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4 TRIPLE EXECUTION.
Two Men and One Woman Hanged
on the Same GallOws.
A Wealthy Ohio Farmer is Swung
into ETERNITY

George Wilson, Charles Davis and Ma
thilde Jones, ell colored, were executed at
Plaquemine, La, few days since, for the
murder and robbery Of Mrs. Henrietta Cole
at that town ON the night Of January q last.
Several arrests were made soon after the
murder, but Wilson escaped He was cap
tured in Memphis a few weeks later,
and before the trial made volun-
tary confession, giving the names Of his ac-
completes. The principal witness against the
prisoners at the trial was little colored girl,
a servant of Mrs. Cole at tho time Of the mur-
der. She heard tie murderers conspire to
rob her mistress, and gave them information
about Mrs. Coles money and jewelry, and
saw them with the jewelry in their possession
after the murder The conspirators entered
Mrs Coles dwelling, strangled her, and
robbed the house Of money, diamonds, and
other valuables. Mrs. Cole was the widow
Of the late Judge james L. Cole, and was
highly esteemed.
Deputy Sheriff Bigley passed the night
with Davis and Williams. The prisoners did
was ready to die, and that she thought she
would 20 to heaven. She appeared quite
cheerful and did not refer to the crime. On
the scaffold she was extremely nervous, and,
after saying "good-by" to all, and while
shouting and singing, gave way completely,
and fell from the scaifold. This displaced the
ropes somewhat, and it required two strokes
by the executioner to cut them. The necks
OF Davis and Wilson were broken. The wo-
man died from strangulation. Tho woman
was in the center, with Davis to the right
and Wilson to the left.
After the trap fell the ropes Of the woman
and Davis twisted together. The woman got
her hands loose, and grasped at everything
within reach. The woman was known as the
wife Of Davis. They both said they were in
nocent of the crime.
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THE NATIONAL GAME

The Sandwich islands have a baseball
league.
New YORK audiences arc said to DO the
most impartial i'll the country.
CHICAGO claims that it costs $4,000 per
season to run the Chicago club.
GOOD baseball player in Rho;lo Island
get, a bigger salary than tho governor OF
that state.
OVER 200 ball players have signiiiel their
willingness to JON the proposed Ball Players
Protective union.
TIE names Of tho two local baseball CLUBS
Of Sdarta, Ga, are The ParalyZ!nS Jim
Daudies" and THE Get There Els
ABAIL game was p,aye'l near Fall River
RECENTLY where The striker and catcher stood
in massachusetts and tue tielders III Rhoie
Island.
THE Eastern clubs OF the league have won
the majority of the games with tn" western
clubs. In the American association the re
verse is the case.
THE Southern league teams continue to
play good ball Some of tho best talent II,
the country is now employed there, anu
.duus' can find 10 place.
THE desperate struggle going Oh between
the New Iorks and Chicago; for supremacy
is really tine exciting thing about the league
this year. Both clubs evidently WISH thit
pcn,iant, and that th"y ere plying desperate
~ for 1t is indicated by every game.
J. 2. WEnlE, OF Altica, \. y, Will:
practising recently with TIL" At;lcl nine q q,
that village attempted to throw curve ba!l
and in So doing twisted his arm III Slrh
manner as TO break tie bone jG~t alb We thf
! elbow. The snap was heard forts feet away
Tho championship records III to recent dalo
! are rs follows:
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A Wealthy Farmers Fate.

