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ON WAY FOR OPERATION.
Woman's Neck Broken in Accident
Caused bv Nurses Excitement.

RACINE. Wis, December 26.-Miss
Mary A. Hardin. aged forty-seven. was
killed in an elevator accident in st.
Mary's Hospital, when about to be operat-
ed on yesterday.
An anesthetic had been administered
and she had been placed on transport
ing table and taken to the elevator. The
elevator suddenly dropped, causing Miss
Hardin to fall from the table to the ele-
vator floor. The nurse in charge stopped
the elevator and then pulled a wire cable
to raise it. The patients head was caught
between the elevator platform and the
second floor. and her neck was broken and
her head crushed. The elevator was in
charge of Sister Venerada, nurse, who
was not familiar with its method of opera
ton.
When the elevator dropped the nurse be-
came excited. it is supposed. and Selling
the cable operating the elevator caused 1t
to go up. The nurse did not notice that
the patients head was hanging over the
edge of the elevator platform until it was
caught between the floor and platform
causing the elevator to stop.
Physicians who were to perform the
operation witnessed the accident, but were
unable to prevent it. The relatives of the
woman were in the hospital waiting room
and were there told of Miss Hardin's
DEATH An inquest was held and the jury
rendered a verdict. but did not attach
blame to the hospital attendants.
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PARDON ENDS SENTENCE.
Convicted Murderer Freed After Ten
Years in the Pen

TOPEKA. Kan. December 26.-John Col
Inns. the Kansas University student who
was convicted of Staying his father to
obtain insurance money upon which ito
marry his flancee, and who was sentenced
to life Imprisonment despite the fact that
many believed him guiltless of the crime
of which he was accused, has been par
doned by Gov. Hoch.
Miss Frances Babcock. the beautiful
young woman of Lawrence to whom the
student was engaged to marry at the time
of his trial ten years ago. is still un-
married, although the acknowledged belle
of the circle In which she moves, and
those who know her declare that she has
become martyr to the relentless ma
chine of the law, waiting in patience the
ultimate vindicaton OF the man she trusts
and believes innocent of the terrible
charge. Miss Bahcock has never spoken
of her shattered romance through the ten
long years since she saw her sweetheart
stand to face the sentence of the court,
but the gossip of her intimates has pic
tured her suffering I'm silence. the vic
tim of plot to ruin the life of her fiance.
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CUT MANS EYE WITH KNIFE.
Result of Quarrel in South Baltimore
Saloon.

