Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 December 1902 — Page 3

.... ® Second Cousin ^arah Bf THE AUTHOR OF ^5) "AME JUDGE. SPINSTER," "LITTLE KATE KIRBY," TST ETC.. ETC. W

CHAPTER Vll,—(Continued.) Reuben turned and looked toward the xatmvay, where from tiie shadows into fie warm sunshine beyond stepped the ymiug lady whom he had seen first in his fathers house. His astonishment was great, but the young lady’s surprise was still more strongly marked. She stopped, clasped her hands together, and then came on again, with two large clear gray eyes distended. Mr. Culwick! you in Worcester! You Stave repented; you are going to vour faffter?*’ Steuben shook his head and smiled a little. You are a foolish fellow,” sho said, 'and almost as strange a man as your father is. Are you still living down that wretched street in Camberwell?” "I can only afford to live in wretched streets,” was the reply. "'Vhat has brought you to Worcester?” "To see Aunt Eastbell,” he replied, and to discover, if possible, the mystery of my second-cousin Sarah. They are tny relatives; I am more interested in tfeem than I can explain. May I ask Fastbell and my sec*"*^RRW**~ ——— II II

otxi-cousin has to do with you ; I am interested in them more than

3. can explain,” was the arch answer; "that’s all.” "‘I wish you would explain something. Who are you, to begin with ?” "Ah, that’s not worth elucidation!” she •aid. “If I tell you that my name is Scotland. will that make the position any ■cfearer?” It might,” said Reuben, quickly. “My filter yished me to marry a Miss HolSand once, a young lady whom I had nev■er seen, and whom I was to take upon trust. Are you the lady?” ■“Y'es, sir.” And have you married my father inste*nd of me?” he asked, satirically. I would not marry either of you for stwiee your father's money.” she said, fcank'y. “I am simply his housekeeper, at a housekeeper's wage. My father was his best friend, and your father has been kind to me, in his odd way, since my father's death.” And now, said Reuben, “will you cxTdain why you are interested in Aunt filastbell. why the girl who has deserted iner corresponds with you? why you pass ^our?telf off as the niece of that old woman who has left us?” “I’ll work backward, if you will allow w." she said, “I call myself Miss Mugjperidge because the name of Holland is familiar to your aunt. The girl corre"Monds with me because she knows that £ read her letters to her grandmother, and that I am the grandmother’s friend while she is away. I am interested in Mrs. Eastbell, and feel for the utter loneliness in which she is left by her friends. I have been interested m Mrs. Eastbell ®er some years now, for the matter of Skat.” "Indeed! and her granddaughter, Sarah Hast bell, also?” Os late days—a little. She was not ■very gracious to me—she never cared to s<*e me here. M hen she got into trouble^ ■sae thought that she would make me her i, wns tQO latc -” “When she got into Heuben; “what trouble was that?” ■“Come with me, and I’ll show you.” She led the way out of St. Oswald’s h«to the Tithing, crossed the road to the corner of the street leading to the prison. aM pointed to the wall, in which several bills were posted. One was to the effect that a reward of five pounds was offered For the apprehension of Sarah Eastbell, fate of Worcester, who had conspired with others for the unlawful issue of spurious coin. Reuben stared with amazement at the placard. “It is well that the old wonun is blind,” he murmured. "I did not think it was so bad as this.” “Neither is it.” “You mean that——” “That her brother is at the bottom of sit. Y’ou don't know what a scamp he is, I Oppose? He gave her the money, I beeve. She offered a sovereign in all good nith—it was detected as (false coin—she was asked where she lived, and how she became possessed of it, and she took fright and ran away.” “Is she with her brother?” “Yes. She wrote to me without giv’ng her address, stating that she must remain with her brother Thomas for a while. He was in business, and was taking care of her. She left Grandmother Eastbell in my charge, she said. It's a responsibility,” she added, “but I have accepted it.” Reuben related the story of his dis■overy of Sarah Eastbell, of her flight from him. and the way in which he had lost her in the gardens of Saxe-Gotha. Miss Holland reflected for a few moments. then she said: “I wonder if her brother performs there. He is an acrobat at times. When he was first in prison, he was arrested in his tumbler's dress.” “In prison-—an acrobat?” Reuben Culwick remembered at once tumbler who had been spinning round on tne S ^ G , ohen he nad first entered the gar? Could that be Tom Eastbell, the sc had brought his sister into difl

who had caused her to Hv fn Worcester, m order to escape the'clmZ >f uttering base coin? ' ai?< the foIIo "- in » evening Reuben Cuick was in the Saxe-Gotha gardens again waiting patiently for the a >nt • nnee of Signor Vizzobini, who had post' iwied his departure for Turin f< r • - b ‘ . Rpecial . ^"est of the nobilßv g.ntry and public iu general no i >’ ’ half-past nine in his highly graces d and artistic entertainment, as perforin •d before all the crowned heads of E n rope, to the immense delight ana • 7' “'"i among them. 111,10 CHARTER VIH. hg ^ x, T V othil /^ were not doMg wm. Even the re-engagement , f S: ^° r \ mzobini had not .armmed J 1 to enthusiasm. It was a J. m I dull evening, even for the Sav-Goth i 1 10 l tile second time on what the '™ . fain tabdon passins brilliancy and splo U .

