emi-Weekly Gazette.
NEWS O THE WEEK.
Baron Fava, Italian minister to the
United States, baa leit Rome on bis way
to Washington.
Fred Atkins, age 30, a civil engineer
on the Astoria & Portland railroad, was
drowned in Young's river.
The Anglo-Scotia mills and lace facto
ries near Nottingham, England, were
burned Friday. Loss $500,000.
The Pacific conference of the United
Norwegian Lutheran church of America
is in session in Port Townecnd.
The export firm of Schiffmann A
Mayer, of Hamburg, baa failed with lia
biliiies of about 1,000,000 marks.
The Eureka mill on the Carson river
in Nevada, waB destroyed by fire Mon
day morning. Lobs, over $100,000.
A cyclone struck the village of Brows,
Kansas, Sunday, destroying the tine
school bouse and many other buildings.
George H. Painter of Chicago, has
been sentenced to death on June 24 for
' the murder of his mistress, Alice Martin.
It is announced that Commissioner
Carter, of the general land office, will
probably reeign about the end of the
fiscal year.
, Murder in the first degree was the ver-
diet given in the case of Salvador Picani,
- charged with murdering bis friend Salva
dore Concbilla at Tacoma.
The stores of O'Connell & Glass and A.
J. Lewthwaite in Oregon City, Oregon,
were robbed by burglars Saturday morn
ing. The robbers escaped.
While picnicking on Chickamauga
Creek, Saturday, three members of the
middle class of the high school of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., were drowned.
The spring and summer meeting of the
St. Louis Jockey club opened Saturday,
and will co jtinue until June 24, giving
48 consecutive dayB of racing.
The building containing the colossal
panorama of the crucifixion, in Vienna,
was destroyed by fire Thursday. The
great painting Is a complete ruin.
The body of Louis Schmeiz, Bheriff ol
Brown county, Minn., was found in the
river Monday morning. He had been
despondent, and no doubt suicided.
An incendiary fire Friday night in the
Parker block, in New Bedford, Mass .
badly damaged several hundred pounds
of Arctic and Northwest whalebone.
Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne, who was
sentenced to nine months' imprison
ment in London for the theft of jewels
from a friend, has been released from
jail.
Otto Sevier, a young farmer of Tekoa,
Wash., hung himself Thursday because
a young German girl refused to marr.i
him after he bad sent her money to come
to bim.
A frame residence valued at $10,000
was destroyed by fire at Seattle Monday
night. A. J. Anderson, the owner,
jumped from an upstairs window to save
his life.
Indian troops formerly stationed at
Fort Sherman are now marching to Fort
Walla Walla. The order to march ou
foot was not to the liking of the redskin
soldiers.
The schooner Plymouth, in tow of the
steamer Arizona, parted her tow line in a
gale Thursday in Lake Superior, and is
suppoeed to be lost with her crew of
eight men.
E. T. Thcmas, signal service officer at
Port Angeles, Wash., committed suicide
Thursday by shooting himBelf. Family
trouble and an excess of stimulants wae
the cause.
A car on the San Francisco & San
Kateo ailroad, the new electric motor
line, jumped tbe track in the outskirts
of the city Monday, and three passengers
were fatally hurt.
Lightning set fire to an oil tank at
Bradford, Pa., Tuesday night. The tank
contained 36,000 barrels of crude oil. and
the flames from it set fire to several oth
ers in the vicinity.
Policeman Kane, who was stabbed on
Saturday night by Thomas Kelley, died
in New York Monday morning. His
brother Harry, who was stabbed at the
same time, also died.
The Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma
are becoming troublesome, and threat
ened to kill all whites who should take
claims next to them. Troops have been
ordered to the scene.
Every lumber mill in the La Crosse
district, Wis., closed down Thursday and
will probably remain so until the labor
troubles are Bettled. Two thousand men
are out of employment.
The missing schooner Glenora of
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, reported lost
in last Thursday's storm, bas turned up
safe, having gone aground on the Ontario
shore. The crew is safe.
Architect Emory J. Mills of Chicago
has been indicted for manslaughter. He
planned the structure on Pearce street
which collapsed recently in a storm,
killing a number of people.
Representatives Geary and Cutting
had a personal encounter a few days ago
in Washington over a trivial matter. A
duel was prevented by Henry Watterson,
who acted as peace-maker.
Ralph K. Paige, cashier of the wrecked
Painesville bank, pleaded guilty to a
charge of forgery in -Cleveland, Ohio,
Monday. The judge withheld sentence
in order to examine the case.
An Indian known as Peter was shot
and killed by James Lacy, a rancher,
near San Jose, Monday. It is stated
tqr that Peter was drunk and insulted Lacy's
mother, who is 80 years of age.
A culvert near Lincoln, Neb., washed
out by Sunday night's storm wrecked the
east bound passenger on tbe Burlington.
Fireman S. P. Shriner and two tramps,
who were stealing a ride, were instantly
killed.
William Maskelyne, the old-time turf
man of Walla Walla, who was recently
released from tbe Medical Lake asylum,
bas again become insane, though be ap
peared for several days to have been
completely cured.
There is no improvement to be noticed
in tbe condition of the 8a Francisco
coal market, the situation being weak
and depressed. Stocks on band are ex
tremely heavy, and receipts from North
ern collieries are liberal.
Fire in Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, de
stroyed the building occupied by tbe
Ms Household credit company, tbe S. J.
. "'Roberts wholesale paper company, and
damaged a number of other buildings.
Tbe total loss is 300,000.
