Hill City Democrat from Hill City, Kansas • 2

WINGED MISSILES FIEEMEN ROBBED. FLEECED AND ABUSED. A Tew niaze. The lirge manufacturing establishment of the A. Camplell Manufacturing companv Hill City Democrat The wife of Major Gregg, in Berkshire, England, suddenly became insane and murdered her mother, who was the only other in the house at the time.

The demented woman then took her own life. David Nicely, the condemned murderer who escaped from Jail at Somerset, has been captured. All of the 000 miners employed by the JlonongabelaCoal company, near Fairmont, struck against the decrease of live cents per ton which they had been notified would take effect Frank O'Neil, an employe on the Brook CHICAGO GAM DEE US ROUGHLY HANDLE A DUfE. rell Poffimn Elevator Shift Tturiid to Death Other Condensed Telegrams. Gamblers Guarded by Detective.

Two constables had a conflict w.th gamblers in Chicago and were forced to ret res', even though their pocket were tilled with warrants. (Jeorge Ilautins would not submit lo nrrest and kept on doing business. Charles Armstrong, who says he is a traveling man from New York, complains that several of the men employed by Hankins threw him and broke Lis arm. Armstrong says he went into the gambling house of George Hankin and lost $1.0.. Next night he went back and lost which was all the money he had.

II ys when his money was uone Mike Duffy, a brother of Lieut. Daniel Duffy, threw him headlong from the top of the stairs, breaking his am-, Armstrong swore oat warrants, and Coi -stables Baierle and Geisler tried to seive the warrants. For fu'iy two years Arthur Woods, the Fiukcrtun detective, has guarded Ihe front door of the Hankm gambling-house. The death of Mr. Woods left a vacancy that was tilled by auother detective.

When ti constables went to the gambling-house they were met by the new detective and ordered out Resides having the warrant for Duify charging assault, they had warrants against Hankins, Uomauie, and Wrightman. Armstrong says he lost the money fairly enough, but be objects to being thrown down stairs. At midnight a squad of oflicers raided the gambling-house of ltryant and Johnson on Clark street. Over lif ty colored and white meu were arrested. Tried to Cremate Them.

Herman Katzey, his wife, and six children were rescued from a horrible death by Ollicer Michael Farry on Jefferson, street, Chicago. The building is an old two-story frame. Katzey and his family live tip-stairs. After the family had gone to bed an incendiary tied a. rope from the knob of the door to a post near by.

Kerosene was poured under the door. Two pop botlles tilled with kerosene were piaccd close to the door outside and a match applied. The flames caught the oil instantly and the blaze threatened the destruction of the house and its sleeping occupants. At that moment Officer Fai ry came up. He threw himself against ihe door, burst it from its hirges, and succeeded in cxtin-uishing the flames.

The members of the family were awakened, and learned the terrible fate they had escaped. An investigation showed that the rear door had also been secured and every avenue of escape closed. The building is a tinder-box and had the flames gained a tnlle more headway the whole structure, us well as the half-dozen similar houses ad- Joining, would have been totally destroyed, Katzey believes that a fellow living iu the vicinity is the incendiary. Stole Their Last Ride. Two men got on the rear platform of the last car of a train ou the Cincinnati.

Hamilton and Dayton lload at LockJand to ride lo Cincinnati. They were discovered mo'u afterward by the conductor, who stopped the train and ordered them off. They got off on the side of the other track, and almost Instantly a north bound express train struck hem. They gave no heed to the conductor's warning, and were caught by the engine of the express, one being killed outright and the other fatally wouuded. The wounded man is George Williams, a bricklayer, of Morris Plains, N.

J. The other one is not known. They had left Hamilton in the morning, aud were intoxicated. Cowboys v. Slexicaii.

A courier arrived in Las Vegas, from Anton Chico, a small Mexican plaza twenty-live miles distant, having made the ride in a little over an hour. His horse fell dead froni exhaustion just in the outskirts of the city. The courier hastened to the sheriff's office and gave the information that a running tight had just taken place between filtecn or twenty cowboys and double as many Mexicans, in which over 500 shois' were resulting iu the death and wounding of several on both sides. The courier made his remarkablo ride for officers. One M.ii Robs a Train.

