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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. APRIL 20, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
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Bays tho New York World: “Beware of
too much comfort, Aud do not despiso that
exercise which, for man as for beast, what
ever his condition may bo, is beat. Walk ,
stroll. Avoid chairn, seek the air, and find
in it medicine for the body better than drugs.
Tiik Chicago Times rises up to shout.
“An Eastern inventor has invented a water
proof mail-bag. But what is most needed
in a post office that is not Democrat-proof,”
and the echoes roll to him from the woody
wilds of Oregon and the Gulf-girt shores of
Texas.
A Montana revivalist preaches that black
is the devil’s color, and tliat no person who
wears black can 'enter the kingdom of
•heaven. This is evidently aimed, at the
‘‘colored brother,” and violates the four
teenth amendment. Montana cannot enter
the republic until she repudiates this.
Bats the Boston Advertiser: “Some edi
tors of country Democratic newspapers are
now groatly interested in their old editorials.
They are nominated as postmasters, and
evil-disposed persons fish all sorts of re
marks about Republican Senators from the
old files and send them to Washington. In
Rome cases the abuse lias of course been
very gross, and the confirming will conse
quently fail to go with a rush.” This is a
charming admission from a Republican
source. Democratic editors are to bo beaten
bdcAuso they have been offensive partisans.
This from the New York Journal of Com*
morco may bo read and studied with, profit
m Georgia: “There are many agents, at
torneys aud trustees, in charge of the oa-
t&tes of others, who speculate with the funds
in their hands, or use them for their own
private purposes, and when tho defalcation
is discovered, escapo scot-free with hardly a
slain on their reputation, and are loft free
to seek after further prey. This is often
the meanest kind of robbery, and ought to
bo punished m such on every conviction.
If a score or two of these defaulters were
dressed in prison stripes, and put for a year
or two behind the prison bars, it would
have a wholesome effect on the rising gen
oration, inauy of whom are greedy to be
rich and altogether too thoughtless about
tho means.”
Tub New York Journal of Commerce
ways: “The boyetting policy, as an Eng
lish statesman has wisely remarked, must
fall at an early day by its own weight. The
Knights of Labor claim 300,000 an tho num
ber of their members. There are sixty mil
lions of people in this country, of whom
over forty millions have reached the years
of discretion. While thoy remain person
ally unaffected they may look on without
concern at the gross injustice, tbe manifes
tation of personal malice and private spleen,
in the use of this attempt to injure the
business and property of others. But it
cannot go far without touching the welfare
of so many that its laws will not he obeyed,
nnd it will remain only a bugbear to frighten
the timid and superstitions by a name
that, like a fabled churchyard ghost, has no
imposing vitality behind it.”
In reply to Talmoge, who has been mak
ing faces at tbe newspaper reporters. Editor
Dana of the Sun says: “The truth is that,
■instead of being thW wretched creatures
Brother Talmago represents them, the young
fellows about newspaper offices are an unu-
sually happy and lively lot. They like their
work and its excitement, aud, as a rule,
they prefer it to any other that could be of
fered them. If they talk about brain ex
haustion, they are only displacing a little
pardonable vanity by causing it to be in
ferred that they are engaged in profound in
tellectual labors, when, perhaps, they are
really expending no more brain force than
is required to get np Brother Talmago's ser
mons. Oh, do, Brother Talmage, newspa
per writers are not in a bod wsy for lack of
sympathy, and instead of being excused tor
their shortcomings they should be held up
wbarply to their duty by the public.”
Mb. Manning has a coon in the Treasury
Department who should hold bis place for
life. There is a colored laborer in the
Treasury Department who delights in kill
ing rats, which swarm by hundreds in the
wub-basemont of the building. He has a
record of having slain over COO rodents
with his bare hands, lie has tbe knack of
grasping the animal by the skin between
the ear and jaw and by a sudden twist end
ing his existence. There are a number of
rat traps in the building an 1 the rat-catcher
makes a doily round to sc* shat the sup
ply U, killing the captives ss be proceeds.
He is not entirely dependent upon traps,
however, but often catches the rat* as they
scamper about the waste*paper rooms. The
Tr^nry employes say that he never has
yet been bitten by a rat during hU career.
Home of bis victims are great big moss-
b xks that have defied capture for years.
The r^t-cstcher feel* secure in his govern*
toeut position.
Aide to the Good Physician.
Despite tbe protests of educated aud ex
perienced men, those whom we call to the
bedsides of our dearest ones, when threat
ened with disease and death, tbe fanatics
who are running the prohibition craze,
threatens to abolish the manufacture of all
alcoholic liquors.
