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ANTS AS FIGHTERS.
Their Grip Utilized in Surgery by
Indians in Brazil.

Their Grip Utilized in Surgery by
Indians in Brazil.
Ants are terrible fighters, says the Err
amioer. They have very powerful jaws,
considering the size of their bodies, and
therefore their method of fighting is by
biting.
They Will bite one another and hold on
with wonderful grip of the jaws, even
after their legs have been bitten OFF by
other ants.
Sometimes six or eight ants will be
clinging with death grip 10 each other,
making a peculiar spectacle, some with q
leg gone and some with half the body
gone.
One singular fact is that the grip of an
ants jaw il retained even after the body
has been bitten of and nothing but the
head remains. This knowledge Is pos
sessed by a certain tribe of indians IN
Brazil, who put the ants to very pecu-
liar use.
When an Indian gets cash cut in his
hand, instead of having his hand seHed
together, as physicians do III this coun-
try, he procureS five or six large black
ants. and, holding their heads near the
cash, they bring their jaws together III
biting the flesh, and thus pull the two
sides of the cash together.
Then the Indian pinches of the bodies
of the ants and leaves their heads clinging
to the cash. which is held together until
the wound is perfectly healed.
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WORE sHROUDs OF FLAME.
Mother and Daughter Burned to
Death by an Exploding Lamp.
II Was Being Filled with OIL Near
q Charcoal Fire.

Mrs Felicia FerrSrro and her daughter,
Rafraela, died In Bellevue Hospital this
morning from the effects OF burns received
during fire In their apartments, at 1877
Third avenue, last night.
Mrs. Ferrarro was sixty three years old
and Rafracla was twenty-seven. They, with
RnfIaelas father, salvatore, lived on the TOP
floor OF the four-story tenement at the num-
Der given above. t
Salvatore is an italian fruit vender, and he
has stand at Forty street and Third
avenue.
Some OF salvatores stock was kept stored
In one OF the three rooms IN which the mmly
lived, and Il was the custom of the women TO
sort over this fruit every night, picking out
the ripest for immediate sale.
The peanuts sold on the stand were also
roasted 10 this room.
While RarTaeia was sorting over the fruit
about IL o'clock last night her father was
roasting peanuts at a small charcoal stove.
The kerosene lamp In the room suddenly went
out.
Mrs FerrarrO set tho lamp near the stove,
where there was more light than anywhere
else In the room, and started to renll II with
In some way the thin stream Of kerosene
running from the spout OF the can 10 the
lamp bowl caught flre from the charcoal
stove. and both lamp and can exploded,
covering all three Italians with blazing oil.
Mrs, Ferrarro, her garments aolaze, ran
screaming into the hall and down lhe stairs
TO the second floor, where the other Mhants ail. !
| caught her and threw her down, smotherlng
out the flames, but not until she had been
fatally burned. ,,.-.,
In the mean time her husband, unmindf!il
| Of his own burns Ind caught his daughter In
| his arms thrown her down, and rolled her
over and over on the moor until the fire In her
clothes had been cXtinguished.
Both women were frtRhtfully burned aDout
| the legs, breast and neck, and an ambulance
| was Summoned TO take them 10 Bellevue.
| salvatore was badly burned on the hands
| IIe was taken 90 the home Of married SON
who lives In East Forty-ilfth street.
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Prosecuted FOR HIS FAITH.
Hebrews Not The Only Sufferers In
the Land Of the Car.

