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fLYItt. tinor tirf Nklistor. "I -- Hxmoia 8M0KED FROM niS HOLE DCSPBRADO CAUGHT LIKE A WOODCHUCK. ^Hl' <UMt Two Companions EBI«d-D«*th of Gen. Cratrfortf--Cwt Her Throat with D flodk Bottle -- Cincinnati Hon*-Doo» Brutality. ;& ChrUtto I-ald tow. . 'S>*«.EQrAB, I. T., dfspatch: ; Ned Christie, the notorious outlaw who killed Dan Maples, a United States official, a year ago, is dead. He was surrounded about daylight Thursday by sixteen deputy United States marshals led by Dick Bruno and A. G. White. Christie had fortified himself in a cabin, but the officers resorted to dynamite and succeeded in blowing down part of the house and setting fire "to the ruins. While the blaze was at its fiercest Christie was seen to emerge from under the floor and start to run. He was riddled with bullets, mutilating him terribly and knocking him .down. He lived to regain his feet, but another •volley settled him. The officers then turned their attention to the burning* building and discovered Charlie Hare trying to escape. He was terribly burned, but was able to run. He was ar­ rested. Tha body of Wolfe, who had bsen wounded early, was burned to a crisp In the build ng, which was en­ tirely consumed. The females of the Christie family were allowed to retreat •t the beginning of the fight. One month ago the officers attempted to make a prisoner of Christie, but were obliged to abandon the attempt, not being acquainted with the locatioaof. the place." _____ Negro Hanged for Murder. OSCAR JONES, a negro, was hanged at Owing6ville, Ky., for the murder of Town Marshal Taylor Vice, of Sharps- faug. Dec. 24, 1891. NEWS NUGGETS. ANOTHER revolution has broken out ift Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Six drunken Indians were burnc l to death in a cabin in Okanagon County, Wash., during a debauch on MondjQr night JtruoE JOHN X. CKARENS, a well- known jurist of Missouri, died at his home in Kansas City from malaria fever. GENERAL SAMUEL "WYLIE CRAWFOBD, who commanded the Pennsylvania Re­ serves at the battle of Gettysburg, Is dead. CATHERINE BOOTH and Mrs. Cllb- born, daughter of General Booth of the Salvation Army, have been arrested at Geneva. CLAUDE WILSON editor of the Ad­ vance at Wilson, N. C., has mysteriously disappeared from his home. Foul play Isfuspected. ^ I isa quarrel at $t. Louis, Ida.Boug- hina struck Gertie Lee with a soda water bottle, cutting the latter*s jugular vein, killing her. CHBISTOPHEB HENDERSON, arrested lor being drunk, was shot dead by Policeman Kolonbersk, in Minneapolis, while trying to escape. THE scenery and costumes for the Wilson Barrett engagement at the Park Theater, Philadelphia, are held in the steamer for payment of duty. A CORONER'S jury at Portland, Ore., ; has decided that Lieutenant Schwatka • estne to his death from an overdose of morphine taken accidentally. POVERTY and the desertion of her husband drove Mrs. J. Johnsoja to kill her 15-year-old son Gustave and then commit suicide at San Francisco. A MASS of forest growth resembling A . large island, and supposed to have broken off the American continent, is reported floating in the Atlantic CHARLES A. HOWES, the forger who victimized banks in all parts of the United States, has mada a full con­ fession in New York of his many crimes. NUMBBOTTS incendiary fires are re­ ported at Beaver Falls, Pa., and the citizens have formed a vigilance com­ mittee to run down and punish the fire­ bugs. DB. A. E. HOBNELL, of Columbus, 'Jhio, has been acquitted of plagiarizing ft paper on orificial surgery recently ^8$d before the Central Ohio Medical Society. "" ~ . v Jv^bcTE SpfeEB, of the United Stales AT Ateed It was appofoted * HK^vor of the Qid«r of JSgis by Allen of UiftdNpreme Court by agreement of the parties In in­ terest. The liabilities are 9400,000 and the assets $335,060. Certain irregulari­ ties were alleged against the officers, but these have Men withdrawn. MRS. MART B. MAREAN, a widow liv­ ing in the fashionable part of Cam­ bridge, Mass., killed her mother, Mrs. Annie L. Brown lee, who was nearly 70 years old. Mrs. Marean had a severe attack of the grip two years ago and never fully recovered from its effects. Of late she has shown signs of insanity. She will probably be committed to an asylum. THE Schuylkill River at Point Breeze, the extreme southern point of Philadel­ phia, is always covered with a scum of oil from adjacent works, and since the oil fire there more than the usual quantity has been floating on the surface. William Miller, Albert Krum- bach, and Warren Hilt started from the eastern shore in a rowboat to cross the river. When 150 feet from the shore one of the men lighted his pipe and tossed the blazing stick into the water. A burst of flames shot up, and instantly the surface around the boat was blazing fiercely. The men plunged into the burning fluid and tried to swim ashore. Hilt sank beneath the blazing surface and was seen no more; but his