POISONERS AT WORK.
AN INDIANA FAMILY MARKED
FOR EXTERMINATION.
POISON IN THE BREAD AND WATER/
The Fnmlly of William Crawloy Stricken
by Amcnlciil PolNonlitf ; One Child
Already I > oad mid the leather Not
f Kxpectnd to .lvo Otliurnicm-
bcrs of the Family III
' Much Incitement.
Ind. , Nov. 30. There
is much excitement at Liberty , lud. ,
over a poisoning case that lias already
resulted in one death and will prob
ably result in at least one more. Some
weeks ago William Crawley. with his
wife and 0-year-old son , was taken
suddenly ill. Two weeks later the
child died.
The sickness of the family was diag-
uoseu uy attendant pnysicians as due
to arsenical poisoning. Two weeks
ago Crawley and his wife were again
stricken and Crawley is now lying at
the point of death. The first poison
ing came from the drinking water , the
second from bread eaten by Crawley
and his wife. Others who ate of the
bread were also taken sick , but not
dangerously. A portion of this bread
has bet-n analyzed and was found to
contain a large amount of arsenic.
The body of the child will be exhumed
for further investigation.
Holil Up u I'ollccmiin.
CHICAGO , Nov. 30. Details of police
are scouring the j.ountry and suburbs
southwest of the city for two masked
highwaymen who are malting this res-
idcnts of Riverside. Her win , Haw
thorne. Lyons and Clyde feel very un
comfortable. The boldest piece of
work charged to this gang is the hold
ing up and robbing of Policeman
Kccfc , of Cicero. lie was relieved of
all his small change and his pistil.
"William Dal ton Kills u Deputy
MUSKOGKI : . Ok. , Nov. 3 0. Word
comes that William Dalton , a brothei
of the notorious bandits , shot and
killed Deputy Marshal Chapman in a
quarrel yesterday. The shooting oc
curred about forty miles west of here.
The trouble grew out of a dispute
over a horse Emmet Dalton had
bought , or claimed to have bought ,
from Chapman bef .re the Coifeyville
raid.
Arrested on the Strength or a Dronin.
ST. Louis. Mo. , Nov. : > 0. The police
have arrested George Demand , sus
pected of being the murderer of .Josie
Simmons on October 1 1 last. A peculiar
feature of the arrest i ; that Demand
was arrested at the instance of August
"Wossman , the lover of the murdered
girl , who told the pjlk-e he. had
dreamed Demand was the murderer.
Shot Two Xc rrocs.
MARSHALL , Mo. , Nov..u. : . At Arrow
Rock , Saturday night , Elias Shannon ,
a young man. shot two negroes , Will
and Ilarvey Parker , with a shotgun ,
seriously and probably fatally wound
ing the former. The cause of the
trouble is not known.
CHEROKEE STRIP.
Senators Perkins and Ill lnsX'ot In Favor
of Ousting the Intruders.
GuTiiiiiH , Ok. , Nov. itO. Senators
Perkins of Kansas , and lliggins of
Delaware , spent yesterday in Guthrie.
They are members of a special senate
committee to investigate the Cherokee
intruder question and come from the
Cherokee capital here.
They feel that it would be unwise ;
for congress to comply with the de
mands of the Cherokees for the re
moval of the 7,000 intruders , many of
whom have been there for twenty
years , from that nation , and think the
stipulation to that effect in the Chero
kee strip treaty will be stricken out.
This will necessitate the referring of
the treaty back to the Cherokee coun
cil. Senator Perkins says , however ,
that both houses of congress will un
doubtedly ratify the treaty very early
in the coming session , with this single
exception , and the Cherokees will then
act in time for the land to l e opened
early in the spring.
Wreck on the Missouri JPacIHc.