Thoy will scarcely accomplish this pur
pose during the life of the Democratic party,
which is pledged to pay pensions from the
proceeds of the tax on whisky, but it is Bim*
ply astonading to note the fact, that men
who have enjoyed tho benefits of a medical
education and practice, have been induced
to publicly doclare that nlcoholic liquors
are not necessary aids to the physician.
It is refreshing, therefore, to notice that
the craze is not universal. Within a few
days the Medical Society of Alabama has
held its annual convention. It has been
assumed that tbe president of tbe associa
tion is a prohibitionist, and he has been so
quotod. If this bad been correct, the re
flection upon tbe faculty of Alabama would
have been damagiug in the extreme.
The distinguished practitioner referred
to claimed that alcoholic stimulunU were
injurious to healthy men and cited the
troubles likoly to follow an injudicious use
of them. But he added: “As medicine
they are often very important; while every
possible restriction should be thrown
around tbeir improper Hale anl use, physi
cians should be able to obtain them as
re.ulily and easily as quinine or other lead
ing articles of the materia medica.”
His language is not sufficiently broad and
strong. If nlcoholic liquors should be
within the reach of tho physician, just as
quinine and other remedies are, they are
more than important, thoy are absolutely
necessary.
Opium, chloral, cocaine and other antes
thetics are as clangorous and demoralizing
as whisky or brandy. But they nlloviate
pain and sufforing and often save life.
In wasting fevers and pneumonic and
pleuritic ailments pure liquors are indis
pensable, and tbe physician who proposes
to treat a ptiieut with sweetened alcohol
takes vory largo liberties with tho stomach
and health of his patient, aud still largor
ones with his reputation.
It is not of unquestionable record that
whisky ever lost a battle for the South
during tho late war. Many Southern sol
diers aro good aud useful citizens now, who
would have fillod unknown graves but for
tho whisky wliijh sustained them until
within the relief of surgery.
PERSONAL ALLUSION.
Tine Louisville Courier-Journal says: “It
is unfortunate for the church and for socie
ty that it is the Hensational rather than the
serious, earnest nnd zealous preacher who
gets his opinions into the daily newspapers.”
It then procoedH to illustrate tho matter by
publishing staff from Roechor, Talinage and
Sum Jones.
Hhredn ami Patch**.
Cupid bj another name to nometime* known u
Folly.-— Philadelphia Tltune.
Principle—of Hygiene—"What should one do
while he to waiting for the doctor?" “Make hi*
will."—French WIL
Home Rhode Inland people want an arbor day,
but the ProvMonce Star opposes It. Mafl*achu*etto
and CoodmcMouI would get alt the ahade.—Chicago
Tltno*.
An Eastern paper has for lto motto: •'The pen to
mightier than the aword. but the m inor* are cantor
to handls." Holomon didn't get away with all the
wUdom.—Chicago Ledger.
A Penneylvanlan ha* patented a milking machine,
The beat milking machine la a calf. Inventora
ahould turn thrir attention to a patent for gettlug
the milk out of the calf.—Oregon BUteeman.
It haa come to be that when a New York func
Uonary la late at dinner hia wlfo Nay a to ono of the
children: “Run down town and find out the nu
her of your father’a cell."—Hoaton Transcript.
Thla la the age of Invention, but eomehow
other no one haa yet invented a drink that cau
token aa a cooktail In the morning and then-used as
a type writer In the evening.—Philadelphia Herald.
Flint small boy—“Bay, Johnnie, where are you In
Sunday school?" Second small boy—“Oh. we're in
the middle' of original sin." First amall boy
“That ain’t much; we’re past redemption."—Har
vard Lampoon.
Poking fun at Jake Hharp because be walks down
Broadway without the customary smile on hla face
isn’t fair. A man can’t a mile satisfactorily when
he alto aatride of a barrel of powder while a slow
Case barns toward tha barrel.—Philadelphia Press.
There Is a chance for Bcnator Jones. If he would
go West and capture Oerontmo, and lay the scalp
look of that chieftain at the feet of his charmer,
ahe conld no longer resist him. Nothing Launoelot
ever did would be Apache to this.—Philadelphia
Record.
Uhoda Broughton to said to be engaged on “Yeast’
aa a oompanlon book to “Cometh up aa a Flower.
—Picayune. She tnnat be the rising novelist
Boston Post Novelists of her style are not needed.
—Philadelphia Record. Perhaps some other well
bred yuung man can get a French twist on this sub-
Jeet and givn it a fresh roll.—Picayune.
A Utile adventure of the Dnke de Braganza-the
prospective husband of the Prinoeea Amelia of Or
leans. “1 was traveling In Bpaln," said the Duke,
“and had reached a miserable little village. It v
1 o’clock a. m. Knocking at the only hoetlery
tho place, a gruff voice called out: ’Who’s there?’
