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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
ELECTRocUTIoN OF LoPPY.
The Autopsy Shows That Death Wa
Painless and Quicx

Tne autopsy Shows That Death Was
Painless and Quick-
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Warden Brown Of
Sing Sing sent to the deputy county clerk
to-day a certificate of the death and au-
topsy on the body Of Martin d. Loppy,
executed on Dec. T. Drs Mcdonald
and Ward report that there was series
OF four brief contacts, occupying
in all 50 seconds. The first lasted Is seconds.
the second IL, the third 1516 and the last
| l05S seconds. There were Orief intervals
between each contact to permit the wet
ting OF the electrodes. The readings
taken by Prof. Laudy from
the volt meter indicated a pressure
| OF Lit volts, with nearly seven amperes.
An examination was made of the wrist
pulse and ausculation of the heart after the
last contact. The prisoner was pronounced
dead at 1905. The first contact took place
at 1928. Death" the physicians say,
was apparently instantaneous and pain
less.n
THE AUTOPSY.
Accompanying the certificate is a lengthy
statement of the autopsy by DR.. Ira Van
ellison, who conducted it. "Rigor morris, 4"
he says, twas almost completely, if not
entirely, absent except in the right leg"
The eYeball Of the only eye that Loppy
had was In a perfect state. There
was no discolorstions except at
the knee where the electrode
was applied, and on the cheeks where there
were marks correspond ing with the re-
straining straps. Ga the knee there was a
superficial reddishness about 315x5
inches. tut the true skin bore no mark
whatever. Under the head electrode, there
were no marks The interior Of the mouth
was normal, ami the tongue and teeth
showed no signs of injury.
THE MUSCLES UNINJURED.
The muscles were critically examined and
no indications of violence produced by the
current we're found. Ia comparing Loppy's
death with that of the four others executed
in Sing Sing DR.. Van Gibson says the cur
rent of 1,400 to 1,60O volts does no
damage to any of the internal or
gans, tissues or muscles. The local therrnic
effects were limited to the outer scarf
effects which removed resembles an ordi-
nary water blister. When the skin has been
exposed to the weather, as that on the fore
head and scalp, no blistering takes place.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

When Gov. Hill took occasion to cham
pion free silver fallscies by way
of opposing Mr.. Cleveland's views upon
conservatism in coinage the great New
York monopolist Of offices is said to have
only expressed the opinions that were writ
ten for him by Senator German. Can it be
that Gov. Hill has all this time been play
ing politics under the skilled tuition of Cor
MANI In that case his success is not so
strange. Undeniably German has the ex-
perience and the faculty for organization
and handling men that is indispensable to
political success
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Since Mr.. Pat Egau has managed to get
himself SO cordially and enthusiastically
disliked down In Chile there can be no ques-
ton of the propriety of Withdrawing him
and substituting some one more agreeable to
the people. More than half of the success
of diplomat consists in his personal popu-
larity. When he is SO deficient in tact as to
become a persona non gratia to the gov
eminent to which he is accredited his use
fitness is forever at an end. To keep Exan
in Chi > is simply to jsopardizs American
interests there.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

How very dangerous was the old-fashioned
medical idea of blood-letting for all Ills was
recently shown by the experiment of an
aged Kansas physician at Wichita who in
sisted upon bleeding his granddaughter to
cure the grip. 1t cured her. But she bled
to death before the remedy was quite COM
plete. That so affected the nonogenarian
that he fell in a swoon and died from the
shock. But that only added to the sorrow
that his son had to bear. That promiscuous
blood-letting is RELOCATED to the past is a
fortunate circumstance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
VICTORY OF THE TELEGRAPHKRs
The Atlantic and Pacific Men Garry
Their Point

