Niles Weekly Mirror D. B. COOK, Pablicher WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, RAVAGED B.Y STORMS A TORNADO SWEEPS KANSAS I Collier Boys In Civil Court Set Fro status of the Kansas Eight-Hour Liw Concerning the National Republican Convention -Fist Fights and Fighters ELEVATED ROADS NOT IN FAVOR. Liverpool Building the First One in gland. It is a noteworthy fact that, in spite of the amount of, discussion which the subject of locomotion "has developed throughont England, and the practical demonstrations which the underground system of railways has long afforded, the idea of an railway does not meet with favor on the tight, little, island.
Liverpool. Is the only city which has: taken kindly to what is regarded as an American institution. and at the only elevated railway in England is in process of construction there, TOO NEAR THE NORTH POLE. Why' the Next National Republican Cont Vention Should Not Be Held: at Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Tribune wired leading Republicans as to the sentiment in sota regarding Minneapolis as the place for holding the next National Republican Convention.
The majority of the replies, save those front rival cities the extreme East, were favorable. Indiana is against Chicago. while St. Louis thinks Muneapolis too near the north pole. ON THE DIAMOND.
How the Clubs Engaged In the National Game Stand. Following is'a showing of the standing of each of the; teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, W. W. New 18 .617 .24 26 480 .27. 21 .502 22 26 469 22 .660 Cincinnatis.
19. 27 .413 25 26 .490 09 403 A AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Pc.
W. 1c. Bostons: 20 Columbus. 29 30 24, .24 25 37 32 439 Baltimores. f2 5.6F1 'Louisvilles 35 .327 23 Washingt'ns17 WESTERN ASSOCIATION, W.
Le Po. W. 420. 18 .625 Kausas C'ys. 26 .490 :617 31 400 Milwaukees.
32 21 Sioux 20 30 Minneapolis 30 12 .577 36 .320 Refused to: Comply with the Law. 'The controversy over, the eight-hour law has been, brought issue at Topeka, Kans Attorney General Ives received a letter from, President Martindale, of, the State Penitentiary Board, Directors, refusiaz to comply with law. letter Is in response to one written by the Attorney. General at the request of the Governor demanding that the Board of Directors see that the law. is rigidly enforced.
President Martindale says he does not consider that the law applies to the penitentiary. It is probable that, the Governor will instruct the Attorney General to institute quo wurs ranto proceedings against the board in the Supreme Court. A A P. Millions for a Dissolute Nobleman: The lawyors of the Most, Honorable the Marquis of Ailesbury have at last surmounted the legal difficulties which prevent that worthy from selling his, magnificent estate of Savernake, and it will soon puss Into the hands of Lord Sir Iveagh, William who Gulu- was formerly known as ness, who will pay the sum of $4,000,000 for One can easily imagine what a glorious time Lord and his Marchione Tester, late barmaid and? ballet girl, will have on this enormous amount. Much of it, however.
will have to go to pay the heavy debts which that nobleman bag con- Flooded by a Cloud -Burst. The corner of' Kansas was visited by terrible "causing some loss of life, much damage to property, and enormous "damage to growing crops. The storm was of different natures at different. At Fort Scott it took the form of a cloud-burst, at Arkansas City a cyclone; and at Emporia a tornado: Its the same, however, wherever its fury was felt. Towns were flooded, houses blown over, barns demolished fences swept away, and crops and laid low.
At Fort Scott water peared down for halt an: hour. the storm baving the appearancsof a St. Paul's New' Atliletic Club. The St. Paul (Minn.) Athletic Club, cona score of well-known citizing, has been incorporated.
the capital stuck being $330,000, T. Z. Cowies. manuging editor of the Pioneer- -Press, is named President. The Arst fight under the clut's auspice; will take place July 22, the being Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim.
a purse of. $12.0007 Beginning Sept. 1 the club will have monthly mills between leading pugilists. The organization will erect on street a clubhouse to cost $100,000. A Crime Quickly Punished.
John Quesada, alias John walked into the office of the San Antonio, Texas, ice factory, in the center of the city, held up the clerk at the point of a pistol, relieved him of $17, spent the "night in bagnies, and was arrested nest morning. Five days after' ne was sentenced to fifteen years hard labor. Quesada is only 20 years old and. is most prominent Spanish families of Southwestern Texas and Mexico McDonald Is No More, Hon. Joseph E.
