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ACLEfMBAMIEBW Plainfield First National Bank Loses $22,765 in a Mysterious Way. TAKEN U BROAD DAYLIGHT. Ow of the Oldest Institutions in Northern ??ew .Terney Victimized ? Supposition That a Stranger Kngaped a Clerk in Conversation While Hl? Confederate* Beached the Vault. The citizens of Plainfield, N. J-. were astounded to learn that bank robbers had Molen S22,7G5 from the vault of tho First national Bank of that city, and had accomplished the theft so skilfully that tbe hour of the robbery was not certain ; neither was there any good clew to 4 tho identity of the guilty ones. Tho ( money was supposed to have been taken in broad daylight, while all save two of the tank employes wero at luncheon, and this fact, with one or two unusual circumstances, led Inspector Byrnes to believe that some of the most skilful robbers in the country had nade Plainfleld the headquarters of their perations. Tbe bank is located at the corner of Front rtreet and Park, in tho business center of th? ?ty. The banking offices are on the first floor, and there are law o'fficcs and othor business offices on the upper floors. The money was in two packages. One contained $20,000 in new bills ranging in alue from SI to $1000. The other contained #2765 in mutilated bills. The theft was not discovered until the hank was about to close for the day. Then Thomas Curran, a bookkeeper. asked Cashier Runyon for the jnutilated hills, and a search revealed the iact that they had disappeared, together With the other money. Tho bank employs seven persons. They are F. S. Runnyon, Cashier; D. M. Runyon. Assistant Cashier; Adalbert Vail, Thomas Curran, William Day and Fred Haynes, 'bookkeepers, and Iiert Steinor, .assistant bookkeeper. There were nearly one hundred persons who entered the place during the noon hours on the supposed day or the robbery to transact business. At 32.15 o'clock p. m. Cashier Runyon went out. He had hardly reached the lower steps of the bonk when a man passed him and entered the bank. The latter went up to the window and said to Vail: "'There is a gentleman outiride in a buggy who wants to talk to Mr. Haynes." The man then turned around and went out. Haynes found a man sitting in a country wagon dressed like a farmer. The man had * patch over his eye. When Haynes asked him what he wanted he replied by saying that he understood that Haynes did a little bookkeeping after banking hours, and asked him if he could go to Scotch Plains, where he hod a farm, and straighten out his books. Haynes refused and returned to his desk. It is supposed that the man was one of the thieves, and thought that he could hold Haynes in conversation long enough to* allow his confederates to carry out their scheme. Haynes, however, entered the bank so quickly that they did not do anything at that time. A quarter of an hour afterward a woll dressed man walked up to the window where Assistant Cashier llunyon wan writing au?l said to him: "Can I have your attention a lew moments? I want to transact some business with the bank." He told the Assistant Cashier that he wanted to know about depositing some trust money. While the stranger-was talking to llunyon another man went to the window where Bookkeeper Vail was at work. He asked Tail some questions regarding the computing el interest on throe notes bearing different dates. Vail explained to the man about the interest. but the individual seemed to be rather dull and asked the question over again several times. While the strangers were in the bank Hayncs went to dinner and Steiuer was out on an errand. It was then the robbery was committed, according to the supposition. The vault is located back of the clerks' office in the directors' room. It was supposed that the thief slipped in through another door to where the vault was, and quickly carried off the packages, while his accomplices were talking to Runyon and Vail. The bank directors held a meeting and summoned Bank Examiner George Stone to meet them. The bank has a capital of $200,800. and the surplus is $50,000. After the meeting the directors issued a circular stating thattho loss would not iu any way interfere with the business ot the bank. COTTON-DESTROYINC INSECT. A Mexican Pest That Has Just Arrived in (lie South. j | The Department of Agriculture has just iaBued a circular to cotton planters relative to a new and very destructive insect that has*; ? been brought across the Rio Grande from Mexico into the cotton belt of Texas, and^ which during 1894 seriously injured the cotton crop over a territory of about 6000 square miles. It is a weevil, which attacks the cotton bolls. It punctures the' bolls with its beak and lays eggs in the hole thus made. Tho grubs hatch and ruin both tne seed and flbre, thus destroying simultaneously both products of the cotton plput. The Department of Agrioulture haa appointed a skilled agent, who is located ax Brownsville. Tex., and who will study-'the life, history and habits of the new pest and experiment extensively with remedies during the coming aeason, under -tfia'-direction of Mr. L. O'Howard, chiof entomologist of the department. y ii s. Ostracized Because of Tattoo Marks. Mrs. 'George Newhouse. of ferry street, AuwiUK, in. j., compiaineu w .mage juou in 'be First Criminal Court that her occupation cf washerwoman was ruined by lier husband, ho had tattood various devices on her arms gainst her will, thus making her an object ?i ridicule in a laundry where she was employed. New ho use was arrested aud compelled to furnish bonds for the support of his wife. Wo Have the Fastest Squadron. During the recent run of Pear-Admiral Meade's squadron from l'ort au Prince to Colon a speed of thirteen knots an hour was maintained?a higher rate than has hitherto fceen attained by a squadron in fleet formation. A Hota Dcfcut in Madagascar. Despatches from Madagascar say that the Sova camp at Miadaua was captured by the French. The native loss was 100 killed and many more wounded. No Frenchmen were tilled and only three were wounded. He Stole Over SGO.OOU. J. IX. Holland, Cashier of the Merchants' and Farmers' National Bank, of Charlotte. 