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A STARTLING theory
TBA Vere many WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
committed by a woman.
A startling and appalling story relat
tom • „ to the Whitechapel atrocities, comes
London, England, and if it proves
I T it will show that the the horrible really crimes sensa
t-nnal ! elements of
e i t her heretofore been unknown to
the police, or, if known, have been suc
cessfully uDtil suppressed The from perpetra- the
rvnblic now.
| or n f the Whitechapel the story goes. butch- It
pries is a woman, so
is s tated that this allegation is not based
a theory, but a fact. The letters
signed by Jack; the Ripper were thus
!kmed to lead to the supposition Great surprise that has the
murderer was a man.
been expressed at the fact that so many
murders could be committed in such a
thickly populated locality as is the
East End, and that the man who did the
killing could escape, London especially have as all been of
the fallen women of
on their guard for months past. The
murderess could approach a woman with
out being suspected, because she was a
woman herself. She could discuss the
murders with her dissolute companions,
, in d on the pretense of illustrating
how the butcheries were committed
would pass her left arm around the vic
tem’s head, covering the eyes and pulling
her head back with the one hand while
she drew her knife across the throat with
the other. It is asserted that the fact
that the killer was a woman was devel
oped by an unsuccessful attempt to mur
der a harlot in Whitechapel, made within
the last few days, and the arrest of the
would-be perpetrator, who is said to be a
Spanish or an Italian woman, whose mo
tive was to murder all the fallen women
she could, in the hope that by so doing
she would remove the one that had
aroused her jealousy, she not being posi
tive as to the exact woman who had
farmed her lover from her side. In ad
dition, it is alleged that the tigress mu
tilated the corpses of those she killed in
order to further satisfy her crazy desire
for revenge.
FREEMASONS GO TO LiOjV.
IOWA MASONS ASK FOR AN INJUNCTION
AGAINST THE GRAND LODGE.
A special from Cedar Rapids, la., says:
Aclion was begun Monday in the district
court at Marion that will startle Masonic
circles more than anything else, perhaps,
of late years. Judge Preston, of the
eighteenth judicial distret, on the peti
tion of C. E. Barnes, af Burlington, J. G.
Graves and Henry Bennett, plaintiffs and
grand officers of the Iowa consistory of
that branch of the Scottish rite of Ma
sonry, commonly known as the Cereneau,
ordered a temporary injunction against
the grand lodge of Iowa Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, restraining them
from putting into effect the legislation of
the last session of the Grand lodge refer
ring to Cereneau bodies and which com
manded Master Masons to leave the con
sistory of Iowa of that rite under puuish
ment of expulsion. Tho petition states
that as the body represented by the plain
tiffs does not confer a blue lodge degree
and the grand lodge or its subordinate
higher lodges do not confer the twenty-nine
jurisdiction degrees, the grand lodge has no
whatever and its action is
illegal, arbitrary, oppressive, prescrip
tive of their individual consistories and
Masonic relations and hurtful of their
This standing is as good and reputable citizens.
the first time a Masonic body has
appealed to the state courts and the ac
tion of the supreme court to which it will
finally go, will be a precedent for other
stales. The time for hearing arguments
for a perpetual injunction will be during
the October term of court at Marion.
SEALING SCHOONER SEIZED.
a British sealing schooner captured
BY AMERICANS.
A dispatch from San Francisco says:
he steamer Dora arrived from Behring
sea etaued Monday night and brought the first
ntish news of the capture of the
m ! ed Sealer, States Black Diamond, by the
T , revenue cutter, Richard
ook the on Black July lith. The Rush over
e to Leave Diamond and ordered
r to. The captain of Black
n lamond . refused do
to this. Thereupon
e commander of the Rush ordered tho
of the pnrts and the running
, ? ‘ eave 8 u ns, which caused the schooner
^eut r . to. Captain Shepard and
eD a at Tuttle boarded the English
1!:' the asked Black for her papers. The offi
, , Diamond offered no
thTi r ? s,stance but refused to deliver
Bh iP • ,
Z e °he 8 , P'P'-™- Captain Shepard at
. . open the cabin and forced
rnni of the strongbox and the
Un S c ^ es b thereby securing the pa
ix r 8, * 8earch of
rt, , ^ the vessel disclosed
8Ca s ns which had been taken in
Bek Captain
-^ioned officer Shepard placed
°{ Rush in charge
and ordered the
to Sitka to await
ns.
