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PRINCE AND BOOK PEDDLER.
a Royal European Studying Life In
AmerIca-His Predecessors.

A Royal European Studying Life In
America-His Predecessors.
For some months it has been known
almost To a certainty that prominent
prince of Europe is now in America in
disguise, and is canvassing for books,
that he may in this manner learn more OF
the real life of the American people.
Twice has he been identified IN the East,
ard each time changed his disguise and
his field of action, for, to be known,
would entirely defeat the object of his
visit. Lately someting has transpired
which leads the Philadelphia Times to the
conclusion that this same prince is now
selling books in Texas.
A list of eminent men who have been
book agents comprises many authors and
statesmen. George Washington was a
book agent and good one. Prior to the
fateful Braddock expedition he sold over
200 copies in Fairfax and adjoining coun-
ties in Virginia, of a work on the
American Savage" Jay Gould, Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain were,
in early life, book canvassers. So, also,
was Longfellow, and his success was re-
markable. There is now in the possess
sion of the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety a prospectus the poet used and on
one of the blank leaves are the skeleton
lines of the celebrated poem Excelsior"
Wnlcn ne Was eNluenlIy In6n 1ncuDatlng.
Daniel Webster paid his second term s
tuition at Dartmouth by selling books.
General Grant at one time took an agency
for Irving's Columbus" Bret Harte
was a book agent in California in 1S49
and 1850. EX-President Hayes footed
it all over Southern Ohio selling "Bax-
ter's Lives of the Saints" After the
siege of Toulon, Bonaparte, then young
Lieutenant, employed at the capital, and
too honorable to duplicate his pay ac-
count, took the agency for the History
of the Revolution" Bismarck, Cardinal
Mezzolanti, Count Metternich, Canning,
Lord Denham and Coleridge, the poet,
were all at some period of their lives,
book agents. So, also were Nine. de
Stael and Mrs. jameson and Columbus
canvassed for work on Marine Ex-
plorations."
James q. Blaine began his business
career as a canvasser in Washington
County, Pa, where he sold the Life of
Henry Clay" Many others whose names
embiazon the pages of history largely
owe their success to the experience OBJ
tanned while engaged in the laudable and
honorable calling OF book agent.
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Ropnl Buktng 7ouauner.

The miners have high opinion of their
sagacity. The rats generally give the
miners the first notice of danger. When
big cave is about 20 occur they are seen
to swarm out of the drifts and scamper
about the floors of level at unwonted
times. The settling of the waste rock
probably pinches the animals in their
dens causing them at once to leave in
search of less dangerous quarters. At
times when a mine has been shut down
for few weeks the rats become raven
ously hungry. Then they do not scruple
to devour the young, old and weak OF
their kind. During the suspension OF
work in mine that is not connected with
other mines that are running, everything
eatable in the underground regions is de-
voured, even the candle drippings on the
floors. When work is resumed the al
most famished creatures are astonishlngly
bold and fearless. Then they will come
out of their holes and get upon the under
ground engines (even when they are in
rapid motion) and drink the oil out of the
oil cups, quite regardless of the presence
of the engineers. A fire in mine slaugh-
ters the rats by the wholesale. Few es-
cape, as the gases penetrate every nook
and Granny of the underground regious.
and often so suddenly as to asphyxiate
them in their homes.
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BRIEF NOTES.

1t was the Capital Grammar School
and not the Capital Primary where the
Christmas exercises were held on Friday.
Drs. Huntington and Snider have
filed their answer to the complaint of w.
a. Perry, in which they deny all the
allegations made therein.
Mrs. A. l.. Foye and T. J. Clunie have
appealed from the judgment rendered
against them by Justice Devine in favor
OF G. z. Hall in their suit against the lat
ter for S299, which they claim Hall should
have paid the county for theater licenses.
The Calvary Baptist Church will be
kept open all of Tuesday for the purpose
of receiving food and clothing, and orders
for fuel for the poor. The articles will
be taken charge of by the deacons Of the
church and distributed by them.
Suit has been commenced by James
McDonough, Jr. and 0. J. Runyon
against t. w. O'Neil, as receiver in the
matter of w. A. Stewart, an insolvent
DEBTOR. to recover s., ,692, market price OF
lot of beans belonging to plaintiffs, and
in Stewards possession when attached.
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Great Horses Coming.

