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9?S i lll^iTmcoRBi ~~ KlNGSTREE, S. C. : LOUIS J. BRISTOYV, Ed. & Prop'r, A Peruvian permanent exhibition of all classes of manufactured goods is to bo established by the Government of that country at Lima, Peru, and the exposition will be opened on December 9 next. The Government of Pern proposes in this manner to foster trade, and offers advantageous terms to American manufacturers. All exwall Ko nromr?f oncfrkm QTtfl JLiiCAiO " in vw v avuiyv iivui vuoiva*wu->? consular fees, and exhibitors have the option of showing their goods for six months or longer if special arrange- J meats aro made. It is noted that preference will bo given to manufac- i tares most used in Pern, such as agricultural implements, mining machin- i ery, electrical appliances of all de- ! scriptions and labor-saving machinery, j After havng been submerged in 183 ! feet of water for seven years,the treas- j ure on board the steamer Skyro, sunk . off Capo Finisterre in April, 1891, has been recovered by divers. The Skyro sailed from Cartagena, bound for Lon- ' don, with a valuable cargo, including bar silver, valued at $45,000. All went well-until approaching Cape Finisterre in foggy weather, when the vessel j struck on the Mexiddo reef, but passed ; over, and went down in deep water within twenty minutes, and abont two ! miles off the coast. An expedition went out in the same year, bat was unable to secure the treasure. Last year another effort was made, with more powerful diving apparatus, and j resulted in fifty-nine bars being re- j , covered. The working depth for the direr was never less than 28* fathoms ?1H feet?and it frequently exceeded this. To obtain these bars it was found necessary to blow away the deck j with dynamite, which the diver did, i only after great difficulty, owing to , the boisterous state of the weather. Work was compulsorily suspended in October, but again resumed this summer with satisfactory results. American newspaper readers, avers Harper's Weekly, are excusable if : they hare received of late an impression that next to the wheat crop the j moot notable product of this country this year has been homicide. The oountry is big, and it accords with reasonable expectation that in one part at another of it killing should be in progress all the time. Bat this year, and especially this summer, there oertainly seems to hare been much more i than the usual amount of it, and it will be interesting, when the returns are all in and some one has tabulated them, to learn whether this impression j is well founded or not. For ten years f*St the Chicago Tribune has kept the ! run of murders and homicides so far j as it oould, and has made an annual i report of them. According to a table ! based on fbese reports, there were j < . 1419 homicides in the country in 1886, and 7900- in 1895. The tables show a great but irregular annual increase. The Tribune's estimate of the number oflynchisgs is interesting. It gives 133 in 1886, 236 in 1892, and 160 in 1895. It shows 2 20-100 executions to every 10Q homicidfes. The statistics bf murders in Europe, as given in the World Almanac, show that Italians kill most readily, the average annual number of murders in Italy being 2170, or 29.4 to every 10,000 deaths. Spain follows with a ratio of 23.8. Austria's ) ratio is 8.8; Francis's, 8.0; and England's 7.1. These European figures, however, apply to murders alone, and do not include, like the tables fox the ^"United States, all sorts of manslaughtan, justifiable or otherwise. To CurS Balking Horses. . , Electricity is used in the latest method of curing balky horses. It -is applied by wires connected with theb.t and crupper of the stubborn animal and a dry storage battery. Pressing the button completes the circuit. Thomas Rcdgers, a hc-sem: a of Av-. alon. Pa., was arrested a t w days ago at the instance cf the Western Pe tn* sylvania Society for the Pretention cf Cruelty to Animals. It was said that his use of electricity in curing a bclky horse was cruel. He explained that the animal on which the electric current had been used was a blooded horse, worth if he could be induced to pull. Rodgers had consulted a veterinary and the electric arrangement was the result. When the horse was hitched up he spread his four legs and refused to budge. The current was turned on and the horse started off at a good gait. Every day for a week the horse received a lesson, and it apparently made a permanent cure, as the horse soon pulled without the use of the current. Justice William Griscom decided that the electricity used, which was a threevolt current, was not cruel, and he discharged Mr. Radgers.- New York , World. ?