Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 October 1894 — Page 6

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As luck would have it, Armitage was with Chester at the office when the letter was handed in. He opened it, gave a whistlo of surprise and simply held it forth to the temporary commander. "Read that," he said.

Chester frowned, bnt took the note and looked it curiously over. "Ihavo no patience with the man notov' he said. "Of course, after what I saw last night, I begin to understand the nature of his defense, but we don't want any such man in the regiment after this. What's the use of taking him with us?'' "That isn't the point," said Armitage. "Now or never, possibly, is the time to clear up this mystery. Of course Maynard will bo up to join us by the first train, and what won't it be worth to him to have positive proof that all his fears were unfounded?" "Even if it wasn't Jerrold, there is still tho fact that I saw a man clambering out of her window. How is that to be cleared up?'' said Chester gloomily. "That may come later and won't be such a bugbear as you think. If you are not worried into a morbid condition over all this trouble, you would not look so seriously upon a thing which I regard as a piece of mere night prowling, with a possible spice of romance.'' "What romance, I'd like to know?" "Never mind that now. I'm playing detectivo for the time being. Let mo Bee

Jerrold for you and find out what he has to offer. Then you can decide. Are you willing? All right I But remember this while I think of it. You admit that the light you saw on the wall Sunday night was exactly like that which you saw the night of your adventure, and that the shadows were thrown in the same way. You thought that night that the light was turned up and afterward turned out in her room, and that it was her figure you saw at the window. Didn't you?" "Yes. What then?" "Well, I believe her statement that she saw and heard nothing until reveille. I believe it was Mrs. Maynard who did the whole thing without Miss Renwick's knowing anything about it." "Why?" "Because I accomplished the feat with the aid of the little night lamp that I found beside the colonel's bedside. It is my theory that Mrs. Maynard was restless after the colonel finally fell asleep that she heard your tumble and took her little lamp, crossed over into Miss Renwick's room, opened the door without creaking, as I can do to your satisfaction, found her sleeping quietly, but the room a trifle close and warm, set her night lamp down on the table, as I did, threw her shadow on the wall, as I did, and opened the shade, as you thought her daughter did. Then she withdrew and left those doors open— both hers and her daughter's—and the light, instead of being turned down, as you thought, was simply carried back into her own room." "That is all possible. But how about the man in her room? Nothing was 6tolen, though money and jewelry were lying around loose. If theft was not the object, what was?" "Theft certainly was not, and I'm not prepared to say what was, but I have reason to believe it wasn't Miss Renwick." "Anything to prove it?" "Yes, and, though time is precious and I cannot show you, you may take my word for it We must be off at noon, and both of us have muoh to do, but there may be no other chance to talk, and before you leave this post I want you to realize her utter innocence.'' 'I want to, Armitage.'' "I know you do, so look here. We assume that the same man paid the night visit both here and at Sablon, and that he wanted to see the same person— if he did not come to steal do we not?" "Yes." "Wo know that at Sablon it was Mrs. Maynard he sought and called. The colonel says so." "Yes." "Presumably, then, it was she—not her daughter—ho had some reasons for wanting to see here at Sibley. What is more, if he wanted to see Miss Renwick, there was nothing to prevent his going right into her window?" "Nothing." "Well, I believe I can prove he didn't. On the contrary, that he went around by the roof of tho porch to the colonol's room and tried there, but found it risky on account of the blinds, and that Snallj'ho entered the hall window—what might bo called neutral ground. The painters had been at work there, as you said, two days before, arid the paint on the slats was not quite dry. The blinds and sills wero the only things they had touched up on that front, it seems, and nothing on the sides. Now, on the fresh paint of the colonel's slats are the new imprints of masculine thumb and fingers, and on the sill of the hall window is afootprint that I know to be other than Jerrold's." "Why?" "Because he doesn't own such a thing as this track was made with, and I don't know a man in this command who does. It was the handiwork of the Tonto Apaches and came from the other side of the continent." "You mean it was" "Exactly. An Indian moccasin."

