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CANADIAN, -
TEXAS
There existed no distinction between
lay and eccelesiastical court* in Eng-
land until after the Noman conquest.
Carbon was shown to be a distinct
dement by Lavoisier in 1788, who
proved the diamond to be its purest
iorm, and inverted it into carbonic
acid gas by combustion.
The first great canal in Eng land was
the Bridgewater Canal, which was be-
gun by the Duke of Bridgewater in
1759, and completed two years later.
The length of the canal is about two a*
ty-one miles.
Assignats was the name given to a
forced paper currency ordered by the
National Assembly of France to sup-
port public credit during the revolu-
tion, in 1790. They were superseded
in lJTi)6 by mandats.
In the large cities the custom Is grow-
ing of selling fruit by auction. Tons
of oranges, lemons and grapes are sold
daily in New York city to the highest
bidder, and in a limited way the same
custom prevails in Boston. The Flori-
da orange shippers are the latest con-
verts to the auction idea.
The old Egyptian year was identical
with the era of Nebonassar, beginning
Feb. 26, 747 B. C., and consisting of
365 days. It was reformed 30 B. C., at
which period the coipmencement of the
year arrived, by continually receding to
Aug. 20, which was in future determin-
ed fcc be the first day of the year.
Quite an ingenious way of cooling a
journal that cannot be stopped is to
hang a short endless belt on the shaft
next to the box and let the lower part
of it run in cold water. The turning of
the shaft carries the belt slowly around
bringing fresh cold water continually
in contact with the heated shaft, and
without spSliyg or spattering a drop of
the water.
Farmers should lose no opportunity
of impressing upon the minds of their
representatives in congress, as well as
in state legislatures, that whatever was
done to sanction the manufacture of
oleomargarine was a direct warfare up-
on the thousands of persons engaged in
mixed farming, who must rely upon
the production of butter as an impor-
tant cash crop.
The assessment of taxes in England
Is said by some to date back to Ethel-
bert, in 991; others refer it to 1522,
during the reign of Henry VIII., while
some authorities claim that the system
originated with the land tax of William
III., 1689. Tribute was levied upon
the conquered by the conqueror from
the earliest ages, but the above are the
dates assigned to the origin of regular
tax assessment as we now understand
it.
Tiie total immigration of foreigners
into our states from and during the
year 1820 to and including the year
1887 amounts to 13,632,771. How such
a mass of foreign population can be as-
similated with our own people is one
of the wonders of the century. There
is danger that this free country become
an asylum for foreign criminals and
paupers, without the exercise of the
most rigid scrutiny on the part of our
government officials.
All New York is agitated over the
wretched condition of her state pris-
ons. Thero are over 2,500 convicts
who are kept locked in their cells be-
cause there is no work for them to do,
owing to the passage of a non-labor
art at a recent special session of the
legislature. The prisoners in New
York state do not have "to work for a
living," and the disastrous results at-
tending enforced idleness should be a
formidable warning to the legislators
of other states.
The treasury report shows an la-
crease of currency of $90,045,016 with-
in the past year. Most of this is in
small bills, which circulate rapidly
and give a greater stimulus to business
than bills of larger denominations.
Possibly this is one of the reasons why
even the presidential election did not
produce its usual injurious effect on
business. It is a grave question now
whether the country has not a larger
supply of currency than it can keep at
par, which is the limit of its needs.
To distinguish cotton from flax, dip
the mixture in a boiling solution of
caustic potassa, and let it remain for
two minutes. The flax will assume a
dark yellow cofor, while the cotton will
be a light yellow or nearly white. Wool
is distinguished from cotton flax and
hemp by dipping the sample in a boil-
ing solution of caustic soda (8deg. B.).
Let it remain for two hours at a steady
boil, and all the wool will be dissolved,
leaving the vegetable substance un-
changed. Silk is dissolved by cold
nitric acid, which does not affect wooL
A correspondent of the Northwest-
ern Railroader advances a curious the-
ory for the increasing prevalence of
floods and rainstorms. He says that
there are over 30,000 locomotives
in use in North America, and estimates
that from them alone over 53,000,000,-
000 cubic yards of vapor are sent into
the atmosphere every week, to be re-
turned in the form of rain, or over 7t-
000,000,000 cubic yards a day, •'quite
enough he says, "to produce a good
• rainfall every twenty-four hours." Es-
timating the number of other noncon-
densing engines in use as eight times
the number of locomotives, the total
thus projected into the ay* every
in this country amounts to more
470,000,000,000 cubic yards. "Is
he asks, "sufficient for the
vapor
TAMPERED WITH TEMPER
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A Wild Story is Told In Which the
People In C« Paso, Tex., are
S*mfewViat Stirred--An Edi-
tor With a Sensational
Idea the Cause\
* i—-~"
The Catholic Lover and the Jewish
Daughter Have a Hard Hitch,
Bather s Ghafttljr Jake,
El Paso, Tex,, Deo. 80.—A neWsptoe*
published In Chihuahua, Me*., temfer
38, which was received kei« -^stferday,
contains thrillfljg «aMinfe rM att alleged
popish uWriéitt# the City 'bf Mexico.
The sttotfy Was tfeiat the priest^, angered
at the alleged unfavorable attitude
and policy of the D&2 government,
headed an insurrection for the purpose of
overthrowing the government, and won
oyer to Ihfeir «de 18,000 government troops;
thai President Diaz led the loyal troops
against the insurgents and after a bloody
battle completely routed them; and that 287
priests were immediately shot and about as
many more had been condemned to fleath.
This narrative purported t© have been de-
ceived by the Chihuahua papers by wire
from the City ©f Mexico, but the terrible
tale turns out to be a hoax, perpetrated by
the Chihuahua papers upon its readers,
December 28 being All Innocents' Day, and
is celebrated in Mexico as April 1 has been
in the United States and elsewhere. It is
hinted that the perpetrators of the canard
will be called to account.
Renounced His Faith for Love.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 80.—Seven
years ago Hermann Aman of a good Roman
Catholic family ir, south Germany came to
this country and settled in Chicago where
he obtained a position as chief in a restau-
rant. He fell in love with Sarah Zefeld, a
beautiful young Jewess, and wanted to
marry her, but she refused, because he Was
not of her faith. For seven years he was
her suitor, but her firmness never wavered.
