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In India it la quite common to share
* man while lie is asleep, and if he
happens to be lying1 on his back he can
hare his beard entirely removed with
aut being disturbed. The native bar
ber has a wondorfully light hand, and
is an adopt at shaving without causing
a fraction of pain. Europeans and
Americans traveling in India soon fall
Ato the indolent habits which prevail,
ono of which is to be shaved in bed be
fore rising and bathing. It is not con
sidered reasonable to visit a barber
shop, the moneyed classes being al
most always shaved at home and al
most as frequently while in bed.
The second book printed in tho Eng
lish lanirunge was "The Usine and
Plnye of tho Chcsso,” which the title
page says was "Fynyshld the last day
A,f at Marche, the yer of our lord god a
i/ a thousando foure hondred and
liXXIIj." Only twelve coplea of the
work are now known te exist In 1813
an Englishman by the name of Al
cliorae sold his copy for a sum equal to
#270 of United States currency. Fifty
six years later, in 1809, the samo vol
ume (an imperfect copy) was sold for
#2,l.ri0. Tho liritish museum has re
fused an offer of 810,000 for its copy,
which is imperfect to tho extent ol
having seven loaves missing.
luo manufacturer of a certain brand
of pills In England—we will call them
them Smith's pills — has advertised
them extensively as really worth a
guinea a box on aocount of their
efficacy. Recently a chemist received
a bill for 28 shillings from the pill
maker, which he did not feel like pay
ing. At lust a brilliant idoa struck
trim and ho sent tho creditor a box of
bis own pills and 7 shillings In cash,
with tho explanation that, the pills
being worth a guinea, tho debt was
canceled. To his utter surprise he re
ceived by return mall a receipt in full,
with the words, “Cash only In future,
John Smith."
According to Danish papers consld
arable concern is felt in Copenhagen
over the fate of tho vessel Uekla,
which carried tho Ryder expedition to
Greenland. For three months no word
baa been received from the steamer.
When last heard from the expedition
was in 73 degreus north latitude. It
was hoped that the ship whloh arrived
recontly from Iceland would bring
(tews of the Hekla, but it failed to do
so. It 1b believed that the vessel has
gone to the north of Greenland to
complete its cargo or to establish s star
tion.
The Greeks never used more than
three dice. The highest throw “Ve
nus," of the Romans, was the Aphro
dite of the Greeks—eanis. the kuon of
the Greeks As In Rome the game de
fended on combinations, but when
numbers only were desired the Greeks
termed it Pleistobollnda, as did the
Homans, who adopted Greek t<yma—
compare ecarte, rouge et noir.
The Japanose bellevo In more mythi
cal creatures than any other people on
the globe, civilised or savage. Among
them are mythical animals without
smy remarkable peculiarities of con
formation, but gifted with superna
tural attributes; such as a tiger which
is said to live to be 1,000 years old and
turn as white to a polar bear.
in its oiu use as ribs lor umbrellas
whalebone has been superseded by the
tighter and more durable steel. Al
though the demand on the importers
each year has been growing steadily
teas its value has increased. In 1873
there were 3,544 hundred weight of a
value of $333,090; while in 1877, though
the quantity was only 1,909 hundred
weight, the value was $414,935.
• Both sexes among the Esquimaux
are tattooed. Labrets are favorite or
naments. In early youth a out is
snade in the lower lip and a small
wooden ring introduced to keep it
from closing. Gradually it is enlarged
and the adult is decorated with a lab
set of Jade, ivory, bone or glass,
shaped llko a silk hat in miniature,
the rim being inside the mouth to hold
it _
(a Holland the children bang up
their woolen stockings by the tiled
chimney piece, and then go soberly tc
ted quite sure that good St Nicholas
will visit them, provided they do not
^disturb him in his visit
Speaking of the misuse of the word
■••lady,” how would this bible text,
Oenesls ii., 22, sound, written in this
way? “And the rib which the Lord
God ted taken from gentleman, made
a lady, and brought her unto the
gentleman."
