The Madison Republican Times from Madison, Kansas • 2

Swept by Fires. BLOODY DEEDS. and sold Into a life of slavery of the vilest description. Sometimes combats take place which result In the slaughter of hundreds, whose bodies are left where they fall. Colombian citizens on the Putumuvo and Napo are plundered by Bolorcs Hcmdlos, an infamous slave dealer, who holds public sales on the lower Amazon of women stolen from Colombia.

DOTS AND DASHES. i At the regular Sunday mass meeting of tha Knights of Labor' at Indianapolis, a series of resolutions General Master Workman Powderly'' was unanimously adopted. The resolutions recite the qualifications of the general master workman, deplore his announced intention to The Madison Times. E. E.

TEASE, MADISON, KANSAS. The Chinese minister at Washington has issued cards for a large dinnor at the legation on the 30th of this month. St. Louis, Nov. 23.

Reports of forest and prairie fires come from all directions ex cepting the north, and give accounts of great destruction of property. The bottom lands of the Okaw and Big Muddy rivers In Southwestern Illinois and tbe pralrlea in many parts of the same section of the state are ablaze and outhouses, fences, farming machinery, outstanding crops aud whole forests, aud la some cases residences have been destroyed. In southeastern Missouri and in Ankansas, between the Iron Mountain railway and the Mississippi river, the swamps und low lauds have been almost burnt out and the whole county Is so filled with smoke that the people are almost stifled. As far west as HotSprlnirs fires huve devastated farms aud burned residences, barns and fences, und the little town of Maflower, In Frauklin couuly, bai'ely escaped total destruction. On the east side of the Mississippi river in Washington and Bolivar counties Mississippi, nineteen cotton Kino, besides much other valuable property, have been destroyed.

From the Indian territory Hre reports of greatpralrie fires, forty miles of range around Red Fork having been entirely ravaged and thousands of tons of hay, farming implements and a large number of cattle burned. Other sections of the territory huve suffered in the same way. BAD REPORTS FROM MEMPHIS. MEMPnis, Nov. 22.

The sun hung In the skies like a ball of fire all day, aud at times was almost obscured by the dense smoke, which hovered over and around this city. It is the same story that has been told for the past week of forest fires, which continue to rage with unabated furv. Sam Tate. who arrived this forenoon from Birmingham, via the C. B.

railroad, reports forest tires all along the route between Memphis and Birmingham. They bave been particularly destructive in the neighborhood of Kerrvllle, on the line of the C. O. 8. W.

railroad, where many miles of fences have been destroyed aud in the Ha tchle bottom are very alarming, the scarcity of water making it" almost impossible to put them out. T. O. Bond lost 15,000 panels of fence aud the Hon. O.

Thomas and Esquire Estes panels each. Laggoon bot tom Is also on iSre, which Is sweeping everything before it. All the local packets are from twenty-four to seventy-two hours behind time, owing to the dense smoke which prevails and prevents them from running at nights. The weather is cloudy but there are no immediate prospects of rain. Cairo, 111., Nov.

22. The woods are on fire for fifty miles in every direction from thU place. The report of hunters being surrounded by Are In lie Nlggonvool swamp has no foundation. The smoke from hurtling forest is very dense and interrupts mivigutlou on the river to a great extent. GREAT HAVOC IN ILLINOIS.

Anna, Nov. 22, The forest fires are still raging in all parts of this and surround-inir counties. The high wind of Saturday scattered them over a much larger territory than formerly and it is almost Impossible to check tlicm. Several farm buildings iu the Mississippi bottoms have burned, among them one belonging to M. W.

Eaves of this city. The residence of A. C. Musgrave, a farmer living east of town, was deslroved last night together with all its contents. Bridges, ties and telegraph poles on the lines of both the Illinois Central and Mobile ami Ohio rail roads have burned and delayed traffic considerably.

No rain of any consequence has fallen here for five months. Moweaqua, 111., Nov. 23. This city was enveloped in smoke all yesterday and the sun cou be gazed at -with the nuked eve. It had a light red appearance and formed a singular phenomenon.

The smoke has bren so dense as to affect breathing and eyesight. It comes from the Okaw Where hundreds of acres of timber are on lire, aud on account ot the extreme drought, It can not he checked. It can be seen hurulng several miles away and has destroyed much property. Marshall, Nov. 22.

