?laftsmauih Journal.
C W SHERMAN, Publisher.
PLATTSMOUTH. i NEBRASKA.
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC
Oscar Mobton, a wealthy resident of
Stanton, Ky., shot and killed Sheriff
William Simms as the result of an old
feud. A mob took Morton from jail
and handed him.
John Jot, who robbed a man of five
dollars was' sentenced to prison for
life by a San Francisco judge under
the habitual criminal act.
The directors of the Washington
Park club In Chicago decided to
abandon racing, but will maintain the
clubhouse.
Four members of the American Kail
way union were arrested for wrecking
a Grand Trunk train at Battle Creek,
Mich., July 16, whereby one life was
lost.
During a riot among drunken Slavs
at Maltby, Pa., a boy was shot dead,
two girls fatally wounded and two per
sons badly hurt.
Col. Bkeckin ridgk was suspended
from communion by the congregation
of Mount Horeb (Ky.) Presbyterian
church until February.
T. L. Dixon, an ex-state official of
Kansas, made affidavit that Mr. Mary
E. Lease urged him to steal $20,000
from the state.
Experiments at an Omaha distillery
of making spirits from beet sugar mo
lasses proved very successfuL
Chester Hill, an Ohio village, was
almost wiped out by fire.
Investigation showed that the sol
dier's borne at Dayton, O., was haunted
by thieves who rob the inmates on pen
sion days.
Two tocso daughters of John X.
Scatcherd and Miss Emily Wood. Mrs.
iscatcherd's sister, were killed by an
engine at a crossing in Buffalo, N. Y.
Twentt-one persons were seriously
injured and property worth $40,000 de
stroyed by a train collision at New
Orleans.
Mrs. Ada Weiner, who shot and
killed her husband at San Francisco
while he slept, was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
At Ogden, V. T., De Camp, Mc
Counell and King were found guilty
of attempted train wrecking during
the A. R. C strike and King was
sentenced to four years and De Camp
and McConnell to twelve years each in
the penitentiary.
Extebts discovered that Stark coun
ty, O.. had been robbed of $17,000 by
dishonest officials.
Frank McInttrk, James Ford and
Frank Britton, of New Brighton, N-
Y., were drowned by the capsizing of
a boat.
The exports of domestic merchan
dise of the United States for the last
nine months amounted to $577,047,022,
against $603,221,873 for the same time
in 1693. The imports amounted to
$503,629,738, and for the same time last
year $25,S25,372.
The Pacific Express company's office
in The Dalles, Ore., was robbed of
$15,000.
George Peterson Btarted to estab
lish a new walking record from New
York to Chicago. He expects to reach
Chicago in thirty-five days.
The Tabor Amusement company at
Denver assigned with liabilities of
$275,000. ,
The new issue of postage stamps was
rapidly being disposed of, the govern
ment sending out 20,000.000 a day.
In the recent storm on the gulf coast
fifteen fishermen lost their lives on
Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fie.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 15th was: Wheat,
75,074,000 bushels; corn, 3,879,000 bush
els; oats, 9,880,000 bushels; rye, S 85,000
bushels; barley 3,117,000 bushels.
William Pattisow, an escaped mad
man, entered a church at York, Pa.,
and stampeded the congregation by
firing right and left.
Bi a vote of 65 to 85 the general con
ference at Greenville, I1L, of the Free
Methodist church decided against the
ordination of women.
Mrs. Jennie Harrington and her
three children perished by fire in the
barn upon their farm in the outskirts
of Elizabeth, N. J.
Willis Gmf rsY (colored), charged
with assault on Miss Leha Berry
(white), was taken from jail at Prince
ton, Ky., by a mob and haneed.
A stbahorb distributed about S400
in worthless old Indiana state . bank
notes at Anderson. Ind.. and disap
peared.
Snow fell in many counties of Penn
sylvan ia to the depth of 3 inches.
During the nine months of 1894 the
excess in gold exports from the United
States over imports was $73,603,649 and
of silver $25,631, 5S9.
