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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18

sassin manages to make away with the
money which was to have discharged the
mortgage. The play then treats of the
experiences of the blind girl and the fool-
ish son, who, thrown upon the mercies
of relatives, fare badly, save for the
kindly Intervention of an old colored
nanny, a young n~eighboring planter
and his sister. One of the strongest
scenes shows a forest picture on the
banks of the famous stream. Dora. being
left alone, is wandering aimlessly about.
In the course of her wanderings she starts
to cross a high wooden bridge, from
which several planks have been
by the villain of the story. in the hope
that the blind girl will fall through the
bridge into the ravine below. Just as it
seems positive that she is to step into this
trap, the old refrain of "'Way Down
Upon the Suwanee River comes floating
through the woods from a band of plan
tation singers near by. Dora, hearing the
song, stops, listens for a moment, and
turning goes back in the direction of the
singers. During the third act. in the
course of an attempted abduction of the
blind girl by the villain, who wants to
get her out of the way, a struggle ensues
during which her adopted brother. inter
vening, receives another blow on the
head, the effect of which is to bring back
his reason from the state it has so long
been. He, thinking that it is the same
struggle in which his father was killed,
declares the real assassin, thus clearing
the mystery of his fathers murder. OF
course, the old family theme of the mort
gage is happily disposed of and all ends
peacefully "On the Shawnee River"
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Senate Voted on It After SeV-
era] Hours Talk.
PRIVATE PENSION BILLS
To the Number of ~ Were Also Pas
sed--Reading of the Alaska
Code Bill--Other News.

Washington, Feb. T.-At it's session to-
day the senate adopted a resolution in
structing the vice president of the United
States as president of the senate to eX-
press to the government and people Of
France the sentiment of the senate Upon
the bereavement hat has fallen upon the
French republic in the death of President
Faure. The naval personnel bill, for
which the navy department has been con-
tending for so many years, was passed
by the senate. 1t was before the senate
for several hours, but was passed prac-
tically in the form in which it was report
ed by the senate committee. It's provis-
ions have heretofore been fully given.
The remainder of the days session was
evoted to the passage of bills on the pri-
vate pension calendar, "A in number,
and to the reading of the Alaska code bill.
The agreement under which the Alaska
bill was read provided that 40 other busi-
ness than the formal reading should be
transacted.
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SKATING WHEN
THE FIEND FIRED
THREE TIMES INTO THE CROWD,
KILLING ONE AND MUIR
ING TWO.

Toledo, Feb. 1S.-There was a bloody
tragedy enacted in the Polish settlement
last evening, which would probably have
the timely arrival of the police. AS it WAS
the excitement ran so high that it was all
the officers could do to quiet the rowds
of excited people. 1t was the result of
what the police call a cold-bloded muir
der. A crowd of boys ranging in ages
from 10 to IS years were skating on the
common at least 1000 fet away from any
building. They had built a fire at the
edge of the ice to keep themselves warm.
Vincent Skibenski, aged 45 years, who
lives fully half a mile from where the
boys We're skating, went over to them
and told them to go away. They paid no
attention to him, but kept on skating.
Skibenski returned to the house, secured a
bulldog revolver, n went back to where
the boys We're gathered around the fire,
all with their backs toward the flames.
When Skibenski came within 80 feet of
he boys without saying a word, it is said,
he pulled out the revolver and began fir
ing into the crowd of some 20 boys.
At the first shot Stephen Bloshosko, a
boy, aged II years, fell dead, pierced
through the heart with a bullet. Two
other lads, named Renski, We're also
Ell NJ Ny 1SHIS llc dllu SSIlOuSlS
wounded. The boys then fled and spread
the news of the killing through the Polish
settlement, and in a jiffy men, women
and children by the hundred We're pour
ing out of their cottages and making post
haste for the scene of the murder. Ski
benski knew the temper of his country
men INC what would happen to him if he
fell into their hands, and he started to-
ward the center of the city to get to the
police station. The police got hold of
Skibenski and rushed him to the po-
lice station as rapidly as possible, and
even then it was feared the Polish people
would Turn out in a body and try to pull
Skibenski out of his cell and string him
up. They We're finally quoted down and
sent to their homes n all promised to
let the law take its course. The police
say there was not the slightest provoca-
ton which could have led Skibenski to
ommlt the awful deed. He is married
and has a family.
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BUTTE MONTANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1899.

