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THE NEWS.
a
The New England Burglary Insurance
Company, at Boston announced that it had
decided to go out of business,
J. P, Morgan & Co., of New York, deny
that they have an interest in any proposed
consolidation of sewer pipe manufacturers,
Miss Francis E. Willard, President of the
National and World's Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, sailed on the steamer
8t. Louls for Southampton,
The Grand Jury at St. Louis returned an
indictment against John E. Reidy, ex-po-
liceman and Treasurer of the Police Rejlef
Association, who Is charged with embezzling
£8,000 of the funds of that association,
Capt. Nlebauer, General Manager Wilson
and Superintendent Schloss, of the Alaska
Commercial Company, at Jeffersonville,
Ind., are negotiating with Capt. E. J.
Howard for the building of four steel sterm
ers for the Yukon River,
Jud Re Gaorye 8, Batcheller, of
N. Y., appointed by President McKinley a
member of the I'ribunal in
Egypt, with his from New
York on December 11 for ( future
judicial
The Court of Appeals, at
dismissed the motion for a
the ease of Charles N. Burgess
convicted of murder in the first degree
killing a farmer named Whitlock, in Ster-
ling, Cayuga county. Burgess will there
fore be slectrocuted during the week beglt
ning Deo ber 6.
Seth Carter killed his sweetheart,
Brackley, in Galveston, Tex
The Vanderbiit interests and the
peake and Ohlo Railroad Company
ported t) be in a scheme for contr
soft coal
Saratoga,
International
will, family, satl
alro, his
residence
\
Albany, N. YX,
reargument of
Was
for
who
Alberta
Chesa
are re
i » tt}
idpg to
market
MArkels,
James Man
is wan
, a burglar, who,
Maryland,
3, N. J.
Apgar, widely known as a
manager of the Pine Point Hous
six ml m Newburgh, N.
aceid y shot by a frien
scaped from
Lake,
ing.
sh
New Y
pllog over
thy, of 462
severely injure
rk Cent
0 its sl
Frederick
Saving St
i
t
y the li
T's -
The deg
& Blewart
was robbes
the va
to the
th een ~
John Edwards’
Miss. caused the death rank Woodward
Jim Hemphill, and Fayette Norton,
eral were ir
The merchants '
cisco have telagraphed t
of Phil r
Ban
steam
Sav.
the rs JB
San Fran-
H
vaniage
termi
y bo established
Cramp,
sdelphia, urging ¢
Fran iso ) AS
the Rimiean steamer li t
by the Cramps
oy W. D. Hughes, of the U
Navy, has been attached to the
of Calif His sp
nstruct the men of the six divisions
battalion
in drill and the taoti
warfare,
he articles of
1afle
f
the southern nus of
aited Siates
naval militia
will be to
of the
naval
inl dnt
inl duties
roia,
es of
ineorporation
aery hava
$2.5
Sioa,
of the Crock.
fliad at San
The direc
Rithel, Re
shild, C. M.
bean
500 600,
ett Sugar
Francisco; capital
tors are Log 3 B. R.
W. MeNear, Jr., George E. Falr
Cooke, and O, M. Vesper,
Out of 400 tests of sugar beets made at the
South Dakotas experiment station, at Brook-
Ings, many give over 20 per cant. sugar,
Some farms gave as high as 22 and 23.5 per
cant. These are bolleved to be the most re-
markable beot tests over made,
The Building Trades’ Counsell, of San
Francisco, has adopted resolations petition-
ing Congress to suspand all immigration to
this country for at least the period of tan
years, that the great army of unemployed
may have the opportunity of earning an ex-
istence,
F. A. Kruger, ons of three sailors charged
with attempting burn up the whaling
bark John Winthrop, in Bering Sea, 80 ag to
get a chance to goto tha Klondyke, has
been diseharged at San Fraaecisco, on ac-
eount of lack of evidence, his two alleged
astomplices having retracted their sensa-
tiofial confessions,
Go
to
A New B. & O. Bridge,
Qi: a number of miles of now BOIL,
steel rail has been laid on the Columbus and
Newark division of the B & O., replacing
671b. rall, Almost ball a mile of trestle bas
been converted Into az embankment on the
same division, Other improvements on the
B. & O. lines, west of the Ohio river, include
a four span steel bridge 900 feet long across
the Huskingum river, at Zanesvlile, and two
fron bridges on the Midiand division.
