THE COUNTY RECORD
~~ ' KLNGSTREEr S. C
LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. Prop'r,
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The true value of the property o!
fw York greatly exceeds the valut
the property of the whole Dominion
Canada.
According to the report of Secretary
Coburn of the Kansas board of agriculture,
last year's crop of corn ic
that state represented $82,000,000;
oats, $3,S27,000; wheat, $20,700,000.
The familiar herdic has disappearec
from the streets of Washington aftei
haying been in constant nse for sixteei
years. The death of the owner of the
plant has caused it. A new companj
may reintroduce the cabs, thougt
quick transit on the street car lines
had hurt the business.
A
new vegetable has been brought
to Europe from Japan. It combine!
the flavors of the artichoke and th<
asparagus, and is as easily cultivated
as the potato. The French, who ar<
responsible for its introduction, cal
it "ohayottes," and it has olreadj
figured largely at the most recherch<
and delicate suppers in Paris. EsI
pecially as a salad is this new vegetable
to be commended.
Four Buffalo (N. Y.) reporters at ,
tended a prize fight in a professional
capacity and the "mill" being raided
by the police were promptly captured
. with the party. Judge King of that
oity, befdre whom they were brought,
released them, declaring that it was ?
i principle of law as well as of commoi
sense that three kinds of men were
permitted to go anywhere without
, blame?doctors, clergymen and reL
porters.
I Occasionally one hears of an in*
stance of real gratitude. The will oi
Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Cleveland, who
died at Nice, France, directs that the
greater part of her estate shall be
turned into a trust fund and invested
so as to yield the largest income con*
sistent with safety to the principal, to
R be paid semi-annually to Marvin F.
Scarfe of Pittsburg, who, at the risk
of his own life, saved Mrs. Cleveland
from aooidental drowning, and at his
k ' d^ath the principal to go to his children.
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The Philadelphia Becord says:
"Train loads of oelery are arriving
'?no Iflnrul, TTorntnfnrA thfl
i succulent plant has come exclusively
from New Tork and Michigan. These
recent consignments are the first that
have ever come from the South. The
celery is grown near Port Tampa,
and its culture is something new. The
shipments will be larger in the future,
owing to the superiority of the prodnct
grown in the Sonth over that in
the North, large investments having
been made at other points along the
Gnll Coast by those interested in pro-^
H; noting its culture."
V Says the Springfield (Mass.) Repnb>
liean: 'An experiment worth watching
will aoon be launched in Warren,
I I Mass. The chief industry of the village
has been the steam pump works,
which is moving away, leaving the
town without means of support. The
employes left behind by the removal
hive taken eourac-a from their mis
t fortune, and are forming a new com*
V panj to carry on the old business.
The merehanta of the Tillage and the
farmers of the surrounding country
are subscribing to the stock of the
new enterprise, and the pastors, who
have no dollars, are helping the projectors
to get dollars from other people.
About $30,000 has been subf
scribed, several orders are promised
the new firm, and the village is full of
enthusiasm.
The Greater New York will begin
business as a municipality, so to speak,
on January 1, 1898, with a municipal
debt in excess of $200,000,000, a debt
larger than that of any four other
cities of the country. There is a
general opinion, for which, however,
. there is no real warraut, that the debt
of American municipalities is based
apon their population, area, age and
resources; but the fact is that while
y' tnese elements regulate the running
smunwa of American cities, the debt
is fixed ratber by the form or government
they have enjoyed or suffer^
from in the past. Boston and St.
Louis are cities of the samo size very
nearly (the difference in population
between the two was less than 3,000
by the last census), yet the municipal
debt of Boston is three times greater
than that of St. Louis, while, on the
other hand, the tax rate in St. Louis
is fifty per cent greater per ?1000 of
valuation than it is in Boston.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
There is paper underclothing.
Spiders usually live two or three
years.
