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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-1, Page 6CLEVER CANADIAN CROOlc, EMT° of the Deeelaville Xurderer From a FentleylVania OLIABS AND SAWS HIS WAY OUT. APittsburg, Paadesp chsays : Frederick C. Fitzsimmons, of Brockville, Ont., the ell around Caua,clian crook whelast Mereli mur- dered Detective David. Gilkinson, eecapod from the Allegheny County Jail some time last night. A. reward of $1,000 has been offered for Ins recapture. Fitzsimmons was to have beeis placed on trial uext weekfor murder, The escape WAS as daring the killing of Gilkinson wee cold-blooded and desperate. The prisoner first sawed off two of the iron bars of his cell window opening into the jail corridor. This gave him: a space of 6 by 13 inches, through which he drew his thin and snelse-like body. His next feat was to crawl hand over hand to the ledge of a window thirty feet above by meaus of the long sash cords. Once there, he devoted at least an hour's time to sawing off a bar of the windew. This done, he bent the iron cross -bar, weakened by the cutting away of the upright, mail he had mede another small space just large enough to get through. Then. he palled up the rope that had already served him so well, crept out on the roof of the jail, fastened the rope again and lowered himself to the around in Diamond street, outside the prison walls. His subsequent movements have not been ascertained. All night long the corridors of the prison are supposed to be as bright as day in the glare of electric lights. There is also a mightwatehman on d,uty and on each tier a ard. How Fitzsimmons could have oper- ated in the light with the guards around and nobody know about it is not quite clear to the average laymen. The generally -ace cepted theory is that he was aided by some one on the inside of the jail. He did his work with four small steel saws, such as are used in all orthodox prison escapes when bar-outting is necessary. Fitzsimmons is an educated crook. He began life in Brockville, Ont., forty-three years ago. Drifting away from his family, who are people of wealth and respectability, he went south and eloped to Europe with a wealthy planter's daughter. There he pur- sued his crooked ways, and after several years of crime and adventure the pair re- turned to America. For several years they , have been operating in Western Pennsyl- vania. One of Fitzsimmons' accomplices was a young divorced woman named Laura, Snowden. She made her room a fence and rendezvous, tut Detective Gilkinson ran across her one day and she gave the whole gang away. Gilkinson, on March 27th, went to Fitz- simmons' house, several miles back of Mc- Keesport, tills county, to arrest him. The moment the thief set eyes on the detective he opened fire and killed Gilkinson in his tracks. Detective Murphy, who was with Gilkinson, blazed away at Fitzsimmons and the two grappled. Then the crook's wife handed her husband a fresh revolver, and told him to finish up Murphy. Fitzsim- mons -put another bullet into the officer and. then fled. Ile was captured next day a few miles away. At the last term of courtFitzsimmons and his wife and two accomplices were corn - milted on two charges of burglary, and his conviction of murder was a foregone conclu- -kion. MORE THAN SHE COULD BEAR. Girl Suicides Because of Her Mother's Disgraceful. Conduct. A. Portland despatch says: Little Annie Haley, fourteen years old, is dying from a self-administered dose of paris green. Her mother is addicted to the use of liquor, and some months ago was brought before. the court for intoxication. She was sentenced to 60 days in jail, but her sentence was sus - ended on her promise to abstain from alco- holic beverages. She kept her vow until Wednesday, when in some way she obtained nough liquor to make her drunk, and she was arrested yesterday morning and taken to the police station to await transfer to the jail to serve her original sentence. Just ,before her removal to the county prison, s her husband, James Haley, rushed. breath- lessly into the police station, crying out, "For G-od's sake, let my wife come home; Annie is dying." Briefly he told the story, and. a moment later the mother was released from her cell, and entering a hack was driven rapidly to her home. Annie had been to school, but at recess she learned of her mother s arrest. She obtained her dismissal, walked to the nearest drug store and bought a box of paris green. She wenthome and swallowed the poison, and was found uncon- scious by her father when he came .home to dinner. The little one will die. FOUND HIS SON. After Six Years' Search a Kidnapped Boy is Found. A Pittsburg despatch says; Detective W. J. Negas, of Portland, Ore., has left here for home, having in charge little Harry Whitbeck, the 7:year-o1cl son of George W. Whitbeck, of Portland. The boy was kid- napped from his father's home six years ago. Mr. Whitheck, who is very wealthy, has spent $20,000 