A new passenger and freight depot has
been bu at Wooster and a new freight
house at Bellaire,
iL 10 DE! 1
J. W. Harris, His Brother and
G. B. Gerald Participants,
ALL. PROMINENT MEN.
The Fusillade Opened by J. W. Harris,
Editor of the Waco Times- Herald, Who
Fired on Judge Gernld The Latter Re
turned the Fire, and Then W. A, Harris
Jolned in the Fray.
hilie
bil
from
ofl the
and
, on one. side, and
prominent citizen,
the street
mm. WW. A.
Harris
vial to the Bt, IL.«
says: J. W. Harris,
Waco Times-Herald, a morning
W. A. Harris, his brother
Judge C. B. Gerald, a
fought a duel to the death
at 5 o'clock Friday afternoc
ris tdead, J. W.
fatally, his body paralyze
Gerald shot in the side and may
trouble was the outcome of the
W. C, Brann, publisher of the Icon
Gerald was ex-county jud and
Waco's most prominent citizens,
written a bitter criticism on
sity with reference to the recent t
W. C, Brann and had filed it with E
Harris for p Afterward he
t ! irned
to have his
a delay Ir
yuls Repu
edit
paper,
A ape
Waco or
on atl
was shi
belog
winst,
ol
had
Ous
He
Baylor Univer.
wbblog of
M r
wid
Ke
ation
ript
came {ncensed at the ec
ublle
an
ret
Anus
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTIONS,
Innovation Arranged for 1808
to Avoid Crowds,
of thease eventa sori
ot pti
rege
ng New Year's
un and the public t
ard invitation. Only ti}
MY Sh
§ v sant hirit
be present, but
Ons. will be
ted wiil
will be
oT
aii who are entitied
given an opportunity
onee daring the
to be present at least
Sean, he avo
wding
ii the re
idanoe of
will add
raptions
the pre.
invitations
in official life for all
stated
avald large
but it is an
CAUSES Ox
excessive and dangerous er
tO the attractivoness of a
This is a decided change
vioua official re vaptions, when
included all persons
it
the receptions
made to
from
is that the divi
gion has beon crowds
at the repti innovation
that doubtless will yasiderable ani.
mated talk in Washington soclety cirol es,
red ns,
FIRE IN MELBOURNE.
A Block of Business Houses in the Aus.
tralian City Destroyed.
A great fire broke aut in Melt
a very short space of time did enormous
damage. It started in the warehouse of
Craig Willlamson, in Elizabeth street, in the
very heart of the city. A strong wind was
blowing and the flercsly fanned flames rap-
idly sngulled building after building. De.
spite the desperate efforts of the fireman,
the entire block bounded by Elizabeth, Fiin-
ders and Swanston streets and Flinders lane,
with the exception of two buildings on the
Bwanston street front, were destroyed with-
is three hours,
The burned section included many of the
Inrgest business houses in Melbourne, The
buildings were completely gutted, As most
of them contained soft goods the flames
progressed with a rapidity which defled gil
checking, and in the furious wind ashes asd
burning debris wers carried into the sub-
urbe a distance of two miles,
It is estimated that the loss will reash
£1,000,000 ($5,000,000) while the trade In
soft goods has received a serious setback,
Hundreds of employes of all sorts have been
suddenly thrown out of employment,
Melbourne is the capital of the Britidh
eolony of Victoria, in Southeast Australia,
The eity's population in 1801 was 401,000,
sourne and io
FOREIGN NEWS
The Bpanish cabinet received a lottor from
Minister Woodford expresing the satisfac.
tion nud gratitude of the United States gov-
ernment at the of the Competitor
prisoners, who were delivered Ly Marshal
Blanco to Consul-General Loe at Havana,
Dispatches from Madrid announce the
surrender of all the important Insurgent
chiefs in the Philippine Isiande and the come
plete pacifioation of the colony,
Blgnor Giuseppe Verdi, the composer, Is
prostrated by the death of his wile, und ser-
lous results are feared
releases
firm of
In dead,
Sir Henry Doulton, head of the
Doulton & Co., Lambeth potteries,
General Weylor arrived at Coruna, Spsin,
but continued to Barcelona without land.
ing.
