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A REMARKABLE CRIME
OF TWENTY YEARS STANDING
TRIED IN A GEORGIA COURT.
Ashley Creech Puts Aside His Invalid
Wife and Instals Another Womaa in
Her Place-The Lawful Wife Neverthe
less Lives Under the Same Roof, in the
Capacity of Servant and Drudge, for
Twenty Years.
ATLANTA, June 30.-One of the most
remarkable cases ever tried in a Georgia
court was before Judge Van Epps yes
terday in the city court.
The case is probably without a pre
cedent in the history of crime. The of
fense charged has extended over a period
of twenty years, here in Atlanta, and no
notice of it was ever taken by the police
or courts before.
As the case was called yesterday the
defendant was a white woman named
Nora Herron. She is 40 years of age,
but seems several years younger, quiet,
intelligent and well dressed. She wore
a white summer dress and white straw
hat, and everything about the woman
was quietly preposessing.
THE STORY.
Twenty years ago Nora Herron came
to Atlanta. She had one child with her.
One of her first acquaintances here
was Ashley Creech, a machinist. She
anplied at his home for work, stating
that she was a young widow from fi -uth
Carolina, with one child and nothing
but her own labor between them and
starvation.
Creech's wife. was an invalid, the
mother of two children.
Under these circumstances Mrs. Her
ron was taken into the family, and
there she remained. Mrs. Creech has
been an invalid these twenty years.
W iTHOUT A DIVORCE.
Soon after Nora Herron came into the
Creech family there Ras a very quiet but
radical reorganization of the family
circle.
Creech adopted Mrs. Herron as his
wife, and his real wife became a servant
in her own household.
Creech, it seems, had always treated
her cruelly. She was naturally a weak
minded woman, and the change was
made without a serious protest from her.
Xora Herron was the acknowledged mis
tress of the house, and until the matter
was brought before the last grand jury
not half .a dozen people living knew that
she was not Herron's real wife, or that
the real wife was not a servant.
THE CHILDREN.
Creech has had five children by his
adopted wife, the last one two years
old.
.Th'e.two children by the first wife
'were brought up in the same house.
Both were old enough to remember when
and how the Herron woman came, but
were frightened into silence when they
were children, and have tolerated it
since through a horror of the scandal
that would follow its disclosure.
So twenty years have passed.
Creech'eneighbors were told that the
real Mrs. Creech was an idiot and de
pendent relative, kept through charity,
and that Nora Herron was Mrs. Creech.
How I wAS TOLD.
Not long ago the daughter of the real
wife was married to a man named Drew.
She told him, after they were married,
.ether mother's real position, and Drew
,kried the matter before the grand
inry.
This daughter was the main witness
before the grand jury. She swore that
for years after Nora Herron first came
into the family there was only one room
to their house. After Mrs. Herron was
adopted as Mrs. Creechi, the wife slept
upon a pallet at the foot of their bed.
-Afzirwards a partition was built, making
two rooms of one, and the real wife was
.sent into a se ate room. It was the
rel ite tnat dlid all the servant's wvorT
cooked, nursed, washed and ironed.
The Herron woman contributed towards
thesupport of the family by working in
Seligs pants factory. She has been
there for years-ge of the best and
most industrious workwomen in the fac
tory.
THE REAL WIFE A wITNESS.
An incident of the trial yesterday was
the introduction of the real wife as a
witness for the defense. She is much
older than the Herron woman and an
P imbecile.
She shielded her husband and the
other woman as best she could. She de
nied all that her children had testified,
but her statements were weak and con
tradictory. The testimony was simply
overwhelming against the adopted wife
and Creech, and the jury were out not
jexceeding two minutes.
There is a true bill against Creech,
and he will be tried if he can be found.
He learned of the grand jury's investi
gation, and it is said left immediately.
THE SENTENCE.
The w~oman's sentence was $100 and
costs or sir months in the penitentiary.
A collection was taken up in the court
room and over $70 was raised. Solicitor
Frank O'Bryan, who had prosecuted and
convicted her, contributed $20. and
several of the jurymen contributed.
The entire amount was not raised, how
ever, and the woman went to jail yester
day afternoon. The balance of the fine
will probably be raised to-day and the
woman released.
married in Jest.
Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum of Catletts
burg and Miss Laura Duke Smith of
Lexington attended a social gathering
'in Ashland, Ky., one evening last week,
and a young minister and the County
Clerk were among the guests. After a
while some one suggested a mock mar
riage and Mr. Marcum and Miss Smith
volunteered to be the bride and bride
groom. The County Clerk was appealed
to and made out the license and the
minister performed the ceremony.
Nothing more was thought of the affair
until Friday, when it was mentioned to
a lawyer, who declared that the mar
riage was a legal one. This view is ac
cepted as correct and the make-believe
bride and bridegroom are intensely dis
tressed. To add to the complication,.
Mr. Marcum was engaged to an esti
mable young lady of Ashland. The
courts will have to be appealed to for
relief. Mr. Marcum is editor of the Cat
]ettsburg Demnoc-rat and Miss Smith, or
Mrs. Marcum, is the daughter of Gene
ral Greene Clay Smith. one of the best
known men in Kentucky.
The President's New England Trip.
NEW YORE, July 3.-President Harri
son and party, consisting of Secretary
and Mrs. Noble, Adjutant General L. A.
Barbour, Lieutenant Mason of the Navy
Department, Clarence W. Bowen andI
Col. Elliot F. Shepard, left the Fifth
Avenue Hotel this morning at 9:35 and
were dr-iven in carriages to the Grand
Central Depot, where the 10 o'clock trein
was taken for Woodstock. At the depot
Secretary Tracy joined the President.
A stop will be made at Hartford, and
the President will visit the State Capi
tol.
What Tom Woolfolk Sighs For.
The Georgia newspapers report that
Tom Woolfolk, the Bibb County gentle
man who defended the sanctity of his
-home by killing the nine other trembers
of his family who occupied it, ranging
in age from five years to seventy, sits ini
his cell and sighs that if he could get a
change of venue to Charleston he would
;be sure of an acquittal and reasonably
hopeful of an ovation.---Green ellle .Ne-s.
Big Blaze in Idaho.
H rLEY, Idaho, July 2.-Four busi
ness blocks were burned here this morn
SOMEBODY BLUNDERED.
A Fourth of July Excursion Train Col
lides with a Freight.
DUBQrrE, Iowa, July 5.-A wreck oc
eurred last night on the Chicago and
Kansas Ci.- road, about two miles Nortth
of this eit's The G. A. R. had been
holding a pieInic at Twin Springs, a re
sort about thirteen miles from Dubuque.
Over 5,000 people were in attendance.
