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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-04

but the above letter tells the story. There
were also letters to Mrs. Graves, wife OF
the doctor, TO Jailer Crews and an address
to the public That the prisoner had long
contemplated taking his own life is evil
dent from the date of the letters-Aug. o
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-04

Delicious shore Dinners nc Fields Point
Special care OF ladies and chlldren. aud private
dining rooms for those who wish. Special y. nm.
bake daily; clean table c'o,as at every table she
best chowdsr snd cleanest clans
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-04
school shoe.

Good. rugged footwear for the school childrcn nj
reasonable prices. at Thos. y. Peirce s5n's.wcst
Minister ana Dorrance street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-04

bryant a. stratton Busairss college.
ONCE now open. Gail ut once and secure your
seat. Hoppin Homestead Building.
T. B. STOwFLL.
PRINCIPAL.
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How Fires Anect People

In a fire YOU get very close down ia
human nature, observes the New York
Sun. The other night an apartment
house took fire. There was no time
to be lost by the inmates A mother
scantily clad aud crying took out her
two little children. A wife buttoned
herself In her long newmarket and
ran, leading her br0wn-eared setter.
A devoted son and daughter on the
top floor dressed wormly their help
less old mother Of SO and waited to
carry her, If need he, across the fire
escape. One woman put on a fur
lined cape over her night dress and
came forth with a travelling bag filled
with silver. A young widow ran for
her new Sunday frock and took down
the departed ones portrait. Another
came forth fully equipped as for
church, in jacket, tipped hat aud
crimpS Another young woman left
all her belongings and fled in her
night dress. blistering her bare feet
on the cin1ers, and ran down the
street calling for a carriage. Another
got her valuables in her sealskin coat
and finding the smoke not too threat
ening, tisled out her long tailed
gown and the black silk s~ilhouettes Of
her grandfather and grandmother
which she knew she couldn't replace.
One man contented himself with Q
bath robe, another dressed himself II
bis four INLAND ia and ssAst piA
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CABLE

Uni,n dock laborers a; Bri4tol, Eng
land, have struck.
Marshal MacMahon. ex.P President OF
France, IS years old, is III OF influenza.
Ambassador EustIs was presented TO
Foreign Minister Develle at Paris.
A revolt against Lady Somerset has
split the British Women's Temperance
Association.
The Pank OF VIcto. ia and the Oily
and Commercial Banks, nf Melbourne,
have reopeDed their Doors
The Lower House of the Prussian
Diet has rejected the Government blll
regulating the elementary schools. .
Michael Davitt will retire from
Parliament at once on account of his
bankruptcy.
Heavy rains In Austria and Hungary
are welcomed, as likely to save tie
wheat crop.
The London Times Berlin cores
pondent says the result In The country
elections Is doubtful.
The lower House of the Prussisn
Diet has passed the Supplementary
Taxation bill by . vote Of 215 to rs.
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SAD LOT OF A VETERAN.
a Resident of New York Who Can't Get Q
Pension, Being Officially Dead.

