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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-02
Englishmen Call 1t IAN American Tragedy

Especial 10 The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gable.
LONDON, Aug. Ia Shocking triplemur.
der occurred in a barreoN at the Kings
land in this city last N fss, which all the
London papers characterize to-day as IAN
American tragedy A discharged soldier
named Hargan. alias Harper, quarreled
with William Lambert and John Wheeler
while sitting together at the bar. The land
lord elected them. When outside Hargan
Immediately drew revolver and shot both
men through the head and they fell dead on
the sidewalk. Bystanders attempted to
capture the murderer who Immediately
shot again killing third man. No one had
he courage to make an attempt to capture
the murderer until William Knifton and
another man grappled with him from be
hind. Then began desperate fight for
life. Hargan managed to fire his revolver
three times into the crowd without doing
any damage. The fight lasted for quar-
ter of an hour, during which time Knifton
was nearly killed and Hargan nearly torn
to pieces. His clothes was stripped from
him and when finally exhausted and bleed
| ing he fell to the sidewalk the crowd
stamped on him, threw stones on him and
would have lynched him but for the arrival
of the police. He was picked up in dying
condition and carried to the station house
! on a Stretcher.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-02
Kemmler Utterly Broken Down.

AUBURN, N. Y, Aug. 1S1Recent develop
ments have more than confirmed the truth
of the statement that kemmler, the con-
demned murderer, is weakening daily.
Utter abandonment of all hope and the
consequent realization OF his utterly lost
condition never came to him with such
terrible force as last night. All night long
as he tossed and tumbled on his narrow
cot, he cried abound in his dispair, II wish
it were overn He moaned time and again
and his utter lack of all power to control
his fears was pitable to rehold. The cause
of this sudden and uHconquerable dispair
was the noise of preparation in the adj
iacent room for the execution which the
prisoner could not help hearing through
the door way which connects his cell with
the chamber of death -.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-02

IVORY PATENT" AND ROYAL GORGE
excel all other fiours in quality. Ask your
ornoer for IL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-02

TEEMING with live advertisements
and not one OF them of the class man
would blush to lay before his family.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
White and Deaf.

Mr.. Harrison Weir, president of the Ma
tional Cat club, England, says In his book,
"Our Cats,n that a white cat of the long or
short haired breed is likely to be deaf.
Should it have blue eyes, the fancy color,
it is almost certain to be deaf
Mr.. Weir, at cat show, purchased a
white cat, beauty, loving and gentle, for
the low price Of two guineas When he
got it home, the cat proved to be ''stone
deaf"
Then the trouble began. If shut out of
the dining ROOM it's cry for admission could
be heard all over the house, for, being deaf,
it did not know the noise it made, though
it's owner often wished that it could hear
it's own cry. When it cailed-out as it sat
on his lap, it called with ten cat power, and
its commanding voice caused tito be named
the Colonel"
One day friend saw the beauty" and
admired it SO much as to accept itas gift,
even after being told that it was ''stone
deaf" A few days after Mr. Weir received
a letter from the friend, Offering to return
the loud voiced cat.
"Give it to amy one you please, but don't
return it to u.s." was the reply.
The Colonel was given to a deaf old
lady, and both were happy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
Winfield chantnnnu. As..mhlr.

The fourth annual session will open nj
Island park, June -, and continue clever
days. The class work and platform will
be under the supervision Of Rev. -. L
Vincent, ID. D., of Buffalo, y. \. Thy
music will be directed by Prof George r
Briefly, Ere, Pa Glasses in elocutior
and oratory under Prof. W. ". Carnes, oi
Chicago III. School Of kindergarten in
charge of Miss kaufman, state normal
school. And stenogrHphy under Prof
Van Wye, Southwest Kansas college. sun
day school normal instruction by DR.. Win.
cent and Prof. Gridley.
Among the prominent lecturers are Rev
George W Miller. ID. D., OF Kansas City
A Miner Griswold Texas Siftings; Gen
eral Russell A. Alger, coui6ssnder-in-chiei
G. A r.; Rev Robert Mcintyre. Of Chi
cago; Rev. DR. Talmage, Brooklyn. Rev
David Winters, D. D., Wichita. Rev. r.
T Savin, D. D., Wichita; Rev p =. Hen.
son, ID. D.. Chicago; Prof. I. II. DiusmOre
Phi. D., Emporia: Hon. a. w. Smith, nc
Pherson; Hon. Ralph Beaumont and Hon.
l.. l.. Polk, president National Farmers
Alliance. Washington ID. G..
All railroads viii sell tickets At one fars
for round trip, good TO return July 5
Special trains can be secured for excursion
parties. Elegant camping. good water
luxurious shade, splendid boating. tents,
lodging board provisions al on the
grounds. Street cars from all depOts q
the park.
For program, giving particulars, address
a. Ii. LI8EEICE, Secretary.
155 & Winfield, Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
Was Colnmb bus a LeX2