Driven from his home in Russia because ne
was q Roman Catholic, harassed by sickness
In Bremen, his passage tickets to South
America stolen from him by q fraudulent
steamship agent, Apolinorius skupkA, with
his family OF four children, wife and brother
in-law, arrived at the Barge once In New
York with Just s1.1O In his pocket. That was
on Monday.
The family presented such forlorn and
dilapidated appearance when they passed up
the gangway among the passengers OF the
steamship Russia from Bremen that the
Barge ONCE authorities placed him in the de-
tention pen 1t was here that Skupka's story
came out. lie said he was forty-five years
old and a carpenter by trade. His four chill
dren ranged in age from twelve years TO six
months old. His vito is named Savera.
The exile declared that he was driven from
Russia because he persisted in sticking 70 his
religious faith, that OF Roman Catholic.
with the little money he had put by for a
rainy day he bought tickets for himself and
family for Brazil, South America, where he
has relatives living.
Arriving AZ Bremen one OF his children was
taken sick and was In bed for two months.
on his arrival at Berlin an agent, VINO rep
resented himself rs doing business Tor the
firm OF Louis Fries a Co., OF Hamburg, took
Skupkn's tickets frOm him, telling him that
America was the place he should go TO, for
there he would be given assistance and plenty
OF land to live on for nothing: The ageht
then gave him tickets for himself and family
10 New York.
The members OF the family are In healthy
condition and look as II they could take care
of themselves. Skupka made an afndavit "a
the above effect before 4. A. Smith, the AS
sistant Inspector at the Barge ONCE.
Gen. OBeirne said he believed the RUSSIAN, s
story. for he knew that there were Just such
agents as the one who is alleged 10 have taken
the Russians tickets from him.
The trouble WAS that they worked so quietly
that II was next 20 impossible 10 discover
them. He also said that an endeayor hao
been made to f1nd out whether Louis Fries
Co had ofIices here, but that none had 80 faI
been discovered.
Further investigation will be made before
any decisive steps are taken as 10 the disposi'
tion OF the family.
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POISON THROUGH THEKEYHOLE
Siegrist Tries Suicide Because He
Was Drugged and Robbed.

Jacob siegrist, young Swiss walter, who
was formerly employed under the steward OF
the man-of-war Chicago, OF the White Squad
ron, tried 10 end his life by jumping into the
North River from pier AZ, at 1 o'clock this
morning.
Policeman Meade, OF the Charles street
station, and some citizens saw him go over
board and fishsd him out. He was sent to st.
Vincent's Hospital, where ne was held as
prii oler.
He tells queer story. He Joined the Chi
cago at villa Franche last year and was a
waiter in the eficers measnntil just before
the WHITE Squadron started for Fischefs
island, when he decided TO leave the Navy and
get situation on land.
He had valise and 800 in money when he
put up ut Joseph Cansy's California Hotel, at
$50 West Twenty-sixth street, two weeks
ago to-day.
siegrist says he met a friend named
Arthur, also Swiss, after he came ashore,
and that they spent most Of their ume to-
gether iA
sieqult wanted TO get q situation Is a
waiter, and finally Obtaiped place at a
Long Branch hotel through Broadway en-
plOyme 1t agency.
He was 70 start for Long Branch yesterday.
Wednesday he was taken sick, however, and
says that he thinks his friend put some poison
in his beer. He had spent all his money ex-
CO / eel.
=" was lying on my bed about 10 O'Clock
Wednesday night" he told q reporter this
morning, when heard some voices outside
the door, made out from their conversation
that they were about TO murder me and get
"Then they began 10 blow some sort OF
liquid into my room through the keyhole OF
the door IL smelled like opium and nearly
chOked me.
~ had my clothes on, so jumped up and.
bursting through the door, ran down stairs
and into the street.
"There were lot OF men there with clubs
aud revolvers waiting for me.
"'There he comes,' said one. Hit him be-
fore he gets away
"They all tried to hit me, but lodged and
ran away. ! went to Brooklyn and walked
the streets all night ! saw % men following
every corner and chase me.
Yesterday came back TO New York, but
they were after me all day long.
"I couldn't get any rest and didn't even
get a chance 70 eat anything.
" Last night was walking down by the
docks, when two OF them suddenly appeared
with clubs and rcvolyers IN their hands.
80 Now we've got you,' one or them said,
and ran for my life. They chased me out on
the dock, and / jumped over, thinking that
would be the best way TO escape them
At the California Hotel Mr.. Conry, the pro-
prietor, says that siegrist acted very strAggely
| on Wednesday night.
He went 10 bed about O'Clock and two
hours later he came down and complained
that his head troubled him and he could not
The police say that siegrist went delibeF-
ately down in the dock and jumped over
board. No one was pursuing him.
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WEBSTER IN CUSTODY
The Slayer Of Broker Charles Good
win SurrenderS Himself.
Escorted by Capt. Mclaughlin to
Police Headquarters.
For Five Days the PercivaI Flat
Murderer Evaded the Detectives.