Valentine Wagner, German, aged Afty-
nine years, was executed at the Ohio pent-
tentiary, Columbus, the other morning. He
was the first to be executed under tho new
law, passed last winter, requiring that oil
hanyings in tho State shall take place within
the penitentiary walls. The execution took
place at 2:30 A. g. there being but sew
enteen persons present. The condemned mar.
derer had to be carried to the scaffold by the
sheriff. He begged piteously, protesting his
innocence Of any crime. After the trap was
sprung not tho fuiutest quiver Of limb or
muscle was noticeable. Death was instanta-
neous, The body was cut down three minutes
after the springing Of the trap, and was sent
on the A. N. train to Morrow county, &C
companied by the family.
Wagner was wealthy farmer Of Morrow
county, Ohio. He srent oil his money try.
in to clear himself on his trial A part OF
his family visited him on the day before bis
execution, and the scene was most affecting
one. He had to be carried into the reception
room and back to his cell after his friends
were gore. He had eaten nothing for four
days, and. from this cause and the fact that
ho was SO badly frightened he had become
very weak He, however, hoped to the last,
thinking that the governor would interfere,
but at o o'clock p. NJ, the governor tele-
grabbed from Alliance that he would not
Change his mind, and Wagner seemed to be-
come reconced to his fate.
Wagner spent most OF the last weeks OF his
life crying like a child and bemoaning his
fate. Two days before his execution his
father, who is eighty-five years old,
and his mother, over eighty, together with
his wife and seven children, some Of then,
marriel and others quito small, visited the
doomed man, and tho meeting and parting
were painful.
The crime for which Wagner suffered death
was committed on December 1S, 1889, when
he shot and killed Daniel Sheehan, his brother.
in.law. The feud between them was OF
long standing, and grew out Of the marriage
Of Sheehan to Wagner's sister, Tho testi.
nlony showed the murder to have been
cold blooded and premeditated on
the mart of Wagner. He went at
night to Sheehan's house, where he told him
he had come to kill him. and while Sheehan
was sitting in his chair shot him fatally, and
then gave him q second shot in the back when
he was trying to escape. Wagner was the
"bully" of the part Of Morrow county in
which lie lived, and it is doubtful il he had Z
| real friend outside of his own family.
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A Blacksnake Charms a Child.

a correspondent writes the ST. Louis
Globe -D2mocrat that he was resident OF
St. Louis county, in 1869, living south
west of the city on the Mcrrimac river.
lie had daughter three years of age,
and it was her habit to play around under
the trees, and frequently she would take
of milk and bread and have little spread
on the grass The writer says this con-
tinucd until her mother noticed that she
called for cup of milk about 10 o'clock
each day, going 20 the yard, and, after
drinking it, falling asleep near the
meadow fence. Little was thought Of
this for several days, until my wife, hap
pcning to go the yard. discovered the
little one asleep, with large bsacksnake
coilcd beside her. Scream ng with ter
ror, she ran to the child, and the snake
disappeared in the tall meadow glass.
The next day the child was not permit:
ted to 90 t. the yard as usual, and
grew very frctful and thinking to soothe
her M wife gave her the milk and &C
, companicd her TO the spot, only to dis
cover the same monstrous reptile making
toward the babe, which, instead of cvinc-
ing terror, broke from its mother AMI ran
toward the snake, with every Indication
of delight. Utterly frozen 10 the spot
with an agony Of terror, III" wife saw
the child place the cup upon the ground
near the snakes had, and after rearing
its head in the air and Kissing at my
wife, the reptile began TO Grlak the milk
from the cup. ltccorc:img control of
/ herself, my wife rushed forward, and,
grasping her daughter under her arm,
rushed into the house, where the little
one cried itself to sleep.
Son my return home the circumstance
was related to me, and | determined TO
destroy the reptile. The next day, being
the Sabbath. afforded me good o?por-
tunitv, as would be at home all day.
Preparing my rifle carefully, | went to
the yard shortly before 10 O'Clock, and
seated mpsclf by Il tree, first telling my
wife to give Ada the milk and allow
her to come as usual. Scarcely had her
little feet landed outside the door and
and her merry voice sounded on the all
until saw the dread snake eide through
the fence, and, with heal erect and cx
pcctant gaze, prepare to meet her. a
moment later the sharp crack OF mT r;ilt
rang out, and the head Disappeared from
the monster reptile, its boly writhinS o!
the ground in agony. At the sight Of il
my little ono began to scream IN agony,
and it was several days before she ceased
to haunt tho spot in search of her lost
companions: Eut she did not dwindlt
away and die, but is to-day as buXom
lass rs one could wish TO see. The snak'
measured ten feet eiyhtinches, minus tht
head"
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TWO CITIES IN RUINS.
An Earth quake Horror IN nurAeS'""
In, illnd.