searching for his son. But no clue was found. which would lead to his discovery until six months ago, when Detective Negus heard, that a child bearing the birthmark which the lost one was known to have, and which subsequently led to his identification, had left Omaha for Pennsyl- vania. He followed up the clue and located. the boy on Wednesday, on his seventh birthday, in the family of C. C. Long, a mill worker of Homestead. Long's wife, who is now dead, had the boy when Long married her, and he knows nothing about his origin. The detective willreceive $5,000 reward. Six Iluindred Boys on Strike. A Milleville, N. J., despatch says .1 This has heen an exciting day here owing to a strike of the tenting boys at the Glasstown and South Miileville glass works at Whiten, Tatum & Co. Over six hundred boys re- fused to work because fotirteen Jew boys heel been given employment. The firm, it is said, preferred American bops but could not obtain them. The strike caused a sus- pension on the part of the blowers and other skilled workmen% and hundreds of men also are idle, The strikers demand a ten per cent. increase in wages arid the discharge of alt Jewa employed at the works. The firm has refused to grant either demand. The boy a are equally firm. A correspondeht of the Pittsburg Dispritelb writes In Chili everything is wonderfully expensive hut muscle, and that is of com- paratively little value. A lady's bonnet costs from $30 to $100 ; dress Fink from $0 to $20 the yard, and the modiste will' eharge you from $30 to $50 for making it. In Santiago I peal $n the dozen for linen handkerchiefs of smell size and ordinary quality, and $18 for a pale of button boota. It is said that 600 buildings in New York city have been caticlernned tie mamas by the Are department, NOTHING IN IT, The British Fleet Did Not Seize the Island of Mitylene. SOME SATISFACTORY EXPLANTIONS A London cable says : Ib is now etated that the Mitylene score has arisen from the fact that a perty of British naval offwere on Saturday last picknicked on a desert island off Sigri, and that they re -embarked, the same evening on board their vessel and sailed away Sunday. The Times takes a sceptical view of the Sigri rumors, and declares " misdoubtful " a policy which made all arrangements upon a basis which would have to be abandoned in a crisis. "In a great struggle " says the Times, "It would be our policy t'la close the Suez Canal and make our route to India by the Cape of Good Hope." While it is now admitted that a British force has not seized the Island of Mitylene, news to the effect that the island had been occupied was received from Mitylene and elsewhere by the varioes embassies at Con- stantinople a,nd in this and other capitals. The French, Russian, Italian and Turkish Governments and the Sultan personally re- ceived information of the alleged landing of a British force. These reports concurred. in stating that a division of the British Mediterranean fleet had landed at Sigri a force of oath= and marines, this force being augmented by several field, pieces and Gatling guns ; that Sigri had been occupied and fortified and that British warships had surrounded the ssland with submarine mines and torpe- The new Turkish Minister of the Interior telegraphed to the British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir William White, asking the latter to explain the reports as to the leading of a British force on Turkish terri- tory. Sir William in reply said that he was en- tirely, ignorant of the whole affair, but, he added, it was probable that the crews of ' some British warships may have landed on the Island of Mitylene in the course of the regular boat drills and. landing exercises. The British Ambassadorassured the Turkish Minister that no fortifications ha.d been con- structed on the Island bylkitish troops. This view of the case was confirmed by despatches received here during the night, which stated that the force which had landed from the British war ships had re - embarked and the men-of-war had left the island. of Mitylene for Marmorito. Sir Wm. White made the same explanations to the other embassies. The affair caused great excitement in diplomatic circles for a short time, and it is still asserted that these same "manceuvres" had at least the purpose of showing the Sultan and his advisers how easily England could change her boat drills and landing exercises off the Island of Mitylene into a dangerous reality. ,BULLION CARRIER BLUBBERED. Illighwayraen Kill a Mine Superintendent But Miss the Gold. A Nevada, Col.., despatch says: S. Galla- vetti, superintendent of the Derbec Drift mine, was murdered by highwaymen this morning while coming to this city with $5,000 in gold bars just cleaned up at the mine. Gallavetti and J. D. Ostrom were in a two -horse buggy ascending the South Yuba riverg rade six miles from here when a rifle shot was fired from the bank above. The ball entered the back of Gallavetti's head and emerged from