two companions by repeatedly diving and swimming beneath the sur­ face succeeded in reaching the shore. « bcrribiy burned TPV*^ wrecking steamer Maryland caught fire and was damaged to the extent of $15,000. .' WESTERN. O** THOUSAND flve-tael cans of opium were seized on the schooner Oregon from Portland at San Francisco. AN alleged horse thief, Dean McVeagh, was shot and killed while resisting ar­ rest by Fred Drees at St. Henry's, Ohio. IT is believod that the big steamer re­ ported foundered near North Manitou is the W, H. Gilcher, of Cleveland, Ohio. BETWEEK $6,000 and $7,000 worth of smuggled opium, consigned for Chi­ cago, has been seized by customs of­ ficers at Detroit. THE power plant of the Beatrice, (Neb.) Eleetrio Street. Railway and Lighting Company was burned. Loss, $15,000; fully insured. THE first production in English on any stage of "L'Ami Fritz" was given recently ifrSan Franoisco by Alexander Salving It proved a success. THE: Davenport, Iowa and Dakota Railway was sold at auction at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern, for $620,000. THE new Athletic Asssociation build­ ing on Michigan avenue, Chicago, sup­ posed to be fire-proof, burned like a pine knot, Monday night. Loss, $80,000. THE State Auditor of Minnesota, Adolph Biermann, was severely beaten on the streets of St. Paul by a teamster and a hack agent who made an unpro­ voked attack on him. LIEUT. FREDERICK GH SCHWATKA, who made his name famous by com­ manding the expedition to the Arctic region in search of the records of the lost Sir John Franklin party, is dead. The Lieutenant was found lying in the street at Portland, Oregon. By his sile was a half empty bottle of laudanum. He was in a comatose condition and was immediately removed to the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. Wheeler, the City Physician, at once discovered that the Lieutenant was suffering from narcotic poisoning. He died in a few hours. THREE masked men rode into Spear- ville, Kas., Tuesday morning and halted In front of the Hennessy Bank. There were few people on the street, and the men were not noticed even by the bank officials until the robbers were at the railing with their weapons presented. Two of the masked men went inside and the third remained on the outside holding his Winchester aimed at Cashier Baird, who is crippled and un­ able to use but one hand. They com­ pelled Mr. Baird to open the small safe and hand over $10,000 in gold, all of the money that the bank had on hand. They then fired their Winchesters through the heavy glass in the front, and the railings of the bank, and making the crippled cashier get on his knees undgr the counter, they mounted their horses and rode away, taking not only the money but the office inkstands, pen-racks and similar small fixtures with them. Sheriff Beeson, with a party, is in pursuit of the robbers. - - SOUTHERN. , A LOSS of $200,000 was caused by the District Court at Macon, Ga., has de-^ turning of Gruenewald Hall at New Or- elared all registration laws in Georgia Inoperative on the ground that they are unconstitutional. 1 "llfis. BBADBUBT, wife of Rev. i . C. Bradbury, was instantly killed by being struck by an express train at Painted Post, N. Y. Her husband was badly Injured, and may not survive. WILLIAM KITBICK, a wealthy San Francisco lumber dealer, committed •nleide by cutting his throat on the street. A card was found on his body oh which was penciled a brief statement that he had been hypnotized. A. G. Green, a well-known real estate dealer, was found dead in a hotel at Oakland, having taken a dose of laudanum. A CINCINNATI horse doctor undertook to cure a girl of consumption after the family physician had given her up. He first boiled all the flesh off her legs by Steaming them over a tubful of hot wa­ ter and timothy seed. Then he wrapped the maimed limbs with bandages, which lie soaked with horse liniment. The poor girl died in agony, and the father Is hunting for the ignorant brute with a gun. THREE men were injured, one proba­ bly fatally, in a train collision at New -Orleans. AN unknown victim of the recent disastrous Milwaukee fire has been iound by the Workmen while removing the debris. SAN FBANCISCO customs inspectors |Mde the second seizure of contraband opium on the steamer Oregon, from Portland, 1,005 tins of the drug being found concealed in barrels of salmon. The value of the opium seized on the •teamer aggregates $>27,000. EASTERN. leans, IN a wreck at Dlsputanta. Va., on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, fourteen freight cars were wrecked and a white tramp killed. THE distillery plant known as distil­ lery No. 5 in Louisville, Ky., is reported to have been bought by Rosenfeld Bros. & Co. of Chicago. THOMAS A. GLEASON, a well-known cotton buyer at New Orleans, has been arrested, charged with forgery. The amount involved is $8,000. Two BROTHERS named Burgess, who were in Jail at Lebanon, Va.. charged with murder, were taken