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JjS-—!E-1 FOR 21 YEARS. H. DAMREN RECOVERS HIS ABSENT DAUGHTER. ll«rinlf limiilftl In ll#r Kiithfr A Chancf llrlng« About tla# Joyful ItoniHjeMMala* Mtory* OBKRT R. DAM ren, of Oakland, Me., haa recently recovered In a re markable manner hla * daughter, Al ice Maud Darnren, whom he lost. In I he fall of IH7ti. when 2 yearn old. Mr, Darnren waa I her} a brakeman nlglu freight between Hkowhe Portland, lie left home for one night, and did not re account of hla labor for two He ankeil bln wife where bin girl watt, and abe told him that a Mra. Phllpot, of Norrldgewock, had taken her home for a few duytt for a ' vlalt. Mm. Phllpot had recently loat I A little girl, and took a fancy to Mr, r Darnren .i daughter. Mra. Darnren wan taken down III with the diphtheria the ■Wnext day, and the child waa not aent ror. inn motncr wiih hick lor iwo weef amt then Mr. Damren wuh Htrlek <i, ami for a week hla life hung In the balance, It waa alx weekn from the time little Alice hail left home that he wuh able to be out. When he went after hlx little girl, however, he found that. Mra, Phllpot had dlaap peared from Norrldgewock, taking the child with her, and until thin Hummer he never found any trace of the woman or child, though every poanlble effort , wuh made. One day taut Auguat Mr. ^ Damren wuh nulling with a friend nt Kllle pond, and happened to axk Fred Harding, of Sidney, If he ever knew a man at Norrldgewock named Phllpot. Mr. Harding replied that he did not, but he knew a woman of that name who went to Portland and married a man named Wormell. A little further Inquiry convinced Mr. Damren that (Ida wuh the woman who had taken bin daughter. A at range coincidence In the case In that at about the time Harding gave Damren the Information about Mm. Phllpot, Maud, In aome way learned that Wormell wan not her fa ther, and made up her mind to aeare.h ...I L.. _•_UU„ ...1,1 Ing about, her plans, but went up to Watervllle, where a brother of Worm ell lived. He knew something of *he ease, and directed her to Mr. Damren, with whom he used to work on the railroad. Mr. Damren was away when she arrived, but the Fosters, with whom he lived, made her welcome, and prepared a surprise for her fa ther’s return. When he arrived they ushered him Into a room where the k - girl was. The girl remained with her father for several days, and then re turned to Watervllle the last of the month, and there met the only one of her four brothers she has ever seen to know. Hhe has not been living with Mrs. Wormell for some time, but Is a clerk In a store In Portland. Mrs. Phll pot’s marriage to Mr. Wormell Imme diately after her going to Portland was what prevented Mr. Dararen from trac ing her after she left Norridgewock. HllIRllMt linin' Allv«. Mary Pollock, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. William Pollock, of Chicago, has celebrated the sixth week of her ad vent Ipto the world. Mis* Mary I* the tlnleet healthy Infant that live* In this eountry. A few hours after her birth *he weighed one pound and three ounces. The attending physician told her parents that there was absolutely no cbance of saving the child. Hut In spite of this Mis* Mary lived on. und ha* grown from day to day. Now she weighs two pounds, and cries lustily Kvery one of her features are partic ularly well developed, A more beau tiful specimen of physical babyhood would tie hard to find laical medical history has no record of a child weigh ing no more than did Mlsa Pollock when born tlvlug for a longer period iban two day a The case I* phenome nal. wamawi i i so— ni'wis in ■«—*■—— (m>i preaeKee *iieo* The Uev. Mr. Walker Uray, sgsd tit. a son of William Uray, of Marne. Ill. has been arrested on the eve of hi* marriage to Ills* lahk Williams, an estimable young lady of Kennedy, lit, tta ike rkarge of forging |matogb< money order* Uray was in need of money. n> ke issued n number of or ders mu lusn* which k* «*|»eeled tn visit, but wken ke presented ike order •i ikle office fur Ml M ke was srreuted He route seed Ursy has keen acting a'rangehr fur some lime, and kis Inti male asMgftMM iktnk him tasana. t»* wolves of It seals 4«*<*u» aaaual |* irtau bead ef cattle. MMN akeug and IW.M dugs. ALASKA AND THE YUKON. From N#a In l>J Crooning; Only Thirty Miles of l.un<l. Alaska is a most. difficult country for