An Earth quake Horror In IurAesta"
MANY People Killed.
Dispatches from Tashkend, in Asiatlc kus.
sin, say that great earthquake has visited
that region. 1t damaged most OF the houses
in the town of Bishecrzcls, and ruined the
cities OF Suluk anl Bclovodsk.
In the latter place church was shaken 10
sranr,outs while it was crowded with wor-
sh6ers, sIiS sl.s'' a large number Of whom were
killed. The earth opened in great assures III
Eclovo isk, and many people were swallowed
Later advces say that fifty -four persons
were killed and sixty-four injured Dy ING
earthquake. Shocks contlnliei TO DC ie'''ai''
the inhabitants were panic stricken.
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TO THE nI.NDELION.
.iolden HarbinSer Of summer

7olden HarbinSer Of summer
lhee we hail; thou latest conner
Welcome. Ecaut"ous Dandelion.
2arcr blossoms often fail US,
3hghtel ere their beauties hail us;
carc and toll may nauSht avail US,
Thee, we always can rely Oh.
In the field and meadow grasses,
in the wilder moUntSin paSscs
Bright as gems OF far Orion;
ilisten, golden stars unnumbcrcd,
Which, through weary months have slum
bercI
Mid the grass by SHOWS encountered,
Welcome, bcautc ous Dandelion!
On grassy bank with view unboundcd,
BY these fairy gems surrounded,
Gazing upward into Zion;
Oreamily, lie reclining,
Neither murm'ring nor repining,
Never mortal, life rcsigninS,
Found more peaceful cl to die on!
Ere thy blossoms numbered legion,
Thou dils't hail from fairer region
Fairy Messenger of Zion.
For wherever thou aNpcareSt,
5addencd, burlcnel hearts thou cheerest;
Blossom to the ch;id-hcart dearest
Golden pctailel Dan;ie!ion!
-Er0oHyn Nugazine.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern md Middle Statey:

