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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-8-13, Page 2TifE REFINEMENT 01' CRUELTY Bow an An'Mien Captain Enforeed Di- oiliue on. Board, SAILORS SEEKING REVENGE,. A New York despateh says: For the past two weeks Eric A. Eklund has been anxiously awaiting the arrival from Liver- pool of the ship J:E. Chairman of this city. He was looking for revenge, and when he learned that the ship was anchored off Governor's island, he went to the Ueited States Commissioner Shields and made a statement on oath. The commissioner sent two deputy marshals to arrest Capt. Joseph A. Thompson who counnaude the 3. E. Chapman. When confronted with the 'charges Capt. Thomson said that the natter had already been exploited in Liver- pool, and that he had been honorably acquitted by the American consul there. He was detained by order of Commissioner Shields witil John Wild, of 41 Oldslip, gave $2,500 bail for him. Eklund said that on May 2nd, after the ship had rounded Cape Horn, he was eepair, ing a spar which showed signs of rot when Capt. Tliompson asked him what he was doing. When he replied the captain mimed him and hit him on the face, tearing the skin and drawing blood. "I tried to protect myself," Eklund said, " but as soon. as I raised my hands the cap- tain and the mate, his sou, jumped on me and put me in irons. They dragged me by the shackles on my hands to the mizzen- mast, and then lifted me up and made the irons fast to the spanker boom. My feet only just touched the deck, and when the ship rolled I was dragged froiu side to side. The torture was fearful. It seemed as if my arms were being torn out, and the pain filled everymuscle. I could not help screaming with the agony, and Jaokson, the man at the wheel, cavae at last to my help and cut me down. I was -told I had been hanging an hour and twenty minutes. It seemed like twenty hours. When the ship reached Liverpool I left her and paid my passage to New York. I was severly hurt internally, and was under the doctor's care in Liverpool. I am still taking medicine and fear I shall never be as strong as I was." Eklund is a stockily -built Finn, 55 years eld. He has been an " American seaman pretty much all his life. His statement was corroborated by Charles Powers, of Detroit, another seaman from the Chap- man. Powers is a fine-looking young man of athletic build. He is still a member of the -crew of the J. F. Chapman. He has no complaint to make of his treatment on board, and thinks that any man who did lis work could get on with the captain and other officers. He noticed that almost from the beginning of the voyage the captain and his son and. Second Mate Martin growled at the carpenter. He did not know why. The officers never complained of him (Powers), but he had seen two of the crew strung up to the spanker boom. "The first one stretched there," he said, "was Thomas Chapman, a lad of 18. The chief mate cursed him and they had a fight. I was helping to reef the mainsail and saw the captain and mate shackle the boy's hands and iron him to the spanker boom. His feet were off the deck when the ship rolled. Theydid not keep him there long; about ten minutes, I guess. He was free when I -came from aloft. When we docked at Liverpool the captain paid him off and. he shipped in a vessel bound for Quebec. "I was scraping oars on the forward house when Eklund was tied up. I did nob see them, tie him, but I heard him shout and groan. I think Jae must have hung more than twenty minutes. Billy Jackson, who was at the wheel close to where he was hanging, could not _stand his cries and cast him loose. When the captain learned who had cut him down he strung Jackson up in his place and sent jim Ericsson to the wheel. I do not know how long Jackson hun,„a. We arrived at Liverpool on Th.ursday, jime 44h, and were to be paid off on the following Saturday. Jackson and Ericsson were paid at once and shipped on outward -bound vessels be- fore Eklund made his complaint. It was said on board that five years ago Capt. Thompson strung up three men to the spanker of the Chapman, and that one of them was dead when he was cut down. DEATH AT THE BALL. A Desperado Uses a Knife and a I'istol— Shot the Wrong Person. A Durango, Col., despatch says: At a ball in the Blue Mountains, July 24th, a terrible tragedy occurred. While dancingwas going on merrily and all were enjoying themselves, a tough character named Tom Roach insisted on dancing. He was drunk and. armed with a knife and a six-shooter. He was told that the sets were all full and was requested not to interfere with the persons already on the floor, but he declared he would dance, and took hold of a gentle- • men and attempted to remove him from the floor. This was resented, and the parties became engaged in a scuffle, when a. young man named Frank H. Hyde, a son of a • IVIancos merchant, attempted to end the disturbance. Roach turned on Hyde viciously and stabbed him