Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 April 1896 — Page 2

r 3? i fet (fountg Democrat M. «e«\ t:rooPS, Editor mod Proprietor. PETERMlURG. - INDIANA. It 2s expected that folly sixty thousand persons will attend the fifteenth international Christian Endeavor conation lin Washington city in July. Ex-Kixo Mil ax of .Servia is coming to America, it is said, to look np a heiress for his prqfiigate and dissolute son. King Alexander, to make his queen. % Jkbiel Jroeox, a tramp for the last five years, has been notified, at Liberty, N. T., that by the death of a friend in the state of Michigan he has become heir to a fortune of 24O,0oe. Oar the #th, Veterinary Surgeons Jenninp and Jackson slaughtered 24 valuable milch cows, afflicted with tuberculosis, ia the herd of the Harmony aaciety at Economy, Pa. Ex-Presipect Haiuhsox and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmiek were united in matrimony in St. Thomas' church. Hew Y<jrk city, on the 6th, in the presence of a select company. Dr. Wesley BroWn. the rector officiating. Fnu.tn throughout the United States for the week ended on the 10th, as reported by E. Q. Dun A Co., were 209, against 207 lor the corresponding week Last year. Tor Canada the failures were ia, against 27 last year. Tux PaHa-Journal says.that the English are erecting barracks at Malta capab}p of accommodating 20,000 men. This increase of capacity, the paper aaya,Ja being made in anticipation of events in the Mediterranean affecting British interests. Hook committee on elections No. 2, Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, chairman. ©:u the 8th. decided four contest-ed-election cases, three in favor qf sitting democrats and one in favor of the contestant, a colored man from the first South Carolina district. Txx house committee on post offices, on the 7th. heard Representative Bowers, of California, in support of various hills before it providing for a system ct postal saving* banks at the various post offices throughout the country. He actiq|» was taken on the measure. lx the case ot Mrs. Fannie Bagby, recently appointed*school trustee at West Point. Va.. Sbf^rintcndeut of 4 Public Instruction lijUaoj has decided that she is not eligible, and that no woman can hold office in Virginia, no matter how small its importance may be. The New York court of appeals handed down a decision, on the 7th, which holds that clubs are not amenable to the state excise law, and4 the inference is that they can not be required to take out a license to sell liquor under the Raines liquor-tax law. I Minins Yamagata, field-marshal j of Japa.n. and suite arrived in Chicago, from Omaha, on the 10th. The distinguished party were driven to the Auditorium hotel, where the marquis was I formally called upon by Gen. Merritt and staff, with whom he later visited and inspected Fort Sheridan.

Iftr "the action of the house, on the Pth. in passing the Jones senate bill, Ohio adopt* the electric method of ex* ecution. It does not, however, go into effect until ^uly 1, and continues the fallows method of executions6 for all persons upon whom the sentence of death had already been pronounced Gajcunkk VViu.iAUS, an American, general manager of the l>e lieers Mining Co..who arrested at Kimberly, oa March 5, charged with having supplied iirms to the Ultlanders on the Band, to be used in their threatened revoltagainst rtie Transvaal government. Bras committed for trial at Cape Town oa the Vtu. Potatoes are so cheap In some parts of Newport state that fanners are throwing them away. One man is burning them in his stove, and says they make a very hot and steady fire. At some auctions of farm property held lately tubers sold at - S cents a bushel, and in many instances no bids coaid be mvu red Tmx steel bridge spanning the Clinton river at Mount Clemens, Mich., over which thenar* of the Rapid railway, an electric line, ran. gave way, j on the 7th, while a motor car anti I three loaded gravel cars were cross- | , lug, and the train was precipitated I Into the rirer. Motormau William J tspencer was seriously injured. Akbox O.J detectives, on the night j of the Mh. arrested Romolus Cole Ik. ^ 'alias John Smith, a farm hand who was formerly employed by Alvin N. Stone, on a charge of murdering Stone and hi* wife and Ira Stili&on hear Tallmadge. O. The prisoner after some pumping, confessed the crime, stating that his intention was to assault Flora (Stone, who had rejected his attentions. Carr. G. FaxbchU-D and Thomas H. Barrett. United Mates inspectors of ■ Bteaui vessels, on the ith. rendered their decision on the grounding of the American line steamship New York in New York harbor on February £9 last, exonerating Capt. Qvaries H- tlrant, commander of the vessel, from the charges made by Pilot Richard lligley, mad holding the pilot responsible for d* accident. Tju: state department has received a letter from Mr. Edward Downes, United States consul at Amsterdam, asking that the public be warned against the folly of spending time or money toward the collection of w hat are known as “old Dutch estates.* < which, he says, do not exist. Neither has the “liank of Holland,* in which **the unclaimed millions’ are ‘alleged bo demailed, aif cxistenca

