The Syracuse Register, Volume 7, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1895 — Page 2

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CHAPTER VIL-Coxtinver “That is where he pnt his foot in get- ‘ ting out. If yqu can trace him, I should think that Toby will hav? no difficulty. Now run downstairs, loose the dog, and look out for Blondin.” By the time that 1 got out into the grounds Sherlock Holmes was on the roof, and I could see him like an enor- ! mous-glow-worm. crawling very slowly along the ridge, -I lost sight of him ; behind a Stack,"of chimneys, but he presently reappeared, and then vanished onee murt upon the opposite side. When I made my way round there I found him seated at one of the corner eaves, “That you, Wat son?” he cried. "Yes.” . •- , I “This is the place, y What is that j black thing down there?” '"A water-barrel.” “Topnnit?” ■ “yes.” . I “No signof a ladder?" “No.” . ... ' j . /‘Confound the\ fellow! It’s a. most lirrak-r ,<ck qUac<4 1 ou.-ht to be able t > ••■ downjtvbcre he- opuM.cl up. The wrftepipe fe< Is pr. tty firm. Here.goes, anyhow." There was u scuffling of the feet, and the lantern began to come steadily down the aide of the wall Thenwith I u lighttspring Jie :J.i the Carre', and from there •o th« earth. “ItAvas easy f,. ■. him.” he said, drawing on hjs >:• * kings nnd Imots. “Tiles were loosened -the whole way : ab ng. and in his hurry he hud dropjsed j this. It confirms my as you 1 doctors express it.” The I whi.h he Wd up to me Was a’ small pocket or pouch woven oiutT of colored grasses and with a few tawdry lieads strung round-it. In shape and size it was not a j cigarette ease. Inside were half a dozen spine* of dark wood, sharp at > -one end and rounded at the other, like that which had struck Bartholoihew Sholto. _t‘They‘ are hellish things," said he. j “Look out that you don’t prick yourself. rnr.dclighted to have them for the chances are that they are all he h,a* .There is the less fear of v-u nr me finding one in • ur skin befine long I would BOOner face ;» Martini ■ bullet. myself. Are you game for a six-mile trudjfe, Watson?” “Certainly.'’ 1 ’ “Your leg will stand it?” ' “t»h, vc.s ’” ’ “Here you are, doggy! Good old Toby! Smell" it. Toby, Snell i it!” i He pushed, the ir. ste handkerchief under the dog s nose, while j the cn.-ature .sb-od *.s ith ' it* fljiiffy ; legs < parfiti- I. and. w ith a most copiicai 1 cock to Ils head, like ac< nnob-sCur sniffing the bouquet of a famous vintage | Holme- then threw the $ tndkorvhief i to a distanag fastened a s’.ont cord to j the mongrel's collar, an? led him to i the foot of the water barrel. The■: creature instantly broke into a sticces-1 afon of high, tremulous yelps, ’and. with hi* imw on the ground, and his tail in the air. pattered'off upon the I trail at a pace which strained bit hash i an<l kept t;s at the top ~f our speed. The east had lx»en.gra»lttally whitening, and vve could now sec some dis’-; tance in; the, cold grjy light. The ' aquarc, massive house.'vith its black, empty windows and high, bare walls, ; towered up, sad and f Horn, behind >

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WITH A LIGHT SI'RIX . lit CAMS OX TUK I BARREL. , 1 us. Our: course ltd right across the I ground*, in and bu* among the Trenches and pits with whi< h they were scarred and intersected,; The whole place, j with Ha scattered dirt heap* and ill-4 grown shrubs, had a blighted, ill- ■ omened look w.tich- harmonized with the black tragedy which hung over it. On reaching -he boundary wall, Toby ran along, w hriing eagerly, underneath | its shadow, a’ld stopped finally in a corner .serve.:i by a young Ixech. ! —■Where the .Wo walfe .joined, several bricks had I cell loosened. and the crev- i ices left we re worn down and rounded upon the ower side, as though they had frv.pvntly been used as,a ladder. Holmes eUrnlt-n ii up. and. taking the dog fron* me. he dropped it over upon the other .side. "There s the print of .wooden-leg’s hand,” h' remarked, as 1 mounted up ; beside him. "You see the slight 4 smudge of blood upon the white plaster. AVhat a lucky thing it is that • we hav/ had no very heavy rain since yesterdiy! The scent will lie upon the j road it spite at their | hours’ atari ” I confess that I had my doubts my-1 self when I reflected upon the great traffic which had passed alongthe London road in the interval. My fears were soon appeased., however. Toby never hesitated dr swerved, bnt wnddled on in his peculiar