WEDS,
We call them weeds;
slender fingers,
Earth's wounds and sears they
to cover o'er;
On sterile sands, where
raindrop lingers,
They grow and blossom by the briny
shore.
seek
scarce the
We call them weeds; did we thelr form
but study,
We many a secret might unfolded |
find;
Each tiny plant fulfills
taught mission,
And bears the impress
Mind.
its heaven
of Immortal
We call them weeds; the while their |
uses hidden
Might work a nation's weal,
tion's woe;
Send thro’ each wasted
balm of healing,
And cause the blood
quick pulse to ilow,
a na
frame the
with youth's
Weeds—yet they hold in bonds the
mighty ocean;
Their slender threads bind firm the
sandy shore.
Navies may sink
motion;
These humble weeds
work give o'er,
amid its wild com-
ne'er their
And who shall say the feeblest thought
avails not
To bind the shifting sands upon life's
beach?
Some heart may treasure what we've
long forgot,
The faintest word some
power may reach.
~E. Evans, in New Orleans Picayune.
soul with
STOPPED IN TIME.
At the time of which I am writing 1
was living in seclusion in a small town
about 35 miles north of London. 1
was engaged iu rather a large literary
undertaking—in fact, I was writing
novel. So engrossed was 1 with my
task that I had no time to read even
the newspaper and was quite ignorant
of what was going on in the world. It
was a little after 8 o'clock one evening
in April that I finished the second vol:
ume of my work. 1 put on my hat
and coat and started off for an even-
ing stroll I had no sooner stepped
into the street than a boy accosted me
with a bundle of papers his
arm and the request, "Buy an evening
paper, sir?” I bought put it
my pocket and resumed my walk.
After my return I opened my paper
leisurely—nay, lazily. Presently my
eye caught the following paragraph
heading. “Impending Execution of the
Clinford Murderer.”
There is a morbid fascination
most people in an execution,
yielding to the feeling,
read the paragraph:
“The murderer of the
James Renfrew will hanged to
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. The
wretched man, whose name-—Charles
Fenthurst—is now in everybody's
mouth, still pe in his plea of in
nocence.”
Here [ became
The name
far to me. I had formed a deep friend
ship for a man of that name. He
was a good 10 years senior and
had died about two years previously
I knew he had a son named Charles,
a young fellow who had emigrated to
South Africa early in life and who
was generally supposed to be working
at the diamond mines. Could this be
the same man? [ read on.
“It will be remembered that at the
rial the stronges circumstantial evi
cs was brought to benr upon Fent
hurst. The murder took place in a
house on the outskirts of the small
town of Clinfold., It was proved that
Fenthurst was in the habit. of fro
quenting Renfrew’s premises, and that
apparently be was expected on the
evening in question. He was seen
tear the place soon after the crime
was committed, and other
proofs of a strongly condemmnatory
character were also laid against him.
He has persisted from the first, how
ever, in maintaining that he was ab
gent from Clinfold at the very time
the murder took place. This was about
seven o'clock in the evening. At that
hour, he says, he was returning from
London, where he had heen spending
part of the day. Only one witness, he
says, could prove this, and that is an
individual who travelled with him as
far as P— and entered into conversa. |
tion with him. Advertisements have |
#} in all the papers by
1 advisers, for the pur- |
vering the individual in
as no answer has been
it is generally believed |
that the while story is a myth. At!
seems but small chance
ing proved at the last
murder was committed |
fines his condemnation |
the murderer {1s been confined in|
Silkminster jai, where the execution |
will take place} |
Astonishment find dismay ecnfront. |
ed me as I laid dywa the paper. 1 was’!
the missing wi 8 they had zo vain.
