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'TRE RAT PORTAGE TRAGEDY,
Mrs, Carruthers ,Charged With the
Murder of tier Rusband.i
.42011ESTD IN TQIWNTQ.
An Unfortunate Engagement—Illicit Love—
The Husband's Eyes Opened—A Fight—
Attempts to Buy Strychnine — How
Carruthers Was Killed.
A Rat Portage despatch says ; On the
3rd day of January, this year, Thomas
•Blake Carruthers, a hard-working farmer,
was found by his wife dying on the floor of
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banks of Rainy River, a few miles from Rat
Portage. There were two bullet holes from
a 38 -calibre revolver in his head, and the
cj,eadly weapon lay beside the uncon-
scious man. The jheory of suicide was
at once set up and accepted by many, but
so strongly prevailed the feeling that Car-
ruther's life had been taken by another
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teased -against the left base of the skull The
second shot had struck the bridge of the
nose near the left eye and gone through the
mouth and throat, severing the jugular
vein. A young doctor, son of Archdeacon
Pbair, of Winnipeg, who was in the neigh-
borhood, reached the tragic scene in a few
minutes, but the man was dead. W. D,
Lyon, a stipendiarymagistrate of Rat Port-
age; hearing of the affair took a
constable .• and spent , doWu.. ,toy Atte
cabin, where a coroner's jury was
empanelled, and an, inquest held. Only a
few witnesses were examined and a verdict
THE PECK pOLLAPSED
And Fourteen Excursionists Were Billed
and Thirty Injured.
A SAD PICNIC ENDING.
A Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., despatch
says ; A terrible, disaster occurred here this
afternoon, by which fourteen persons,' ei lit"
women,' four children and two men, lost
their lives, and about thirty men, women
�suptr_agreeil• upon but since the holding and children were injured. The steamer
of the inquest facts have come to" light. Crystal Streani'witii the -barge- public -in
which will at least make the suicide theory
appear absurd.
CLUMSY TRICK.
While th 4rpea was lying in the shanty
Mr. Fisher and Mrs. Carruthers went up
into the garret while the neighbors were
sitting below, and after half an hour re -
tamed, ed with a _iebe of a er on which was
r, y, ,.. r a11e_'S _. a
wrltfen : i.1 was he��iiii% diii ''"
life and decided to end the awful conflict.
Good-bye." Signed " Tom." • This paper
was taken possession of by the magistrate
and handed to Detective Murray when he
arrived there.. Upon the man Fisher- being
questioned he stated that he had found the
note in a coat pocket belonging to the dead
man which was wra ► ► ed u s in a bundle of
tow, and having aboard about 500 adults
and as many children on the excursiou of
the employees of Theodore Kaiser, dry
goods dealers, of 197 Graham avenue,
Brooklyn, a�itived wt th; (geld Spring
grove clock about 2 o'clock. About half -
past 3 the last whistles for all to get aboard
were blown by •the steamer, and at 3.43
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portion of the excursion were on t -e barge,
where the younger people were dancing.
Just then some heavy clouds covered the
sky, then came a squall, the wind
driving everything before it, The
boat hands, anticipating a shower,
had let down the canvas curtains
which were attache to the hurricane deck
.. .. ► u own to the
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. FORCED TO ENIIORSL-r.
The Czar Compelling Poles to Pay for a
isfouuuient to Muravief.
A Vienna bee says : The Poles are
greatly exciteover the proposed erection}
of a monument under the auspices of the
Russian Government to the memory of
Count Muravief, known as ' The Hang-
man of Poland." It was 'by order of Mura-
vieg that, Lila& of Poles were:put to,
death at Wrina, in 1863. He was likened to
Ivan the Terrible in ferocity, and many
patriotic noblemen and citizens of Warsaw
were victims. The proposition is to erect
a memorial to -wi
nessed his worst atrocities, and the fact
that the present Goveruor-General of
\Vilna has subscribed to the fund for that
purpose shows that the authorities endorse
What is ^lmcztin
credible is that pressure is brought to
bear to 'compel Poles to subscribe to
the scheme for honoring the mans
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thv�tgcn�.,utr- ''lad
Poles generally construe the movement as a
national insult; although it will also serve
to keep alive in Poland the sentiment of
nationality and the memories of .the her-oie-
past. The Polish national party has no
longer an organized existence, and the
national sentiment has been steadily dying
out for many years. Many Poles have
.:.- r►. i► o hers
A Bunk Presldeut Chloroformed and Gauged
by a Desperado.