McDonald, ex- Senator front Indiana, died fat his residonce in Indianapolis, of cancor of the stomach, aged 73 years. Acquitted the So diers. At Walla: Walla, the jury in the of the six soldiers on trial. for. tha lynching of A.
J. Hunt on April 24? returned a vordict of not guilty? ican Interests in deal of sharp talk taken place among Americans in over the failnre of the American Goverument to use its futmos: influence in order to prevent Italy from entering. into the proposed commercial? alliance with Austria and Germany against the United States, France and Russia It America would join with France and Russia In persuading Italy this 'colos sal combination. involving as it does the whole question of commercial prestige, might be prevented Jersey Village Swept by Over 400. 4 Buildings Burned.
The well-knowp summer resort, Sea-bright, N. ashes About 400 bulldlugs were burned. The total loss will reach at least $800,000. A gale of wind, was blowing at the and in remarkably short time the ruin was wrought. Women and children ran ithrough the streets crying and wringing their in frantic while the mon aided tho, firemen in attempting to check the fire The section burned over extends from the Shrewsbury River to the thence to the point where the Jersey Southern- Railroad crosses: Ocean avenue.
The portion in which the fishermen dwell suffered Many of these hardy people lost their all, and are homeless and penniless. Many of the wealthy. cottagers and the hotels which escaped, destruction haves thrown open their houses to sufferers. PLENTY OF RAIN. Crops Benefited, Business Growing Better, and Prosperity R.
G. Dun weekly review of trade says: Crop prospects have greatly Improved during the past week. particularly in southoon and Northwestern regious, where there has been lack! of. rain, and there is now scarcely a single commercial center trom' which the crop reports are not higbly western and Southwestern: reports mention favorable? MIt.is a friportant that all Northrains and brighter crop. prospect At St.
Paul it. is stated that few localities now lack moisture, and the wheat crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas is thought to be secure. from harm by drought Crop prospects confidence at Kansas City, and business is improved at" Loulsville, decidedly at Montgomery and slightly at New The wool market at New York shows improvement and a larger demand by manufacturers. The, business failures occarring during the past seven days number for the United States 324 and for 29, or a total of 253, as compared with a total of 244 last week and 2244 the week, previous to the last. For the corresponding weel: of last year the figures were 199, representing 178 failures in the United States and 21 in Canada.
SEABRIGHT IN ASHE at Nor olk, Nebi country schoolhouse near Norfolk, Neb, which, was crowded with children, was washed away during the recent storm. The catastrophe resulted in the drowning of Charles Mi.es, Cora Hamlin, Anua Cox. That all the children did not, perish was due to the heroism young Miles, who, on observing the ravine filling with water and the building settling, attempted to conduct the scholars to high ground! Several pupils drifted away: the flood, but young Miles gallantly plunged in and rescued them While: struggling ashore with the two littlo: girls, all three were swept away boneath a pile of driftwood. SWEPT AWAY BY A FLOOD. 'Three School Children Lose Their Lives KILLED FOR DISGRACING HIM.
Milwaukee Mane Murders His With for Refusing to stay Awuy from Saloons. A The 'Town of Utica, Ill. Is Swept by Sudden Rush of Waters. James Muggley: fatally shot his wife in a room in the rear of the St. Elmo saloon.
He tried to induce his wife. to leave. the saloon, but she Three pistol shots in quick succession, followed a moment later by another one; were People in the alley saw. Mrs. Muggly rush; on to the rear stairway, fall Muggley tried, to run down 'the steps and He jumped and ran to the police! station.
Mrs. was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where she diod. It was found that three bullets had entered her. left breast and a fourth bad passed, through her left arm a DRIVEN. TO THE HILLS.
terrific storm struck the quiet little village of Utica. and for four "hours A a solid sheet of rain fell without ceasing. At 6 o'clock the water had reached a depth of four feet on the main stroets, and" the people began moving to the high bluffs on the north. A courier announced that many hundreds were on the hills above the village, the streets of which were running rivers. People were seeking shelter in the cement mill and in the farm houses and barns about.