a Resident Of New York Who Can't Get Q
Pension, Being officially Dead.
John Wallace Is the name of q mas
who is officially but not really dead.
He is bent with age and bronzed from
exposure, and his mind Is obscured
from the suffering to which most abb
lcct poverty has subjected him. On
the war records in Washington it says
that John Wallace of Company +,
First Missouri, was killed at the
memorable siege of VicksburR and,
whcn the old soldier applied for Q
pension twelve years age he was
rather amused by this intelligence.
He thought it would be an easy mat
ter 10 prove his identity, but year
after year slipped by until he gave up
the undertaking in despair. The
Colonel Of his regiment died, and
without money Wallace was at a loss
how to procure the necessary evidence.
He now lives in a hut, scarcely four
feet from the high-water mark, on
the Harlem River. 1t ia only a few
steps from the Third avenue bridge,
on the south shore. Wallace was
permitted to move into the shanty
early last fall, and there he has spent
the long winter. He was born in
Westchester in 1924, learned the ship
builders trade and married early Ia
life Sarah Hyde, He removed to st.
Louis some years before the war and
worked on the Union gun-boats st.
Louis, Nashville, and CarOndelet.
which were built for defense on the
Mississippi. He enlisted in the First
Missouri Regiment, served n year
and re-enlisted.
II was with Grant when he beas
Johnson" he said to a New York
World reporter, 'aud before Vicks-
burg l was wounded. l lay for a day
Ia the trench and after that my
memory fails me. l was in the hos
pital for a long time, and when l was
discharged my left arm was gone"
At the close OF the war he came t.
New York and worked in the feed
store of Uriah Chamberlain, Thirty.
first street and Second avenue In
1880 he was induced to apply for q
pension. Since then he has been q
victim Of poverty and misfortune
The loss of his arm prevented him
from working at his trade. A few
charitable people are now endeavor.
ing to aid him. Mrs. J. F. Sloper Of
600 East One Hundred and Forty"
third street and others gave an en-
tertalnment at Republican Hall, One
Hundred and F~orty-third street and
Third avenue, recently, at which
Judge McAdam presided. The pro-
ceeds, which unfortunately were NOT
large, were given to the old soldier
and an effort is being made to procure
him the pension.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
NUMBER AZ.

the new marshal, to whom they sent
word that they would Kill him il he
lnterfered. They had a wholesome
fear of Buckley, but 'Suierin'
Mattel
Nate left the council-room and
walked over to the Double Eag q
Saloon, where the six ''bads" were.
They were leaning against the bar
and talking of ''eating" the new
marshal. Nate stepped inside and
up to the end OF the bar, very pale,
but firm, and covering" the whols
line with his revolver.
Boys" he remarked, as with
hands uplifted, OF course) they stared
at him, hardly willing to believe then
eyes, Il herd ye talkin' about eatin'
a chap named 'Sufferin' Nate They
hain't no sech person; but here's Nate
Presto, City Marshal, an he wants
ye. II they's any KILN goin' on, ]
en- git two r three t your one; don't
fright that. Wilt" he said to the
bartender, Stake Their guns"
The bartender obeyed. and Nate
marched his half-dozen ''bad" men
TO the lookup, whence they emerged
next day to pay their fine and shake
hands cordially with Nate, who drank
With them iu a friendly way.
This was not quite the end OF
Mates ''sufferin's;" for not a few OF
his friends essayed to take advantage
of him, now and then, and impose on
his good nature; but 1t was not long
before they found out that Nate was
no Tespecter Of persons when his duty
wa involved, and that he would not
suffer" any more than the pride Of
a man would permit; 81 that when
the next city election came On, Nate
was reelected by a rousing majority.
Last summer | vas talking with
him(he is now serving his third term)
about the peculiar nomenclature OF
the West, and especially the singular
applications carried by some Of iA
citizens.
His eyes twinkled as we talked
eyes" he says, ''they use t. call me
'Suferin' Nate but they don't no
more. Ye see"
But Just then he was called away,
and l might never have heard the
story of how Mates 'sutferin's"
ended II Squire Field had not dropped
in. in n of his reminiscent moods,
and related it to me. R l.. Ketchum
in the San Francisco Argonaut
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
YEENSYLv ITiMS,
Condensed News Cleaned From
Various Points of the State.

