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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
A FIENDISH crime AVENGED
Pasquelle Dadario Hanged in
Philadelphia Tuesday,.
WAS A BRUTE IN HUMAN FORM
An Italian Boy Three Years
Old His Victim.

Had Taken the Child from Home Under
the Pretenss OF Buying Him Candy, and,
Entering AN Unoccupied Building, Had
Assaulted and Srransled Him, and IA uried
the Body from Roof to an Alley.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
over-Exertion of Brain or Body.

Take Horsford'a Acid Phosphate.
II is q wholesome tonic for body brain and
nerves Wonderfully quick in lis notion.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23

Brandt. to whip that unfortunate team
into staying form. Every wellwisher
of the game hopes he will do it, for
Philadelphia is a great baseball center
and richly deserves a winning team.
In Pittsburg they at last tired OF a
ciiouv team which was continually
spelling its chances. They therefore
got rid of one element and by many
deals and trades have almost entirely
rebuilt their nine. They expect to profit
much through the establishment of
harmony among their players.
Brooklyn, too, has cut right and left
and is recognizing by disposing of its
prize short stop, Corcoran. 1t certainly
should get better results from any new
team than were realized last season.
The minor leagues enter on the year
with the brightest of prospects. The
western and eastern organizations re-
tain their last seasons circuit. The At
lantic league, which made such signal
success in its first season, has absorbed
Richmond and Norfolk from the Vir-
ginia league and will have an octagon
circuit The Interstate league points
with pride to its successful first year
and begins 1897 with circuit of eight
cities in the middle west which seem
sure of standing together during the
season. The New England league, the
Western association, the New Jersey
league, the Texas league and the South
eastern league have secured the protec-
ton of the national agreement and will
have clubs in the great professional
baseball family. AT this time the out
look for the season of 1897 is most fiat
tering.
There is a desire on the part of the
Cleveland and Brooklyn clubs to play
Sunday championship games at home
this year. The Cleveland club insists
that it will fit up grounds beyond the
city limits and play on Sunday in de-
fiance of the Sunday law and the pro-
test of the county officials. The Brook
lyns meet with much encouragement in
their similar scheme. The New York
Legislature has now increased the PEN
atty for ball players and clubs that
defy the Sunday law, and it is expected
that the Bridegrooms will remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy.
The arrangement of the National
league schedule for 1897 seems to make
it almost an impossibility for any west
ern team to win the championship this
year unless it can get runaway start.
The three strong eastern clubs, Balti-
more, Boston and New York, will finish
the season at home with an average of
SO out of their last 40 games. On the
contrary, the Cincinnatis. Cevelands
and Chicagos reverse this order and
are scheduled almost constantly on the
road during the last seven weeks.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23

cess In the baseball world. The Ma
erage competition for the pennant.
Last year the Baltimores seemed right
from the start to outclass every team
in the race, and their form WAS not a
false one. This year there are no pros
poets of a walk over. The Baltimores
are just as strong as they were last
spring, maybe mite stronger, but
their work lies before them in heavier
sections. Four of their opponents
have been greatly strengthened, and a
fifth, the one which for two years push
ed them hard right up to the goal, will
be no weaker. The New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati and Boston teams on form
should play an average of % per cent
stronger ball than they did last year.
and the Clevelands ought to do as we'll
as If not better than they did in 1896.
Nine of every ten baseball enthusiasts
would name the Baltimore, Cleveland,
New York, Boston, Chicago and Gin
cinnati clubs as those which will finish
among the first six. Still there may be
surprises, as baseball's other name is
uncertainty" But, whatever club
wins the pennant this year, it's players
will realize that they have been in a
killing race.
Nearly every National league team
will begin the season with some differ
ence in its composition from a year ago.
The Baltimores will have their great
third base man, McGraw, back in his
position after a years Absence the re-
suit of typhoid fever contracted while
training in the south last March. AS
winning ball player McGraw has few
peers and possibly no superiors. Bro
die will be supplanted in center field by
Stencil of the Pittsburgs of 1896. Stem
eel is not so good a fielder as Bfodie.
but he is a much better batsman and
base runner The trade last November
by which Stencil was released to the
Baltimores for Brodie and Donnelly was
the sensational deal of the year in
baseball.
Manager Hanlon's other team inno-
walton will be the release of two old
stand by pitchers, Esper and Me-
Mahon and substituting in their place
two new stars, Nops and Corbett. The
latter will attract unusual attention
this year on account of the great fistic
battle in which his brother is one of
the stars. Neither Corbett nor Nops
received a thorough test last season,
though in the few games in which they
played late in the fall they met with
fair success.
Probably the team which will show
the greatest improvement over last
year is the New Yorks. The changes
which made a winner out of a loser
took place six weeks before the close of
the race last fall, and in that remnant
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23
FOR 1897.
By O. P. CayIor.

