1 HOTEL FIRE
THE MONONGAHELA HOUSE IN PITTS-
BURG PARTIALLY DESTROYED.
NARROW ESCAT'E MADE BY GUESTS
AND EMPLOYES-—SOME OF THE
GUESTS CARRIED OUT BY
FIREMEN.
PriTssura, Dee. 5.~The Mononga-
hela House, the largest hosteiry in the
city, and one of the best known hotels
in the country, was damaged by fire
to-day to the extent of about $100,000,
The two upper stories were completely
burned out and the lower floors were
badly damaged by water. No hves
were lost, bat there were numerous
narrow escapes of guests and em-
ploves, The fire was discovered
by Thomas O’Brien, the head por-
ter, shortly before noon. He was
going down stars, when he found that
the blaze had just started at the bottom
of the freight elevator, Almost as
soon a8 O'Brien had a chance to give
the alarm the ames shot up through
the elevator shaft, which, forming a
lurge chimpey, guve headwsv to the
flames, and, in an instant, Lhe upper
portion was enveloped in smoke. The
cry at once went throughout the entire
house that the building was on lire,
There were npwards of 200 guests in
the house, more than half of whom
were in their rooms when tHe cries
were made,
A number of people was just prepar-
Ing for dipper, aud some wers not
completely dressed. IIastily donning
whatever lay close at hand, they
rushed for the passenger elevator, only
to find that shaft, too, was a solid
volume of smoke. The stairs were
then resorted to, and everyone got out
in safety. Those who were unable to
walk were carried out by the firemen
and employes of the hotel. Among the
latter were several ladles who were
sick or overcome by fright. The
chambermaids and employes were
forced to take to the fire escapes,
THE BAY XPRESS WRECKED
AN OPEN SWITCH THE CAUSE OF THE
ACCIDENT.
A NUMBER OF THE I'ASSENGERS AND
RAILROAD MEN HURT, TWO OF
THE LATTER FATALLY.
Prrresure, Pa., Dec. 4. —The day
express east on the Pennsylvania road
was wrecked near Greensburg, Pa.
this morning. A switch had been left
open and the express ran into a freight
train. Both epgines were wrecked and
several cars. A dozen persons ate re-
ported to have been more or less in-
Jured, several it is belleved fatally.
The names of the injured as far as
learned are:
M. L. Brown, of Scottdale, engi-
neer, leg brokeo, cut on the head and
injured internally; will probably die.
Elmer Myers, ot Adamsburg, fire.
man, terribly scalded; Injurles believed
to be fatal,
Engineer Daly, severely cut about
the head and body; not dangerous,
George Gray, fireman, badly cut and
bruised
A number of the passengers of the
day express were slightly Injured, but
none seriously.
Dr, Kline, of Greensburg, Pa., was
cut and bruised,
Samuel Fase, of Philadelphia, re.
ceived a deep cut above the right ear.
George Sager, of Laocaster, Pa., had
his nose broken.
Baggage Master Burkholder, of Har-
risburg, Pa, had a narrow escape, A
large trunk was thrown on top of him,
but he was not seriously hurt,
The collision was terrific. Both en-
gines were completely wrecked, and the
baggage car reduced to splinters, For-
tunately for the hundreds of passengers
on the express it was not hurled over
the high embankment at this noint.
tM AI.
SNOW STORMS.
SNOWING ALL DAY AT ASBURY
PARE—~—HIGH TIDES,
AssonY Park, N. J., Dec. 4th, —
Foggy wexlier has prevailed along the
coast since Serie. It bas been
snowing nearly day, with very high
tides. The surf has cut into the Dio
A foot. The damage to the Long
Branch Ocean Pler is estimated at
$500. In several places at Long
Branch tha bluff is also cut inte, The
tide has swept away most of the
wreckage of the burk Germania, which
went to pieces at West End last week,
and has carried timbers up and down
the coast,
An unknown steamer bound south
hove to opposite Ocean Beach this
morning. She was 80 close to the
shore that many persons thought she
was grounded ou the inner bar, As
her officers did not holst distress sig-
nals the life-saviog crew did not board
her, »he resumed her voyage about 8
v'clock.
Rocuester, N. Y. Dec. 4 —A
heavy northeast gale, accompanied by
a blinding snow storm, has prevailed on
Lake Oututio for two days. The
schooner Kale left Charlotte Monday
alternoon laden with 300 tons of coal
for the Bay of Quinte, and fears are
expressed for her safety,
WORKING MEN KILLED.
A GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT IN
WILKESBARRE. :
A Fast Freight Train Crashes Into
a Crowd of Workmen as They
Are About to Board a Passen«
ger Train.
WiLkEsBARRE, Pa., Dec, 4.—A
shocking accident occurred at 6,30
o'clock this morning at the Hazel St.
crossing of the Jersey Central Rall-
road,
The labor train which conveys work-
men from this city to the company's
shops at Ashley was due at the Iazel
Street Station, and several hundred
men were assembled waiting for it. A
number of them walked up the track a
short distance to meet the train and
secure good seats, Suddenly a fast
freight from the south approached at a
high speed. The men jumped from the
north-bound track to the south-bound,
when the labor train, rushiog around a
sharp curve, plunged into thelr midst.
In their scrambling many were thrown
down or against the two trains. Two
men were struck by the freight and two
by the labor train.
Edward Polsue, aged 00, was ip-
stantly Killed, le leaves a wife but no
children.
Wm. Drent, aged 60, was cut in two,
He leaves a family of grown children,
His wife 18 now lying at the point of
death from fever,
John Steffler, a Polander, aged 30
years, head crushed and leg cut off,
He was taken to the hospitall but will
die.
Conard Ernst, aged 30 years, skull
fractured. His Injuries will probably
prove fatal.
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS ROASTED TO
DEATH OTHERS DIE AFTER BE-
ING RESCUED.
PHILADELPHIA, Dee, 3. — The burn-
ing of a three-story dwelling and bak-
ery, early yesterday morning, ab the
northeast corner of Second and Hunt.
ingdon streets, occupied by Gustav
Gross and family and Joseph DBitper
and family, resulted in the death of
seven persons, more or less injury to
pine others, and the almost complete
destruction of the building itself, Some
of those who escaped were injured so
badly that the fear was expressed by
physicians at the Episcopal Hospital,
to which Institution they were taken,
that the death list would be Increased.
The killed and injured are:
DEAD.
Minnie Gross, aged 33 years,
Gustav Gross, Jr. aged 11 years,
Bruno Gross, aged 5 years,
Mattie Gross, aged 2} years,
Annie Bitner, sged 32 years,
Ida Bitner, aged 6 years,
(reorge Bliner, aged 9 months.
INJURED,
Gustav Gross, aged 30 years, slightly,
Freda Gross, aged 7 years, slightly.
Joseph Bitner, aged 40 years, ser-
iously.
Martha Bitoer, aged 16 years, slight.
ly
Clara Bitper, aged 14 years, slightly,
Hettie Bitner, aged 12 veaas, slightly,
I'eul Bitner, aged 10 years, slightly.
Fritz Erdman, aged 15 years, slight-
ly.
John Ellanson, aged 22 years, ser-
ously,
At abont 2.20 o'clock Flanagan
Devlin, at the American and Hunting
don streets crossing of the North Peun-
sylvania Rallroad, saw smoke and Saxe
issuing from the bakery, and blew his
whistle, Policeman Doll answered,
and ran to the box at Second Lehigh
avenue. [Policeman Blair had already
turned in an alarm, having also seen
the fire. A patrol wagon came with
the engines. The building was seen to
be burning rapidly, and men, women
and children were seen at the windows
erying for help. Some jumped from
the second and third stories, and were
picked up burned and bruised, Others
found It impossible 16 even reach win-
dows, and were either burned to death
or suffocated in thelr rooms.
Those who were badly hurt were
taken in the ambulance to the Espico-
pal Hospital. The others who escaped
with but slight Injuries were sent in a
patrol wagon to the police station at
Trenton avenue and Daupbin street,
where, through the efforts of Lieuten-
ant Scott and his men, they were made
comfortable and served with a warm
breakfast,
~John Stapleton and his wife, aged
about 60 years, and their grandson
sged about 10 years, were found dead
in their home, in Eigin, Illinois, on the
2d, They had been suffocated by coal
gas.
—Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad col.
hded in Chicago on the 24. Firemen
William Duer and Jobn McWilliams
were probably fatally injured,
Jennie Alien, sixteen years of age,
was thrown violently against a enrd.
stone while “*comsting” in Utica, New
York, on the evening of the 20th ult,
and died of her injuries on the after
noon of the 24.
