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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-15

BY saleswomen until customer calls LOT
that particular thing, when its absence De-
comes conspicuous. GRADUALLY the shop-
litters become known, and when one enters
the door of the big houses, sigma! from
the tloorwa.ker puts a clerk on guard, anu
the suspected woman is carefully watched.
If the clerk has reason to believe tnaI
the woman has stolen from the counters,
she is taken into private room
and searched. This little room has WIZ
messed many astounding disclosures, out
what it will see in the future Will be some
thing very unique. Every shopllfter VIII
be PHOTOGRAPHED by kodak, which has
been purchased for the purpose, the use OF
which has been taught TO one or more OF
the clerks. The moment shoplifter Is
caught and a theft Is proven against her,
her picture will be taken and placed IN
private rogues' gallery, and under prom
Use of secrecy the clerks will have access 10
it.
By becoming familiar with the pictures
the saleswomen can easily recognize the
women whose differing procliyities are so
we'll developed and theitS prevented.
you would be greatly surprised. sald
q veteran iioorwalker, Ito know the names
OF some of the women We have to watcn,
and they would themselves be deeply
chagrined if they were aware OF our esplo non
age. Fashionable and wealthy ladies, who
have no use for the articles they
steal. daily take articles from the coun-
tiers, and do not seem to have the mental
or moral strength to withstand the temp
tation 1t seems to be species OF mania,
but am sure it is only developed and fos-
tered by constantly allowing the de-
sire to steal to get the ascend
ancy of their will power. Their confusion
on being detected is something pitiful, and
were it not a matter of dollars and cents
to us and a matter of self-protection we
would often be tempted to overlook the
thefts entirely. Then, again, there are the
professional shoplifters, who buy little and
steal much. and whose very dresses are SO
made as to conceal even whole bolts OF
cloth. We know these people also and do
not allow them to enter the house. They
are smooth. stylish class, critital buyers,
and apparently fashionable women.
When they become known i'll one city they
migrate TO another"
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THE VOTE IN BELGIUM.
Workingmen Defeated by the
Clerical Candidates.
EXCEPT IN THE BIG CITIES,
Guns Of Warships Pointed at Barcelona
to Awe the Strikers-A French
Steamer Burned.

BRUSSELS, June 1.-the elections for
members of the constituent assembly.
composed of senators and representatives
sitting together, to settle upon the changes
to be made In the constitution have COM
menced in Belgium. The returns already
received show that the Clericais, who favor
the government suffrage policy, have
elected many of the members of the last
parliament, while the Liberals. who favor
universal or manhood suffrage, gained VIC
tories in Liege and Brussels. Ministers
Benhaert, Debruin and Deburlet and all
the party leaders were reelected. Great
excitement prevails in Liege, where rival
demonstrations led to disturbances. In
Brussels the streets were crowded and
several free fights occurred. Disorders at
Ath continue, where Catholic club was
wrecked. A detachment of mounted police
RODE down the people, who offered stub
born resistance, and many saber injuries
were inflicted. The mob tore up the streets
and pelted the gendarmes with stones.
Among the wounded is a magistrate.
Forty-four Clericals and thirty-four
Liberals have been elected to the Senate.
In addition the Ciericals head the poll at
l04 districts where second ballots are ne
cessary, and the Liberals head the poll in
only one district. The Clericals already
have majority of forty In the
chamber OF representatives. At
Antwerp serious disorders oc-
Cured. the mob invading the residence
OF Catholic editor, who defended himself
with revolver, wounding one OF the mob.
Several others were injured and the mob
was finally dispersed by the gensdarmes.
Large and excited crowds gathered this
evening in all the towns in Belgium for
the purpose of congratulating the success
full candidates.
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MiSsouia Flooded,

MIssoULA, Mont, June 1.-THE river is
higher than it has been for q number of
years. The electric light plant is flooded
and the town was in darkness last night.
The lower part of the town was flooded
and people left their homes. The railroad
tracks were washed out and the wires are
down.
A portion of the delegates from Cali
fornia Oregon and Washington, en- route
TO the national Democratic convention.
are delayed here by washouts on the
Northern Pacific railroad. 1t is believed
that they can get through, as the river is
subsding. They all express differences IS
to the choice. The delegates to the A. o.
U. ". encampment at Helena are also
tied UP here
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Petroleum Steamer Struck by Lightning.

