THE REALM OF THE UNUSUAL.
*Up in the country’s” a wonderful land!
Each bough on the tree is a magical wand,
And the wind is a wizard, with antics so
strange.
What marvels he works when he says
~ ‘Presto, change!” -
The chickens which we see all Jiteless and
are
Are active and covered with feathers, up
ere:
And apples are found upon trees, so they
say.
Instead of in barrels, the usual way.
And‘milk is obtained from a cow by a man
And not from a tin cup dipped into a can;
And things that you need grow right close
to the door,
Instead of the natural way, in a store.
It's > Wii long journey by foot and by
But well wort the trip if it's curious you
The iasienl moods of Dame Nature to
trace.
For “up in the country’s”
place.
a wonderful
— Washington Star.
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“Did I ever tell you of an experi-
ence I had with coyotes near Torre-
on?” asked Capt. John Clayton, an offi-
cial of the Mexican international rail-
road, while talking with a party of
friends at the Zaragoza Plaza. His
friends shook their heads and then
proceeded to settle themselves down
for a good story. Capt. Clayton or-
dered a round of Iron Brew and tnen
proceeded with his yarn.
“Ten years ago I had charge of the
building of the bridges between Torre-
on and Durango, »” he began. , “1 had
my office at Torreon, and I kept a
sharp lookout for the construction of
the bridges and culverts, right up with
the grading, as all of us were doing
our level best to have the road com-
pleted into Durango by the middle of
‘September, so that the railroad com-
pany could run its first train into that
city on the 15th of September, 1892,
the 62d birthday of President Porfirio
Diaz.
“As the bridgemen kept right up
with the graders, who were at that
time within five miles of the city
of Durango, I felt sure that we would
‘have everything completed by the
14th.
“At 8 p. m. on the 7th 1 was sit-
ting at my desk in the office, making
out my reports. I felt rather drowsy,
as I had done a hard day’s work. As
I pored over the papers I kept wish-
ing that something would turn up to
relieve the monotony of struggling
with those figures. Suddenly the tele-
graph instrument in the office began
clicking out a message for me io
hasten to the front at once.
“I telegraphed back and asked,
‘What is the matter? What do you
want? But I could .not receive an
answer. I then concluded that some-
thing serious must have happened,
so I instructed Pat, the night watch-
- man, to get out my velocipede, and
than I started down the track.
“The moon was in its first quarter
and not a cloud ‘was in sight, while
the stars in the firmament sparkled
brightly. It was a beautiful night, a
glorious mnight—just one of tnose
nights that are never seen or enjoyed
in any other part of the American con-
tinent outside of the States of Nuevo
Leon, Coahuila and Durango.
“When I mounted the velocipede I
felt that I would have fair going and
by sunrise would reach the last
bridge that had been completed. This
bridge was 150 miles away.
“I was in good shape when I pulled
out, and everything went along
smoothly until I passed the San Car-
los siding. When I passed that point
I saw some dark objects crossing the
track a few hundred yards ahead of
me. I judged by their actions that
they were a pack of coyotes that were
eut hunting for something to eat, and
that they were not at all particular
what they came across.
“lI was alone, and realized that if
they attacked me I would not stand
much of a show with them, as I was
unarmed. I made up my mind at once
that the only chance I had for my
life was to rush right through them,
and when I got clear of them to work
the velocipede for all it was worth, I
did so, and as I rushed through them
they made a dash for me, but missed.
“As I passed clear of them they
set up the most terrific howling that I
ever heard, and caused the hair on
my head to stand on end and the
cold chills to crawl up and down my
spinal column. It was that infernal
howling that was the cause of my be-
coming prematurely old and my hair
and whiskers to become as white as
SNOW.
“As they caught up with me some
of them rushed past. hey snapped
pt my legs and attempted to bite me;
duit I kept working the velocipede with
hands and feet as hard as I could, as I
felt that I was then engaged and con-
i, tending with the most cold-blooded
“and cruel beasts that were ever
created and turned lcose upon this
earth.
“By the time I reached the 30-mile
post, one of them attempted to spring
upon the velocipede, but he missed it
and fell in front of it, and the wheels
ran over his hind legs and broke
them. That caused him to howl with
pain; and as the others saw that he
was disabled, they turned on him and
tore him to pieces and devoured him.
