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Katie McHale, of Scranton, Pa, and Miss Laura
Faden, of Philadelphia. came near drowning
in the surf at Atlantic City, and with small
child, were rescued with difficulty. Henry
Vogel, a saloon keeper of Gatesville, Tex,
killed two men. Lee Bastam and John Wilke,
with one shot from his pistol.--Laura Horn,
an insane German, hanged herself in Hoboken,
and her father learning of her death, shot him,
self---By the breaking of a connecting rod
on the Knoxville inclined plane at Pittsburg,
two carloads of passengers were placed in inn
minent danger, but only two people were in
jured and neither seriously.
POLITICAL.
The South Carolina Democratic Convention
nominated Benjamin r. Tilman for Governor;
Lieutenant Governor, l.. b. Gary Secretary of
State, J. f. Tindall; Attorney General, III. b.
tendent of Education, w. ID. Mayfeld; Comp
trollerG General, w. II. Ellcrbee; Adjutant and
Inspector General, H. l.. Farley. The nomi-
nees for Governor and Secretary of State
are tho only practical farmers on the ticket.
The Treasurer is n banker, and the others are
lawyers.--The Michigan Democrats have
nominated T.. r. Winans, of Hamburg, for Gov
ernor; John Strong of Monroe, for Lieutenant
Governor; Frederick BREASTED, Ishpcming, for
State Treasurer; Mayor A. A. Ellis, of Iona for
Attorney General; John w. McGrath, OF De-
trot. for Justice of tho Supreme Court: Capt.
Daniel r.. Soper, of NcwaygO for Secretary of
State; Col. David Baker of Niles Commissioner
of Land Office; +. H. Fitch of Pontiac, Super
intendent of Public nstruction.-Owiug to
the failure of tho Democratic Legislature
of Ohio to include Storrs Township,
forgotten part of Cincinnati and suburbs,
in the redstrictng bill, the act may be
inyalidated and an extra session of the
Legislature called to pass new gerryman-
der.-Iho sub committee of tho Allegheny
County Republican Committee, to which was
referred tho contest for the Senatorial nomina-
ton in the Forty-secOnd District. unanimously
decided in favor Of John NJ. Neeb and against
Senator James S. Rutan.-The Republicans
have carried Wyoming andelected Legislature
two 20 one in their favor..-The Republicans
of Indiana nominated for Secretary of State.
Milton Trusler Of Fayette County for Audi
tor of State, |. n. Walker, of Marion County
for Treasurer of State George w. Pixley, Of
Allen County; for Attorney General, John w.
Lovett, of Madison County; for Judgc'of tho
Supreme Court, r. w. Mcbride, of Elkhart
County; for Clerk Of tho Supreme Court. Will
+. Noble, of Wayne County; for Statistician,
John Worrell, of Hendricks County.
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EYERAL species of the
sub-genus Gale, which
have not been described
here, are now extant
both in the Old and New
World, and there is
probably a greater re-
semblanco among these
forms than Is found in
the Musteline groups at
L. Wnn.nl. r,,nr- Ia
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last winner or, as we say, the FIRST one out takes
the pot. OF course, If you do not know how to
play, and cannot make point, you lose nothing.
Leaving tho Eskimo you cannot go amiss
among the Indians for they are all inycterate
gamblers. Latterly they have learned our
ways, but before Columbus discovered America
they could play, both men aud women.
Chance or luck is at the bottom of all Indian
playing. The tickle goddess is wooed now in.
this way now in that, but there does not seem
20 be particle OF skill exercised, except to in
duce the guesser 10 make the wrong choice.
No account is here taken of the great field
game Of Lacrosse and its relatives That will
demand another chapter.
Among our aborignes each tribe aud each
sex hasits own peculiar kind of dice. BY tho
northeastern Indians beavers teeth are mail ed
with rings aud burrows on each side, and the
count is made upon the concurrence of certain
characters falling upward. Further south
halves Of acOrns, coored, are used, and the half
shells of walnutg are filled with pitch and bits
of abalone are thrust therein while il is hot.
The Zunis and Mokis white out fiat pieces of
wood and paint devices on either side. In all
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cases, whether beaver-eebh, sticks, walnuts O.
something else is used, the counting is done
in the boys game of "probs," by the concur
renee of blacks and whites. or by certain figures
For record or tally numbeEof sticks are laid
on the ground and transferred from side to side
until one party has them ALL There terminates
the game.
Even more common than dice is the endless
variety of guessing games. The simplest is
perhaps that of tho Utes. The manager holds
two bones, one white, the other black or wrap
ped with black. OF these he hides one in
each hand and you are to guess in which hand
your favorite bone is concealed
The most complex and really quite beautiful
apparatus for the guessing gamo is found in
southeastern Alaska. A number of cedar rods
six inches long and half an inch thick, arc
scorched inlaid with mother of pearl, polished,
and often exquistely carved. Each piece
stands for totcmic animal, bear, beaver, hawk,
crow or what not. The manager hides the rods
in mass or in separate bundles of shredded
cedar bark, and you are to guess which may be
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an image Of bear ia walrus ivory about four
inches long and bores his body full Of holes
sunk obliquely. The game is to toss up this
bear aud catch him on the point Of peg which
is fastened 10 his snGut by u ainew thread "A foot
long. Now your peg must enter the holes in
his body in a certain order. II you miss tho
order, though you catch tho bear. you must
pass the game TO your ncighbor. These litto
people also throw tInyharpoon at q miniature
snow shoe, aud play at odd and even. Their
dice are little geese, ducks, aud other game
animals made Of ivory and ilat underneath. A
handful Of them are tossed into the air, aud all
that fall right side up are counted.
DIR. BOas tells Of very funny Kind Of stakes
among them, which must be quite encouraging
10 young gamblers You don't have 10 put up
your money-tbat H. your furs, weapons, cloth
ing, boat or wifc-until you win. As soon as
you make point you lay down some swag aud
each winner as he makes point runs 10 his
hut and brings new article for the pic. The
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Free round trip ticket We want agents.
farmers who burn wood, or men working in
Sewing Machine Co. 303 to 81 South Canal
Street, Chicago.
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Written for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
OUR INDIAN GAMBLERS
All About the Games of Chance Among
the SaVageS of Alaska and the Far
West.
Look at the Eskimo BIncklcR and His Cards
and Dice-Poker among the Xunis, and the
ShreMd Games OF the California Indians.
by ONE OF THE oURAToRs OF THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM.