The total killed on both sides, at
Gettysburg, Penn., numbered 5562. I
The oldest house in Maine is said to '
be Sylvester house, at Small Point, the
age of which is put at 150 years.
Tho sword and belt of Latour d'Auververgne,
the first grenadier of
France, have ju6t been presented to ;
tho Paris Mnsee Carnavalet.
The Island of Malta has a language
of its own, derived from the Cartha- J
ginian and Arabian tongues. The
: nobility of the island speak Italian.
A whale recently captured in arctio
waters was found to have imbedded
in its side a harpoon belonging to a
whaling vessel that had been out of
service nearly half a century.
A New Yorker paid a visit recently
for the first time in fifty-one years to
Alexandria, Va., to make a search for
the house where he boarded in 1816
while recruiting for tne Mexican War.
Mrs. C. K. Thorp, of Washington,
Ind., wif6 of a former Mayor of that
city, held up at the point of a revolver
a young man who had slapped her son,
and forcing him to kneel in the street,
she horsewhipped him in the face until
blood was drawn. Then she lectured
him.
Isabelle, notorious under the Seoond
Empire as the flower girl of the Paris
Jockey Club, is now an old woman
earning a precarious living by selling
flowers in the streets. She was turned
out by the Jockey Club on her mother's
appealing to charity because she would
not support her.
How large must be the hole through
which a horse can pass? This question
was discussed by a deacon and a
newspaper friend in East Winthrop,
Me. The next day the deacon discovered
that his horse had dropped
through a trapdoor in his stable, lauding
in the cellar without a scratch.
The hole was 18* by 94 inches.
There is a cat that goes hunting at
Hoisington, Kan. It makes its home
in the roundhouse where a railroadman
placed it to get warm one aay
when he found it half frozen in the
street. The men made a practice of
shooting* birds for it, and now the cat
will follow for a mile or more any man
who carries a gun, and at sound of a
shot will run for the bird.
Swapping Horses.
General Horace Porter, in his "Campaigning
with Grant" in the Century,
tells the following anecdote of his
chief during a ride from Petersburg to
City Point:
Owing to the heat and dust, the long
ride was exceedingly uncomfortable.
My best horse had been hurt, and I
was mounted on a bay cob that had a
trot which necessitated no end of
"saddle-pounding" on the part of the
rider; and if distances are to be measured
by the amount of fatigue endured,
this exertion added many miles
to the trip. The general was riding
his black pony "Jeff Davis." This
smooth little pacer shuffled along at a
gait which was too fast for a walk and
not fast enough for a gallop, so that
all the other horses had to move at a
brisk trot to keep up with him.
When we were about five miles from
headquarters the general said to me in
a joking way: "You don't look comfortable
on that horse. Now I feel
about as fresh as when we started
out."
I replied: "It makes all the difference
in the world, general, what kind
of horse one rides."
. He remarked: "Oh, all horses are
pretty muoh alike as far as the oomfort
of their gait is concerned."
"In the present instanoe," I answered,
"I don't think you would like
to swap with me, general."
He said at once, "Why, yes; I'd
just as lief swap with you as notand
threw himself off his pony and mounted
my nnoomfortable beast, while I
pat myself astride of "Jeft." The
general had always been a famous
rider, even when a ca.iet at West
Point When he rode or drove a
strange horse, not many minutes
elapsed before he and the animal
seemed to understand each other perfectly.
In my experience I have never
seen a better rider, or one who had a
more steady seat, no matter what sort
of horse he rode; but on this occasion
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II SOOU UecaLLLB tJVlUCUL luui ma uuUjr
and that of the animal were not always
in tonch, and he saw that all the
party were considerably amused at the
jogging to which he was subjected. In
the meantime "Jeff Davis" was pacing
along with a smoothness which made
me feel as if I were seated in a rocking
chair. When we reached headquarters
the general dismounted in a
manner which showed that he was
pretty stiff from the ride. As he
touched the ground he turned and
said with a quizzical look, "Well, I
must acknowledge that animal is pretty
rough."
