Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Forest fires are ravaging parts of California. A wrapping paper trust is forming at Chicago. Typhoid fever is epidemic in Knox county. O. A saloon-keeper at Dupont, 0., was whipped by White Caps. A brisk snow storm prevailed throughout Northern Wisconsin Friday. The American Humane Society at Louisville denounced the dehorning of cattle as cruel. The estate of the late coachman of the late Prince of Wales turns out to be worth $50,000. The Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati Wednesday, elected Gen. W. T. Sherman President. A sudden influx of salt water threatens the destruction of the oil and gas wells of Northwestern Ohio. W. L. Sqptt has finally signified a willingness to arbitrate the mining difficulties at Spring Valley, DI. The corn crop of the country is estimated at 2,268,292,083 bushels,as against 1,987,790,000 bushels in 1888. It is reported from Chicago that there will be a window glass trust, but the story is denied from Pittsburg. J iv “

The New York Graphic, the only illus trated daily newspaper in the country,suspended publication, Tuesday. The trial of Ives, the “Napoleon of Fi ntfnce,” resulted in a disagreement, and Ives has been returned to jail. The Kansas City Board of Folice Commissioners has ordered the Chief of Police to suppress the Salvation Army in that city. “Black Bart,” the Gogebic stage robber and murderer, with several other prisoners, escaped from the Bessemer, Mich., jail Friday. Dr. C. D. Miller, of Poughkeepsie, is building a steam yact which is expected to make the extraordinary speed of thirty miles an hour. The will of the late S. S. Cox has been filed for probate at New York. The instrument gives all the estate, real and personal, to his widow. Citizen George Francis Train is delight ed with his quarters in the Boston jail, and says he intends to stay there the remainder of his life.

A deputy United States collector une pectedly appeared at Guthrie, Ind. T., and arrested twenty-two liquor-sellers, such sales being prohibited. Dispatches from Mt. Washington state that on the summit snow is eighteen inches i deep, and Mohday was the first day of sunshine this month. The commission sent to find a place for a navy yard to the Pacific Coast reports in favor of Port Orchard, fifteen miles from Seattle, and thirty from Tacoma. C. G. Sayle has been granted letters of administration upon the estate of Davis S. Terry, lately killed by Marshal Nagle. The estate is valued at about SIOO,OOO. The immigrants arriving in the Uhited States for the eight months ending August 81 last (except from Canada and Mexico), numbered 300,942 during the same period in 1888.

The hog cholera'in Kent county is rap- , idly spreading and unless some active step is taken by the authorities the disease will create havoe among the swine in Southern Maryland.■ It is reported that Rev. A. F. Coepke, pastur of St. Ann's Lutheran Church, at Wis., has suddenly left town, leaving behind him many unpaid bills and an unsavory reputation. Emmons Blaine, son of Hon. James G. Blaine, was married Thursday at Richfield Springs, N. Y., to Miss Anita McCormick, daughter of the late Cyrus McCormick, the reaper manufacturer. Apassenger train on the Atchison, To-., peka and Santa F. railroad, near Ft. Worth Tex., Tuesday, night was robbed of SIO,OOO by train robbers, a large part of which was secured in the express car. George Francis Train was arrested at Boston, Tuesday, for a debt of SI,OOO. Refusing to pay the amount or take the poor debtor’s oath, he was cast into jail. He declared that he desired an opportunity to study the inside workings of Massachusetts prisons. A vicious mob at Rosalia, Kan., hanged Alonzo Edwards and his wife to trees and subjected them to other infamous treatment in trying to extort a confession from them that they had killed a child. The little one was found unharmed at a neighboring farm house. The Big Bend Mining Company, of which Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, is President, and in which many newspaper publishers are interested,announces that its operations (on the Feather river, California) have resulted in failure and will be discontinued. Fully $2,000,000 have been invested in the operations. Senator Voorhees, who is now at Terre Haute, has been invited to deliver the eulogy on the late Samuel Sullivan Cox, at the memorial meeting to be held in Cooper Insitute October 9, but he will decline the invitation. His physicians have advised Mr. Voorhees to spend several wepks at Asheville. N. C., and avoid exertion of any kind if he would guard against a return of his recent illness. Bishop Abram A. Kimball died at Kanost, Utah, Wednesday. He was a prominent man in the Mormon Church and had a number of wives. He was sent to the Utah Penitentiary last November to serve a six months sentence, but was pardoned by President Cleveland last December because he was a consumptive. His father, Heber C. Kimball, is the man who had about fifteen wives and used to refer to his wives as heroes. Sister Camille, of the Sacred Heart Convent, Emporia, Kansas, was brutally assaulted and beaten until unconscious, and then jumped upon and kicked until supposed to be dead in the hall of the school building of the convent Thursday. This is the third murderous assault made by the same person, occurring within the past two months, and all has been carefully kept from the public at the request of the police, ih hopes of capturing the criminal, who is a young man named Frank or J ohn Murry, who hails from Terre Haute, Ind. At that nlade he was a railroader

