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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-30, Page 2ete THE ROTEL HOLOCAUST. Shocking Scenes at the Syracuse Conflagration. ti 1 i HORRIBLE DEATHS OF THE YIOTI�1S, 4 l MOD, Wan and Children Devoured by the Flames, Vora Tanner's Miraculous Escape—Guests Jump for Their Lives and Are Crushed to Death Below—Others Fall Victims to the Flames—The Number H111ed and Injured. A Syracuse despatch says : What proved to be the most disastrous lire that has visited Syracuse for many gears was discovered in the Leland Hotel M heilf•past 12 this morning. It is now 2 o'clock, and the fire is still burning fiercely, though the entire fire department, consist- ing of nine engines, is working hard to save further lees of life and limb. An eye. witness of the fire says he is positive that at least 25 portions have lost their lives, and many more have been more or less injured. One woman was being lowered from, a window by the aid of a rope. She had reached a point opposite the third story when the rope became ignited from a burning sill, and parted, and the woman fell to the pavement. Her brains Were dashed out and her body flattened into a shapeless mass. So great is the confusion and excitement that the identity of those killed and injured id wholly un- known. IIndertakers' ambulances are $ging in all directions, and the streets in the neighborhood of the ill-fated hotel are thronged with excited crowds of people. A last (Thursday) nights Syracuse de- spatch gives the following fuller partionlare of the terrible fire at the Leland Hotel : Flames were first noticed coming from the kitchen on the :aeoond floor. Immedi- ately the blaze was communicated to the dining -room, and from there it spread in a very few momenta to all parts of the great building. The bells sounded a warning to the guests in every room in the building, and from the windows heads of frightened people were thrust. Then the guests Dame down the elevator and stairs, many with hardly any article of clothing upon them. ane man jumped from the fourth story to the top of the American Express building. Several other , gneste, including ladies, sprang from their windows. There were perhaps one hundred guests in the hatel. The people injured were taken in ambu- lances to the hospitals of the pity. The cries of the men standing in the upper windows and of the excited crowd below were deafening, and, added to this, the roar of the many fire engines created a mase of confusion in and around the hotel. A PREY TO THE FLAMES. 1.12 a.m.manandwomen were eeen a a n locked in each other's arms in a window on the fifth floor in the northeast corner of the building. Below them was a perfect ems of flames. No possibility of escape except by the window was open to them, and that seemed to lead to inevitable death. No assistance could reach them. The woman seemed to be anxious to jump, but her husband was earnestly entreating her to deeist. The crowd below waited with bated breath. The woman made one last effort to jump and was restrained by her husband. Then the cry of the crowd signalled the awful end that must have befallen them as they dropped backward into the room, which was a mass of flames. At a window on the fourth floor, almost directly under this, a woman appeared. She was surrounded on all sides from the interior off the room by fierce flames. She seemed irresolute whether to jump to the pavement or to face the fiery foe that was fast encroaching npon her and life. She stepped upon the sill of the window and placed her hands above her head. The people in the street below shuddered and turned their faces to shut out the horrible sight that must meet their gaze should the woman jump to the ground. The woman did not jump ; but seemed to be withheld by either Peer or the feeling that escape would come from some other source. She leaped from the Bili into the room, bat remained at the window one brief instant. Then the whole room became enveloped in flame and the woman Bank back from view. JUMPING FOR LIFE. Several policemen stood on the sidewalk holding nets ready to catch the guests as they jumped. Two persona, a man and a woman, jumped into one of the nets almost at the same moment, and escaped with broken limbo. 