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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1891)
I The Frontier. PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BT JAB. H. IlIOOM. O'NEILL, - . - NEBRASKA. A Ilnrvnrd 210 courses tire offered In the llberaV nrts and sciences. It would take a student forty-four years to com pleto all these courses. A Raltlniorc man, after a courtship of fourteen years, undertook to with draw, when the party of the second part objected, and a breach of promise •uit followed. It is only a few years ago that P. T. ;?y Dubois, now a senator from Idaho f. with a salary of 8.1,000 a year, wa« try!nff hard to get a 81,200 clerkship if Washington. ASsop’s fables were not written by their author. They were related and banded down until the fourteenth ■century, when they were collected and published by a monk. In Europe red hair is associated with deceitfultiess. A German proverb .printed in 1513 says: “The short in ■stature are naturally proud; the red baired are untrustworthy." -*..■• A cribo snake is one of the interest ing pots at the Central Park, New York, menagerie. It has a taste fot devouring othor snakes and it is feared tyr them all, even the poisonous. The custom of saying' “God blesi you" when a person sneezes date! from tho time of Jacob, who ordered that when a person sneezed sorao one should make a pious exclamation. IFive great English war ships are now declared to have guns which are % unfit for service. These range from 110 tons to 07 tons. The French 75-ton guns, however, are said to be satisfac tory. t -On the old Boston and New Haven turnpike, in tho southern part of New . London county, Conn., is an old mile stone, notched and moss-grown, that was set there by Benjamin Franklin. The "cow-catcher” of the locomotive which, by the way, has never been >v; patented, is the invention of D. B. Davies, of Columbus, Ohio. (When Rev. M. J. Savage, the Boston Unitarian, preached in Washington last Sunday it was necessary to bring In temporary seats to accommodate the congregation, so great was the , rush. The streot cor conductors of Berlin receive 02 K cents for a day’s wages ol eighteen hours, with a halt day holl day once in every two weeks. Noth ing but the most absolute economy en •bles them to live. Brass rings, sometimes weighing thirty pounds, are welded around the neeks of the wives of Upper Congo na & lives The women are proud of the ornament, believing that it enhances their importance and beauty. The Beat of the coronation chair ol England is made of a sandstone slat which was brought from Scono by Ed ward I. and is Bald to bo the stone upon which Jacob rested his head when he saw ills famous vision. In Washington, recently, among ■specimens of vegetable products ex hibited were potatoes weighing from A to 61^ pounds, turnips weighing 25 pounds, and a beet weighing 21 pounds. The archives of the Borghese family, comprising 475 manuscripts, have been bought by the pope for 250,000 francs. They relate to the popes at Avignon and to Paul V, who was a Borghese. The minister of public instruction meanwhile has warned the impover ished head of the h<Mise that he cannot legally send away any work of art in ibis collection. An association for the importation ol -song birds has been formed in Oregon, and a consignment of linnets, skylarks, -thrushes and bullfinches has recently been received from Europe. There a •every prospect that the experiment will bo successful, as the climate and forests of the northwest aro pcc iliarly adapted to the needs of these deign ful songsters of the woods. The latest and rarest arrival at thv coological gardens, in Regent's park. London, is what is considered the only living specimen of the hairy-eared rhi noceros. There are six species of this animal now extant, and Mr. Bartlett, the son of the well-known superintend ent of the gardens, believes that he ha! discovered a seventh in the islaud ol Borneo, in a region comparatively un known to zoologists. The ingenious novelist could not in venat a queerer hiding place for a wil than one reported from real life by tin Maine Farmer. The will was tackec np on the partition of a woodshed, i piece of brown paper tack'ed over it and there it remained for years, no oni but the author surmising its identity After the testator died, in clearing ou the shed the brown paper was remove* and the precious document found. The whisky made by moonshiner eeldom becomes a week old and ver; often it is drank warm from the still ■having the effect of broken glass oi the palate. It is frequently adultei ated, tobacco being added to make i bite and rattleweed to make it bead In the moonshine districts almoi everybody drinks—men