Trains were run every hour to and from
the grounds. The excursion train had
just landed 1,2C() people in this city and
were returning for the remainder, which
consisted of about 2,000 men, women and
children, when it collided with a freight
train en rouito for Dubuque. Only the
most meagre particulars are obtainable
and the railroad officials are extremely
reticent. It is admitted that one man,
a brakeman named Ryan, was instantly
killed, and three others were seriously
injured. There rere a large number of
people on the excursion train who were
going u) to pass a few hours in the re
sort, intending to return on a late train.
It is believed that many people were
killed. Had the accident occurred to
the Southbound excursion train the loss
of life would have been fearful, No
satisfactory reason for the accident has
been assigned.
ANOTHER.
OTMwa, Iowa, July 5.--A Coliisoin
occurred on the C. B. & Q. road near
Glendale, thirty miles East of this cit y,
yesterday. An Eastbound stock train,
with two engines attached, collided with
a passenger train Westbound. Express
Messenger Blackburn was buried in the
wreck, receiving what will probably
prove to be fatal injuries. A few others
were injured, but slightly. The engines
were badly demoralized. Considerable
of the stock was killed and injured.
JUMPED THE TRACK.
BALTIMoRE, July 5.-An Onancock, Va.,
special says: The Northbound express
on the New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad jumped the track near
Eastville station last night and plunged
into a ditch. No particulars received.
All travel below Eastville station is
suspended.
The Press and the Courts.
The New York .Iournal of Commer:,
a wisely conservative journal, which
never loses its balance, thus criticises
the verdict in the Mc)ow trial:
When in the proper' judicial spirit the
press tears the mask from hypocrisy,
sweeps aside the plausible sophistries
which wily advocates have spun over the
face of crime to conceal or palliate its
guilt, and dares to hold the criminal up
to the shame he richly deserves, it is
doing a noble work in the interest of
truth and justice.
We regret to say that some of the
papers in this country seem to be in
such fear that they shall not duly mag
nify their vocation in this respect, that
they substitute their own judgment of
matters that have been, as far as all ap
pearance goes, fairly tried by the courts,
both for the opinion of the Judge and
the verdict of the jury. A case in point
is that of MeDow, recently acquitted at
-:harleston, ot the charge of murder.
There is no evidence whatever that the
trial was not fairly conducted. The de
fendant admitted the killing of Dawson,
but claimed that he fired the fatal shot
in self-defense. He did not shine in
court'as a man of unblemished moral
character. With a lovely wife at his
home, he pursued with unwarranted dal
lantries a handsome Swiss domestic in
the family of Dawson. The latter heard
of it and'went to Mclow's officee to call
him to account for his conduet. in the
altercation that ensued the visitor was
killed. The slaver was indicted and the
trial has just been concluded, his plea of
self-defense having been sustainied by
the verdict.
During the ptrogress of the trial manyj
or tle papers cmnmenten upOirn?~d
evident unfairness, and since its close
have been raging over the r-esult as a
gross miscarriage of justice. We can
see no excuse whatever for sach an out
break of temper. If there had been a
strong popular feeling in favor of the
accused, it miight be said that the out
side pressure had forced the jury to de
cide against their own honest convic
tions. But as far as popular clamor
went, both in Charleston and elsewhere,
the force of pressure wvas in the other
direction. It is said that the prosecution
was weak in presenting the case, but as
it was assisted by the most eminent
counsellors of a bar second to none in
the country, this, if true, was undoubt
edly due to the inherent weakness of all
that the authorities could gather in
favor of conviction rather than any ne
glect of duty by the government officials.
Quite a number of the papers which
have been fiercest in their clamor for
McDow's condemnation now insist that
justice miscarried mn the trial solely
thro~ugh "race prejudice in the jutry box."
If the jury had been all white or all
colored .this plea could not be so abso
lutely disproved as to stop the mouths
of its advocates, but when it is known
that of the twelve men five wvere white
and seven were black, we (10 not see
where the --race" prejudice comes in
force. Besides, it is claimed that the
negroes were in favor of the criminal,
and the mere statement ot this is enough
to condemn the charge. If the whites
bad been prejudiced in favor of McDow,
and had demanded h:s acquittal, it
would have been urged that they co
ced the negroes to agree to that ver
dict. Bat we do not think the seven
negroes could have won five white~men
to render with them a unanimous ver
diet of acquittal after less than two
hours' consultation in the jury room if
the latter had not conscientiously con
curred in. its justice. We think that
this is a ease which may be safely left
to the judgment of the court in which
it was tried, and that tihe extra newspa
per tribunal is wholly out of place.
Furs Worn in Summer.
It's English, but it's very sensiblo.
Whatt The wear ig of furs all sum-n
mer. The fashionable :itrl sends off her
salskin coat and all her r-ealy heavy
weight furs, but she recser-ves her mink or
sable cape and her- black hear boa to wear
with her- summer gowns. We laugh about
furs and white miuslini and compare
them to oliv-es and ice cre-am, b~ut while
oposedI to the mixtture of edibles, vou
can see the good sense thatt comes tirom
wearing far-s all dluring tih- sumimer. In
the mountains, at the seaside, or
wherever one goes to get.
cool, ther e is cirtain to be a chiliness in
the ev enin", and then what is so
pretty, or what so becoming as the full
luffy hair oft the black bear or the soft
bown of the mink or sable over a white
gowin? T hese fur-s are not heavy in
weght and (1o nOt possess, thank good
ness, the dowdy air of white shawls.
Tine latter always look as if a woman
had just gotten over tihe mnaaria and
was'i huntdling herself upt in one of them
to avod dlike chills or fevers. Fraume
orself, then, in the fur that is beconm
ing' to yo. It will make your- hair look
"O(loir it will make your skin look
whiter, and, think of ir, vou will look
just as Ldy Somebody or- the Duchess'
of Somebody Else (does at her gardenm
party, or what in tihe English society
papei-s is called the fashionable function.
A Large Woman's Vote Polled.
EAU CLAIRE, W~\is., July 2.-Eau C'laire
held its first electhin for- board of educa
tion yesterda y. It hi-ought omit a heavy
woman vo te, 1proinnent soeiety ladic-s
spending the whole (lay with their car
riages taking women to the ptolls. The
anti-Catholic question was miade very
prominent in sever-al wards, but cand(i
dates alleged to represent the Catholic
A HORROR NEAR BISHOVILLE.
Five Negroes Assault a Young White
Man and His Wife-The Man Beaten,
Probably Murdered-The Wife Shame
fully Abused.
'TsnoivtL.:, July 4.-On last Frida
two young white -people, Mr. and Mrs.
