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ROCK ON ELMWOOD HILL.
An Irish-American Romance, Written for
This Paper.
BY WILLIAM -J. FLORENCE.
riUPTF.n I.
A mr or ikei.am. IS AvrrniOA.
The town of Elmwood used to be A
fanning suburb of New York City. Now
Its boundaries are obliterated, and It is
a section of the city lying between Cen
tral Park and the Klverslde Drive, and
nearly built up with fine residences, j
Between the time of these two condi- |
tlons it had a period of occupation by
small gardeners and others, who lived
In the humbler kind of homes, some ol
which were more huts on the rocks,
The grading of the streets left some oi !
these structures at a conspicuous eleva
tion, and the artists of the magazines
and other Illustrated periodicals were
fond of sketching these picture*^,
views. The poorer shanties were occu
ru«,i 1 hv Vm umiiAr. i.ut the next uradi
'l etter if rind „round rent howevei
j I. BuT'L might be rime to the owners of thf
aint In the ex- !
“ . of the cltv’s building oft llmltl
„|L. by means of a city inane* I
4 ^ ta w ,. r< , hW( .„t out or ex
■ .
The enrlv moon or an August cvonlnt
was shining on Flwood Hill and wa.
faver.it.lv lu-htinu it l «f m. P a ua a "ru*i;'ao‘.mf a remarkabh
Ireland. On the shelving rock stood
two cabins, composed of a rnlscellane- i
ous collection of materials, yet formed :
Into a rude semblance „f cottages, >
Vlnec covered some of the lack of archi
tccture, and the moon was not severs
in expoftinu tho pointAof ugllnesa. tack They
loaned against each other, to back !
as though for mutual support, each
being conscious of Its own structural
,
frailty. A pig-sty was closo by, and b
pen for goats, while small patches of
garden had been made of tho soil which
covered a portion of the stone. I p the
ledge a stairway led, by means of an
lntersporsion of rook-hown snd board
built stops, from tho street to the cab
Ins. Up this ascent climbed a detailed poi ce
man in uniform. Ho had been
to serve notices of ejectment to the In
habitants of Khanty Town, a« the neigh
borhood was commonly called, and his
day’s task had reached into the evening,
ending with this visit to the homes of
tho O'Kourkos and the lioggs. of The oo
easlon was, Indeed, like that an evio
tion in Ireland. There had been plenty hellm
of warning, howover, and when. 1
O'Kaurke, smoking In front of hts door,
saw the officer approaching, hp knew The
the errand bsfote it was delivered.
visitor simply handed a paper to him,
and delivered a similar oue into the ad
Pf«n>‘ses of th« Iron-bowed Begga.
0 Rourke . put on a pair of
spoclac os, shielded the flame of amatoh
with his palm, and by the flickering
light slowly read the formal notice. A.
ito r h n :’d oZ UughtL^oolfn hlsnatWe
learning which 8 ti'i'/no ^raetb-af valut
t vaKue” , drcame < r t . U an “lnvJntor'of wHdly
in a city where adaptability is tho first
element uf id personal success. Instead
of making, realizing simple his plans
for iho support of hhnsolf and wife,
h© gfivo his thoughts to nlruoat if not
i’h“T.'l“d iK'°»Z:
burn <d Ireland In Its close-cropped
oltorts to be curly; his face boro tho
open goed-humor of his race; In a peas
ant costume, Instead of tho clothes of a
Now Yorker, he would lave looked like
a veritable “broth /'the or a box "- l.ut his
tongue had 1 - brogue of his native
land, for he had i nilgnued in chihlliood
lamuy /ml .dim- I mini, rtcriHui U 1181 K, a. i, n imiii o imi h
what'lie^liought'of't'hat U " " ""
thought
"I think it is time we quit tho shanty
and the rock, anyhow," $U! "a- the spirited
reply. “I'm earning a week as a
lawyer's clerk, and in a yeur I’ll bo a
lawyer myself. If you can somehow
bring in as much, father, wo can afford
to live in bolter quarter*." thing
The one lacking to com¬
plete the Irish-American scene agree
nblv wiift a pretty colleen, niul sfio
came into it from tho residence of the
Wide-open gray e\ es, with
dark lushes*, had Nora Begg, ami the
clear whit of her checks was freckled
like the stipple of an engraved face,
Bhe ciued younger by two or three
years than Donnell, who was *20, and
like him she had been brought across
the ocean too early in lifo to leave the
brogue of Ireland on her tongue. A
*t girl, and a neatly dressed or
his X« "J York colleen of Llntwo
os r dwellers there had
a ud Pc udl been, and eh loser yet 0
the rts become. When she w ’i
told t the. eviction was a '■■ertaiiity
ml thereupon Donnell ask 1 her to
alk ^ ith him, she blushed a little, but
S' arm, and it was evident that
their conversation 3< .>uM relate !o th©
>u of a futur Even the
abstracted Phelan Kourke vaguely
understood that, as he watched them
\n hit Phelim O’Rourke was still
meditating upon the document, his
neighbor, Micky Begg, ligragged up
the stairway. Micky was a sad exam
pie ot intemperance, and he had just
returned from the-bonren* of old I’etc
Motilathery. As the bottle was passed
around very free y alter old I’ete was
jut under tne ground, Micky was full to
the back teeth To show his sobriety
he ca v'V. O’Rourke to see him
jump from the three-legged stool* which
stood by the doorstep, to the bottom of
the waehtub. He put himself in posi
tion and said: "See me lep, and then
say if I’m dhrunk. Hurroo!"
