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matter by notifying qualified members OF their
respective commands of the opportunity
afforded them to participate in this volunteer
practice.
WHERE BULLETS ARE TBICKEsr.
A great many men seem to be anxious
to have chance at the targets or
the range. and there will be lots Of sharp COM
petition before the team for Creedmoor is made
up. There are but twelve places on the team,
with three extras for reserve men. Maj. Pol
lard says the selection will be entirely Oh merit
The amount of promising material in the guard
here Is very large. and some OF the more en-
thUsiastic already see themselves returning In
triumph from the New York range, bearing
with them the interstate and Hilton trophies. to
say nothing of numerous individual badges
and cups. These great prizes may be COM
peted for by teams of twelve from states and
territories or from divisions of the regular
army. Regular competitors at Creedmoor are
the engineer corps and Massachusetts teams,
and il is of interest to remember that Maj. Pol
lard, who will have charge of the local marks
men, once coached the Massachusetts team
when it defeated the engineers.
Sea Girt is rivallng Creedmoor to consider
able extent. and Gen. Ordway thinks some of
the home talent should capture at least two or
three of the handsome prizes which are aDnu-
ally put up by Jersey.
Several Informal challenges have been re-
ceived from outside commands of the National
Guard, but none of them will be accepted until
there has been a little range practice.
PRIZES GALORE.
There is quite glittering array of promis-
sorry prizes dazzling the optics OF ambitious
rihemen. Each company has badge i'll view;
each battalion proposes to offer some induce
mentS to Its best shots each regiment will have
big trophy and there will be a number OF
medals given by individuals
The EVENING STAR badge is regarded as one
of the most desirable and there will be lots of
competition for it. There may not be many
crack shots here now. but they will be plenti-
ful before the brigade begins shooting for
keeDS :"
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STILL IN THE LEAD,
W ashington Ball Players Are CONTINUE
ing the Good Work.

Wasnington's ball club went to Wilmington
Saturday morning and that afternoon n large
crowd gathered TO witness the ninth defeat of
the tail-enders by the leaders of the associa-
ton. Washington won easily by the score of
IL to 2, making enough in the first inning to
take the game then. Maloney and Riddle were
the battery for the Senators. Wilmington
played loosely in the field. while Washingt ton
showed nearly perfect game. Hill making the
only error. which did not count. O'Eren led
the batting with sin lie and double. Jor-
dan went TO first on balls four times and stole
as many bases. Washington made 6 hits and
l error and Wilmington hits and errors.
Jersey City whipped Worcester 10 to g. Jer-
sey City made 10 hits and 6 errors and Wor.
cestcr hits aud errors.
The opening game at New Haven with Hart
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ford was won by the home club, to 5. New
Haven made hits and errors and Hartford 6
hits and errors.
Newark beat Baltimore 10 to G. Baltimore
made hits and errors and Newark hits and
errors.
Other Saturday games resulted as follows:
National League-Philadelphi 5; Boston, 0.
Brooklyn, Z; New York, 3. Pittsburg, 81 Cleve-
land. 3.
Players League Philadelphia. s; Boston, G.
faIo 2.
American Association-Roche II; Ath-
letic. 2. st. Louis, 3: Louisville, g. Toledo,
6; Columbus, 4. Brooklyn, 5; Syracuse, T.:
Yesterdays games were: Columbus. IL; To-
ledo, 3. Louisville, IL; st. Louis, 2. Brooklyn
Syracuse (rain).
ECHOES FROM OTHER DIAMONDS.
The Senators have struck gait.
Long, Baltimore center fielder, came near
breaking his neck ill tumble Saturday.
Yale defeated Princeton Saturday at New
Haven by the score of to 2.
Lawson, the ex-Wilmngton pitcher, has
signed with the Boston League Club.
The Tanglewood Club defeated the Friends
Select School Club Saturday Is to g.
Brady has resigned the management of the
Jersey City team and Burdock has been made
manager. Lynch has been released and
Dooley signed
Jack Riddle is still catching. He is one Of
WY OSoe poSh-etoPo ever Hdu anu
is in prime condition. He is almost sure death
to man who tries to steal second.
Phillips, who has developed into Washing
tons best pitcher, worked in PENNSYLVANIA
coal mine all winter, rising every morning at 3
o'clock He deserves great credit for his pluck
Philadelphia leads the league and New York
is at the tail end. Boston leads the brother.
hood and New York occupies eighth place. Not
a very promising outlook for Gotham. Brook
Ign is fourth in the brotherhood. fifth in the
league and eighth in the American Association
Rochester leads the American.
The Atlantic Association race is as follows,
counting SATURDAYS games
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ROCKVILLE. COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY coUs
VALUE FOR THE MONEY INVESTED
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CITY AND DISTRICT.

