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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
WoMAN 1oxE AeENT DUBBED.
1--WE rnsp net . nrpohlSp Elevated staten
Chased Downstairs ~ Their victtm-Hier
Screams Lead 10 tho Arrest of Ono Robbsr.

Chased DewHstairs ~ Their victim-HneP
Screams Lead 20 tho Arrest OF Ono Robber.
When the train on the Brooklyn elevated
road which leaves the Broadway ferry In Will
HAMBURG at midnight arrived at the Kosciusko
street station this morning two mon alighted.
The two men walked to the door Of the little
room In which sat Miss Lillian shutter, the
ticket agent, She was all alone. The door was
open,
She knew nothing Of their presence until
she heard the oreaking OF boots behind her. She
turned sharply around. One man had q revolver.
The other had q club.
1--WE want all the money" said the man with
the revolver.
The young woman shut the drawer and arose.
The man with the pistol fred q shot. Miss
Shutter was SO frightened she thought the bullet
had struck her,
Take the money" she said, "but don't kill
met
The man with the club then hit hor on the head.
She fell to tho floor unconscious. Breaking open
the drawer, the robbers seized $50 and dashed
down tho stairs.
But Miss shutter had already recovered. She
staggered to her feet and followed them. Down
the stairs she ran, screaming at the top of her
voice.
Policeman Koch Of the Ralph avenue station
was y uiuCA away v ho hoAs AN s~
swiftly toward her. He saw the two men reach
the bottom of tho stairs and separate, and saw
the screaming woman fall in the street.
For q second he hesitated and then set out for
the shorter robber. Two blocks they went at
full speed. The thief dashed into o vacant lot
with the policeman at his heels. The thief
stumbled and Koch fell upon him. He was
taken to the police station. where he said his
name was Percy W. Smith, % years old. Of 257
Gold street. He would make no other statement.
Meanwhile passersby had carried the plucky
ticket agent back upstairs to tho station.
Surgeon Pfarr Of st, Johns Hospital was sum-
moned.
At first he thought her skull was fractured.
but she shortly recovered consciousness. She
suffered from severe shock and q bad scalp
wound. She was sent to her home. CAT Monroe
street.
The other robber escaped. At 1:3o o'clock
James f. Hay, an ex.policeman. was arrested at
Hamilton avenue on suspicion Of being the man
wanted. He was lame. 30 was the man who
escaped.
Miss Shutter is % years old. Last summer.
! when she was ticket agent at the Franklin ave-
nue. station, two men tried to rob her, but she
frightened them of.
The $50 was not recovered. Either Smith
threw it away In his flight or the other man
had IL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
WILL THEY LET MILLER COZ
Tho Attorney-General suggeats That He I
Permitted to Escape from jail.

Permitted to Escape from jail.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 23.-The Attorney General
has written to the County Attorney OF Chase
county suggesting that George Miller DO per-
mitted to escape from Jail. and that due dill
gence be then exercised in compelling him to
pay the Judgment in default of which he was
imprisoned.
This suggestion results from an application
made to the Governor yesterday for Miller's
pardon or liberation. He was imprisoned for
failure to pay a judgment of $500 for non.sup-
port Of his wife and child. Miller represented
that he could work and earn money with which
to pay the judgment IL liberated. But an ex-
animation of the law disclosed that in such
cases there is no pardoning power.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
xABBED For EXPRESS RoBHERE.
"Ea Halrr and isis son Harry Accused Or .
$500 Larceny.

ED Hail." alias Bartholomew. and his son,
Harry Hall. were locked up at Police HeGdquar-
tiers In Jersey City yesterday. They are accused
of the theft OF two trunks containing silks,
Express Company on Dec. o. "Et Hall"
is said by the police to be an all'aTOund
crook. His son is Il driver for tho express COM
pany, The son was held In $1,000 bail. d" Ed
Hall" will be arraigned before Justice Potts to-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Dec. 23.-S. II. II. Clark
OF the Union Pacific road. and also Vice-Prest-
dent OF the Texas and Pacific and the InternA'
tIonal and Great Northern roads, arrived here
yesterday morning. and has been unable 10 loayo
his car owing to an attack Of serious illness. HQ
came here for the benefit of his health, and had
expected to remain two weeks. He had engaged
at a hotel.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