A dispatch from
newspaper says there (8 nd
ff Lhe (
Havana to a Madrid
Rn single sign 0
uban insurgents,
yond
causing a los
historic BL
mb of Joha Milton,
the submission «
Fire in London
fifty large
about #45000 0600,
destre a hundred and
warehouses
I'he
Chureh, containing the t«
was badly damaged
Of Dey
Harra ©
f President Cuestas,
utles at Montevide
demanded
In the Chamber
Uruguay, Dr. HIS
resignation «
The go
sound n
rea
tween Canada and
Mello
President
written
of Canada has decided to
nto ry
ns pending bo-
United Statos,
tried to
verament
ommission suingt
h a settlement «
who kill
Brazil has
weil
known off
Eight
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLY.
wel
I'reasury, was a
partment 15 years
Heoary Ward Bee
lown when asked
when a boy-—{o recite the
Miss Susan Randal
amuel J. Randall
slerk in the Fr
town, Pa,
Chauncey M. Depew
11 ERE 1
ag
her alw
ns Le
Iaughter of the
of Pennsylvania,
fends” Library Germs
never
a batq
and
thing at
champagne
no wine at all
speach,
usually his limit
A bust of Charles Stewart Parnell has just
been added to the National Portrait Gallery,
London, It work of Miss Mary
Grant, and was h g the great British
gallery of celebrities on the sixth auniver
sary of the death of the great Irish leader,
Mrs, Eilzabeth Strange, who died recently
in Lamont, Ia., was the widow of the fam-
ous James Jessee Strange, who 40 years ago
became the self-alected successor of Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet, and King of
Beaver Island, Mich,
Massonet's new opera “‘Sappo.”
Alphonse Daudet’s romance, which will be
sung in Paris shortly with Calve In the
principal part, is another illustration of
feminine wild blood. French novelists,
composers and lbrettists of the day seem
unable to find any other theme,
it is said that the Princess of Wales ls be.
coming extremely sensitive to the effects of
music, and that thers is owe alr, from an or-
atorio, to which she can never listen without
shedding tears. As a young girl the Prin.
vess used to practice the piano a great deal,
and could spend many happy hours alone
with the Instrument,
President Stryker, of Hamilton Collage, in
a recent address, threw ~ut a hint that is
worthy of consideration by those who are
prone to excessive pride In clreumstances of
birth, “We ought.” be sald, “to thick moire
of what our ancestors would think of us
than of what we think of them.
it oxeapt the
if he ia to
until after he | finished his
Two glasses of brut champagne are
is the
in
based on
Artillery Wagon Exploded,
An artillery wagon loaded with power and
gun cotton, exploded at Mexico City, Mex,
killing four men and wounding eight sol.
diers and citizens fataily, and ahaking the
ground for many blocks.
LON FEVER GERMS
[ON FEVER GERMS.
Officials Trying to Prevent an
Outbreak Next Year,
DISINFECTING SQUAD.
The Occupants are Made to Take = Hath
of Bichloride
Clothing Brought
of Mercury
the
In Solution
and Don From
Outside, Then They leave nnd the
Squad Megine a Process,
A despatch from
The ye
Now Orleans, La.
yusidersd to
BAYH
ow fever may now bes oc
have been suppressed hare, There are a few
!
y
thesa
the
ew but
another week
cases ench day, are geperally
nea is ox
far as
obl
noerned,
pected to have
New Orleans is co
been
In the past a recur
an out
the
there has niways been
of the fever the year follow]
break his
that clothing or
which
renos Oi
has bas been due to fuet
with
PRCKeG away In DOXes
brought out
starting the dis.
bedding alive germs
Sus bel)
iring the
the spring,
‘wroer with a i«
which to
trunks
again in
winter was
ase OR
fn new mer abesd in
It is
“rms Cannot
ug
Wor 5 TAYaL
*t that the g
perature as |
3 the sun
it well
ins
ve re.
