The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, February 22, 1894, Image 2

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    The Sioux County Journal.
L t - SIMMONS. FroprUrtor.
NEBRASKA.
HARRISON,
NEBRASKA NEWS.
"Let's irrigate" is tin cry going up
every county in western Ne-
break.
Stratton bas been religiously awak-
ened and aine people bare been im-,
mersed.
The Cbadron female suffragists cele
brated the seventy-fifth birthday of
Saint Susan 15. Ahthony.
A stock company is being organized ;
at Valentine to operate a creamery 1
and cheese factory in that city.
Prof. R. Maurice Farnsttorth is
teaching the Hamburg young people
how to dance. R. Maurice is good.
Six hundred people attended the
banquet at Alliance held in honor of
the consolidation of two laud oilices at
that point
; The late snowfall was heartily wel
comed in the southern counties that
suffered so greatly from dry weather
last summer.
: The Beacon confesses that Uibbou is
one of the tougtiest newspaper towns
in Nebraska and thinks Kearney is en
titled to second place,
i Mrs. John hurtfert, who settled with
her husband in Pawnee county over
thirty yean ago, is dead. .She had beu
jinsane for eighteeu years.
I The wagon bridae at Monroe has
been taken from the piling to give the
ice a chance to get out of the river
without taking the bridge along.
, A farmer near Cozad lost a wagon
load of corn while crossing the Platte
river bridge. The team shied and spilt
the load, wagon and all into the raging
river.
, Rev. Nathan, the evangelist, who
has been secured for a greatly needed
work in Fremont, plucked near.y 200
branks from the burning at North
Platte.
C. Doty, an aged Plattsinoutu man,
was struck by a B. & M. tram aud bau
ly Injured, he will probably recover.
He was deaf and did not hear the
whistle.
Tbe Pioneer complains that the new
postmaster at Niobrara never lifted bis
finger to help out the party in his whole
life. Of course not To have done so
would have made enemies.
Tbe Pilot thinks that Blair will lose
two or three of her lawyers in the
spring, who will seek pastures new.
It thinks that two good lawyers would
easily be able to attend to the court
business of the county, as the people
are all peaceable.
Setb Hoyt of Callaway rode to Lodi
on bis wheel, and wfa.le cutting a wide
' swath among strangers one le of his
pantaloons was caaght in tbe wheel
and torn off before the crash came. A
local paper describes tbe situation as
rather embarrassing.
S. J. Young of the Hartington
Herald announces that he will shortly
issue an illustrated edition, setting
forth the many advantages of the state
and couny especially. The edition
will contain no advertisements and
copies will be sold at 10 cents apiece.
The commissioners of Colfax county
have secured a quantity of dynamite
for the purpose of blasting the ice
from around the wagon bridge across
the Platte at Schuyler, so it will not be
carried away with the ice when the
Utter rises and goes down stream in
tbe spring.
When Grey wrote, "Full many a
roller mill is built to bust unseen, and
Watte their usefulness in a leserted
jtown," he evidensly had in mind the
om at Eddyrille, which bus h d noth
ing but hard luck since it first opened
inp for business. The mill was Eddy
'ville's drawing card.
; Why go to Texas dear readers, when
jW have such fine weather in Nebraska
as we have had the past few years?
Why, these warm days make the young
boys tbink that it is May, and they
want to pull off their shoes and stock
ing! ana go -barefooted. Later. The
boys have donned their felt boots.
Laurel Leader.
The party of Presbyterian mission
aries who left for Slam from Grand
Island and Wood River, including Dr.
Thomas and Mrs. Shields, have beeu
beard from enroute. In a letter from
a relative io Canton, a Bee man is in
farmed that the pary had quite an
exciting experience. They stopped
at Canton and visited ross-nonarles
there. On the morning they were to
ail for Bangkok they started for the
teamer in charge of a leading mission
ary and a coolie. On the way to the
dock Dr. Thomas stopped to buy an
umbrella and the Canton missionary
tapped into the shop with bim, telling
the coolie to take tbe balance of the
party to the ship. When Dr. Thomas
and his guide reached the steamer tbe
others could not be found. Searching
parties were sent out, but no trace of
them could be discovered. Finally
jUe steamer aaiied without them. Late
that night the missing ones were found
em the river front by an Englishman
an taken back to the home of their
friends in a worn-out condition. The
coolie had lost his way and bad led the
faopta a wild goose chase all over tbe
it. Outside of giving them a good
i ana causing tnem to miss the
'Bo barm w rfoie.
