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Show CDit RESERVOIRS FLOOD TOWN. $ox TAKDLNQ WHOM, Proprteten. Tom of SabeerlpUoal 8? r Si v M "' ( Mtt tM the Poatofflo at Brlfhm itMooad-el- Bmtand biU ma'.ur. "2lit City m BYKBX RAHOIXe, Edita tastructloo ta CarraapoadMt , Item of nows sro solicited from ill sans el toe country. Writ upon one side of th paper only. Write proper names plainly. ta order to proteot the publisher from from lrrep'iislble persons, the fuL Same of the author should be signed to u communications The Identity of correspondent will be withheld whenerer desired. PUBLISHED ; of 8 he I ton, Conn, Havo Nar. row Eocapo From Extinction. Tho breaking of three reservoirs in the town of Shelton, Conn., caused damage estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000, and there were several narrow escapes from death. Tho torrent tore a great gully 110 fet long and thirty feet wide through Howe avenue. Logs and trees and huge cakes of Ice were carried along and crashed into several buildings. The house of Walter Nichola was struck by the flood. Nichols was away and his wife was awakened by the ice crashing against the door. A few minutes later the water commenced to flow into the bed rooms, where six children were sleeping. Mrs. Nichols hurried to the door and held it shut while her children escaped to an up. per floor. A few moments later she escaped, just before the water forced in the door and flooded the rooms. The family remained prisoners in the upper part of the house until the water receded. Street railway tracks and telephone and telegraph wires were all torn down and strewn about in confusion. The reservoirs will have to be rebuilt and this, with the prop, erty loss, it is believed, will make the Several mills will loss $100,000. remain idle until the gravel swept into the raceways 1b removed. Popl EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. A movement is on foot by Butte cap tails ta to erect a drug manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. Mumps is the disagreeable disease prevaling in Mantl at present among - 1 young and middle aged classes. All of the nine young people who . were injured by a train crashing into their sleigh in the suburbs of Salt Lake City will recover. A meeting was held in Rlohfield re oently by representative farmers of Sevier county when it was decided to organize a farmers' union. A number of cattle are reported as dying on Green river from the eevere weather, while many sheep are said to he perishing on the White river ranges. ' William Baker, aged 15, was caught in the machinery of the finishing room of the Provo woolen mills, where he was at work, and had hia arm badly t LADRONE3 ARE NEAR MANILA. , lacerated. The Arrapine Commercial Club has just been organized at Mantl. The object of the organization is to promote the material interests of the Temple . City, socially and otherwise. The ward meeting house at Jensen was destroyed by fire last week. It is thought that the fire resulted from the carelessness oi the janitor In not properly attending to his duties. The safe in the office of the Felt Lumber company, Salt Lake City, was blown open by burglars, presumably amateurs, one night last week. Only one dollar and an old rusty pistol was taken. Austin M. Brown of Salt Lake City will probably lose his leg as the result ' of his falling off a wagon containing a 14,000 pound load, the wheel passing over his leg, crushing it In a terrible manner. Chief of Police Paul of Salt Lake City has handed in his resignation, which has been accepted. Failure of of the chief to agree with the city administration regarding Sunday olos-in- g and gambling is said to be the cause for the resignation. Sheep-owner- s in the vicinity of Lund are very anxious about their flocks this winter. The winter has been ex- -' tremely cold and the snow so deep on ;the desert that they are compelled to range their flocks in the hills, where , (feed is very scarce. William Krogh, a Salt Lake boy, while cleaning a target gun which he had purchased but a few hours before, shot himself in the forehead, death resulting instantly. It appears the little fellow had forgotten to remove the cartridge from the gun. A panic almost occurred at one of the public schools at Salt Lake City last week. A boy gained access to the building and shouted fire up the cold air pipes leading to several of the rooms. A stampede was averted by the principal announcing a false alarm. John B. Glenz of Salt Lake City sui, cided last week by taking a dose of carbolic acid. A short time ago Glenz, who it appears comes from a good family, married a woman of the tenderloin district, and the two quarreled, when Glenz took the fatal dose. Dan Collier, a young man of Naples, . met death in a peculiar manner last 7 week. While chopping down a tree it became lodged in another, and climbing it to release it from lodgment, he lost his balance, and falling a distance of thirty feet, was fatally injured. Mrs. A. P. Mayberry attempted suicide in Salt Lake City Sunday morning by swallowing an ounce of laudanum and severing an artery in her wrist Her condition was discovered by friends in time to save her life. