Scio Weekly Press.
A Mysterious Shooting.
Arnold Flosoh, of the oloak manu
facturing firm of Bernard Pasternek &
Co., of New York, is in a hospital
with three pistol-shot wounds. His
son, William B. Fosch, is in oustody
SCIO,................................. OKEGON on suspioion of having attempted to
take his fathers’ life. The shooting oc
curred in the apartment of the elder
Eosoh, at the Hotel Peleter. He lived
there alone, his wife having died three
years ago.
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NO
ASTORIA
ROAD
SOON.
Nearly All the Workmen to Be Laid Off .
for Lack of Funds.
Portland, Or., Sept. 21.—Rumorshave . By MABTHA M’OULLOOH WILLIAMS.
been afloat for the past day or two to '
the effeot that work on the Astoria- I [Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa
tion.!
Goble railroad was to be stopped for
the winter. There have been so many , “When yo’ went away,” he said, “I
reports in regard to this road that any went an axed old marster ter lemme go
new one attracts but little attention;! see granny. Word had come that she
but it appears on investigation that wus sick, sick er heap, an I thought I’d
this latest one, while not wholly cor lik’ ter see her once ergin ’fore she died,
Work of a Mexican Mob.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ef dat got ter happen right soon. Yo’
A mob attacked the American Pres rect, is well founded.
ant Happenings of the Past Week
From the best information attaina know she lives ’tween here an Ridge
byterian church in Amusa Calienta,
Culled From the Telegraph Columns« Mexico, and broke windows and doors ble, it seems quite certain that about ley. So when marster say he ain’t got
with stones. The minister’s house was ’ three-fourths of the men at work on no bejections ter doin without me fer
One workman, John Nonan, was attaoked. The mob also broke every the line are to be laid off today. The the rest of the week I put on my clean
killed and three perhaps fatally in window in the college in the same | three dredges, whioh have been work shirt an my Sunday clothes an come
jured by a falling pile of bricks in Chi city. Minister Bansome has been ap- I ing night and day building the em lippen erlong ter her house, jest beyant
cago. The accident was caused by the pealed to to use his best offices with bankment, or grade, aoross the tide the Boilin Spring church meetin-house,
caving-in of thp'old brick foundations. the government to secure the punish- i lands above Tongue point, will be kept When I got dar, I saw er fine horse wid
The bark Gainsborough, from New ment of the offenders.
at work; but will work in the day er man’s saddle,on hitched sorter behin
castle for 1 San Francisco, coal laden,
time only. It was reported yesterday the house, lik’ whoever done rode it wus
A Storm in Pennsylvania.
went ashore near Diamond Head, four
that eighteen of the camps on the road sortbr ’feared somebody’d fin out he been
miles from Honolulu, and is a total
A storm of wind, hail and rain, have been abandoned, and that there dar. I say ter myselfi ,‘Ef dat’s de doc-
loss. The crew with the captain, his Which swept the eastern part of Penn are only eleven left. This means the I tor man’s critter, mus’ be he’s ’feared
wife and children, left in boats and sylvania Saturday night was the most cessation of work on the greater part ter let folks know he ’tendin on de ole
were picked up by a tug.
severe that has visited that section for of the line on high ground. The reason conjure woman. So I better stay outside
Frank Hepburn, a son of Congress a long time. Scores of buildings were given for keeping the dredges at work tell he’s done gon erway. ’ Den I crope
man Hepburn, of Iowa, fought a duel unroofed, some utterly ruined, thou- on the tideland is that it is desirable to ter de chimbley corner an peep through
in Chester, Ark., and was killed by i ands of panes Of window glass and get the grade built there before next de little" winder granny had cut ’tween
the second shot from his antagonist’s knany skylights shattered, and apple spring, as a high flood might interrupt de logs dar at de head qr her bed. Miss
weapon. The duel was the outcome of and other late orops almost destroyed. it. The work on the high ground can Dare, who yo’ reckon I see inside, look-
be done at any time, and next summer in black as de dark night too? Shore as
a joke which Hepburn perpetrated
Four Killed and Six Injured«
to better advantage than during the we stan’s here it wus dat ar Mr. Haw
upon W. E. Sims, a saloon proprietor.
Four men were killed and six badly
An examination of the papers left by injured in a collision on the Cinoin-| winter, and'there need be no trouble kins whut come ter Ridgeley arter Mr.
the road being completed /by next Allen Fauutl' Vj^. .
sight er ’im
Henry Dixon, an Englishman who died nati, Hamilton & Dayton., lA&rcay. 1 about
in the almBhouse-in
Kan Hioar Connersville,'1118., Dy a*T>aycarj harvest, - It is said that the reasna for steered me goott^rW*^’. T jump back
Teveais the Tact that Dixon was of noble and freight train. The payoar was fol stopping work is the impossibility of from dat winder ! an \crooch down
securing money to carry it on, on ac under hit, an dar J heard Aim say, I did,
birth, and that his wife was the grand
the regular freight, eastbound. count of the financial situation.
