NEWS OF THE WEEK
~—Willlam Moses, an engineer of the
Bennett Slope, near Kingston, Penna.
on the 30th ult,, accidently caused the
death of a miner in the slope by hoist-
ing a cage from the bottom of the
shaft, supposing everything to be clear.
When Moses learned what had hap-
pened he committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself in the head. The dead
body of 8. R. Gordon, with the throat
cut, was found in Lincoln Park, Chi-
cago, on the 30th ult. The sum of
$250 was found in his pocketbook, and
he bad a silver watch with a gold
chain. Letters in his pocket indicate
that he was from Philadelphia.
~The amount stolen from the Adams
Express car on the St. Louis and San
Francisco railsoad on the 25th ult.1s now
astimated at from $100,000 to $120,000.
The post-office at Mount Vernon, Ohio,
was robbed on the 20th ult., of about
$2000 in money and stamps. Joseph
Green, bookkeeper for a firm in Louis-
ville, Kentucky, was knocked down
with a slug shot and robbed of money,
valuable and clothes in one of the
streets of that city on the 20th ult. His
injuries are fatal.
--The San Francisco Bulletin pub-
lishes a letter from Apia, dated October
15, which says that *“‘authentic news
has reached Samoa to the effect that on
the morning of September 10 over one
hundred heavy shocks of earthquake
occurred on the Island of Ninafou, one
of the Tonga group, and that from the
bottom of the lake, which is two thou-
sand feet deep, a mountain has arisen
to the height of three hundred feet |
above its surface; also that this wnoun-
tain has burst out in flames and thrown
out hot stones and sand In such quanti-
ties as to destroy two-thirds of the
cocoanut trees onthe island. In Samoa
“light shocks of earthquake occur so
frequently now that thev no longer
cause any alarm.”
—There was another shock of earth- |
quake at Summerville, South Carolina,
at 25 mmutes past 8 o'clock cn the
morning of the 1st, but no damage
was done. The ‘‘spring’’ started in
_ the Custom House yard at Charleston
on the 3lst ult.,, was not of seismic
origin, but came from a break in a
water pipe.
~At Scranton, Penna., on the 1st,
James Caflrey, aged 7 years; James
Dougherty, aged 7; John Dougherty,
aged 6, and Ellen Dougherty, aged 3,
were killed by the falling in of a sand
bank under which they were playing.
—The total coinage of the U. S.
Mints during October amounted in
value to $4,172,100. The number of
a dollars turned out was 3,000,-
—James Hindle, alias MeDonald, a |
potorious counterfeiter, was arrested
in Minneapolis on the 30th ult. He |
had been passing counterfeit silver
dollars, his spuricus coin heing “nearly
a perfect counterpart of the genuine,”
He confessed that the stuff was made
by a gang near Omaha, and also said |
that a gang had been organized to rob |
banks and stores in St. Paul and Min- |
neapolis, Eleven thousand of his bogus !
dollars were found in a cave near Cedar
Lake,
—Two boilers in the Charleston Cot- |
ton Factory, at Charlestown, South
Carolina, burst on the 2d, wrecking
the boiler house, killing one man and
dangerously Injuring another, Five
hundred men are temporarily thrown
out of work by the disaster,
-A fire at Shumway, Illinois, on the
mill, two dwellings, a warehouse, a
store and a barrel factory. Loss,
$30,000.
~—On the arrival of a Lake Shore
tram from Chicago at Toledo, Ohio, on
the 1st, it was discovered that the
out food or water. The captain stated
that the bark broke up and sank on
October 10th during a hurricane. Tbe
remainder of the crew, seven men, are
supposed to have gone down with her.
—(eneral Booth, of the Salvation
Army, left Chicage on the 2d for Kan-
sas City, Before he left farewell ser-
vices were held in Central Music Hall,
which was filled. The corner-stons of
the new ‘“‘barracks’’ to be built in Chi-
cago was laid on the 2d, and it was
announced that a lady who recently
joined the ranks had subscribed $7500
toward its erection.
