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had gone out to buy q sack of char
coal. The neighbor remembered that
the evening before, at different times,
she had seen Hortense at the win
dow, her eyes all swollen and red
from crying.
"There is no doubt about it," she
exclaimed. "they have perished. We
must send for the magistrate"
The magistrate on arriving forced
open tho door. The woman's pre-
dictions were only too true. Emile
was lying extended on lounge, Hor-
tense on a chair, both cold and in
sensible. Restoratives were immedi-
ately applied. Alasl all their efforts
to revive Emile were useless. The
carbolic gas had done the work. He
was dead. Hortense still breathed.
They succeeded in restoring her.
When she recovered her senses the
magistrate proceeded to open before
her the letter addressed to Emile. 1t
contained these words:
MY DEAR EMILE: ] hope you are
well and happy-you and your little
sweetheart-for you know very well
that I am not so foolish rs to believe
that you are waiting for my permis
sion to fall in love with Hortense.
Don't let your conscience trouble you
for breaking your promise. have
been married month PAUL.
Hortepse, on hearing this, rose, ran
to the lounge where lay the body of
Emile and showing him the letter,
with feverish excitement, exclaimed: |:
"Look, Emile, look! Isn't it an ex-
cellent jokeW
Then she burst into hysteric laugh
ter.
She was insane.
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After popping the question, next
in order is to question the pop
Does your son play the fute7 Not
we'll; but he is under tootle-age.-
Clock worked stockings are not nee
essarily second hand stockings.
A Michigan woman, with a short
and heavy stick, has set out to walk
to California. It is nothing uncom
mon for actresses to travel all over
the country with half dozen sticks,
and they make money at it, too.
Mr.. Hammer is a Chicago man who
is dreadfully bored by having people
tell him he ought to be able to hit
tho nail on the head. He, however,
retorts that he never does as he's
wholly in the hands Of his wife.
What is that with an Apronl That
my son, is q Woman. What is she
trying to Do9 She is trying to drive
Ten pullets and a Gentloman Hen out
of the Garden. Will she do it7 No,
my son, but she will spoil the Gar
den.
II should like to see Mrs. Smith"
said Mrs Brownloe, "Pd give her a
piece Of my mind" "Quite gener-
GUS of you," remarked her friend;
"but perhaps she would never find
any moro use for it than you have,
Mrs. Brownloe."
Don't you think Parson Brown is
a man OF considerable ardori" in
quired friend of Mr.. Jollie. "No,"
was the reply; ION the contrary, !
inferred from tho exhibit made at
dinner the last time he invited me
to dine with him that he was man
of very little larder."
First student: "How stupid! Here
my uncle sends me twenty marks as
present" Second student: Il
should think you would be de-
lighted" "Not at all; l was just
going to ask him to lend me fifty"
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ALL SORTS.
Sho was insane.

A trial trip-When the jury dis
agree.
A journalists club-The lead pen
Gil.
To the "pooher" all things ar,
poor.
The shades of night gather in dew
time.
1t takes the moon to bring n dog
to bay.
A dumb bell can only emit a mute
tap peal.
The porter of sleeping coach
should wear Gu bunkle pin.
A time -honored court -room--The
front parlor.
No sea,captains ever dreamed OF
fore castles in the air.
The foolishness that cant he cured
must be in dude.
Velvet lawns so called because they
must be kept veil vet to remain so.
A man called his cat Plutarch, be-
cause it had so many lives.
Two ancient pcdagogues might
properly be called tanned 'em team.
Ono of the new rifle team is Mr.
Shakespeare. Nowf we shall know
what's in an aim?
There is tailor in town who speaks
of another in tho same business as
one of his contemporaries.
Misery may love company, but the
small boy doesn't when there's q
limited supply of fruit cake on the
tea table.
The slang phrase "a dead sure
thing" has been superseded by the
elegant expression, "a deceased
surety"
If q woman loses her voice driving
out chickens, could she bc called q
blacksmith She certainly would be
o hoarse shewer.
1t is understood that arule of art
is reversed in the burlesque actress.
She must learn to paint before she
can draw.
A Jersey City undertaken adver-
tises that he furnishes ''every requi
site for q funeral" He must be q
doctor as well as an undertaken.
A New York girl, while walking
up Fifth avenue, stopped and kissed
horse. just see to what straits the
dudes have brought the girls.
Jones says he feels sure that his
young hopeful. six months old, will
easily develop a love for field sports
because he is already such a base
bswler.
Some one has discovered that a
good article of pocket handkerchief
can be made of thistledown. II
true, thistledown the silk article.
II saw you coming. out OF a bar
room the other day." remarked a
lady to a gentleman. "You wouldn't
have me stay there all the time
would your
We have seen it asked who painted
Henry Kirke White. It was proba-
bly, the same person who painted
William Black, Thomas Gray and
the other Tom Brown.
: The large stone hand of an idol in
a Chinese temple recently fell of
and severely injured a worshiper be
meath. "Satan finds some mischief
still for idol hands to do"
"Did you dust the furniture this
morning, Maryi" asked the mistress
mo, ma'am," replied Mary; "it didn't
need it; it had all the dust on it that
1t could easily hold"
you're the plague of my lifep
exclaimed an angry husband. 81
wish the old Nick had your $50
might plague you in the next world p
calmly inquired the wife.
Judge Ritchie, of Frederick, Md.
has sixteen beautiful and accom-
plished daughters, only one OF whom
is married. This is what the French
would call an embarrassment ol
Ritchie's.
It is mean wretch who will slyly
drop a hair switch in car loaded
with women, aud then smile as hi
SECS every woman make grab fol
the back OF her head when she no
tices it..
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STEAMER
City Of Quincy,