Whirled by shafting in a mill at
Herndon, little Edward Clraver cannot
live.
AS she alighted from a train at
Shamokin, Mrs. Rodger Mudy, of Nit.
Carmel, dropped dead.
Arsenic was found In he body of
Mrs. Theresa Hafer, who Was found
dead In her home at Reading.
For alleged damage to their charsc-
tiers, A. w. Long and Catherine Mark
were each awarded 6 cents by the
Lehigh County Court. 4
While digging a well at Branchdalp,
Bernard McGoyern struck a vein of
coal over four feet chick.
As a diversion, James Edgerton, iIv-
Ing near Stroudsburg, ate 81 ~haIdbOiled
eggs at q sitting.
One of John Clooney's feet was
caught 10 a frog at bethlehem and his
leg was cut off by a car.
White girls In the Tilt Silk Mil,
POttsville, threat n to strike il the
colored girls are not discharged.
His lamp igniied gas in a NIL near
Maueh Chunk and the explosion Killed
Edward Dubrow, a driver boy. 8
While chOpping wood at Lebanon,
Rev. A.. NJ Hickman cut his own head
dangerously.
By the explosion Of a torch in the
steel works at Steelton. john Bioule
was fatally burned.
Millionaire James b. Scott. of Fits
burg. was arrested for refusing to al
low a sanitary tficer to inspect his
cellar.
The scaffold Upon which Pietro
Buccieri will be hanged In Recalling
will be borrowed from schuylkill
County. /
Susan Kinks, whose dead child was
found 10 a cesspool ut Shenandoah, is
on trial for infanticide.
George Becker, aged IL years, was
struck by a passenger train and fatally
Injured near Mahanoy CITY.
JObu Brennan, OF Heckscheryille,
while carrying a stick OF dynamite,
struck 1t against q rock, and is now
minus an arm.
Frederick Kuhloff, OF Lancaster, had
Conrad Dagen arrested for To5bing his
house. Dagen was acquitted, aud now
sues Kuhlof for 5000 damages. 2
Officers captured W. Ellwood, who
10 accused Of several post Office robDer-
les, at Huntington.
Arraigned In the Huntircdon Court
i'r forging a cneck for SGT Elwarl
Il Hackett pleaded guilty.
An unseen locomotive, at Reading,
crushed The skull of Frank FoOse, a
phii'Adelphia and Reading Gre nan.
The eiopement of Emily Mauer and
Webster Mich iel. of Rea ing, has re-
suited in eight family lawsuits 10 tive
weeks. 3
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
PENIS GROVE N. j.. FRIDAY. MAY 70 1893.

were killed and 10 or more were injured.
most OF them fatally. The injured
were taken to Cairo.
A Big Four passenger train got awoy
from the engineer at Lafayette, Indl-
anna. The air brakee falling to work.
The engine, baggage, mail and express
cars were thrown from the track and
broken to pieces. Ten men were
killed and eleven injured, n fatally.
hey were nearly all in the mail SER
vice.
Nayaioe Ind.ars KILLED Samuel FL
drift near Durango, COL, and Costirra,
chief of the renegades, IS n jail.
With seven bullets 10 her body, fired
by her husband, Mrs Rete :ca Turner,
a Young Baltimore woman, Is alive and
msy recover.
Iecause her husband drank too
much and blackened her eyes at a ball,
Mrs. John henry, o Cincinnati o
society belle, got q divorce ami SILL.
900. !
Peter Jackson, his wife aud two
children we're drowned Ia the Wabash
river, near Marshall's Ferry, lllIno S,
by the overturDing OF q skiff.
A tornado struck Sarotoga, Atkan.
sas. wrecxing q number Of houses.
Lizzie A. Borden was a~rraigned at
New Bedford, Massachusetts,, on the
indictments charging her with the
murder Of her father and stepnCthrr
at Fall River in August las. she pie. d
not guilty to each charge. and suisse
quently was returned TO al at Tam.
ton.
A number Of "Whiie CAPS" arrested
at Bookhayen, Mississippi. pleaded
guilty and were sentenced 10 two years
imprisonment. 2
Six Of the victims Of the explosion
on the Mississippi steamer ONO
died at Cairo, Illinois.
James Stewart, Dick Jansen u I'd
Abe Crane, negroes, were lJpchei at
BeartowD, Ark, for the murder Of
Jesse No,man.
Pauline Markham, the burlesque
actress, fell through q hole in Il Louis
vile, KY, side walk and broke her
shapely leg.
John r. Bolan, n convicted mur.
derer. ESCAPED from the Louisiana
Penitentiary by swimming.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
South and West.

