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Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26
Lions At Large In a Circus Arena.

New Circus business is always a difficult subject to deal with, but when the novelty announced takes the shape of lions, the task must perforce be difficult.
 The show presented by Mir. Dar- ling in Paris is absolutely new both in conception and detail. Hitherto all performances of the kind had been en- acted under cover of cage, but Dar- ling allows his monster cats to disport themselves and roam at large over the spacious arena of the circus.
 The authorities of Paris were at the outset unwilling 10 grant permission, but after witnessing the rehearsals were bound to admit that every neces- sary precaution had becl taken by tn management to- protect the audience f om any possible fit of fury on the part of their feline entertainers.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26
A Contrast.

Prof. Richard T. Ely, of Johns Hopkins University, says: s.F'rcm the time landed in Liverpool until l left Queenstown for America, 1 paid particular attention to street-cars, or tramways, as tho Europeans call them. In every city, without an exception, I noticed grooved rails, laid flush with the paye- ments, so that other vehicles could pass freely back and forth. Everywhere I noticed also that the payment of street-car fare entitled the payer to a seat. There is not Q sing city in the United States strong enough to compel street-car corporations to recognize these rights
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

Darling makes his lions, four in number, walk in procession, lie down at command, ride tr.cycles, and pose in positions the most trying. Mean while his big Bavarian boar hound jumps backwards and forwards over the artistic arrangements composed by the skilful tanner, who completes his triumph by harnessing three of these "Kings of Beasts" to Roman chariot, and making them rush him round the arena at gallop several times and finally carry him off in right regal fashion.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26
A Well.paid Play Writer.

All so Is of fabulous sums have been stated as Bronson Towards ip- come from " Shenandoah" but it is- generally understood to b, about twa thousand five hundred dollars a month at present. This, with from three 10 five hundred more from "-The Henri etta," and odd trifles fro m his half dozen other popular plays, ought to put heart in the aspiring American dramatist. But MT. Howard has served long and arduous apprentice ship.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26
VERMONT.

The Baldwin Refrigerator Company of Burlington has been reorganized, with a capital of $60,000
 At the annual meeting of the Wetmore & Morse Granite Company at Montpelier it was decided 10 increase the capital o the company from 0,000 to $100,000. Albert Johonnot was elected President and F. L. Eaton, Treasurer.
 Newport ice men are cutting good ice 19 to 20 inches thick. Parties from Providence, Worcester and Boston have been there to ascertain the quality and extent of the fee fields. It is said there is a fair prospect of several new ice houses being built along tue lake shore, one with capacity of 20 900 tons.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26
Foreign.

The Russian Legation at Washington de- clines to talk about the outrages at Kara The Legation is under instructions not to know anything about Mir. kennan.
 Mir. Biggar, member of the British House of Commons, is dead.
 It is estimated that the wheat yield of South Australia for the past season was 18,- 800, ,000 bushels. The crops there have been considerably affected by red dust.
 Owing to the effect of s'La Grippe" the Pope has suspended the general laws of Lem ten fast this year, and instead of penance affecting the bodies, the faithful are instruct ed to apply themselves with more zeal to works of piety and charity.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

The gardner will be busy this month in getting ready for spring work; hot beds will be yieldi' g crop of early lettuce or radishes, and are to be re- planted with lettuce or radishes, or the glass removed to frame set with dan- delions.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

At a meeting of the Portsmouth, x. IT,, City Council, the bid of Frank Jones-$l2l.- 3.5-for the LOGO shares of Portsmouth < Dover Railroad stock owned by the city was accepted.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

s'The saloon,". he solemnly drawlcd, .'is the house that Jagg built. "--lsuf. falo Courier.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

