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BosroN, Oct 9o--Daniel II. Wilson
shot and instantly killed his wife vhilo
she was sleeping at their residence in
this city Saturday, then turned his re-
volver upon himself and fred Two shots
Into his own body. dying In few hours.
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xu,.d by = Yaillns Derrick.

CHICAGO, Dot 20.--Felix Young. q Ia
borer, was instantly killed; James Tur-
ner, laborer. badly injured and several
others badly bruised Saturday by tho
fall OF derrick at building being con-
structed at Madison street and Michigan
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Rad r,..n Ll,.r..urs and sslsla.d.

heso Fsse ~E
EEw YoRE. Oct. 2o.--Preston Turpie,
4 youth iorteen years Of age, committed
suicide last evening BY hanging himself
In his fathers house. He was an invet-
erate reader of dime novels and 1t Is
supposed that his mind had become af-
factad thereby. ff lr......rE -rfl tfff
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Miraculous Escape from Wholesale Gre
nation. lI

NEw YonK, Oct. so.-A family con-
stating OF man, his wife and seven
children, as we'll as q boarder, had mar
row escape from death by are in Jersey
City Saturday. Six Of the children
were dropped, one byone, out OF win
dow and were caught by policeman.
The others OF the party managed to es-
oane death by Almost miracle.
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nonhlr Fatnl MI.take OF oreen Hand.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 30. - Sunday
morning a collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad near the station
At Frankford. ]. Siberian, the engineer,
and Harry Fields, fireman, were IA
tally injured. Both were buried in the
debris for at least ten minutes and were
severely scalded Tho accident is said
10 be due to a green hand giving the
signal ''line clear" by mistake.
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KINGSTON, N. Y, Oct 2o.-The public
schools ct Oxford, Blooming Grove and
other villages in that section Of Orange
County have been closed. owing 70 tho
prevalence Of malignant. type OF diph-
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Johannes and his sons ran for moro than q
hundred years. The bones OF Johannes rest In
the Pluckamin ohurchyard. a few feet from the
grave. Of Leslie, n British officer whom the
American soldiers admired for his bravery and
buried with military honors after the battle Of
Princeton. Aaron Mellick and his wife, Char
lotte. occupied the farm during the revolution.
when hostile and friendly armies were tramp;
ing through New Jersey. The family furnished
several brave soldiers for the war, and among
Its archives is the muster, roll Of q volunteer
company, OF which Capt. Daniel Mellick was
commander. AT the, close, OF, the war Capt.
Mellck served on q Jury which convicted lis
brother OF Tory proclivities and conlscated his
estate to the town. During the encampment
at Morristown, the road before the old house
became military thoroughfare The sunday
after the baltic OF Princeton was spent by the
American. army at .Pluckamin. two or
three miles from the old house. All
the country people turned out then to help
the American army celebrate its victory and
TO peer curiously through the windows OF
Pluckamin church at the $50 Britshers i'm
prlsoned inside. AT Pluckamin, also; Gen.
Knox celebrated the anniversary OF the French
alliance with America by grand f6te and
hop. The Commander-in-Chief was present
with Mrs. Washington. Gen Knox Rfterward
wrote that there were above seventy ladies'
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THE OLD STONE HOUSE.

age but that the loose sand which made our
grandmother's carpets might be the more
easily swept into the hall Tho doors are fast
ened with Dutch locks made years ago.
The old stone house was built in 1853. and Ia
still inhabited. 1t has never passed out OF the
family of its builder. 1t is now occupied by
William F. Sutphen. n farmer. Mr.. Andrew D.
Mellick, n descendant OF the builder and a re-
tired member OF the New York bar. has inves-
tigated the history OF the house and told the
interesting story in book OF several hundred
pages The farm on which the house stands
originally contained 3G7 acres aud
was purchased by the great-great-grand-
father OF Mr.. Meick. Johannes Moelch
who emigrated, with his family. from
Bendorf on the Rhine to Philadelphia in 1885
The farm was bought in l75l. and the old
house built several years later. 1t Is a tra-
diton of the Melick family that great great
grandmother Melich carried mortar to the
masons at work on u board balanced on her
head. To reach the nearest Post Office Jo-
hannes had to make his way on horseback to
Amboy thirty miles away. Tho stage road
from Philadelphia then ended Mt New Bruins
wick where soop might be taken down the
Tartan and around staten Island to New York.
At one point on the old farm can be seen the
ruins OF q tannery and bark mill which
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The tabulated score OF points. which tho four
leaders will probably make, Is as follows:

