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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
M. QUAD’S STORY.
A BANK ROBBER’S FAILURE,
[Copyright, IRTO, by Charles B. Lewis.]
The attempt to rob the Second Na
tional bank of Hartsville was such a
neat piece of work, as looked upon from
the crook’s standpoint, and the failure
was brought about in such a strange,
tragical manner, that the story, as a
whole, will interest you: A year before
the occurrence 1 was appointed night
watchman ai the bank. All banks of
importance have a day and a' night
watchman, though the one on day duty
is generally spoken of as a porter. 1
came on duty at 7 o’clock in the even
ing, and the very first thing to be done
was to see that all doors and windows
were secured. Then I began in the
president’s room with my broom and
swept and dusted and put things to
rights all through the place. This took
about an hour. Just to the left of the
•ashier’s window was a small fire and
burglar proof safe, and I had to try the
door of this to see if it was locked.
At the rear of the building was the
vault, inclosed by iron work extending
from floor to ceiling. The door open
ing into the vault had a heavy lock, and
the door of the vault itself, which was
* steel cage about 12 by 12 in size, was
provided with a lock supposed to be
proof against the wiles of the most skill
ful burglar. Inside the vault were two
large fire and burglar proof safes to
hold the cash and valuable papers, and
being thus doubly secured, with a well
armed watchman ranging about, the
bank officials did not worry about bur
wol
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A STRONG HAND CLUTCHED MY THROAT,
giars. But there was still further pro
tection. A burglar alarm connected
with doors and windows, and a special
wire ran fropi the bank to the police
station. 1 was required to send in a
signal over this wire every 30 minutes.
The code of signals ran thus: One push
on the button, “All is well here;” two
pushes, “I am ill;” three pushes,“Help
wanted at once.”
By 9 o’clock in the evening I was
through with all my work, had sent in
my signal and was seated in the presi
dent’s room with a book in my hand. I
would read until midnight. After send
ing in the signal I would fall asleep and
sleep for exactly 29 minutes. When the
12:30 signal was sent in, I would slum
ber again until a minute to 1 o’clock.
You may think this a bit odd, but I ven
ture to say that eight watchmen out of
ten do the same thing. After I had firm
ly impressed it on my mind that I must
wake up at a certain moment it was
easy enough to do so. From 12 to 6
o'clock I had twelve 29 minute naps.
Sometimes I awoke five seconds too soon,
and sometimes five or six seconds past
the 29 minutes, but I never varied over
seven seconds at the furthest. My sleep
ing was not exactly a dereliction of
duty, as the burglar alarm could be de
pended on to wake me up. and the sig
nal at every half hour was proof that
everything was all right in the bank.
About the time of my appointment
the suit of rooms directly above the
bank were vacated by a lawyer, and a
dentist moved in. Before the bank
would rent to him, he being a stranger,
he had to secure recommendations and
thoroughly identify himself. He claim
ed to hail from St. Louis, and he pro
duced letters from half a dozen well
known residents of that city, all of
which were aft rward found to have
been forged. The man gave his name
as O. M. Hildebrande, and he fitted the
rooms up very handsomely and was
Boon established in business. This fel
low’s real profession was burglary and
bank robbing, and his real name was
Ed Williams. He did not know one
dental instrument from another, but
hired a fresh graduate to do all the work
which came to him. There were four
rooms in the suit. The front room was
the parlor, the second the operating
room, the third a storeroom, and the
fourth a bedroom. This bedroom was
just above a small room at the rear end
of the bank which was used as a cloak
and washroom. In building the bank
the ceiling of the first floor had been
made secure by filling the spaces be
tween the joists with brick. Over the
vault there were plates of iron as a fur
ther protection.
Williams hired the rooms as part of
a plan to rob the bank. There were
three men in the plot, but the other
two did not appear until the last mo
ment. After occupying the rooms for
nearly a year, doing business with the
bank and making himself solid all
around, he was ready to spring his trap.
AU his work-was done in the daytime.
Ho out a bole tn the floor of his bedroom
•nd restored bricks and mortar until
wlr • Ciwt remained. It was slow
worK, ananenaa to exorcise great care.
He knew of the small room below, and
he knew of the burglar alarm, the po
lice wire and the half hour signals. He
could not know of my habit of sleeping
after midnight, though he probably sus
pected it. At any rate, at a quarter to
1 o’clock one October night the three
burglars in the job broke through the
crust of the ceiling, lowered themselves
flown, by meajis of a rone, and at 10
uiiiiuies to ’r’a strong nana ciutcnea
ny throat, the muzzle of a revolver
<vas placed to my temple, and I opened
my eyes to see three men standing be
fore me.