cns I. 10 ocosa ~ ~ ies for WSstcom oue s.iIinS
iSss.o. Tsalip. Oourpsvils. Oak Harbor. Utsalsdy,
0Sc.s ,sidslso, Anaoortes, 0uemce, samish and
Iernd.i leaving Whatcom every Monday evening fos
Me- 1nd intermedate points the Nooksaoh
NJ sAs .sssi.dy every Monday morning. connecting
~ cxs mer - % Daisy for points the BkAgit river
us1s~ 2uincy will also lcavo Seattle every Friday
- sssuv o'clock for Laconner and way ports. 70
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,puAa ADVERTISING RATES,

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The following morning, at an early
hour, the postman appeared at the
door with letter bearing the post
mark of New Orleans. He knocked
and rang without avail. No one an
swered, and he was going away when
a neighbor stopped him, saying
Emile was at home. They rang and
knocked again. Suddenly the neigh
bor turned pale.
"Do you smell anything" she
asked, frightened.
NO." he replied.
"That smell! Charcoal! My God!
could anything have happenedw
The concierge was called, and said
that the night before, very late, Emile
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JAMES A. GILLIAND,

by arrangements with reliable land attorne' e
In Olympia and Washington, ID. e., my custo-
mers can have their land business attended to
the same as if personally present at either place
Parties wishing to purchase or locate Land
Scrip, would do well to consult me.
k8-All latest Land Laws, Rules and Decisions
kept on file. Land Warrants bought and sold.
Conveyancing, taxes paid, purchases and sales
made. Collections made and proceeds prompt:
ly remitted. IL u
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TERMS OF COURT.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

nERSONS IN NEED OF LEGAL BLANKS,
| such as Chattel Mortgages, Quit-Claims. and
Warranty Deeds, ETC.. would do well to make ap-
pication at this office, where they can be OBJ
hined at reasonable prices. Blanks printed to
order on short notice.
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Maryland HOUSE.

MOI PAINS WILL BE SPARED IN KEEP.
she house as one Of the quietest and best kept
3etels In the Territory. No LIQUORS BOLD.
everything clean and neat about the premises.
epecial efforts will be made to keep the table
applied with the best the market can afford
snd 70 see the food is properly cooked and
sssrved second to no other house in the Terri.
Sy. A large reading room for the accomo-
10 HIN MoGLINN.
UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMER
HoPM,
HARRY LOTT, MASTER.
W. .s.,s leave Harrington 4 Smiths wharf at ee
sstie every Thursday at o r. NJ, TO
PORT TOWNSEND. ANACORTES,
sCsmiahmoo, and all intermediate ports. Re-
S.nilg. vii! leave Semiahmoo at noon every
.siSuay' For freight or passage. apply on
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JAMES JONES,
CASH GROCER

Butter, Ch"ese, Honey, Foreign and
domestic Fruits,
Provislons and Supplies, Nuts and Confection-
cry, California Wines, Kentucky Whiskiee.
direct from the Distilleries.
Also Dealers in all kinds of Stationery, School
Books and Periodicals, Rifles, Breech-loading
Paper Shells, Etc.
Port Townsend opposite Central Hotel,
Head Of Union Wharf. 0S
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
The Free.Traders.
DETH OFT, June l.