BORDEAUX, June 14-An appalling acct
dent occurred this morning on the
Garonne river, near Blaye. The British
steamer Petrolia, loaded with petro-
leum, from Philadelphia, was struck
by lightning. and a tremendous ex-
plosion followed. scattering the deck
and upper works in every direction, set
ting fire to the vessel and the burning
petroleum flowed out on the water. This
set fire to a number of other vessels in the
river, mostly engaged in river and coast
ing trade. and they were burned to the
waters edge. The Petrolia was DESTROYED
and twenty of her forty men, comprising
her crew, persisted in the flames. The
other twenty were rescued with difficulty,
some of them being badly burned.
The lighters near the Petrolia sank in
few minutes after the explosion and the
three men aboard were drowned. The fire
communicated to the landing stage The
woods along the banks of the river were
also set on fire and a quantity of valuable
timber was burned. The damage is great.
The total number of lives lost by the ex-
plosion and fire is fifteen
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His Fiancee, the Countess Hoyos. IL
but Half His Age.
Pail Mall Budget.

iii MIL buCget.
1t would be interesting to know how
often Count Herbert Bismarck has been
engaged to be married" before. He is
now 43 years old-that is to say, just twice
the age of his charming Anglo Hungarian
tiancee. Countess Margaret Hoyos-but
ever since he came to mans estate there
have been again and again rumors of his
engagement and approaching marriage.
Now it was the fair daughter of some un.
important German princeling; then a.
jump was made TO royal highness yery
near the German throne; again there was
weeping and crashing OF teeth at his be-
trothal to French princess; and who has
not heard his name coupled only season
or two ago with that of one of the most
beautiful and aristocratic ladies of this
country?
Ail's well that ends we'll, however. and
nobody will grumble at the engagement of
Count Herbert to the daughter of Count
George Noyos, who, by the way, is the
husband of one of the daughters of Mr..
Whitehead OF torpedo fame. The engage
ment took place last week at Frume
Count Hoyos' seat in Hungary, only a
fortnight after Count Herbert had met
the young Hungarian beauty TOR the first
time. 1t is characteristic Of the patri-
archal ways of the Bismarckian house-
bold that ''yOung Bismarck" at the age
of 43, did not become formally engaged
till he obtained his parents consent few
days ago.
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Italy Short on Silver.

ROME, June 14.-Great scarcity of silver
change continues and the measures which
have been taken to prevent its expectation
have not remedied the trouble. A dis
patch from the president of the chamber
of commerce of Milan was received bv the
ministry of the treasury complaining of
absolute lack of silver change in Lombard,
and asking that prompt measures be taken
to remedy the difficulty. Reports to the
same effect were received from financial
agents in other parts of Italy. Stricter
orders have been given with a view Of pre-
venting clandestine shipments. An agent
has been arrested at Turin for violating
the law fixing tariff for the transporta-
ton of silver. This agent had 5000 francs
In small silver coins which he was about
to carry to Modena, where it was ex-
tremely scarce.
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A Tacoma Physician Dead.

TACOMA, June 14.-[Special. DIR. Ed
ward F. Miles, D. D., for seven years house
physician at the Fanny Paddock hospital.
died last night, Of consumption resulting
in tubercular laryngitis, at his ranch in
the town of Muck, Pierce county.
tDr. Miles was born in Ireland 50 years 400
aud was graduate of the University Of Dubli,
In 1882 he aud Mrs. Niles took charge of the
Paddock hospital, with which he was con.
nected until about year ago, when he re-
moved 10 his rauch1
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Bears and Geology.

