Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1887, Page 5

SOMETHING OF A ROMANGE. A Young School Teacher's Helirs Unexpectedly Heard ¥From. AN INJURED MAN SUES THE CITY. He Wants $2,800--A Wife Asks Fora Divorce ¥ rom Her Drunkeén Hus. band—Caught Between —Lincoln Brevities. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU. | A case involving a romance in o small way, and raising an entirely uew point of law, was on hearing in the district court yesterda The case is James Malloy et al vs Frank Kyle et al. The history of the case, in brief, is that in early youth Richard J. Malloy left his native home in County Galoway, Ireland, going over the channel to England. From England he soon found his was to the mecca of the oppressed, landing in Boston, where he re schooling and training in the Catholic College of the Immaculate Con- ception. In the early seventies he came to Nebraska, where he taught school for some time in the years 1578 and 1879, taking school land leases for 120 acres of land in Lancaster county. About this time he went to the new Irish colony in Holt county, and at O'Nell City he lived for a number of years, teachini school. Tn the winter of 1583 he i lost, and it was not until the early spring that his body was discovered where he had perished in a storm. An udministrator was appointed Holt county, und in closing up the estate sold the 120 acres of school land that Malloy had under lease in Lancaster county to R. B. Graham, of this city. Subsequenuy Mr. Gra- ham exchanged the land with one f'rank C. Kyle for u house and lot in Lincoln and #00. In the meantime of County Galoway Ireland, makes himself known in the case and shows that the matter of Richard Malloy James Malloy s alive in [reland and that there arc two ning brothers, one in the royal Irish constabulary, and the other in England and these heirs scek now to re. property under the school land was sold by the administrator. This raiscs the point of law whether state land under a twenty-five year lea: ‘with option of purchase, should become an estate of mheritance or whether it should ated as the administrator a chattel property. SUIT FOR DAMAGES. Yesterday in the district court the petition of Lemuel B. the city of Lincoln tition dition of the street at the corner of Ki and P where an excavation account of this excavation Woodburn, on the 2nd of tember, was thrown Toaded waxon, the wheel passing over his bead breaking the jaw bone and teeth and badly bruising and mungling his fa He alleges that since that time Le has heen un- able to work and that prior to the injury he was earning £33 per month. He places his loss from work at 00, his medical attend- ance at #300, and asks 2,000 damages from city for the mjuries he has recoived, SIE DESERVEX A DIVORCE, A petition was filed in the district coury yesterday in which Lena Mende seeks separ ation from her husband, Frederick Mend. The petition states that'the couple were mar- ried in January, 1 t the husband took shortly after, com- pelling his wifeto take in washing to support th of them. On the 11th of May, 1887, things came to & crisis when he came home drunk, beat her unmercifully and took from her $10 thet she had earnod from washing, leaving her destisute. Since that time she has refused to live with him and asks o legal separation. ACCIDENT AT THE DEP( Shortly after noon yesterday, while some passenger coacher at the B, & M. passeuger depot were being switched on o side track, o young man named Harry Brown, an employe of the land office, was caught between two conches in some mysterious way and badly injured. He was taken home in a back. BONDS FILED. Only a part of the county ofticers elect have yet filed th ofticial bonds. he followil county clerk, $10,000, with Hiram Polley and C. T. Boggs as sureties: Frank D. McClusky, county superintendent, bond 5,000, with John H. McClay and J. E. Davey as surcties; Wil- lard E. Stewart, county jidge, bond $50,000, with J. R. Webster, T\ P, Kennard and J. H. urtry as sureties; Johm D. Knight pgister of deeds, bond $10,000, and E. Brown and O.J. King as sureties; W Churchill, deputy county clerk, bond $10,000, with €. T\ D. D. Muir and S. H Burnh: W. H. Snelling, justice of tue ), with A. D. Kitchen and W. eties. STATE HOUSE NOTES, Governor Thayer was reported much im- proved and able to set up a portion of the day The docket of the coming term of the suprome _court has bocn received from the printor, the term of court commencing Jun- uary 8. The oaths of office of Judges Norval of Leonard and Tiffany of Albion were filed in the oftice of secrotary of state yesterday. The Wahoo Waterwoks company fited ar. ticles of incorporation yesterday. Capital stock §125,000 with the following incorpor ators: . 8. Kusu, John Mcintyve, J. H. Purdy, Ben D. Rutt, M. Walker, A WRONGED WOMAN RIGHTED, Sentenced For Life, But Pardc After Four Year's Imprisc Topeka Special to Kausas City Journal: “You ave, therefore, sen- tenced to confinement fovlife in the state penitentinry,” were the conclud- ing words of Judge Chandler in 15881, when addressing o young woman who stood befor Such was the close of the t scene which had contained a happy girihood, & contented maiden- lh\(n\. and a brief and unhuappy marvied life. In the district court of Chautauqua county FiimaHendrix had just received sentence for murder in the second degree, and from Sedan wes conveyed to the penitentiary, where she served as a lifo prisoner until lust week, when she was pardoned by Governov Martin, and again goes forth into the world a pure unsullied woman,with the memory of one tragedy, darvk and mournful, the result of an attompt 1o put upon the deepest wrong that cun be placed upon her se: In th ern part of Chautaugua county is a lement which extends southward into Indian Territory. Avriving at womanhood Emma won for hersell a place in the affections of those whose esteem and love were to be prized. At this time » neighbor and