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ME m PBOTOGMPl. A Wonderful Discovery by Professor Roentgen, of Wurzburg University, SOLID SUBSTANCES PENETRATED Photographing the Inside of the Human Bmly?A Yale Professor Photographs the interior or uisuwn nana? nvu? and Other Opaque Bodies Easily Fenet trated?Possibilities ot the Process. r New Haveh, Conn., February 11.?When Arthur W. Wright, of Yalo University, first heafd about the discovery of Professor Roentgen, he wanted to hurry directly to Sloane Laboratory to begin experiments. Bat it was so late that he waited until the next day, and then he made probably the first cathode photograph in this country. That was on January 27. All of his experiments have been remarkably successful, but at last ho has secured results that are truly marvelous. Professor Wright has made a photograph of his own hand. That photograph shows every bone in the professor's left hand with perfect distinctness fhe shading of the flesh, which the light rays pleroed, in most ourious. There *; j PR0FES80R ROENTGEN. is a shadowy effeot, a certain suggestion o color, but the bone3 are defined sharply. The negative shows lines which suggest tendons, but there is no mistaking the bones. The photograph is a little less 'distinct than if it were that of a skeleton of a hand taken In the ordinary way. ?_ PHOTOCRAPHING THE INVISIBLE. Professor Roentgen lias Aroused the Scientific World. Scientists everywhere are discussing the recent wonderful discovery of Professoi Roentgen, professor of physics in the University of Wurzburgj Bavaria, which it is be nevea is unimcu w icw,,Uvive raphy. He can take pictures of the interior of solid substances; can photograph the skull of a man or his whole skeleton, showing how PHOTOOBATH OF A HAND. (Showing the bones through the flesh.) one wonld took without tho flesh; can picture defects and inequalities in the heart oi minerals, and can do many other incredible things. Professor Schuster, of Owens College, Manchester, England, in discussing in the British Medical Journal the remarkable photographic effects discovered by Professoi Roentgen, 6tates that the photographs obtained are of the nature of shadows, and tlielr irreat sharpness is itself a testimony that the new radiation must be propagated in straight lines. The radiation passes in straight lines easilv through paper, card board or wood, and produces photographic effects after having passed through two complete pack3 of cards. The photographs may oe taken in ordinary daylight if the plate ii kept in its dark slid?, which will completelj cut off all ordinary lijcht rays, and yet transmit the new radiation. One of the photographs which Professoi Roentgen has sent to Professor 8chustei shows a complete image of a compass needle, with the divisions into degrees of the circle over which the needln is placed. The com pass needle, before being photographed, was placed Inside of a metal box. As flesh, sklc and cartilage are mon transparent thai bone, the photograph of a hand gives a com plete outline of the bones of the hand and fingers, the outlines of the flesh being onlj very faintly marked. ph-jToor-arh or a compas> (Taken while iuclosed in a meta. ..ase.) Thf-se experiments all go to show that th( strange medium which produces images o hidden objects on a photograph plate is no light at all. It is equally incorrect to de acribe it a3 electricity. It is some force or in flence produced by a Crooke's tube when ex cited in a peculiar manner. but it is not th< rti. ?Iaw t*thfrom th< VIMUiO il^Ub Vi .... tube. The visible light has the same quali S ties as an ordinary lifjht. The invisible aes medium has not the same qualities. For in stance, it will not penetrate clear glass. I will penetrate ground glass though mor< feebly than wood and other organic matter In producing such pictures as the skeletoi of a llvin? hand or coins clasped in th< hand, the flesh being as if transparent, th< method of procedure was simply to place th( object tob? photographed btnweenaCrooke'j tuoeand tha u'ual wooisn csa containing : . the sensitive plate In which the negative Is placed when carried to and fromth? camera. The slide is not removed, and an exposure from four to twenty minutes is required. Th? Croolce's tube, a glass tube inclosing a high vacuum, is excited bv the electric cur1 rent of an induction coil. Roentgen, for want of a better name for the rays, calls them the "X rays." Never before in the history of a science has a discovery received such prompt recognition as that of Professor Roentgen. AlI ready it has been successfully used by prominent European surgeons in locating bullets and other foreign substances In the body, and in diagnosing diseases of the bones. It 1 is believed that only a faint idea of the i i , A BONE-HANDLED RAZOR. (Photographed in a cloth-covered case.) nra^H/tftl rinccihilifioa nP fVio ^Ic/tnnara had ' i yet been (rained, and it is difficult to keep ( pace with the astonishing supplementary disclosures. For instance, the new agent is found to b? of inestimable value in metallurgy. Any internal defects in metals are detected and recorded with perfect accuracy L on the tell-tale photograph plate. It is anticipated that as a result of