Bookmaker Bertram C. webster, the slayer
ofEdward E. Goodwin, Iry Fhom he shot and
killed in his room 4 the Percivai apartment
house, gao Wet Forty-secOnds street, Hurren-
dered himself this morning to the police.
He gave himself up at the ONCE OF Howe q
Hummel, his attorneys, where he met Capt.
Mclaughlin and Detectiye-sergeant Carney.
Webster came to the lawyers once in a
carriage. He was alone.
He did not seem in the least disturbed, and
was calmly smoking cigar.
lie wore a natty suit OF blue.
The onicers took him to Police Headquar-
ters In a Bleecker street car.
At Headquarters he was taken before In
spector Byrnes and afterwards locked up.
This afternoon at o'clock he will be ar
raigned In the jefferson Market Police Court.
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GARROTED FIRST. THEN CARVED.
This Mornings Crime in One of
whitechapers Dark Alleys.
fBY ASSOCIATED PREss.l


LONDON, Aug. 7.-Much excitement was Oc-
casioned in the whitechapel District this
morning when fhe word was rapidly passed
from mouth TO mouth that the dreaded Jack
the Ripper" had again appeared and COM
mitted one OF the butcheries that has made
his name household word in this most Ill
favored portion OF London.
That there was reason for the excitement
there can be no denial.
At an early hour this morning as one OF the
denizens OF whitechapel, an old woman
named Woolfe, was passing through one OF
the numerous dark alleys with which the
region abounds, she was set upon by an un-
known man armed with a sharp knife.
The place where the assault was made was
dark and dismal one, and as the hour was
early the usual providers had sought refuge
In doorways or under arches, where they lay
In drunken slumbers.
As rows are OF nightly, almost hourly oc-
cuFrence In Whitechapel, no attention was
paid, II indeed any noise was heard, TO what
was OF course taken for one OF the usual
drunken scufies.
But for the old woman II was a scunie for
life.
From what can be learned OF the clrcum-
stances surrounding the attack, It appears
that the man, whom the people OF White
chapel are nrmly convinced was the famous
" Ripper" used his knife with nendish fero-
city.
He rasped the woman by the head, and
drawing her backward, he, with one hand
across her mouth, silenced the cries she
would naturally have tried 10 make, while
with the other hand he drew the keen-bladed
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THE EPFIaY CAUSED THE Row.
INDIA'S SECRET MAIL.
A Mystery That Has Always Per-
picked the Minds OF EnElishmen.

A Mystery That Has Always Per-
picked the Minds OF EnElishmen.
What is known as the "secret mail " of
India has for more than generation per-
picked the English mind. and is still q
profound mystery, says the Providence
Journal, although numberless attempts
have been made to explain it.
Everyone who has lived long in Asiatic
countries is aware that the accurate knowl-
edge of important happenings at a dis.
tance Is often possessed by the natives q
considerable time before 1t Is obtained by
the Government, even though special
facilities had been provided for the trans
mission of news.
This was frequently and conspicuously
illustrated throughout the Sepoy rebel
lion. happenings occurring hundreds OF
miles away we're usually known in the
bazaars hours, and sometimes days, be-
fore the news reached the authorities, and
the information obtained was regarded aa
so Trustworthy that the natives speculated
upon II even to the full extent of their
fortunes. Indeed, upon -one occasion
the secret mail" beat the Government
courier by fully twelve hours, although
every endeavor had been made 10 secure
the swiftest dispatch.
The HindooB say, when they consent Ia
talk about II at all, that they depend
neither upon horses nor men, and have
no secret code of signals, but they dc
possess system of thought transmission
which is as familiar to them ns the electric
telegraph TO the Western world. Anyone
may accept this explanation that will.
But though most people with less fond.
ness for the mysterious and a better
knowledge of the weakness Of the Hin.
docs for making riddles of tho simplest
facts will look for more prosaic explana
ton, it remains to be said that none hai
been forthcoming. The "seoret mail il
an indubitable reality, and no Westernel
has ever succeeded IN solving its Inys
| terry.
If news has been transmitted by sig
nails, no one has ever seen the signallers,
nor If there is vast system OF stages in
operation, covering hundreds ant
thousands OF miles. has anyone eyel
come across any of It's machinery And
indeed, it would seem that some msAn
of communication must be at the com
mand of the natives more rapid thar
horses or runners.
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The Ripper's victims.


