Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Page 3

UNITED AT LAST

CHAPTER XlX—Continued. Unfashionable as was the season, Mrs. Walsingham was still in town. She had no rustic retreat of her own, and she was not in that charmed circle, patrician or millionaire, which rejoices in country houses. Furthermore, she abhorred the beauties of Nature, and regarded winter residence in the country as an exile bleaker than Ovid’s banishment to oh ill and savage Tomis. If she had been rich enough to have indulged her caprioes, sue would have gene ally begun the year in Faria, but she had an income which just enabled her to live Elegantly without any indulgence of caprices. This winter,! too, she had peculiar reasons for staying in town, over and above all other motives. She stayed in the snug little house in Half-Moon street, therefore, and was “at home” on Saturday evenings just as if the season had been at its flood. The society with which she filled her miniature drawing-room was literary, musical, artistic, dramatic—just the most delightful society imaginable, with the faintest soupcon of Bohemianism. She had chosen Saturday evening because journalists who were free on ro other night could drop in, and Mrs. Walsingham adored journalists. On this particular Saturday, three days after the scene in the summerhouse, James Wyatt had made his appearance in the Haif-Moon street draw-liu-room just when most people were going away. He contrived to outstay them all, though Mrs. Walsingham s manner was not so cordial as to invite him to linger. She yawned audibly behind the edge of her larie black fan when Mr. Wyatt took up his stand in of the chimney-piece with the air of a man who is going to be a fixture for the next hour. “Have you heard the news?” ho asked, after a brief silence. “From Davenant? Yes, I am kept pretty well au courant. ’’ “A sharp little thing, that Duport.” “Very." Silence again, during which Mrs. Walsingham surveys her violet velvet gown and admires the Venice point uounce which relieves its somber hue •Clara,” said James Wyatt, with a suddenness that startled the lady into looking up at him, “I think I have performed my part of the bargain. When are you going to perform yours?” “I don't quite under.tand you.” “Oh, yes, you do. Mrs . Walsingham. There are some things that will hardly bear to be discussed, even between conspirators. lam not going to enter into details. When 1 found you in this room three years ago on Gilbert Sinclair’s wedding-day, you had but one thought, one desire —your whole being was athirst for revenge. You are revenged, and I have b jen the chief instrument in the realization of your wish. A wicked wish on your part; doubly wicked on mine, with less passion and weaker hatred, to be your aider and abettor. Soit. lam content to bear the burden of my guilt, but not to be cheated of my reward. What I have done I have done for your Sake —to win your love. ” “To buy me,” she said, “as slaves are bought, with a price. Thats what you mean. You don t suppose I shall love you for working Gilbert Sinclair s ruin?”

“You wanted to see him ruined.” “Yes, when I was mad with rage and grief Did you think you were talking to a sane woman that evening after , Gilbert’s marriage? You were talking to a woman whose brain had been on lire with despair and jealcu-y through the long hours of that agonizing day. What should I loug for but revenge then?” “Well, you have had your heart's desire, and it seems to me that your conduct since that day has been pretty consistent with the sentiments you gave expression to then. Do you mean to tell me that you are going to throw mo over now—that you are going to repudiate the promise you made me—a promise on wnich I have counted with unflinching faith in your honor?” “In my honor!” cried Mrs. Walsingham, with a bitter sneer, all the more bitter because it was pointed against herself. “In the honor of a woman who could act as I have acted!" “I forgive anything to passion: but to betray me would be deliberate cruelty.” “Would it?” she added, smiling at him. “I think it would b 3 more cruel to keep my word, and make your life miserable.” “You shall make me as miserable as you please, if you will only have me,” urged Wyatt. “Come, Clara, I have been your slave for the last three years. I have sacrificed interests which most men hold sacred to serve or to please yo i. It would he unparalleled baseness to break your promise.” “My promise was wruDg from me in a moment of blind passion, ” cried Mrs. Walsingham. “If the Prince of Darkness had asked me to seal a covenent with him that day, I should have consented as freely as I consented to your bargain.” “The comparison is flattering to me,” replied Mr. Wyatt, looking at her darkly from under beat brows. There is a stage at which outraged love turns to keenest ha'.e, and James Wyatt's feelings are fast approaching that stage. “In one word, do you mean to keep fai,th with me? Yes, or no?” “No,” answered Mrs. Walsingham, with a steady look that meant defiance. “No, and ag o'", no. Tell the world what you have d me, and how I have cheated you. Publish your wrongs if ycu dare. I have never loved but one man in my life, anl his lame is Gilbert Sinclair. And now go d-night, Mr. Wyatt, or, rather, gcod-morning, for it is Sunday, and I don t want to be late for church.” Chapter xx. DR. HOULENDORr The new year began with the ringing of parish bells, some genuine joviality in cottages and servants’ halls, and various conventional rejoicings in polite society,, but silence and solitude still reigned at Davenant. The chief rooms—saloon and dining-room, library and music-room—were abandoned alto-