“Now, then, ” said Williams as he let
go of my throat and stepped back, ‘ ‘ let
us understand each other. We have
come to rob the bank. You cannot pre
vent it, and so you may as well save
your skull from being cracked. We
are going to bind and gag you, but un
less you make a fool of yourself you
will not be hurt. Do you savey?”
“I do,” I replied. “You have got
me dead to rights, and it's no use to
kick, but make up your minds that 1
don’t answer any questions.”
“We shall ask none,” replied Wil
liams as he proceeded to tie me hand
and foot and insert a ready made gag.
Just as the clock struck 1 he step
ped over and pressed the button to sig
nal the police that all was well. How
he got onto the signal we never could
understand, but he used it correctly,
and then turned and said:
“Well, boys, it’s off with our coats
and go to work. Our first job is to get
into the vault. Bring the watchman
along so that we may keep an eye on
him.”
Two of them carried me along in my
chair, and the third man saw to the kit
of tools. They placed me to the left
of the door, lighted two gas jets and be
gan work on the lock of the iron par
tition. I had heard the bank officials do
a great deal of bragging about this lock
and fondly imagined the burglars would
be delayed a good half hour by it. It
was done for in about five minutes, and
one of the burglars added insult to in
jury by observing that it was one of the
simplest, cheapest locks he had ever
seen used for such a purpose. The door
of the vault proper was a different mat
ter, however. It was a massive affair,
the material chilled steel, and the locks
were warranted burglar proof. There
was a combination which had to be set
at certain figures before a key could be
introduced. When this key had turned
the bolts half way, a second had to come
into play. Each of the„three men care
fully examined the lock in turn, and
then Williams queried: “Well, boys,
what do you think of it?”
“We'll have to use the drill and a
blast, ” replied one of them, and the
other coincided with him.
At half past 1 o’clock the “All is
well" signal was sent in, and the bur
glars began work. They used what is
called a blacksmith’s drill, the frame
.of which had been smuggled into the
dentist’s office and lowered down and
put together. All of them seemed fa
miliar with its working, and they had
brought along no less than six different
drills for the machine. Work was be
gun just under the lock, the men spell
ing each other at intervals of 10 min
utes. When the 2 o’clock signal was
sent in, they had made a very slight
impression on the hard metal, but at
half past 2 the signs were more encour
aging. The fellows must hsye had the
idea that when they got into the vault
the money would be at hand, but after
they had worked on the door for an
hour a sudden thought occurred to Wil
liams. He came over to me, removed
the gag and asked:
“Is there a safe inside the vault?”
“I shall answer none of your ques
tions. ”
“Stiff, ain’t you? Perhaps you want
a little thumping to humble you.”
“If you want to thump, 1 can’t help
myself. 1 am here as a watchman of
the bank. If I hadn’t been asleep, you
wouldn’t have got in, and I’m not go
ing to make matters worse by giving
away any secrets.”
“Well, odds is the difference whether
there’s a safe inside or not,” he growl
ed as he replaced the gag.
At 8 o’clock the trio were delighted
with the progress of the work. At 3:80
thev ceased drilling, blew a lot of pow-
I
WHEN THE MINE WAS SPRUNG.
der into tne Dole and inserted a ruse,
and pretty soon there was an explosion
which tore a great piece out of the door,
I but did not burst i| open. As a matter
I of fact, the force of the exnlosion threw
ROME- UA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER .8.
me kicks out or gear and made the job
of opening it still more difficult. Upon '
this being discovered the fellows began ;
to curse and growl and lament their '
luck. The two of them were for throw- I
ing up the job, but Williams denounced .
them as cowards and quitters, and it
was finally decided to continue work.
They had brought down with them
some bottled beer and sandwiches, and
they fell to and had a bite and sent in
the 4 o’clock alarm.
They did not use the drill again on
the door, but on closer examination de
cided to blow it open. They had two
powder canisters, each holding a pound.
They debated as to how much they
ought to use, but as it was getting to
ward morning and they were in a hur
ry they were reckless as to the quanti-.
tv. I think the fellow who had the can
isters poured in at least naif a pound.
What they feared was that the explo
sion would be heard on the street. To
deaden the sound as much as possible
they took up the carpet in the presi
dent’s room, ripped it apart and hung
it over the two windows. There was
fear also that the concussion might set
the burglar alarm to ringing, and so
Williams cut the wires.