I)anieis, appeared in the neighborhood
of Bethlehem Church, about three miles
above here, and stopped over night with
one Ransom J. Anderson, a colored man,
and on Monday morning started out fox
Bishopville to look for work. On their
way to town they were met by one Ned
Willinois, a young negro, who bears a
very bad reputation, and were decoyed
by Ned to his house, where he said they
could remain during Saturday, and he
could then pilot them on Sunday to a
good place to stay until they could ob
tain work.
On Sunday morning Ned Williams
went 'ff, ostensibly to Viee about getting
a nouso for the young couple. His real
object, however, was to summon four of
his comrades, Ed Slater, John Williams,
his brother Toni, Charles and Pres on
Jefferson, to aid him in a scheme he had
plannled. The five negroes held a meet
ing just outside of Williams's house and
in sight of their victims.
A little after dark Williams told the
young white matn and his 'wife that he
would now coieuct them to the home hei
had secured for them, and tney set out
with him, but had only gone about 200
yards from the house whon Ned's four
conpanions jumped on young Daniels
and heat him, and drove him away.
Then the five, with drawn pistols, as
sanited the woman, each abusing her to
his heart's content. The poor creature,
half (lead, was forced back into Ned
W liams's hone, and kept there until
the next morning., vhen Williams's wife
carried her to the house of Preston Jef
fer on. and be took her to the house of
Jmune Cupid, who resides on Mr. 0. C.
Sca rborougil's place. Cupit and his
wife are kind colored people, and she
remained with them until last night,
when the white people of the vicinity
got the first inkling of the crime.
Investigation followed and Mr. R. E.
Carnes. our Trial Justice, issued war
rants for four men, three of whom
were parties wanted. The fourth, being
innocent. was discharged this morning.
andi two more were secured. At the
preliinimairy examination all the parties
made statements which amount in fact
to a plea of guilty. Our town is in a
fever of excitement and knots of men,
both white cnd colored, are seen all
about town discussing the question and
a large guard is placed over the prison
ers' to prevent any possibility of lynch
Tihe prisoners will be taken in the
morning to Sumter, where they will be
hxlged to await the fall term of court.
Mr. 0. C. Scarborough, our Intendant,
and Mr. R. E. Carnes, Trial Justice, de
serve credit for the manner in which
they have worked up this matter.
The young husband has not been heard
from, and fears are entertained that he
has been killed A searching party will
scour the voods this evening. Our
colored people are highly incensed and
are loud in their denunciations of this
atrocious crime. The young woman
claims to be from Marion County, and
was a Miss Nora Huggins before her
marriage to Daniels.-Special to Yet's
u(1 Courier.
"BLACK FRENCHMEN."
Fred Douglass on the Haytians-He Will
Sail in September.
NEw YORK, 3 uly 2.-A Tribune Wash
ington special says: In reply to a Ti
im ,e correspondent Frederick Douglass,
the new Minister to Hayti. yesterday
said: "I cannot say when I shall leave
for my post. Unless some uepce
emergencey'arie~pr~rer'tehave toli
September 1st. The climate in H-ayti is
very trying to an American. The mean
temp~eratuire is about 80 degrees, and
rises to about 104 degrees. Europeans,
who are in business at Port-au-Prince
generally reside in mountains a few
mailes distant. There the temperature is
d (elighttul in comparison. I do not
think, by reason of my advanced age,
that m' health wtill matcrially suffer."
Mr. Douglass continued: "I atn well
known among thc people of Hayti. You
mayt'~ remember that some years ago I
was assistant secretary to the San Do
iningo commission. Then I was in favor
of the purchase of San Domingo; now I
am not in favor of it. I believe that
non-coercion is the best in such matters.
Let the people decide At the period
mentioned 1 also visited Port-au-Prince.
I know the character of the people.
They are black Frenchmen. They are
given to revolutions like the French and
are condemnted therefor.
'Well. France has had twelve revolu
tiojs since 1790. I do not think the
Haytians would indulge in so many revo
lutions were it not for outside ptersonis
furnishing them arms. Some of the
New York merchants instigate these
revolutions by selling arms and muni
ions of war to political factions. Were
they' not so readily supplied with arnms
by these New' Yorkers there would be,
fewer revolutions. I have no means of
knowing how the present revolutionh will
result. Hippolyte is within fifteen miles
of Port-a'a Prince, but fifteen miles in
Hlavti cannot be measured as in this
country. Great mountains intercept the
line of'march. and the way to the Hay
tian capital is strewn with difficulties to
Hippolyte and his men. I hope the
trouble wvill be settled beforc I arrive.
'Yes, Mr's. Douglass will go with mie.
I trust that the climate will not affect
her health. I leave my country reluct
antly, and yet I appreciate thle high
nonor conferred uipotn me. I should have
preferred the office of Recorder of
Deeds. Now I am glad I was niot ap
pointed. When a foreign missio~n was
suggested to mc I named Cairo, Egypt,
tor the reason that I was interestedl in
lie people for ethnological r'easons. I
have sometimes thought Wlat I mi;ght
with sufficient time discover a race re
semblance between the Egyptians and
he Africans. I have given much
thought to the subhject."
Another Sample of Protection.
The wages scale of the Amalgamated As
soiationm of Iron atid Steel Workers for
18S$-89) expir'ed Saturdlay. Sixteen firms
inm Ohio and~ Pennsylvania have signed
the scale. A number of other firms will
(d0 likewise wh'len repairs to their mills
are completed. There is no fear of a
strike in the iron mills over the wage
question this year. There will probably
be a fiuht at the Honmestead Steel Works
of C egie & Co. in Pittsburg, where
5,00)0 mein are employed. Saturday
aternlooni word was given 1o close down
the works for repairs. and the uien were
given to understand that ttney will rnot
be re-employed until they had consented
to accept the firm's scale, which pro
vidles for a reducetion of at least 25 per
cent. on the wvhole. The -men assert that
the scale will not be signed, and the
firm say if the reduction is not accepted
te null will be started with non-uiiion
men.
The Hailey, Idaho, Fire.
SALT LAKE Cirv, July' 3.-Further de
tails of yesterday's fire at Hlailey, Idaho,
arc to thie effect that all the business
portion of the towvn was destroyed ex
ept Fiede~nthl's5 fire proof house.
There is left but one hotel. two livery'
stables, one Ilumbher' yard, omne grocery
store, one saloon andl one dry goods
store. The tire dlid not reach the resi
dence poto of tihe tow~n, and no suf
fering exists among the people. Los
$500,000 with ligrht insurnne.
DEATH IN THE PORK.
SUFFERING OF A MAN WHO ATE IT
IMPROPERLY COOKED.
He Was Literally Eaten Up-Millions of
Minute Worms Destroyed All the Mus
cles in His Body.
