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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
The Salaries of Opera Singers.


A good deal of interest will attach TO
the visit Of the DeReszkes, the Ravoclis.
and other artists of the Covent Garden
troupe 10 the United States 1t is well
known that Mr.. Abbey is in the habit of
paving very high salaries. far larger,
indeed. than could possibly be given
IN England. More than once a
visit 10 America has led in a
practical withdrawal of the artist from
operate life in England. For example.
since Nine. Patti received 81 600 nightly
and Nine. SemhriCh received. if we recol-
lect, $500 nightly. neither of these favorita
artists have been permanently attached 10
an opera troupe in this country. The price
Of Vocallsts Is always apt 10 rise, but the
charges for admission 10 an opera-house
must remain stationary.
No impressario has ever been known 20
make fortune out Of Italian opera in
England. and the prudent manager would
seek 10 cut down rather than 10 increase
expenses. Il Is, perhaps. Tor this reason
that SIR a. Harris has taken the pcecaution
70 have several Of his contracts signed be-
fore his artists visit the United States. So
far as J. de Reszke is concerned. the only
difference the American engagement VII
make IS loss 10 Paris. The popular
Polish tenor will not sing again in the
French capital for q considerable period.
anu ms participation even IN the Never
beer centenary Is now extremely doubtful.
Artists, after all, have 10 look to the main
chance.
In the United States Mr.. J. de Reszke
will IL is understood, receive a salary az
$40 night. his salary in Paris is said N
BE- 900 = month. Art. rs read
through French spectacles, NAV no
doubt be i grand affair. but the
money point Of view cannot en-
tlre.y re left ont Of count. Until. there
tore, France - willing 70 pav more
aue4uAte salaries, It must put up with
artists OF = second rank,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
RoBBER DALTON CAUGHT.
He and His Companion Pretty Sure to
Be the Train Highwaymen.

BE the niSnWayneD.
VIsALIA, Cal, Sept. civilian Dalton
and Riley Dean were captured late this
afternoon about three miles south Of
Traver, Cal. The two men. were seen TO
ride up TO the house of Maggie Rucker.
Immediately Sheriff Kay and Deputy
Witty went to the house. William Dalton
came 10 the door and was ordered
to throw up his hands. He obeyed, but
declared he was alone Kay refused to
believe this, and Deputy Witty went
through the house and into the rear,
where he found Dean hiding in the cellar
with rife. He ordered him to surrender
and Dean did so. Two horses and num-
Der Of rifles were captured. The horses
showed signs of hard riding. William
Dalton is the brother of Grafton Dalton,
now in Jail awaiting sentence for holding
up the train at Alila last February.
William was charged with being his &C
complete, but was out on bail, his case be-
ing set for October 8. William called on
his brother at the jail last Tuesday. and
he was in a very excited state and the jail
ers feared an attempt would be made to
rescue Grafton and set three extra guards
William, however. left at midnight the
same day for Modesto, seven miles
north OF Ceres, the scene of the
robbery. Dean arrived at Maggie Ruck-
er's house last night, and Dalton claims
he never saw him till today. Sheriff
Kay Is positive the men are the robbers.
but refuses to say how he obtained the
information leading to their arrest. He
will start again tomorrow, and is confident
will capture the third robber very soon.
The men answer the description of the
Ceres robbers. Dalton is the short and Dean
the tall man. 1t is thought the robbery
was for the purpose of getting money to
bail out Grafton Dalton.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Woman Raloonts,,. Fat,II..,

PEORIA, H., Sept. 6.-Last Sunday two
aeronauts met with serious accidents
making parachute leaps, one fell in the
lake and the other among live electric
wires. These accidents did not deter
pretty Miss Keifer. sister of one of the in
juFed men, from making an ascension to-
day. but she will probably pay for her
foolishness with her life. She made the
ascent, but her parachute failed 10 work
and she alighted in the lake The big
parachute settled over her and held her
down. Before the woman could he taken
out she was unconscious. Physicians do
not hope TO restore her 10 life
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-The French liner
La Touraien, which arrived from Havre
today, experienced a violent hurricane
lasting forty-eight hours. During the gale
the sea stove in the lookout on the fore
mast forty-tive feet from the waters
edge and broke a number of Sanctions.
cap of the iron windlass weighing over
400 pounds, was hurled To the port side of
the steamer, Il distance Of several rods.
The officers Of the steamer say it was one
OF the heaviest storms experienced in sew
eral years. No one was injured. The United
States minister to Spain, Hon. Burd
Grub, was one OF the passengers
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
An Anecdote of Kipling.
Illustrated American.


