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The times., 1898-10-09
A TALL STORY.
How Man Saved woman From
Being Crushed.

From the New Orleans Tines-Democ1at)
There is barely a day." remarked Jen-
kins, but what the newspapers contain
some remarkable Instance in which life
has been saved under the most peculiar
circumstance. Men are thrown into the
air by swift-hying locomotives. fall from
high bridges, get blown up in powder
magazines and yet through some re-
markable dispensation Of Providence es-
cape from their dreadful experience with
nothing but few bruises. l think 1t fell
to my lot, however, 10 witness what was
undoubtedly a remarkable occurrence of
the sort indicated. 1t was some years
ago, during the period when balloon as
tensions were every day affairs, and dar-
ing aeronauts hourly dropped from the
clouds hanging to the small end of a par
achute. j was living in East New York
at the time, occupying q cottage at Lone
somehurst While watering my front
garden from a hose which was attached
to the street hydrant. my attention was
called to the fact that something unusu-
al was taking place in the neighborhOod,
A dozen boys were yelling and all the
little girls in the street were induiging in
a series of violent exciamations, while
the grcwn-up residents of the vicinity
were standing on their grass plots gaz-
ing skyward with an intensity born of
deepest interest Looking upward, I
found the cause of the commotion TO be
a balloon. which was floating almost i'm
mediately overhead. While / was look
ing the aeronaut dropped lightly from
the basket and came whizzing through
space earthward. Momentariiy / ex-
pected to see the parachute 1y open and
the baloonist descend as lightly as a
feather To my horror. however, the ap-
paratus failed to work. and the woman,
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for such it was. was falling with quickly
increasing momentum. Down she came.
and / realized that she-was going to fall
in my front yard. And with sickening
dread at my heart / started TO 1y. Sud
denly a brilliant idea struck me. Turn
ing the hydrant on at full strength
seized the nozzle and. the water shot in
to the air some seventy or eighty feet
with considerable force, and just as the
woman reached the arc of the stream
the water struck beneath the folds of the
parachute, forcing the folds of the UNI
brella-like concern wide open, almost in
stantly staying the downward progress OF
the woman and holding her in temporary
allegiance, like Mohammed's coffin, in mid
air. The entire -neighborhood fiocked to
see the most unusual sight, and brought
the woman safely to terra firma by in
structing one of my neighbors 10 slow
ly turn off the water, when the woman
descended to the sward as gently as a
feather from a passing doves wing Thus
truth is often stranger than fiction
The times., 1898-10-09
THE STOCK MARKET.
The Dealing Neither Large Nor
Well Distributed.

New York, Oct S-Transaetions on the
Stock Exchange this week have reflect
ed a considerable diminution in the vol
ume of outside business. Not only have
total sales been smaller than last week.
but the total has been made up largely
of professional trading, particularly in
two or three industrial stocks, the fiuc-
tuations in which are too mercurial for
the average speculator. In spite of this
apathy on the part of the public, the
stock list shows few noteworthy net loss
es and the majority of stocks closed high
er or unchanged, as compared with a
week ago. Sugar Refining has sustained
a net loss of nearly three points. in con-
sequence of the reductions in the prices
of refined sugar that took place early In
the week The Northern Pacific stocks.
which have been exceptionally strong all
along, have sustained comparative small
net losses in consequence of the circula-
ton of disturbing rumors as to the policy
of the management created by the yot-
ing trustees in operating and financing
the property.
The persistent efforts of representa-
dyes of the American Tobacco Company
to secure control of its competitors In
the plug tobacco manufacturing business
appear to have encouraged hope In some
quarters that those efforts viii be sue
cessful. This accounts for the net ad-
vance in American Tobacco.
The dealings today were not large nor
were they well distributed Northern Pa
cific common led the list in respect to
activity and closed fraetionally higher
than yesterday This movement influenc-
ed the entire speculation.
The only important weekly statement
of averages of the associated banks
showed an increase in lawful money of
nearly Sc, 100000, a small increase In the
loans, large increase In the deposits
and net result that brings the surplus
reserve up to SIS, 600, which is consid-
erably larger than last year or the year
before.
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the lads were given just enough to keep
them alive and able u work. Black bread
was the stable item, although there was
not much of that Raw vegetables and
soup made out of pieces which the lads,
in their leisure time. were sent out to
pick up in the streets. completed their
bill Of fare. Such, then, is this story of
nineteenth century slavery. AS to the
principals, the wife of Vozza was yester-
day arrested at St Denis, VoZza himself
having been arrested in Italy. where he
had doubtless gone to find more children.
His eldest son has fed, but it is some sat
isfaction to know that the two principals
in this drama will have TO answer for
their misdeeds before court OF justice.
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New York Cotton Market.
NO DOCTORS BILLS.
In Sweden You Fay the Doctor What
Sum You Please.

