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PLATTSMOUTII,
NEBRASKA.
OVEB THE STATE.
The agricultural fair at Wood River
was a grand success.
Ha li. county has been redistricted
under the Hums law.
Fbemoxt's hemp factory has started
up on the season's crop.
Nebraska farmers are learning" that
it pays to plow deep and plant early.
Akkaxgkmknts are being" made for
big irrigation meeting in Sidney in
Decern ber.
Ed Ryersox. fell from a third story
window in Lincoln, but was not seri
ously injured.
It cost a Thomas county farmer $5 to
recover a yellow dog stolen by a party
of emigrants he had befriended.
The beet harvest is now in progress
in Dodge county, and is furnishing
plenty of work to men and teams.
The Cedar county fair association is
paying its premiums in full and will
have a surplus to turn in on old debts.
There is room for from five hundred
to one thousand small herds of cattle
on the divides north and south of Sid
ney. Five hundred acres of beets were
grown near Wayne this year. Next
year one thousand acres will be culti
vated. STiie beet fields in Wayne county are
yielding from fourteen to twenty tons
per acre, the lowest netting the farm
ers about S3tf per acre.
Two Aixswohth boys, Edward and
Frank Kiser, aged respectively 13 and
11, were trotted off to the reform
school as incorrigibles.
The corner stone of the Methodist
church at Palisade was put in place
last Saturday, Rev. D. W. C. Hunting
ton of Lincoln officiating.
A local branch of the Nebraska Cen
traL Building and Loan association of
Lincoln, has been organized at Raven
na and several hundred sales found
ready purchasers.
The Plainview house was closed
under a chattel mortgage given by the
proprietor to the bank of Plainview.
A settlement may be agreed upon to
enable the house to remain open.
Ox the 13th inst. the Methodists of
Oakland will begin a series of revival
meetings. Evangelist D. W. McGregor
will do the preaching and I. N. Mc
Hose will have charge of the music
Ed Smith, an employe of the H. & M.
at Plattsmouth, saw an advertisement
in an eastern paper and responded. As
a result the bride came from Altoona,
Pa., to that city, and they were mar
ried last week.
William Swaxsox was arrested at
Syracuse for stealing horse blankets
from horses standing in the street. lie
pleaded guilty and was punished.
Other property found with him is held
for identification.
The preliminary hearing of Alonzo
Moore, charged with being criminally
intimate with the 15-year-old daughter
of Fred W. Patterson of Rock Bluff,
was held at Plattsmouth, and the pris
oner bound over without baiL
A move is on foot in Weeping Water
by which a stock company is being or
ganized to sink an artesian well to sup
ply a lake to be used for various pur
poses, including the city's ice supply.
The leading capitalists of that town
are interested.
David Eaton of Otoe county met
with an accident. He was engaged in
topping" cane, when a mis-stroke
caused the keen edge of the knife to
strike his left arm near the wrist,
severing the artery and tendons and
making a very ugly wound.
Charles Mixxey of Ohiowa is much
worried about the whereabouts of his
son Arthur, who recently left home.
The old gentleman says he has no de
sire to compel the boy to stay with
him, but is only anxious to know if he
has procured employment.
Judge J. B. Cessn a will leave shortly
for New Mexico. The judge is still
engaged on the land grant case in
which he was defeated before the
court of private land claims, but says
he will go to the supreme court with it,
where he will probably win.
Dr. C. E. Coffix, who takes the
place as assistant superintendent of
the Lincoln insane hospital, made va
cant by the resignation of Dr. Greene,
is one of the leading physicians of the
Loup country, and though a young
man, has made a reputation in his cho
sen field.
G. Ik Martixdale, living near Exe
ter, has a contrivance for getting
water out of his well by means of
horse power. His children were draw
ing water when his daughter, Maud,
got her hand caught on the rppe at
one of the pulleys, and it was fearfully
lacerated and burned by the rope.
