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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
BLIZZARD SCATTERED FIR ES.

sugar Mills. Warehouses, Etc, Burned
Loss Of S85O,OOO.
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. 2s.-The sugar
mills, warehouses and 1900 barrels of re-
fined sugar on the Darlington plantation
in Fort Bend county, owned by Mrs.
Naroissa Willis Of this city, were burned
Monday morning, entailing loss of $3.50,
900, upon which there was an insurance
of 1000. The fires had been banked
Christmas day but fierce blizzard swept
down at night, scattering the fires
and causing conflagration.
The Chinn plantation owned by T..
Brown of Houston, suffered similar dis
aster, entailing a loss OF over S1OO, 900, the
same night. This property was partially
insured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Quarantine Rules.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 The surgeon
general OF the marine hospital service has
prepared quarantine rules and regulations
for vessels in foreign ports, including
passengers, crew and cargo, to be inforced
under such laws as at present exist, until
further provisions are made by the passage
by tho present Congress OF national
quarantine laws. The rules provide sani-
tsry measures necessary to prevent con-
tagious disease being brought from In
fected ports or places.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Experts Mt Work.

DUBLIN, Dec. 2S.-Cols. Majendie and
Cundell, government experts, yesterday
made a minute examination OF the scene
OF Saturday nights explosion. They Sc
cured "a specimens for further study In
the lnbratory some of the debris result
ing from the explosion. Among their
finds is massive granite slab, five inches
thick, upon which the explosive rested,
and through which a hole was blown.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Jury Finds McAndrew Guilty.

BosroY, Dec. 2s.--A verdict of guilty OF
putting arsenic in an oyster stew, with
intent to kill his wife, is the verdict OF
the Jury on the second count OF the in
dictment against Michael McAndrew
The defendant IL Dorchester resident.
The offence OF which he was found guilty
Of was committed on Sept. last. The
penalty that awaits him may be as great
as ten years at state prison.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
IT you want to vote next year,
register now!


NASHUA, N. H., Dec. 2S.-Yesterday a
hack containing wedding party, which
was going to the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception from the brides residence
was struck by Concord & Montreal loc-
omotive. Both horses were instantly
killed. The driver was terribly injured
as was also companion on the drivers
seat. The four inmates OF the hack were
upset and very badly bruised.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

ELwooD, Ind, Dec. 2s.-Mrs. Million, q
widow, left her three children alone in
the house for short time while she
stepped across to neighbor's to invite
them to Christmas dinner. During her
absence, the Youngest son lighted match
and set his little sisters clothes on fire.
Before the mother returned, the little one
had been fatally burned. The child died
in four hours. Thirty-one matches had
been lighted by the child before he sue
ceeded in setting her clothes on fire.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
If you want to vote next year,
register now!
Fell Under the Cars.

MELRosE, Mass, Dec. 2s. - Leonard
Darling, IS years Of age, jumped from an
express train at the Melrose station yes
teroay afternoon, and was fatally injured.
The train slowed mp, "a another train wa,
standing az the station at the time, and
Darling swung of, but fell underneath.
the cars cutting or both legs. lie was
removed TO the freight house and died Is
minutes later.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
same Old Gas story.

HAvERHrLL, Dec. 2s.-L. s. Rawson OF
Moulton, VT, was found dead i'm room
at the Etna House. Letters found in hi,
coat pocket indicate that he was Luther
). Rswson from Moultor, Vt. He was
lbout IS years old. Death was caused by
lsphixiation. He blew out the light in.
tesd OF turning OF the gas.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

armored hull "tumbles home" from be-
low the waterline and also runs down
forward and aft below the waterline
The thickness of armor on deck will be
3 inches; about three feet above the
waterline throughout the machinery
space ii will be inches, and 2h feet be-
low the inch armor il will be inches.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
$40 900 Fire mt Worcester.