NEW YoRK, June 30.-Joseph Palmi,
a laborer, died at the Bellevue Hospital
Wednesday, of that fortunately rare, but
extremely painful disease, trichinosis.
This disease may be described to the non
technical reader as the propagation and
infinite multiplication of minute living
worms in the muscles of the entire sys
tem. It usually arises from the incau
tious use of raw or partially cooked
pork.
On last Saturday afternoon the police
summoned an ambulance to No. 49 Mul
berry street, to remove a man who was
supposed to be suffering from a severe
attack of inflammatory rheumatism.
Dr. Henderson, the ambulance surgeon,
so reported the case on his arrival, and
it was thus entered on the books. But
when Dr. D. H. Williams, Jr., proceeded
to examine the patient in his ward, he
could not find any of the customary
symptoms of inflammatory rheumatism.
in interpreter was summoned, when
Joseph was closely examined as to his
experiences. Ile stated that the acute
pains of which he complained had begun
June 5, and continued to increase in in
tensity and extent until the ambulance
came for him.
As these pains had first developed in
th'estomach and then spread through the
body, Dr. Williams decided that it must
be a case of trichinosis. Palmi at first
denied that he had been eating pork.
but finally admitted that about a week
before the pains appeared he had pur
chased some pigs' feet of a butcher in
Mulberry street, near his residence. His
wife and children had eaten the food
with him.
The man suffered terribly, and the
physician was compelled tp administer
opiates, both internally and hypodermi
cally, to ease the excruciating pain
caused by the myriads of worms invad
ing every muscle of his writhing body.
Though the patient was able to take
slight nourishment he continued to grow
weaker day after day, until death finally
put an end to his Sufferings.
"Although I have not yet completed
my diagnosis," said Dr. Williams yes
terday, "I have no doubt that the case
is one of trichinosis. Palmi acknowl
edged having eaten pigs' feet during the
last week in May, but he must have
eaten other kinds of pork, for pigs' feet
contain very little muscle, being princi
pally composed of tendons, cartilage and
gelatinous matter. According to his
statement his wife had a slight attack of
abdominal spasms, which are the first
symptoms of the dreadful disease. She.
however, seems to have recovered,
though I should not be surprised if the
woman was brought here in the same
state as her husband was. Trichinosis
consists of the breeding of minute worms
in the muscles, and they go on multi
plying until the entire system is filled
with them.
Being in the muscles of the pork,
which has not lbeen properly cooked
and it must be submitted to a heat of
255 degrees to kill the worms-they are
taken into the stomach. Here they
begin increasing and produce the ab
dominal spasms which are initial symp
toms; then, following the intestinal
track, they finally pass through the ab
dominal walls and so enter the lymphatic
organs. From that moment the patient
is doomed, unless he is so constituted
that his system can resist the trichina
when they become encysted and die. If
they are too strong for resistance they
go on living in the muscles until the
latter decompose and death ensues very
took a piece of muscle from his forearm
and discovered that he had previously
suffered from the disease, because there
were eneysted wortfis visible in it. After
lie died portions of the muscles in the
calf and shoulder were removed.
and these we intend examining under
the microscope just as the portions arc
and then they will be hardened and their
transverse sections prepared for further
examining. But there is no doubt that our
diagnosis is the correct one. One of the
symptoms is an intense thirst and agoniz
ing pain, both of which were present in
this case. Usually triebinosis is developed
from pork which is eaten raw, and neo
plc frequently have it who are in the
habit of eating raw Westphalia hams
and bologna sausage. But pork is not
the only meat which is capable of de
veloping trichina, for they arc found in
the muscles of dogs and cats, rats and
mice, and even moles, all of which ani.
mals eat pork. The origin of trichina is
unknown, and they may be muherited for
all we know."
Palmi came to the United States in
1885, and ho was 34 years of age. His
wife is also a native of Italy, and they
had three children. No. 40 Mulberry
street is one of the many densely popu
lated tenements in that overcrowded
and filthy district of the city. Wben in
quiry was made in the neighborhood re
garding the identity of the butcher who
sold the diseased food to the Palmi
family, the occupants manifested ex
treme reticence and refused to give any
information. So far as could be learned
the children of Pamli have not suffered
any of the symptoms which were devel
oped by the father, and Mrs. Pamnli
seemed to be in good health, thgugh in
terrible grief over the death of her hus
band. The surroundings were, how
ever, so filthy and the manner of living
among the occupants of the house so
wretched, it is no wonder that diseases
of all kmnds should generate among
them.
HOYT'S HAUL.
The Paying Teller of a Hoboken Bank
Goeg Wrong.
JERsEY Crrv, N. J., July 5.-Frank
Hoyt, paying teller of the First National
Bank of Hoboken, was arrested and
locked up this morning upon complaint
of President R. Symns upon the charge of
embezzlement. The bank officers sus
petedl Hoyt of wrong-doing and exam
ined his accounts yesterday. A short
age of least $15,000 was found. Hoyt
has been connected with the bank for
fiteen years, and bore an unblemiished
character. He is 3:3 years old and resided
with his wife and family at Orange, N. J.
The bank will lose nothing, as Hoyt's
bonds arc ample to cover the amount
of the shortage.
TEN BLOCKS BURNED.
The Probable Result of Fourth of July
Pyrotechnics.
ELLENsBU-RGH, Washington Territory,
July 5.-Ten blocks of the best portion
of this city are ini ashes. - Nearly one
hundred families are homeless, and what
was yesterday a thriving and imposing
business cntre is niow a mass of ashes
ad burning cinders. Owing to the ex
:itement and confusion that p~revatils at
this hour, it is impossible to ascertain
ow the fire originated, but it is pre
sumed that it wa the result of the cele
bration of the national holiday, as it was
started soon after the inauguration of a
display of fireworks last evening.
The Parnell Investigation.
LONDON, July 2.-Michael Dav-itt was
xamined before the Parnell Commission
to-day. D~avitt declared there was no
truth in the account given by LeCaron
before the commission concerning p~ro
posals of John Devoy being submitted to
Parnell. Mr. Parnell had nothing to do
A WIDOWER WINS A BRIDE.
He Had to Carry Her off by Force from
Her Mother and Sister.
LOUISVILLE, July 3.-Mr. C. R. Har
mon, a wealthy widower of Maxwell,
Washington County, and Miss Unite
Kimberlin, a young lady of the same
place, eloped to Louisville yesterday
morning and, crossing to Jeffersonville,
were married. Mr. Harmon had to
carry off his bride almost by. force from
her relatives.
