rn
Work of a Fiend.
POPULIST PLATFORM.
road companies have, through the con
“You’ve told me a heap, but that’s her a woman loved, asked in marriage
At Chadron, Neb., an unknown fiend
nivance of, the interior department,
of his enemy and showing that she knew
1
worth
all
the
re^t,
”
Hawkins
shouted
saturated the bedroom floor and beds
the National Convention robbed multitudes of bona-fide settlers
over his shoulder as he rode away, what was due her race. He could not Adopted by
Held at St. Louis.
upon whioh were sleeping Assistant
of their homes and miners of their
think of that day without a glow a£ the
though
in
truth
he
had
known
well
ev
Postmaster W. A. Danley, his wife By MALTHA M’OULLOOH WILLIAMS. erything that he had heard and had heart She had shown his spirit no less
Following is the Populist platform, claims, and. we-demand legislation by
and two children, with kerosene, then
which will enforoe-the exemp
talked with the man but by way of than his blood, this unregarded, unwel as agreed upon by the committee on congress
OREGON set fire to the room. When the fire
SCIO
come child, and he began to love her, to resolutions and adopted by the St. Louis tion of mineral land from such grants
[Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa bringing his newpurpose
a
keener
tion.]
men succeeded in removing the occu
after, as well as before, patenting.
think pitifully forward as to-what must convention:
edge.
pants both babies were dead, and the
Third—We demand that bona fide'
be her portion.
The People’s Party, assembled in na
He
had
talked
to
the
storekeeper
in
“Most likely it was this way, ” said
parents unconscious. The motive for
If she could marry, marry as became | tional convention, reaffirms its allegi settlers on all public lands be granted
his
own
way,
fallen
into
his
drawling
Major Overton, “This was a wild coun
the crime is unknown.
her station, not just yet, of course, but ance to the principles declared by the free homes, as provided in the national
try then. Travelers to it took back to idiom as though to the manner born. Not in two or three years. To do that she founders of the republic, and also to homestead law, and that no exception
in
such
fashion
would
he
greet
Mrs.
the seaboard states marvelous tales of
Now Secretary Francis.
Townley. To say the truth, he was must know somewhat óf the ways, the- the fundamental principles of just gov be made in the case of Indian, reserva
Comprehensive Review of the Import
Ex-povernor Franois, of Missouri, it, its richness and beauty. Every man rather familiar with that lady, for her lives of other women of the big world ernment as enunciated in the platform tions when opened for settlement, -and
ant Happenings of the Past Week took the constitutional oath of office as back there who had a few thousands to
house had sheltered the syndicate’s met outside that never came near her home. of the party, in 1892. We recognize that all lands not now patented come
Culled From the Telegraph Columns. secretary of the interior, succeeding spare felt that he owed it to his children allurgist whosd report had opened so She might go with her aunt for a little that, through the connivance of the unde this demand.
Hoke Smith. The oath was adminis to buy plantations for them in the wil wide the purse ¡Strings of his employers. space. Later he would take her to the j present and preceding administrations,
Direct Legislation.
derness. To do it they intrusted their
A waterworks system in the Wells tered by Associate Justice Harlan, of money often to total strangers. The
Naturally Hawkins had seen a good capital, where it was likely he would the country has reached a crisis in its
We favor a system of direct legisla
need
th
spend
a
large
part
of
the
winter,.
|
the
supreme
court,
in
the
offioe
of
the
national
life,
as
predicted
in
our
dec
precinct of Spokane was burned to the
tion through the initiative and referen
journey here then was no joke—six hun deal of him and of his landlady, so much
ground, entailing a loss of about $2,000. secretary of the treasury. Secretary dred miles across the mountains and indeed that he wondered not a little how and where a few faithful friends would j laration four years ago, and that dum, under proper constitutional safe
Francis
will
take
formal
charge
of
his
make
her
welcome
for
his
sake.
prompt and patriotic action is the su
The banks of Seattle will retaliate
through canebrakes, with settlements he had ever allowed himself to overlook
So, by the workings of most diverse preme duty of the hour. We realize guards.
upon those of Canada for discounting department immediately.
20 miles apart. Many who made it her close relationship to Dare. It was causes, Dare was domiciled at Exeter, . that, while we have political independ
General Propositions.
Amerioan money by demanding a dis
willingly took commissions from friends close, notwithstanding. Dare’s mother there to stay for the next three months. | ence, our financial and industrial in
Earthquake in Iceland.