The Atlantic and Pacific Men Garry
Their Point.
DENVER, COL, Dec. 16.-Following Is ar
order addressed to Supt Gable Of the At
lantic and Pacific, which was Issued by
President Maxwell of the Santa Fe road al
noon to-day:
Sign and accept the schedule presented by the
operators and dispatchers, namely, operators
SoO per month, twelve hours work and extra;
dlspatchers $50 for eight hours work, and chic
dispatchers S175 per month and no tr ok work.
ALLAN MAXWELL, President.
The schedule was signed at O'Clock and
at los O'Clock trains began to move on the
Atlantic aud Pacific. The telegraphers
claim to have secured every concession
demanded
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Recently a New York girl suddenly
jumped out of bed in the middle of the
room in the middle of the night in the
middle Of the block in the middle of the
city in the middle of the month aud saw a
burglar briskly burgliag her boarding
house. But that combination of circum-
stances with one girl in the middle of it SO
shattered the burglars nerves that he in
continently fed. That didn't do him any
good. She was an unmarried girl and she
was determined not to let real man es-
cape SO easily. So she chased him hard.
When she caught him about five blocks
away the police found that she had on only
night dress and advised her to z, back
home. Up TO that tims her enthusiasm had
caused her to forget even her slippers. So
we can scarcely blame that burglar for fly-
ing before such an apparition. But that is
certainly a hustling girl and the beautiful
burglars had better keep out of her grasp.
Should this information reach the "burg-
lars trust" which was lately reported the
officials Of that opulent body will probably
boycott" the block in which this girl of
sspernicious activity" lives.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Queer sights are sometimes presented in
great western states. Recently the police of
Michigan town found in the street
at daylight In a state of beastIy in
toxication q handsome and well-dressed
young woman who refused to tell
her name or place of residence. That
much at least was certainly to her
credit. All that she would reveal was that
she had been on her way to the Keely In
ebriate institute and stopped Off there for a
''last grand druak" before placing herself
under treatment at Dwight. Everything
about the woman except her craving for
drink is said to have indicated fair degree
of cultivation. But she was somewhat like
the Respondent gourmand who finally con-
cluded to eat just one more good dinner be-
fore starving himself to death.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
QUA NEW YORK OFFICE.

Mr.. J.J. FLYNN, General Advertising Agent
of the MORNING NEws, office % Park Row,
New York. All advertising business outside ef
the states Of Georgia, Florida aud South Caro-
lima will be managed by him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
Confirmed by the Sanata.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16-The Senate. In
executive session to-day, confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations: Lorenzo Crounse of
Nebraska. to be an Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury; William d. Owen Of Indiana,
superintendent Of Immigration; collectors
of customs: Francis Hendricks, district of
New York; Webster Flanagan, Ell Paso
del Norte, Tex; John Dancy, Wilmington,
N. G.; Jonathan C. Hagkett. Dunkirk,
NJ "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
Queheo's Cabinet Dismissed.

QUEBEC. Dec. 16.-Lieut Gov. Anglers
dismissed the local cabinet to-day. De
Bouchervilis has been called upon to form
new cabinet. 1t is generally believed
that the house will shortly be- called and
that general elections are near at hand.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Nothing could be more ridiculous than
the persissency with which the republicans
continue to make Blaine's candidacy end in
an Interrogation point. That's about the
only point between the Secretary of State
and President Harrison.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
Killed on Their Engine.

DUDLEY, IA, Dec. 16.-A wreck occurred
on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad yesterday. Seventeen cars were
demolished and Engineer Welsh and Fire
man McGovern were instantly killed,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Senator PETER, of Kansas, has begun his
reform work. He has introduced a bill into
the Senate to increase the number of chap
lains in the army. But it is not clear how
this bill would benefit the farmers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
BLOCKADED BY SNOW.
Trains on the Santa Fe Stuck Between
Las Vegas and Ration Tunnel