rolling fashion. Clearly the pungent smell of the creosote rose high alxwe all other contending scents. •’ “Do not imagine,” said Holmes, "that 1 depend for my -success in this case upon the mere chance of one bf these fellows having put his foot in the chemical. I have ‘knowledge now which would enable me to trace them in many different ways,- This, hojreyer, is the re idlest, and, since fortune has put it Into our hands, I should be culpable if | I neglected it- It has. bow ..ver,'pre- : vented the case from becoming the pretty little intellectual problem which it at one time promised to be. , There might have been .some <redi‘ to I be gained out of it, hat for this too I palpable clew ” . “There is credit, and to spare.” said . J, “I assure you. Holmes, that I mar-

vel at the means by Which -you obtain your results iu this case, even more than I did in the Jefferson Hope mur- ‘ der. The thing seems to me to be deeper and more inexplicable. How, for example, could you describe with such confidence the wooden-legged man?” “Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself. I don't wish to be theatrical. It is all patent and aboveboard. Two officers who are in command of a convict guard learn an important secret as to buried treasure, A map is drawn for them by an English-* . man named. Jonathan -Small. Y’on remember that we saw the name upon j the chart in Capt. Morstan’s possession. I He had signed it in -behalf of himself > and his associates—-the sign of the four, as he somewhat dramatically j called .it. Aided by this chart, the officers—or one of them—gets the treasure and brings it to England, j leaving, we will suppose, sonic condition under which he received it unfulfilled. Now, then, why did not Jonathan get the treasure himself? The answer is obvious. The « chart is dated ala time when Niorstan | wa* brought into close association ■ j with convicts. Jonathan Small did j i not get the treasure because he and his associates were themselves convicts an ! e ml.l hot get away.” “But this is mere speculation." said I. “It is more than that ‘lt is the only hypothesis which covers the facts. Let

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1101 MV.- VP AXD TOOK THB POO FROM MK. u ■ <-e how it fits in with the sequel. Maj Sho;t<> remains at peace for some years, happy in the pomesbion of his treasure. Then he receives a letter from India which gives him a great fright \\ h.it vi as that?” A letter to say that the mon whom he had wronged had been set free.” “* »r had escaped. That is much more likely, for he would have known what their term of imprisonment was. It J'would iiovhave been a surprise to him. I \\ hat does lie do then? He guards himI self against a wooden-legged man—-a ( white man, mark you, for he mistake* a white-tradesman for him. and actual- ■. ly fires a pistol at him. Now, only one J w’niUi man s nathe is on the chart. I : The others are Himloos. or Mohammedans. There is no other white man. Therefore "we may say with confidence that the wooden-legged man is identical with Jonathan Small. Does the reasoning strike you as’being faulty?" . “No: it is cleifi* and concise.” “\V< U. now, let us put ourselves in | ' the place of Jonathan Small. Ix?t us ! look at it from his point of riew. He comes to England with the double idea , of regaining what he would consider to ' | be his rights and of having his revenge | ; upon the man Who had wronged him. He found out where Sholto lived, and ; very possibly he established cOmmuni ns w ith some one inside the house. q’hcrC 'is this butler. Lal itao. whom wc have not seen. Mix Bernstone gives : . loin far fr :n a good character. Small could not find out,- h'ovever.’.where the treasure was hid, for no one ever knew. M.ye the major and one faithful servant who had died. Suddenly Small ; leama that tin- major is on his deathl*ed In a frenzy lest the secret of the treasure div with him, W runs the gauntlet of the guards, makes his way to the dying.man's window, and is only de- r terred from entering by the presence of hi* two sons. .Mad with hate, however. against the dead man. he enters the room that night, searches his private papers in the hope of discovering some mem-irandiim relating to the treasure, and finally leaves a memento of his Visit in the short inscription upon ’ the card. He had doubtless planned I beforehand that’ should 'he slay, the ! major he would leave Rome such rec- ■ ord upon the body as a sigh that it was not a common murder, but, from