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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18
BOLLY LEWIS.

he Was n Square Gambler''-A Check
cred Career-He Died Philanthropist.
Ohio has turned out many queer characters,
but never one more unique than Bolly Lewis,
whose death was chronicled not long ago
He began life as a tutor, then studied law
and became a lawyer, then became hotel
clerk, next became a gambler and finally
went into the hotel business again.
''He was the squarest man that ever turned
a card" said one OF his old associates The
tears ran down his cheeks as he talked OF the
dead man. That seems to be the general
opinion. Bolly Lewis died without an enemy
In the world. He was young man when he
first went into the hotel business. 1t was in
DAYTON. 0. Shortly after his arrival there
he was informed that there was a man in
town who was a terror, and that he would
probably hear from him He did. Not long
afterward the fellow went into Lewis Office
Nothing would quiet him. He was very cross
and nothing would satisfy him. Bolly tried
to argue with him, bat his mild manners,
eloquent tongue and persuasive ways had no
effect
'All right" said Bolly, ''if you must be en-
observation-disclosures what I'm here for; close the
door"
1t was not long before the fight was over,
and Bolly was victorious. He called a car
riage, took the vanquished TO physician and
paid all the bills himself. Shortly afterward,
when the whipped man tried to excuse him
self, Bolly interrupted him with:
Don't say word. am here to entertain
guests"
He first became gambler in Cincinnati,
connecting himself with a faro game as a
partner of John Whaley. Fortune favored
him, and the game was very successful. He
began not long afterwards for himself, and
his place was celebrated fro4 one end of the
country to the other for the courtesy with
which guests were treated. This was dur
ing the first days of the war, and big sums
were frequently won and lost.
A Union payInaster one morning handed
$4,000 over to Bolly, after night OF card
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HgE CARIOTTA.

J One Of the great dangers OF baltooning Is
this graphing with the earth on the descent,
and many balloonist has been split out after
Having made thus far successful trip. In
1854 Nine Carlotta went UP in the Zephyr
from Saratoga When she descended, look
ing about for favorable spot, she "a ~ three
country boys standing gaping at the novel,
sight of balloon. She called TO them to
seize and hold the balloon the moment II
touched the ground. Two OF the lads obeyed
lher request, when sudden squal drove the
balloon bounding over the ground and fences
for almost a mile AT times it was fifty feet
from the ground. yet the terrified lads chung
,tenaciously to the edge Of the basket; they
were hurried along at railroad speed. A
HEAVY piece of timber sped into ght Car
1otta made desperate effort 20 Id and wa:
successful, though tree which the balloon
.grazed tore the Zephyr from top to bottom
lCarlotta and the boys escaped unhurt. But
the bows declared that they would prefer not
10 attempt TO anchor another balloon.
/. SAVED BY A FARMERS WIFE.
| Two wears AGO an ascent WAS made by an
aeronaut named Moore with several Others.
One Of the party related the peril they were
in upon their descent
There is much excitement, but II Gains IN s
minute, for the instrument records falling,
Again the signal officer gives a warning, We
are falling dreadfslly, and losses out q hand
ful OF circulars They shoot upward. Moore,
half aroused, realized the peril and calls al
hands TO drop ballast. The sand falls scarce
2y faster than the car. and the earth seems (
lily upward; rivers, fields, houses spread out
as s. vast map, growing terribly each minute
Moore sings cut: Something wrong, boys; Il
we don't stop her, we sire lost; LOU fee'
from earth, and still tumbling madly; 1co
and the drag rope touches earth; GOO, and the
check Is pereeplibie AT 400 the balloon
skins 'ons, falling no more, the 500 feet OF
tdrag rope resting On the earth gave the relief.
: More ballast was thrown out. and the air
ship again assembled, this time TO coco feet,
TIE aerouaut then noticed that the beg was
baggng, and announced that q Iardinc mus,
be made. When within a few hundred feet
OF land the drag rope SKINNED along the
earth, making a trail for four miles. and in
its wake followed crowd of natives, Sew
eral times they caught the rope and were
hurled roughly 70 the ground
At August Palms farm. seven miles from
Centraha, HIS, the farmers wife gave the
drag rope half dozen turns around an apple
Tee and brought Tho raapster I'D nith a ieraks
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4 Eansas City Sensation.