F. J. Hale of Battle Creek started
into the bee business last spring with
fifteen stands of bees. He now has
forty-five stands, an increase of thirty
stands, and has taken over 1,500 pounds
of very fiine honey from them, which
he values, with the increase of bees, at
$400. Mr. Hale feels very proud over
the success he has, had with his bees
this season.
A curious state of affairs, says the
Rushville Democrat, exists in a great
many counties of the state in regard to
the work of destroying Russian
thistles, which falls to the lot of road
overseers. Rather than to be subject
to fines for not . performing their duty
many overseers have resigned. Iu
counties where there is much vacant
land the most trouble has been experi
enced. No one seems to be responsible
for the cost of destruction, and the
counties will be unable to collect the
cost.
The county recorder's statement of
Otoe county for September shows
twenty-two farm mortgages filed,
amounting to 833,909, and twenty-four
released, amounting to 23,034.50.
There were fifteen city mortgages filed
showing $12,620.28, and four released,'
amounting to 53,630.20.
The grain dealers at Sidney are
making extensive purchases of
wheat, rye oats and barley from
the farmers, and most of the
small grain has been raised on the
high divide, where one must dig from
eighty to 200 feet for water. The grain
is of excellent quality, free from
weeds. j
Second Wife of an Old Man.
Nebraska City dispatch: In July of
the present year an old man named
Horace Howard, whose wife had died a
few months before, came to this city in I
search of another wife. He offered a
bonus to any one procuring one for
him, and as he was worth about $50.
000 he was successful, marrying a wo
man named Delaney. It is said he
presented her with a large sum of
money prior to and after the marriage
yesterday. James Brown, a son-in-law,
came to the city to investigate.
He claims that the woman was never
divorced from her first husband and is
consequently guilty of bigamy. He
also claims that there is a big conspira
cy to fleece the old man, who is over SO
years old, out of his his wealth, and he
proposes to cause several arrests as
soon as he procures some additional ev
idence. Mr. Howard is well known in
this county.
liooming Milford's Gold Find.
Lincoln dispatch: Owen Prentiss, an
attorney from Cripple Creek, Colo., was
in Mil ford today looking over the
alleged gold fields. He represents a
number of Colorado capitalists. He
says that if he finds anything to justify
the belief that there is gold in this dis
trict there will be plenty of capital
forthcoming to work the mines. Today
David Nefsky went out to his property
to commence operations with a drill.
Grocer Taylor, who recently made the
S12.0C0 investment, is preparing to do
the same. Arrangements were made
with the railroad to stop the traiu to
day and allow the Lincoln delegation
to the Milford soldiers home dedication
-o inspect the "gold fields."
.Suggestions to Teacher.
State Superintendent Corbett com
mends to the careful attention of all
persons interested in educational mat
ters a circular oa the subject of Library
day. For Nebraska public schools
Library day has been set for Monday,
October 21. A suggestion is
the teachers:
"One of the ways is to
program in which teacher,
made for
prepare a
children
and some of the patrons take part.
Another is a program in which every
family represented in the school pre
sents a story, an essay, a recitation, a
declamation, or snmftthincf for the pii- I
, - o
tertainment of the people of the com-
munity wno are invilea ior me even
ing. A third is for the teacher to pre
pare a talk or lecture on the books
selected for the pupils' reading course
by the Reading Circle board and give
this on the evening of Library day to
as many old and young, as can be in-
ducedto come. A fourth plan is to
give out five or six of the Pupils Head
ing circle books to a number of the
most earnest and intelligent men and
women (one to each) in the district on
educational matters and ask each to
make an eight or ten minute talk on
Vhat I found in the book for chil
dren. These talks with music by the
school, or by some of the people of the
community, in connection with the
talk of the teacher, would form a pleas
ant and profitable evening. Ask the
school authorities to buy a part or all
of the set selected by the Reading
Circle board for the pupils, as the needs
of the school and the ability of the dis
trict may demand."
