THE RING AND THY ROSE,
A) ring and a rose,
tress—
And 1 love von no more, and I love |
you no less; |
Put still, in the light of a cynical day,
can hold your white Land while I'm
going your way. i
Are these all that life has to brighten |
and bless !
A ring, and a rose and a velvety tross?
Jean-—-a velvety
A ring and a rose! 'Twere a wonder
ful thing
¥® we shackled Love's liberty,
with a ring
If he went the unvarying
Knows
For the sake of a soft tress-
of a rose!
I love you no more, dear,
less,
a ring, and a rose,
tress,
dear,
pathway he
the Kiss
I love you no
For and a velvety |
how the stars beckon! That way,
dear, lies fame
glory we sigh for-
a name!
And how may I win them
the bright skies
I revel and rest in the light of your
eyes?
Oh, vet for some word from the life
stars above!
shall it be fame, Jean
be love?
Bee,
The a wreath and |
if ‘neath
And s or shall it
I fear for the answer! Nay, let rour
eyes dawn:
Would the light in them
lips were withdrawn?
If I gained the far summit
of light,
Would a woman's heart miss me and
dwell with the Night?
Would I still to my bosom
press
A ring, and a
tress?
fade if my
in splendor
in memory
rose, and a velvety
Hold fast to my hand, Jean! It's love
that is true:
Hold fast my
with you!
going to trample al
dust
your love—I
beautiful trust:
never a sigh,
tear,
giving the world and its wealth
for you. dear:
to hand:—I am going
F am else in the
Save believe it!-—-your
With or the mist of a
I am
Hold fast to my hand, Jean! Though
humble the way,
It shall lead us at
day:
We shall face the far skies with
blackness and blue,
if heights
win them with vou!
There are of the
wreath ‘round a nua
love, dear, that Ii
ashes of Fame!
last to a lovelier
their
And may be won, shall
tears the
years
ne
on
It
is ves o'er the
A FIGHT WITH A WHALE.
How Mate Bullen's Life Was Saved.
“The of
Cachalot” relates the following
sode, as dramatiz any that ever
fell the knights of the harpoon
We sped along at a good rate toward
our prospective vietim, who was in
his leisurely enjoyment of life, calm-
ly lolling on the surface. occasionally
lifting Lis enormons tail out of the
water and letting it fall flat upon the
surface with a boom audible for miles,
We were, as usual, first boat; but,
much to the mate's annoyance, when
we were a short half-mile from the
whale our mainsheet parted. It be
came immediately necessary to roll
the sail up. lest its flapping should
alarm the watehful mouster, and this
delaped us sufficiently to allow the
other boats to shoot ahead of us. Thus
the second mate got fast some secomls
before we arrived on the scene, seeing
which we furled sail, unshipped the
mast, and went in on him with the
oars only. At first the proceedings
were quite of the usual character, our
chief wielding his lance in most bril
lant fashion, while not being fast to
the animal allowed us much greater
freedom in our evolutions: but that |
fatal habit of the mate's—of allowing
bis boat to take care of herself so long
as he was getting in some good home
thrusts—once more asserted itself. Al
thougli the whale was exceedingly vig:
orous, churning the sea into yeasty
foam over an enormous aren, there we
wallowed close to him. right in the |
middie of the turmoil. actually court |
ing disaster. He had just settled
down for a moment, when, glancing |
over the gunwhale, I saw his tail, like
a vasr shadow, sweeping away from |
us tov ard the second mate, who was |
lying off the other side of him. Before |
I had time to think the mighty tnass
of gristle leaped into the sunshine,
curved back from us like a huge bow,
Then with a roar it came at us, re
leased from its tension of heaven
knows how many tons, Fall on the
broadside it struck us, sending every
soul but me flying out of the wreckage
as if fired from catapults, 1 did aot
go because my foot was jammed |
somehow in the well of the boat, but
the wrench nearly pulled my thigh.
bone out of its socket. 1 had hardly
relensed my foot when, towering
above me, came the colossal head of
the great creature, as he ploughed
through the bundle of debris that had
just been a boat. There was an ap
palling roar of water in my ears, and
darkness that might be felt all around.