of the season proof was given that the
two new men had made the Giants a
most formidable team.
Internal dissension in the Washing
ton and Pittsburg clubs made 1t ad-
Yisable for those two organizations to
let some of their strongest players go
elsewhere in the cause of harmony.
The New York club was fortunate in
getting the two men, Joyce and Beck
ley whom it needed so much without
surrendering in return any player who
was needed in the team. Unless all ex
pectations go astray the Giants will
once more be in the struggle among
the teams in the van.
Had not Tebeau's troubles last year.
growing out of his arrest at Louisville
his subsequent fine of 5000 by the
League board of directors and his sue
cessful resistance in court to the pay
ment of the fine, interfered with his
work on the diamond the Clevelands
would have pressed the Baltimores
much more closely at the finish and
might possibly have beaten them out.
This year he will enter the race with
virtually the same team, and any i'm
provement in work over last year will
make his club n strong candidate for
the championship title.
Arson after some years of patient eX-
perimenting has succeeded in putting a
team afield on which all competitors are
keeping a watchful eye. 1t has for sew
eral seasons been a question of pitch
ers with Uncle Adrian. and now he
thinks he has got several winners, in
Briggs and Denzer particularly If he
is not mistaken, the Colts will have
something to say about that pennant.
The Bostons suffered greatly last year
when they lost the services of Lowe by
accident. Barring accidents of SINH
lar nature and counting on much help
from Klobedantz, their new left handed
pitcher obtained from the Eastern
league last fall. the Bean Eaters have
put in claim as possible pennant win
ners.
The Cincinnatis, by purchasing the
release of Breitenstein and exchanging
Smith and Fisher for Corcoran, believe
they have added so much to the
strength of their team that they will
be right in it, from bugle call to fin
ish.
or the other teams the most improve
ment is expected from the Washing
tons and Louisvilles. Both have been
growing strong in the pitchers posi-
ton. McJarnes for the Senators and
Neill and Hermann for the Louisvilles
developed most wonderfully at the end
of last season. The Philadelphia have
a new manager in Stallings. who will
try, with the addition of new men like
Lajoie. Geier, Fifield. Wheeler and
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23
The National Game.

Cleveland will play III Indianapolis
April 10, Ia and Is.
Not an exchange of players was made
at the Baltimore meeting.
De Montreville, Cartwright, Brown
and Abbey of Washington are enthusi-
astic wheelmen and do much of their
training astride bicycles.
Hutchinson is a peculiar fellow. He
thinks he isn't strong enough for the
big League and that if he returned to it
he would make a failure and be sent to
the bench. The Western league, how
ever he regards differently and feels
perfectly competent to pitch in it. 1t
was his wonderful work last season
that gave the Minneapolis team the
pennant. During July and August he
pitched in his regular turn and lost
only two games.
Hot Springs continues to be the ia
vorite place for the early training of
the ball players. Already there are
over % of the boys there, of whom the
most prominent are Theodore Breiten-
stein. Heine Peitz and Red" Ehret of
the Cincinnatis, three exist. Louisans.
by the way; "shang" Messenger of the
Browns and Jake Bectley, Fred ELY
and Denny Lyons of the Pittsburgs.
Not one of the several League clubs
that intend taking their spring prac-
tice at the Springs has yet arrived
there. The Chicago. Minneapolis and
other clubs will follow. and April the
place will be the Mecca of all the ball
tosSers
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23

