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THE
LITTLE WAIF.
A Story of Absorbing interest.
By BERNARD HERBERT.
(CllAPTKlt XVII- Continukd.J
Garland was always considerate with
tho child.- IIo was stern with her, hut
Dover brutal. lie never pum'shod her,
probably because she never require*!
- - oorNctwit, being n perfect little angelin
her ways.
Though ho never showed her tiny
fatherly sftcctidn, occasionally, when ho
had been drinking, ho would place her
before him, call her "My Little Lady,"
and wink, saying:
"Wait! Ono of llicso days you'll
queen it!"
Hut then, ho wan half drunk. Nob.xly
heeded his drivel, and they used
f/l null Ilia mutt Iitwl aliihl
. tho Beast," or "Little Grucio uuil olil
Nick."
It was yearn nftor alio caiiio ihero
before Orrin Clifford deigned to licstow
a glance upon tho girl; alio was kept,
out of hit* way; then, again, what
should so morose a gentleman e.aro for
the child of lii.s servant? She wan
fully throe yearn old when, one exquisite
morning in May, Orrin Clifford met,
her toddling along a Hiimiy gurdenpttth
with her apron tilled with gorgeous
tulips.
He started at wight of her, turned as
pallid as death, and when alio turned^
to fly from him in atTriglit, lie dropped
upon one kueo and lioekonod her t<>
him.
"Come hero, Jittlo one,"* he said, in a
low, uiiHteudy tone; "what is your
name?"
Sho walked liravoly up and stood
before him, her great blue eyes looking
wonderingly into his haggard face.
"My naiuo is litt.lv Oracle," she answered.
"Oh, yes,*' ln> murmured; ' I know;
you aro? Garland's child 1"
The gardener, wlio was watching
them from a distance, always said that
the little innocent offered to kiss him,
but that ho rose quickly and walked,
rapidly away, leaving her standing
there with the lug tours welling into her,
eyes.
Betln i^iait may, from thai time Or.
rin Garland every day
C"every^tlnuig'lit. and
Small wonder, then, that sho wont
half mad when "he mw him lying dead
?murdered iu 1**1?far from tho home
which he had luft in search of the
hoalth which would permit. him to re
turn and enjoy it.
It is a wonder that the poor child
was not driven clean out of her wits
when tdio discovered the man, whom
sho had every reason to lmliovo her
father, in the commission of the fonl
crime. Howover, it was her harden
now to bear the bitter memories of tho
past, and her duty to investigate the
mystery that still enshrouded her existence.
But for the present wc may leave it
all to her and return to our uarrativo.
Upon a certain spring-like afternoon
about the middle of the month of April
the unusual sound of carriage-wheolH
Fond fcfCfifl .li'iSi of
ite mansion that nestles at the f(?ot of
tho Milton hills.
Tho sun was slowly declining, shooting
crimson lances among the budding
trees and glistening upon the livery of
the approaching enrriago. Tho cquii*-'
age advanced, the high-stepping horses
glancing from side to side as the birds
and little ground animals scurried away
into the underbrush in alarm. . .
Keiniug up at the moss-grown steps,
the coachman alighted and opened tho
carriage door for the pair seated within
?a lady and gentleman, in whom the
reader - will nmmnt.1v wrn;'.n
i?J - " --r> *'xio.
Cora Boyden ami Rupert Arnim.
In silence the two alighted mul
mounted the stopa to the atone terrace
which surrounded the lioiiwi. She
lenncd ujam his arm and watched liis
liandaoino face as lie contemplated the
quiot seclusion of hia HtirronndingH,
j with the dark lake gleaming like a
shield of black nteel below them.
"Well, how do yon like the place?"
she inquired, breaking the chariuiug
silence.
"It is my ideal!" he murmured enthusiastically,
alluding Ilia eyea with hia
diaonguged hand, and looking off across
the lake toward the hills lieyond, just
begiuning to rustle their vernal foliage.
You think vou could bo happy
here?" alio uskecl.
"Forever!" he answered; "forever, if
I could only remain."
"Why should you not?"
Ho turned quickly and met the i
glance of her magnetic evrs Unit full
limn liini i?*,l -"-I?-t 1
mill) ?IIU UU WH'ICU IIUIIJ U-i IIO
r? replied:
"Forever is a longtime in this world."
Hlie broke Into n soft, mimical laugh
at liin aolemu word*.
"What a Kentiiueiitnl creature you
*7 .',-7. ~t are!" she exclaimed; "aoinetimea I
think you are uot capable of enjoying
^...tlio happiness that lice in your path!
Then .you like the place?"
"Thoroughly."
"That is all I nak. To-morrow I will
. act a company of people to work to put
honso ami grounds in order, and on the
following dnv wo will come out and
lake possession.
Wffi~ "So noon?" naked Arnim in surprise.
? "Why not?"
"Ia thero not a great deal to l?o
dono?"
"No; merely airing and dtiating the
house, and weeding the i>ntha. My dearnnolo
simply cloned tho place without
removing a single object njwn it. I
Cmiso von that tho interior of the
ise will ptowo you more than the
exterior. It is a |>erfect dream of luxuriouH
comfort."
"I do not doubt it." Then, as if tlic
Sfr - '
object of his coming there flashed
across his mind for the first time, ho
added, quickly, "we nan begin on youf
portrait at once, can we not ?"
"If you choose."
"Do not you choose? Havo you lost
interest in it?"
"Not at all; only I want you to rest
and paint just when you feel inclined."
He looked at her as sho spoke, and
his fine blue eyes expressed the helpless
ndmiration which ho was powerless
to express in words. She felt her
power and smiled iu her criminal victory.
"How good you are!" hosuid, at last;
"I shall never forget your kindness and
encouragement."