5o Healthy Baby Cries.
A favorite assertion of the modern
trained child's nurse is that no healthy
baby cries. If he is well, as he should
be, and properly clothed and looked
after, he will not cry. But on the
other hand, some medical authorities
assert that crying is tho chief and best
exercise for young children, and one
hospital superintendent says that a
healthy baby should cry three or four
times a day at least, and from ten to
fifteen minutes at a time. This world
would be dull, indeed, if ell mankind
agreed.
A Dainty Tramp.
"Thank the old lady for the chicken
and ask if she hasn't got some cake
with chocolate frosting instead of this
white kind." This from a tramp who
asked for a "hand-out" at a Bath (Me.)
residence.?Boston Herald.
THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA
A White Expedition In Africa Routed
by Savages ? An Orang-Outang
Attacks His Keeper, Etc.
7T MONO the passengers on the
/ \ steamer Bonny, which has
arrived at Liverpool from the
west coast of Africa, was
Captain Boisragon, who was one of the
only two white men who escaped from
the Benin massacre, Mr. Locke being
the other. Captain Boisragon was in
very good health, and said that his
arm was almost well again.
Captain Boisragon gave in the London
Times the following account of
his adventures after the first attack
woo mfiilo nn fhA ATTlAditinn
"When the firing began I was walking
just behind Major Crawford, who
was next to Mr. Phillips. At first we
could not believe that the firing was
meant for anything but a salute, as
everything had seemed so peaceful.
When we did realize what it meant I
rushed back to try and get my revolver,
which was locked up in a box,
but as all the carriers had bolted at
once I could not get it, and was returning
to the head of the column
when 1 met Crawford and the others
coming back. Crawford told me
Phillips had been killed already, so we
settled to try and get back to Gwato.
As we went along the road with a lot
of our carriers and servants who
had joined us, we were continually
fired on by the Benin men. At
first all the white men kept on turning
to the Benin men, saying 'Adoc' (the
Benin salutation) and 'Don't fire. It's
a peaceful palaver.' Finding that
this was no good, we took to oharging
them with our sticks, and they invariably
ran away. After a bit Major
Crawford was badly wounded in the
groin. So Mr. Locke, Maling, myself
and Crawford's orderly carried him,
although he told us he was done for
and implored us to leave him and
save ourselves. Meanwhile all our
carriers had gone on with Mr. Powis,
who, when I last saw him, seemed to
be driving the Benin men before him
like sheep. He had been np to Benin
several times before, conld speak the
language a little, and at first the Benin
men did not seem to want to touch
him at all. While we were carrying
Major Crawford, Dr. Elliot, who was
bleeding from a wound in the head,
kept on charging into the bush, trying
to prevent the Benin men from
Bhooting at us, for we could only go
very slowly. He most undoubtedly
kept them from coming close up to us,
and saved us from being hit several
times. After a bit 1 saw a man aiming
at us from behind a tree further
up the road in the direction we were
going, so I told the others to put
Crawford down for a short time while
I charged at the man. In doing so I
was knocked over by a shot in my
arm, but as it did not hurt at the time
I got up again and charged the Benin
man away.
"When I got back to the others I
found a lot of Benin men had crept
up close behind and killed them all
except Locke, who was wounded in
three places. We were all hit with
pellets several times. As Looke and
myself were the only two living, we
bolted into the bush. We had taken
I lilti UULUjmBO uciuugiu^ bv iuaiing,
and tried to steer northwest,
| which wonld bring us out on the
' Gwato Creek some way above Gwato.