Jacob Sweininkb's fifth wife died
rery suddenly bear Luray, lnd. She
was the third to die of apoplexy.
Elders Fb&emax and Mercer. Mor
tnon missionaries who had converted
fifty people near Centertown, Ky.
mostly . wcnen, to their faith, were
tarred and feathered by indignant cit-
. izens and driven away.
Seventeen buildings in the business
district of Liberty Center. O., were de
stroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000.
A. E. Smith, a letter carrier, rode
from Chicago to New York on his
bicycle in T days 14 hours and 5 min
utes, lowering his own record.
An association whose object is the
suppression of gambling in the United
States and Canada was formed in Chi
cago by Dr. W. G. Clarke and others.
The total appropriations made at the
first and second sessions of the Fifty
third congress amounted to $492,230,
,685. Twentt-nine vessels of the Glouces
ter (Mass.) fishing fleet, with an ag
gregate tonnage of 2,354 tons and 112
men, were lost during the past year,
Against ten vessels and fifty-three men
last. wKP.
The Merced bank at Merced, Cat.
closed its doors with heavy liabilities.
Black diphtheria was raging in the
Indiana gas belt, especially in Ander
son. El wood and Middle town.
The American ship Ivanhoe, coal
laden, was reportel lost off the Pacific
coast with its crew of eighteen men.
The post office at New Albany, Ind..
was robbed during the noon hour of
$4,000 in stamps and severul hundred
dollars in cash.
In the Melrose stake for 2-year-olds
at Nashville, Tenn., Impetuous trotted
two heats in 2:15, equalling the
world's race record.
William Davis and wife, an aged
couple, while driving in a buggy were
run over and instantly killed by a train
at Mount Sterling, lit
Otto Zeigler rode a mile in 1:50 at
Sacramento, Cal, reducing Johnson's
world's bicycle record three-fifths of a
second.
Three schooners were wrecked in a
gale on the Pacific and fears were ex
pressed for the safety of others.
Fire swept away the entire central
portion of Sulphur, Ky., the loss being
$100,000.
Louis Gimm, of Cleveland, O., rode
SS3 miles 1,490 yards in a day on his
bicycle, surpassing all records.
Charles Kahler, of Davenport, la..
wounded his sweetheart and killed
himself because she refused to consent
to an immediate marriage.
The militia fired on a mob which
tried to lynch William Dolby, the
negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C.
Boyd" (white) at Washington Court
House, O., and three persons were killed
and ten wounded, three fatally.
Kentuckv distillers formed a per
manent association at Louisville and
adopted a resolution to cut down pro
duction during the coming season to
15,000,000 gallons.
The residence of Herman Barthold,
a farmer near loledo, v., was de
stroyed by fire and his two daughters,
aged 12 and 7, were burned to death.
A span of the bridge over the Ohio
river at Jeffersonville, Ind., fell, car
rying twenty workmen with it, and
three were seriously injured.
Eugene Schawecker, a wholesale
grocer and liquor merchant of Cin
cinnati, committed suicide on the
grave of his first wife.
Danisl H. Burnham, of Chicago,
was reelected president of the Ameri
can Institute of Architects at the an
nual meeting in New York.
An old Navajo Indian at Gallup. N.
M., who married a young squaw
against the wishes ef her parents, shot
and killed her and then killed himself.
Nearly 24,000 democrats were placed
in charge of post ofSces during the
first year of the present administra
tion.
The French-Eversole feud broke out
afresh in Perry county, Ky., and one
member of each faction was killed in
the encounter.
Harris Olney and Charles Dalton
committed suicide at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
by turning on the gas in their room.
During a quarrel at Baltimore over
a division of profits from their coal
business Robert Uerrlich shot and fa-
taily wounded his father.
Channing M. Britton, of New York,
was elected president of the Carriage
Builders' association at the annual
meeting in Philadelphia.
Another strike of weavers occurred
at Fall River, Mass., making 6,000 per
sons out of employment.