companion won her love. He was worth- less and not considered, even with the lax notions prevailing, & fair specimen of manhood in the nobler qualities, but he was fair of form and specious in con- versation, and soon the devotion of an innocent maiden was given him. Her mother objected to Kmma veceiving his attentions. Herc was Emmu's tivst dis- obedience and disregard of maternal advico. She received Cyrenus Hendrix, and soon 1 ad him,casting aside all opposition. It took but a few months to learn that the old mother’s estimatior of the man was the correct one, but she followod him out into the world. He had no home to take her to, he had nothing to offer the woman who had given herself 1o him. Without stated occupation, it might be said that their home was in a wagon constantly moving. The life was one of misery and humiliation., This she might endure as long as love would last, but there came a greater, a darker evil, thought in her uncouscious inno- cence of tho ways of the world, she did not realize it then, H He secured work in Indian territory, several days journey from - Chautauqua county, and took for a companiou a worthless fellow; to say of whom he had # bad churacter would be flattery. . T'he thied one of the purty,” named MeGuire, when the journey was endad, huve been tr used it, merely o Woodburn was filed agains for damages. The pe ites the long continued unsafe con- th was made. On from his m as sureties; ed u\ld-m? that, were it trus, would | for me trying to deseribe her to you. o sink into praved woman. Not until later, however, did she heae | it, and then it came from the man who had promised to love and protect her After this journey he failed to provid for her, when she returned to her mother's house, n broken-hearted wo- Ith broken down, aud in mother she determined ake the man who had for- Emma now decided to no longer recognize Hendrix, and when he came 10 see her she refused tomeet him, Tt will probably never be known why but he now resolved to tell her the story repeated by McGuire, of which he full knowledge, but which he ne sented or ealled the traducer to acconnt. He went to the house of Bmma’s mother one morning and ealied for her. Sh did not want tosee him. but he insisted, 80, ill a8 she was, she arose and went out to the gate and met him. He then told her the disgusting details of the story as told by McGuire, and demanded that she go at once and make the man retract. ['renzied with shame and de- spair she at once star 10 accompuny her hushand to the house of the man who had defamed he While jprocead- ing to the pluce Hendrix placed a re- volver in the pocket of his wife's jacket, and told her 10 shoot the man if he at- tempted to repeat the infamous story Together they went to McGuire's house and called himout. He saw them und told them to go to unother door, Th went and he met them, his little giv! aged about nine years, stunding within sight and hearing. Emma, trembling with excitement, asked him If he had told the story she had just heard, Hendrix standing by saying nothing. McGuire looked at them a moment and then saic “Yes, T did,” and added a few unfit to publish, They were his inst. inma pulled the revolver from her ro ket and fired the shot that in a few hours ended a life. McGuive fell in the presence of his wife and daughter, two people mada desolate by that act. mechanicaily turned toward home, and. the excitement over, returned to a bed she should not have left. Hendrix sought safety in flight. It was but'a short time until Emma and her hushand were ested, I was taken immediately to the Sedan juil and confined to await hev trial for murder Hendrix was arrested, and, while was handeuffed and manacled, he shot at through the window of the jail, and both his eyes injured so that he eventually became totally blind, No effort was made to find the perpetrator of this attempt on the prisoner’s life. though there were many who could have told. The feeling of the county was against both Emma and her hus- band, as there had already heen several murders, and public sentiment favored speedy punishment. = Added to this, the murdered McGuire had two brothers in the south part of the county, who were wealthy, bold and ruling in their natures, and who were red. They had come to Kansus from Missouri at an early da Scotch-Irish, they were men of ability, and had soon assumed a leading position, which they retained. The trial finally came and Emma was tried first and convicted of murder in the second degree and scntenced to the penitentiary for life. Cyrenus Hendrix was afterward tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hung. Under the peculiar laws of Kansas this was equivalent to a life sen- tence. The two, man and wife, taken to the state penitentiary, there to dwell as long as life should last—the man a vietim off his own bad disposi- tion, more worthless, perhaps, than sitively bad, and the woman for de- ending her honor. During the past six months friends took an’ active interest in this case, which had been brought to their atten- tion—friends, because they holieved loyal wrong hal been done. A trip to Chautauqui county, and a full and thor- ough investigation revealed all that had been told and much more. Public sen- timent was on the side of the poor wo- man. The leading people of that town not some of them, but all of them, de- clared their faith in the woman, who, driven to desperation, had sought to protect her nume and fame. The very Lm- that convicted her declared that ad they known her defense at the time of the trial, they would have acquitted The prosecuiing attorney, Ben Henderson, in aletter to the- hoard of ardons, said that if he had known her efense he would at most only pr cuted ber for manslaughter in the third degree. A curious fact in thut tiyal has been revealed. Her attorney, with probably the intentions, made bis line of da- fense horeditavy insanity, and the phy- sical impossibility of