Meantime Mr. Jerrold had been making hurried preparations, as he had fully detei-mined that at any cost he would go with the regiment. He had "been burning a number of letters when Captain Armitage knocked and hurriedly entered. Jerrold Dushed forward a chair and plunged at once into the matter at issue: "There is no time to waahq, jfflpMa,

1 have sent to you tb ask'what I caif do to be released from arrest and permitted to go with tho command." 'Answer the questions I put to you tho other night and certify to your an-

"What can I do to be released from arrest?" swers, and of course you'll have to apologize to Captain Chester for your last night's language.'' "That, of course, though you will admit it looked like spying. Now let me ask you, Did he tell you who the lady was?" "No I told him." "How did you know?" "By intuition and my knowledge of previous circumstances.'' "We have no time to discuss it. I make no attempt to conceal it now, but I ask that, on your honor, neither you nor ho reveal it.'' "And continue to let the garrison believe that you wero in Miss Renwick's room that ghastly night?'' asked Armitage dryly.

Jerrold flushed: "I have denied that, and I would have proved my alibi could I have done so without betraying a woman's secret. Must I tell?" "So far as lam concerned, Mr. Jerrold, said Armitage, with cold and relentless meaning, "you not only must tell—you must prove—both that night's doings and Saturday night's, both that and how you obtained that photograph. "My God! In one case it is woman's name. In the other I have promised on honor not to reveal it." "That ends it then. You remain here in close arrest, and the oharges against you will be pushed to the bitter end. I will write them this very hour."

v: CHAPTER XVI At 10 o'clock that morning, shortly after a smiling interview with the ladies of Fort Sibley, in which, with infinite spirit and the most perfect self oontrol, Miss Beaubien hfid informed them that she had promised to lead with Mr. Jerrold, and since he was in duress she would lead with no one, and sent them off wondering and greatly excited, there came running up to the carriage a telegraph messenger boy, who handed her a dispatch. "I was going up to the avenue, mum," ho explained, "but I seen you hero."

Nina's face paled as she tore it open and read the curt lines: "Come to me hero. Your help needed instantly.''

She sprang from the carriage. 'Tell mother I have gone over to see some fort friends—not to wait, sho called to the coachman, well knowing he would understand that she meant the ladies with whom she had been so recently talking. Like a frightened deer she sped around the corner, hailed the driver of a cab, lounging with his fellows along the walk, ordered him to drive with all speed to Summit avenue, and with beating heart decided on her plan. Her glorious eyes were flashing the native courage and fierce determination of her raoe were working in her woman's heart. She well know that imminent danger threatened him. She had dared everything for love of his mere presence, his sweet caress. What would she not dare to save him if save she could? He had not been true to her. She knew, and knew well, that, whether sought or not, Alioe Renwick had been winning him from her, that he was wavering, that he had been cold and negligent, but with all her soul and strength she loved him and believed him grand and brave and fine as he was beautiful. Now—now was her opportunity. He needed her. His commission, his honor, depended on her. He had intimated as muoh the night before—had told her of tho accusations and suspicions that attached to him—but made no mention of tho photograph.

He had said that, though nothing could drag from him a word that would oompromise her, she might be called upon to stand 'twixt him and ruin, and now perhaps the hour had coma She could free, exonerate, glorify him, and in doing BO claim him for her own. Who, after this, could stand 'twixt her and him? He loved her, though he had been oold, and she? Had he bidden her bow her dusky head to earth and kiss the print of his heel she would have obeyed could she but feel sure that her reward would be a simple touoh of his hand, an assurance that no other woman could find a moment's place in his love. Verily, he had been doing desperate wooing in the long winter, for the very depths of her nature were all athrob with love for him. And now he could no longer plead that povorty withheld his offer of his hand. She would soon be mistress of her own little fortune, and at her mother's death of an independence. Go to him she would, and on wings of the wind, and go she did. Tho cab released her at the gate to her home and went back with a double fare that set the driver to thinking. Sho sped through the house and out the rear doors, much to the amaze of cook and others who were in consultation in the kitchen. She flew down a winding flight of stairs to the level below, and her fairy feet went tripping over the pavement of a plebeian street.