(From the New York Herald.)
Do you pay doctors bills? Some per-
sons don't. Do you have an idea that
the medicine men are in the same cate
CORY with street railway companies, and
therefore TO be beaten in season and
out of season? Do you object to getting
a bill from your physician and object
on general principles? Then go TO Swe-
den. That's the place for you. That's
the place where the doctors cease from
troubling, and the poor debtor is at rest.
No doctors bills go in Sweden. Who
wouldn't be Swede7
When you are i'll in Sweden, and re-
quire the services of a physician all you
have to do is to send for him. He is
likely TO be an efficient man. and cour-
teous to a degree. Your needs will be
ministered to, and between the times of
feeling your pulse and taking your tenn
perature he won't slip one of his pro-
fessional cards into your hand and re-
mind you that he charges $40 a visit.
Nothing is said of payment, and your
doctor looks after you faithfully unit,
you have recovered. When you feel like
liquidating the obligation you'll find that
1t is a case of write your own ticket
If you have been holding an Office under
Tammany prior to your trip to Sweden.
or have struck it rich in sugar, you may
fill out your check for handsome sum.
The money will be accepted and no COM
ment made. If you have been writing on
space for some years or have picked the
horse races wrong end first, you may
send a small donation to the doctor and
it will be just as Internationally received
The Swedish doctor on his native heath
tends the sick and makes no rates. His
wealthy patients pay him handsomely,
his poorer patients give what they can
afford, and the extremely poor give moth
ing at all. All get the same treatment
The system appears to have its advan-
tageS, but there are grave doubts as to
the practicability Of its adoption in
America. 1t might resolve itself into
similarity with the payment of taxes on
property, the principles of which are so
we'll known that a feature is made of the
fact that certain rich men honestly pay
in proportion to their resources.
1t used to be that the doctors in the
Scottish Highlands operated on a similar
principle to that of the Swedish medicos.
Scottish caution must, however have fl
nally stamped out the practice for in the
middle of the present century the custom
was abandoned. Prior to that time the
doctors had collected their dues only
once a year. This was on a market day
and when all the farmers had assembled
the doctors would go around, getting
from the better class of patients SIS or
$50 each, and from the poorer farmers as
little as 81 apiece for the years services.
To Cure Malaria, ChilIs and Fever
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Shorts apparently covered in Sugar in
the last half hour OF the day Except for
this and a consequent slight rally there
was nothing of interest during the day.
There was talk of sugar being sold below
cents but 1t is not believed that this
is true Sentiment is still bearish on the
stock for the immediate future.
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THE WHEAT MARKET.
speculative business Checked by the
Transfer necisfnu


Chicago, Oct. S-The decision of the in
ternal revenue commissioner that ali
transfers in grain and provisions must
pay tax and that spectators cannot
eyade the law by transferring their
trades. has materially curtaiied specula-
tive business. There is nothing btt
light speculative trade. with a lib eral
cash demand. The latter. however. runs
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Tobacco was dull and steady yesterday,
registering gain of two points. One OF
the hopes of the street now Is that the
tobacco clique has decided to let the stock
alone for little while. This would allow
the general market more independence of
action.
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Irregular and today was checked by the
advances In lake rates.
Miliers report an active domestic and
export demand.
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connected with the! property talk enthu-
sastically of its prospects. The new COM
pany starts business with a net working
capital of about $4,000 of0, of which slO,
900, 000 is cash Mr.. Flower is a friend of
this road too. -
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Washington stock Exchange.

SaIes-American Security and Trust SIS.
s., sOodlO0 IA and interest National Safe
Deposit and Trust. 5Oal12- Capital Trac-
20d7S la: 20a7S. American Graphophone.
1OOdI3 IS
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New York stock Market.
Open High Low CT s

Corrected daily by ". B. Piobs & Co,
members OF the New York Exchange.
i4i9 T street.
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market
Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs G. Co.
members OF the New York Exchange.
Z, 81,
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AOSEt 10 LOAN at l-2 per cent N Sums ot
si-D9 70 Slta,000 on d. c. real estate: pay
on and per cent mortgages and begin anew:
all transactions conducted with economical con-
sIderation for borrowers. WI T. SAUNDERS a
CO. 1907 = Nv se24 tf-orn
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MONEY WANTED AND TO Lo.,
Seventh and | SITS.