The engine of a north bound freight train ou the Cairo, Vin-cenues aud Chicago line fired the timber on both sides of the Hattou south of here and it took hours of hard work to save the place owing to the fierce wind that raged all day. PhilipKraeiner lost several thousand rails and a lot of timber and fencing, while many of his neighbors suffered likewise, but iu a less degree. Twomiles below town another disastrous fire was kindled aud Edward Herhst suffered considerable loss. Towderly Will Heslgn. Indianapolis, Nov.

24. General Master Workman Powderly, In response to a request from a prominent Knight of this city urging him to reconsider his announced determination to retire from the leadership of the order has written as follows: "ITou ask me to reconsider my determination to retire from the head of the order after the next ses-siou. I do not see how I can consistently do so, and lt would be unfair to ask me to retain a position which I do not want and which lam confident another man can fill with better advantage to the order at large. During the past year I have received a thousand communications, from Individuals it is true, in which I was abused, condemned and asked to resign. The papers were full of abuse, and threats of Impeachment were made and threats of withdrawal from the order freely indulged in.

Through this cloud of gloom but one rav of light made its way, and that came, from far avvav Denver where D. A. 82, passed those ringing resolutions Indorsing my course and condemning the anarchist element which souaht to prostitute the order to its own base-less. I felt that the order would stand more by some other man than it would stand by me. True, I have never had cause to find fault with the official treatment I have received, but when tbe blows fall thick and fast, friendly Intercession give no cheer to tbe persons on whose heads the blows are fulling.

I believe the best service that I can render to the order Is to step aside and allow some other member to do the work I am trying to do. I have devoted years to the cause of labor. My life In the service of humanity has been one constant fight by night and day against the enemies of labor and the elements of discord which opposed me from within and without Such a life has been a most exciting one and has left me with a legRCV with which I can never part in tbe shape of heart trouble that may do its work at any moment. I could not make such a subject a matter for discus sion in my annnual message or before the general assembly. Personal interests, socialities and the comforts of home have been things of the past with me for years.

I long to be once more a free man for to-day I am bo'ind by ties most unendurable and ruled ffrer by not one but 500,000 masters. You can never know the strains under which I have lived for years. It would not be becoming for me to speak of tbe financial sacrifice I have made for the order, and I am free to say I would be -willing to make tbe Bame sacrifice again, of health comfort, for tbe order of the Knights ot Labor. I bave for eight years, as general master workman, striven as honestly as I knew how to better the condition of my fellow woikmen by helping to build an organization through which they would be protected In their rights. That organization is built, but profane bands bave been laid upon it, and tbe men who gathered at Chicago and gave out that hostile declaration to the world did mo onlr because anarchv could not rule the order.

I do not charge all those who attended the meeting In Chicago with being anarchists, but I claim tbat a vast majority of them did not represent their constituency." Three Men and Women Killed in a Desperate Battle. Three Indians Slay Two Whites In Their Cell and Suicide A Crazy Chinama Runs Amuck on a Denver and Rio Grande Train and Gets Killed Other Notes. Another Bloody Tragedy. Ft. Smith, Nov.

27. A frightful nd shocking affray, resulting in the death of three persons and the serious wounding of two others, occurred In the Indian territory, just across the river from this city this morning. United States Marshal Carroll was informed last night that l'BaIdy" Smith, one of the men who murdered Duputy Jack Richardson last year, was camping across the river, and sent Deputy Marshals, Frank Dalton and James Cole across to arrest him. Earl? this morning the camp was discovered and Dalton walked toward tbe entrance. Just as he was about to enter a volley of shots were fired from the hut, one of which passed completely through his breast.

He fell to the ground and was ot once reinforced by Cole, who returned the fire, killing Smith himself, the; first man to appear. Several woodeboppers now poured out of the the teut and a bloody battle ensued, Dalton emptying shots from his Winchester in spite of frightful wounds. Colo was-soon shot through the arm and leg, on of the woodeboppers shot through the breast and the wamau attached to the camp killed outright. After firing thirty shots Cole, finding it impossible to Bave Dalton against such numbers, slowly retreated. Dalton, almost dead from loss of blood, was then set upon by the whole party, and while begging piteously for his life, was shot through the head and mouth and killed.

Cole reached the river bank among a shower of bullets and escaped, reaching this city coveredfiRith blood from several wounds. His tale aroused the whole city, and a posse was soon sent to arrest the murderers. Upon reaching the camp a horrible scene was presented. Dalton and Smith lay side by side finvi.rj.rl with htnrwl wirh hnth liunrift UpilttV grasping pistols, stone dead. A short distance ulf lay the woman with a bullet through her.