A quick turn, and she was at a little second rate stable, whose proprietor knew her and started from his chair. "•What's wrong today, Miss Nina?" 'I want the roan mare and light buggy again—.auick as you can. Your own

prico at the old terms, Mr. Graves—silence. Ho nodded, called to a subordinate and in five minutes handed her into tho frail vehicle. An impatient chin-up and flap of the reins, and the roan shot forth into the dusty road, leaving old Graves shaking his head at the door. "I've known her ever since Bhe was weaned," ho muttered, "and she's a wild bird, if ever there was one, but sho's never been tho like o' this till last month.''

And the roan mare was coyered with foam and sweat when Nina Beaubien drove into the bustling fort, barely an hour after her receipt of Jerrold's telegram. A few officers were gathered in front of her.dquarters, and there were curious looks from face to face as she .was recognized. Mr. Rollins was on the walk, giving some instructions to a sergeant of his company, and never saw her until the buggy reined up close bohind him, and turning suddenly he met her face to face as she sprang lightly to the ground. The young fellow reddened to his eyes and would have recoiled, but she was mistress of the situation. She well knew sho had. but to command, and he would obey, or, at tho most, if she could no longer command sho had only to implore, and he would be powerless to withstand her entreaty. "I am glad you are here, Mr. Rollins. You can help me—sergeant, will you kindly hitch my horse at that post? —now,'' she added in low, hurried tone, "come with me to Mr. Jerrold's."

Rollins was too stupefied to answer. Silently he placed himself by her side, and together they passed the group at tho office. Miss Beaubien nodded with something of her old archness and coquetry to the cap raising party, but never hesitated. Together they passed along the narrow board walk, followed by curious eyes, and as they reached the angle and stepped beneath the shelter of the piazza in front of the long, low, green blinded bachelors' row there was sudden sensation in the group. Mr. Jerrold appeared at the door of his quar ters Rollins halted some 50 feet away, raised his cap and left her, and all alone, with the eyes of Fort Sibley upon her, Nina Beaubien stepped bravely forward to meet her lover.

They saw him greet her at the door. Some of them turned away, unwilling to look and yet unwilling to go and not understand this new phase of the mystery. Rollins, looking neither to right nor left, repassed them and walked off with a set, savage look on his young face, and then, as one or two still gazed, fascinated by this strange and daring proceeding, others, too, turned back and, half ashamed of themselves for suoh a yielding to curiosity, glanced furtively over at Jerrold's door.

There they s'too'd—be restrained by his arrest, unable to come forth she, restrained more by his barring form than by any consideration of maidenly reserve, for, had he bidden, she would have gone within. She had fully made up her mind that wherever he was, even were it behind the sentinels and bars of the guardhouse, she would demand that she be taken to his side. He had handed out a chair, but she would not sit. They saw her looking up into his face as he talked and noted the eager gesticulation, BO characteristic of his creole blood, that seemed to accompany his rapid words. They saw her bending toward him, looking eagerly up in his eyes and occasionally oasting indignant glances over toward the group at the office, as though she would annihilate with her wrath the persecutors of her hero. Then they saw her stretch forth both her hands, with a quick impulsive movement, and grasp his one instant, looking so faithfully, steadfastly, loyally, into his clouded and anxious face. Then she turned, and with quick, eager steps came tripping toward them. They stood irresolute. Every man felt that it was somebody's duty to step forward, meet her and be her escort through the party, but no one advanced. There was, if anything, a tendency to sidle toward the office door, as though to leave the sidewalk unimpeded. But she never sought to pass them by. With flashing eyes and crimson cheeks, she bore straight upon them, and with indignant emphasis upon every word accosted them: "Captain Wilton, Major Sloat, I wish to see Captain Chester at once. Is he in the office?" "Certainly, Miss Beaubien. Shall I call him, or will you walk in?" And both men were at her side in a moment. "Thanks. I will go right in—if you will kindly show m» to him.''

