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ts me can ncvuMiniu
i nut i uk Kcuniun
Arp and liis Children About the
Fireside.
ALL HIS BUYS ARL AT HOME
Bill Mas a Good 'lime Watching: the
(irauchitdren Play with Thslr Toys
--The Dinner.
Thla Christmas is like "lengthened
sweetness long drawn out" -at our
house, for the boys have gathered
from the four corners and brought
their love and their rations with them.
New York brought a huge box of decorations
for the Christmas ttce. It
was beautiful beyond description.
Dolls of silk and satin and paper, all
covered with glittering spangle.*?little
angels with pearly wings suspended
by threads of invisible rubber,
golden harps and hearts and wreaths
of spun gla^s in rainbow colors?
scores of little waxen candles to illuminate
the scene. Oh. it was like a
fairy vision, and every limb and twig
of the stately long leaf pine was burdened
with ChrL-tmns gifts for old
and young. There were twenty-four
of the family picsrnt. and it t :ok naif
the night to unite and unfold the surprise?,
for all were remembered ocor
and over again by old Sar.tn. Yes. all.
even to tl:e venerable old patriarch ?
th" "Paterfamilias." the antique ancestor,
for he brought me a hall and a
monkey Jack and some candy, i < auslie
nad heard that I was the bo\ the
only bov?about the house. Hut hit r
on 1 discovered :i silk cap and a pir
of .silpnerB, isoa:e hn:idk? rchiof.- and an
ink-taild thai the little gr'.ndehlldrcn
can't opill the ink out of if they do
turn it over. Little Mary Lou. who is
.lo aie's child, get so many dolls ami
prrfty things that site looked ti:ol
and. drawing a long l>r< nth, aid:
"Gahpa, it's loo much, and 1 can't
hardly stand it." There were toys and
hooks. and \a.es and perfumes, and
baskets and gloves, and jewels and
other gifts too nun: tons to mention.
Mexico brought a beautiful handwoven
eastilian shawl for my wife, and
she struts around as lithe and gay is
Eden's gard n bird. "My boy brought
it from Mexico." she *.tys, forty times
a day, "My hoy and my i hildren" are
always on the tip e.f her tongue. Well,
that's all right. They arc her boys,
sura enough, and she knows it. There
may be some doubt, sometimes, about
who s the father of a child, but everybody
knows who is it^ mother. Downstairs
has all been clothed with mistletoe
and holly. Geraniums from the
pit are placed all around, and sonic
beautiful roses lift up their lovely
forms from beautiful vases that olu
Mantx Clans brought. Bunches of mistletoe
hang from every chandelier, and
every time thcco merry, mischievous
girls find me .standing under one, they
slip up uuawaieu and claim a kiss.
Even Mrs. Arp lost her normal dignity
and, coming slyly behind nio, suddenly
wrapped the drapery of her eastilian
shawl around me and claimed a mis
uetoe kiss rrom my connubial lips.
But the old marble clo.-k that for
nearly fifty years lias stood upon the
mar.'iel ticking the moments and re
cording the hours as they pass diu not
stop on thristmas night, and at midnight
the happy group retired lo rest
and happy dreams. Next day came
the frastt?the Chiistrnas dinner.
Every leaf was placed on the long extension
table. .At each end was a
large well-brownrd. well-done turkey,
and all the Intermediate space crowdel
with luxuries for the inner man
and woman. Eighteen of the family
were the welcome guests at the table,
while six c f the infai.tihs surrounded I
a .-mailer one nearby. I never a.ske 1
a blessing with a nt< re grateful In art.
for Providence h:: . beer kind, and
since last we met no affliction or
calamity has befallen us. Verily, th
Unas have fallen to us in pleasant
p Laces. Would that all our h.ndrc 1
and friends?yes. won'd th .t < .c ry
laaiilv in ihf lun.l ti.r. ?. ... . ?...
poor?could have a like happy :m:l unclouded
Chrntira.s. As 1 survey the
h; jKiy enr it is enough i ? lock upon,
the serenity of the maternal nnrvsto."
its she gazes fondly upon her hoys
yes. her boys, who have cone so far
lo give her Joy and comfort. Oh. yo
boys?ye joung men and rnddle aged,
whom fortune or fate has removed fat
front a gcod old mother's tender care
and solicitude, don't forget her yearnin
gj and If you c annot go to her at
least on:*o ii year, write to iter every
month and comfort her with your loving
letters. The papers are full of
crimt-3 of all d'scriptions. httt in my
opinion, there is none that will more
surely provoke the curse of Cod than
for a man to negle t or dirtre.-s his
mother.
