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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-08-07, Page 2'Jt, ,uv'on Mento-l'iecol'Lt ba kUakls$EP. vezy W:es nesday 4crniug \,NAt!,\,v3 S.. r\" fifth,, .j.T Tn$1R POWER PRESS PRINTING HOUSE Ontario Street. Clinton. 103.40 tc Year—,x°1.25 ire Advance. The proprietorsot' T1IEGp1ERtun NEWS, having purchased the business and plant of THE I•iuiton RECORD, will in future uhUsh the amalgamated papers in Clinton, under the title of "TUB Huttox NEwS- RACORD." Clinton ie the most prosperous town in Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable mauufaeturing, and the centre of the finest agricultural section iu Ontario. The combined circulation of TuENEws- RECoRtn exceeds that of any paper pub- lished in the County of Huron. 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Our facilities in this department enable us to .do all kinds of work=from a calling card to a maruinotlt poster in the best style known to the •a , an at the' lowest possible rates . Ordersby in promptly attended to. Address The, News -Record, Clinton. (it The Huron News -Record .$,1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance. ZS" The man does not do justice to his business who spends leas ut adoerti$inng than he does in rent.—A. T. S•raweer, the millionaire merchant of Sew York. 1Veiluesda3. Aug. l'th, 1889 A QUEER MARRIAGE. A .very unique marriage was cele- brated in 'Squire 1[auser's office yesterday afternoon, the 'Squire otfll:r•it'ing, says thd..Cineinilati En- quirer. The bride was Mies Jessie Troeger, who live~ at the corner, of Main street and MCMjokes' avenue. She obtained sones celebrity two years ago by Ie•uling a strike of the waitresses in Rockwell's restaurant. She is 20 years old. - Tho groom was Chas. K. Adams, better known in the dime museum world as the Armless Wonder. He was burn without those useful members of the body, and in lieu of a bettor and more profit•+able moans of liveli- hood, hired himself out to dime ms. Adams is now about 30 barring the lack of cimen of physical a arms is little felt wever, for he has rt with his toes i thread a needle .1 letter with tho vith the latter he t.le pictures, decor- , etc., holding the u his teeth. e couple entered the ce yesterday and said ed to be united in wod- ck at official was perplexed for hila. How can you join hands?' he ask d blandly, poiutiug to Adams. '0 that is easy enough,' said the pretty bride, who stood fully three hands shorter than the groom, and she reached up and grasped the stump of his undeveloped left arm with het right hand. 'Seo,' she said, as she stood smil- ingly on her tiptoes. '13ut the ring. How can he put the marriage ring ou your finger?' " 'In this way,' said Adams, and the astonished officials in the 'Squire's Court were thunderstruck to sea- the•circlet of gold between the armless man's teeth. Bending bis head he deftly slipped it over the girl's finger. Satisfied that the couple under- tood their business, the 'Squire went ahead and performed the cere- mony. After being made man and wife Adams sat down, and slipping the shoe off his right foot, disclosing a stocking with the front of the foot cut off, he reached into his vest pocket with his toes and brought out a roll of bills. Selecting a five - dollar note he tendered it as a fee, and, 'ptitting on his shoe, went away, his little wife sticking close to him. • —Nine persone were poisoned in Burlington, Wits., by eating dried beef shipped to local dealers by a 'Chicago firm. Four of the vistims 'are dangerously ill, Tho others are recovering. BRUTALLY STABBED. HALEY „ATTEMPTS TO MURDER. AND CUT'S AND SLASHES MISS ELLIS. THE ATTACK DUE TO JEALOUSY. FERGUS, Aug, 1.—There was a barn raising on Mr. Robert Russel's farm on the third concession of Weat Garafraxa, near Metz, on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a dance in the evening. Patrick Haley, son of John Haley, a farmer in the neighborhood, was net working at the raising, but he called there and remained a few minutes while on his way to Arthur in the afternoon. • He also put in an appearauce again while the dance was going ou iu the evening. Haley kept company for a consid- erable length of time with Mise Ellis, daughter of John Ellis, a fernier in the vicinity, and it is said has ►•eceutly pressed her to marry him. This site not only refused to do, but