31. C., is a defaulter to the amount of $(>0,000 or more. Mr. Holland's peculations have been carried ou for eight years, and he has anaged till the last few days to hide them from discovery. II" has confessed. Wandering Willies Scorned Work. The tramp ov -rseer of Frauklyn, Penu., tried to make the knights of the road, with kail und chain attachment, breakstones, but vithout success. The tramps were kept out II /!? ot< ItiiiKTli thnrnni'lik' i1 nmi< Iti?il rtll uuy, iUI'l 'IIIIMMIKI4 vuv.v?.n...j x.?* and receiving dinner. would nut disgrace the professon. To Enforce {tsn UritUh Ultimatum. Tlx* Xicaraguan Government is rul vised of Uie arrival of lb roe liritish warships at Corinto to enforce t.in* ]>ritish ultimatum. President Zvlav.i cabled to Lord Kimberley, British Secretary of Statu for Foreign Affairs, asking him to defer a hostile demonstration aati! the proposition of compromise sent by XJcaragua through the Salvadorean Minister In London can bo considered. There is no American war vessel at Corinto. Kditon'8 Latest Toy. iihw ('nmhinutlon of th? binatn. cope and phonograph has beoa christened ' Ike kinetophoQL'. ' \ THE NEWS EPITOMIZED jj Wanliincton Items. L , England's latest move in Nicaragua was discussed by the President and Secretary Gresham A The full text of Chief Justice Fuller's opinion on the income tax was made public. H. H. Kohlsant. the new owner of the Chicago Times-Herald, offered Mr. Eckels, the Controller of the Curroncy. 310,000 a year to beccme financial editor of that paper, ? ] Ho declbtoJ. Th? wadding of Miss Mary Loiter, daughter of the Chicago millionaire dry goods mer- jQ chant, to Geonre Nathaniel Curzon. Member of the British House of Commons, took place in Washington. Mathew Calloway, the colored man who murdered Jim Walter?, colored, at Santa Fe in last July, was hanged at Columbia, Tenn. He confessed on the scaffold. ( The President granted pardons in the cases of William Goulrt, Jr., sentenced to six years of in the Albany Penitentiary, and Anthony jja Gould, sentenced to six years in the Erie . Penitentiary for abstracting funds from the City National Rink of Albany, N. Y. ?ti Secretary Carlisle left Washington for Cov- '7 insrton, Ky., to attend the funeral of his tw Acting Sec re tarj- Hamlin decided that the gc sale of stamp albums containing printed fao similes of stamps is illegal. The decision of J the Treasury follows the recent opinion of MU Attorney-General Olney on that question. mc Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassa- (ja dor, refused to intorfcre in behalf of Robert ^ W. Buchanan, tho wife-poisoner, condemned an to death in New York. Me * Dn Domestic. tio HECOED OF THE LEAOIJE CLUBS. *a( Per Per Clubs. Won. I/>st. ct. Club1*. Woa. Lut. C*. ^0 Pittsburg.. 4 1 .800 Wash'ng'n. 2 2 . 500 ?>ri Boston 3 1 .750 St. Louis.. 2 3 .400 b?1 Baltimore. 3 1 .750 Louisville. 2 3 .400 Fr Cincinnati. 3 2 .COO Now York. 1 3 . 250 Fr Chicago... 3 2 .C00 Philadel... 1 3 .230 Bt( Brooklyn.. 2 2 .C00 Cloveland. 1 4 .200 ah 'Morris Hopkins, colored, was hanged at fl Richmond, Va.. for tho murder of H. S. Par- "V sons, his employer, whom he killed with a cIub- rej Tho defalcation of Paul Schulz. land agent to of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Tacoma, [n Wash., is now estimated at 8500,000. [rc The New York City Police Reorganization at Kill Trnc linnton in f-tiA Senate !lt AlbaDV 1>V a d6 tie vote, three Republicans joining the Demo- nil crats in opposition to it. mr The Pennsylvania House at Harrisburg passed the Greater Pittsburg" bill, and also "c the bills known as the second and third J501 ' Greater Pittsburg" bills by decisive ma- ? jonties. [hl The defalcations of Cashier Risley, of the Willimantic (Conn.) National Bank, amount pr to $125,000. The city was in a state of con- ce, sternation over the discovery, and a run on a jjj local savings institution took place. George Payne, aged sixty-four years, an tre old and respected business man of Rome, &g, committed suicide by cutting his throat with rec a razor. He had been mentally deranged for < several days. no Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt de- thi cided to acccpt one of the Police Commis- Bes sionorships of the city of New York tendered pH to him by Mayor Strong. f?o Louisville's Board of Trade authorised the , appointment of delegates to the Memphis .; Sound Money Convention. ~ Julia Gross, a sixteen-year-old girl, who jq, was lured away by a young man from her pe home in New York City, and returned two j days after, was found lying dead in the yard f0] of her home. She had committed suicide C0] through remorse. tal Edward B. Shaw, of Newburyport, was all nominated for State Treasurer and Receiver- de General by the Republicans of the Massa- Sti chusetts Legislature. The nomination was th< tantamount to election. ] Thomas S. Borden, agent and treasurer of the Metacomet and Anawan Mills, has lied from Fall River, Mass. He is short in his , accounts to the extent of 86000. j Salvatore Cavaliere, an Italian shoemaker, ^ is in the Lour Branch (N. J.) jail charged pa with a score of burglaries, committed during ^ the last five years. Three houses are said jj? to have been built by him with Btolon lum- ,je ber. He had enough stolea jgjfii^oji hand to stock a store. Up Mrs. Catharine ScottJ bellereaWbe tho lm oldest woman in Brooklyn, died at her homo, coi in the city, aged 103. Despite her great age ju= 3he had not a gray hair in her head, and oai read without glasses. pa The First National Bank of Willimantlc, Conn., was closed^tar- order of Controller Eckels. ItwaHrsurg*LsifcfbWillimantie busi- . ness men. whose dopoeife in the bank aggre- 5 gate about .9250,900^ 'Its cashicr was unwilling to assume responsibility for some of [ its assets. .( .