The morning times., 1896-09-01
AROUND THE hotels.

AROUND TIE hotels.
"a decision that will create stir among
instaliment houses was gwen IN ObiO
recently saiu Charles J. BOkart, OF
Columbus, at lne kaie.gh last evening.
"A furniture company broagnt two suits
IN repieviD. Tne Leienuants mad defaulted
i'll payment on household goods bought
from the company anu oeclined 10 SURRENDER
the gCOGs. Following the decision OF the
circuit court in Cincinnati the justice
deciued that unless the company proffered
to the purchaser OF the gOOus 90 per cent
OF the amount paid, nght OF possession
would rest i'll the defendants. The at
tOrney iOr the furniture company appealed
the case. The installmeBt companies
he saiti, gave tile goOds absolutely to the
purchaser, taking a ciiattel mortgage in
return If the higher courts should sus-
tan the decision tine installment concerns
would be forced out OF business. The
credit furniture companies are much eX-
cited over the matter and are organizing
for the defense
Franklin jenkins OF Denver, Colo, is reg
istered az Wizards Hotel.
1--WE have heard,'' said Mr. jenkins, that
Francis Schlatler, the healer, who caused
such a sensation In Denver last October,
aud who SO Inysteriously disappeared, will
revisit tue city this Ia II to resume his work
among the sick and afflicted. A positive
statement to this effect was made by the
gentleman at whose house Schlatter stage
while in Denver. This gentleman denies
the report that Schlatter passed through
several Colorado towns recently riding on
a bicycle. he states that I he healer had a
horse when he left Denver and points to
the puncture feature OF cycling which
sk,<, hnaI<.
wheel on the cactus grown plains which he
would have had to traverse after crossing
into New Mexico. Schlatter has been labor
ing among the Mohaye Indians in Arizona
and it is said has done much good
The Denver gentleman thinks that the
healer will undergo another forty days
fast before he comes again into Colorado,
and for that reason you need not lock for
Schlatter for some time yet.
sa.ssrts.-r
Samuel ]. Plunkett of Chicago, is at
the National Hotel -- fr-'
"a man who has been familiar char
acter i'll the streets OF our city for some
years, but few uays ago caine into good
fortune" said the Chicagoan. This
fellow hardly ever had Il better sleeping
couch than dark stairway or an empty
wagon, AMI his meals weIe served from
a saloon lunch counter or the cheapest
u
brother, who ha;i left his home some twenty
four years ago, arrived in the city and
began search for his relatives. He had
drited around in the West and finally 10
Gated sorne valuable gold mines and money
poured ill on him.
His parents were both dead. as well
as his sister, and he learned that his
brother, the only survivor. wis an ainless
wanderer III the streets of Chicago After
n InnU search he ~ q 2 nd faE E..p
10 the finest hotel in the city, where the
choicest viauds were spread before hi D.
The Two brothers will return to California.
where the mines are situated a nd the wealth
will be shared alike
Lynn G. Parker OF Bedford, Mass, is
now at the NationaI Hotel
The Grand Army post in Our town ir-
tends to plant d uationaI tree" said Mr.
Parker. "A box of soil froin each State
in the Union will be secured in which the
tree will spread its roots. Water from
Lake Champian. Lake Erie, and other
lakes and streams. near which battles.
were fought, Will he used orirIigatiBg the
soil at the foot of the tree. Just before
I left Bedford box OF soil sent in response
to a request made OF Gov Bushnell ar
rived. II was a rich black loan. The tree
will be planted as soon as the soil has been
gathered from the States''
DR.. Carl ShoenberE of st. Louis who has
been completing his studies in Vienna
is at the Shoreham.
Suicides appear to be epidemic In
Austria" said the doctor Vienna has
had 207 during the first six months of
the year. which is double the average for
the last ten years. At Lemberg. In the
same period. seven soldiers in the Thir
teenth Infantry Regiment killed them
selves. Quite recently a shoemaker in
Vienna adopted a spectacular mode OF
exit. He joined party of English tourists
visiting the steeple of st. Stephens
Cathedral. When they reached the plat
form. from which Couat Starkenber-
s63, he jumped off landing on his neck
several hundred feet below"
Claude Henning of Salt Lake City and
now u guest at the Ebbitt Hoase tells o. a
novel method of perforating iron in his
city. The municipality is being supplied
with electricity for lighting and power, gen
Grated fourteen miles away in the Big Cot
tonwooI Canyon. 1t was found necessary
for the purpose OF pipe connections To cut
four fort.-eight inch openings in the seven
foot penstOck, the plafes of which were
half an inch thick. The workmen began to
cut with chisels, but the progress
was made too exasperatingiy slow for
the engineer Of the works. He took his
rifle and using steel bullets cased with
copper shot a line OF holes through the
plates from distance Of abo1rthirty feet.
The Intervening edges were afterward
easily cut out AMI in very short time the
job was finished.
John 8. Parsons. an insurance ma of New
York, Is temporarily staying at the Met
ropoltan Hotel
Perhaps the most heavily insured mortal
is His Majesty King Humbert OF Italy. whose
life policies amount to $1,000 0OO,''
said Mr.. Parsons. The late cars death
cost the insurance companies no less than
$4,000. 900 and when the Prince Of Wales
dies London insurance agencies will suffer
to the extent of $3.50 900. The present
czar has been unable to get any Companies
to insure his life as they think the risk
too great He is perhaps the only unin-
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