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4 n- 2i, 1897 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 12 GRAL SPORTING. THE HORTON PRIZE-FIGHTING BILL IN NEW YORK. It Is Now Believed to Have Been rais ed tn the Interest of Knockout Mills at Incorporated Clubs Notes and Comment. PECULIAR state of affairs for the solons to settle rose last week In New York city. It seems that Bob Fitzsim mons and Jim C01 bett had been .sit ing about paving a prize fight;. vLIch, under the Horton law, is now ac ounted a criminal procedure such as ) rouse the municipality. When it is tated that one of the officials tried p get evidence of such a state of af irs from the sporting editors, it may e guessed with what gravity the whole thing was considered. The prin cipals were arrested. At the same time that this was going on Pady Slavin was being pounded in the neck in the immediate neighborhood by the mau leys of Steve O'Donnell. But the lat ter were boxing under the protection Bf the Horton bill, while Fitz and Jim had probably contemplated going un der Dan Stuart or some one else. The aforementioned solons studied the comparative merits of the case about twenty-four hourp, when they conclud ed to run Fitz and his proposed appo neut down, which seems to indicate that they have drawn a well-defined distinction. The kangaroo man claims he is not guilty, as he had not actu ally signed any contract; nevertheless, he challenged Corbett at a hotel the other day, showing plainly enough his Intent. That far he is guilty. But the question probably is: Were he and Jim speaking of prize fighting or of boxing in some incorporated club? If the New York officials can prove that the men had contemplated fighting with five-ounce gloves some place out Bide the state instead of boxing with uve-ounce gloves within some of the numerous clubs of the state it may go hard with them. Let them make an example of them, if they be found guilty- White and Dixon. - The draw Tommy White made with George Dixon of twenty rounds in New Fork, in which the westerner showed c lomething better than even that is, allowed he should have won had it , progressed to a finish has set the Chi lago boy's friends wild over him. If Tommy meets Dixon again, particu . larly if it be to a finish, there is a ' on of money in Chicago to back his .: "hanrpR At thpir mpctinir PVirlav aight they were offering 2 to 1 on Dix n and prophetic scribes of the east lang doleful chimes for the westerner. Dixon'6 admirers will offer disserta tions upon the subject of his going back, not considering, perhaps, how it was that the colored champion could itay at a rushing clip for the best part of an hour, a pace at which the Chi cagoan met him half-way at all times. Possibly Dixon may not be quite as good as he has been, but there will be no use trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. Ho might have been a flegree or bo better on Friday night, and still not have had it in him to do anything with Tommy. It is very safe o say, all things considered, that Tom my White has been of late coming along much faster than the other has been taking an opposite course, and for ome time out this way the Chicago I epresentative has been recognized the oest material in the boxing world to jtack against the colored wonder. If Tommy retains as level a head as he ias within th9 past year there is no reason why he should not be the next featherweight champion. The little Chicagoan's position toward the feath srweight championship and some other ispirants for the title v-ill be gone )ver in. this column at another time. Gaudaur's Welcome. J. G. Gaudaur of Orilla, the cham pion oarsman of the world, the vic- JAKE GAUDAUR. tor in England over Stanbury, of Aus tralia, was enthusiastically received at Toronto, Ont., on the occasion of his arrival from Europe. "The champion replied that he was indeed grateful if the success of his journey to England had brought out such kind feelings and good wishes. Proud as he was of his own efforts, he was prouder still that the champion of the1 world wag again a Canadian. The Toronto wheelmen played ao un important part in the demonstration. Every club took part in the pande, and in many respects it was the most Imposing turnout of bicyclists epr witnessed in Toronto Corbett and Sharkey. The articles of agreement signed last June by- Jim Trbett and Tom Sharkey In San Francisco, in regard to their contemplated championship eneounter, calls for a finish, but the recent fight talk coming from 'Frisco, I note, Is con sidering a ten-round go between them "for the heavyweight championship." Up to this writing, however, Sharkey has not been heard from, and it is prob able he will not agree to modify the original finish into such a small num ber of rounds. But could there be a bona-flde championship contest, limited by ten rounds? It would be quite a comedown, to say the least, and it would probably be relegated to a dis tinct class of its own, specified as a ten round championship contest, the win ner being dubbed the ten-round heavy weight champion. It may be consid ered if pugilism ever falls into this rut