with a knife, inflicting dangerous wounds. Roach left the room but continued to act in a disorderly manner. A cowboy named Billy McCord tried to pacify Roach by going out where he was and talking to him. This seemed to enrage hira more than ever, and drawing his gun he killed McCord on the spot. By this time the excitement was be- coming intense and as no one was armed the people were almost panic-stricken. A boy slipped away to a house near by and securing a Winchester returned to the School -house. He took aim and fired, but missed Roach and killed Mrs. Walton:an estimable woman living in the community. In the excitement Roach left the place, since which time he has not been seen. The ,entire community are searching for him. The (Jars Left the Track. A Bellaire,0., despatch says : At about 10 o'clock this morning passenger train No. 4 on the Bellaire, Zaneville & Cincinnati Narrow Gauge Railroad left the track three miles south of Bellaire, two cars being over- turned and dragged some distance by the engine. The seriously injured are: John Mottle, baggage muter, hurt internally, badly bruised and will probably die; Chas. Mattress, leg broken and otherwise bruised; Wm. McElroy, head hurt and internal in- juries; John Irwin, of Bethel, Ohio, head crushed and scalp injured; G. P. Wilcox, of York, Pa., head badly injured. To -night all except Morris are reported to be in a fair way of recovery. It is rarely a man begins the pursuit of his health in earnest, till he finds 14 11 run own. —The Shah Of Persia is an enthusiast with the kodak, arid takes very good pictures with it When he cOndesceners to do so. Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a emir(' photographer who takes views of everything thet interests the King. OHOKED TO DEATH, A Young Oixl Robbed and Murdered in a Brutal Manner HER LOVER SUSPECTED. A Glendale, L. I., despatch says ; The body of the young woman choked to death near this village Saturday night or Sunday morning was to -night identaimil by a man calling himself Charles R. Weber, of North HavenConn., as that of his step -Mace, Matild'a Huber, 20 years old. Weber said the „airl left his house on Saturday for New York with John Aabe, who had been call- ing upon her at intervals dining the past nine months. She took with her $725 of her own money. This morning Weber read in the New Haven papers about the finding of the body and hastened to Glendale. When Weber was led to the morgue where the body lay, he appeared to be laboring under great excitement. He was arist shown the jewelry found on MTh body, and immedietely identified the ring having the initials " IVI. to H." engrave( inside as one that his niece had worn. As soon Lis the face of the corpse was uncovered he grew more excited, and said in a loud voice in German, "Oh, Matilda, Matilda, why did you go away? I told you somethingwould happen if you did not take my advice." Then he said to Detective Mullen'"Yeo, that is rny niece, IVIatilds, Huber." lie then looked at the clothing of the girl, and said it was such as she wore when she went away, Weber afterwards said the girl was the daughter of his brother'wife by her first husband. They resided in Coeslin, Pomerania. When his brother died five years ago he bequeathed the girl to him, and she came to America. She brought considerable money with her, and there is now $3,000 to her credit in a bank at New Haven. She had been rather wild of late, and since she became acquainted with Aabe she had been more independent than over, and when he advised her to have nothing to do with Aabe she would tell him to mind his own business. He thought she had been too intimate with him, as she sometimes remained. until 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning with him. Aabe is a dark, stoutly -built man about 35 years old. Weber thought Aabe was a drummer. Weber is a florist at North Haven. If Weber's story is true robbery would appear to have been the motive for the crime and not the refusal of the young woman to ac- cede to improper proposals, as had been suggested. Her pocket -book a,ncl money are missing. After hearing Weber's statement Detec- tive Muller started for Brooklyn to send out an alarm with a full description of Aabe. Some things in Weber's statement are not quite satisfactory. Some doubts are expressed as to the dead woman being his niece. Weber left for New York saying he would return in the morning and take the body to Connecticut. GIANT, MUDDEDED, GLUTTON, But an 011icer Cut His Throat With His OWD. KWIC. A Savannah, Ga. despatch says: Town Marshal Goodbread, of Jesup, yesterday • morning killed " Gen." Bartow Milker, a • colored Hercules. Fluker a few nights ago killed a negro woman at Brunswick and then made his escape. Yesterday morning some of the relatives of the murdered woman living in Jesup informed Marshal Good - bread that Pinker was near the town at the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia coal shute. The marshal