There is funny little story about Rud-
yard kilping, who, it is said, is about TO
marry pretty American widow from
Pittsburg He works overmuch at his
profession, and the other day was sent
away by his physician to take little sea
trip around the coast The company was
rather mixed and casual on board his ship,
but one of his secrets of power is to frater-
nize and study at first hand all types of
humanity. He became decidedly popular
at the end of the first day out, and was in
vited TO join some game in which the rules
necessitated the giving of each players
name. And what may yours be-" was
demanded of the young author, who re
Piled, with becoming modesty, that it
was Rudyard Kipling. q statement greeted
by shouts Of derisive laughter. That's a
good one they cried you'll tell Us
you're William Shakespeare next" and
from that moment he was called Kip
ling" with q sarcastic emphasis meant 10
be whitening, which filled him til de-
lighted amusement.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
No Smoking on Trains.

LITTLE Rock. Ark, Sept. 6-The Mis-
souri, Pacific railway management; IN
this state and Louisiana has virtually
abolished smoking on all its passenger
trains. When the law went into effect a
coiored coach was placed next TO the bag
gage car. the divided" car next and the
white coach behind. The divided car
was used as 8 smoker. The members
of each race used their respective
end Of the car. The law, however, pro-
yides for separate coaches. Yesterday the
order issued that smoking is not TO be per-
mitted on any train except in the smoking
room OF sleepers and their cars. is re-
garded as one of the means adopted 10
make people sick of the separate car sys-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Crops in Two States.

SAN Francisco. Sept. 6.-Threshing is
nearly completed. Wheat and oats have q
heavy yield. Hop picking is progressing.
Hop lice and mold have injured the crop
considerably.
Observation-Disclosures favorable. Potatoes
plentiful and so cheap that some of the
crop viii be left in the ground. The great
hop yield this season is accounted for by
increased acreage. Fruit is being shipped
to the canneries in carload lots.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
State Lumbermen to Meet.

TACOMA, Sept. Especial. president
and Executive Commissioner Blalock. of
the Worlds Fair commission, having
called a state convention of the lumber
men Of Washington to meet in the Cham
Der of Commerce building here Octorber 6,
70 consider the timber and lumber exhibit
at the Worlds fair, Manager Bucey has
assigned that date for ''lumberman's day"
at the exposition here.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
MIS-. Robert Ray Hamilton,s Failure.

SsANoK1s. Pa, Sept. 6-Mrs. Robert
Ray Hamilton's "All Mystery" company
disbanded here today because of lack
of patronage. Members of the company
objected to continuing the tour unless
salaries were paid. They returned to New
York on railroad tickets said to have been
purchased with money borrowed by Mrs.
Hamilton.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Spread Of the Italian Itch.

NoRRrsrowN, Pa. Sept. 6-People here
are alarmed at the rapid spread of 4 con-
tagious skin disease called italian itch. &"
II Is occas!oned by the presence of min
ute parasite traced 10 imported Italian
laborers recently employed in this neigh
borhood, and Affects al Classes alike.
In neighb0rhoods where Italians have
worked, notes and coin are said 10 De the
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Assigned So As to Retire.

BALTIXoRE. Sept. 6.-Charles ]. Moore.
of the iirm of Robert Moore & Co., assigned,
says he intends to retire from the firm,
and the assignment was for the sole pur-
pose of liquidating their affairs. The bal
ance sheet Just taken shows assets to ap-
proximate $l23, 600 and liabilities $97 600.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
W. Cattle Decision.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.--Assistant Secre-
tary spaulding has instructed the COL
lector Of customs at Nogales, Texas, that
cattle driven from Sonora, Texas, TO Fair
banks. Ariz., for shipment TO the City
Of Mexico, should have been entered in
bond at Nogales and should be
accompanied to the place of landing by
a customs officer at the expense of the
owner of the cattle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Fight Among Copxicts.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. Elm the peni-
Tertiary at Frankfort this morning Eli
Lucas and William Myer, both long-term
conyicts, fought. Lucas fatally cut Myer
with a knife. and Myer beat Lucas till he
was unconscious. Johnson, another con-
Wet, had his skull cracked.
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most frequent medium for transmission,
first from Italians to shopkeepers. and
then to the public generally. The SOFT
parts Of the skin between the fingers ana
about the wrists and elbows are most ire
euently affected. In adults 1t Is never
found on the face or scalp.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
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Atlantic Coast Rain Storms.