Another moment, and Armitag?. and Chester, deep in the midst of their duties and surrounded by clerks and orderlies and assailed by half a dozen questions in one and the same instant, looked up astonished as Wilton stepped in and announced Miss Beaubien, desiring to see Captain Chester on immediate business. There was no time for conference. There she stood in tho doorway, and all tongues were hushed on the instant. Chester rose and stepped forward, with anxious courtesy. She did not choose to see the extendc hand. "It is you. alone, I wish to see, captain. Is it impossible here?'' "I fear it is, Miss Beaubien, but we can walk out in the open air. I feel that I know what it is you wish to aay

to me," he added in a low tone, took his cap from the peg on whioh it hung and led the way. Again Bhe passed through the curious but respeotful group, and Jerrold, watching furtively from his window, saw them come forth.

The captain turned to her aB soon as they were out of earshot: "I have no daughter of my own, my dear young lady, but if I had I could not more thoroughly feel for you than do. How can I help you?''

The reply was unexpectedly spirited. He had thought to encourage and sustain her, be sympathetic and paternal but, as he afterward ruefully admitted, he 'never did seem to get the hang of a woman's temperament." Apparently sympathy was not the thing she needed. "It is late in the day to ask suoh a question, Captain Chester. You have

done great wrong ana injustice. The question is now, Will you undo it?" He was too surprised to speak for a moment. When his tongrne was unloosed, he said: "I shall be glad to be convinced I was wrong." "I know little of army justice or army laws, Captain Chester, but when a girl is compelled to take this step to rescue a friend there is something brutal about them, or the men who enforce them. Mr. Jerrold tolls me that ho is arrested. I knew that last night, but not until this morning did ho consent to let me know that he would be court martialed unless he could prove where he was the night you were officer of the day two weeks ago and last Saturday night. He is too noble and good to defend himself when by doing so he might harm me. But I am here to free him from the cruel suspicion you have formed. Sho had quickened her step, and in her impulsiveness and agitation they were almost at the end of the walk. He hesitated, as though reluctant to go along under tho piazza, but she was imperious, and he yielded. "No, come!" she said. "I mean that you shall hear tho whole truth, and that at once. I do not expect you to understand or condone my conduct, but you must acquit him. Wo are engaged, and—I love him. He has enemies here, as I see all too plainly, and they have prejudiced mother against him, and she has forbidden my seeing him. I came out to the fort without her knowledge ono day, and it angered her. From that time she would not let mo see him alone. Sho watched every movement and dame with me wherever 1 drove. She gave orders that I should never have any o|'Vur horses to drive or ride alone—I, whom father had indulged to the utmost and who had ridden and driven at will from my babyhood. Sho came out to the fort with me that evening for parade and never even agreed to let me go out to see some neighbors until sho learned he was to escort Miss Renwiok. Sho had ordered me to bo ready to go with her to Chequamagon the next day, and I would not go until I had seen him. There had been a misunderstanding. I. got the Suttons to drive me out while mother supposed moat the Laurents', and Mr. Jerrold promised to meet me east of the bridge and drive in town with us, and I was to send him back in Graves' buggy. "He had been refused permission to leave the post, he said, and could not cross the bridge, where the sentries would be suro to recognize him, but as it was our last chance of meeting he risked tho discovery of his absence, never dreaming of such a thing as his private rooms being inspected. Ho had a little skiff down in the willows that he had used before, and by leaving the party at midnight he could get home, ohange his dress, run down the bank and row down stream to the point, there leave his skiif and climb up to the road. He met us there at 1 o'clock, and the Suttons would never betray either of us, though (hey did not know we were engaged. We sat in their parlor a quarter of an hour after we got to town, and then 'twas time to go, and there was only a little 10 minutes' walk down to the stabla I had seen him such a very short time, and I had so much to tell him.'' Chester could have burst into rapturous applause had she been an aotress. Her cheeks were aflame, her eyes full of fire and spirit, her bosom heaving, her little foot tapping the ground, as she stood there leaning on the colonel's fence and looking straight up in the perturbed veteran's face. She was magnificent, he