A Memphis, Tenn., despatch says : R.
Dudley Frazer, President of the, Security
and Memphis City Banks., Secretary of the
Memphis City Railway, principal owner, of
the Public Ledger, and one of the most
wealthy and prominent citizens of Memphis,
was.yeaterday afternoon chloroformed -and.
ro
bbed at the Gayoso Hotel' by a roan giving
his name as J. A. Morris, of 'New Orleans.
Morris took a room at the hotel and sentfor
Mr. Frazer, to whom he introduced himself
-us-John-Ar:--Harris;--o•€-•trh�-I=rtuisiana jot--.
tery Company, of New Orleans. He said
he wanted to consult Mr. Frazer about the
affairs of the lottery company, whie' had
been greatly antagonized of eat( Mr.
Frazer gave information in regard t Mem-
phis moneyed institutions, but would give
no advice and turned to go. Morris asked
him to have a drink. He declined, but'
j .t tl, ancj,Mr. Frazer walked to a
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esis'1it
II.��udden7 �
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pistols at Frazer, and said, " 1 am a des-
perate man, I have no money, my family in
New Orleans are destitute. You must
endorse a cheque for $5,000."
Fraser tried to argue with Morris, but the
latter was obstinate, and Frazer finally
agreed to endorse a cheque for $500. The
the ue was then drawn on the Hibernian
month ago a . petition, signe y near y
.every fanner within a radius of ten miles,
was sent in to the Attorney -General pray-
ing that a Government detective be sent at
once to ferret out the mystery. The
authorities, lost no time in despatching
Detective Murray, who, for the past three
weeks, has been on the scene of the tragedy.
This shrewd officer, a man of wide . experi-
ence, went into •the Rainy River district
without disclosing his identity, remained
..among the people gathering up evidence
here and there, every little of which estab-
lished firmly in his mind the conviction
that the young yoeman of '30 years,
who had left his home in Perth county a
little more than a year ago with a view to
bettering his fortunes, had been cruelly
murdered.
THE WIFE ARRESTED.
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Acting on the information gathered about
the spot where Carruthers was shot, Detec-
tive Murray returned to Toronto yesterday
morning, and after a diligent search located
Mrs. Carruthers on Statfbrd street, where
she was 'visiting friends. She was. placed
under arrest by the officer, but owing to her
being somewhat indisposed she was not
removed to the county jail, a guard being
left on watch for a day or two, when she
will be taken to Rat Portage on a ,charge of
murder. 'Mrs. Carruthers" is a tall, well-
built and handsome woman ; a - decided
brunette, with dark brown eyes and heavy
lashes. -
THE SERPENT IIN THE GARDEN.
It appears that about a year. ago last
Christmas a man named Fotheringham left
the township of Blanchard, Perth county,
and settled on the Raney River; where he
started a saw mill After he had been there
a few month's he returned to Perth county
on a visit, where he met Carruthers, who
lived with his newly -made wife on the farm
contiguous to. that_ worked' by Fothering-
ham previous to his going north. The
three had for years been • neighbors, and
• were on very. friendly terms. Fothering-
hant advised Carruthers to' go to the Rainy
River and engage' in farming, promising,
that if necessary he would give him work
the year round in 'his mill. Carruthers
went up to look about the place, and, re-
turning in -a few -weeks, decided to make
the move. He took his wife and two small
children with •.him,' leaving his relatives,
all of whom ate highly •respectable,
behind. His first work -was to build
a small log cabin convenient to the
mill and near the river, bank. Fotheringham
made his promise' good and gave Carruthers
employment in the mill: • After things had her guard Burin the afternoon and. laughed
gone along smoothly for a few months Car- g g g
ruthers gre%'v jealous of his wife and Fother- heartily after reading the ,newspaper
ingham, the latter being a frequent visitor accounts of her husband's death aria the
recent arrest. When looking at her photo-
graph in a local paper she turned to her
guard -and temarke!L__" Lsn_'.t_that_ horrid ?