A St Louis woman has opened an
office for the cure of “afflicted minds,
cranks, fanatics, bi&ots and agnostics"
Within forty-five minutes tho other
day at Hamilton, Mo., one cat killed
and stacked up twenty-eight rata
In Persia, where the government has
a monopoly of tobacco, the chief au
thorities at Kuhela proclaimed an
edict against smoking and ordered the
people to break their plpea
First quality second growth white
ash for carriages is so scarce that the
probability is that in a few years oak
will be used for coach poles and other
purposes for which ash is now used.
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NEBRASKA.
K new school house it talked of at
Fonco.
A sneak thief stolo 120 from the depo*
agent at Blnlr.
Diphtheria is epidemic at the Nebraska
state penitentiary.
Amateur thcatrloals are all the rage ir
sevral Nebraska towns.
The cold has made the prairie wolves it
Dodge county very bold.
The third Keoley institute in Nebraska
is to be established n« O’Neill.
It is reported that pheasants are gaining
a foothold In Sarpy county.
A mnn at Dixon lost 140 feet of well pipe
He dropped it down a 240-foot well.
The Seward Democrat thinks Sewarc
county noeds a new court house badly.
The entire business portion of Cozuc
narrowly escaped destruction by Are.
A move is being made to have a count}
poultry exhibit at Kearney in the spring.
The traveling men will give a minstro
entertainment at Norfolk on February 27,
Mudisou county is investigating tbo cos*
of a poor farm with a view of establishing
one.
W. W. Guillion, who went to Cent
county in 1844, has just died near Green
Plenty of water has been struck in the
Niobrara ttitesian well at a depth of 58C
feet.
W. 8. Alyca was arrested at Nebraska
City on charge of abducting a 8-year-old
old.
A Tekamah physician has “discovered”
a gold cure aud started a drink cure estao
lishmcnt
The “watch olub”p1an is used by a Kear
ney shoe dealer and a tailor to dispose of
their wares. *
airs. Llonsky, of Lincoln, 1* slicing hei
mother for $600, winch the latter promised
lior on her marriage.
Joint Wilson, chief of the Kearney fire
department, was presented with a (fold
headed cane.
Mr. anti Mrs. Brlttcll, deaf mutes oi
Hebron, were nearly overcome by gas
from their stove.
Omaha police have arrested Gert Me
Coy, a well-known safe cracker and all
around had man.
A 7-year-old child of Cyrus Rock,at Oak
land, accidentally killed his 8-year-old
sister with a shotgun
Jacob Krust, a Platte county pioneer,
was hurled Sunday, the.fuunral being con
ducted by the Odd Fellows.
The John county coal mines are being
worked by two young mon and the coal Is
said to be of good qualjty.
Simon Shaffer, living east Creighton,
fell off his corn crib one day last week,
inflicting serious Injuries.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of Ne
braska statehood will be celebrated at
Lincoln on Mny 25 and 26.
Samuol Wilcox, an old gentleman of Ne
braska City, shot himself through the
wrist while trying to shoot a cat.
Two burglars were caught in the ant of
cracking a safe In Lincoln and escaped at
the point of their drawn revolvers.
D. M. Edwards, of Lincoln, believes he
is one of the heirs to a large portion of the
land upon which New York city stands.
Unadilla has organized the first mil
itary company In the United States
whose sole and speelfie mission Is to fight
Chile.
Mrs. P. F. Murphy, of Omaha, fired sis
shots at a burglar Saturday night At
least one of them took effect, but the man
escaped.
All the officers of Pleasant Hill alliance
In Furnas county are ladies. Lady dele
gates represented it In tho recent county
alliance.
Judd Webb, of Fremont, will soon start
out on his fifteenth year of continuous ser
vice as master of transportation for the
Forepaugh show.
Grand Island citizens held a mass meet
ing and thanked Senator Paddock for In
troducing the bill for a $60,01X1 public
building at that place
Charlie Mitchell, aged 13, was caught in
the tumbling rod of a cornsheller near
Edgar, but was rescued after being
twisted around twice.
