Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 January 1894 — Page 3

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AFTER OMAHA LAND.

LAW OFFICE AT ASHLAND, WIS., BESIEGED.

Ffflyrtm* Cnrt Daclslwn laiplres ExpaeMtlsM—5r(u!n)4 Wort to Ottoaiwa's l'oor—Rich »Ila«ral Vein,

Struck—General Northwest Mews.

Abhland, Wis., Jan. 8.—The garbled reports of the decision of the Federal Supreme court have caused a great ruBh here of people to make application for homesteads on the Omaha land. It is Baid that the land covered by the Omaha grant in Northern Wisconsin is worth $20,000,000. One atatorney said: "All there is to the Supreme court's decision is this: Tha legislature of Wisconsin reconveyod the grant from a company building a sixty-mile line to Superior to the Omaha road and the Supreme court decides that the Omaha company is liable lor the amount of its contractor's contract for boating him out of his job. The road is liable for the $205,000 judgment, as its land will be sold."

Many women were among these first arrivals. An unexpected rush came yesterday afternoon. Owing to the lateness of the hour when it began only about a dozen could be accommodated by 4 o'clock. The renewed rush is occasioned by private telegrams received at Duluth and Ashland from responsible parties in Washington. One of these reads: "File on Omaha lands, quick. Advise friends." The opinion of land office attorneys and oflicials is changing, and as ono of them expressed it: "There may be something in this after all. Those telegrams come from parties who have carfully read the Supreme court decision, ». full copy of which has not been in the papers. It only costs applicants $1 to apply and there may be a big thing in it."

There are not less than forty settlers from Iron River in the city and all the hotels are filling up rapidly with those who wish to file. The great land rush when the indemnity lands.were opened to settlement promises to be outgone. There are probably 1,000,000 acres iu the grant and many of the sections are valued at $30,000 to 540,000.

TO KEI.1KVE OTTUMWA l'OOlt

K{Turin of the City Official! Show Some Good Kesults. OrnniWA, Iowa. Jan. 8.—The efforts being made, to relieve the condition of the unemployed are beginning to tell. At the labor bureau last night -'50 more laborers have registered than work has been provided for. At a meeting held at the city hall it was decided to appoint a citizens' committee, which with, capital furnished liy popular subscription shall purchase standing timber to be converted into stove wood, and which will be fuln'::hed the residents of the city at a cord. Many who have teen burning coal will purchase wood stoves. All cases of immediate wan1 are being provided for by the relief committee.

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Router Cnse Trial Coiues Cp To-duy. Madison. Wis., Jan S.—The roster contract ease, in which Gov. l'eek, At-torncy-General O'Connor, Assistant Secretary of State Doe, Assistant-At-torney-General Claiicey, State Senator Basliford and the governor's ex-pri-vate Secretary Clark are defendants, will come up before tho Dane County Oircuit court to-day. It is understood John M. Olin, attorney fnr t.lie plaintiffs, will move to have it ooiv.inued on account mainly of tlii case having been complicated bv the application of ttie Dows.

Cold Wave General In Nortlnvcnl. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. P.—A cold wave struck St. Paul at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and since that '•.our the temperance has ranged from to 22 degrees below zero. Reports from the north show that the weather .of northern Minnesota, northern Dakota md Manitoba is still more severe. At 10 o'clock last night the register a.* Crookston was HO degrees below zero. At Neche it was 32 degrees below and and at Qn'Appelle 31 degrees below. The weather is clear, no wind blowing and no suffering is reported.

Strike* Ilirlt Minora! Vein Diuukjok, Iowa. .Ian. S.—Joseph Haule of this city struck big vein of luinera'i near Sinsinawa Mound. Wis. It is two feet in width and six feet in height, and he has already taken out 10,000 pounds. The mine was abandoned thirty years ago on account of water, but this has now nearly disappeared.

MUNCER IS SILENT.

Tin* Corwin's Coiumiintler Ki-fosos to I Divulge Secret*. San Fiiam'isco,

iincc he stated in clVeet that he knew more than had been telegraphed from -f Auckland, but whether he meant that remark to be accepted as implying that lie. was forbidden otlielally to

HlMfVtAT

t'al.. Jan. S.—('apt.