•DomAlphonse-RomArle Jusn-Pedro Carlos Francis
que-Pomtnlque de Rozas de Braganza.’ ‘Drive on,
was the the reply, *! can’t accommodate so many
people.* ’’—From the French.
HiplagalVIll with a ltead Man's Hand,
New York Tribune.
Evidence was taken by Surrogate Lott
Brooklyn yesterday in regard to the will
Dennis Blake, whose name, it is alleged,
was traced upon it after he was dead. After
his death it was stated that he was alive,
and his burial was delayed in consequence,
until the rnmora were set at rest by satis
factory proof of his death. Arthur Clark,
one of the witnesses to the will, testified
yesterday that while Mr. Donnelly was
writing the will he felt of the testator'
pulse and said: “If you don’t hurry up
ho is gone.” Th* pulsations of his heart
had apparently stopped. Donnelly then put
a pen iu Blaku's Laud and guide d it acro&s
the will. The witness believed tbe man
was dead at the time. Tho lawyer asked
him no questions, but if he had Blake
would nut have been able to answer. After
the name h*d been traced on tbe will, it
was changed so that the word “brother”
was made “cousin,” and a legacy of $500 to
one of tbe girls was mode $250 to each o!
them. The witness **td he signed the will
after the de-ith of Blnke, and did not know
that it was fraudulent to do so. The testa-
| tor had riot asked him to sign the will, nor
1 did Le say it was his wilL
Carl Becker has painted Admiral Por
ter’s portrait tor the Corcoran Art Gallery.
- The Bigelow family in America will
hold a reunion at Worcester, Mass., June 2.
Senator Hoar’s portrait has been paint
ed by Mr. Vinton for tbe Worcester, Moss.,
bar. *
—Mr. Blaine has sent a $100 check to the
Boston fund for sufferers in the west of
Ireland.
Miss Kate Carl of our American Mem
phis has a picture of note in the Paris Salon
this spring'.
—Professor Michael Eugene Chevrenl, of
the celebrated Gobelin works, will soon
celebrate bis 100th birthday.
—The Prince of Naples is an amateur
nntiquarian*And has one of the finest pri
vate collections of medals in Europe.
The Baroness Bnrdett Coutts is having
gratifying success in her enterprise of
cooking food for tho poor of Westminster.
-Ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish is generally
pointed out to English earls and people as
one of our finest American gentlemen—all
of the olden time.
—Dennis Kearney has lost his grip. Al
though he talks os loud and long on the
Sand Lots os in times past, nobody is intlu
enced by bis utterances. •
—Helen Hunt Jackson's name now ap-
1 >ear« on tbe title page of “Mercy Plnll-
irick’s Choico,” a book which has hitherto
been published in the “No Name” series.
—H. B. McDowell, son of the late Qcn.
If win McDowell, is passing throe months
in the gloom of a San Francisco jail. Mr.
McDowell is editor of the Inglcsido and
libeled somebody.
—The Duchess of Hamilton is one o£ tho
most notable sportswomen in England. She
recently followed the hounds—and closely—
throughout a chase of three hours, covering
twenty-five miles of country.
—The Chicago Association of Veterans
and ex-members of tho 7tli Regiment, Na
tional Guard, State of New York, has rent
ed nnd furnished quarters for its own nnd
the nse of all its brethren who may visit
that city.
—Prince Bismarck recently wrote a French
young lady, who inquired for his health,
that lie enjoyed fair health, but thnt he had
no doubt hundreds of Frenchmen would
learn with pleasnro that rheumatism gave
him many painful hours.
—They aro now telling stories of Chief
Justice Cartter of the District of Columbia
Tho other day, one of these stories runs,
lawyer was defining the powers of tbe court.
The court, he said, could do this, and the
court could do that. “N-n-no d-d-doubt,
remarked Justice Cartter. “N-next t-to tho
Almighty tbe-ther's n-n-nothing like a c-c-
court.”
—Tho fine gold medal given l>y tho Czar
to Mr. Alvan ('lark, tbo telescope maker, is
of solid gold, 3-16 of an inch thick and 3$
inches in diameter. On ono side a hand-
mely engraved wreath of oak leaves encir
cles the words “Praemia digno,” nnd on tho
othor side Jis a profile likeness of tho Em
peror surrounded by tbe inscription, “Alex
ander III. Totius Russiao Imperator.”
—Long John Wentworth, ns bo is called,
ho haa now become Htrfut John al«o. kept
himself secluded on his recent 71st birth
day in Chicago, to tho siirpriso of his ho-.t
of frieuds and acquaintances, lio seems to
bo superstitious on souio points, one of
thorn being that his 71st year involved a
crisis in his destiny, and that if he would
snfely pass it he would livo to be 90. Since
then he has been radiant.