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause. Ben F. Sparks of Ephraim has been brought home from the west desert suffering from a dislocated shoulder blade. He was herding sheep when the accident happened. He was alone with the sheep, and assistance did cot reach him fora period of eight days. Since the bounty has been placed up- -' on rabbits in Sevier county a great nunfber of the bunnies hare been slain Recently in a contest between Redmond parties over 600 were slaughtered. A I great many rabbits are being killed I j by Individuals for the bounty. - The comes from Kanarra that report on account of the extremely cold j weather cattle are dying and the loss is I heavy. At Bellevue, thirteen head of j cattle are reported to have been frozen I to death in one corral. Indications I I to a loss of stock. point heavy The proprietor of the City drug store J of SpringviUe, who has so long and auc I cessfully thwarted the attempts of the j officers to convict him for violation of J the prohibitory liquor ordinance, has I again been brought into court upon complaint of a former patron. Wilfred Chapman, a quarryman cm- - I ployed in Red Butte canyon, had his hands badly crushed last week by a piece of falling rock. Three Angers of his right hand were io badly smashed that amputation was necessary, while two fingers of his left were injured. Islanders Are Making Much Trouble for the Constabulary. A force of l&drones under General San Miguel reappeared in Rlzal province Sunday. They avoided an engagement with the main force in the south, but captured three small deThe tachments of constabulary. enemy surrounded the towns of Canta and Taytay, eleven miles east of Manila, Saturday, and captured several scouts and ten men of the constabulary, whom they set free. Sunday Inspector Mcllwalne, at the head of the constabulary, was surprised and captured near Montalban, sixteen miles northeast of Manila. The ladrones promised to release them if would surrender the - constabulary their arms. While they were conferring on this point, Mcllwalne made a dash for liberty, and he and all the COFFEE BOTTLE EXPLODED. Three New 'York Girla Injured In a Peculiar Accident Three girls who live In New Tork City were severely Injured Sunday afternoon by the explosion of a bottle containing coffee, which had been set on a red-hstove lid to warm. There were other girls gathered around the stove, and all were chatting when the explosion came. The bottle was shattered into a thousand pieces and the fragments were scattered in every direction. Some of the girls fainted and a number who became n rushed frantically out of the building to the street. Ambulance Surgeon Deutsche discovered that besides scalds the three girls had sustained bad cuts with glass on their faces and on their necks and arms. They refused to go to the hospital, and were ot panic-stricke- A FOOL AND HIS GUN CAUSE DEATH OF INNOCENT GIRL AND HER BROTHER. Tragedy In Mountains of Alabama the Result of Meeting of Jealous Lover and Hia 8weethearte Brother. heart MEET DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE. Ten Lives Are Lost In Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Ten lives, according to the best information obtainable, were lost in a fire which destroyed the CUfton hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Are started at 2:30 oclock, and at 10 oclock the smouldering debris furnished so fierce a heat that search for bodies was Impossible. The list of the dead may prove larger than the number given, but it is hoped that information which accounts for all but this number is correct Two persons were fatally Injured, and two score or more injured more or less severely, mostly by jumping from windows. PRAYED IN COURT. Man Accused of Murder Appeals to the Almighty for Justice. I am relying for justice upon the one above, said George Stone today in --Judge Horton's court in Chicago, and then, with tears streaming down his cheeks, he dropped on his knees, bowed his head and prayed for five minutes. When