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The sun., 1889-12-26
FOREIGN CuLLINGS.

The commanders of the Western military
districts of Russia have been ordered to form
plans for the mobilization of their forces.
A plot has been discovered to assassinate
the king of Corea, who, it is reported, desires
to abdicate IN favor OF Prince Min Yong Iik.
Several high officials are implicated.
Revenue offices seized the property of the
Fresno Vineyard Company of Fresno, Cal,
amounting to 100000. 1t is claimed the
amount of brandy made and disposed OF has
been IN excess OF that accounted for.
A private cable dispatch from Rio Janiero
states that Marshal Deodora da Fonseca,
chic OF the provisional government of Brazil
is dying. The question as to who will sue
ceed him in engaging serious attention. 1t
ls believed that the change in the ministry
which would fellow Marshal da Fanseca =
death would lead to serious complications.
Sir Francis De Winton has made public Il
loug letter written him by Stanley, dated
Osalala, Aug. 81. In it Stanley objects very
strongly to the tone of a batch of newspa-
per cuttings he had received, which had COM
mented with an utter lack of common sense
and total disregard of accurasy upon his
expedition. He dwells upon Emin's indeCis-
ion. which cost him journey otherwise un-
necessary af 300 miles for BartteOt. He
justlfies the payment of a salary of G3O per
month to TippOo lib as means Ofavrrting
dcsOating war. and declares that if both
parties are honest in the maintenance OF
their agreements peace may continue for an
indefinite period.
The sun., 1889-12-26
A TERRIBLE DEED.
A Father Kills His Wife and
Three Children and Then
Himself.
Criminal Neglect of Paupers in
Pennsylvania Revealedby
Investigation.

NILES, Ohio, Special.-To-nigh was dis
covered one of the most Wholesale and
bloody butcheries that has ever occurred in
this section OF the state The victims, five
in number, are Charles Shelar, wife, and
three children, and the crime is supposed
to have taken place early this morning.
When the inhuman deed was discovered all
five bodies were stiff and cold in death
with their thrOats cut from ear to ear.
Shelar and his wife were lying together
across the foot of the bed and the three
children were on the floor in different parts
of the house. Shelar was mill man and
had steady employment, but of late drank
heavily, and it is rumored that he and his
wife did not live happily together. The
theory advanced is that Shellar in fit of
madness cut the thrOatS of his wife and
children and then his own. The weapon
used was u razor, and was purchased by
Shelar of a hardware dealer Saturday night.
The street in front of the house has been
dcnsely packed all evening with an excited
pOpulace, all eager to get glimpse of the
CHASTITY speCtaCles.
DISCOVERY OF THE TRAGEDY.
kittie Mneker a little sister of the muir
dered women, caused the discovery of the
tragedy She went to the house to deliver
the evenings milk, as usual, and was un-
able to gain admittance to the
house Charles Mossman was in the
vicinity and she told him about it.
He went with her to the rear of the house,
and finding a door open, entered. The first
floor of the house was deserted, but a ter
rible sight met their eyes in the second
story. The dead baby was on the
dren, with gaping, bloody throats lay
in their bed in another chamber, while the
murderer and his wife were clasped i'll the
embrace of bloody death on their own
couch. 1t appeared that the wife was the
first victim, and that she made a
desperate fight for life. The broken
handle of the razor was found by her
side. Then he went to the room where the
eighteen old girl lay and nearly
severed her head from her body. Then
came the bloody slaughter of the girls, aged
five and seven years. The murder
then apparently took a lamp, went
to a mirror, and deliberately cut his
own throat and, staggering to where
his wife lay threw himself upon
her body. The scene of the tragedy was
sickening. Niles is intensely excited, and
strong men who viewed the bodies turned
faint and rushed into the open air, and
women had to be borne out of the house.
The only theory advanced thus far as to the
cause of the crime is insanity.
The sun., 1889-12-26
PINTo'S MOVEMENTS.