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to himself,

and in her bravery, self sacrifice and indignation she was. "It was then after 2, and I could just as well go with him —somebody had to bring the buggy back —and Graves himself hitched in his roan mare for me, and I drove out, picked up Mr. Jerrold at the corner, and we came out here again through the darkness together. Even when we got to the point I did not let him go at once. It was over an hour's drive. It was fully half past 3 before we parted. He sprang down the path to reach the riverside, and before he was fairly in his boat and pulling up against the stream I heard, far over here somewhere, those two faint shots. That was tho shooting he spoke of in his letter to me, not to her, and what business Colonel Maynard had to read and exhibit to his officers a letter never intended for him I cannot understand. Mr. Jerrold says it was not what he wanted it to be at all, as he wrote hastily, so he wrote another and sent that to mo by Merrick that morning after his absence was discovered. It probably blew out of the window, as theso other things did this morning. See for yourself, captain." And she pointed to the two or three bills and scraps that had evidently only recently fluttered in among the now neglected rcses. "Then when he was aroused at reveille and you threatened him with punishment and held over his head the startling accusation that you knew of our meeting and our secret he was naturally infinitely distressed and could only write to warn me, and he managed to get in and say goodby to me at the station. As for me, I was back home by 5 o'clock, let myself noiselessly up to my room, and no one knew it but the Suttons and old Graves, neither of whom would betray me. I had no fear of the long dark road. I had ridden and driven as a child all over these bluffs and prairies before there was any town worth mentioning and in days when my father and I found only friends—not enemies—hero at Siblev.".

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HAVOC DOWN SOUTH.

A Cyolone Rages in the Capital of Arkansas.

MICH DESTRUCTION IN UTILE ROCK.

The Insane Asylum and the Penitentiary Suffer Greatly-Buildings In the Center of the City Demolished—

Mine Iilves Lost.

BUIN IN LITTLE BOOK.

LITTLE Rook, Ark., Oot 8.—A terrible cyclone swept over the business portion of this city at 7:40 Tuesday night, carrying death and destruction in its path. Shortly after dark a heavy storm came from the west, accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder. The skies suddenly cleared away and the storm was thought to be over, when suddenly a heavy gale from the southwest appeared, and for three minutes the city was in the throes of death and destruction. So far as can be learned nine persons have been killed. A number are reported injured. ,y.

Insane Patients Hurt.

At 11 o'clock p. m. a message was received from the insane asylum, 2 miles from the city, and the state penitentiary calling for a corps of physioians and other assistance. It is reliably said a number of patients at the asylum are fatally injured and great damage was done to the buildings. Reports from the penitentiary say six convicts were badly injured by falling timbers, two of whom will die.

Mayor Hall, as soon as possible, called out the entire fire and police departments and sent ten liackloads of physicians and citizens to the insane asylum and penitentiary. Intense excitement prevails and it is utterly impossible to learn the names of the killed and injured. All kinds of exaggerated reports are in circulation. Through the heroic services of Mayor Hall and the chief of police, Frank McMahon, the injured and helpless are receiving the best of attention.

Path of tlie Storm.

