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aLARBLSOX.
NEBRASKA.
Fortunately there has been do ad
la the price of g'xl mackerel.
Kerosene oil Is going np. And It
exhibits all Its old-time propensity for
taking errant girls along.
John Bull la a Jolly old dog. HU
bark la worse than his bite especially
when the other dog shows his teeth.
Mr. Rockefeller knows that however
high be pushes the price of oil the
people will continue to make light of It
New Jersey can be more kinds of
a queer State than any in the Union.
Alligators have been discovered at
Cape May.
Li Hung Chang Is too smart even for
the American Interviewer, and therein
be shows that he is smarter than nine
tenths of the men In highly civilised
nations.
To all who have felt superior In pro
Bouncing Chopin "Shopang" It will be
a ahock to learn that the correct pro
nunciation is "Kopeen" Kussian and
not French.
This country has $3,000,000 Invested
In the manufacture of corks and turns
out a4.0w.0u0 worth of corks annu
ally. When It comes to business your
lade Samuel certainly is a corker.
No one seems to be able to under
stand why kerosene should take such
an upward shoot but we suspect that
the Standard Oil Company could throw
some light on the subject If It coos to
4)0 so. t-"'"- - J..l
The esteemed London Chronicle say?
an alliance between Japan and China
"would be all wrong and cannot be al
lowed. There Is nothing further to be
aald. This setttles the matter. J.
Bull has spoken.
Here are empty offices seeking men
and no takers! Meat Inspectors, fish
eulturlsta, car messengers, and sta
tisticians are wanted In the depart
ment of agriculture, at salaries of
$e00, $720, $1,000, $1,200, and $1,400,
and they canuot be found. The only
Objection to the Jobs in the eye of the
average office seeker Is that they In
rolve a little work and require some
knowledge.
It Is rather difficult for an American
to understand what Is the trouble be
tween Sweden and Norway. The two
are confederated as regards the klnir,
the common executive of both, but each
baa Its own legislature, and is sup
nnaed to eniov "home rule." Sweden
Is the larger, and. In a conflict, could
probably overrun Norway. But to
what end? None that one can see
readily, except the object might b 10
consolidate the two kingdoms more
completely into one. The most dis
quieting aspect of the trouble is the
disposition said to lie shown by Russia
to take a hand In defense of Norway
Why she should do this Is even more
Inscrutable than the quarrel Itself. It
seems taking a very acute stage when
a kind of emergency commission ad
vises the king to get his navy and
army in readiness for use at once.
Now what will Hussia advise?
If it is true that Dr. Nansen has
planted the Norwegian flag at the
North Pole, a ls:h of relief will go up
from the weary soul of man. The
North Tole has been more kinds of a
nuisance than any other spot on earth.
If somebody has actually found it
and staked It down. Its power for mis
chief will be vastly decreased. The
elusive iole has been. Indirectly, a
pernicious will-o'-the-wisp, demauding
the sacrifice of human lives from every
generation. Its latent ability to make
trouble has been greater than that io
sessed by any easy loss In the history
of the world. The North Pole, In short,
has been for centuries an interna
tional hoodo. Until it is clearly proved,
however, that Dr. Nansen has stolen a
march on the pole, and scored a beat
that will take the wind out of other
adventurous spirits, there Is no wis
dom in premature rejoicing. The tele
graphic facilities between here and
the North Pole are not yet in a satis
factory condition.
It Is said that a publisher on one
occasion failing to get any response to
bis numerous duns concluded to pub
lish an obituary notice of one of his
subscribers on the supposition that he
waa dead. An exchange Intimates
that It may have to do the same thing
If some of Its subscribers continue to
ignore their bills. It is a curious ques
tion, but why Is It that many people
will neglect and sometimes refuse to
pay their subscription bills when they
pa everything else? It Is singular,
too, that they will take from the post
office their paper and continue to re
ceive It long after the time for which
they have paid, and when the publish
er sends a bill return a saucy latter
stating that their subscription expired
several months ago or longer. Their
answer la never couched In polite
terms, but they all aeem to take the
action of the publisher as an Insult
sid In their reply betray their own
CMTletleM of conscience in trying to
fraaM an aaswer which will throw
taa Ml ft not on themselves but on
taa only la no cant parti in the trans-
T saa"BC3aFSBB .
iTMat t!Mt Mood-tubs-In a PV-
K -iaa CTsWohn Most, 'who crawl-
) C " J wWnwarv bad to blow trass
V : r X3 ptQM. and William
tA his conn try (Ea-
glandt for his country's good," have
been in Boo urn talking to sympathia
era and advocating antrcby, that blew
ed state hi hlch nobody will wani
anything except to ' be let alone." Mr.