The generally accepted list OF the White
chapel fiends victims up to uate is as follows
l. Unknown woman, past middle age,
whitechapel outcast, found dead In Oct,
1887, with body horribly mutilatec. Little
attention paid TO the case.
Q. TURNER, MARTHA, found Aug. z, 1888,
stabbed In thirty-two places, probably with a
bayonet.
3. NICHOLS, POLLY, found Aug. 81, head
nearly severed from body.
4. CHAPMAN, ANNIE, found Sept. 8, horribly
carved.
8. Young woman, near Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, found Sept. %, slashed as were the
others.
8. STRIDE, ELIZABETH, found Sept. 80, body
warm when found, but mutilated like the
others.
z. EDDOwEs, CATHARINE, found the same
morning, body and face horribly disngured.
8. Unidentified woman, found oct. 2, with
head and arms severed and the usual mutila-
tions OF body.
o. LAWRENCE, Mrs. MARY JANE, found Nov
o; head nearly severed face lacerated
almost beyond recognition breasts cut on
and laid on table heart and liver removed
and matriX missing; body literally hacked tC
pieces.
10. JACKSON, ELIZABETH, body found IN
sections between May 81 and June 25, 1889
IL. MACKENZIE, ALICE, alias Kelly, found IL
Castle alley dead, but with body still warm
July II, 1889; mutilations not completed
knife evidently dun.
l2. HART, LYDIA, body found in sack under
railway arch In Pinchin street, Backchurcf
lane, In the whitechapel district Sept. 10
1850; head and legs severed and body hor
rtbly mutilated.
IL. The old woman, wooLTE, discovered TO
day
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NEVER TOUCHED THE MULE.
But the Listeners Thought the
Trap-Gun Was a Failure.

But Luo blbUenorb InOuRnL JnO
Trap-Gun Was a Failure.
I" My father had two weaknesses. said
the North Carolina man. according to the
Chicago Herald, and the rest of the Nom.
bers gathered around to listen.
" One was his love of fine stock, and
the other was a passion for every newly
patented device that came his way. One
time he bought a fine span of Florida
mules, paying $500 for them. About the
same time fellow came along with a
trap-gun made to set in the woods and
kill deer with.
''He was delighted with the machine,
and took 1t down by the creek i'll the
timber, where it would most likely be
needed. loaded II with buckshOt, set it
perfectly and came back to the house.
THAT night, by Jolly, one of those mules
broke out of the barn lot and Just started
on an exploring expedition. She didu't
liRe the first field she came 10, 40 she just
broke the fence down and went on,
Next morning u darkey told father one
of his mules was gone aud We all started
out TO find her. They tracked her across
the field, found where she had broken
through into the woods, and followed
along down the creek timber. right
straight in the direction OF the trap gun.
Father had a premonition his two
new purchases had come together. and he
hurried On ahead Of the others. He saw
at a glance the gun had been discharged,
and there, right at the edge of the deer
lick iay his big Florida mule. stretched
cut full length on the ground"
Hiddled with buckshot?" continued
tho member from Maine.
No. said the man from North Caro-
lima, just taking her ease. And about
forty feet away from her lay as fine deer
rs ever you saw. shot through the neck
from the trap-gun."
The member from Maine pushed the
bell and told the daFkey 10 bring In the
cigar case.
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HNH Mnnh0Tfnn QfTnnf- NIoUhODV
Pa. Coroner However te,eoranhed her vss'
terday but could receive no enswer
ofthe forty letters found in uonn.h,s ,r,r,
univ t,vo ~. 49,, -. '. YIN
Neither OF these were dated nm, noth ,,,oro
received during the curront voor ono ,ras
from her fatheT who uvo. AZ a nocS s,,.o,
East Monkwaremoutb srndsr,snd Ena,.nS
ana the otbar "a .nroron,,r - 80.
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Innocent, buB Served q Year,

