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, 1891-05-17

Miss Sallie Holland, who lives near Rob
binsville, Gray county, n. c., is a spirit
ed young woman, who values her good
name and proposes TO protect it. One man
spoke slightingly OF her. but no one in that
region will ever repeat the oGTeuse. The
culprit is II. W. eagle, \ warrant was
sworn out for his arrest, but he gave bond
and fled across the line to Tennessee. A
few days z he returned, and Miss Hol-
land, learning that he wa at the house Of
his brother-iulaw, ID. z. Owens, stole her
brothers. revolver and mounting a horse
rode TO Owens house. l~Dismounting, she
walked in, rushed up to eagle and fired,
the ball taking effect in his shoulder. Be
fore she could fire again she was disarmed,
but fury gave her such strength that IL
took four men to disarm her. eagles
wound was not very serious, but under the
escort Of his brother-in-lAw and nephew,
all with guns, he skipped again.
, 1891-05-17

The cynical view generally taken of the
Saddest and most serious events of life is
well illustrated 10y the following incident
which recently came TO the knowledge of a
Belgian newspaper: A widow whose hus-
band had lost his life in a railway accident
received from the company 10000 francs
by way of compensation. Shortly after
ward she heard that a traveller who had
lost a leg on the same occasion had been
paid 700 francs. The widow at once nut
on her bonnet aud shawl and went to the
offices Of the company. Gentlemen, how
is this9' she said. Here you give 10000
francs for a leg, and you have allowed me
only 10000 francs for the loss Of my hus.
bandl' Madame, ~ replied one of the clerks.
''the reason Is quite plain. Twenty thou,
a n anc won't provide the poor man
with u new leg, whereas for 10000 francs
you can get another Neutrality-suspicious. a
better one"
, 1891-05-17

Here is the story Of a girl who made a
threat, got a kiss, kept her word, n then
pulled her too eager swain out of an awk-
ward dilemma. The man who had the
scare lives at Louisville, and tells the tale
himself. While making "A call he said that
he attempted to kiss n pretty girl, and Just
as he got his arm around her slender
waist she said II he dared she would
scream. Not wishing to have IA scene,
which such an action would cause, he
withdrew his arm and resumed his seat at
the other end OF the sofa. In an instant
the pretty girl said, "Oh, / thought you
were drawer than that" She, however, OBJ
~stinately refused to let him kiss her, but
she likewise threatened to scream IL he
should attempt it. He thought he would
profit by his former experience, and paid
no attention TO the warning. He kissed
her; she screamed. Her mother came in
and demanded an explanation. The girl
came to his rescue, however, and said a
nous was in the room, and she had
screamed as It ran across the floor. Fur
thermore, by saying that the young man
had CALAMITY tried 10 catch the mouse
she explained his bushes TO the mothers
satisfaction.
, 1891-05-17

Gladys Evelyn has applied to the En-
glish courts for a %re-opening OF the breach
of promise case against William Henry
Hurlbert, ex-editor OF the New York
World, which WAS recently decided against
her.
In personal appearance Mr.. Hurlbert is
strikingly handsome. In conversation he
is brilliant. He is one of those lucky men
who have no difficulty in acquiring Ian
guages, and pretty nearly all the modern
tongues are at his command. Though such
an agreeable man, Mr.. Hurlbert has had
the misfortune to make many bitter enc
mics, and in any company of men who as
young fellows hourished from 1857 to 1877
in New York, o. have but to mention
Hurlbert's name TO start a procession Of
anecdotes.
Mr.. Hurlbert's brother, Genera Stephen
Hurlbut-they did not spell their names
alike-was a distinguished soldier in the
civil war, a congressman from Illinois and
minister to Peru during Garfeld's presi-
dency.
, 1891-05-17

