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oRRIs BENSON AND HIS TEACHER.

struction. The authorities exhibited him
at the last commencement exercises as
the most promising pupil they had ever
received and sent him to his home in
Grahamville, Sullivan county, N. Y,
ress he had made. AT the exhibition the
little fellow placed his hands upon those
Of his teacher, who said in the sign Ian
guage: What is your name? How old
are you:' etc. The child was then led
to the blackboard, where he wrote the
answers correctly. Letters were traced
in the palm of his hand by the teacher
and the pupil Immediately wrote them
on the board.
A package of cards, on which were
raised pictures Of objects, was given to
man in the audience to make selec-
ton. A card with a raised door key was
handed the boy. He moved his fingers
over the card, and when led to the board
wrote the work key in very legible script,
and picked up from a dozen objects on
the table the key itself and went
through the motions of unlocking door.
In the same manner did he find pen
and q hand saw. About one hundred
words in raised letters of DR.. Moons
alphabet for the blind placed on cards
were given him. He recognized them
by touch, spelled them on his fingers and
then wrote them on the board. Alpha
betical blocks with depressed letters
Were given him and he combined them
into simple words like "horse," etc He
spelled the numerals from one to ten and
wrote themin figures. He has also been
taught scripture verses and sentences
from DR.. Peters Language Lessons. On
the table in the cut will be seen the oh
jects which he has learned to recognize
by touch and to describe in writing and
by signs. The board above the table
contains depressed letters and words
from which he WIS first taught TO read
His teacher, ProteSsOrC. w. Van Tassel,
also deaf mute, Is speaking to him by
forming the letters with his fingers.
The writing on the board TO tho left was
done by the little unfortunate himself
When the boy came 20 the institution
last September be cried every night for
month, because all was strange 10 him
His kind matrou, Miss Smith, would sit
by his bed until he cried himself to sleep
At last he took "a peculiar fancy to one
OF the other boys, so their beds We're
placed side by side, and after that he
seemed contented. At first he was
placed in the charge of boy, who
looked after him during the day, for fear
he would hurt himself. But he evident
ly did not like the restraint of an over
seer and was allowed TO go out alone
with the other boys, He plays ball, after
a manner with them and has never re-
ceivcd but two injuries that were in the
least severe, He knows the signs for
all the dishes ~ the table aud once
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GEORGE R. FEARING. s$ inches; leo
yard hurdle, 3 feet high 16 3-5 Sec; one
quarter mile run, 81 1-5 Sec; one-half mile
run, 2 min 8 sec. He was a school boy
then, but these performances were quite
different from the ordinary school boys
performances.
When it was learned that he was to enter
Harvard predictions were made that that
college had sure winner in one or two
events, and at the last intercollegiate games
held in May he captured the running high
Jump with great ease at feet 8 inches. On
April IL of this year he won for his college
the 1000 yard run at the indoor champion
ship games held at Boston, defeating sew
eral crack athletes from New York city.
On account of the board floor twelve lap
track, with sharp corners, the time he made
ib not worthy of mention, but he defeated his
men. Some weeks previous to this event
at the handicap games of the Boston Ath.
,etic association he won the running high
jump of board floor at ) feet l04 inches,
which stands as the second best board floor
record to Page, who has cleared feet
AS the intercollegiate games approached
james G. Lathrop, the celebrated Harvard
trainer openly said he did not know
whether to have Fearing stick to middle
distance running or have him dcvoee his
eueTSieS 10 tne running nlSn Jump. Either
game Lathrop said he could undoubtedly
be n champion ut, and it was far more per-
picking to train man like Fearing than
1t was man with less ability. But judg-
ing by his records it seems that the run
ming high jump is Feariug's best game, for
On May %, ut the games of, his college on
Holmes Field, he made n record at this
event which places him the second best
man this country has produced and the
best man now in active competition. He
cleared on this day feet 4 inch, improv-
ing his own best record by 4 inches. His
clearing this height one week before the
intercollegiate games dampened the ardor
of intending competitors in the running
high jump at this great college event, and
so little did he save himself for the jump
on that day that he competed In both the
high and low hurdle races before the Jump
took place and was necessarily tired, but
still he won it.
His style of jumping is very interesting
and quite different from Pages. Page
used fair speed in his run, starting about
fifty feet from the bar. Fearing starts at
about thirty or thirty-five feet away and
strides up rather slowly, giving decided
spring which makes one think that if he
would only try a little harder he could do
more 1t is peculiar style, and is quite
different from that OF other jumpers. 1t
Ia the opinion of many followers Of athlet-
les that within the next two or three years
Fearing will make some more great rec
ords, MALCOLM W. FORD.
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FRONTIER TRIBUNALS.
The Man Who Served on Coroner's
Jury--A German Justice.

