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"i’ll IIIIIO MSI,"
WAS A MOTHER’S ADMONITION TO
HER INNOCENT CHILDREN.
STRYCHNINE IN BREAKFAST COFFEE
Doctor Found Mother and Four of the
Seven Children Cold
In Death.
A Special to the Omaha Bee from
Schuyler, Neb., says that during the
forenoon Sundav Frank Stein ad came
*
hastily , . from . J%11 ,, Creek „ , precinct, . ,
in
nine miles northwest, to summon a
physician to the home of Frank Davis,
where he said the whole family had
been poisoned. •
Dr. Sixta hastened out and found
four of the seven children in the fam
ily and their mother dead, a fifth
chiid in a dying condition and a sixth
person sick.
Davis and his oldestson went away
early in the morning, leaving before
the resUof the family breakfasted,
When the meal was prepared all
down, and early in the course of the
meal Mrs. Davis made some such re
mark as:
“Eat a good breakfast and we’ll all
go to glory.” . ,
An older son’s mind was affected by
the remark to the extent that lie did
not appease, his appetite. A daughter,
younger than the son, after drinking a
half cup of coffee, sick and
vomiwa. .. V xf f. ‘ -
The rest of the family continued the
morning meal, although the
made very wry faces and said the cof
fee did not taste good. Strychnine had
beeff pjit into the coffee.
JAPAN’S ENTERPRISE.
Moncy Appropriated to Teach American.
How to Make Tea.
Several .months ago tho Japanese
Tea Guild sent to this country a spe
cial commission to investigate the con
ditfon of the Japanese tea trade in tho
United States snd Canada, and to co
opMffH witlMWG American represent*
tives itt giving publicity to the methods merits
of Japanese teas and the best
of preparing them.
'lew -bazaars are to l>e opened in
many of the principal cities in the
United States pad Canada, where la¬
dies cant enjdy a cup of tine Japanese
tea made by experts; and at the same
time receive instructions which will
enable them to make it equally well at
home. More than half the tea eon
srtmed in the United States and Can
ada is of Japanese growth, yet most
Americans apparently do not under¬
stand how- to prepare it so as to devel¬
op its delicious qualities. The Japan¬
ese government has appropriated a
large fund to aid lit piosccuting this
educational work. Toe Japanese Tea
Guild has issued this official recipe for
making Japanese tea: and thor
First—Use a small , dry
onghly clean porcelain teapot. teaspoonful of
Second—Put in one
tea leaves for each cup of tea desired,
Third—When using Japanese teas
pour on the required quantity of fresh
boiled water, and lot stand with closed
lid from two to three minutes. Never
boil the leaves. Iu order to retain the
natural flavor Japanese tea leaves
should be kept in tight can or jar, free
from moisture.
Note.—To thoroughly enjoy the
natural,* delicate and sweet flavor,
neither sugar nor cream should be
used.
NEAL DOW PASSES AWAY.
Tim Great Prohibition I.eailer Die* At
Ufa II nmo.
Genera^NeaT"D 6 w died at his resi
t°r““on“ ™'p S CKe(!i 1 'alfd
h. retained e„.e,„n,ne„ nntii .»
hour before he died, recognizing his
children, who were, gathered at his
General Dow’s death Was due to the
infirmities of old age.
His vigorous body was worn out aud
his strength had been gradually failing
fora year or more, but until recently.
he had been able to lake his accus
tomed drives. A week ago Saturday
he was obliged to take to his bed. His
mind was stilT clear, however, and
only a few days ago Le called for the
daily paper and read a portion of it.
COKE WAR IMMINENT.
Most Extensive Producers In the Country
Threaten to Cut Prices.
Advices from Cleveland, Ohio, state
that W. J. Raney, one of the largest
coke producers in the country, says
that he has information which leads
him to believe that on January 1st the
Frick interests will advance the price
of furnace coke to $2 per ton.
“What will be your price?” was
asked.
“Well,” Mr. Raney answered with
a peculiar smile, “I think furnace coke
is worth 90 cents. ”
The market price of furnace coke is
BOW $1.50. There is every reason to
believe .that there will be another war
JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8,. 1897.
A DAY OF SUICIDES.
Nearly a Score of Unfortunate. In New
York Commit Self-Murder.
