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Mss
THE NEWS.
—
William F. Biokel, vice president and
cashier of the Minnesota Bavings Bank,
which went down in the financial flurry of
ONe YOAr ago, was found not gullty of the
charge of making away with funds beloog-
ing to the bank.
On complaint of H, T. Sahwalin, presi.
dent of the St. Louls, Mo,, Columbia Alumi-
pum Company, a Warraut was sworn out
charging William F. Weruz, president of the
guarantees Loan and Mortgage Company,
with embezzling $17,000 from the former
conoern.
City Marshal Harrop arrested two men at
Braidwood, Ill, who are supposed to be
QOhris. Merry, the Chicago wile murderer,
and his partuer, Smith, The two men were
of a party of a dozen tramps who had been
begging.
Ma). Benjamin Butterworth,
sioner of Patents, who has been seriously 11
at the Hollenden House, Cleveland, O., for
several weeks, left for Thomasville, Ga,
where he will remain until his health is fully
restored.
Franklin Whiting, president of
lHamsburg Savings Bank, Brooklyn, died on
the street, opposite the bank building. He
bad been connected with the bank sioce
1858. He was 83 years old and a native of
Yermont.
The 85 mines of the Consolidated and
Madison Coal Companies, in the Belleville
(Ill) district, have resumed operations, and
8,000 miners that have ben out of employ-
ment for many months returned to work.
The miniug companies accesded to the de-
mands of their men,
At Scholastique, Quabec, Sam Parslow and
Mrs. Perrier have been committed to trial
for the murder of the latter's husband. The
prisoners pleaded not quiity.
The story that an Indian uamed Auk had
come out from Dawson City bringiog the
news that a large number of people were
fleeing from Dawson is generally discred-
ited, G. W. Wood and other arrivals from
Juneau say Auk's answers to questions indi-
cate that he did not come from Dawson.
Patrick Murphy, & pioneer resident of Te-
meseal, Cal., was murdered by an unknown
assassin, He was shot through the heart as
he left his cottage to go to a neighboring
store,
Lieutenant La Favour, of the
Wheeling, is to be court-martialsd
Island on the 20:h inst. He is
being fatoxicated while on duty.
Joseph Foley, the carpet-layer who
Commis-
the Wil-
at Mare
‘harged with
was
LIVES LONI.
SIX
A Schooner Driven on the
Rocky Maine Coast,
ONE SAILOR SURVIVES. |
Clinging to a Bpar, He is Finally Tossed |
High on the Shore—~The Thurlow Was |
on Her VYoyage From Hillsboro, |
N. B, to New York-Bodles Washed |
Ashore,
A despateh from Portland, Me., says: —B8iXx
of the crew of seven of the schooner Busan
P. Thurlow were lost by the vessel going to
Cushing Island, near this elty,
One sallor, E. Relmann, managed to reach
land, and foformed the inhabitants of the
wreck, The bodies of all but one of the vie
tims have been washed ashore,
Reimann, the survivor, who
old, tells this story of the wreck: —
The Thurlow on her voyage from Hills
boro, N. B.. to Naw York, with a carge of
rock plaster, encountered rough weather off
the Maine As the storm increased
the captain decided to make Portland Har-
bor for shelter. He was only a few miles
out from Portland when the rudder rope
parted and the vessel became disabled and
was left at the merey of a heavy sea.
pieces on
is 24 years
'
coust,
Plunged on tha Reef.
The captain and crew tried to repair the
steebing gear, but while they were engaged
the schooner struck on the reef. :\il three
masts were carried away by the force of the
impact, one of the topmasis striking the cap-
tain and crushing one leg. The captain and
mate ordered the men to jump for their
lives,
Heilmann was caught by a huge wave
hurled into the sea. He was washed up
the beach of the island three times but was
unable to obtaln a footing and was swept
back by the undertow,
He then managed to get hold of aspar and
clung to 1% for a long time, finally belog oar-
ried far up on the beach by the waves,
He lay on the
wd with ¢
and
on
be
his
beach for some time,
0
id and exbausted with
th he dragged
battle with the waves, At length he
himself to the hut of a fAsherman
Mclean
working on
oa Guerrero
time Mrs. Clute is supposed to have
murdered, has been arrested. He
that he knows nothing of the murder,
The advance guard of 10,000
have arrived in Denver, The
locate in the Shenandoah
weostern Colorado, where houses,
churches and various industrial iz
will be erected, the Rio Grande
to construct a branch into the
The St. Louls Grand Jury b
an indictment charging Daly, the
Mst, with murder in the first degree,
shot and killed Lulu Clark, with
lived in that city.