VefTMt lira. Oaszam Do yon know
that Soooper stutters?
Oasxam He doesn't
Mrs. Cauam-WaU, I ask4 Urn
cfcmrt a tower over thai and ha said:
"That'i a chmantb am.
Aa laentllery
Chicaoo, 11L, Feb. 16.Fire broke
out Wednesday morning in the
colonnade between agricultural build-
. iug aud machinery ball lu the world's
llLU grounds. The flames gained rapid
headway aud before the additional
engines reached tbe burning structure
its destruction and that ot tbe large
buildings adjoining on either side were
threatened.
The tire wag put under control soon
afternoon and there was no danger of
j il spreading to the agricultural
build -
lug or machinery hall. The loss is
nominal. The origin is supposed to be
incendiary.
The lire started in the rear of tbe
Egyptian obelisk and spread rapidly
east and west to the colonnade, cover
ing a distance of eighty feet. The fire
men were greatly humored in reach
ing the colonnade by the snow, but the
drifts also delimit tii hlu7a 'lie
, im woodwork otreretl lilUe rt8isUllC6
; t0 the .lme9 ahd tUt) )j,lar8 aud ornaU,
decorations along the colonnade were
, goon in ruins. Three groups of animals
i in statuary standing on the rrmf worn
destroyed. The hrwmeu aud fair offi
cials agree that the (ire was incendiary.
A Drept-rute tteuipt M .de.
Chicago, Feb. 15. Two colored
highwaymen made a desperate attempt
to rob the passenger in one of the day
coaches of the 1 1:30 p. m. tram on the
Ft Wayne road soon after it left the
union depot Wednesday. Just before
the train wax ulutnt In imvms iha liriilna
i , cinnti. tr,r .i,,
Is required to run slow, two colored
men boarded the train and entered a
day coach. A passenger who was in a
seat near the door and who was on bis
way to Valparaiso, Ind., was immedi
a ely attacked by tbe two colored in
truders. Oue of thera struck him a
violent blow on the head with a large
stick, while the other oue made a grab
for his overcoat which was laying on
the seat and bis watch, which was in
his vest pocket. There was a dozen
j passengers who witnessed the assault,
and the men immediately went to the
j assistance of the Valparaiso man. The
j two colored desperadoes flourished their
j revolvers and fired several shots into
j the top of the car. Two of the passen
: gers theu drew their revolvers and tired
i at the highwaymen and it is believed
j one of them was wounded. As soon as
j the passen?ers began to make use of
j their revolvers the two made haste to
i get out of the car. but they carried the
' valuable overcoat of the Valparaiso
! man away with them. The conductor
: notified the police at the own of Lake
and .he said it was the second time this
; week that robbers bad entered day
; coaches on the outgoing Fort Wayne
, trains
! A Vlrdut of Murder.
j St. Lot is Feb. K A verdict charg-
ing Ltr. Arthur Duestrow with the
murder of his boy was returned by the
j coroner's jury. .Developments give tbe
I murderer the additional character of
j an associate of lewd women. Clara
Alien and Clara Howard, keeoers of
adjoining bagnio at &14 and HW south
Fourteenth sireet, were before the chief
of police and related stones of riotous
debauchery in which the murderer was
a principal. The Howard woman says
Duestrow was her Intimate associate
for two years, during which time hardly
a day passeed without a visit from him.
She got a large part of his 820,000 in-
! come.
After the operation performed upon
j Mrs. Duestrow, when three wounds
j were found in her head, sne became
I better and it is believed she will re
cover. Deustrow still talks vaguely of
an accident but his manner has changed
and it is believed he will break down
and tell the whole truth of the awful
tragedy. He is held on the coroner's
verdict. A warrant for murder in the
first degree will be issued.
Conatenmtlon frevalled
Chicago, Feb. 16. Consternation
prevailed for a few minutes Wednes
day in the Illinois Trust and Savings
bank. Suffering from nervous excite
ment caused by tbe death of bis son, J.
McDonald rustied into the office about
12 JO and declared that he wanted to
kill some one. He confronted W, H.
