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% mlSI? V f iThe Extraordinary Grand Jury's Findings in New York City. THE OLD PARK BOARD ACCUSED, End of the Jary's Labors?It Recommends That Farther Inquiry Be Made Into BE All City Departments?The Charges Against Sapt. Byrnes Dismissed?A Police Captain on the List. t j The Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which began an investigation of the New York City Police Department on (ftouary 7, finished its work, when it made a final report to Justice Ingraham and hand-, ed In its last batoh of indictments. No presentment accompanied the final report, but (the foreman of the Jury stated that other departments of the city government ought to Ibe investigated, In view of testimony which had been presented. ]js Four indictments were handed in and on jthose indictments appear the names of eight men. There was reason to believe that the Indictments oontained charges against the following: i In the first indictment, charges against George C. Clausen, Abraham B. Tappen and Nathan Straus, the former Park Commissioners, accusing them of the technical offence of misappropriating public money; In the seoond indiotment, charges against Thomas J. Brady, the former Superintendent of Buildings, aoousing him of receiving a piano as a bribe; in the third ink Idictment, charges against Police Captain i Killilea and a policeman who formerly was r his ward man In the Thirty-second Precinct, accusing them of bribery; in the fourth indictment, charges against two other policemen, accusing them of bribery. The Grand Jury dismissed a charge whioh had been made against Polloe Superintendent Byrnes by Dr. Parkhurst's Society, ba3od on the testimony of Dr. Newton Whitehead, whose testimony before the Lexow Committee showed that he was mixed up In many cases of malpractice. ? Charges against former Police Commissioner John C. Sheehan and Detectives Jacob, McManus and Lang were also dismissed. FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION. Two Buildings Wrecked and Several Persons Killed in New Orleans. At half-past 2 o'clock a. m. an explosion of gunpowder occurred in a grocery belonging to Charles 8alathe, corner of Ursuline and Decatur streets, New Orleans, La.,'completely demolishing the building and the neighboring saloon, known as the Fishermen s Exchange, and instantly killing five and seriously wounding eight persons. There were maotam! ?1?A mtaoIn/? TVlO Ifil la/3 CI rfl cro*Cicvi twv nn.-omft* auv oa*?w? ww* Charles Salathe, owner of the grocery; Mrs. Charltes Salathe, his wife; Charles Salathe, Jr., his child; Felix Regand, barkeeper; v James Edwards, employed in the French Market. ' Salathe's grooery and ship supply store was opposite the Frenoh Market. The exchange next door was the headquarters of the fishermen in Louisiana. Salathe always kept n small stock of powder on hand. It is thought from the effect of the explosion that he must have had a larger supply than was supposed. The explosion is thought to have been accidental, although Saluthe's nephew attributes it to Italians, with whom Ills uucle, he says, was on bad terms. The market oppo site was well filled when the explosion came. The next instant the two buildings fell nr>rrml?ta nollanae. Then followed a few shrieks, and although other minor explosions followed and the ruins soon blazed up In flames, some of the lookers-on rushed into the ruins and began digging at the place whence the cries came. They soon succeeded In rescuing Lilly and Edward Salathe who, although precipitated , from an upper story where they were sleeping. and buried deep under the debris, were alive and merely scratched. L. Boulet, who was boarding at the Fishermen's Exchange, was similarly rescued, and by noon the bodies of five dead persons had Seen taken v from the ruins. KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECKS. Foar Liven Loct In an Ohio Accident, and Four In One In Illinois. A railroad wreck took plaoe at Whigvillo, Ohio, on the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Railway. A ooach on the westbound passenger train was derailed just before reaching a trestle whioh spans a small stream. Th? structure is built on a curve, and the coach, after running along the tlas until almost across -It, dragged the engine Irom the rails, and the trestle went down. Tho engineer and fireman both remained at their' posts. The former was instantly killed, and thp latter Injured seriously. The killed are: Engineer Eli Lucas, of Zanesville, Ohio; Henry * Brown, of Brownsville, and Mrs. Nathan Young and infant daughter, who were moving to Zanesville from Summerfleld. The fireman, Jesse Johns, unmarried, was seriously hurt. Nathan Young, husband of the woman who was killed, had his foot badly .v mashed. Four tramps were killed and fourteen oth-. ere badly Injured in a freight wreck on the Chicago and Alton road near Alton, III. The wreck was caused by a broken truck. It is said that seventy-flva tramps were stealing a ride on the train. When taken out four of them were dead and a number injured. STANDS FOR HER RIGHTS. France Demands a Plain Statement of Englaud'* Claims In the Upper Nile. M. Hanotaux, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke In the Senate at Paris concerning Sir Edward Grey's statement in the British House of Commons. The debate in the Commons a3 to the British and Egyptian sphere of influence in Africa, he said, had astonished him. France opposed decidedly the pretensions of the Royal Niger Company, which aimed to monopolize trade in a vast region. As to the Upper Nile region, France demanded that England state her claims explicitly. France would reserve her decision and liberty of action ponding England's re. ply. It was advisable to abstain from imnniflBnt Btatpmnnts. France would maintain tor plain rights. Price of Coke Advanced. The H. C. Frick Company,of rennaylvania, which voluntarily advanced the wage3 of its coke workers, has advanced the selling price of coke in like proportion. WOMEN WIN IM UTAH. The Constitutional Convention Adopt* Female Suffrage, 75 to 15. The question of female suffrage was finally disposed of in the Utah Constitutional Convention at Salt Lake. By a vote of 52 to 42 the Convention refused to submit the matter in a separate article to voters, and the clause adopting suffrage as a part of the Constitution was adopted. 