8 10 11 13 14 15 14 n 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 : 27 28 29 30 CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS nr BRIEF. LIV. CONGRESS. (Tint Qt the senate, on the 8th. the entire session was taken up with consideration of the post office appropriation bill—republicans general* ly championing the administration of the post office department(Bhd democrats condemning, it. It was agreed that a rote on the btll should be taken at Sp. m on the 7th.In the honse the conference committee * report on the Cuban resolutions sms agreed to -Mi to t~. The river and harbor bill was taken up. and after further consideration passed under suspension of the rules—SI8 to 40. A letter from Secretary of Agriculture Morton was read, promistng compliance with the wishes of congressmen. In relation to the distrebutlon of seeds. The filled cheese bill wns reported and notice given that it would be called up on the 8th. In the senate, ot^ the 7th. after another entire day devoted to the post office appropriation bill, the measure was passed. An amendment restricting the consolidation system to the limits of corporate towns and cities sms agteed to: as sms also committee amendment appropriating 188.000 as additional compensation to the Oceanic Steamship Co. for ocean mail service ... In the house the bill reported from the committee on coinage, weights and measures to adopt the metric system tn government business January 1.and to make it the legal standard of the country January 1. 1901. was taken up. but the house refused to ordeg the bill to Its engrossment and third reade ing. i Is the senate, on the 8th. Mr. Turple idem.. Ind.) spoke for aa hour and a hatf in support of the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Call propnalng. Intervention in the war now being prosecuted in Cuba, making a sarcastic attack npen Messrs. Sherman and Lodge The resolution! went over without nction. and the remainder of the session was devoted to - the Indian appropriation bill, without action upon it oeing reached.In the house, after two houra spent on the metric system bill, the measure was finally recommitted to the committee on coinage, weights and measures. The bill to repeal the compulsory pilotage system was taken up. and later the conference report on the agricultural appropriation blit was presented and agreed to. Is the senate, on the 9lh. Mr. Mantel, of Montana, delivered a prepared speech In Justification of those silver senators who voted against the honse tariff bill, and Mr But'er. of North Carolina, spoke in support of the btll Introduced by him for the establishment of a postal telegraph system. The Indian appropriation bill mage some progress, and 73 private pension bills were parsed.In the bouse the resolution to repeal the compulsory pilotage bill was defeated. The amended District of Columbia appropriation ijill was passed-yeas. 134: nays. tl. Conference wra* ordered on the senate amendments to the poet office appropriation bilL The filled cheese hill was taken up. in the senate, on the 10th. Mr. Call {Fla.) Introduced a Joint resolution on the subject of the imprisonment of Mrs Msy brick tn England which was referred to the committee on the judiciary. A bill giving the aid of the government to the Trans-MU-.is_sippl and International expos'tion at Omaha. Neb., in 1898 was passed. The most of the session was devoted to consideration of the Indian appropriation bill In the house general debate on the '‘filled cheese" bill was concluded. The fortifications and coast defense appropriation bill for the year ending June 30,18P7. was reported from committee and placed on the calendar. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension bills.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. , The United States consul at Hong Kong, informs the state department that (the black plague has broken out there. - John Rafferty was sentenced, on the 6th, to the Elmira reformatory by Judge McMahon, in New York city, for the theft of one cent. The prisoner was caught picking a pocket. The indirect taxes collected throughout the republic of France for the year 181*5 amounted to 150.000.000 francs, an increase “over the revenue from the same source in 161*4 of 20,000,000 francs. ; * At Elizabeth. N. J., on the 8th, Frank McKinley, employed by the Singer Manufacturing Cp.. was killed by a Pennsylvania railway train; McKinley had been married less than ah hoar ’ before the accident happened which caused his death. His bride was with him when he was killed. The entire plant of the Oxford Iron and Nail Vo., at Belvidere. N. J., consisting of the blast furnace, rolling mill, nail factory,"mines, stores, farms and dwelling houses, was sold, on the ?th. under foreciosu re by the Farmer** Loan and Trust Co., fdr 170,000 to the Delaware, Lackawaua A Western Railroad