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Devoted to Agriculture, Horticultui^, Politics and the Current News ^ To any aort of lio t. r^4 g ? H I You'll understand.- ** ' " "tlTTLE WAIF. A Story of Absorbing Interest,By BERNARD HERBERT. CHAPTER VIII Vl'l.TURKANl) DOVK. "Oli, i^uoil nvi<ninn, (lrniw," Moyili'ii Baid in a perfectly indite yet mattor-offact way, an though it worn 110 surprise to him to find tin* girl in so out-of I lin way a place; "lias Mr. Arniin returned ?" ^ jjnpcohlesa with apprehension and "TWend, fiooy little (Jraeie was only able Had a visitant from tin: ("rave suddenly appoarnd before her she rouhl not been more terrified. She had eon k eluded, uiul with rnawin, that if the face of the drowning man she had boom from the deck of tlio doomed "Oregon" were in truth the fueo of Rlax Hoyden, ami no hallucination of her excited brain, her arch-enemy must Ihi at the bottom of the sea. She had studied wj) every face on board the steamer "Fulda,"?every face that eamo within the range of her vision. Alas, poor child, her sense of security was fallacious. The viciously handsome face of Hoyden was among the rescued nlxiurd the "Kulda," though she saw it not. lie had been picked up with the rabble of the east a-ways, and no one had asked questions as to his presenco there. And why should a question be asked? There were no passenger-lists in all that hubbub to consul r.. Yet. Mux Hoyden Innl stood on (tie deck of tlio mysterious schoonci ! Whether lio Innl heen saved the com^ mission of or eonimilted u crime on that fatal morning is a mailer of which, for the present, must rest, in the hands of Clod ami justice. When she did not ansxvei him, only stood staring at him in a halelnl faseination, lie continued suavely: "If Mr. Arniui is not in, perhaps 1 may have I lie pleasure ol seeing his good mother?" At that, little (Iriieio plueked lip sutlieieiit courage to say: "I cannot see what it matters to you whether Mrs. A mini is in or out. She is not in, however." Hoyden's dark eyes Inuiied with a inystie, lurid tire for an instant as he gazed fixedly at the girl, "Dear ine!" he exclaimed, "how changed you are! Not at all the wellbehaved, gentle, little girl who waited so faithfully upon my poor uncle in Kngluild. 1 searooly rorogiiir-???yon ! - ?Yott^VH-growm n woman since we last met, ami a beautiful one, too!" (Iraeie's llowcr-liko face llushed crimson at the insult and her small white hands clenched into hard knots. "Leave the house!" she commanded. "I beg pardon?" he asked, mocki"g'l.y "Leave tin: house, Mr. Hoyden," she repeated boldly, "or I will go into the street and call tlio police!" >v,...'ll I....... ..... ... .,r.l..r I,. <lo that, my (li'sir girl; ami oven if I suffered you to be so foolish, pray what complaint have you to enter against 1110? I am a patron of your friend, Mr. Arnim. 1 have written him a note, w hieli lie does not appear to lutvo received, changing our place of meeting for this evening from my hotel to his house. I expect him every moment. I do not think lie will lie inclined to turn me out of doors when he comes, do you?" "Ho would if I told him ail I know about, you," was the plucky retort. "Indeed? And what could you tell liim ?" "That you were the instigator of Mr. , Clifford's murder!" Max Hoyden smiled blandly. y nil 1< I ; t 4 * 11H I 111 ? 1 IIIIM M " 'ill. lie led Hk' way into tli?? studio nnd nhv followed liiiu mechanically. Jio It- . fc . LiK* "I fear yon are meddling with edgetools." lie said, "tlio use of which you do not. understand. If you go too fur, you nnvy cut your own lingers. lit other words, when you see lit to accuse a man of instigating a muriler, you must be well armed with the proofs to back your statements. Have you any?" She was silent, and the flush died out of her face, leaving it ashen gray. "You have done nobly in shielding your unfortunate father from the gallows," he continued, "and I would not advise you to do anything now to jeopardize iiis safety." Once again a strange light flamed in her eyes. "1 might speak here, if I choose," she said, "since he is safe in England!" "Who is safe in England?" "My father." "On the contrary, Nicholas (lai land arrived in New York by the 'Alaska* only yesterday." "It is false!" "I ask your pardon; I have seen hint and can take you to his place of refuge within thirty minutes." Here was a poser indeed, Iler father in America, and within half an hour of her own hiding-place! Oh, fate was hard upon her! The curse" had followed her in vevy t cut It! For ii minute or two the poor child stood there spell hound with horror, staring straight before her, with the ffl&\ full light of the pas falling all about her; and Hoyden watched her as a ravening beast watches its prey, yet pauses in admiration ere it seeks to de(iraeie was first to break the oppres"Well," she said, and her low tense tone betrayed the desperate frame of Em?-fy "find, "I may as well give up; it is # no use struggling; I am doomed. What do von want of me?" h V "Of you?" "Yes, of me. You do not want your portrait painted; you bare 110 more for the man who has befriended me than von do f >r the wind that blows. You are after me. So say what you have to ^ , ntid let me know the worst." "We eamrot stand here talking," he . ? . 