Henkle, secretary of the bank, and In
cluded James S. Gibbs, another officer,
In bis general threat. McDonald was
arrested before he attempted to carry
onthis threat and was taken to the Har
rison street station. He had a revolver
with every chamber loaded and was
charged with carrying concealed dead
ly weapons.
T Oppoe the Income Tz.
Charleston, S. C, Feb. 16.-i-The
Charleston chamber of commerce cele
brated its eleventh annivesary with a
banquet. At the meeting a resolution
was unanimously passed requesting the
senators of .South Carolina to oppose
the income tax clause of the Wilson
bill unless by so doing the passage of
the whole bill shall be jeopardized." Tbe
chamber also appointed a special com
mittee to take action in opposition to
tbe Patterson bill amending the inter'
state commerce act, and to attempt to
secure some change in discrimination
in freight rates against the southern
ports.
F6Dn4 to be a Defaulter.
Columbians. C, Feb, 16. John L.
Weber, professor of English literature
in Trinity college, North Carolina, Is a
defaulter la the sum of oyer 91,20.).
Weber left Charleston about a year ago
to go to trinity college. When bis an
nual .report reached State Superin
tendent of Education May field last fall
that officer found a discrepancy In the
financial part of It and began a quiet
investigation which resulted in tbe dia
atwsry of tbe shortage.
L
HWrlk. federal Oread Jary
Chicago, Feb. 12. Tbe interstate
commerce cases began Saturday after-
noon before the federal grand jury If
the examinations of President Newell
of the Lake shore and Commissioner
lilanchard of the Central tratlic asso
ciation. The examinations ocfvied
but a few minutes, an adjourn -Ylt
until Tuesday cutting them shore, ft
least six of the seven witnesses sTi
poenaed will then be on hand. Presi
ent Roberts of the Pennsylvania has
not yet decided whether be will obey
the summons. The impression created
on the jury by Mr. Newell was dis
tinctly a favorable one. He promptly
admitted having issued the orders to
meet cut rates with cut rates, but un
der no circumstance to inaugurate the
cutting. There was no escape from
this order except to allow the business
of the Lake Miore to be gradually eaten
away by the cut rates of the coranetl-
tors. This road and alliltated linen hart
been friendly to the interstate com
merce act, and had enforced its provi
sions until September, 18U2, when the
loss in irailic became so marked that it
was compelled to adopt, the tactics of
comp-titors. Mr. Neweli's examfna
t tion will be resumed the first thing
: Tuesday morning. Previous to his ex
amination Commissioner Iliauchard
wag on the carpet a few momenta, but
no testimony of importance was ob
I talned.
Hill llo.e ihe Mines.
j Denver, Feb. li-The continued
j fall In the price of silver begins to
I cause the silver producers to renew tbe
! question of a concentrated action to
I hut down all mines. Manv of th
. mines that re-opened after the panic in
: the summer and) have been running
ai a Bmau prom with silver at 70 cents
j are compelled to operate at a loss
ritb
silver below 05 cents. JJ. L. James, of
the Omaha-Grant smelter, stated that
the outlook was discouraging.
' If these mines close," said he, "I see
no way out of it but for several of the
smelters to do likewise. Of course
there are some contracts on hand that
will enable many to run for awhile, but
if silver keeps at the present figure and
the low grade mines close there Is noth
ing for the smelters to do but follow
suit. Low grade mines cannot be pro
fitably conducted with silver under 70
cents."
Dennis JSheedy of tbe Globe stated
that it would keep running, as it was
In good shape to do so.
A aVDiatloaai Kobbery.
C mo, Ill Feb 12 Sparta, a small
station on the Mobile A Ohio railroad
north of here, was the scene of a sensa
tional robbery. About 1 o'clock a man
knocked at the locked door of the depot
aud asked for admission, saying be
wanted a ticket to Cairo. The operator,
who was alotre in tbe building, told him
it was after hours and he could not ott
In. In an instant the window r
operator s instrument was broken and
ator's instrument was broken and
a revolver thrust into bis face. He
saw three masked men outside and
they threatened him with instant death
if he did not open the door. Reluctant
ly he complied and they entered. They
bound and gagged him, and carry ng
him out, threw him into an empty box
car. They then blew the safe i pen
with dynamite, obtained 8300, all its
contents, and fled. Two hours afUr
ward the operator wai found in the
box car. half frozen aud helpless. As
the robbers were masked be could give
no description of them.
