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called to mind some cases of so called
kleptomania. of W hich he had read and
heard, he concluded that this must be
an instance akin to that disease, which
certain persons arc afflicted with, and
which Webster defines to b. "a morbid
and Irresistible impulse or desire to
STEAL
But my client was himself an indus
trious, honest young man, who was not
overburdened with capital; and he could
i'll afford to thus lose his goods. or per-
NIT this style of genteel robbery to go
on unchecked. So he said to his book
keeper:
"Mr. Quill, draw of the 'Thief's Ac-
count and give me fair copy of it."
"What part, sir?"
"rhe whole
When the clerk handed it to him, he
asked:
''How much does it figure up%'
Rising two hundred dollars, SIR
''Is the last item charged-the lace
collar?"
Eyes, sir; ten dollars"
"All right l am going up town,
Quill If any one calls for me, person
ally, say I shall be back in an hour"
And, putting on his hat and overcoat,
he disappeared.
My client had never called at the
house to which he was now destined,
but he had slight acquain lance with
the gentleman who resided there.
Mounting the stone steps, he rang
gently, and was admitted.
us Mr.. o. at homer
Eyes, sir" said the servant, showing
the merchant at once into the parlor,
where, after shaking hands with the
gentleman of the house, he was just
about to open up his business with him,
when he heard light football, and i'm
mediately his wife entered the apart
ment, to accompany her husband down
to dinner-where she was evidently as
tonished to meet the dry goods dealer,
who as quickly observed that tho lady
he remembered had upon her neck his
missing ten-dollar lace collar!
MY wife, SIR" said the gentleman,
presenting her to my client, who said:
"Yes, sir-1 have met the lady be-
fore.' Then to her he added: ''How do
you like your new collar, MADAME"
''rhe what, sir?" she replied, ooolly.
'Your new lace collar. madam. 1t is
very becoming, certainly"
''This?" she said.
eyes, madam"
''Oh, it's not very new, though"
mo? 1t is not new pattern, but it
is very pretty. have few more like
1t, and that is the first one that left my
store, out of late New York invoice"
''Your store, sir?' she asked"
Eyes, madam. That collar was upon
my counter three days ago, am GER
tain"
II think not, sir!" ..--~. ...-~-.
II am sure of it, madam. It was
takon away and without being paid for,
too" ~, s.. ..< - -
"What do you mean, sir?'' said tho
lady, height:ning little in color, and
growing not q. little indignant at my
clients GOODNESS and seeming effrontery.
+ 1"Just what Ihave said, madam. That
lace collar on your neck was taken from
my counter on the day and hour you
were in my store, on Tuesday last I
repeat that it has not been paid for; and
1t is not the first article l have missed,
in q similar way. in the past year. !, l
know of what l speak. can prove in .
court OF justice what I have now a.
legged here. and I have brought my
bill here TO. settlement" concluded
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Found Guilty Of Murd,r.

Nicholas Kill was convicted in St.
Paul of murder in the first degree for
killing Jacob Kohn in 1887. Kohn gave
Kill employment out CT charity and
Kill requited it by chopping of his en-
ployer's head and walking of in his
boots On plea of insanity he was
sent to the Rochester Asylum, but after
two years. confinement was discharged.
His rearrest quickly followed, and after
stubborn defense on the ground of in.
sanity he was convicted.
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The News Of the Week.
By TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM: .WAshlNGIoN.