- An ex on of sewer mas oo
curred in Minetta New York, on
the afternoon of the 3d. The
--Thieves In New Jersey, on the
evening of the 3d, placed a padlock on
the front door of Jean Tack’'s jewelry
store, and then, breaking the show
window wilh a brick, grabbed jewelry
valued at $2000, and escaped. In a
lice court in Saco, Maine, on the 3d,
iop Long, proprietor of a Chinese
laundry, churged with assaulting a
newspaper reporter with a hot flat-iron,
pleaded guilty, and in open court
threatened to kill the reporter at the
first opportunity. He was fined $1 and
costs, but refused to pay the fine and
was sent to jail,
~Twe shocks of earthquake were
eft in Alton Bay, New Hampshire,
early on the morning of the 4th, Croc-
kery and glassware were broken and
people rushed from their houses, The
bell on a steamer in the middle of the
bay was rung.
— A tank of acid exploded in Charles
Schwartz's paint factory, on Fennan's
Island. Long Island, Injuring two
men, Aloysius Brookmeyer, it is
feared fatally, The ballding was
burned, Loss, $8000. Willlam Ken-
nedy and Hiram Lymburger, went
bunting near Ocean Sound, Ontario,
on the 4th, Kennedy saw what he
supposed to be a deer and fired, killing
Lymburger,
~- Mrs, Ritchie, aged 00 years, and
her son, aged 25, went on & protracted
debauch recently. The woman had not
been seen for several days, and on the
afternoon of the 34 the landlord broke
open the door of her room. The wo-
man was lying on the floor dead. The
son was found in an adjoining room,
so drunk that he could give no account
of himself,
— By the breaking of tle ropeof a
cage in a coal mine near Steubenville,
Ohio, on the 4th, Hebert Tavis snd
Jolin Devenney, boys, were precipita.
ted 75 teet and killed. During an aue-
tion sale in an old cider mill in Belch
town, Massachusetts, on the 3d, the
floor gave way, and twelve or thirteen
men were injured, two dangerously,
The weather throughout Northern
New York, on the 4th, was intensely
cold, At several places 1n the Adiron-
dacks the thermometer registered from
10 to 16 degrees bLelow zero. Saranac
l.ake 18 frozen over. The thermome-
ter at Montpelier, Vermont, on the
morning of the 4th, registered from 10
to 14 degrees below zero, The Kenne-
bec river, in Maine, 1s frozen over.
The ice Is firm and solid.
~Mre, John Slawbaugh, while saf-
fering from lemporary mental trouble,
on the 3d, took her one-year-old child
in her ars and jumped into a well at
their home, in Stanford, 1llinols, Both
were drowned,
~The hardware store of A, W,
Campbell, at Shickshinny, Pa,, was
entered Ly burglars, on the morning
of the 4th. The safe was Llown open
and rifled of money and valuable
papers.
Edward Sileott, cashier of the
Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States
House of Representatives, has disap-
peared with about $72,000 of the funds
entrusted by Congressmen to his care,
- Wm. Jackson and Jobn Wyder
quarelled in a lumber camp at Delton,
Missoui i, on the 4th and fought with
axes. Jackson was killed and Ryder
was cul in several places, Four
Kiowa Indians got drunk in Melrose,
Kansas, on the evening of the 3d, and
“started to take the town in true
Western style,’ City Marshal Snyder
atlempied to arrest them and was
killed. One of the Indians was also
killed. The other three Kiowas es
caped to the reservation.
~Willlam Herrick, aged 70 years,
was found dead in his stable in Fort
Wayne, Indiana, on the 4th, IL is
thought that he was kicked to death
by bis horse, A despatch from Kings.
ton, Ontarlo, says that John Madden
and his wife were burned to death on
the evening of the 4th, Their home
took fire, and while they were trying
to extinguish the flames their means of
escape were cut off,
Another heavy snow storm set in
at Ottawa, Ontario, on the 5th,
~The boiler of a gin at Colfax,
Louisiana, exploded on the morning
of the 5th, killing six colored men and
two women, snd injuring many others,
—By an explosion of einder and slag
at the Sligo Rolling Milla, in Pittsburg,
on the morning of the 5th, Patrick
Burns, aged 60 years, James McBeth
aged 21 years, and John Kelly aged
40 years, were badly burned. Burss’
injuries, it is thought, will prove fatal.
The explosion was caused by water
coming in contact with the hot slag.
The damage to the mill was slight,
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61st CONGRESS.-~First Session,
SENATE,
The first session of the Fifty-first
Congress opened on the 24. In the
Senate the oath of office was adminis.
tered to Vice President Morton and
the new Senators, including those from
the Dakotasand Washington Territory.
