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Wagon wheel manufacturers are
about to form a trust.
The big mill strike at Olneyville and
Central Falls, R. I., has collapsed. The
men submitted to the cut in wages.
John J. Vail, cashier of the late
Commercial bank, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
lias been arrested on a charge of per¬
jury.
S. H. Hart, who was president of the
State bank, of Buckley, Wash., has
been arrested, charged with embez¬
zling $30,000 of the funds of that
bank. He is said to have swindled ex
Postmaeter-General Wanamaker out of
considerable money.
At St. Paul, Minn., Friday, Judge
Kelly sentenced Flenry, the $5,000
bank robber, to ten years in the pen¬
itentiary, and his accomplice, Meiggs,
to eight years, The other cases come
on for trial next week and it is believ¬
ed the others will plead guilty.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: Dr. Henry C. F. Meyer will
have to be tried ugain for the poison¬
ing of Gustave Baum. The report of
the insanity experts on the condition
of the Juror Low, whose mind became
deranged, is that the juror will not be
able to officiate again. The ease will
come up again at the January term of
court.
F. J. Pinton, a stock man, of Pecos
county, arrived at San Antonio, Tex.,
Thursday, bringing news of the mur¬
der of an American named Frank Gor¬
don, of Chicago, by Mexican robbers
on the Rio Grande, a few miles south
of Mr. Pinton’s ranch. Mr. Gordon
was a young man and arrived in Pecos
county about three weeks ago on a
hunting expedition for the benefit of
his health.
A large body of water that was im¬
prisoned in the old abandoned colliery,
which was worked by the Harpers iu
Black valley, near Minersville, Pa.,
thirty years ago, broke into the Oak
Hill colliery at the Delaware, one mile
northeast of Minersville Wednesday
night about 8 o’clock and three men,
who were at work in the gangway,
were drowned. Thirteen others were
at work in the gangway at the time,
but they were alarmed in time to es¬
cape.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
and St. Louis and San Francisco rail¬
roads and branches, comprising the
Santa Ye system proper, have been
the hands of three receivers,
being made by United
Ireuit Court at Little Rock,
Ark,, Saturday morning. The appli¬
cation was made by the Union Trust
Company, of New York, trustees for
the bondholders of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe and the Mercan¬
tile Trust Company, of New York,
trustees for the bondholders of the St.
Louis and San Francisco.
The Masonic temple, at Adrian,
Mich., built in 1865, at a cost of $35,
000, was burned at an early hour
Thursday morning. It was occupied
by all the Masonic lodges in the city,
who retained the third and fourth
floors, the second being occupied by
the Lenawee County Savings bank,
the United States Express company
and McConnell’s dry goods house.
The latter loses $30,000, with an in
suranee of $18,000. The building was
insured for $20,000. Other losses will
increase the aggregate considerably.
A special ™o.at ^
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Missouri, Kansas City and Texas train,
No. 3. A switch was opened and the
train ran upon the siding.
alarmed the engineer, and, knowing
there was a spring switch at the other
end of the siding, he applied full
steam and rau through. Finding they
■were foiled, the robbers, four in num¬
ber. opened fire with their guns.
The fireman, Charles Milne, was shot
in the face and his jaw torn off, the
wound being a serious one. The rob
bers then mounted their horses and
rode away. Officers are in pursuit.
The federal grand jnry finished its
investigation of the Indianapolis bank
failure Thursday and returned seven
indictments. They are against Theo.
J. Haughey, president of the Indian¬
apolis National bank; E. E. Rex
ford, cashier of the bank; B. F.
Pierce, a director of the bank;
Schuyler C. Haughey, president of In¬
dianapolis Glue Company and the
Indianapolis Curled Hair works; Fran¬
cis A. Coffin, president of the Indian¬
apolis Cabinet Company; Percival B.
Coffin secretary of the Indianapolis
Cabinet Company, and A. S. Reed,
treasurer of the Indianapolis Cabinet ^
Company,
A Louisville dispatch of Thursday
saga: Late developements in the
Kentucky Malting Company’s affairs,
which recently failed, show a bad state
of affairs. The liabilities are about
$500,000. In addition to this Presi¬
dent Herman’s private indebtedness
amounts to about $150,000 most of
bis keeping, under the impression that
it was safer with him than in a bank.