FnO" VtAS0INo JONs
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain in store on the Gath was:
Wheat, 24,ls3,8l9 bushels; corn. 4.32s.
$50 bushels; oats, g. $50, 2S6 bushels
HE National lighthouse board esti'
matcs In its annual report that 81. $780,
600 will be necessary for the erection OF
new lighthouses and new lights for
next year, and that s9,50o,0o0 will be
required for tho pay Of persons in the
service. There are now in operation
1888 stations.
IT has been decided by the United
States Supreme Court that the New
York law for the execution of criminals
by electricity is constitutional.
In his annual report Comptroller
Lacey shows that there we're in the
country 1867 National banks with a
combined capital stock of $3.50. 7s2, 6e5.
During the fiscal year 3O7 new banks
were organized, fifty went into volun-
tary liquidation, and nine were placed
in the hands OF receivers
In his annual report John w. Mason,
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, says the receipts from internal
revenue during the last fiscal year
amounted to sl4:, 594, 696. lie estimated
the receipts for the current fiscal year
at Sl45, 600. O0o. =
THE merchandise exports from the
United States during the twelve months
en- ded October 81 last aggregated $780,.
CTS, $40 and the imports ST., $685. 3333
making the excess of exports over i'm
ports, $43, 35l, 107. This shows an in.
crease over the same period in 1889 OF
exports, So, $50; imports, s5l,2s1,.
1872. and in the excess of all exports over
imports of $lo,s16,177.
In October 4s, 207 immigrants came to
this country, against SO, o51 in October,
1883. Germany supplied l0,l19; En-
gland and Wales, gill; Ireland, 4,677;
Italy, G,599; Sweden and Norway, 4O52;
Hungary, 2,512, and Poland, 1885.
THE superintendent of the census,
Robert =. Porter, presented a state.
ment to tho Secretary OF the Interior
giving the population of the several
States and Territories of the United
States as finally determined at 62,G22,.
$50. 49,, -
In the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
tho 2sth numbered 24o,, against ~
tho preceding week and 249 the CORE
spending week last year.
OFFICERS of the Brazilian squadron
visiting in Washington were given re-
ception by President Harrison, and they
presented the President with a one.
pound gold medal sent as a token oil
friendship and good will from the Pres.
ident Of the Republic of Brazil to the
President Of the United States of Amer
lea.
POsTMAsTER- GENERAL WANAMAKEu
in his annual report recommends :
postal telegraph service and system
of postal savings banks. The revenue
Of the department for the fiscal yea1
was s61,S5S, 7s3 and the expenditures
were S66. G45 6s3. leaving deficiency Of
s.. 7s6. 300. Nearly 5000 new post
offices were established, the total mum
Der in the country being &c. 01.
In the United States the militia force
aggregates 109, ~? men, as shown by ar
official report by Captain D. NJ. Taylor
in charge OF this branch of the service
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IT is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Minncsota's Oleomargarine Law Decitlrd
= to He Invalid. * =

',saAssSooS0.S In W. O0Cl(A14I
to lie Invalid. e
The validity of the State olcomar-
garine law came up before Judge Il. E.
Nelson. OF the United States Circuit
Court at St Paul, on the hearing upon
the writ Of hateas corpus OF G. e.
Gooch, who was arrested a: White
Bear for selling an original package
Of the so:called bogus butter. which was
tic property Of Armour & Co. of Chi.
cago, shipped by them to St Paul and
sold by Mr.. Gooch, who was their
agent there, to certain wholesale deal
ers. The court decided in favor of the
original package and ordered Mr.. Gooch
discharged, Judge Nelson said:
Mr.. Gooch was arrested and held in custody
for doing an act which he was lawful y entitled
to do under the commercial clause Of the con.
;stitutfon Of the United States; md this State
law, so far as 1t prohibited the sale Of oleo-
margarine in original packages by the importer
in Minnesota, must be held unconstitutional
and void and the petitioner discharged.
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Hoods
Sarsa pariIIa

Sold By all druggists. 81; six for s. Prepared only
b. C. =. HOOD CO.. Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass.
lnn Doses One 00llaP
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THIRTEEN
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LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. NV.
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A BALANCED ACCOUNT.
The Thiefs Bill Was Settled with
a Neat Check.

