Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-11-16

dead. Their mother had shot them in |
front room al the top of the house.
The statement seemed too awful to be |
true, and even now | look out whele
the sun floods the grass plat, but there
are no voices, no children playing sol
der or blind mans buff with their
mother. The doors are closed, the win
dows are darkened, and neighborhood
seems wrapped in gloom.
Itwould seem that October has been
fatal month for New York. For the
most part the weather has resembled
murky London. A bright October sun
was rarity indeed and there must
have been something in ii 9 muggy at
mosphere to breed calamlties. First,
we had a crazy Frenchman running
muck in tLroughfare crowded with
lady shoppers, and dealing death blows
right and left with Il pair of compasses.
Then an Employe of the Third Avenue
Horse Railroad Company, tries to shoot
his uncle, the president of the company,
and, under the impression that his shot
was effective, blows out his brains with
the same weapon. Then the Park The
atre fire, which missed only few hours
being y human holocaust. The climax
eff horrors was capped, however, on the
the last day of the month by the murder
of three beautiful and innocent children.
mentioned above, by lunatic mother,
VINO subsequently takes her own life.
DR.. Seguin, the father of the murdered
children AMI the husband OF the lunatic
III question, is man known to entertain
peculiar viewson the subject of insanity.
That phase of insanity resulting from
nervous disorders he has made a special
study. 1t is reported that he would
have been called as an insanity expert
in the Giteau case but for his peculiar
ideas. No one questions the Doctors
high standing in his profession, and the
most profound sympathy is extended on
all sides for his dreadful misfortune.
But it is rather remarkable that man
supposed to be an adept in diagnosing
the insane phase of morbid nervousness,
hysteria, ETC., should have failed to dis
cover that his own wife was lunatic
The present sensation is Mrs Lang
try. The Bernhard boom was never
SO great as the interest in the Jersey
Lily" who is common subject of con-
versation. Her pictures are for sale in
all the shop windows. in the elevated
railway stations, and on vendors carts
in the streets. Some of the photographs
are highly colored, and not in the least
like the original. Her beautiful face is
so well known that when she ventures
forth in the street people stare at her
with abominable persistency, and even
follow her about. The Park Theatre
ire was costly fire to Mr. Abbey the
manager, his loss being 100000, but it
has not been without its advantages, in
spite of the delay of one week and the
"nSO ~ cttStl OlChtb HOiueTe, 1
say eager advisedly, because people who
rushed forward to pay SlS or $40 for
single seat and 1920 for boxes must be
somewhat enthusiastic. One advantage
OF the fire is that the debut was made in
a more suitable place, Wallack's ncy
theatre being the handsomeSt as well as
one of the largest places of entertain
mont in the country. Mr.. Abbey is a
somewhat extraordinary man. possess
ing qualities not always found in theat-
rical managers. What a jolly good
thing a philosophical temperament is.
/ can think of no other manager in the
city of New York who could stand in
front of the blazing theatre, seeing dis
sipated with the clouds of smoke and
flame the fair prospects for which he
had been working for nearly year,
conscious that trouble and disappoint-
ment and great pecuuiary loss were the
certain sequences of the blaze, and yet
calmly smoking cigar, in no outward
sense perturbed, anxious first and fore
most for the safety of his employees, and
second, for the peace of mind of the
great star whom he had hoped to see
blazon in his armament
A great deal has been written of late
about the closing of the great house of A.
T. Stewart & CO., and some writers have
grown sentimental over the closing of a
business that has been so prominent be-
fore the public for quarter of q cen
fury. The truth of the matter is that
the business is going on the same as
ever, only under different name.
Judge Hilton, since his memorable at
tack upon the Jews, has found the trade
of the house steadily decreasing. 1t is
an open secret that the house has lost
money every year since Stewards death.
Mrs. Stewart, while nominally the pro-
prietor of the business, left everything
to the control of Judge Hilton. Mrs
Stewart must be over seventy years of
age, yet she affects girlish airs and al
ways appears resplendant in brown
wig. youthful dresses, and lavish dis
play of diamonds. 1t became apparent
that something must be done to stop the
waning fortunes of the house of A. T.
Stewart & Co. Nothing less than he
roic treatment could hope 70 remedy |