further gave biro to understand that she did not want any more of his attentions. He was greatly an- noyed at being treated in such a manner, and made threats to the girl and others that he would have her life unless she changed and acted differently towards him. About half -past eleven o'clock on Tuesday night,, while Miss Ellis and her niece, Miss Hayes, a girl el' sixteen or seventeen, were staudiug at the entrance to the place where the dancing was going on in the blreement of the new barn, H•deiy • approached therm, and • SEIZING MISS ELLIS BY THE wius'rs, dragged her around the corner of the building. Miss Hayes ran in atoong the dancers to tell her uncle, Win. Ellis, what Haley was doing. On William rushing out he found that Haley had his sister down on the ground and had his knees on her, and was apparently heating her, but the night being dark he could not see well ou hurrying out from the lighted place within. However he immediately caught Haley to pull him off, when the latter Struck back at hifu over his shoulder, no doubt intending to slash hits with the knife, which roust have been in his Mind at the time. Ellis called for help from those within,- whereupon Haley Made a few extra struggles and got clear. He thea jumped over a fence and disappeared in a field of grain, sinee which time he has not been seen. , Miss Ellis thought Haley had beaten her with a stone or steel knuckles, and it was not until after slm had been assisted to the house that she or any one else realised that she had Leon brutally stabbed and fiendishly slashed with a knife, but upou her clothing being •opened the terrible truth- %vas revealed. Seven wounds in all wore inflicted. There are two large gashes in the back below the right shoulder blade, three or four inches long and into the ribs; one deep stab in the neck behind the large vessels on the left side ; TWO WOUNDS IN THE BREAST, two or three inches ,long and very deep ; a scalp wound two and a half inches long into the skull ; a long wound in the fleshy partof the left arm below the shoulder ; also a slight wound on the chin. The woun were probably Made with a pocks 1nife and are the result of slashes rather than stabs. Dr. O'Reilly, of Fergus, who met Dr. Robinson, of Arthur, in con- sultation on Wednesday evening, reports that they found lfiss Ellis resting easily, although slightly fevered, and the slightest movement on her part produced intense pain. Her chances of recovery are good, provided erysipelas or blood -poison- ing does not set in. The assailant Haley is about 27 years crf age, fair hair; bright, dark blue eyes; rather heavy, sandy moustache. He is a smart, active, not ill -looking fello%ti, about 165 pounds in 'weight, rather short neck, square -shouldered but slightly stooped, and more like a mechanic:than afarmer. He had on dark clothes, 'seek coat and usually wears high heeled long boots. He has worked in Buffalo and Medina, N. Y. He nasalways•been too ready to brandish a revolver and threaten- ing to shoot, aud a couple of years ago was fined heavily for that offence. Searching parties are out after him and hopes are entertained that he will be captured. The opinion is pretty general that he has not gone very far yet. If the people of the neighborhood in which the murderous attack was made capture Haley they are likely to make short work of hien, as the foaling against him there is up to, lynchingpitch. —After a long fight, in which every expedient legal ingenuity could devise waa exhausted in his behalf, Martin Burke will go back to Chicago, there to stend his trial for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin. AN EXPENSIVE EINE.: "Joe Whillikeue ! Whets' that?' Higgins made a dive for eotuething iu the mud at his feet, fished it' out between hia thumb and finger, and slapped Jtjs thigh joyfully as he said 1 'A five -dollar gold piece, sure as guns! First' money ever found in my life ! I'll have mo a new hat out of that, and take the babies hot. a some toys and some- thing to my wife!' A moment later he suet two friends, and said : 'Ha, Smythe, how are you? How're you. Ha'ey ! S'posiug we step into Archie Flynn's place and takes something. 