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 2s.-A large
building at the corner Of Exchange and
Union streets, owned by William Il. Mer-
rifield, was partly destroyed by fire last
evening. The building was occupied by
Hatch & Barnes, stair builders, and John
w. Barnes, box maker. The loss is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, covered by in
surance.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Valuable Horses Saved.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 2s.-The liv-
cry stable Of ID. c. Cook & Sons, on Mead
ow street, near Prout, was burned last
night about II. - o'clock. There were
large number of valuable horses in the
stable, but all were gotten out in safety.
The loss will reach about $4,000. There
Is but $4,000 Insurance. The building is
owned by the estate OF Herrick p. Frost.
Origin unknown.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
BLAZE AT OMAHA.

Four Story Building Destroyed, Causing a
Loss OF 100000.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 2s.-The Continental
block, four story brick building located
at Fifteenth and Douglass streets, was
visited by fire last night and almost COM
pletely destroyed. The loss to building
and contents will reach fully $4,000.
The carpet and furniture establishment.
OF s. A. Orchard & Co., occupying four
floors, loses s120,0O0 insurance sos, 900
The Continental Clothing Co.'s loss l.
about S65 900; insurance fS5,0OO
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
WHERE Is THORNTON2
He Was to Have Been Married Christmas
Day, But Failed to Appear.

Day, But Failed to Appear.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 2s. = John
Thornton OF Coxsackie, N. Y, was to have
been married on Christmas Day to Miss
Sadie Hanley of this city. The young
man left his home on Wednesday night,
intending to spend a day or two in New
York city and then come to this city.
Thornton did not put in an appearance
at the time appointed for the ceremony
and as result his friends are much wor-
ried as to his whereabouts. They, with
out exception, believe that he has in some
way been foully dealt with and will hear
OF no other explanation OF his non-appear-
ance.
1t Is known that Thornton had large
sum of money with him when he left
Coxsackie. The New York police have
been asked to look him up.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Dumb for Eight weeks.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 2s.-Eight weeks ago
Mamie Johnes OF Belts street became sud
denly dumb. and every effort TO restore
her voice failed. Yesterday her speech
returned AZ suddenly as II left her.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Ono Man Killed.

HADLEy, Id, Dec. Pa snow slide
swept away the engine house of the mar
row guage mine at Deer Creek, and
wrecked concentration mill 500 yards be-
low. Henry Bloss, who was in the engine
house. was instantly killed A teamster
named Mcconnell was caught, and his
team killed, but he was dug out alive.
The snow in the mountains is very heavy
and slides are frequent.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

BIDDEFoRD, Me-, Dec. 2s.-James NJ.
Perkins, farmer OF North Berwick,
hanged himself i'm his barn Christina, day
Mental derangemsnt occa sioned by
the grip was the cause. lie leaves
wife and six children.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE FoLeER RAM.
Besides these four mortars there will be
two submarine guns on the principle OF
the Ericsson gun in the Destroyer. They
will probably be OF about I5-inch calibre,
with capacity to send torpedo con.
tanning 500 pounds OF high explosive
with a greatspeed at least 3O0y ards. Thus
the vessel attacked will be in jeopardy in
three different ways, all OF which attacks
are directed at her most vulnerable parts
namely, her decks, by the mortar shells,
and her underwater unprotected hull by
the submarine guns and the rams spur.
The accompanying cuts show some OF
the peculiarities OF the proposed ram.
Her main hull, as shown in the midship
sectional view, is almost an eclipse in
section. Forward and aft are super
structures CARRYING the uortsrs. but the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

City OF MEXICO, Dec. ga fierce fgh,
between soldiers and bandits has occurred
near rTanguistedgo, in the state OF Mexico.
Six bandits were killed and tvo others
Who had been wounded, were captured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Opera House Burned.

GENEVA, N. Y, Dec. 2s.-The Linden
Opera House, valued at $4,000, was
burned. Several adjoining places of bus
iness were damaged
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
THE NEWS WILL PAY

ANY kind of local organization in Rhode Island is
eligible. but not an organization having several local
chapters. Thus one chapter of Red Men could com
pete but not the Red Men as a whole
A Grand Army Post is eligible a charity organization
a benefit order, ward or town political club
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

