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Coallagratum.
HORRIBLE DEATHS OF THE MIMS.
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Cora Tanner's Miraculous Escape—Guests
J=1E/or Their Lives and Are Crushed
to Beath Helots—Others Fall Victims
to the Flames—Tile Number Killed and
Injured.'
Syreouee despatch says : What
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THREW THEMSELVES TO THE GROUND.
At one window on the sixth floor were
Miss Walker, a pantry girl; Madeline
Henneesy, the linen room girl; her deter
Lizzie Henneeey, a chambermaid. The
three women rushed to the window, threw
their Brine about eaole other, and screamed
for help. A hundred voices from the street
called to them to beguiet tills ladder could
denl
the door he paw that the upper end of the
stairway was in limes. He closed the
door and ran back into the °Moe, calling to
Night Oleeks Porter B. Jones and John
;Bridgman to give ad *term. Mr. Bridge-
man rang the eleotrio alarm, whit% rings a
bell in every room, and Mr. Jones sent a
telephone alum of fire. alrewis Leland
and the elevator boy, Henry Beecher, bad
run upstairs and dashed through the halle,
calling to the guests. °leek Bridgeman
joined in this alarm through the halls and
Clerk Jones kept at work on the fire alarm
Night Porter Richard Reed got out the fire
SI1E WAS UNFAITHFUL,
And Her IlusbaId Murdered Her Para-
mour by iler Side,
Husband and Wife Then Go Their Differ-
ent Ways—The HurderedHan'sHrother
Seeks to Avenge His Death and is Slain
bode oil the &Jewel Zeta erre eau 1. beeL-.
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LOVED A BLACKSMITH.
The B eautiful Dough, er of 'Wealthy Silk
Cammack Elopea With 44 Forge litaatert
at Washineon.
A Washington Despatch 8aye: The
latest eeneation in a matrimonial way id
the elgpemens of Blum Adele Cammack,
the only daughter of blr. Juba Carumnok,
a wealthy regret:alone% of this eliy, with
a blacksmith who kept a email shop near
her father's emulsion. The blacksmith
bears the aristooratic. Jeanie en Arlington
• Hardeety. The couple wenn over tb Barirnor . •
last Friday and,t1r4e44.diatforxiieirlortcr,r,,,
night in Baltimore and the next day at the
happy groom's humble looginee, Leer Mr.
Cammack's mansion. On Sunday morn-
ing the bride pegged over home, and
announcing that they lied just returned
from -Baltimore, took up hr ben441 life
where she bad leftit off. Ou Bionday
morning a letter wee received , by het
fatheh from a • Baltimore friend;
detailing the oircumetaucee of her
stay there With Haw esty, . and
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• FLZEING FROM "THE FLAMES.
In less than a minute, however, the
entire northwest corner of the building was
afire. Even before a majority of the gueete
were awake the light shaft in the centre of
the building was burning, and there being
no opening at the top the only draught was
through the windows of the rooms opening
into the well. The flames licked np the
window sashes and gaining headway into
A Charlotte despatch says ; John Dixon,
a prosperous young farmer of Allegheny
eOunty, diecovered that an intimate rola-
lion was existing between • his young wife
and Marshall Haleey, almost a stranger in
the county. Dixon a few days ago told
Halsey ot his enspicione, and warned him
if he did not oease calling at his home
while he was away he would kill him.
Yesterdey Dixon was away from home,
and on his return he saw hie wife leaving
o that has visited Syracuse for manyestepped-on the .—iviTirdiSir atirtafetari
years was .discovered in the Leland Hotel '43 l'd rather be killed than burned,"
at halt -peal 12 this morning. It is now 2 threw herself out into the street. She was
ileoldek, and the lice is dill burning flare*, killed by the fall. The Hennessy sisters a
though the entire fire department., consist- moment later were rescued by the firemen.