Arrangements have been perfected by
the Sweetwater Track Association of Ma
tional City to bring on from New York
the famous string of horses owned and
handled by Peter Duryea. The string
will include the famous Orloff stallion
Krakus, imported by Captain Ismailoff
direct from the stables Of the Gar of
Russia, and exhibited at the Worlds
Fair. Krakus has drawn immense
crowds wherever he has been exhibited
in the East, as Mr.. Duryea confidently
expects the horse will lower The worlds
trotting record to the two-minute notch.
Krakus has trotted a quarter OF mile in
thirty seconds, and he will go into train
ing at the Sweetwater track preparatory
to his engagements for the season of 1894.
The string will include Constantine, 2:13,
and several others below the 2:20 class.
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RATS IN A SILVER MINE.
as poor old Charley Rhodes used to ST

Of Value to Miners as Scavengers and
In Giving Warming of Danger.
The first rats were brought to the Com
stock from California in freight wagons
principally. most likely in the big ''prai-
RE Schooners," slowed away among boxes
and crates of goods. Their rapid increase
after their first appearance on the Com
stock was astonishing. From ten to
fourteen are produced at birth, and, ac-
cording to the Engineering Journal, there
are several litterS each year; beside, a rat
is a great-grandfather before he is year
old. Then the rats that coloniZed the
Comstock towns encountered no enemies.
There were no cats in the country. The
rats soon discovered the mines and found
therein eongenial home and home free
from the terrifying presence of members
OF the feline tribe. Never was a cat seen
in any of the lower levels of the mines,
though they sometimes prowl about the
surface Of the tunnels. In the first OPEN
ing of the mines there was no place for
the rats, but as soon as the timberS began
TO be set up and cribs of waste rock built
they were able to find safe hiding places;
also there was room for them everywhere
behind the tagging Of the drifts. AS they
increased in numbers there was on all
sides an increase of space through the
rapid extraction of ore by the miners.
They doubtless soon discovered that,
though man was their enemy on
the surface, he was their friend
down in the underground drifts and
chambers. He shared his meal with
them as they scampered by. The
warmth of the lower levels ap-
pesred to be very congenial to the rats,
both old and young. Cold is a thing un-
known to them. 1t is as though they had
been given immense hothouses in which
to breed. Any temperature they desire,
from 600 to 1902, is at their command.
Rats are useful as scavengers in mines.
They devour all the scraps of meat and
other food thrown upon the ground by
the miners while at lunch, eating even
the hardest bones, thus preventing bad
odor. As the decay of the smallest thing
is uncomfortable in mine, the miners
never Intentionally kill rat.
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CHRISTMAS DAY.
Celebrations We're Commenced in the
Fifth Century.

Filth century,
Christmas Day was first celebrated
some time in the fifth century, say about
1,150 years ago. Christmas is observed in
December, less because this is supposed
to be the actual month i'll which Christ
was born than because some day was de-
of Christ's birth could be held. Decem-
ber in Palestine is the hight of the rainy
season, when neither shepherds nor
flocks could have been at night in the
fields of Bethlehem. The Romans, the
masters of the world, observed their fes-
tival of the Saturnalia during the month
of Decem Der, and it has been suggested,
with great deal of probability, that
Christmas Day was instituted to sup
plant the heather festivals. We know
that a great many other Christian festi-
walls at first paralleled heathen festivals
and finally supplanted them. For ex-
ample, st. Valentines Day took the place
of the Roman Lupercalia; Easter took
the name and place of the spring festival
among the Saxons, and other instances
might be given. Before the 25th of the
month had been chosen the feast was OBJ
served on January 9th, the feast of the
Epiphany, or Twelfth Night. The older
Christmas customs partake of the nature
of the customs prevalent during the Sat-
urnalia. The customs are observed DUR
ing the entire Christmas season, which
ends with the Twelfth Night, so that, on
the whole. the suggestion made above as
to the reason for the choice of the day
seems to be good
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It's An Ill Wind.

"Are you aware of the fact" said rail.
road insurance man, "that every com
pany in our line makes money whenever
there is a big accident? 1t may seem
strange, but that Battle Greek wreck in
Michigan brought many dollar into ou1
pockets. The worse the accident, the
better it is for us. You see it is this way:
An appalling accident, we will say, takes
place. 1t is nothing strange that we
chance to hold no risks there. But the
next day everybody buys an accident
ticket and the travelling public continue
to insure their lives, but relax in week
or so until another accident frightens
them into again buying ticket" ."-Balti-
more Herald.
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Helped Steal His Own Hoo.