MONEY TO LOAN ON APPROVED CoIIAr
kRAL-No delay. YERKES 4 E1EER
Rooms 20 to "A. Aetzerott Bldg. IIIo e.
ie12-E
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To Cure Malaria, Chills and Fever
quickly, take Milburn's Malaria Capsules.
At druggists 10c and 25e oc2-1m
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MONEY TO LOAN on d. c. real estate; CSyabls
in small monthly instaIlments Join z
WALTER. WILSON WILLIAMS. 1891 y st. -.
iy23-tt
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Loans Of S0 :; s5.s: = ;Ss;;s. 5sssa: sss: s.

Wagons, etc. AZ lowest rates and on the day
you apply. L0sns may De repaid on .he build
Ing essociatica plan. in easy vesSly or monthly
payments; every payment reduces cost Of car
ryiRs loan yca have lean With some othes
company. We VIII pay il OF and advance ron
more money, 70 desired.
Loans made anywhere in the District Cal
and get -stes. Front room. fEst flor. Sciert.ss
American Building.
National Mortgage L oan Co.
625 r ST. n. w
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This beautiful Couch. deep tufted
covered in handsome velour, extra
width, fringed to the floor, swell end,
am snG extra a ss9 value Tsias. iaasf...rhisi's15.5O This
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The bank statement was favorable yes
terday in that it showed an increase in
resources and specie. The reserves in
creased In spite of an increase in deposits.
The herald., 1898-11-07
LOS ANGELES EERALD MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER T. 1898
OIL PRICES STIFfENING
REPORTS OF A BIG SALE AT THE
DOLLAR MARK
Deepened Wells in the Old District
Show Good Prospects-News Of
the Field in General

Oil prices have stiffened somewhat during
the past few days. The price at present is
from 80 to 95 cents per barrel at the wells,
with a number of sales reported at ST..
Among these latter were sales by Davis q
Harrison and by the Palm Oil company.
The reported sale of 10000 barrels of oil
by the Producers trustees to the Chino fac
tory at 81 has set oil men to guessing. The
factory has contract with the Puente Oil
at 50 cents. The brokers about town are
puzzling their brains to understand why che
Puente company could not furnish the
needed amount of oil on their contract.
President Graves of the Puente company
is also president of the Oil Producers trus-
tees. The offices of the two concerns ad-
join. Mr.. Graves refuses to talk about busl-
ness matters, and Secretary Strasburg, upon
being asked for statement as to the sale,
replied that 1T was private matter, and he
would rather not have it made public. 1t
is this cose-mouthedness on the trustees
part which circulates shadowy reflections,
whether just or unjust, upon them, some
men even going so far as to state that this
combination of an industrial protective as
sociation with a speculative business concern
is not just what it should be.
Further investigation goes to prove the
hypothesis that the deepening of the old
wells will greatly increase the flow of oil, and
give the general production a considerable
impetus. Charles OFF has we'll near the
corner of Miramar and Bonnie Brae, which
at 600-foot depth, produced from 10 to IL
barrels per day. This surface flow became
exhausted, and the well was drilled to ll0C
feet. Here adobe was found, but little
deeper down about 80 feet of good oil sand
was met with, and the we'll now has good
prOspects
The herald., 1898-11-07
SACRAMENTO SHOPS
DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION BY
THE FLAMES
Heavy Damage Has Already Been
Done and the Fire Is Still
Raging Furiously

SACRAMENTO, Nov. THE most dis
astrous fire that has ever occurred in the
Southern Pacific railroad shops in this city
is now in progress. 1t started in the car and
machine shop about l: l5 a. m, in the center
of the great group of large and costly build
iDgs and, famed by stiff northwest wind,
destroyed the building and it's costly ma
chinery in less than half an hour. 1t next
attacked the big saw and planning mill and
cabinet shop, filled with seasoned lumber of
all kinds, and in few minutes the whole
interior of the splendid brick structure was
raging furnace. The blacksmith shop was
next threatened, and hundreds of railroad
employees are now engaged in fighting the
flames and are in hopes of getting them un-
der control. The damage will amount to a
very large sum, as much costly machinery
and fine lumber is destroyed
"a. NAT this hour the fire is still burn
ing, but is supposed to be under control.
A rough estimate of the loss places it al
about 100000.
The herald., 1898-11-07
THE ELKS' BENEFIT
A Great Time at the orpheum Yester-
daY Afternoon