75 to 15. A mass moetlng of Gentiles was held during the afternoon protesting against suffrage, and a resolution of disapproval was sent to the Convention. Italy Offers to Mediate. Italy has offered its good offices to bring about a settlement of the differences between Venezuela and France and Belgium growing out of the exDul.sion bv the CresDO Govern ment of the' diplomatic representatives of these latter countries. Planting Wheat In Dust. Farmers throughout the groat wheat belt of the Mlddlo Northwest are planting that crop amid clouds of dust, due to the general drought of last fall, the light snowfall of the past winter, and the absence of spring rains. This state of things, whloh bodes ill for the oomlng crop, may well account fw the ad* rtncing" tenaenoy of prices. A CRISIS IN SCANDINAVIA. The Situation in Norway and Sweden Ve Serious. An open rupture of the relations betwei Norway and Sweden is imminent. In co nection therewith it is reported in Berl that should the two kingdoms resort KINO OSCAB OF 6WEDEX. force, Emperor William would take up arn rather than permit the threatened interfo enco of Bussia. Ho is said to have'pron ised King Oscar as much. Bussia's attitude to the conflict is in doub but as usual she is suspected of designs upc Norway. The estimates to the Storthing have bee published,'and have caused much con ment. They gave fresh Impetx to the wild rumors of an in pending war between Norway and 8wi den. The estimates far exceed any previoi sums required. The sum of $1,000,000 to be voted to construct ironclads. In a< /t?A^|fo ivaha nol-a/1 fr?r fVlA nil UlbAUU, lUifjD UCUIIO noiu ooavu *vi ??v ? ohase of munitions of war and for the con pletion of the forta of Toneberg Harbor. Norway and Sweden are matched, n< mated. The union of the kingdoms nev< was thorough, and of late years the ti< which bind them have galled Norwa; The apparent cause of the present di ferences, which threaten to bring c war, is Norway's demand for separal consuls. The real cause is an unconqueri ble desire for independence. Under tt present system of government the foreign ri Iations are controlled by a Swede. A Norwt gian may hold any Cabinet office, excej that o! Foreign Minister. As Norwa has extensive shipping interests sh wants a share in the manage ment of the Foreign Office and demanc that a Norwegian consul be sent to ever consular port. It was reported that Kin Osoarhad virtually proposed to gratify thes desires, but he has refused to submit to di< tation by the Norwegian Radicals in regar to reorganizing the Council of State. TWO BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. Six Persona Killed in an Accident 1 Wheeling. W. Va. A few minutes past 8 o'clock a. m. th two flve-story buildings, 1220 and 1222 Mai street, Wheeling, W. Va., occupied by T. 1 Hutchlsson <fc Co., wholesale hardware an saddlery dcalore, and W. H. Chapman < Sons, wholesale painters' and builders' sup plies, collapsed, burying ten men beneat the ruins. The debris took fire from a nal ural gas leak, and, a dense cloud of smok arising, the efforts of the rescuers wer greatly impeded. The dead are: Father F. H. Parke Vicar-General of West Virginia Dioces and chaplain of Mt. Dechantel, the Cath olio seminary at Wheeling. Benjamin Pritol ard, carriage builder, of Buckhannon, W Va.; Robert Wincher, employe of Hutohisso & Co.; Eugene Birch, employe of Hutchisso; <fc Co.: Michael Horan, employe of Hutchi' son <fc Co.; Harry Cow!, Western Unio messenger boy. The injured are: T, T. Hutchinson, membe of the hardware house of Hutchfsson <fc Co. two ribs broken and head cut; M. J. Ford employe of Hutchlsson & Co., slightl bruised and cut; 0. E. Williams, oarpentei head cut and severely bruised about bodj G. W. Clifton, carpenter. The cause of the collapse was the defectiv construction of the Hutchisson buildiuc which was condemned two years ago. At th hour mentioned the employes in Hutchisson' heard an ominous cracking, and without fui ther warning the alley wall fell, carryin with it the entire structures of both build ings. Only the rear wall remained standing A general alarm brought the Firo Depart ment to the scene. Blinded and suffooate by the dense smoke, the firemen workei herocially, und in about two hours the flrs victim was rescued. He was M. J. Ford who was comparatively uninjured. Ho wa lying directly across Benjamin Pritchard who was dead. A medical examinatio; showed that ho had been killed by bein crushed about the che9t. No more bodie were found until 6.30 o'clock p. m., whenth body of Father Parke was taken out of th debris. The tiro gained so that the flremon flrs had to give their entire attention to sub dulng it. After twelve hours' hard worl thev got the flames under control. Bot buildings, together with the stocks, are i total loss. When the first wall fell it?brok off clear down to the foundation, and no one stone was left upon another. Altogethe the loss will amount to over 4200,000. Father Parke, who was the oldest Catholl priest in West Virginia, was not in either c the buildings, but was walking up the alle when the crash came. Harry Cowl, the mes senger boy, was also killed in the alley whil returning from a call. FROM THE REINA REGENTE. A Bottle Containing a Hopeless Messag Washed Ashore. A bottle has been washed ashore at Riv Delia, containing the following note^vritte in pencil: "March 10, nine o'clock, evenin ?No hope of being saved; twelve miles froi Bajo Aceiteras. (Signed) Segond, cruise Reina Regente." The Spanish Government has announce that it will assist the families of the offlcei and men lost on the Reina Regente. The Official Gazette, Madrid, appeare with a black border, and contained a formi announcement of the loss of the cruiser Rein Regente. with an expression of the deep 301 row felt by the Queen Regent and the Goi ernment over the disaster. Japan Seizes a British Steamer. A despatch from Shanghai, China, saj that Japan has seized the