Las Vegas and Ration Tunnel
SANTA FE. N. M, Dec. 16.-All through
trains on the Santa Fe route have been tied
up at various points between Las Vegas
and Ration Tunnel for the past four days,
owing to the worst snow blockade known
In years. The snow throughout this region
is from to feet deep on the level, and
has dr1fted badly. Hundreds of Pacific
coast and west-bound passengers are in the
blockade. Tonight, it Is Thought. trains
may begin moving by tomorrow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-17

Getting married in haste and repenting
with more elaboration is notably exempli-
fed in the case of st. Louis woman VINO
Is now suing for divorce Iat New Haven.
According to her statement she gave I'D
the name Of Pratt for that of Kennedy un-
der she impression that Robert s. Kennedy
was interested In the ownership of an ex-
cursion feet OF steamers on the Mississippi
river. Consequently she was very much
disappointed when she learned eventually
tnat he was only manager of the bar.
Therefore she bases her plea for divorce
upon the ground of cruelty. Whether this
allegation of cruelty refers to the deception
described or to other forms of cruelty re-
mains for the evidence to disclose when the
case comes before the court. But enough is
known to show that the Widow Pratt mar
ried Excursionist Kennedy without a suff1-
Gent knowledge of his history and personal
character Naturally enough the man will
contest the divorce bitterly as his unwilling
wife is worth over half million.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
THE WOMEN OF JAPAN.
The Author of THE Light of Asia" Pays q
Tribute to Japanese Women.

But If a foreign sojourner speak favorably
of the men how shall he avoid an apparent
extravaganza of praise in qualifying these
sweet, these patient, these graceful, these
high bred, these soft voiced, gentle, kind,
quiet, unseltish women of Japan? They
seem, taken all together, so amazingly SUI
perior to their men folk as almost to be-
long morally and soci lily to higher race.
In a sense thu. is tAe case, for though, of
course, identical in blood and breeding,
japanese women have been reared for CEN
turies in separate school from the men.
1t was the hard school of obedience, of sub
mission, of resignation, with no pretensions
to justify the view. The Japanese male
has considered himself, all through his his
tory, the superior of the graceful and gem
tie companion of his life, who is taught,
from the hour when she disappoints her
mother by arriving in this world, to hum
bic herself, first to her parents, next to her
husband and lastly to her children.
But it is characteristic of women in all
ages and countries to make the best of bad
laws and customs and even to turn them
to the advantage of themselves and of the
men. Thus know not by what soft magic
of content, by what subtle elasticity of
nature, the Japanese woman-in theory a
slave-in practice has gained very much
her own way everywhere, and obtains,
without eXacting far more consideration
and Difference than might be expected. 1t
is an unsolved mystery in what proportion
The Mongol, the Malay and the South Sea
Islander, with perhaps Arabs and Semitic
peoples, have blended to constitute this
unique. gifted, impressionable race. Yet
it is a still greater mystery to me how the
japanese woman has developed her gra-
cious sweetness and bright serenity in the
atmosphere of unchivalrous mal-estima-
ton surrounding her from early times.
The story Of those early times proves abun-
dainty that she was always what she is
now-otonashu shinsetsu na-tender, gen.
tie and devoted.-Sir Edwin Arnold in
Scribner's
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
A Few Questions About Expression.

Sometimes one even hears the phrase:
do you feel like beefsteak" How, pray,
does beefsteak feel? Why should we use
lever so much" for very much" or de-
scribe man as perfectly lovely?"
In English, the abverb quite" means
entirely" completely" but when we
say that some one is quite well, " we mean
not that he is perfectly but only tolerably
well. We even see in America the phrase,
quite number of persons" as if one
number was not as much of a number as
another We talk of prominent" citi-
zen, intending to describe him not as pro-
tuberant, but simply as eminent. Then,
again, we ask a friend to come round"
tomorrow, though he may have only to
come straight across the street. We say:
'"You are hereby notified" instead of: 1T
is hereby notified to you" and we speak of
fact 'transpiring," rs if fact were en-
dowed with an apparatus for breathing.
Why do we deem it elegant to say that
thing was eliminated" when we mean
that it was said? And why do we think it
sounds fine to speak of a thing being def
initely arranged" when we mean that it
was definitely or finally settled? The answer
to most of these questions is obviously that
such mistakes are made by persons who do
not remember or who have not reflected on
the etymology of the words mentioned,
which, of course, supplies the key to their
true meaning and right use.-New York
Ledger.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13