41.: ? * nointed to a chair and she sank into ft. Then he closed the door into the hall, crossed the room and stood l?efore her. From bantering his manner changed to eager, snvago earnest. "(Jrace Garland," lie said, "you are in my power; body and soul you are mine! Do you agree to that. "1 agree to nothing," was the hslfnudiblu res|x)nse, "until 1 know what you mean to do." "I mean to havo vou go away with me." "When ?" "To-night." " Where?" "To such place as I see fit to carry you." "I refuse to go with you!" "You refuse!". "Yes, I refuse. You arc freo to do your worst!" 12ye to eye, the unequal combatants were measuring their strength. "My"worst is to tell the man yon love, "'w w-.v.l m'I'ivAuviii kviuKV, iiiii use snalt RirucK norm1. f or a moment she wavered, but in llm next she mustered hcrsolf sufficiently to retort: "Tell him what you please. I had rather l?e despised even by hini than by myself." "Von defy 1110 then?"' "If my wish t<? preserve my selfrespect. is defiance, I defy you." Maddened, yet fascinated, by her selfcommand, Hoyden eried : "Is it. to be war between us? Have a care how you answer me!" "It must be war," (Jraeio said steadily, "since there can be no peace." Ho took a step nearer her as breathed : "What if I were to tell you that I loved you ?" "I should not believe yon." "Hut if I promised you marriage?" "The very thought isun insult!" Ho drew baok, white with rape. "Ho bo it!" lie hissed; "T give you twenty four hours to reconsider what you have said. If at I lie expiration of that time you do not nj?r??e to n.y terms, I shaii loitpe you in the Tombs for the murder of Orrin Clilhnd!" Ho wont to 1 ho door, and laid his i i ........ tl... L ....I. ........ ..r... .... ......... "Rear in mind," ho said, "that if yon attempt (o escape, von will all tin; sooner fall into my Iiainls!" Ami with (In ho words ho h-lt (,lm i fiom and t ho lions . While* this scene between venture ami dare was in progress, Mia. Arniin Inul returned unexpectedly, mid had lot hor Rolf into tho lionso wit.li a latch kev, without attracting the ultcntion of tho pair in tin* studio. Hearing their voiooa, alio lancicd that Rupert mn.st h.avo rot nine I during her nbsonci!, so she went to the kitchen to attend to iv-rtnin matters hoforo retiring. Tho sharp closing of the street door soon caught her listening ear, and upon going into the hall ~im?HCerti?tn The eanao, wliat. was her surprise to Hint tlio passage deserted, which was at. oueo manifest I?v means of hrightly huriiing gas. Willi some curiosity she threw open the door of the studio and looked in. The lamp shod its soft radiance everywhere. (iraoje's work lay on the chair whero'she had left it, lint the room, like tho hall, was tenantless. "Strange," murmured the good woman, pausing upon the threshold, "it is rather late for them to go to walk." Scarcely were the words oil her lips when a key glided in the latch, the door swung open, ami her son stood before her. lie did not greet her as was his wont, hut eaine in, closed tho door and double locked it. Ho tpiick were his iiioveinenls that she failed to note how blanched was his face, how dilated were his ey? s. "llupert I" she exclaimed in surprise, "what have you done with (Jrnoio?" "Nothing, mother," cania the low response. "l)iil she not go out with youV" "No." "Why, where is (lie child?" He was hanging up his coat and hat, mill ho managed to k< op his fuco averted. "She is probably in her room," ho mid, presently; "will you ho good enough to step up and see, and if slio is there ask her to eoine down to mo for a moment before she retires." Ho passed on into the studio, and Mrs. Arniin dutifully mounted the stairs and rapped at (1 nude's door. "(Iraeie, are you thero?" called tho good woman. "Yes, Mrs. Arnim," oumo tho low, sweet voice. "IIuvo you retired?" "Not yet." "Are you still dressed?" "Yes." "Will you coino down to tho studio? Itupert wants to see you." For answer, the door opened, and (iraeie came forth upon tlio landing. There was no light up tlielo on tho second floor, or Mrs. Arnim would have been terrified at the change that had taken place in the girl, for, as she slowly descended the stairs, laying fast hold of the rail, and met the radiance of the gas in the lower hall, she showed a face so wan, so haggard and petrified with suffering, as to be scarcely recognizable. I'pon reaching the foot of the stairs, she crossed the hall and entered the studio, pausing just within the open door, in the attitude of a criminal uwaiting sentence. Knpcrt A mini stood 1 ???f??? <? the fireplace with his anas tightly folded upon liis breast. (It* was as pallid as sho, iind his eyes looked dark and fathomless. "Will you kindly close the door?" ho began. Sln? obeyed, mechanically, and stood waiting, still. "Yon wish to see me?" she asked. "Yes. Mr. Hoyden has been hero during inv absence, has he not?" She started at the mention of that hated name, and a slight tremor passed over her from head to foot. "You know that?" sho faltered. "I saw him leave the house as 1 entered the street." "lie said he had written yon to meet him here, instead of at the hotel." "I do not believe it; at iill events, T received no such notice. You received him then?" pr -?- . : "I was obliged to; your mother was not at home."