Yesterday the hoy.-, with their mother
and sisters visn I the old homestead?the
farm in tl'.e country, where
our children grew up to manliood and
womanhood where tlx o scattered
boys worked and plowed and planted
and reaped where they had sown;
wh re they labor* d hard by day an I
hunted coons and poa-un.s by night:
where they went to the nnhoring mill
and fl-'ac l in the pond while the grin
was grinding; where Carl and Jessie
went to school and crossed the creek
on a Blender footing, and gathered
haws and maypops and wild strawberries
on the way. These boys and
their simers wanted to revisit the old,
scenes and drink water fiom the same
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o!>: sighing spring. These boys wumtM
to see the old meadow where the big
trees stood in their majesty?the oak
trees that wc had named for itosvoe
Cor.kling and Blaine, and the big aycanicre
that was named for Voorhces,
the tall sycamore of the Wabash.
They wanted to see tho old barnyard
where they used to i ase old
Pete, the Merino ram and incite him
to rear on his hind logs and run to
butt them as they presented their
posteriors in a defiant and provoking
manner. Sometimes they got out of
his way just in time, but ever and
anon they dident, and he sent them on
their winding way scratching the
ground on their allfours. They
wanted to see the grave of old Bows. I
that good old dog whom they loved. I I
did not go for there was no room, and
as I am the boy. I had to otay at home
and take rare of Jessie's children.
Well they came back in due time
and it was amusing to me to hear
them tell how everything had changed
within thfse dozen years; how the
house seemed to have sank into the
ground a foot or two and the farm had
shrunk up and the fields were smaller
and the hills lower and the shade trees
shortened at the top. I've been iutcugh
all that before, and was not surprised
Interspersed with cur daily ami nightly
pleasures wo havo music, good
music, classical music of the great
masters and minstrel music with choruses
from all the baud and oven my
wife, Mrs. Arp, was constrained to
play the "Caliph of Bazdad" with her
lirst-horn daughter?her daughter.
Music is our family's gift, for they all
play on something, and all have voices
for harmony of sweet sounds. This
gift. 1 suppose, comes from their
mother, and her touch upon the ivory
ke> s is still as delicate as when she
i was a lassie of sixteen. 1 used to
! think that I. too. had a meiodloiu
1 \olce. and s ometimes would venture to
J hist the :;:n-> in Sunday school when
: the tune liysier was absent ami. like
| the crow wl o tried to sing. 1 thought
I did it lilti !y. Nobody oh a ever told
1 n;e ,'C. :il!<t ere flr.v mv wife . iiil ???
my v: was a little cracked and if
she was me . 1 ? wculd not try to raise
the trm < in the church any more. It
\\;<3 a revelation that sl'.o i 1 me. and
I have never saag in <hureh since, nor
anywhere rise. There are voices in
church choirs of the ame kind, but noi
i ody will t' 11 thom. They are called
i lul.-etto. I
rarcwell Christinas?farewell old
Santa Clan. while we all rejoice, let
us net for.m t that Christmas tornmcmora.it
the birth of the Savior of
men- the nativity of Kiris Uringle.
which menus "the little Christ child."
it is well enough to rejoice, hut wo
should at the fame time reflect and bo
grateful.? Hill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Survivor
of Miiluo IHxnxtcr Married.
Oscar Anderson, one of the sailors
on board the Maine when she was
blown up In Havana Harbor, anil Miss
Hello llutehln, were married at Riverside.