Munger of the Corwin still keeps secret the state of affairs at Honolulu. He came ashore for a moment last evening, and though his demeanor was in «-very respect more suave and courteous than when he entered the port he nevertheless protested his inability to speak a word regarding the dispatches .• had forwarded to Washington.

any more, or that something of importance hail occurred (luring t.lie

days that hail elapsed between the wtnre of the Alameda and that of Corwin. it is hard to tell. There is olutely nothing positive known as the .situation in Hawaii, and all mors of sensational happenings are trustworthy. :'j

I'lie new I'ilgrim -hotel at Marshall^"7n, Iowa, costing -'7f.on0 wa.s formopened with a reception ball and

Ijuet. There were 'J00 guests.

woodchuck.

•m IlliultriUiilif uad Battle to the Detlk at Choko Creek. Mr. Jay J. Bond, a Philadelphia man, saw a furious fight between woodchuck and a muskrat, at Choke Greek a few days ago. Mr. liond was walking toward the creek, on the op* posite side of which he saw a woodchuck slaking his thirst near a pool under a leaning yellow birch tree. The woodchuck became alarmed at his approach, gave a whistle and started on a lively canter for its burrow, a few rods up the bank. At the same instant a monster muskrat, which had been nosing around in the grass and weeds near the woodchuck's hole, made a dash for the pool under the leaning birch. The startled animals ran into one another in their haste to reach theiA -»spective abiding places, and the eoV, 'sion instantly made them- forget all fear, caused them to become as angry as hornets and set. them to fighting like bulldogs.

Each animal, Mr. liond said, seeuied to think that the other was to blame for running against it, and instead of apologizing and trying to pass ono another they began to bite and scratch, bristle and «queal angrily and roll and tumble iu the grass as though they were bound to kill ono another. Tho muskrat kept working the woodchuck toward the creek, the blood and fur flew, and at length the woodchuck broke away, tired enough, and went limping toward its burrow. It hadn't taken five steps before the pugnacious muskrat collared it and made it fight. The woodchuck sailed into the big rat with renewed vigor, but the latter knew its business, and in less than three minutes it caught the woodchuck by the throat and dragged it over the bank into the pool. The fighting animals churned the water iuto foam, but the muskrat held the woodchuck's head under the water until it was drowned, when it flung the carcass on to a stone and swam out of sight under the roots of the birch.

HOW MICE MAKE WAR.

Tliey l'"aco Each Othor, Standing oil Tlioir lliud Legn. Before we had much observed mice, the use of their long tails was a question that had puzzled us. We do not know of what service they are to the females, but to the bucks they are, we see, of use in their combats for when they fight they very often face one an- .. her stancliug on their hind le*s, tho tails then making, as with kangaroos, the third feature of a tripod.

Their appearance when they thus stand facing one another with their heads thrown 'jack and their paws in front of their faces is, on account perhaps of the resemblance it bears to the posture of prize fighters, extremely comic, says a. writer in the Northwest.

Small mice, also, when attacked by their bigger congeners, raise their paws before their faces, the attitude in that case strangely suggesting one of depreciation.

What occurs when belligerent bucks actually engage only instantaneous photography could recorA, so rapid are their movements. Presumably they try to bite, but must consider defense the better part of valor, for they never appear to get hurt much, and between the rounds will nibble away at the crust, which brought them into the vicinage, only showing their excitement by rattling their tails against the ground. Oecasioully a tail seized by the teeth leads to one mouse having to drag his enemy over the floor till the latter lets go.

NERVE OF A BLACKSMITH. Forced a Tool to I'erform an Operation on Himself With. .lames Cmnmings, a blacksmith of Los Angeles, recently performed a directed of late to the

novel operation on himself. When a boy of 5 years, back in New York, Cummings had his left hand mashed in a barn door, and, from lack of proper attention, the two fingers of that hand afterward grew together as far as the middle joint, leaving a sort of web of flesh connecting them. Cuuimings finally decided upon a plan by which he could regain the use of his injured members and save the trouble and expense of an operation by a snr geon.

