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WINDOW NOT ALARMED.


1As ssarstary os the Treasury does NJ
Apprshend : strinsssoy II sAs l1oasy
r Market
New YohK, July 90 "A special 70 tn
Times from Washington says: Secretsry
Of the Treasury Window q not
troubled by the published reports
that tho reserve In the New YORK
banks Is getting dangerously low, and that
there are Indications Of q stringency IL
the money market which may call for sons
seldom by the Treasury Departments Tie
Secretary raid TINT no could see NO evi-
0encc Of money being light, from the fa.t
that while the department. offered to Inv
bonds at q liberal figure the offers were mt
humorous Said he:
'.rf money was in demand bonds womb -.
30 held back rs they now are. The price IA
n IL aadsons the
bonds the holders are getting only per cent 4
while GU the AIS the interest ii onlv
,air'ssr: ne. ovorss tlaIs Il no
ssss. slass.sx 4 s. 81 sne holaers
'0ee3s' IN them Is The
Government md oonyert them into cash. Il 4
US p 90 who VIZ njpns but what ~ -. I0 :
slp' 1Adare .nota ito x6rssa1d oiier : prioa
s4lr In b&pesx f2hetr value sAaato Ind uoe. rha
people 1 sell their bopdasto he Goyernment
she plic vyhichssse ow Paying beinr All
Sthnt thcy are worth. - ss 81.
Mr.. Window picked up the daily report
made by tho Treasurer Of the United States
showing tho disposition Of the public funds
and, after glancing at the figures, con-
stinued: .*: as n 80 /
The surplus now amounts In round tiaures
TO s5aW0O00. which, according to this re.
port ~ e0n. including the current balance.
y IN the hands OF the banks, and $4,000. 900
IS in.the Treasury. Tho money in the banks
- about the same as when Mr.. Fairchild was
L. y. Sskas Neon e.
ouced somewhat, but not very much, as
wanted to be conservative, aud did not care
! 70 DO any thing which lniGht d:sturb truie. IL
IS true this amount might be increased, but I
90 not believe IN the plan, and should not care
TO increase the amount without the action 81
Congress. So ycn see the great bulk Of the
surplus IS in the banks. to no used by the peo.
sple. md the Treasury could not do very much
more unless authorized by Congress-"
II see no Indications OF u stringent money
market, and the reports which reach me do
not show that it is generally feared. Since
have been in the Treasury Department. I can
safely say that have not received half-dozen
appeals for money o. requests that the depart
Ment would libcrate money! have not heard
that the New York banks were losing their
money, and The general impression conveyed
TO me has been that money was plentiful"
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Thieves ana lEurderers Lynchea.-

ALBUQUERQUE, N. n, July "a Last Sat-
urday threNsgnttles dsahoeoe4h ieve6S
members 9 1ptorfeus band OF lfexicanf
who have 1empltssd pap1 deprsdatian4
in this City, were captursds By Deputy
Sheriff Charles Lowens ina posse ana.
imprisoned In Q vacant house near Kelly.
Nm. before the Cd tnfe tho ,t1ieves,
three in Number, engaged the posse in
|battle during which their leader and
Deputy I6ken0 1er6 shot dead. Last
might party Of cowboysnproceeded 20 the
house where the REMAINING thieves were.
|imprisoned overpowered the guard and
hanged theaprisoners after Kidding their.
bodies WITH bullets SIS & Il.
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THE statue of Henry Ward Beecher,
which Is to be erected in Brooklyn,
has already been modelled in CLAW
by the well-known sculptor, John
Quincy Adams Ward. It will take a
year TO finish the statue in bronze.
The citizens of Brooklyn have raised
over $4,000 for the work. The
statue will be of heroic size, and
will represent the famous preacher
In the ATTITUDE Of taking q stroll
through tho streets of the city,
with his overcoat and it's familiar
military cape covering his ample
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1T is to be presumed that London
Justice has made its computation with
accuracy when it says that all the
people now living in the world, or
about !, 400. 600, 600, could find stand
ing room within the limits of q field
ten miles square, and. by aid of a tele-
phone, could be addressed by single
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WuI.1AM MooNEY., of West Pike,
Pa.has q peculiar hsad OF hair.
When storm approaches every hair
in his head stands out straight, and
as'he" wears his hair very long he is
quite ridiculous sight. On that &C.
count he never leaves the house when
Il is CLOUDY.
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Ex-AIderman mcOuade Free.