The gossips of Kansas City are still talking
about the delightfully."- sensational way chosen
by Miss Laura Ashdown, of St. Louis,
to heal the wounds that had been in
Aicted in her heart by Etheibert Allen,
Of St. Louis Allen, Miss Ashdown
claims, engaged himself in February,
1855, TO marry her. and for months she sup
posed that he intended 10 make his contract
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and Florence looked upon the body Of the
father she had never ssau In lie.

and Florence looked upon the body Of the
father she had never ssau In lie
A CELEBRATED CASE
There came swarm OF claimants for the
Blythe millions There were Blythes in
Wales, relatives Of ths dead mans mother.
There vera gypsy RlFthes; Blythes in Ken
lucky. Indaed, there were moro Blythes
than there were descendants of Washington
during the late centennial The little girl
who really owned this noble property was
but one among l91 heirs who put In claims.
She was without even sufficient proof that
she was Blytheis daughter. The case came
up In court The judges sat and reviewed
the testimony; the lawyers haraagued; five
years were consumed in what seemed TO be a
case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, and 1t looked
as if little Florence, hike the claimant in that
celebrated case, would at last ind that the
property had all gone to pay costs and law
yers' fees
Alice Edith lived life In which there was
a terrible tension Hiding the VIII, that
would put the property in the hands or the
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playing. Crooked
ness was not toler-
ated for a moment.
He ran several
other games in Gin
cinnati, and finally
fitted up a N o S t
magnificent three
story house. Over
the main faro table
was painted a huge
tiger, which glared
fercely at the card
players in front Of
him.
Lewis was a very
charitable IN an.
Numbers of fani-
lies were aim os {
supported by his
muniicence. T a +
and wide he was
known aS n SS,tOE-
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Mss Lsafg Moore. Of bingham, young
lady Of Is years and sJazdazssAser Of The
sarnr,z szsss and hunter, Uncle Nate
Moara. ssass W e 01GcrS a gesaawk for
mcaa1ing. Hiss zoors xsos ths ss-d -lts a
rifse tsst hsr uzeae 80 earned ever tves:y
years. AID tefcre weseh nineryscTes rEnoss
AID SNAIL gaxzc ~zsheAs nnza0sz bad fA-ssz
zlas-4..s.a sgxkl nAmreA>
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b e en- discovered
The young man
who had 50 long
dI.ifted without an
effort TO better his
condition W d 5 a {
last seized with q
desire TO try hi 5
fortune in the new
world. He had no
means wherewith
to purchase a pas
sage, so b e co n
cluded TO work his
way.
Shinninp in the
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good in due time.
But. alas for her
hopes! while sh e
was trusting he WAS
hunting up another
girl, and he found
her in the person Of
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rightsul owner, dis
putting with innu-
nsrable Blythes,
the strain Of anti
cipation, hope, de-
spair, conflict, the
gnawing of con-
science, were too
much for her 90
bear unsided. She
endeavored 70 dis
dain it with dissipa-
ton. She became
a sot. She had once
been q wife. Then
sha b.acapae a mis-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18

A wHITECHAPEL LODGING HOUSE KITCHEN.
ders which have been done there during the
last year or two by criminal, who for want
Of better name is spoken of as Jack the
Ripper has called public attention to the
district.
''Whitechapel" is the name given to the
parsh-or, rather, to the ''union' of nine
parishes, of which the old parish of st. Mary
Whitechapel is the largest-beginning at the
eastern side of the Aldgate boundary OF the
old ''city" of London, and within 4O6 acres,
containing, according to the census OF 1881,
S,312 houses and population OF Il 1868 hui
man beings.
Whitechapol is the recognized abode Of pow
erty, wretchedness and crime in London. 1t
is vast criminal colony in the heart of
great city. Its population is made up OF the
outcasts of society-the lowest of the low. In
its narrow streets and narrower alleys, in its
filthy court yards and vermin plagued tene-
ments and lodging houses, thieves and aban-
doned women form the greater part Of the
population, while it is literally true-proved
by the records of the London police-that the
number OF murders in proportion to the pop
ulation is four times as great as in any other
part of London. Suicides, too, there are In
grewsome plenty. Many beam or hook Is
pointed out to the visitor by some wretched
inhabitant of the Sums as the place where
some other human being, only trifie more
wretched than the narrator (who laughs, per-
haps, discordantly in the telling took death
by hanging as the easiest way open for
permanent removal from bloody White
chapel. Oh dark stain on floor or wall or
wretched furniture tells the visitor who has
braved the terrors of the registered lodging
house, more eloquently than words how some
one has ended his wretchedness with bullet
or a knife
THE LODGING HOUSES.
The registered lodging houses" form dis
tinctive feature of this plague spot. To tha
thousands whose scanty store Of coppers will
not suffice to pay the few shillings demanded
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18