Jews figure prominently in the history
of the discovery CT America. The plans
and calculations for Columbus expedition
were largely the work of two Hebrew as
trononers and mathematicians. Two Jews,
also, were employed as Interpreters by Co.
lumbus, ana one of them, Luis de Torres,
was the first European to set foot in the
New World. When Columbus sighted the
island of San Salvador be imagined he
was approaching portion of the East Ash
attic coast, and he sent Torres-who was
engaged for his knowledge of Arabic
ashore 60 make inquiries of the natives
1t was, probablySthis Torres who was
the Madrid Jew to when Columbus be
queathed half mark of silver in his will
Another curious fact is that it has been
seriously suggested, by DR.. Delitzsch we
believe, that Columbus himself was Jew,
or of Jewish birth. The name Christie
pher was frequently adopted by converts,
while the surname Colon was borne by a
distinguished family of Jewish scholars
Christepher's brother, Diego, bore origin
ally the Jewish name Jacob, which sounds
surprisingly like Shem kadosh. Perhaps
some Jewish scholars in Italy will make
inquiry into the validity Of this daring sug
gestion.-Jsvish World.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
Boys Tricks That Were Mean.

They were by no means the worst boys
who did such things, but only the most
thoughtless. Still, there was q public
opinion which ruled out certain tricks, and
gave the boys who played them the name
of being mean" One of these was boring
a hole in the edge of your school desk to
meet shaft sunk from the top, which you
filed with slate pencil dust. Then, if you
were that kind of boy, you got some little
chap to put his eye close to the shaft, with
the hope of seeing Niagara Falls, and set
your lips TO the hole in the edge, and blew
his eye full of pencil dust. This was mean;
and it was also mean to get some unsus-
pecting child to close the end of an elder
wood tube with his thumb, and look hard
at you, while you showed him Germany:
You did this by pulling STRING below the
tube, and running needle into his thumb.
Ny boy discovered Germany in this way
long before he had any geographical or po-
litical conception of it.-W. D. Howells in
Harper's Young People.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
IVY On the Front walls.

European travellers visiting the United
States invariably declare that the resi-
dence districts of Boston are more attract
i've than those of New York. There is an
easy explanation to be offered for their
preferences for the New England capital
Boston has found a substitute for shade
trees in the finest residence quarter. The
long blocks of substantially built brick
and stone houses there are covered with
ivy trained as high as the second floor line
or to the root, as the taste OF the occupants
requires less or more of this beautiful
screen of fresh foliage.
The absence of trees passes unnoticed
when the eye is refreshed by constant
giimpses of verdure on the house fronts.
On the hottest midsummer days the resi-
dence streets of Boston look cool and at
kTactive. The monotonous character of
the architecture is concealed by this most
graceful and luxuriant of vines. In the
streets of New York there are fewer shade
trees than are to be seen in Boston, and
hence there is more urgent need OF vine
planting; but the residents here have been
slow to appreciate the necessity for screen
ing and decorating their brown stone fronts.
New York streets have bare and cold as
pect. Ivy planting on large scale is need
I'd in order to improve and beautify the
nassivelv built residences. - New York
Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29