- * There are, in round numbers, 1G.000,000 horses in the country, nominally j valued at $1,000,000,000, Hut now not; worth over $770,000,000. v j j>\r. . - ... ... , UPF^ v THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. W??liin<r(on Ttom?. The Bering Sea Confercnee held another meeting. at which statistics showing the rapid destruction of the seal herd this year were presented. The President appointed Sardis Summerfield United states Attorney for the District of Nevada. The American Government in its last reply to Spain declares that the United States has made the greatest efforts to ston filibustering. and has employed many officials and expended a large sum of money to that end. The Inter-State Commerce Commission decided to issue an order in compliance with the petition of the American Warehousemen's Association, requiring railroads to publish on their tarifT sheets a uniform time for the delivery of freight of all classes. Exnprts o' the United Slat0*, England and Canada met nt the State department to consider measures for the better protection of seal life in Burins Sea. Negotiations for a treaty with Great Britain for the protection of the seals were opened In Washington. The Government has decided to send the Bear and the Thrasher to Bering Sea with supplies for the ice-bcund wbaliDg fleet. Domestic. The fiftieth anniversary of the first sermon bv Henry Ward Beecher in IMvmonth Church, Brooklyn, was celebrated November 11. Professor Shields, of Princeton, resigned from the New Jersey Preshvterv because of criticism of his indorsing Princeton Inn's application for a license. Mrs. Anna Jackson committed suicide in New York City because her children, for whom she tolled, disappointed her hopes. Edward llankins. flftv-two years old, was hanged in Chatham, Vn., for the murder of Dr. John llev Cabeii, a prominent citizen of Danville. llankins killed Caboll August 26. Affidavits wore filed at Eau Claire, Wis., which tend to show that John O'Donnell, now serving a life term for poisoning bis wife, is innocent, and that he is the victim of a woman's testimony, who confesses perjury. The-main witness against O'Donnell was Vina Le Claire. President J. T. Darragh, on trial at In dependence, Mo., charged with wrecking the Kansas City Safe Deposit nnd Ravings Bank, was found guilty and sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary. At Brownsville. Texas. Bernardo Snlizar, aged sixteen, shot and probably fatally wounded two old women and two girls aged two and four yeare. His motive is not known. At Hayden. Ky., in a quarrel over politics John Rebro shot and killed Henry Davis, and Sobre was shot nnd jnortally wounded by Mollie Davis, a sister of Henry. Cl aries Roberts, President of the South Chester Manufacturing Comueny, and Charles A. Weed. President of the Tidewater Rteel Works, were killed by a train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore ltailroad near Lamokin, Penn. Mr. Roberts was sixty years old; Mr. Weed sixty-five. Mr. Robert's death was instantaneous. t Indignant citizens of Philadelphia have askod the courts to prevent the lease of the city's gas plant by restraining the Mayor from signing the ordinance authorizing the lease. The feud between the Eppersons and Williamses in Hancock County. Tennessee, growing out of the killing of William Epperson, has broken out again. In a light n cousin of Williams shot Charley Epperson and seriously wounded him. Both factions are arming for a desperate encounter, and serious trouble is feared. Three thousand sheep belonging to John Donaldson and twenty head of cattle have been burned to death in Crosby County, Texas, by a prairie Are. which is "sweeping over the ranges of the Panhandle country. The damage done to ranches is enormous. Futher Henry J. McPake was foun% dead in the basement of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Academy, in Philadelphia. Wounds on his head and face lead to the belief that he was murdered. The Appellate Division of the Now York State Supreme Court, while sustaining Judge Chester in vacatiug the order to the Coal Trust Presidents, failed to pass upon the constitutionality of the Anti-Trust law. At Cynthiana, Ky.,Leon Taylor, n farmer aged thirty years, committed suicide by hangiug. Taylor was engaged to be married to Miss Mary Burns on October 23. but fled. Miss Burns, finding that she had been deserted, got a rope and hanged herself from a window, and was dead when found. 