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Evening journal., 1897-08-27
eYPslEs ARRESTED.
they Are Charged with the Abduction
of "a I'iftcen-year-oId Boy.


New York. Aug 27.-Thomas verey
and his wife. said TO be sypsies. have
been arrested here at their apartments
On West Forty-ninth street on suspicion
of having abducted a 15-year-old boy
named Ernest Mahan. who says his
father resides az Deyes Hin, Braintree,
Mass t
The Vareys were betrayed 10 the au-
thorities by woman who said she Is
also a gypsy. but has a grudge against
the couple, who are members Of the
same band. Her name has been sup
pressed by the police
Young Mahan has been turned over
to the care of the Gerry society the
Vareys arraigned in a police court and
the alleged abduction win be investi-
gated by d magistrate The lad seemed
TO be quite happy with the supposed
gypsies.
The prisoners deny that they are gyp-
sies Narey says he is a peddler and
horse trader and is q native OF Leeds,
Yorkshire. England. He is 85 years
OF age. and his Wife. who is about %
years old. is quite pretty.
Mahan who Is a bright, intelligent
lad. says that he lived with his father
and stepmother at Deyes Hin until 2h
years ago. Then he was placed In an
orphan asylum at Palmer. near Spring
field. Mass. ard In the course OF three
or four months was given out by the
institution 70 A. ID. kanyon, a farmer
at Cold Brook, Conn.
When the latter gave up farming
Mahan says he was given over to a
man named Vining, who treated him so
badly that he ran away to Waterbury
and there fell in with two tramps
They treated him kindly but one day
he lost the "hohoes." and when he was
homeless and hungry he came across
the Vareys. When they heard his story
the couple who were peddling oilcloth
and swapping horses said they would
adopt him. and he consented 90 remain
with them.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
New York Markets.


FLOUR-State and western quiet. hut
firm; city mills patents, se250645: win
ter patents, S5.35Q5.75; city mills clears.
81. .40G5,5O; winter straights, S59520.
WHEAT-No. 2 red opened excited
and higher on heavy covering by shorts
and stronger cables. eased off under
break at Liverpool. but rallied again on
clearances; September. S1.O1% dl.O3N
october. s1.OOikG1.Ol.
RYE-Firm; No. ? western size. C.
I. T.. Buffalo.
CORN-No. > opened stronger on bad
crop news, later easing off with wheat:
September 35ik@36hc.; December, 37ss
63Siac.
OATs-No dull. but steady; track,
white. state. 25G32c.; track, white.
western. 25@32c.
PoRK-Firm; mess. S999.5o; family.
S1050G1i.
LARD - Stronger; prime western
steam. S5.2OG5.25 nominal
BUTTER-Very firm; state dairy. 100
17c.; state creamery. 12ql9c.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY; large, white, 9hc.;
small. white, 9%e.
EGGs-very firm: state and Pennsyl-
vania. l7G1sc; western, 17c.
sUGAR-Raw firm; fair refining.
sHc. centrifugal. 90 test. 3hc. refined
arm: crushed. 5ssc.; powdered. SIC.
TURPENTINE-F at 2sik029c
LASSES-Firm; New Orleans, 2a
G3Oc.
RICE-Firm; domestic, 4lsq6Ac.; ia
pan. 4h@4Mc.
TALLOW-Firm; city, Sizc.; country
Sizq3ssc.
HAY-Easy; shipping, i5@soc.; good
to choice 60@75c.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
STRIKING cLoAKMAKERs.
Five Shops Have Granted the Demand
of the Men.