traveling, even In the only available short season of Its arctic summer, there being no roads; and even Indian trails, on account of the small number of na tives. are very rare, says Outing. The surface Is rough, being traversed by many ranges of mountains. Bven In j the more level portions travel Is hin dered In the summer by the wet moss which grows knee deep, and by the In sect pests; In the winter It Is made Im posslblc by the Intense cold. In view of all these difficulties, the peculiar ro i lutIon of the Yukon river to the coast Is such that one might fancy nature had arranged It especially for a high way through this Inaccessible Interior, | In partial compensation to man for the | obstacles she has put In his wuy. The headquarters of the network of streams that, ultimately drain Into I be Yukon river fortunately lie within about thir ty ntllea of the sea, just on the northern or Inland side of a range of mountains which runs along the southern coast of Alasku. From this point the river flows north away from the sea, far toward the Arctic ocean; then, suddenly changing Its mind, turns west; and finally, after traversing the whole width of Alaska, arrives at the liering sea, Its entire course being consider ably over 2.000 miles. For a consider able distance It Is a broad and deep ulrnnni on« >•» /mils through the center of Alanka, from net to Rea. by croRHlng only thirty mllcR ot ro of land. VENDETTA IS STARTED. Oim Man Almaily Kllloil anil Valnalil* Property fo lluruoil. A vendetta huH broken out at Lily, Clinton county, Mo., which haa ho fat rcHulted in the murder of one pernon, the wounding of otheri, and the de Htruction by fire of two of the boul mercantile CRtablUhmentH in town. '77 7 J. B. HALL. The trouble originated In an attack through mercantile agencies on the business and flnantlal responsibility of M. J. Hawkins, who employed detec tives, and says he found the author to he J. Shaver, a business competitor. The friends took sides. As a result, J. B. Halt, a clerk for Hawkins, was killed by a young man named Bolcs^ employed by Shaver. Csn s Frozen Animal I In Kestnred, If the animal Is slowly frozen and as slowly thawed out life may lie restor ed. If the freezing takes place at 5 de grees C., the temperature then remain ing at 2 degrees C., there cannot he an aggravation of the condition. The temperature must tie gradually raised, otherwise a fatal result will fol’ow. The old ,,lan, so prevalent in cold regions, of thawing out a frozen member of the body by nibbing with snow before coming Into a warm room Is based on scientific principles. Death follows at once if all the water contained in the body bo crystallized. Complete con gelation of the water of the body tis sues signifies complete drying, separ ation of all the soluble and loosely chemically united gases, as well as crystallization of the salts. As a result of this, the structure of the protoplasm, as well as Its chemical and physical characters, Is necessarily destroyed. Death follows as the result of this sep aration of the living substance, nnd not as a consequence of great reduction of temperature. Animals whose tls-u»s are rich In water may lie frozen to stony hardness, but, aa shown by mac roscopic and microscopic examina tions, a sluggish, movable fluid may be seen coursing among the lee needles. Too long a time must not follow freez ing before the efforts to restore life commence. Olrl njlas <>f Flight. Because Minnie Woodruff, uged fif teen, a young woman of Hvunsvtlle, Ind., received letters from a rival threatening her life she became pros trated, and her physicians say she can not recover. Misa A life Howe, of How ell, !• said to have written several let lera in which ahe said she would kill Minnie If ehe did not forbid Will Kad inr from calling on her. ttadler Is g railroad man. Nul Hare a Merit. A report from Mlntonvllle. Kv , savs | that M«v Mr tltlham. of the t'hrlgtian 1 I (‘hurt h. by preaching a sermon In • hu b h* nlflrminl I bar* waa u<> 4* *11, j auvo utvnw lu lb* ni«|U|tlhi« mil that whvM h» aiumi>irtl lu »i» *k again bo *** aja«l*«l Iron lb* b»>u»«. an.l about iworni plain! abuia * or* #m>) altar bln • »<*.» »# «»• it»M i «•* A nan • rlitim Irun ikt*w« city, aaar Iba Ki<*a«ltk« guU un • iw*r la M »iii a tit Ink I ba«a gull 4riakla« * Tbta la aa mpr*«ti«« j awpta ut iba wt iba «»ij »ur# A hm) u4 bta falb#** aewy in MM Hlki THE SAFE CRACKERS.' | the new burglar uses MODERN TOOLS. flu* lilttlr !'