DETR OFT, June 1.
At yesterdays session of the National
Free-Trade Conference there was adopted a
resolution that the free trade work of this
country be under the direction of the Amer
lean Free-Trade League; that the latter ap-
point National Committee of one delegate
from each State League to have a general
direction of the work in his own State, and
be held responsible therefor; that the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National Commit
tee appoint and have the power to remove
member and appoint one to represent it on
the National Committees from each of those
States which have no State League, and
that the National Committee appoint Gen
eral Secretary, with headquarters in the city
of New York.
An address to the people of the United
States was adopted, which, after declaring
the tariff question to be the paramount issue
in National politics, sets forth the benefits
that might be expected to result to the coun-
try from the adoption of the free-trade pol
icy. David A. Wells was elected perlna-
nent President, with an imposing list Of
Presidents. In the evening the confer
ence was addressed by Thomas G. Shear
man, of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Congressman
Springer, of Illinois.
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Terrible Deed Of an Insane Mother.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9


A special to the Press from Carlisle says
that the people of the little village of Hunts
vile, LII Penn Township, LuZerne County,
were Mortified Friday morning by the infor-
nation that Mrs. Martin Douglas and her
three children were lying dead in their house
with their Threats cut from ear to ear. Mar
tin Douglas is young laboring man, and
works at Pine Grove Furnace, probably five
miles or SO from his home. His custom has
been to go to work Sunday evenings, work
all the week, and return to his family on
Saturdays.
His children were all small, the oldest
being five years and the youngest but six
months old, and they and their mother were
the only occupants of the house, but, as Mrs.
Douglas parents lived near, and her mother
was frequently back and forth, it was
thought entirely safe for the husband to re-
main away all the week. Some months ago,
however, the family physician thought he
noticed symptoms of insanity in Mrs. Doug
las, and so informed the woman's husband
and also her parents, but they saw nothing
wrong in the woman's conduct, and paid
little heed to what the doctor said.
Thursday evening Mrs. Douglas mother
was to see her, remaining until about nine
O'Clock, the children having been put to bed
before she left. Report says she saw moth
ing in her daughters actions to cause any
suspicion that she was not in her right mind,
or entirely safe to leave alone with her little
children. Friday morning no one appearing
outside the Douglas house for so long the
neighbors became suspicious that there was
something wrong and Mrs. Douglas mother
went to inquire. Upon entering the house
most horrible sight met her gaze. There
lay the three small children in the bed
where she had seen them put to their suIn-
bers the evening before, but their Threats
were cut and their innocent lives were gone.
On the floor lay her daughter, the mother Of
the three lifeless children, with her throat
cut and gashed in a manner that is sickning
to relate, and near her lay the razor with
which the bloody work was done.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Ohio Republican State Conven-
Ition met at Columbus on the 9Th. Senator
IL. P. Wolcott, as temporary chairman,
made speech, reviewing the record OF the
party, and indorsing legislation on the
subject; also commencing tho
administration Of Governor Foster.
The ambassador who represented
China at the Russian coronation says dip
Ilomatic relations between France and
China will cease if France operates in
Tonuuin without an understanding with the
Flowery kingdom.
THE First Comptroller of the Treas
ury has decided that the Pacific railroads
are entitled to cash payments for mail
service on non-subsidized leased lines.
THE Coroner's Jury found the officers
and trustees of the Brooklyn bridge re-
sponsible for the deaths resulting from tho
recent disaster.
ADvICEs received from Sierra Leone
few days ago, under date of May 24th,
state that fifty persons were roasted alive
for withcraft in the Sherbro district.
DURING the performance of circus
at Suspension Bridge, New York, the other
evening, the canvas tents were struck by
terrific rain squall and utterly demolished.
About !, 800 persons were in the tents and
terrible panic ensued. A large number of
persons were injured, though none fatally.
THE editor, publishers and two COM
positors of the Kerry Ureland) Sentinel
were on the 9TH sentenced to several
months imprisonment for publishing the
placard inviting persons to join the Irwin
cibles.
ONE HUNDRED and forty-three Ger
man soldiers were accidentally poisoned at
Posen, a few days ago, and were in a criti-
cal CONDITION. A5..
By a runaway at Troy. N. Y, the
other morning Mrs. Maxon, of New York,
was thrown from a wagon and received
probably fatal injuries, and four other
persons were seriously injured.
A RECENT dispatch from Sierra Leone
states that King Koffee Kalkali, the a,1-
thor of the late war In Ashantee, has been
forcibly restored to his throne. A British
envoy has been sent to Coomassie to
deavor to arrange peaceable understand
ing of the difficulties.
THE schooner Fannie A. Bailey, from
Cheveri, N. s., for Philadelphia, went
ashore at Cape May few days ago. Three
men and one child were lost.
LORD RosEBERRY, Under-Sccretary
for Home Affairs, threatened to resign
from the English Cabinet the other day in
consequence of discourteous treatment by
the Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt.
The annual meeting of the American
Medical Association began on the 9th at
Cleveland, 0.
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PITH AND POINT.