ihis marvelous power the uniformity of structure of metal i work, for instance, gun-barrels, iron rails, i railroad car wheels, etc., can be tested with absolute accuracy. Thus no Imperfection l will be allowed to pass unnoticed. This is > believed to mean a complete revolution in many branches of metallic industry, especially in the manufacture of arms and of armor-plate for the great naval vessels. HALLS OF CONCRESS. Senator Call has asked Congress to appropriate $5000 to survey a route for a ship canal across Florida. The Senate Committee on Judiciary agreed to report favorably Mr. Hamsbrough's bill to prohibit the desecration of the American flag lor advertising purpose. Representative Barrett, ot Massachusetts, wants the Nayal Academy moved from Annapolis to some other place, like Newport, for instance. The House Committee on Military Affairs inserted a provision ic the Army Appropria* tion bill that hereafter all vacancies in the staff of the army shall be filled by promotion from the line. I The House Committee on Education has ' reported favorably Mr. Grow's bill to aid in establishing homes lor teaching articulate speech and vocal language to deaf children before they are of school age. A delegation representing the wholesale drup: interests of the country appeared before the House Committee on Way3 and Means to oppose Mr. McMillan's bill to repeal the law giving a rebate on alcohol imported for use f In the arts or medicinal purposes. A bill has been introduced by Senator Hansbrough. of North Dakota, Chairman of the Library Committee, providing a commission of artists, with advisory functions, to select works of sculpture and painting for the new Congressional Library building. The House Committee on Agriculture has completed the Agricultural Appropriation bill It carries an appropriation of $3,158,* 392. being about $234,000 below the estimates and $145 35K Ins* than thf amount for the ) current fiscal year. : The Houso Ways and Means Committee adopted the resolution of Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, providing for au inquiry into oar commercial treaties and agreements, and especially how the repeal of the reciprocity law has affented them. A table showing the military force of the United States and Territories was given in a communication transmitted to the House by Assistant Secretary of War Doe. According to this table the aggregate organized strength of the militia is 112,879, while the number of,men available for military duty (unorganized) is 10,149,958. The pension appropriation bill, as it cam? from tne House, carried $141,325,820. The Senate Committee added $52,750, of which ?ov,wu was lor ices auu oxyoiises ui ?aimuing surgeons. Senator Hill, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a substitute for the resolution providing for a special committee to inquire into the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs. Tho substitute directs the Judiciary Committee to investigate the law upon the whole subject of contempts of court, as enforced by the Fedoral Courts, and report to the Senate what additional legislation, if any, is necessary for the protection of the rights of citizens. DINNER TO RICHARD CROKER. A Lovinc Cap Presented By His Tainmany Associates. Richard Croker was presented with a lov| ing cup and tendered a banquet by his TamI many Hall associates at tho Hotel Savoy, in New York City. It was a very expensive dinner?$40 a fwas less th^in two unity in Tammany, for each faotion, tho Gilthe'Sheehan and the Martin, was """Off.'?aasy/r'f 'A" vxram, iituwm 4 Smyth, Jacob A. rich&bd crokeb. Cantor, Nathan [ Straus. James J. Martin, Richard Croker, [ Roswell P. Flower, John R. Fellows, T. F. ' GUroy, Amos J. Cummings, Henry D. Purroy and Augustus W. Peters. r There were four formal set speeches?"Our Guest," by Thomas F.Grady; "Our State." by Jacob A. Cantor; "Our Country." by . Amos J. Cummincs, and 'Tammany Hall," 1 by John R. Fellows. A loving cup costing t2000 was presented | to Mr. Croker by Senator Grady., and during the recipient's speech of acceptance a great J sensation occurred, for to the surprise of the [ ex-leader and most of the privileged guest3 t there was a very vigorous kick against the authority of John C. Sheehan, who was Ibe[ queatbed the position of leader by Mr. Croker. ^ John Reilly and two other leaders interrupted the speaker and bitterly denied Sheehan's . right to be leader. Mr. Croker explained that 8heehan had been selected by the majority of the Executive Committee. "Take Fellows, take Gilroy." he says, "If he'3 a better man, and let the majority rule and the minority yield." The episode created a great stir. The Labor World. Japan has fifty-seven cotton mills. I London's yarn tra-le employs 16,000. Bavaria has 9000 lead pencil workers. juonaon nas ^ub.ooo domestic servants. Georgia has a fourteen-year-old engineer. Telegraph operators In Germany receive $5.11 a week; in tta'y, $5.20. The Stonemasons' International Union assembled recently in convention in Chicago. There is at present over $10.6C0 in the Protective Fund of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The Salvation Army has now tweutv-two factories and workshop.?, employing 10,700 persons, both men