When tho courier left Utica several children wore reported as missing and one as drowned. 3 DROWNED IN ICY BAY, Loss of Lieutenant Robinson and Four Comrades. Captain Shepard. of, the Revenue Marine Service, received from Victoria, British Columbia, a telegram confirming the report of the drowning of Lieutenant Robinson and four other men at Icy Bay, whilo attempt-: ing to, land from the Bear through the surf, with the Russell Mount St. Elias party.
The name; of the drowned mien were Lieutenant Robinson, Coxswain Hass. ler, Seamen "Anderson, Nelson, and Henry Smith, all of the revenue cutter Bear, and C. Moore, a member of the exploring. expedition. A M'CRYSTAL IS SENTENCED.
He Is Given a Year's Imprisonment for Trying to Bribe a Tales Juror. At New. Orleans counsel for McCrystal convicted of attempting to bribe McFable. tales Juror in the Hennessy case, made application for a new trial. Judge? Marr overruled the motion and sentenced McCrystal to one year in the penitentiary, the full term provided by law.
The jury in the case: of: Thomas; J. McCrystal and John Cooney, charged with attempting. to bribe J. Gormley, who had been summoned as a tales juror in the Hennessy case, returned a verdict of "guilty as A M'KINLEY JUBILEE. The Author, of the Tariff Act receives the Indorsem*nt of Ohio Republicans.
Following is the ticket nominated by Ohio Republicans at their State Convention at Columbus: For Governor, William McKinley, Lieutenant Governor, Andrew. L. Harris; State" Auditor, E. W. Poo; Treasurer, W.
Cope; Attorney General, General J. K. Richards; Supreme Judge, Marshall J. Williams; member Beard of Public Works, E. Grace; School Commissioner, O.
T. Carson. MANY IN FAVOR OF ANNEXATION. Coff'e Planters in Guatemala Would Like to Be Ruled by Uncle Sam. A correspondent says that among coffee planters in Guatemala there is.a decided feeling In favor of annexation to the United States, but that officials do not share this feeling.
President and his immediate adherents; are favorably inclined toward the United States, but the President's desiro scems to be to finish his term peacefully. 4 PRISONERS ASPHYXIATED. Escaping Gas at a Will Result in the Loss of Life. There was a scene of excitement at Yonkers, N. when prisoners in; the cells at police headquarters were found unconscious.
The gas had escaped during the night and bad overcome the prisoners. The prisoners were quickly removed to the open air. One of there recovered and managed to escape during a the excitement. At least three, will die. Startling Reallsm, which appears at Vicker's, Chicago, July 6, Is certainly the intensely, realistic of all, dramatic productons.
One scene, representing a storm in the night, surpasses anything of the kind ever attempted. The vivid lightning playing over the landscape, reflected in the pool of A water, casting into relief houses, the troes, and the distant bills, and "followed by thunder that seems too, genuine for mimicry, lend to the Incident of the mother's rescue of her child a thrilling realism that makes the scene one of the most striking, the most artistic, in 1 the production. Torn from His Grasp and Drowned. A waterspout deluged, the country north and'east of Canton, Farmington 300 yards of a the Central Iowa Ruilway: was washed out. Three little children were drowned.
The waters from an overflowed creek flooded the house, and the father'attempted to take the children to high land. He was knocked down by a floating lig and: the children torn from his grasp and drowned. Eighty-one and -five Wed. Near Munclo, William Barnhouse and Miss Mary E. Dille were participants in a novel, wedding.
Barnhouse is 81, and receives monthly contributions of $100 from Uncle Sam because of the loss of his eyesight in the war. Some time since the old man's wife, after filty years', service, abandoned hint Ile secured a divorce, and was married a few days afterward to Miss Dille, aged 25, whom he never saw. Discouraging Prospects In Kansas. Most discouraging reports are being received from all parts of Kansas regarding the crop. The continued wet weathor causing much damuge and a small worm is doing incalculable mischief.