Co..which held the first mortgage. ^ An explosion of giant powder at station 2J1 of the Pioneer Electric Pipe line, in Ogden canyon, abont five miles from the city of Ogden. Utah, on the Sth. resulted ia the death of five men and the injur/ of five others. The brick residence of Pi to StudolL, an Italian living in Pueblo, Col., was blown up with dynamite by unknown parties on the 8th. Although Mr. Studoli was in the house at the time he escaped injury. Ex-Cmr Treasi rer Bocun of Omaha, Neb., on the sth. pleaded not guilty in the district court to a charge of cmbezxling.JJO.OOO from the city of Omaha. The trial will probably continue several weeks, and some sensational developments. indicating the disposition of the missing funds, are expected. The house committee on judiciary, on the Sth. completed its work upon the bankruptcy bill and decided, to report the bill to the honsie. The measure ia baaed upon the oL& Torrej bilL which has been before congress for several years. * Fire which broke oct in the mold-ing-rooms of the Wallace «fc Graves machine-works, at Lafayette. Ju<L, on the night of the 8th. totally destroyed that structure, together with the val- | uable machinery and finished product, entailing a loas of *40,000, which it | partially covered bv il^JMO insurance. ' O ’ |

— ...I- ---i Rkpkesektaixtb Smith % anti-lynch-ing bill has become a law in the state of Ohio. It provides that the heirs of any person suffering death at the hands of a mob may have an action for dam* ages against the county where the lynching occurs and may recover $5,000. Thk Armstrong bicycle baggage bill was passed by the New York state assembly and senate, on the 8th, by large majorities. The bill, as passed, provides for the carrying of bicycles as baggage. The Westing house club honse at Wilmerding, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire, on the 8th, causing a loss of $5(»,000; fully insured. The dab house was one of the finest In the country. Mbs. Cornelia Morse, aged SOyears, j wife of Edwin F. Morse, senior member of the firm of Morse, Williams I Co,, met an appalling death at Philadelphia on the sth. While riding her j bicycle she collided with a runaway j and was impaled on one of the shafts j of the Wagon. With the approval of the secretary ! of war, the major and two troops of cavalry stationed at Fort Sheridan, j 11L, have been transferred to the do- ! | partment of the Colorado. One of the , troops will be sent to Fort Huashnca and the other to Fort Grant, both in | Arizona. Assassinations of Japanese continue | throughout the Corean provinces. Rui mors have been circulated that parties of Russians are traveling throughout the peninsula fanning the anti- | Japanese feeling. The British ship Blairmore was cap* j aimed by s squall while at anchor in | Mission bay, Cal..'on the 9th, and sank j in five minutes. Six of her crew were ! carried down with the vessel and i drowned. The shortest divorce suit on record i was decided at Wichita,' Kas., on the i 9th, when Judge Dale granted Jennie | Henderson a dlecree of separation from ; Nelson Henderson in exactly 45 sec- j I onds after the case was presented to him. There! were just 23 words [ spoken, and but two questions were propounded. The house committee on territories, ! on the 9th, by a vote of six to four ordered favorably reported the bill adj mittiog the territory Of New Mexico j to the Union as a state. A dispatch from Havana, on the ! 10th. said that it .was definitely known i that the rebel leader. Gomes, was alive, j despite the many recent reports of his j death. Ax explosion of fire damp occurred 1 in a coal mine at WaUaneuva. near j Madrid, on the 10th, by which four j persons were killed and a number in- | (jured. 9 S. B. Mixsbaix, an attorney of Pent- j water, Mich., on the 10th, shot and fa- j tally wounded William O. B. Sands. ; president of the Sands A Maxwell Lum- j her Co. He then went to his own ! home and aifter killing his iprife, his | lft-year-old daughter and two infant' j Children, finished his bloody work 1 by cutting his own throat. Mr. Sands i died of his wounds a few hours later. The Italian government was informed, on the 10th. that the Dervishes j | were retreating to Osobrio, on the J Nubian side of the Atbara river, | abandoning their mules, their wounded | and their stores. Gex. Wetler declared, on the 10th, I that Spain had reaffirmed the impossibility of evep thinking of reform until the Cubans should be pacified by force of arms. The village of Lyons, O.. was almost entirely destroyed by an ineendiary fire on the 10th. The business portion of the town was completely wiped ont