8potted Hawk who has been on trial at Miles City, Montana, for the killing of John Hoover, the Banlnger sheep herder was convicted of murder in the first degree. It was the death of Hoover that caused the recent Indian outbreak iii Montana. The National sound Money league issnoa an address from New York City declaring against international bimetallism. William Caul dwell, former State Senator, was arrested and placed under ?10.000 bail in New York City, charged with misappropriating funds belonging to the estate of Jason Sogers. Inspection of tally sheets shows that Perez M. Stewart. Citizens' Union candidate for Assemblyman, and Howard P. Okie, candidate of the same party for Alderman in the Nineteenth AssemblyDistriet. New York City, have been elected, instead of the Tammany candidates, shown as victors in the police returns. Charles Schlogel. a grocer in New York City, sixty years old.it is alleged, murdered his wife and then tried to end bis own life by cutting his wrists. His son tells of the tragedy. A desperate battle was fought between a United States Deputy Marshal's^iosse and Hilton Hiekmnu's band of desperadoes at Mudd Lety, W. Va. The band was surprised while in a church. Milton Hickman was killed and the Deputy Marshal badly wounded. The Philadelphia Common Council voted to lease the city's gas works. The tug T. H. Wise towed the schooner Silver Heels to the Bahamas, and narrowly escaped foundering near Datteras. The filibuster Dauntless transferred part of the munitions to Cuba. Three-fourths of the war materials were captured by British officials. Foreign. The President of Nicaragua is sending a commission I o the Unite<TStates empowered to sell toe .National iiauroau ana steamboats of that country; another revolution is imminent. A German warship is preparing to go to Haytito enforce the demand for indemnity for the imprisonment of the German Lueders. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing in violence. King Oscar and others of Sweden are raisiDg a fund to equip a Swedish Polar expedition in 18%. The Spanish Government, finding it impossible to raise the proposed loan of 80000,000 pesetas, intends to convoke the Cortes at the earliest possible moment with the view to obtaining more credits for building warships and rearming the vessels Spain now has. Axthur .Tweedy, British Vice-Consul a* Santo Domingo* has been arrested, accused of obtaining money by fraudulent pretences. The joiners' union in Glasgow,"Scotland, has forbidden its members to hang doors made in the United States or to use joinery which has been imported from America. v PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW ST, - ^ r 3 sgpil ^ ? PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW CAPITOL I An Importing Croup of BulUin; to I'c Erected in Ilarrisbarg. The new Pennsylvania State Capitol, as j i designed by Henry Ives Cobb, of Chicago, j j will be an imposing group of buildings, so j arranged that from every point of view the i I same impression of simple and dignified j massiveness will be given. The central j dome will be plaeod at the intersection of I State nml Lanitol streets so that four dffI fer?nt vistas wiil open toward It. The ]egi islative halls will be In the central building and on either aide, connected by wings. will be two departmental buildings. The j appropriation of ?3o0,001 is not large enough to permit the erection of the whole structure at once, but it is thought that the legislative halls and enough committeerooms for pressing needs can be put up with that sura, and in all probability completed within a year from the 1st of January. The dome and departmental building can then be erected later. It is proposed by the architect that the exteriorof the building shall bo constructed of Pennsylvania granite or marble, the framework of steel and the Interior wall3 and partitions of brick and holiow tile. The legislative building is to be 100 feet high to the baso of the dome and the dome ninety-six feet higher. The entrance to the capitol will be from West State street, A wide corridor lends to the rotunda, where elevators run to the floor above, on which are the legislative chambers. The Senate will have the western end of the building and the House the eastern end. Each hall will receive light from three sides. Each is to have a gallery, above which is a large space for caucus and other rooms. KELLEY PLEADS GUILTY OF MURDER. 4sks Not to Be Hanged Until His Contract With the Devil Expires. At Dover, N. H., Joseph E. Keiley retracted his plen of not guiitv to the charge of murdering Cashier Stickney, of the Great Falls National Bank, and pleaded guilty # In addressing the dourt Keiley said: "This question of retracting my plea all remains with your Honor. If you will fix the date of my execution on January 1C, 1899, then, your Honor, I retract my plea and plead guilty to the charge or murder." Keiley will be twenty-five years old on January 15, 1899, and it has* been his repeated desire for months that he should not be hanged until after his twenty-fifth birthday, for then his contract with the devil will expire, he says, and he will go to heaven. Kelley's plea was accepted and the jury was discharged. Keiley was pronounced guilty of murder in the second degree by Chief-Justice Mason, and sentenced to serve a term of thirty years In State prison at Concord. DROPPED DEAD THROUCH GRIEF. ... I Father of Swindler L?