A woman and her four children were
found dead-by asphyxiation in the
West Shore Ikwiel, Forty-second street
and Eleventh avenue, New York, Fri¬
day morning. The woman had. evi¬
dently killed her children- and- then
committed suicide.
They were registered as. “Mrs. Car¬
oline Rivinius, West Point, and four
children.”
The children were two boys, one
about fifteen and the other about
seven, and two girls, about thirteen
and five years old.
Nearly a score of unfortunates met
tragic deaths in and about the city
during the day.
In addition to the Itivinius . tragedy,
Hamon g Burt> of Norwich, Conn.,
waa found dead iu bed from poison; C.
F. Iv. Boyce; San Francisco, found
dead av. the Grand Union hotel, as¬
phyxiated; Dr. Robert W. Flagg,
physician of Yonkers, leaped from a
window in the Murray Hall hotel and
died shortly afterward; Theodore Mil
ler> 8 ll i 0 ided by .'.wiiH'k, shooting; Rudolph
out of drank carbolic
acid and died an hour later; Edward
L yx*fiw flU d Frank 0. Hojly, of
Conii., were Hound dkad in
Hiejr apartments at White Plain*, as
phyxicated by gas; Mrs. Bertha Hum
mel and Julia Cutto, each took carbolic
aei(] and died; George Martin, serving
a sentence for burglary in the Kings
county penitentiary, cut his thraat
with a piece of glass and cannot re
„ 0Teti Micluujl. Walsh died at the Ful
ton hotel from tho.effisets of drugs.
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TEXT OF WOODFORD’S MESSAGE
To Spanish -iaoveriimeiit a* Given Out by
the Chicago Times-Herald*
A Washington special to the Chicago
Times-Herald says:
“It is now possible for the Times
Herald to give, not the exact text of
the famous Woodford -note to Spain,
but a fair statement of its substance.
“This now celebrated and much dis
c U8ged document simply expresses OU
Ble p a] q 0 { tlie United States the hope
that ttle var w ill be brought to a close
as speedily f as possible,
.« No da e is fixed when the consum-
5ni ition is to he reached, and that tlie
interests of Spain no less than the iu
terests of the United States, the inter
ests of humanity and the interests of
t h e wor j d a t large are reasons why the
war should end with the least possible
delay. acting
“And with that in view, as a
frietul of Spain becapsf of tho great
stake which the United Htates has iu
Cuba financially arid otherwise,because
of the annoyance to which tbe United
States has been put by maintaining a
patrol over and preventing the sailing
of filibustering expeditions.
“And because civilization opposes
war tlie United States tenders to
(■Spain its good offices to act as a friend
between the'mother country and her
rebellious colony in the hope that she
may be able to effect a settlement and
the warfare to a close.
“This is all there is in the note,
There is not the faintest suggestion of
this government, forcing upon Spain
her good offices if she does not care tp
voluntarily accept them, nor is there
an intimation that the war must he
brought to an end by a certain time,
or t h at Hjciin must return her answer
to no t e by a fixed date.”
WEDDERBURN DISBARRED.
Famous Patent Attorney of Washington
Declared a Fraud.
John Wedderburn & Co., of Wash¬
ing, D. C., were disbarred Friday
from practice before tho interior de¬
partment as patent attorneys or agents.
The firm W held to hare been guilty
of “gross fraud aud unprofess:onal
conduct.”
The postmaster general has been no¬
tified of the finding, which was made
a long investigation following
■»,»,,Lint, o( other who filed
•
I,» bee,
the most extensively advertised patent
attorney in the; United States.
SOLD HER HUSBAND.
TJie „ olher Woman” Buys John A. Troltt
From His Wife for 84.000 Cash,
According to the St. Louis Post
')j S p a t<-h, John A. Truitt, a conductor
, n {j le Northern Central electric street
a r line, was sold Friday by his wife
§ 4 ; Q 00 to a woman who declared
t j iat p j ie j ove( j the man more than his
w jf e d j d
APPOINTMENTS BT PRESIDENT.
A Number of Fat and Juicy Plum* Given
Out by Cliief Executive.