: RAILsToN Spa, N. Y, July 20-Arthur ].
McQuade was one of the Board Of Alder
men of New York City In 1884. members Of
which, including McQuade, were indicted
in 1885 for alleged bribery in con-
nection with the Broadway railroad fran
chise. McQuade was convicted and was for
months confined in Sing Sing. His counsel
secured new trial by due processes Of law.
and the case was removed to this county
for trial. The case was submitted to the
Jury Friday night at O'clock, and at s p.
nj. a verdict of Innocent was rendered.
McQuade is now free. 1t is the first ac-
quittal in the famous so-oalled Doodle
cases.
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The soap weed is now being utilized
for making soap for market A factory
has been started at Wichita, Kan,
where the weed grows plentifully. The
pioneers of the plains discovered its
use forty years ago. The root, with
out any manipulation. Is an excellent
substitute for bar of soap.
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The Canadian Minister of Customs
has ordered that facilities be given to
land new cables in Dover Bay, N. S.,
for connection with the New York
land lines. The cables include extern
sions of the two Western Union cables
Of 1881 between England and Canada,
Terminating at Canso.
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THREATENED WITH FAMINE.
Farmers in the Canadian Northwest Sub
{ sisting ON Field Mice and Gophers.

GRAFTON, D.. T., July 20-Crops in tho
Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota
line are III bad shape Farmers are almost
destitute, and some instances are re-
ported where they are subsjsting ON
field mice and gophera In the Can
adian p Northwest proper the crops
are nil A. party Of emigrants from the
Souris country were met Thurstlay at the
boundary line. They had travelled 500
miles throuxha WellsSettled country ON tho
Canadian side without seeing a fair crop,
and say great many settlers are leav-
ing their land to- drive their cattle to
timbered country on this side. Some
families looked famine stricken and had
eaten nothing but potatoes and turnips for
some months. They were afflicted with
scurvy and were sacrificing themselves to
save their cattle. At one place north
west from Turtle Mountain q family
Of English emigrants, who were travelling
back to the mountains,- had killed and were
eating young colt : The suffering in that
isolated region will ebe awful, and those
who have means will leave in such NUM-
bers as to depopulate that section.
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The giant diamond, lately discov-
cred in Cape Colony, and now at the
Paris exposition, weighs $50 carats,
and is valued at $1,000, 600. 1t is kept
in a glass case by itself and guardians
stand around it az day. At night it
is placed In a big safe, which is SINH
larly guarded all night. 1t is said to
be- o. the first water, and as pure as the
famous Regent in the French Grown
diamonds & 1t 10 for aale.xa fs&ast "a
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Fatal Collision I'm Indiana.

GRsENsBuRa, Ind, July ga collision
took place ten miles east OF here Thursday
night on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
& st Louis road between the west-bound
express and the east-bound freight tho
freight having broken in two An unknown
man was killed and Postal Clerk Cochran
was severely injured. -.
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Ex-secrotary Colman Honored.