and womei old and young—and the mountain bo on pleasure bent carries a quart bottl of the stuff, a package of snuff and elx-shooter. NEBRASKA, Methodists at Elsie will build a new church. Diphtheria has made Its appearance at Central City. North Platte want* a twine and rope factory. A Knights of Pythian lodge has been In stituted at Callaway. Work has been begun on a new hotel at Wayne to coat $ 19,000. Fremont banka have deposits to tbo amount of $<174,000. A camp of Sons of Veterans is soon to be mustered in at Stromburg. Charles Mortcr, IX) years old, is the old est man living in Hurt county. The Burlington ami Missouri eating house at Hastings burned Monday. Gothenburg's new Methodist church has been dedicated free from debt. The solo occupant of the Merrick county jail, a female, escaped Thursday night II. Ilemingston, of Cedar Rapids, will exhibit his 4-year-old boy, who weighs 100 pounds. Rev. J. H. Reyard, of Central City, has been tendered and accepted u. call at Ta coma, Wash. A new German Evangelical church was dedicated in Cottonwood township, neu* Hastings, Sunday. A Blair man is accused of visiting v house of ill repute and passing himself oft as another renutnble citizen. Peter Miller anil Carl Welch, of Fre mont, quarreled over a cow trade and the former was badly cut In the face. A brakemnn named Wilkins was killed at Valley Monday night while eoupliug cars. Ills home was at Pairticld, la. Lincoln hns captured a beet sugar fac tory. It will be built by Dyer Bros , and American machinery will be used. Keubcn P. Wissler, a grain buyer of Brady Island, has been arrested for sell ing liquor without n government permit The marshal of Ohlowa has been dis charged because he refused to care fur the street lamps, without extra compensa tion. Ueorgo Kleley. an employe in the Blair Pilot office, had his arm badly lacerated by gotting it caught in the machinery of a job press. Chnuucey Orton and James Sector col lided in a game of foot ball at Weeping Willow, resulting in a broken leg for the former. Flora Van Buren, an Omaha servant girl, became insane on religion and took poison, but will not die. Nemaha county fourth class postmasters held a meeting and decided to ask for an increase of salary. Farmers of Knox county report a larger proportion of soft corn this year than the average of other years. Charles Thotyer was held up by footpad* at York, stabbed in the face and breast with a knife and relieved of til. Captain Peter Mann, an old and well known resident of Plattsmouth, died Mon day. Ho was a pilot on Missouri river steamboats for many years. 'Hie Presbyterian and Congregational churches of Fuirmont will not be joiued together. A vote was taken on the ques tion and the proposition rejected. A Columbus man dropped a tack in his ear, but before it could do any damage an accommodating citizen removed the in truder with the aid of a pair of tongs. The Fairfield Herald, independent, lias been purchased by Hon. W. S. Kandall, who has published tho Falrview news for several years and lost his entire plant by Are twice in tho past fifteen mouths. The Rip Saw, an independent paper pub lished at Crete, has given up the ghost, Mr. Morrison, the editor, not deeming it worth while to rnoukey with it any longer. Fifty Sioux Indian recruits, enlisted in the regular army at Pine Ridge,have beW sent to Fort Omaha. The squaws and a number of papooses are included in the party. On Otoe county applicant for a* certifi cate to teach school, on being required to name some of the liquids containing alco hol, wrote “beer, wine and campaign.’* Evidently he is something of a democratic politician, if not much of a chemist, ad dakotas & M. Goshorn, of Santa Fe, formerly editor of the Wayne He-aid, has been appointed clerk of the United states and territorial courts of the First district of New Mexico, with a salary of $5,200 a year. Thirty head of eattle on the Rankins ranch in Blaine county have died recently from some mysterious causte. The owners believed the animals were maliciously pois oned, but a veterinarian who made a post mortem declared that some poisonous weed caused the mortality. Tno Tecumseh Chieftain says that the newly elected judges of the First district, Babcock and Bush, are probably the tall est men on the Nebraska beuch. Mr. Babcock measures 6 feet 5 inches and Mr. Bush is nearly up to the same notch. The bench will have to be raised for them to get their legs under. From eight acres of wheat raised by Leroy Loghry on land rented of J. T. Platt, in Fillmore county, the latter gen tleman received $59.81) for his one-third as rent. This will make the value of the crop from the eight acres $179.40, which is not bad. A. L. Ferguson and