~An express train on the Erie Rail-
road ran into a party of Itallan laborers
engaged in ballasting, at Hankins, on
the 3d. Two of them were killed and
two fatally injured. They had just
stepped on the east-bound track to
avoid a west-bound freight train,
~The boller of the steamer Coxsackie
burst on the 3d at Poughkeepsie, kill-
ing Matthew Quinn and dangerously
scalding another man. A despatch
from Pittsburg says a large quantity of
powder stored in the cellar of Rend &
Robins’ general store at MecDonald
Station was exploded on the 3d by some
person carelessly throwing a lighted
match near it. Two clerks in the store
were seriously injured. The bullding
was completely wrecked, ‘‘The de-
struction of the store will be seriously
felt by 800 coal miners who dealt
there.”
— Hester Armstrong. colored, about
40 years of age, was burned to death |
near Berlin, Maryland, on the 30th |
ult., by the explosion of a can of coal |
oil which she left standing on a stove |
after having used some of it to start
the fire, Her mother was badly burned |
in trying to save her, Louis Lechleich- |
ner perished by the burning of his |
house, in Steubenville, Ohio, on the |
Jlst ult, His wife and chilnren were
saved.
—The Chickasaw Cooperage Com- |
pany’s works at Memphis, Tennessee,
were burnedjon the 4th. Loss, $100,- |
The works
employed 50 men. The court house at |
Lancaster, New IHampshire, was
burned on the 4th, with all the records, |
The loss on the building Is about §20,- |
000; insurance, £10,000, It is supposed |
the fire was caused by an explosion of
gas in the furnace. ‘*‘Heating ap-!
paratus improvements’’ were being!
tested, and at half-past two o'clock |
a “terrific explosion was heard and |
immediately flames burst from the |
front door, windows and roof.” Fifty
buildings, comprising two and a half |
blocks in Southampton, Ontario, were |
burned on the 4th, Thirty families are |
homeless, The loss is estimated at |
$50,000; insurance $12,000, A fire at |
Dalhouse, New Brunswick, on the 3d, |
destroyed twenty-two buildings in the |
Battleford, Manitoba, on the 4th, de- |
News establishment and two stores,
—Mangus, head chief of the Chirlea- |
hua Apaches, passed through Kansas |
City on the 4th, with thirteen other |
Indians, male and female, on the way |
“While the |
party were going through Colorado
Mangus jumped through the car win- |
dow and ran some distance before he
was recaptured. Then he obtained a |
knife and stabbed himself in half a
On the 4th he attacked his interpreter,
striking the man about the head with
the shackles on his wrists,
election night by Polk Hill, colored, in
Washington county, Texas. It is sald
the assassination was the result of a
conspiracy, Bolton having made him-
self politically obnoxious to the ne-
groes, Seven arrests have been made,
but Hill is yet at large.
-A well dressed young man, travel
ing in the interest of an advertising
scheme, who registered at a hotel In
Baltimore, fell dead on the street on
the 6th. Letters found in his satchel
showed that his name was W. R.
Woodruff, He had said he was from
Chicago. No money was found among
his effects. Joseph Harris was crushed
to death in a quarry at Allentown,
Penna,, on the 6th, by a large rock
falling upon him,
~The business portion of Chelsea,
Wisconsin, was nearly destroyed by fire
on the 1st, Loss, $25,000,
-—A man who gave the name of
Thomas Collins was arrested at Chica-
go on the 4th while tampering with a
Lake Shore switch, He was held in
$1700, He was recognized as one of
the former employes of the road,
—John and Nathaniel Parsons,
brothers, were killed on the 5th on a
mine railroad near Birmingham, Ala- |
bama, by the collision of their hand- |
car with a stone train.
— Lawrence Donovan, of New York,
wko some time ago jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river at
New York, jumped from the new sus- |
pension bridge at Niagara Falls into |
the river below at seven o'clock on the |
morning of the 7th, His jump was |
witnessed by four or five persons. He |
for a Buffalo paper, and a Professor |
“le made the jump success- |
fully, a distance of 190 feet. He went |
straight down, feet first. He came up
but struck out for
in which were Drew and!
was taken in and stimulants |
were given mm, He is not seriously |
One rib is broken and ns hip is |
He said before he got out of
water that be would not jump
again for a million.”
— Adam David, of Pottsville, Penna.,
was found in the woods pear Schuyl- |
kill Haven, on the 7th, with his
throat cut. It 18 not known whether |
he committed suicide or was murdered.