In his annual report Gen. Howard
says the railroad strike showed the
necessity of doubling the army.
In a quarrel over forty cents' worth
of beer in a St. Maurice (Ind.) saloon
Jackson Stevens shot and killed Ben
Ileam.
William Barnes, a clerk in the
treasurer's office for thirty-five years.
died in Washington. It was said that
he had handled in his lifetime proba
bly more money than any other man
in the world.
In trials against time at Hamilton,
OnL, Bicyclist Davidson lowered the
record for the half mile standing to
0:6S and the quarter to 0:30.
Fire destroyed a portien of th
Tredegar iron works at Richmond, Va.
Loss, $150,000.
At Philadelphia a new baseball as
sociation was formed, which is ex
pected to be a strong rival to the Na
tional league.
In the hearing of indicted gamblers
in Chicago the big proprietors escaped
only the lesser lights being found
guilty.
James West and G. H. Crenshaw, of
Philadelphia, were killed by a land
slide while crossing the Sierra Mad res.
Kristias Kortgaabd, ex-prsident
of the Minneapolis State bank, was
convicted of appropriating $13,000 of
its funds.
Miss Monroe was awarded $5,000 in
her suit against the New York World
for prematurely publishing her world's
fair ode.
Because of numerous train robber
ies the Pacific Express company will
handle no more money in Indian ter
ritory.
A fire which started in Miller Bros.'
livery stable at Monticello, la., burned
fifteen high-priced horses and de
stroyed half a dozen residences.
Robert J. and John R. Gentry paced
a dead heat at Nashville, Tenn., in
2:04.
The post office department has de
clared the Cooperative Loan & Invest
ment company of Mississippi is con
ducting a lottery.
' Miners who took the places of strik
era at Ashland, Ky., were fired upon
from ambush and several of them were
wounded.
Mas. George Eddt and Mrs. Painter
were killed by a passing rain at a
grade crossing near Byron, I1L
William Dolby, the cause of the
riot at Washington Court House, 0.,
was taken to the penitentiary. Two
more victims of the riot had died.
The following congressional nomi
nations were made by the democrats
Rhode Island, First district, C. H. Page
(renominated); Second, Oscar Lapham
(renominated). Massachusetts, Sec
ond district, E. A. HalL Tennessee,
Sixth district, J. A. Washington (re
nominated). Kentucky, Sixth district.
A. S. Berry.
While temporarily tnsane Elliott L.
Titus, aged 24, killed Mary S. Duff,
agd 23, at Sea Cliff, L. I., and then
killed himself. The young people ex
pected to be married soon.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Henry H. Green, a classmate of
Gen. Grant at West Point and a Mexi
can war veteran, died at Mora, N. M.,
aged 71 years.
In the Fourth New York district the
democrats nominated W. J. Coombs
for congress and in the Sixth James
R. Howell.
The democrats made the following
congressional nominations: New York,
Seventh district, Cornelius Flynn;
Ninth, A. J. Campbell. New Jersey,
Fourth district, Jacob Geissenhainer.
Connecticut, Seventh district, Norman
Sperry. Massachusetts, Thirteenth
district, Robert Howard. Alabama,
Fourth district, C A. Bobbins, re
nominated. Mrs. Jetta Swarts died in Chicago
at the age of 105 years.
Edward Crate, one of the pioneers
of the far northwest and the original
settler at The Dalles. Ore., is dead.
Rev. K. Hazard Snowden, the old
est Presbyterian minister in the state,
died at his home in Forty Fort, Pa.,
aged 95 years. He was the oldest
living graduate of Princeton theolog
ical seminary.
Judge Macon B. Allen, the first col
ored man admitted to the bar in the
United States, died in Washington.
Margaret Murphy, aged 103, died
in New York city.
Gen. William F. Reynolds, a vet
eran of the Mexican war and a cele
brated engineer, died suddenly at his
home in Detroit, Mich., aged 73.