Wanted for Seventeen Year.
Sheriff J. P.Wetherford of Oskaloosa,
Kan., was in Lincoln last week to pro
cure requisition papers for Jim Daugh
erty, who is wanted in the Sunflower
state for assisting in robbing
a bank at Nortonville, Kan., in
1882. Governor Holcomb granted the
papers, and the sheriff left yesterday
afternoon for Falls City, Neb., where
he has located Daugherty.
The crime for which Daugherty is
wanted was committed by him. Poke
Wells and another pal. Wells was shot
dead by a watchman. Daugherty and
his other pal were captured. While in
jail Daugherty got possession of two
revolvers with which he held up the
jailor and made his escape.
Since that time the officers have been
following him to get the $2,000 reward i
offered for his apprehension. He was j
located in Kansas City once, but he got
wind of the pursuit and escaped before
the officers could land him. He was
tracked to Falls City by Sheriff Weth
erford. Daugherty is a desperate
criminal, and the sheriff expected
trouble in arresting him.
Wisner Woman Commits Suicide.
Wisner dispatch: Mrs. W. T. Grimes
died at her home, two miles north of
town, last evening from the effects of
a dose of Paris green taken yesterday
afternoon with suicidal intent. The
deceased had been confined in the Nor
folk asylum for the insane for several
months, but was much improved in her
menial condition, and was allowed by
the authorities of that institution tore
turn home with her husband Friday.
She appeared benefitted by being with
her family, but in a relapse used the
drug to end her life. She was highly
respected by this community, in which
she had lived for eighteen years. She
was a member of the Christian church
and of the Woman's Relief corps of this
place, whose members attended her
funeral in a body, which took place this
afternoon from the Methodist church.
For C'otner Medical College.
On the 8th the State Board of Health
took financial action in the matter of
the Cotner Medical college, the med
ical school of Cotner university. It was
decided to grant certificates to practice
to the class graduated by the school last
June, but a warning was served on the
present senior class and the faculty
that facilities for clinical instruction
in medicine must be provided better
than those now at hand. It was held
that the school had complied at least
with the spirit, and that in f ture both
letter and spirit must be observed.
The church social is a serious thing
for young men of limited means in all
sections of America, but In Kentucky,
Tennessee and West Virginia It is pos
itively dangerous. Hardly an affair of
the kind Is held in the rural regions
that at least one man does not give up
his life not to religion, but to one or
another of the thousand feuds of that
section.
Whether it is a case of the office
seeking the man or the man seeking
the office, the search is a diligent one
nowadays over a great many states.
THE GOVERNOR SAYS NO.
CORBETT AND FITZSIMMONS CAN
NOT FIGHT AT HOT SPRINGS.
HIS ULTIMATUM ISSUED.
The Fighters and Their Manager
Notified That Any Attempt to Fall
Off the Mill In Arkansas Is Just
Ho Much Time and Energy
Wasted The Chief Ex
ecutive's Warning:.
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 1 1. Gov-
i WAVT AUA n, fTliW uuj uccu cAaiuiuiu
the law closely touching the guberna
torial power to prevent prize fighting,
has outlined his intentions in commu
nications addressed to officers at Hot
Springs and the principals of the pro
posed fight. The governor will hold
himself ready to co-operate with Judge
Duffie, of the Hot Springs district, to
prevent the fight, should it appear
that the local authorities fail to im
press upon the fighters and their back
ers with sufficient force the propriety
of declaring the fight off. In his letter
to Judge Duffie, Governor Clark says:
"I beg to assure you that you shall
have my prompt and cheerful co-operation
in any effort you may make to
suppress the proposed prize fight at
Hot Springs. Any order that you
may make in this connection shall not
prove ineffective for want of power to
enforce it. I say this with confidence,
because 1 hold in the highest respect
the fidelity and courage of Sheriff
Uoupt. I feel sure that his active as
sistance can be relied upon, but it is
said that even Jupiter sometimes nods.