his mouth, causing instant death. Ostrom whipped the horses int:am run up the steep grade just as &second shot was fired. The bullet entered theneck of one of the horses, but a turn in the road soon took the team out of range of the shooters. Ostrom forced the team up the grade, holding his companion's dead bodyin the vehicle and being soaked from head to foot with his life blood. Reaching the Mount Vernon House, Ostrom left Galla- vetti's body, hid the bullion in the brush, and rode to this city to notify the officers. Several squads of armed men are starting for the scene of the murder. BOYS COMMIT MURDER. Two Lads at Liverpool Brutally Drains,. Their Ili tle Companion. A Liverpool cable says: The details of a horrible murder committed by two boys, both of them about 8 years old, have just come to light in this city. Two lads named Crawford and Shearon were arrested here to -day, charged with murdering one of their comrades, a boy also about 8 years old. The boys said that they wanted to steal the clothes of the murdered boy, and so pushed him into the water, intending to drown him. When the poor little fellow managed to scramble out Crawford and Shearon pushed him in again, and then Crawford went down on laisknees, and kneel- ing on the drowning boy's head, held him down under the water untilhe finallyceased struggling. The young murderers then watched the dead boy for a considerable length of time to see if he stirred, and then they stripped the body of the clothes, dried them and afterward obtained some money upon them at a pawn shop. This led to their identific-a. tion and arrest A LOVE TRAGEDY. Parents Break off a Match and Murder and. Suicide Result. A Woodland, CaL, despatch says; The lifeless bodies of Miss May Adam and J. Montgomery were discovered here this morn- ing in the rear yard of a small unoccupied residence. A vial labelled " Poison " and a revolver were found beside them. Investigation showed that Montgomery first shot Miss Adams in the left temple and fired a shot through his own brain, Miss Adams was the daughter of TEM L. 13. Adams, who represented this county two terms in the Legialature. Montgomery was a son of judge Montgomery, of Stockton. It is supposed the tragedy is the result of the refusal of the lady' parents to permit their marriage. Fatal Railway Wreck. A Wilmington, DeL, despatch says: A collision occurred between a throngb freight and a local freight near Newport yesterday on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti- more Railway. When the crash eame the engineer and fireman of the local freight jumped. The engineer, Henry Brockmata of Baltimore, was killed. His body was found under a freight car. He had been ecalded to death. Fifteen cars were wrecked and travel Ives bloeked for five hours. In Germany no end of eouples kill them- selves because there is some II:media:ea to their love or marriage. But Karl Atzler, of Berlin, hanged himself becatise of an attack of colic. Thirteen smart ago a student in Berlin was moblsed in the streets for appearing on a bicycle. Now the German Union of 131.- eyo1iete% which has just held its eighth au- ntie' conference at Breslau, half 14,000 meMbers, A GIGANTIC STEAL. While Officials are Busy Burglars Make a Great Haul, OVER A MILLION STOLEN, A London cable says : The banking world of this city has just been startled by the announcement that an important bank rob- bery has taltea piece in the city. The police and bank offieials ate trying to keep the matter ae.quiet possible, so that the en- tire facts All the case are not obtainable at present. It is kuown, however, that the institution that has suffered is the London and Westminster Bank (limited), an im- portant establishment, having over fifteen branch houses in this city. The money stolen consisted of a large parcel of bills, re- mitted from the country banks to the Lon- don and Westminster Bank. The thief or thieves must have ea:Ached for the proper opportunity to accomplish the robbery, and to have .gained access to an apartment near the intern entrance to the bank. This apartment was easy of access fromthe street, and the parcel of bills is supposed to have been stolen while the bank officials were busy in another apartment in going over the accoimts of last week's settlement. Both Astle, the town manager of the bank, and 11. F. 13illinghurst, the country man- ager, decline to make any statement for publication as to the actual loss incurred by the London and Westminster Bank; but it is currently reported that the amount stolen is not less than $750,000, and that it may amount to as much as $1,250,000. The bank officer, the city police authorities, and the ethninal investigation department of Scotland Yard are putting forth the utmost exertions in order to effect the capture of the thieves. Notice of the robbery has been sent to the police centres through the British Isles and on the Continent, and the sailing of every passenger vessel is being watched. Notice