z r Fl AP 8 tn e
Twentieth century
man, if the problem
of navigating the
air shall have been
solved for him, viii
look back upon the
balloon Of the pres
ent day and Won
der that it should
have been chiefly
useful in amusing a
crowd. There are
earnest men con-
stantly at work en-
deavoring to find
some prac cite a
method of navigat-
ing the air, a d
many a man has
given his life in the
interest of this de-
Dartu1ent of nracti-
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| "'Cut awny,' said the steady voice Of the
aeronaut, aud the anchor fell Over went
lbaC Of ballast, too, and thus suddenly light
ened by thirty pounds the balloon regained
its poise at fifty feet above the ground, and
our fall OF "a mile through the air was safely
tended"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18

Arauar.s-You pat yesr sETn sTDszD1 rsy
vast 80 zracefuLy, CoD-E>
Ge0x>I haze hsA bas q p-acsso@.
~s stree. car ooziac.1- aEs ys&<&-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18

clipper Antelope, after sailing around the
Horn, he found himself one day in August,
1S4o, in what was then the mining village of
San Francisco Here he went 70 work he
began by raising vegetables, and from this
went the rounds es a peddler of fancy goods
and notions At this he succeeded not only
in making a living but in laying up few
hundred dollars.
He could not keep this money about him
safely in the wild country in which he lived,
so he loaned it to one who gave him a mort
gage on a small piece OF ground When the
time came round for payment, the young
Enghshmsn found that his debtor was IN
able to return his money, and he was obliged
to take the land. He tried to sell it for the
amount of the mortgage, but no one could be
found to take the property the green English
man had been foolish enough to invest In,
and give him back his money. Nevertheless,
the young man plodded on, letting his sand
lot lie, and still saving his earnings. He did
not forget his mother in England, and in two
years after landing in California went back
and brought her to his new home.
TEMPTATION AND FALL
A young girl, 20 years of age, stands
looking into brightly lighted shop window
in London. A man about 80 years of
age caught by her beauty, stands looking at
her. As she moves away he follows her.
Soon she stops at another window. The man
approaches and enters into conversation with
her. The girl is coy and endeavors to turn
aside the attentions of man to whom she
has not been introduced, but he persists, and
at last she consents to meet him & week later
on a corner in a secluded place
The appointment was kept and it was fol-
lowed by others. The girl at last consented
TO visit the rooms of her new found acquaint-
! ance in Nottingham row. There supper
was served with champagne. When the girl
left her companion that night he had prom
ised to marry her and had given her we'd
| ding ring as a token.
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Up IN THE AIR.
Stories of Ballooning Advent
ures Fatal and Otherwise.
AERIAL NAVIGATION UNCERTAIN.

Il May BE That Some Time Flying Will
BE a Safe Method of Travel, but So Far
Puny Man Has Not Mastered the Art,
Despite His Many Attempts.
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BLYTHE'S MONEY.
His Daughter Will Now Get
the Old Mans Estate.
HERE'S 4 ROMANCE IN REALITY

A Worthless Londoner Becomes Cslifor-
Ella NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Loudon-Be-
comes a Fa:her-Leaves the Child His
Millions-His Mistress Steals the Will.
A woman deserted in the streets OF London
found home in house near the docks.
Here she gained livelihood for herself and
her Legitimate son by working as charwo-
man, or at any other mental duty. The boy
grew to manhood, but did not seem TO have
any inclination or ability to better his and
his mothers condition. Day after day he
spent his time il hanging around the docks,
watching the ships go and come from foreign
parts The years slipped by and he had
reached the age of a5. It seemed that the
stain upon his birth and his lowly surround
ings had cast shadow over his whole life.
There came news that III far off land on
the eastern coast of the Pacific ocean gold had
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18