Miss Dare, it’s God’s trufel’m er tellin
daughter of the Earl of Albermarle lowing
Both
were
running
as
extras.
you: ‘Well, aunty, I have b-ought what
and daughter of Lady Georgiana Hill,
DYNAMITER BELL ARRAIGNED. you -asked for, a lock of ny enemy’s
who eloped with Thomas McGann, the
Another Bank Fails.
hair an one ’of his handkerchiefs. I
Fenian agitator. The story was told
The private banking house of Gardi
in an old diary found among Dixon’s ner, Morrow & Co., the oldest bank in Accused of Conspiracy and Remanded spent $50 to get them, too, so yo’ may
for a Week,
guess what money there is in it for yo’
papers.
Central Pennsylvania, has closed its
London, Sept. 21.—Edward Bell, if only the spell works right
An infuriated mob of laborers bat '.doors, owing to the general depression
“I popped up an peeped through the
tled with the police of South Chicago in business. The firm says it expects the alleged Irish dynamiter, arrested at
for the possession of a wagon-driver 'to pay every dollar of its indebted- Glasgow, was arraigned in the Bow winder ergin. Granny wus layin in de
street police court today. He is de bed, wid er eyes half shet, but soon as he
whom they threatened with lynching, 'ness.
scribed as Edward Bell, alias Edward laid dem t’ings in her hand she laugh out
because his runaway horse knocked
Impure Water In School«.
J. Ivory, an American, and a hotel loud an say, sorter mawkin him: ‘Ef yo’
down several of the crowd. After a
The public schools of Chicago are keeper at 211 Lexington avenue, New had told me the truth, yo’ might have
fierce struggle in which ‘stones and
saved yo’r money. Ef my spells would
clubs were freely used, the driver, ¡liable to be dosed at any moment on York. Bell is accused of conspiring work
on Frank Overton, he would have
Peter Zisliski, was rescued from his as the order of the health commissioner, with others to cause an explosion in died 50 years ago. ’ ,
because
the
water
supply
afforded
them
the
United
Kingdom.
He
was
re
sailants. In addition to the half dozen
“‘How you know it’s ’im?’ de man
men trampled beneath the hoofs of the by the board of education without manded for a week and removed to . •say, settin down hard in de cheer, hp wus
Holloway jail this afternoon.
frantio horse, a number of the crowd filters is impure.
so ’stonished Granny shet ’er mouf wid
were severely beaten by the police.
Fire in Chronicle Building«
New York, Sept. 21.—Tie only Ed er snap an say, “liever min, I know. ’
A fire broke out in the stereotyping ward J. Ivory in the New York city di Den he try ter ’suade her hit warn’t
Reports made by three vessels that
have arrived recently in New York room of the Chronicle building, San rectory is given as doing business in ole mSrster. She mus’ work de spell
arouse the gravest fears that the three- Francisco, which destroyed $2,500 liquors, at 2201 Lexington avenue and anyway, but she tole him ’tain’tnouse.
masted ship State of Maine, which left worth of property before it was extin 2018 Eighth avenue.
About two Ef she wus, hit would come back on her.
New York September 4 with a cargo of guished, the firemen being handicapped weeks ago Ivory went on a vacation, At las’ he got up an come out de do’, an
coal for Shanghai, has been burned at by the height of the building.
leaving the saloon in oharge of the | as he got on his critter I hear ’im say
sea, and that all on board, some twen
head
bartender. He is supposed to be I ter hisself: ‘That ole fool is more afraid
Th is Dog Deserves a Medal.
ty-six men, have perished. The State .
in Boston. The bartender wrote him of her master than she is of the devil.
James Feenan, a well-borer, who re a few days ago, and reoeived a letter | I’m t’inkin there is nothin for it now
of Maine is well known along the Pa
cific coast. She has been to San Fran sides alone in a small cottage at Berk from Ivory telling him about certain but to get some of these hill fellows to
cisco a number of times. She held the ley, Cal., narrowly escaped being matters concerning the saloon. An put a bullet in ’im.
“When he had done rid erway, I saun
record between San Francisco and New burned to a crisp, while asleep in his other Ivory kept a saloon on East One
York. The captain was a part owner home. He was saved by a little dog, Hundred and Eighteenth street. Some tered up lik’ I jes’ done come, an warn’t
who kept up a frantic howling and time ago he mysteriously disappeared. granny mad! Ax me whut I come dar
in the vessel.
dat time er week fer. She ain’t sick.
tugged at his master’s clothes until he
Two men and twenty-five horses lost awakened him. In escaping from the In spite of the statement of the bar Nee’n ter think she gwine die yit er-
tender,
there
is
good
reason
for
the
their lives in a fire in Milwaukee, house.Feenan was seriously burned and
while, but she do look sick. An arter I
Wis., which partially destroyed Albert is now in a serious condition. The statement that Bell and Ivory are one give her de money Ifotch she say I’m
and
the
same
person.