One of the wounded wood choppers, tryiug to escape, was arrested. Biood was everywhere. The rest of the party had escaped, leaving everything behind, but the wuoie country is being scoured and it is Hoped tue guuey parties will soon be arrested. Dalton and Cole were both brave men, bavin. Vntf.m and were looked on by United States Marshal Carroll as the best men on his force.

This makes fifteen United States marshals attacked and killed in the Indian territory during the past two years. Bloody and Suicidal Work. Glendive, Nov. 27. Early yester-duy morning three Sioux Indians named Fingernail, Sitting-in-Frout and Pete Mat thews, confiued lu the county Jail here for horse stealing, made an attack on two white prisoners.

Their weapons were table knives, a pair of scissors and the common chairs with which the jail was supplied. After inflicting mortal wounds on the white prisoner, Fingernail and Sitting-in-Front hanged themselves In their cells with their bunk straps. They were assisted by the other Indian, Pete Matthews, who, after they committed the deed, tried to butt his brains out against the wall of the cell, but was secured and Ironed by Sheriff Tual and several other prisoners. The two other Indians who hanged themselves stabbed themselves all over the bodies before resorting to banging. Francis Salanio, au Italian, who was confiued on a charge of burglary, was stabbed in several places, and the couuty physician does not expext him to live until morning.

other prisoner, L. II. Turck, awaiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of rape, was stabbed and pounded over the head in the hands of the Indians. He regained consciousness late this afternoon, and only remembers that the Indians attacked him with knives, after which he become unconscious. The doctor says he will recover with proper eare.

The Indians who did the work tried to starve themselves to death several months ago, and after that remarked that they would not live to be tried for horse-stealing. During the term of court, which convenes tomorrow, they had their war paint on, aud no-doubt the assault was premeditated. The prisoners appeared jolly aud contented last evening when the jailer made his rounds. They were slowed too much liberty, neither one of the cells being locked, only the outside door of the cage. They had access to all the cells, and the Indians waited until they thought the white prisoners slept soundly.

A Celestial' Tragic Feat. Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 27. The Denver and Rio Grande western train, which arrived at 7 o'clock last night, brought the body of a Chinaman named Lt Shung, who was killed on the train early this morning while trying to run amuck. LI Sbnng bought an emigrant ticket at Pittsburg and was on his way to San Francisco.

The passengers noticed his strange conduct from Pueblo, Col. He would go to the saloon in the first class car and remain fully half an hour at times. At the end of the Colorado division be had been In the saloon for three hours, and the trainmen allowed him to remain there for tlia TTfah rtivlsinn tmlnmpn t.n hnniltf. Ttrfllr. man James Garoug opened the saloon door at 6 o'clock a.

m. to get the Chinaman out, when the Celestial rushed forth suddenly and mads a plunge at him with a dirk knife, the blade ripping bis pants but Inflicting no wound. The brakemao rushed to the forward car and borrowed a revolver. Returning, he ordered the Chinaman to put away his knife, but be began running amuck, makings thrust at Mrs. A.

H. Almond, a lady passenger from southern Illinois, and missing her, be plunged the blade Into the abdoman of a young man named George Huckelbridge of Bunker Hill, III, Chinaman then started for the passengers, when the brakeman fired four shots, three of which took effect The shooting occurred at Crevasse, but the Chinaman did not expire for four hours and a half, death overtaken him at Lower Crossing, Utah. Huckelbridge was brought to this city and taken to the Catholic hospital, where tbe best surgical skill was employed, but It Is feared that his wound is fatal. A coroner's inquest was held late to-night and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts, the brakeman being exonerated. Tbe car In which the tragedy occurred was crowded with Ohio, Illinois.

Indiana and Missouri people en route to Los Angeles and other southern California towns. Dr. J. C. Pomcroy of St.

Paul, who was a passenger, testified tbat he believed the Chinaman insane from the use of opium. JTorrl ble Barbarism In Colombia. Panama, Nov. 16. The JievUta Calolica of Bogota, speaking of mission work In Colombia, says that in Caqueta, San Martin, Casa-nara.

La Goajira, Nevada, Choco. Opon and Darlen there are over 200,000 Colombians who live a savage life. Many of these are stolen A Boy Fiend. Birmingham, Nov. 25.