81 No city in the world is so thoroughly
covered by the circulation of a single news
paper as is the city of Washington by that Of
The EVENING STAR. 1t reaches all readers in
the city and vicinity. II s,oeGrs to as circ''Ia-
ton. No other Washington paper has yet done
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The Washington team was defeated yester-
day at Gloucester near Philadelphia by Nfasons
Professionals. to ]. Phillips and Riddle and
Bradley and Gibson were the batteries. Wash
ingtOn made hits and errors and the Pro-
fessionals hits and / error. About 500 people
saw the game
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To Revive the Panama Canal Scheme.
The Paris Temps says that the liluidator of the
Panama Canal Company has appointed NJ. b.
Wyse to conduct negotiations looking to the
formation OF new company, and that Mr.
Wyse goes on mission to the government of
Colombia to obtain an extension of the time
organization.
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Joseph Dudley Morgan was found dead YES
terdav IN his room in the Hotel Normandie,
New York, sitting upon chair.
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REGULATIONS THAT WILL BE CARRIED oUT-THE
CHARACTER OF INSTRUCTION TO BE GIyES-THE
RIFLE PRACTICE AT THE EARRaCKs-AN ORDER
FROM INSPECTOR POLLARD.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-08

who has repeatedly proven herself a
match for any three men that have
pitted their united strength against
ceSsfullv routed Officer John b lxter
and three of her assistants. all
men of fine physique. The wom-
an is a negresS as black as
night and of stature slightly above
the average, but magniIicently built and
extraordinarily active. Her grip is such
that she was able TO break two of the
bones of the hand of woman with
whom she had fracas recently, and it
was on the police attempting to arrest
her that she not only was able to pre-
vent them from putting the handouts
on her, but taking the officer and his
posse. one by one, flung them out of the
house and closed and locked the door.
Baxter, in particular, is accounted a
man of unusual strength,and is of large
build, but says his muscles were as
child's when compared with those of
the black amazon. The woman, whose
name is Caroline jenkins. is about
thirty years old. and is the mother
of seven children. She has peen
seen to pick up barrel of flour
and carry it distance of some
yards without appearing to OvereXert
herself, and when tested was found To
be able to break with ease a new grass
rope an inch in diameter. Since her eX-
plot with the police it is said that
party of gentlemen propose travelling
with her il she will go and give exhibit
tons of her strength, which is TO he
aScrlbrd to no electrical or magnetic
process, but to her muscular develop
ment alone.
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A COWS BLACK MILK.
The Singular Habit of an Other
wise Well Disposed and Re-
spectabIe Mixer.