Passengers on a mixed train on the Cotton Belt road were robbed between Dig Sandy and Winona, by a lone He uncoupled tho passenger coach from the train and before the trainmen made the discovery the robber had ordered the passengers to hold up their hands 'While he pointed a big si-shooter at each as he demanded his money, J. Cerhart, a sewing-machine man, was shot through the brra-t bv the robWr und probably will die. in thescufile Artificial nittsk ft recent achievement. Athens, Gx, has ft cat that weigh.3 sixteen pounds. A machine for making shoestrings out of paper is a recent Philadelphia invention.

It is curious that there- are no direct dsv sccndanU of Napoleon, Wellington cr Walter Scott. Marriages of convenience, -which havs been a social bane in Franoo, aro said to bo on the decline them Paris lias a bad touch of Englishism, Tha Anglomaniacs of that city send their linea to London to be washed. The present Sultan of Zaniibar la only 37 years old. Ha is thought to bo an abla young man, tor that country. Three Tampa, hunters in two days' hunting killed two doer, four turkeys and 100 each of quail and squirrels.

i A rattlesnake died in ten minutes after biting a colored man at Lumpkin, Gx The. man suffered no serious results. One police court in New York in three hours disposed of 120 cases an average of a minute and a half to each case. Labor i3 cheap In Ceylon. The coolies there can live on $1 a month, and aro glad to get 12j cents a day for their work.

A new mania for collecting has broken out This time it is not snuft boxes or canes, but shaving mugs. What next I Locks were used by the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese. Du Cange mentioned locks and padlocks as early as 13SU. At Montichiari batteries of artillery using smokeless powder kept up a fire for half aa hour without their position being discovered. A "peeping Tom" at Martinez, was caught in a tree the other night and was played on with a hose until he beggod for mercy.

It Is not generally known In fact, popu-lxr prejudice points the other way that the last carriage in a railway train is the safest. Henry Walker, of Waylonza, is the owner of a pig that has six feet and twenty-four toes, while a neighbor has one with only two feet. The Atlanta, fair association offered premiums for rat scalps and one farmer brought 4,300, killed on his farm, and got the first premium. It is estimated that the 200,000 bushels of cranberries which New Jersey "will send market will realize to the farmers a round million of dollars, i A wild sweet potato found growing near Paulsboro, N. measured Hd inches in circumference and weighed twelve and one-half jounds, it is said.

Germany sent to the United States last Year beet root to tho value of Slti.OOO- 000. Two years ago the amount was less than a million and ft half. A colored man living in Worth county, Georgia, is tho owner of a little red steer that recently trotted twenty-two miles la four hours hitched to a cart. A man stood on a street corner in New York recently and offered to bet $500 to ft cent that "behind tho clouds the sun is still shining." Ha had no takers. The explanation of tho peculiar density of thunder clouds is said to lie la tho fact that tho vaDor is partially condensed into drops by the electrical action.

This country is not tho abiding place of the Chinese. Hosts of them left New York the other day for China, having achieved a. competency for their own land. A method of rendering tobacco smoke harmless to the mouth, heart and nerves without detriment to Its aroma is claimod to have been discovered at Vichy. An expert says the Florida phosphates, though immense in extent, are disappointing as to richness, and tho proportion of high grades is exceedingly small.

The people of the Truckee complain that they have had no summer this year. Owing to the surrounding snow bank3 they might as well be living in a refrigerator. Chicago has formed a company for manufacturing aluminum from clay bed3 ndar the city. It is believed that the clay soil around the4 city is full of "the conoinj metal." A German doctor, Mendel of Berlin, has discovered that coffee intoxicates. He i3 behind the time.

People have always known that it stimualted if it did not inebriate. There is an inmate of the Georgia Stato Lunatic Asylum who imagines in his insanity that he is a grain of corn. He will not go Into the yard, fearing the chickens will eat him. The women of Anam wear a hat that is silk cords as thick a3 a quill. are suspended on each side.