Near Pcrida, a station on the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, lived Charley Baker, the stepson of a farmer named Ponder. He was 8 years old aud had a brother of 4 and sister of 6. A few days ago young Buker witnessed the killing of the fumily'o hogs, and Wednesday he left the house with his brother and sister, and some time later he returned alone, ms clothes covered with blood, and told his mother he had killed the little ones, showing a sharp butcher knife with which he bad done the work. Following the boy to a spot In the woods near the slaughter pen tbe mother found her younger sou and daughter stretched on the ground in a pool of blood, both with their throats cut. The girl was dead aud the boy barely alive.

While the family were attending the little ones Charley disappeared again, and search being made for him shortly altenvnrds he was found a few steps from the same spot dead, with his jugular veins severed, evidently by his own hand. The wounded boy is mending slowly. Gossip of the Paris Papers. Pakis, Nov. 25.

The Monitor (Orleanist) declares tbe story of the alleged Orleanist conspiracy to discredit Germany in the eyes of Russia a bad joke, which could not be taken seriously by any French journal. The monarchists, it savs, have always desired and striven to maintain peace. The Journal Lebats publishes a telegram from Vienna which suys Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria aud his mother the Princess Clementina have decided to issue a formal denial of the Cologne Gazette's insinuations against their family. A liberal Club In Trouble. London, Nov.

25. It is probable that a split will occur in the National liberal club, eighty-eight members having made requisitions upon the committee to convene a meeting to debate a resolution that in the Interests of the party the members should actively engage in political work. Many unionist and Gladstoniau members oppose such action on the ground that the club comprises all sections of the liberal party, and that lt would be unwise to accentuate divisions by participating in active politics. The Scholten Disaster Verdict. London, Nov.

25. The jury In the Scholten inquest returned their opinion this evening that the collision was due to an error of judgment on the part of the officers of the Scholten in trying to cross the bows of the Kosa Mary without making allowance for the strong tide which was flowing. The jury highly praised the conduct of the officers and crew of the Ebro. At the suggestion of the coroner the clause in the verdict referring to erroneous judgement was stricken out. Eugenie Kot Critically 111.

Amsterdam, Nov. 24. The report of the illness of ex-Empress Eugenie was greatly exaggerated. She under massage treatment for a local affection, She goes out walking daily. A Mental Wreck.

Detroit, Nov. 23. It became known for the first time to-day to a few persons that ex-United States Senator Charles F. Jones of Florida, who has for some unexclaimcd reason sojourned in Detroit for two years past, Is practically a beggar upon the streets, and but for the charity of a friend would be without food or shelter. When Jones came to Detroit he was very free with his money and gave lavichlv to benevolent purposes.

He boarded at the best hotel until a few months ago, wheu be was unable to pay his bills. He then went to a cheaper house und last night his room was locked on him and he slept on tbe floor in the hall. He was observed bv a man whom he had befriended in his better days and was taken to the man's home. Jones is almost a mental wreck. He Is pursued with the Idea that some enemies whom he never names are following him, and that he will yet "down them." It Was Xot Attempted.

Chicago, Nov. 22. The story that efforts were made to resuscitate the body ot August Spies after his examination is positively denied by Dr. George Thllo who examined the body after It was delivered to the friends and pronounced life totally extinct. This afternoon he said "When the body was first brought to Mueller's undertaking estab lishraent some of the people present thought they perceived unusual warmth iu the corpse, and I was seut for.

I made a careful examination of I he remains and was soon convinced tbat death hail intervened, and that any attempt at revivification by galvanic battery or any other means would he useless, and I so informed the gentlemen present. There was no attempt whatever to restore life. The fact that the bodv was warm proved nothing. It had been dead only a couple of hours, and when a body is kept under shelter to takes six or seven hours for the natural heat to leave it, especially when death is violent and sudden. When I first saw the body rigor mortis hud already set In and bad stiffened tbe neck and the jaw.

There was but one case known to medical science where a man judicially huug has been resuscitated. The criminal bung for fifteen minutes and when cut down was turned over to the physicians for experiment. Within five minutes from the time he was cut down, or within twenty minutes from the time tbe drop fell," the body was on the operating table and a powerful galvanic current applied. The neck was not broken, and after a great deal of labor in producing artificial respiration and the electricity being constantly applied, the aubject revived but in a state of wild delirium. From this be never recovered and In twenty-four hours he died.