AssuRY PARK, Sept. GA heavy rain
storm and high sea has cansed much dam
age along the New Jersey coast. The bluff
at Long Branch has been eaten away IL
many places. AT Seabright, the Highland
Beach railroad tracks are inundated. In
this village the streets are washed out and
on the lowlands near here the first floors
of houses are flooded
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
In Favor of New Irish Leaders.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 6.-The Par
nell branch of this city of the Irish Ma
tional League at the meeting this after
noon elected delegates to the national con-
vention, and resolved as the sense of the
members that Parnell and Mccarthy
should both retire, and new leader of
the Irish party be called to the helm. The
Parneu branch has hitherto been almost
unaainog,s for parueI.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Death of Mrs. Eliza Simonton.

New YORK, Sept. 6.-Mrs. Eliza Simon
ton died here today. She was the mother
of the late ]. W. Simonton, at one time
general agent of the New York Associated
Press She was 80 years of age.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Fugitive Robbers Cannot Escan..

san ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 6.-Superin-
tendent lines, OF the Southern Pacific, has
returned from the scene of the train rob-
berry at Samuels and reports that the five
robbers have been hemmed in by rangers
and Mexican troops in the Texas PENN
sula and cannot escape.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Rain Producer Fails.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Sept. 6.-Melbourne,
the Eastern rain producer, who has been
attempting to produce rain here has so far
failed. He attributes his failure to Fri
days wind storm, and will renew the at
tempt tomorrow.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Slabs HIS Younger Brother.

Allegheny, Pa. Sept. George OFT,
aged p, fatally stabbed his brother John,
aged 10, with knife. driving the weapon
into Johns left lung, near the heart, as
the result of quarrel. George was ar
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Hawiey for Secretary of war.

WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 6-Private adj
vices received here today state that SEN
ator Hawley. of Connecticut, has been Of
fered the war Office to succeed Proctor, and
that General Hawley is at Cape May con-
ferring with the president about the mat
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
Fatally Injured by a Bull.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 6-At Elizabeth
town, Colonel William Wilson was fatally
injured by wild bull which he was at
tempting to halter for exhibition at the
fair
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supnosed TO Re Train Robbers.

GOSHEN, Cal, Sept. 6.-Sheriff Kay
passed through here tonight for Visalia
with two men supposed to be the Ceres
train robbers.
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IN recent game of ball at Chicago Lett Fielder
"llmot took his base six times on called balls
He made two runs, and was not credited with a
single txne st b4I
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The record-union., 1891-10-19

eellorville. The President was very anx-
ious, and at the suggestion of Mrs. Lin
coin Miss Colburn was invited and re-
ceived word from the spirit land. 1t was
to the effect that the Union forces were
holding their own. The next day this
was confirmed by official advices.
In the winter of 1S63-64, at seance, the
terrible condition of the freedmen was
made the subject of communication, in
which the President was urged to appoint
a committee to investigate the question,
which he soon did. General Daniel e.
Sickles was present at this seance
Mrs. Maynard states that during the
winter there were held many private
seances, at which the President and his
wife were the only visitors, but that as
she was unconscious at the time of the
spirit communication, and neither of the
auditors ever told her what occurred, she
can give no information regarding them.
During the winter of 1S6465 Charles
Colchester and Charles Foster, two we'll
known mediums, held seances for Lin
coin, and through them, as well as her,
Lincoln was warned of his approaching
fate. He did not admit, however, that he
placed reliance in these prophecies.
The writer of the book, who is now the
wife of William Porter Maynard, and
who resides here, also gives many inter-
esting "reminiscences of Lincoln's gen
eral life which she had many opportuni-
ties of observing
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Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.


MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1S.-A horrible story
of youthful depravity came to light to-
day, when Albert Kohls, 16-year-old
boy, in the employ of farmer named
-Aodatz, residing near this city, con-
iessed to the murder of his employers
-5-year-old daughter Annie. He had
been intimate with the girl, who was
Tgeek-minded, and she was about to be-
come a mother. Not reIishing this turn
of affairs, he killed her on October 9TH
and secreted the body. On the day Of the
murder he first put into the soup which
he family was to have for dinner a large
quantity of Paris green. Mr.. Kodatz ate
rhe soup first, and, becoming violently
IL, at once prevented the others from
partaking Of it. There was so much of
She poison that it acted as an emetic, and
hodatz soon got well. That afternoon
Annie disappeared, and when the officers
came to investigate the poisoning she
could not be found. They came to the
conclusion that she had the poison placed
IN the soup, and then fled. All efforts to
ind her proved unavailing.
Last night farmer hodatz, investigat-
ing the cause of a terrible stencil in the
Garn, found the unfortunate girls body
lnder the stable covered with manure.
The boy Kohls was at once apDrehended.
and to-day confessed. After the failure of
he poisoning scheme he went out to re-
pair hole in the barn floor. Annie,
went with him, and while she was hold
ing board for him to saw he crushed
her skull with hammer and placed her
body in the hole. He then covered it
with manure and nailed down the floor.
he does not appear to realize the enor-
nifty of his crime
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OBSCENE LITERATURE.
Heavy Tax on the People for It's Dis
trtbution Through the Mails.