The harvest is to such an extent: that much of the grain will rot in the It Is now estimated that 35,000,000 bushels will be a large yield under existing circ*mstances. WIll Entertain the Soldiers. A meeting of Detroit citizens. Don' M. Dickinson presiding, was largely attended and enthusiastic, and before it closed onehalf of the sum hoped for.
from the State to aid tho G. A. R. encampment was subscribed and the balance pledged. This assures fund fully equal to that at Boston one year ago, and Detroit will give, the old, soldiers a welcome second to none.
Loss by Flood and Storm: A cloud- above Neumanville, swelled the creek that runs through the town to a torrent. The store and residence of TAN. King and the Postoffice were carried away. No lives were lost. At St.
Louis lightning struck a tree in Forest Park. beneath which a picnic party sat. A child was killed and two ladies were badly injured. Fatal, Cases of Prostration In Pittsburg Pittsburg, Pa. at the signal office, 93 degrees was registered.
though down on the streets 96 degrees was recorded. Many cases of prostration by heat are though but two were fatal- -an infant and Slav serving woman. Several iron ntills were obliged to suspend operations, owing tot the inability of the men to continue work. Tied to a Post and. Shot.
Passengers on the S. F. W. Railroad near, Gainesville, saw the body of a man to a mile post. 3 The train was stopped, and on examination showel it: to be the body of a mulatto, lashed by rope around his neck and waist.
His body was literally riddled with buckshot Inquiries at the next station showed that nothing bad been, heard of it there. Cyclone Near Arkansas City, Kan. A heavy wind storm, accompanied by heavy, hall, passed over Arkansas City, doing considerable damage to shade trees, and exposed windows. Two miles southwest the storm assumed the character of a cyclone leveled to the ground the wheat in tho shack and growing corn. Furious torn at Fort Scott, Kas.
A phenomonal rain fell at Fort Scott, continuing one bour and ten minutes. The streets were flooded. and Buck run, a ravine which traverses the city from! south. to north, was transformed, into raging torrent. It is feared that several persons are drowned.
Work of the "Spotter." At Waterloo. Iowa, employes of the Illinois Central Railroad were astounded by the statement that twenty conductors ton tho Iowa division of that road are to be discharged immediately. Three passenger and one freight conductor were notified that their services were no nooded. Confesses to Murder and Army Dosertion. At Chillicotho, Charles F.
Smith, who placed in jail after being shot by an officer for the murder of his. little stepson, confossed to the killing and said that his name is Peter Muncia. and that he is a derserter from the United States army. It is said ho is wanted for murder in Iowa. Brules Don't Want to Move.
The Indians on the Lower Brule (South Dakota) reservation had a grand pow-wow at" the, agency upon' matters relating to their removal to their new. reservation. The Indians are much opposed removal, and the commission have difficulty in securing their consent to the change. Crazed by Exposure and Lack of Food. James Crooks, who ran away from the Crawfordsville Poor-farm recently, and was afterward found du, the wocds in a half-starvod has gono crazy.
While he is not dangerous it has been found necessary to confine him in a cell. He may. have to be sent to the insane asylum. stice. for Hippolyte: First.
Mate Bishop, of the steamship Alvo, from ports, states that on June 6 a vessel which had been at Port-au-Prince during the insurrection of June: 3 or 4 reached Navassa, and reported that President Hippolyte been shot and killed by one of the insurgents. Hanged for Killing a Constable. Bridgeport, Conn. Jacob hanged for the murder of Constable; Louts Duncker January, 1888, at New Duncker. went to arrest Scheele for selling.
liquor in defiance of the liconsen law which prevailed, shot him as he was forcing an entrance, luto the saloon. She's a Soldier's Bride. The marriage of General John: M. Schofield, Commander-in-chief of the army of the United" States," to. Miss: Georgia Kil.bourne, of Keokuk, lowa, was 'solemnized at St.
John's Episcopal Church, Keokuk, the officiating clergyman being R. C. McIllwaine, the rector of the church. Dastardly; Murder in Ohio. At Celina, Ohio, while Mary Price was going, along a country road she; attacked by two.
men, but her screams broug at her brother Elmore The men then turf upon him. fatally stabbing him Ark The men were subsequently capared and placed in Jail. Storms in the Northwest. A heavy ruin fell at St. Paul, and reports from all parts of Minnesota and North and South Dakota show that the storni was of wide extent and generally heavy.