Day before yesterday, while Miss Kim
berlin's father was absent. Mr. Har
mon, who had long been her suitor,
and had been objected to by her
parents, called and asked her to marry
him. She agreed, but her mother and
sisters, who were present, objected, and
attempted to carry her off by force to
her room. Mr. Harmon likewise laid
hold of her, and attempted to pull her
away from them and into his buggy,
which was waiting in front of the house.
Between the two parties, the young lady
came near being torn into pieces, but as
she lent her own strength to that of her
lover, the latter prevailed, and drew
her from the grasp of her mother and
sisters, carrying her off in triumph to
his buggy. He placed her in it, sprang
in himself, and, dashing off to Lebanon,
took the first train for this city. Last
night they telegraphed to Mr. Kimberlin
that they had just been made man and
wife.
AN INSANE CIVIL ENGINEER
Jumps from a Window of the Palmer
House, Chicago, and !!Sustains Fatal
Injuries.
CHICAGO, July 2.-Persons passing
along State street, in front of the Palmer
House, this afternoon, were horrified at
seeing a man, clad only in a sheet, climb
out of a window and walk along the
projecting cornice. Suddenly, with a
shriek, he fell to the projection below.
A ladder was procured and an attempt
was made to rescue him, when, with a
scream, he threw himself to the pave
ment below, fracturing his skull and re
ceiving other injuries which will proba
bly cause his death. He was evidently
insane, and proved to be George W.
Howe, a prominent young civil engineer
of Leadville. He was on his way home
from Washington, where he had been in
attendance as a delegate to the conven
tion of Patriotic Sons of America.
THE CRONIN MURDER CASE.
Another Alleged Important Arrest Made
by the Chicago Police.
CHICAGO, July 5.-At a late hour last
night several detectives from the centrai
station took a prisoner to the Harrison
street station and locked him up in the
witness cell. The greatest secrecy was
observed by these officers, and from
their action it was evident that they had
made an important arrest. They refused
to say who their prisoner was or why be
was arrested, but it is known that the
arrest was made in connection with the
Cronin case. It was also said that the
prisoner was none other than the man
who drove Cronin from Conkling's to
the Carlson cottage.
Rev. John Poster Shoots Rev. Tom Otti
son.
Last Saturday Rev. John Foster shot
Rev. Tom Ottison with a pistol. They
are both Baptist preachers of this city.
Rev. Tom Ottison had been boarding
with Rev. John Foster, and had alienated
the affections of his wife and had even
captured her person. Rev. John Foster
demanded his goods and chattel, and on
Rev. Ottison's refusal to give ner up, he
shot the Rev. Ottison in the rear. The
wound is not serious-less serious than.
he deserved. The Rev. Foster i~s linjail.
They were..botl-eelored.-2partanburg
RIcasoxD, Va., July 2.-Local rains
this evening backed up the water in
Shockoe Creek. which runs through an
archway into the river at the foot of
Shockoe mill, and overflowed the streets
of the city from Franklin to the river.
Lower floors atdd cellars of at least.fifty
business houses were submerged. The
damage will perhaps exceed $10,000.
The rainfall was at the rate of two
inches an hour.
Another French Cabinet Crisis.
PARIs, July 2.-The belief exists in
political circles here that a Cabinet crisi4
will result from the charge made by M.
DeCassagnac in the Chamber of Depu
ties last Saturday, that Thevenot, Min
ister of Justice, was the accomplice of
Meyer in the Credit Mobelier frauds,
for connection with which Meyer has
been sent to prison. It is rumored that
both Thevenot and Rouveir, Minister of
Finance, have determined to resign.
Chicago Greatly Enlarged.
Chicago has annexed a wide stretch
of territory so as to take within its lim
its alt suburban towns. Its area has
been increased thus, it is stated, to 147
square miles-a phenomenal area for a
municipal corporation. The population
is, of course, greatly increased by the
annexation, some estimates making the
present population over a million. The
city's modesty has not, it is feared.
been proportionally increased.
Washington Notes.
WAsHINGTON, July 3. -- Mrs. Harrison,
her father, Dr. Scott, and two grand
children, left Washington this; afternoon
for Deer Park, Maryland, where they
will spend the summer.
The First National Bank of Hunts
ville, Ala., has been authorized to begin
bt~siness with a capital of $125,000.
The bond offerings to-day aggregated
$694,350: accepted, $613,700 at 128 for
four per cents, and 106k four and a halfs.
Providing for the Royal Cubs.
LONDON, July 3.-The Cabinet has de
cided to appoint a committee on allow
ances which Parliament will be asked to
grant to Prince Albert Victor and Prin
cess Louise The powers of the commit
tee will be limited to the settlement of
amounts to be asked.
The Pope Contemplates Leaving Rome.
LoxnoN, July 2.-The Rome corres
pondent of the Chronicle says: In re
ceiving the Spamish Embassador, the
Pope alluded to his possible departure
from Rome. It is certain that arrange
ments for his refuge in Spain has been
e >mpleted.
Bought by a Foreign Syndicate.
STAL3TON, Va., July 3.- -Prof. R. N.
Pool to-day closed the sale of rhe Terrel
iron property, containing 6,000 acres, to
a foreign syndicate for $70,000 cash.
The parties purchasing will take . posses
sion at once and move and ship ores.
A Kew of Powder Explodes.
OMAHA, iNcb., July 5.-Just as the
celebrators at Kenesaw, Neb., had fin
ished firing a national salute yesterday
a keg of powvder exploded in Emil
Shultz's lacksmnith shop, instantly kill
ing Shultz and wrecking the building.
The Georgia Legislature.
ATLANTA, July 3.-The Georgia Legis
lature met to-day in adjourned session.
To-morrow the new Capitol, just finished,4
will be accepted by the State through
Governor Gordon.
The Pope's Position.
RoME, July 5.-The Pope has sent a]
copy of his recent allocution to each of ]
the powers, asking whether or not they
would interest themselves in his position.
His decision as to his future action de-|1
pends on the nature of replies re- |
THE BARBAROUS SHAH
Shown Undeserved Attention in London
by English High Muck-a-Mucks.
LONDON, July 3.-The Shah, accom
panied by several members of the royal
family, members of the Diplomatic Corps
and otber prominent persons, was to
day escorted by procession to the Guild
hall. The streets through which the
procession passed were decorated with
flags and bunting, and lined with troops.
Immense crowds gathered along the
route. Lord and Lady Salisbury were
late in starting for Guildhall, and dis
covered on reaching the Strand that the
Shah had already passed along that
thoroughfare. The troops there had
also broken up their lines, and crowds of
people were roaming about at
will. Owing to the dense crowds
Lord Salisbury's carriage proceeded very
slowly, without its occupants being re
cognized, until Cheapside was reched.