At 20 minutes to 5 o’clock all was
ready. While Williams placed the fuse
the other two picked up my chair to
carry me into the president’s room. All
were to remain there until the explo
sion was over. Just what happened to
bring about the premature explosion
could never be learned, but the proba
bilities are that in his haste Williams
cut the fuse too short. He was still
kneeling at the door, and the three of
us were backs to it and about eight
feet away when the mine was sprung.
The jar of the explosion was felt two
blocks away. There was a policeman
on the opposite side of the street at the
moment, and as the flagstones appeared
to lift up under his feet he thought it
an explosion of sewer gas.
I cannot remember that I heard the
explosion. I simply remember of being
lifted up and hurled forward. The next
thing I knew I was sitting up with a
hand over either ear, and the room was
in midnight darkness. 1 felt so stupid
and dazed that it was many minutes be
fore I could place myself. The gag
was out of nr.y mouth, and the ropes
with which I had been bound to the
chair were hanging loosely on my arms
and legs. When I began to feel around
to see where I was, I discovered that 1
was close to the wire gate by which all
employees entered the bank inclosure.
The door of the vault was almost on a
line with this gate, but 60 feet away.
Between the gate and the vault were*
the compartments of bookkeeper, pay
ing teller, receiving teller and discount
clerk, each railed off with wood or
wire.
You can judge of the strength of that
blast when I tell you that everything in
that 60 feet was leveled, the small safe
blown over and the counters twisted
like a rail fence. As soon as I realized
the situation I groped for a match and
lighted a gas jet, though the room was
so full of powder smoke that it was some
time before I could see a foot from my
nose. I got to the police wire just in
time to send in the 5 o’clock signal. 1
meant to send in the signal for help,
but just as I touched the button I de
cided to wait a bit. When the smoke
lifted so that I could get about, I light
ed more gas and then looked for the
burglars. One of them lay in a heap
against the front door, a second under
the counter near where 1 had picked
myself up, and the third I could not
find, though I knew he must be under
the vault door, which had been blown
off and lay on the floor.
The man at the front door was stone
dead. The doctors said that his body
must have swept down all the railings
and partitions as he was hurled for
ward. The man under the counter be
gan to show signs of life as I overhaul
ed him, and thinking he might prove
troublesome I tied him hand and foot.
You will wonder that I was not severe
ly hurt, but that was the chances of ac
cident. The chair was completely
wrecked, but I got off with three or
four painfui bruisee. The man under
the counter had his nose broken, two
ribs fractured and received a’bad scalp
wound, but he had no sooner recovered
consciousness than he began to struggle
and curse. When I told him that both
his partners were dead, he was awed to
silence for awhile. Then he said to me:
"This has been a bad night’s work,
and I wish to heaven 1 had not been in
the job! Have you sent in a police
alarm yet?’
“No.”
“You are a brave, level headed fel
low. You have saved the bank from
robbery, got two dead men here to ex
hibit, and I hope you will let me go. I
promise you that I will lead an honest
life from this time on.”
“Odds is the difference to me whether
you are hon sst or dishonest, ’ ’ I replied.
“But I will make it an object to
you. Let ’ae go, and I will put $.500
in your hands within 24 hours.”
“What? Only SSOO for a bank bur
glar on whom there may be a reward
of $2,000.”
“My good friend, I will make it
SI,OOO. You are a poor man, and sl,-
000 will be a little fortune to you.”
"Couldn’t you raise it to $2,000?” 1
asked, appearing to have my price.
“Two thousand! Two thousand!” he
repeated. “If I do, my poor old moth
er may have to want for bread, but be
ing you are such a brave and sensible
fellow I’ll do it. Yes, I’ll say $2,000,
and you shall have the money inside of
two days. Hurry up and untie me, for
it must be near daylight.”
I stepped over to the police wire and
senr in tne signal, "tieip wantea at
once!” It had never been sent in be
fore, nor have the words gone over that
wire since. In five minutes there were
four bluecoats knocking at the door,
and when I let them in my prisoner
greeted them with jeers and curses and
swore he would get even with me if it
took a hundred years.