<
Manger’s livery stable. The flames firemen who were battling with the
ain’t such er bad boy, eat my dinner out
spread so rapidly that only three men flames had a narrow escape. Some
de cupboard an run ¿/long home. I did
Welcomed by the Chronicle«
and a few horses managed to escape. giant powder that had been stored in
London, Sept. 21.—The Chronicle eat, an all de time- she wus axin me
Hon. W. S. Allen, chairman of the I the house exploded and blew to pieces this morning has an editorial in which ’bout yo’ an ole marster, an everything at
Populist ■ national committee, has-1 all that was left of the building.
it Welcomes the suggestion of the St. Ridgeley, an Mr. Allen Fauntleroy.
mailed to W. J. Bryan a letter official
James’ Gazette that a new driebund, Seem* lik’ she know everthing, but she
Tale of Brutal Savagery.
ly notifying him of his nomination by I
including Great Britain, the United want special ter fin out whar he is. ”
sacrifices are demanded, ] The state penitentiary board of Ax- States and Italy, would solve the | “Do you
Dare asked, all
and Mr. Bryan is neiffier’asfeed hbr'eir'-' j kansas hair-ordered the discharged a ■a'fffiiimii piiwwin. ■ an ■ winumuio i
pected to abandon his adhesion to the number of state employes for cruel and looks upon this as a proposal having
inhuman treatment to convicts in their nothing in comomn with cynioal in ed, speaking the las» word in a whisper
Chicago platform.
charge. Two colored .convicts had es difference,. and greatly hopes that it to himself.
William Porter, former cashier of I caped,
“You must find him at once,” Dare
and when captured they were
the Bank of Kansas City, Kan., which severely whipped. Iron rings were will fimTan echo in the United States. said “Find him and tell him my grand
The
Chronicle
then
proceeds
to
assert
failed last February, was arrested in welded about their necks and one end
father is in danger, and I look to him to
that city on warrants charging him of a chain fastened to the rings and the that an Amerioan admiral was last save him from it. ” ’1
with receiving deposits when the bank other to their waists. They were un year ordered to bombard Yildiz palace
“He will, Miss Dara Don’tyo’beun-
was in a failing condition and he knew able to straighten up when a member if there was any further massacre of easy. I’d ’a’ gone to him first, but thought
Armenians.
it was insolvent. The complaining of the board saw them. The chains
best to ask your commission,” Jubilee
“These orders,” says the Chronicle, said, pulling himself: back into a poly
witnesses are two former depositors. were drawn so tight the men were un
“
were
subsequently
withdrawn
when
Porter was placed in $1,500 bonds and able to raise their heads and were com
syllabic frame of speech. ‘ ‘He just about
the Venezuela dispute oame to a head— owns that man Hawkins. Don’t yo’
in default went to jail.
pelled to work in that condition.
a single example of the danger of leav fret. We’ll take care of old marster. ”
The American schooner Frederick
ing such disputes to simmer until they
Not a Hostile Act«
Gearing was seized off the coast of
boil over at the. most disastrous mo
CHAPTER XVIL
The
Brazilian
minister
in
Rome
has
Nova Scotia, having been caught inside
ment. The sooner Lord Salisbury and
“Law is full of surprises, but this is
the three-mile limit. She was con cabled to Buenos Ayres that he has had Mr. Olney oan agree to the arbitration abotit
the most surprising,” Mr. Hil
demned by the oourt, and the depart a conference with the Italian minister of the question, the better will be the dreth said,
the yellow letter
ment of justice has now been notified of foreign affairs. The foreign min chance of union whioh the St. James’ that Major refolding
Overton
had put into his
ister
declared
that
in
sending
the
that the owners will appeal to the su
Gazette so wisely commends.”
hands.
“
Why,
major,
”
he went on, “it
oruiser
Piedmont
to
Brazil,
the
Italian
preme court of Canada, as they claim
really seems that this young fellow is
He Got No Patronage.
that she was not within the three government had not intended any hos
determined to beat you You refuse his
tile aot against Brazil, being assured
mile limit at the time.