HE "House that Jack Built"
is to my thinking tho most
scientifically constructed po-
EN- ever written or to be writ
ten. How SOP Because each
verso contains all that has
been previously said and
something entirely new. The
pal9ontology, the evolution
of the animal kingdom was
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WEAsEL's SKULL.

large McaseiS may &c
regarded as the typical forms of this division,
and their nearest relatives are polccats, minks
and ferreis The essential characters belong
ing 10 the whole genus have been described in
the Introductory remarks upon the pcSan and
therefore only the specific traits of the animal
treated OF need now engage cur attention.
Strictly. Putorious Gale yulgaris, the little
or. as il is called, least weasel refers dis
tiuctively 10 the European animal and while IFS
ally. the ermine, is by far the most important
form found on this continent our so-callcd
American species Of the vulgaris type is very
doubtful one, being, as Dr. Coucs suggests
probably no more than a variety or oilshoot OF
the main stock, whose structural features do
not even entitle il 10 be considered as geo
graphical race Under these circumstances a
naturalist so accomplished as the one just re-
fcrrcd 10 is satisfied 20 describe specimens in
stead OF charaCieriZiug species, aud finds II
quite sufficient 20 note the minor variations
from common type, without giving the sub
jects Of such variation name" This creature
with whom we are at present occupied is. how
ever, generally known 10 ish-spcaking
people as the weasel, and under that designa-
ti0n its more obvious traits are familiar 10
most persons. In this country its general APP
pearance is very like that Of an ermine, but
il is smaller than IFS more distinguished rela-
tive. and than the allied ferret also. Like
the former, Il iuhabits the
NORTHERN POTION or BOTH CONTINENTS,
and as il is almost. II not quite, the same in
either, its conformation, character and way Of
life may be spoken Of generally, and without
reference 10 geographical position. Here the
weasel's range extends from the Atlantic 10 the
Pacific, but the limits Of its distribution from
north 10 south are rather indefinite. DIR.
Richardson supposed that the animal was con-
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FOREIGN.