Acting upon his ovvu ideas, he repaired to a blacksmith shop and forged a chisel in the shape of a long and narrow letter U, which he fitted to a handle improvised from a pieve of rough board. Calling a bystander to his assistance, he had the latter hold the told in place and then struck a heavy blow with a hammer himself, cutting through the flesh ami driving the chisel deep into the block on which his hand was laid, llav ng ready a handkerchief well soaked with carbolic salve, he wrapped up his hand and repaired to his own rooai. where lie later dressed tho wound lie claims to have had sufficient experience in the eare of wounds to treat his own cas successfully.

vUojflc f* X,ocic.

"May I call you Mae?" "Hut you have known me short time

such

Not on I'xliihlrton.

Philanthropist (pushing through crowd around man who has fainted) What ails this man?

Small l!oy--Iles been out o' work fer t'ree days, an' ain't had uothin' ter eat dat all.

Philanthropist—Ho you know who he is? fSmall 15ov—Yes: he's l'erfesser IJoues, de sixty-da,v faster.

JCcoiiomy ix Wiiillli.

Goldsui vdictating a letter*—My dear Mr. Sehankelhauseuheiiiier— Miss Kay tap How do you spell that name?

Goldski—S—c—li—: oh py de vay, 1 dink you petter begin del- letter '.iiy Dear Sir," undt save de vear und tear on de machine

UNIQUE SPOT IN THE CAPITOL.

Corner Id Btat«arjr Hall, a School of Tralalag la Boolal Life.

One of tho most striking scene* •bout tho capitol during the daily sessions le about iho "ladiet* oornor" in the statuary hall. This corner is regarded by the Philadelphia Telegraph as ono of the most curious attachments of any legislative body. It La unique and full of interest La tjfcui mamfcary The placa, which is Tmhjnd tha great uolumns and guardad by ^ho statues of tiarOoid and Ethan Allen, and'furnished with leather-covered sofa9 and ohairs, ha« been frequently described, but the picture in all its fullness has never been given and perhaps never will be dono full justice. The greater number of ladies who come to tha capitol receive vitits in the galleries from their friends on tho floor, and some days the scene there is one of the most interesting of receptions. But tho confidential corner, tho place of more seclusion and comfort, is amid the soft leather furniture behind the trusty statues. Many a representative of tho great people spends a social half hour or so there with comfort and pleasure, and, it is to bo hoped, with benefit It serves some of the uninitiated as a sort of school of training for tho more extended field of social life in Washington.

He who would be quite ill at easo in a fashionable drawingroom or in ladies' society under most any othor circumstances, lolls back on a sofa beside some fair creaturo thoro with an easy familiarity which is sure to rub off somo of hip roughness of manner and shyness. Tho ladies who frequent this corner perforin a great work In tho way of overcoming the shyness of new members. In many cases, however, thoso who have long since forgotten that they over wore awkward or bashful in ladies' society, stiil cling to tho habit of visiting this corner, and appear to take some delight in tho relaxation it affords from their heavy labors in congress.

This institution was not started as a training school That feature was merelv devolopod incidentally. I'rimarily it was intended as a placo wbero ladies coming to see congressmen might ait and wait while a messenger carried their cards in on tha floor. The backs of a line of sofas up against the columns form the boundary of the sncred precincts of blessed and beautiful, and a card reads in big black letters, '•I'.xclusively for Ladies," etc. An elderly man sits at a table, with two or three pages at his sido and blank cards for tho use of thoso who do not oarry their card case. A yellow measenger sits at the entrance to keep ilntrudeis out An interesting and lively reception is always in 'Egress during certain hours of tho day wliilo the house is iu session, and the receiving party is usually numerous and atI tractive. Sometimes ten or a dozen members will be among the visitors at ono time, some seated on tho sofas and some standing behind the col-

umns or statues in earnest conversation with the fair habitues. During I the day there is a constant coining and going between tho house and. I this reception room. All the mernbers who are called thoro do not go from choice, and tne woman-hater, I who is compelled by politeness to go

In response to a card, may be known ay his flushed and annoyed counteiv I ance and his imp'atienco to get away,

There are somo men who cannot bo I cultivated In asocial way, even when surrounded by all t'neso advimtagos.

l*plio lie Law.

