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right and required a little repairing. He
would make big show Of unscrewing
a nut here and easing a valve there,
of oil on the rails. When the express
came a-groaning and a-panting and
a-pufing up the hill; her driving wheels
, would n strike the OIL and slip, and the
make her come TO the next station ten
minutes or so behind time. Matt knew
well enough that Hank was playing it
on him. but he couldn't prove anything
don't you see. and all he could do was
TO swear and take the reprimands that
ne got without attempting TO defend
After a while the girl made up her
mind. and she took Matt. don't
blame her, for though he was pretty old
for her, he was good man, with con
siderable cash in the bank and a big
life-insurance policy, while Hank hadn't
cent beyond his pay, and was liable
from his reckless ways 10 be smashed
n high spirits over, his success. and
Hank was correspondingly nasty. The
trst time the two met Matt says: Look
here, Hank Stevens! I've had about
ing 10 give you the right OF way many
more times. when you know as well as
] do that you're not entitled to II. Some
dsy you'll pun out OF that siding ahead
or time once too often
What are you proposing for to do in
the premises says Hank, who had
rne command OF language and could I've
most deadly polite when he wanted to
be.
- propose, says Matt, for to open
my throttle and smash your dirty little
accommodation train In hye million
splinters, and you with II. That's
what I intend 10 do, and what ought
TO have done long ago, only I had a
gers
"'All right, says Hank. You come
along with your bullyragging old eN-
press and try 10 smash me II you want
TO. Wen see who will come out on
the top OF the heap. I've generally got
about two carloads OF coal just behind
my enSins , and eati I,tsry you'll rh have
them
Now Hank knew well enough that
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CONTAINING IS DYING.
Cnrmclls BeIssi's slayer May Es.
cape the Death Chair.