Mo bray think the only salvation la
In working men resolving that tney
"will not be robbed any w. i
would be much more effectual if
everybody, workers and Idlers, wouia
resolve and stick to it-not to roD any
more. He bluntly proclaimed that he
and his friends have no purpose to
"patch up the conditions of the present,
but to break them to piifea." What
we need Is somebody to take such
blatant blackguards as this by the
collar and kick them over the nouno-
ary either Into Canada or the sea the
latter preferred. Society guarantees
freedom of sieoch. but It Is freedom
within society, not fredom to assassin
ate the guarantor.
The sudden death of James W. Scott.
of the Chicago Times-Herald, removes
from the newspaper world one of iu
most picturesque as well as conspicu
ous figures. Ttiougn several j
short of 50. be had attained a leading
position among the creators of news
papers In a city only second In popu
lation in the country, anj easily first
in that restless energy and constantly
expanding view which are believed to
be peculiarly characteristic or Ameri
ca. Few men in tne proieaaiou iim
attained to anything like the same
prominence and success, leaving behind
them so few angry points or rnctlou.
His loss will be mourned by a very
large circle of personal friends, both
Ithln and without the profession, and
his place In the social and business life
of the bustling, restless, generous, dar
lag community, where for twenty
years be had mane tin no me. win o
hard to All. lie had Just ejected the
consolidation of the HeralJ. built up
on lines of his own laying down, with
the older Times, built up by the late
Wilbur F. Story, and doubtless enter
talned ambitions as to the future of the
nauer known but little. If at all, tc
others. ,r . . T'.Jfr..
The Useful Cricketer.
The cricket ground is a wholesome
training field for young Englishmen.
"It has cost me, one way or auother,
a Over to play In this match. I have
traveled 200 miles, and now I can say
that I have played on a side which
made 536 runs, and If I had stayed
away they would only have made 635.
So said a very good cricketer at the
end of a two days" match, in the course
of which he had received three balls
only, but he said It without a sem
blance of grumbling In his voice. Be
ing a cricketer, he had learned to lose
sight of his personal failure in think
ing of the success of his side, and we
hope and believe that he felt that be
would rather win a match wherein be
made one run than score a century for
a losing side.
Only on rare occasions do we meet
a downright selfish cricketer, nnd then
we Instinctively feel that a man of his
stamp would have done better had be
confined bis attention to the golf
course, aud that he Is for some reason
Incapable of taking advantage of the
countless opportunities that cricket has
afforded blm of conquering a selfish
and Ill-regulated disposition. Black
wood's Magazine.
True Heroism.
Heroism Is to be found In other places
than at the cannon's mouth. This hero
Ism Is but the result of the Inward pas
sions of mankind working to the sur
face under Intense excitement, ami is
to lie found In the most uncivilized of
peoples. This Is not true heroism In
the strict sense of the word. A case of
the true article Is now going the round
of the Northern newspap-rs. Last
Fourth of July little Freddie Griffith,
of Monti lalr, N. J., was .-elebrating the
dar In the usual manner, and was so
frightfully Injured by the explosion of
some fireworks that not n vestige of
skin w.is to be found on his body from
the kn.-es up to the lower pal of his
chest To restore the skin It will re- I
quire fully five thousand grafts of ctitl- :
cle taken from the liodles of healthy
persons. Fully two thousand of these
have already leen contributed by his
family and friends. When we consider
that for every piece contributed a scar
is the result. It is not far to look for
true heroism. One gentleman has al
ready three hundred of the. honor
able scars to show, and others are not
far behind.
Hensitive.
John Jones, who is remarkable for
his large ears, has had a falling out
with Miss Esmeralda Smith, towards
whom he had been suspected of enter
taining matrimonial Intentions.
Somebody asked him the other day
why be and Miss Smith were not out
driving as usual, to which he replied
that he did not propose to pay trap hire
for any woman who called him a
donkey.
"I can't lel!eve that Miss Smith
would call any gentleman a donkey,"
was the reply.