and women. More than 70,000 men are at work on the i Siberian Railway, and nt the present rate of f progress 1897 will sea its completion. i In the sasn, door ami blind industry the supply at present exceeds tho demand, and men are being laid off in most of the shops. The miners at Lehigh and Coal Gate, Indiau Territory, to the number of 3000, went on strtke. The strike will, It is fearert, cause a coal famine in Northern and Central Texas. The 91.090 onerativas of Fall River. Mass.. t live on forty-one square miles. The city is j very rich for its sizs?, being valued at $60.534.005. while the public debt 13 only $2,1 650,394. ? All collieries of the Cross Creek Coal Com3 pany, Hazleton, Penn., are being operated 3 out eight hour? a day. because of the mild s winter. Upward of" twenty thousand men J yge affected. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED' Washington Item*. Ia commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Polish patriot Kosciusko his statue in the Capitol was appropriately decorated with wreaths and flowers. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, announced in Washington his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. A bill to make Lincoln's Birthday a National holiday was defeated in the United States Senate bv an objection of Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, who thinks there are too many holidays already. The Senate passed a bill directing the Secretary of Agrioulture to execute the law for tho distribution of seeds. The President has appointed General W. W. Duflield, Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, as one of the Commissioners to test the fineness and weight of the coins reserved by the several mints of the United States. Senator James Smith, of New Jersey, made a speech opposing further action by Congress on the Monroe doctrine. New York Republicans in the House ol Representatives pledged themselves to work for Governor Morton for the Presidency. Final allotments of the new Government bonds were made and notices sent to successful bidders. The President baa designated William P. Mason, professor of ohemistry in the Troy (N. Y.) Polytechnic Institute, and W. w. Duffleld, chief of the coast and geodetic sur| vey, as additional members of the AnnuaAssay Commission. The Korean Legation has been offloiallj notified that Boh Kwang Pom has been appointed Minister of Korea at Washington, and that he left for his post after resigning his position in the King's Cabinet as Minister of Justice. The President has approved the act to reconvene the United 8lates delegates to the International Maritime Conference of 1889. John Shea, an elderly clerk In the War Department, committed suicide in the de partment building by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He had suffered severely for years from a wound in the head received while attempting to quell a disturbance at a Western army post where he was stationed. The report of the Board of Engineers which inquired into the Nicaraguan Canal project I was sent to the House of Representatives by the President. It is not favorable to the project. Domestic. Both houses of the New York Legislature adjourned In honor of Lincoln Dav. Lincoln's Birthday was observed by a general closing of business in the lower part of New York City and appropriate banquets celebrations in many institutions. The Rev. J. H. Hunycutt, a Baptist minister, has been arrested at Morrillton, Ark., charged withinfanticide.^Hls housekeeper's one-year-old baby cried while he was preparing a sermon and the preacher became enraged at the annoyance and choked the child to death. Of three hundred school boys who called on Mayor Gleason, of Lone Island City, N. Y., to request the reinstatement of a principal, not one could give the boundaries or name the public buildings of Long Island City. Isaac B. Murphy, the famous colored jockey, died at Lexington, Ky.t of heart disea3e. Northern New York was snowbound, and a hJgh wind was raging on the New England and New Jersey coasts. The bursting of a water main in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed several houses and drowned one of the occupants. The National Assembly of the League of American Wheelmen elected Sterling Elliott President and decided to hold the next annual race meet in Louisville. Ey. John W. Eeely, the inventor of the Eeely motor, was run into by a runaway horse at Philadelphia. The Illinois 8teel Company resumed work in its Joliet mills after an idleness of six weeks. Over 2000 men were set to work. One of the largest diamond seizures ever known in the United States customs service was made at Philadelphia by special agents of the Treasury on board the Red Star steamship Rhvnland. A box containing $20,000 worth of valuable gems was taken. The session of the National Assembly of tha League of American Wheelmen be^nu in Baltimore. Md., with a Good Roads Congress. One thousand tailors, all said to be competent workmen and all willing to work, are starving with their families in the tenements on the '"east side," New York City, because the middlemen are determined that the system of "sweating." which was abolished two years ago, shall be restored. H. Cranston Potter, nephew