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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
BOYS HEAVILY FINED.
Drove Horse to Dsath---Judge BurPee' Strong Language. Attorneys and Others Who Attempt to Settle Such Case Are Guilty of Compromising
 FeIony---The Judges Words
 Created a Sensation.
Created a Sensation.

Judge Burpee created a sensation ln the city court this morning. TWO young fellows named Frank Leonard and Charles Russell were charged with killing a horse owned by George A. Stanley, who keeps livery stable on Brook street. A week ago Sunday the incident took place. With one JcEh Lawlor. a minor, they engaged the horse from Stanley. Soon after Onn- cer Allen saw them driving out East Main street at a very fast galt, aau still they were whipping and whaling the horse. He called0to them 10 let ui,, but they paid no attention to him, eX- cept to drive the faster. Half an hour later the officers son, Lloyd Allen, while driving on the upper Waterville road, heard a shout behind him, and turning around saw the accilsed and Lawlor. They told him to get out or their way. He turned aside and drove 1eisurely toward Wateryille. There he saw them again. The horse was down now and they were trying to get t up, but could not, as it was dying. When he passed them on the Waterville road the horse was mass of foam He saw it when it was dead and it was covered with whip marks. It died about an hour and a quarter after it left the stable. It was 9 years old and weighed about $50 pounds. Judge Lowe. counsel for the boys. showed that an effort had been made by At torney Bauby, representing Stanley, to effect a settlement with Lawlor, who paid s for the use of the horse, and therefore made himself actually re- sponsfble. Leonard said Lawlor drove all the way, and Russell said he was merely the guest of Lawlor and Leon ard. they picking him up near the Sa- cred Heart church to take him to the ball grounds in Waterville. Judge Lowe said ill his argument that if q settlement had been made by Attorney Bauby nothing would have been heard of tile case. The court asked why Lawlor was not on trial and Prosecll- tor Durant replied that he could not be found last evening. that his moth q promised to have him Tn court th;s morning, but while she was present he was not. Leonard was sentenced to pay fine of $50 and costs and three months in jail and Russell, as an ac- cessory, was fined S25 and costs. Tn passing sentence the court said tIst anyDody Who would sit by without oI). Jecting to such cruelty as was done this horse was as guilty as the princi. pal He further said that if Attorney Bauby effects a settlement wian MT Stanley. or even if Mir Stanley did set. tie with Lawlor, each of them is guilty or compounding felony and liable to punishment in the city court. Attor. ney Bauby happened into the room after court was over and when ip- formed of what Judge Burpee had said he seemed greatly surprised. Judge Burpee's statement created a sensa- tion.
 James Carney and Patrick Fitzgerald were charged with yagrancy. They told a fairly decent story and were lei go with reprimand: but if they are arrested again it will go very hard with them.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
TIMELY TOPICS

Umbrellas are pretty handy things to have around. J. B. Mullings& Son has them, as we'll as rain coats.
 Several cases of mems summer un- derwear have arrived at A. Mailhiot's. Poe a garment.
 Varnishes that will stand the test are the kind that Ziglatzki-M sell. New line varnish brushes.
 New line of belts and belt buckles at Reid & Hughes. Read over their ad tonight for prices.
 Sirloin steak 14c pound, short steak 1Sc, porterhouse 21c at Mammoth mar ket. Fresh shad and bluefish.
 c. G. Garrigus offers his machine and tool business in Wateryille for sale. Chance for live mechanic.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
HOLY CROSS COLLEGE.
Annual Dinner of the Connecticut
 Alumni at Allyn House.


 Hartford, April 30.-The sixth an- >p''~ inner of the Connecticut alumni o4s4 iy Cross college was held at the Allyn house last night The toasts and those who responded were as fol lows: Alma Mater,' Rev J. r. Han selman of Worcester, president of the college; 'sAlmus Pater.'' Rev Dr D. L. Gleason of Hartford; The Law" F. J. Markley of New Britain; "The Medical Men," Dr T. F. Kane of Hartford; ''The Press Rev Thomas Duggan of Hartford: Our Wards in the East,'' Thomas E. Lawler of New York; 'sThe Capitol City" Mayor l. A. Sullivan.
 Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Rev W. H. Rogers of Hartford; vice-president, Dr J. l.. Kelly of New Britain; sec retary, Rev J. T. Curtin of Waterbury treasurer, P. T. O'Brien of Meriden: executive committee F. J. AIarkley of New Britain, Rev Dr D. l.. Gleason of Hartford: press committee, T. F. Devine and $. W. Wilby of Waterbury
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
FOREST PARK CHANGES HANDS
New Britain Men Will Be Proprietors
 for the Summer.