“Are you cornin’in, Micky?" came In
a woman's feeble voice from within, for
lessly poor Mrs. Jiegg was a helplessly, hope
bedridden invalid.
"Dlvil a step till O’Kourke sees mo lep
from the tub to the stool. I can Iod like.
a goat, me darlin!” And giving a spring
i 5l the aiv Micky camedown with athud,
nearly crushing a goat that was com
fortably sleeping near the cabin door.
“A nice example you are, Micky,” sa 2
O’I'ourke, solemnly, “to come from 10
funeral as drunk as a priest." piper. Get up,
Micky, here comes the
8 uj o enough, Father Hariloy, who was
returning from old McGlathcry’s funer
*1. came along. Mloky had picked him
"P. brushed the mud from his
clothes, and put himself on the etool
before the Father came up
"How are you, Phelim? said the
priest. “And the children? Well, I hope,
God bless them!”
“Ye*. Father they are weU and
can cat as well as any ehildeT on the
-*"• Micky, Father. I iJH Hewantslio you ng ■
To-morrow morning he_ hasi to P
bright and airly, for we re go ng to «
evicted. Look at him as drun as
Her.*
“Yes.” said the priest. “I watched
him at th© funeral. The death of old
McGlathery should be a warning to him.
That sinner did not draw a sober breath
f or many mouths. Do you hear me,
Micky.'” said the priest, shaking up his
stupid Don parishioner to buy him. Father?
t you want
replied Micky, He fat as butter ^
s as
He s thinking of selling the p g,
said O’Rourke apologetically. It s got
to bo made a riddance of, and he s
drunk enough to fancy he’s back in Ire
land—bound for affair with the porker.
see “Liston, how that Micky, toper said Motilathery the priest. died, Jou
didye not? What can you expect Think to
gain by this constant inebriety?
of McGlathcry’s end, my man!*
“He’ll roast like pipe clay, replied
Micky, In a maudlin manner, his eyes
no w half opened, and(tears running
down his cheeks. And, ho continued,
“if it v ., n ' t for toe black snot aW on hit
belly d bring ntore’n I’m
“oh, you are Incorrigible, Mloky,
said the priest, as he roared with laugh
ter at his parishioner’s answers.
A Bhout 0 f laughter was heard as
three protty, bright-faoed children came
ap tho hillside, and, with hands filled
W ith wild flowers, eamo running toward
^ priegti who roeeived them with a kiss
for one, an embrace for another and
Wgh'l.^toTTd/uu'Bho Taughcd with
yolmgator/'aml ark ,hu8 had BoUin stoy/d till home da/kL by
sr ^ ’ f
“Weil, darlings I’m gla.l to see ye
this blessed summer evening. You are
til as pretty as the flowers and reflect
peat cre ^ lt on >' our lovmg mother, who
takes such good caro of >ou.
FXr- i!, m IrS!"I» 't'h.
(or a general assembling of tho chil
Iren, who run toward the good man,
»nd, climbing around Ids legs with
»houts of welcome, hug and kiss him in
ioken of their love and veneration. The
rocks of Elmwood presented ‘ tho same
characteristics
^„t to 3'k
to Mr, Begg on a matter of business.
•
.. . . sober
enough to listen to what I have to say,
Lady Maud Ten.mom, from the big
house //«-,-i.ton at Kilrona, where you came from,
a letter She was verv
fond of vour Nora before you emigrated
Kho has lost her own daughter since
then and she writes that she constantly
,hints i,,. r dead net’s v foster-sister,
v .