Iy sought. | inetly remembered
early in FebruaryXrunuing up to town
rather late in the §fternoon, spending
Just half an hour t
under
one, in
for
and so,
I proceeded Ww
unfortunate
be
wists
interested,
famil
deeply
Fenthurst was most
my
several
of the alibi
moment, Th
February 6,
: : : My
landlady didn’t even but that I
had been out for a walk than
usual. 1 had entered into conversation
ot the return journey with the only
other occupant of the compartment, a
young man with a small black bag
on which were palate
Saw B-- for
Returned by 6:42 train”
of the situation now
A man's life-the
The horror
I looked at
11 o'clock.
my hoots,
my watch, It
Hurriedly
thinking ol
My first im
Then, I remember.
fice, with dismay,
the 8:30 train to the large town of Foo
about five miles off, where he led,
leaving the office for the night in the
charge of a care taker, and return
ing by an early train the next moru-
It was impossible to telegraph. Then
{I thought of going
two constables
geant in our little towm, but what
conld they do more than 17 Country
police are proverbial for the lelgurely
“routine” manner in which they set
about the inquiry and it would never
do to trust to them. I was in de-
spair,
Madly 1 threw on my hat and rushed
out. I ran in a mechanical way to
the post office, Of course it was shut,
and if I had aroused the care
could not have wired. Besides, all
our wires sent first to F—, and, as 1
have said, all communication was shut
o¥ after 8 8 o'cloc k. Then I started for
the railway station. ‘This was about
half a mile from the post office and
well outside the town. As [ hurried
along 1 thought, with fresh dismay,
that this would also prove a fruitless
errand, for the last train to Silkmin-
ster was the 8:30 p. m., by which I
have mentioned, the postmaster al
ways travelled nearly 150 miles down
the line,
Should I wait till the merning and
telegraph? I remembered that the of
fice did not open till 8 o'clock. I had
by this time reached the station. Of
course it was all shut ap and all the
lights were out except those in the
signal lamps for the night express. It
was now half past eleven. Was there
no hope?
At this moment my caught a
Hght in the signal box, about a quarter
of a mile up the Hoe. 1 could see the
signalman in his box, the outline of his
figure standing out against the light
within. 1 looked at my watch, The
down express from London was al
most due. [ would make a rush for
that signal box and compel the occ
pant put the signal against it and
stop it. It was a desperate game, but
only get that train to for an in
stant and all would be right. By get
ting into it 1 could reach Silkminster
in the early morning, and what cared 1
for any action the might take
if 1 saved my if the sig:
nalman refused to pull back the levers
the strength born of desperation would
enable me to master him and then re
lax myself. All this flashed
ACTOSS in an instant, and {1 clam
the railings on the side
and
and a ser
eye
to
stop
company
friend's son?
thém
me
bered over
the station
line,
Even
aphore
as I reached the rail the sem
sigual that near let
fall its arm. and the red light changed
into a brilliant green. The
was signalled. Would
I dashed along over the
towards
wns me
eXpiess
there be
rough sleepers
it was
over and
half the
Ginnious roar
signal box.
dark, and 1 stumbled
ins. I had eleared
when 1 heard the
ahead, and in a few dis
tinguish the distant glitter of the en
gine's head lamp bearing toward me
The train was just mile from
rushing on at express speed. With
a groan 1 ejaculated, “Too late!”
At that instant my eve fell
ghastly looking structure by the side
of the track, looming grimly through
the darkness. it resembled a
armed gallows with a man hanging
from it! For 5 moment 1 thought it
must have been a fearful fancy con
jured up by the thought of Fenthurst's
dreadful fate, but himmedintely 1%re
membered that this strange looking
appartion was none other than a small
mallbag suspended from a in
fact, part of the apparatus by which
a train going at full speed pleks up the
mails, The express train that was
coming had a postal ear attached to it
From the side of the ear a strong
rope would be lald ont, eatching the
bag | saw suspended before me,
A mad and desperate idea took pos
session of me. Fortunately I am
small man,
my head,
the Yery
ayer
dis
tance
seconds conld
over a
ne,
upon »8
one
post
Jumped at it, seized it,
it firmly at the top,
by a book, and drew
as to present as small
possible. Then I waited,
a few seconds,
I heard the roar of the approaching
train. Then the engine dashed past’
me,
and all was dark.
When 1 caine to my senses I was
lying on the floor of the postal van.
Two men in their shirt sleeves were
basily engaged in sorting letters at
a rack. 1 felt bruised and stiff all
over, and I found that my left arm
was bound in a sling made out of a
| bandkerchief.
“Where are we?" 1 asked,
They turned around.