- Ex.SecrOtary CoImon BOnOrod. $500
ST. Lou1s, July 10. Norman J. Colman,
sx-Secretary OF Agriculture, the we'll knows
sditor Of Collnan's Rural World, has &C.
,epted the appointment as agricultural
representative Of the Scripps league to the
Paris exposition. France has Just conferred
The title Of officer du ncrt,e dgytc0te upon Mr..
Colman and he has been decorated a. such,
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CSLoNELT. w. H1aa1NsoN has been
appointed by Governor Ames, of
Massachusetts, to write the history of
the Bay State soldiers and sailors in
the civil war, As ordered by the Legis-
latures The historian will be allowed
hv6aysass@i1swhich TO- complete his
work.
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TWOgLlYAa Tnak

KENosHA, Wis, July 20 Friday after
noon Richard Lyman, son of retired mer-
chant, and Miss Bertha Head, daughter Of
A. A. Head, lumberman, were drowned
in the lake by the capsizing of q rowboat
In which they were riding Both were
prominent In the best society Of the city.
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Planl4s sfrRIbA,sss bq&s hae
scopieA Mrs Sheridan's health has
much improved. She win remain il
Toronto till late In the fall. 20 sN
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killed b. : Bur.tinr sno,I.r.

WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE, O., July 90
The boiler Of portable saw-mtll engine
which was pumping out water from wells
for the new water-works. exploded Friday
evening, killing Fred W. Worrell, the en-
gineer, and Nathaniel Taylor, OF Bloom.
tngbuEg, and injuring eight others.
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! Fatal Flames hi . Tann.rv

--.a = = ~ = 1unUUEys
BRoCKwAYvnLE, Pa July 90-Nre FRI
day morning burned the Eagle Valley tan
nery together with 500 cords Of oak bark.
John Striker. an employo, was burned to
death Andrew Striker John Wcsterline.
John Bargeson, John Fisher and George
Smith were seriously burned and several
other employees slightly burned The loss
81 10 00O, fully insured
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.QNIY i've Of the British officers who
fought at Waterloo were alive when
the seventy-fourth anniversary Of the
} battle came around on tho 18th Of last

SlMfIxfE CoIL1Ns, though recovering
from his last attack. has been forbid,
den sAy hie,p hysie!laas ever TO write
seain &.81idds Love, ~ hs list nogha..
closes his literary career yxsx.a,a
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEoRAPI AND NAIL
IRON WAa6lNaroN.

SPECIMENS Of the first paper money ever
Issued In 6ialhwsrs received by the Secre-
tary Of State on tho 18th tn issue was
sanctioned BY the King.
On the 10Th ex-Representative Nichols, Of
mail division Of the Treasury Department.
vice Major Krstz, resigned
THE President issued . proclamation on
the 18th restoring the Fort 1cDermot
(Nevada) reservation to the public do
main, 1t being no longer needed for mill
tary purposes. $3.50. ..e-s..s- -..,.
INfKS United States there were 1Ss busi-
moss failures during the seven days ended
6n tho 10th, against 218 the previous seven
dayA s
IHE appointmentS Wipiln Reasssdltor
Of the Knoxyille danny tourpal ssPsn-
sion Agent Tor the Southern States, with
headquarters in that city, was announced
u t64 l0t6..s,
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stabbed 70 Death s. Her Il

ssE5597g 49, 70 Uea1tA - HOE doSbohd. q
s ASHLAND, Wis, July 20 Joseph Fuchs
Thursday evening stabbed his wife to death
sat Narse station, ok miles above here He
osoaped to the woods and q sheriffs poaeo
= now n pursuit He Is 70 years Of an.
swhtle III wife va hut ~ '
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The tabfc III ire losses ID il, the
United States and Canada during the
montAsoff June compiled by the New
York Commercial Bulletin, shows, "a
total destruction, .of 81, 755, O0d This
is about 81, 500, 900. less than the
loss ins June, 1885,; and over 81, 0oo,-
0OO less than in june. 1887. The
biggests fire last month was ssst
Seattlc,% w: t., }z:.ich is. charged
with $2,o0A aQ 81 The z total T. ire
loss for the first six months of
1889 ws@ s64,2s6, 0oo. against $67,-
2so:s5o in 1888 and .s62, 900 in
1897. - "+S s+''
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WEST AND South.