San Francisco, Sept. 21.—The Cali- ,
that full satisfaction would be given fornia Hotel Men’s Association has de 1 surrender, and he at . once goes to work
John McCarthy, the alleged bank for the insult to the Italian flag.
developing a new line of evidence that
cided to institute legal proceedings to 30 years ago might have won your case
robber, was arraigned in Los Angeles.
oompel Major W. B. Hooper, manager for you ”
He made a statement to the court to
Cached Powder in a Stove.
the Occidental hotel,, to pay $300
the effect that his alleged confession,
“Why not now as well asihen?” Ma
Three men of Brighton Park, Chi of
said to have been made to Captain cago, were injured, one of them seri into the association. This action re jor Overton asked |
calls
the
story
of
the
difficulties
which
“Because, let me see—yes, it is 30
Lees in Sacramento, was a bogus one ously, by putting powder in a stove to
in toto, and that he has nothing to con dry. They were preparing to go hunt grew out of the visit to this city in years since Bruce Stirling died If we
fess, as he was not connected with the ing, and placed the powder in the April last of several hundred members had known while he lived that he had a
' attempt to rob the First National bank oven and forgot about it. The build of the Hotel Men’s Mutual Benevolent hand in the matter, we could easily
of that city in any way. He was held, ing was completely wrecked and their Association. To entertain the visitors have got the truth, of course paying well
the local association raised several for it. While we may be morally cer
and his bail fixed at $5,000.
escape from instant death is considered thousand
dollars. Major Hooper sub tain of his turpitude, I see no way in the
Mrs. Elizabeth Cavanaugh, an aged miraculous.
scribed $300. The visitors arrived and world of proving it^KNo, major, ” shak
woman of San Francisco,, has brought
the Occidental hotel manager was ing his head commiseratingly, “though
A Woman Firebug.
suit in the superior oourt of that city
called upon to pay. He refused to do this letter explain^-; much that has al
Ethel
Woods,
an
unmarried
lady
of
against her husband and her son, about 22 years, of Danville, Ill., has so on the ground that he had not been ways been dark it can in no way affect
charging them with having conspired
arrested for arson. Her lover, accorded a fair share of the patronage either side with tho courts, and loath as
to rob her of her possessions, and with been
George
deserted her, and it is of the visiting hotel men.' None of the I am to say it we are very nearly at the
having held her and caused her to be charged Allen,
that
she
attempted to burn visitors went to the Occidental. At end of our rope. If within the next three
held a prisoner for four months in a down the house in
which he slept. the last quarterly meeting Major months we do not find at least a trace of
local private- insane asylum.
The When the fire was discovered the whole Hooper was expelled from the associa the missing papers—your deeds, the rec
property was acquired through her own side of the house was in flames.
tion.
ords, one or both—the other side must be
hard work taking in washing.
confirmed in possession,, as they would
Those Who Fell at Antietam.
A Mysterious Fire.
Ida Biichanan, of Hstfinwal] M3?wl
have been 10 years back had their case
The stock of woodenware, nousehola ' Hagerstown, Md.?'Sept. 21.—On been vigor6uslO«sse<I. While Allen
aged 16, committed suicide by shoot
the
the
Hagerstown
turnpike,
about
ing herself, She dressed herself for ' goods, etc., of the Carlos Unna Com
Fauntleroy wa^ai inincff and out of the’
burial, then went out in the front yard, pany, of Portland, Or., was damaged 200 yards from the historio old Dunk- country it was easy enough to have the
ard
church,
a
handsome
shaft
of
Ver
lay down on the grass and blew out to the extent of about $8,000 by fire.
business set over from term to term.
her brains. She was engaged to be The* firm is unable to account for the mont marble was dedicated this after You know it waited 10 years the first
married, and her lover was in the origin of the fire. The stock was in noon to the memory of the 545 members time for a hearing in the higher court
of the old Philadelphia brigade who
house at the time. She left a note say sured to the full amount of the loss.
fell in the Antietam battle, near the after hanging so long in the lower ones.
ing her ^health was poor and that she
Three times as many herrings are spot where the monument stands at Then, when it came back, I know my
did not wish to become a burden on
father fought for delay. He said he knew
present.
consumed
as any other kind of fish.
any one. Her mother is a widow.
he had the sidebf right and justice and
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
kept hoping time would show it. I think
A Book Dealer’s Death.