there will be limit-round champion ships, from one round up to a hundred or more, and herein there may be pos sibly a solution of a division of the spoils among the various heavies now claiming the title. Let each claim his special number of rounds, at which nctch he feels he can lick anybody, and stay to it consistently in his newspaper talk. Regarding Corbett and Sharkey, the supervisors of San Francisco have al ready granted the boxers a permit to meet for ten rounds there when they get ready. I advise the sports of that country to get two or three other ten round permits, while they are at it, and sew them together for this special oc casion. The nativity of so many gold en sons of the arena should not be the first to want to knock finish institutions down to ten rounds. The Chess Trophy. Above is a picture of the Chess Tro phy recently won by England, Ireland and Scotland in the chess games against the world. It has just been completed, and is on exhibition in Dublin. The cup was' donated by George Newness, of Ireland. Billy Madden Not a Jonah. One of the most remarkable happen ings for some time is the fact that Billy Madden who doesn't remember Billy from the Mitchell-Sullivan day3 and several things in between? was abso lutely in. Steve O'Donnell's corner when he whipped Paddy Slavin. Now since the halcyon days referred to above the days of Sullivan and Mitchell Madden has not till this instance, so far as any records show, been in a win ning corner. His was a most persistent ease of hoodoo. He ran Peter Maher against Bob Fitsimmons at New Or leans; Joe Goddard against Denver Smith at New Orleans; Joe McAuliffe against Paddy Slavin in England, and did plenty more as bad. Mixing it with a Jonah has been very properly accounted the most direful thing in the lexicon of the gentleman of sport, and many in Mr. Madden's predica ment had quit years ago. But Mr. Madden never did; he ne'ver even wavered, and now he is before us bright and cheery as in the days gone by. In some future time, when Billy may have a monument erected to his memory, I suggest the simple lines: "After ten years he trun down a hoodoo." A Scribe's Trouble. W. C. Kelly, the sporting editor of the Cleveland "World," has the sym pathy of the newspaper fraternity in his troubles, and it is to be hoped that his plea of self-defense will be estab lished in the courts. During an alter cation with one Dave Nechutny and his brother, the former was knocked down by Kelly and stunned. JNecnutny was able to eo home, where-he died in a few hours. Kelly was arrested on a charge of manslaughter, but was released on giving bail in the sum of $5,000. It is chareed that he used a "billy" on the deceased, but he denies it, and the med ical evidence at the inquest was that Nechutny's death was due to a fracture of the skull caused by falling on the r.avement. The attending physician testifies that the injury could not have been inflicted by a "billy," as there was no mark on the skull. Mr. Kelly is popular in all circles, and his exonera tion from the charge will be hailed with satisfaction wherever he is known. Hanlon's Suggestion. The suggestion offered by Ned Han Ion, manager of the Baltimores, to pro tect the umpires next season is a good one. Hanlon, &t the League meeting, which is to be held in Chicago this fall, will offer an amendment to the rules governing the fining of players by um pires. The present rules give the um pire full authority to fine a player for unnecessary kicking, and then if the offense is repeated to remove him from the game. Hanlon's suggestion is to give the umpire full authority to re move any unruly player from the field for the first offense unless the umpire has misinterpreted one of the rules and the player wishes to call his attention to the error. One of the incidents of the coming opera season will be the revival by Mme. Melba of Rossini's "II Barbiere." Brave Stephen. Warren Gladden was a settler on Pine Creek at the time of the disas trous fort-st fires in Sanilac nnd Ilurju counties, .Midi., some years since. Ills family consisted of himself, his wi?e and baby girl. A Im.,v of fourteen made bis home with the Gladdens, worked for bis board nnd attended school. Stephen Boyd w:s an orphan. Neigh bors shook their heads when they learned that the Boyd loy had been taken in by the Gladdens, and prophe sied all sorts of trouble. The Hoyds had not been regarded with favor, hav ing had a reputation for shiftlessness. and how could his son be any better? They changed their minds, though, after the fire. And it happened In this way. School adjourned prematurely one afternoon. The teacher had re ceived news that the woods were on fire, and that the fire was coming their way. As Warren Gladden's house was the nearest, Stephen was allowed to go home first. The other children were soon after him, the teacher bringing up the rear. Stephen found Mrs. Gladden greatly alarmed, and advocated starting for Silford. but ere that could be reached there were woods and the fire seemed to be spreading around in that direc tion. Mrs. Gladden was sure they would be cut off. Then Stephen pro posed