The rebels said they would first use the cyanide to poison the springs at San Felipe, from which much of the water used in the city of Oaxaca is piped. A small band of rebels was discovered in the neighborhood of the springs and driven off by federal troops. The rebel loss is given at 11 killed. A Good Use for Grasshoppers. Perry Wharton, a Gray County, Mo., ranchman, is buying up turkeys wherever he can find them. “I want to feed them grasshoppers,” explained Mr. Wharton. “There isn’t any better turkey feed, and there’s plenty of it going to waste.” Mr. Wharton explained that there are an unusual number of the big yellow-legged grasshoppers this year. They are not the kind that eat up crops, but nevertheless they are a nuisance, and do some damage. “My plan is to pasture out several thousand turkeys and let them feed on the hoppers,” said he. “It will fatten them up in good shape and they will be ready for the Thanksgiving market, at very little expense, and at the same time be ridding the country of a pest.” Slim Build Lets this Convict Escape. Stiney Bogden, of Shenandoah, Pa., owes to his slim build and a rope of stockings his liberty, which he gained some time between midnight and 5 o’clock in the morning, by squeezing through the small aperture which served as a window in his cell in the Schuylkill County prison. He then dropped to the ground twelve feet, scaled the lightning rod to the top of the jail building, and with the stocking rope lowered himself to the street on the other side of the jail wall. The window was so small that it was not thought necessary to provide it with bars. Bogden was serving a two-year sentence for receiving stolen goods, and had served about six months of his time. Thus far no clew to his whereabouts has been obtained. Former Dive Keeper Tells of Wrath to Come. “New York to-day is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah and God’s wrath will fall upon it as it did upon them and smite it into nothingness.” William McGlory, formerly “king of dive keepers,” and known as the “wickedest man” now reformed, is author of this statement and prophecy. He declared “the police are not what they use to be, and that he is now afraid to venture out upon the streets at night.” Indians Buy Baby Carriages. Blanket Osage Indians, who have a liking for automobiles and other features of modern civilization, have taken another step forward. The Osage women are abandoning the ancient aboriginal custom of carrying their infant offspring strapped to a board on their backs. Recently a great many of them have purchased the fanciest “gocarts” they could buy, and now it is no uncommon sight in Tulsa, Okla., or other towns frequented by the Osages to see an Osage mother, garbed in a gaudy blanket herself, pushing a baby buggy in which reposes a little papoose who seems as contented as when strapped to the mother’s back. It is said the Poncas, Otoes, and other blanket Indians are gradually coming to this custom.