Ruskin is a very small man physically,
and a person beholding him for the first
time is sure to be disappointed in him. He
has a sweet and fascinating smile and very
light blue eyes q
Talleyrand's Estimate of Napoleon.
In the year 1907, when the emperor had
conquered, one after the other, Austria,
Prussia and Russia, and held the whole
destiny of Europe in his hands, what a
grand and magnificent role might he not
have played!
Napoleon is the first and only power that
could have given to Europe a real balance,
a goal which for centuries she had tried in
vain to reach, and from which she is now
more than ever distant.
For this he only needed, first, to urge
Italy to unite, by giving it the house Of
Bavaria; secondly, TO divide Germany be-
tween the house of Austria, which would
stretch to the mouth of the Danube, and
the house of Braudenburg, which could
have been strengthened, and, thirdly, to
reawaken Poland by giving it to the house
of Saxony.
With true balance of power Napoleon
might have given Europe an organization
in accord with the moral law. A true bal
ance would have made war almost impos-
sible. An appropriate organization would
have brought to each people the highest
civilization of which it was capable.
Napoleon could have done these things,
and he did not do them. If he had done
them, he would have had everywhere stat
ues to mark the gratitude of the people;
every nation would have bewailed his
death. Instead, he prepared the way for
the state of affairs which we now see, and
brought upon us the dangers which threat
en- us from the Orient. 1t is by these re-
suits that he ought to be, and will be,
judged. Posterity will say of him: This
man had great intellectual force, but he
did not know what true glory meant. His
moral power was slight, almost absent.
He could not bear success with moderation
or misfortune with dignity; thus the moral
force which he lacked was the undoing of
all Europe, and himself as well
Placed as | was for so many years in the
midst Of his plans and in the very crater,
so to speak, of his politics, and an eye wit
ness to what was done or plotted against
him, it did not require great astuteness to
see that the countries recently subdued to
his rule all these new principalities Great
ed for and placed under the dominion of
his own family, would be the first to strike
the blow at his power.-Talleyrand's Me-
moirs in Century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
why Snow Is White.

The pure white luster of the snow is due
to the fact that all the elementary colors of
light are blended together in the radiance
that is thrown off from the surface of the
crystals. 1t is quite possible to examine
the individual snow crystals in such way
as to detect these several colOrs before
they are mingled together to constitute
the compound impression of whiteness
upon the eye. The snow is then clothed
with all the varied hues of the rainbow
The soft whiteness of the snow is also in
some degree rcfrrahle to the large guam
tity of air which is entangled amid the
frozen particles.
Snowis composed of great number of
minute crystals; more than a thousand
quite distinct forms of snow crystals have
been enumerated by various observers.
One hundred and fifty-one were noticed
during eight days in February an M1gch,
1855, by Mr.. Glaishe.', which were vGrttIlly
drawn, engraved and printed in a paper
attached TO the report of the British Mete
geological society for that year.
These minute crystals and prisms reflect
all the compound rays of which white light
consists. Sheets of snow on the ground
are known to reflect beautiful pink and
blue tints under certain angles of sunshine,
and to fling back so much light as to be
painful to the eyes by day, and to guide
the traveller, in The absence of moOnshiue
by night. Tit-Bits,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13

is warm on JhesKln ana Wholly disappears
after washing once. But you don't want
to put such fabric through lauudries, for.
scaldinR and boiling will ruin it.
All silk should be washed in lukewarm
water, with mild soap, and rinsed in clear
lukewarm water the same temperature. It
does not need the scalding which wool and
cotton require to get the sweat out. as old
washerwomen say, for it does not hold it
as they do. Consequently it has not the
raold scent which common clothing will
acquire in warm weather when travelling
without baths. 1t is not pretty, true, but
1t has all the other good qualities, and
every time 1t is washed it improves, taking
the clean, Witty look of nice crash, whole
some look that wears vastly better than
your cream and pink and blue silk "trip
pery.-Shirley Dare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
Wall Street Crinnles.