Tbe president made the following
appointments Monday: Finch,
William R. of W
: envoy extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Paraguay and
Uruguay. United
To be consuls of the States—
Jas. I. Dodge, of Indiana, at Nagasaki,
Japan; George W. Dickinson, of New
York, at Belleuille, Ontario; Alvin
Smith, of Ohio, at Trinidad, West
! Indies, and Percy McElrath, of New
J York, at Turin, Dalv.
Joseyh Perraalt, of Boise, Idaho, to
be general of Idaho.
STRONG AND BITTER FIGHT BEING
MADE ON HEALTH HOARD.
FEVER RECORDS BEING BROKEN
Doctor* Arc Doth to Report Case*# Giving:
as a Reason That It Curtails
Their Practice.
Friday was again something of a re¬
cord breaker iu New Orleans in the
matter of . . new cases, there being „
thirty reported. They cropped record up in
all directions, but the death
was only three for the day.
The fever is rapidly spreading iu
many directions, but the largest major
ity of cases are proving to be of a
harmless type.
The infectious character of the fever
is, however, shown in the faot that
there were again numerous instances
of new cases iu houses where sickness
has already existed. The weather is
warm and the conditions excellent for
new cases. But the death percentage
has fallen considerably below the re
cord of 1878.
The usual care is not now being
taken in diagnosing cases, and it is
quite probable that many of the cases
that are reported as yellow fever are
the result of hurried examinations by
physicians. 9
More cases were reported before
o’clock Friday than at any time since
the fever has invaded the city. There
were fifteen at that hour.
The new cases were reported from
all sections of the city.
Doctors Having Trouble
A bitter fight is being made on the
board of health because it is insisting
in quarantining inmates of houses in
which yellow fever exists and those
houses which immediately adjoin.
Dr. Guiteras expressed the opinion
that it is possible to confine tbe in¬
fection within the room where tlie pa¬
tient may be lying so this has strength¬
ened the fight of the public against
these quarantine measures. In spite
of the storm of protests, however,
many eminent physicians,, and board profes*
sional men arc urging the to
continue its present course in quarau
tining houses.
Tlie crisis is eiilier present now or
close at hand, and it is not considered
wise to jeopardize the health of tho
whole community by allowing people
in infected houses or living next door
to them to go among the members of
the community at random.
Tho fever has, of course, not been
declared epidemic and for that reason
physicians are disinclined to report
yellow fever.
A number of doctors state, in a for
mal protest, that if their names are re¬
ported in connection with yellow fever
cases their practice will be ruined.
Nobody would send for them if they
have had anything to do with yellow
fever cases.
Crisis Approaching In Mobile.
Newspaper correspondents at Mobile,
Ala., are in a quandary. If they tell
the truth they are condemned locally
as writing against the interests of the
city. If they draw it mild outside
communities declare they are lying.
An attempt has already been made to
throttle the press by the prosecution and
of a local city editor, hut it laded,
the case was withdrawn as an ignomi
mous and unpopular move.
The truth of the matter is that a
crisis is approaching in Mobile. The
fever has made unexpected leaps and
within two days has hi oken out in two
totally unexpected quarters.
STRIKE THREATENED IN CHICAGO.
Probable Tie-Up of the City’. Street Kail
ways.
The danger of a tie-up of the lines of
the Chicago City Railway Company is
not over yet. A mass meeting of street
car employes was held Friday and res¬
olutions were unanimously adopted
indorsing the organization pi a local
branch of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Car Employes of America.
The u|ost important action taken,
however, was the giving by secret
ballot the power to the executive com¬
mittee of the organization to order a
strike without notice to the company.
The plan of the executive committee
to resent any further dismissal of em¬
ployes was thus ratified, and future
actien was referred to that committee.
MILES HOMEWARD BOUND.
Uncle Sam’* Army Commander Finl.he.
Tonr of Europe.
General Nelson A. Miles, with Mrs.
Miles and Major Camp, Captain
Mans, sailed from London Saturday
for the United States on tbe American
liner St. Louis.
The commander of the army has
been in Europe since May on his tour
cf military observation and has in¬
spected everything of military inter¬
est in the armies of the great powers
in tbe field of action.
He has been looking over fortifica¬
tions, barracks, camps, ordnance works
of all classes and in the intervals of
this work has written three reports.
THIRTY-FOUR PATIENTS.
Tko Fever Record at New Orleans For
One Day.