all the Jews in the provinces. Mordecai,
upon hearing of this decree, pleads with
the queen to go before the king and have
the decree dissolved, which she did, at the
peril of her life, as it is against the law
to go before the king unbidden. The king
listens to her prayer, grants her the petit
ton, dissolves the decree, and hangs
Haman upon the gallows he has built for
Mordecai, and proclaims Mordecai prem
Ter in his stead.
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Aged Man Dead

Berkeley, Cal, Feb 1S.-Malon Thomas
Is dead at the age of 1O4 years after an
illness of about three months. His wife.
with whom he had lived for more than
half a century, died for years go.
Thomas then sold his home in Ississisk-
you county, and. though then over 100
years old, expressed a desire to marry
again so he might establish another
home.
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element attending the struggle and her
fathers murder before her very eyes
cause the complete loss of her sight. In
the struggle the murderer is compelled
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18

WA Down East" full of rustic hui
NOR and sentiment, continues among the
best of the road successes. Phoebe Davies
is much admired for her strongly emo
tional portrayal of it's heroine.
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The production of Hoyt's "A Midnight
Bell promises to be something out of
the ordinary. The play has been having
a long run in San Francisco, and is being
presented to owd houses nightly.
Weeks of labor nave been spent upon the
scenic effects and equipments, and Mr..
Stockwell will duplicate the production
here, a special car being necessary to
transport all the scenery used in this
production. The New England rural
scenes, which are most realistically de-
picted, are the old red schoolhouse, the
snow-covered hill with the school chill
dren coasting on their sleds, and the
old church. l.. r. Stockwell will be seen
in his original character of Deacon Tidd,
which was written for him by Mr.. Hoyt.
The play will be seen at the Grand opera
house on February 26 and q and March 1.
Mile. Fiji" the new French farce at
the Manhattan, which has set the New
York critics by the ears. is jamming the
house nightly, and the fire department
has restricted the number Of admissions.
Like "Zaza.' it has heart interest blended
with p%iquant frivolity and is drawing the
women in throngs. "Fifi" is acted with
admirable art by an exceptional cast, in
Guiding Rose Coghlan, Grace George,
Louise Beaudet, Aubrey Boucicault and
John T. Sullivan.
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Something in theatrical entertainment
that will be both new and pleasing will
De that to be given at the Grand opera
mouse tomorrow, Sunday night, by the
company of japanese, support
ed by a number of Americas best
speciality performers. There are twelve
Japenese in the Akimoto troupe, mem
bers of the Royal Theater company of
Yeddo, and among the greatest Oriental
performers in the world. Their feats Of
JuSSlery, top spinning, balancing and
acrobat1c feats are astonishing. They
are beyond doubt the greatest equilibrists
ever seen in this country, for the press
of cities wherever they nav appeared
speaks Of them in wonder. A single feat
performed by an e~ight-year-old mem
Der of the troupe gives an idea of some
of the astonishing things the Japanese
do. He turns a summersault on top of a
stack of wooden blocks, the size of COM
mon brick, placed on ends upon each
other, and without disturbing the blocks. |
While the Japanese give the greater part
of the show they are not all there is to
it. Among the speciality people with the
organization are George H. Wilson, the
we'll known black face entertainer and
buck wing dancer: Rose Randall, the
Illuminated songstress who sings the lat
est popular song, when the Sun Went
Down. and other new compositions; |
Miss Isabel Henderson,, a vocalist; the
three Ryan brothers, the acrobatic Won
ders: Blanche LeClaire, a marvel with
flying rings; Annie Gordon, a descriptive
singer; the Shrode brothers, in their
trick cottage act; Fred Schone. the BIZ
cyclist, and Mackin and Pierce, a clever
team of sketch artists.
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The Turtle company, headed by Sadie
Maftlnot, drew enormous crowds in
Washington against The Little Minis
ter a fact significant of diversity in
public taste. A second organization, with
Isabelle Evesson and Sig. Perugini, began
its tour at Elizabeth, New Jersey, on
February IS.
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A new aspirant for patronage looms up
in the theatrical horizon; it is called "On
the Shawnee River" and will be seen at
the Grand opera hous for three nights,
beginning Thursday evening, February
%, with Saturday matinee. 1t is said
to belong to the class of 'home plays
that is, the kline to which our mothers,
wives and sisters are invited. The ac-
ton of the story is laid near the little
VILLAGE of Shawnee, in Florida, and hinges
OH the Clayton family, one Of the Oldest
in the district. Colonel Clayton, an old
planter, has given a mortgage on his
estate; the day the mortgage is due
Colonel Clayton and old Caleb Cree, a
hard-hearted miser who made the loan,
quarrel. The old planter Is murdered in
the mix-up by the miser. Dora Clavtua.,
the colonels adopted daughter, returns
from the north on the day Of the quarrel,
whittier she has been sent to consult optic
experts regarding her sight, and the ex-
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Anna Held. with '"The French Maid,' is
warmly received in the west. regardless
of zero weather, and is entertaining lav-
ishly in her luxurious private car. Harry
B. Smith has adapted "Papa's Wife, a
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Brady & Ziegfeld will make costly and
lavish production in New York next au-
tumn of the picturesque comedy, "A.
Court Scandal" by Aubrey Boucicault,
now one of the %reigning London sue
cesses. 1t is a costume play Of the ro-
mantle type, and it's central figure is
Richelieu, not as the grim cardinal, but
the gallant youth of 10. Young Bouci-
cault, who is now in Mile. Fiji" will play
Richelieu.
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$50 sets teeth $40. DIR. Wix.
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to strike the colonel's son a blow on the
head. leaving him in a comatose or i'm
becilic state. After the murder the as
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Much tic material is being quietly
accumulated by Brady & Ziegfeld, young
managers of energy and resources, who
are looming UP as producers. They have
recently bought 1.-The Whooping Cough
a French farce, and are negotiating for
the latest Palais Royal successes.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18