If it shall, c ontrary to my expecta
tions, become necessary to proceed
without the valuable aid of the
sheriff, I stand ready to supply all
that may be necessary.
In addition to notifying President
Stuart of the Florida Athletic cljib by
mail of his determination to prevent
I man i
ne g
ght. Governor Clark telegraphed
to Corbett and Fitzsimmons as follows:
"I am advised by the press dis
patches that it is your purpose at an
early day to engage in a prize fight in
this state. The purpose of this is to
inform you that such an act is a viola
tion of om law and an affront to the
I sentiment of state pride entertained
by our people,
"It will, therefore, not be possible
for you to accomplish any such pur
pose, and any attempt upon your part
to do so will subject you to penalties
and to treatment that I am sure will
be highly distasteful to you. In the
present state of public opinion, which
at least is the force that influences
penalties, prize fighters have no rights
which those in authority are bound to
respect. But there is no lack of law
to make it now my duty to do all that
is here indicated. As this is the only
communication that I shall address to
you, I have been somewhat more em
phatic than would be the case if the
matter were open to discussion."
Dr. Parker Writes the Pope.
London, Oct. 14. Dr. Joseph Parker
has written a letter to the pope in
answer to the pastoral letter advocat
ing a reunion of Christendom, in which
he says:
"Were this a personal matter, I
could hardly forgive myself for seek
ing to approach a presence so august
and venerable. But inasmuch as you
have appealed to all sections upon the
questions which affect the standing of
the soul before God, I have embold
ened myself to bear witness to the
headship of the blessed Christ and to
decline communion with any man or
church that would officially or pre
frcriptively come between me and my
Savior."'
Mr. Holllilay Accepts.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 1 4. Charles K.
Holliday who was recently nominated
by petition for chief justice on the
Independent Free Silver Resubmission
ticket, has addressed a formal letter
of acceptance to Colonel W. I. Tom
linson, Oscar Bischoff, L. T. Yount
and others. Mr. Holliday enters into
a lengthy discussion of the money
question from a free coinage point of
viewand scores the national adminis
tration. Frank Goodale Demented.
Coffey ville, Kan., Oct. 14. Frank
Goodale, the merchant of Gridley.who
went to Kansas City to buy goods
about three weeks ago, and had not
been heard of since, was captured in
this city yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
T. L Reid and J. M. Wilder of Yates
Center, Kan., and D. L. Goodale of
Aurora, 111. He is in a demented con
dition, and was in the act of boarding
a Missouri Pacific freight for the West.
Four Men Killed.
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14. Fout
men were killed and seven others
fatally injured as the result of an un
explained accident at the Cleveland
rolling mills at 9 o'clock last night.
The furnaces were carrying heavy fires
and the casting department was work
ing a full force. Without warning,
and in a manner wholly inexplainable,
the casting house, the largest building
of the plant, collapsed, burying many
of its occupants in the debris.
The President's Vacation Ended.
Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Oct." 14.
President Cleveland and Private Secre
tary Thurber left last night on board
the Oneida, Commodore E. C. Benedict's
steam yacht, for Washington. With
favorable weather the party should
reach their destination on Monday.
Mrs. Cleveland and the children will
leave Gray Gables for the White house
earlv next week.
Cuban Day at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 14. Cuban inde
pendence is to be recognized at the
exposition, the directors having de
cided to have a Cuban independence
day during November. The Cubans of
the United States interested in the
revolution in Cuba will be invited
here, and several prominent men are
to be asked to address them.
ELOPERS FAIL.
Sedalia and St. Joseph Couples Forced
to Return Home Unmarried.
Quiscr, 111., Oct. 14. Leonord Men
efe, aged 18, and Lulu Yuchs. aged 16,
left their homes at Sedalia, Mo
Thursday and came "here to be married.