It was a more resectable evening that f " the SCant y attendance • v lK ' counted liftv-tw, Wdh the babies in arms. Reuben, •Hufer a shady tree, .an old blue Scotcli „ 3p dra "n down to his eyebrows end a turned up to his o ar s J* Splud mixed in a friendly way with . Hp W ° S a ta,i ' ,a ”h «i « melancholy aspect. He finally took d under the tree where Reuben for our business. I Should think,” answered Reuben.

“Rain always keeps the people away; 1 no matter what you offer them in the vv ay of attraction—they won’t come, sir.” Here the eyes remained so long in the corners next to Reuben's that Reuben was afraid that Mr. Splud’s vision had become permanently fixed. I have seen you somewhere, and that is what bothers me a bit,” said Mr. Splud, byway of apok -y. Reuben did not tell h/ that he was lodging next door but two, and that they had passed each other in the street with 1 tolerable frequency; but the idea had sug- • gested itself to put a few questions on 1 his own account, when a third person * joined them. The newcomer was a small, spare men, in a long, seedy grent coat * with big horn buttons, extending from * his chin to his heels, and who wore a dirty yellow’ handkerchief tied loosely round his throat. He was a man of an f unearthly pallor, and pitted so deeply 1 with smallpox that one wondered how he ’ had ever struggled out of his malady 1 alive. J “You don’t want r to-night. I sup- t pose?” he said to the j. prietor. c “Y’es. Ido want yon Because I pa- e -- - ’'. „’ . ; ■ ■■... mi.,, il

you, ouiu ,ui.

1 want your money next Saturday. I sup- ’ pose?” he asked, with so muck biting sarcasm. Yes, I do—and I’ll take care I get it,” , said the other, far from civilly, “along . with last week's. What’s the use of . dressing up and a performing in the blessed rain before nobody? There’s nobody here, there’s nobody coming, and itss a beastly shame on me.” If I have the honor of addressing Signor Y’izzobini, I may add that I have come here this evening expressly to witness his performance,” said Reuben. “Have you, though?” said the acrobat, surprised in an extraordinary degree. “Well, if you can't let a fellow off. I'll go and dress,” and he walked away in deep thought. “He is a vagabond not up to his work,” said Mr. Splud. “I took him by advertisement. on the faith of his recommendations. He has fallen off three times this week, and if he breaks his neck one of these fine days it will be a happy release to the profession.” “What is that man’s real name?” asked Reuben. “I haven’t the slightest idea; Jack Sheppard, perhaps.” “You know his address, sureb e “Oh, yes. No. 2 Potter’s cc/ Walworth road.” ® "Thank you. Good night.” Reuben knew’ nothing ote ^Potter's Court; but he muttered, “P./ « Sarah!” as he went down the cavern/ entrv in search of No. 2. He knock’ ^at a parlor door with the handle > his stick, and a grim-looking individm fin his shirt sleeves answered the appeal. “What’s up?” he said, in not too civil a style of address. “Do you know a Mr. Y’izzobini?” said Reuben. “He performs at the SaxeGotha gardens on the slack rose.” “Oh!” said the parlor floor, hisparagingly; “top of the ’ouse—front ronm.” Reuben went up the dark stairs, reachn front room door with his stick, and rapped gently. “Who’s there?” said a faint, weak voice, which Reuben did not recognize. “I come from the Saxe-Gotha.” “From Tom?” “Y’es.” The door was Cautiously opened, and there streamed through the aperture, i through which a woman's face was peering—white and wan and pinched—a rush of hot air as from a furnace mouth. “Is he locked up?” said the woman, somewhat apathetically. “No. He will be back presently, I think.” “Come in if you like, then; we don’t charge any more.” said the woman, with a somber flippancy, and glided back noiselessly to the side of a big fire that was blazing in the grate, sat down in the chair she had quitted, and leaned her head against the wail like a woman tired out. But it was not her at which he gazed so intently as at the figure of a girl in a striped cotton dress, who lay face-fore-most on the patch-work counterpane of the bed. It was a figure of despair that thrilled him; it was surely Second-cousin Sarah cowering from him in that hour of her discovery. “I say, what’s your message?” asked the woman. "What have you got to say about Tom, and what has Tom to say?” “Are you Tom’s wife?” “Y’es, I am.” “And that’s Tom’s sister?” Here the woman burst into a paroxysm of coughing, for the cessation of which Reuben waited patiently, keeping his eyes upon the figure on the bed, and doubtful still if it were sleep that kept Sarah so dumb and passive. It was a violent cough, that of Mrs. Eastbell’s, which was rending away all the life that was left in the sufferer, who carried consumption in her every look and fitful breath. “You have come for her,” said Mrs. Eastbell, in a husky voice. “Yes, I have come for her, if she'll