ng of nine engines, is working hard to At a window on the fifth floor two women
eve Nave further loos of life andlimb. An eye- screamed for help. The big ladder was at
witness ot the fire says he is positive that another window and the jumping net vas
.• • ° at least 25, perpons have lost"their livep, and brought out. One of the women, Bridget
many more have ben more or lees injured. Doyle, jumped before the net was got into
One Women was being lowered from a position. She struck on her head and
Window' by the aid of a rope. She had shoulders and was dead when picked np.
k.e etteolied a point opposite the third story She wan a hotel employee. Mary Padden,
When the rope became ignited from a a laundry girl, jumped from a rear window
burning sill, and 'meted, and the
fell to the pevelnent. Her brains
!ee▪ e: were; dashed out and her body flattened
„,,anto a shapeless DUOS. Go great is tho
eftofiniion and excitement that the identity
bile killed and injured is wholly nn-
- -own. Undertakers' ambulances are
.flying in all direotione, and the streets in
• .,.;e ;Aleieheighborhood of the ill-fated hotel are
ged with exoited crowds of people.
list (Thursday) nights Syracuse de -
*Sleeves the following fuller particulars
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ihnterrible fire at the Leland Hotel:
-' Flamee were first noticed coming from
te- kitehen on the :second floor. Immedi•
tetlia blaze was communicated to the
.dioi�g-ro�m, and from there it spread in a
few moments to all parts of the greet
IOW The bells sounded a warning to
gusts in every room in the building;
from the windows heads Of frightened
le Wereihrusi. Then' the gueste oame
n the elevator and stairs, many with
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and was killed.
CORA. TANNER'S ESCAPE.
The time flintily came when the cries
Ceased and nothing could be seen in the
great structure but the rolling, Beething,
moaning billows of fire as they mounted
above the highest corniees and made the
stars in the sky look dim. As soon as Cora
Tanner was aroused she rushed into the
hall. The door of a gentletnen'e room near
by wee open, and she rushed in with 'the
shout; " For God's sake save me 1" The
gentleman was about to lower himself by
the fire escape but stopped and adjusted
• the escape to Mies Tanner. He lowered
her to the ground and then followed. Miss
Tanner was not seriously injured, but the
palma of her bandsawere out and lacer-
ated by holding on so tightly to the rope.
Mist' Tanner saved her jewelry, 11500 m
cash and valuables. She grabbed them np
hastily, thrustthem into a jewel case and
led-itenaboutehereneok,____Mierellupree and
Mies Klein, both of the same oompeny, had
narrow esospes.
HOW MR. BROWN SAVED HIMSELF.'
Mall jumped from the fourth story to
top •of the American Express building.
l 'Other greeds, including ladies,
lig 'from their windows. There were
perhaps one hundred !meow in the hotel.
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The peopleinjured were taken in ambu-
eslaires to the. hospitals of the city. The
mien of the men standing in the upper
windows and of the exoited crowd below
, :Were deafening, and, added to this, the roar
eattlen many fire engines created a mass of
„atm/Mien in And around the hotel.
A PRET TO THE FLAmEs.
At 1.12 a.m. sheen and women were seen
looked in eitoh other's arms in a window on
/the fltth floor 'in the northeast corner of
the building. Below them was a perfect
of flames. No possibility of escape
except by the window was open to them,
and that seemed tolead to inevitable
deeth. No assistance could reach them.
-•The woman setented to be anxious to• jump,
bat,herlineband was earnestly entreating
hiee,to desist. The crowd below 'Waited
Wih bated breath. The woman made one
last effort to jump and was restrained by
her hueband. Then the ory of the crowd
dialled the awful end that must have
. befallen them as they dropped backward
het° the room, which was a mass of flames.
Ati window on the fourth floor, almost
-directly under this, a woman appeared. She
•yeaa surrounded on all sides from the
reerior of the room by fierce flame& She
med irresolute •whether to jump
-to the pavement or to face the
fiery foe thea was feet enoroaohing
upon her and life. She stepped upon the
of the window and placed her hands
aboveher head. The people in the street
below shuddered and turned their faces to
abut out the horrible eight that must meet
their gaze should the woman jump to the
ground. The woman did not jump; but
seemed to be withheld by either fear or the
feeling that mope would come from some
other source. She leaped from the sill into
the room, bat remained at the window ons
brief instant. Then the whole rem became
enveloped in flame and the woman Flank
back from view,. „
JUMPING FOR LIFE. '
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the fire swept through'ihe--iiiiiiirVidlaing.