Mothers who are tired of their
little daughters and want more time to
CAD should send them out to jump the
rope.-Detroit Free Press.
DE very man dat tells yer that
clothes doan make de man is de one
what looks to sees how yer's dressed.
Use done dis myself. Irau-
eler. go
"A Reading Pa.) man died a few
days ago, after drinking fifteen quarts
of water. The Coroner's Jury rendered
the verdict: Suicide by drowning."-
Philadelphia Press.
"A girl in this city has made a
wager to wear her fiance's shoes for two
weeks, and he wears hers. The fiance
says he has the most comfort out of the
arrangement.-Ch Chicago Herald. >F
When we were ten years old we
used to think, while gazing in the win
dow of a candy store, how much we
would like to work in such a place.
Now we are affected with similar feel
ing while gazing in the window of
bank.--N. 7. Post. 9 ee-ea.41A
my boy" said father to his son,
''treat every one with politeness; even
those who are rude to you. For re-
member that you show courtesies
to others not because they are gentle
men, but because you are one"
An INSCRIPTIONS person contributes
this: "A gentleman went down to
Mississippi from Tennessee to prospect,
with a view to immigrating. He hap
pened to be in that part of the country
which the tornado struck, and was
completely carried away with it,
Louisville Coua-ier.Jour,adl.
Settled with bullet" says one of
our exchanges in giving an account of
a murder. 1t does not state the cause
of the trouble between them.. but it is
high time that the present generation
should learn to have no dealings what
ever with bullet. = Chicago Times.
--''What would you do if you were
and were you?" tenderly inquired a
young swell of his lady friend as he es-
corted her home from church. '.Well,"
said she, eff / were you would throw
away that vile cigarette, cut up my
cane for firewood, wear my watch-chain
under my coat, and stay at home nights
and pray for brains. ~: 7. Times.
Printers are liable to err. SO, at
least, thought the young man who
b1ushed to the tips of his ears as he
stepped up to the society EDITORS table,
Good morning. What is it, sir?''
was the affable greeting. ''You made
little mistake in your announcements
yesterday, SIR" Every likely. 1t is
almost impossible not to make mis-
take sometimes. What was it?'' "You
said me and Lizzie Pipkins were
bothered, when we were not bothered
at all. We are betrothed, sir. Quite
difference. "Ah! presume you see
the difference now more than you will
in the future. However, will smooth
the matter out. Good morning, SIR
Wenrer's Warp.
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ALL AFLOAT.

