Hill City Democrat from Hill City, Kansas • 2

The stage on the Liegon and Susan ville A Sad Accident. WHERE IS IT TO END? A HORRIBLE MURDER. Hill City Democrat. The Wardrobe of a Clentleman. 'The nearly new wardrobe of a gentleman," according to the catalogue, was sold a few days ago by a firm in London.

The nearly new wardrobe was once the property of Ernest Benson.the jubilee plunder. This young man.who wasted the greater part ol 230,000 in a couple of years, bad an extensive wardrobe, lie had a deplorable weakness for white waistcoats, for he possessed thirty-six of them. He ran largely to scarlet and crimson hunting" coats, corded breeches, and fancy check waistcoats, for he owned twelve suits of the same. Of riding boots he had a store. All iits pillow cases were frilled.

He could have worn a different coat oath day in the month had he cared to do so, and he had a sword or cutlass for every day in the week. Somo of the things brought extraordinary prices. Secondhand shirts with a tlrird-hand look about them sold for 3 a dozen. The bare thought of being: compelled to wear one uia'de the atmbsphero feel moist and oppressive. The second-hand hunting boots sold for -J 10d.

ine was stopped by a masked man near Mllford, CaL, and the WelbFargo box taken at the muzzle of a revolver. During a raimdorin at Masrm City, Ix, William Kehns' barn was struck by light-ningand burned. Kehns and his wife were in the barn at the time and were carried from the building in an insensible condition. The large barns on C. L.

Lund's stock farm at Algona, Ia were burned with four horses, including a $2,000 stallion. About 4,000 bushels of gram and much valuable machinery was consumed. A clerk in a Ypsilanti, Mich, store gave Dr. Edward Batwell gasoline instead of kerosene. When the doctor did the servant girl act and attempted to light the fire with the stuff there was an explosion in which he was badly burned.

Mamie Fostle, who is serving a year's sentence in the county Jail, Chicago, attempted to commit suicide by eatins a sandwich smeared with mercury. Powerful emetics were given and the woman's life was saved. Mrs. Catherine Sideck, of Chicago, grandmother of an infant for which a physician had prescribed aconite, took two tea-spoonfuls of the medicine to see how it tasted. She died soon after.

The five-year-old son of Joseph Bieder-men at Leavenworth, Kan, was bitten by an enormous rattlesnake. The child was given a quart of whisky with no yercepti-ble effect and will probably die. The snake was killed and measure! eight feet, Fire totally destroyed the town of Ox- re wiauy uesirojeu iub wwuoi loiu, juwa. luo uu8ius and many private residences were burned. The postofliee, bauk and many other buildings were destroyed.

The fire was incendiary, the lire-bell rope having been cut. Peter Miller slashed his throat, left wrist and breast with a dull and rusty jack-knife, in the Chicago jail. He may recover. A well-dressed young man about twenty-live years old was knocked from the lop of a Chicago, Burlington Quincy baggage car by a bridge' near Fairfield, la, and killed. Papers on his person indicate that he was Harry T.

Smith of St Louis. Incendiaries kept the lire department of Canton, 111, busy during one night. The barm of C. T. Ileald, C.

11. Stanley and John Lawrence were burned. Fires were started in the rear of the opera house and Churchill House, but were extinguishad before any damage was done. Miss Emily Ashton, of Northwood, Pa, eloped with William Thompson, her father's colored coachman, Thompson left a wife and four children. The girl left a letter to her parents saying she had tried to conquer her feeling for Thompson, but could not.

The saloon kept by John Harmsley at Mason City, was raided by the mayor and police officers. A quantity of beer and a case of porter were seized. Sparks from a locomotive kindled a tire the Ajax Forge Works, Chicago. The machinery in the main building was destroyed, as well as an electric light plant. The loss is $70,000 and the insurance $00, -000.

The 125 employes are thrown out of work. By the explosion of oil in the store of Fegley, lioff in Heading, Pa, fire was started which damaged the building and stock to the extent of Two firemen were badly burned. Guy Wctlaufcr, a son of the foreman of Govenor Boies' farm, in Grundy County, was smothered to death in a bin of oats. lie was not discovered until one foot came through the chute. Osman Digna, who recently renewed his rebellion against the Egyptian government iu the Soudan, has arrived at Tokar with three thousand followers.