from their oells by friends of their victim and hanged. THE supreme military council has confirmed the death sentence passed upon Colonel Nieves Hernandez, charged with treason in falling to capture Garza, the revolutionist. BRIGANDS made a raid upon the town of San Juan, Mexico, and after secur­ ing considerable money were about to start for the country when they were attacked by the rural guards. In the fight that ensued three of the bandits were fatally and four of the soldiers were seriously wounded. AT Ashevllle, N. 0., Ella Lytle, a 12- year-old white child, was dusting the mantel when she brushed a box of dynamite caps into the stove. The caps exploded and threw the girl down, tore a hole in the ceiling, and shattered the window panes. Pieces of the exploded shells were found all over the girl's body, one piece imbedding itself two inches beneath the skin. The girl is dangerously hurt, but there is a slight iter recovery. MM number of register In Marquis di CappelU, who was CcdsrSeoivtary fa the Ministry of For- AJtWus under the Roblllan Minis­ try when the Triple Alliance treaty was eon eluded , baa written a letter in which be declares that the statesmen who have personal knowledge of the terms of the treaty are able to assert that it contains no stipulation binding Italy in regard to her armaments. DEPUTY BAST* caiied attention in the French Chamber of Deputies to the re­ cent conflicts between French and Bel­ gian miners at Lons in the District of Pas de Calais. He accused the mining companies of discharging their French miners because they had votes and re­ placing them with Belgian miners, and he demanded the adoption of measures against foreign miners. A RAILWAY accident occurred parly Wednesday morning near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, Eng., by which ten persons were killed and several Injured. The express train which leaves Edinburgh every evening for London was running at full speed as it approached Thirsk, when ahead of It appeared a heav.ly laden freight train. The engineer of the express reversed his engine and put on the brakes, but it wa<? too late. The wrecked carriages caught fire and were destroyed. A large number of persons from near-by places were soon at the scene and did everything possible to extricate the dead and injured. The burning cars greatly hampered their efforts, but had it not been for their bravery the loss of life would. hav« bo«n much greater. The scene at the wreck was pitiable. Some of the bodies had been burned beyond all semblance to humanity. The clothing had been de­ stroyed, and in some cases the jewelry worn had been melted by the intense heat. This will render the identitlca- tion of the dead in some cases ex­ tremely difficult, if not altogether im­ possible. . ' ~|N GENERAL : GEOBGE SONTAG. the Sou'h9rn Pa­ cific express robber, has beea sent to pr.'son for life. GEOBOE E. CONVERSE, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nicar­ agua Canal Convention, has issued a call for the reassembling of the con­ vention at New Orleans, Nov. 30. E. C. O'BRIEN, United States Com­ missioner of Navigation, in his annual report, says that the tonnage of ship­ ping on the great lakes has been in-' creased from 711,269 . tons in 1881 to 1.183.582 in 1892. ANTICIPATING the large vo'utne of mail and the value of quick transmis­ sion during the World's Fair, the United States Rapid Transit Company of Chi­ cago has submitted the details of an elevated road to the Postoffice Depart­ ment at Washington. The plan Is to erect this system between the Exposi­ tion grounds and the Postoffloe, and by means of an electric cable placed high enough to clear all buildings along the route, attain a speed of 200 miles-a minute. ON and after Jan. 1, 1893, £he Adams Express ^Company will occupy all the lines controlled by the Chicago, Bur­ lington and Quincy Railroad, an addi­ tion of about sevefl thousand miles to the vast system on which the express business is conducted by the Adams company. The express business on the Burlington system east of the Missouri River is now done by the American Ex­ press Company; west of the Missouri by Wells, Fargo & Co. The arrangement means an abandonment, for the present at least, of the Intention of the Burling­ ton to establish its own express line. THE British steamer Oramore, ar­ rived at Boston, had on board the crew of the wrecked barque Supreme,rescued at sea. When sighted the bargue was' almost totally dismasted. Its foremast was gone by the deck, maintop gal­ lant mast and rudder were carried away, and the vessel had twelve feet of water in its hold. A volunteer crew was mustered and one of the lifeboats was launched. After battling with the ele­ ments for nearly an hour the volunteers managed to reach the water-logged vessel and only with great difficulty took off the captain, eleven seamen, and the stewardess and landed them safely on the deck of the Oramore. It was dark at the time of the rescue and was blow­ ing hard and the vessel was rolling and pitching heavily, which rendered it-dan­ gerous in going alongside. THE Northwestern Miller reports Ihe flour output as follows at the points named for the past week: Minneapolis, 224,460; St. Louis, 95,900; Milwaukee, 50,400; Duluth. 