shall have your face,
For stars—two eyes that shlno
■Whore my heart has Its dwelling place—
Your own, dear Valentine!
He turns to neither left nor right,
But straight ahead he goes:
Ilis guide is Hope, whose footsteps light
The sunset pathway knows;
He bears my message in his scrip,
/Y song whose every line
Shall turn to music on your lip,
My own dear Valentine!
Oh, when you hear his eager knock
L'pon the door bi gin,
Make base to lift the heavy lock
And bid young Cupid in.
Glad then shall gleam the skies above.
And Rlad this heart of mine
To be at last with h. r I love—
With you, dear Valentine!
—Frank Demster Sherman, in Ladles'
Home Journal.
V\ ;t T WAS the day be
\jf- A fore St. Yalen
\ tine's, and Clare
1 Clancey and Katie
m '/'/'filiA Wood, after paus
®■/ i A/\ \ ing" a little before
tlfr 1 12// rwv A t lie show window,
% 112 \ entered the small
>,V' A uptown shop, and
were shown by a
lady in attend
ar.ee a number of
choice valentines
that came within re«?h of their purses.
The two girls were great friends, each
just 14, and pretty and full of fun.
They were going to send this year a
number of valentines to other friends
and relatives, and had come in together
to select them.
As they stood before the little show
A CABLE CAR-WAS CLANGING ITS BKLL WILDLY.
case filled with those dainty combina
tions of paper lace anil bright color so
fascinating to the heart of youth and,
ah, me! to the memory of age, perhaps,
and as they lifted the filmy overlays to
read the cunningly hid verses beneath
they did not notice that standing in the
door was a feeble oldinan leaning on a
cane and watching them. His hair was
rather long and silver white. Ilis face
was cleanly shaven, and he had a large
nose, a rather childish mouth ar.d
clear blue eyes. As he moved away the
two girls heard his step a: d turned.
"Oh!" exclaimed Clare, whispering,
"there is old Mr. Fessenden! He lives
next door to us and is a cranky old
bachelor, bet's send him a valentine."
The other girl nodded. Then they
watched him a moment through the
window as he paused to look in.
"He comes every year to look at the
valentines," said the shopwoman.
"Show us some funny ones," said
Clare. "Some about old bachelors."
The girls were not cruel; they were
thought Jess. They picked out a high
ly colored piet ure of a fierce-looking old
man in a house that was in wretched or
der, and under which were the follow
ing lines:
AN OLD BACHELOR.
"You think yourself extremely wise,
Since all your worthless life
You've lived alone without the eare
And love of a tinder wife.
Perhaps, indi•< d, you've vainly Tied
To wed, your whole lif. rough,
And were so Klum and ei .1 ly lhat
No wife would live with you."
They did not like the word "worth
less," because Clare said she had never
heard that he dissipated in any way.
but Katie said it did not mean that,
but only meant that his life had been
worthless because he hadn't married.
By and by they went across the street
to a bright r* d letter box and dropped
In all their purchase*.
As the; recessed they were talkirg
busily and did not notice that a cable
car was clanging its bell wildly and
that the gripman was making a frantic
effort to stop it. Ilut suddenly each felt
herself pulled hastily backward, and
realized that they had been drawn from
in front of the deadly cable car just in
time. Each gave a little scream and
turned to thank her rescuer. It was the
old gentleman. Mr. Fessenden. lie bad
dropped his cane and leaned on them,
trembling from the effort. The girls
were abashed, and blushed and stam
mered. Clare hastily picked up his
cane, and he thanked her courteously.
They crossed the street together in the
direction of the little shop.
"I suppose you were so taken up with
the valentines you are sending that yot:
did not notice the car," said the old gen
tleman, gently. "I used to be very fond
of them myself. Suppose we all go in
and look at them a little."
The girls could not refuse and shame
acedly entered. The shopwomar.
smiled at them knowingly, but they
only smiled back in a feeble and sickly
way. The old gentleman selected two
valentinesthat thegirlshad not felt able
to buy.