“Oh, you've come have you?”
sald one of them. “Now perhaps you'll
give an account of yourself. Its pree-
fous Incky you're here at all, let me
tell you, for if you had heen a taller
man we should only have got part of
you in the net. As it Is, you've got
your collar bone broken. We've tied
it up a bir”
I told them the motive that had
prompted me to take the desperate
step I had done. They plled a quan
tity of mail bags on the floor and
made me a rough shakedown.
A ljttle after three we drew up
my
Of course he was deeply Is.
terested In what I had to tell them
ani at once made arrangements to
stop the execution. The home secre-
fary was communicated with by
means of special wire, Fortunately
1ihe happened to be in town, and after
a couple of hours of anxious suspense
a reprieve was received {rom him:
“Well,” sald the governor, “I don't
{know which 1 ought to congratulate
most, Mr. Fenthurst or yourself, for
you have both had an most narrow es.
cape.”
Little remains to be told. I soon
identified the condemned man as the
person whom 1 had met on the train.
He also turned out to be the son of
| my old friend, as I had fully expect
fed, After the due formalities he was
discharged, Suspicion having strong:
(ly attached itself to his name, how-
ever, until about a fortnight after-
ward the real murderer was discov:
ered and captured. Charles Fen
thurst and myself became firm friends
and although 1 was fearfully shaken
amd upset for a few weeks after this
adventure I never regretted the night
on which I was picked up with the
malls.— Strand Magazine,
SAN
CANINE REMORSE.
|
|
A Mastiff Killz a Little Greyhound, Disap-
pears and Never Returns.
A gentleman from Indiana county,
Pennsylvania, who Is absolutely re.
liable, related a dog the other
day which would seem indicate
that a dog can suffer keen remorse,
“A few years ago,” he sald, “1 owned
a fine, big mastiff, which I had reared
from puppyhood, and who was intel-
ligent and faithful. He was extremely
good natured and sgeemed
the most considerate care in playin
with children or smaller dogs, not
hurt them.
‘Nhen I had kept the mastift for
several years I became the possessor
of a delicate little Italinn greyhound,
The mastiff treated him as one of the
family and never abused him, but the
little greyhound considered himself a
dog of superior breed and too aristo-
cratic to associate with the mastiff,
He would snap and sparl at the mas
tiff when he came near, and when the
8 were fed the little greyhound
would attempt to drive the mastiff
away. This continued for some time
until one day, after the greyhound ha
eaten the quantum of food
it, 1 ran up to the mastiff, snappe
on the leg and attempted to
food. The mastiff looked at
second, and if it
cluded that it time to
impudent ttle greviiound a le
grabbed it the neck nnd
little shake. When he dropped it the
greshound lay limp and lifeless
neck had ben broken. ‘Brag.’ tha
the mastiffs name, looked at
dog for what he
ake him ge
hon
story
to
fO exercise
to
He
dog
ti
i it
take its
Irown
it for a
"
had
teach
then, as con
was the
ws LE,
by gave It a
I was
the dead
if &inevrely
He
when
as SOPTY
tried tr 0
the little
amd burl Fw
great
had done,
up, snd
was taken
along and
proceedings
that
over
$
2
3
iH
1ir “nt
took interest in the
“Seeing the mastiff was mol
what he had do:
Kindly, parted him
amd tried to I
that be would
few minutes.
dog
disturbed
spoke to
head
SUpPUsing
about it in a
mistaken The
nes returned. That
years ago aml [ have
ma=tift since, 1
gaetwns
n
hi
the cheer i
forged
ut 1
slunk away
or was nearly
never hear
the can
| his in no other was
and shame for what he b
ACCoIns
that
fil done
A New Fly Discovered.
Suargeon James I.