To Fr-e American Prleonere.
Paris, Feb. 12.-The iemps has this
aispaicn irom ;onstautinople: "Alex
anuerw. lerreu, tinted States minis
ter, has demanded the immediate libera
tion or two Armenians, who are Amer
can citizens and are impnsoued in
Iskanderun, Northern 8)ria. He has
threatened in the event of a re! uial to
send an ironclad to Iskanderun.
serious riots nave occurred in the
Aneora district arid two hundred cav
airy men have started from Constantino
ple for Usgat The populace of
Amasia, on the Yeshit-lrmark, broke
into the jail recently and freed several
Armenian prisoners. Sivas and Ca-sa-
rea have also been disturbed. Seditious
placards have been posted In both
cities and tbe authorities have arrested
many Armenians, including seventeen
Musselmens, who plotted the massacre
of the Christiana."
Pa Hig Halerls.
Kasas City, Feb. 12 Tbe magni
tude of the business done by the Kansas
City stock yards on the twenty-seven
acres of land known as "the bot'oms"
may be judged from the fact that the
annual salary list to pay less than 300
men who act as buyers is more than
1,000,000. Each of the eight packing
houses has two or three special csttle
buyers to whom large salaries are paid,
and the sums received by the agents of
commission houses are more than the
majority of professional men earn. The
big houses pay their special men from
$5,000 to 10,000 a year.
A Welcome to Gladstone.
London. Feb. 12. Mr. and Mrs.
Gladstone have returned from their visit
to Biarritz. They arrived at Charing
Cross station at 6:10 In the evening
The news of their coming had spread
and an enormous crowd was gathered
at the station to welcome the prime
minister.
Fatally Knot.
Lima, O., Feb. 12. Dr. Noble was
hot and fatally injured at Custon, a
small town north of here by ins wife.
The victim was recently married to a
very jealous woman. He was In his
private room giving advice to a woman,
when his wife rushed in and began
shooting at her husband. Several of bar
hots took effect and will result in
Noble's death. Mrs. Noble now re
gret her action and is nearly wild
with grief.
Print C olifuna H-turvS to Aaiartc.
Ntw Yoke, Feb. 13. Princess Eve
line Galatro Colonna and her three
children arrived on the siemr New
York from Southampton, She was ac
companied by her step-brother, J. W.
Mackay, jr.
The piincess hurriedly left France
with her three children week before
last, nd her departure was surrounded
by considerable mystery. The fact
tnat she has takeu her children out of
France is said to be a violation of
French law, as the children were under
the jurisdiction of France. The differ
ences of Prince Colonna and the
princess were being adjusted by ti e
courts of France and the prince bad
sued for control of the children. To
avo,d surrendering the children
the nr. r, cess was said to hare left the
' country and escaped from the decree
j of the French court. Mrs. Mackay,
'her mother, is still livmur in London.
When the New York drew into the
dock Mr. Mackay, the princess' step-
fa her, was waiting on the dock with
his business partner. Mr Mackay de
cluied to discus the affairs ot his
daughter. As soon as the gangplank
was lowered to princess descended
from the steamer, followed by her
brother, her maid and three children,
who were dressed in natty Italian sailor
costumes. She was met by her father,
who warmly greeted her aud conducted
Iter to a carriage in waiting at the en
trance to the dock.
J. W. Mackay, Jr., who was ap
proached by a reporter, said the aroily
was averse to making their domestic
affairs public. He said his sister had
no statement to give the public. The
different members of the party got in
the carriages aud drove off. The prin
cess occupied staterooms 55 and 57 on
board the New York. She made a
number of friends among the female
saloon passengers mid joined in the
conversation on board, but avoided
any mention of her case in the Frei c i
courts.
Princess Colotna is staying at the
Hotel Buckingham. The doors of the
princess, appartments in the Bucking
ham opened into the suite occupied by
her stepfather, Mr. Mackay, in the
Beigravia, only a wall separating the
two houses. All who called to see the
princess were posii'vely refused ad
mittance. John Mackay, jr., who was
seen at the Hotel Waldorf, and said
that bis sister would not leave for
California for several weeks yet
A Heavy l.oa.