First—We demand the election of
was but a half -sister. Mrs. Townley
count upon all coins presented, which
and
neighbors,
Which
they
discharged
A report comes from Iceland that the
was, after her (grandfather, the girl’s Though the outside was a picture of dependence is yét to be obtained by re president, vice-president and United
oome across the northern border.
severest earthquake since 1784 occurred even more scrupulously than they looked nearest relative and certainly ought to weather beaten desolation, the inside storing to our country the constitution States senators by direct vote of the
Officer Frank Toal, of Vallejo, Cal., there. The report states that two after their own affairs. But sometimes
seemed to Dare’s home bred eye fine al control and exercise of the functions people.
while attempting to arrest Dan Wynne, churches were destroyed, cattle killed a passing traveler was asked to locate rank as her most proper guardian.
Second—We tender to the patriotic
Mrs. Townley in her own person pro- enough for a palace, for the big square necessary to a people’s government,
was shot by the latter and killed and farms destroyed. No people were land. Oftener still the request was made
drawing room was hung with silk, and which functions have been basely sur
Wynne was hit by a bullet from the killed. The center of the disturbances of somebody living in Tennessee of -per was one of' those women who just all the floors were laid with thick Per rendered by our public servants to cor people of Cuba our deepest sympathy
in their struggle for political freedom
whom the easterly folk had casually miss being beautiful, brilliant, fascinat sian carpets in dull delicious hues. Faded
officer’s revolver and is expected to die. appeared to be the volcano Hecla.
monopolies. The influence of and independence, and wê believe the
heard. In such fashion no doubt your ing, and go through life soured with the damask, silk lined, hung at the win- , porate
Jospeh Orosz was hanged in Pitts
European money changers has "been time has come when the United States,
great-grandfather'heard of Stirling, or— knowledge of the narrowness of their dows over carefully mended lace draper- ' more
burg, Pa., for the murder of Tereas
Grand Army Election*
potent in shaping legislation than the great republic of the world, should
failure.
She
was
tall,
'rather
thin,
with
stop
—
maybe
through
Ike
and
Jincey
he
Bobak, whom he shot January 8, be-
The Grand Army of the Republic,
big, brilliant eyes that lacked only color ies, all and several mementos of the re the voice of the American people] recognize that Cuba is, and of right
heard
of
the
Fauntleroys
and
put
liim-
cause she refused to marry him. He at their annual meeting in St. Paul
to be magnificat, fine .pale skin and furbishing wherewith Eton Townley Executive power and patronage have ought to be, a free and independent
also shot himself, but the wound did elected Major Clarkson for commander-
been used to corrupt our legislatures state.
well cut featuifesJfShe held herself well, had made ready for his bridé.
Most of the rooms overran with! heaivy and defeat the will of the people, «nd
not prove serious.
in-chief unanimously. All other can
Third—We favor home rule in the
top uprightlyijndeed for grace. There
carved
mahogany,
but
Dare
’
s
especial
JL nd
.tHe vicinity of
of En- didates withdrew in his favor. Gen-
plutocracy has thereby been enthroned territories and the District of Colum
was som<tihiiiL.wooden in her straight,
'îéî-pjrse7*Or7i'arë'tlîféatening to avenge
fe had made an domain was free of its gloomy splendor. upon the ruins of democracy. To re bia, and the early admission of the ter
the death of the half-breed who was re of vice-commander according to estab- '
ambit
redfin d in six It was cool and white and dainty, with store the government intended by the ritories as states.
cently lynched at Asotin for outraging lished custom.
months her" husband’s fortune- take a bare, polished floor and a smother of fathers Of thé èguntry-, for^the welfare
Fourth—All public salaries should
a young lady, by a general massaore of
wifigs. If thereafter life, went rather ill fresh dimity over everything—in fact, and prosperity of this and future gen be m'^aè to cbirespond ter the pricè-of-
the settlers in that locality. The set
To Expel Americans.
with the couple, who could wonder? In so nearly the counterpart of her own erations, we demand the establishment labor and its products.
tlers have taken precautions against
Information is received that the local
Fifth—In times of great industrial
fact, jars were-inevitable. But they were room at Ridgeley that she felt at once of an economic' and financial system
surprise by the dusky braves.
government at Mosul, Turkey, has got
which shall make us masters of our depression, idle labor should be em
decorously hidden till death made an end at home.
