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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-17
A PECULIAR SALOON DEAL.
Former Owners Claim They Were Ho.
cus-Focusseh Out of Possession.

Lsmpson K Lniberg, former propr!etors OF
the Bismarck saloon. sued john Robinson and
Charles NJ Grand t. have the saloon. situated a.
SOS Washington street. restored to thcn On tho
ground that they had been fraudnIeutiy induced
10 part with II. aud had received no consldera-
ton Tor the transfer.
Toe riatutitf, cain thst, for the purpose OF
induci them 10 pat with the saloon, Robin
500 represented TO them on January ), 1898, that
he held the note. of Grand for S., Geo. secured by
slnorlgage. anu that on the strength OF this
representation they gave him possess ion. on his
promise to assign the notes 10 them aad give an
additional note for 500, aud this ne has failed
l. do. They further tate that these Representa-
uoas were made by Robinson. who knew that
hey were Ia ~, as the land which secured the
noes Tts lacumoered with Judgements aud
teHS sHoou'lug 20 more than It's value, sud
that Nrsnl also sIrw the Representations g. bs
!A'" ani assisted Robinson In making them
Il j. a4i'G ;AHt on J,nuarv IA, Coz The purpose
OF d1'fa"4.us the ptA nt.Gs. Robinson trans
ieeie lie Saloon D .s4ue.s - Grand W lthout any
eoas'usFat!aa Aao plaintlfi, claim that any
H}gmeht against tie defendants would be use
less, - tHeY are 4E>olsrnt, and that therefore
We ;'anun, only adequate remedy 10 70 he put
IN possession OF the property. BOND WAS nlet
aaa an attachment taken out 10 restrain the de-
isnaaHts rom max ing Ally transfer pending the
I..yAti0n
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THE BIOTTER.
SUPERIOR coURr-EoUrrY DEPARrMENr-LASa-
LEY, J.

SUPEKlOR COCRI-ESC4Tf DEPARINENT-LAN0-
LEY, j.
A. J. Well ct al. vs.. G. W. Chapman ct al--Mo.
tioa 10 strike part OF plaintiffs reply: denied
Julia Cons:dine VS.. John Con.iaiue--P Plants #
tioue. Julia tonsidine. as plaintiff; defendant
allowed three days to comply with former de-
cree
Histogonetic Medicine Company vs. Columbia
& Puget Sound Railroad Company-Dropped
from tra csiendar
Haley Grocery Company va. John Haley
Arguei and taken under adyisement.
SUPERIOR coCRT-cTvu OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. J.
Fir,t National Bank. of Detroit, VS.. c. A.
Wnlsh--Julgment for s337 50: signed.
Jacob Beard W. ". p. Perrigo ct Tx
Plaintiffs bond fxei at $3.50,
". V. Rinehart We. Harry Watson ct ux-
Judgment by iefanit; set aside; demurrer to
complaint: >ustai net.
J. NJ, Quid an v. The City OF Seattle-state-
meut 81 iacts: settled aud signed.
II. E. Levy vs.. Steve Wiison-Eerdict for the
Ceu-es 1871, 1872. IS. 1913, 49, IA, 1854 con-
solidate1 with ". NJ Dougsi vs. NJ GuuImi ngs.
Dispositions o. G. Davis and 6. Battery ordered
TO be- published.
Bells Gri.tale VS.. w. II Mccullough ct al
Verdict for the plaintiff for So.
sUPERIo. cougr-CIvfL DEPaRrMENr-HUxEs.J !.
Louis Bergs,rom vs. P. Hesser-statement of
facts signed aad settei.
Edison General Etectricsi Company VS.. Cana
dian Pee lie Navigation Company-Nerdict for
plaintiff for $J92.40
sUPERIoR COURT r CRIMINAL DKPARTxENr-
HUxEs, J.
State va William Russell-Defendant pleaded
not guilty.
State vs. william Peterson - Defendant
pleaded guilty o. the charge oil burglary and
ws- sentenced 10 one year IN the DenIten tiary.
state W CSinauan sam-Defcndapt allowed
until tomorrow 10 rleEi.
Stat, VS.. Anne kohney-Deiendant pleaded
not ty 30 the charge OF assault with a deadly
weapon.
state y. James Nurnhy and George Smith
Verdict OF not guilty. on The charge II burglary.
SUPERIOR COURr-PgoBaTE pgFARTMENr-LASG-
LEY. J.
Estate or J. Acknowledging OF petition for
pro ate Fixed tar January -.
.ta,e ui Em..i" Acknowledging of petit
uog Tor probate tixet Tor January -.
Estate 81 Lew. u. Starr-order allowing ref
err 'sextib.t. to he Withdrawn from the ties.
Estate OF Clinton West-H caring of order 10
show csGss jor sale OF real estate hxci for Feb
ruary H.
Estate O, Rosa A. nvery-Hearing of petit
ton Tor administration liked for January -.
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WHITE MANS LAW WAS GOOD.
An Indian Defeat. An Attempt to Co,,sc.
for q Fishing