It don't look a bit like me, does it ? -And
as for that hat, I never wore one like it in
my life."
Mrs. Carruthers amused herself at the
piano frequently and sang many sacred
songs, such as `r I Will Sing of . My Re-
deemer," " Peace, Peace, Be Still," etc.
acp y, he founcL..iotherinnham and his She has rather a sweet voice and, touches
wie fe a one in the house,hot words occurred ' iano�il?:e a nr>stre=s of music. Iii the
between the two men, Carruthers evening niany-.curious persons dropped into
the parlor to have a look at the prisoner,
THREATENED TO SHOOT HIS RIVAL and in each case she met their amaze with a A Iope.ka, Sian.; despatch says : Mrs.
' treating the
Woodworth, .the Illinois evangelist, has
pleasant smile, apparently
whole affair as a huge burles+r.e. It s 'r,een holding meetings in a tent here for the
understood that before lea ing for Lome,
yesterday the i,roti ers of the prisoner
retained- Messrs: Maclaren, Ma.donaid;
Merritt & Shipley as'co{:nsel'for the defence.
It appears that Fotheringham and Nellie
Slack (Mrs. Carruthers. maiden name, were
schoolmates in Perth Count:, and it is also
understood that the forrner was much
opposed to her marriage with Carruthers,
who was her first cousin. The family
connection was -made • stronger still
by the marriage of Wm. , Slack, the pris-
oner's brother, to a sister of the dead ' man.
It is stated on good' authority that Car-
•rothers at the time of his death was insured
for $l,000'in the Masonic Life Insurance
Company, but as Mrs. Carruthers could not
get possession of the money after her hus-
band's funeral, Fotheringham gave her funds
with which to 'leave the co><intryf • She
came to her old home in Perth cotunty on a
Saturday night and disappeared the follow
ing Monday morning, no person knowing
whither she had gone. The detective says
that her family feared arrest and positively
declined to make known her whereabouts.
Detective Murray and his prisoner will
leave at 11 o'clock this moaning for Owen
Sound, where they will' board the Alberta
for Port Arthur.
writing was engaged, and he is prepared to
swear the writing on the paper is not in
Carruthers' hand.
TRIED TO BUY STRYCHINE.
A druggist at Rat Portage is prepared to
swear that Fotheringham applied to him for
strychnine but was refused_; he stating that
it was for Mrs. Carruthers who wanted to
poison rats. Fotheringham also admits
this. On another occasion Mrs. Carruthers
sent by a neighbor for a phial of deadly
fluid ' poison. There is some • other
important evidence regarding the . re-
volver and bullets, which will not be
made public until the case comes on. Mrs.
Carruthers' maiden name was Slack, and
she lived for many years in Perth county,
where her relatives, all very estimable peo-
ple, still reside. Detective Murray will
leave with his prisoner on Saturday morn-
ing for Rat Portage, where she will be tried
at the next sitting of the Criminal Assize
Court. The case is creating great interest
in the Rainy River District and also in
Perth County, where all the parties con-
cerned are well known. Some members of
the. Slack. 'family will probably accompany
Mrs. Carruthers to Rat Portage • and engage
the best possible counsel for her defence.
A Toronto report says : Nellie Carruthers,
the young widow from Rainy River, who
was placed under arrest Thursday morning-
on Stafford street by Government Detective
John Murray, charged with the murder of
her husband early in January, has been
highly favored by the officer of the law.