A COTTON TRUST.
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AFPROACHED BY
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE.
f ? rn Vi l proposition has been made to
man , eadln Southern
av y ^ g cotton mills by a
i«ts Ca °* Eog'ish – nd Eastern capital
vin° r r hase
ii f P urc of their plants with
tral t" com com hiuiug in interests in one cen
thttt ^ pany, the same manner
° n 8eed rnills have heretofore
comi ^he
Row - l hands of proposal are
in of ^rious mill owners
, ®
take^ b thCre a * 8te P 8 have been
result. U no kuowin g final
scHLifr cotrsrr? mww.
trouble INM’RAE.GA.
ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS aa
VERELT WwwNDKD.
Saturday night wa* a tragic evening in
6 ^ c ^ ae > Ga. One of her citi
zens bleeding from a severe stab in the
abdomen, another lying stiff in death
trom a pistol shot through the bowels,
and still a no ther bleeding from a shot in
the leg. While the evening mail wsu
being distributed a disturbance arose in
the postoffice between Mr. Wash Lancas
ter, bis two sons, Wright and John, and
a young man named Clark. The result
was that Clark was beaten pretty badly.
Clark was taken out of tow T n, and ail
thought the matter was ended. But few
minutes had elapsed when every one war
startled by the rapid firing of pistols.
Six of Talfair’s prominent citizens
defied each other with but a few
feet of dirt intervening — three Lan
casters, father and two sons on the one
side, and the three McRaes, Edward,
John and Frank, two brothers and 8
cousin on the other. When the cloud ol
smoke had cleared away it was found
that Mr. Ed McRae had been seriously
cut in the left side, and that Mr. Wash
Lancaster had been shot in the abdomen
and his son Wright in the leg. There
are section no more the prominent families in this
of country than the Lancas
ters or McRaes. Each have held offices
of trust and honor in this county, and
deep is the regret on every side that thii
tragedy occurred.
A HEAVY RAIN STORM
VISITS NEW JERSEY, DOING UNTOLD DAM
AGE AND CAUSES GREAT ALARM.
Reports from Newark, N. J., say that
the most disastrous storm that has visi
ted that vicinity occurred Tuesday after
noon and evening. In the city cellars
were flooded and sewers burst. Work
had to be suspended in factories in the
lower section. A washout occurred
on the Morris and Essex railroad
at South Orange, and trains were
delayed for many hours. In South
Orange several buildings, includ
ing the postoffice, were carried away.
In Orange Valley, the water is up to the
second-story windows. The people were
compelled to paddle around on planks
and swim in order to go to places of safe
Montclair ty on high ground. Bloomfield and
also report great damage to
property. The greatest alarm prevails
around Millburn. Above it is the Or
ange Water reservoir dam, which is not
considered safe. Should it burst, it
would overflow Millburn and other
small towns along the Rahway River.
Nearly every road in the country is im
passable, as all bridges have been washed
away.
SUBSTITUTE FOR JUTE.
A GEORGIA FARMER THINKS HE HAS FOUND
THE RIGH THING.
Mr. Pickens Hembree, of Alpharetta,
Ga., has been experimenting with a weed
that grows wild all over the country, and
thinks he has found a substitute for jute.
He does not know the name of the weed,
but it certainly is a valuable plant, al
though Mr. heretofore considered worthless. made of
Hembree exhibited a cord
the fibre of this weed, which is as strong
as any cord of the same size. It
was made from a weed that matured last
Fall and stood in the open air all Win
ter. The cord is about the color of
twine used for heading cotton bales.
On good land it grows from four to five
feet high, and thrives in any kind of
soil. Mr. Hembree is of the opinion
that if cultivated, it would produce an
immense quantity per acre.
DISASTER IN OHIO.
AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT.
A pusher,running wild,returning from
Connersville, Ohio, to Hamilton, collided
with a passeuger train. The latter was
running at a very high speed. The
place is remote from hard telegraph stations,
and definite news is to obtain. It
is known, however, that it was a bad
smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage
master Shields were killed outright.
Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and
a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was severely
hurt. It is believed that the number of
killed and wounded will not be greater
than twelve or fourteen.
SURPLUS OF THE FUND.