The Prime Minister Of Spain, believing that
free trade is responsible for the evils of the
Spanish workingmen's position has recon.
mended policy of protection for both farmers
aud manuflcturers--Th British authorities
have decided to relax the stringent customs
regulations adopted at the time OF the London
dynamite explosion. The poorer inhabitants
in the upper Slesian districts are suffering
from starvation and diseasc-On the expira-
ton of the French treaties Of commerce Gus
toms bill will be introduced in Parliament
fixing n simple general tariff and giving the
Government the right TO increase the duties on
goods from countries that refuse to grant
France economic adyautages.-The Sultan
of Moroccos forces have had a battle with the
Zcmmonris, in which the latter were defeated
with heavy loss--A revolution has broken
out in the Swiss Canton of TicnO concerning
the revision of tho Constitution. The Ar
menian Bishop, Tadiad Oscanion, was stabbed
by young Armenian ia Constantiuople.--
Not receiving any financial aid from the Labor
Unions in London. the southampton dOckmen
have decided to return to work ut an increase
in wages OF penny an hOur.-Thc celebrated
German physician, DIR. Koch, who claims that
no can cure consumption by incubation, is
about TO experiment on human PATIENTS
Tho rebels in the Canton OF Ticiuo, Switzer.
land have formed Provisional Government.
They hold several OF the important cities and
tho popuace favor them.-Thirty- one new
cases of cholera were reported in Valencia,
Spain. and it is said to have reached towns near
Madrid.-The United States man OF war Bal
tlmoro, with the remains OF Ericsson on board,
have reached Stockholm. The run to Gothen-
berg, Sweden. was made in II days.-M. La
guerrc, the well-kuown supporter of Gen. B0u-
LANCER will renounCo his fealty to the Boulan-
ger party.
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FUR-BEARERS.
Something About the Animals Whose
Warm Coats are Sacrificed for
Mans Comfort.
THE WEASEL
BY DIR. J. H. PORTER.

The European and American Weasel Not Specifically
Distlnct-The term Weasel Properly Restricted 10
this FOrm-1he Animal CRrniyOrOus, Mostly
Nocturnal and Soliiary-Dcfends Young 70 the
Ihsi--EmiHently PredaCiouS aud BlOOdthirsty.
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THE ARGENTINE TRENTON

lTASY engaged IN mines mills, on farms os IN
III other active pursuits need n heavier watch than
have been OF ring heretofore and We have mads
arrangements % meet this demand.
We have special watch for the purpose which ~
be perfect tiEekeeper and II not rscsvsd
viii make 10 GOOD.
The -1se is made By the famous Dueber Company
and the works by the Trenton Company The cass
weighs three Dances and h dst tight and solid az
TuCk- II j. made 81 COMPOUND metal the chief
poCeut OF which IS silver, and IS the clear through.
II Is cool silver, being somewhat harder anA
scratching less readily and ike coin silver
l. Is called the Argentine case aud looks lust Ike Wha9
Is known she Bgsiue and Silvcriue case We hava
great confidence IL this watch and sure il vii please
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West.

But what has that to do with gambling2
Just this much that gambling, like every art
fine art, has grown from very humble and
unsophisticatcd beginning to be the compli-
Gated affair presented by more civilized ma
tions.
You have doubtless heard of that wonderful
game of chess played in China which occupies
often weeks and months for its completion.
Even the spirit world takes a hand therein, rs
in tho Homoric battles. You are combating
the dead as well rs tho living. Every pawn or
castle or knight or bishop removed from tho
board may come back under false moves which
yon are momently in danger of making.
Or it may have been your fortune to witness
n hundred or more men sitting nt tables all
participating in the same keno. Every appli-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
The "staFords Telegram Mystery.