S"PO INV DVht" S"uIEs
Giuseppe Contantino, the young boot.
black. who murdered his sweetheart and
shot himself last week. and who was
believed to be in no danger, is dying in
Bellevue Hospital.
Yesterday afternoon he was subjected
to an interesting and difncult operation
by DR.. w. Ayres, the house sugeon, and
his assistants.
The self-delivered bullet struck Con-
tantino in the throat just below the
Adams apple" and took a range up
ward and to the left. Probing was too
dangerous. and 1t was hoped that the
ball had passed into his mouth and been
spat out.
As time passed, the patient developed
symptoms OF fracture of the base of the
skull, and from certa ain Indications OF
paralysis, II was thought that an abcess
was forming in the brain over the mo-
tor area. lying on, the left side Of the
head. just above the ear.
The delicate operation of trepsnning
was performed at that point yesterday.
The surgeons were disappointed In their
assumption. as there was no a abs I
which lies at the base Of the brain sur:
rounded with a large clot. The wound
was closed up and Contantino returned
does not expect CONTAINING to live forty.
eight hours.
The mans fate in this manner proba.
bly, rescues him from the chair of exc
cution, as his crime was committed with
generalization and elaboration. His
motive seems to have been dependency
over his financial troubles and the dread
of losing thereby his fancee, to whom
he was to have been married Christmas
next.
The girl was Carmella Belfast, fifteen
years old, living with her parents at 1876
who is nineteen years old. called upon
her. and finding her asleep on her bed
shot her through the heart and then
shot himself. He narrowly escaped
out OF the house.
He has never spoken of his case and Is
now only partially conscious.
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with her which was his general rule
She must have lived at Tiberius Centre,
where Hank laid up at night and where
home. Well anyway, Wen say she
lived there, and IL isn't of any Conse-
quence where she did live, SO far az
this hyer story is concerned snnS J., ,o,o ni,n
the girl, and she didn't seem disposed
she liked best, Hank used TO come to
about o'clock, and Matt Used TO spend
most of the two hours he had in 1'iberius
Centre every day, from l.SO to 3A; at
her house. AS far as | could judge Matt
for he always had the girl TO h mself
when he called. while when Hank was
there in the evening her father and
mother were apt to be on .a, hana' =, Matt
and he never lost chance TO make
things unpleasant for him on the road.
He would pull out from the siding where
re had been waiting for the express
he met her he would show his watch,
which h. HI showed on until she was
two or three minutes fast. and stick 10 II
that she was right Reasoning with him
wouldn't do any good. There was his
train on the track and he wouldn't
bulge an inch, 40 in the end the express
Hank would remark to Matt that II he
didn't get a new watch he would come
to grief some day.
why didn't he complain to the Super
intendent?" So he did. but when the
Superintendent called Hank up and
questioned him. Hanks watch was ex-
actIy right, and he stuck to his story
till the Superintendent believed him, and
he began to think that Matt WAS get
ting C little too old and too careless.
This wouldn't have made much odds to
Matt II IL hadn't been that he found
himself wondering II, possibly, Hanks
watch was right, and II he himself was
beginning to show signs of failing. This
is just what Hank was working for, for
he had sworn that he would make Matt
lose his nerve, providing Matt got the
better OF him with the girl.
Then Hank took to halting his train
on a down grade. and informed the con-
ductor that his engine wasn't working
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and then he got a berth on the Nom
tana Southern road. His nerves were
clean gone. He'd think he saw things
but mebbe a moonbesm. and he'd can
for brakes and stop his train, and have
the biggest kind Of Job trying 70 tell
the conductor what he had stopped his
train for. The Company dismissed him
after about six months. and Matt gave
up railroading and Is now driving .
truck in Chicago.
IT don't know whether he knbws the
trick Hank played on him or not but
a lot OF money In Chicago for n paste
board engine. made to look exactly like
No. a.. and provided with q genuine
his hyar Quaker engine set up ON fhs
track just round a curve. at q dine
when he knew that the only train which
could possibly come along would be ~
lows engaged in the thing With him
but Hank was q mighty popular chan
with the boys, and he could always nn4
enough for any game that ne m'tn<
"of course. the express sas,ns s>sS
even Feeling &. and / don't 6isms li1ll
&c isr S sss sSs rs Sss . sssE S%
opinion. s. "a /
Il DON, justify Hank. for I aiesys
s sSS is a that "a h elas s A. ss'sn
that tSS he SiS now that 10 e oder "a
come TO look at things ratioHs ~ T.
don't think it's the SORT % thing he'd 90
now, though. Of course. the heert y A.
esitfgl. and desperately wicked as ths
That's wha. YOU s.Y' Never hsssg
that locomotive could have q Ghoets
Went AZ can say Il snss 4 ySe ~ ss
ghosts OF engines. ana ghosts OF whole
trains, sleeping cars and all l1fe n4:n.
seen time and again by railroad nleH Y
tram am that used to run on ths sssy rcsd
and that I've seen With my own in1I-
vidnal eyes. You 80 raiiroaqin4 foI
twenty or thirty years and yoyli kno 70. I.
any other We. st Louis Repuolif
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PENSION FOR AN INDIAN.
Steps Taken to Provide for Arapa.
hoe Chief Sharp-Nose.
fBy Associated Press

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-Sharp- Nose.
an Arapahoe Indian chief, Of Wyoming,
has been deemed by the House Pension
Committee worthy of a pension OF S12
a month, for his services to the Govern
ment as a scout in leading the attack
on the village of hostile Cheyennes In
the Big Horn Mountains, I'm November,
1876, and on other occasions.
SharpNose Is now broken in health.
and the Committee decided to report a
bill for him. introduced by Representa-
tive Coffeen. Papers are on file signed
by President Garfield. Gems. Howard.
Crooke and Brooke. recommending
Sharp-No for Government aid. West
ern Representatives say that pensions
to friendly Indians have always proved
good investments.
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STOLE A MUSICIANS GOODS.
MIR. Woods Falls Into the Hands Of
n BOwery Man.