The baseball season which Is about to
begin is the twenty-second of the Ma
tional league and the twenty ninth of
professional playing. In these years the
wonderful strides which the national
game has made into the hearts of the
American people is hard to comprehend
without taking up the figures and rec
ords. Last year ~ of the principal cities
in the Union supported clubs and teams
which played in the one central organi-
cation OF the national agreement, all
governed by the laws of that instru-
meht. There can never be any other out
of doors sport maintained profession
ally in one-third of those cities. This
year the great baseball circuit will be
no less extensive and comprehensive.
Hard times and exciting public topics
may hold the noble rage" in check, but
it cannot be uprooted from the hearts
of Uncle Sans children.
There was a slight setback to the
game last year due without any doubt
to the unusual interest which pervades
the country during presidential cam
paign. Hard times We're advanced by
some TO explain the slight falling off in
the support of the game during 1895. but
that theory is not supported by the rec
porous baseball seasons have come in
years when there was the greatest COM
mercial depression The explanation of
this is that when money is scarce more
people are compelled to stay at home
during the summer months. A greater
number of clerks and employees can be
spared from business during such dull
periods in trade. Few feel so poor as to
be unable to go out to see a baseball
game once or twice a week or every
day. To go to the race track costs from
50 to S.. without any betting being in
dulged in. and the loss of half day in
time. To attend n theater means the
company of lady and an expenditure
of from 80 to $5 each time. For the sum
of So one can see all the games played
on the local ground during any week
and he need never leave his business
till or half past o'clock in the after
noon.
Unless something of unusual general
interest happens to attract the atten
ton of the American people this year
as, for instance. war with Spain-there
is every reason to believe that the sea-
son of 1897 will be one of notable sue
cass in the baseball world. The Ma
tional league expects to find its banner
season this year, and the rule has been
that success or disappointment in the
major body affects the minor leagues
and associations in similar manner.
The principal reason on which the
National League of Baseball Clubs
bases its expectation of unusual sue
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23
CASEY AT THE BAT.
Reproduction Of a Famous Poem,

There Caseys
There pride bearing a
hat
a bat
hands wi ir
thousand
Defiance glanced in Caseys cured Caseys
ecame
/ there
dsped
THAT
benches black a
Like the beating the
he some 'front.' stand
likely they'd
With smile Christian
He stlled the rising tumut and bade the o on.
sgnaled pitcher he
But Casey still ignored it, the sad "Strke
But scornful look
And they that would not let
smile
And he beats with cruel violence his bat the plate
the pitcher holds ball. h 1
And the air shattered by the force of Caseys
Oh somewhere favored land the shining
The
And somewhere singing somewhere children
But there Mudvilemighty out!"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-23
Balls and Strikes,

The Pittsburg grounds were 10 feet
under water in the recent flood.
Hannivan, Lippert and Waldron have
signed their contracts with Milwaukee.
Colonel Rogers says there are four
clubs in the National Baseball league
which are for sale at any moment
Matthew Killilea, the president of the
Milwaukee club. is an attorney with a
large practice.
Geier of the Phiilies keeps himself
busy and in condition as well by work.
ing in his fathers butcher shop in
Washington.
Buck Mckinney, the veteran gate
keeper at the Louisville park, has occu-
pied that position for every Louisville
club organized in the last II years.
1t was not so long ago that Mr.. Won
der Horst of the Baltimore club was
willing to sell it for $40 600. He would
not take ten times that amount today
Charlie Bennett was offered the pres
idency of the Michigan State league,
but was obliged to decline the offer.
Every club will deposit $780, and the
salary limit is fixed at 5000 per month.
Clements has been with the Phillies
since 1885 and has never played with
any other major League club. He first
attracted notice the year previous with
the Keystones of Philadelphia.
One would not think that the Brook
Ign club was one of the highest salaried
clubs in the League. but this is fact.
The club has paid higher salaries and
has had less to show for it than any
other club. .
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29
ITO BE