his wife were killed Saturday at a crossing west of Violet, on the Burlington and Missouri road. Two sections of a freight train a short distance apart were bound eastward, and when one section had passed, Ferguson, accompa nied by his wife and baby in an open vehi cle, thinking the road clear, attempted tc cross, when the second section caught them and threw the whole party out on the cowcatcher, where the fireman caught hohl of them and held them until thejj reached Violet. The man's neck wras bro ken, the wife lived a short time after leav ing Violet, and the baby has died since There was no mark except a scratch or the woman’s face. Ferguson was a well to-do farmer residing near Violet, a statiox five miles west of Pawnee City. Lincoln hopes to be represented at the world’s fair by a girl prodigy if all goes well. The young lady’s name is Lena Shaffer. Although but 14 years old, sh< i grown to a height of six teet; weighed . she tipped the scales at 199 pounds. He t father says she will weigh 200 pounds tc day and is still growing. Lena’s parent ’ parents have had some very good offers t permit her to enter the musae circuit, bu • have declined, as they wish her to con P tinue in school. Mr. Shaffer aays, how e ever, that if she keeps on growing unti l her size justifies it he will take her to tb world’s fair. IT IS A SICKENING SIGHT The Scene of the Wreck on the New York Central. Great Blotches of Blood Dried and Clotted Between the Tracks—Thieves Add to the Horrors—List of Killed and Injured* New Your, Dec. 20.—The scene of the wreck on the New York Central Christmas eve is a sickening sight Hero and there between the tracks are great blotches of blood dried and clotted, two and three feet in diam eter. All else that remains today to tel'l the story of the frightful disaster is the tin roof of the Wagner sleeping car, Gibraltar. This is still lying in a smouldering mass at the side of the track where the disaster occurred. The rest of the car was burned. The trucks of the car and all the other movable wreckage, as well as the damaged cars, have been renored by the wrecking trains on the New York Central. Among the passengers on the Gib raltar was J. C. Gcnild, traveling en gineer of the New York Central. He was one of the three men who escaped unhurt. He said that no one in the Gibraltar had any idea of their danger until they heard the roar of the St. Louis express right behind them. The next instant the crash came. In less time than it takes to tell it the locomotive had crashed into the sleeper and the escaping steam was scalding the passsngers to death. For a moment there was almost absolute silence and then the most awful shrieks and groans were heard from the pass enger car. Mr. Gould does not know how he got out of the car. The dead and injured: MRS. A. N. BALDWIN, New York. THOMAS W. POLLEY, New York, of the firm of George H. Polley & Co., Boston. ABRAHAM KNIGHT, conductor. MISS VAN ARSDALE, New York. MISS SLOCUM, Lock port, N. Y. MISS MOORE, Medina. LIZZIE FORD, Brooklyn: J W. WHITE, porter. MISS LILLIAN BALDWIN. New York. DR. 8. E. BEST, dentist, New York. EDWIN S. WILCOX, of the law firm of Wilcox & Johnes, of New York. The burned and injured were as fol lows: Mm. Homer Baldwin, New York, burned about the face and arms and in lured internally. Annie Ford, Brooklyn, slightly burned. D. B. Murphy, lawyer, New York, leg and collar bone broken, face and arms badly burned; may die. Harry A. Jacobson, New York, slightly burned. J. R. Bagnelle, Poughkeepsie, badly burned about the face and injured inter nally. The uninjured passengers are: J. C. Gould, traveling engineer New York Central; Mr. McCormick; Miss Fryer, Poughkeepsie; Homer R. Baldwin, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose 11. Tremain, Brooklyn. The terrible disaster was due to the carelessness of Brakeman Albert S. Herrick of the Buffalo express, which was lying still below Hastings. Her rick lied and has not yet been found. He left his uniform in the train and nut on his citizens' clothes. To add to the horror of the occasion thieves got to work and began to rob the injured passengers. How much they secured is not known. It was not known that thieves were among the injured at the time of the accident, and the fact was not discovered until this morning. A number of volunteers worked among the injured passengers and it is probable that tUta was made a cloak for stealing by some. COTTON CROPS ARE TOO BIG Southern Factory Owners, Fearing Ruin, Will Reduce Advances to l’lautere. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26.