N.. attaches] to the flagship Res
has discovered a new fly
fly that Surgeon Gatedwomnd has
Covered abont Linif n=
full grown Northern Kind, 1 pers
fectly black. if there Ie any perfection
at all about it, and it has wings shad
like a bat, It in only
the filthy places, unless dis
turbed, when it will fly to the nearest
wall Here it rests for a long
cand from a distance has the
ance of a Blawg sveck or of an ord
nary fly that has died tl
months before When
it does not move as
do under fright ond
sary to take a stick
dislodge it. Surgeon
has forbidden all the oarines
nary files do under fright and it
| necessary to take a stick or stiff plece
{ of paper to dislodge it. Rargeon Gate
all the marines
and others who are smploved around
the naval station ashore to tonch
these flies, it being his opinion that
they are undoubtedly responsible in
great measure for the plague that is to
| be found In Havana to-day. He has
| captured a number of them alive and
will send them to the scientists nt
Washington. New York Mail and Ex.
press,
ratowomnt, 1
£pitgte
The
iis
in Culm
iu ux big thie
is
those of lives
fost
time
appear
ere
on the
ordinary
it
OF
Meri
wall
flies
eves
#tiff paper
Gatewood
fu
fo
fa
I worl has forbidden
A A
Tabby Medivivas,
At a south side school the pupils
were requested to bring some Kind of
an animal to be used In the study of
anatomy.
Tommy Miller's mother had two kit
tens and wanted to get rid of them,
The kittens were both alike and
Tommy brought one of them with Lim
to the teacher the next day.
The juvenile feline was killed, dis.
sected nnd lectured upon and the
mains were put away in a tin box for
further use the next day.
Who can imagine the teacher's sur.
prise when a live kitten jumped out
of the box the next day when he
opened it, expecting to find a mut
lated feline cadaver? It was an exact
image of the one he bad chloroformed
and was positive that he had killed
the day before.
It fa still an unsolved mystery to
the teacher, but both kittens are gone
from Tommy's home,
And Toinmy wears a auapleion of
Yuowiig vis—Chieagy Journal,
iy
HOW ENSIGN BAGLEY DIED.
A Comrade Tell About the Brave Naval OH
cer's Last Moments.
The engagement of the gunbont
“Winslow” at Cardenas on May 11,
1808, was designed to disable the
Spanish gunboats there, and prevent
their interfering with the blockading
operations of the smaller American
vessels, This object was accomplish
ed, the “Winslow having the active
support of the “Wilmington”
amd the tug “Hudson.” In his account
of the fight in the Century, Lieuten
ant Bernadou, who commanded the
“Winslow,” and was himself badiy
wounded, thus describes Ensign Bag
ley's death:
Shortly after the receipt of Injuries
to the machinery 1 had sent the men
of the fire room foree stationed in the
compartments containing the disabled
engine and boiler on deck, where they
rendered efficient service in passing
ammunition and
At the time of the
ine they were standing
near the after engine
the unengaged side of
a point just abaft the forward ong
pounder gun. Here they were joined
by Eusign Bagley, who stopped neay
the hatch upon a trip from the engine
room. 1 had stepped aft to speak to
Bagley, walked forward a few paces,
aud turned facing aft, when I heard
a sharp report, and saw him the
four wen around him sink to the deck
An armor-plercing shell co from
a direction abaft the beam had struck
the deck a glancing blow, but at a suf
ficient angle to allow Its point to take
against a riveted seam in the fore-and
1ft line of deck-plating, developing a
resistance sufficient to cause It to ex
The men were canghi in
one of dispersion of the fragments;
Bagley and two others were Killed
stantly and two were mortally wound
ed. (It was Incorrectly stated, in news
paper reports of this action, that these
casualties were inflicted by the
my's last shot} 1 ran agley
threw open his blouse, Ag
wounds were suffice
that he had ceased to live,
nothing to be done hut to move u
and «
the bodies of
administer to the
was in our power to gh
The destructive effect of
our ships was apparent
before the close
cruiser
parting of the first
in a
room hatch,
the vessel, nt
group
on
and
ming
lode, this
in
ene
nnd
#1 fain
te
io
lane
ent to convinee
There was
y One
. te 25350 gn i
over with torpedo-tale
and to
aid as
the
side
COYOra the dead.
wounded such
¢ them
fir 1
the fire of
for some ting
of the fight
from the shore batteries
sod, m1 ey fi tnally
Lion progres
gltogether: the
“Wi
inslow
the ae
edd
the
while a
Cardenas
After
res
oliliged
“W\
, Hrunn
fast
fHlmington.” “Hudson
I's mnined finr
fo to
10 turn over
inslow” to Lier chief
Mate I". Brady.
tenor VY 10 comma
or © i
ained $18 |
rolls
1 ¥ §s
irom the
commissioned oflicer
Al the ole
on tix wd to the
* anchoreege off Pledras Cas
the death f Ensign
suffered
officer
record will
vel by a
former vessel
of the act ships retin
Bagley
Fouts
tainless
norancey
Seme Stories of Royalty.