34,238; Superior. 9,455; Toledo, Ohio, 6,000; total, 420,453. Ex­ pression has been given, probably not "Wholly without authority, to tho idea that lively skirmishing will be done this winter by the all-rail lines to get part of the flour-carrying business from the Northwest. Jn the gummer they are pretty effectually kept from getting much of this traffic by the low rates made by lake. In the winter this busi­ ness naturally gravitates toward the across lake lines, owing to their making rates two cents per 100 pounds lesB than by all rail. It is now intimated that the all-rail people will next winter be even more aggressive than they were last year, and make terms that will, bjyjjjire to bring them business. MtLWAUKKB PLUCKILY BEG!*# ^ REBUILDING. / (tovMftafttMi Met* Tetrinle 'Mum at flNt - Aem *f Smoldcrta* Heaps Once WM Pronperoni Activity-- •alftwera. ' .j 'Y "i*-?, **• FI™ H it ItiSwaTikee coireBDondenoe. No one had a real notion of the hsyos created by our terrific fire till the fol­ lowing Sunday morning. The wind had died down and the day broke under a clear sky. Miles away the billows of smoke could be seen, rising above the city, and while they did not sweep the business streets, they gave to a distant view the appearance of a heavy fog, rolling under the wind and streaking out in long, thin banners from the heart of the city. Near the Northwest­ ern depot the extensive destruction worked by the fire became seriously prominent. From the railway tracks as far as the eye could see through the smoke almost the entire warehouse part of the town was a mass of ashes arid broken brick and stone,'with here and there the skeleton of a wall or a chim­ ney rising dimly out of it through the clouds. The lake was rolling viciously, and the line of scorched breakwater showed where the fire had bitten down to the edge of the water. For a while during the fire even the piling of this breakwater was aflame. From the railroad tracks for blocks a prosperous part of the town lay smok­ ing. At the limits of the fire-swept dis­ trict thousands of people had gathered and were kept from crowding in by the policemen and four companies of mili­ tiamen armed with rifles. Inside this line the tired firemen were still working. Some of them had been fighting the fire .'or a day and a half. They were grimy from the smoke, and their rubber coats were cased in cinders. A few of them were sitting on piles of brick with the aozzles of the hose in their blackened iiands. Many of them were so worn rat by the work of the night that *they llept beside the engines while men who #wned offices in the district and boys and iatid he kmk ' MJS| WHO -IRFE XnS?av«»6,0fl0 fIve s lot more for his old hope; the Brewers' Association subscribed $5,000; Henry C. Payne, the Republican committeeman, hand­ ed in $1,000, and the Same amount was contributed by Cap­ tain Fred Pabst, the Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Bank, John L. Mitch­ ell, Banker Ilsley, Cudahy Bros., August Uihleln, E. P. Bacon and Mr. Rosseanu. Long after the meeting money wss rolling In and at 5 o'clock NXAB THH GASHOFAS. the feed was estimated at near $50,000, It continued to grow until the $100,000 mark was passed. That's not enough to build up one of the ruined warehouses, but it will make comfortable hundreds of homeless Third Ward people. None of these was permitted to undergo hard­ ship. Every burned-out family was taken care of somewhere and by some­ body. Probably no town was ever so badly cut by a fire to oome out so cheerful and happy as Milwaukee, The real estate board, which raised a considerable sum In addition to its first donation of $5,000, turned the entire amount over to the relief committee THE BURNED DISTRICT FROM TUG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. ' ;• J AH American woman in a Philadelphia «• hospital has every symptom of leprosy. -;» ; The patient is 67 years old, and always ^ K lived In the Quaker City. ^ AT Point Breeze, near Philadcl- jT phia, a loss o? $200,000 was sustained - £2? *y burning of several vessels and a ' Isrge section of wharf property. - Y KTC!TAWAY car on the incline plane lit"' At the Phillips glass works at Mapleton, IPs., ran Into a crowd of passengers at the Pennsylvania Road station, killing •: - • .'FOREIGN, MANCHESTER, England, municipal authorities have decided to lend the Manchester Ship Canal Company the sum of $10,000,000. The Salford mu­ nicipal authorities have voted $5,000,000 to aid the company in completing its great work. THE steamer Stratsraad Riddervpld, conveying the mails coastwise from Christian sand, stranded near Gimnaes during a blinding snowstorm. The ves­ sel filled rapidIv and sank. The passen- MARKET REPORT*! CHICAGO. T YJ CATTLE--Common to Prime.... FT.80 #S."00 Moos--Shipping Grades 8.50 (& 0.60 SHEEP--Fair to Choioe 4.00 @ 5.