A Hastings loan agent has sued an ab
stracter and Ills bondsmen for 110,000 dam
ages claimed to have resulted from a bad
abstract furnished.
Last week while Miss Cora Martell, at
Friend, was visiting in the country at her
brother’s she was severely burned by an
explosion of a stove. *
The Washington county supervisors
have provide.* their oounty treasurer with
a steel burglar proof safe of the latest
puttern, at a cost of $765,13.
now aril neuneUv, of Omaha, who In
1872 sold the laud where Kearney now
■tanda for $3 an acre, was looking over
that thriving town the other day.
The Nebruska millers have donatet
70,000 pounds of flour to the Russian suf
ferers, and the same will be turned over
to the commissioner to be forwarded.
It Is estimated that Nebraska’s corn
crop last year averaged thirty-six and
one-half bushels per acre, whioh is the
largest yield of any state in the union.
A. J. Campbell, of Steele City, returned
home unexpectedly and found his brother
and his wife in a compromising situation.
He kicked them both out into the snow.
The Garfield Enterprise publishes a sad
story of cruelty and neglect to an old man
named Durrah by his family, who are try
ing to have him sent to an Insane asylum.
George Banning, of Loomis, met with
quite a serious accident a few days ago.
In discharging a rifle some powder was
blown in his face, one piece lodging in his
eye.
Thomas Petit, ol Crab Orchard, while
putting a new wheel on a shaft, had bis
sleove caught and he was wound up. His
arm was brokeu in two places and badly
crushed.
The station agent of the Missouri Pacifio
at Prosser set a frozen bottle of ink on the
stove to thaw. It exploded and a piece oj
glass lodged in his forearm, cutting an
artery and nearly causing him to bleed to
death before help arrived.
The next reunion of the Old Nebraska
Soldiers’ association will be held at Au
burn, December 13, 1891, At tholr reunion
held at Nebraska City last week Wilson
Majors was chosen president
The first official document sent to the
Omaha Indians, dated in 1800, was intro
duced as testimony the other day in the
Wayne-Thurston eounty seat contest It
is owned by the Winnebago fire chief,
A farm hand named Bevins was cross
ing the railroad tracks at Blue Springs
when a locomotive struek bis wagon. He
lodged on the pilot and was not seriously
injured.
DECIDES IN FAVOR OF BOYD
The Supreme Court Settles the
Nebraska Case.
Chief Justice Fuller Delivers the Decision,
the Rest of the Court Concurring
With the Exception of Justice
Fleld—Goodby Thayer.
Wasiiinotox, Feb. 1.—The United
State, supreme court today rendered
It. decision in the Nebraska governor
ship case in favor of Mr. lioyd.
The opinion was delivered by Chief
Justice Fuller, and his reading was
listened to attentively by a crowded
court room. It discussed elaborately
every point in the case, citing many
authorities and undertaking several
lines of reasoning, each leaning to the
conclusion that Governor lioyd, when
elected governor, was a citizen of the
United States, and had been a citizen
for the two years next preceding his
election.
All the members of the court, ex
cepting Justice Fiold, concurred in the
opinion, although Justices Harlan,
Gray and Brown did not concur in one
line of reasoning.
The decision of the court settles a
long controversy over the right
to tho scat which the supreme
court today gives to Governor Boyd.
It overrules the decision of tho supreme
court of Nebraska that Mr. Boyd was
not a citizen of the United Nlates and
that Governor Thayer, whom he
was elected to succeed, was en
titled to hold over until a
successor had been duly elected.
The Sluln I'olnt.
x no uiiMii i[ucbviuu in me case on
which the decision hinged was whether
Mr. Boyd became a citizen of the
United States without taking out
naturalization papers, his father, a
British subject, not ever having be
come fully naturalized, although he
had declared his intention to take out
the necessary papers
The elder Boyd came to this country
from Ireland when his son, the plain
tiff in the case decided today, was a
mere chilli. They settled in Ohio and
the father gave notice of his intention
to become a citizen. He failed, how
ever, to become naturalized.