Large quantities of young salmon are said to be present in the waters of the Meduxne- keag at Houlton.
Connecticut western news., 1890-02-26

politely lifted his hat once more from the closc-cut, da k, curling locks.
 Evening came, and Mabel and Mary were much entertained by the society into which they were for the first time introduced. Hitherto they had held themselves aloof from the young people about them.
 The remembrance of their New | York circle, their winters at Washii g. ton, the years spent in London, Paris, 1 Mentone and Nice had been too fresh in their memories to admit of their &C., know lodging that they could associate even temporarily with those so far re- moved from their set.
 | But the innate love of some sort of sociality had conquered their exclu- siveness at last, or rather the hopeless ness of ever resuming their old place, I had forced them 10 yield.
 The hours ran on i'll more or less stupid games until ten o'clock, when one by one the betrothed maidens slipped away from the party to try some trick. Unobserved they were not, and it was easy to guess who hoped to be the favored one, as, after each girl passed out, some admiring | swain was sure soon to follow.
 None of the country youth dared follow stately Mary Peck, and the en- vious tongues whispered, "She'H not meet anyone; she holds her head too | high.'
 On the back door step Mary stood, half shivering with the cold night air, half with a superstitious thrill. | Slowly she wound the ball after throwing it, softly repeating the rhymes as told by Betty. For awhile the line was slack as if lying along the ground, then it became a bit more taut, and soon she was sure there was
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
THE LATEST.

THE wine dealers OF San Francisco
claim to have been defrauded of large
amounts of wine by bogus New York
| firms.
WILLIAM and Asa Morrill,, boys, were
drowned in large pond near Adams,
N. u, while fishing, by the capsizing of
their boat.
MEAD Bros flour mill North Jack
son, O., was destroyed by a boiler ex-
plosion recently and, two men were
killed and third fatally injured.
ANTON PRENDER and Joseph Laven-
dusdy were horribly burned by molten
steel which fell from pot which they
were moving in the Chicago steel works
recently.
CAPTAIN RYE, justice of the peace
and noted hunter of ireland, has been
sentenced at Cork to two months i'm
prisonment at hard labor for shooting
and wounding poacher.
THE Senate on the ed further consid.
cred the Indian Appropriation bill. The
Bankruptcy bill was before the House.
FIRE in Spokane Falls, Wash, on the
Esd caused $50, 900 damage all told. A
negro was arrested on suspicion.
THE people Of Spain are reported
greatly dissatisfied with the new Conser-
vative Cabinet and the situation is very
critical.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany has purchased the New brunswick
line thus securing connection to the
Atlantic ocean.
TIE Chicago Worlds Fair directors
and City Council conference committee
have settled their differences aud all 10
serene again.
URUGUAY officials propose to raise the
customary duties ten per cent and
make them payable in gold-the rev.
enue thus obtained to be devoted to the
redemption OF the paper money.
A TURNED switch at Sycamore, HI,
caused q collision between the Chicago
& Northwestern fast mail and q freight
train. Several persons were injured and
the passenger fireman killed.
Much activity exists in the Russian
navy. The Twelve Apostles IL war
vessel Of 5000 tons) is ready for launch
ing at Sebastopol and larger vessel,
St George the Conqueror, is being built
at the same place.
THE President on the 2Sd sent to Con-
gress the correspondence between the
United States and Great Britain with
reference TO the Behring sea seal fish,
cries The correspondence ended with
the controversy remaining in grave
shape.
CONGRESSMAN GEsT has been renom-
mated by the Republicans Of the EleV-
enth Illinois district.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26

JACK WILLIAMS, the Atlantic City life
saver. saved the life Of an eight-year-old
boy named Robert Lehman, son Of DIR.
Lehman. of Philadelphia. The boy had
got beyond his depth. Williams dashed
into the water and rescued him, while
his parents stood on the beach in ter
rible suspense.
A BOLD daylight robbery was COM
mitted at Saratoga, N. Y, recently.
About noon sneak-thieves entered the
Bliss cottage on North Broadway and
got away with SO, 600 worth Of diamonds
and jewelry. The cottage was occupied
by Mr. Morton, President of the
United States and his law partner, Mr..
Bliss, with their wives.
JOHN II. SHULTZ, the millionaire and
horse owner, who owns the Parkville
farm on the Coney Island boulevard,
New York, announces that he will
shortly sell all his trotting horses and
have his extensive farm and trotting
track cut up into building lots.
WINsLow HARMON was killed, his
wife fatally injured and his little daugh-
ter seriously hurt by being struck by
train at crossing at Wiedsport, n. Y,
the other night
THE Messrs. Bright, owners OF the
Genesee oil works, Buffalo, n. Y, have
refused to go to Chicago to testify in the
Tioga steamship disaster investigation.
They claim nothing wrong was done.
AN appalling calamity was narrowly
escaped at Niagara falls on the odd.
The excursion steamer Ellen with $50
people on board broke her machinery
and her anchor dragged, failing to catch
until the roar of the falls was heard.
The excitement for the time was terri
hla
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
Wisconsin Prohibition Ticket.

