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Cromwell's Kansas Mirror from Kansas City, Kansas • 4

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or fifteen years of TBETEAYED the gang GIDEON IS THE MAN. I STATISTICS OF THE TURF. BURNT C0EK GIRLS. ladies and with the aid of big razwrs and hair pulling it will be made verf career. She was a pretty English bar Interesting Faets and Figures Gleaned maid, with rosy cheeks and sparkling realistic.

The ends and interlocutor have a lot of brand new jokes to spring SHOW WILL GIVE A CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL from the English Racing Calendar. Some rather interesting statistics eyes, when a man known at the time as Charlie Wells visited London and HOW KITTY TERRY SOLD HER PALS TO UNCLE SAM. MINSTREL CHARITY. when the time comes. FOR RACING BOARD.

connected with the turf have been The main feature of the performance met her. He was in London in search of barmaids for a palatial cafe he was gleaned from an English racing calen of the Innovations of the Winter In A Pioneer Cycler Who Will Take the AND THEN BECAME THE WIFK OF A MILLIONAIRE. will be the marching and manoeuvers of the company, with guns in hand, in the grand finale. The girls will sing dar for 1894, which has just been published. From this we learn that the average number of races during the Gay Gotham Military Minstrelsy and Dialect Songs for the Four about to open in Paris to be known as the "American Bar." He liked Kitty, and it didn't take him long to induce her to become fond of the good look Place of Howard K.

Raymond News and Comment of the National Cycling Clubs. period of six years has been well main tained, the only falling off being in Echo of the Approaching Marriage of Antonio Terry and Silas Sibyl Sanderson It Will Redeem the Family Name ing American, with his elegant manners and pockets filled with cash. four mile events. This is not difficult the "Golden Key" as they move down to the footlights, break, circle and march about in splendid time and order. A regular Salvation Army band takes part in the finale, in which Miss Kate Goldstein plays the bass drum.

She is a rollicking sort of a girl, and OWARD E. RAY- 77 XT from Much Odium. New York Correspondence. HE DRAMA.COM- Then, too, Charlie Wells could play the piano divinely. mond, the chair So Kitty bid good-bye to England to account for, inasmuch as there are few races now open to horses capable of winning over a long distance that it doesn't pay to train them.

In 1889 there were three four mile races open, ISS SIBYL SAN-derson, the beauti- and was soon in attendance at the drollery which she puts into her A a part will surely make a hit the gaudy "American isar" in. man of the Racing Board of the League of American Wheelmen, intends to retire from active participation 4- ful songstress from 1 Paris. In a rear room was run a as against two this year. Cominsr. it the state of the edy, tragedy and opera, follow each other upon the stage as the fickle fancy of amusement seekers turns from.one to another, but there is one however, to the short distance events, like five furlong scurries, we find that Golden Gate, took faro game.

Kitty made such inroads on the heart of "Piano Charley" that The young ladies are working hard to become letter perfect in the business of the performance, and it is said that some of them" meet to practice the negro dialect, while others have so far A A cc as ion to an in league affairs at the meeting of the National Assembly to be held next he married her. Then she learned something of his identity, but it didn't matter. She had married a man named Bullard, in reality, for Bullard, nounce on her arrival from Europe the other day that she would soon in 1889 there were 793 open, as against 795 in 1894. For six furlongs and under a mile there has been a considerable falling off, as in 1889 there were 256 events open and only 203 this year. The one mile contest, however, form of entertainment which never fails to please the lorgotten themselves as to start a pigeon-toe or duck step while waiting for a car, and that one of their number actually walked along the street the Boylston bank robber, found it convenient to adopt an alias when he marry.

She said, month, and as a result the men who direct the policy of the organization have been looking around for a desir popular fancy. It matters not il tne jokes be time worn or the songs old. opened the "American Bar in Paris. speaking her lines and loping along incidentally, that there would necessarily be some delay owinff to the awkward fact that her show an enormous increase. That is doubtless due to the fact that the Jockey club insisted in all race courses But hard luck finally came to the able man for Raymond's place.

George Robinson, the Massachusetts member like a Georgia negro. the negro minstrel performance is always sure to be hailed with delight. American Bar" in Paris. The French intended, Senor Antonio Terry, a Cu The society was organized a little over two years ago, and now boasts of authorities didn't like the way the faro And when it is lovely women wno 'ban sugar king, is still the husband of licensed by them that provision should be made for a straight mile. Hence it is that while in 1889 there were only game was run in the back room, and 175 members.