p lOU re just the chan for th^T? ]. is to trust, said Mrs. Eastbell, ironical ° ™,‘^z r " ay “ i*. s "’lndeed! Ilas she?” ' aint " orc e R tcr prison, it’ll be . the Surrey canal. Here-hi-Sn h'” : ^ ttewonmn. “you’re fetched. my ; EM?’ “ cove 9 “ )sl “ -™» : Ihe girl lying on the bed sprang nn theXXmlXVi ° nCC ; and g,arod to ™' d tiem both, shaking her long black hair floln her head as sho did so. Her face r’’pU"’S """ b ” ipi l.j stole over it as she recognized I‘cuben Culwick standing by tie fir place observing her. 5 f e “wS^ 1 ” T Want? ” She m ”fmm’ed; njm has made you come in search of am'^rnid r; V T’” the anSwer ' “ fw 1 Iwsi t f y ° U T 1,1 bad hands. and 1 to , takc you from them.” SarahW^/hei^ aWUy ’” answcred "Tom wouldn’t like it,” sald Mrs . East . t - “Sally's handv.” the y kUows to ° niuch,” added s’ ? f g n ’ 5C 7 nf,,,, - v - “ami if she moved one ■ I an ay from home they would tell the

Police where to find me” rnisUTl^P’ said the woman, raising her head from the wall, and in<lin mg it for war.] in her self-defense. 1 ( > ou know who would ” Hr? 1 ';/ m”i? ‘T SWPr fOr bim ’” replied t .’ Lastboll. leaning her head baclumcl'Xvh ’t’ 11 ! ’"'i baCk ' S ” P be dou,t mind f< r un" h ° C( ' rtai,l, - V - aad misiortun has soured him awful ” » Mid tab™" TOterdnyC • Vou did?” exclaimed she—“at Wor- 1

! cester? 1 hope sne was well—ihat she , didn’t know anything.” “No—she lay there just as I saw her weeks ago. very patient, very gentle, and very full of love for you. She was waiting for her granddaughter to come back. Couldn’t she come to you? I don’t mean at once,” he added, as Sarah recoiled at the suggestion, -‘but after you had left here and got some situation, which might enable you to hire a room for her. A friend of mine has found you a situation already, and I will be security for your faithful service, until they learn to trust you for yourself.” Sarah broke down at last. The thin i little hands went up quckly to the face, and she sobbed forth: “God bless you. sr; but don’t —oh, don’t I say another word.” But Reuben Culwick. carried away by { his theme, seized his advantage and j went on. He had one object in life now —to get Sarah Eastbell from that house. “Why, you are my cousin,” he said earnestly, “and why shouldn't I help you for your own sake, as well as for the sake of that old woman grieving for you down in Worcester?” “Sally,” said her sister-in-law. slowly and emphatically, “I've been a thinking it all over.” "Woll?” said Sarah Eastbell. “And if you’d like to go, I’ll not blab a single word against you. even if he kills me. and he’s often said he would. He mayn’t find you out. and if he does he’ll think twice about doing you an ill turn. He’s not so bad, you know, take him altogether. Go—run away—hook it,” ex- ' c<aimed Mrs. Eastbell, with increasing excitement evidencing itself along with hejh^jdan^y phraseology, “while tl

time. - Sarah wavered, for she turned quickly to her sister-in-law. “You—you mean this? You will not tell Tom or Tom’s friends—you will let me pass from this place unwatched—you will give me time to get away?” “Os course I will.” “I camo here of my own free will, sir, not knowing where to go in my despair and fright.” she said, turning to Reuben; “but. oh, if I could get away again. If you only knew’ that ” Her hands fell helplessly 1o her side, and she went backward step by step to the bed again, where she sat down with a new horror on her countenance. The door had opened and Tom Eastboll, with his long great-coat buttoned round him, was standing in the doorway regarding them. Over his shoulder loomed the forbidding countenance of the man who had met Reuben at the entrance, which, by the jarring and clanging that echoed through the house, was evidently being bolted and barred. (To be continued.) GOLDEN GATE CITY LEADS. San Francisco Shows the Largest Percentage of Suicides. The number of people who voluntarily shuffled off this mortal coil in American and other cities during last year has been investigated by some delver in statistics and the following figures indicate the results: San Francisco leads with the largest ratio, 39.1 per 100,000 population. Next comes another Pacific coast city. Los Angeles, with a ratio of 29.8. The reader has naturally been looking for Chicago, and that city does in fact come next ; with a ratio of 24.0. followed by the j neighboring city of Milwaukee, whose ' ratio is 22.2. New Orleans was the I scene of the self-destruction of 21. S per- I sons per 100,000 of population, and Cin- i cinnati folio wen close wttn Haven is next with 20.9, and then comes the borough of Manhattan with 20.0. though greater New York as a whole is well down the list with a ratio of only 13.6. This is less than Rochester, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Omaha and Louisville, besides all of those specifically enumerated above. As to the foreign cities. Paris leads the list with a ratio of 42, followed by Berlin 36, Y ienna 28 and London 23. There were more suicides in Saxony than in any other country, 31.1 per 100,000. In Denmark the ratio was 25.8, in Austria 21.2, in France 15.7, in the German empire 14.3, and Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and Spain followed in the order given. The table referring to American cities is somewhat difficult to explain. Why the city of the Golden Gate, and California, with its glorious climate, its sunshine, its fruit and its flowers, should show the greatest number of suicides seems a mystery, unless the presence of a large Chinese population explains it. The high suicide rate of Chicago is, perhaps, accounted for by the rush and struggle of that great city and the large foreign element it contains—a foreign element, moreover, which comes mainly from those countries where suicide is most frequent. The same is perhaps true of Milwaukee and Cincinnati. The high rate at New Orleans may possibly be attributed to its relation to France and the ideas and traditions brought here from Paris, the suicide capital of the world. But New York City casts a cloud over some of these explanations. Here are the large foreign populations, the stress and

