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rj-i -j^jLITTLE
WAIF.
*
A Story of Absorbing Interest.
By BERNARD HERBERT.
(CHAITKK XVII.- CoMiMtRn.J
Garland was always considerate with
llio child. lie was slcrn with her, hut
nuvcr hriital. lie never punished her,
probably because sliu never required
correction, being n ]?erfeot little angel
in her ways.
Though lie never showed her any
fatherly aiVcetion, oeeas onallv, when he
had been dlinking, he would place her
iw.r i.: 11 i'..... ?'M.. 1 :<n.. i ...i.. ?
?? I"ir mill, lain 111*1 UHllv: 1JUUJ,
ami wink, saying:
"Wait! One of Iheso days you'll
queen it!"
Hut tlion, lie wan hall drunk. No1)
>dy heeded his drivel, and they used
to call the man and child "IJeanty and
tho Beast," or "Little CIracie and old
Nick."
It was years after she came there
before Orrin Clifford deigned to bestow
a glance upon the girl; she was kept
out of his way; then, again, what
should so morose a gentleman earn for
the child of his servant? She was
fully throe years old when, one exquisite
morning in May, Orrin Clitlbrd met.
her toddling along a sunny gardenpath
with her apron tilled with gorgeous
tulips.
lie started at sight of her, turned as
pallid as death, and when she turned,
to lly from him in affright, he dropped
upon one knee and beckoned her to
mm.
"Come hero, little one," In; suit I, in :i
low, unsteady loin-; "what ia yourname
?"
She walk* <1 bravely up ami stood
before liini, lmr great blue eyes looking
wonileringly into his haggard fnee.
"My namo is little draeie," she answered.
"Oh, yes," lie murmured; 'I know;
yon are - (Jarlaiul's child!"
The gardener, who was watehilig
them from a distance, always said that
the little innocent ottered to kiss him,
but that he rose quickly ami walked
rapidly away, leaving her standing
there with the lag tears welling into her
oyes; ;
lie that as it may, from that time On
rin Clifford saw < IraeuOarlaml everyday
woman and a lady in evcrv IhougTit and
deed.
Small wonder, then, that she went
half mad when ah? saw him l.>ing dead
? murdered in lied?far from the home
which he had left in search of the
health which would permit him to return
and enjoy it.
It is a wonder that the. nnor child
was not driven elcun nut of her wits
when she discovered the 111:111, whom
she had everv reason to believe her
father, in tins eotniiiissinn of f.ho foul
erime. However, it was her harden
now to hear the hitter memories of the
past, and her duty to investigate the
mystery that still enshrouded her existence.
lint for the present we may leave it
all to her and return to our narrative.
Upon a certain spring-like afternoon
about the middle of the month of April
the unusual sound of carriage-wheels
ir^rfrrrm- inTmV,Y4tii,rftinr.sJo,/,',\. Iite
mansion that nestles at the foot of
the Milton hills.
The sun was slowly declining, shooting
erimsou lauees among the budding
trees and fdisteuiiif^ upon the livery of
the approaching carriage. The equipage
advanced, the high-sleppiu)g horses
glancing from'side to side as the birds
and little ground animals scurried away
into the underbrush in alarm. . .
I tl'ill ill I' llll lit I tin nnwu.irlvm i. ul.n.u
- r> "i " * h1"" " "" I,,,?
t!n? coachman alighted ami (lie
onrrinpo <|o??r for flu* pair seated within
? a lady mid {{cut Ionian, in whom tho
loador will promptly Ycoofpiizo Mrs.
Cora lioydnn and Knport Arniin.
In silcnco tho two alighted and
liiountod tho steps to tin- stout* tnrraoo
which surrounded tho house. She
loaned upon his arm and watched his
handsome face as he contemplated the
quiet seclusion of his surroundings,
, with the dark lake {.{learning like a
shield of lilack stool helow them.
"Well, how do you like the place?"
she inquired, l>rcakiiu{ the charming ,
silence.
"It is my ideal!" ho muriiiiired enthusiastically,
shading his eves with his
disonijn^e I hand, and looking oil'across
the lake toward the hills hcvniid, |ust
he?'innin^. to rustle their vernal foliage.
"You think you could he happy
here?" she asked.
"Forever!" ho answered; " rover, it
I could only remain."
"Why should you not?"
lie turned quickly and met the
p,lance of her magnetic eyes lient full
upon him, and lie colored IioIm lie
replied :
" Forever is a loii;{ t ime in this world."
one i.nmc inio a son, musical laugh
at liis solemn wonls.
"What a sentimciital creature vou
mv!" alio exclaimed: "sometimes I
IliiuU you a.e not capable of enjoying
tSio happiness that lies in \our path!
Then you like the place V"
"Thoroughly."
"That is all I ask. To-morrow I will
Bet a company of people to work to put
house and grounds in order, and on the
following day we will come out and
take possession.
"So soon?" asked A mini in surprise.
"Why not ?"
"Is there not a great deal to lie
done?"
"No; merely airing and dusting the
house, and weeding the paths. M\ dear
uncle simply closed the place without
removing a single object upon if. I
promise vou that the interior of the
house w ill pie ise you more than tinexterior.
It is a perfect dream of lux
urioiiH comfort." <
"1 do nut doubt it." Then, ay if the
object of liis coming there flashed
across his mind for the first time, ho
nddc?l, quickly, "we can l>egiu on your
portrait at once, can we not ?"
"If you choose."
"Do not you choose? Have you lost
interest in it?"
"Not at. all; only I want you to rest
ami paint just when you feel inclined."
He looked at her ns she spoke, and
his lino blue eyes expressed the helpless
admiration which he was powerless
to express in words. Sho felt her
power and smiled in her criminal victory.
"How good you arc!" he said, at last;
"I shall never forget your kindness and
encouragement."
"We'll not mention that," alio returned,
laughingly.