A farmer living near Perth, Fulton
County, helped steal his own hog the
other night. He was awakened from his
sleep in the middle of the night and asked
by two men to assist them in loading a
hog which had tumbled out of the crate
in their wagon. He willingly gave a
helping hand, and then returned to quiet
slumbers. The next morning he went to
feed his porker, but there was no porker
to feed. 1t then dawned upon him that
he had helped load his own hog in the
wagon the night before e.-Montgomery
(Ala.) Reporter.
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Premier Rhodes, Brother.

While Mr.. Rhodes has been carrying
everything before him in the southern
portion of the Dark Continent, where his
power is so great that the English press
has given utterance to its apprehensions
that he may take it into his head to es-
tablish South African Republic, and to
secede entirely from Great Britain, his
soldier brother. Colonel Rhodes, has been
assisting Sir Gerald Portal in governing
the central and eastern portion of Afri-
ca, and in establishing British rule in
Uganda.
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[For the RECoRD-UNIoN.l
CHRISTMAS.

The day is done, and night draws on apace,
The travellers hasten on to rest and cheer.
The shepherds call is heard from place TO
Up through The hills it echoes sweet and
clear.
The OK, at rest beside his well-fiIled stall,
In gentle voice his sweet contentment lows.
The herdsman, with his loud and CHEEKY call,
Gathers his charge securely ere he goes
To his own rest And now the lights appear
AT many point as beacons to the night.
A cheerful glow CLEANS forth, now here, now
there,
Who hither come in groups from far and near
To pay their tax within their native town.
As Cesar had commanded-everywh
They seek place to lay their burdens down.
Into the courtyard of tn o'er-crowded inn
Two travellers come to seek for lodgment
there;
The one man who strives a place to win
Where he may shield the maid so young and
fair,
Who, travel-worn and weary, sick and faint,
Beside him sits upon the faithful beast,
Gentle and timid, uttering no complaint
Though sore in need of shelter, food and rest.
The inn is full; no shelter can be found
But the inn-stable, 'mongst the cattle mild,
And here the gentle creatures all round,
Midst the sweet hay, was born Heavenly
Child.
NOEL.
See the sweet child-mother bending
Fondly DER the babe she's tending
Mary, pure and undefiled,
Holding close the heaven-born child.
Motherhood in all its glory
Shines through all her sad, sweet story.
Loving but to lose again,
All her Joy is tinged with pain
Close she holds him to her breast,
Full of fears all uncoufesSed.
Love like hers so passing sweet,
For such motherhood were meet.
Tears bedim her loving eyes,
When in chorus from the skies
Comes a sound so sweet and clear,
Calming IN her heart each fear.
"Peace on earth ut comes again
"Peace on earth goodwill to men ~
'Iis the herald angels song,
Borne the whole wide world along.
And the ages still again
Echo back the glad refrain.
$40 this world of strife and sin
Christ is born in Bethlehem ~
And to-day in every heart
Still the Christ-child bears part.
Still we see the men of old
Otier up their spice and gold.
Still we see the mother bending
Ger the helpless child she's tending,
Listening to the glad refrain
Sung to shepherds on the plain.
For the child ON Mary's knee
That she pressed so lovingly
On that first glad Christmas day
Was the Christ we love today
Sacramento, Cal. a. G.. q.
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sacramento,s strawberry Beds.

Trees laden with beautiful ripe oranges
and lemons and now and then straw
berry patch, in which the berries are
ripening, are some of the foothill at
fractions about Folsom.
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MAIN oFFICE-second street. L and NJ.
HU 'hEs, ,P,HRs 1Es Y s. So

Nothing has ever been produced to
equal or compare with Humphreys
Witch Hazel Oil as a CURATIVE and
HEALING APPLICATION. 1t has been
used 40 years and always affords relief
and always gives satisfaction.
1t Cures PILES or HEMoRRHo1Ds, External
or Internal, Blind or Bleeding Itching and
Burning; Cracks or Fissures and Fistulas.
Relief immediate-cure certain.
1t Cures BURNS, Scalds and liberation and
Contraction from Burns. Relief instant.
1t Cures TORN, Cut and Lacerated
Wounds and Bruises.
1t Cures BoILs, Hot Tumors, Ulcers, Old
Sores, Itching Eruptions, Scurfy or Scald
Head. 1t is Infallible.
1t Cures INFLAMED or CAKED BREASTS
and Sore Nipples. 1t is invaluable.
1t Cures SALT RHEUM, letters, Scurfy
Eruptions, Chapped Hands, Fever Blisters,
Sore Lips or NOstrils, Corns and Bunions,
Sore and Chafed Feet, Stings of Insects.
Three Sizes, 25c., soc. and SI.oo.
Sold by Druggists or sent postpaid receiptofprce
uUuPUREyS, MED CO.. III & Is William ST., New York.
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Ordered to Leave.

officer Ahern yesterday ran across a
''sure-thing'' operator named Ryan and
notified him to leave town, which he
promised to do to-day. The officers will
see that if he does not do so he will oc-
cupy a cell at the city prison.
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4nst--Inn1tp.