He has announced his intention of advancing upon Cairo. A train was derailed near Arreus, in the department of Creuse, France. Seventeen carriages were wrecked and several people killed and injured. Robert Holliday, a young colored man, was run over by an engine of the Michigan Central in Chicago. His left arm was cut off at the shoulder, and he was badly mangled about the body.

Fred llaggart, of Jewell Count v. Kas, was found dead in the road with his neck rokeu. He had been attending an alliance meeting and when he got on his horse to ride home lie said he would go to sleep and the horse would see him safe home. It is presumed that he fell off the animal. Levi James, a negro, twenty years 4d, on trial for the murder of Thomas Garvin, of Chicago, at Fulton, on the night of Nov.

0, has been found guilty at Hickman, Ky, and the death penalty pronounced. Theodore Thurston was killed by a Louis ville New Albany passenger train at Chicago. He was struck by the pilot of the engine and thrown fully fifty feet. His skull was fractured and his abdomen crushed. Two unknown young men were drowned in a lake at Garfield Park, Chicago, full view of hundreds of persons who were promenading along the paths and lounging under the trees.

Labor Day was celebrated all over the country in a fitting manner. New York had 9,000 men in line, Chicago over 20,000, St. Louis 10,000. D. C.

lmboden, a grain commission man of Kansas City, failed for $10,000. John Sinks, of Satiua, Kan, fatally shot his wife and then committed suicide. At San Francisco, Cal, Michael Gallagher shot and killed his wife and 10-y car-old son. He then blew his own brains out. Katheriue Dougherty committed suicide at Lincoln, Neb, by taking arseuic.

Disap pointment in a love affair was the cause. The United States cruiser Charleston sailed from Tort Townsend, Washington, for Honolulu, to protect American interests there. D. Hubbard wheat elevator, at Maukato, Minn, with 40,000 bushels of wheat, was burned. Loss, insurance, $10,000.

TbeLeighton sawmill in Minneapolis was destroyed by fire. The mill was valued at 500,000. It was insured for $30,000. About three hundred men are thrown out of employment. Fred Haggart of Jewell couuty, Kas, was found dead in the road witli his neck broken.

He had bet attending an alliance meeting and when he got on his horse to ride home he said he would go to sleep and the horse would see him safely home. It is presumed that he fell off the animaL Lev James, a negro, twenty years old, on trial for the murder of Thomas Garvin, or Chicago, at Fulton, Ky, on the night of Nov. 9, has been found guilty at Hickman, and the death penalty pronounced. Theodore Thurston was killed by a Louisville New Albany passenger train in Chicago. He was struck by the pilot of the engine and thrown fully fifty feet.

His skull was fractured aud his abdonicn crushed. Thomas G. Boyle, of Allegheny, Ta, was drowned while bathing at Brighton Beach, N. Y. S.

M. Iliggins was stabbed to death by William Feltz at HiggiusviUe, Mo. The murderer escaped. I A man was smothered to death in a pile of shavings. He was Frank Patcek, father of seven children, and a mill hand in a big planing mill in Chicago.

In the mill monster automatic fans are kept working to sweep sawdust and shavingsroni the, lining tables into a huge vault. The i-urren. of air produced by the fans is so strong thai a man cannot stand with fafetvia the direct line of the draft, Experienced workmen have great difficulty iu keeping on their feet even when working in the vault. Last week a man was blown through the door of the vault, live feet from the ing carried through the ojen door of the furnace directly opposite. It was in his death trap that Patcek was sent to work.

Occasionally there is danger as the men shovel the sawdust out that the whole ma terial may fall down corbelling them to run for their lives Patcek did not know this and began to work with a hearty will. A friend called to see Patcek aud the II rein au told him that he was working in the vault. Repeated shouts failed to bring any response The men entered the vault and found that Patcek had disappeared. ith frantic haste they began to shovel the fine maplewood dust and shavings through the doorwav. Poor Patcek was found beneath the avalanche of shavings dead.

His face wa twisted and distorted. His bauds were clinched, betraying the tierce struggle for life during the few brief moments from the falling of the dust to the death. When taken out his body turned black and the eyes protruded as if every muscle of the man had been exerted to repel the sawdust. A phy sician was summoned, but his science was of no avail. A Hi sing Railroad Star.