MADISON, Wis, July 24.-The Pro-
hibitionists have nominated DR.. Alex
ander, of Eau Claire, for Governor, and
it is understood that he will accept the
honor. The ticket was completed as
follows: For Lieutenant-G Governor, w.
R. Nethercutt, of Milwaukee; for Secre-
tary Of State, William johnson, of st.
Croix County; for Treasurer, Robert
Fargo, of Jefferson; for Attorney-G ener-
al, I. L. Van Keulen, of Oshkosh; for
State Superintendent, Henry Sumner.
of 0utagamie; for Railroad Commission
er, j. Q. Black, Of Richland Center and
for Insurance Commissioner, Andrew
Peterson, OF Green County.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
Horrible AccIdent.

CHICAGO, July 24.-Anton Prender and
Joseph Lavendusdy laborers at the llli-
nois Steel Company's works, last night
were swinging a huge pot containing
eight tons Of molten steel, from the fur
mace to the molding bed when. accl-
dentally, the steel pin was knocked out
Of the fastening at the bottom of the
vessel and the molten metal rushed out.
The men ran for their lives, but the
metal few all over them, burning great
holes in their flesh wherever it struck.
Prender will die.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
HAsHINGrnN NnrEs.

COLONEL TICHENOR. who was recently
appointed q member of the board of
general appraisers, has rendered the
President his resignation as Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR NOBLE
has sent note to Congress asking for
the immediate appropriation of $4,000
to buy food for starving Sisseton Indians
in South Dakota
The House Committee on Elections
has decided two more contested cases in
favor of the Republican contestants.
They were the Florida case of Goodrich
VS.. Bullock, decision in favor of Good
rich, and the West Virginia case of Nc
Ginnis VS.. Anderson, decision in favor Of
McGinnis
THE Department Of State has received
. dispatch from the American Minister
sc The Hague, stating that the Neither
lands Government has abolished the
tolls on the North sea canal.
COLONEL T. G. Morrow, editor of the
Washington Sunday Gazette, is dead.
GILBERT R. SHAW has been appointed
receiver Of the Park National Bank of
Chicago
REPRESENTATIVE CoMsTocK has intro
duced bill authorizing the Secretary
Of Agriculture to establish uniform
grades Of all kinds Of grains transport
cd from one State to another, or any
foreign country, which shall be known
IS American grades.
TIE Comptroller of the Currency has
issued call for q statement of the con-
dftion of the National banks at the
close Of business Friday, July IS.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
THE SOUTH.

HoN. JoHN P. BUCHANAN has been
nominated for Governor by the Tennes-
see Farmers Alliance.
w. S. PESDLETOS, whose matrimonial
capers have disguised people, has sent
along his resignation as mayor of Fort
Worth. Tex.
The six men convicted Of the Cross
murder at Paris Tex, have been sem
fenced to be hanged December 10.
The Constitution, Of Atlanta, Ga,
urges a boycott on Northern goods in
the event Of the Election bill passing.
GOVERNOR GORDoS. OF Georgia, favors
the proposed boycott OF Northern goods
should the Lodge Election bill become
law.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
GENERAL.