Louis Altman was arrested
street, San Francisco, at the
will
eolony
prom
sountry
as
whom
Bosenhelm & Co. Lonlsville, Ky.,
fA
yo fos
He
tial clerk. Altman made a partial es
glan, afterward retracted,
about 32 years old.
which he
thelr
The
Chicago alderman ralsed
3 #3 a week to £1,500 a year.
nance which acer i I
under a suspensio
56 to 8,
ished was passe
}
t
mr
my
i
ot
Commander and Mm. B
lined their Arkansas Valley
pian to a large meeting at Salvation
quartars in Chicago, :
amount of £10,000 were received before the
{ the meeting,
close of
ecolonizatio
head-
British King, which arflved In
from Antwerp, thers were 70 dogs bound for
the Klondike, They are to
New York to Montreal and thence to their
destination. They will be used in tandems of
four to pull sleighs loaded with [relight for
the miners,
Io Newark, N. J., Andreas Malinak, who
on July 22 killed Mrs, Annie Kmetz, was
sentenced to be hanged on January 27, 1808,
Malinak killed Mrs. Kmatz because she cast
Lim off after they bad sustained Improper
relations with each other for a long time,
The woman was killed while she slept.
Frank Hant, the 11-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs, M. H. Hunt, of Akron, O., is dead.
The cause of bis death is brain fever, the
direct result of Injuries received while play-
ing In a football game.
Charles Birnbaum, aged 55 years, once a
wealthy mine-owner, shot and killed him-
self at his home, in Kansas Clty, Mo., de
spondent over business reverses and iil
health,
The steamer W, K. Phillips, of the Cum-
berland River trade, burned to the water's
edge at Isiand Bear, Dover, Tenn, The loss
will probably not be less than 240,000, The
passengers and crew escaped, but lost thelr
belongings.
Friedlander, Gotlieb & Co., proprietors of
the San Francisco Columbia Theatre, have
signed papers giving them full control of the
Baldwin and California Theatres, and the
MacDonough Theatre in Oakland. They
elaim to be independent of the Eastern syn-
dicate,
Mrs, Jennie June Croly was & ppointed an
fnapector of New York public schools by
Mayor Strong for the term of five years.
Mrs, Croly, who succeeds Mrs. Harriet M,
Kemp, Is known all over the United States
as a writer and worker in women’s clubs,
Christlan Donson, a Swede, en route from
Chicago to Bweden, was found banging in
the woods near Bernbard's Bay, N. ¥.
E. Strasburg, manager of the Oil Produce.
ers’ Trust, says he has just concluded two
large sales of California petroleum, one of
30.000 barrels wo be delivered in San Fran-
clsco, The sales were made at #1 a barrel,
The executive committes of the Populist
State Central Committees has issued a eoall
for the Popuilst State Convention to meet in
Portland, Ore, on March 23 next.
Two masked men made a rald on the town
of Angusville, N. D., held up the occupants
of several stores aod secured several hun-
dred dollars,
Eugene 8, Cashman, the New York strest.
cleaning foreman, who was arrested.
charged with misappropriating 30,000 while
co-treasurer of Greely county, Neb., was ar-
raigned fo court snd turned over to Luke
Finn, of Greely county, who will take him
West,
be
CABLE SPARKS,
© An explosion of sewer gas which tore up
the street, shattered windows and damaged
a house adjolulug that of the United States
Ambassador, Col, John Hay, esused much
excitement among the inhabitants of Carl.
ton House Terrace, Londot.
*
The bodies of the captala, Mate
and three sailors were washed
Nothing was
win
the
jeft
ashore on
| fsiand during the
of the
night,
The Leach
| spars and other wreckage.