The following veritable case OF KEEP
aomania came under my observation a
few years since, the principal actor in
which was the wife of respectable cit
izen, who resided in a fashionable
quarter of one of our Atlantic cities,
says an ex-attorney in the New York
Weekly.
A shrewd and thrifty young client of
mine, who kept a flno establishment
upon one of the principal dry-9oods
thoroughfares OF. the town. retailed
laces and similar ladies' furnishing MAJ
terials, and had a well-selected stock,
which attracted continual run of good.
ly customers.
From time to time he missed trifling
articles from the counters, but could
not account for their mysterious disap-
pearance.
He directed his book-keeper to open a
fictitious account in his ledger, to which
he gave the title of ''Thiers Accom- !"
to the debit side of which were charged
all articles that were missed-and
which were invariably stolen by some
person or persons who visited the store.
So the ''rhief's Account" was regular
~ kept up for nearly year, and a very
considerable number of items found
their way to the debtor side of it, the
aggregate value of which had reached
upwards of two hundred dollars, at the
close Of the first twelve months of my
clients business.
But, as yet, no clew had been had to
the actual cause Of this Improbable leak,
and for long time-despite the most
careful watching of strangers-the &C.
count remained open, and increasing,
upon the young merchants books
One day there entered the store a
well-dressed, ladY-like person, whom
the store-keeper knew by name, for she
had been there before-who bought
some triaing articles-and while
waiting for the parcel to be made up,
the merchant-who stood a short dis
lance from her-observed a small but
valuable lace collar slipped from the
counter, where there were several paper
boxes OF goods open; and though he
was greatly astonished and could
scarcely credit it, yet he was satisfied
that this lady had drawn that collar in
to her capacious mutt!
1t had disappeared. at all events. It
might have been accidental-it soas so.
he ut first believed; for surely, that
nioely-attired lady, whom he knew
moved in good society. and who was
supplied generously with pin-morey by
her highly respected and liberal hus-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23

with making the lives OF the RUSSIAN
Jews miserable. The story of Nino de
la Gu rdia, whose pretended death ut the
hands OF the Jews, gave preteXt for the
cruelties which dishgured tine otherwise
glorious reign of Ferddaud and
Isabella, has had its counterpart within
recent years among the iguorent peas
antry OF southern Russia, many of
whom actually believe that the Jews
steal Christian children to be sacrificed in
secret rites. Indeed, so strong Is this
feeling that in some of the villages of
southern Russia children fly in terror if
they see Jew approaching and the
superstition is fostered by persons in
authority who know very we'll its uttsS
ahsuriity. The alleged disappearance
OF child in The district of Samara gave
pretext for one of the worst
anti-Je wish outbreaks that has blotted
the reign of the present Gar. 1t
was reported that the little one he'd Teen
spirited away by Jews, who offered it up
in sacrifice in mockery of the Saviour, and
the story grew in horror and gained in
detail as it flew from mouth to mouth
throughout wide circle of villages. The
peasantry rushed upon the Jews, MUIR
dered many of them, destroyed their
uIONo tuO-6 WHOM t0ey
spared from the neghborhood. The ex-
element did not abate even when the
body of the missing child was found in
the woods, whittier it had wandered aud
where it had evidently persisted from sx-
posure.
THE MADDENED PEASANTS
then concluded that the child sacrificed
was some other babe that had been
brought from distance and they con-
tinued their pitiless aud senseless crusade
until the authorities, who had passiyely
ncquiesced in. if not openly encouraged,
the outbreak, became alarmed at its eX-
tent, and apprehensive that it might
spread into much greater confiagra-
ton, took steps TO suppress it.
The worst feature of the Jewish perse-
cution is that even exile is not perm lifted
TO Its victims. If they succeed in emil
grating it is by stealth, for Russia is not
willing that they should bear to any
other countries the story of Russian
atrocity and oppression. As DR.. Adler
has aptly said, the Russian likes to in
dulge in brutality, but he does not like
other people to think or know he is
brutal. Hence the official deniais of the
cruel and inhuman system of persecution
which is grinding 5 900, 600 of people 70
extinction in the land of their nativity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23

Win mans friendship by telling him
to-day that he is the smartest one in his
family and you will have to tell him to-
morrow that he is the smartest man in
town and the next day that he is the
smsrtest man in the state Atchison
Globe.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23
DIR. Koch q Secref.

The news comes from Berlin ,tltGt DR..
Koch refuses ste tell the, sses9t of the
composition of h3sino eHtaf fluid for
the cure OF consu ne announces
ment, however, terrors for the
people in this couuA1 they have with
them the Aztec Ire which con-
sumptio disaR6 rs ,aud bich is an un-
falling rems for all monary and
lung diseaskand any one at is in any
way affe9t1d with lung disease can receive
tins toufc by calling at the company
office, sos Rusk street, Fort Worth Tex.
AZTEC MEDICINE COMPANY.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-23
Another Cure for Inflammation.