Two or three pretty stories
=
stories
come foating in to from var
abroad which
best loved among uring
have to do with kings and queens and
children. Queen Victoria,
sometimes goes anannounced gto the
pursery at Backingham Palace
the Battenberg children whe live win}
her play with each other or entertain
their little girls were
among visitors the other
when the Queen came into the room
very much to their consternation
They had never been taught to
address her, but having been brought
they suddenly re
Daniel did before
Darins, So they threw them
at the foot of the Queen and
eried out, with a loud volce, “0 Queen
live for ever,” greatly to her amuse
ment, whe, being mest of all a woman,
as all god queens must, laughed, and
taking then on her Knee, entertained
them with funny questions.
Another story bag to do with the
German Empero®in the Holy Land
when all the children of the mission
were brought into his presence
“Which is the Emperor?” asked the
Empress, and the children with one
accord shouted, “There he Is”
threw the Emperor into a pretended
fright, and he jumped back as if they
had scared Bhim, which so greatly
amused them all that they shouted
again with delight.
Simple stories, the reader will say,
Yes, but pretty ones, we think there
were three or four others lke them
and interesting, too, as proving that
before little children even Rings and
queens, lke the rest of us, must an:
bend, or else be proved unworthy of |
high estates. sliarpers Bazar,
A Fellow's Conceit e Hard.
ROUroes
those tales,
is seems
where
visitors Two
those day,
how
what
King
solved
enr sat a pretty
nineteen yours old, with fresh
all the world.
Down at this end of the same oar
by the door, sat a man maybe forty.
five, and beside him a younger--the lat.
ter possibly twenty-five. It was not
until the car had reached Grand River
that the young man noticed the girl
She was looking his way, apparently
at him, and smiling sweetly.
would flirt her handkerchief Ir ne
mt pleasantly ns you please, At ao
the young man was amawmsd, then he |
ain tie, the feeling taking possession
of him that unconsciously he had made
ia deep impression on the pretty girl,
He winked at her and she smiled,
Then he pouted and she smiled some
Hore,
“Easy picking.’
man. Then, proud of
nudged the older man at
suid: “See that pretty
in the corner? She hasn't been doing
the
himself, he
lis side and
thought
‘THE KEYSTONE STATE.
Latest News Gleaned from
SLAYS HIS SWEETHEART
slic saw Who is she, do
know 7’
The elderly
at the young
fn grin, “Yes, she's
been looking at me, not at you.”
The young man gasped, amd
rest of the way to hix street he
the platform. And when he
gone out the girl came over
his place beside her father.
Free Press.
me.
gentleman
man and replied,
my daughter, Bhe's
rowlae
on had
Detroit
DYING PACIFIC PE OPLES.
appearance.
It has been known for
the native population of the
Polynesian Islands is growing
anid the day Is not far
when aborigines will become
tinet, is already the
mania. Mr. RB. Mal
an exhaustive study
blotting these people out
and has printed vol
minous memoir In the “Internationales
Archiv Ethnographle,”
He says that even at the time
Europeans began to visit the
comparatively few of them
habited, This fact was partly
isolation ands
to natural i
human life, such
voleanie eruptions, drought
causes that tended to
out the nanves,
r of Islands, however,
been visited by haman
very small. Bot since the i
appeared among the Polynesia:
number inhabited islands
years
beautiful
smaller
that
the
as
eX.