RICH HILT , Mo. , Nov. 30 At 7
o'clock yesterday morning a serious
freight wreck occurred on the Missouri
Pacific railway , ten miles south of
here. A freight train was running
south in two sections. The first sec
tion broke in two and the second sec
tion , which was running at a high
rate of speed , crashed into it , tele
scoping five cars and completely
wrecking them as well as the engine
of the second section. The men who
were in the caboose of the first sec
tion jumped and escaped serious in
juries , but Fireman Turner , of the
second section , was badly hurt.
Ghastly Find at
PITTSBURG , Kan. , Nov. HO. The body
of a dead and badly decomposed man
was accidentally found by some boys
who were out on a hunting trip about
three miles from this city. The man was
about 70 years of age and rather neat
ly dressed. There was blood on his
shirt and overcoat. By his side were
found an empty bottle , two knives and
several other things. On searching
the pockets nothing was discovered to
lead to his identity. It is a very mys
terious affair. The coroner is investi
gating. _
Killed by Poisonous Berries.
GUTHBIE , Ok. , Nov. 30. The three
children of a farmer named Land.es ,
living twenty miles north of here ,
went hunting blackhaws on Saturday ,
and ate a number of other strange
berries which they found on vines.
All were taken very sick and two of
them died , yesterday. The third child
is very low , but may recover.
Wanti to Be tabor CommUiloner.
JEFFEBSON Crrr , Ma , Nov. 30. Hon
Albert W. Florea , of Nodaway county ,
is in the city. He has announced to
liis friends that he will be an appli
cant for commissioner , of labor statis
tics under Governor-elect Stone.
A CLOCK ON A STRIKE.
IT WAS WORSE THAN AN INFERNAL
MACHINE IN EFFECT.
A Devoted lirother HIM * an Interesting
and Exasperating Experience with a
Queer Going : Timepiece What Was the
Blatter with the Clock.
This is a story about a clock which
made a great deal of trouble for two
people and gave the same two people
very poor opinions of each other. The
brother says that no woman in the world
save his sister could have had such
amazing ignorance about clocks in gen
eral , and this one in particular , while
his mister declares that only her brother ,
of all inen on earth , would have allowed
a little bit of a clock to make a fool of
him before a carload of strangers.
The trouble with the clock was that it
wouldn't keep time. There was no
reason in the world why it wouldn't ; it
just wouldn't , and that was all there
was to it. This was painful to the
young woman for several reasons. It is
only necessary to mention one ; the
timepiece had been given to her by her
betrothed. He thought it was a little
gem of a clock , and that it would please
her. She agreed with him as to the
beauty of the delicate little affair , and
was pleased fora time. Then she began
to get worried ; then she got nervous ,
and lastly alarmed. This was all of
course because the thing would not go ,
and , because she feared he might think
she had broken it , or , worse still , as she
herself confessed between time , that she
hadn't sense enough to make a clock go ,
while her irreverent and impertinent
brother suggested sweetly that he was
more likely to think that it was her
"face which had stopped a clock. "
The family were in the country when
the clock was 'received , and when the
time drew near for the arrival of the
betrothed clock giver affairs began to be
desperate. The young woman declared
that that clock had to go. The clock
simply wouldn't. She would wind it
up it would always wind without the
slightest resistance but it would not
go. She shook it , she turned it upside
down , she coaxed it , she laid it on its
face and then on its back , and the hands
were still froze to the face of the clock.
"Albert , " she said to her brother ,
"you must take this clock over to town
and get it repaired. It must be repaired ;
it must go. "
Now town was ten miles away , and
Albert did not see why any one should
make so much fuss over a clock , and
such a little clock , too , as that was. But
when arguments and pleadings could
not move him he yielded to tears , and ,
chucking the timepiece under his arm ,
he boarded the train and started for
town. In the car he placed the clock on
the seat beside him and sested his hand
on it. Then more trouble began. That
clock began to strike. It went into the
striking business in a calm , determined
way.