h. {. Levy Attempted Il persuade che frrr Fl,
Judge osborn's court. yesterday tina, an old In.
elaa named steve Wilson still owed htu, s1&1 ON
eselne which he had sold him IN 1854
The testimony on Tire Indians si4e was give,
IN pure sputieEtng Chinook, which va. t-,ps
.A'ed 10 he court by another Indian iua rather
uslNnied bat very graphic manner The defend.
ARFsside O. the story, which was given without
movement Of = muscle Of hi, face o;he- than ths
Eotou al Als lips necessary 20 form the word.
vas L. TIE effect that he bought net from Lew
d. mo va Further than that he & 40. know
sAf q * ana dtaIed that any balaace was tue
u un>ei 2 cadet the >taiute OF limitations
we Al There Mas balance. Levy clsine! saat
s's'e hAd paid him So for the net, aud ths;
!. ere remained n balance OF $40 "a the net ana
'u' pFoY.s.ons furnished him during tAe
sNninE season
iae eoGf' charged the jury that the burden Of
~e''eS say payments since the date O. the
a'e' Salca Eagat take the case out OF the omar
80 q me statute. was upon the plaintiff, IS
ss Ai'e Tie burden Of proving that Tie ne,
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BOARD OF WORKS,
Attending to tho Complaints of Injured
Property Owners.

The board of public works held q regular
meeting yesterday, and granted permission to
remove the sidewalk in front OF a house, di-
rec,ed inquiry into complaint OF water gath
ering at the corner OF Madison and Eighth
streets, and ordered that the Union Electric
Company be allowed to put up some poles.
An application was made for permission to
erect u tent on Pioneer place for the exhibition
OF a long haired horse 1t was refused. Several
applications for water, ETC., were referred.
1t was resolved that the street commissioner
clean out alleys back of Second, Third and
Fourth streets.
twas also resolved that steps be taken to pro-
cure horse for the street commissioner
several complaints of imperfect drainage and
guttering We're referred to the street commits
sioner. A complaint was made as to the gutter
near Pike and Third streets, and the board de-
cided to refer the matter to Wolfe and Cochran.
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Edison Company Wins Islander Case.

TIE suit OF the Edison Genera Electric Com
pany against the Canadian Pacific Navigation
Company, TO recover the price agreed upon for
Changing the Brush-swsn electric lamps and
SOCKETS OF Inc steamer Islander TO Edison lamps
and sockets, resulted in q veriic. for the de-
fendaut for $3.50 The Plaintiffs testimony
curing the trial tended to show that the electric
appliances were all right and worked satisfsc-
soEiiy when the engines were run at steady
speed. 1t was brought ont, however, that the
steamers engine had no governor, and in conse-
qusnce the lamps burned brighter or DINNER
hos only with the Changes o. the vessels load
ons with every variation in steam pressure
The result was tina. there was much COMPLAINT
by the passengers sbaut the uncertainty OF the
hight The electric wiring was so badly done on
TIE vessel that it st il or fire. but ,ais vas the
WORK o. the Scotch builders and not OF the Edi-
son comuanv
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-17
HOLMES HAPPY IDEA.
He Proposes a Police Ball to
Raise More Funds.
FANCY FIGURES IN THE DRILL.
Suilivan's Good Record Secures .
Lenient Sentence - Defects In
tho Telephone System.