Publle attention lias been strongly evil result of attempting to meet crime with lawlessness, of punishing oruelty and I brutality in a cruel and brutal way. I In several states there have been peculiarly atrocious instances of lyneh'tog, and the horror has been emphasized in at least two eases by the discovery that the victims of the mobs were wrongly accused.

These shameful actions have aroused* I (feneral discussion, and have prodneed a revulsion of feeling in those sections of the country where lynching has been most common. The respectable citizens have hastened to disavow the actions of the mob—somo of which have been indescribably cruel and fiendish.

It is encouraging to read in many ot

the local papers eagsr disavowal of these acts on behalf of the communities: and even to see something like a serious attempt to punish the leaders of the mob.

If this sentiment increases as it

should, such barbarities will, in a few years, be as impossible in all our country as they are now in most or it anil in civilized foreign lands,

Lynching is never to be justified, unless it be in the rare, ciises where a I eommunitv is so isolated that there is do legal T.aciiiiitM for the dete tioe and punishniem of crime. I There is now no such community in thiB country, and every lynching merely makes the regular operation of fehe law more ditiieult.

rur-.-.ujiH iiK'ntary. trouble about ready-made its shape so

"The

Clothing is that Boon." "That, is. of eours ^orn it some tiru"

it ses

after \o:i h:i^v

VVHflpil III*-

Constanco—Did he not go home after you refused him? lure—No. lie staid right on and paid: "AH things come to him who waits."

Constanco—And what came? Ulai-o—Father was lirst —I'uck.

Halt hnot'f I "hi-isl isi K»nl«» vor Ualt.iinoro has more than 10) Chri:-tian Endeavor societies representing sixteen sectarian denominations, and an effort, is already being made in that city to have the annual convention in 1696.

NOT SO DANGEROUS.

Aud Belt

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The Old-Vims Sulphur Satsh I• the Favorite In Hotel*. "Man in No. 68 wants some parlor matches. He says these eight-day sticks are a confounded nuisance," the bell boy said to the clrrk. "Tell him he'll have to £et along with the old style match," answered the clerk. "The insurance companies don't allow parlor matches in the rooms." '•Yes, that's a fact," he continued, In answer to a surprised questioner. "Insurance policies of nearly all companies prohibit the keeping and use of parlor matches in any part of a hotel, but they are generally kept in the offices because they are in greater favor and more convenient than tha sulphur match, and the requirements of the policy is to that extent overlooked by both its holders and the is» Buing company. There isn't much chance for an accidental ignition of a parlor match to do much harm in a hotel office, but they are dangerous things in rooms, where carpets or curtains or stray paper are liable to catch fire from them. They are not only more easily lighted by accident, such as stepping upon them, but, as is not generally known, they often break out in flame from spontaneous combustion. You may judge how easily this is liable to happen by holding a bunch of them in the dark and watching the fume that continually arises from them. Tho sulphur match is not so dangerous in any of these particulars."

THEY WERE SKILLED MEN.

Didn't WMt« any Time

on tho 'nH«enters.

"Oh, yes," said the sad-visaged man for the twentieth time "oh yes, I was one cf the passengers on that Lake Shore train the gang held up at Kendallville." "Were you in the sleeper?"' asked the reporter. "Yes, I had S'J left when I reached the station iu Chicago." "Ah. you had been at the World's Fair, then'.'" "Yes, what else would £take a man to Chicago?" "Were the sleepers full?" "Yes." "A 1.1 returning from the fair, I suppose?" "Of course." "Did any of you hear the disturbance going on outside?" "1 guess we all did it »s like a battle "Were the passengers frightened?" "Not a bit at least, I wasn't." "Didn't you expect the robbers to go through the tr.tin?''

