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| Porfirio Diaz in uniform. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, May 6, 1901.
OUR MEXICAN BORDER.
President Diaz Sends Greeting to McKinley.
COULD NOT COME HIMSELF.
Quiet Sunday Spent In El Paso, President Attending Church Services, While Across the Border Mexicans Witness Bloody Bullfight.
EL PASO, Tex., May 6.—The presidential party reached El Paso, the gateway of Mexico, yesterday morning and remained here until noon today. President Diaz of Mexico had hoped to meet the president here and shake hands across the border, but as the Mexican congress is in session he could not leave the capital. He sent a personal message to the president, however, and also dispatched General Juan Hernandez, the commander of the second military zone of the state of Chihuahua, personally to present his good wishes to the chief magistrate of the United States.
Governor Miguel Ahumada of Chihuahua, the most northerly state of Mexico, also traveled to El Paso to pay his respects, and these distinguished Mexican officials, accompanied by General Hernandez' staff in full uniform, were received by the president in his car at the station. After exchanging felicitations, the president requested General Hernandez to convey to President Diaz his personal good wishes for the health and happiness of President Diaz and for a continuance of the cordial relations at present existing between the two countries. President Diaz's message follows:
"City of Mexico, May 5, 1901.
"To the President of the United States of America:
"When you arrived this day at the frontier of Mexico I wished I might shake hands with you, but I send as cordial a salute as corresponds with the cordial relations which exist between the two republics of North America. I also send General Hernandez to express to you the same feeling.
"PORFIRIO DIAZ."
To this the president sent the following response:
"El Paso, Tex., May 5, 1901.
"To His Excellency, General Porforio Diaz, President of the Republic of Mexico, City of Mexico:
"It gives me great pleasure to reciprocate the courteous greetings of your Excellency and to express my most cordial good wishes for your health and happiness and for the continued prosperity of the Mexican republic, to which we are bound by so many ties of mutual interest and friendship.
It being Sunday the president had requested the local committee here not to arrange any program for the day. His wishes were respected and the military parade and official exercises were postponed. The president and his wife and the members of the cabinet attended the Station Street Methodist church in the morning and in the afternoon some of the party went for a drive.
After dark the Mexican band, which had been brought from the City of Mexico by General Hernandez, serenaded the president. No horns or drums were used, and the soft, languorous Spanish airs strummed on guitars and mandolin were thoroughly enjoyed.
While it was a comparatively quiet day in El Paso, notwithstanding the large number of strangers in town, it was otherwise in the Mexican city of Juarez, just across the Rio Grande. May 5 is the anniversary of the defeat of the French invaders at Puebla and is celebrated as our Fourth of July is in the United States. The Mexicans are not puritanical in their observances of the Sabbath.
The great feature of the celebration was a Spanish bullfight. A famous Matador had come to Juarez from the City of Mexico for the occasion. None of the members of the president's immediate party attended, but bullfighting is the national sport of Mexico and General Hernandez and the governor of Chihuahua occupied a box overlooking the ring. The fight proved to be more than usually bloody and brutal. The net casualties were four bulls dispatched, one horse killed, two picadors unhorsed and one toreador severely but not fatally wounded, as he was helped over the fence surrounding the arena by a maddened bull.
Alleged Plot Against President.
BUFFALO, May 6.—A man who gave his name as Wayne Belvin, a guest at the Iroquois hotel in this city, handed a telegram to the telegraph operator at that hotel yesterday addressed to President McKinley, containing a warning that the president's train was to be blown up in Arizona. The operator accepted the telegram and called the attention of the hotel detective to the fact that the man had omitted the name of the place where the telegram was to reach the president.
Belvin was asked about the telegram and said he had inside information of an alleged plot to kill the president. He acted so queerly that he was taken into custody to await a further examination.
TO STOP CHINESE INFLUX.
United States and Canadian Powers Complain of Too Many Celestials.