"I want you to have these," he said,
"to remember me by and to make you
thir.k to be always very careful wlxet.
you cross the street."
The girls thanked liini faintly with
downcast eyes. Then he bade them a
courtly adieu. They noticed how feeble
lie was as he limped aw-jy and won
dered how he could have had strength
enough to save them from the car.
Then as they went out, each holding
a prettily ornamented envelope, they
looked at each other in shame and re
gret. Clare was the first to speak.
"Let's send him another," she said.
"They have some beautiful ones down
the street further. Let's go down
there."
They counted their money as they
went along and put it all together. l?y
and by they came out of the shop below
with a valentine that, instead of being
in an envelope, rose to the dignity of a
beautiful box, tied with pink and blue
ribbons.
"I would give anything if we could
only get that old letter box open." said
Clare, anu. passing, they frowned at it
as if it were to blame for everything.
IT.
Mr. Fessenden oil his way home
paused here and there to rest. He was
not so old' as he looked, but had been ill
] for many years, and the sudden exer
j tion had been unusual and too much
I for him. When he reached his home,
which, as Clare had said, was next tc
h< r own—-he elii>.bed the steps with dif
ficulty and was trembling violently as
he gained the top. Hisol 1 servant wh.>
let him in helped him to bed, where he
often spent the greater part of the day.
As he lay back amid the pillows he
was thinking of the- two rosy cheeked
girls and the valentines, and tl n his
memory went back ai»d back, and he
was thinking of another rosy cheeked
girl for whom long ago he had bough*
other valentines. They ha<i been sweet
hearts for awhile, and it was nearly 40
years now since they had quarreled —
just 40 years to-morrow. The old gen
tlAnan closed his eyes that he irhl
remember more clearly. It had been
about a valentine, too; a foolish quar
rel. She had sent it to him in fun, of
course, but he had been sensitive, and
he had recognized her handwriting.
He had gone to her accusingly and she
had not denied it. So then they had
quarreled and parted.
"You will be sorry some time," he had
said to her, as he turned away.
"When I am I will send you another
valentine —a beautiful one, with sweet
verses on it," she had answered; and
since that day he had been waiting
for it.
He had loved her dearly, and he be
lieved s.. • had loved him in return. At
first he had expected the valentine
surely with the coming of each l'-b
--ruary. Then by and by her parents had
moved to the city, and his hope grew
fainter each year. Later he had come
to the city, too, but fie did not know her
address. Jle had never married. He
told himself that she must have mar
ried long ago and that the valentine
would never come. And yet he had
never ceased to think of it when the
day came around, and in his heart he
had never ceased to look for it. When
the shop windows were filled with val
entines he would go from one to an
other. looking at them all and wonder
ing which she would send. lie' had
done this more and more as he grew
old--:', and to do; lie bad bought valeu
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1899
tines for the two little gir'* because
one of them —Katie—had reminded him
of the little girl for whom he had
bought valentines so long ago.
"If it iloe.s not come to-morrow," he
thought, with a faint smile, "it will be
too late." For he had been more feeble
than usual this winter, and his doctor
hud told him that he could hardly hope
to live through another. Then he
closed his eyes and slept, and perhaps
as he slept he dreamed.
He slept so late the next morning
that his old servant was alarmed, but
near noon he awoke and asked for his
mail. The servant brought it. There
were two or three small envelopes, let
ters, probably, and one package —a
handsome white box, tied with blue and
pink ribbons. Then he put out his ha nil
tremblingly and touched it. lie wished
to be sure that it was not a part of his
dreams. lie was so pale that the fid
servant was frightened.
"Are you ill—worse?" he asked.
"No —no! 1 am well. Open—open
the box."
The servant untied the ribbons care
fully. Within was a beautiful valen
tine. The old inuii stretched his hand
for it. It was very handsome, and in
the center was a poem that told of love
and constancy through all time. The
servant read it to him.
"See if there is any address on it—
anything to tell where it was sent
from."
The old servant looked carefully.
There was no address.