h committing the evil ascribed to her. fully acquainted with her story not allowed to go on the stand to testify in her own behalf. e A MINNESOTA ROMANCE. The Tragedy Re a Pile of Ex humed Bones, Chicago Herald: While a gang of laborers were working on a new sewer cn Iglehart street, in St. Paul, they came across a colleetion of human bones that were lently once the framewo of two persons. Your correspondet v ited the scene with an old resident who saia he knew all about the bones, and he unraveled the following picce of unwrit- ten histor) i words the afair hut time v In- he. us'a large numbe dians around Paul would come inte the ¢ ou v every duy visit the i post, right opposite whore theater now stands, on Third street. The post was perched on the summit of the blull, and the Indians used tocome down the 3 in their birch-bark eanoes, and landing down the levee, walk up the blull to the store. **Across Third street from the west and on the spot where now stands the Merchants’, stood an old log house, elevated ahout six feet above the road- way, the hill at that time not having been cut down. At that time the and the Chippewa Indians were deadly enmity, and it was sure death for one of either tribe if he was foand in the other’s tervitory. Still many of the young bucks of both nations would oceasionully pay a visit to their ene- mies’ hunting ground, just for devi ment. Sometimes there wouid be bioody work between them. As I was saying, in 1852 I was working at the trading post and could see every ono that passed in and out among the Sioux visitors, | noticed a young fellow, a ave he was, judging by his deess, who often came to trade accompanicd by his wife and sister. . The young man’s aame was Wa-go-quit, which means Big Hatchet, and a fine, smart ycung fellow he was. His wife was nothing much to look at, but sig- ter—she was a dais) about Rosalie, the praivie llower—why Ro: lie wasn't a marker tc that young givl ! She was led O-tese-min, meaning The Wild Strawberry, and for a Sioux she was the likcliest girl 1 ever saw. She was tull and straight a3 a wiilow, with shapely littie hands and feet and a most elegunt figure. It ain't any use someof them' v 3 | machines, says Tadusteio opor depths an already de- | for E cotldn't, but 1 must confess to heart Well, and the feeling a little glow avound m when L think of her even now, “tafnt no matter now; she's des gone, and | guess is flying high in other world. “Time and time again T have seen those theee natives come walking up the steep bauk to the store, and they < seemed s happy as larks, the young by walking neaver to his women folks th ever I saw an Indian do either before or since, One hot day in July a party of snenking Chippewas, I think there were sixteen of them al- together, came riding into the city as brass and made straight tracks for the trading-post, and, as ill-luck would have it. O-te-e- came down the river alone that day, and before she knew of the Chippewns being there she walked right into their midst A sauey young buck immediately laid hold of her and yelled that he had found his squaw, and amid the laughter of the others commenced dragging her to where his horse was tied. It would hove done you good to ses how that girl treated that lewd indian. She whipped out a little knife, and with a quick slash she had his copper-colored cheek open from the eye to the jaw- bone loose and ran into the store, How that I[ndian ripped and swore! He was mad as a bear with a sore toe and but for the interference of some of the white people standing by he would have killed the girl with his shot gun. The factor at the trading post had to interfere, and he told the whole the gang of Chippawns that if they didn’t wet out he would send for the cavalry at Fort Snelling., That scared them a little, and they mounted theiwr horses and rode sulkily away; but by their looks I was sure they were planning some mischief, and %s matters turned out was right. The day following I saw the Chippewas come quietly up the street and stow themselves away behind the log houses opposite the post, all but the one who hud his cheek slashed., and he came prowling about the front of the store as though he were waiting for some one. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon O-te-e- min, with her brother and his wife, came down the river, and as usual walked up to the post, and as the girl passed the Chippewa he said something to her, Qick as a flash her brother turned round, and it would have done you good to hear the crack the stock of his gun made as it struck that Chippewa’s head. He went down like a log, and the Sioux walked on into the store with his women folks as though nothing had hr\plpoued. The Chippewa slowly gathered himself up and with the blood streaming down his face staggered toward the log house behind which his party were hiding, and the next thing [ heard was the re- ort of a dozen guns and the crash of voken glass, The fiends had fired through the store window, and as I ran forward I saw the poor Wild Strawberry come staggering out, with her hands to her throat, and fall on her face in the road. An instant later her brother rushed out and made a dash across the street, but before he could run half a dozen yards, the Chip- pewas had mounted their horses and were riding towards Trout brook like mad, The shot sent after them by the Sioux didn’t seem to hit any one. that man ked up the Wild Straw- was stone dead, a bullet, those big twelve to a es having passed throufzh her breast. The cavalry was sent for from the fort and sent in pursuit of the murderers, nud hefore sundown a party of Sioux warriors were also on the trail. Tho cavalry came back the next day without having been successful, but five days later the Sioux came back in high feather, bearing seven scalps aloft on polex, but T wassorry to see Big Hatchet was carried on a kind of litter, and ap- peared just about done up. was told by the warriors