of the robbery has ago been sent to all the banks upon which the bills were drawn, but the police think that no attempt will be made to change the bills in this country, but that the thieves will have recourse to the Continent, where the presence of so inany wealthy travellers from England and the -United States makes such transactions easier than in this country. This robbery recalls the fact that 011 February 16th last a similar bank robbery took place in the same neighborhood. Uyon that occasion a stylishly -dressed man ac- costed, in the National Provincial Bank of England, a clerk from the London branch of the Bank of Scotland. This clerk was in the act of making a deposit of nearly $60,000 at the public counter of the National Pro- Ancial Bank, and when spoken to by the stranger he turned toward him and replied to his question. Though his conversation lasted but a moment or so, an accomplice of the stranger snatched from the clerk. a wallet containing Bank of England notes to the amount named and decamped. In the confusion which followed both the stranger and his accomplice, supposed by the police to be expert bank sneaks, man- aged to escape. So far as known neither the thieves nor their plunder have since been heard of. It will also be remembered that quite recently it was reported that the Bank of England had been robbed of £250,000, a statement which was denied by the officers of the bank. At the time of the National Provincial Bank robbery the authorities claimed that it was the biggest hanl of money made by bank sneaks in a generation. CATCHING SUCKERS. Blackmail Scheme of an Employ, 11,tgt3A Giddy Female Employees. A New York despatch says: Dr. Benson W. Feldman was recently arrested on a charge of abducting Katie Belle Malta:do- witz. To -day in the Tombs Court it devel- oped that the physician had been inc victim of a gigantic blackmail scheme, in which he had been robbed of $6,000 inside of 18 months. He admits that he took the girl to a house of ill -repute, but says she was per- fectly willing to go. Now it comes to light that it was the custom of her employer, Simon Tillerstein, a cloakmaker, to instruct his girls to notify him as soon as they "caught on to a sucker." Then he would proceed to levy blackmail. He followed the doctor and the girland demanded $100. He got his money and signed a receipt and promised to keep quiet. He did not keep quiet, and the doctor was compelled to pay hush money to the family of the girl, and was also forced to promise to set up her lover in business. The girl has been leading a fast life and lent herself willingly to the blackmail. The doctor had to establish her in luxury to keep her from telling his wife, but the demands on his purse grew so fre. Tient that he confessed to his wife'who forgave him. The detectives hired to run down the conspiracy arrested Tillerstein to- day. The cloaktna.ker waived examination, and was held in $1,000 to answer. There will be more arrests, a lawyer also being in the conspiracy. A DEADLY DBAEGAIT. A Young Lawyer Swallows CarbolleAcId in Mistake for Wine. A Troy, N. Y., despatch says: Gerald Riordan, a prominent young lawyer of this city, entered a Congress street drug store last night, accompanied by a young woman. They were on their wayto the theatre. While the clerk was drawing a glass of soda for the young woman air. Riordan went be- hind the prescription counter, where on a shelf he had placed abottle of wine of cocoa for his Own. use He filled a glass with what be suppose' was the wine. It was carbolic aid, which he drank at a gulp. He staggered into the store and called' for help. The proprietor noticed that his lips were white, amd divining that he had used the carbolic acid bottle, gave Mr. Riordan, who was in terrible agony, a glass of sweet oil. The antidote proved of no avail, and in fif- teen minutes the young lawyer was dead. irIr. Gladstone III Yet. A London cable says: Sir Andrew Clarke has just left Hawa.rden after a visit, during which he examined Mr. Gladstone, and an- nounces that the aged statesman has not yet fully recovered from hie recent attack of influenza. Sir Andrew enjoined the greatest caution upon his distinguished patient, and even urged hitn to uive up his political en- gagements entirely, but Mr. Gladstone, who is feeling (mite vigorousinsists on making the trip he had plenned to Glen Almond. Perthshire, for which point he starts on the 25th inst. "Do you believe monkeytalk ?" "No. They chatter." "But they seem to un- derstand each other." "Oh, well! What of it? So do dudes." If rainstorms can be brought on by ex- ploding dnamite in the sky, is it not equally possible,. asks the Providence ,fourna4 to cause fair weather by burning up the 6loinie With fire bellemie Nature shows herself More arid more genial as We grow better aequainted with her. The average weight nma strength of the common Soldiers iri the French army are said to haae perceptibly increased during the last five