Scores of guests who had been awakened by
the oraokling of the flames or the ringing
of the electric belle rushed out of their'
rooms into the halls, only to find them full
of smoke. Some of those who got out of
their rooms just succeeded in escaping
by the staircase. P. B. Brayton,
of this city, was in a room on
the fourth floor. Ho was aroused and
quickly got into some of hie clothes
and went down the steiroftse through
donde of smoke, breathing through a wet
bath sponge Hist he put in his mouth. The
halls were filled with oriee and ehrieks.
Although the gas was burning in all the
halls, the light could not be seen more than
a few feet out of the dense smoke. Dozeine
of men and women who had fallen on the
floor and stairs overcome with the intense
beat and smoke were dragged to the exits.
Captain Quigley, of the night watch, with
about 25 men, did excellent service in rescu-
ing guests.
TO THE RESCUE.
In lees than ten minutes after the alarm
had been given the rescuers were driven
from the inside of the building. Shrieks
still filled the air when the office of the
hotel was abandoned. Then frenzied people
orowded to the windows crying for help.
The Hoed; truck was run np the building
and an attempt made to hoist the big ex-
tender! ladder. There was some hitch in
the machinery of the hoisting apparatus,
which made a delay of several minutes.
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J. W. Brown, of the Cora Tanner Com-
pany, 000upied a room on the fifth floor.
Mr. Brown was awakened by the bell, and
looking out of hie door eew a bright light.
He took time to dress and wee beginning
to pack when he thought of two ladies of
the company who were on the floor above
and started to their assistance. He met
them in the hall, and they said they were
all right and were taken down in the
•elevator. Mr -Brown then- got -back -to his
room, and putting a wet blanket over his
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head crept along the hallway and got
down to the third &or, where he felt,
sedbxe and set in a window while the
firemen were putting up a ladder. There
were three girls in a window above. One
of them jumped out. He urged the other.
two to remain, and they oame down on the
At 4 ohne& the euperintendent of public
works ordered the men engaged in ex-
ploring the ruins to stop work, as all the
missing had been a000nnted for. Coroner
Smith empanelled a jury at 2.30 this
afternoon, and, after viewing the remains
adjourned the inquest until to -morrow
at 2.30.
A sTundohn FOR LIFE.
Several policemen Stood on the sidewalk
.holding nets ready to oetoh -the guests as
they jumped. Two prime, a man and a
woman; jumped into one of the nets almost
at the same moment, and escaped with
broken Was, Next to jump was a woman
who appeared in a window on the fifth
floor in her night-clothes. She leaped' out
of the window and, missing the net, was
dashed to pieces on the stone pavement.
She wee picked up and removed to the
morgue.
THE ,DEABLY" VIBES.
One of the firemen told this story of the
woman who was killed by jumping :
" When we first oame we were hampered
by the telegraph wires on West Fayette
street. In trying to raise a ladder it be-
came caught in the wires. A woman stood
in a window crying for help. The flames
were leaping out toward her and she was
frantic with fright. I went up a Wider
and out the wires. While I was doing this
she jumped,. thinking we oonici reach her,
and the eyeful result was that she missed
• the net end wee, killed."
SOME or THE VICTIMS.
Frank Carrey, of Gime Fells," was
burned to death, and hie brother, M. J.
Carrey, had his leg broken and sustained
internal injuries.