Here it was obliged t' come to a stand
still, and the oflicial uniform of the Pre
mier was recognized by sightseers, who
bantered His Lordship until a body of
troops was procured to escort him and
Lady Salisbury to the Guildhall], which
they were obliged to enter through the
door assigned to ordinary visitors. Tie
police on duty at the entrance stopped
several detectives who were following
the Premier and would not allow them to
enter until they had explained who they
were.
ANOTHER FLOOD IN JOHNSTOWN.
Cambria City Threatened With Inunda
ticn Great Alarm Among the People.
JOHNSTOWN. Pa., July 3.-The heavy
rains of yesterday and last night flooded
five families in Cambria City. The water
came pouring down the mountain last
night, filled the first floors of houses.
destrovin all the furniture that had
been saved from the big flood. T;sere
is great alarm among the peple over
t.e condition of the Conemaugh River.
The water rose five feet this morning in
three hours and carried away the foot
bridge above the* Pennsylvania Railroad
station.
There was danger of the temporary
bridge erected by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad giving out, and six loaded
freight cars were run out on the bridge
to save it. -About 10 o'clock the abut
nients began to sink.
The temporary bridge erected at the
lower end of the Gautier offices is almost
a total wreck.
Orders were given at General Hast
ings's headquarters at 10 o'clock to get
everything in shape for quick removal.
as it was feared the tents would be
washed away. The portable bridges
over Stoney Creek were only saved after
very hard work by the engineers.
At 11:30 it was thought all danger had
passed, when a fresh storm broke over
the valley. Rain is coming down in
torrents and the people fear that the
Conemaugh will yet sweep over its
banks and flood the town.
UNCLE SAM'S DISHONESTY.
How the Government 'Has Profited by
Funds from Unpaid Money Orders.
For seventeen years after the estab
lishment of the money order system in
this country, the funds secured through
unpaid money orders were stored up and
hoarded, just as though the United
States government had made a good
speculation. No attempts whatever
were inaugurated to ascertain the real
owners of this money which had been
trusted to Uncle Sam's care, but the
sum went on accumulating until it had
reached the enormous figures of about
$1,700,000. Then Congress took hold.
The legislative branch of the govern
ment decided that the money thus held
was illegally held, and that no pains
should be spared to ascertain to whom it
belonge', and a clause was attached to
one of the bills appropriating money C
authorizing the'empl. ment of a num
ber of clerks, whose Uuty it shouild be
to ascertain the.rightful owners of this
mouey-order fund, and every effort
made to restore it. Congress also pro
vided that hereafter, whenever an "ad
vice" in relation to an order, which
should remain unpeid in the hands of a
postmaster a certain number of days
without the money having been claimed,
was received, it should be the duty of
that postmaster to notify the payee. If
this failed to secure the payment of the
money to the rightful party, the sender
was to be notified, and steps were de
vised by which he might secure the
money which had not been paid to the
person to whom he desired it should go.
Under this latter Act there has been a
great falling off in the accumulation of
money to tLe credit of the money order
fund in New York, and under the in
structions of Congress some clerks in
the Money Order Department hav.e been
engaged for some years in making out a
list of all unpaid orders, together with
the names of the purchaser of the order
and the party to whom it was sent.
These lists make an enormous bill of
manuscript, and although they are not
yet completed, they have been instru
mental in restoring a great deal of the
money to the rightful owners. Just how
much has been paid back cannot be as
certained at this time without a great
deal of work, but that there still remains
more than $1,000,000 piled away in the
sub-treasury in New York to the credlit
of the money order fund is beyond dis
pute.
Ordinary business honesty would have
demanded that this fund should never
have been allowed to accumulate, but
Uncle Sam, in his business dealiugs, is
the most dishonest of mortals. He never
pays a debt that he can possibly escape.
but insists upon prompt payment from
all his debtors.- Washington Letter.
Mormon Missionaries in West Virginia.
A dispatch from Wheeling says: "The
persistency with which Mormon mission
aries arc carrying oii their work in some
parts of West Virginia is beginning to
excite a great deal of indignation. There
is likely to be trouble very soon. Ritehie
County is at present the scene of the most
active operations. Two elders have
taken up permanent quarters there. Oin
Indian Creek there is quite a large con
gregation and meetings arc held weekly,
at which polygamy- is-not only openly
preached, but attetnpts are being made
to carry the theory into practice, at least
one convert having taken unto himselfa
second wife. In other parts of the some
County like success has attendled the ef
forts of the missionaries, and in all there
are fifty full-fledged Mormons in the.
County. No efforts, it seems, are being i
made to transplant the converts."
Sight Recovered After Thirty Years.
John McDonald, aged 64, of Water-r
bury, receives the congratulations of his
friends on the restoratioin of his sight, I
which was totally lost for over thirtyc
ears. Recently he has recovered from
sickness, and wais much surprised toe
lad that he could dliscern his hand when y
eld a few inches from his face.
~ince then he has seen and reognized(e
riends of his early (lays and~ othier 0')-o
ects. He says that during his illness he I
~uffered very peculiar dizzy sensations.p
t one time he heard a strange snap- a
)ng sound inside of his head. Thep
loctors say it is an unparalleled ease.- p:
~Irtford (C'onn.) Times. 1
The Kentucky Republicans.
LEXINGTON, Ky., July 5.-The Repub
ican State Convention yesterdlay was s
argely attended and enthusiastic. David
fr. Colson of Bell County was nomi- t
ated for State Treasurer. Although N
ut 27 years old, he is a member of the s
kgislature and has been in publie life s
DANDELION GOLD.
Like bright gold dollars in the grass
The dandelions lie,
And if they would like dollars "pass,"
I know what I would buy.
At first I'd work with all my might
To gather up the gold.
And stuff my pockets just as tight
As ever they would hold.
Then I would find Dame Nature's store,
(She has the dearest things)
Boldly knock at the very front door.
And ask for butterflies' wings.
Then I should want some fine gray gloves.
Made out of spider's silk,
And feathery cloak from breasts of doves.
And soft and white as milk.
For shoes. I'd buy some lily leaves
With snail shell buttons bright,
And, made of thread the thistle weaves.
Some stockings snowy wite.
But, most of all, I long to buy
The new moon for a boat.
That I each night. far down the sky.
Among the stars might tiat.
Oh, round and round the earth I'd range,
So glad and free and bold
And never a cent I'd ask of change
From dandelion gold.
-The Cottage Hearth.
Trying to Hoodoo Patti.