"Then she will come to me. I »hall
see her to-morrow —perhaps to-day."
The rest of his mail remained unno
ticed. It was a beautiful w inter after
noon and the sunlight shone through
the west window into the room where
the old man waited, holding the white
box, tied with blue and pink ribbons.
By and by the servant went out and left
him there. When he returned it was
near evening. The old man still held
the little white box and his face was
turned toward the gates of sunset. But
his eyes were closed and he was look
ing through the gates of —eternity.
And perhaps she had come to him, for
when Katie's grandmother heard of old
Mr. Fessenden she said, reflectively:
"I used to know of a young man by
that name more than 40 years ago. lie
lived in the next town to us and went
with a girl whose folks moved to the
city just before we did. I didn't know
'em very well, but I heard once that
about a year after they came here she
died." —Albert Bigelow l'ainc, in N. Y.
Herald.
A DAY OF MATING.
St. Valentine'* Day, a* Celebrated by
the Romans, W'a* the Time
to CllooMe Mate*.
Mr. Donee, in his illustrations of
Shakespeare, 'says, regarding St. Val
entine's day:"it was the practice in
ancient Koine, during a greater part of
the month of February, to celebrat?
the Luperealia, which were feasts in
honor of Pan and Juno, whence the lat
ter deity was named Februata, Febru
aljs and Februella. On this occasion,
amidst a variety of ceremonies, the
names of young women were putin n
Ikix, from which they were drawn by
the men us chance directed. The pas
tors of the early Christian church, w ho
by every possible mealis endeavored
to eradicate the vestiges of pagan su
perstitions, substituted in the present
instance the names of the particular
saints instead of tho.se of the women,
and as the festival of Luperealia had
commenced about the middle of Feb
ruary. they appear to have chosen St.
Valentine's day for celebrating the new
feast, because it occurred at nearly the
same time. This is, in part, the opin
ion of the learned compiler of the lives
of the saints. It would s«»m. however
that it was utterly impossible to extir
pate altogether any ceremony to which
the common people bad been much ac
customed. a fact which it is easy to
prove in tracing the origin of various
other popular superstitions, and ac
cording the outline of ancient ceremo
nies was preserved, but modified by
some adaptation to the Christian sys
tem. It is reasonable to suppose that
the above practice of choosing mates
would gradually become reciprocal ir
the sexes,and that all persons so chosen
would be called valentines, from the
day on which the ceremony took place."
—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A SUSPICIONS COINCIDENCE,
Mrs. Slimdiet—Yes; I got 17 comic
valentines to-day, and I shall expect you
all to settle tip at once.
Chorus of Boarders- —Cut surely, Mrs.
Slimdiet, you do not accuse us of send
ing the valentines?
Mrs. Slimdiet —I make no accusations
whatever, gentlemen. I only know that
I have IV boarders. —X. Y. World.
Could Nol I nde rfita ml It.
"There's one thing." said the prac
tical joker, "that 1 coul<i itver under
stand."
"What is that?"
"Why, when 1 can pick out such gen
uinely witty comic valentines to send
out to my friends, they should mal-.t
such blundering and brutal selection
| to send to me." —Washington Star.
TURMOIL IN SAMOA.
Ulvnl Faction* Continue Their U»r*
fare l oiiaiilt at l.ossi'rlifailn,
Auckland, N. /.., Feb. 2.—The follow
ing advices have just been received here
from Apia, Samoa, under date of Janu
ary 24: There has been no further
general fighting between the partisans
of the rival ehieftans since the last ad
vices were forwarded except that a
party of Mataafa's followers was
routed in the bush by Malietoans. It
is expected, however, that fighting will
be resumed, as Mataafa is re-arresting
persons who have been already fined
and released. The work of pillage con
tinues, among the houses looted being
the home of Ihe late Hobert L. Steven
osn, the novelist.