He is Making Vigorous War on the
Natives in the Interest of Portugal.
LISBON, Special-Dispatches from Quill
name under date of Nov. II confirm the re-
port made made by Engineer CASTILLO to
the colonial minister on his encounter with
the Makololos. The dispatches say also
that the natives made an unproVoked at
tack upon the camp at Mupassa, and that
CASTILLO, after a stubborn resistance, defeat
ed them and occupied the country. 1t was
reported that the British missionaries at
Blaniyre instigated the MakOlolOs. Maj.
Zerpa Pinto conferred with the governor OF
Mozambique, and afterwards proceeded IN
the gunboat QuanZa to Quillimane, gylng
thence to Mopa. A fortnight later news
was received that the natives were massed
on the Zambesi and were advancing III the
direction of the Shire river. Zerpa Pinto
sent his scientific instruments to the coast
for safety and placed CASTILLO, Engineer
Themudo and Lieut.. Contino in command
of the Portuguese and native troops, Con-
tino also directing the movements OF three
steamers armed with guns and manned by
Portuguese sailors. The latest news to Oct.
% was that Pinto had sufficient stores to
last three months and that there was great
activity in the camp. Pinto was suffering
from malaria. He expected to be able to
subdue the MakOlolos by December and re-
turn to Lisbon.
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the tenacty with which he clung to life under
the circumstances was by the physicians con-
sdered remarkable.
Lehman, the man who about four months
ago shot and killed Constable Burns at Oel-
richs while resisting arrest and who eVaded
the officers OF the law for long time but
finally captured, was tried in Custer County,
found guilty of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to be hanged. Lehman is the first
person sentenced to death under the laws of
the state of South Dakota.
The soldier named Donegan, who disap-
peared mysterionsly rom Fort Meade sever
al weeks ago, and who was supposed to have
met with foul play, has turned up at his
home in Wilmington, Del. The officers at
the fort are as mad as hornets, having been
chasing all over the surrounding country
looking for him. Donegan left the fort before
his term of service expired and left considera-
bio property behind him, He will be arrest
ed for desertion and conrt-martialed at the
nearest military post. He is believed to be
insane.
Frank Kotilenck, living a short distance
north of Kimball, has reason to hereafter
look with favor on the canine species. The
other day he was preparing to go to Buffalo
Center on business and decided to take his
gun along The weapon was standing be-
hind the door and he asked boy TO hand it
to him. The boy in some way knocked the
gun over and in its fall it was discharged, the
contents a heavy load of buckshot, passing
clear through a dog that was sitting in front
of KotIenck and some of the shots entering
the mans legs and body. The force of the
missile was deadened by passing through the
animal and to that fact kotilenck owes his
lie. His wounds are painful but not danger.
GUS. The dog was killed instantly.
The sun., 1889-12-26
SOUTH DAKOTA,

1t Is estimated that the number of hogs
marketed in the counties of South Dakota
this season is larger by half than for any
previous season,
w. H. Webber, the defaulting Spearfish
postmaster, serving timein the Sioux Falls
pen writes friends in the Hills that his
sentence expires in about two months, when
he will be again with them.
A Sioux Folls lady went to the theater
recently and deliberately removed her hat;
and now there is a full grown anti-hat boom
on which promises to result in general re
moval of monumental headgear at the show.
The people of Spearish witnessed q mir
age one which lasted over au hour. Although
the objects in the picture were over twenty
miles. away they did not appear to the
gazers to be more than mile distant
Articles of Incorporation were filed at Pierre
last week for a company to be known as the
Sioux Reservation Improvement company.
The object of the company is the general i'm
provement of tie reservation when it is
thrown open to settlement,
The Howard Press denies the statement
that Miner county has a surplus of $4,000,
and says there was such an amount Of cash
on hand few months ago, but it belonged
to the state and school funds and has all
been paid out,
At ranch near Tilford fourteen men were
poisoned by eating meat cooked in q brass
kettle and allowed to stand over night. The
timely aid of a docter saved their lives though
some of them are very sick from the effects of
the poison.
Frank Gould Field, relative of Jay Gould
and Cyrus w. Field, committed suicide at
Custer City on the Sth inst, by taking an
overdose of morphine. He was only SO
years of age and man OF more than ordi-
nary ability. Drink is the alleged cause of
the rash act.
Some disease is affecting the ponies and
horses at Crow Creek agency, an Collins,
state veterinary surgeon, is now there and
has killed number, and more are to be kill-
ed, among them being. many American
horses which were lately issued to the Indians
by the government.
young man named Wald died in the
Homestake hospital at Lead City whose case
baffled nll the physicians. An autopsy revealed
the fact that the lungs had grown to the ribs,
and as he had been suffering for mounths,
The sun., 1889-12-26
RECORD OF CASUALTIES.