1 ,'
Yes, father, , . „ said ,, Micky, now per
feetly sober from h.s snort nam Hof
ladyship was always fond of Nora, and
Nora seemed quite taken wid her oo
bhe woman. ls “ tr “ u! e ' KO ', ' I, ' n ii. 1 h'.f./ i
fui stone over the corpse of ould
Cardan in Kilrona Abbey, at her owe
expense, the dariin'. and ain't she loved
bv tho poor people from on© end o!
Tx>eh Dermid to the other. God 1 bless
her!”
“Listen to me, Micky, if you’re sobei
enough to comprehend, Maud
writes that she will adopt N« ra as hei
own daughter, if si ’ta dew
a ml legal it's roieas tonr t ^ r «v
“Yes. ver reverence, It’s the mothei
that decides.
“Is she able to P l
e co .ud try
The prie; ?nterei Z
j tui t lie b d-ri £3
awoke on her S he wa
with an in urabie malady, w 1 aau
been caused 1 t»y a street railway aeci
lent a yeai ofore and which was sure
to result in her death at no distant day.
; He gave her a priestly bit sssing and then and
delivered his erran -very gently
considerately, for he knew that no true
mother could at once tolerate the sug*
of giving away her daught r.
When had at length real the letter
to her ami she fully comprehended it,
she cried:
“Oh. I couldn't do it. Father, 1
i \.» t I. wou-d kill ; ©
"-It Is a pity it isn’t Dolf that some
body wants." the priest exclaimed,-and
lot the daughter that 1 b a comfort to
..
'
“Pont , say one word . if ., ye plaze, i
igainst me boy May be he isn t what
le will ought around to be, but in time. I am in hopes he !
come ;
“Well, I hope so and the priest in
lulged In the frtnkness of advice p0 “'
anon to his profession in dealing with
;he poor and ignorant of their parishes,
•but he’ll hare to mend m deal to be
some a good boj. I see him too much
with the toughs and the gangs But
:here, don t cry, Oonah We ll try to
reform Dolf; and as to Nora, think the
matter ever. Remember, she will re
selva a good education and become a
jrand lady. Won t that be a sac
lion Jo you, f °r you know that you
aave^t long to remain wl.h fc . hmk
it over.^Oonah.
Father Hanley emerged from the cab
in to find Phelim O’Rourke and Micky
Begg engaged in a dialogue in which
the talk is all being done by Phelim.
That learned and erratic man was dis
coursing upon a subject which, so he
was telling, he had elucidated in a
speech on the previous evening before
the Kosjjolc Klub. That was a body
which met in the back room of a saloon,
and was composed of a dor.en all bul
irrational theorists, each one of whom
conserved oflthe to listen to the whimsical!
ties rest for the sake ol bainj
heard , ( patiently when , ,. his own tnm •
came. | they were so thoroughly at va
riance tvlth all established things thal
they would*’: even spell the name ol
their club in accordance with the die
tlonary, and at times they took to
adopting long resolutions directing how
the affairs of the universo ought to be
conducted. oddest Phelim O’Rourke was about
the of them all The address
that he had delivered, and about which
he was talking to the befuddled Micky,
he had forwarded as a theory which, even
to hia comnanions, seemed singular in
tieed. It had kept them so interested
that they had neglected the convivial
function of the club. Their bee.
glasses,had been empty for a quarter o!
a n hour before he finished, but upon hi?
conclusion the mugs were quickly filled.
and the overtopping foam ran down
their sides to the table.
“Here Is to tho nope,” said one, “thal
Mr. O’Rourke’s theory may never bs
tested on O’Rourke’s self." That wai
drank wIth noisy laughter, so O'Rourk*
confessed in his account to his neigh
bo r. And yet he declared that he had
Im p P r0Bged bis fellow-members im
me n86 l r .
“You ve brains enough and to spare,
Phelim.” said the priest, after listening
to en0 ug| 1 of the concluding narrative
to understand that O’Rourke was full
of some new, strange and impracticable
doctrine of his own invention. “Why
don’t you use your education sensibly,
^ y OUr gon Donnell does? He’ll be a
B uceess!ul lawyer one day, for he’s
wh^lPKaddUng strenglfaMte his head by good work,
phi.V-.oLieal yam with youu *
rubbish.’'