The wind was terrific in the extreme. Trees, telegraph, telephone and electric light poles were uprooted and carried a distance of 200 yards. The roofs of thirty of the largest buildings in the city were torn off and hurled against buildings on the opposite side of the street, leaving the occupants within to the mercy of the drenching rain, which began to fall in torrents shortly afterwards.

When the cyclone had ceased it was discovered the resident portion of the city had entirely escaped, but Main street to Third, Markham from Center to Cumberland, and Second from Center to Cumberland were almost total wrecks. The territory covers the principal business portron of the town.

The Western Union telegraph office is located in the center of this district. This building was wrecked beyond recognition, the operators who wero at work having narrow escapes. Operator Culbert, who was at work only 12 feet from tho large two-story brick buildiug recently vacated by the T. H. Jones company, had an escape from instant death that was miraculous. When tho cyclone struck that building it blew it over on the Western Union building, the bricks and timbers came crashing through, one of the brinks striking him on the hip, inflicting a serious wound. One of the other operators was injured.

Loss Will Be Heavy.

The loss to property alone will amount to at least 81,000,000. Almost every building situated in the district was more or less damaged by wind and water. The damage to the asylum will reach 8100,000 that at the penitentiary 800,000, and the Capitol and Richelieu hotels were badly damaged. Every window in both buildings was either broken to pieces or cracked. The business houses on East Markham and Main from Markham to Third are damaged to great extent The roofs of a majority of these buildings were torn away and stocks of goods entirely ruined.

The Known Victims.

Dr. Jacob T. Innate, who came*here several months ago from Mobile, Ala., to accept a position in the insane asylum, was killed. He is buried beneath the ruins of one of the buildings. John Edwards, with his infant iu his arms, was found dead on Second and Hock streets by the police. An aged negro couple was found dead in a room of a roofless cabin in the same locality. Convict Griffin was killed at the penitentiary Jack Boyd and his child (colored) lost their lives in the Wehrefritz building, and Joseph Holloway perished in the ruins of a bakery. llepresentative-elect C. T. Monroe was badly cut on the head and body by falling timbers. Physicians say he will probably die. John Eaton, an employe at the Martin block, the home of Gov. Fishback, received internal injuries, from which effects he will die. Capt Sam O. Smith, a prominent citizen and resident agent of the firm of E. Allgeyer & Co., cotton factory, was in his office writing a letter when, he heard the noise on the outside. Just as he reaohed the sidewalk a portion of a brick wall from a falling building on the opposite side of the street struck him on the head and back. Four fingers on his right hand were broken. He will recover, though terribly cut and bruised.

At the Penitentiary.

A visit was made to the penitentiary at midnight. The office of the main buildings was torn away and lodged on several frame cottages in the neighborhood, completely demolishing several. A stampede took place among the convictB, but Superintendent McConnell and his assistants soon succeeded in quieting them down. Fortunately only 125 convicts are inside the walls. The other 450 were taken to Sunnyside plantation some days ago.

At the insane asylum was found the

greatest wreck. The roofs of the main buildings were completely demolished and several wards caved in, completely destroying everything in sight. The male ward is a total wreck. Several insane patients made their escape, but were recaptured. Two men, violently insane, were captured near the Union depot shortly after midnight. It ia not known how many inmates are killed or injured, as many are supposed to be buried in the ruins. The loss to the buildings and contents at' the asylum will reach 8125,000. This is considered a conservative estimate,

Little Damaffo Done at Wlohlta. WITCHITA, Kan., Oct. 8.—The tornado

whioh played leap-frog through the northern part of the oity Monday night fortunately confined itself to damaging property and left humanity alone. Buildings of all kinds were demolished, twisted out of shape and removed from their foundations, yet their occupants suffered no harm oufrside of bruises and soratohes and not a single fatality acoompanied the de struction of property.