Finally her health began to fail and physi-
cians ordered her last month to come to San
Francisco. Aman followed her here and
he decided to renounce his faith to secure
her hand. The necessary rites were per-
formed early this month and the wedding
took place Wednesday night. The couple
propose to live here.
A Christmas Tree's Bad Work.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 30.—A fire to-night
partially destroyed the residence of
Michael McGuire on Fifth avenue and
caused the death of his 8-year-old daughter
Mary. The fire was caused by the ignition
of a Christmas tree. The little girl became
terrified when tne tree began to burn and
ran upstairs and hid herself. When discov-
ered she had >een suffocated by the smoke.
The loss will not exceed 15,000.
Choked by a Preacher*
Columbus, O., Dec. 28.—It become known
to-night that at a meeting of the officers of
the Christian church of this city last Wedns-
day evening, the troubles that had arrisen
because of the bad reports concerning
their new pastor, the Rev. Fred. Bell,
which came from all places where he
has preached before, culminated in
a personal encounter between the
pastor and Elder Flynn, who urged the dis-
missal of the pastor, and said he had letters
in his pocket proving him a fraud. The
Rev. Mr. Bell, wild with rage, leaped upon
the elder, and bearing him down Between
the pews choked him until he was black in
the face. They were separated and the
meeting adjourned in confusion.
Politics Cause a Deadly Riot.
Frsdricksiiurg, Va., Dec. 28.—AtTack-
ett's Mill, Stafford county, Christmas eve,
a few white men and several colored men at
a meeting contended that Stafford county
was pre-eminently republican. The remain-
ing whites championed the democratic party
and said that democracy was the creed of
Stafford county. This led to a row between
Bennett Heflin (white) and a colored man.
Both indulged in personalities and ended up
with a fight. A general riot was the result,
when Hefiing was shot and instantly killed.
His enemy was also shot, but lived for sev-
eral minutes. Twenty people are reported
as dangerously injured. Whites predomi-
nate in that portion of Stafford county and
for the most part are democrats.
He Took the Town.
Greely Center, Neb., Dec. 28.—Deputy
Sheriff Paxton to-day returned from Wold-
bach, having in custody the entire male
population of the town except one. The ar-
rests grew out of a sort of White-Cap regu-
lation affair, of which the victim Was F. M.
Cutter, a resident of the place.
Shortly after the death of his first wife
the servant girl at Cutter's house was found
to be in an interesting condition, and Cutter
was compelled to marry her. but immediate-
ly afterward began a studied system of
abuse to compel her to get a divorce. Yes-
terday he gave her a terrible beating and
shortly afterward assaulted a 13-year-old
girl.
For these combined offences Cutter's fel-
low citizens surrounded his house last night
with the intention of punishing him. He
got away on horseback but was pursued,
captured with a lasso, tied to a post and
very severely whipped. He was then ar-
rested for beating his wife, and in turn
swore out warrants for all the male popula-
tion of the town.
An Editor of Nerve.
Durango, Col., Dec. 27.—Information
reached here late last night óf a tragedy at
Rico, Christmas evening in which F. E.
Rust, editor of the Rico News, shot and in-
stantly killed Sicmor Olson.
It seems Olson insulted Rust's sister some-
time ago and Rust demanded that he apolo-
g'ze. Olson's reply was that he would whip
ust on sight. Christmas evening the men
met in the Brunswick saloon, when Olson
went behind the the bar, got two revolvers,
laid them on the counter and told Rust to
take one of them and go out with him and
they would settle the difficulty.
A quarrel ensued and Olson finally jumped
over the counter, pistol in hand. Rust was
too quick for him, however, drew nis own
pistol and shot him twice, killing him al-
most instantly.
Olson was in bad repute and public sym-
pathy is with Rust.
A Holocaust.
Plaquemine, La., Dec. 25.—The steamer
John H. Hannah, loaded with cotton from
Ouachita, burned here early this morning.
The boat and cargo are a total loss. The
number of people who perished is not posi-
tively known, but the loss of life will be at
least thirty and may be much beyond that
number. Captain J. S. Holmes was in com-
mand and was burned to death. First Clerk
Sam Powell was drowned. The old pilot,
Bob Smith, a passenger on the ill-fated ves-
sel. was burned to death.
Several persons perished in the flames
and a number jumped overboard and were
drowned. Captain Holmes' body was ter-
ribly burned. Bob Smith was the pilot of
the J. M. White at the time she was burn-
ed.
One of the deck hands who escaped says
there were about a 100 persons on board and
that only about a'dozen can now be found
alive; but this was not confirmed by the
officers who made their escape.
It was just before Christmas day was be-
ing ushered in that the steamer was com-
ing down the river. Several of the passen-
gers were seated in the cabin having a mer-
ry time and with no thought of the impend-
ing catastrophe and many of the crew and
passengers were asleep when the fire broke
out ana spread with indescribable rapidity,
and the details of the sufferings and death
of some of the passengers are harrowing in
the extreme.
The boat had reached a point which was
but a short distance above the town when a
negro roustabout near the boiler room ran
out to the deck and shouted that the boat
was on fire. John Cullen, a stoker, was near
the place at the time and seeing the flames
bursting foith from the big tiers of cotton
near the boiler ran hastily to the engine
room and gave the alarm. Engineer Merri-
man toos in the situation at a glance and at
► not,1'
once sounded the alarm on the steam whistle
and ringing the bells.
In an instant—certainly in a much shorter
time than it takes to explain it—the flames
shot through the cabin and over the sides of
the cotton, enveloping the entire boat in fire.
Among those that wore lest are: Captain
J. S. Holmes, master of the boat; "Samuel
Powell, chief clerk; Bob Smith, pilot, from
- O'Neill, night watefc-
Joe^C^ane, cabin watchman; Monroe
®t pro cook; Jack Duff, second cqok*
Harvey, cabin bpy ;.,J£m -Watson. second
:er; John Crafton, carpenter; John Bar-
Anlnvcwl • *Din ni _ — A Y~ A. -
Steploe^o^n: Monroe Diggs,
m Percella Wright, colored.