Cromneiins's skull PROBABLY fractured-A Vic-
tim or Knockout DF0psf
A.. M. Crommeline. an insurance agent, of 7s4
Broad street, Newark. N. j.. fell from a north
bound Broadway cable car at Twenty-sixth
street carly last evening. He was picked up I'M
conscious and carried to the New York Hospital
In an ambulance.
DIR. Downs, who examined Crommeline when
he reached the hospital, said that his skull was
probably fractured. DR.. Downs also asserted
that Crommeline was suffering from a dose OF
choral or knockout drops. Crommeline's name
and address were found on papers in his pockets.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
DID They Mayo a Double LynoLiaSs

SPOKANE Wash, Dec. 23.-Seversl persons
who have come here from Colfax declare that
Notwithstanding all denials a l~ynching occurred
there on Sunday night or Monday morning. II
is asserted that Chadwick Marshall and John
Mcdonald, the alleged murderers OF Oryille
Hayden OF Pennington were taken from the
county Jail by a mob and hanged 10 q tree near
the town.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

The State Of PenpSylyNnie has S22S,o do.
Revenue Collector McClAin deposited $4,000
Of his receipts In the bank. The Post oticc de-
posted $4,000 on Wedfssdsy. The Com@ls-
BinRerly 10 the Treasurer. had 81. 200 on deposit
In the bank, and securities worth $4OO, 900,
awarded TO the Commissioner under the will
ofAnnA M. WIlstach, are locked up In the trust
company's vault. Besides this tho Commits
Wilstach estate deposited with the trust con-
pAny. The securities and the money were left
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
Ex-MAYoR M,HuGH MISSING.
He and the Former city AIarshal or Pensacola
Indicted Tor NAiTsAsanee.

PENSACOLA. Fla. Dec. 23.-The county Grand
Jury to-day indicted ex.Mayor Pat McHugh and
ex.City Marshal e. A. Wallace. charging them
with embezzlement and mAlfeusance in office.
Wallace was arrested by Sheriff George e.
Smith just before noon to-day. but q search for
McHuR developed the fact that he had alb
sented himself from the city. and his where.
AbOutB are unknown.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
COOK ANDERSON FOUND GUILTY.
Convicted or the Murders on the Olive PeOkor
and sentenced to ne Hanged.

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. 23.-The jury In the case
OF John Anderson, charged with the murder of
Mate Saunders Of the schooner Olive Pecker,
brought in a verdict Of guilty as charged in the
indictment at noon to-day. Judge Goff sem
fenced the prisoner TO DO hanged on March
lB. 1888.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

Il will seem like old. fashioned Christmas II you
have BalIantne's Burton Ale or Brown Stout At din
ner, order a case from Park q Ihford' Aekes' Nor
rail q Condit; Macy & jenkins. ~ Liberty st. q. EG3
Olnl, 40 9Th Sy., OF Robert uTay, ass sh R0-AnS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24
MARCH FOR MANsFIEAp.
Orchsstras TO Play That Tame n Hs Dsnouncss
tho Theatrical Trust.

BOSTON. Dec. 23.-The Record says that the
so-called Theatrical Trust managers have in.
structed their orchestras TO play the " RoRue's
March" II Richard Mansfield UNDERTAKES to
speak from the stage against 1t.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

Desks Ter Christmas PrOAsntS.
Hale Co.. 10 Stone st., next Produce Exchange
an.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-24

Soma novel ones In the cOpsmsrsts4 Advertiser this
Afternoon, -AoV,
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

Memphis. April 3-The heavy floods in
the Mississippi north Of Cairo and the
rise in the Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers will throw another world OF water
into the already filed ST. Francis basin.
and all this will have to pass through
the narrow levee-bound channel begin
ming ten miles above Helena to the first
break. ten miles below that city, the fate
OF Helena and the low and fertile country
behind Tunica county; Miss, levee is
problematical. The people OF Helena
have increased the height OF their levees
two feet, but the water is now level with
the new crown. The levees opposite
Helena were reported last night to be in
precarious condition and the heavy
rains Of today have added to their weak
meas.
In the Mississippi delta water is fast
spreading over the entire country. Many
thousand people have been made home
les and appeals for aid have gone forth.
In the lowlands OF Arkansas a call for
food has gone forth and the people OF
Starvation confronts $1,000 people. To-
night R. G. Graves and j. S. Menkin Of
the Memphis Relief committee 60 10
Washington to ask the general govern
ment to tender assistance.
The local relief committee has de-
mands that will exhaust all present funds
They are from Mississippi as far down
as Grecnville and from nearly all East
ern Arkansas. The visitors to Washing
ton will ask for $4,000 to be used in
buying rations- Ten Thousand dollars
has already been expended by the local
committee and probably $1,000 more OF
contributed provisions have been
distributed. 1t now looks as il famine is
ahead.
No moro breaks in the levees are re-
ported tonight, but it i feared no human
power can overcome the force OF nature
below vicksburg and it is believed by
many to be only question Of few days
before the same conditions that now OBJ
tain in the delta will exist in
Southeastern Arkansas and Northwest
ern Louisiana.
At Memphis the water is reported ~
stationary tonight. The hopeful view Of
the flood situation which prevailed some
days ago has been repeatedly dis.ipated
by reports from the upper Mississippi
and its tribatariss. which are rising q
q rspid rate. with every indication that
= L.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14
JOHN BULL DRAINED IT.
eeal Reason for the Terrible Famias ss
all India.