1t will thus be seen that Harvard's chances
are very small triie the best but tho crucial
tests will be fought out in the hurdles dow and
hiRnl and the turning point decided by the
broad jump. in which Dohm has made such
good Improvement that the orange and black
Is counting on him for n first. IL Mapee OF
Columbia betters his performances over the
sticks. then Columbia may turn the tables on
Yale and take third place, but from present
appearances, and barring the accidents likely
to occur In training, the order should be Har
ward. Princeton, Columbia, Yale. and the Uni
yersity of Ponnsylyania, aud Amherst looking
for stray third to help them into fifth place.
Although eight records were broken in the
Berkeley Oval last year. and that meeting was
by all odds the most successful athletic meet
Ing, ever given in America, it is certain that
with q good day the meeting this month will
eclipse even that. Thus last year both the 100
and 900 yards dashes. the hammer and shot.
the tug Of war the running broad and high
Jumps, and the quRrter-mto run were prac-
tically foregone conclusions, while this year
there Ia not an event which will not be fought
for by from two to half a dozen athletes, and
every ono OF them flrst-class men. And the in
terest aroused by the games will fall short
only of that created by tho ale Princeton foot
ball match Of last Thanksgiving.
WALTER G. DOM.
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present, all OF the first ton In the State" Tho
music and dancing lasted into the morning.
and Somerset county has probably never wit
messed happier. merrier' or more brilliant
society event"
Several years after the war the old house was
the scene Of a wedding OF a sort which docs not
often happen. Daniel Cooper. hale old gem
tleman OF 80. took unto himself for his nth
cousin herself was u years old: When she
gave UP the ghost at the age Of 1Ol. Daniel
was conscientious and upright man; and so
Spartan in his tirmness that on Avg. ~ 1878,
Court House, he sentenced one OF his own sons,
BENJAMIN. to be hanged Before the sentence
could be executed. however. pardon was
granted by the Governor.
Among the lively remembrances of LAWYER
Mellck Of his boyhood which was spent in the
stone house, is the original method employed
by the schoomaster to follow out the inlunc-
ton OF Solomon. The lad in need OF his medi-
cine was told TO mount the back OF a sch ool-
mate The under boy seized hold OF his trous-
ers and stretched them tight over the trAdi-
tional spot for the application OF the rod. and
after much wriggling and squirming and Oh
owing" by both boys the scene was over
The descendants OF Johannes Moech now
number nearly a thousand. among them Bishop
John H. Vincent Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Bishop Vincent originated his IA
nous system OF popular education at Plain
field, within fifteen miles OF the home of his
ancestor. though at the time he was unaware
OF the fact.
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From Mr chicago Tribun


