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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-04
AN HEROIC REFUSAL.
The Man Who Was Not Tempted
by a Fortune.
WILKES BOOTHS PROTECTOR.
0tery Of the Man who Knew OF the
Assssain's Hiding Place and Refused
o3oo.ooO To Betray II.
New York world.

John Wilkes Booth. with q broken
ankle. sick. and suffering the tortures Of
the damned. was placed in my hands to be
spirited across the river, and your 500. 900.
or even 81. uo00o. would not have caused
me 10 turn traitor to the Southern Confed-
eracy, the people loved. and surrender a
man whose life was in my keeping. even II
l did know he had assassinated President
Lincoln"
The speaker was Thomas A. Jones. who
was recently discharged from the Wash.
ington navy-yard through the influence of
Congressman Mutid. OF Maryland. and BY
the direct order OF the secretary of the
navy, who knew that Jones had played
prominent part in the escape Of John
Wilkes Booth.
When Jones delivered himself Of the sen-
tence quoted he was standing face 10 face
with Captain William Williams in his de
teetive office on y street The meeting be-
tween the two men occurred yesterday.
Captain Williams had Ieen four wears In
the United States secret service before fin-
coin Was assassinasesi. and Was the first
man To 90 Ia Maryland in search Of the as
sassin, and IL vas he Who offered Jones
$4,000 la tell where Booth Was secreted,
though. of course. he did not know that
Jones possessed the facts he SO much de-
sired.
Captain Williams was well acquainted
with Rooth. and on the night OF the assass-
ination, April ID. tsS. be passed
Booth standing in front OF Fors's
saseAter. and asked him % ioin him
in = glass If beer. Booth thanked
him and declined. While the captain vas
in pr. sIsgre,s's restaurant. corner Tenth
and Pennsylvania avenue. the alarm ess
SEMI ons thai the president had been shot
nj Foni's thesfss. The captain ran Ia the
shester. and there he vas ordered 10 bring
the cavalry irum the White hoase The
order Was carried out. and in few me-
msnss the CHATTER of the cavalry horses
sounded down The avenue After Captain
Williams returned 10 tfe fhsaisr Provost.
Marshal . Resrne ordered him 70 report 80
tie htrkwoed house, where the ralass
Royal nas stands. ard where Vice rFeSl-
dent Johnson Nss living, and TO guard hsnl
This the captain siSa through the hong ana
trying night. There WAS little rest fer the
vice president he paced the floor OF Ass
room. and ~aala sring his hands and say.
They shall suffer Ter this. They shall
suffer for this"
Ahons daylight Aesvalsy under command
Of Lieutenant iovess dsshssi up 10 the
front os the hotel. and General u Bessne
commanded Captain Williams 10 take the
cavalry and hunt Booth.
swhsve must gos" asked The captain
'Hew ID know e. rsrsisd sae general
Go, and aon's resmFn 10 Washington until
YOU find fssesA. hat nslnd. dznv harm .
hair on his head -
Mounting = magnificent charger the cap
tain elaases spurs. and with Come.
t>eyss the cAsslrx were s~~sa golng sf =
rAfaa sg<sss towards she Esxt%Fn hraneh
tstdge. whseh was saScxssssssay crossed by
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TWO HAPPY SISTERS.
Reunited After Years Of Sepa-
ration.
<wAN DIE SOLD AS 4 SLAVE.
Miss Ruth May Young. Christianized
Chinese Maiden. Rewarded for Her
sisterly Devotion.
San Francisco Chronicle.