Rarely is a prisoner accused of murder ac-
corded freedom, except that freedom which
,i, s_su.rratmded_b_y_iron .-bnr5. In thio Wase,_,
Mrs. Carruthers, after being taken into cus-
tody, was driven to the Metropole Hotel
and given a very comfortable room. She is'
under the surveillance of a guard, who is
in her company constantly except at night,
when Annie Fraliek, one of the • Metropole
dining -room girls, takes her in charge. The
prisoner's companion reported yesterday
morning that -Mrs. Carruthers slept little
during the night and was very restless at
times. She declined to talk, however, of
the tragedy, and occasionally fell into
a meditative mood. While these spells
were , upon her she appeared to be staring
penetratively at some imaginative object,
then suddenly recollecting that she was not
alone, she would end the reverie with a
merry laugh. The greater part of the day
was spent in the parlor of the hotel 'where
until noon she was in the company of her
twobrothers from St. Mary's, who returned
home at that hour. She chatted freely with
at the cabin. This feeling of distrust grad-
ually developed until one day when Fother-
Ingham called at the abin Carruthers told
him that he.never wanted to see him around
his place again." The rumor that Mrs. Car
ruthers and Fotheringham were on very in-
timate terms caused the mill hands to talk,
all of which reached the ears of Carruthers.
This made the husband desperate, and when
a few days later, returning to the house un-
por ► e. is preven e ► '
blowing through, and as one strong gust
struck the barge it lifted the starboard side
of the hurricane, deck clear from its fasten-
ing and supports, and forced it and the
posts and partitions in the centre over to
the port side. • As it pushed over, the end
of the deck nearest the dock to which the
barge was fastened dropped down upon the
hundreds of women and children who had
crowded over to that side of the barge in an
effort to escape. In a moment the air was
rent with screams and agonizing cries of the
poor victims whose lives were being crushed
out and limbs broken. The scene was
heartrending in the extreme, and the
excitement on the steamer among
the relatives and friends of those
on the barge added to. the pande-
monium which prevailed. • The officers,
dock -hands and other men on the steamer
lost no time in reaching the barge and doing
all in their power to rescue all whom they
could from the wreck. The lifeless bodies
of fourteen were seen to be lying near the
gunwale. All had had the lives crushed
out of them by being caught between . the
edge of the fallen deck and the guard rails.
Won:en and children, and even strong 'men
wept piteously as they looked upon the dead
or dying.
The plaee where the rlisaster occurred is
at the head of Cold Spring harbor, not far
from Laurelton,• and• is a favorite picnic
ground. The falling . of the deck of the
barge, was, it is said, due to the rotten con-
dition of the supports. Many of the ex-
cursionists carried home with them pieces
of the centre -posts, which show they were
perfee, ly_._rott_en it the Core. The barge
itself, it is said, is unsafe in' other particu-
lars
1011.Ellt CLOTHES STOLEN.
Nude ltai1r11ad Magnates Startle Indian-
apolis Ladies.
An Indianapolis despatch says : A. "M.
Stinson, general agent of the Big Four Rail-
road,[ and brother-in-law• of President
Ingalls, and H. A. Christy, a Buffalo travel=
ling man, occupied berths on a sleeping -car'
on the Big Four train that reached here
from the west at 3.15 yesterday morning.
'Mien the two, men awoke they discovered
that their clothes had' been stolen, and,
wrapping themselves in sheets, they hurried
Aver to the• Spencer House and sent in a
telephone call for a hack .to carry them to
the Bates, where Stinson said they had
other clothing. The hack was Sent -over.
fro.ni the depot just opposite, and as Stinson
rushed across the pavement and put his foot
on the step to enter he saw two ladies on.
the back seat. They discovered him at the
same moment, and covering their faces with
their hands, uttered scream after scream.
Stinson turned to .rush back - into the hotel,
but in doing so—he fell over Christy, who.
had followed him to the hack, and it was
some moments before they could disentangle
themselves And regain the hotel. Another
hack was'ordered, and the two men finally
got to' the Bates House. ,
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A FEMALE Illi PNQTIZER
Doing a, Rushiag Ev-angeluitic Bu.' Ines In
if he ever caught him on the premises again.
The mill man left the place, and Carruthers
went towards the field in which he was
"Working, butthis was only to elude the
other. Carruthers came back in . a few
minutes and found Fotheringham and his
wife again tbgether, the latter alleging that
the mill owner was'fooling with her and had
torn her apron off.' Before the eJiraged
husband had time to act Fotheringham left
the cabin, but was pursued by Carruthers.