Jury--A German Justice.
Especial Correspondence.l
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2l.-With the
average obscure citizen the proudest
moment of life is the day upon which he
is called upon to act as juryman or a
pallbearer.
Possibly with the single exception OF
being survivor from some dire calam-
ity, the distinction of being called to sit
on coroner's jury is the proudest in
the life Of the everyday clodhopper,
This was exempliied the other day in
the case of an illiterate laborer who had
been called to ''sit upon corpse in a
southern California town.
A dead man was discovered on hill
side near the village, and a jury was
called TO sit upon the corpse to determine
whether the man was really and truly
dead, and if so, how it happened. As
idle men were scarce the coroner called
on the porter of a general store to serve
on the jury, The man, arrayed in his
best suit of Sunday clothes, took his new
duty as serious matter, Alter the case
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shown
IL. He ~.
healthy, and
formity than thea Rect
He Is about four feet 0OS@
hair and is bright and act--
with that careful, halting step afu,s.ne, s...
TO the blind. When he meets a pc. W.
1t is touching to see him feel all over his
face and clothing TO see if they are
strange.
Benson has two brothers, IA and II
years old respectively, and q sister
years of age. None of his family, rela-
tives or ancestors has suffered from deaf
ness or blindness. His father and mo-
ther are both living, and We're not re-
lated previous to marriage. Orris was
born blind and became deaf when 3 years
of age from spinal meningitis. which al
ways destroys memory in young chill
dren. As is the case with all deaf
mutes, his organs of speech are perfect,
but never having heard sound that he
can remember he cannot be made to
initiate speaker.
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When the celebrated Dr. Rush declared that
truth which the experience and observation OF
medical men Is every day confirming, The
many apparently insane cScesscs of those who
indulge In the use of splrtuous liquors may
thus be accounted for, The true cause Of con-
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frequently n diseased state OF the Liver No or
gan In the human system when dcrnnged. pro-
duces a more frightful catalogue of diseasesf
And IL. instead of applying remedies TO the
manifestations OF the disease, as Is too often
the case ply ysicaus would prescribe with "A view
to the ori iginal cause, fewer deaths would result
from diseases induced by n deranged state of the
Liver. Threc-fourths of the diseases enumer-
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McLnne's Liver Pills, prepared by FLEMING
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Mr.. Jonathan Houghman, OF West Union,
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w UNDEVELOPED PARTS
Df the Human Body Enlarged, Developed,
strengthened, etc, Is an interesting advertise
ment long run In our paper. In reply to In
auiries we will say that there is no evidence Of
humbug about this On the contrary, the ad.
vertisers are very highly indorsed. Interested
persons may get sealed circulars giving all par
iiculars, by writing TO the ERIE MEDICAL
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A PhffndeIphia Expert.

William w. Hallman is member of the
Philadelphia club of the Players league
and a brilliant all round player. He was
born in Pittsburg, but spent his boyhood
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GEO. R. FEARING.
A Harvard Athlete Who Is After
Pages Laurels.
kUNNINe HIGH JUMP RECORDS.

Pages best Effort Was o Feet Inches.
and the New Claimant for Honors Has
Cleared o Feet IA Inch-Iiis Peculiar
style.
Since the retirement in 1883 of W. B.
Page, the worlds amateur champion run.
ming high jumper, all performances at that
game have seemed second class, although
compared with the ability of the average
high jumpers most of the records accom-
plished during the last two years are very
good. Pages best figures at the game, 8
feet 4inches, are so much out Of reach that
high jumpers occasionally let slip SIGNS Of
discouragement in regard to equaling that
phenomenal record, but one athlete,
George X. Fearing, who is shown in tho
accompanying picture. has recently dis
played form which has tended to alter the
opinion Of some concerning the future of
the game.
Fearing is very tall and rather slender
athlete, standing feet * inches in lump
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ing shoes an d
W e g hing 15s
pounds, He is 20
years old, and en-
tered Harvard
university las t
fall. Previous TO
his entering col
lege he had made
quite a reputation
as an all round
runner aud jump
er. At the inter
scholastic games
held at the Berke-
ley Oval in the
spring of 1880 he
thrilled the spec
tators by winning
four first prizes
against good men.
He also took sec
ond in putting
the twelve pound
shot. His wins
W ere: Running
high jump, 5 feet
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CRTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
RECORD OF CASUALTIES,