An old chief gave his experience of Indian agents this way: agent heap bad man, heap swear, steal half Injun blanket, Injun flour; spose agent lovum Jesus, steal alL" The theory that good apples cannot bo grown in the south seems to be disproven. Apples ten and twelve inches In circumfer- enoe are raised as far toward'the equator aa southern Florida. A rich find of silver is reported to have been made in Calhoun county, Alabama, ia what appears to be a mine formerly worked by Indians. The ore i3 said to assay CO per cent of pure silver. A woman at BakervUle, who has a son of twenty years, ha3 not been "downtown" but once in twelve years, and at that time she was taken there against her will.

What an anomaly she is. Gone a-shopping foitoncoia twelve years! Uye3 la IIouston onntyt Georgia. She is forty-seven years weigas pounds, 13 feet 8 Inches in ntifht, 7 xeet 2 inches in circumferenco around the bust, 6 feet i inches around the waist, and SO inches around the arm near the shoulder. Says an eminent physician: "So long as men uncover their tead3 in theatres, halls, just so long catarrh will be a national ailment and men suffer neuralgia and bronchial affections. There 13 no more sense it a nan removing bis hat than thero is in a woman laying aside her bonnet.

The telephone has played an Important part ia the maneuvers of the Swedish fleet. There i3 a telephonic post oa board vessel, and when lying at anchor tney can telephone to one another by means of insulated conductors which ara run down the anchor chains and su! AX ENGINE-HOUSE IN CHICAGO KAN- SACKED BY THIEVES. Killed lilt Brother-iii-Law Their Last Hide Telegraphic News Conveniently Condensed. A rut-Up Job. Many of the firemen at engine bouse 31, In Chicago, are bemoaning the loss of their mouth's pay.

While they were answering an alarm of fire thieves broke In and stole seven watches and about $7oO in money. The firemen were paid their monthly sal- aries aud several of them had their money iu their dres About 5:45 in the morning an alarm of fire was turned ia from California avenue and Jack-ton treet. which is the limit of Ihe com- pany's district. The. horses were quickly hitched up and every one responded to the alarm, leaving the engine-house unguarded.

They found that the alarm was false and returned to their headquarters, where they found that the closets had been broken open and their clothing piled in coufuion on the floor. No money was left in auy of the garments. Capt O'Donohue lost his watch and in money; Cornelius Haley lost bis entire month's pay, $125, and his watch; Herman Harris found that he was 25 out and a fine watch; William Guttery could not find that he had left In his pocket, and George McAllister and Ed Lumbly looked in vain for their watches. The firemen are sure that the robbery was premeditated, and that there were at least three men concerned in the job. One turned in the false alarm, and while the engines were answering it the other two ransacked the house.

A DarinKobbery. Monday was pay-day at Allerton's packing-house in Chicago, where perhaps 1.S00 men are at work. The money to pay the men is obtained at the Stock Yards Bank, and from that place, about 3 came John Robinson, un old employe. In his keeping was 3,000 and it was intended for the Allertou company. A few minutes after he left the bank he placed the money in trout of Cashier Osier's eyes in the packing-house and then withdrew to attend to his own business.

Mr. Robinson had just left the office when two granger-like individuals rounded the head of the stairs and a second later entered 3fr. Osier's office. 3Ir. Osier was alone.

Suddenly one of the intruders exclaimed: "Give up that stuff," at the same time pointing a revolver at the cashier. The second man threw down an innocent-looking ticking, which now assumed the shape of a bag. He -motioned to Osier to throw the money into the bag, and the cashier obeyed. He was also made to throw in an additional 200 which was on his desk. The men then left the office, locking the door after them.

They jumped into their buggy and drove rapidly away, going south. The two men were disguised with' the hats and beards they wore, and the disguise was complete. The police have absolutely no clew to the men, but are unanimous in the opinion that one of them was the notorious "Red Chris." Suicided In a Oneer Way. A most sensational suicide occurred in a saloon on Washington avenue south, Minneapolis. William J.

Bell, a commercial traveler for a Chicago and Toledo tobacco house, entered, walked up to the bar, and asked for and received a glass of whisky. He took the glass of liquor in bis hands and taking a seat at a table drank the beverage. The proprietor and bystander. dill not notice anything special about the man until a moment later they beard him grind the glass between bis teeth. The witnesses of this terrible performance were quite paralyzed over the.

spectacle, and for a moment did not attempt to interfere with Bell's foolish act They were more horrified still when they taw that the man was swallowing the pieces. When the performance was finally stopped the greater portion of the glass had been devoured. A few minutes later the patrol-wagon was on the scene and the man quickly removed to 'the city hospital. He suffered terribly en route aud died from internal hemorrhages before he could be put to bed. The cause for the terrible deed was the discovery that his wife had begun leading a life of sin, having been arrested iu a house of bad repute.