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 pieoee on the stone pavement. She was picked np and removed to the morgue.. THE DEADLY WIRES. One of the firemen told this story of the woman who was killed by jumping: " When we first Dame we were hampered by the telegraph wires on West Fayette street. In trying to raise a ladder it be- came naught in the wires. A woman stood in a window crying for help. The flames were leaping out toward her and ehe was frantic with fright. I went np a ladder and ant the wires. While I was doing this she jumped, thinking we could reach her, and the awful result was that she missed the net and was killed." SOME OF THE VICTIMS. Frank Carrey, of Glens Falls, was burned to death, and his brother, M. J. Carrey, had his leg broken and sustained internal injnries. B. Harris end Annie Kennell died at 4.30 a.m. at the hospital. Two ladies, whose names are unknown, jumped from the fifth story, and, though badly hurt, they escaped with their lives. Samuel Goodman, assist. ant general freight agent of the New York Central Railroad, was one of the gneete who escaped in safety. All the phyeioiane, ministers and priests of the pity are on the spot aiding the wounded and dying as best they can. The frightful ehrieka of girls and the cracking of the flames could be heard for blooke away. The building burned so rapidly that moat of the people in the upper floors were obliged to nee the fire eaoape or jump. WOMAN AND CHILD PERISH, One woman appeared at a window in a room on the north aide of the building with a baby in her arms. Her pitiful erica were heard as the flames gathered around her. The firemen tried in vain to raise a ladder. The woman was told to throw out the fire escape rope or jump from the window. She threw ont the rope, and as she was climb. ing out of the window the flames enveloped her and sho fell back into the building and perished. Seven or eight men and ohildron jumped from upper stories on to a shed in the rear of the building. THREt9 TEEMptLVNfi TO Tun GnOIIND, At brie window On e sixth floor were Mies Walk( r, a pantry girl ; Madaline Hennessy, the linen room girl; be sister Lizzie Hennessy, a chambermaid, The three women rushed to the window, threw their amts about each other, and eoreamed for help. A hundred voices from the street galled to them to be quiet till a ladder oould be placed, but the Waltzer girl suddenly stepped on the window and with a cry, " I'd rather be killd than burned," threw her self out into the street. She was killed by the fall. The Hennessy sisters a moment later were resound by th, firemen.. At window on the all floor ta' , women screamed for help. The big lade. was at another window and the jenmin•,' ,gat was brought out. One of the vjomen, Bridget Doyle, jumped before the t:et was got into poeition. She etruok on her bead and shoulders and was dead when pinked up. She was a hotel employee. Mary Padden, a laundry girl, jomped from a rear window and was killed. CORA TANNER'S ESCAPE. The time finally came when the cries ceased and nothing could be seen in the greatetrueture but the rolling, eeething, moaning billows of fire as they mounted. above the highest cornioee and made the stars in the sky look dim. As soon as. Cora Tanner was aroused ehe rushed into the hall. The door of a gentleman's room near by was 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. Mies Tanner was not seriously injured, but the palms of her hands were out and lacer- ated by holding on so tightly to the rope. Mise Tanner saved her jewelry, $500 rn Dash and valuables, She grabbed them up hastily, thrust them into a jewel case and ied it about her neck. Mise Duprey and Mies Klein, both of the same company, had narrow escapes. HOW LIR. BROWN SAVED HIMSELF. J. W. Brown, of the Cora Tanner Com- pany, occupied a room on the fifth floor. Mr. Brown was awakened by the bell, and looking out of hie door saw a bright light. He took time to dress and was 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 tboy were all right and were taken down in the elevator. Mr. Brown then got back to his room, and putting a wet blanket over hie head crept along the hallway and got down to the third floor, where he felt secure and sat in is window while the firemen were patting np a ladder. There were three girls is a window above. One of them jumped out. He urged the other two to remain, and they cense down on the ladder. At 4 o'olook the superintendent of public works ordered the men engaged in ex. ploring the ruins to stop work, as all the missing had been accounted for. Coroner Smith empanelled a jury at 2.30 this afternoon, end after viewing the remains adjourned the inquest until to -morrow at 2.30. A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. The stories told by each fortunate enough to eea a with life were horrifying ng in detail. The story of M. J. Carey, of Glen Falls, was perhaps the most pathetic. With his brother, Frank Carey, he ocou. pied a room on the fourth floor. He was awakened by a 