Everett P. Wheeler has accepted
the nomination for governor of New
York at the hands of the "democratic
party reform organization."
FOREIGN.
Radicals and Irish were moving to
crush the English house of lords and
would force Rosebery to act or re- j
sign.
A cipher letter received by a German
traveler intimates that the illness of
the czar of Russia is the result of
poison administered by nihilists.
An imperial decree was issued guar
anteeing protection to all foreigners
in China.
The French press was urging the
government to declare war on Mada
gascar and immediately blockade its
ports.
Emperor William unveiled a monu
ment to his grandfather at Wiesbaden
and opened the new Royal theater.
Port Arthur, one of the most strat
egic outposts of China, on the Gulf of
Pie-chi-li, is reported to have been cap
tured by the Japs,
It was estimateu that European
countries would have to import 118,
000,000 bushels of wheat, owing to the
shortage in the crop.
Irregularities in the Bank of Brazil
at Buenos Ayres, involving $20,000,000,
were discovered.
An Indian paper announced the
death of the ameer of Afghanistan.
Advices from San Domingo say that
a cyclone leveled 700 houses there and
damaged the coffee crop in HaytL
Up to the end of September the total
emigration from Great Britain this
year was 121,173, a decrease of . 57,559
as compared with the corresponding
period of 1893. Of this number 82,031
shipped for the United States and 15,
418 for Canada.
During a fire origin ating in a naph
tha spring in Grosny. Transcaucasia,
seventeen workmen were burned to
death.
LATER.
Sons of the American Revolution
presented a stand of colors to the Fif
teenth regiment, U. S. A., at Fort Sher
idan, in recognition of its gallant con
duct during the late strike in Chicago.
On a farm near Albion, N. Y., Wil
liam Lake killed Miss Hunt because
she refused to marry him and then
killed himself.
Advices from Caracas. Venezuela,
announce the death of Feliciano Al
vezez, acting president of the country.
An omnibus indictment was found
in Chicago by the federal grand jury
against the officers of the American
Railway union and all strikers charged
with violence and obstructing the
mails.
Mrs. Mary Sawyer and two daugh
ters, aged 16 and 18, were killed at
Dorchester, Neb., while driving over
the Burlington tracks. jaJj
George Goldman, a farmer living
near English. Ind., killed his wife with
a flatiron and then shot himself. He
had been released from an insane
asylum.
Judge Smith, for twenty-seven years
on the circuit bench at Galesburg, I1L,
resigned because of ill health.
There were 253 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 19th, against 231 the week
previous and S4l in the correspond
ing time in 1893.
Charles Ermisu and Otto Wongkert
were hanged in St. Paul, Minn., for
the murder of Lindholf, a barkeeper,
May 2 last.
Russian officials admitted there was
no hope of the recovery of the czar.
Members of the imperial family were
hurrying to Livadia.
James O. Dooley, the youthful mur
derer of his aunt and a 10-year-old
cousin in Adams county, la., on May
11. 1892, was executed at Fort Madison.
Ex-Mayor Grant accepted the Tam
many nomination for mayor of New
York, Nathan Straus having with
drawn his name.
Four men held up a Texas Pacific
passenger train near Gordon, Tex., at
noon and robbed the express car of an
amount estimated at from $1,000 to
$20,000.
Twenty-five of the largest whole
sale manufacturers of clothing in Chi
cago organized a defensive association.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 19th aggre
gated $950,045,900, against $927,428,877
the previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1893. was S.L
BOBBED AT MID-DAY.
Texas Bandits Hold Up a Train
Near Gordon.
A 8am ef Money Estimated at S0,000
Taken Through Inability to Open a
Safe a Like Amount Is
Lft Behind.