General Passenger Agent Louis Eckstein, of the Wisconsin Central Road, formerly of Milwaukee, who is now in Chicago to estab lish the headquarters of his department there, is the youngest general passenger agent of any road centering in Chicago, if not of any in the country. He is not yet thirty years Of age, but so much ability has he displayed that W. S. Mellen, when he was general manager of the road, said several years ago that he would have uo hesitancy iu placing him in charge of the passenger department of a 5,000 mile road with the utmost confidence in his ability to manage it successfully. Mr.

Eckstein was a prime favorite with the newspaper men of Milwaukee, and when they learned that he was about to move his headquarters to Chicago they got up a farewell banquet for him. At this gathering they presented him with a pair of large tin shears, telling him at the same time that they understood that rate cutting was very prevalent Chicago, and he would no doubt find them useful when compelled to protect his load against the vUUMl.vu,vtiM. I onslaugh of Ins competitors. Mr.Lckstein protests, however, that he is not a rate cut I ter, and hopes he will have no use tor the implements of slaughter furnished him oth er than as a reminder of happy and frieud'y feelings that always existed between himself and the members of the Milwaukee press. Mr.

Eckstein is a welcome acquisition to railroad and business circles of the air City. Drilled Into Dynamite. A frightful accident occurred at Narragan- sett resulting iu the death of one man and the blinding of another, while several others were injured. The men were at work on the sewer which is being duff through solid rock. In order to work ex pediently, a number of holes are drilled at intervals and rilled with dynamite, and all touched off at once.

This was done sue-' cessfully one day, and next day, while drilling for another blast, they found one bole which they judged had not been tilled and blown out, and putting in the drill, one man proceeded to twist it, while two others pounded with sledges. There chanced to be an unexploded cartridge in this hole, and the first or second blow on the steel drill set it off with terrific force. One man's arm was shattered and his body 60 badly riddled with pieces of stone, that he died in two hours. Another had two eyes blown out and was badly hurt otherwise. A third had a ragged tear made in his scalp and barely escaped being brained, while two others were also seriously injured.

Murder End a Bridal Trip. John Keys and his wife left Cincinnati on a bridal trip down the river on a thanty boat. With them were Jim Fee and Bert Husk. They stopped at Lawrenceburg, and at night all four went across the river in a skiff. Several shots and screams were heard and when they returned Husk was not with them Tlie coming Fee disappeared orinff kvu xvifn t.i, and in the evening Keys and wife took the train for St.

Louis, where he has au uncle. Twenty-four miles below Lawrenceburg a body, identified as Rusk's, was seen floating in the river. There was a bullet hole through the heart and several cuts ou the head, and the throat was cut from ear to ear. Great excitement prevails in tbe towns along the river. Rusk wa a well connected young man of Cincinnati, and had with him over 100.

All Were Drowned. The sloop yacht Petrel, in which were Capt William Iloy, a well-known shipping man, his wife, and Miss Wallace, daughter of a presbyterian minister, and a lady -and two children, whoso names are unknown, was capsized just outside the harbor of San Diego, CaL, and all the occupants were drowned. No one saw the accident, but a sharp wind was blow ing, andv it is supposed the sloop was overturned suddenly. It was found by some returning fishermen, who also saw the bodies of two women floating near it. They tried to secure the but were unable to do so owing to high seas.

They came to the city and gave the alarm, and a large fleet of boats is now searching for bodies. Held Up a Fast Train. The north bound Louisville and Nah ville express train was held up over Big Escambia River, near Flomaton, Ala. Two masked men got on the engine, covered the engineer and ordered him to hold up when the train was over the river. They forced him to go back and open the express and baggage cars.

The robbers kept up a con tinual firing and terrified the train crew and passengers. They robbed the express car and got a large sum of money. The exact amount is not known. The robbers are supposed to be Reub Burrows and his gang. After going through the train the robbers made off through the woods.

The sheriff, with men and bloodhounds, is in hot pursuit. Locked Up His Jailer. William Allison made a daring escape from jail at Fort Dodge, la. lie was confined in an iron cell in the county jail, charged with attempting to commit murder When Janitor Preston carried his breakfast to the prisoner he found Allison wrapped up in the bed clothing apparently sound asleep and snoring vigorously. Treston walked across the room to reach the table, leaving his keys in the door.

