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A DRUNKEN BRUTE
i BUTCHERS FAMILY
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flother is Killed and Little
Ones horribly Slashed.
t DESPERATE BATTLE FOR LIFE
Before Receiving Death Blow
Woman Places {infuriated
Demon Hors du Combat.
A ghastly discovery was made at
Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday when some
jeighborr hearing crieB coming from
the residence of Vincent Vcnzelsick,
i Pole, at 2c9 Spring alley, broke open
die door and found the bed room of
ihe house saturated with blood. Mrs.
VenzeUlck lay beside the bed. her
lace and head almost crushed be/and
recognition, dead. Three little chil
Jren, their heads and bodies CO vered
with c uts and gashes, and the hus¬
band, Vcnzelsick, almost dead.
From what could be learned, it ap¬
pears that Vcnzelsick came home in¬
toxicated Tuesday night and assaulted
ills wife with a rail cutter. The first
blow Inflicted an ugly gash on her
shoulder and knocked her down, but
she was on her feet again in an in¬
stant and with such wea s as '/
could find in the room s — de Ok d
he 1S( If.
The three children were asleep in
one of the beds, and the brutal father,
coining so angry at his wife, rushed
to the bed and rained blow after
blow on the sleeping little ones. The
-harp edge of the cutter hacked the
children in a frightful manner, and
the hospital physicians say that there
k little hope of their recovery.
The attack on the children infuria¬
ted the wife, and with a knife in each
hand she sprang at her husband and
ilabbed him a number of times. He
Managed to get in a number of blows
luring the close battle, and seeing
that she was getting weak, he gave
her a shove and as she staggered
sack brought the cutter down on her
ikull wilh all his force, crushing her
skull, and she fell to the floor dead.
By the time lie had killed his wife,
Venzelsick was exhausted. He sank
on the floor and lay there throughout
Ihe nigiit unable to move. The moans
of the children Wednesday morning
and one of them crying was what at¬
tracted the neighbors.
Vcnzelsick, it is said, was not mar¬
ried to the woman, wf ose name, it de¬
veloped later, was Rosa Lick.
A strange man who was found in
the hous by the police was locked
up. lie refused to talk.
Developments Wednesday night
add mystery to the tragedy. Three
Foies who were boarders at Vonzel
siek’s house are under arrest, and the
police are scouring the city for John
Okenski, who was also a boarder, but
••ho lias not been seen since the mur
ler. It is learned that the womnu had
$1,200 on her person and this is miss¬
ing. Okenski is accused of having set
fire to a mattress in the house a week
ago, and later Venzelsick tried to have
him arrested because he had threaten¬
ed to rob the house.
When found the woman was lying
across a couch which belonged to
Okenski, with her face and head bat
lercd almost to a jelly. Venzelsick’s
head was beaten in and his skull frac¬
tured. The children’s heads were also
crushed, and physicians at the hos¬
pital say that none of the injured can
recover,
1I1NKY PAYNE SHORN IN.
Ne« Postmaster General Takes Oath
of < illce at Washington.
In the presence of the cabinet, the
entire Wisconsin delegation in con
.gross. Governor Durbin, of Indiana;
Senator Hanna, retiring Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith, and a
number of other friends. Henry C.
Payne, of Wisconsin, was sworn in as
postmaster general at 10:05 o’clock
Wednesday morning in the cabinet
room of the white house.
The oath of office was administered
by Chief Justice Fuller.
TO WELCOME PRINCE HERY.
‘Cabinet Discusses Flau to Entertain
Kaiser KtIFs Representative.
Tile time of the cabinet meeting
Friday v,as largely occupied in the
discussion of the formalities to be
followed on the occasion of the visit
■of Prince Henry of Prussia. It is the
.desire of the president to show the
prince every honor befitting him as
a prince of the royal blood and as the
personal representative and kinsman
of the German emperor. But at the
same time the program is to be as
.simple as possible.
CHARLESTON WINS.
Congress Appropriates Money For
Government Fxhibit—Pension
Hill Is Passed.
A Washington special says: The
house Wednesday passed the pension
appropriation bill which has been un
der discussion for three days and then
adjourned until Saturday. The reso
lution prepared by the special commit
tee on the McKinley memorial exer
eist 3 providing an address by Secre
tary of State John Hay In the hall of
representatives February 27 was
adopted.