"lhitlcuu't help thinking of it," he
r?f t'uiclaul * "I loivo ItOL'Ol' I Oil Uiwll (X
patron before."
"And I fiuicy you never will again!"
slio thought, with malicious satisfaetion.
"Do you know," lie continued, "that
I cannot, make up niv miml to paint
you as Satanella? We think of lier as
the embodiment of all that is bad in
women."
"Perhaps T am a Satanella," with a
mischievous smile.
"Oh, I know you arc not!" ho exclaimed,
fervently; "you are an angel,
a ?"
"There 'here!" she said, smilingly
cheeking his passionate outburst; "you
remember that 1 told you 1 have a husband,
that be is traveling in the West;
lie may return at any moment, unexpectedly;
should such he the ease, I
want to be able to introduce you to liiin
as inv friend; I want him to consider
you bis friend also."
At this gentle rebuke, Arnim blushed
to the roots of his hair, and was speechless,
while the wily enchantress said to
herself:
"If he goes on at this rate T must get
rid oi him, or he will be an insufTcrublo
nuisance! However, of one thing I nin
satisfied my triumph overtliut wretched
girl is complete I"
As they drove hack into the city that
evening, Arnim attempted to frame
some excuse for his forward conduct.
"If you can forgive me this time, Mrs.
Hoyden," ho fullered, when she cut Itiin
short.
"I will forgive you," she said, still
ottering him the fatal bait, "on one condition.
"Nui.io it!"
"That, you cull me Cora when wo are
alone. and T will rail you Ktijirri. It
will seem us though wo wore better
friends."
Ho absented glr. Ilv, poor fool, not
aloue because lie. waa rejoiced at. thin
sons lie baton the name of Boy?leh.
When it is remembered ihut little
(Iracic had obstinately refused to tell
any part of her life secret, it will be
understood how easily ho had fancied
that thero eould be 110 connection between
the two persons of the saino
name; lie thought it a mere coincidence,
and wishing to forget Max Hoyden,
had never mentioned the matter
to Cora.
Within t wo days the lonesome plnco
at Milton underwent as great a change
as though a sorcerer had waved his
' agic wand above it. Kvery room in
le spacious mansion was thrown open
to the light and air of heaven; the garden
glowed with the early blossoms of
spring, and the stables echoed to the
stamping and champing of high-bred
steeds.
A bevy of servants hurried from rooa^,
to room uncovering the rich furniture
and .lucliny dusting the ornaments
nguts; so itlr AMien imryoung *nrust
and his enchantress arrived; they found
a place sullicicntly elegant in every respect
to entertain a king in.
Bike one in a dream, ltupert Arnim
passed from apartment to apartment,
closely followed by tin* woman whose
only .object was to lend him in silken
bondage to his doom. She had bowitched
him, body and soul, until sho
tilled e Vl?ll Ill's fll'lMims U-i(l) llwtiwrlilu /xf
her, to the utter exclusion of poor little
(! race.
It was Cora who wreathed his pinto
with wondrous great roses, ami poure?l
tlie wine into his cup at dinner that
night. It was she who sang to him
love songs in some foreign tongue to
the lascivious tinkle of a mandolin as
they sat in the shadowy drawing room,
where the candles twinkled in their silver
sconces against the polished mirrors.
It was the perfume of her hair that
intoxicated him, as they stood upon the
terrace in the balmy spring night ami
watched the young moon set behind the
distant hills like a silver bow dropped
from Diana's girdle.
And it was she who completed the
unhallowed enchantment when she
leaned upon his shoulder, breathing:
"Oh, Jlupcrt! If I wore onlv free to
love!"
I i 111 hark! What rapid stop was I'mt
which disturbed (ho rharmod silence,
(hat ground the gravel of tlio path beneath
thrill, that mounted (he steps to
the very terrace? What form was that,
which stood before them ill the starlight?
What voice pronounced the
thrilling words:
"A telegram, madam!"
"For me!" she said, in surprise.
For answer, the intruder handed her
the well-known yellow envelope,
bowed, and descending the steps vanished
in the surrounding shadows.
With a strange premonition upon
her, Cora lloyden turned toward the
open easement of the drawing-room,
and hastened to where the wax lights
shed their soft radiance, followoil l?v
Ainiin.
Pausing beneath a luster that de]>t'ii<lc<l
from tln? crnlcr of the apartment,
she tore ??IV tlie envelope with
eager lingers, unfolding the sheet, and
in u:i instant swept its contents with her
eves.
With a repressed erv of what sort of
emotion it would have heen diOieult to
deline at the moment, she wavered an
instant, staggered forward a step, and
sank into the arms outstretehed t<> 10
eeivo In r.
"Oh, Kupert !" she breathed, faintly,
"I am her, nt (dssl! Free ?free to lovel
Read!"
holding her in Ns cmltrnce, he
took the paper from her hands and
glanced at its contents. It was dated
at New York that same day, and signed
by a name ho did not recognize.
"Your husband died suddenly some
time through the night," it ran; "cause
of death will be investigated."
She was clinging to him almost hysterically,
for he had unconsciously read
the words of her release aloud.
"Cora!" he cried; "I may tell you of
my love, now'/"
"IJy and by," she whispered; "by and
by."
"But I love you so!"
Sho was in his arms, and lie stood
facing the open casement, lie bent his
head and pressed his lips ujsm her
brow. A breeze stirred and the candles
flickered?in their sconces. He raised
his eyes to wlicro the opew-rra* mnia
framed in a bit of the dark night, and
there?ah, just heaven, how like a rigid
corpse he stood, staring with dilated
eves! IIis arms relaxed their hold,
and let her sink heavily to the floor.
"Rupert!** she gasped; "Rupert,
wluit is it?"
"Look! look! there!" lie punted.
lbit she only crouched at liis foot,
hiding lior faoo in lior hands, and
shrinked in guilty terror.