, To meet his private indebtedness there
! is no available assets, and creditors
W M lose everything. The total assets
of the firm will not be more than $160,
at the most.
THROUGH RAGING FLAMES
A Number of Women Narrowly Escape
the Jaws of Death
A cable dispatch from London says:
The building occupied by Hoovey &
Sous, drapers, in Sheffield, caught fire
Thursday morning. Sixty of the as¬
sistants of the firm were rescued with
difficulty. Five fire escapes were used
to take them from the building. The
efforts of the firemen to confine the
fire in the building in which it origin¬
ated were fruitless and toe flames
spread until five other buildings were
burning. of Hovey k Sons slept
The assistants
in the building. They were not aroused
until the fire had gained considerable
headway. Then a scene of panic fol¬
‘ Many the girls would have
lowed. of
plunged from the windows had it not
been for their cooler-headed compan¬
ions, who held them hack. A number
of them escaped in their night dresses.
They found the passage 1* ading to the
street a mass of flames. Without hes¬
itation they plunged through the fire
and reached the street more or less in¬
jured. Some had their hair and eye¬
brows burned off and their faces, arms
and legs Jsadly scorched. They were
attended physicians and those who
were not so badly hurt cared for by
people in the vicinity. Others were
removed to the hospital.
Those who were rescued by means
of fire escapes were not injured. An
immense crowd stood by and watched
the fire. The conflagration was the
worst that has visited Sheffield in
many years. The building occupied
by Hovey k Sons and two other build¬
ings were completely destroyed. Three
other buildings, one of which was oc¬
cupied by Mr. Horner, denier in paint¬
ings and other art works, were gutted.
Many buildings in the vicinity were
badly damaged.
LOOKS BAD FOR HOWARD.
More Sensational Testimony in the Now
Celebrated Case.
A Jackson, Tenn., special says:
The government exploded a bomb in
the camp of Howard, alias Moore,
Ross and Leger, the claim agency
swindler, Friday. Unknown to the
defendant, Frederick Stewart Brown,
of London, England, was put upon the
stand to tell all about the Moore end
of the line in London. The witness
had clerked for Felix Howard £> In
gersol road, Sliepnerds Bush, London,
and it was his hand that penned 3,000
of the famous William Lord Moore
letters. The clerk was employed by
Felix Howard, who gave him forms
from which to copy the swindling let¬
ters and directed him to sign the name
of Wiliam Lord Moore to them.
When the young man appeared on the
stand the face of the defendant was a
picture of utter despair, but it was
only for a moment and with his ac
customed audacity he calmly waited to
’meet the damaging charges.
The witness told of his experience
with the defendant while in his employ
and how when Howard alias Moore,
left London, he was employed to take
his house and receive his mail and for
ward it to another address in the city,
This was after the detectives had bro
ken into his business. The witness was
handed a package of several hundred
of Moore’s letters, which he readily
identified. The witness was cross-ex
£
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HOWARD’S WITNESSES
Give Testimony Alleging an Alibi for
the Defendant.
In the Howard trial at Jackson,
Tenn., Thursday, the defendant con¬
tinued to introduce testimony and
several witnesses representing the best
people of the city swore that the
defendant was in Jackson on August
16, 1891, the very day that certain
ones of the Boss and Leger letters were
written from New York. The letters
were then read and the parties again tes¬
tified that Howard was in Jackson, not
only on that day, but other dates of
that summer aud fall when the gov¬
ernment averred he was in New York
sending out the seductive letters all
over the country. Through all of this
investigation the defendant is very
demonstrative when he imagines he
can score a point. It is understood
that the defendant has some twenty
five witnessi s to introduce and the gov¬
ernment is by no means easy, since it
is impossible to tell what line he will
advance upon.
A Postmaster Arrested.
In the United States court at Jack¬
sonville, Fla., Thursday, Postmaster
W. H. Merrill was arraigned before
Commissioner Walter on the charge of
embezzling funds of the government
to a large amount. The case was work¬
ed up by Postoffice Inspector Fred D.