The alleged rows in the Metropolitan Opera
.ompany are mere child's play to the ex
periences which the veteran impresario, Col.
iapleson, has gone through with during his
:areer as an operatic manager. He had Patti
and Gerster in the same company at once.
ro the initiated that means a great deal, as
they well know what the successful manage
mcut of that team means. Gerster always
tad an idea that Patti was giving her agreat
leal the worst of it, and Patti firmly be
lieved when she was announced to sing that
Cerster pronounced some mystic spell upon
her which injured her voice. One night
Cerster sang. Patti was to sing the follow
ing night. -he and Nicolini retired to their
partments at an early hour, and just before
turning off the gas Nicolini opened the door
to throw his shoes into the hall for the boot
black.
He opened the door suddenly and there
stood Gerster and her husband, Dr. Gardini.
Both were making hcodoo passes with their
hands toward the Patti apartments, presum
bly with the idea of qu ding Lue nihht
gale's voice for the following evening. Of
ourse Nicolini raised an awful row. For
half an hour the hall was blue with Italian
profanity, and the redoubtable \1apleson
finally had to be called from his couch to
pour oil upon the troubled waters. The
guests of the house were disturbed, and had
rho people not been celebrated opera singers
they would have been bundled out upon the
idewalk, bag and baggage. No, the Ger
tans are lambs alongside of the fiery Italians,
Chicago Herald.
United States Mining Laws.
There are certain general principles of mine
Law which may be mentioned: All lands of
the United States containing gold, silver,
Lead, tin, copper or cinnabar in workable
1uantities are mineral lands, and not open to
omestead or pre-emption entry. Nor doesa
and grant to a railroad convey title to min
lral; nor is there any distinction between
surveyed and unsurveyed public land. If
there is mineral in workable quantities in the
and it belongs to the locator and miner and
to them only. Second, and most important,
n all uses of doubt, the law is to be con
t:rued in favor of the prospector and
ocator. The burden of proof is upon
l who claim title in opposition. Third,
,f the lanl is within a known mineral region,
t is presumed to be mineral land, and the
urden of proof Is on those who dispute it.
Even if the land has been thrown open to
ttlement, it will be withdrawn from
narket at any time before vested rights ac
:rue, upon proof that it is mineral land. In
short, the United States government designs
to extend the greatest possible encourage
aent to prospecting and the development of
nines, and therefore directs that all doubtful
egal points be conxstrued in furtherance ot
hat desgn.-J. H1. Beadle.
There Has Been an Improvement.
The rules of etiquette laid down now re
~arding court functions are comical, but
ion't compare with the following regula
ions, which were prescribed by the lord
oflicers, many of them belongin-g to noble
families. When invited to dine with royal
persons they were to be neatly dressed, with
elan coats and boots, and not to enter the
room in a half drunken condition. They
were warned not to drink after each mouth
ful, as that would make them drunk too
soon, nor'to empty more than one g&oblet for
every two dishes. They were not to put
their hands in the plates, their bones under
the table, lick their fingers, wipe their noses
on the table cloth, or drink so much as to
make them fall ofr the chairs or unable to
walk straight. These are extracts from a
guide carefully drawn up for the guidance of
oficers and gentlemen of noble families,
which shows that manners have improved
since 1GN. -Chicago Tribune.
Darling Dildn't Come.
A young man from Rocheport made us a
pleasant call one day last week. While here
e informed us of a piece of newys that will
be of interest to a student of Kemlper college,
Boonevile. He informed us that several days
go a negro woman in Rocheport was stand
ng on the bank of the Missouri river catch
ng driftwood, and while waiting for a log
eap) to float down, a beer bottle floated by
amd she pulled it in. -Upon exaoining the
ottle she found that it contained a letter
wich read as follows:
To My Fa'iz~ns: BoNEVtLLE, Mo., April
, 18I.-l am a student at Booneville, Mo.
heard of a friend of mine who got a wife in
his way, and I thought perhaps I might get
oe in the same way. Now whoever finds
his must answer it. Yours, etc., etc.. --.
P. S. -Come to me,. darling.
As yet the old negro woman still resides in
Rcheport. -Columbia (Mod~ Herald.
The Old Theme.
Hotel Call Boy-Madam, you must hurry If
ou would save your life. The hotel is all on
re. This is the third time I have warned
ou.
Lady Guest-Well, tell the firemen to keep
the f!ames under control until I take out my
uri papers and friz mny hair. I just know
here's a great crosed of men down there and
ome of them :are newspaper reporters.
)mha WorhL
A Generous Foe.
Fany-Why, Emma, how cordially you
hook hands with Miss F'rizbair at the party
ast night: I thought you were deadly one- .
Emma-Oh, that is all past. I have for
tiven her everything, she has grown so plain
oking. -New York Mercury.
A mong the curiosIties of London food sup.
iy may he reckoned quails from the Falk
ad islands. These delicacies are brought
er alive from their distant home in the
outh Atlantic and command a lirge price
the niarket, as they are highly esteemed by
~otrets.
Liquor Licenss is a Tax.
A liquor licnse is not a contract, ac
ording to thc Supreme Court of In
lana, but a special tax. The decision.
of great interest and significancee to
~rohibitionists. for it knocks on tile
tead with the arm of the law their chief
ibjection to supporting high h~euse as a
leans to theC supJpressionl of the rum
ower-thie claim that a license of any
i~d is a reognition of the mrlrights
f the traihie and a bargain or corn
romise with sin. H ere is the language
f' the court: 1The grlanit of a license
iipalI authiti . for a licenise is not ai
m ract. The license may be changed
r even annuiilledI by the supriemie legis
ir e p)ower of the State whlenevetr
abiic welfare dlemnands it. A license is
restrictive special tax imiposed for the
tblie good and in the exercise of the
olice power of the State. "-Yew York
Survivors of the S amoan Disaster.
NW YORK. Juily '.--Among tile pats
~nges on the steamer Newport. from
.spinwall, whliich arrived last night, are
e band. numbering 13 men, of the 1
ipsie, four seamen from the same yes
1 and three seamen from the \iandtiaal,
irvivors of the Samoan disaster. All
e in charge of Boatwain Me~nughlin. h
WILD WATERS' HAVOC THROUGH
SEVENTEEN CENTURIES.
Rome a Great Sufferer from the Tiber's
Overflows-A Millon Lives Lost in the
Eleventh Century-The Rhine and the
Danube Have Also Added to the Horrors.
About the year 130 B. C. the powerful na
tion of the Celts, after having suffered for a
long time great losses in possessions and lives,
were forced by continued destructive floods
to forsake their abodes along the shores of the
western ocean and emigrate to Italy, the up
per Rhine and the Danube. Likewise about
the year 113 B. C. several Teutonic tribes were
driven further south from the uorthern set
tlements by like causes. Among the older
towns of the world the eternal city. Rome,
suffered frequently and extremely from in
undations of the Tiber, which to fill the cup
of the sufferings of the people were generally
accompanied by dearth and pestilence. Nota
ble among these floods at Rome are those of
the years 44. 27, 23, 22 and 13 B. C., and 5, 15,
36, 51, 6 and 70 A. D. In the year 5 the
city was navigated by boats for over a week
and a large number of buildings were de
stroyed by the flood, as were also hundreds of
lives.