Here's something worth working for. Any organiza
tion wants money-to buy carpets lamps chairs books
for its sick fund.- its vacation fund.- its social fund
for any purpose that may seem worth while.
And the most coupons will win.
See Page for coupons and conditions.
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1t is, however, in theory pet mode oil
attack with some navy officers, and we
are now building one vessel-the Ammen
ram-whose sole offensive power lies in
her spur, with which, it is hoped, she will
sink her enemies.
In the annual report OF the navy Chief
OF Ordnance another ram is recommended
for construction. This proposed craft
contains several characteristics wholly
different from those OF the Ammen de-
sign. Instead Of being dependent solely
on her spur, she is to be provided with
four short bored rife mortars, placed in
pairs forward and aft. IL is expected
that these will be of9-inch calibre, and will
throw shells each carrying at least 2O
pounds OF high explosive. It is not ex.
pected that the projectiles from these
guns will be fired with high velocity, but
that plunging fire at short range will
be delivered from her bow pair as the
ram charges at her enemy and from the
two stern guns as she retreats.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
NOVEL DESIGN FOR A RAM.

She VIII Carry Mortars Above Water
and Two Ericsson Guns Below Surface.
The ram is as old as warships them
selves. III ship gets fair blow with
her bow against an enemy's hull the ves-
sci struck can hardly be expected to sur
vive the blow more then a few minutes
But in the naval engagements OF the past
forty years, during which steam has been
the propelling power OF men-of-war
there have been rare instances in which
ramming has been successful.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Pears
Soap

Whoever wants soft
hands, smooth hands. white
hands, or a clear complex
ion, he and she can have
both; that is, if the skin is
naturally transparent; un-
less occupation prevents.
The color you want to
avoid comes probably nei-
ther Of nature or work, but
of habit.
Either you do not wash
efectually, or you wash too
efectually; you do not get
the skin open and clean, or
you hurt it. |
Remedy.-Use Pears,
Soap, no matter how much:
but a little is enough if you
use it often. I
All sorts Of stores sell IL, especially
druggists; all sorts Of people use il
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Opportunity

1t passes quickly: you must be
ready for it-watch in hand and
be sure it is a watch with jeweled
bearings and accurate adjustment
50 that you can rely on it for time;
a watch you can be proud to carry
and show to your friends "a watch
with all the modern Improvements,
handsome and stylish enough to
make a present of, yet not costing
afortune-the new, quick-winding
Waterbury. S4 to SIS.
All jewelers. keep Il in all styles.
Gold. filled. silver etc.
Ladies' chaielaine. gentle
mems and boys watches.
Stem winding and setting.
See it."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
RUGGISTS.

HALL & LYON 203 WESTMINSTER ST.-23
III 20 10 per cent. saved ali drug store goods
Our checking system makes mistakes In prescrip-
tions impossible.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28

MILLER & vAUGHAN,s CUSTOM HOUSE ST.
NI dealers In all Standard Securities. Interest,"
paid on deposits subject 20 check at sight
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DENTISTS.

III c. SPENCER DENTAL ROOMS IS ARCADE,
IL. Second hoor.-Painless Extracting q Sp0-
cialty. Tooth Brushes and Tooth Powders for sale.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
CLASSIFIED
Business Directory.
ABETTING COMPANY.

ENCOURAGES SYSTEMATIC SAVING. -
~ $iS month, for years, accumnlatesto $500.
Paid In capital 81 600 O00 Subscribed 90 600 0Ol
per cent guaranteed. ONCE. 80 Weybosset street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-28
Dolls, TOYS And GAMES.

HAYDEN q CHESTER. PINE sTREET.
IL Provdence, X. TOYS Games Novelties
Supplies at wholesale. Full line OF nrst-class
fireworks
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CHAPTER VI.
A MORMON CARAVAN.