The Fox and Illinois rivers have over
flown their banks at Ottawa, 111., and
have done a great deal of damage. The
Illinois valley from Kankakee, to La
Halle is inundated. A Swede was
drowned while trying to save stock.
The Inhabitants of Langeac, France,
are much excited over a number of fires
of incendiary origin, which are laid to an
archists. Six houses were burned Thurs
day, and another was wrecked and
burned through the explosion of a bomb.
The 4-weeks-old child of W. D. Day
died on the train Tuesday near Grant's
. Pass. The parents were from Eugene
and on tneir way to Hornbrook, Cat ,
and were almost destitute. The conduc
tor raised $40 among the passengers for
them.
Last Toeedaj Dr, G. H. Horn of Van
Buren county, Ark., was killed by Wm.
Hal ley. An old feud has existed for
years between Horn and the Hatleye,
and they have had several shooting en
counters, and two or three have been
killed.
The dreibund treaty stipulates nothing
concerning the number of the Italian
army, therefore the report that the object
of King Humbert's coming to visit Ber
lin is to secure a relaxation cf the condi
tions of the treaty in that direction is un
founded. Fifty deputies are still guarding the
Chinese headquarters at Dayton. "Agi
tators" there have threatened to raid
the town Saturday and force the Mon
golians to depart. No Berioiis trouble is
apprehentled, however, by the people of
uayton.
A negro, name unknown, outraged an
8-year old child, the niece of Sheriff
Anderson, of Sunflower county, near
ndianola, Miss., Thursday night, and
Saturday night the brute was lynched by
a mob of citizens not far from the scene
of bis crime.
Nearly 100 heads of families left Mont
real Thursday night for tbe Canadian
Northwest.to found a Jewish colonv. This
contingent is com posed of stalwart Rus
sian Jews who arrived in Canuda this
spring. This scheme is backed up by
Baron liirscn.
Fecundity in art, with extreme medi
ocrity or worse, is shown by this year's
Koyal Academy exhibition in London
Nearly 6000 works have been rejected,
yet the exhibition is very poor in quality.
Vlany of the canvasses hnug are abso
lutely amateurish.
Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Ark., has
passed sentence of death upon John
Thornton, for murdering his daughter;
John Pointer, for killing Sam Van Dever,
and William Holding and John Brown,
for the murder of Joseph Poorboy and
Thomas Whitehead.
A negro uprising is reported from Tri
une, a town thirty miles from Nashville,
Tenn. The news of the lynching of Epb
Grizzard caused the negroes to band to
gether. They are said to be in completo
possession of the town, and have already
killed three of the whites.
Edna Mitchell, a little girl 8 years of
age, was horribly mangled by a cable-car
m Tacoma Wednesday. Her lace was
torn so badly that her features are un
recognizable. Recovery is almost hope
less. A brother is employed by the Port
land Motor Company.
Thomas B. Knaegs has filed a petition
in the court in Indianapolis asking that
his name be changed to Ihomas B. West.
His reason is that he is so shocked at be
ing introduced to ladies to find bis name
distorted into "Jags,', "Basra," "Snags,"
and even into horrible "Rags."
It is officially announced that, the great
safe manufacturing houses of the coun
try, namely, Hemng, Hall and Marvin,
have combined. The new company is
incorporated as the Herring, Hall and
Marvin Company, and will begin busi
ness June 1, wit h a capital of $3,300,000
Secretary Noble has requet-ted the sec
retary of war to send a detachment of
troops to the Col ville Indian reservation
in Washington to remove intruders
pending the action of congress in the
agreement made with those Indians for
the cession to the government of their
surplus lands.
Tbe trial of ex-Premier Mercier, Hon
Charles Langlier and Ernest pecuad for
conspiracy in connection with the I. ang
lais contract, was commenced in Mon
treal, Canada, luesday. All but the pris
oners, council and witnesses were ex
cluded by order of the judge, and great
indignation is felt at tlie action
The backbone of the disastrous strike at
Durham, England, was broken by the
action of the miners who voted in "favor
of all men not connected with the pits
owned by members of the Mineowners'
Association resuming work. Twelve
thousand men have thus been able to go
back to work: at once.
Two additional persons are reported
missing in the Philadelphia theater fire,
making nine people who cannot now be
accounted for. their names are: Geo.
E. Thatcher, a machinist, and Freder
ick Amper, a boy 12 years old, of Many
unk. Both the Times building and the
theater will be rebuilt,
The Canadian steamer Glengarry,
with the Bchoonerg Glaekin and Glenona
in tow, encountered a fearful gale on
Lake Superior Thursday. The Bteamer
went ashore and was wrecked. The
Glaskin made harbor safely, but the
Glenona is supposed to be at the bottom
with her crew of ten men
The Commercial bank of St. Paul
closed its doors at noon Wednesday and
put a card in the window announcing
that business was temporarily suspended.
The cause was a heavy run on account of
the failuro of tbe St. Paul Insurance
Company. Tbe directors state that all
the deposits will be paid in full.
In tbe British house of commons Wed
nesday the second reading of the woman
suffrage bill was defeated, the vote stand
ing 135 to 175. The smallness of the ma
jority caused a surprise. The most no
ticeable feature of the debate was the at
titude of the liberals, whose programme
included a great extension of tbe Iran
chise.
Samuel FleiBchman, the California
pianist and composer, who was billed to
appear at tbe Metropolitan temple in
8an Francisco, rushed away from tbe
house before the performance began and
was found biding in his cellar. The doc
tor who examined him said that he was
suffering from an attack of stage fright
A large audier.ee was disappointed.