BY MISS M E BRADDON

gether by the gloomy master of the house. They might as well have put on their Holland pinafores and shut their shutters, as in the absence of the family, for nobody used them. Gilbert Sinclair lived in his snuggery at the end of the long gallery, ate and drank there, read his newspapers and wrote his letters, sm: ked and dozed in the dull winter evenings. He rode a good deal in all kinds of weather, going far afie'd, no one knew where, and coming home at dusk, splashed to the neck, and with his horse in a condition peculiarly aggravating to grooms and stable-b ys. “Them there 'esses will 'ave mud fever before long,” said the hirelings, dejectedly. “There’s that blessed chestnut he set such store by a month ago with ’ardly a leg to stand on for windgalls, and the roan filly's over at knees a’ready. ” “He * meant Mr. Sinclair, who was riding his finest horses with a prodigal recklessness. Constance Sinclair lived to see the new year, though she did not know why the church bells rang out on the quiet midnight. She started up from her pillow with a frightened look when she heard that joy peal, crying that those were her wedding Dells; and that she must get ready for chiircb. “To please you, papa, ” she said. “For your sake, papa. Pity my broken heart ” There had been days and nights -at the end of the old year, when Dr. Webb had trembled for the sweet young life which he had watched almost from its beginning. A grett physician had come down from London every day, and had gone away with a fee proportionate to his reputation, after diagnosing the disease in a most wonderful manner: but it was the little country apothecary who saved Constance Sinclairs life. His watchfulness, his devotion, had kept the common enemy at bay. The life-current, which had ebbed very lew, flowed gradually back, and after lying for ten days in an utterly prostrate and apathetic atate. the patient was now strong enough to rise and be dressed, and lie on the sofa in her pretty morn-ing-room. whilo Meianie, or "honest Martha Briggs, who had come back to nurse her old mistress, i ead to her, to divert her mind, the doctor said; but, alas! as y.et the mind seemed incapable of being awakened to interest in' the things of this mortal life. When Constance spoke it was of the past—of her childhood or girlnood, of people and scene i familiar to her in that happy time. Of her husband she never spoke, and his rar j visits to her room had a disturbing influence. So much so that Dr. Webb suggested that for tbe present Mr. Sinclair should refrain from seeing his wife. “I can feel for you, my dear sir, ” he said, sympathetically. “I quite understand your anxiety, but you may trust me and the nurses. You will have all intelligence of progress. The mind at present is somewhat astray.” “Do you think it will always be so?” asked Sinclair. “Will she never recover her senses?”