of Bishop Patter, of New York, was found drowned on the beach near 8an Francisco, Cal. Wizard Edison perfected experiments at Monlo Park, N. J., for the photography of the human brain by means of the Roentgen rays.' A new electric motor, greatly increasing the facilities of traffic, tans been tried and approved on the Brooklyn Bridge. Passaic and Paterson, in New Jersoy, suffered damage to the extent of several thousand dollara each from the rise of theTassaic iiiver. The Republican State Committee called the State Convention for March 24 in New York City. It also renewed its pledge of loyalty to Governor Morton for the Presidential nomination. At Greenville, Tenn., because Miss Sadie Hendry did not have the evening meal ready when her brother James returned home from work, he stabbed her to death. Rev. Father John 31. Fitzgerald was sentenced in Rochester, N. Y., to ten years in Auburn Prison for arson. Peter L. Atkins and Maud Kelly. lovers, drove into the Wallklll River at Mlddletown, N. Y., and were drowned. "Harry" Howard, the lasi Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department, of New York City, is dead. William Henry Grady, President of tho Versailles and Georgetown Railroad, a widely-known horseman and extensive fanner, tried to cross the tracks near Versailles, Ky., und was struck by a passenger train and instantly killed. The Attorney-General of Illinois rendered a decision against the Chicago Gas Trust's reorganization. Foreign Note*. It is stated that a British ship is taking soundings at the mouth of the Orinoco, near Guiana. A Blue Book issued by the British Government shows that President Kruger, of the Transvaal, asked Germany and France lo interfere at the beginning of Jatnoson'a raiu. Ambrose Thomas, the author of "Jl'gr.cn" and other popular operas, died a few days ago in Paris. Jameson's raid winstigated, a Berlin despatch to London reports, by six financiers, formerly German subjects. From Barcelona, Spain, 3500 more troops sailed for Cuba. Advices from the South African gold flolds show that the crushings of the Rand for January were 30.000 ounces less than in December. Cecil Rhodes, ex-Promler of Capo Colony, left London for South Africa. The League of Agriculturists, Sweden, composed of members of the Storthing, has adopted a resolution in favor of imposing a duty on all agricultural products except corn. Brazil i.s greatly excited, owing to the French warship Bengali having Seized a ve.?s:?! ciirryin^* the Brazilian flag in disputed water?. The Czar of Russia. in an official ukase, announces that the coronation will tako place on May 24. Reports from Madrid received in Havana, Cuba, said that threatening demonstrations against tbe United States Legation were feared in the Spanish capita'. Advices from Havana, Cuba, aro that General Marin has abandoned his pursuit of Jomez and gone to the relief of the beeaguered towns in Pinar dol Rio. Thy relations between the Argentino Republic aud Chile are daily becoming mora itrained, owing to the tone of the Chilean lewspapers. It was reported in Berlin that, owing to the pressure of Austria and Italy, the official Gorman press have ceased their anti-English attacks. K ' ,'f REAR ADMIRALS OF THE pvri-fjaik. ' i \^fh johvg'j Fr Anc l$* M !" Ka m sfyi : ACTIVITY IN THE NAVY.1 > Placing Our Ships On as Complete a I War FnoHnff as Possible. A COAST DEFENSE SQUADRON, I Strong Fleets for Both Atlantic and Pacific 1 Coasts to Be Put Into Active Service at Once?New and Formidable Monitor Terror to Be Beady by March 1?Admiral Walker to Command a Squadron. New Yobk, February 12. -Naval officers I on duty in this oity and Brooklyn, D i ioclare that it is the Intention of the Oov- t irnmont to plaoe the Navy on as com- j plete a war footing as Is possible in time n of peace, and demonstrate what the United ? States can do in the way of commissioning, fl i jot a flying squadron, for which they say a '.he United States has no need at this time, ( 3ut a coast defense fleet to guard our shores, r ooth on the Paciflo and the Atlantic. 2 Commodore Montgomery Slcard, Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, got j orders to have the new monitor Terror ready r ' to go In commission March 1. The ship has ? been under construction for years, and it x will tax the capacity of the yard to finish ^ her in time. The orders are, however, im- . perative. , The coast deferse squadron which the ? ^ In fA nlflfla 4 * ? rtAmmlaoInn I UUVOiUiUOill 13 ttUU lb LW ^??vw *u vvu*i?u^iv- Q will be composed o.'the new ram Katahdtn, E 1 e I a r COMMANDANT SICAKD. g (Ordered to have the new monitor Terror c ready at theBrooklyn Navy Yard March 1.) v C now at Brooklyn Navy Yard; the double- ti mahUak olon nf fhlc crl oHrtti r IUI L UlUU lUUUlbWl AOitvi, Uh w?w?.wu| V the double-turreted Miantonomoh, which is ii to be pulled out of the mud at League Island j wavy Yard, near Philadelphia, and recom- h missioned; tho new monitor Monadnock, d sister ship ol the Terror, nearing completion 'V at the Maro Island Navy Yard, near San p Francisco. ft All theso ship3 are to be put In active a service and furnished with offloers and E crews within tho next three weeks. The n other ships of this iron-cind squadron, al- u