The vessel was owned principally t
tain Joseph Weldon, of Brookiyn, w
{ heretofore salled the vessel,
piaced the schooner in ©
{| Helgarson,
The Thurlow was bulit at Harrington
Me. in 1872. Bbe registered 440 tons net
| 460 tons gross, was 1268 feet in length, 31
breadth of beam,
vessel, is sire with
y Cap-
bo bad
On this trip he
f is mate,
hiarge of hls
and 16 st deep. She was
TO BE A SOVEREIGN NATION,
| Union of the Greater Republic of Central
America,
has |
the effect that
{al Information
hington, t
lepublie {
ended as to give
$ of a sovervign nation,
resent the three countries |
Nicaragua, Salvad
wave a Diet, which
ns
r an
onducts dipl
the outer world, whil
a
with
country maintains its arate
ment. This bas created
| the Greater Republie
of tt
"wo se]
the im pressioz
WAS merely AnD alliance
republic In it
ab
ww, but not a i
of trouble
iree republl itn
CRUSH
i gall. It bas been the chief
United
{ In sending ministers from the 1
| to Central Ameriea,
In view of this feeling Senor Corea, the
i represenative In Washington of the Greater
{ Republie, wrote to the secretary of the Diet
asking for authority to state that the gov.
ernment was to be more than an alliance,
In reply, the secretary, Mr. Mendoza, writes
to Mr. Corea that a complete union Is about
to be formed. I will be no longer a union
for dipiomatic Intercourse «
a fusing of wail the lalerests of
governments (ato one sovereign state,
Ms. Corea has not been Informed as to the
details of this complete union, but he
he believes it will be accomplished by Feb
ruary, If not earlier,
nly, but will be
the severs)
BAYS
ABOUT NOTED PROFLE,
jssged
Mr. Barrie's publishers have just
the 50,000th copy of “The Little Minister.”
Rev, Dr. John Watson has declined a call
from a Presbyterian chureb in London, and
will remain in Liverpool,
Archbishop Williams (Roman Catholie), of
Boston, has come out in favor of tote: ab
stinence, a significant action, according t«
the Boston Transcript,
According to a London correspondent, the
Government will ask Parllament to give the
Duke of Teck £3,000 a year out of the £5 000
which was paid to his late wife,
George Askwith, the English lawyer who
accompanied Lord Dunraven to the United
Btates, has been appointed junior counsel for
Great Britain on the Venezula Arbitration
Commission,
Count Dimitri Miljatin, formerly War Min-
ister of Czar Alexander 11, and one of the
ehief promoters of the Emperor's liberal re.
forms, has just celebrated the 90th anniver-
sary of his admission to the Russian general
stall,
Richard Strauss, the German composer
and conductor of the opera at Munich, has
been conducting some of his own orchestral
compositions at the Colonne concerts in
Paris, His wife, Frau Strauss Ahna, |
sang some of his songs at the same concert, i
Richard Wahrmann, a German sportsman,
has undertaken a hunting expedition to the |
Somaliland, on the Abyssinian frontier, He
already has successful bunting trips in Cey- |
lon, India and Cashimer to bls eredit. He |
will on this one gather selentifle and ethno. |
logical objects for eollections in Germany,
and will stay six months in East Africa, i
The alumal of the University of Minneso- |
ta, will erect a statue of John HB Pillsbury
on the college campus, i
The Whittier homestead has been pur |
shased and given by James Carleton to trus. |
tees, who will hold It forever as a place of |
plous pligrimage. The trustees are engaged
in raising a fund of #10000 to keep the
grounds in order as nearly as possibly as |
they were when Mr. Whittier occupied them. |
The Prince of Naples one of the best |
numismatists in Europe, has been made an :
honorary member of tie French Numismatic
Society.
Septimus Winner, the composer of the
popular song “Listening to the Mooking |
Bird," written in 1853, celebrated bis golden
weddigg on November 25, gc
de
i
i
CONGRESS.
-—
Senate,
dr Dav.—A petition signed by 21,260 na
tives of Hawall, protesting against the an-
nexation of those islands to the United
States, was presented in the Benate by Mr.
An attempt was made to secure an
appropriation for the relief of the Klondike
ing on the Becretary of War for all Informa
on the subject, Forty-five pri-
were passed. A resolu-
tion asking for Information regarding the
sale of the Kansas Pacific Road was adopted.