After Richard Brisley Sheridan had
made his great speech in Westminster
Hall, asking for the impeachment of
Warren Hastings, Edmund Burke said:
He has this day surprised the thou
sands who hung with rapture on his
accent, by such an array of talents,
such al exhibition Of capacity, such a
display of powers as are unparalleled
in the annals of oratOry; a display that
reflected the highest honor on himself.
luster upon letters, renown upon par
Lament, glory upon the country. or
all species of rhetoric, of every kind Of
eloquence that has been witnessed or
recorded, either In ancient or modern
times, whatever the a~cuteness of the
bar, the dignity of the senate, the SOL
idity OF the judgment seat and the sa-
cred morality of the pulpit, have hith-
erto furnished, nothing has equaled
what we have this day heard. No holy
seer OF religion, no statesman, no ora
tor, no man Of any literary description
whatever, has come up. in one instance,
to the pure sentiments of morality; or,
in the other, to that variety of knowl-
edge, force Of imagination, proprlaty
and vivacity Of allusion, beauty and
elegance of d~iction, strength and CO.
piousness OF style, pathos and sublim-
ity of conception, to which we this
day listened with ardor and admira.
ton.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29
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The shrikcs. or butcher birds. well
deserve their name. as they are quite
equal to the hawks and other predatory
birds In their courage and the cruelty
In which they seem to delight. They
have a wide geographical distribution.
The shrikes are powerful birds of at
tractive mien. presenting an appear
ance indicative of courage. The
mandible of this bird is arched and
hooked. forming a powerful weapon
with which to tear and laceratc it's
prey. The adults attain nearly the size
OF a robin. II il however. the habits
OF the bird that are most interesting.
and the term butcher Is applied. per
haps, from the fact that they impale
their victims. In California. where the
shrike Is most common, the favoritc
locality of this bird Is found quite a
museum. as they catch toads, mice,
birds and insects. And one has bccn
seen flying. laboriOusly carrying "A blue
jay quite as large. IL not larger. than
itself. AS a rule. gam thus captured
is taken to some ~favoritc spot and i'm
paled. So strong is this habit that in
confinement the bird still takes adj
vantage OF any sharp object. thus a
pointed stick. sharpened for the pur-
pose. being given u Gagged butcher
bird, all It's food. consisting of raw
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29
Luxury In Central Africa.

We learn from a London interviewer
that Zomba, the capital OF British Gem
tral Africa, Is quite a civilized place.
In which the visitor may require a
dress coat. IF the commissioner asks
you to dine, you will find that he lives
In a luxurious mansion built high up
on the shoulder OF a lofty mountain.
Your dinner will be cooked by a Hin
doo chef OF exquisite cunning. you will
be waited upon by deft servants as
black as night, the table will be deco
rated with flowers such as no British
duchess could buy, the view from the
windows will delight your eye. After
dinner you will step out into the veran-
da, perhaps. and smoke your cigar with
the roar of the cascading river in your
ears, or fall into a luxurious chair and
read the last novel from Nudes or the
last batch Of papers which the post
man has just delivered. Then early TO
bed and early to rise. your bath. your
coffee. and a little fruit perhaps, a
stroll in the delightful garden, full OF
fruits and flowers, a peep at the COM
m~issioner's private m%enagerie, then
dejeuner. London Star.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29