At the meeting OF the police commissioners
last evening ". ;. Relfe. the new member. took
bis seat There were also present Mayor Ro.
land, and Conn issloners Holmes, Cneasty and
Naiingford When the chiefs monthly report
was real the mayor suggested that the DISPOSE
ton OF cases might be shown, and this was
agreed TO.
petition was presented for the appointment
Of J. d. Cave. The boeri returned il VITA re-
quest that the usual application De made
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Officers of the Medical Sccietv.

At the meeting of the King Co6nty Medical
Society held last evening the following men,
bers were elected officers for this GEAR: Pres-
dent, DR. ]. B. Eegleson; vice pr<sideut, Dr.
George Newlan6s; secretary, DIR. e. s. Wright;
treasurer, DR.. S. C. Leonnardt; tFtlstees, Drs.
L. K. Dawson, q. A Weed and S.zJ Holmes;
committee on admission and ethGs, Drs. A. B.
Kibbe, +. 8. Palmer. W. Jenner, f II. Coe and
Ii. c. Ysndell; finance committed Dss. W. A.
Shannon. C. W. Sharples and I. V%Gooispeed:
executive committee, Drs ii. 5. Wight, c. A.
Smith and c. ". Sharples
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-17
Wants the Boundaries Defined

The Reliance Loan aud Trust Company began
action Yesterday agains. John Prentice and
about ten others 10 have the eastern boundary
lire OF the q. Holt donation claim established
and properly marked. The plaintiff Claims that
thls line marks the boundary between its lands
and those OF the defendants, but that the mon.
u'neats and witness tree. o. the original nited
states survey have been obscUred and de-
stfoyed tor long time past, and 1t therefore
prays that q commission be appointed to deter
mine the tue hnnndarv
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-17
One More smsilpox Case.

man suffering from smallpox went 10 the
rooms OF the board of health from the y. z.
logging house on South Second street yesterday
afternoon. lie was taken ~ once TO the small
pOx hospital. and the police were notified 10
place Quarantine on the building. This was
at once done, and twenty-uiue men are con-
fined. Officer N. T. Powers was put in charge,
and h al aghi with man named David Harr;-
son. who insisted On going IN u met friend
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A smaiIpoy Patient Dies,

Charles Aveuar rs. - years Of age, died at the
smallpox hospt a.."D s0nlay.ught. His family
lives ~ ctewar. street near seventh. He had
been soscHt from home for some time, and his
family did not know OF his Whereabouts until
they heard tIat he Was ~ he small box hospital
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20 NOT Re DECEIVED.

Persons with wesk iuues--tlose who are con-
stanty cat hing q Is ouid wear an ALL
COCK ; PoE0U> PLASTER over the Cnest and arl-
%. her bstweeI the shuU der blade, during cold
weather. Rem enUer they WAYS strengthen
aud never wSaACn the pat 10 which thew are
applied. D. NOT be deceived bv imsgrring any
other plaster l.se then-they are not-may look
II, hut looks deceive. Insist AWAY. on having
ALLCoCK's, the only rellapse plaster ever pro-
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who lived there. The result was that Mr. Har-
rison was locked up on the chargeaof disorderly
conduct. The admission of the man from the
Y. Z. house makes total OF six ne the hospital,
OF whom probably two will be discharged today
or tomorrow
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The Union Trust Company has made arrange.
ments whereby they able 10 furnish TO the
head OF every family for whom they build on
squire park acAct emitting the holder 10
transportation on The James street cable line
and all OF it, electric branches for one yesr from
the data OF issue free Of chArre
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-17
The Painless Dentist.

