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/ ?? I J JWri'L HI3 OF ABOKi'. THE SHOCKING ELECTROCUTION 0? A MURDERER. The Dynamo at Auburn (X. YO Prison Failed to Work?Tlie Condemned Removed From theChalr, and for a Second Time h.vposed to the Current. The <-xe::atioD, in-Auburn (N. Y.) Penitentiary. of W ^!iam G. Taylor, the colored man ] who ruurJ/red a follow convict in the prison j *1 afT'iir Thp first COQ- I tact tiid not cause death, and the breaking of the machinery delayed a second contact for over an hour. The victim of the horribie tragedy was a muscular fellow, nearly six feet tall, and of powerful frame. He had no fear of death, and without a word walked to the chair and placed himself in the seat of torture. Quickly the j straps were adjusted, and within a minute, and while the priests were praying, the cur- I rent was turned on. According to Electrician j Davis 1820 volts went through the body, but it was only for a second. Simultaneously with the turning of the lever the chair of death was wrecked, the power of the dynamo gave out. and the death current had not finished its work. A groan of agony cnme from the lips of the murderer, his legs stretched out in front, the chair fell forward, and the man would have fallen on his face if two stalwart keepers had not grabbed the chair and held it up. When the current was applied Taylor's massive frame seemed to shoot baokward and upward with great force. As is usual the straps creaked, and, accompanying the noise, the front support to which the victim's legs were strapped broke. The body sank in the chair, and had it aot been for the straps on the arms it would have been thrown on the floor. It lay in a reclining position in the chaia the current apparently still on. Every on& *?i. it.tho nl??r?triflitv had lUUtV it iVl ? ^ done its work. The l>ody was limp and motionless. Electrician Davis turned off the current. Suddenly a moan anie from the lips, saliva was s-it'll to i.-sue from the mouth, and the man tjhvc h gasp for breath. ''He is not dead,'' w.y? the whispered exelammation of the spwtators. Warden Stout ordered the current turned on again, and Electrician. Davis tried to obey. It was then that the horror of the situation dawned on all. The lever was turned, but the electric fluid did not respond. The dynamo had failed. Not a spectator moved, but bUinciiedXaces indicated that the horror of the situation was feJt by all. The silence was broken by the labored breathing of the murderer. Electrician Davis tried his lever a~ain. There was no response. Taylor was breathing stertorous!/, and none would have been surprised to lie:* him give vocal expression of his suffering. No one seemed to know what was the matter. and the painful stillness was only broken by the gasping and breathing of the victim. Apparently the body was rapidly reviving. The l)ody was released from the straps by officers and a sot was brought in from the anteroom. Taylor was placed on _the cot ami was carried into the corridor. iSiecirioiaa Davis, wiio had gone to investigate the cause of the failure of the current, returned with the information that one armature had huraed out and the dynamo was powerless to supply the current to finish the work Tayior was now groaning piteouslv and his head turned from side to side. He threw his arms wildly into the air and his legs kicked about as though in agonizing torture. Yetthe do-tors say he did not suffer With every su . ceding minute returning life became more and more apparent. Allhis limbs were in action. Saliva flowed from his mouth, there c.ime a horrible rattle from the throat, and moans came with every breath. The doctors profess that thi3 was all unconscious demonstration, the effect of the electricity on the muscles. But the man's vitality was developing and the physicians resorted to a common method to quiet him. Mor phinewas injected, but still he was active, and to keep him on the cot. a s>.eet was torn into strips and he was strapped to it. It took several injections of mcrphlne before ho showed any signs of quieting down, andthei' chloroform was administered. The doctor' were apparently afraid that the man's robust vitality would overcome the force- of the electricity The morphine and chloroform did the work more satisfactorily than had the electricity, and the painful demonstrations, or muscular contractions, ceased after a time. While the doctors were watching the law's victim, Warden Stout aud Electrician Davis were arranging to finish the work. The burned armature precluded the possibility of using the prison dynamo. Outside aid was neees??rv Guick word was sent to the Auburn Electric Licht station that assistance was needed. The superintendent and-u force of men went to work, and connections were strung from the Commercial Incandescent Liprht circuit, which passes in front of the prison, 300 feet from the death chamber. This was the work of half an hour. The broken chair was hastily repaired. It was an hour, however, bofore ait the details had been arranged. the machine tested, amd everythina was in readiness for another trial. The work of the morphine and chloroform was apparent. Limp, and with little evidence of life, was the form of the burly murderer that the keepers carried back to the death chamber and placed in the chair. There was littlo for the electricity to do. Th& evidence? of life which bad startled all when he was removed from the chair and after he had been taken into the anteroom had been subdued. Forthe second time he was strapped in the chair and the electrodes placed on the head and right calf. Then the current of 18S0 volts, which regu- | larly pass?s through the city incandescent eirouit, was sent through the limb form by the turning of the lever, and the death was accomplished. The second contact was of a minute's duration, and when nnp.jnt TMU lillllf- nfT Hl?P > ?