Only women are ehgi- another woman. The other woman In closed the resort. Wells had spent blacken their faces and kick their heels in a rattling breakdown, the charms of the minstrel show are more than doubled. much of his stealings in the place, and Die to membership. It is further required that they must have attained the age of 18 years, be of Hebrew the case, though, is to he made glad or isorrowful Miss Sanderson is not quite sure which throueh the divorce had lived like a prince with Kitty in a 345 races over that distance, there were 479 in 1892, 489 in 1893 and 509 last year.

There is a matter upon sportsmen will congratulate them- palatial house on the Hue Scribe. Behind closed doors, and with the parentage and unmarried. courts. The present Mrs. Terry No.

1 Wells went in search of another bank Whenever one of the members sees is a charming and delightful woman, selves, because there is a ffrowin? to rob, and Kitty remained in Paris. to the future Mrs. Terry opinion that to train horses for five The wily bank robber with a pal. fit to enter into the bonds of matrimony she loses her membership. The society does a great deal of prac No.

2. and six scrambles is a mistake. Mark Shinburn, stole a million in Bel Whether it is Senor Terry or his wife that seeks the absolute decree is gium Shinburn bought a dukedom, tical good in alleviating' the poor and A FAMOUS SIRE. distressed of this city reeardless of mot made quite clear by the parties in Alcantara, the Great Stallion, Sells for and Bullard, alias Wells, returned to London. He met Kitty again, returned to this country, was captured and sentenced for one of his score of terested.

It is agreed, though, that matters have been arranged, and An 810,000. Alcantara, the famous sire of half a tonio will wed the operatic star before big robberies. He escaped from sev score of fast performers on the turf. many weeks have passed. eral prisons.

Together with a pal he race, creed, color or sect. A feature of the charity is that it is perfectly free from red tape. Belief in all cases found to be worthy is given within forty-eight hours after the application is made. Whenever a member hears of a case where aid is needed, she at once reports to the secretary, who, in turn, sends a committee to visit the boarded an express car on the New Although Miss Sanderson has been -abroad for several years and brought was sold at public sale in New York the other day for $10,000, a fairly largo price, considering the great depreca- Haven road, threw the money safe off Dack a fair to middling Parisian ac at Bridgeport and appropriated its cent, she is an American girl, born in contents, some 8200,000. Bullard was California, and, of course, there is a sentenced to twenty.

years finally, and place as soon as possible and acquaint cation in the price of horse flesh and that the celebrated is 19 years old. Alcantara a few years ago sold for $25,000, and netted his late owner $100,000 in fees. He goes into the stud of A. A. Bonner.

it was while in prison that Kitty natural interest in this country over her engagement to the Cuban man of GEOBGE D. GIDEON. themselves with the circumstances. Where there is sickness a doctor and Wells met Mason, the counterfeiter. the board, and George D.

Gideon, After she had severed her connection with him, owing to his sentence by millions. She will eventually enjoy an income from an estate of forty millions. Antonio Terry will, in the the Pennsylvania member, have been CISSY FITZCEHALD. Judge Benedict, she met Juan Terry, mentioned for the office. Owing to the fact that the Massachusetts divi course of time, possess all the great An English Maid Who Earns 8500 Per son of Senor Tomaso Terry, the Cuban sugar planter, whose fortune was esti wealth of the Terry family, a family sion will be represented on the nation as famous in New York as in Cuba.

al ticket with George R. Perkins for mated at $50,000,000. Week by Daring Dances. Cissy Fitzgerald, an English dancer. first vice-president, the members of MISS JOSEPHINE KUSHNEB.

Senor Tomaso Terry lived a portion It was in Paris Miss Sanderson and the sugar king met. Senor Antonio has just engaged her services to an the division have acceded to the de titmost secrecy, forty members of the of the year in New York, having a fine mansion at the northwest corner had found he could not live happily mands of the Pennsylvanians and American theatrical manager at $500 a week, to do a dance every evening during the week, and at one matinee. with his wife, and was considering the practically withdrawn Robinson's Young Ladies' Charitable society of this city have been rehearsing for some time in the concert room of the of Thirty-ninth street and Fifth ave best plan for a divorce when the lovely name, which leaves Gideon a clear field nue, opposite the Union League club. bhe came from London a few weeks for the office. T-Ta T-i -J li Ant sit -9 i nude- 7m George D.