ready in commission, are to be the first-class a battleship Indiana, tha second-class buttle- a ship Maine, now at Hampton Roads, and the doub'e-turrotod monitor Amphitrlte, now at Koy West. An officer at the Navy Yard, who had re- _ cently returned from a visit to Washington, told of the plan of tho Administration as he had heard it at the Navy Department. "It is the intention," said the officer, "to ? place every available ship of the Navy in commission as soon as possible. Tho United 6 States has not as bl? a reservo list of ships to S draw on as Great Britain has, but enough n ships can be placed in commission to make a v good showing and demonstrate that the Na- t| tinn la not so defenseless as might be im-1 n aginedbyall the talk whenever there is a q war scare. r, "I heard it said in Washington that one of . the Admirals of the service, presumably Bear-Admiral John G. Walker, was to be assigned to the command of the fleet of ironclads on the North Atlantic, which is to bo known as the Home Guard Squadron, or something of that kind. "The regular cruising squadron, of which the New Tiork is the flagship, would then be free to sail about from port to port from Halifax to Port-of-Spaln, as its commander pleased or the necessity of protecting Ameri' can citizens or property might make necessary." SHEA DIES IN THE CHAIR. Xlie Troy Politician Suffers the Death Penalty at Dannemora. Bartholomew or "Bat" Shea was ele?troeuted at 9.58 a. m, in Dannsmora (N. Y) i xMson. The twenty.seven witnesses were * nude up almost exclusively of physicians anc newspaper men, all present in official capacities. At 9.30 a. m. they were asembled in the hotel office and marched to the death chamber. It was Just 8.35 when the procession entered the room. First camo Warden Thayer and Deputy McKenna, and immediately behind them was Shea, escorted by Vicar General Swift, of Troy; and Father Belanger, of Dannemora. Shea's face was pale. Ho walked firmly to the chair, and ~ durine the minute it took to affix tho straps _ he Razed calmly around the room. Hid j] eyes were bright and he looked more like a t1 spectator than the victim. At 9.56 the cur- r, rent was turned on and continued for one minute and twenty-oae seconds. It was then ^ shut off and Shea was pronounced dead. The highest volcano was 1800 This, however, was conllnned only eleven seconds, when it C( wis reduced to 1E0 volts and continued at that until tho enii. The autopsy developed C| notliiii!i out of th? ordinary. ,j - * - J - ? 1. i I. r T>,x-o 11 sms.'i was convicusu 01 kuiuk duuuu j( during a political light at the polls in Troy ^ on Election Day in the spring of 1894. Shea oolonged to a club of political workers anil Ross and his brother to another party. 0 They met at the polls and a free light began. C( Clubs and pistols were used. Robort Ross j was killod and his brother, William, badly j? hurt. John McGough was sentenced to tl twenty years in prison for wounding Will- Cj iam Ross, whilo Shea was ordered to tho electric chair for killing Robert Ross. Every effort was made to save Shea. Tho execution of his sentence was three times stayed by respites from the Governor and . tho action of the courts. McGough, last December, confessed that he tired the shot which killed Robert Ross, but, on examination, Judee Mayham, at Schoharie, pro- 7 nounced the confession wortblB841 UNITED STATES NAVYJ K ^3N iV-*A, .i*^5iie>k n i tit t i irnum th nrriTTiTfi rMLiAMBfli is mim. England's Queen Intimates a Peaceful Settlement With Venezuela. WSEBERY ATTACKS SALISBURY. Salfonr Denies That There Was the Slightest Intention to Violate the Snbstance of the Ofonroe Doctrine?Direct Adjustment of the Boundary Question Assured ?Harconrt's Friendly Speech. The regular session of the British Parliament was opened at London. At 2 o'clock he Royal Commission entered the House of iOrds, and at that hour the House of Comions was summoned. The members of the louse of Commons, headed by the Speaker, t once poroceedcd to the House of Lords, nd after they had assembled at the bar of tie House the speech from the throne was ead by the Lord High' Chancellor, Lord [aisbury. In reference to the Venezuelan, the trmenian and the Transvaal questions the knaan'o arMracn aoM- Th? flnvflmmflnt of J IOOU J (tUUAVda W . be United States of America has expressed a yish to co-operate in the termination of the lififerences which have existed for many ears between my Government and the Retublio of Venezuela upon the question of tho loundary between that country and the olony of British Guiana. I have expressed ay sympathy with the desire to come to an iqultable arrrangement, and trust that urther negotiations will lead to a satlsfacorv settlement. Tne Sultan of Turkey has sanctioned the >rlncipal reforms in the government of the Lrmenian provinces for which, jointly with he Emperor of Russia and the President of he French Republic, I have felt it to be my tuty to press. I deeply regret the fanatical mtbreak on the part of a section of the Turdsh population, which has resulted in a eriesof massacres which have caused the ieepest indignation in this country. Tho debate in both Houses wa? confined ilmost exclusively to the grave disturbances n the country's foreign relations. The dispute with the United States over he Venezuela boundary had a prominent >lace in the debate, and Lord Salisbury exrtalned the reason for the intimation in the Juoen's speech that a settlement, probably, vould soon be reached. The great obstacio o tho adjustment of tho trouble, which had loen created by Venezuela's breaking off legotlatlons, had, he said, beon removed. )lrect negotiations are about to be resumed, ,nd, as Lord Salisbury expressed it, "with a irospeot of ultimate settlement." Lord Rosebery vigorously attacked Lord "-?