"We'll not mention that," bIio return
cd, laughingly.
"Butlcaii't help thinking of it/' he
persisted; "I Ituvo never ) ml ouch.*
patron before." '
"And I fancy you never will again!"
alio thought, with malicious satisfaction.
"Do yon know," ho continued, "that
I cannot make up mv niiml to paint
you as Satanella? We think of her as
the embodiment of all lliat is bad in
women."
"Perhaps I am a Satanella," with a
mischievous smile.
"Oh, I know you avo not!" ho exclaimed,
fervently; "you arc gn angel,
a- "
"Thero, there!" she said, smilingly
ehccking his puHsionato outburst; "you
remcmlmr that Itold you I have a husband,
that lie is traveling in tho West;
1m may return at any moment, uncxINM'tcdly;
should such lie the case, I
want to be ublo to introduce you to him
as my friend; 1 want him to consider
you his friend also."
At tIiihgentle rebuke, Arnim blushed
to the roots of his hair, and was speechless,
while tho wily enchantress said to
herself:
"If he goeii on at this rato I must get
rid of liirn, or lie will be an insuflcrublo
nuisance! However, of ouc thing I am
satisfied?toy triumph over that wretched
girl is complete!"
As tliey drove buck into the city that
evening, Arnim attempted to frume
some excuse for his forwurd conduct.
"If-you can forgive me this time, Mrs.
Hoyden," he faltered, when she cut him
short.
"I will forgive you," she said, still
ollcring hiiu the fatal buit, "on one condition.
"Name it!"
"That you call mc Cora when wo am
alone, and I will call you llupert. It
will uoo m a a Himiirli uru tunnn linlfnn
friends."
He assented gladly, poor fool, not
sons"ho^iatetlTt/ic rianie *oV^oy<\eri.
When it is rememberod that littlo
(Iruciu hud olwtinately refused to tell
any part of her lifo secret, it will bo
understood bow oasily ho had fnncied
that there could be 110 connection between
the two persons of tho sumo
name; lie thought it u more coincidence,
and wishing to forget Max Hoyden,
had nuvcr mentioned tho mutter
to Cora.
Within two days tho lonesome pluco
at Milton underwent us great a change
as though n sorcerer had waved his
magic wand above it. Every room in
the spacious mansion was thrown open
to the light and uir 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 room
to room uncQveriog tlio rioh furniture
mill oiotnroH. dusting the ornaments
Tights; so trial irniui ine vuuug nrnsi
and his enchantress arrived, they found
a place sufficiently elegant in every respect
to entertain a king in.
Like one in a dream, Kupcrt Arriim
passed from apartment to npnrtmcnt,
closely followed by the woman whose
only object was to lead liiin in Hilken
boudago to his doom. She had bewitched
him, body and soul, until she
tilled even his dreams with thoughts oi
her, to the utter exclusion of poor little
Grace.
It was Cora who wreathed his plate
with wondrous groat roses, and poured
the wino 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 tho shadowy drawing room,
where the candles twinkled in their silver
scouccs against tho polished mirrors.
It was the }>orfume of her hair that
intoxicated him, as they stood upon tho
terrace in the balmy spring night nnd
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 ii|>oi| his shoulder, breathing:
"Oh, llupertl If I wero only free to
love!" J
But hark ! What rapid step was thut
which disturlted tho charmed silence.
that ground tho gravol of the path bone-nth
thorn, that mounted tho steps to
tho very terroee? What form was that
which stood before tliom in the starlight?
What voico pronounced tho
thrilling words:
"A telegram, madam!"
"For me!" she said, in surprise.
For answor, tho intruder handed her
the well-known yellow envelope,
bowed, and descending the steps vanished
in tho-surrouuding shadows.
With a s trail ere Dreuionition limn
lier, Corn Iloyden turned toward the
open casement of the drawing-room,
aiul husteued to where the wax lights
shod their soft radianco, followed by
Avniin.
Pausing beneath a luster that deponded
from the center of tho apartment,
slio tore olT the envelope with
eager lingers, unfolding tho shoot, and
in an instant swept its contents with her
eyes.
With a repressed cry of what sort of
emotion it would have been difficult to
define at the moment, sho wavered an
instant, staggered forward a step, and
sank into the arms ontstrotehrd to ra
ccive ncr.
"Oli, Rupert!" ho breathe*!, faintly,
"I am free at taut! i'ree?free to lovel
Rcftul"
\-1
'i jHttll holding her in his embrace, he
took the paper from her hands and
glanced at ita contents. It was dated
at New York that same dny, and signed
by a name lie did not recognize.
"Your husband died suddenly some
time through the night," it ran; "causo
of death will be investigated."
Bhe was clinging to him almost hysterically,
for ho had unconsciously reud
the words of her release aloud.
"Cora!" he cried; "I may tell yon of
my love, now?"
"IJy and by," she whispered; "by and
by."
"But I love you sol"
She was in his arms, and he stood
facing the open casement, fie l?cnt his
bend and pressed his lips upon her
brow. A breezo stirred and the candles
mcKcrt'd in utoir sconces, lie raised
his sjteft to where. the* wpew 'puw ?m.nb
framed in a bit of the dark night, and
there?all, just heaven, how like a rigid
corpse ho stood, staring with dilated
eyes! His arms relaxed their hold,
and let her sink heavily to the floor.
"RupertI" she gasped; "Rupert,
what is it?"
"Look! look! there!" lie panted.
But she only crouched at his feet,
hiding her face in her liunds, and
jphrieked in guilty terror.
Had she looked she would havo seen
a filmy, ghost-like figure at the window,
with a white, accusing face?the face oj
her victim?tho face of little Grucic!
CHAPTER XVIII*
homk again.