case in
mak-
of the causes
ler has been
ing
that
exirtence
are
his
is
when
Islands
were In
due to
pnd
aver
from other
phenoniena
helr
artly
alile
CANES
ul
hurri
and
extern
The
which
being
{0 in»
other
nnte or drive pum
iw
Heyer
Wis
pry os
groups the ol
wid, Nome
all 1
otiiers only
of the
has greatly dbnini
slands have
ation, while
$
thelr native pop
4
lost
in
large
lived there
follow
remnias
= who fi
alilor
Mahler gives
mnant
waneris
{ies
reasons for this
place cont
ed Dy
name rx Of
liguot
trond ue whites
inrge
HON
ty
and
in the
iw] form of las
wtod
fant back
iu
ttlemments
ives
regions Ores £4
white sa ih
sinnds is anoths
diminution
white man
in the
which, Mr
completels
native
is still
extinction of
Mahler
ACCOM}
next
Polyvuesian race,
many will be
placed by the white
by the English and the
some of the
by the Japanese and Chinese. The
tives will disappear. first from
and most fertile islands,
may have a somewhat long
of life on the islands that
vels
hinks,
wishied in the
fine
in
re
iris
In
comirse of the century. The
#0 interesting
aspects, cotnpletels
particuls
Germans,
races,
na
th
Inrgest
: *
i thes
lense are
prod tive,
The appearance among them of the
distribution among the natives of tx
ixland areas, For instance, in former
tines the need of protection was great
amd many villages were hidden in the
forests or perched upon elevated rocks
The whites now maintain peace in
nearly all the Islands, and a great
many of these protected villages have
therefore, been abandoned. The aa
tives have sold many of their best
ands to Europeans or have been fore
od to abandon them, and on account of
their decreasing numbers Poly hesians
have abandoned a large number of vil
tages they formerly otcupled, Sun.
Sn——
Palmenic.
A teacher in the sixth grade of one
| of our city schools finds time, now
| awed then, in spite of the ten thousand
Cand one things unknown to the school-
ma'am of our youth which the modern
| teacher Is expected to teach, to give
| her pupils a talk on current history.
Recently she told them one day some
interesting things about Queen Nie
toria and her family.
from various magazines iinstrated
the talk. Among them was a pleture
of the Duke of York, The teacher
{held it up. Nobody in the class could
tefl her who it was,
“Well,” she sald at last. “I will tell
vou who this gentleman is. He is the
Duke of York. And now can any of
you tell me what he ie?”
Quick as a fash the hand of a little
girl in the second row went ap.
“1 can tell what he Is, Miss Rank.”
she sald proudly. “He's the hear cons
sumptive to the British trone.”- New
York San.
One of the mest Sueresful Buglish
breeders of cats says that frequent
She | change of diet benefits the animals,
Portraits cut
them; oll Bobi Bigg ho Ba
Was Maggie Guth, Aged 20 -8Slayer is
Hostler Frank Krause— Hols keeper
Owen Kern, Who May Die, nnd His Wile
the Other Vietims,
:
i
{| Crazed with jealousy, Frank Krause shot
| and killed his sweetheart, Maggls Gath, snd
Kern, Miss
| Guth was shot three times in the breast, sod
| died fostantly, Mr, Kern, at latest accounts,
{ls in a precarious condition, Mrs, Kern's
| woupds are not so serious, Kesu-o fled,
| but was captured within two hours snd is
now in the Lehigh county jail. The seeps
jot the terrible tragedy was the Cedarville
Hotel, iocated In mvillage three miles west
of Allentown, Owen Kern is proprietor of
ithe hotel, Maggie Gath, who was but 2)
| years old, was his bired girl. Krause, who
Is 23 yours of age, was employed as hostler,
| Miss Guth came to the hotel last summer
aud Krause, who is a typleal Lehigh county
farme:’s boy, fell desperately in love with
her. For a time his sult progressed favora-
Uly and Miss Guth, who was an unusually
| pretty girl, appeared to reciproeats his af-
fection. Lately, however, the girl grew
cold toward Krause and gave bim to under
stand that she no longer desired his atten-
{ tions. He was a persistent lover, however,
and refused to be put aside for another so
easily, He losisted on thrusting his com.
pany on her. Krause and the girl met in
the rear yard of the hotel, They were hav
{ing & dispute, Mr, Kern and Oscar Miller
wers in the barroom throwing dice. Mrs,
Kera entered and sald: “Just listen how
those two young people ars tal king. It is
100 bad and should be stopped.” Mrs. Kern
then went into the yard and took the girl by
the arm and asked her to come into the
house, Krause took the girl by the other
erm and tried to keep her In the yard. Mrs.