White the priest was speaking Doll
Begg came up the stairway, gave to th«
priest a none too respectful “good-even
lng," and slouched Into his humble
home. He was not an ill-looking fel
low, but his manner betrayed bad hab
its and a reckless disposition. The three
men conversed a few minutes about the
^utory- Hwasto^fe'ebto
^yLrried'into he^c/bin to find out
^ e^e^ ctoLd it and°cxhaust!on
®«88. k agad/st the wall wlth his
b ao
X\L folded hard one leg LowUngbrows crossed stiff!v
0 toerandhi 8
lowered over hla eyes that only half
,, AvUliobt was visible
Has the boy been doing anything to
yo “i. Tint, (H.oma/ exetatmod sh/’ll “Ask
. m „« *
t 0 * 1 You the truth, „ lh an nd I I w won n’t t. "
Did he strike you. the priest asked,
^^“XTwow“ “HeXnU t '
strtoe me,” she respond d.
“He tried to rob me. He know my
hundred dollars had been drawn from
the savings bank, that Iliad it here
under my pillow. It s part av what the
railroad folks gave me fer the accident
and now we've got to use it fer the
hirin’of a place to live in. YVhen he
thought I was fast as ape he comes in
on tiptoe, and feels fer it. But I was
aw*ke, and I screamed with ad me
might, which wasn’t much. Im sorry
to tell it av him, but, suio, the priest
ou ght to know it. And 1 had to call fer
^ f er he’d have stolen me money.”
pria8 t patted the woman s hand,
and said soothingly: "Never mind it—
,,e ver mind it. But turning to the
young man he addressed hin. wi h bit
ter emphasis: Dolf, I knew you were
a brut-. How it came to be so I don't
know, for your dying mother here is a
good woman, and your father’s one
fault is the drink. I have known of
vour striking your poor, helpless mother,
and tout is bcitofeweious and cowardly.
^a V L/nolvouLtoalthev"y
{fr«r^‘»r y =x
You’ll come to some lad end if you
don’t reform yourself. ”
Dolf said nothing, but sullenly un
folded his arms, uncrossed hts legs,
picked /ablm up his hat and slouched out oi
the He stamped down the stairs
to the street, and bent his steps tow ard
the groggery. where his gang onsrre
gated, bound to get drunk if whisky
could be obtained without money.
Micky Begg was sober by this time,
and hi* customary affection for his wife
manifested itself in the exclamation:
“I'll thrash the devil out of him—that a
what I’ll do.”
“Don’t do that," Oonah said. “Lave
him to Father Hanley. May be he’ll be
sorry when I'm dead, and do better.
She closed her eyes and was silent lot
a minute: then she said, with a sad
-TV
® smile- cere’s pleasant news. Any- 1
0 w, it's pleasant to me. The doctor
was here. He said I wouldn t live j
longer than six months at the most,
Vhere Micky don’t be sorry. Af I
thougl me‘sufferings—me days and
nigh , , {ul j dreadful pain—was despair,
?,° f f j ^certain e I'd be in
he doctor about it. He
wit-bin months *
says poss jt>ility of your re.
no ^O’Rourke
‘ Inquired,
'° r J Phelim
with a singular 1 manifestation man of iqter
..
eBt -you're got to ue here, and do .
. and wait for de
no thing but suffer, whispered
■'Hush, man,” the priest speak It to
* It * B the truth, but don t
tier." and the neighbor bade , the .
The pr iest departed.
Beggs goo d-night, and
® chaiteB H II.
mi k * witch.
. _
At daylight next *?° r ?T?®
the stockyard attne rver , , B
started for
side underneath Washington ti g »»•
driving the pig before him. He *
of Irish patriotism, for was he nor
most taking a pig to me lalr - -
wasn’t the proceeds to go to pay
ground rent of his doomed camn, d o
the eviction of the family, ana tne em
olition of the structure. Micky iign
his pipe, and as he trudgea aiong m
road would whistle a bar or two or soma j
reel or jig between the wnms oi n a
"dudheen," while his mind was uu
with Lady Maud's request to bring up
Nora as her own. Why not. have tnougni
Mlckv “Heaven knows we as
: much aB wo can do to bring up the little
| wanB "ore aP ?or d if one was gone there'd be
the rest:” and then, as il
“ as hamed Trhe of this selfish view of the
at muttered: "No; give
av . av mo own flesh and blood? No; bet
ter starve foorst." And then the idea
\ ora becoming a flne lady and riding
llf her carriage, while people would take
Micky’/brain. their hats to her, took Lade? possession ol
“Why not, Sure,
she’s as pretty as Lord Lorton s daugh
ter, and maybe I’d get a chance to be a
gatekeeper or xoadmaster on the estate.