The French mining syndicate which up a petition to the central government
of them. Even then Mrs. Townley put
She nodded pertly to her image in the own affairs and independent of Eu I ployed on public works as far as prac
has made extensive purchases of min at Constantinople, asking for expulsion
on crape and- bombazine as became a odd little swinging mirror, saying, with ■ ropean control by the adoption of the ticable.
ing properties in Oregon and Wash of the American missionaries from
Sixth—Thu arbitrary course of the
following declaration of principles:
grieving widow, though from the minute head aside and uplifted finger:
ington recently, has made another deal that district, on the ground that they
breath left her husband’s body her soul
court in assuming to imprison citizens
“Miss Overton, you must mind your
Finance.
whereby it acquires possession of the are disturbers of the peace, stirrers up
had been chanting, “Free, free!”
p’s and q’s. If you disgrace your Aunt
for indirect contempt and ruling them
placer grounds on Snake river near of sedition and rebellion.
Hawkins found her alone, and the two Mel, you’ll be sent home tomorrow, and | First—We demand a national money, by injunction should be prevented by
safe
and
sound,
issued
by
the
general
Sturgill’s bar. The purchase price is not
talked long and low together. It was al you know you want to see a heap more j
proper legislation.
named,but the first payment is $25,000.
The Philippine Revolt.
most dusk when he came out upon the of this place. You look well enough— government only, without the interven
Seventh—We favor just pensions for
long front piazza and looked about him that blue lawn is becoming. It would tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal every disabled Union soldier.
A dispatch to the London Times from
A London dispatch says that in offi
tender
for
all
debts,
public
and
private;
at the evidences of former grandeur and be quite more so if your face wasn’t so
Eighth—Believing that the election
cial circles it is believed the Marquis Hong Kong says the revolution in the
just, equitable and efficient means of franchise and untrammeled ballot are
of Salisbury has determined to pursue Phillipines is less serious than it was “I forgive you everything except that you present decay. Mrs. Townley’s glance much less white than the throat it ! a distribution
direct
to
the
people
and
followed his with a sort of acid quick shows. It’s a pity you haven’t got a
essential to a government, of, for and
his own ceusre at Constantinople in at first reported, and that no danger is
are Peyton Fauntleroy’s son.”
j through the lawful disbursements of by the people," the People’s party con
future, and has given the British am feared for the lives and property of self at their service. Yes, that must ness. Her lip curled faintly as she said, ribbon and locket even, but be content the government.
with the roses for your hair and your
demns the wholesale system of disfran
bassador, Sir Philip Currie, precise and foreign subjects.
have been the way. The villain! It galls still in a hushed voice:
Second—We demand the free and
significant instructions with greater
me to know he has been dead and at ■ “I will do my best indeed. I can think breast and don’t cry for gauds that are unrestricted coinage of silver and gold chisement adopted‘in some of the states
Unfounded Rumors.
as unrepublican and undemocratic, and
powers to command naval aid in en
rest 80 years, while his victims remain of nothing I would not do to change all beyond you. ”
A tap at the door was followed by ' at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, we declare it to be the duty of the sev
The Pall Mall Gazette heads its edi to suffer and struggle. ”
forcing the demands of Great Britain.
this. And I think we shall succeed. Fate
and without waiting for the consent of eral state legislatures to take such ac
“Why not rest?” Allen asked slowly. even must be tired of making me its Mrs. Townley’s entrance, with rather | foreign nations.
The stoppage of the pumps in the torial column with the following:
an
anxious
brow.
tion as will secure a full and free and
football.
”
“
The
rumors
industriously
circulated
Major
Overton
said,
with
a
deep
sigh:
Leadville mines where a strike is in
Third—We demand that the vol fair ballot and an honest count.
“I wondered whom you could be talk
“If we do, and I have no sort of doubt
“I cannot until, by God’s help, I have
progress will cause considerable dam that the editorship of the Pall Mall
ume
of
circulating
medium
be
speedily
Ninth—While the foregoing proposi
of it, your dark days are over for good ing to. I heard you outside, ” she said,
age, and a prominent mine official says Gazette has been offered to Mr. Edward found our surmises truth. ”
and always, ’ ’ Hawkins said, pressing her with a clearing countenance, going up increased to an -amount sufficient to tions constitute the platform which our
The young man rose to leave.
it will take months to repair the dam Bok are entirely unfounded.’’
meet the demands of the business and
‘-‘Then you forgive my coming?” he hand in farewell. “Besides it’s really to the smiling young figure that fronted I the population of this country, and to party stands upon and for the vindica
age done in the flooded mines. The
her so full of eager pleasure.