It was no wraitli, no ghost, hut 1 it tie
Graeio in the flesh who stood gazing in
at tho open casement upon the unholy
sceno, with wildly distended eyes.
For one moment she paused there,
attracted by a baleful fascination ovci
which hIio hod no command; then she
vanished as mysteriously as sho had
come.
tf 1 i t a a ?
now mm Hiio reociietl mure, wiiuli
we left licr apparently dying among
strangers in that pretty garden of up
per Now York City, called Mount Morris
Tark?
Simply enough. She liad hut
swooned, and tho natural health wliieli
hod helped her to hoar ^so many hardships
and trials in life, had Rpoedil)
come to her rescue. Very likely it wot
the hateful clang of tho ambulance-gong
which finally and completely brought
her to her senses; for, as the vehicle
drew up at the gates of tho park, am
the agile young surgeon sprang fron
his perch upon the tail-lioard, alio sui
up and gazed about her in a bewildoret
way.
"What's been tho matter with yon
Miss?" inquired tho young doctor
with considerably more interest thai
munmt
lookers-on.
"I must have fainted,1' little flrucu
answered, wearily.
"But what was the cause? Ave voi
ill?"
I * <1T o.~ Ill I...I T :?
xiu, jl inn nut in, www? uut i iuu;ivn
Home bad news which nlmoafc?hu
never mind," alio added, aa aho gaiiua
her feet with somo difficulty; "I uu
better; it is all over now."
"Had you not bettor go villi mo t
the hospital ?"
"Oh, no, no, sir.'"
"But you are scarcely able to aland
Do you live in this neighliorhood ?"
"No," sho answerod, "I live dow
town; but if I reach a hoi so car I alinl
do very well."
1 "Then permit mo to l?e your escort.
He offered his nrm, which she glad!
accepted, and accompanying her aa fu
as Third avenue, saw her seated in th
E roper car. Porhape it waa th eta wee
umility of t)i? (t?d which touched th
; BniUeorgraUtiutatjk imsiMs, On*-i?gd
1 Inm watch the oar as long as its bti'
roof and red sides were visible. Be Mm
us it may, he turned away to join hi
ambulance with a sigh of:
"What a lovely face! Poor child,
1 wish 1 had asked her name I If wlm
sho said was true, something awfn
must have happened to her."
] Something awful, indeed, from th
"poor child's" point of view. It will h
1 remembered that Mrs. Arnim ha
bunded her a letter, the reading r
which had hnrnfl CI 1 ?/>;*> I..,.- ...........
Had the good woman even susjiecte
that the missivo boro tho forgery of lie
Ron's name she would have destroys*
it instanter. lint how should win; kno<
1 what it contained wlien it hail come b
a messenger a few hours after liuport'
departure, with the roquost that it h
handed it* the person to whom it wn
addressed should she call. It was Cor
Hoyden's villainous work, and upo
i her head must rest the consequences.
"I leave New York," it ran, "to b
rid of you. I loved yon oneo, lint I hat
yon now with a hatred far surpassin,
that lovo. Yon have deceived me, on!
i raged mv hospitality and disgruced m
i mother by breathing the Bame air \\ it
!hor. Farewell forever. I shall mIuh
you as I would a viper; boo that yon d<
tho same in regard to mc and 1 slml
l?o satisfied."
To this shook ing epist le was uppcudct
the name of Kupert Arnim--th.it ehcr
ished name?the name of the only ntai
she had ever lovod and could ever love
Was it not a shock to the sensitive
suffering heart? Was it not a sin to b
atoned for in blood ? Still she kept tlx
note. Had he not written it, and couh
she make up her mind to destroy anv
thing to which he hod set his hand
Tho truth was that she did not blnim
Jtim; she told herself that- he was jnsti
fled in despising her, and with the triu
perversity of a loving woman Bbe com
forted herself with the thought thni
even his hatred was \>>*eforab)o to hit
indifference.
During the long ride down town sin
so far succeeded in rnwiii/wlno K^ranl
that when at last sho reached the do
toctive's house, although very pale, slu
was to all appearances perfectly hor
self.
Hero sho found Mr. Edgar impatient
ly awaiting her, as the hour was draw
ing near when it would lie nucessarj
for them to tako the late afternoon
train for Boston.
"Whv. niv r.hild. *Knra t??? ? ?"
lx*m ?" oskod the lawyor, when Uracie
entered the coey little parlor.
"Up town to bid good-by to soma
people who were my friend*;" replied
the girl, ovaaivoly.
?
| Mr. Edgrf, * mian-lik I the I
explanation wiiliuuk queoHyn-; bit when
good little Mollie Blacker hm taken
Gracie up to her room to make lie final ?
preparations for her joiruey Jbe said, ^
"Something lias gono wiJng with
you to-day, Gracie, dear, \fhnt ia it ? J*
Can I help you in any way ?"/ 1
The sisterly sympathy tf Ached the *
right spot in the poor girl'sAicart, and 1
casting her arms about lyllv's neck, o
she wept upon her friendly breast as though
her heart would hrenk. But fi
hearts do not break: it if only an idle tl
figure of speech. Her a?ars relieved i,
her over-charged mind, and when she w
grew calmer she atiswenfl: , b
**No, dear Mrs. Bancltcr, yyu cannot i
help me. Tlitf* are crosses in life e
which wo mqqt beor'Uloniy But, l?e- n
for all your ' *
"Oh, nonsense!" rnjoinod tho little
woman, oheeril^ft "dear me. I do hate
to have yon leavf u?! But promise tliut
you'll sometime^ writ#to mo, and tell
mo liow von nro getting along."
"I shall write and; never forget you,
rny dear, dear frioitf!''
Of course tlio gifting with her
stanch friends wip a' trying moment
for Orocie, but. like all the joys und
sorrows in life, it #011 soon over, and
gave place to the excitement of being
launched upon the great world again,
bound in an all-absorbing quest?tlio
finding of her missing mother.