Heavy Tax on the People for It's Dis
trfbutton Through the Mails.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-A manifest in
couragement of the circulation of blood
curdling and crime-depicting books has
been found to exist in the Postof1ice De-
partment. 1t is well known that the
transportation of Bibles, miscellaneous
books of an instructing character and
school-books through the mails cost eight
centsa pound. Incredible as it may ap-
pear, reprints of yellow-covered foreign
novels and the original American blood
and-thunder boys tales are carried in the
mails for one cent per pound. In Great
Britain the circulation of impure litera-
ture is prohibited, and the publishers are
fined and imprisoned. The transporta-
ton of this paper-b backed trash is costing
the people nearly S2,000,000 annually in
the interest of the publishers. The spec
tacle is presented of the Government pay
ing 100000 annually to the publishers
of obscene literature. There will be
strong effort made in Congress for a cor
rection of this and similar postal evils.
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ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Telegrams In Brief From Different
Sections of the World

kilograms In Brief From Different
Sections of the World.
AT the Belmont sale of thoroughbred
horses Saturday the imported stallion ST.
Blaise was sold to Charles Reed Of Texas
for 100000.
Rupee won the free-for-all pacing race
at the Bay District track. Best time,
2:l43. Sllas Skinner won the special trot
with James Madison at the same track.
Best time, 2:1S4.
The Russian Government estimates
that 100000 rubles will be required to
meet the necessities arising from the
famine existing in various parts of the
Russian empire.
The noted highwayman known to fame
as shorty" Hayes was released from the
San Quentin prison Saturday morning,
having completed a sentence of nearly
eighteen years of Imprisonment for stage
robbery.I
William w. Wendle rode a mile against
time at Springfield, Mass, Saturday
afternoon in 2:15, lowering the worlds
bicycle record held by Osmand, the Eng
lishman, of 2:16. Harry G. Tyler made
halt mile in Loo, breaking the record of
LOGS held by Zimmerman.
An official dispatch received from
Brazil denies that there is any truth in
the alarming reports circulated regard
=
serts that, on the contrary, perfect order
prevails everywhere and that the eco
nomical situation was never better.
The trial of Jackson Rhodes for the
murder of D. E. Spull at Greenwood, in
Mendocino County, on May 2Sth last, was
concluded Saturday. The case was given
to the jury at o'clock in the evening.
and at $40 the jury returned with ver-
dict of murder in the first degree, recon-
mending imprisonment for life. He will
be sentenced to-day.
The original site of the old Valley
Forge, which gave the name to the town
OF that name and to the revolutionary
campaign ground that made the place
famous, has just been sold to John Dunn.
The tract transferred embraces fifty-one
acres, and, as the sale was peremptory, it
went for the low price of $40 per acre. 1t
lies along the Valley Forge dam, and it
was in the near neighborhood that Gen
eral Washington's headquarters were es-
tablished during the memorable winter
of 1777-7S. The forge was first estab-
lished in l757, was destroyed by the Brit
ish in 1777 and rebuilt in l779. Here iron
was forged for the implements of war
used by Washington and the Continental
army
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ginia. Two children, William and Annie.
were born of the marriage, the latter the
mother of Mrs. Dodge. The son and his
wife died, and the two children moved to
Kentucky. Both married, the son dying
without issue, and the daughter marrying
VIM. Coleman. Both died forty years
ago, leaving Mrs. Dodge and sister.
They moved to Missouri, where Mrs.
Dodge's husband died twenty years ago.
Five years ago an article appeared in
an English paper telling of the estate and
the lost heirs. and the fact that the estate
was in the hands of the public adminis-
traitor. Mrs. Dodge became convinced
that it was her family history related.
She laid the case before relative named
Ross, recently of Minneapolis, and he
went to London to investigate the matter,
He returned an encouraging letter. but
since then nothing has been heard from
him, and it is not known where he is.
Then, 1t is said, she placed the matter in
the hands of her nephew, William 7.
Coleman, of San Francisco. Meanwhile
she came to Butte to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Charles RaGsdale. She was taken
sick, and accommodations not being
good at miners cabin, she was removed
TO the poorhouse. She has now re-
celved letters confirming her right TO the
estate and has forwarded letters, docu-
ments, family bible, ETC., to prove her
claim,