— Willis McNair, colored, was serv- |
ing on a Ubpited States jury in Little
Rock, Arkansas, on the 6th. The
for breakfast, but the proprietor re- |
fused to admit McNalr, The same
action was taken at the Capital Hotel.
The facts were reported to Judge Cald-
well, and he sald the jurors were offi.
cers of the law and could not be separ- |
ated. They were sent back with a
United States Marshal, Mr. Knot
again refused to admit MeNalr, but |
the Capital restaurant fdrnished a
meal for the party.
—De¢. Ralph I.. Stone, 22 years of
age, committed suicide in his room in |
the County Hospital at Brooklyn, New
York, on the bth.
-— An attempt was made on the 5th to
assassinate William Carr and his family
Carr and
al the
ng on
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Yolley
unloading corn
barn, a nine-year-old danghter bei
Saddenly a
thicket near by,
received a por
buckshot, Its
mortally wounded,
of shots came from a
and each of the three
tion of two loads
thought all are
ail
of
—The boller of an engine on the!
4th pear David Station, Killing an en- |
gineer named Deliaven and a brakeman |
pamed Given. Another train hand was
severely injured.
—The President of the National
Bank of Peoria, who disappeared about
a year ago with $200,000 of the bank’s
tion is going on.
- John Hooley, advance agent for the
**Rag Baby,” committed suicide by
New York, on the 2d, It is believed
| be was Insane. Frank D. Bacon, aged
90 years, a commercial traveler, on the
2d, committed suicide in New Haven,
' by cutting his throat, He was des-
pondent from illness.
~The failure was announced on the
2d of Richard Preston, dealer In
worsted and tailors’ trimmings,
| of Boston, His liabilities are placed
at from $100,000 to $150,000,
~A resident of Washington recent
ly sent to the U, 8. Treasury for re-
| demption three thousand three hundred
and seventy dollars mm Continental
‘notes, of the issue of 1778-9, In de-
| nominations of $50, $55, $60, $70 and
Though yellow from , the
are in good condition, but the
Comptroller has decided that
ard barred by time and cannot
redeemed.”
a designating Thursday,
November 25th, as a day of thanks
| giving and prayer.
pct, ay om
1 y wou er husband,
with an axe, at New Castle, Ohio, on the
24, on the 31 she was adjudged insane,
McCabe and his three sons,
James and Charles, met Robert
linas and Virginia and the District of
The shock at Charleston,
experienced at half-past twelve o'clock
P. M., was slight, though Emazked. * |
Chesterfield, Laurens. Abbeville and |
that the shock to«lay at those places |
was more severe than in Charlesto..
At Walterboro it Was so severe as to
“make people rush into the streets and
to cause the Circuit Court to adjourn
without ceremony.” At Columbia the
shock was felt at 12.23. It was accom-
panied by *‘the usual loud detonations.”
The vibrations continued forty seconds,
Buildings were violently shaken and
people rushed out into the streets,
The shock was probably severer than
any experienced since August 3lst,
At Sumter and Greenwood the shocks
were very severe, All the schools were
in session at the time of the shock,
One pupil in a colored school was
crushed in the panic of the pupils, and
several pupils in the Shaw school
(colored) were slightly injured by fall
ing plastering. At Savannah a sharp
shock was felt just as the clocks were
strinking 12. ‘Tybee Island reports it
the heaviest felt there since August
31, and preceded by loud rumbling. It
lasted thirty seconds, and people all
rushed lato the streets. No damage
was done beyond the cracking of glass. ”’
At Angusta the shock was felt at 12.26
Pr. M. It lasted twenty-five seconds
and caused the people to rush into the
streets, At Macon and Columbus the
shocks werg light. At Wilmington,
North Carolina, the shock wad sharp
and at Ralei
ceptible,”
Washington at 12.30 pr.
«Mrs. John Rushton, divorced from
Frederick Roberts, lives with her sec-
Carrs, was arrested ‘and made a con-
fession.”’
