A MYSTEP.OUS ASSAULT, ——————_ ——— 4& DRUG CLERK HACKED WITH A HATCOET AND FATALLY HURT, NEW York, Mareh 7.—Gunther Wecksung, a drug clerk employed at No, 937 Third avenue, was struck on the head with an axe this morning by an unknown man who attempted to rob the store. The clerk was taken to Bellevue Ilospital, He will probably die. The doctors began Srephining bis skull shortly after his admission. Wecksung was lying on a lounge at the rear of the store when the thief entered, When tne latter attempted to steal the cash from the money drawer Wecksung sprang at him, The thief took out an axe from under his coat and dealt the clerk a blow on the head. Wecksung raised his hands to ward off oter blows aimed at his head, and in doing so had both his hands nearly cut off. The thief es- caped. The store was robbed, but the po- lice belleve that this was done to avert suspicion as to the real motive of the crime, Wecksung was not insensible when discovered and was removed to the hospital, where the doc- tors sett 0 work to try and bring him to such a condition that he would be able to tell something of the erime. The hatchet with which the deed was dove 1s new, It had an edge five inches wide and a handle a foot long. The edge of the steel had been turned by the force of the blows upon Wecksung’s skull. The drug store is on the ground-floor of a tenement. The prescription counter, where the murder occurred, is concealed from the view of customcers in the store, and at its rear a window overlooks the yard. An extension behind the counter dud service as a sleeping room for the clerk. Wecksung came to the store shortly before midnight, and, as far as any one knows, slept there until morning, Wil- about the place, rang the bell o'clock this morning, and was let in by Wecksung. who was In his shirt sleeves, He went out to get rolls for Wecksung’s breakfast, and the clerk went whistling behind the counter to finish his tollet, He seemed to be good humor, Goulick was detained at the bakery for 15 minutes, Then a plumber in the basement came in get some drugs he had ordered. The clerk was not in sight, but when called by the plumber, answered faintly from behind the prescription counter. The plumber waited, thinking he had pot finished dressing, but at the end of five minutes another customer entered, when be tapped with his foot impa- tiently on the floor and again a faint voice was heard, Thinking the clerk might be sick, McCreery, the new arrival, went behind the counter, He had not disappeared a moment before loud crnes brought the other customer behind the counter. There a fearful sight was beheld. On the floor in front of a lounge lay Weck- sung In a pool of blood, He was literally hacked to pieces, and from a truded. Oue of his hands was cut and pounded into a b'oody mass and his coat was cul in a dozen places where the hatchet blade had entered his back. The walls and furniture in the room were spattered with blood, The proprietor of the store was sum- moned and the dying clerk was placed upon the lounge and restoratives ad- ministered. 1lis senses were not gone and when questioned as to how he had received the cuts answered slowly and painfully. He had sat down on the lounge when the boy left him, and bent forward to lace his shoes, that position he received a blow on the arm, and in attempting to rise was struck on the head. Instinctively raising his band to ward off the blow, the hatchet in the grasp of the invisible butclier again descended and the mem- ber was nearly severed, The clerk then lost consciousness, The detectives, who arrived a few minutes, after, immediately took the hatchet, and set out to find where it had been purchased, THE WELDON EXTRADITION BILL. CANADA NO LONGER TO BE A REFUGE FOR AMERICAN THIEVES, OTTAWA, Ont., March 7.,—The col- ony of fugitives from justice who have sought a refuge in the Dominion from United States law have been thorough- ly aroused ta a consciousness that Canada 1s not likely much longer to offer them a safe haven. from the haunting presence of the American detectives, Since the introduction of the Weldon Extradition Bill Parliament has been flooded with inquiries as to the charac- ter of the bill, the crimes to which it applies, as well as to when it will go into effect. John C. Eno, Juhn Kee. nan and several other representatives of the boodle element of the Urited States are expected to arrive here to- night to lobby against the Weldon bill, which is to be retroactive and will reach their own cases, Mr. Weldon states that he is san. guine of his bill passing, as the House, with very few exceptions, approves of the act, The Government has also, it is reported, taken an interest in the matter, which means soccess, It is stated that some tempting offers are being held out about the lobbies to secure the influence of members ugalnst the biil NEWS OF THE WEEK. — A passenger and freight train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad col- lided at Moundsville Narrows, near Wheeling, West Virgia, on the even- ing of the 1st. No person was badly hurt, The loss to the company will reach $50,000, — News has reached Jacksonville, Florida, from Okeechobee, of a bloody affray among