•«• for fti9 ( Inin*) Jimmy %t Y« OI<leu Time*—few I lever It*** j (dll Now Operate In Targe i llie*— , Driven Out by fleetrle Alarm*. P-lo-date burglar* use tools that ate models In the line of modern Inven tions. The vulgar Jimmy need no longer be applied to the safe door. It Is easier to drill a hole large enough for an arm to be slipped through. At Marseilles reeently a very •'neat" hank robbery took plare, In which the Improved burglar drill was used. The cracksmen drilled a hole one or two Inches In diameter by means of a hand brace, at the level of the lock, and afterward tapped the hole so that there might, he screwed Into It a threaded rod provided with a handle at Its extremity. The drill, properly so called, consisted of a steel plate ring provided with saw teeth at one of Its edges. This ring was held by a transverse rod, to which was fixed a vertical lever and a bridge. The threaded rod, wlileh was first serewed Into the door, served as an axis of rotation. Upon this axis was fixed the drill, and It only sufficed to maneuver the lever In order to cause the saw teeth to bite the plate of the safe. Af ter a short period of silent work a disk was detached and came out with the tool. The safe then no longer offered any resistance to the burglar. "The reason safes arc not cracked In Chicago and other large cities as they once were," said William Pink erton the other day, "Is because we have made It very unprofitable for the safe crackers to attempt a Job. Three fourths of the safes and vaults In the business districts of Chicago are con nected by electric wires with the office of a protective company and the In stant one of these safes Is tampered with an alarm bell rings In the office where a dozen men are on duty wait ing for such an occurence. No bell rings where the safe Is. There Is nothing to disturb the burglar, and If he keeps on with his work we are very likely to catch him In the act, as has been done half a dozen times. Now, the expert safe crackers all know this and for that reason they give Chicago a wide berth. Add to the protection of electricity the fact that the buildings are all guarded by watchmen and that the police are quite numerous In the business dis trict at night and you will see the safe cracker has not the show he used to have. The principal safeguard, however. Is electricity. No matter how conscientiously a watchman might make his rounds it might be possible for a couple of handy men to get Into a store and do a Job between trips while the watchman was In some other part of the block. But when the safe is connected with a burglar alarm, as the majority of them are, the safeblower has no chance In the world. He attempts to bore the door or to knock ofT the combination knob and Instantly a big bell begins to ring blocks away and continues to ring un til someone gets to that safe. As for the safes In grocery stores and other places away from the downtown dis trict, they don't have enough In them to pay for the trouble and risk of get ting Into them. Those small shop keepers usually hurry downtown and I I A NEAT HIT OK WORK. make a deposit as soon as they get a couple of hundred dollars, and a good safe cracker does not want to spend his time and wear out his tools bor ing Into a safe for 120 or 930. It la no trouble to get Into tbe average fire proof safe. An amateur can do It. Of course, with a burglar-proof bank safe or vault It takes nttro glycerin, but the people who put their faith In aafee would be surprised to see bow easily they can be broken open Kur nil theee reasous the safeblowers have taken to the country and the email cities, and there la more safeblowing there now than there ever wns. I’viat iilltand bantu and lam* atoraa tn I hr nut* (Otto* may be rubbed wllh Impunity, fur. tn tb* Aral pl«««, tha p*a. •*» tbrra du n«t know tb* mI« rni'katt by aigbt. and they nrw lea* liable tn arrant on maklna tbelr *p pea rake* la tuna tkaa tfcey would be la t'blrngu Than lb* aafea bate no •brtttrtl attachment*. tb* puitr* nr* at air* and lb* bur«l*ra ran ».»t b nth iMi molMtatiua and a*t awny. That U wbat baa touiaa at lb* aafaktaw ar« and that to wby t'bhaffu I* Ire* from tbam “ Hum* af tb* *to««r**« **•* lb* ptlim author me* at tb* rauatry kart ta deal with am