Like a flah Allison jumped from the bed and went out of the door. He stopped long enough to lock the door securely, shutting in the jani tor, and made his eseate. walking out of the Jail unconcerned and disappearing. i i I I DRCTAL CHIME CHARGED TO A YOCXfi MISSOURI FARMER. aVer in a Watermelon -1ft Crtw to IVrish Other on- Lir; den! TelrgTHin.

3fimiered and Horned. At a farmhouse three miles west of Kear- ney, Mo, Elvira Owensby, a colored woman seventy years of age, was murdered by sunn-unknown person, two bullets being fired through the head, and the body dragged to a brush thicket about a hundred yard from the bouse, and her clothes et on fire to coyer up the trace of the crime. The aged woman was left home alone while the family of John Grttlin, with whom t.he was living, went to Liberty. On their return she was missing, and earvlt was at once instituted, the neighbors being called into aid in the huut, About midnight her body was found with the clothes all burned off aud part of the flesh from the arms and boil y. Lewis Griffin, the son of the farmer, is suspected of having committed the crime, and is under arrest Snake In Watermelon.

A boy in Bridgeport, IlL, let fall a watermelon, which burst on the ground. Insidti the melon was a snake twelve inches long. It had an eel-like appearance, but va dark colored, with white spots over its body. Although torpid, it was alive and began to crawl away when the nvdon burst. The fragments of the melon, when placed together, showed that the rind wa intact before the melon burst, and the snake must have grown in the melon from the time it was a blossom.

Left a Iirce Crew to Starve. Captain Noble, of the ship W. II. Godfrey, reports that he sighted the bark Henry Buck, seventy days from Newcastle, N. several hundred miles from the New Zealand coast.

he was flying signals of distress, and her captain reported that she had been dismantled by a hurricane. He begged for supplies but the captain the Godfrey was unable to help her, owing to the heavy sea. The Buck was laden witti uoal and carried a big crew. A Serious Accident. The pleasant observance of Labor Pay was marred in Joliet, IlL, by a frightful accident.

On the way to the jrrouuds, wjien midway up Morgan Hill, one of the trailers to an electric treet car came uncoupled and pod down hill at a terrific speed. Men, women and children leaped off and a nuuiU i were seriously injured, Those seriously hurt are: Miss Josie Caul, lt An back; Miss Mary Caul, cut and internally injured; Mrs. Henry Heck. internal August IMschmau, arm badly sprained a.nl head cut. Others were badly cut.

Those who, jumped from the car spun and rolled around after they fell on the ground. Mr. Meek had her baby in her arms when sin jumped off, but the child was not. hurt. She was carried unconscious into a house near by.

The two Caul sisters are the ino.t seriously hurt. The curve where the car ran off is but one street back of the Had the car not stopped by crashing into the gutter and upon the sidewalk it might have gone over the bluff and killed all on board. There were three heavily loaded trailers, the street car ollieials lay blame to a broken brake. the Sunk with Many Passengers. Just as the base-ball game was concluded near Albany, the crowd made a rush for the little steamer, Dan II.

Smith, tu cross the river lo Albany. Men and boi by the score climbed upon the ileck of the tiny propeller, while the cabin and lower deck were soon closely packed. The captain and deck hands warned Die crowd back, but they continued to. press upon the upper works of the vessel. None of the passengers seemed to realize their danger until the boat had swung clear of the wharf then they became panic-stricken, for it at once began to settle over until the side was dipping in the water.

The yells of those on board were taken up by the crowd on ill ore as the little boat turned over on its bide. A moment later a sea of bobbing beads appeared in the water and the victims franticaliy struggled to reach the shore only a few vards away. There were exciting scenes for some time, but it is lelieved that i i i an oi tue nun urea passengers escaped, lie steamer now lies submerged in ten feet of water. Tried to liurn Stanford's MablH. Only the vigilance of hostlers at Senator Stanford's big Palo Alto ranch, war Merilo Park, prevented a lire which would have been a repetition of the disastrous tire of three years ago, in which more than a dozen promising young trotters and runners were burned.