A mule fatally kicked Oliver Good
man, driver boy In a Pottsvil!e colliery.
For the killing OF Edward TIlls In
seif-def- nee, Daniel Rowlands, Wilkes
barre was sent 10 prison for a year.
Two cases Of spotted fever were dis.
COVERED In PottstOwn, and the Board
of Health at once began to combat the
disease.
To capture Edward Grifiths, who
was rObbing his bOiel at Shenandoah,
ex-P Policeman Ne-jwinter knocked the
burglar senseaess.
A stone hurled by a blast from an
adjoining quarry fell upon Eugene
Schaadt, a quarryman. near Allentown,
causing fatal injury 3
Two more victims of the Cisco TEX }
cyclone have died.
The father of Rebecca Berghold, the
Chicago Hotel suicide, says he will not
have Lawyer Cornell, her companion.
arrested.
Mrs. Sarah Tibbs hanged herself
will her apron strings in a prison eel
at W h eliDg, West Virginia. She
had been arrested for the murder OF
William McClJud, who WAS found at
his home with his brains battered
out.
The large sheds OF the Northwestern
Fuel Conn any, at Milwaukee, collaps-
ed, burying seven wOrkme all of
whom were severely injured, but none
fatally.
Six masked men stopped a train OF
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road at Pryor Creek, Indian Territory,
and, falling to induce the messenger
to open the express safe, they went
sci gers of their vaiuabieS. Tie robbers
escaped.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has par
doned Mrs. Knox, an American. who,
with her husband, Rol err Knox, was
rece nifty sentenced TO Imprisonment
for forgery.
At the Cole City convict camp In
Georgia, tan c~onvicts attempted to
escape 10y firing on the guards with
guns improvised from gas piping. Re-
ports TO the I~eniteDtiarv officials say
that four coDvlcts and one guard were
injured.
A mob took James Collins, a horse
thief, from the custody of officers on n
railroad train. at Sherman, Kentucky,
and hanged him from a tree in the
neighborhooJ.
A tornado passed drought South
CIrolins, doing much damage, especially
at Oxford, WiliisSon and Springfield.
Several persons e injured, and at
Oxfcrd a colored man named Cousins
WAS KIlitd.
Ex-Mayor Barney Higgins, who
assaulted l.. u. Woods sister and vas
shot by hnn, has died at Danville,
Ky. s
The rear end of one OF the boilers of
the steamer Ohio, on the Mississippi
river, 81 miles below Cairo, Illinois,
blew out, filling the desk cabin with
STAN aud boiling wafer. Six persons
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12

Montana is larger than New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York and
Pennsylvania put together.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
n NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States