Fort Worth. Tex., Oct. 20. The
westbound Texas & Facihc through
train for California leaving here at
9:05 a. m., was robbed about noon Fri
day, 70 miles west of here, near Gor
don. The robbers secured about $20,
000 from the Pacific Express
company, and but for their in
ability to open the 6a fe of the
Texas fc Pacific Coal company -containing
$20,000 in gold, would have
made a better hauL Four men did
the deed. They came upon a sec
tion gang about .noon, covered them
with Winchesters and forced them
to spread the rails and flag the
oncoming train. The engineer and
fireman were then lined up with the
section gang and guarded, while two
men entered the express car and cov
ered the messenger ; before he was
aware of their presence. Messenger
Marshall was ordered to open
the safe containing the money of the
Texas & Pacific Coal company. Telling
them he could not do this, they seized
a pick and ruined the combination,
but could not open the safe. The rob
bers fled southward, and no trace of
them has yet been secured. Rewards
aggregating $1,000 have been offered
for their arrest. The money secured
was taken from the way safe.
The trainmen say that the robbers
did not occupy more than thirty min
utes in the job and acted as if pro
fessionals of long experience. The
robbers kept an eye on the mail clerks,
but did not bother the mail pouches
or the passengers. The work was done
so quietly and quickly that the
passengers were ignorant that any
thing of the kind was transpiring
until nearly over. It is supposed the
robbers had confederates in hiding
near by with horses to aid the gang in
escaping, because there was no sign of
horses Dear the railroad.
When the robbers disappeared the
train was run with the throttle wide
open to Gordon, from which point the
railway, express and county officers
were notified by telegraph of the crime.
Posses were formed at once to pursue
the bandits. When the train arrived
at Thurber an engine loaded with a
posse armed for business was found
waiting under a full head of steam,
and it was hurried to the scene of the
daring hold-up.
A BOY PAYS THE PENALTY.
First Legal Hanging In Iowa for the Last
Eight Tears.
Fort Madison. Ia., Oct. 20. The first
legal hanging that has been had in
Iowa for eight years toolc place in the
penitentiary at this place at 12:15 Fri
day, when James O. Dooley suffered
the death penalty for murder. Sheriff
Eldridge, of Adams county, was the
executioner. Dooley's neck was not
broken by the drop and it was twenty
minutes before life was pronounced ex
tinct. He made the following speech
before the black cap was placed on his
head:
"You are criminals. This execution Is Il
legal. Toe law says there Bhall be seventeen
present, but there are nearly twenty-five and
more coming down the halL Rich men may
violate the law with Impunity, but poor men
must suffer for their crimes, and I must suiter.
I hope God will forgive you (or your sins. He
has lorglven mine."
The crime for which Dooley suffered
death, the murder of his aunt and
cousin, was committed in Adams coun- i
ty, la.. May 11, 1892. Dooley, who was
but 16 years old, was employed as a
farm hand by W. 11. Coons, his uncle
by marriage, on a farm a mile or so
out from Corning.
t INCREASE THE ARMY.
Adjt. Gen. Haggles Recommends Slaking
the Enlisted Strength SO.OOO.
Washington, Oct. 20. Adjt. Gen.
Buggies has made a separate report to
Gen. Schofield, commanding the army,
in which i a recommendation that
the enlisted strength of the army be
increased to SO.OOO, so as to give a
maximum of 25,000 as to the
regimental fighting force. This max
imum is only about two-thirds
of the minimum organization pre
scribed by the revised statutes for
cavalry, artillery and infantry regi
ments, yet it will enable the govern
ment to reorganize its artillery into
seven regiments for coast defense and
field artillery and its infantry into
three ba tall ion regiments without in
terfering with the strength of the
cavalry.
ARBITRATION URGED.
Lovers of Peace Ask China and Japan to
Thai Settle Difficulties.
Washington, Oct. 20. The members
of the American branch of the inter
national peace bureau, of which Mrs.
Belva A Lockwood, of this city, is
secretary, have issued an appeal to the
emperors of Japan and China to arbi
trate their difficulties. It recommends
as arbitrators, the pope of Rome,
the emperor of Austria, Queen
Victoria, the king of Denmark and
the queen regent of the Netherlands.
The appeal is signed by Alfred H.