The City Of Council Bluffs, Ia, Visited ~
Terrific Rain Storm Prominent
Streets Converted Into Roaring Torrents
by the Overflow of a Creek-Many Peo-
pie Believed To he Drowned-Property
Loss Large.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, June 2.
At six o'clock last evening one of the
worst rain-storms that ever visited this vi
cinity set in, and for four hours poured
down in torrents. Indian Creek, which
runs through the heart of the city, over
flowed, and the damage from the same is
roughly estimated at $500, 900. Seven iron
bridges and two stone culverts be-
longing to the city were swept away, as were
also several dwellings and barns along the
creek. All the business houses ON Main
street and Broadway are flooded. Loss of
life is reported. The water in the streets
one block from the creek was waist deep,
with swift current. Cries for help could
be heard in every direction, but the swift
ness of the current rendered assistance inl-
possible. Particulars are very difficult to OBJ
tain tonight. AT twelve o'clock it was still
raining. 1t is the most terrific rain-f1ood
Western Iowa ever experienced. The storm,
which set in about six o'clock, was heavy
shower, but no citizen for moment realized
the devastation that has followed. The creek
divided the city, and the flood rose so
quickly that many men found it impossible
to reach their wives and children. and a
number narrowly escaped death from drown
ing while endeavoring to reach their dear
ones. The mourning in the city is universal,
and the destruction of property widespread.
A local newspaper in referring to this great
element visitation to our city says: 1.-THE
most frightful calamity occurred last even
ing at six o'clock. There had been threat
enings of rain during the entire day, with
occasional showers, but when even
ing came it seemed as though the
very heavens fell A dark cloud
swept around to the eastward and dis
charged its torrents at the head waters of
Indian Greek, and the maddened flood with
constantly increasing volume poured through
Council Bluffs sweeping bridges and cul-
verts from one end of the stream to the 9TH
er. Many buildings were swept away. All
that part of the city lying between the bluffs
and Broadway on the north was inundated
by the rushing and seething waters.
The sight was awful. To add to the
horrors of the situation, the loss of life
is feared at this writing to be large.
as numerous instances of drowning have al
ready been reported. At midnight rain was
still falling, although the creek seemed to
have spent its fury. The water in the west
ern and southern parts of the city was rap
idly rising, and many people were compelled
to take boats and escape. Facts as to the
amount OF devastation by the storm are inn
possible to give at this hour, but the loss to
the city alone will be hundreds of thousands
of dollars, besides that of private individ.
nails
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SCIENCE AND INDUSlRXr.

George II. Corliss, of Rhode Island,
is building the engines for the first cot
ton mills to be erected in China.
The process of substituting steel
sleepers for wooden ones has begun
with great success on German railways.
The blue-stone business of Sanger
ties, N. Y, including the quarries, fur
nish employment for from 1900 to
1900 men.
DIR. Fields, of St. Louis, has invent
ed compound which costs only one
fifth as much as gunpowder and has
seven-tenths more explosive power
st. Louis Globe.
An Oneonta On. " firm has ship
ped 5000 worth of hop roots to Ken
lucky. The industry is new one in
that locality, and the roots are to be
used as an experiment.-N.Y Y. Times.
Geological examination reveals in
the delta of the Mississippi, along q
space of 800 miles, ten distinct forests
of buried trees. Bald Expresses with a
diameter of twenty-five feet have been
found.
Among the notable things in Palat-
ka, Fla, is the first tangarine tree ever
budded in Florida. The bud was re-
ceived by DR.. Morangue before the war,
and from this comes all the kid-glovo
oranges in that State. The tree can be
seen in his grove, which is quite cele-
brated on that Chicago Times.
Injecting pine railroad ties with
chloride of zinc preserves seventy-nlne
per cent. of them for over twenty-one
wears beech ties injected with creosote,
tifty-four per cent. for over twenty-five
years, and oak ties injected with chlo-
ride of zinc preserved twenty-one per
cent. for over seventeen years.-N Y.
Tribune.
"A new self-tending strawberry bed
is the invention of Californian. Fill
with earth any sort of barrel that has
been bored well all round with inch
holes. Plant strawberries in every hole
and in the open top, root downward
and top outward. 1t Is great sue
cess. 1t is quite ornate, and it will
keep for several months in bearing.
The Southern Silk Industrial Asso-
citation has sent the New Orleans
Times Democrat bunch of raw silk
raised by the ladies of the association
in that city. The silk is of beautiful
golden hue, very soft and fine, and, the
Iines-Democrat says, proves that as
good a quality of silk can be raised in
New Orleans and vicinity as anywhere
else.
In Science Mr.. w. H. Pickering,
carrying out suggestion made by
Professor Brewer, of Yale, constructs
the curve of the progress of the trotting
horse in America, and finds that it will
cross the mile-in-two- minutes line about
the year 1901. He also deduces, from
statistics prepared by the same author
ity, the conclusion that at the date
mentioned there will be not far from
10000 horses in this country which can
trot mile in 2:3O or better.
Mr.. John Pearson, a trembling old
man, who has been a resident of Fort
Smith, Ark, for forty-three years,
claims to have been the actual inventor
of the revolver patented by Colonel
Colt. He says that in 1894, while he
was working in Baltimore with gun
smith named Baxter, Colonel Colt
hired him to make experiments, which
resulted in the perfected revolver, with
six charges in the cylinder and one
barrel Pearson never received any re-
ward for his invention.-N. z. Post.