Williams, as I have told you, was
kneeling at the door when the explosion i
occurred. We found him under it,
crushed and burned and bearing little
semblance to a human being. The one
who escaped with his life was sent up
for 12 years, and thus the trio were
wiped out. I have an old scrapbook in
which is pasted various newspaper ar
ticles speaking in my praise, but it’s
not much consolation to read them. The
bank officials knew that 1 must have
been asleep on duty, and instead of pat
ting me on the back and raising my
wages they waited about a month and
then gave me the grand bounce. Per
haps I had better taken the burglar’s
$2,000 and let him go. What do you
think?
FOR HIS FRIEND.
The Barcelona Bomb Thrower Tells Why
He Did the Deed.
Barcelona, Dec. 25.—Joseph E. Ce
dina, the anarchist who has alreadycon
fessed that he threw the bomb that
caused upward of 30 deaths in the Liceo
theater, has made a further confession,
giving details of the crime. He says
that he was selected by an anarchist
group to assassinate General Martinez
de Campos in September last. He, in
company with two or three comrades,
went to view the march pass of the
troops, it being his intention to then as
sassinate General de Campos, who was
the reviewing officer.
He took a position from which it
would have been an easy task to have
carried out his project, but when the
troops arrived his courage failed. The
reason for this, he says, was that he re
alized that if he threw a bomb amid the
vast crowd that surrounded General <’o
Campos he would have killed or wound
ed hundreds of persons. He had the
bomb ready to throw, but the thought
of the many innocent persons that would
suffer, restrained him from throw ng i
Pallas, as the time for the assass na ion
drew near, urged Cedina to throw the
bomb. Seeing that Cedina heeitatsd,
Pallas angrily snatched the bomb from
him, saying, "You are no g<_ol.”
Pallas’s nerves were evidently un
strung by the wrangle, and for a time
he hesitated to throw the bomb that he
had seized. Had he thrown it, as he
originally intended, he would have killed
General de Campos, but the delay, which
allowed the crowd surging about the re
‘ viewing stand to grow thicker, saved
theiiffflgpf the general. Pallas, when
arrest^®, nd until his execution, insisted
that was responsible for the at-
and despite the
close by the authorities, he
never by a word betrayed that Cedina or
any one else had anything to do with
the crime. It was this fact that made
him the hero in the eyes of the anar
chists, who knew all the facts.
His stoicism and willingness to accept
death rather than to betray his comrade
led Cedina to determine that be would
give enecc co jraHas s tnreat tnar ms "ex
ecution would be avenged. Shortly
after Pallas was shot at Mount Juich,
Cedina began his preparations to avenge
his comrade’s death and the explosion at
the Liceo theater followed.
AMERICA’S HEROISM.
Tlie Way This Country Has Stood th©
Panic, as Noted Abroad.
London, Dec. 25. The Financial
News has an interview with Boissevain,
who has gone to Amsterdam to confer
with the Dutch bondholders in the mat
ter of the Union Pacific reorganization.
He said that he had been struck with
the magnitude of the loss which Amer
ica had sustained, and the people on this
side of the Atlantic had no idea of its
extent.
Only when one conld realize the se
verity of the ordeal through which
America is passing and the enormity of
the loss sustained by the whole commu
nity could he begin to realize how splen
didly America had behaved under such
trying circumstances and how intrinsi
cally sound things must be for the peo
ple to brave such a etoruj.
Recovery had already well started,
but it must proceed stowly and cautious
ly. He said he believed it would be
possible to arrive at an amicable and
far understanding with the govern
ment on the Union Pacific matter dur
ing the present session of congress.
. YOUNG TALKS WAR.
Honduras Is Likely*”to Get Into a Tussle
With Rebels.
Washington, Dec. 25.—The state de
partment has received a dispatch indi
cating that another one of the Latin-
American countries is likely to be em
broiled in war. The dispatch, which
was from General P. M. B. Young, the
United States minister to Honduras and
Guatemala, reads as follows: "The
Honduran revolutionists are advancing
from Nicaragua on Honduras, The
Honduran army is ready to meet the
revolutionists.”
American interests doubtless will be
protected in the event of trouble. The
Alliance has been at La Libertad and
the Ranger joined her at that port.
A Trunk Trust Broken.
Oshkosh, Wis., Dec. 25. —The trunk
trust, known as the National Trunk
company, Is broken. The Schmidt
Brothers’ Trunk company, of this city,
the largest concern in the trust, wltn
drew recently, and their action was fol
lowed by all the trust companies but
two. The trust was organized nearly
two years ago in Chicago, and com
prised all the important plants in the
country. It was neither profitable nor
harmonious.