the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. *“Jim,’ a young buck, became crazy and killed eight of the bridge being constructed across the Potomae, at Point of Rocks, bas been swept away by a freshet, rapidly rising, ~—Diphthena of a violent and ma- nia, to such an extent that the Town churches, schools and classes and fobidding any public meeting. an oll town, 24 miles from Oil City, singing was killed and George Schook dangerously wounded by the prematu:+ discharge of a can- non at Galconda, lllinois, on the 4th, —harles Wied President Harrison's in- auguratio: —Shock intervals du ing the day and evening of the 2d atl Elena, Ecuador, At Guayaquil during the evening of the 2d and morning of the 3d 13 shocks were felt. Clocks were stopped. The telephone wires are down and a panic tial clerk of General Franz Sigel, the agents of the Pension Office in three charges of forgery in connection with pensions, He was placed under $20,000 bail for examination, The forgeries charged are of the signatures to two checks intended for a blind sol- dier, and one belonging to a widow. Young Sigel bas also confessed that he bas taken money from claimants in ~Jacob Germann, of Hannibal, Mo., was killed at Lagrange, on the lst, An explosion oc : } taken, but the detectives were of the opinion that the crime had been com- mitted by some one with a grudge against the victim, and not by a com- mon thief, The peculiarity in the case is found in the eut coat. The clerk, when dis- covered, was in his shirt sleeves, and it was hardly possible that the could have taken off his coat after the blows had been inflicted. No one present thought of ascertaining If the rents in the coat corresponded to the ents on the body. Six hours after the deed had been committed there had been no clue found as to the perpetrator No one had seen any one but the r boy either enter or leave the premises abont the time of the crime, and the conclusion reached was that the assas. #in came through the rear door, The suspicion that a woman is con- cerned In the case 1s strong in the minds of the police, but it cannot be learned that the clerk had any entan- glements, He was 29 yearsold, un- married and a German, The clerk died of his wounds at Bellevae Hospital to-night, Woman's Help, Many a man distinguished in the world of letters coufesses that he owes mich of bis success to his wife. Mr, Gladstone Joves to tell of all his wife has done for him. President Greyy also pad a generous tributeto his wife's usefulness, But when the world talks of all a man bas done, it seldom takes note of the help some womatrthay have been to him; for sald, that Fauny, wrote severil of the exaulsite “Songs ‘Without Words’ that appedr under lis mame and. contributed much to his fame. Wordsworth's sister, it wrote his { “ihe i Fuller fatally. A carriage containing Maggie Sipclalr was overturned in Barre, Mass,, on the 2nd, by the horse running away, Miss Sinclair was killed and Mrs, Craddock fatally in- jored. Mr. Despar was hurt Internally, ~ West Dexter, a prominent lawyer of Chicago, was dangerously if not fatally injured by being thrown from his horse on the evening of the 2d. — Ernest J. Knobelsdorf, 22 years of age, whose father died recently in Chicago, leaving him the responsi- bility of conducting a large insurance business, committed suicide on the 5th, It is believed that the burden was too great for him. Hobart Mul- laney, cashier and bookkeeper for the lithographing firm of Julius Bien & Co., of New York, committed suicide on the 6th, after being placed under arrest by a deputy sheriff for embezzle- ment. His accounts show a shortage of $7000, ~ President Harrison's Cabinet, which was confirmed by the Senate on the 6th, is as follows; Secretary of State, James G, Blaine, of Maine; Treasury, Willlam Windom, Minnesota; War, Redfield Proctor, Vermont, Navy, Benjamin F. Tracy, New York; Inter- for, John W, Noble, Minnesota; Post. master General, John Wanamaker, Pennsylvania; Attorney General, W, H., NH. Miller, indiana; Secre of Agriculture, Jeremiah Rusk, 18. consin, --Newton Watt, a life conviet In prison at Joliet, Illinois, for complicity in the Rock Island train robbery and murder of the express messenger, died of consumption on the his wife and mother that be was inno- cent. ~Join Carter shot and fatally wounded Robert Gross at the Solar «Sharp earthq at Guayaquil and St, a An axle broke under a Lehigh and Susquehanna express traln three miles ing of the 5th, and t ‘niko ren Yaxown from the mails, David Baker ~Mrs, Ann Driscol decapitated her sleeping husband Timothy with an axe at thelr bome in Waukesha, Wiscons sin, on the morning of the Oth, She | also attempted to murder her son. She says she was impelled to murder her en- tire family in order to save them from some unknown calamity, Mrs, Wal- ters, who lived en a ranch near Boze. man, Montana, was found murdered on the 6th, Her husband and eldest son bave been arrested charged with the crime, It is claimed that Che murder was committed in order to get posses- sion of $200 which the old lady had concealed In the house. Catharine Taylor, a widow, about 50 years of age, was murdered in Troy, New York, on the evening of the 5th by an unknown person. Alfred and