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 hie brother and urged him to get up and fly with him. At last he was obliged to give up in diepair and seek his own safety. He burst the .door open only to be forced bank by the heavy waves of smoke and fire. So lenges he could gain a firm footing by clinging tightly to the walla he worked his way down the stairs. He was finally obliged to seek a window and jump to the walk. He MSS picked up and carried to Congress Hell. He was injured 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 fall. A TORONTONLIN'S ESCAPE. Mr. Isaso Anderson, of the firm cf Hess, Anderson & Co., manufacturers, and man- ager of the Standard Oil Co., well known in Toronto, was a guest at the Leland House' Syraonse, Wednesday, at the time of the fire. Mr. Anderson was married in Oswego on Wedneeday, and was on • itis wedding tour. He escaped safely from the burning hotel, but in his night clothe&, and by the fire lost part of hie baggage. Mr. Anderson telegraphed yesterday stating that he was 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 eix stories in height. The lose willnot be less than half a million of dollars to the Everson estate, Mr. Leland and the pro- prietors of stores on the first floor. A large force of newspaper men are on she ground and making every effort to secure a list of the dead and injured, but so far without success. The total loss, $2167700 ; total ineuran $129,000. • THE FIRST AT.ARM. Lewis Leland proprietor of the Ocean Hotel at Long Branch, who has been visit - ng his cousin, Warren Leland, jun., was he firet to discover the fire. Ho was going ram the office at 12.45 o'clock, when he noticed a ligbt throuele cracks in the door opening into the stairway which led to the kitchen and store room above. Opening he door be saw that the upper end of the stairway was in flames. He cloned the door and ran back into the office, calling to Night Clerke Porter B. Jones and John Bridgeman to give an alarm. Mr. Bridge. man rang the eleotrio alarm, which tinge a ell in every room, and Mr. Jones sent a telephone alarm of fire. Lewis Leland and the elevator boy, Henry Hoechst, had run npstaira and dashed through the halls, calling to the guests. Clerk Bridgeman joined in this &arm thre,ugh the halt, and Clock Jones kept at work or, the fire alarm Night Porter Richard Recd got out the fire hose on the second floor , rid ran it back into the dining -room. FLEEING FROM THE FLAMES. In lees than a minnie, however, the entire northwest corner of the building was afire. Even before a mai ,r,ty of the guests 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 up the window sashes and gaining headway into four rooms in each floor at the same time the fire swept through the entire building. Scone of gucetewho bad been awakened by the orackling of the flames or the ringing of the electric bolls rushed out of their rooms into the balls, only to find them full of smoke. Some of those who got out of their rooms just succeeded in eeciping by the etaireago. P. D. Brayton, of this city, wee in a room on the, fotirth. fioori U4e was moulted and t f t b quickly got into some of his clothes and went down the staircase through clouds of smoke, breathing through a wet bath sponge that he put in his mouth. The halls were tilled with cries and ehrieks. Although the gay was burning in all the hallo, the light oould not be seen more than a few feet out of the dense smoke. Dozens of men and women who bad fallen on the floor and stairs overcome with the intense heat and emoke were dragged to the exits. u Captain Quigley, of the night watch, with about 25 men, did excellent service in rescue ing guests= TO THIU BENNE. In less 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 crowded to the windows Drying for help. The Hayes truck was run up the building and an attempt made to hoist the big ex- tension ladder. There was some hitch in the machinery of the hoisting ' apparatus, which made a delay of several minutes. CORA TANNER'S COMPANY. Wm. T. Grover, acting manager for Cora Tanner, who was filling an 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 occupied rooms on the third and fourth floors. Mr. Grover said : " Nearly all, if not all, the young ladies of Miss Tanner's company had retired, but several of the gentlemen were still np when the fire broke oat. I threw a few of my clothes and personal effects into my trunk, but lost them in the end. I was on the fourth floor. Among othere on that floor was Mies Ada Dwyer, of the company. We met in the ball and started in the direction of a fireman's 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 ont by the