Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — Page 2

> THE REPUBLICAN. ' Osom E. Maßshalu Publlshar. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

|p it 5s true that the Democrats wan in Massachusetts because the people down there are ignorant o 1 the Australian ballot they might, with profit to themselves, at least, go less on Ibsen and more on night schools. The subsidence of the cholera scare is an excellent thing, but there should not be any cessations of precautions on that account. With proper care a revival next spring of the scare may bo averted, and even if the scare oomes we shall be in all the better shape to deal with it if sanitary laws have been complied with. The people of Vienna have been without gold so long that they do not know it when they see-it and prefer to take the paper money with which they are familiar. Their extreme caution recalls the experience of the man who wagered that he would stand all day on London Bridge offering genuine sovereigns in exchange for half crowns without any takers. He won the wager. The people were distrust ful of the gold pieces offered and refused to accept his advantageous offer. It was reported recently that. President-elect Cleveland “killed 53 snipe at one shot.” In reading this the average fish liar was prone to read it again and again, finally reaching the conclusion that his vocation was gone. Now comes the New York Sun, a most veracious, chronicler, and explains that “p’’ should be substituted for “h” in the foregoing report, and that then it would read “killed 53 suipe at one spot.” The explanation is received with thanksgiving and praise, for we had begun to think what liars these mortals have become. Arrests for offenses and vices are undoubtedly increasing but in proportion to our population crimes ana offenses are increasing. Thousands of arrests for breaks of the peace take place in our cities where the khme offense would hardly be noticed in the country. Thus, in Massachusetts, in 1850, 3,000 persons were arrested for drunkenness, and in 1885, 18,000 were arrested for the same offense. But in the twenty-five years between 1860 and 1885 the crimes against persons and property decreased 44 per cent, though the com mitments for vice had greatly in creased. Police strictness has in creased, but crime has steadily decreased. There were ribt six times as many drunken people in 1885 as in 1851), but it was six times as dan. gerous to the drunkep man to beseeD in the streets of our cities.

It is a common remark that one prhite man is equal to ten African natives in battle. This is probably true if the natives are armed only with their own weapons; but it is not true if they have guns and know how to use them, and it is still further from true when the natives, t)abomevana, for instance, are superior to most African peoples in intelligence and courage. Col. Dodds had only 4,000 soldiers, mostly well trained natives of Senegal, to oppose to 12. 000 Dahomeyaus. His force was not a man too many, and he waited for reenforcements before he undertook the last battles at Canna and Abomey His strong point was his artillery> without which he would have been only on even terms with the enemy. His total loss in killed aud wounded . was about ojisr twelfth of his entire force,-which was very large considering that he was tighting with a. ... semi-bar bard us foe. Capt. Luo ano has found a fresh ♦ reason for Connecting Central Africa .. with the cjivilized world. He says that last spring there was an abnormal rainfall La the Victoria Nyan a , region, ifhe great lake rose six feet ,above its ordinary level, and all the rivers were swollen high above their banks. If there had been telegraphic communication with the coast he could havja warned E<*ypt to look out f?r trouble. Her high Nile with iw fructifying silt comei usually Lorn the Abyssinian mountains "throu h the Atbapa tributary. The fall of the year is iW>t the time fpr the flood.aud Egypt was all unprepared for the’ap--4 proaehjag danger wh&n it burst up *on Jhe cquutry in September last. A hundred thousand men were put to .Stark upon the banks, but they could irjpot prerent the infliction of great , djynage. If the Victoria Nyanza re gion is going to treat lower Egypt to Surprises of this sort It is high fninituize its pbwer for iw obief by means of telegraphic warn* kf®* .uiii. ft

