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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-08

say, i carried on the business en-
tirely by myself. Of course. with the as
slstance Of men who were under me. One
man, for instance. was detailed 70 look up
the names in a hotel. others were bankers
at the office, and had charge Of the same,
while ! did the work of meeting the man
myself and taking him TO the office. The
offices were located in three different
parts of the city, one being near the
Flfth-AYenue Hotel, another lower down,
and stu another at Courtlandt street,
and victims were taken 10 whichever
office happened TO be the most convenient
for the experiment. The offices were
fitted up like regular banklng-rooms,
with large safes. tine desks. beautiful
furniture, soft MOquette carpets. while
on the wall there would be various signs
in regard to stocks and bonds, and clerks
hustling around, or at work over pom
derous Iedgers. All OF this. of course,
gave a very business-like character To the
office. and served almost completely TO
disarm suspicion.
when | CHANGED on the name OF a
man In the daily papers who i thought
would answer my purpose ] would go to
the hotel. send up my card. and make
his acquaintance. Then j would soon
take him in one OF our Offices. / spoke
of the safes there. Sometimes they were
bogus. They were made OF pasteboard
and could be taken all apart, being paint
ed on the outside TO look like a
safe. When the customer had won a
prize we would sometimes ask him II he
preferred to be paid in gold. A big bag
OF coin would be brought out. the top
pieces In which were gold. but all the
rest silver.
9Th SWEETEST place ! ever had was In
Fourteenth street below Third avenue.
That was fitted up In very fine style. but
was afterwards arranged 10 be changed
into "a bedroom. We could fold up evry-
thing and have a bed made from some
other article OF furniture. The victim.
II he afterward came to the place, could
not Identify the room. Then we would
change the number, on the house so that
when the mar came he could not find
the building. even though he had remem.
bered the number. lie would notice the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

Many Persons Killed and Hundreds
Wounded in the Bloody Fights.

Many Persons Killed and Hundreds
Wounded in the. Bloody Fights.
A dispatch from Tangier says that rebel
tribesmen have entered and looted the
city of Morocco A British man-of-war
has arrived at Tangier from Gibraltar.
A second dispatch from Tangier says that
the rebels and the inhabitants of Morocco
have had bloody fights in the city's streets,
and that many have been killed and hun
dreds injured. The Jewish quarter OF
the city is said to have been spared. The
City of Morocco, one of the capitals of the
empire, is situated in the southwest of the
country, four miles south of the River
Tensift, and at the north end of the ex-
tensive and fertile plain. 1t is surrounded
by strong lime and earth wall thirty feet
high. The town is i'll built. the streets
narrow. irregular and unpaved. The
houses, generally built of the same mate
rails as the wall, are one story high, with
fiat roofs and narrow openings instead of
windows. The city possesses twenty
mosques, of which six are remarkable for
their size and elegance. The population
is estimated at about 10000. On the
south of the city, outside the walls, stands
palace of the Sultan of Morocco, oc-
cupying a space of about 100 acres. Mo-
rocco was founded in 1912, and reached
the summit of its prosperity in the thir-
teenth century, when it had more than
700, 900 inhabitants. 1t has since been
rapidly decaying, and is now half in ruins.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

tions of the officers of the ship about the
water-tight compartments. Not only
the longitudinal bulkheads but those
which run across the ship are so large
and firm and so constantly in the way
of the passengers that they rapidly
learn to feel a great respect for them.
There Is not an officer on the ship, from
the doctor to the captain, who cannot
explain to the entire satisfaction of ev-
cry passenger that owing to the bulk
head and compartment system it is alb
solutely impossible to sink the ship by
u collision with another vessel. The
customary wind-up of any discussion
on this subject is the statement by the
officer: "Why, this ship might be cut in
two, and so perfectly would these wat
er-tight compartments work that both
ends would float Independently of each
other" The fact that little Scotch
steamer crashed into one of these ships
the other day and sunk it in twenty
does not seem to have any bear
ing upon the case.-New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
CHICAGO TIMES LAST ISSUE.
Newspaper Made Famous by Wilbur f..
Storey Consc dated with Herald.