Now, restorative agents were used in this case within twenty minute's after the hanging, while in the Spies case it was three hours before the body was brought to the undertakers. Then, seen though the neck was not broken, it was too late. He was dead beyond any hope of resuscitation." KunDown by a Train. Boston, Nov. 24.

A team attached a carriage containing Patrick D. Gorman William and Charles Hannon and Joseph L. Burke was driven through the safety gates at the Boston and Albany crossing at West Newton this afternoon, gained tbe track, and the horses becoming uncontrollable, turned and followed the rails, and the wagon and its occupants were quickly overtaken by a train which crashed Into the rear of the vehicle, killing the two Hannons, fatally injuring Burke and badly bruising Gorman. The carriage was demolished and the horses bad to be shot. retire at tbe close of the, present term and urge him to again allow the' use of liis name as a candidate for general master workman.

Powderly's position as to anarchy is heartily-Indorsed, and the resolutions add: "In our-judgment no good purpose can be accomplished by affiliating with any advocates the adoption of forcible measures in order to accomplish a lawful The resolutions close by expressing a belief that the Chicugo provisional committee "Is. the victim of a foul and cowardly plot on the-part of those who, failing to accomplish the-adoptlon of a bad measure in the general assembly, have resorted to revengeful measures, unworthy the support of true Knights of Labor." The safe In the county treasurer's office at. Centeivllle, Reynolds county, Missouri, was-blown open Friday night and robbed of about $30,000 In cash, recent tux collections. No-clue to the robbery. It is feared that Minneapolis may suffer-from a water famlue before the winter Is over because of lack of power to run the pumps, from which the city's supply Is received.

The National bank of Quebeck has re duced Its capital from $3,000 to $1,333,00. The directors are said to be heavy debtors to the institution. Charles Kebler, a Cincinnati lawyer, who-committed suicide, left property worth less than $00,000 and liabilities which will amount to $175,000. It appears that in order to keep-up a style of living that was not compatibles with his means he committed heavy forgerieS in the management of estates and of trust' funds left to his care, and that the suicide was prompted by the knowledge that his crime was about to be discovered. A few English rabbits were Introduced Into-the botanical garden at Dunedin, New South.

Wales, In 1864, and now the government offers a reward of $125,000 for any invention that, will exterminate the animals, which have become a pest throughout Australia. The loss by the burning of the packing bouse of the Des Moines Packing company is estimated at 250,000. Insurance $100,000. Mr. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, says that Editor O'Brien can not te subjected' to the usual prison discipline because he has-succeeded in sheltering himself under a medical opinion that his lungs are delicate- and his heart actiou weak.

President Grevy has consented to resign his; office because it has become unendurable on. account of the clamor raised against him, but. the announcement of bis intention has not satisfied his enemies who are iu a state of frenzy because tbe resignation is not to take-effect immediately. Two freight trains on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad collided near Pittsburgh Friday. Both trains were-completely demolished and three train men killed und five others injured.

At Lancaster, South Carolina, a novel punishment was invented for a gang of consisting of a woman named Brooks and four colored men. They were brought together iu a room and immediately began tot quarrel with one another, whereupon tljey were supplied with whale bono whips, and of them was compelled to inflict twenty lashes upon every one of the others. Tbe annual report of the engineer In charge-of the government canal at Keokuk, Iowa, shows that this year's freight traffic was. greater than that of the preceding year, and that the lumber business was the largest ever done through the canal. The attorney general of Nova Scotia In commenting upon the fishery commission says he: has good grounds for believing tbat the Canadian case ot Washington is to be subordinated to tbe interests of the British exporter on the one hand aud to those of the Canadian: manufacturer ou the other.

Sidney Dillon has been elected president of the Oregon Transcontinental railway. The forest fires about Hillsboro, 111., have destroyed the chinch bugs that ruined the? last crops. George Gould left New York for San Francisco Thursday evening, on business connected with the Pacific mail. The body of an unknown man, supposed to-be a tramp, was found on the railroad track, near Brookfield, Thursday. He had been killed by a tralu.

Two negroes under sentence for highway robbery jumped from the train near Chester, 111., Thursday evening, and though handcuffed together made their escape. The unveiling of the statue of President. Garfield at Eighth and Race streets, Cincin nati, will take place December 1. The Hon. Ezra B.