EOUND-A HORSE AND BUGGY. THE
J. owner can have same 10y proving prop
erty and paying charges, at 1901 n street.
d23-2t*
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Tor 9ale.

nor sALE.-THE FINEST RANCH AZ
+ CoIfax must be sold. Can be had at a bar
gam Young trees and good-paying property.
WINCHESTER, Coltax, Cal. d12-2w
TOR SALE - DIFFERENT SIZE PIPE,
+ dipped: guaranteed to stand high pressure,
at low rates SACRAMENTO PIPE WORKS,
in octagon building, near depot
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NJ Office is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN annual meeting of stockholders of the
Uermanla building and Loan Association of
tne City of sacramento, Tor the election OF
three Directors, ana for such other business as
may be brought before 1t, will be held at its
once, 1O11 Fourth street, on MONDAY
EVENING, January s, 1894, at 7:3O O'Clock.
L. NEUBOURG, President; IL. j. GOETHE,
Secretary. dz3-l2t
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! 4 (tLA1RVOYANT. = MRS. BARIHOLNIES,
| " DenNer's well-known business and test
medium, has returned and can be consulted
upon all affairs of life; she reads the past and
unravels the future; diagnoses disease without
questions; satisfaction guaranteed: call and
| De convinced; circles Sundays and Wednes-
| days. 72112 j street. d2l-IW%
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According to Jacobs estimate the
Roman Empire in the time of Augustus
possessed e33S, ,000,00 gold and silver.
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For coughs. sore throat, asthma catarrh
and other diseases of the bronchial tubes
no more useful article can be found than
Browns bronchial Troches.
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DOTATOES GETTING DEARER-ORE-
Il ,gon Burbanks, 81; Early Rose, 81 20
SACK Mountain Butter, 25c pound; Creamery
squares, Doc; best Eastern Hams, lie
SlMONS & BEESLEY, $40 K street.
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GCHMIDT'S SARSAPARILIA AND IRON
- and Coronado Mineral Water. MCMORkY,
531 NJ street. sole agent.
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IL AIRY w. RIVETT, STEAM CARPET
Ii cleaning, corner Twelfth and streets;
carpet cutting. sewing and reftting; furniture
packed for shipment; secondhand carpels
and furniture bought and for sale. 1ele-
phone 292.
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@autPn.

A YOUNG MAN HAS TWO HUNDRED
N dollars 5000 to invest in a saloon. Adj
dress NJ, tnis Office d25-2t@
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5eleeti1te Santires.
Oe1ternl 71ntires.

| RTADAM PORTER, CLAIRVOYANT;
vi fortune telling by cards and palmistry;
lad1es, soc; gents, 81; clairvoyant stLlngs
91 90 go l. street, between Sixth and
Seven h. d2,-6tS
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IT oLIDAY DRESSES, EVENING COS
IL tunes; new and elegant designs. 1928
Seventh street. d22-4t
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VXTANTED-BY a YOUNG MAN AT
w tending school, place where he can
earn his board and lodging; can milk cows
and handle horses. Address 4. o., this once.
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CtLAIRVOYANT, CARD READER: FOR
~ tune-telling by palm. S03 h street. room
4, Clunie Building dl9-6t%
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OEND THE WEEKLY UNION TO YOUR
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refunded If not satisfactory. Send 1Oc to
LADIES NOVELTY CO., Kansas City, Mo.
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THE RECORD-UN1ON AND WEEKLY
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goods before paying for them, immense profits
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TINE WEEKLY UNION Is THE PAPER
to send 10 friends in the East.
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Horsford,s Acid Phosphate