New York Aug. 27.-Two thousand
cloakmakers. having secured the 35 per
cent demanded have returned TO work
IN five shops here. This leaves $500 on
strike in 10 smaller shops, with the
probability that 500 additional cloak
makers will not resume work In the
shops of II. Fuchs, on Greene street.
and A. Davis, on Division street. Work
would have been stopped In the shops
of Meyer Jonasson & Co. and Julius
Stein, on Broadway. had not the man
agement Of these concerns expressed a
willingness to grant the concessions de-
manded.
The employees of A. Friedlander &
Co are stlll out. and a continuation Of
the strike in that shop for an indefinite
period is not improbable. There is a
clash between the firm and the execu-
tive board of the United Brotherhood
of Cloakmakers.
Walking Delegate Abraham Fischer,
who has been advising against the flu
tllity OF a general strike, was mobbed
by angry cloakmakers. who charged
him with being friendly to the manu-
facturers and opposed to the interests
of the cloak operators. The attack oc-
CURED at 100 Rivington street. Fischer
had to fly for his life.
The victory of the 1000 Progressive
tailors was celebrated here by a mass
meeting and afterward a dance.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Cholera has broken out in the North
amptonshire regiment at Bombay.
DR.. f. S. Kitchell. instructor at the
New York College of Physicians, died
in Roosevelt hospital from injuries re-
ceived by falling from a veranda while
playing blindmans buff.
Plymouth church of Chicago win call
Rev. T. De witt Talmage to fill the pull
pit made vacant by the illness of Dr.
Frank Yunsaulus.
A new locomotive on the New York
and New Haven railroad has just made
a run Of 40 miles in 80 minutes. This
beats the record.
1t is the intention to enlarge Ellis is
land, in New York bay. by recaiming
about three acres of land. The new i'm
migration buildings will be erected soon.
The Duke and Duchess of York will
visit Canada I'm the spring Of 1898.
The French cabinet has decided that
there is no ground at present for modi-
flying the duties on cereals.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
FORTUNE IN A YEAR.
A Lumberman Comes Back From
Alaska With S15o,ooO.
HAS A CLAIM VALUED At Sl,OOO,OOO,
When Nearly out of Food and About
Ready to Give Up. His Party
Struck Valuable Vein
by Chance.

Chicago, Aug 27.-One year ago Fred
Phiscator was a poor man, engaged in
the lumber business at Barodo, Mich
Saturday night he arrived in Chicago
on his way home from Alaska. In a big
red pocketbook which he carried in the
inside pocket OF his vest there reposed
certificate of deposit for 100000, besides
which Mr.. Phscator had sufficient loose
change to keep him from borrowing
whenever he wanted a cigar. And Just
as though he had been used to counting
his money in six figures all his life he
remarked that he had refused 100000
for the claim he left behind and thought
it was worth $1,000. OOO
Mr.. Phiscator dropped his travelling
bag before the clerks desk in the Great
Northern hotel and said that nothing
was too good for him. 1t Is his intention
to spend the winter with his family and
friends, and in the spring he win lead
party of friends to the scene of his for
tune making.
Mr.. Phiscator was one Of party of
four that followed the discoveries on
Bonanza creek. and he and another man
located the claims that have been re-
ported as being so rich on El Dorado
creek. Mr.. Phiscator said the party was
nearly out of food and was about ready
10 turn back to the nearest trading post
when IL met another party that had
more flour than it needed and sold his
party some.
Struck 1t Rich.
That evening. while the cook was
preparing supper Phiscator suggested
to an old man named Whipple that they
go a mile up the Klondike ana wash a
pan Of El Dorado creek dirt They did
so and We're amazed when they found
between SO and 81 in yellow metal in
the bottom of the pan. They immedi-
ately staked claims and went back and
told what they had found. The others
in the party then staked claims, and all
have become rich.
This was a little over a year ago, "
said Mr.. Phiscator. "and in that time I
have taken out more than $l50,000 and
| have hardly made hole in my claim.
/ In one hole 80 by 80 feet ] took out
! $4,000. Most people / meet have a
wrong impression of what the claims
are. and the reports of fabulous wealth
being taken out OF them are exagger-
ated
"To work a claim a hole about 6 by
3iA feet. or about the size OF an ordi-
nary mining shaft is started down. AS
the ground never thaws out to a depth
OF more than two feet, this Is not easy
work. AS it is net brittle it cannot De
shot out. so il is necessary TO use a picl
until a certain depth is reached. Ther
fires are built and the ground thawet
out. A fire over night will soften abou
three feet of earth. This is taken GU
the next day and another fire built.
"The rich dirt is at bedrock, and afte
this is reached the fire process is con
tinued, and the excavation is carried oi
laterally. the dirt being taken out &
about the height Of a man. An tn
earth taken out in the winter is pileC
up. and when summer comes it Is pan
ned for the gold"
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
The Plkg.s PEAK MURDER.
John u. Edmnnds Arrested, Charged with
Completely In the Kay Tragedy.

