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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29

The hospital wards were full, but the
interest had 50 centered about the
pretty. pallid child, lying patiently on
her pillow, awaiting the coming of the
surgeon, that a crowd Of nurses and at
PENDANTS stood near, waiting 30 antici-
pate her slightest wish. Through the
long "aisles of pain" had fiuttered bevy
of bright-faced, sweet-voiced women
and the whole atmosphere bore wit
ness to their gentle ministratiops, for
on each pillow there lay n blossom fresh
and fair, and by each cot there stood n
bunch of flowers, some rare, all beauti-
full.
1t really seemed by process of eft
ness" that the bud which lay within
reach of the little wasted hand. resting
so quietly on the quiet breast. was as
fair as pearl, and it seemed as did the
child, an emblem of purity and peace.
This day had been set for an operation.
to perform which celebrated surgeon
was coming from distance. The OPP
Grafton was to be done in the interests
of science; hence the cost had not been
n matter of consideration; otherwise
the child, being daughter Of the poor,
would have exhaled her life away in pro-
;onged and unrelieved torture.
At last they cssuyed to lift the light
form and bear it to the operating room.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29
III.

Ill.
Alone in the room assigned him in the
hotel sits the surgeon. In vase before
him droops the pale bud. and the deli
cate fragrance from its heart seems to
mount to his brain. for he rises from
his chair, to pace with restless feet the
narrow room. He holds in his hand n
slip OF paper, and thousand times has
he read and reread its simple legend:
I'm memory of Leonard"
Was the tale tattled to him by en-
Nious tongues of desolate home, a
ruined and blighted life, misplaced and
too ardent affections lie? And nave
his feet trodden the weary round of
endless search after forgetfulness. only
to return and lind himself the one in err
ror and his little love still foithful to a
childish dream?
Leonard d'Orville, the msn, was al
most as much Il ''rcature OF impulse ~
ever was Leonard d'Orville. the boy.
Rising swiftly to his feet, with
look of resolution on his dark face. he
dGshes out into the night. In box of
long. pale buds, buried deep in their en-
erald foliage, he places letter, and II
reads:
"Floribel: have trodden the whole OF
earth to find forgetfulness. only to learn
that | have fled from the cup of happiness
that waited near. my lips Your message
and your rosebud have found me. Here
are our bridal roses. II you had been the
wife of another your little messenger would
never have left your loyal hand. will wait
here. IL you do not desire me to come to
you, word Will Danish me. II hear moth
ing. and a weary time II will seem, within
the next four days, I shall know that you
are willing / should come. Should your
heart call out across the years, as does
my own, send but word. bud from orr
bride rose tree. and the mission of flower
could come to no sadder heart or lonlier
life! love you, dear have always loved
you. have tried to become the man on
whom you could bestow the priceless treas
IRE OF yourself. God bless you-whethcr
1 am to be. or not. your own
LEONARD"
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And year after year, as the girl saw
the thriving rose tree begin to bud,world
her innocent thoughts cluster about the
possibilities that her immediate future
might hold. And year after year the
spring passed and the summer came and
went, and there was no break in the
quiet monotony of her secluded life.
Time. the merciful. had smoothed away
those craven lines of remembrance, and
her life began to be filed with other in
terests. and the memory of her boyish
love remained only as an eyanescPnt
odor. that came and went with the
flowers on those long. pearly buds that
grew beside the cottage door.
Waves of the doings of the great
DANES of fashion and of form had even
widened their circle to take in the mod
est cluster of houses and the one street
of public shops called Rosedale (after
Miss Floribel's father), and the Society
for the Comfort of the Poor" had for
many years been thriving institution,
with Miss Floribel for president. As
spring came in. huge crates Of flowers
would leave the nearest station as con-
tributions from country TO city, sent di-
rectly toa sister society for distribution
to the members.
In this part of her useful life Miss
Floribel had contrived to weave the
memory of her early romance. First.
/ must tell you. that beyond a few float
ing rumors as to his whereabouts no
word had ever come to her. over the
weary years, of the lad who had prom
ised such fealty. But each year there
would go from the hand of the lonely
woman a little token of remembrance.
In the packing of the blossoms, over
which Miss Floribel always presided.
there would go the fairest and most per-
feet of the buds of the bride rose tree,
bearing a tiny slip Of paper, inscribed
"In memory of Leonard" A harmless
bit Of romance, INDUCED in secretly by a
woman whose heart was as pure rs the
bud she touched. At first, tears were
the dew of the blossom; but now the
deed was only done as an act of gentle
remembrance, as we lay n flower upon
the sod that years have won to ripened
greenness.
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Gentle hands were about her, but she
murmured, and one leaned down to lis
ten:
my rosebud! My beautiful fowerl
May not carry it with me?"
And she smiled contentedly as her
small, fevered hand clasped the long,
fiexile stem.
Beside the long table in the brilliant
ly-lighted room stood several men, one,
made prominent by the lofty grace of
his bearing and the grave beauty of his
thoughtful face. This was the sur
geon who had consented to come from
a distance that mysterious aliment
might be penetrated and it's causes laid
bare.
How tenderly he leaned over the
small. pale face ere yet the anaesthetic
had been administered; how deep and
thrilling the tones of his voice as he
spoke words of encouragement to the
sufferer. STOPPING in the presence of
the assembled students and bearded
men of the resident medical faculty,
he laid his lips in light kiss on the
fair forehead of the child. AS he leaned
above her his eye caught the CLEAN of
the pearly-petaled bud that lay upon
the childish breast. And did he start,
or was it flicker of one of the myriad
lights? Very gently he lifted the bud,
his hand encountering a strip of paper
tied about the long stems as he did so;
and, turning, he laid it down with the
gloves, which he had dotted upon enter
ing the hall.
All was over, and well over. The
child had rallied, and was sleeping
quietly. Beside her watched skilled
nurses, and within reach of her waking
hand stood a great bowl of choicest
bloom, but the creamy bud was gone.
These had come in it's stead.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-08
BRIgp TgLBGRAMs.