Conn., by the Rev. William
Davidson.
Aiidroo CJiveti lT|i ax I/OKt.
The brother of Andree. the missing
aeronaut, says a dispatch from Copenhagen.
Denmark, despairing of his
return from the Arctic regions, lias
dually opened his will.
Minor Mention.
There is a movement on foot in New
York City for the periodic disinfection
of public libraries.
On the island of Alaska, tiffv mile?
west of Juneau, a large deposit of |
I irvnsnin has boon .ii<.....-..t-..i
Wind Cave, at Rapid City. N. 1is
to be examined i?y tin* < Sovrrntncnl.
with a view to making it a nntiona
reservation.
Tito Moallpox situation in eastern
iis hceominj; alarming. Most of
the casts arc anions the forei,;n-bon
minors in tin* coal camps.
Nf.v President nf l.ll>eri;t.
The President of I.ilH'riit. W. IV Cole
man. litis resigned. owing to tlio dlsap
proval by tin* Legislature of his inic
rior policy, o. W Oihson. the Seetvtitry
of mate, was elected I'resident
by the Legislattire.
Turkey ?Inters tin* CruUrr.
The eonirae; for tl:e pttrciinse of a
cruiser for Turkey was sinned tit t'otistantitiople
l>y the Minister of Marino,
Hassan Pasha. and tien. rtil Willianis,
representing the Cramps of Pinhole",
pliiti.
Sporting Brevities.
Tito Royal Canadian Yacht ritib
wants the ("nnniiti <"n;> rac s next
year held before t he America's Cup
race.
Four .New Jersey hockey clubs. thn
Moutclnir. South Orange. Crystal Lake
a.id Short Hills hockey < ltil.s. have
formed the New Jersey Hockey
l/ague.
CJolf r * a winter snort mnt n?i twrn
Mu* attractiveness of flip midsummer
1*111 i !i . v;-rnI prominent
Hull - ii' ar s w York < it\ which hav
s ..i n 1 ih i approval on culil wrathit
pin V.
N.?li\< H I. ill I rt.siiiTtiir and I'.at film
Tlit' !iii Miower.n arrivpil ;
Yietorin, IS. with ndviees from
IJueenslnnd that a prospector named
1*. KMlitnc has hern killed. and. aecordlm:
lo the belief the ship's pro
pie, eaten hy the natives.
| Mollior and Children I'.uniml to Drntli
The residence of Airs, llarriger. in
| the villas,)' of Sinai. Penis., was destroyed
hy lire, and Mrs. Harrlger
and her two dang liters, aged live and 4
seven years, were burned to death.
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STORM'S iWFUL WORK!
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A Heavy Loss of Life Around the
British Coasts.
MOST SEVERE GALE IN YEARS
Mhiiji VfHtli Unahril to I'lrcr* lit Terrific
Sens?Thirty-three Go Down With
One Ship ? A Crew Swept Front the
Wreck In Sight of Shore at Holyhead?Much
Property I>aiuugc?l.
Loudon (By Coble). ? A great gale
prevailed along the English and Irish
coasts Friday and caused an unprecedented
Interruption of the telegraph
service.
The chief disaster reported is the
wrecking of the four-masted ship
Primrose llill, outward bound front
Liverpool, which went ashore near
Holyhead. A terrilie sea was running,
which prevented the lifeboats from
approaching the stranded vessel.
When she struck three of her masts
went overboard, and her hull broke in
two. The foremast was left standing,
hut in a few minutes this, too, went
over the side.
Meanwhile the crew lind huddled together
on tile poop deck, in a short
j time a huge sea hoarded the after part
of the wreck and all hands were
I washed overboard. Thirty-three were
i drowned. The solitary survivor was
thrown by the sea on to the rocks,
where he was mutilated before lie
was rescued.