"Well, she didn't come right down
and say I. was a donkey; but she might
Just as well have said so. She hinted
that much." ,
"What did she say?" ' '
"We were out driving and It looked
very much like rain, and 1 said It was
going to rain on us, as I felt a rain
drop on my ear; anil what do you sup
pose she said?" ..." '
"I have no Idea
"Well, she said, that rain you fel
on your ear may be two or three mile
off.'"
craaaje Error In Painstaking Work
Dr. Robert Young worked for thirty
yean on a concordance of the Bible
that should be complete and without
errors. When be finished It he found
to hie dawns that be bad oramltted
aH reference- under "Holy tibomt.
Leaving rat tbe Holy Spirit It the iron
We with much of the study of tli
gw wna biw-b ui iue biihi 01 im
Bible.-Lou 1st 111 Western Recorder
M Cfclaa.
Washington, May 10. An official
dispatch from Tokio, received at t e
Japanese leg atioa states that the rati
fications of the treaty of peace between
Japan and China were exchanged at
Cbeefoo Wednesday. It is understood
that no change was made 111 I tie test of
the treaty as originally concluded, bat
that taking into account the recom
mendations made by Hussia, Germany
and Frnctbe Japanese government
agreed to renounce tne permanent pos
session of the Lalo Tung peninsula.
However, arrangements regarding the
form and termi of the renunciation
shall be reserved for adjustment be
tween itself and the government of
China. This la'.ter stipulation ii con
structed to mean that Japan will not
surrender the peninsula until a suits ble
indemnity shall have been paid, and
that it may even be agreed between
Japan and China that the possession of
Port Arthur itself will be retained for
a term of years ex'endiug beyond the
date when the indemnity thai have
been paid in full, that guaranteeing tc
Japan not alone the payment of the in
demnity itself, but also sufficient time
to safeguard herself against anything
like a war of reprisal.
The treaty of peace Itself provides
that Wel-llal-Wel shall be held until
the first 100,000,000 taels and the next
two annual installments of the indem
nity have been paid, so that with tbe
added guarantee of the possession of
Port Arthur, even although only tem
porary, the Chinese government ap
pears to have taksn every possible I re
caution for the future.
Will Saeara Bilur PrteM.
Pittsburg, May 10. The aim alga
mated association of tin, iron and steel
worker! and the merchants bar iron
manufacturers' national association baa
entered into a combination to secure
for tbe iron workers of tbe country
better rate of wages ajjd for the ma no
facturers fair competitive conditions
againtthe mjlloperston of tbe Pitta
burg district, who have been working
their employes at low wages. An asso
ciation of manufacturers has been
formed, principally outside of the Pitta
burg district, to secure remunerative
prices for iron products, and Incident
ally to give tbe workmen better wagea
than are now paid, which are admit
ted too low.
At the Youngstown conference be
tween the am sgs mated association and
the valley Iron manufacturers an agree.
ment was entered into by the merchant
bar iron association and the amalg
mated association to advance tbe pud
ding scale 10 cents, provlled the non
union and undereale mills of this city
could be forced to pay the tarns price
Tbe strike in tix mills of tbit city at
the present time it the result of tint
agreement. Tbe Pittsburg puddler
are not only striking for the preset t
scale rates, but if successful will make
it possible for all the Iron worker in
the country to secure an advance of lu
per cent on N puddling rate.
Looking up Particular.
Oakland, Cat, May lO.-Coroner
lib Ida In has sent dispatches to Raw.
lint. Wvo., for fall particular! ot 11
death of Sidney Smith, whose body whs
brought here Tuesday last. It has been
learned that he was 4 leading architect
in Omaha five years ago and during the
building boom organized building and
loan societies and It is expected robbed
them of about J 50,000 aud fled to Can
ada. In Toronto be married a society
belle, although he had a wife and two
children in Omaha. .-111 it h lived under
an assumed name in Catiaoa, but upon
being detected be was brought back 10
Omaha, convicted of embezzlement
and sent to the penitentiary lor eigh
teen months. The bigamy chtirie was
not pressed. For sr vices to the stale
of Nebraska in detecting frauds in
building operations at the penitenti
ary, Smith wag pardoned in six months
aud dropped out of sight.
vrill liet Ire from Srloa
Washington, May 10. The retire
ment ircm active service of Brig Gen.
Thomas L. Catey, chief of engineers
which office he has held since 1888,
posnetses more than passing interest
to the general public because of th
great public works that have been com
pleted under his direction. Genera!