B. Harris and Annie Kennon died at
4.80 am. at the hoepital. Two ladies, whose
triamee are unknowe, jumped from the fifth
dory, and, though badly hurt, they escaped
with their lives. Samuel Goodman, assist.
ant general freight agent of the New York
Central Reilrned, was one of the .gueeto
Who escaped in safety. All the phyeicians,
, ministers end priests of the oity are on the
spot aiding the wopnded and dying as best
they Can. Tho frightful ebrieke of girle
and the cracking of the flames dould be
_ heard _for 3)100k0 _AWAY, The building
, burned so rapidly that moat of the people
eneennee
tqf
but he got his rifle and followed
her at a distance. She went into some
woods near by, and her hueband watohed
her. Halsey came up, and Dixon soon had
his suspicions confirmed. '1 hen he crept
elowly through the woods until he was near
enough to fire, and taking aim, be pulled
the trigger. The ball took effect in
Halsey'e temple, and he fell dead
by the side of his elayer's unfaithful
wife. Dixon then told hie wife he intended
t okill her also, but her piteous pleadings
caused him to desist. He contented him-
self by pummelling her with his fist and
declared they would separate by Halsey's
body never to meet again. They parted,
each going in a different direction. Leto
in the evening Charles Halsey, an elder
brother of the dead men, hunted
Dixon down ,and found him at the
house of a friend. Haleey pulled out a'
large revolver to shoot Dixon, but others
interfered, saying if he wantedto fight he
would have to fight fair and give Dixon a
chance. Ton paces were stepped off and
the two men put in position with their
weapons in band. At the signal both men
emptied their revolvers and Haleey was
killed. Dixon has not been arrested.
HOW THEY ESCAPED.
Mr. O'Brien Tells How He and Dillon
Reached Cherbourg.,
A London cable says : The Untied Ireland
prints an account of the escape of Messrs.
CORA—TANNERLS—COMPANY.
Wm. T. Grover, acting manager for Core
Tanner, .who was filling en engagement at
the H. R. Jacob's Grand Opera House, was
with the company, nearly all of whom were
at the hotel. He tells a connected story of
how nearly all escaped. They 000upied
rooms on the third and fourth floors. Mr.
Grover said "Nearly all, if not all, the
young ladies of Blies Tanner's company
had -retired, but several of the gentlemen
were still up when the fire broke out. I
threw a few of my elothee, and personal
effects into my trunk, but lest them he the
end; I was on the fourth floor. Among
others on that floor was Mies Ade Dwyer,
of the eximpany. We met in the hall and
eterted in the direction of a fireman's
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voice. He was showing frantic men and
'women the way to the stairs. We got
separated in the crowd in the halls,
where the scene was an awful one. The
gas must have been put out by tbe dense
smoke, for the halls were soon in total
darkness. I did noteee Mies Dwyer again
till we met on the ground floor. I lost all
my personal effects except my watch and
The stories told by each fortunate enough
to mope with life were horrifying in
detail. The story of M. J. Carey, of Glen
Falls, was perhaps the most pathetic.
With -his brother, Frank Carey, he occu-
pied a room on the fourth fiber. Be was
awakened by e choking sensation in hie
throat and by the alarm bell ringing in his
room. The flames were then shooting past
his window. He jumped from the bed and
turned to his brother. He found him in
convulsions from the smoke. All efforts
to awake him were fruitless. Choking,
blinded, suffocating, he shook hiS brother
and urged him to get up and fly with him.
At last he was obliged to give up in diapair
and Beek his own eafety. He buret the
door open only to be forced back by the
heavy waves of smoke and fire. So long as
he could gain a firm footing by clinging
tightly to the walls be worked hie way
down the dein: He was finally obliged to
seek a window and jump to the walk. He
was pioked np and carried to Conggess
Hall. He was i»jured internally and.one
leg was broken. It is thought he will die.
Another aged gentleman, too weak to give
his name, had both his legs broken by a
fell. •
A TORONTONIAN'S ESCAPE.
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ACTOR ALDRICH'S EXPERIENCE.
Louis Aldrich, the actor, who begins a
three nights' engagement in Buffalo.
to -night, his leading lady, Blies Dora Gold-
waithe, and hie manager, Frank Chapman,
had thrilling experiences in the Leland
Hotel' fire last night. The trio arrived in
this city at noon to -day and ell were pretty
thoroughly broken up. A News reporter
had a chat with Mr. Aldrich at 2 o'clock.