#celic* ? unue Dice Becanie of Shame. i Alexander Felky, the father of the wife j of Sidney Lascelles, the bogus Lord Eeres- j . ford, dropped dead at Fitzgerald, Ga., his I death being hastened by a keen sense of the disgrace of his daughter. Beresford was released from the . pent- j tentiary a few months ngo and cut a wide j j swath in Fitzgerald. In spite of the fact that he had been divorced, he captured the j heart of Miss Clara Pelky, whose father de- , nounced him as an adventurer and refused j his sanction to the marriage. , They defied him, had the ceremony per- , formed and took a wedding trip. They re- t turned for a few days and disappeared | again. An investigation of Lascelles's affairs showed that he had swindled many business houses.* * The father of his wife never recovered from the shock, and has gradually declined in health until his death, which the physicians 6ay was induced by. excessive grief. u? at iSO 000. As i Mrs. Lasee'iles'ts his only child, she will doubtless inherit it. Charles Pago Bryan Minister to China, j Tho President has appointed Charles ( Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extra, j ordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to j China. "Mr. Bryan Is a young man. Ho has been prominent in Washington and Chicago, and his experience In public nffairs 1 has been conOned to a term in the Illinois 1 Legislature, where ho was noted for his efforts in behalf of civil service reform. 1 Ihe Princeton Inn Affair. j The Presbytery of New Brunswick. N. J., accepted the withdrawal of Profesor Shields, of Princeton University, who signed the application for a liquor license for Princeton Inn. A resolution was ' adopted calling the attention of Presbyte- J rlnns to the rulo of the church respecting the liquor traffic. J Yellow Fever Subsiding. C/M.f 1. ia he<r!nninc to fren itself from yellow fever. Many cities are inviting refugees to return. Tho quarantine restrictions in North Alabama have been re- ! moVed. New Orleans has raisod the quar- i antlne agatast all points, but will exact i health certificates of passengers from In- : fected cities. Politician Commits Suicide. A.Gilliam, manager of tin Jones-Nixon Publishing Company, of St. Louis, Mo.,and Democratic candidate for State Senator nt the last election, shot and killed himself, i No reason is known for tho deed, e^ept that an injury received recently by Mr. Gilliam in a bicycle accident may have affected his mind. Philadelphia Interested in Klondike. A Philadelphia syndicato with a capital of 67,000,000, of which C. H. Cramp is the head, has bought five steamers and will establish a line from San Francisco to the Klondike. A great mining syndicnte, with 65,000,000 capital, has been formed in Philadelphia. Durrani's Despite. The California State Supremo Court granted a stay of execution in the case of Durrant, who murdered two girls in a San Francisco church, because of the error of Superior Judge Durrant before the papers in the United States Supreme Court decision had arrived. vw.^ * ' . V. 4 * 0 ATE CAPITOL BUILDING. . t A,f REV. DR. HEFWORTH'S MISSION. IIn? Gone to Asia Minor to Investigate the Armenian Troubles. On the invitntion of the Sultan of Turkey the Xew York Herald has sent "an independent, fearless and intelligent commissioner to investigate tho condition of the Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire, and tho truth or falsity of the reports of Armenian massacres, with which the world has been flooded." BET. GE020E H. HEPW0ET1I. The Herald's selection for this work Is the Rev. George H. Hepwortb, "whose character as a Christian clergyman, and whose sermons, as published every Sunday in the Herald for years, gives assuranco of full sympathy with his co-religionists In all demands for religious freedom, while bis experience as an observer, writer aud trained journalist, will assure a rigid execution of his mission. Dr. Hepworth has an assistant thoroughly familiar with the country and the Sultan's people, and is accompanied by tho Sultan's secretaries. He is also escorted by cavalry to protect him f>>n rAvlnet h.nnHanf hfi>nnfl? thftt ill feat the country." M03 SURROUNDED A COURT HOUSE. Only the Glittering: Bayonet* n? the Soldier* Charged Dispersed It. The timely arrival of troops at Carrollton, Prekens County, Ala., at daylight thwarted the efforts of a mob to lynch Bud Beard, colored, on trial thero for assaulting a seven-year-old white child. The lynchers were just preparing to close in on the Court