Chicago. April s.-The Chronicle
publishes the following important letter
from London over the signature OF c. NJ.
Hyndman:
observe that you have called atten.
eicn in your journal to my action at the
oansion house and elsewhere sgainst
ths policy which is running British India
no~ and is leading up to tremendous
catastrophe in the near future. There y
sserious mistake, however. in your re-
pDrt Of what l said. 1t is not zone sixth
a the rental value Of all India which
us drain out OF an depend
sncy every year for nothing. but one sixth
q the value OF the total gross prodnce of
india each year that We drain away from
British India to England for nothing.
These huge drawings figure a. payments
Tor pensions, home charges, cost Of
establishments, interest on loans, divi-
dends on railways. private femittances.
In this way We abstract from India year
y not less than 100000 in gold.
This represents drain Of nearly double
that amount reckoned in produce with
the rupee at its old value Of ten rupees
20 the s5 gold piece.
Durirg the past eighteen years We have
drained out Of India in this way with
ou, return e., 100 600 600 reckoned in gold.
Nc have likewise spent. calculating even
n the present low rate OF exchange,
&OnO.O0O within the same period on
bootless frontier expeditions. And in
addition We have taken from the natives
u British India to pay a. salaries to
Englishmen in India. no les sum than
100000 Of rupees each wear. The
oD,al exactions Of the British govern.
Den, for the past eighteen years from
Me starving population Of British India
enount 70 nearly = 600 Oo0. 900 reckoned
RSad
0aeh drain would cripple even Q
ssalthy country like the United States.
To India, with 4 total groes value oi
yearly produce not exceeding 81 ,000. .0o0,
0oorsckoned in gold for "a. .oOO, 900 people,
il means utter and hopeless ruin. The
famine for which American charity ID
being implored is famine deliberately
manufactured by the greed OF the govern
ing classes OF my countrymen. Stop the
hjdsous drain and there would be no
famine. just imagine what ~. COZ, ,0OO,oOO
apsot on irrigation works and improve
msots in India would mean to country
IL. Il
Our exactions prevent such improve
msuts from being made, and then we
pretend to lend" money TO India to
build railways and subscribe to a beg.
carly charity" fund.
II 10 well Americans should know the
truth. The native states, bear in mind,
With 6p.oOooOO OF people. has no famine
today. though they are surrounded by
our territory and under the same eli.
matte conditions. But they have no
drain to suffer from.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14
STATE AND GENERAL.
Victor went dcrncralc.

Victor went dcmocrsl,c.
Trinidad vent republican.
l. J. Chapman was elected mayor OF
Jimtown.
( w.P. Ella was elected mayor Of Grand
function.
The fusion ticket was elected at
Cripple Creek.
The populists elected their entire
ticketat Aspen.
Mayor McMurr.y. Of Denver. was re-
elected by nearly I.cCopluralisy.
The Citizens ticket carried Leadville
- against the Populist Miners Union
ticket.
Detroit. Michigan. elected free silver
democrat for mayor last week by large
majority.
Bryan. when asked FOR cause OF the
rscent turn in political adrirs. said he
thought they spoke for themselves.
The republicans elected the full state
ttckst in Rhode lsland by about half the
plurality IL vas carried by Mckinley last
Cell.
oCharies & Davie. Psst Grand Chancel.
lur Il the Knights q Pythisa. was elect.
ID alderman in the Third ward of Den.
ves.
The democrats and populists elected
J. b. Osman mayor of Puehlo and the
s0osis<ier u the odsciais ercept clerk.
esu>nurvr and engineer.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