Kern sald: "She belongs to me.” Mr. Kern
next came upon the scene and told Krause
Bot Lo make a fool of himself, Then, with-
oul a moment's warsiog, Krause drew a
33-eniibre revolver and fired five shots,
Three of these wers fired at the girl and two
st Mr. and Mrs, Kern. The girl feli to the
ground without sn moan, Bbe was carried
into the house acd died in ten minutes with.
out sogaining consciousness, In the excite
ment Incident to the shooting Krause man-
aged to silp away, Bul be was tot destined
to be at lil erty long, for Detectives Haines
nd Keck soon tracked him to his brother's
Louse, sevoral miles away, asd placed him
under arrest,
Manige W telded a Spade,
Henry Hamilton, of Port Jervis, 22 years
oid, was seized with & sudden masala in
Conshobocken, sald to be dus to the exces
#ive ues of cigarettes, Young Hamilton was
discovered at 3 o'clock In the morning en
waged in violently digging in an open lot.
He deciared that his parents were buried
there in the late blizzard, Several rolilng
workmen attempted to subdues his
frenzy, but were beaten off, Hamiiton using
his spade as a weapon of delense. He con-
tinued at work and kept ealilag for ecigar-
sites until a number of policemen affected
bls capture, He was locked up and legal
steps taken to have him declared a lunatic,
His parents were potified of his afMiction.
Deadly Blow With a Fist
Whails coming out of the Opera House at
Bethlehem Bobert.F, Hittel, & young man of
Hellertown, accldentlly jostled Herman
lodgers. The latter, it Is alleged, struck
| Hittel a fearful blow on the jaw, kaoooking
! him down sud forcing his false testh down
his throat. Hittel was unconsclous when
pleked up and aearly strangled to death be-
fore a physician succeeded In removing the
i testh. He is suffering from concussion of
‘the brain and will probably die, Rogers
| was arrested and remanded to jail without
| ball, He served during the recent war as a
privats in the local company of the Ninth
Regiment, *
mill
Unknown Man Killed,
A train on the Schuylkill Valley Rallroad
| killed an unknown mas at Five Locks near
Hamburg, The engineer sounded the whis-
| tie, but the man was unable to get off the
track In time and was struck by the pliot of
| the engine. Deceased was about forty yenrs
Col age. Ha» had black balr and a dark mous
tache, and weighed about 167 pounds On
| bis person was found a tax receipt reading
| as follows: “Philgdeiphia, 10.797; Division
80, Ward 20th, City of Philadelphia. Re
ceived of Rich, Schock, 50 cents for personal
tax for 1897. (Signed) John J. Hagan, col
lector.” The body was taken to Rewding
and an inguest held,
Children For Sacrifice,
Mrs, Mary Buotterwick, widow of John
Butierwick, of Pottstown, became appar.
ently violently insane and threatened to of-
{ ter her two children ue a sacrifice by killing
them. Policeman Frankum and several
neighbors feterfered and rescued the little
ones. The husband dled a year ago and
sinos then the woman has earned a living
for herself and ehiidren In a ehirt factory.
Her income was insufficient to properiy
muintain the family. lo sufferiog a severe
uitack of grip her mind gave way.
Iron Works to Resume,
After havisg been idle over a year the
Vaican Iron Works, at Tamaqua, which are
controlled by Wilkes-Barre oapitaiists, will
resume operations as soon as the plant can
be placed In readiness, several large con
tracts baving been received. The plast ie
one of the most modern ln the State, nad its
resumption means much for Tamaqua,
Rich Boy Minds His Life,
Romeyn Olde, aged 17 years, a high sohool
boy, sole heir to #350000, aod son of
Clark Olde, ons of the most prominent
members of the Erle bar, committed suicide
by blowing out his brains with a shotgun,
The deed was done in his ows room. No
eanse can be asmigoed, BAe It bu a boyish
ove affair, .