*.!? IIO Sil?H Ot" I life. The usual t?sts w^re applied, and lie was pronounced dead. Over an hour had been spent in the killing. VERY FEW* VISITORS. The World's Fair Opened on Sunday With Indiflerent Success. The World's Fair wa3 *p *n to the public on Sunday, again, in obedience to Judcre Stein s injunction?that is, the urates were open?but th^y might as well have been closed, for the public did not seem to care to take advantage of the la<-t. Not since th? Fair was opened has the attendance been so light. The grounds. Midway Finisunee and all. were practical y deserted. The total attendance up to 3 <>V.o?k, including employes and concessionaires, was Bcar-jely ten thousand, and thci officials at the Bureau of Admissions did not think the total for the entir * clay and evening would run more than tw -Ive thousand. The grounds had much the same appearance as they had when the gates were closed. Nearly all the State buildings were closed, and ;;o were many of the structures containing exhibits, and in the buildings that were open a iarge portion of the , exhibits were covered up so they could not be seen. All the restaurants, eje-nr stands nml ririntriiv* wifer Inuntiins wsr.t closed. There was no attempt oa the part of the World's Fair man.isjrftnent to make things attractive to visitors beyond tho beauty and grandttir of tho White (I ty itself There wer^ no r^iisfiou.? exer dsr-s, and many ofth" shows uloug the Midway Plalsanco had plaenrJs. taeked up rinuoancinj to the lew straggling visitors that there would be no performance. Tn? patroaugs was hardly large enough to p<:y ruaaing expenses. FIEE IK THE STRIP. Cherokee Boomers and Cattlemen Flee for Their Lives. The United States cavalry is supposed to have fired the Cherokee Strip, causing a vast prairie fire, which caused great loss. T&>re was a thrilling scene. Cattlemen Btartrd their cattle on a dead run, as they new Deioru iub rapiu uarnua. xjoo.ners pui their horses to the gallop to got away. Thi3 will be a crushing blow to the boomers who intended to take claims In the Strip, as it will destroy the forage. Farmers In the edge of tho Strip began back firing as muoh as much as possible to prevent the Are from destroying their stacks of wheat and homes. I * ' v \ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. 11 Eastern and Middle States. Three of the Russian men-of-war sailed from New York for Newport, R. I. The Nawab of Ranpur arrived in New York. He rules 700,000 people, has an income of $1,500,000, anrt when he returns to India he is to be married. E. S. Fhaxcis, ex-Cashier of the Pittsfleld (Mass.) National Bonk, has committed suicide. The date of the flrsi race for the America's Cup, ofT New York Harbor, was flxod for October 5th. Presidents of the savings banks of New York and Brooklyn decided to recommend the adoption of a reflation requiring a thirty-day notice on all withdrawals of do- i posits under $300 and of sixty days on larger amounts. Forest fires carried destruction throngh tno cranberry bogs and farms oeiow .&gg Harbor City, N. J. It was reported that the villages of Washington and Martha's Furnace had been totally A- -stroyed. Abrasi Fardon, the paying-tolling of the First National Bank of Pater??on, N. J., was 1 arrested on a charge of stealing over $10,000 from the bank ; he admitted his liability for missing money. Health inspectors find eleven of the ( eighteen branch postofHce stations in New > York City in an unhealthy condition. James Habvey, one of the oldest and most experienced detectives on the Syracuse (N. Y.) police force, was shot and instantly 1 killed while arresting two desperate criminals. The murderer, who was soon under arrest, gave himself as George M. Barnes. Mast mills and factories In the Eastern States, including the big Amoskeag Mills at Manchester, N. H.. have shut down. South and West. Arrivals at San Antonio report a heavy fall of snow in Brewster County, Texas, 400 miles west of there. That section has an elevation of from 4000 to 6000 feet above the sea level, but snow in midsummer was never before known there. It Is a stock-raising country, and grass will be greatly benefited by the snow. Eobeet Wheeler has been arrested at Mexico, Mo., charged with killing his Infant daughter. At the preliminary trial Mrs Wheeler testified that her husband choked and smothered the child when it cried be- ! cause th< noise displeased him. A. J. LePeak. Treasurer of Funiis County, Neb., has been arrested and charged with embezzling 310.000 of the county funds. The towns of Medford, Fifleld and Prentice Junction, in Wisconsin, are reported to have been wiped out by forest fires. Their | joint population is 3500. Ex-Senator Eoj.ald McNauohton, World's Fair Commissioner from New York, died from peritonitis in the New York State Building on the World's Fair Grounds. He was born in Mumford, town of Wheatland, Monroe County, N. Y., March 29, 1830. The Denver (Col.) Chamber of Commerce Issued a petition to Congress asking for the free coinage of silver. A Pacific express wagon wa3 held tip on the street in Wichita. Kan., about 9.30 o'clock at night and ribbod of $7500. Edwabd Grim had broken into the pound at Portland, Ky., and removed therefrom a cow. When Marshal Andrew Blunk attempted to arrest Grim the latter shot and killed Blunk. Murray Blunk, aged seventeen. son of the marshal, then shot and killed Grim. A heavy rain and lightning storm visited Denver. Col., and vicinity, doing vast damage. Near Cotipaxi it washed out a part of the Denver and Rio Grande track ncd occasioned the wrecking of the eastbound California express. The engineer, "Tom" Andrews, was killed. Ok "Engineers' Day" at the World's Fair Beveral thousand mechanical engineers took part in the celebration. They went out in a body on the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus, and under an escort of Exposition officials were shown the wonders in the way of engineering skill in the White City. The World's Fair is now half over, and the total paid attendance for the first throe months numbers 7,000,000 persons. Will Thompson, Tom Preston and Handy Keigler, all colored, have boen lynched in Lexington County, South Carolina, for assaulting Mrs. Siglilter, the wife of a farmer. Washington. The Russian. Legation in Washington will soon be raised to an Embassy. The President has issued a proclamation including Portugal within the benefits of the International Copyright act. President Cleveland has appointed James T. Kilbreth, of New York, Collector of Customs at that port, and Walter H. Bunn. 01 Cooperstown. N. Y., Appraiser of Merchandise at the same port. The President appointed Charles B. Morton, of Maine, to bo Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, -vice John R. Lynch, of Mississippi, resigned. Secretary Carlisle wrote to Collector Hendricks, of New York City, declining to modify his order of