Peer, who discovered some time ago a
shortage in Merrill’s money order ao
counts.
ODR LATEST DISPATCHES.
Tie Hajpi® ol a Day Giroiiiclel in
Erief a;i Cghd.ss Parasrapls
And Containing the Gist of the New*
From All Parts of the World.
Twenty-seven new cases and twenty
four deaths from cholera are reported
at St. Petersburg, Rusbia.
A very perceptible shock of earth¬
quake was felt at Bradford, Pa., at
1:35 Sunday afternoon. Several fam¬
ilies fled from their housea, thinking a
terrible calamity had happened.
Bank Commissioner Bridenthal has
closed the bank of Greensburg, Kan¬
sas. The commissioner says the bank
owes about $68,000, that it has a quan¬
tity of worthless paper and that in his
opinion, it will not pay more than 65
cents on the dollar.
Receiver “Wilson, of the Santa Fe,
arrived in Topeka at noon Monday.
He said the receivers would appoint
D. B. Robinson, first vice president,
the agent of the receivers, to have full
charge of the active operation of the
entire system.
The Southern club, of Birmingham,
Ala., held its annual election of offi¬
cers Monday night. John W. Mc¬
Queen was re-elected president, Ear¬
nest A. Defuniak was elected vice
pn sklent aud Frank Foster, secretary
and treasurer.
Fire Monday morning destroyed the
stables on the Keystone stock farm,
near Kittanuiug, Pa., owned by Bow¬
ser brothers, of Manor township.
Twenty-two horses were ciemaied,
some of which were the finest stock
in Pennsylvania.
The anarchist laboratory, which was
discovered at Vallvidrera, a village
near Barcelona, Spain, was situated in
a large cave at the bottom of a ravine.
The opening of the cave was concealed
by brushwood and boulders. A num¬
ber of charged bombs were seized in
this eave.
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsyl¬
vania, accompanied by his wife and
daughter and a party of five other
ladies and gentlemen, arrived in Jack¬
sonville, Fla., Monday and took rooms
at the Windsor hotel. MacVeagh will
remain in Florida about two weeks and
will start for Rome about February
1st.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: Of
the 200 veteran soldiers, who were
poisoned by eating putrid meaj pnriual eon
tained in pies recently at the
banquet $ae held in t)ae winter palace of
soldiers, decorated with the cross
tff St. Andrew and St. George, 160 are
six still in a serious condition and thirty
have died.
A special from Wildwood, Fla., says:
A difficulty between a white and a ne¬
gro Christmas morning culminated in
a riot in which two white men were
shot by negroes—one seriously, the
other slightly. The negroes congre¬
gated some distance from the town and
the white men were shot from ambush.
The names of the wounded men could
not be learned.
A Jackson, Tenn., special says:
Court convened in the Howard trial
promptly at 8:30 o’clock Monday
morning, and only eleven jurors were
in the box. The juror who had been
ill nearly through the entire trial was
present, but Mr. Terrell, another ju¬
ror, was represented by his physician, day
who said that he must spend the
in quiet, and consequently court im¬
mediately adjourned until Tuesday
morning.
Fire broke out Sunday morning in
the store of Alex McKinzie k Co.,
fancy groceries and liquors at Mont¬
gomery, Ala,, aud that store was com¬
pletely gutted—loss about $10,000,
covered by insurance. Over McKin
zie’s store was occupied by the Excel¬
sior Printing Company, whose plant
was completely destroyed—loss about
$10,000, insurance $4,000. The plant
of The Alabama Baptist in the adjoin¬
ing building was also destroyed.
WILL FIGHT FOR SILVER.
Business Men of Colorado Adopt Reso¬
lutions on That Line.
Six hundred delegates, representing
nearly every municipality in the state,
attended the business men’s conven¬
tion in Denver, Col., Thursday. Gov¬
ernor Waite, who was present by invi¬
tation, promised to give careful which con¬ the
sideration to any reasons
convention might advanee against
calling the legislature in special ses¬
sion as proposed favor,” by he him. said, “of fight¬
“I am in
ing for the free coinage of silver at 16
to 1, not all the summer, but till hell
freezes over.”