House, where the Sheriff and a dozen deputies had stood guard over the prisoner all night, fearing that if an attempt was made to take him hack to jail the mob wonldget him, when the Warrior Quards, of Tuscaloosa, drove up in.four wagons and dispersed the throng. Excitement was intense und the mob refused to move until they saw the glittering >ayonets about to be turned upon tbera. rhe soldiers then surrounded ttfo court !iouse, allowing none but officers of the ;ourt and others interested to pass the ines. Court was reconvened at a o'clock i. m. and the trial was proceeded with. By loon it was over and Beard had been senenced b> Judge Pratt to hang on Decern>er 10. LOCOMOTIVE KILLS THIRTY. Vn Entire Wedding Party Ground to Flecex by an Express Train. A terrible accident has occurred near IMelostok, Russian Tolnnd, resulting in the leath of thirty persons. A wedding party of that number was rooming from the church to the home of the; >ride. All were in one wagon, a huge vehi- ( lie, drawn by eight horses. The roadi long which they drove crosses the railway I .rack on the level, and tho driver, either! | through carelessness or ignorance of the j :rain schedule, pushed his swiftly moving .torses upon tho'crossing just as tho ex-: press was coming up. The locomotive struck the vehicle. squarely, killing many members of the: party outright and mangling others so! :hat they soon expired In frightful agony. ' Hot a member of the party escaped. Greek Invaders Badly Beaten. Some Greek bands which crossed the Thessalian frontier, between Diskat and, Domenik, have been repulsed by the Turks, who killed msny of the invaders md captured a large number of prisoners. The Turks also seized 150 rifle9 and 170,000 ;artridges belonging to the Greeks. Klondike Corner In Food. A minor from Klondike says that tho food supply at Dawson city is cornered by a few men who bought jp everything In sight last summer and are holding It for fancy prices. Tho food supply is insufficient at best and this corner only adds to the inevitable suffering. ?rr Scaling Conference. Conferences with a view to settling tho - - - - ? f KA TT (|U*JSlIOHS Ui 173 m; Mcinccu kuv u uuvu States and Canada wero beguu between Premier Laurier and Secretary Sherman at the State Department; President McKinley gave a dinner in honor of the Canadian visitors. Russia's Xevr Minister. Russia has recalled Jlr. Kotzebue from Washington and has appointed 03 her new Minister to the United States the famous Count Cassini, who has long and shrewdly represented her at the court ?r Peking. Mysterious Assassination. Captain George Farley, a wealthy millwright of Wood Glen, N. J., wa3 murdered in a lonely road by un unknown robber. Spain's Monetary Supplies. The r.othschilds and other great financiers of Europe wholly cut off the monetary supplies on which Spain depended, \ .. ._ 4 \ V" , - . ' , * ?' 4 ; ' . si x .? >V: mliB"Miiimj I Woman Accomplice Tells in Court How Thorn Murdered Gueldensuppe. A SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Crowds Besiege the Queens Connty Court IIouso to near the Story of the Ilorrihle Deed?To Save Her Own Life Sirs. Stack Defrays Her Partner In Crime?Turns State's Evidence. New Yoke City (Special).?Goaded by terror and remorse, Mrs. Augusta Hack went upon the witness stand in the Queens Connty Connty Court Houso at Long Isl' and City and confessed that she and Martin I I TlioYn together had plotted the death of j William Gueldensuppe, the Turkish bath | attendant, who disappeared on Juno 21 1 last; that she lured him to the place fixed | upon for his assassination and there watted J until the deed was done; that, with her : accomplice, who had dismembered the j body, she helped to dispose of the dreadful j evidence of the crime. It was an intensely dramatic recital?bcI gun in calmness, and ending in frenzy. Step by step tho wretched woman told of j the proposition made by Thorn that Gueldensuppe should be slnin, of her horror1 stticken rejection, of the constant persuasion and her final yielding, and the preparations for accomplishment and concealment. As she weut on, Mrs. Nack raised her voice, until at last her phlegmatic, Imperturbable nature could stand It no longer, and she almost shrieked, "I am glad this day has come. I am here before the people and before my God. I free my conscience." Her face became contorted, and down her cheeks rolled scalding tears. Sobs convulsed her. and for a moment she could not speak. Then, looking up, she continued: "No matter what comes of this: no matter what hangs over my head. I don't care what happens to me; they c:.n hantr. thov can kill. I tell all." Martin Thorn, tho prisoner at the bar, was sitting sphynx-like when Mrs. Nack entered the conrt room. His usually pale face became