went there and arrested him. On his way to town with the prisoner the latter made a clash for liberty, got into the bushes and lay down. When the mar- shal ordered him to get up he arose knife in hand, and advanced on the marshal, where- upon the latter shot him, wounding him slightly. The negro then rushed on the marshal, threw hini down and grabbed his pistol. The marshal held on to the pistol, and in the scuffle got hold of the negro's knife and. cut his throat with it. Thisnegro O few years ago was said to be the strongest man in the State and. the biggest eater. He would lift and. carry a hogshead of bacon, • and it is said that he could at one sitting eat a whole quarter of beef. It is said that he once ate 13 watermelons, and said he could eat 13 more. A THIRTEENTH WIFE. But No Horror of the Tidrteen Superstition Haunts Maude. A St. Louis despatch says: Maude Esterbrooke'at one time a ribbon clerk of a large retail dry goods establishment here, but who is heir to a fortune in Leeds, Eng- land, has been found in Salt Lake City by a Scotland yard officer. She is now the thirteenth wife of Mormon Elder Jenking of that city, and is so Satisfied with _Mormon- ism that she refused to accompany Inspector Watkins back to Leeds to claim her inheri- tance. She eloped from Vienna with an attache of the English Legation, who com- mitted suicide on the way to America by jumping overboard. The eirl drifted west with a traveller, became a'ary goods clerk here, went to St Paul as governess for a Rhode Island family, and then went to Salt Lake. A RELIGIOUS MANIAC Drains a Fireman And Tries To Put the Hotly into a Furnace. . An Elgin, Ill., despatch says : At the Northern Illinois Asylum for the Insane, in this city, Fireman George Lindsay had for a helper John Anderson, a quiet patient. While they were in the coal -house to -day, no others being present, the Innatie suddenly attacked Lindsay with a heavy hammer and killed him, Andersou was caught in the act of thrustiug the uneon- scious and dying man into the furnance. Anderson's mania is of a religious nature. He had never before shown homicidal tendenciee. A BIG CATCH. A. Story that Beats theEtroduct of Our Own Fishermen. A Panama despatch says : An enormous shark was caught in the harbor here last week It measured nearly 24 feet, hi length and was four feet in diameter at its greateet ' width. The flesh was cut off, and the dorsal bone is to be preserved. The skirl is about half an inch thick. The monster is what is known ae the boneless shark. It was captured by a harpoon thrown by a firemen on the eteamer Bolivar while in the vicinity of Tobago island, and the steamer was completely turned round and round by the powerful Ash when it was first captured. Damaging Testimony. Epoch, : Attorney (to witneee) --You know this man ' Witness—Yes, sir. Attorney—What is his repute,tion for truth and veraelty ? • WitueSS--Vell, he writes obituary verses, .—The sluggard eettally preftese seeing to he dogs rather than the all t. A MYSTERY SOLVED, A Woman's Throat Out from Ear to Ear by a Strange Aceident. 1311.01cxN GLASS DID THE DEED. A Paris cable says: What promised to be one of the ;nest poinplex, murdermysteries of Paris has hoe* eunnly solved, thiS week. At 10 o'clock on .Monday merlin% a lady living in the Rise Gaudol de' MaurOy, street which runs into the boulevards 114* the Madeline, was startled to hear a, 1011(1 Shriek in theconcierge's lodge. Rushing MO the rooms she found the concierge, Madant Recevault, prostrate on the floor, .the blood pouring from a fearful, clean cut gash thats repelled from the right.ear to the chin. She died in a few moments without being able to artiesdate a word :as to the cane of her injuries. The police who were called in. Could find absolutely no clue to the perpetrator' of the. deed.. Although a young and pretty women, Mine.. Recevault had never given cense for the slightest breath of scandal, and was devoted to her husband, who at the hour of the tragedy was away at his work. There had been no chance for anyone who Might have committed the crime to leave the room., for the lady who first discovered the dyingcon- cierge rushed into the apartment through the only door and met no One, while the only channecif the murderer to have effected an escape would have been through this same door. This he could not :law° (Ione without observation of the diseoVerer of the tragedy, who reached the room qnly a few Seconds after the dying woman's scream was heerd. Therewas a ladder up to a Window, but the window was dosed, and only oee pane of glass was broken, the aperture thus Made not being more than large einnigh for the egress of a cat. The theory' of suicide was disposed. of by the circumstance that there was-noweapon in the room with WhiCh the deed could have been committed. T.he police were completely puzzled until a phy, • swim made an autopsy of the • body. He found several bits of glass in the wound in the throat, and then the