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A babe was frozen to death In Its mother's arms at Chicago, Saturday night. At Chicago, Thursday, a streot cur was run down by a locomotive and several poisons killed. Chester A. Arthur has bean immortal ized in bronze, a statue nine feet two echos in height and weighing 1,809 pounds being now on exhibition in New York. John D. Rockafeller has given another million dollars to the Chicago University, as a Christmas present, making hjs total i donatlonslo that institution S3,QOO,GCO. A. Boyer!y want to bed at the Laclede Hotel, Ottumwa, la., and got up to turn on the electric light, but turned on the gas iustoad. lie was found dead iu the morning. ----- - Sam Walker, a Galveston (Tex.Vsaloonkeeper. was shot and Instantly killed by l*at Mallory, whose brother was killed on Christmas. 1890, by James Shearer, Walk" er's paitner. '“Rev. Joshua Thompson, an~aged MethV odist minister of Washington, D. 0., Has been mysteriously missing since December 1. He had about three hundred dollur 3 when iasd, seen. - - - -z-'r The White Hoiiae has been quarantined against- the public, the illness of litil Martona Jlarrison, the President's iiv. year old granddaughter, proving to be a genuine case of scarlet fover. The town of Slater, Mo., ninety mile cast of Kansas City, was entirely dost: eyed by fire, Monday. There was much s j tiering from cold. Loss, $125,090 About naif the loss is covered by insurance' John Jackson,a colored man who eloped with Jessie Hinkle, a pretty white waitress. was taken from the jail and tarred and feathered at West Liberty, 0., Tuesday night. The girl claims she has beer held against her will. ’J ho big show is said to be behind time, and although the World’s Fair may b< formerly opened May i,it will be in com piole.. Not an exhibit is yet in place, and it is now expected that things can not be placed in running order before June 1. The steel works of Carnegie's Home stead plant closed down for repairs or Monday. Secretary Lovejoy says tin shut down has no significance, as it ha; always been tho custom to partially sus pend operations at this season to make uceessaTwetiungesand repairs. Miles Noolcs, a Belgian tramp about years old, was found dead. Monday evening, in the woods near Edgar, lIIF A testament, and some small coins wero in his clothes, and, as thero wore no signs o! murder, it is presumed that his death win caused by exhaustion from the cold. i Richard Newhouse, an employe of the Rahim are & Ohio railroad ;at Keyser, W Va , committed suicide, Tuesday night by drinking carbolic acid in the presonct of bis sweetheart, Miss Annie High, whom ho was to marry on Christmas night, but who, at that time, refused to have anything to do with him.

FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone Is at Bairritz, and It Is said that he is constantly guardod by do' tec tires to prevont assassination. Queen Victoria was among the earliest to congratulate the Rt. Hon. William E Gladstone on the arrival of Ills eighty" third birthday, on the 29th. ELer telcgran. was unusually gracious in tone. An explosion at the prefecture of police in Paris, on tho 29th, has caused a grea l sensation. Investigation led to the-dis-covery that the affair was undoubtedlj the work of anarchists. Tho bost detectives in the French capital liavd been detailed on the case. An anarchist isquotec as saving: “Ah, yon thought wo were crushed, but wo have enough dyitgmite left to blow up all the capitalists. So long as human beings die from hunger by the sido of those who die from indigestion, the former will avenge thomsolves.’’

COL. THOMPSON DENIES

That Hoodie Was Used—Alleged Bribery of American Legislators. There is an American end to the Panama scandal, and the New York Wosld alleges that 82,009,010 was expended iii bribing American legislators. It is charged that Do Lcssepe in person worked th p scheme, to aid in gulling the French people. Col. Dick Thompson, of Terre naute who was President of the American branch of the canal company, writes the following statement over his own siguu lure: "I have no knowledge of there ever being a dollar expended in this country to influonce legislation in tho interest of the Panama canal, .and am suro there never was a dollar so expended. There neve’ was a Panama canal lobby in Washington City, ail'd no legislation favorable to th c canal was required.”

THE INDUSTRIAL LEGION.

Mrcliluery People’* Party Now In Oporkthgu — _ Tho People’s party of this country now has a political organization whiph Rsleaders believe will enable it to takd.the votes polled by it at tho last election dnd make a winning light at the next. Thotwork of organization was completed, Tuesday, at Indianapolis, when the constituti V and by-laws of the Industrial Legion, a* in November art, Memphis, wero cone over and revised, aud Paul Vanderv fn a )ongthy speech, notified tho condor• once of his acceptance of the offleA of ■Commander-ln-Ctdef of the Legion, State committee, three members of the National committee and a majority of tjko chairmen of tho county organizations wore In attendance. Tho Stato commltfoe held a separate meeting during the diAV aud closed up the business of the recon' 1 campaign. l

A GREASER SKIRMISH.