Stn Day, —In the Senate Mr. Lodge made
an effort to secure an Immediate upon
his Immigration bill, which substantially
vote
is
Presi
dent Cleveland, Mr. Allen objected and sug-
gested that the floul the amend-
ments and the bill be taken on Monday, Jan.
uary 17, at 8 P, M, This suggestion was
necepted by Mr. Lodge, and ag order for a
vote at that time was made, Mr, Gorman,
chairman of the Democratic
mittee, presented an order, which was wdopt-
ed, rearranging somes of the com mittes as
signments, owing to the Incoming of
new members,
vote on
Stearing Com-
somes
intro-
Was Lrans-
adjourn-
to Presl-
Grit Dav.~No business beyoud the
duction of bills and resolutions
acted In the United States Senate,
ment being taken out of respect
dent McKinley,
Tran Day,
hitition of pelagio seallog by
was presented in the Beate by the
ommittee, It
that the bill was (no sid of negotiations DOW
pending among the representatives of he
of the United States, Great
Britain, Russia and Japan, Mr, Pettigrew
antagonized the measure and offered an
amendment providing for the ng of all
the seals an the Prilowoff Islands if by
Tue bill providing for the pro-
Americans
Foreign
explained
Relations C wns
Government
Kilt
the
1st of June next Great Britain also hs
agreed to a pr
The amendmen
passed by a vote
eudeavored to
Lie dire ft War to
supply rellel t
Klondike regi
rihat
recommitted,
000 f
vil service debates upon the
mwmities provid
of the «
shoul
by the us {
ap} ot of a director
thirty-two employes, who
y f av
“a i BES
House
dru Dax
was taken up in the House
for
{, presented a
probably peveral
Allen, of
suendm , designed, as he said, t
pone « the most giariLg eviie
the H«
I
days
+
rrect
mitted o1 oth sides of
th sid
2 140,000 wrried by the i
yer the iit
“x pet
tive
baer
of the H
pers
lowa, and
asi 4d
made
nform
. 8.
pled by
int at
i used
6 PAry
irsue was
1 by Mr
terwards disc
as to whether
Morton, but
almed any intention
should appear ia the record
The H
irs, adjourned out of
nt McKinley, whe
The time
Tra Day
about two he
thy for Preside
was buried at Canton,
sion was devoted to the ¢
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
pristion bill, It was decided to j§
the consideration of the tem pr
the maintenance of Bervioe (
use, alter a session
gympa
ta
of the ses
Approe
wipone
viding for
the
{ the
arent,
the Ciril
mission until after the other features
bill had been disposed of. It was apt
from the remarks made thal the ent sub.
ject will be exbaustively debated,
Brit Dav.—The Legislative, Exoacutive,
was
ered In the House, An amendment
adopted reducing the clerical
Pension Office ninety-five, inv r
duction In salaries of #115000. The
service question was discussed at
length, The proposition of Assistant Secre
tary of the Treasury Vanderiip to retire
clerks for age was denouseed by Messrs,
Moody and Johnson, both of whom are de
fenders of the ( Berviee Law,
was
tha
an ree.
civil
BOM
roe
siving
ivii
WASHINGTON NOTES,
The President sent to the Senate a large
list of nominations made during the recess,
It included seven foreign ministers, eight
counsuls-general, a large number of
suls as well as army and navy promotions,
All the offloers of the Lancaster, just re-
turped from the South Atlantic Station have
SOULi~
or leave, The ship will be put out of com-
mission at Boston
been ordered from the New York home on
two months’ leave,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davis
bas accepted an invitation to address the
uary L
In the House Mr. Melntire introduced a
lightship and fog signal at the Taii-of<lhe-
Horseshoe, Chesnpeaks Bay.
Senator Wellington presented a petition
from the heirs of depositors in the old de
funet Freedman's Savings Bank asking that
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia,
has been made a member of the Judiciery
Committees, filling all vacancies on that
Committes
Lieut. J. J. Knaop bas been detached from
the Patterson and ordered home, Lieut M,
E. Hail has been ordersd from the Naval
Proving Ground to the Coast Survey.