Herbert Rother engaged in a shooting affray with’ Tom and Hugh Mattock, in Temple, Texas, on the 0th, The latter was killed and Tom Mat- tock was fatally wounded. Alfred Rother was shot in the arm. The trouble arose over the sale of a rall- road ticket, A despatch from Helena, Montana, says trouble is feared at Flat Head Lake unless J. B. Clifford and Dr. Cunningham are arrested without delay. The Indian assaulted by these parties some days ago dled on the 4th, and the father of the dead boy and the Chief of the tribe have announced thelr intention to kill Clifford at all hazards, —————— PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. BEATE In the Senate on the 6th, a com- munication was received frem the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia asking that, in all legisiation looking to the mmprovement of the Delaware river and harbor, provision shall be made for the construction of tracks of all railroads. A memorial was also received from the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Philadelphia, praying for a law ex- emptling women from taxation until they shall have representation in State government. The House bill preseriblng the time and manner of the submission to the people of the prohibitory amendment was passed on second reading, and so the poll tax amendment. Adojurned. In the Senate, on the 7th, the bill providing for the holding of an elec- tion on the Prohibition and Anti-Poll tax amendments on the game day, June 18th, was passed finally and sent to the House, Adjourned, HOUSE, mittee with a favorable recommenda- tion: Fer the better protection women and the education of children Major Ronan, the agent, is attempting to prevent the Indians from carrying their threat into execution promise of arresting Clifford and Cun- ningham and letting the law take its course, J. W. MeVeigh was shot and killed by Harlan Turner, Missouri, on the evening of the 4h, While Joseph McHenry, of Bluff- ton, Oblo, was setting traps for musk- i rats on the bank of a creek on the Glh, { James Louls, struck Me- killing The ball { animal, fired, head, { Henry in the | Instantly. — A section of the floor of the largest Richardsen in Worcester, | storehouse of the | facturing Company, Massachusetts, | and fell into & sewer, carrying with it | between U0 and 400 Buckeye mowing | machines, The amount of damage is i not known, as the managers have no i way of ascertaining how badly the machines are wrecked, is valued at from $55 to $00. | was injured. James Goodwin, a tramp, 40 years told, was arrested in Iaterson, New | Jersey, on the 6th, on suspicion of i White, who was killed at Braintree, | Massachusetls, in December last, —Duvid and Joseph Nicely, who | were arrested a few dayssince, charged with being implicated in the murder Oth. years, the 20 on aged rset, Pa.. | Stearner, and little | nesses, | prisoners as the men Doth positively identified the | upon they were remanded to jall for trial, ~Nathan A. Wilson, Secretary of i the Cleveland Steve Company, was { found dead in the company’s office in | Cleveland, Ohio, on the morning of the | 6th, having committed suicide “ | H. Wilson, President of the company, | who lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Late i ment of all its property. assets are $200,000, while the liabilities are between $50,000 and $90,000, | assignment was made, it is sad, *‘to i tide the company over the excliement { caused by the Secretary's suicide,’ | =John McMahon, an Erle brake- { man, fell from h's train near Stevens | Point, New York, on the 6th, and was t killed, ling, with a disreputable woman and her two brothers In children, aged from 3 to 19 years, be. cause they objecled to his relations with the woman, Two of the children died on the 28th uit.,, and a third on the morning of the 1st, and the others were very sick. The accused parties are Frank Conkwright, the father, and Susan, James and Willlam Holden. The last named has fled, the others are in jail. ~Mrs, IL. D. Merriman, of Allegheny City, Penna., arrived in Chicago on the 4th, en route to Omaha, BSeon after leaving the train she discovered that her satchel had been cut open and $3000 stolen. ~Daniel McLachlan, 22 years old, killed Cora Carnahan, aged 13, at Earl. ville, lllinois, on the evening of the 6th, and then committed suicide. The pair eloped on the evening of the 3d from rawnaw, lllinols, and had con- siderable trouble eluding detectives, McLachlan was a blacksmith, and the girl was the daughter of a well-to-do hotel keeper. erry Dennett, an aged citizen of Indianapolis, becoming en- raged about rome trivial matter on the Tih, attempted to kill his daughters ~ William Stager, of Newark, New killed on the 7th by being train while crossing the of the State; regulating the employ- of children. The bill providing for the BState was reported negatively, In the House, on the Tth, the was passed to third reading. The Prohibition election bill was received and laid over until some verbal amendments could be printed, Adjourned. Stadying in School. We are Inclined to think that 18 a tendency in our present methods {| school discipline to over-look the im. | portance of teaching pupils at school | how to think and persue