musical comedy, which she is studying
for next season.
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SYNOPSIS:
Act IA Fatal Marriage.
Act II.-Missmated.
Act
Act IVA Bitter Atonenent."
Evening star., 1899-06-26

PrOfe SsOr MunyOn. in a striking and ar
tistic booklet which is just being distributed
10 the public. says that doctors and scien-
fists have given much attention to the SUBJ
ject of food: but recent epidemics caused by
impure water prove cOnciusively that the
question of what we should drink is equally
as important as what we should eat" The
booklet, which is brightly Illustrated, intro
duces Munyon's new Health Drink bever-
age, for which numerous curative proper
ties are claimed. the leading being that it
Will relieve headache, indigestion and ordi-
nary stomach troubles. The simplicity of
the drink is its chief feature, as it is in the
form OF Il little tablet which is simply put
in any kind of water. or as is termed in
the booklet 1t is a fountain in a tablet"
This convenience is readily recognized, as
there is no preparation. the tablets being
readily used. whether at home, in the office,
in the f3id on the water or on the cars.
Professor MunyOn also claims in this book
let that those who use this tablet may have
no further fear of impure water. no matter
where obtained as the tablet will destroy
all impurities and kill all disease germs.
The tablets are put up in handy little
walls. which may be carried in the vest
pocket. thus making them very convenient
TO everybody. They may be obtained in all
drug stores. and no doubt will meet with
the success that his other well-known prep
arations have achieved. A tablet also gives
a. Zest Of its own to a cold cup of tea. while
ii is also asserted that one taken in a glass
of hot water Just before retiring will assure
a good nights r=St.
Evening star., 1899-06-26
THE JUNIOR REPUBLIC.
Meeting Last Night i'm Interest of the
New Institution.