The remains of another fireman were found
in Boston in the ruins of the Thanksgiving
fire. The body was so badly charred that
Identification was impossible. The head,
legs and arms were missing.
A shell exploded in the artillery magazine
at Baku, Russia, causing q general explosion
of all the munitions stored there and the de-
struction Of the building. Four persons were
killed and a number injured.
The costumes offve girls rehearsing for
Christmas cantata IN Detroit. Mich, caught
fire. Jennie Lancashire was burned to deal h
aud the other four mOrtally but not fatally
injured.
SIX iremen were injured by the collapse OF
the roof of a burning church in Philadelphia.
Foreman James Orr had leg broken and
was otherwise injured, perhaps fatally. AS,
sistant Engineer.John Smith was also severly
injured. The others were only slightly hurt.
through freight on the Burlington rail-
way. was taking water on the main track at
Sutton, when freight train No. 35, running
at the rate OF thirty miles an hour, ran into
it from the rear, smashing ten cars of mer-
chandise to splinters, and driving one car
through the depot, narrowly missing the
operator. Ore brakeman was seriously,
though not fatally bruised about the head
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The sun., 1889-12-26
variety store ofN. A. Felch was entered and
| nnnds To the amount nj $40 takan

variety store ofN. A. Felch was entered and
goods to the amount of $40 taken.
U. P. Marrs, OF Strat;ord, has invented
Corn-husking machine resembling moving
machine, which cuts the ears from the stalks,
husks them and throws them into wagon
alongside. The capacity of the machine is
six acers a day, and with an att achment it
can cut two rows of corp, thus doubling
it's capacity.
Representative-elect Shipley of Guthrie
county is lying in a critical condition at his
home near Yale, from the effects of bites he
received in his recent difficulty with H. l..
Edwards, and is not expected to live more
than II few hours The grand jury Of Guth-
rie county has returned an indictment againt
Edwards.
Two notable deaths occurred at Muscatine
George B. Denison, the first public school
teacher in Iowa, an old settler and promi-
nent capitalist, died. aged 70 years. of cancer.
Daniel Kessler, an old settler, aged 81, while
walking along the street was seized with
hemorrhage of the stomach. He fell on the
walk and died within few minutes.
AS several school children were on their
way home from school in Council Bluffs a
brutal teamster passing threw a horseshoe
at the group and struck little Clark Frazier,
aged Z, in the eye, destroying the sight and
leaving an ugly wound. The team
ster is unknown but an effort is being made
to find him and make him suffer for his idiot
ic brutality.
Mrs. Doolittle, Cedar Rapids dressmaker,
committed suicide few days ago by poison
in the Office OF DR.. Raymer. She had made
the doctor several offers of marriage, which
he refused. Finally becoming desperate she
drank the poison and died in few moments
She had been twice married and was consid-
cred deranged. Before taking the poison she
threw bottle at the DOCTOR cutting his face
badly
The sun., 1889-12-26
DIDN'TTAKE THE STORE.
Two Burglars Drag a Safe Through
the Streets of Bridgeport, Conn.

Two Burglars Drag a Safe Through
the Streets of Bridgeport, Conn.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Special.-A grocery
store situated on the corner Of East Main
and Water streets was broken into early
this morning, and a small safe weighing
500 pounds was taken out and dragged by
rope through the various streets
to the north end of the town, over mile
away. The burglary was committed with
in a stones throw of the Second precinct
police station and was discovered by an Of
ficer, who with others followed the tracks
of the safe until they found it in the cellar
of the house occupied by Patrick Riel
On searching the house. John Connolly
and Edward Burns, two crooks, were found
asleep in one room. Each had a loaded re-
volver grasped in his hand, and there were
number of dynamite cartridges in their
pockets. They were arrested together with
Riel and his wife. The safe was not broken
into.
The police for some time past have been
satisfied that Connolly and Burns were
among the gang which has been commit
ting numerous burglaries recently, but un-
til now they were unable to get any evi-
dence against them. A lady living op-
posite the store saw the men take the sale
out, but supposed that they had been EN-.
ployed to do so.
The sun., 1889-12-26
He Was Cut Out for a LAWYER