BALTIMORE. December 26.-As the re-
suit of quarrel, followed by cutting
ARRAY, in the saloon of Alex. Warsacki.
400 Garrett avenue, about noon yesterday.
Andrew Linehart of 1447 Garrett avenue
is at the University Hospital suffering
with a transverse incision of the left eye
ball. which will in all probability neces-
state the taking out of the eye. and John
l.. Burke of Hull street is held at the city
Jail for a further hearing January o
on the charge of assaulting and cutting
Linehart.
According to the police of the southern
district Burke is the same man who, along
with another man, was sentenced to fif-
teen years in the Maryland penitentiary
for killing John Curran at Locut Point in
October. 1886.
Linehart declares that the assault upon
him by Burke was entirely unprovoked.
He stated that while he was standing at
the end of the bar in Warsackfs saloon
Burke approached him with large knife
in his hand and cut him across the left
eye. He said he could assign no reason
why Burke had assaulted him.
His case will be taken in charge by DR..
Hiram Woods today, and 1t was stated at
the hospital last night that ii was thought
the eye will have to be removed.
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best in those troubled times to improve
his estate. A considerable number of
Scottish Presbyerians came over at vari-
Gus times in his lifetime and settled on
his estates as tenants. 1t is probable
that the Mckinleys came over then. \
careful search Of the old records in the
Antrim estate Office, however, fails to find
the name of Mckinley.
Not Owners-Had "Tenant Rights. "
1.-The earliest of these records which re-
fer to Conagher is dated 1874, and shows
that at that date the townland of Coma
CHER, and also that of Knockanboy, a
couple of miles distant, were both held by
Francis Willoughby. 1t is inferred by
Mr.. Allan Mcdonald, estate agent of the
Earl of Antrim, that Willoughby necessa-
rily must have sublet his lands, and 1t is
possible that a Mckinley was his tenant
on little farm at Conagher.
THE McKinleyS, of course" said Mr..
Knabenshue, were never owners of the
farm, but merely tenants. The rule was
that a tenant should erect his own cottage
and other buildings, construct the hedges
and dry stone walls. which are the Irish
fences: dig bitches for drainage and in
fact put on the land any and all improve
mentS he might desire. besides furnish
fng his own farm animals and imple-
ments All that the landlord furnishe d
was the land, and his only concern was to
Ulster tenant farmers possess what are
known as tenant right'-that is the
tenant possesses an interest in the hold
ing representing the value of the i'm
provements he puts on the farm. If the
tenant gives up his lease he is entitled to
reasonable payment for his tenant right
If tenant dies the lease descends to his
eldest son. and this explains why a fam
lily may remain on the same holding for
generations, as the McKinleys did
AS stated above it is not known at
what time this particular branch of the
MckinleyS emigrated to Ireland and set
tied at Conagher. Nor is it known. for a
certainty, from what particular place in
Scotland they came. However the Nc
Kinleys are minor clan. sept, of the
clan Farquharson, and occupied the coun-
try about Braemer. in Aberdeensvile.
Origin Of the Name.
''The family name originated in this way
chieftain Of the Farquharsons was
named F'ionn-laoch. which is made up of
two Gaelic words - fionn, fair or fair
haired, and laoch. a chief This name is
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At no other time of the entire year Is
the early: evening sky so beautiful as
now. The last of the faint summer cor
stellations is sinking from view In the
west and nothing is to be seen but the
brilliant consultations Of winter, which
now cover the whole face Of the heav-
ems The last Of these to appear is the
Sickle which, with its bright white star
Regulus is now well up from the ground
in the east; beyond this there Is the
large. faint group Of the Virgin, which
toward the end of next month will begin
to creep into the evening sky, the fore
runner of the long train of faint summer
consultations.
The January Stars.
The magnificent Taurus has now
reached its highest position in the sky.
The possessor Of a small telescope should
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pronounced F'inlay This chief carried
the royal standard at the battle Of Pinkie,
in 1547, where he fell, with many others
of the clan. He was also given the SOU
briquet Of More, which means large-or,
secondariy. great. AS the Gaelic people
were prone to give appellations because
of some physical popularity. it is alto
gether probable that Finlay More was so
called because of his bodily size. Malcolm
Canmore. King of Scotland. is an example.
Canmore means. literally, big head. So,
in honor of Finlay. this sept of the Far
quharsons called themselves from him.
Mac means SON. and the patronymic
follows it in the gentive. Hence the
name Mac Fhionnlaoich.' or "son of
t'inlay." The aspiration of F in the gent
tive silences il. and the sound of CHI, not
found in English. is softened Hence Mac
Fhionnlaoich is pronounced Mac Inlay:
of the Mac attracted and attached. In
the lowlands of Scotland this family called
themselves Finlayson or Findlayson
which means exactly the same McKin-
ley-'son of the fair-haired chief
McKinleys Came to America in 1743
1.-The presidential campaign of 1896 eX-
cited Il great deal of interest in Ulster be-
cause of Mchinley's Scotch-Irish ancestry,
and Francis j. Bigger, a widely known
Irish archeologist and historian, prepared
an article in regard to 1t in consequence.
1t is altogether probable that Mr.. Bigger
is correct in his tracing the descent of
the President 1t may be summarized
thus: The Presidents great-grea t-grand-
father emigFa ted to America about 1143,
settled in York county. Pennsylvania His
son removed to Ohio in 1914. David had
a son James. whose son. William Nc
Kinley (seniOr) was the father of the
President.
The Irish branch of the family continued
at the farm at Conagher. but little is
known of them. They were born. lived
and died there. leaving no record but that
they were honest. Woodworking and God
fearing tilers Of the soil. All were strict
PresbyteranS. They vert on the weekly
market day - Thursday - to Ballymoney
three miles away to market and they
probably worshped with the Presbyterian
congregation in that town. the parish
church of Derrykeighan was of the
Church of Ireland. However. the family
burial lot is in Derrykeighan church yard,
very near the ruins of the old church
Therein rest the remains of Francis Nc
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ONCE DWE[T IN ERIN
Ancestors of President McKin-
ley Settled in ireland.
WERE OF SCOTCH ORIGIN
Lived at Conagher Townlsnd in
County Antrim.
CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1743
Were Honest Tillers Of the Soil.
Their Old Home Now
Cowshed.
CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1743
BY WILLIAM K. CURTIS.