“My dear 6ir, there is everything to hope. She is so young, and the disease is altogether so mysterious, whether the effect of the blow—that unlucky fall —or whether simply a development of the brooding melancholy which we had to fight against before the accident, it is impossible to say. We are quite in the dark. Perfect secludon and tranquillity may do much.” Lord Clanyarde came to see his daughter nearly every day. He had come back to Marchbrook from far more agreeable scene * on purpose to be near her. But his presence seemed to give Constance no pleasure. There were days on which she looked at him with a wandering gaze that went to his heart, or a blank and stony look that appalled him by its awful likeness to death. There were other days when she knew him. On these days her talk was all of the past, and it was clear that memory had taken the place of intelligence. Lord Clanyarde felt all the pangs of remorse as he contemplated this spectacle of a broken heart, a mind wrecked by sorrow. “Yet I can hardly blame myself for her sad fate, poor child, ” he argued. “She was nappy enough, bright enough, before she lost her baby.” The new year was a week old, and since the first rally there had been no change for the better in Constance Sinclair's condition; and now there came a decided change for the worse. Strength dwindled, a dull apathy took possession of the patient, and even memory seemed a blank. Dr. Webb was in despair, and fairly owned his helple.-sness. The London physician came and went, and took his iee, and went on diagnosing with profoundest science, and tried the last resources of the pharmacopoeia, with an evident conviction that he could minister to a mind, diseased; but nothing came of his science, save that the patient grew daily weaker, as if fate and physic were too much for one feeble sufferer to cope withal. Gilbert Sinclair was told that unless a change came very speedily his wife must die. “If we could rouse her from this apathetic state, ” said the physician; “any shock—any surprise—especially of a pleasurable kind-that would 'act on the torpid brain might do wonders even yet: but all our attempts to interest her have so far been useless.” Lord. Clanyarde was present when this opinion was pronounced. He went home full of thought, more deeply concerned for his daughter than he had ever been yet for any mortal except himself. “Poor little Connie!” he thought, remembering her in her white frock and blue sash; “she waj always my favorite —the prettiest, the gentlest, the most high-bred of all my girls, but I didn't know she had such a hold upon my heart.” At Marchbrook Lord Clanyarde found an unexpected visitor waiting for him—a visitor whom he received with a very cordial greeting. Soon after dusk cn the following evening Lord Clanyarde returned to Davenant, but not alone. He took with him an elderly gentleman, with white hair, worn rather long, and a white board—a person of almost patriarchal appearance, but somewhat disfigured Dy a pair of smoke-colored spectacles of the kind that are vulgarly known as “gig-lamps.” Tho.stranger s clothes were of the shabbiest, yet even in their decay looked the garments of a gentleman. He wore ancient shepherd’s plaid trousers, and a bottle-green overcoat of exploded cut. Gilbert Sinclair was in the hall when Lord Clanyarde and his companion arrived. Mr. Wyatt had just come down from London, and the two men were smoking their cigars by the great hall fire., the noble old, cavernous hearth which had succeed the more mediaeval fashion of a fire in the center of the hall. “My dear Sinclair,” began Lord Clanyarde, with a somewhat hurried ana

nervous air, which might be forgiven in a man whose favorite daughter languished between life and death, “I have ventured to bring an old friend of mine. Doctor Holiendorf, a gentleman who has a great practice in Berlin, and who has had vast experience in the treatment of mental disorders. Dootor Holiendorf, Mr. Sinclair. I bog your pardon, Wyatt, how do you do?” interjected Lord Clanyarde, offering the solicitor a coup e of finders, “how, Gilbert, I should much like Doctor Holiendorf to see my poor Constance. It mav do no good, but it can do no harm; and if you have no objection, with Dr. Webb's concurrence, of course, I should like—” “Webb is in the house,” answered Gilbert “You can ask him for yourself. I have no objection.” This was said with a weary Air, as if the speaker had < eased to take any interest in life. Gilbert hardly looked at tbe German, or Anglo-German, dootor; but James Wyatt, who was of a more observant turn, scrutinized him attentively. “Here is Webb,” said Gilbert, as the little Doctor camo tripping down the great staircase, with the lightsome activity of his profession, rubbing his hands as he came. Lord Clanyarde presented Dr. Holiendorf to the rural practitioner, and stated his wish. Dr. Webb had no objection to offer. Any wish of a father’s must be sacred. “You will come up and see her at once?” he said, interrogatively. “At once, ' answered the stranger, with a slightly guttural accent. The three men went up the staircase, Gilbert remaining behind. “Aren t you going?” asked Wyatt. “No: my presence generally disturbs her. Why should I go? I’m not wanted.” “1 should go if I were you. How dc you know what this man is? An impudent quack, in ali probability. You ought to be present. ” “Do you think so?" “Decidedly.” “Then I’ll go.” 1 “Watch your wife when that man is talking to her. ” said Wyatt in a lower tone, as Gilbert moved away. “What do you meaiff” asked the other, turning sharply around. “V\ hat I say. Watch your wife!” Mrs. Sinclair’s moruing-room was a spacious, old-fashioned apartment, with three long windows, one opening into a wide balcony, from which an iron stair led down to a garden, small and secluded, laid out in the Dutch style—a garden which had been always sacred to the mistre s of Davenant. There were heavy oak shutters, and a complicated arrangement of halts and bars to the three windows, but as these shutters were ra ely clo ed, the stair and the balcony might be considered as a convenience specially provided for the benefit of burglars. No burglars had. however, yet been heard of at Davenant. Toe e was a piano in the room. There were well-filled book-cases, pictures, cjuaint old china—all things that make life pleas nt to the mind that is at ease, and which may be supposed to offer some con-olation to the care-bur-dened spirit. The fire blazed merrily, and on a sofa in front of it Constance reclined, dressed in a loose white cashmere gown, hardly whiter than the wasted oval face, from which the darkbrown hair was drawn back by a band of blue ribbon, just as it had been ten years ago, when Constance was ' little Connie,” flitting about the lawn at Marchbrook like a white and blue butterfly. iTO BE CONTINUED. |