Tor the Summer.
 It will be news to the public of Waterbury and vicinity that Forest park, that delightful resort in the northern part of the city, has changed hands, or is about to change hands, for the papers in the matter up to last night were unsigned. The deal has been consummated and everything is in readiness for the signatures of the parties concerned. Forest park was only thrown open to the public year or two ago under the manage ment of Jean Jacques and from the very first it has been q money maker. Manager Jacques introduced every thing for the accommodation of the people and on every day during the summer months the grounds were scarcely able to hold the crowds who desired to spend q few hours of re- creation at this cool little spot. The vaudeville theater was one of the principal attractions and thither on every afternoon went the women and children for a rest from the days la bors. The trolley line was q very busy one all through those warm days and the resort has been reported all over the country as one of the best of it's kind in New England. It was no wonder then that longing eyes have been cast at Forest park by many people, both ill and out of the | city, but it remained for two New Britain men to close the deal and this was done yesterday and after all the legal forms have been completed l Waterbury's little Coney Island will pass into the hands of strangers.
 1 The purchasers are not really Stran- gers at that, for they are well known in Waterbury and all over the state. 1 William Hanna, proprietor of the New Britain opera house, and Lawrence Horrigan, also of New Britain, are the purchasers. They were in Water bury yesterday and completed the deal with William Richardson, who was interested with Manager Jacques in the park. What the price paid was is not known, but it was said to be a good round sum. The new proprie- tors will assume control in a day or two and they will at once prepare for the opening of the park on a grand scale. Both are prominent Elks and delegations from New Britain and Meriden are expected to be present on the opening night. Just now it is impossible to state just what the new improvements will be, but there will undoubtedly be some and Forest park will be made even better sum- nler resort than before, if that is pos sible.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
GOLD FIELD sTAMPEDE.

Butte, Mont, April 3O.-Late accounts from Sand Creek, the scene of the re- cent gold discovery, tell of I general stampede to the new fields. The ground for radius of ten miles has been staked off, miners leaving their work to make locations in the vicinity of the rich strike. The discovery was made in Whip-poor- gulch and the mineralized ledge is said to assay into the thousands.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
ON EASY PAYMENTS

You are welcome to choose any garment in the house and pay for it in small weekly payments, a glance at our price tags, which are marked in plain figures will prove to you that our credit prices are
 not higher than equal quality would cost in any cash store
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
sAIp To HAyE STOLEN s2o. o.ooo.

Burlington, Ia, April 3O-W. r. Ma hanna, formerly an express messenger has been arrested here by government secret service men. His arrest is said to be in connection with the theft of a S2O,0OO package consigned from a Chi cago bank to this city and followed an attempt to get the government to re- deem money that was partly burned.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
WILL FIGHT BEEF TRuST.

Bellefontaine, O., April 3O.-Four hundred employees in the Big Four railroad shops here have signed an agreement to fight the so-called beef trust by refusing to eat any meat for thirty days beginning with May 2.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
QUEENS CONDITION.

Ney York, April 3O.-John R. Pla- ten. consul general of the Neither lands, received the following cable gram to-day from the foreign office at The Hague: Condition queen very satisfactory
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-30
CUMMINGS NO BETTER

