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“Alfred Packer Pardonea and? May Reveal Hid- TR’ FIVE COMPANIONS. He Killed His Comrades and Lived on Their Flesh. DENVER. Jan. 9.—Has Alfred Packer, the man-eater. been set at Ilberty that he may reveal the secret of 4 silver mine of fabulous richness? ‘The parole of the cannibal who, since ‘1883, hax been serving a rentence of ‘forty years for killing and eating the Hlesh of his five companions tn the wild smountain’ passes of Colorado, was the Yast oMicial act of Gov, Charles 8. Thomas. Since the day that the doors of the <osed upon Packer vome my. om. Many attorneys in the East vialted Packer in the penitentiary «nd talked with him for days at a ime. “If I woutd only tel! them my secre he sald, “they would «oon get me o ut "ll stay here and rot before I'll give up what I have suffered a0) much to n” Cn Ii Packer was very iM, and was nut expected to live. Ty Dr. W. Duw- fon he sald he would ;ell his secret be- fore he died, 11 the mean tim & map of the country where the was located, and wrote a deac letter concerning it. Ife script, health was improved. paper, bat retained the map ‘The silver lead of watch he holds the xecret is Los; Mine. It Ix suppe gated somewhe! In the movntains, Packer, in 1974, started out with a Hitle Bund of prospectors. His comp Were: Shannon tell, leracl Swan, J Humphrey, Frank Miller und George] years old. Noon. They stopped for a few days at the camp of the famous Ute chlef Ouray, who tried to dissuade them from con- Unuing on thelr Journey. But they dis- Tegarded the advice and they struck ul across the mountaina to the Los Pinos agency. They had been gone but | few days when a terrible blizzard + in. (The next heard of the little party ran when Packer, with haggard face and tattered clothing, his feet tled in rage, ‘Sppeared at the agency. He told many conflicting stories. “First he sald the other five from exposure, Then he ftarved to death, After that, ne sald, Made desperate by -hunger, they had cast lots to nee who should Jie that the others might eat the hodies. Finally - only two remained—hinself ana 1 Bell lost, but rebelted, and was kitied Inithe struggle that followed Afier this he told an entirely different story. "I think we must have veen out In the mountains several weeks,” said he. “The men were getting desperate. Beil Was crazy, The men cried for salt They did not ask for food—only malt, Palt. We had been rosebud for eeyeral wiously bolied our m We hag run out of m. aR Alta ue ia a: cor umphrey"s leg. my camp. the Fifteen days | made 1 crazy with Unger, at 1 the flesh from mi * Tex. Dolled itin a un eup and ate it. My stomach rev alted, but hunger overcame me and again | After many delayn he to the penitentlary fo: eight yearn for the 4 panton. entenceid years — of each com: SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, Ban 1300. 7.21itun Moon rites 10.01 TH Low Water AMP, Santy Hook... nor “va "hy reenars Talend « 134 6.0 BD Hell Gate Ferry. LM BAT 619 PORT OF NEW YORK. ARRIVED. OUTGOING SBTEAMSHINS. FAILED TO-DAY. 1. Nortal Marcos, Galveston, Southampton. Greats, Grenad INCOMING STEAMBHIPS. ‘ DUZ TO-DAY. eLav, Algiers. | Huelva. lenominee, London. nce, Shields. x SS A MANTIMET TA MoORA The death of children in the fire at 387 Kast One Hun- and Thirteenth street was cue, t to lack of hook dred . pond ladders ‘n Ha em twa in the nelghborhood, one in KE Eighty-weventh street and the ¢ and Twenty-fifth] ther of these truck son rarer (he scene Mra, Antoinett « Mora and two b fire 1 $s likely’ | th thorough *eareh morning oh the upper Moors of the tene- sald that « family of nd in the burned premises wved to have escaped. ‘A, ton months old, | MORA, LOUIS D., three years old Many more lives would have been leet THREE STEAMERS DESTROYED BY FIRE. Beard’s Stores and Two Lighters Also Burned|' Up in Brooklyn—Damage, $500,000. A spectacular fire. all South Hrooklyn, and lower tan and Was reen from Staten Islan: stant parts of Jersey, . In Erle Basin, mera und two lighters and se of between $00.00 and $1,000,000 in a few hours to-day. The crew of one steamer had a nar- Another vessel wan sunk after her cargo of combustibles had| s Henrd'# Blores were wrecked of nitrate potassium three st caured oo row eacape. exploded. by an explosion stored there. The fire stared at steamer Idlewll, Company. water on What te Winter £ J with great raptdity veasel drifted away from her pier wind blew her toward Béard's Stores There the Rritish steamer Dunstan, from Liverpool. She ta of steel, 4,000 tons. The burning vessel was driven against the British ship and in a few moments the Dunstan wag on fire, elght men worked heroically cast off into midstream, but the fre [FIREMEN HAD NO LADDER--SAW 4 DIE. Mother and Babes Perished in Harlem Fire; —Two Trucks for District. £ MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD IN BIG HARLEM FIRE. | hns been ut work (0 se: | Joppppeietiieintiebicieiebieier- hice hlhh eb rbbidteieieieeieeieinet were It not fire ta thi They turned in the burning hou mee rf through ited through windows to. the ating to etre an hour, Rrealin wiih two firemen went moking premines ping room of the | through the Entering t Moras, from mien a ecuttle led Le wi er Lee eeittch wad Strucantolnetio: stores Thad been suffocated) and 1 ra uickly driven overboard. istance of the flremen they ¢ One man was forced to Jeap into the water, but he was rescued ‘by Potleeman Thompson. time the fire had aped In safety. away Int ‘The Coya was Ml TCH i AIS. DEATH. |Henry Grower Expired : at a Birthday FELL AT WIRB’S FEET.) ‘| Stricken During the Hilarity of the Last Quad- Grower danced " while ut Ia Cozine, of Schenck . In honor ef her tnd she was his 1 farewell lancers was er was the gayest of the his antles during the evolu- © the life of the for the bravery and Frank Simone, They first naw the] ) * he erled for the and ax he turned to take the hand of hin wife he suddenly grew ashy and pitched! forwant, held Liitm in her arme for a moment, aid ell hw floor, y hushed in an instant, mination proved that busy at another Wwer was forty-two years old and windows of the at Hendricks street and Livonia vailding the St the flre-escapes anid the fron ladders THIEF'S HARD FIGHT FUTILE. After Having Clabbed, Was extingulshed in about can’ the upper fuors belng badly ant thief whom Reserve ation 7, caught siealine from’ the’ Je smashed over the man's head and body, fle MeKenna was reaching for his revolver, the thief managed to break HH» started for a boat and the police- nan shot tive shots after him, sne of which took effect in his leg. The thtef Jumped into the boat and away, the harbor p Phey overtook him nd he Jumped su! ral brulwea on his —==___ Child Has Lockjaw, , two years old, of 107 fe street, was removed to Gouver- suffering from Drunkards Easily Cured.! Miss Edith Willlams Wants Every Lady Reader of This Paper to Know How She Saved Her Father. communicated to the Coya, a steamer belonging to ex-Mayor Grace and running to Chillan ports, to two lighters near by The stores were great wooden sheds 00 fe They were packed with jute and potas: sium nitrate. er alarm was turned in an 1 fire-bouts hurried to. the ¢ fire spread despite ¢ ysion after explosion mes reached the chemi Used an Odorless and Tasteless Remedy in His Focd, Quici ly Curing Him Without His Kuo’ ck and fumes were shooting tin che alr, making the the Memedy could be more dr voted than the manner in which Miss Williams, Hoa 36, Waynesville, Ohio, cured alter years of misery, hedness and almost unbearable d with combustibles ched them they ex: quickly burned to her drunken fathe under control un WOMAN CAUGHT IN SCANDAL. Mrs. Jones, Accused of Sending Anonymous Letters, Arrested. Pa., Jan. 9—M he American Car and Foundry; fr denial of writing the attributed to her by thas, it ts thought. ch has disturbed roseven yeara and dlerpled! Perwous prominent in the revelved warnit punteshment tf “hey failed tu observe Girections In the letters Mra, Jones wan first euspe autboratdp of the notes last July when a ado some remurks identical with the cohtents of one of the letters. tampa were sold ry he was given ten days to leav inks his wife must OLD MAN DEAD IN BED. Love-Latters.” eahy fervent and most beauti- ihe engl pehalie h iknguuge, r pus sensat- aon nn w World sr the marae ‘The Gas in’ Henry Wiesen's Room Had Been Turned On. Henry Wiesen,| sixty years old, MISSING CIRL IS MARRIED. Edna Stryker Now Living with Husband in Marcella. myaterious reventeen-yenr-old been in Pert Riel New Year's eve, a letter from the young woman. now married and living with her hus band, Winfleld Dunn, in Marcella, > Strykers formerly lived where Dunn's brother was 4 schoolmate of Edna's, The girl's parenta dit not know that ahe was correspond ne with Dunn, n Dec, 3, and then disap) w Year's eve some one was heard :| whistling near the Stryker home, after the young girl vanished :| Her parents made every eriort to loc without success until a let from her Informing them that was married, aT ac! , wan|cleuy kn ening, at his] vant w pleasure of the venue. The] ir ih + yop he fs blehuy” MISS EDITH WILLIAMS. ather (sa reformed man,” she sald nds think It a miracle that 1) en cleared up by n without his knowledge ar consent, IP. ng father Kol UP and Thin rood Thate the algbt and smell oing to mop drinking fo ver,” too much fer ame. and L ha Weil. we both had w peed ery, ¢ kindest father you glad you will publish y others and let them vty for Unasent Re: nue, for a ball In honor of her | drea cent debutante. ree # servant in the Gallatin he ver- ras. interfered act pele for. twenty years to his death party aa eighteen Mrs. Grower ake me Yacht Club suck owas following fter going a After arrested y wounds, a Zand Bt Vs edges Ww Enay To aNenvous Women. “T feel as if I should fly into a thousand pieces!” “TI just. can’t stand it another minute !” Do you ever make use of these expressions? “Why, yes,” you say. and I can’t help it.” Do you know what makes you so nervous? I don’t know and I don’t care what “Ym nervous and unstrung, “Oh, everything ! I wish I was dead!” STOP and listen. People do not sympathize with you, do they? They think you can help getting wrought up in this way, if you They tell you to ‘“‘keep cool;” not to “lose your thead;” to ‘‘calm yourself ;” to ‘‘avoid excitement.” They will not understand that you are sick, and that you really You do not know yourself just’ what the You have been to your doctor, but his medicine has had no effect. Every day you get more nervous. You suffered eve eryents and abdomen, ‘‘can't help it.” wlan, He went Nquor. and him then: pleat home and n imagine. 1 am are almost beside yoursclf with every small responsibility and can see no way out of it. Why don’t you write to Mrs. Pinkham t Has it occurred to you that the pains you have every month and the dragging sensation are caused by the same trouble that makes you nervous? 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