Near Atwater, lightning struck' a new: school-house, killing Solomon Peterson und, slightly number of others. Another Plow; Horse Phenomenon Martin Murphy, of Henryville. sold to P. C. Donovan and O.
Shay a halt Interest in his colt, now. in training at New Albany, $4,000. The animal had been used as a plow horse, and on the first day. of training developod phenomenal speed, trotting a half mile in Deed or a Joa ous Man. Ancestor Vogt made a desperate effort to kill his wife at Ottawa, Minn.
Vogt got a hatchet and struck" his wife twelve times. The children ran for assistance: While were absent Vogt got a rope and hanged himself to A tree. Jealousy WiS the cause. The woman will recover. Wheat Prospects in Nobraska.
The Nebraska wheat crop for this year promises to be unusually large and of fino quality. In the southeastern countles, where the winter wheat is raised, there was some damage done by the heavy rains. The spring wheat acreage is large and the crop. promising. Suicide of a Minister.
The Rev. J. N. Montgomery, a prominent Baptist minister, committed suicide at Vincent, by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. The suicide is thought to have been caused by insanity, produced by excessive mental labor.
1 Kansas Wheat Crop. Secretary Mobler, of the Agricultural Bureau, said that the reports about a big wheat crop in Kansas had been greatly exaggerated. He says there will tureefourths of an average crop. Will Meet Murderer's Doom. At Leavenworth, Charles B.
Benson was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of- Mrs. Theresa Mettman. This will be the first legal hanging in the county in twenty: one years. Had His Nerve with Him. A highwayman a stage twentyfive miles from Ellensburg.
Wash. and compelled the only passeuger to rip open the mail-bags and hand him, the registered packages. Fort Madison Opera House Burned. The Fort Madison, Iowa, Opera House, was burned. The Are started under tho stage.
Surrounding business blocks were saved with difficulty. Loss, insurance. $3,300. "Fritz" Is J. K.
Emmet, one of America's most noted and favored, comedians, died of pneumonia at his home at Cornwall. His son was the only relative with him. His divorced wife did not know of his illness. Canadian Lumber Burned. pany, at Casselmao, together with six Tho mills of the Casselman Lumber Como, houses and a large amount of lumber, were destroyed by fire.
Loss, insurance, $70,000. Lightning's Fatal Work. At Clarion, a man named Taylor was lightning. A bank, a dwelling and a barn, were also struck, and the latter burned to the ground. a Limestone Quarry Strikers Yield.
Huntington, the lime quarry strikers have yielded. Forty-four signed papers agreeing to go to work, and others signify their intention of doing like wise. Small- Pox in Nebraska. Eleyen cases of. small- have made their appearance near Douglas, and two at Bennett.
Every precaution is being taken. Observed as a Holiday. The anniversary of the battle of. Bunker Hill was generally observed in setts. The peculiar feature was the parade in Charlestown.
His Cane Cost Him His Life. At New York, John, Eggers dropped his cane. Stooping. to pick it yup he was run over by a street car and hurt so badly that he died. Died by His Own Hand.
H. C. Mellerup, the lusurance agent of Keokuk, Iowa, wha tool: an overdose of laudanum at Muncie. died. to Young, Yet Weary of Life.
Bertha Sims, aged 16, attempted to commit suicide at Shelby ville, by taking a dose of morphine. She will recover. Kentucky Factory Fire. Cogar, Paas hemp-hackling establishment at Danville, burned. The loss is $50,000, and the insurance $34,000.
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12,005 DELUGED IN A MINUTE. AWFUL EFFECT OF A MIGHTY CLOUDBURST. 1 Utica; the Scene of Widespread Dee vastation-Towns In the Illinois Valley Suffer Greatly-Stock Killed, Bridges Demolished, and Children Drowned. The villazo of Utica, Ill; was, the scene of a cloud-burst that is almost without The darkness that attended the gathering storm was like that ofnight. The peoplo were terror -stricken and looked at one another in speechless suspense.
Suddenly the floodgatos of the heavens were opened and at one, awful burst torrent poured itself upon the village, and almost instantly the streets were buried under water that rose over lawns, porches, and then into the houses, drivi ing the peopio from their homes and their places of business to seek safety on the highest points available. The excitement and anguish of tho feeing panic-stricken villagers was terrible in. the extrome. Many of them be leved. their last hour had come.