—Snow fell yesterday in Western
Pennsylvania, Northern New York,
Vermont, New dampshire and Maine,
The depth ranged from one inch at
Pittsburg to five at Whitehall, New
York, and six at Middlebury, Ver-
mont, The heaviest thunder storm
known there for years passed over
Bangor, Maine, on the night of the 6th,
“Rain fell in torrents, the wind blew
a gale and heavy thunder and vivid
bghtning continued almost uninter-
ruptedly’ from 10 o'clock on the night
of the Tth., The agncultural shed |
also fences and limbs of trees
~=A moderately strong shock of |
Carolina, about 11 o'clock on the night |
of the Tth. It was preceded and ac- |
companied by the usual rumbling
sounds, though ina somewhat milder
form than has been usual of late. The
shock was perhaps of ten or twelve
seconds’ dumtiop, and was generally |
felt throughout the State. It was fol.
lowed In about five minutes by another
shock, which, however, was quite mod-
erate,
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Whose Face?
Bome faces are supremely falr,
Bome sparkling in thelr splendor;
Some are demure and debonair,
And rome divinely tender.
Bome win us with one fatal glance
From eyes too brightly beaming;
Bome smile that smile that brings a trance,
Till life 1s Jost in dreaming.
Bome flirt before us, sweet and gay,
To fill our hearts with laughter;
Then fade as fancies fade away,
And leave no achings after,
And some-—some faces, sorrow-kissed,
When holiest thoughts are thronging;
Come back, come always in the mist
Of everlasting longing.
Bo faces come atid faces go;
Bome make existence sweeter;
And some, they make life sad, we know;
Yet being sad, completer,
Until one face comes up at last,
(Heaven knows each heart; don’t doubt
it)
The future fades, the past is past]
We cannot live without it!
We ask not if men call her sweet,
Or fair, or wise, or clever;
We ask we passionately entreat,
"Will you be mine forever?’
AR ST THT,
ON A MOUNTAIN LEDGE.
"we
“Senorital S-s-t! Senorita!” reached
in a low whisper the ears of Senorita
swung lazily In the hammock on the
wide verandah.
“Who is it?" she asked in Spanish.
“Pablo!" came in the same low whis |
per.
A tall negro, showing in the slightly
coppery hue of the skin the mixture of |
Iadian blood, stole cautiously
the open space between the house and
the thick bushes, and almost crawling,
reached the place where his young mis-
tress was,
“Well, Pablo, what
BCTOSS
news?"
demanded the young girl,
“All lost, senorital All lost!”
“And Don Enrique?”
“Out in de bush dar, hidin’ 'n
canes,’
“But why don’t he come in?
does he want to stay there for?”
“Indians chasin’ of him--de Canca- |
nos," answered the peon gravely.
“What!”
“Yes, senorita,
And Don Enrique he say
mountains now, quick.”
“What does he want?”
“Want some money, an’
an’ some clothes, senorita.’
The young girl hesitated a moment,
and then said, sharply:
“Pablo, go to Don Enrique, and tell |
him to go to the old hut down in the |
swamp. I'll be there in hall an hour.”
As the peon turned to execute the
order, the girl ran into the
once more silence fell upon
eageriy |
de |
What
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UNEUCCess-
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The revolut one of those
ful revolutions of which the
Columbia is {ull, was
Don Enrique Gonzales found himself
on,
history of
iust over, and
on the losing side.
Under circumstances he
might have surrendered; bul when he
beard that the dreaded Indians of the
great Canca Valley had been placed
upon his track, he knew there was
nothing to do but fly. For these
men are noted in the northern part of
the fact that thes
never give or take quarter, They are
like human bloodhounds, there one idea
is to kill. Don Eprique had good rea-
son to make the most of his time with
the Cancanos after him.
Down in the cane swamp
ordinary
to
stood an |
right sticks split from the black palm, |
and lashed to cross pieces, and the roof |
Here, sitting on a |
log in the shadow, was Don Enrique, a |
young fellow about twenty seven, while |
lying on the ground was the peon,
Pablo.
Suddenly the Peon raised his head.
“Somethin’ comin’, senor!”
The two listened for a minute, and
then through the only path to the hut
came a large mule, saddled and bridled,
followed by another one, upon which
was the senor.ta
Don Enrique had the girl in his
arms almost before the animal stopped
moving, and the whispered words of
endearment, the rapturous kisses and
looks which the two gave each other,
told the old, old story plainly,
“Bat, dearest, why have you got
your habit?” he asked at last,
*“Because—because—— Oh "Rique,
you must let me go with youl” she said,
trembling as she spoke.
