Arizona republican., 1897-10-06
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.


 There are few heads that wear a crown that rests mere uncertainty, if not more uneasily, than that of the czar of Russia. A telegram from Warsaw says that there was a delib- crate and determined plot to assas- sinate the emperor Nicholas during his visit to that city and that it's sue cess was only frustrated by accident. The principal street was undermined but the tunnel was discovered. Among those in custody are four disguised German officers and a number of merchants from the town of LOdzy. Poland, are also implicated. Another report states that 130 persons have been arrested.
 The negro postmaster at Hogans- vile, Ga, is standing at his post like a man, and is running the local post office apparently in no danger of fur ther trouble He is rapidly recover ing from his wounds, and is able to attend to business. The old white postmaster has discontinued his prac- tice of collecting the mail and putting it on the train, as the postal depart ment at Washington would not per init this to be done. Still there ap- pear to be some people in that ob- scure town who will not even now mail their letters at the black post masters office.
 Another level crossing accident. The other day Cyrus Quick, 76 years old, and his wife, Clarissa, of North Branch, were killed at the crossing of the Erie railroad just west of Hankins station, N. Y. MT. and Mrs. Quick were out for drive, and were crossing the railway when the pas senger train struck the horse and car riage, and the aged couple and the horse were killed instantly. The en- gineer says that he rang the bell and blew the whistle as his engine ap- preached the crossing, but MT. Quick did not seem to take any notice of it. At least he appeared to act as if he thought that the track would be crossed safely. When will these level crossings, which are not permitted in Europe, cease to exist in this coun- try?
 "A similar accident occurred the other day on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Carrcroft, near Chester, Pa. Mytro Dobriski was driving a dittle boy and girl to the residence of MT. Addicks at C1aymont They reached the railway crossing at Carr croft just as the local express train from Wilmington came up. The horse and carriage were hurled into the air and the occupants of the car riage were thrown out, and crushed beneath the wheels of the train. The children were those of Robert L. Bal dwin. Such accidents as these are almost of daily occurrence, and yet no attempt is made to compel railway companies to bridge the crossings.
 A Milwaukee evening paper is re- spo2sible for the statement that An drew Carnegie will acquire before the end of the week a controlling fn- terest in the property of the Metro politan Iron and Land company, which controls the Norrie, East Nor rie and PaIbst mines in the Gogebic range, which have an annual capac- ity of a million tons of ore.
 The horseless carriage is still an uncertain institution At Pittsburg the other morning a party of nine persons were sitting in horseless carriage operated with steam power. when it ran away with them and plunged over an embankment near the Beechwood boulevard and fell thirty feet With the exception of one, the occupants fortunately fell on soft earth and were not seriously injured There has been a hypnotic craze in public school at Eau Clare, Wis. Two or three boys in the school have acquired skill in the art and have pract1ced it upon some of the pupils of the school. One pupil says he was compelled to drink a bottle of ink Others have been put into d catalep- tic condition and left rigid for ten or fifteen minutes. Even the head master of the school was threatened and consequently Mr. Herant, the president of the board of education has announced that any pupils who practice or pretend to practice hyp. notism in school or even on the school grounds will be suspended.
 At Fort Mangel there is a family known as the Brown Bear, which \ traces its ancestry back to the flood It IS claimed that the progenitors were not refugees in Noahs ark, since they were able to save themselves bv re.
 lr1ng to mountain near Stickeen liver, thus escaping the fate of the world. To this mountain top a brown Rear also climbed, and became g friend of the family, consequently the Brown Bear is the crest of these Alaskans, and the chief has upon his canoe the huge figure of bear Footprints on the mountains are shown as having been visible from the time of the food The existing tradition of a universal flood amone these primitive people is interesting