the ‘ point of view of the four associates, something In /thc nature of an act of justice. Whimsical and bizarre conceits of this kind ate common enough j in the annals of crime, and usually afford valuable indications as to the criiqinal. Do you follow all this?” “Very clearly/’ “Now, what could Jonathan. Small do? He could only continue to keep a j secret watch upon the efforts made to find the treasure Possibly he leaves England and onlv comes l«ack at intervals. Then conjcs the discovery of the ; garret, and he Is instantly informed of it,- We again trace the presence of '■■me confederate in the household. : ! Jonathan, with his wooden leg, is nt-? tcrly unable to rca h the lofty room of Bartholomew SholtA. He takes with him. however, -a rather curious asso- ! ciatc, who get* owr this difficulty, but i dips his naked foot into, creosote, whence come Toby, and » six-mile I limp for a half-pay. officer with • dam-1 aged Adhillia tando." “But it was the associate, and not , Jonathan, who committed the crime." “tjui te so. And rather to Jonathan’s disgust, to judge by the way he i tdjnpcd abotQ when he got into the room, . He borv no grudge against Bar- | tholomew Sholto. and would have pre- j ferrv.l if he could have been simply bound and gagged. He did not wish to put his head in n halter. There was no i help for it, however the savage Instincts of his companion had broken J out, and the poison had done its work: j so Jonathan Small left his record, lowered the treasure-box to the ground, and followed it himself. That was the j train of events as far as I can decipher them. Cff eohrse as to hi* personal appearange he must be middle-aged, and t • must be sunburned after . serving his i time in such an oven as the Andamans. His height is readily calculated from the length of his stride, and we know that he was bearded- His hairiness was the one point which impressed Itself urou Tha-.ldeus Sholto when he Saw him at the window. I don't know j that there is anything else.” • “The associate?" “Ah. well, there is no great mystery ’in that. But yov wj)J know all a boat

tt ancm enough. How /kweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloudbank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature! Are you well up in your Jean Pnulp” | • “Fairly so I worked back to him through Carlyle.” "That was tike following the brook to the parent fake. He makes but one curious but profound remark. It is : that the chief proof of man's real great- i ness lies in his perception of his own smallness. It argues, you see.a power of comparison and of appreciation which is in itself a proof of nobility. There i> i much food for thought in Richter. You ■ have not a pistol, have you?" "I have my stick.” “It is just possible that we may need something of the sort if zwe get into their lair. Jonathan I shall leave to you. but if the other turns nasty 1 shall shoot him dead.” He took out his revolver as he spoke, and. having loaded two of the chambers, he put it back in to the right hand pocket of his jacket. , We Rad. during this time, been following the guidance of Toby down the half rural, villa-lined roads which lead bi the metropolis. Now. however, we ; were beginning to come among qontinuou,s streets* where laborers and dock- , men were already astir, and slatternly women were taking down shutters and ■ brushing doorsteps. At tpe squaretopped corner public houses business was just .l-eginning. and rongh-ldokijig men were emerging, rubbing -their sleeves across their beards after their morning wet. Strange dogs sauntered up. ami stared wonderingly at us as we passed, but our inimitable Toby looked > neither to thp right nor to the left, but I trotted onwards with his nosyztp the ground and an occasional eager whine, , which spoke of a hot scent. We had traversed Streatham, Brix- | ton, Camlicrwell. nnd now found our- i selves in Kennington lane, having borne away through the side streets tn thee east of the Oval. The men whom we pursued seemed to have taken a curiously zigzag road, with the idea probably of escaping observation. They had never kept to the main read if A parallel side street would serve their turn. At the foot of Kennington lane they had edged away to the left through s Botiq street and Miles street Where I the latter turns into Knight’s place Tol»ey ceased to advance, but began to ruu iMickwards and forwards with one ear cocked and the other drooping, the very picture of canine indecision. Then he waddled round in circles, looking up to us from time to time, as if to ask for sympathy in his embarrassment “What the deuce is the matter with i the dog?” growled Holmes:.- “They surely would not take a cab or go off j in a balloon.” •'Perhaps they stood here for some ; time.” I suggested. ■ “Ah! it's all right. He's off again.” ' said my companion, in a tone of relief. He was. indeed, off, for. after sniff- i ing round again, he suddenly made up