their studies for themselves, The time of teachers | is almost wholly cecupled in asking and | explaining questions and in talking to pupils, That i the tendency is, to some extent, to fall back again upon the pouring wn process of instruction, ot { in other words, to imitate the IVersity ii- struction by lectures, and this latter course might be expected nearly i always nothing but a farcical perfor- { mance, Children should be carefully logo Re and un i535 B85 sons, and they should be pliced under strict discipline with | matter. They should be required to study their lessons not only at school ! but at home, Puapils who have learn- ed to think and steady aright, have al- ready accomplished one half of the ob- ject of education, { from a careless perusal of them and from the clear and attractive talks their teachers, but unless they have will pot remember them long, They may even in this way learn to solve a ' difficult problem In arithmetic under | standingly, planation of the principles involved, and yet, In a few days subsequently, be altogether unable to do the same thing. But let them learn to solve such a prob- lem by their own efforts { about it, This latter method of learn- ing is the only eflicient means of wen- school and at home by pupils is alto- gether wasted because they have not been taught the proper modes of study, They have not been taught how to fix | right way they will find it a pleasure, Each principle should be thoroughly | mastered before taking up another, | The whole attention should be fixed upon the subject until mastered, but | studying should not be continued long- er than during the vigorous action of the mind, Weariness produces weak- ness, Everything that bas a tendency to distract the attention of pupils while engaged in study should be prohibited, No one will fail to learn if he studies in the proper way. Success in this as in any other undertaking depends upon effort. There is no luck about it Everyone who will imply the proper means can control the result, Success in study is always the result of patient and steady perseverance in a jodicious course, No one can succeed unless he takes the right course, and then only with continued effort Things I Dislike. I dislike a man who makes love to his wife before fol and makes the house (00 hot io her after they have gone, who says dear, and dar- ling, and wifey in public, and abuses her when he gets her alone. I dislike Ra nin: Then, ngs hu uraged, home at n isco with his day’s labor and trials, The Influence of Things. A Story with the Moral Omitted, There was once a lady, sober in mind and sedate in mauper, whose dress exactly represented her desire {o be Inconspicuous, to do good, to im. prove every day of her life in actions that should benefit her kind, Bhe was a sericus person, inclined to improving half (fifteen cents of which she gladly contributed to the author) and she, had a distaste for the gay society which was and the emptiness of fashion, without any priggishness she set it an example of simplicity and sobriety of cheerful acquiescance in plainness and she selected a red parent character. What impulse led to this selection she could not explain. She was not tired something in the jauntiness of the hat and the color pleased her, If it were a temptation, she did not intend to yield to it, tut she thought she would take the hat home and try it, | nature felt the need of a little warmth, The hat pleased her still more when | she got it home and put it on and | veyed herself mirror. Indeed, | there was a new expression in ber face thal corresponded to the hat. it off and something Perhaps her +3 in tue looked at There humaniy temptatious In short, she 1 when she wore it abroad she was not conscious of its incongruity to herself or Lo her dress, but of the in- congruity of the rest of her apparel! to the hat, which seemed to have a sort of | intelligence of its own, at least a power it. Was almost and in it kept it, a: of changing and conforming things t itself. Dy degrees one article another In the lady's wardrobe was la aside, and another substituted for: answered to the demanding spirit of {the bat, In a little while this plain lady was not plain any more, but most gorgeously dressed, and possessed with the desire to be fashion. It came to this, that she had a tea gown made out of window cur- tain with a flamboyant pattern. So lo- {mon in his glory would been ashamed ! ence, But this was not all. Her disposition, her ideas, her whole life were changed. | She did not any more think of going { abou doing good, but of amusing her- self. She read nothing but stories in in paper covers. In place of being se- date und sober-minded she was frivolous | to excess’ she spent women who *“frivol.” { She kept lent in the most expensive | way, 80 as to make the impression upon everybody that she was better than the extremest kind of Lent. From liking { the sedatest company she passed to lik- ing the gayest sociely and the most | fashionable method of getling nd of ber { ime. Nothing whatever bad happened | to bier, and she is now an ornament to | sociely. all Lave ‘with liked to A Gorilla in London A distinguished —though very unpre. § i guest has just been received