Bell was about 30 years old and well connected iu Chicago and Toledo. A Collision. The North Judson accommodation train on the Chicago and Atlantic road ran through an open switch at Sixty-fourth street, Chicago, colliding with a sidetracked Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train, caused a serious wreck. Those injured were: Engineer Shattuck, leg broken, arm dislocated, and injured internally; Mrs. D.

Wood, Kouts, bruised about the head; Mrs, May Martinson, Hammoiul, bruised about the head. The accident is believed to have been due to carelessness, and Robert Logan, the head brakeman of the freight-train, has not been seen since the disaster happened. When but a dozen car lengths away from the switch Engineer Shattuck of the passenger train saw that it was opeu and reversed his engine and jumped. Fireman Sullivan followed, and an instant later the passenger dashed into the freight engine. Jacob Werren, engineer, and Uert Slenz, fireman; of the freight, jumped before the collision i took place.

Both eilgiues were badly that- tered. I A Savage Woman. Mrs. Rose Martell, living in the Town of Lake, Chicago, shot and killed Patrick! Brennau. Brennan had been to the wo- man's house all evening aud both bad been driukiug considerably.

They had a quarrel 1 and the killing was the result. Mrs. Mar- tell fled immediately after the deed, and c-, was iaunu at me cuore nrus in me company of her husband, who is a switch man. When arrested husband had told anyone who came houe during his absence. she said her her to shoot about the Brennan asked her for her money and she shot him.

The deed was committed in the kitchen. Brennan received two bullets in the foreheaJ, both entering at the same place. The woman does uot bear a good reputation, and the police say that men are in the habit of frequenting her house, fche is locked up. Two Condemned Murderer Escape. Two years ago Herman Amberger, an aged farmer residing at Somerset, was brutally murJcred in the presence of hi family and robbed of $30,000.

Joseph and David Xiceily were tried and convicted of the murder aud sentenced to death. AtG o'clock the other evening the new jail contained seven prisoners, the Xicellvs and five others. At 7 o'ciock four of them were gone. 2so defiuite clew has developed. Relatives of the icelly brothers were in town, and it is believed met the escaped prisoner! and conveyed them to places of safety in carriages.

i i i 1 (cotton ill Philadelphia, was damaged by lire to the extent of KX). One fir" mm was killed three others went irjured by falling walls. Ch irtes Mijuer, -ju years on, foreman i.ngme Company No. 1, as buried under a uhn of brick and timbers and kille The injure I arc: Joseph Carter, leg crushed. Edwin M.

SchotcJJ, kull fractured, leg broken and badly injured in- teruailv. Jthn Coilloh, in.uied internally jbv fall wh being rescued from the burn- ing building. Charles Hokum, "William Spencer, who were on the fifth with -Foreman nyder and Hoseman Colfleh at the time Snyder was killed, succeeded hi working their way through the deri to a window and were lowered to ihe ground in. afe-ty. The three upper iloor of fie building were occupied by Albert Crenshaw, manufacturer of 11 'MUPl it ml titers goods.

His entire stock was valued at SloO.OOO, half of which is an entire 1oh. The balance of the mill was occupied by the Campbell Manufacturing Company, the buildiug and machinery being valued at $400,100 and the stock on hand at 100,000. About one-half of these amounts will cover the losses. The total losses are Fire was discovered in the Jeficrs.in liar- I racks stables, near St. Louis before it could be controlled sixty-six bor.es and mule were roasted to death, the tables considerably damaged, and all the proven- der destr yed.

The total loss is placed at 10,000. The sentry who was on guard at the lime was placed under arrest, to be court-martialed at the earliest convenience. The cause of the tire is unknown, but is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Fire at New Albany, burned ten business houses, leaviugonJy one standing, on the east bide of the principal street of the towu. Suiride or Murder? What was at first thought to be a case of filicide was proven almost beyond question to have been murder, and three men John Sheridan and two hard levee characters named (V linen and Gallagher are uow locked up in Chicago, suspected of having caused the death of William Sennott, a Chicago Alton switchman.