AT THE CAPITAL. z
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A QUIET CHRISTMAS DAY. •
Special to The Tribune.
Atlanta, G»., Dec. 26.—This morning
the attorney general had prepared a form
for bond to be given by the state deposi
tories who desire to increase the bond as
provided by the last legislature. Under
that law the depositories have until the
second of January to pay any amount of
mon-ry which they have over the bond
they gave. The Columbus bank has
paid to Treasurer Hardeman SIOO,OOO and
the rest, of course, will be forthcoming
on time. Four batiks have given notice
of a desire to increase the present bond
and carry as much as SIOO,OOO of the
state’s money at one time. These are
the Merchants bank of Atlanta, the La-
Grange bank and Trust Co., the Third
National bank of Columbus, and the
Savannah Bank and Trust Co. It ia ex
pected that the Macon bank will also
make such application but they heve not
done so as yet. Three of these banks
will i ive bonds of SIOO,OOO The Colum
bus b nk will, however, be required to
give double that amount as it is a na
tional bank.
A Sentence Commuted-
Z. R Bali, of Carrollton, was fined SIOO
for a misdemeanor and was given a
specified time to pay it in. He sent tne
money to the arresting officer within the
specified time but got to him just too
late and he refused to receive it. The
governor has commuted the sentence so
as to enable Bell to pay the fine.
A Big Contract.
I am told, though not on the most re
liable authority in that it come seeond
handed, that the Piedmont Marble Co,
of this state, has been given the contract
to furnish the first lot of marble for the
new city hall of New York. This is to
be a $5,000,000 building and I understand
the first lot puts up about $300,000. If
this is true the marble interests of
Georgia has accomplished a big thing.
A Quiet Christmas Day.
It has been very quiet in Atlanta the
last few days, a quiet Christmas time
but nothing big in the way of receptions,
and outside of the usual display (of fire
works there was nothing to indicate the
presence cf the joyous season. The
hard times have undoubtedly been the
cause of this but Santa Claus came to all
the little ones, rich‘and poor, and they,
at least were happy as they deserved
to be.
ONE MILLION PEOPLE.
Expected to Sign Col. Graves’ Colonization
Petition,
Col. John Temple Graves who spent
Christmas day with his family here was
warmly and enthusiastically greeted by
his many friends. He left yesterday for
Pittsburg, Penn., where he delivers his
next leedne. His lecture on the colo
nization of the negro is attracting a great
deal of attention, and is being advocated
by many northern people as well as
several negro societies. Col. Graves ex
pects a million negroes to sign a petition
to congress asking tor “separation”
from the whites by colonization When
these signatures have been obtained Col.
Graves thinks his position will be vindi
cated.
A Killing in Self-Delense.
Birmingham, Ala,, Dec. 25.—A duel
occurred at Coaling, Tuscaloosa county,
in which Henry L. Norwood, a yoang
farmer, lost his life. Robert Englebret
and Norwood, both of them farmers
near Coaling, in that county, had a mis
understanding about a horse trade re
cently. Sunday.ffhey met in Coaling
and Norwood drew his pistol and com
menced firing. Englebret returned the
fire. Several shots were exchanged,
when Norwood fell dead with a bullet
in his heart. Englebret was not arrest
ed, as appearances indicated that the
killing was in self-defense.
Now, He Has No Handl.
Knoxville, Dec. 25.—While celebrat
ing the approach of Christmas Ed Hay
den, a young mechanic, had his left
hand so mangled by the explosion of a
giant firecracker that the doctors found
it necessary to amputate it. Hayden’s
right hand was blown off four years ago
and this leaves him helpless, and to
make his case more sad, he has a wife
and several children.
Another Pugilistic Match.
New York, Dec. 25.—Joe Choynski,
he San Francisco prize fighter, and
Steve O’Donnell of New Zealand have
been matched to fight in New York a
finish fight at catch weights, Marquis of
Queensbury rules within five weeks. If
the club that takes the match will allow
a stake, $2,500 a side will be put up.
Both men were present.
Ignorant of the Danger.
Savannah, Dec. 25.—Homer Shepard,
of Livingston, S. C., went to bed in
room 69 in the Pulaski house after blow
ing out the gas and was found dead in
the bed in the morning about 10 o’clock.
His death was clearly the result of igno
rance of the use of gas.
SHOT HIM TO DEATH.
A Wounded Officer Held HU Assailant
and Killed Him.