MONTREAL, May 6.—The United States government and the Canadian government are combining in an effort to stop the smuggling of and unlawful influx of Chinese into Canada and the United States. Both countries have suffered within the last few years, and Canada has unintentionally helped to break the United States exclusion law.
A representative of the United States customs department is in Ottawa at present, acting in conjunction with the Canadian officers. From what has been discovered the Canadian authorities are convinced that many more Chinamen than the law permits have come into Canada in bond for the last few years, and have then mysteriously disappeared. It is to the interest of the transportation companies to see that the law is obeyed, and therefore, the authorities say, it must have been customs officials who, through neglect or otherwise, have permitted these men to disappear. It is stated that evidence has been secured against several of these officials and that a general shakeup will soon follow.
On an average 2,000 Chinamen have been imported into Canada for the last five years. Each year about 800 of these have gone through in bond to Jamaica and other places, under the padrone system. About 500 a year were entitled to stay here on paying the $100 a head tax, and the remainder should have been deported to China, but only a small percentage were so deported.
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| Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
CRUSADE AGAINST CHRISTIANITY.
Sultan's Organ Says Christian Missionaries are Anarchists.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 6.—The sultan's official organ, the Sabah, is preaching a crusade against Christianity. It says:
"The Christian missionaries are anarchists who are undermining the foundations of the Ottoman Empire. They are giaours who presume to abate a heathen's belief in opposition to Mohammedanism. In future missionaries will not be allowed to open schools. The government will retard their activity wherever possible."
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| Count Leo Tolstoi. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Count Tolstoi's Appeal.
Persistent reports say that Count Tolstoi has at last been banished from the soil of Russia, a fate which was announced to be in store for him at the time of making his appeal to the czar for a more liberal and enlightened policy in dealing with the people of the empire. The text of Count Tolstoi's appeal has lately been received in this country, and it is full of plain speaking. The following quotation is an example: "Again we see murders, again street slaughters, again executions, again, on the one hand, the terror of false accusations, threats and spite, and again hatred, the desire for vengeance and the readiness for self sacrifice on the other. Thus all Russians are divided into two conflicting camps and are committing or are preparing to commit the greatest crimes."
Count Tolstoi admits that the disturbances may be repressed, but he significantly adds, "It may also happen that the soldiers and police, upon whom the government rests so much hope, will perceive that what they are forced to do is the crime of fratricide and will refuse to obey." Supposing the disturbances to be quelled, however, they cannot be stifled. As Count Tolstoi warns the czar, they will continue to spread in a concealed form and sooner or later will break out in increased violence and produce yet greater suffering and crime.
The second part of the appeal is made not only to the czar, but also to his counselors and ministers of state. "The blame." declares Count Tolstoi, "does not lie with evil, turbulent\men, but in you rulers, who will not regard anything at the present moment save your own comfort. The problem lies not in defending yourselves against enemies who wish you harm. No one wishes you harm, but if, in recognizing the cause of social discontent and removing it, men are at present disturbed and seem to wish you harm, it is only because you appear to them as an obstacle depriving them and also millions of their brothers of the greatest human good, freedom and enlightenment."
"ASSAULT, INTENT TO KILL."
The Charge in the Warrant Sworn Out for a Tramp.
Albert Rice of Cincinnatus Assaulted in His Barn Friday Night—Terribly Beaten About the Head—Many Scalp Wounds—A Tramp Had Worked for Him for a Week, Left that Morning; Angry about His Pay—Large Sum of Money in Mr. Rice's Possession Missing—Robbery Probably a Motive—Officers Looking for the Tramp—Reward of $100 for His Arrest.