Panic In a Schoolhouse«
chairman of the Populist executive
San Francisco, Sept. 21. — Achille you know that I took up the case as
A ohild tipped over a cupboard in an
committee, has officially notified T. E. anteroom
Waltdeufel, a well-known Catholic whole heartedly as he had done and
in
the
Ogden
school
in
Chi
Watson, of Georgia, of his nomination
and the sound of breaking so book dealer, was found dead today at fought it the best I could, hoping, I con
as candidate for vice-president by the cago,
frightened
the younger children that his home on Van Ness avenue. Walt fess, to wear the other side out, if I
People’s party. In a long letter con they were terrorized
and rushed from deufel was found lying on the sofa in could do nothing more. You have shown
veying the notification, Senator Butler the building. The report that a fire his parlor by a neighbor. Gas was es me that that was useless; that you will
reviewed the history of the People’s was in progress in some way gained caping and Mrs. Waltdeufel was sleep not accept victory by default. Since the
party and the causes which led to the circulation, and for a time there was ing in an adjoining bedroom. She property has found a prospective pur
adoption of a co-operative ticket,which no controlling the little ones. No says her husband’s death must have chaser, there i's-imch activity among our
he referred to as “the best silver ticket lives were lost, but many of the chil been accidental. He was a sufferer enemies that the end must come soon. I
in the field and one whch is more rep-, dren were badly bruised and trampled from asthma and his business has not W ish T could persuade you to compro
mise, major. This letter ought to show
resentative of American interest than upon.
been prosperous lately.
you that your ¡opponents are innocent
any other.”
parties, to th J fraud against you, and
The graders employed on the route
Winthrop Found Guilty.
For Injuries Received.
surely young Fauntleroy’s action”-----
of the Astoria & Columbia River rail
San
Francisoo,
Sept.
21.
—
The
jury,
Mathilde M. Scott, wife of J. Harry
“Don’t speak of it,” Major Overton
road have unearthed the skeletons of . Scott,
received injuries in the sleeping after being out five minutes, returned said hoarselyS “Hildreth, you—you—
two men on the West farm, at West | berth of
a Pullman palace car, on her a verdict of guilty against Oliver Win
port, and speculation is now rife as to way from Portland to San Francisco, field Winthrop, acoused of robbery and don’t know—werything. You can never
whether or not a murder was commit and has brought suit against the Pull assault to commit murder in connection understand just why I must do as I do
or how I hate myself for—for finding it
ted years ago. After the discovery of
Palace Car Company, and the with the abduotionof James Campbell, impossible longer to hate him. ”
the ¡¡skeletons, two old muskets were man
Southern Pacific Company for $25,000. the Hawaiian millionaire.
Mr. Hildreth got up and walked twice
found and a $20 gold picee of the coin She
states
that
she
and
her
husband
oc
or
thrice aboqt the office, stopping at
nage of 1855. The muskets are of an
Stage Plunged Over the Grade.
a whole section, and that dur
last in front ofi his client to say:
ancient pattern and lcng since went out cupied
Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 21.—The
the night the sliding headboard,
“Major, keeping secrets from one’s
of use. The clothing had entirely rot ing
whioh did not fit properly in the four-horse stage from Murray to Wal lawyer is nearly as suicidal as keeping
ted from the remains, and nothing groove,
fell upon her, severely bruising lace plunged over the grade, killing ■
from onfe’s doctor. But if you
could be found to throw light on the ; her face and knocking out some of one horse and injuring the others. No! them
choose
to do it I have no word to say.
mystery. Present residents of West her teeth.
passengers were killed.
Listen to this, ¿hough, I beg: Your grand
port can throw no light on the affair.
IDE HS ÖF THE WEEK
daughter nas some claim on you. Are
you willing she should be left without
a roof, a protector? I know some things,
more perhaps than you imagine. I guess
others, and in face of all I say it is your
duty as a gentleman, a man of honor,
either to agree to a settlement that shall
divide the property equally betwixt the
Overtons and Fauntleroys or else to the
marriage of Allen Fauntleroy to your
grandchild. ”
Major Overton got up, white to the
lips.
“You forget yourself, Mr. Hildreth, ”
he said freezingly. “With an Overton
material considerations do not weigh
against honor. I thought I had sufficient
! ly impressed that on your mind. Permit
■ me to wish you a very good day. ”
I “Poor old Spartan 1 He’s three parts
( a monomaniac, ” Mr. Hildreth said com-
j passionatly as the ,door closed behind
j him. Vance looked up from his desk at
j the room’s far end to say:
“No. He happens to live just 500
years too late. His is one of the souls
| made for crusades and jousts to the
j death for a liege’s name or a lady’s
: glove. His superb impracticality is
i quite out of place in this late nineteenth
! century. But, do you know, whenever
: he passes I take off my hat and stand
bareheaded even to his shadow?”
“It’s a contest in Quixotism betwixt
him and young Fauntleroy. Why, talk
of the devil. There he is now. Give you
good day, young gentleman. What
brings you with such a face of concern
tions do not weigh against honor.”
into the enemy’s camp?” Mr. Hildreth
said, rising and holding out a cordial,
hand. Vance made as if to go, but the
newcomer stopped him, saying with an
impatient gesture:
“Stay if you meant any part of what
you have just said about that poor old
man. ”
“We both would fight or lie for him, ”
Mr. Hildreth said lightly. Then, seeing
that Allen’s eyes were still full of hor
ror: “What is up, Mr. Fauntleroy? Has
murder been done?”