Another Bank Failure.
your
duty.;
You
certainly
owe
so
-much
tion of its organization will be main
asked.
strikers profess to view the situation as
“Oh, just to myself! I must talk some restore the just level of prices and la • tained, we recognize that the great and
The First National bank, of Helena,
Major Overton rose, too, and said, to your sister’s child. ”
being more favorable to them, and ta
bor
production.
“Oh, no doubt!” Mrs. Townley said, times, you see, and as I had nobody but
pressing issue of the pending campaign
have information that the compact be Mont., has failed. The reasons stated looking full in his face:
Fourth—We denounce the sale, of
“I forgive you everything, sir,- except her lip carling still more, “though I mammy and Suse I got in a way of tell bonds and the increase of the public upon which the presidential election
tween the managers is broken irretriev in its published notice is that it was
ing myself what I could not tell any
ably, and that some of the leading unable to meet withdrawals, The that you are Peyton Fauntleroy’s son.” fear, Mr. Hawkins, neither of us would body else, ” Daresaid, deftly encompass interest-bearing debt, made by the will turn, is the financial question,
see
it
that
way
if
our
virtue
was
to
be
and upon this great and specific issue
creditors
will
be
paid
in
full.
mines will resume work within a week,
CHAPTER XIII.
ing a white rose with clustered gerani present administration, as unnecessary between the parties we cordially invite
its own sole reward. ”
conceding the demands of the union.
*
and
without
authority
of
law,
and
we
*****
Hawkins left Ridgeley fury incarnate,
um leaves and setting it to show
General Schouvaloff’s Condition.
the aid and co-operation of all organi
A meeting of the business men was
demand that no more bonds be issued zations and citizens agreeing with us
Notwithstanding the sneer, Mrs. against her white skin.
General Count von Schouvaloff, gov a man whose one purpose was the abase
held recently to petition the union to
ment of his enemies. He would speak
Mrs. Townley looked her critically except by specific action of congress.
had neither remorse nor com
upon this vital question.
declare the strike off, but did not de ernor-general of Rusisan Poland, and out, he told Aimself, if it cost him death Townley
Fifth—We demand such legislation
punction 'over her bargain. She was long over and asked:
formerly
Rnssian
ambasador
at
Berlin,
cide upon definite action.
as will prevent the demonetizing of the
“Dare, who taught you to dress?”
is suffering from a paralytio stroke. twice over. Who was this young Allen past all that. Early next morning the
Viola Foster, of Burns, Or., who His condition is critical.
Fauntleroy- to be setting metes and rusty family carriage, whose shabbiness
“The flowers, if I know how,” Dpre lawful money of the United States by
was accidentally shot last week, by a
bounds to his conduct? Truly, he had so galled tier pride that for five years it smiled. “Really, Aunt Mel, do I look private contract.'
Sixth-—We demand that the govern
gun in -the hands of her father, died
something to lose. His race had always had been Jef t unused, took her to Ridge nice? I tried not to make you ashamed
Palmer and Buckner.
from the effects of her wound.
ment, in payment of its obligations,
Th e newly organized gold-standard held high heads, lorded it in their pride ley, whefe Major; Overton received her of me. ”
In the grain warehouse at Lewiston,
“You have succeeded,” Mrs. Townley shall use its option as to the kind of
National Democratic party of the of place even more than the haughty with surprise as unfeigned as his cour
Idaho, have been received thia season or
Overtons. He had pocketed their affronts tesy. Daie-met her with no show of affec said sententiously, “and I am glad, for lawful money in which they are to be
United
States
at
their
national
con-
—1S^9..QO.-J>nshela of wheat, and more is vqntiyin, hold in Jnffianapmisnominated along with their coin. Now, if he must tion, Yet yQj>h a very lively interest. Visi- we shall have a distinguished stranger paid, and we denounce the present and
Little Queen Wilhemina of Holland
"coming in at'thé raté ôf about 2,500 Senator John M. Palmer, of Illinois^" "iose by-tihem,— b h oy ■o hcntHI • find1 -ho had
to stay several j preceeding administrations for surren- Is learning- to ride a bicycle.
..... i iu , tluj natumjaf-
bushels a day.
j dering this option to" the holders of
Li Hung Chang is the son of a- vil^ -
events atr Ridgeley—visitors, that is, I days. ”
to carry the standard as its nominee for teeth and claws.