There is little change, certainly no improvement in the condition of Albert Rice, who lies at his home about three miles southwest of Cincinnatus village suffering from terrible wounds inflicted upon his head and neck by some person early on Friday evening, as detailed in The STANDARD of Saturday. He is still in a delirious condition unable to recognize any one, but mutters and moans and tosses about upon his bed. A STANDARD man visited the scene of the tragedy Saturday afternoon. He found that the account as telephoned in Saturday morning by a regular correspondent from Geebrook and as published Saturday afternoon was substantially correct, but he was able to learn many particulars not obtainable in the first haste to get the news to the paper for publication.
ALBERT RICE AND HIS FARMS.
Mr. Rice is a bachelor 65 years old and has been for many years one of the most highly respected citizens of the town of Cincinnatus. He has a kindly disposition and is a friend to every one, and every one speaks well of him. He owns two fine farms—one of 400 acres, the house and barns being in the valley of the Gee brook near the point where this valley opens into Otselic valley, and near the big trestle on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R., part of the land extending up the hill to the north and adjoining at one point his other farm of ninety acres. The big farm is rented to a good tenant who keeps the farm and its buildings up in a condition satisfactory to the owner who as a thorough farmer has always been very particular about such matters. The smaller farm Mr. Rice bought a few years ago, paying for it the sum of $3,000. It lies on the eastern slope of the hill overlooking the beautiful and fertile Otselic valley extending for miles to the north and south. In this valley within the range of the eye of one upon Mr. Rice's farm, lie six farms that exceed 350 acres each in size, while one of the six includes about 600 acres and another 800 acres. The farmers have been careful to keep their land in the best possible condition, and they have seen to it that their farm buildings were never neglected either. Upon this smaller farm Mr. Rice has lived in comfort for a number of years, his only regular companion being his housekeeper, Mrs. O. A. Counselman, a bright faced, white haired, intelligent appearing widow lady. He has had hired men during the summers by the month and extra help by the day as required. Mrs. Counselman has also had female assistance about the work of the house as she needed it. Mr. Rice has been watchful that his farm and its surroundings were kept up in as good condition as the other larger places in the valley below.
A TRAMP SEEKS WORK.
On Friday afternoon, April 26, at about 3 o'clock Mrs. Counselman was out in front of the house when a young man came along on foot and inquired of her if Mr. Rice was at home. She replied that he was not, that he had gone to mill, but would be back soon. The man inquired if Mr. Rice wanted to hire any help. Mrs. Counselman answered that she would not be surprised if he did as she knew he was very much hurried with his spring's work. The stranger then said that if such was the case he would wait for Mr. Rice's return as he wanted to get work. Mr. Rice came back soon and after talking with the applicant for a few minutes engaged him to work for him the following day. He proved willing and competent and that night Mr. Rice engaged him for seven months' work at $21 per month and board. During the time that he was there he went by the name of Ed. Mrs. Counselman says she heard his other name once, but cannot recall it. Mr. H. Torrey of the lower Cincinnatus village also worked for Mr. Rice part of the time this man was there and along with him and says his [surname] sounded like Trunkley, but he could not be absolutely sure that this was the name.
Mrs. Counselman says that during the time the man was there he told her that he was 25 years old; that be came from Walton, N. Y.; that he used to work in the acid factory there and worked on farms and that for several winters he had cut wood near Walton.
PREVIOUS GLIMPSES OF HIM.
There seem to have been two glimpses of this tramp, for it is certain that he was a tramp before he came to the Rice house on that Friday. Early that morning a man described exactly like the one in question appeared at the junction of the Lackawanna and Lehigh Valley railroads in Cortland and inquired the way to Oxford. He was directed toward the east and set out at a good pace counting ties on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. toward Cincinnatus. At about 1 o'clock that same afternoon a man answering to the same description called at the home of Charles White who is in charge of Mr. Rice's big farm in the valley and asked for something to eat. Mrs. White was just clearing away her dinner dishes, and gave him a good dinner. He then started out on the road leading up to Mr. Rice's house.
DEPARTED IN ANGER.
