The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 26, 1890, Page 2

- loin the winter of 1878. f i Hy CHEVALIER SCOVILLE’S LUCK. How He Won $80,060 in One Sitting From Prince Arem Bey. Chevalier Scoville of the Boston Ideals, is one of the few men who have broken the bank at Monte Car- Jo. It was during sixteen days apent between Nice and Monto Car Scoville bad gone to Nice to sing in Lohen- grin. Perhaps no living man can claim to have had better fortune at cards than he had during those six- teen days. At the end of that time he was 14 million francs winner. Talking about this at the Burnet one evening after dinner, with a glass of claret before him and the loase com- for of a beautiful traveling suit about him, he said: “The atmosphere of these places breathes the gaming spirit. A 1, 000-franc note becomes nothing. A fever is upon everybody. Men stake their fortunes and lose and win them again within afewdays. Soon after I arrived at Nice I became infected. Success there and at Monte Carlo flushed me. I grew daring. I cared nothing for money. One afternoon I sat sipping coffee in the great bay window of the Med- iterranean club at Nice. Prince Arem Bey, a cousin of the present khedive of Egypt, came in, and speaking of my singing in Lohen- grin, proposed a game of baccarat. He was then living at Paris with 10 million francs a year anda moun- tain of debts. He wasa heavy play- er and thought nothing of the ordi nary 3,000-franc limit at Nice. ‘What shall the limit be?’ said he. And then he proposed 50,000 francs asalimit. ‘That is only one bet,’ said I with the memory of my Monte Carlo luck to spur me on. He asked 100,000 franes credit of the cashier and obtained it. An old friend of mine held my cards for me. I instrueted him to throw the little pencil, attached to the betting card, into the center of the table where the bets are placed. “What does this mean?” said the prince. ‘That represents 50,000 francs,’ said I, and at the same time JA obtained of the cashier credit for 250,000 francs for the night. The cards were turned; my friend held the necessary nine and won. I placed the pencil om the stack of chips for the second bet. “What does the pencil now repre- sent?’ inquired the prince. ‘Let us say 50,000 francs,’ said I. This made my bet 100,000 francs. The prince again played, and again Iwon. I was now 150,000 ahead of the game. There was exactly that amount in the chips I had won with my pencil. I again put it upon the stack. + ‘What is the pencil worth now?’ demanded my opponent. ‘One hundred thousand francs,’ I answered, with the calmness and as- sumed indifference which my luck brought me. The prince rose. He couldn’t stand it. Iwent over and took his place. That is, I was bet- ting my 250,000 on the prince's hand. I turned over the cards he had abandoned. I was again win- ner. Ifhe had had the nerve he would have won it all. This gave me 400,000 francs, $80,000 in three plays. The pencil had been my mas cot. During those sjxteen days I broke ‘one of the tables of ‘rouge et noir’ at Monte Carlo. I backed the red to win nine times in succession and at the last turn the bank closed, while I walked away with 500,000 francs. The Russians who were wintering there thought I was a supernatural being.” “And did you ever lose?"’ The chevalier sighed and looked mournful fora moment. Then he said: “But who cares to hear of the losers in the game?"—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Freddie and the Lily Reunited. ‘London, Feb. 18.—Mrs. Langtry and Fred Gebbardt are as loving as Darby and Joan again. They were seen walking in Piccadilly the other day, she leaning heavily on his arm and looking up in his face, he gaz- ing into her eyes lovingly. They take all their meals together, and when parted keep a regular messen- Ger service going between the hotels. The gossips insist that Mrs. Lang- try’s illness was really caused by the absence of Freddy. 4 Previous to the last election there | was no stronger tariff reform paper | in the country than the Chicago | Tribune, edited by Mr. Medill. Af-| ter Mr. Harrison was nominated Me- diil was whipped into the traces, | jand gave Harrison and the Chicago platform a hearty support. He has become dissatisfied with the actions of his party, and gives evidence that he is going on the war path. Ina recent issue of the Tribune he says: “There is absolutely no sense talk- ing about free tobacco and whisky as being a step-in the direction of relieving the working classes, and taxing them for clothing, sugar and salt. If they could be shown where the products of the soil would yield an increase in the prices commensu- rate with the taxes imposed, there might not be much cause to gram- ble, but under existing cireumstanc- es there must be a revision of the tariff before the close of the first session of the Fifty-first congress.” Mr. Medill clearly sees the drift of public opinion, and knuws that un- less the republican party revise the tariff for revenue this session of con- gress, the democrats will be sure to win at the next election. Speaking on the subject the Kansas City Star says: Mr. Medill’s is not the only repub- lican voice which is crying out in the wilderness. Congressman But- terworth of Ohio,with language more forcible than elegant, admonishes his brethren in the house that all of them are “dead coor pelts” unless the tariff is revised on a plan satis- factory to the people during the present session of congress. In de- fault of such action Mr. Butter- worth will decline to be a candidate for re-election, because he knows that his canvass would endin certain defeat. Senator Gill Pierce, a new