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 7.-Leu Coins, col
ored, living at Robinson, Ill, who lately
served year in the penitentiary for perjury
in making application for increase OF pension,
has been pafdOned and restored 20 citiEenahip
by President Harrison, II having been proved
that the man was innocent.
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POINTERS ON THE RACES.
Tipsters' Opinions on the Various
Winners To-Day,
Programme OF the Several Events
To Be Run on.

Monmouths programmes are still on the i'm
prove, and the crowds that journey to Jerome
Park to-day should sec some excellent racing.
There are no stake races, but there are six
events well filled, including heat race and a
steeplechase. The track will be dry and fast.
Fifteen two-year-olds are named to go in the
first race They are as Follows:
First Race. -SweepstAkes for non winners, at 10
each, with 81, 600 added selling allowances; half
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First Race e-orinocO, st. Charles.
Second Race-Rintax, Appomattox.
Third Race-DriZzle, Ballyhoo.
Fourth Race-ReX, Carmine.
Fifth Rac"-kern, Eric.
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BATTLE WITH WHITE Caps.
The 0'Neills Resent the Inter
ference Of Corona Regulators.
Pistols Were Used In the ARRAY and
Three MeE Wounded.
ESPECIAL 70 rHr EVENING WORLD,


CORONA, L. l., Aug. THE attempt OF the
White Caps to drive Patrick o'Neill and his
son. william 7. o'Neill, out OF this place be-
cause OF their alleged improper behavior and
cruel treatment OF their wives, eliminated
last night In regular pitched battle between
400 villagers, or white Caps, and half dozen
friends OF the ONeils.
Pistols and shotguns were freely used, and
as a result there are three men this morning
suffering from pistol-shot wounds and q score
of others wirh sore heads, which were In
flicted by miscellaneous brickbats during the
struggle.
william o'Connor, soda water manu-
facturer, is the most seriously injured his
hurts consisting of a gun-shOt wound in the
right arm, which is broken In several places
Two other men, companions OF o'Connor,
whose names are unknown here, were also
shot, one receiving a painful wound In the
right wrist, and part OF the others left ear
being blown on.
WILLIAM o'HEIIL BADLY USED UP.
william o'Neill, whom the White Caps have
marked for special aversion, participated In
the fight, and was so badly used up that he
was hurried to New York by his friends on the
first train this morning.
His right tawbone is said to be fractured,
and his face ;rightfully swollen and bruised.
James Pritchard, a modest and unassuming
yillager, who claims that he took no part in
the movement against the o'Neills, but who
hanppned TO be passinR down the street at
the time, was horribly beaten and bruised.
He is confined TO his bed this morning, suffer-
ing intense pain.
IT WAS A MIDNIGHT BATTLE.
The battle occurred between the hours of
10 o'clock last night and o'clock this MORN
inc on Grand avenue, the leading street OF
the village.
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nAndy wIth HIs PIstol.

TTT NUUONINNHU TIII-IHsI
BnNtS0HAM, Ala, Aug. 7.--Dr-G @. B. Grove,
who a few weeks ago killed B. F. Class at
Plainfield "wednesday night, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded a negro named Frank.
who, startled from his sleep, had shot at the
oootor.
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ouartermaster looks TO have an excellent
chance providing a boy who can make the
weight can be found. With good lad up he
should win handily. Grand Prix may be the
runner up and Marmont should defeat the
others.
Second Race. 80 Sweepstakes, $40 each, with
81, 900 added special weights; with allowances I;
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ab. 500 for this Two-Year- old.