Shortly alter 2 o'clock in the morning Sennott, who had "done" time at Joliet and is th man who shot Officer Thomas several mouths ago, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of a saloon run by Chris Gilii-gan. There was a gaping wound in the man's left breast and a revolver in his overcoat pocket with two chambers discharged. It was not thought he had committed suicide, but when officers were detailed on the case they soon fouud a messenger-boy named Henry Meyer who said he naw three men fifteen minutes before a shot was heard standing on the corner. One of the men had a revolver in his hand and was talking in a loud and threatening manner. A colored woman living next to the saloon was alio found, who said she heard voices as if in a quarrel, followed by a shot aud the falling of a body.

She looked out of her window and saw Sennott ou the ground. Sheridan, one of the arrested men, is Gilli-gan's bartender. The police expect a full confession from one of them. O'Brien has been heard threatening to kill Senuott, Killed Ills ltrother-in-Law, An old man named Hawley, living in Henderson county, Illinois, married a daughter of Joe Brown several years ago. The match was an unhappy one and resulted a few days ago iu the wife suddenly leaving her husband.

She returned a day or two later for her clothes, wlien she was roundly abused by Hawley, This she' reported to her father and brothers, and it so enraged Barney, her 20-year-old brother, that loading up bis musket he started out, as he said, to have "some kind of a settlement with old Hawley." Late that night HawJey was found lying across his hearth shot through the heart. Evidence points to the fact that young Brown-committed the deed, and he confesses, but claims he did it iu self-defense, as the old man had attacked him with an ax. The boy is iu custody. Five Lives Lost. An accident occurred on the Ohio river opposite Evansville, in which fiv-3 men were drowned and two others hardly escaped with their lives.

William Martin, who is employed as manager of a farm on the Kentucky side, came to Evansville to secure a force of farm inds to gather corn. 31 art in. accompanied by a whitoman named William Atkinson lour colored men named Albert Walker, James Jameson, Stewart Carter, and William Burns, whom he had engaged, started in a ferry skiff for the Kentucky shore. Fielding Clay, colored, who is employed by the ferryman as an assistant, was the oarsman. A rather stiff breeze was blowing and when two-thirds of the way across the river the boat capsized.

Martin and Atkinson were saved, but the other drowned. MAKKET KEPOIJT. CHICAGO. Beeves Extra 1,4501,700 lb3 5.35 Good to fancy steers 3.ybt Poor to medium Cows Veal Calves 1.7:V3t JIu.cn Cows -per head. 1M.00& Hoos Jlixe.i 3.4 2.o 4.7" li.OJ (J .4 .0 .11 .2 .10 .20 Sheep Native Wheat No.

2 Cons Xo. 2 Oats o.2 Potatoes per Povltbt Chickens, live, per lb Dueks, Turkeys, Bcttek Choice Low grades Cheese Full Cream Off Grades Eggs Fresh, per doz bT. LOUIS. IJeeves Choice natives Hogs Choice .91 A .70 .0 df, .103 .053 .243 51.407.t3.00 3.703 4.00 9J .91 icons :So.2 lied .5 -1 Oats MILWAUKEE. 4J3 Wheat Xo.

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2 Oaa 3. .3 A) .30 Two Murder' in Oliio. Early in the morning the dad body of John Watkins was discovered lying near the track of the Nickel-Plate railroad at Hartsburg, with a bullet, hole in his bead. He was last seen at midnight with two men who were strangers in the locality. AH three had beet drinking.

George Tun- get, a farmer living near Ottawa, was murdered by Edward Heaton. Heaton had served a term in State's prison and waare- centiv released. He blamed Tunget for testifying against htm. Fire destroyed th farm buildings and grain of W. K.

Walter, near Jlorris, during a heavv windstorm. The total loss is 20,000: insured for $4,200. J. F. STEWART, Publisher.

HILL CITY, KANSA? NEWS OF THE WEEK. Latest Intelligence From Parts of the "World. AH The round-house of the Cnicago and Weft Michigan railroad at Holland, wilt seven locomotives, was destroyed by fin. Los estimated 825,000. 1 Officer Adamson In attempting to arrest a negro desperado, Carter Bryant, in Nortt Little Itock.