The British ship Pegasus. Captain
Bailey, from Sail Francisco. went
ashore at Lavernook Point in the
Bristol Channel. She was subsequent
; ly floated and towed in to Cardiff. !
i Four of her itow of thirty-throe witI
l'?St.
| other wrecks occurred on the west
coast. Tltc wind Mew with hurricane
force. In South Walesa freight train
was lifted front the rails by the storm,
in other places it required three en
gino* to enable trains to make headway
against the sale.
Fishing heats have heen etist up on
the western eoast like driftwood. Seventy
I in rates were adrift in the Thames.
A steeple was Mown down in Walworth.
Surrey. The Channel stearner
service was nhatiduncil.
The storm was probably the most
j furious that lias prevailed in Croat
I Britain 111 twenty years.
j NURSES ACCUSED OF INHUMANITY.
11 ? 1?I Account aMc I'or Death ??f a I'.iticii
in 11 New York Hospital.
I New York City (Special).- Jesse it.
Davis. Fdwnrd U. Dean and Clinton
; Ij. Marshall. tlr.ee nurses connected
j with the Mills Training School for
Nurses, were held accountable for the
dentil of Louis Milliard 011 December
1- while an inmate of the insane pavilion
in lJellovue Hospital, liy a jury before
Coroner I'M ward T. Fitzpatrick.
It was determined liy the jury that
llilliard's death was caused by asphyxiation
and fractured rllis, as the
i ruHuu or 1110 treatment in; hud received
I at the hands of the three nurses who
| had charge of the patient. Davis,
j Dean ami Marshall were admitted to
I hnil in the sum of S.timmi each l>y the
Coroner, although Assistant DistrictAttorney
John I'\ Melntyro protested
against tltcir release.
Davis. Dean and Marshall will have
their cases submitted to the tlrand
Jury. At the inquest the testimony
showed that t he treat men! of llilliard
had l>e? n severe anu unnecessarily brutal.
TWO CIRLS BURNED BY BONFIRES
A Hoy In Kuril C'n*e Olmrgril With I'mlitni;
Tlirni tn?One l?r:nl.
llnckensnck. N. !. (Speeiab. llosie
Cholovoiskl, agetl s veil, died a few
minutes after being burned by a lionlire.
Several children were playing
round lhe lire near S.. Mary's Church
and were jumping over the outer edge
when ltosie's elotlit S caught lire, Sllc
ran through the street shrieking until
she fell, b is eharged that she was
pushed into the lire by Frank Wenzol.
a boy of twelve, and that she deelared
ho <1 i? 1 it. The hoy denies pushing
her. He was arrested, hut paroled in
care of his father.
At about the same time and within
a short distance of this accident. Mamie
Nobila, nine years old, daughter
of Nicholas Nobila, was similarly
burned. A lad named John Eckert,
son of Adam Kekcrt, was arrested on
a charge of pushing lie.* Into a bonfire,
and he is in jail. The Soelely for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children lias
tnl.-mi il?.. ... > ? <
...i4i>n m>. ium win prosecute
four other boys.
BnOUGMT THE CAT BACK TO LITE.
Klcrlrloltj t ? <! to Kill ntul T1n*n to lievi\<
I In- Aiiimnl Two tlourn l.itli-r.
St. Joseph, Mo. (Special).?At an experiment
in a telephone olllce in tliis
city X. SehoUlnscr, an eleetriclati, of
(Tilcnjro, apparently killed a eat by
electricity, and two hours after tin*
heart had ceased to heat reversed the
current and the shock restored tin'
heart beats, faintly at tlrst. but growing
In strength r.ntll finally the cat
was released and was as playful en l
frisky as it had ever been. To all intents
and purposes the eat was dead
a few seconds after tiie first current
was turned on and remained so for,
two hours.
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sESDAY, JANUARY 2
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The State Department sent tlio
nineniitneiits to the Hny-Paimcefote
treaty to the Hritish tiovernuieut
throllxh two ehntlilels*. one eonv lu?ln<>
transmitted to Lord Panneefoto. and
the other through Ambassador Clioate
at London, who will present it to the
Foreign Otliee.
Purncll II. Miller was appointed
Postmaster at New Orleans at the request
of the bondsmen of J. (5. 11. Pitkit).
resigned.