GERMANY INUNDATED.
A. D. 170 the fertile table land of Marcb in
Arabia was turned into a permanent desert
by the breaking of a dam and the inhabi
tants were forced to emigrate. In 174 larga
tracts of Italy and adjoining countries were
under water. The year 36 saw the greater
portion of Germany inundated. In 444 the
city of Is, on the bank of the bay of Douar
ney, France. formerly quite famous, was
swallowed by the floods. In 587 and 50
dermany suffered immense losses by water.
The Rhine, having always been a source of
great and frequent disaster, again did euor
mous damage in 6i4. Ninety years after
even Charlemagne was stopped on one of his
victorious marches by the waters iliing the
lowlands everywhere. In 71)3 the sva flooded
the whole of East Frisia. The year 800 wit
nessed the swallowing up of a very large
part of Heigoland by the insatiable element.
In 815 the Rhine by another overflow did
more damage than ever before, and in 886 its
waters devas t all the adjoining regions
along Its entire course. During the Ninth
century the English coasts suffered terribly
from floods, and in 980 all the rivers of ce-_..
tral Europe overflowed their banks and
caused great loss.
The Eleventh century had no less than for
ty-seven great floods. At one time fully 125
geographical square miles of the Netherlands
were laid waste. At this time there also dis
appeared a number of the larger islands near
1% e southwest coast of the Baltic, making the
entire number swallowed up by floods on the
same coast from the time of the Roman occu
pation to the close of the Eleventh century,
fifteen-all large islands.
The loss in human lives through floods dur
ing that century alone was over 1.000,000.
Some of the most disastrous floods during
that period were that of 1015, putting a large
part of Holland under water and taking more'
than three years until its last traces had
finally disappeared; -then the overflow of the
Elbe and Weser, destroying entire towns
along their banks; further, the inundation of
the Pomeranian coasts in 1044, reaching in
places as much as twelve geographical miles
into the country, and then the fearful floods
in the Alpine regions and Germany in 1000.
In 1106 the old and important town of Ma
lamocca, near Venice, was devou red by the
Adriatic sea. Other great floods through
overflows of the Rhine and Danube occurred
in 1124, 1150 and 1152, when large tracts of
fruitful lands were devastated and buildings
and numerous lives were destroyed in the
towns. The year 1162 was another sad one
for the north of Europe through its repeated
disastrous floods, taking the lives of thou
sands of human beings and cattle. Again,
between the years 1212 and 1324 there were
hundreds of towns and villages destroyed by
foods in that part of the world, and in 1218 a
single catastrophe of this kind killed 10,000
uman beings at Nordstrand alone. About
Christmas, 1277, the city of Torum and fifty
smaller towns aroud the mouth of the Enig
sank into the sea
IN LATER YEARS.
and put the Dollart into its p
which mighty revolution of nature 80,000'td~
100.000 human lives we re lest and many
towns were wiped out forever. The second
so callpd "Marcellus" flood in 1300 destroyed
twenty-eight towns in Sleswick alone, and
with them 7,600 human beings. It also
swept away another half of what had been
left of Helgoland, so that only about one
fourth of the original Island remained. The
year 1317 was a most remarkable -one in
France, Germany and Austria. All the riv
ers in these countries overflowed their balrs,
2nd the water even spurted forth from the
-epths of the earth. In 1537 a large portion
of the province of Zeeland, containing seven
dioceses and fourteen villages, were buried
beneath the waters. The year 1342 saw the
most disastrous of floods which ever visited
Germany. On the 8th of December the Ger
man ocean leaped, as It were, upon North
Frisia and swallowed up more than 100,000
men, women and children, together with all
their habitations, scattered through thirty
dioceses. Again, from the 18th to the 20th of
November, 1421, 100,000 people were de
stroyed by a flood near Dortrecht and Rot
terdam, together with seventy-one villages,
of which twenty-two have never since been
seen.
Other calamities happened in thoe regions
in the years 1425, 1449, 1475, 1497, 1500, 1511,
1530, 1541, 1013, 1625, 1634, 1717, 1784, 1803,
1809, 1825 and other years, destroying human
lives by the hundreds, thousands and tens of
thousands. In August, 1568, there were gen
eral inundations in Switzerland, occasioning
a loss of 200,000 forins. The year 1570 was
the most disastrous for Holland. Large tracts
of valuable land were flooded and 400,000 peo
ple drowned. In 1571 a part of the beautiful
city of Lyons was torn away by the river
Rhone. The year 1588 saw the destruction of
the proud Armada, entailing the loss of 20,000
men. In 1595, June 4, an inundation in
Switzerland, caused by the outbreak of a
glacier, swept away 500 houses and 145 hu
man beings..-Chicago Times.
Working Girls in New York.
Girls who get positions as "salesladies" in
stores must begin at $2 per week, and thE
highest pay they can hope for is $8, and they
must dress nicely. The higher in the social
scale the position, the more is required in the
way of dress. Shirt makers get 28 to 35
cents a dozen for men's white shirts, and two
dozen is a big day's work. Women and chil
dren's underwear and wrappers are as badly
iid, and the most expert operator, by work
ing every hour of the day and far into the
night all the time, can-scarcely pay for the
barest existence, let alone save anything for
her ineritable day of need. Cravat making
and men's underwear are paid for at starva
tion price, and one of three things is bound
to happen-the girl finds a husband, a grave
ar worse, for human nature cannot stand the
rwful strain.-New York Letter.
Ways of Our Best People.
Barber (to customer)-Oil, sir?
Customer (emphatically)-No!
Barber-You are right, sir. None of
our best people are using oil on their
air nowadays.
(To next customer)-Oil, sixr?
Customer-Why, yes, I guess so.
Proper thing, isn't it?
Barber-Yes, sir. All our best peo
ple are using oil on their hair now
days.-Cicago Tribune.
Not to Be Discouraged.
Ipstein-Shoe-strings, collar-puttons,
susbenders
Miss Ann Teak-Go 'long, there!
We hain't got no men folks about this
iouse!
Ipsein-Ah, madam, it vas a good
bing to lay in subblies in adfance. An
iddractivo lady like you can't tell vat
nay habben some tay!-Pck.
-Most of the lords and dukes who
narry American girls wed for~ a title
ut it is title to real estate they are
fter.-Puck,
There are 20,000 persons in OJkla
ama.