*? anno/tit musuury S JJUUU/, uu "?<"/ spgcuuviuwuvu onfldent hop? thai the Venezuela dispute rill end happily. Mr. Balfour said our Government had aseed for all the Informalon England could give to help our lommission, and it was announced that t would be forthcoming. Salisbury, iosebery, Harcourt and Balfour, all ad the kindest words for the Monroe octrine and arbitration. Sir William Harcourt clatmed that there can be no ossible objection to referring the Venezuein boundary question to a third Power for rbitration, and he was greetod with cneers. ialfour declared that the Government will ot be prevented by diplomatic punctilios or ilse pride from trying to effect a settlement, nd will help the American Commission with 11 the information at its disposal. PARDON OFFERED WALLER. 'rovided That No Claims for Damages Fo Made Against Franco. The President sont to Congress a report :odi Socretary Olneyand all thocorrespondnee in the case of John L. Waller, ex-United tates Consul to Tamatavo, Madagascar, and ow confined in a French prison under coniction of treason. Secretary Olney says iat Waller was unquestionably guilty of tde ITense charged and that the penalty inflictd would be considered exceedingly modeate. but the French Government made an JOHM L. WALLER. ffor to release Waller from further imprison lent and to pardon his offense on condition int the affair be thereby terminated as between, the two Governments, and that the 'nited States should make no claim for damges In behaJt of the accused ex-Consul ased ou his arrest, conviction and imprisonlent. Ambassador Eustis, it appears from the irrespoudence. has been instructed to ffive otic'! t'.> tho Freuch Government of the ac9ptnu:i? by the United States of these couitions and to exchange the notes necessary ) carry out the arrangement. Waller may, owever, sue in the French courts for damjres for ill-treatment. Waller, however, acting under the advice f his wife and his brother-in-law, has not ' * ^M] | ^U^enroa IU lull ummsDiutui, ...... sts thut ho shnll receive compensation from ranee. Ho charges that he had received 111 eatment while being taken from Malagas;irto France, and demands indemnity. Minor Mention. Mayor Lynrte, of Greenfield, Mo., had imself brought to trial and lined $1 for vilating a city ordinance. A hole 150 feet long, ten feet wide and inisibly deep has appeared upon the farm of LIL Qtt. af WaihfnTton. Mo. LYNCHED AT MIDNIGHT. Grant Atterbury Banged by a Mob in Sallivan, HI. At midnight an armed mob approached the jail In Sullivan, III, where Grant Atterbury had been confined for the laat ten dayB, charged with the double crime of murdering his father and ussaulting the wife of his brother.' The leaders demanded the surrender of Atterbury and the Sheriff refused. He was reinforced by a single deputy. A3 soon as his refusal had been communicated to the crowd a rush was made for the Iron doors. An immense crowd gathered rapidly, but no one interfered with the work of the lynchers. The Sheriff stood before the door to the cellroom and warned the raiders to desist. He fired his revolver and was immediately disarmed. Half a dozen blows with sledges knocked down the door? and then the men marched upstairs, yelling their commands and their threats against any interference. Atterbury's cell was In the upper tier. The raiding party knew his exact cell, and the sledgehammer brigade was instantly piloted there. Half a dozen blows broke down the portal. Atterbury fought vigorously, but wa3 forced by numbers down the stairs and there seized and bound. He was taken to the court-house yard, two blocks from the jail, where a frantic multitude greeted his arrival with a roar of curses, and the cry of "Hang him! hang him!" As he was hustled along he pleaded with his captors. "I am innocent," he shouted over and over again. "Thank God, you are hanging an innocent man," he moaned, as they held him under one of the trees in the courthouse yard and placed a noose about his neck. No attention was paid to his protestations or his pleas. The end of the rope was tossed over a limb of a tree. A dozen seized it, and the rone slid over th? Ice covered limb. and the man's utterance was oboked with the tightening of the loop. The rope was wound about the trunk of the tree, and the mob stood back and watched the writhing ot a man whom every one in Sullivan believed guilty of two crimes. Grant Atterbury was arrested six months ago charged with the murder of his father, but was released on examination. The elder Atterbury was found with his skull crushed and a bullet wound in the neck. DEATH IN A CONVENT FIRE, Lobs of Property Worth Millions la Guayaquil, Ecuador. A great Are