dense smoke, for the halls were soon in total darkness. I did not see Miss Dwyer again till we met on the ground floor. I lost all my personal effects except my watch and money." ACTOR ALDRICH'S EXPERIENCE. Louie Aldrich, the actor, who begins a three nights' engagement in Buffalo. to -night, hie leading lady, Miss Dora Gold - writhe, and his manager, Frank Chapman, had thrilling experiences in the Leland Hotel fire last night, The trio arrived in this oity at noon today and all 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 else," said he, " but I never was so near death as I was early thie 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 flext and we both hunted for the stairway. The heat and smoke almost overcame me. I succeeded in finding the stairway and we escaped all right. One man told me afterward that I saved hie life, but I don't believe him. I don't remem- ber it. Chapman,m y manager, slid down a rope to the sidewalk. I am wiling to bet that in seven minutes after that hotel took fire it was a mase of flames. In one hour after the fire broke out tbo walls toppled over. After we got out of the hotel we went to the Globe. Strange to say, that hotel caught fire, too, and after we got to bed we were awakened and driven out of there. We went to the Vanderbilt then and remained until morning." Mr. Aldrich lost all of his clothing except a pair of trousers. He lost a pocketbook containing $263. Manager Chapman lost $300. Ail of Mies Goldwaithe'e clothing was lost. She left Syracuse attired in another lady's dress. She was too ill at 2.30 to see cellars. Her hair was singed a little. Mr. Aldrich'e eyebrows and aye lashes were burned off and his hair signed. SCENES AND INCIDENTS. The scenes and incidents of the fire are almost numberless. R. E. Johnston, of New York, manager for Ovid Main, the violinist, was around at 4 o'clock this morning wearing one man's trousers, a Central trainman's coat and a third man's battered and worn bat. The only things that he wore of his own were hie cork leg, patent leather shoes and night shirt. Mr. Johnston lives in Brooklyn. He occupied a room on the top floor. He had a narrow escape and lost $40,000 worth of contracts for the appearance of Musin in different parte of the country. He saved $140 in money and his watch. Judge E. B. Wynn, of Watertown, was on the second floor. He descended a ladder to the ground and saved his legal papers and money. Marone Stranse, of Rochester, was ontho fourth floor. He escaped down the stair- way, losing all his effects except his coat and trousers. His watch was a valued heirloom. MORE WRECKS REPORTED„ The Lis of Casualties 1n the Late Galea Growing Larger, A Halifax despatch says: Reports from the north eide of Prince Edward Island say the recent storm there was the heaviest for years. A quantity of deals are coming ashore at Malpegne, evidently from a yes. eel which has lost her deck load or gone down. The schooner Corporal Trim, which left Chatham, N. B., last Thursday for Malpegne, has not eince been heard of, and has doubtless gone down with all on board. Just before dark Monday night a large brig was seen off Cable Head in a dangerous position. A fishing schooner from Cara. quiet, N. B., was wreaked at Fish Island, P. E. I., in Sunday's storm. The crew was saved. A despatch from Englisbtown, C. B., says the hulk of the wreaked bovine Algeria caught fire from lighted tar bar. rele and was burned. Captain Dennis, of an American fishing schooner, who saw the fire and endeavored to render assistance, narrowly escaped losing his own vessel. Scurvy on Shipboard. A San Francisco despatch . says : The ships R. R. Thomas, from New 'York, and Alex. MoOnllom, from Baltimore, arrived here yesterday with scurvy on board. The sailors on the MoOnllom were in a horrible condition, their bodies being covered with running sores. Their game were black and swollen and hid their teeth. The men said that during the 154 days' passage they had not tasted vegetables, and the meat given them was putrid. Thomas Hayes and James Measure became blind as a result of the die, rse. The quarantine officer will report the oases to the United Status authorities. The Plunger,'! Oliver Dowd Byron's new play, has made a great bit. It is of the sensational order and introduces among other startling effeote an elevated railroad train dashing along at full speed through a rainstorm of real water. Kate Bron playa the part of a wealthy Irieh widow and wears some wonderful Parisian gowns. The yonng man who was eaid to have " rdn rapidly through his property" must have had on a red shirt with a black bull behind bine. SHE WAS UNFAITHFUL, And