In the Tombs Police Court this morn
ing Robert f.. Woods. a musician from
Memphis. on his way to Atlantic City to
All an engagement. charged James Kest-
ing, twenty-six years old. a waiter, Iiv-
ing at the Union Hotel on the Bowery,
with larceny.
Woods was walking I'm the Bowery last
night. He had several packages and
Heating offered to help carry them. He
gave a violin and box and an alto horn
to Heating to carry. The two went to
the saloon OF John II. Kelly. at 223 Park
Row. where the property was left for
safe keeping. There was another pack
age containing shirts, sheet music, I'M
derwear and 50.
Woods and his new friend went out
and had lunch, after which Heating left
him and went back TO the saloon and
got all the property and disappeared.
Heating confessed to Policeman Fay
and part of the goods were recovered.
Heating was held In $1,000 bail for trial
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at least that's what the doctors say, or
u may be that he has been frightened
peSs bs ana Then that
thing will frighten a man who has had
one good scare, and he knows II, and is
always on the lookout Tor something
that Is going to scare him.
There are men who will run an en-
gine for forty years and then something
Viii happen; some little thing; perhaps,
ihs collision, Or going of a bridge; or
that they are never Mt to run even a cat
tie train. Now this hyer Hank Stevens
was at the time ] am speaking of en-
gineer of the engine that hauled the ac-
commodation train between Athensyilie
and Tiberius Centre, and Matt McGinnis
was engineer OF the express, being a man
who had been thirty years in the com
have no superior in his line. He was a
very nice quiet sort OF a fellow. and he
didn't ike Hanks noisy and reck !ess
ways, for there's no denying that Hank
was reckless at times. don't object 10
an engineer taking chances when there
Is anything to be made by II, but Hank
just took pleasure in running for sid
Ing when he knew that he had only
mebhe minute to make Il in, AMI that
IL he didn't make 1t. or II his watch hap
pened 10 be minute slow. another train
would be into him
That's what / call recklesgness, and
] don't care who says IL amt. Well.
every afternoon Hanks train used TO
meet the express. Going up he would
meet her about ten miles north OF here.
and going down he would meet her just
a mile out OF Spartansville. 1t was his
duty TO 20 on a siding and wait for the
late Hank had the right OF way, and
could go ahead and require the express
train TO walt for him. You may bet
your life he never waited more than the
five minutes. and sometimes he would
pull out when he heard the express
coming, and make her back down TO the
next station.
There was a girl somewhere on the
line, ! disremember Just exactly where,
though, come TO think Of II, she must
have lived ct Spartansville. No, she
couldn't, either, Tor the accommodation
never stopped the night there, and 80
Hank couldn't have spent his evening
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SAYS A WOMAN STABBED HER
Mrs. Pearl Has Mrs. RhcInhardt
Held on the Charge,

Mary Pearl, Of rs Washington street.
was complainant in the Tombs Court
this morning against Mary Rheinhardt,
twenty-six years old, whom she charged
with felonious assault. The two women
formerly lived In the same house, and
Mary Pearl was housekeeper
She moved about three months ago to
the next door. Yesterday she called
upon Mrs. Rhelnhardt to demonstrate
with her about her children. Mrs. Rhein-
hardt was trying to quiet one OF her lit
lie ones, who was III, when Mary entered
the room.
When she left the cradle to open a can
OF milk with knife Mrs. Pearl It ts
alleged, threw bunch of keys at Mrs,
Rheinhardt. striking her in the eye.
This enraged the woman and 1t Is said
that. armed with the knife, she sprang
at the Pearl woman and stabbed her In
the right shoulder. on the head and
right hand.
The wounds were all serious, but the
complainant appeared In court. Mrs.
Rheinhardt was held in $500 bail for ex.
animation.
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IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.


Richard Brown is the newly elected Secretary
Of Painters and Decorators Union No. i5?.
Carpenters Union No. 44s has Endorsed the full
political programme Of the American Federation
OF Labor
Alfred See has been elected Organizer for the
American District OF the Anal gamated Society OF
Carpenters and Joiners.
Francis Egan, President OF Federal Union 5, slI.
A. v. OF L., PAYERS and hammers, has called q
special meeting for tonight.
Members of Brickiayers' Union No. ~ in ar
rears with dues and assessments after tonight q
regular meeting viii be stricken from the roll.
The Textile Workers National Union has char
tered new local branches AZ Rockville, Conn
Fitchburg, Mass, and Franktord. Pa. making a
total Of sevcnty-hve.
The municipal authorities OF Lawrence. Mass.
have been requested by the Central Labor Union
in that city to appropriate $500 for the cciebra-
ton OF Labor Day.
A conference of labor representatives. residing
in the Twenty fourth Assembly District was
held last might at the home OF ex- Master Work.
man Henry A. Hicks. Of District Assembly 2b3.
X. of IT, col East Eighty third street 1t was
agreed to Agitate for independent political action
and to extend the movement throughout the city.
Rslph Beaumont. one Of the early organizers in
the X NJ h. has settled In Oklahoma where
the PopuIsts propose to send him TO congress
as their representative
DELEGATES from New York New England and
Boston we're admitted to the Plumbers Conven-
ton in St Louis yesterday. The apprenticeship
question vas discussed, but Its settlement Was
referred IN the conference to be held with dele
gates Of the Masters Association.
one ~ the members OF Cabinet Makers Union
No was hned $40 at last nights meeting for
having worked on a job where other union men
had been ordered on strike, An invitation Of the
Central Labor Union TO take part In that BODY s
Labor DAy parade was declined, and the Secre-
tary received instructions to notify the G l." !.
that the cabinet makers will parade with the
central body as the latter decides In
favor Of independent political action The sec
rotary was also Instructed to notify District As.
.emby 253 X Of L., that Union No. does not
recognize the Mystic Tie Association, sash ana
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MARRIED ON THE LAWN.
Baron schIesingers Daughter Weds
MIR. Perrin Mt BrOokiine.