Miss Florence Nightingale Morley was
appointed guardian Of Kwan Die. an IL
year-old Chinese girl, by Judge Coffey
yesterday. The guardianship was granted
at the request OF Miss Ruth May Young, q
sister of the little girl, who would have APP
piled for the guardianship herself II she
had not lacked three months Of her
majority.
Il heard that my little sister was in the
city last Thanksgiving day. said Miss
Young. but / tried in vain 10 find her.
The woman 70 whom my mother sold her
met me on the street several times and
promised faithfully that ! should see my
sister IL would not make any trouble, but
she broke her word every time, and YOU
can imagine my disappointment. Ii nearly
broke my heart. could scarcely sleep for
these three months. and have not let
moment pass without thinking Of some
plan to find my dear little sister. got
Miss Cuthbertson. Of the Presbyterian
mission, to helm me. end on Chinese New
Year the officers found my sister"
Miss Young and her sister were born In
Sacramento. and the elder sister prides
herself upon the fact that she Is free born
American. entitled to ali the rights and
privileges that are guaranteed 70 citizens OF
the great republic. When five years old
she was, By order OF the probate court.
placed under the guardianship Of Miss
Jessie s. Morley. sister of little Dies
guardian. She was taught all the branches
Of the common schools. and was alterxard
sent to an Eastern city. where she resided
in the family OF an Episcopal minister.
Here she was ehristened and changed her
Chinese name Of All Cheong for the name
she now hears The desire for iiberating
her sister from slavery haunted her. how
ever. and ut her earnest request she was
allowed to return to San Francisco, where
she accepted place ~ . domestic in
family on Vallejo street. al the time keep
ing up her search for the child.
All Gun, the woman who claimed the
girl, asked permission to see Kwan Die.
She admitted Miss Young Was the girls
SISTER, buf said she wanted to say gocd-by.
She said she wanted the Chinese consul TO
see both girls and talk with them. !.
What has be got to do with me and INV
sister, demanded Miss Young. II have
heard that be is . good man, and am
willing 70 speak with him. OF course. bat
do not recognize that be has any authority
over rs We are natives of this country and
do not yield obedience 70 the laws OF any
other land.
An interview Was arranged and all the
parties interested met ~ O'Clock yes-
terday afternoon in the pArlcrs Of the Pres
byterian Chinese Mission Home, ss3 sacra-
men 10 street.
When Miss Young met the woman All
Gan her countenance Was study. A few
rxcrnersx before she VAS chnftin~ eheev
fully talking English As Hoenfly - any
American girl of her aga. When confront
"a with the PERRIN Who pretended 70 own
her SISTER her face took on look of intense
feeling - she uttered IN impatient word Of
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-04

There il IN advertisement OF Louisville
hotel in one Of the country papers which
comes little nearer soaring away the ru-
raj rooster than any other advertise ment
he could read. As piece Of f1ummery in
the writing line Il Is also rich. rare and
simple This Is m extract.
Notwithstanding the order. precision.
and stately grace with which hospitality is
dispensed and the luxnriant and varied
food served 70 guests, The cost u
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For quite while Vanderbilt had dead
straight monopoly In his Lake Shore rail-
way. and he Was gathering In the shekels
At IN astonishing rate A few bright men.
who had little money they wanted 70
speculate with. decided to parallel tho New
York miliionaire's lines with the road after
ward known IS the Nickel Plate. These
fsr-sighted individuals selected Brice as the
man who would be best able TO make their
schemes success. He squeezed Wander
bilt until he bought the Nickel Plate at
tremendous advance. Then the specuia-
tors were tckied and they said among
themselves.
Let us give Brice . nice little present
something that viii keep this thing green
in his memory"
They did. A miniature safe was con-
structed of gold. The door hinges were
partially broken and the doors, abou,
which Was the name Vanderbilt, were wide
open. The safe was empty. Aioneside
the rified repository vas . complete set, in
miniature. OF saie-bnrglar tools, each piece
tipped With precious stone. And in front
was burglars dark lantern. with . beau
ufui ruby set where the light would lie in
real lantern The whole thing was . work
OF arr and was made up into q $50 scaif
PIN IL was given to Brice but he never
wore II II was almost too personal.
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unele sGike u A
Helvoks. fSshl -