Casey was bom in New Y'ork, hit.
father, Gen. t-ilas Casey, lieing a dis
tinguished army oflicer. He was grad
uated from the West Point military
academy in 1852, stauding at the head
of the clavs, which included among it!
members such men as Henry W. Slo
cum, I). 8. Stanley, Jerome Bnapane,
Peter T. .waine, Alex D. McCook and
George Crook. Since 1889, when be
became ceief of engineer!, General
Casey bs expended nearly half a biU
lion dollars for the government in river
and harbor improvements, public build
ings aud grounds and coast defenses.
riH Pleadad Oulllf.
San Fkancisoo, CaL, May 10.
Henry L. Fuss, opium smuggler and
forger of Chinese certificates, pleaded
guilty to the charges of smuggling and
conspiracy iu th United Mates dis
trict court yfsterdav. 4nve other
charges were dismissed on motion of
the government, Foas turning govern
ment witness.
A Sarloaa stats of Affairs.
Dkxhon, Tex., .Mav 10. Tbe national
court convened Monday at Tishomingo
the capital of the Chickasaw nation,
A serious state of sffairs exist! whl eh
may precipitate civil war. There are
two sett of officers throughout, from
Judge down, and a elnsn teemi Inevit
able, as both stdes are obstinate and do
not sects Inclined to yiatd In tbe least.
Tbe fafltlana are heavily armed. ' A
TKnor'T oof.on".
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A Day af ABellaa.ai.
Chicago, My 9 Although tbe ex
pected attaca of strikers on tbe Illi
nois Steel company did not take place
yesterday the day whs not without ex
citement. A mob of strikers aud sym
pathizers attacked a policeman and in
turn waa attacked by a squad of officers
and put to flight, after one man bad
been wounded and tbe victim of tbe
mob badly beaten. Tbe riot took place
at Eighty-fourth street and Mackinaw
avenue at 11 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Policeman Joseph McCaffrey at
tempted to arrest Peter Peterson, who
was drunk and makin; an indamma
tory speech to a little knot of strikers
who bad gathered around him. Men
sprang from every lide us if by magic
and the officer was soon surrounded by
a mob of nearly 300, who knocked him
down, and would have killed him bad
not fellow oificeri arrived and by firing
a couple of shot! in the air dispersed
them. A riot call waa at once sent in
and several wagon loads of policemen
were shortly on the cene. McCaffrey
was not seriously hurt, though bis bead
was badly cut. It was reported that
Peterson had been shot in the head, but
be says the wound be has there was
made by a cobble itone, which grazed
bis skull, and not by a bullet.
It was quiet at tbe work! all day.
In the afternoon the furnaces were
blown out and only ' the hearth and
plate works now remain open, about
tix hundred men being employed iu
them. It it said the company will
make an effort to pat In new men to
morrow, but this is denied by tbe
officers. If they do further trouble 11
almost sure to occur. The ringleaders
in yesterday'! riot were arraigned in
court yeaterday morning and held in
800 bond! each. A score of others
were fined from f 3 to each. A
number of itriken gained admission to'
the grounds yettefday iu a row boat
and have not yet been found.
TroubU Jaared attha .Mine
ViboTsIa, Minn., May 9 Trouble
Is feared at tbe Franklin mine hare,
where the men are striking for jjn ad
vance in wages. Yesterday afternoon
Superintendent Harris sent the follow
ing telegram to Sheriff Butcnart: "The
strikers refuse to let us work tbe iteam
shovels. We want protection.
Yesterday morning anotler telegram
was sent by tbe Franklin Mining com
pany as follows: "We cannot load stock
pile without protection. Will you
protect us?"
In response to the last telegram Sber
iff Butchart, with deputies Wilcox and
McTaggart, came to Irgiula to in
vesugaie and see if further aid was
needed. Nearlv every mine on the
Mesaba range has railed wages 10 p
cent, except the Franklin, and at nearly
all other! the men are eat Wiled. The
Frank liti company bad the reputation
of paying its men the lowest wages
and feeding them the poorest of any of
the range mines.
Attacked by Uovermn nt Troops.
Santiago dk Cl-ha, May 9. a
band ot Insurgent! has been attacked
by the government troops s.x miles
from this tdace. The railway trestles
on the .sango branch bave been cut and
traffic is stopped.