Commissioner Jones, of the Indian Ofos,
has returned to the city from a trip of inves.
tigation of Indian agencies in Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory. Generally speak-
ing, he found in Oklshoma the wards of the
nation were making fairly good progress in
the steps of civilization,
The Senate Committes on Publie Lands
has appointed Senators Carter, MeBride
sud MeEnry a sub-committee to draft land
lawislation for Alaska
HR insu
[5 FOR GENERAL L
Bl)
Dynamite Found Near
Consmate,
AN INFERNAL MACHINE.
Guards Around the Building Oceupled by
the United Consul. General
The Former Attempt to Blow Up the
Caan Nueva-Two ‘Battles With fu-
surgents,
Minton
from Havana, says:—A
small box, apparently made to contaln sam-
ples of some deseription, was found at ihe
Cazn Nueva, United Ktiates Con-
vxamination of the
filles with
A cable despateh
where the
sulate ls situnted An
box showed {it to
un
contain 4 tube
yrtunately,
cover was not removed in the ordinary way,
explosive substance, ¥ the
out was splintered
‘OVer WAS & ple we of
opes. Underneath the
sandpaper, intended t
ight a box of matches and thus bring avout
sn explosion,
A Previous Attempt,
On November a tube, sald to eon-
ain dynamite was found on the premises of
she United States Consulate at Huvana by a
man who was subsequently arrested by the
private watchman of the consulate, but the
affair was classed as a joke, and the man ar
rented was believed
vidual who placed
found,
In order to guard against any possible at-
tempt hostile to the consulates or ite Inmates,
the Bpunish officials te
protect
Loe,
24 last
been the indi
where it
to have
the tube Wl
sok ms Mu
and C
precaut!
the buliding yueui-Oenernd
Battles With Insurgents,
General Maretto, it Is announced from the
palace, has been engaged with an insurgest
force at the farm of 1) ’ Three lusur-
Bonls were
Later, the
os,
ceupled Ly t
abd Aces, att
[he Insurgs
report, 43
troops captured
min
the geno urprised
jeaders OLIAY
z
ing to the offieia
ws the fleld, the
ms and some doeu
1 a captain
jeft
ments, and the column had aud
one private killed
The insurgent Lieutenant Antonio
quex has surrendered in
Matanzas, He
hergeant Camejo kille
tenant-Colonel Jose
The death of
tirre, wh
the
Mar
Provinos of
insurgent
Lieu
the
had
thal the
insurgent
assnris
i Lhe
Rosa.
the insurgent Colonel ie
kilied 4 skirmish or
Kiver Seco, near ines an Ir
Hao jo wo he losurgoents
tows f Lows
was iVIiLE A
wae
portant event,
March
yd prepared 1
rEents
3
He destroy
oe ihe
a ressed
His reme
FUSILLADE AT A DANCE.
Three Men Killed
Girl Rocelve Fatal Wounds
The ritizgens woniviiie In.
it #10] shots at
wheres a
slariie
realdence of houses
reaming
whos
’
Kress ihe =
and ihe
party was in
women aroused the town,
population gathered about the sovrne he
:
shooting, when It hat thre
floor and
shot
was & soene of gayely young
and
was discovered
men were lying dead on the parior
that a womar fatally
The parior
folks dan
and a girl were
#5 0 1 oi»
ILE ana spr,
ita t
’
jer the Iafluence of liqgus
amusement
Griffin,
s ow,
manner toward
alll remonstrated with
t
4
was at
man
ton
eight when Saw A yOung
became
the
in his
Mr. {
ised him
nxive
young indies
bs iy ’ 14
Him and Aas
This en
raged Girify and be
gan to make threats against his b alll
knowing Griffin to be a dapgerous man, pe
pared himpel! and « offender
leave the house,
[his precipitated a fight. Beven shol
were exchanged Bath principals dropped
jead, and Claretice Jones, A young mal
instantly killed, the three
falling within a radius of a few feet,
As soon as the first shot rang out,
young ladies began to flee Jor thelr
: yn was cleared two
Califf fired
effect
go home
a and he drew a pistol
wi, t
rdered the
was als
ives,
and before the ros
them fatally wounded,
three all three taking
striking Griffin {o the right temple and tw
in the breast, Griffin fired four times, One
shot entering Califf s breast, killing him «kt
stantly, Anothar struck Clarence Jones ir
the hend., Mrs. Calif was shot fa the
abdomen and his seven-year-old daughter ir
the neck,
When the fighting commenced the peo
ple began to flee from danger, many of then
getting into buggies and driving away.