raged in Guayaquil, Ecuador, beginning at one o'clock a. m. When the firemen, and soldiers, who were hurriedly ordered out to help them, finally brought it tinder control, thousands of panic stricken persons were wandering, homeless, in the streets, many lay dead in the morgues, nnd property worth nearly two millions of dollars had been destroyed, including the noble Cathedral and the convent which ad; Joined it. The Are was first discovered in the convent. It spread with such rapidity that it was with the utmost difficulty that the majority of the inmates escaped with their lives. The firemen were on hand within a few minutes, but their work was powerless to save either the convent building or the Cathedral of San Augustin, which the flames immediately attacked. From that point the Are flew to surrounding property, and in an incredibly short space of time a any blocks of houses were in a blaze. The panic, which began among the nuns in the convent, several of whom were burned, was contagious, and the city became terror stricken when the seriousness of the situation was grasped. The officials urged the President, General Alfaro, to seek a place of safety, and at last, yielding to their advice, he took refuge with his family, on board a steamship in the harbor. It is believed that at least thirty persons suffered death, and it is known that many were injured. SECRETARY OLNEY'S REQUEST. Asked Sallibary to Give England's Side in the Yenezuelau Dispute. A parliamentary paper has been issaed containing the correspondence between Great Britain and tho United States since 1887 relative to the boundary of British Gaiaua. The correspondence concludes with despatches exchanged by Secretary of State Olney and Lord Salisbury. The first of these despatches informed Lord Salisbury that the American Commission had been formed, and that being in no wise an arbitration tribunal, having had its duty limited to ascertaining the facts, it had suggested to Mr. Olney that it would be grateful for suoh assistance as could be obtainable through the co-operation of Great Britain and Venezuela. L.ora oaiisDaiy repnea tnat any miormatlon at the command of the Government upon any subject of inquiry occupying the attention of the Government of the United States would be readily placed at the disposal of the President. MURDEHED IN HIS STUDIO. Professor Max Eglau, Instructor of Deaf Mates, Found With a Crushed Skull. Professor Mtuc Eglau, an artist, was murr dered in his studio in the Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, Lexington uvenue and Sixty-seventh street, New York City, where he had been an instructor for maoy years. Three of his pmplls, Peter Wolfe. Adolf Pfandler and Edmune Eck, deaf mutes, and about eighteen years old, were arrested suspected of the murder. It was a day of silent terror in the big build ing where hundreds of the deaf and dumb are taught. By signs, by writings and by moving lips the story of the tragedy was told. A shovel and a heavy pestle, with which the deed was done, were left near the victim. Circumstances go to show that the murder was prompted by revenge. DOLLAR SUITS OF CLOTHES. These Are Possible Now That Itamie Is to Be Pat to Use. Ramie, a fibre, has been kicked around by specnlators and capitalists for some years, notwithstanding the evident utility of the product. That it can be fashioned into anything now made out of wooljhasbeen proved What its defects may have been is unimportant now, as the perfected product has been developed and ramie has a market value that testable, or soon wl)lhave,__?^. A party^rTapifanstsrepresenting New' York, New Orleans, Providence and Boston, met with a coterie of local capitalists and manufacturers at the Manufacturers' Club In Philadelphia, Penn., a few days ago, and decided to develop the newly discovered ramie processes. 80 $1 suits may no w be expected. Ramie is as cheap as weeds. Lucky Discovery of a. Hungry 5Ian. A rich gold discovery is reported from Flint Creek, in tbe Georgetown District of Montana. Nine weeks ago Sam Snyder, a destitute and hungry Butte prospector, trailed a deer over the hills, anil accidentally discovered a fabulously rich ledsje, which he has been working slDce alone and in secret. He came to town a few days ago with thousands of dollars' worth of sold, and the ! reports of men who have since inspected the property say that Snyder has a million dollars in sight, although his prospect hole Is only about ten feet deep. The vaiu i.s only eight inches wide so far as developed, ou: is yellow with virgin gold. Prominent People. The Prince of Wales has his life insured ^o:n Ann lur ?J,^U,UUU. Patti, the c&ntatrlee, declares that she will never return to America. Lord Duuraven has decided to abandon yacht racing in the larger classe?. Tlio late Prince Henry of Battenberg was an accomplished performer on the violin. Queen Victoria owns $2,000,000 worth of china. A Sevres set is estimated at '5500,000. Prince Edward of York now a year and a half old, is to be reproduced in a life-size marble statue. "Mark Twain" has written to a friend in thi3 country that ha went away in debt, but will come back jn a first cabin. I GENERAL WEYLER IN CUBA. rhe New Captain-General T*ke? the Oath of