The War Department decided to
take no further action toward bringing
volunteers home from the Philippines
until Congress provides regulars to replace
them.
Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Buchhnan,
Porto Itiean Regiment. P. S.
V.. was assigned to the command of
the District of Porto llieo. recently incorporated
into the Department of the
East.
Mrs. William 1*. I'rye. wife of the
President pro tempore of the Scuate,
lied suddenly in Washington.
The President said lie would go to
tin* Paritie eoast ip May to attend the
launching of tin' battleship Ohio at
the I'nion Iron Works at San Francisco.
and would be absent from Washington
about a month.
or It ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Tile lntest reports from Iloilo. 1*. I..
say that the islands of Painty and
Cehn. since the rainy season si t in. are
being vapidly cleared of the enemy,
and that in a few weeks the only opposition
encountered will he that offered
by scattering ladroties.
OMieers <>f the cruiser Newark reported
there were supplies enough
available at Cuain when the Newark
left to last three weeks, and the inhab
Hants would then is* dependent upon
supplies from < "avlte.
\ severe <>:? :*i tt< | ti:i K i* visded San
li:iir??. Fuha. eamdni; panie in the poorit
quarter of J In* low it. Many buildin.^s
w? re seriously damaged.
The enormous yield of en tie is erentin^
some talk of a general strike
nuioiiK the euiters in Kasteru Puba,
and iJovernor i leneral Wood is preparing
to send emicranis to take the
plaees of the strikers should troublu
oeettr.
lion t ist i c.
l'ornnr Governor Woleott's : li
makes a vaetaiey in the Massachusetts
Klectorai < "ollejje.
Kdward V. niacins, of Poldwater
Panyon. Pal., eon leased that lie murtiered
his mother and William {Sheenherder
with an axe.
Many men were injured in a religions
riot wlileli ne uirred In a lumber
camp near Flat Fond, in Maine.
Tin* liev. l?r. Piiarles lteiilien Hale.
Itishop Coadjutor of the Frotestant
Kpiseopal dioecse of Springfield. died
nt Pitiro, 111., of valvular disease of the
heart, ltishon llale was born in Pennsylvania
March 1-1, 1S.H7.
(lovcrnor Filigree issued a requlsi
nun on i in- iiuvt'ruur ?>i Vjiiiui lor
Charles .Tenner Thompson, who is
wanted in Detroit, Mich., for forgery.
This is the tirst requisition on Cuba
ever issued.
The whites at Sitka, Alaska, are
fearful of an Indian outbreak.
Nearly a dozen highway robberies
and oiie murder ii? two. days aroused
the police of Denver, Col.
Ilenry L. Wilbur, the son of IT. O.
Wilbur, the Philadelphia millionaire,
met his death while riding to hounds
near Berwin, IVnn.
Smallpox is raging in the lumber
camps of Northern Minnesota, and
great alarm prevails. Several thousand
woodsmen have already tied
from the camps to escape the dreaded
disease.
John W. Keller. Commissioner of
Charities, admits that patients at
Pollevue Hospital, at New York Cily,
were abused by nurses.
Assistant Ca-hier lT. M. Henderson,
of tlit* First National Bank of (Ireelcy,
Col., who disappeared in July, leaving
a shortage of sjo.po.), has been located
hi Mexico. .. .
The police of Omaha, Nub., found
the house in which "Eddie" Cudiihy
was confined by kidnappers while they
wcie awaiting the ransom of hi.
A negro lynched near Gnlfport.
Mies., for the murder of Marshall
Klchnrdson, was a cousin of the alleged
murderer. Henry l.cuis, who escaped,
and was innocent. ^
KO PRION.
The Pope performed the ceremony
in St. Peter's at Borne of closing the
"Holy Door" to mark the end of the
jubilee year.
(Sonera I Kitchener arrived at Po Aar
to sit id tli" invasion of Cape Colony
by the 15ticvs.