The exiled Malietoan chiefs were
land at Pago I 'ago, on the island of
Tutuila, the schooner on which they
were being unable to proceed to the
(aland of Manua, owing to adverse
winds. The Tutuilan* gave tlr*m a
hearty welcome and made an attempt
to seize Mataafa's son. who was on
board the schooner, but the captain
put to sea.
There has been a collision of author
ity between Chief Justice William 1..
Chambers, of the supreme court, and
famines llaffel. the (ierman president
if the municipality of Apia. Herr
lirosmuhl, a (lerman resident of Apia,
who was arrested for smashing the
windows of the supreme court cham
ber. was sentenced bv the chief justice
to imprisonment and to pay a fine,
llaffel instructed the police authorities
to release lirosmuhl, whose fine was
subsequently fixed at Sl/XX).
The (ierman consul, Herr Rose,
thereupon wrote to the American con
sul, Lloyd W. Osborne, and the British
consul. E. I'. Maxse, protesting that
the action of the chief justice in fining
firosmuhl was an infringement of Ger
man consular rights. Messrs. Osborne
mil Maxse jointly replied in their offi
cial capacity that, the proper tribunal
having dealt with the matter, the con
suls could not interfere. More than
this, they declined to have further in
tercourse with the (ierman consul or
the (ierman municipal president except
in writing, or to attend meetings, ex
cept to consider the acts of the munici
pal council of Apia, unless an apology
with full retraction was offered for the
behavior toward Chief Justice Cham
bers. At the same time the supreme
court summoned Baffel for contempt
of court in releasing (irosmuhl.
WEARY OF DELAY.
I nili' Sam Think* the Uelauon Hay
Arbitrator* are Too Slow.
London, Feb. 2.—The Berne corres
pondent of the Pall Mall Gazette tele
graphs that the decision of the arbitra
tors in the Dtdagoa bay dispute may be
expected not later than June. It is
added that the l*iited States threatens
in the event of further unreasonable
delay to make grave representations to
the federal council, which appointed
the arbitrators and that EngTand will
join in these representations.
The interest of the Tnited States in
the Delagoa bay railroad arbitration is
due to the fact that the interests of
the late Mr. Mc.Murdo are involved in
it. In the course of the negotiations
bet ween England and Portugal as to
the action of the latter power in East
Africa the claims of the Delagoa Hay
Railway Co. for compensation for the
seizure of the line by Portugal in IS,S3
were brought forward. Eventually it
was decided that <ie Swiss fed. ral
council should appoint arbitrators in
the matter and the case has been lie
fore them ever since. The delay is
greatly due to the fact that the gov
ernment of Portugal presented a coun
ter claim to which the company sent a
reply and Portugal then made a re
joinder. The McMurdo claim, it has
been asserted, would lie settled with
an award of a sum under $1Q,00(J,000.
CUTTING DOWN THE ARMY.
An Orilcr Co Cluster l 1.000 Volunteer*
Out of tlie Service l» Ifcaued.
Washington, Feb. 2.—The war de
partment yesterday issued an order to
muster out about 15,000 volunteer
troops. The regiments are: First
Maryland, now at Augusta, Ga.; Third
Mississippi and Second Missouri, at
Albany, (la.; Eighth and Thirteenth
Pennsylvania, at Augusta, Ga.; Four
teenth Pennsylvania at Somerville, S.
Fourth Texas, at San Antonio,
Tex.; Fourth Wisconsin, at Anniston,
Ala.; Seventh volunteer infantry, at
Macon, Ga.; Eighth volunteer infan
try, at Macon, Ga.; Eighth volunteer
infantry, at Chickamauga; Tenth vol
unteer infantry, at Macon, Ga.
This order presages the abolition of
the entire Second army corps now com
manded by Maj. (ien. Young and for
merly under (ien. Graham's commamV
All of the regiments ordered mustered
out are attached to that corps and
their loss will leav# only ten regiments.
These will be formed into four inde
pendent brigades and placed in camp
permanently at Augusta, Ga., and
Greenville, S. C. Three regiments or
dered out yesterday, the Seventh,
Eighth and First volunteer infantry,
are colored regiments.