Rev. T. C. Bache, OF NRntlcoke. was
elected president. and Rev. james
Moore, OF Plymouth. secretary, Of the
primitive Methodist conference OF
Pennsylvania
Eleven bodies have been recovered
from the wreck OF the collapsed build
ing at Cincinnati. Yesterday the bodies
found were those Of G, +. AndresS, Will
lam LowheidC and Minnie Kennedy.
II was n dull day yestGrdny In the
gcott ,Jankgon trial al Newport, kyr
the principal effort being to break down
the prisoners character, on tho cvt-
denco OF prostitutes from Cincinnati.
Il. II. Bralncrd. the well known CHI
caRo cut stone contractor, has failed.
In hlH failure the firm Of Sherman. ~ ~:
vim a Co, marble cutters, was carried
down, MIR, Brninerd waB member OF
tho firm villa large interest IN IT, Mr..
Rrnincr,lR assets are about {3O0.0OO ana
his liabilities about the same. The ilrm
Of Sherman, FlnVln & Co. has assets OF
about $500 900, with liabilities OF some
what more than that.
Judge White, Of Pittsburgh. held
hearing in tho preliminary Injunction
granted last TucSday IN the cnSn Oi
Tho window glass wOrkerR Of America
against j. II. Sovereign, Simon HurnH
and others and continued tho lnjunr-
tIon until the fnRl hearing In the case,
r'hc court said there were Important
questions involved IN the procoedlngS
md lnlimAtOd that final hearing could
be held within o month
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BOND INVESTIGATION
Ordered by the senato-PsfEsr Rs.olntlo,
Passes 4DsmooratS ia n Family Flight.

OFdoHetl by the SenAte-peItef WeAOlutl0M
PRSses-DsmoeratS In Family Fight.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 7.-By
the decisive vote of fifty-one to six. the
senate to-day inaugurated an invests
cation. to be conducted by the senate
committee on finance into the facts
and circumstances connected with the
sale OF United States bonds by the
secretary Of the treasury during the
last three years. The six adverse rG-
ports were east by Senators CaherY.
(LouisiAnu), Faulkner, CWest Vlrginia),
Gray, (Delnware). Hin, (New York;.
Mitchell. CWlSconsin), and Palmer,
Qllinois), all Democrats.
The bond resolution came up imme.
dlately after the morning business and
Mr. Palmer, (Detn., Ill), took the floor,
II oppose this resolution" said he, "be-
cause / regard It as an llleGitlmRte
means OF procuring material to aHect
and inflRme the public mind"
The senator referred to the Illinois
and Missouri free silver Democratic
conventions last year as snap conven-
tiOns."
AFR. Coolsrell answered sharply that
the Missouri convention was one OF the
most representative gatherings ever
held. It was called because the Dem-
oOracy was being miBrepresented and
IN attempt to commit It to gold.
Mr. Vest declared that the Missouri
convention was a response to the peo-
pie. "1'he people led, and" added Mr..
Vest, "the people assemble conventions
and any man who tries to stop them
will be crushed. Manhood and decency
viii no longer permit US to stand here
and be accused Of advocating 'unsound
money and OF assembling snap con-
ventIons.'"
Mr, Vest next turned his attention to
the recent Michigan Democratic state
convention, reading from an article
written by one OF the delegates who
had participated SIN that shameful
scene" The article detailed the action
Of "backsllders" and traitors" Who
had been instructed for silver and
voted against 1t. The senator said he
had many letters from men OF high
standing. detailing the circumstances
OF the Michigan convention Rs a shame
and disgrace TO American public life"
After further denunclRtiOn OF the in-
tluences brought to bear on cOnven-
tlons, Mr.. Vest closed with a startling
declaration as to his own position.
II am q delegate to the national con-
ventIOn," said he, IAN unwilling dele
gate, chosen by my people, and | serve
notice now that II that convention at
Chicago IL to be made up Of ONCE
holders, to Stihe and prevent the eX-
precision Of the will Of the people, then
il is no Democratic convention TO me:
The Democratic party is the party Of
honorable expression. not OF federal
patronage"
MP EFll1 AZ O0RA k6Ak Ih( moor. 10
close his speech in opposition 70 the
bond resolution. after which Il was
pOGaad
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-08
NEW IRRsEY pKMoCRATs
Elect the Slate DsIeEatss-StrOnE for
Cleveland for a Third Term.