Newspaper Made Famous by Wilbur f..
Storey Consc dated with Herald.
At the bottom of the third column of the
last page of Sundays Chicago Times were
the words THE end" They gave the rea-
son why the presses were silent in the
Times building Monday morning for the
first time in over forty years, excepting
when the ashes left by the great fire of
1871 covered them. A valedictory on the
editorial page signed by Adolf Krans and
an editorial announcement in the Herald
added significance to the two little words
which constituted the farewell message
of the men who gathered the news, set
the type, cast the plates. and handled the
great presses in the making of the news
paper. The end came when the last paper
had come from the press and the throttle
on the engine had been closed. Long be-
fore that, however, the reporters, writ
ers and managers upstairs had gone, leav-
ing the presses to issue their own valedic-
tory. The Times has been absorbed by
the Herald, and only its name and history
are left to tell of the great paper which
Wilbur +. Storey made.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

IL the powerful battle ship of the pres
ent day, with her low freeboard, her i'm
pregnable citadels. her enormous guns of
mighty caliber, going out? And are we
likely to have a renaissance of the old
fashioned 100-gun ship of the line with
her enormous freeboard, her three or four
decks and battery of guns so numer-
Gus, so quick-actioned and so effective
that no human energy of resistance could
withstand it an hour? Lord Nelson's
Trafalgar, Abouker, Agincourt, reproduc-
ed in steel with four times their tonnage,
with a speed never yet reached by any
but torpedo boats! Think of it! And
armed with 100 guns, each capable of fir
ing from six to thirty shots minute!
What power could resist it? There is no
human appliance, except the undeveloped
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

Germany and Uranco Llht1v - act
Ihoir Own lEodicine.
5 II nay b Stated without hedge. Or sQuiv-
ocation that the aduinistration h seri-
ously contemplate a resort to.retaliation
a. the best. quickest and only sure way Of
bringing Germany and France to terms,
ana forcing them 70 rescind the offensive
determinations against American cattle
and American meat products. The Pres,
ident and Secretary Of State are collect
ing mass of statistical Information
bearing on our commerce with these ma
tions, with the specific end In view of find
ing the weakest point at which to begin
an attack. 1t Is unfortunate for the pur--,
poses of the campaign, Of retaliation that
the United States sells both France and
Germany more property than 1t buys from
them, but II Is urged that neither Of them
purchases our grain and our cott6n and
other necessaries of existence because It
loves us, but because 1t needs these things
and cannot get them elsewhere as cheap
as in America. The logic of this argu-
ment Is that an interruption of trade re-
lations with France and Germany will In
reality be less hazardous to our interests
than would appear on the surface. Our
Government is receiving help in this mat
ter from an unexpected quarter-from the
great ocean transportation lines owned IN
Germany and France. Feeling that their
immense interests are becoming endan-
gered, they arc beginning to move ener-
getically to repress the growing tendency
abroad to jump ,on American products,
thereby inviting retaliation.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

ity. The folds Of the skin and the fea-
tQres and claws are all brought out by
the knife after the shape of the body
is completed.
The dancing bear is n more difficult
figure to do, but with care it will be a
satisfactory model to work from. Model
it about a yard high, and begin by ar
ranging sticks, planting the long ones
firmly in bank Of hard-packed snow,
and tying the short sticks securely to
them. The dotted lines in the model
show where the sticks will best support
the figure. From that point on the
modelling must be done more carefully
If possible, sticks being inserted in the
proper places for each arm, and even
the nose, IL 1t will not otherwise stay
on.
Do not expect to get each line and de-
tail perfect. You will be very success
full IL you make the animals so that
people will know which is which, in
species. Cut out the part between the
legs of the bear last.
A child and dog would make good
group, or girl sitting beside lamb.
A cat curled up asleep is easy. A has
relief of the head of a child, perhaps
ones own small brother or sister can
be done.-New York Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
LEPROSY IN NEW YORK.
A Physician Estimates 100 Cases
There and In Brooklyn.