and there became acquainted with Sister Camille, while under her care in the 7 hospital at'-' that place. When convalescing he attempted to make love to her, and insisted that she should forget her vows and elope with him. After getting well he still persecuted her with his attentions until she asked to be removed to some other place. In some manner he learned of her Whereabouts and followed her, and told her that his love had turned to hate; and that he would kifi her if it cost him his own life. She now lies in a critical condition, with her head cut in many places and her body badly bruised, and is unable to give further particulars. Father Leonard, in charge of the parish, was interviewed and gave the above particulars. The brutal maniac is at large, and it is thought that he jumped on a passing train, and after getting beyond the suburbs took to the country.

, FOREIGN. The Temple of Heaven, at Peking, containing the dragon throne, has been destroyed by fire. Christian inhabitants of the island of Crete are fleeing to the mountains. They have been despoiled of their property by the Turks. . Just previous to the Czar’s departure for Copenhagen a chest of dynamite exploded at the Peterhof! station. The station was badly wrecked and a railway signal man was killed. It is fully believed that it was intended to have the explosion take place when the Czar passed through the station on his way to the train, but through some miscalculation it occurred before the time of his Majesty’s departure.

A TRAIN TELESCOPED. Terrible Accident with Unknown Logs of Life, on the New York ventral Railroad. Palatine Bridge, N. Y., Sept. 28—2 a. m.—The St. Louis express, No. 5, which left Albany at 10 o’clock last night, met with a bad accident about two miles east of here about midnight. The first section broke down and stopped for repairs. The rear brakeman was sent back to signal the second section, but, for some unknown reason, failed to perform his duty. The engineer of the second section says he did not see him and the first thing he saw was the lights of the first section directly in front. The first section was made up of the baggage, mail, express and three passenger cars, packed with people and a Wagner sleeper on the end. The crash was terrific. The section telescoped into the first section, knocking out the lights and plunging everything into darkness. Up to this hour four bodies have been taken out of the sleeper, and it is feared the total number of deaths will run up to twenty-five, and possibly more, as the car was full. It is difficult to get particulars at this hour.

An Albany dispatch says: The first section of the train is usually made up of two ordinary coaches, two parlor cars and three baggage cars, while the- second section seldom goes out with less than seven sleepers. A dining car serves dinner on the section to Albany, where it is dropped. This train travels over the Michigan Southern via Niagara Falls. It is a favorite with travelers on the Central, and the second section is entirely of vestibule cars. The schedule of running was forty miles an hour. It is said that three sleeping cars are in a shapeless mass. Many lives have been lost. There were fully three hundred people on board the two trains. Relief trains, with physicians on board, were summoned from this place and Utica. En-‘ gineer Worth, of the second section, was so badly injured that he is not expected to survive the night. He resides in Albany. 2:30 a. m.—-It is now reported that between forty and fifty persons were killed. The first section was completely telescoped. The excitement is so intense that it is hard to get reliable reports. A dispatch from Albany at 3 a. m., says: Authentic information received here says that four persons were killed, three men and one woman. Engineer Worth, of Albany,.hs3'bb'tli legs broken. He~wTH ~be brought home this morning. Extra sleepers have been sent from here on train No. 29 for the transfer of passengers. One sleeper was telescoped and two other cars badly damaged. Superintendent Bissell has issued orders that the injured be conveyed to hotels and taken care of.”