“No. Only plotted, and I am come to
you for help in thwarting the assassins, ’ ’
Allen said very low.
“Who are they?’.’ asked Vance. Allen
answered in a whisper.
For an hour the three men talked ea
gerly together, arguing, suggesting, plan
ning. When the young fellow at last
went away, Hildreth said, drawing a
deep breath:
“Here’s a pretty go! Planning riot,
sedition and murder in the face of day
light. I always knew Hawkins wasn’t
the clear grit, but hang me if I thought
in iniquity. ”
“He is really a monomaniac,” Vance
said, lighting a cigar. “He has been
money crazy ever since he first sat at a
desk in the other Allen Fauntleroy’s of
fice. What surprises me, though, is that
those poor hill folk listen to him when
he tells them that Major Overton is their
enemy, the only thing that stands be
twixt them and the work that means
prosperity.”
“You forget. Hawkins has truth on
his side, a mighty good ally even for a
rascal such as he, ” Mr. Hildreth said,
taking a revolver out of his desk_and
running his fingers along the barrel.
Holding it muzzle down, he went on:
“I wonder if—no, it can’t be! Melissa
Townley can’t know all his scheme.
Anyway we will manage to spoil his
little game for him, but if we let the
major get wind of it first”-----
’ “There’d be the devil to pay and no
pitch hot,” Vance supplemented, with
his hand on the knob.
Hildreth nodded an emphatic assent.
“Poor old major! We must save him,
even in spite of himself. ”
CHAPTER XVIIL
When Dare had been 10 days at Ex
eter, it seemed to her that years lay be
twixt her and the old colorless life. The
day but one after Jubilee’s warning she
had found a line, likewise ambushed in
field flowers, upon her dressing table,
Which said:
“Keep a stout heart. There is no dan
ger yet that the old tree will be cut
down.”
There was neither date nor signature,
but none was needed to tell her whence
it came. Intuitively she knew that her
message had gone straight to • Allen
Fauntleroy, and this was his answer.
Trusting in him, her heart was at rest.
She could let herself be amused with
what went on about her; could laugh
in girlish ffirrtn'ovem^Holtham’s -droll
stories; listen unWeariedly to all her
aunt could tell her of dead and gone
Dares, who once had ruffled it with the
best; freeze Hawkhss utterly upon the
rare occasions when he ventured to ad
dress her-—above everything, sun her
vanity in the light of Royal Cleve’s
eyes.
Though all untaught, she was wise
enough, woman enough, to know that
she attracted him as perhaps no other
had ever done. No day shone but brought
him to Exeter. Often indeed midnight
struck ere he took himself away. In
spite of all, though, his wooing made
scant headway. Often upon the home’-
ward way Mr. Cleve swore roundly at
himself as both fool and coward thus to
falter .and stand abashed before this girl,
who had no arts of fence save those of ■
nature’s providing.
■It was ridiculous, worse, he told him
self, that he, who had made love half the
world over, who had been cotirted and
caressed by dark women and fair, for
whom more than one beauty had dim
med her sweet eyes, should find himself
thus taken aback by this slip of a girl,
whose guard of delicate haughtiness he
could neither pass over nor break down.
A hundred times he had begun to tell
his love outright; as many times his
speech had been deftly turned aside or
passed over as a jest.
This must not be, could not, should
not endure. Aside from his own head
long passion, there was Hawkins in the
background, inexorably urging him to
fl WAR OF FMINflilON
“make hay while the sun shone” and
hinting more than darkly the dangers of
delay. He must speak out, speak at once,
and under such conditions as to make
refusal out of the question.
Hawkins easily supplied them. Upon Weyler to Commence a Vig
his motion, Mrs. Townley agreed that
orous Campaign.
all her household should go for a day’s
excursion into the heart of the disputed
iron tract, where work had so long
ceased that for the most part everything DEATH-DEALING YELLOW FEVER
was picturesquely ruinous. It was a re
gion ofsteep, thickly wooded hills, seam
ed through and through with hollows so Over Fifteen Hundred Patients iu the
dark and narrow that in them midday
Military Hospitals—Guerrilla Forces
was as twilight. A labyrinth of paths
Join Insurgents and Loot the Town.
and cartways ran hither and yon, many
overgrown to the merest trace, others
Havana, Sept. 21.—There was muoh
showing still scant signs of use by the animation in the captain-general’s pal
hill folk, squatters whose cabins clung ace yesterday. General Weyler hied a
here and there to a hillside or sent blue conference with various commanders
thready smoke up from some darkling of columns, also with the commanding
hollow.