Colonel alamanca reports from
Puerto Prince city thst he encountered
a band cf insurgents under Castilo at
Jicota in tho western part of the pro
vince and put them to llight. They
were hastening toward Colon when I e
gave up the pursuit, i-paiiisli trrops
and a lew civil guards cxtue upon a
party of insurgents on a farm near
Nieves. After a hot lilit the insur
gent! were dispersed and their artni
and provisions were cup'.ured. ne
insurgent wan killed ana several were
wounded. The troops pu.-nued the
fleeing Insurgent! about eliit tntles.
Although little could be learned re
garding the band, it was supposed to
be under the command of the bandit
Malagas.
A New t oiiilotistlon.
Chicago, May. U. Five of the
largest mining companies in the north
ern part of Illinois have formed a close
combination for haudling their gere
gate output ot three million tons of
coal annually' They eay they were
forced to do so by the unlair competl
tion from mines owned by the Chicago
A tasiern Iliiuois, the abn!i anu tt.e
Illinois Central railroads iu central hiiJ
fouthern Illinois. The combined com
panies are the Cherokee, Wilmington
and Vermillion f?tar Coal company of
Streator,.Big Four, Wilmington Coal
company, Gardner-Wilmington Coal
company and Wilmington Coal Alin
ing and Manufacturing company. The
Interests of all have been merged into
the general Wilmington Coal company.
LIllO UIH Shot.
Levevwokth, Kan., May 9. Wed.
nesday evening at & o'clock Maude
Smith, the little 5 year old daughter of
J.M. Smith on Tenth and Walnut
streets was accidental lv shot and killed
Hhe was alone with her four little
brothers, the oldes aged 9 years, when
they managed to get a self-acting re
volver that wai on a nail under their
lather ! overcoat down off the wail and
were playing with it when It discharged
sending a bullet in the chilo'i head over
the right eye, and lodged iu tbe brain.
The child died.
II. I't up iha Siaga,
Calistoua, Cai May U. The stage
cosch running between this place and
Clear Lake was held up and robbed
yesterday by two masked men, who se
cured about f 1.200 cash and looted the
Wells-Fsrgo treasure box. It Is not
known how uuch tbey got from the
treasure box. The highwayman also
eured considerable valuable lewebey.
I A posse has been organized and is In
l-'!
cap
bat I lure iwwwu Bgio(aviu(
1 bam offered.
frat.ral Mm lajarr la a Baa.
Chicago. May S.-About !,000 men
employed at the plant of the Illinois
Steel company atutu Chicago struck
against a reduction in wages. Last
night 700 of tbe in attacked the gate to
the company's enclosure at Eighty
sixth and Green By streets, and in a
struggle with the police several were
injured, but do one killed.
Three weeks ago thi wage schedule
was reduce! from 2.10 to 91.60, and
the oil men left. Their places were
taken by an importation of Hungarian!
and poles, who bave been operating
the furnaces since ths middle of April.
They have been meeting recently aud
bave decided that they wtre working
too hard and too long for too little
money. Over 1,500 laborers bave been
employed in the mills, 150 being en
gaged in the blast furnaces gradually
left their posts, throwing out tbe
day laborers, and at nocn 1,200 men
had quit work. Furnace & and 6 were
in operation whtn the mills closed for
the dinner hour. The fever was con
tagious, and during the afternoon the'
men for the most part did not apply
themselves arduously to their tasks.
Tbe feeling was prevalent that more
men would leave their posts, and shortly
after b o'clock 700 of them quit and
marched out of the works.
MARCHED OS THE MILLS.
Here they were joined by tbeir fellow
strikers and a march was taken np to
tbe upper mi 11a Tbe rrowd halted at
Eighty-sixth Dd Green Bay, near one
of the big gates leading to the com
pany's inclosure, and sent word tbey
wanted to see Superintendent Foots of
the furnace department. Mr. Foote,
not appearing at once, the 1119b made
a rush at tbe gate!, iiailroad ties,
crowbars and stones were used, and in
a few minutes tbe fence was reduced
to kindling wood. The men swarmed
Into tbe yard which tbey bad so re
cently quitted, and were about to do
damage to tbe company's property,
when a detachment of police arrived
slicTpul them to flight. The mien ran
aputji sjid Q Xlntjeth and gjrand
streets met another ueianea 01 omcers
coming to the assistance ol the other
men. A pitched battle ensued. Tbe
polios, although greatly outnumbered,
used their clubs to good purpose and
notwithstanding the onslaught of the
Infuriated foreigners tbey more than
held their own. In a short time they
bad scattered tbe crowd. The police
sent for reinforcements and in thirty
minutes 100 officers from adjacent pre
cincts were on the scene. Twenty
eight of the ringleaders, mostly Bohe
mians and Poles, were placed under
arrest and taken to the South Chicago
station.