DR.. Griffin. of the Griffin Deuta, Association.
has the reputation Of extracting and nll!ng
teeth without pain Tae doctor hes been located
here Tor focr years snd has 10 pears HIS prices
sre moderate. Offices, ;, 8, IL aud IL UNION
block us Front street,.
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was not fully paid Tor. The jury had only been
absent about three minutes before agreeing
On verdict for the defendant Steve and his
friends left the court fully satisfied with the
workings OF the whit mans law
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The White River Ditch Steneme.

Yesterday was the day SO. by the county COM
mssioners for bearing objections frCsgn property
owners TO the plan proposed by o. f. sSegener. the
engineer, Tor ditching and draining the White
river valley. some OF the par,ies interested
could no; be present and the hearing was post
poned TO January %.
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AL roads lead 10 Chicago. The Chicago, Mil
waukee ST. Paul railway leads the van TX.
cgrsior rates 70 tie Worlds ialF.
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Masquerade skate and bal az the roller Pink
Nedaes ~ nlSa- Admission: Gents 50 aad
ladies' - cents.
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Joint Debate ON Relixton.

Rev. Clark Braden and Mr. Charsesworth, an
EnglishInan, will hold a joint dsoate At the
Armory on the Christian and secu<ariss sides,
respectively. beginning January 3oand lasting
SIX days.
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Ladies'. go 20 J. J. Ws,iver. els From; .I-ss.
and have your Ealr properly atien led IL
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Seattle Grocery Company. Te.spa0ns saa
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John w. Hanna. JOAN +. Cordray,
Albert Hansen, Dr.. p. = eeney,
Hon. Mayor j. I. Ronald.
pRIZES-LADIE
MOST ELEGANF e. ) "a " r.--l5oid watch. Pre-
scented BY Albert Hansen
BFSf SUsfAI Nr ID CHARACTER
toilet set. BY Lees Pharmacy
MOS tOAGCAL tNAkAC TE R-Haviland deco
rated boudoir set. by Schade, Woodruff & Co.
CsE:NTLE;NI EMS.
MOST ELEGANT tJei u Nh Elegant Knox
silk hat aud case. By Coldstein Hat +, O.
BEST SUSTAINED CHARACTERIZED Bon
quet cigars. BY b. +. 0oldwaier.
NJ JST CpMICAL IEIAKACTER-Elegant gold
headed silk umbrella. By Golden Eagle Clothing
Company.
GIRLS.
FINEST OSIUME-klegaut silver buckle. By
Albert Hansen. MOST COMICAL CHARAC-
IER-l2 pounds 10 French candy. by Henry
TBoYS'.
FINEST COSTUME Fancy fI,bert % cal rifs
by Hardy d IA all MOST OMICAL tHARAC-
TER-Pa,r tine slippers. By chicago Shoe store.
GRAND STREET PARADE. in fancy cost ume at
p. ni.. ia ,uary II weather permistingt. Fred
Russell, floor manager Elegant oyster supper
served ar sud 1acium Light Effects. Prize,
on eNh bitian IN wind " Of tfJldstein HAT Co.
Front street. between Cherry ani 0lumbia
PRICES - F y OMISSION:
En- Masque. ........sl 50 Specta SI.o0
TICKETS FOR SALE All HANSKN'5.
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POPULAR PRI Es-25c. 5oc 75c aaa sl.oo
seats "a sale At Taea.sE
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-..'..--''''.' 10000 ''-'..' '--.-..-.:....
AND COMPANY.
Tuesday and Wednesday. January l7.and Is
Tges1ay-M-. Bo1cicau,t's omedy. WA NTFp-
Wednesday appearance OF the c-supany in
THE LADY - LYOSs"z
The sun., 1893-02-16
Gossip OF tho sports.