Tbe pope has confirmed the decision
of the propaganda in favor of the plan
advocated by Archbishop Ireland, allow
ing American Catholic schools to be
taught by state teachers. Religious in
structions will be given after school
hours, the object being to relieve the
Catholics of the burdensome expense of
supporting separate scnools.
Minnie Tracey, aged 14 years, com
mitted suicide at Hollister, Cal., Mon
day, by taking strychnine. She was left
an orphan about ten years ago and has
since lived with Mrs. Valentine Mat
thews. Mrs. Matthews took occasion to
scold her for some trifling matter in the
presence of a companion, whichso hum
iliated her that she concluded to take her
life,
A man named Dey, an engine wiper,
was brought to the Walla Walla hospital
Wednesday evening from Dayton, with a
mashed band, ibe unfortunate man
was taking tbe place of the brakeman in
switching on tbe Hunt line, and was at
tempting to couple the engine and bag
gage car, when tbe bumpers caught bis
right hand, mashing every bone in it up
to the wrist
A Mohammedan fatalist named Matter
Baix, a waiter on the British steamer
Angerton, which arrived in Philadelphia
a few days ago, jumped neadiong into
the huge furnace of the ship, under the
delusion that his time had come. He
was badly burned, but would have re
covered bad he not refused to take food
or medical treatment in order to meet
his appointed fate.
The fire in the Cayuga flats at 100 and
111 W'eBt Twenty-third Btreet was more
serious than at first supposed, ine
names of the two people who were found
burned in tbe ruins were Mrs. William
Alexander and her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Johns. Their bodies are unrecognizable.
Tbe injured are Dr. James Briggs, who
was so badly burned that she will prob -
bly die, and Miss Catharine, whose
chances of recovery are slight from be
ing badly burned. A tireuian was also
burned, but will recover.
Wanted, an Open Klver.
From the Pomeroy Iudepecdent.
Part of three of the most productive
states Washington, Idaho and Oregon
in this union are interested and urging
that congress open the Columbia by
portage railway at The Dalles. There
will be between 30,000,000 and 35,000,000
bushels of grain to ship this year from
the area drained by the river named and
upon whose bosom that grain should go
to sea. That 1,000,000 tons of grain now
costs about $t, 000,000 to ship to market.
With a portage at The Dalles this rate
would be reduced about one-half, and
thereby leave $3,000,000 in the pockets of
the people that now goes into the coffers
of the corporations to aid them in buying
our congressman oft' from urging appro
priations to open tbe river by construct
ing a portage railway, as the state of Or
egon has done at the Cascades of the
Columbia, and thereby saved tens of
thousands of dollars to tbe people on the
lower river whose products are not a
tithe compare! to the products of tbe
upper Columbia and snake river basins.
He Nver Paid the Minted .
Miss Bertha Sterret is cne of the belief
of San Jouquin county, Cal. James A.
Spencer was desperately in love with
her last winter, but Charles Wiilett won
so warm a place in the young lady's
heart as to rouse Spencer's jealously.
While returning from adanee one morn
ing in December (Jharles Wiilett was
fatally shot by Guy Pyatt.- An investiga
tion snowed that spencer had employed
Pyatt to murder his rival, agreeing to
give bim $42 if he did the job. At the
recent term of court Pyatt entered a plea
of murder In the third degree, and was
sentenced to ten years. Spencer is now
under indictment as an accessory before
the fact and is in jail, where he will wait
the fall term for bis trial. Pyatt began
his ten years' sentence here today. He
says Spencer never paid him the $42.
A Woman'a Mutt Act.
A sensation was created in the front of
fit. Mary's Cathedral at Pittsburg, Sun
day, by Mary Cameron, a crazy w oman,
assaulting the Rev. Father O'Connell
with a hatchet. Ibe woman struck at
the priest with the hatchet, but he
warded off tbe blow and seizrd her bv
the arm. She fought like a tigress and
tried her utmost to kill him. Father
O'Connell drew a revolver, but assistance
arrived and the woman was arrested.
Many years ago Mrs. CameroB lost ber
property through litigation, and the
priest testified against Her. ibe loss
turned her brain and she has had an
antipathy to priests ever Binoe. She was
placed in an asylum.
A Terrible Revenge.
A Herald special from Barquisimcto,
Venezuela, says : "Dictator Palacio's al
leged threat to kill the 23-year-old son
ol Ueneral Urespo, so soon as the laBt
named comes within a league of Caracas,
has reached headquarters of tho revolu
tionists, and excited great indignation.
General Creppo declares if his son is put
to death, Palacio will be burned to the
stake in the plaza in front of the C.is-a
Amarallia. The revolutionists will do all
they can to prevent the dictator from
carrying out his threat, but if he should
kill young Crespo, Palacio may expect, if
captured, to be cremated."
A Fearful Accident.
Thomas Sweet, a machinist, met with
a serious accident at Paso Rubles, Cal.,
Sunday, while working in his shop. A
belt which he was placing on an engine
slipped, flying over his head and pulling
him violently against the machinery
where he was held fast for five minutes
before assistance came. Each revolu
tion of the wheel struck him on the
bead, tearing bis scalp and crushing his
skull, besides other painful cuts and
bruises. There is very little hope for
his recovery.
Valuable Trotting Home ltnrned.
The celebrated Fairlawn stables at
Lexington, Ky., the property of Smith
McCann, were entirely destroyed by fire
Sunday night. It was one of the finest
stock stables in the United States.
Nineteen horses were in the stable, and
eleven were burned to death. Among
the number were two full Bisters to Phil
Thompson, valued at $5000 each ; two
Red Wilkss fillies and a Robert Mc
Gregor colt. There was no insurance on
the horses. The property was insured
for half its value, Tbe total loss amounts
to $35,000. The fire was the work of in
cendiaries. To Test the Michigan Law.