Baltimore, Md, April 30.-Con- gressman Amos J. Cummings passed restful night, but his condition is no bettet-
The Redwood gazette., 1902-12-24

given amount agrees with the balance
charged to the county treasurer as ap-
pears from the auditors ledger.
IN. ToMPKINS,
Co. Auditor and Chairman Board of Audit
J..P. COPPER.
FRlT. r WARNER,
Clerl Of he District Court
Board of Audit of K,,.WOOd County, Mimi.
Redwood Falls, Minn., Dec. s, 1902.
TO the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of Redwood County,
Minn. We the under
signed hoard of audit within and for
the county of Redwood and State of
Minnesota, met on the above given
date and make the following report:
Board convened at 80 O'Clock p. m.
Members present: [. n. Tompkins,
county auditor; ] P Cooper, chairman
of the board of county commissioners,
and Fred l. Warner, clerk of the dis
trict court.
Board proceeded to and did examine
the records of the county auditor and
county treasurer as by law required,
and did check up and count the funds
in the hanr}s.a1}flr nnder tl1n cpnfYOI Of
~ ,o,,.+, +o.a,,.o. - eaa 49,,
.ne eouhty 'leasuiel' ano Aounu Tic
same to be as follows:
Deposited in First National Bank
Of Redwood Falls ...........:.. s5,O2O56
Deposited in Citizens State Bank
of Lam mberton. 3,S19.44
deposited sosne IN State BANK OF Lam ese o.
Deposlied in State Bank of Nor
Deposited in State Bank of wa
oasso - & p ~ pe,ve '59n.a3 FIX -
Deposited in Walnut Grove State
Deposited in the First state
nannsted Sank cd malnui w nhoIn st,,e M
Deposited in state B.kof Revere 22,s2l.oo
Deposited in Bank Of seaforth. 1,253.Ol
deposited s IN G2id,stabeek 9s rs BANK a,aoso
Deposited in state Blk of Mi;rov 1864
Cash' ana cash items ,rc ..........' lt9.49
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s35,712.77
we hereby certify that the ABOVE gwen
.naoun. .-a,s $3.50 80, ~
auditors ledger.
l. N. ToMPKrSs.
lshAi-' op Of Audit tAuu''oi ah' 'la.' II An 'u
r,,.-, po,rs ), - +. ~ GoopEss. CJt,
FRED. L. WARNER,
Board of Audit Of Redwood CO. Minnesota. I'M
Red wood Falls Minn Dec 9Th 1909
To tho Honorable BOARD of County
Commissioners of Red,rooa f,on,+y
Minnesota-Gent.en Wa the mn.
dersioned Roard Of And;t wi,bin
and for Redwood County Minnesota
met on the above give, d.ts and mako
the following renort:
BOARD convened at ? O'clock y m
Members nresep.. r n romnLins
coun.y auditor 7 p t.oonar ,.ba;r,nan
hoard of county commissioners and
Fred r, Warner clerk of tho district
conrt
resolution andfmoyed ifs adontI.,n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07