wore
shots, one
BOY KILLED BY FOOTBALL
Nine-Year-Old Frank Hunt the Victim of
the Game,
Prank Hunt, the S-year-old som of Mr,
and Mrs, W. H. Hunt, who Mlve at Akron,
Ohio, is the first vietim of football since the
game was introduced in Akron. The boy
died of brain fever, the resuit of Injuries re
oeived while playing the game,
Hant, who was large for his age, played
at tackle, and was in every play. During
one of the scrimmages he took the ball and
dashed foto the line, When the ball had
been called “down and the arms and jege
of the players had been disentangled young
hunt was found underneath the pile.
Examination showed that his head was
badly swollen and that his body in the pi
of the stomach was discolored. Physicians
were called, but brain lever developed and
the boy died.
Rush te the Klondike.
The railroads are confidently expecting a
big rush of travel to the Kiondike in the
spring. It is estimated that fully 100,000
people will attempt to reach the g@d flelds
us soon as the winter is over and with a de.
sire to turn a nimble penny at every oppor.
tunity, trunk lines are beginning to prepare
for the rush,
Ono of the first in the field was the Daiti-
more and Ohto Railroad whieh began on
Tuesday, December 21, the runnlag of the
through tourist ear from New York City 10
San Francisco without change by way of
Philadelphia, Washinglon and Parkersburg.
i
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
s—
Latest News Gleaned
Various Parts.
from
BRAVE OFFICER SHOT,
In Trying to Save a Fellow Officer He Wai
Himself Hurt— Fought Mad Ball-Left
Mister to Her Fate Brothers snd Blisters
Fled When Here Clothing Caught Fire
Ousted Pastor Undisinayed,
Effie, a O-year-old daughter of Beot
Marsden, court tipstafl, died in the Charit)
Hospital, Norristown, from injuries receiv
od during the absence of her The
ehlld was playlog with a laatern, ex
ploded, setting to her Hei
brother and sisters fled t
mother,
which
fire clothing,
in dismay. The Ul
# sorenms attracted neighbors, who
pted the dwelling from belug destroy
late to save her,
farmer of Limerick
tis one
prove
ed
but were 100
Jumeos 8. Faust, a
township, |
bull and barely escaped with his life, As I!
I#, he sustained a fracture of his collar bons
and bruises all over his body. Mr, Faus
entered his cattie yard all uasusplelous o
danger when the maddened brute charged
upon him. He was thrown beadiong,
julekly sprang to his feet. Though bad
hurt Mr, Faust, with much presence of min
probably
inrgs ring ia the bull's nose,
bu
This he trust
ths pain,
be tapos
This gave
He» Isll the
side, where he was found by bis wife,
William A. yf the
Pottstown's p
H
home
sponse icRs OD ote)
(soist, oae bravest
in
» ifferiug
»d whilelo a Qesperate strug
hier au
y Washington Hill, & re
arrest a drunkes
piace they
¢ Wilken Br
driven hls family
ir a ool Of
niready lguitec
OMRcers Boll
, 0
shed the
br Whe
¢ had
ned
4
a]
rushed I wher
Sehlickter
by the
verpoweresd apd |
bim to the lockup
he ball In Gelst's
Ange Lo say, the ¢
leg and
flicer aid
1 4
il be pded Lis
Bn house,
{WO Yours ago served a wouths
r assaulting his wile
J. H. Norris, wh
ipit of the M
ted out
sut Washingwu Presby.
Decanss he preach
new
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fan oid
-bajred man found floating in the
Allegheny River, the
mate of the boat. The body was partially
identified ss that of a character known a
“George,” who did odd jobs about the
market. George is supposed to have falies
into the river when intoxicated. lun attempt
gain the shore his hand found
rope to which be held alter the river
done its work.