Foretold (lie Hour of lli« Death.
New York, Feb. 2. —Rev. George H.
Simons, of Urooklyn, predicted his own
death, which occurred at midnight
Tuesday, of pneumonia. Last Decem
ber, during a heavy snow storm, he
visited a sick child and caught a chill.
Since then he had been ailing and on
Tuesday was quite feeble, but was not
apparently in any immediate danger.
To his wife, however, lie said: "I do
not believe 1 will live after midnight."
Mr. Simons, who was pastor <>! Wykotl
Street Methodist church, had been an
impressive figure in Brooklyn for n
long time.
Found a #lO,llOO Shortage.
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 2.—lnvestigation
of the books of Robert Leailley, late
chief clerk of the police justices'
courts, lias resulted in showing a
shortage of SIO,IOB. Lead ley i< widely
known in baseball circles, having once
been manager of the Cleveland Nation
al league team and manager of the De
troits when in the National league.
Lead ley's term as police court clerk ex
pired several months ago. The judge
who had the appointing allowed him to
hold over without reappointing him,
and his bondsmen are not considered
liable, Lcadley is missing.
AN EXPENSIVE FIRE.
roltimbiift, 0., In Vl»lted l>) " £750,000
Hlaze Kneml Firemen Very HnJly
Hurt.
Columbus, 0., Feb. 2.—'The most seri
9us conflagration which has visited Co
lumbus since the Chittenden hotel tire
of 1893 visited Columbus last night.
Half a block of fine buildings in the
heart of the business portion of the
town was destroyed. The fire is
thought to have started in the base
ment of the Dunlap 'building, occupied
by th** Chicago Bankrupt ( lothing Co
It swept up the elevator shaft and soon
the whole building was ablaze.
The audience in tiie High Street the
ater, which is across an alley from the
burning block, was dismissed in a hur
ry. and this crowd was soon swelled to
enormous proportions by people from
all parts of the city. The tire soon
communicated to the Jones block on
the left and the Soulder & Bright
building on the right, and these with
the wholesale millinery store of Sould
er & Bright and the store of D. S. Ain
bach. clothing, were as complete
wrecks as the Dunlap building.
A fire wall four feet thick separated
tlii' fine block of Green, Joyce & Co.,
wholesale dry goods and notions, from
the others, but this was no barrier, and
at ! o'clock this morning the fire had
eaten i!s wav through and was burning
fiercely in the upper stories.
At 11with scarcely any warning,
the front and rear walls of the Dunlap
building, as though rent asunder by
an explosion, fell, one on High street
and the other completely filling the
alley in Hie rear with bricks'and de
bris. Fortunately the police had kept
the street fairly clear, or the loss of
life would have been enormous. As it
was a number of firemen were caught
while flying front the crumbling walls
Whitey Davis is missing, and while
his comrades and the police are mak
ing every effort to discover his remains,
they have not yet been found, (apt.
.Tack Welch is seriously injured. Otis
V. Kilbonrne was bruised about the
head and body and may die. John
Donahue was hurt internally; has bad
scalp wounds. Charles Connors was
badly injured.
Miss Carrie Johnson was knocked
down and run over by n hose reel. Her
riirht leg was broken. She has nu
merous other injuries and is in a pre
carious condition. Scores of other peo
ple were -lightly injured when the
walls gave way by flying debris. The
State Journal places the entire loss at
$750,000.
TOOK FLIGHT SUDDENLY.
The Notorious Count liwterliazy Leave*
Pari* 1« li«<-Hi»e Arrest—Latent l*liH»e
ol'the lire} 111* A Hair,
Paris. Fell. 2.—Count Ferdinand Es
tcrhaz\ was officially informed on
Tuesday that, his testimony before the
court of cassation in the Dreyfus in
quiry being concluded, proceedings
against him on criminal charges would
be resumed in 24 hours. He left I'aris
at once.