We ran and walked thro ogh thick bash
as far as we conld that evening, and
stopped to rest about 5,30 p. m., having
left the scene of the massaore
about 3.45 p. m. immediately after
we sat down we heard two men?Benin
men, of oourse?talking to each other
not twenty yards away from as, and a
few minutes afterwards we heard a
party cutting their way through the
bush. At first it seemed as if they
were making straight for us, but they
passed about twenty yards from us,
dropping sentries as they went. During
the night I had to change my position,
as I was getting cramp, and
the sentry in front of us must
have heard me, for he called
out to the one next him, and
we could hear them both searching
through the bush. Soon alter that I
woke up to find a band on my boot,
then feeling up my gaiter, and I
thought it was one of the Benin men
who had found us in the dark. I
grabbed the hand, meaning to strangle
the man before he could cry out. At
the same time I called out, 'Locke, I
have caught this villain!' when I
found it was Locke himself, who had
changed his position and was trying
j to find out where I was. After this
the Benins must have known where we
were, as we could hear three of them
walking round and round us until
long after daylight. Then they seemed
to leave us, but why or wherefore they
did I cannot tell. We thought that
they imagined we were already done
| for. However, instead of being shot
when we moved off, as we half expected
to be, we saw no one and got
away. Although wo heard plenty of
people we met no one until the last
dav. as wa keDt to the bush as much
as possible.
"On the fifth day wc came across a
small creek which wo knew must lead
to the Gwato Creek. We walked down
into a small waterside village. There
the few men, instead of giving us the
water we aeked for, hurried us off into
a small canoe until we were round a
corner. Then they Jet us drink all we
wanted. These men were Jakries, who
trade with the Benin men, and they
took us across to a bigger Jakrie village
on the other side of the creek.
There we got a larger canoe, got underneath
mats, and were paddled down
to the Benin River, which we reached
about sunset, and where we found one
cf our own Protectorate launohes. We
were told afterwards that the reason
the men in the small village hurried
us away as quickly was because
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there were some Benin soldi em '
living in the village looking our,
for refugees, bat that they had lef ? j
the village about a quarter of an i
hour before we got there to get their 1
food, and had not returned. We had
absolutely nothing to eat for the five
days we were in the buuh, and nothing
to drink but the dew on the leaves in
j the early morning. The only thing i
we could find eatable were plaintains,
but they were so dry that we could not
swallow any of them. Another day
without water would, I think, have
finished us both. Dr. D'Archy Irvine,
[ who looked after us so well when we
got down to New Benin, told rne that
my aim would have mortified if it had
not been attended to for another day.
The wound had got very bad the day
before we reached water."
Attacked by an Orang-Outang.
"Chief," the big orang-outang whose
pensive air and almost human tricks
hatro fnr vpurq nansfid visitors to the
zoo to wonder just how much there
really is in Darwin's theory, attacked
his keeper, and if the latter had not
succeeded in backing oat of the cage
as he fonght the beast off, there might
have been enacted another of the harrowing
stories that travelers tell of
the orang-ontang's strength and fierceness.
"Chief lies in the large building
near the seal ponds. His keeper,
James M. Murray, was feeding the
8.nimals and had passed down the row
of cages, in each leaving dinner for
some hungry resident of the zoo.
He entered "Chief's" cage from the
rear, as he had entered all the others.
The big ape was out of humor. He
had beeu rather surly for a day or
two, but he had not attempted any
tricks that would remind the keep sr
to keep his eyes about him.
Murray put the cup and pan in thf ir
unnal niece, when, with a sudden dart
and a snarl so fierce that all the other
animals in the honse began to chAtter
and shrink, the orangoutang leaped
across the cage and gripped the keeper's
foot in his vise-like jaws. Murray
realized that his life was in danger.
There was no weapon, save the light
pan and cap, within his reioh. He
saw thai it wonld be a band-to-hand
straggle with the enraged animal if he
wonld escape, and with the odds largely
in favor of his antagonist, who had
foar hands to his two and a fierce set
of teeth into the bargain.