FOR THE TIRED BRAIN
From over-ex ertion.
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I LAST WE HAVE IT.-KEEN, BRIGHT
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where TO take orders for ''Shepp's Worlds
Fair Photographer; only book ofcopyrighted
photographs OF buildings scenes and exhibits
OF the Worlds Columbian Exhibition; author
lied by the Exposition management official
certificate accom- panies each volume; bonanza
for workers; drop everything and handle it;
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given; big commissions; illustrated circulars,
terms, free. Address GLOBE BIBLE PUB.
CO., 35S Dearborn street. Chicago, ILL.,, or
Philadelphia, Ia. o23-TTS2m
A NYONE HAVING FOR SALE ANY
N secondhand iron for covering buildings
Third SIS. sun SHUNG TIE 4 CO. d22-3t*
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The day is done, and night draws on apace,
The travellers hasten on to rest and cheer.
The shepherds call is heard from place to
place.
Up through The hills it echoes sweet and
clear.
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mo LET-NEW COTTAGE OF FOUR
rooms, bath, pantry and china closet In
quire 1928, corner Second and 2. d19-6t*
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SMASHING THE RUN POWER.
A virrinin Cierzynnn Attacks n whi.ke,
Exbihit with y Ctub.

CHICAGO. July 4-The Rev. John T. James OF
Aide. Loudon county. Va, made an attempt
this afternoon TO smash the rum power.
Walking into the Agricultural building at the
Worlds Fair grounds he came upon tho hand
some whiskey exhibit made by Sir John
Powers OF Dublin, Ireland
Suddenly he raised a heavy hickory cane he
was carrying. and smashed away at tho hot
ties arranged in the form OF the famous Round
Towers OF Ireland Three times no SIN ote the
exhibit bringing down about twenty bottles
and spiling the liquor on the floor OF the
building. Then he was seizci by two guards
and the club was wrenched from his hand
A patrol wagon was summoned and the
clergyman had ride to tho patrol barn.
where he admitted smashing the exhibit. lie
was Kent n prisoner while a warrant was lie.
ing procured. and meanwhile wrote out long
statement OF why | Struck the Whskey
Power" saying that 1t was because Jehovah
told him. and that he did it on the Fourth OF
JULY rs an appropriate day.
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nUonEs's SENTENCE COMMITTED.
The Labor Lender to he Let Out OF Prison
To.day-Convicted OF Extortiop.

The Labor Lender to he Let Out OF Prison
To.day-Convicted OF Extortior.
ROCHESTER. July Gov. Flower has COM
muted to ak months the sentence OF James
Hughes. tho laborer leader. who on Feb. Is
commenced serving q one-ycar sentence In
Monroe county nenitentiary in this city for
the crime Of extortion.
Hughes will be released from the peniten-
tiary tomorrow morning. He has served five
months and has earned one months commute
tion by good behavior.
Superintendent Webster of the penitentiary
would not make public tonight the order COM
when the Governor acted in the case.
When thu clothing manufacturers OF this
city were at war with their employees over
wages and the question of the emplOym, mt of
apprentices in 1870 and 1891. Hughes. who
was II leader OF til, clothing workers.
went to the firm OF Adler Bros. & Co OF this
city and told them that il they gave him
$1,000 he would raise u boycott which
Ind been placed upon their products.
They paid the money and then went before
tho Grand Jury and had Hughes md John G.
THEM and another labor leader indicted for
extortion. Hughes was In nsylyania when
the indictment was found, but he was extra
dited. tried. and convicted. and tho conviction
was affirmed by the General Term and by the
Hughes was formerly Master Workman Of
National Trade Assembly 23l. X. Of L.
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SHOT BY HER NEPIfET.
Mrs. BusheH Had Told Him the Revolver
He Was Playing with Was Not Loaded.

Mrs. Bushen Had Told Him the Revolver
He Was Playing with Was Not Loaded.
Mrs. Mary A. Bushell. a widow. 30 years ola.
kept n locksmith's store In tho basement Of
374 Second avenue. and lived in the roar with
her three children.
Yesterday her eleven year old nephew. Alex
nnder Fraser OF 158 West Eighteenth street.
and his seven ear-old sister. came to visit
her. Alexander rummaged about tho place
and found pearl-handled revolver known as
q Rcd Jacket.
The boy asked n 1t was loaded. His aunt
told him that It was not Then he began to
play with 1t. when 1t went or and n bullet
struck his aunt in the abdomen. Just above
tho navel. She was taken to Bellevue Hos
Iital and a Coroner was sent for to take her
ante norton statement. She may die.
Young Fraser was given over to the Gerry
society. There were only two cartridges in
the revolver. which was flve-shooter.
Before her removal to the hospital Mrs.
Bushell wrote ana signed q statement in the
presence Of Policeman Charles Schoell and
John j. Wagner. which read:
This is to certify that was shot accidentally by
Alexander Fraser and do hold MIN responsible for
what he has done. NARY A. BvShELi-