They were taken in charga by the po
lice on their arrival here and were
sent back home last night. They
eloped onee before, going to Kansas.
They met the same , fate that they
have encountered here. Both express
their intention of trying it again, and
hope that the third effort will prove
a charm.
St. Joseph, Ma, Oct. It. J. Will
Gray and Miss Mary Frances Judson
returned from St. Louis yesterday un
married. The girl is a daughter of
VV. R. Judson of the Turner-Frazer
Mercantile company and the would-be
groom is a salesman in a shoe house.
Tuesday the young lady went to Atch
ison, ostensibly to visit" friends, but
instead was met at that place by Gray
and the two left for St. Louis. As
soon as they arrived there they applied
ior a license, out were refused because
Miss Judson is under 18. After ex
hausting all efforts they gave it up
and returned here, where Gray made
another effort to secure a license, but
failed again. By this time the par
ents of the girl captured her. The re
sult is 3'et in doubt.
TROUBLE IN COREA.
Two United States Warships at Chem
ulpo The Queen Probably Slain.
Washington, Oct. 14. Admiral Car
penter, in command of the Asiatic
squadron, cabled to the navy depart
ment to-day that "he had dispatched
the gunboat Petrel from Che Foo to
Chemulpo, the seaport nearest to
Seoul, the capital of Corea. The York
town had already gone to Chemulpo,
ao that the United States will have
two ships near the scene of the re
ported conflict.
A cable cipher from the admiral
said that affairs in Seoul were in a
very disturbed state and that officers
of what is known as the "King's par
ty" had taken refuge in the United
States legation building. It was re
ported, the admiral went on, that the
queen of Corea had been assassinated
At the urgent demand of the United
btates charge d affaires at Seoul the
marine guard of the cruiser Yorktown
was sent to Seoul for the protection of
me legation and American interests
generally.
CARROLLTON INCENSED.
urutai Assault on a Young Woman
May End In a Lynching.
Carrolltox, Mo., Oct. U. Yester
day afternoon about 4 oclock. Miss
Lena Bratvogel, while on her way
nome near here with her half-sister,
at: : T"-ii ,
limine n.iuKe7, was met oy a young
negro at a lonely spot on the road and
insulted by him. The girls started to
run, when the negro caught Miss
Bratvogel, dragged her into a corn
fleld and brutally assaulted her. Her
screams attracted the attention of
ebster Calhoun, who ran toward the
place, but the negro managed to es
cape. Calhoun took the girl home and then
came to town and gave the alarm.
Officers immediately began a search
and so far have arrested four vounc
negroes. The people are deeply in
censed and if the girl identifies any of
the prisoners there will almost cer
tainly be a lynching to-night.
Sattley's Case Delayed.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. The ap
peal case of Elmer C. Sattley, the con
victed cashier of the Kansas City Safe
Deposit and Savings bank, was to
have come up before the supreme
court of Jefferson City to-day, but the
attorneys for the defense have asked
for a continuance owing to the illness
of John O'Grady, senior member of
the counsel, and that the case be
placed at the foot of the docket. If
this is done the case will not be heard
for fifteen days at least. ,
Pulitzer Opens War on Jones.
New York, Oct. 14. As a result of
the injunction obtained by Editoi
Charles H. Jones of the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, Joseph Pulitzer, owner of
the World and of five-sixths of the
Post-Dispatch stock, ordered Thurs
day night the severance of all rela
tions between the two papers. Here
after, so long as Jones in in control,
no World news or feature will be al
lowed in the Post-Dispatch.
A Feeling of "Unqualified Regret."
London, Oct. 14. The Chronicle
says this morning on the subject
of the pamphlet history of his diplom
atic experience in the United States,
issued by Lord Sackville, former min
ister at Washington: ;The feeling ex
isting with reference to the appear
ance of the Sackville pamphlet is one
of unqualified regret. This finds itf
sirongest expression, perhaps, in
diplomatic circles."