Physician Estimates 100 Cases
There and In Brooklyn.
A physician in a New York hospital
estimated that there are nearly 100 cases
of genuine leprosy in New York and
Brooklyn Mt the present time. A noticea-
BILE case is that of young woman who
was seen in Park Row the other day ell
bowling her way through dense throng
of people. She was indeed repulsive
object Her ears were almost as large as
ones hand. thick, purple, and hanging
down an inch her lips were thick and
seemingly hard; her hands were stiff, COW
cred with scales, the fingers being drawn
and pulled up, and her nose was .abnor-
mally developed, the nostrils probably be-
ing closed AS she passed along ut a
rapid gait her big, white, scaly hand lay
caressingly on the shoulder of 1O-year-
old girl whom she was pushing along
through the crowd.
For thirty years certainly. and no tell
Ing how much longer, leprosy has been
present in New York. BY reference to
the charts of physicians who make skin
more than one person who lived there all
localities which produce leprosy subjects
are designated by red tracing. This
red tracing envelopes the metropolis. and
the records of physicians will show that
more than one person who lived here all
his life has been stricken with the dread
disease. II is very difficult to get the &C.
tual facts in such cases. because the af-
hicted persons are. very sensitive, and the
physicians who attend them as much as
possible protect them from exposure.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

'li..oc(Iceto go eeoos< oDon ~ 3d.
from tie great lakes to the Atlan<ic. This
scheme ID designed e make Chicago A
ocean port and to enable the largest
ocean frefsht steamers - steam from The
head Of Lake Michigan to tho Atlantic
at the mouth Of the Hudson river A com.
pany 20 construct such . canal has been
already chartered In Capnda, and a ma
tional charter IL now sought at Washing
ton. A number of prominent Chicago
citizens are among the incorporators Of
the company. of which Chauncey X. Dut-
I'm. of Pittsburg, IL the original promoter
The plan has attracted q great. deal OF
attention In Washington. and some of the
leading men In both houses have been
interested by the vast possibility and
seeming prncticability Of the enterprise:
The route Of the proposed waterway 10
via the lakes and the Welland Canal,
which will be deepened and used In part,
the course then diverting TO the Niagara
river. To pass the falls, a;pneumntic and
hydraulic lock il proposed, to raise or
lower ships bodily 100 feet.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
TeleRraphic Brcxitics.

State Senator Franks, of North Caro-
lima, died ut Raleigh.
II. Berry Wall, ''the king of the dudes,".
Is taking the Kelley cure for alcoholism.
Miss Sarah Larned, of Minneapolis has
been elected supervisor of the Boston pub
lie schools.
Bismarck's physicians urge him to re-
ceive only few Populations April and
to meet Others later.
Ofiicefs of the photographic bureau saw
the Illinois drainage canal will material
ly lower THE level of the great lakes.
Eight cottages were destroyed and
twelve partly burned Mt Pitman Grove
camp meeting grounds. New Jersey.
During the sdebate on the budget the
reichstag adopted the proposal expunging
the paragraph comforting dictatorial pow
ers upon the governor of Alsace- Lorraine.
Mckee Rankin, and Patrick O'NeiIl
were arrested at KANSAS City, charged
with obtaining board under false pre-
lenses for their thestrical company. They
gave bail.
A sewer gas explosion wrecked the
building at 8 and Ia Ohio street, Ale
gheny, injured Edithi Claybourne, Ina
Claybourne and emma 'pancr, and caused
damage Of $1,000
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

