared In the community at
that time a mau of middle age, medium
size, agile, hearty of manner, with a
strong, intelligent face. But soon he
began to paralyze the community. He
was an opium fiend at the time. IIo
bought horses, and when he got angry
at them he had them shot. IIo bought
a fine house and Immediately began to
mutilate the grounds by tearing away
a fine bank wall of granite, lie hud his
front stone steps torn up and carted
away because some young people sat
upon them, nnlnvlted, one evening. He
bought carriages and furniture an I
then more carriages and furniture anil
made a bonfire on his lawn of the first
Installment. If he had an end In Ufa
it seemed to be to dazzle and astonish
the acquaintances of his youth. Ha
bought expensive earpeting, to bo
spread from his front door across tho
street so that the woman he lAtrodueed
as his wife might go to an entertain
ment without soiling the soles of her
slippers.
Sometimes he had his tantrums and
bad spells. Then there were shrieks
from the house, from Its female In
mates, and the good people of Wlnthrop
held their breath with thoughts of mur
der and other crimes.
It Is estimated that Coffin must have
spent $200,000 at lcnsMu the four yearn
he was In Wlnthrop, and several per
sons in the place were left the richer
for his having come. He distributed
his money among his friends with lav
ish hand. He seemed utterly careless
In regard to the keeping of his money.
At one time he left a basket containing;
$100,000 in currency In the house, tii
plain sTght, In a room, with no one left
to look after It but a few women.
He carried about with him a grip
stuffed with $110,000 In bills, and onct?
absent-mindedly left It In a store and
did not think to call for It until the next
day. It is nlso related that one time lie
had the grip full of money, and, being
alMHit to start on a trip to Boston, he
did not wish to be bothered with si
much money, so he emptied It upon tho
floor of a closet In his house and start
ed on his way without further thought.
He left Wlnthrop after these escapades
as suddenly as he came. When he was
there again, a short time ago, he was a
hanged man, only the ghost of his for
mer self, emaciated, unsteady In gait
a pitiable wreck.
YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE.
Bad MlBtuke for Them to Hcifln I.lfo
In a Kourdluu Hoime. t
Edward W. Hole, editor of the Lad lea'
Home Journal, always a stanch and un
compromising advocate of the home,
asserts, lti u lute Issue of his magazine,
that a home, however humble, Is a mil
lion times better place for young mar
ried coupleo to live than Is the most lux
urious hotel or best boarding house lu
the land. "It Is olways a sad thing,"
he says, "when a young married couple
begin life In a boarding house or hotel.
Sad because they start life practically
outside of theniBelveH. The furiiltiiro
around them Is not their own. Tho
young wife may bring with her oil tlit
trifles she chooses; she may add a touch
of her own hero mid another touch
there. But the things In the room aro
not theirs, and sooner or later she real
izes It.
'During the day the wife Is alone. No
duties call her. Nothing .s there In her
life to exercise her Ingenuity nor devel
op her womanly talents. She cannot
prepare any little pleasuro for Ur
young husband, for things are prepared
for her. When her husband leaves for
his office she turns back Into the room. '
and wonders wnat she tun do (lining
the duy; how she will employ herself,
where she will go. There Is nothing lu
her room to appeal to her to stay there.
No home duties confront her. So shu
goes out and shops, perhaps, for a
while; runs around to her mother's;
calls upon some friends; goes back to
her room to practice a little, If she Is
musical and has a piano; or, If she Is
fond of books, she reads. There Is
nothing In her life; two-thirds of herself
lies dormant. She Is glad when tho
time copies for her husband to come
home; glad to feel that she has some
one to whom she can talk; glad of com
pany. And he? What can ho do to
express himself to his young wife?
Nothing around him Is his; everything
Is by lease, his for a time, for so much
money. And utter he Is through pay
ing for It ho leaves It behlnib The end
Is the same ns tho beginning. That Is
why boarding house or hotel life Is so
Injurious to young married people. It
makes them practically homeless."
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