“No sconer did they get the taste
of blood than they became more fer-
ocious, and took after me with re-
newed efforts, with the expectation of
soon making a meal of me.
“As I knew [I was approaching a
long irestle bridge, and that they could
not cross it at the speed at which
they were going, I concluded that I
if I failed in
it would be
would outgeneral them.
that all would be lost.
goodby John.
“By this time the moon began to
drop behind the mountain in front of
me, and the darkness increased. The
thought of being devoured by those
bloodthirsty beasts caused the blood
in my veins to become congealed, my
brain to become rattled and my nerves
unsteady.
“If I could only reach that bridge
before they tired me out, I felt that I
had one chance for my life. 1 fig-
ured that when I got on the bridge the
coyotes would not dare to follow on
the trestlework, but that they would
swim the river. Then, when they
reached the opposite side of the river
I would start back to Torreon as fast
as the velocipede would take me. The
animals did just as I had anticipated,
and while they were in the water I
started back.
“Now, this part of my story shows
what shrewd beasts these coyotes are.
One of them, evidently looking for a
flank movement on my part, had
stayed on the bank, and as he saw
me starting for home he set up a
vell that sounded like some one was
filing into the seat of my velocipede.
It caused a cold perspiration to ooze
from every pore in my body. The wail
was responded to by the whole pack,
and back they came and took up the
chase after me.
“It looked to me as if their eyes
were as large and bright as the head-
light of a locomotive. But I kept
pumping away with all my might. As
I was approaching the San Carlos sta-
tion one of the coyotes jumped up
alongside of me and looked up at me
with mouth wide open.
“I kicked him away and finally, just
when I was on the verge of collaps-
ing, found myself approaching a steep
grade. Then it was all off with the
coyotes. Down that grade, I went like
a “locp-the-loop” machine, and when
the velocipede slackened up I found
myself safe and sound at Torreon,
with Mike on the platform to help me
off. Some of the laborers said that
on the following day they found sev-
eral dead coyotes on that grade. qt
such is the case they must have run
themseives to death. You know, coy-
otes are queer animals, especially
when their ferocity has been aroused
to its highest pitch.”
“Did you ever find out who sent that
message, captain?’ asked one of the
party.
“Yes, confound it,” replied the cap-
tain. “Some green surveyor had had
a row with several men over a right
of way and didn’t have sense enough
to wait until next day for me to set-
tle it.”——St. Louis Republic.
AN UMBRELLA FOR THE SPHINX.
One of Numerous Plans to Save the Old
Statue.
For some time past travelers who
have visited Egypt have reported that
the sphinx, that silent sentinel of the
desert, is crumbling to dust because of
the climatic change wrought by the ir-
rigation of the sandy wastes surround-
ing it. For thousands of years this
great monument has withsjood temp-
ests and all other onslaughts of time,
yet now, it is surely beginning to de-
cay, and unless prompt steps are tak-
en to save it from destruction it is
very probable that it will within a few
years be dethroned from the position
it has occupied so proudly for centuries.
The experts say that the terrible
sandstorms during the last quarter of
a century have gradually worn away
portions of the rock which supports
the sculptured figure, and it is only a
question of time when the ruin will
be complete. The sphinx itself will not
suffer, however, for it is fashioned out
of solid rock.
A day or two after the doleful nev
reached France a few leading archaeo-
logists met for the purpose of devising
some effective method of saving the
sphinx, and after a long debate they
decided that the best thing to do would
be to erect a huge umbrella for the
monument. They agreed that only in
this way could the sphinx be protected
against the destructive sandstorms
which sweep periodically over the des-
ert.
A thorough investigation has shown
that these storms more than anything
eléc are ruining the monument, and “if
these can only be warded off,” says
the a-chacologists, “there is no reason
why the sphinx should not last until
the end of the world.”
If an umbrella is constructed for this
purpose it will unquestionably be the
largest in the world, for the recum-
bent man-headed lion which it is de-
signed to protect is 108 feet 9 1-2 inches
in length. Such an umbrella would
have to be fashioned out of rock.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Music’s Effect on Hair.