Gideon, who lives at Lexington Avenue Opera house for a minstrel performance. The entertainment is to be called "Military singer permitted his attentions. It was love at first sight. And the friends of Miss Sanderson and Senor Antonio rejoice, for the marriage will Swarthmore, is 36 years old. He ago, and showed in New York, Her dance was the most daring, suggestive and sensuous thing that had ever been attempted in Gotham, and she had the has been identified with cycling since Minstrelsy," and has been specially ar 1880.

In 1883, when the sport was in help to clear away the cloud cast over ranged for the occasion. The writer its infancy and racing only indulged in the Terrys by the marriage of An town at her feet. She received $50 per week from her English manager, but has had her salary multiplied by ten. tonio's brother, Senor Juan, to Kitty at mirequent intervals, ttiaeon was succeeded in getting in before the door was closed the other day and saw a very interesting rehearsal. 1 Wells, the wife of bank burglar, for chairman of the racing board.

Again, cer and swindler Bullard, known in in 1801, he served as the Pennsylvania At the rise of the curtain the min ohe is a wonderfully chic creature, and the grace of her kick is likely to member of the board when Charles his circle as "Piano Charley." make her wealthy. She has had half It must be admitted there was much Davol was chairman, and when H. E. strels are just returning from parade and march in, four abreast, dressed in a uniform very much like that of the a dozen offers of marriage from rich Raymond took office Gideon was con about the other marriage in Paris where Juan Terry met and loved the sidered to De one oi the best racinsr men this country. In 1881, at the ex-English barmaid, Kitty Wells, Seventh regiment, the difference being that the fair performers wear short black skirts and white leggings instead of trousers.

As they come, for-. American Institute building, New York, he won the fifty-mile championship in when Miss Sanderson announced her engagement to Juan's brother. Kate Terry died in a palatial home in New 3 hours 35 minutes and 23 seconds. MISS SOPHIE SCHUMANN. medicine are furnished.

During the past eight months the society has saved nearly fifty families from being dispossessed. SLATE PENCILS AND SLATES. ward to the footlights they sing a medley, which includes "Oft Have We, Yorkcity several months ago. Her In 1882 he held the five-mile record, 16 minutes and 10 3-4 seconds. In 1882 husband passed- away in Paris after Roamed Together," "Annie Laurie," "When the Band Begins to Play," he also won the two and five mile L.

leaving his wife a million dollars and five million in trust to his posthumous "Climb Up You Children, Climb," and A. W. championship races held in this city. On the road Gideon is also child. The Terry heir, a boy, is now other popular songs.

CHARLES BULLARD. credited withjsonie noteworthy per Miss Julia Feist, who will act as in-. of his attending school. When his mother died, early last year, those interested in the Terry family saw to it that the terlocutor, is to be costumed in a white and the news of the marriage son Juan caused sorrow. formances.

In 1881 he made the first successful attempt to ride from Phila delphia to New York. lad's guardians were of the right sort, uniform as colonel of the regiment. She introduces the end men or, rather, the end ladies, in these words: SEVERED HIS BRAIN. Kate Terry left her fortune to hereon. Havre, France, is building a five lap cement track.

An Engineer Meets With a Remarkable "Ladies, since you have decided Chief Drummond of the United States secret service, has records by a western racer rejoices in the ap Accident and Still Lives. upon giving a performance free from vulgarity and devoid of romance, we the ton, great books and albums con propriate name of Swift Goodspeed. Of all the peculiar and interesting taining information about the famous i ne uoston capitalists who were will commence our novel minstrels by cases the saw mills oi Puget sound planning to build a bicycle track have CISSY FITZGEBALD. criminals of the world. When the writer called at his office, he opened a big book and pointed out a faded have sent out, none competes with that of Horatio A.

Stetson, and en abandoned the scheme. introducing onr end ladies, who are full of brilliancy. I expect them in a minute and you can wager they're right in it." New Yorkers, and is altogether quite the rage. Crooks has arranged to return to sheet of old style note paper. gineer in Stetson Post's mill.

SteU son's head was cut half in two last raturn to France in February, where he will race during the '95 racing "That is Kitty Wells' handwriting," And then the eight ends appear in said he. "You can read it" week by a rip saw. He was fixing the machinery in the plaining mill. By ATHLETIC. The Berkeley Athletic association of season.

smart red coats and bloomers. Then Millions of Them Used Yearly In Schools and Elsewhere In This Country. Only one firm in the United States is making slate pencils from native slate. There are imported many slate pencils that is, pencils made of slate from Germany, and also some soapstone pencils from abroad. The native soapstone pencil industry languishes, according to those interested, because of the recent reduction in the tariff upon imported sorpstone pencils.