Love, of Philadelphia; Charles a Bon
ney, of Chicago; Belva A. Lockwood,
of Washington; Amanda Deyo. of San
Diego, and William F. Aldrich, of Al
drich, Ala.
Cut Kates In Hoar.
CniCAOO, Oct. 20. Flour has taken
the place of sugar as the bone of con
tention among the wholesale grocers
of Chicago and the northwest.
"Combine" prices have been cutj
twenty-five cents a barrel, and
the combine itself consisting of the
Pillsbury-Washburn company, the
Washburn-Crosby company and North
western Consolidated Milling company
has gone to pieces. One result of the
ww is that grocers and dealers for
several hundred miles around are flock
ing to Chicago and taking advantage
of the free and open market.
COMMERCIAL OUTLOOK.
Despite Encouraging Features, Volume of
Trade Does Mot M eet Expectations.
New York, Oct. 20. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
"Cotton below 0 cents and wheat below 65
cents each lower than ever since present
classifications were known, with exports of
gold instead of products at such prices in Oc
tober are the salient features of business this
we&k. Distribution of goods to consumers goes
on fairly, with gains at nearly all points in com
parison with last year, but not yet at a rate to
sustain the present volume of manufacturing
production, so that prices weaken a little.
The domestta trade represented by
railroad earnings in October la 8.4 per
cent, less . than last year, and 13.4
per cent, less than In 1892. The
payments through the principal clearing
houses for the third week of October are 2.3
per cent, greater than last year, but 81.6 per
cent, less than in 1892. The dally average for
the month is 6.0 per cent, larger than last
year, but 2S.t smaller than in 1892. With
many features of encouragement, business has
not yet answered expectations, and It Is evi
dent that the loss of part of the corn crop and
the unnaturally low prices of other staples af
fect the buying power of millions.
Wheat for October delivery fell to 54V4- cents
on Wednesday, and in spite of some recovery
the average for October thus far is 2 cents be
low the lowest monthly average ever made,
which was in September and was nearly 10
cents below the lowest prior to this year, the
October average being 50 cents below that of
October, 1891 or 1890.
Corn declined Ho during the week, with re
ceipts not a quarter of last year's, and exports
not a tenth. Fork products wera somewhat
weaker, with lard a quarter lower. Cotton sold
at 6.94 cents on Thursday, and with Ellison's
estimate that the world will consume 8.24?.000
bales of American, the stock of 2.000.000 bales in
sight and the estimated yield of over 9.000.000
bales deters buyers.
-The Increase in Imports exclusive of sugar
was over 35 per cent, in September, and in two
weeks of October at New York over 43 per cent.
With this heavy Increase In purchases, and a
decrease in sales of products abroad, the mar
ket for foreign exchange is in a position to be
quickly affected by withdrawals of capital or
apprehensions regarding the future peace of
Kurope.
"To half a million gold shipped Tuesday it ia
expected that as much will be added to-day.
It appears that three trust companies here
now hold over (40,000.000 idle money and that
millions are being taken from New York by
New England banks, while the northwestern
demand for money is unusually small. The
treasury is again falling backward in reserve,
and large Imports yield a little less revenue
than last year, while Internal revenue for the
past three weeks is 14,600,000 smaller than a
year ago.
"The dry goods business and textile indus
tries were especially favored by the demand in
August and September. Wholesale and re
tail stocks have been replenished, and busi
ness waits for retail sales, which are as yet
slower than was expected. In cotton goods
the new business has been narrow and resump
tion by Fall River mills has depressed prices
to some extent. The boot and shoe trade is
doing remarkably welL The Iron and steel
business makes a better showing this week.
"The failures in October thus far have been
quite moderate in strictly commercial line,
the liabilities amounting to 13.81.837, of which
$1.793.e39 were of manufacturing and 11.996. 638
of trading concerns. Some failures of banking.
Investment and loan concerns not here in
cluded, have not proved of general importance.
During the past week the failures have been
S5S in the United States against 341 last year
and 43 in Canada against 29 last year."