Had she looked she would have soon
a filmy, ghost-like figure at the window,
with a white, accusing face.?the face of
her victim?the face of little Grade 1
CHAPTER XVIII?
1IOMK AGAIN.
It was uo wraith, no ghost, luit little
Gracie in the flesh who stood gazing in
at the open casement u]K>n the unholy
sceno, with wildly distended eyes.
For one moment she paused there,
attracted liv a baleful fascination over
which she had no command; then she
vanished as mysteriously n3 she had
come.
How had slio reached there, when
we left her apparently dying umong
strangers in that pretty garden of upper
New York City, called Mount Morris
Park?
Simply enough. She hnd but
swooned, and the natural health which
had helped her to bear so many hardships
and trials in life, had speedily
come to her reseuo. Very likely it. was
the hateful clang of the ambulance-gong
j which finally and completely brought
her to her senses; for, us the vehicle
drew up at the gates of the park, ami
the agile young surgeon sprang from
his pcrcli upon the tuil-lsiard, alio sal
up mid gazed nboRtTlierihirbewilderetl
way.
"What's been the matter with you
Miss?" inquired the young doctor
with considerably more interest thur
| lookers-on.
I "I must have fainted," little (Jracit
answered, wearily.
"But wliat was the cause? Ave voi
ill?"
"No, I am not ill, but- but T receivet
somo bad news which almost?lui
never mind," she added, as sho gainet
her feet with some difficulty; "I uti
better; it is all over now."
"Had you not better ro with mo t<
the hospital ?"
"Oh, no, no, sir.*"
"But you are scarcely able to si and
Do you live in this neighborhood ?"
"No," she answered, "I live dowi
town; but if I reach a hoise car I slial
i do very well."
"Then |>crmit mo to be your escoil.
He tillered his arm, which she gladh
I accepted, and accompanying her as fa
l'hird avenue, saw her saitcd in tin
propor car. Perhaps it was the swee
humility of the gill which touched tin
sniiTe of grutituut?itt parting, that li ut!
liiin watch the car as long as its but
roof and red sides were visible. Be Ilia
us it may, he turned away to join hii
ambulance with a sigh of;
"What a lovely face! Poor child,
wish 1 had asked her name! If wlia
sho said was true, something awfu
must have happened to her."
Something awful, indeed, from tin
"jioor child's" point of view. It will la
: remembered that Mrs. A mini luu
: handed her a letter, flic reading o
j which had bereft Oniric of her senses
Had the good woman even su.xpeetet
! that the missive bore the forgery of lie
son's name she would have destrovet
! it institute!*. Hill Imw alwuil,! ul>.. L......
what it contains! when it luul conic In
1 ti messenger a few hours after Hupert'i
! departure, with tin* request that it h
| handed if the jierson to whom it wim
] addressed should she call. It was Cori
I Hoyden's villainous work, and upoi
her head must rest the consequences.
I "I leave New York," it ran, "to Ik
J rid of you. 1 loved you once, hut I hatt
I you now with a hatred far surpassing
I that love. You have deceived inc. outraged
my hospitality and disgraced my
: mother by breathing the same air witli
5ier. Farewell forever. I shall shun
you as I would a viper; see that you d?
the same in regard to me and 1 shall
"be satisfied."
To this shock ing ejiistle was appended
the name of Kupcrt A mini that cherished
name- tlie name of (lie only man
she had ever loved and could ever love.
Was it not a shock to the sensitive,
sulTering heart? Was it lot a sin to be
atoned for in blood? Still she kept the
| note. Had he not written it, and could
I she make up her mind to destroy nnyI
thing to which he had set his hand?
| The truth was that she did not blame
him; she told herself that In' was justified
in despising her, and with the true
perversity of a loving woman she comforted
herself with the thought that
even his hatred was preferable to his
indifference.
During the long ride down town hIio
ro far succeeded in composing herself
that when at last she reached the detective's
house, although very pale, she
was to all appearances perfectly herself.
Here sho found Mr. Edgar impatiently
awaiting her, as the hour was drawing
near when it would l?e necessary
for them to take the late afternoon
train for lloston.
"Why, my child, where have you
been?" asked the lawyer, when (Sracio
entered the cosy tittle parlor.
"lip town to bid good-by to some
people who were my friends," replied
the girl, evasively.
| Mr. Edgar, mun-like, ac<?p&d tlio
explanation without queetion; bpt when
good little Mollie Baneker had taken
Gracie up to her room to makefile final
preparations for her jotrney mxo said,
kindly: f
"Hornetliiug iias gone wting with
you to-day, Gracie, dear. \Fhutisit?
Can I help you in any way ?"/
Tlio sisterly sympathy touched tlio
right spot in the poor girl's /heart, and
casting her arms about ISttllv's neck,
she wept upon her friendly breast us
though her heart would i?renk. ltut
hearts do not break; it i/only an idle
figure of speech. Her fears relieved
her over-charged inind, and when she
grew calmer she nhswerud:
"No, dear Mrs. Hancker, you cannot
help mo. There are crosses in life
which we mu^t liear alone. Hut, boiluiu
nw, 1 Uh ..lii,.^n^roH>.,M>y has* for
all your kir.dncwt. "
"Oh, nonsense!*. rojoined tlio little
woman, cheerily; "dear me, 1 do hate
io inivo you leuvu un: um |iniiui3u niui*
you'll sometimes write U> mo, and toll
nio how vou nro getting along."
"I shall *Tit?i and never forget you,
rny dear, dear friend !"
Of course the parting with lior
Btanch friends was a trying moment
for Oraoie, but. like all tlio joy a und
sorrows in lifo, it was soon over, und
gave ploco to the excitement of hcing
launched u|x>n the great world again,
hound in nn all-absorbing quest?the
finding of her missing mother.
