The Washington critic., 1889-01-07


smeters and tools, beside finished
and unfinished silver pec( Ms denom-
nations. In q coal bin ad the barber
| shop there was found q can 9cll filed with
new dollars. The prison %%ere given
| hearing before United StotW Commissioner
Penman, and then committed FOR trial. They
are believed TO be members Of gang that has
been operating for months.
Young Mans Remorse and Suicide.
Thomas Ready, aged 90, who committed
suicide by taking poison at the Zylonte Hotel,
In North Adams, Mass, was, last November,
refused marriage by the pastor of st. Francis
! Catholic Church, as 1t was not certain that
| former wife was dead Ready afterward pro-
duced alleged proof of the death Of his first
wife, and was married TO Miss Moore on
| Thanksgiving Day. The pair left North
| Adams shortly after, when reports were circu
lated that Ready's first wife was still living,
and that the proofs furnished to the contrary
were forged. Mrs. Ready second came back
some time since. Ready returned on Satur-
day, and q warrant was issued for his arrest,
hearing of which caused him to take large
dose of poison before boarding horse-car for
Adams. Taken sick on the car, he stopped at
the Iylonite Hotel and ordered n room.
Shortly afterward he was found In intense
pain, death resulting that night Previous to
this escapade deceased had borne an excellent
reputation. 1t is thought remorse drove him
to the deed.
Editor Mcwade's Heroism.
The handsome residence Of Robert McWadc
city editor of the Philadelphia Ledgey, was
destroyed by fire at Wayne Station, near
Philadelphia, Saturday night. The city edi,
tors loss is about $4,000, on which there was
no insurance Mr.. McWade displayed great
heroism during the fire. When the flames
were at their height, some one shouted that
there was woman at one of the windows of
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Wade ran up stairs, through flame and smoke,
and found Mrs. Jones, with babe in her
arms, standing in the center Of third-story
room He told her to go down stairs, but she
refused to CO. Then he tried to persuade her,
but she said she would not move She was
perfectly calm. Her mind had given away.
Mr.. McWade seized her by the arm and
dragged her out of the room by force. He
managed, but with great difficulty, to get her
down the stairs, and she aud the babe were
taken care of. When this was done, Mr. Nc
Wade heard screams In Mr.. Tighe's house.
He ran in again, and in secondstory room
found two little children lying in bed with the
flames darting all around them. He picked
them up, and with an infant tucked under
each arm, sprang down stairs and barely
managed to reach the door through the clouds
of thick smoke.
Waiting for Sullivan.
The representatives of Kilrain arrived at
Toronto Yesterday afternoon to make match
with Sullivan. A dispatch from Boston said
he would arrive this morning Kilrain is rep
resented by "Parson' Davies, his manager;
Ned" Plummer of New York, and Vim. Il.
Harding of the Police Gazette. Sullivan, II
is thought, will be accompanied by Charlie
Johnson, "Billn Walker and A. T. Lumley.
The only trouble In making the match will be
in selecting referee. Kirain would have
been present, but his professional engage
ments prevented. He spars in Albany and
Troy this week. after which he will return tc
"BufIaIo Bill" After Damages.
Buffalo Bill has sued Adam Forepaugh foi
100000 damages for trespass. In his com
plant Colonel Cody alleges that two years age
he entered into contract with Adam Fore
paugh for the use of Madison Squase Garden
in New York city, Of which Forepaugh wa.
then the lessee. Cody rented the garden fol
the purpose of giving exhibitions of his show
the Wild West. After closing the exhibition,
there, he alleges that Forepaugh organized
company and called it the Wild West Com
which the Cody show was booked in advance
of him, and the people, believing IL 70 be tn,
Buffalo Bill Wild West, patronized it, to th,
detriment of the Cody show, which, when il
pitched its tents, found a big decrease in pat
ronage, caused by the advent Of the Forepaugl
company. 81.
Cody claims 20 have lost barrels of monet
} through this ana now seeks compensation il
e the sum of $l00,0ea.
John Forepaugf aid in regard to the mat
: ter: 81 did not know that he had entered suit
but l suppose it's true. The idea of Cody
trying to preempt the words wild West 1
4, very funny He ought to take out copyrigh
II on the name of Pennsylvania. We did adver
tlse our show as the Wild West, but most o
the time 1t was known as the 'Far Vest Th
II Nl,ntI INal,
Cody had it, There have been countless mum
. bers of novels, books and stories written abou
= the Wild West, and dozen different vii,
West shows.
"Why doesn't he sue Pawnee Bill or DR.
Carver, who also ran Wild West shows?
suppose our lawyers have accepted service O
= the papers, but / know absolutely nothin
: about the suit, as this is the first have heart
o OF 1t, | can't see that Cody has anything Il
q base bis claim on, except that it is his gall"
II Settlers Who Are Starving.
d most pitiable story comes from Watt
o County, in the northern part of Dakota. Tw
IS men who had been sent with provisions to d
tribute among Norwegian settlers in that T,
gion report having distributed the goods q
fairly as they could among fifteen families
but said they knew of between forty and lift
y families that were equally as destitute. |
II these are an average of five or six little ones
es the family, without pants, coats, dresse
stockings, shoes, caps, mittens, or anythin
I but few old rags. They were in hope of ge
ting good crop and then buying cotht
when it was sold. When frost came and too
1t their crop they had absolutely nothing o
which to live.
III They are mainly Lutherans, and not con
planning, their real condition was unknown
Most of them have been living on kind
porridge made by cooking up their frozc
green wheat and oats. One family had NJ
seen any flour for six weeks. Nearly all wei
- entirely out or nearly so. Some have enoue
- to last three or four days yet, but no potato,
Dt or turnips. The people have been dividin
with each other while their provisions laste,
49,. One woman had on nothing but thin Gallo
III dress and was barefooted. When given u fe
ls clothes she first laughed, then cried an
y blessed her benefactors.
N A Fatal Steamboat Accident.
The steamer Paris Q. Brown struck snf
at Hermitage Landing, Pointe Coupe Faust
La, on Saturday and sank. Eight pelsol
are missing. The New Orleans Picawtae
r, Baton Rouge special says: "The officers
II, the Hanna Blanks, down this evening, repo
T. that the Paris q. Brown is a total wrec
with only the pilot-house and small portiC
l OF the deck appearing above water.
rs Hermitage is only twenty-five miles abo,
IS this city, but owing to want of commune
tiOu with that DOint. nothing lafnita "