One of Col. "Bob" Ingersoll's
stories is that he found himself alone
in the Office one day while as young
man he was studying law wi th firm
out West. He was interrupted by
the entrance of o raw-boned, sharp
featured country woman, who ambled
into the room, leading q freckled-
faced, watery-eyed, 1O-year-old boy
by the hand. "Air you the lawyer?"
she began. On being answered in the
affirmative she went on to say that
she had brought her boy Jim to town
for the purpose of binding him out at
the ''lawyerin' trade" She was NOR
ally certain, she averred, that jim
was born lawyer, and that all he
needed was chance. "But madam,
objected the Colonel, che is entirely
too young to begin the study otlaw."
''Too young, indeed, shifted the fond
mother, contemptuously; ''you don't
know Jim. He was jest born for a
lawyer" Much amused the Colonel
asked her on what grounds she based
her hopes of future greatness at the
bar for her darling child. "Why,"
said she, "when he was only z years
old he struck work and swore he
wouldn't do another lick if he got
killed for it.. When he was 8 he got
sassy, and put on more airs than a
horse at the county fair, and now,
Law bless me, he jest freezes on to
everything he can lay his hands on. /"
New York Star.
The sun., 1889-12-26
Killed His Wife's Insulter.

PENSACOLA, Fla, Special. NJ. Thomp-
son stabbed J. T. Carter to death. The men
were prominent citizens. A year ago Mrs
Carter obtained divorce from Carter On
the grounds of non-support and she after
insulted her on the street since then, and
while Mr.. and Mrs Thompson were stand
ing at the corner conversing, Carter passed
and applied an insulting epithet to his
former wife. Thompson resented the in
suit The men clinched and fell, Carter on
top. Thompson quickly used his knife,
and as Mrs. Thompson stopped to try to
separate the men her face was struck by q
stream of blood that spurted from Carter's
neck. Carter received a number of wounds
in various parts of the body. The tragedy
was not unexpected and public sentiment
is lenient toward Thompson, who is under
arrest,
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Talking OF typographical errors,
the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press does
not remember seeing a more horrible
specimen of this class of blunders
than one which appeared in a Massa-
chusetts paper not long ago. At the
close of an extended and highly euol-
CYSTIC notice of a deceased lawyer the
reporter wished to say that 'the
body was taken to Hull for inter
ment, where repose other members of
the family" By mistake a letter 'se''
was substituted for the ''u" in Hull,
changing the sense of the sentence to
such degree that no extra copies of
that issue OF the paper were ordered
by the family of the dead lawyer. i
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pistol shot in the back of her head, and in
the bedroom adjoining her husband was
ound weltering in his own blood. 1t seems
that for some years he had been in the habit
of getting drunk and coming home and
abusing the family; and, at last, it becoming
unbearable, the grown up children bought u
lot elsewhere in the city and erected dwell
ing there and took their mother to live with
them About the time this was being done
and before they moved the father came home
in his usual way, and without question poi
soned two hogs almost ready for slaughter.
He was arrested on the charge of drunken
ness and in default ofpayment Of a fine was
sent to Jail for thirty days, A few days ago
he came back, and stayed in and about the
house, when, all having gone out except a
httle girl seven years old he shot his vie with
O revolver in the back ofthe head. The little
girl ran out crying that her mother had been
killed, and before the neighbOrs could get
there he shot himself Just behind the ear and
died almost instantly.
party of twenty-fv men went to the
house of Harry Knott (colored) at Pauline,
Kansas and took him out and made him
run through two lines of men, who applied
murderous blows with clubs. After great
torture he was allowed to return to his
house. The cause ot the assault is the in
human manner in which he treated his vile
and children. The wOuldbc lynchers were un-
masked and made no effort to disguise their
identity, Three of the mob have been ar
rested
The sun., 1889-12-26
IN GENERAL.