Soldier* Rooted by Bandit* and a Number! on Both bide* Killed and Wounded. 1 A battle took place Tuesday sear Los; Animos, Mexico, east of Guerero, betweeuj SCO Mexican troops and 230 revolutionists,! tn which thirteen soldiers were killed an a many wounded, and several of ths revoiu j

i tfonists were also kijled and wounded The report says the revolutionists were commanded by General Estrada and the i Mexican troops by General Garcia. The Mexican troops were routed. The town of Ouerero is now in' danger of being I captured by the revolutionists. Many of ’ tbo Mexican soldiers are flocking to the \ standard of General Estrada. The revolution is assmning a more serious aspect than it was thought it would at. first, z:

FURIOUS FLAMES.

Destruction and P«-ath at Milwaukee—llurulug of the Conrad aud Becker Tanneries. The William Boclcer Leather Company’s tannery, together with that of Conrad Bros., burned, Tuesday, and were a total loss. Like all the big fires of late, this was attended With fatality. One fireman is dead, another is missing and two men are lying badly injured at the Emergency t-HOS'pltah 1 - •. • • Tne p ant of the William Becker Company is valued at about #509.000. and that of Con rad Brothers, as stated by the senior member of the firm, at>. 4 >O,OOO. Both are partially insured. Two minutes before G o'clock Gustav TroeteW of tho Troatel taniCry, adjoining the burned buildings, saw .lie flames bursting from the second story of one of the Becker Leather Company's tannery buildings and turned in an alarm. When tho companies arrived the main milding of the Becker plant was envcliped in flames, and a general alarm was urned in. and iu a short, time all of tho ipparatus of thocitj was on hand. Fanned >y the fresh southwest wind, the fire burned briskly. The flame- leaped to tho buildings o f bo Conrad Brothers’plant. The building was (Bled with firemen Working on the Becker buildings. So quickly didltspread the hose at work in the upper story were cut off. Many of the firemen jumped front tho windows. Beyond a few who vere bruised none, was severely Injured. Thomas Sullivan attempted to find his .■ay through the dense smoke to tho entrance but was obliged to retreat. Reaching tho window he was overcome by smoke but managed to draw himself up ind fell to the ground outside. Ho died almost immediately. Tho source of tho fire is a mystery.

"DISTINGUISHING MARKS."

An elaborate decision by tho commisioners in the IJible-Davis Montgomery •ount.y contested election case, has been made known. The board ruled that distinguishing marks on ballots must consist if marks that had been purposely made by the voter, and not marks which had been made by blots from tho stamp mark made by the voter. It was also held in the matter of the tally-sheet showing five more votes cast for Davis than tho certificate had on it, that tho tally-sheet was preferable evidence, and that even if the ballots were cast by illegal voters it wa 9 not conclusive evidence that they had voted for a certain candidate of a certain party, merely because it was proven that said illegal voters had marched in a certain political■ procession. The board was also of opinion that certain students voted illegally, but there was no power that could bebronght to bear on such persons to force them to state how thev had voted, and it was impossible to surmise for wl at candidate they had voted. The election return gave Davis 3,824 and Bible3.Blß, and the board gave Davi3 3,827 and Biblo 3,823, a gain of three for Davis and five for Bible. These gains were all made by the board counting ballots that were thrown, ant by the election judges on account of “distinguishing” marks, tho board deciding such marks wore not made purpose' Iv, and therefore wero not “distinguish ing” marks. Davis was therefore declared elected. - - ■

PALMETTO BLIZZARD.

Sleigh Hiding In South Carolina—Orange Troes Nipped. The Palmetto State enjoyed a genuine blizzard, Tuesday, ft struck Charleston, S. C., and for tho first time within the past 'ifteen years years house tops wero coverd with a thin coating of snow and sleet. Tho mercury averaged about three or four degrees belqw freezing point during the day, and pedestrians, not being accustomed to ice, had a hard timo getting along the sidewalks. The orange trees in the city are injured somewhat, and will probably bear only one crop this year. They usually bear two < crops. Planting aud truck farm crops are not far enough ad* vancod to suffer any damage. Strawberries are well protected, and the plant g will escape without severe trouble. A Wilmington, N. C., the sleet storm reported Tuesday evening has not yet abated, and has now reached tho proportions of a first class snow fall for that climate. Many sleighs of rude and hurried construction are now on tho streets, a sight very rarely witnessed there.