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TOBY STOOD UPOX THE CASK. his mind, and darted away with an energy and determination such as he had not yet shown. The scent appeared' to be much hotter than before, j for he had not even to put his n>»se on ■ the ground, but tugged at hiA. leash, and tried to break into a run. I could j gee by the gleam in Holmes’eyes that he thought we were nearing the end of j . our journey. , J Our course nOw ran down Nine Elms until we came to Broderick >fe Nelson's targe timber yard, just past the White Eagle taTem. Here the dog, frantic with excitement, turned down through ■ the side gate into the inclosure, where the sawyers were already at work. On I the d<sg raced through sawdust arid | shavings, down an alley, round a pas : sage, between two w<xxl-piles, and finally, with a triumphant yelp, sprang upon a large barrel, which stiH stoop * npoti the liand-troUey on which it had been* brought. With lolling tongue and blinking eyes, Toby stood upon the cask, looking from one tv the other I of us for some sign of appreciation. L The staves of the barrel and the wheels I of the trolley were smeared with dark liquid, and the whole air was heavy with the smell of creosote. Sherlock Holmes and I looked blankly at each other, and then burst simultaneously into an uncontrollable fit of j laughter. CHAPTER VIIL THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS. “What now?” I asked. “Toby has . , lost his character for infallibility." “He aeted according to his lights,” raid Holmes, lifting him down from the.liarrel and walking him out of the timber yard. “If you consider how much creosote is carted about London in one day. it is no great wonder that our trail should have been crossed. It I is much used now, especially for the j seasoning of wood. z Pooir Toby is not to blame.” f ’ j “We must get on the main scent ! ’ again. I suppose.” “Yes. And, fortunately, we have no distance to go. Evidently what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's place was that there were two different trails running in opposite directions. We took the wrong one. It only remains to follow the other.” There was no difficulty about this. i On leading Toby to the place where he had committed his fault, he cast about in a wide cireje. and finally dashed off in a fresh direction. ITO BS COXTTXCSD. | Not a Baron of- Hixh Decree. Mr. Park Hill—Were you aware of the fact that the gentleman who sat beside you at supper was a baron? Mr. Harlem Hites—No. but I judged from his conversation that he van—barren of Meas.—K. Y.

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON. In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 18th was: Wheat, 60,326,000 bushels; corn, 4,306,000 busaels; oats. 5,972,000 bushels; rye, 1,287.000 bushels; barley, 4,047,000 bushels In his annua! report Chief Hazen of the secret service shows that during the year 803 arrests were made, with few exceptions for violation of the statutes against counterfeiting. Alj tered and counterfeit notes, counterfeit I coins and the like were captured having an aggregate face value of almost $5,000,000. President Cleveland appointed John ; L. Peak, of Kansas City, Mo., United States minister to Switzerland, to succeed Broadhead, resigned. The new battle ship Indiana was accepted by the government from the builders. The assistant secretary of the interior department has decided that where a pension has been obtained fraudulently the attorney procuring the pension is not entitled to the fee and must refund it The National Civil Service Reform league will hold its annual meeting in Washington December 12 and 13. The commissioner of internal revenue in his annual report shows the receipts from different sources during the last fiscal year were J143.246.tf77. a decrease of $3,922,371 over the previous year. The death of Senor Augusto De Saguira Thedim.Portuguese minister to the United States, occurred at his residence in Washington, aged 38years. The Knights of Labor in session in Washington ordered a boycott