Millions of pencils made of slate are turned out at a quarry in Pennsylvania. The rough slate is sawn into suitable pieces by machinery, and from each piece a special machine cuts six pencils of standard length, 5 inches. These pencils "come out rounded, but not pointed. Deft boys take them by twos and threes and quickly point them at an emery wheel rapidly revolved by machinery. The pencils are then put up in pasteboard boxes of 100 each, and these boxes are placed in wooden cases containing 10,000 pencils.

The wholesale price of Blate pencils Is only $6. 75 a case. Pencils that break in the making are made up into "shorts," measuring 3J or 4 inches, and the shorter pencils are made also from small fragments of It was information the woman had there is a chorous: chance the mill feed belt came off, and Has Pleased the Easterners. given the secret service when she was Few York recently paid a dividend on its $200,000 worth of stock. Stetson stooped under the table to fix Since "Rob Roy" is sung eight times arrested with a companion, George Al it He ran his head against the saw.

Let the revals begin, Commence the show Hoop la! hurrah 1 Let her go! a week at the Herald Square theater in Thomas Fox, a well known baseball bert Mason, a famous counterfeiter in his day. In Kitty Wells' cramped player and 100 yards runner, died at and in less than a twinkling of an eye his head was cut across the top just in New York, it has become necessary to provide Miss Juliette Corden with an understudy capable of assuming the hand were given the names of her as South Bethlehem, aged 28 years. And then the performance goes ahead with a snap and a dash that is sociates, where they could be found, Charles Wilmer, who claimes to be front of the ears. The saw went down into the brain fully three inches, the point of exit on either side of the head dl the best hour to catch them, and just what each one had been doing in the the champion Graeco-Roman wrestler of the world, defeated Alfred Wood, champion catch-as-catch can wrestler being on a level with the tops of the ears. Stetson crawled out from under big counterfeiting scheme.

At the time (1875) Kitty's husband, the table and was grabbed by hia of Ohio, in a mixed bout at Cincinnati, in straight falls. cnanes isuiiara, alias ells, was in brother, who clapped the two pieces of E. Kleib, the Harvard senior, who his head together. The brother broke the college record of strength a says that blood and brains wera coming from his head, which looking as if it were falling apart, slate. Pencils wrapped in the Ameri The wounded man was hurried to the short time ago, made record far in excess of any other man ever examined by Dr.

Sargent When a man gets a record above 1,000 kilograms he is exceptional. Klein made a mark of 1,445.6 kilogram, his nearest competitor be hospital. He was speechless but under can flag printed on paper cost about $2 a case more than the ordinary bare stood everything said to him. He went through the trephining operation and was put to bed. Toward nicrht pencil, and pencils wrapped in gilt paper come a little higher.

It is an easy bit of ciphering to make out that pencils at $6.75 a case of 10,000 are partial paralysis of his arms and legs set in but he regained the power of speech aud called for his mother. At worth about two thirds of a mill, or fifteenth of a cent that time he said he was suffering no pain. During the night he was rest Pencils imported from Germany sell in this market at about the price of the MAUDE YOUNh role of Janet in De Koven and Smith's less but toward dawn he took a bowl of beef tea. From this time on he be native product. The American labor is much better paid than the German labor, but the cost of the American came stronger, the power of motion of admirable opera comique.

Miss Maude Young, a very handsome young woman with a soprano voice of excellent purity his legs and arms came back to him and his mind was perfectly clear. He MISS BERTHA JACOBS. pencil is not much greater than that of the, German pencil because machinery and quality, has been secured. Her performance of Janet has greatly could talk but with difficulty. His exhilarating.

The young ladies who KATE WELLS, AFTEBWARD MP.8. JUAN is so much more used here than abroad, TEBBY. pleased and astonished New Yorkers. play the tambourines are Miss Florence Cutler, Miss Delia Weil, Miss temperature is normal and his pulse remains in the condition of a perfectly well man and there is no inflammation prison, and Kitty was befriended by Xhe Uerman pencils are in large part made by hand in the homes of the She looks well in the part, acts with taste and intelligence and sings the Mason, the counterfeiter. Mason, Essie Moore and Miss Theresa Weiss.