that they had overtaken the Chippewas about fifty miles out and cornered them in ‘alittle blufi, and after half a day’s fighting had killed seven of them, the cowardly brute who had insulted Wild Strawberry being ong the number, The others ran the gauntlet and es- caped. In the serimmage Big Hatchet ot a hullet in his side. He died a few ours after his return to she post, and, both he and his sister being christians, were buried in the old burying-ground close together, where they have lain undisturbed until their bones wer turned out by the shovels of laborvers to.day. ‘That was thir vears ngo, and things have changed fiurcn bouts since then.” e in was one berry, but she one of pound urt & Race. nstitution: Probably the most e race ever seen in this section, wi Carolima roud, a fow evenings 4o, and a peculine vice it was, An engine and train of cars chasing a buck on the track mude the race. Tt wasa bright moonlight night, in fact, alwost as bright as day. The up South Cavolinn passenger teain had just crossed the Edisto river bridge, shortly » 8 o'clock, when Engineer Roberts L is firewun spied a large deer on ielt, some three or four hun- dved yards shead, The train moved on but the buck stood with head erect, gaz- ing at the approsching locomotive until it secmed that the cowcatcher would strike it. At that moment, with a quick movement, it wheeled and started up the track at lightning speed. The engineer was in_for a race, having a steaight track ahead, and quickly opened lis throttle. The ponderous machine bounded forward and then the e commenced in earnest. Down the ack, at lightning speefl, ran the deer, closely pursued by the engine, the en- gineer at the throttle and the fireman shoveling coul, both doing their utmost to outrun the deer. The conductor and passengers, won- deving at the rapidity of the train, quickly raised the windows and popped their heads out to sce a sight never wit- nessed by any of them before. No oune vas afraid, but all excitea; in fact, ex- ment reigned supreme. Al could oo the beautiful buck snhead and in breathless anxiety were awaiting the on of the race. Men cheered clupped their hands, but on, on, like tiie wind sped the deer, clear- ing ten to twelve cross-ties ata bound and keeping from twanty to thirty yards ahead of the swiftly -speeding train. The engineer and conductor were even all excited, But *look! look “the deer is losing ground.” ‘I'rue it was. The engine commenced to guin slowly, but perceptibly, and in the next balf ‘mile the deer was only a fow feet in front, when sudeenly it bounded off the truck and into the woods. The deer was pursued two miles and the race was probably the most exeiting of the kind ¢ i d 4 Atlanta " eried everyone, pr v that & Vun Patien, , seems to be in favor of the siugle horsoshoe type. During the arguments in a spindle litigation, heard befors Judge Colt, in Boston, rocently, one of the contestants had a spinning o runiing in the court room by electiicity to illustrate its sil¢ of the caze. IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD. BExtension of the Hleotrio Light-—A Novelty. IRISH'S RAILWAY Killed by a Flash—~A Curlons Mishap A Fatal Accident - Diseases of the Dynarhe--Burglar Alarms - Y v“rq-'llh‘m SYSTEM. sion of the Electric Light. New York Tribune: The electric lighting business throughoutthe United States is constantly detveloping curious and intevesting featuves. It is prob- ably making more rapid and solid prog- ress than any other branch of commer- cial business. 'The experimental stage has long since passed. The eventunl combination of gas and electric light- ing is alveady afixed fact, The systems which have real merit and the substan- inl companies are well known, such as the Brush, the American and Thowmson- Houston, for making arc light appara- tus; the Edison, United States, Sawyer- Man and Westinghouse companies, manufacturing incandescent apparatus; and all of thesg ave believed to be mak- ing money. The compunies named may be said to be in & position to control the electric light business of the world, for there are no large companies abroad. There is no reason why combination should not soon make their manufactur- ing interests more important and profit- able than those of the texile manufact- urers of the United States. If the really important companies would stop theslang and abuse of each other in which they incessantly indulge to their own detriment only, and the sacrifice of some part of the public confidence in the financial solidity of the electric bus- iness, and unite in the proper spirit, combination would be all powerfnl, It is belie that a combination of these enterprises is inevitable, and the suggestion of union is now being gener- 1y talked of among the principal offi- of the substantial companies in this The development of such a rap- i sing industry under the orable circumstanc inter v certainly be both rapid and extensive. An Electric Novelty. St. Louis Globe-democr: General Martin Beem, as attorney for a Chicago firm, has completed a contract to supply a patent which possesses many elements of novelty to the barb-wire fence of the X IT Cattle company, located in the Panhandle of Texas. The patent is & process by which a constand current of electricity ,is ypassed either through barb-wire or through a plain galvanized wire. The, first contact 18 enough to lyruvu to apy animal thav the fence is onded. At presenta barb-wire fence surrounds the range in question, and the current will be passed through the top wire. ‘Telephonic communication can also he made from any point to head- quarters by attaching a ground wire and a small ‘telephone, one of which will be carvied by each cowboy. Any break in the fence will also be noticed fn headquarters by the constant ringing of abell. The XIT range is that re- ceived by United States Senator Far- well, his brother, J. V. Farwell, and Abner Taylor, for building the Texas state house. The