1've just found five dollars and ['ll set 'em up on the strength of it." What he'set up' cost eighty cents, and teu minutes later he met three of the 'boys' from the office and generously _ 'set up'. cigars all 'round.' Then he tossed twenty-five cents to a blind beggar and gave the office boy ten cents for blacking his boots. He wrote a letter to hia married sister that morning., to which was the followiug postscript: . 'I picked up five dollars on the street to -day, and inclose two of it, with which you Inay get the chil- dren something from Uncle Henry.' 'Guess ['ll go down to the Parket• House aud get my dinner do -day instead of to the lunch -counter 'round the corner,' he said at noun ; 'I can afford something extra to- day. Then he paid a dollar and a half for a now straw hat, spent a dollar for toys for the children and another dollar for a vase fol' his wife. 'By Jove !' hp said, as he was passing a theater,'.nty wifo;a boou wauting all the week •to go and see Lotta and I said we couldn't afford it, but hanged if we can't when a fellow picks five -dollar goal pieces up -out of the mud !' A day or two later Higgins found rather sober amusement in covering a sheet of paper with the following figures : • 'T'hings bought with five dollars I found Wednesday—Hat, dollar and a half ; theater tickets; two dollars; cigars for boys, fifty cents; drinks for boys, eighty cents; beggar, twenty-five; office boy, ten cents ; .Sister Noll, two dollars ; din- ner at Parker's, dollar and a half ; toys for children,.a dollar ; vase for wi fe, a dollar ; box early strawberries, fifty cents; neckties, dollar and a half ; new caue, ninety cents ; pound candy, forty ; gloves, dollar and a half ; total sixteen dollars Bud ninety-five cents. 'If I'd 'found twenty dollars I'd have gone into bankruptcy, hanged if I wouldn't,' he said, ,as he turned to'ono of the boys and borrowed a dollar to last hint until Saturday. FUN \\'1TH THE OLD M He Wait a meet:- okiug old gen- ilenlau from the country, and as he took his seat at the dining-rooin table, the drummers looked ut him over their soup -spoons. They noted his weather-beaten fa40 his wet hair carefully parted and brushed around over his ears, and his air of diffidence as he nervously fingered his work ; and when the waiter girl stood demurely at his. side and winked at the boot -and -shoe man, they were all attention. "Soup?" she asked. Tho old man seemed a bit sur- prised at the brevity of the bill of fare, and fidgeted about as though waiting for her to say something tnore. "Would you like some soup 1" said the girl, with a side glance at the coffee -and -spice. "I ain't particular about soup as I know of," answered the old man. "Boil' mutt'n capersance, roes' beef, 'r's' . lamb, r'e'veal, fricasee chick'n, cote ham -tongue, chick' salad, fritters, boil 'n' bakad p'tatus," said the girt with lightning -like raps idity. The old man looked kind'of help• less, and the boys felt a little sorry for him as he kept his eyes fastened on the fork, which he shoved from side to side with his fingers. "I guess 1'11 take—I guess you'll have to say that again," he said, looking up, and the girl rattled the whole thing off in exactly the same time as before. - The old man looked 'round the table and caught eight of a drutumer winking at the girl : then he jerked his hand around, and looking her straight in the face, he said : "You may gimme s'm bile corn - beef 'n' cabbage, rg;is' beef, vent 'u' mutt'n, colo chick'n 'n' turkey 'n' s'm ham 'n' eggs 'n' codfish cakes 'n' sassage 'n' beefstake 'n' a piece o' pumpkin pie 'n' cup o' coffee, cis; 'n' now see of yer kin make yer little legs fly's fast as ye kite, yer tongue, for I wanter git hone ; there's a shower comic' up." The girl hesitated, turtle) rod, end then ,made a break for the kitchen, when the drummers laugh- ed and the old niau gazed out of the window at the gathering clouds. s INTEEESTIN. N W I E1!1<5, —Charles Stanford, of Teeter- ville, while. unloading hty, fell to the ground .mad broke hie neck, —Ex -State Senator 'Dick' Creigh- ton, the jury briber, was eentenced at San Francisco to five years in the peniteutiary. —Duriug the last two weeks '7 carlpade of cheese have been shipped from Listowel, representing a value of $16,300. The New York World says the Standard Oil Company has bought up all the white lead companies in the Uuited Statee for about $60,- 000,008. —The vote Thursday in Guelph on the by-law to grant an additional $18,000 to the Guelph Junction rail- way to pay off its indebtedness re- sulted in the defeat of the