For two days after her arrival in lkmton
fatigue und the difficulty of finding
> n suitable lodging-pluce us near as possible
to the old homo in Milton occupied
overy moment.
At last a comfortable farm house on
.the high road that wound past the wcll'
known "P>vck Fond" wna discovered,
! and rooniv^ or the pair-engugiHl.
i" As luck would have if. the inmates of
the house were new to the district, and
i consequently failed to rocognizo in
: Gracie tho girl who, two years previously,
had gone away with Mr. Clifford
when ho went abroad to die rpon a foreign
shore.
They wero homely sort of people,
1 glad to secure lsmrdcrH in order to eke
out nn honest living, uud were satisfied
to mnke their guests comfortable and
1 mind their own aifnirs. Tho only other
'< inmates of the house beside the furmer
and his wifo were un elderly inan and u
: little three-year-old child, who were
' lxmrdcrs liko Graeie uud Mr. Edgar,
' and were introduced to them as Mr.
i John Leonard and his granddaughter,
little Stella.
The man passed his time sitting
among the trees of tho orchard intently
? watching the rouu, while the child, a
1 little^oldcn-liaijrod fairy, played at^jiis
that, the pair had lodger with the farni3
or wince he had taken the place u year
before; that they were quiet, inoffeii1
wive people, taking their meals by
themselves, and never speaking to any
one unless they were spoken to. Int
deed, the farmer explained that as the
man 8|>oko with a foreign accent, he
1 thought he must have come from across
the sea. lie furthermore added, tap'
ping his forehend significantly, that he
believed the old fellow to bo "touched
in the upper story."
That ho was a foreigner and a
.Frenchman was conclusively settled
J one day when, iqion the arrival of the
mail a letter was handed to MY. Edgar
? by mistake, bearing the superscription :
"M. Jouu Leonard," ami post-uinrked
[ "Paris."
|t lint as (lie old mail continued to sit
I in the orchard, with his dreamy eyes
B bent upon the winding highway, and
^ dcr\?ngbne^K.*?v himself'tJ pf
Y Ins meditations.
t Upon the third day after her arrival
H in Boston, and after the first evening
of her sojourn ut the Milton farmhouse,
[ Graoie, unable longer to contain her
t anxiety, proposed to Mr. Edgar that
I they should walk down the road in the
tender starlight. Naturally she led her
, companion in the direction of the old
. homo, and in silence they walked along
j tho shadowy road, while from the
I neigh lairing swamp, the frogs cliir]a<d
and gurgled a melancholy uecoiupuiiij
ment to their steps.
r Presently they turned in between the
j massive stone posts, where the gates
, hung ojM'ii, as if to receive tlieni, and
f suddenly at a turn in tho avenue,
which brought the mansion in sight,
Gracic paused, and laid her hand upon
I I it; I ? ill 111.
"Look !" slit*. breathed; "tlioro is tlio
house, and it is occupied ! Do yo-> see
tlio lights V K,
"It inuy liavo l;eog rep tod." sngfa ed
, the lawyer. T* C
r "No," (jaino tlio quick rejoindfY,
"my father would never liavo allowed
- strangers there. What can it mean V"
i "It is your own home, Gracic. Von
i have a right to investigate."
? "Come," she whispered, "follow mo."
| And when they.reached the foot of the
steps that led up to the terrace sur[
rounding the illuminated windows, she
paused -><Aing:
i "Wu.t for me here. Do y>t stir!"
Then, with a step at liv, it as the
breeze that rustled the budding trees,
i she gained the ternice, and peered in at
i tlio open window.
Merciful Heaven! How she 'staggered
and caught her breath in horror.
How she (led that sight which seemed
to blast tlio very life that palpitated in
her bosom!
"Come, come away, '*k!" she
gasped, reaching mo n. ' 's sulo,
iiiul grasping his hand V frantic
power, hi 10 draggedthe
inky shadows thatt& wer^ *'t!io avenue.
"Oil, come, rome, come!" she
tnonnod, as ho loitered and glanced
back at the lighted, tcmuitlcss windows.
"'In Heaven's iinmo, child," lie demanded,
in alarm, "what liavo you
Been ?"
"What havo I seen?" Something
vilo, hideous, sinful! Something that I
will drive me mad, if over I see it 1
again! Something that will kill me, i
unless I put miles between it and me!
Oil, come, come! In Clod's name,
hurry!" i
Such was her homo coming 1 (
[TO DS C0MT1MUKD.J I
THE NEWS.
E. O. 11 urtlott, known in p'oneor days ns I
'W.Id Curley," died at Kearney, Nob. Ho '
"r.is a fumou* scout, and onoof tlic ourvlvoM '
>f the Mouatalu Meadow massacre. Micligan
capitalists will construct u canal from '
iraud Rapids to Holland, that state, to cost
OJO,000. Judge John T, Nixon, of the
United JStutos District Court for the District
it New Jersey, died nt Stockbridge, Mass.
Vn investigation of the condition of the
families of the Illinois striking miners shows
.hat liiin I rod i of children are sulf ring from
lunger. Two groat English syndic ites
with an aggregate capital of f'W.tWO.lkW,
tmve atKiut. coinplotiHl the invr itiuent of this
Urge sum in American Irewortcs and grum
slevalors. Captain W. It Jones, gouorul
manager of the E Ignr Thomson 8.col Works,
iivlio was burned by'llie explosion of molten
metal, dio.l Saturday night. Joseph Iajiiihcr
was waylaid, robbed and iiiurd -rod in a
wools, near \> ilkesbnrre, I'm. Hy tlio exp
os.ou of a boiler iu a qu my, in York
county, l'a., I/-'inucl Barnes wus fatally injured
on I his w.fo killed. A passenger
trniuonthe Dultiuioronu I I'bilo lelphla Uuilroad
collided with a locomotive near Wilmington,
DA, and Kin in in telward Lyle,of
Newark, killod. lluns Jospetson, n Mormon,
lias boon arrested in 8alt Lake City
charged with polygnmy, one of his plural
wives having confessed how they were married
without a license. Lieutenant Colonel
Sidney 1). Waters w.is hold for the action of
the grand jury, at Spokane Falls, on a charge
of stealing supplies from the relief committee
of tlio sutT rors by the August lire. ilarry
Fluinin, the young teller of the Marine
National Bank, of I'ltts'.iurg, convicted of
embezzling fcl>,bO), was seutencid to live
years in prisou. Mrs. Frances 1?. Willnrd,
president of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of her birth. F.re destroyed
i 1,000,0 JJ worth of property at Butte, Montana.