ye.are. THE RUSH TO OKLAHOMA, Arty Thousand People Scrambling for Tea Thousand Olaims, FIGHTING ANn BLOODSHED. DXPEOTED, A Guthrie, 0. T., despatch says : The day of opening has arrived, mad the surging mass of humanity on the lino awaits with impatience the coming of high noon, when at, o given signal they will start on a wild pell-mell rush for the promised land. Fully 40,000 people are on the line, and there will be a scramble for the 6,000 claims and 4,000 town lots. A crowd of nearly 3,000 in camp at Topee will start in a body for the new county seat, Chand- ler. They declare they will not wait till Fri- day for the survey to be completed, but will take the town by force teenight, and if they fail in this they will found a town to- morrow on the adjoining section. The company of soldiers at the town have orders to shoot, and blood will flow freely if the attempt is made. AtPerkins 5,000peopleere fighting and struggling to get on the bridge crossing the Chnmaron river, and when the signal is given to go many will be crushed in the bridge if it 'lees not give way and precipitate then -i into the water. At •Langston the negroee are getting very ex- cited. The sight a a gang of cowboys camped near by inflames their anger, and mutterings are heard on every side. At Cimarron city five hundred Presbyterians led by a tall, raw-boned preacher, are willing to be led into the land of prothise by their modern Messiah. At the Sax and Fox agency, on the east side, the orosvd is tur- bulent, several men havinebbeen killed already. Along the line whiskey jugs and bottles are plenty, and many men are in- toxicated. The deputy marshal and soldiers are unable to do anything with the crowd. The number of women on horseback is remarkably large, and fully 20 per cent.. of the claims will be secured. by the fair sex. In this city everything is deserted; stores are closed, and doctors, lawyers, preachers, and everybody else have gone to the new Eldorado. Boomers bought so many snpi?lles that a provision famine now exists. Hundreds of men who arrived on the midnight train could not get convey- ances and are walking to the line, while scores slept in the streets. TWENTY-NINE KILLED. Terribly Destructive Explosion in a Bel- gian Colliery. A Brussels cable says : A despatch from Charleroi says that a terrible explosion has occurred at the Forchies la Marche colliery. The latest reports from the scene of the colliery explosion place the number of dead at 29. There are also 11 workmen severely injured. The news from the scene of the explosion is of the most harrowing charac- ter. Within a few moments after the fact of the awful disaster became known the parents, wives, children and other relatives and friends of those employed in the colliery hastened to the mouth of the pit in quest of news. The ex- citement and grief of the unfortunate i people was so ntense in its manifestation that it was speedily found necessary to ap- point a temporary guard to prevent the women from forcing their way into the colliery. A few of the coolest headed of the miners were assigned to this task, and performed their sad duty faithfully until the araival of the police, who were followed by a body of troops, who had been in- structed to maintain order and assist in the work of rescuing the living and extricating the bodies of the dead. With gentle force the women and children were urged away from the pit -mouth, around which the ropes were quickly stretched. The soldiers then formed a cordon outside of the ropes, and a few moments later gangs of men made up of volunteers, policemen, firemen and troops were hard at work doing everything possible to bring order out of the frightful confusion which followed the explosion. GONE WITH THE PREACHER. An Interesting Revivalist Deserts Ills Family for an Enchantress. A Lexington, N. C., despatch says: On the 15th of last December the Rev. Zacharias Bell, one of the most noted revivalists in North Carolina, living here, kissed Ms wife and five children- good-bye. At the same time he took leave of Miss Katie Washburn, a visitor at his house. She left the next day for her home. Since that time the preacher has not been heard from, and his wife has mourned him as dead. She has just learned that on the day after his departure Bell was joined at Salisbury by a young woman, whom he passed off as his wife. The pair left on the train for Georgia, in which State Bell said he had important revival engagements. Mrs. Bell thereupon wrote to Randolph county and learned that Miss Washburn had never returned home. It is supposed she was the young lady who joined Bell at Salisbury and the pair are passing themselves off as husband and wife in Georgia. • THE MEXICAN SITUATION. Cortina Still in Jail and the Revolution a Failure. A Brownsville, Tex., despatch says : General Cortina, the famous bandit chief and revolutionist, is still in jail at Matta - mores. Garza's band was reported on Sunday night to be within ten miles