Colonel Duffield, of Detroit, counsel for
fourteen republican presidential electors,
has asked the supreme court of Michigan
for a writ of mandamus to compel the
secretary of state to deliver to the sheriffs
a written notice, between July and Sep
tember, that at the next general election
electors for president and vice-president
of the Unit?d States for the state of
Michigan will be chosen. This action is
brought to test the constitutionality of
the Minor election law enacted by tho
last legislature.
Keeley Airald of Dynamite.
Dr. Keeley, the wealthy proprietor of
the bi-chloride of gold establishment at
Dwight, III., believes his life is in danger
from a female crank, aud has referred
the matter to the police. The woman
signs herself Frankie Parsons. She says
Keeley is responsible for her husband's
death and demands $1000. She has
written a letter to the doctor threatening
death, and he fears dynamite. He
answered her letter to the postoffice at
Chicago and the police aro now looking
for her.
Sliced to Death.
The London Standard's correspondent
at Shanghai says; One of the chiefs
who took a prominent part in the Chung
rebellion was recently captured and
brought to Tiou Tsin to be tried. He
was found guilty, and as a warning to all
w ho rebelled against the government was
ordered to be executed in the most hor
rible and agonizing manner. The sen
tence put on the unfortunate was that be
bo slowly sliced to death, and the awful
punishment was inflicted in a pitilepB
manner.
Playing Train Robbe.
Two farmer boys, who were hunting
jack-rabbit b, near Echo, Sunday, played
what might have been a serious joke on
the trainmen of train No. 7. Since the
attempted train robbery near La Grande
a few days ago, tbe engineers have been
on the lookout for train robbers. As No.
7 rounded the curve, Engineer Bailey
was startled at the sight of two shotguns
leveled at him. ife pulled the throttle
open, and as they new by the boys
dropped their guns and waved their haw.
Three Were Killed Outright.
A constable attempted to arrest George
Ruckerat Bayou Sara, La., Sunday for
dtunkenness. Rucker apparently sub
mitted, but suddenly turned, and draw
ing two revolvers commenced firinsr on
the officer and those present. W. E.
i Mall was killed, ana witlbtewart, Pat!
Hataon and Max Lawton seriously in-
I jured before Kucker was killed. His j
brother Wildam, who also started shoot-j
i ing, was killed. Tbe Ruckers were col-
ored.
PAHPINO THE EVANGELISTS.
Shameful Attack on a Cowboy Preacher
and Hla Wife.
Jacksonville Dlspau-h to the Hu-.innuh '
Newi. j
For several weeks the 19-year-old cow
Iwy preacher has conducted revival meet
ings on the streets of Jacksonville. Sev
eral complaints of adjacent property
owners have been filed with the authori
ties, but the cowboy still held on.
The other aftenoon, as he was preach
ing at the foot of Main street, accom
panied by his wife, a pretty little woman, I
two white Evangelists and a negro solo-1
ist, a fire engine came out and dow n to
the slip for practice. It liecame whis- j
uiva.l in !, ornivil that the fireman Ha. I I
been ordered to drench the cowlwy if lie
persisted in holding the held. Ihe cow
boy watched the engine steam up, and
auticipated that it was the intention to
drive him away, announced that it would
take all tbe water in Jacksonville to do
it.
The crowd was eager to see who would
yield. Soon a full stream flew into the
air and fell on the throng, which scat
teredall except the cowboy and his
corps. These Btayed and sang "Washed
in the Blood of the Lamb." Little Mrs.
Cowboy's voice rose up above all the oth
ers in half a wail. Tbe feeling in it,
manifesting suppressed Bobs, awoke the
sympathy of tho crowd, who rained down
quarters and halves on the nervy cowboy
until he hud quite a pile of silver. In an
hour the firemen relinquished tlie field.
lie Wanted Vengeance.
Several years ago, says the Yakima
Herald, M. G. Wills had trouble at Pen
dleton with a man named Frank
Conolly, and later on, while Mr. Wills
was a warden ot ine uregon penitentiary,
Conolly was a prisoner there under a two
years' sentence. Recently this sentence
expired, and Conolly appeared at Yakima
w ith the avowed intention ot doing up"
Mr. Wills and then proceeding to Pen
dleton and getting even with ex-sheriff
tlouser, who had been instrumental in
putting him in the pen. Mr. Wills was
posted as to Conolly 's threats, and Mon
day night when the latter put in his ap
pearance at bis saloon, he watched him
cloBely, and as Conolly was moving upon
him with slungshot in hand be flashed a
pistol in his face and drove him into the
street. Later the police took Conolly in,
and after permitting him to lay in jail
over night made biin take the tie-path
down the road.
A Row Among- Keach-Comhers.
Noah A. Edgall shot and fatally
wounded Joseph Lavelle, at Port Town
send Saturday evening. The affray is
the termination of a family feud. Lavelle
told a correspondent on his deathbed
that on March 27 f'.dgell met him on the
beach alone and fire five shots at him
without effect. The two men did not
meet again until Saturday evening,
when Edgell came out of Judge Briggs'
house and mot Lavelle. Some hot words
passed between thorn. The two men
drew weapons and fired about the same
time. One bullet struck Lavelle in the
right breast, and a second lodged in
Lavclle's left lung. Edgell delivered
himself up to the authorities. Lavello
cannot survive. Edgell is a half-witted
fellow, and has a large family. Lavelle
is a Frenchman and has a wife and six
children. He formerly lived at Van
couvei and Astoria. Both are ex-soldiers
and are what are generally called beach
combers. Klcb Utah Find.