Flames were detected in bales of straw near the main stable. By the light of the burning straw two men were seen running away, but the danger was pressing that they could not be followed, though Chinese fired two shots at them. When the men got out the fire hose they found a big knot tied in the middle lo make it useless. The fire wa conliued to the barn. Loss on stable, Disastrous Hlnze.

The Wolford House at Como, Col took fire and the entire building was burned. The fire caught in a room on the second floor, which was occupied by an invalid, who it is thought kicked over a lamp and started the fire. Three persons were burned to death and their remains taken from the ruins. One has been identified as William Pryor, who has been employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company as line repairer, but the others are unknown. Four firemen were seriously burned while trying to extinguish a fire inU-Paul caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove.

Lieutenant Hynes will probably die. Tiuck-man 3IcArthur and Captain Conway were slightly burned. The houe was. damaged only slightly. While trying to save some material in his burning carpenter shop at Maiden, Nathaniel llemenway was fatally burned.

George Phillips, a firemau, was instantly killed aud Samuel Kingston seriously injured while on their way to the fire. i All Hand Capt, Blinkhorn of the schooner Bessie Walker, brings the story of a disaster. Iu company with the schooner Wave, the Bessie Walker sailed from Apple River, N. S. During a storm that night the vessels collided and then drifted apart, the Besie Walker going ashore on the beach at Blac' Point.

The crew drifted ashore on raft made from the deck load and fifteen minute, later the vessel broke into pieces. The Wave struck on a reef a short distance away and soon went to the bottom, all hands and girl named -Smith being drowned. Tin bodies of Capt. M.itteson, a sailor, and Mis Smith were afterward found on the beach. Tbe captain leaves a family.

ANOTHER SEW YORK FIR5I FAILS FOR MILLIONS. Blamed for a Railroad Disaster Shot III Faithless "Wife Other Dispatches and News Items. Another Crash. Sawyer, Wallace Co, of 13 Broadway, New York, one of the largest commissiou houses in the world, having branch houses in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Marseilles, Madrid Paris, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Baden, Pesth, Trieste, Leghorn, Barcelona, Lisbon, Mannheim and Havre, have made an assignment to Marshall Ayres, of 12 Broadway. The liabilities are believed to be in the neighborhood of and it will be several days before the amount of the assets can be determined, but the failure is a bad one.

From the iact that it was coincident with the news that Theodore Itzig, the Berlin agent of Sawyer, Wallace Co, had committed suicide, a rumor spread that Itzig had embezzled the firm's funds. Itzig. however, was oniv one of a half dozen agents of the firm in Berlin, and was short only about $200 in his accounts. The real cause of the failure was the fact that the firm's resources had been completely exhausted by losses in their foreign option business, conducted through Lucius W. Sawyer, sonof thesenior member of the firm, and for five years manager of the London branch.

Hallway Horror in New York. The Montreal express on the Hudson River road was wrecked at Castleton, N. Y. The engineer and fireman and three passen gers were killed the crash. The road is blocked with debris of the wreck, and surgeons have been dispatched to care for the wounded.

The train was crowded with pas sengers and was running at a high rate of speed. The wreck was caued by spiked rails. A railway employe says that thirteen ves tibule cars were hurled down an embank- ment, and there is no telling how many per sons have been killed and injured. A detail of policemen is on its way to the depot carry ing stretchers and accompanied by pbysi. dans.

The officials of the New York Cen tral Hudson River refuse information, saying they have nothing to communicate. Wreck on tlie Northwestern. A serious smash-up occurred on the Northwestern road in Chicago. A freight train in charge of Conductor John Carroll, wnicu was running uui a lew minutes ahead of the fast express, was compelled to stop because of an open draw-bridge. Car roll neglected to send back a flagman, and Engineer Mahoney of the express, which was thundering along at a rapid rate, saw the danger too late to prevent a collision, but managed to slow down his engine consider ably before it struck the caboose of the freight train.

The caboose was smashed to splinters and the car next to it was thrown from the track. Mahoney, who sprang from his engine, narrowly escaped being run over. He is the same engineer whose engine killed the Payne family at Rose Hill last winter. Foreman Welch Is Guilty. Judge Jamea Humphrey, at Quincy, in his report of the inquest on the Quincy rinds that the track jack was alone responsible for the wreck that re- suited in the death of twenty-three persons, and that it was used by an incompetent sec tion hand, Michael Ilartney, who, seeing the approaching train, imperiled his life in an attempt to withdraw the jack.