tract is larger than the state of Illinois, and immunity from the dangers of a barb-wire fence is worth thousands of dollars yearly to the company, which owns the 120,000 cattle inclosed in the vast area. The Electric Typewriter. Public Opinios The new electric typewriter relicves the operator of every duty except pressing down the key: The carriage moves automatic- ally to the starting point whenever the end of a line has heen reached, and also moves up one notch or line at the same time. But the most important office of the new instrument seems to be its use in receiving and transmitting tele- graphic dispatches. It is said at the patent office that the instrument can be used both as a transmitter and receiver of intelligence over a single wire, no matter how great the distance may be. The receiving 1nstrument does not re- quire the attendance of an operator, but prints the dispatch automatically. .The instruments at both ends of the line print the dispatch sent, and so a safeguard against mistakes is provided. It is claimed that the electric type- writer will be valuable as a local aid to business and offers many advantages over the telephone. One advantage claimed for it is that no matter whether a person called up is at his place of business or not, the message can be i through the medium of his ler, and will be there for perusal on his return. The dispatches printed are in letter form and not an endless tape. Irish's Electric Railway Sy stem. Flectrical World: While it is ac- knowledged that, other things being equal, a conduit for the conductors is better adapted to heavy city traffic than an overhead system of conductors, there are still some who object to the slot run- ning along the street and indeed more than one attempt has been made in the past to avoid the use of the slot and to establish connection with underground conductors by other means. In attempting to solve this problem, Mr. W. E. Irish of Cleveland, O. upon the idea that if a conductor inclosed into an clastic conduit, a car passing above it might, by pressure, make a contact with the conductor with- in and thus establish & connection; and this connecpion made dir r the moving car, would be immediately broken when the car had passed on, this action being due to the elasticity of the conduit. The tube or conduit is closely sealed throughoutits dength s0 as to exclude water or moisture and to prevent metallic contaet at any point except through the proper connections. A channel for'carvying the tube is formed in aline of timbers or blocks of stone, the channel hdaving fat parallel sides and an open ton. The timbers or blocks carrying the tabes are laid along the raii-post track, between the rails, flush with the surfuce of the roadws 28 being used, one to carry the out- going conductor and the other the re- turn conductor. © The tubes carey the line wires or con- ductors at the bottom of the oblong track therein. These conductors are uncovered and uninsulated except as to the rubber tube which forms a covering and insulation, so that contact may be made within the tube at any point in their length, Attached to the tube along its upper surf o short rail pieces having small flanges at their sides, which rest on shoulders on the tube, and when in their normal position are flush with the roadway und top of the timbers, Inside of the tube and corresponding to the rail' pieces in length are contact picces flanged laterally at the top, and having a ceateal portion which rves.s in the tube above the line wire or conduc- tor, and normally out of contact there- The rail and contact pieces are insulated from each other by the rubber tube except where they are connected by by which they are firmly united. The short rails and inside pieces are areanged in pairs, and the lated from each othor by having a sufficient space between them ot the ends. This will allow one sec- tion or pair to be depressed without in- terfering materinlly with the next on either side, the rubber te which they are secured being sufficiently flexible for this purpose. ‘ Killed by & Flash. Chicago Tribune: James O'Couuell, stage manager of the Michael Strogofl company of Harris' musenm in Cincin- nati, was instantly killed recently, by receiving an electric shock from the aking tube on the stage. It seoms t the insulated covering, where the wire was attached to the clectric light, covered the speaking-tube leading across the stage to the prompter’s box, had worn away, and the current thus diverted ran along the metal tube, and charged with the same intensity that is usually applied to lamps, But {t could be touched in pertect safety by anyonc who did not insert himsclf in the cir- cuit. O'Connell unfortunately did the latter, the other side of the cennection being made by laying his right hand on the zinc-covered box from which the gas burners are controlled. 'The instant he seized the brass ring of the bell wire the current was changed from the cil cuit and passed through his body to the ground. Standing at his side were the stage manager and the costumer. The latter declares that when O’Connell took his hand from the pipe in the act of fulling a spark fully five inches in lcugth — followed it, seeming to coanect with the tips of his fingers. A stage hand, hearing O’Connell’s cry, rang down the curtain, Springing over O'Connell’s hody he accidentally laid his hand on the zinc-covered box and received a powerful shock. In the palm of O'Connell’s right hand was u whitish streak from the wrist to the finger. Closer examination showed it to be a blister, which scemed to pierce almost through the hand. On the left hand the thumb and index finger were dread- fully torn. The skin was burned to snowy whiteness, as was the flesh be neath. The dead man was about twenty- eight years of age, and has been a stage manager and carpenter for eight years. One of the most pathetic features of the sad affair was that it occurrad almost i sight