The usual committee to walt upon the
President was appointed, In the
House, Mr. Reed, of Maine, was elec.
ted er by a vote of 165 to 154 for
Mr, isle, Democrat. The members
were then sworn in. The Republican
candidates for other louse offices were
then elected (except Chaplain), as fol
lows: Clerk, Edward McPherson;
geant-at-Arms, A. J. Holmes; Door-
The reading of the message was con-
cluded at half-past one, having occu-
pled abont an sour and twenty-five
minutes,
parently close attention by Senators on
both sides of the Chamber,
On motion of Mr. Sherman, it was
laid on the table and ordered printed,
and then, the Senate, at 1.30, ad-
journed,
~In the Senate on the 4th, a number
of bills and resolutions were introduc-
ed, among them the following: By Mr,
Sherman, to declare trusts unlawful;
also to regulate the manner of holding
Congressional elections; by Mr. Reu-
gan, for the free coinage of silver; also
to redeem legal tender notes; by Mr,
Dawes, extendiog the pension laws (a
G. A. R. bill), By Mr. Blair, for the
temporary support of common schools;
amendments to the Constitution.
telegraph. By Mr. Farwell, to perpet-
uate the Nationul Baking system, By
Mr. Mitchell, to prohibit objectionable
immigration; alse fixing letter postage
at one cent; also for the admission of
Idalio as a State, Adjourned,
were Introduced by Mr. B ck, to with
draw legal tenders and bunk notes of
small dercominations and issue ecoln
certificates in lieu of gold and sliver
certificates; also, to repeal the Sinking
Fund laws. By Mr. Hale, to increase
the navy; also to provide, from mer-
chant steamships, a reserve for naval
cruisers, Mr. Voorhees offered a long
preamble and resolutions ou the tanff,
which was laid on the table for the
pre-ent, Mr,
cacy of his bill to repeal
authorizing the sale of bonds for re-
demption of legal tenders. Adjourned,
HOUSE.
Immediately alter the reading of the
Journal on the 4th, the committee sp-
pointed to wait upon thas President and
inform him thet the House was organ-
appeared in the main alsle, and through
its Chalrman, Mr. McKinley, Inform-
ed the House that it had performen its
duty,
ing forthwith,
Mr, Pruden, one of the Premudent's
secretaries, then delivered the Message,
which was immediately read by the
Clerk.
The Message was ordered printed
Whole,
Under authority given by the last
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, the
Speaker appointed Messrs. Dayne Hitt,
Carter, Culberson, of Texas, snd Cum-
mings as a Committee on the Centen-
nial Celebration,
The House then at 2,15 adjourned,
—— EE ——
New York's trouble with street
musicians has taken a queer phase.
It seems probable that the organ grind.
ers will be permitied by the Board of
Aldermen to carry on their unskilled
labor for the amusement of children
because Americans have no desire to
compete with them, but that street
musicians proper will ba prohibited
from making real music because they
come into competition with resident
musicians and get engagements at ruin.
i ously low figures, Excluding them
{ trom the street instead of correcting
{ this alleged evil of competition will
increase their necessities and make
them sharper competitors for regular
engagements, If not regarded as
nuisances and virtual beggars they
should be allowed to pursue their
calling,
PriLADELPRIA lost one of her ablest
lawyers and Pennsylvania one of her
foremost citizens quite recently when
ex-Attorney General Lewis C, Cassidy
died. He stood in the very front rank
of criminal lawyers, and his knowledge
of general law was broad and deep,
Few men at the Philadelphia Bar stood
higher than Mr, Cassidy, and on more
than one occasion his ability was recog
nized. He was known to very many
people in Philadelphia and his form
was a familiar one, As Attorney Gen-
eral under Governor Pattison Mr. Cas.
sidy made an able and upright official,
He was tireless in his work and his
services were not without benefit to
Pennsylvania, A host of personal
friends mourn his death, and those who
didn know him personally share in
the mourning, .
EE aa oe a
TrerE must be some peculiar fasel-
nation about the work of an explorer
that leads men like Livingstone and
Stanley to again and yet again risk
dangers from which they have narrowly
escaped. Arctic explorers have a sim-
ilar spirit. They no sooner recover
from the effects of exposure and famine
then they are ready to go back again
£0 the same experience, Stan'ey shows
remarkable confidence in himself, and
it is this quality perhaps, that enables
him to deal so successfully with the
in all his journeys. That he should
persist in his marches over hundreds or
thousands of miles of forest and swamp
is not so surprising—since, having en.
tered upon the project, he has no other
knowledge of the dangers be ready to
undertake new journeys. With the
wetivity now shown in African explora.
ration it is reasonable §» suppose that
within a very few years such settle.
meats will be made along the lakes as
will make future expeditions much
safer in every way and more productive
of certain information. The sun is
| OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS.