Mrs. Purnell, who was slowly recover
ing from her long illness and ablo to sit up,
was compelled to take her bed again by the
wet weather of last week, which affected
her seriously in spito of precautions. It
would bo interesting to tee her as she roads
or bears read tbo story of tbo proceedings
in Parliament when Mr. Gladstone an
nounced Mid defended his plan tor homo
rule in Ireland, a cause which sho has nt
heart as much ns her son.
—Baruum's eight-foot Japanese is seven
feet six inches, which is considered unusn-
ally near the truth for the great showman.
Darnum sent a man to Australia to procure
number of boomerang throwers, who wore
reported to ho ablo to throw a bent stick
unerringly at an object uud have it return
to the thrower's feet. “Boomerang," said
Mr. B., “is a thing that the native Austra
lian savages fling at game missing about
us often as hitting, and it will return if it
strikes nothing to somewhere near the start
ing point, but with no sort of certainty. My
man searched thoroughly nnd witnessed the
feats of tbe best experts to be found, but
they amounted to nothing in particular. Tho
famous boomerang ispractienlly a myth.”
MATTPR O’ FACT.
ItARKBALI. HKANON IS HEB*.
When smmmer bangs her jewels rare
On every plant and tree.
And soft and balmy is tbe air,
Aa happy still la Le,
Tbe baseball reason lias come ’round.
And. with a joyoua about.
He rushes to the baseball ground
Each day when school “leto out."
You'll find be can at once recall
Each champion player's name.
He’s an authority on all
The technics of the game.
Some early day you’ll see hia face
And eyes with rapture shine—
When he achieves the honored place
Of captain of the nine.
Find lease of power that he haa known.
Who can describe hia Joy?
Tbe sceptred monarch on hia throne
Would envy then the boy.
London is about to have 3,000 uew cabs,
including a new kind of “growler,” roomy
and comfortable, an improved hansom with
door at the side, and many well-furnished
victorias. The drivers will be dressed in
livery, and every fare will have to be de
posited in a box, tbe men, who will have a
eekly wage, being also allowed a commis
sion on their takings. Six-penny fares will
be introduced, and books of tickets will be
SUICIDE OF A BROKER.
Man Who Was Worth HU Millions
Token His Own Life.
New York, April 13.—Dennis C. Wilcox,
the millionaire manufacturer and broker,
shot himself dead this morning at his resi
dence, No. 3 West Fiftieth street. For a
year he had been in ill health, caused prin
cipally by losses in speculation. He suf
fered from sleeplessness. On Monday
night he was more restless than usual. He
was up alirost as soon as the servants this
morning. At 7 o’clock his wife found their
son, Frederick P. Wilcox, in the library
and told him she was worried abont bis
father. She had not seen him in the house
since ho left his bed room. Frederick said
that his father had probably gone out for a
walk before breakfast or to buy a morning
paper. Mrs. Wilcox went toiler breakfast.
Half an hour later Halle* t D. Wilcox, an
other son, went into the billiard room, in
the basement. He found his father lying on
his left side on rt t ofa near one of the front
windows, a crimsoned stain across
his neck and blood trickling down
bis shirt front and bis waistcoat.
He hurried out of the room and meeting
issued, with which or in exact cash the fares I his brother Fred coming down the baso-
A BUGGY THAITI
On® Way to Hltl th* Country of Tramping
Vagabond*.
Mr- J. E. Martin of this county has been
troubled with a white tramp, who took up
with the negroes on bis place and lay
around tluir houses. He caused him to be
brought to town on Tuesday, when he was
recognized as the fellow who tried to pass
off here a short time ago, first, as a detec
tive, and afterwards as a watchmaker. He
carried a number of small stones, u spongi
with rice m it, and other things, in tne
top of hit hat, with which he
worked npon the credulity of tho
negroes. Nothing could be done with him
here and he was turned loose. We are in
formed by a gentleman who was returning
to town late in the evening that he met a
party of eight or ten men in the neighbor
hood of Pdchitla swamp with the trump,
and from certain signs and other indica
tions he was sure the fellow would sooo be
tbe recipient of a vigorous application of
buggy traco on his hare back. The gentle
men who hud bim in charge were strong in
their denunciation of the laxity of the law
in regard to such nuisances.—Cuthbert Ap
peal.
A Fight Over a Nickel.
Saturday night near Blanton’s mill in this
coonty there was a negro frolic. A dance
was in prospective, and each negro advanced
the tiddler a nickel. Home trouble arose
and the dance proved a failure. The fid
dler gave back the nickels, except to ono
negro, with whom he was mad. A difficulty
grew out of this nickel which resulted in
two negroes being badly cut. Alonzo Scott
was cut in the face, stabbed in the shoulder
and one arm split open.—Burnesville Ga
zette.