pleasure. —Alex. McDonald,. a firm labor- er of Lapeer, Mich., has started for Cornwall, Ont., to take possession of a $30,000 fortune left by a tie - ceased uncle. —Cattlemen from the newly opened American 'Indian Territory report that ,Texas fever is playing havoc among cattle there. They also stated that hundreds of cattle are dying. —During the thuuderstorw of the 9th ult. Mrs. John' VV!Isau, of New Boyne, near Kingston, being alone in the house, became so fright- ened that ghe lost her reason, from the effect of Which she died. —Prof. Mahaffy, of...Trinity col- lege, 1)ubliu, and a distinguished elocutiouist of Great Britain, is in Torouto. Ho is making a tour of Canada and the Uuited States, aud is, while there, the guest of Prof, Goldwiu Snaith. .—A :dispatch received July 30, from Nagasaki; Japan, states that a dreadful earthquake has occurred in the western portion of the island of Kion Sion. The town of .Kuma- mato was destroyed. A great num- ber of people perished and a vast amount of property was destroyed. —Joseph Cruel), of Lambtou Mills, Toronto, was seen by the constable on beat at Queen street subway at two o'clock on Thursday morning, flitting in his night gown down the Grand Trunk taacks. He is a somnambulist, and awoke with a start when the policeman grabbed him. He had walked seven miles in his sleep. --Two weeks ago, while engaged in exaniining the public archives at the Hague, .Gen. ..James Graut Wilson met with a totter addressed to the states -general of the United Netherlauds by P. Sehagen, dated Amsterdam, Nov. 7, 1629, announc- ing the purchase of the Island of Manhattan by the Dutch West India company for the sure of $24. —David • Labelle, of Montreal, was tined $5 or 15 days for cruelty to animals. It transpired that he was driving some cows on Ontario et ,t1 •ggg ivolild- not go fast enough so he caught her by the tail and twisted that appendage,— at which the cow lay down aud would not stir. Labelle then twist ed with greater violence, but was caught in the act and arrested. • —A local paper says that mem- bers of a London syndicate are in • Chicago. They know how to make cheap gas iu the old world. They can make it at 8 cents- per 1,000 cubic feet in the holder. It sur- prises them that Americans keep on paying from $1 to $2 for what they might have at 25 cents. This syn- dicate, therefore, proposes to give the American people a chance to try cheap gas. The syndicate proposes to organize a company with a capital of $10,000,000, and to put in plants for making cheap gas all over the United States. —A very old man named John Woods was run over and instantly killed on Thursday morning white crossing the C.P.R. track on'Chris- tie street, Toronto. Deceased had lived in Toronto for forty years, and was said by his friends, and claimed himself to be, 102 years old. Woods was born in Monag- han, Ireland, and came to Toronto in 1845. None of the relatives in- terviewed could tell the exact date of his birth, though it is said to have been between the years 1787 aud 1789. He was married three times and leaves a large family that has now reached the third general- tion. eneration. The eldest surviving eon, Owen Woods, residing in Chicago, is 70 years of age. He never smok- ed, and, although not a total ab- stainer, never took more than an occasional giace of liquor. His constitution was unusually sound, a constant boast of his being that he never took medicine or bothered with doctors. A PEAL HELPMEET. "There's nothing like having a wife who is a real helpmeet," said Mr. Stowaway. "You're right," said Mr. Snsafety. "Look at 'Timpkins now. Whet would he bo without his wife ; He's just as dependent on her as he can be." "Is that so?" "Yes, ,just as dependant as he can bo. They say that when he takes a pill she always swallows a glass of water to help him git it down." FOR QUR . STQRKREAQERS. A PAIR OF ROGUES. A STIRRING ROMANCE OF NEW TORR IN OUR DAY. (Copywrtghted, 1888, by S. S. McClure) CHAPTER VL AN ECCENTRIC STRANGER. When Lemuel Strange felt hie hand seized from behind, and heard the strange voice ringing in his ears, his heart seemed to stop its beating, and he• would have fallen forward on his victim had not the stranger with a quiet strength that was irresistable, twisted him round, and backing hint up against the low park wall steadily looked hilt) in the eyes. "Yea," he said slowly, es he looked at hint ; "I thought you had a devil iu your eyes, and a cowardly one too, that's why I followed you. Now, if you were in my pait of the world, I'd throw my lasso around the nearest br :rich that would bear your weight, and string you up. But iu this Godly town, I guess I'll have to march you to the nearest police station. Didu't I tell you to go home? Think what a lot of trouble you'd have saved if you had taken my advice." ' Lem uel's teeth chattered w ith fear. "What did you do 'it for went ou the tormentor. "You doq't look like a man, that had to steal watches for a living.". "I did it for revenge," murmured Lemuel. C "Olio ! For revenge, eh ? Well, Then I mayn't ase so (lard on you. That's' a,feeling I can nderstand, but it's a clumsy way o o' to work, this," and he pointed to t body at his feet. ".igy notion of revenge is the Jewish'one- An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. If a man has wronged you, wrong him in the same way. I don't suppose this old man hit you on the head. Why don't you try to got oven in a sensible way ?" Lemuel had recovered his wits, which normally wore not incon- siderable, and he:saw he had an eccentric sort of character to deal with. "1 wished to God I could," he whined. "Why, what has he done to ,you ?" "Treated me like a dog and worse," and he began to pour out th"e tale of his wrongs, skillfully avoiding apy reference to the part that he had been false to his trust, and only dilating on the way in which his request for the uncon- scious plan's daughter had been received. "What did you say his name was?" carelessly asked tfie strungor- who had listened with a 'cynical smile to his outpouring. "I =didn't say," said Lemuel suddenly, "but if you must know, it's Nugent, David Nugent." "The h-1 you say," was the startling responce, and releasing his hold on Lemuel the stranger quick- ly turned to the prostrate figure and turned it over so that the face was exposed to view. "Yes," he murmured, "he's telling the truth, Ile's grown old, though, very' old, but so have I," and he peered. into the still face with a savage earnest- ness. Then he drew himself up and addressed Lemuel again. "Look here," said he, "you say this man has treated you badly, and perhaps he hasn't. I neither know nor care. I do know this, that if you do what I toll you without ask- ing any questions, I'll show you how to take such n revenge as would make a devil out of hell envious. Do you consent?" There was a fierce; inherent sin- cerity about the man which, in spite of himself, impressed Lemuel, and he at once answered in the affirma- tive. "Then we must be quick" e fid the stranger, "for he's coming to his senses. It was the fall, I guess, more than the tap you gave hien which stunned him. Quick ! I see Rome one corning, a policeman, I fancy, by his gray coat; and it will not do for us to be fouud here," and taking the uuresisting Lemuel by the arm he led, him quickly forward for a few yards, snaking him walk backward, and treading heavily in the snow, and so accentuating the footprints. Then lifting the astonished man off his feet, he stepped lightly across the road, this time walking backward himself. They found themselves at the corner of one of the cross streets, and ,down this the stranger hastened, followed by Lemuel un- til they had reached Third avenue, the pavement of which, late as it was, was beaten down by a multi- tude of footsteps. Meanwhile Nugent lay stretched out on the snowy sidewnld, uneasily turning his head from side to side, but evidently not yet conscious. The quick 'eye of the stranger had not deceived him, and -,-in a few minutes a gray -coated park police- man came walking gniekly along and almost stumbled over the fallen man. He stooped -over him as tho stranger had, but with a different motive, for, eyeing him clueely to be cure he was quite un- conscious, thin salaried' law -breaker deftly removed the ,.watch and chain from hint, the pocketbook, and whatever else of a negotiable, nat"re there was in the pockets. These he c trc11i11;' etuwed away; under his heavy osercoat and then, but nut till shill, began tu use his - best endeavuio to restore consoioye uess in the inanimate figure by rubbing tae temples briskly with enow, looseuing the eo1Iir, and ea forth. His " ILL ts Were conn succees- ful, and Nugent with a heavy sigh tried to struggle to his feet. "Lie there a bit, coir," said