The grand jury at Keokuk, Iowa, has re-
turned in lictments against forty-twO viola
tors of the prohibition law. All saloons in
the city have closed.
Democrats in nearly every county IN Ohio
have been holding secret meetings, at which
action was taken to oppose the nomination
of Calvin 5. Brice for tnited States senator
Two bars of Silver each valued at 81 600.
were lost from a trunk in New York, The
lost bars were part of 100000 shipment
which was being taken to the steamship
Uubria.
The suspension of J. Q. Preble & Co.. man
ufacturer Of blank books and envelopes and
J. B. Sheffield & Son. manufacturers of paper
and general stationery, was announced in
New York In addition to these two firm
the Wabash Manufacturing Company, ofCh-
cagO, is involved. The liabilities of the two
companies will exceed 81, 100000.
dispatch received at Lisbon from Senor
Barbosa, the Brazilian minister, declares
that the originators of the revolution are all
against the re-est ablishment OF slavery, and
that no planters approving of slavery had
any part in the revolution. There are, he
says, no military ambitions or aspirations
in the movement which aims only to secure
civil liberty and the reform of the admins
tration.
The sun., 1889-12-26
On Track of SiIcoft.

MONTREAL, special.-The big rewards of
fered for the capture of SiIcott, the default
ing cashier of the house of representatives,
have induced several Montreal detect
ives to take up the case, and one of them
who is now working on it claims to have
information that will lead to Silcott's ap-
prehension. 1t is claimed that about week
ago Herninio Thibalt, Silcott's paramour,
arrived in Montreal on visit to married
sister, and prolonged her visit until yester-
day, when she hesuddenly announced that she
was going to Quebec. The sister, when
questioned, admitted that she had visitor,
but refused to give further information.
The detectives say that they are positive
that the woman in question is Silcott's com
panion, and that during her stay here she
was visited by man who, it is claimed, an
wered Silcott's description.
The sun., 1889-12-26
IOWA..

The Iowa horticulturists have been in ses-
sion at Waverly. They resolved that the best
way to prevent blight in apple trees is by
shallow cultivation.
Eugene Storey, the Mississippian who
wantonly murdered Barney HeinfelIer,
former resident of Muscatine, at Marcella,
Miss, has been convicted of murder and SEN
fenced to be hanged.
A 14-year-old Marshalltown boy named
Miller, while attempting to chop brick in
two with butcher knife, missed the brick
and struck his thumb with the knife, sever
ing it completely.
The 9-months- old child of Fl. P Jensen, of
New Hartford, while playing on the floor,
swallowed what was supposed to he q nut
shell. Despite all efforts to dislodge it the
child died in q short time.
Gov. Larrabee has pardoned Samuel A.
Tragden, convicted of murder in 1867 and
sentenced to life imprisonment in Anamosa.
The murder was committed IN Wayne county
and was the result of a drunken brawI.
j, q. Losh. an old man of 70, was badly
injured by becoming entangIed in the revolv-
ing shaft of mill near Carson the other day.
His hand was crushed, his shoulder dislocat-
ed and serious internal injuries sustained,
He may recover.
James Ryan, of Muscatine, was thrown
from his buggy between the team and the
vehicle and dragged half mile before the
horses were stopped. He sustained five brok-
en- ribs, besides other bad bruises and cuts.
His condition is critical
William Gleason, an insane man, on avisit
In hin hrnf hon In,, ~. n
attacked that gentleman with a revolver
clubbing him severely on the head. He vas
taken to Alton to be examined by the COM
missoners of insanity
The citizens of Fort Dodge are iubilant over
the bill introduced by Senator Wilson asking
that 500, 900 public building be erected in
that city. 1t is known that the senate is
favorably disposed to the bill and it's passage
is mere matter of form,
refractory witness in the illegal liquor
selling cases at Spencer seemed to forget all
about where he purchased his "vallcy tan"
until the judge remanded him to Jail where
he could, in solitude, collect his thoughts.
He collected them in an incredibly short
space of time.
At Cedar Falls, on the evening of the 7th
of December, while attending the Murphy
temperance meeting at the opera-h ouse, Mrs.
John johnson was suddenly attacked with
heart disease and died in her daughters lap.
She was 80 years of age and very estima-
BILE lady.
Barney Helling, of Fort Madison, was held
up by masked men while returning home.
He resisted the robbers and received severe
cut in the side with knife. He fell to the
ground and while in helpless condition was
robbed of his money and watch. No clue
to the robbers.
Burglars entered q "hole-in-the-wall'' at Clin
ton and cleaned out the place in manner
that would have made o prohibition consta-
bic envious All the beer and whiskey in the
place was confskated. The same night the