%;>; - Ne H. JEL. Kbhlsaat has purchased a control- roj ling"Jnter9Rt .In the Chicago Times-Herald, wh$e formeit^proprietor, James W. Scott, 01 died a few days before, and converted it in- ha to a Republican, protection and hard mouey thi caoen- His transfer left Chicago without a th< bemftioratic morning daily newspaper. ha A. train struck a team containing Mr. and B'3 Mr^( Ilcnry Frank, aged sixty-two and Pl< nity-flve respectively, near Richland, Pcnn., yej and both were instautiy killed. The couple jtfere wealthy. ^ Beef is so high priced in Chicago the poorer residents of the city subsist on fish, )jH which thousands are catching in Lake Michigan. , cr< Alice Walsh was murdered in Thompson street, New York City, in a fashion that thi strongly recalls the crimes in the White- we chapel district of London. thi By the capsizing of a skiff in the Delaware ba River at Philadelphia, Penu.. three boys were drowned. They were Julius Haeflin, a eighteen years old. and his brother, Ernest, wi sixteen years old, and John Miller, sixteen ' years old, all of the Kensington district. "Ii Paul Fenimore Cooper, son of the famous J American novelist, died at Albany, n y- n: Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, an- mj nounced himself as in favor of free silver de coinage at 16 to 1. ie< Mrs. Delia T. S. Parnell, mother of the lec noted Irish leader, was assaulted and robbed a3 by footpads near her home at Bordentown, ch N. J. Her injuries were serious. let The Empire State Society, of tho Sons of the American Revolution, presented a loving 101 cup to the New York City Chapter of the W? Daughters of the American Revolution. At Winchester. Va.. Thornton Parker was , executed. On March 5 Parker made an assault upon Mrs. Milton, of Middletown. In R. C. WicklifTe, an ex-Governor of Louisi- Ca ana, died at Shelbyville, Ky., at the home of Wf J. C. Beckham, his son-in-law, from grip. He wt was born in Washington County, Kentucky, as? seventy-five years ago. H< Three workmen were killed, two others j*e were fatally injured and one seriously hurt ln by the fall "of a great derrick .in the yards of the South Chicago (III.) Shipbuilding Com- 1 pany. A dead whale, sixty-feet long, picked up oft Chatham, Mass., was taken to New York ' City for exhibition by the tug Taurus. ad American beef costs more in New York City than it does in London. The Ammen ram Katahdin was tested ofl 1 Booth Bay, Me., and showed wonderful W( speed over the mile course and ease in maua'uvering. a j Foreign Note*. The Russian, French and German Ministers in Tokio protested against the acquisi- en tion of Chinese territory by Jajiau. Tho Dnieper River has overflowed the dis- 0[ triets of Ivied and TchernisofTt in Russia. (0 Four hundred houses have been destroyed, many persons have been drowned and an ? enormous amount of property has been damaged. Great Rritain told Ni 'aragua she 'would occupy Corinto unless her ultimatum was . complied with, and would respect the lives, private property and trade of all foreigners. Japan will share with the treaty Powers the ( nneessinns rilit:iir?<il hv her from China: ; the Mikado has issue l u proclamation praising the Nation, the army ;<ud the navy, and virging moderation in the hour of victory. 20 The steamer Montevideo arrived at Guaitanamo, Cuba, from Cadiz, with 1450 Spanish regular troops on board. Colonel Bosch s* reports that with his command he met .1 m band of Cuban insurgents. He immediately attacked them, killing ten, wounding many 01 more, and capturing much booty. " th Mr. Gully was installed as Speaker of the British House of Commons; ex-Speaker ht Peel has been made a viscount. U RANCEDEPOBTSWALLf i Ex-United States Consul on Ti for Conspiracy. ATE DEPARTMENT'S. ACTIO hn L. Waller, a Colored Man, Fonne a Citizen of Kansas, Sentenced Twenty Years' Imprisonment in Mi ajjascar and Then Removed to Frai Under a Strong Guard of Troops. rhe steamship Djemmah. from the Isls Madagascar, aorlved at Marseilles, Fran ving onboard, under guard, John L. W , an American citizen, formerly Uni ites Consul at Tamatave, who was rece tried by court-martial and sentenced enty years' imprisonment, on the cimi having been a spy in the interest of ?vas. i rioannMh from Wftflhincrton savs: 1 39 of ex-Consul Waller has assumed >re serious aspect. The 8tate Departnv s been Informed that this American 1 en sent from Madagascar to Frai der a strong guard. Waller was tried idagaacar by a French court mar) t'he charge of having furnished inforn n to the Hovas of a contemplated sk by French troops on the village hamafy, on March 2. He was senten< twenty years' imprisonment in uMalagi [son, according to the reports which In en in circulation, and the action of i ench Government in deporting him ance, while considered a gross outrage He Department authorities,will doubtles i them in their efforts to obtain redress. The President was informed of this tuni .airs vy OBureiary uicsuuui, auu ?ii?oi \ ssing the subject, It was decided to uct Ambassador Eustis, the diploma preservative of the United States in Fai see Waller immediately upon his firri France and obtain a full, clear statem >m him. Unless the information alree hand is refuted by subsequent evidenc* maud for Waller's release and an ind :y for the injuries he has suffered will ide. The action of France in deporting Wa! >m Madagascar has created considern mment In. Administration circles, n consequence a strong feeling is grow it there is, after all, a great deal of tn the report that Waller was arre3t ed and sentenoed 90 as to permit ench to confiscate his immense a ssion of land, made to him by the How Js concession is of great value, bel avily wooded with india rubber and ot les. The French energetically protes ainst its cession to Waller and would ne' iognize its legality. Dur Government has uniformly he tably in cases arising in Central Ameri it an American citizen cannot be disp ssed of a concession so long as he co es with its terms, by any revolution in 1 vernment of country where it may uated. rhe case is very much complicated by 1 arge that the French have