British steamt Yiksang, with a quarter of a million ca tridges, near Taku. The Yiksang's cars was shinned from thero by a respectable flri 03 bamboo ami steel, and was "accepted I the owners of the vessel in good faith. Oscar Wilde Tabooed. By order of the Librarian the works < Oscar Wilde?pooms, stories and plays?wei withdrawn from the St. Louis Public L brary. The action of the Librarian is backe up by the approval of the Board of Director The writings of Oscar Wildo in the Newai (N.J.) Free Public Library have been r moved from the shelves by order of the 1 brary trustees, and the name of the auth< has been erased from the library catalogu Kn~lut)d Itecognlzeft Hawaii. Sir Edward Grey, in the British House < Commons, said that the Ropublic of Hawa has been recognized by Great Britain. Corpse for a Target. The Kraog-Jorgaasen army rifle was teste Dublicfv a second time on the Fort Leavei worth (Kan.) target range. The firing wj at a distance from 1000 to 5000 yards. Ful half the garrison and many people fro Leavenworth were present to witness the po sibilities of the rifle. At 1000 yards a bull went through nearly thirty-six inches ' solid oak without being misshapen in tl least, and at "2000 yards an inch steel pla wa3 penetrated. At 1500 yards a missi passed through a human cadaver. Coining the Gold. The greater part of the 842,000,000 gold bullion held by the United Stat Treasury is to be coined. _ . ? GOY?IOR MAM, DEi n- Delaware's Republican Executive Si in ceeded by Watson, a Democrat. to A COM PLICATED STATE OF AFFAI The Speaker of the Senate Takes 1 Gubernatorial Chair, There Being.! Lieutenant-Governor?Sketch of t Career of the Late Occupant of the S ?His Successor Inaugurated. After an illnes3 that had lasted for sove montb9, Governor Joshua Perkins Hopk Marvil, of Delaware, died at his home Laurel. Just before his inauguration a f months before Goven Marvil was stricken w I KS heart trouble, and v i dH <Sk wS] ^00to take any part 1 ^ 'Jj the ceremonies of his /]4s Auction into office. 1 i8r*J& cently he rallied a J there were hopes of y ultimate recovery. Wh ? ** wns thought that 13 was on the road to r_ J- p- H> mabvil. covery erysipelas set j. and he gradually sank. Governor Marvil was born in Sussex Coi t ty, Delaware, on September 3,1835, and cai (q of an old Delaware family. He was broug up on a farm, and his opportunities to i ,n quire an education were meagre. In eai j. manhood he became a sailor, and later l3 boatbuilder. When he was twenty-eig j. years old he began the manufacture of ag B_ oultural implements. In 1870 he became I ip terested in the manufacture of baskets a j3 orates for fruit, and built extensive works j. Laurel, which have an annual output of t1 r_ million baskets. Governor Marvil had tak j. an aotive interest In Delaware Republic politics for many years, but was never a ce didate for office until he was nominated 'I Governor by his party in August last. I term of office would have expired January 1S'?M * Bv the death of the Republican Executi fi William P. Watson, 8peaker of the 8enal n who is a Democrat, becomes aoting Gc ;e ernor. By the elevation of Mr. Watson the Gubernatorial chair the Senate of t ie State becomes a' tie, four Republicans a four Democrats. Mr. Watson will not sei y. out Governor Marvil's unexpired term, b will act as the Chief Executive of the Stt v until the next general election in Novembi J 1896. y What effect the' death of Governor Mar [g will have upon the United States Sonate cc y test being waged in the Legislature betwe ? Higgins and Addicks is difficult to foreca !e If the Legislature of the State fails to el< the acting Governor of the State can noD ^ nato a Senator, but the United States 8ent ha9 decided against admitting such Senato One of the Ia9t official aots of Govern Marvil was to appoint James D. Spicer, young man in whom he taken a great int< est, State Librarian, but when Secretary n State Smithers brought the commission I his signature, the Governor was unable 0 sign it. More than a dozen offices were l vacant in this way. n I Watson Becomes Governor, d William T. Watson, Speaker of the Ste t Senate, took the oath of office of Govern h of Delaware in the Senate at 12.30 o'clo h p. m. to All the vacancy caused by t death of Governor Marvil. The oath w 0 administered by Chancellor Wolcott. Wj o son will still be a Senator, but will not ai William x. neuorus was uuuoou vyvanvi t )f tempore of the Senate. 1! DR. LANSINC APOLOCIZES. i '. Ha Formally Retracts Hia CUarg Q Against President Cleveland. ? The Rev. Dr. I. J. Lansing, at the Meth n dist Conference in Salem, Mass., created sensation by declaring that President CIe> r land was a drunkard and that he cou [j prove it. The speech was published y various newspapers and the President thoug t It proper to deny, in the most public mann r; possible, the charge of habitu inebriety which was brought against hli e The President's statement covers every pf ticular instance of intoxication alleged i e the Rev. Dr. Lansing. One and all, the charg s of the clergyman are denounced by It] - Cleveland as "wholesale lies and calumnif g not less stupid than they are cruel ai [. wicked." This denial refers not only to t >. alleged ocourrence at the time of the gre . naval parade, and to the banquet at whic d acccording to Dr. Lansing, Mr. Clevelai d was''brilliantly drunk at 10 o'clock, at: it considerably more so, and at 3 o'clock in tl [( morning very drunk," but also to the oth a occasions mentioned by the clergyman 1, affording proof of the President's freque a departure from the restraints of perfect se ? control and the limits of sobriety. 