* His arms s omo l to tighten ui?on Ma breast and his oyos to rivet themselves upon her, as though I10 would read her very soul. "Gra?b," he said, sternly, for tho first time in their brief, happy acquaintanceship, "let there be no prevarication l?etween us. Havo you ever seen thut man before?" "Yes, Itiipert." "Do you know him?well?" "Yrs." "Is there anything between you? Do you lovo him, or does ho love you?" "No!" "Then tell me what you know about him." "I can tell 3-011 nothing." He recoiled as though stricken aciuel blow. "Grace," ho cried, in anguish, "my God! Can you expect mo to love you with the mystery of thl*V man lianglngt "Kou said you would accept mo with the secret of my past, unexplained, and never ask a question," alio retorted stonily. "I must have been mad when I said it !" ho cried: "3-011 ask too much! No man in his senses would agroo to stich a bargain." "And I ngrco with yon," sho runr mureil, staggering to tlio back oT u cliair for support. Tlioro was something so plaintive, so pitiful in her drooping attitude and then, just heaven ! he loved her so!?that he sprang to her side, the shackles of his forced reserve shattered as thin glass is shattered by a blow. "Graeio! my love, n?y darling!" he cried; "heaven is my judge that 1 believe you innocent of the faintest tinge of wrong! Oh, speak! Itreak down this unholy harrier, this unnatural restraint lietweon us, and tell mo all!" Hut she shrank from him, yet keeping her eves fixed upon his as if under a spell, while she murmured, "Rupert, 1. can tell you nothing, nothing ?wo thing!" "This is your last word?" "My last word." "Ko he it!" And, liko a man^drunken with wine, ho staggered out. of the room and lelt her standing there alone. Long she did not remain. Like one in a trance, she, too, went out, up the narrow stairs and into the darkness of her little chandler. Here she knelt heside the lied she never again was destined to press, and in the agony of her soul she prayed. "Oh, Lord?Father in heaven, have niercv upon us. Save, protect fhose 1 love and lead me home to Thy protecting arms in Thine own good time, for 1 am heart sick and weary." Then she arose, took her hat and shawl from the peg, went to the door and listened. ?? ailO llgllkS was silent. Like a phantom she glided over the stairs, stealthily opened the street door, and was gone! CIIAPTKR IX. A DEKD OF DAltKNESR. Alennwhile, and in blissful ignoranoo of the passing espionage of Rupert. Arnim, Air. Max Boyden made his way over to t he extreme east side of the city. Having more than an hour to spare before his appointment with Nicholas (iarlaiul, lie proceeded to saunter leisurely down Second avenue, the gloom of the sparsely settled thoroughfare in that district according agreeably with his present frame of mind and affording him uninterrupted opportunity for t bought. "All goes well!" he said to himself, with a smile so complacent yet mirthless that the gnmness of his viciously hundsomo face was increased a hundredfold ; "in my wildest dreams 1 never thought to light upon the girl so suddenly. Of course she's a deuced white elephant on my hands, but still sho must be disposed of in some way, now that 1 have her, AVhilo sho is at largo she is an obstacle in my pathway." He paused beneath a lampnost, pro<1111-< < 1 ii ciirar. and struck a liirht. Then. leaving the odor of fragrant Hinoko in his wake, ho walked on. "The very existence of the girl is a menace at my future welfare," he continued ill thought; "hut how to be rid of her?that's the ipiestion! I don't, want to soil mv hands with her blood; she's a harmless brat enough, and I euro no more for her death than I do for her life. Vool! if she knew what was good for herself, she would marry me and put herself out of danger. Lord knows I would never trouble her. Well, she has either got to consent to become Mrs. Max Ilovden, or get out of the way for good and all. I'll talk the matter over with Garland and see what he has to propose, lie's a sharpwitted rascal." Sunken in intent thought, he scarcely heeded a distant, bell that tolled tho half-hour and ton. Indeed he was only made mindful of his proximity to the place of rendezvous by being recalled from his reverie by the grating of footsteps upon the side-walk of one of the cross-streets leading into the avenue. Hoyden glanced up casually and saw the figure of a man whom he did not recognize; what lie did not. see, however, was that this same man puuseii sharplv at. sight of him, and then quickly slipped into llio shadow of a troe-truuk, t?? watch. From that instant Boyden became a mnrk?>d man; though utterly unconscious of the significant fact, lie was shadowed l?v the stranger, whose figure flitted after him with the silent persistence of his own shade. At tlio appointed corner, Boyden descried the ungainly figure of Nicholas (iarlaml awaiting him. The man was leaning against the wall of. the great tenement that marks this corner of the avenue, with the most innocent air imnginalde, and pulling away at a little black stub of a pipe. As Boyden approached, Garland touched his slouched hat, more from force of habit than from any amount of respect felt for his visitor, as 1m remarked : "You're ahead of time.