“Do you know that music has a
marked effect upon the hair of the
head?”
The speaker, a masseuse, was seated
in a theatre, and on the stage a musi-
cal comedy was being rendered.
“String music,” she went on, ‘has a
preserving influence. The harp, the
violin, the ’cello, all tend to give life
and strength to the hair. The piano
also is a preserver as the manes of our
Paderewskis witness.
“But the music of the brasses causes
baldness. Sousa, you will remember,
has had nearly all his hair blown out
by the blasts of his many horns, and
you will find that practically every
horn-blower you come across is bald.
“Look at this orchestra, for instance.
Let's see if it doesn’t bear me out.”
An investigation of the orchestra
was accordingly made, The pianist
and the violinists all had vigorous,
thick hair, but the trombones and cox-
netists and bass horns were bald.—
Ph'ladelphia Record,
Polite Miss Moore.
Miss" Marjorie Moore was politeness itself,
And after the first piece of cake,
“No, thank you,” she'd say,
“That's enough for today.
It is all little girls ought to take.”
One evening at tea an emergency came
And thus did Miss Marjorie meet it~
‘‘Just one more,” was plead ;
‘‘Well, I'll take it,” she sz id,
“But I really won’t promise to at it.”
—Good Housekeeping.
The Wonderful Toad Bone.
Many early writers have ascribed
wonderful qualities to toads and frogs,
and also to the various parts of their
body. Ptolemy, an ancient Greek writ-
er, who was one of the leading his-
torians of his time, believed, for in-
stance, that if a toad was brought into
the midst of a mob or other large
gathering of people, “silence would in-
stantly prevail.” Livy, a Latin histor-
jan, says “a small bone found in the
right side of toads of proper age, is
believed to have power over the vari-
ous elements.” “Boiling water will im-
mediately cool if this bone be thrown
into the vessel,” says Livy; ‘nor will
the water boil until the bone is, remov-
ed. To find this bone, lay the dead
toad on an ant hill. When the ants
have eaten it all away, except the
bones, take each bone separately and
drop it into the boiling water. Thus
may the wondrous toad bone be dis-
covered.”
How to Make a Toy.
In vacation time a restless child may
be amused and profit, too, by construct-
ing a home made toy. Perhaps moth-
er will be called to aid in this, but she
may feel repaid for her assistance.
The following instruction for making a
tin can locomotive, which is very sim-
ple, is given:
The boiler of the locomotive is a
baking powder can; the rear wheels
are covers of the same; the cab is an
oblong box; the smoke stack is a
spool. Cut along the lower. edge of
the tin box omuiy, and turn up the tin
for tnree-fourths of an inch and at
right angles to the plane of the box.
Bore two holes in the sides of the cab
for the knitting needle axle. Bore a
hole in the corner of wheels, slip the
axle through the holes in the cab, slide
the wheels over ‘the ends of this and
fasten securely to the axle. Fasten the
bailer to the cab, resting the back of
it on the turned up tin. Fasteca two
pieces of cardboard te the forward part
of the boiler and bore a hole through
the lower ends of these. Plug the holes
with wood, place between the cardboard
strips wood, place between the card-
board strips and stick ordinary pins
through the holes in the strips and in
the center of the plugs for axles,
The headlight is supported. on @
square of cardboard fastened to the
boiler. Carefully fasten a piece of elas-
in position as foilows: Tie one end
around the center to the axle inside the
cab, pass the loose end thrcugh the
long narrow onening in the lower part
of the cab, and fasten it with plenty
‘of sealing wax to the front end of the
boiler. The elastic band cut in two at
one end or a number of smcll elastic
bands tied together will answer ad-
mirably. To set the locomotive in mo-
tion turn the wheels Fackward unti
quite a lot of the elastic is wound up
on the axle; then, holding the whezls
firmly, set the locomotive on the floor,
when it will travel for a distance of
twenty-five feet or more. Cars are
made of match boxes.—Woman’s Home
Companion.