Sketch of lloyd's Career In Nebraska.
Governor Boyd went to Nebraska
when it was a territory and was one
of the foremost of the pioneers who
developed it. He held several public
offices, fought in the late war and
was a member of the convention that
framed the state's constitution after it
was admitted into the sisterhood of
statea No one questioned Mr. Boyd's
right to vote and to exercise all the other
privileges of citi; • iship, and it was
not until after he had been elected
on the democratic ticket as governor
that the question concerning his
citizenship was raised. A long
controversy ensued as to whether
Boyd or the former governor
Thayer was entitled to the seat. The
case was finally carried to the supreme
court of Nebraska and this court de
cided that Boyd, not being a citizen,
had not been elected and that Thayer
should hold the office until his suc
cessor had been elected. This decision
is reversed by the federal supreme
court
llucsiMd Fully,
The elaborate opinion of the' court
delivered today discussed the question
of citizenship fully. In citing many
decisions on the right to citizenship
gained through the admission of a ter
ritory to statehood, it says it has al
ways been recognized that those resi
dents in territories who have declared
their intention to become citizens are
admitted as such when the states in
which they reside are admitted to the
union. James S. Boyd, however, the
court says, never declared his inten
tion to become a citizen, but
this the court believes should
not act against him in the matter.
His youth when he came to this coun
try and his ignorance of his father’s
neglect to qualify as a citizen should,
the court thinks, act rather in his
favor in settling the issue involved in
the case than against him. In review
ing Governor Boyd's case the court
says that the fact that he voted and
for a long time held public office
is sufficient to establish his right to
eitizenshin.
The enabling act of congress allow
ing the territory of Nebraska to pre
pare itself for a state recognized as
citizens persons of foreign birth in the
territory who had declared their in
tentions.
KIPLING'S QUEER HONEYMOON
B« Kept HU Bride In a London Hotel and
Called Regularly tor HU Mall.
London, Feb 1.— Rudyard Kipling
•pent his honeymoon in a very Kip
lingian fashion. After the secret wed
ding in Portland Place it wgs said he
took his bride to a quiet retreat in the
country. What he actually did was to
take a four-wheeler for Brown’s hotel,
two blocks from the church, where he
remained in happy seclusion till yes
terday.
Every day Kipling took a cab to his
London lodgings to get his mail. He
used to meet reporters there every time
yrho asked him if he knew where Kip
ling was and when he would return.
Kipling said he would let Kipling
know when he saw him that people
were inquiring for him. He was very
gay during the time at Brown's and
perfectly devoted to his wife. He has
now taken Mrs. Kipling to his old
lodgings in Earl’s Court road and will
resume literary work. Kipling affects
to believe himself little known and
hates publicity.
OIL FIND IN MICHIGAN.
Excitement Around Ithaca Over the Re.
salts of Boring on the Farms.
Jackson, Mich., Feb. 1.—Great ex
citement prevails at Ithaca over indi
cations of an immense oil field around
near there. For some time indications
of crude oil have been found on the
surface and in dry wella Owen Perry
drilled a well on his farm, and it Is
due to his success that others are start
ing wells of their own. Oil experts
who have examined the indications
and Perry's well say that if wells are
put down they will prove paying in
vestments. I
ALL CHICAGO rs PUZZLSOi
A. Woman In a Trance Startle* the Palmer
House.
Chicago, Feb. 1.—Students in the
field of psychical research can find
a subject in a peculiar case
which happened in the Palmer
house about 8:30 o'clock on Tuesday
evening. The -suicide of Joseph O.
(iuggenheimer in the lavatory of the
hotel on Tuesday afternoon was com
monplace, but the incident which fol
lowed it is in the lino of phenomena.
It is the talk of the guests, but not
one of the witnesses is sufficiently
versed in the science of metaphysics to
attempt an explanation.