- For two days after Tier arrival in Boston
fatigue and the difficulty of finding
1 a suitable lodging-place us near as possible
to the old home in '.Milton occupied
every moment.
At lost a comfortable farm house 011
.the high road that wound past the well'
known "Black I'bnd" yfas discovered,
' and rooms for the pair/engaged. I
I" As lnck would have it. die inmates of
ilie house wero new to the district, and 1
1 consequently failed to rocognize in
[ Oracie the girl who, two years provi
nuslv, had gone away witli Mr. Clillbr?l 1
when he v cut shroud to die ttpou u foreign
shore.
Tlioy wero homely sort of people,
1 glad to secure Imardcra in order to eke
out an honest living, and were satisfied
to make their guests comfortable aiul
' tnind their own niVnirs. The only other
> inmates of tlio house beside the farmer
and his wifo were un ohlorly man aiul u
| little three-year-old child, who were
1 liourdcrs like Gracie and Mr. Edgnr,
| and wero introduced to thein as Mr.
^ John Linonard and liis <rrund<lmnrlit<>r.
* littlo Stella.
The man passed Ids tiino sitting
among the trees of the orchard intently
> watching the road, while the child, a
1 little golden-haired fairy, played at his
nuuniiOuthat
the pair hadlodfceT with the farm0
or since no had taken the place u year
before; that they were 'quint, inoffeit1
sive people, taking their mcalH by
themselves, And never speaking to any
7 one unless they were spoken to. In!
deed, the farmer explained tliat us the
man spoko with a foreign accent, he
l> thought he must have come from across
the sea. lie fuithurnioru added, tap11
ping his forehead significantly, that he
believed the old fellow to be "touched
. in the upper story."
That he was foreigner and a
(Frenchman was coiichisively settled
IJ one day when, Upoq the arrival of the
'mail a letter was handed to Mr. Kdgur
? by mistake, bearing the HU|Mtrscription:
"M..Jonu Looiiunl," and post-murked
J "Paris."
r( But an the old man continued to ait
V in.lite orchard, with his dreamy eyes
bert iipoi*-xl.ho winding Inglygal, and
W p"
If lift MaiituihXilt 1 '
t Upon tlie third day alter her urrival
jj in Boston, and after the first evening
of her sojourn at the Milton farmhouse,
I Gracie, unable longer to contaiu her
^ anxiety, promised to Mr. Edgur that
,1 they should walk down tlio road in the
tender starlight. Naturally she led her
H companion In tho direction of the old
t, home, and in silence-they walked along
the shadowy road, while from the
,f neighboring swamp, the frogs chirped
, and gurgled a niclaiichvly aecoiupuni(j
nient to their ste|>s.
,r Presently they turuod in lietweeu tho
(j massive stono jajsts, where tho gates
A, hung open, as if to receive them, and
suddenly at a turn in tho avenue,
ij, which brought tho mansion in sight,
Gracie paused, mid laid her Itund upon
_ her companion's arm.
"Look!" she breathed; "theru is tlio
house, and it is occupied 1 Do you sco
the lights?"
6 "It may have lijK\p ryfttod," suggested
e the lawyer.
g "No," camo tho quick rejoinder,
[- "my father would never hove allowed
v strangers thero. What can it mean V"
fi "It is your own home, Gracie. You
a have a right to investigate.'*
o |. "Come," she whispered, "follow mo."
1 Ana when they reached the foot of the
steps that led tin to the terraeo stirI
rounding the illuminated windows, she
. pouBod, adding:
i "Wait for me here. Do not stir!"
Then, with a ntep as light as the
breeze that rustled tho budding trees,
0 alio gained tho terraeo. and peered in at
d the open window.
1 Merciful Heaven* How she staggered
and caught her breath id horror.
*/ How she fled that sight which seemed
u to blast tho very life thnt palpitated in
her bosom 1
9 "Come, come awajr, quick 1" she
- gasped, reaching the. lawyer's side,
i imiu greening a? nstpa wvn frontn
power,^ <1 j^Y^4ii^to the |
nneT ' f ' K ' ' 1
"Oh, com?, come, eom?!" she
moaned, iui lie loitered nud fjlunced
back ut tho lighted^ tenant loss win- J
"In IIouTeu'g name, ?biM," he demanded,
!l| MATMl/'fwIiut have you
"What have I ariwf" Something 1
vile, bideonst tfofaH' Something tli?t I
will drive it aver I see it <
again! Something that will kill me,
unless I j>nt iitiltv pOtWcen it and me!
| in, conio, corner Jli (Jod'n namo,
Hucij her home coming! \
THE NEWS, |
E. O. Bartlett, known in p'onw days ns
W.ld Curley," died at Kearney, Nob. lie _
'jsafuitH)u> scout, nnil 0110of tlio survivors
f the Mountain Meadow massacre. Jlicli[?n
capitalists wilt construct u canal from
fraud Rapids to Holland, that state, to cost
8,0J0,000. Judge John T. Nixon, of the
lulled Mtatos District Court for tko District
f New Jersey, died at Stock bridge. Muss.