The Express (independent the conserva- surplus
tive, at Dublin, Ireland, says exceeds
of the Parnell indemnity fund
£20^000 £40,000. The accounts show that only
has been used for legal expen
ses, in connection with special commis
sion. The remainder, the Express says,
cannot be legally distributed among
evicted tenants and it therefore ought to
be returned to subscribers to the fund.
Polly, the Privateer.
The schooner Polly, of Bangor, Me.,
Is probably the oldest vessel in service
Hying the flag, having been builtin Ames
bury, Mass., in 1804. She served as a
privateer in 1812 and captured several
prizes. She was taken by the English
man-of-war Newcastle and started for
Halifax, but the Americans left on board
ove rpowered the prize crew and recap
tured her.
Subsequently she has been employed,
as a fisherman, and latterly as a coaster.
She has never been wrecked, but has
suffered several collisions. She is so
good a sailer that it takes a larger boat
to beat her.—Nw York Telwrcm.
RUSHING WATERS.
GREAT FRESHET IN VIRGINIA— HOUSES AND
STREETS FLOODED—UNTOLD DAMAGE.
Reports from Richmond, Va., say that
the James river is seventeen feet above
the ordinary low water mark, and rising
four inches per hour. The wharves at
Rocketts are all uuder water and adja
cent streets, houses and cellars and the
gas works are inundated. A number of
business houses had to suspend trade and
move their effects in consequence of
Schockoe creek backing up water from
the river and overflowing their premises,
Indications point to a freshet equal to
the greatest for years. Reports through
out the state, though meagre, lead to the
belief that all the streams are swollen,
At Fredericksburg the lower portion of
the city is submerged from high water
in the Rappahanock, and merchants
and citizens are moving their
effects to places of safety.
At Danville, Thursday morning, there
was more water in Dan liver than was
ever known before. Factories and small
ed, dwellings on the river banks were flood
and the loss will be about $15,000,
exclusive of the damage to the railroads.
Travel on the Danville and New River
road is suspended. Two bridges and
one long trestle have been carried away,
and the wires are all down. Cars on the
Atlantic and Danville track are complete
ly submerged and hidden from view.
Harrisonburg, Va., the rains have been
continuous for days, and all the streams
are out of their banks. Much damage
has been done. The rainy spell which
has been almost continuous in that local
ity for over two months, has destroyed
much of the hay crop, and wheat is now
sprouting in the shocks. The outlook is
gloomy for farmers. Reports from Phil
adelphia say: Waters in the Schuylkill
river Thursday attained the highest point
reached in this city for twenty years, in
volving destruction to property estimated
at from $10,000 to $20,000. Park drives
were submerged, boathouses flooded, and
some of the streets near the river banks
were under water to the depth of be
tween four and five feet, doing consid
erable damage.
HIS HOPE REALIZED.
A DETROIT MAN MAKES A WISH WHICH
IS FULFILLED.
Several, days ago Patrick Galagher, ol
Delroit, Mich., felt in his coat pocket
for his pipe. It was not there, and its
absence caused him to make a terrible
wish. His wife reproved him. “Well,
I don’t care,” he said, “Here, with this
uplifted hand to Heaven, I pray that
my creator will paralyze the man who
has my pipe.” Before his utterances
had died away Gulagher felt a severe
twitching of the heart and complained
of feeling unwell. A doctor was hastily
despatched for and said that he had re
ceived a stroke of paralysis and pro
nounced the case a critical one. Death
ensued in less than twelve hours.
The grief-stricken family were at
a loss to undeistand his sudden
death. Tuesday, in looking through
his clothes, in one of his outside pock
ets was found the missing pipe, which
had worked into the lining. Since
the occurrence it seems as though the
family w’ere afflicted with trouble. The
death angel several days ago took away
Patrick’s favorite child. A married
daughter with several more of the chil
dren, are now on the sick list, suffering
with a mysterious malady, which is
baffling the medical stirred fraternity. by The
neighborhood affair. is up the pe
culiar
A GREAT EXODUS.
50,000 NORTH CAROLINA NEGROES TC
LEAVE THE STATE NEXT FALL.
The committee appointed by the col
ored emigration convention which mel
at Raleigh, N. C., last April to the go to the
west and southwest, examine country
and learn what arrangements can be made
for the movement of a large body of col
ored people from North Carolina, expect
to leave Raleigh at once for the southwest.