3 At tho Chamber of Commerce dinner < e November 10, lata, one oi uio uuuuaiuua ? e ferred to,by Rev. Dr. Lansing, Dr. Chau cey M. Depow sat near Mr. Cleveland, t can say,'1 reports*Dr. Depew, "that he w _ absolutely sober and in full command oft k faculties. ' At the Reform Club on Decemb li 10, 1892, the Hon. Frederic R. Coud? a sat next, or almost next to t! 0 President. "From first to last." says M t Coudert, "he conducted himself as a ge r tleman, and in a manner befitting his hi; office. To say that he was the worse f c drink is to utter a falsehood." if Now in corroboration of these gentlem y the Rev. Dr. Lansing has issued a letter s- retraction, in which ho saya: e "To the Press: "My allusion mado in a temperance a dress at Salem on Thursday, April 4, the drinking habits of the President the United States was based partly i common report and partly on the tes 8 mony of eyewitnesses. From various ai independent sources, which I believ a to be wholly reliable, I have been inform that the President had been seen on diflff out occasions, and in the presence of ma g persons, in an intoxicated condition. Frc it the circumstantial and detailed character )r these statements I supposed there was doubt as to the facts alleged. I must, thei fore, say that if my statement reproduci fg such testimony is not in harmony with fac I regret having made it. I could ha 1(j neither desire nor motive for saying ar jj thing unkind or uncharitable of the Pre a aent or 01 any parcy wususuuvor. xmo m r_ being one of conflict of testimony bet we witnesses of equal credibility I cannot ( cide, and, since I have no personal kno^ edge apart from the testimony, I withdri the statement and tender apologetic and s: core regrets to the President of the Unit ra State and to the public. I. J. Lansing.' ir r Lives on a Letter-Cltaln. .0 A New York man some time since startec m letter-chain to relieve his financial distre y Since then he has invested In some elegt clothes and moved into a handsome flat. ^ Condition or Ohio's Early Crops. re The flrst official crop bulletin of the y< j_ for Ohio shows the condition of wheat jj April 1 to have been 85 per cent, of the av< 3. age; barley, 83; rye. 85, and fruits, 74. Th< k is 10,500,000 bushels of la?1 year's grain e, producers' hands. i Itaiiimakln? in tho Went. e. The Chicago, Rock L?land and Pacific Rs road ha3 ordered three more specially c( structed cars with which to continue I ;ii raintnaking experiments of Clayton B. Jew in tho arid belt of the West. Bonton Second In Foreign Commerce >d Tho Tort or Boston claims to rank next ii- New York in the value of its foreign co is merce. During 181)1 its exports amountod ly $84,656,63C, and its imports to :$53,398,848. S~ Abolishing Indian Tribes. A commission has been appointed 10 negotiate with tho Ave tribes of the Indi te Nation for tho abolition of their tribal org? le ization. . Kissing the Bible iii Oaths Abolished Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, n< of fled the Bouse of his approval of the I es abolishing the kissing cf the Bible in the i ministration oX oaths. . iT| PRICE OF BEEF ADVANCED The Big: Dealer# In Chicago Say the Sup ply Is Short. Prices of dressed beef havo *>een going n JC- for two weeks. Live beei* to the wholesal | dealer is fifteen per cent, higher in Chicag than it was then: At retail, choice cuts hav risen four to Ave cents a pound, and it is pre dieted it will require a dollar to buy a gooi no steak in a few weeks. The public explanation of the rise offere by the representatives of the Dressed Bee thel Trust is that prime beef cattle are scarce The chancre in conditions, they say. date No back to 1890. when countless herds were dc th? stroyed on the ranges by storms. The de struction of 600,000,000 bushels of corn las eat year by the drought completed what Wester storms began. It does not appear by the records, howevei ral that the receipts of cattle iu Chicago hav fallen off so greatly. At the stock-yards dui ing March and the first week of April, 1894 ln they were 225,000. During the same porio ew this year they were 205,000?not quite ten pe 10r cent, decrease. it. In New York City, at Washington Markel was observed the unusual spectacle of retal fas butohers closing up their stalls temporarily in or permanently going out of business, on ac count of the high price of meat. Two of th oldest butchers in the market close Se" up and more decided to fol nd low . their example. The butcher h ia say they are now paying more for meat thai they have for twenty years. Assistant Dis trict Attorney Mclntyre, of New York City said his office would proceed against thi ?* Chicago meat .combine if evidence were pu in his hands showing that it is forcing up tl.i price of meat. me ;ht THE ST. PAUL AFLOAT. ic rly A Native-Built Steamer for the Americn ' * Line Launched. ^ht rt. The American liner Sc. Paul made amp ,< In- apology at Cramps'shipyard. Philadelphia n<* Penn., for refusing to be launched tw< vo weeks before. She was launched apparent!; en with the greatest ease. She broke away a an the planks that held her fast in the launchim m- cradle were bein^ sawed off. She shool tor her bow perceptibly as she started dowi lis the incline, and then with a steady, even mo 1, tion, far more deliberate than that if her sis ter ship. St. Louis, she slid into the Dela ve ware. The Cramps never had a more sue te, cessful launching. >v- Miss Frances C. Griscom, the sixteen-year to old daughter of President Griscom, of the In he ternational Navigation Company, owners o nd the St. Paul, christened tho ship, ve The luncheon in the mould loft followei iut immediately, and soon the rafters of tlia ite place were ringing with laughter and elo 9r, quence. Governor Hastings, Mayor War wick, President Griscom and Henry W vil Cramp made speeches, as did Mr. J. J. Par ?n- kor and several others of the St. Paul delegn en tion. st. The 8t Paul i9 a sister ship to tho St jet Louis, w^iich is soon to go into commissloi at- and take her placo in the transatlantic fleet ite Her lines have speed in every curve, si re. that when she was on the ways one coul< ior not look up at her without the fee! a ing |that she was springing forward sr- Still, she is not built especially for speed of Like her sister ship, she has seventeen water tor tight compartments. The bulkheads be to tween these compartments are carried wel 0ft up, and there are no docys through them She might be cut entirely in two and her twi halves would float. She will be commis sioned this summer on the American Line be lt0 tween New York and Southampton, or . SPRING FRESHETS. he . The Delaware and Hudson Canal Damagoi Almost Its Entire Length. ro Floods in the Hudson, Mohawk, Delawari and Schuykill Valleys have done great Jam | a&e The indications were that it would De i ?a week before business could be resumed 01 the Delaware and Hudson Canal in Nev York. The freshet damaged the canal al most its ehtire length from Eddyville l< a Honesdale. In dozens of places for mile re- the towpath was washed away, and then I, were several bad washouts, the one at Ellen ville being 1000 feet in leugth. in A fourteen-foot freshet occurred in th< ht Hudson River, at Albany. Comparatively littli er damage was done. Navigation was practi eally suspended on the river. The heav: rains submerged all the low lunds along th< >r- Mohawk River. The river road in Olenville by N. Y. was submerged to a depth of two feet 'es In New Jersey the Delaware River wri higher than for forty years. Troy, N. Y. ;si was threatened with a serious freshet fron ad North Woods. 