DR.. II. c. Sutton OF Rome n. y. was telling
some acquaintances In tho Leland rotunda
one evening about big spree IN which an en-
tire town In Bri fish Guiana participated.
lew weeks ago" said the Doctor. " |
landed az Georgetown. Dcmerara. during n
Southern cruise. and was there two days with
There might have boon some sober folk In that
cause OF the spcctacular spree was the sale Of
liquor at an extremely low price. The Excise
Board refused to renew the license Of the Ben
gal Tiger rum shop In RObb street, and the
owner had but four days to dispose of his
stock He announced that he would sell his
goods at less than cost The love Of tho COM
mon peoDle OF the West Indies for rum Ia
proverbiaL and 1t Is needless to say that they
appreciate cheap rum. AS soon as II was known
that Il pint OF white rum was being sold for
sNpence and a quart for a shilling the people
crowded into the shop. and the excited rush
WAS almost riot.
The news was spread over the land and
customers came from all directions. the stream
OF people increasing ae tho news extended
Finally the mob was 30 noisy that the entire
police department was called out to regulate
the trafllc. Tho people seemed to think It
would chow lack OF gratitude not to drink at
such a low price and they did their best to get
rid OF the stock: Tho Government allows a
citizen to buy only one quart At time, or some
one would have purchased tho entire establish
ment at once. For two days the riot kept up,
and from the start the whole town was on a big
spree. 1t was the strRngest sight | ever wit
messed or ever heard Of. and II seemed bRrbar.
GUS 10 mo for was all alone In my Soberness."
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Jump at the handicap games OF the Boston
hh f AsSes viii w Ry and HfB VIII 6sa
ming broad jump will probably go 10 PRINCETON.
9inches' second, and Green OF Harvard, who re-
Gently broke his college record by jumping q
rev Welsh should, however. win the pole vault;
He was third last year, to Leayitt OF Harvard
and Shearman OF Yale apd both thss To men ha
a record OF IL feet / inch, will take second. and
Ryder OF Yale third. Vague rpmors have for
doines OF certain mole vaulters at Amherst aud
Lehigh. but neither, OF these COLLEGES runs
much Of q N t sshd eTs TO
Yale. Columbia. and Princeton will send the
best teams to the Gsmes ana he
won tho champo4ship last year alter d9s-
perate tussle with Princeton. and although she
seems that n she g. viii win again Prnceton dur
ing tho winter showed remarkable strength in
her 60O-pound team having defeated even the
defeated the Berkeley light weights. Over
confidence on her part and hard work on
and the result was tina, the blue and white
pulled the orange, and black by nine Inches a.
hS Gsn Ry the cay a. z
them. have also worked hard. ana although
their team! is composed OF new men they VIII
defeated Ivy Princeton.
The hammer and shot competitions are about
IN the shot Jan % Of Prnce D holds the
championship over from last year; Shea OF
Harvard has twice early In the spring put the
steadily ever since; and Yale is very quiet
about Ecock,. a bad sign Tor other colleges,
Then Allen Of Harvard has Put i 20 feet II
tity Of Pennsylvania each have man able to
mi II over 80 feet What II chance to pick
either Shea OF Allen o; Harvard and either OF
these will defeat Bowser OF the Uniyersity. Of
is also throwing the hammer In good
SnG s Ra s SSe dsRSs oI h&s S Ss
Hillsr who threw Il % feet 81 Inches the
Princeton man with hts weight and strength.
University OF Pennsylvania, who won the event
last year bias not yet this spring covered 80
taking third place from Allen Of Harvard.
These fifteen events comprise the ones which
will be fought out on the 3lBt OF this month.
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BOUND ARMS IND LEGS.
How an EK-Amateur Champion will Swim
Across the East River.

How an Ex.Amateur Champion will Swim
Across the East River.
Some years ago Professor Balbo, q profess
sional swimmer, succeeded in swimming the
East River at its narrowest point with arms
and legs tied. This was considered quite an
achievement at the time. but there is a young
Missourian In town who proposes. whom the
balmy June zephyrs blow and the river has
lost It's wintry chill. to knock the Professors
performance into cooked hat Balbo swan
with his hands tied behind his back. but the
rope was bound in such manner as to allow
the hands plenty OF latitude. sufficient to keep
him ahoat The ambitious new conner will be
bound as portrayed below l25 feet OF rope be-
ing used in the operation, in connection with
two straps. In each hand will be n dumb bell
to convince skeptics after the PERFORMANCE
that the hands were not in use during tho
swim. This will be sufficient evidence. for 1t
is obvious that ii the swimmer. opened his
hands during the transit the iron weights
would Join MoGlnty at the bottom Of the say"
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ready run hard quarter. With Fearing out
OF the race. however. Downs will take second
and Wright OF Harvard third. Vosburg Fey
nolds, and Wright are all three evenly matched
and the race for place between them will be
one of the interesting features OF this event.
Five men will start in the mile run, each Of
whom is CAPABLE OF doing well under 43S.
Wells OF Amherst. holder OF the intercolle-
giate mile record. and the Intercollegiate
championship; Hornbostel Of Columbia, who
finished In third place last year: but a few
yards behind Harmar OF Yale: West OF the
University OF Pennsylvania, with record OF
4.3i: Lowell OF Harvard who o few weeks ago
tied the Harvard record OF 4.3Sas. and Lloyd
OF Yale who ran such a good race at the In
door games OF the Yale and Second Regiment
Connecticut National Guard last March. 1t
is easy to pick Wells as winner. but second
and third are harder to name. Probably Horn
bostei of Columbia will take second. and West.
OF the University Of Pennsylvania third.
The milo walk Is probably Colum bias event.
McIlvaine who won the event last year in rec
ord breaking time. Is walking in good style,
and his chances are further improved by
Batess absence from Harvard. the result OF
overstudy. Bardeen. who at the Harvard class
games walked a m le without any one to push
him or mako pace In 7:20. will hurry him every
step OF the way. though. Coils OF Columbia,
who at the Manhattan games walked such
plucky race against LANCE ought to beat
Nicholson for third place.
At those same Manhattan games Columbia
no doubt sustained q severe shock to her belief
that II. Mapes had a sure thing" OF both
hurdle races. The way he will have to skim
the sticks to beat Williams OF Yale and Fearing
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AN OLD HOUSE AND 4 GOOD ONE
It Stands on n New Jersey Farm. aud was
Multi In 1883.