BY WILLIAM +. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald
S. S. knabenshue, American consul at
Belfast, has spent a great deal of time
and endeavor in searching out the an
cestry of the late President Mckinley
who lived in County Antrim, in the north
Of Ireland: and he has written very in
teresting account of his discoveries.
"A townland in Ireland corresponds
roughly to a township in the United
States" Mr.. Knabenshue says in expla-
nation 1T Is the smallest civil division
in land. and contains a varying area, the
average being from 200 to 500 acres \
number of townlands are associated to
form parish; number of parishes are
combined to form barony, and num-
Der of baronies are united to form a
county. 1t is said by DR.. Joyce, one of
the highest living authorities in Gaelic
history, that the baronies of Ireland are
derived from the ancient petty Kingdoms
into which the country was divided.
Scotch Settlers in County Antrim.
1.-The townland of Conagher is situated
in the parish of Ballymoney, barony of
Upper Dunluce, in the northern part of
County Antrim. In survey of the estate
of the Earl of Antrim, made in 1874, the
townland of Conagher is given as con-
tanning 100 acres. The interest of Ameri-
cans in this townland arises from the
fact that one of its farms was, for at
least two centuries, and perhaps longer,
occupied as tenant farmers by the Nc
Kinley family, from which the late Presi-
dent, William Mckinley, was descended.
Like the majority of the people of that
part of Ireland. the McKinleys were of
Scotch descent. The most persevering
endeavors have failed to show the time
of their emigration, or the particular
reasons which induced it. Conagher was
originally a part of the vast estates OF
the Macdonnel family. which extended
of Tyrone's rebellion ended and after the
great Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel
fed to the continent their estates were
confiscated. and thereby the crown came
into possession of nearly 4,0O,0O acres
of their lands in Ulster. This immense
area was granted in estates to persons of
means, who undertook to plant their
lands with Scotch or English settlers
-Protestants, of course,-as tenant farm
ers. displacing the native Irish. This is
what is known as the Plantation Of
Ulster
This did not affect the Macdonnel es-
tate, the then head of the family. Sr
refusing to unite with Tyrone and Tyr
connell in the uprising. A little later
James I confirmed him in the possession
OF his lands by a royal grant: and in 1870
he was created the first Earl of Antrim
He was himself Of Scotch descent, his
donalds of western Scotland, whose chief
held the proud title of the Lord of the
Isles, familiar in Scottish history. Sir
Randall was thrifty man and he did his
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not fail to examine the little dipper-
shaped group of the Pleiades, at p. Figure
/, when, in addition to the six stars easily
visible to the naked eye. he will at once
see great many fainter ones. the whole
forming most remarkable and beautiful
little cluster. The brightest star of this
cluster. named Alcyone. with delicate
little triangle of stars nearby. forms an
especially interesting and beautiful fig
ure. About fifty years ago the specula-
ton was advanced that our whole uni
verse Of suns is turning about this star
as center, theory now known to be
wholly without foundation
Below the Pleiades Is the red Aldebaran.
with two pairs of stars nearby at B and
c. Still lower down is the magnificent
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PRINCE COMES TO WIN BRIDE
ROMANCE BEGUN IN THE ETER-
NAL CITY.
Member of the Torlonia Family
Seeks Consent to Marry Girl He
Met in st. Peters Cathedral.