AS the steamship Ems was crossing the
ocean last week her passengers were treated
to the sight of an iceberg floating majes-
tcally southwark into warmer waters,
and slowing dissolving away. The
sight was Enthusiastically magnifi-
cent one, but the most interesting
feature of the great berg was the presence
on it of two polar bears. They had evil
IDENTIFY been on il when it separated from
its parent Ice-mass, and had prolonged
their stay until it was too late for them to
return to land. Now they were on their
way TO certain drowning, for the days
of the berg were already numbered
when the people on the Ems saw it. 1t
was rapidly melting. and the dav was not
far off when it would wholly disappear,
plunging its two shaggy passengers into
the waters of mid-ocean. Geology as
sumes that the rocks we know were laid
down at the bottom of the ancient seas,
there by heat and pressure consolidated
into stone, and thence upheaved, whether
slowly or with commissions none can
guess. till they became the backbone of
continents far above the changed water
line. Suppose that very thing happens to
the bottom of the Atlantic. on which the
skeletons of these two grizzlies are soon to
rest? Suppose some geologist of q million
years hence nnds their FOSSIL bones Ill that
sea-bottom-by that time turned into rock
and raised above the water level d? What sort
of theory will be built upon them as to
the climate and fauna of the mid Atlantic
region away back in the-to him-pre-
historic times when these grizzlies lived
and died. We shan't know what theory
he will build, any more than the
jewellers in mesozoic times knew
what theories our paeontolosists
h;lilH ,1por
fossil bones. Perhaps the future paleon-
tologist may get his theory right; perhaps
present Psychologists have built their
theories right; but there's deal of guess
work about such things at best, and the
man who really knows the most is apt to
be least doGmatic in geology-or in any
thing else, for that matter
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OrPCrn Netrs

PORTLAND, June 14.--TSpecial. Recent
ly a Masonic lodge, of Hull. Ia, adyer-
tised that brother, Jennings by name.
was missing, and was supposed to be in
Oregon. He was thought to have been
seen near Roseburg, and this word was
sens to his family in the East. A replv
just received states that Jennings turned
up alive and well at his old home in
Maine.
Clarence Jory, farmer, living five miles
south of Salem. has discovered q vast bed
of iron ore on his farm. 1t ASSAYS 80 nor
cent. pure iron.
William Andrews and Harry Arnold.
horse thieves. who stole n span of horses
several months ago from T. T. BEDFORD. of
Eugene, and aftegward broke Jail and were
recaptu7ed at Harrisburg. were indicted
arralgned. pleaded guilty and were SEN
fenced 10 one year each in the penitentiary.
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A Light Comedian.

New York Weekly.
Mrs. McMoriarty-Phati is your son dom
now, Mrs. O'Rafferty?
Mrs. 'Rafferty-Sure he's adopted tn
stage as profession, Mrs. McMoriarty.
Mrs. McMoriarty-A FIT avenoo stage
is it?
Mrs. O'Rafferty-Be away wild y'r nom
since! It's an actor he is. He do 30
light comedian.
Mrs. McMoriarty-A loight comedian
is it?
Mrs. O'Rafferty-Yis. He stands beyans
the back curtain, and his mouth to nois
forninst candle, an whin Pawnee lke
shoots at tn candle he blows il out.
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WAsHINGroN Cry, June 14-All the
governments of Europe have either for.
mally or informally accepted the invita-.
ton issued by the president to par.
ticipate with the United States in
a monetary conference looking 10
more extensive use of silver
money. The time and place for the con.
ference has not yet been settled. While
the conferees on the part of the United
States have not yet been announced. it il
generally. accepted that II. w. Cannon
and Senator Jones, of Nevada, will be an.
pointed.
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THE sHoPLIFTER's KODAK.
How the Unsuspecting Kleptomaniacs
Are Caught in Minneapolis.


The amount OF dry goods, millinery and
toilet articles filched from under the watch.
fui eyes OF saleswomen in the leading re-
tail stores is something enormous. and
those not acquainted with regular shon-
lifting practices conducted by scores of
iight-tingered females in MinneanoIis
would DE greatly surprised at the tales the
proprietors and fioorwalkers could tell
and at the names they could furnish.
pretty lace handkerchief or some other
article of feminine use, which can no
conveniently secreted in muF or
dipped into a convenient fold of a dress
seems TO offer temptation too
great TO resist, even to respectable
ladies, who would grow hvsterlcallv
indignant if an accusation of theft was
brought against them. The practice of
shoplliting has developed enormously in
Minneapolis, and one large firm, at least
has adopted a new and novel method Of
aoating the practice of petty piIterine. the
proprietors OF the Glass Block.
From the counters OF this concern are
daily stolen articles which are never missed
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New YORK, June 14.-Secretary J. E.
Searles of the sugar trust, who lives at SO
st. Marks avenue. Brooklyn, had a des-
perate encounter with burglar this even
ing. Owing to the excessive heat the
front door had been left open. About
9 O'Clock two men entered the hall
way. Searles met them at the parlor
door, when a revolver was placed to his
his head and demand made for money.
Searles refused to comply with their re-
quest and struggle followed. during
which one of the burglars fired, but
missed Searles. The noise of the shot and
the struggle brought others to the scene.
One of the burglars fled, and the other
was overpowered, but not before he had
fired again at Searles.
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A Bishop Speaks for sunday Opening