1- strain of living ami working, the po vd th^ «X e f XCSh : n,Cnt ’ Yet Thlladelphia, the sleeping city of the humorous pari OTphers. has a higher ratio of suicides han greater Now York. And how is , t to be explained that New Haven . cads all the other New England cities ■ m the number of suicides? st Paul and Minneapolis lay side by side, but in X’p. o ''?*- ls 1110 ratio ^-as 11.4 and in < - an. it is but G. 5. It seems that the conclusions must be that there is no madness and ,1, at the I falhne ““ “ rU,e ls ‘''""md to Youth’s Unrestraint. Hon’t you sometimes long for your childhoods happy days?” said the'sentimental person. ‘•Yes.” answered Miss Cayenne,“there am imes when I would enjoy hanging lon the fence and making faces at peoP e I don t like, instead of having to say, ‘now do you do, dear? So glad to see you." »-w asl]igton star

• legitimate. She--S° you lost all your money in speculation? 'l’he Vrgent Caso— Yes'm “But. beside that, didn't you have any legitimate business?” y tiZ^Se. ' a dealer iD decidedly So. "Have that newly married couple set ip housekeeping yet?” "I should say SO- ' They’re so set up joy yon t notice their neighbors.”— hiladelphia Bulletin.

VENEZUELA SUBMITS. PEOPLE HAVE A’s LAST ENOUGH OF BLO< 2DSHED. War Ilas Been V< ry Costly—Everybody Ilas FoiiKht- -Armies Have 1 een Untrained Mobs— YVomen Have Also Eonixht in the Ra iks. ! President Castro is to-day the dictator |of Yenezuela. How long he will remain I in undisputed power remains to be seen,

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voTtT T* —*’y. many of them imwdH castko. Peeking safety in other countries, there to remain until a favorable opportunity for their return shall be presented.. I Castro is dictator, but he is not secure,! for the assassin’s knife may conquer where the rebel guns have failed. , The revolution just ended has been a very costly one. Wherever the troops, either government or revolutionary, have .’'twses have been lei .ng young crops

, destroyed, orelur>*.; l .'!U the grass trampled ou 'J lu 'y'vood, even , pastures turned into ' existence, and mi i• . aveyards. 1 he history of Vo. ‘ , Is one big calendar 1901 conspiracy and inte revolt, political ment, and is of more , L»nnl embroilest. Early in the taan P a ssing intermodic revolts against’! ear sev e ral sP«s- . of President Castro the ™*°cratic rule J these led by Gen 1 One of President Andrade’s >orazo ' one of ex ’ deserted to Castro an « enern l s . who nad , to expel Andrade fro 1 th '' b,tt “ r suited in the defeat < ,n the rewith their leader, we the . rebels - who- - - re driven over the

CAP I Bf3EA. ~~ - L..—-' APT:;?.' U-dT'i, . I G u \ CI ^JUirteo.>.»’' (Manarr Soi^ar IIW MAP OF T == 1 ==-! IE COUNTRY’ CASTRO HAS DEVASTATED.