" I have been in shipwrecks and every-
thing elee," said he, " but I never wee so
near death As 1 wee early this morning. I'
was in room 164 on the fourth floor when
the fire started. I was awakened by the
fire alarm. I went into the hall and there
met Mies Goldwaithe. She was wandering
around the floor and we both hunted for
the stairway. The heat end smoke almdat
overcame me. I succeeded in finding the
stairway and wo escaped all right. One
man told me afterward that I saved his
life, but I don't believe him. I don't remem-
ber it. Chapman. my manager, slid down
a rope to the sidewalk. I am' willing to bet
then in seven minutes after that hotel took
fire it was a mass of flames. In one hour
after the fire broke out the wells toppled
over. After we got out of the hotel we
went to the Globe. Strange to say, that
hotel oanght fire, too, and after we got to
bed wo were awakened end driven out of
there. We went to the Vanderbilt then and
remained until morning."
Mr. Aldrioh lost all of his clothing except
a pair of trousere. He lost a pocketbook
containing 9268. Manager Chapman lost
$300. All -of Mies Goldwaithe's clothing
was lost. She left Syraonee attired in
another lady's dress. She was too ill at 2.30
to see canon. Her hair was singed a little.
• Mr. Aldricb's eyebrows end eyelashes were
burned off and his hair signed.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
The scenes and incidents of the fire are
almoot numberless. R. E. Johnston, of
New York, manager for Ovid Musin, the
violinist, was around at 4 o'clock this
morning wearing one man's trousers, a
Central treiriman's oonteed a third man's
bettered and worn hat. The only things
that he wore of his own were his cork leg,
patent leather shoes and night ehirt. Mr.
Johnston lives in Brooklyn. He occupied
a room on the top floor. He had a narrow
escape and lost 940,000 worth of °entracte
for the appearance of Musin in different
parte of the country. Ho flayed 9140 in
money and hie watch. Judge E. B. Wynn,
of Watertown, was on tine second floor. He
descended a ladder to the ground and
saved hie legal papers and money.
Marcus Strauss, of Rooheeter, was on the
fourth floor. He tamped down the deft -
way, losing all his effects except his coat
and trousers. His watch was a valued
heirloom.
Mr. Isaac Anderson, of the firm of Hese,
Anderson & Co., manufacturere, and man-
ager of the Standard Oil Co., well known
in Toronto, was a geed at the Leland
House, Syracuse, Wednesday, at the time
of the fire. Mr. Anderson was married in
Oswego on Wednesday; and was on his
wedding tour. He escaped safely from the
burning hotel, but in his night clothes, end
by the fire lost part of his bageage. Mr.
Anderson telegraphed yesterday stating
that he wee all right; but that it was a
close call.
THE HOTEL.
The Leland Hotel was erected at a cost
of $200,000 some four years ago. It was
six stories in height. "the lose will not be.
less than half a Million of dollars to the
Everson estate, Mr. Leland and the pro-
prietore of stores on the first floor. A
large force of newspaper men are on the
ground end making every effort to secure a
list of the dead and injured, but so far
without moms.
The total lose, 9216,700 ; tottil inauran
$129,000.
THE FIRST ALUM.
LAWiel Leland, proprietor of the Ocean
Hotel at Long Branch, who has been visite
ing hie cousin, Warren 1 Leland, inn., wee
the first to discover the flre. He was going
from the office at 12.45 o'clock, when he
noticed a light through mare in the door
openibe stairway Which led to the
kitchen and store room above. -Oren)
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she promptly denied the whole e ing.
and Mrs. Cammack, bent on eetrefying
themeelves, went over to Bennie:1 o and
found the marriage in the tiouks the
Recorder's office. That bight Bits. Hard-
esty went, home with her hu
hie modest quarters over
litile shop.
Mr. Cammack retired from business
cares years ago with au ample fortune, and
hie home on the Seventh etreet mad, just
above the Soldiere' HOMO, to one ot the
finest suburban resulencus aboui this oity.