states- man from the republican northwest, has read the hand writing on the wall and has introduced a measure for the formatien of a commisson to investigate the causes of the trouble prevailing among the farmers and the influence of tariff upon the agri- cultural interest. The manufacturers of woolen goods and of agricultural imple- ments of various kinds are clamor- ing for free raw material, and the foundations of the protection strong- holds in the east are being shaken. Governor Larrabee, in his recent message to the legislature of Iowa, reading the logic of the disastrous defeat of the republican party in that state last fall, says the tariff must be reformed, and that the work of revision must not be delay- ed. The political revolution in'the sev- eral republican states which voted last fall can have but one meaning. It was a plain protest against the economic policy of the republican party. The verdict against the ad- ministration was too general to be attributed to local causes. Its sige nificance was too apparent to be mis- taken by the careful observer and student of events. The disquietude of the farniers and their distress in the midst of plenty leave no room for doubt as to the origin of the re- volt or its meaning. The drift of public sentiment in relation to this question is so clear that it would seem impossible for the most ordi- nary intelligence to misapprehend it. Young Dolliver made a great or- atorical hitin his speech in New York on the day of the Lincoln cel- ebration. The papers there all praise him and call him the “Demosthenes of the west.” It is probable that Mr. Dolliver will soon be in the way of either Senator Wilson: or Senator Alhson. The eyes of Henry M. 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Western farmers have no bank account and must sell what they have to get the where- with to “protect” somebody who is growing rich off the tariff. “Then, why do they not eat cake, if they have no bread?” was what the fair queen of France said when the bread riots that were precursors of the revolution brought mobs to Ver- sailles.—Louisville Times. YANKEE IN THE OLD WORLD. | | Corbett Defeated Him ima Six Round KILRAIN OVERMATCHED Centest for Points. New Orleans, Feb. 18.—The six- round contest between Jake Kilrain and J. J. Corbett, the teacher of the Olympic club of San Fancisco, be- fore the Southern Athletic club last night, was something of a surprise. Kilrain weighed 205 pounds when he stepped into the ring and Corbett nly 183. Corbett looks lighter than his weight and seemed far out- classed by the big boy from Balti- more. The fight was for six rounds “for points and points only,” for $3- 500. From the start Corbett show- ed bis wonderful skill and mettle. He led, landed and got away with wonderful quickness and skill. He had all the best of it in the first two rounds, letting Kilrain have it with right and left. Kilrain was a much surprised man. The crowd was de- lighted. Kilrain clinched again and again to save himself. In the latter part of the fight Kilrain braced up and the fight became closer. Corbett was not beaten for a minute, howev- er, took all he got smilingly and gave just as good. There was a heavy give and take in the fo and fifth rounds but the sixth round was a litle slow. At the close of the match E. R. Violette, the referee, announced that Mr. Corbett had scored the most points and therefore won the match Corbett was carried to his dressing room on the shoulders of his sec- onds. . BOTH TOGETHER. TwoMen Pay the Death Penalty at Philadelphia tor Two Bru- tal Murders. Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 20.— Schoop and Cole were hanged at 10:04 this morning. Schoop spent the night uncomplainingly. He slept calmly and peacefully for six hours and when awake listened earn- estly to words of comfort that came from the devout lips of Father Schroder, his spiritual adviser. He read a religious book at intervals Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, &e: and ate frequently with evident rel- ish. He was very calm, but his ap- athy seemed to take the form ofa trance or as if he were under the in- fluence of opium. Cole spent most of his time in prayer. At8 o'clock this morning he took the sacrament and after- wards meditated with the priest who had so assiduously attended him through the fearful ordeal. His brothers Frank and James came to the prison early in the morning and an effecting farewell was the result. This trying moment was the turning point as to whether his weak condi- tion would cause him to make a scene. He broke down and cried bitterly for a few moments and then quickly recovered his firmness, con- tinuing calm and apparently cool un- til he died. HISTORY OF THE CRIMES. On the morning of Christmas holidays of 1888, several boys play- ing around a lot of waterpipe a short distance fromthe reservoir in the east part of the city found a sack containing a portion of a human body in a big piece of waterpipe. It was finally proved to be the remains of a young German named Anton Schilling, and Schoop and his wife with whom Schilling had been liv- ing were arrested for the crime. Mra Schoop is now in the Norristown in- sane asylum. Thomas Cole was a railroad em- ploye and he killed Walter McAllis- ter, a fellowman, in a boarding house in the southern part of the city. He chopped his sleeping victim on the head with a hatchet until he was al- most past recognition. Cole thought McAllister had caused him to lose his position. In revenge he stole quietly to his bedside, while the oth- ers were sleeping, and hacked him to pieces. 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