Begorra, Nora can go! Well all be
rich of these days ”
one the
“G’long there, ye divil, as pig
tugged at the rope around his necK. and |
“ natural disposition inherent fn
to „ MickVs 0 the wrong way, he darted be
tween legs, upsetting him.
The rope slipped from his neck, the pig
Btarte d back the road he had oome.
Micky ^ith picked himself up and i an in pur*
gult many a wild and wicked oath.
“Bad luck to ye as a racer; but I’ll pay
ve off for this when I catch ye," said
Mlckv as he ran for dear 'Ife after the
Lhjch When he captured the pig
he did after a Ion" chaso, put’the he
struck upon a new idea. "I’ll
_ around his waist” said he “and
wav’" Worra ^ ’ I can drive 1dm either
fhe stockvard was reached in an
h our and Micky sought a purchase!,
b al/gleplg ut no one He/aw seemed inclined to buy pent a
themin the
cL-foadsXm b y the thousand but they andkbere had come by
nnhodt to* West Was
without to huv one lone poorLlicky pig. Noon
pa38e d giving an
opportunity P to dispose of his charge,
“Come here, aviok," said he, address
j a lltt i 0 ragged boy. “Hould this
darlin’while I go to take a bite. I’m
hungry and must eat, or I’ll drop with
the waitin’ " And giving tho pig in
charg0 of the bo y, Micky skipped off to
11 ^ebeen, where he disposed two
oT whisky tu the space of half
an old friend of his, one
boU /tF" !. li SS
me »’ f ^
No A w " d CLftook" ^nt • 1 / p t/m af ?asse ., reafit ,,
and and down down weni two two more more K glasses. & By
fusing another T glassy | 0 ”' nr fr“'3rlnk Ill drink m no
toot-e U 11 I sell the p g
b L ,
:,'! 1 1 l i. Z d i fl, /tov' A
who v, by this time had got tired of hi» ,
charge, and was talking the to a woll-to^do ,
looking man; “here's man as owns
^ you want to buv him?” asked
Micky, addressing the man, who was an •
overseer.
Ho laughed at the proposal first, but he
seeing that Micky was in earnest
listened to it. A bargain was struck
and the pig transferred to the custody
o{ the new proprietor, while Micky
turned to the shebeen to spend the
“luck penny " with his old friend, Tommy
Kane. Drink after drink wa-now tin
order oI the day, until Micky had spent
a dollar of tho money he had received
, or t | ie pi s , and was' so drunk he could
hardly stand. Tommy had dropped in
a , !al . k corner of the shebeen and gone
fast aslot . p .
j t wag quite dark when Micky stnrte 1
homeward, and with much difficulty he
picked his way through toe park skirt
(ng ?, the Hudson and towaid In- cabin,
(r 3 mile8 away . Micky wa- not lady so
drunk as to forget the letter from
yjaud and h r desire to adopt little
Nora, and a* he staggered from one side
to th--other lie would hie ough out “Me
' . wiII bo f {0 fne : led y. and
me, her.foyt her, will be a genriemin,
a d T at
at the foo-of 1 ith ..tr ■ Ibis was a
T «• which Llmw oou ti ad tion ; ,1 , wa
^Lwqh.ora-e w'as
■
ni. ■• - ■ for the ,v had
• •
. a
* r ' ^ , ...
straw for man or de-.d. bo.in, t an
effort to steady his puce, and wrapping
his long coat around his legs, he boidl>
plodded more than on. a quarter He had of a mile not fro-ceded before the
whisky began to die within him, and he
felt ini; elled to sit down on a roct£ by
*' St/anqe” if from
music was heard, as
afar- so soft and distinct that the faint
cat s*un-i cams to Micky’s bewildem
ear-. Nearer anr nearer it came: now
a trifle louder, sow dyin; away in th*
distance. Suddenly the gra“s at Micky r
tiny feet be class a me J
lighted dewdrops from each_ Wade of
grass, while hundreds of little figures,
little men and women dressed m span
gled green, danced and leaped About,
keeping time to the fairy music. These
tiny creatures were not larger than
pins, yet were perfect in form and fea
lures. They were a merry set, and
clapped their hands with glee, as they
laushed and shouted In the moonlight.
Presently from their midst came one, a
queer-looking old fellow, with a large
red nose and the most comical of faces.