MINISTER PHELPS ALL RIGHT. William Walter Phelps, Minister to Germany, presented his credentials to Emperor William, Thursday, and was cor dially received. Mr. Phelps delivered a brief but felicitous address which was responded to fittingly by the Emperor. Mr Phelps spoke of the unchanging and open ly cordial relations that had always existed between Germany and the United States. He would shirk no pains, he said, to strengthen that historic friendship. After reviewing the part taken by Germans in the struggle for independence, and the efforts of Germans since that time to promote the national welfare of America, he said he deemed himself especially fortunate to be accredited to the Emperor at a time when not the lightest shadow rested upon a friendship which was the outcome of historical and natural development, and presented itself in the light of a necessity. He hoped the second century would see I this friendship so strong that the Germans ! who tjad found a home in America would I never have cause to fear that the interests 'of their new and their old fatherland would ever be other than one and indivisible. The Emperor replied in English. Ho expressed pleasure at the appointment of Mr. 1 Phelps, whose words had afforded him great pleasure. He did not doubt that Mr. I Phelps’s efforts would ever be successful. , From youth the Emperor said he had greatly admired the vigorously advancing community of America, the study of whose history of peace had always excited in him a special interest Among the many eminent qualities of Americans, their spirit of enterprise, their sense of order, and above all, their inventive genius, attracted the ' attention of the world. Germans felt ' themselves the more drawn toward Americans because they Were closely connected with NorthJtmericans by ties of kinship. The prevalent sentiment of the two people was that of relationship, which could only serve to strengthen the cordiality between them.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend has a policeman [named Kosczorowski. Monticello is afflicted with the roller skating craze. _ The pickel crop at Walkerton is estimated at 100,000 bushels this year. 7 New factories are new locating in Anson at the rate of about one a week. The Brazil strike is ended, the miners returning to work at the terms of the mine owners. The new mill of ‘William Emjnons at Jamestown was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss $7,000. The attendance at the State Fair Thursday was the largest in the history of the State Board of Agriculture. Laurel Fugit of Jeffersonville, lost His life in a burning building, Friday, while trying to save that of his dog. The annuaTconvention of the Indiana National Woman Suffrage Association will be held at Rushville, beginning October 10 and continuing two days. Laporte will enjoy the sensation of a female pastor. Rev. Miss Mila F. Tuppor having t accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Unitarian Church.

W. W. Dunn, of New Albany, while rid • ing on top of a freight car on the Monon Line, Wednesday, was struck by the bridge crossing Lime Greek and instantly killed. Rev. A. Z. Wade, supernumerary member of Southeast Indiana Conference, was Friday found guilty of immorality and expelled from the Church Conference and Ministry. . Howard Lee, of Boggstown, claims ownership of a hen which is befriending a litter of kittens, sheltering them with her wings/and in other ways caring for their comfort and safety. Lightning rod sharks secured a contract for minor repairs to the electric protection on William .Waliup’s farm house, in Allen county, and the contract afterward turned up in the form of a note calling for $l4O.