Kansas City. Aug. 27.--John B. Ed
munds Of Kansas City has been arrest
ed on suspicion of completely in the
murder, on the top Of Pixies peak, OF
Herbert II. Kay Of Wisner, Neb. Ed
munds gained a great deal of notoriety
during the pendency of the famous in
surance case of DR.. G.. w. Fraker, the
Excelsior Springs physician who mys-
teriously disappeared after securing
$50. 900 worth of life policies. Edmunds
was Frakers Office boy In Missouri and
swore on the stand that he had seen the
physician drown. When Fraker was
later found hiding in the Minnesota
woods and brought back for trial, Ed
munds disappeared.
He loomed up in Colorado Springs re-
Gently. again as the Office boy of DR..
Fraker, who, after being discharged.
had gone to that state 70 practice Ed
munds it appears. disappeared from
Colorado Springs a few days before the
Kay murder. after stealing the doctors
revolver. Now DR.. Fraker has given
the Colorado officials damaging evil
dence against the boy. who formerly
stoutly defended him.
Young Edmunds was arrested at the
home of his mother in this city having
apparently just arrived from Denver.
He did not resist arrest. When Ed
munds arrived at the station. he was i'm
mediately taken to Inspector Halpln's
room to undergo the sweating" process.
He had scarcely entered the room when.
without being questioned, he volunteer
ed Il was in Larned, Kan, on the
10Th"
He later insisted upon his innocence.
saying that a charge Of murder was
made against him by Dr. Fraker out OF
spite, because he had left the doctors
service. Edmunds said he was en- route
to Galveston, from whence he intended
to go to sea. He had his trunk ship
ped to that point, he said. The police
have telegraphed to the Galveston Of
hcials to hold the trunk and the Col
orado authorities have been notified of
| the arrest
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
sentenced For sine Yenr..

New York. Aug. 27.-On July 8 last
Sylvester S. Hardy. a colored porter
tried his best to murder his wife. but
failed in the effort. although the wo-
man was terribly wounded He first
locked her in a room in their apart
ments on Park avenue then shot her
five times, slashed her with razor and
finally struck her with an AK. Hardy
pleaded guilty to assault in the first de-
gree, and Judge Fitzgerald sentenced
the murderous porter 10 nine years and
five months Imprisonment at Sing Sing
nrlsOn.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
PENSIONERS PROPERTY.
The New York Legislature Says That IL
Must Pay Taxes.

Albany. Aug. 27.-An act of the last
legislature. which takes effect Nednes-
day, Sept. !. provides that real property
purchased with the proceeds of a pen-
sion granted by the United states for
military or naval services and owned by
the pensioner on by his wife on widow
Is subject to seizure and sale for the col
lection of taxes or Assessments lawfully
levied thereon.
Heretofore property purchased with
pension money has been exempt from
any kind of taxation. but a law was en-
acted by the last legislature making
property purchased with pension money
subject to taxes for local school purposes
and for the construction and mainte-
nance of streets and highways. This law
also provides that n property is pur-
chased with only part pension money Il
shall be taxed on It's assessed valuation
less the amount OF pension money used
IN its purchase.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
standInr of tle cIubs.
BODY Of Drowned Man Recovered.