There were forty-four roustabouts on the
Hannah, of whom thirty-three are known to
have been saved, leaving eleven unaccounted
for.
Among those who were badly burned are:
Dan CarrolL steward; Jim O'Neill, fleck
hand; John Gibbons, sailor i Louis Welsh
roustabout-. '
Tfte Texas aftd Pacific train passed Pl'áqué-
iftifte thft inorning, and most of the crew,
With thé Jexception of. the deck hands, board-
ed her.. Tlje conductor of the train refused
to bring any of the survivors to the city un-
less full fares were paid, and the rousters
having lost all their money and effects were
compelled to remain in Plaquemine, where
they will be looked after. Mr. Harpinat of
the underwriters', who was aboard at the
time, paid out of his pocket 140 in money for
the passage of those who came down.
An Awful Butchery.
Philadelphia, Pa.* Dee. 26.—A party of
beys whilS playing in east Fairmount park
to-day found two bundles in the small lake
there. In a spirit of curiosity one of the
boys cut a string of one of the bundles and
was horrified when a human head roiled
out. The police authorities were at once
notihed and further investigation developed
the fact that the bundle first opened also
contained the dismembered trunk of a hu-
man body. The other bundle on being open-
ed disclosed the nude legs belongihg to the
trunk found in the other package.
The condition of the remains indicated
that a murder had been done within twenty-
four hours of the finding of the remains.
The legs had been cut off close to the trunk,
the left one having been cut with a sharp
knife and the bene sawed through. The
other leg was likewise cut, and after the
bone had been partly sawed it was broken
off. On the trunk were three shirts, the
under one of dark flannel. A leather strap
was around the waist. The arms were not
severed from the body, but were tied in
front at the wrists with a stout cord. The
head was crushed in horribly at the back
and there were three terrible knife wounds
on the side of the face. The left jaw was
also broken. The body was evidently that
of a German, probably about 35 years of
ear the place where the bundles were
placed was found a portion of a newspaper
dated December 5, the appearance of which
indicated that it had been used for the pur-
pose of wiping up blood. On the margin
was written in English^the writing being
evidently that of a German—the words:
"Kohler Helah, Hoboken Hotel," and right
under this "Mrs." repeated several times.
A portion of another newspaper stained
with blood Was also found.
There are wagon tracks all around the
spot, and one of them appeared to have
been made by a wheelbarrow, and those in-
vestigating the case are hopeful that this
may prove a clue to aid them.
Last night a gardener living on the bor
der of the park near where the remains
were found was awakened by the furious
barking of his dogs. He seized his revolver
and ran out doors and saw an object mov-
ing from the direction of the park and hailed
it. Receiving no reply he attempted to fire
his revolver, but the weapon would not go
off. He went to the Reservoir hotel,
situated at the Columbia avenue entrance
to the park, and told the proprietor John
Ernst, who also went out into the darkness
and saw a man walking from the direction
of the reservoir. He called to the man to
halt but his command received no attention
and the mysterious visitor disappeared in
the darkness.
The spot where the ghastly remains were
found is a very lonely one, and at this sea-
son of the year is seldom visited by any
one, and the police therefore think the party
or parties seen by Ernest and the gardner
are connected with the crime which led to
the placing of the cut up portions of the
body in the park.
Crushed by Earth.
Denver, Col., Dec. 26.—On Fifteenth
street between Tremont and Court place,
the Denver gas company had 100 men em-
ployed in excavating a ditch six feet deep
along the side of and underneath the track
of the cable car line, when suddenly the
track for an entire biock fell, crushing the
life out of and imprisoning those under- j
neath. Men were immediately set to work
removing the fallen track and five dead
and two badly wounded were soon taken
out. The other men escaped with more or
less bruises.
The dead are: William Katey, William
Wilson, married, large family: Joseph
Trainors, married; Mike Dillon, single; an
unKnown man about 40 years old. James
McCuen was baaly crushed and can not re-
cover. The excavation was being made for
the purpose of removing a gas pipe from
underneath the track and the accident is be-
lieved to be due to carelessness upon the
part of the gas company in neglecting to
place proper supports under the track where
the men were at work.
From Solid to Ashes.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 36.-2 a. m.— A con-
flagration is raging in Marblehead, the
larger part of the town being on fire. Help
has been sent from Salem, Lynn and other
places, but the firemen seem unable to check
the flames. Salem reports all the telephone
wires to Marblehead down, and nothing to
be obtained from there. The Western Un-
ion office at Marblehead was burned out,
out the operator finally succeeded in open-
ing communication by establishing a tem-
porary office in a field some distance outside
the village.
The entire business portion of the town is
in ruins and the following firms were burn-
ed out: Cropley & Bros., E. S. Woodbury,
Johnson Horner, J. C. Peach, W. M. Stevens,
jr., & Son, Edward Hathaway and Joseph
Le Favour; also the Boston and Maine de-
pot and several other buildings. It is the
largest fire that ever visited the place and
the people are panic stricken. Tne news was
sent with great difficulty over a hastily im-
provised wire and communication is liable
to be interrupted at any moment.
The fire started about 10 p. m. in the base-
ment of D. P. Powers' furniture store, on
Pleasant street, and is said to have been
caused by the explosion of a can of benzine.
At midnight it was estimated that seven
acres had been burned over and that the en-
tire loss would be over $500,000. The burn-
ed buildings are the Powers block, the
Rechabite block, Goldthwat's three-story
building, Monroe's large shoe factory, a
three-story block occupied by dry goods
stores and the Boston branch grocery on
the first, the Masonic hall on the second and
a skating rink on the third, the four-story
Allerton olock, the American express build-
ing, Simon's store, the dwellings of Daniel
Broden, George Church and Thomas Falls,
Metcalfe's box factory and other buildings.
Nearly the same territory was burned
over about twelve years ago, the first start-
ing in nearly the same place. Many of to-
night's victims were also sufferers by the
former fire. The shoe business, which had
been quiet for several months, was just
starting up and many operatives will now
oe thrown out of work the entire winter.