“Impossible! You do not know what
this trip means,”
“Bat I must! To day,” she went on,
with a blush, “would have been our
wedding, and [ cannot-—I cannot-let
you go alone!"
“In great perplexity, Don Enrique
looked at the peon for advice.
Pablo had served his father as well as
himself, and Pablo's forefathers had
mrved the house, first as slaves, and
then as freemen, ever since the first
Gonzales had settled in the valley, In
reply to the look, the peon gave a grunk
“But but, Mercedes,” said the
young man, turning to her, “how could
you cross the mountains?”
“Pablo can carry me—can you not,
Pablo?”
“Yes, senorita,’ the peon answered,
“Very well,” he answered in ares
igued tone. “But we've got to start
now, Come on, Pablo.”
Treaties tiniines,
Placing the girl on her mule again,
the peon, the party made their way
out of of the cane into the main road.
Once on this, they pushed ahead rapid-
ly, Pablo keeping up without the slight-
est difliculty,
The road, which at first was good,
gradually got wilder and rougher, un.
til as they went up the mountains, the
mules wo 'd stop and pant every now
and then before beginning one of the
frightful climbs, during which they had
to almost spring from rock to rock.
Still up, and up, the mules climbed,
urged on as much as possible by their
riders, j
Suddenly Pablo, who had been look.
ing baek, said
“Look, senor.”
And Don Enrique, turning, saw far
below a string of what seemed like lit-
tle brown boys, carrying long sticks,
crossing an open space.
“Eight, nine, ten,” he counted, ina
“Well, if we
loosening his revolver.
“No fight here, senor,”
peon earnestly, “No good here, Up
“All right, Pablo.”
And once more the mules were urged
jut if the
fugitives had seen their pursuers, they
bad in turn been seen, and the race be.
gan between The Wis
them, road
At one side the rocks towered above
though they
while, on the other
hand, a hideous, yawning lLarranca, as
crevices in the
went
then until It seemed as
down sheer some six or seven hundred
feet,
More and more frightful became the
pass until the young girl was forced
to cover her eyes with her hand, unable
tn look out any longer. Long before
Don Euorique rode behind. The mules,
the wonderful instinct which
marks them, stepped ag caaefully as
cats, trying every stone before resting
their weight upon It. Suddenly Pablo
“Get down here, senorita,” he sad,
as, her from the saddle, he
You too, senor,
3
iifting
The ledge made a sharp turn to the
right, and on the turn was not more
than two feet wide. While Don Enri-
had been riding
round the turn, Then he returned to
Holding on to the rough rocks with one
arm around Mercedes, Don Enrique
moved inch by round point,
the other side sank
the
inch
and as they reached
down on the wide platform where the
mule was standing, fairly faint with
the nervous stram,
ht.
the reaction from
In the meantime Pablo had begun to
cautiously drive.the second mule round
the torn. Just as the animal was twis-
ting itself round, a diabolical series of
ans came running in. The mule star.
ted, one foot slipped, and after a mo-
ments vain pawing to recover its foot-
ing, it launched out into the air, turn-
ing over and over, until it met its death
in the gulf below, smashed out of shape
bled ’ablo to slip round the turn in safe-
ty. Roughly shaking Don Earique, he
said significantly:
**Now we fight, senor!”
Don Enrique sprang to his feet, and
with Pablo advanced to the edge; none
too soon, however. A head, coppery-
time to gef a cut from Pablo's machete
or long knife. The next and the next,
and the next, seemingly urged on by
pressure from behind, fared the same
way. Tben camea pause, A moment
afterwards a clond of little arrows,
about eight inches long, each wrapped
with a tuft of cotton, flew through the
air, and then again there was quiet.
“Can they reach us from above
T"ablo¥”
**No, senor; dis only place.”
Again the Indians tried to steal
round, and again Pablo's wiachele fell.