Colombian border. A ~ . vigorous rebellion oc T ' le SJ ) lue time, a I Wnezuela, which ws urre< i *” eastern after several severe * ^PPressed only I March, Castro, who hr fn«agements. In ident of Venezuela s d bee , n actlng P res ’ [ President Andrade in nce !e °' t>r lhrew [formally elected pros October. 1899. was r eznela Congress to ld [‘ nt ,y '‘’ n I, term. Ul ‘ *“ e unexpired 1 Castro came into h lively unknown man, ’ n cotnparat L iving won bis way 1 ■— —n ill 4 I X । SISI! i I mA. f [ WHITE 801 SE o' F VEN’EZVELA. I 1 ~TTS ~: —— i into public favor thn u Sn Ins work m the ■ army. He was a yo HI S man and there- • fore aroused a spirit jealousy among ' the older men. The Igovernment of Y'enezuela is made up .ri' t"'o parties, Liberals and Conservip*' 08 - Eor several (years the Conservatf ve s had taken little I j or no active part ill the government af- ' fairs. After Castr . was made ruler, a feeling of dissatis ’«cUon sprang up (among the Liberals There was a divis- , ion among the part ■ The opposing fac•tion was headed b -Y- Alatos. The Conservatives re lut’d neutral, but | gave the opposin: arty monetary aid. ' -The struggle went 11 until finally Mafos , mortgaged his ow.i property to obtain j money to carry on F lO revolution against i Castro and the govßyunient party, which he had instigated. I l 'astro nothing loath Ito fight, at the hea !of t! ie government ' . party, met the revo utionist forces under l Matos. Since then ' «’»th only slight lulls | ior breathing spaces th e merry struggle i 1 has gone on for inaiA’ months. [ A regular Y’enezt H an a t'niy looks like ; 1 \a badly organized^! )an d of robbers. A .terrible mix-up, a r'lue dressed soldier 1 (side by side with a fnrmer, whose ruana 1 in its better day h a “° w as a coffee i sack. The next ma 1 * n the badly formed । line has no ruana] ^uf ’ s proud of a shirt whose color !'" , ' as once white. A f child of 12 stands l n the same line with ] an old gray-haired 111I 11 an > once stal- li ' wart form is nov/ bent downward and c ’•bo is Fivhing v - '^"_the weight of his n

rifle. A good p, *, , b° or lelioMs have no idea w' ’ for w hom they are going to fig] ™ any tbeni "cv-'r touched a rifl i Xm A " d consider the Mauser or “( J ;,s a very nic“, wonderful thiWjJ. Pay with , unfortunately a trifle h^ s np . , . No preparation or In organizing the fighting i h,® fan ar m.v in Venezuela, because t e Ia n ° cominis- I sary departmeni> s f, b ° Spltal arrange- j rrw,r.<.„ ■ • w r°r pavino- fi>„ . I

! merits, no provisioim „„ I ’’ rhe moi and no bother abl . nis ’ for irum. are lacking, clubs| Q , ’cutters or any- • thing used as a.? dl pass muster. When 'Urevof,,i" ' n ^ t! ' rt3 tl,e Peons are promptly di ' w ” army or the other. Ar . t , bludgeons or canecutters, sin t’® Cu han machete, they are "r^ers, being utterly reckless o ,? ves ’. Perhaps the i "^cresting members of Castro’s arm < women soldiers | who follow the ./ 1 101 through duty I or love of the vi Brief I •Miss Fioreue ^ iU from St. Louis to 1 to "boom” the world's fair. . I

State Fish C X'| 0 '! Pr nau S he y 'vil ask the Kansa ■’ lsla ture to estabhsl a State fish ha‘ The New J ^'Preme Court has sustained the , ace f " t Hoboken prohibiting salooi S lrom having barmaids. Th- eontrar v.i.er works for Lawton, O. 7 r- CU Hto ^'ook A Son of Junctk •' V ,n ’ The contract price is $104,! Three mas) AX ^i 1 "P tb e office j and store of • de ( ’obra Mining Company Mexico, securing s2,Ooi| ' ।

MANY BANKS LOOTED. Epidemic of Robberies Among Banks and Postoflices. ithin a month there has been an epidomic of bank and postofflee robberies throughout the country. The middle \\ estern States appear to have suffered most from these depredations, Indiana, lowa ami AY iseonsin particularly. Several bold robberies have occurred in the East and in the far West, however, within the last few weeks. It has not been a month since a daring band of robbers took possession of an Illinois town and dynamited a Imnk vault while the town marshal and his police force were kept under guard in the main street. News of the most recent robbery by armed bandits comes to-day from ’ Warren, Mich., and a story of wanton murder accompanies it. A desperate attempt was also made to rob the Exchange Bank of Akron, Ind., ami at (’lark’s Hill the postofflee safe was blown open by cracksmen. Among the robberies reported within the last thirty days are the following: I’ r airle City, lowa, safe of lowa State Bank blown open; $4.000 taken, robbers escaped from the town under fire from town officers. Brodhead, Ky., two masked men robbed the railway station of $600; escaped. <>ardner. 111., six masked men took possession of the town early in the morning and blew open the vault of the Exchange National Bank, securing $4,000; escaped. Gann Valle. 8. D., safe in the Bank of Buffalo County wrecked; robbers frightened away before they could secure any money. Westville, Ind., cracksmen secured S2OO from a safe in the establishment of Jacob Herrold; escaped. Reedsburg. Wis., postoffice safe dynamited and robbed of $1,600 in cash<tMid sev- 1 eral hundred dolls’*s >•' re.”’ • ?