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was .not in session on the llth. . .In the house, after a two days’ passed, with an amendment reducing the retail dealers' license from -SiO to $12 a year. The bill taxes the manufacture of the product one cent a pound, and requires manufacturers and dealers to pay a license. The rote on the bill was chiefly along political lines, republicans and populists favoring the passage of the bill and democrats opposing it. •„ The Northrop-Hraslan-Goodwiu Co., of Chicago, bidders to supply the department of agriculture with vegetable seeds, hare preferred charges i against Secretary Morton in connection with the late award. The firm named bn) StH.000 for the contract and offered to make a reduction of $10,000 for the privilege of placing its name upon the seed packets. The contract was awarded to Landreth «fc Sons, of Philadelphia, at $'0,000. At two o'clock* ?n the morning of the 13th Are broke out in the Gehring apartrpent house in Cleveland, O. Forty families lived in the building, and as they rushed pell meil for the tire escapes and stairways wild scenes of eonfusion ensued. Only two or three persons were seriously injured, but twenty families lost af! their furniture and clothing. It was reported in Key West. Fla., on the 12th, that the steamer George W. Childs, which left there a few days before to go to the assistance of the steamer Pearl, had really gone on a filibustering expedition. It was said that she was seen near Cape Florida going out to sea with the revnue cutter in chase. The tug Peter Dalton of the Independent Towing Co. burned, early on the morning of the 12th. two miles off litger's Park in Lake Michigan. The crew was rescued by the Welcome, of the same company, which happened to be passing the ' Dalton when the tire broke out. t Capt.-Gex. Wetlek has asked the Madrid government for the immediate dispatch of 3,000 cavalry to Cali, and the minister of war is arranging to send them at once. The war office is j also considering the question of em- j ploying balloons in the military serv- j ice in Cuba. Members feel confident that the socalled long session of the fifty-fourth congress will adjourn by May Ik and thus prove one of the shortest sessions pn record in the past SO yearsthe j “filled cheese” bill was

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Wabash company’s sale at Andrews was blown open the other night It contained but little money, which the thieves took. Engineer Johnson', of the Wabash i railway fell from his engine, near Roa- f noke, the other night, and was hurt so ; badly that no hopes are entertained for j his recovery. Daniel Kern, connected with the | Northern Indiana normal school, is dead of heart disease, aged 44. W. H. Deyere, 1310 Harrison street, Chicago, $n engineer on the Northwest- i ern road, the other night identified the ; remains of the young man found dead ; on the Ft. Wayne road at Valparaiso as j his son Edward. i John Werster, an alleged fugitive i from justice, wanted on a serious charge j at Pittsburgh, was captured at Elwood > by Detective Cook, of that city, and , taken there a few days ago. * Flotd McGraw, a 20-year-old youth j of Argos, attempted suicide by taking arsenic, but was saved by prompt med- j ical assistance. His action, it is j thought, wa§ caused by troubles in a j grocery business that he purchased j some time ago. He gave notes, it i* claimed, in payment, and, feared that j he would be unable to meet them when ■ due. j Lycvrgcs Beeson, of Milton, has purchased two bloodhounds for the ; purpose of tracking criminals, and they j were recently given a successful test, i tracking a man over an intricate path, [ and finally locating him in a tree. • To sectre money to furnish a cottage at the State Soldiers' home, the j W. R. C. of Hamilton county have issued an eight-page women's edition of the 1 Westfield News, devoted exclusively to j Hamilton county and its people. Mrs. | Julia S. Conklin is the editor and the | contributors, with two or three exeep- j tions. are ladies lining in or boro in 1 Hamilton county. The management of the Wernle Or- j phans* home, near Richmond, which is under the control ofR the Lutheran j synod of Ohio and Indiana, is making | preparations for the annual festival. ; which occurs on May 14. Excursions i will be run into the city, and addresses ! will be delivered by Rev. H. J. Feeger, j of Richmond: Rev. Neck, of Dayton, O-, j and Rev, Ackerman, of Lima. O. Charlie Johnson, aged about seven- j teen, was accidentally killed while the j cage was being hoisted at the Redbird shaft, two miles south of Carbon, the other afternoon. The commissioners of Wayne county have decided to build a' cottage at the State Soldiers' home at Lafayette, and will appropriate about two thousand dollars for that purpose. They visited the home recently, and they were so well pleased with it in every way that it resulted in this decision. The cottage will be built in time to be dedicated with the remainder of the home, on July 4. ? Joseph Hamilton, a farmer of Jas-! per eounty, was arrested the other afternoon on suspicion of being one of a gang of thieves who have for months been robbing the farmers in the south part of the county of grain, clover and timothy seed. He was brought to Valparaiso and lodged in jail, when he made a confession. * John P. Smith h;ds been commissioned postmaster at Randolph, Randolph eounty.