POLITICAL.

Tho Senatorial fight in Wisconsin ts growing very warm and Gcucrul Bragg has given up hope of election. Daniel Larnont, of New York. Cloveland’s private secretary during hie first administration, it is now conceded, will be Secretary of the Navy in the now Cabinet. The official vote of California was announced on the 28th. For Presidential electors Thomas K. Baird received the largest vote east fora Itopublicau candi-date—llß,o27-an i was the only Republican elected. Eight Democratic electors wore chosen, R. A. Long, with 118,174, receiving tho highest vote. Thu full strength of the People’,s'party Iu the Stale was 20,. 311: of the Prohibitionists, 8,098.

THEY MOB SARA.

Mine. Bernhardt was attacked by an anti-Semitic mob at Odessa, while going to the theater in a carriage, on tho 2 d. and showered with sour cucumbors and other missiles. The windows of her carriage were broken, but tho tragedfohe herself was not hurt. - 4 .

THEY. WANT WAR.

Great Discontent in the Russian Army. Times too Peaceful—The Czar Unpopular —Persecution of the Jews Continues. There is much discontent in the Russian army with the prolonged period of peace, and many of the officers think that the Czar is too pacific in his disposition. There is no longer an outlet for these war like-spirits in subduing the tribes of Central Asia. All these have been brought i boroughly under Russian subjection. The Russian Empire was never more peaceable, so far as external enemies are eoucerued, and the murmuring among the itcere ambitious for glory and disappoint cd in their hopes of promotion is correspondingly great. It is no secret that there was bitticr disappointment in military circles seven years ago.when the Czar had to bring hhraptocratlc authority to beau to prevent his generals from plunging into a war with Great Britain and Afghanis,tdn, and the spirit of impatieiico among the Russian.officers and men lias b'on increasing since. Meantime the persecution of the Jews goes on moro earnestly than ever, the leading official prosecutor being Grand Duke Sergius, brother of the Czar and husband of Cuecn Victoria's granddaughter Elizabeth. As Governor ofMos. cow, he soems determined to tarn every Jew out of the city. By a new law,which lias recently been put in force, only ten out of a hundred Jewish lawyers in Moscow and St. Petersburg aro allowed to practice, white in Warsaw and Russian Poland this liberty is wholly denied The severo treatment of tho Jews is having a ruinous offect upon real estate and other interests, at least 30.000 lodgings being empty in Moscow. Their sufferings are viewed with utter indifference by the Russian authorities, and any liou-Jewish resident who displays kindness toward them risks being put under suspicion. The soldiers detailed to assist the police in guarding Jews treat them with tho greatest brutality.

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.

At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning dynamite exploded in the yards of the New York Tunnel Company, on Fourth streot, between Vernon and Jackson avenues' Long Island City, L. I. So far as learned three persons were killed outright and a score of persons injured. The people living near where the explosion occurred wero startled shortly after 8 o'clock by the noise of falling timbers and tho cracking of glass. For a squaro around the ground quivered, buildings swayed to and fro, and the terrified people rushed out of tlieir houses, fearing tlieir homes wore about to collapse. The houses adjoining the tunnel company’s yard caught fire, and the entiro fire department was soon upon the scone. Those in tho vicinity at tho timo of tho explosion say the shock which followed was like an oarthquake. Directly opposite the scene was a row of tenements, occupied by fifteen families. Every apartment was wrecked and the dobris caught lire from the overturned stoves. The seene following the explosion was terrible. When tho oxplosion occurred all tho workman wero in the tunnel except an Italian who was placed iu charge of the dynamite a tho head of the tuunc]. It is believed lie was blown to pieces None of the man in the tunnel was injured.

FRIDAY AN UNLUCKY DAY.