HENRY CoSovER assistant cashier OF the
Manufacturers and Traders bank, Buffalo,
N Y, died suddenly short time since, and
investigation has shown that he was de-
faulter to the extent of about S75,OOl
LARGE crowds have visited the site of Gen.
eral Grants grave and monument in the upper
part OF New York.
EXTRAORDINARY prices were paid for seats
and windows along the line Of General
Grants funeral procession in New York. In
some cases S3S5 was paid for singl seat at o
front window, while n single window was let
out for $3.50. One hotel balcony accomoda-
ting twenty-five persons brought $500.
JOHN MCINTYRE was killed and four other
workmen seriously injured Mt Now Amster-
dam, N. Y, by the falling of derrick.
EDDIE BELMONT, the leading athlete Of Van
Amburgh's circus, was killed q few days
since at Medina, N. Y, while turning double
somersaults.
A CARRIAGE was struck by locomotive
near Summit, n. j., and tho six occupants
were strewn along the track for fifty feet.
Mrs. Edward Brown, Miss Mary Louise
Brown and baby wero killed, and Mrs.
Irving H. Brown. her nurse and another
child were probably fatally injured. The
three ladies were sisters.in law. and the two
children belonged to Mrs. Irving H. Brown.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MISS MOORE, an American. has taken the
first prize for singing ut the Paris ConscrVa-
toire
MARIE VAN ZANDT the American singer,
receives $50 for attending fashionable parties
in London.
HUGH CoywAY's Ozark Days" which has
been dramatiZed III England, will be proauced
in New York next October.
MoDJEsKA is said to BE- at work upon a
Polish translation of Shakespeare, to whlch
she will devote several years
TIE concert, of ancient Nctherlandis!l
music had q great artistic success ut tho III
ventories" exhibition i'll London.
VERD1's opera of 'Iago," upon which he
has been laborinS for years, is likely to DO
produced ut La Scala III Milan next scason
MARGARET MATIiEn and Mary Anderson
will contend for theatrical honor5 III New
York city next sra:on. Both will pay Juliet.
ROBERT FRANZ. of Halle, the song writer,
has lust celebrated his sevrnticth anniversary.
In his own VEN llo ranks EeXt to Schubert
and Schumann.
Miss EFFGE ELLsLER has secured from
Messrs. hamburg and Orcrton {; new comedy
| drama for next season, call"l "Woman
Against Woman"
THE cable states that Mile. Carlotta Patti
will soon publish a volume OF personal reml'
nisrcnc..s under til. title, IAN Artists Tour
| Round tho World
| SARAH BERNHANDT is about to make trip
! to South America and Australia, and fears
are entertained by her friends that she cannot
endure tho voyage.
THE Plankinston prize o. Sl,OO for TIN,
best compositions to be sung ut the national
san"errcst at Milwaukee III july, 1885, has
! been awarded To- Karl Joseph l'rambrach OF
Bonn, Germany, for his oratoro entitled
columbus"
Miss EMMA THURSHY, who has since her
return from Europe livel in close rctlrclnent
on account of the death OF her mother and
sister, has consented to accept an engagement
to sing in concert under tho management ot
| Max StrakO:ch.
THE king OF Bavaria has written to Miss
| Mary AnicrsoIs HlanlSer ASKING ior inc
| terms upon which Sh, will consent to play
"Pvgmalion and tiaiatca' in his Theatre for Il
short season for his sole benefit, himself 10 hc
the only spectator.
A GRAND piano, presented to the Princess
| Beatrice, is unique affair. 1t IS III BLACK
ease, ornumcntcd with gold, The suStainln!
pedal cnal les the player to prolonS the sounI
of one or moro of the notes, on the organ
principle The Piano has 50 elastic Il toITl
that all tho graiatiun'. from The most sub
tlued whisper 10 the greatest iortlssImo pas
saro, can be accomplished with fine effect.
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NEWSY GLEANIMGS,

MEXICO has over 5000 miles of telegraph
line.
PoRPoIsE leather is now being used in the
manufacture of shoes.
SALT LAKE City is proud Of its twenty
eight base ball clnbs and twenty brass bands.
NINE Presidents AMI ex- Presidents of tho
United States have died since Lincoln's first
election.
OVER 5000 stores and manufactures in
New York city are now closed Saturday Of
ternOOn,
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WashingtOns

CHARLES L. SKINNER, OF Baltimore, has
been disbarred from practice as on attorney
before the interior department for extortinS
illegal fees.
FIVE American steamship companies have
declined any longer to carry the United
States mails Postmaster General Villas says
that "tiese lines, probably under the
lead Of tho Pacific Mail company,
entered into combination appar'
entity to force the distribution among
them of the S400,Oo appropriated by Con-
gress for mileage compensation for carrying
the mails" He says further that arrange
ments have been made by which the public
suffer no Inconvenience.
REFERRING to the regrets that had been
expressed in some quarters that General
Grant was not to be buried in his uniform,
with one of his swords by his side, and to the
swords were available for that purpose, be-
cause they were oil turned over to the gov.
ernment some months ago with his other
military relics, Adjutant General Drum said
to reporter that any or all of them were at
the disposal of Mrs. Grant while they re-
manned in the war department awaiting the
action of Congress.
Ex-SuRGEON GENERAL WALES, recently
found guilty by court.martial for culpable
inelficiency and neglect of duty, has been
sentenced tosuspension from rank and duty for
five years on furlough pay, and to retain his
present number i'll his grade during that
period.
SECRETARY WHITNEY hus ordered board
of three naval officers to examine the general
business system Of tho naval department.. for
the purpose Of suggesting methods Of pre-.
venting duplication of work, promoting the
efficiency of the clerks, and improving. the
business methods of the department where
they need Improvement.
THE total coinage executed at the United
States mnts during July consisted of l,9Oo,-
900 standard silver dollars.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has returned to
Washington from the Indian Territory, and
has had q long talk with the President about
Indian matters.
JOHN G. THOMSON, of Ohio, has been ap:
pointed special agent Of the general land
office, to investigate fraudulent land entries
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Eouth and West