Cyclone Near Pawnee, Xob. PAWNEE, Neb., Oot 8.—A cyclone

struck this locality Monday night. It first touched the farm of John Hchuss, near the Kansas line, and unroofed a barn. Then the storm jumped a mile and struck the farmhouse of John Nelson. The Nelson family had gone to bed, and without warning the house was picked up and torn to splinters, Nelson, his wife and five young children being carried 100 yards and dropped in a cornfield. All were hurt, but Nelson managed to gather them together in the darkness and went after help, having to go a mile to the nearest house. One 9-year-old girl had her head crushed by a flying splinter and will die. The others of the family are not fatally hurt, although Mrs. Nelson is terribly wounded about the head and baok, and the others are badly bruised. The house was destroyed, the timbers being scattered across the fields for a mile.

NO ONT BARRED.

James J. Oorbetfs Sensational Offer to Fight All Comers. BOSTON, Oot. 8.—Through his man

ager, William A. Brady, Pugilist Corbett has issued a rather remarkable communication. He calls it his "ultimatum" in the Fitzsimmons controversy, and in it he makes an offer considerably broader in its scope than has ever before been made by a pugilist He says that after July 1 next he will devote one week to all pugilistio aspirants, regardless of weight or 5 eolor, who may want to dispute the championship with him. He will, he says, take them ono at time each night during the week, Fitzsimmons having the call for the first night, and the others to be accepted in the order in which they challenge and deposit their money. All that he requires is a side bet of 810,000 in each instance. Corbett offers to deposit 810,000 as a guaranty of good faith.

STEPHENSON HONORED.

Monument to th« Founder of the Grand Army of the Republic Dedicated. PETERSBURG, 111., Oct. 3.—The monu

ment to Maj. B. F. Stephenson,founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, was dedicated here Tuesday. The parade to the monument grounds took place at 11 a. m, Sons of Veterans, G. A. R. posts and civic societies taking part.

The exercises at the monument were of an interesting nature. Many prominent Grand Army of the Republic men were present, among whom were exGov. Oglesby, Maj. James A. Connolly, National Commander of tho Grand Army of the Republio Lawlerand Maj. McClelland. Addresses were made by McClelland and others. A picnic dinner was held ®n the grove adjjining tho cemetery.

Farmers Swindled.

HOLLAND, Mich., Oct. 8.—Several well-to-do farmers from surrounding townships have been in tho city seeking legal advice to escape payment of notes given to "fake" doctors. Several weeks ago men claiming to be doctors from the Indianapolis medical and surgical institute went through there guaranteeing to euro diseases for sums ranging from 850 to 8150. A score or more signed notes, which turned up in the banks, but the doer tors have disappeared. The strangers must have raised 82,000 or more in about a week.

A Child Suffocated.

NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Fire started in the five-story building, No. 215 Madison street, occupied by twenty-four families, about 11 a. m. Tuesday, and mauy of the tenants had narrow escapes. In the confusion and excitement attending the fire, a 2-year-old child, Ida Krueger, was forgotten by her parents, and when the flames were extinguished the child was found suffocated by smoke. The pecuniary loss is small.

Work on the Canal Resumed. COLON, Colombia, Oot. 8.—Work on

the canal was resumed Monday with picks and spades atCulebra hill, which is 11 miles from the Paciiio ocean and 86 from the Atlantio. Twelve hundred men are required and their wages will be from one to two dollars a day. Bei sumption of work on the canal has caused a great commotion everywhere in this region.

Commits Salcide Because 111. ST. Louis, Oct. 8.—Tuesday the

body of William Bain, superintendent of Miller's elevator, was found in an office of the building with a bullet hole in the left) breast He undoubtedly committed suicide. He has been ill for some time. He was 58 years of age and leaves a widow and two children.

May Be Dethroned.

SHANGHAI, Oct 8.—The emperor of China will very likely be dethroned In favor of Prince Kung'B son, who will treat with the Japanese. Li Hung Chang has been superseded in the supreme command by Gen. Sang Ising, of the province oi Hunan, who has re*" peived full powers,