or he conquered only by having superior equipment, the i n s u r r e ctionists yielding only after t heir ammunition had been exhausted. A bile he and his : rmy are in possestion of the governi nent, the insurrectiionists are scattered all over the coun-

...nl stamps; robbers escaped. Steere. Ohio, safe blowers secured S2OO in 1 cash and $4,000 worth of government bonds from establishment of E. B. Willard & Co.; । escaped. Verona, Pa., postofflee safe blown open 1 and rifled of SIOO in cash and stamps valued at several hundred dollars; robbers escaped. Greenwood, Wls.. four masked men blew open the vault of the Greenwood State l Bank, securing SB,OCO in cash; escaped. ’ Richards. Mo., vault of the Bank of Rich- . ards wrecked. $1,500 taken; cracksmen es- . caped with booty. Albuquerque. N. M„ safe of the Santa Fe ' railway station blown open and $2,000 secured; man named Joyce arrested with some of the money and papers in his possession. • Cloverland, Ind., postofflee safe blown

open: several hundred dollars in cash and stamps taken; five masked men seen leaving with their plunder. Culver, Ind., postofflee safe blown open; sl.otx) worth of stamps carried away. Dover, Tenn., Stewart County Bank robbed of $2,100 by safe idowers. Mason, \\ . V., Harry Allemang. a ball player of the Southern League, was shot by safe blowers lie had discovered making away with S!GO they had taken from the postofflee vault. Edwardsport, Ind., cracksmen blew open n safe in tile establishment of Benjamin \ oUe A- Co., securing $150; escaped. Elyria. Ohio, reign of terror created bv four robbers ended in the death of one of the bandits and the wounding of the town | marshal.^ —■■ Arthur. lowa, safe blowers took $2 300 in from the vault of the FameTs’ Loan am Trust Company's Bank; escaped < i o ’^ 0- /m' fiVC lllask '-’ l l robbers blew a t* u Postofflee safe and took SSOO worth stamps and S2O in money; escaped after <‘ing shot at by citizens XKr ""“ n: ; Little Rock, Oro., postofflee safe blown open and robbed of several thousand d fl lais, robbers escaped IIS " a ' th ° snfo In thp Bancroft Bank was blown open and robbed of $4 000 tn cash and considerable commercial paper ^-troyed by the explosion; robbers Ts pietro Mascagni. The Author of Cavalleria Rusticana Now in Iliis Country. The musical world is now interested in the visit to America of Pietro M.isc ’ lglll - the maestro, who bounded into

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PIETRO MASCAGNI. pipco first o Ti!ne has abundantly disproved this assertion. His fame as a thorough artist, a great musician and a teacher is growing year by year. Just a little over 35 years of age, brimful of tun, a thorough sportsman, and possessing all the enthusiasm 'of a healthy young man. Mascagni is xvorshipcd in Italy as the brightest star in the musical heavens—the one whose bril-

s P Ba8 ®^ ■ I i j X V-m, the art of melodv for ''.en'X 1 ' genius it will be’that > Un, ‘ 8 ’ llis beloved ItaJv in her S)a Petai n his as a foremost land of'mn*-^- "lace ists whose work I.X ai "T Clans a " d artmen more pleasant 'v^ t,IP Jivps of ^seagni is'a “X mX^ if ab ‘ much Him other yomlg^. y ° n ' 1S reports ^M^UL^7 FFAfRs Chief Edwards of Islands r "ork Aecom H I Tc,! *

' ,p, -^ v ”«>PJ lS hed. " rij 10 annual report of (’ o i m , . Edwards, chief of ' Cha Hes R . affairs of the War I) | ,lreaj °t insular that office, in rospom-, 1 I, '?r tn, r n t’ show* Congress and of ke p„fmX dp,ll amls of <’d a vast amount of work I J Prfortil ' k'<’o'd and prepared f„ r t) . ‘ bas colfonnation of the publie a l-X,. ''T in ' facts regarding volume cf Tnited States" Th, ”1 pOSSf ’ SNio ns "f the ’•eau have been m, •' on H "' ’uR’nnd n'mXXri ni 'ln'aZ‘ hl <he C ' erical force lmend I "i addition to the mmv o ant duties which the War ' Z'' I '. ! I “ P ' ;r ' flssiirnoil ♦i. > I

mmchaS p ’ d cnt to the 4, ;.’ " Sta t- int"" cortifieation ofXe VnJ siT" • service commission and the s c ivd for their trausnorf •>! i ,n rangoment pba - Th- rep' rts s)X 2; bi!i >'- The InweanX ‘Z tbe ^-n.X of insular documents'so'h' 1 ^ bbra ry of the w^rk performed hr H r '‘'’ Ord Segregated from the War n " r ° au is s-nd will furnish th i department I the orto I,mo an d Cuba /

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Here is a picture of George F. Baer, the self-proclaimed “capitalist by divine right. Mr. Baer is the president of the

GFOIUiE F. BAEK.