Mothers hugged their, children to their breasts and prayed for deliverance. Others, not entirely paralyzed with' fear, devoted theriselves to. saving thoir property from ruin. Within a few moments of the cloud-: burst the water was six feet drop in the streets. When it began receding the great damage property" could be discerned.
Sidewalks, and bridges were washed away; dwellings and places of business were part ally ruined, and household goods: on tho lower toors were rendered worthless. The Hock Is'and's new double-track iron railroad bridge over the Peguin Soggin creek was washed away, and four cars on a siding at the new cement works were carried down the stream. The canal broke in" several places, which increased the volume of water, and lock No. 13, just west of Utica, was torn out. Large gangs of men were immediately at work removing the great beds of sand.
which washed upon the track from the Utica pits, while others were replacing the broken bridge. The loss is bard to approximate, but $150,000 is a conservative figure. 3 The only was in the Copperas Creek valley, just across the line in Fulton County. A family named Gray had a cabin in the val ey, and when the flood left the banks oft Copperas Creek and rushed down the va'ley the inmates grew alarmed. The father took his three boys and sta ted 'to the hills: while the mother refused to leave the house.
When half-way across the valley a foating log struck Gray and stunned him. The rushing water drowned the boys (aged 12, 8, and 5), and he narrowly escaped by clinging to log. His wife got on the roof of the house and was rescued. BOURNE. Colebration of Their Nuptials at the Home of the Gen.
John Schofeld, commanderin-chief of the United States army, has capitulated. His marriage to Miss Georgia Kilbourne, of Keokuk. Iowa, was solemnized at the bride's home, and scores of the gallant soldier's friends were present at the ceremony. The bride, Miss Georgia Kilbourne, is a beautiful young woman, about 26 years old, whose father is one a of the wea'thiest and known men in lova. Her GEN.
JOHN M. SCHOFIELD. grandfather was David Kilbourne, and contractor, who moved from New York to the State west of the Mississippi almost in its infancy. He projected many of its first railroads and public improvements, His son, George Kilbourne, married a daughter of Prof. Wells, who for many years conducted the military school for boys at Peekskili.
Miss Kilbourne.is well educated, is possessed of a comfortable fortune in her own right and will have more from her mother. She has traveled extengively and is an accomplished and wellpoised young woman who will be a liant accession to the social corps of the derstands perfectly the art of dressing becomingly. General: Schofield is 60 years of ago. 3 Love and Luore. THE Instances are very rare in which two strong wills can harmonize in close companionship.
A WOMAN possessing the e'ements of womanhood cannot be happy with a man who has not a sound character. A BRILLIANT match, in the eyes. of the world, atones for morals, genial tastes, and lukewarm hearts. IT is hard to examine character, and by the study; after the heart has become the seat of an absorbing passion. MISS: GEORGIA' K.
KILL army. She is especia'ly winsome in conversation, inheriting from both her uncommon gifts of wit. versa: tility and fluency. She has a petite fig-: ure, symmetrical "and graceful, and. un-3 WILL STEAL NO MORE.
WILLIAM LANGOSCH, A NOTORIOUS THIEF, SHOT. Terrifio Battle Botween the Desperado, His Victim, and the' eder Wonderful Nerve Exhibi ed by the Criminal, Who Tries tor Cheer H' Old Moth r. William Langosch, a Chicago was fatally shot: in saloon, 72 North nes'street. In company with Charles Hemm ny he called for drink. Schroeder and his son Fred werebehind the bar.
Near by Holliday, a manufacturer of saw-milli tools, 140 West Lake street, who was counting over $50. in bills. From the manner in which the two men called for and at the same time Mr. Holliday's money, the progrietor Before he could give Holliday warning Langosch and his companion stepped upto Holliday side, each taking him by the arm. Schroeder seized a billiard cue, shouting to Holliday to fight guard his money.