Ark found it necessary to kill tha negro In self-defense. i August Schultz and William Smith were arrested iu Chicago with about $300, tiw proceeds of burglaries, in their possession. In all, Schulrz admits that they succeeded In getting abo-it worth of Jewelrj and clothing from several residences, ths most of which they disposed of in various parts of the cily. John Archibald, an old man who lived in Hull. OnL, was burned to death in his coV tage.

i Mr. J. A. West, a resident of Savannat, was killed by his brother, Hugh West, at Bolton, Miss. At Willlamstown, George Burgess, a saloonkeeper, shot and fatally wounded Mis Alice Mc Kin ley and then barricaded himself In his saloon.

Officers broke down the door Burgess resisted arrest and was shot dead. An unknown man was found dead in a cell in the Central Station at St. Paul. Mr. and 31 rs.

Han Hanson, of East Fifth street, were declared poisoned, but not fatally. Th3 man had drank beer in a saloon, where a tev minutes later Mr. Hanson had purchased a can of beer, which was drank by the family. A lire destroyed the Georgia railroad offices and freight depot and partially burned the Union Passenger station at Augusta, Ga. The total loss is about $75,000.

The large hub and spoke factory, located at Anna Station, was burned. A telegram was received at Lima saying the whole town was in danger and asking for a fire engine, which was sent by special train. Fred Criob, of Ypsilanti, committed suicide in the presence of his wife and family by taking a dose of poison. Several weeks ago Thad Fowlke9 murdered a citizen of Charlotte county named Yancey. He was arraigned for trial, and the case postponed.

While the sheriff was returning with the prisoner to jail, a force of men Intercepted him aud lynched the prisoner. Over 100 more men in the employ of the Union Pacific are thrown out of employment by an order for further reduction of the force. These men are now employed at the Council Bluffs transfer yards and the company's machine-shops in Omaha. This will make a total reduction within the last few.days of 200 men. A most disastrous fire Village of Collin wood, O.

rear of Ralph Shepard's occurred at the It started in the hardware store. The los3es foot up $23,000. The large building used as a commissary department at fort Lincoln, North Dakota, was burned with all its contents. William Sennott, who was found dead on the sidewalk on Harmon court, Chicago, with a bullet-hole in his left breast, was murdered by his former friend and partner In crime, Frank Hartnett, alias O'Brien alias Bradley. James Mclvlnley, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was killed by falling from a building.

A large boiler exploded on the Nescopek Mountain, near Espytown, with terrible results. Frank Groover, his brother and two others were instantly killed. The boiler was being used to furnish steam for a sawmill. All four men were horribly iraangled. What caused the explosion is a mystery.

The steamer Dorchester reports passing a whale in Chesapeake bay. It was off the Thimble, a little above Old Point Comfort. It was over eighty feet in length and was sw'imming due north. The Dorchester passed within fifty feet of the whale, which fol' owed along in the wake of the ship towards Baltimore. The strike of the coal miners of Alabama went into effect but all the men did not go out as expected.

Of the 8,000 free miners in the state it is estimated that 0,000 are out. Louis Rhodes and Edward Taylor were killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train at Se-wickley, Pa. Millie Panhorst, who shot and killed Samuel Goldberg, her betrayer, at San Francisco, was acquitted of the charge of murder. Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck of Los Angeles, Cal donated $750,000 worth of property to found a home for indigent women and homeless children.

Four men, two on a side, met on the highway near Malvern, aud fought with knives. One of the men, named Gillum, was cut seriously across the neck, and he will die. Two others, Tom Hammond and his son, are badly cut Senor Antonio Vento, the owner of the Caraarcho estate, has been kiduapped near Batabano, 85 miles from Havana, Cuba, by-bandits. Troops were hastily sent in pursuit. The soldiers came upon Ihe bandits twice and shots were exchanged, but up to last reports Senor Vento had not been rescued.

In a drunken quarrel at Roche port, George Boyce killed Jessie Xichols with a knife. Deputy United States Marshal Pitts was shot and killed by Indians near Lake West, in the Choctaw nation. The whites are greatly excited and have the Indians surrounded. Alfred Junior, a lineman, lost his life in St. Louis.