Down in the district of town known as
Wall street." a distinguished railroad Off
cial said recently, "a number of sturdy men
move about on crutChes. They have all
their arms and legs; their faces are as a
rule the faces OF men whose lives are not
too hard; they do not sport the Grand Army
buttons. If you watch them you see that
they do not rely very greatly on their
clutches; that the crutches, to be sure, are
always under the arms in the right posi-
ton. for use, but they are used very sell
dom. One Of the crutchbearers will stand
and talk to a friend, holding the crutches
entirely of the sidewalk, and will gesticu-
late with them violently; then starting on
he will let the foot of the crutch touch
ground once in every three or four or half
a dozen steps. These gentlemen are rail
road cripples,' men who are suing railroad
companies for alleged damages; they go
around with crutChes so that they can
swear on the witness stand that they were
on crutchas for six months after the acct
dent, on account of which they are suing"
New York Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
Auotioneering in Buenos Ayres.

The auCtiOneer, martillero or remata-
dor, is a great parsonage in the Argentine
and an indispensable factor in the COM
merce of the country. An auction, or re-
mate, is the beginning, the end and the
intermediary period of almost every trans
action. In no city in the world is there
anything to be compared with the remates
of Buenos Ayres, and in no country has
sale by auction become the universal
national institution that it is in the Ar
gentine.
The moment the visitor lands he sees
immense advertisements, remate de ter
renos, a fine corner lot here, so many
leagues there; the fourth page of the huge
blanket sheet newspapers is filled with adj
vertisements of sales of land and houses;
the streets are hung with flags, banners
and scarlet cloths, with white letters an
nouncing gran remate of this and that;
along the PaSeo de Julio the cheap jack
shops have their auctioneer perched on the
counter, and other rematadOreS are there
under the ColOnnadc ready to sell leagues
of land to the newly arrived immigrants. \
Cargoes of imported merchandise, ships,
land, houses, crops, wool, the products and
fruits of the country, cattle, blood stock, I
furniture, jewclry, things new and things
old, all pass under the hammer, and the
auctionecr tales his percentage, varying
from II. to per cent, and becomes richer
and richer .s his voice grows hoarser aud
hoarser .-Tucadorc Child in Harpers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-13
A Cats Extraordinary Leap.

In the latter part of $780, at a time when
the Washin .gtOn monument had reached a
height of 100 feet, an adventurous and
patriotic cat assembled the interior of the
shaft by means Of the ropes and tubing.
When the wOrkmen arrived at the upper
landing the next morning and began to
prepare for the days work, pussy took
fright and, springing to the outer edge,
took "hcader" of 100 feet to the hard
earth below. In the descent, which was
watched closely by two score of men, the
cat spread herself out like flying squirrel
and alighted on all tours. After turning
over on the ground few times in a dazed
manner she prepared to leave the grounds.
She had gotten almost beyond the shad-
ow of the monument when a dog belong
ing to one of the workmen bounced upon
her and killed her, she, of course, not be-
ing in her best running trim after per
forming such an extraordinary feat. One
of the men procured the body of the dead
feline, smoOthed out her silky coat and
turned the remains over to a representa-
tive of the Smithsonian institution, who
mounted the skin and placed it under
glass case. The label on the case tells chis
wonderful story IN few words: This cat,
on Sept. %, 1907, jumped from the top of
Washingtons monument and lived. st.
Louis Republic.