 Still, as VIC rode along, the same rich, tranquil days of October; the air al- ways potable gold, and every breath nepenthe.
 Early on one of the fairest of after moons when all were fairest We reached Fort Bridger. Bridger had been an old hunter, trapper, and by and by that for lorn hope of civilization, the holder of an Indian trading post. The spot is bet ter known now. It was there that that miserable bungle and blunder of an ad- ministration, more fool, If that be possi- ble, than knave-the Mormon expedi- ton in 1858-took refuge after its disas- ters on the Sweetwater.
 At the moment of our arrival Bridger's fort had just suffered capture. Its owner was missing. The old fellow had deemed himself the squatter sovereign of that bleak and scar region. He had built an adobe mud fort, with paiisade, on 8 sweep of plain q degree less desert than the deserts hard by. That oasis was his oasis, so he fondly hoped; that mud fort. his mud fort; those willows and alders. his thickets; and that trade, his trade.
 But Er1dger was one man, and he had powerful neighbors. It was case of 70 si angulus istew-a Noboth's vine- yard case. The Morlnons did not love the rugged mountaineer; that worthy Gentle, in turn. thought the saints no better than 50 many of the ungodly. The Mornons coveted oasis, fort, thicket and trade. They accused the old fellow of selling powder and ball to hostile h. dians-to Walker, chief of the Utes, d scion, no doubt, of the Hockey Walker branch of that family. Very likely he had done so. At all events, it was good pretext So in the name of the prophet, and Brigham, successor of the prophet, the Latter-day Saints had made rald upon the post. Bridger escaped to the mountains. The captors occupied the Gentile's property, and spoiled his goods
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''rm sorry old Bridger has come to grief" said Brent to me as we rode over the plain toward the fort. ''He was a rough, but worth all the Latter-day Saints this side of Armageddon. Bid dulph and I staid 8 week with him last summer, when we came from the noun tains about Luggernel alley"
 Jake and the main party stopped at the fort. We rode on quarter of q mile farther, and camped near stream. where the grass was plenteous.
 We left our little caballada nibbling daintily at the sweetest spires of self cured hay, and walked back to the fort
 We stood there chatting with the gar rison. Presently Brent's quick eye caught some white spots far away on the slope of the prairie, like sails on the edge of a dreamy, sunny sea.
 "Look!" said he, "there comes Salt Lake immigration train"
 "Yes,' said Mormon of the garrison "that's Elder Sizzum's train. Their fore runner came in this morning to choose the camping spot. There they bel two hundred OK teams, thousand saints, bound for the Promised Land" ,r,
 He walked off to announce the arrival. whistling, "Jordan is hard road to travel"
 Iknew of SiZZum as the most seductive orator and foreign propagandist of Nor monism. He had been in England some time, very successful at the good work; The caravans we had already met were of his proseiytes. He himself was com
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tempting packs, that tempting scalp with it's love locks! Why, the sight of your scalp alone would send thrill through every Indian heart from Bear river to the Dalles of the Columbia! Perhaps, by the way, you've been scalp ed already and are safe?"
 'No; the mop's my own mop. Scalp's all right. Wish could say the same of the brains. The Indians would not touch me. am half savage, you know. In this and my former trip, have be come a privileged character ething of medicine man."
 ''I suppose you can talk to them? You used to have the gift of tongues. By the way, how did you find me out?'
 "I heard some Pikes, at camp last night, talking of a person who had sold a quartz mine for wonderful horse. l asked the name. They told me yours, and directed me here. Except for this talk, should have gone down to San Francisco and missed you"
 eLucky horse! He brings old friends together-a good omen! Come and see him."
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clean-are not ragged, are not even patched. Their garments renew them selves, shed rain like mackintosh, repel dust, sweeteil unsavoriness. These sham saints needed unlimited scouring-per sons and raiment. We passed them, when we could, to windward. Poor creatures! we shall see more of their kin dred anon.
 We hastened on, for our way was long and autumn's hospitable days were few. Just at the foot of those bare, bulky satch range tones off into the great plains between it and the Rockies, we overlook the Salt Lake mail party going eastward They were travelling eight or ten men strong, with four mule wagon, and several horses and mules driven be- side for relays.
 "If Jake Chamberlain is the captain of the party" said Brent, when we caught sight of them upon the open, well join them.'
 "Who is Jake Shamberlain?'