he had ended his appeal he resumed his seat with his head in his hands and cried. Stone is on trial for the murder of Robert Nelson, who was a colored chef at the Turner hotel. Nelson, it is charged, was shot and killed by Stone about ten years ago. Stone escaped and was but recently arrested In London. He is a British subject, and the Royal Society of St George is interested in bis defense. ld Mrs. Walter Dykes Is being hunted by the authorities of Eddy, W. Va. Her two children were found dead, having been poisoned. Rumor has it that she administered the drug rather than allow her husband to secure possession of them. She and her husband had been separated for a few weeks. Killed by His Own Son. Peter Farrell, one of the leading local Democratic politicians and state coal gauger, was shot and killed by his edlest son, Edward, at New Orleans.. The family claims that in a fit of ungovernable temto per Farrell kill attempted Edward . and George, the eldest boys, for misconduct, and Edward took the pistol from him and fired three shots into his fathers heart The boys surrendered. der of Anton Klinger. Bassanella left a statement admitting the crime of murdering Alex Anderson at Grand Forks several years ago, and claiming that his brother Joe, now serving a life sentence in the Bismarck penitentiary, was not connected with that murder, which Jacob said he had planned himself. House Passes the Fortifications Bil. The house on Friday passed the fortifications bill, adopted the conference reports on the bill for the protection of the president and on the legislative, executive and judicial bill, and then spent three hours wrangling over the Fowler currency bill, 'she latter hill had been privileged by the terms of a special rule adopted Monday, but when the decks had been cleared for It the Democrats began a filibuster. Wyoming Legislature Adjourns. Has Fallen From High 8oceity. Both houses of the Seventh legislature of Wyoming adjourned sine die George H. Pell, who, some years ago, at midnight Saturday. President was well known in Wall street circles Guernsey of the senate. Speaker Ath-erl- y and in fashionable society, has been of the house. Speaker pro tem sentenced to three and a half years Black of the house and Chief Clerk in the state prison for grand larceny, Perry of the senate were presented to which he pleaded guilty some years with handsome evidences of esleem. ago. Pell, in 1890, was sentenced to The senate approved all appointments seven years on charges arising out of made by the governor. The principa the failure of the Sixth National hank offices were all fllld by reappointment and was pardoned after serving two with the exception of that of coal mine His wife and relatives are yearn. inspector of the Second district, crewealthy. ated by this legislature. Fulton Elected Senator From Oregon. Duel In the Streets. Charles W. Fulton of Astoria, a well In a pistol duel on the streets of known lawyer and state senator, was Jasper, Ark., Deputy United States Marshal J. D. Keyes was killed and W. elected United States senator shortly A. Hudson was dangerously wounded. after midnight Friday, on the forty-thir- d ballot of the session and the eighHudson was discharging a pistol or the streets, when Keys and City Mar-sha- l teenth ballot of the night. It has been William A Allen attempted tc an all session contest, the first ballot arrest him. He opened fire on Allen, having been taken on January 19. Fulton led from the start, receiving who returned the fire, shooting Hudson through votes on (he first ballot Allen, though twenty-eiguninjured, as a ruse dropped to the He gained gradually until his strength ground. Hudson then fired at Keyes, reached thirty-fou- r, where it remained shooting him through the body. for nearly three weeks. Shot His Sister.ln.Law. A Desperate Negro. William Pritchard of SUida, Colo., After holding half a hundred blue-coa- ts sought out his wife, from whom he at bay for several hours, during had been long separated, and threat which a number of shots were exsued to kill her ft she refused to agalr changed, Lafayette a Sims, desperate live with him. She fled from the negro, was killed by the New Orleans house and returned with her sister, police early Friday in a negro boardMrs. Albert Kriesf, who lived nearby. ing house situated on South Pritchard thereupon drew a revolver. street. The room In which heRampart was beThe wife ran away and Pritchard flrei sieged had to be set on fire, and the at Mrs. Kriest, the ball entering hei fire department called out before Sims thigh and making an ugly wound could be driven from his he Pritchard is in jail, and his victim In attempted to escape, stiU post.