But this time, wilat looked like a stick
abour three feet long had been turned
toward him by an Indian lying on his
stomach, and as the peon was raising
his arm to strike, he felt a little prick
like a pin in the leg. The arrow fell to
the ground, but Pablo, glancing down,
saw the end of a splinter in the
wound, Don Eangue at once attemp-
ted to dug thas out, but both be and the
peon knew It was no use, The curare
poison had touched the blood, and in
he met two of them at once. The one
to the left he struck on the head, lay-
ing the brain open; but a glance showed
him that the machete of the one to the
right was coming down. He just man-
aged to spring out of the way when a
deafening report just by his ear, and
the leap of the Indian into the air, told
him that Mercedes had picked vp the
revolver where he had let it fall. To
advance to the corner and strike down
the man coming round was the work of
a moment, and then with a gigh of re
hef, he realized that he once more held
the pass. The rest was but for 4 mo-
ment though, Taking the revolver
from Mercedes, and leaning cautiously
round the rock, he waited in silence.
Before long he saw a head raised, and
fired, killing the last one of the
after him,
During this time Pablo had been get-
ting weaker and weaker. When Don
Enrique knelt beside him the peon wae
{ almost gone, but he could murmur
“De children, senor?”
| “Are mine always!”
| ‘‘Good-bye, senor!” asthe eyes, which
| had been getting duller and duller,
| finally closed, and Pablo was gone.
party
» ¥
The broad road to Venezula
| traversed slowly by Don Enrique
| his promised bride, an
town they came to, a very quiet
| somewhat hurried wedding took place
in the rude church of palm. However,
they reached the coast, and before
weeks were safe in
il many years
the political
d t the
il
nany
France. No
before
"As
another turn
wheel brought
Columbia Don Enrique Gonzals
beautiful wife,
A Baby Among the Elephants
While Forepaugh's show was exh
no
yor at f
ing at
Orillia, Canada, a few days ago,
and after the performance in the ci
pavilion bad been in progress for nea:
ly an hour, during which time the
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the anitoas
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and
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containing
| shriek, *‘My child!”
ters from thelr aftervoon nap. Has
4 WwWolnan
the act of crawling un the guard
tiny form of a chubby four-year oid
5
diminutive hands, laughing a
$y
Unnoticed had strayed from his
a
which to expose himself; unobserved
and there he stood when discovered by
{dozen huge colossal beasts, who were
for ginger snaps and peanuis, whict
, took in the situation at a glance,
shouting to the elephants, who were
the daring little intruder to his shouid-
her arms, fainted and sank to lhe
OV»
want of attention to her baby boy in
| and elephants was at that
deserted, a woman's ter:
| pavilion, and roused
animal keepers In the menagerie q
tening to the spot fro whence Lhe
Scream came,
nder
ropes which encircled twelve huge elee
phants, Another glance revealed Lhe
boy standing io the midst of
patting their squirmy trunk
ing, and having a world of fun, all ¢
himself, with his ponderous playmates
mother’s charge, and, all the bovs,
discovered the most us place
by anybody he had walked under the
guard ropes surrounding the elephants,
t his frantic mother, in the cenlre of a
reaching out their huge trunks toward
him, and begging, as is their custom,
wich
visitors are in the habit of giving them.
Old George Wade, the elephant keep
ank quickly seizing the frenzied wom-
an, handed her to an attendant,
miliar with his voice and presence, en-
tered among them, and gently raising
er, carried him to his agonizing parent,
who, the moment the boy was placed in
ground. In a few moments she re
ered and bitterly chided herself for ber
thus permitting him to escape from her
care,
He Chased a Shadow,
As the engineer of engine 1.277, ou
{the Wabash, pulled out of Given, en
| route for Ottumwa, one evening re-
| cently, he noticed what appeared Lo be
| a small animal hopping along the track
| abead of the pilot. Gradually he in-
| creased the speed of the locomotive,
| but the little quadruped seemed also
to have ‘“dropped another notch,” and
| despite the tremendous gait of 77 eas-
| fly retained its posision. Disgusted
| beyond expreesion, the engineer began
| heaving chunks of coal at it, but all in
vain, It seemed to bear a charmed
| 11fe, and successfully baffled all efforts
of the engineer and the freman to
check its wild career. For twenty-one
miles the engineer had chased that de-
lusive object, and thoroughly disgusted
he gave up the race at Ottumwa, and
The object stopped alse’
With his pick in his hand the engineer
made a sneak on the animal, harmless,
i
with a wild laugh he arose, henceforth
to be a raving maniac. Fora full hour
he had been making desperate efforts to