spectacle MIlk0f.
Rupert Hansborough, of the firm of
Crowley, Hansborough d Co., leather
dealerers. of ChillicOthe, o., is the pos
SCISSOR of natural curiosity in the
shape Of COW which gives black milk.
She is on Mr.. Hansaborough's model
farm, situated few miles out of town,
and can be seen at any time grazing in
his pasture, and at milking time her
singular yield will be shown any one
desiring to behold it. Of mixed breed.
Jersey and Durham, with strain of
Ayrshire, she was calved on the farm
and was the second born to her mother,
whose milk presented no popularity,
and whose first calf, a heifer. too. still
give anabundanceo of natural tinted milk.
Mollie. as she is called, is pretty lit
tie COW, with nothing unusual in her APP
pearance, and has borne already five
young. which have thriven we'll on her
black milk. 1t produces 4 fair amount
of cream, which is trifle lighter in
color, and which, when churned. makes
butter resembling coal tar, but as pal
atable as thoguh of golden yellow. Mr..
HansborOugh says that at first they
were afraid to drink or use her milk in
any way, but overcoming their preju-
dice, now enjoy it as any other.
He has received numbers of offers for
her, both from the proprietors of mu-
seums and stockmen, but declined them
from hopes that she will yet transmit
herspeculiarity to some of her progeny.
Chemists in Richmond and Washington
have analysed the milk, both fresh and
when made into butter, but declare that
they can detect nothing to account for
It's sable color, but attribute it to some
unique coloring pigment in the corpus
Giles of her blood.
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KILLED BY A VAMPIRE,
a Young Girl in Venezuela Found
Dead With the Creature at Her
Thpnar

Mrs. Cornelius Rainwater, of Savan-
nah, Ga. received recently letter from
her brother, James Uhl, who is engaged
in the wholesale coffee business in
CalabOZo, Venezuela, III which eplStle
he gave an account of the singular
death of his daughter last September.
The young lady, who mad just en-.
tered her seventeenth year, had been
SomnambuliSt since childhood, and it
was supposed that it was while in one
of her frequent frances that she left the
house and wandered several miles out
into the country. She was missed, and.
on being searched for. was at last found
near the roadside dead, with large
vampire clinging to her throat. The
bat at the approach of the searchers
rose from the body of its victim and at
tempted to fly off, but was SO gorged
with blood as to be unable to make its
escape, and was shot by one of the
party. The placidity of the young
death had been painless one, and it is
probable that it was not until she sank
down. still fast asleep, that the vampire
fastened upon her. A small wound re-
sembling the puncture of large needle
just over the jugular vein marked
where the small white teeth had liber-
ated the blood which 1t had then
sucked, all the while soothing its vic
tim to deeper sleep by a gentle. lulling
movement of its outspread wings, which
is the habit of these creatures. The
one which killed Miss Uhl was unusu-
ally large, measuring three feet and
some inches from tip of one wing to
That of the other, and while its weight
would have naturally been ten or
twelve pounds, it was SO engorged that
it was found to weigh something over
twenty,
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INTOXICATED BY GUM.
"A Strange Story Which Must Be
Believed When Read.


Believed When Read.
New York STAR
Can man become intoxicated on
Chewing gum? l cannot believe it. vet
a FREUD of mine assures me that be
KNOWS fellow who does it. The man
III question is the superintendent of
one of the big breweries of New
York. He does not drink liquor of any
KIND. not even his own beer. He can
tell the quality of the brewing by the
color ana smell. Once in while, how
ever, he feels like getting hilarious in
some way. The feeling is likely to
come upon him on the Fourth OF July or
some similar occasion of holiday or re-
JOicing
When he feels that way, so my friend
says. and he ought to know, our super
lntendent buys a large box of some
peculiar sort of chewing gum, and
makes Job of it. He does not attempt
to do anything else for the time being.
He devotes himself to that chewing
gum. One cake of it after another dis
appears. He chews all the sweetness
out of tie gum and then throws
1t away. When he mas masticated
about four or five dozen of
the waters he is the possessor of what
the boys call '.beautiful jag" At
least, so my friend says. There was a
friend of mine once who assured me
that he had seen an oyster which had
been taught to play the piano. l did
not believe him, just because he was
my friend. Your own friends will
sometimes tell you whopplng big yarns
The one who tells me the chewing gum
story AYERS by the great horn spoon that
it is positively true.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-08
MISS ADAIR's INFATUATIoN.
A Southern Girls Effort to Shield
Married Man.
Macon News.