those Of poisoning, and the charge was at
once made that some malicious person had
tempered with either the God or water
served at the feast. Several deaths ensued
within a few days, and others were in a
critical condition for some time. The ut
most excitement prevailed in Louisville
over the extraordinary tragedy,
Among the victims were Mr.. b Frank
Guthrie. a retired provision merchant. aud
Mr.. Van B.. Shocks, father OF the groom,
and a director OF the Deposit bank, Of Emf
hence. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Shocks, who
left Lyndon on "A bridal tour, got no fur.
Their than Cincinnati, where they were
both Frustrated at the Burnet House.
There is a conflict OF opinion as to what
particular dish contained the poison. Some
of the doctors believe the deadly work was
done by ptomaine germs in the chicken
salad; Others think that the spring from
which the cooking and drinking water
was taken was poisoned with arsenic. Sus-
picion does not attach to any person. So
far rs known, the families Of the bride and
groom had no enemies, and no plausible
motive has been suggested for the perpe-
tration Of the dastardly deed. Experts
have been set at work to solve the mystery.
, 1891-05-17

Occasionally a touch OF chivalry is mani
tested even within the gloomy walls Of a
riminal court, where the officials are usu-
ally supposed to be hardened by long ox-
perience against all tales of woe. Recently
an English judge sent TO jail for 1--WE min
utes a woman who had been convicted Of
marrying n second time before taking
measures 10 investigate an erroneous re.
port Of the death OF her first husband The
lightness Of the sentence was based on the
prisoners beauty and Ignorance Of the law.
The other day n New York policeman ar
rested and secured the conviction Of two
women for miSdemcanOr. They couldn't
pay the fines imposed. and their captor
promptly settled the bill himself, and
thought himself well rewarded by a tor
rent Of fearful thanks.
, 1891-05-17

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constipation, rheumatism, kidney com
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, 1891-05-17

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, 1891-05-17

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, 1891-05-17

HOW THE CNskET REACHED THE STREET.
undertaken went 20 measure her he opened
his eyes in astOuishment at her proper,
tiOns There was no coffin wide or deep
enough In his establishment to accomm
date the corpse, and a special casket had to
be- built, II was a double extra nam
moth" thirty-fou our inches broad at the
shoulders, six feet in length and twenty
eight inches deep. with iron braces weigh.
ing fifty pounds.
Upon measuring the doorways Il was
found that the casket would not pass
through without turning IL on end The
stairway was narrower han the doorways.
Accordingly a derrick WAS rugged up on
the roof, the huge coffin passed through
the window and slipped into a swing and
lowered to the ground like a safe. This
part Of the ceremony occupied twenty min
utes, and was regarded with deep interest
by a throng Of several hundred people.
, 1891-05-17
PAUL BEHREND-ELs1E DAyNHEnlFn

But their happiness was not TO last long.
Both were poor, and their poverty began
to imbitter their lives. Being unable, As
they thought, 70 live and care for each
other as man aud wife, they determined to
die together. They laid their plans DELHI
erately, with a touch Of that dramatic sen
timent that finds occasional Judgment in
the breasts Of persons for whom existence
has no more charms.
They took a room at the Grand Union
hotel, New York. They slept there one
night, and spent the next day in CHASTITY
preparation for death. After a late break
fast they went out and drank together.
On returning in the afternoon they called
for beer, and were heard laughing and iok
ing when it was served, EARLY In the even
ing the odor Of escaping gas was the occa
sion for their room being broken open,
when they were found dead on the bed
clasped in each others arms.
Both were arrayed In new night clothes.
The couch was underneath the chandelier;
two rubber tubes were fixed TO the gas
jets, and the other ends were In their
mouths. An empty whisky bottle, a phiAl
which had contained laudanum. and a box
OF morphine pills gave evidence OF the aw.
full deliberateness Of the deed. Not a cent
Of money was 70 be discovered, but pressed
closely against the bosom OF the girl was a
bunch Of pure white roses, evidently dOnned
loT the OCCASION. lhelr clothing, neatly
folded, had been carefully placed upon
two chairs.
With a morbid desire for sensational
ism, this despairing couple left notes for
the public to read. One addressed to the
coroner set forth:
W love each other. It is our own will
TO leave this worlds misery. We want to
die together. We wish to be buried In one
grave"
And so they snufTed out their liyesl
Philip OhnAcker and Mrs. Katherine
Barth also loved each other with tina love
which invariably ends in disaster. Philip
was a tall, handsome soldier. stationed at
Mainz, Germany. There he met Katherine.
a tickle married woman with two children.
1t was a case OF infatuation at first sight
with Der. She used all her wiles to fasci-
nate Ohuacker, who, after n brief struggle
with conscience and duty, agreed to elope
TO America She promised 10 be faithful
TO him, to mend his clothes and attend to
his personal comfort They arrived In New
York two months ago, and secured a posi-.
ton on n farm Eve hours ride from the
city as man and wife.
Once on the farm she began to tire Of
Philip, who by this time had grown thor
ouRhly infatuated She announced her in.
tention Of returning home to her husband
and children. He demonstrated in vain.
She took Storage passage by the Elder. OF
, 1891-05-17