? Vn investigation of the condition of the
amities of the Illinois striking miners shows ^
hat hundreds of children ure sufT . ring from I
unger. Two groat English syndic ites !f
rith an aggregate capital of #.'>0,0J0,(WO, |
ave about, completed tbo investment of this | *
.r in nmn In A 111 nrin kit 1 r.iw.ipim nti.l trrmn I *
- - ? I
levator*. Captniu W. It Jones, gcu-riil ,
aanagor of the E IgarTbnmSon S.col Works, j
H>0 was burned Uy~ the'explosion ot molteii ,
uetal, dioi BiturJay night. Joseph Lent- I
>er wns waylaid, rubles! and inurd -rod in a
voois, near Wilkesbarre, Fa. 1>> tlio ex>
os.on of a boiler in a qu irry, in York
tounty. Fa., L?oinuel liarnes was fatally blared
an 1 bis w.fo killed. A passenger
raiuontho Baltimore an I i'bila lulphla Itail oad
collided witn a locomotive near Wil- I
nlngton, DjI., and Kirenun Eiward Lyle,of I
Newark, killed. Hans Jcspoison, a Mor11011,
lias lK-en arrested in bait Lake City
diarged with polygamy, one of bis plural
wives having confessed how they wore inur
-led without a license. Lieutenant Colonel i 1
Sidney D. Waters w is held for the action of i
the grand jury, at Spokane Falls, on a charge
}f stealing supplies from tho relief committee '
af tho suflT rors hy tho August lire. Harry
FlutntD, the young toller of the Marine i
National Hank, of 1'itts'jurg, convicted of
srabexxling Jfti.OO), was sentciictd to live j
years in prison. Mrs. Francos E. Willard, i
president of tho National Women's Christian I
Temperanco Union, o.debratod the fiftieth an- |
niversary of her birth. F.re destroyed |
11,000,0^0 worth of property at Hutte, Montana.
Goorgo OIT.-r, a disunited tailor,
hot his wife nnd then cuiiuiiMtcd suicide in
Jersey C.ty. The coroner's jury in tho '
Quebec disaster give a verdict charging
grots and culpable nogligeuce on the part of
the Dominion otllcial*.
W. B. Lay ton, agod seventy-fl ro years, of
Dupont, Ohio, blow out tho gns in his room
at the Leister House, in Huntingdon, Pr?
and was found dead tho next morning.
Governor Iams lias respited for two weeks tho
negro Walker, who wus to bavo been executed
ot Chesterfield Court-house, Virginia.
William 8. Monro's lirge granerics und
s'ables ou his farm, near Laurel, Dal., were
destroyed by flro, tho supposed act of an
incendiary. Dr. John E. Ulalii', a pronr.
f 'hlo/torn nhveiniflin WI1H /m n
charge of performing a criminal operation
wti ji/iuoi'ftj [y JkickftT- ? i lC\ j),
Mich. The steamer providence, of tlie Old
Colony Line, whs in collision with a schooner
off Schuyler's light, twenty-live miles from
New York, and was badly damaged John
FI. Quinn, who murdered his wife at Alton,
Pa., committed suicido by hanging himself
in Jail- Keinuitid Holzhay, notoriously
known ns B'ack Bart, the stage robber, escaped
from jail at Bessemer, Mich. There
weie 165 busir.scs failures !? the United
States and 27 in Canada tho last week.
Mrs. Drlla Preston shot a canal l?OHtmnn on
a boat near Schenectady, N. Y., who trh d
to force his woy into her cabin while sh*
was taking a bath, The saw mills o* tho
Ohio Kails car works, at Jefferson, Ind.,
were destroyed by flro. Total loss ?15,000.
Forest fires in California are destroying
miles of lino timber and sweeping away villages
and farm houses. James Cosgrove,
of Chicago, colled William J. Collins a liar,
when the latter drew a revolver and Bitot
.Cosgrove doad. Mrs. Wm. Conroy, of
died. ileT children ^
the some causo. Twenty-two stores were
burned out in Cresco, Iowa. Loss $1?,000.
G. S. Bliss & C?.'s syrup refinery, in Kansas
City, Mo., was burned. Loss $50,000; insuruice
$30,000. A three-your-ohl boy, with
a mania for playing with lire, set lire to his
baby sister's clothing in Indianapolis, and
she was burned to death.
itmmons Blaine, the second son of tho Hon.
James G. Blaine, was married Hept. 20, at
Richflold Springs, N. Y., to Miss Anita McCormlck,
grand daughter of the late Cyrus
McCormick, a Chicago millionaire, and the
inventor of the famous reaping machines
that hears his name. The Scott elevated
Railway to be constructed in St. Louis, is to
bo built with Holland capital, a loan of
f(J,000,000 for tho project having Iteen effected
through the Arm of Ladeuberg, Thalman
& Co., of New York, representing a syndicate
of Holland capitalists. David ilar?'-"Id,
of New York, was arrested in Richmond,
Va.t charged with bigamy. I)r.
Charles E. Hints was arrested in Philadel*
phla charged with performing a criminal
operation on Ellas Kraus, a nlneteen-yoareld
German girl. General Sherman was
re-elected president of the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee, and tho meeting at
L'iucinnalti closed with a grand banqu t.
Snow storms in the uorthern part of
Wisconsin. Tlio Si. Louis brewers have
refused 115,003,000 for their property offered
ujr iuo r.ngusn syndicate. Tho sheriff of
Reading, l*a-, levied on the farm of Valentine
8. Kkff.r, whow failure wen caused ly
hit being bondsmau for Isaac Kckert, a tux
collector, who defaulted, skipping with $8,000
taxes. Chicago ladies have formod a society
for tbo prosecution of the garablingIioiiso
proprietors of that city. In a quarrel
between O. F. Curtis, a merchant, and
John Wallace, a mail carrier, at Cairo, III,,
over tbo removal of Commissioner Tanner,
Wallace was fatally wounded. Jacob
Bchreiber, a ton of Jobn L. Hchreiber, ono
of the commissioners of Lrbigh county, Pa.,
hot and killed bis uncle, Franklin J.
Schrciber. at Moofshesit Minn
Lafliu & Hand powder mill, at Cremona, Pa.
was blown up, and three men Killed and a
number injured. Emery's big s?p manufactory
at Ivorydalo, near Cincinnati, O.,
eras destroyed by tire. Loss, 125,000.