Miss Lillian M. Briggs, of Fort Wayne, several days ago had a tooth extracted, and a severe hemorrhage followed. Monday, so great had been the loss of blood,the young woman was lying at the point of death. A fire at Crawfordsville Tuesday, de stroyed the three story flouring mill of Ed Coleman, a two-story empty warehouse, the Crabbs elevator, a small dwelling and a stable. The loss is $19,000, with SB,OOO insurance. Dr. F. L. Pond, a wealthy member of the First M. E. Church, of Aurora, was tried before a jury of his fellow church members Monday, He was found guilty of lying and dishonesty and expelled from the church. The new saw mills belonging to the Ohio Falls Car Works at Jeffersonville, were destroyed by fire Thursday. The flames were discovered about midnight and a call was sent to Louisville for assistance. Two engines were sent over the river and succeeded in saving the car work shops. The loss is about $35,999. Insured. Jndge A. A. Chapin, of the Superior Court, Fort Wayne, is the victim of a mistake so peculiar that it has probably never before occurred. The Judge is the owner of a lot in Fort Wayne, and recently he decided to build a handsome residence. Plans were made, anti in due course of time the house was finished and ready for occupation, when it was discovered that it had been built on the wrong lot. The Judge is now negotiating with a house mover. Indiana inventors were, Tuesday, grantel patents as follows: Jacob Albin, Seymour, carpet tacking and stretching machine; Peter Anderson, Fort Wayne, fifth wheel for vehicles; Elon E. Cass, Noblesville, bed bottom; Frank P. Cox, Terre Haute, arc lamp; Wm. R.Cunningham, Frankfort, machine for cutting brick or Other clay products; Josiah O. Keller and D. D. Weisell, Fort Wayne,dental vulcanizer; Wintield W. Mullen and F. M. Mullen, Bunker Hill, grain drtHT-Johir-J. Sted man, Laporte, dental plate. Boyleston, Clinton county, is all stirred up with excitement occasioned by the elopement of Rev. Chas. Woodruff, their U. B. pastor, with Mrs. Louisa Cavett, the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and a sister in the church. Tuesday evening Mrs. Covett drove to the city, cashed a note of her husband’s for SIOO, took the money, and, joining her preacher paramour, left on a night train for unknown parts. Woodruff leaves a consumptive wife and five small children in destitute circumstances and Mrs. Covett a husband and two children. A reward has been offered for the runaways.

The single-tax advocates did not attend ' the State Conference at Indianapolis Thursday in great numbers. A series of resolutions setting forth their beliefs were adopted and it was decided to ask Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Eleventh Census to collect statistics of the number Of persons owning their homes, what proportion have their property free from debt and the number and value of mortgages. The first steps taken towards State organ- 1 ization were taken by the appointment of an Executive Committee of ten members: Henry Rawie, Anderson ; Dr. C. A. Kersey, Richmond; Samuel W. Williams, Vincennes; L. O. Bishop, Clinton; Charles G. Bennett, Evansville; William Henry, Connersville; W. E. McDerMott, Fort Wayne; T. J. Hudson, J. F. White and L. P. Custer, Indianapolis. The recent legislature created a Live Stock Sanitary Commission, whose duty' it is to see that contagious diseases are not allowed to exist among the domestic animals of the State. The expenses, according to the statute, are to be paid from any funds of the State not otherwise appropriated and no limit is placed upon their amount. Monday the commission met and desired the State Auditor to draw warrants upon the Treasury for about $l,00(, which is the expenses so far incurred. This Auditor Carr refused to do, giving as a reason that hb doubted the constitutionality of the law because it does not limit the amount of moqey which the commission may use. The'commission appealed to the Attorney General, but learned the only course Open was to institute mandamus , proceedings against the Auditor and allow the Supreme Court to settle thequos Itfon;

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison and family Thursday again took up their quartersat Washington. . -* _ ... : Several members of the Cabinet attended the wedding of Emmons Blaine and Miss McCormick, the Chicago heiress, at "Richfield Springs, N. Y., on Thursday. Colonel Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, at the request of Secretary Windom/ has tendered his resignation to effect October 15. Colonel Switzler. Was appointed from Missouri, in 1885, by President Cleveland.