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Arthur Love. manager of Loves Funny
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, 1891-05-17

PHILIP oHSAcKER-KATHEHnSE ARrH.
the North German line. and laughed when
Ohnacker beseeched her to remain until
they could visit the fAtherland together.
He followed her on shipboard and made
another Intellectual appeal Then he pulled
a pistol and shot her dead. As soon as she
fell Sfeless on the deck he placed the
weapon to his own head and sent a ballet
crashing through his brain. 70
In a letter TO his brother the murderer
aud suicide told Of the strange influence
the woman held over him. 81 did not want
70 come here" he wrote, but that woman
made me. Her influence over me was some
thing awful. She allowed me TO go to the
dogs. She wouldn't even mend my clothes,
and was compelled TO sew my buttons on
myself. Here l am in a strange country.
hunted worse than a wild animal"
The woman's influence WA indeed awful.
The climax of its power was her shocking
death and the suicide Of her discarded
lover.
, 1891-05-17

Cold feet are a terrible nhliction and a
provocative TO Ill temper when applied in
bed to a an spinal column. Still, as
Thomas McDonnRugh, OF St Louis, TO,
Gently found out to his sorrow, they are no
excuse for wife beating. Mrs. McDounaugh
had unconsciously touched her husbands
back with her frigid pedal cxtremities, and
Thomas resented the cold familiarity with
severe thumps on the person OF his spouse.
She had the wretch arrested n he was
lined e. and costs.
, 1891-05-17

He stole bonds and cash TO the amount OF
S2,4OO from the Mining Stock exchange, Of
which he was treasurer. He ~hypothecated
stock left with him by customers, over
drew his account with his own firm about
$4,000, and drew on Mccormick & Co. of
Chicago, for q, 500 and got the cash from a
local bank. Besides he borrowed right
and left sums ranging from five dollars to
$500, his liabilities reaching $4,000.
When the facts came out the suicide
theory was abandoned. 1t is believed thai
he went to relatives in California, who as
sisted him out OF the country. The police
have scattered McPherson's pictures broad
cast and are making a vigorous search for
him
, 1891-05-17

A Pin, Not Consumption, Allied Him.
An English surgeon has recorded a very
peculiar case When seven years old one
of his patients swallowed a pin. The sharp
pain which followed soon passed of, and
nothing more was thought of the matter.
Twenty-four years afterwRrd the man de-
Veloped symptoms OF consumption; he
was troubled with a constant cough and
huskiness Of voice. All the remedies tried
failed TO give relief. One day after a ~
we're fit Of coughing a ham dark object was
expelled. This proved TO be the forgotten
pin, which must have remained imbedded
in the larynN ever since the accident The
symptoms Of consumption disappeared
and the man was restored to health
, 1891-05-17
The East Indian cure-An for Disease.