- As his carrying a hospital. i was he shot down. gun, the-bod- would not like to think of th p.. Carload of School Children Struck by property going to strangers whiUh 'S a Passenger Train. was left unprovided for poor papa A fast express on the Lackawanna Arline refused to do as he requested something within warning her railroad cut through a trolley car crowded with school children at NewSome time after the dreadful ark, N. J,, Thursday. Eight of tne had flashed Into her brain that children were killed and a score or ST. GEORGE R.ATHBORNE. By Captain Brand was having & & more of others injured. The motor-maforged to suit his ideas governing th Author of Little Miss Millions, Miss & case. The Spiders Web who stuck to his post, will die, Dr. Jacks Widow, Even then she had not realized what Etc., Etc. Caprice, and the engineer of the express was this might portend. How should as so badly hurt that there is little hope Copyright, 1901. by Street end Smith, New York. of his recovery. Both the express and Si Innocent trusting young girl desirous a'l reasonable benefit wK of bestowing the trolley were on steep grades, going && the man she had come to believe upon at right angles. The express was sighow should she naled and the crossings were lowered with the professor, and even mention was her father CHAPTER V. that this ungrateful man could while the trolley car was yet half way Th Game Grows Warmer. that he had been solemnly warned by conspire with unprincipled confededown the hill. The motorman shut off Out of the frying pan into the fire. the baron. rates to actually take her life, yet the power and applied the brakes, but hj When she heard that Peterhoff beCharlie had just taken leave of the such means as would make it seem a almost Immediately the car began to advenmade to be lieved celebrated her not the had and wife, professors accident? cruel slip along the icy rails. It gained treere turess, she bung her head. mendous momentum and at the bot- two turns from the little parlor While in Antwerp he had professed a confuwas overcome Charlie with enemy. he ran the directly up against tom of the hill crashed through the keen desire to visit the dungeons of the sion. There stood the professor, glaring gates, directly in the track of the onI have distressed you; and yet I Steen, and yet always made it appear coming train. The locomotive plowed at him like a wild beast. as though she were the one most its way through the trolley, throwing Will you again deny the truth, vil- beg you to believe I meant it all kind- Interested in the abode of ghostly children calm Peterhoff was to a for in the ly. It silly thing every direction. The lain? he said, endeavoring memories. accident happened within three blocks himself lest he lose his voice. to do, but even the shrewdest of men was An expedition accordingly of the High school building, and in the Charlie surveyed him with amuse- of his stamp make absurd blunders car at the time were nearly 100 pupils. ment planned. one cost sometimes. His last famous Arline never could tell just how It As many as thirty others had managed Yes; this time, I confess, it was Russia her Czar. Remember, I never came about. She remembered Captain to throw themselves from the car beridicuonce in his I took have stock for whom any just fore the crash came. The trolley was your charming wife Brands enthusiasm in leading her one of the specials which every day left. Do you know that two women, lous Idea. It wa3 all a mistake. deeper Into the recesses, and how he Then the maid looked up. your wife and her cousin, Hildegarde, bring the children to school. disappeared while she was suddenly real .were with Her neat little game eyes sparkling have played a very some of Interest; examining AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS tears, but Charlie's haste to assure her how she waited object upon you? for him to reappear, What? She and Hildegarde upon of his positive belief in her innocence until, growing alarmed by the dimiof the charge had brought a smile to President Will Issue Call Unless Pan. me? Pray, with what object? nishing size of her candle, she had enher face. make to ama Canal and Cuban Treaty Are To arouse your jealousy; deavored to find her way back to the be for to even taken is It dreadful, Ratified. and fell, losing you realize how dear to your heart such a notorious woman, dont you party; how she tripped you out of out in terror cried she Then her light. President Roosevelt will caU an ex- this same wife is; to take But perhaps I