boots. Gloves and a broad-brimmed cork
hat covered with white canvas, complet ted
her out-of-door costume. Her house was 4
bungalow built of the logs of barride and
mewallieS, the only lumber which will not
be eaten up sbodily by insect pests. The
inner walls are covered with "gamti"
which is nothing but unbleached muslin,
hailing, every yard of it, from Yankee mills.
The house is made gay with Indian cottons
and japanese umbrellas. and the whole in
closure is surrounded by a high. barbed-
wire fence, with poisoned barba- They
sleep in tents, which are cooler than it is
possible to make the house, and which are
searched for ''varmintS' of wha tever breed
before they retire for the night This gamti
is the only cloth known to the natives and
a Central African negro will work two
months for three yards of it. Then h viii.
drape himself in it, and wear 1t until it is
perfectly stiff, like leather, and Impossible
to tear.
From March, when she left the ship, until
October, when she boarded it again the
baroness did not see white woman. Africa
East Africa is five times as large as Ger
many itself, stretching from the coast far
up to Victoria Nyanza, which, in our school
book Biographies was only an inaccessible
dot in the jungle. Mt. Kilimandiaro is
22,O00 feet high. There is only one tiny bit
of railroad in German East Africa The
German government will not allow private
capital to build roads, and as yet has not
found the means to do SO itself The coun-
try can never be opened without railroads.
The only white people in the interior now
are missionaries, occasional hunters and
officers at the military stations.
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baron and baroness manipulate the flags
which direct the drive. A "kraaP' is con-
structed of logs, and an opening left, with
arrangements by which it can be quickly
closed after the animals are in.
Start of the Drive.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of the drive
the chiefs take the station assigned them.
Each has from 300 to 700 men under him,
making 10000 natives in all, representing
perhaps ten or fifteen different tribes, none
of which understands the language of the
others. 1t is the dry season, when the
herbivorous animals, which in the wet sea-
son scatter through the mountains, are
forced down to the plains for food.
These small, scattered herds are gradual
ly driven in toward the kraal by the ad-
vancing lines of natives. AS they slowly
gather to the center of the field, thousands
of zebras, giraTes, gnuS-a species of buff
falo-ThomSonian gazelles, water boks and
reed boks-which look like young calves
antelopes, Glands and ostrichs-will be seen
collected in vast herd.
Then occurs phenomenon which few
white persons have ever seen. The animals
begin to realize that they are being trap
ped. A leader starts out and they all fol-
low him. He begins to run to make his
escape. Everywhere, as he seeks to break
the line, men spring up, shouting and bran
dishing sticks. The line of animals is
forced to run in circle. At length the
leader approaches the mouth of the kraal.
To permit this great mixed herd to rush
in would destroy the kraal and defeat the
purpose of the drive. great body of men
stationed at the gateway springs up. The
leader of the herd turns back and the long
line follows him. The second line runs
parallel to the first, only going in an oppo-
site direction. Sometimes the herd will
form half a dozen lines, running swiftly.
each animal with It's head on the rump of
the one ahead of 1t, and its sides touching
In he
never breaking out of its own line. An in
describably dizzy sensation is produced by
looking at these vast, wavering lines NOV
Ing with mad swiftness round and round,
like the body of a monster serpent. 1t Is
the strangest sight in the world
The drive is always for one particular
animal; perhaps ostriches for the ostrich
farms; perhaps zebras to ship away.
Groups of the special animal desired are
skillfully cut out of the great herd and
turned into the kraal. If lion or leopard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07
Thermometer Thieves.
/ the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"If you want to keep a thermometer in
Guatemala you have to set guard over it,
said traveller who had just returned from
a visit to Central America. It's fact,
assure you. Shortly before l started for
home 1 made a trip from Port Barrios to
Guatemala City.
THE weather was broiling hot, and when
we got to Guatemala City, which is about
the largest town on the road, 1 thought I'd
see what the temperature really was. So
strolled out of the hotel to locate a ther-
mometer, and after long search l found
one hanging on porch of a residence. To
my astonishment it was surrounded by a
cage of wire netting, heavy enough to hold
and such precaution seemed all the more
remarkable because petty household pilfer-
ing is practically unknown in that country
Il found out during my stay that the
reason for this protection is that the people
suffer from torpid livers, and regard mer-
curry as a specific. How the belief became
current goodness only knows he went on
but it is universal all through the interior,
and if an outside thermometer is left unpro-
tected over night it is morally certain to be
broken and drained.
An English surgeon at Zacopa told me
that he had seen scores of natives suffering
from chronic rheumatism, brought on by
swallowing raw mercury"
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gets caught in the drive, very early in the
game the men near him are signaled to lie
low, SO that the big meat eater NAV sneak
away. The baron has an entirely different
method of dealing with him. =
When the kraal is full of the species de-
sired the entrance is closed and the DAVIS
drive is over. This is generally about two
o'clock in the afternoon. 500 zebras at a
time has been the result of such a davis
work, and that is the sight which no Amer
lean woman but Baroness Won SchelIendorf
has seen.
Tanning Zebras.
The Won Schellendorfs were the first
people to tame and harness zebras. The
baron himself had no idea that this could
be done, for the zebra is reputed the wild
est of all wild things. 1t was done by leav-
ing young zebra two days without food,
and then letting him into kraal, where he
could see donkeys eating hay from the
hands of natives In two days he also
would eat from their hands. put down his
head to be rubbed. and even take hay from
the baron's pockets.
The same method was followed with the
Older animals, and within ten days after
the drive two of the largest zebras were
harnessed and ridden by colored boys
Baron Won Schelendorf is now confident
that zebras can be trained to become the
draught animals of Africa, a country fatal
to horses. Zebras are immune to the tsetse
fly, and to all other diseases which attack
the horse. The zebras Of Central Africa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-07