Where Coffee is Grown. ’
Coffee, like other things, is not al-
ways grown where the advertisements
say. When the grocer is asked for a
pound of Java or Mocha coffee he
pours out several hundred dark brown
beans which probably never saw the |
If the cof- |
other side of the Atlantic.
fee could speak it would be apt to say
it was raised in Brazil, where at the
present time the greater part of the
world’s supply is grown.
The little island of Java, in the East
Indies, and the little town of Mocha,
with its 5000 inhabitants on the banks
of the Red Sea, in Arabia, have now,
in fact, if not'in name, given way to
the great South American - republic.
Travelers in the state of Sao Paulo, in
the southern part of Brazil, tell of en-
normous coffee plantations, some of
which contain more than a million cof-
fee trees.
At Beunopolis, for example, is a plan-
tation which is said to be the largest
in the world, and which has 5,000,060
trees. The coffee tree when wild grows
as high as twenty feet, but when cul-
tivated it is only half as large, with
evergreen leaves and white flowers in
the blossoming season.
The fruit is a pod containing one or
two beans. The pods are spread out on
an open field to dry, and often these
drying grounds cover nearly a square
mile. When thoroughly dried the pods
are run through machinery, which se-
parates the beans into two kinds, those
flattened on one side and tnose of com-
plete spherical shape. The first is
called Java coffee and the second
Mocha.
The coffee raised on these great plan-
tations of Buenopolis is sent by rail to
the port of Santos, on the Atlantic
coast, where 1t is shipped to 2ll parts
of the -world. Brazil produces ezch
vear about 666,000 tons, although the
world’s consumption is estimated at
only 000,000 tons. There is thus at
present an overproduction of the cof-
fee Lean. which aas frightered many
dealers of this city to such an extent
{kat recestly they met Lo consider how
| very naughty.
they could get niore people to “drink
cofice. They said that there had been
so much talk about coffee hurting the
nerves that the business, unlike almest
every other business in these pros-
perous times, had been cn the decrease.
How far this movement to increase the
drinking of coffee will succeed is still
a question.—New York Tribune.
The Story of £pooks.
Spooks is a very black kitten be-
longing to a little girl who has to
stay in the house all the time, or at
least, for a good many months, until !
the hip that hurts so much gets well.
Do you wish to know how Spooks
first came to his little girl. Well, all
right.
One cold morning when papa went
to the door to get the bread the baker
leaves every day, there, cuddled up to
the warm loaf as closely as possible,
was a tiny black kitten, too weak and
cold even to say “mew.”
Papa brought it in and showed it to
Alice-——that was the little girl’s name—
and said, “Here is both bread and
meat. Do you want it?”
It just looked at Alice with two sol-
emn eyes, as much as to say, “You
know you need something to play with |
when the days are so long; I know
you are a gentle little girl and will not
be rough with, me.” Mamma said a
black cat brings good luck. So the
kitten was taken into the kitchen and
given some warmemilk.
But the poor kitten was quite sick.
Alice felt very sorry and said, ‘Oh,
mamma, won't you give it some chlo-
roform or something like that? I think
it would be better for it to die than to
suffer so. But mamma gave it a big
dose of olive oil and in a day or two
it was much better and began to wash
itself; then it played a little, and Alice
didn’t feel a bit lonely any more. ,
After the kitten was there a few
weeks, papa said: “Y ‘wonder if. it
wouldn't sit up when it is fed.”” Papa
used to give her just a little meat every
evening. Spooks was very fond of papa,
because he was very gentile and played
with her; and then, as I said before, he
fed her. He just proppad Spooks up
against the wall a time or two, then she
know what was wanted of her. After
that she sat up whenever she wanted
anything or thought she wanted it, for
she found out it had gréat effect.
Then one time papa took a sheet of
newspaper and tore out the center. He
held a small bit of meat in front of it,
and Spooks jumped through the paper
after it. Papa did thpt two or three
times; then Spooks would jump
through without the meat.
But I must tell you another funny
thing Spooks did. Alice used to prac-
tice an hour nearly every day. At first
when Spooks heard the piano she was
very much frightened. After a -while
she got used to it and would go to
sleep in Alice’s lap while she played.
One night Alice and her papa and
mamma were entertaining some friends
and were taking tea in the dining room
which is off the parlor. When there is
any company at the house, Spooks
likes to employ everybody's attention.