fighting fire with fire and burn ing the brush heaps around the house. "And thus hasten the destruction of the property?" exclaimed Mrs. Glad den. "Well, I don't know." replied the boy, a thoughtful look filling his eyes. "I remember once, when I was real small, seeing men whore my father worked save a mill from burning by building back-fires, and I think, if we could burn up all the loose stuff about here, before the big lire comes along, we would be safe." "You are only a boy, Stephen." "I know," with a downcast look. Then the toy walked away. When a short distance from the house he water In the open holt. Toward morn ing rain began to fall, nnd when the day dawned the fire had burued Itself out so nearly that our friends found It saTe for them to land. Slowly Stephen and his charges made their way back to the clearing on the creek. Here, by the smoking ruins of the house,, they found Warren Gladden and several ueighbors gloomily survey ing the ashes. Warren Gladden, alarmed at the re ports of the fire, which reached him in town, had hastened his return home. When he first entered the clearing he believed that his wife and baby were victims of the lire. When Mrs. Gladden told the story of her escape, through the aid of Stephen Boyd, the boy was showered with praise until his cheeks tingled. J. M. Merrill, in Philadelphia Inquirer. Electro-Mnvnetle Sentinel. Lieut. F. E. Badt una pntented an electro-magnetic sentinel which is de signed to give warning at a distant post of the approach of a hostile war ship to a submarine mine, or to ex plode the mine itself automatically. Such a device was badly needed. The usual method employed for coast pro tection by means of explosive mines has been to sink them in the waterway to be protected .ordinarily in a narrow channel, and from two olmervatories on shore, connected by telegraph and telephone', the officers on duty follow, by means of range-finders, the move ments of any hostile vessel. When tiu instruments indicate that the vessel is directly over the hidden mine a switch is thrown which sets free an Weenie current which explodes the mine. This method Is exjei.slve. as it entails keeping up two obsorvntoius. two sets of instruments and two or more oper ators. Moreover, the apparatus can not always be relied upon; it may get out of order just at the moment it in needed. It can folLw the movements of only one vessel at a time, and at night, in fegs or storms, it is of little or 110 use. Lieut. Badt's device Is au tomatic in its action and gives warn ing by night as well as by day. It N simple and direct in its operation and requires but one observatory, one set of instruments , nnd one attendant. When arrangements are made to ex- POOR HOPKINS. Jg "?3S. " "filter tpal . "Siiir Snved. paused and looked in the direction of the fire. He saw that it was fast cir cling about the little clearing, and that they would soon be hemmed in. All at once, Stephen thought of thu pond. It was a mile off, and to. reach it they must go diagonally across the country and part way through the woods; but, once there, they would bi safe. "It is doubtful," sf.id he, "whether, if we burned all the brush in the clearing, we could save the hoi se. Let us make for the pond. I know where Indian Tom-leaves his canoe. Come." Mrs. Gladden hastily made prepara tions for flight. Gathering a few neces sary articles In a satchel, she placed this in the hands of Stephen; then snatched up her babe and followed the boy across the clearing to the road leading to the lake. Down the forest road boy and wo man ran, actuated by the Impulse of self-preservation. A suddenoutcry from Mrs. Gladden brought Stephen Bojd to a halt. Al most in their pathway leaped a red glow. Stephen turned quickly. He saw that the excitement and exertion were tell ing upon his benefactress. Directly in their path had sprung up a tierce flame, having been started b ya fire brand blown from a pine knot by the rising gale. Before them a fire was rapidly en larging, fanned by the wind and fed by dry, decaying embers. Mrs. Glad den was p&le and panting, utterly col lapsed. "Can't you go on?" he asked, bend ing over her, his own face white with terrible fear. "Not another step!" she gasped. "Save my child, Stephen, and let me die here." Flinging aside the satchel, he took the little girl from her mother's arms, and, speaking her name, asked her to clasp him about the neck ad cling tightly. The child obeyed. Stephen, now having his hands free, lifted Mrs. Gladden to her feet and spoke a word of encouragement in her ear. He then pushed forward, hall dragging, half-leading the woman, down the road until, after an interval which seemed to him thrice its actual length, he cried: "Thank God! there's the water!" Mrs. Gladden, stumbling onward with bowed head, raised her eyes for the first time since she had fallen. Sure enough! There was tue gleam of water between the trees! "Now for the canoe-" cried Stephen. All through the long night the boy and woman and child remained on the plode the mine automatically the at tendant cau be dispensed with. An in duction coil, suitably connected, is se cured to