The man worked steadily for Mr. Rice till last Friday morning, May 3. He had ploughed around a field two or three times when he stopped and told Mr. Rice he guessed he was ready to quit, he didn't care to work any longer. Mr. Rice expressed his surprise and regret at this and reminded him of his engagement for seven months, but the man said he didn't care, he wanted his money and wanted to go along. Mr. Rice went down to the house with him and into his bedroom to get the money. The man went up stairs to his room to get his coat and some other articles which he had in a bundle. As Mr. Rice passed through the kitchen he said to Mrs. Counselman, "Our new hired man is going to leave us, he doesn't want to stay any longer." At the side door Mr. Rice counted out and handed to the man $3.75, saying to him that there was the pay for five days' work at 75 cents a day. The man declined to accept it at first, saying he wanted more. Mr. Rice told him that he would get no more, that that was according to the agreement and he could take it or leave it. At that the man took the money, but seemed to go off angry.
MR. RICE HAD MONEY ON HAND.
On the previous Tuesday afternoon Ezra Justice of Cincinnatus paid Mr. Rice $300 on an account that he owed him. This sum was in a certificate of deposit of $100 made payable to Mr. Justice and by him endorsed over to Mr. Rice. The balance was in checks. It was then past banking hours. Dr. Halbert cashed checks to the amount of $84 for Mr. Rice. Friday afternoon Mr. Rice had other checks cashed at the bank to the amount of $136. All of this money and the certificate of deposit was known to be in the possession of Mr. Rice on Friday night, and this together with the pocketbook in which it was contained is missing.
SUBSEQUENT ACTION OF THE TRAMP.
The tramp went down to Cincinnatus village when he left Mr. Rice's place. He went to Frank Wiles' and had his hair cut and got a shave. Somewhere he possessed himself of a bottle of whiskey, for it was not long before he was observed to be reducing the quantity of the fluid in a bottle, and he was more or less intoxicated. As he absorbed the intoxicant his tongue grew oily and began to work. He is quoted as saying to one party in the town, "Old Rice generally has a big bundle of money about him and it would be dead easy for some one to get it if he wanted to." During the afternoon he also went up to German to hire out to Isaac Burnap. He failed in his attempt, and rode back with Bert Keeler from Mr. Burnap's as far as Seward Beckwith's. The last trace that can be obtained of him on Friday night he was in the vicinity of the lower village of Cincinnatus going north at about 5 o'clock.
MR. RICE GOES TO THE BARN.
It was about 7 o'clock Friday night when Mr. Rice left the house and went to the barn to do the chores. The barn stands on the same side of the street as the house and a little further up the hill, and distant from the house about 200 feet. It projects a little out into the street, standing side to the street, the entrance being through a sliding door at the north end of the barn, the end toward the house. The street fence bends back a little near the barn so that this barn door opens into the street.
THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING MAN.
It got to be 9 o'clock and dark and Mr. Rice had not returned to the house. Mrs. Counselman became worried about him. She had at first thought that he had gone to one of the neighbor's upon some errand. But when at length he did not come back she was actually frightened lest some accident had happened. So she set out for the nearest neighbor's, Jerome White, some twenty rods up the hill past the barn. Mr. and Mrs. White had retired but they heard Mrs. Counselman's knock, and in the response to their query as to what was wanted recognized her voice. She inquired if they had seen Mr. Rice or knew where he was. They had not. She said she feared some accident had happened to him. Mr. White who is a man not far from Mr. Rice's age got up, dressed and accompanied her back home. They got a light and looked in every room in the house and about the house. Then Mr. White took a lantern and started for the barn. As he slid hack the door be was startled and horrified to find Mr. Rice standing within two feet of him, facing him and with head and clothing all covered with blood and waving his arms in an aimless sort of way.
''For God's sake, Bert," he exclaimed, "What has happened to you, has a horse kicked you?" Mr. Rice made no reply save to mutter something and to continue to wave his hands.