Yet, in the midst of it all, one thought
predominated ns clearly as if I ‘had
been turning it over in my mind in the
quiet of my bunk aboard, “What if
“he should swallow the?’ Nor to this
The author of Cruise the
“131
ei
be
ns
But the agony of holding my breath
soon overpowered every other feeling
and thought, (ill just nas something
was going to snap Inside my hesd |
rose to the surface, 1 was surrounded
by a welter of bloody froth, which
made it impossible for me to see; but
oh. the alr was sweet!
1 struck out blindly, instinetively. al-
though I could feel so strong an eddy
that voluntary progress was out of the !
My hand touched and clung
a rope, which lmmediately towed
me in some direction—I neither knew
nor cared whither. Soon the motion
consed, and, with a seaman's instinet,
rope 1 grasped, although no definite
idea was in my mind as to where it
wax attached, Presently I came butt
compact knub of dread. It
was the whale! “Any port in a storm,”
beginning to haul away
iv dint
of hard work I pulled myself right up
slippery bank of blubber,
utitil 1 reached the fron, which, as luck
would have it, was planted in that
of the carcass now uppermost,
Carcass I said—well, certainly I had
no idea of there being any life re-
maining within the vast mass beneath
we; vet I hardly had time to take a
couple of turns round myself with the
rope (or whale line, as 1 had proved it
when I felt the great animal
quiver all over, and begin to forge |
ahead. I was now composed enough
remember that help could not be |
far away, and that my pro-
viding that 1 could keep above water,
wis but a question of a few minutes,
But 1 was hardly prepared the
whale's next move. Being very near
hix end. the boat. or boats, had drawn
off a bit, I suppose, for 1 could
nothing of them. Then I remembered
flurry. Almost at the same
ment it began: and there was 1,
with fearful admiration had so often
watched the titanic convulsions of a
dying ecachalot, actually involved in|
them. The turns were off my body, |
but I was able to twist a
turns around my arms, which,
of his sounding, 1 could readily let go.
Then all was lost in roar and rush,
the heart of some mighty cataract, !
ine which 1 was sometimes above, |
mes beneath, the water, but al
wavs clinging, with every ounce of en
e still left. to the line. Now, one
thie onght was uppermost—“What if he |
should breach?’ 1 bad seen them do
so when in aping full twenty
feet in the air. Then | prayed. Quick-
ly ns all the changes had
passed came perfect There |
lay, still alive, but weak that,
though I could feel the turns sii}
off my arms, and knew that [ should
slide into the sea if they did, 1 could
make no effort to secure myself. |
Everything then passed away from
me, just as if | had gone to s
side
rescue,
for
Re
the mo
who
couple of
in cnse
as i
Gi
dur
somet!
as
flurry, le
preceding
peace,
nl
ping
wey
leon.
AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE'S BLUNDER.
His Pot of Red Paint
Man
“My first experience
er.” said detective
softly to himself, “came when 1 was al
voung lad on my father's farm
father kept a large number of « hickens |
of which he was extremely proud,
they were high-bredd and the only ones
in the neighborhood.
“One morning several of them were |
missing. a fact which eansed my fath- |
er to say things that he never used in
ordinary conversation. It was plain |
that a two-legged thief, and not an ani
mal, had taken them, as there were a
number of foot prints around the ben
house,
“Several days later a number
ers disappeared, and then my father
was wildeyed, He bought! a savage
dog that wax warrantied to eat a man
on the slightest provocation, and
turned him loose at night, Ie also
borrowed a bear trap from one of the
neighbors, and set it near the doorway
of the hen house, tut it was all in
vain. It was only a matter of a few
nights when a number more hens
disappeared. with no signs of the thief.
“It was then that my detective abil
ity began to develop by laying plans to
catch the thief. One Sunday night,
while my folks were at church, 1 con
ceived a plan that I thought might
work. 1 secured a pot of red paint
from the barn amd fixed it over the
of the hen-house in such a
manner that it would be sure to fall on
any one opening the door. Then 1 had
Fell on the Wrong
as a thief eateh
the as he smiled §
as
of oth.
paint to be sure of the thief
“But my dream of looking for a man
covered with red paint was short lived,
My father retarning from church hap
if everything was all right. Ile opened)
the door to look inside. and got the
contents of the paint pot over his head.