II stands on n New Jersey Farm. and was
Multi In 1888.
One Of the oldest houses in New Jersey Is
situated quarter OF a milo of the main road
from Somerville to Peapack. in North Somerset
county. This region is within fifty miles OF
New York. but has only recently been opened
by the extension OF tho Rockaway Valley
branch OF the Central Railroad. Tho old house
is empowered In the summer in maze OF trees
and bushes and vines climbing luxurlantly
over its bare white walls, which seem to smile
upon the passers by with an air Of
ancient benignity and hospitality. The
walls are OF stone cemented with mortar so
hard that masons who have seen it think
there must have been some secret in It's COM
position. Tho windows are placed at random
and fitted with tiny glass panes Inside there
are eight or ten rooms. Dutch oven opens
into the largo kitchen or living room. and tho
chamber floors are on an incline. not through
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are each would lower his owD best record but
L is doubtful whether they will meet, and II
Dohm does not run Downs should win the
quarter easily. with Cornell OF Columbia and
Roddy OF Princeton fighting for place, the
chances favorinR the Princeton man.
Downs Yosbnrg OF Columbia, Reynolds OF
Yale, and Fearing md Wright Of Harvard, will
AFFORD the best half-mlle race that has been
seen for a long while. Dohm is almost a sure
winner for this event, he holding the American
half mile record OF | minute 55E seconds
run In minutes. Should Fearing not conilne
himself to the high Jump and hurdles. he
should take second. especially II Downs has al
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THE "MOTT HAVEN" GAMES.
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES AT TIE
BERKELEY OVAL NEXT SATURDAY.