Sandy Hook, n. j.. Aug. 27.-The
wreckng steamer William Cooley. while
at work on the sunken steamer Alvena.
picked up the body of a drowned man
and brought 1t 10 the Sandy Hook life
saving station. The man was appar-
entity over 30 years OF age and had a
smooth shaven face II Is supposed 10
be the body of Archibald Slater OF
Elizabeth. n J.. who fell overheard
from the tug Stickney while on q nsh-
ing excursion on Aug. p. A white
badge married 'Elizabeth Anglers. Aug
%" was found on him. also gold
watch, with chain and Masonic charm
attached. 81 and some change and a
pipe The coroner at Long Branch has
been notified.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
Actor wn co . plroroo.

New York. Aug. 27.-Referee Nolan
has filed a report with the county clerk
here stating that Joseph J. Sullivan.
the actor, is entitled TO divorce from
his wife Flora. Sullivan in the papers
filed accused his wife Of improper rela-
tions with John G. SAKE. one Of the
musicians connected with his theatrical
company, and Patrick Joyce. 22-year-
old cab driver Of Long Island City.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
For a New EIeotrIc RaiIroad.

Albany, Aug. 27-The state railroad
commission has granted the applica-
tion Of the Greene County Traction
company for permission to construct an
electric railroad from Coxsackie back
IN the country about five miles. This
road will connect with the four other
electric roads which were incorporated
n few weeks ago to operate in Greene.
Schoharie and the lower portion Of AL
bany county. These roads have not yet
applied 10 the railroad commission for
permission TO build
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
vn1nnhln nIinernl I.ind.

Lewiston, Me. Augi2 i27.-7A special from
Ellsworth says: A mineral. known as
molyodenite has been found on property
owned by Charles II. Emery Of Ellis
worth, in plantation No. 10, Hancock
county. Mr.. Stacy saw a flake of the
mineral on a ledge, and firing three
shots he took out about five pounds. II
has been assayed in Boston at 81 a
pound. The mineral resembles graphite
and is used for lubricating purposes.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
ALLEeEp cRlMINAL HELo.
A. NJ. McRea Committed For Trial on n
Narlety Of Charges.


st. GATHERINGS, ont. Aug PA. NJ.
McRea, the alleged defaulter embezzler
and forger who was formerly secretary
treasurer of the Security. Loan and Saw
lngs company Of this city has arrived
here from New York. he was taken be-
fore magistrate and given prellmi-
nary hearing.
There were four charges against the
prisoner-forgng the name OF John
Reilly to a check for S3.31O16, uttering
the said check. forgery Of Reillys name
to check Of 81 7OLO2 and for enibez-
cling the sum of 81. 100 OF the funds OF
the company.
The evidence was so strong that no
defense whatever was made. The mag
istrate therefore committed him 20
stand trial on three Of the charges. the
last charge not being pressed by the
crown. McRea win probably be tried
tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
Prono.al OF Indem nIty settlement.

Constantinople, Aug. 27.--Lord Sails
bury has made q fresh and important
proposal in the matter Of the settlement
Of the indemnity due Turkey from
Greece. He suggests that Great Britain,
France and Russia jointly guarantee
the indemnity loan and control the
revenues set apart for the purpose Of
meeting this obligation. He invites the
other powers to participate in the guar
antee II they choose to do so.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
steamer ooro Core a Probable Loss.

New York, Aug. PA dispatch was
received IN this city announcing that a
cable received IN London from Punta
Arenas stated that the British steamer
Coro Coro. from Callao via Valparaiso
for New York. before reported ashore in
English narrows in the straits Of Ma
gellan, would probably become a total
loss.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
No Answer FROM japan.

San Francisco. Aug. 27.-The steam
er Mariposa has arrived from sydney
via Honolulu, with the following Ha-
waiian advices: The Hawaiian govern
ment has not yet received an answer
from japan regarding the offer to refer
the immigration trouble To arbitration.
There Is no change in the situation
here
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Scores of the Baseball Games.