8treams through New Yorl h0 State were swelled by rain and melted snow at Mills along the New Jersey shore of the 8us h. quehanna were compelled to shut down. id 12 le PEEL'S SUCCESSOR. er 83 William Court Gully Elected Speaker o the Britlfth House of Commonn. The British House of Commons met a in I nmn anii n.t ctnc.li to the electiOI "e" of a Speaker to succeed the Eight Hou uj Arthur Wellesley Peel, resignsd. as Mr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Oppo sition, said that the Government's support o Mr. Gully was without precedent, and, h< >rt believed, dangerous to the future efficiency he of the House. Mr. Gully, ho said, was un [f. known as regards the work of the House Q- having neither taken part in its debates noi ?h served on any of its committees. or Mr. Gully was elected by a vote of 285 tc 274. The Parnellito members voted for thi 0Q Conservative candidate, SirMatthewW. Rid of ley. Mr. Gully expressed his thanks to th( House for his election, and his appreciatioi of the honor and great responsibility whicl id- they had conferred upon him. Sir Willian to Harcourt and Mr. Balfour congratulated Mr of Gully on behalf of their respective parties. ti- Train Bobber Perry Free. ad ed Perry, the noted train robber, whose ox ed ploits a fow years ago, while trying to rob thi >r~ car of the American Express Company 01 ay the New York Central Railroad, caused grea >nJ excitement, with four other inmates of th< ?" Matteawau (N. Y.) State Asylum, escapei no from that institution. They assaulted ? f?" keeper and got away through the scuttle The names of the men were McGuire, O'Don nell, Quigley and Davis. All were dressei v0 alike. A Blf; Mortgage Recorded. ien A trust deed has been recorded in tin County Recorder's office at Bakersfleld, Cal. jll by the Southern Pacific Company, transfer ring all its property, including rolling stock T to the Ceutral Trust Company of New York i the consideration being 358,000,000. Prisoner!* Are Opium Fiend*. j Twenty percent, of the inmates of the Mas sachusetts State Prison are opium fiends am iat the warden says it is impossible to prevcnl the drug being smuggled in to them. An Aitken Bible lirlnji S300. An Aitken Bible, the first Bible in the Eng5a! lish language to bo printed in America, vnv on sold at Boston, Mass., by auction the othei 3r- day for $300. }re ir Newsy Cleaning*. Beef has gone up twenty-five per cent. Cuban insurgents are growing bolder. Dun's Review says trade is improving, ill- Spanish troops are now pouring into Cuba >n- Grip is reported to be dying out in Lon .jie don. ell Copper bottoms may be put on all our war ships. Hypnotism is said to be a cure tor dipso' mauia. f/\ Wai.1- nr* "Rrtrlin'u T3!vnAaiHnn "R'lil.lhl!? h,15 m- begunt0 Cholera Is again ravaging several Russiai provinces. Germany's export trade with America is increasing. to New York City is now agitatiug for double an decker street ears. ia. Military masts are to be abolished fron. the United States Navy. Real Formosa Oolong tea has advanced it ' price on account of the Chinese war. >ti- The threatened drouth all through th< bill West and Northwest has been broken, id-! Apricots and prunes were injured by frosl ...I In the $%nU Clara Yalley ijj California. . j DICOl M DECISIOH. I e New Law Declared Constitutional on All * Points Excepting Two. I THE COURT IS EQUALLY DIVIDED. if ,3 Tax on Real Estate and Municipal and Stat* -m Bonds Exempted?No Opinion Given on ^ Main Points and Case Remanded to th? II Lower Conrts?Effeqf of the Decision on the Revenne?Revised Estimates. ? Intense interest was displaced in the result I, of the income tax suita before the United cl States Supreme Court at Washington. Chief r Justice Fuller read the decision and announced that the Court was evenly divided ii i- L* ky CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. ] 3 , on the main question, and had no opinion on i ^ the law. Therefore the case was remanded - to the lower courts. The Chief Justice, how- < ' J * ever, announced that the Court decided that j ~ a tax on rents and also qn State and munici- j nnl hnnriaia nnnnnsHtiiHonal. The division of the Court was not publicly < j announced by Chief Justice Fuller,-but it ' was as follows: j Against the law?Chief Justice Fuller and * t Associate Justices Field, Gray and Brewer. 1 For the law?Justices Harlan, Shiras, Brown and White. gainst taxing incomes from rents, six to 1 two. Against taxing State and municipal bonds, gQven to one. Chief Justice Fuller said that the Court j could find no difference between a tax on land itself and a tax on rents or income de5 rived from land. The Court, therefore, wn3 j of opinion that a tax on rents or landed in. vestments was a direct tax and unconstitutional. The Court next decided that the tax was 1 unconstitutional so far as it related to in. comes from State, oounty or municipal 1 bonds. It was next ruled that the fact that the law 3 was pronounced unconstitutional in these . two particulars did not invalidate the law as . a whole. It was announced that in this latter conclusion the Court was equally divided and therefore rendered no opinion. The lower Court having ruled in favor of the law by a divided Court, the law would stand except as 1 to rent and State, county and municipal bonds, and on these two points it was directed that the judgment below be reversed. , DISSENTING OPINIONS. 