lioorgo Oil-r( a dissipated tailor,
shot his wife and then committed suicide in
Jersey C.tv. The coroner's jury in the
Quebec disaster gave a verdict charging
grois and culpable negligence ou the part of
the Dominion otllcials.
\V. H. Layton, aged seventy-fire years, of
Dupont, Ohio, blew out tlio gas in his room
at the Leister House, in Huntingdon, IV.,
and was found dead the next morning.
Governor Iamj litis respited for two weeks the
negro Walker, who was to have been execute*
Lot C4>ei-tcrlMd CTJHrt-liousc, Virginia.
William 8. Moore's 1 irge graneries and
s ables oil his farm, no.tr Daurcl, Del., wore
destroyed by tiro, tlio supposed act of an
incendiary. Dr. John E. Blalue, a prom'.
lie111 Chicago physician, was arrested on a
charge of |>orforming a criminal operniion
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Micb. The steamer providence, of the Old
Colony Dine, was in collision with a schooner
oft Schuyler's light, twenty-live utiles from
New York, and was Imdly damaged Joint
II. Quinn, who murdered his wifo at Alton,
Fa., committed suicido l?y hanging himself
in Jail. Heintnud Holzhay, notoriously
known ns B'ack Ilart, the stage robber, escaped
from jail at. Bessemer, Mich. 'l>'eru
weie 165 business failures in the IJiftted
States and ~7 in Canada t ho last week.
Mrs. Delia Preston shot a canal boatman on
a lw>at nenr Schenectady, N. Y., who ti l'd
to force his way into her cabin while she
was taking a bath, The saw mills o* the
Ohio Kalis car works, at Jefferson, Ind.,
were destroyed by 11 ro. Total loss $115,(HK).
Forest fires in California nro destroying
miles of flue timber and sweeping away villages
and farm boustw. James Cosgrovc,
of Chicago, called William J. Collins a linr,
when tho latter drow a revolver and shot
Cosgrove doad. Mrs. Win. Conroy, ol
| diJd. 1 lor "children
the same causo. Twenty-two stoics wtrc
burned out in Cresco, Iowa. Lass $l>,000.
O. 8. Bliss & C'?.'s syrup refinery, in Kansas
City, Mo., was burned. I?ss $50,000; insu
rnice f.'!0,000, A three?yo:tr-old boy, with
n mania for playing with lire, s -t fire to his
ImtiV giutor^ <*Witliinr in I ml in nnm tl io tin.I
she was burned to death.
r.mmons Itlnlno, the second son or tho lion,
/ames Q. Hlalne, was tnnrried Kept. 20, nl
Klchfleld Hprings, N. Y., to Miss Anita 51cCormlck,
grand daughter of tho late Cyrus
McCormick, a Chicago inillioimire, and the
inventor of tho famous reuping machines
that boars his name. The Kcott elevated
llailway to bo constructed in Kt. Louis, is to
be built with Holland capital, a loan of
$0,000,000 for tho project having been effected
through the firm of Ladciibcrg, Thai man
& Co., of New York, representing a syndicate
of Holland capitalists. David llarfl
Id, of New York, was arrested in Iticbmond,
Va., charged with bigamy. I>r.
Charles B. H intz was arrested in fhiladet*
phia charged with |K>rformiug a criminal
operation on Blizt Kraus, a nlneteen-yoarald
(lorinan girl. General Khcrinun was
re-eleciod president of tho Society of tho
Army of the Tennessee, and tho meeting ut
Uiucinnatti closed with a grand l.tinqn -t.
Snow storms in tho northern part of
Wisconsin. The St. Louis brewers have
refused $15,003,000 for thoir property offered
by tho Knglish syndicuto. Tho sheriff of
Heading, Pa.,lc/iodon the farm of Valentino
S. Kicff.r, whoso failure was caused by
his being bondsman for l.-aac Kckert, a tux
collector, who defaulted, skipping with $8,MX)
taxes. Chicago ladios have formed a society
for tho prosecution of the gamblinghouse
proprietors of that city. In a quar
rei oeiween i>. r. i urns, a mercti'iiit, mid
John Wallace, a mnil currier, at Cairo, III.,
over tho removal of Commissioner Tanner,
Wallace was fatally wounded. Jacob
Bchreibor, a son of John L. Hchreil>er, ono
of tbo commissioners of 1a high county, Pa.,
shot and killed his uncle, Franklin J.
Bchreiber, at Moorehond, Minn. The
I .a fliit & Hand powder mill, at Cressona, Pa.?
was blown up, and three men killed and a
number injured. Finery's big sT.p manufactory
at Ivorydalo, near Cincinnati, <).,
was destroyed by lire. Lop^-1125,000.
Four of the largo watch cni. Mlers hnvo
gone out of the combine, and ? independ
ont manufacturers will likely ' >w win the
fight. A little daughter ofcv.Ienry Ten ties,
of Chicago, overturned a lamp and set flro
to the clothing of herself and mother, both
being badly burned. A fire at Madrid, Ht.