Chairman uOwDY nas announoeu tne ; following1 as the members of the execu- j tire and advisory committees of the j republican state committee: Executive I committee—Frank M. Millikan. New Castle: A. W, WisharU, Indianapolis: i E H. Xebeker. Covington; II. P. Love- j land, Peru; W. I. Overstreet. Terre I Haute: E O. Hopkins, Evansville; W. j H. Watson, Charlestown; Advisory 1 Committee—J. H. ClaypooL. Indianapo- | lis: O. M. Tichenor.. I Vince ton; Joseph j Wilson. Washington: Evan Prosser. New Albany: A. E. Nowlin. Lawrenceburg; Silas A. Hays, Grecneastle; Chas. I F. Jones. Hrookville: John F. McClure, ; Anderson: James H. Harris, Nobles- j ville. Frank Carson, Laporte: Warren | Bigler, Wabash; C. R. Higgins, Fort AVayne; L. H. Byerle. Goshen. Thomas Coons, a young druggist of I Edinburg, committed suicide by taking prussic aciu. He kissed his young wife and baby good-by at dinner time and remarked that he was'going to th% store to lake poison, but * his wifeC thought he was joking. No cause is known for the deed, as he was fairly | prosperous and was backed by wealthy and influential friends. The deceased was a free mason in good standing. Peter J. Golden, of Indiana, a stock examiner in agricultural department, has been promoted from STSO to SiWO, and Morton Brown, of Indiana, messenger at the weather bureau, at a salary of $450. has been protooted to SGOO in the same department. Rev. Albert J. Alexander, a former resident of Cincinnati, now of Terre Haute, has been called to the pastorate of the Crawfordsviile Presbyterian church, one of the. leading and most aristocratic churches in the state. At New Albany the jury in the case against Mrs. Sallie Linthieum. charged with the killing of her husband, returned a verdict of guilty and flxed her punishment at six years* imprisonment in the Woman's reformatory at Indianapoiia. 4 Indiana postmasters were appointed the other day as follows: At Allia nce, Marion county, Garrett Diley, vice T. F. Wakeland. resigued; at Waverly, Morgan county. W. H. paddock, rice Samuel Shafflebargvr. resigned. A large brown horse, owned by the Bryan family at Greencastle, and driven for two years by the unfurl unate daughter. Pearl, was sold at auction at an East Washington street horse sale, Indianapolis. The father of the girl sent the horse there to be sold. The animal was knocked off to an eastern horse boyer at JT5> The result of the,popular vote in Henry county for congressional candidates gave Henry U. Johnson a majority of 150 over Watson. The contest in j Henry county settles the fight and Mr. Johnson will be the nominee. KExxt elakr will become an imsor •"rated citv •bout Mbjt L

SPANISH ARROGANCE. Eh* Ignorant Populace Anxious for War 'with America. Believing the Odds All with Them. Bet the Leaders are Better Informed and Do Sot Wish to Preelpi- ■ tate a Conflict with So Chance of Sue- j cess. New York, April 13.—Among the | passengers on board the American j Line steamship Xew York whieh ar- : rived Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Ho- j hart Chatfield-Chatfield Taylor* of Chi- j sago. Mr. Taylor was the consul of : Spain at Chicago during the World’s j fair and he and his wife have been making a tout* of Spain. They went | ibroad on September 1 and had spent some time in ’Madrid, but had left her fore the breaking out of Barcelona riots. Mr. Taylor was not surprised it the troubles, as the feeling against Americans was intense in Spain. ‘"Spain is proud and sensitive,’' said Mr. Taylor, “and I have tto doubt but she is not averse to war with the United States. There appears, as far is 1 was able to see, only one opinion in Spain concerning the Cuban troubles, and that is that the rebellion must be overcome if it takes every drop of Spanish blood and every peseta of Spanish treasure. Spain is confident that she can quell the revolution if this country does not step in. She has improved wonderfully since the last Cuban war, and is consequently better equipped to deal with the insurgents than before. “While in Madrid, I talked with political leaders, such as Senor Morel, formerly minister of foreign