NEW YORK, December Con the
steamship Barharossa. shaking off big
storms and making port yesterday three
days late, arrived the characters I'm an in.
ternational romance. The hero is princes
whose exclusion from the Almanach do
Gotha, authority on aristocratic and royal
families, made some stir last year.
The young prince is Ugo Ferretti. a
good looking man Of twenty -four. whose
uncle. Duke Don Marine Torlonia. mar
ried in 1907 Miss Elsie Moore. daughter
OF Charles A. Moore. manufacturer OF
New YORK and president of the American
Protective Tariff League.
Romance Begun in st. Peters.
The heroine is Miss Juliette Duchess
nay of Quebec. She was a member of
party of pilgrims who went to Rome. On
a day few weeks ago, while the pill
grims were visiting st. Peters Cathedral
Miss Duchesnay had occasion to ask for
information concerning a painting and
appealed to a Roman with black eyes,
hair and mustache.
Finding he did not speak much Eng
lish, Miss Duchesnay tried him in French,
and .r the conversation ran on fluently.
The polite and art-versed stranger was
interested. He made some inquiries con-
corning the Canadian girl. and obtained
through official channels, an Introduction.
The girl, twenty-five. Is dark with brown
eyes and hair. and pretty. with a stylish
carriage. The prince declared his love,
but she refused his proposal of mar
riage until she should have obtained
the consent of her father.
Both on Same Steamer
After Miss Duchesnay and her friends
had arranged to sail from Genoa on the
Barbarossa, Prince Ferretti. who is the
son of the Prince Torlonia. decided to ac-
company them to Canada and Supplicate
the capitalist in person.
The young pairs story was known to
nearly everybody aboard ship. Miss
DucheSnay was amply chaperoned. With
her were the Misses Eugene and Caro-
line Pouliot of Quebec, two Sisters Of
Mercy, and the Rev. Father Beccaria and
another clergyman who, with the prince
at the head. formed merry group at one
of the tables.
The prince hopes to return to Rome
with the fair Canad as his bride.
After Duke Don Marine Torlonia mar
ried Miss Moore comment was caused by
the omission Of the family name from
the Almanach de Gotha- The editor said
1t was because the Torlonia family was
too new. 1t dates back to 1854.
Don Marine said the record was left
out because the family had declined to
pay a big price to "be in." The editor
replied that it was with the Almanach
entirely matter of conscience and duty,
and said it could not be bribed.
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Terribly Burned in Open Fireplace.

BALTIMORE, December I6.-Throuch
some unknown cause John Kelly. far
mer in the employ of John Bear. on the
Philadelphia road near the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. while sitting before an open
fireplace suddenly fell into the fire and was
terribly burned about the body and heaA
He was found in an unconscious condk
ton by Mr.. Bear, by whom the fire was
extincuished. w. z. Jones, friend OF
the injured man. learned of the accident
and notified the Canton police, who I'M
mediately sent the man to St. Joseph =
Hospital where it stated late last
night that. although he was resting easily.
he was in a very serious condition.
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Figures : and 6-PhOtOgraphs of the
new comet.
sunrise. Mars is now comparatively faint
on account of it's great distance from the
earth; Venus is rapidly drawing near to
the sun, but will not pass to the east of
that body and become an evening star
until April 2S.
The New Comet.
The comet which entered the southern
sky last month is now passing behind the
sun. and will not be well situated for OBJ
servation during January even from the
southern observatories. Throughout it's
appearance this comet exhibited wonder
full changes from night to night, not only
fluctuating remarkably in brightness, but
also greatly changing it's form. Fig. 5 Is
from photograph taken October IA and
Fig. from one taken on the next night.
During this short time the tail had be-
come much changed i'm shape and two
great CONVERSATIONS had appeared in il,
shown at a and b. Fig. t. These were
being driven away from the head with a
velocity of about 10000 miles an hour.
ERIC DOOLITTLE.
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from the other 1t Is usual to speak of
a rural dweller in this way: Carson
lives at Conagher': this does not mean
that Conagher Is the name Of his farm.
but that he lives in the townland Of
Conagher
THE owner of the Mckinley cottage
some years ago built himself a more pre-
tentious residence, and now uses the old
cottage as a cowsled and outbuilding.
1t stands on the northern edge of the
great Garry Bog, which covers some 800
acres, and is very valuable because o.
the peat deposits. The great majority OF
the people Of Ireland use no other fuel.
There are several buildings on the place.
some of them of recent erection. The cot
tage proper has three windows and "A
door facing on the street. The door
opens directly into a large room which
was the dining room and kitchen; all the
culinary operations being carried on IN M; "a
fireplace The floor is now laid with
coarse red tiles, but these are a modern
innovation. Before they were laid the
floor was simply the bare earth. Most Oh
the farm cottages in Ireland today have
floors either of bare earth or of rough
undressed fagstone, picked up from the
fields.
Nothing Left But Walls and Roof.
The cavernous fireplace in the rude
stone chimney has rusty iron crane
on either side for supporting kettles anc
pots over the fire. There is a door on
either side of the fireplace. each giving ac-
cess to small bedroom. In the partition
opposite the end OF the fireplace another
door gives entrance to a larger bedroom,
which was sacred to the father and
mother of the family. The rooms here
enumerated, with a low attic above, com
prised the entire accommodations. The
two bedrooms on each side of the fire.
place have been turned into COW stables.
the windows being cut down and re-
placed by doors, SO that the animals can
enter from the outside.
I'm the Irish village at the recent
Franco-British exposition at London, one
of the houses was a replica of the NC
Kinley cottage, and to add TO the inter-
est the doors, doorframes, windows,
attic floor, the rude staircase by Wh1ch
the attic was reached, the two iron
cranes and a big iron pot were all pur-
chased from the real cottage, the owner
replacing such of them as he needed
with new. Consequently there is practi-
caly nothing left of the original cottage
except the stone walls and the matched
roof"
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Supposed Dead Man Returns Home.