□lt will be useless for any ono to try and 'convince farmer Boone,—erf "Cross Forks* Pa., that Friday is not an unlucky day, after his experience of last Friday. Early Friday morning a bear entered farmer Boone’s pig pen and killed two of his fat test Berkshire pigs. Later in the clay a hawk pounced down upon a prize-Wv * andotte hen belonging to the farmer and carried it away. Bobby fell into a cistern and was nearly drowned beforo he could be rescued therefrom. And in the afternoon farmer Boone’s team ran away as tho hired man was coming down a stoop lilt! with them. One of tho horses was killed and the hired man’s log was brokenFollowing this calamity Mrs. Boone came homo from town, where sho bad been trading, and discovered that s’iie had 1 os a ten dollar bill. To cap the climax of this day of disaster on tho Boone farm, tho roof of tlio old building in which the farmer had shut up his sheep fell iu and crushed six of tho sheep to death.

PASTEUR’S BIRTHDAY.

lit* Sovcntcith Anniversary Celebrated by Ills Election to the Academy. The scientific and literary world of Paris assembled Tuesday to do honor to one of ttye greatest among them. It was tho seventieth birthday of M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent chemist whose name is .now a household word the world over bocauso of his great achievements in the cause of suffering humanity, and tho occasion was marked by a demonstration ol popular affection such as sow men arc called upon to witnoss. Tho ceremony took place in tho amphitheater of tho Sorbonno, the home of tho celebrated French Academy of Sciences, and was attended by all of tho eminent men of thc nation, M. Pasteur was escorted to the seat of honor by President Carnot. An address was made by tbo I’rosident of the Aradomy, at tbo conclusion of which ho presented M. Pasteur with . tho gold medul cf tho Academy.

FOUR CREMATED.

A most destructive fire to life and property accuired ut Osawulotnle, Kan., Tuesday night. Three two-slorv dwellings caught lire from natural gas and wero consumed. Four persons were cremated and several had narrow escapes iu night clothes.

SIXTEEN TO BE SHOT.

Slxtcon Indians who were taken prisoners in the torn bio massacro at Temochic, Chihuahua, two months ago, hgve been brought to the City of Mexico. The prisoners will bo shot. *

WAR IN THE ROCKIES.

Eleven Miners Killed in a Battle in the San Juan Goldfields. Baptism of Blood for the Now Eldorado— Cue More Massacre of the Moan tains. From San Juan mining camp a courier arrived iu lfluffsCity, Colo., early Wedaes* day morning, and reported a terrific battle, Tuesday, in which over one hundred shots were exchanged. Ho reported eleven men killed and a large number wounded. Geo. Ferguson, an old prospector, and Jatnes Cody, known as “Blind Jim,”on,e of tho best-known characters In Arizona and New Mexico mining camps, are among the slain. A private dispatch, Wednesday noen, fropa Dolores to John Eddy, a Denver mining man, confirms the terrible report. Tho trouble grew out of a dispute over certain mining claims which had beenstakod out. The direct cause of the trouble was tho discovery of large nuggets in tho bottom of a 'snnijt'.yroam. Each man claimed that ho had first located tho ground, and to settle the dispute guns were brought to bear. There were over forty men engaged in tho terrible conflict. Few if any escaped. -

A GENUINE DUEL.

In a duel at Monte Carlo, Count Peter. Romauoff, a Russian, was killed TtyTiiy Brockton, ait American.. The quarrel out of which the duel grow appears to have been duo to a miSuuder" standing outlie part df tho Count. U appears that Brockton had been winning heavily at the gambling tables-antt'luid tossed a pourboire to tho croupier, .which tlicdCouiitsupposed was intended forhln;. Tbo Count accused Brockton of insulting him by throwing him tho coin. Brock denied the charge and tried to explain that the coin was for tbo croupier. The Count repeating that Brockton bad insi It'd kiln, Brockton gave him the lie direct a iJ a challenge followed. After the usual preliminaries both American and Russian came calmly to tho mark, and on tho word being given they tired with deadly intent' at tho same time starting to advance. Tile second bullet from Brockton’s pistol hit Romanoff just, above tho heart. The Count reeled and fell and in a few moment-ex-pired'; There is - considerable mystery as to tho identity of Ceuat. Peter RomanoffHis name, real or assumed, has suggested somo connection with tho imperial family of Russia.