Otto*. The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIIL.wlth H General Weyler, the newly appointed Cap- H tain-General and Commander-in-Chief of H the Spanish forces In Cuba, on board, arrived H off Morro Castle, Havana, and at 10 o'clock M entered the harbor and steamed up to the H T fw GENERAL WEYLEB. V ' t' As the warship passed Morro Castle she was saluted by the guns of that fortress, and 19 she proceeded was welcomed by thunders of artillery from the Cabanas fortress and the dipping of flags and other greetings from the ships in the harbor. General Weyler. who was aocompanled by General Barges, Arolas and the Harqois de Ahumada, the latter having been designated by the Queen Regent to be second to General Weyler in command, disembarked shortly before noon a^id was met by the civil and military officers, who escorted him to the palace. The streets were lined with men and women, and the entire city was decorated with flags, bunting and flowers. ' General Weyler proceeded on foot from the landing to the palace, where he at once tha nath nf nffico as f untftin-donprA.! of Cuba. After this ceremony the new Governor nnd Commander-in-Chfef held a reception in the palace, receiving the leading citizens of Cuba, a number of Grandees of Spain, the heads of the vurious commercial bodies, the leaders of the political parties and tne foreign Censuls. Crowds in holiday, attire filled the streets and the Plaza do Annas, in the vicinity of the pa'ace of the Captain-General, was packed with cheering men, women and children, while numerous bands of music played patriotic Spanish airs. ERASTUS WIMAN IS FREE. ^ Indictment Against Him for Forgery DX*- ( missed In New-York. . ' v District-Attorney Fellows, of New York City, Indorsed papers, which when signed by} Judcro MoMahon, of General Sessions, dismissed the indictment upon which Erastus, Wlmon woq MoH nnd i*nrwiM-pA hf htvlnff! forged the signature of E. W. Bulllnger to check for 15000. Judge IfoMahom dismissed the Indictment shortly after noon. Erastus Wiman at the time waa a member > '"*j\ EB1STTJS WIMAN. __________________ of the commercial firm of R. G. Dun. & Co. The Court of Appeals recently set aside Wlman's conviction and ordered a new trial. Erastus Wiman was convicted of forgery in '? the second degree in the Court jaf Oyer and Terminer on Jane 15, ltjy*. ue was sen- a tenced to Imprisonment in State's Prison at hard labor for Are years and six months. Later, he secured a certificate of reasonable doubt and was released on 925,000 bonds. The General Term reversed the deolslon. When the case came .up.be/ore the Court of Appeals that tribunal so passed upon the legal points involved in the case as to make a second conviction Impossible.' It is for this reason that the action of the District-Attorney in moving for a dismissal of the indictment was made. ALARMED BY A METEORITE. Violent Explosion in the Sltjr Creates s Panic in Madrid. An immense aerolite exploded above Madrid, Spain, ut 9.30 a. m. There was a vivid glare of light and a loud report, followed by a general panic. The sun was shining clearly, and the only thing visible In the sky was a white cloud, bordered with red, traveling rapidly across the heavens, leaving behind it a train of fine white dust. The explosion occurred twenty miles above the earth, according to the officials of the Madrid Observatory. The populace believed it was an earthquake, or a sign of divine wrath. Many persons were injured in the resulting panic and in the frantic attempts to escape from factories and schools. Seventeen persons were injured in one tobacco factory by the collapse of a staircase when the inmates rushed to escape. The partition wall of the United States Legation collapsed and neurly all the windows 01 tnai OUlIUlDg were uruitHH. muuu uauiagc was done to walls and windows throughout the city, and the force of the explosion was ?tettfor^ereral miles around. _ New Southern Enterprises. A cotton mill to cost $600,000, the largest In Alabama, will be built at Cordova by New Hampshire capital. The first Southern steel mill was opened at Fort Payne, Ala. Congressman Crata Dead. William H. Craln, Representative from the Eleventh District of Texas, and a member of Congress since the Forty-ninth session, died at his home, in Washington, of pneumonia William H. Grain, of Cuero, Texaa, w.13 born at Galveston November 25, 1848. He was graduated at St. Francis Xavler s College, In New York City, on July 1, 1867, and received the degree of A. M. several years afterwards. TJa ttto a a lanrnaf Vlllfr V> q H forton ApHvA In tw>I* itlcs for many years. The Texas delegation passed resolutions of sympathy, and Speaker Reed appointed a committee to accompany the remaiDs to Texss. Cleveland to Preside. A great rally will be held at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on March 3. It will te the climax of a series of meetings in aid of home missions under the auspices of the New York Presbytery. President Cleveland will preside, and will probably have somethiuK to say with regard to missions among Indian children. Out of the Common Ban, Pensacola, Fla., has a floating sawmill. Forty-nine per cent, of London days ar? wet. There are 459 patents coyering masonry work.