Congressman Samuel J. Randall, with fiis family, is now, and has been nearly all summer, at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randall is suffering again from his old enemy, the gout. He will, however, be on hand at the convening of the House. The Chicago Herald’s Washington correspondent says it is definitely settled that Attorney-General Miller is to go upon the Supreme Bench. The appointment, it is thought, will be one of the first announced upon the assembling of Congress. It was said Monday that Representative Nutting, of New York, whose condition has been such for some months as to cause grave apprehensions of the issue, had stated to a friend that if he did not soon recover he would resign, so that the election of a successor could be had before Congress meets. Mr. Nutting represents the Oswego District, and his plurality in 1888 was about 10,000 over his Democratic opponent.

A special from Caldwell, 0., gives what purports to be an authentic copy of a letter written from the Pension Office, September 19, to J. M. Dalzell, of Caidwell. The letter is marked “Confidential,” and goes into Tanner’s course as Commissioner with a defense of his course as to reratings, etc., as before published. It was a matter of Secretary Noble’s resignation or his own retirement, Tanner writes, and he thought it best to save the President embarrassment. The letter closes with the postscript: “I have written you With great freedom; don’t give me any cause to regret it by saying anything about th letter. It is to you solely.”

A "NIGGER“-HATER.

Captain Kellogg, of the Ossipee, Kernses, to Take Minister Douglas to Hayti. The United States steamer Dispatch arrived at Washington Friday evening for the purpose of carrying Minister Fred Douglas to Fortress Monroe, where he was to have taken the Ossipee for Hayti, but Mr. Douglas will not sail in the Ossipee for his post at all. The commandarof the Ossipee is Captain Kellogg. In Mr. Kellogg’s make-up there is a very strong vein of animosity toward the negro race, and this caused the commander to emphatically refuse to carry Mr. Douglass on his vessel. He said that his officers did not care to associate with a colored man, and that he himself would absolutely decline to sit in the mess with a “nigger.” He, therefore telegraphed to be released from the command of the vessel, and his request has been granted. The command was transferredjto Lieutenant-commander Evans, who has suddenly discovered that the boilers of the Ossipee are in such a condition that he would not dare to take her to sea unless they shall first be thoroughly overhauled. Of course, the Navy Department cannot think of sending the officers of the navy to sea in an unseaworthy ship and they are averse also to risking the life of the new minister to Hayti in such a vessel. The consequence is that the minister will not sail in the Ossipee, and as there is no other vessel which is immediately available he is to remain at Washington until the Kearsage can be made ready for sea. When this is done Mr. Douglass will sail in that vessel from New York.

DEFENDED BY THE ORDER.

The K. of L. Charged With Upholding the Wyandotte Train Wreckers. It will- be recollected that during the great strike on the Missouri Pacific rail* road system in 1886 a freight train was wrecked near Wyandotte, Kansas, and two of its crew killed, and that a number of K. of L. strikers were arrested, charged with the act. One of the arrested men, George Hamilton, was tried and acquitted, and the other cases were nolle pressed. Subsequently Mike Leary and Robert Geers, two of the arrested knights,brought suit against the Missouri Pacific company for damage for malicious prosecution and : Friday depositions were taken in St. Louis !in this case by B. P. Waggoner, of Atchi" son, Kas.,attorney for the Missouri Pacific. These depositions are given by knights said to be more or less dissatisfied with the order, and it is alleged that they show that the order took the Wyandotte train wreckers directly under its protection, and spent some $30,000 of its general fund in their defense; also, that in a spirit of revenge over the failure ot the strike> the Missouri car works at St. Charles,Mo., and the Vandalia freight depot in East St. Louis wore destroyed by fire, and that a plan was devised to blow up the St. Louis bridge by floating a dynamite laden barge against it, but this was not carried out. The names of the actors in these events were given, and it was stated that men much higher in the ranks of the knights knew much about these things. In view of these statements, it is said that Master I Workman Powderly and Secretary Hayes, i when they arrive in St. Louis next week,' will be put through the affidavit mill, and that other members of the executive board will be compelled to tell what they know.