"Can't you speak, can't you tell what has happened?" asked Mr. White, but he got no response save the same wild incoherent mutter or groan.
''Well, I guess I'd better get you down to the house if you can walk," said Mr. White. There was no answer to this, but Mr. White took his neighbor by the arm and started to lead him down to the house, though before he got there he had to support him to keep him on his feet.
Arrived in the house they thought they distinguished the first and only sign of intelligence that has been observed since he was found. Mr. White tried to sit him down upon a lounge in the sitting room, but he wouldn't sit down at first and seemed to try to go toward his bedroom. They, however, got him upon the lounge and while Mrs. Counselman who was terribly frightened at the appearance tried to make him comfortable Mr. White ran across the field to Frank Ripley's who lives a quarter of a mile away and asked him to go with all speed for a physician saying that "Bert Rice has got kicked by a horse, and his head is almost kicked off." Mr. Ripley lost no time in getting down to Cincinnatus and in a very abort time Dr. Watson arrived.
As the surgeon began to make an examination of the injuries it became apparent that they were not the result of any horse's kick, but of blows showered upon the head with hostile intent by some party unknown. The wounds seemed to have been made with some sharp cornered club, for there were upwards of sixteen bruises and cuts on his head, covering the scalp, face and back of the head. There is a bad bruise on the left hand, as though struck when raised to ward off a blow.
THE MOTIVE FOR ASSAULT.
The query was at once raised as to who did this work and what was the motive. The latter question was thought to be answered when it was discovered that his pocketbook containing the money which he had on Friday afternoon could not be found, and it was believed that the tramp hired man with whom he had words about the payment of wages that morning could tell more about the affair if he could be found and was willing to talk. The neighbors searched the barn that night for traces and became satisfied as to what was the state of affairs, but strangely enough they seemed overcome by the enormity of the crime and it never occurred to them to notify an officer till nearly noon next day. Mr. Rice has a nephew, Frank Rice, of the town of Taylor, his nearest relative living 3 miles away, but he was not notified till 9 o'clock next morning. He also has a niece, Miss May Weaver of Taylor, but she did not get early word of the tragedy. At 11:30 Saturday morning a telephone message was sent to the sheriff's office, and that after The STANDARD'S own correspondent from Geebrook had telephoned to us the account of the affair as published Saturday afternoon.
EXAMINING THE BARN.
When The STANDARD man went over there Saturday an examination was made of the condition of the barn, Mr. Frank Rice, the nephew, and Mr. White explaining the situation. The barn is quite a large one. When the door is opened one finds a carriage house and storage place for sleighs and farming implements in the foreground. On the further aide of the barn are three stalls occupied by three good horses. At the right of these there is a double stall which was partly filled with fresh straw. At the right of this in the corner is the stairway leading to the hayloft above. This stairway is enclosed on the left side clear down to the lowest stair, thus separating it from the double stall. The box of a lumber wagon rested upon saw horses next the stairway with the box partly pushed into the stall and partly extending out before it, so that one had to go behind the wagon box to reach the stairway.
THE DEADLY WEAPON.
An hour before the STANDARD man arrived there had been found in that wagon box an ash stick about 2 1/2 feet long, two inches wide and an inch thick. One end of the stick had been thinned down somewhat with a draw shave and there were marks upon it which indicated that it had been used as a wagon stake to slip into iron staples to keep wagon sideboards in place. This stick is believed to be the deadly implement with which the fiendish attack was made. The thick end of the stick is covered with blood in solid quantities and in spots as though spattered upon it. Upon the thinner end are plainly visible marks of bloody fingers.
HOW THE ASSAULT WAS MADE.