lied IN 1885 Charles Eangheiner was sEIn
alive. But that is nnt.au the tala- When
the novelist saw the German thtef he was
serving secand term ct Imprisonment in
the penitentfary. After that he served
Twelve more. OK fourteen in all, ia she same
institution once saw him IN the quarter
sessions after he had been sentenced to a
brief imprisonment In the county prison
With tears pouring down his cheeks hs
begged to be sent back TO the penitentiary,
even If his time was doubled. His request
- granted
with Langheimer stealing was a disease
Mr.. Vaux tells me that at one time he
could have trusted him to carry a thousand
dollars In gold to bank, but upon his re-
turn, If he saw a doorway open he could
not resist the temptation to enter It and
pick up the first thing he could Law hands
on. After his last Imprisonment his
daughter, who Is married to very respect
able man, refused 60 have anything more
to do with him. He was then 50 years Of
age, and without penny. He was given
an order OF entrance to the slmshouse.
With this in his hand be entered Mr..
Vaux's Office and said: ''See what have
come to. Please don't let me go to the
almshopse. Send nae out to the prison. It
Is the only good home I ever had Please
send me back there"
II Dickens could have heard those words
Iwonder what he would have said.
Charley" said Mr. Vaux, II don't know
whether or not the warden can take you in.
and then, too, you are dreadful nuisance
But if you viii promise to behave Yourself
you can go out TO the prison and ask the
warden if he can find room for you"
He presented himself aud made his re-
quest and pleaded earnestly that it might
be granted. Finally the good hearted
warden said: 'eWell, If you behave your
self ! guess we can find room for You and
enough for you to eat" The old man act
ually leaped for joy and tore his alrnshouse
pass into bits, which Mr.. Cassidy, the
warden, aftsrward collected and pasted to
gether, and the card Is now one Of the curl
osities of the big building The next time
Mr.. Vaux visited the prison he met Lang
heimer, who began one Of his customary
complaints - similar, probably, TO that
which deceived Dickens-this time the trou-
BILE being of an alleged rheumatic character.
Mr.. Vaux loosely seized him by the shout
ders and shook him until he screamed.
The next time they met, the old man said,
laughingfy: "Mr. Vaux, shake all the
rheumatism cut Of mer' But in few
days the pains Of old age, whose meaning
he did not understand, returned with re-
newed violence, and he sent for the ward
en-. When Mr.. Cassidysaw him in his cell
he knew that poor LanshoimeTs time bad
como, and two hours later he quietly
bresthed his last in the prison in which he
had spent the greater part of prolonged
life. Solitary confinement had permitted
him to die of old age-Philadelphia In
nuirer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
AN Ahesrd for s.. Paul.

National Educational association meets
this year at St. Paul. MINI, July to 1,
the cool belt; just the place for summer
vacation.
You can buy round trip ticket via
Santa Fe route 10 st. Paul. July /, 10 :. at
one lowest first-class fare, plus s. member
ship fee, with final limit September 50.
Rate is low, limit long. occasion interest
ing
The Santa Fe gives choice OF routes east
Of Kansas City, and will arrange TO run
through sleepers or chair cars via official"
Burlington route, selected by Kansas
committee OF transportation, or by any
other regular line between Kansas City
and st. Paul designated by parties order
ing such cars
For information about special parties of
teachers, and details of rates, train service,
etc, call on w. ID. MURDOCH, agent Santa
Fe route, or address G.. 4. Nicholson, gen
eral passenger and ticket agent, Topeka,
Kan % IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
One Hundred Yards Dash.

The fastest running thus far done by any
amateur for 100 yards from a standstill is
ton seconds, and if one may believe the
best authorities in the way Of sporting
journals, amateur runners have been com
ing up to this limit occasionally ever since
1868, but not one has passed it. In that
twenty-odd years some eight American
amateurs and an equal number of English
men have dashed down the track in the
even time of ten seconds. while hundreds
have run tbs course in the next fraction Of
a second This record was made first in
London in 1858, and last in Detroit in 1859.
Walter Camp, in Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
DIVINE for PearIa.

Diving here is exceedingly prinitive; all
the necessary paraphernalia are loop of
rope and a Stone to go down with, curious
horn thing 20 hold the nosa. and oil for the
orifce Of the ears. Once merchant
brought with him diving apparatus, but
the divers were highly indignant, and,
leaguing against him, refused TO show the
best banks. In this way the fisheries suffer,
for the best pearls arc in the deeper waters,
which can only be visited late in the season.
The divers are mostly negro slaves frem
Africa; thsy do not i've long, poor crea-
lures, developing awful sores and weak
eyes, and they live and die entirely without
medical aid.-BahFein Cor. Cornhill Maya
zine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
The Excelsior Springs. Mo-, Waters
Are sold only in bottles-never in bulk.
- W fri Sun-tf
Ottawa Caautsnoua

The twelfth annual session of Ottawa
Chautauqua Assembly viii be held at For
est Park. Ottawa, Kansas, June Il 20 2,
inclusive The Santa Fe Route makes an
open rate from this town on that occasion
OF one fare for round trip Tickets on sale
June 10 10 q, good TO return June .,
Grand Army Day June -, is the great day
Of the Assembly. ES-President Hayes,
Gen. Alger, Hon VIM. Warner, Gov. Hum
phrey, Hon. Ira f. Collins and Hon. Geo.
I. Anthony, have promised 10 deliver adj
dresses. Lectures will be given on other
days by Rev. +. w. Gunssulus, D. ID. and
Rev. Geo. {. I.orimer, of Chicago. Col
Geo. W. Balm, of Kentucky, Prof. W. ID.
McClintock and DR.. Price
Inquire OF local agent, Santa Fe Route
for further particulars regarding train ser
vice, etc. Yours truly,
l424t GEO. I. NICHOLSON.
Il. p. * I. 4.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
A Delicate Bepast.