tb* anfabhawera and bank worker* klanr at tbam nr* nut ate re burglars' they are men of brains and | skill, good appearance and address, j The large amounts of money they se- ! cure enables some of the high rollers j to dress well and live In style, although j the ordinary cheap safeblower spends i his money as fast as he gets It. Maximllllan Shlnburn Is one of the most famous bank robbers the conn- ; try ever saw and he has also a crimi nal record in Europe. He Is a man of much polish and a fluent linguist and flnds no difficulty in making his j way In circles far above those In which the ordinary thief moves. For this reason It Is extremely difficult for the police to capture him, as he Is ad vised of their movements, but he has done time anil his picture Is In every rogues’ gallery In this country and Europe. MURDERED HIS FATHER. ItSU< liman Hlml liy Ills Hon. Wlmm He Hn<l Orilrreil tn l.eavr. Thomas Flannelly shot and killed his father. 1'atrlck Flannelly, one of the most respected citizens of Redwood City, Cal., the other night berause lie had been ordered from a ranch for dis regarding the old man’s wishes. The crime was committed In the elder Flannelly’* home, which the son had evidently entered with the Intent of doing murder. The crime aroused the people of Redwood Ctty to a high state of excitement. Fosses were formed to pursue the parricide, and he was finally located at the ranch he had been ordered to leave. When called upon to surrender young Flannelly opened fire on Sheriff McEvoy, of San Mateo county, and several of his dep uties. one bullet taking effect In the sheriff's left arm. The volley was re .17?? £ • THOMAS FLANNELLY. turner], anrl the murderer was wounded several times. He then surrendered, and Is now under a surgeon's care. Knives Their Weapons. Arthur Ferguson and Walter Price, young men living at Jasper, Tenn., quarreled over a castigation given by Price to a younger brother of Fergu son. Hot words followed, and they agreed to fight It out. They repaired to a swamp near by on which there was a piece of dry land, and, without wit nesses, they fought a duel. They were both armed with knives, and the fight was bloody and desperate. Finally young Price sank to the ground from loss of blood and a wound In the spine which had paralyzed him. Ferguson was bleeding from a dozen wounds. Price had the same number. Ferguson reported the matter, and the wounded man was taken to his borne and two physicians called. They pronounced his Injuries fatal. Ferguson was ar rested, but was released on a $3,000 bond. Roth young men are well con nected and highly esteemed In the community. KIIIihI Heir mihI Hoy# The bodies of a woman about thirty years old and a boy of eight were dis covered In a room on the second floor of the Windsor House in Syracuse the other day by Mrs. Catherine Rockefel ler, the proprietress. On the dresser was a bottle labeled “Carbolic Acid” and another partly filled with whisky pur chased of a Syracuse druggist. The woman's face and arms were covered with burns, but the boy's face was un marked. He had evidently taken the add unsuspectingly. The woman ap pears to huve been at great pains to conceal her identity. A search of the clothing revealed a crumpled scrap of paper hearing the name "Resale La Orange, 635 Mumford at," written In a woman's hand. tiroom 70, llrt«t» If. Joe Davis ami Miss Helle Whittaker were married at Deer Lick, Ky., last week. Davis is past 70 years old, and his bride Is only IX. The bride and groom represent extremes of age. greater, perhaps, (ban In any wedding on record. According to stories told by the friends of the couple Davis loved Mia* wliman* r * grandmother, but could not marry her. lie transfer red hi* affection* to her granddaugh ter. and after a courtship which ha* lasted ever since the girl was * years old, married her Min* Whittaker love* th» old man. who I* highly respected, and a III Inherit hi* satire eetale upon * hi* death. -— Msttlsd US Murker* MsM, Catholic social circle* on Jersey t'i'y Height* were none*hat surprised h« •uh*r day hy the announesmeat that j francl* J Cullum ***n »f n wealthv j j coal dealer and M.