the p dice man. "You'll feel all reigltt in a minute." "What's the Iatt(ter ?" said Nugent thickly, `'Ya've tern ,l0eg ed yen' Ilia hid," said the 111410, •'411' yer p,.Ckets• have hie gum: t'rou." Ur this fact Mr. Nugent was able tu assure hint self without a great deal ul trouble. "Daum the reseals !" said he. "Why do you stand there like a stuck !gig. officer ? Can't you look if you see their tt.teky in the suuu•l" But the polis»plan, not 'relishing; the tune of the request, made but a casual survey of tine place. "Shute, Ire erased the roatl a block or su beyaut," said he; titter walking up a few paces, "anti keel up Io you f'rutu this twat, au' by this• time belike he's across the par r k Use high eu to Sicoud aveneyer," • "Well, he got ell a0•y'how," said' Nugent, "and now hdp Inc to ;;et• up. I shall be all right in a few. tninutes. help inc down to Fit'ty.• sevet•tit stlee:, and there Call a crib• —and, hark you otfieer, you keep your mouth shut about this. I'm. tlr. Nugent, . ui' Fttllt avenue." The policeman's ekes grew round,. for he recognized the nettle, aud_ Mr. Nugent, .who by this time had Struggled to his feat and was dust- tn'o'flil: snow off his coat, continued: "Call at the house tu-inoirow anti, I'll make it right with you, but don't say a word about it to any- one. 1t would frighten Grace to death," he muttered to hituselt•, aud du uo gond iu auy case," and su, leaning on the pulicunrrtt"s arm, he walked slowly along until, a cab coning along, att'er tekiug some belated roysterer home, he bid the roan hail it, and was soon being jolted homeward, the only remiuis- cences of his adventure being a splitting heaclacke and his empty pockets. As to; Lemuel, hay companion, without speaking a word, led hint to tho•elevated railroad station and hurried him ou board a train going down -town. Ou the juw•uuy he still preserved the sante dead silence, apparently wrapped fn his own re- flections, which, from the express- ion of his face; could nut have been pleasant ones. Arrived at Eighth street, he got off, beckoning Lemuel, who was becoming more and more bewildered, to follow him, and, struck ont at a rapid pace along Eighth street and Cliuton place. It was while they were passing the Bt•evoort House that Jack saw thein. Lemuel espied •Lim also and shrank into the shadow of the house in the hope of eluding the young man's observation. This movement on Lemuel's part dill not escape the stranger's keen observation. "Who's that?" he asked shortly, but in a tone of command. "Young Houst.ou," answered the other just as curtly. "Ile's follow- ing round Nugent's daughter." "Houston, eh ?" queried the stran-• ger. "What's his father's name." "Houston, of coureo," answered Leruuel, with a clumsy effort at smartness. "I don't know that it is of course,"' was the sardonic reply given with a• chuckle ; "I mean what was his father's Christian 'name'?" "That I can't tell you. I have heard, no doubt, but I have for- gotten. The young pup's father ran away, or went away, or disap-• pear•ed in some fashion, so I have been told, beforestho boy was born." "Indeed," w'ae the only reply, and; then the stranger said no further word until they were iu front of one of those out•at•elbows houses to the. east of McDougal street which 'owe cheap boardinghouses written all over them. The battered front door the stranger opened with a latch key, and, hnving•inotioned Lemuel to precede hint into the dark hall, carefully and noiselessly closed the door. Then, taking Lemuel by the hand, lie led him up one of those wide staircases with a square well, common in houses of this descrip- tion, up flight after flight, until the topmost story ems reached. Here - he paused, and taking another key out of hie pocket opened a door at the head of the stairs and ushered Lemuel into a large square room having iu it a small stove in which wore the dull embers of n dying fire and the usual furniture of a. boarding-house bed-room—painted bedstead and washstand, dirty cur- tains, threadbare carpets,and two or throe decrepit -look ing chairs. "Now,, sir," said the stranger as he turned up the gas, "sit down hero and lis- ten to me attentively." "Certainly," ventured Lemuel, Whose courage was returning as he found himself in the light, "but may I know to whom 1 have the pleasure of speaking?" The stranger paused. "Call mo Smith," said he after a moment's,