The B. P. o. E., which has two interpre-
tations-Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, or Best People On Earth-both of
which are synonomous, owned the Orpheum
yesterday afternoon. The occasion was
benefit performance for the local order, for
the definite purpose of aiding the fund for
the building of hall of their own. The
theater was the scene OF great beauty. Man
ager Rosenthal had, with his habitual amia-
bility, exerted himself and had produced
some of the most striking decorations ever
seen in the city. Over the stage was an inn
mense shield, in the middle of which was
an elk's head; around the shield were elec
trio lights and the letters b. p. o. f. in the
same brilliant decorations, and from the ex-
treme ends large streamers ran to the boxes
There were flowers in eXtravagant abun-
dance all over the house and the audience
was something to gladden. managers
heart. There were twenty-five turns"
and all OF them were good. Many were the
proffers of amateurs, but no one would have
known the professionals from them as far
concerned. 1t is impossible to single out
any for particular mention. All were pleas
ing and all were pleased. The floral trib-
utes to the performers were numerous and
testified to the enjoyment of the audience,
which never tired of expressing its satisfac-
tion during the four hours of the show, for
the performance lasted from o'clock until g.
The Eks is one of the most commendable
and benevolent of all of the fraternities, it's
work is productive of much alleviation of
suffering and the assistance of the deserv-
feel the self-satisfaction of having done a
good deed, while those who failed to con-
tribute to the good cause had better do so
at once.
The herald., 1898-11-07
SUNDAY FIRES
Oil Warehouse of the Cudahy Packing
Company Ablaze

The department was called out yesterday
afternoon by an alarm of fire from box 81,
corner of Spring and Franklin streets. The
rays of the sun focused through the show
window glass of H. J. Whitley's jewelry
store at Ill North Spring street and set
fire to silk parasol. The window was
broken and the blaze extingushed. A num-
Der of gold and silver articles displayed in
the window were damaged. The loss was
nominal.
Last night about 1890 o'clock T. F. Miller,
the engineer of the Cudahy Packing com
pany on Macy street and the Santa Fe rail
road, went into the oil and paint store
house, which is small brick structure sit
uated apart from the main buildings. He
carried a lighted lantern, and soon after
entering noticed that some sort of fluid was
running over the floor. Gasoline, coal oil.
benzine and paints are stored in the house.
but Miller was unable to determine which Of
these articles the leaking material was.
He set his lantern down on the floor and
put his hand into the fluid, but before he
realized his danger the liquid caught fire
from the lantern and burst into flame, burn
ing his right hand badly Miller turned an
alarm by telephone and the department re-
sponded and soon had the blaze extin-
guished. The flames did not reach any Of
the combustible material, SO there was nc
explosion. 1t is not known what the dam.
age will amount to, but it was not heavy
By mistake an alarm from box 81, at Maier &
Zobelein's brewery was turned in for this
fire.
The herald., 1898-11-07
AN ITALIAN ROMANCE
Peanut and Popcorn Vendors Mix
Over Street Stand

Last evening the fire plug on the south
west corner OF Spring and Second streets
settled amicably three-cornered street
scrap that for a few moments promised to
be memorialized by great red spots on the
pavement.
There was thud of brogans, a clatter OF
wheels and three Dago popcorn and peanut
venders plunged simultaneously for this de.
slrable commercial center. The big Garibal
dian with the walrus mustachios won by a
giraffe neck and his competitors closed in
in a bunch. Crash! popcorn and peanuts
and Italian oaths spread in all directions
The quickly assembled crowd scrambled to
scoop up the stuff and the portable mer.
chants mixed up. But, alas! one of those
unaccountable, unforeseen denouements
which sometimes distigure dramatic situa
tions occurred-a policeman arrived ir
time to prevent the mingling of Italian ful
with the popcorn and peanuts.
All this had been edifying enough for the
subject whose whiskers emulated King
Humbert's adornment, but his countenanct
fell when the copper said:
"You can't stand here by this fire plug
Move on to some other corner"
The herald., 1898-11-07
Sorry That She Spoke