(?encral Kotlania, .overnor of Formosa.
was appointed Minister of War
in the .Ian: ii> so Cabinet, replacing
tSonoral Karbtira. who resigned.
Tlie Powagcr 1 atly < linrt lilll, Senior
l.atly of the I!r if'.iamhei- and an inii
male friend of Queen Victoria, is
doatl.
The loyal chiefs have captured the
A 'lar.teeQn . u's mot lie:* and the rebel
King Kokofu, and tliey hope soon to
rapture the remaining reliel chiefs.
The Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela.
was excluded from religious
functions, owing to illness and mental
trouble.
Prince Ching received the Powers'
note in Pekin, China, and expressed
the hope that speedy peace would
co me y
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MiPLlSSB
A Jealous Society Belle Wanted Her
Divorced Husband Killed.
ASKED A MAN TO DO THE DEED
Mr*. Ciirrii* Sinclair lluntoti. of Concord.
N. II., ArcuM'd oT ('on?|>iritiK t?? Mnr.lcr
Her Former lItiHl>au<l?Once Noted
For Her llcmity ? FrleiidH Think Her
1 limine?A Item urkalile Cine.
Concord. N. II. (Special).?A nensatioiiiil
episode cauie to n climax Wednesday
in the arrest of Mrs. Carrie
Sinclair Ilunton. twenty-six years
old. well known in society, and at the
time of her marriage one of the belles
of the eity. on the charge of eouspiracy
with intent to murder her divorced
husband. Walter C. Ilunton. of whom,
it Is assorted, she has heen extremely
jealous. She admitted her guilt.
At the September term of the Superior
Court Mrs. Ilumoti obtained a
divorce from her husband on statutory
grounds. From a beautiful bride 01 a
few years ago her grief lias made her
haggard in feature and emaciated in
form, so that she had the sympathy 01
all who knew her.
She went to Boston Monday, and at
the I'nion Station aceosted a young
man. apparently out of work, who was
a stranger to her.
She asked him if he wanted to earn
a dollar, and lie replied that lie did.
Sh.e requested him to "pui a man out
of the way" for her. The young man.
who was William Iletirj I union, of
Dorehester, Mass.. made an evasive
answer. He went home and told his
fat iter of the conversation.
His father at otiee seni lull! to the
ponce auumritics in '".osinn. :in?I they \
in turn notified < it.v Marshal I.ocke. of
this city. Meanwhile Mrs. 1! 111*t |
li;nl written an urgent letter to l?>it-|
ton. telling him to eoine Jo this city 1
at once, anil giving him speclllc direetions
as to how lie was to "ilo tin* joh." j
This letter he showed the l'oston )
police, and h.v their direction lie arra
11 ceil to meet Mrs. lli'.nton here
Wednesday even inc.
i Hit ton met Mrs. Iluntoii at the
Postolliee here and took her to the
rear of tin' Slate House for consul atiop.
City Marshal l.oeke and Assistant
Marshal Kami w. re concealed in
side t lie State llotise, where they couhl
observe nil the proceedings Mrs. llunton
handed her eompauion a loaded
revolver, a sealed envelope, which she
said contained a tivo-ilnllar I>i 11 as part
payment for "the joh." and another!
letter containing a decoy letter, which
'was to he given to lliinioti in order;
Vo hire tlie latter from his home to he!
killed.
Mrs. 11 union then started for home,!
and Dutlon reinalneil to report to the
police. I'hey accompanied him to Mrs.
Hnnton's home, where the City Marshal
concealed himself near the door
while Dutton rang the hell. When
Mrs. llunton came to the door Dntton*told
her that he had lost the ileeoy
letter and could not lind Hnnton's
house.
Mrs. llnnton tohl him the number
and pointed In the direction in which
the house wan situated. As she <li<]
so the City Marshal caught 1 ior by the
arm. She recognized l.ocko and. "went
into hysterica. When alio recovered
she bade her a Red mother and her little
child jrood bye. and was then taken
to the police station. Her friends believe
that she is insane.
MAINE'S POPULATION LESSENS.