Resolutions were adopted denying
that there existed sufficient reason for
calling an extra session of the legisla¬
ture and declaring such a course would
do the state more harm than good.
The resolutions also recited that Colo¬
rado had almost entirely recovered
from the panic and while the state had
been grievously wounded by the de¬
monetization of silver, her other re¬
sources, such as gold, coal and agrionl
tnre were developing wonderfully.
The Lighthouse Heroine.
Miss Ida Lewie, heroine and life
saver, was born in Newport. R. I., in
1841. Her father, Captain Hosea
Lewds, was keeper of the Lime Rock
lighthouse in the Newport harbor* and
she became in early youth a skilled
swimmer aud oarsman. Much of her
time was spent in the boat, which was
the only means of communication be¬
tween the lighthouse and the mainland.
Her free outdoor life gave her great
strength and powers of endurance, and
she was at homo on the water, in calm
or storm. Her tirst notable deed
life-saving was in 1859, when she
rescued four men, whose boat had
capsized in the harbor. Since that
event she has saved many lives. Her
fame as a heroine grew, and thousands
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of visitors thronged her humble home
to make her acquaintance. Captain
Lewis became a paralytic, 8f aud Ida was
made custodian for life the Lime
Rock lighthouse. The appointment
was conferred upon her iu 1879 by
General Sherman, who paid her a
signal compliment for her bravery.
In July, 1880, the Secretary of the
Treasury, William Wiudom, awarded
the gold life-saving medal to her,
and she is the only woman in
America who has received that
tribute. Besides these, she has re
ceived three silver medals, one from
the State of B^ode Island, one from
the Humane Society of Massachusetts,
and a third from the New YorkliLife
Saving Association. In the Custom
House, in Newport, in 1869, before
hundreds of its citizens, Miss Lewis
received from General Grant the life¬
boat Rescue, which she now has. It
was a gift from the people of the city
in recognition of her acts of bravery.
For it James Fisk, Jr., ordered a boat¬
house built. Mr. Fisk sent the hero¬
ine a silk flag, painted by Mrs. Mc¬
Farland, of New York. After being
made a member of Sorosis, Miss Lewis
received from that body a brooch. It
is a large gold S, with a band of blue
enamel. Across it is the name of the
club in Greek letters, and engraved on
the main part of the pin, “Sorosis to
Ida Lewis, the heroine. ” From the
two soldiers from the fort, whom she
rescued, she received a gold watch, and
from the officers and men a silver tea¬
pot worth $150. Presents of all sorts,
from large sums of money to oatmeal
and maple sugar, have flowed in to
her from all parts of the country. She
retains and is known by her maiden
name, but she was married in 1870 to
William H. Wilson, of Black Rock,
Conn.—Picayune.
A Big Price Upon His Head.
A reward of $10,000 has been offered
for the capture of Apache Kid, the In
dian who deserted from a company of
scouts to murder and pillage in the
Southwest.
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the “kid.”
Kid is a full-blooded Apache, rather
undersized, but wiry and strong and
quite intelligent. In the campaign
against Geronimo he was a sergeant of
scouts. He is a dead shot at short
range, skilled in all the arts of the
savage warrior, with enough knowl¬
edge of the ways of troopers to enable
him to keep out of their reach.
It is estimated that the richest oi
uvilized peoples is the English, with
$1236 per capita. In France the
average is said to be $1102, in the
United States $1029, while by the sale
of their lands to the United States
Government some of the Indian tribes
are worth from $5000 to $10,000 per
capita, man, woman and child.
before THE da! -’1
Jnfore the daybreak shines &
That in the day's fuh glory lafe Hotel!.
Too fiercely bright is the great lilr='
That her pale-gleaming lamp upofe
Belcra the daybreak sings a bir l
That stills her song at morning’s light.
Too lou l for her is the day's star.
The woodlands’ thousand-tongued delight..
Ah! great the honor is to shine
A light wherein no traveler errs,
An 1 rich the prize to rank divine
Among the world's loud choristers.
But t would be that palei- star,
And I^-ou!d be that lonelier bir l.
induing of Jove when love’s unhear !
—F. W. Boardi!Ion.