THEIFURNACE GAVE WAY.

Frightful Furnac* Accident in Carnegie’s Steel Works at Braadock, Pa. A frightful accident happened at Carnegie’s Edgar Thompson steel worksat j Braddock to-night Capt. W. R. Jones, general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were horribly, and perhaps fatally, burned. Physicians attending Capt Jones cannot state Thursday as to his chances for recovery. Furnace “C,” one of the largest blast furnaces, gave way at the bottom and tons ‘ of molten metal, like water escaping from

a reservoir, ran ou t The furnace had not' been .working properly during’’’'the day, ' Jones called in the evening to see if he could not ascertain the cajise.. HeJ was wbrking with a number of 'men near the base of the furnace when the break occurred. In an instant flames of fire shot forth and hot metal exploded and Jell like sheets of water. Tons of the molten metal poured out of the furnace, and that any person near the furnace escaped instant death is regarded as almost a miracle. Tne injured are: Capt Jones, general manager/horribly burned. Michael Quinn, aged twenty-five, so badly burned that his •flesh peeled off with his clothes. He can live only a few hours. John Mokake, badly burned about the body,but not fatally. Capt. Ned Quinn, burned about arms and chest; will recover. Two or three other workmen, whose names could not be . learned on account of their serious injuries and the excitement in Braddock, are in charge of the company’s physicians and may not recover. Captain Jones is well known throughout the United States and Europe, wherever iron and steel are manufactured. He receives a salary of $25,000 per year and a per centage on the product of the large mill, making his income almost $50,000 a year. It was he who took SOO ihen to Johnston at his own expense a couple of days after the flood and remained there two weeks, directing the work of rescue. He is about sixty years of age. ____________

A TRIUMPH OF GALL.

The Standard Oil Company Claims to Literally Own the Earth. In a case on trial at Findlay, O-, .Friday the Standard Oil Company gave an example of its far-reaching gall. The Standard seeks to restrain a railroad from passing over land on which it has oil and gas leases. The Standard people assume that when a farmer leases them his land for oil and gas purposes, he, by that act, relinquishes all control of his property, except for agricultural uses; that he can not even lay out a race track upon it for his own use, or divide it into town lojs, without first obtaining the consent of the oil company ; that the farmer has no rights whatever in,on or about the premises, only such as pertain to purely agricultural pursuits; that hb cannot construct a roadway or drain a swamp upon his own lands without infringing upon the rights which the Standard, jxflppany obtained when it secured an oil and gas lease upon his premises; in short, the Standard oil company in this suit claims an absolute control of all lands upon which they hold leases for ail uses, purposes and privileges other than those of a purely agricultural character.

ROBBED IN MISSISSIPPI.

A Mobile & Ohio South Bound Passenger Train Intercepted. The Mobile & Ohio south bound mail and passenger train was held up early Wednesday morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss., a station seventy miles north of Mobile. Just before the train left Buckatunna, two men mounted behind the tender of the train, and climbing over, covered the engineer and fireman with their revolvers. The robbers were disguised with red bandanna handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces. The leader made the messenger dump the contents of the safe into a canvas sack, noticing that he was not closely watched Dunning shoved some of the moneyaaide, se that about SI,OOO was* hidden, the robbers getting $2,700. All this money belonged to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. Alongside the express car door was a pile of $70,000, Government money en route to Florida, which the robbers failed to noticeThen the robbers made the expressman get out of the car and go with them to the mail car. They here secured several packages, the value of which is unknown. Adiapatehfrom.KanaaaCity,Mo.»says; There is every reason to believe that a gang of adroit swindlers is preparing to flood the eastern cities with fraudulent bonds of Southwestern Kansas and Northwestern Texas. Bankers have been receiving inquiries from the East for several weeks in regard to bonds of various Kan sas and Texas counties, most of which have not been listed.

THE MARKETS.