The fire is still burning. It is impossible
to get definite losses owing to the great ex-
citement prevailing among all classes.
The Great Kansas.
Chicago, III., Dec. 23.—The Railway Age
to-morrow will say: Notwithstanding the
widespread impression that the additions
to the railway system of the United States
during 1888 would be comparatively insigni-
ficant, the evidence is now before us
that the railway mileage of the coun-
try was increased during the year
by no less than 7,120 miles of main
track. While this is much less than the
phenomenal increase in the years 1887,
1886, 1882 and 1881, when the new mile-
age was respectively 13,000, 9,000, 11,500
and 9,976 i_iles. the record for the past
year exceeds that of every other year in
history, with the exception of 1871, when
7,379 miles were added. New track was
laid in all but two of the forty-seven states
and territories, the exceptions being Rhode
Island and Nevada Kansas still leads the
list in the extent of new mileage and she
has done so for several years. California
comes next. Only about twenty lines built
more than 100 miles each; those doing the
largest amount of work being the Chicago,
Kansas and Nebraska, 412 miles; St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manito a, 427 miles: and
Southern Pacific, through various subsidiary
companies, a little over 300 miles. This is
important as showing how the nature of the
work of railway construction has changed in
asingle year. The building of great compe-
titive lines practically ceased fcr the present
and the year's work was chiefly devoted to
the construction of short independent lines
A LOT OF TROUBLE.
Seven Men are Terribly Burned
in a Mine—Their Feet are
Scorched to a Crisp—They
Suffer the Agonies of a
Living Death.
Hydrophobia Does the Aot in St. Louis—
A Tramp is Pound ill the Worst of
Want.
Á Sparlc Causes an Explosion.
Ev erson, Pa., Dec. 30.—About 8 o'clock
this evening in Brown row, belonging tc
the H. C. Frick coke company, two kegs oí
blasting powder in a house occupied by
Poles, who were preparing the powder for
their work in the mines to-morrow, ex-
ploded from a spark from a pipe and seven
of the men were frightfully burned. Fuloak
is the most seriously injured, the flesh being
almost totally burned off his legs, arms ana
back. It is supposed he was standing be-
tween the kegs when the explosion occurred.
Joseph Chrenchick's feet were almost blown
off and amputation will probably be neces-
sary. The others were burned principally
about the hands and arms and their injuries
are not serious. Four houses were burned.
Hydrophobia Claims Its Victim.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 30.—Police Officer
Henry Fehle of this city died a horrible
death from hydrophobia Friday night.
Last September while walking his beat he
Was bitten on the right leg by a dog but
thought nothing of the wound. Wednesday
the leg began to swell and Thursday he was
taken down with violent symptoms of hy-
drophobia. He passed from one convulsion
into another and finally died in great agony
Friday night. Dr. Bernays, who attended
him, says the case was genuine hydropho-
bia.
A Dakota Town Fire Swept.
Battixeau, Dak.. Dec. 30.—Fire was dis-
covered in McArthur Bros.' drug store in
the business center of the town early to day
and was soon beyond control, there being no
apparatus other than buckets with which to
fight the flames. Those who were able
rescued a portion of their effects but many
Df the business men were forced to stand by
and see their posessions consumed. Fully
Lwo-thirds of the town was destroyed before
the flames burned themselves out. The
total loss will approximate 875,000. Many
families are homeless and without the means
io rebuild.
A Tramp's Terrible Experience.
Altooxa, Pa., Dcc. 30.—A tramp named
Hughes was found in a box car on the
Pennsylvania railroad to-day dying from
hunger. Last Wednesday he secreted him-
self in the car at Newark, N. J., intending
to steal his way west. Before leaving
Newark the car was locked and was not
jpened until to day. The poor fellow had
iad nothing to eat or drink for five days
and when fou nJ he was speechless. His
•ecovery is doubtful.
Engineers in Secret Conference.
Hammond, Ind., Dec. 30.—A delegation of
line locomotive engineers, presumably the
jommittee of nine appointed at the Richmond
convention, headed by A. R. Cavener, chair-
man, arrived here from Chicago on the
Chicago and Atlantic train this afternoon
and went immediately to the Morton house
where they held a secret meeting, remain-
ng in session until a late hour. It is sup-
posed the meeting was in relation to the O
Jtrike.
The Can Contained Nitro Glycerine.
Toledo, O., Dec. 30.—Jacob Kohler, a
German in the employ of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie railway, found a can of nitro
glycerine on a stump near this city to-day,
and attempted to open it with a pick. He
was blown high into the air and instantly
killed, his clothing being blown off and
every limb mangled. He left a wife and
four children.
Seven Colored People Browned.
Ripley, O., Dec. 30.—This morning a
short distance from here Mrs. Turner and
aer little daughter, a daughter of George
¡üloyd, three Brooks brothers and a man
ivhose name is not known, all colored, at-
tempted to cross the river from
Kentucky to Ohio in a small
Doat. At some distance from
the shore waves from two passing steam-
boats capsized their little craft and all
seven occupants were drowned. Their
:ries for help were heard by persons on the
steamboats, but darkness prevented the
rendering of assistance. All who perished
lived in Kentucky. None of the bodies have
}*et been recovered.
Personals From Washington.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 30.—Hon. W. J.
Buehan of Wyandotte, Kan., is at the Na-
tional and W. H. Wing of St. Joseph, Mo.,
,s at the St. James.
W. J. Blethen, formerly of Kansas City,
aaving failed to obtain control of the Washi-
ngton Post, will in connection with Charles
Emory Smith of Philadelphia, start a new
evening paper in this city and the two are
flow here perfecting arrangements.
Montana's Chief Justice Resigns.
Helena, Mont., Dec. 30.—N. J. McCon-
aell, chief justice of this territory, has for-
warded his resignation to President Cleve-
land, finding the duties of the office too
ourdensome He was appointed from Ten-
nessee about two years ogo. He will prob-
ably form a law partnership here and con-
tinue to reside in Helena. His resignation
is to take effect as soon as his successor can
be appointed and qualified.