Brad street's says:
"With few exceptions the leading features
of the business situation this week have been
those of continued moderate improvement, al
though the total volume of business, so far as
Indicated by bank clearings throughout the
country, will require considerable expansion
to compare favorably with corresponding to
tals two years ago. Nearly all the more im
portant business centers west and northwest
report moderate activity, but few of them an
nounce new features.
PRISON FOR ALL.
A Gang of Anarchist Firebugs Sentenced
In Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. 20. Friday night the
verdict of the jury in the case of the
gang of anarchist firebugs which has
been on trial for ten days before
Judge Brentano was announced. The
following were found guilty of arson
and their punishment fixed:
William Scharf. seven years: Gustavo A.
Nelson, five years: Carl Herlltz, three years:
Josephine Herlltz, his wife, two years; Caro
line Nelson, wife of Gustavo, two years. Clsm
ent Schutz. who was also Indicted, turned
state's evidence.
Scharf was the leader of the gang,
having come from New York, where he
belonged to the notorious "Black
Hand" society of anarchists and fire
bugs. Nelson and Schutz also associ
ated with Scharf in New York. Seven
fires were set by the gang in different
parts of the city for the purpose of col
lecting the insurance, but the state
rested its case chiefly on the burning
of Scharfs house on One Hundred and
Third street last August and the firing
of Nelson's house at 101 Edgewood
avenue, remote from Scharfs place.
The gang had prepared ingenious de
vices for the starting of their fires
after departing from their houses tem
porarily, so as to avert suspicion.
DISMISSED.
Appeal of Col. Breckinridge Stricken from
the Docket.
Washington, Oct. 20. On a motion
by Mr. Calderon Carlisle, counsel for
Madeline Pollard in the case of Pol
lard vs. W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, the court of appeals for the
District of Columbia ordered the
appeal which had been asked for in
this case 6tricken from the docket of
the court, on the ground that it had
not been entered within the stat
utory time. This ends the liti
gation as far as the courts of the dis
trict are concerned and leaves the
plaintiff free to collect her judgment
of $15,000 and costs from Col. Breckin
ridge when and how she can. Mr.
Breckinridge's salary for the remain
der of his congressional term is exempt
by law from seizure, and there is co
provision in the law. of the District of
Columbia, as there is on the statutes
of some of the states, for the arrest
and detention of any person about to
leave the jurisdiction of the state
without complying with the judgments
of its courts.
WILL SUE MR. MORTON.
The Ex-Vice President to Be Cited for Vi
olating the Contract Labor Law.
Washington, Oct- 20. Acting under
instructions already given, now that
Judge Lacombe has decided that he
has no jurisdiction in the case of John
James Howard, imported under con
tract as under-coachman for ex-Vice
President Morton, Immigrant Com
missioner Senner at New York will
immediately deport Howard, and
United States District Attorney Mc
Farlane will enter civil suit against
Mr. Morton for violation of tue alien
contract labor law.
FISH THAT SHOOT.
How the Scaty Marksmen Bring Down
Their Prey.
Oh, yes. there are fish that fly in the
air, and fish that dig in the mud, and
nsh that travel for miles over the dry
ground, and fish that climb trees. We
had all of them within a few miles of
our home in India, in one direction or
another; but more curious than any of
these were fish that we used often to
see in a large pool not far from the
house, out shooting their breakfast or
supper.
I had never heard of shooting-fish be
fore, but I have learned since then that
they are quite common in many parts
of the tropics.
All that one had to do was to hide in
a quiet place on the bank early in the
morning or just before sunset, and they
were sure to come. They follow the
shore, where leaves and branches over
hang the water, for in hot countries
the flies and other insects are often
found resting on the lower side of the
leaves, where it is cooler and where
they make a fine target for the shooting-fish.