tragedy was ex- plained. Madame had been cleaning a window on the top of the ladder: She had . obviously fallen and struck her neck against the window, which had broken and 0.e glass cut her throat. • THE LIVING TOMB, Shocking Stories of Cruelties Practised in New York Prisons. A New York despatch says: The Adver- tiser some time since sent a reporter to Clinton Prison, where he obtained employ- ment as a guard, and he tells a story of cruelty practised upon the wretched prison- ers &boost passing belief. He tells of men suspended by waxed cords fastened round their wrists, and kept with their toasaba rely touching the floor from eight to thirty hours, suffering the most exquisite torture; of others confined to their cells for eight weeks and given nothing but an ounce of bread and a gill of water daily; of others handcuffed out in the open air for twenty-four hours during bitter winter weather; of others flogged till flesh was raw ; of others chained in such close proxim- ity to the laundry furnace that their clothes were scorched and theirlimbs terribly burned before they were re/eased. • In fact every torture appears to have been practised on the men that the ingenuity of the brntal governor and his guards could suggest. The revelations have created a decided isensa- tion. A Troy despatch says : A conviet re- leased from Dannemora prison July • 1st, after having served seven years, was inter- viewed to -night by a Telegram reporter,and he corroborated every statement made in the New York Advertiser relative to the barbarous treatment received at the hands • of the prison officials. If Governor Hill orders an investigation this ex -convict will go before the committee and swear to his statements. He says that one convict from Schenectadyhas been subjected to a con- tinuous punishment for three years, and is still undergoing tortures. This ex -convict also says that a great deal of his commuta- tion time was taken off because he, after having his required amount of work done, helped a sick convict to finish his work in the shirt factory to keep the latter from being punished. DOOMED REPOLETIONIS'I'S. A Spanish Republican Uprising Vfhich is Quickly Suppressed. A Barcelona cable says: The city of Barcelona was thrown into great excitement last night by what for a time was supposed to be a revolutionary • move of the Repub- lican party, but which subsequently proved to be a desperate attempt upon the part of certain speculators on the bourse to force a decline in the prices of securities dealt in upon the exchange. For foolhardy daring the scheme has never been equalled by reckless speculators in Spain or any other country. The troops of the garrison were in their barracks and the usual guards were out, when a band of fifteen men, some of whom were armed with rifles, while others carried revolvers in their hands, cautiously approached tbe building and attempted to surprise the guards, it being their intention to force their way into the barracks. The sentries, however, speedily discovered the design. The band was ordered to halt and give the countersign. To do the latter was impossible, and the men. made a dash upon the sentry, trusting that in the confusion which would ensue they might make their way into the barracks. As they rushed upon the sentries they fired a volley and some of the soldiers fell wounded. The other sentries stood firm and ,answered the volley from the attacking party with a fusi- lade le om their muskets. A regular battle of short duration followed, a number on both sides being wounded. In the mean- time the officers stationed at the barracks called the troops to arms, and the attackers Well, soon surrounded and compelled to sur- render. A court martial will be convened to try them, and it is believed they will all be shot. LAUTER. —A report from Barcelona justifies the belief that the affair was 0 genuine revolutionary attempt on the part of Re: nubile:ens. The persons arrested ere Federal Republicans. operators' Wages Cut Down. A despatch from Montreal says : The operators and other officials in the employ of t he Great Northwestern Telegraph Com- pany in this oil y are greatly exercieed just now over a well authenticated report that a further xeduction of ten per cent. ih salaries will be made in the very near future. They hear that the reduction has already taken piece in Toronto and Hamilton, and that the economical blast—one man ealled it blast es/ economy "—will soon strike iVion- trcal. VS ill min 1 Milliner, of C,hatham, fain hand, was amsted a week ego at St. Clair, 14) job , a charge of forging several notes, ;omelettes; to OVer %!:;1,000. On his arrest he WO8 ttlno to Port II mem by the sheriff', and, 0 0(00 quietly t o the Celled fair side extradition proceediegs 11010 begun. END OP A NENDETT.t, Noted Texas Murderer ExplateS Dis Crimes on the GallOWS. A Houston, '1'ex., despatch says WM. CaldWell WAS hanged to -day in the county jail. He died without making a