*' "I know it," replied Boyden, "but as you are here, it makes no difference, docs it ?" "Not the slightest. Follow me." 1 . TT' ' And storting off into the gloom of an adjoining struct, the two confreres bent their steps in the d'*- jlton of the river, the inysteriou^ ^uUlow flitting after them, over and anon pausing in dark spots, and again following with a pertinacious spirit. Far down among the lonely lots, moaned about by tne wind that in unimpeded course sweeps over from lowlying Long Island, stood an old brick building. How this sad remnant of an editico had escaped tho march of improvement was a mystery; j>os8ibly Satan himself had leaded the property and seared honest folk away, sinco the house had a had name and was shunned l>y reputable pdoplo. Some averred that it was haunted?at the very leust by ratsf certain it is that its massive roof of -slates and -its heavv woodnn shutters, ever forbiddingly closed, told .no tillos. .> Ji'inuu IOW Mux TXjpitnyiiiVwy hVni produced u huge koy^uLd unlocked tlio ponderous padlock. "dust clone the dapr und slip the bolt," lie said to his visitor, when they stood within the darkened porlalu, "while I run upstairs and strike a light." For precautionary reasons Boyden closed tho door, but omitted to shoot the Isilt, being sulliciently u coward to feel that he would be more secure with some rapid mode of egress at his command than without it. Then he paused and listened to tho oppressive silence that, was almost audible by contrast with the uiglitsoiiuds of tho outer world, while he inhaled the musty, tomb-like odor of his unexplored surroundings. Presently a faint shimmer of palo yellow light became visible above, which increased until a rough (light of oukon stairs, surrounded by bare plastered walls, 8hapc?l_t,bcm8elvcH out of the darkness, ami tho voice of Garland was heard saymg: "Can you see? Follow the light and come up!" Thus guided, Bo3"tlen mounted tho stnirs and shortly found himself in an upper chamber aa bate and uncompromising as the entrance. A common deal table, a couple of chairs, an iron-lound keg, and a bottle, which served as a Bconeo for the lighted candle, were all the furniture that the room boasted. Garland stood near tho heavily barred window, and as Boyden appeared ho asked: "Did you bolt tho lower door?" "Yes," was the reply; then, with a glance about tho gloomy den, he uskid, "do you mean to tell me that you livo here?" , "I receive my friends here; you mind, I told you that it v.?s no sort of _a place for the likes of you to come to." "It is well enough; i don't object to The.v h? two wooden v*; of tho table, the lost words Garland moved the candle quickly, the bettor to git ft look at the face of his vis-a-vis. "What business?" ho asked with interest. "Why, gottiug the girl, Grade, out of my way. I have Wen talking with her this evening, and I find her ns intractable as a young colt in harness." "She's a chip of the old block!" observed Garland, with a knowing smile, at which sally they both laughed. "Well," he added, "what do you want done with her?" "I ilnn'l linnw nml i-nro Ichk so lnurr hs she never troubles nie." "Why should she trouble you? What does she know?" "Sho knows nothing, tlmnk God!" "And haven't you come into your uncle's property, as no will was ever found ?" Perhaps something in the words, possibly something in tho impi's tone, arrested Hoyden's attention. "By the way, Garland," ho said, unexpectedly. "what did you do with tho will?" "Oh, I put it safely out of tho way," was the nonchalant reply. "You destroyed it, of course?" "I tell you f put it safely out of the way." "But how? Did you burn it?" "No." "What did you do with it, then?" I "I put. it away, where 110 living soul . but myself can ever unearth it." J "You put it away I" cried Hoyden, | "you put it away when I puid you your prico to destroy it? You did not destroy it?" | "Certainly not." "Why not?" ! "Would you havo me fly in the fnee i of my fortune, destroy my only stock in trade, my only chuuco to secure a living?" "For God's sa!?<t,-what do you mean ?" I II T _ l *11 1 T | J mean a lime win come wnen 1 shall l>o in want of a little money, aiul i when that time comes all I have to do i is to produce the will, and you'll havu ' to danco to my tune." j He winked viciously, ns he nindo the | daring avowal. j Livid with rage, Max Hoyden struck ' the table a blow with his fist that I threatened to shiver it to atoms, and ' sprang to his feet, "You're ft knave and i a liar!" ho shrieked, scarcely able to contain himself. "Gently, gently, my !>oy," was the mocking reply; "if you treat my jhm>i furniture so roughly, I shall have to send you in a bill for " "Hand over the will, or I'll have your life 1" " You said you wanted to talk business; I'm agreeable; so sit down and keep cool." But Boyden kicke?l Hie cliair from behind hinu.ftU^Ut'Ancd over the table "Nick Garland!'' ho hissed, and hit dark eyes had the look of a famishing wolf in their lurid depths, "understam' me; I want that will." "And I want money for it." "1 have paid you all that J propost to pay." "You paid me to destroy it; if, now you want it back again, that's a nev deal." "(live me llie will! "When you givo mo fifty thouanjn dollars," [TO BK CONTINUED J THE NEWS. Dsniel P. Khen folder, brick manufacturer in Heading, Pa., has fade I. During a ] drunken brawl in New York, John Lynch, a cobbler shot his wife. Frank H. Blaine, assistant editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, Is dead. Aimer Holtman, a railroad em" 'J ploye in Chicago, killed his wife and then oommitted suicide. The Attorney General of California has recomni ?n led th-? dismissal of the charge against Justice Field. 