THE recent furious storm which swept
across the country proved more disastrous in
Maryland than any that had ever visited
that section. Many houses, mills and bridges
were carried away, and great damage was
done to crops. Tho loss throughout the
State is roughly estimated at sl5o,0U0. In
portions of North Carolina, also, many
bridges and houses were washed away, and
the crops were completely destroyed.
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THE consumption of starch for all pur'
noses in the United States is about O,00O,.:
100 pounds por annuul, or al average OF
three pounds for each person.
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Forcigu.

THE provost of Glasgow asserts that sys'
tenn of corrupting young girls similar To that
exposed recently in London exists III the
Scottish city.
A NATIVE soldier who was reported at
Bombay for misconduct shot and killed his
wife and two sergeants, and then put all emu
to himself.
Ir is reported that Osman Digna, second in
command to the late False Prophet, was
killed in the Kassala battle. The late Mahdi's
followers are everywhere demoralized.
A LEADING English paper-the London
Saturday Rerie,U-contains column attack
on the dean of Westminster Abbey because
of the lending it for commemoratlon services
over General Grant-thereby conceding
him the one mark Of honor an Englishman
holds the highest attainablc and that is pccu
liarly English"
TIE Colombian rebels have suffered sig
nal defeat at Barrauquilla, their strongho!d'
and Prestan, their leader, has been capture l.
RETURNS Just received put 1reland's popu-
latiou Mt ,924, ,3422, a great decrease, owing
chiefly to emigration to America.
ToRosTo, Canada, has been devastated by
great fire, tho flames extending for hali a
mile along the river front, and consuming
four elevators full of grain and numerous
factories A numoer ol Vessels "eio oIou
burned, The wind changing, the fire was
carried up-town, and it was feared that hall
the city would be destroyed.
A RIVER steamer was burned 10 the waters
edge near Pembroke, Ontario; -Four OF the
crew lost their lives and two others were serl-
ousy burned.
The custom house and several other build
ings have been burned in hntoiagasta'
D,>t;,;, Tho loss is 0bJilt 81 .UO)UUJ.
As1A11c cholera has reached Paris. A
| Marsellles many people have fled.
THE Russian Prince Alexander Gagarinc
driven to desperation by heavy lcsses as gam
bling at Monte Carlo, has committed suicide.
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scorcn shepherd dogs arc now employed
at the Cape Of Good Hope in herding os'
trches, work which they perform Wild
great sasacity.
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Electricity is now employed in extract
ing ,,cth, recently invented machine,
pulling, in IN actual test, seven teeth in
live seconds.
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The assessed value of the real estate
and personal property Of Pennsylvania is
S1,GS3, 469,0
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There are 1883 Jerseymen employed
by the United States government.
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Many of the plants in the Tnileries
gardens, Paris, are two end three hun
dred years old.
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Leaving Mount 7yce:rrCOr.

The train, beside the funeral car, was
composed of five coaches. In the first sat tho
thrco SONS Of General Grant, Generals HAN
cock AMI Sherman. DR.. Douglas, Dr., Now
man, Mr. Drexe!, and n few oilers. In t..
second wero General linncock's staff and
other army officers. Tho third was rs;
signed to the press, AMI the fourth and
fifth were, assigned to Company L, Twelfth
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New ginghams-at Harris 4 Mathews,
New ruchings-at Harris Il Mathews.