 'sAhappy-go- lucky fellow whom have met and recognized all over the world. He has been London policeman. He was pulling stroke oar in the captains gig that took me ashore from dinner on board the Firefy, British steamer, at the Pir@us. He has been lay brother
 "I don't up, serstand. I have not seen him since w. left you in the summer. I've been on to California and back"
 '.The barrownight's ben stoppin round In tAs valley ever since. He seems to have 6 call to stop. Perhaps his heart is tesched, and he is goan to jine the Lords people. left him down to my ranch ten days ago, playing with a grizzly cub, what he's trying to make 8 gentleman of. A booty average gentle man it'll make too" -..-.-
 "Very odd!' says Brent to me. "Bid- dulph meant to start for home at once when we parted. He had some errand in behalf of the lady he had run away from"
 Probably he found he could not trust his old wounds under her eyes again. Wants another years ernst over his scar fled heart"
 Quite likely. We'll, wish we had known he was in the valley. We would have carried him back with us. A fine fellowl Couldn't be better!''
 "Not raw, as Englishmen generally are?'
 "No; we'll ripened by a year or so in America"
 By this time we had reached camp.
 Horses first, self afterward, is the law of the plains travel. A camp must have:
 1. Water.
 3. Fodder.
 3. Fuel.
 These arc the necessities. Anything else is luxury.
 We joined suppcrs with our new friends. After supper we sat smoking our pipes and talking horse, Indians, bear fights. scalping and other brutal business, such as the world has not out grown.
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and ordered with the precision of practice. This same maneuver had been repeated every day of the long journey. Precisely as the foremost teams met at the upper end of the curve, the two hindmost were parting at the lower. The ellipse was complete. IL locked itself top and bot tom. The train came to halt. Every wagon of the two hundred stopped close upon the heels of its file leader.
 A tall man, half pioneer, half deacon, in dress and mien, galloped up and down the ring. This was Sizzum, so the by. islanders informed us. At signal from him the oxen, two and three yoke to wagon, were unyoked, herded and driven off to wash the dust from their protestant nostrils and graze over the russet prairie. They huddled along, great army, thousand strong. Their brown Hanks grew ruddy with the low sunshine. A cloud of golden dust rose and hung over them. The air was loud with their lowing. Relieved from their drags the herd frisked away with un- wieldy gamboling. We turned to the camp, that improvised city in the will derness.
 Nothing could be more systematic than its arrangement. Order is welcome in the world. Order is only second to beauty. It is, indeed, the skeleton of beauty. Beauty seeks order, and be- comes its raiment. Every great white hooded, picturesque wagon of the Nor mon caravan was in it's place. The tongue of each rested on the axle of its forerunner, or was arranged upon the grass beneath. The ellipse became fort and corral. Within, the cattle could be safely herded. Marauding redskins would gallop about in vain. Nothing stanpedable there. Scalping redskins, too,, would be baffied. They could not make a dash through the camp, whisk off scalp and vanish untouched. |, March and encampment both had been marshaled with masterly skill. "Sizzum," Brent vowed to me, sotto voce, ''may be blind guide with ditch ward tendencies in faith. He certainly knows how to handle his heretics in the field. I have seen old tacticians, Mare ;hales and Feldzeugmeisters, in Europe, with El Dorado on each shoulder, and Golconda on the left breast, who would have tied up ttat train into knots that none of the,a would be Alexander enough to cut
 (COntinuC0 next Iynek.N
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A REAL SURPRISE.
What former Captain of Police says about

KNOWN BY EvERYBODY.-CAUsE FOR
 ALARM UNLESS IMMEDIATE ACTION IS
 TAKEN.
 Alexander Bell is retired captain of the Portland, Me-, police force
 He has a strange and wonderful story to tell.
 : Now MT. Bell is an old Grand Army man. indeed, was one of the founders of the famous Bosworth Post, G. A. R., and is widely known and much respected throughout the State of Maine.
 We will let him tell his remarkable story in his own way:
 ''I have had two strokes of paralysis, the first about four years ago, the second in January, 1891. My left side was com- pletely paralyzed, face drawn, arm and leg immovable.
 "On account of my advanced age of 75 years, and this being second attack, my physician pronounced my case hopeless.
 ''I was finally induced to try Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and soon began to improve, the muscles of the face strengthened, then my arm be- gan to gain, and I began to walk after having used three bottles of this remedy.
 My arm can now place to my head and have fair use of it, and with cane have walked&s far as two miles and half