1 A storm blew down tho side of the tent whilo llobinsons circus was thou log in ' Toleilo, O., causing a panic. Many persons I were bruised. John Brady assaulted his 1 landlord, John J. E I wards, in Philadelphia, and inflicted injuries that may prove fatal. 1 At isomers-t, Ky., D. J. Sharp sns s stabbed to death by Honry Goodman, whose ' sister he had struck for calling him a liar. * | ' iV"*"'' fi |, t pi^f ** pool rapids at Niagara in a borrel, and t o6c .ned with n few bruises. Edward .? Aznann, of Cincinnati, cut the throat of I i?ermx l. ir in Imli innpoli*, nml then tit- , tempted su'eide. James nnd Henry Mil 's, s brothers, waylaid nnd shot, instantly killing 1 William Miller, nt Brunswick, Mo., wh*> hnd J a year ago killed their brother for paying t attentions to his wife. -M. T. Bowman, * of JefTersonville, Ind,, tlied of heart disease 1 while bathing at Tyliok Beach, Ga. Goo. Lynch is dying ct Braxton C. II., W.# Va., t from a copperhead snake's bito on his left ' check. A reservoir near Fiskville, II. I., J burst drowing three persona, and doing con- ^ siderablo damage to property. Firo d.d t $150,000 damage to Swift &. Co\s packing ' house in lyinsns City. l'ostrn ister C. E. J Lyberger, Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, ? shot at his daught r, but missing her, fatally i wounded his wifo Ho then committed suicide. The coke operatives have decided ? to ndvauco the price of coke. The San t Francisco Chamlter of Commerce commit- ' teo fuTors the laying of an ocean telegraph J cable from San Francisco to New Zealand. t In the village of Moscow, I,ul., thero U i an epidemic of diphtheria. F. !'. Nichols, of Wohurn,* Mass., while delirious from j typhoid fever, ishothiu nurso dead. Paul | Halmont is held for extradition iu New 1 York, on the charge of being implicated in J a bank robbery in France. The Fii'-illo ^ Mail steamship City of l'ara caught fire 1 while discharging her cargo at Aspinwnll. ' After much labor the dames were cxtiu- ^ guiauvii. h Four big ocean ateainors, the Teutonic, I City of Now York, the Saalc, and City of Rome, sailed from New York, nil hont on t trying to l>eat all previous sailing records, i Colonel Adolph Brandt, n lawyer, of ' Atlanta, Ua., while debating a resolution in J tl?t Grand lx>dge of OjilJp|lnwiit In Huul" t Rof?5e, 0?.,"drop|ttni dead from ap plexv ? II. ft Kenyon. a worthy young banker 1 <^_whi!<' in a jjit Ml tint <<f a ^^Mr/wliohnd ? cretly married his countn i in opositlon to bis parents' wishes, commit. 1 ted suicide . . Tho Colobrookdale Cronmory Association, I of Heading, i'a.,*has failed. In a freight 1 train wreck on the Heading Hnilroad, near . Sbimokiti, l'a.,"the locomotive and twenty I cars were wrecked, and several trainmen injure I. Alexander Lloyd, a milkman, 1 near Wilmington, 1 >? ! , was shot and severely wounded by liorso thieves, The first train to go over the new Knoxvillc, Cumberland Gap and lx>uisvillo Hailroml was wrecked near Knoxville, Trim., and three prominent men killed and many injured A lover's quarrel led to IS 1 ward Kuowles fatally shooting shooting Maud llortel, near Oneida, N. Y. Chemists of tho California University have discovered a preparation which will render leather impervious to water. K Gardner, of Chicago has been arrested nt Cheyenne, Wy.,for using tho malls to do.raud tho public. Whilo hunting, L. F. Wisuer, of Marshalltowu, Iowu, was accidentally shot and killed by bis son. A free trade picnic was held ut I'lattsburg, la., at which a letter on tho turifr from exl'resident Cleveland was read. Christopher W. Luca, u store-keeper of Hrooklyn, N. Y., had a hand-to-hand bloody encounter with thieves, in which ho was killed. A fire in Colfax, III, destroyed property to the | value of $75,DIM. The New ISnglaml to bacco outlook indicnt 's a fair yield and a good average quility. The I'eiiiisylvuniu crop w.ll bo fully up to the standard. Ky a explosion of lire damp in a colliery of tbo Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, near Seranton, Fa., 11 vo men were seriously burned. Tlietownof Durham, Me., which was incorporated as Itoynlsboro, for Co). Koyul, of Medford, Mass., and which takes its present name from Durham county, England, where Col. Koyul was born, celebruted the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporation. Emanuel Brook*, of Shawneetown, 111., shot and fatally wounded his wife, then shot himself twice in the head, ran one hundred yaidi and leap id into tho Ohio river ??The stato treasurer of Now Hampshire has receivt?d for redemption a certificate for $150,000, the la-t outstanding war obligations of that itate. It was announced at tho florists'convention at Buffalo N. Y., that Mrs. Harrison would give a ! prize ut the coming national chrysanthomum exhibition. A colision is feared between some Ute Indians who have loft their reservation and the