The committee says that over 78,000
Dailies of those who will move have been
enrolled, and that they have agreed tc
start in forty-eight hours alter notice has
i been given them, provided the commis
sion makes a favorable report. If the
conditions are favorable and the commit
tee shall so report, it is thought that at
least fifty thousand people will be moved
Eext fall. Louisiana, Tennessee, Kansas,
Arkansas, Texas and California seem to
be making preparations to increase their
colored population at the expense of
North Carolina.
A PHENOMENON.
AN ALABAMA WELL WHICH GOES THROUGH
THE IMIOCESS OF BREATHING.
The Texas and Pacific Company sank
a bored well some years ago near Eagle
Flat Station, Ala., in order to obtain ar
tesian water. The well was abandoned
when it had been bored 800 feet, but the
tubing is still intact in it. For twelve
hours etch day a furious gust of air
rushes into the tubing, and the next
twelve hours an equally 6trong gust
rushes out. The well is supposed to
pecotrate into some large subterranean
cavern which contains a large body of
water. This water having connection,
uy an underground passage, with the
Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean.
As the tide ebbs down in this cavern, a
vacuum is made underground, which is
filled by the air rushing in through this
well, and, conversely, when the tide
comes up, the air is forced out through
the same opening.
CLARA BARTON.
Founder of the American Red
Cross Association.
Hsr Noble Ministrations to the
Sick, Wounded and Afflicted.
“Relief in war, famine, pestilence and
other national calamities. ” Such, says
the New York Press , is the motto of the
American Red Cross Association, whose
president is Miss Clara Barton, who hast
ened to Johnstown among the first to
afford personal relief to the afflicted val
ley of the Conemaugh.
The story of Clara Barton and the
Red Cross is familiar in outline to all. It
was she who, on the morning after the
capitulation of Strasburg, in the Franco
Prussian war, entered the conquered
city and—her sole password the scarlet
£ross on her sleeve—began that noble
ministration to the sick, the wounded
and the afflicted which has made her
name famous.
From Strasburg Clara Barton hastened
to Paris to continue her ministrations
amid the horrors of the Commune.
Clara Barton next appeared upon the
scene in the midst of the Mississippi
floods of 1884. The terrors of that
time are readily recalled, when thou
sands upon thousands of once thriving
inhabitants were left without homes,
food or money, and there was no means
for them to purchase even the seed for
the spring sowing. Then it was that
the founder of Red Cross appeared upon
a steamer loaded with food and susten
ance and money for the seed time.
The ministrations of Clara Barton in
our own great war are well known.
Her philanthropic spirit ultimately
found vent in the Order of the Red
Cross. The organization is an associa
tion of relief societies in various coun
tries. Its prime aim is ministration to
wounded soldiers.
The idea of the order is said to have
been conceived by Henri Durant, a
Swiss gentleman, who at Solferino was
impressed with the swift and sudden
suffering borne in upon the wounded
soldiers and with the need of more rapid
and effective relief. M. Durant pre
sented his thought to the Society of
Public Utility, which corresponds to the
Society of Social Science in this coun
try, and on October 26, 1864, a conven
tion was held at Geneva, composed of
delegates from various countries—our
own Minister to Switzerland, Mr. Fogg,
taking an active part—and resolutions
were adopted providing that the ambu
lance and military hospitals in battle
should be held as neutral, and relief
service likewise, even after the field had
been carried and occupied.
Twelve nations at once agreed to the
adoption of this international measure,
and all civilized nations now recognize
it.
Miss Barton is a native of Maine. In
early life she was a teacher, and she
founded several free schools in New Jer
sey. In 1857 she became a clerk in the
government service at Washington. Re
signing at the outbreak of the war, she
entered the hospital service, and her
tender ministrations are still told of by
those who suffered on the field of battle
and were prisoners at Libby prison, An
derson villc and elsewhere.
The Mexican Wasp.
The Mexican wasp bears the same re
lation to a tarantula that a kingfisher
does to a hawk. A hawk preys on
chickens and small birds, and king
fishers, that are little birds, will kill a
big hawk. A tarantula will kill the
most pugnacious birds and beasts, but a
Mexican wasp will make short work of
a tarantula. A traveler in Mexico tells
the New York Sun all about them. In
five seconds after the wa3p has entered
the spider’s den the tarantula will be
dragged out as a butcher drags a dead
porker out of a pen. But the wasp’s
poison has not killed tne tarantula;
sinjply put it in a trance. It is now
embalmed alive. Sometimes
the tarantula killer drags its victim a
mile distant, although the spider is
many times the wasp’s bulk and weight.