Esterhazy's flight to evade arrest on
the charges brought against him by
his cousin, Christian Ksterliazy, of ob
taining money under fraudulent pre
tenses. i< the sensation of the day. On
reading the warning letter wiiich was
brought to him by a detective, ICster
hazy swore and called the letter a
"trick worthy of the beasts I have had
to deal with."
It is understood that the hasty with
drawal of the sale conduct granted him
was the outcome of his cavalier treat
ment of M. Bertulus, the magistrate.
The latest victim of the anti-Dreyfus
part v is (.rand llabbi Xadok Khan, who
is being denounced as the "ringleader
of the infamous Jewish conspiracy
against France," on the strength of a
story .just published to the effect that,
after Dreyfus was sentenced, the rabbi,
at the request of Matthew Dreyfus,
tried to get through a friendly Jewish
officer in Esterhazy's regiment some
particulars as to the counts move
ments.
Le Soir demands the resignation of
the rabbi, and as the latter is virtually
a state official it is not unlikely that
the agitation will become a serious
matter for him. Curiously enough, the
editor of Le Soir, which is one of the
most violent of the anti-Dreyfus or
gans, is himself a Jew, named Gaston
I'ollonias. According to a dispatch
from Cayenne, capital of French Gui
ana, Dreyfus was so angry on learning
that ( apt. Renault had asserted that
Dreyfus confessed nt the time of his
trial and degradation that he declined
to answer any more of the questions
put to him by the court of cassation
unless taken back to France.
Itottredam, Feb. 2.—Ferdinand Fs
tcrluizy arrived here yesterday from
Paris and let't immediately for Amster
dam.
SECRET WAS WELL KEPT.
IndlctmeiitM Airalii«t Slierlfl" .Hartiii
mill lli« Deputies WfrfUuimlii'd Sev
eral tlolltllK A jto.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.. Feb. 2.—District
Attorney Martin, who prosecuted the
case against Sheriff James Martin for
the killing of 21 miners and the wound
ing <>f over 50 others by the sheriff's
deputies at Lattimer in September,
1807, announced yesterday that the re
maining indictments against the sher
iff and his deputies had been nolle
prossed. Sheriff Martin was placed on
trial 112 ir murder one year ago and was
acquitted. There still remained 19 in
dictments for murder and 30 for felon
ious wounding against the sheriff and
his (is deputies, which are now dis
posed of. The nolle prosequis were en
tered last September, but owing to the
fear of the effect of publicity fin the
miners it was deemed advisable to
withhold the announcement until all
danger of an outbreak had pasesd.
Tom Jmliiimoii'm Now Departure.
New York, Feb. 2.—Tom L. Johnson,
capitalist, ex-congressman and the late
Henry George's most prominent disci
pie. announces that he has determined
to relinquish his business cares and de
vote the rest of his life to promulgat
ing the doctrines of the single tav.
Fatal Call lor Four*
Dubois. Pa., Feb. 2. —One man was
instantly killed and three others fatal
ly injured yesterday by falling a dis
tance of 50 feet while working on a
bridge on the extension of the Buffalo,
Rochester A Pittsburg railroad near
Punxsutawne\\
I CHEAT RECORD.
Business Failures in January
Were Very Few.
THE REVIEW OF TRADE.
The Remarkable Gains in Many
Branches Continue.
DECLINE IN WHEAT'S PRICE.
A r»r<>|> o( Five (>iil« I* N'otrd for tlio
Lu»l Willi Market lor Cotton unci
\l oolcll t.ooilx Ik Strolllroll l'rud
urt.H Advance in I'rice.
New York, Feb. 4. —R. O. Dun Co.'3
Weekly lieview of Trade says: Failures
in January were smaller than in any
previous month except August, IH9B,
and July, 1v.17. There were only seven
failures for 8100,000 or more, and the
average of liabilities per failure is
smaller than in January of any other
year, and the small failures are not
only fewer in number but smaller in
average liabilities than in any previous
year.