statement, but expressed the, belief that lie would go to heaven. His neck eves broken. Caldwell' death sealed the lips of a inns who probably could, had he wished, have told more about the origin of the fearful strife which raged between the Jaybird and Woodpecker faubions 111 Fort BentiCounty than eny other prisoner. He was a negro far adiove the weal standard of his race in intelligence. The warfare which existed for a couple of years between these two political factions exterminated whole families, and scores of men were murdered during its reign, but Caldwell is the only person who met a judicial death on acemunt of it. He killed Dr. J. M. Sham- blen on the night of July 31st, 1888. This was the first murder committed by either side of the vendetta.. Dr. Shamblen was a prominent Jaybird or Democrat. Ile was regarded as the leader of the Opposition to those who were controling the political destinies of Fort Bend county at that time. Caldwell was a Woodpecker or Republican. On the night of the assassination Dr. Sham - bleu was sitting at the table in his home with his wife and family surrounding him, holding family prayer. Suddenly there was O report of a gun, and a load of buckshot crashed through the window close to where Ise was sitting. The doctor dropped from the chair in which he had been sitting, and with a groan expired. He held closely the Bible from which he had been reading, No one saw Caldwell when he shot Dr. Shaanblen. The evidence upon which he was tried and convicted was purely circum- stantial. CROWDS AT THE FUNERAL. Sad Scenes at the Interment ef the St. Mande Victims, A Paris cable says: Immense crowds of people, estimated at 25,000, gathered this afternoon at St. Maude to witness the fune- rals of the victims of the railroad disaster on Sunday last. There were 24 hearses in the line, which led from the Town Hall to the cemetery, and thousands of mourners followed the bodies to the grave. Every man, woman and child in the vicinity seemed to have turned out in mourniug attire for the occasion. All the houses of St. Maude were draped with crape em- blems, half -masted flags and other signs of general mourning. The scene was harrowing in the extreme. The air was filled with the wailing and crying of the relatives and friends of the dead, many of the women reaching such a pitch of excitement that they went into hysterics, while others fainted with emotion. The 'widowed and fatherless were the objects of the utmost sympathyupon the part of all present, and an effi ort s to be made to raise a fund for the assistance of those who have been plunged into the deepest distress. A letter from the .Archbishop of Paris, expressing sympathy with the bereaved, was read by the Mayor, who, with the Prefect of the Seine, had charge of the funeral arrange- ments. AN UNWORKA1ILE LAW. John Chinaman' a Point Ahead of the Ihnakee Exclusion. Act. A Washington despatch says: Special Agent Moore has made a report to the Treasury Department in regard to the case of three Chinamen recently arrested at Ogdensburg, N. Y., for illegally entering the United States from Canada, and who were discharged by order of United States Commissioner Strong on the ground that there was no proof of their ever being in Canada. The special agent says this action of the commissioner will make it very bard to convict any other Chinamen who may be found at suspicious times and places in the vicinity of the St. Lawrence River unless they are actually seen to land. He adds, however, that he will continue to arrest them as fast as found and to secure all evi- denee possible against them. Assistant Secretary Spalding has commended Mr. Moore for his activity in this matter, and has instructed him to continue to arrest all Chinamen believed to be illegally in the United States, notwithstanding the action of the commissioner. LOOKS LIKE A. FARCE. Vancouver Customs Refuse to Detain Seized Retiring Sealers. A Victoria despatch says: The captainof the schooner Marvin went to the custom house yesterday and told Collector Milne that, according to instructions received by him from Commander Turner of H. M. S. Nymph, in Bering Sea, he has to turn over his schooner to the Custom House as a seized and confiscated vessel, and that was what he was there to do. Collector Milne replied that he knew nothing whatever about the Marvin, that he had no orders as to what to do and distinctly xefused to take a vessel into custody. The collector gives the captain to understand that as far as the customs authorities were concerned he was free to leave Victoria in bis schooner and go where he pleased. The whole affair seems to be nothing but a stupid farce, as it ss cer- tain no British vessel Mil be seized and held here in any way whatever. The British Government has done absolutely nothing toward euforcine the lesv after seizure. Admiral Hothanifrankly admitted that he could do nothing. SUDLIall1 FAITH. A Company Organized to tend 'Umbrellas to Subscribers. A New York despatch says: The United States Umbrella Providing Company has filed articles of incorporation. The object of the company is to lend mnbrellas to sub- scribers at a moderate cosh The subscriber can take an umbrella with him wherever he goes, and is responsible for its safekeeping. The capital stock is 1,500 shares at $100 each. The incorporatere are Louis Cohen, Samuel Parnesfelder, Emil Weiger, George 11. Weigert and Saninel Baum. The com- pany will have offiees in all the principal cities of the United States. A subseriber ean go toy olhce of the resent his subscription card, and gees an umbrella. 