THE ERSE LANGUAGE.

A Mellifluous Tongue Still Spoken by ITp J ward of 2,000,000. We are glad to notice as an event of literary importance, soys the New York Sun, tbe recent organization in Providence, R 1., of a Celtic society, the object of which is to revive interest in the mellifluous and influential tongue of Ireland. No other language, having itself no great masterpiece of literature, has had such effect on modern literature as the Celtic. To it we owe many of the fairy tales of our childhord; some of Shakspeare’s plays, some of the incidents detailed in the Arthurian poems, even some of those in the Devine Comedy, are drawn from Celtio sources. It was said of Washington: “Nature made him childless that he might be the father of his country;” so it might almost be said of the Celtio language, “Nature left it childless that it might be the mother of other literatures. ” The Celtic language is not a dead language. One-sixth of the population of the Emerald Isle (in round numbers, 800,000 persons) understand Erse; (iu,ooo persons there know no other language than it; one-third of the territory of Ireland is still Celtic, so far as the ability to understand the language is concerned, and upward of 2,Oix\OjO in this country and Canada are familiar with the tongue. The path of the new society and of its predecessors is uphill, but the ascent has an end. A century ago the Welsh language was really in worse case than the Erse is now, but by the exertions of scholars and the local clergy of Wales it was rescued, and to day is vigorous both in Wales and America. That similar success may await the Celtic sccletieß of this country in their patriotic labors we sincerely hope.

Brigandage in High Circles.

Brigandage is assuming alarming proportions in Europe. The official gazette at Athens announces that a now election has been ordered in a certain district of Thes-aly in order to fill the seat in Parliament rendered vacant by the sentence of Congressman Kalambaka to penal servitude for complicity with the banditti infesting his province. At Palermo the Italian government has just arrested Baron de Kamo on identical grounds, a peculiar feature in his ca o being that he is a millionaire. In the nor!h of Italy wo have Count Serpiere, commanding an infantry regiment at Verona, and a very rich man, arrested and court-mar-tialed for having stolen an innumerable quanity of plate, chiefly forks and spoons, which he was in the habit of pocketing wherever he dined, no matter whether it was a private house or a restaurant.

A Luminous Tree.

“Everyone has heard of luminous plants and shrubs.” said a gentleman of Nevada, “but comparatively few people are aware of the existence in our State of a luminous tree of la-ge proportions. The Indians have always entertained a wholesome diead of this tree and have a number of legends connected with it. It is a valuable landmark at night, as it can be seen half a mile away, and the phosphorus substance which exudes lrom it is so powerful that it is possible to read a few words of print held close to it. Several botanists and tree scientists have made purpose journeys to inspect and report on the tree, but I have never seen a really intelligent explanation of wliat seems to be quite a unique phenomenon.” Quito, Ecuador, though on the line Of the equator, lias a mean temperature tho year rou d but little different from that of Boston, owing to its elevation.