All departments of the great plant
were closed last night excepting the
open hearth and plate mill, where
boiler and shipping plate 11 made.
Manager W. It. Walker said he ex
pected to b able to keep those parts
of the works In operation, but it was
too early to say when work would be
resumed in the blast furnaces and steel
mill. The situation Is fraught with
much danger to the peace of the com
munity and the police, as well as citi
zen, who know the deeperatlon and
ignorance of the Poles, Hungarians and
other foreign-born laborers fear for the
morrow. Tbe atrikera and their sym
pathizers are in the mood to tight the
police without much provocation. It
ii denied by the company that there
ha! been any rtduct ion 'f wages, the
wages of furnace laborers, $1.65, being
the same paid a year ago.
r'llli a D'-ni'irrer.
Sas Fkanux ), May 8. Mrs. Jane
L. Stanford has tiled Iu the United
States circuit court a dewurrer to the
' suit brougtit by the government against
! the Stanford estate to recover 10,0(XJ,-
000 advanced by the United Stales for
I the construction of the Central Pacific
railway. The demurrer sets forth that
the only obligation or liability ever
created by the government iu favor of
the United States against the Central
Pacific and Western Pacific was on the
bonds guaranteed bv the government,
which it is claimed do not constitute a
debt against either of the companies or
a right to demand payment from them
because of the bonds failing of redemp
tion. The demurrer continues Hist the
only relief open to the government is !
the confiscation of the corporation. It
is further contended that no valid claim
whs ever presented to Lelaud Stanford
during his life, or to Ins widow since
bii death. This, it is claimed, vitiate!
any claim the United States govern
ment might bave hid.
Tha Stata Treasury Maatad."
At'STiN. Tex., May 8. The state
treasury when it closed Monday night
was pronounced "busted" by Treasurer
Wort ham. The passage of tbe general
appropriation bill by the legislature
just closed made the state liable at once
for 514,000. To pay this amount there
waa only 8100.000. 1 he bill became ef
fective yesterday slid warrants were
drawn, and within six hours every cent
of tbe 1100,000 in the treasury was
taken out and now there is a shortage
of 5H,090. Warrants bave to be re
guttered from now on, and Treasurer
Wortham says it will be next January
before the slate will be on a cash basis
again.
The Kr ailing Hasan.
Kf.ici.ik, May 8. Considerable of the
snti-fodslisl bllljwaa only buegn arid
Monday proceedings was confined to
leading the report of the committee,
The reiclislag adjourned until 6 o'clock
yesterday evening. Chancellor von
Hohenlohe remained until the end of
tha sitting. It is assumed that bis
purpose in recsinlng was to make a
statement in regard to tha bill after
the reading of the commissioner ! re-
Crt bv ur. von wticnsa, out mo ncur
ing lata he did not do so.
Axwlaa tar r-
MivKKtroLis, Minn-, M.y
Shortly after 1 o'clock yeetarday morn.
lng tba dead body of Henry W. Thomas
superintendent of the telegraph depart
ment of the ISoo" railroad, was found
lying in tbe guitar at the cornor of
Thirty-second street and Chicago ave
nua with a bullet bole through his
brin. At an early hour Fred Williams
was arreted charged with murder, and
upon betngclosely questioned confessed
Thomas bad been spending tbe evening
at the residence of William, mother,
with Mrs. Berglund, in company with
Mrs. Williams, who bad applied ior a
divorce from her huibaud. Williams
pent the eveniug in the vicinity and
was seen watching his wife through
the window. When Thomas left tbe
bouse at 10:45 he was followed to tbe
spot lodlc-ited by the jealous huiband
and the twaiu faced each ether, when
Wiiiiaras fired full in the face ot his
victim, tne bail entering below the left
eye and penetrating the brain. Death
was instantaneous.