That sprightly Rocktand skipper, Capt
Otis Ingrahsm, of the steamer Penobscot,
displays piece Of white cloth about the
size of q pocket handkerchief, with curl
ously trsyed edges, which Is ali that is left
of a very elaborate night robe. The gar
ment was present to the captain, but
while hanging on the line ct his home in
Rockland it was appropriated by goat
belonging to his son. AS the goats regu-
lar diet is tomato cans and hoop skirts, he
regarded an embroidered night shirt as q
real delicacy and OF course didn't leave
much on the plate.-Lewiston Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
BEECHHM'S PILLS /
Cure SICK HEADACHE. |
as Cents a Box.
OBJ ALL DRUGGISTS.
A Giant Ro,yIdcr.

But IL In in the region to the east and
west Of the line Of the Thames river. and
which 70 has been suggested may have been
the axis of the ancient glacier, and not
very far removed from this line, that bowl
ders of extraordinary size occur most nu-
merously; and among them is a rock which
until very recently has been regarded as
one of the largest, IL not the very largest,
bowlder that has thuzfar been recognized
IN this or any other country This rock
Of coarse crystalline GRANTEES situated in
the town Of Montville, New London coun-
ty, about ak miles south of Norwich, and
about mile west Of the Montvlle station
on the New London and Northern railroad;
and, under the Indian name Of ''Sheegan,"
has almost from the first settlement of the
country been recognized as q great natural
curiosity
Its position is on the edge OF gentle
mound or knoll, on the northwest slope Of
a little valley; and its dimensions, accord
ing to recent measurements By Professor
Crosby, Of the Boston Society Of Natural
History, are as follows: Northwest side,
46 feet; northeast, IS; southeast, IS; south
west, 20. Maximum height, reckoning
from the lower or down hill side to the
highest point on the upper side, approx
mately, GO feet; approximate cubic con-
tents, 7o0O feet; approximate weight
about 5000 tons. The cavity or recess be-
meath the rock, which II said TO have been
occupied, at the time of the first settlement
of the country, by . Michigan Indian (fron
whom the rock undoubtedly derived its
name} as q dwelling plsee, is sufficiently
cap2cious To admit of h<sssxxy usad as n ula>a
of shelter for the sleds and other farm I'M
plements Of the farmer proprietor. A rude
ladder on the southern side of the rock az
fords facilities for reaching its top and OBJ
tanning somewhat extensive view Of the
surrounding country - Hon David A
Wells in Popular Science Monthly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
~DlcKENS' DUTCHmAN."
Hardly the Abused Creature the Novelist
Painted Him.

Hardly the Abused Creature the Novelist
Painted Him.
II Is rather q trite subject TO refer to the
prisoner whom the great novelist made IA
nous by bis pity, and who afterward BE-
csrae known as Dickens Dutchman," and
vet there are features of the marvellous
manner in which be gave the lie to the
story OF Boz" which Richard Vsux told
me, of which he is part, which may not
be generally kno@n The reminder that
this man, Charles Langheimer, was one Of
the prisoners with whom Dickens con-
veuscd, OF whose condition be drew such
naournfuI picture, is scarcely necessary.
He compared the little garden leading into
the ulain cell to grave.
"a more detected hesrt broken, wretched
creature If would 10 difacuh % imagine. /
never saw suoh a picture Of foriorn Addiction
and distress Of mind, wrote Dickens, and
later on he added; Il never Jaw or heard OF
auy kind of uiseryfhat Impressed me more
than the wrctche3nezsof this man What
a spectacle This peuv creatGre being
driven into his grave by the heAxtles regu-
esrions Of the System, 81 SOLITARY conflne-
rDAnss TA.s s-.aza txx1 Las s6@a nnkans
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29

"FlOurs, " whose name was Imperial, gave
a luncheon to her subjects. When all
were seated at the banquet table some OF
the low grades became envious of the
queens charms and popularity and cried
out I'VE are as good as Imperial" The
royal court messenger, Prince Tally-Ho,
arrived at that moment in his coach and
proclaimed the verdict of the people: I'm
perial is supreme Long live Imperial y
Then the low bread rebels made rye faces
and said Our cake is dough; we knead nc
more. Long live Imperial. Is If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
Curiosity in Pnp<r.