While engaged in digging a well on the office of president. Senator Palmer
That is, his wrath was cooling a little, whom it fell to her lot to entertain. Most
“Indeed! Who is it, man or woman?” ■government obligation securities.
lage woodcutter, poor and illiterate.-
his farm near Greenville, Or., Lewis was nominated upon the first ballot, re if he was perfectly sure there was no comers were men, whom she saw, if at all, Dare asked, her hands above her head,
Seventh—We demand a graduated
Tlie young Czar’s chance to make
Hartwicker- was overcome by noxious ceiving 757J£ votes out of a total of further chance of- profit Why would not only at table, and with whom she rarely settling in place a refractory curL
income tax, to the end that aggregate himself the most popular man in Rus
gases and died before he could be 983'. He was then declared the nomi that old man die? The girl must be as exchanged more than the briefest saluta
Mrs. Townley half turned away as she wealth shall bear its just proportion of sia is now before him.
brought to the surface.
taxation, and we regard the recent de
nee of the convention by acclamation. wax in hands that knew how to mold tion. In truth, the- girl had grown up in | answered:
Twenty million dollars were left be
“Captain Jack” Crawford, who General Buckner was nominated for her, for all she had stood up so sturdily mammy’s severe charge an uncloistered
“An English gentleman, one who will cision of the supreme court, relative to
claimed to be the original poet soout the office of vice-president by acclama in face of her grandfather. She would nun, save indeed that she fed mind and ! have a special interest for you, since j the income-tax law, as a misinterpreta hind him by the Shah, who had grown*
of Oregon, was accidentally killed by tion, after which the convention ad hardly marry Allen even if she were heart with poems and romances in the he is the leader of the men who are try- tion of the constitution, an invasion of avaricious of late years.
The Duchess of Fife delights in gym
free. Why not then—Hawkins threw I garret library^ which was her chief re I ing so hard to buy what nobody seems the rightful powers of congress on -the
a falling rook in the Blewett gold journed sine die.
nastics, ’ and is an accomplished mis
his horse upon its haunches in the recoil source when wind and weather shut her i to be able to sell—Overton’s claim. ”'
mine, near Blewett, Wash.
subject of taxation.
from the idea. It was great! It was su away .from outdoors.
A part of the Equitable powder
“Oh, how-strange that I should see
Eighth—We demand that postal sav- tress of the» art of fencing.
Hundreds Are Homeless.
perb!
The
wonder
was
he
had
nob
!
him!
Aunt
Mel,
do
you
know,
all
those
plant, four and a half miles east pf Al-
Hogap Bogigion, a wealthy Arme
|
ings
banks be established by the gov-
Mrs.
Townley
did
not
beat
about
the
Fire destroyed the immense five-
ton, III., blew up, and three persons story brick plow foundry and imple thought of it before. If only he could i bush. She said, simply to Major Over- I people, all the world outside, has seemed [ ernment for the safe deposit of the sav- nian of Boston, is in Alabama, where
I to me like a story book, a fairy story | ings of the people -and to facilitate ex- he hopes to establish an Armenian
lost their lives, The shook was felt fox ment factory of S. R. White & Bros., bring it successfully to pass, thenceforth ton:
twenty miles, Buildings were dam- in Norfolk, Va. A brisk wind scatter he could snap his fingers at niggard for
colony.
“I have come for Dare. She is a wo I book at that. Now I can hardly make ' change.
aged in Alton.
man now and needs womanly counsel. | myself believe that I am away from
One of the latest schemes of Gen.
ed sparks in every direction, and de tune’s frown.
Transportation«
Presently the road ran past a country | Let me keep her for six months. There ¡ Ridgeley, seeing, hearing of things and
The business part of Laddonia, Mo., I stroyed a number of dwellings. Hun
Booth is to have a big exhibition of
First
—
Transportation
being
a
means
was gutted by a $50,000 Are whioh dreds of families, white and colored, store. Hawkins halted, called for a : are many things I would like to teach i people, maybe even talking to them and of exchange and a public necessity, the living pictures in London, to consist
finding out that they are as common-
started from an unknown cause in th« are made homeless. Twenty-five houses cigar, and as the storekeeper fetched a my only sister’s only child. ”
of converts from every nation.
“She knows already those most essen ! place and everyday as I am, ” Dare said, government should own and operate the
drugstore of Frank Beagles. Eight were destroyed. The total loss is light said, -with studied indifference:
Mrs. U. S. Grant, widow of the Gen
railroads
in
the
interest
of
the
people
“Seems to me I recollect you at the tial—truth and courage and honor and ' with dancing eyes.
business places, including the Farmers* $200,000.
on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that eral, has written a letter to Senator
Townley place. Who is it that’s dead what is due her name,” the old man
Mrs. Townley smiled.