Two BROTHERS named Heller, doing bust
ness in St Louis as foreign bankers, left for
parts unknown ON the 18th, taking with
them about ~, coo belonging to poor for
eignerA
The failure of John E. Burton, of Elk
horn, Wis, known as the Gogebic Iron
King, occurred on the 10th for $4,000!
DEMOCRATS In Mississippi met in State
convention on the 10th at Jackson and
nominated J. N. Stone for Governor
The annual session of the National Edu-
cattonal Association began in Nashville,
Tenn, on the 10Th, with about 4, 500 dole
gates in attendance. %ssE aE[FES tsSsEN
On the 10th John Abrani Ortez:. l. Mexican.
was banged at AntonitG Col, forstha muir
der of q miner named, O. E. Leduc last
March. On the scaffold l,Ortez, confessed to
having committed the crime = = = y
A MOB attacked Deputy. Chambers: near
Waynesboro, Tenn, on the 10th, took q
prisoner from him named Brown, under ar-.;
rest for murder, and lynched him. RI
FLAMES on the 10th destroyed the French
brewery, one of the largest In Indiana.
owned by Centlivre l. Co, and situated one
mile north of Fort Wayne. Loss, 100000
NEAR Paola, Kan, Addie and Kate Cor
don and Myrtle Cranky, ranging in age
s s:ss,.s' ! ''; ss
In Chicago on tho 10Th Judge Horton de-,
MED the tBsa 56pnsShf6dsdf of lkBt "a 90
the senior guardian of Camp 20, under in
dictn<G foS1hesl11 S Q1n, Il
a writ habeas coEpus, u ~
On hdsCairo l. Vifcennes sr6Sd p1sser-
ger TIA went down On. embankmenta on
the 18th near Mt Carmel, ILL.,, and fifteen
persons were seriously injured
ON the 18th a FIRE at Col1mbus, O., which
started in the building Of the German
d furniture naans' caused loss s. g. n la.'
Ar the annual meeting On the 18th, Of tho
Western Associated Press at Detroit, Mich.,1
F. Maokwas elected president # .,so.'[,'
+ AT Columbus, TEX. the Colorado r f ,r
was th1rty-one feet high and still rising on
the 18th. The low lands were Ill Inundated.
and crops were entirely destroyed. Tho
damage to the cotton crops alone. in that
vicinity was estimated at half q million dol
lars. 4
FouR meanwhile endeavoring on tho 18th
to recoyerla watch which had fallen into /
cesspooi sts Lincoln, Neb., were overoosae
by gas and foul air and were killed
THE car shops of the Ell Rivsf division of
the Wabash road, locatads at Butler. Ind.
were afmo6t entirely destroyed by fire OH
the 18th, throwing over one hundred men
out Of employment Loss, @1OO,0O0 Ss2s
FOREST fires in the woods of Multnoman
County, Ore, and in Southern Washington
Territory had on the nth done damage to
THr fdnI cSii1lran = Iosenr .u,, Z,
planter living near Star City, Ark. wero
in which arnic. had h.an n,aoad 1 TSa
crimfnal and the ,rotsv. 80. 49,. No 1e'
EAr1y -, +hs r,o-rtnr e ~ ~ ,n.,' T.,
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The Baldwin Locomotive Works
have just completed their ten thou.
eandth locomotive And a huge en-
CINE it is, too, being one-fourth
heavier than theslargest freight loco
motive on the Pennsylvania railroad.
1t was built for service on the Mount
ain Division Of the Northern Pacific
railroad. Five thousand of the ten
thousand locomotives built by these
works have been built during the last
nine years. 81.
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and forty cars Loss, s15O, GOO!
SEVERAL tiers of seats fell during . per.
Torrance of Bristors circus on the 18th at
Milford, Mass. and thirteen hundred per
sons went down, many Of whom were
bruised and few seriously hurt
RUNAWAY coal cars loaded with one hun
dred thousand pounds of coal crashed into
. passenger train on the 18th near Shamp-
kin, Pa, causing the death of two persons
and mortallY wounding four others, while
over fifty received various injuries
A REPORT that Legitime had found it
necessary to enlist female troops was de-
MED BY Captain OBrien, of the steamer
Caroline Miller, which arrived at New York
from Hayti on the 18th.
WHILE Louis Clabrado was pursuing his
fourteen-year-old daughter on the 18th, who
was clipping near Waterford, N j., with
Michael Vinopolf, he was shot by the.lover,
who in turn was battered to death by Cla7
brado's friends 's*5 Z
A BILL was passed in the Rhode Island
Legislature on the 18th making the license
fees for wholesale liquor dealers from $500
dence, and grading down to $500 In other
towns according to population.
A FIRE swept away ten dwellings at Cor
lima, Me. on the 18th. -
AT Johnstown, Pa, five bodies were
found on the 18th, and there were 1ndtca-
tions that many more were under the debris
where the men were at work.
PRoH1B1r1oN1sTs Of New Jersey on the
10Th nominated George La Monte, of Bound
Brook, for Governor.
ARTHUR J. McQuADE, indicted in 1885 for
bribery in connection with the Broadway
New York; railway and sentenced to Sing
Sing, was acquitted at Ballston Spa, N. Y,
on the 10Th, his counsel having secured a
change of venue and new trial.
AT Albany, N. Y, salt ''trust'' was in
corporated on the 18th under tho name OF
the North American Salt Company; capital
stock, I'll ,00O, 600. President, W. R Burt,
of Michigan.
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sNEpT AWAY,