—Cotton factors here and elsewhere in the south have practically determined to reduce advances to planters in the coming spring, and in this way force down the production of cotton. They regard it as absolutely ruinous for the south to have another such enormous crop as those of this and last year. Concerted action may be taken to this end. A SEVERE BLIZZARD. Wind at Duluth Worse Than Any Memories of the Oldest Inhabitant. Duluth, Dec. 26.—The storm of yes terday and last night was one of the severest blizzards ever known here. The wind has been known to blow here about as hard as it did in last night’s storm, but the oldest inhabi tant could not remember when it blew so hard and continuously as it did last night. Many fears are entertained for the tug Edward Friske. which put out for Two Harbors Thursday night This morning the weather is less severe, but the mercury continues its downward course, ranging now at 5 above. STILL STARVING. Edward M. Field I’erslat* In Refusing tn Take Food. New York, Deo. 26.—Edward M. Field still persists in starving himself. He has greatly alarmed his physicians, and Warden Fallon was instructed yesterday to give him whisky. The warden says Field seems to be in a dazed state and that the only time his face shows any expression of interest Is when the family physician, Dr. Lind ley, calls. Associated Banks Statement. New York, Dec. 26.—The weeklj statement of the associated bank; shows the following changes: Reserve, increase $318,525; loans, increase i $6,415,200; specie, increase $1,952,200 legal tender, increase $558,400; depot , its, increase $8,768,300; circulation, in crease $15,100. The banks now hole 1 $10,483,025 in excess of the require1 ^ nents of the 25 per cent. rule. i The Eight-Hour Day Rejected. ' London, Dec. 26.—The N’orthumbcr t .and miners have rejected by a vote oi 173 against 2,889, the proposition tc I advocate the passage of a measure , providing for a legal day’s work 01 tight hours per day for boys. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A PRIEST. Archbishop Kaiser's Anniversary Cels' bratlon at Hartford, Win. Hartford, Wis., Dec. 20. — The twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordina tion of Archbishop Katzer to the priest hood is being celebrated here today with considerable pomp and ceremony. This is the old home of the recently consecrated prelate, and when he ar rived here yesterday he received an ovation at the hands of the residents witnout religious distinctions. He was met at the depot by an immense crowd and escorted to the clergy house by a procession of the various Catholic societies. At 5 o'clock this morning masses were celebrated by priests from neighboring dioceses, and were at tended by a throng of worshippers. The celebration of pontifical high mass began at 10 o’clock in tho old church of St Kilians, where the present archbishop said his first mass a quarter of a century ago. While cele brating the mass the prelate wo.e the pallium, which is done only on special occasions Two sermons were preached, one in English by Father Pitt, of Sta pleton, and the other in German by Father Heller, of Neosho. Father Schnaiger, of St Lawrtnce, officiated as archdeacon, an office that he also filled upon the day that the young priest was ordained. The sacred edk lice was packed to the doors during the service, and over a hundred priests in full vestments were within the chan cel rails. This afternoon the arch bishop and the visiting priests were en tertained at a banquet in the parish school house. REFUSED TO TESTIFY, Unexpected Action of Civilian Witnesses In the Throohmorton Case. Nkw York, Dec. 20.—The court-mar tlaA of Major Throckmorton, charged with duplicating his accounts and drawing checks on banks where he had no deposit, was continued this morning. Major Powell, of the Sixth infantry, had been regularly ap pointed by the war department to sit in the court as a substitute for Colonel Cieorge V. Henry. The defense had no objection, but Colonel Burns declared that law and precedent showed that an officer could not be admitted as a member of a court-martial when he had neither seen nor heard important witnesses. The court sustained the protest, Samuel Westervelt, a clerk in a dry goods house, was called, but refused to answer any of the questions put to him on the ground that he was a civilian. He was told to stand down. Henry Tompkins, attorney for the same firm, refused to testify on the same ground. The judge-advocate severely scored the witnesses and the court held that both were guilty of contempt but could not be punished. The trial then proceeded, no sensa tional testimony being offered. THE BARBAROUS D. K. E. .1 Secret Society Whose Methods Are an Abomination to <iood People. Boston, Mass., Dec. 28.