maltreated I iller. At the French Embassy it is h * aP "PfAn/iK nffloflrfl r rfectly justifiable. [f the address of Embassador Eustis ro the American Society in London can asidered to indicate the position he \ ce in the Waller case, he will doubtless in his power to bring about a visron mand from the Government of the Uni ites for an apology and for reparation fr 5 French Governmet. [t is suggested that Ambassador Eui ly have had in mind the French op ona in Madagascar when he referred i speech to the action of Europe in "p [ling out countries as she would a cak is pointed out that this langua jur;h not applied by him to any ( riicular Nation, may have been prom by the events in connection with i idagascar expedition which have come \ r his observation as a watcher of events i French capital, and that he may en on his investigations of the Waller c pressed with the belief that the ent arse of France in that island has been i stifled, and that any injury that an Ame a citizen may have suffered should be ired. oir? paw/ nrrii riTinw mar Robs the Same Institution 1 Brotlier-ln-Law Seely Mulct. rhe National Shoe and Leather Bank w York City, which in November last v 5bed of $354,000 by Samuel C. Seely, < its bookkeepers, is again a sufferer at1 nds of a defaulter. The amount tat is time is $20,000, and, strangely enouj ) robber, who has been arrested and w s confessed, is Samuel E. Ay mar, aj :ty, a brother-in-law of Seely and an e >ye in the bank for the past twenty-t ars. The net loss to the bank will be 315,0 d this is provided for by a guarantee fu $50,000, especially set asideforsucha ci igoncy. Since the Seely defalcation i nk has been through a reorganization, e this fact is due the discovery of Aymo )Oked work. kymar worked boldly. His desk adjoii it of the receiving teller. When th is a long row of depositors in line?a - >-> >- I mlfh I 3 OOOKKOtjpet" ? lULlg uuuutbuuu 1I11U nk gave him a personal ncqualntaace w )st of the depositors?Aymar would saj depositor immediately in front of ndow: 'You needn't wait for the teller, 1 ink, I'll take your deposit." Grlad to get through with his business ickly as possible, the depositor wo nd his pass book to Aymar, who wo ike the credit and return the book. If positor's name happened to be on Aymi Iger he would credit the amount on Igor, and then put so much of the dep< was cash in his pocket. Then he wo arge to one of the large accounts on Iger the amount he had pocketed from posit he had just been good enough Ice in order to keep the depositor fr liting. Bis Fire in Indian Territory. rhe main business portion of Ardm< dian Territory, for six solid blocks ,ddo street, north and south of Main stn is destroyed Dynre. oixty uusmcaa uuu >re entirely destroyed. The loss i gregate $500,000. The United States Co )use and jail were also destroyed. ' at so intense that the vault and s the Court House were cracked and urt records partly destroyed. The Maso imple was also burned. Around the World for 8610. Tourist trips around the world are i vertised for $610. The Labor World. The United States has 15,000,000 work >men. Parisian cabmen are not allowed to sm pipe while on duty. Seven thousand oigar-makers are on rike In New York City. Smallpox is raging among the woolen r iployes in Cleveland, Ohio. London papers accuse the Salvation At having encouraged the "sweating" ! m. IVru has cheap labor and extensive < slils whose product will be shipped topoi i tiie Pacific by a new company formed e purpose. Female bootblacks are increasing in in >r iu Paris. They dress neatly, and mxlngly polite. It is supposed that all the New Enqli itton manufacturers will increase the wa their operatives. Pitts villi? (lvnn.) miners to the numbe 0 organized u branch of the United 31 orkers of America. The best section foreman of the New Y roet cleaning force is said to bo a colc on from Athens, Gn. Operating miners in the Wheeling Dist 1 the Baltimore and Ohio road will o elr mines with new men. The building trades unions in Philadelp ive withdrawn their delegates from nited States Labor League. BA DEMAND ON GUATEMALA. The State Department to Take Up Cases < Abuse of Americans. The State Department at Washington h ia| made a demand upon the Guatemala Qover ment for an explanation of the alleged abu of American citizens in Guatemala. It said that Henry J. Sttbbs and other office of American vessels have been seized M Guatemalan ports and forced into the mi: tary service, and that American workm< peacefully engaged in their labors have be< rly ? ~~ i in ^ " ial PRESIDENT BABBI03, OF GUATEMALA. ttft a*". Imprisoned and maltreated, and that othe ?i still have been subject to the indignity < lashings upon the bare back. The Depar ment of 8tate, besides calling for an explan tion of President Barrios, has directed a rijr 9 investtgation through United States consral. officers, and indemnity will be asked. sly AMERICAN FLEET FOR KIEL l of lis- Finest Squadron Sent to Europe Since tl ?n- Civil War. itic t-is. The United States is to be represented val tho Kiel celebration. June 19, by the fine 0,nt American fleet that has visited Eur tdy j & pean waters since the Civil Wa src- headed by the armored eruis be New York as flagship, and the triple-sere flier Columbia, which will be detached f< Her this purpose from Admiral Meade's flee ble with the addition of the San Francisco ar md Marblehead. now in the Levant. Ing Admiral Kirkland, in charge of the Eur mh pean station, will command the squadro: ed, The fleet will impress European Nations wil tho tho progress accomplished in rebuilding tl on- American Navy. The New York has r as. superior for offensive and defensive pu Ing poses, combined with speed, and the Colun her bia excels all vessels except the Minneapol ted in speed and staying power. irer Considerable political significance is a tached to the order sending the New Yoi >ld, and Columbia to the North 8ea and throup ca, the new canal into the Baltic, whore the la os- American warship appeared on a mission i >m- mercy, carrying corn for the starving pea the ants of Russia. Extremely unusual are tl bo the visits of American warships to Germa ports and the Sandinavian coast, and her tho tofore the Baltic has been practically Sir. sealed sea to them. eld The detachment of these two effective ve vas sels, the New York and the Columbia, fro iub uuinu squauruu, is UKea asiin nauuwu be- indication of the confidences of the Admini be tration that the United States is in no dangi rill of being involved in trouble over the affai do of American republics, and that the Cube jus and Nicaraguan disturbances will be settlt ted without our intervention, unless diplomat om only. 5ti3 CHICKASAWS WAGE WAR, er in ar. Insurgents Pnt the Governor of the N: e." tlon to Flight. Se> Couriers from Tishomingo, the capital i pt. the Chiokasaw Nation, report that a pitche the battle raged between the forces of tho Go Ja- ernment, under Moseley, and two hundrc insurrectionists. Six people were killed an ^qa eight wounded, according to the report, 'ft 7.0 greatest excitement prevailed. ' The cause of the outbreak is bad bloc " over political matters. There has long bee ~ a bitter feeling at the Chiokasaw seat < government. Its origin dates back to the r fusal of the Legislature at its last session 1 recognize Willis Brown, Charles Brown an Noah McGill as Sheriffs of the Nation. Tt 11$ Legislature was seconded in its position t ine governor. Governor Moseley issued orders to o of Sheriffs, Constables and Deputies througl pas out the Nation to report to him at on< ,ne with arms. When the officers gather* around the Governor's house, 200 ei tbe raged men, headed by McGill and the Brow :en brothers, rushed from adjoining houses, an ?h, a deadly riot followed. The mob took po 'ho session of the eapitol. Governor Moseley ac ;ed his official retinue escaped, by hard runninj im- to houses in the outskirts of the town, wo Trie Governor has called a special sessic of the Legislature, to take action upon tl 00, existing state of disorder. Tishomingo wi md then virtually under the control of a savaj an- mob?and white people were fleeing, the ?-3 CAMPOS IN COMMAND. 1Q<J n? Takes the Field In Cuba With a For* ere of OOOO Men. General Martinez Campos left Guantan ith mo, on the day after Jiis arrival in Cuba fro rto Spain, for the field of hostilities with 601 bla troops. Mr< General M&sso, an insurgent leader, issu< a manifesto declaring death to any peai i M commission. The Insurgents have 9000 mf ul,j and are gaining strength every day. The uld control the province of Santiago de Cuba, the General Campos issued a proclamation as! ir'g ing the support of I he various political pa the ties, and promising to implant reform at tl )3it conclusion of the rebellion, which he hopi will be speedily terminated. hig The town of Las Palmas has been burn< the by the insurgent leader Cebreco, and tl to town of Bayamo was besieged by the reb om, leader Crombot with 500 men. Double Crime of a Wealthy Alan. A. Schleiter fatally shot his wife at I< 5r0r Grove, Iowa, and then killed himself. I oa had evidently been planning the crimes f set, some time. A few days before he made ises will leaving the bulk of his property, abo irill $60,000. to his children. Mrs. Schleiter w; iurt his second wife, and the union was not rhe happy one. lafe An Oriental Triple Alliance. A telegram from Tokio says that t] Mikado of Japan has expressed a desire visit Pekin and discus3 with the Chinese Er low peror the project of an allance. He pr poses also to invite Siam to ally herself wi China and Japan. Carnon Mint Dismantled. ing Mint Director Preston has ordered the i 0].e moval to the San Francisco Mint of $530,0 of gold bullion and $130,000 of silver bulli< a now at the Carson (Nov.) Mint. About $60( 000 in unrellnod silver now at the Carsi ... Mint will subsequently be removed to Si QlU Francisco. This removal of the bullion fro Carson practically completes the dismantle rnTT lUnl j ui iuai luiuui jys England Refuse* to Arbitrate. [nts England has refused to accept Nicaragu: for proposal to submit their dispute to arbitr tion. i rn * u Water-l'Ipes Illocked l?y Eels. The Konotuae reservoir, which supplies X< 1UIJ London, Conn., with water, is full of fish ai ges eels. No less than half a dossen factori have had to stop recently because ei r 0[ blocked the water-pipes. [ine The proscription of fishing will have to raised at the reservoir or all business threatened with a standstill. Even t ?"l street-sprinkler takes eels from the hydran ' The Water Commissioners threaten to ta down the "No fishing" signs at Ivouom rict Lake. pen Diaz Greets Our New Minister. bia Matt Ransom, United States Minister Mexico, presented his credentials and w received cordially by President Diaz. JMMTOir ARRESTED., 03 q- The Railroad Magnate Charged With l 3? Violating Interstate Commerce Law. ' C ? i K INDICTMENT FROM CALIFORNIA, ' m P a m r The Charge Based on the Issuance of a ^ Southern Taclflc Railroad Pass?Ap- s plication for a Warrant of Removal to ^ San Francisco?Released on His Own f Recognizance. ^uin? r. nunnngton, rresiuem ui mo Southern Pacific Railroad, was arrested at New York City on an indictment found by the Grand Jury of the Northern District of California, charging him with having committed a crime against the United States In violation of the provisions of the in terstate commerce act. The violation ! charged in the indictment is that Mr. Huntington is guilty of unjust discrimination under section 2 of the act in granting a free pass over all the lines of the Southern Pacific road to Frank B. Stone, a resident of San Francisco. Section 10 of the act, as amended in 1889, declares such a violation a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not _ exoeeding $5000, or imprisonment In the penitentiary not exceeding two years, or 5? Both, in the discretion of the court. I* Mr. Huntington was taken before United ** States Commissioner Shields and admitted j his identity, and by him committed to the J ' _ custody of the United States Marshal, pending ' an application to the United 8tates Circuit Court for a warrant of removal to San Francisco for trial. Application for the warrant was made before Judse Brown in the Federal Building by District-Attorney Macfarlane, ie and on application of Frederic R. Coudert, Mr. Huntington's counsel, argument on the application was fixed for a future day. Mr. at Huntington was discharged on his own st recognizance pending the hearing. The at- . 