at the { gardens of the Royal Zoological Society iat Regent Park, iu the shape of a | young male gorilla, { wrong time of the year for the publie, las well as for lumself, for the cold | that comparatively few people are to | still have thus far made the acquaint- | ance of the gorilla. “Mumbo.” as he | Is sometimes called, was captured in the Gaboon as an infant, and subse- { quently shipped to Liverpool to join {the well-known menagerie of Mr. Cross, That gentleman, having sold bim to the Zoo, started to bring him up to town. But, in spite of all the skill and attention lavished upon him before and during the raflway journey, it Is feared that the Interesting stranger hes caught a severe cold by the recent sudden change of weather, Mumbo lives in the same house with Sally, the amiable and highly accomplished chimpanzee, but in a separate com- partment, which is luxuriously car- peted with the freshest and brightest straw. Ina corner of the large den has been placed his traveling cage, the - a — - acm— chert with of long, hirsute arms, Our new gorilla 18 cer & inly not in a flourishing condition or constitution at present, every comfort 18 provided for him, and the gain seratehes his bare albeit - 12 degrees Fah- {11 is greatly sirangel shake On every accoun young appetite, renbeit. find his incipient catarrh and live be a pride and ornament of the “Zoo.” But gorillas always seem to die in captivity, and this is, we be. lieve, the second only brought to ILon- don alive, The first ever seen living off his and there was one exhibited at the Aquarium same time ago, which Is sald to have dled shortly afterwards, Looks as if young Mumbo had made uj ta and the scientific people to howl correctly, THE CITY OF MEXICO, It 1s Nice as Hegards Climate, But 1s Sewage Is Awial, The City of Mexico 18 s0 often de. a delightful place of residence that will Lhe Engineering and Mining Journal, be by average reader, The popular idea of the city bath in the atmosphere of an altitude of received with amazement in its perpetual above the sea, and from its locals quote from the gazelteer—‘‘in a » in Oi { plain 1,700 square miles extent, in by mor it must, { where the sick and the and closed taing containing many lakes,” indeed, be a place weary cap nd rest comfort. the sanitary as others cribes the engineer does not see see them, and Mr. Chism des M capital city of Mexico as a whiled He says the cily of 40 per 1,000, which larger the civil sepulcher, has a death rate ventures the opinion, that of any other city in ized world, Mr. Chulsm’s age system | shock of surprise %. , t * * lescription of will aver ts % gor 3 #4 “it Lialn- T the of the ¢ iy of on this vital The sewage from the houses is conveyed to covered gutters in the middie of the | street, which gutiers are in a chronic | state of strangulation; “*hence the con- stant presence in all quarters of the city of gangs of men who sland thigh deep in the black and foul water, and rake into its deplhs to remove the ob- structions. Every place of this kind iz a center of infection ii the shape of foul smells that poison the air for blocks i around.” The sewage, according to Mr. Chism, makes *‘a slow and sullen exit through the main canal of San Lazaro, to Lake Texcoco—if the latter 1s low enough.’ | When the lake bigh the sewage stands and soaks into the ground. It is Impossible to make an excavation over two feet deep In any part of the | city, even in the heart of the dry sea- son, “without its being filled with black | stinking water,” and frequently afte: { sudden rains streets are flooded with a | black dilution of sewage from wall to | wall. After such rains pumps are set to work all over the city to pump water | out of court-yards, stores and ware- { houses, and the poor have hard work | to bale out their rooms with basios and | cups, | Such being ber condition the City of | Mexico 18 hardly the haven for the | tourist and the weary seeker for recre- | ation tha she 18 popularly supposed to ibe, A mean temperature of 52.5 in | January and 65.3 in July will not | make up for unsanitary conditionssuch point, is | as was noted by Mr. Chusm. er ————— | How the Italian Milkman Does It I noticed some days that my mulk | was very, very thin. I had stood by whilst it was milked; what, then, could be the cause? When I came across my milkman the second or third evening he was milking for an Italian and 1 was surprised when I saw the latter suddenly step up to the man who was milking and squeeze him by the arm. As surprising as was this action, how- ever, the result was still more so-—a stream of water was rejected from the milkman’s sleeve, and I then under stood how milk can be watered before one’s eyes without one’s detecting it. I happened to mention this incident tc the American Consul, and he assured me the trick was quite common, A bag of water Is kept under the coat and let down through a rubber tube in the sleeve; when detected, a shrug of the shoulders, & "Santa Maria, what differ. ence?’ and pure milk for the sharp eyes; when not detected, he in his and sells it to you at six cents a quart. AGI AIO A AIS. He-I don’t think I'd care to marry a very learned
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