of Mattamoras, and there was much excite- ment there. Stores were closed and citi- zens pressed into service as guards of the town. Yesterday afternoon tbe revolution- ists were reported opposite Santa Maria, waiting an opportunity, to cross into Texas. Capt. Johnson, from Fort Brown, with his troops, left Edinburgh yesterday for Santa Maria to intercept them. Their attempt to upset the Government of Mexico is evidently a flat failure. A despatch from Loredo says 600 Mexican cavalrymen have arrived there and will join in the pursuit. Blooded Burglars Captured. A Cortland, N. Y., despatch says : Geo. Mee, Edward Garrity and Daniel Thomp- son, the latter colored, charged with robbing the clothing store of L. Black & Co. at Moravia, last Wednesday evening. They were arrested while trying to dispose of the proceeds of the burglary. Mee and Garrity are connected with the most prominent families in this county, and their parents are broker -hearted on account of the scan- dal. Mac is heir to 000,000 when he arrives at age. For Instance. Editor—The only way to succeed in the newspaper bueihess is to give the people what they want. Friend—Have you got a ten -dollar bill you can let me have Wife—What are you writing? Colonel Ithegood (war veteran)—A magazine article, thowittg that General Fightwell did not win half the, battles he is creditea with. It's about done now. "All ready for the printer "Oh, 1 won't print it until after he is dead." COBAIN'S CASE. The Chief Crown Witness Tried and Acquitted of Conspiracy. A London cable says.: WillianiAllen, the chief withese for the Crown iu the ap- proaching trial of E. 5. W. DeCobain, member of Parliament for East Bel- fast and Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen of Ulster, for urn natural practices, has been indicted in Bel- fast on a charge of exposing indecent prints. The Crown counsel appeared in the case yes- terday and declared hie belief that attempts had been made to destroy evidence against Do Cobain. He stated that two men, Cole and Rodgers, in the employ Qf De Cobain's •eolicitor, Dudgeon, met Allen at a saloon bar and (heel: with him, and while they were thus engaged Allen showed' an indecent photograph, which Rodgers seized and retained. Rodgers afterward had a conference with DeCebain's brother, and the result was Allen's arrest. Rodgers now deposed that he was employed on a salary to uuearth a conspiracy against 1)e Colaain. Head Constable Hussey deposed that Allen, when arrested, said : If I had taken the L500 offered me not to expose De Cobain this would not have occurred." The day previous to the alleged offence Allen applied to Hussey for protectiou against Dudgeon, Cole and Rodgers. Hussey also stated that De Cobaha's agents had tried to tamper with several of the Crown witnesses. Cole ignored the summons to attend yester- day's hearing and was erreated at a coursing meeting at Purdy's Burn, where he was engaged in bookmaking. The trial was con- tinued to -day, when Allen was acquitted. This is regarded as bad for the fugitive De Cobain. A London cable says; In an interview at Belfast, Mr. Dudgeon, solicitor for Mr. De Cobsan, M. P., accused the post -office authorities of tampering with the mails for the purpose of obtaining, evidence for the Government against hie client. He declared that letters passing between himself and De Cobain, when the letter was at Boulogne, were opened in transit. As the communica- tions contained information vital to the defence, the matter is a serious one. Mr. Dudgeon complained that a detective entered his bedroom at the Hotel Stranorlar while he was asleep at 1 o'clock in the morning, and served a summons to attend the hearing in the Allen case, 100 miles away at 10 o'clock the same morning. The summons had been in the detective's possession the day before, and could have been served at 'a more reasonable time. The police hostility to- ward De Cobain, says Mr. Dudgeon, dates back to the time when he testified to their brutality in handling the Belfast riots in 1886. they were taking this opportunity, while DeColoain is under shameful accusat- ions, to take their revenge. Dudgeon avers that the magistrate and others in authority insulted him in every way possible while he was present as a witness at the trial of Allen for exhibiting improper pictures. He further asserts that he can prove, when the time comes, that a certain. member of the police force offered to disclose the entire case for the Crown if provided with a safe situation or money to enable hina to emi- grate from England. He is confident that he can secure DeCobadn's acquittal if a fair trial can be had. OVER .A. PRECIPICE. An English M. 1'. Probably Fatally Injured by a Fall. A Lond.on cable says: Mr. Thomas Fielden, M. P. for the Middleton division of Lancashire, narrowly escaped a horrible death while deer -stalking on Saturday in the mountains of Scotland. He was resting on a craig at the summit of a mountain when he lost