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 13. Coifs
Patent Firearms Manufacturing com
pany's works were partially destroyed
by lire in the afternoon, involving a
loss of nearly 8260,0110. The lire started
near the boiler bouse and when dis
covered had communicated to an
elevator and a tier of closets running
up three stories near the main wall of
armory
? lhe building
where the fire orlgin-
ated was stone and brick, three stories
high and nearly four hundred feet long,
connecting the east and west armorier.
By 'he time the department got fairly
to work one-half of the long building
connecting the two armories was
ablaze from base to attic and the efforts
of tbe firemen were then directed to
saving the east armory. Lines of hose
were soon run up into the third and
fourth floors of tbe east armory and the
progress of the flames was beaded off
in that direction.
Ihe three-story building connecting
the two armories is partially destroyed.
East of the dividing brick walls It is all
gone and west of it tiie roof and top
story is burned off. The loss on the
building Is estimated at $73 000. There
were seventy-five universal presses
ready for shipment, which were totally
destroyed. In the attic were 50,000
black walnut gunstocks seasoning
These were also a total loss. T. D
Pierce, nickle plater on tbe third floor,
lost most of his machinery, All the
others were occupied by tbe Colt com
pauy tor storing ana packing pur
poses. The concerns in tbe west
armory lose little and that by water.
The total loss will reach S250.000,
covered by insurance to the amount of
200,000. The seventy presses, valued
at f&.OOO, were not insured
Thirty years ago this month, on Feb
ruary 5, Colt s factory was destroyed by
Ore. At that time the east armory wai
totally destroyed. Tbe cause of the
Are then was thought to be of rebel
origin. Five hundred hands are now
thrown out of work, but if the boilers
are intact, and it is believed they are,
the shops will be running in a week.
Ietrord by tbe Klre Mead.
Dulltii, Minn., Feb. 13. The board
of trade building, In which were
located the offices of the board, the
North American and Western Union
Telegraph companies, the American
Steel Barge company, tbe Lake
Superior Union Improvement, and
Dulutb Elevator companies, and the
oilices of nearly all the city grain and
vessel firms, was entirely destroyed by
fire. Practically nothing was saved
from tbe ruins. Several persons in the
building had difficulty in escaping, but
no one was seriously injured. The
building was built In 18H5 at a cost of
75.0 0. The loss is f (41,000, insurance
80,000.
A Sal net the law.
Washington, Feb. 13. Treasuary
officials are much exercised over a re
cent decision of a Kansas local ludae
who naturalized a Chinaman. Tbe case
baa been called to the attention ot At
torney-Oeneral Oiney, who will make a
thorough investigation into tbe mat
ter. Under the law of 1HH2 Chinamen
are prohibited from being naturalized
by either state or federal courts and the
action of tbe Kansas judge Is regarded
aa inexplicable.
Aaelher Bomb Threw.
Pa bis, Feb. 14. Edeon Breton
twenty-three years old, threw a bomb
In the cafe of the Hotel Terminus at
the St La wrs railroad station. The
bomb exploded in the middle of tbe
room and wounded twenty penons.
An instrumental concert began in the
cafe, which is on the ground floor of
tbe hotel, at 8 o'clock. Shortly before
S o'clock a pale, thin young man, with
a lig'rt, pointed beard, paid for a drink
which he had taken at a table in the
middle of the ro,.;n, and started to
leave. Alien near the door he turned
su idenly, drew a bomb from l is coat
and threw it toward a group of per
sons who had sat next to bim. The
bomb struck an electric light fixture,
then fell ou a marble table aud ex
ploded. The great hotel and s ation
were wrecked bv the shock. The mir
rors, windows and doors were blown to
atoms. The ceiling and floor were
rent and walls were cracked. A dense,
offensive smoke filled the cafe for four
minutes and iu the obscurity the bomb
thrower escaped. H hen the smoke
cleared away live persons were found
severely wounded and fifteeu slightly
injured. The bomb bad been filled
with bullets and rough bits of iron,
which had riddled the furniture and
walls and inflicted most of the wounds.
Afier leaving the cafe the bomb
thrower started down the street on a
run.
CAPTURED ArTKR A STItl G(iI.K.
Three policemen had just passed in
an omnibus when the explosion oc
curred. They were going on duty aud
jumped to the street the moment they
saw the fugitive. The young man
turned on them as they called to him
to stop and fired five shots. Police
man Poisson fell, badly wounded in
the side. Policemen Lenoir and Digot,
however, continued the pursuit, and
with the help of Policeman liarbes and
a waiter named 'Iissier overpowered
and arrested the bomb thrower. They
took him to the police station in the
Rue de Morscou, where, after some
hesitation, he gave his name and age,
The prefect of police, M. Laurent, M.