July 13 regarding the authentication by!the customs authorities of certificates of identification Issued by the Chinese Consul at New York. Foreign. The Victoria court-martial rendered a verdict that Vice-Admiral Tryon was responsible lor the kss of the flagship. and execrated Captain Bourke and the other surviving officers. Great excitement attended the enforcement of the closure on the Home Rule bill in the House of Common# : blows were struck and the utmost disorder prevailed ; all the clauses except the fifteenth and sixteenth wore adopted and the bill reported from com The German Foderal Council resolved to i increase the oustoma duties on Russian pro- i ducts imported into Germany fifty per cent, i Fifteex deaths from cholera have oc- ' curred in the province o( Alessandria, Italy. A great strike of coal minci-a waa begun J in England. On the eve of the blockade of Bangkok ( the Siamese Government despatched a rep- j resentative to the commander of the French j squadron, and it w.is believed that ho was ( the bearer of fresh proposals for a settlement of the difficulty between tho two countries. j All the special correspondents of London dailies agreed that the outlook was more , peaceful. Paris correspondents predicted a speed}' settlement of the dispute. Official returns show a marked increase in ( the ravages of cholera in the parts of the Russian Empire where the disease is epi- ( deraic. The epidemic exists in the Oovern- ( ments of Viatica. Kazan, Oofa, Simbeersk, Orel, Podolia and Toola. I The United States Life Saving Crew at 1 Evnnston. 111., a few days ago, broke the i world's record for capsizing and righting a boat. The trick was tlone in twenty-five j seconds. Surgeon-General Wvman, of the Marine I Hospital ssrvice, is said to have a staff of i six hundred medical inspectors ready to i carry out a National quarantine against i cholera. i Ax organization among the prisoners of ' the State Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, I has been discovered. They have a complete ' system ol signals enabling them to communicate with each other in the presonoe of the ; guard. The figures of Canada's export trade for ' the flsial year ending .Tune 30, 1833, have j just baea compiled and show that the ex- I ports ex ieod those of the previous year by S1,'J50,0.)0, and are the greatest on record, abrogating $115,187,603. In 18;)'2 the export trade amounted to $113,933,373, and in | I 1391 to $93,417,290. cmmmrQ "TM PAPTS kj sJ ?\J?JU J_JVJ XXI i. U1U^!J| I 2 j I Over 8000 People Killed Themselves ; I in the Frcncli Capital Last Year. 1 I After an unprecedented delay the French j ; Government has issuo 1 tlio official report ot | the Administration of Criminal Justice for ; ( the year 1891. Tho chapter devoted to the subject of ! suicides gives the total number of acts cf self-destruction as 81*0, or twonty-one to 1 every 100,009 inhabitants, an increaso of twenty-five per cent, over 1831. Seventy- i eight per cent, of the suicides are male, and hanging waa chosen L>y ovos half of the totol number. . . r . "r- y ' *. 'f .>r: -y THE FAIRIBPAfiAGRiPHS J pe lot PEN AND PENCIL PICTUKES ?' OF THE GREAT EXPOSITION. : in bu The Javanese Village in the Midway ) It Plaisance?Receptions and Dcdi- | cations?Educational Congresses j |tj, fn Session in Exposition Grounds I po ?Other Notes of Interest. Ar Java village in Midway riaisnnce has been En rightfully classed among the meritorious on-! Ru I--?-! 1 1.1I.U. tk. ir..l/1'a I iro curprisws ;iuu at iuc ?*v/uu ^ i-i?u. ^ Situated iu tho most prominent section of qq( this truly wonderful street, and covering a r stretch of ground only equaled by one other I sir concessionaire, the buildings of tho little ^ people from the Eastern Archipelago have ] 'Wl for months attracted the attention and ad- t0 miration of the thousands of people who V01 daily travel over the white road. The pro- ' moters of the enterprise had two motives in chi view when they accepted the invitation of the Sp United States Government to exhibit at the On World's Fair the resources of the island and De the customs and manuera of tho people, mr The first was to make a vigorous effort to \ introduce into the United States the de- Qp licious and unadulterated coffoe and tea frr grown upon the big'estates of the island. att The other motive was to show to tho people j f other countries visiting the Fair the cus- { fr0 toms and manners of the inhabitants of the 1 r island of Java. No expense wn? spared in ' preparing the iuilding material with which R ' the village was to be constructed, or in the i . equipment of 125 natives with the paraphernalia necessary for a correct representation of their dances, religious ceremonies and athletic sports. Like the coffee and tea sold in the bamboo house in tho center of the 1 coiony, there is nothing iu the construction a 1 of the village that is not genuine. Every wl house is built of native woods and grasses, of and was first set up in Java before its remov- asl al to Chicago. Then, too, native workmen coi put the buildings together without the use pi: of ten pounds of nails. One of the striking an features ?f the village is tha theatre?tho co largest and by far the best appointed in Midway. The performances are oi a most re- Po fined character, and provoke hearty demon- Hp strfifrinna nf annroviiL The orchestra is COm- tO posed of a score of natives, who wear red lul jackets aud sit in tiers back of the perform- op ers. The music is delightfully weird, the litt rn-ellow boom of the great gongs aud the j measured rattlo of the xylophones breaking as melodious upon the ear. Among the per- oft formers are sweet-faced girls from the royal oc theatre of the late Sultan of Solo, and 1rom aft the households of nativo chioftains iu the I us EJTTSAXCE TO TOE HORTICI So*nda regions (the western portion of cis Java). I it J J III* ftfidway Plaisanee a little Sand- [J?( iciiWi Island biihy makes it? home. Tho jtlier evening t'hia same child chanced to tod- ""j lie away from its grass-covered abode, and. p like children often do. began to cry. That onH ^ ouch of nature which makes the whole world tin ar;i aroused within a mother's breast a j I.' f.*. uArtfU fimtA.tonf ??iirl ivanHv ! . awn." i\r w\/wn vw |jy :aking it in her arms she impressed upon the pJr oppsr-colored infant a soft and tender ki<?. *, jut tho business-like father was not far away, im lor was he slow to take advantage of tho op- ^ portunity? 