12 11 travelling man, he can get an umbrella in Jersey City and turn it in to the co:li- ) :n y' si oft, c e in Chicago if he has no further tefor Telegraphing, wino, cannons. When the first vessel completed the pass- age of the than new Erie Canal, in 1825, there being no such thing as a telegraph line in these days, the news eves cohamuni- cated to Now York and to Buffalo by cannons placed within hearing of each other all the way along from Albany to each of the other cities. The signal was peeeed along in this way from Albauy to New York City and back again Lo Albany in 68 minutes. The experiment was a wetly one, bat wee a 0006000 in every par - (101(100 " These ere my 1454 5(1(1 writes," said ,the conntry editor es he lieished a notice ef SITS- poil i R ItjThZ0 Mnemirer. POR MONET AND TITLE, A New York raper $ays That Is Why IVe Have Citizen, Vanllorne, A New York despatch gives the follow- ing The Herald seys—it is a fact not generally known that President W. C. Van - Horne, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, recently renounced his allegiance to the United States of America aaal proznised to become a loyal subject of Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. Mr. VanHerne was moved to do this beeause an ellen cermet hold the position of Presideut of the Canadian Pacific roads and steeanship lines, which, by special proclamation, were some time ago declared to be an " Imperial highway" of the Kingdom of Great Britain itIld the Empire of India. This entitles the company to a small subsidy annually from the English Government, in return for which, in case of war, the Government may seize the railway without notice for the transportation of troops and stores or its needs in any particular, of course paying for this use. 11; is whispered around among the knowing ones that Mr. Vaullorne will at an early date be elevated to a baronetcy. The Canadian Pacific clique is practically the Canadian Dominion Government, and /sir. Vanliorne has won his way into a strong position in this combination, albeit it is lees than ten years since he resigned the position of general superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee Rs St. Paul to accept the general managership of the Canadian Pacific, which, at that time, was principally de- scribed by the expression "under construc- tion." BANK CLERK FORGER, The Deutsche lianl.—V27. 5t1:00.md to the Tune oti$ A Berlin cable says : A sensation has been caused here by a discovery of forgeries on the Deutche Bank to a large amount. One of the clerks of the bank who was allowed to draw bills forged some bills, and purchased therewith Russian roubles through a broker in the bank's naine. The auditors of the bank, owing to the cleverness of the forgeries and the tam- pering with the books, did not detect the frauds until the banls was requested to meet its liabilities. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the forger, but he had bolted. A later despatch says: The sensation caused by the fact that forgeries to a large amount on the Deutsche Bank had been discovered is gradually disappearing as the facts in the case are made pnblic. A clerk named Franck, in the employ of the bank, and a stockbroker named Schwieger are nowbeing hunted for by the police. Warrants for their arrest were issued to -day at the request of the directors of the Deutsche Bank on charges of forgery. The Deutsche Bank will make good the loss incurred through the criminality of its clerk. Franck, it ap- pears, who was allowed to draw bills of ex- change forged some bills and with them purchased Russian Roubles through Seliwie- ger. The total loss incurred by the bank is estimated at $295,000. A CHILD SLAVE. Pledged as Security for a Loam She is Freed by the Courts. A Minneapolis despatch says: Judge Corrigan heard the petition of Agent Tatro for an order to send 6 -year-old May Scholle to the State school at Owatonna. Officer Tatro rescued the little girl on Saturday just as she was about to be taken on board. the train for Chicago by a woman earned Kister. The little girl's lot is a peculiar one. She was serving as collateral for a loan made to her parents by tho Kister woman when she was taken by the officers. Her parents were very poor, and last fall they moved to Chicago. They had no money, and the Kister woman offered to • advance