& Traders’ bank, were burned out.
“You will find them rather more so. all may be accorded the same treatment Squire thanking him for the resolu
there? Him or his widder?”
I said proudly.. “I can trust her, Melissa,
Accident on a Cable Bine«
A terrible explosion occurred at Pin
“
’
Tain
’
t
his
widder,
that
’
s
mighty
1
Let
’s go down now. I hear them riding in transportation, and that the tyranny tion which he introduced in the Senate
fully,
entirely.
I
wish
I
were
as
certain,
Four people were injured, one per-1
hole, Cal., the California powdei
| of political power, now exercised by providing for a Grant statu-?.
certain.
I
seen
her
last
week
as
lively
as
up.
”
that
I
'might
trust
you.
’
’
works being blown up. Three people haps fatally, by an accident on the de
the great railroad corporations, which
Henry Watterson, of. Louisville, Ky.,
ever.
But
Jim
Townley,
he
’
s
dead.
“
Who
are
‘
they
’
?
”
queried
Dare.
Mrs.
Townley
looked
him
full
in
the
pot
Incline
of
the
Ninth-street
cable
were killed and the entire plant of the
result' in the impairment, if not the who is not easily shocked, asserts that
‘
‘
Mr.
Cleve,
the
Englishman;
Mr.
Holt
Been
dead
three
years.
She
’
s
wearin
eyes
and
said
in
her
evenest
tone:
line
in
Kansas
City.
The
grip-hook
powder works was destroyed. Im
moumin fer him and has got a
■¡“Major, if I tried with all my might, ham, another Englishman, my boarder, destruction of the political rights and language fails to express his ideas re
mense fissures were opened in the on the traiD broke and permitted it to second
new
set
of
teeth,
”
”
the
storekeeper
re
I
could
never do Dare the wrong you I of whom I spoke to you, and Mr. Haw- personal liberty of the citizen may be garding the appearance of the Parisian
go backwards at a high rate of speed.
ground.
turned, with a grin. To his mind it was did when you flung away fortune for kins. You ought to know him. He’s the I destroyed. Such ownership is to be women who ride bicycles.
—
Peter Wildaner, a prosperous stock
evident that this “town feller” was the sake of pride. ’ ’
Fauntleroy attorney,” Mrs. Townley accomplished gradually in ' a manner-
The British Museum will soon lose
Steel Works Close«
man of Eastern Oregon, committed
“spellin round” with a view to finding
said, leading the way down the wide consistent with sound public policy.
the services of Sir Wollaston Franks,
The
Edgar
Thompson
Steel
Works,
1
suicide at his home near Upper Wil
Second—The interest of the United K. O., B., the head of the department
I-out if the Widow Townley was incon
oaken stairway.
CHAPTER XIV.
low creek by shooting himself through of Carnegie, Pa., has closed down in solable. Hawkins’ next question con
States in the public highways built of British and medieval antiquities.
Black Mammy was’ wrathful over
definitely.
The
suspension
was
a
gen
[
continued
.]
the head. Poor health is the motive
with public moneys and the proceeds He has been an officer of the museum
firmed his opinion, for that gentleman Dare’s going away.
assigned for the commission of the eral surprise. At least 1,500 men asked briskly:
of extensive grants of land to the Pa • since 1851.
‘ ‘ ’Pears ter me lik’ marster done clean
TINIEST BABY.
were
thrown
out
of
work.
rash act.
cific railroads should never have been
“Has she got children? How many?” lose he min, hit do, now, I tell ye, ” she
John Shore, chief of the Scotland
A fatal wreck to passenger train No.
“Nary chick nerchild,” returned the said to Susé. <j“All de- darter he eber had Midget Frances Donnelly, the Small alienated, mortgaged or sold, but Yard
A Bad Railway Accident.
criminal investigation depart
est
Mortal
Ever
Born.
guarded and protected for the general
1 on the Atlantic & Pacific occurred at
went erway f’m here rosy as de flowers
A street oar was run into by a M in other, with a wink.