#O -WHEAT--No. 2 Spring 70 @ .71 Coax--No. 2 ,41 M .42 OATS--NO. A jto & .31 BTE--NO. 2 A9 & .60 BUTTER--Choice Creamery .VJ & M Eoos--Fresh .21 <$ .aa POTATOES--New, per ton.'t .60 <& .70 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping ® 5.00 Hoos--Choice Liirht 8.FI0 3 6.00 SHEEP--Common to Prime...... wo @4.60 WHEAT--No. 2 Red .66 & .66! COBN--No. 1 White...., .39 & .40 OATS -NO. 2 White .34 & .34) ST. LOUIS. , CATTLE. s.00 <9 5.M Hoos... ¥.60 & 6.60 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed.. .66 & M CORN--No. 2 .88 <9 at OAT8--No. 2 . .as & M BTE--No. 2 .48 & .& CINCINNATI CATT&B.. 8.00 @6.00 Hoos 8.00 & 5.76 SHEEP 8.00 1<S e.oo WHEAT--No. a Bed....... .66 « .66 COBS-NO. a •,* v%*» •** OATS--No. 2 Mixed • -.32 & .83 BXE--NO. 2 .....w .66 & .67 DETBOIT. . CATTLE .v.. S.00 ® 4.05 HOGS 8.00 @ 5.00 SHEEP S.00 @ 5,00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed..... .72 c<9 .7S COBK--No. 2 Yellow ,.43JS@ .44 OATS--No. 2 White .81 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 *i.»„ .71 & .75 CORN--No. 2 White & .41 OATC--NO. 2 White :..... .81 & .81 BYE. .58 & M BUFFALO. CATTLE--Common to Prime..... 8.00 & 5.2 Hoos--Best Grades 4.00 @ 6.21 WHEAT--No. 1 Hard .86 & .V COBS--Ito. 2 .*« & .« MILWAUKEE* WHEAT--No. 2 Spring ...., .67 & .6 COBN--No. 3 ............J. ; .40 <& .4 OATS--No. 2 White.. .3H @ .3 It YE--No. 1 .51 .6 BABLEY--NO. 8..... .EO & .« POBK--Mess 11.75 <310.3 NEW YOBK. CATTLE Hoos... WIEAT -No." 2 Bed'.'.*.'.".'. COBK--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western *ho volunteered for the fun of the thing played on the embers. Sights Among the Bulnt. At every corner a flattened mass of half-burned wood and brick was pointed out as the site of a big warehouse. Nothing except tho brick corners of Reideburg's vinegar factory was left. A. lot of galvanized Iron sheets and h big hill of malt and grain was a monu­ ment to Hansen's malthouse. The folk who saw that building burn thought it was finer than fireworks. For a moment the windows flared like the isinglass front of a parlor stove. Then the fire died out there and a ring of green gas­ eous flame ran around the building. In another minute the elevator walls parted and the mass of flaming grain tumbled down in a tremendous cataract. The Weisel Jt Vllter machine shop, where a falling wall killed two of the Bremen, was only a lot of brick and plaster, and Bubb & Kip's factory,which gave the second start to the fire, had been absolutely shelled. At the gas works the ruins of one end of the hold­ ers was still blazing In spite of the flood of water poured in by the firemen^ and the machinery was tangled add broken beyond repair. In nearly every rnass of ruins men were groping for valuable papers and books and at every corner employes could be seen pouring water on a smoking safe. On the skirts of the burned district the scenes are sometimes pathetio. Little unprotected piles of bed clothing, Edctures, and small household be* ongings had been left by fleeing thou­ sands. Oiice in a while a shivering boy Was seen standing beside the wreckage1 of a home--a broken clock, butteied Image, a bag of tableware and some poor clothing. In the middle of Buffalo Btreet a deserted truck stood loaded with one trunk and a little rocking chair decorated with a neat "tidy." These things were the wreckage of small homes burned out in the Third Ward, where hundreds of cottages of worklngmen were swept away by the fire. >Th« Distressing Feature. The burning of these poor houses waS the distressing feature of the fire. Mil­ waukee can stand well enough the de­ struction of big'warehouses, forthe^e are many big warehouses there and many rich men able to put up buildings in the place of those ruined. The cottages destroyed belonged to the poor laboring men. Some of these men squatted along the lake shore years ago, and nearly all the houses represent bard saving and long work. They ivent like tallow before the fire and left no monument­ al ruins to mark their site. Family after family applied to the relief organizations or crowded into St. John's Cathedral and the Northwestern depot. Prompt relief was given to them as Soon as the excitement of the night was settled, and there was as little suffer­ ing as ever followed a big fire. The hotels fed hundreds of hungry men. Pabst's Hotel loaded up the Chicago firemen with coffee and steaks, and with the other houses sent a patrol wagon load of food down to the smoke-stained men who were slugging the fire near the lake. The people of Milwaukee had hardly turned out of bed to see the fog of the lire rising before men were hustling around to raise money for the unfortu­ nate folks. Telegramp came In from roundabout towns, from Oshkosh and Madison and Janesville and Racine, all of which are tributary for Milwaukee's business. These