should look at your musty books and induce you to think? darkness closed around traordinary session of the senate of devote a fair part of your time to the it reasonably, and believe the baron as the awful but no answer came. the Fifty-eight- h congress, unless both woman who has given up her life to has made an excusable blunder. Real- her, she realized that the others had Then ly, some of the garcons here in the hothe Panama canal and the Cuban reci- you. d man she this that gone; tel and me as addressed have countess, The professor seemed stunned. Man, procity treaty are ratified at the pres-edeserted had her, called father, prI have been puzzled to account for session. The president made this can this be true? he gasped. etending to believe, no doubt, that she we must alike look so It until now, As heaven itself. She is in yonder. declaration of his intention to several with a portion of the I a demure little English lassie, and had gone above the horrors of the whom senators Thursday, and he made It as Go and learn for yourself. You will she & upon party clever, designing Russian dipas emphatically and unequivocally as ha receive a warm welcome. Forgive dungeon soon palled. lomat" was capable of making it. you wish to be forgiven, professor." He could also take it for granted Charlie nodded, eagerly. It Is deemed likely by officials of the Sir, a thousand pardons. I shall bad gone away with her she What she said seemed so very reaadministration and by many senators take your kind advice. Our duel, then, and not show any alarm for friends, better much It took and she besonable, that both treaties will be ratified is off. Oh, what an ass I have been! hours. fore March 4, but the necessity for And Charlie quite agreed with him. than he expected. it was a cleverly concocted and ditheir early ratification is regarded by But he could easily discover that "So ends the scene in the drama. Now abolical scheme, which had for its ultthe president as so urgent that in the ease. not at was Arline her wholly imate outcome the dethronement of event of the failure of either one or for another which may not have quite Frequently she cast quick glances In reason. both at the present session, he will is- so pleasant a finis, muttered Stuart. the direction of the door. her sue Immediately his call for an extra Again he bore down upon the funcDoubtless Captain Brand had to his attention This fact had cbme session. It is said that (here are grave tionary who kept watch and ward so that in such a case he it reasons of state why both treaties over the books. When he had cor- some timd back; but Charlie did not would be appointed the natural to reason that find least the suspect should be ratified as soon as possible. nered the clerk he made his request and guardian of his afflicted These have induced the president to known, and a messenger was sent to the baron had aught to do with it. and thus, of course, have the She seemed to hesitate, perhaps child, make the announcement to senators of find the countess and request her presof her fortune. his determination. hardly knowing just how to begin her handling ence in a nearby bijou parlor. Charlie was aghast. Minutes passed. Still no one came story. He had never heard so terrible t NAVY SUPPLY BILL PASSED. Allow me to remark, In the beginto summon him. He almost in all his life. thing am I while ning, said Charlie, that, of waiting he walked directTired senses. his doubted a Number Provides for the Building of serve to and anxious and you, ready and ly to the door of the little parlor I have made up my mind regarding of New Vessels. stand ready to do all that may becorr Stepped inside. one thing, Miss Brand," he said, posAt the end of a protracted session up a man If there is any reason why you Involuntarily a groan welled "which Is to the effect that I itively, wish to keep these things sethe house Thursday passed the naval from his heart He had entered this shouldI will believe this man to be your not do even while to try help you, that cret, A great' many room to meet the countess, appropriation bill. father!" ignorance. charmer of men, who played with groping In complete amendments were offered to the pro(To Be Continued.) Oh, no," she answered quickly; "It as and though ambassadors princes visions relating to the increase of the Is entitled You to are not the that. were pawns upon a chessboard, endeavpersonnel and the authorization of new they HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DELIGHTED now hs had found Arline Brand! fullest confidence. I was only and so that ships to be built. As passed, the bill