The sad-visaged man's face showed a cloud of compassion for the reporter. "Young mail," ho said, "do yon suppose them robbers stopped that train for fun?" "0/ course not." "Then why do you ask that kind of a question? Dou'i you know they knowed the passengers were coming home from the fair, and that they might as well have gone through the poor house looking for gold bricks.

HE HUNTED FOR BEAR.

But 111* IU l.urU W

Oulr Explained

AViu*:i lie Itrt urnod.

He was tall and Wnky, with a longish beard and mustaehios, a drooping nose, and a hanging under lip, a high and narrow forehead, surmounted with a shock of hay-colored hair. Altogether his tout ensemble reminded ihe Foiestand IStroam writer forcibly of the picture of a satyr but the kindly light of his blue eves', and certain little puckers of humor about the capacious mouth, proclaimed the hidden existence of a genial soul.

The blue dungaree pantaloons wore generally rolled part way up the cowhide lony boots. C'-ertain threadbare patches on the shoulders of the weather-beaten brownish-gray coat gave evidence of the chafing of gun and ax handle, and the darkish greasy stains on the wide gray felt hat Ehowed just where the big hand, thrust into the hat, ha^ i.,.t. f^pd th« hot frying pan or eolTee pot from oil the blazing camp-lire. 1 had been sleeping lnlo one September morning L: hit) sluiek. 1 was tired, for 1 hud been, tlf,' day before, elamb- ring about seme tough parts of the mountains, shooMrtg dusky grouse. 1 was still in bed, but awoke when be stumbled through the. half open door, capsizing the rvater paii and nearly killing the cat with one fell vwipo- of his well-grown feet. Snatching tho old mu/.y.lvloading musket from the corner, hr roared out ••Hear!" and vanished.

Hours passed arid the sim was low when Williams returned, tirod and hungry, and without bear meat. Ho had followed bruin, so he said from, thicket to thicket, and through swamps and over hills, sometimes catching •, glimpse of black fur. bmt never getting a show to shoot, till at last he lost him in a rocky gorge and was forced by the nuproaeh of night to give up and ret irn empty handed.

I sympathized feelingly as he sorrowfully atood the old gun in tho corner. Happening to pick it up I saw that the lock was missing. •'Why, how is this—you have no lock wo the gun'J" Glancing up at the «shelf 1 saw tho lock was there, wrap ped in an oiled rag, where William himself had placed it the night be-' fore alter cleaning the gun. "Hello: William, you forgot to put your lock on before starting." shouted. The blue eyes opened wide in ii perplexed stare and the under lip dropped a bit fii'Sher down. Then the littlo puckers deepened as tho eyes closed somewhat. "What the blank's tho odds?" he 'drawled, "tin? be^r dida't know that-"

NOW COMBS THE BUZZARD.

Ibmrr Down to Zero and a Sever* Mora Ragtag—Trains Delayed. Obda-r Rapid#,

Iowa,

Not.

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cold ware struok this place last night, and yesterday morning th® thermometer registered zero. The »iver is froaen over and it is growing colder.

Buai.iifOToS, Iowa, Nov. 24.—The mercury yesterday fell seven degrees above zero and the Mississippi is fall of floating ice. The cold weather leaves the farmers badly prepared for stock water. Many wells and stock ponds are dry and the late rains did very little good. Unless a warm spell comes, with considerable rain, a water famine may be looked for.

LaPobtk, Ind., Nov. 24.—Thesudden fall in temperature has been followed by a severe storm. Trains on all roads entering the city are reported from one to three hours late.

Topeka, Kan., Nov. 24.—For twentyfour hours a terrible blizzard has been raging in western Kansas, and reports received yesterday show great suffering among the people living on tho plains where crops failed this year. Hundreds of families are without food and coal. Appeals have been made to Gov. Lewelling for help, but he is powerless to act.

St. Paul, Minn-, Nov. 24.—Wintry weather prevails throughout the northwest, and colder temperature is predicted. The mercury was 8 degrees above zero here yesterday morning and kept close to that figure all day. The weather bureau reports above at St. Paul. 8 below at Moorliead and St. Vincent, Minn.. 12 below at Winnipeg, and other points reporting similar figures.

GUARDED BY HIS COMRADES.