a thicket, from which there would inn
mediately issue the real cries Of u
bird on which II had seized. The
butcher bird seems to entertain a par
ticular hatred to Gagged birds. darling
toward them with great fury. and II
unable to reach them. flying about the
cage, In some instances causing the
death of delicate birds from mere
fright. In a case that came under my
hanging inside u window and dartcd at
II with such force that the pane was
shattered. The butcher must have
been severely shaken mp. at least. but
II kept iluttcring about. endcayoring to
reach the Gagged bird. and only left
when driven away by the interpretation
of some of the family. This occurred
in Connecticut. but the birds here in
their winter home exhibit the same
hatred. In our neighborhood a pair OF
birds were hung under n cherry tree.
and on going To take them In the
owner found both birds lying on the
bottom of the cagc hcadlcss. these
Important members nlNlnR Dptn rum
lessly torn Off and ornamcnting the
thorn of a neighboring orange tree.
AS the cage was neither broken nor
bent. II was somewhat of a puzzle how
the outrage was committed. but later
the same bird was seen darling ut an
other Gagged canary that hung just nut
side a window. The butcher rushed at
II. Selling II with one claw, and. by
beating the rage with its wings. It
completely dcmoralized the inmate.
who finally, In its struggles. few near
the bold intruder, who quickly threw
out one of It's powerful claws and
grasped viciously at its victim. TN
doubtedly II would have torn the
canary's head on In this way had II
not been disturbed. The butcher birds
are not at all particular as to their food.
1t varying from blue Jays and gophers
to grasshoppers, even worms and diff
ferent insects being found impaled on
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29
HEiRESS
tn" Police OF Minneapolis Relieve We
Rutherford Iins i,een Carried Away.

wv Heen sNFrtfu Away
The Rutherford family of Minneap-
oils is a very wealthy one. and MS II
consists at present only of Mrs. Ruth
erford aud her daughter Fanny, Il will
be seen that this young woman IL
heiress to no small fortune. But her
present wealth and future prospects
seem to be more of II curse than n
BLESSING. for they have made her in the
past a target for fortune hunters. and
now she Is missing from home. and the
police have offered n reward for ]. A.
Morris, who Is believed to have kidnap-
ped the young woman. Morris. who
has a long criminal record, met Mrs.
Rutherford and her daughter Will.
they were travelling in the south last
spring, learned of their wealth, and
that they lived in Minneapolis. On the
9Th of May Miss Rutherford disappear-
ed from her home. leaving "a note say
ing that she was going to st. Paul and
would return the following day. Since
then n letter has been received from
her, evidently written under rest raint,
saying that she was happily married tn
a man she worshippcd. The police arc
convinced that she was kidnapped by
Morris n Is held by him. and they
are making every effort to find her.
MISS Rutherford IL about twenty-five
years old and is highly accomplished.
Her father was Capt. George Ruther-
ford, a pioneer citizen OF Minneapolis.
who left a vast estate to his widow and
only daughter. This wealth has
brought Miss Rutherford many s%uitors.
but she has always refused to leave her
mother, II has expressed no desire
to marry. All these things strengthen
the police In their belief that she has
been kidnapped.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-29
FEATS OF
Garry Chests OF Tea Weighing $50
Pounds Five or Six Miles.

Darjeeling tea, said Mr.. George w.
Christison, in a recent lecture before
the British Society of Arts, Is all car
ried by the hardy hill-men up the
steep mountain roads to the nearest
railway station IN the way to mar
ket. II is no unusual days work for
a coolie TO carry a tea chest weighing
from 10 to 100 pounds a distance Of
five or six miles. making at the same
time an ascent OF from $500 to $500
feet in sheer vertical elevation. There
can be no deception about a task like
that. and we cannot but have an ad-
miration for the powers OF endurance
of those who perform such a feat. or
course these people are trained to load
carrying and Notwithstanding from
their very infancy, and hence the pc
culiar set OF muscular faculties re-
auired for them are fully developed, II
not actually called into existence, at
the cost Of others-so much SO that
walking on a level, after o few miles,
becomes positively painful to them. In
the prosecution OF their own trade, or
in domestic affairs. they frequently
undertake long. arduous journeys over
ridges and along and across hot val
leys, varying many thousands of feet
In elevation. occupying many days,
carrying heavy loads Of from $50 to
200 pounds, and over, and In addition
% their food and bedding, most cheer
fully lightile d fire. cooking and eat
ing their scanty meal and going to
sleep by the wayside. There Is a story
still current Of q Bhootean In old times
having carried q grand piano up the