Then it punctures its victim’s body at
the base of one of its hind legs and lays
an egg deep in the opening. The wasp
then digs a hole in the ground and
buries the tarantula. When the egg is
hatched inside the spider the result is a
most voracious grub, which at once be
gins to eat its way out of its storehouse.
It is as if the spider had been kept on
ice, nice and fresh in aU its flesh and
juices.
Distribution «*f Seeds.
Mr. Darwin found that the small
portions of earth attaching to the feet of
migrating birds contained seed. Nine
grains of earth on the leg of a woodcock
sontaincd a seed of the toad rush. From
six and a half ounces of earth rolleJ
into a ball and adhering to the leg of a
wounded partridge has raised eighty-two
separate plants of live species. Migra
ting birds often frequent the edges of
ponds ere their departure, and in six
and three-quarter ounces of such mud he
raised, under glass 537 plants. Seeds
furnished with crowns, hooks, or
prickles readily stick to the plumage of
birds, which ail such birds, and es
pecially such wanderers as the albatross,
might carry long distances. Applying
these facts to the case of the Azores,
Mr. Wallace found that most of the
plants of the Azorean floro are well
adapted to be carried by the methods
just suggested—45 of the 439 flowering
plants belonging to genera that have
either papus or winged seeds, 65 to such
as have minute seeds, 30 to those with
fleshy fruits which are greedily eaten by
birds, some have hispid seeds, and 84
are glumaceous plants w r ell suited to con
veyance by winds and currents. The
only trees and shrubs of this isolated
group are bearers of small berries, such
as the Portugal laurel, myrtle, laurus
tiuus, and elder, while those with heavy
berries, which could not be conveyed by
the means suggested—oaks, chestnuts,
hazels, apples, beeches, alders, firs—are
absent, common as they are in Europe.
The character of the flora is that of the
southwestern peninsula of Europe, and,
if we assume that one half of its species
is indigenous, the other introduced by
European settlers, there is still a rich
and varied flora which Mr. Wallace
thinks has been recently carried over
900 miles of ocean by the means just
indicated. There is probably no better
example of ocean migration than that
offered by the Azores, and it is believed
that the phenomena in question are still
in progress, and that 900 miles do not
form the limit of the distance to which
this same ocean carriage of plants ex
tends .—Edinburgh Review.
Educated Africans.
A remarkable story is told in a recent
issue of the Paris Societe de Geographie
records. M. Camille Douls recounts
the experience he underwent in a jour
ney in Northwestern Africa. Disguised
as a native, it appears he landed on the
west coast near Garnet, several hundred
miles south of Morocco, pretending to
the people of that region that he
had been shipwrecked. At first he was
roughly dealt with,but finally he gained
the confidence of his captors, and after
five months’ wanderings, by dint of craft
he made his way to Morocco. Hero his
disguise was discovered and he was
thrown into prison, to be released pres
ently at the instigation of the British
minister.
The adventures recorded are of inter
est, as they give a new version to the
popular story of the great desert. The
Oulad Delim,into whose hands M. Douls
fell, he says are unusually intelligent.
They speak a pure Arabic, founded upon
the constant study of the Koran. They
are monogamous, and treat their wives
with the greatest affection and respect
as equals of the men. The girls share
the education of the boys, learning to
read and write with them; hence, the
women show an intellectual and moral
elevation far beyond that of any other
Moslem women.
Getting Our Oar In.
The British Government some weeks
since advertised for bids for furnishing
oars for use in the naval service of the
United Kingdom. The contract was to
be a large one, and a Toledo, Ohio,
company sent in a bid and captured the
job for which all the oarmakers in the
world had competed.
A Commercial representative called at
the works and inquired the number of
oars specified in the contract.
“It calls for 240,000 lineal feet,” was
the response. “They are the regular
English oar and vary in length from
eight feet six inches to eighteen feet.”
“From what kind of lumber are they
made?”
“Ws use white ash, which we receive
from Leipsic, and are n«w working on
them.”
“How many men will it require?”
“There are forty at work on this con
tract and they will be busy for some
time.”
Some men never foot a bill without
kicking.