LAURA ASEDoWS.
Miss Jennie Rid
de. daughter %
Congressman Rid
die, OF Tennessee
The 9th er day
a- r--a r-cr-
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Perry. The N a n
to whom she had
yielded was none
other than he who
nearly a quarter Of
a century before
had left the London
docks to seek his
fortuneam gold
hunters; ow no
longer vegetable
huckster, no longer
peddler, but Thos
H. Blythe, Califor-
niamillfonaire. His
sand lot is In the
ne art of an inn
N e n Sc city, and
with OTHER proper
ty acquired after
W ards is paying,
him an enormous;
rem al. He has
come to visit tho
scenes { hrou z b
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The first trial was not a success, but the
second was. The balloon shot up almost
straight to distance OF fully 10000 feet. 1t
then settled about 800 feet, and hung like a
ball In the heavens The anxious and excit-
ed crowd Of people on the ground watched
the balloon with bated breath. The report
ers were provided with powerful glasses, and
saw Hogan make ready to jump.
HE'LL weaken said some one.
'No," cried another watcher, che is get
ting out"
The chute was closed. Hogan drew it up
till he reached the ropes to which he dashed
himself. He did not expect the chuteto open
for the first 200 or 800 feet, and he was afraid
he might be shaken off the bar by the rapid
ity-of the fall unless he took the precautiOn
TO fasten himself. When he stepped on the
edge OF the car to spring OFF into space some
of the spectators grew pale and sick. Surely
this daring man YVES going to certain death.
TERRIBLE LEAP.
A shout of terror goes up. Hogan has
Jumped Down like cannon bali he fell for
500 feet. The chute had not yet opened.
Down it came like gigantic elongated bird.
He was falling like meteor, and the specta-
tors shut their eyes while still keeping their
glasses elevated. Suddenly a shout goes up.
The chute has caught the air. 1t opens like
the wings of a monster eagle. Hogan's flight
downward was almost stopped with a jerk.
Then the chute settles down to steady jour
ney earthward with its passenger, and In
three minutes from the time the reckless man
left the balloon he landed safely in an open
field some little distance from where the
ascent was madeS
Il lost my breath, said he to correspon-
dent, when shot down so fast; but | caught
it again after time. 1t was great jump,
wasn't itF'
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Hogan made his first notable ascension In
May, 1880, leaving the ground hanging by his
toes TO piece Of gas pipe, which he called a
trapeza The balloon was up TWO hours and
twenty minutes, landing st Stockoridge,
eighteen miles north Of this city. That trip
made him Professor"
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THE LODGING HOUSES.

The registered lodging houses" form dis
tinctive feature of this plague spot. To ths
thousands whose scanty store of coppers will
not suffice to pay the few shillings demanded
as rental for a room in one of the rick
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-18
AN EXsTRAMP'S STORY.
Why He NEVER CAN REFUSE A
/, POOR FELLOW A QUARTER.

He Went to See His Sweetheart and Had to
Steal = Ride Hcme-An Escaped Convict
Exchanges Clothing with Him-His Ex-
perienee in Actual Tiampinx.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
New Cases.

Arthur Bray sues Philip Seldner to fore
close mortgage granted to secure pay
ment of promissory note for $3.50.
Gardner Rowland asks the Superior
Court to dismiss the appeal Of William
Moore from a judgment rendered in the
Township Justices Court, on the ground
of failure to prosecute said appeal.
J. B. Young has brought suit against
the San Fernando Valley Improvement
Company to recover $32, 900, with inter-
est, as damages for failure to implement
an agreement to buy certain lot of land
from plaintiff.
In re ]. @. Newsom vs.. The Los An
Company, defendants, in answer to
amended complaint denies the allega-
tions contained therein, accuses plaintiff
of negligence, want of skill, etc., and
holds that all obligations of defendant to
plaintiff have been fully discharged.
W. G. Cochran sues M. D. Johnson,
City Treasurer, to recover 500, the face
value of warrant issued to one Mrs. F.
J. Fitzgerald, teacher, and by her as
signed to plaintiff, and asks that writ
of mandamus be issued to compel de-
fendant to pay the same.
F. M. Ward sues the Pasadena Lake
Vineyard Land and Water Company and
J. B. Young, to have the sale of certain
of the defendants stock to plaintiff de-
clared void and that the stock issued to
plaintiff in lieu of said stock be delivered
to him.
Walter R. E. Ward brings suit against
the same defendants for the same pur-
pose, as also does Ben. E. Ward.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
MIGHTY MARCUS MAYER.
An ex.Newspaper MAN who Adores
Only the stars.