At the hour mentioned a woman, of
unusually heavy build, quietly but
well dressed, entered the hotel
rotunda and passed slowly across
in the direction of the lava
tory. Chief Clerk Will Cunning
ham, noticing the direction she was
taking, sent a bell boy to ask if she
was not in error, "the boy inquired,
but she did not reply, and did not seem
to see or hear him. He did not wish
to restrain her forcibly, even when, to
his astonishment, she passed deliber
ately down the long aisle lined on
either side with compartments. Here
she hesitated for a moment, placed her
hand over her eyes as though in
thought or confusion, and then started
to enter the compartment where Gug
f,vnheimer had killed himself, and on
the floor of which his blood was
scarcely yet dry. Here she acrain
paused and then crossed the room and
entered the compartment directly op
posite, closing the door behind her.
Quite a crowd had gathered by this
time, but no one offered to interfere,
and the bell-boy, who had followed
her, hastened to inform Mr. Cunning
ham. The latter opened the door and
found the woman standing with head
bent in the attitude of listening in
tently. He asked her why she was
there. She did not answer. He shook
her gently and she aroused from her
somnambulistic state. She was greatly
agitated and looked around the circles
of faces and at her peculiar surround
ings in a dazed way. When the ques
tion was repeated the woman incoher
ently murmured something about a
friend whom she had not seen for four
years, but whom she had been warned
in a dream to come there and save, as
he was to kill himself.
*‘l think I was waiting for him, but
please take me home. 1 think I came
too late.”
t ntz, the second porter, made a way
lor her through the curious and silent
crowd, and Mr. Cunningham accom
panied her to the Monroe street en
trance. Still in a pitiably nervous
state the woman thanked him and wi\s
about to walk away when a liveried
driver opened the door of a private car
riage which was waiting. She seemed
surprised at seeing this, but instantly
entered, said “Home, please,” and was
driven towards Michigan avenue. Mr.
Cunningham says the woman was un
known to any who saw her, but ha
would be able to recognize the car
riage.
Dr. Elmer Lee. resident physician at
the Palmer, was questioned as to tha
seeming forewarning which the wo
man had received of Guggenheimer's
death.
“The medical profession,” he said, “can
offer no explanation for Buch things. They
must be relegated to that class of phenom
ena which, if true, can have no rule ap
plied to them. Mind suggestion comes
from anything which disturbs even a sin
gle one of the brain's nerve cells. These
■uggestiona are everywhere, but are not
usually followed by a physical act. When
one does thus yield to them they may
land him at the Palmer house, on the
roof, or in the lake. The same suggestion
in two cases may result in diametric
ally opposite acts. The person who,
awake, is weak enough to yield to these
suggestions is looked upon’ by the publio
merely as foolish. Such a person is not
necessarily more susceptible to their influ
ence when asleep. Now, from what we
can learn regarding the woman in the
present case, I should say that she was
not in a somnambulistic state. She mav
have been of a highly nervous tempera
ment and, reading the note of his death,
whether she knew Guggenheimer or not,
yielded to the mind suggestion which
urged her to goto the place where he died.
She may or may not have known where
she was or what she was there for; but,
being found, may have been at a loss for
an explanation. Such things are strange,
but while the physical results seem
stranger to the public they are no more so
than dreams. It should be remembered,
too, that in all such cases investigated by
tho psychical society the data have been
far from reliable.”
KILLED BY PERSECUTION.
A Bustle Romance Buds In Suicide—Vil
lagers Indignant.
Celina, O., Feb. 1.—Rockford, a small
town in this county, ton miles north
of this city, is all torn up over a sensa
tional hapening Saturday night. A
few days ago a young traveling artist
by the name of Frank Zano, giving
New York city as his home, drifted
into this little place and was doing
some work there. In the meantime he
formed the acquaintance of Miss Rosa
Cook, the 17-year-old daughter of
Thomas Cook, the owner of a saloon,of
this place.