§
; Death of a Famous Tree Aged From
6,000 to 10,000 Years,
With an antiquity rivaling, probably
exceeding, that of the pyramids of
Egypt, and areputstion scarcely infer-
ior, it is remarkable bow little notice
has been taken of the death of the co-
lossal dragoon tree of Orotava, says the
London Globe, This gigantic, hoary
headed vegetable veteran died almost
suddenly a few years ago, and may be
said, like the deacon’s old master-piece,
to have “gone to pieces ull at once—
all at once and nothing first—just as
bubbles do when they burst.” After a»
babyhood of centuries, decades of ma-
turity and a de adence of ages, it does
| seem pitiable that the departure of this
| wonder of the world should have worked
| little or no comment.
When Alonzo de Lugo, the conqueror
of Teneriffe, came to Oratava in 1493 he
spared the tree, but, scandalized at the
| profane mysteries which had taken place
| ness into a chapel for holy mass. Hum-
{ boldt, in 1799, gives its height as ap-
| pearing about fifty or sixty feet and its
circumference near the roots as forts
feet from the
twelve English feet,” and he computed
its age at 10,000 years. The opening
was 80 large that a table was placed in
it, round which fourteen persons could
seat themselves, and a staircase in the
{ interior conducted up to the height
whence the branches Sprang.
Slow indeed must have been its
growth, for 400 years after the visit of
the first navigators Le Drue measured
the tree most carefully, proving that
during that long period the increase
had only been one foot at the base, the
| other dimensions being practieslly iden
tical. The old tree, moderately credited
with 6,000 years of life, has the
way of all trees, but most felicitously
'
at ten
Fone
the Marquisa del Sanzal has planted on
ils exact site a seedling derived from its
ster is now a healthy plant some four
feet high, looking
| actly like a fine Jong carrot, lightly
stuck in the ground by its taper end
in shape ex-
only
leaves,
PULLMAN ADVENTURE!
A Sleeping Car Conductor Relates
One of his Comical Experiences.
| in print as to the adventures of old
| fashion individuals riding in sleeping
| cars for the first time, and I
every conductor on the road could nar-
| rate one, if not more. The most comi-
cal experience of the kind that I re
| member happened in 1886, I was run-
{ ning on the ‘Frisco
expoct
road, and at Peirce
# father on the
ug me 18 was the old fel.
City a gentleman put ni
| car, and tells
low’s first railroad trip, as well as his
first experience in a sleeper, asked me
to take good care of him and see him
safely to St. Louis The
very talkative, told
old gentleman
me he Lived
off the road and hadn't left home
Lif His son
ile
Was
AWAY
Was
ne distansa in Jia
BUY disiance iO nis
| well fixed and had insisted on sending
| him to Bt. Louis to see relatives
| there. Every time we stopped he bunt-
| ed me up and asked whether he had to
get off, and when we left Springfield 1
persaaded him to go to bed. le had a
| lower berth and settied down very com-
fortably after extracting from myself
and the porter solemn promises that he
should not be allowed to oversleep him-
self. At about midnight a drummer,
who bad engaged the upper above the
old Missourian, decided to turn in. By
some mischance he woke the latter, and
then the fun commenced,
canght the young one by the leg, and
BOING
gle. Both rolled on the floor, the dram-
mer coming down very heavily, with his
assailant on top. There was chaos and
pandemoninm in no time. The old
fellow was an excellent wrestler and it
took three of us to liberate the bewil-
dered drummer, who fortunately had
too much sense to insist on having re-
venge. But nothing we could say
could convince the infuriated fariwer
that there had been no improper designs
on his pocketbook. At last under threats
of arrest he promised to let the
“assassin” alone, but he insisted on
dressing, and at the next stop he disap-
peared in the darkness, I learnt after-
wards that he took the train home wext
day, and I doubt whether he will ever
try to reach St. Louis again,
—-—
Use the Rivers.