This so startled him that he forgot
about the bear trap until he had put
his foot in it, and had it closed up on
“His cries brought the household out
on a run. We managed to get him
loose amd over to the harse trough,
where we washed off what we could of
the red paint, and I gave up my efforts
to eateh that particular thief.”
AS NS WAAR HS AN
Pictures in Bicycle Wheels.
There is a new fad for displaying
photographs on the boudoir wall
gracefully disposed between the spokes
of a bicycle wheel—not the ordinary
wheel, however. A young wowma
must show her pletures in 8 whe
from her best young man's bieycle, 1
abe is married she must use a wheel
which has covered a century run,
What the young men think of this new, in
fad is at present a matter of conjec
ture, but they will Itkely soon be heard
prom het it i comes to providing ma
RAILROAD WEATHER SERVICE
Measures Taken to Protect Live Stock on
the Cars During a Blizzard.
On railroads weather reports come
to the divigion headquarters every
morning. They are received by the
train dispatcher from every block sta.
tion and every other station along the
route. In addition to this some rall-
roads have the government report
sent over thelr wires twice a day, but
it is said that the system of local re-
ports is much more satisfactory than
the forecast.
from the
this: “Whed0Clhr-ClAWNthW."”
mach else of the routine correspon.
deace of the railroad, it resembles in
its original shape a cipher dispatch or
a puzzle. Properly punctuated,
comes clear that the thermometer
30 degrees, the
clearer and colder, and the wind was
northwest at the place the report came
from. One report a day Is all that Is
necessary unless there takes place a
tions that is liable to
ping of trains, In
storm the wind
closely.
The
freight,
becomes
dertaking
Nowadays
danger of
enough to
of a
watched
CHise
is very
transportation of perishable
and particularly of live stock,
a somewhat hazardous un
in the time of a blizzard.
most railroads that are in
accumulating snowdrifts
put a stop to travel have
sheds for the accommodation of cat
tle, In case of a sudden suspension of
travel, such as occurred on many rail
roads during the blizzard,
trains very
of reach of shelter
trains are broken
stored in conlsheds
in any place that affords tem
porary shelter. When it absolute.
ly impossible to secure shelter the
trains are divided Inte convenient
fengths and are bundled back and
forth on the tracks all pight long. The
+ on their feet,
jarring of the
train is frequently the only thing that
keeps the poor
Rheep
recent
of this kind,
up and the
in roundhiouses,
The
CHrs
or
other
in
alive,
animals in
Hogs
stoers
for it
into the same
J hey manage
to the centre of the
The
afd the
York Sun.
creatures
hardiest
withstanding cold and exposure,
die quickest, and cattle and
next, rovided that facilities
calves are turned
inclosure with
to dnd thelr way
amd bold
sheep do not seem to resent it,
prot todd Now
are the
exist,
sheen,
herd
their position.
Dynamite Explosions and Oysiers
The elammers
the and other
yuplaining
and clams have heen
to death or killed by the shock
of the explosions of the big guns at the
grounds at Sandy
inls of the fish com
and say such a theory is
neither
dredgers and
iver
oyster
Shrewsbury R
that the oysters
sien red
but the offic
Hook,
been use nor
and
“With
Poa possible, .
Oysters
SATS OF DeTVes,
affected b
a story
said Dr. Ravenel,
cultiore, and
could not be y sotind
might
who is
such
in charge of
of ost
ichthyologists in the world
have brains and several of the
They ean reason and are easi
frightened. as everybody knows
They often killed by explosions
Some people use that cruel method of
catching them. A dynamite or powder
cartridge is exploded in the water,
The fish when stunned rise to the sur
face and are scooped up with nets,
Every fisherman knows, too, that
when something happens to frighten
fish it often occurs that they never will
back to that place. But oysters,
Cannot soe
or hear or smell, and therefore noise,
fish is the
noted
Fish
Sef NOR
one
are
20
not
the
tute
way.
affect them. Neither have they
sense of fear. They have a substi
for what we call nerves in a dull
which may be termed the sense
and their natural instincts
teach them to resist any interference
with their peace, such as attempts to
But if you were to
fire a thirteen-dneh gun right over a
bed of clams or oysters they would
never know it, except perhaps by the
vibration of the alr, and
not disturb them.” Chicago Record,
Housekeeping in the Philippines.