interests- in probably a score of great enterprises and is the employer of nearly a.OOO men. He began life as a comparatively poor man. but his extraordinary talent lor financing properties roon brought him to the front. I>r of. Alexander Graham Bell declares that wireless telegraphy will never work well on laiwl. though for the ocean,

where the rays are unobstructed, it is likely to succeed ca-

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on s. i rof. Bell is I one of the few in- t venters who have profited greatly out of their labors; Ids patents in connection with the telephone and graphopho ne, both of which he invented, | have made him wealthy. He is now

55 years oh], nnd intends to devote the rest of his life to the education of children having defective hearing, sight cr mentality. He is at the hfead of the Y’olta bureau in Washington, the greatest institution in the world as regards scientific study of the deaf. Caldwell Hardy, choice of the nominating committee for next president of the American Bankers’ Association, is

one of the leading financiers of Norfolk. Y’a., where he is president of the Norfolk National Bank. He is a native of North Carolina, a former resident of Brooklyn and a graduate in the science of banking from the institutions of Will street. Mr. Hardy has been connected

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with the Norfolk National Bank since 1S8;>, when, upon its organization, he was installed as its cashier. George A. Henty, who died on board his yacht at Weymouth, England, will lie mourned by thousands of yomm’ read-

GEO. A. HENTY.

ers to whom Henty’s books for boys were the acme of delight in literature. Over seventy volumes are comprised in the series, and nenr'v nU " r Lom relate in some way to travel, adventure and war. But Mr. Henty won fame | also as a newspaper i man and war cor- ' respondent, and he

served in such capacity in nearly every war since the Crimea, to which he went in the purveyor's department. He accompanied King Edward, then Prince of YVales, on his tour of India. He was nearly 70. The recent fanatical march of the Doukhobors, or Russian Quakers, from their settlement in Manitoba toward YVin-

nipeg, “in search of Jesus,” was led by the aged Ivan Mahortoff, chief of the zealots, whose teachi ings have brought I tile Doukhobors all their troubles. Mahortoff was prominent among ’he Doukhoboristi during their persecution in Russia, which led to their emigration to Canada. Since their pilgrimage was

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interfered with by the Dominion authorities. the Russians have turned their minds toward lurkey. and are petitioning the Sultan to grant them land somewhere in his empire. I alike M. I’elletan. who made indis-

creet speeches and still retains his post in the French cabinet, J. I Tarte C>n i 1 .i: — a . ..

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dian minister of public works, bas been forced to resign because of unauthorized remarks he delivered in Europe recently. In accepting the resignation Sir Wilfrid

.r ; lr - -- ■ that ‘hrn action in . discussing ;1 po)iz , v | f .high protection I d,lr,n ? his absence «

ui Europe without J israei constitntionindXtX'' ■" Wh °" y ~n - of responsible "overn, ' ” f ° ab '’Otions Z' . HP Vas ai politics and joined ’the'h" ; ,,ia "" ed I home is in Quebec. hberals. His (d as chairman T of the coif 1188 bpßn cm conference of seeiv

, and business orgam I izatmns. banded to- | g '' ther . for the p IIr . Po-c of securing a hew charter for the ' P t 5 of Chicago and a new constitution the State ,>f Ijjj. nois hnc L . nas been one oj < hmago's foremost business men ami most publicspirited citizens far many years. y[ r was born' in ' ormont in IS<n

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of Minor Noto 'W 2. —■■■ in wJZX,";;.' Tlie cholera has practlcallv ad from Egym. Cai,,, m disappear, he disease, which n idly fr °' U a F«l««Uur. r -Wid.j

ifiECORIWTHEWEEK I INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. I Bank Clerk Dies in Defense of TrustCoal Combination Docs Not Materialize—Young Lady Kills Herself—Four Paper Plants Bought. During a heroic battle in defense of the cash of the Westville State Bank YVes- । ley Reynolds wtls shot through the heart | shortly before daylight Sunday morning ।by a member of a gang of robbers Prei- ymus to receiving his death wound he had been shot through the head and again through the neck. Although o „e of the bullets causing these wounds shattered his chin, one tearing a big hole through to the base of the brain, while the other passed clear through his body, the faithj ful bank clerk fought on until he had ( emptied two revolvers in a vain effort to kill one or more of his four assailants. His bravery prevented the looting of the bank. The robbers, one believed to be badly wounded, fled from the scene of death. The citizens have offered a reward of .SI,(XM) for the arrest of the murderers. Reynolds was only 16 years old. Aside from being a trusted clerk he acted in the capacity of watchman, sleeping in the bank at night, with three revolvers within roach. Indiana Coal Trmt Off.