Tasribls Result Of . Cloud. Rurst II west
.Hlrgiaia The vllls4e Of 1lorrlstown Ds-
y stroysd A Ndmbsf Of Persons Drowned
II storIsss In Othsr States.
PA1kxRsBuRG. w. Va, July 20, Thursday
nights storm along the valley OF the Little
Kanawha wae one Of terrible violence. and
the rush Of water down the channel OF the
river and over the lowlands bordering IL
was unprecedented In it's sutldcnness and
about as large In volume a. ever before
KNOWN II ID impossible mt this writ
ing 70 speak definitely Of the loss
OF life, but 1t Is feared drownings
have boon numerous IN tho marrow ynllrYs
up stream along the tributaries OF tho
river. The storm extended across the Ohio.
md railroad washouts, wrecked bridges
md ruined crops IRE reported over large
area in Ohio The storm burst about mid
night and the rain CANE down M though
the bottom had hecn knocked out of
the clouds. By o'clocksia the TnorAtns
the = , riysd tEents test, qs q
,channelAp front Of this City was ~ Nar,6-
Ing one AS entlrs suSfacA OF the sfrAasns
was covered with a tangled massSor logs.
barns, fragments OF houses and RATS Of
valuable timber.
About 6 o'clock Mrs Isaiah Tucker went
to the door Of her boat-house opposite this
city to View the wrock-coverefl river. A
she stepped upon the deck Il huge ruff of
logs struck tho boat and she was tossed
into the water and never rose to tho sur
face. She left family Of live children In
the boat, who were saved Another shanty-
boat passed the city about daylight sold to
contain three women. short distance
below it was overturned and all we've
drowned. >, =
The Ohio river railroad. is broken ut sHar.s
ris Ferry, the Baltimore L Ohio ct Kama
wha station and the Cincinnati, Washing
ton 4 Baltimore at Londonderry MANY
lumber firms have lost about al their sum
mer cut OF logs and thousands of acres OF
crops are totally destroyed. Details Of
losses are constantly coming In and the
aggregate damage will exceed 100000.
The worst story of all comes from Norris
town, small village near the head of
Tucker creek. where tho cloud-burst con-
centrated in all It's fury coming down on
the village and totally destroying it, to-
gether with many of its people. The first
report gave the loss of life at
eleven, but later news seems to fix
the loss ut greater number. Tho
houses of the citizens are said to hayo
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On tho afternoon Of the 18th IN unknown.
wsll-dressed stranger walked boldly into
tho Chesapeake Ohio railroad ticket onioe
tn Louisville, KY, jumped over thu coun-
ter, took $50 from the cash drawer. and
then made his escape. 81 ~ q
Tn stables Of o. r. Cheney at Columbus,
@, wsre struck BY lightning and burned on
- letb togsthsr With nys valnsbls hosIsu ~
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TmE D,.GU sg PRssECr.