Gainesville, Fla., Dee. 25.—At 11
o’clock Policeman John Bennett arreatad
Den Ad! fins, colored, for disorderly con
duct. Adkins resisted and fctabbed Ben
net, wh(; would not shoot in the crowd.
He ran back in the open street, the ne
gro still (tollowing atid stabbing, until
Bennett (fell to the ground, when the ne
gro jumped on him just as he fell.
Messrs). Benjamin Beal and John La
fontaine ptruck the negro with sticks,
which liaubered him. Bennett then suc
ceeded inf getting his pistol out and held
the negro in his lap and shot him to
death. ,
Bennett is receiving the best medical
and the physicians entertain
some hopo of his recovery.
CHINESE MOCK MONEY.
Made by tbe Celestial, to Defraud Their
'Departed Ancestors.
A correspondent of The North China
Herald, writing from the interior ot
Kiangsu province, mentions that one of
the industries there is the manufacture
of mock money for offering to the dead.
Formerly the Chinese burned sham pa
per money, but in these days of en
lightenment and foreign intercourse the
natives of Soongkong, Hangchow and
other places have come to the conclu
sion that dollars are more handy to the
ghosts than clumsy paper money; hence
they now, to a great extent, supply
their ancestors and departed friends
with mock dollars. These are only
half the size of real dollars, but there
appears to be no more harm in cheat
ing the dead than there is in cheating
the living. Besides the deceased are
not supposed to know the difference,
for many of them parted this life before
silver dollars were imported into China.
A hundred mock carolus dollars, done
up in boxes, are sold for 34 cash.
The operation of making this money
is interesting. First of all there are
blocks of tin which are melted down
and then poured between boards lined
with Chinese paper, and when the up
per board is pressed down on the lower
a thickness of tin remains. This is
next cut up into strips 4 inches long,
one wide and an eighth of an inch
thick. Some 10 of these strips are
placed evenly together, one on top of
the other, and one end is held between
the fingers, when the workman pro
ceeds to hammer them out till he has
beaten them so fine that they
3 feet h . >t broad andW
that th< aii- thicker than tlifl
nestpnpn. ’'te- is next pasted
mon cardboard, which is then
a punching machine io thy size of half
dollars, and this having been done a
boy takes the cut out pieces in hand
and with two dies, one representing the
one side and the other the reverse, ham
mers impressions of dollars on them,
and the money is ready for use.
Another very curious instance of the
practice of cheating the gods is record
ed in the same journal, but from quite
a different part of the country. It ap
pears that districts of the Anhui prov
ince have lately been ravaged by an
epidemic, so that in many places the
people were unable to attend to the har
vesting of the crops. An attempt was
then made to deceive the gods by “play
ing at” New Year’s day and pretend
ing that Sept. 1 was the first day of the
new year. Every preparation for cele
brating the bogus new year was made,
such as burn ng firecrackers and past
ing happy sei ences in red paper on the
doors. The object was to make the god
of sickness think that he had made a
mistake in the seasons and had erred in
bringing an epidemic on the people at
a time when no epidemics in the course
of nature should appear. As any action
contrary to nature done by the gods is
liable to punishment by the king of
heaven, the actors in this farce thought
that the god of sickness would gather
his evil spirits back to him for fear of
the displeasure of his superior divinity.
This child’s play received the permis
sion and co-operation of the local au
thorities. —London Times.
Dead In His Bath Room.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 25.—Sidney
Kirkland, one of the oldest citizens of
Montgomery, was found dead in hie
bath room. He rose about 6 o’clock and
was apparently in his usual health, and
went into the room to take a bath. An
hour or so after some other member of
the family went into the bath room and
was horrified so find him lying on the
floor. The deceased had been living
here about 40 years.
Getting Heady to Eight.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Doc. 25.—Cor
bett is now in training quarters at May
port and has begun regular daily traih
ing. His condition is excellent, and ne
gives promise of going into the battle
with Mitchell in the best of trirq.
Mitchell will arrive early in the week,
and is booked for an exhibition, similai 1
to the one given by Corbett at the opera
house the first night of his arrival.
Drink Caused III* Downfall.
Lyons, N. Y., Dec. 25.—Frank R.
Salmon, alias Frank Rogers, formerly a
reipected and thrifty bookkeeper of Syr
cise, was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary at Auburn for bigamy.
Drink led to his downfall.
“Christinas tree hooks, five cents a
package, and a gold watch and chain
thrown in with every package!” was the
cry of an Eighth street fakir yesterday,
ar d yet people talk about bard times.