The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-27

of Boise. Idaho. cuddled down among
dozen sheep and thus escaped death ny
freezing.
The finding of the dead body Of William
s. Folis. a wealthy real estate dealer OF
Sioux City, Ia, has caused suspicion OF
murder.
Burglar James Collins dug seven feet
through masonry In Warsaw, ". T., and
escaped. He was TO have been taken TO
Auburn prison Thursday.
J. NJ Hyams, the fellow who faxed the
story of the Bakersvi'Ie On. CO lynching
riot, has fled from Johnson City, Tenn.
leaving an unpaid board bill.
Owing to the water famine in Brooklyn
several church organs in that city, rigSed
with hydraulic motors. had to be pumped
by choir members last Sunday.
A rev Anne rican line of steamships, to
run from New York to the west coast
of South America, by the Straits OF Ma
CELIA, is soon to be established.
The Rev George Webb. of Niagara
Falls, Is under arrest, charged with cut
ting the clothes lire of a neighbor.
land dispute is the origin of the trouble.
While waiting for a train at Chicago,
Albert Heyder, Of Buffalo, met strange
woman, who drugged him and stole 5000
he was carrying in a buckskin bag
Indian Commissioner Morgan has gone
TO Chicago to buy in open market 100000
pounds Of bacon for issue to Western
tribes of Indians under treaty stipula-
tions.
Halifax business men will organize a
local fire insurance company to compete
with English companies, which have
raised the rates 80 per cent. In that wood
en- city.
Lieutenant Colonel A. l.. Totten. of the
United States Army, has resigned, to take
effect August 1st, in order to devote his
life to Bible history, Ito establish Moses
and tie prophets"
Edward L. Harrer, bank wrecker, ex-
president of the Fidelity National Bank.
OF Cincinnati, and convict in the Ohio
penitentiary, has been denied pardon by
President Harrison.
john l.. Wilson, a Chicago advertising
agent, who confessed having stolen 5000
from his employer at New York, Michael
Wineburgh, has been sentenced TO the
Elmira rcformatory.
Bookkeeper William Fl. Z. Windruss, of
the Fowlers Brothers Beef and Packing
Company. Minneapolis, will not visit
Europe. as he and the firms 400 have
been intercepted at New York.
r. A. Knight, receiver Of the Order OF
the Iron Hail. has collected from seventy
branches of the order in Massachusetts,
about $4,000. There are eighty more
branches to be heard from. and the re-
ceiver expects TO collect over $4,000.
\ gang Of tramps have broken out of
Missouri Jail, and their sanity IS question
ed when il is considered that they have
de serted a warm home, comfortable shell
ter and good food at a time when 1t is
too cold to beg and the people are too
poor TO be charitable.
The theatrical profession of Paris feels
highly honored BY the nomination of NJ
Laroche, the comedian, to be a member of
the Legion of Honor. A committee from
the Coincide Franchise called upon the
Minister of Public instruction and
thanked him for his action.
As some Italian laborers were thawing
out a dynamite cartridge Wednesday at
Fonda, y. Y. an explosion took place
and about fifty cartridges were dis
charged One Of the Italians was hurled
through the air eighty feet and instantly
killed Andrew Hayner, of Amsterdam,
had his jaw broken.
1t IS not often that the Car decorates
a ballet dancer. He did so recently in the
case OK Mile. Ogoleit. upon whom he con-
ferred a gold medal. to be worn with the
ribbon of st. Vladimir, for having saved
the life of a peasant girl who tried to
drown herself in the river Ordeja.
Cecil Rhodes, manager Of the British
South Africa Company, is contemplating
the ACCESSIBILITY of extending telegraph
line from Cape Town to Alexandria via
Uganda, Khartoum and the towns along
E,~ aa1
IL is stated, with a capital of R,OOOOOO
to carry the project into effect.
Senator Turpie, of Indiana. has eight
languages at his tongues end, but he
sticks closely to his mother tongue in his
speeches i'm the Upper House, He reads
Latin, Greek and Hebrew almost as 'ead-
lily as English, and can speak French. |
Spanish, German and Italian. He has also |
some familiarity with Indian, Celtic ard |
other tongues.
The chief incidents in the Journey |
around The ;:orld, begun a few days ago |
by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of Aus |
tria. presumptive heir TO The throne. are |
10 be commemorated i'm a book. MANY |
chapters will be contributed by the young |
man himself. DR.. Won LOrenz. custodian |
of the Vienna Museum of Natural His |
tory, is TO accompany His Imperial High |
ness.
Margaret Deland, the novelist, is fond |
of snakes. One summer, while she was |
boarding In the country, the landlord, |
very 10th to lay any restrictions |
upon his charming guest, was finally |
obliged to tell her that he must ask her |
TO discontinue her habit Of bringing home |
snakes and keeping them in her room, as |
1t was a cause of great uneasiness to the |
other boa rderS
The salmon syndicate of the Northwest |
are all busted in encouraging the increase |
Of the Pacific coast salmon. Fifty thou |
sand million salmon are turned loose into |
the rivers of Oregon by the syndicate |
alone every year. and, as the Industrious |
female salmon lays 800 eggs to every |
pound of her weight. the prospect of the |
fish seems encouraging.
There is said to be a well in Clinch |
county, Ga. that is noted for it's queer |
action. The we'll used TO contain excel
lent water but some years ago the water
became unfit for use and the well was |
abandoned. In the time Of |
4 long drought the water, II is stated, |
rises almost 10 the surface, while during |
a period of rain the water, 1t is said, |
becomes very low
Nancy Garrison, a negress living at |
Holly Springs, Miss. has the longest hair
OF any woman in the world.
She is about sixty years old Her hair
she wears in three plaits. The side Dlaits
Just touch the floor. while the plat behind
irags two feet nine inches or the floor
and measures eight feet in length. 1t
IS silver sable in color, and she wears
t coiled uD on her head.
II have an idea that | am the Charley