0_ tention of the Grand Jury wn3 called to the case by Judge Morrow in the United States ,r? Circuit Court in San Francisco on February cr 15 last, when the judge charged the Grand w Jury. He said that Frank B. Stone was a ? >r witness in the "strikers' case" In December, it. 1894, on behalf of the Government. On D&- ( id cember G he had sworn that he was a lawyer l In San Francisco. He left that city on June e o- 30 on a pleasure trip to Ashland, Oregon, on Q n. the Oregon express, but got no farther than :h Red Bluff, the train being stopped. On crossie examination he had said that he was not con- a io nected with the company in any way, shape, j, r- or manner; he had traveled on passes ana ' a- was then traveling on Mr. Huntington's per- ? is Bonal pass. While acting as manager of Mr. t De Young's campaign ho had blank passes g t- which he got from the railroad company and "k gave away as occasion required. He had no jj ;h connection with the company. He also had st a personal pas3 for the l'ullman cars, and ^ of was not connected with that company. In ^ s- conclusion Judge Morrow said: ie "You will observe that Mr. Stone testifies f in that his destination was Ashland, in the State f e- of Oregon, or to some place beyond in that c a State. He was therefore on a journey that p carried him from this State into another, j 3- bringing his transportation within the laws of j m the United States relating to Interstate com- ? al merce. It will be noticed further that Mr. c s- Stone does not claim to belong to any of the t sr excepted or privileged classes mentioned in 0 re section 22 of the interstate commerce act. nff citillu 13 mat iuu Ytna ^iyou iv miu >d as a matter of personal favor and friendship, ic You will therefore examine all the facts in this case, and ascertain to what extent the 3 pass system has been employed, if at all, by the offlcere of the Southern Paciflo Company, in favorlnpr individuals not entitled to such favors under the law in the matter of ^ free transportation beyontj. the boundary of the State. of id DEATH OF SIR BEDIVERE. v )(j H? Wag the Champion Dog, and Once Sold for 812,500. ie Sir Bedivere, the champion St. Bernard, has just died of gastritis at the Pratt KenIn nels, Little Rock, Ark. jf 8ir B9divero, who was bred by Thomas e- Green, a druggist of Wallasey, Cheshire, o England, was undoubtedly th<* finest speci'd men of the rough coated St. Bernard ever L? I aonf infn a ahnw rinrr Hrt urao qavan vaara * ?y old and measured thirty-three inches at the i shoulder, while he weighed about 215 < .11 pounds. In 1891, when three years old, he 1 was sold to E. B. Sears, of Melrose, Mass. i a. * sin BEDIVEBE. ra for $12,500, which is about the highest price DO ever paid for a dog. He was brought to this ' country in February, 1891, and remained in , Melrose for some time, when Mr. 8ears sold 1 , him to W. C. Reick, of the New York Herald. \ 20 In 1893, when Mr. lleick disposeed of his ken!n nel, Sir Bedivere was sold to C. A. Pratt, of Little Rock. Ark., the owner of the Argyle 1 , Kennels. K" In color Sir Bedivere was orange, with f r" perfect white markings and dense blaok 10 shadings. He was gentle and affectionate in J 63 disposition and gifted to a remarkable de- 1 . gree with the characteristic intelligence of ( the 8t. Bernard. His pedigreo showed blue ( Vj blood extending through several generations 1 01 of canine ancestry. 1 Increased Way?a for 24,000 Men. The mills at Fall River, Mass. have reTn flumed operations under the scale of wages In operation previous to August 20, 18M. * Twenty-four thousand workers wore bene- < ? flted. There Is every prospect of a fair trade during the coming summer, as the mills are ^ now fairly well sold ahead. Since the last reduction of wages there has been the greatest scarcity of help ever known. Dropped Dead at a Convention. k Q While reading a paper before the Florida to State Medical Association, in session at J?" Gainesville, Dr. J. P. Wall, of Tampa. Fla., .J dropped dead. He was one of the ablest n physicians in Florida. Food Dearer In New York City. e- The advance in the price of meat, partlcu* 00 larly Western boef, is becoming seriously ,u felt In New York City, and some of the hotels J tr?<?T-<iua{rirr fViot* )f- auu resuiuiiiuia aic auvuuj . j'n charges for beefsteak and roasts on their m bills of faro to correspond with those they , m are compelled to pay in the markets. 1 lg School Girls May Be Whipped. London's School Board has decided that girls may properly be whipped, and more 1 severely, too, thau boys, "because they are ' a- more spiteful.' $10,000 for tlie Lo*s of im Eye. ] ;tc The dynamite explosion at the mouth ol i ud the East River Tunnel Company's shaft, in < i(>h Long Island City, on the morning of Decern- t la ber 29, 1892, in which five lives were lost and i nbout twenty persons injured, was recalled < bo by a suit brought by Andrew Delauey against < is the Interislaud Construction Company for i lie damages for the loss by his son Edward of an | ts. eye. < ko The boy worked in a restaurant ami had t ae his eye torn out by flying glass. The jury i returned a verdict of $10,000. There was no | defense, l j0 California's Newest Trade. I as California is shipping cut lowers to East- , ?ro nltlao. IS DR. NANSEN ALIVE? tumors That the Intrepid Explorer Haa Found the North Pole. A Paris paper publishes a rumor that Dr. 'rldtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer pho was reported lost, 's alive and has dlsovered the North Pola Dr. Nansen sailed rom Christiania, Sweden, on the 24th of une, 1893, in a small steamer, the Fram, rlth the iutentlon of boldly entering the ice iack in the vicinity of the New Siberian Islinds, expecting to be car.-led by the drift, ireviously ascertained to be toward the iorthwest. over.or near the North Pole, and outhward again by the curront that comes [own between Spltzbergen and Greenland. If Dr. Nansen should come back successful rom his novel and wonderful voyage, no DR. FBIDTJOF NA.SBEJT. ne can doubt that he will be the most amous man of the century. Dr. Nansen is quite a remarkable man In lany respects. At the age of twenty-one he jA3 appointed curator of the Museum at Beren. Six years later he headed a party of ix young men. which, landing on the east :oast of Greenland, was the first to cross that ontinent over the great mer-de-glace that tad baffled many older and more experienced uplorers. He is now but thirty-four years The prestige derived from this brilliant chievement eDabled him to secure friends ,nd funds for putting his present expedition a the field. The Norwegian Parliament apiropriated about $52,000 toward the expenses f the expedition and many private contribulons were made, among them $5000 from the Ling. The Fram is so designed that it was beloved she would force ail the ice she met to iass under her bows and lift her up, instead f crushing her, as often occurs to other 'easels. The entire crew of twelve persons, careully selected from the many volunteers eady to risk their lives in this' enterprise, >ccupy the cabin with the commander. This abin is heated by a petroleum stove and is ighted by electricity generated by the turnng of a capstan, around which the membere if the crew are required to march a certain lumber of times each day for exercise, while he vessel is imbedded in the ice, and all irdinary labor is suspended. CENERAL M'COOK RETIRED. rhe Last or the "Fighting McCooks" Returns to Private Life. After having been eontinupusly in the ser'ice of the United 8tates for forty-three rears( Major-Qaneral Alexander McDowell ilcCook has been retired from the army, a tep made necessary by the law. as he has eached the age of sbrty-four years. For the lrst time in nearly half a century the army s without a McCook on its active rolls, and vith the retirement of Major-General Mccook the last of the "lighting McCooks" goes nto private life. McCook was a Major-General in the war imes, and before his thirtieth birthday was iommanding a brigade, had fought in Shiloh. ind won the highest praises from General iV. T. Sherman. McCook's war record was in enviable one, and that it was not a nagniflcent one was due to lack of op>ortunity. In every engagement in vhich General McCook took part he came >ut with the highest honors of the day, from lis campaign against the Muscaian Indians n 1855 m New Mexico, wnen ne was oniy a >rev$ Second Lieutenant, all through the war and up to 1894, when, without firing a jun or charging a bayonet, he opened 10.000 niles of railroad during a labor strike of Naional importance. FIVE LYNCHED. l'he Killing Folltfws tlie Murder of a White Man in Alabama. A man from Greenville, Ala., reported that five colored people had boen lynched neat there. Just before his train left Greenville the Sheriff of the county came Into town. He reported that in passing through the Buckalow plantation, three miles distant, he had found :he flvo colored people, three men and two women, hanging by their necks to trees, rheir bodies were cold and they had eviKnAn /Ifin.l f/-vf oarawat Kaihu ACL1L1J UDCU UCftU 1VI OW?VIOJ UVUIS? News reached Greenville of the murder, aear Butler, of Watts Murphy, a popular (touqr white man, by three colored people. Murphy was a nephew of the late Governor SVatts. After murdering him, the miscreants jlaced his body in a brush heap and burned he heap. The ashes were examined, ind parts of the victim were found. Che balance of the body had been consumed. Vn investigation was instituted. Three were irrested. One of the men confessed the :rime, implicating two other men and three :olored women. Tho officers arrested them, md were closely guarding the prisoners yhen last heard of. The report did not give the details of how he mob secured the murderers, except that hey were taken by force. PATENT OFFICE ON FIRE. Several Employes Injured by Explosion* Amonc Chemicals. The United States Patent Office at Washington has been, for the third time, visited ay Are. The blaze was in the southwest sorner of the basement, in the photographic ?lue orint room, close to a crowded thorou?h tare. The photographers and assistants had many narrow escapes for their lives, and learly all were on Are, as the explosives flew ill about the room. Beside Mr. Flint, the Chief, there were in the room Assistant Pho:ographer Theilkill, J. B. Wheat, Jr.. J. E. Latimer anil Mr. Blackage, assistants. After half an hour's hard work the firemen extinguished the flames before they ?ould spread to the adjoining offices. The loss is about S1503, principally in photojrcphic apparatus. The Patent Office has twice previously been an Are. A Are occurred there in 1177, which turned for twenty hours and totally destroyed the museum. COVERNOR EVANS ENJOINED. Judge Cioff Issues a Temporary Injunction Against a Constitutional Convention. Politicnl excitement was aroused at Columuia, S. C., by the publication of the fact hat Judge liotf, of the United States Circuit Court, had issued another injunc:ion against the State authorities on ;he ground* mat mo registration act A 1HH2 was unconstitutional; thut there was sufficient fraud at tliw polls in the election last fall to vitiate the calling of the Constiutional Convention, that there was then a ionspiracv among Tilluian, Evans ami others ;o commit frauds; that the agreement imong Tillman, Evans, Barnwell, Heinplill and others was a conspiracy to defraud ;he colored man of his right of sulTrage; that Evaus, as Governor, had sougut to carry out :hese conspiracies by removing notaries for :aking affidavits