Elect the Slate Dsiegatss-Strons for
Cleveland for y Third Term.
TRENTON, N. j.. May THE Dem-
ocratle convention met here to-day and
after a struggle clecteu the four slated
candidates for delegates At large to, the
national convention at Chicago as fol-
lows:
Jr., Of Essex county; eX-unlted States
Senator Rufus Blodgett, OF Monmouth;
ex.Stnte Chairman Allan L. McDer.
mott, OF Hudson, and eX-Judga Albert
Tallman, OF Gloucester. The election OF
sixteen district delegates was also tatl-
The platform adopted declares
strongly FOR gold money standard and
warmly endorsed the administrator OF
President Cleveland. The fact that Mr..
Cleveland has not expressed himself as
willing to accept the nomination was
the only thing that prevented an ehoFe
to instruct the delegates for his renoEi-
nation. Among the delegates troh the
southern part OF the state the sentiment
Is largely for Ex-Governor Pattison, OF
Pennsylvania,
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"x1D" N'OoY's VICTORY
Over "JIm" DAILY what was ExPeotsd.
Was QuIok Fight.

Over WJIm" DAILY what was Expsotsd.
Was QHIok Fight.
NEW YORK, May 1.-The gyulna-
stun Of the New Manhattan Athletic
Club was well filed tonight with an
appreciative crowd Of members and
guests. There were three bouts on the
programme, the principal Of which was
q twelve round fight at catch weights
between Kid Mccoy and Jim DAILY. Of
Round l.-McCoy landed a left jab on
body and n left swing on face. He
followed with lefts on face, and body,
and knocked DAILY down with a left
smash on the jaw. Mccoy gmRabed
DAILY right and left on face and then
sent the BuTaloian to grass with
hard left on face.
Round 2.-McCoy made Rchopplng
block OF Daily and fioorcd him three
times with right and left hand snashcs
on the face. Daily was In very bad
state when the time was called.
Round 3.-McCoy led of with Ave left
hand jabs on the stomach and Daily fell
10 the floor after getting two right hand
smashes on the face. The referee call
ed the bout TO a close when Daily had
gone to gruSs three times. Mccoy won
PaRilY
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TRNvEssEE DEMOCRATS
Have wild and WocIIy TImo-Presi.
hn..n nN.nnNn..h NNhnnnmrntl.

Have Wild and NocIIy TImo-Prcsis
dent Cleveland Denounced.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 7.--John
K. Shields. OF MorrIStown, was elected
permanent chairman OF the state Dcm-
ocrut!c convention. The committee on
credentials not being ready to report,
ypeech. .innking to a wild aud Disorder
ly convention followed In the mean
time until after o'clock, when a recess
was taken, Some Of the speeches were
very bitter and abusive Of President
Cleveland, but were not received With
out decided disRpproVal
Chairman Shields called the convcn-
ton to order at O'clock. The report
OF the committee on crcdcntiHlI was
made and because Of the iumult and
disorder was not adopted until after a
wrangle and a roll call. The cnnven-
tlon now awaits the report OF the plat-
form committee. The basis OF repre-
scntatlon cuts down the Rntl.freG silver
vote to small showing.
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N1CH1oAN YoR rK1NLEY.