The interest felt in the National Junior
Republic was again illustrated last night
at meeting held in the First Baptist
Church and presided over by Rev. e. Law
renee Hunt. The latter introduced Mr..
Rawson Warren, who has been selected to
superintend the republic, and he gave
graphic review of the aims and purposes
of the institution. They were, he said, 10
take the wayward and incorrigible boys and
girls away from corrupting environment
and encourage the development of the
good that is latent in them. They are in
culcated with industrial ideas and taught
trades They are permitted to have liberty
and to make and execute their own laws,
and with these responsibilities become good,
honorable, useful and manly citizens
Rev. DR.. Hunt related his experiences
with the boys of the junior republic at Free
vile. N. Y. The republic, he said. was
founded only after series of practical
experiments. The founder had gathered the
toughest and toughest element he could
find, and trusted them with their own
government. The trial was more success
full than even he imagined it could be. The
boys discovered for themselves the value
of work. They can work or not, just as
they please. The laborer is paid in tin
money, stamped with the republics seal,
and with this money he pays for his clothes
and living expenses.
1T is to be the aim of the Junior republic
which is to be started in this city, he con-
tinued, Ito take all wayward boys and
girls who are getting away from parental
influence, high or low, rich or poor. In the
junior republic the citizens learn the dignity
of the law, and learn to respect it.
THE chief idea of this miniature republic
is to surround its citizens with the condi-
tionS they must face in our own big repub-
lie. They learn self-control and self-gov-
ernment. 1t is free from all sectarian in
fuence, but man of God, a lover of chill
dren, has place here and teaches the
youths of the Bible and Its truths
The meeting was opened with an invoca-
ton by Rev Charles A Stakely, and Sc
lections from the church hymnal were sung
by the congregation. Mrs. Tom c. Noyes
sang The Holy City, to the acompani-
ment of Percy Foster.
Evening star., 1899-06-26
AT OCEAN VIEW.
Site Chosen for Encampment of High
School Cadets.


The High School Cadet COMMITTEES has re-
turned from Norfolk, having visited Hamp
ton, Virginia Beach, Old Point and Ocean
View in search of site for the regimental
eEcampment. A location at Ocean View
was selected. The bathing at this place
was found to be excellent, the swells arc
not very large, but there was no undertow.
All kinds of amusements are found here.
Dancing is in order every evening, and is
generally preceded by a vaudeville show.
The camp will be on lawn in the rear of
the hotel, but very near the beach. 1t was
thought best to have it SO, as in case high
wind should arise the hotel would be a
protection to the tents. The ground is soft
and is well adapted to such an outing Wa
ter will be obtained from the cistern Of the
hotel. Thare will be one company mess for
each of the companies, which will be under
the management of competent cooks.
Capt England is making extensive prepa-
rations for the outing Capts Robertson
and ]. H. Bean, with twanty cadets, will
out the camp and get things in readiness
for the main body, which will start Mon
day, July 3. Capt. O'Neil will go with the
main body. He is soldier Of thirty years
experience, most of which was spent on the
plains, and in the commissary department.
The sanitary officer will be selected from
the National Guard
The cadets will assemble at the National
Guard Armory on Tuesday evening to COM
the camp and friends of the cadets intend
ing to visit them should address j. Harry
Bean, 3OS I'd street south asst If informa ton
concerning the outing is desired,
Evening star., 1899-06-26
RECEIVES SEVERE INJURIES.
Result of Jumping From a Rapid Ex-
press Train.