ro, a
known fa ive
w as BO degrees als
ght, but
igh BWHRY
bs
FORCE OF NITROGLYCERINGS
The Explosion Nearly Wiped an Jae
Town from the Map
and
inmage
were IL
AWAY
listant, the
#{ as great Many peo pie
fright
f tha '
ar of the exj
3 maijes in all dire
at,
he
1 ga
sii was blown « and a workman
per lit it, and caused anoth
burned
mated,
io which be was fatally
ti
wr oitl
PRISONERS REBEL,
A Vierce Fight Between Them
Sherifl"s Posse,
and a
Nineteen prisoners confined in the Gibson
county, Ind. jail doo] lared themselves in
open revolt against Sheriff Murphy. For
several days threats have been made by the
prisoners, and the sheriff had been warned,
The men declared they would have more
food or kiil the sheriff. A posse of deputies
wore placed outside the jail, while Sherift
Murphy entered the building salons, As
soon as he closed the door the frisoners,
headed by John Boger, a notorious criminal,
rushed upon him, and were about to earry
out their threats, when the posses rescued
the sheriff. A flores fight ensued betweep
Boger and Murphy, and Boger was besten
aimost Into insensibility and then thrown
into a osil. When the prisoner saw their
leader worsted they were suppressed without
farther trouble. Boger declared he will kill
Sheriff Murphy.
An Old Woman Choked to Death.
Mrs. Caroline Abke, aged 70 years, who
lived alone near Leavenworth, Kan., was
found dead in her house by a son. Marks
on her neck indicated that she had been
shoked to death. A lock on an outside door
bad been broken, apparently by burgiers,
and the house ransacked, Mr, Abke was se
cepiric and was believed to possess consid.
erable money,
The revenue cutter Bear sailed from Seat
tie, Wash., to the rele! of the ice-bound
whalers,
A PHEASANT FARM.
o
ARE REARED IN ENCLAND,
A Large Farm Divided Into Numerous Pad-
docks-~Movable Pens-Disposition of
the Egss--C
Ereakfast.
The pheasant
powder and
London Bk
the wing,
shot are in the
etch Where do
Few
on
pays
the ph
sants ron peopie Cal
1 that
the bl
hier idea 1
come f
1
iA
mst
wand once in
morning
rpose
hae
geen carrying
eakfast, lunch
combined meal
because your
cluckors hens t 3
dinner, all in
gay reluctant
broody hen appears willl
leave her precions eggs,
ways expresses her indignation at be-
ing disturbed, now in a shrill falsetto,
or i & hoarse “Cluck, cluck, cluck!
To loosen all these enraged females to-
gether would never do, for when they
were mixed the wisest man in the
world could not tell which was which,
neither could he cateh them within a
week, So stakes are driven in the
ground; attached to these arc 1oose-
fitting loops of string, each with a slip
knot at the end. by which the hens are
secured, and within the limits of their
string they can do as they like for fif-
teen minutes,
When the young birds are hatched
they are taken to a large meadow
in which long lanes bave been mown
either in the grass or clover. Here, at
intervals of about twenty feet, are
placed some 600 coops. io these the
foster mothers are tethered: their ex-
perience during the hatching time has
socustomed them to the stake, and
they generally settle quietly down with
their charges. The latter soon make
themselves at home, using the long,
unmown grass for shelter from the
one
hens,
never ing
midday sun, apd the coop and foster
b
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Same when |t
Of course,
and
mother for the pury
rains they
watched cherished
wl side in the feed
10 TOR
gos thre
the end of
ady for sale and
Here they
when the
and the
heard
men,
a day.
they are
to the
wilder
Wiraing
tt
removal
covert will grow
still, and
YEeILIOW
in
to their wings
much
The
cannot
find
them
CORN MAKES CCOOD FU
Who Have Been
the Tria!
Say Farmers Making
Si
a
con
said
jodical--always
mation
things Americ it
gign appears on a ionely
in New Hampshire “Get
married here, but boots and
Day & ubbard, Nashua
The tree to which the sign is attached
iz ie the doorvard of a neat little
white house, and the inquiring stran-
ger learns that “"Elder’ Palmer, who
lives here, has a mania and a record
for marrying runaway couples, His
house is the first Gretna Grean for the
whole State, and the old minister has
a record of hundreds of marriages.
For many years his pet hobby has
been known to the entire county, but
the taking advantage of his sign for
advertizing purposes was the brilliant
idea of a wandering sign-artist, who
never so much as asked “By your
leave” of the “Elder,” who, instead of
being indignant, was delighted, ae he
has become famous through his com-
bination sign, for not only have his
weddings increased, but the grateful
boot and shoe firm paye him 8 tidy
little sum each year.
cerning ane 8
t tt
roadside
buy you
shoes of Hubli
gi
Menelik, of Abyssinia, has been
made a Knight Grand Cross of the Or-
der of 8t. Michael and St. George by
the British Uovernment.
A red-hot iron will soften old putty
#0 that it can be readily removed.