All the ills to which mortals are the heirs
may be cured, according to an East indian
belief, by bringing the body into perfect
subsection to the will. Every disease must
yield to such treatment, and a sure specific
for old age is to put the head down. throw
the legs upward and hold the breath for a
long time. But the height of bliss is at
tanned through applying butter to the
tongue, and gradually lengthening it by
drawing it gently every day. "If necessary
cut the tissue which attaches it to the lower
jaw to the thickness OF a thread daily, and
put butter on the wound. When the tongue
is long enough, turn the tip backward into
the cavity Of the mouth upward and med.
itate. Consciousness will remain. The
senses will all be exalted. The internal
eye will see new sights, the ear will hear
gentle music, the tongue will have deli
cious tastes. There will be no demand for
food, no thirst, no sickness nor infirmities.
The fire will not burr the body, nor the
air dry it, nor the serpents do any harm"
Strange folk, these or~ientals, aren't they'
, 1891-05-17
The IneurabIe (?) Cured
STARTLING REPORT OF III MOsT
MIRACULOUS CURES
ON RECORD.

IuVallds who may yet doubt the ability of the
Gun Wa Herb Remedy Co. to cure the in
curable ~. are, hereby directed 10 write to any of
the Following ladies or gentlemen, each and all
Of whom have been benefited or cured by Gun
Wa, Notwithstanding that a large number OF
them had been pronounced incurable, and several
Of them were given up to die by dozens of the
most eminent American physicians. We again
say; Write TO any or all Of them II you are stin in
, 1891-05-17

Another chapter in the history of strang,
condolences was opened by the discovery
of the body OF Alexander Dunn, a promi
nent citizen of Trenton, N. j., in a creel
near that city. His hat was found on the
bank of the stream, which ave rise to the
suspicion that he had committed suicide
John B. Wilson put an end to all doubt
by discovering the body. Deceased had
been missing three weeks.
1t was then recalled that Dunn had fol
lowed exactly in the footsteps of his father
, 1891-05-17

ther was on the point of wedding an es-
timable woman when he committed sui
eide. Wilson, who found Alexander's body,
also found the body of Isaac twenty-five
years ago.
Financial and brain troubles caused
Alexander to drown himself; his father
was driven to suicide by the determined
opposition Of his family to his remarryiug.
Both belonged to the Society of Friends.
Suicide while temporarily ~deranged" was
The verdict In both cnses-
, 1891-05-17
DYING TOGETHER.
Tragic findings to Two Ro-
mances of Affection.
FLOWERS ON A SUICIDES BREAST

The Deliberate Manner In which Two
Departing Lovers Took Their Own
Lives at a New York HotsI-PhHiP
ohnReker's Double Crime.
Suicides have been as numerous as muir
ders OF late, and the whole category Of hu-
man ills has afforded excuses for self de-
struction. Some OF those tragedies have
displayed strangely sensational features.
The case OF Paul Behrend and Elsie Damn
heimer, in New York, was both romantic
and theatrical
Behrend was a good looking German OF
about twenty-five. He studied law in Ieip-
zig and was an accomplished pianist. In
lsSs his father, a contractor OF Berlin. was
convicted Of forgery, and to escape the dis
grace young Behrend came to America to
seek his fortune. He started as a music
teacher, but, being unsuccessful, WAS re
duced TO playing in concert saloons. While
thus engaged he made the acquaintance
Of Elsie Dannheimer, and they formed a
mutual attachment Elsie's reputation
was not OF the best, but there was no doubt
otthe strength Of her affection for Behrend.
They were rarely separated, and seemed A.
happy as persons OF their position and
character can hope TO be.
, 1891-05-17
I'M pEApLY nAYoNEr kNIFE.

tor 20 protest against the outrage. While
preferring his complaint another Italian.
named Magrauo, came rapidly down stairs
and struck him a singing blow on the
face. Margro's brother interfered, and the
three were soon engaged in a scuffie, which
Terminated in Margro being fatally stab
bed in the stomach by Magrano, who was
unknown to him. The weapon used was
a fat, double edged blade, IS inches ioeK
which is known by the Italians as a baso
, 1891-05-17

Some Of the Grand Army boys may be
interested in the following from Alex. b.
Pope, A. ID. c., commander of the de-
partment of Tennessee and Georgia. He
says: we had an epidemic of whoop.
ing cough here Stewart, Tenn.), and
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been
the only medicine that has done any
good" There is no danger from whoop-
ing cough when this remedy is freely
given. 1t completely controls the dis
ease. so cent bottles for sale by A. f.
Roadel
, 1891-05-17