The , Everest. K an.. Bank Falls.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 14. State Bank
Commissioner Briedenthal was to-day
notified of the failure of the State
bank of Everest in Brown county and
will go there to take possession. The
officers are: John Lyons, president,
and N. F. Hess cashier. The July
statement showed a capital stock of
912,000, deposits $29,067.85, cash assets
57,102.28.
The Black Hills Shaken Up.
Lkad City, S. D., Oct. 14. At 7
o'clock last evening the Central and
North Central ' portion ' of the Black
Hills felt an earthquake shock. Win
dows rattled, doors slammed, houses
rocked, dishes were rattled, but as far
as head there was no serious damage.
The shock was felt over a region thirty-five
miles square.
A Ball Player Guilty of Murder.
Fkeeport, 111., Oct. 14. Frank W
Harris,' the professional base ball
player, who murdered Charles W.
Bepgel last May, was found guilty to
day and sentenced to be hanged.
An engineer was fatally and two
brakemen badly hurt in a Monon
fre.'ght wreck near Francisville, Ind.
The number of Armenians dead,
wounded and missing, as the result of
the recent riot, is 700.
CUBA'S INSUERECTI0N
SPAIN
TO ACT PROMPTLY
CRUSHING IT.
IN
Sensational Rumor Concerning Warnings
of Uncle Sam The Spanish Minister at
Washington Said to Have Notified Ills
Government that This Country Will
Act Unless the Cuban Rebellion is Soon
Suppressed. , .
Madrid Much Excited.
Washington, Oot. 12. A cable mes
tage from Madrid received here early
this morning said that it was reported
there on the best of authority that
the American government had notified
the Spanish 'minister at Washington
that it was necessary for Spain to act
promptly in crushing the Cuban in
surrection, and that the report caused
a profound sensation m Madrid.
The truth of the report cannot be
confirmed at the state department.
The officials, when approached, would
neither affirm nor deny the story,
though their manner would indicate
disapproval of its accuracy. It is be
lieved quite probable that representa
tions may have been made to Spain of
the wisdom of aggressive and active
operations against the Cuban insurg
ents, but it is thought that the United
States government did not make these
suggestions, and that, if made, they
came from Minister DeLome and were
based on his personal views of the
situation and on his observation of the
trend of sentiment in the United
States and his knowledge of the pur
pose of the friends of the insurgents
to press their cause vigorously soon
after the assembling of congress.
Daily events point strongly to a de
termination to force the question on
the attention of congress in the belief
that the legislative channel affords
AL. a. a. i i
iuusb pracucaDie route to the ac
complishment of something in behalf
of Cuban independence, the executive
branch of the government, in the very
nature of things, being more con
strained in its action than the legisla
tive department.
Senor DeLome left here to-day on a
very early train, and therefore no in
formation could be gained from him
concerning the Madrid dispatch.
THE TOLlCr OF THIS COUNTRY.
Senor DeLome, the Spanish min
ister, had a short interview with
Secretary Olney yesterday, and in the
course of their conversation the min
ister, perhaps in answer to the secre
tary's inquiry, made a statement that
operations in Cuba would be conducted
with greater vigor hereafter. As the
president must certainly make some
reference to the insurrection in' his
annual message to congress when it
meets in December, it would be but
natural that Secretary Olney, upon
wnom ne must rely for his in forma
tion, should take steps to gather data
upon which to base a judgment of
probable future events.
While it is true that President Grant
did, as indicated in his messages to
congress, entertain a belief that inter
vention in the then procressiner rebel
lion in Cuba would be justifiable, this
view was never acceptable to Secre
tary iish, and it has not secured the
adherence of international lawyers,
The whole weight of authority is de
cidedly adverse to the assertion by a
neutral nation of a right to say when
war between two combatants has
progressed to a point where it must
be stopped. It may be recalled
vnai some sucn proposition was
made during the last stages of the
China-Japanese war, but it never went
further than the exercise of the good
offices of the interested nations to
bring about peace, which function is
entirely distinct from direct interven
tion. lhe question is also separate
from that of the recognition of the
belligerence of the insurgents, which.
according to American policy and
practice, must be determined "purely
Dv the tacts in each case.