The two men came together and a desperate
fight ensued in which Carruthers was victor.
He then swore that unless Fotheringham
got off the river he (Carruthers) would •kill.
hirr, Fotheringham left for Rat Portage
1, the next day and did not return until after
Carruthers had peen shot. Mrs. Watt, a
cbok in ' Fotheringham's boarding-house,
states that her employer engaged Mrs. Car-
ruthers to assist in the work about the
house, but she was never allowed to do any-
thing, being kept in Fotheringham's com-
puny almost continually. This. was before
the mill owner left the district in December.
/rim WIFE'S STORY.
About 10 o'clock on the morning of Jan-
ua‘ty 3rd, according to Mrs. Carruthers'
Statement, she and her husband hacl guar -
relied, having been on bad terms for a few
weeks. After cooking breakfast, which
Carruthers refused to eat, she went out
to the river, 40 yards distant from thehouse, to get a pail of water throngh the
ice: She did this and on her way back to
the cabin fed the cow. \Chile at the stable;
only 30 feet from the hPuse, she heard an
unusual noise Inside, `.and returning found
her husband lying on the floor. She did
not to -Lich him, but ran for Mrs. Jordan, the
nearest neighbor, who went at once for a.
man named Fisher. Fisher came and found
Carruthers on the floor :with a 3
_ ca'h e re-
volver
r -volver lying close by. There were two bul-
let •holes in the man's head ; . one
Smut. • tt o in::};r, i
had entered a t
behind the right ear; gone
diagonally through the brain and was flat -
past month,' and great excitement, prevails.
Ever:-.• nizht many are thrown Ito trances,
which la• t from fifteen minutes to ten
ho-irs. Last night twelve persons were
•stret'hed out at floe same •time. Friends
would throw • them on benches and allow
them to lie there until they came to their
senses. Some were held ina half -standing
positron and presented a ghat tly appear.,
ance, with their set faces turned upward to
the electric light. At different times during
last night's ! meeting there were between
twenty and twenty-five, persons under' the
influenee.of the "power." Eighteen were
in trances Monday night. The, crowds that
gather around the tent are very large.
Abducted Gins' Rescued.
A Chicago despatch says : On information
received here last night the police raided a
disreputable resort on the South side.kept
by a colored woman, and after a long search
discovered a blind door nailed up. It led to
an attic, in which the officers found two
women, Mrs. Mary Simpler, of Cincinnati,
and Malvina Sparlitig, a handsome young
Danish girl, who had been decoyed into the
den, thrust, into the attic, and starved in
order to force thepi into lives of shame. The
keeper of the place was held to the grand
jury.,
Did This Actually Occur ? .
Judy' :'" Ah,"' he said, with a sigh, " this Exactly.
isn't a bit like mother's bread l". ` Puck : " 1 put my foot
" I suppose your mother 'nide the best the whole business."
bread in "the world," she replied with spirit. f " You V -toed it, eh !"
" No : far from it. 1 never could eat
he;
bread baked at home." •
A"rthiir Brand, the Liberal, who was re
Gently elected to Parliament from \Cisbeck,+
was materially assisted in his campaign by
his•wife. She is an accomplished musician,
am .ca. rt.i•.,:t.e�l the v�otcr4 a.t oliticu1 mr,nt-
1 I 1
Ings iry Sin, inuso g4 (1 ring the intermission
between speeches.
right down on
ave . ecome ` 1 1 15 s.
Province of Austria,has a local Government
which satisfies the aristocracy and the,
townstinei , but -the Ruthenian peasantry are
Russian in race and religion, and have no
sympathy with their former feudal lords,
from whose iron rule they were freed by the
edict of a Russian Czar. In Posen, the part
of Poland which fell to the lot of Prussia,
the national leaders are now endeavoring to
make terms with Emperor William, and one
of their number recently proclaimed his be-
lief that Polish nationality is dead. The
failure of the insurrection of 1863, which
Muravieffsuppressed, was large due to the
irreconcilable difference of aim between the
Democratic or socialistic towInsmen and the
aristocracy. The peasantry as it class took
no part in the movement.