- The Virginia creeper is a favorite
end one OF great reliability. The akeba
, insect proof and grows to a great
height. The ampeloPsis veitchii needs
10 trellis work and climbs upon walls
Without artificial support. The cIematis
and honey suckle are always to be admir-
%. GRACE EsPY PATTON,
Superintendent OF Public instruction.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14
Talks With Travellers,

Yes, sir! The most en-
joyable. trip l ever took to
New York was over the
WaBAsM. Only one
change Of cars in St.
I.oais: the finest pAssen-
ger station in the world.
Fine restaurant and cafe.
Got an elegant supper for
fifty cents.
We arrived in St. Louis
at 600 P. NJ, and left on
the WABASH NEW YoRK
LIMITED at 100 r. NJ, in
the elegant through sleep
er, reaching Detroit at Gals
the following morning, Nj
agara Falls at 4:37 that af-
ternoon, and arriving at
New York, Grand Central
Depot at 700 A. NJ, just
the right time to get break
fast and attend to business.
Oh. the WABASH is the
route for New York.
BY the way just write to
G. NJ. HAMrsoS, CONNER
cial Agent, Denver, for par
ticulars. l may have for
gotten something.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14
cA,eaes Gees osasersfie.

Chicago. April 6.-The mayoralty cleo
ton today resulted in decisive victory
for the democratic party. its candidate.
Carter H. Harrison. having more votes
than all the other candidates combined.
At midnight the available figures give
Sears republican, ep.oOO. Harrison dem
ocratl l4s.ooO. Harlan tindependentl
7a.ooo. Hcsing independently. 1900. The
democrats made = clean sweep Of all the
town Offices in the west town and north
town and probably in the south town
also. although the republicans have q
fighting chance to get an Assessor in
that part OF the city.
OF the "a aldermen the returns point
to the election OF u democrats. 4 republ
cans and independents; 3 of these indie.
pendeuts are democrats Who were put
on the ticket by petition.
Harrison gained heavily in the ban
ner republican wards. carrying the
Thirty fourth by 5.olo. ag.inst 4. Sal for
Harlan and 3.434 for Sears. This ward
gave Mckinley a majority Of 6.oco las,
fall. The Third. Fourth. and Twelfth
wards, always republican strongholds
were also carried by Harrison.
1t was apparent at midnight that
Harrison had beaten Sears. the regular
republican candidate. by from 5000 &c
5000 votes
At the last mayoralty election S~ift's
vote 143l73, against 123,A for weter
Democrat. In the presidential election
Mckinley had so0,7A7. against liA,1a
for Bryan.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

.BSae-aeeAess" ExeasssSo nese.
II you have friend in the east who
desires to come out here to look at the
country with a view to locating. you can
secure for them a rate OF one fare for q
day round trip ticket from Denver.
Pueblo or Colorado Springs by applying
to any oflicer OF the Delta county Board
OF Trade. II they are coming to
stay you can get them a rate OF two
thirds OF one fare from either OF those
points and an emigrant rate on their
household goods to Delta
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

II the party who borrowed a No. 9 slus6
scraper from the Mckinley Sanders
brick yard will return it tho owners will
be greatly obliged. 3f
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

Wedding invitations and announce
ments, both printed and engraved. in
the very latest styles. We have the
correct wording. new type for printing
and the best OF stock
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

Kporville. rspsssee. hsd . Isrsr IRE
Lest ~eek dsssrVying ths whuess.,s part
q the eisy.
The Delta independent., 1897-04-14

A few clean cotton rags large enough
to wash presses with will be purchased
at this office; price cents per pound.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
How the Ostrich Runs.

A writer in the Biologist, who has been engaged for nine years in ostrich farming in South Africa, Conwright Schreiner, correctS a prevalent mis- conception concerning the manner in which these great birds run. It is gen erally stated that, when running, the ostrich spreads out its wings, and thus skins lightly along the ground, but, according to MT. Schreiner, this is not correct. "When a bird really settles itself to run," he says, it holds its head lower than usual, and little forward, with deep loop in the neck. The neck vIDrates sinuously, but the head re- mains steady, thus enabling the bird, even at top speed, to look around with an unshaken glance in any direction. The wings lie along the sides about on a level with, or a little higher than, the back, and are held loosely just free Of the plunging thigh. There is no at tempt to hold them extended, or to de- rive any assistance from them as or gans of flight"
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27