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A BABY’S LEAP

Through JEm Window of a Rallroa< I Car uolng at Full Spaed. f There is one lucky baby andahfcppj mother in Call!tornia tonight, says th* Stockton Independent The jjiotlioi and babe were passengers on the Southern Pacific north-bound passenger trais yesterday afternoon. The child, which was about a year old, was standing ii its mother’s lap looking out of the opes j window. It gave one of those suddee springs to which babies are addicted, and, before the mother could clutch it, went out through the open window. The shriek of the mother brought a brakeman to the spot, who pulled the bell-cord, and the train, which was going at full speed, was checked as soob as possible. The conductor soon made his appearance, and when the ease had been explained to him ordered the train to be backed up slowly till the spot wai reached where the baby had made its frightful plunge. To the surprise of all the sound of the baby's cries was heard, for it was supposed that it would be instantly killed. Nearly every, man on the train jumped off to search for the little one, which was found sitting by the roadside crying lustily. It was soon placed in its mother’s arms, perfectly uninjured, nol even showing a scratch as an evidence of its narrow escape from death.

Aid For Mrs Maybrick.

More than a hundred thousand signatures have been obtained to a petition praying the home office to commute the sentence of the American, Mrs. Maybrick, the date of whose execution for the murder of her husband, the Liverpool cotton merchant, is set for the near future. The impelling motive in this general interest in the woman's behalf ’irises in the main from consideration for her sex. Mankind, Revolting more mid more against the barbarism of capital executions but not yet prepared wholly to abolish it, is unwilling that, the hangman shall do his office upon a wowan, even though she be a murdersr. On this point, too, the public mind is not fully satisfied. In any general view there is no substantial grounds for sympathy with the accused. She was guilty of infamous breach of her marital obligations without even a pretext of infatuation for a seductive paramour. A single intrigue did not satisfiy her vicious propensity. Maybrick had more ground than the Moor to complain of the “general camp, pioneers and alt.” While this conduct was gross it is not punishable by death. Though it had no lodgment in the mind of a severe court or a harsh jury the doubt that the woman was guilty of poisoning her husband obtains popularly, and this, with abhorrence of hanging, contributes to the sentiment of sympathy with a woman who is not ingIn England the course of justice is not easily diverted by popular clamor, bu t as Mrs. May brick is not a political prisoner and as the movement for executive clemency is widespread she may be saved from the gallows.—Chicago Times.

Try It

Three or four men were sitting on the piazza of a seaside cottage smoking, says the Washington Star. It wai evening. The stars were as thick is the , sky as- freckles on a red-headed the beach with a swish-swash-swosh just as they have done ever since the second day of creation. More piercing than the song of th<. waves were the notes and more multitudinous than the stars of heaven the number of the mosquitoes that haunted the piazza, and every one of them was “looking for blood.” The men had ceased smoking for fun. They now puffed their oigars to keep the mosquitoes away. “Something funny about mosqui toes,” said one rather absent-mindedly. “Yes, rather,” was the drawling reply. “Funny how much blood it takes to fill one of them up.” “No, but honest, now, do you know that if a mosquito'd get his bill down into your hand he can’t pull it out while you hold your breath?" “Don’t believe it” “It is true, however, for I have tried it” “Bet you the cigars a mosquito can take his bill out at any time he wants to do it and we will try it right here. Is it a go?” “It is, and I’ll let them try.” A lamp was lighted, the cigars put out and all waited. In less than a minute a mosquito had placed himself on Tom’s hand and began operations. “Now,” said Tom, and placed the forefinger of his other hand down close to the mosquito. It did not budge. He placed his nail against the abdomen of the insert and whirled it around. Still it remained fixed. “You can do it every time." said Tom, as he killed the mosquitc and drew a long breath. It is a fact Go and try it The most unfair thing that happens to women is that engagements are so short and marriages so longßioghamton Ro publican. Put mosquitoes on duty Sundays and they would beat at the work of find ing open bars.—N Orleans Picayune. An electric spark-Making lova by tala trapb.—Washington Capital