By far the most notable episode during
the recent session of the Canterbury con.
vocation was the admirable speech of the
Bishop OF Rochester in favor of opening
the museums and picture galleries on Sun
days. The GUARDIAN, which eulogizes Dr..
Davidson's speech as an Grafton of great
courage and Importance, states that it
achieved with remarkable success the very
difficult task of putting subject which
had been under debate for years in a
wholly new light. 1t may safely be
assumed that the enlightened views which
were expressed by Dr. Davidson are en-
tirely shared by the queen As a prelae
holding the office of the clerk of the closet,
who is constantly at court and is known
to be most agreeable to the queen, he
would not have been likely to take so bold
line on such subject without having
obtained her majesty's approval The
queen has always opposed Sabbatarian
bigotry, and shortly after her marriage,
Bishop, then Archbishop, Wilberforce was
sharply censured by some of the church
papers because, being constantly at Wind.
sor Castle and Claremont, he had not re-
buked Prince Albert's habit of playing
game of chess after dinner on Sunday
night.
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Louisiana Plantations Flooded.

NEW ORLEANS, June 14.-All hope of
closing the Belmont levee creyasse, forty
eight miles from here, has been abandoned.
The break is more than 200 feet wide,
twelve feet deep, and is cutting rapidly.
Water from the Belmont and the Sarapics
crevasse, thirty miles above the city, has
inundated the Mississippi valley, covering
all the plantations along the river front.
NAPoLEoNvILLE, La, June Ask men
were drowned here today by the sinking
of a small ferryboat in Bayou Lafourche.
Their names are Edmond Schneider, Jack
son Hardill, Robert Aiken and two un-
known Italians.
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Different From the Deacon Case.

ARKANSAS CRY. Kan, June l4.-For
several days Mrs. J. A. Mccormick, wife
of wealthy ranchman living at Willow
Springs, has been here in company with
ID. c. Jones, of Kingtsher, o. T. Word
was sent to Mccormick of their intimacy,
who came here last night, and going to the
hotel, surprised the guilty couple in
room together. He opened fire on Jones,
who returned the fire. with the result that
both were shot and killed almost instant
ly. Mrs. Mccormick fed in her night
dress, but was subsequently arrested.
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Eastern Labor Troubles Ended.

ToNAwANDA, n. Y, June 1.-THE labor
difficulties, which resulted in riots and
bloodshed, were amicably settled tonight.
The propositions OF the lumber showers
were accepted and the men will go to work
tomorrow.
HoUGHToN, Mich, June 1.-THE strike
at the Osceola mine was about terminated
today by a settlement satisfactory to both
sides. Work will be resumed shortly.
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Missouri Lynchers i'm shackles.

SPRINGFIELD. Mo-, June H.-Eleven men
who are held without bail for the murder
of Deputy Sheriff George T. Williams,
were lodged in jail today to await trial.
They We're all heavily shackled with irons
and brought from Forsythe this morning.
Williams was killed while trying to save a
prisoner from lynchers.
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Georges Hotel and Stable and An Adj
joining Store Destroyed.