Some extraordinary rich samples of
gold ore were brought into Salt Lake City
fast week irom a new district on the edge
of tho desert twenty-six miles from the
city, anil it is believed the strike is a
very rich mine of which Brigham Young
knew, hut which became one ol the lost
mines of that region. The ore assayed
from $2,000 to $.1,000 a ton. The man
who brought it in says there is a large
vein of the ore apparently equally rich.
Tradition says a very rich mine was dis
covered somewhere in that region twenty
five years ago by a Mormon, and for
some reason Brigham Young forbade the
prospector to work the mine or make its
whereabouts known. Just before dying
the man indicated the direction in which
the mine lay, but hundreds of miners
have vainly sought the treasure.,
A 1'ec Hilar KeliKiuiiK Sect.
The good people of Beldeu, Michigan,
are much excited over the teachings of
the Chrietadelphiitus, a peculiar sect
which has recently sprung up in that
district. Their prophet and leader is
called Kslher. She lives with a man
called Mordecai. They are not married,
but seem to have Iwen joined by the
hand of God as were Adam and Eve.
Ksther claims to talk to God, while
Mordocai reads the Scrip'ures in a rude
tent, which is called the tabernacle.
Esther has pronounced that the world
will come to an end next Tuesday. One
of their followers is call Abraham, who
claims to be told to slay his son like his
namesake of old and attempted it, but
Esther told him that the Lord bad
changed his mind, and be desisted.
A Horrible Death.
A Pennsylvania freight was wrecked
near Coatesville, Pa,, Sunday, by a
broken brake. A west-bound train com
posed of a mail and express-car ran into
tlie wreck. Ibe locomotive was thrown
from the trjek. Harry Schnlz, the en
gineer, and Harry Martin, tho fireman,
wero caught in the wreck. Martin was
roaeted to death, and Schulz was terribly
scalded. He is in a serious condition.
Several express cars took fire and were
consumed.
A Belligerent Itarciu.
Earou Lud-.vig von Muller, a direct
descendent of King Ludwig of Bavaria,
is plaintiff in a suit for $10,000, which he
has instituted against the Broadway rail
way in New York. The suit grew out of
some one stepping on the baron's foot on
April 2J on u Broadway car, which re
sulted in the baron's attempting to whip
everybody in sight. Tlie row culminated
in the baron's getting unmercifully
slogged, and dumped into a puddle of
mud,
Altrtnptrd Murder and Sill. -Ills
Joe Townee, a bartender, of Port An
geles, Wash., attempted to murder his
wife and commit suicide last Sunday
night. He bad been suffering from de
lirum tremens. About 11 o'clock he
pulled out a pocket knife and taking his
wife around the neck, Btabhed ber in the
side and then sunk the knife four times
in his own side. Mrs. Townes' corset
saved her from serious injuries. Tonne's
wounds are not considered fatal.
They Want Their Flaga.
The red flags seized from Ihe Chicago
anarchists by the police last Monday
promise to become a subject of contro
versy in the courts. A delegation
representing the offending organizations
called upon Chief of Police McLaughry
to demand the return of the Hags, but
received instead a tart lecture. They
promise to repeat the demand, and if met
with a refusal will swear out a writ of
replevin.
A Pickpocket Killed.
Joseph Lamontange, an ex-convict,
was detected pocket-picKing in the
crowds atching hunday s parade af
Chicago. He was pursued by policeman
Michael RaflV-rty. Lamoutage ran into
a yard on Boston avenue, and after a
desperate struggle got the drop on the
officer. Policeman Thomas Howard ar-
rived in the nick of time an J Bhot Lam
ontange through the head, enuring his
instant death.
"il'EARIXa AllOCr HE.tlC-i."
Here Is a Yam About One That
lloat and Sailed Away.
From the Memphis Appeal.Avalunch
"Speaking about bears,'
(jarvin last evening
"J ".V X
bout bears. I think I j
self in a comfortable
station, "speaking a
nau an adventure with one not long ago
that beat the record.
"1 was hunting around Shell Lake,
over in Arkansas, one morning. I was
in a dug out and had my gnu and a little
dog. The bear I have reference tornado
ita appearance ou the shore aud f shot
him. When 1 landed i heard a noise
over in tlie brush, and, thinking there
might le another bear there, I deter
mined to start in to investigate.
"The bear I had shot lay lifeless to all
appearances, but I hud my suspicions
about him, knowing the treacherous
habits of the varmint, and before f went
away I tied the chaiu of the boat around
his neck and left the little drg to watch.
"1 had not gone far in the bush before
I heard the dog barking, and, hurrying
back, what was my surprise to see the
bear climbing a tree and pulling the boat
up after him, with the dog sitting in the
stern thereof and barking for dear life,
the eight almost paralyzed me for a
moment, but I soon recovered snd 'bed.
"The bear sprang f t om the tree, je.rk
iugthe boat containing the dog after him,
and he pulled out for the other side. 1
had to stop to reload, and by the time I
was ready to shoot again the animal was
out of range. I ran around to the other
side ol the lake, expectiug to catch him
when he landed, but he was two sharp
tor me.
"He only stopped long enough to let
the dog out. of the boat, when he pulled
out again befere I got in range, and when
he got in the middle of the lake he
climbed into the boat himself and sat on
hiB hunches looking at me. I never
recovered bear or boat ; but there are
stories tilloat, among the inhabitants of
the country in the neighborhood of Shell
Lake of a bear being seen frequently
gliding gracefully up and down the lake
in a dug-out."