“H-m-m! Good place there fer er lazy an come back dead. Ye’d think now,
Just a mite, of humanity is Frances. welfare as provided by the laws organ ment, has just been retired on full pen
Williams, N. M. The engine ran into neapolis freight train near the state
He has served forty years on
an open switch, derailing it and the fairfgrounds in Minneapolis and eight man, ’ ’ Hawkins said. “Say, has she got wouldn’ ye, he’d ’member dat an not let Donnelly, of 722 Columbus avenue, izing such railroads. The foreclosure sion.
dis yere po’ chile go rushin off ter ’struc- New York. She is a remarkable baby of existing liens of the United States the police. His successor is Chief In
mail car. Fred Downs, the engineer persons injured. The engine struck any beaux?”
“That I cain’t sw’ar to ner against. tion wid her aunt lik’ po’ Miss Margaret and has puzzled, doctors and nurses. on these roads should at once follow spector Swanson.
was caught between the oab and tendez the fore part of the car.
Queen Victoria has sent a donation
She’s had a boarder fer er spell and is done. I ain’t got not no oonsait er dat When born she weighed a trifle more default in the payment thereof by the
and badly scalded. Frank Flickinger,
Miss Townley nohow. Look lik’ ter me than a pound, and now, when she is debtor companies, and at the fore of 3,000 francs for the poor of Nice. A
Fire In a Mine.
the fireman, was caught under the en
she^sma^owten poplar bark an yaller three months old,, she only weighs five closure sales of said roads the govern number of officials have received hand
gine and killed almost instantly.
The Superior mine, in Hurley, Wis.,
dirt^so*sJiuj|Tshe is, an all off de same and a half pounds. The doctors, when ment should purchase the sgme, if it some presents, and the new Royal Vic
The fast passenger train service rec caught fire and has been burning for
piece, skin anffa’r an eyes. ’Sides, f’m de the tiny child was born, said she could becomes necessry, to protect its inter torian Order is to be conferred on the
ord in the West was broken by the some time. There is no possible way
looks er dat dar oa’idge an dem mules, not live, and so did the nurses, but ests, or if they can be purchased at a prefect.
Union Pacific’s overland limited. Th* to save it, and it will prove a total
dey mus’ be po’ly bad off fer money dar little Miss Donnelly has upset their reasonable price, and the government
regular sohedule time of thé train ia loss.
One of the annoyances to. which Sar
at ner house, Exeter, ’dough I ’members predictions.
over 50 miles an hour, including stops.
shall -operate said railroads as public ah Bernhardt is subject consists in let
Drowned While Balling.
’twas er fine place when young marster
The Donnelly baby
highways for the benefit of the whole ters from all parts of the’ world from
One day recently the train was an hour
Lieutenant James W. Benton, qurter-
married ’is wife dar. She didn’ live wid smallest one that was ever born.
late at Grand Island, 150 miles from
people, and not in the interest of the people who have wild animals for sale
’er sister^ but de Townleys wanted ter
few, under suitable provisions for pro for pets. The great actress has been
Omaha, with sixteen coaches. The master of the United States army at
make er splurge over de weddin. Metty
tection of life and property, giving t<? offered everything from a gorilla to a
time was fully made up before the train Fort Robinson, N. D., was drowned
while bathing in a plunge.
proud dee wus ter git mixed up wid de
reached Omaha.
] all the transportation interests equal python. -
Overtons; but, sho’s you’s black, Dare
privileges and equal rates for fares and
The announcement that a wedding
A Defensive Alliance«
Tfhey Were Needed.
better had staid at Ridgeley. I’m ’ston-
freights.
had occurred in which the contracting
ished at marster. Dat ’oman ’on’t do
Fire in the factory of S. White &
A newspaper woman who sends so
Third—r-We denounce the present in
parties were members of the household
ter tie to. ”
famous sohemes for refunding the said ciety letters from Washington to one of
of Gray Gables, excited the people ol Bro., at NorfolkjVa., totally destroyed
Dare had no such misgivings. Indeed
debts, and demand that the laws now the Philadelphia papers is going about
Sandwich, Mass., since report had it it. A number of buildings in the lane
it was the eager delight in her eyes that
applicable thereto be executed and ad telling this story on a certain senator
that the ceremony had been performed leading to Main street caught fire and'
had overborne at the last her grandfa
ministered according to their true in whose princely e-ntertainments are fa
in this little town. Report for one« the flames spread rapidly, consuming
ther’s scruples, his distrust of this so
mous the country over. She went to his
tent and spirit.
proved true, and Rev. J. D. O’Keefe the entire, block. The union stock-
long neglectful aunt. Then, too, Mrs.