From Sisterville, W. Va, comes the interesting announcement of the dis covery of a new remedy for drunken ness which, so far as it has been tried, has scored a larger percentage of cures than any other system Of treat
 ment for alcoholism now before the public. Unlike many 'cures" of thai sort no drugs are introduced into the patients system. The treatment ope- rates directly upon the will and its in fiuence is entirely mental. Whenever A resident of Sisterville gets drunk he is arrested by the police, but instead of spending a night in jail he is put inside of an old gas tank, and the boys of the village roll it about the streets an hOul
 or two. beating a lively tattoo upon i with sticks and stones. When the pa
 tient Is removed from the tank he uSu ally is quite sober, thoroughly repent ant and eager to take any temperance pledge which may be proposed. The Sisterville "cure" has been in opera tion several months, and no man nas had to take it more than once. In view of such an unbroken record of successes we feel warranted in calling public at tention to it as a promising agent of temperance reform. Similia similibus curantur. Tanks for the tank habit.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
,ane and make their labor available for

cane and make their labor available for a few months in the year, while pre- venting them from secreting the gold which they might gather. Another is the short period during which their la Dor could be employed, while the Gov ernment would be compelled to furnish them shelter and subsistence during the long arctic winters at heavy ex- pense. However practicable such a scheme might be under the Russian system, it would be utterly impractical ble in accordance with the sentiments and tastes of the American people, who have always been opposed to placing a stigma upon any section of the coun- try, making it the home of criminals exclusively, after the manner of Botany Bay, under British rule, some forty to fifty years ago.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
,-uAr TERRIBLE STRAIN"
-s Are Too Busy to Think of Pessengers or Fret About Dangers.

Are Too Busy to Think of GI Iesnaenqers or Fret About Dangers.
 .s1t does beat the mischief" remark od railroad engineer the other day, ..boy the public clings to the old-fash- toned. worn-out notion that every rall road driver lives about six years, and then. if he ain't killed on the road, dies of nervous prostration or brain fever caused by the terrible strain he is un- der and the awful thought the next in- stant he may be waited into the be yond along with 400 or 300 passengers at his back. That notion is as old as the first locomotive ever built, and it is just as much played out.
 You never heard story of a rail road engineer in your life that he wasn't just everlastingly shaking in overalls at the thought of his terrible responsibility and the thousand souls or the precious freight that is entrust- ed to him.
 "Now, I'll admit that it's all pretty and sounds nice and brave, but the only trouble with it is that there is nothing in 1t.
 q have no doubt the engineer would think about the responsibility and wOr- " some about the women and children behind him if he had time and didn't have to hustle so alfred hard every minute to pull his train in on time.
 But you see he hasn't got the time. From tbo r1inTto bo i11Dopc into hIS 0a h and pulls open the throttle he Is kept guessing to keep his old machine going | fast enough under him to make the dis tance in schedule time. Nowadays the railroads don't allow many minutes for the passengers and crew to get off and shoot jackrabbits, and the driver of a l fast train over a division has his mind | full all the time without going behind the tender and worrying about what is going to happen to the passengers if there is a smashup.
 "Then there Is the mechanical part of the game to keep your thoughts off the passengers. How much coal Is your | fireman burningY Could we pull up that hill if burning less coalY or save | time by crOwding on the steam going down hillT Every engineer wants to get the maximum amount of speed out of his engine and burn the minimum amount of coal. He can't think about that and the passengers, too, and so he lets the passengers slide and take care of themselves.
 'I do not mean to say that an engi- neer who is true to his duty does not worry when there is actual cause for 1t, or that he will not hang to his post till he has had the life mangled out of him, if he thinks it will do any good. There are too many cases on record where locomotive drivers have sacri- feed their lives; but mean to say that the popular notion that engineers stay awake nights dreading the responsibil- ity before them Is all wrong. They get just as hardened to the work and cal lous to the dangers as circus perform CT, and they think no more of the risks that they are taking"
The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
Queer Marriage Custom.

A decidedly curious marriage GUS tom obtains in the Island of Himia directly opposite the Island of Rhodes The Greeks, by whom it was peopled subsist for the most part on the results of the sponge fishery. No girl in the island is allowed to marry until she has brought up a certain number of spOnges, which must be taken from a certain depth. In some of the other Greek islands, however, this demon stratiOn of ability Is dominated by the men. and if there are several suitOrs for the hand of any particular maiden her father hands her over to the man who can dive best, and in consequence brings up the largest number of spongeS.