and she is now visiting her friends Dr. and
New York. Her stories of life in the Afri-
Haggard: but instead of dreading a mode
of life which would appear full of hard
ships for many women. she is eager for
her return to the frontier. Born and reared
on an Ohio farm. able to ride a horse bare
back before she had read her first reader,
anything 10 do with animals has an ire
sistible charm for her.
Curious Experiments.
Baron Won ScheIlendorf is experimenting
with all the resources of the country to
see which can be made commercially profit
able He has cocoa. banana and tobacco
plantations and another consisting of 10000
India rubber trees. He has an ostrich farm,
which he started with wild birds driven In
from the plains and in which three incu-
bators are now busily at work
But probably the most picturesque thing
done at the station is the capture of wild
animals OF the great German company
which supplies all the large menageries and
wild beast shows of the world
Baroness Won Scheliendorf has partfci-
pated often in the drives" by which these
captures are made and she declares it the
most wildly exciting thing which the world
has to offer.
When the baron decides upon a drive he
calls in, about a week beforehand the diff
ferent chiefs. who will control the men that
day. Each chief is shown a peculiar flag
whose motions and positions he Is to follow
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PREMoNITIoNs OF DEATH.
Some Curious Condolences of Local In
tereSt

"PremOnitions of death are often secuted
at" said a well-known Washington news
paper man, but there are occasionally au-
thentic instances arising which raise doubts
as to whether there may not be, after all,
some sort of indefinable spiritual phenome-
in the incidents.
1T will be recalled that a well-known
chief of division in one of the departments,
In apparent perfect health on the last day
he appeared at the office, died recently of
apopleXy on that night l have since
learned that on the evening in question,
shortly before he retired, large dog in his
household set up such prolonged and dis
NAL bowling in his yard that he went out
with a revolver under the supposition that
there might be intruders providing about,
although the dog howled and did not bark.
The dog refused to stop bowling upon the
appearance of his master and followed him
In the house, whining and showing evil
dences of distress, looking up into tho Off
Gals face in such a peculiar manner that
the members of the family at the time
thought 1t exceeding strange. The dog
continued to follow his master about the
house, acting strangely in the manner
have described. On the following morning
the official was found dead in his room.
THE above incident is a curious fact, as
is also the following, and while not of
startling ghostly interest, Is also local to
Washington, the parties being members of
my own family.
ed on a journey to California. Several
days after her departure an elderly colored
woman, who had been a slave in her fami-
ly, having been raised with my wife's moth
er, called at the house. AS in similar In
stances In the south, there had been a
warm attachment existing between former
mistress and slave, which had continued
through life. The old servant was visbly
agitated. She declared she had been
warned that my wife's mother had died
at an early hour on that morning on the
train When asked whether she had re-
ceived a telegram to that effect she replied
that she had not, but that at the hour in
question she had been awakened by the
ringing Of the front door bell. In respond
ing to the call che had found no one on
the steps in each instance, the bell having
been pulled three successive times Her
house, by the way, was on a down town
street, and was recently RACED to make
room for business structure.
AT about 10 o'clock on the morning of
municated the intelligence of my wife 8
mothers death we received telegram from
the officials of the railroad dated from. a
far western state, announcing her sudden
death at about the hour when the colored
companion of her early childhood had heard
the pulls at the bell. Had the bell been
rung during the ordinary hours Of the day
we would have attached no importance to
the former slaves positive assertion of a
spiritual visitation from the deceased lady,
but as it was at about 3 o'clock in the
| morning the incident has ever been one of
more than usual interest in our family If
the pulls at the bell were not supernatural
they were assuredly strange coincidence y
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The Laboring Man Has No Show.

From the Duluth News Tribune
He didn't say word to any one, but
looked and looked, as though witnessing
some grand spectacle which fairly bewil-
dered him.
The man was short, thick-set and wore
an old pair of overalls, which were caught
in the back with a wire nall He had a
ruddy complexion and had short belt-line
whistler.
The new steel building being erected on
LIST street was the object Of the mans gaze.
Inside men were hurrying to and fro, while
sharp-eyed foremen kept a close tab on
everything Inside the building was a small
elevator, very similar to dumb waiter"
1t was fitted out with a box. into which
bricks were piled. A signal from a man,
and the lift shot to the fourth floor while
another descended at the same time. This
was what the old man was looking at.
Pretty soon he started to walk away,
scratching his head and murmuring
"Shure, an a Teller would sthand a poor
show f he had to dipind on carryin' tn hod
for Twin these days.