Orang-outang fighting nnder such
circumstances was new to him, and he
had to trast to his instinct He leaned
over at once to choke the ape, bring*
ing his neck within the reach of those
powerful spider-like arms, bat at that
moment "Chief" released his grip on
his foot and made for his body as if to
bury his teeth in the keeper's side.
Murray was too qaick for him and
fought him off. Fortunately, the
orang-oatang was not in good condition,
long confinement having taken
from him some ot his fierceness. Murray
was following r.p his advantage
when the animal caught an opening,
and in c? seoond had bis jaws fixed on
the keeper's right arm, whioh had
been extended to ward him off.
He tagged and beat until finally
"Chief" let go his bite. The arn\ was
badly lacerated, bnt Mnrray had the
satisfaction of knowing that "Chief"
I iihn, tun hminad fives for a while.
that is if there is enough tissue round
an orang-outang's eje to show a bruise.
The keeper backed out of the oage
warily, while the snarling ape leaped
to and fro in front of him in a ferret*
eyed, search for a good opening. He
got away without further harm, and
had his wound dressed at the Presbyterian
hospital. Later in the day
Murray was able to return to duty.? t
Philadelphia Ledger.
A Brakeman's Fearful Peril.
The terrible experienoe of Mike Maioney,
a Cincinnati Southern freight
brakeman, at Highbridge, was not ex*
aggerated by first accounts. Maloney
was running or standing upon the top
of a fre ight car as the train was crossing
the bridge. When about midway
of the structure his foot slipped, and
he shot over the edge of the car
and started on his journey of 286 feet
to the river or rocks below. Persons
who witnessed the accider t say that
Maloney grabbed wildly in all directions,
but could secure no hold upon
the roof of the car. As luck would
hare it, however, ho fell to the side
along which the telegraph wires run,
and, just as his body was about to
clear the bridge, he grabbed a telooriiDh
wire with a death-like grip and
hung there.
This saved him from a terrible
death. A number of persons hastened
to his assistance and found him too
weak to do anything for himself. He
was deadly pale, and big drop3 of
sweat stood out all over his faoe. He
fainted after being removed from his
perilous position, and it was 'some
time after he reached his home at
Georgetown until be began to recover
from the shook upon his nervous system.
It was one c f the closest calls
any roan ever had. Maloney will
hereafter cross Highbridge in a caboose.?Danville
(Ky.) Advocate.
Curious Surnames.
Among the ourious and suggestive
surnames in a certain county in north
Missouri are the following: Bed,
White, Blue, Green, Gray, Brown and
Black. There are also Kings, Queens,
Earls, DukeB,Marquises and Lords. In
animated nature are to be found
Wrens, Birds, Cows, Hawks and also
Hawkins, and Fowlers. Among quadrupeds
are Wolfe, Lamb, Lyon, Bull,
Stier and Bedheffer. At one time, in
a county in western Kansas, there
lived Bedwine, Sourbeer, Drybread
and I'ancake.?Chicago Tribune,
Tornado-Stricken Missouri.
According to the statistics of the
Weather Bureau the property loss from
tornadoes daring the last ten years has
been five times as great in Missouri as
in any other State. 1
iEliT111 PARIS.
Leaders of French Society Pcrisil i.: a
Frightful Disaster. |
ALL EUROPE IS IN MOURNING.
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Flame* Level a Wooden Strucruro T>lnq:
Used for n Cliarlty Bazaar? Score* of
the Nohillty arid Wealthy, Mostly
Women, jlinonp the Victims?A Hundred
Bodlutt Taken Out?More In Kuins.
" Paeis, France (By Cable).?Not since the
terrible Are which converted the festivities
la connection with the marriage of Emperor
Napoleon to Archduchess Marie
Louise into a i epoch of grief and mourning
has so apptilling a. disaster overtaken
Parisian society as the conflagration of the
Bue Jean Got jon Tuesday afternoon. The
flower of France's aristocracy was assembled
together for the purpose of charity
In a wooden building, constructed to represent
a stri et of Old Paris. A bazaar, or
fancy fair, was in full swing. The stalls
were occupied by royal princesses, by
duchesses, countesses, and leaders of
the great world of the French metropolis,
the place being densely thronged with
visitors and purchasers, when suddenly a
Are broke out in the stall of the Dowager
Duchesse d'Czes. A terrible panic ensued.