Iler Husband Murdered Hor Para- mour by Ser Side, Husband and Wife Then Go Their Differ- ent Ways—The Murdersd Mau' Brother Beeks tq Avenge His Death and is' Slain in a Duel by the outraged Husband. A Charlotte despatch says ; John Dixon, a prosperoue young farmer of Alleghany county, diaoovered that an intimate rely• time was existing between his young wife and Marshall Halsey, almost a stranger in the county. Dixon a few days ago told Halsey of his euspioions, and warned him if he did not oeaeecalling at his home while he was away he would kill hint. Yesterday Dixon was away from borne, and on his return he saw his wife leaving the house. She did not en him, but he got his rifle and followed her at a distance. She went into soma woods near by, and her husband watched her. Halsay name up, and Dixon soon had his suspicions confirmed. Then he crept slowly through the woods until he was near enough to fire, and taking aim, he pulled the trigger. The ball took effect in Halsey's temple, and he fell dead by the side of hie slayer's unfaithful wife. Dixon. then told hie wife he intended to kill her also, but her piteous pleadinge 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, Late in the evening Charles Halsey, an elder brother of the dead man, hunted Dixon down and found him at the house of a friend. Halsey pulled ont e large revolver to shoot Dixon, but others interfered, saying if he wanted to fight he would have to fight fair and give Dixon a chance. Ten panes were stepped off and the two men put in position with their weapons in hand. 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 United Ireland prints an account of the escape of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, written by Mr. O'Brien himself. Mr. O'Brien says: "We rowed from Dalkey on Wednesday at midnight to a yacht lying two miles off the chore. Not an enemy was in sight. Next morning found ns 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 passed quite close to ne and the crow of the Royal Adelaide, off Falmouth, actually ll y exohanged greetings with our Bailors. A Dublin steamer also passed close to us. A heavy fog buried us from sight. On Sunday night four steamers blowing fog -horns were around us during the night. Wo cleared the Lizard in the morning and darted across for the Frenoh coast to out -trick the British shipping. We were becalmed again on Monday, and wore obliged to beat np the channel. A brisk gale sprang up on Monday night, in which the yacht behaved magnificently. While passing Guernsey after midnight we were apparently pursued by a revenue nutter, which, however, was unable to weather the gale, and abandonem the chase. In the mornipg 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. fectly, thanks to the prominent Dublin citizens who superintended them, and we bad unparalleled good luck." Mrs. O'Brien left Dublin this evening to join her husband.. WANT HUSBANDS. French and English Girls Importuning the Mayor of Montreal for Husbands. A Montreal despatoh says : The impres- sions seems to have gone abroad that the Mayor of Montreal is a matrimonial agent. Some weeks ago the then acting Mayor, Ald. Hurteau, received a letter from a bachelor in the West, asking that he send out to Arizona any young women who wanted husbands. The acting Mayor's reply that he did not keep a matrimonial agency got into the press, and now letters are being received by the Mayor from young marriageable women in Franca and England. One is from Marseilles, and the fair writer says she is ready to leave that place, where she has been unfortunate, and dome to Montreal. All she asks is money to pay her fare, and she will leave at once. The other letters aro from London, and are written by an 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 send her photograph in exchange to any young man who means laminas. The French' girl says she is 24, and would like to marry a man of 30 to 40. Her attractions are a tall elegant form, dark hair and dark eyes. She promises to be a good wife, and is willing to exchange photos. THE CRUEL TUBES. The Barbarons Treatment to Which they Subject Armenians. A cable from Constantinople atatec that arrests of Armenians are still being made, and many of those who have bean taken into onetody have been shookingly mal- treated and tortnred. Among other cruelties to whiob the prisoners have been eubjeoted is the withholding from them of all food They have also been deprived of sleep. Persons suspected of disloyalty are am 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. etantinople was today found dead in bis cell. It is alleged his death was the direct result of tortures inflicted upon him. The officials at Van, Armenia, are still arming the Turks, and outrages upon the Armen• inns there are of frequent 000arrcnoe. A Hopeless Case. Can nothing be done far the prisoner Mr. Brief ?" " I fear not, sir." " The legal expedients aro all exhausted, are they ?" " No, but the prisoner's money is." Charles Barnard is writing a comedy of New England life entitled Cynthia Bar. dock." 