—William Lloyd Garrison has published an open letter to the president and faculty of Harvard college in which he says: “The secret society known as the D. K. E., has long been a source of scan dal and private indignation. Aside from the witless penalties attending the iniation of members, a cruelty has been superadded. As a culmination ol the ceremonies, and as an indication of pluck and endurance, the victim's arm is bared for branding. In the case which has just come under my observa tion six deep and savage burns, from the shoulder to the elbow, were inflic ted with a lighted cigar. In common with other secrets which flourish in your sight, a bar providing intoxica ting liquors is here maintained, con trary to law and decent morals. If you have the power or the influence to abate these evils the responsibility resting upon your shoulders is a heavy one.” TO PROTEST AGAINST WOODS. Patent Lawyers Meet In Chicago to Adopt a Memorial to the Senate. Chicago, Dec. 20.—If any of the pat ent lawyers from Cincinnati, St Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St Paul, Min neapolis, Louisville, and other pointr that have been invited to attend the meeting at the University elnb this afternoon to protest agaiust the ap pointment of Judge Woods, of Indian ; apolis, as federal judge, are in the city ; they have so far managed to keep the i fact a close secret None of them have i so far made their presence known to | those most directly interested in the | gathering. Its promoters say, however, I that there will be a large and repre 1 sentative attendance, and that a for midable opposition to the confirmation | of the Indiana judge will be developed. The chief ground of complaint against him seems to be that he knows little or nothing of the patent branch of the law, that he cannot grasp the intricate questions presented in patent cases, and that on more than one occasion he tias expressed and manifested hostility toward patentees. This afternoon's meeting will frame and adopt a memo rial of protest against the confirma tion and arrange for its presentation to the senate without delay. A WOMAN CREMATED. Ure. ■ Annie Kelley Incinerated tn Her Grocery Store. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 28.— Mrs. Annie Kelley, a widow aged 45 years, was burned to death this morning in her grocery store. A kerosene lamp that was standing on a barrel in the store exploded and, egress being cut off by the flames, she was suffocated and burned before assistance could arrive. The woman weighed 280 pounds and it is supposed that she could not get the bars removed from the door in time to escape. SICK CELEBRITIES. Whitman Has Little Chance for Recovery —Field's Condition. Camden, N. J., Dec. 26.—Walt Whit man's condition this mooning is not such as to give his attendants any sub stantial hope of his recovery. He ral lied slightly yesterday and partook oi milk toast and orange juice. Cyras Field’s Condition Unchanged. New York, Dee. 26.—The condition of Cyrus W. Field waa reported as un changed this morning. THE MILLS MAY STOP. The Railroads Cannot Haul the Mlane* apolis Floor Output. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 28. — In two or three weeks, perhaps sooner, the Minneapolis flour mills will have to shut down on account of the scarcity of freight cars and the inability of the trunk lines east of Chicago to handle seaboard business, The situation here has not been as serious as it is now since the four new roads —the Kansas City, Burlington, Soo and Wisconsin Central—were built about eight years ago. Before that time the local millers had such times occasionally as they are having now, but it was only occa sionally. The worst part of it all is that there seems to be no immediate prospects of a better state of affairs. Up to this time the corn crop, south and east, has not begun to move, and when it does, and the cars that already are too few divided again, there will be a worse condition of af fairs for the wheat men than exists today. The cause for all trcfuble is that the unusual crops have called for more cars than the roads have on hand. Of course, there may be a relieving of the pressure somewhat before the two or three weeks aro up, but if there is it will come unexpectedly. HOMELESS EXECUTIVES. Ohio Governor* Placed at tho Mercy ol Grasping Landlords. Columbus, O., Deo. 28.