MI MUM u y II
WAS "A methodical. matter Of fact business
man. with no feminine entanglements or
financial trouble He had lung trouble,
and was a sufferer from a nervous form Of
dyspepsia. Deceased was "a regular attend.
ant at the Church Of Our Lady Of Victory,
aud was a graduate Of Georgetown college,
ID. c. His father is "a director OF the Catho-
lie Orphan Asylum society. The family
were OF opinion that McMHhon procured
the morphine to ease the pains Of dyspepsia
and accidentally tool an overdose.
, 1891-05-17
PAaE M,PHERsoN,s FLIaHT.
The Man Ran Away To Avoid the Penal
tics of HE NII.InnhA

The Man Ran Away to Avoid the Penal
ties OF His MIsdseds.
st, Louis society was recently agitated
by the disappearance Of Page Mcpherson,
one Of its leaders, and a member of the
firm Of Mcpherson, Switzer 81 Co, stock
and grain brokers. As Mcpherson was
known TO be in financial straits, the suicide
theory was ut once adopted by his friends.
He WIS described As extremely sensitive,
with a rooted horror OF debt. Subsequent
Investigation showed, however, TINT the
young broker was not toUhigh strung to
indulge In practices which land many PEG
Pile In the penitentiary.
1t was discovered that MCPHERSON was
not the unfortunate Spectator his friends
described, but had been guilty of fraud
, 1891-05-17

revolver from underneath the pillow,
sprang up and shouted: who's therei
Speak, or IN FIRE" In an instant the bur.
glar fired, and Mrs. Richards fell back In
the bed dead with a bullet in her brain.
Mr.. Richards returned the fire, and there
was u rapid exchange of shots, two of
which took effect in the lower part of Rich
ards body. Not content with this the muir
derers There were two of them beat Rich
ards severely with an iron bar. The neigh
bors were aroused and a lynching party
organized, but no trace of the %rufians
could be found.
, 1891-05-17

People in the neighborhood Of Martins
Ferry, o., are afraid TO ask + C.. Lyle out
to dinner, In a recent eating match this
yoracious individual eat a peck OF apples
by way OF an appetizer, and then devoured
all the chickens, cakes, sandwiches and
pickles placed on the tables for the con
test, rounding oil with a pot Of coffee. He
frequently Eats five quarts Of oysters before
going TO bed, N looks upon a good sized
ham as a snack.
, 1891-05-17

and forgery. In
the first place he
got deeply in debt
by borrowing
money to begin
business He fell
into the clutches
Of money lenders,
who charged him
3 per cent. a month
for accommoda-
tions. He specu-
lated aud lost. and
then began a series
Of criminal trans
actions which re-
suited in his fight.
, 1891-05-17
TWENTY DOLLAR COLD PIECES

Mrs, John Curtis Of Peoria. ILL.,. writes:
Used one box of Usage Pills previous to
my secon confinement; they worked like
a charm. Would pay $50 for a box
rather than do without them. as they
have proved a Godsend to me" Write
Usage Medicine company, Wichita. Kas. ,
gur particulars. and their book to wives
nailed free. Sold by druggists. Sold by
W. n. Hunt. Cheyenne
, 1891-05-17

A. E Roedel. the druggist, desires us
to publish the following testimonial. as he
handles the remedy and believes it to be
reliable:
| bought a fifty cent bottle of Chamber
lain's Pam Balm and applied it to my
limbs, which have been afflicted with
rheumatism at intervals for one year. At
the tune | bought the Pain Balm | was
unable to walk. | can truthtully say that
Pain Balm has COMPLETELY cured me-R
y. FARR, Hollywood, Kansas. Mr.. a.
O.. Cox, the leading druggist at Hollywood
vouches for the truth Of the above state.
ment
, 1891-05-17

said "HaltT' once, but my words were
scOrned,
And the skies hung dark and low:
Icried "stopl' twice. but 1t passed as vain
As the idlest winds that blow.
Twould have stopped a horse In his wild
career,
Or an army's stern array,
But the gas meter only seemed To laugh
And silently worked away
Philadelphia Times.