Miscellaneous Extracts.

Hastings Standard, Issue 191, 8 December 1896, Page 3

Miscellaneous Extracts.

BABY F ABM INC* IN CHICAGO. The American paper* of October •> chronicle a baby fanning discover)" iti Chicago, which promises to outrival even the not.nl Maxai case. One jonfilSf Says Three dead babies K«« taken from the Chicago river near Harrison street bridge since last Thursday, and men are at work dragging the stream to ascertain whether more bodies lie on the muddy bottom . The police be Here that t he ge&rch will be successful. Then will be made at the other bridges. The bodies that were found were in a fair state of preservation. They had teen in the water some time, bat not long enough to prevent an autopsy being made. When the doctors examined the little bodies, they found that in each case the child had been alive when thrown in the river, and that death had been caused fey drowning. authorities are

; fully convinced that th«* lyliii s ! :tre tho victims of one of the horrible baby i'.inn> which from time to time 1 are di-covered. !

A ROMANTIC STORY. \ > ; e\traordi:-ary ca*eof h'-amy 1 - , cah.i to li-.'i:' in N.-pN : - '1 -band of a beautiful i;irl. who t h.t'i 1 i. Ny suitor-, was •• p u alt •! j Li- v. :!•• before (the 1■ -m ■ • was ■ r l.y l>f ir.',' d to perform } l.i- military ■-< rvice, and sent to Africa. In the rib-fiict' of the hunhand , a former suitor. a cook, 11:11 nod Bonafacio. formed 011 a plan of marrying her himself. Ib accordingly s -nt a to't ,'r.au pnrportin« to come froui the War O'lice informing tbe yosn._' wife r ?:;«f her h::<bat.<l had l>;vii !»i!lt <l. At the - me time he wrote to the hu i.t . in Africa that hi- v ifr. mi--»t » 11 1. ar tie- separation, had killed h* -- T t t r from i< four-story wmduw . fie waited till he t!n111 the widow had fop-rotten her sorrow and then proponed to her. She accepted him, and they were married and nuned to Naple.-, where in due time they had children. In the meantime trie hir-band. having finished his military service, returiud to Italy, and hfijiponinif one day to be in Oenoa met an old friend. t'r a whom be learned what had happened. lie isn- ! mediately sought his wife, whom he found with two children. but the cook prudently di- a p p»: an•< ?.

A CITY M I?NT OCT. I !;•(• r date October o, ;'i;- New York Herald's eim\ -pondeiit in OuayEcuador. t-.-ieirraphed that three-fourths of that city was n-duced to ashes by the lire whicli 1- /on ;h. re 0:1 Monday at midniirlit. and r.e_e! for 21 hours sweeping everything in its path. It was estimated thai the financial loss to the city would run far up in to the millions. Some- reI oris estimate it at 20,000,01 M)ilol. Many lives where lost ju -t how many it i> in.;- • -it■!— to ~ay vet and H .1.000 person.- are homeless.

Two thousand house-, including every bank in tlie city, of which ther>- are Iht --the Rank of Kcuador. the t'omlnereial. the Agricultural, the T« rritonal, .uni the cario - were burned. The Custom-Intheatre, ami ninny public buildimrs vv iv a!-o -w. j>: away by the tlanivs. "I'll;- iu- (-[•!« I - i . v.-ry :hu._' from A-_eiirr< - -'n . : to I. - IVnas, the i t;.if> b»>iness |> ti-iii of the city. Practically all the <jr?iv-.-r- mid pn.vi-it.u >ture.s were • tl. and thousands of r. -i.lint homrles- huntrry. swarm the -treets and it. i.'hi '>rinu' woods, C'oin-iii-_r. .1- U did. at midnight, the llannd- -tri'j.d many live- before those win* v.i ri a-!>.< p could be warned of the hurt iidim.' dai:-.'« r. Sc n- fin mi- dm.', and thu'icrh it 1 - itnp««— hi- fi »-lunate t!.> iiii;:d i-r it. .11 ii'>i\ :h* t u' 1 111 - will of r...0, —■ ity 1» lar-_r»\ Anion-,' th • «j4h"t houieh-- who till tin- >tr>ettin - itV rii:_r i- - reat. Not only is !h----foo-I -npl'ly t\ti" inely low, but tin fr»--h water -"ij.ply has been exhausted largely by the efforts of the firemen to extincniah the tlame-. Now that the fin- 1- fit the air is tilled with a -til!-ir.-r du-t of cinders and ashes. which adds greatly to the suffering from thir-it. The tire started in a small dry-LTO<d- store. It is believed that thi- .-'.ore was tired bv incendiaries.

STRAI(iIITF.XING A CIIIMNEY STACK. The -truightenwg of a chimney stack at a brick and tile works located at Earnest (Pa.) was recently accomplished in a novel manner. Tin stack is 122 feet high. 11 feet square at the base, tapering somewhat at the top. and weighing 100 tons. The top was found to be leaning 1"> inches from the vertical line. To right the chimney 10| inches of brickwork wenremoved from the foundation on three sides. As the bricks wire removed square blocks of wood were inserted, until three sides of the structure rested on the Mocks. Between the blocks substantial brick piers, 0 inches high, were built, leaving a place inches between the top of the pierand the bottom of the undermined brickwork. The blocks were then set on fire, and kept burning evenly and uniformly, and as the blocks were reduced to ashes the stack slowly righted. The entire work consumed one day, and the reduction of the wooden blocks to ashes required one hour. MUNIFICENT GIFTS. It is proposed to build a new infirmary in Newcastle-on-Tync in commemoration of the long reign of the Queen. it was originally intended to hold an exhibition to raise part of the necessary funds, but that project fell through. Then the Mayor (Mr Riley Lord) suggested that wealthy men in the district might subscribe at least .£OO,OOO amongst them, being £IOOO for each year of Her Majesty's reign. His proposal has so far been liberally responded to. having already been promised. The contributors include :—Sir \Y. G. Armstrong and Co., Limited, the famous Elswick firm, £">000 ; Lord Armstrong, £2000; Mr \Y. P. Cruddas, M.P., £'2ooo ; Sir Andrew Noble. £1000: Messrs Ilodgkin and Co.. banker?. £IOOO ; Messrs Woods, bankers. £1000: Mr Walter Scott, publisher, etc., £IOOO. Alderman Gibson has also promised £,IOOO. The platers in the Elswiek shipyard haw instituted a levy of 2d per man a week on behalf of the fund, and other workmen, it is expected, will follow their example. The amount required will be between £IOO,OOOO and £200.000.