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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,