Those who did nol perish in the flames
seem to have sustained shocking injuries
during the struggle that followed at the
M-lta In the frantic efforts to escane. So I
fierce were the flan es that, as In the case
of the fire at the Austrian Embassy at
Paris on the occasion of Napoleon'9 wedding,
the exact number of th'e victims may
never be known with any degree of certainty.
The latest estimate of the dead is that at
least 100 bodies have been taken out, and
as many more ma y still be In the rains.
One report is that the disaster caused the
loss of at ledst 300 lives and has thrown
many of the best-kx own families of France
and other continent tl cdentries into mourning.
Perhaps 200 others were injured.
The bazaar In which the fire occurred
was a temporary structure of wood. The
flame9 were first discovered above the stall,
No. 13, occupied by the Duchesse d'Uzes,
and while the place was densely crowded
with well-known sooiety persons, the holding
of the bazaar In the cause of charity
being an annual function presided over by
the leaders of Parisian society.
A terrible panic and crush followed the
alarm of fire. There was a wild rash for the
exits, and the weaker persons were trampled
on after having been knocked down In the
stampede. The inflammable nature of the
building and its contents caused the flames
to spread with great rapidity, and in a very
Short time the bazaar was a mass of flames.
A policeman who was on duty at the
doors of the bazaar says that from 1500 to
1800 persons were la the building when the
fire started. He adds that the alarm caused
a general ptmic, followed by a terrible rush
for the doors, whioh were soon choked
with the c::owd, ihus preventing the escape
of many who would otherwise
cave Deen suveu. xco strung tram?
Sled upon the weak, the young crushed
tie old to the lloor ana heartrending
cries of fear arose on all sides, soon followed
by shrieks of agony, as the flames,
sweeping onward behind the crowd struggling
for tlie doors, claimed viotlm after
victim and swallowed up stall after stall
with frlgh ful rapidity until the whole
structure -was a roaring mass of Are.
Further details show that before the firemen
had time to ai-rlve the roof of the bazaar
crashed In, crashing numbers of those
who had bean una Die to escape from the
building.
In addition to those who were crushed or
suffocated It appears that many others who
might otherwise hive escaped were caught
under the roof, a hich collapsed In a few
minutes after the Ire started, the uprights
supporting It -haring been burned away.
Many ladles whose dresses had caught fire
ran into the crowds near the exits, and in
this manner fire was communicated to the
olothing of others, who either perished miserably
or were frightfully burned. It will be
Impossible to identify many of the bodies,
they being burned beyond recognition.
Some of them are completely carbonized, ;
while others are without heads or limbs.
80 far as can be learned about 600 persons
were enveloped in the flames, the others in
the building having managed to effeot their
escape before the fire gained great headway.
One hundred and fifty seriously Injured
persons have been taken to the hospitals
or are being treated at their homes.
Nearly all the dead and injured were ladles
who oocupied high social positions, many
of them being international aristocrats.
In some ot the cornea, especially near
the main exit, were afterward found plied I
heaps of dead and dying, charred remains,
arms, legs and skulls. Near the main exit
the pile wis five feet deep.
A few minutes after the building was destroyed
the ambulance corps and police began
the work of removing the bodies. But
very few lives could then be saved. The
arms and legs of the victims were In most
Instances completely consumed. Their
skulls were fractured and the brains protruded.
There was no vestige of clothing
on any of "he bodies.