their fares if they would leave little May as collateral. The bargain was struck, although with reluctance on the part of the parents. They have not been heard from and for nearly a year little May has been at the mercy of the Xister tyrant. She has been forced to beg on the streets and in saloons, and if she didn't get a certain amount, it meant a beating. ln the winter the Kister woman while drunk fell on the little one and broke her left arm. It was set, and two weeks later while punish- ing her she broke the arm again, so that it is now crooked. The child was sent to the State school. DOWN ON FERDINAND. English Sentiment Against the Proposed Royal Match. A London cable says: The rumored in- tention to marry Crown Prince Ferdinand of Roumania into the British Royal family has aroused such caustic and unfriendly comment in England that it is possible that the scheme will fall through, although it is said the Queen has not regarded the propo- sition unfavorably. The throne of Roumania, in wealth and resources the leading Balkan State, would be a comforta- ble addition to the Royal seats occupied by descendants of the Queen, but harsh criti- cisms of the desertion by the Prince of Mlle. Vacaresco are yet too prevalent for the arrangement to be popular at this time. The English people hate a jilt. • It is said that a hint of the situation has been given to King Charles of Roumania, and that his love-sick nephew will not be led to the sac- rifice until a inore convenient season. In the meantime Queen Elizabeth, the romantic "Carmen Sylva," who encouraged the Crown Prince's attentions to her maid of honor, is recovering from the illness caused by the family jar to which it led, and Mlle. Vaca,resco has been sent to Rome. • RIOTOUS FRE_NCII STRIKERS. They Detroy Property and 'Build Bonfires in Charge. A • Paris despatch says: The strike of employes of the horse car railroads in Toulouse has assumed serious proportions. The strikers to -day demolished the kiosks on the principal thoroughfares, and tried to destroy the tracks of the horse car roads. Then the strikers gathered large quantities of wreckage into heaps and set fire to them, making huge bonfires, around which they danced a,nd shouted in triumph. Finally the situation became so alarming that the municipal authorities called upon the general in command of the military division of Toulouse to send troops to their assist- ance. The general promptly sent a strong force of dragoons, which quickly cleared the streets of the rioters and others. During the chimp niade liy the cavalry many people were injured and a nember of arrests were made. 'The cavalry now occupy alt points of vantage along the boulevards, while infantry and police are guarding the other main thoroughfares: end the ptiblic buildings. Henry La,bouchere, the famous free lance London editor and member of Parliament; is a little fat nsan whom 0 orrespondent who recently saw him describes as sitting in O leather chair, twiddling a griezled beard. "He is a millionaire, a Radical, an insafter- able Wag, He has, an exuberant animosity for all governinents ; he is the had bo) of the lIciuse of Commons. ; the fat, licensed, wicked little jester of the IiInglish press." • rEED OE THE REAL% question Settled as to die Hele te an, Earldom. A London cable s1,43r The House of Lords to -day decided, thatRandall Mowbray Thomas Berkeley bad established his claim to the honors and dignities of the Earl of Berkeley and Viso:mut Dureley. The claim- ant alleged that the male legitimate issue of the fifth Earl Berkeley, who died in 1810, was extinet, and that he, being the eldest male heir of the fourth Earl, was entitled to the peerage. Opposed to this claim was the claim of Francis William Eitzhardinge Berke- ley,Baron Eitzherdinge, who asserted thatthe fifth Earle of Berkeleyhad married a woman named Mary Cole in 1785, but, acting under advice, a further marriage ceremony veass performed in 1796. Subsequent to the death of the fifth Earl a pestle's arose as to the legitimacy of the issue born prior to 1796, and the House of Lords in 1811 de- cided that the eldest son'who was born in 1786, was not entitled to the sueeession. The decision given to -day upholds the de- cision given in 1811, and consequently Mr. Berkeley will hereafter be e peer of the , realm. The House directed that Baron Eitzhardinge be non -suited. 