A New Orleans special says: After
two days of improvement and of
face promise tbe fever situation on tlie
of the record took somewhat of a
turn Tuesday. For forty hours there
had been no deaths and Monday the
number of new cases had shown ma
terial falling off from the day before.
Early Tuesday morning, however,
the reports of the new cases began to
come into the board of health office
with considerable rapidity and by 1
o’clock there had been fifteen cases
and by 7 o’clock Tuesday night all
previous records of this season had
been broken, so far as new eases were
concerned, with prospects that others
woul( j c#me
j n ft f ow hours three deaths had
been reported to the board,
The physicians were not at a loss to
explain the increase in cases. They
took practically the position explained
j u the Associated Press reports and
said it might be expected that numer
ous cases would still continue daily to
reported.
j n discussing the situation Dr, Olli
pb»nt said:
“The stern enforcement of the law
requiring all physicians and to report actual
promptly both suspicions had
cases of yelloiy fever has a ninte
rial effect in increasing the number of
cases. I am not prepared to say that
wo are j esH careful than we have been
heretofore, but now that we have ree
ognized that yellow fever exists in
New Orleans we are prepared to ao
cept the diagnosis of any reputable
physician called in to attend a case,
“Perhaps occasionally a doctor
makes an error. I have known in
stances where eminent practitioners
] mve asked me to have a flag taken
down after they had declared a case
of yellow fever; but as a rule the mi
merical increase of cases is due to the
j fact that we have so organized our
forces that the corps of the board of
health is now so large and the activity
the public so much excited that few
if any cases are escaping attention and
prompt report.
“No, the hoard has by no means lost
control of the situation. The cases, ns
a rule, are mild. They are being given
strict attention. The foci are inereas
ing but slowly. The disease is not
-spreading to any material extent and a
number of cn,noo arc being <bn
charged daily. An epidemic is abso
j ' lutely leans is out today of the not question. by any means New Or- un¬
healthier than it has been for several
years. The prevailing fever has caused
in several weeks, not forty deaths,
Tuesday’s record showed thirty-four
new cases and three deaths,
Improvement at Edwards.
Things seem to have brightened up
somewhat at Edwards, Miss, All of
the seriously ill are doing extremely
well. Nine new cases and one death
was Tuesday’s record,
WOODFORD HEARD FROM.
Mo Solid. An Official Notice to tlie State
Department.
A Washington dispatch says: United
States Minister Woodford has been
heard from at last by the state depart¬
ment
j ^ cablegram has been received from
him date d Madrid, Tuesday evening,
addregsed to Secretary Sherman, mak
. ^ following ’ announcement of
^ intment of mich officer B of the
ca biuet as may have to
Jo with thfl foreiga policy of the new
government .
: H(l RRta> prwi
I g min- _
ient . Gallon, minister of state; Moret,
i 3 ter of colonies. Woodford.”
j tke composition bject of considerable of the new cabinet gossip
su
i n administration and diplomatic cir
c j eB j s f e it that the three powers
of the new regime, so far as concerns
Cuban affairs, are Sagasta, Gullon and
Moret, three names often noted in the
state department in connection with
previous negotiations concerning in¬
dependence, autonomy and other
movements at the time of the last long
Cuban war.
DATE FOR THORN’S TRIAL.
Mr*. Nack’* Case Will Come Up Immedi¬
ately Afterward.
Judge Wilmot M. Smith, at New
York Tuesday, set the trial of Martin
Thorn, accused of the murder of Wil¬
liam Guldensuppe, for October 18 in
the Queen’s county court, Long Island
City. tried after Thorn’s
Mrs. Nack will be
case shall be settled.
CAR THIEYES IN LIMBO.
They Systematically Robbed tbe Southern
For Twelve Year*.
Sheriff Nelms, of Fulton county, has
iu his keeping three members of the
worst gang of freightcar robbers that
ever operated in Georgia. They were
caught in the act and their admissions
and the Southern railway s records
show that they have stolen in the last
twelve years at least $50,000 worth of
dry goods, groceries, tobacco, notions
and miscellaneous freight.
Walter Bohannon was the leader of
the gang, which numbered ten. His
associates in the Fulton county jail
■ ■ e Ed Pieree and Sam Painter. They
operated at Dalton, Ga.