COLLISION AT SEA.

Tho little coasting schooner, John 8, Beacham, of Richmond, Va., was making good timo toward Now York, Monday morning, when, about twenty-five miles southeast from Sandy Hook, the schooner Peter C. Shultz loomed up on her bow. In tho midst of the heavy seas both vessol s wero aim >st unmanageable, and beforo either could sheer off, the Beacham, ladon to tho gunwale with coal, struck the Schultz head on in the quarter, just aft of tho mizzenmast. The Schultz was heavily laden with railroad ties. With a crash both of tho Beaeham’s masts went by the board, and her bowsprit, jibboom and rigging wero twisted ftff in a hopeless tangle. Both vessels were unmanageable wrecks, and wcratuwod into New York harbor.

HOOSIER GHOSTS.

Tt being reported that ghostly apparitiems had been seen dancing about the tombstones at Luray, carrying rod lights and in other wavs holding-high carnival, a crowd of young farmers, armed with shotguns and under tho leadership ol a valiant, stood guard over tho cemetery after nightfall withorciers to fire whenever the spooks appeared. The first tip" parition showing Itself received a volley, but nothing was hoard save the report of the shooting and the rattling of the shot on tlu: monuments, while tho figure still danced about, apparently unharmed. In a few seconds it was ioinod by others, UHt ; til the affrighted spectators counted thirteen and precipitately lied.

THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS.

Mrs. Plummer, at Wilmington. 0. t committed suicide just as the bells were ringing out Christmas morn. 'Domestic trouble caused her to separate from her husband, bnt tho pair woro rounitod and went to live on a farm at Bloomington, near Wilmington. Saturday night sho went to her room, and, opening her watch, waited till thq/hands came together at midnight and then shot herself In the head. Being asked why sho shot, herself, “Trouble, trouble,” she auswerod, and died with the words on her lips.

POWDERLY'S NEW TOWN.

Grand Master Powderly, of tho Knights of Labor, has bought a farm of seventyone acres on tho edgo of Hyattsvillo, Md., for himself and a syndicate of workingmen, with a view of establishing a group of factories and a co-operative working* men’s town. The si to chosen* is convenient to both tho Pennsylvania and B. & O. railroads, and If the capital for thosehemo can bo had, quito a smart little colony is expected. Ira Martin, thirteen years old, of Knighlstown, while fooling with.a lovelod the weapon at Joseph Hinshaw ami pulled the trigger. Tho bullet struck Hinshaw in the right choek und ranged downward Into the neck, whero It remains. At thc town of Mullhnll, O. T., Christmas eve, twenty country people, representing two factious in a school district quurrol, met aud fought on tho streets. A pitched batllo raged for some lime, stones clubs,' knives and pistols bolng freely used. At least ten of tho participants wore seriously injured and a late report, como; that four or five ot them may d'o. Mrs. Samuol McCoskey, of Staunton. wife of a Clay county minor, formerly Miss Minnie Cooper, boliovos that she Is the In ir to the Cooper o-ta to at Albany, N. Y., valued at $75,000, for whom the lawyori have bocn seeking.

AMATEUR TRAGEDY.