RECORD OF CASUALTIES.
The bodies of the six entombed miners in
the Nottingham shaft at Wikesbarre, Pa,
have been taken out. horribly burned.
The hope which has been entertained of the
safety of the National line steamship Erin and
her ultimate arrival at London is now aban-
doned, and the ship is given up as lost.
Conductor Chilly and Engineer Bliss were
killed in O wreck on the Texas Pacific road
near Plaquemine, Tex. The wreck took fire
and the bodies were cremated. Two or three
traiamen were seriously injured
3 Geo. Cunningham, aged 80 years, line
man, while engaged with squad of men in
repairing the wires of the Brush Electric
Light Company on Vine street in Cincinnati,
received a powerful shock, which will un-
doubtedly prove fatal. His limbs swung out
from the pole 80 feet from the ground and he
5ell to the payment unconscious, where he lay
u bruised and bleeding mass. He was taken
to the hospital. His injuries are pronounced
fatal.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Reeves, living in q basement at Kansas City
died from wounds inflicted upon it by rats
About 3 O'Clock one morning Mrs. Reeves
was awakened by the infants cries. She dis
covered the childs condition and took it to
Mr.. Hodges who described the wounds as
follows: The nose was eaten entirely off;
horrible wounds appeared on both cheek
sbonee: the scalp had been torn away from
tho top of the head down to the ears and the
skull had been gnawed through in one place
SO that the brains oozed. The child lived
only few hours after it received its injuries.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
CONFESSION OF FAITH.
Remarks by Ministers on the Mat
ter Of Revision.

Remarks by Ministers on the Mat
ter Of a Revision.
NEW YORK, Specialize New York
Prcsbytery to-day further discussed the re-
vision of the confession of faith. Rev. DR..
Rossiter said he was in favor of the report
of the committee because it brings our con-
tession more on line with the Bible.
Elder Van Renssler said that majority Of
the members of his church were OPP
posed to revision. Rev. J. B. Shaw was
in favor of going further with the
revision than the committee recommended.
Revs. c. Doenich and D. H. Hoadley, and
Elders ]. G. Tucker and M. w. Dodd spoke
In favor OF the report. Rev. DR.. John Hall.
leader of the opposers to the revision, then
began the settling up. The doctrines of the
church, passing by the non-elect, had been
represented as . stumbling block, he said.
and cited many chapters Of the Bible
wherein stumbling blocks are referred to
and claimed that we put ourselves in
false position. To be consistent We should
not revise completely but remodel. DR..
Hastings closed the debate for the revision
lists. He said:
further, and entirely remodel the confession.
Strange he don't believe in revision but believes
Ill remodeling it. We can hardly hope that the
men who did not write the report can be ex-
great many do not know the difference between
remodel and revision We said IN that report
just what We meant, and will stand by It
whether the presbytery does or not. DR.. Hall
said many of the speeches made here panied
him very much. DR.. Hall, in his speech, panied
some of his best friends very much, and all
through there was an undercurrent OF assump-
ton in reference to the construction OF revision.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
NEW WORKERS DISCOURAGED.
Legislators at Albany Unable to
Agree on the Worlds Fair Bill.

Legislators at Albany Unable to
Agree on the Worlds Fair Bill.
ALBANY, N. Y, Specialize worlds fair
bill committee reported the bill back to
both houses amended so as to,strike out all
of the names of the additional commits
sioners not residents of New York
city. These names include Lewis f.
Payne, A. Il. Boardman, Erastus Corn
ing, James Wood and Ellis H. Roberts,
The conference report came up in the as
sembly and was non-concmred IN by the
vote of ayes Al, noes 63. In the senate Mr..
Cantor moved to take up the assembly
bill and pass it, but the motion was lost.
The senate then adjourned until next Mon
day night by party vote. No one can now
predict when the two hOMses can be brought
to agree on worlds fair bill, and the
friends of New York are much discouraged.
HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT 1T.
WASHINGTON, Speciai-The news from
Albany was not altogether unexpected
New York men are now less confident of
securing the fair while friends of Chicago
are more hopeful. Representative Cum
mings blamed ex-senator Platt for the set
back givea New Works aspirations He
said:
If the hal il beatea it has been done by the
machnations of Tom Platt. He wanted q
Platts world IS fair, but we wanted New York
world 3 lair.
Representative Stahlnecker said:
Well. it relieves us poor congressman. It is
better that the hill should be beatea at Albany
than at Washington.
1t is thought that thezeport of the world 5
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
BLOCKADE RAISED,
Union Pacific Trains are Now Run.
ming Through to Portland.