Taylor will be the principal orator. The Commercial union club of Toronta proposes to send a delegation to lngtou to urge upon tne isrmsn usoeries commission tbe linportantance of commercial union with the United States. By a collision between two freight trains on the Cincinnati Southern road near Nemo, Tennessee, two men were killed and two others were injured. A strong stream of excellent water burst1 forth suddenly from the parched ground of a level field not far from Champaign, and the people of that drought-stricken district are flockiug to it from miles away. At tbe Inquest on the bodies recovered from the Seboltou disaster it was found that of 214 neoDle on board the- Ill-fated steamer but eighty-nine were saved.

The German steam er Leander struck the wreck of the Scholtoi Tuesday evening, and was towed to Dover ii a sinking condition. A tory newspaper published at Dublin pre diets that Balfour, secretary, of Ireland, wil be the government leader in the house commons at the next session of parliament, Members of the New York produce-exchang are signing a memorial complaining of th adulteration of lard, and asking for leglslij tion upon the subject, and many LDleag packers express themselves in favor of tt movement 1 1.1- ,1 1. II .1 lol tnaries xacmer auu ua whc auu uuuu iuj their lives by tbe burn lug of the house which they were living at Browning, nil The building is thought to have been flreci an incendiary. I Eight million dollars of the third-mo' bonds of tbe Northern Pacific railroad bal been taken by a German svndicate in whif the Rothschilds and tbe Deutsche Bank; Berlin are the principals. i A young woman in Englewood, UL, avows her intention to open adamcry and mendery among the foot sore denizens of Chicago.

A tailoring fiam at Crawfordsvillo, 111., advertises that a marriage license will be given every young man who will buy bis wedding suit of thera. A negro at Eden Station, Miss. ate twelve boxes of sardines in the space of thirty minutes, and then asked for a box of potted ham, which was refused him. A Michigan boy who had one thousand buttons on a string explained it by saying that his father is a minister and "has the sorting of the collection basket" Annie Mercer, of Missaukee County, promises to become a giantess. She is only in her twelfth year, and yet she is a trifle over six feet in stature.

Says '-Fighting Joe" Hookers cook in war times: "The only time I ever saw Hooker shed a tear was when Kearney was killed. He sat down and cried like a babv." A predatory buzzard brought famine to tiie door of the Port Gibson Record man by flying away with the weeks ration of beef, which the butcher had hung on the front gate. Captain Joirs, of Brussels, Belgium, who had been deaf for fifteen years, accompanied an aeronaut in a balloon ascension a few weeks ago, and when he reached the earth found that he had been entirely cured. Henry Ward Beechr never smoked tobacco himself, but often presented his friends with a pipe. He had a great fancy for amber, that beautiful mineral so highly prized by smokers, and never failed to buy a fine specimen whenever he saw it." Texas prospectors recently saw a battle between eight big gray wolves and a herd of three hundred cattle.

The wolves separated a cow and calf from the rest and attacked them. The herd came to the rescue and drove the wolves away. A British sea captain says that whales are increasing in numbers so fast that the accidents to ships from running into them will soon be of frequent occurance. A sailing ship, under a five-knot breeze might as well strike a tree as an old bull whale. Two years ago Alexander Hansen, of Chicago' offered his sweetheart if she would marry him.

She accepted the offer, but he has since refused to pay either the money or the interest on it, and she has brought suit against him for $1,500 damages. One of the curiosities of this curious age was caught in the waters of the Choptank River, Maryland, a few days ago. It was a good-sized terrapin with a healthy, well developed oyster on his back, and was both literally and figuratively on yoster on four legs. In a Pennsylvania town a man recently went into a drug store and asked if they kept ''consecrated lye." The urbane clerk replied that they did, and after purchasing the article, the man went on his way, content that he had bought what his wife had sent for. John Varney and his wife, who have lived on Moosehead Lake, Maine, for twenty-five years, during that time have together killed over four hundred bears, beside many deer and caribou and much small game.

Mrs. Varney accompanies her husband on all his excursions. Earl Cairns, who, as Viscount Garmoyle, had to pay Miss Fortescue $50,000 for failure to marry her, has just inherited $5,000,000 from a foolish uncle. Now Miss Adele Grant, who refused to marry him because he couldn't pay for the wedding presents, may be thoughtful. A newly-invented car-stove was dropped from the roof of a seven-story building in Chicago last week, after a roaring fire had been built in in.

The inside cylinders of the (tore were shattered to pieces, but the heavy boiler-iron casing outside was not broken, and no fire came out.