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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
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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. ^
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FOB A HCABAGDA CASAL)
:
Official Exhibition of This Country's'
Interest in the Project.
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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 ?
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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