whites. A counterfeit two dollar United Slates silver certificate is uiak| ing tho rounds. KILLED THE BURGLAR. A Richmond Junk Driller Wlio Filled a Thirl" Full ol" Shot. Kx-City Sargent Janes C. Smith, of ' Richmond, Va., whom junk slop has b?oii ' robbed several tim ?s recently, secreted liiinr in t!io building with a doublo-b arreted shoti About 2 o'clock in tho morning ho observed n negro man coming down the steps insid > the build log, wli-m h> fired, wounding the ' robbjr, who ran off and hid himself. Smith called to tho negro to come out, which ho did Smith alleges that lie thought the negro had ' a weapon in his hand, ami li tired tho sec rid >' turret of 110 shit guu into him, with Intil effect The wounded man w.n taken to tho almshouse, wiu-ro he died in a few boil's. 15 nub I surrendered himself to the authorities. A coroner's j iry met and returned in a vert|icl of justifiable homicide, HANGED IN THE TOM Four Murderers Whose Viptims Were Women. 1'wico I ho Tcrriblo Dnip Fall*, ami Two nro Handed Each Tlmo? Olio l>it'N Willi CurxcM on His Lips. The four murderers of women?i'atrick i'uckotihntu, Jack Lewis, (colored) James Volau and Ferninand Carol hi?were hanged n the yard of the Tombs, New York City's >tison. There wore two scaffolds and two nen were hanged on each, l'ackeiiluun and Solan weio first executed on the scaffold ihich had bxn erected on tlio Franklin itreot side of the prison. The drop fell at i.55 o'clock. Eight minutes later Lewis and .'arolin were hanged from the scaffold on k^rY# Plack and unner Sheriff Sexton cnil 0.S5 o'clock. They were followed by wenty deputy sheriffs, all in black clothes md wearing silk hats. Each olllcial wore his >adgo of ofllco and carried n stnlT. They n.irchod through the corrider into the cour.rurd. Ten of them went to the Leonarditreet side and the other took their places at ho Franklin street wall. At o'clock the. irst jury of twelve men, all news|?apora rej>-? 'csefnutives were given the signal to enter lie prison yard, and two minutes later tho tecoud set of jurors filed out and inarched to heir places. Simultaneous with tho marching out of tho lecond jury I'ackciihain and Nolan were akeu into nod i i ilu new prison. At 0 45 Jaroliu and l,ewis were removed to the boy*' jail, on the I^'ousrd street side. The lust riles ?f the c'.iurcli were then adminLtere?l, tho wremoiiio* occupyiug eight, minutes. At 0.54 .woof the condemned men, l'ackenham and Solan, emerged from the Jtttl, uccoui|>anied y the priest. Father l'rendergnst sup|>ortod UiCKcniinm, ami father (J.linns walked doogside of Nolun. The proct s-iou brougl t ?1> wiiii Father Van Iteusc a r. From the prison door to too place of oxelution It 1* just forlir-two lacrn. uuJ it tovfc , iiirt-y tor lb* auiHlnnnwl to Tenet! be ejiot where they wore to die. Nolan took us place under thoropo hanging nearest t he ("raiiklin-strect wall. I'lickoiihnni was four oot away from his companion and next tho irfson. lloth men turned and grasp ,tj ,|1( irirs shy tho bands,wringing then fervently. Then hangman Atkinson Moopud down und ied a white cord about the logs of Nolan, ust above the ankles, llis assistant did a ike s rvico for old Tackeniiam. In a twiuking tho black caps were adjusted and Atkiu011 rnpp d t hr.-o tiuu s in rapid succession on lie side of tbu box wherein a third assistant tood with a hatchet. The third rap had iardy been given when the bodies of tho iiurdcrers were jerked into tho air. At tho expiration of four minutes there vas a mighty throe ulm< st together in the luspended murdorerK. i'uckcubam'.s pulse tad gone up to '.HI, and then sank rapidly to ><J bents a minute. Nolan's pulse at the fourth nitiute was bounding at. id, but it, too, beMine weaker an I weaker, and at the expira,ion of live minutes was no longer pereepti>le. At 7.KI o'clock bo h men were prolouuc d dead, but were j?orniitt?eLto !h*tjjt~ llteeu minutes hnigor. While tliis scene was being enncto I propirulions were being made lor what pioved ;o be the most slu eking spect iclo that has ver taken place within tho walls of the The banging of Carolin find , The two murderers at Alb o'clock received die last spiritual consolation. At two uiinatosafU r 7 o'clock! arolln and lyiwis,with tbo prion's cam through the door, LjwU walked unsteadily the first dcr.m p on, but <|ir.ckly recovered himself, lie was smiling, und us lie caught sight of a deputy who had been njieciallv kind to liiin ho walked over and seized Ins hands. Then lie shook bands with two more. Fntli r (.Minos gently urged liiiii toward therupi that was to strangle him. lie smiled und looked fearless y around him. Curoliu had the butt of a cigar between ins l.ps and was pulling vigorously, blowing great clouds of suioKe into tho faces of I bo attending priests. His fact* was as palo as the faco of the dend, and tho scowl upon it utmost demoniacal. He glared at tlm priests as he turned around and felt t'oo rope touch his shoulder. Kpitling the cigar st ump froiu Ids m uth ho broke out into blasphemy that horrified i bo sp-ctators. Atkinson bail j ist pinioned his legs when he siwkc. hooking H I . .1 I... .,..1.1 .......I MJIIUIIIJ !ll> UIU |M it'9in,uu oiriii xiij va< UMdr u "I die an innocent man. U? <1? it, 1 didn't do this thing." Lewis who