Macon News.
Soon after the Georgia Pacific Tail,
from Atlanta arrived at Birmingham
last night, the police received telegram
from Chief Connolly to arrest Lewis
Avant, of Macon, for kidnapping. and
hold the girl until her father arrived.
The couple was found at the Morris
hotel at II O'Clock, where they had reg
lstered as ''Dr. Keene and wife, of New
York;
They were in the same room. but had
not retired. They were taken to the
station house, and Avant locked up. The
girl was detained in the chiefs office.
Both talked freely.
The girl is Della Adair. nineteen
years old, and her father, w. ID. Adair,
is a farmer at Forrest Station, on the
Central road. She is very pretty and
intelligent. Avant lived in Macon,
where he has wife. He is thirty-five
years old. He met Miss AdaIr three
months ago while selling pictures in the
vicinity of Forrest. She fell in love
with him, and then he told her he was
married. She says she told him she did
not care, she would live with him any
way, because she loved him. They
Miss Adair went to Atlanta to visit her
sister, Mrs. A. L. Mayo, on Doane
street. Avant met her there, and they
took the train for Birmingham.
Miss Adair says Avant is not to
blame, as she knew he was married,
and clipped with him of her own free
will. She says if her father takes her
home she will run away again. Avant
intended to live in Birmingham and
sell medicine. He says the girl insisted
on running away with him after he told
her he was a married man. He says he
will return without requisition, but
seemed much alarmed when told the
girls father was coming over. He says
he loves Miss Adair better than his own
life. and intended to keep her with him
merely as friend and companion until
he could get a divorce from his wife
and marry her. He denies that they in
tended occupying the same room,
although they registered as man and
wife. He is much broken up over his
arrest, and anxiousiy inquired the prob
able penalty for kidnapping.
Miss Adair insists that she asked
Avant to take her with him, and that
he is not to blame. She begged the
police to release him and detain heE-
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They used to say that we went undi r
the water; would YOU believe IL? or TIL; t
we slept headdownward in the sane
banks; in holes, like our COUSINS, the
sandmartins. Indeed, very long tin Q
ago 1t was declared that we flew to tile
mo0n-the cold mOon-in which wise
men themselves say they can see moth
ing but ice and SNOW" The mere idea
makes the swallows shudderl Even
England Is getting too cold: in another
week they will all be at home in the
South, the warm, sunny South.
=. And then one young swallow, born Of
this years brood. to whom the South is
unknown. impertnently inquiries; IF
you are all so fond Of the South why on
earth did yon leave 1t in the spring?"
IL Is always the young that make these
hippant Inquiries, asking questions
which nobody can answer. The older
swallows cannot reply. They do not
Know the cause of the impulse that
compeis them, year after year. to quit
the South and cross the sea. well aware
tnat the Journey must be repeated for
them to return to their warm winter
nome again. So, not knowing what to
answer. they rise en- masse and chase
the impertinent youngster TO aid fro
IN the clear air, pretending that they
Know the reply to his question, but
remarklng that young birds curiosity
must not be encouraged.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-08
AN OLD OAKS MYSTERY.

Evidence of an Ancient Tragedy
Found in the Roots of u Tree.
The relic OF what was probably once
bloody tragedy was discovered re-
Gently by Mrs. Jane Bentley, lady
well-known among the older ciiizens of
Portsmouth, Va. While walking in her
garden she observed a CLEAN of gold
among the roots of huge oak, which
she had had felled the day before. She
tried to dsengage the object, which she
found to be a knotted tress Of golden
hair, but it was so closely twined about
the roots that she was unable
TO Withdraw it. Calling the gardener,
she made him bring his spade and
dig about the stump, which he had as
yet only partially uprooted, and III
short While it was seen that the hair,
which was very abundant. had so woven
itself in and out of the roots that it
would be impossible to release it.
The mystery of its presence was
solved, also, by the discovery OF skull
among the sofl clingIng to the roots, but
though the ground for the distance of
twenty feet about was carefully exam
ahmed, no other bones were found.
Driven through the right temple of the
skull was found Il rusty spike, which
reached nearly to the other temple. DIR.
Morris, who examined the gnastly relic,
says it is undoubtedly the skull of
young woman, and, judging from the
facial angle, she was a person OF cult
ure aud refinement. No clue to the
mystery can be found.
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MOTHER AT SIXTY.
The Curious Freak INDUCED in by
an Old Swedish Woman.