The fish swims along the surface till
he discovers a fly not more than five or
six feet away over the water. Then he
draws back a little, makes his mouth
into a curious tube, like a little blow
gun, and darts out a drop of water so
swiftly and so straight that he hits his
mark nine times out of ten. He lies
perfectly still with his eyes fixed on
the fly. The drop of water hits him,
knocks him from the leaf, and spatters
over his wings so that for a moment he
can not use them, and he falls toward
the water. If it is some distance the
fish knows that he may recover and es
cape before he reaches the pool, so he
makes a jump and catches the fly in
the air; but if he thinks it safe to wait
he will lie still till the fly strikes the
water. If he should happen to miss in
his first shot he will swim about to an
other position and try it again.
To see what would happen I once
fastened a live fly to the bottom of a
leaf about four feet above the water.
Very soon a finny hunter came along
and tried a shot at him. I never knew
before that a fish had any expression,
but there was surely a look of pro
found astonishment about that fish
when the fly failed to fall. He was so
sure he had hit him that he did not go
to a new position, but fired again from
the same spot. Then he swam a few
feet away and came back and tried
aerain. Then he crrew excited and sent
' drop after drop in a perfect volley.
Then, in utter disgust, he gave the
i water a good slash with his tail and
swam away.
I When I looked at the fly the poor
little fellow was completely covered
with water and actually drowned.
Henry W. French, in Harper's Weekly.
The First Marines.
The marines were first established ia
16G4, when a corps was formed to sup
ply trained sailors for the fleet. The
merchant navy at that time was not
large enough to supply the king's
ships, and the impressed men were in
j general unruly. A certain number of
marines were therefore placed in each
ship to keep the crew in order. Thus
at first marines were trained sailors,
and not soldiers, although at that time,
and both before and after, the fighting"
in men-of-war was done by soldiers.
No special rvgiment was set apart for
this duty, but sometimes one and some
times another was employed. The duke
of York (afterward James IL) wis in
command of a regiment which was for
some time employed in this way.
Chambers' Journal.
Incredible.
Bridget noolohan came over from Ire
land, and the day after her arrival in
this country, "took service" with a resi
. dent of Governor's Island.
"Sure, ma'am, an' phwat's that n'ise?
i demanded Bridget of her mistress, as
the sunset gun boomed, on the evening
of her arrival.
"That? O, it's the sunset," replied
the lady.
"Is it, indade, ma'am!" ejaculated
Bridget, with her hands raised in as
tonishment. "Why, af ther hearin' that
n'ise all yure loife, Oi suppose yezll
harrdly belave me, but in Oirland the
sun goes down jist as aiy as aisy can
be, ma'am, wid niver a bit av a soundr
Youth's Companion.
Straightened by Her Stepmother.
A particularly straight young woman
says that she owed her figure and,
what is more, her health to her step
mother. When this latter person came
into the family she found there a
round-shouldered, narrow-chested lit
tle girl. Not only was she unflagging
in her efforts to make the child stand
erect during the day, but it was a
never-failing custom of hers to go each
night after the girl was asleep to her
room, pull the small pillow from be
neath her head and draw the little
form to an absolutely straight length
as it lay. Unceasing diligence in these
respects has accomplished a transform
ation indeed. Philadelphia Press.
A Shower of W heat.
In the year 1696 or thereabouts it was
a report in Bristol and thereabouts that
it rained wheat about this town and
six or seven miles round, and many be
lieved it. One Mr. Cole being curious
to find out the truth of the odd phe
nomenon, procured several parcels of
it, and upon diligent examination of
them with magnifying glasses, judged
from the taste, figure, size and smell
that they were seeds of ivy berries,
driven by a strong wind from the holes
and chinks of houses, churches and
other buildings, where starlings and
other birds had lain or dropped them,
but if so it's strange that they should
fall in so great quantities in so many
places. Cox's Magna Britannia.
A Typical Jaror.
"What's the judge going to do now?"
staked the green juror, in a whisper.
"He's going to charge the jury," said
the foreman.
"Charge the jury? Charge us? What
for? We don't have to pay nothin' for
the privilege of sittin' on jury, do we"
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