Ijawrencj county, N. Y., destroyed the Uaptist
Church, valued at $h,imo; tho Congregational
st Cburcb, valued at $5,000, and
other property valued at #0.000*
KILLED IN THE SLEEPER."
in
i Frightful Railroad Wreck, on Ll
the New York Central. a
gt
Many IVrnons Killed and Injured? W(
Ono Section ol'nu Kx|ir?'HN Train CI
('nwIicm Into tlio Other,'Jl'nualug
Hav. c.
The St, I/Oiiia Kxpnw, No. 5, which left '
Alb.-iiiy, N. Y., at ten o'clock I'. M.,met with |n
; ft bad accident about two mi lea east of 1'ala. M
Line Bridge. The Qrst section broke down and <*o
1 flopped for repairs. The rear brakeniau was
I *out back to signal the aeco id section, but for
' lome reason failed to perform liis duty. The
' engineer of the second section says he did
' not m him, and the first lie saw was the bt
{lights of Iho first section in front of lilni. V
. The first section was made up of baggage, I ^ll
. m?ii nrnnwt ami three nasseniror cars, | I;
pa< kad with people, and a Wagner sleeper oi? w
ihe end. The crush was terriflc. Tho second tli
lection telescoped Into tho llrst section,
knocking out tho lights ntul plunging ever J tiling
into darknc*-*. |,
Four bodies have boon taken out of tho p
deeper, ami it is foar.d tho total mint bur of w
' deaths will run up to twenty IWt', uud jtossibly
more, as tho car was full. .
Tho llrst ? clion left Fonda at 11.21, ton .
minutes late. Tho sect.ons of this St. Louis
express usually run ten minutes apart. ^
Authentic information received from Albany
says tour persons were killed in tho accident
at Palatine bridge?ttireo men and ic
one woman. si
Kngineer llorth, of Albany, had both logs
broken, One tileeper was telescoped, and two ?
a:her curs badly damaged. {Superintendent
Hits -II has issued orders that the injured bo ii
conveyed to hotels and taken euro of. h
Train No. It), from the Wost, duo hero at h
U.;J0, left l'alatino at 2,t*T?, one hour Into. Nlio c
| (topped nt tho sc.'no of the accident just long gl
enough to takoon Engineer llorth. An nmbulauce
was in waiting nt the ilo|H>t, and he ,,
was conveyed to the hospital. He talked t)
freely, and said Ii< slowed up his train near ()
Hprakor's, thiuking ho would crawl up nil
i c i n one. At tho scone of the accident ^
th re in a sharp curve, and ho did not see the
III st section until almost on to it. Thou lit
oj>|>Iio<I tho brakes, but they would not work.
lie did not jump, but st?K>d b.-twoou tho on- **
glue and thecal', where he was can ;lit. and v
both legs crushed. It is not known whether h
tie will die or not, fears being outcrt lined 0
Mint, lie will d e from the shock.
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BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. [
A llinst l''urnnoo Hursts mul Scvn ('
Men Arc Soritmsly 1 n.lureil.
j\ in^imui IKTHI-'IU 1111 |? -ii <i lib \/?i inv
t,i?'sKI;nr Thomson Hto-d Works nt Bud
:l<>ok, Ponn. Cap'. W. 11. Jones, general
manager of I ho immense stool works, iiikI a
iiumltcr of workmen wore horrible and perhaps
fatally burned.
Furnace "C," one of th? largest of tho
blast furnaces, gave w,?y at tho hottotu ami
Uuta .IU^? ? ? ?*>!?Vf
and ('apt,. Jones called to son if he could not
n o itain the causa. Ho was working with
a numbor of men near tho huso of the lurnaco
when tho tiro ik occurreil. In an iiis'oiit
It lines of tiro shot, forth, and tho hot metal
exploded and foil ilko sheets of water. Tons
of tho metal poured out of .the furnace, and
that any person near the furnaco escipe I in
stunt death is regarded as almost an eevident.
The list of tho injured is; Captain
Jones, general manager, horribly burned;
M icliacl (Juiiui, ngod 25, so badly burned that
his flesh peeled olT with his clothix; ho can
only live a few hours. John Mokake, laid y
luirnel about body, but not fatally; ('apt.
N d (Jiiitin, burned about arms and chest,
will n cover. Patrick Hughes, Michael Con- t
nor and John Noodou worn badly burne I.
.Michael King, a Hungarian, was present
when tho soothing mass poured out of tliofiir
nnck, and as ho cannot I>?. louiid, it is feared
bo ha. been covered up.
Cap'. Jones is well-known throughout tho
United Htates and Kuropo wherever iron ai.d
steel are mantifaeiurod. He receives a salary
of f 25 UtJII a year and n percent ago of tho
' product of the largo mill, making Ins incoina
> almost $50,t>0 n year, lie took J Hi men to
' Johnstown at his own ex penso two days after
the tloo I snd remained there for two weeks
' Ai'Vy -r re^ua Ho itfpw Jvipu
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THIS WOMAN A SMAbHfcK.
i Mrs. Tlios Woods'('ampaign Against
i I lie Kuiiiscllcm
Mrs. Thomas Woods, of Warsaw, ind.,
has bogun an activo wy against the saloons
> of that plnce. Homo time ago she served
> ndtice upon t he proprietoi s of several saloon*
forbidding them to sell liquor to her husband,
i wno ih tin i'i county cierK and prominent in 1
i tho business world. These notices were unii
lormly disregarded, and a few days ugo sin
onterod oik* of tho drinking places and |
smashed a costly mirror.
On Tuesday sho wont into llovH-*nu's saloon
throw a hamincr through tt largo mirror,
and broko tho front window of .ho pluc*.
She has not l>ecn arrestod, and public sontimerit
is in hor favor. Sho s iys sho means to
keep up hor peculiar stylo of warfare till tiro
ulo of liquor to her husband is discontinued
ONE MILLION IN SMOKE.
L
Iluttc, Mont, Visited l?y a Great Con- 8
fl tgrnt Inn.