The State Convention Strongly TnStrHsta
fer Him.
DETROIT, Mich. May 7.-An ani-
mated fight over the money question
was the most striking feature Of the
Michigan Republican convention to-
day. II resulted in sQuelchIng both the
gold plank offered by the majority and
the silver plank submitted by the
minority OF the resolutions committee
and the substitution therefor Of the
money plank Of the Minneapolis plat
form Of 90. Mckinley was endorsed
most unequIVocally and the delegates
were strongly instructed In his favor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-08
SENATOR ELKINS
saws the Rivers and HRrbors Bill
will be Passed
OVER VETO OF THE PRESIDENT.
sIx Million Dollars for Ohio and
MOnongahela Rivers.
THE PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION.

y,,h,ar, the senator says, Can Iutsrvens
10 Prevent the Nomination OF faioKinlsy
:, AsolAmatOn-Hs viii 20 the Next
pr,,aont-St. LouiS convsnuon win be
f, RatnsatiOn Meeting -Tho Elkins
sslpv,nE Bnl shouId be Endorsed In
n, Platform-wn Not Go % 81. Louis
ua DoIegats.
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WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1.-THE
news from Indianapolis was awaited
with interest at the capitol. When
Indiana's action became known Senator
Sherman said the question was settled
and he believed Mr.. Mckinley would
be unanimously nominated.
Senator Quay said that he did not
consider the fight closed until the con-
ventIon should declare Itself, as much
would depend upon the contesting del
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demand that American sellers shall
have the first chance In American mar
kets. We are firm and emphatic In our
demand for honest money We believe
that our money should not be inferior
to the money Of the most enlightened
nations OF the earth. We are unRlter-
ably opposed 10 every scheme that
threatens to debase or depreclate our
currency.
We favor the use Of silver as our
rency. but to the extent only and untllr
such regulations that It's parity with
gold can be maintained; and In consas
quence are opposed to the free, unllm-
ited and independent coinage Of silver
at a ratio Of l6 to l. We demand q
rigid enforcement Of all existing nm"
migration laws by the national govern
mont.
Mckinley InStTuotIonS.
We believe In liberal construction
Of our pension laws and condemn the
unjust and unfair policy OF the press
ent administration in depriving ex-Sol-
dierB of their pensions without notice,
and without hearing upon charges
flIed against them.
Relieving as we do in a protective
tariff, the leading issue before the peo-
pie, we favor the nomination as Presi-
dent OF the United States, Of the man
who perfectly represents protective
tariff and the cardinal principles of tho
Republican party; man who has de-
voted his life to the defense OF his
country in war and in peace; one who.
at seventeen. fought with Hayes and
Crook and Sheridan at AntIetam. and
In the Shenandoah In defense OF our
flag against foes within. and for four.
teen years in Congress contended
against our country's foes from with
out, beating back British free trade
and aggression which finally, under
the present Democratic administration.
obtained possession Of our markets and
has almost destroyed our industries; a
man who with the reSistless Bhibboleth
protection and prosperity" has chal.
lenEed the attention Of the commercial
world and won the support OF every
patriotic worklngmRn OF our country;
whosel ife and work, open as book,
are in themselves n platform and whose
very name Is mAEic-thRt loyal Amer
lean citizen, soldier, statesman ana
Christian gentleman, William Mcktn-
ley, OF Ohio: and the delegates to the
Republican national convention select
ed to-day are directed to cast their
VOTE IOE w lIldHl 0AENlilGS 90 ~
uuently and continuously as there 10
any hope OF his nomination.
At o'clock Private Secretary Tib.
bott sent word TO the convention hall
that General Harrison had decided not
to address the convention The an
nouncement caused deal Of comment
and much disappointment among the
delegates and spectators. No explana-
ton Of the ex-Presidents refusal to
appear, was made, further than that
the statement that he had never fully
decided to accept the invitation. He
denied himself to interViewers.
The following were elected delegates
Frank NJ. MIrlIken, Charles N. Fair.
banks. ]. o. LaFollette and General
Lew Wallace. Electors at large: n. g.
Thayer and Charles F. Jones.
The contest for state officers was very
warm Mount was nominated for goVer-
nor on the seventh ballot, and 1t was
made unanimous.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-08
NERCHANT SHOT
While Chasing a Robber-A Tragedy In
Chicago.