FISH WITH A MIRROR

AN APPARATUS FOR FOOLING THE FINNY TRIBE. Ihe Invention Alleges that by the Sight of Their Own Reflections the Gullible Fish WUI Fall Over Exch Other in a Scramble After the Bait. Perhaps It Won't Work. There are many devices for ensnaring the gullible fish. William R. Lamb of East Greenwich, R. 1.. has iuvented and patented a new one. The principle of Mr. Lamb’s Invention Is to cause the Ash to see himself In a mirror behind the bait, whereupon, imagining that the bait is to he snapped up by another fish, hastens to secure it himself, and the hook at the same time. At present there is no testimony as to the value of Mr. Lamb's invention in practice. The invention, according to the letters patent, comprises a mirror preferably of a circular or oval form, attached to a fish-line by means of a ring fast to the frame of the mirror. A horizontal arm extends a short

distance In front of the mirror, and has at its outer end a ring to receive a branch line, the upper end of which is fast to the main line. A hook is made fast to the end of the branch line, so as to come about opposite the center of the mirror. In using the apparatus a bait is put on the hook and let down in the water with the mirror, which acts as a sinker, until its lower edges touch the bottom. In this position the flsh, when approaching the bait, will see the reflection of himself in the mirror. He will imagine another hungry flsh after the same bait, and will be made bolder by the supposed companionship and more eager to take the bait before his competitor seizes it —at least this is tbe theory of the inventor. The flsh will Jose his caution and take the ba*t with a reck-

UNITED STATES SHIP “CINCINNATI.”

Built at a cost of $1,100,000, exclusive of armament. Every bit of material used in her is of American manufacture. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 300 feet; extreme width, 42 feet; main draught, 18 feet; displacement, 3,183 tons. The engines are of the vertical triple expansion type, indicating 10,000 horse power, which will develop a speed of nineteen knots per hour. Her armament consists of one 6-inch breechloading rifle and ten 5-inch breech-loading rifles in the main battery. The secondary battery consists of six machine guns and six torpedo tubes. The torpedoes used will be of American manufacture.

French Anecdote.

M. de la Reynie, traveling one day incognito, met a man of enormous obesity at the inn where they change the horses on the road to Paris. He was a farmer, and he had with him two letters of recommendation from the Governor of his province—one to the King’s physician and the other to a celebrated lawyer. When they arrived in Paris, La Reynie took the man to his hotel, and assured him that he was in a position to help him in his quest. He at once led him to a dungeon where there were a jug of water and a piece of bread suspended by a string from the ceiling. Rage, screams, and cries of the despairing prisoner were in vain. In the nature of things, the man was presently compelled to attempt to get the only food he had, and after numerous jumps and as many tumbles, he succeeded at length in gaining possession of the bread. After two months of this diet and these gymnastics, La Reynie gave him his liberty. But his protege, beside himself with rage, threatened to lodge a complaint with the prefect of police. “Nothing coult} be more simple,” said La Reynie to him; “you are at this very moment before him. But let Us think a moment. You came to Paris to cure your obesity. You now stand before me as thin and slender .as a young man. What have you,: therefore, to gain? Besides that, here are documents to show that you have won the lawsuit you catae about and which you told me on the journey you were so anxious to win.” Amazed and stupefied, and with his breath taken away, the poor man was only able to stammer: “Oh! monseigneur!” “Depart,” said La Reynie to him; “return to the country and propagate my treatment for obesity. *

Marlborough’s Gifts.

