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LATE NEWS M CABLE A Budget of Despatches Concerning Foreign Affairs. OLYMPIAN VICTORS CROWNED. Priie* to the Winning Athletes In the Gaines at Athens Presented by the King o! Greece?Impressive Funeral Services Over the Victim of a Duellst'g ristol?lirltlsh Advance. Athens, Greece, April 16.?The Olympian Rames were closed yesterday with tho distribution of prizes to the victors in the various contests. The weather was perfect and ths 8tadion was crowded with people. When the King and the royal party arrived a Pindaric ode on the games was delivered by Mr. Robertson, an American, aft6tf which, according to the ancient custom, the Kin# personally handed to each winner of a first prize a wreath fashioned o! wild olives plucked from the trees at Olympia, and laurel wreaths were given to the winners ol second prizes. All of tho pr ze winners then received diplomas and medals. The Stadion band played the National air of each country represented in the cames, to which musio all of the prize winners paraded. After the parade the games were declared by the Kinfl to be ended. The to'.al number of athletes who received crowns was forty-four, of whom eleven wera Americans, ten Greeks, seven uermans, jiv.j French, three English, two Hungarians, twd Australians, two Austrians, one Dane an'l ne Swiss. After the ceremonies attendant ut>on thq priza awards were completed the lnternaj tional Committee having the arrangement oj the games in charge met at the residence of the Crown Prince and arranged for the hold? Ing of the next games in Athens in 1893t Banquets in honor of the victors are still be> Ing given, and the city is en lete. VICTIM OF A DUEL HI* Slayer, Baron Von Kotze, Sends Floral "Wreath. t> imwil iff 4n DfiltLI.1!, VJUrUlrtUJ', XU. AU 1U1^1C7 give and remarkable funeral service was helc jteterday in the chapel of the Potsdam Come tery over the body of Baron von Sehrao'er, Master of Ceremonies of the Prussiar Court, who died on April 11 fron the effects of a wound receivod it the duel with Barou von Kotze. ex-Court Chamberlain, on April 10. An immense throng, among whom were a numbei of princes, court officials and other exalted parsonages, as well as people prominent ir the social world, had gathered to attend the service. There was a profusion of floral tributes, including a wreath sent by Baron on Kotze, which was placed at the head o) the coffin. Court Chaplin Wendlandt. who conducted the services, delivered a vehement indictment of the false conception of honor which prevails tn the German army. He dwelt at some length upon the criminal slanders WDlcn naa caiisea ine rratjeay anu aepiorua the radically false view of life and the dark ess and caste prejudices of which the deceased had been a victim. "Germany's Christian nobility," Chaplain Wendlandt declared, "will some day emerge from darkaess to light, and will be amazed and horrilled that their ancestors should have cherished suoh views of life and such prejudices. This is the mes?age that soes from the coffin ?f Baron von ischrader to the Nation.** HEVIEWED BY WILLIAM. ISiOOO Austrian Troops Parade Ue'ore the ? German Kiuperor. f Vietsa, Austria, April IS.?The parade of the garrison yesterday in honor of the EmCror and Empress of Germany passed oil llliantly. The troops numbered 22.000 men and were headed by Emperor Francis Joseph. Emperor William, in Austrian Hussar uui-" form, rode upon the parade ground, the bands playing the German National anthem. Bo soon as EmDeror William appeared, Emperor Francis Joseph galloped up to him, saluted and delivered the report. Their Majesties then rode side by side down the front of the troops. Emperor William had lunch at the JopefBtadt Barracks, and warmly toastel Emperor Francis Joseph and the Austrian army, crying thrice "Eljen!" ON TO THE YURUAN. British Occupation lieyond Schombar~k'j Line Before Arbitration Opens. Kixostos, Jamaica, April 16.?Private alrioes from Demerara, British Guiana, conlUm a recent report, wnich was subsequently denied, that an expedition had left George town with the object of establishing station beyond the Sohomburgk line to head off set llements In the disputed territory to be made under the grants to Americans by Venensla. The fact 19 that the colonial authorities are beginning to take an active hand in the matter on their own behalf, on the ground of the Imperial Government's stand that it cannot submit to arbitration the political destinies of those regions already occupied by British colonists. The idea is to have as much territory de facto "occupied" as cau be taken before the whole question goes to arbitration. Serious Crisis in Matabeleland. London, April 10.?Sir Hercules Robertson. Governor of the Cape Colony, has telegraphed to Mr. Chamberlain, British Colonial Secretary, reporting that the whole country around Buluwayo, in Matabeleland, South Africa, is in possession of the native enemy, and representing that a large force of troops Is required at once to subdue the Matabelt-sl and restore order. Ten Thousand Tr.iopa for the Soudan. London, April 16.?Tho Daily News publishes a ftatement, on what it claims to bo goo 1 authority, that the Government will send fen thousand British troops to the 8oudan in the autumn for the purpose of reconquering that territory. Mining Disaster. London, April IP.?Eighteen mpu wero tilled t-y the explosion in the Brancepeth mine at Wellington, Durham, England. Colorado for Free Coinage. fhe delegation selected by the Colorado Democratic 8tate Convention held in Denver n ronnwnnt tha nurtv in the National Con ventlon at Chicago carry with them bat onti resolution, that being a demand for the restoration of the coinage of silver. Washington Democrats. The following delegates '.o Chicago were gelocted by the Washington Democratic Statu Convention at Tacoma: H. C. Wallace, W. H. White, Sol G. Simpson. J. E. Fenton, R. C. McCloskey, Thomas Maloney, R. C. Darling. J. F. Gorton. They w*r? instructed to work for a free coinage piank and for candidates known to be in favor of free coinage. Three of the