His first wife, the mother Lf cbe eloping
girl, has been dead some years, and hie
present wife, a most estimable lady, hes
been a kind step -mother to his only daugh-
ter. The young lady has had her own way
pretty much, having plenty Lf money with
which to entertain tier friends, and was a
great favorite. Her father doted on her,
,but he didlidet spoil her. Ween dee left
school et year or two ago she was highly
accomplished. Since then she has had all
the aavantages of pleasant eoelety and
lively company. Her gowns viLie perfec-
tion in number and style.. Shente cull and
graceful, a blonde and possees'etk of plenty
of admirers.
She inelready in possession of a email
fortune left her by her mother sea uncle,
and with what her father may leave her
she will be wealthee The blacksmith shop
which Hardesty evened three e ears ago is
the last place in the world that even the
most romantiogirl should become within -
Ewa again to
eeightioring
'tterele _inatisnyere dingy shed just
Dilimrand-O'Beierrnveri y-BireeeRriene
himself. Mr. O'Brien says : " We rowed
from Dalkey on Wednesday at midnight to
a yeoht lying two miles off the shore. Not
an enemy was in eight. Next morning
found us ninety miles away toward the
Welsh coast. Friday and Saturday we lay
in a dead calm. On Saturday morning we
rounded Land's End, when the wind again
died away, and, we were forced to lie all
day in brilliant' sunshine within two miles
of the shore. A Trinity House cutter
parsed quite close to no and the crew of the
Royal. Adelaide, off Falmouth, actually -
exchanged greetings with our sailors. A
Dublin steamer also paused close to us. A
heavy fog buried ns from eight. On Sunday
night four steamers blowing fog -horns were
around us during the night. We cleared
the Lizard in the morning and darted
morose for the French coast to out -trick the
British ehipping. We were becalmed
again on Monday, and were obliged to beat
np the channel. A brisk gale sprang upon
Monday raglan in which the yacht behaved
magnificently. While passing Guernsey
after midnight wo were apparently pursued
by a revenue cutter, which, however, was
unable to weather the gale, and abandoned
the ohase. In the morning we were run-
ning free before the wind for Cherbourg,
where we landed at 11 o'clock. We had
reached our last day's supply of fresh
water. All the arrangements worked per -
featly, thanks to the, prominent . Dublin
citizens who superintended them, and we
had unparalleled good luck."
Mre. O'Brien left Dublin this evening to
join her husband. ' ,
WANT HUSBANDS.
French and English Girls Importuning the
Mayor of Odiontreal for Et nsbande.
The nonoave mirthr is not exactly a hum-
Oelet, but it makes some vera ametaing
reffections.e
opposite the groende of the Cammack man-
sion. The lusty young blacksmith had
plenty of workebuti seems also to have had
abundant time to exeite sparks of love in
the heart of the heiress. Widen he began
three months ago to walk boldly up lo the
front doorand Spend his evemege ne the e •
splendid drawing•room.talienue to hie be-
loved one, Air. Cammack iniloly ten:Len-
:nutted and finally torbeciek.te deughter to
receive the man's attentions.
The opposition made stolen interviews a
necessity.- anvil -whacker increased, and when he,
• striking the iron while it was hot, proposed'
& runeway marriage in Beni/lane, she was
only too willing to comply.
Bin and Mre. Hardesty are now residing
at their humble home, a atone's throw
from the Cammack Inaesion, end business
at the forge, atter the sensatioz,al develop-
ments of the past few days, will probably
be remunerative and briek. bin Hardesty
hes quantities of information on the extent
of hie beautiful young wite's present income.
and future prospects, and they will look
about shortly for quarters more in heeping
with what she bas been accustomed to.
Mr. Cammack has not much to say
about the matter, feeling keenly the pub-
licity which bis daughter's unwire apt has
occasimied. It is quite probeble then the
young people will be given every encourage-
ment, and if the blacksmith has as much
some as strength his wife may not regret
her 'step after all. At present they aro
both intensely happy, and then, dreams of
life are as bright as sparks from tho enviL•
The Cammaolis ere an old Weehington
faneily, nearly all of whom have gain: d and
held large fortunes.