“ His little eyes had a merry twinkle, and
ough he * aB no bigger than Micky's
little ‘anions, finger, he pushed aside his com
who seemed to hold him in
est eem, for they ceased their
dancing dan 8 and shouting at his approach,
t respec tfullv to him as
be climbed up Micky’s leg and took a
seat on his shoulder.
-Oh, bedad, but this is a quare party
I’ve got into," said Micky, as he glanced
at the little old man on his shoulder.
“How are you, me darlin',” chattered
^e old man, while the myriads of tiny
creatures at his feet peeped from thefr
[ter behind stalks, blades of grass
, rainB 0 f sa nd, as if intent on
Micky’s reply
“Would you like a drink of whisky
darlin’?" ' a^ain queried the lepra
, ’ f or the 0 id fellow was none
-j would indeed,” said Micky. “My
out h i s as dry as a lime burner’s heel.”
“fome Come alon" f‘om’Micky’s then ” said the old man
j i shoulder to his
knee ana wicn another anuuier jump iumn to iu the me
ground. He led the bewilderea Insh
man across the road to a cabin, well
lighted and warm, in strong contrast to
the dark pathway. Thousands of little
fairies, each with h.s httle lamp lighted
up, were m front of him.
“Across the road. By the powers, I m
afraid I’ll step on some of yer friends
here and crush a few thousand of them
wid me leet. old
Jbey *^ermmd them, { sa^the ’ man J
th door ”
w „
-^ n ifion , the moment Micky
“^ , binthe^invguardianstiewawaY POml)a reached the door of
then a I- ^shinin/^UkJ^myriadJ 8 of to?’
flies M j ckv and v-ia
entered the cabin Across at
back stood a little arranged bar or drinking
B tand on which r/dorl were bottles
pt v a riou with a bound the
0 i.i fairy jumped upon the counter, and
dancinK a tattoo with his heels sum
mone da fearfully wrinkled old lady
with p0 [ nted c hin and weazened face.
r-jQ BE gontlsued.I
Beware the Daphne Berry.
The common daphne grown in
flower gardens is one of the most
deadly poisons known to the botanist.
Three or four of the berries will kill
a man as quickly as strychnine, and
one has been known to kill a child in
half an hour.
CROPS IN TEXAS DESTROYED.
»
Corn and Cotton In a Large Section Ruin¬
ed by a Hail Storm.
A telegram from Temple, Tex., says:
One of the hardest hail storms ever
seen in this section of the country vis¬
ited here Sunday afternoon. The hail
covered the ground till it looked like
snow, and were the largest ever seen.
There was but little wind and but few
window glasses were broken. Corn
and cotton crops, so far as can be
learned, near Temple were buried in
tho ground and entirely ruined, Nev
er before was such a disastrous series
of hail storms known in this section,
this making the fourth one within a
week. It will be necessary to plant
, and corn is entirely de
STATISTICS OF LY’NCHINGS.
There Were i 4 < and of These Ten Occur,
red in the North.
Th “ Kew York World prints ?be the
stat ic80 f lynching, in United
States since January 1. 1896. It is
shown that there were 141 persons
lynched in 1890. Of these lynchinga
i':U occurred in the south aud ten in
the north, dglity-six were negroes and
. “ v ® ? whites The if, World’s t !i list
ior lb.) n i shows that there have been
forty-seven persons lynched so be- far
this year, ihe usual proportion
tween whites aud blacks is maintained,
GEORGIA SUICIDE.
Henry Ingraham, of Columbus, Found
Dead in a Savannah Hotel.
H.'-nrv ‘ Ingraham, of Ingraham Bros.,
i eading wboiesale grocers of Oolum
, u -», committed ,. , suicide • • , • n a room at .
the J uiaski House, naxunuab. lie
was 53 years old and was well known
in business circles throughout the
state. He 1-i t a note bidding his wife
good-bye, but giving no explanation
ofthe deed, and none has been discov
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A Beautiful Widow Commands.
News has been received at Tacoma,
Wash., via Hong Kong that the beau¬
tiful widow of Dr. Rizal is now com
ending a company of Philippines
j^Iand rebels, armed with rifles, mak
fa t headquarters at Naic, Cavite
o *
province.
Getting Dangerous
A special dispatch from Naples says
that Mount Yesnvius is in eruption.
An area 0 f 2,000 yards long by 500
%vlde j s c , jV ered with lava and it is
, 0 us to approach w ithin 400
yards of the principal crater.