1 Synopses of the Conclusions Reached by l Justices Field, White and Harlan. 7 Justice Field had a dissenting opinion > which was largely devoted to a review of the 3 provision regardlngrents, and was a vigorous 3 denunciation of the principle sought to be . established by the Income Tax law, his conclusions being in conformity with those an? nounced by the Chief Justice. He also ata tacked the law on account of the lack of uni. formity, and dwelt upon its exemptions and y discriminations, which were, he said, 5 olass legislation. He devoted espeoial at. tention to the exemptions of savings banks, mutual insurance companies, and building j and loan associations. He quoted census f figures to show the extent of the operations I oi tnese companies, ana saia mat n wvaa facts were not convincing Congress could J . not be convinced, "though one rise from the . dead." He took issue with those who contended that there oould be no legitimate t limitation upon the power of Congress to im- ( pose taxes. He finished by saying: "I am t of the opinion that the whole law of 1894 is a null and void." f Justice White followed in a second dissent- r ing opinion. He laid stress on the fact that the law does not exempt Judges of United . * States Courts from the payment of the tar. T 1 It was not right, he said, that the Supremo r a I Court should remain silent and make no protest when many Unitod States Judges s drawing small salaries would be affected be- a cause of the law, and he called attention to F f the letter once written by Chief Justice c > Chase to the Treasury officials, protesting v f against the deduction of an income tax f^om - the salaries of United States Judges. 3 , Justice Harlan read the next and last dis- ( r eenting opinion. He is of the opinion that I ' upon principle, as well as under the former > decisions of this Court, a tax on gains, pro- jj 3 fits, and income derived from rents of land, is - not a direct tax on land and that the interest on j Income from bonds is the subject of National n i taxation. Upon the two questions referred * i to, and to which alone, so far as the merits ^ i are concerned, the opinion of the Chief , Justice is directed, I am in entire accord a with Mr. Justice White. I say nothing about n the questions upon which the Court is o equally divided, because in respect to those questions the opinion of the Chief Justice is ? * silent." c i Instantly the opinion was made known its ^ i effect was discussed. It means that new ^ t suits will be brought in the Courts below to c % test the constitutionality of these points in i the law not decided. i Income Reduced One-Half. / " Th6 effeot of the Supremo Court decision In the Income Tax law, so far as the Treasury . Department officials can determine, will be a t reduction of about one-half in the revenue originally estimated as obtainable from that i source, thus making the annual revenue to be expected about $15,000,000. The original ' estimate of 480,000,000 per year was based on c * the assumption that the law would be held c i to be constitutional in all its provisions. 3 Collectors of internal revenue will be noti- 0 fled of the decision and instructed to make * whatever corrections may be necessary * through the decision in the blank forms fur- 1 . nished them by the Commissioner of Internal j Revenue. * s No new forms will be issued, and the work tl t. of preparation for collection of the tax wilJ ? proseed without delay. Explosion in a Coal Sliaft. * * A?nl/uiiAn foL'Qn nlano in thft A lUlilUlO CApiUOlUU UOO vunvu |/*mvv am ?uw ' Blue Canyon Coal mine near Whatcom, Wash. a There were twenty-five or thirty inen in the mine at the time of the explosion. Ten dead r( bodie? had been taken out up to the time oi tl the latest dispatch and it wis supposed then A that the rest of the miners had met death. g G Murdered for Two Dollar*. ,s' 01 John Stephens, a farmer residing in Marion - Township, Noble County, Ohio, murdered his son by striking him on the head with a club. The son refused to give his father $2 re upon demand. e< Bismarck's Visitors. i Prince Bismarck received in Friedricharuhe a delegation of teachers representing the j] 1 higher Prussian schools. In Bis speech ho i, referred to the influence of women upon the ~e] National development, and called thus influ- j, ence an important mark of progress. Fifty j,, years ago, he said, such influence was unknown. Now German mothers fostsred the , National feeling among the children in their earliest years. 1 Furc are Dearer. Furs advanced 10@12>? per cent, in tho ' London sales, which go far toward shaping prices in this country. The gains noted refer to American 'possom and bear with gen- r, eral firmness in other varieties. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED "Washington Item*. Captain Maban has been ordered to special luty in connection with the Naval War Colege at Newport, B. L, during the course :here this summer. Commissioner-General of Immigration Jtump telegraphed an order to New York for :he deportation of the diamond cutters who lately arrived from Europe. The reason for this order is that the m^n are here in violation of the Alien Contract law. Attorney-General Olney expressed the spinion that the Income Tax law, as construed by the United States Supreme Court, would not stand. Meanwhile intending taxpayers flock to make returns to the Internal Revenue officers. The triple screw cruiser Minneapolis, in two tests with Admiral Meade's squadron, shows that she is faster than the New York and burns less coal ner dav. Secretary Carlisle signed an order Increasing the compensation of Dr. Senner, Commissioner of Emigration at New York, from 55000 to $6000 a year. From the last daily statement issued by the Treasury Department it appears that the expenditures for the first 280 days of the current fiscal year exceeded the receipts by $42,299.490. General John G. Farnsworth. of Albany, State agent for New York, died at Washing- , ton in the Arlington, from a stroke of parilvsis. He was born in