Joseph F. Welch, the foreman of the section ganff, he tinds guilty of criminal negligence and gross carelessness in ordering the use of thjack when a tram was due, without putting out sismals. and he is further cuilty of man slaughter in being directly responsible for the death of twenty-three passenjers and the serious injury of a score of others. A Conflagration. Fire started in Harris' livery stable, Hiawatha, and sparks were carried in every direction by a furious gale, within twenty minutes a dozen buildings in the business section were ablaze and the entire town was threatened with destruction.

Firemen were unable to save the buildings that caught fire Grst. and devoted all their energies to other buildings that were threat- tened. The Lawrence block was on hre a uozen umes, uu lrTvr1onal buildings destroyed were the I irst National i a Bank building, owned by Congressman Morrill; the Odd Fellows building, the Keu-tuckv HoteL and a number of stores and livery stables. The vault In the bank build ing, containing 50,000 in currency and many valuable books and papers, gave way under the intense heat, and its contents were entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at 150,000.

Other losers were A. II. Thomas, $12,000, whose bank building was burned John McGuire's erocerv store, J. P. Davis' residence, D.

M. Moore's three dwellings, John White's confectionery establishment and many other houses were burned. Burned to Death. Three women were burned to death in a fire in Philadelphia early in the morning. They were Mrs.

Sarah Mclntyre, aged fifty- nine years Mamie Mclntyre, aged ten years, and Agnes Bodgers, an adopted daughter, aged seventeen years. The fire was caused by the upsetting of a coal oil lamp in the hands of Charles son of the eldest victim, who, it is alleged, came home at an early hour in an intoxicated condition. Mc lntyre has been locked up to await the ac tion of the coroners jury, the hre depart ment did not arrive until twenty minutes after the flames were discovered, owing to the difficult in finding an officer to send the alarm. Mrs. Mclntyre ran to the win dow and screamed for the crowd to come aud rescue her children, and then rushed back into the building.

None of the victims were seen afterward until their charred bodies were taken out. Rained Ills Friend's Home. R. Woodbridge, of Detroit, arrived in Zanes ville. 0 at a late hour at night and found his wife at a hotel with W.

Lor- rens, also of Detroit aud an intimate friend of the family. Woodbridge attacked Lor- rens and thrashed him soundly. Next afternoon Woodbridge met Lorrens on the street and hit him on the head with a brick, in flicting fatal wounds. Awful Crime of a Woman. A number of workmen swung a scaffold from the roof of the house of Mrs.Josepb.ine Rogers, in Newark, N.

in order to reach a house adjoining. Mrs. Rogers ordered the scaffold down, but the command was not obered with sufficient alacrity to suit her and she cut the rope holding.one end of the scaffold, precipitating William McMahon thirty feet to the pavement. McMahon received internal iniuries from which he will probably die, Mrs. Rogers was arrest ed and held for the grand jury.

Ed McCarty, who murdered Charles Wed- derman at Cincinnati, has been captured at Lrlanger, Ky. I J. F. DTEWART, Polishes. HILL CITY, KANSAS NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Latest Intelligence from All Parts of the World. One of the gas tanks at tbe pumping station of the Reading Railroad at Philadelphia exploded. Charles Abling was knocked dowL and received a scalp wound. A wrench which he bad been using was hurled a distance of two squares and crashed through the back window of a grocery store. The concussion broke many window in the neighborhood.

Postmaster Sidney Wanzer, who left Hoxle, last Mar, a defaulter to the amount of? 1,200, was at the Armory, Chicago, in charge of a detective en route for his old home. lie was run down in Vermont. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Gilroy, CaL Its duration was but two seconds. A bridge in Prague, Bohemia, over the Moldau, on which were a number of persons watching the flood in that stream, collapsed and thirty of the sight-seers were drowued The steamer State of Alabama is reported to bo off St. Pierre, 3iiquelon, with her shaft broken.

is reported that there are cases of cholera in Madrid und Barcelona. An unknown man was killed by an Illinois Central switch engine in Chicago. lie was dressed in a dark suit of clothes and was about 80 years of age. Erlck Tervakungas committed suicide at Calumet, by cutting his throat with a butcher knife. Engineer John O'Brien was killed and George Warnock and Brakeman Markell injured in a wreck on the South Park railroad, Colorado, A fatal wreck occurred on the Baltimore Ohio road, eight miles west of Fairmont, W.