Scores OF the baseball Games.
Al New York
New York;. 6 2 90 ! o. '--1a
Chicago .......1 0 2 % 0 0 o. 6
New York-Hts. %; errors, T. Chi
cago-Hits. 10; errors 3.
At Brooklyn
Brooklyn ...... 0 o o 1 o 1 o 6 o. 8
Louisville ..... o Of2 1 2 3 4-16
Brooklvn-Hlts. 10; errors 3. Louis
ville-Hita 10; errors. 4.
At Boston
Boston ....,... 0 60 o. o o.
Cleveland .... . o 0 2 O. 0 l. 9.
Boston-Hits. s; errors. 3. Cleveland
Hits. IA; errors. 0.
At Philadelphia
Phna .... o 2 0 0 % 0 Q 0 o o.
Pittsburg o 0 u 0 o . 0 l. 4
Rhladelphla-Hits 10; errors, 4. Pitts
burg-Hits 8; errors. 4.
At Baltimore
Baltimore 40 0 o 0 0 0 . l. 3
Cincinnati ..... o o 0 1 0 0 O. 2
Balumore-Hits, s; errors. 1. Cincln-
nati-Hits, s; errors. 4.
Al Washington
Washington 80. 1 / 0 I 0 - 6
st. Louise. o 0 o o 0 Q o.
Washington-Hits 10; errors. /. st.
| Louis-Hits, z; errors, /.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
A nrIser Robbed.

Albany. Aug 27.-Patricl Hooraho, a
miser, aged GO years. was robbed by
two men Of s1,06l in greenbacks and a
bank book issued by the Cohoes Saw
ings institution. Hooraho lives alone IN
a squalid house on small farm near
Crescent. Saratoga county.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27

The Greater Wilmington Printing
and Publishing Company, southwest
corner of Fourth and Shipley streets, Is
prepared to do printing of every de-
scription quickly and efficiently.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
Movements of Nnrnl ve.sel..

Washington. Aug. 2T.-The San Fran
cisco has sailed from Antwerp for Havre
and the Marblehead has sailed from
sydney to Charlottetown, p. f. l.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27

It does not do to tell farmers who
have wheat 10 sell and whose cattle and
hogs are worth more now than a year
ago that times have not improved.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
Evening journal., 1897-08-27
srREErs RE1NG PAVED.

Workmsn have begun laying Belgian
blocks, with tar-gravel finish on East
Third street, from French TO Pine
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12
SHORT STORIES.

We caught the
AN EASTER drone of it q mile
away-s shrill high
FUNERAL keyed ullullation,
swelling and falling,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12
AN EASTER
LILY.

He came swinging along the sidewalk
young, vigorous. warm. comfortable with
the content OF the well.to-do.
His eye alighted on the old woman
just as she rose. In the gutter lay a
handful of Easter lilies, half faded, prob
ably thrown aside from some church
or window decoration in favor OF a
fresher bunch.
She picked the flowers from where
they lay and resumed her seat on the
steps. When the young man passed she
looked up at him so wistfully that the
cigar he smoked changed from the deli
cate satisf, ing thing it was to rank re-
minder that it's cost would buy such a
creature as this her dinner.
She cast her eyes down again wher
she offered him the flowers and muir
INJURED a pitiful. foreign, broken plea
that he purchase them. She knew he
had no use for the flowers; that they
were soiled and dropping. and that even
il he had not seen her pick them from
the street he could not but see through
the teggar's subterfuge. He felt the
pathos of the fraud and paid for the
faded flowers and went on his way, sat
isfied with his quarters worth of self ap-
proval. The flowers he threw away as
soon as he was around the corner.
Hours afterward he repassed the spot.
She was there still. and the memory of
the mornings episode had rot faded
from his mind. As he approached he
saw her rise stiffiy and pick a faded
bunch of lilies from the gutter, and
when he passed che looked up wistfully
and then down with the same shame for
the same poor wares she had shown in
the morning.
Il wonder how much that graft has
Letted her toiay?" unused the young
man.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12