The hay loft had been pretty well emptied as the hay had been fed out. About midway between the mass of hay yet unfed and the openings to the mangers of the horses below lay a lock of hay about right for one horse. Mr. Rice's three-tined fork lay beside it on the floor. Mr. Rice's nephew and others of his neighbors acquainted with his habits say that it was never his custom to throw down a fork like that. He always was particular to stand it up in a certain place, so that he could put his hand upon it immediately when he went there, whether it was in the dark or the light. The belief is that while he was up there to feed his horses he was suddenly called down stairs either by a voice or by some noise indicating the presence of a stranger and that as he reached the foot of the stairs and emerged from the covered stairway he was struck down with the wagon stake found by some one standing in the wagon box at his right and a little above his head in waiting for him. At the foot of the stairs lay a quantity of straw and a large blanket of old burlaps sewed together. Both burlaps and straw were soaked with blood.
While the STANDARD man was there Mr. White suddenly remarked that Mr. Rice wore false teeth and that his teeth were not in his mouth when he went to the house. He wondered if they might not be in the straw at the foot of those stairs. A search was made and they were found there. Mr. Rice's soft felt hat also lay at the foot of these stairs on the straw when first discovered. There were bloody finger marks upon the stairs as though they had been taken hold of to help in rising up. All over the first floor of the barn there were marks of blood—on floor, on wagons, sleighs, tools, walls. It would seem that Mr. Rice was finally able to rise up after the blows had been showered upon his head and after he had been probably left for dead and had been so dazed that he could not find the door and had wandered about searching for it. The assault must have been made upon him about 7 o'clock when he first went out to the barn, and he was for more or less of two hours trying to find the door feeling over everything he could lay his hands upon.
ANOTHER STICK PREPARED.
While the party was searching about there Saturday the STANDARD man picked up a piece of a limb of a tree four feet long and about two inches thick. In the center of it was a tremendous spot of clotted blood. It was commented upon at the time, but it was thought that the blood simply dropped there by accident as it did in dozens of other places about the barn. Interest was then centering upon the wagon stake as the weapon of assault, and probably this is true. But a new feature came into the case Sunday in connection with the 4-foot stick. Attorney J. H. Murray and Mr. J. R. Foster of Cincinnatus were up at the barn looking for traces and clues, and they found this same stick and noticed that it was the only piece of wood of that kind about the barn. One end of it seemed to have had a piece chipped off from it in a peculiar manner. They took the stick up to the sugar camp just above the barn where quantities of this wood cut in the same lengths for fire wood in boiling sap had been used, and there they found some pieces which fitted exactly into the place where pieces had been cut off the large stick. They and others who saw it believe that this stick was brought down to the barn for use at the time, but that it was not used as the wagon stake seemed to be better adapted to the purpose. The wagon stake is now in the possession of Coroner Santee and is being preserved with care.
WARRANT SWORN OUT.
On Saturday afternoon Frank Rice, nephew of Mr. Rice, swore out a warrant before Justice W. W. Wood in Cincinnatus for the arrest of the tramp on the charge of assault with intent to kill. Attorney J. H. Murray drew the papers. The warrant was issued in the name of Dick Roe, but since that time the surname of Trunkley has been learned from Mr. Torrey, and the papers have been changed to the name of Ed Trunkley.
REWARD OFFERED.
Attorney J. H. Murray came to Cortland today and stated that he was authorized by Frank Rice, the nephew, to offer a reward of $100 for the arrest of the tramp wherever he may be found. Officers are on the track in every direction and it is certainly to be hoped that he may be apprehended.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TRAMP.
The man is described as being about 25 years of age, 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighing about 140 pounds, dark complexion, clean shaven face with a scar behind the left ear and one upon the tower lip. He was fairly well dressed, wearing a dark suit of clothes and a black derby hat.
There was a report in Cincinnatus Sunday that Ira Goodsell of the North Pitcher creamery had seen a man answering this description going on foot in his direction at about 11 o'clock on Friday night and Attorney J. H. Murray and J. R. Foster of Cincinnatus went up there yesterday to see him about it, but he had gone to New York and they could learn nothing as to the facts. Constable Wm. Thompson and Frank Wiles, the barber who shaved the tramp on Friday, were in Marathon Saturday trying to get trace of him there, but accomplished nothing. Deputy Sheriff John Miller of Cortland went over to the Rice farm Saturday afternoon and looked over the situation, but he got nothing very satisfactory to work upon. However, he is doing what be can.