August Wlmon, a German, Of
Kingston, New York, committed
suicide by biting a dynamite cap. HIS
head was bio wn off.
About 200 pounds OF dynamite In the
High Explosive Compauy's magazine
at Willow Grove, Penna., exploded
killing Thomas Irwin, Of Bolivia. New
York. 4
DR.. Frank A. Hoyt, Of New York
city, is reported TO be missing, and the
body OF a mulatto girl, Jane Cherry,
lies In one room OF his dat. The police
believe she is q victim of malpractice.
Being short S11, 900 in accounts,
Charles T. Gale. City Treasurer OF
Lay; nile, Wy, has fed to Mexico.
Governor Flower denied the applics-
ton for clemency for Carlyle W.
Harris. The death sentence will be
carried out some time during next
week. B
Breaking away from the cruis.r
Atlanta during u gale in New York
harbor, the coal barge J. E. Murphy
las probably sunk with its captain,
Joseph Murphy of Elizabeth N. j..
Martin Kok, a w%ell-known Danish
author, who ia on his way to this coun-
try, will I've detained on his arrival at
New York and sent back. Kok was
convicted OF a crime aud served a short
term in jail In Copenhagen.
Helen Simonson, a professional
nurse, either jumped or fell from the
sixth story Of a fat in New York city.
and was killed.
w. J. Evans, 80 Years Of age,
steward of the steamer Nomadic. who
was taken from that vessel, at New
York, a week ag", suffering from
typhus fever, died of that disease at the
Riverside Hospital. /
Carlyle W. Harris was executed at
Sing Sing Prison, New York. The
first electrical current caused death.
The physicians said that death was
instantaneous and painless. Warden
DurstOn mailed the last statement
written by HalIi, to Superintendent: OF
Prisons LathrOp, at Albany.
Exploding natural gas bl , W to pieces
Eli MuIray's house at Anderson, Ind,
fatally injuring Mr.. and Mrs. Murray
and hurting two children.
william Purcell, the rich saloon
keeper of New York, convicted of kill
ing John +. Farrell, has been sentenced
to IL years. imprisonment.
Murderer John Fitzhum, Of Buffalo,
under sentence to be electrOcuted this
week, has been granted a stay Of exc
cution.
Left alone In a house at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, freddy Praet7. nine years
old, set him self a1re with matches ard
will die. 2
Fred W. Cassidy, a 12--ear. old boy
of Watertown, N. Y. died from the
effe cts of chloroform during an opera
iion.
The 49, 600, 0Oo estate of the late
Joseph s. Spinney, Of Brooklyn, will
be divi ed between his sister, Wesleyan
University and the Scam ms Friend
Society.
j. b. Wells, Son & Co.'S large dry
goods store at Utica, New Y rk, was
burned. Several of the employees were
painfully burned. The los, Is said to
reach ever $3.50, 00o.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12
THE KISS or

No thought or sen Sc unsatisfod
The kiss OF little children bringT
No after-tgste Of bitter things,
No fearful prayer for peace denied
No shadow Of remorse's wings
No sense Of fallen worth and pride
No feverish search Of Leth's tide
But from their lips c~ontentment Syringe
Tho kiss Of little children wakes
Tho hope Of en6less better things:
1t stfrs cur hearts, till memory sings
OF our lost innocence and tnkes
ia Inv Inc hand THAT hildlike clings
10 hers, along her paths, and.makes
Us nobler for the truth. that breaks
The dream the kiss OF chiloren brinRss
Now England Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-12

The French Academy has male Pre-
{ 5 o Henry Rowland, physicist, Of
Baltimore, U. $. A., a corresponds 9
member. Q
Famine is spreading in Russia.
The CHOLERA is increasing in Tobolk X,
Western Siberia.
Pope Leo receive d 800 pilgrims who
hid eOme from Germany.
Bremen has qlarsntine1 against all
vessels from FreGch ports, in fear Of
cholera.
Cavalotti, leader of the Italian Radi-
Gals, has been eleclei 10 the Cham@er
OF Deputies.
Mahoney's acton in pressing for
costs. ard thus driving Ddvitt into
bankruptcy, is 'ondemned by leading
Parnellites. 3
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-29
DENTISTS ELECT OFFICERS.
W. N. Hindman, of Viucelnes. Is Chosen Pres
ident-Discussio of Papers.