As the news spread rapidly hundreds of
carriages came streaming along the Champs
Elysees conveying people with anxious and
tear-stained faces, coming to seek relatives
or friends. Within half an hour were witnessed
indescribable scenes of grief. One
lady rushed frantically about inquiring for
ber daughter. On being assured that she
was safe, she jumped, danced, screamed J
and then rushed to her coachman and to.'el
him to drive borne, after which she fell ix
swoon. 1
Another lady on reaching the scene went
mad. Still another, imagining that sho
recognize! her daughter's dress, called
hysterically to her husband to tell the police
to prevent her from visiting the bazar.
A majority of the dead seemed to have
been mercifully suffocated before they were
burned.. In the awful struggle to-get out
of the building most of the ladies who escaped
los; part of their clothing. Some of
them were almost nude, their skirts and
pettiooatc being stripped off of them. As
theyrusbed out of the burning structure
they fell ttwoonlng lu the street, with their
hair dishevelled and their faces, in a number
of cai es, scratched and bleeding.
Died at His Son's Grave.
Isaac N. Housel, flfty years old, was
found dead beside his son's grrfve in Greenwood
Cemetery, Trenton, N. J. He had
ridden to the cemetery to place fresh flowers
and sew grass seed on the grave, and
having ilnished the work attenv ted to
mount his bicycle to return horn" .vhen he
fell over apd died. Heart diser._j was the
cause of death.
11.and O.'sNew 8100,000 Passenger Station
The $100,000 passenger station that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is
Greeting in Baltimore, to take the place -of
the old Camden Station, is being rapidly
Eushed to completion. The structure will
e thrown open to the publio about June 1.
live Lambs From the Ewe.
Josepl Luckman, of Heppner, Oregon,
has a ew e that has just given hlrth to five
lambs ar d all are alive. This is considered
by sheepmen the most remarkable case on
reoord. Luckman has bean oHexed $130 for
the lambs.
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REAR-ADMIRAL MEADE DEAD
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Tiie l'amou* Xaval Officer Expire* at a
Washington Sanitarium.
Rear-Admiral Richard W. Meade (retired),
United States Navy, who had been ill in
| Washington for three weeks past, died
I Tuesday In Dr. Johnson's private sanitar|
ium. ?
THE LATE BEAB-ADJII^LL 2LEALZ,
Bear-Admiral Meade mj one of the best
known officers of the rr Idern navy, saw
hard service before, dniAg and after the
Civil War, and cruised ! I all parts of the
world on Important naMl ana diplomatic '
missions. Ho was born*n New York City
on October 9,1837, and fas the eldest son
of the late Captajn 1 fchard W. Meade,;
TTnifad fltntoa an .flder brother of the.
late General Meade, whc fought at the battle'
of Gettysburg In July, 1B63. The late BearAdmiral
was appointed^* midshipman from
California October 2,1810. Admiral Meade'
married, in 1865, a daughter of the late
Rear-Admiral Pauldinrl, and by this marriage
hAd one 6on andllour daughters.
TARIFF BIU/RSPORTED. J". J . j
The Dingley Measurr Subjected to a Radical
Rfjvislon.
The Finance Comlittee of the United
States Senate recei'id the Dingley tariff
bill from the sub-con Inittee which had been
considering the met lure and immediately
reported the bill to'Se Senate. In a general
way the bill is a surmise, especially to those
who looked for til maintenance of the
Dingley rates. ?
Except with regbfi to the duties on lumber,
which was tiled at 82 per foot, and
lead at IK cents jir pound, fruits at a proportionately
high rate, hides at IK cents a
pound, and a fe? lot her items which were
unchanged in or fr to secure the support jflj
of Senator JonefAnd a few Senators whose
votes are necesa fry to its passage, the bill
shows great redaction ail along the line.