< Catherine Util, a i Kuua* maid In hi* mother • eervtve, were married on hug II Mr* Cullum . said that bar aua'a wife saa >wa<id I oel a xMnpaatoa and *b* waa greatly |ileased With ber MMta rbolee The MrMtab empire teem* I* double Ha population In Metope every U >•*»» Mi lb* MmIm ev*«y M »**r* rORTl RE OF A WITTH. . I i BY PRIESTS OF THE BOW IN A ZUNI VILLAGE. — Amt < apliirr the FRinllca. Who llad Almtal Killed Tlielr Alrllm l.oug Ternu of IniprlRoninrnl In store for | the Cruel Chiefs. UK torturing of the witch of the Zunl has been avenged. The High Priests of the Bow are held behind prison burs, await ing trial. Three companies of United States troops, with a Hotchkiss gun. stand guard over the old pueblo city, situated in the arid deserts of New Mexico, which shelters the remnants of a strange race made famous by the ethnologists. Nine months ago, in that sun-Imked adobe city, where the Zunt Indians have lived for centuries, We-Wa, u princess of the race, fell rick. When she con tinued to grow worse, and failed rap idly from iluy to day, the medicine men danced and prayed, the priests o.tered sacred meal, and breathed on the sacred plumes to propitiate the gods who hud beset her with her ills. But the gods refused to listpn to the prayer* of the priests, which like the smoke from the altar of Cain fell back to earth unreeelved by the dwellers In the sky. And so We-Wa died. The Priests of the Bow, the leading cult of Zunl, composed of the savunts, tin governor of the tribe, and the most prominent people, sat In solentu coun cil to discover the cause of We-Wa's death. These priests hold a belief In witchcraft, and accused an old squaw of having caused We-Wa's death by this means, and by way of determining her guilt she was carried to one of the roofs of the city and cast off. The theory of the priests was that If she was a witch she would unfold her wings and fly away; If not, she would exonerate herself by being killed. Our forefathers of Salem town had much the same belief, But the poor old squaw lay moan ing In the street. The dogs barked at. her and children pointed the finger of scorn at her. The Priests of the Bow. being stoical men, then carried the old woman to a post and hung her up by her thumbs. When she could no longer endure the agony she confessed to having bewitched We-Wa, the Princess of Zunl, to her death. The witch of Zunl found a friend and cham pion in Miss Dessette, the mission school teacher, and It Is largely due to her efforts that the old squaw Is still alive. Miss Dessette has worked zealously In attempting to emancipate the Zunis from their thraldom of su perstition, and It was through her cor respondence with the authorities at Washington that the troops were sent. The "witch” had so far recovered, that when the troops went Into Zunl, she was able to accompany them back to Las Lunas, where she gave her testl money. When the troops arrived they found that Nal-yu-che and Na-to-tse, two of the high priests, had given themselves up to the sheriff, and on the following day the other Priests of the Bow, Ken-si and Moorm-asl, sur rendered, without a word, to the sov ereignty of the law. They were marched to l*as Lunas, where a pre liminary hearing was arranged. The PRINCESS WB-WA AT uUK. mnglatrate held each of the four on bond of |5,000 to appear at the Febru ary term of the grand Jury. Hut they will be unable to furnlah the ball and the four ploua prteata will have to wall In Jail. No doubt they will be con victed and aent to the penitentary for eight or ten yea re. The Prteata of the flow ronetltute the great warrior or der of the Zunla, and are alao ledera In the religion of the people. Nal-yu ehe la g very old man, and la the prac tical head of the church, ao to apeak. An idea of the phltuaophy of the peo ple may be gained from the following ! Incident: Some year* ago a m*» loaarv who went among them euw *b*ir cere monies and aaeured the prleatt through in taterpre er that they had no religion The nld prieet turned to i the miaalnnary aayleg Tin you tin drratand our Untru*'•*" to »ht a th» mlMlitaary replied that he rout»Tnot The prieet then remarked with dignity, “Why da fun not tell ua we have ao religion *">’"** m*m - r«rrm-m_L A captive bee, atytvtng la encapo, been mad* tn record aa many aa It, Mo wins etruhen per minute tn n recent teat The eenier of n train In wardwef Ik* enfant BEAR AND WHEELMEN. Irtiln H Url> Krfuaed to Kill thv Lanky PkuhlMH Cyrllata. Bight in the middle of the track waft i black bear about 4 feet high and f. ert long. We had never seen Bruin >efore