'Tena seas, vela nize kizz. droo :ur quardaw," and the lady fainted. In the Transportation Building there is a his [leap of discolored boards inclosed by a wire 'J netting. The wood of tho timbers is brown La ind scarred, but in fairly good condition pri itherwise. The boards are part of an old gal roadway, and the inscription ovor tho pile try ;ells tho story. "'Plankway; by Tacitus rel amed'Pontes Longi." Laid abt. the year 5 vo iu Chr. by ])omitius, as a lioman military Do road, 10>? miles long over the feu Dieven- All noor, near Osnabruck. Now overgrown the with 16 ft. thick moss covering. Excavated j rai in 1302." I toj At the dedication of the North Dakota j ne BuiKiug, Plenty Horses, the Indian who j iDS Luled Lieutenant Casy at Pine Ridge Agency j :wo years ago, and William H. Sterling, the j < ?eu Prosecuting Attorney, who labored for ua liis conviction, took part. Tho red man and i uo his foe met on friendly terms. It was held by the court that It was in war and that rf v'3' Plenty Horses bad not killed Lieutenant ths Casey he would himself havo been killed I to* irid hence the act was justifiable and mc Plenty Horses was released. j f?r* Director-General Davis sent a letter to tho j Council of Administration, recommending ; ? :he closing of all the Departmental Buildings ! it C o'clock every evening, except the Elec;ricity and Machinery Buildings and out t. , jther. which shall bo determined upon later ind which shall be alternated each evening. , Every evening is to be made a ' 'special even- . ug," the crowds being concentrated In one . . juiiiling, where a programme of features will , 3e arranged for their amusement. Hal Mrs. Potter Palmer dodicatod tho "Wish- Co n:r Chair" at the Donezal Irish villasro in the rv VLidway Plaisince. The chair is made ofthe of tiasalt of the Giant's Causaway, the centre of qU many interesting Irish stories. Those who po }it iu the chair in the light of the moon and i register their wishes are said to be always j?ii sure to have them gratified There was danc- r0 inn and bagpipe music, and the guests were [jrivileged to use the wishing chair after the eh, iedication was over. wa Some enthusiastic stamp collector made an An ittempt to steal a set of ten 320 stamps, i Dii valued at 4500 each, Irom the Government I me whibit in the Federal building. The oxhibit lea is iu the gallery, and is made by the Na- ! hoi Lionat Philatetic Association. The stamps I dir ire iu glass eases, the glass resting close j tin igainst the stamps. Th9 thief used a dia- j coi r.ond to cut the glass, but failed to reach Tw I he treasure?. I mo The National Commission, the Board of. Lady Managers, representatives of foreign | ^ Nations at the Fair, and all members of the t ^ State Boards were the guests of Illinois at I , her building the other afternoon. The recep- j tion was given by the State Board in honor j ?. o: those connected with the Exposition in an i ,IH official capacity, and the invitation included ' ?tu ill tho Exposition, city, and State officials. The Council of Administration held a final conference with Collector Clark and the wj, foreign commissioners in regard to selling v0, luplicates of exhibits. Tho council has oe{ issued au ord?r forbidding any exhibitor C01 from seliinj* auy merchandise at the Fair. j0 Orders may be taken, but they cannot be jn lilled at Jackson Park uutil after the close of cu the Exposition. ju Turners' day at *Jc.i Fair included a parade shi Of the gray suited athletes through the Ex- Po '? ' V sition ground* and a gymnastic drill in J stock pavilion at 2 o'clock. A great many oplo congregated in the pavilion to see the rformance and welcome the athletes with id cheers as they marched inside. Over , )0 Turners took part in the exhibitions of .1 iletic science. rho World's Fair i3 not exactly the place which one would expect to And a potatog exhibit. But such an exhibit is there, is in tho northeast corner of the Forestry ilding, where there are a number of glass 3t\s showing' the "insert ouomi"s" of all ids of vegetation, from the oak to the tato-vine. ; rhe entrance to the section of th^ Liberal ts Bui'ding, where tho presents of the iperor of Germany aro on exhibition, is . arded by a set of magnificent hammered - 'li-o a-iirl to be amonc 1 i finest in the world and to bo worth $50,-. ). The opening ot the fourth biennial igins; festival of the United Scandinavian ltjers of America was attended by a large dience. These singing societies brought the two concerts in Festival Hall 1000 ! ices and a group of distinguished soloists. J The model of Daniel O'Connell's memorial ( ureli Wiis dedicated at the Douegal village, j eeches were made by Messrs. ' Gannon, o? J a aaha; Finerty and Edmond O'Connell. , legates from the Gaelic; Association . irched up the Midway Plaisanee. ( The military era of the World's Fair [ enert with th? month of August. Militia ( irn all parts of the United States will be in endance. The West Point Cadets will also rj ch their tents along the Lake Shore, in j infc of the Government Building. g rhe records aixow a larger attendance of < ople from the States of Iowa, Nebraska, t irtheru Kansas and Western Illinois than J >m any other area. < t THE CONTEXT OF LA. BA.QTDA. j From the side of the Agricultural Bnlldinff <] > ridge leads over to a little headland, upon lose summit drowsily rests a counterfeit * the old monastery of La Rabida, a mon>ery widely known to scholars as "the rner-stoue of American history," and a ice associated perhaps more closely than * y other with the career of the great di?- c verer. Fhe original monastery, says the New York st, is situated near the town of Palos, in 8 ain, the port from which Columbus sailed j find a New World, and had had an event- j I liistorv before its hosnita'ole doors were eaed to the wayworn Christopher and his * He son, Diego. ^ According to tradition, it was first erected c a temple to Proserpina during tho reign. 