The Events. the Entries, aAd the Probable
wtnnerp-Second Places to Count This
Year In DetermininE the Winner OF the
New Cup-A Great Meeting Expected.
In view OF the near approach Of the Inter
Collegiate Championships one OF the greatest
events OF the athletic year. 1t may be OF inter-
eat to those concerned in the success OF the
rival colleges to consider their respective pros
poets for first place.
The meeting will be the fifteenth given by
the intercollegiate Athletic Association, and
the first for the decision OF the ownership Of
the new Mott Haven cup presented by DR.. J. 8.
White, the old cup having become the property
OF Harvard. Additional interest 10 lent to the
contest by the fact that Harvard has decided
TO mako this her only effort to have her name
engraved on tho new cup. as hereafter all her
athletic battles will be fought on New England
fields alone.
Up to this year the championship has been
decided by the greatest number OF "flrsts,"
seconds" counting only In case OF q tie. Last
February the Association decided to count
points instead OF flrsts. allowing Eve points for
a first place. two for second, and one for
third This rule will. Of course. result In
greatly increasing the list OF entries. and prob
ably 500 names will be found In the fifteen
events, in place OF the 800 OF last year. This.
together with the extremely high order OF per-
formances that will be done. will make the
meeting the greatest that has ever been held
In the history OF amateur athletics.
Tho work OF selecting winners at any athletic
meeting ts dimcult enough, as any one who has
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tried It knows. In tho case OF the intercollegi-
ate meeting this difficulty Is greatly increased.
lief that by deceiyinE one another, and dispar-
aging their real chances to outsiders, their
lie most readily to reporters. when interviewed.
and the news sent by college correspondents
themselves too often bears the impress OF the
stance. the reports that every fall come down
from colleges regarding crippled foot ball play
and then notice how favorably the work Of
these "cripples compares with that OF
listen to the willy colleglan's apparently dis.
couraRed opinion regarding the outcome OF
the varsity boat race; But NOTICE how willing.
crimson wearing eight. And at the intercol-
legiate championships watch Sheriff. and see
how fast he covers the ground for a man who
has been lame" or has strained a tendon"
every year for the past three or four: and how
are to be believed. are troubled with more all
ments than job was ever afflicted with.
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and Leo OF Harvard will be caution. With
two yards handicap Williams beat Mapes out
very clearly in the low hurdles. while Lee. with
eight yards. easily won the same event in three
tifths of second faster than the worlds record.
Two days. later Williams ran the ,12O-yard
fifth Of n second Of the American anna
teur record, and the same fraction Of a
second faster than Mapes's best time.
Fearing. too. has taken hand in breaking
hurdle records. and at tho Harvard spring
games broke the Harvard record by. doing the
high hurdles In II seconds. All this goes to
show that Columbia has not the sure thing"
she thought she had. 30 Williams stands the
best chance OF scoring. He is steady and relia-
bic. and will lead Mapes past the tape in the
Fearing OF Harvard will be third. The low
hurdles will be a victory thi ink for Lee Of Har-
ward. with Williams second and Mapes third.
New records should be made in both events.
The rule passed by the Interrolegia,e Asso-
from the championship has deprived Harvard
OF what was almost surely first place. Davis
cannot ride an ordinary wheel as fast as a
safety" and for this reason Clarke OF Yale
should win: Davis ought to be second and
Greenleaf Of Harvard or Weare OF Yale third
For the first time in five years there is q
prospect OF the high Jump going elsewhere
than to the University OF Pennsylvania Web-
ster. who has jumped feet Ia inches, Is still
In college. but has not jumped so well since
Page. who taught him how to Jump. left col
lege. Fearing OF Harvard, who won the high
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this nStatQrlaI artist and while a stranger IN
the noble Mississippi that he accompiished
the greater OF his achievements He Is the
his performances viii be- for the stuff" iamo
SWAIN oSs the ssssp Rsyr With vi lSs lis
legs bound. feat that was deemed impossible
on account Of the ts swift n current On Aug he
on Aug. is he had both arms and legs bound.
as per picture. and crossed successfully lie
hours SO minutes As seconds. made on Aug. ~.
1888. IN the race t9r the long.dIstanee CHAM
icing from Alton. ill., 10 st. LOUIS. Mo- e fGT WsS
with strong current. but the wind was high
SPd the water very rough Among his most
water for two and one-half miles. holding
a flag In each hand. and swimming ono
his teeth. lie has a wide reputation as lie
saver. having rescued fifteen persons from
a watery grave, and no modestly says; Il take
more pride In this than anything have done"
there Sept. -, 1865, which makes him little
very symmstricAlIy built, and we lghs in condi.
ton. about l25 pounds. He took to water a.
oand n the S SGS at YEAR To Of
age he published the feat OF swimming tho
mighty Mississippi at point where Il stretch,
was ii years OF age WHOM hc swan his first
race. defeating VIM. Lucas. local swimmer.
In two mile race. His next rAce Of note was
three mile race. lie then Joined the St. Louis
Rowing Club and was Immediately challenged
by Vim. kosrsler for the championship. The
latter won first swimming prize at the Clncln-
natl Turn Fest last year Msrcadter won the
satisfied with this and ln. a return match was
beaten by 100 yards. Merosdier has won In.
Vulnerable prizes at exhibition swimming. and
many Of his trick performances have never
been attempted by any other swimmer
Owing TO his ignorance the East River cur
rents his first performance will DO with the
arms bound a sort Of a prelude to tine great
undertaking and the attempt wiz bO made RS
soon ~ warm weather sets In
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!Brooklynl McTamany tColumbus). 4 each G.
brooklyn. Shebeck Toledo Reilly tEastonl !.
Crooks Columbus 3 each: O'Brien tRoches-
ter. Mcclure and Calihan Rochester. Tom
ney and Ryan tLouisvillel. O'Connell. Sefke
Gerhart. and Mattmore brooklyn. Sage.
Healey, and Nicholson tToedol, ,O'Connor
iColumbusl. each 2. and O number with ! each.