menbering the work it was to do. her
hand fell away. And the carolling Of
the boys, the wilderness Of the lilies
marshalled in radiant rows before the
altar. the beams OF brightness in the
church, all became mingled in her
mind in one blind passionate appeal for
'lucky in love."
The people were filing decorously out;
the organ was playing a jub.lant post
Jude; the DOOR, held open, let in the
morning freshness upon the towering
chancel. Nora placed herself in the
slow. moving mass, where the new frill
must smite the recresnt Dams eyes and
stir his heart. And as her feet struck
the stone steps without and she
brsathed the scentless morning air, she
heard the hated voice OF the Quinlsn
girl.
"D'ye mind Nora Hsggity's collar this
marnin'?" it said.
"Sure, it's the quare lookin' ould
rag" commented Dan. indifferently.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12
AN EASTER
CHARM.

The choir boys we're singing like
larks in passion Of JOY. The words that
scared and swayed in the ily-scented
air we're of souls that reunited, nothing
henceforth could divide" bat Nora,
sitting with strained, sad eyes. heard
only the idle words that her mistress had
said, giving her the bit Of pleated tulle
and ribbon that encircled her neck this
morning.
Luck in love for a year? All, that was
better than the pale promise OF some fer
off attainment of a hearts desire, To win
Dan back again-back from the Quinlan
girl Of the black brows and the bold
glances. Could The pleated trifie work
that marvel-that miracle-which Sc
cret tears OF agony and open smiles that
wrung her heart and pleadings and
prayers had failed to work?
The blood ran rosily beneath Noras
dull, freckled skin at the thought, and a
shaft of sunlight, stabbing saint in the
great eastern window. played in god
about her dull hair for a second. Luck
in love for year? Then a ray.
piercing some blood red robe, fell upon
the fore b, ad Of ano ther girl, and Morals
eyes followed the red influx. 1t was the
Quinlan girl. and Dan knelt by her side.
In Morals bosom the fiuttering heart was
suddenly st;lled TO a lump Of ice. Her
fingers clutched at the collar that
strangled her. But feeling it and re-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12

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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-06-12

AN EAS Elk drone OF II q mile
away-a shrill high
FUNERAL keyed ullullation,
swelling and falling.
as the train of three hundred mournerr,
wound slowIy underneath richly budded
boughs. Spring was toward. Though
Easter fell early, woods were in taseel,
orchard trees a-bloom, garden ways
fecked and splotched with white and
purple and scarlet and gold.
isis Charlotte's Why sho' would be
proud, eff she could see all dis crowd
come ter her funul," Black Nanny
said, as the bearers lifted from the
wagon a stained pine coffin, pitifully
slim. She had high notions-dat gal
did. Doctor he say che bound ter die
Monday night. bet she up an lib tell
Sat dy, SO she kin be bu'ied dis Easter
Sunday
DE breddren an s:stern kin come
forrard, an take de las look at our
sister, who is done 'ceasetsd dis life"
They came in stream, weeping.
moaning, writhing, dropping big tears
within the open coffin. The dead girls
mother. standing at the foot. kept up a
low keening, wrung her hands and
rocked back and forth. She seemed
needless Of everything. until a white girl
appo,roI NTH her aru,o fr,II sc a,rIx,
flowers.
She was near dead why's age, and
under the old order would have been
her young mistress; under the new
they had been the friendliest playmatee.
She kne.t beside the coffin, to lay the
flowers within it. but stopped. perplexed
by that which met her eye. AS she
hesitated Aunt Charlotte whispered
loudly:
Miss May, please mann, don't fetch
dat bokay in Why's ham hits de flowers
whar wus on de new hat, she nebber
libbed ter wa'ar. You kin put dat
gyarden truck at her head, an foots-
hit gwiue witber long fore de Judgement
day-an' de ve'y las thing my po' gal
say ter me wus: Nanny, bury me so
t when rises. kin rise in STYLE"
Notwithstanding Miss Mary's smoth-
cred laugh as she obeyed, her tears fell
when she heard the clods rattle upon
the coffin.