The uses of rivers are only just be-
coming understood, The Missouri
River is nearly 3,000 miles long, and
por second, but itis nearly useless
Vessels do not navigate its waters ex-
cept tor a few hundred miles; lands
derive mo fertility from its waters; its
function appears to be to drown out
cars to few. The Colorado River is
aiso 1,000 miles long; its volume msy
be inferred from the fae! that if has
cleaned its way through a stratified
mass of rock from 35,000 to 4,000 feet
thick; but it is niterly useless, and if
by a convulsion of nature the Green
and Grand Rivers, which unite to form
it, were to be suddenly dried up it
wonld hardly be missed. Yet the Lower
Colorado flows through a desert which
might be made a garden with water,
The traveler who visits Sacramento
in the spring is appalled at the vast
area of tule land and of good agrienl-
tural land which is drowned by the
periodieal overflow of the Sacramento
River. The rancher tells him thet the
evil is of short duration, as the water
will presently flow off to the ses. It
never occurs to the land owper that
this water which he is 80 anxious to get
rid of is the sonrce of most of the value
which his land possesses, and that if he
had the wii to store it instead of letting
it go to wat. ficlds which grow fifteen
| bushels oi wheat would raise thirty-five
| bushels, and the land now value ess
| conld be reclaimed st a small expense.
| =~San Francisco Call,
- rs ———————————
It Ought to be a Warning.
| A dashing blonde, one of the most
{ favored of the society young ladies, is
| just now in an embarrasing predicament,
{ indeed, und a very slight indiscretion
i iglikely to be followed by dreadful eon-
| sequences. This fair one, just for the fun
{ of the thing, answered anadvertisement
| for a “Lady correspondent” in a8 Cin-
| cinuati newspaper, ana very indis-
| ered tly signed her name and gave her
| correct address. She received an impas-
sioned letter apparently from a ve ry
susceptible young
man, and several
letters passed between them. The fell IW,
how
Las demand. i
ever, proved to be a blackmailer and
8 good round sum from
the girl as hash money, If she refuses
threatens to place the whol
hie
Corre Epond-
ence in the hands of the i
The your
pin money
Young May x ia
ther, ig lady having spent her
allowance for the summer
does not happen 1g have the wherewith
| to settle the matter, and she has called
several of her chums into her confidence,
and they ar
money 8
trying to raise enough
keep the matter
The pater familias is a stern man
unong them to
quiet,
| and could never pardon such a misstep
ou his daughter's part, and the girl 1s
| in mortal terror lest her correspondent
{ carry out his threat.
§
-— spi
An American Girl's Success.
An American girl, Miss Risley of
| Texas, went upon the lyric stage some
seven years ago, and has just arrived
| in Paris to go over the principle roles
{of her repertoire in French with her
| original professor, Mme Marchesi. She
has a charming contralto voice, and
when she visited Paris six years ago
M. Carvalho, then director of the Opera
Comique, was very anxious to engage
But she had just
signed a contract with the Opera House
at Pesth for
there Las been singing ever since
and singing
her for his theater.
a period of six years, and
sue
in Hungarian. She has just
closed ber engagement and has now
Paris to make arrangements for
the future. She visited the Wild West
Show the other day and was altogether
| enchanted with the bueking horses, in
| which she declared she recognized the
mustangs of her native State. As soon
as the performance was at an ehd she
sought ont Major Barke to ask him if
| the animals in question were not Texas
mustangs. He told her that they were,
{and she thereupon begged to be con-
i ducted to the stables, where, in ber en-
| thusiasm, she kissed every ome of the
{ horses then and there.
i
come Lo
| A Monkey Hangs Himself,
| Whether animals ever kill themselves
| intentionally bas often been question.
| ed; but well authenticated cases of dogs
and cats compassing their own death
| have been known, and here is a strictly
| true story of a monkey who apparently
| did the same. It was a spider monkey,
la pet, who was ill, and plainly could
‘not live. To save her suffering her
| loving mistress decided to have her
| shot, and she was entrusted to a kind
| hearted man, who agreed to put a mer-
ciful end to her troubles. He took her
to his place out of town, and while he
made his preparations, left her slome
in a large unfinished room. The room
had been used for some sort of enter.
tainment, and bad, banging from a
beam, a rope with a noose at the end,
used to hold a lantern.
There was no way of getting up to
the beam, except by climbing the up-
right side beams, and the monkey was
weak from her illness; yet when the
man eame back in about « half hour,
he found her hanging. No one had
been in. She had climbed to the beam,
drawn up the rope and put her head
through the noose, or else climbed
down the rope for the purpose. It
seemed impossible that it could be acci-
dent, for if she got to the rope to amuse
herself, she certainly could not have
fallen, as she was never known to fall
n her life. There is sourcely a doubt
that it was a deliberate suicide. The
man who found her, and had hed great
clared_ that she understood her condie
tion, and preferred to end her career,
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