Washington Territory Eager.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 30.—Delegates
from all the counties in Washington terri-
tory will meet Thursday to frame a consti-
tution and to memoralize congress for an
sarly admission into the union. The senti-
ment of the people is unanimously in favor
Df admission.
♦
Both Men Shoot to Kill.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 28.—Some time
ago the wife of William West, a prominent
farmer living near Marked Tree, separ-
ated from him, returning to her mother,
Mrs. Mary Dairy, and began proceedings
for a divorce. Yesterday West called
at Mrs. Dairy's house and asked to see
his baby, and when his mother-in-law
brought the child to him he began to
abuse her, saying she had separated him
and his wife. Stepban Dairy, a son of the
lady, came out of the house and ordered
West off the premises. This enraged West
still further, and drawing a revolver he fired
twice, shooting his mother-in-law in the
irm and Stephen Dairy in the head.
Dairy staggered into the house and
reappeared with a Winchester rifle and
leveled it at West, who was standing with
his revolver covering him. Each fired
twice almost simultaneous at each
>ther. West was shot each time
near the heart, and died in the
pard. Dairy was shot in the forehead
and through the right eye, and died some
hours later. Mrs. Dairy, is not fatally
hurt.
This was the first shedding of blood in
that section since the war.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
A Woman's Clever Work.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Dec. 26.—In the
trial of Toni Bieron, grocer and liquor
dealer, charged with attempting to fire the
Prospect house last Wednesdaay night, the
complaining witness, D. L. Lanigan, pro-
prietor of the hotel, testified to finding naph-
tha saturated papers, paper sacks, etc., in
different parts of the hotel. The sacks bore
Bieron's name and foot prints led from the
papers to the back door of Bieron's grocery.
James Hanahan gave similar evidence.
A sensation was created when Mrs. Alice
i^flin, owner of the hotel and a boarder
there, said she went to Bieron's store last
Friday evening and told him she saw the
whole performance; that her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Moran, aliso saw him; and that if
he would provide money enough to get
Mrs. Moran out of the way nothing would
be said about it. Mrs. Moran entered the
store at this moment and Bieron half con-
fessed. He said that he had no money, but
finally made out a three month's note on
condition that Mrs. Laflin should advance
the money to Mrs. Moran. This note was
produced in evidence and Mrs. Moran cor-
roborated the story.
Bieron is a Frenchman about 35 years of
age; is a member of the Liedertafel and was
The president has ordered the removal of
Edward Cushing, collector of customs at
Belfast, Me., because of charges that he had
accepted money from applicants for posi-
tions.
The exports of specie from New York
recently amounted to 1891,349, of which
$632,000 was silver and $59,349 gold. The
silver went to Europe and the gold to South
America.
Theémperor of Germany is expected at
his New Year's day reception to give utter-
ance tó some few words indicating a future
policy of peace with all the world.
A causeless run was made on the German-
American savings bánk ttt Burlington, la.,
recently, but it lasted only a short time and
had no bad effect.
C. W. Ely, the young man arrested at St
Louis for robbing a clerk on Olive street,
has a brother, a prominent physician of
Chicago, but the latter disowned him after
trying in vain to reform him.
A large new crayon portrait of Speaker
Carlisle has been hung in the house of rep-
resentatives chamber in place of the smaller
one which has been there for years.
A new statue of General Lewis Cass,
presented to the nation by the «^tate of
Michigan, was brought to the capitol in
Washington.
The coke workers in the region about
Connellsville, Pa., have decided to demand
an advance of 6)£ per cent at once.
A slender, pale-faced youth was almost
frozen to death near Kansas City, Mo.,
while guarding some goods for a party of
movers.
The Kansas City, Mo., police force are in
a muddle over the defalcation of one Capt.
Ditsch, who recently committed suicide, he
being their treasurer.
A crowd of boys became involved in a
fracas near Philadelphia, in which a boy of
the dusky persuasion, does some shooting.
In a struggle over a deck of cards at Oma-
ha, Neb., recently, the bartender is con-
fronted by a revolver, but it quells him
not.
The anarchists of Chicago are still giving
vent to their dastardly spleen. Several of
them were again arrested, recently.
S. H. Church, a prominent railroad official,
located at Columbus, O., becomes tangled in
the network of matrimony.
The fragments of the body, recently found
near Philadelphia, have caused no end of a
sensation.
Michael Kelley, the noted Chicago brewer,
is dead, aged 59.
Fine cod fishing grounds have been dis-
covered off Queen Charlotte's islands, Brit-
ish America.
j Two men were overcome by foul gas in a
i well at Saline, Mich., and died before they
could be rescued.
Gen. Louis Melikoff, the famous Russian
officer, is dead. He was 64 years old.
The total value of exports from the Unit-
ed States during the twelve months ending
November 30, was $679,235,147. The value
of imports for the same time was $716,844,-
470.
M. Bex, the bourse speculator who failed
recently and fled from Paris, died at Martig-
ny, Switzerland.
Snow has fallen in Iowa to a depth of from
eight to twelve inches.
The Abbey flour mills at Waltham, Eng-
land, were wiped out by fire, causing a loss
of $450,000.
The president has pardoned Bishop A. A.
Kimball of Utah, convicted of adultery, on
the ground of serious ill health.
Sig. Mancini, formerly Italian minister of
foreign affairs, is dead. He was 73 years of
age.
Wool manufacturers will hold a meeting
In Washington, January 10, to discuss the
senate tariff schedule.
Cora Belle Fellows, who married the In-
dian Chaska, is a mother.
William Westenberger, of Logan, Ohio,
died the other day of hydrophobia after al-
most untold suffering for twenty-four hours,
having spasms almost continuously during
that time.
Hon. James T. Moffet, congressman from
the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district,
has been admitted to the asylum at North
Warren as a private patient. The difficulty
seems to be excessive nervousness, which
was brought on by the arduous labors of the
recent campaign.
The Commercial of Chattanooga. Tenn., a
republican campaign paper, has suspended
and will never be issued again. Lack of
support was the cause.
No assignments of places In the coming in-
augural parade will be made until a week
before March 4. One hundred Colorado
cowboys are expected to Darticipate.
Michael O'Mara, aged 23, tripped and fell
while hunting near Flemingsburg, Ky., and
his gun was discharged, killing his 11-year-
old brother Robert.