I town In » Wall.
Mr. Ben II. Harrell told us on Saturday
about his friend, Jack ltobuck, falling in a
well at his mill a few days ago. The will
is sivly feet in depth, aud it was forty-three
feet to water, and Mr. ltobuck fell from the
surlace to tbe water, receiving very little
injury. The well is very wide, having been
dug to furnish water for the mill. Mr.
ltobuck was engaged in repairing a portion
of tbe pipe that runs into the well, when
the ladder broke and he to L—Haw kin*rillc
Dispatch.
A Frmk of the Lightning.
During the late rain -tonn, the lightning
.truck a .mall pine ttee on a grave > »:
above town, unu circled .round it until it
reached the ground, when It .cooped oat
a hole clear down to tbe coffin, and Mat
tered the bunea around on top of the
ground. —Lawrencevilla Herald.
must be paid. The present hansom-cab
driver has on the average to pay abont $1
for his day's hire of cab and horse, and the
company which brings out the new vehicles
believes that in less than a year it will have
the cub stock of London in its hands by
forced sales.
The Chinese ambassador at Paris has
taken to himself a new wife. She was sent
over from China to be married, nnd is the
daughter of a high class mandarin. At the
wedding all tbe Oriental ceremonial nnd Ce
lestial pageantry prescribed by Chinese cus
tom were omitted. The bride is seventeen
years of age, nnd will make her first appear
ance in Paris society after Easter. The late
ambassadress died at Berlin a little more
than a year ago. She left one daughter,
whose arrival in Paris caused a sensation at
tlio terminus of the Chemin de fer du Nord,
because, says a Paris chroniquer, “she was
so daintily, so funnily and so prettily
Chinese.”
Tils; New York World learns thnt under
an act of the Pennaylvania Assembly of
1701 a Luzerne county Justice of the Peace
the other day fined a profane Pole forty
cents npico for twenty-six oaths, and in de
fault of the snm total of $10.40 sentenced
the swearer to twenty-six days at hard labor
in jail on n diet of bread and water, as the
old act permitted. But an appeal und re
ference to a later law of 1880 showed that
common swearing came considerably
cheaper, and the profano Pole waa released
from custody.
A Santa Rosa (Cal.) newspaper man says
that last August he received a ten-dollnr
gold piece, which he marked before passing.
Sinco then, in tho ordinary course of busi
ness, the same piece has passed through his
hands no less than six times. Whereat
various country editors express tho utmost
incredulity, not at the number af times
tlieir brother lias had the gold piece, hut
that he should have so large a sum at ono
time.
William Martin, a young telegraph oper
ator picked up in the Harlem river Monday
night by boatmen, sticks to the story that
the wind got under his umbrella, lifted him
over tho railings of High Bridge and drop
ped him 120 feet to the river. It is still
suspected, however, that he wants notoriety,
for which men will suffer worse things than
a ducking by wading into tho river and
swimming to a boat convcnintly near.
Tin Hotel Gazette says: “The outlook
for a prosperous hotel season this summer
is more encouraging than usual. Nearly
every deHirablo house has been engaged,
and those still on tho hunt will he obliged
take a second pick or da worse. There
a general brushing np at all the leading
resorts, and they will he open on time with
increased attractions.”
A bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Scnato providing for tho incorpora
tion of societies for the training of young
women for domestic service and providing
homes for working women out of employ
ment. The hill is realty a hill for tho ob
taining of better servant girls and the pro-
‘ ctisn of housekeepers.
Tub San Francisco Examiner notes a par
allel to the famons divorce suit in which the
wife asked for separation because her hua'
hand was afflicted with cold feet. The
court in this latter case, is asked to break
the chains of matrimony because the hus
band dyes his hair with offensive and btul-
odored compounds.
The Concord Timoa reports a case of
leprosy in Yadkin county, N. O. John
l’loughnian is the afflicted man's name,
About eighteen months ago it began to
break oat on his nnn in white spots,
which aro gradually covering his body.
Tho doctors say it is genuine leprosy.
The enthusiasm of the American public
in pursuing the study of pedigrees in spite
of all the fun poked at the practice is cour
ageous nnd persistent to the last degree.
One of the old genealogical hooks in the
Baltimore library boa been literally worn
out by constant use.
Iowa women make their opposition to
the slaughter of birds practical. They
have held a convention 'ut lies Moines,
and reaolved that “hereafter we will ab
stain from buying any plumage where the
life of tho bird is sacrificed to obtain the
ornament.”