little towns all offered to help as far as they could. A telegram r-ame In from Mayor Washburne, of Chicago. The Mayor evidently thought Milwaukee had teen shoveled clean off the earth, for he telegraphed in a good- haarted way about Chicago rising from lt3 ashes and hoping Milwaukee would rise from Milwaukee ashes. These tel­ egrams and letters were taken thank­ fully but Milwaukee went about help­ ing its own people with its own hands. Milwaukee Halses 831,000. Hundreds of business men Doured into concluding not to distribute the money on its own account. One of the most substantial contributions for the relief of the poor came from Frank A. Lappen & Co. The firm had sold furniture on the installment plan to many of those who were burned out and had over $2,500 still due and secured by notes. In spite of the fact that he was a heavy loser by the fire, having had a quantity of- furniture burned in Bub & Kipp's factory, Mr. Lappen announced that he would give receipts in full to those of the sufferers who still owed him any­ thing. The work of searching for the safes of the various firms was commenced early. In nearly every case the papers, which alone would enable the losers to esti­ mate correctly the amount of their loss, were in the burning buildings. To get at these a force of several hundred workmen armed with pickaxes and shovels was turned loose. Several safes were found, but It was Impossible to open them, as the locks had become so warped and twisted that the bolts could not be turnei. Rebuilding the Frelghthousca. The enterprise shown by the big suf­ ferers Is exemplified by the work of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Both the outgoing and inooming freight BSMAINS O* BBIDEBUBO VIKTOAB WOBKS, WHICH OCCUPIED MEARLY A BLOCK. houses were burned. Nothing but the bare walls were standing, while inside of them was a mass of smoldering wreckage which occasionally broke out into bright flames. By night of Monday the buildings were nearly all roofed. At one time they were forced to quit, owing to a blaze which broke out in the south end of one of the buildings while they were putting a roof on the north end. An engine was called and the blaze was soon extinguished. Insurance men are doing their best to settle the trouble for the poorer of the sufferers. They are anxious that all small losses be adjusted as soon as possible and accordingly a special com­ mittee will have such claims In charge. One incident which has received no at tentlon owing to the excitement caused by the big fire was the burning of seven cottages in the southwestern part of the city Friday evening. The people who were burned out lost everything they possessed, and they will be included in the list of those to be given reliei. DH. JAMES RICHABD COOKE, whohas just graduated from the Boston Univer sity as a physician, is a blind man, but has a record of v»6 per cent, in his three years* study, and on his final examina­ tion obtained 98 per cent, in anatomy. Be will devote himself especially dlt- AMoly IVbtefet TOOK the Hltlne OflT tna ; ! the Ortunmer's Talo. The drummer hail finished his sto­ ry and the men in the smoker were a travel-stained pas- his hand. "JSxcute inife, gents," he said, "but that story of our friend's here re­ minds me of an experience I had about a month ago down in the South American mountains. I've just got back from there and I'm going to my home in Chicago now. Mav I tell it?" The man's modesty wdn him an au­ dience on the spot and everybody drew close to hear. "I was down there among the Venezuela mountains, with my part­ ner prospecting, and we had been out from Caracas about six weeks, rough­ ing it more than we ever did in ihe Rockies. One evening after we had been floating down a small stream in a narrow canyon all afternoon, we concluded we'd camp for the night in a spot where there was just about room enough on shore to build a Aire, so we tied up, cooked supper and made ourselves comfortable in a cave about 200 yards deep, and al­ most as smooth inside as a gun bar­ rel It was about ten feet In dlame- ter, clean and dry, and we felt mighty lucky to have found it, but we never thought of the rain. About the tinae we turned !Q the sky became overcast, and shortly af­ ter it began to rain, and my, how it did come down! But we felt snug and never thought of anything else but our own comfort, when suddenly we heard a strange, wild roar above the tumult of the storm. •'The roar grew, and my partner went to the entrance of the cave to see what it was. '* *Good Lord, old man,' he ex­ claimed in terror as he rushed back, •we are lost Drowned like a pair of rats in a hole. ' / " 'What is it?' I asked, giving him a shake. 