Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-08-08

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he was victim of one himself, but
now he is disgusted and Indignant to
the degree Of revenge. He suspects
every visitor is thief, and he does
not spare the women. After stealing
scores of wax match boxes, small
glass boxes filled with fancy biscuits,
bottles of spirituous liquors and
drinksble exhibits, Misunderstanding,
they almost broke the commissioners
heart by carrying off last night four
exquisite lace hadkerchiefs worth $40
and like those made by the Jesuits in
Paraguay centuries ago. They had
been stolen after forcing the lids of
the glass cases. Altogether the COM
missioner figures $4,000 worth of
goods stolen and no one arrested. He
said: 81 feel tempted to put strych-
nine in these open biscuit boxes to
poison those thieves. II is not the in
trinsic value of the articles that l
grieve over, but our exhibits are
spoiled. l called on guard to arrest
a man who was caught taking box
of wax matches, but he laughed and
said that it was not enough to arrest
man for"
More blood has been shed at the
Lapland village in Midway plaisance.
This time ex-Vice President Emil
Arner of the company is the victim of
horney fists. There have been so
many dissensions in the village that
Mr.. Arner resolved to leave the com.
pany, but returned to give up his
stock, which amounts to one-third of
the total paid.up stock. Tuesday eve-
ming MIR. Arner says he was walking
past the village when Capt. p. Coney,
the manager, and A. II. Moffatt, one
of the stockholders, called him on the
inside with the pretense that they
wanted to talk business with him.
The ex-oflicial of the concession agreed
and walked through the turnstile.
Once inside Arner was accused of
having sown the seeds of discomfort
that caused the villagers, from King
Bull to the humble peasant, to go on
strike. Mr.. Arner denied that he
was responsible for the row and re-
ceived blow in the face from either
Coney or Mofatt. Which one struck
the first blow Mr.: Arner cannot say,
but he declares that the two men at
tackled him and gave him an unmerci-
ful drubbing. Wednesday he exhib-
tied two black eyes and numerous
bruises in standardization of his story.
Mr.. Arner has appealed to President
Cable Of the Lapland Village Com
pany to see that he receives justice.
Mr.. Arner's home is in Salina, Kan.
August 16 the inhabitants. of the
plaisance are going to give an inter-
national dance. All of the nations Of
the earth will be represented, but
Mohammed Ben Elisha Of the Alge-
rian theatre will not be in attendance
unless he RECEIVERS from his injuries.
Thursday night, with the view of re-
hearsing for the event, Manager Blum
called his performers together and
stood the men and women in separate
rows. Then he told the men to select
their partners for the dance. Matters
went smoothly for time. Then it
was discovered that there were more
men than women. At the end of the
drawing Mohammed Ben Abdah
found that he was about to be left
with no partner. His dusky breast
swelled with wrath and he looked
about for an Algerian ON whom
to wreak his revenge. His eye light
ed Mahammed Ben Elisha, who was
complacently standing in corner
with the special object OF Abdah's
alteration. That settled it. With q
wild yell he sprang at his rival. For
few minutes there was lively mix
ture of brown fists, hearty Algerian
curses and tapping robes. When
Manager Blum separated the con-
testants II was found that Elisha had
sustained the most serious damage,
so he was sent to his room with two
damaged:eyes, leaving his successful
adversary in full possession of the
field.
Pleasing changes in the music de-
pertinent will be the first fruits Of the
economical spasm which has come up
on Worlds Fair managers. There is
to be cheaper music and more of 1t.
Theodore Thomas high-priced and
unintelllgiblo orchestra is pretty like
ly to go to pieces. 1t is proposed to
have from ten to sixteen bands
good ones--playing in the open air
every day during the rest Of the fair.
The change, aside from being vastly
popular, is going to cut down ex-
penses pretty penny. Good ordi-
nary bands are plentiful at $50 a day