Especial to THE HERALD-E1aminer Dispatch. I
BUFFALO, March bit is believed that
solution has been found of the mystery
surrounding one of the kilograms produced
at the Burchell examination at Niagara
falls on Tuesday The telegram reads as
follows:
BUFFALO, Feb. %, 1S90.-Burchell, In
perial hotel, Niagara falls, Ont.-relegram
and letter were sent on TO you yesterday
TO ship heavy baggage to tIfJn Avenue
hotel, New York. STAFFORD"
AS the Barcheu- Ben well Peuey party
stopped at the Stafford house in this city,
1t was supposed that the telegram was sent
by the hotel people, but the authorities
were puzzled to account for their being so
well acquainted with the movements OF the
party. AN investigation here reveals the
fact that the telegram was not sent by
any one connected with the Stafford house
The clerk there says THAT on February u.
the date of the telegram, Burchell walked
into the Stafford house and inquired If q
telegram had been received Tor him. The
clerk recollected that a telegram had come
and had been forwarded TO MN. Burchell
said he had not received it, but appeared
indifferent about it. The clerk said he did
not open the telegram and does not know
It's contents. IL is now believed that Bur
chell himself wrote the telegram signed
STAFFORD and that he did SO TO substan-
tate some statements made by him about
the baggage at the falls.
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Court Matters at Paris. Idaho.

PARIS, Idaho, March Especial tele,
gram to The HERALD. THE trial jury was
called yesterday to try the case of the ter
ritory against Cahill. Several witnesses
were examined for the prosecution. The
defense put no witnesses on the stand, and
the case was given to the jury today.
After being out Tor four hours they
came into court and a verdict of
not guilty was given. The prisoner was
rearrested by the sheriff and will answer
Monday to charge of burglary or aces
sorry after the fact. This is the case Of
burglary of the Burgoyne store.
]. J. Peterson was brought into court,
and motion made by his attorney, J. c..
Rich, to withdraw his former plea of not
guilty and enter plea of guilty. The
court granted the motion, and he pleaded
guilty to the charge of grand larceny. He
will be tried Monday on the charge of bur-
glary. Peterson, it will be remem bered,
stole some horses from this county and was
arrested in Montana.
Michael Fitzpatrick will plead on Mon
day to the charge of forgery.
The grand Jury came into court this af-
ternoon and presented true bills of indict-
ments accusing Ellen Elm and Oscar
Quarselle of the crime of murder aud
enter their plea on Monday.
George Sheehey was arrested by Sheriff
Jones yesterday on a bench warrant for
embezzlersent and entered plea of not
guilty. The bonds were put at $500 and
this case will be ready for trial next week.
The grand jury is still in session and the
business of the court is pushed with all
possible speed. The Quarselle murder case
will take most of this term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
yiscount Dunlo's Hasty Marriage.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Cable
LONDON, March 15.-Viscount Dunlo, son
of the Earl of Clancarty, who was married
short time ago to Belle Billion, the music
hall singer, has brought action for divorce
against her. Belle Billion was one of the
Billion sisters who chirped at a low mid
night musical hall called the London Sup
per club. There she became known as
Baroness Loanda, being at the time the
elective affinity of scamp named Alden
Weston, who posed as the Baron Loanda,
and who subsequently was arrested for
trying to sell forged bonds and sentenced
to hard labor for eighteen months Belle
pawned her iewelry to assist her lover in
his defense, but she soon forgot him and
then took up with Viscount Dunlo, a minor,
who, under threats of exposure for breach
of promise, married her before the rigis-
trar A friend of the viscount's family,
learning of the event, met the bridal party
as they were leaving and induced the young
lordling to leave his wife at the door, He
was then shipped off to Australia, where he
remained until researches had been made
into Bellies history, she meanwhile appear
ing every nightat the Empire. The grounds
for divorce were that Belle has husband
living and that she has been unfaithful
since her marriage. The principal ground,
however, is that Dunlo was not of age
when the ceremony was entered into.
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FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Lodge Introduces a Bill for their
Control.
ADMISSION OF THE TERRI TORIES.
A Resolution Adopted in Committee for Or
dering their Consideration Pacific
Railroads Bonded Debt.