Michael Keating, a messenger in the war
department, fell down a starway area in
that building in Washington and was in-
stantly killed. He was intoxicated.
Kansas City was converted into a verita-
ble ice palace Christmas night. Myriads of
telephone and telegraph wires were broken
down, and the shade trees glistened like
huge clusters of diamonds under the rays of
the electric and gas lights.
The emperor of Germany was presented
with a cluster of laurels by 4,000 working-
men.
A boat capsizes near San Francisco, Cal.,
drowning six pleasure-seekers.
Cincinnati suffers a great loss by fire.
Acres of property are consumed—factories
and dwellings.
Bismarck is reported as being very ill.
Christmas whisky stirs up the bile and
macaroni of a Kansas City Italian to such
an extent that he shoots a native born.
■ Several passengers have been held up re-
: cently near the union depot at Kansas City,
i Mo.
j It is expected that Russia will soon claim
the pioneer settlement of New Moscow in
East Africa. The setttement is contiguous
to the English, Italian and German posses-
sions in that region.
The collection of internal revenue during
the first five months of the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1889, amount to $53,091,736, be-
ing an increase of $1,231,186 over the collec-
tions during the corresponding period of
last year. The receipts for November last
were $107,411 greater than those for Novem-
ber, 1887. #
| Charles Schatter, of Horton, Kan., a 17-
year-old boy, was run over by a car pushed
by the switch engine Christmas night
and instantly killed. He was pician? up
coal along the track when tne car caught
him. His face and upper part (of his bead
was cut off and his brains strewed along the
track. His younger brother was with him
at the time of the accident.
Emperor Williams of Germany has con-
sented to stand as godfather to the ninth
son of a poor workman of Marienburg.
M. Martin, a French Siberian explorer,
will soon start on an expedition to central
China and the unexplored regions of eastern
Thibet-
Sir William Frederick Pollock, formerly
queen's remembrancer, is dead.
The gunners in the Constantinople arse-
nal have revolted because their wages have
not been paid. The leaders were arrested.
No blood was shed.
The Murry shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
operated by the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
company, has suspended work, throwing
500 men and boys out of employment It is
proposed to sink the shaft at a much
greater depth for the purpose of reaching a
rich vein.
Gamblers terrorize a villa near Brook-
field, Mo., by exchanging several shots over
a card table.
Sam Jones enchanted his audience at Chi-
cago cm the subject of "Get There.''
A traveling man for a St. Saul firm Loses
his «11 in a social little game at Milwaukee.
TOLD WITH A VIE
The Rev. Taimare Entráhoés Htsr
Congregation by His Vivid Did
course--His Sacred and Ex-
planatory Sayings Fully
Appreciated.
"Barnlike Birthplaces" the Brooklynites
Subject—fie Places It Before His
Audience is a Grand Manner.
Special to Tbe Kansas City Time!
Brookltx, Dec. 30.—In addition tti 6oi±
grelational singing at the Tabernacle to-
day, Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox sang two ap-
propriate solos. The Rev. T. DeWitt Tal-
fnagé; D. D., preached, taking for his sub-
ject: "Barnlike Birthplaces." His text
was: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger'. Aftd
suddenly there was with the angel a mülti-
tude of the heavenly host."—Luke II, 12,
13.
At midnight from one of the galleries of
the sky a chant broke. To an ordinary ob-
server there Was no reason for such a celes-
tial demonstration. A poOr man and wife-
travelers, Joseph and Mary by name—had
lodged in an outhouse of an unimptirtfcnt
village. The supreme hour of solemnity'
had passed,and upon the pallid forehead and
cheek of Mary God had set the dignity, the
granduer, the tenderness, the everlasting
and divine significance of motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem, yet never before had a star been
unfixed, or had a baton of light marshaled
over the hills winded orchestra. If there
had been such brilliant and mighty recogni-
tion of an advent in the house of Phafoh, or
at an advent in the house of Caesar, or the
house of Papsburgs, or the house of Stuart,
we would not so much have wondered; but
a barn seems too poor a centre for such deli-
cate and archangelic circumference. The
stage seems too small for so great an act,
the music too grand for such unttppreciative
auditors, the window of the stable too rude
to be serenaded by other worlds.
No, sir. No. madam. It is my joy this
morning to tell you what was born that night
in the village barn; and as I want to make
my discourse accumulative and climateric,
I begin, in the first place, by telling you that
that night in the Bethlehem
born (1.) encouragement
started. He
manger was
for all the poofly
had only two friends—they
His parents. No satin-lined cradle, no deli-
cate attentions, but straw, and the cattle,
and the coarse joke and banter of the camel
drivers. No wonder the medieval painters
represent the oxen as kneeling before the
infant Jesus, for there were no men there at
that time to worship. From the depths OÍ
what poverty He rose until to-day he is hon-
ored in all Christendom, and sits on the im-
perial throne in heaven.
What name is mightiest to-day in Christ-
endom? Jesus. Who has Iflore friends on
earth than any other being ? Jesüs. Before
whom do the most thousands kneel in chape!
and church and cathedral at this hour?
Jesus. For whom could one hundred mil-
lion souls be marshaled, ready to fight or
die? Jesus. From what depths of poverty
to what height of renown! And so let all
those who are poorly started remember that
they cannot be more poorly born, or more
disadvantageously, than this Christ. Let
them look up to His example while they
have time and eternity to imitate it.
Do you know that the vast majority of the
world's deliverers liad bamllke birthplaces ?
Luther, the emancipator of religion, born
among the mines. bhakes]>eare, the etnan*
cipator of literature, born in a hum-
ble home at Stratford-on-Avon. Col-
umbus, the discoverer of a world, born in
poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer
of how to make art accumulative and
administrative of virtue, born in a hum-
ble home at Westmoreland. Kitto and
Prideaux, whose keys unlocked new apart-
ments in the Holy Scriptures which has
never been entered, born in want. Yea. I
have to tell you that nine out of ten of tne
world's deliveries, nine out of ten of the
world's messiahs—the messiahs of science,
the messiahs of law, the messiahs of medi-
cine, the messiahs of poverty, the messiahs
os grand benevolence—were lxjrn in want.