submarine torpedo boat, that would prove
a match for such monster. The picture
presented above is the work of an English
naval architect. who calls it the old line
battle ship revived, her possibilities de-
termined by. the recent enormous strides
made in the perfection of the rapid-fre
gun within the past two or three years.
of course the ship is only yet an idea, but
she may yet take form in the progressive
spirit of naval advancement. Frederick
Cloves, an architect of the British navy,
has designed this vessel, though not with
immediate hope Of her acceptance. She
is by no means an impossible vessel. She
is not so large in tonnage displacement as
the larger of England's battle ships, not
nearly so unwieldy in sea way, much
more stable in all kinds of weather, in
hnitely more comfortable for officers and
crew. and great deal less costly to build.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cnttle, common to prime,
50. 10000; hogs, shipping grades, $500
@a.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.0O0l4.T5;
wheat, No. 2 red, 51@52c; corn, No. 2,
43@s44c; oats, No. 2, 2SQ20c: rye, No.
2, 52@53c: butter, choice creamery, 21@
211ac; eggs, fresh, 25lA0261ac; potatoes,
car lots, per bushcl, 65@S0c.
ndinnapolis-Cattle. shipping. 500
$50; hogs, choice light, $304.50; sheep,
common to prime. $264.50; wheat, No.
2 red, 52Q53c: corn. No. white, Ala
411sc; oats, No. 2 white, 33@34c.
st. Louis-Cattle. S3Q5.75; hogs. $40
4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 52@53c; corn,
No. 2, 41hz04211ac; oats, No. 2, 30Q301ac;
corn, No. 2, 56Q5Sc
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.5O05.5O: hogs.
$304.75; sheep, $2.5004.75: wheat. No.
2, 54055c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42@42Hc:
oats, No. 2 mixed. 31@311zc; rye, No. 2,
54055c.
Cattle, $2.5O05.5O; hogs, s40
4.5O: sheep, $204.5O; wheat. No. white.
50Q51c; corn, No. yellow, 43@44c;
oats. No. 2 white. 33034c; rye, No. 2.
55d57c.
Toledo-wheat, Nm. red, 54055c;
corn, No. 2 mixed. 42443c; oats, No. =
white, 33i1ad341kc; rye. No. 2, 540l56c.
Buffnlo-Cattle. S2.50Q6.O0; hogs, SEA
Az; sheep, $3@4.75; wheat, No. red,
5S@5S11c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 4Gll47c;
oats, No. 2 white. 350l30c.
Milwaukee-Wheat.N No. 2 spring, 54M
Doc; corn. No. 3. 42043c; oats, No. 2
white, 32@32hac; barley, No. 2, 53655c;
rye. No. l., 52053c; pork, mess, $0.75G
10 20.
New York--Cattle, $500. 90; hogs. $3.50
@4.15; sheep, $3@5; wheat. No. 2 red.
60061c; corn, No. 2. 4SI49c; oats. white
Western, 3S6l42c: butter. cre rssry. 15Ql
22c; eggs, Western, 3003lo.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
CITIZENS CRY HALT.
Monster Mass Meeting and an Over
flow Held in Chicago.

flow Held in Chicago.
Public indignation at Chicago found q
voice in two monster mass meetings Sun
day afternoon, called by the Civic Fed
GRAFTON. One meeting only had been call
ed, but so widespread was the indignation
that Central Music Hall was large enough
for less than half the citizens. The Sec
ond Regiment armory was rented, and
there the utteranccs of protest went up as
loudly as they did at the parent meeting.
The cry that went up was one for reform
and for independence in local politics. No
other sentiment was, thought of or given
a hearing at either of the meetings. Every
time any of the speakers made an appeal
Glong these lines he was sure of hearty
applause. The stronger his denunciation
the better he pleased his hearers. People
seemed to forget all ideas of Sunday be-
havior. They arose in their seats when
they were particularly well pleased, and
yelled to the speaker: "Hit 'em again" 1t
was not meeting fruitless in its action.
While a set of resolutions was adopted
men were appointed to see that its pro-
visions were carried out.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
Will Cheapcn MalieabIe Iron.

George Harley, an Englishman living
at Springfield, Ohio, claims to have dis
covered a method of making iron by doing
away with the costly malleable process
and thereby bringing down the cost Of
the product. In other words, he claims
he can make malleabie iron direct from the
mold like ordinary cast iron is now made
He claims to be backed by Chicago, New
York and Detroit parties, but will not
give their names or allow outsiders into
his little shop. He has formed a COM
pany with a capital of $1,O00,0OO. which
has been Incorporated under the laws of
West Virginia.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

Her awful powers Of offense come from
her enormous battery of rapid-fire guns.
against which no human power could
stand. Mr.. Cloves calls his 'conceit the
Porcupine, because she fairly "bristles."
Her general description he gives as fol-
lows: Displacement, 1900 tons; speed,
% knots; horse power, 10000; armor, y
inches of steel all over. But her battery
is the thing to excite wonder. Here it is:
Sixteen 6-inch' quick-fring guns, 20 AZ
inch quick-firing guns, 20 12-pounder
quick-fring guns, 20 9 and 3-pounder
Quck-frng gums, % improved Maxim
guns AS Mr.. Cloves says, against such
battery mo ship could stand up, and
no ship in existence could escape The
fanciful porcupine Of to-day bids fair to
be the monster fighting machine of the
future. The days of heavy guns and
heavy armor are over.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
WHEAT LIKELY TO FREEZE.