5 (Trajan. Ia the Eleventh Century it was ^ cupierl by the Knights Templar, and later, :er the expulsion of the Moors irom A.uda- ? lia, it passed into the hands of the Fran- g 1 c t 1 ?a. '' mWVl i :i=^ i ii i rLTPHAi DCItDiyO. . can monks. After the time of Columl'U? was considerably enlarged. Out receutly } Spauish Government has bad it restored the condition in which he found it on the vision of his drst visit. :t was alter an unsuccessful journey to the ? urt of Portugal, and while Columbus, pen- I ess and disheartened, was making his r Inful way to Cordova to seek the aid of a rdinand and Isabella that he was sheltered the kind Franciscans. Father Perez, ior of La Rabida, himself a man learned the science of geography, became greatly erested in Columbus and his theories, and ving been at one time confessor to Isabella, s able to give him letters and advice which 1 re, no doubt, indirectly instrumental in i success. Cho interest attaching to this facsimile of Rabida is many times multiplied by the ? ceiess oollection of relics which have been r thered here within its walls by the indus of Mr. William Eleroy Curtis, and which ? ate immediately to Columbus and his 1 /ages. The Vatican, the Spanish 8tato < partment, the Duchess of Berwick and ! ja, and the Duke of Veragua have opened ilr stores, and, in fact, the earth has been ^ isacked until nearly every object of his- t io interest connected with the great mari- ? r has been amassed for the pleasure and itruction of those who dwell in the world J licli he discovered. t )t all the objects which recall the great v vigator from out the dim past, psrhaps 1 ae do it so forcibly as a little crystal locket lich, it is believed, contains some of his t V ashes. Before 1877 it was supposed t it the bones of Columbus were interred iu ( i cathedral at Havana, having been re- i >vea tnitner irom oanio uoiuiaxo wjui Kit pomp iu 1795, when that colony was f nsforred from Spain to France, bat iu 1877 s lasket was discoverod in the cathedr.il of t nta Domingo, which makes it probabla e at a mistake was made in 1795 and that the 1 il remains w^re not removed. It U from J ! latter now oarefuliy guarded casket that lashiyi iu the locket wore originally taken. 3ne of the most interesting relics is the ual commission from Ferdinand aud Isala, under their hands, given Columbus at i departure upon his first voyage. It is }' ^ ted at Granada, April 30. 1492, and in It lumbus is named Grand Admiral of the ean Seas, Vice-King and Governor-General all the lands he should discover or cou- n or, and generally given large rights, f, wers aud fees. V.s a sad commentary on this brilliant be- ' rning is the autograph letter of Francisco o Man, dated 1502. which caused the arrest, igrace and bringing home of Columbus in c lias, and also the very shackles which he a a compelled to wear upon the voyage. F long the original papers, loaned l>y th<* n ke of Veragtia, is the last will and testa- ti >nt of his great ancestor. In it Columbus ,veB his properties to his brothers and bis o l, Diego, and gives long and detailed I ections as to their management. At the s 10 of his death Columbus had little that lid properly be the subject of a testament. li 'o original drafts drawn by Columbus for > noy are in the coliaelion, also his requisi- t n inf aMnnlipa fr?r hittV:)VaUO. )utside one of the south doors of the mon- ( I ery leans an old anchor of Fifteenth-Cen- . <) y type, which is said to have been used by t Itrnbus on his flagship Santa Maria when * was wrecked on the coast of Hayti during r llrst voyage, aud ins de are charts he t died aad geographies and a nutural his- 11 y with marginal notes in his own handling. Another most interesting book is a tin edition of the travels of Marco Poio, lich Columbus carried with him on his t pages, and from which he no doubt rc- ' vod many of his ideas about the strange i entries of the far oast, which ho expected 0 reach by sailing west. Among the relics f wood are the front door of the houso ocpiod by Columbus while living at Fnnchal the Madeira Islands, three of the window titters and the inside doors of his houso at p rto Santo. o ' 'VC; SIM ACCEPTS m SHE PAYS FRANCE AHEA1 PRICE FOR PEACE. The Original Ultimatum in Full Si mltted To?Vast Territory Ylel< "and Indemnity Guaranteed?1 French Ministry Accepts Slai Concession of France's Deman 81am has yielded, and the incident isthi fore at an end, and thus ends the prospec fighting in Asia, with the almost certain Jult of plunging France and England i yar and Anally drawing 3ll Europe in struggle. It has had, as its practical 1 material consequences, the increasing France's colonial power in Asia and still; ;tier straining the relations of France v England. A cablegram from Bangkok says: 3lamese Government has accepted the :ermsof the French ultimatum. It is sta hat England protested to France th3t :hreatened blockade of the Siamese cc irould not be a legal act, and that Fra jonceded the point made by Great Britt rhe Cabinet Council at which the decisioi jrant all the demands of France's ultimat vaa madu was called at the royal pala Che King presided. His two brothers a ill tho Ministers W6.re present. After sitt: leveral hours the Council approved the vi< >f the peace party. Instructions-- were tl elegraphed to Prince Vadhana, 8iam Minister in Paris, that the Government :epted the ultimatum, regardless o* all serrations previously formulated." All the newspapers in Paris got out ext mnouncing the news under flaming he ines. Elation prevailed on the boulevar rhe following semi-official statement i jlven to the press: "The Siamese Gove aent having reconsidered its former attiti low accepts all conditions of France's u natum without reserve. The acceptai fives complete satisfaction to France and vho were not desirous of making liamese difficulty the occasion of fri olonial enterprise." The meeting of French Ministers to c< lder Siam3 unreserved acceptance ^ranee's ultimatum was held at the Elys 'resident Carnot came from Marly-le-Ro: A ?>?- 4. Qi M IXllVi ?iOUlUUl?5r tu ikuur.'pi OUkLLL a ess ion of tha French demands, the Minist loferred further definite action until me ires should have boon taken to guaran Ham's fulfilment of the French aands. They took steps, he iver, to inform M. Pavie, Frei linlster Resident, now at Koh-Si-Chang, Ham's acceptance of the ultimatum. 1 onference of the Ministers was proloni ?y a discussion of the steps which might tecessary in settling the boundary quest: letween Franco and Great Britain. A c ain amount of difficulty is expected to ? iarra3S this part of the negotiations. The ultimatum presented by M. Pavie,' French Minister at Bangkok, to the Siam lovernment was in substance as follows 1. A recognition of the rights of Ann md Cambodia on the left or eastern ban!) he Mekong River as far north as tho twea hird parallel of latitude. 