I suppose that when Herschel, the great
astronomer, was born in the home of a poor
musician, not only one star, but all the
stars he afterward discovered, pointed down
to his manger. I suppose when Haydn, the
German composer, was born in the humble
home of a poor wheelwright, that all the
angels of music chanted over the manger.
Oh, what encouragement for those who are
poorly started! Ye who think yourselve far
down, aspire to go high up!
I stir your holy ambition to-day, and I
want to tell you, and inside and outside of
your occupations or professions there may
be those who would hinder your ascent, on
your side and enlisted in your behalf are the
sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of
One who one Christmas night, about
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight years
ago, was wrapped in swadling clothes and
laid in a manger. Oh, what magnificent
encouragement for the poorly started!
II. Again, I have to tell you that in that
village barn that night was born good will
to men, whether you call it kindness, or
forbearance, or forgiveness, or geniality, or
affection, or love. It was no sport of high
heaven to send its favorite to that humilia-
tion. It was sacaifice for a rebellious
world. After the calamnity in Paradise,
not only did the ox begin to gore, and the
adder to sting, and the elephant to smite
With his tusk, and the lion to put to bad
use tooth and paw, but under the very tree
from which the forbidden fruit was pluck-
ed were hatched out war and revenge and
malice and envy and jealousy, and the whole
brood of cockatrices.
But against that scene I set the Bethle-
hem manger, which says:
than curse, endure rather
and that Christmas night puts out vindic-
tiveness. It says: "Sheathe your sword,
dismount your guns, dismount your bat-
teries, turn the war-ship Constellation, that
carried shot and shell, into a grain ship to
take food to famishing Ireland, hook your
"Bless rather
than assault,"
cavalry horses to the plow, use your deadly
ipowder in blasting rocks and in patriotic
celebration, stop your lawsuits, quit writing
"I can't exercise it; I
until they apologize; I
news of repentant souls.
Worlds Angels under the
arofcfld the world.
Rüb the dust of human imperfection out of
oúr eyes, and look iflto the heavens and see
aflgelar Of pity, angels of toercy, angels of
paraoüv angles of help, angels crowned,
The world defended by
ingels, coborted by angels
angels. Here David cry out:
"The chariots of God ar«? twewty thousand-
Even thousands of angels." Hut the mighti-
est angel stood not that night in the clouds
over Bethlehem; the mightiest an^el thst
night lay among the cattle—the angel of the
new covenant
As the clean white linen sent in by som&
motherly villager was being wrapped around
the little form of that little Child Emperor,
not a cherub, not a seraph, not an angei, not
a world but wept and thrilled and shouted
Oh! yes, our world has plenty of sympa-
thizers. Our world is only a silver rung of
a great ladder, at the top of which is our
Father's house, more stellar solitariness
for our world not a friendless planet spun
out into space to freeze, but a world in the
bosom of devine maternity. A star harness
I remark that that night bora
anonymous letters, extract the sting from
your sarcasm, let your wit coruscate but
never burn, drop all the harsh words
out of your vocabulary—'Good will to
men.' "
"Oh!" you say,
won't exercise it
won't forgive them until they ask me to for-
give them." You are no Christian then—I
say you are no Christian, or are you a very
inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not
men their trespasses, how can you exoect
your Heavenly Father to forgive you? For-
give them if they ask for forgiveness, and
forgive them anyhow. Shake hands all
around. "Good will to men."
Oh, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into
our hearts this Christmas hour. I tell you
what the world wants more than anything
else—more helping hanas, more Sympathet-
ic hearts, more kind words that never die,
more disposition to give other people a ride,
and to carry the heavy end of the load and
give other people the light end, and to as-
cribe good motives instead of bad, and to
find our happiness in making others happy.
Out of the Bethlehem crib let the bear
and the lion eat straw like an ox. "Good
will to men." That principle will yet settle
all controversies, and under it the world
will keep on improving until there will be
only two antagonists in all the earth, and
they will side by side take the jubilant
sleigh-ride intimated by the prophet when
he said, "Holiness shall be on the bells of
the horses."
III. Again, I remark that born that
Christmas night in the village barn was
sympathetic union with other worlds. The
only skepticism I have ever had about
Christianity was an astronomical skepticism
which said: "Why would God out of the
heavens amid the Jupiters and Saturas of
the universe have chosen our little bit of a
world for the achievements of His only be-
gotten Son when he might have had a vaster
scale and vaster worlds!" But my skeptic-
ism is all gone as I come to the manger and
watch its surroundings. Now I see all the
worlds are sisters, ana that when one weeps
they all weep, and when one sings they all
sing. v
From that supernatural grouping in the
cloud-banks over Bethlehem, and from the
especial trains thai run down to the scene.
I find that our world is beautifully ana
gloriously and magnificently surrounded.
The meteors are with us, for one of them
ran to point down to the birth-place. The
heavens are with us, because at the thought
of our redemption they roll hosannas out of
the mid-night sky.
Oh! yes; I do not know but our world
may be better surrounded than we have
sometimes imagined; and when a child is
born angles fetch it, and when it dies angels
take it. and when an old man brads
under the weight of years angles up-
hold him, «id when a heart breaks angels
soothe it. Angels in the hospital to*
take care of the sick. Angels in
the cemetery to watch our dead.
sed,to A manger.
, fy.- Again,"
in that village born was the offender's hope.
Some Sertn'ohizers may say I ought to have
projected this thought at the beginning of
the sermon. OÉ ! no. I wanted you to riso
toward it. I wanted you to examine the
Cornelians and the jasper sand the emeralds
and the chrysalis before J showed you the
Kohinoor— the crown jewel pf the ages.
Ob! that jewel had a very poor setting.
Thé cfcb b$ bear Is born amid the grand old
Sillars of tnQ" forest., the whelp of the
on takes it first step from the
jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild-flower,
the kid of goat is born ítí cavern chandelier
ed with stalactite and pillared with stalag-
mite. Christ was born in a bare barn. Yet
that nativity was the offender's hojie. Over
the door of neaven are written these words:
"None but the sinless may enter 1 are."