It was characteristic of Marlborough that from apparently small indigations he possessed the power of divining the enemies’ plans, and was thus enabled to forestall them. From the experience of the recent past he foresaw with admirable clearness the immediate future, and was able, as it were, to map out coming events from a study of the position at the moment. He could balance future

lessness that greatly Increases the chances of his being caught on the book. The reflection of light from the mirror in the water will have, in some degree, the effect that the light torch has in sonic well-known kinds of fishing, of attracting fish to the bait, and the light reflected by the mirror upon the bait will make it more conspicuous. The mirror may be made in two parts and secured together at an

THE MIRROR FISHING APPARATUS.

angle, the one to the other so as to have the effect of making two or more reflections of the same fish, and it may be made double, so as to reflect on two sides. It may also be made in the form of a triangle or square, with a mirror on each side and an arm with the hook and bait before each reflecting surface, and in the form of a cross, which would produce a multiplicity of reflections. All this is the allegation of the inventor. >

probabilities with strange accuracy, and could till in with living llgures the sketchy outline furnished by the spy. Without this peculiar gift—one of the instincts that mark the born general—no campaign ca,a be directed with success. To realize what is going on beyond a range of hills, or any other natural barrier to human vision and out of the reach of reconnoitering parties, is one of the problems which perpetually confront the military commander. On the correct solution of that problem depends greatly the success of .all military operations.—The Life of Marlborough—Gen. Wolseley.

Varied History.

The Academic Francaise was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1636, lived long enough to snub Corneille and Moliere, was abolished in 1793, was revived two years later and made a useful body by Napoleon in 1803. Since then it haa been a part of the Institute of France. It elects its own members, who are now .known as the Forty, ltntnortafo Its duties are to preserve the purity of the French language, to encourage and preserve French literature, ana to distribute several queer prizes, such, for instance, as $2,000 each year to that member of the working class who has performed the most virtuous action of the year, ’and S3OO every other year to the rising gepius who is considered to be most in need of and most worthy qf encouragement. Tne members are aupposed to meet twice a week, and are paid s3.B7 —a Napoleon—for every meeting they attend. They receive, besides, a salary of S3OO a year. Zola, who has been rejected some six or seven times, holds to the tradition that membership in the\_Academy is the highest literary honor that can be bestowed upon a Frenchman.

Will Have a Penal Farm.

The State of Mississippi is proposing to discontinue the penitentiary lease system and to establish a farm on which Its convicts will be employed. It is proposed to purchase a farm qf not less than 5,000 acres. Texas has such a farm, which has prored profitable.

ABOUND A BIG STATE.

• RIEF COMPILATfON OF INDIANA NEWS. What Oar Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and Loral Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimea—Personal Pointers About Indla'nian*. A NUMBER of South Head boys are arrested daily for jumping trains. Loogootee citizens were badly swindled by shell workers: last week. The receipts of the F&yd County strawberry crop this year amounted to *75,000. An unknown man waai instantly killed by a Lake Shore rtrain near Chesterton. a Em Montgomery, Posey County farmer, dropped dead, whl'e driving a mowing machine. Paul Weaver, 12, Russiavlllo, tried to pry into a dynamite cartridge and is minus his left hand. Chas. Hubbell, CO. while foiling trees near Coal City, was caught by a falling tree and instantly killed. ’« John S. Chinkworth, for four ydArs treasurer of Wabash County, was found dead in a corntleld near Wabash. *' t Andrew Ealy, yardmastor es O. A M. road at New Albany, was shot 1 and seriously wounded. Accidental. A Laporte patter thus announces a wedding: "Miss Lillie Kosserman caught the biggest Btss of the season. Ho weighs 100 pounds. W. M. Eggington, genera] overseer at the Elwood Diamond Plate Glass Works, had his eye nearly burned out with niti io acid. Thomas Dwyer, a restaurant man of Greenville, fell headlong from tho top of a stairway and died fromjhis injCries four hours later. Edward Stallman, aged 9 years, whs drowned in the Ohio River ut the lower wharf, Evunsvillo. Ho was tho son of Mr. Louis Stallman, of the Anchor boat. .1. L. Matthew's largo bnrnand ieohouso was burned at Moorosvllle. The building was stored with implements. Throo horses |were destroyed. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Dayman and Bonj. Brandybcrr.v assaulted Sum Trautnor near Decatur. Trautner drew a knifo and fatally stabbed Benjamin in tho abdomon and seriously cut Luyraan. Tgputraan skipped. William ,T. Shuoop ot . Paoli, thrashed 289 bushels of wheat from seven acres, an averago of more than forty-one bushels per aero. His entire crop averacred more than thirty-ono bushols nor acre Mrs. Clara Boston, a weli-oon-nectod resident of Richmond, attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the lake in the pubj^ 1 park. She was rescued by three yodng men who witnessed the attempt. A lit of melancholy is tho assigned causo. During the past year thero was 983 mortgages filed in Montgomery County, amounting to $50,681,200.10; also, 1,035 deeds filed, amounting to $1,21)0,905.65, and 158 mortgages paid off, One of the mortgages filed, ono was for $50,000,000 given on tho Big Four Railroad i The body of William Foust was found in the center of Elwood with a bullet wound in his loft breast, noar tho heart. Indications show that the murder did not occur where the body was found, but that ho was killed some distance away and then carried to the spot. The murder was probably the outcome of a drunken fight. Harry Hines, a 10-year old colored boy, living at 447 Howard street, Indianapolis, shot and fatally wounded his little sister. Tho boy had found an old-fashioned, double-barreled Derringer of 22 cultber, ana In playfully pointing it at the girl had discharged It, the bullet going ‘into the child’s brain through the forehead. Tho pistol was in bad shape, and a test of it showed that one might snap the trigger a dozon times without exploding the cartridge. The girl was 12 yoars old.