the mine or torpedo, the fuse of which is fired by a powerful electric current, switched either automatical ally or at the observatory. When the modern war vessel, heavily protected by iron or steel armor, approaches the induction coil there will be a magnetic disturbance which is instantly indicat ed to the ollicer on duty at the observ atory. He watches the vessel, and, at the proper moment, closes the fuse cir cuit and explodes the mine. In case au automatic device Is employed, the arm of an indicator is deflected until contact Is made, which causes the explosion. Itlnok Men In Ferula. Old inscriptions and carvings have shown that there existed in ancient Torsia members of a race of black skinued men. who possessed features resembling those of Africans. The origin of these people, as well as their apparent disappearance in modern times, have furnished' puzzling ques tions for ethnologists. Some have sup posed that in prehistoric times the greater part of Southern Asia was oc cupied by a primitive black race, of which only vestiges remained when the empires of Babylonia and Assyria arose- Lately descendants of the black men who figured in the early history, of Persia are believed to have been found by the Russian explorer, Dr. Daniloff, dwelling among the moun tains, near Shiraz, east of the Persian gulf. These people, although they still form an Independent group, mingle with the surrounding population, as in ancient times, and find employment at long distances from their home. Some of them are to be seen in the city of Teheran. Public Opinion. He Sometime Eacane. Preacher And do you always say your prayers at night? Johnny Not allvvus. When pa don't come home to supper ma gets so ex cited and tears around so that she fer gits, and I sneak off to tied without saylu' 'em. Cleveland Leader. Got Square. Returned Traveler I have often thought of that young Mr. Tease, and how he used to torment Miss Auburn about her red hair. Did she ever get even with hlni? Old Friend Ing ago. She married him. New York Weekly. Hal IIU Dying Moments Were Soothed by Kindly Kane. A Portland physician tells the fol lowing story, premising it with the remark tnat nurses in the London hospitals are rather apt to lay too much stress on the advantages re ceived by the patients and to remind them of the duty of thankfulness. Sometimes the patients do not ap preciate their good fortune. This scene from a Liondon hospital related by the physician above indicated is a case in point: Chaplain So poor Hopkins is dead! I should have liked to speak to him once again and soothe his last mo ments. Why didn't you call me? Hospital Orderly I didn't think you ought to be disturbed for 'Opkins, sir.so I just soothed him as best I could myself. Chaplain Why, what did you say to kirn? Orderly "'Opkins," says I, "you're mortal bad." "I am," sez 'ea '"Opkins," sez I, "I don't think you'll get better." "No," sea 'ee. '"Opkins," sez I, "you're going fast " "Yes." sez'ee. '"Opkins," sez I, "I don't think you can 'ope to go to 'eaven." "I don't think I can," sez ee. "Well then, 'Opkins," sez I, "you'll go to 'ell." "I suppose so," sez ee. '"Opkins," sez I, "you ought to be wery grateful as there's a place perwided for you, and that you've got some where to go." And I think 'ee heard me, sir, and then 'ee died. A new scheme for forwarding letters from Cuba to this country has been devised by a New York postage stamp dealer. He has stamps sent him from Cuba and letters are concealed in the wrappings which protect the stamps. Several Important latters have recent ly been received In New York by this means which otherwise would never have escaped the strict censorship re garding outgoing mails. Emma Goldman is out with a peti tion lgned by some Pennsylvania so cialists and anarchists for the purpose of securing a pardon for Alexander Berkman, the young New York an archist who tried to kill H. C. Frick some years ago. He was sentenced to state's prison for twenty-seven years. The press reports intimate that Mr. Frick himself will sign the petition. Can this be really true? Beware of ginger cordial. An emi nently respectable New York woman, 49 years old and mother of numerous grown-up children, was ob'iged to face a police justice the other day on a charge of Intoxication, and investiga tion showed that a drink of ginger cor dial taken at a druggist's for a pass ing indisposition was the cause of the whole trouble. Incidentally this story is recommended to married men who sometimes come home in a more or less shattered condition. Ripana Tabules cure indigestion. Brown s 124 North 10th Street, Lincoln, Neb, Largest, Best and Oldest Established. Fverything the Best, Oysters in any Style Prices to Suit the Times. Open :-: JS-11 :-; aigCfcrt. ECAXjF IPPHOE for 30 DAYS. CLOSING OUT ! Going to Missouri. Have about 70 bead of choice POLAND CHINA AND Berkshire Hoes CJ Consisting of 4 herd boars, 22 brood sows, (bred for spring farmers) 24 gilts and the balance, boars ready for service. This is choice stock. No culls. My entire herd of fine Holsteins same price. Must sell. 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