Pour of the large watoh case dealers hare
gone out of the combine, and tho independent
tnannfactnrers will likely now win the
Eight A little daughter of Henry Tonnes,
if Chicago, overturned a lamp and set flro
to the olotbing of herself and mother, both
Ming badly burned. A Are at Madrid, 8t.
lawrencj county, N. Y., destroyed the Baptist
Church, valued at $8,000; the Congregational
st Church, valued at $5,000, and
>tber property valued at $0,000*
.Ill,ED IN THE SLEEPE1"
1
Pe
rightful Railroad Wreck on Lai
the New York Central. aJ
gh
(any Persons Killed and Injurrd? W(j
Ono Section of an Kipri w Train Ch
CruahcH Into the Otlier,*t'aua- I
liiK llav. c.
Tho St. Louis Express, No. 5, which left a j
iIbniiy, N. Y.,ntten o'clock 1*. M.tmet with |nj
bad accident about two miles east of l'ala.
Ino Bridge. Tho flrstscction broko down und <"u<
topped for repairs. Tho roar brakenlan was "2
out back to signal theseco id section, but for J"
onio reason failed to pirform his duty. Tho itt ,
ngineor of tho second section says he did
? ? -? .1- ?-? I - ? u,.. III. It! I
H?T Dim, omi vuu ill ov uo saw ???o vuw i
ights of I he first section in front of iiini. I V*
Tho first section was inado up of boirgagc,
nail, express, and throe passenger cars,
>ai ked with people, and a Wagner sleeper on w?
he end. The crjsh was terrific. The second tii
eetion telescoped Into the first section, c
inocking out the lights nnd plunging ever)hing
into darknea*.
Four bodies have been taken out of tho \y
lccper, and it is fearid tho totnl nuuibor of W(
leaths will run up to twcnty-llvd. and possijly
more, as tho car was full. .
The llrst s-ction left Fonda at 11.21, ten J.r
ninutes late. Tho sect.our of this St. Louis
fxpress usually run ten minutes apart.
Authentic information received from Al- w'
bony says four persons wero killed in tho no:idcnt
at Palatine Bridge?three men uiul io
oiio woman. ?v
Engineer llorth, of Albany, had both logs m
broken. Ono sleeper was telescojiod, and two
a:hor cars badly damageJ. Superintendent
Diss -II has issued orders that the injured to in
:onveyod to hotels and taken cure of. bt
Train No. 10, from the West, due here at l*
I'M, left Palatine at 2,05, one liour Into. She ci
itopped at the seine of tlio accident just long at
inough to tnkeon Engineer llorlh. An nmbulanco
was in waiting at tho do|K>t, and ho ll(
was convoyed to tho Ivmpttal. He talked Q|
freely, and said h ? slowod up his train near ^
Sprakor's, thinking lio would crawl up oil
s c i.-n one. At tho scone of the accident ^
th re is a sharp curve, and ho did not sco tho
111st section until almost on to it. Thou li >
applied the brakes, but tlioy would not work. ^
lie did not jump, but stood between tho onglno
and tho cab, whore he wascau'lit and v.
both logs crushed. It is not known wheller
ho will dio or not, fours tming outertlined ?
that, lio wilt d o from the shock.
BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. ?
u
A Hinst Furnace Hursts niul Scv.-n '
Men Art) Seriously Injured.
A frightful accident- happ mi <1 nt Came- j
(.ie's E I ;ar Thomson Steel Works at H-ud 1
Jock, I'oon. Cup'. W. It. Jones, general 1
manager of the immense stool works, mid n s
number of workmen were horrible airl per- t
hu|is fiitully hi rued.
Furnuce "C," one of the largest of the t
blast furnaces, gnv.i w.iy nt the bottom mid *
t?>lw? ??/?tiL. Jiou ?IvJy ttaaaniiVf g
nnd ('apt. Jones called to soo if ho could not J.
a-o i tain the cause. Ho w.is working with
a number of men near the base of the fur- (l
naco when tlio lire ik occurred. In an ins'.-iiit \
11 tiuos of flro shot forth, and the hot inotal I,
exploded nnd foil liko shoots of water. Tons s
of the metal pouroit out of .the furnace. I ^
that any person near lite furnace esctpi j
slant death is regarded as almost ail aooi- \
dent. The list of tho injured is: Captain (
Jones, general manager, horribly burned;
Michael Qiiinn, aged 25, so badly hurn<-d that
uis uesb in-rioJ with !i!5 obtfcs'; ho can
only live a few hours. John Moknke, had y
hurno I about tnsly, hut not fatally; ('apt.
N d Qiiiini, burned about arms and chest,
will rvcover. Patrick Hughes, Michael Con- /
nnr > ?.! .fn'in M,u,an. ?,-.,llvr 1.I
Micliaol King, a Hungarian, wits present
when tho soothing mass poured out of thofiir
niick, ninl us lie cannot lie louml, it is feared
l:o ha> been covereil up. I]
Cnp". Jones is well-known throughout tho 0
United Htates and Kuropo w lierover iron m.d
steel nre manufactured. He receives 11 salary
of $'J-> OiIO a year und n percentage of tho 3
product of tin* large mill, making Ins ineonio |
almost $.")0,(K) ? a year, llo took o HI men to ^
Johnstown at his own expense two days after
the ttoo l and remained there for two weeks t
i%Siiyi&VM,?rlt ?' re*cuet Uo ivporhniw i
THIS WOMAKA bMASHKIf.