affairs; Sagasta, leader of the liberals, and Silveta, a conservative leader. From these talks I am led to believe that the Spanish leaders understand the institutions afnd people of the United States fdr better than our own political leaders do those of old 'Spain. Outside of! the better classes there is a great amount of ignorance regarding the size and resources of this country. The men I have mentioned and their colleagues, realize the effects of war with the United States, and realize the great odd& against whieh their country would have to fight. Consequently they do not wish to precipitate a war. “But," continued Mr. Taylor, “the rank and file have been inflamed by the absurd statements of the press regarding America, and believe that the advantage would all be on the side of Spain in case of war with the United States.'- It is urged that Spain has no great amount of commerce, and the Spanish privateers could prey upon American commerce and . drive th£ flag from the seas. The Spanjsh papers are full of such absurd statements, and the people believe them. They believe the Americans are a natioqrnf merchants, and that commercialmterests entirely control its foreign policy. They believe that America is run by Wall street. The prominent Spanish leaders refuse to recognize a state of war in Cuba, and profess to believe that the Cuban insurgents are mere bandits." SECRETARY MORTON _ To be Sae<l for Libel and ‘'Investigated' for Alleged Collusion, Fraud and False Statements. Washington, April 13.—The Xorth-rup-Braslan-Goodwin Co., of Chicago, bidders to supply the department of agriculture with vegetable seeds, have preferred charges against Secretary Morton in connection with the award. The firm named bid $64,000 fdr the contract and offered to make a reduction of $10,000 for the privilege of placing its name upon the seed jackets. The contract was awarded to Land reth «Jc Sons, of Philadelphia at $70,OOOt.

The 'Charges were hied at the department of agriculture on Tuesday last against the secretary and the otKeers in his department alleging “collusion, fraud and false statements.” To these charges Secretary Morton has not made specific answer. The Chicago firm sav they/take exception to statements alleged to have been made by the secretary in connection with the awarding of the contract, but that they hare no complaint to make that the contract wat given to another firm; if the terms were better or more advantageous to the government. They say they will endeavor to have the matter investigated by congress if necessary, and "fnat they5 have retained counsel to proceed against Secretary Morton for making statements which they deem libellous. ' In referring to the charges Sec re tary Morton said: "We shall be only too glad to have the fullest investigation possible of this matter. If it is desired it may be investigated here 01 4u congress or anywhere else. If necessary articles of impeachment shoulc be drawn upagainst me and the matter tested to the end.” AN IMPROMTjll DUEL Between Two Edlten Resalts In th« DfMtk of the ('umimakM of One of Them. Also mu Editor. WkluxOTOS. Kas., April 13.—Editor Charles Branscomb of the South 11aven New Era was killed in a shooting scrape, yesterday, between A. A, Richards, editor of the Wellington Daily Mail, and Robert Simmons, editor of the Caldwell News. No; arrests have been made. Simmons and Richards had been carrying on av bitter newspaper war. They .. met by caance, when doth drew revolvers and began firing. At the fifth shot Branscomb, who was with Richards, fell, piereed bv a ballet. HUSBAND AND WIFE fosnd Dcsd In Bod ms the Rasul: of Ar. sonic Poisoning. Milwaukee. April 12.—John Hoefs 4nd his wife. Mathilda Hoefs, were found dead in their beds early yesterday morning. The bodies were discovered by little Bertha, their only child, a girl of nine years. A .post mortem examination showed that both the deceased had died from the effects of arsenic. Neither the relatives aor the neighbors of the Hoels* family can account for the death of the couple, as there jras no reason for suicide.

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