I NDKll THE I.AIIDKlt. s
A Story Hhowinfr That Kvery Man Um Ilia
Price.
From iho New York Coin trier lid Avert isor.
At 1 :30 yesterday afternoon Mr. Fred
erick Bond, the comedian, camo out of
the stage door of Herrmann's Theatre
with the air of a man w ho is in a hurry.
The door is at the head of a long (light
of iron stairs, which run down along the
side of the building to the street below.
Just above these stairs there is an
enormous billboard, and at the time of
Mr. Bond's appearance a gentleman,
with a bucket of paste and an armful of
paper, was renewing the printing
thereon.
He stood upon a long ladder, which
reached from the pavement lo tbe top of
tbe bill board and crossed the stairs
close to their highest point. Mr Bond
started gaily down the steps. Just as be
was about to dart beneath the ladder he
stopped and rushed back again.
"Say," he called to the gentleman with
the paste bucket, "I'm in a hurry!"
"Well," replied the other leisurely
laying on a fresh sheet, "who's a stoppln'
ye."
"You are."
"Me? Watcher givin' us. Ain't the
stairs open?"
"Yes, but there's your ladder. 1
wouldn't pass under itfor anything."
"Then drop off "
"See here, I've passed under a ladder
twice in my life; first time broke my
arm, second time lost all toy money.
Won't you move that ladder for a favor ?"
"Nixey. Nor even fur a fixer!"
"A good cigar, then?"
"That's different," said the gentleman
of the paste bucket.
He laboriously descended and sw ung
the ladder outward, while Mr. Bond,
coming down five steps at a jump, handed
mm tlie promised ransom, and flew up
the street.
"Holy smoke!" sighed the gentleman
of the paste bucket, "them actors is su
perstitious ducks !"
Ia Iron Rum. a Cause of Pirn?
When oxide of iron is placed in contact
with timber excluded from the atmos
phere and aided by a slightly increased
temperature the oxide will part with its
oxygen and is converted into very finely
divided particles of metallic iron, having
such an affinity for oxygen that, when
afterwards exposed to the action of the
atmosphere from any cause, oxygen is so
rapidly absorbed that these particles be
come suddenly red-hot and if in suffi
cient quantity will produce a tempera
ture far beyond the ignition point of dry
timber. Wherever iron pipes are cm
ployed for the circulation of any heated
medium, xvliether hot water, hot air or
steam, and the pipes allowed to become
rusty in close contact with timber, it is
only necessary to suppose that undor
tbeso circumstances the particles of
metallic iron become ex posed to the ac
tion of the atmosphere and this may
occur from the mere expansion or con
traction of the pipes in order to account
for many of the fires which periodically
take place at the commencement of the
winter season.
The ICeitilll, of a Practical Juke,
Dwight F. Carroll, instructor In phys
ics at the Lehigh university, I'enftaylva
nla, has become insane from a practical
joke played upon him by the students.
He is a graduate of the Wetdeyan univer
sity, and went there a year ago from
Wallinafurd, Conn. Carroll was a good
instructor, but very reserved and unso
ciable. His tncilurnity xvas so marked
that it became the object of tbe atudentB'
jests. A month ago (he students gax'H a
minstrel performance in which one of tho
actors burlesqued Carroll. The whole
audience applauded aud laughed in de
rision at the hapless instructor. Ife
brooded so much over the joke that he
fell Hick from nervous prostration.
When able to be about he was a mono
maniac, being under Ihe impression that
all persons, the students in particular,
were hie enemies.
The Object of Ihe Wreck.
The Myrtle-Creek train w reck and at
tempted robbery was well planned. The
.Myrtle Creek Mining Company bad a
clean-up a few days airo, and it was
known the directors of the company
were going to be on the overland which
was wrecked. They were going to the
annual meeting at Eugene, anil were to
hike with them all the gold that had
been mined during several months. This
was generally known, and it was thought
they had about $3o00 in gold. This gold
was on the train, but the robbers failed
to obtain it, as the wreck was inor.i se
rious than they had contemplated.
In PraUe of the Chin.
Tlie Chinese in Australia, though they
are hated by the Australians, ate show-
I ing what can be done by land culture
Ihe Gahfornians, in their large wheat
growing tracta, produce 16 bushels of
wheat to the acre, the Englishman 27
bushels to the acre, the Scotchman 35. ,
the English allotment holder 45 lo &h, I
the Chinese, with his careful use of
every available drop of manure, and his
painstaking care for each clod of ground, j
would produce about a hundred bushe's
to the acre
WHAT At-TIIOKS WOUK Foil.
Their Heal Dram Hie KU'orl Are
Appreciated.
I from the Xew York Commercial Advertlier.
j It was after the matinee, and th-ee fair
I damsels who had attended the perform
ance at one of the Broadway theatres
I were occupying a table in a corner of the
"Weren't those dishes in the second
a0' i" too lovely (or anything?" chir-
ruped numiier one.
"I thougbtthatie.il treo with real bark
was the cutest thing in tbe whole per
formance," responded number two.
"1 liked that, waltz they played in the
overture better than anything esie," re
marked the third.
"Did you notice the leading lady's train
was at least three inches too long ?"
"Yes; and the leading man wote a
made-up tie with his dress suit."
"f wonder if that, diamond he wore was
real."
"Didn't notice; but I thought bin
moustache w as just adorable, and when
he said 'You have deceived me'"
"Wliere does he say that?"
" Why, you girls must remember. It's
the most important scene in the play."
"Oh, I was watching that creature in
blue in the lower box."