Mr. Moody, of Massachusetts, pre¬
sented a joint resolution to appropri¬
ate $00,000 to pay the expenses incur¬
red by the West Indian and South Car¬
olina interstate exposition at Charles¬
ton, S. C., in connection with the gov¬
ernment exhibit at Charleston,
Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, made
a strong plea for the passage of the
resolution.
Mr. Payne, of New York, declared
that the management when the govern
ment exhibit was secured agreed that
the United States would pot be asked
for one cent.
Mr. Elliott, In reply, took issue with
Mr. Payne a.-: to the facts. He said he
was much more anxious that the man
agement of the exposition should not
be placed in a false attitude than that
the resolution should be adopted.
Mr. Moody pledged himself that on
the adoption of the pending resolution,
the government’s expense in connec
tion with the Charleston exposition
would cease. The resolution was
passed.
Mi-. Payne called up a bill to allow
the redemption of war revenue stamps
any time within two years after the
passage of the act. The bi.l was
passed.
A resolution upon the same subject
to authorize the secretary of the treas¬
ury to return upon demand within one
year bank checks and drafts with war
revenue stamps imprinted thereon af¬
ter the cancellation of such stamps
was also presented by Mr. Payne. He
explained that there were now mil¬
lions of such stamped checks in the
'treasury department. The resolution
was passed.
The house then went into commit¬
tee of the whole and resumed consiu
eration of the pension appropriation
bills. Without adopting and amend¬
ment the committee rose and the bill
was passed.
I'RliSI DFMTAIi APPOINTME\TS.
Big List of Plums In Slate of Florida
Given Out.
The president lias sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Collector of customs, Matthew B.
McFarlane, district of Tampa, Fla.
United States attorney for western
district of Virginia, Thomas Lea
Moore.
United States marshal, John F
Horr, southern district cf Florida.
United States attorney, James R.
Stripling, southern district of lUorida;
John Eagan, northern district of Flor¬
ida.
Register of land office. Walter C.
Robinson, at Gainesville, Fla.
Receiver of public moneys, Henry S,
Chubb, Gainesville, Fla.
Surveyor general of Florida, Edmund
C. Weeks.
Collector of customs: Tip Warren,
district of Apalachicola, Florida; John
F. Stillman, district of Pensacola, Flor¬
ida.
IN r II :0U» OF MYSTERY.
Details of Itloodr Butchery Fn Pitts¬
burg are Difficult to Obtain.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: The victims of the myste¬
rious murder ami assaults of Wednes¬
day in the Polish colony are stTil in a
precarious condition, and their turn for
life or death is yet uncertr in.
Vincenzo Vizolek, the father, whe
was frightfully cut in the supposed
struggle with his reputed wife, Rosa
Lak, is still unconscious.
Two of the children will probably re
cover, but very little hope is enter
tained for the recovery of Della, the
oldest girl.
The police investigation has not as
yet resulted in any new developments.
GROWERS OF LONG STAPLE
Meet at Alachua, Florida, to Perfect
an Urbanization.
The long staple cotton growers of
the state of Florida met in convention
at Alachua Thursday for the purpose
of perfecting organization and uniting
with the Southern Interstate Cotton
Growers' Protective Association,
The long staple growers in that sec
tion of the state have whipped the
fight for better prices this season by
co-operation and, now feels that by or
ganizing on a strictly business basis
that they will hereafter be able to reg
ulate the price of their staple
THE PANAMA ROUTE
MEETS WITH FAVOR
Commission Considers Of¬
fer of French Company.
REPORT IS SENT TO ROOSEVELT
Latest Developments Create En
tirely New 5ituation, Accord
ing to the Commission.
A Washington special says: The
canal commission on the proposition
of the Panama Canal Company to dis¬
pose of its property to tie United
States for $40,000,000 was delivered
to President Roosevelt Saturday even¬
ing. The members of the commission
decline to discuss the nature of the re¬
port and like reticence is maintained
at the white house, but it was stated
on excellent authority that the report
unanimously recommends that the of
fer of the Panama company be ac¬
cepted.
The report, it is stated, is very vo
luminous, going into all phases of
the question and attempting to meet
the objections that any legal comyli
cations will arise out of the purchase
or that there will be any interna
tional difficulties should the deal be
consummated.