The veteran Tim Murnane is president
of the New England league.
Outfelder james O'Brien, late of Port
| lard, has signed with Nashville.
w. NJ. George, the well known out
fielder, has been claimed by Cincinnati.
The Louisville club has accepted the
services of First Baseman Breckenridge.
DAILY, who played last season with
Washington, has signed Buffalo con-
| tract.
Tommie Cahill has been secured by
St Louis. He caught well for Troy last
season.
Nearly all league players will be signed
to six months contracts, running from
April l to Oct. 1.
Jack Chapman's name is whispered
about in connection with the manage
ment of the Brooklyn club.
I4achie Thompson of Glasgow and Dick
Burge are to fight at catch weights for
$500 a side
Jack Skelly has accepted the $4,000
purse offered by the Coney Island Ath-
letic club to fight Siddons on March 20.
Outfelder Duffee. late of Washington,
is likely to be signed by Chicago, that
club having accepted his services.
Ball players are beginning to find out
that the days of advance money are past,
as there is not club in any league which
is giving advance money for the coming
season.
The sun., 1893-02-16
WEDNESDAY FEB. 8.
SENATE.

Considerable time was taken up in the
senaetoday considering he reports of COM
mlttees, ~. .-
The Craig bill to compel The selection of
swamp lands by railroads was passed with
out q dissenting vote.
The following bills were introduced and
referred.
To prevent clamperty; to provide for the
registry ofpaupsrs and feeble minded per
sons: to compel railroad companies to fur
nish cars to shippers of grain; TO
provide for the erection of public grain
houses on ri i:hts of way of railroads; TO
compel railroa is to put in warehouses at
all stations and to prevent employees of
such corporations from dealing in grain; to
regulate receipt, storage and shipment of
grain; to reimburse sellers in defending suits
brought against them by railroad compari-
les; to regulate the receipt storage and
shipment of grain in warehouses Or right of
wsy Of railroads; to amend section 10. chap
ter 2, Laws oil 1887, relating to swamp lands;
TO compel street railway omIanies to pro-
tect certain employees from inclemency OF
the weather; to repeal chapter 13 of Laws
OF 1891, relating to farmers mutual fire in
surance companies.
HOUSE.
The report of the Temperance committee
recommending the passage Mr. koer-
ner's bill authorizing county treasurers to
refund liquor licenses in certain cases was
adopted.
The committee on banks ard banking
recommended that II. F. No. 343, allowing
the bank examiners to employ an assist
ant and pay him from the fees collected
from banks and trust companies and FL.
f. No. 19 relating to building and loan
assos5ati0nsto be passed. /.
The committee on roads and bridges re-
commended the passage of house files 252
and 253 amending the present law relating
TO highways, and II. f. No.. 80. The re-
port was adopted.
The joint resolution recommending the
election of U. s. senators by popular vote
was passed.
The following bills were introduced and
referred:
Making salaries of public officials sub
ject to gayniShmentS; to create an addit on
al Judge for the Fourt enth judicial dis
tries; appropria,in@ S309 for q bridge IN
Polk county; to app opriate 500 tor
bridge in Wilkin county.
The house then went into committee of
the whole ior the di. cussion of new balls.
The sun., 1893-02-16
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
All Importent Occurrences of the
Past Week, Boiled Down and
Arranged for Rapid
Reading.
Washington.
nilitin force of the United States