"And I xvas readiDg those funny stories
in Ihe program."
"Well, I was thinking whether I'd
have, daisies or violets on my spring hat,
but I remember that scene."
And it. is for such auditors as these that
the great American dramatist burns the
nocturnal kerosene and lavs low for the
elusive idea.
I'lHK ICK.
Made by Mechanical Menus It In Pre
Front Impurities.
From the National Provisloiitr.
There sceine. to be some question in the
minds of those who are not well informed
on this subject as to the purity of ice
made by mechanical moans, but any
person who has carefully studied the sub
ject will be able to immediately remove
these false and erroneous impressions.
Artificial ice is made practically as fol
lows :
The water is converted into steam in
the boilers and from thence conveyed
through pipes into a steam filter, where
as many of the impurities aa can lie re
moved from the steam are eliminated.
Ihe steam then goes into a condenser
and the water thtiB condensed (Iowb
through another lilter into a ekunminir
tank, wliere any impurities carried over
oy the mechanical lorce of the steam are
skimmed from the surface. Tlie water
then is again reboiled and skimmed and
then in turn passes through two more
lllters especially designed anil arranged.
after a due analysis has been made of the
water to be punned, in order that the
foreign substances dissolved in the water
may be thoroughly eliminated.
From these filters the witter passes
into a cooling tank, and to make assur
ance doubly sure, before entering the
freezing cans passes through another fil
ter. The cans are closed so that there is
no possibility of the pure water being
contaminated, and it takes but forty,
eight hours to conx'ert the water into ice,
it must of necessity he a chemically pure
product,
t
The (lovernment an a Landlord.
Fro n the N'exv York Standard.
George It. Bowell, of Bowling Green.
Ky., who says that the single tax is be
coming popular among tlie best citizens
of his region, asks if under it the gov
ernment would not he u landlord on a
large scale.
This is the first impression, because it
is supposed that the government would
take possession of land ami rent it to
tenants. But that is not the plan. The
plan embodies all the bonetitH of govern
ment ownership, such as tho application
of land values lo public use, with none of
its objectionable features, such as that to
which Mr. Howell refers govern inept
landlordism. We propose to lay all
taxes, not upon land, hut upon the value
of land. Hence, land without value
would pay no tax. Knot wanted, it
would lie as an open common, free for
anybody to use it as he might like. II
anyone should want it he could t ike
possession of it without leave, license, or
deed from either individual or govern
ment; or if already in his possession,
under a deed or otherwise, he could re
tain possession of it without tax. Hut
when others wauteil the saine l.tnd, ii
would have a value; and when that val
ue attached, the tax would apply accord
ing to their value.
Nor would this kind of land be only
that which Is now without value. It
would belong to a very superior class
Under existing laws money can be made
without labor by simply buying land and
holding it in reserve for a rise. This
makes land scarce and leaves only that
of a very poor kind to lie had for noth
ing. But under the single lax, money
could not ho made in that way, and land
not wanted for use would be abandoned
It Is easy to eee, therefore, that land
which would be open to whoever wanted
it would lie in all communities and be of
much higher grade, both fertili y and lo
cation considered, than the best govern
ment land to be had now.
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II, nv II In II, Ii l.nal X !(ll(, 000,000,
Seventy-livt) years ago Thomas L.
Walker, then a mere boy, plunted four
walnutn by the roadside opposite bis la
ther's house in tho Klcveiith civil dis
trict, mar Cedar Bluff,- and some ten
miles west of Knoxville. Ho died ten
years, ago, yet he lived to see four wal
nut trees grow to a measure of four feet
in diameter, worth if nut and proiierly
seasoued. at least $1(10 each. Had he
planted 300 walnuts on an adjoining acre
of ground his heirs, when he died, would
have been $120,000 belter off. Today
they would be $00,000 better ofL Had
ho planted 10 acres they would be worth
at least $,000,000. Had he planted 100
acres and all the trees had reached an
average size of three feet in diameter,
anil there is no reason why they
shouldn't, as the land is fertile and im
prvgnated with lime, his heirs, and there
are only three living, would be worth al
together $u0O,(K),0(l. If, like old Johnny
Appleseed, who planted thousands of
apple trees in the Northwest, he had
planted all the worn out fiehlH in Tenn
essee in walnut, it would he tbe richest
state in the I'liion by far.
Italy Will Participate.
The Italian minister of agriculture and
commerce has issued a circular announc
ing the government will officially take
part in the Chicago exposition through
Ibe various chambers of commerce in
Italy, but not directly. Tho government
will give moral support and patronage to
the exhibition of Italian pro liicte. mill a
ship will be designated to transport the
I exhibit lo New York.
Hum Yearn Without a lllrthduy.
"Sev-ii years without a biithdity" was
the record of a Scottish clergyman who
died nearly 30 years ago. .V writer in
St. Nicholas says the statement puzzled
most of those xvho heard it. At the
present lime there can bp; very few, if
mere are any, who have this tule to tell
of themselves-, tor one who can tell it
must have been lioru on the llitb of
February at least lit; vears bio
PmI n
similar line of missing dates is now toon
to return : and indeed there ure no doubt
Boinr; readers t.f this page who will have
only one birthday to celebrate for nearly
12 years to come. The solution of the j
puzzle is to bo found in the fact, which
does not appear to be very widfly known,
i that the year 1S00 was not a leap vear
i and 1M0 will not be.
Obervftlon.
Fiom flic Century.
The liar deipises those who believe
him and hates those who do not.
1 ho woman who loves you is at once
nnft llllYtl
he 18 ,,rown 'eent-and
guilty
after
ward.