The report was completed about. 6
o’clock Saturday evening, and after
being signed by the members of the
commission was carried by Admiral
Walker, chairman of the commission,
to Secretary Hay, who transmitted it
to the president. i'he latter will send
th® report to congress immediately.
The report goes fully into the steps
which must be taken in order to in¬
sure a perfect title to the United
States, for in addition to the present
Panama Canal Company, the old or¬
ganization and the Colombian govern¬
ment must be reckoned with. The
report finds, however, it is said, that
the new company can give a clear
title.
It is stated that the report says
that when the commission made its
recent report favoring the Nicaragua
route no offer to sell to this govern¬
ment had been made by the Panama
company. The offer of $40,01)0,000
made in behalf of the company by M.
Lampre, it is said, changes the situa
tion completely.
It is further stated that the report
shows that a little over one thousand
shares of Panama railroad stock is
owned by individuals outside the
Panama Canal Company, and that
these can be purchased for a compara¬
tively small sum. Other obstacles to
the sale, the report says, have also
been removed.
May Delay Congressional Action.
The probability of the latest devel¬
opments, so complicating the situa¬
tion as to make impossible the passage
of any canal bill at this session of
congress, is being seriously advanced
in congressional circles in view of the
understood action of the isthmian ca¬
nal commission in giving its indorse¬
ment to the Panama purchase. Ex¬
treme reticence is being mantained at
the white house concerning the con¬
tents of this report, and members of
the commission decline to discuss it
in deference to the expressed wish of
the president.
There seems no question, however,
that this supplemental report is a
more or less strong indorsement of the
Panama project, While a great
many people here do not. care particu¬
larly as between the different routes,
just so long as there is a canal, thej
feel that the negotiations over the
Panama route are so backward, as
compared with those over the Nicara¬
gua route, that even if the former
does appear the better thing on its
face, it will be impossible to set the
work going by legislation at this ses¬
sion. There is no dsposition, except
on the part of a few people, to charge
the Panama project is put forward
solely in the interest of delay.
Striking Machinists Succumb.
The Machinists' union at Salisbury,
N. C., has declared the strike in the
Southern shops, at Spencer, near
there, terminated.
TRAIN ALMOST WRECKED.
Miscreant Placed >pike Which Caused
Fngine to Leave Rails.
An attempt to wreck the eastbound
passenger train on the Southern rail¬
way near Watauga. Tenn., Saturday
afternoon, was almost successful.
Some one placed a spike in the joint
between the rains and the engine of
the train, carrying forty passengers,
left the track while running at a high
rate of speed. The engine, however
clung to the ties until it came to r
standstill, and no one on the train
was hurt. i
A Kcmlly on Drcs3.
The Lancet has a little homily on
the 'dress of the profession. Here is
an .extract: “it is right that a medi¬
cal man should always be careful and
quiot in the manner of his dress. He
must not allow ftashiness to play a
pait in his costume, and our younger
readers will do well to remember that
though a freedom is theirs now whicfl
wac denied to tbe<* fathers, still it
behooves them to see that they dress
strlct’y as gentlemen should, Bet
ter the inconvenient staid limitations
of a black frock coat than that a suit
only fitted for the race course should
be worn at the bedside.
Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 20th.—For many years
Garfield Tea, The Herb Cure, has been earn
lag a reputation that is rare—it is universally
praised ! This remedy presents unusual at
tractions to those in search of health; it is
made of herbs that cure in Nature’s way—by It
removing the cause of disease ; it is pure;
cleanses the system, purifies the blood and es
tablishes a perfect action of the digesti.e
organs; it Is equally good for young and oi .
It is estimated that of the whole popu
latioa of the globe about 90,000 die every
day.
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“Well, print six hundred. Let’s see
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INDICATIVE.
Percy—Can you outline a man's
character by the shape of his head?
Guy—Oh. no; but I can give a
.smashing good guess at him by the
shape of his shoes— Detroit Free
Press.
STRICTLY USEFUL.
‘Our church fair was a splendid suc
cess,” said young Mrs. Torkins.
“Did you sell lots of things?”
“Yes.”
Anything useful.
"Yea, indeed. Everything was ever
gQ UBe f u j j can't think of a single
article that couldn’t be saved up and
d ona ted to be sold at the next fair.”—
Washington Star.