—Is the great Buckeye state ever to have an execu tive mansion? This query comes into prominence at this time as a result of the fact that Governor-elect McKin ley, after having put in several weary days a house hunting, has been com pelled to engage a suite of rooms at one of the hotels for his gubenatoriai term. When Governor Campbell as sumed the reins of office it took him nearly two months to secure a suitable residence, and although the question of building an executive mansion was agitated at that time, noth ing ever came of it, with the result that the new executive and his invalid wife are compel ed to rely upon the tender mercies of an hotel management. The widespread comment that this condition of affairs has evoked among people of all parties will, it is hoped, result in an appro priation being made by the next gen eral assembly for the erection of a suitable structure. A BOTTOMLESS FAD. Second-Bate Professionals Cannot Gall American Audiences. Chicago, Dec. 28.—The bottom has fallen out of the Kendal fad, and thereat the members of the various American companies are inclined to be exceedingly glad. During the present engagement of these cockney dollar grabbers at Hooleys their business has not averaged more than 30 per cent, of that of previous engagements, while the other bouses of the city playing strictly American combinations have been doing a large business. The lvendnls have announced tho present as their closing tour, and the impress ion generally obtains in professional circles that the announcement is the result, not so much of choice, as of ne cessity. It is said upon unquestionable authority that each of the Kendals’ I seasons in mis country nas nettea them lorger financial returns than has ever fallen to their share for three years’ work in their own country, where they are regarded as but second rate professionals. LA GRIPPE IS INFECTIOUS. Professor Kothnagel Lectures on Its Pre vention and Cure. Berlin, Dec. 28.—The epidemic of in fluenza still prevails in Galicia, eastern Prussia and Berlin. An address re cently delivered by Professor Nothna gel, of Vienna, upon the origin and treatment of the disease is the talk ol the hour among medical men. Pro fessor Kothnagel in his address de clared the malady is distinctly mias matic in character and certainly infec tious and possibly contagious. He alsc stated that persons having cardiac af fections and those suffering from tuber culosis have the most cause to fear fa tal results, as there is no specific means of cure. The professor says that treat ment by anti-pyrine, anti-febrine and phenacetine is unadvisable where the disease is accompanied by any form of congestion of the lungs or weakness oi the heart. Such cases should be treat ed with stimulants like digitalis oi brandy, or by sub-cutaneous injection of camphor. BULGARIAN TROUBLES. They Are Still I'naettled—The Cause of Sit s Arthur White’s l>eath. Berlin, Dec. 23.—Sir William Arthur White is said to have contracted the disease from which he died while in Sofia on Friday last. The British Am bassador was then on his way home, where he met the premier of Bulgaria in regard to the strained relations ex isting between France and Bulgaria. During an interview with Stain buloff, Sir Henry White is said to hare advised theliulgarian movement to do its utmost to satisfy France. M. Stambuloff, in reply, is said to have threatened to re sign unless the unstinted support of England was accorded to him. LiGrippn tlui C huh ft. London, Doc. 28.—A dispatch from Berlin announces the death of Sir William Arthur White, British ambas sador to Turkey. Influenza is given as the cause of death. Shipping Powder. Washington, Dec. 28.—The navy de partment has ordered the shipment of 12.000 pounds of prismatic powder and 11.000 6-inch shells from League Is land, Pa., to San Francisco. The de partment has also ordered the new 12 inch gun made at the Washington navy yard to be sent to San Francisco. The gun will be placed on a large flat car and taken to the Pacific coast as soon as possible. Murderer Jones Hanged. Oliver Springs, Tenn.. Deo. 23.— Lem Jones, was hanged hero this morning for murdering his wife and children on June 26. 1300. UNHAPPY SUBSCRIBERsT Suffering Remit* From Trrln* t- - . World'. Fair Sab.crlp'io^*0'0^ Chicago, Dec. 28.—There has been good deal of unfavorable comment ov ' the action of the world's fair author? ties in placing in the hands of const? bles on Christmas eve some 200 distre" warrants directed against the person? property of delinquent subscribers to fair stock. The constables were l? structed to accept no excuses, but to get the money or levy immediately and without mercy. As a result of this Shy lock measure many a poor wife and child failed to receive a visit from Sant. Claus on Friday, although such a littu thing as that did not interfere with Treasurer Seeberger’s enjoyment of hi. own Christmas When the subscription books for world's fair stock were firn opened a systematic canvass wai made of stores, manufactories and workshops of all kinds throughout the city, and hundreds of artisans and mechanics and laborers