paler still as she advanced to tho witness stand, but the only other sign of emotion he showed was a convulsive movement of the throat and a moistening of the thin lips. He seemed to be making a desperate effort to attract Mrs. Nack'sattention, but hereyes never once looked Into his. Showily dressed in silk, and with a fichu of lace about her throat, she took her place in the witness chair, and began the story of her life from the time of her marriage in Germany up to her meeting with Gueldensuppe, and later with Thorn inthfs country and the awful events that followed. The woman was on the stand about four hours. The other witnesses of the day were mostlv men who knew Gueldensuppe | and who had idcntilled the parts of the ' body. The owner of the house at Woodside testified to renting the house to Thorn under the name of F. Braun, and said that Thorn introduced Mrs. Nack as Mrs. Braun. Ho identified Thorn and Mrs. Nack in court. . Mrs. Nack's confession necessitated a rad- I ical chancre in the lines of Thorn's defense., William F. Howe, his counsel, began by denying that Gueldensuppe had been killed or that there was any conclusive evidence on the subject. Upon bearing Mrs. Nack's stnrv hn nhAndnnf.rl thl? tlii-orv. He had a long, earnest consultation with Thorn, who gave an entirely new version of the affair, insisting that the woman hod killed Gueldensuppc with her own hand and began to hack him to pieces before life was extinct. Thorn's trial wa3 adjourned late in the' afternoon on account of the sudden illness of Magnus Larsen, one of tho jurors. , j | BISHOP FlTZCERALD CHOSEN. i| Ocean Grove Association Elects II !m President to Succeed Or. Stokes. The annual meeting of the Ocean Grove (N.J.J Camp Meeting Association has just been held in Ocean Grove. Almost tho j first business was to choose a new President to succeed tho lato Dr. Elwood H. Stokes, Bishop James N. FitzGerald being unauimously elected. msnor james x. ritzaesalp. (Distinguished Dignitary of the Methodist Church Elected President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association.) Bishop FitzGerald was spending thesummer in Ocean Grove when Dr. Stokes died, and preached an eloquent funeral sermon, referring in glowing terms to the record of the deceased. The Bishop was then requested to temporarily assumo the duties of tho President, and, until tho close of the bummer season, presided ai an puDiic services in the. Ocean Grove Auditorium. ! Bishop FitzGerald Is sixty years old. iHo was a lawyer in early lifo. In 1861, 'when a great revival occurred in the Central Methodist Church, in Newark, he was converted. The law was abandoned, and he became an itinerant preacher. In 1881 he was elected Recording Secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society, and his duties assigned him to work in New York. For seven years he held this position, and in 1888 was chosen general superintendent. His career as a Bishop has been marked by much ability. In February, 18?0 Bishop FitzGerald was appointed by his colleagues to be Presidont of the Epworth League, in which capacity he served for more than six years. Richard 1 oltoui Cleveland. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, of Princeton, N. J., have named their boy Elehard Folsom. Tho boy Is named after his ma tcrnal grand fat her. Fatally Injured at Tootball. William J. Keating, twenty-one years of age, living with bis parents in North Homestead, Penn., died from t?ia result of au injury received in a football game at Swissvale ten days before. He was injured while playing halfback, and had been ill ever since. His death came rather unexpectedly, and the case is being investigated by the Coroner. Freedom For Competitor Men. The Spanish Government has cabled iMarshal Blaaco. specially authorizing him to include tho Competitor prisoners in the amnesty granted to Cubans now imprisoned or waiting trial, u -V* ' ' >-V *A BERTHA THOMPSON, CITY PHYSICIAN A Noycl Departure in Official Appointments at Oshkosh, Wis. Oshkosh, Wis., has a woman as city physician. Bertha V. Thompson, a bright young v woman who graduated in 1892 at a Chicago medical college, was appointed to that offiee recently by Mayor Ideson to succeed Dr. B. N. Nintzel, the regular city physician, who has been suspended from duty BEBTIIA V. THOMPSON. pending an investigation. Dr. Thompson is the first woman to hold the office of city physician in the Slate of Wisconsin. 