There she stood before him, more oring to collect my thoughts I might know just how to begin.' And, Ladle Calling on President Thought provides for three new battleships and beautiful than even his ardent recolI have a natural feeling of an armed cruiser, two steel training lection had He llad Reason to Be Pleased. painted her, a smile of besides, because the person who has, shame, ships and one wooden brig for train, welcome dimpling her cheeks, send In your cards, said Just the I sadly fear, been plotting In secret well known Army officer to two New ing purposes, in addition to the subwith azure pleasure. eyes glowing authorized. boat marine discretionally against me, Is one who should be my York state women who were wonder-in- g Yes, it was Arline Brand. The increase in the personnel of the best friend upon earth my father! how they could arrange "just to countess and the she if Ye gods! navy went through as reported by th Young though she was, this beauticominshake hands with the president were indeed one, he could readly committee, an effort to limit the The advice was followed next day, ' crease to two midshipmen for each prehend how men were ready to give ful girl had known what It was to sup senator and representative to the pe- up honor and fortune for the hope of with poverty, to be left alone and and much to their surprise and delight friendless in the world and to meet riod between now and 1911 having her love and favor. they were at once shown into the rebeen voted down. Mr. Gaines (Dem., a minute they stood thus, with the most unexpected and glorious ception room, where the president was Almost Tenn.) raised a point of order against with a train of fortune. ' busily engaged in refusing the request the provision of $10,000,000 for domes- each evidently busy Her story, even when briefly told, ot a prominent senator who had called thought tic armor, but it was overruled. was a series of dramatic surprises, such on the and everlasting Arline was the first to recover. as are well fitted for the stage, yet adCommission. and Coal of curtains Strike She dropped the topic of offices. Report Ah! you have occur so seldom in real life. vanced toward him. Very sorry, senator, but this is ImThe anthracite coal strike commis' mentioned her She earlier barely said. she Mr. Stuart, possible; I cannot do It, the pression met In Washington Thursday af- come, to save how her tell a years, father, ident was heard to say. He took her hand and pressed it ternoon to begin the work of formu. Boldness was sea captain, had been lost as it was Please think it over, Mr. Presdent, it seemed. returning lating tbelr conclusions and framings and I shall call know; and, believed, at sea; and with her mother said the senator, I you Yes, promised, their report. The sessions will be held she had fought the grim wolf in Lonof I have I legions daresay though again behind closed doors, and are likely to as good as don, sewing,4 as such people of refine"Absolutely final. I cannot do it I continue for a considerable period. faults, at least my word is to poverty must do in cannot be do It. seated, offering ment reduced my bond. Pray, order to earn bread. Raised First Peaches In Arkansas. said one lady to the other, her a chair. My, Then came her mother's death, folHe was quite himself now, and that "but .wouldnt we belter be going? Stephen B. Wing, reported to he the ingenious young lowed by her bitter fight against the That man is a senator and we dont first man to raise strawberries and meant a meet to wrestle with world, and especially the persecution know what may happen. and man, ready of a dashing gentleman, who seemed peaches in northwestern Arkansas, Is difficulties as arose. The next moment the president was they dead at his home in Rogersvllle, aged determined that she should marry him, down. he to sat her Just hands with both. opposite shaking 59 years. In 1897 he controlled the endislike and disgust took It was, at least a rare pleasure to no matterofIflove I am delighted to see you, dtire peach crop of the Ozark mounin her breast. be so near her in this confidential the part said he. tains. Then the .wonderful freak of fortune elighted, mood. The delicate, violet odor that Well, you ought to be, said one of contact in Arline with that Tillman Refused Ball. . brought permeated her rustling garments was the women, recovering from the whirFormer Lieutenant Governor Till- like a breath of spring, and the an eccentric old aunt who was exceed- lwind of cordiality. man of South Carolina was refused magnetism of her presence almost in- ingly wealtby. The president looked