it i not a diffienit matter for a Fili-
pine couple to set up housekeeping
The native shacks or
bungalows are curious-dooking affairs,
built entirely of bamboo, thatched with
banana leaves and invariably set up on
stilts of bamboo six or ten feet above
the ground, The interior of the house
of which is usually reserved as a
chapel or prayer room. The household
goods of these people are few. A grass
mat serves for a bed; half a dozen cal
abashes or earthenware pots for cook-
fug purposes and for the storage of
rain water, and possibly one or two
pletures cut from some illustrated pa.
per complete the furnishing of a Fill
pino’s home. They invariably Keep
children, pigs and at least three dogs,
but the most prized of all is the plumed
and petted fighting cock of the Fill
pine. This bird is fed on the best, has
a bamboo house for himself and is the
pride aod boast of the whole family.
Seypleman,
"Locking Up The Tower of Landon.
The ain guardhouse at the Tower,
which has just been pulled down, is
hard by the Bloody Tower. It is at
ceremony of locking up the Tower is
nightly performed, as it has been for
centuries. A few minutes before 11) or
yeoman
partes. as he Is properly styled, clothed
a red cloak, earrying a portentons
and roars out, “Escort, Keys!" The
sergeant of the guard turnsgout with
some of the men, and fouows the yeo
man to the outer gate, the whole party
being challenged by all the sentries
with “Who goes there?’ and the an.
swer Is simply “Keys” The gates
being locked, the keys are brought back
to the main guard, Herve the sentry
stamps and roars out, “Who goes
there?”
“Keys,” is the reply.
“Whose keys?’
“Queen Victoria's keys,
“Advance, Queen Victoria's Ke
And all's well”
“(od bless Queen Victoria
yeoman porter,
“Amen,” responds the main guard,
HMPresent arms!” cries the officer
duty, and amid the
he kisses the hilt of his sword,
marches off with
keys and deposits them ing the Heuten-
lodgings, and from that time
throughout the livelong night you can
only circulate within the Tower pre
cinets if you know the countersign.—
London Graphic.
va,
€or
on
THE ISLE OF PINES
Described by Capt. Follz.
the Isle of
southern
by
Second
An e
Pines,
const
xhaustive report on
which off
of Cuba. has
Captain Fred 8. Foltz
Cavalry, Collector
Batabano, Cuba, Assistaut Becre-
tary War Meiklejohn, at Was...
ton. The observations recorded were
Hes the
mnde
the
Customs at
ben
of
now of
fo
18
of
three
northern part of the island, whi
separated from the southern
an impassable SBP
The only land
belonging to the State
ty-three lots of
generally worthless,
tnxes appears to have
bitrary, and the chief
from the slaughter
cut off by the disappearance
nearly all eattle. The
population of - HD
New having
inhabitants The separation
town from Santa Pe,
a port at Ju is recommended
Marble nineral prodoct
of importance getable prod
ucts are of g
by
part
Foltz found
about six-
aptain
wns
fifty
The collection of
mort ar
of In
gitle, has
of
island has a
about peres each,
beens
sSOlUree
come, of «
bon
about the capital
town, Corona,
ich [FONRORRER
Taco,
the
» but the
ent variety
i% only
veg
and excellent
of his profession, while noises of much
described as rich,
. 3
small
The
simonsg
part is now
in scattered
The
land is
the
best
foals
is of a vers
beens
Wood
are
able, the
land
timber
for charcoal
abundant.
Money in Walaet Stumps and Roots.
The Gre
the recent sale In Putnam county of a
large number of black walnnt
prices ranging from
per thousand feet of Inmber
There Is comparatiy
walnut timber now in
wneastle Japner mentions
frees at
fo $22
in
io Cents
tree,
left
though enough in some localities §
tract purchasers, and ax the above fig
dares ind
in the trees
settled black walnut
a considernble
and, like
fall in the necessary
ing the land. At
all kinds, Including the lard w=
which are now r and
was regarded as a hindrance
ing operations to be got rid of in the
quickest and most effective way pos
sible, by the ax, by any other
way. Hundreds of thousands of wal
nut trees were felled and split up into
rails, other thousamds were burfied and
great numbers were converted into
lumber in a wasteful manner. Jor a
long time the big gaarly knots which
often formed on the sup
posed to be valueless, and at country
sawinills they were tumbled into the
waste pile and buried in sawdust, In
Inter when they came into de.