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MANiPUR! EXECCTED.
The Senaputty and Another Rebel Slanged
at the City Gates.• .
A Simla cable says : Two of the leaders
of the massacre of British officials in March
last were hanged to -day at the gates of
Manipur. The two 'men were members•of
the reigning family at Manipur. Both had
/appealed from the sentence imposed upon
them by the MilitaryCourt, but theViceroy
of India decided that they -should die.
The principal victim to -day was the Sena -
putty, or commander -m -chief of the Mani -
puri army. He was the younger brother
of the Rajah of Manipur, and some years
ago he drove the Rajah into exile and
placed another brother on the throne, who
governed Manipur under the title of Jubraj
m' Regent, The e enaputty instigated the
the massacre of Chief Commissioner. Quinton,
Political Agent Gen. Wood, and .others,
who lost their 'lives at the durbar held in
Manipur.
The other victim was the Tongal general
who violatedthe, flag of truce under which
the Englishmen were decoyed from the
residency, at Manipur, which they had so
gallantly defended against overwhelming
odds. when attacked by Ilanipuri, and who
gave orders to the native executioner to
strike the heads and feet from the British
prisoners.
An immense crowd of path -es witnessed
the executions. There was no sign of any;
disturbance, for large detachments of troops
were present. •
The Jubraj (Regent) of Manipur and the
Prince Angoa Sena, whose sentences of death
were commuted by the Viceroy to trans-
portation for life and forfeiture of their
property, will sortly be taken from the
country.- -
The 1'a gest dam of any kind in the
southern hemisphere is that at ,13eetaloo,
Southern Australia. it is built of concrete,
r
t800,000,000 nl
t. a ca r,ctt gallons a
,has of
p y
Cost `'.iS.i,11110.
A New York newspaper growls beeauso
" Chicago has gof one leper.' New• Ycrk
may have him. There is nothing mean al.out
Chicago. (A/ratio Intlr;r-U-'ru.r.
A• TWO -YEAR -01.0,S 0I( ER_
.1 Brutal Father .to„ be Prosecuted for
Tobacco.Poi;oniu►g a Baby.
A Chicago despatch says The Illinois
Huinane Society has decided to prosecute
the parents of 2 -year-old Leonard Turner,
the tobacco -smoking baby. The child's
case was brought to public notice only a
day or two ago. Ever since the baby was
two months old his father, who is said
to he a dissipated character, has been
_teaching hitn-._to smoke. The child has
become so accustomed to the weed that
he cries for his pipe and tobacco. The
child is in a very feeble' condition, already
suffering from acute „;:nicotine poisoning and
having what is knoWVn to physicians as the
"r tobacco heart." His skin, eyes and brain
are also affected. Doctors express doubts as
to whether the child can be brought back to
.a healthy condition.
AERONAUT "DROWNED.
His Parachute Cbvcred Him and Prevented
His Swimming. '
A Syracuse despatch says : James Buck-
ingham; known as Prof: Deine, the aeronaut
a 1 parachutist, who made an ascension at
Pleasant beach, on Onandaga lake, near
this city to -day, met a horrible death in the
water there abut 6 o'clock. The ascent was
made without difficulty, and when, several
hundred feet up in the air the rofessor
loosened his hold on the balloon and dropped
drectly over ' the lake. The parachute
was inflated with air, and the descent was
rt•uade slowly, but when the water was
reached the parachute completely covered
Buckiligham, and it is thought he was una-
ble to extricate .himself from its folds.'
About 7,000 people were present, and wit-
nessed the fall from the balloon and the
subsequent drowning.
Howled for a Priest's Mood.
A Cleveland decspatch says : A mob of
Hungarians surrounded the house of John
Martvony, pastor of St. Ladislaus Catholic
Church,• late last night, broke the window,
and howled for .the pastor's blood. The
police arrived just in time to prevent the
breaking down of the doors. There has•heen
trouble between the Hungarian and Polish
members, because, as it is ;claimed, Father
Martvoney, who is a Pole, favored the
Polish metnbers.
endorsed it " R. 1). Frazer," hoping the
cashier at his bank would suspect something
wrong and refuse to cash it, as he always
endorsed his cheques " R:a•Duilley Fraser."