The volume of business in January
was far beyond all precedent. Ex
changes through clearing houses were
44 per cent, larger than last year, and
59.7 per cent, larger than in 1892, and
while speculation in stocks at New
York materially increases the volume
of payments, it was larger outside this
city by 33.3 per cent than in 1892. The
remarkable expansion in the aggre
gate of business payments comes in
spite of a material decline in prices
during the past seven years, so great
that payments of $82,000, t. 00 would
cover about as much business as pay
ments of 5i00. 000,000 in 1892. It is not
strange that European exchanges are
disturbed. The most remarkable fea
ture of the week has been the decline
of five cents in wheat, with only half
a cent in corn and only a sixteenth in
cotton. The government estimate of
the wheat cr0p,675,000,000 bushels, had
more influence than any other from
that source for years, because it is rec
ognized as the result of great elforts
to get at the truth, and is therefore
considered about the lowest estimate
admissible.
A very strong market for cotton
goods has prevailed. The advance in
goods has been unusual and has been
sustained by heavy buying, especially
of print cloths and kindred products.
The prospect is that the outco will
place dealers and manufacturers in a
stronger position than they have held
for years. A better tone appears in the
woolen goods market also.
The iron industry is advancing prices
of products rather than of materials,
l'ig has remained without change this
week, anticipating that six or seven
furnaces will be put into blast as soon
as possible. The demand is strong,
but apparently urgent at the chief
markets. Eastern bars and plates
have advanced with very heavy de
maud, and cut nails have been hoisted
by tfle association of makers. The
rush of orders for the future does not
cease and the works are generally cov
ered for months ahead with orders.
Failures for the week were 224 in the
United States, against 335 last year,
and 24 in Canada, against 30 last year.
Tlx* Kxpo Will a <■<>.
Philadelphia, Feb. 4.—Mayor War
wick has signed the ordinance author
izing •' temporary loan of $200,000 for
the erection of buildings for the Phila
delphia museum exposition of manu
factured goods of tin' United States,
to be held in this city next fall. This
will -liable the exposition managers
to comply with the conditions attach
ed to U'ie congres.iioual impropriation
aiding the exposition. The congres
sional appropriation provides that the
$300,000 appropriated shall not be avail
able until an equal sum shall have been
raised from other sources.
Iloli l ((narantiiied.
Olivia, Neb., Feb. 4.—Tile spectacle
of an entire hotel full of guests being
quarantined and armed policemen
standing at every door and window to
prevent the people escaping is present
ed in Omaha. Friday morning three
cases of smallpox were discovered at
tlii- Vt'Vdome hotel, located in tin- cen
ter of the city. The health depart
ment was notified and a squad of po
licemen raced to the scene and when
the guests started on their morning
duties They were driven back into the
house by force.
MllO.l III)- ill (lie C'liair.
Albany, N. Y.. Feb. 4.—The court of
appeals has handed down an order di
recting the warden of Sing Sing prison
to electrocute Mrs. Martha Place, some
time during the week beginning Feb
ruary 20. Mrs. Place Killed her step
daughter at. their home in lirooklyn.
Tin' governor was petitioi«»d by women
to commute the sentence to imprison
ment for life, but he has refused to
interfere.
lti»li<>|> O'Hara IMi'«.
Scranton, Pa., Feb. 4. —iliyht Rev.
William O'lhira, the venerable bishop
of the lionian Catholic diofci*se of Scran
ton, died last night, after a lingering
illness, lie was 82 years old.
l'lilll|> tiolii a Sworil.
Xew York, Feb. 4. —Commodore
Philip was presented with a sword and
album Inst night ;it the residence of
(Jen. Daniel lUittertield, in recognition
of his services at the naval battle of
Santiago, July :i, 180S. Gov. Itoosevelt
presented the sword to Commodore
I'll i 1 i p.
I'oimln ->> I9ar<i Itonixls.
Xew York, Feb. 4. —.1 in* Bernstein,
r>f Xew *1 orU. got the. decision over
Y*>ung Pluto, of South Africa, at the
Lireeiiwood Whletie club in Brooklyn
la~t night after n liai'4 tight of 110
i ry'iui'.U. .
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