IIUMOR OF THE u.nf
The maids of old were not necessarily
old maidk—- Hallo.
Cold weather does’ntseera to nip the
society bud.Puck.
When a minister is installed there is
■i charge to the people, and paying hi*
salary is another one. —Low< 11 Courier.
Time is money, they say. Aud if
has been noticed that it takes a good
deal of money to have a good time. —
Truth.
A man is much like a razor because
you can’t tell how sharp he can be un¬
til hs is completely strapped. —Texas
Siftings.
“See that man yonder?” “Yes.”
‘ ‘Been in Congress ten years.' “What’s
his record?” “Ten Years!"' — Atlanta
Constitution.
It surely must be safe to sa T . 4
Without the least transgression.
That he who “gives himself away”
Has lost his s®lf-nossession.
—llaymond’s Monthly.
“MethinksI scant the morning.air, *
remarked the swell collector, as hr
trove down Main street at 3 a. m. —
Buffalo Courier.
Secret societies have charms tha
are especially attractive to the mai
who likes to make a gaudy display or
ais watch-chain. —Puck.
He—“Did vou say the furniture
was Louis XIV?” She—“Tes. Why?’
He—“The bills suggest the Qeign o:
Terror. ”—Beau Monde.
“What a big hill I am getting U
be!” said the ambitious ridge of dir!
near the river. But it wag only *
bluff. ”—Chicago Tribady.
“I The would notes not he live loved alwaypjhe to fijame -an c>
prot A ■,
But be wore a cheat tor an'
His shoes, just —Waj^iiigton thfJnmr, Stair.
Blood may be thicked than wate?
but did any one know alglrl who woulo
not steal her brother’s <cigar$ to gm
!o some one else?—Truth.
George — “You would marry the big¬
gest fool in the world if he asked you,
wouldn’t you ?” Ethel-'-“Oh, George,
this is so sudden. ”—Vogue, * *
Tramp—“Madam, I was not always
thus.” Madam—“No, It was t y<wir
other arm you had in a sling this
morning. ”—Detroit Tribune.
When you are buying a horse don’t
consult a pedestrian, and when you
are courting a woman don’t ask advice
of a bachelor. —Hawkinsville Dispatch.
There is this singularity about pho¬
tographs. A pretty picture is invari¬
ably “the perfect image of her,” whik
x poor picture “doesn’t look* a bij
like her. ”—Boston Transcript.
The Czar cried boldly “give us peace i"
The Frenchman cried “of course! ’
Then each one hastened to increase
His land and naval force.
—C.eveland Plain Dealer
Miss Manhattan (maliciously) — ‘ ‘ You
must miss the dear old London fogs
very much.” Lord Tuffmxtt (loftily)
—“I do. But I am partially compen¬
sated by your charming NV-w York
mid.”—Vogue.
“What is the difference between
the ancient Romans and the modern
Americans?” “Give it up. ” “The
Romans used to urn their dead, while
the Americans have to earn their liv¬
ing.”—Texas Siftings.
The rain came down in torrents,
With a splishy-splashy swasu.
And it soused the foolish fellow
Who had soaked bis mackintosh
—Washington News.
“My friend,” said the solemn old
gentleman, “to what end has your life
work been directed!” “To the head
end,” murmured the barber, and then
silence fairly poured. It didu’t merely
reign.—Indianapolis Journal.
Best Schools lor Cook»
There are probably 150 schools for
sooking in Germany and Austria, the
best of wh'ch are at Vienna, Berlin
and Leipsic. A man who wishes to be¬
come a chef must begin at the very
bottom of the ladder—at peeling pota¬
toes—and work up, round by round,
to the top. A course of schooling as
strict as that of any polytechnicschool
in this cotintry must be followed for
four years before the student can get
a diploma. Every year competitive ex¬
aminations are given, in which as many
as 209 chefs take part. The chef who
was employed at the White House by
Grover Cleveland during his first term
has a gold medal which was presented
to him by the Empress Frederick for
sxcellency in cooking, a silver medal
given by the King of Saxony, a di¬
ploma from the Empress of Austria,
and numerous other marks of appro¬
bation and honor won in ' competitive
eonteets in cooking.—Chicago Herald,