'The scone is laid at Deerfield, Conn., in the historic Willard house, built by Mr. Barnard's great grandfather. Douglas Atherton will play the title role and will don the silk dresese, hoop -skirts and other millinery featflres of 1890. The third aot will disolose an old-fashioned berrying genet. LOVED A BLACKSMITH, The Beautiful paughcer of Wealthy Air Cammack Elopes With a Forge Master at Washington, A Washington Deepatoh says The latest sensation in a matrimonial way is the elopement of Mise ,Annie Cammack, the only daughter of Mr. John Cammack, a wealthy retired florist of this city, with e blacksmith who kept a email shop near her father's mansion. The blacksmith bears the aristooratio name of Arlington Hardesty. The couple went over to Bal- timore last Friday and were married by the Rev. William Clapp. They spent that night iu Baltimore and the next day at the. happy groom's humble lodgings, near Mr. Cammaok'e mansion. On Sunday morn- ing the bride pegged over home, and announoing that they had just returned from Baltimore, took up her home life whore she had left it off. On Monday morning a letter was received by her father from a Baltimore friend, detailing the circumstances of ,her stay there with Hardesty, and when he confronted her with this story she promptly denied the whole thing. Mr. and Mre. Cammack, bent on satisfying themselves, went over to Baltimore and found the marriage in the books at the Recorder's office. That night Mrs. Hard- esty went home with her husband again to his modest quarters over a neighboring little shop. Mr. Cammack retired from business cares years ago with an ample fortune, and his home on the Seventh street road, just above the Soldiere' Home, is one of the finest suburban residences about this oily. Bis first wife, the mother of the eloping girl, has been dead some years, and his present wife, o most estimable lady, has been a kind step -mother to his only,daugh. ter. The young lady has had her own way pretty much, having plenty of money with which to entertain her friends, end was a great favorite. Her father doted on her,. but he did not spoil her. When she left school a year or two ago she was highly accomplished. Since then she has ham all the advantages of pleasant sooiety and lively company. Her gowns were perfec- tion in number and style. She is tall and graceful, a blonde and possessed of plenty of admirers. She is already in poesession of a small fortune left her by her mother and uncle, and with what her father may leave her she will be wealthy. The blacksmith shop which Hardesty opened three years ago is the last plaoe in the world that even the most romantic girl should become enthue- iaetie over. It is a little dingy shed just opposite the grounds of the Cammack man- sion. The lusty young blacksmith had plenty of work, but seems also to have had abundant time to excite sparks of love in the heart of the heiress. When he began three months ago to walk boldly up to the front door and spend his evenings in the splendid drawing -room talking to his be- loved one, Mr. Cammack mildly remonr titrated and finally forbade hie daughter to receive the man's attentions. The opposition made stolen interviews a neoeseity, Miss Cammack's fancy for the anvil-whaoker increased and when he striking the iron while it was hot, proposed e runaway marriage in Baltimore, she was only too willing to comply. air. and Mrs. Hardesty are now residing at their humble home, a stone's throw from the Cammack mansion, and business at the forge, after the sensational develop- ments of the past few days, will probably be remunerative and brisk. Mr. Hardesty bas quantities of information on the extent of his beautiful young wife's present income and future prospects, and they will look about shortly for quarters more in keeping with what she has been accustomed to. Mr. Cammack has not much to say about the matter, feeling keenly the pub. licity which hie daughter's unwise act has occasioned. It is quite probable that the young people will be given every encourage. ment, and if the blacksmith has as much sense as strength his wife may not regret her step after all. At present they are both intensely happy, and their dreams of life are as bright as