Mail advices from Hong Kong report
that a dangerous anti-foreign feeling has
beon created at Canton, China, by the
news of the anti Chinese persecutions in
tha United States. It is feared that the
natives will attempt reprisals.
Altdouuu petroleum has been struck in
the stilphui mines st Calcasia, La., no effort
is made to save it, as the flow is not large.
The quality is said to be superior, it being
a lubricating oil worth *1 per barrel.
The special mail delivery system is voted
to be a great annoyance by postal clerks,
who have to keep a sharp watch for a few
letters bearing its stamp while sorting
thousands cf 2-centers.
The fit Louis morgue is free to all com
ers, and school chib ren aro in the habit of
going into that horrible place to gaze npon
the ghastly objects exposed to general view
for identification.
Ban Fbaniusto housekeepers are exercised
over the discovery that a Urge proportion
of ihe milk sold in that city U made from a
mixture of nitrate of potash, glycerine and
other chemicals.
A revolves in a glass case, snrronnded
by picturm of beasts and surmounted by
the motto “IUy or pray," ails a Nebraska
photographer in conducting ids business on
the cash plan.'
These are no less than seventy-five
Aztec ruins tn the Sait River valley, Cali
fornia, besides the old canals and water
ways of the Aztae people.
Cuban bananas find such a ready sols in
San Francisco that it U thought regular
shipmenU will sooa be made.
It is estimated that the total amount of
ment stairs told bim thnt their father had
killed himself with a razor. The brothers
went to the sofa and Fred found that his
father was still breathing, but very faintly.
Hallctt went out to get Dr. Ottis, a next-
door neighbor, hut Mr. Wilcox died while he
was gone. He had not cut his throat, but
had shot himself in tho right temple. A
revolver was still held in his hand, lying
close against bis breast.
Mr. Wilcox’s face had been familiar in
tbe long room of tho Stock Exchange and
on the Produce Exchange for the lust four
years. It is believed that before he went
into Waii street in 1882 he had a fortune of
$2,500,000. His first blow was received in the
big wheat deni which resulted so discs
trously for James R. Keene. He was at all
times nu uncompromising hull on wheat
and tho decline in May wheat of nearly fif
teen cents a bushel during the month of
March was tbe final blow. On one occasion
he bought 2,000,000 bushels and within
few hours saw his (purchase decline three
cents a bnshel, or a loss of $00,000.
It is stated that at the time of the great
Wabash fizzle Mr. Wilcox lost $500,000.
His loss in the Produce Exchange are set
down at $1,000,000.
A JEALOUS MEXICAN'S REVENGE.
tils Wife nn«l Two Men Fatally Stabbed
With a Stiletto.
El Paso, Texas, April 13.—Last night a
bloody tragedy occurred at the residence of
Lucero Guiterrez, on San Francisco street,
this city, which resulted in the almost in
stant killiug ot one man nnd the fatal
wounding of a woman and the man who
bravely cumo tolicrrescne. Guiterrez, who
suspected his wife of infidelity, had his sun
picions freshly excited last’night and in
frenzy of rage ho seized his wife and com-
rncuced maltreating her in the most brntnl
manner, while ho brandished » stiletto and
threatened to bury it in her heart unless
she could give proofof her chastity. Fran
cisco Ulmedo witnessed the brutal treat
ment by Gnit-errez of his wife, but was pro
vented from interfering by" the murderous
stiletto in tlie hands of tbe enraged husband.
Tbo shrieks ot tire wife aroused a neigh
boring Mexican named Ilominez, who
rushed to the woman’s rercue. Dashing
into tbe Guiterrez residence he seized the
husband by tbu throat and commanded him
to desist. In reply he received a murder
ous stab from the deadly stiletto, which
doubled him up on the floor.
At this time Ulmedo also interfeisd, nnd
he too was stabbed to tbe heart by Guiter
rez and fell to tho floor a corpse. Guiterrez
then dealt his wifo a murderous thrust and
flung her from him, the woman sinking to
tbo floor insensiblo. Coolly wiping the
blood off of his Rtiletto Guiterrez, after con
temptuously kicking tbo bodies of his vic
tims, walked out nnd before tho authorities
were aware of tho horrible deed, had
escaped across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
A Preacher's Crooked Work.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 12.—A special
from Watertown, Wis., to the Sentinel says
that Rev. I. T. Keeliter, some six months
ago, came here from Manistee, Mich., to
take charge of the German Evangelical
church. Ho was a very important appear
ing person, dignified nnd pompons. His
ministrations were successful and he
had no difficulty in having liis wants
of whatever character supplied, getting
trusted to a considerable amount by those
of his flock who were in' business,
and others. He left town a few
days ago, his absence being a mystery until
yesterday, when n letter was received ftom
him by Charles Beckman, president of his
church committee, written from Detroit,
tendering his resignation and informing
any inquiring friends that he would be safe
in Her Majesty's Dominion, Inst across the
river. It is now learned he bad borrowed
about $5110 in money from various parties,
in sums of from $25 to $2tX>. Ho had a
confirmation class last Sunday, and the feo
he exacted from the members of it he pock
eted, together with tbe proceeds he obtained
from tho sale of 500 tickets for a 10-cent
concert that he had planned. Several
clothing stores had furnished him with styl
ish suits on credit, and n jeweler was not
slow in selling him a fine gold watch on
trust.