in all branchei of labor, animated by a spirit of local patriotism, hastened to put down theit names for from 810 to $100 worth oi stock. In many of these branches ol business trade has not been as good oi late as it was at that time, and the earnings of the wage workers have de creased in proportion. - But theii names were down on the stock sheeti in black and white, and so the fiat went forth that no excuses of poverty or what not were to be accepted by the Hint-faced constables, but that levy, no matter what on, whether it was the tools of trade or a baby’s cradle, must be made to satisfy the judgment. And that is how it came about that in many a humble home in this city on Friday the stockings of the wife and little one were found empty at break of day. Passengers in a Panic. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 28. — The steamer City of Bridgeport left New York Saturday afternoon as usual. When the boat reached a point oil Norwalk the passengers observed flames bursting from the floor of the women’s cabin. In a second the wild est excitement prevailed. The passen gers, mostly women and children re turning from a shopping tour in New York, were panic stricken. There was a rush for the life peservers and women fainted. Many men on board lost their presence of mind and thought only of them selves, some securing three life pre servers, while helpless women and children had none. The officers of the boat were unsuccessful in their efforts to restrain the passengers. The crew was ordered to the pumps, but the lat ter could not be made to work for sev eral minutes. In the meantime the flames, which started at the bottom of the smokestack, gained considerable headway. The captain ordered the pilot to head for the Connecticut shore and to keep within three minutes' run of land and the engineer to proceed at full steam. The crew worked at the pumps for half an hour and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The pas sengers could not be prevailed upon to remove this life preservers fastened about their bodies until the boat reached her wharf in this city, when the flames again burst out anew, but for the second time were extinguished. As quickly as possible the passengers were landed. Bouton Firemen Injured. Boston', Dec. 28.—The most disas trous fire which has visited this city since Thanksgiving in 1889 occurred last night, burning the brick building at 133-141 Federal street and damaging it to the extent of $125,000. The build ing was occupied by Parker, Holmes & Co., and Hosmer, Codding & Co., whose combined losses are estimated at 9225,000. A number of firemen were injured at last night’s fire. The following being the list: Chief Enqineiir Web eh, hurt in the leg and hurt internally. District Chief Egan. Daniel Stevens. Lieutenant Joseph Smith, of chemical No. 2. Edward Sparrow, overcome by smoke. J. T. Gillbride, ladder r,o. 8, cut in thigh. Mellen R. Jot, ladder No. 17, dislocated ankle. George W. Thompson, of No. 1, cut with glass. John B. Ellert, of engine No. 6. John Maheoan, engine No. 26, taken with hemorrhage. An ambulance with a corps of doc tors from the Emergency hospital were at the scene of the fire and the lives of three firemen were probably saved by the prompt treatment they received. Activity at the Navy Yards. Washington, Dec. 28.—The Post this morning asserts positively that despite the denials of the navy yard officers, an unusual activity exists at that important gun factory. Some of the employes were at work yesterday and gasfitters have been employed for a week or more arranging gas fixtures so that work may be carried on at night. The men have been instructed to work twelve hours per day. Com modore O’Neill, inspector of ordnance, who is in charge of the yard, said yes terday that they were always busy at the yard when a new ship was ordered and the ordnance in the department kept ahead of the construction so that when the ships would be completed the armament could be i'eady. In Honor of Creswell. Washington, Dec. 28.—The p°s ‘ office department was closed at noon to day in respect to the memory of ex-Postmaster-General Creswe ■ whose funeral took place t is afternoon at Elkton. Md. Thir Assistant Postmaster _ *,en. . haze, James Meynard, chief clerk the mail depredations bureau, an ■ F. McDonald, superintendent ot money order division, left the city , morning to be present at the fu ceremonies, as representatives oi department. MeCalla's Sentence Remitted. Washington, Dec. 28.—An order been issued by the navy depart® ^ remitting the unexecuted .P,,rt'° j o0 the sentence of suspension >mP jcr Commander B. H. McCalla. Com McCalla was sentenced to thre y suspension for cruelty to subordinate