He was on a pole making a connection and was pulling what is called a pair of blocks to tighten a wire, when his other hand came in contact with the opposite wire of the same connection, and the cuirent passed through his body. The court-house at Bale St. Paul, Quebec, was robbed of about $4,000 during the absence of the guardian of the place. There Is no clue to the robbers. James Feeney, a laborer, was killed ia the new lake tunnel at Park row, Chicago.

The Indiana (Pa.) Deposit company closed its doors as a result of the failure of B. K. Jameson of Philadelphia. The latter had In their possession cash and securities of the Deposit company amounting to at the time of the suspension. An early resumption is confidently expected.

Severe frosts are reported on the shores of the Mediterranean, something unknown for twenty years. Snow-storm9 are reported in pain and the Pyrenees are impassable. The German rivers are full of dangerous drift-ice. Eight persons have been drowned at Barmen. The damage at Elberfeld, Barmen, and Posen is estimated at 3,000,000 marks.

lyn bridge, attempting to board a tram missed his footing and fell between the car and the platform. He was terribly mangled and instantly killed. William Wilson, a stranger who engaged a room at a lodging-house on South Clark street, Chicago, was found dead in bed with the gas turned on full head. Wilson was 58 years of age and wore a Grand Army button. In his pockets were found a Wabash railroad basreaM check aad a letter ad dressed to 31.

S. Bradley, Stryker, O. John O'Brien and John Boh an were struck by a Fort Wayne train in Chicago. O'Brien was instautly killed and Bohan injured. Bouan received his iniunes while attempting to pull his companion from the track.

William Moberry of Nokomis, 111., was found dead in his bed. He had been taken home in a drunken stupor. Mrs. Martha Losee, 10 years old. a forger's bride, in a fit of jealousy shot herself while on the station of the Suburban Elevated railroad at 13Sth street, Chicago.

The bullet passed through her breast and the injury is considered fatal. The last session of the Fifty-first Congress was opened and the President, sent in his annual message. Ellis Miller was executed at the penitentiary annex in Columbus, O. The crime was committed uear Marysville, Jan. lti last, when he shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs.

Emma Johnson. Miller wrote a long letter to the governor begging for an extension of time on the ground that he was drunk when he committed the murder. All appeals were ignored. The rendezvous of a gang of chicken-thieves was found near Chatham, X. Y.

Several men attempted to capture the thieves, aud a farmer named Peter Lob man shot dead one of the gang. The other thieves escaped. Several hundred pounds of dressed and undressed fowls were found. Two squaw men, living on Bad River, S. were lynched by a vigilance cemmittee.

Cattle stealing has been going on and investigation pointed to the squaw men as the guilty parties. The vigilance committee has been carrying matters with a high hand and there is considerable excitement. Dr. W. E.

Todd shot aud daugeronsly wounded T. Her, a leweler at Jackson, Miss. The ball entered the arm and strayed up through the shoulder into the back. The physicians amputated the arm but think Her cannot recover. The shooting grew out of an alleged intimacy between Todd and one Mrs.

Mead, receutly from Indiana. Harry O'Day of feeler, was accidentally shot and killed by a companion while out hunting. The paraffine plantof the Queens County Oil Works of New Town Creek, L. was totally destroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated at 75,000.

Elmer Liston, 18 years of age, shot himself accidentally at Peoria, blowing off nearly half his head. The body of F. li. Crocker, President of the Board of Public Works, at Denver, jCoU who mysteriously disappeared, was found in a corn-tield three miles from Ae city. The discovery was made accidentially by Farmer West.

Fire broke out in the kitchen of the Hotel Patawomick at Glen Echo, a pleasure resort several miles from Washington, D. and the structure was burned to the ground. Several persons had narrow escapes. Loss about Albert Fleshorn, 24 years old died suddenly while at a dance in Chicago. It is supposed he was troubled with heart disease, and that the exercise of dancing hastened his death.

Louis Rieanow, a baker, was run over by a grip car iu Chicago, and died at a 2s ear Dayton, Mich Mrs. Sarah Hoster stepped between two men who were quarreling with shot guns in their hands. The gun in the bauds of Charles Robinson was discharged aud Mrs. Iloster was instantly killed. Doniphan Bishop, aged 42, committed suicide by cutting his GibsouCity, IU.