Elmira, N. Y., in 1832. ^ Secretary Herbert sent orders' to Admiral cviriwifiiLu iu pruuocu wuu iu? warauips w# [>orts in Asiatic Turkey, where the lives of Christians are believed to te in danger. Foretjfn Note*. During the practice firing in the Woo-Sung 1 torts a magazine accidentally exploded. Forty Chinese soldiers were killed and many 1 more were wounded. The Spanish authorities in Cuba report the j iefeat and dispersal of two more insurgent bands; General Guillermo Moncado, a revo- 1 lutionist leader, is dead. In the British House of Commons Speaker j Peel made the announcement that owing to J the condition of his health, he was obliged to resign his office. Oscar Wilde, the poet, novelist, play wright ind apostle of restheticism, was arrested for immoral pfactices in London on a verdict seing rendered for the defendant in his action for libel against the Marquis of Queenshery. General Martinez Campos sailed from Cadiz for Cuba; the defeat of an insurgent uand at Socorro, Cuba, was reported. j The Chinese at "Hai-Cheng fired on a I Japanese flag of truce, wounding the flag i Dearer. Domestic. Mrs. Tessie "Williams was washing the family clothes at Newark, N. J., when Joseph Buck entered the room and shot her ' through the head. The murderer then went nto a front room and killed himself. No t :ause is known for the crimes. The levee troubles at New Orleans, La., ' iave ended. The white cotton loaders went )aek to work with the colored men. Iron workers in Providence, R. L, have received a notice of an adyanco to be made n their wages. At Scranton, Penn.. the jury in the case of Inna E. Dickinson, who sued to recover 950,)00 for her imprisonment in an insane asyum, was dischurged, not being able to igree upon a verdict. There was a mass meeting of Brooklyn jitizens to denounce the trolley car fatalities. The New York baseball team defeated Princeton at New York City by the score. 18 ;o 5. Wages were advanced ten per cent, in a arge Pall River cotton mill. Governor Morton, of New York, made hese selections: Thomas Allison, to be Judge )f the Court of General Sessions, to succeed he late Judge Randolph B. Martinej Jacob tf. Patterson, to be Quarantine Commissionsr; Thomas J. Callaghan, of New York, to >e Port Warden. Disastrous floods were reported throughrat the Naw England and Middle States, rhe floods washed out bridges and caused andslldes which seriously interfered with railroad traffic in various parts of Now York state. W. Jennings Demorest, the founder and rablishfer of Demorest's Family Magazine, vho was well known as a Prohibitionist eeder and philanthropist, died in New York Uity of pleuro-pneumonia. He was born in !few York City on June 10,1822. t As the outcome of his encounter at Little c Jock with Representative Jones, Governor ( Clarke, of Arkansas, went before a magis- j rate, pleaded guilty to carrying concealed i veapons and paid the conventional fine of ^ *50. t General William Mahone made a deed of e rust of a large portion of his Petersburg t Va.) property. The deed is made to secure t he payment of Indebtedness aggregating ibout 880,000. r Chief Brennan, of the Chicago Police De- ^ >artment, has resigned, Thomas M. Grady. Cashier of the First Na- j( ional Bank of Marietta, Penn., has been ar- g ested on a charge of embezzling $25,000. ^ At Little Rock, Governor Clark, of Arkan- d as, spat in the face of Representative Jones, J .nd in an encounter which followed drew a istol, but did not discharge it. The diffl- e ulty was the result of charges that briber}- 5 pfnfi Mnnnnni in tlin T iirnal fl f nro T (W I (Hii^UUl 1X1 bUC XiV<{)101UliU4Va c The New York League Club defeated the ' rnlo College nine at baseball in New York 1] Jity by the score of 7 to 5. Frauds upon the Government to the extent ? f 880,000 have been discovered in the mint f ,t Carson City, Nev. 11 Mrs. Clara Gregory, wife of a longshorenan named Jesse M. Gregoi.v, was shot twice |] q the head and killed by her husband, in *i lew York City. , j There has been organized in New York City * i company with $300,000,000 capital to oper- d ,te telephones all over the United States, in fi opposition to the Bell Company. 1< At a meeting of the Academy of Medicine. J ?ew York C.ty, Dr. Herman M. Biggs and ither prominent physicians praised anti- n oxineas a remedy for diphtheria. Dr. J. E. 'i Winters attacked it as dangerous and with?ut curative properties. tl o WHEN CURFEW RINGS. 11 a 111 Children Under Sixteen Muftt Go In at n 9 O'Clock. I The famous Mosier ordinance, providing jjj hat all children under sixteen years of age 0 hall leave the streets of Stillwater. Minn., t< ,t 9 o'olook, when curfew rings, has gone h Qto effect and is rigidly enforced. Any b hild found on the street after 9 o'clock is ompelled to give a good account of him- t< elf, and if not the child is taken either home p r to the city jail and parents notified that *' hey must aid in enforcing the ordinance, ft 'he ordinance has been very .satisfactory in he city thus for, and that other cities e< hroughout the State can see the good re- u ults of the movement is demonstrated by p he number of applications received from p vorywhore for copies of the ordinance and F 3r a short sketch of how it operates. C m Stone Worth S9.000.000 For u Bridge. 