Modern pessimism is ancient Calvinism
with God loft. out.
Some people would like to have an iu
qusition to compel liberalitv and tolera
tion. To tell a woman you love her without
doing so, and then to love her without
telling her so, is the Alpha and Omega of
flirtation.
How exasperating are those suunv
natured people who will never allow you
to complain.
Many a woman makes a man perfectly
wretched because she loves him so much.
Iff were as rich as my right-hand
neighbor, I should have his fanlts; if I
were as poor as my left band neighbor, I
should have his. Being myself, I have
mine.
A man who praisee himself meets with
general denial ; a man who decries him
eelf finds plenty toagree with him.
Hoeiety in Georgia.
From the Hill ville Bauner.
We passed the liat, in church yesterday
for the benefit of the heathen and got f,
and sixty vest buttons. We tent the
heathen the buttons.
During the sermon, while we were
snoring, some one relieved us of one of
our boots. It'll make touirh missionary
stew but let her rip !
There is considerable war talk In Rill.
ville. Five hundred colonels are calmly
awaiting orders to march, and our one
live private wants to get out of the dime
museum and join the racket; but we're
holding him down.
It is almost as good to be born lucky as
rich. In our capacity of justice of 'the
peace we divorced another couple yester
day, and finding that the woman had $20
in ber own right we imposed a tine of $10
and got our brother-in law to marry her
on the spot in order to keep the other
10 in tbe family.
No lynching this week. Rope cut.
The Zest of limiting.
From the St. Nicholas.
Y'ou ean never know the nest of hunt
ing or fishing until your dinner depends
upon your success ; you have never at
tained the sublime in cookery until you
ha-e epitted your lish or meat on a
freshley peeled stick, rubbed the salt in
with your fingers, and broiled it over a
woodland fire, you watching it jealously
lest it get ablaze, and all the time that
meat iB browning you grow hungrier and
hungrier ; and every time it sputters in
the glow you catch wafts of fragrance,
until you feel that you have the capacity
of a dozen starving men, and wonder
whether a single haunch of vension can
supply your wants.
PadereWHkl Lovea C'rltlea.
There were several persons in the
greenroom xvhen the critic of the Chicago
Tribune was kissed by the great pianist.
This man-kissing was to him a new ex
perience ; it almost deprived him of con
sciousness. Those who were eye-witnesses
of this significant event solemnly
aver that never before did thev see a
masculine face so boiled-lobster like,
masculine emotions so profoundly agi
tated, nor ms.scnline soul bo thrilled as
in the case of this young man.
Not Her Fortune.
From the linllulo Courier.
"Hero, this is the third time in a week
you've forgotten to pay," said the pretty
waiter girl in a certain restaurant not a
mile from the Star theater, as a guest
bustled out of the dining room.
Ho turned back and fumbled in his
pocket "Egad, Lizzie," said he, when I
look at you I forget everything else in
the world."
"Well, look more at, your money aud
less at me. I'll think my face is my
misfortune if I've got to pay fjr all the
dinnere you forget to pay for ou accoimt
of it. Go on, now."
she Had No Children.
Shabby visitor Can I see the editor of
this n'tpttr?
Editor I am the man you are looking
for. What do you want?
"I want to ask you if you don't want
to employ my wife on your paper."
"In what capacity?"
"As a reporter and a newsgatherer.
Nothing in this city can happen without
her knowing it. She is a wonderful wo
man. In fact, she UndB out msny things
that do not happen at all."
The Cauae of New Htara.
The new stars which sp(iear for a short
time and then disappear are caused by
the two meteor swarms which are trav
eling through space at the velocity of at
least 500 uiilea a second. Their collision
with each other produces an effect anal
ai!ous to the meeting of two trains at s
level crossing. There is, first of all, the
collision betwon tho two sets of outlying
meteors, then Ihe thickest part of one
swarm comes into the other, then the
thickest part of both comes) together.
IMngiaaa.
It is said that the manifestly corrupted
word word "isinglass" owes its change
from a foreign to its English dress to the
popular fancy which, finding the Dutch
term "Huizenhlas" (sturgeon bladder)
meaningless in English, quietly changed
it to "isinglass," aud secured its easy re
membrance from association with the
"icing" purposes for which it is used and
the "glussy" appearance it presents.
A lilt or Kepartee.
The mannger of the dime museum was
feeling pretty rocky when he met the
snakecbarmer at dinner.
"How are your snakes today?" he In
quired by way of salutation.
"All in their cages," she rSionded,
pleasantly. "How are yours,?"
And the manager went out to the flow
ing hydrant in the back yard aud stuck
his bead under it.
Had Ilia Choice.
"Aren't we ever to be married, dear?"
"M'm ; I don't know."
"You don't know? The Idea! And
to think how often you have said vou
were willing to die for nie."
"So I am, darling, but not by slow
starvation,."
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l-'niiy to Preierlbe Fur.
Urtwgist- W hat did that man want?
Clerk. lie wanted something for the
Hp.
lrug:,'iHt -What did you give him?
Clerk Don't know;'didn't look! Ev
erything is good for the grip.
Congratulating liltn.
' She accepted you, then"?
"She did."
"Well, I congratulate you, but report
has greatly belird her."
"Ilow is that ?"
"It waH said that ahe was conceited
1 a,( would be hard to please."
...
Ye HoHtnn Maid.
Professor Astral (in Bostou) I under
stand that your daughter is an entbnsi
astic student of tlieosophy.
.Mis. Hubbs - Ves ; she w as last week,
I don't know what she is enthnsiantip
about, this week.