Increased Apprehension of Injury Re-
ported from Four States.
The Cincinnati Price Current summar-
ICES the crop situation for the past week
as follows: "A trying period for the
wheat crop is now inaugurated Enlarg-
ing areas report more apprehension of
injury from freezing and thawing in Kan.
sas and Missouri and somewhat in ILL
nois and Indiana. The average condi-
ton has evidently been lowered. There
is almost uniform reference to low wheat
supplies, and that they are held for better
prices. The weeks packing of hogs
amounted to 10000, against 100000 for
the corresponding week last year. The
indicated total for four months is Z ,10O,-
600, against 1885, 600 during like pc
Rod in 1884,"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
FRANCE LISTENS TO GRESHAM.

Recedes from Portion of It's De-
mand Upon San Domingo.
The French Government has so far ac-
ceded to Secretary Greshams representa-
tons in the matter Of attempting forcibly
to collect indemnity from San Domingo
as to abate for a time its insistence upon
an immediate settlement of the claim for
indemnity of the French bank. and leave
this to be settled by diplomatic negotia'
tons. 1t insists. however. as condition
for this action that the Government of
San Domingo shall Immediately pay the
indemnity claim for the understandable
killing of French subject during one of
the revolutionary movements on the ISL
and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

cut out of wood, and smoothed with
sand paper. The little teeth are of
great use. because they help to cut the
snow more easily. Another little tool
is made out of a slat of wood. one of
whose ends Is slanted or and whitfield
into point-like teeth. The other end Is
rudely whitfield like handle.
The snow sculptor should work as
any other sculptor does, mostly with
the hands. This will be cold work, but
by the use of old. loose fitting gloves
the trouble will DC lessencd. But IL
one can work without them so much
the better. Take, for example. lion
ess. Firt. a rough oblong block Is
shaped for the plinth or base. On this
are put the masses of snow to build up
the main outline of the body. From
these masses parts are removed here
and there, rs needed, by one of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
WORK OF THE TROLLEY.
Hundreds Killed and Manned by the
System in BROOKLYN.

Hundreds Killed and Manned by the
System in Brooklyn.
The trolley continues its work of death
and destruction in Brooklyn. The record
of deaths since the system was intro
duced in that city has reached 1O3. Fri
day night three persons were manned,
one perhaps fatally. Mayor Sshieren, of
Brooklyn, conferred with several mem
bers of the railroad committee of the
Board of Aldermen to urge the Common
Council to adopt an ordinance regulating
the speed of trolley cars and compelling
companies to equip them with live-saving
devices. There is talk of an indignation
meeting of citizens to try and stop fur
Their slaughter of school children. The
feeling in Brooklyn is growing in inten-
sity, and it is not unlikely that the grand
jury will take an active part before long.
During the month of February 4S2 acct
dents and collisions were reported. Fully
forty persons were injured.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07

The State Department has a report
from the consul at Paso del Norte, Mex
Eco, that the farmers in that vicinity are
complaining of a scarcity of water for
irrigation, and are begging the Govern
ment of Mexico to present claims against
water of the Rio Grande is used by the
people of Colorado and New Mexico. In
the opinion of the consul, the question
might be settled by promptly acting on
President Cleveland's suggestion of a
commission to construct reservoir above
Paso del Norte. for the storage of water.
He thinks in this way alone can the Unit
ed States avert an imbroglio over claims
presented by Mexicans.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
A pelusion and snare.

The water-tight compartment is one
of the most soothing and reassuring de-
vices which ship builders have put into
practical use. Anybody who has ever
crossed the ocean on one of the modern
steamers, of which the Elbe was type,
cannot have failed to experience sense
Of abiding security from the explana-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07


Some fine winter morning when you
young folks wake up you will find sew
eral inches or more of snow upon the
ground-none of that soft, wet, slushy
sort that is more than half water, but
a good, hard, firmly packed. dazzling
white substance. Then it will be time
to make snow animals and images.
Here are some new ideas about what
can be made with snow when it packs
well. Work while the weather is quite
cold, and I'm a shady place, IL possible,
because 1t would be pity for the sun
to melt the figures.
The tools that will be most used are
any fiat wooden paddle; butter pad
die, for example, will be good. also
wooden spoons. A carving knife,
shaped like modelling knife. Is easily
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-07
! FoIlows HE wife in Death.

Mrs. George Heinzleman, of Chilli
cothe, O., has been a sufferer from nsth.
ma and died Mt A o'clock Sunday morn
ing. Mr.. Heinzleman had not been sick
and was present at his wife's deathbed.
He was very much overcome, and csuld
not be comforted. About two hours after
he lay down on a lounge and almost In.
etantly expired