'r m The committee on selecting stone for the ? butments of the proposed bridge across the [udson between New York and New Jersey jcently granted the contract for furnishing ie stone for the New Jersey side to Joseph ^ tendler, of Wilkesbarre, Penu. He will bein work as soon as the stone has passed Government inspection. The cost of the .one will be between $8,000,000. and 80,000, "). w A Remarkable Counterfeit. A remarkable counterfeit quarter-dollar, lade almost entirely of silver, has been dis- el jvered in Baltimore. Sli ai A Plague of Locust*. For the first time in the memory of man [oroceo is suffering from a severe plague of ?custs. The insects made their appearance ^ lrly in March and it is feared the entire ivrvest in the province of Casalilane has jen destroyed. er m la Chance for Mexico's Orange*. The Florida freeze is giving Mexico a lance to place its oranges in the markets of le United States. bj The Big Hat Crusade. ro Members of the W. C. T. U. have agreed tc . smove their hats at all indoor gatherings. ^ kl " . ; < r . ^ '' ";'i FOB A HCABAGDA CASAL) : Official Exhibition of This Country's' Interest in the Project. ?? ivti INSPECTION OF THE ROUTE. ? -f Three United SUtes Commissioners to B< Conveyed to Greytown for the PurpoM of Investigating the Feasibility of th? Waterway?Description of the Proposed Course of the Canal* President Cleveland has determined that an ofacial exhibition of the interests of thla country in the Nicaragua Canal, which was , authorized at the last session of Congreea, shall be promptly made, and the Government Commission to examine the canal route, foi ' i . which the 8undry Civil bill made t20,000 * Immediately available, is to be sent to Greytown soon on board a United States warBhip, to emphasize the concern of this Gov-; ernment In the enterprise of American' . citizens who have been acting under ? ' f charter granted-by Congress in 1889. The. programme of the Administration's action ' was agreed upon at a Cabinet meeting, when 8ecretarios Lamont and Herbert were directed to select a member of the corps of Army engineers and, one of the Naval civil engineers, who, with; i a civilian, constitute the board of engineer* charged with "ascertaining the feasibility,; * j permanence and cost of construction; V'V.-? and completion" of the Nicaragua Canal. This board "shall visit and personsally inspect the route of said canal, examine! ? and consider the plans, profiles, sections, prisms and specifications for Its various parts,: and report tnereon to the President on or before November 1, next." ROUTE OF THE C*NAU Proposed Course By Which the Atlsntfo , ; and the Pacific Ocean* Will Be Joined. San Juan del Norte, or Greytown. on the Atlanta and Brito on the Pacifio side of the isthmus of Tehauntepeo aro the two ends of the proposed ship waterway, employing the' - 1 3an Juan River'. Lake Nicaragua, and some ' V smaller basins In the western slope. - i ? - ' i s 3 ?^jW<g 1 j^Jllilfe *s .Hp" Y A BOUTE OT THE NICAEAQUA CANAL. t'y ;\ 'The distance from port to port is 169Jf, \"$ niles, of which 26% miles," according to the > lompany's survey, "will have to be an exsavated channel, and 142% miles in lakes, Ivers and basins. The summit is neoessari- ,y \ y Lake Nicaragua, 110 feet above the sea. # .here will be three locks near either end; > y. he summit level maintained to within 125? oiles of the Atlantic and extending to w!tn- ; n 3Yi miles of the Pacific." The whole' i oute is divided into four divisions. First, the eastern from the sea about 19 niles inland, in three locks to a small basin mown as the San Francisco, will lift the westward bound ships by steps of 31 feet into : he first foot-hills of the eastern divide, 30 > set higher utilizing a stream called the Deeado, and 45 feet still above through the leaviest cut of the whole course, through the .; ividing ridge 4nto the valley of the Son . > r, unn?or a total rise of 10G feet. Second, the San Francisco Division inludes the next 12>{ miles from the San 'rancisco basin westward, utilizing the ** ouree of another smull stream, the Limplo, lience by means of flooded valleys, affordag a broad waterway to a dam called the ' V' >choa dam, in the San Juan, where the junc- ' ..' < ion with the river is made. This dam. is to old the level of the river up to the 106 feet, lie maximum level reached on the divide, nd favors the river way to the lake. Third, for the River and Lake Division here are to be 121 miles accounted for? tiat is, to the west shore of Lake Nicaragua.. n the river channel a lot of rock blasting, rill be required to secure the necessary epth and width. Allowance is to be made or the natural drainage of the lake by allowing a fall of 4 feet from the lake level of 10 feet to the minimum river level of 106 set at Ochoa dam. In the lake considerable iud dredging will be required for 1400 feet rom the west shore. Fourth, the Western Division comprises tie remaining 17 miles from the west shore f Lake Nicaragua?9 miles excavation outng through the western ridge, 5 miles cross the flooded Tola basin, and the re- .} mining 3 miles to the Pacific Ocean at irito, by three locks (Nos. 4. 5 and 6) with ' fting distance of from i06 to 114 feet, varying l the last lock according to the rise and fall f the ocean tides. Here it will be necessary ) artificially improve the harbor of Brito v a *?hre;ikwater." Dart of which has already een constructed. The estimated time of transit from ocean ) ocean is 28 hours for the 169>? miles. The , nssage of the Suez Canal. 100 miles, requirea ' 1 hours. The cost of all construction la stimated by the company to be 165,084,176. The following persons have been appointi Commissioners to investigate and report' pon the feasibility, permanence and exense of the Nicaragua Canal on the route roposed by the construction company: rom the Army, Major William Ludlow, orps of Engineers; from the Navy, Com:ander U. T. Endicott, Civil Engineer, and' om civil life, Alfred Noble, of Chicago, ember of the American Society or mvu ngineers. The Commission will recoive formal inructions from the Secretary of State, and ion proceed to Mobile, Ala., and sail on the arship Montgomery for Greytown. 108 Killed by TrolIcj'S in Brooklyn. Irene Madden, a pretty little girl who ould have been six years old next day, was lied by a trolley car, almost in front of her )me at 176 Sackett street, Brooklyn. She is ie 108th victim of the trolley cars since ectrieal propulsion was introduced on the irface lines in Brooklyn, about two years , id a half ngo. Killed by a Slate Senator. State Senator J. J. Hurt, of Wyoming, ho is also Mayor of Caspar, Wyoming, ictand killed William Miline. a sheep herd, who had been in Mr. Hurt's employ for any years. Senator Hurt is one of the i rgest sheep owners in the State. Maxim Guns Kaln Death. Maxim Runs were used with deadly effect f the British troops in the fighting In Chlt1, India. The Invaders, under UmraKhan, Jendol, numbered about 12,000, of whom 0 were killed. The British lost only three lied and perhaps fifty wounded. J