It struck right along , up grade and
down grade , around curves and on
straight tracks. The brother felt a
fainting around his heart. The people
in the car who had first been amused
began to be annoyed. The young man's
face got red ; it got warm ; his hair be
came bathed with dampness , but he
clung to the clock like a Trojan. He
had an idea that he might be able to
hide it or smother it or close it , he
didn't know which , and so he kept his
hand tightly pressed on it.
And all the time that infernal ma
chine just "sawed wood. " It had struck
a gait which it liked , and it kept it up
without a break. It showed no signs of
getting tired or of running down. It
was striking along at a 2:20 gait \vhen
the train reached the town. It con
tinued to strike when the brother made
liis escape from the car. It went on
striking up the street until the brother
wanted to throw it over a fence and
then commit suicide. No burglar alarm
was ever more persevering than that
clock. No clanging fire engine ever
made more noise and caused more ex
citement. The clock was striking away
industriously ana cneerimiy wnen the
arother ran into a jeweler's shop and
; hrew the thing down on a counter.
"For heaven's sake stop it ! " he cried.
But it had stopped. There it lay on
; he counter as dumb as an oyster and as
silent as a tomb.
"Well , I'll be hanged , " said the broth
er breathlessly. "What's the matter
with it anyway ? " he asked , looking at
t as if it were a dynamite cartridge.
The jeweler picked it up.
"Look outl" cried the brother. "That
: hing will start up again if you touch
t. "
But it didn't. It never made a sound ,
*
only in a minute came a gentle and
rhythmic ticking.
"There's nothing the trouble with it , "
Baid the jeweler , setting the hands and
hen examining the little infernal ma
chine. ' 'You see , " he added with a sym-
) athetic smile , "this is a repeating clock.
iTou can make it restrike the last hour
> y touching this spring. You have been
winding up the repeating sounder , but
not the clock. And you must have held
our hand on the spring when you kept
t striking. It's all right now. All you
Want to do is to wind the clock more and
he repeater less. "
"Oh ! " said the brother with a gasp
and that was all.
Now the brother says that any woman
Who doesn't know enough to wind a
clock doesn't know enough to live. And
he sister says well- every brother
mows what sisters can say. New York
iTribune.
A New Rope.
The outside bearing surface of ordi
nary steel wire rope is often confined tea
a single wire in. each , strand , causing ex
cessive wear of the exposed wires. A
Birmingham firm has produced an im-
) roved form of rope in which the strands
ire flattened. This shape considerably
ncreases , the -wearing surface , making
t possible to'use much smaller wire , and
jiving greaterflexibility to the rope with
liminished brittleness of the wires while
in use , Ohio State Journal.
The fate of Famou * Hallu.
The outcry which has been raised
against the destruction of Nelson's old
flagship , the Foudroyant , makes it inter
esting to trace the end of other famous
vessels.
The Shannon , which fought and cap
tured the Chesapeake , was broken up at
Chatham , parts of her hull being sold
at a fancy price. Sir Francis Drake's
Golden Hind came to a similar end at
Deptford , a chair made out of her tim
bers being one of the treasures of Ox
ford university. The Resolute , which
went in search of Sir John Franklin ,
and after being abandoned in an ice
waste was picked up by an American
whaler and returned refitted by the
United States government to this coun
try , was moored in the Medway for
some years afterward , but ultimately
taken in dock and pulled to pieces , a
suit of furniture fashioned from her
oaken timbers being sent as a memento
to the American president. The Sov
ereign of the Seas , the first British three
decker , built in the time of Charles I ,
"to the great glory of the English na
tion , and not to be paralleled in the
whole Christian world , " was acciden
tally destroyed by fire at Chatham after
seeing much and long service.
Of Captain Cook's Endeavor not a
trace is left , though several of his scien
tific instruments have been preserved , '
nor is there any trace of the Victoria ,
which made the first voyage round the
world. ThtJ Betsy Cains , which brought
William of Orange to this country in
1G88 , was cast away 138 years later.