PRINCETON. Ind, December 26-
Henry E. Agar. who was supposed to be
dead. but who was arrested in Texas
some days ago, was brought back to his
old home here, and Immediately arraigned
on the charge of forging the name of
Hugh II. McGary on a note for $1,000
given the American National Bank of
this city He was released on bail! ten
leading citizens signing his bond. Agar
Immediately drove to his home where
his wife and children eagerly awaited
him. He refused to make any state
ment
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Woman Scalds Four Burglars.

MAHANOY CITY, Pa, December 26&-
Mrs. Bessie Garvin. who with her hus-
band and sister lives in a fiat over a cloth
ing store, was aroused by burglars filing
the bars protecting window in the rear
of the store at o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Without waking her husband she
procured u pail OF hot water and dashed
II from a window, putting the four bur-
glars to instant flight
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be seen just after sunset shining out in
the southwestern sky: as il is nearly six
degrees nearer the north pole of the
heavens than the sun Is, it will lie some
little distance toward the north along
the western horizon from the point of the
ground at which the sun WAS seen to set.
Its exact position january 36 is shown in
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Southwest of Orion there may now be
traced out the northern branch of the
river. while at the foot of the giant there
crouches the Hare, and below this there
is the faint little group of the Dove. With
small telescope the observer may de-
tect n wonderful variable star at Is which
is Of a deep biood-red color. The star
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lance of seven degrees covering much
of the constellation even beyond the belt
at E. A glove whose diameter is 200
times the distance from the earth to the
sun would not equal this enormous cloud
In extent. Whether the greater part of
the cloud will ultimately be condensed
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Bernhardt Meets Russ Emperor.

ST PETERSBURG. December 26.-
Sarah Bernhardt, who is playing here.
was given an audience by Emperor Mich
olas at Tsarko-S elo and was presented
with a portrait of the empress.
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Figure 3-The planet Saturn.

Orion. Of which the wonderful nebula at
D is. perhaps the most striking object in
the entire sky. This was the first object
on which the illustrious Herschel turned
the first telescope of his own construction,
and the last on which he looked with his
great forty-foot telescope before this In
strument was laid away forever.
The observer will at once detect four
bright little stars, forming a trapeZium.
and surrounding these a white. family
shining cloud. which is the nebula itself.
Recent photographs show that the nebu-
lous matter extends TO the incredible dis
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into a group of stars, probably surround
ed and connected with faint streams of
nebuOus matter, as are seen in the
Pleiades, or whether its extent is SO great
that this is impossible, We do not know
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able opportunity TO detect the bright.
swiftly moving little planet Mercury.
This is now moving out from behind the
sun, and on the above date will reach
It's farthest distance east. 1t may then
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X THE HEAVENS IN JANUARY. ~
he of

Is now a little brighter than of the eighth
magnitude. and will be found almost eX-
actly in line with tthe Stars + and II.
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The Planets.

For few evenings before and after
January % there is an unusually favor
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Origin Of the Name.

1.-THE family name originated in this way
A chieftain Of the Farquharsons was
named F'ionn-laoch which is made up of
two Gaelic words - fionn, fair or fair
haired, and laoch. a chief. This name is