had then l?een pinioned, half turned his head nnd addressing his comp hiion saiti: "What's the matter with you, anyway if Wlty tion't you die like a inant' 4-I wiij die a man;" sbti-.'kcd Cnrobn, tiis face turning perfectly livid- "Iwill die like a man? an innocent inau " Tho words were scarcely out of his mouth before Atkinson hud clapped the Muck cap over bia face. The assistant hangman covered 1/ewis's fnco at the same movent. Atkinson guve the signal and the weight fell. Instead of Itounding up, as Pi.okonhuiii anil Nolan haddone, the miserable wretches wont into the air with so little force that there wus scarcely any rebound at all. lewis immediately began to struggle in tho most sickening manner, lie threw his legs nhout so violently as to kick off his slippers. Then ho beg in to gurgio and cliofce. 'the rasping, wheezy sound came from under that horrible black cap for fu.ly ten seconds. His body turned nnd swayed, p.nd tho contortions were so painful that half a dozen men turned away their leads. The poor cnnluro wae slowly strangled. L'aiolin's body was violently contorted also, but li > u tiered no sound. The weight fell at 7 O.'l o'clock, anil at 7.1(t both 111011 were dead. Tho four bodies bung for half nn hour, nnd were then cut down and placed in plain eoilius. All four were strangled. TIIK CHIMES AMU CRIMINALS. Patrick Puckenhum, the eldest of tho foui murder, rs, wus about Hixty years of age, llo killed his wife by cutting her throat March Id, of last year, because she refused to give ni<^4-y to hiiu with which to bu) 111nor. At oik- t 1110 he w us a policjinun 11 New Orleans. Of late years lie had beet idle and his wife had to to siipp >rt him. lb frequently boat and abus -d her and tiis cliil| dren, and threatened her life and theirs He was drunk when hi killed tier. He was a quiet prisoner and gave little trouble nftoi his conviction. Jack Ixovis, tho colored murderer killed Alico Jackson, a mulatto, on Jul,) 17, 18-tS, lie cause she would no longer liv. wiili him. He attempted to murder hci s; vera I months before be succeeded. II< tired several shots nt her at that time, aii< thoi'ght that h-i had kille I her. He H d Wli n lie found that she wus still alive he re turned to tliisf ity and wanted her to livi with hiiu again. She refused and lie kep li'ir ?* f hir llltll. lift t. ft tllM fllfkrilillt tiJHt ho murdered hor. Ho culled on hoi tliAt day at tho house whoro Alice Jucksoi was employ od as cook, llo forced hi* waj in and went straight to tho kitchen. Hh< ordered him ou?. of tho house, and bo alio her in the breast and abdomen. 8he accuser him of the crime before witnesses just pre vious to her death, and when he was arrest ed ho acknowledged it. "And I meant t do it too, he added. Ferdinand Caro'ln was a German. II murdered his wife at their rooms, 47 8:ni ton Street. His wifo was an Irish woimt Ho was seen committing tho murder by woman who lived in the same house wit them. She looked in nt a window and s?i Carotin chopping Ids wife in tho face wit a hatchet. Ho was holding hor head b< twoon his knees. He chopped at it ngai and again, ami when she was found by th police she was disfigured almost beyou recognition. C.arolin stiyol in the rooi With the uiurdejod woman until the polic ^ ' - " T' .. .APJJ arrested him. tie male no resistance end did not try to deny tb > crimp. All that be said Mr as that tbe woman was not really hie wife. They were eery poor, and a number of pawn tickote were found upon blm. J runes Nolan murdered Emma Buob, who had deserted her hutband. Ube bad met Nolan and lived with hlra for a while, but tinnllv told him to leave her. lie threatened her when she wanted to rid herself of him. She locked bun out the next night. The next day lie called to see her. As she oatna down the stiirs he pulled out a pistol and tired at her. She was within three feet of bun when ho llred, and four bullets entered her abdomen. In her ante-mortuin state* mentlothe Coroner Emma said that she had supported Nolun ever since she bad lived with him. Ho had frequently abused her. He quarreled with her M?e night before she locked linn out. When he pulled the pistol she set earned: "For Uo.t's Hike don't touch iuc." His only response was to sh^ot her. TERRIFIC OIL EXPLOSION. Thousands of rtarrcla of tlio Fluid ?- ** > * am sultana Ktve. - ?hnhk limit glare spread over the lower soction of the cities of Allegheny and Pittsburg. It w?is followe<l by a dull, heavy boom. For a moment darkness once more covered the sky, aud then 11 unes and smoke shot up in vast volumes from the Allegheny side of the Ohio river. Lieutenant Holm s, of the A'legheny polite force, who woo on 11 aver avenue at the time, at once realizod that an explosion of great magnitude had ocoured, and he quickly sounded the alarm. Ho then hurried to the location of the flames, and on instant's glance was sufllcient to show that the large oil rcilnery of A. D. Miller was doomed to destruction. When Lieutenant Holmes arrived on the scone lie found Porry llouck, the night watchman of the rollnory, lying in an injured and dazed condition on Washington nvenu . llouck could tell nothing of the explosion or how bo escaped. Thornton Miller, the engineer of the eitahlishmont, was missing, and it is thought he por s'ted In the Ann 's. In thS meantime the devouring otement was , , . 