Remains of Uen. ltuik i.lo Iu Stnte In tho Village Church. Viroqva, Wis., Nov. 24.—The remains of Gen. Rusk, guarded by a delegation of the men who kmpw him on the fields of the south during the troubled time of lfi61-'tto, rest in stato in the little Methodist church. Simple services, attended by the members of the family and the most intimate friends of the dead soldier-statesman, were conducted at the family residence and then the body was borne to the church, where the words for the dead will be said to-day.

The remains of Gen. Husk were placed in tho handsome stnte casket yesterday morning. The burial case isof red cedar, silver trimmed, and the name plate bears the utnial inscription, the name of the dead and the date of birth and death. A heavy burglarproof si-ol case will surround the casket.

The funeral services will take place in the Methodist church, within sound of whose bell Gen. Husk lived for forty years and within a stone's throw of the house in which he resided for almost a quarter of a century. Tho services will be conducted by llev. Mr. Nuzuiu. assisted by Hev. S. D. Butler of Madison.

Artificial Ice tirfar

«'S.

A successful system of producing artificial ice surfaces has been inaugurated in Paris, and available in large areas at all seasons of tho year. As explained, the machinery consists of two ammonia ico machines, driven by two fifty-horse power steam engines: this ice apparatus has pumps which lorco amoiouiacal gas into water-cooled condensers, liquefying tho gas, which passes into large reservoirs, where it expands with the production of cold, tho same gas being: pumped back and used coDt.inu»visly. In tho application of this sys-. tem for the formation of a skating surface, a rink har, been constructed 6ixty by 130 feet, having a floor of eork and coment, upon this being laid three miles of connected iron pipe through this pipo circulates a solution of chloride of calcium, an uncongealable liquid, which, by passage through spirals in tho refrigerating reservoirs, is cooled to some five to twenty degrees below zero. The water over tho pipe is thus, kept frozen, and daily sweeping aud floodmg insure smoothness.

ills lnherlt:in«o.

Fred—How do you come to have Buch red hair? Timagin—Inherited it from me faather. "Hut you bare brown whiskers. How's that?" "Oi dunno. Inhirlted from me niuther. Oi guess. "Where did you get your sense of humor?" "Inhirited from me stop-iuuther." —Truth.

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May—Don't you think that Mis8 Golightly is perfectly charming? Mamma—It struck me that she was a little hit giddy.

May—Why, mamma, «he moves in the be^t circles. Mamma That accounts for it Movintr in circles will make anyone giddy.

Tin* foiim of tl»«* tirnat* in an out of tho way nook in tho British museum the sightseer is eon fronted by a dust-oovered object which at first sight would be taken Jor a gigantic millstone. Hut it is not. It is one of the most sacred Oriental relics iu existence—the Womb of Alexander the Great.

That Wan IIIfTrrrtif.

Fond Husband—Three hundred dol lavs for a dress? It is preposterous! You can not afford to wear such clothes

Loying Wife--Why not. darling? Fond Husband--Hecause the prica is outrageous anil 1 cannot afford to pay it i.ovitig Wife—P that's all right, dearie: 1 thought at first, you baid I couldn't afford to w. ar it. K.\.

Willr l-iaoyc—S«y whe/e you go-' in if.Johnny Gunn—Shooting. Ain't no school -teacher's sick.

Willy Staome—Confound him! Why didn't he tell me he Vvas going to bo sick? and then I wouldn't have boen sick myself to-day.—fuck.

NEWS FROM ABROAD*.

REPUBLICANS CAIN IN PRBNQH ELECTIONS.

M. Floquet Ketnrned for a Paris Senatorial District—Italjr May Be VarctA to War with France—British Force la

Ureat Dancer.

Paeis, Jan. 8.—The first news from the senatorial elections held in France yesterday was that M. Floquet, expremier and ex-president of the chamber, had been chosen for a district of Paris. The voting was done at the Hotel de Ville. When tho annoucement of Floquet's election was made there was deafening shouts of "Long live Floquet," "Long live the republic," mingled with cries of "Down with tho Panama thieves," and "Down with the bribed politicians." The delegates from St. Denis shouted, "Long, live the Commune." The followers of Floquet replied: "Long live the republic."