S. C. Orr and Samuel Torrell, mining experts, in trying to walk across Fall Lake, near Ely, broke through and were drowned. Orr is thought to have gone to the rescue of Torrell, after he got in the water, and both went through. Leonard L.

Roger, foreman of the harness department at the Rock Island Arsenal, fell backward from a wall on which he was standing. He struck his head on a stone, producing a fatal fracture. The extensive barrel and stave works of B. F. Horn East St.

Louis, III were entirely destroyed by lire. Loss, insurance, $25,000. Thomas Black was found asphyxiated in his room at a hotel iu Ironton, O. He had blown out the gas. The stock of P.

Levy, at London, Ont, was damaged by fire totheexteutof 25,000. Insurance, 15,000. Several men were injured by the explosion of the boiler of a portable sawmill at Elco, 111. Minnie Kinsley, a young woman living in Chicago, received a letter from Charles Bronhausc, of Prescott, Arizona. Charles declared his love for Minnie and proposed marriage.

The young woman is now at the detention hospital, she was so overcome with joy that she lost her reason. "Wild Flight Down a siwp Crude. A freight-train on the Spokane branch of the Uniou Pacific was wrecked near Haystack, Ore. The train was going down the steep grade aud eot beyond control. After running at a fearful rate of speed for tome distance the engine and a number of cars left the track.

The engineer and tiremau and oue brakeman were instantly killed. J. EL Lecher was the name of the brakeman killed, but the names of engineer and fireman could not be learned. J. E.

Cameron, a brakeman, was fatally injured. A'Suieltle. A young man went into the power-house of the City Railway company at Fifty-third street, Chicago, and asked of the engineer permission to look at the machinery. The engineer replied that he could look at the machinery from a distance. The visitor attempted to get close to the revolving wheels but was prevented by the engineer.

A few moments later the young man left "the power-house and the sharp report of a pistol was heard. He had shot himself through the head. Nothing was found his pockets that might lead to his identity. He was about 20 years old, 5 feet inches tall, and weighed about 150 pounds. like a large barrel cover, being twenty-then; I seven inches in diameter.

Six seven i. t. I I i Firemen Sevrely Injured. As engine No. 1 was rounding a corner in Chicago to an alarm of lire on Clinton street the engine overturned and Acting Lieut.

Ilogan and the driver were thrown iuto the street. Hogan was severely bruised. Ihe blaze at the Clinton street house was livplr nnr mid f'iint mrl Ambrose were overcome by smoke while in the building. They were carried out uu- conscions. Truckman Tom Lee was knocked from a ladder by falling glass and cut about the arms.

Seventeen People Lott Their Lives. Further particulars of the burning of the steamer T. P. Leathers ou the Mississippi, show the disaster to have been much greater than at first reported. Seventeen persons were either burned or drowned.

Capt. Lamb says the steamer did not strike a sandbar, 'but was landed on the Louisiana side of the river. The Leathers stem was aground. A gangplank was run out and the men leapeu irom it inio me waicr. luoy nail a very short distance to swim and the water was not over hx feel deep, but a number were urouneu in tne strong current.

Those lost were: A white deck passenger. name unknown: Ike MeMorrK steward uuij uiii, liuiuiiiuil bert'hmaker; Edward Wright, cabin boy; Jack Payne, captain of the watch; Morgan, a fireman, and ten roustabouts. Lucy Hilt, cham liej-m aid Hamilton Jones, One Murdered, One Fell Dead. Thomas ilann, a police officer, and Martin Kane, a bacK driver, becan involved in a quarrel, in Louisville, Ky about the pending mayoralty election. Kane assaulted th policeman, took the latter'a club from him and used it on the oQcer.

JIann followed Kane into a saloon, where be had lied, and shot him, inflicting a fatal wound. Maun then surrendered to Officer Birch Huff. On their way to the Btaiion-house Kuff dropped dead on the street, aud Mann proceeded to police headquarters and gave himself up. The money set aside to pay 225 men at Lithgow's foundry, Louisville, Ky 'was itolen. The amount of the loss is 2,430.

There is no clew to the thief. wiuiueuiuri.merouueriireunvesuois. He turn edmdra.