When they were at tea the kitten was
forgotten. Do you know what she did?
She jumped on ‘the piano and walked
up and down the keys three or four
times. When mamma rushed into the
parlor to se what was the matter,
there was Spooks ‘sitting on the keys,
crouched to make a spring as she al-
ways did when she wanted a romp.
I forgot to tell ‘you that she was
growing into a very beautiful, glossy,
sleek-looking cat. When she sat be-
fore the open fireplace, she looked like
one of the cats on those sofa cush-
ions that were in the shop windows
just before Christmas. Then Alice
would grab her up and squeeze her
rapturously. Miss Kitty would get
vexed at that, and the stately way she
used to walk out of the room would
have done credit to a tragedy actress.
Alice had a little girl friend who
was a great admirer of Spooks. She
used to watch the kitten with envy in
her heart and wish so much that she
owned her.
Well, one day she did something
She went to see Alice.
Alice was feeling quite ill and was in
bed. Alice’s mamma let the little girl
in, but did not pay much attention to
her, as she came in very often. She
let her in, then went to look after
Alice.
The little girl played a while with
Spooks. Then, as nobody was around,
she put on her hat and cape, picked up
Spooks, and took her away. Spooks
knew her and would play with her and
trust her.
Well, she took kitty home, but some-
how she did not feel very happy about
it. Her mamma asked her where she
got the cat and she said she found it
on the street. But poor Spooks was
very unhappy. She missed Alice, and
would not sit up or do any of her
funny tricks for the naughty little girl,
because she was afraid of the girl's
brother who was very rough and made
such a noise. Then the little girl got
angry because the cat would not jump
through the paper, and slapped her.
Poor kitty was miserable then. She
was not treated so by Alice. Then the
little girl’s mamma said, “You must
not do that. I don’t want that cat
here. anyway. You had better take it
back to where you found it.”
So the little girl put on her hat and
cape—it was dark—and asked her
mamma if she could go out and take
the cat away. Her mamma said she
could. She took the cat away and
went to Alice’s house and put in in-
side the gate. Then she ran home.
Spooks ran up the stairs and
scratched at the door, and Alice’s mam-
ma opened it. She was delighted, and
picking up the cat, almost ran into
Alice’s room. Poor Alice had felt very
badly and cried nearly all the time un-
t11 she made herself quite sick. You
should have seen papa. I think he was
as delighted as Alice.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
THEN AND NOW.
I
The ancient, dear writers—
A wonderful throng!
And they died in a garret,
To live in a song!
They told us the story
At which the world thrills,
Locked in a rude corner
From baliffs with bills.
II.
The modern, mad writers
Who thunder away—
They live in a palace,
And die in a day!
They tell us no story
Humanity feels,
And ride to Owlivion
On automobiles!
—Atlanta Constitution
HUMOROUS.
Blobbs—Football is not nearly sc
deadly as it used to be. Slobbs—Just
wait until they get to playing it with
automobiles.
Sharpe—Casper’s new automobile
has run down six people. Whelton—
But it is a stylish machine. Sharpe—
Yes; perfectly killing.
Hook—What is Wigwag's idea in
Jooking up his lineage? Nye—I sup-
pose to show how respectable he is in
spite of his ancestors.
Wigg—Bighedde is the personifica-
tion of' egotism. Wagz—Yes; he ac-
tually thinks he d rves the good
opinion he has of himself.
Muggins as your wife satisfied
with the birthday present you gave
her? Buggins—Not wholly. She can’t
find out how much it cost.
“My love for you,” he wrote, “is s0
deep, so vast, so powerful, I cannot ex-
press it.” “Why don’t you send it by
freight?” She wrote back. And then
it was all off.
“In hard luck again, eh,?” “Yes; I'm
down on my uppers, sure enough.” “O!
well, we all have our ups and downs.
You are down now—" “And I'm up,
too—hard up.”
Nell—So you were disappointed in
the little man, eh? Belle—Yes; you
can’t expect a man to come up to your
expectations who doesn’t come up to
your shoulders.