outside the soo, or In the cage if a perambulating menagerie, says rrnvel. So wr were interested, and he Interest took the shape of a tight - less across the chest and a qulckne-s if breathing such as you feel wht u •asy and happy-go-lucky in your mind. I'he bear was Interested In ua and evi lently glad to see us. He gave a grunt, (lowly wagged his head and began to idvance. At first we thought of amus ing hint by reminiscences of sale buna tlven to his species when we were lounger and less callous of heart. Vet we cocked our revolvers In case there ihould be any disputing the fact, hough we knew a bullet from a Nix ibooter would have as much effect up in the hide of a bear as a pea-shooter would have In wounding an elephant. Now, don't fire until lie’s within am j reach; then drive Into Ills cye.s or op* n mouth.” That was the arrangement. We halted, ready for action. Ho dbl aur friend the enemy, and we saw he was scanning us with scornful tyiK lie began to get a side view. "He a Funking It; he's frightened,” wo said, with Dowered voice. By way of an swer the bear came on four strides at a trot and up went the revolvers, "Don't shoot, don’t shoot, till he's nearer.” Bruin hesitated. He was considering. He was something of a philosopher and evidently thought, "They are only u couple of lanky,flesh less cyclists; what would he the Rood of killing them?" On which sage re flection he turned about and sauntered up the mount a In side. HE SHOT FOR LOVE. Frank Worden Confesses to the Wound log of Miss Coulter*. Frank Weeden. who shot his yours cousin, Miss Daisy F. Coulters, tb< FRANK WEEDEN. Brown University student, has made .. confession. The shooting took place a week before. Weeden, who was madly In love with his cousin, feared that sin was devoting her attentions to anoth er. He loaded a shotgun with bullet/ and lead pipe slugs and started out to kill her. He remained about the house watching Miss Coulters’ through a window. Finally, when all was quiet and no one was about, he sneaked over under the window where she sat, and placing the muzzle of the gun hunt against the blind, fired. Weeden will doubtless be sent back to the slate In sane asylum, where he was confine from February, 1895, until last July for threatening to kill Miss Grace Irftnts, now Mrs. Frank Aldrich, of Eust Greenwich. Three I'oUoue tuTobacco. Nicotine Is not, as used to be sup posed, the most dangerous principle ol tobacco, but pyridine and collodine. Nicotine Is the product of the cigar and cigarette; pyridine, which is three or four times more poisonous, comet out of tho pipe. It would be well, both for the devotees of tobacco and their neighbors. If they took care always to have the smoke filtered through cot ton wool or other absorbent matorial beforo It is allowed to pass the "bar rier of the teeth.” Smokers might al so take a lesson from the Turk, wlv never smokes a cigarette to the end, but usually throws It away when a lit/ tie more than half Is finished. Safe-lllowen Set-ore 9000. The Exchange bank of Waukartisa tnd., was broken Into the other morn ing by three men. They blew off the safe door and took about )900. After leaving the bank the robbers went to the barn of Samuel Greenwald. where they secured a fine team and surrey, with which they drove to Elkhart, leaving the team standing on the out skirts of this city in an exhausted con dition. The robbers are supposed to have taken the paper train east. Be fore breaking Into the bank they broke Into an adjoining gun store and stole several revolvers and tools, using tb/ latter In their operations. Alias K»a«a-ll«l la Jail. A few days ago a man giving his name aa W. It Gong, formerly of Hi latuls, later of Philadelphia, cam# to Mdii-ti. mu . a tin at me it'ngo hotel, lie advertis'd to conduct a r* llgtoue revival meeting at the opeia home, lie claimed that he waa to tnerly with Ham Small I'roprleuic Da vie had him arreated for otualutag board uniter falae {uetenaea The tl leged evangeliet vat unable to give bead fur $' >. and had to go to Jalt He Ooe* go m* TUm> (’heeler llatl, realdlng near Dan elite, Uhl, t* agtwted ia a geewttec and putting manner 4 *»ir ago dnaweiaeea eagle upon him and atatn he harame e> tleegp that he waa tut able to worh New he eleego aiatue eoaaiaatlr oat) helag aealeaod ei meal lime after which ho goan to hod •gala tad la eoog la a round alwmbe