The militia force of the United States
Is 112, 1876.
The United States supreme court has
taken recess for month.
The Panama canal investigation by a
congressional committee begins at Wash
ington.
The treasury department has reduced
its estimate of the probable amount re-
quired for the payment of sugar bountles.
The original estimate was $l0,OO0,OOO.
1t is now $S,OO0,OO0. So far sugar boun-
ties ON this years crop to the amount of
$3, 100000 have been paid.
Secretary Rusk orders ninety days
quarantine on all cattle imported from
Canada, where pleuro-pneumonia exists.
The secretary of war has approved the
Kessler site at Helena for the new Mon
tana military fort. 1t is near the Broad
water hotel, and contains 1,040 acres
forty more than the law required.
Attorney General Miller has had pre-
pared a statement which shows that so
far there have been indicted and convict
ed nineteen people in the United States
courts in Texas in connection with the
CARA raids for violations of the neutral
ity laws. Most of the men convicted are
now serving out their sentences in the
Detriot penitentiary. In all over 100 In
dictmerts have been found.
The sun., 1893-02-16
Accidental Happenings.

7. 3. Ward and n. Van Snoy were
killed by snow slide at Ophir, Colo
A block of buildings burned at ur-
bana, H., causing a loss of $60,OOO.
Brakeman D. G. Barnes was killed at
Wichita, Kan, by a Missouri Paclhc
train.
The little daughter of Jerry Brad
shaw of Clarksville. Tenn. fell into the
fire and was burned to death.
Leonard Figg, an electrician, was elec-
trocuted by an electric light wire at
Louisville. Ky. His head was nearly
severed from his body.
Louis Hanchi was caught in a slide
in the Triumph mine. in Utah, and in
stantly killed. His body was recovered
and buried at HALEY, Idaho.
Lloyd w. Smith,. clerk of the Battery
Park hotel, Asheville, n. c., accidental
ly shot and killed himself while playing
with pistol.
Alonzo Cook of Lebanon, Ind, fell
under his wagon when it broke down
under load of sawlogs, and was crushed
to death.
Orlando Lemon, boy of Lincoln, Neb.,
was SlOL anu kIllSu NY HIS p1oIhCh NNOA'
day night through the accidental dis
charge of a revolver.
Engineer George Wallace, Fireman
William INLAND and Conductor John Nez
were killed by a train wreck on the
Baltimore & Ohio road, near Pittsburg,
Pa.
The three-year-old daughter of e. NJ.
Butterfeld was fatally burned at Little
Rock. Ark, by the ignition of her dress
while standing near fireplace. The
mother was seriously burned in attempt
ing to rescue her child.
Fire in Fairport, n. Y, destroyed the
Deland chemical works and the electric
light plant The chemical works Gov
cred three acres and gave employment to
$50 persons. Loss to the works $500
600.
The second section of Union Pacific
passenger train was wrecked near Old S
Ferry, Idaho, recently, The mail car
jumped the track on curve. The first
class coach and a chair car turned over
and rolled down the embankment. The
thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Egan
of Chicago was killed and two others Sc
riously but not fatally injured. Fifteen
were badly bruised.
The sun., 1893-02-16
Personal Mention.

Queen Margarita of Italy possesses a
coral necklace which she always wears,
day and night.
John Wanamaker announces that he
is going to change the color of the special
delivery postage stamps from blue to
orange.
Barbara Frietchie's flag, which Whit
tier immortalized, is preserved by Bar
bara's niece, Mrs. Hanschen. 1t is OF
silk. about twelve by eighteen inches,
and attached to a staff about three feet
leng.
Frederick Augusta Genth of Philadel
phia, one of the most eminent authorities
in chemistry and mineralogy in the
United States is dead. Since 1872 he has
occupied a chair in the University OF
Pennsylvania.
At 8 special meeting of the trustees of
Dartmouth college Rev. William Jewett
Tucker, d. D., of Andover, Mass, was
unanimously elected president, vice Rev.
Samuel G. Bartlett, D. D., resigned.
M. Van Rysselberghe, a well known
electrician of Antwerp, is dead. He had
much to do with the introduction of the
telephone in Belgium and elsewhere in
Europe. He was the inventor of the
msteorgraph.
The late Justice Lamar, until year or
90 ago, had most remarkable memory
He could repeat word for word the
speeches of great orators which he had
read and passages from authors unknown
to others than students like himself.