LAKE CITY, FLA.
P. P. P. Manufacturing Co., Savannah. Ga:
GENTLEMEN--l had rheumatism for
over six years. and last May was taken
down and eQnfined to my bed. NJ legs
and feet wNe badly Eollen and the
color of red1Rple. a16 was in fear
full condition. heHfd of P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash. PoExHbot and Potassinm)
and after seeing - the ingredients
were-as the form ia N4A. the bottle-I
concluded to ,ry*it, afaAfter taking
three small bottl was able ago down
town and atten4to my busins1s, aud 1
must say that feel like another man.
Am now takiHF the large size, and to-
dag beliey4 shat will soon lie as likely
as any man Of sixty-one years of age can
expect to be. A. C. LANG.
For sale by L. M. Whitsitt s. Co.
They were not counted. Mrs. Lnrkiu
Quoting the old adage): cone half the
world doesn t know how the other half
lives. Larkin: every true: and Com
missioner Porter's enumerators do not
know that they live at all. ~ New York
Sun.
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WORK BEFORE THE HOUSE
The Republicans Trying to Arrange an
Order of Business.

The Republicans Trying to Arrange an
Order OF Business.
WASHINGTON. April 29.-For the third
time in ten days the republican representa-
tives were in caucus tonight TO consider the
arrangements of the order Of business before
the House. The principal subject of discus
sion was the McComas bill to regulate in
part the time and manner of holding elec-
tions for representatives, commonly known
as the anti-gerrymandering bill.
Mr.. McComas opened the proceedings by
explaining the provisions of his bill, and
made a constitutional argument to justify
the proposed action by congress, finding a
warrant for it under the clause comforting
upon congress power to prescribe the time,
place and manner of holding elections for
representatives. He referred to the action
of the Maryland and Ohio legislatures as
indicative of the need for immediate action
upon the subject.
LODGE STANDS BY M'CoMAs.
Representative Lodge of Massachu-
setts indorsed all that Mr.. McComas had
done.
Representative Kelly of Ohio opposed the
bill.
Mr.. Frank of Missouri opposed the bill
because, in his opinion, it was exercise of a
constitutional power for the first time
AcA PhA Wy Put pOocos elild COulQ nOb DC
justified. 1t was retroactive and would be
invidious and unpopular. 1t transferred to
the national congress an odious species of
gerrymandering which now and then the
states resorted to without effecting any
purpose. In Missouri, which was rapidly
growing to be republican state. it would
tie the hands of the Republican party for
ten years and permit congressional rule to
remain with the democrats for that length
of time. The debate ran along for fully
two hours. Several members, like Mr..
Frank, feared that the bill would, if
passed, prove to be two-edged
sword and might cut as heavily into the
republican strongholds as into the demo-
cratic camps. Although it was apparent
without the taking of test vote that the
bill had great strength in caucus, it was
finally postponed in order to afford an OPP
portunity to discuss the subject of service
pension bill.
This came upon proposition by Messrs.
Boothman, Cheadle, and others to amend
the Morrill, service pension as passed upon
by the last caucus so as to reduce the age
limitation from 62 to Sc years. There was
long discussion over this amendment,
and it was midnight when the ceucus ad-
journed, having compromised upon an
amendment which will reduce the age limi-
tation to 60 years.
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out waiting for particulars, which they OBJ