2. The evacuation within a month of orts held by the Siamese on the east bi! >f the river. 3. Full satisfaction for various Siam iggression3 against French ships and Frei lailors on the Meuam River. / 4. The punishment of the culprits e >rovision for the pscuniary indemnity of i 'ictims. 5. An indemnity of 2,000,000f. ($400,0 or various damages sustained by Frei ubjects. 6. The Immediate deposit of 5,000,0< $1,000,000) to guarantee the payment he fourth and fifth ciaim3 for the assii aent of the taxes in certain districts in 1 if the deposit. Forty-eight hours were allowed for Si o make answer to the French dernan iext day Siam, replied, stating that the K ras at a loss to understand what the rig if Annan and Cambodia were on the tank of tho Mekong Rivar. The King >ressed his willingness to abandon ail erritories over which the existence of th ights could be proved, and called attent o the fact that five months previously he 1 >roposed to submit all the contestod te; orial questions to international arbltrati In the interests of psass, howavar, 1 vlng offered to surrender the territory as lorth as the eighteenth degree of latitu iut no further, and proposed that tho isla: n the Mekong River bo used in common liam and France. All the other points 01 Utimatum were conceded. This answer was not satisfactory to Fran tnd subsequently M. Pavle withdrew fi Jangkok, and the French wnr ships in ienam .River went to Koh-si-Chang, sland near the head of the Gulf of Si] rhero thdjr joined the French fleet, un ommand of'Admiral Humann. France tl lotermined to blockade the Siamese coasi The acceptance by Siam of the terms of tltimatum means that she will cede to Fra ome 5)5,000 square miles of her territory, luding a province which was ceded by I aah to Siam upon the condition that it sho lot be ceded to any other Power, and 50, quare miles of Northeastern Siam, i rhioh the French have never advanced. A FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY Forty Miles Square of Asiatic Turl Torn Up by an Earthquake. Milo A. Jewett, United States Consul Jivas. Turkey, reports to the State Dep; nent that he had just returned from a v o tho almost inaccessible district in Asii Turkey which was devastated by an eai juake three months ago, and he tells of s ering almost unprecedented. The effects of the disturbance, he sf vere confined to a mountainous territ ibout forty miles square of which Mali md Adiamun are the principal villages. Two thousand houses were entirely ruin !000 others were rendered unfit for hab ion, 913 people were killed and a mi greater number wounded, and 0700 cat lorses. sheep and goats perished. Weeks of severe suiTeriag have follow he catastrophe, aggravated in that mo ainous country by snow and rain. A re: >f the exposure has been the death of a la lumber of children. The Turkish Government sent army te md issued daily rations of bread to itricken people, and the Sultan sent peci iry assistance. The suffering is by no me nd^d. as the loss of human liieandof wc ncattle will prevent tho reaping of reas iue crops. WITH AN AXE, Vllllam N'onemacher Kills His IV and Three Children. William Nonomacher, a farmer, living n ailes southeast of Actigo, Wis., murde Js wife and three ohildren about 10 o'cli he other night, aud then tried to take wn life. At the inqueat Nonemaeher made a l onfesslon. Ho Bald the crops were pc ,nd he Aras afraid of starving; that his wl laronla were in Quebec, where they had ec ,11 the way from Germany, and wan noncy, and he had none to send. After the family was asleep he went i ,nd got :in axe and returned to do the <la ie said he killed his wife ilrst by th winging blows on the ioft temple. He then went into the next room n :iiled Joseph, six years old, and Willie, f< e:irs old. He struck both boys on the h< wiee. Returning to the room where his wifff I 10 picked up his yoar-old baby, held hei ne arm, and struck har on the top of i toad. He then went to the barn, climbed up oof and iurnned twenty feet to the door hi pig sty, sustaining injuries to thesp md paralyzing his lower extremities. The latest official figures obtainable sh hat the area devoted to hay cuitlvatioi he United States is 38,591,903 acres, the luai .Top amounting to 46,843,094 tc imounting in value to $408,499,505. Thi, ar in excess of any other crop. In territory abandoned thirty years ago ractically worthless, near Toledo, Oh 11 has been struck in immense quantities * . - t'f.' - V-V'v 7 . [jj LATER NEWS. The United States cruiser New York was placed in commission at Philadelphia. * ^ Savings banks generally throughout New England and New York gave notice that the time rule would be enforced. Near Montgomery, Texas, three colored , , men attacked the house of M. Marsh, killed I6U Pk him. assaulted his wife, murdered his infant , and cut out the tongue of his seven-year-old child. One colored man was cright and lynched. ?re* The Chicago provision deal collapsed; 0 John Cudaby and several commission houses TO* [ failed; there was wild excitement on tho 1D 0 Board of Trade ; Charles Wright and N. K. ? Fairbank lost heavily. and of The coinage executed at tho United States fur- mints during, July was very light, being only 2,105.500 pieces of the value of $391,900. rhe It was officially announced that Count de Sponneck, Danish Minister to the United, ted . ... ... jj0r tsratei, noa Deen appoinrea minucer 10 jaat Austria-Hungary. Count Reventlow; First nee Secretary ol the Danish Legation at St. Petersburg, has been appointed to succeed um Count de Sponneck in Washington. Secbetabv Carlisle ordered the Acting ing Director of tho Mint to notify sellers of alljws ver bullion that from and after fchis date delem" liveries on sales to the Government must be completed within Ave days of date of aore ceptance. The time heretofore has been tea days. The imeriii&n yacht Navahoe won the race d3. of the Royal Southampton (England) Yacht vas Club; Emperor William's yacht, the Meteor, lile woa Quoen'8 Cup on time allowance, the Iti- Valkyrie, which finished first, being dlsqualiace fled. all the The Siamese Government gave the guar, esh antees demanded by France for fulfilment of the terms of uKimatum. Yonkebs, N. Y., had the worst fire that the iee city has experienced