Wednesday afternoon Zano came
to this city and went to the probate
judge’s office, where he made applica
tion for the necessary papers to make
Miss Cook and himself one, and signed
the usual papers. He returned to Rock
ford and they were married. Miss
Cook’s father protested against the
marriage and had his young son-in-law
arrested and taken before Mayor Penn
on the charge of perjury.
The whole village turned out en
masse to witness the proceedings of
the trial, and poor Zano, without a
friend in this state except his newly
wedded wife, could only say that he
thought the girl was 18 and did not
know that he was swearing to any
thing but the truth. Nevertheless the
mayor bound him over to court. He
being without money could not give
bail and was ordered to jail here.
Saturday night, before the officer
could get ready to bring him to Celina,
he shot himself in the left breast near
the heart, the ball passing just to the
left, however, inflicting a fatal wound.
The affair, which everybody looked at
as a mere trifle except Zano, aroused a
itorm of indignation, and the mayor
hastily got himself together and dis
missed the case, so that Zano, who will
die before morning, will be a free man.
He is a fine looking young man, 20
years of age.
George Dixon has the best record of
any living American pugilist He haa
met and defeated over 100 men In his
four months' tour of the eastern cities
THE STEAMER EIDER ASHORE
Cradeled on the Rocks Off the Isle
of Wight
Having Great Difficulty In Ge’. ting the
Passengers Safely Ashore—A High
Sea and the Rocks Makes Res
cue Very Dangerous.
London, Feb. L—The steamship
Eider, of the North German Lloyd
Steamship company, Captain Heinecke,
which left New York for Bremen on
January 23, went ashore last night on
the AtherSeld rocks, nine miles west
of Ventnor, Isie of Wight.
The Eider lies in a pretty comforta
ble position in close proximity to the
coastguard station. The coastguard
men heard the fog whistle of a big
steamship blowing during the night,
but, as there are so many vessels pass
ing up and down the channel, no dan
ger was anticipated until suddenly
rockets were seen to flare upward
through the night mist and fog and
then a steamship's whistle was heard
blowing the long uninterrupted note
of distress. The entire coastguard
was immediately summoned and the
neighboring stations were promptly
notified to send reinforcements to tlio
spot
Getting Serious.
As this cable message is forwarded,
the gale is increasing in violence and
heavy seas are continually breaking
over the Eider. Several tugs and life
boats from Ventnor, Yarmouth. Chale,
St. Catherines and other places have
managed to reach her and are doing
everything possible to assist the
steamer, but her situation is becoming
more critical every hour. The tugs
and life boats have managed to take
off the mails and have landed t hem at
Atherlleld. From this fact, it is be
lieved that the passengers are all safe.
The Eider is 2,500 tons and 5,200
horse power. She was built at
Glassgow in 1883 by John
Elder & Co., and is considered in every
way to be a first-class ocean passenger
vessel. She has four decks, is bark
rigged and was last surveyed in Febru
ary, 1891.
Particulars gathered during the day
in regard to the stranding of the Eider
show that she ran on the rock at about
10 o'clock last evening. At that hour
the sea was calm, but the fog was so
thick that her officers were unable to see
half the length of the ship ahead. The
lead steam whistles were kept going
and the engines were slowed down till
the steamship may be said to have
been feeling her way.
The Eider without any warning sud
denly shook from stem to stern and
then with a long, terrible, rasping,
grating quiver, brought up on ttie
rocks, as already stated. The sudden
ness with which the steamship ran
ashore can be judged from the fact
that the hand-lead was kept going in
the waist while the patent-lead was
hove over her quarter, and that both
reported plenty of water until almost
the instant the steamship struck.
A Scene of Terror.
Then a scene of terror followed.