Honest Uncle Nike Cur
this once . pleasant e..
day and INDUCED in N -
Uncle Mike says the Only
in the way OF him snd -
interference Of . little felle
Mcf'reasy and . bull pas 81
70 Chicago BY the Mans
Mike Is an old stakes
from At the proper tuna ,'
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Wssted y To- \ 31;1
Merchant TrnEe
81 say remarked IT, e.
Flashes Of Fun TO ~
did the old Romans -
fights7"
"Hum--no. l think no&
Newer 2" !
Not that | know OF.
but none OF The sporting -
notice OF it."
ssAl right" said n a
jectedly. az he crumpie9
paper and dropped il on -
goes an elegant Joke about
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Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.,
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''Looky here, miztes.
ragged. unkelnpt and disl
up TO . couple OF travelin
here; IL either OF you tWo IT.!
the sportin' line p and -
uents over his stomach - -
quiry- -
What do ron want -
man 2"
well. il either Of -
what / wants to know hsoo Y;
MY friend here s0mellnn
he can get : good onA -
want 2"
II want somebody - D
that I cant eat thirty qunN
And il won't cost him . cen
concerned nothin' but ~ ! :lg
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Youshs csnpe
Uncle Abimelech Bofnoo =
q dreadfully abused
Amanda. who soolds !
doubtless with good rsAeo
The other day Aunt A.
Of being III. and sent Ut
the doctor. The physi1
Aunt Amanda pulse
show her tongue. u
"Hml'' said the d0ctofs
"A pretty bad tongue. N
bad tongue.
Uncle Abimelech VIII
and presently managed ~ i
. little to one side. 8
Look a-here. doc1pe
whisper, THAT don't pee9
She's had the wust kln1 Il e.
since We was marriedl g
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Tickets Ia and Frcm Eurepe.
Excssson sfekets - al pcints In Europe and
England sid ~ Northern PAe4hs ticket once
No 10 ss<nus ssss%s. Hssxsna b10ek-
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recognition in the Chinese language. Al
ter listening to the woman's appeal for an
interview with the child Miss Young leaned
forward and for I'VE minutes poured forth
an impetuous reply.
Miss Chune Fab, the interpreter for the
mission. explained 10 the reporter that
Miss Young was asserting her determine
ton to keep her sister away from oil former
associates. Those are only circus tears.
said the interpreter, referring to All Guns
simulated grief as she covered under Miss
Youngs arrangement.
All Guns interpreter asked If the $i6o
which had been paid to Kwan Die mother
would he returned.
A. +. T. Morley. who was present ~ At
torney for the guardian, replied that such .
thing was not to be thought Of for an in
slant, as the American law did not recog-
nize the buying and selling Of children rs
legal
T. ID. Riordan. attorney for the man In
whose custody the child had been placed
by All Gun. and from whom she was taken,
thought the woman's request for m oppor-
tunity TO say goodbye was not unreason-
able. taking into consideration the fact
that they had been together for ten years.
Miss Young finally relcnted and gave per-
mission for the interview. provided il
should be limited TO five minutes. The
time allotted was taken up with talk be-
tween the child and the woman. frequently
interrupted by weeping.
Alb Gun confessed that she Was employed
as cook in house OF ill-repute on Forsue
alley. but said she intended to raise the girl
a. . lady. and with that object in view had
given her in care Of good man.
Miss Young said the house in which her
sister was found was house of good re-
pute. and that her Chinese guardian was
good man, but that she wished to take care
of the child herself
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
4 DISRUPTED LEGISLATURE.

Death and Sickness Making Heavy Inroao.
on the Ohio Iegislature-No ImPoreans
Legislation VIII be Attempted ZOE shs
Present.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. Ex-senator Ihom'
as Ashburn, Of the Brown-Clermont dls-
trict, died at half-past ten o'clock yes
terday of pneumonia, super1nduceo oy
''la grippe He was first taken i'll on FIJI
day, but on Tuesday went to the Senate
and voted for Mr.. Brice for United
States Senator, and on his return to his
room never left it. He was born In
1920, in Clermont County, and his WIG
is General Grants first cousin. lie was
admitted to the bar in 1915 and served
fifteen years as common pleas Judge ana
three wears on the Supreme Court bench.
This was his first term in the Leglsla-
ture. in which he was one of the aplest
members.
Senators Howells and Wallace are
both sick, and Representative Brown
has been taken home to die. Repre-
sentative Taylor, of Urbana, is down
sick, and a half dozen of his colleagues
have got leaves of absence on account
of sickness. Sickness has SO disrupted
and decimated the Legislature that no
important legislation will be enacted
until the three vacancies by death are
filled and the dozen sick members get
well or their successors appear.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
RAILROAD WRECKS.