The Soir newspaper says M. Floquet's triumph repairs if it doee not efface lsis defeat in the last general election of deputies. The defeat of tha

M. FLOQUET.

Cioblet candidate Longuet is regarded by the -Soir as a protest against tho conciliatory attitude of M. Goblet and his followers toward socialism.

The returns up to midnight showed the election of seventy-eight republicans, nine radicals, two "rallied" and five conservatives.

GKNEBAL KILLED BY A SENTRY.

Shot While Trying to Escape—Appeal to tho American Mtnlnter. Managua, Kicaragua, via Galveston, Texas, Jan. S.—Gen. Williams, who was taken prisoneHKvhen the town of Cholutea in Honduras was captured Jan. 3 by lionilla's troops, tried to escape anil was killed by a sentinel. Gen. Ortiz has sent a body of troops to capture Amapaia, a port of entry of Honduras on the Pacific coast. Foreign residents here have asked the United States minister that the war ship, now at Corinto, Nicargua. may go to Amapaia at once to protect their interests.

ltusslar l.uubost Found tiunea worthy. St. I'i.ri r.-iH Ro, .Ian. .8.—Since tke loss of the Uussian man-of-war lioosalka the naval authorities have subjected the old warships in the service to seven? tests. As a. result the gunioat Gornostal has been removed frora the navy list as unseaworthy, and it is expected several others will be condemned shortly. -i

Ituly Wants War with France.

Pamk, .Ian. 8.—A veteran diplomat here declares that the relations be— tween France and Italy are much too strained to endure. Unless Kngland can restrain Germany, he says, the present Italian regime, as a last de»perate resource, must imitate NapoleOit 111. and embark upon war.

Nurrowly Kgcnped Disaster. Capetown. Jan S.—A court of iuquiry has been held in Uuluwayo to ascertain the reason for the failure of Maj. Forbes and his column to capture King Lobcugula. The evidence showetf Vhe whole column escaped disaster only by the merest chance.

U!nliter 1'ott.^r Given to Koine's Poor. Ro&u:. Jan. 8.--William l'otter, the retiring United States minister*, haa given i.000 lire to the poor of Home.

Novices Attempt to Rob a Train. Nkw Oki.kank, La., Jan. i.—The Mississippi Valley passenger train that arrived here at S:0.'i yesterday morning' was held up at the crossing of the Vicksburg it Meridian railroad, jnst south of Vicksburg, art 1:0.') a. m. The train was stopping at the railroad crossing waiting for the Vicksburg So Meridian train to pass, when it was boarded by two masked men. A third man was standing guard at the tracks. A show ol' resistance was made and the robbe»\s. who were evidently novices, were frightened away.

Kill# H«t Daughter Lover. San Fuancisco, Cal.. Jan.. s.—Mrs.

Jane Shattuclc. while apparently half crazed over the threatened departure of her daughter, Kstrulia, for the east with the Siuhad Theatrical company, shot dead the daughter's lover, Henry G. 1'oole. because he refused to marry the girl and thus keep her here.

Mtinler,'il by "U'hitecup*." IIAKiionsuruii. Ky.. Jan. 8.—About fifty "Whitecaps" went last night to the home of "Jnsli" Mitchell at Heesburg. six miles from here, and dragged him from his house. Mitchell broke away and started for the house, but bis body was filled with buckshot, aud lie fell dead on the door sill.

D*»th In Fall ot Coal In lown. Ci:.NTi:itvn u:. Iowa, Jan. s.—A fall of coal in a mine near here crushed to death John l'"oster.:i miner, and fatally injured Harlan Richards the owner of the mine and a prominent politician, ...who vvas inspecting the mint at tho •time.

I'rii-ht UlmrKod Willi .llnrilnr. I'AKis, Jan. ».—A sensation has been cai'sed by the arrest of Abbe Hruneau on the charge of murdering Abbe Fricot, Abbe Hurneau is also

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sus-

pected of having caused two fires the presbytery of Astille,

was assistant priest

where iue