DEBS CONTRADICTED.
Che Illinois Federation of Lnlior Not
Against Hallway Brotherhoods.
Peoria, 111., Oct. 12. At the meet
ing of the Illinois Federation of Labor
this morning the resolutions commit
tee reported adversely a resolution de
claring the convention is in entire
sympathy with the action of E. V.
Debs in his work of the strike of the
American Railway union against Pull
man and the Railroad Managers' asso
ciation, but issuing a protest against
any expression by him declaring- that
trades unions were inadequate.
This elicited a stormy debate, last
ing two hours, and finally the follow
ing was adopted as a substitute:
Whereas, Eugene V. Debs has stated
that the railway brotherhoods had
been repudiated by organized labor,
be it
Resolved, That the Illinois Federa
tion of Labor deny such assertion, and
extend to the railway brotherhoods
our approval and assurance of con
tinued esteem.
Resolutions were adopted boycott-
Inc the Washburn-Crosby Milling com
pany of Minneapolis and the Werner
Printinir company of Akron, Ohio, and
unanimously and heartily indorsing
Governor Altgeld and his administra
tion. .
Child Elopes With a Negro.
Hwvfr Col.. Oct. 1 2. Mattie
Younc. a srirl 14 years of age, of Lex-
Ineton. Ma, was arrested last evening
noon advices from Kansas City, Mo.
The girl was attending school in Lex
ington and in the same city lived a
neirro.bv the name of DanCoates.
He
m,a. a. friend of the child's family and,
notwithstanding his 40 years, made
love to the child. On September 22
n elopement was successful.
rbe Wife of the Heathen King Believed
to Hare Been K 11 led in an Uprising.
Yokohama, Oct. 12. Count Koumou
ra, director of the political bureau, has
forwarded from Seoul, the capital of
Corea, a report upon the recent upris
ing there.
It is now supposed that the queen of
Corea was killed by the anti-reformers
who. headed by Tai-Ron-Kin, the
king's father and leader of that party,
forced an entrance into the palace at
he head of an armed force, which
I caused the Japanese troops to take
possession of and guard that building
1 to restore order.
FORTUNE IN A ROOM.
Over a Mil.Ioi Dollars Left
ft Bebd
12LM1.
by a Recluse.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct.
Sarah Coolidge, for thirty years a re
cluse in a secluded house here, died of
apoplexy Wednesday. She always
passed as a woman of moderate cir
cumstances. When the undertaker'
disrobed the body preparatory to era-
balming it, he found various assort-
ments of gold coins tucked away in "
concealed pockets in her clothing.
This led to a search of the room and
it proved to be a , veritable gold mine.
In vases and in other pieces of bric-a-brac,
in shoes, in bureau drawers, and
in every conceivable nook and cranny
the searchers found $20,000 in cash,
mostly in gold coin. In one dilapi-
uuiea nana Dag was a roll of bills ag
gregating 83.800. On the shelf in her
closet were bank books representing
6cores of thousands more, with securi
ties and deeds showing a valuation of
over a million dollars. One document
showed her to be the owner of prop-
j - - - v iioautuituu a u li
Avon streets, Boston, which pays a
rental of 31,000 a month.
In addition to the money and the
bank books there were dresses of the
most stylish and expensive goods,
covered with jewels and old laces--Many
of these gowns would, easily re-
ceive a valuation of 51,000 each. All
the chamber closets and wardrobes
were filled with these expensive gowns
and none of them have ever beeiK
worn.
a lie hrrvji 11 r si wppn Titxrat nArmiririfi
to enter the room in which the treas
ure was found, though there was no
special effort to secure protection
from thieves. There were over $30o,
000 of negotiable securities in that
room guarded only by an old woman
and four women servants. Nobody
dreamed that it was there, so the vast
sum was secure.