Only the Stars.
CHICAGO, March ia Philadelphia
special says: "The English company
which has been supporting Mary Ander-
son has been sent out of this city to New
York. There were over fifty in the party,
and they left with vinegary feelings to-
ward Marcus Mayer, the assistant mana
ger. The cause of this lay in the follow
ing interview with Mayer, had by re-
porter Saturday night. Mayer was
asked: What will become of the COM
pany?
'What's that got to do with it ?" he
asked; "you might as well ask me what
becomes of the billstickers. The COM
pany is nothing. You make me mad by
asking such question. Supposing the
company should appear at the Opera
House Monday night; who would go to
see them? Nobody. You newspaper
people consider these cattle and ignore
the star half the time. That's no proper
way. I'm newspaper man myself. AS
q matter of fact, Abbey will ship the
company back to New York tomorrow
and will then ship those who want to go
home back to England. A good many,
suppose, will try to catch on in this
country until next season, when Miss
Anderson may engage them"
Members of the company will present
their grievances to the dramatic journals
of New York and London and seek to
boycott Mayer.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
THE NEW WAR SHIPS.
Special Attention to be Paid
to Their Construction.
MAXIMUM OF SPEED REQUIRED.
The Designs of Congressman Thomas
OF Illinois Adopted by the
Department.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAL1

TAssociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, March 19-The only bid
for the machinery of the cruiser Maine,
that of N. F. Palmer, Jr., & Company,
New York, has been referred to the Bu-
Teau of Steam Engineering for examina-
ton. The Chiefs of the Bureaus of Ord
nance, Equipment and Recruiting, Con-
struction and Repair and Steam Engi-
neering have been directed to proceed
without delay to prepare plans for the
construction of the new vessels author
lied by the Navy appropria-
ton bill of the last session
of Congress, namely: One armored
steel cruising monitor OF not less than
5000 tons at a cost not exceeding one
million and a half dollars, on plans
designed by John r. Thomas; two steel
cruisers of the most approved type OF
800 to 200 tons displacement, to cost in
the aggregate, exclusive of armament,
not more than 500 900, and one boat for
harbor defense of the general type ap-
proved by the Naval Advisory Board
November 7, 1881, of the highest practi-
cable speed. Each bureau is to prepare
the plans pertaining to it, and the chiefs
are to meet as often as necessary for the
purpose of considering and settling upon
the general characteristics OF the vessels
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
The s. o. Road.

Boston, March 19.-The annual report
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad for 1888 shows in comparison
with 1887 the gross earninings decrease
$8,7S7 900, and expenses increase $2,-
7S5 ,000 net earnings decrease $6,571,
900; dividends decrease So, ,291 900; debt
increase $S, 100000.
The directors say: CATER many pros
porous years the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Company has experienced year
of serious reverses. After paying fixed
charges including SOC, 900 contributed to
upon capital stock, the accounts show a
deficiency for the year of $4,331 900,
which it has been necessary to take from
the accumulated surplus of the company.
The report attributes this to the engin-
eers' strike and to the operation OF the
interstate law.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20

United States vs.. w. Thompson,
charged with selling liquor to Indians
Pleaded guilty, and sentenced to six
months in the county Jail.
United States vs. Frank Brown, same
charge-Same sentence.
United States vs.. Mariana Aguila. same
charge (third offense)-Sentenced to two
years in the county jail and to pay fine
OF 81.
United States vs.. Frederick Goodhue
charged with robbing the mail-Ar.
raigned and given until Thursday te
plead.
United States vs.. G. NJ. Johnson,
charged with cutting timber on Govern
ment land-Sentenced to pay a fine OF
500, snd to be imprisoned in the county
Jail until said fine is paid.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-20
Bouncing the Booners.

Topeka, Kan, March 10. = The
United States Attorney for Kansas has
just received kilograms from Oklahoma
Station stating that the boomers at that
point have been fred upon by the regu-
lar troops. Further violence is hourly
expected. The United States Attorney
has wired the deputy Marshal near the
scene to proceed at once to prevent vio-
lence by arresting anyone violating the
law. The boomers claim the troops fred
without orders, and ask that they be ar
rested for assault.