LYDIA BECKER, leader OF the woman
suffrage movement in England, died In
Geneva recently OF diphtheria.
THE efforts OF France for collective
European action against the United
States on tariff questions resulted in
failure.
THE Gar will act as arbitrator in the
dispute between France and Holland in
regard to Guiana.
A DUEL with swords was fought near
Paris recently between NJ. Menier and
George Hugo son of Victor Hugo, in
which Hugo was slightly wounded. The
trouble arose from private quarrel.
THE Argentine Republic was reported
on the verge Of revolution. Arrests
were being made.
THE proprietors Of three newspapers
in Malta have been accommodated for
printing articles abusing the Pope and
the Bishop Of Malta.
THE New Zealand Parliament is ex-
pected to vote e25, 1000 to make display
at the Chicago Worlds Fair
By the premature explosion OF shell
at Mayence, Germany, two soldiers
were killed and several injured.
PARNELL has again disappeared from
London and no one knows where to find
him.
THE reported fighting between Guate-
mala and Salvador was doubted by Qua
temalan officials at New York and Paris.
The rumor was current in London
that Premier Stambuloff of Bulgaria had
prepared proclamation of freedom for
Bulgaria, which, If issued, would COM
plicate the Eastern situation.
ITALIAN papers announce that Signor
Tamagno, the tenor, is about to retire
from the stage. He has purchased .
fine estate at Varese.
TIE Russian Ambassador at Constan-
tinople has sent another communication
to the Porte demanding payment Of the
war indemnity. The debt now amounts
to S15a $50 900. Turkey has only paid
two years installments since 1882
HAMMERFEsT, Norway, the northern
most town in Europe. has been almost
destroyed by fire. The inhabit-
ants, mostly fisherfolk, were in desti-
tute and starving condition
THE Wabash made a cut on the 22d to
s27. so from Kansas City to Boston and
return for the Grand Army Encamp-
nent
THE Armenian Bishop was among
hose killed in the disorders at Ere.
'oum. A state of anarchy prevailed.
A NUMBER OF Turkish soldiers in Crete
who were proceeding from their camp
hear well to draw water were fired up
IN from ambush by party OF Christians
md five Of the Turks were killed.
THE insubordinate second battalion
If the English grenadier guards has
,een ordered to Bermuda.
A PART Of the town OF Slonim, Russia,
las been wrecked by a hurricane. Many
,eople were buried in the ruins. Nine
cen bodies have been recovered.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
foods in the Hoang-Ho have destroyed
The embankment at Lunwanimiao.
is inundated. The Peiho is
lso rising. The waters cover the coun-
ry as far as the walls of Pekin.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
THE WEST.

EDWARD FOLK, twenty-one years old,
formerly an agent of the Boehmke Wine
Company, Cleveland, o., was arrested
on warrant issued by the firm, charg-
ing him with embezzling S47. While
the officer waiting for Folk to change
his clothing in his room he suddenly
drew a revolver and fatally shot himself
in the head.
Two hundred and fifty barrels of
naphtha illegally shipped to Chicago by
the Genesee Oil Company, of New York,
part of which caused the Tioga explo-
sion, have been seized by the Govern
ment
A PLAGUE of flies is killing off horses
and cattle in Southern Indiana.
Dr. EDWARD c. MALLEy, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, while riding horse at
Aspen, Col, was thrown and instantly
killed. Malley was one of two brothers
who were charged with the murder at
Savin Rock, near New Haven, Conn.,,
of handsome Jennie Cramer some years
ago.
A FAMILY named Kingberg were poi
soned by canned meat at Shawtown,
near Eau Claire, Wis, recently. A fatal
ending was feared for five of the chill
dren.
A COW wrecked the orthbound Monon
train near Lennox. Ind. recently. The
engineer was killed. Passengers were
unhurt
IT is definitely known that of the
eight Apache prisoners under the kid"
who murdered Sheriff Reynolds and his
deputy and escaped all save three have
been killed-the kid" and two others,
who are at large.
JAMES HENDRICKS was killed and
Henry Jolly fatally injured by walking
over fifty-foot bluff near Sample, Ind,
during dark night.
THE steamship George W. Elder and
bark Oakland went ashore off Point
Wilson, Wash.
AN English syndicate has bought up
the tin mines in San Bernardine County,
Cal, and declares that they are three
times as rich as the famous mines in
Wales
The great Excelsior geyser in the Vel
lowstone National park is in eruption
now for the first time in two years.
The water is thrown up30 feet.
IT is reported from jamestown, n. D.,
that the elevator companies will refuse
to store grain for farmers on the ground
that the elevators are not public and
are not amenable to the new tax law.
They will purchase grain outright at
their own figures.
The southwestern part Of Trail Coun-
ty, N. D., was visited by a tornado on
the night of the 22d, resulting in five
lives being lost.
AT Client, seven miles from Marshall,
Mimi, two lives were lost in a recent
storm.
THE tenement house, a Front street,
burned the other night |
There was q shocking loss OF life and
and narrow escapes
THE Illinois Board OF Agriculture OBJ
iects to the lake front site for the
Worlds Fair, because it thinks it will |
not be big enough for an adequate dis
play OF agricultural products.
THERE was serious wreck on the !
Rock Island, near Limon, Col, caused
BY the washing out OF bridge. Ten or
fifteen passengers we're more or less
hurt and the engineer was killed, being
pinned under his engine at the bottom
1f the creek.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26
Selling to EngIIshmen.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July s4.-Sterling
Edmunds. we'll known tobacco broker,
who is conducting negotiations for the
purchase of the Louisville and Cincin-
natl tobacco warehousing business and
properties, said that he had letter from
ex-Congressman Willis, who is confer
ring with the Englishmen to whom the
sale is TO be made and that 1t is prac-
tically closed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26