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER
She Airs Iler Domestic Diilloaltles In
the Newspapers.
New York,' Oct. 12. Mrs. James
Brown Potter has made public her
reasons for leaving her home for a
life on lhe stage. In an interview she
said:
"I have never for one moment re
gretted going upon the stage; neither
have I ever cast one longing look back
at the old society days, nor even
thought with pleasure of the so-called
social triumph I was said to have
made. I look upon those things as
hollow and utterly vapid; they mean
absolutely nothing. It is nine years
since I left New York, and I have
lost all interest in the city's social
set. Indeed, I care as little for
them as they care for me. First of
l11 1.1 .1 4. T I
me aay iiidt j. was mucn amused
at something said in the papers a few
days ago about Mr. James Brown Pot
ter s posing as a saint, keeping his
home ready for my return at any time
I chose to come back. It is very nice
of Mr. Potter to express such sickly
sentiment. That house and home hap- A
pens to be mine, as well as everything
in the house. It was given to me by
Pierre Lorillard for the successful
work I did in getting people to join
the Tuxedo club.
"My ideas of life and those of the
Potters were at variance. I was
brought up to think that life was real
and that love ruled the world. The
Potters lived only for outside show,
always seemed to be afraid to appear
natural and were always at swords
points with one another. There was
nothing natural, nothing genuine in
this new life I was leading. All was
conventional, all surface. My enthusi
asm and naturalness were chilled by
the Potters. My success in private
theatricals paved the way to some
thing belter, and one day, sick and
weary of all the mockery, tired of the
constant fault-finding to which I was
compelled to submit, tired of going
out with a smiling face and a breaking
heart, tired of tha snubs of the Pot
ters, who are always jealous of each
other, tired of genteel poverty, I
walked out of that home Mr. Potter is
keeping for me and left everything be
hind me. I have never been permitted
to go back to get my belongings, and
not even as much as a pair of sleeve
buttons has ever been sent me. I sac
rificed little to gain the glorious her
itage of honest indenendeneft."
DURRANT'S GREAT NERVE.
Goes Back
On Him Just Once During
Cross-Examination.
Saw Francisco, Oct. 12. Under the
rigid cross-examination of District At
torney Barnes, Theodore Durrant
made a number of answers that are
regarded as decidedly incriminating.
inasmuch as they appear to be in di
rect conflict with well established
facts.
He gave an explanation of a clue
regarding Blanche Lamont's disap
pearance, said to have been received
by him, that was so palpably a false
hood that everybody in the room
laughed aloud. The stifling atmos
phere of the overcrowded court room
came to Durrant's rescue and he was
enabled to recover from his confusion
during the short recess that followed.
When he again came to the stand ne
remained calm during the most trying
ordeala The prosecution was, never
theless, well satisfied with the day's
work, for it had accomplished what
had never been done before Durrani
for a moment had lost his wonderful
self-possession, and had been caught
in a number of barefaced untruths.
JUDGE COOK FALLS DEAD.
The Republicans of tho Eie-htnth mi.
nols District Lose Their Candidate.
Chicago, Oct. 12. Cyrus T. Cook, a
leading Republican politician of Ed-
wardsville, fell dead at the Great
Northerh hotel to-day. where he was
attending a meeiinsr.
Ex-Chief Brooks Passes Away.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. IS. James J.
Brooks, ex-chief of the United States
secret service department, but of late
years in charge of a local detective
agency, died this morning of heart
disease at his residence in this city,
aged 76 years.
Democratic Business Men.
Nkw York, Oct 12. The Democratic
business men of the City of New York
will probably next week issue aa
drestes to the people of the state of
New York urging the support of the
whole Democratic ticket in the coming
election.
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