embarrassed. It was the old story Arlines mother bail on the conclusion of the hearing toxicated him. We dent - want anything, you of his application for release on bond. "You have been wondering what as- had married beneath her, and from know. Mr. Tillman is held on the charge oi tonishing chain of circumstances that hour had been as dead to her murdering Editor Gonzales. Uke me into such a relatives; but when a kind Provia girl brought Wanted to Obey tbe Raw. miserable place as that underground dence threw the forlorn young girl unEliot of Harvard is one of President Asphyxiated in Their Home. horses der the carriage dungeon? turning toward the door of M. N. Stinson and his who men those go to their work as if the dowager Lady Wallis, and she a glance that did not escape the of its accom son were asphyxiated at their with of Charlie entire the on responsibility discovered later that this lovely Stuart eye individual their rested plisLment own upon was creature flesh her and home in Shawnee, O. T., by the fumes blood, Well, yes, to some extent; but It from a stove. Mrs. Stinson discovered was not alone the desire to hear your a sudden love for the girl sprang up shoulders. Some time ago Gov. Crane of Massa- her husband and son dead, and-wa- s restory that brought me here, in her withered old heart, which was approached by a delegbarely able to reach the fresh air and promised chusetts as in sulted niece her adopting this in spite of warnings from the baron. save herself. ation of business men, who asked, that sole heiress. her no He watched, but by telltale palTwo years later Arline was bereft President Eliot should be appointed M Mitchell Has No Time for Lecturing. lor or start did she betray the tact of her eccentric, but kind relative, and one of a commission to report on tb he referred whom to knew she by President John Mitchell of the that found herself once more alone in the proposed construction of a dam over-ththe baron. United Mine Workers has refused an Charles river. The governor de"What other reason could influence world, this time possessed of a most offer of $4,000 to appear this year on murred to the proposition. The com bountiful fortune. she asked, a little eagerly. the Chautauqua circuit Mitchell had you?The natural desire to meet you Then it was, with the abruptness of mittee was urgent. Would you mind stating your ob--, been booked for twenty nights at $200 again. That wasnt wrong you don't a cannon shot. Captain Brand apjectiona to President Eliot? said the a night. These engagements he canpeared upon the scene. blame me, do you? He had a thrilling story to tell of spokesman to the governor. celed Thursday, on the ground that "Perhaps I should not you have alWell,' replied the latter, the la his so vessels foundering in a gale off a If but been friend; good s' the organization had ready that the commission shall cosays disis narrow African me to his the coast, escape bring mapped out a vigorous campaign for acquaintance with nsist of three men. If I appointed Presdanger to you, it might from drowning, of being cast ashore, this summer, and that he did not feel aster or even found by wandering Arabs, taken into ident Eliot there would be only one. be better if you forgot me. justified in making any engagements He detected a plaintive little note in captivity, sold some years later to a that might conflict with his work for this, and his chivalrous spirit was up tribe of the Great Sahara, so that he Cense of 111 Trduble. this organization. . A youth with an open ingenious in arms at once. Dahomey where, finally drifted to I am not In the habit of deserting through the assistance of the faithful countenance rose In .a Christian EnObject to Shipping of ldols. any one who Is my friend because, per- woman he had been forced to marry, deavor convention tne other evening Missionaries and ministers In Phili haps, it may mean trouble or even he eventually made a bold and successand, made the following speech: adelphia are, it is said, annoyed ovqr danger to me to continue my acquainful escape, though bis companion gave Dear friends Large ships that look the announced contract entered into tance. up her life In throwing herself In sound and good and and seawor' She seemed deeply affected by his front of a spear that was meant for thy are sometimes found to be, alby a Philadelphia 'firm to ship Buddhist him. most ruined almost, yes almost idols to Korea. They denounce the words. " You overwhelm me with kindness, Arline accepted it all as gospel truth, ruinM by, by ship worms.' They plans a3 an outrage against religion and would have at