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KILLED HER Sly-EPDAUGHTER.
Hacked Her Husband With an Axe and
Then Tried Suicide.
New York, Feb. 8.-Brook1yn has not
lad a tragedy in years‘that in savagery
.‘hd mystery equals that which took
place last night at No. 598 'Hancock
street, in the home of William W.
Place, an insurance adjuster connected
with the London Fire Assurance Com-
pany at Pine and William streets, in
this city. Its discovery and the infor-
mation of it to the poice followed with-
n ten minutes after its execution.
Place was suddenly attacked in the
vestibule of his house by his wife as
1e was—hanging his coat and hat on
the rack in the hall. She struck him
zwice on the head and once on the right
sand, which he had put up to ward the
attack after the first onslaught. At that.
moment Mrs. Place’s stepdaughter, Ida,
was lying dead upstairs. Subsequent
:t‘evelopments pointed to the step-
nother as the =murderess. _
The girl's eyes had been burned out
LS though red hot Cinders had been
.hrust into the sockets. Her mouth and
"ace were scarredand blackened. She
ay face down in bed, her head covered
with blankets and quilts. That she
should have thus taken her'own life
5- beyond reasonable comprehension.
Immediately after attacking her hus-
Jand, Mrs. Place rushed upstairs to
f‘he bedroom on the second floor front,
md buried herself between two feather
)ili‘ust and a woollen blanket, after
3a: Eng first turned on two gas jets and
rlc-zed the windows of the room.
hat was the condition of affairs
N’Z'Len the- police arrived, summoned by
'17.. B. Thompson, who lives next door,
:‘nd‘ who heard Place cry for help.
l'hompson rushed in just in time to see
he victim of the woman's fury fall in
:he vestibule, the blood pouring from
he wound in his head, and so freely
rid he bleed that in a few minutes the
Iarrow hallway that separated the
Inter door from the vestibule door was
iterally swimming‘in blood.
In all" of its aspects the tragedy is
Inique. Behind it stands an inscruta-
Ile mystery. Why the woman attacked
Ier husband; why she had previously
lashed a glassful of carbolic acid into
ahe face of her stepdaughter—for the
girl would not burn out her own eyes
fishe wished to die—and why she
imulated an attempt at suicide herself
may never be known.
[lying in a cot at St. Mary’s Hospital
ast night, not twenty feet from the
nan she had with such frightful feroc—
ty attempted to kill, she refused to
cake any statement. The Coroner came
0 her, and the Coroner's physician, and
a each s. e firmly declined to make the
lightest explanation. '
China Dares Nut Take Either Loan.
5:, London, Feb.
.p'on'dent of the Times telegraphs: “I
Iave reasons to believe that China will
as induced to decline the British pr:-
sosals in consequence of Russia’s op-
Iosition, and, similarly, that she will
ieflmable to accept the Russian pro-
Iosals, owing to England's opposition.
E‘he country is helpless and unable to
Iay the indemnity except by install-
1 cents, but China nurses the hope that
'apan will agree} to an extension of
hue.
“The unsatisfactory and evasive na-
ure of the imperial edict exacted by
lermany in condemnation of the Shan-
ung murders affords Germany the de-
_ iced pretext for remaining in military
ccupation of considerable territory, in-
-iuding the town of, Kiaochau, beyond
he area leased. China still maintains
hat the murder of the German sailor'
ras justifiable homicide and due to the
ailor’s misconduct; but she is power-
.vssio refuse Germany’s exactlons."
Zol'a Witnesses ,Rofuse to Testify.
Paris, Feb. 8.—'1‘he principal feature
xt thelopening day of the Zola trial was
he refusal of the accused novelist’s.
urineipal witnesses to testify in his be-
ialf. Among these were the Minister
1 War, ex-President Casimir-Premier,
Iolonel Paty du Clam, Mme. Boulancy,
Seneral Mercier and General Boisdef—
re. Zola’s counsel importuned the court
.0 compel these people to tell what they
anew, and the court adjourned until
a-morrowto consider that proposition.
.Zola seems considerably cast down
5T8? the outlook. He says the pressure
)r-ought upon his witnesses to keep sl-
ent is beyond belief. He has no hope of
retting fair play from the court.
court-Martial for Inspector-General.
Washington, _Feb. '8.——Naval circles
‘iere in.a fever of gossip last night over
he discovery that an order had been
ssued for the court-martial at New
.‘ork of Luther G. Billings, the Inspec—
cr-General of the Pay Department.
i‘he charges against General Billings
Iave not been completed, but they are
.ensat‘ional, and will include alleged
misstatements 'to 'the Seeretary of the
{avy regarding Billings’s connection
with a compressed food Which had been
told to the Government, the advertise-
nent of Billings’s name as president
-f a compressed food company, the pat-
rnting of compressed food by Billings
end a. record of Billings’s interest as a
rtockholder in compressed foods.
Two Indian Maidens Go to Jail.
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. ' 8.—Elizabeth
?landers and Fannie Englehorn, Ind-
an girls, who tried to burn the” girls’
iuiidin'g at the Indian School here, yes-
.erday. pleaded guilty and were sen-
“n'eedv tonone year and six months. They
.aid they were homesick and wanted
faptain Pratt to send them home.
[1 NEWS lN BRIEF
it is reportedlthat a Japanese syndi-
nte will send 5,000 laborers to the
Klondike. '
Twe hundred , buildings have been
riurned in Manila, the capital of the
L’hilippine Islands-
The Buffalo Beet Sugar Company
was incorporated at Albany yesterday
n‘th a capital stock of $600,009. -
Lady Violet Greville, the Parisian
’ashion expert, cables the news that
all of the fair sex who want to be
Itrictly in style this spring must wear
relvet. .