As rescuer of females and children,
Mrs. A. II. Martin does not appear to be
success. Instead of being angry because
her mother, Mrs Miller, refused to forsake
the family pf, George S. Laing of 2l0l
Hoover qsY}feeAts, Mrs Martin has apparently
become reconciled and taken up her resi-
dence with the Laings. She arrived on
Friday from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
said that her mother and two children were
stopping at the home of Laing and that he
had bad influence over Mrs. Miller. She
applied to the police for aid and an officer
was sent with her to the Laing house to see
that no harm was done her. Mrs. Martin
and her mother could not agree upon the
alleged wickedness of Laing. Mrs Martin
accused Laing and Mrs. Miller positively
refused to leave Laing's home. Mrs. Mar
tin has apparently settled affairs satisfac-
torily, for she made public retraction of
the harsh statements she had previously
reported about him. She is sorry, she says,
that she spoke unkindly of the gentleman.
The herald., 1898-11-07
OHIO'S BEST FAMILIES
INCLUDE SOMa AWFUL HARD
CHARACTERS
AN ALL-HANDS-R0UND DRUNK
Ends in a Death by Drowning in a
Bath Tub-Common Peoples
Grimes
Associated Press Special Wire

CINCINNATI, Nov. 6.-Nanne Evers-
leigh, a young woman formerly of Ironton,
o., was found drowned in the bath tub in
the fiat of Frank II. Woodrow in the Alta
building this morning. A mystery sur
rounds The case. The woman, in company
with Woodrow, Vessel and Mrs. Josie Ger.
old, widow, had spent the night together
in Woodrow's fat in drunken orgie. To-
day none of the three survivors could or
would give an account of Miss Eversleigh' S
death.
Both young men are under arrest and sur
veillance pending an examination to ascer-
tain the cause Of the bruise on the dead
girls temple. None of the survivors have
made an attempt to conceal the facts or to
escape though they left no stone unturned
to prevent publicity. The present opinion
is that it is a csae of suicide or accidental
drowning Woodrow, Vessel and Mrs, Ger
old are all members of the best families in
the city Vessel and the Everseigh woman
had lived together under assumed names.
The herald., 1898-11-07
HEBREW SCHOOL
Opened Yesterday With Appropriate
and Impressive Ceremonies

The Hebrew school for the children of the
Jewish people of the city opened yesterday
afternoon at 8 o'clock at 2l3 East Eighth
street. DR.. Solomon, rabbi of the syna-
gogue, and wife, A. Jacoby, and fifteen or
twenty Of the parents of the children were
present at the exercises. There were some
thirty-two pupils enrolled and more are ex-
pected to enter this week. They are graded
in three classes, with ages ranging from 6
to II years.
The exercises consisted of prayer by the
principal, Rev. Dr. Arndt, and the pupils,
followed by a short address by DR.. Solo
mon. The rabbi pointed out to the children
the value OF promptness, obedience and reg
uarity at school in youth as necessary dis
cipline and preparation for a noble and
useful life in maturer years and the making
of good citizens. DR.. Arndt followed in a
short address, emphasizing the remarks OF
the previous speaker.
Lessons OF patriotism were taught in the
decorations OF the room, composed of flags
and bunting in the national colors. The
platform was ornamented with portraits of
Washington, President Mckinley and the
birth of the flag, framed in flowers and smi.
lax. The school closed with a moral lesson
by the principal and short prayer,
The course of study will be Bible history
the principles of the Jewish faith, morals
and ethics. The Hebrew language will also
be taught to enable the youth of the con.
gregation to follow the prayers, some Of
which are never read in any other language
The school contains both boys and girls
the latter outnumbering the former as vet
and will be in session every day in the weel
from to o'clock, Fridays excepted, which
is holiday, and on Sunday from 10 to /.
a. m. The board Of managers as temporarily
organized are Dr. Solomon JacoEy
(chairman), Mr. and Mrs Samuel Stine
Mrs. Murphy, H. w. Hellman.
All prices Of wall paper greatly reduced
The herald., 1898-11-07
A Kiduapiup

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-The Times-Herald
says: Edgar V. McConkey, formerly a
commission merchant in South Water street,
street at 5:3 0this afternoon. Absolute mvs.
terry surrounds his disappearance, and all ef-
forts on the part of his family to locate him
or to explain the abduction have proved
unavailing. They believe it is a clear case
of kidnapping for blackmail and the wife and
mother fear McConkey has been murdered,
although they can suggest no explanation
or motive other than a possible plot formed
by former business associates, who may
have been bested in some transaction or
other.
McConkey left his home in response to a
telephone call which summoned him to the
Upton pharmacy, Milwaukee and Oakley
avenues, at $50 p. m. He was met by two
men, and although apparently hesitating to
go with them, finally boarded street car in
their company. Nothing has been heard
from him since.