Smaslups on the Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Memphis and the Newburgh Branch
of the Erie, Both Involving Fatalities.
MANSFIELD, Mo, Jan. IA terrible
wreck occurred on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Memphis railroad, about three
miles east of here yesterday afternoon.
The engine of the west-bound local
freight left the tract, carrying five
loaded cars with it. The engine turned
over. catching Engineer o. r. Rowland,
Fireman r. c. Herman and Brakeman
G. w. Hughey under it. Brakeman
Widdoson was caught in the wreck OF
the cars and sustained severe internal
injuries. Herman was instantly killed,
Rowland had leg broken, and Hughey
was frightfully scalded about the head
and hands The cars are total wreck.
NEwBURGH, n. Y, Jan. 1S.-A bad
wreck of a coal train occurred yesterday
afternoon at four o'clock on the New
burgh branch of the Erie railroad be-
tween Washingtonville and Blooming
Grove. From meager particulars 1T is
learned that one man was killed out
right and another seriously hurt. The
train wrecked consisted of about fifty
empty cars, and was run into by an cX-
ira going in the same direction, derail-
ing several cars and precipitating four
of them down q steep EN- bankment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING.
Five Thousand Dollars Worth of .Jewelry
Seized in New York that Did Not Pay
Duty, and the Smugglers Arrested.

Five Thousand Dollars Worth of Jewelry
Seized in New York that Did Not Pay
Duty, and the SmugSlers Arrested.
New YORK. Jan. 1S.-Captain VIM.
Rittig, of the Ward Line steamer Sara
togo, from Havana, and Isaac Lamon,
one of his passengers, were arrested yes
terday on a charge of smuggling into
this country jewelry valued at $1,000.
They were held in bail by the United
States Commissioner of examination to-
day. The jewelry was found at Cap
tain Rittig's house, and did not appear
on the ships manifest. The explana-
ton given was that Lamon asked the
Captain, when off Sandy Hook, to take
care of the jewelry while Lamon went
ashore to see his bankers and arrange
to have the valuables transferred to
some steamer bound for Amsterdam,
whittier Lamon intended going. Lamon
was to return and relieve the Captain Of
the jewels, but failed to do so. When
the ship reached port the Captain put
the package in his pocket to keep for
Lamon. Neither he nor Lamon consid-
cred this smuggling, as the goods were
not intended for the market.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| TIE Senate was not in session on the
1Sth.......In the HOu Sc bill was intro
duced locating the Worlds Fair at St
Louis. and referred to the special commit
| tee \ resolution was offered authOriz-
ling George T.. Adams, chairman of the
special Silcott committee to pay the
claims of private depositors out of the
money Withdrawn by Silcott from the
National Metropolitan Bank. A
bill to refer questions of law in re-
lation to the cases of members growing
out of the defalcation of Silcott to the
Court of Claims was introduced and re-
ferred. The House then went into COM
nittee of the whole on the Oklahoma
Town Site bill. and after long discus
sion adopted an amendment prohibiting
United States marshals, deputies or
agents from acquiring titles to lots on
Oklahoma town sites.
| Hon. FREDERICK CHASE, treasurer of
Dartmouth College, probate judge of
Grafton County, n. V, and local his
torian of note, died, on the 10Th, of in
| fuenza.
| EMPEROR WILLIAMS order against
the Kruez Zeitung and other too indie
pendent journals, not only excludes them
from the royal palaces and offices but
prohibits their circulation among the
army. or at least in the barracks.
AN abscess has appeared on the ex-
terror of Emin Pasha's skull and partial
paralysis of the tongue has interviewed.
| \ HEAVY gale prevailed in the En-
glish channel on the night of the 18th
and on the 10Th. Several casualties to
| shipping are reported.
THE Russian newspapers contain num-
| erouS articles charging Austria with OPP
pressing the Servian residents of Bos-
mia. There can hardly be doubt that
| these utterances are inspired, and their
appearance indicates that Russia is
still determined to keep the Pan Slavist
agitation alive, thus precluding any i'm
proveme Mt of her relations with Aus
tria.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium has donat-
ed sufficient sum of money to estab-
lish a sanitarium at Mona, in the Congo
country, for the benefit of African eX-
plorerS and others.
THE New York Stock Quotation Com.
pany, which has been controlled by the
Stock Exchange and would furnish quo
tations only to members of that body, on
the 18th made an agreement with the
Gold 81 Stock Telegraph Company
whereby the latter will receive the
quotations on condition that it shall not
distribute them to its customers, nom
members of the Exchange, until ten
minutes after the quotation company
has sent them out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
Marvellous Insects Are Ants.