John Hebron a young colored man, who
lives near Muirkirk station. is under treat
ment at the Emergency Hospital for Sc
we're injuries incurred late Saturday night
by jumping from a moving train. Early
Saturday evening John went to Laurel to
visit friends, and upon his return got on
the wrong train, taking the ''owl train"
instead of the express. When the train
neared Muirkirk John left his seat and
walked to the door. Had he remained on
the train until it reached this city he could
not have returned home until morning,
and he took the only alternative. Two hours
later he was found lying beside the track
He was unconscious and it was feared he
would die before he reached the city.
His injuries included a broken arm, the
loss of several teeth and numerous cuts and
bruises about the head and body. Part
of his tongue is gone and both lips are ter
rib1y cut.
Under the treatment of the physicians at
the hospital the patients condition improv-
ed, and it is believed he will recover, al
though he will be badly disigured.
Evening star., 1899-06-26
WASHINGTON GIRLS HURT.
Misses Terrell and Knapp in a Rail-
way Wreck,


Miss Grace Terrell and Miss MolIfe
Knapp, two young ladies Of this city, were
injured in q train wreck on the Pittsburg
and Western railroad at Renfrew. Pa,
seven miles below Butler and thirty-two
miles north of Pittsburg, Saturday after
noon. The wrecked train was being run
on the line which connects Butler and Cal
lery Junction. About half a mile from
Renfrew the engine struck a bad place in
the road, where workmen had been replac-
ing light rails with heavier ones. 1t is SUD-
posed the heavy storm which was raging
at that time had driven the workmen from
their task, and that they had left some of
the rails but partially spiked. There is a
curve at this point and the heavy train
spread the rails, the engine staying on the
track and the tender and two passenger
cars topping over the embankment No
one was killed in the wreck, but nine per-
sons We're injured, some quite severely
Miss Terrell and Miss Knapp have been
visiting Miss Grace Phillips, the only
daughter of ex-Representative Thomas W.
Phillips of Newcastle, Pa, and were on
their way from Butler, where they had
been visiting, back to the Phillips home
Miss Terrell, who is a daughter of j. D.
Terrell, the chief law clerk of the Treasury
Department, residing a 1894 Vermont ave-
nue., had an arm badly bruised, while Miss
Knapp, whose home is on the Conduit
road, where she lives with her brother-in-
law, Mr.. {. a. Baker, was injured in the
back. 1t was thought at first that Miss
knapps spine was seriously hurt but the
doctors at the Butler County General Hos
pital have sent information to the effect
that her injuries are not as serious as was
at first supposed. Miss Phillips was Sc
verely bruised and received cuts about the
head and face.
Evening star., 1899-06-26
SERVICES AT NEW ST. THOMAS.
Large Congregations Present I'm
Morning and Afternoon.

The handsome and imposing new st.
Thomas p. E. Church, at the corner of
18th and Madison streets, was occupied by
| the congregation for the first time yester-
day, and the attendance at both the morn
ing and afternoon services at IL o'clock
and 4:3o O'Clock, respectively, was large.
The exercises were not of a dedicatory
character, but were held in the new ediflce
In order TO permit the members of the par
ism TO worship therein before leaving the
city for the summer
Next Sunday and through the summer
and autumn the services will be held as
they have been for several years past in the
chapel adjoining the new church on Madi-
son street. Meantime the interior of the
latter will be completed
AT the morning service Rev J. A, Aspin-
wall, the rector, preached and the choir
consisting of Miss Grace McCulloch, So
pIano; Miss Elizabeth Stuart contralto;
Mr.. c. S. Crosby, tenor, and MIR. w. d.
Hoover basso, with Mr.. Archibald Ohm
stead as organist, rendered the following
musical program: Professional, oh, Day
OF Rest and Gladness; "Venite" in A, Dud-
ley Buck; Gloria Patri" B. G Klein; "Te
Deum, minor, Marston; "Jubilate" b
nat, Hanscen; hymn, when Morning Gilds
the Skies "Kyrie,' Elvey; Gloria Tibi,
crosby; offertory, II VIII Lift Up Mine
Eyes, Georg Henschel; "Sanctus,r Tours
Gloria in Excelsis,' Haydn.
AT the service in the afternoon the mu-
sicai program was as follows: Procession
all hymn: Gloria Patri." B. c. Klein:
Bonum Est" in C. Vogrich: Deus Mise
reatur.' in d, Shelley; offertory, trio from
costa Eli" recessional, hymn, "Hark
Hark, Ny Soul.''