London Standard.
A Lively Bridegroom.
I smile as I call to mind the day when
I married a well known jockey to an
equally popular baronet's daughter.
How he did make the money fly ! Ho
gave me a diamond pin , my clerk got a
five pound note , and the two witnesses ,
both sporting men , a "tenner" each.
Some of th e terms he used were decidedly
horsy. For instance , he referred af
fectionately to his love as a "smart little
filly ; little bit skittish ; wants careful
jockeyship , but a demon when she gets
the bit in her mouth , and yet the smart
est in the field ! "
"Look at the rare style she comes to
the post ! " he joyfully cried , as the lady
walked up the room ; and "now we're
under starter's orders ! " as I commenced
the ceremony.
When I asked the lady if she would
"take this man , " etc. , and she answered
in a clear voice "I will , " he remarked ,
"Takes the fence like a daisy , " and on
putting the same question to him the
answer was , "It's 20 to 1 on I Will. "
When all was over and they were
hitched into double harness , he flung
his arms around her and kissed her im
pulsively ; then turning to us all as
we stood smiling he sententiously re
marked , "Rattling good finish. " As
my jockey friend left the room and en
tered the carriage he whispered , "Back
my mount for the Chester cup next
week. " I did it won. A Register in
London Tit-Bits.
History of nn African Boat.
A little vessel having a remarkable
history has plied for years on Lake Tan
ganyika. Her story illustrates the prog
ress in that region from slavery toward
civilization. The boat , known as the
Calabash , was originally a huge tree
trunk , cut down by the axes of the na
tives with enormous labor , and then
with ax and adz and fire molded into
shape. Boats like the Calabash are ex
cellent sea vessels , though in their lines
they suggest rather a clumsy hippopota
mus than a swan.
On one of her voyages , after she had
served as a trading canoe for two years ,
she entered the port of Ujiji , where she
was bought by anMswahili slave trader.
For three years she plied back and forth
across the lake , bringing cargoes of
wretched men , women and children to
the Ujiji slave market. One day a load
of slaves had just been landed on the
shore when Mr. Hoxe , who had recently
come to Ujiji as an agent of the London
Missionary society , saw the little craft
and decided that she was just about
what he needed for explorat- voyages
arouna tne iaue.
He succeeded in purchasing her , and
the little boat was once more launched
upon Tanganyika as the first missionary
vessel on the lake. Consecrated to the
cause of peace she became known in
time to every tribe as the harbinger of
good will. Chicago Post.
Paving trlth Rubber Blocks.
Some new ideas have lately attracted
attention in the matter of pavements.
Among these is the paving of a bridge
by a German engineer with india rub
ber , the result having been so satisfac
tory as to induce its application on a
jiuch larger scale , a point in its favor
aeing that it is more durable than
asphalt and not slippery.
In London a section of roadway under
; he gate leading to the departure plat
form of the St. Pancras terminus has for
some time past been paved with this
material , with the effect of deadening
: he sound made when being passed over
on wheels , besides the comfortable elas-
icity afforded to foot passengers. New
York Sun.
Value of the Shilling : in 1GOO.
We know that in Shakespeare's day ,
Bay A. D. 1600 , sixpence a day was a
brtune for any workingman , say the
equivalent of ten pounds per annum. A
century earlier , before the access to
America was open to English explorers ,
one of the Ardens of Warwickshire left
in annuity of forty shillings per annum
; o a younger son , probably the poet's
jreat-granduncle. Then if sixpence a
lay would now be the equivalent to
wenty shillings a week , then forty shil-
ings per annum would equate to 120
5f present values. Notes and Queries.
The Batnlcst Day of the Moon.
A celebrated aeronaut assents , after
patient investigation , that the ninth day
Df the moon is themost rainy day of the
whole twenty-eight , and 4 o'clock in the
if ternoon the rainiest- hour of the day.
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