Va. James Cordelh engineer of the freight. Is missing, and is believed killed. The body of an unknown man has alo been found in the wrecks. The cars caught lire from the engine and burned.

Frank Adler.a carpenter, climbed 150 feet up the steeple of the German Lutheran Church in St. Louis to repair the spire. While arranging to descend his feet became entangled in a rope, and he fell His body bounded off a cornice, then struck the roof of the church and fell to the ground a shape- lefts mass. Fhilo J. Cowan, the defaulting treasurer of Hardin County, was pardoned by Governor Boies, lie had served about four years of his six-year sentence.

The premises extending from 227 to 231 East 60th street, New York, were destroyed by lire. The lower part of the building was occupied by T. Hogan, the upper por tion by the Rossemore Bouquet cigar fac tory. in Cocoa, on the Indian river, destroyed nearly the whole town. The people are panic-stricken and many are tomeless.

Fire damaged a tive-story building in New York to the extent of 48,000. Daniel Kel- llan, an apprentice, was burned to death. Airs. Emily Kavanaugh, New York, who fired live shots at her husband, John Kavanaugh, the actor, July 23, was sentenced to Ave years and four months in state's prison. A destructive fire broke out at noon in Peter Young's bagging shop in Brooklyn, and spread to the wood yards of Frederick Gielke and to Yon Glahn wholesale grocery store.

The loss will aggregate insurance, $90,000. The Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton freight depot and the warehouse of the W. P. Green Co. and six freight cars were burned at Carlisle, O.

The loss on the warehouse was 1 5,200, covered by insurance. The loss on depot and cars is $17,000. While workmen were completing the roof of a new ice storehouse for a brewery in Leipzig, Germany, the storehouse collapsed and thirteen men were buried in the debris and killed. In addition to the thirteen killed many were injured, twelve seriously. Tellers at the banks report that Kansas City Is flooded with counterfeit $2 silver certificates.

Many counterfeit $10 bills are floating about also. Both counterfeits are new, and the banks say that the counterfeiters have been thereabout a week. The 2 counterfeit is hard to detect Fire broke out in the basement of the Tribune building in Minneapolis, and caused damage to the amount of $12,000. Theodore Brand and Herman Matthus were instantly killed and two men, names unknown, were fatally injured by the fall of a scaffold in Newark, N. J.

The accident Is said to have been caused by the carelessness of the men. A collision occurred between the steamer Massachusetts and a scow off the Battery, New York. The 1,200 passengers on the Massachusetts were panic-stricken for a while, but the ship was not badly injured, and the passengers were all landed uninjured. Frank Race, a switchman, passed in front of a rifle in the hands of George Schinall-berger in a Chicago shooting gallery just as the latter pulled the trigger. The bullet crushed through the skull of the unfortunate man, who dropped to the floor and soon expired.

was placed uuder arrest. Fire broke out In Bauschard planing mills In Erie, Pa. The mill and stock were entirely destroyed, the loss being The residents of Aid. Curtze, II. V.

Clause, and Mrs. M. Metz were also burned, with a loss of $20,000. The fire is believed to have beeu incendiary. The Schwarz building, an immense four-story brick building in New Orleans, fell to the ground.

It is reported that ten men were killed by the falling debris. It was located on one of the most crowded thoroughfares in the city. Russia is increasing her garrisons in Poland. The additional troops are in many casea quartered In private or public build ings, owing to the lack of room in the regu lar barracks. Eighty miners were suffocated by an ex plosion at Boryslav, Galicia.

Franz Maeschatz was mysteriously cut to death, the result of a celebration at the house of some neighbors in New York. There is no clew to the perpetrator of the deed. An explosion of gas occurred in the Diller hotel at Seattle, Wash. Several persons were injured, among whom was Otis F. Presbury of Washington.

D. who had his face and hands badly burned. Aaron Wheeler has been hanging around the vicinity of Bclding, lately. He has at last been brought up with a round turn charged with attempting to entice Alice Melle away from home. He is said to be an old hand at the business.