Ants are terrible fighters. They have
very powerful jaws, considering the size
of their bodies, and therefore their
method is by biting. They will bite
one another and hold on with a wonder
full grip of the jaws. even after all their
legs have been bitten off by other ants.
Sometimes six or eight ants will be
clinging with a death grip to one an
other, making peculiar spectacle, some
with leg gone and some with half the
body gone. One singular fact is that the
grip of an ants jaw is retained even
after the body has been bitten off and
nothing but the head remains. This
knowledge is possessed by a certain
tribe of Indians in Brazil, South Amer
lea, who put the ants to very peculiar
use. When an Indian gets cash cut in
his hand, instead of having the flesh
sewed together, as the physicians do in
this country, he procures five or six
large black ants, and, holding their
heads near the cash, they bring their
jaws together in biting the flesh, and
thus pull the two sides of tne cash to-
gether. Then the Indian pinches off
the bodies Of the ants. and leaves their
heads clinging to the flesh, which is
held together until the cash is perfectly
healed.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
SAND-BAGGED,

New Jersey Man Sand-Bac ged and
Robbed Within a stones Throw of His
Own Home at Newark.
NEWARK, n. j., Jan. 1S.-New York
sand-baggers have invaded New jersey.
Dominick Libby, the well-known res
taurant keeper at No. 30 Murray street,
New York City, lives at Brick Church,
about three miles from Newark He
got off the train at six o'clock last night,
as did three men who followed close be-
hind. About $50 feet from Libbv's
house one of the men struck him on the
head with sand-bag and knocked him
against fence, two of the men held
him while the third rif1ed his pockets.
taking his watch and chain Libby
soon regained consciousness, but the
thieves escaped by taking train for
Newark. Libby says the men followed
him from New York
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
Wants Damages for Slander.

Reinhart S. Sem commenced pro-
ceedings at st. Joseph recently against
the st. Joseph Produce Exchange for
damages in the sum of $4,000. He
claims that the exchange caused cir
culars to be issued and sent out to the
trade that were of slanderous nature,
and which ruined his business as COM
mission merchant. The firms of O. A.
Sandusky & Co., F. X. Doniphan & Co.,
c. w. Douglas e Co., c. A. Buddy & Co
and Weeman & Sons are also made de-
PENDANTS to the suit, as members of the
Produce Exchange. Three weeks ago
Sem commenced suit against O. A. San
dusl1y, individually, for $50, 900 for SLAM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23

LONDON, Jan. 1S.-It has been discov-
cred that the no. ton guns carried by tho
10,600-ton man-of-war Benbow. of the
Mediterranean fleet are entirely WORTH
less for the purpose for which they were
designed. This was intimated some
time ago by Postmas er-General Raikes.
who took occasion in a speech a dav or
two ago to denounce the further ex-
penditure of money in their construc-
ton. The staten ents concerning the
guns now put forth by naval experts
confirm the assertions of Mr.. Raikes.
and have greatly depressed the enthu.
siasts who advocated their construction.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23

"A lady customer objected to the last
barrel of flour which the grocer had
brought, and after using few scoop
fuls from the top of the barrel, headed
Up and told the grocer to take it away
she should use no such -four as that
The next barrel brought was perfectly
satisfactory. Now that is something
like -four" she told the family. But
when she reached the bottom of the
barrel, she found her old fiour-scoop,
long missing, which had been headed
up in the other end The grocer had
merely brought back the same barrel
can Miller.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
The Senate Committee on Territories and
Wyoming.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Senate
committee on Territories, at it's meetine
this morning, authorized favorable re-
port on the bill for the admission of tn
State of Wyoming. No minority report
will be presented, although the vote in
favor of the bill was not unanimous. A
favorable report was ordered also on the
bill to provide temporary form of COW
eminent for Oklahoma. The bill for the
admission of Idaho was laid over until
some future day. The testimony taken
on the subject of admitting Idaho has
not been printed yet.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Two Brothers and n Sister Killed by
Train at MorrellviIle, Pa.

Train at MOrrellvllle, Pa.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, Jan. 17.-At Nor
'ellville, near this place, last night,
Edward Gallagher, aged seventeen,
Michael Gallagher, his brother, aged
fifteen, and Mrs. Kate Stockhouse, a
married sister, aged twenty-five, were
killed by the west-bound limited ex-
press on the Pennsylvania railroad.
They stepped ON side-track to allow
the accommodation to pass and were
struck by the train. The funeral of the
three victims will take place tomorrow.
The great number of persons who have
been killed on the railroad at this place
since the flood is remarkable. The ac-
cidents are accounted for by the alb
sence of the previous avenues of travel
and bridges, compelling pedestrians to
use railroad tracks and bridges in pass
ing from one part of the city to another