I
Mrs. Thou Woods' Campaign Against '
the lluiuscllers. '
Mrs. Thomas Woods, of Warsaw, Ind., *
has bogun an actlvo war against the saloons
of that place. Homo time ago she served j
ndtice upon the proprietors of several saloons j
forbidding them to sell liquor to her husband, I
who is an ex county clerk and prominent in I
the business world. These notices were uni- 1
formly disregarded, and a few days ugo she (
entered one of (ho drinking places ami \
smashed a costly mirror.
On Tuesday sho went into ltossmu's saloon
threw a hammer through 11 large mirror,
and broke the front window of .ho pluce.
She has not been arrested, and public sentiment
is in her favor. Sho s ays she means to ?
keep up her peculiar style of warfare till the
sale of liquor to her husband is discontinued
ONE MILLION IN SMOKE.
c.
JBattc, Mont, Visited by n OroatCnii- 8
ii itfraiion.
Firo destroyed f I,1 OO.UOJ worth of property
in Butte City, Montana. Special dispatcher
statu that the lire broke out about noon. A a
violent wind and an itisulTleicnt supply of "
water greatly aided t!io conilu {ration. Late t.
in the day, however, til? llr -, which had i
been conII led to the block in which it oriji- .
natod, was gotten und.-r control.
The Bowes Block, fie First National Bank, .
Hennossjy's dry goods store, Bahooclt's bat |
store, the B -nurd Block, G linos' shoe store
and several sin ilier establishments were d> ,
stroyed.
MARKETS."" e,
Bai.timorie?Flonr?City Mi lis. extra,*4.51 i
inf4.??0. Wheat? Southern Fultz, NlatKi: I
ICorn?Southern White, 40a40?i cts, Yellow |
dla4'3 ctiOats?Southern and 1'eiiiisylvania .
2ta'd7 eta.: live?Maryland Pennsylvania J
fsia-V-'cts.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania |
j.? uii;oiraw-?y n<>ai,o dunV7.0U;l<uttcr,
Eastern Creamery, 19a35c., noar-*>y receipts ]
l(Val7cts; Cheese?Eastern Fancy Crt-ain. 10
al0>? eta..?Western, OalO eta; Eggs?21
a'33; Tobacco I .oaf?Inferior, laf'2.00, (tood
Common, 8 00a#4 00, Middling, 95a7.00 Oood o
toflM rm,8i|9; Fancy, 10afI<L c
Nkw Yokk?Flour?Southern Common to
fair eutra.fU. 10a*8. l5:Wheat-Nol White "
aNO1^; Kye-State. Corn-Southern t
Ycllow,40^o41. Oat*?Wnite, State 25%aIW (
eta.; 11 litter-State. 1 ln'.'4 eta.: Choeso-State, ,
1)4 '10 eta.; Eggs? 31 a 33 eta.
S'Hii.AnKf.rHtA ? Flour ? Pennsylvania v
fancy, 4.3?a4.75: Wheat?Pennsylvania and g
Soiitnern Red, Hl^'a^J,^; Hye-Pennsyl vanla #
WaSSeta: Corn.?Southern Yellow, 40a4, J1'eta.
Oats-37a371g eta.: llutter-Htate, l'.ttt?.5 eta.; <
Cheese?N. Y. Factory, 0aV)4 eta. Eggs? >
Stute. 30a33 els.
CATTLE. J
Hai.timokk?lieef, 3 87a4 15; S'.ieop?$3 00 u
a4 <).), Itngi -M 3 > i4 40.
f*k\v Yokk? Ikwf?$4 75a5 25;8hoep-$3 50 i.
n5.ri0; llogs -#4.70.5.30.
East IjIBKrtt?Beef?#4 40a4 90; Sheep? ?
|3 35a4 50; Hogs-$4 70a4 75 L
SASTERS
n oiil
was killed by thecaving
Jurporal I<au>lgr.iTo, of D'literv B,
tillery, was <lrowui.il at Kurt Monroe,
iia, by a null boat capaieiiig.
'Yank ilauiiwu and uu unknown rain who ^|H
h in the curria^o with buu were killed lu
icago by being struck by a train.
ilr. Matthews, a wealthy railroad contrao',
died in an opium joint in lintte, Montana,
?r haviug smoked teu pipes.
luch Itob'rtH and Autlionv Marchettr.
neix, employed at the Alatkn Colliery, at
>unt Cainiel, I'd., wore killed by a (all of
:k.
The recent we? and windy weather has dona ^
>nt damage to tiio into peach crop in Nsw
rsey. In Hunterdon couuty alone the low
si i mated at #100,000.
I'he upp.T story o( u new two-story briolc 1
tiding in the outskirts of Chicago wks Q
>wii uowu, dangerously, it not fatally, Inr.^
ring Juhu lU.oelai ami Jobu llobL
\ freight train on the Mexican Central y '91
illroad w as derailed near Lagos. Ten men * * AjR
re k.llrd uud three injureil. It is supp jaed .
ut the truin was wrecked by robbers.
Two freight trains on the Boston sad Maine v;'">
ill road were wrecked by a collision near U 3
tucaster, Massachusetts. A lire man named
'M i ii was killed and two other trainmen 1
re injured.
During Sunday-school services in a small iagg
uno church ue.tr Columbia City, Indiana,
(liming struck the budding, ki.liug two .* -- jgd
rls, each about 17 ytars of ugj. Ten oiheie
ere stunnetl.
A waterspout buistovi rCorroOordo, Mex- v. "w*
o, causing several deaths. Livo slock wus reptawny
Mild liou.-cs destroyed. 'Theexact
iinher of deaths and the extent of the dam- \
;u douo uio not known.
During a supper in celebration o( thoopeng
of a new uruiory in Birmington, Alaiina,
the gUests, nearly one hundredin uum r,
were made violently s.cx by tbe'ioik -S; J
vum, which contained some poisonous suhV
unce.