WASHINGTON, March Representative
Lodge introduced his federal election bill
in the House to-day. The bill is a COM
bination of the Australian system with
federal control of elections. The Aus
tralian system as in force in Massachusetts
is adopted and applied to the whole
country in all congressional and presi-
Dental elections. Voters who cannot
read and write, and consequently can not
mark their own tickets. may have their
tickets marked for them by one of the SUI
perylsors in tue presence of another, rep
resenting the opposite party. Primarily
elections are under the control of the
states, but upon the petition of 500 voters
OF any district the federal government as
sumes all the functions of the state
and takes absolute control of the
polls under the regulations which
apply to state control. A voter who pur
posely allows anyone to know how he is
ABOUT to vote, or any person who endeav-
ors to induce voter to show his marked
ballot, shall be subject to fine of from $50
to $500, and larger penalties are be imposed
for the destruction Of election posters.
or supplies, or for filling false certificates
or nominations, or for failure of election
officers in their duties. Challenges are
not to be entertained for the purpose of
delaying voting. To maintain order at
elections is also provided for. The bill
carries appropriation 100000.
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OLD DICK.
Being an Account of a Thrilling School
Room Adventure.

Being an Account of Thrilling School
Room Adventure.
How fresh in my mind are the SCIENCES
of my schooldays, though many long
years in their course have passed DER!
The old rustic school house, its master
and pupils, the big unabridged I put
over the door! Twas q heavy octave,
tipped the scales at eleven, was bound in
strong calf, with bright facings of gold.
We tugged and pulled at it, and finally
got it well fixed to come down on our
dominic old. seem now to see him, as
slowly he entered the door leading in
from the old country road. He took off
his muller, took snuff, sneezed and
spluttered, and then, very loudly, his
large nose he bowed. Then all unsus-
pecting, he lifted the latchet, pushed open
the door, stepped one foot over the sill.
Old Dick took q tumble, came down
with a rumble, whack on his occiput-
then all was still! He sank to the floor,
not sound or a murmur, his legs and
arms pointing north, east, west and
south. but the rest of the master, crushed
hat as plaster, was hidGen by DICK,
from his waist to his mouth. At length
he recovered, arose, nearly smothered:
his sorely bruised Uranium rubbed with
his hand; then, rolling his sleeves up,
and glancing most darkly, he reached
DER his desk and took down rattan.
Here memory fails me, but strong in
stinct tells me the stick and myself shook
hands left and right; while the seat of
my breaches lacked several stitches when
the master got through at late hour
that night. How fresh in my mind are
the scenes of my schooldays, though
many long years in their course have
passed DER. The old rustic schoolhouse,
its master and pupils, the big unabridged
we put over the door!-Lawrence Amer
lean
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Wyoming Politics.

CHEYENNE, March 15.-TSpecial telegram
to THE HERALD. IA bill appropriating
about fifty thousand dollars tomaintain the
territorial government for the ensuing
year, was passed by the house of the
eleventh assembly last Monday and trans
mitted to the upper branch. The return of
the measure in few hours was antici-
pated, but the grave SENIORS delayed CON
sideration until yesterday afternoon, when
they wiped out the contingent fees of the
governor and secretary, reduced the
others and in several instances cut
salaries, besides burdening the bill
with number of riders apportioning the
territory into legislative districts and fix
ing the salaries of municipal officers. Tho
body had lately learned that while every
other tenant of the state house paid rent,
the governor was dead head and could
get along nicely without donation Of
81 200 from the treasury. Early in the
session the senate had called the secretary
to account for making private printing con-
tracts in violation of the United States law.
The response was d rejoinder to the effect
that Mr.. Secretary was ; federal officer
and that his actions were open to neither
the criticism nor the investigation OF q one
horse territorial legislative council With
correspondence of this import on their
journal the senate did not feel warranted
in meddling with the affairs of high and
mighty representative of the federal gov
eminent, even to the extent of giving
him a slush fund of 5000 When the
amended bill reached the house
there went up piteous wall. Gov
ernor Warren and Secretary Meldrum
had been insulted shrieked the callow
y Dung representatives. After a series of
conferences the council receded from all
the amendments except as to the contin-
gent fees of the governor and secretary.
Each branch decided to fight it out on that
line, and the bill passed up and down the
capitol hall until IL o'clock today. The
Republican majority of the house caucussed
and doubtless on the advice of the COVER
nor concluded to adjourn and left the hall
at noon. This action was followed by the
Democratic senate. The people are with
the latter strong. Governor Warren,
who has heretofore been the boss of
everything political, has been beaten at
every stage by the council. To further
private schemes he caused the general
salary bill to die. Several officers will
cease to act, and there is no telling what
will become of the convicts at Joliet for
whose maintenance $4,000 year is re-
quired