Mrs. Joseph Dennison, rosiding about six miles northeast of Union City, was killed recently. With her husband, she hud been in Union City trading. They wore on their return home in a buggy. About a mile from thoir farm the horse shlod at a dog in the roud, and Mrs. Dennison pitched forward over the front wheel into the road, striking on her head. She was carried to the neuroat house, and Dr. Keovos sent for. The woman was dead before he arrived. Her uock had been broken. At Terro Hauto, Judge White decided the vaccination caso, which was considered a test case. The State Anti-Vaccination Society askou for an order restraining the school authorities from prevonting a pupil attending the public schools because he nad not been Judge White held that the Boat d of Health had the authority to require all pupils to be vfcecii ated if thore had been exposure to smallpox, and that the presence of the disease at Muneio was sufficient exposure to warrant the boqfd in issuing the order. Several days ago there died, in Greencastle, a tailor, Hugh 11. Burns, who left an estate of $12,000. James MoD. Hayes was appointed administrator on'application of the widow in Greencastle and an application of Mrs. Jane Burns of Chicago, for an administrator was denied. It eoems that Burns was twice married, and last year, during a visit to the World’s Fair, it is said, met his first wife, whom he supposed to be dead. He returned. homo and used alcohol to such an extent that he died. The Chicago widow and a married daughter row make claim to the, The Groon- < castle marriage took place in 1873. The Chicago people show a marriago licei.se bearing date of 1861. Word from Syracuse is that the wheat crop is harvested in that, section. The yield Is larger than usual and the quality is excellent. Many farmers will not attempt to market a bushel, but will feed the crop in most part to stock. Corn is very promising, but oats will be light. George Leonard, a prominent citizen. was shot and mortally wounded in the corridor of the West Baden Springs Hotel by Gabe Thompson, a hotel employe. The shot almost severed the windpipe, and Leonard cannot live. , Thompson went to Paoli, and gave himself up to the Sheriff. Joseph Haneberry, a fireman for the Monon Railway Company, was drowned in the Wabash and Erie canal at Lgjayettc. With two companions ho was in a boat and the craft upset. Haneberry could not swim. His hpme was in Chicago. Charles swift;, the 14-yo'ar-old son qj W. T. Swift, jr., was drowned in Patoka River at Stewart’s. In company with two other boys, he was in a boat, and young Swift jumped out in the river for a swim. «1» strangled, and before his companion realized it. he had ' sunk for the lest time. The body was recovered in twenty minutes, and all efforts to restore life failod.

ASSASSIN IS HANGED.