French Fiuiiiiliiinn Will !>
turn t<> Dominion.
Montreal, Que. (Special). Iterant mlgration.s
indieatn that the population
of the New Knglund States, but ; ?rc
particularly of Maine, threaten:; to by
reduced by loO.Ooo or l!tMi.nn<). and that
of the Province of Quebec correspond- j
itiRly increased early next spring, bv j
the return to their native jtrovince of,
French Canadians, who have, during;
the past, thirty years, crossed the hot- j
der with tin? hope of bettering their )
condition.
Of the 200,000 French Canadians In
Maine ahout I'.u.nbn will <? back in
I.ake St. John in tin* spring. "ut of
loJiOft in Hlddeford lit,000 are French
Canadians.
Fright Ciiospit Dentil of 11 < lilld.
tVlillo Cassia C. Docker, twelvej
old. ::tid a younger si-ier were siring
in a sleigh at Falrlichl. M 11?? horses
I tolled. both children \v. th'-.-wu
out, 1111(1 t'a-sie Was pi !' ! lip ih"1 1.
Her sister was- uninjured. A phy.;ielnn
fail I thai Carrie's .1 - . 11 i we - i i??
to fright. as no injuries w.-;*e 1 or; I
on ins* llOlly U'Jlii .. en'lld li l\f l.'h'ed
her.
f'oiiHiil-Cnicr.tl slinv. :i ' iili'Iilr.
\V. Irvin Slinw. who 1; 1 i> 11 1 11; l;
tins position or I'nileil S
ill Ihirr.inipiilln. < 'olosnbi;;. - i:i . ho
was reeenily appoint, d '"on- ; mm-r:i 1
to Singapore, committed snichle in a
hotel at Philadelphia. lie opotc .1 a
femoral artery, and si !. <! his t'.-oat ,
and wri-os with a knife. lil health is'
.supposed to have affected his mind.
Shoo,000 rnlluro In Vlnl t imori*.
Isaae Robinson, a ennned '.roods and
fertilizer nianufaetnrer, at Haltimore,
Mil . lias failed for $NOO,O0O. According
to the statements made about
$4tH,IJ30 is secured by collateral and
the assets amount to $712,000. Robinson
eondueteil twenty-five paikintr
houses and several country storet
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EDUCATION IN NEW YORK
Spends More Money on Public
c?l 1,. T1 i TV.I CI.1.
ouiiuuis t uuu any vjnior otitic.
t'allH OIT in Fartliiip*, However?Spvrral
Stilton l.ciiU in l*or Capita Knp*<inli<
liiri-n?Iinva'n Capital Sliotvini;.
Washington. 1>. C. (Speclnl). ? Although
more money Is spent on the
public schools of New York than 01*
those of any other State the statistical
tables which accompany the annual
report of the Commissioner of
Education Indicates that in proportion
to population the public schools of
New York are behind those of several
other States.
In the point of school attendance In
proportion to population New York
comes far down on the list of States,
having only 10.114 per cent, of the population
in the public schools. Kansas
has 27.87 per cent., the highest of any
State. Utah follows with 20.7S per
cent., and Iowa, with 'JO.42 per cent.. '
while Pennsylvania, with a smaller
population, actually has a larger number
of pupils curollcd than New York,
the figures for Pennsylvania being
1.1S0.14S. against 1.1711,351 for New
York.
In the proportion of teachers to pupils
New York stands higher than
many of tile States, hut is surpassed
by Iowa, which has an average of n
fraction more than nineteen pupils to
one teacher, while New York has an
average of more than thirty live to
one teacher The cost of t he schools
pop capita in New York is.51.U3. which
is higher than in any other Slate exi'i>n'
\1 <i ggtii-liiuol tw \tlii?f.? It I ^ 117
Nevada. where ii is ami Cnlifnrnin,
where it is $l.t>P. The smallest
per capita is i;i North Caroliun, where
it is only tlfty-three < ?nis
Although New York is behind some
of the other Stntos in tin* percentage
of children in tlic public schools and
in the facilities growing ottl of having
coin pit fti t ively few pupils under one
teacher, the value of her school property
is much greater than in any other
Slate, it lining STo. 1 o.'l.t' 1 o for New
York, against only S !t?. 1.".S.721 for Illinois.
which ranks second.