Union Pacific Trains are Now Run.
ming Through to Portland.
General Passenger Agent Teasdale, of the
Omaha, yesterday received the following
telegram from General Passenger Agent
Lomax, of the Union Pacific:
This morning we are in receipt of advices
from F. H. Goodman. of the Southern Pa
cifc. that the snow blockade on that line
between Ogden and San Francisco has posi-
lively been raised and that trains will at
once resume their regular runs. Mr.. Good
man is OF opnion that they will experience
no further difficulty on account of SHOW
unless they have another storm, which is
unlikely. The Shasta route, however, is
still blocked and it may take some days to
have this line cleared. Please recollect,
however, that the Southern Pacific runs
line of steamers between Portland and San
Francisco. Will you please issue bulletins
to your agents giving them this information
and ask them to resume the sale of tickets
to California points, via either the Oregon
Short Line or Ogden and the Southern Pa
citic. Also please give this information to
your connecting lines and advertise it as
much as possible.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-07
SINFUL SETTINGS.

Richard and George Mills quarreled at
SGowaDdy, N. Y. George secured shot gun
and Instantly killed his brother.
Mrs. Norman Houghton OF Amsterdam, N.
T., has eloped with her first husband, man
named Pinch, who has just been released from
!; state prison after serving five years term.
Ariot occurred during Socialist ELECTORAL
meeting at Stassfurt, Germany. The police
fred into the crowd. Four were wounded,
. one woman was killed and several policemen
were stabbed.
Emil Meyer, q blind chair maker of New
York in a fit of sudden madness attempted
to murder his whole family and himself He
slightly injured his wi and one child and
then ate q handful of Paris green dying soon
aiterward
In a saloon row at Central City, n Mex,
Henry Brooks, colored soldier, shot and
killed Deputy Sheriff Dalin, colored woman
manned Carrie Drug and seriously wounded a
tsecOad man. Brooks was wounded himself
KIN the ARRAY.
Eight prominent farmers OF Healsbury,
Ind. T., were arrested charged with lynching
witnesses against the prisoners are said to be
notorious horse thieves. who were themselves
responsible for the lynching.
A woman giving the name of Mrs. Minnie
NcGrath, and claiming Chicago as her home,
shot Edwin Firth, we'll known inven tor, on
the street in Troy, New York. Firth will
probably die. The woman claims that Firth
ruined her.
Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom has received
a telegram from the mayor of Terrebonne
Can, saying that Silcott has not been in that
:place, and adding thatno family of the name
of Thiebault IL known there. Mr.. Leedom is
still without information Us to Silcott's
~]hereo bouts.
During his absence from home m asked burg
liars entered the house o. Charles Roonan, at
Ksusas City. Mrs. Roonau was alone and
the outlaws. after they had bound and gag
Seed her. dragged the unconscious woman to
the foot of the bed in one of the sleeping
rooms and bound her securely by the neck to
one OF the bed posts After possessing them
selves OF all the valuables in sight, they es-
capped. Mr.. Roonan. returning home a few
minutes later, found his wife in the position
described and released her. Her condition is
serious.
AID Mccormick, of Cincinnati who precipi.
tated in a row by which r ebert Gibbons was
fatally shot by Capt. Schucttler is in trouble
again Robert Morris q cab driver, went to
.Gibl,on's saloon to collect fare. According
to the cabman the alderman said: Let me
SHOW you what think of you;" and, grasp.
ing Morris left hand, he carried it to his
,mouth Before the cabman realized what
S ;was taking place, McCormck's teeth closed
ION his shumb, cutting through flesh and mai
and crushing the bone. Morris says that
though he screamed in agony. it was severa
,snipytes before the brute released his hold
Morris, who is u quiet inoffensive fellow will
shave Mccormick arrested on q charge Of
unayhem.