Reading Company, I also of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Corn- [ pany and of the ' Reading Coal and ' ! Iron Company. He 1 i was elected to these ! important offices a little more than <ne year ago in succession to Joseph S. Harris, who retired at that time. This 1 great captain of in- I dustry holds vast

■■ 1 ' ”ai opviaiors now auii it that, ah hough the operations on the bituminous mines of the State rim until J in. 1, the consolidated company will not be iormed. \\ hen the leading operators went to New York recently to complete the deal with the Moore Brothers and the "Rock Island crowd." who were to finance the enterprise, the scare was on in financial circles and the failure to form the company then was announced as due to the fact that the men who were to have done the financing were too much absorbed protecting other interests. It now has liecome known that had there been no scare the scheme would not have gone through for two reasons: First, the operators were asking too much for their property; second, the operators were objecting to the plan by which they were to accept 60 per cent in stock which the promoters were to water to the total of 825.OOO.OIX) and of which the promoters were to have what was held to be too large a proportion. Lovers' Quarrel Is Fatal. “Dress me in black and place Will's photograph in my left hand when you bury me. said Hattie Larkin, the pretty IS year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Larkin of Marion, after sne had taken twenty grains of morphine. Miss Larkin and \\ illiam Gallapo, a young business man, were lovers, but quarreled because Miss Larkin went to a social function with another young man. Miss Larkin called at Gallapo's place of business and told him she would like to talk to him, but he refused. She went home and took the paison. Doctors worked with her for several hours, but she died. Buys Four Paper Plants. Four big industries in Delaware County have gone under the control of the I nited Boxboard and Paper trust and mortgages aggregating SI,SIX>.<XW were filed. The officials of the plants say they will be operated steadily. The merged plants are YY’est Muncie Strawboard works. Paragon Paper mills at Eaton, Albany Strawboard works at Albany and Consumers’ I 1 f' -— _ j Find Evidence of Murder. Edward Buisking was found dead near Gem. A post-mortem revealed a fracture at the base of the skull and a cut ■on the left side of the chin. In company with four young men from Indianapolis, ( Buisking had been out hunting. Hi? -mi lay empty three feet from his body. Murder is suspected and an investigation is being made. Robbed of Gems During Reception. Thieves entered rhe sleeping apartment of Miss Deetta Curry of Hommvood and carried away her jewel box containing valuable diamond solitaires and severa'l other gems. The robbery was committed during a reception given to a party of young people ;l f the house. The police have searched in vain for a ck w. Valparaiso is in the lead for the 1903 meeting of the State Y. AL C. A. In Richmond a fine new business block is to be erected by J. M. Westcott. Emil Erickson, aged 19 years, of t'hicago, was killed by a train at Crissman. The Supreme Court has enjoined East Chicago from paying water rents, on the ground that the transfer . f the water works was void. At Eiston Mrs. Jehu Grant imr; e]y escaped death from being tramped , u by a cow. Mrs. Grant was severely injured before she was rescued. Two men. supposed to be E. W. Pollock and Marion Pierson of Brid_;“port, were found dead in their room at the Ar-’ lington Hotel in liidianapni's. Death was caused by escaping gas. The gas jets were turned on and the gas was escaping when the men were discovered. Gov. Durbin has appointed Patrick O’Brien of South Bend a m miber of the board <>f managers of the State prison at Michigan City to succeed E. 11. Nebeker. Charles Major of Shelby was appointed a member of the board of fus-

1 1 WiJ,i am IL ' 1 >f the ' " b h "as counsel Hinshaw, now serving Hfl - U d,,ani E. .wife murder seven v,".,-- . lor have proof that th ■ " ago, <bnn s , , :,s " ’’"ar since and eJ ( " y ' ai tilp ara 7 ring worn by Mrs nI i' S ' n;,n the time she w-,s ' ’ Hllls haw at Whitnev. ;1 wel VX, '''' Pd

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„ ' l, ( am'ey was int. •-’oXX ‘rof announce,l that the -i’ -’mlro.cl, '’l' advanJi:;^.^^' " a yn the Pennsylvania Jines/ " a '“ C 1 he Hazelrigg Gj era Hoi, droved by fire at " aS de ‘ bmlding nas a fr,„ , ' r "'hGmrg. T b „ th" theater I ” r "' bicludmg -<r< r and a dam-mg h-d T1 , 7 b— was about 57. W,,, ", T ' b " r "’’ d amounts to $3,500. ' ’’ ,ns o’.-mce Isaac Price was camd , i r 'late jn \, <> ' 'hr ! -mg in .xo. it mine at w ■ • . । o H:. • . - ’ । < I UI, -I <. ■ ■, •,, 1

"aoi.v injured. anj An agreement h-.x , !bp American WiX / W 'he I'ederation Window <;i . ' Pa,,y ’ aad the Independent tVimlX GJ m' p<my on one side ami ri. \ d “- Rh'ss doX,^' 1 ' XX'7 P;1! ' "m«ther, wherebv the fid b,^ ‘ "" ,b " I of the window -1., . take | than 450 (H M) bXX" '.“"'.""'’"'‘•a not Jess f ”t six months/the'price p,^ Pb z;r nv ? at . expiz ’ 1 ‘ ' the contract