“So your town dispensed with the
automobile ambulance. Didn’t it make
better time than the cld one?” “No; it
had to stop too often to take in the
people it ran over.”
Helen—Why is it novels always
have a good ending? Sue—Well the
one I read yesterday didn’t have a good
ending. Helen—It didn’t? Sue—No;
mama threw it in the fire.
La Moatt—When I first went to en-
gage board they said I would be treated
as one of the family. La Moyne—Then
why did you not remain? La Montt—
I saw what the family looked like.
‘“ ‘We are here today and gone temor-
row,” ” remarked the young man in the
white tie. The hetel clerk glanced up
from the register. “You are right, sir,”
he assented; ‘and—er—would you
mind paying in advance?”
“I'll bet you,” said the amateur Sher-
lock Holmes, “I can tell what you had
for breakfast to-day.” “I'll bet you
can’t,” replied Sluvven. “You had eggs.
There's a dab of the yolk on your chin
yet.” “You're wrong. That’s been there
since day before yesterday.”
“Yes, he achieved success so sud-
denly that we're in trouble. You see,
he’s a distinguished lawyer, and he’s
been put on the governor's staff and
made honorary head of a yacht club.
No one knows whether to call him
judge, general or commodore.”
Skorcher—He a chauffeur? Huh!
Why he doesn’t even know the princi-
ple of the motive power of the automo-
bile. Miss Ina Sentz—And what is the
principle of it, Mr. Skorcher? Skorcher
—Why—er—it’s-—er—electricity, you
know, and—er—all that sort of thing.
Phyllis—Harry is the most conceited
man I ever met. Maud—What makes
you think so? Phyllis—Why, he first
asserts that I am the most adorable
woman in the world, the most beauti-
ful, intellectual, and in every respect
a paragon, and then he wants me to
marry him!
A Strange Foster-iother.
An extraordinary, but apparently
well-authenticated story of a bear's
freak comes from a Russian village
in the district of Gdoff. The village
lies on the fringe of a forest, whence
it is of frequent occurrence for bears
to make prowling excursions both by
day and night into the adjacent set-
tlements. Some two weeks ago two
young girls, aged respectively five and
13, were surprised by a huge bear at
a short distance from the viilage. The
animal seized and carried off the
younger child, while the elder, terror-
stricken, fled home and gave the not
unusual alarm.
An immediate pursuit was institut-
ed, and the search was continued dur-
ing the evening and the next day, with
the assistance of neighboring villagers,
a wide cordon was drawn around an
extensive tract of the forest, and the
searchers closed in. Towards sun:
down the bear and her booty were dis-
covered in a dense thicket. The child
was perfectly unharmed and reclining
in a deep mossy couch made for her by
the bear.
Although naturally delighted to be
released from her strange guardian-
ship, the little girl had got over her
first fright, and had subsisted fairly
well on the nuts and other forest fruits
brought to her laager by the bear. One
almost regrets to learn that the freak-
ish but kindly disposed animal was
summarily killed phy the villagers
Chicago originated the system of
steel frames and the use of isclated
foundations which made possible a 20-
story building, and revolutionized Am.
e¢rican commercial architecture.
CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
KEYSTONE SRE NEWS
»
Fined $100 for False Swearing—Liaw
Examiners—Workmen Quaran-
tined—New Bank:
Pensions were granted during the
past week to the following appli
cants: Benjamin F. Diilon, Altoona,
$12; Emanuel Custer, Rockwood, $6;
Themas A. Braden, New Brighton,
$12; John Tarr, Gosford, $S; William
H. Potter, Platea, $10; Thomas J.
Seaman, Summerhill, $8; Hamilton,
B. McFeaters, Stronkstown, $10;
Joseph ‘Bailey, Larue, $8; Josepn
Ross, Willet, $10; Henry Houtz, Lin-
denhall, 817; William Brooks, Alle-
gheny, $10: George Garvey, New.
Castle, $17; Elizabeth Stine, War-
Tiors Mark, 28; Grazella A. Stalker
ck 38 Hlizabeth Smith,
$12; Martha S. Nichols,
Sarah Bender, Daley,
ia 1]. Young, Hooversville,
$8; Eva GC. Hammel, Now Castle, $12;
Barl L. Williams, Warren, $8; John
Starlipper, Mercersburg, $8.