The retroactlfe clause making the rates
collectible Apr J 1, is stricken out of the;
The provision emphasizing that nothing
In the bill shall/ be regarded as abrogating
the Hawaiian/treaty is stricken from the
bill. This practically abrogates the treaty. ^
There is on increase of forty-four cent3 d
barrel In the internal revenue tax on beer,
which, it is thought, will bring ih $10,000,000
of revenue. This tax will continue until
lOrtrt rrrMlnh U TO^H >W? fi1
The discount on stomps is also removed,
which, it Is estimated, will add 825,- - r.'f
000,000 morei fij
Tea is to b)e taxed ten cents a pound for ' a
the next two years and a half.
The internal revenue tax on.snuff and;
chewing tobacco is raised from six to eight)
cents a pouind, while cigars are to pay 83 at
thousand. /The duties on jvood and manufactures
of/wood have been materially re- t
duced. Tne sugar schedule is an entirely
new one, /the duties laid being both aa
valorem a?d specific.
The rates on wools are lowered from .
eleven certs to eight cents a pound on the
first class, and twelve oents to nine cents
on the seicond class.
- ELSVEN LOST IN A WRECK. "
Steamjplp Collynle Went Down in a Cob,
I lis Ion With the Glrnlfoe.
A collision occurred off Aberdeen, Scotland,
between the small steamships Glrnl-I
goe and Colljnle, resulting in the total los^ i
of theKJollynte- On board the Collynle were '
' Captaiin Lawrie, her commander, his wife
ana tnto boys and a crew of eight men. Immediately
after the collision Captain Lawrie
fastenfod life belts around his two boys and
claspMng his wife [In his arms awaited the
inevitable sinking of his ship. The Collynle)
sank /in a few minutes and the captain's
wife fw&s torn from his arms by the immense
wav? whioh closed over the vessel. Thej
Girnflgoe stood by and pioked up the Captain/who
was unconscious, but all of thei
othars were drowned.
J.CIU Bceuo upuu bUO 4UOY nuou vuv h
iagf wives learned the late ot their hus-'
baaids was pathetic beyond description, and.
lt^yas necessary to carry some ol the fren-{
zfl and shrieking women to their homes>
bBnaln force.
it CRIMES OF A FIEND.
' At the Throats of Foar Children and AsM
saulted Their Mother.
^VFarmer Knuto Hillstead's wife and sir;
Hhildren were in their home at Larlmore.
forth Dakota, when August Norman, s
young man whose attetnlons had fright'
f ened Mrs. Hillstead, entered the house.
\ The woman ran into her bedroom and(
Tbolted the door. Norman, falling to get . i
ilnto the room, cut the throat of Peter, the;
fl\fteen-year-old son, and with the same
rafeor killed the woman's thirteen-monthsol(l
baby and inflicted fatal wounds in the
thnoats of two of her other children.
Cfeoing to tho bedroom door the murderer
theiV told Mrs. Hlllstead that ne would spare
the lives of her two daughters If she would
opei the door. She yielded. Stealing a
horse the Send then took to the woodsv
after^lbreaking all the lamps in the house.
Armistice In Tbestaly.
The Turkish commander in Theasaly
asked for an armistice of five days, one re>
port f: rom Athens says. According to an-,
other report an armiatioe has already been
tacitl: acquiesced in by both sides. An
armis Ice is understood to really mean the
end o:! the war beta sen Turkey and Greece,
After/ fourteen hours' fighting the Greeks
frust/rated the Turkish attempt to turn the
flanlfc of the Greek army to cut off retreat
i'rampt News From the Taqul*
* Tho I Mexican Government is taking aivantagte
of the quiet condition of the tribe
of Yaqmxi Indians to run Government telei
graph/lines through every part of that wild
and remote country. The object is to Jtoep
in touvsh with the tribe so that word may be
given dt the slightest indication of a hostile . i
outbreak.
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rtw.r. Cleveland's Heavy Mail.
The postmaster at Princeton, N. J., has
appliedI tor an extra carrier and allowance
tor clerk hire because of ex-Presideni
, Cleveland's heavy mail. - ? ?