NEW WESTMINSTER, June 14.-[Special.l
South Westminster received another
serious scorching early this morning, and
two of the best buildings there were
almost entirely wiped out by flames. The
fire started about 2:15 O'Clock, in a large
stable in the rear of Georges hotel, and
soon spread to the hotel itself, and from
there to Beaten IL Pixies general store, adj
joining. The stable was completely con-
sumed, and nothing but few charred
timbers and the front of the hotel remains.
The store was damaged to about three
fourths of its value, but the stock was
mostly saved, though considerably dam
aged by water.
How the fire originated is not known,
but it is generally believed to have been
set by an incendiary. The value of prop
erty destroyed is about $1,000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
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More Money for the Roslyn Fund.

The sum of 500 was received by the
PosT-INTELIIGESCER yesterday from the
Epworth League, composed of the young
people Of the First Methodist Episcopal
church, as contribution to the PosT-IS-
TEILIGENCER fund for the relief Of the
sufferers by the Roslvn mine explosion.
1t will be forwarded to the Roslyn relief
committee today.
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Cattle Thieves Held for Tr,.,

CoLyiLtE. june H-[Special. John and
Joseph Blackburn, who were arrested last
week on a charge of stealing cattle
from the ranges on Walters prairie. had a
preliminary examination today. The evil
dence went TO show that they
had killed and butchered neighbors'
cattle, cut the brands ont of the
hides and buried the skins in
various places On their farms. Others are
SAID 70 be implicated in what appears to
be wholesale Illicit Matchmaking con-
cern. The Blackbu7ns are prosperous
farmers ana have heretofore been above
suspicion. They were held TO answer AZ
the present term OF the superior court.
under $l,5l1 bonds each.
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That this wealth has since grown to b

That this wealth has since grown to be
$500, 000, 900 is stating it very conserva-
lively. The estimated income per annum
is SIS, 100000. AT current rates of interest
this fortune, if kept intact, will in twenty
five years have grown to be nearly 81 Co.,
COO, 900.
The enormous pile of money comprised
in 81 ,000, 900 is hardly realized by most
people. What figure Millionaire would
be may perhaps be best understood by
saying that such man, If his wealth were
all concentrated in these parts, would hold
clear title to the whole city OF Boston
experimenting all it's lands and build
ings as they stand.
1t is by no means certain that John
Swinton's prophecy will not materialize
before the century closes. The interest on
the Vanderbilt wealth at per cent. would
make it ct the end of five years $40. 000,-
900; in ten years. $4iS, 000, 600; in twenty
tive years, $94l. 900 900; in fifty years,
So, 00O, 600 900
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Abe Snring on Enumeration.

WASHINGTON CRY, June 14.-[Special. i
Senator Alien today presented TO the
Senate the views of Abraham Spring. of
Seattle. on the subject of immigration.
Mr.. Spring has presented some very inter
est;ng acts in connection with his sub
ject. and his statement was ordered
printed as public document
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Building Permits.

Five building permits were issued yes
terday for new houses and repairs. The
new structures are as follows:
Muhl Bros, one-story frame. on Jack
son street, between Pearl and Alton, $500.
+. L. Sander, one and one-half-story,
frame, on Seventh, between Cedar and
Alder IS 600
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Tacoma ex-omcials May Be Indicted.

Tacoma ex-Oficials May Be Indicted.
TACOMA. June A.-[Special.l There is
talk on the streets tonight of the advisa-
biiity of indicting all connected with the
old board Of public works. who permitted
discrepancy of ton or more in the
weight of buoy chains for the Tacoma
harbor. Under the lead of Councilman
Berry an investigation is in progress. the
charges being, besides the discrepancy in
weight, that some Of the buoy fixtures
were secondhand.
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Drowned in the Willamette.

PORTLAND. June Ia. Specialize. C.
Carroll, q stranger who had just arrived
from the East, was drowned near Ross
Island this afternoon. He was trying to
swim from the island - the east
Portland shore. when he was seized with
cramps and sank. y companion went to
his rescue. but Carroll was drowned be-
fore he reached the spot
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Congregational Church Convention.

OLYMPIA, June 14.-[Special. THE first
annual meeting of the Tacoma Associa-
ton of Congregational churches is in ses-
sion here, with Rev. Thomas Sims, of Ia
coma. moderator, and Rev. A. J. Smith, of
Tacoma, secretary. A resolution was
adopted favoring change in the constitu.
tion of the American board, making it
more representative of the church than it
now is. The meeting will close tomorrow.