1 Meeiiing nil before it. Starting mo""*"' ? gasoline Mill, which was the cause of th? *tih slon, the flames spread in all directions. The tank of water-white oil was the flr?t to ignite, l>ut was soon followed by a large rcc ptalilo of the ordinary brand, and 35.000 barrels with nbliir. * at once. Alarm after alarm was suit out, from tiro headquarter" ami hoi n ?vi*r3- engine in the city m an at t',Q m ono, an I stronins of water were pouring ! > from nil directions, but the greedy flau?e" roomed to accept tlio water merely an fresh fuel, nnd it app are-.l but to aid on the work of dentruction. Near tlio corner of Treble avenue and Adams street stood a cooper idiop, a long, low, brick building, Ktored with empty barrels, and with rows of them standing on the outside. These latter were soon on fire, und it seamed to Imi but a question of a few minutes when those of the inside must follow. Within fifteen minutes thoentire square, except a narrow strip along Treble avenue, wus one ni.'us of 11 lines. The roofs of the neighltorlng residence were smoking, and the occnpauls?many ?f-ttwinr-~ -Jialf-pJaTt=wpr6^stairdTng around half stupefied with fear that their homos were to l:o devoured. In a short tirao nearly all the residents of lower Allegheny "its On ?ue scone, pressing as close to tjie grand sight at _ the Jut nso heat would permit Quito a sensation was created among tbem, I^reMo ilrenties, which wui the flfe/i was stored 1,000! barrel" of-benaliie./ Tho result of this alarm was a geuefnl rost- --s ter fiy* Wiort time,' liut the crowd soon again surroundoti tbe.dangerous "pot. While hnrd. Kt wutk. Firemen Mulvehiol, of tho Kuroka Engine Company, had his foot badly cihishe i, and i^sh taken home in a patrol wagoQ. The plnqt was valued at |2Uo,000. DISEASE AMONG HORSES. i A Mysterious Dirlcinpcr Among tho An minis in' licut County, Nd. Horsemen in Kent county, Md , are puzzle I over tlio npp mnnco of afutnl aud peculiar disease among horses. The animals, while apparently well, droop, and iu some cut -a nru dea l almost instantly. A lior.se belonging to Josiuli MnssoV. u farmer living near Chesturtdwn, while being bridled n few days ago for the purpose of being used on tho farm fell donil, and eo did another belonging 11 .Mr. Henry Mwoy. Tho latter horse was quietly grating in the pasture, when Mr. Mass.-y passed near hint and waved his hand to iu ike liiin move. The animal rais d his head and started to walk (df, and full dea l in his tracks. A third one, belonging to Bradley Thompson, wldch had b on put out to pasture, was found dead in tile held lying ii*ar a stream of water. A fourth, belonging to T. if. Cooper, die i suddenly without a moment's warning, never '? having drooped or refused its food. The appetite of the animals is good up to the I ist niomoiit, and iu some casus they have diod with food In their mouths. In tho throe cos's first mentioned the horses wore apparently well up to the moment of death, eating heartily and showing no signs of sickness. Whether or not the disease is contagious it is impossible to say, as nil investigation has failed to furnish any s itisfnctory knowledge of tho nature of tho trouble. : thousands of lives lost. I Viet i ins of t lie Floods a ml Hart liqunkes in China and Japan. . Tho steamer Oceanic arrived at Ban Francisco fro-n llong Kong and Yokohama, bringi ing ml vices to August 10th of further details of tho bursting of tho Yellow river embankmonts, in the provlnos of Bhnntung, July 22, state that the destruction is widespread. The broach in the river is over 2,000 feet in length, [ and a swift current swopt through, flooding 1 to a dopth of twolvo feot, a large extent of *4, ' tho country lying adjacent. Many houses 1 woro wushe I away, and a dispatch from Cbe! too states that tho number of persons drowned ; is too great to be counted. Ten districts are already submerged, and it is feared many more in the low lying country south will sur1 for a similar fate. Tho latest advices eonr cerning tho earthquake nt Knmnmotn, July yy, place the nuiiioer of killed at eighteen, . tuul tho wounded nt nineteen. Filty-two t l A nut nn ' dwelling* wero uom"i?3 tbe Infill <>f July statostliatflfty-throoshoclis r had been exiwrieiiued, nil J (but they cou3 tiuued to bo felt. ' MET DEATH IN A TUNNEL. t Workmen It'own to Pieces by on Kg' plosion ot <;ialit i'owtlor. A terriiile accident is reported from Buck, f ley's Mills, Kusaell county, Va. A railroad 9 tunnel is being carried through a big hill at J that jioint and n large number, of men are employed. A blast containing eighty pounds t. of giant powder was flred, but the charge o foiled to explode. A gang of moa went back v wj to tho blast and started to drill the tamping o out, iu order to insert a new fuse. Whila i- thus engage I the charge exploded and no i. eighteen foot drill was hurled through the a ikul. of one of the in >u, killing hira instantly. 1 h The dead arc: iv Michael Dance, head blown o(T; Joseph li Moore, right side and shoulder torn away by it The injured, two of whom are likely to die, d William Kunz, terribly laoerated by flying II ri'i-Us; Andrew .Martin; li>? blown off at the Jf| e kuee; John Huiusoy, lost both hands.