Tbe tragedy wai not discovered until
asier 1 o'clock this mornlug, and It waa
not until 7 o'clock that tbe murderer
w aken Into cus ody. He gave full
details of his crime, itatlng as his
motive a belief that Tbouas wss In a
measure responsible for the engage
ment of hii wife' affections. All the
friends of the murdered man, however,
unite in giving Mr. Thomas the highest,
character, and assert that any intrigue
of the sort is entirely foreign In his
character. He was held in hiirh esteem
by bis employoes aid the public gener-
all. Williams ii laid to oe a ininiew
fellow, twenty-three y.ars old. who had.
been married three year!, but his wifa
wai compelled to leave him more than a
vearaa-o. The Berglnnd family claim-
ed that Thomas visited them to ie the
children, of whom he was very fond,
and tipeciallv to call on Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Williams expected to have re
ceiv d ber divorce yesterday, The
prisoner is in j til and will be arraigned,
today.
In tha Area?" 0
Seaside Ai-hlktie ('li b. Coney
Island, May 7.-Fully 7,000 persons
jturneyed to tbe arena last evening to
sen the twenty-five rouud contest be
tween Steve O'Donnell, who bsi gained
notoriety a Chsmplon Jim Corbett's
sparring partner, and Jake KHraln.
the Baltlmorean, who was a shinning
light in the prize ring live years or
more sgo. The announcement that
Corbett would be in O'Donnell's cor
ner and John Sullivan would second
Kilrain may have had some effect upon
the attandance, which was the largest
seen at a fiuht here since the days when
Johnny McKane was all powerful and
the recognized "czar" of this seaside
resort. Hesides the main event, mere
were on the program two preliminary
bouts, the first of which was that be
tweeu Martin McCue and Frank Pat
terson, two clever local b'-xers, result
ing In a draw. The hecond prelimin
ary bout brought together young Cor
bett, a protege of the champion, who
hails from the Pacific coast, and Jim
Holmes of New York. Corbett won.
A disappointment, wai furnished the
spectators over the failure of llm Cor
bett and John L. Sullivan to appear in
the respective corners of Sieve O'Don
nell aud Jake Kiiraiu, as had been ex
pected. It was soon forgotten, how
ever, aud the crowd cheered the big
fellows to the echo when they entered
the ring.
KlI.ItAlN K AT AS A Phi.
O'Donuell weighed 1H0 pounds, tni
was seconded by liiily IMancy, John
McVey, Mick Omni, Benny Murphy
and Young Gnffo. Juke Kiiraiu
weighed' 210 pounds. His seconds
were Krtiie Gebhitrdt, Al llerford and
Billy Duke, all of Baltimore. When
the men faced each other In the ring
Kilrain looked to be hog fat.
In rouud twenty-one both men led
and Steve lanued bis left on Jake's j:iw
and again on the wind. He then
crossed li 1 id on the jaw and knocked
him down atid out in one minute and
eighteen isconus. Kilrain staggered
to his feet, but the referee stopped the
bout and awarded it t.o O'Donuell as a
matter of mercy. Had be not done so
the police would have stopped It. After
the bout whs II mailed Charlie Johnson
said be would bet f 10,0 A) Hut Sullivan
would whip the wlniier in half the
time.
Mailt au Au'lff "m"11.
St. Paul, Minu., May 7. The lirm
of N. P. Clarke A Co., ol St. Cloud and
Minneapolis, who made an assignment
appers In Minneapolis. So iu la
ment of the affairs of the company has
been given, but tlioae in a position to
know say that the liabilities will range
between ,VX).0OO and 7tJO,000. H is
thought that the ase.u will be more
than sufficient to pay all liabilities In
full. The failure is laid to the mis
management of Mr. Clarke's nephew,
who has been in active charge of the
business. Before the panic of 1801
Clarke was worth two and a half mil
lions. A private meeting of the cred
itor! ttaabela In Minneapolis yest.r
day afternoon aud adjourned until to
day, hoping to form date some plan of
continuing the business.
1 Left Watt in. Jnd(a.
ST. Pall, Miun., May 7.-In tba
suit of the American Loan sad Trust
company vs. tbe Oregon Short Line for
aseperate received from the Union
Paeinc, after the arguments closed Bat.
urday there was an intimation from
council that a compromise was pessi
ble, to which tbe court wss not hostile,
Aftar a conference It developed that
tba several jauraabi nonirf k
vrvugui into an agreenent. Monday
the case was left with Judge Ha oborm.