out waiting for particulars, which they OBJ
tanned later.
Kemmler was not informed of the new
turn of his affairs until o'clock, when a
notary appeared with paper creating Mr..
Sherman his counsel kemmler signed the
papers readily, but manifested no feeling
other than that he was somewhat proud of
his ability to read and write. When War
den Durston was at some pains to explain
minutely to Kemmler that he had been
given a new lease of life, he merely eiacu-
lated 60" just as if the real facts were
beginning to dawn upon him, ''that makes
me feel much easier"
FUTURE OF THE CASE.
The future of the case will be one of long
protracted litigation. Mr. Sherman will
not say who retained him. He said at the
station while boarding his train for Syra-
cuse that he was Kemmler's counsel. and
that was all, except that the writ obtained
was operative. He said this grimly and
there was something in his look that made
the listener feel that Mr.. Sherman was in
for determined fight, and that he knew it.
The court OF appeals of this state passed
upon the law and decided favorably upon 1t
merely as it effects the constitution Of New
York Now the entire question Ia thrown
into the courts of the United States and the
question of the federal constitution is in
volved. Tbs act of congress of 1878 under
which the application is brought has already
been construed by the United States
supreme court. 1t was intended to cover
cases when violations Of the election
laws in the south were alleged.
The supreme court in passing upon
a case wherein it claimed that the eighth
provision of the constitution applied to
state laws. imposing certain punishments,
decided that the provision applied to ma
tional and not to state law violations. A
number of leading attorneys here quickly
declared to-day that the application will
not be successful as it is clearly within the
limits of the decision referred to.
CLAIM OF THE APPLICATION.
UTICA, N. Y. April 29.-The application
for habeas corpus for Kemmler set up the
claim that the state law providing for the
execution of criminals by electricity is in
conflict with the constitution of the United
States, in that the punishment imposed
thereby is cruel and unusual, and in that
thereby the said state abridges the privileges
and immunities of him, the said Kemmler,
to be exempt from cruel and unusual pun
ishment for crime. Also, that the sem
tence that he be executed some
day within the current week, leaving the
warden of the prison TO set the exact time is
unlawful in this, that the judicial function
of fixing the time of his death is thereby
taken from the court and delegated to an
executive officer, or some uncertain substi-
tute upon undehned and unaccountable
cause,
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TIMBER DEPRBDATIoNs.
Congressman Told How Government
Lands are Despoiled.

Congressman Told How Government
Lands are Despoiled.
MOBILE, April 29.-The congressional
committee investigating the timber cases
resumed its labors this morning. Ex-United
States District Attorney Burnett testified
that in cases of complaint of depreciation
upon government lands he selected what he
thought was the best cases, and never ap-
proved a complaint unless the complainant
made out that he had personal knowledge
OF the depredations He did not attend
every case that was before the commission.
United States Marshal B. w. Walker was
then called and examined as to depreda-
tions on government lands. He said in the
middle district the government lands have
been well nigh stripped of all timber.
HOW 1T IS DONE.
The method is about as follows: A mill
company located in Florida will make a
contract with some man to furnish them
with so many thousand feet of lumber.
The contractor secures lot of hands and
sends them up the rivers, where they cut
timber indiscriminately; first getting some
sort Of claim by tax sale or otherwise to a
lot of railroad lands. Tee contractor en-
ployes ignorant laborers who do not know
government lands from any other and who
don't care much, and this is the class of
peoole who are arrested for these depreda-
tions.
WORKING THE HOMESTEAD LAWS
District Attorney Nichersham related
numerous instances where homesteads were
entered for no other purpose than to de-
spoil the land of timber He cited q case
where thirteen employees of man had each
entered a homestead of 100 acres contigu-
GUS to the mill site, never had occupied the
lands and were ignorant as to their location
while their employer was all the time cut
ting timber from them. The committee left
to-nght for MONTGOMERY.
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LUMBER PILING UP.
The Strike of Chicago's Carpenters
Gluts That Market.

The Strike of Chicago's Carpenters
Gluts That Market.
CHICAGO. April 29-The carpenters'
strike has seriously affected the lumber in
terests at this port. Lumber vessels have
been lying at the lumber market from four
to five days, there being no sale at
any price, buyers taking advantage of
the strike to hammer the price down.
At present there are some 100000 feet of
lumber on the market. The stocks on hand
in the yards show an increase of IL, 900, 900
feet of hardwood lumber over that of last
year at this time, and a decrease of
100000 feet of pine. Shippers and
buyers had laid out for year
of unusual activity unlesss some
thing unforeseen happened, and it has
happened. At the opening of the season
there was an increased demand for all
grades of lumber for house building. At
all points along the lakes large piles OF Iun-
Der lie ready for shipment. Freights are
fair, and it is expected that several large
demurrage bills win have to be paid. M
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RED RIVER RAMPANT.

Several Houses Swept Away and Oc-
cupants of Others Driven Out.
New ORLEANS, April 29.-The Times
Democrats Paris Tex, special says: "Re-
ports from Red River are to the effect that
it is higher than it has been for forty years.
There was thirty-four feet of water at Ar
thur City yesterday morning. Several
houses are reported to have been, swept
away and the occupants OF others mad TO
move out in boats. The loss cannot be es-
tinnatad now but it will be very great.