of the dead man’s affianced wife, Nellie Collins, 0 member of the com- puny. The audience was entirely un- aware of the fatality. The accident is thought attvibutable in a great degree to the humidity of the air, thus affect- ing the insulation of the wire, cuusing the current to turn to the tin tube. Had it been a dry day it. is not helicved that it would have occurred. A Curlous Mishap. London Electrician: At a central lighting station in a certain town nof far from London, & very curious acci dent recently occurred which ver nearly caused the entire hreakdown of a ries-wound high-tension dynamo on a circuit of 2,000 volt In order to see whether the yole piece was getting hot an attendant unwisely attempted to spit upon it. We say unwisely because. not being a Yankee, he had not acquired the art of spitting straight, and missing the mark, the field coil received the full benefit. The machine in question is an elderly one, and possibly the coils wanted a new coat of varnish—anyhow, in a very few minutes the cotton covel ing commenced to char, and a small are began to play across the wire. It wanted still an hour to the time when the ma- chine would stop running. By dint however, of incessant ‘‘dabbing” with a handful of ashestos the arc was kept within limits until the evening’s work sover. It wasthen found that the insulation had been destroyed to the depth of four layers of wires, .This method of testing the temperature of pole-pieces requires some practice, and should only be undertaken by an ex- pert. A Fatal Accident. Electrical World: Mr. Eliner Wood, of the Canandaigua (N. Y.) El- ectric Light company, on Sunday night, December 4, noticing that a street lamp burned dimly, attempted to start the carbon. The rest is told in the press dispatch as follows; “‘His kid glove was wet, and, coming in contact with the magnetie part of the lamp, ho roccived a terrible shock., He groaned,and then dropped unconscious upon the ground ‘When he was picked up a moment later he was dead. The only mark upon him was a small black hole'in his thumb.” Diseases of the Dynamo. Electrical World: Though the dy- namo is still young in its various appli- cations it may be suid to have devel- number of diseases, the nature h {8 well for those in charge of these machines to know so that a rem- edy may be quickly applied. The d enses m bo classed, generally, as either constitutional or acquired and can be cured if we only know their na- The constitutional dise as a aule, to bad construction and not develop till after cons time. and they are usually troublesome todeal with. The diseases, a8 enumerated, it wo well for every electric light supe tendent to memorize so that he may act promptlo at the first symptom of ail- ment. Some forms of machine are, of more liable 0 he affected ' hy Prof. Thompson rei lnowi- edge of dynamo pathology will lead to a better sysiem of - dyn herapeutics. we would only add that in some cuses a thorough sysiem of dynamo therapen- ties. We wovld only add that in some cases n thorough sy dyramo hy- giene would prevent many of the a eases, on the old rule that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. Use of the Burglar Alarn; Pawtucket (R. [.) Times: E jeweler and nearly every la the center of the uses a burgine ald service has stood the test of throughout the country is acknowledg- ed as the only ahsolutely perfoct systein to protect property, and the only thing that burglars cannot defy. The wires of this at od to the safe, doors und windows of your store. [f a burglar tonches any of those and he never knows it when give th four or five mon iately hasten to the bank or » that means th ure of the thicves, After you ele e sufe ab night vo- body cun it without giving ng of a pieco of silk of siiks will g s sille counter | rs and goods from o pi alarm, if t with the or a water lo property, it w that assistance ean a an alarm, so © Brakes, ¢ When ulot of rail- ” wekle n big problem in earnest thoy always find a solution if one exists, Sixteen months uge the national assceiation of master car build- ars made up their minds to find out how 1o.stop u train quickly und safely, The first tests weve L«guu on July -15, 1886, wd i at Burlington, Ta., and served to show how very imperfect the brakes were. The best results were obtained with the continuous air brakes. A train of fifty freight cars, traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour were stopped 850 feet from the place where the brakes were first n‘rpliml. After the air had been applied to the first car in this test the middle car ran fifty feet before its brakes were set, whereas in & theoret- ical swr the brakes on the ‘entire train should be set at the same time. It took twenty men to keep the record of those tests, In the way car was a machine called a slidometer, to register the shock sustained by the car in stopping. In the dynamometer ear, of course, nothing could be recorded until the pressure of the kes reached tho wheels of that car, which was in the center of the train. As soon as this was done the result was shown by a pencil mark on & moving papar, the mark r ing in exact proportion to the amount of pressure brought to bear upon the wheels. A Operfection, in which the highest pressure would be brought against ail the wheels at once, would be recorded in the dynamometer car by the pecil mark rising pevpendicular, and re- maining at a certain height until the stop should be made, then dropping again, forming u figure with paraitel sides. The figure which was really formed, however, was very different from that. After the first application of the power the dynamometer car ran nearly ten seconds before its brakes were effected, and it was not until the train came to a stop that the highest pressure was obtained. The train of {ifty cars, running at the rate of twenty- six miles an hour, was stopped within a distance of 513 feet. After these tests were made, two facts were