lBy Associated Press)
BROOKLlNE, Mass. Aug MARY
Cornelia, eldest daughter of Baron Bar
thold Schlesinger. late German Consul
to this port, and Arthur Perrin. of Cam
bridge. were married here at South
wood. the old family chateau on Warren
Hale officiated, and the wedding took
place on the south lawn under large
spreading oak, after the English custom
the wedding procession formed, with DR.
Hale and DR.. McBarney, of New York
leading 1t. Then followed the bride
leaning on the arm Of her father, and al
Mrs. Perrin will spend the Summer II
the Adirondacks.
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STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Many Theatres Begin Their Sea-
sons This Month.
Teddy Piepcr's European Trip Post
poned n Few Days.

With the month that IL ushered In with
TODAY the dropping spirits of the the.
atrical world will revive, or make a gal.
liant effort to do SO. The torpor Of the
nineties will lift itself from a number OF
theatres, and before August ends a
dozen metropolitan play houses will have
thrown open their doors for the regular
season." 1t is difficult to believe In this
speedily promised energy, for the utterly
stagnant condition OF the Rialto Ii as
appalling as II was a month ago. These
unengaged actors. however, belong TO
the travelling contingency. New York
Is an Issue aside. ON Aug. Ii Niblo' :
Garden and II. X. Jacobs Theatre begin
their season. the former with a melo-
drama called I'm the Name of the Gar"
the latter with "Dr. Cupid" The CO.
lumbus Theatre, Harlem. falls into line
Aug. Is with the well-known "Harbor
Lights, and on Aug. q there is quite a
little theatrical inundation for on that
| date the Empire will be brlgh ened i'm
With revival Of "charley's Aunt, The
er akes TSs
Life" and the Fourteenth Street Thea
IRE enters upon its new career with
r Icon Ho idS The Garden Theatre
envy Of Music. deals in the same way
with Shenandoah" Aug. 80 The Biol,
presents Miss Fanny Rice in Miss limo
Ssnce Abroad" and the Grand Opera
on the list. How nice It will all seem II
the weather will only be trife less
skittish!
Mr. Teddy PEPPER does not sail on the
chester to-day to Join Miss Lillian Rus
sell. Her interests demand that he re-
main In the city fortnight longer so
he has taken passage on the Paris. sail.
ing on N. the he, 18th BIN Inst Owen Westford
announced, sail for London, on the
Britannia this morning. Mr.. westford
is to play the part OF a long haired i'm
the Lyceum Theatre. London. and Miss
Susie Russell Is to have a small role in
the production; Comic opera wiseacres
wonder why Mr.. Abbey selected the
big productions. for Miss Russell's APP
pearance. In England. theatre be-
comes known for one particular style
the Lyceum is not quite the thing. In
New York of course, II In otherwise
When Irving played a few years ago at
the Star Theatre. he was succeeded by a
troupe OF educated monkeys.
The scattered members Of Mr.. Froh.
mans Lyceum Company, most OF whom
are In Europe, must soon reassemble.
The season begins In Chicago at Hooley's
Theatre Aug. IS. Miss Cayvan will not
need any Worth gowns from Europe, as
she has to appear In knickerbockers In
THE Amazons." Kelley, however, will
probably return with varied assortment
OF startling trousers. w. j. lie Moyne,
Fritz Williams. Gottschs,k Mrs. Whiffen.
Bessie Tyree and Katharine Florence
will also be In the cast.
Sousa is to play some OF the airs of
| Little Christopher Columbus" at Man
| haitian Beach. this week. He has also
| captured the latest English concert
| hall song. "E Dunno Where e Are"
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KILLED BY HIS PLAYMATES.
CoIorcd Boy the Victim of Two
Young Fiends I'm Texas.
CBy Associated Pres