Firo destroyed f I,' 00,00J wortti of p oport.y
in lSutte Cdy, Montnnn. H|mci;il dispatches
Btato that the tiro hroko out uhoiit noon. A a
violent wind and an iusutUei--nt supply of J'
water greatly aided tho confln{ration. Late
in the day, however, tli lir , which had ,j
b"on conil led to tho lilock in which it urigi- (
tinted, was gotten uml -r control.
Tho Itowes llloek, the First National Ylmk, |(
H -niioss iy's dry goods store, Hatsoocli's hat |,
store, the II nnr I H ock, (J lines' shostore t.
and sovorui siii tiler establishments woro d:- ,
troyed. (l
MARKETS.-" I
Hai.timoiik? Hour?City Mills.oxtrn,14.50 ii
ta$4.?'<0. Wheat? Southern Fultz, Pilaff*: I
(Corn?Southern White, 40040% cts, Yellow
'4ln4'J eti Oats?Southern and Pennsylvania
Uln'd7 cts.: Kvo?Mar viand Pennsylvania [
i tsia.r?t.Vts.; Ilay?Maryland ami Pennsylvania
I ri MIoSI.I I Ml. sit....... .1 r./i- Mf rji-u-..?
I -? V?? Iin- ?? mv?i jt; t\mtT ? . <t\J , IMUUT,
KosternUn*uiiery, 1U.i2.5c., near-by receipts j
Kial7ct*; CIks-so?Custom Fancy Cream. 10
oKIL' eta.,?Western, OalO cts; Kkrs?21
a 22; Tobacco I>eaf?Inferior, lafi.OO, Good
Common, 3 00a #4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Oood o
to fine rod,8.t$0; Fancy, loaf 1,'t. c
Nkw York?Flour?Southern Common to
fairoxtra,?:U0nf3.15;Wheat Nol White MX "
aH0'<; Rye-State. Corn-Southern t
Ycllow,40^a4l. Cats?Wnito, StnU'25%a9tl I t
cts.; Butter-State. 1 In 24 cts.: Chooso-Siate, j.
ilO cts.; Kggs? 2la22 cto.
I'lllf.AOKl.fiii a ? Flour ? Pennsylvania v
fancy, 4.25o 1.75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and hi
Southern Red, Rye-Pennsylvania f(
5ii5S''ts. Ci.rr.?Southern Yellow, tOal' ^'cta ^
Oats-27a27'/ cts.: llutter-State, Iim.5 cts.; ^
Cheese? N. Y. Factory, UaUJj cU.' Kggs? f(
State. 20a22 cts. ft
CATTTjR. h
Rai.timork?Iteef, 3 S7a4 15; S!ieop?$'3 00 u
al 0 ). IIo^H -M ??i4 40
.Nkw York? Iteef?$4 75;i5 25;Slioop-$3 50 j,
a5 50; II..gt -#4.70 A20. |,
Hast I.iiikrtv?Beef?f4 40a4 90; Sheep? jy
' |?i 25a4 50; JLlogs?R 70a4 75 |>
IS ASTERS AMbx
Merritt Wright, n eon!mot^N^W . jBKBBKK
>una., wni killed by the caring ifHij^j
Cor|>oral ban Igr.ivo, oflldterv B,
rlillery, w?? drowned at Kurt Monroe,
nia, by a suil boat capslsing.
Frank llniisscu and uu unknown roan who
as in tim carriage with bun w.tu killed iu
Jieago by being struck by a train. ^
Mr. Mnttbows, a wealthy railroad contraor,
died in an opium joint in Butto, Montana, ;
tor having smoked ten pipes.
Hugh Hob Tie and Authony Marohetty, Jl'
luers, employed at the Alaska Colliery, at Tfl
omit Cutiuel, i'a., worn killed by a fall of
ck.
The recent wet and wanly weather haa done >H9
vatilnra ige to tho liiMiu-ach crop in Mew 3
irsey. in ilunteidoi^\iuuty aloue the iota '-'9
estimated at #100,UUO. 1
Tho upp.-r atory of u now two-story brioJt j
ilhliiig in the outakirU of Chicago wat J
owiiuowii, dangerously, if not futaily, In-a.^'^a^K]
ring John Kcoelai and John ilobL ~|tK
A freight train on tho Mexican Central jl ."vaP
ailroau was derailed near LSgos. Ten men "WSjp
ere k<llcd uud three injured. Itissuppwed ;|S
mt llie train was wrecked by roubers. _ B '*rb'
Two freight trains on the Boston and Maine , |
ill road wt-ro wrecked by u collision near - j wSh
inciutrr, Massachusetts. A flreuiau uaiueU .> * WBBm
orron was killed uud two other trainmen H *35fflR
era injured. flj
During Sunday-school services in a smalt' y WR
\?iue church near Columbia City, Indiana, J"
.tbtniiig struck tbe bu Ming, killing two flu*
iris, each about 17 ytars of ug J. ion otlioig >.f? iBmSI
vre slunoed.
A waloi H|iout butstovi r LVrrodordo, MexH>.
cuusliii! several deaths. LlVo slock wus
wept nway and Louies destroyed. Tbeexjct .
umber of deaths nud the extent of the dain- ' jH
go (louo nio nut known. j
During a supper in celebration of the open- j
tg of a now urinory in llirmiugton, Ala- IH|
uiiin, the gUe*ta, nearly 0110 hundred in ly*""* 0
cr, wtre mudo violently e.c* by ttio ice 1
ream, wbicli contained some poisonous sub*
bunco. ^fl
WhiloKomo laborers Jn tbe stono quarries 1MB
our Vauouuvor, liritiah Columbia, went w
poning etuis of powder with oiiis.ds, a torrio
explosion ocourrod, killing Patrick Mor> V ,'^H
un uud l'atrick Delunoy. Four otuer mou \ .
roro tearfully but nod.