in years. It was in tua I to heart of the business section, and before it on- was checked it had destroyed eight buildings, damaged two dozen more and burned tee out fourteen stores. The total loss was about de- $100,000. lcjj Addison Beebe and his wife were struck , of by a train on a crossing at Panama, N. Y.f and instantly killed. Beobe was a promi^ nent farmer. ion Lieutenant Selden C. Clobbidge, of the Fourteenth Regiment, National Guard, State of New York, was arrested upon the charge of complicity in the rebate frauds in 'ke the Tax Department of Brooklyn. oae 8zcsetap.y Cahlible left New York City am for Gray Gublos, Buzzard'3 Bay, Mass., after Jjyf consulting with the Custom House Investigating Commission, with special Treasury the agents about Chinese admissions and with ^ Assistant Treasurer Jordan- He avoided all e30 bankers. The circulation statement of the United ind States Treasury shows an increase in all the classes of money In circulation on August 1 ^ over July 1 of $17,372,606. ich Owiko to the disinclination of fhe National banks of the country to part with their cur0f rency at this time It is probable the pension?n ors who are to be paid this quarter will exieu perience a alight delay in receiving their money. am ids. The blockade of Bangkok has been raised ,j,t? ' and France and Slam have settled the ditflleft culties between them. ! The Government of Santa Fe, Argentine eg? Republic, has surrendered to the Radicals ion or Rebels. lad a the laboe world. far de, Boston has 1000 female printers. ?.ds C abpentebs have unions in 726 towns $ Lowell (Mass.) spinners will establish a tae library. l0e Albany's Mayor vetoed the nine hoar orom finance. the Union carpenters' wages reach $5.500,000.an 000 a year. Boston carpenters work eight hours after dor November 1. r Butte C:t7 (Montana) carpenters gee the '-4-50 a dflynee Melbourne, Australia, has Chinese furniin tare workers. !ur- a third of the mechanics in Detroit, ild Mich., are idle. j ? A Nashville (Tenn.) boarding house is for union men only. Cleveland (Ohio) steel workers have been cut twenty per cent. , Amebican delegates will attend the Labor Congress at Zurich. cey Labob Day in Pennsylvania is the first Saturday in September. The living skeletons in the dime museums are said to be organizing. irt- the silver panic has caused much distress isit among the laboring classes in Kansas. itic The English miners refused to either ao j *' *a aokifooflan *th? cept a reaucxioa w suumu iu iuf- Lowell (Mass.) spinners are paid lower wages'than prevail in any other New England iys. town. ?*y A kair estimate shows that 4,000,000 people itla Jive from wages paid out by railroad corned Pan'wit;i! Cement laborers of a New York union who worked on the picnic day have been fined tie, daJ''3 PayPublic improvements are proposed at red Denver. Col., to supply work for the horde un- of unemployed. 3,llt Tramp miners from Colorado state that the r30 suffering ther9 is terrible and that authorities are suppressing the facts. tnhe The New Zealand Labor Bureau furnishes railroad passes and restaurant coupons good anJ for lodging to the unemployed. irk- Toe agricultural distress in England conon sequent on the failure of the crops is felt by nearly twenty thousand laborers. When a railroad employe is examined he must distinguish between a dozen different colors as a test for color-blindness. The San Francisco Anti-Dive Laacrue has refused to aid in securing work the 1500 girls thrown out of employment by thoir crusade. Wages in all occupations have been cut at I laa Denver, Col., without any trouble. Now ? , business men demand that rents shall be rerea dueed. 3clc The American Railway Union, powerful hia though recentlyorgauized, has isauad a circular declaring. among other thinijs, that it full will seek redress for existing evils through or, politics. fe's the American Line of steamships has adopted the policy of employing Japanese te" servants almost entirely. They are said to be a hardy class, tar superior to the average out servant. Last summer plenty of fruit pickers wer9 to be had in New Jersey fofr $1.25 a day. in(1 This year every available man lias been en "'* gaged for 91.SU 10 a uay, aau iu -sumo tu- i ,.tj stauces at higher rates. Statistics show that thr? iron miners em- j ay, ployed in the State of Michigan?by no means . jJ one of the lergest producers of that metal? ! the are just about as numerous as the siiva? j winers of Colorado, and that the value of | the what they produce in a year is exactly the I of same. ina The people ot Berlin do not mean to allow people to suffer for lack of due preparation j to meet disease in the coming summer?if j iow money, carefully spent, can accomplish that | i in desirable end. 'i'ne authorities have ap- j an- proprlatod no les* than 31,144,750 for the | ?ns, maintenance of hospitals and for publio j 3 is hygiene in the coming year?and the city has j phenomenally clean streets. FAMntE prevails in the province of Shansl, ! ?.9 China. Parents sell their children for ten j j0 strings of copper cash. People are dying by thousands and cannabalism is rife. i 'I THE NATION'S FINANCES. \ CONDITION SHOWN BY THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. ; ' The Gold Reserve Again Near the , K 3100,000,000 Mark?Net Increase in the Public Debt, Less Cash in the Treasury, During July of $4,263,973.31. > The United States Treasury Department's monthly debt statement, just issued, shows an increase in the public debt in July of $4,- * 263,973. The other notable features of last month'3 fiscal operations shown bythe stcte- 1 ment are an increase of nearly 14,000,1*00 in the gold reserve, which aggregated' $99,202,933, or nearly up to the flCO,000,000 mark; and a decrease of $4,500,000 in the surplus. The interest-bearing dent-' increased $340, the surplus fell from $132,462,290 on July 1 to 4117,887,567, and the ? ' non-interest bearing debt was reduced $811,- 089. Thn total debt lesstne surplus in the A Treasury, Js $843,233,449. Of tuis amount* '1 SMS 037 tu? ta lnt??rp?t-hflfirtn!7 deh*. mainiV ' four per cent, bonds Treasury gold assets aggregate $186,818,963, against which there are gbld certificates outstanding amounting to $87,704,789, with only $93,710 of gold certificates in the Treasury cash. Silver assets aggregate $494,942,945, against which there are $481,317,852 In ' silver