an Old Swedish Woman.
An old Swedish woman. by name
Marie Johnson, living in the outskirts
of Lapeer, Mich, gave birth recently
to her first child, after having been mar
ried thirty-eight years without offspring.
The woman claims that she is sixty
years old, and looks every day of that
age. The physician called in at the ac-
cOuchement refused TO believe that she
could become mother, and it was not
until he saw the child that he could
credit it. The baby, which is boy,
weighed only three pounds when it was
born, and had the appearance of an old
person, with shriyeled features and the
stitfened joints of the aged, but other
wise seems a healthy, commonplace
child.
The mother having. of course, no
nourishment for it, it is being brought
up on the bottle. The father is much
mortified at the occurrence and views
the child as mOnStroSity. He is some
years younger than his wife, whose
statement in regard to her age he cor
roborates. The woman says that She.
herself. was born when her mother was
fifty-two, and that her grandmother.
living near Linkoping, Sweden, gave
birth to twins at the age of sixty-three.
when the people came for hundred
miles to view them.
DR.. Anderson, of Lapeer, who was
born in Stockholm, says he recollects
hearing, when boy, of the latter occur
renee. Mrs. J0husen is doing well, and
is delighted with her baby, which was
baptized by the priest, receiving the
name Of Isaac Jan. The physicians de-
clare that the case has never had but
two precedents in the annals of the pro-
feSSiOn
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INSECTS INVADE A TOWN.
People of Harpersburg Overfun
by a Nasty, Poisonous Caterpil-

People of HarperSburg Overfun
by a Nasty, Poisonous Caterpil-
lar.
The little town of Harpersburg, Ind.
reports plague of millions of insects,
which have SO invaded everything that
business is almost suspened while
the people fight them. The insects
are sort of caterpillar, about an
inch and half long, perfectly white
and very fuzzy, and nearly as broad
as long when not in motion, though
dwindling considerably as it crawlS. 1t
is very poisonous. and-when handled III
tilcts very painful wound. which i'm.
medlately SwrllS up. turning very red
at first and then nearly black, and cauS-
/ the member to swell very rapidly,
the flesh for some distance about be-
coming so painful that 1t cannot he
dressed or handled except with the in
Fiction of great agony.
This soreness. which is attended with
fever, sometimes very high and pr0duc-
ing righteousness, lasts from two days to
a week, and leaves the skin very harsh
and red and disposed TO peel off. The
insects sting seems TO be just beneath
the tail, which is shaped like that of q
duck and turns up sharply. This pest
made Its appearance nearly week ago,
during which time millions have been
killed without seeming To diminish the
only all over every sprig of vegetation
about, but have infested the houses. SD
that it is nearly Impossible To sleep for
them, and extreme care has to be eXer
cIsed to keep from serving them in
eVery dish prepared
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Miss Wallace, by whom he became the
father of triplets, whose birth cost the
mother her life.
The wid0wer then remained such for
nearly five years, when, meeting Mrs.
Richardson, who. with her three chill
dren. was visiting friends III this city,
he fell in love with the lady, widow OF
some years standing, and married her
soon after. The union has been blessed
with five children, making Mr.. Mort-
mer the father of eleven girls and
twelve boys, all living. lie is still
few months on the sunny side of fifty,
and in spite of his numerous response
bilities, boasts there is no happier man
In the state. The household is said TO
be one of the best regulated and most
harmonious TO he found anywhere.
There are now, however, only fifteen
left at home. owing to the marriage of
the eight eldest. five of whom are still
living in st. Paul. 1t is somewhat re-
markable that not one of MIR. Morti-
mer's married children has child,
which he deplores with every appear
ance of sincerity, as, he says, he fully
expected to be the grandfather of at
least hundred. He declares that the
last baby born is by no means to end
the tale. This legitimate Brigham
Young is, fortunately, comfortably fixed
i'll n worldly sense.