sparks from tho anvil. The Cammaoks are an old Washington family, nearly all of whom have gained and held large fortunes. SAINTS A1YD POLYGAMY. Brigham Yonng,jr.,on the Recent Mormon Revelation. A London cable says : Brigham Young, jr., has been interviewed by the Liverpool Mercury. It was, he eaid, a popular delusion that the Mormons, are compelled, to have more than one wife, and as a matter of feet only 10 per cent. of the elder mem• bersof the community bad more than one wife. The saints lied always honored, and would always honor, the laws of the land, and now that laws had been enacted by Congress forbidding plural maariagee, the present president, Wilford Woodruff, has ieened a declaration of submission. He maintained, however, that passing this prohibitive law was a direct stroke at relig. ions liberty. Contrary to the prevalent opinion that the repent presidential mani. festo is the death knell of Mormonism, Mr. Young maintains that although to a great extent it disfranchised them, the spiritual nature of hie religion will overcome all ouch difficulties in the States. He said the sup• pression of Mormonism was not a moral or social question, but purply and simply a political question. The Grocer's Loop. It is easy to break a string, says the New York Sun, if you only know how. Women need not hunt for a knife or a pair of ecieeors after a tying bundle, nor saw the strings over the edge of the counter. The grocer's loop does the business. Hook the first finger of the left hand over the string, giving the finger a twist, or, rather, bring- ing the plan upward. Then roll the finger over backward until it is tight against the bundle, drawing tight the cord, which is held in the wright hand all the time. Press the thumb hard against the loop; then jerk the cord suddenly with the right hand, and the string cuts ineelf. Yet he was no Gentleman. New York World : Mr. John Smith regis- tered for himself and wife ae "Mr. John Smith and lady," which so exasperated Mrs. S. that she scratched it out and wrote " Mrs. John Smith. and gentleman." It was a great object lesson for John. —" There has evidently been a misap. prehoneion,"stated the minister after the collection for the heathen had been taken up, bamong certain members of this con- gregation oonoerning the heathen's cos- tume. I will state that they do not wear pants." Seventy-nine persona in Groat Britain pay tax on incomes exceeding £50,000 per annum. The total aggregate amount of incomes thne assessed exceeds £8,00.0,000' sterling. In Ireland there is only one tax. payer whose income exceeds £50,000. He is returned at the rate of £76,394, and he last year contributed to the imperial. revenues the cum of :81,908. The concave mirror in not exactlya hum- orist, but it makes some very musing, reflebtione. amara+Ma •ra rrl111111.1111111111 SUIVIDE B11' ear[D7t rt,, Bridgeport's Contribution to the,Rorrible Again Attracts Atttaition. A Bridgeport, Conn., despatoh says Another member of the Subilia Club has carried out the edict of that ardor. Yaw time it is Emil Ziemeite, who took hie life with cyanide of potassium ;istneke came from Ansonia and joined the club nine months ago, when the order tees without members other tba.tt ite president and secretary. The club was started about two years ago. Early Isat spring Wm. F. Matby, a letter -carrier, i;illoti himself. Wendle Baum next ;hot himself, and Joseph Kopp followed by hanging himself. All were membere of the Suicide Club These suioidse reduced the membership to the president and secretary, who are exempt from self•desiruction. Ziemeke with three others, was then pledged to the seoret order. A ballot resulted iu order. ing Ziemeke to destroy himself before the next meeting, ori Saturday, Ootober 18th, and Ziemeke hers futliied his vow. All Bummer he was employed at Seaside Park by a photographer. Towards the olose of the bathing season he became despondent. On Friday night at 11.40 he entered a drag store and aelied for, whiskey. After taking the drink he asked for a glace of water. Into the water he dropped a lump of cyanide of potash. After swallow- ing the poison he ran out of the store and before going a block fell. The ambulance was called, but before Ziemeke reaohed the hospital he died. Fie was 47 years old. At the meeting last night the Suicide Club commemorated .Ri:a'steki's taking off with a fitting memorial ptosed in the archives of the order. "Then e ballot was taken appointing the next brother who must destroy himself. HE WANTED IVEZ ,7::;,:GINE. A Youth Who Bargained f:7 ' Centerfeit• Money and Got into ,jail. An Ottaweedeepatoh nye : .animas Mc• Cormick, a young farmer