George West, OF BallsSoE- il IN possession
Of curiosity in paper, sent him by friend
in Hong Kong. China 1t Is a sheet IL by
IA inches, made from the web Of the sacred
white spider" OF the Plowery Kingdom. Ii
"a as light SIS air andalInost as transparent,
but Is also beautifully printed, containing
about two columns Of matter. giving II
English the story OF how 'aE!dshPmaE
Copplestone Was Presented at the Court Of
Pefdn-" americans know much about ps-
Per making, but il Is safe to say that there
Is not spider web paper factory outside
the almond eyed kingdom Philadelphia
Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Meeting at st. Paul. Mimi, July to IL. 1so

Meeting at st. Paul. Mimi, July to IL. $780,
TIE Rock Island, having been designa-
ted as one Of the official routes for teachers
contemplating trip to St. Paul to attend
the annual meeting Of the National Educa-
tional association, to be held at -. Paul,
Mimi. July 4th to 18th, inclusive 1890
will run special vestibuled trains OF ele-
CANT Chair Cars, Pullman sIeepers and
Dining Cars from st. Joseph and Kansas
City through without change. This. in
addition TO the two regular scheduled
trains that run daily to st. Paul from Kan
sas and Missouri river points Of frst-cIass
Coaches Chair Cars, Pullman Sleepers and
DiningCars.
July to Z.
The rate will be one lowest first-class
fare the round trip (half fare each way
plus s. for membership fee, the return
limit extending TO Septem Der 30, 1890, tick
cts being good for return at any time 70
that date after July IL Stop over pTfvll-
eyes viii be allowed returning at any time
or place on the Rock Island and Albert
Lea route.
Further arrangements have also been
effected for low excursion rates from -.
Paul 10 all points OF interest 20 tourists
and pleasure seekers, and especially 70
Fort Smelling, Minnehaha Falls, Falls Of
st Anthony, Lake AlnnetOnka, " bite
Bear Lake. lake Osakis. Geneva Beach
and Alexander, through the Park Region
Of Minnesota" About 81 lakes are 20
Gated within ninety miles Of -. Paul and
Minneapolis, all pleasant resorts, with
good facilities for boating and fsking}.
Also To Duluth and Ashland, or for those
who desire it, a complete tour Of Yellow
stone Park. or the Canadian National Park
at Banff.
Returning via the lake-The Rock Island
has also arranged that the passengers can
return via the lakes from Duluth 10 chi
cago on payment Of SIS (which includes
meals and ber1hsi. aTording them the op-
porrunity Of seeing tie great copper re-
gion. the ports of Houghton and Hancock,
the city Of Marquette with lis IToo ore
docks. the Pictured Rocks, the straits Of
Nackinaw, where the largest ship locks In
the world are now ia course % coGfstTIl
ton, the historical and picturesque Mack
mac islands. the Snow Islands, aud thence
via Lake Michigan 70 Chicago, from which
r,oiut tickets viii be good via the Rock
Island, passing through the cities q Otta-
wa La sale. Moline and Rock Island.
where the government arsenal ~ located,
thence through Davenport 20 Missouri
river or Interior western destination.
ANY further information n regard q
rates. time Of trains reservation III sleep
ing cars. etc. viii - cbeerfullg given 10
on application 10 any Of tie agents Of The
Rock Island OF AZ city ticket Office. 100 r.
Douglas avenue. corner Man stree, "lcs-
tia > r Doa D
A e. T. & z. A, Topeka. Kan
JEo SEAsTIABy.
oIsss q. 7. s. P. Il, Chicago, IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29
III. Hsarie., At.rastien.

Master Robert tells Us Of the glories o.
his pspa's new house. There is beau
tful large entrance. with carved stone
windows, and on the top Of the house
there is splendid cupcla-
You don't say soy
Yes; and that's not all Something
else Is going TO be put O., l know, bss
cause / heard papa whisper to mamma
that he sntsaded to have a mortgage on
the house s-hsndsa Es.Ess.