'The rain can'ttget in here." "•But the river can,' he fairly screamed. We fled back to the end of the cave and waited. How long I don't know, but the water didn't come to us, though its awful roar deafened us. We had matches and two pocket lamps, and when the ter­ ror left us a little we lighted these to see where we were. "Not twenty feet from us was a solid wall across the cave, blocking our way out. It was of a redish yel­ low mud color, and I went forward and put my hands against it. The cave by this time was quite still, and I noticed that the air was difficult to breathe. " 'Here,' I said to my partner^ 'we are blocked in. Come and see what this wall is.' ' \ "He came up with a stick in nis hand and tried to shove it in the ob­ struction, but could not. Then we put both lights on it and began to in­ vestigate, our breathing becoming more difficult all the time. " 'By thunder, I have it," exclaimed my partner all at once. Have what?' I said, turnfng on him sharply. "'That wall Is water," he ex­ plained. 'Solid water. This cave is air tight and the river came up so quickly that it covered th^ mouth ol the hole before the air could get out, and here we are in nothing more nor less than a compressed air chamber. The weight of the water outside presses in on the air and the water is blocked against it. A hole in the wall behind no bigger than your thumb, tnd, o.d fellow, vte'a be squeezed out flat before fte-could drown.'" Th'.! hunter paused Jn his Story, the doubting man whistled to himself softly and the drummer felt his throne slipping from under him. "And it was true, my friends," re­ sumed the traveler solemnly. "And for many hours we stayed in there, and then with a roar the wall disap­ peared and we followed it out to the mouth of the cave and stood in the broad daylight and looked upon the turbulent river dropping out of the gorge as quickly as it had filled it" Fine Work on Pullman Cars. The man whe travelp much io a Pullman sleeper, or for that matter in the best class of coaches, can but be impressed with the absolute per­ fection to which manufacturers like the Pullmans have brought the art of cabinet making. The cars are sub­ jected to strain, jostle and every sort of a movement likely to undo the cabinet-maker's joints. They are overheated and underheated. They know all degrees of temperature within a yery few hours. For exam­ ple, instances are not exceptional on the Northern Pacific where a car leaves Portland with the temperature 40 above zero and reaches Fargo three days later with the temperature Indicating 40 below, and vice versa. And yet, the Mississippi Valley Lum­ berman says, a drawn joint, a split panel or a shrunken casing is rarely seen. The makers of the railway car­ riages evidently know how to dry the hard woods which they use in car build­ ing. They know how to put a piece of lumber in place and to make it stay there. They know how to put a fin­ ish on it that stands all sorts of hard usage. Parenthetically It may he said that the builders of the Pullman cars keep fairly in advance of the styles which from time to time make their appear­ ance in the furniture sold in this Country, Very little equally good work is done by the sash and door men and the builders of interior fin­ ish. The makers of office . desks do not succeed much better. What man who has built a house and stipulated that the hardwood In his mantels and his doors should be bone dry has not found it necessary to have the doors sent to the factory to be re­ made and his house invaded by car­ penters and finishers from time to t'.me? How many men have sworn at the men who made his roll top desk because the panel split, the drawers would not pull out and the top per­ sisted in catching at the most inop­ portune time. Mr. Pullman may com­ pel us to pay a very good price for the luxury of his sleeping cars, he may force us with the porter's assistance to pay the porter for what we have previously paid Mr. Pullman, but we cannot but admire the perfection of his cabinet work, the taste displayed in the choice of the best cabinet woods and the work that he is doing M educating public taste to the lsh. •v ^rehie 4mi, WUllam Tsmple, and J«b« mm Womoal Clubfc *v & ' „ • e r " s e n s e n o r senti- menj^i& liftf Ipiss of comments which the hfplipiper'press i» j»aicing upon. womeii ji elubs. What 'cWei* may be the paitttSe with whi||||ite men re­ sort to clubs. /flap far organized only thfl$tl|ey mag^bottferse on subjects of mutual interest; t&ere are no gambling clubs, drinking clubs or even mere dining clubs in the fem­ inine world. Such general organiza­ tions as women have formed are al­ most all in cities, where intelligent women, as a rule, know more mem­ bers of their own sex than they can entertain, in women's customary wav, without providing a rap*id round of lunches, teas and parties. Until wo­ men's clubs were organized there were many intelligent and sympa­ thetic women who were absolutely obliged to avoid increasing their list of acquaintances because acquaint-, anceship implied an extent o? enter­ tainment and "calling" to which time and money were inadequate. City men escaped this embarrassing situation by distinguishing between friends and acquaintances, meeting