ISDEPESDKEcB, Ia, Aug. 7.-c. W. Williams
has sold TO W. II. Huegle, OF Desmoines, the
tWo-year-old colt Drifton, by NutwoOd, dam
Miss RadmOn, by Bourbon Wilkes, price
$4,000.
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FoUR-YEAR-OLDS FAST TIME.
DR.. Sparks Makes . Nile in 2. ls I-A
over q Half Nile Track.
my ASSOCIATED PRHss.l

OTTAWA, Ill, Aug. 7.-At the races here
yesterday Dr. sparks, four-year-Oid horse
owned by A. j. Hook, OF Paris, KY, made the
remarkable time over hall mile track OF
2 1Alx
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The Maipo Did Not Founder.
TpY As1ocIATTD PnEaR,l

SAN Disco, Cal, Aug. 7.-lI United states
steamship Pensacola has brought news that
the steamer Maipo, which was reported to
have foundered, arrived at Iquique June 20,
with q cargo OF arms and ammunition.
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From Morning Papers.
AT THRONE PARK,

First Race-Abs 3onder, MarmOnt.
Second Race-Kingstock, KirkOver.
T lird Race-CynOsure, Roquefort-
rourth Race-Alcalde, Radha colt.
Fifth Race-Peralta, Lillian.
sixth Race-Westmoreland, BassaniO.
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Concert in Battery Park.

There will be a concert in Battery Park this
evening az O'Clock by Baynes Sixty
ninth Regiment Band. The programme In.
cludes the overture TO Wagner's "Rienzi' ana
other beautiful pieces.
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900, 900 Worth of Cooperage De-
stroVed
Inv lssooIArED FREssl

fRY ASSOCIATED PREssl
PEORIA, H., Aug, THE Hutchinson Coop
erage Company's factory was damaged slO0,-
900 by fre last night. Fully insured
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First Race-Grand Prix, Marmont.
Second Race-Pagan, SIR George.
Third RaCe-Margherita Cynosure
Fourth Race-WyandOtte colt, Pulsifers
best (Wah jim or Alcalde).
Fifth Race-Lepanto, Lillian.
sixth Race-Benefit, Bassanio.
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First Race-Marmont, Annie Queen.
Second Race-Sir George, Orageuse.
Third Race-Margherita, CynOsure.
Fourth Race-Hanilton, Pusifer's best.
Fifth Race-Prince Charming, Helen Rose.
sixth Race-WestmOreland, BassanIo.
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Westmoreland should win the last race OF
may be third.
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THE WORLDS OFFER!
4 SPECIAL MIDSUMMER DISCOUNT UEHL
SEPT. 80 on BoARoERS WANTED
10 PER CENT DISCOUNT INSERTION,
rs PER CENT DISCOUNT y INSERTIONS.
40 PER CENT, DISCOUNT . INSERTIONS.
Free Excursions.

FouF Free Excursions BY water and Two Special
nIeurslenS b. rail will be giyyn By TEE PAEss nsIt
bUNDAT PAEss. Order Of yOur nsWsdeAlsT In Ad-
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This race should go to oraguese, who has
all the best OF the weights, and ought to win
rather handily. Houston, with good boy up,
ought to make an excellent showing for sec
ond place, and the best OF Mr.. Pulsifer's pair
(Kirkover or Sir George) may be third.
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Helen Rose ran good race few days ago.
and showed form enough 70 defeat easily the
the runner up and Lepanto may beat the
others.
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The heat race may go to Margherita, This
mare Is capable OF doing better than she has
shown on her past two races and she may win
to-day. Cynosure should secure the place
and Beck may be third.
Fourth Race. HandieaP, ,sySSpstskss, for tive,
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First Race-Annie Queen, Grand Prix.
Second Race--Pagan, Oragsuse.
Third Race-Cynosure, Onaway.
Fourth Race-Hamilton, Rahda colt.
Fifth Race-Lillian, Lepanto.
sixth Race-Futurity, Bassanio.