officer of marine and and the chief of
Once all the region had been alive the medical department. These con
with noise of axes cutting timber for the ferences are the precursors of an ap
charcoal pit, ring and rattle of chain, proaching campaign, which is intended
hoof, wheel, shouts from hill to hill, to be vigorous and resolute.
singing and laughter of oremen working
Captain-General Weyler will assume
at the breasts in full daylight. The aid personal command at Pinar del Rio,
folk remembered it well. They had told Ahumida and Palmeroa, taking charge
the younger ones over and over of the respectively of military and political
good old times when work and money affairs at Havana. Among other meas
were plenty, When iron, king of metals, ures General Weyler thinks of adopt
went out and came back silver and gold. ing as a prelude to the campaign is the
What wonder if the remnant who clung revocation of the edict of pardon, oblig
still to the tract, getting a bare subsist ing families having connections in the
ence as best they might, sighed for the ranks of the insurgents to move into
good times gone, the friends who went otljer provinces fand making concentra
with them, or that their sons, trained tion in villages obligatory, considering
in penury’s hard school, were easily all persons found in the country as ene
stirred to anger against the man who, mies or supporters of the enemy.
they were told, stood needlessly betwixt
Captain-General Weyler’« order re
them and the return of that golden age? cently issued putting line officers in
No such thought, such knowledge, command of regular guerilla and vol
came to Dare as she rode through the unteer forces, is bitterly resented and
sylvan maze with the tall handsome in consequence thereof many desertions
stranger close at her bridle rein. All the are occurring.
party were on horseback, and as soon as
At Sagua la Grand, where Captains
they were well within the hills Haw Ir gyen and Quintero, of the regular
kins and Cleve had fallen to disputing army, were lately appointed, one third
as to which was the better, more pictur of the men have disappeared. At Cam-
esque route to the old forge, the day’s rons, a Santa Clara town, the 1 cal
appointed rendezvous. Both had recent Spanish guerilla went over to the en
ly spent days there in exploration, and emy in a body a few days ago, and re
each contended stoutly for the way of turning with the insurgents, assisted
his choice. Dare herself had settled the the latter to capture a government fort
matter by saying, with a delicious smile: in the suburbs. They then raided the
“There is nothing for it but to divide town, looted stores and ransacked vari
and conquer both routes. Aunt Mel, we ous private residences, seized the local
will go with Mr. Cleve. Mr. Hawkins archives and carired off the municipal
can take Mr. Holtham and Patsey and seal.
the dinner, and we will see who gets | At Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba, a
there first and easiest. ”
mounted Spanish guerilla force armed
“Just what I was about to propose, ” with Mauser rifles at the-expense of
Cleve said, with a quick flash of the I Bayamo merchants, recently went over
eye. Mrs. Townley demurred.
to the rebels, joining Calixto Garcia.
“I’m afraid to risk it,” she said, j The captain is a nephew of Garcia, and
shaking her head. “This is a fearful obtained his commission from Martinez
place to get lost in. You might wander Compos, former captain-general.
for days on one hill of these coalings | According to the latest information
and never find your way out. I am sure Maceo has moved south of his former
Mr. Cleve thinks he knows the way per
No steps will be taken to
fectly, but I had rather trust Mr. Haw position.
follow him until the commencement of
kins. ”
“Well, I had not,” Daresaid willful the concerted operations above referred
ly. ‘ ‘ Come, Patsey. We will follow him. : to. Captains Carrerez and Oliverette, of
Aunt Mel, if we hear you crying in the the Sauga la Grand guerilla forces,
wilderness, we will come and find you. ”
“That we will,” Cleve said trium who have long been the terror of resi
phantly, touching his hat to the others dent naturalized aliens and native paci-
and turning the horses’ heads into a ficos of that vicinity, have been relieved
track running almost at right angles to of their commands and both thrown
that they had been following. A little into a local fortress to await court-
way farther it climbed a sharp hill, martial. Carrerez is alleged to have
which Patsey’s mule utterly refused to captured and shot prisoners of war. as
breast, though he showed by turning | well as pacificos,without the formality
a trial.
completely around that he was willing of According
to the official returns,
enough to rejoin the other party.
ROBIN IN THE RAIN.
Listen to that soaring strain!
It is robin in the rain.
Sitting there aloft, aloft,
Underneath his leafy roof,
Pouring from his throbbing throat
Note upon ecstatic note,
Rapture in the swift refrain—
Robin in the rain!
Hearken to the song he sijigs, •
Tiny chorister with wings!
“After all the grief and gloom
Brighter blue the skies will bloom;
After all the cloudy woe
Earth with gladder gold will glow;
Joy will triumph over pain”—
Robin in the rain!
—Clinton Scollard in New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat.
ONE SPORTSMAN’S AMBITION.