A QUIET LADY’S STAND-BY.
ROBBING A RAILWAY Thais'
A Lively Run That Was Mxde Mor. >
eating by an Unexpected Event "
Omabs hallway Neva.
The recent robbery of the United s,
express messenger on the Rock IsUns
brings to mind an incident which
on the Burlington and Missouri ra&
Nebraska eight or nine years nan 1
although thero were no such serioiw (
it was the occasion of considerable
ment at the time. A1 K. Minton u, ,ca
senger for tbe American Express Com*
between Omaha and Kearney, was”
for his activity and move and, while»
a quarrelsome disposition, was nnl.v. *
sent an insnlt. 1
Tbe run from Omaha to Kearns, .
made in daylight, and although there ’
very little danger from robbers the JLL
gers were required to wear their retoS 9
in their beltB and were frequently enioi
to bo constantly on their guard, read, i
any emergency. One thing that mad, ,1
express officials a little more wary w„ «
the express and baggage was in one,
with an ond door, whioh was not ]
locked. This was betore air brakes ,
used on the Burlington and Missouri
in addition to his regular duties the k
gageman served as brakemon, which ■
explain why the end door was
locked.
On tho day in question Minton had
unusually heavy “money run” for Omrb
At Greenwood Station, while busy atiri
with his portfolio iu his lap, he was star?
by a man tapping him on the should,,.
at the same time exclaiming: “You art.
prisoner!” Looking around Al savtb
there wkh hut uue man, aud that althou
armed he did not have his gun nisi
Quick ns a flash Al raised his own revolt*
covered his assailant and exclaimed: 1
by a d d sight. Get out of this c_
quick ns you can or I'll blow the top of ,J
head off." Mr. "Train Bobber" need^,
second invitation, but went through 1
Bide door as though ho had businea
where that needed immediate at!e_.
Meantime they were having an eici
time on tho engine. Two men mounw*3
cab and ordered the engineer not to t.
wheel. Mike Eagan, the engineer,
stooping over nt the time tho order,
given, and when ho arose he bmx:
np a twenty-pound chunx of coal whi.
he threw with such good effect that t
man went tumbling off tho engino.
fireman having such a good example ae..
him, jumped for tho second man wiih i
coal pick, who beat a hasty retreat,
it was only the work of a moment
engineer to “pull out" and leave such i
gerous ground. When tho train
Ashland word was telegraphed to 8 ...
tondeut William Irving that the train 1
been attacked by robbers who had 1
beaten off by tbe train men. Ii
investigation was made by tho
which developed tbe following facte
seems thnt during the stop at Green,®
on tho previous day, while on tho out n
some dispute arose between Al Minion i
the station sgont, during which the lad
gave Al tho lio and was promptly knoct
(town. Al then jumped back in Linear*
went on, while the agent in his wrath s,<
out a warrant for his arrest, and it tu t
granger constables in attempting to a
the warrant who were taken for traihu
bers and so roughly handled.
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW RE8POSS1B
Wife. Thai II
Guand Leimie, Mich., April 13.—A:
citing tragedy oeeurred here last i
John Morse, a farmer living near
had for some time past trouble
wife, of whom ho was extremely jnl
She eventually obtained a divorce from hi
Lost night Morse called at a
where Mrs. Morse was spending the i
ing. After an unavailing effort to pre
ate the woman nnd renew their f<
lotions, Morso drow a revolver
three shots nt her, tho third shot
effect in her right shoulder, seriously «
lug her. A crowd gathered. Morse e
ami run around several blocks, closely M
sued. Morse kept bis revolver dra,tj
threatened to kill the first person *1
tempted to lay hands npon him.
rdneing the muzzle of tiro weapon to k
Lead lie fired, the bullet entering I'
at the right temple and killing bim ii
Morse and his wife bad been
about ten years. He was about thirty-*
years of age, and she twenty-eight St«
letters were found on his person. Owl
dressed "to tho person who shall fids
said that he was prompted to the act by M
great love for bis wife; that be could ootii-
without her, and that the trouble in 1
family had all grown out of the interk’
of bis mother-in-law. Moore’s letter
coherent throughout, nnd evidenced 1
feeling.