certificates and silver Treasury. notes outstanding. With $2,848,114 silver certificates in the Treasury, this leaves a silver reserve of about $16,500,000. The Treasury silver assets are made up of 363,103,461 silver dollars, $119,277,735 in bar silver, and $12,566,748 in subsidiary coin. The Treasury holds $4,512,210 silver Treasury notes in' its cash, together with 822,286,611 in greenbacks and $3,620,149 In National bank notes.! Government receipts last month, the first month of the current fiscal year, show a considerable falling o!T compared with July,1892. but mainly In customs receipts, which last month aggregated $14,683,969, against $17.1105,153 in July a year ago. In:erual revenue receipts were 314,639,127, or about 8200,000 less than in July, 1802. Expenditures last month were large, aggregating $39,675,888, or $2,250,000 more than in July a year ago. The pension charge iast month was $14,757,668, or $500,000 more than in July, 1892. Civil and miscellaneous expenditures were aoout $9,500,000 ; War Department expenses, about $5,000,000; Navy, about $2,600,000, and the interest charge' obout $7,250,000, , each being a slight increase over July, 1892. ?' PROMINENT PEOPLE. Habbiet Beech en Stowe's twin daughters are maiden ladies nearly forty-three years old. Geoboe Vandebdjlt is g?lnar to have a $25,000 tennis court at his North Carolina residence. Justice Field Is the only Supreme Court Justice remainl*./; who sat In the famous electoral commisMOU. The Pope's physician says that the pontiff will live beyond the ajje of ninety. He is In line health for a man of his age. Prince Max, the twenty-three-year-old son of Prince George, heir presumptive to the < Saxon throne, has entered a monastery. Miss Emjxt Louise Gebby. of New Haven, Conn., who has been elected regent of the Society of the Daachters of the Revolution, is the last liring child of a Signer of the Deo- ,, laratlon of Independence. The Rev. Ralph Swinburn, of Charleston, * W. Va., is the oldest railroad man in this country. He was born near Newcastle on Tyne, England. August 4, 1805, and began to work on railroads in the year 1818. The Duke of Veragua in reply to a ques? tion whether he would accept a fund subr.cribed in America to tide hitp over his financial difficulties, said that fi? would accept as an honor the sympathy of the American people. Now that the Sioux chief Young-ManAfraid-o?-Hi9-Horsea is dead, it is time that . ; the real name of this famous Indian should ?* ' be known. The proper English translation of his long Sioux name is Young-Man-ofWhose-Horses-They-Are-Afraid. President Caunot. of the French Republic, who was unable to entertain much the past winter on account of ill health, has de> ' cided to devote the sum of $10,000, representing In part the sum he would otherwise have spent on entertainments, in gifts for charitable institutions and the poor. Rev. Joel Swabtz, D. D., pastor of St James's Lutherau Church, Gettysburg, Penn., who has 700. widely scattered members in his congregation, thinks nothing of doing his ten miles on a bicycle in prosecuting his pastoral duties, though he is seventy ' years old. The Maharajah of Kapurthala, whose wealth is as extensive as his name, is astonishing the people of New York, where he has stopped 011 his way to the World's Fair, by appearing in public wearing bracelets of pearls as large as pigeon's eggs and heavy necklaces of diamonds and emeralds. Otherwise he is a sensible young man. * j , The Rev. Thomas Jlezley, who died a Jew days ago, was the oldest and best leader writer in the world. For many years he wrote the leading editorialr of the London Times, and while this was known to enly a small circle, the result was that he became one of the foremost men in England. Yet, during his long life ha never signed his name to an article. General Domimqo vasqtfkz. who is now the most prominent flguro iii ContralAmerica, owing to his position as coinmauder-in-chief of the Government forces in Honduras, is a lawyer by profession and knew nothing of the trade of war v.vtll called to the front by the revolutionary uprising. His iron rule of the country has shown that he po#sesaes genuino military genius. i ( mT FAIR DIRECTORS FINED. Guilty of Contempt for Closing tho Fair on Sunday. Judge Stein, of the Superior Court o? Chicago, dccided that the World's Fair Directors Md o (floors who h:id been directly responsible for closing the Exposition gates Sunday, July 23, had violated the injunction granted in the Clingman petition, and were consequently guiltv of contempt. He ordered that Directors Gage, Hutchinson, Henrotin, McXally and Kerfoot should be fined $1000 each and stand committed to jail until the fine was paid. In the case of Director Victor F. Lawson, ' , the Court held that the ofllccr had voted in; belief that the injunction had topsed and waa not intentionally guiity. In view of this mitigating circumstance a fine of $100 was im- * posed. Director General George R. Davis was held less directly responsible and was % fined $250 with the same provision regarding . payment. Messrs. Massey, Forbes, St. Clair and Higinfcotham were regarded by Judge Stein as instruments for the execution of the Direct ors' ruilng, and were discharged. Attorney Eddy, representing the Fair Company, moved for an appeal from the Court's ruling, which Judge Stein granted. The Directors and other officers were all in court. PUEBLO SUBMERGED. A Cloudburst oa Pike's Peak Destroys Life and Property. > Publo. Col., lias been overtaken by tbe greatest disaster in tin history of the city, resulting in the loss oi at least seven livas and the total destruction of an immense amount of property. The aggregate loss is not far from 3250,000. , A cloud burst on the south side of Pike's Teak at 1 o'clock in the morning, sending a tlood down numerous creeks and causing the Arkansas P.iver to deluge the country x through which it flows. The levees broke in , three places and the flood poured into PiioWa Over a hundred families were driven from their homes by the waters. A largo brick building collapsed. The damage to buildings and stocks of goods amounts to $250,000. A trestle on the Union Pacific Railroad a mile from the city was wtakened by water, and a freight train plunged to the bottom of the canon. Engtneor Henderson lies dead under the engine and Fireman Nye was fatal? ly injured. , , i