WHIIU CHN8EN8 N"SF = NVS'5 -
Chicago.
CHICAGO, May T.-whIla chasing a
robber from his store tonight Thomas
]. Marshall, proprietor Of the Golden
Rule dry goods store, 1852 West Mad
ison, was shot twice and died a few
moments later on the sidewalk In front
OF his place. The rObber escaped. after
firing several shots TO lntlmidate the
people In tho street. He wounded two
other persons. They are Alexander
Beggs, shot in the left leg and RatiS
Hynes. shot through both knees.
West Madison Is q very crowded
street after nlghtfall and the murder
was committed In the sight OF a hun
lred people, but was done so quickly
that there was no chance OF appre-
bending the murderer.
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i'm STRONG TERMS
Indiana Instructs Her Delegates
for Mckinley
AMID UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM.
Story that Harrison would Ap.
pear was Unfounded.
OHIO MAN WAS THE FAYORlTE

And the Resolutions, which arc the
Strongest Yet Adopted by Any State,
Went Through without DlvislOn by a
Three to One Voto-sound Money and
Protection the watehwords-Tho Result
Practically Settles 1t that Mckinley will
be ths Nominee at st. Loui. by Acclaim.
nan.
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THE PENALTY
For His Grimes Paid by the Star
Criminal, holmes.
Ills NERVE REMAINED WITH HIM

To the Last, and lie Died with Lie on
Ills LlpS-RenArkAbl Fad ora Man
with Remarkable CNrosr-story ofIIla
LIfo-The Eight Murders He Is Known
to Have CommIttsd-scsns at the seaf-
fOld.
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De Oro WIns the First.

PITTSBURGH, May THE series OF
three games between Clearwater and
DE ORC for the worlds pool champion
ship began tonight In the Grand OPP
era House. De Oro won out on the
night by the following score by frames:
De Oro-206.
ClearWAter-203
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Harry l.. McKown, the well-known
plumber, and s. J, Pulhnmus. tank
builder, started we'll about eight hun
dred feet from the ROgcrson gusher.
Tuesday, and ARE hoping thelrs will
be In the same class,
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SOMERSET, Ky. Mny Tho round
houses and twelve locomotives belongs
Ing tn the Queen y Crescent railroad
company were destroyed by fire thiS
morning at an carly hour Loss 100000
and fully Insured.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May Tier.
man W. Mudgctt, alias H. II. Holmes,
was hanged In MOyamenIlug prison to-
day. Tho drop fell at 1OI2:SO. 1t was
fully half hour later before he was ON.
cially pronounced dead.
A half minute before he was shot into
eternity he made this declaration to the
solemn assemblage gathered about the
scaftold:
Gentlemen. have very few words to
say. In fact, would make no remarks
At this time except that by not speaking
/ would appear to acquiesce In my eXeOu-
tiOn. only wish to say that tho extent
OF my wronH-dolng in taking human
life consisted in the death OF two women,
they having died at my hands us re-
suit OF criminal operations. wish to
state here, so there can be no chance OF
misunderstanding, that am not guilty
Of taking the lives Of any OF the PiteEel
fRmlly-the three children and Benja'
min, the father, OF whose death was
convicted and for which l am to-day to
be hanged. This Is all have to say"
The words were well chosen and clear
~ enunciated. The voice Of the con-
demned man never quavered; the hands,
clasped on the dark railing Of the scat
fold, did not tremble. The nerve which
had all along characterized this most
marvellous OF aSSA8SlnS did not desert
him ct the end. AS the last syllable fell
from his lips, he turned TO hls attorney,
Mr.. Rotan.
Then he cheerfully buttoned his coat.
nodded to the sheriff. and an instant
later he was shot up Into the air.
He was undoubtedly the most stolid
OF any OF that assemblage OF more than
iifty men.
Holmes spent his last day unevent-
fully. During part Of yesterday Father
Daily OF the Church of the AnnunclR-
ton, visited him and said prayers. In
the afternoon his lawyer, Samuel P. Ro-
tan, spent q short time with him. The
rest OF the day Holmes spent In reading
his Bible and other devotional books.
Father Daily came again early In the
evening and remained until l0:l6 o'clock.
After he left Holmes wrote letters Of
farewell until midnight It is under
stood that these communications were
addressed to his wife in Chinatown. N.
H.. and GsorgtannR Yoke, OF. Franklin,
Ind, the So-called third wife, whose tes-
timony did much to bring about to-
days execution. He also penned q let
ter OF instruction to Mr.. RotRn. his
counsel. Absolute secrecy is maintain
ed regarding the contents OF these let
teTS.
At Il o'clock Holmes undressed and
went to bed under the watchtul eye OF
Keeper Weaver, who was fearful lest
the man In the cell beyond might COM
nit suicide. Holmes slept like an inno-
cent babe and at o'clock in the morn
ing It required two calls to awaken