the time believed honeycomb the heavy tljnbers and and decency. Mrs. W. H. R. Corlies, Mr. Stuart Nonsense. The favor Is just the even a much more miraculous series of and although the Bhip looks as If It a returned missionary from China, says other way. It Is a rare pleasure for adventures could such have been by might do great things for its masters she was appalled at the Idea that peome to serve you." it cannot It it has ship worms-Dea- r any means invented by this modern ple in a Christian country would conAnd yet 1 can hardly refuse, for, Munchausen. friends, it is just so with some sent to manufacture idols for poor, un- Heaven knows, I am In great trouble, This was before she knew Captain Christians. Outwardly a Christian and need a friend, if ever a young Brand so well. may look like a fair ship. Dear friends, enlightened heathens to worship. woman did." She spent money with a liberal hand. I feel that often I am like the ship, and ' Fireman Ran Amuck. Compose yourself, I beg; and be- He was enabled to Indulge his love that I too, have ship worms. for He fine clothes full bent. to its gin, please. John Collins, a member of the Hono. Charlie believed he was about to smoked the finest cigars, drank the Cigarettes tor Subscribers. lulu fire department, became insane hear some news of more than ordin- most expensive liquors, and she feared which is a pushing paper of El Pais, from drink and ran amuck, ary Importance. In imagination he he frequently Indulged In gaming. Saturday Buenos Ayres, offers to give every subhatchet in hand. Before he could be could picture the remarkable young Thus a year went by. scriber for three months an equal controlled he broke the skull of one widow who created such a furore all Captain Brand had ceased to beg for Value in cigarettes, so that the customman by a terrific blow of the hatchet, over Europe. She might resemble Armoney. He demanded it as his right, er gets $3 worth ot news and tobacco cut the head of another citizen very line in many ways, but surely such and in sums so large that Arline was each for the one price. a charmer of men could not possibly badly, and made for a third victim, but assume the air of innocence which this growing alarmed. He had tried to influence her to What man is there over whose mind was too of foot for nimble latter the exwoman carried with her. her make will wealth all her young a leaving bright spring morning does not the demented Collins and made his At the sam time he felt impelled to to him; something might happen to ercise a magic Influence? Sketches by escape. Collins then turned his atrelate tye adventure he had experienced her, though Heaven forbid, and she Boz. tention to a fourth man, who shot and fatally Injured the insane fireman. A WARRIOR BOLD. n, Report comes from the mountain district of Winston county, Alabama, of a terrible tragedy as the result of which Maggie Scharf, aged 18, is dead, her brother, John Scharf, is seriously, and her lover, William Jones, fatally wounded. The brother has been living at Shelbyvllle, Ind. He returned without knowledge of Jones, whom he had never met. He was in conversation with his sister, it is claimed, when Jones approached them. The sister tauntingly asked her lover: How do you like my new sweetheart? It is alleged Jones Immediately shot the young woman through the heart, causing instant death, and then he fired at her brother, the ball penetrating the breast The brother made his relation, ship to the young lady known in a cry of fright, and, it is said, Jones turned his revolver against his own breast and fired, the bullet taking effect near the Lorenzs Assistant Coming to America. Dr. Isidor Singer, president of the Order of BNal BRith, has Independent taken home. received a letter from Dr. Friederich FELL INTO COKE OVEN.' Muellor, Professor Adolph Lorenzs assistant, stating that Dr. Mueller will Terrible Death of in New York about March 10 arrive Pennsylvania Girl. or 11. , He comes to America to attend Mary Kohlaud, aged 11 years, met a the after treatment of Lolita Armour, horrible death at Connellsville, Pa., by .whom Professor Lorenz operated upon being burned alive in a coke oven. In Chicago, and to accept the profesThe little girl, In running down the hill above the oven, fell and rolled sorship of Orthopedy Medical college into one of the hot ovens. Men at of the Chicago university. work nearby broke Into the oven and secured the body, but It was burned Confessed on Gallows. to a crisp. Jacob Bassenella was hanged at Mother Poisons Her Children. Washburn, N. 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