Watch - Night Fatality at San Francisco. The Leading Lady the Anther e! the Play—An Awfifi Experience at an Amateur Performance. The old year was closed at San Francisco by a sad tragedy in which Sidney McCoy, a young lawyer, lost his life. A party of about fifty had assembled at McCoy’s house to watch the oldi year out and. the new year in. The feature of the evening’s entertainment was the production of a short play, written by McCoy and performed by amateurs! Tho plot was the betrayal of a band of Russian nihilists by one of their number. The nihilists discovered their traitor and condemned him to death. They decide by lot who shall perform the execution, and the number fell to the character portrayed by McCoy, Miss King playing the part of the traitor. She is given the clioTce of belng kllled or stabbing herself, and chooses the latter alternative. Mr. McCoy handed her a stout dagger, which had been in the family for many years. Iu the play, the girl, instead of killing herself was to stabber executioner, and as Miss King received the knifo she reached forwardMcCoy on tiio breast with it. At the same instant McCoy started toward the girl, when sho stumbled, and falling forward with the dagger in her hand, drove it through McCoy's heart. McCoy showed wonderful presence of mind. He walked into the next room and asked for a doctor and then fell dead. Tho girl knew (here had been an accident of somo kind, but did not know McCoy wits killed. She was taken home, and afterward on the advice of her friends r gave herself up to the police. She was taken to the city prison at 3 o'clock in the - morning, and when she entered the prison fainted, and has sinco remainofl unconscious. .McCoy's two brothers secured her release by giving bonds for SIO,OOO for her appearance. The girl was then taken homo, and is iu a critical condition. That aecidont. is explained by tho fact that recently Miss King suffered from a sprained ankle and she bad boon using crutches to walk with, but had laid them aside to practice the part in tho play. As she made a motion to stab McCoy sho rested her weight on the weak foot. It. gave way and she fell forward.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Sports at Norwich, Conn., observed watch night with a prize fight. Wbil* the mill was In progress in a third B tory room of the Miantonomah hotel, a squad of police surrounded the house. Then ensued a panic—a mad, revu soilless fight on tho part of one hundrefl men to escape. Without a moment’s hesitation the wholo compnny~nplunged through the windows at the rear of tha room and amid the sounds of crashing panes of glass and splintered sashes, dove headlong t-liree stories to the ground. The hall was cleared of every man in about one minute. The air In a moment was filled with falling bodies. Sima fell on the top or carriages, three or four on tho backs ol frightened horses, others came down turning over and over In the air, and one heavy man struck a policeman on tho shouldei and boat him to the ground. Most ol them escaped dangerous injury aud they dived uwii-et horses’ bellies and without hats or overcoats tied through the country. Oils man, Echvard Walsh; weighs 203 pounds, dived head foremost through a window. Ills head struck a projecting stone and his skull was crushed in from above the temple to his lower jaw bono. He died instantly.

BLAINE IS BETTER.

A Washington dispatch of .Tan. 1. says: “It is now fourteen days since Mr. Blaine suffered tiro relapse which may of his intimate friends feared would speedily prove fatal. That lie has lived tho old year out and witnessed the coining of another year is a surprise to many who have means of knowing just how ill Mr. Blaino lias been and also how sick lie is to-day. There are rumors from timo to timo that, Mr. Blaine Is to he removed to somo warmer climate. The’fact that Mr. Blaine is not able to sit up seems to bo taken as evidence that the period of his removal is very romote at least. Sick as Mr Blaino is, ho exhibits much of that wonderful will power and nerve that have carried him through moro tnanono crisis. In these latter days lie exhibits less of the despoudeney over his physical condition than which characterized him when he was much stronger than lie is to-day. Iu the presence of his family he tries to be cheerful and hopeful of the future.” *

THE DREADFUL TYPHUS.

Moro Ciisim at New lor i—lts Terrible Kn vnge* In 11c .) :'i). * Twenty-eight nmv coses of typhus fever doveloped.Stimlay, at New Voile, tho majority of them coming from the Cheap lodging house, 31 Bayard st., from which three cases were reported on Saturday. All these persons afflicted wero removal to the Uiversido hospital and quarantine has been established. A dispatch from Englo Pass, Tex.. Sunday, says: William bovine, who arrived to-day from the interior of Mexico,reports that, the accounts of the ravages of lyp'w-i* there have not yet been exaggerat’d, ta Zacatecas and Guanajuato tho opidem o Is at its worst, moro than £S cases b i;oportod at tho former place. The oar* tallty from tho disease is estimated at from 15 to 25 per cent of t'hoso stricV.o. Eight convicts In tho pen!tent : n-r n Littlo Kock. Ark., died within ha’f %n hour after being stricken down w»»h a disease having tho symptoms of c'l and something of a panic his rerc’ted Tho dlsoaio is Jielioved to liavo or'&tailed from a sewer upon which tlio convict* had boon working. * Ex Governor ftaldwin, of Michigan, and Who succoedod Scnutor Zach Chandler, Is dead. At New York Mrs. Harrington shot herself throngli disappointment iu her ‘ love for auothcr woman. I Supreme Justice Somerby, of the Iron ■ Hall, has boeu arrested at Philadelphia.