A that followed was a lively In it Langosch received the shot that will cost him his life. Schroeder attempted to fell. him to the floor with the 'cue, abut was grappled, "Langosch overpowering the saloon-keeper, knocking him down with his own: weapon" Meanwhile, Hemming and Holliday were fighting fiercely. Mrs. Schroeder hear.
ing the scuffle ran into the room, only to be knocked down. Just as the men were preparing to leave Fred Schroeder, who had gone ur-stairs for a revolver, rushed into the saloon. allis sudden appearance put a stop to proceedings. Seeing his mother and father both on the floor, young Schroeder did not hesitate to fire, immediately, leveling his gun to the ilcor instantly. directly at Langosch.
1. The latter sank The police arrested Hemming and Fred Schroeder. Langosch" was removed to his home, where upon exemination it was found the bullet had passed entirely through his stomach and lodged in his back. The attending physician said he could not Langosch is a well- character and served a term in Joliet. Mr.
and Mrs Schroeder were not seriously. injured, although their wounds were of a painful nature. is a notorious character, and has been feared by almost every one who knew him. flie was' released from the penitentiary only. five weeks, ago, but since then has been known to have taken no less than six rides in the patrol wagon.
On one occasion he' engaged in a fizht and was stabbed eleven times, the marks of which are still fresh on his body. But, criminal that he is, he showed a tendorness, after being shot which touched of the officers, who, all their lives, have been customed to scenes; of violence and hard character. Langosch DOSitively refused to be: taken to the hospital, and insisted on being carried to his home. Officer Byrnes asked him if ho had any oue to care for. him at home, and he replied that he had a "kind old mother." When the patrol came within 100 the house Langosch begged the officers to allow him to walk the remainder of the way.
He said his mother would faint, and the thought of that hurt him :1 ore than the fatal wound in his The officers granted his request and Langosch without assistance walked mother's house. With the utmost composure he seated himself in a summer-house and buttoned his clothes so that no blood was a "seen. The mother, who is 65 years old, alarm ed by the presence of the officers, came in When wringing boschandwher ho crossed his legs and, putting a cigar to his mouth, said: "Mother, give me a match." "Mrs. Langosch brought him a match, and the cigar was lit. He took: a few puffs and a quantity of blood filled his mouth? Even then he seemed to forget that he was mortally wounded, "and, thinking only of his, mother," asked an officer to step aside that "he might spit in the weeds, where his mother would not see the blood." A physician arrived and ordered him to be placed on a bed.
Langosch would not be carried, but 'arose and walked. confidently into another room," where he lay down. There his nerve did not. desert: him. He requested do of to be chloroformed while the bullet was probed for, saying that it must be done while his.
eycs were open, that his mother would think him badly hurt. And he even went so far as to ask for a razor that he might reach around to his back and cut the fatal bullet out himself. A CLOSE SEALING SEASON. An Agreement Reached by American and Bri'ish Authorities The agreement for a closed season in Bering Sea was signed by the represent. atives of the two Governments, William V.
Wharton, Acting Secretary United States, and Sir Julian Pauncefote for England, and the President once issued his proclamation ordering the: stoppage off seal killing, and warning off the poachers. By the provisions of the new' modus vivendi both governments prohibit the killing of seals (except. the 7,500 necessary for the support of the Indians) until the first of May. To this end both govern ments will cooperate to the extent their ability, and the naval vessels of both powers are authorized to scize the vessels found disobeying the agreement, with this important proviso, that vessels so seized shall be turned over to the authorities to which they belong for trial, the captors supplying the evidence. Thus at last the orders have come from the United States and from Great Brittain that the Canadian seal murderers must desist from their brutal work, at least until next May, by which time the two countries may have settled by arbitration, and our naval vessels will ceed at once to.
the sea to enforce the, proclamation, of the President. There room for congratulation round." Great Britain may congratulated for its decision to no longer support the murderous pretensions of the The administration may be: congratalated upon establishing a modus vivendi pending the arbitration. Told Ida Few Words. IT costs Americans about $1,000,000 year to stop their teeth. Or the twelve largest cities in the world three are in Japan IN Lapland dress fashions bave not changed, for a thousand years.
IT costs more to keep a poor horse than it does to keep a good one. NOTHING is so indicative of deepest. culture as a tender consideration of the LADIES Vat a patriotic ball. in Paris pledged themselves never to dance with German.