mand for the manufacture of veneer
ing. these discarded knots were much
sought after and brought good round
prices. Even now a market is found
at gol prices for walnut stamps and
roots dug out of the sandbars in the
Wabash and the lower White river, the
remains of trees ent down many years
ago and perhape split up into fence
rails or used in building log cabins,
it commanas
When the State
icate,
fries «
portion of its
they bh
ProCess of
all other trees fd to
clear
¢
that time timber of
nr
3
ire or
frees were
TERS,
French Convict Colonics.
Devil's Island, where Captain Drey-
fis, the French officer, is confined, |
a hot and barren strip of sand and
rocks on the const of French Gulana,
the mouths of the Orinoco
and the Amazon, French Guiana is no
convict colony, and Cayenne is its capi:
tal. Nearly ail the polivical exiles of
France and many criminal offenders
ernment lands and live Hke ordinary
with their families, but
they cannot leave without permission
of the governor, and are under nominal
surveillance, Occasionally they escape
in open boats by following the coast
inte Brazil or British or Duteh Gulana.
and sometimes they go overland, bat
the country is so rough and the sav.
ages ®o warlike that they take desper-
ate chances, apd very few ever come
out alive, The most desperate convicts
are confined to the islands along the
const which are foo small to appear
upon the map, and Devil's Island was
selected for Dreyfus,
The Soldier's Right to Vote.
A sollier of the regular army may
vote If he is stationed at his old home
it such distance of it that he
pulling tom vote. fs
does not lose his old residence by en:
listing, not does he acquire a residen
stationed at a place. If
TRAVEL w TOUT MOVING.
Novel Trips That Will he Offered to Visitors
to the Paris Exposition.
It has been sald frequently hy those
who know them best that 0 the true
Parisians Paris is the world, and what
i# true of the Parisian in partienlar is
aqqually of the French in general
hey are deeply Interested in journeys,
expeditions and explorations, but when
it comes to leaving thelr hearthsiones
the bare idea terrifies them,
Ruch being the case, one of the
tures of the exposition should be a
tremendous success, This ix the Mare.
ornma of the painter Hugo J’ Alesi,
whose railway posters and whose
school picture tablets have been B Adopt
ed by the government,
His plan will enable lovers of the
Boulevard to take a long journey with-
out leaving thelr easy chalrs-that is,
the journey from Marseilles on the
Mediterranean to Naples, Venice and
Constantinople,
The Husxion
The passenger
steamer. finds the deek and cabin cor
in all and the crew of
genuine sailors obeying the orders of
a bonafide captain.
Around the ship are the blue waves,
behind it the port of Marseilles, before
it the sea and horizon. The order
to depart is given, smoke from
the funnel, the wd up by
the propellor of which is
placed on a pivot, hydraulic
pumps giving of rolling
and pit ng, and in a few moments a
freal breeze, scented with the smell of
the strikes the face. This is fur
nished by vent fresh
son weed,
BO
fen
cleverly managed.
on board the
is
OeR
rect
Rent
details,
i the
pours
is chur:
wel,
four
water
the ves
the motions
SEY,
latare fH with
Iators filled with
i the
vessel
Comfortably seabm deck,
traveller
progresses,
on
enjoys the sight as the
ts and meets
All incl
supplied A
in sighted,
ired, and
a storm at sea is safely tasted
vil nt Venice takes place at
nt Ni port
cad
is eHEREERE »
that of Con
passes fhe for
fishing boats,
sen trip are
ships and the
dents of
fleet of war
and sunset are
ment of
The arrl
night,
tered
vousels sunrise
adm the excite
while the
at
stantinopie
The il
£ v
in en
dayl in
weed by th
of the panorama moving on both sides
of the These « mors
than fifteen yards high, slide smoothly
by. by mach and the
di Hghts and saline
Sumbietes offoct Of
fre
lusion is prod: ¢ walls
vessel, ANVARSOK,
maved nery, fu
doug use of lors
an posite to that
gently experienced when
journey
veller seems
the landscape
v rail, when the tra
tand still while
moves |
Lo
each country will
of the
Meddite
Is
al color and n appropriate to
pndd to th
Adriati
JIN
pleasure
nud
Bosporus The
he Chan
journey on
rrapean an
gite of the Mareorama st t
de Mars will the Eiffel
Tower and the stat + Molineux,
and it promises to be one of the attrac
IDR
i
we
tions of the exposition
Origin of the Merrimac lea
of sinking a
| at Santiago did not origin
On June 3
TER inl
conduct” of Mr.