Morris sent a boy with the cheque to a bank
here and then clapped a napkin saturated
with chloroform on Frazer's ce. Frazer
remembers nothing more of tl e affair. He__
was £ound_unconsciou on the ed in Morris'
s
room in the evening. His watch and $50
were gone. The cheque lay on the table,
the boy having been unable to cash it.
The police are lookin for Morris.
PENITENTIARY HORRORS.
Convicts W hipped and Branded With Red
Mot Irony.
A Little Rock, Ark., despatch says : The •
inquiry by the federal authorities under
direction of United States Attorney -
General Miller as, to the alleged brutal
treatment of federal.convicts in the peni-
tentiary here still continues. Abraham
Davis, a convict, testified that shortly after
his term began he was branded three times
on the hips with a red hot iron, severely
whipped, and subsequently confined in a
dart cell two days and nights on bread and
water. The lessees of .the• enitentiary de-
nied branding; and in junication of the
whipping and confinement of Davis in a
dark cell introduced testimony to show that
he was lazy and impudent.
No Women Allowed.
•
There is one place in the world, namely,
the peninsula of Athos in the rEgean Sea, in
European Turkey, where women' are un-
known, and, therefore, where there are no'
girls born, because there are no births of
any kind. The population is about 6,000,
all monks, forming a kind of monastic repub-
lic; consisting of 20 large monasteries,
besides numerous hermitages and chapels,
The whole 'community is governed by
an administrative body of four Presi-
dents, one styled "First Man of Athos,"
and a representative body called
the Holy • Synod, consisting of . 20
members, one from each monastery. • They
enjoy complete autonomy, subject to paying,
the Turkish Government an annual tribute
'of about i3;500. The monks'follow the rule
of St. Basil' and lead an ascetic life, restrict-
ing their diet to herbs, fruit and fish. They
are empleyed.in agriculture, gardening, the
care of bees, and the manufacture of amu-
lets, images, crucifixes and wooden articles
'of fuj•niture, which they sell ; while they
also reap profits from the numerous visits
of pilgrims. No female, even of • the lower
animals; is permitted to enter the peninsula.
—American. Cat/colic Xeu:8,
• Popular Fallacies.
That physicians kill ,more microbes than
people.
That all chorus girls tread the primrose
path of dalliance.
That the lover of poetry does not require
three meats a day.
That policemen with the greatest chest
measurement make the. best officers'.
That a man with a mole on his cheek
-never-possesses a love -tor the beautiful
That the'sight of a lovely woman thrills a
man half as much as the sight of a $50.bill. .
—Jude.
A Level -Headed Parent.
Texas Sifting,v A Yale College student,
being hard up, wrote to his father in New
York :
Send me a hundred dollars Jty return
mail: He who gives quickly gives double: -`T —
The old gentleman replied by the next
mail, enclosing $50, with •the remark that
as he had responded promptly, the $50 in-
closed were equivalent to the • desired $ 100.
isa 'mmenae garden in China that.
Theren t
embraces an area of 50,00(1 square miles. It
is all meadow land and is filled with lakes, ;
canals. Altogot is as large
r n A ti
ponds and a.n hor tt
r as
nl t
a.s the States cif N ew York and Pennsylvania
combined.
>r
A railroad in the Argenti1 Republic
has one stretch of 211 miles without a curve
or bridge.
P'
me
Child/mu'
Growing
Too Fast
become listless, fretful, wfthout ener- S
ththin and Weak. Fortify and build
em up, by the use of 1
sco
ULS1
OF PURE COD LIVER OIL AND
IdYPOPI-IOSPhIlITHS
Of Lirne and Soda.
Palatable as Milk. AS A PREVENTIVE OR
(TRE OF CotCIIiS OR COLDS,, IN BOTH
THE OLD AND YOUNG, IT 13AltEpALLED.
Genuine made by Scott & Bowne, i:eiteviUe.
Salmon Wrapper: atall Druggists, 60c, and
1 $1,00.