The passengers rushed on deck in their
night clothes, or partly dressed, and
were with difficulty calmed by the
ship's officers, who assured them that
there was no danger. Women and
children cried piteously and the male
passengers were much alarmed, but
were prevailed upon to return to their
cabins and make the necessary prepar
ations to abandon the ship should such
a course be found necessary. A hasty
examination of the damage done to
the steamer and of the position in
wnich she rested showed that she was
cradled in the rocks about a mile
from the shore and that there was
no denying that she was in a situation
of great peril.
The Atherfield coastguard life boat,
attracted by the rockets sent up from
the Eider, managed to reach the side
of the steamer by midnight.. They
offered to take off the passengers,
but the captain dec.ined to
allow them to leave the
ship, expressing himself confident
of providing for their safety. By this
time the wind had increased so much
that a most furious gale was raging.
The wind was blowing dead ashore
and the sea rising every moment and
breaking over the steamship, which
was working badly on the rocks
and increasing the size of the holes
cut in her bottom. The water was
also rising in her hold in spite of the
fact that the pumps wore kept going
continually.
The Captain Persuaded.
Eventually the pauengers became
bo alarmed and pleaded so earn
estly with Captain Henecke to
be allowed to go ashore in the coast
guard or other lifeboats that the Eid
ers' commander consented to allow
some of them to do so, and thirteen of
the passengers were safely landed
at Atherfield in the lifeboat
Three more lifeboats by the
time thirteen passengers were landed
bad made for ,the Eider and several
tugs were also steaming up to her, but
the latter were unable to approach
near enough to her to be of any as
sistance, owing to the fact that the
steamship was cradled in a spot
surrounded on all sides by dangerous
rocks; which were so close together
that even the light draught life-bqats
experienced the utmost difficulty in
getting near enough to the distressed
vessel to permit of passengers and
mail bags being swung off into
xnto them. As it was only
twelve mail . bags were got
off at the time this message was sent.
The previous information cabled to
the effect that all the mails were saved
was based on erroneous information.
The Eider soon after signalled that the
water was rising fast in her hold and
appealed for more help. Everything
possible is being done for her. Tun
and* lifeboats are struggling to reach
her, but the rocks about her combined
with the heavy sea and terrible wind
prevent these erafts from reaching her
and it is now feared that the Eider is
doomed to destruction.
rirtng Minute Distress Guns.
d»y wears on the news from
the Eider becomes more and more
serious. She ii now firing minute I
guns of distress. On shore the coast
guard men have repeatedly shot the
rocket line ball, chain and line in the I
direction of the eteanuhln w
time the line has fallen T **
the mark. Thi. failnre to thm^.v0*
line over the steamer is due nn» ,*
to the distance she lies off short 7
to the strength of the wind, whU^1
blowing dead in the teeth of thsuJ*
savers. Assistance has been . .
graphed for to all neighboring
There will be serious loss ft.
among her passengers and crew unW
the gale soon abates es>
The scene off AtherBeld is terrihl.
On a reef of rocks surrounded bv
bers of other rocks. lies
steamship Eider, her signals for »,!
slstance fluttering in the gale „
sea after sea breaks over her with a
fearful pounding regularity and
shaking her frame that her bottom
must be slowly but surely grinding to
pieces. Upon her decks are gathered
her terrified passengers and crew, who
with the officers, are doing their ub
most to maintain order among the
steerage passengers. of whom
there are 200, about Tile'
cabin passengers are few in number
according to report, indeed it is said
that there are not more than 300 peo
ple, all told, on board. 1
The Eider’s cargo consists of a large
consignment of cotton for English and
German manufacturers.
Several powerful tugs have been dig
patched from Southampton to the
scene of the wreck and two of the
most powerful government ocean
tugs have been sent from
Portsmouth tiy order of the
admiralty authorities and have now
reached the rocks in the midst of which
the Eider is being slowly ground to
destruction. The life boats through
out the morning continued tlieir gal
lant efforts to battle successfully with
the wind, waves and rocks, and at
least one boat is now known to have
managed to get alongside the imper
illed steamer. :
The steamship Eider left this port
January 23 at 11 o’clock a. m There
were nineteen first cabin and twenty
five second cabin passengers, 175 steer
age and about seventy in the crew.'.