NEW ORLEANS JOURNALISTS AD¬
DRESS FELLOW CRAFTSMEN.
SCIENTIFIC QUARANTINE WANTED.
Restrictions On Mail For the Crescent
City Calls Out a Vigo¬
rous Protest.
New Orleans journalists have issued
the following plea:
To Our Fellow Toilers of the Press
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
and Texas, from the New Orleans
Press Club —Greeting:
It is the sense of this body, whose
active membership is responsible for
the accuracy of the local news of the
daily press of New Orleans, and that
sense is hereby expressed by the club
in special meeting assembled, that to
you, co-workers and brethren, be sub¬
mitted by us the fallowing facts and
suggestions: fidelity
First, That with absolute
and truth all news relative to the pres¬
ent visitation of yellow- fever here has
been reported by us of the active pro¬
fession to our employing newspapers
and have by them without curtailment,
coloring or alteration been printed.
Second, That the New- Orleans news¬
papers have consequently told the
facts, and all the facts, wjtli a fidelity
which has been everywhere admitted
and in some places criticised as oppos¬
ed to the city’s best interests. But
truth was deemed the rule to inspire
confidence at home and abroad
and has been strictly adhered
to as the highest journalistic principle.
Third, That injury out of all propor¬
tion to the actual danger has been and
is being wrought to every possible in¬
terest of tlie city, state and neighbor¬
ing states by local quarantine having
no uniformity and no reference to
science.
Fourth, That the most vile harm re¬
sults in the quarantine of the mail,
thus absolutely cutting off all commu¬
nication, and this in spite of the fact
that the enlightened science of the
world has pronounced that no patho¬
genic ot galliums can live through the
process of disinfection which the
United States is here subjecting news¬
papers and all mail under the personal
and impartial supervision of Dr. Car¬
ter and the United States marine hos¬
pital service and under his guarantee
of thorough protection against infec¬
tion.
Fifth, That unless this quarantine
be removed, the harm to the state and
south, to localities, cities and towns
may even be prolonged, as neither
newspapers nor letters can bring
tidings of the condition of affairs iu
New Orleans to a great number of
points. brethren of the
Sixth, That our
press addressed give conspicuous place
to this special in their respective pa¬
pers and use their good offices, as
brainy men ami leaders m rational
thought, with our fellow citizens, in
their localities to the end of removing
the restrictions on the mail so that as
citizens of one country we may hold
intelligent communication and wisely
direct our course of action in relation
to the fever as it pertains both to our
common safety and our common bnsi
ness interests.
Seventh, That it especially .
is lm
portant immediately to set to work on
this proposition and first free the mail,
since the fever appears on the wane
and is certain in a few weeks to be ex¬
terminated by the cold, and in the
clearer light thus afforded wisely in
time to set the wheels of commerce in
the south free.
Henry Rightor, President,
J. M. Leveque, Secretary,
New Orleans Press Club.
QUARANTINE MODIFIED.
Certain Freight* Will Enter Alabama
From Atlanta, Ga.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
Dr. Andrews, city health officer; Dr.
Seelye, president of the state board of
health, and Dr. Saunders, state health
officer, had a conference in the gover
nor’s office Tuesday. consideration it
After a careful was
recommended to the governor that the
quarantine be raised against all freights
from Atlanta, excepting bedding, car¬
pets, tapestries, laundry work, blan¬
kets, wearing apparel and trunks.
WEYLER’S FRIENDS AROUSED.
Th<>y Get Xogcthcr „ n< j A»k that Captain
General Be Not Recalled.
. Tie frielld8 of Captain General
-^ ey i er j u Havana made a grand rally
in hig i, e half Tuesday, and did all
tJjev to prevent his recall,
rp h jj eld a mee ting at the Spanish
cssino, many of the wealthiest class of
Spaniards being indorsing present, General Wey
Resolutions
Jer were adopted with great enthusi
a1tn an( j a cable message was sent to
t | ie g 0ve rnment at Madrid announcing
4^4 representatives of the trading,
mercan til e and industrial communities
assem bled at the meeting were satisfied
the course followed bv Weyler.
NO. 17
FEVER SUMMARY.
Saturday and Sunday Rflcorcl of New Cusp*
and Fatalities.