Fourth—The telegraph, like the post house one night on the occasion of a
authenticated the rumor that the yards were destroyed. The flames
office system, being a necessity for the big reception. The first person she saw
happy and handsome couple which left comunicated with the row of houses Hawkins halted and called for a cigar. Townley’s thrust had weight. Sure as 1
HEB FATHEB'S HAND CRADLE..
transaction of news, should be owned was the host himself. He asked her er
the parochial residence was oomposed adjoining the stockyards on the south, loolrin fer some pio’> they fell me. You Major Overton was of himself, it had
of no other than the ooaohman and and they were burned. One hundred might ride up and find out from her her roused deep down in his consciousness clothes would easily fit a big French and operated by the government in the rand courteously.
a question as to whether he, who was so
“I came to get the ladies’gowns,”
I interest of the people.
governess in the family of the presi families are made homeless. The loss self. ”
nearly through the burden and battle of doll that “speaks” and opens and closes
said she.
is estimated at $20,000.
“B’l’eve I will! How far is it?”
dent.
its
eyes.
A
25-cent
piece
covers
either
Land«
“Pretty good piece. All of 10 mile, I life, had the right by thus thrusting
The senator glanced .into the great
Chili to Manufacture Cotton Goods.
Frank Beabien, a resident of Detroit,
reckon. It’s way up on the aidge of that aside either surrender or compromise to of her hands, and a dime conceals an
drawing room at the dazzle and gleam
First
—
The
true
policy
demands
that
Chili is contemplating a revision of thar old furnace tract that’s been in law make poverty the portion of his one ear. Her mouth is just distinguishable | the national and state legislation shall of bare-shoulders.
Mich., aged 40, a member ef an old
French family, inherited considerable her tariff laws, which, when effected so long nobody knows who owns it.1’
grandchild. Truly the claim had wasted by a light line that looks like a very be such as will ultimately enable
“Don’t you think they need all they
money recently and had been drinking1 will have an important bearing on a
“Overton’s claim, d’ye mean? Tell his substance, drained his purse as it fine white thread. Doll stockings cover every prudent and industrious citizen have?” said he.
the
tiny
feet.
The
eyes
are
large
and
number
of
American
products,
princi
heavily. The other morning he went
| to secure a home, and therefore the
me, now, didn’t young Overton, him had his life. He had parted with every
Has Photographed a Brain.
home drunk. His wife remonstrated. pally cotton which Chili will place on that’s dead, marry this Mrs. Townley’s thing save a life interest in Ridgeley. If expressive. The nose is in proportion j land should not be monopolized for
to
the
other
features.
Although
tiny,
Professor
J. G. Ogden of the Pitts
He shot her in the back,„ inflicting t the free list, with the hope that the in daughter?”
he should die tomorrow, Dare would be
[ speculative purposes. All lands now
mortal wound. He also attempted t< troduction of the raw product from
“No—sister. Miss Dares they whs, homeless, penniless, except for the few each feature is perfect, and Frances i held by railways and other corporations burg Central High school has success
shoot his two children, but both es the United States will encourage the and so different. Overton’s wife pretty as hundreds her mother had brought, and gives promise of becoming an unusual in excess of. their actual needs should, fully photographed with the Roentgen
caped injury. He then blew his brain/ manufacture of the finished product in er picture. The other—well, she’s ugly which remained to her child. Somehow ly pretty girl.
by lawful means, be reclaimed by the rays and Crookes tube the human brain
Chili.
_______________
out.
j government and held for actual settlers and located a tumor near the base of it.
enough to chaw wool With the burrs in the old man had thought but little here
■The woman who was the subject has
The popular idea of sympathizing I only, and private land monopoly, as
tofore of the girl’s future. Indeed, wrap
Believing right has everything to do it”
A scienitst in Minnesota has invent with feeling right.
“Say, you want ter keep me from goin ped in this legal coil, he had hardly with a friend in his troubles, is to in well as alien ownership, should be pro been suffering for some time with a tu
mor. It is likely that the doctors m'ay
noted her growing up or his own whiten terrupt him in the recital of his woes hibited.
ed a flying machine that is the mos'
her, but I’ll risk it. ”
The London City mission. reclaimed ter “ see
be able to successfully operate on her
to relate one’s own.
perfre'ct of its kind ever constructed.
Reckoned ye would. Ye ain’t no ing hair.
Second
—
We
condemn
the
frauds
by
It has only one defect—it will not fly. 1,748 drunkards, last year.
It had come as a shock to him to find
' which the land grants to Pacific rail- and remove the growth.
flowerin vine yerself. ”_______
Scio Weekly Press.