TERRELL, Tex. Aug. lon the w.
c. McCord farm. near here, a most Pc
culiar crime was committed by two of
Peter Gibson's boys. While they were
playing with Murrow Jackson's six-year-
old boy, the Gibsons gouged one OF the
little boys eyes out with an anvil. To
prevent him from going home and tell
ing on them, they then gouged several
holes in his body, threw him In a tank
and held him under the water until he
was drowned.
They then concealed his clothes in a
brush pile. The body was found and
the boys placed under arrest. They
confessed to the killing and told where
the clothes were hidden. All three OF
the boys are colored.
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JUDGE HENRY HOLT DEAD.
He Was Mt One Time Acting Secre
tary of War.
(By Associated Press J

WASHINGTON. Aug. Judge Joseph
Holt, who was Judge Advocat e. General
of the army and at one time acted as
Secretary of War, died at his residence
in this city to-day.
His death was due indirectly to a fall
sustained a few days ago, but to which
he paid little attention.
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BOY BANDITS CAPTURED.
Were Hound In n House-BOat 70
New Orleans with PIunder.
lBy Associated Prek,

tBy Associated PrtesD
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. Rob
Roy and Frank Egan, two Of the Nor
rilton band OF boy bandits, have been
CAPTURED eight miles below the city. They
headed for New Orleans in a houseboat
loaded with plumber. They admitted that
they were suspected of connection with
the gang.
They are in all awaiting the arrival
of Conway County officers. 1t turns out
that the boat had been built for the pur-
pose Of landing lumber at New Orleans.
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Musicians and Theatres Disagree

The central body Of the United Hebrew Trades
Unions has appointed a special committee to set
tie the differences Of the Carl sshm Club of
Musicians and the Bllposters' Union with the
managers Of the Thsiia and Windsor THEATRE
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HE WANTED FREEDOM.
Free Board and Clothes Not Enough
for n Runaway Slave.

Occasionally there comes a reminis-
CenCe of the runaway darkey which
shows not only his humor but his ire
pressible longing for the boon OF free
dom. Before the civil war, says the
Boston Home Journal. there came into
the public-room of a hotel in Canada
near the frontier one day a bright-look-
ing negro.
Il s'pose you're a runaway slave"
said one Of the men In the room, look
ing sharply at the newcomer. Feeling
that he was pretty well away from
%bondass. the darby responded in the
affirmative.
We'll. we're glad enough that you've
got away. but you don't seem to look
very, poor, Have good clothes down
"suttingly, sab; same clothes as my
massa."
."But you got a good many thrashings,
".Nebber had a whipping in my life,
sab"
Never thrashed! Well, but I suppose
you didn't always get enough to eat. did
Always had enough, gemmen: nebber
went hungry
WHAT said the persistent interroga-
tor. " Good clothes, no punishment,
plenty to eat, Now just think OF it."
he said. addressing a group of %loungers.
This fellow has left a position where
he enjoys all these privileges for an
uncertainty"
"Gcmmen." replide the darkey. "all
Use got to say respectful dem privileges
is dat II any one OF you wants to avail
hisself OBJ EN- de situation am still
Dpen,'
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HIS CHINoGRArEY WAS DAD.
Lawyer Who Couldn't Read n Let
ter Ns Had Written.

a certain lawyer in this city writes So
badly, saN3 the Detroit Free Press, tina
he canout deCipher his own handwriting
when Il! $ cold. Recently Il client called
upon his and requested him to write a
professional Letter 70 a certain person,
which he wished to read before il was
Rsnt. IN a few days he received the let
ter, but could rot read a word OF IL.
except the signature. AS a iinal resort
he called on the lawyer.
81 have your Letter to Mann & Co. but
i CanAot make out a line Of it"
the lawyer took IL. glanced 1t over
carefully ami said:
Neither can l."
After some dellberation the lawyer
asked:
what was 1t you wanted me to write
them about"
Thee lIent related the circumstance
and the lawyer was then able to deci-
pher his own letter OF advice.