An explosion of gas In Nuilsou's abaft,tat
ill tuiokiii, 1'enua., burned Alexander Crow,
ohn Toeus, John Murphy and VViliiain UulIn,
the ih si two namod fatally. The axplo- fl^9
Iju was caused by Tocus, who was ignorant
>( the prisiico of tlio gas.
A passenger train wan derailed near l/oon, ^^^9
lutlereouiity, kunsun,liy thespreading o t io
ails. Tinco couchos rolled down a fifteenout
enil ankment It. M. Hernia was killed, ^Hj
nut lame Dean, Mrt. Mnlaoka and Mrs. ft.
\. Hodge* were fatally injured. A uuinber ^9^9
>t othoiMworo badly hurt. ??
" JoliU Viulntliul mid bia ton children left
lloonc, luwn, in a wagon about Hcptein jer
la for Milwaukee. Th y wore ton days on
bo road, and on arriving in Milwuukeo ninu
>f tlio children w. re tairuu with dlptheria.
i.x dying within nix days. They contract;a
,bo ?Hstum on the road.
A train of seven ears going south from or ~ ^99
nit a, it on York, ran into uii engine at T H
I unci ion, lVnni., c.iuaing a bad wreck. 39
wreck caught lb o andtiio injuredpoite
jcrsons were injured, none fatally. >v"V -^1
W hi Io a loaded wagon containing a party
if live wascrocsinga ford near-PurcelUville,
Virginia, llie atreuin being awellen, the hoi sja
Mieaiuo uiii.iin.igcublo, and the wngou was
iwepl soiiio distance. Mim Husle Cutor, of ^9^^9
ieorgctown, District of Columbia, and Miss
Ktta At well, of Alexandria, jmnpwl iuto (he ^^^99
water and wore- drowned, i'bo rest of the
party regciiytd t^iqre.
BURIED ALIVE 108 HOURS.4 J H
M
\ii Ax *1 Man llrM iii'd from Henoath. ' ^El
lliitljiM'bao IjuihI NIkIc, nbe
TIim laborers at work at the ruins caused j
>y the recent luml slide, ut (Junbec, Camilla, I
icard.il slight moan uiuler a heap of wreck- huflfl
i?o? digxiiiK vixnrously noun reached Joseph
vein p. Wliun extricated Kemp, who is 72
^eiirs of age, w.ik Htill ablo to speak, after
uivhix In-ou buried IDS hours. Father
McCarthy uthninisL Tod the facrameat
ho tippirontly dying man. Mtiinulanta^^HH^H
were uilmuiiiturod and hopes are now enter-jjy^H
t, lined that Konip will recover. , ^
Hhortty after Kemp was / taken out the H|
orpH j ot At re, O'lrowft, n^v.A 72 years, was
ecovered. The body was badly mutilated.
Mrs. O'Mowd was rocking a cradle and knitlug
a stocking when the avalanche of roo!c '^
Mine down. She was knocked through a 7l/)juj
window ami killed. When found her hund JiHtfT
it ill hold lior knitting work. -
The remain* of John Henry wcro found
niilur the dehris. The body/Was doublet! In ' ' '
wo and spliniors of nil s /. n wer > sticking
n th" II 'tli. The body of Henry's wife was
found a fow feet away. Kho had in her hood
pieces of brokon plates and a fork. Mho died
while preparing nor liushnmt's supper.
The work of clearing nwav the debris is
iti 11 going on with vigor. There are still
from ten to twelve ho lios under the ruins.
A VOLCANO IN ERUPTION.
iniuko noil lied Hot AnIicm Thrown
I'Vnn tlio Mountain of Ciltiiia.
Stephen 11 en Ium, an American luilrotd
rntraclor now in the City of Mexico, from
iolima, has boen an eye wlt????? ?f tn...
rup ion of the vofcofio of Collrna, which '
i thirty mil h North of the city of the some
* m.o ??ivuiiv mho ?va travcr ill uu J
levatiou of 13,009 feat above tbosea level,
iid is very active intermittently, throwing ^fln
pa column of smoke and red hot
lUiidiods of foot in the air. Th so sp
ruplious occur about ten or twelve ti
y and uro followed by reports si<ml^KHB^9BHH
lie dis-h irgo of nr illery.
A lew day? before the earlliqusk^^HHHHHMfl
nontli, tbe voloitio v<>m;td fortu a
>lack smoke tliat hung like a pall ovu^fQV
ountry for miles around. This pbon H^KagHS
on lasted for siveral days and was aoc^^^sBBSH
> lined nt intervals l?y showers of red
Abel, which descen led upon its si da. H
lot known whether or uot any lava
iic thrown out, as ttie rod hot ashes
nvesligation impossible.
YIUI HtK ANU CHILD bUKWaHMH
[ho in Trying to
Alio Hndly Injured.
He irjH H
verturno.l tho lamp at bore
ago, 111., and bor clothes caught
lotlier, suing tho danger tho child w^HH9H|^flH
>ro tho blazing clot lias from her and
lioni to oiio Ai she did so, the
lie burning oil caught her own dr-rsa. h|H^H
eloped in ilauies, she raa frantically doH^^^HgPr^
lairs. At tb.o second landing, Mrs. Tenne^^Hpi'*
II ho'pleas, her clothing burned from he^Mp
oly, and her lle.h being literally roasted.^B t
l moment later, ber hust>and appeared eltoBy^l
pi luiiy burned, butetill able to walk. He VI H
ide l in carrying hi* wife to a bed. Then
is strength gavo out, nud ho fell to the floor
ucouscious.
Doctors pronounce lire. Tennee' conditio^
opt-k-iH. The injuries of Mr. Tenuis and ^HDfl
is daughter are much less aerlOos, although J^K^9
lr. Tennes will bo Uiilly Jlstlgured by the H
urus about his heed.