At a meeting of the state board of
law examiners at Philadelphia Chas.
McKeehan was elected secretary and
tressrer of tho hoard. Tre preme
the follow il as
ers; James L. M
port; William Right + Fisher,
delphia; Thomas Stephen
Pittsburg; John M. Harris: Scranton;
Paul A. Kunkel, Harrisburg. The
preliminary and final examinations
will be held on the second Tuesday
in June and second Tuesday in De-
cember.
A negro who at different times
gave the names of Brown, Pierce and
others is locked up in Gallitzin, near
Johnstown on suspicion of being
Oscar Cassell, who is wanted in Jack-
son, O., for murder. The man tells
such improbable stories that the of-
ficials say that while he may not be
the murderer his actions indicate
that he fears something.
Four hundred and fifty workmen
employed in the construction of the
reserve basin for filtered water at
Oak I.ane, Philadelphia, were placed
under quarantine and then vaccinat-
ed because of the discovery of small-
pox in the family of John Deaden, a
negro, who recently came from Pleas-
antsviile, N. J. The laborers will be
watched for several days
A railroad war is on between the
Western Fayette Railroad, Company,
owned by the Mellon interests, and
the Monongahela Railroad Company,
controlled by the Pennsylvania, over
rights ,of way for the new 12-miie
branch which both companies have
projected along Dunlaps creek, from
Rrownsville, to New Salem.
Mrs. Ann McDermott, at Scranton,
was fined $100 by Magistrate Millar
to-day for swearing that her daughter
‘Teresa was more than 13 years old
in order to get work for the child in
the Dunmore silk factory. The girl
testified before the anthracite com-
mission last week that she was only
11 years old.
A deal was consummated whereby
Erie is to have a new hotel and the-
ater. They will be combined and a
site in the heart of the city at State
and Twelfth streets has been se-
cured. The total cost of the im-
provement will = be $250,000. The
building will be five stories high.
It is announced that the Greer tin
mill at New Castle will be put in
operation the first Monday in Janu-
ary. The Shenango plant will bagin
operation of 20 of its 30 mills at the
same time, The mills have been idle
since Jukv. Five thousand men are
affected.
The commission to Iieutenant
Colonel Rickards, of the Sixteenth
regiment, N. G. P., having expired, a
meetings of the commissioned offi-
gers of the regiment was held at Oil
ity, at which Colonel Rickards was
unanimously re-elected to succeed
himself.
Papers have been issued at Wash-
ington for another National bank, at
Hyndman, to be known as the Hob-
Fhila a-
Brown,
litzell National bank. The capital
stock is $25,000, which will be in-
creased. J. J. Hoblitzell, of Meyers-
dale, will likely be elected presi-
dent.
By the provisions of the will of
Mrg¢. Sarah A. Blair, of Westmore-
land county, the greater part of her
cstate is to be sold and the proceeds
divided between the Lutheran and
Methodist congregations at X.eech-
burg.
James Jellison, a farmer of near
Blairsville, while attempting to force
fodder through a power cutting ma-
chine, had his arm caught in the ma-
chinery and so badly mangled that
amputation was necessary.
Thomas Monagan, an inmate of
the county almshouse at Lancaster,
was found a half-mile from the in-
stitution frozen to death. He was
intoxicated when last scen alive.
George Hawley and Joseph Riley
were captured at Franklin, as they
were coming out of the residence of
Postmaster S. W. Waters after hav-
ing ransacked the house.
Employes of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company at Sharon have ben
granted an increase in wages.
Twenty-five cases of smallpox are
reported at Pricedale, a mining vil-
lage near Bellevernon.
E. E. Miller, of Jeannette, has
been sentenced tec the Western peni-
tentiary for eight years and eight
months for killing his wife.
Midnight rchbers with the aid of
skeleton keys entered a number of
Carlisle residences and carried away
much loot.
Joseph Hamich, of Fredericktown,
‘Washington county, was killed by
the accidental discharge of a shot-
gun,
The citizens of Hellidaysburg dedi-
cated the Phoenix Fire Company's
new $5,000 home,
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