LOOKS LIKE A VINDICTIVE SPIRIT.
There is one more peculiar incident that happened on Saturday morning with which there is a disposition to connect this tramp. H. Torrey of Lower Cincinnatus has worked for Mr. Rice more or less for a long time. He worked for him last week, working with the tramp, and the two did not get along very well together. They had some words on a number of occasions. Friday night Mr. Torrey returned home as usual, driving his horses attached to a light platform wagon. Saturday morning his daughter, Miss Anna Torrey, was to go up with him to do some sewing at Mr. Rice's house. She was not ready to go when Mr. Torrey needed to start and besides she wanted to stop at her sister's, Mrs. J. R. Foster, in Cincinnatus on the way. So Mr. Torrey went along on foot and left her to follow with the horses. She hitched up and started, but had not gone but a rod or two when the left forward wheel collapsed letting her wagon down. She restrained her horses and no further damage resulted. An examination of the wheel afterward showed several new breaks in it and traces of force used to smash it. The last positive sight of the tramp was when he was near Mr. Torrey's house Friday night returning from German. Mr. Torrey believes that out of spite because of their differences he entered his barn and partly smashed that wheel, leaving it so that it would be likely to give out after going a little distance and perhaps result in disaster to Mr. Torrey, for he had used that wagon to go to Mr. Rice's every morning while the tramp was working there and probably would do it again Saturday. It was noteworthy that the breaks in the wheel were all new ones and not old ones.
That tramp is wanted in this county and wanted badly to explain several things.
SHOT HIS ARM OFF.
CLEVELAND SHIPPY THE VICTIM OF A GUN ACCIDENT.
Climbed a Fence With Gun In Hand When It Went Off Shattering Bone of Left Arm—Amputated at the Shoulder.
Sunday afternoon at about 3 o'clock Cleveland Shippy, the 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Shippy, who lives 4 miles northwest of Cincinnatus in the town of Taylor was out in the fields with a gun. He was carrying the gun in his right hand holding it by the barrel with his hand near the muzzle and trailing the gun behind him. He climbed a fence and as he landed upon the further side of the fence in some way the gun went off. He doesn't himself know exactly how it happened. The charge struck him in the left arm a little below the shoulder, blowing the bone all to pieces, and terribly lacerating the muscles and flesh. His younger brother, 7 or 8 years old, was with him and he quickly ran down to Charles Wight's, the nearest house, for help. Mr. Wight started up to the scene of the accident and met the lad walking down to the house. The arm was bleeding fearfully. A tourniquet was placed upon it to stop the flow of blood and the boy was taken to his home. A messenger was meanwhile dispatched to Cincinnatus for Dr. Halbert. When he arrived and discovered the character of the wound he decided that it would be impossible to save the arm, and he called Dr. Kinyon and Dr. Watson to assist him in the amputation. The arm was taken off at the shoulder. The patient is standing the nervous shock well and is expected to recover all right.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. M. L. Erway has moved from 86 Clinton-ave. to 21 James-st.
—The regular business meeting of Grover Relief Corps, No. 96, will be held tomorrow, May 7, at 2:30 P. M. in G. A. R. hall.
—A regular meeting of the National Protective legion will be held Tuesday evening, May 7 at 8 o'clock in Good Templars' hall. A literary program will be presented.
—New display advertisements today are—The Boy Phenomenon, Magnetic healing, page 4; J. W. Cudworth, Optician, page 5; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 7; Mitch's market, Meats, etc., page 5; W. J. Perkins, Paints, page 2; Opera House, "Buckeye Tavern," page 8.
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