his balance and fell over a precipice. Gamekeeper Frasier, who hap- pened to be near, sprang forward, and at great risk of being pulled over the cliff himself caught the vanishing bag -strap of the falling man and checked his descent, so that he swung upon a rocky ledge 20 feet below. But for this he would have fallen to the bottom of the ravine, a distance of 1,000 feeb. Fielden had been made insen- sible by the fall and contact with the rocks. Frasier with difficulty dragged his inani- mate form upwards far enough to place it in a sitting posture on a higher ledge of rocks, so that he could support his head on his knees. He was obliged to hold fast to the unconscious man, and could not leave him to summon help. He shouted and fired his gun to attract the attention of Mr. Banner and others who were hunting with Mr. Fielden, but had become momentarily sepa- rated from him. It was an hour before Banner and his party, who had heard the gun and were trying to locate the point where it was fired, caught sight with their alasses of their unfortunate companion. TIM HOUSE WAS BERNET). And the Children Who Were Locked in Perished in the Flames. A Boston despatch says: Philip Cullen and his wife went to early mass this morn- ing, leaving their ,baby-, John, aged 6 months , locked in a room off the kitchen. This was done, so Mrs. Cullen says, to prevent the other three children, Sadie, aged 7 ; Mary, aged 5, and Annie, aged 2a years, who were sleeping in an adjoining chamber, from disturbing the baby's slum- bers. About 7 o'clock fire was discovered in the house, and by the time the firemen arrived the kitchen was a mass of flames and the kitchen door was locked. An opening was made in the wall between the hallway and the room in which the three older children were sleeping. Sadie and Mary managed to creep to the opening and were taken out and sent to the city hospital, but they died before reaching there. Fire- men then entered the apartments and brought out the other children, who were almost suffocated, but they were resusci- tated and are now considered out of danger. The fire started in a wood box behind the kitchen range and is supposed to have been caused by rats and matches. HANGED TO A TREF. Infuriated Citizens Lynch a Murderer in the Court Yard. A Darlington, Wis., despatch says : At noon to -day an infuriated mob took from the county jail Anton Sieboldt, who brutally murdered James Meighan, a neighbor, last Wednesday, and hanged him to a tree in the court house yard. Shieboldt was a des- perate character, and his parents manifested little coneern when informed of the lynch- ang. The elder Sieboldt is reported as hav- ing said the actioh of the mob was probably just and right. The city it in a wild state of excitement, and the principal streets are crowded with people from the surrounding country. The murder was committed With a waggon bolt in afield near Willow Springs, where Meighan resided. Sieboldt wag a farm hand on Meighttn's place, "Tommy," said his naother reprovingly, "/ should think you'd be ashamed to be in the same class with boys Who are all so much smaller than yet:ascii." Well, mother," replied imperturbable Torn" I look upon the matter in a different light altogether. It really flatters my vanity to see how prou d the small boys are to be in the same chum with t big loOy bikeme" nigiuiN FEARS CHINA+, The Czar Apprehensive or Whet Min.. May Do in Evens or War. A St. Petereburg cable says ; The Rue - elan Government VieWS with alarm the aggressive course of ahiee in the direction of the Russian frontier, At a epecisl meet- ing of officers at the headquarters of the general staff at St. Petersburg a few days ago the military position of China was discussed, and OLIO of the generals who took a prominent part in the meeting stated that the Chinese army niunbered nearly one million five hundred thousand men, with an inexhaustable populatirn from which to draw recruits. The Chinese Government , has conseuted Co the construction of a rail- way from Pekin close up to the Russian frontier, and many thousands of Chinese • celonists are crossing the border into Rus- sian provinces and would prove a hostile element in the event of war, B,ussia her- self, however, is fortifyieg the Port of Val- divostock on the Pacific, and has recently expended about seven million roubles in making the port virtually impregnable, so that it may form a base for any future naval operations of Russia on the east. There is no doubt, sari the despatch, that the Rus- sians are deeply apprehensive as to the. course of China in the event of a war be- tween England and Russia. FLOODS IN 'BRITAIN. A Great Tide CIIVISOS au Overflow of the • River Dee. A London cable says : .Along the River • Dee a tide 20 feet high, driven up the river by the gale, has effectually backed the floods coming down, The result is that the course of the river is flooded for miles, and for long stretches only hedge tops are visible in the • country