VERY FA8T 8HORTHABD.
Wbat One Well-drexsrtl Woman Ha, Worn
since the Uentennlnl Dejrs.
Jennie June’e Feehton Letter.
“What ore you going to have for yonr
summer dress?" This question was asked
of a lady who is a fashionable woman anil
has a reputation for being generally well
dressed. “Ob, tbe same old thing!" she
replied. "What ia the same old thing?" was
the rejoinder. “Well, when one must dregs
within certain limits, there is not nmcli
choice. I have worn a black lace fichn for
ten years—that is, not one fichu, hut atv-
eral, one succeeding another—ami os I have
made up my mind I conld not do better, I
have just bought a uew one." “But is that
all you wear? It seems to be rather a Geor
gian costume.” “Well, no,” she said, "not
quite. I suppose you would add a string
of beads, but I do not go in for lieads one
that sort of thing. My principal summer
dress for ten years has been black silk of
soft and light, bat durable quality, a block
lace bonnet and black lace fichu.' Last year
1 bod a branch of white lilac on my bonnet;
this year I shall have cowsplits or mustard.
I ha.e not made up my mind which, bat I
feel in an expansive mood this year and
must have something sun-shiny andyello
The Hoar Electors I fount Rill.
Washington, April 15.—The report of the
committee on electoral counts upon tbe
Hoar bill was presented to the House to
day. The committee has made several im
portant amendments to the bill which are
explained in the report In that part of
section 4 which prohibits the rejection of
... . , , . .... , , tbe vote of any state from which but one
bfe insurance now placed in United ; r .tam hac been received, “except by the
State* reaches v_ r t * * l.t (N).lKJO. | relative vote of both houses," tho com-
Fuur grand hotels are to lie ready l>y the j mittee has ntmek ont the exception. The
1st of July for the accommodation of risi-1 majority of the committee was of the opin-
tors to the Yellowstone park. | ion th .t where there waa bat a single return
KnuwsEBMEx ore selling for forte cents 1 » State that the two botuea should
a quart in Do land, Fla. and for fitly ceuia , n,,t I*®*« K> the vote of tie
per quart at Orange City.
Wliat a Ntenngraphcr Won by Key
208 Wonts a Minute.
One of the most rapid shorthand o
ographic reporters in Richmond is C
Lufferty, son of Dr. J. J. Laffi-rty, e J '
the Richmond Christian Advocate.
Lafferty is private secretao’ t0
Lee, but he hod higher sspirationy *'
mule a fight for the position of ofleia
ographer in the United States Court J
The shorthand reporters of the **
constitute a close corporation. They*
have no stranger enter the charred a
and least of all from the Sonth. "*"■
raid $4,500 eaeb, and their places i
.he having. But a new reporter w«e»
and the Civil Service Commissi >sj
posed, and thnt no improper ad'
might seenre the rotund stipend, t- .
ographers themselves were anthoruwj
spply the crucial test, and George I
(private secretary to Governor '
Lee) came up from Richmond. "
a vivacious Swede undergoing ex*
as a witness before aCongressiondc
tee. anil Lafferty was sent to rep 1
Swede, who uttered 208 words each n
For live hours questioning lawyers, *
more voluble Swede, rattled sway a*'
.... . si , , i rest!
i the
reporter. Next morning La—rtv
10,000 words of hia report to th
oLcl the Swede. It was pronouncedp* 1
and Lafferty won the place he
A Rather Singular HhootlsI-
Busday night Dan Akis, an sgd,^
man, waa walking along the road son (
unknown person walked along by ,
ter walking along some dkt.iLCe^ .
known party dropped back and
tinned on. In a tew moments IJ" ■
tire no se of a pistol shot and ten
enter hia leg. Dr. II. M. Owen"*
to Dsn nnd extracted the. bafi.
known by anyone, not even
tbe Hhooting.—lUrnesYille Gazetw^
I State.
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to bear in mind tdat on® ®f B®****’* vL r
ter to wurtb a dozen of any Ur *
Iktuon'R ptoatara am a gcnalM
eudoned and oead by th® laadkal
Matna to Ca'lfomla. lh«y cun to » 1
ment** which no other* will vL .
»t*d woWhlrtM Imitation* a»®
car® tucre for Uric* profit* on tra»»
th* *we*t* of au ai>pruvluiC c f* uc v^£ J i
them, and of th® "Ctoocto, .
cine" and ••Ca^drum" pi “tor* j
tbe unwary. Tha*® n*me» ar« cow*-* . ,
le* variation* on the wuno *^*rj2 ^ 3
difference, go to sepal ablo
act be deceived. The *•****»• -i
•Thn-c Stain" trademark *»•* ^
cut In the centre.