Dobost, minister of the interior, and
leveral other high officials were sum
moned to the station and the examin
ation of the prisoner was begun, Police
Commissary Gavrel taking the evi
dence. Meantime the sound of the explosion
the srnoks and the cries of the
wounded had attracted a great crowd
to the Hotel Terminus. l)rs. Sereno,
Bouffe and Thysun offered their ser
vices. They obtained bandages and
drugs from a near apothecary and
dressed the injured, some of whom had
been carried to rooms in the hotel and
others to drug stores in the neighbor
hood. The United press correspondent was
admitted to tbe Rue de Morscou police
office shortly after the arrest. The
bomb thrower sat handcuffed between
two policemen, lie showed the effect
of his hasty flight and tussle with tbe
police. Otherwise he looked calm and
comfortable. The removal of Ins out
side coat revealed a collariess flannel
shirt and the general garb of a work
ingman. In his pockets the police had
fouud a pair of brass knuckles, a dag
ger, a Swedish knife, a six-chamber re
volver, a gold halflouis, two francs,
eleven sous and a small silver locket,
containing a lock of brown hair tied
with a ribbon. At first he refused to
talk, telling the police that it was their
business to find out who he was. After
giving his name and age he again be
came silent. Eventually be added that
be was a cabinet maker and had ar
rived In Paris from Marseilles in the
morning.
'Yes, I am an anarchist, " be ex
claimed, in response to reiterated quest
lions, "and the more of tbe bourgeoisie
I killed the better it would please me."
All la not Oolil That Ulltterg.
Philadki'iiia, Feb. 11. Mrs. liar
riet Morrison of Jackson, Mich., a
wealthy widow of seventy-four years,
accompanied by Charles Helling, the
husband of her adopted daughter, an
ighler, and
physician,
he UuiteVl
Or. Blanchard, the family
presented themselves at the
States mint with two heavy bars of
metal, which they supposed to be gold
aud worth 830,000. The men carried
the metal which weighed eighty-five
pounds, in a grip, and the trio an
nounced that they had gold bullion to
tell. Tbe mint attaches made an assay
of tbe metal aud discovered that it was
nothing more than a low grade of cop.
per and zinc, worth but 8 cents per
pound. Thirteen years ago Mrs. Mor
rison advanced JWootoa nephew, and
recently a stranger came to her with
two cone-shaped bars, which be said
were mined by her nephew in British
Columbia and were worth a.-vinm
blch her nephew wanted to give' her
as security for an additional loan. Mrs.
Morrison paid t,0O0 and the trio
started east to sell the "Bold." The
old lady Is greatly grieved over the
swindle.
Aa Ki-Cuiigrrauuaa Died.
Wilmington, Del., Feb. 14. Ex
ongressman James Rush Lofland died
at his home here vesterdav after a
short illness.
Without Water.
PmsBtRo, Pa., Feb. H. Tbe busi
ness portion of Pittsburg is without
water. The tliiriy-slx-inch main,
through which Lawreuceville and the
eutire downtown districts are supplied
witn water, broke near the reservoir.
A huge volume of water poured down
the heavy grade, carrying everything
before it with such force that the
tracks of the Alleghansy Valley rail.
road near Morningslde station were
completely blocked wl'b debris.
A M aher Cnder lUetraJM,
Dujit yt E, Feb. 15. A Sensation was
developed In the Haley murder case
hen Mrs. Fanning, a widow employed
in the sheriff s office, was discharged
for rushing upon Hugh Kobbard In the
Court bouse corridor and kissing him,
at tbe same time presenting bim with a
bank note and a basket of fruit, In the
bottom of w hich was lound a passion
ate letter to My Iear Hugh" from'
"Your Loving Mary." The scene oc
curred w hile Robbard and Haley were
being taken from the crowded court
room to Ihe jail. Robbard is under life
sentence for murdering policemen
I ruh and Talcott and is here as a wit
ness for bis accomplice Haley.