8ho was born In Neenah, Wis., and was a teacher for a few years, and then served as nurse in hospitals before studying medicine. She is the only woifian I -i t-t piiysiciau 111 U3U1V3U. PRACTICAL RAILROAD EDUCATION. . . ' The Novel Proposition ot An Pastern College Profeiaor. A novel proposition was made not long ago to the receivers oftho Baltimore and >'/3g Ohio Railroad. The B. and 0. has a branch running from what Is known as Alexandria Junction, near Washington, to Shepherd's on the Potomac River, where a car ferry Is operated la connection with the lines leading south from the CUpitol. A professor of an Eastern college desired to j lease this short stretch of track for the purpose of educating young men in practl" cal railroad work. In his letter he explained that he thought there was a wide field for bright and energetic boys who could b? thnrnnfrhlv well grounded fn the nractical side of railroading provided they conld b? educated on a regular line of road. Ho believed that by the employment of veteran railroad men as teachers, that the boys could profitably spend two or three years working as trainmen, firemen, engineers, . switchmen, station agents, and in other capacities required in the railroad service, ' ^ As this branch of the B. and 0. is of con- ) slderablo value, the receivers were com- is polled to decline the offer. MRS. NACK CONFESSES. Kereals the Shocking Story of the Killing of William Gueldensuppe. Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly indicted with 'J' Martin Thorn, on trial in Long Island City for the murder of William Gueldensnppe, ** in a cottage nt Woodside, L. I., has made a * confession. Emanuel M. friend, the woman's counsel, was asked about the report. "It is true," he said. "Mrs. Nack has made a confession." Her confession agrees in every important V. point with the story told by John Gotha, the barber, who said that Thorn confessed to him, and on whose information the po- 't lice wore put on Thorn's track. Gotha's testimony is a bighlv important part of the prosecution's case, and Mrs. Nack's story '. 5 corroborates it. The statement made by John Gotha to the police was that Thorn had told him that Mrs. Nack had lured Gueldensuppe to ' * a cottage iu Woodside, Long Island, where he shot the bath-rubber while Mrs. Nack waited in the garden until the deed was done; that he afterward cut up the body into sections, and that he and Mrs. Nack together disposed of the pieces. "DYNAMITE DICK" KILLED. 1 vd?H He Said lie Preferred to Die With His Boots On and He Did. Charles Clifton, alias Dynamite Diek, , ^ the notorious outlaw, was killed at the house of Sid Williams, fifteen miles west of ^ Checotab, Indian Territory, by Deputy ' JIarshnls. Thoy had been on his trail for three weeks and chased him all over the y Cherokee Nation, bat his knowledge of the . . vj country enabled him to elude them. Clifton refused to surrender and said ho pre- J fcrred to die with his boots on. Clifton had been the terror of the Indian .^j country for several years, being the head of one of the boldest outlaw gangs that op- ^ crated in that wild country. He got the name of Dynamite Dick bocause he used ci to bore boles in his cartridges and All them ... ?. with dynamite, which would explode with . $ ileadly effect after striking n solid sub- ' 'stance. He was implicated in numerous Vg bank and express robberies. MASSACRE OF SIKHS. Ililrty-F'.ve Soldier* and an Officer Killed ;<* by Insurgent Indians. i The report that a native officer and thirtyfive Sikhs belonging to the British Kurram cofumn had been intercepted by tribesmen iu a ravine in India and slaughtered is offi- *; cinlly confirmed. It appears that they were assisting la a { reconnoissance up the Kurmnna River. Taking a short cut down hill, they came to a ravine where the grass of the jungle waa burning. The flames spread so rapidly as to completely cut off their retreat, and the tribesmen, seeing their predicament, swarmed on the higher cround. hurled flown rooks upon them and closed round the men until the whole thirty-six were shot M or cut down. " t . The bikhs fought heroically until i.he ' very last, their oftlcer killing two of the .*& rebel chiefs w ith his own hands before be fell. ' Oklnlioma Stage Robbed. ' The mail stage running between *2 Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and Canadian was $3 held up bv highwayman, who rifled the -> mail pouches and secured about $400 in .<<5 money and valuables. James Wilson, the '? stage driver, has been arrested for supposed complicity in the robbery. Physician Arrested For Counterfeiting* Dr. Thomas Edgar Rogers, a well-known f' physician of Haralson County, Georgia, Was taken to Atlanta charged with counter- '.1 Ieiting. In his house .was found the com- 5 j.lete paraphernalia of a counterfeiter. He manufactured gold pieces of the denomination of $10. i ,v>3! - -y-% r A Boton contemporary says that "no gentleman will swear before a lady.'* |j The safest 0001*86 undoubtedly la to giveihe lady the first chance, y ' ' 'V '*' *\li - Y&l A* i i" < " ?c ? -?-* ?"?* ' '^* ?9' 'L^