Numerous cases of fever appeared at
New Orleans Saturday, as was expect¬
ed. The weather was warm and the
foci of infection had increased.
The malignity of the disease, however,
was not emphasized. There were four
deaths, but the majority of cases are
of the innocuous type and there were
many discharges of patients who have!
for some days been under the care of
the doctors.
Thirty-one new cases and two death*
were reported Sunday. Of these cases
eleven are in houses where fever has
heretofore been reported. The other
cases are pretty well scattered and
none were reported at the detention
camp, in any of the hospitals or in the
asylums.
Dr. Dunn, of the state board of
health, Saturday night reported nine¬
teen new cases at Edwards and one
death. Sunday’s record was fourteen
new cases and two deaths.
The fovorable record was maintained
at Mobile, Ala., by a report of but
four new cases and no deaths.
An appeal will be addressed to the
homefolks and people abroad, the re¬
sulting money to be distributed by the
Can’t-Get-Away Club for the assist¬
ance of the needy.
Camp Detention, at Mount Vernon,
is ready for those who wish to spend
ten days there and receive from the
hospital surgeons in charge a clean
bill of health that will bo recognized
by state quarantine officers.
TO DISIMT:€i r THElttAILS.
The President and Poatmaster General
Discus* tbe Matter.
A Washington dispatch says: Satur¬
day afternoon just after the cabinet
session, Postmaster General Gary and
Assistant Postmaster General Shallen
berger had a long conference with the
president concerning mails of the in¬
fected districts.
The president is taking a keen in¬
terest in the developments in the in¬
fected districts and inquired carefully
about the plans already in operation
and means for relieving,the distress in
the commercial circles compatible with
public safety.
General Superintendent White, of
the railway mail service, had a confer¬
ence with Surgeon General Wyman, of
the marine hospital service, during the
llflX 1V»’ WymftYI flttoitlod that if aoo
epsary lie would establish camps on
tho borders of the state of Louisiana
so that not only the mails from New
Orleans, but also all mails from the
state going into Texas, will be proper¬
ly disinfected.
This will give Texas a quarantine
against the whole state and so far as
New Orleans mails are concerned give
them a double disinfecting process,
Advices indicate that the situation
j n Texas is greatly relieved through
prompt and efficient disinfecting serr
j ce . Postal authorities believe that no
further apprehension should be felt a*
to disease germs finding their way on*
of Louisiana through the mails.
LUETGERT TRIAL DRAGS.
Ux We „ k . Consumed «md the Pud Nt
y et in might,
A Chicago special says: The close
t j, e B j x th week of the celebrated
trial of Adolph Luetgert for the al
j e g ed murder of his wife showed th*
case f llr f rom completed,
Luetgert’s story has not yet boen
j,eard. The big sail- agemaker may be
Qn Ule etand ft week> accused It is predict*!
that the anxiety of the man to
£ a lk [, e f u n y satisfied before his
CV oss-examination is closed if he goes
on Bie witness stand, and ex-Judg«
Vincent, chief counsel for the defense,
has promised that Luetgert will be
heard.
The concensus of opinion at the
close of the week, Saturday afternoon,
by close observers of the trial since the
opinion was that the prosecution had
the better of the argument. Experts of
the defense have contradicted each
other on cross-examination. They
have also made blunders in the identi¬
fication of bones, which amused the
jurors and apparently weakened their
testimony.
MORE WAGES DEMANDED.
Miners In Foreign Land Have Troubles of
Their Own.
The national congress of miners.
which has been in session at Liege,
Belgium, decided to make a demand
for an advance of 16 per cent in wages.
If this demand is not granted by the
middle of November the executive com¬
mittee will probably call a strike.
FIRE DAMP KILLS THREE.
Ga* Was Ignited By Miner'* Lamp-Con
cushion Felt On Surface#
A heavy explosion of fire damp
occurred in No. 2 slope of the Parrish
Coal Company at Plymouth, Pa.,Tues¬
day afternoon, by which three men
lost their lives.
The force of the explosion was fell
on the surface and a rescuing party
was at once sent into the mine, but
they worked under great difficulty.
The cause of the accident is as yet »
mystery. One theory is that the men
can e unexpectedly upon a pocket ol
gas and set it on fire with their lamps,