of Canaan, Rust sell county, thought he saw a bonanza in wife,. New York circular offering " live hundred dollars for fifty," and sent on the fifty. He knew that the $500 was hoes money, and in accordance with instruetiene called it "medicine," which he stated in remitting "he badly needed." He netted that the dose be put up as follows : Two flltiee, five twenties, twenty tette and twenty fives. This letter, with remittance, was inter- cepted by order of the Postmsster•Generale and handed to Major Sherwood, Chief of the Dominion Secret Service. It was post- marked August 9. Major. Sherwood canned a reply to be sent from New York, stating that the only safe way would be to hand McCormick the stuff, and &eking him to meet J. J. Grant, of Philadelphia, at the Windsor House, Ottawa, Oct. 16th. McCormick kept the appointment, and learned too late that J. J. Grant, Phila- delphia, was one of Chief Sherwood's men, who placed McCormick unciae street. A. very stringent statute was passed in 1888• to meet these oases nnder which this offence is a felony punishable with five years. Major Sherwood states the:: this bogus money business is becoming tea common, and it will be in the public intereet to make a few examples. The conviction secured the other day in Toronto wee a naso sent up there from the department here. Mr, Sherwood bas a list in his peresesaion se • - cured from New York conic iuisg over 300 names of Canadians to he ol;erated on by these sharpers. Some of these men are of standingin this very city, who would blush to see their names in p;:int. THIS GALLOWS DOOM[. Edward Blanchard to be wangFd for•i Murder on December 12th. A Montreal despatch says : Those whose, duty it is to follow the course of events in this Province are becoming weary of re.. cording the deeds of murder that are shocking the public, but it is a satisfaction to record the punishment as well. To -day' two finch events are to be added to the long; list. This morning the Court of Queen's Bench at Sherbrooke, already memorable • for the conviction of Lamontagne for the murder of his brother-in-law, recorded another verdict for the same offence, and Edward Blanchard was sentenced to be hanged on Deo. 12th. The arime for which Blanchard is convicted was committed last November near Ayer'e Flats. It appears the two men, Calkins and Blanchard, were drinking together, and Blanchard had a• revolver, the nee of which be professed to be very proficient in, and flourished it about in a dangerous manner. Calkins re- monstrated with hire, and. e, scuffle en- sued, in which Calkins was killed by the discharge of the weapon. The men were alone in the house at the time, and when Mrs. Calkins returned her husband was dying. Blanchard fled, but was appro. handed shortly afterwards by Constable Moe, of Sherbrooke. The evidence was most conclusive, and showed that a foul murder had been committed. A BOY SUIr-.1DIC, A Victim of Cigarettes and Trashy Litera- ture Hangs Himself. A New York despatch says : The read- ing of lurid dime novels turned the bead of 14.year-old Preston Turpie, and today he hanged himself here. With a boy named Duffy he had been talking over the hero of the latest novel romance, who ended his life with the rope. The boys conned the pages of the trashy book on the roof of a Madison street tenement house, where bot Lived. Their imagination was strongly ap pealed to by , the story, and both declare banging was not so bad after all. Duffy went down stairs for a few minutes, and when he returned Tapia was hanging from the door of the stairway that leads to the roof with a clothes line about his neck. The boy's toes were barely free from the steps and he was already insensible. Before Turpie could be taken down he was dead. Tnrpie was also an inveterate cigarette smoker, and it is thought the habit en- feebled his mind. The Wife Could Squeal. Chicago News : Mr. Jay Gould oontem• pletea the effects of the McKinley tariff' with great eganimity, and in this he re- minds us of the countrymen in; is dental officio. Said he to the dentist, "I wont pay nothing extra for gas. Jnat lug her out. Never mind if it does hurt," " Well," said Let dentist, admiringly, "you are plucky. me 'Bee the tooth." "Ohl " exclaimed the countryman, "'tain't nee that's got the toothache; it's my wife." Appropriate Comment. Nurse (meeting young and &nxious hue• band at door)—All is well and you are a, happy father. He—What is it ? She —Twine. He—Gemini 1 President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania - Railroad started life as a track hand 80• years ago. The combined salaries he re - delves now aniottnt to $100,000 a year.