bordering its banks. Reports from all parts of North Wales, England, and South Scotland tell of irreparable damage to crops. Trains which started yesterday from Edin- burgh for Galashiels and London were ob- liged to return. All the mills are flooded at Galashiels. The waters have invaded the low lying streets. The town authorities have built a dam to divert the waters into the river's course. Two bridges have been de- stroyed and others, it is feared, have been made unsafe. One man is reported drowned. The damage is immense. At Aberdeen the rain continued to WI for 36 hours. A boy was drowned and large numbers of sheep have also been drowned. Theswelling of the Gala River in Scotland has flooded the val- ley for sixteen miles. ALBERT EDWARD'S CIGARS. The Royal Epicure Fancies Weeds at 81.80 Apiece. A. New York despatch says: Charles Delmonico has received a present that made him an object of envy to such of the inveter- ate smokers of Wall street as were favored with a glimpse of it. In a broad flat box of cedar, snugly draped in fancy paper, reposed twenty-five cigars, which in the retail trade,, could they be obtained, would cost the pur- chaser $1.80 each. The gift was sent from one of the largest cigar factories in Cuba as, a. special compliment to Mr. Delmonico. They are a part of 1,000 cigars made to. order for the Prince of Wales, who will pay at the rate of $1,800 a thousand forthem. The manufacturer writes that these cigars actis. ally cost him $1 each before they leave the factory. They are probably the most ex- pensive cigars ever brought to this country. ENDY.In WES SPREE., Suicide of 0 Weil -Known Couunercial Traveller in Nova Scotia. A Halifax despatoh says : The body of a well-dressed man between 30 and 40 years. of age was found in the woods at Windsor Junction this afternoon with his throat cute from ear to ear. Letters found on the body showed it to be that of Alexander M. Lid- dell, a well-known commercial traveller. Ho had been on a prolonged spree for three weeks, had been dismisesd from his employ and was returning to Halifax. His las words to his wife in going away were: "Don't worry about me; I will come baok with a new record." Immediately after- wards he went on a terrible drunk. He had been given chance upon chance, and, ashamed to meet his family and employer he sought 'refuge in suicide. His wifebelongs to a wealthy Prince Edward Island family, but he squandered her means. His brother, also a commercial traveller, suicided by cutting his throatin Montreal five years ago. A VENGEFUL ,DAVATICIAN. Me Barns a Barn to "Get Even" With a Former Employer A German from Bavaria named Adam Singer gave himself up yerterday to the police, stating that he had set fire to the barn of Samuel C. Snider, at ThornhilL Mr. Snider is a prominent farmer of Vaughan Township,. and Singer had pre- viously worked forlmn for three months. He disputed with his employer about payment of wages and left and carte to Teronto last week. In order to "gat even" as Singer frankly confessed himself, he went out to. the farm of Mr. Snider last Saturday, secreted himself in the barn, and at night set fire to it. Singer had 110 sooner given himself up than Mr. Snider appeared and told the detective he had had his barns burned down, and a quantity of stock, im- plements and crops destroyed, making a. loss of over $3,000. .T. M. Wingfield, J. P., yesterday committed Singer for trial at the First Court of competent jurisdiction. LYNCHED THE LEADER. The Mexican Revolution Put Down With a Strong Hand. A San Antonio, Tex., despatch says; Juan Macorita, who has arrived from Mier Mez, says the Mexican revolutionists were overtaken north of that place by Goverment troops and that a battle ensued in which several on both sides were killed and wounded. Caterina, Garza, the leader of thes revolution, was seriously shot and then hanged to a tree. Gen. Sandoval, Gen. Garza's chief lieutenant, escaped to then mountain with a few followers. He is being, pursued and will be captured. A Horse Racing raider. The Michigan Methodist conference has given Rev. J. Arney its regular manna/ dressing down. Rev. Arney is the minister who raises fine horseflesh and makes a prac- tice of attending horse races. Last year his, " character " came very near not 'missing one that account and it -would have been tamed down last week but foe the fact that Mr. Arney shows two hundred and fifty cOn-- verts as the result of his year's work. So, the conferende let him off with a scolding. Mr. Arney is tiring of these lectures anct may resign his pulpit to take charge of a breeding farm at a bigger salaryne-Rocheateas Herat& Jetveler—I have a good sedeiid-hand watch here 1 can sell you. Customer—Ent I don't Want a secend-bana watch. jeweler —But there are no watehos Made hew With- out second hands. The body of Stephen Dickson, of Shields, England, was found in the col bunker of ' the steamer Prentona when elle was unloaded, in Montreal yesterday, 1.