perfectly plain to the brake companies; (‘rslv, the appl brakes should be more ne: taneous, and second, the greatest pr sure should ho exerted, as soon a8 pos: ble after the brakes are applied; and they set their wits to work to overcome the difficuities and remedy the defects. Tho results w tests held Inst May lington & Quincy road at Burlington In theze five companies were repre- sented—the Westinghouse Air Br: the Eames Vacuum, the Hanscom Ai Brake, the Cavpenter Elec pheric. Braks, and the Car Brake. The best ults were at flrst obtained from the Carpenter, but re- cent improvements in the Westinghouse make it equal in efficiency. This time the train wus going at the rate of twenty two and one-quarter wmil; 1 hour, an the stop was made in 150 feet instead o 512 The pressure reached the dyna- momete ear in about one-fifth of a sec- ond, instead of ten seconcs, and the maximum pressure was nearly reached in a little more than two seconds. The improvement over the tests of 1886 was someihing wonderful, but still the brakeswerc notperfeet. The appli- cation was made nearly instantaneous by the use of electricity, but about one- haif the stop was effeeted before the requived pressure was reached, and again the companies puzzied their Drains to obtain the theoretical stop. Electric Brevities. The Chronique Industrielle contains a description of the electric upparatus of M. Somzee, which has as its object the prevention of coilissions at sea. It is based on the well known thecory of using the water, instead of wire, for the transimission of the electric current, and working automatically, it anncunces ihe presenc of one vessel to another, within a certain electric zone, provided vessels are equipped with the Somzee apparatus. T he manufacture of current for light und power has reached the “wholesale” point, so that stations of a capacity equal to, say 80,000 incandescent. lamps, orto 2,000 acres, cease to be dreams, even novelties. At no time during the past five years has there heen greater activity in the electric lighting field than prevails to- day, but the industry is stiil in the early stages of growth, as & depurtment of- fering legitimate and lucrative empioy- ment for capitol. What we mean, there very little left of the early specula- tive fever, and that the erection of new plants and consolidation of old ones oc- cupies the energies of all the leaders in the business. There isa good denl of gossip ns to changes likely to be made in the near future in cable rates. It is said that nothing has r decided on this point yot, and that the first advance made in common by ail the companies will not bring the rates above 20 cents, and that in no event will the rate exceed 40 cents, There are mauy reports current as to squabbles in Loudon between the pooled companies. One report states that My, Juy Gould has started up this rUIpUsS (ir:mundi:u: betier terms for Western Union comp: —— - Story of a Carrler Pigeon, v York Sun: A remarkable in- st: of intelligence in a homing pig- con oceurrved recen t Shelby, N, €, The bird was of A X strain of Newark., He isa pigeon, and kuown to the N eration by the name of **( ney.” Lik Baldw distance 3 feed and 2, on the ing, and “An honcst man is the nobles of God™ on the th w The bird was rning Ss-mile fly to New when he heeame exhausted and 1) on the little post office at Shc N. C. Mr. 3. I'. Logan, the postmaster, caught him, fed und watered him, and then the bivd again perched on the roof. That afterncon he took a two-hours’ fly, but returned. The next morning, after b ing agnin fed, he took threc-hour fly, but again ret ed. 1In the after- noon he made his thivd fly, b after being gone fourhours, eame back. The following day he made two more at- tempits o come north, ch time, not fealing strg 1, he veturned to hospitable Shelby, . The next duy, howeve g his food, he cir Logan’s head and Nev recciv- Postmaster when darted north- sent a postal eard to the bird and its by Mr. Baldwin the goucral wa sife und sound in hisloft. My says he made tha iittle flics at § 1 ho would be eared for while he stayed there, and would not attempt to leav here for Newark untii he was he was strong enough to make the journey. buck iengo Nows e-tellor t has @ depende Wi ong anxious to kuow the future, 1 said she'd tell the past and the “having fivst’ recelved n good fee, she told the man to t his hat, He did. *Then she said: took off your hav; you will put it back on. God love you, and if you don’t look sharp the dovil will gét you.” fortune-teller then walked away and left him standing looking *'like the boy the calf ran over,” - Positively nothing but the very finest work-allowed to leave Heyn's gailery, AT THE U. P. SHOPS. A Master Mechanic Interviewed 0 a Pencil Pusher. —-— . s the la e Endured for 3 He Rejoices That { Found a Benefaotor. “What men say and what men do are things of paramount interest. The quality must entr largely into an artiele ) mi‘k» it d.«m.xnln 1 " sellioht twasan ol fournalist whose po what he said that was mlunl.“ 3 ned with both ear Yo tinued to a fr him fn the street car, “that_ac extent for the modern (nterview Wiy, of comparatively recent d that'it had 1ts origin at no ea then administration of Andre e {ugton correspondont of i, enstern datly, is now one of the great editors of the West, Wis on fntimate terms with the and adopted in his letters the form the modern interviow to set forth Jol pecullur views and feellngs. That 1s cinimed to the orerin of ft." Just here the writer had to leave the car, Bouid s lio ws on i finierviewing trip nim 1 ree Mr.James W bie m| self, ho was greatly interested in the in o ft the Journlist wa npacting gretted that e hud to miss the Fest of {t, At the blacksmith shops of the Unlon Pacifie Railrond compuny the scribe met Mz, Ji White, one of those hurdy handed sons who “earn_their bread by the sweat of brow." during the course of the interview MF. ‘W hite said: “Sometime about nine yoars ago I took aght was a siight cold, but it did not vell a5 %00n s previous colds. W et better and then, taking a fresh cold, wol et much worse than 1 was before, This nued for xome time, when my hoad ache me and 1 had sévere pallis over my oyes and, at times, sharp shooting paius through shotilders and in my chest, also around heart. 