the latter at clubs, where chat with­ out subsequent social responsibility is possible. At a club the man of mod­ est income Is the peer of the million­ aire, if manners and Intelligence are equal; a similar privilege and right should be conceded to the many thou­ sand of women who have more sense and character than money. To many men the club is the only place at which they can meet others who In turn wish to meet them; neither bus­ iness, social nor religious organiza­ tions answer the purpose so well. What is true of men in this respect is true also of women; "what's saucefor the goose is sauce for the gander." As to the jokes about supposed c.is- agreements In women's clubs, they might be returned in kind by any one who is well acquainted in masculine club circles. An organization with­ out friction has never been heard of on earth except when some descend* ant Of Ananias lifted his voice. Church congregations are supposed to be the most unselfish of human so­ cieties, but even in these there are cliques, factions, and quarrels which make the righteous grieve. Besides, women as yet have little experience in the management of deliberative bodies; although it is impossible for them to quarrel more persistently than men in similar bodies, over mat­ ters of little consequence, they have yet much to learn through experi­ ence, both as to when to talk and when to keep silence; the same may truthfully be said about the highest de­ liberative bodies in the United States, the two Houses ot Congress not ex­ cepted. Personal ambition being a fixed passion of human nature, some women in clubs, like some men, will determine to rule or ruin, .and will sometimes keep vheir more con­ scientious sisters awake o' nights, but such troubles are merely incidental to all human communication. All right- minded men will be glad to have their wives' range of vision enlarged by wide acquaintance with the. better members of their own sex, and they will, as a rule, be unable to find a better medium thangood club. The general feminine movement to­ ward organization deserves, therefore^ heartiest encouragement.--Godey's. " A Pracllonl IUustratlon. Uncle Silas was the best posted man on general topics in the village, and a hunter of renown as well. He also had a virago for a wife. Dear, dear, what a temper that woman had! She was the only thing on earth of which Uncle Silas was afraid. One day a class of school children called on the old man. They were sent by their teacher to get some facts in natural history. "We've come," said the spokesman of the class, "to ask you some ques­ tions, Uncle Silas, about the habits and customs of the wild cat." Uncle Silas had been very irlad to see them, as the broad smile on his face testified. But now he looked very much alarmed. "H-u-s-h," he said with a cautious gesture, "who on arth sent ye here on such an errand?" , "Miss Knowles, our teacher, " said the class in. coneer^. ^ "Wall, she oughter know better. I ain't never hed'anythin' to say about them thar critters sence--Oh, Lordy, thar she comes!" And Uncle Silas lit out, as a tall woman armed with a broom, lit in. "Think ye'r smart, do vp?' she screamed. "Wanter know about wild cats, hey? Got up a joke on the old man, but I'll teach yer to joke on facs. Take that home for yer pains." Whac e, whack, went the broom, and it did not fail in its aim, as two of the boys who were the last to get out could easily prove. And the class in natural history skipped the chap­ ter on wild cats for something less ex­ citing. • She Took th® Wron* Carriage The following true story is printed as a warning to Hartford girls. A young lady left a house where a re­ ception was in progress, and stepped, as she supposed, into her carriage, which was drawn up at the curb. She closed the door, which was standing open, and the horses started up the street They had gone but a block when she discovered that there was no driver upon the box. She realized too, that it was not her carriage. Opening the window she shouted "Whoa!" but the horses went all the faster. After a deal of struggling at the glass front she managed to open it sufficiently wide to crawl through, and climbed to the seat Once there, it was an easy matter to rein in the horses. Her dilemma was most awkward. Nobody was in sight and she did not know how to drive. Finally she mus­ tered up courage, spoke to the horses, and started for home. She had not gone far when a breathless coachman was encountered wildly gesticulating. His astonishment when he saw a young lady in full evening dress mounted upon his box may be im­ agined. Explanations were made and he (Irove her home, none the worse for her adventure. When she goes to a party now she looks twica before leaping into her carriage.--Hartford Post ' MEN always admire a woman WHOSE ' busband .is eood to lief. oTl;. V •* >r V v..li,.... *». .,ti. ,fc, J,ritt... i# L, . , 4 * •X- .$V- rl . 1 . 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