against the establishment of Wanamaker de Brown, Os Philadelphia, and against the beer output of breweries controlled by the English syndicates in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Omaha and Philadelphia. THE EAST. E. J. Berio, of Boston, broke the twomile bicycle record at Fountain Ferry, Ry.. making the distance in 3:43 1-5. In session at Worcester, Mass., the National Grange reelected J. H. Brigham. of Delta, 0., as national master to serve his fourth term. Funeral services- over the body of Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D., famous as the author of the national hymn, “Amer- : ica.” were held at the First Baptist church in Newton, Mass. Flames in the Parker block at Lowell, Mass., caused a loss of $350,000. Secretary Carlisle spoke on national finances fit the 27th annual banquet ol the chamber of commerce of the city of New York. He said the legal tender note was the fundamental vice of our currency system, was responsible for many vagaries, and should be retired. On the New York Central road four boys wrecked a train near Rome. N. Y.. and N. N. Hager, the engineer, and an unknown man were killed. “ The Gloucester (Mass.) mackerel fleet the past season caught only 25,000 i barrels, against 50,000 last year. Burglars broke into the post office at Summit, N. J., open the safe ami secured over $5,000 worth of stamps I and SSOO in cash. The Silk Association of America at a meeting m New York advanced the price of tw isttyl <ilk five per cent. David J. Hill, president of the University of Rochester. N. Y, resigned to take effect at the close of the present college year. The Edna M. Champion, a schooner which sailed from Philadelphia October 12 for Port Tampa, Fla., was given up as lost with her crew of nine men. At Auburn. N. Y., Mrs. Mary T. McMillan was found guilty of making { counterfeit two-cent postage stamps and was sentenced to the Erie county penitentiary for 18 months. At the National Hardware association's convention in Pittsburgh resolutions were" adopted asking the republican nnd democratic national commiti tees to make the presidential campaign one of three instead of six months. At Troy, N- Y., the Morning Tele( gram, established in 1853 as the Troy ! Morning Whig, has suspended publica- [ tion. One hundred Armenians employed at the Whiting machine works at Whitinsville, Mass., refused to work becazse the firm would not discharge four i T urks. In Philadelphia Christ church cehbrated its 200th anniversary, distinguished prelates from all over the country being present. j ? WEST AND SOUTH Judge Ricks, of the United States Hr cyit court, sitting at Cleveland, in a tent case decided that a receiver of a tank can asiess stockholders and recover in suits from those w ho refuse to pay. At Dunlop. Kan.. David Henderson, a young colored school teacher, who asi suu I ted Dora Ray. one of his pupils, was cited to appear before the school board, and while fatally wounded Samuel Kay and bis wife and two other ■ persons w ith-a batcheL in the state of Washington the Nez Perces Indian reservation was opened for settlement. Un December 4 next a convention to consider thi* question of statehood for Oklahoma will be held at Shawuee. Samuel Grier anil his wife, of W ilmot. j Wis., died w ithin an hour of each other, j The husband was aged 73 and the wife 70. Last April they celebrated their golden wedding. One of the best known printing firms iu Chicago, the Henry O. Shepard company. failed for SHX),iWO. Flames destroyed the livery stable of J. R. Koons and" five dwellings in San Francisco and 30 horses were cremated. In Kansas City 100 retail druggists ■ formed a stock company to manufacture ull proprietary remedies consumed by the local trade. ! Earthquake shocks frightened the residents of Cairo. HI., but did no damage. I’birty-two buildings were burned at Purcell. 1.1- at a loss of $150,000. and two merchanU were arrested forareom Felicianh Chavez and Jesus Via I panda, convicted of murdering and burning the body of young lomas Mfirlinez, were hanged at Santa Fe, N. AL At the age of 107 years J. V- Doolan died at Jacksonville. UL , A feud between the Hanley, Jones and Kilgore families, near Birmingham, AU., resulted in the death of Joseph Kilgore and John Jones aud John Handley was fatally injured. Dangerous countefeit two-dollar bih* were in circulation in Indianapolis. 1 bey are a tritie larger than the genuine. nnd iu the portrait of Windom the eyes »re larger than in the original.