in a recent
o. 1 decided
wBOCUre
yorsel across
dent. Hobson.
in calling
the brave
“Ax stated
entrance
of ©
obstruct
ress of the
ing the nar
by sinking a
telegram @
agninst the
Spanish
part of the entrance
collier at that poi nt.’ The
ferred to was sent to the Secretlary
the Navy frown Key West on May
in it Admiral Sampson told the orders
he had sent to Commodore Schley
May 27 Ins New Orleans, and said:
“My orders sent by the New Orleans
included Sterling across en
trance to Santiago. Channel is only 30
feet wide, and If this should be done
properly will close the wy The de
tails of the operation were left to him,
with verbal explanation, through tho
commander of the New Orleans, of my
New York Sun.
¢
Of
"=
on
the
sinking
own views”
Gold Gathered on Wagon Tires.
While washing a wagon wheel in
Shirttail Gulch, twelve miles south of
Durkee, on the O. R. and N.. thirty:
eight miles from Baker City, Ore, re
cently, the two Reteliff brothers noe
tiewsd colors of gold in the dirt. They
immediately started wash out the
neighboring ground, and in three days
took out £264 with a rocker. They
took four claims of twenty acres cach,
These claims have since been pur
chased by Colonel James Panting and
three Baker City men. Three pans of
dirt. which Mr. Panting brought in a
few morning ago, showed 24 cents to
the pan. and one panned 60 cents. The
bar i= 13.500 feet long, and the pay
streak fo from twenty to thirty feet
wide. It is estimated by reliable ex-
perts that the ground contains over
$1.000.000 worth of gold.—Seattie Post
Intell igencer,
Dae Family Owos a a isk,
There is a bank in Tokio, Japan, with
fn cazutal of 85,000,000 and a reserve
fund of £L230000, which advertises
the following Board of Directors: Bar
on H. Mitsui, Gennosuke Mitsui, Geny:
cmon Mitsud, Takayasu Mitsui, Hachi
rojiro Mitsui, Saburosuke Mitsui, Fa.
kugaro Mitel, Morinosuke Mitsuf, Tak
onosuke Mitsui, Yonosuke Mitsui, and
Tokuyemon Mitsul. The first named is
the father, and the others ard bis sons,
Every share of stock belongs to the
family, and it is announced that they
assume an unlimited roxponsibility for
all the Hlabilities of the bank.
The Army Field Uniform,
There wax no “rough rider costume.”
The field uniform of the United States
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THE KEYSTONE STATE.
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News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Latest
NEARLY A MURDER.
Angered by Eviction Procesdings, Abram
Will Fires Twice at 0, E, Herr Man's
Poor Marksmanship Saved His In-
tended Victim Was Subsequently Ar-
rested ~ Other Nows.
Only the poor marksmanship of Abram
KE. Will preveuted n murder at lancaster
similar to the Wirebaes-Landis murder.
Will, like Wireback, was about btelog
vieeted from his dwelling, which Is owned
by O. E. Herr. Herr gave Will potice Inst
Japusry to vaeste on April 1, Lut this Wilk
refuced to do. Here's couasl advised him
toset out Will's furniture, Accompanied
by Constable John Crawford, Herr went to
Will's residence on North Prince Street, and
began removing the furniture, Will was
lu an adjoining room. After sa few moments
he kicked fn a panel of the communicatiog
door, took alm at Herr through the opening
sod fired at him twice, Will attempted to
fire un third time, but bis revolver missed
fire, He drove out the evietion party, how
vver, Constable Crawford kept guard while
Horr went to Alderman Nebr's office and
recurred a warrant, charging Wil with as
sauit with intert to kill. The Constable
subsequently bad no 4 fi-ulty In arresting
the man, who wes committed to jali fur ex-
nuluation,
Raliroand Wilt be Bails,
An cfficer of the proposed raliroad from
Beranton to New York, to be by
loesl operstors of this region, suid with
referenes 10 recent action taken by the com-
any: “For atime the new road was leld
in abeyance in view of the promis s of th
sarrylng companies 10 keep up the price ol
ronal, but now we have decided that oud
only safe plan is to bulid the poad ard b
pdependent, A large amount of the stock
bas already Leen subgeridbed and the rest
will be foribeoming, You ean say positive.