6EyEETEEN workmen were more or
lees severely burned or otherwise in
inred By an explosion of molten iron at
lhe works Of Cassidy & Adler, New
York.
DIR CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK
PETEns the famous astronomer. was
found dead in his bed at Clinton. n. Y,
recently. He was born in Germany,
September 10, 1918, and was graduated
IA ne University Of Berlin.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
FOOTBALL AND PRIzEFIGHTING.
The Great College Sport Is More Brutal
Than Boxing.
(fhicago Timas
Chicago Time,

Standing beside the writer among the
throng that witnessed the football contes {
between the Cornell and the Chicago Uni
versity elevens at the Congress Street
grounds last Thursday afternoon was a
scrupulously dressed man of middle age, a
graduate of Harvard, who regarded the
points of play with practical eye, I'M
affected by the excitement occasioned by
the critical conditions.
Shave you ever" said he when time
was called on the first half, "contrasted
football with prizehghting, and tried to
reason which was the more brutal? Now,
stop me if I am indulging in a threadbare
platitude, but it has just occurred to me
what storm of indignation ii would oc-
casion if those two young gentlemen who
have been trying to warm each other on
the rush line would put on set of soft
boxing gloves and go out there and settle
the grudge that seems to have been
engendered by the excitement of
the game. | think / could mention the
names of 900 persons in that grandstand
who would stampede as though a bomb was
thrown among them. The broadcast set of
rules that ever governed a boxing match do
not permit one contestant TO choke his OPP
ponent into insensibility. Supposing now,
for instance, Peter Jackson should bend his
elbow and, putting all the strength of his
body into q mad charge, bring his muscu-
lar forearm in contact with John l.. Sulli-
vans larnyx, would not every
sport at the ringside cry For
shame,' and would not the referee give
the hight to Sullivan on foul? Yet that
is merely one of the pleasantries INDUCED
in on the football held. Butting. gouging
and arm-twisting are inseparable from this
fashionable sport. Last year nineteen
young men died as the direct result of ac-
cidenfs in football contests The record
of broken limbs, heads and noses, not 10
speak of other minor casualties, would hll
a bank ledger. To offset this we have had
three deaths in the prize ring, and they
would not have happened if the men had
fought on the turf.
1.-THE admirers of football and the fol-
lower of the ring are two widely different
classes, but if popularity of prizehghting
is traceable To the brutal element of mans
nature, then the popularity of football can
boast of no nobler origin. Both derive
their character from their surroundings.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
More December Berries.
San Juan Graphic. Dec. IL.

:
II makes broad smile creep over the face OF
the average resident of Puget sound, and espcc-
cially the denizeu of San Juan county, the Arch
ipelago he Haro, while he sits around Oh these
spring like days OF December, aud reads of the
snow storms and billiards of the East, and even
reads of four feet OF snow in California, several
hundred miles south, while he plucks ripe fruit
and roses in his yard. We have received the
samples OF ripe Strawberries plucked this month,
from the vines OF q. Ii. briggs. Mrs. Carter is
still gathering blackberries by the quart from
their vines; and word just reaches us that Mr..
Edward Martin, of orcas, has Just gathered large
quantities OF black cap rasperries on his place.
The fruit tracts OF Captain g. c. Reed, l. d. Car
ter and q. b. briggs are the pride OF Friday har-
hor. and what these gentlemen have done,
Others living in the blizzard belt can come and
do likewise aud instead OF battling with the
elements to preserve life, can here enjoy some
of the comforts of Lille.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14

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