"Oh, horror.*' you «ay, "that shuts us alt
out." No. Christ came to the world in one
door. Ho came through the door of the
manger, and He departed through the door
of tne sepulchre, afld His one business was
so to wash away our «in that one second
after vG are dead there \rill be no more sin
about us than about the eternal God.
1 know that is putting itstroii|dy. but that
is what 1 understood by full remission. All
erased, all washed away, all scoured out. all
gone. That undmriiding and overarching
and irradiating and iinparadising possibility
for you, and for me, and for the whole roo©
was' given on that Christmas night.
Do you wonder we bring flowers to-day to
celebrate such an event? Do you wonder
that we take organ and cornet and youthful
voice and queenly soloist to celebrate it?
Do you wonder that Raphael and Ruben
and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandajo, and
all the old Italian and German painters gave
the mightiest stroke of the pencil to sketch
the Madonna, Mary and her boy Í
Oh! now I see what the managerwas. Not
so high the gilded and jeweled and
embroidered cradle of the Henrys of Eng-
land, or the Louises of France, or the
Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find out of
that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the
Oxen of the stall as the white horses of
Apocalyptic vision. Now I find the swad-
dling clothes enlarging and and em-
blazoning into an imj>erial robe for
a conqueror. Now j find that,
the star of that Christmas night was only
the diamond sandal of Him who hath the
moon under His feet. Now I come to un-
derstand that the music of that night was
not a complete song, but only the stringing
of the instruments for a great chorus of two
worlds, the bass to be carried bv earthly
nations saved, and the soprano by kingdoms
of glory won.
Oh! neaven. heaven, heaven. I shall meet
you there. After all our imperfections are
gone I shall meet you there. I look out to-
cUy, through the mist of years, through the
fog that rises from tile cold Jordan, through
the wide open door of solid pearl, to that re-
union. I expect to see you tnere as certainly
as I see you here. What a time we shall have
in high converse, talking over sins pardon-
ed, and sorrows comforted, and battles tri-
umphant t.
I am going in. I am going to take all my
family with mo. I am going to take all my
church with me. 1 am going to take all my
friends and neighbors with me. I have so
much faith in manger and cross I feel sure
of it. I am going to coax yon in. I am go-
ing to push you in. By holy stratagem I am
going to surprise you in. Yea, with all the
concentrated energy of my nature—physic-
al, mental, spiritual and immortal—I am go-
ing to compel you to go in. 1 like yoif so
well I want to spend eternity with you!
Some of your children have already gone.'
Some time ago I buried one of them, and
though people passing along tbe street and
seeing white crape on the doorbell may have
said: "It is only a child," yet when the
broken-hearted /at her came to solicit my
service he said: "Come around and comfort
us. for though she was only fifteen months
ola we loved her so much.'' Ah! it does not
take long for a child to get its arms around
the parent's whole nature.
What a Christmas morning it will make
when those with whom you used to keep the
holidays are all around you in heaven! Sil
ver-haired old father young again, and
mother who had so many aches and pains
and decrepitudes well again, and all your
brothers and sisters and the little ones.
How glad they will be to see you!
They have oeen waiting. The last time
they saw your face it was covered with
tears and distress, and pallid from long
watching, and one of them I can imagine to-
day, with one hand holding fast the shining
gate, and the other hand swung out toward
you, saying:
"Steer this way. father, sterr Ktrafght for me;
Here safe In heaven I am waiting for thee.*'
Oh! those Bethlehem angels, when they
went back after the concert that night over
the hills, forgo* to shut the door. All the
secret is out. No more use of trving to hide
from us the glories to come. It is too late to
shut the gate. It is blocked wide open with
hosannas marching this way, and hallelu-
jahs marching that way.
What almost unmans me is the thought
that it is provided for such sinners as you
and I have be<%. If it had been provided
only for those who had always thought
right, and siioken right and acted right, you
and I would have had no interest in it; you
and I would have stuck to the raft in mid-
ocean, and let the ship sail by, carrying per-
fect passengers from a i>erfect life on earth
to a perfect life in heaven.
Oh! I have heard the commander of that
ship is the same great and glorious and sym •
pathetic One who hushed the tempest
around the boat on Gallilee, and I have
heard that all the passengers on the ship were
saved by grace. And so we hail tbe ship,
and it bears down this way, and we come
by the side of it and ask the captain two
questions: "Who art Thou? and whence?"
and He says: "I am Captain of Salvation,
and I am from the manger." Oh! bright
Christmas morning of my soul's delight.
Chime all the bells. Wreathe all the gar-
lands. Rouse all the anthems. Shake handa
in all the congratulations.
Merry Christmas! Merry with the
thought of sins forgiven, merry with the
idea of sorrows comforted, merry with the
raptures to come. Oh: lift that Christ from
tbe manger and lay Him down in all our
hearts. We may not bring to Him as costly
a present as the Magi brought, but we bring
to His feet and to the manger to-day the
frankincense of our joy, the pearls of our
tears, the kiss of our love, the prostration
of our worship.
Down at His feet, all churches, all ages,
all earth all heaven. Down at His feet the
four-andtwenty elders on their faces.
Down, the "great multitude that no man
can number." Down Michael, the arch-
angel! Down all worlds at His feet and
worship. "Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will to men.
A Converted KansatL
Marion In gulls, aged 9, who has been
for some years a democrat, to the great
scandal and regret of her father's fam-
ily, has recently undergone a profound
change of convictions and is now wav-
ing a Harrison flag. On the night of
election Mrs. Ingalls made complete
arrangements to get the news by hang-
ing the dinner bell up in the hall, with
a rope out the deor to be pulled by a
neighbor in case of victory. A tele
graph boy tumbled over the rope jye-
maturely and the resultant joy went
down to zero again, while Marion was ' "
filled with jubilation. But when the - -
news at 2 o'clock in the morning finally
arrived Marion was ill with grief -and ¿
was unable to eat any breakfast* She *
rallied, but contemplation madé her ^,
un filial opinions appear in á heinous
light, and she has abandoned her party
and raised her republican colors. "0ut
only," she explains, "in case the reptile *
Her father has pledged his word.—New
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