DHIYFUS DEMANDS JUSTICE.
Will SocU l.egnl KcrognltIon ??f III* tn?
imri'iiri' to tlis I.list Itri-utli.
Paris tliy Cable). Captain Dreyfus
has written to the Premier, M. SValilcek
ltousse.au, demntneing as another
falsehood a recent statement of Henri
ICoehefort. in l.'Intransigeaiit. that he
t Dreyfus) had sent to Ktnperor William
of Certnany in IS'.)I a letter afterward
stolen from the Herman Kmhassy
at Paris, and which, annotated
by the Ktnperor. constituted formal
proof of the crime. Dreyfus adds:
"M.v .nnocenee is atisolute, and legal
recognition of tliis innocence by a revision
1 will seek to my last breath.
1 am not despoiled of all my rights. I
still retain that of every man to defend
his honor and have the truth proclaimed
I. tnerefore, have the right
to ask you to order an inquiry."
SHOOT A CHIEF OF POLICE.
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Italian A n a relit At* in Ki?rri?, Vt., Attack
Tli?*lr Victim From Ambunli.
Rarre, Vt. 1?. An attempt l?y
Italian Anarchists to murder Chief of
Police Patrick Rrown occurred in this
city :i few days ujjo. Brown received
three bullet wounds, two in the abdomen
ami one in the foot.
The Chief had been called to a ball
in which sonic Italian Socialists were
holding a hall to quiet a row. Scv- /
eral persons were driven front the hull. I
The Chief was shot from ambush on
his way back to tin* station. Otto
Bernaeclo an t l.ttijii Sr.ssi have been [
arrested and ideiititied by the Chief
as beinu eonneeted with the attempted
as-assination. A. Frcd'-n an I S. tiuiseppe
nave also liecti arrested and
held its accomplices.
MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY.
i*. tto-r, ll.it .t n it K reivi-it
HCiJOO. Killed iii :> I.oncly Woods.
Philadelphia. P< mi. (Special). The
I >ii.> of I'Idlip Palter, a crippled
veteran of the Civil War, was
found in : p. < !? of woods bclon^iUrt
to T. I icary Ashnry at Mi I rose, on
the line of toe Kcatiiti'4 Itailroad.
There i tip iloitld that the man was
murdered and robbed. Around bis
neck buried deep in I he llesli was a
thin cord, and on bis head there was
a deep cut He recently received his
pension aud a few weeks a^o received
tSo'HM) from ; lie Pnioit Traction Company
in settlement for tin accident iti #* ?
\ .ii li be bad I. foe rill ofi" 1 le was
:ii? >;ii sisty-llve yi.ir-; old and lived
in <uideii, N. .f
SHE TRIES TO 7/RECK A BARROOM
u , <* 1'. i . v. oii-. ui kiiiiih :v 1 *.?{i:11 >vc
?ml r.ic.'.!:-> :i Mirror ill Wirlii'.it.
Wi'-liita, Can. ?Sj .iii Mrs. Carrie # *'
Naiion, IT? iiii-ni < ? ]'.uli?r County
\\ ouiati's < "iiri> i inn Tempera nee I nioii,
entered the Carey Iloirl barroom ami
with a stone >:n :siu tl a Soli.) painting
and a mirror valued a: Sine.
Mrr. Nation 1?. minor:! in (wo it: room
in Kiov. a. hi .i?? some months
ago. and sa.d 'lion* ia no law under
which hli?> i an no prosecuted. She was
lodged in the county jail charged with
malicious destruction of property.
IlrtttHli Solilli-m Murdered In I'ckln.
British soldiers liavo l?ccu found
dead outsiue the Temple of Heaven in
I'ektn, China, with bullets in their
heads. The murders are believed to
have been committed by Chlueae.
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