Captain Henecke , was in charge
The vessel is 5,500 tons register and
was considered one of, the best vessels
of the North German Lloyds fleet. The
passengers were mostly Germans.
Scandinavians and Danes returning to
their native lands.
The Meath Wrecked.
Lokdox, Feb. 1.—A dispatch just re
ceived from Holyhead says the steam
ship Meath, of Sunderland, has been
wrecked near that place. Life boats
have starte<| to the rescue. * ,
Steamer Coring Damaged.
London, Feb. 1.—The Norwegian
steamer Coring1, which sailed from
Glasgow January 37, for Philadelphia,
was damaged in a collision and put
back for repairs.
A DIVE FOR* DUCATS.
N.nety-FIve Thousand If He Succeeds ana
Death ir He Fails.
Dui.uth, Minn., Feb. 1.—M. F. Chalk,
the noted Duluth diver, has started to
try a feat that not only killed the first
two men who tried it, but the four
who have preceded him in the forlorn
hope. If he wins he makes a cool 895,
000, besides a wide reputation; if he
loses, his life, and he is a diver and a
diver is always in danger anyway.
Today Mr. Chalk left Duluth for
Alpena, Mich., where he goes under
contract to attempt to locate and raise
the wreck of the steamer Pewabic,
which sank seventeen miles off that
place in 120 feet of water twenty-five
years ago. Four attempts have been
made to raise the vessel, in each of
which the diver lost his life. Of all
the four only one lived to reach the
surface. The depth at which the work
was to be done was so great and the
pressure of the icy water so enormous
that life was squeezed out. Diver
Chalk has a contract with several
wealthy Michigan men who pay him
81,000 for the attempt, guarantee his
life insurance in case he dies, pay all
expenses of experiments, etc., and in
case they are able to bring up the
wreck, they agree to divide the cargo
equally. The Pewabic is loaded with
550 tons of pig copper, valued at $105,
000, as well as $300,000 worth of im
perishable freight. The diver has had
a helmet made that will stand 450
pounds pressure to the inch, and be
sides the usual rubber dress will wear
a wrought iron vest and special steel
devices over his arm and and eg joints
to do away with some of the water
pressure. He is confident of success
and expects to follow it by locating
and raising several sunken silver and
copper cargoes in other parts of the
lakes that are of greater value but are
in deeper water.
BISHOP BY ACCIDENT.
An Unfortunate Little Slip That Queen
Victoria Remembered.
London, Feb. 1.—The aeath of Rev.
Dr. Philpott, ex-bishop of Worcester,
recalls the fact that Ills appointment
to that high office was due to a blun
der on the part of one of his most inti
mate friends. The man who had been
picked out for it was Dr. Whewell,
master of Trinity. The Trinity lodge,
at Cambridge, is a royal residence by
ancient custom, and is the recognized
home of the sovereign when in Cam
bridge. it happened, however, that
upon the occasion of one of the queen s
visits to the university, the learned
doctor, in making the formal address
of welcome, bade the queen welcome
to ‘‘my humble roof,” instead ot to
“your majesty’s royal residence ” The
queen remembered this slip, although
she said nothing at the time, but when
the bishopric became vacant, Dr. " *>e
well’s name was crossed out, although
he stood next in the order of appoint
ment, and his friend Dr. Fhilpott got
the plum.
COFFIN TRUST REVIVED.
Blew Life Put Into the Casket Combine al
Cincinnati.
Cedar Rapids, Mich., Feb. 1.—D “
announced that the coffin manufactur
ers in session in Cincinnati have ar
rived at an amicable understanding,
and that the old combine will resume
business stronger and more substantia
than before the break-up. The term*
af the agreement reached are no
given, but it is understood that t eJ
are satisfactory to Powers & " a* eri
of this city, and the co?,cer“ *
Dwosso, who led the revolt 1 owe
Walker can use the sliding snu
sharge extra for it if they so desiro
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