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A Montreal 'despatch says : The impres-
done eeems to hey° gone abroad that the
Mayor of Montreal is a matrimonial agent.
Some weeke ago the then acting Mayor,
Ald. Herten.% received a letter from a
bachelor in the Weet, &eking, that he send
out to Arizona any young women who
wanted husbands. The acting Mayor'e
reply that he did not keep a matrimonial
agency got into the prime, and now letters
aro being received by the Mayor from
young marriageable women in France and
England. Ono is from Blarseillee, and the
fair writer says she is ready to leave that
place, where she has been unfortunate, and
come to Montreal. All she asks is money
to pay her fare, and she will leave at once.
The other letters are from London, and are
written beeen Anglo-Irish girl and a French
girl. The former says she is 20, of graceful
proportions, with dark and expressive eyes.
She is willing to eend her photograph in
exchange to any young man who means
busine3s. The French girl says she is 24,
and would like to marry, a men of 30 to 40.
Her attraotione are a tall • elegant form,
dark hair ad dark sYe s. She promises to
be a good wife, and re willing to exchange
photos.
MORIE WEEUICS REPOBTED.
Late Gales
The List of Casualties in the
Growing Larger.
A HallfaX despatch says: Reports from
the north aide of Prince Edward Island say
the recent atom there was the heaviest for
years. A -quantity of deals are coming
ashore at lelalpeque, evidently from a ves-
sel which has lost her deo44ead cr gone
down. The schooner Corporarririne, which
left Chatham, N. B., last Thursday for
Malneque, has not since been heard of, and
has doubtless gone down with all on board.
Just before dere Monday night a large brig
was seen off Cable Head in a datgerone
position.. A fishing schooner from Cara-
quetrN. B., was wrecked at Fish Ielend,
P. E. I., in Sunday's etorm. The crew
was saved. A despatch from Engiiehtown,
C. B., says the hulk of the wrecked barque
Algeria caught fire ,frcin lithtfd ler bate
eels and was burned. Captain Dennis, of
an American fishing schooner, who saw
the fire and endeavored to . render
assistance, narrowly ea.:aped losing his own
vessel.
heurvy on Shipboard.
A an Francine despatch says : The
ships R. R. Thome, from New York, and
Alex. Mo0ullom, from Baltimore, arrived
hero yesterday with scurvy on board. The
sailors on the MoCullom were in a horrible
condition, their bodies being covered with
running sores. Their gums were black and
swollen and hid their tooth. The men said
that during the 154 days' passage they had
not tasted vegetables, and the meat given
them was putrid. Thomas Hoenig and
James Manure became blind as a remit
of the disease. The enerentine officer
will report tho mess to the United States
authorities.
"The Plunger," Oliver Bond Byron's
ne* play, has mado a groat hit. It is of
the sensational order and introduces among
other startling effeota an elevated railroad
train dasliing along at full speed through
a rainstorm of real water. Kato Byron
ploys the part of4a wealthy Irish widow!
-ant marammt: wuntlerftfertnistan gowns. l
THE CRUEL TURKS.
The Barbarens Treatment to Lich they.
07,1:30:3,1r& Subject Armenians.
A cell; from Constantinople states that
arrests of Armenians aro still being made,
and many of those who have been taken
into custody have been, shockingly mal-
treated and tortured. 'Among other cruelties
to which the prisoners have been subjeoted
is the withholding from them of all foal'
They have also been deprived cf sleep.
Poisons suspected of disloyalty aro ar-
rested upon information lodged against
them by any spy. The Armenian recently
arrested for attempting to murder an arch
priest in the Koom Kapou quarter of Con.
stantinople was today found dead in hie
cell. It is alleged his death was the direet
result of tortures inflicted upon him. Tho
officials at Van, Armenia, aro still arming
the Turk, and ontrages upon the Armen-
ian e there aro of frequent occurrence.
The young man who was said to have
i rein rapidly throne' his property " must
have had on a red Bidet with a black bull.
behind -him: • e
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