y that tbe work on the road will be at oned
proceeded with.”
Ftole $1800 at Noon
A daring daylight robbery has
made publio at Pittaburg., Last
BOOK POG pPereOn uUnKhHOWH
the Pittsburg Provision
Here's Island, opened the sale and
put with $1800 in cash, The clerks
gone to disper apd Do one appears
seen the robber. The offi
in company refuse 10 discuss
51t admit that they have
Le ease is {a the bands of the police, In
sis baste the this! overlooked one package
sontaining #500 that was in the sale,
erected
heen
Tuesday at
entered
just
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the
Company,
waiked
bad all
to have
yf the provis-
utter,
money,
ers
the
lost the
Killed Walle Stenting a Ride,
Frank. a 13-year-old of vroliceman
Wiliam Esgiand, met with a fatal sccidert
it MeKeesport while stealing an rideon a
ireet ear. He was on the rear jistiorm
sind when he saw ondactor coming he
soir d. He struek the pavement on bis
send with such bis
Death resulted two hours iater
On
the ©
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foree ns to Iraciurs
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A Peculiar Sujeldes
At thelr bome, in Lebanon, Wil
ud bis wife prepariog ior
when, without warsiog, Mills shot himself
prough the [lorebead, causing instantan~
sous death. Mills was employed by the
wruwail Ballroad Company, aod was a
rood, bonest and sober workman. No rea.
son for bls suicide is known, uniess it be
that reilzious matters preyed upon his
mind. He became deeply interested in
shureh affairs ‘his winter and the supposi.
ton is that this produced fosanity. His
wife and four children survive,
BE Wright's Bars Burned.
* The barn and chicken houses on the farm
of Robert E. Wright wers destroyed by fire,
The farm is located in Hanover Township,
three horses, (wo cows and between thirty
and forty chickens, twenty ducks and 185
pigeotis perished in the flamer. Ono of the
horses succeeded In getting out, ut he fell
and broke his legs and died, The loss is
$500); insurance, $4000. The cause of the
fire is not known.
iam Mills
were chureh,
watched Death Approach.
While ss ting acoupling. on a car nesr
(Galeton, John Chrisman, a brakeman on
the Buffalo & Susquehanna Hallroad, had
his foot caught inafrog and was held a
prisoner. A ear ran over him and he was
horribly mangled. Several persons wers
standing by, tut were unable to render as-
sistance,
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Worry Hesu'ts in Saleide
John Spring, a machinist, of Oll City,
aged about 50 vears, committed suicide by
phooting himself! through the heart. His
dead body was fond lying In a lonely spot
on an unirequenied street, Spring was one
of the striking Western New York &
Pennsylvania Dalirond employees, and it is
supposed committed the rash act in a fit of
mental aterration cansed by worry,
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Clever Postoffice Thiel Caught.
Bdwin Muanshower, a discharged lotier.
oarrier, was caught in the act of rotbiag
the Norristown Postofice, The chisel! of
police and Postmaster Brownback made the
capture. The prisoner sald be hrd robbed
the postoffice thirteen times doring the
mooth of March and six times in February.
SO
Horses and Cows Roasted.
A large barn belonging to the Waller 8toek
Farm, near Bloomsbiirg, was burned to the
ground. A large qussiity of bay, straw
and grain was consumed. Four floes borers
aud thirissn cows were roasted to death,
The fire was of an incendiary origin. The
loss was $12,000, partly covered by ine
surance,
Fell Dead in His Office.
Alderman A.D Thompson, of the Ninth
ward, York, foil over dead in his offices,
Death was due to heart trouble, He
olerk of the courts of York eouunty for one