Jonh Bhover, aged 41 years, son of James
Bhover, and a Urdkeman on
Maryland Rallroad, was orushed
coupling cars at Shippensburg. He
but & few mioutes afler the accident
curred. The jury of Inquest exonerated the
raliroad company of all viame,
The divoreed George Stalas, of
Lancaster, known as Mrs, Andereon,
wok ber life with a d laudanum, She
was a cigarmaker. She left the home of her
father, James Anderson, with her 1-year
old brother Joho,
ber of saloons she parted from bim.
veloped at the coroner's inquest
procured lsudanum early in the evening,
ing t the
bad
while
lived
wife of
Sadie
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Mrs. Isabella Hage. When her condition
physicians’ offices, but could not get any of
them to attend the woman, B8he died in the
ambulance gn the way to the hospital,
Jobn Chuniski, when on his way home
from MeAdoo to Honey Brook, was waylaid
by tour men who attempted to rob bim. He
struggled for some time with the highway.
men, when one of themrstruck him on the
bead with a weapon and knocked him sense.
isss, but before they had time to clean out
bis pockets the highwaymen were soared off
by men sttracted by the struggle.
Reading bas a woman barber la the per-
pon of Mise Ella M. Butt, She made her
debut at the Postoffise barber shop, Bhe le
22 years old, nud shaves and clips bair with
grace and skill.
Shore have decided to turn thelr attention
toward the raisiog of sugar beets, Deets
will be analyzed, and if they contain sugar
in paying quantities a factory will be loca.
ed there,
william H. Coleman, of Colebrookdale,
has brought suit against Daniel G. Gable,
claiming 85,000 for siander. Last month
Mr. Gable's storage bouse was robbed and
Mt. Coleman alleges that Mr. Gable acoused
him of the robbery.
John Sheehan, an employee of the Dels-
wars & Hudson Road, was leveling dirt in a
car at Carbondale which was standing still
when he lost his balance and fell backward
to the ground, breaking his neek.
Cling to Primitive Methods.
The Indians in the interior of Canada
gill adhere to the primitive mode of
disposing of the remains of their dead,
the corpse, attired in a new sult of
clothes, being placed on a platform
some ten or twelve feet high. Those
living nearer to civilization have adopt-
ed burial, but even then the new suit
of clothes is indispesable, and the body
is placed in an upright or sitting posi-
tion on some hillside facing a lake or
river, that the eyes of the dead may see
the canoes or chimans passing by.
Favorite weapons are invariably inter
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WHAT THEY eAT IN CHINA,
Wheat a Ceneral Article of Food as Wall
as Hite,
Although rice is generally regarded
by the Chinese as the “staff of life,” a
large quantity of wheat has been used
from the most ancient times, and in
the earliest classifications wheat Is
mentioned as one of the five grains,
in the northern provinces, where rice
{8 not grown and can only be pur-
chased by the well to do, wheat is the
it itis of 4 very
are seen
and ergo-
of disease
most common cereal, |
poor quality, Bla
in large numbers every year
tism is
heads
a too frequent cause
among the
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three score and
| mankind
King of Abyssinia’s New Throne.
Menelik, King of Abyssinia and
fhoa, having, to a great extent, shaken
off the of Italy, is be-
inning to realize that he is every inch
| a king. A Cairo paper says that he is
going to treat himself to a new
throne. Orders have been given to &
manufacturer in Paris to construct
one which will be consistent with the
ancient title and dignities of the King
of Ethiopia. It will be of sculptured
oak. with gold incrustations, and will
be draped with silken embroideries
and other objects of the decorative art.
protectorate
Made Cripples.
A wealthy beggar has lately been ar-
rested in South Russia. Re is chief of
a beggars’ league in that country, and
hag founded, in connection with his
“work,” a factory for turning out
cripples, whose dreadful appearance
might move charitable passers-by to
give them money. Of this he received
5 per cent. During the winter he was
accustomed to reside at Stavischtscha,
where he possessed a large house and
lived in the most luxurious style.
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A Proof of Death.
No one disputed the dictum of a
Chinese physician, called to attend a
Celestial, who had fainted in a store
in Portland, Oregan, when the doctor
said, after filling the prostrate man's
mouth and nose with red paint: “Him
blow paint, him all same not yet dead;
him no catch ‘im wind, no blow paint,
him heap dead.” The man did'nt blow
out the paint and the coroner was
called.
A member of the Hartford (Conn)
City Council wants the city to start &
» hewspaper of its own.
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