While some laborers in the stone quarries
jar Vancouver, British Columbia, were I
veiling cans of powder with cuis.-ls, a terri- I
o explosion occurred, killing Patrick Mor- V
in uud l'alrick Delaney. Four oti.er men
ere leurfully burned. Vfl
An explosion of gas in Neilson's shaft,[at
h tmokiii, Tonna., burned Alexander Crow,
duii khmj, uoiiu aaurpny una William Uulin,
tho llist two named fatally. The explojn
wiu caused by Too as, who whs lgaoraut
t tho prts.-n'co ol tho gas.
A passenger train was derailed near Leon,
utlorcuuuly, Kansas,by the spreading o tie
nils. Tbii'o coaches rolled down a fifteen?
aot eml ankment. It. M. Benin was killed,
nd Isiac Loan, Mrs. Mnlseka and Mra. K.
i. Hodges were rulally injured. A number
if otbers were Ladly hurt.
John Zuinthal aud his ten children left H
loom), l<>w.i, iu u wagon about Meptenuer
a. for Milwaukee. Th y were ten days on
he road, mid on arriving iu Milwaukee nine
if tho children w. re tulreii with diptheria,
i.x dying within six days. They contract -a
ho distuto on the road.
A train of seven curs going south from
lliru, Mow York, ran into an engine at
I unci ion, Ponna., causing a bad
vreck caught (he aud the injured
ivtir j-r^nTWj- w? * u iww?>| <#Ts -a^lu
lersous were injured, 110110 fatully.
While a loaded wagon containing a party
f livo was crossing a ford uearPurcellsville,
Virginia, Hie stream being sweilen, the hoi Bds
leeame unmanageable, and the wagon wo*
wept some distance. Mirs Susie Cutor, of
loorgetown, District of Columbia, and Miss
ittu At well, of Alexandria, jumped into I he
vait-r aud were drowned. The rest of the
>arty ru^cbgd k|iqre.
BURIED ALIVE 108 HOURS* .
in Ag (I Man IleMaii d from HciioaIIi^^H
Ilictjiicbi'O bnnd Slide.
The laborers at work lit the ruins caused
>y tho recent laml slide, at (Juelxrc, Canada,
icard u slight moan under u heap of wreckige,
digging vigorously soon reached Joseph
Cetnp. Whou extricated Komp, who is 72
rears of ugo, was still ahlo to speak, after
laving Ik'oii buried 10S hours. Father
McCarthy -rod tho sacrament
ho Kppirently dying man. Stimulant^^^BH
vero uduiuiistorod and ho|xrs are now enteri
lined that Kemp will recover.
Shortly after Kemp was J taken out the
'orpsj of Mrs. OTsiwh, i^yoars, was 1
vcovered. Tho body was badly niiiYTfated.
Mrs. O'lhmd was rocking a aradlo and kuit-^^^HB
iug a stocking when tho nvoflaiiche of roc'c^^HH
miiio down. Sho was ktnA k.il through a BBS
vindow and killiMi. When found her bund
it ill hold her knitting workA *
Tho remains of John Henry wero found
:ndor tho dobris. Tho body was doubled in
wo and splinters of all s/.?s wor sticking
n tho iljsh. Tho laxly of lionry's wife was
'ound a fow foet away. 8ho had in her hoad
)ieces of brokoil olutes and a fork. She
,vtitle preparing her husband's supper.
The work of clearing away the tlebris la
itill going on with vigor. There are still
from ten to twelve bo ties under the ruins.
A VOLCANO IN ERUPTION.
iinoko mid lied Hot Ashes Thrown
Fr.ira the Mountain of C iliiua.
Stephen lieaton, an American railroad
out factor now in tlio City of Mexico, from
folium, lins been nn eye witness ot the lata_
rupion of the volcano of Colima, wbicb (
i thirty mil s North of the city of the same
laiue. J lus volcano has its crater at an
lovation of I'J.OOJ foet uliove the sea level,
aid is very active intermittently, throwing
ip a column of smoke and red hot &
,umbels of foet in the nir. Th so sp isni^ajya
rupiious occur about ten or twelve ti
! ly itnd are followed by reports similjjSrKmmra ?
lie dis turgo of ar it lory.
A lew days before the cartliquak^^^^^^n^^
nontli, the volcano v?>in;t?d furtu a
lack smoke that hung Jiko a pall ove^H|Hgjx5K$
ountry for miles a round. This phen
ion Instod for sivernl days and was act
miied at ilit :rvals by showers of red VBbgMi
rdns, which descen led upon its aide.
lot known whether or not any lava '
UK lurunn uui, un IIIO rou QOI> OSIK'S
nvcstigution impossible.
MOTHER AND CHILD
[h? ! '?< h? r In Try In k to
AUn llmlly Injured.
T. e little duughtt r of Mrs. Ho ir^^^HRHH^H
verturne.i tho lamp at bore roMrienoi^HMfl^HHH
ago, 111., and hor clothes caught
uotber, seeing tbo danger tho child s^HHBH
oro tbo blazing clothes from hor and
bom to ono side. As she did so, tho Itre^^Hfl^H
be burning oil caught her own dress.
eloped in flames, she ran frantically doH^^H^D
tairs. At ti e socond lunditnr. Mrs.
i ll he'pleM, her clothing burned from
?ody, and her tie h being literally roaated.^^HH
t moment Inter, her husband appeared aleo^^HH
i' ii i nil v burned, but etill able to walk, lie H
ule.l in carrying hie wife to a bed. Then
is strength gave out, and be fell to the Door
loconncious.
Doctors pronounce Mr*. Ten nee1 condition H
lopelcn The injuria* of Mr. Tennis aod M|
i* daughter are much Iras eerlous, although jHH
Jr. Teimcs will be badly dlatlgured by I
uru* about hie head, J