'1 h.s murderer has also won the
hearts of several foolish girls and they
apj eared in court dressed to kill. The
audience which every day fills the court
room to suffocation is made up largely
of romantic maidens, but Incident has
determined Ihe high school principal
to withdraw his class in civil govern
ment from the gallery.
A Marked by l.luDI.
Sax Fi:an i , Feb. 15. A fright
ful affair occurred Tuesday night at
Col Daniel Boone's wild animal show
at the Midway lair. Carlo Thleman,
an attendant bad taken three large
trained lions into a cage In the center
of the arena, when suddenly the electric
lights went out. followed by screams of
agouy from the cage and sounds of
the horrible crunching of the beasts
jaws. The audience became panio
stricken and women screamed and
fainted. Finally lights weie secured
and the dreadful siclil was revealed of
three lions gnawing at the prostrate
form of 'lineman. Col. Boone snatched
up an iron bar and with rare intrepidity
entered the cage, beat the beast off and
rescued the keeper. Theiman was
found to have forty wounds, some of
which came perilously near a vital
spot. His scaip was torn entirely of
aud he had deep wounds under his
arms and on his legs aud body where
the animal's let-ili had lacerated bim.
In spile of all this the physicians think
that unless blood poison sets in be may
recover.
H'aTjr !. by Fire.
Bath, Me., Feb. 15. The Bath iron
works caught fire and there was every
prospect that they would be totally de
strojed, hb a htrotig sind was blowing.
The entire department was summoned
and assistance aked from neighboring
towns. The steamer Frank Jones,
which lay at the wharf with no steam,
was quickly doomed. Owing to the in
tense heat the volunteers who were try
ing to pull her out in the river w-ere
forced to abandon her. The fire
spread rapidly and raged furiously, A
strong norteant wind, however, kept it
from moving toward the Mam Cential
road. One long building, an immense
structure containing woodwork used
In the construction of stcameis, which
reaches from Water street to the rlver
some hundred feet, burned fiercely.
Ihe flames also caught in the moulding
loft of machine shop No. 2.
'I reasurer Hyson says the loss is at
least 8200,00 J.
Mm l hie Wife,
St. Lot is, Feb. 15. Dr. Duestrow
of 724 south Coinpton avenue walked
into the reservoir police station aud
surrendered himself, stating that be
had accidentally shot bis wife. He re
fused to make any further statement
concerning the shooting or to go into
any details. Duestrow was locked up
and a police officer was set to invest -gate
the affair. It was learned that the
doctor had shot both his wife and five
year old boy. Both were shot in tbe
head and the child was killed, but bis
wife is still alive. Dr. Duestrow is a
son of the late Louis Duestrow, the
Grauite Mountain millionaire.
The lloue of l.orda Doomed
Portsmouth, Feb. 15. The Na
tional liberal federation continued its
meeting. It endorsed the New Castle
program and unanimously adopted re
solutions to the effect that the habitual
disregard of the national will by the
house of lords was an intolerable abuse,
and assuring the ministry of tbeir en
tbusastic support for whatever
measures were adopted to secure the'
commons paramount authority. In
speeches on tbe resolutions the lords'
were denounced as a fraudulent com
pany, using their political position for)
their pecuniary interest, and that what
people wanted was first a quarrel with'
and then the destruction of tbeir great
enemy.
foiled la Ihe Alteaupt.
Lincoln, 111., Feb. 15. Ida Shelles
and Georgia Williams, charged with
consperacy to destroy the county jail,
with dynamite to effect the release ol
A. D. Goodpasture, tbe convicted lead-!
er of a gang of thieves and swindlers,'
were bound over to the grand jury)
They failed In the attempt to smuggle'
dynamite to Goodpasture to be exploded'
at the imminent risk of the lives of the
prisoners, tbe sheriff and bis family
and assistant. After the attempt raic
carried the woman got drunk and told of
the conspiracy, promising to repeat tbe
effort. In default of ball they were'
locked up.
TheMtorm In Knropr,
Berlin, Feb. 15. Reports of loss cf
life aud damage to property by the
storm continue to be received from all
parts of the country. Among the many
dispatches received giving details of tbe
storm is one from Kadeberg, a small
town in Saxony twelve miles north of
Dresden; one from Peuzlyn, In Meck-lenburg-Schwerln;
one from Rlnteln,
in Hesse-Nassau, and one from Bonder
burg, on the southwest side of the is
land of Alsen in the Baltic.