and that the illegal acts of :ho supervisors of registration were part of ;ht eame conspiracy. * =5 POPULAR SCIENCE. tM It is said that seasickness is rare oo easels fitted with bilge keels. Two pounds of potatoes are said to contain as much nutriment as thirteen pounds of turnips. Red phoephorus combines with chlorate of potash to make an explosive of great violence. ht ?j__ a_ _ _i ? jLuejr ar? ir^iiig iiu mvout o puuuvgraphic desk on which a speaker can ^ record his own orations. The new photograph of the heavonB which is being prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows 68,000,000 stars. It is reported that the United States cruiser Minneapolis, with her three screws, is much more economical in her consumption of coal that the twin screw vessels. A German has invented a chemical torch which ignites when wet. It is to be used on life buoys. When one is thrown to a man overboard at night il. 1 it. He can tnus nee ine ugni ana uau iuo buoy. A Chicago man has lately brought forward the idea of making reflecting , telescopea of very large size?object lens, say, six or more feet in diameter?by setting a number of small lenses in a frame and grinding them all down to a common focus. It appears from military and other records that in 1610 the average height of the European man was Ave feet nine inches; in 1820 it had di- / minished to five feet five inches and a fraction; at present it is five feet three and three-quarter inches. The Jeantaud electric phaeton, which has been authorized to use the streets of Paris, employs a battery which fur- . nishes it with power for a trip of only eighteen miles at a maximum speed of twelve miles an hour. The inventor is constructing another phaeton, with power for a trip of thirty-six miles. Gas-engiries are being used in Dresden, Germany, to propel street-cars. They are of nine-horse power, and are placed nnder the seftts. A speed of nine miles an hoar can be obtained with a car carrying thirty-six passengers, the cost being fifteen cents a mile with gas at one dollar a thousand feet* The total horse-power of the engines of the world, not including locomotives, of which there are 105,000, with a total horse-power of 3,000,000, is 4^,000,000, which represents all the force that could be exerted by 1,000,000,000 men, or more than twioe tho total working population of the entiro globe. Aluminum is not, as is quite generally Annnosed. in itself a stroncr metaL | It is only halfjas strong as wrought iron and has a very low elastio limit. It is when combined with other fbetals that its real value begins to appear. With' eight to twelve per cent, of copper added, making aluminum bronze, one of tho densest, finest-grained and strongest metals known is developed. The Eirst Commoner of England. The position of the British Speaker is somewhat unfamiliar to the experience of other Nations. He is the appointee ol the House itself by free / ' election, and while he is neoessarily subject to re-election at the opening of each new Parliament his reflection has never been even opposed, except on one occasion, during the long period of two hundred years. Once elected, therefore, the Speaker practically holds officc till he chooses to resign. In no case is a British Speakor ever likelj to be chosen from the ranks of very active partisans; indeed,there ' is no such case npon record. The Government of the day is charged with the duty of proposing a suitable candidate, and his rejection by the House would entail the resignation of the Ministry, bat there is no reason why ne should even be selected from the party of the Government. There have beon cases in which an opposition member of special personal fit' ness has been chosen, and it is a curious fact that suoh a course haa even become common in some of the Australasian colonies, whose parliamentary practice is scrupulously framed upon the British model. To be the "First Commoner of England," the representative of the representative Chamber which actually rules the Empire, is of course an object of am* bition, and if a suitable candidate can be found in the Government party he is likely to be chosen; on the other hand, it mav be doubted whether it ia possible to point to any public position where personal fitness enters so largely into the calcalations of thos* intrusted with selection to an important office. It is encouraging to find that the result has beon that dignity and impartiality have distinguished the holders of the office for hundreds of years. Perhaps it is equally important to find that the influence of these two moral qualities has been found equal to the task of maintaining order and curbing excitement during conturies of National life where the coercive powers vested in the holder of the officc itself are so small as t? depend entirely for enforcement upos the vote of the House in each case.? Hurpor's Weekly. Extraordinary Collection ot Books. An extraordinary collection of books, the library oi Mr. Gennadius, late Greek Minister to England, is about to be brought under the hammer in ff. /tnnaiata nf t.hfl first and rarest editions of the Greek classics in unusually Rood copies, Aldines, Junta:!, Stephuuuses. Of Homer there are :i3U copies, of Anacreon forty, of Longus sixty, of Theocritus fifty, and so ou. Among the books are Racine's "Plutarch," Henry Etienne's "Aldine Thucydides," Melanethon's editio princeps of Demosthenes, all with manuscript notes of their possessors. Resides these there are 134 iots ol Byrouiana, including the original manuscript ol "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."?New York World. An Eagle Fishing. T-k ? - :i.u u? &U .Drown, ?i ^uuauLuiu ui ^uiuuiuus, Ind., while out duck shooting along White River, heard a loud (lapping of wings in a bayou of shallow water. Reconnoitring, he saw a huge eagle * struggling with an immense catfish. 1 He shot twice at the bird and only 1 succeeded in wounding it. The tish was secured and brought to town. II weighed forty-nine pounds.?New York Jo'miaL