It Is to Hunt In the Undiscovered Patches
Along; America’s Coast«
“I’ll tell you what I would like to
do, ” said a man whose life is spent rov
ing about from city to lumber camp
and from park to forest. “I would like
to own a schooner fit to weather any
gale on the seas and travel in it up and
down the American coast from Labra
dor to Cape Horn and north again to
Bering strait There’s a whole lot of
odd places one could visit seldom or
never heard of.
“Take it about Cape Hatteras. Now,
what do you know about the mainland
alongshore there? What can you tell of
the people in the . swamps there and of
the game these people find in the
woods? It’s so little, you have to .guess
at it Then there is a whole lot of the
gulf of Mexico’s shore line, not to men
tion the islands and lands south of- there
Why, only the other day I heard of a
tribe of Indians on some islands some
where down that way that buy buckshot
to kill deer with and poor shotguns,
using only a dram of powder for a
charge. Just think what sport a fellow
^vith"Ti"Jgood'"rifle would have among
them—if they’d let him. What is more,
they pay for what they buy with pure
gold, and if ever a white man visited
them he did not come back to tell about
it, nor will the Indians say where they
got their stuff.
“When you come to think about it,
the sportsman nosing about in these out
of the way places could get more game
and curiosities than he could get out of
Blue Mountain park or from any other
of the big preserves.
“I hope to make just such a trip some
time. I’ll take a 45-90, a 10 gauge, a
20 gauge and a target pistol, with stacks
of fishing tackle of all kinds and no end
of ammunition. The specimens I will
gather will pay for the trip, as I shall
go along prepared to skin and dry any
thing from a tapir to a crocodile, from
a condor to a beetle, not to mention
snakes and other things.”—New York
Sun.
The Marie Antoinette blue glove is a
novelty. It is made of fine suede, and in
that peculiar shade of 'blue which has
been so popular throughout the winter.
A bright terra cotta glove is another
novelty shown for early spring wear.
All the shades of tan, from a pale fawn
to a delicate brown, are the vogue for
this season of the year. A new shade of
tan is known as Smyrna, and promises
to be much worn with the spring tailor
made gown. Fashionable women are
wearing both glace kid and suede gloves.
One is quite as popular as the other.
throughout the islands is 1,555. The
death rate is said to be under 15 per
cent.
La Lucha, this afternoon, says the
governor of the Spanish bank is re
sponsible for the actual monetary con
flict. He went to the palace yesterday
in order to confer with Captain-Gen
eral Weyler, but was unable to see
him, and it is rumored the governor
of the bank has been dismissed.
BOARD
OF
EQUALIZATION.
Assessed Valuation of Street Railways
Considered.
Olympia, Wash., Sept. 21.—Attor
ney Grossoup, of Tacoma, representing
the Tacoma Rail wav & Motor Com
pany, appeared before the state board
of equalization today and called atten
tion to the fact that the cable. roads in
Seattle were assessed at $4,000 a mile,
whereas in Tacoma they were assessed
at $16,000 a mile, and asked the board
to adopt. measures to equalize these
yalues. ,Mr. Grosscup, while here,
learned that the state board was not
officially cognizant of the. number of
miles of any street railway or the rate
per mile at which it was assessed; that
wren the board made the state levy it
simply determined what amount each
company should pay, and the county
auditor computed the amount due from
his county on the basis of the assess
ment, as equalized by the county board.
An Expedition From Mississippi.
Mobile, Sept. 21.—Senor J. G. Sab-
ral, an attache of the Spanish legation
of Washington, has been here several
days. He has informed the custom
house officials here that he has infor
mation that a large Cuban expedition
party has assembled on the Mississippi
coast with a view of sailing in a day
or tfto.
Tynan Is an A nierl canT*3^
New York, Sept. 21.—The records
of the court of common pleas show that
P. J. Tynan, the dynamite suspect un
der arrest at Boulogne, has beeu a citi
zen of the United States since August.
1888.
Constantinople, Sept. 21.—The po
lice announce they have made an im
portant discovery of bombs, explosives
and incriminating documents in an
Armenian house in the Dauborg Scuta
ria. Two of the leaders and many
members of the Armenian oommittee
have been arrested in connection with
the discovery, and have confessed their
guilt.
They have’ also denounced
many of their accomplices to the police.
The police have hope of being soon
able to nnearth the whole plot.
Roloff Arrested in New York«
New York, Sept. 21.—George Carlos
Roloff, a Cuban, was arrested today on
a charge of aiding and abetting the
sending of filibustering expeditions to
Cuba. He was formally held in $3.000
bail by United States Commissioner
Alexander. He is said to be a major-
general in the army of General Go
mez. He came to this country about
two months ago for the purpose of fit
ting out a filibustering to aid Cuba.
He is charged with being connected
with the Laurada 'expedition and
others,