sad verntmaiieW "f a Prscti as Jske.
BIRMrNGHAM (Ala.l Feb. 27.-Miss
Mildred Maddox. remarkably pretty
blonde, living near Brewtou, Ala, in the
absence Of her father last night thought
to frighten her mother by the impsssona.
tion OF . man tramp and demanding
something to est. Her disguise was so
perfect that her mother, believing IL was
q vsgabond, ordered him to leave. He
persisted and made strong demands,
whereupon Mrs. Maddox picked up .
double -bsrrelsd shotsun and emp,i~d
the contents into the supposed tramp.
When the mother found that she hsd
shot her daughter the shock was so great
that she was prostrated. The shot took
effect in Miss Msddox's right arm, and
shoulder.
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Notice.

NJ Office Is he eby given to the quaiitie I
~ Ele tors of NJ irker Sohooi District, No. 2,
that o. the 25th day February, 1883. an Election
will ne heIdln the school House in said district,
for the pursose of .ot ny for wh th1r or ot q
specia tax shat he IA sed TO keep tn School
ope II a longer rm then the ordinary und will
all W. The amount & be raised is Six Il Jndred
DJlitrs.
The p,l will be open between the hours OF IL
s and p NJ A. thus El.c ion tar ballot shall
contiain the words tax eyes or tax no.
February b, 1850
II. G. MARKER,
JOHN HILL.
JbH REtD
Trustees OF Marker moo s;L II, NJ. IL.
feb ptd
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DEs MONIES (Iows), Feb. N.-In tho
Larr.bee libel case Judge Cour' d
called the jury in at 10 o'clock sn I vr.
tually instructed tn. m to return v-rdics
of not guilty. An hour later they re-
turned with verdict scquittiog the
Governor OF the charge of criminal libel.
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Notice L, creditors.

T~TATE OF JOSEPH IAY, d CEASED.
IL Moi i her7by viven by the undersigned,
executor Of he ! ist W i nd tostttn' Mt of Jos-p
Lay deceased, TO the erelt ,rs Of ar nl p' .6n
havin< 81 inns g,i st the i'd ceased TO y
hi it them, with tn. ne -ssTv va r., nj
zen nth. after the fist tu liza il of tifs
not C.. to th. sail exc utur at onf o hum'
no DIT County. Nes d.
D.tei at Minnemucca Feb. Sth. 1879.
LOUIS LAY,
Executor of the last will testlmen. OF Joseph
Lay, deceas feoi2-4w
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A 81T'A g GxsslsM.,
He Rescues q Girl From . Watery
lsraves

esravcs
OMAHA, Feb. ga hoy of ten named
Willie Briggs displayed remarkable
hsrosim Mo ld.y afstrno,". in rescu,ng .
little g'rl named Matii- SL,ith from
drowning. A uumb-r If children were
playing on Syndicate lake, when the ice
over an sifhoe broke and the girl fell in.
The water was quite deep. At the
suggestion of young Briggs. the children
formed a chain by taking each other by
the hand, with Willie at the end. He
reached the hole just as she was
sinking for the third time and
graspiug her by the dress. he drew her
out. She had a slight fever yesterday,
but will recover.