MUs Larklns was bilious and treble and sick. And it seemed as if uothtng would ever relieve her. Her liver was clogged jvvith impurities thick. And her stom.it was constantly burning with fever. Of the great U.

M. l. hf bought a supply, And directions for taking pursued to the letter, 'Twas the best thing on earth she oould possibly try, And scum, very peon, Miss Larkins was better. The O. M.

Vi. which she took was Dr. Pierce Golden Me'dica)" Msooverr, the great remedy for bronchial, throat and lung diseases, sick headaclre, Vcrofula, dyspepsia, aud all diseases that have-'origin in impure blood aud a disordered liver. The cleansing, antiseptic and healing qualities of Dr. Sage's Remedy are un-equaled.

The man best qualified to enjoy the honeymoon is the one who had all the romance kicked out of him before he reached that period. "Mr. Wlnslow'ti Soothing Syrup" has been used over Fifty Years by mothers for their, children while perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the (iu ins. allays all Pain, cure Wind Coin, regulates the bowels, andis tho best reme.ly for Diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other cause, and is for sale by Druirgist in every part of the world.

Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Twenty-five cents a bottle, She was greatly taken, with the appearance of a pair of "Dear little cow lets" he assured her the was mistaken. They were "bullets." Seal Skins. The oldest and most rellablo Fur Garment Importers and Manufacturers In the West is beyond doubt the Wolf Periolat Fur 07 Washington tn Chicago, 111.

If you contemphu-e buying you shQuld secure oi-o of their late catalogues. This limine Is the largest concern engaged in the Fur trada West of New York. When a man 1 kind to a woman' she for gets he was ever cross, and when a woman is cross to a man he forget she was ever kind. When Baby was Kick, we her Castorla. When she was a Child, she criod or Castoria.

When she became Bliss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, sho gave them CastorUv Listeners are not after the good they will bear of themselves, but the bad they will hear of others. Three Ilarvent ICxciir nlonn. The Burlington Route, Jl. Q.

R. will sell, on Tuesdays, September Dili and SHd, and October 14th, Harvest Excursion Tickets at Halt Bate to pclnts In the Farming ltegions of the West, Southwest and Northwest. Limit thirty days. Vox circular giving details concerning tickctt, rated, time of trains, and for descriptive land folder, call on your ticket agent, or address P. S.

Eus ris, Ocn'LPas9. ahd Ticket Agent, Chicago, IlL It is a melancholy fact, and much to bo regretted, that good people' who wantonly what is right often get what Is Itft. LADIES, read Womans' Friend adv. on this rape. There is nothing in which people betray their character more than in hat they find to laugh at.

Mr. Wt nluf Soot bins Srr up, for Children teething, softens the pums, reduces iiifUrrirua-tlon, allays pain, cures wind colic. c. a bottle. When a man tells "his acquaintances that he is sorry he ever got married, it is safe to assume that his wife is sorry, too.

"Ilow'to See Is a valuable practical guide to the great cataract, illustrated by twenty I'ne plates from instantaueous photograHis, linely printed and tastefully bound. It will be sent to any address by mail, postage paid, on receipt of postal note or money order for fifty cents. By O. W. Buoc.les, G.

P. TI Michigan Central. Chicago, IlL What a pity it is that Just as a woman begins to be good company she commences to lose her good looks Wear Duntap See that for quality, style and finish you have the best bat Dun lap make only first class hats. Just as soon as a maa's head gets above the level of mediocrity a crowd of blgh-kiekers begin reaching for it. I.

L. Cragin of Phi the mfrs, of Dobbins' Electric'-' say they would rather close up their immense works than to Eut one grain of adulteration -in their Dob-inx' Electric Soap. Would that all were a honest. Save us from those who know exactly what their constitution will bettr, and sin up to it. E.B.

WALTHALL Druggists, Horse Cave, Kysay: "liar's Catarrh Cure cures every one that lakes by Druggists, 70c The only popular who gives counsel that tits our'inclinations. The best man in tbe world is a bore if ha comes at the wrong time. The paper that says something" mean about you is never lost in the y. FULL STYLES 1.1 SOW BEADY, Send for 3 I ntflHWil mm a aa -4. -OF" C3ELEDHATED HATS.

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