-I German work folks, and the price paid in the wound and there are no indica charming numbers of her part with ex The bones are manipulated on the opposite end by Miss Malvania Newman, lor the work is wretchedly small. Kitty and a coterie of skilled counterfeiters and bank robbers, the high class of professional criminals, all lived in a boarding house on the west side. In tions of fever setting in. Little Ones Elope. As to slates, they are produced of all pression and leenng.

Miss loung is one of the prettiest women on the ing Q. Cutter, a medical student, with 1,097.8 kilograms. Where Interest Cuts a Figure. There is not much chance that "dirty" ball playing will be stopped by the present National league committee on rules. The three members of the committee are Ned Hanlon of the Baltimores; James A.

Hart of the Chicagos, and Frank DeHaas Robinson of the Clevelands. Hart would no doubt like to see some reform, but the strength of some of the "stars" of the Baltimore and Cleveland teams lies in their ability to turn a trick and a bluff. Boston Herald. Amateur Champion at Live Birds. J.

K. Palmer won the amateur live-bird shooting championship of the United States and a tidy sweepstakes recently at Larchmont, N. Y. He won the match by a score of 95 out of 100 birds, having made twenty-five birds straight. Work was second, with 98 birds; Davenport third, with 68, and Ferguson and Moore tied for fourth, with 80 birds each.

President Byrne of the Brooklyn club recently received a letter from John Grim, who for several years was the clever catcher of the Louisville club, and whose release was purchased last fall by the Brooklyn club, accepting the club's terms, and asking that a contract be forwarded to him at hia home at Indianapolis, Ind. sizes and for a great numbef of pur Miss Millie Apfel, Miss Bertha Jacobs and Miss Hannah Rogers. i stage. poses. The best are for school use and Eva Morrell, 14 years, and Richmond this little home circle was William Mc- The musical program is made up of Hill, 20 years old, eloped from Daniel Heavyweight Fryer Dead.

favorite airs and the singers do their share to bring out the funJ Miss Kenna, a famous bank burglar; Kate Marshall, a pal of Ike Marsh, who in turn was a pal of Bank Robber Jimmy A London cable announces the death for blackboards. Notwithstanding the many compositions invented to serve as blackboards, slate is still used for the purpose, and immense slabs of the finest quality are cut, smoothed and sonville, the other the boy calling for the little girl in a carriage. Her father saw the love sick Theresa Weiss sings f'Lindy Does Yo' Love Me" with the true spirit of. the Hope. Marshall is now in the peniten at Nottingham George Fryer, the heavyweight Fryer came to this country during the time Madison infant climb out of a window and fol Southern negro, and her walk and set up in schoolhouses.

They will out lowed her and the rash youth to the tiary in Pennsylvania. Then there was Mrs. Glover. Her husband was Eugene Baker, an expert forger and Square garden was given over to four- shuffle are positively delightful. As the "Captain of Company Miss last any composition, and if properly Worchester railroad track.

Descend round contests, when Sullivan was in ing from his buggy, whip in hand, he Fryer challenged Sullivan, cared for will always show a clear mark from the chalk crayon. Millions demanded that Eva go back with hwv bank robber, and George Alfred Mason, who had been arrested fifty-two times and been convicted forty-eight but nothing came of the challenge and he returned home after engaging in of slate pencils are used up yearly in She refused and clung to Hill. At that moment a freight train was going schools of all kinds, and if all the in Canada alone. Last, but not least, on or two minor contests with indif Bertha Jacobs is sure to make a hit, while Miss Hannah Rogers sings "Living Pictures" with all the sparkle of a gay soubrette. One of the special acts is a crap game in which Misses Clara Beck, Kate Goldstein, Celia Rogers and Sadie Marx take part.

There school slates were taken for roofing slowly by. Quickly catching Eva in ferent success. was Kittie Wells, the wife of Charles Bullard, the most expert bankjrobber they would roof a large city. John Morrill evidently saved his his arms Hill sprang upon the caboose steps. With a flag staff he kept the old man away until the train increased in the country at the time.

JJ.ut previously to turning informer money while he iras playing ball. He recently bought a residence in ioston i The modus vivendi with the United States was finally adopted by the chamber of deputies of Spain. will be an imitation of the tough "yaller gal" by two of the voi 'c its speed. her foes Kitty Wells enjoyed ten for 89,000..

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