011iari4) dibillOrLieelifiC Art. OhriPrOr 191 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1887, as amended by 51 Victoriacchaptor 30; 52 Victoria chapter 41, and aa 17ictoria, chapter 56 ; 'ftnet. ttio A et passed 54 Victoria. Intituled An Act Respecting Local • Option in. the Matter of Liquor Selling." This ivork, which has just been issued from the press of the TIMES Printina.Coms- pany, will be found to be invaluableto att" magistrates, justices of the peace and others interested in the interpretation and application of the license laws ; hotel - keepers, saloon -keepers, as well as the temperance portion of • the community will also find • it to their advantage to become possessed of a copy of the volume. As the title page states, it is "a full and careful annotation of the Statntes respecting the keeping and sellieg ofintoxicating liquors, including notes of cases on the Temperance Act of • 1864, the Canada Temperance Act, 1878, and decisions re- garding the duties and liabilities of inn- eepers and license -holders generally, and. the duties and powers of all officers charged with the administration and enforcement of the Licensing Laws, with an appendix of forms." Judge Sinclair, of this city, 0 legal authority of great weight in Canada, and an author of much repute, several of whose works are now recognized by the legal fraternity as standards on the • subjects with which they deal, is the author and compiler of the book. Associated with him in its preparation, which entailed an immense amount of labor and research, was Mr. Edsvin. Ernest Seeger, a gentleman with an encyclopedic knowledge of all temper- ance legislation. The authors have popu- larized the work by eschewing alltechnicali- ties and legal phraseology as far as possible, so that any layman can grasp at a moment the meaning intended to be con- veyed. A number of forms in addition to those provided for in the statute have been added, including forms of proceedings on certiorari, objections to the granting of licenses, notices under the clauses respect- ing the sale of liquor to minors, inebriates and others. So thoroughly and plainly is every clause of the License Act and all its amendments es;plained,and so ample are the notes and references that he who runs may read. The volume contains 394 pages, is printed in clear, distinct type, and strongly bound in sheeplin and should be in the hands of every hotelskeeper, lawyer and magistrate in Ontario. MISS DiMillai.ODS In Asucrien. No one will ever pretend to deny that certain individuals are superior to certaii other individuals in acquirement, in intell lect, M goodness; but when it comes to, planting whole classes on platforms and etages of eminence, the idect is constamly to, be reprobated, and no American mother can allow her children to make such distinctions, uncorrected. Such classification of our citizens into upper and middle and lower tiers, once well established in the popular. mind, would help to make it easy for the next step—a monarchy upheld among these classes by the oppression and taxation and restriction and resulting ignorance of the people. The children of the ordinary mother M America, may in such an order of things by possibility be found near the throne; they may, by more probability, be found with the peas- antry, or with the armies that will keep the peasantry crushed so close to earth as to be no more than clods—anywhere but where they eau share or help the progress of hu- manity upward; as to -day, it is to be hoped having a chance to do so, they do. And in O country. founded upon the doctrine of equality m rights, a country whose institue tions have raised to personal '• sovereignty - those who would be serfs and peasants ha& their grandfathers of one or two removes re- mained in the old lands, a country whose - institutions have lifted women to an alti- tude that is allowing her to display and luxe the best there is in her, it ill becomes any woman or the daughter of any woman to , speak of any of her countrymen or country- women as of the middle class.—Harper'ss Bazar. • Would Die. Bather. Epoelt : " Miss Hijeo didn't sing to -el 6,y,"' remarked a friend to the leader of tlse choirs of the Church of the Offertory. "No, She has resigned:" "1 thought shehad a good place. Whets. was the trouble ?" . " She.wae offended about the selection or an anthem which she had to lead off last,. Sunday, and ,vowed she'd resign Sooner than:. sing it, and she did." " That's ndd. What was the anthem ?'„lea. ."It, began: 'I have been young and nirriv., am old.'" The First Step. New York Weady : Groom—Ah 1 None. of that! Ministcr—I was only going to kiss the- bri de. Groom—Oh, I know that's customary s: but I won't have it, and that's all there is about it I Bride—Why my dear, what harm is it 1- Groom—None at all. But you am a, married woman now, and I don't want you to contract the habit of kissing min- isters. Made the Moon 'flush. Washington Mar "Do you know, ho. said in a low tone, "that, I feel very narrow- minded. when I come to see yotx ?" " Why ?" She breathed the question, very, very gently. ' Because then I am a mars of one nigla dear." And the good, sensible old moon, who - has seen so much of that sort of thing, inade all possible haste to retire behind the nearest, cloud. Whereat There Are Many TeltIrS. New York I.ferald ' She (after the, engagement) --011, but George 1 Do you drink ? Ile (stnprised and emlsarrassed)—'W thank yon, (don't °ate if I do 'take senses thing. —The marl that never committed a follss eeStee appreciated wisdom,