1f I was sftting down and would rise Quickiy my heart wonid and harder than usual be completely ste up, %0 1t was utterly ime possible for e Lo breathe through it, &b other {mes T would sofl two or_three hundkerchiefs & day. T would take colds on least exposure, and hence hiad colds continuaily, 1had w_continual dropping of mucus fito throat, which wes always more or less and sore, At night whils lying in bed mucus would guther in my throat, and it was frequent occurrence that in endeavoring toclear it away 1 would gag and sometimes vomit. MY EYES WEILE RED AND SWOLLES, my appetite was poor: especially wis case for brenkfast, which I could scarcely Jook 11 was troubled at times with my always more or less constipated, and my did not seetn to digest properly, wiid catsed me tohve n disturbed foeling in Hio «tomueh a guting: Leould not sleqp voundly at uight, a8 had horrible dreams which would wake mé as cnuse & misarablo foeling and a dread to go to sleep again. 1had also during the duy & Foars ing wud buzzing nolse in my head and enrs, which was very aunoying to me. “Thin ting W 1 tried differ 15 0f pntent medi- T perceptible henefit from ok. 1was losiug tlesh and was OW SPIHITED AND DESPONDENT, and felt as thougl 1ife was not worth 1iving for, as L was in constunt misery and was_ incliued to eive up In despair when my attention was called to the advertisement of Drs. MeCoy & Henry's wondertul treatment 1 mude up my mind to visit their offico and see if they could do an thing for m tors or medic their adv, 1 began to improve and have gained si: pounds since 1 gan treatment, Hut as am thankful 1 visited their office for the brought me safely through an attack of typh fever aud cured me entirely of my caturrh, to day ) feel as well as I ever did, and am bl todon day’s work with as much ease as over. 1 torgot to sny that at times I Lecao 5o nerye ous and frritablo T scarcely knew what to do with myself: but that has afl left me, and to-day I consider myself a strong and healthy msu. JAMES WHLITE, Ames White, as above stated, is woll aud known in Gmaha, wherd ) o hus re- nher of v r~,mnltflm be 0 e vect, or ¢ s of the Unfon Pacite and will fully corroborate the above statement to uny one wi @ will take the tiine to call on nim. Some Dangers Which Are Made Rnown Before Consumption Appears. Wien catarrh has existed in the head and upper part of the throat for any length of time e paticat i the et whers people ubjoct to ca al affeccion—and the dis- been left, uncured, ably, sometines slowl pipe'and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes parts of the from —t are ease convey the air into the different hlu;fi. The ltlllm» bw{‘?" »;vm-u. swelling and mucus urlxing from caturrh, and me tstauces become plugged up nl;'tlnb v us It air cantio 1 111088 of s und the patient bor und ditficulty. ¢ ere 15 o wound of cracki and wheezing Insido the chest tho disease the breathin: is usua than when in health, ‘Alie patient aino iuss noy tlashes over his o, The pain which uccompantes this condition is of a dull chavacter, felt {n the chest, behind the Dreast hone or under the shoulder blade, The pain may come und go-last & fow days and fhien be ahisent for several others. The congh 1ha the tirst stuges of hronchial eas lacking in onie fu the olng 1o bed nt uighty evidence of the disessn y more rupid oues At intervuls, i uing on arising and it may be the firs extendinig in the hungs, . tirst thero may o nothing brought w the cougl Uore 16 0 Hitko tough, [u::’- clous miicus, which the putient tinds gieat difil- culty fn bringing up. Sometimes there ure fits of coughing induced Dy tough wuens—50 violent wy to cause vomits ing. Later on mucus that is raised 13 found to contain small pardcles of yellow mutter, wiich indicate: the lungs are 0 sTreRks now efte )0 1n some cases ¥ pale, lias fover and exs ¥ congl wppears, sl musses of clisasey sub- Spit up, whie tie nature are spit up, raising of chedsey or chalky lumps indieates serlons mic ) the lunge, In somie cases caturrh will extend Into the Tungs in ther cases it may moliths ore the (isease Bte 1o cunse Kerfous (ne 1 ealth © or I forent parts of slige ligher in the m and evening. ASomctines duriug the day the patient has & v eoping, chilly sensation, which may last from Balf un liour to e surface of the feell ry Puripg the night, nesy moning, there bo sweats. Such sweate ure kuown 1 WThe pulse | apid than norma’, and the patieit losis and strength, & frosh coid fx il that 15 neoded at this point w develop rapid consumption. T some fstances the parient loxes strength and llesh slowly, The museles graduully wiste away. ‘Then ¢ o¢aina 50mo of his streny g T thent graduaily only to lose it agaie. J, CRESAP. MicGoY, Late of Bellevue Hospital, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry (Late of University of Penusylyan! IAVE QRkici 7 Ivaais No. 310 and 311 IN RAMGE BUILDIN Coruer Fifteenth aud Hurney sts., Ouah where all curable cases ace treat £ | disonso I SUCcasE, ed!cal diseasos treated skil . Cons tion, nr;rm‘s.lmum, Dyspepsiv, {(hvum»& and all NERVOUS DISEAS All diseason C‘L".‘t& . Jo the sexes a spectalty. UATAB& CONSULTATION at office or by mall, Oftico bours—9to 11 a.m,2to 4 p. m., Tto 8 p. m.. Suudsys included, orrespondence recelves prompt attention. catod successfully majls, 1o [% Many diseascs are Drs, McCoy and Henry through the At I8 thus possible for those unabls make Journey Lo obtain successful hespital treatment at their home (o letters wivwered unless accompaniod by o in rtanips. Add, letters to Drs. McC'ey and L ;‘u-cm 310%and. 4l Rumge huufilu. (;m 4