SLAYER OF CHICAGO’S MAYOR PAYS THE PENALTY. Tli* Gallows Send* Patrick Sartos Pn*f iler(sst Into Eternity—Remarkably **- naeloas Legal Fight to Sara Hl* - Story of the Crime. HarrUon'* Murder Avenged. Without a word of protest or an as* of resistance, Patrick Eugene Josepk Prenderga-t suffered the extrema penalty of the law Friday for Use murder of Carter H. Harrison. Ha was hanged at 11:48 o’clock, In tha county jail in Chicago. He walked to the scaffold without support. Ha showed no sign of weakness till tha moment before the drop fell, when he stood with the noose about his neck, the white shroud enwrapping hii form, his feet and hnena strapped together, his arms fastened to his body, and the white cap covering his head and faoe. Then he almost

PATRICK EUGENE JOSEPH PRENDERGASN

gave way. His trembled and seemed to sink underitylm. HU breath came in gos. s and he'fjgave convulsive guli ß that showed his 1 h/orvous system was breaking. HU puPq, was boating at 120 a minute, and h& was on the point of physioai collapse when tha drop fell. He died painlessly, as hi# nook was broken by tho fall. To tho 1 .very last moment he expected to bemaved from tho scaffold by some power. (Five minutes before ho begun his walk.to the gallows ho said ho expected’td hear soon from tho Governor. He tirade no sp eoh on the gpllows. H# had Intended to do so, but wak il di»Buadcd by his spiritual adv’iier. Rev. Father Barry, who pleaded tfhh him to submit to tne inevitable and not to make a scene. Ho accepted the ministrations of the prlosts who vrlsra with him to the last, and he recelvad the last rites of tho Catholic Church. Ton minutes before he stepped on the fatal trap ho repeated the statement that he had so often made—that he killed Mr. Harrison because he had to do so and that there was no malice in tho uot. This was practically hie dying declaration. Tho execution was accomplished without accident. Within throe minutes after Prendergast left his oell he was swinging at the rope’a end. Htory of the Crime. Tho crime for which Patriok Eugene Prendergast was executed was one of the most cold blooded and unprovoked murders ever committed. On Saturday, Oct. 28, 1893, Carter H. Harrison* then Mayor of Chicago, attended the closing of tho great World’s Columbian Exposition, and in his capacity ae Mayor delivered one of the addresses of tho day. The Mayor, tired and worn out by tho performance of his many official duties, returned to his home on Ashland avenue at an early hour in the evening. Prendergast first vUited the house ut 7:30 o'clock and was informed that Mayor HarrUon was engaged. A half hour lator ho returned and was let into tho hall by the servant girl. Mayor Harrison was adee? in his armchair, but was awakened by Prendergast s voice and walked toward the main 1 a lway. As ho did so Prendergast advanced, revolver in hand, and fired three shots at Mr. Hsurrlson. Two of the bullets to k effect, ono piercing his right hand and the other entering his stomach. Tho 4 woundod man sank to the H or and twenty minutes lator died in tho arms of his son, William Preston Harrison. Immediately following tho shooting, Prendergast loft tho house and made his way to Desplalnot street station, whore ho gave himself up. From Deaplainos street station tho murderer was taken to the city hall, where he made a statement concerning the shooting. He said ho was vory deeply interest:d in truck elevation and was anx ous po be made Corporation Counsel in order ,thut be might oari'y out his ideas on the subject. He said Ma,or Harrison had promised to upp Int, him Co'po ation Counsel, but pa t faded to d > so, and for this reus n,jhe thought he was justified iu taking the Mayor's life. KfTort** to Nftv« Hit Life. In its legal pha es the Prendegas* case is without precedent in the history of criminal law. Never before wore jsuch persistent and ingenious efforts made to save a prisoner s neck from the noose. The defense set up the plea of insanity, and on this line tho battle against justice was waged to tho end. Tho assassin was at alt times surrounded by legal talent well versed in the most intricats points of practice, and having all the technicalItieH at their command. Yet with all of these advantages the murderer of Mayor Harrison was unable to elude the scaffold which was twice erected for its victim.

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