The Indiana Dental Association yester.
day admitted E. E. Pierce, OF Richmond,
A. (. White, of Dublin. and Il. l. Blakes-
man. of Indianapolis. to mem bership in the
organization. the examining committee
having reported favorabIy upon their ap-
pllcatIons. A. L. Stevenson of Wabash
&. A. Budd Of Muncie ID. G. Harold of
EIwood. and N. w. Hiatt of Marion were
nominated and elected as members of the
board of trustees. DR.. S. w. Brown, of TT.
Wayne. read q paper upon the subject of
"How to Secure the Most Desirable Prac-
tlce." DR.. j. +. Cravens delivered O chalk
talk upon the subject of the developm emit
of teeth. The association ordered that
steps ne taken to have the drawings pre-
pared for use in the printed report OF the
meeting.
The report of the legislative committee
showed that an effort had been made to
have a bill favorable to dentists passed by
the last Legislature but 1t was not success
full. The committee was instructed TO pre-
pare bill for the discussion of the mem-
bers at the next annual meeting. DIR.
Heiskell, of this city, offered resolution
providing for an amendment TO the con-
stitution by which the organization abol-
lshes the executive committee, which, I'M
DER the present constitution, IL lntrusted
with all the routine business. so that the
association has nothing to do but to listen
to papers and take part in the discussion.
The amendment was argued for quite
time, and finally went over until the meet
ing next year under the rules Officers were
elected as follows:
President-W. NJ. Hindman, Yincennes
Vice President-W. w. Shryock, Fort Wayne.
Secretary-G Il. Hunt, indianapolis
Treasurer-R. L. Oliver, indianapolis.
The evening session was devoted wholly
to reading and discussing papers. The
fret read was 10y DR.. NJ. L. Ault. of Kokolno.
upon the subject. The Business Phase of
Dentistry" lt was q discussion of the
financial side of the business The dentist
he said. is the victim of trusts in almost
every article he buys. The price to him is
rigid, but when he comes to make his
charges his customer always desires q cut
in tho price charged. DIR. J. w. Jay, of
Richmond read a paper upon the subject.
"Foreign Bodies In the Traohea and
EsOphagus."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-29
POINTS FROM HooslER EDITORIALS.

If Governor Matthews has not the neces-
sary pack bone TO enforce the law he should
Iesign.-Richmond Telegram.
SINCE his large haul Of su ckers in 1892
Mr.. Cleveland may we'll conclude that
Itching" Is his best 'hol:."-Muncie Times.
FROM the beggarly price wool Is going at
on account of the free-trade policy soon to
come. we should think Democrats would be
ashamed to look sheep III the. face.
Frankfort News.
Wool has sold for 10 cents per pound and
wheat for IS cents per bushel in this coun-
ty during the past week. These are the
good old Democratic times that were prom
ised.-Albion Now Era.
Two more prize fghts have taken place
at Roby. The pledges of Governor Mat
tbews do not amount to any more than the
pledges of the national Democratic plat
Iorm.-Columbns Republican.
THERE are fully five hundred fewer men
at work in Hammond now than there were
at the time OF election last fall. This must
be tough news TO the men who cast their
vote for the change of administration.
Hammond Tribune.
WHY cannot this administration and the
Democratic party make up their mind as
promptly on the financial question and act
AS quickly as they decided to purge" the
pension list and smirch the pensioners.
-Rushville Republican.
The location of the FRAUDS and dead
beats" which Democratic anti pension par
tisans declare are burdening the pension
rolls seems TO be like that of the early
mythical milk sick. just over in the ne xt
county.-Kokomo Tribune.
Ii is said the Governor has concluded
that prize fighting Is allowed under tho
McHugh act authorizing athletic exhibit
tions. contests of skill.n ETC.. though where
he gets his rule of legal construction
nobody knows unless il be the attorneys for
the Roby track.-Riohmond Item.
GRESHAM is talked Of as the nominee of
the Democratic party for the presidency in
1896. This is exceedingly premature. Who
knows what Gresham's politics will be by
that tlmef Or, not having canvaseed his
know himselfs-EvansviIleS STANDARD.
Two more prize fights have been worked
off at Roby. and the Governor of Indiana
made no audible objection. The Infamous
McHugh bill seems To have effectually tied
the Governors hands. and his talk OF put
ting etop to snch brutality within the
borders Of the State appears to have been
only cheap blutf.-COnnersviile News.
If some of the Democratic politicians,
who made windy speeches last Campaign
and promised the farmers 81 bushei for
wheat. would only stand around some of the
places where wheat u being sold for 80 cents
they would experience the displeasure of
hearing themselves "cussed" by the disap-
pointed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Commercial