Five passengers were killed and
wenty-seven wounded by the blowing
Ip of a train with dynamite by the Cu-
Ian insurgents in Santiago de Cuba
’rovince.
Republicans in Washington are much'
:ncouraged over the outlook for the
'i-‘ming Congressional campaign, 'in
’iew of the stand of the House for'
sand money. . -
8.——The Peking corre- ‘
eIIIIoIIIII mu, IunIIIIII.‘
In every case of chronic nasal ca;
tarrh the lining membranes of the nose
are thickened and of a deep red color,
while the supcrificial veins are swollen
and throbbing. In nearly every case
we may find patches of a grayish color,
and in not a few there-is actual ulcera-
tion with more or less less of substance;
The secretion is thick, tough, of a
greenish character, and when the de-
5 auction is very rapid, of a. fetid odor.
, Large collections of dried secretions
may be adherent to the middle and
sides of the nose. When inflammation
has existed a long time and ulceration
has taken place, puriform matter is se-
creted and drops into the throat. This
is one of the most dangerous features
of the complaint, and this matter often
descends into the stomach, causing fre-
quent vomiting and a general derange-
ment of health and finally ends in' ca-
tarrh of the stomach.
treatment, and in this, cleanliness of
the nasal passages is the chief end and
aim. The custom of habitually hawk-
ing and snuifing should be immediately
stopped; besides being disgusting. it is
unnecessary and productive of positive
1n3ury.
By the use of California Catarrh
Cure perfect cleanliness of the nasal
passages is secured, and the peculiar
duction net only cleanses the mucous
membrane of all puriform matter,
soothing and allaying all inflammation,
but also efiectually destroy all farms of
fungus which may grow in the throat
or nasal passages.
It. has cured cases of almost total
deafness, restored the ability to detect
odors to persons who had almost forgot
"ten what an odor was, and has cured
cases that surely would have resulted
in total blindness. Let no one who
has sufiered any of the evils of catarrh,
hesitate to secure a bottle of California
Catarrh Cure, with full faith that he
will obtain relief and cure.
It is sold by all‘ dealers; 50 cents,
three times as much $1.
Suicide Puts an End t6 Divorce Suit.
Syracuse, N. Y., Feb.. 8.—James E.
Croak, custodian of the City Hall, was
found dead in his bed yesterday. He
iad turned on the gas in his room.
Sroak had been prominnt in local Dem-
)cratic politics. He sued Mayor Mc-
Guire for $10,000 damages, the Mayor
iaving called him a ballot—box stuf—
fer. The suit Was recently discontin-
ied. Mrs. Croak has an action for di-
rorce now pending in the courts.
Pennsylvania Road Gets the Contract.
Montreal, Feb. 8.——The Canadian Pa-
cific officers have received notice from
the War iDepartment at Washington
that the tender of the Pennsylvania
Railway Company has been accepted
for the transportation of 500 reindeer
across the continent for the Govern~
ment relief expedition to the Yukon.
The Canadian company’s tender was
$1,400 below that of the successful ten-
derer. . ‘ -
(‘iub \Voman Accused. 61' Theft.
”Washington. Feb. 8.—Mrs. Sarah
Needham, of Oscaloosa, 1a., was ar-
rested yesterday and charged with
shoplifting, in the Palais Royal. "She
protested her innocence and referred
to Representative Lacy, of Iowa, as
her friend. She says she is a widow
and was prominent some time ago
among women‘s organizations in the
West.
SAVED HIS LIFE BY A JEST.
Wanted Time to Road His Bible Before
Ho Died. '
Archee Armstrong was the well' be-
oved jester of King James VI. of Scot-
'and, afterward James I. of England,
md this is the traditional story of
:heir introduction:
One day a shepherd.with' the carcass
at a sheep upon his shoulders was
:racked to his cottage on the moor-
.ands by the officers of justice. In the
zottage they found a vacant-faced lad,
Pocking a cradle with more attention-
Tihan a boy is accustomed to give ,that
iuty; this, however, did not arouse
aheir suspicions. They searched the
zottage thoroughly, but failed to dis-
:over the sheep. They were about to
iepart, when. one of their num-
oer accidentally looked into the
aradle, , and—the stolen sheep lay
:here! The lad, who was sup-
posed to be the thief, was brought
oefore King James VI. of Scotland. He
was tried, convicted and sentenced to
lie. He began to plead with the king.
He was a poor, ignorant fellow, he said;
he had heard of the Bible and would
like to read it through before he died.
Would the "'king'respite him until he
iid so? The king readily gave his
zonsent, whereupon the culprit imme—
‘liately said, “Then hang me if I ever
‘ead a word o’t, as lang as my een are
apen.”
The witty reply captured the king.
He pardoned the prisoner, and took
him into his service as jester. In this
zapacity Archee wassoon a. prime fa-
vorite—Amelia Wofford in St. Nich-
alas.
R FLAG.
His Grave, Long Unknown, Is at Last
Located in Greenwood Cemetery.
After years of search the grave of
lapt. Samuel Chester Reid, U. S. Na-
ry, who designed the present American
lag, first hoisted on the Capitol in 1818
ms been located beyond a. doubt in
lreenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
When Capt. Reid designed the flag
here was a dispute as to whether or
Iot a stripe should be added for every
ltate. He suggested the addition of a
Mr, and also the words “E Pluribus
Juum.” .
Capt. Reid also designed the code'of
zignals, established the present light-
.ouse system and the Sandy Hook pi-
ot system. He was at one time Col-
ector of the Port of New York. He
v-as given a vote of thanks by Con-
gress and a sword and a. vote of thanks
W the State of New York for saving'
len. Jackson’s life at the battle of New
)rleans.—-_-New York World. '
DESIGNER QF' 0
Nasal catarrh must be cured by local .
properties of the herbs used in its proe.
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