At Dallas. Tex., the Texas Paper company and the Deering Harvester company lost their plants by tire, the total loss being $125,000. A new gold-bearing region was said to have been found in Archuleta county, Col., which would eclipse anything known in the world. In Baltimore Alcaens Hooper, the first republican mayor ih 30 years, was inaugurated. Fire destroyed the business portion of Madisonville, Ky..» The marriage of Congressman J. P. Dolliver and Miss Louise Pearsons took place in the First Presbyterian church j at Fort Dodge, la. South of Ashland, Wis., 120 settlers are, by a decision from the general land office, made,homeless. Off St. Martin’s Key the schooner Shamrock of Key West, Fla., foundered and six of the crew, all colored, were lost. . At Cripple Creek, Cot., the monthly output of the .mines was said to be sl,000,000. At La Grange, Tex., the First national bank, which suspended payment October 20 last, was permitted'to resume business. . At Columbia, S. C., the constitutional convention made provision for the establishment of an industrial, mechanical and normal school for negroes. It was announced that John Tod, of Cleveland, had been appointed receiver of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad company. , Flames that started in the Excelsior building in Chicago, owned by Warren Springer, destroyed property valued at $500,000. Near Bryan; Tex., a negro accused of' riding a horse over a little girl, inflicting serious injuries, was lynched by a mob, but later developments showed that the mob got hold of the wrong negro/ Eugene* V. Debs, the president of the American Railway union, whs released from the jail at Woodstock, 111., after a confinement of six months. A mob hanged Charles Hurd, a neg—o who killed Joseph D. Kelley at Wartburg. Tenn. Fire destroyed ten business houses ant. one dwelling rit Geneva, Ind., and Oliver Martin was in jail charged with having caused the fire. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. While temporarily insane Manager Shqrt, of the Commercial bank nt Sale. Victoria, shot his wife and two children and then killed himself. Senor Canovas de Castille, the premier, declares that the persistent rumors regarding peace negotiations between representatives of the Spanish government and the insurgents of Cuba nre untrue. < The national fraternal congress (American) met in ninth annual session in Toronto.* The societies represented by the congress include a benefit membership of 1,337,570 and a social membership of 30,059, and the protection in force at the end”of the year was $2,847,054,610. Dispatches from West Africa say that Capt. Bower, the British resident at Ibadan, attacked and killed the king of Oyo and many of his followers. The'cruiser Minneapolis was ordered to sail, for Smyrna, Asia Minor, to assist in protecting the lives of American missionaries and other subjects of the United States in the districts now being ravished by the Mohammedan fanatics. A boiler and magazine explosion on the troop ship Kung Pai at Kin Chow, China, sent 600 men to death. The insurgents defeated the Spanish troops in a battle near Santa Clara, 500 of the latter being killed and wounded. The insurgents’loss was small. __ The Chinese papers are bitter in their attacks on the Japanese authorities in Corea, whom they blame for the murder of the queen. They say that there were 15 women of title in the court, the queen, her mother and 130 ladies in waiting and they were all soaked in oil and burned. In Canada Thanksgiving day was observed on the 21st. At the age of 70 years Sir Henry Ponsonby, formefly private secretary to Queen Victoria and keeper of the privy purse, died at Cowes. LATER NEWS. There Were 320 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 279 the week previous and 322 in the' corresponding time of 1894. Winebrenner Bros., oyster packers in Baltimore, made an assignment with liabilities of over SIOO,OOO. Advices' from Turkey say that the Kurds destroyed 20 villages in the northwestern portion of the district of Aleppo, and the 10,000 inhabitants were massacred. The new census of Wisconsin shows the total percentage of foreign-born population of the state to be 27.04. Naficy and Fannie Armstrong and Mollie Whitney (all colored) were burned to death in a cabin at Stony Point. Ky. John Redfern, the well-known ladies’ tailor, whose reputation is world wide,, died in London. Thomas Mabe and his two sons were burned fatally in a fire which destroyed their brandy distillery near Danbury, N.C.. Mrs. Phoebe’ Woodward celebrated her lo2d birthday anniversary at; Charlestown, Mass. The National Hardware association in session at Pittsburgh. Pa., elected W. W. Supplee, of Philadelphia, as president. Miss Ella Tickle, the smallest woman in Ohio, was buried at Miamisburg. She was 33 years old, 30 inches high, and weighed only 31 pounds. Prof. Brooks, director of Smith’s observatory at Geneva, N.Y ..discovered a new comet. This is the 20th comet discovered by Prof. Brooks. The Puget Sound Loan Trust and banking company at New Whatcom, Wash., failed with liabilities of $60,000. Amanda Cody and Florence English were hanged at YV arrenton, Ga.. for the murder of the Cody woman’s husband. Florence is a man.H. W. Smith, associate justice of the supreme court of Utah, died at Ogden. Eugene V. Debs was given a reception in Chicago upon his arpval from thj Woodstock jail and spoke to a large ’ audience in Battery D, his subject being “Liberty.” A 40-ton meteor fell on a farm near l Round Head. OIn a fire in the Exchange building in Chicago which caused a loss of over s3fK>.tH;o Patrick J. O’Donnell. Martin Sherrick, John Downs and John Preni dergast, all firemen, and Kittie Land- . graf were burned to death.

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