number, however, are known to be gold standard men. Prompted by Jealousy. Frederick Merrick, aged twenty-eight, a jealous jeweller, killed his wife, age I twentytwo and himself in the presence of his live'* year-old son in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Delaware Pe tch Crop. Not since 1875 has there beea in the month ?f April such a flattering prospect for a bi;( erop of peaches in Delawiure. The trees ar.j in good condition ami are loa led with buds< Ten days or two weeks of warm spring will be necessary to bring them to bloom. It is not probable that frost will hurt tho tree., from this time forward. In Milford an<l Cedar Creek there are more thau IIvo huutkAimunil iruu. in i>-"lirin!?. In 18'jJ there were 550,01)0, but only about twothirds of them mature.I fruit. This yea* *11 promise to mature a full crop. A Wout-in Chlmmij-Sweep. One of the latest curioiitits of London is i female chimney-sweep. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Item*. The President sent to the Senate tt Semination of Leo Bergholz, of New Yoi City, to be Consul to Erzeroum, Armenia. The Senate passed a joint resolution ai thoring the Secretary of War to issue to at person to whom a medal of honor hrw be? awarded bv the joint resoluions of 186? at 1863 a rosette, or knot, tp be worn in lieu < the medal, and a ribbon to be worn with tt medal. The regular weekly meeting of the Vei ezuelan Boundary Commission was devotf to the reading of the reports mado by tt various members on the sub-topics to whic they were individually assigned. Sofrntnrv Carlisle was ordered by the Dl trict of Columbia Supreme Court to sho cause why he should not deliver $4,500,01 of the new bonds to William Graves and a sociates In New York. Canal hearings before the House Commi tee in Washington cloned, only one opponei oi the Nicarasuan scheme being heard. Charges of fraud and collusion in conne tion with the award of the seed contra have been made against Secret ary Morton t a Chicago Arm. In the House the bill imposing a tax c Allied cheese was passed oy a vote of 11 to 58. Domestic. The ^tate Senate at Albany, N. Y., passf the Greater New York bill over the vetoes Mayors Strong and Wurater. At Xenia. Ohio, Charles Morris, the co: fessed murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Douthett committed suicide by cutting his throat. The United States monitor Terror was pi In commission by Commander J. F. Merr the actinz CaDtain of the Navy Yard, Broo] iyn. The crew came over to tho Terror fro the Vermont. Secretary Carlisle addressed workingm( in Chicago on the currency question. Mo than 8000 persons heard him. President Cleveland's brother, the Re Dr. W. H. Cleveland, filed a protest again his dismissal as pastor of the Presbyteri* Church in Chaumont, N. Y., and will appe to the 8ynocL At Chamberlain, South Dakota, Handson Elk, an Indian belonging to the Low Brule agency, killed two Indian policemf who were trying to arrest him. Much indignation has been awakened i Wilkesbarre, Peon., by the decision of tl Mayor compelling a woman convicted of pettv theft to parade the streets labelled as thief. Colonel James E. Popper, the well-know distiller and racehorse man, filed a deed i trust at Lexington, Ky. The assignment w< brought about by depression in business at an atti\phment suit in New York for aboi 310,000 in favor of a large whisky firm. fr\y, rrVif nnft nf fhfl f1 ftrPft.St flfl X' I1VUICU IVUf^Uk VUV which have occurred in New York City, was at No. 78 Grand street, occupied by C. j Auffmordt <fc Co.. importers of silk. The lo may r*ach a million. The New York Court cf Appeals declare constitutional the law relating to the closir of barbers' 6hops on Sunday. Dissentit opinions were filed by two of the judges. John D. Hart, owner of the alleged fll busterinp steamer Bermuda, was arrested 1 Philadelphia on charges of violating tl neutrality laws. Robert F. Robinson, chief engineer of tl Franklin Sujjar Refinery, was run dow from behind by a huckster's watjon. whi riding a bicycle in Philadelphia, and was a most instantly killed. The men in the wago "were arrested. The New York Sena*e Committee on Con merce and Navluat'ou voted to favorably n port the bill authorizing the Brooklyn Brid* Trustees to lease the Bridge railroad to an company having authority to operate a elevated road in New York or Brooklyn. Seddick Adams, who was in jail at Seal Ala., charged with the murder of R. N. Rei froe, was taken from jail by a mo") ar hanged. Owing to the great rush of undesirnb immigrants, the detention pens at Ellis Is and, New York, were overcrowded and stockade was built in which 400 of them ai herded. They are guarded by armed men. An infernal machine waa sent to Preside] Roosevelt, of the New York City Poil< Board, by mail; it was soaked before beii opened, and did not explode. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company cel< brated in Philadelphia the fiftieth annivei eary of its incorporation. John L. Waller, formerly United Stat Consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, arrived i Now York, told of his arrest and persecute by French officials. John Varrill and Jo9?ph Soular. bo; eighteen years old, have been sentenced Duluth, Minn., to haner on June 10 for tl murder of Samuel Demars, in*Biwabi which was committed for the purpose of ro bery. John I. Martin, of St. Louis, Mo., w chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the Chioa; Democratic Convention. The Chadron Banking Company, the ol est banking institution in Chadron, Net closed its doors. Horace T. Stilson, a wealthy lawyer Boston, wa ked off a boathouse into tl Harlem River, New York City, and w drowned. Commander and Mrs. Ballington Boot in New York Citv, issued a statement trivl] in detail the reasons for their leaving tl Salvation Army. They blame General Wl lam Booth. Marquis Yamagata, Field Marshal Japan, was welcomed at Buffalo, N, Y., 1 Governor Morton's staff in full uniform, banquet was given in his honor. Chief Arthur addressed a large meeting locomotive engineers at Port Jervis, N. Y. George Fremlin, a member of the Salv tion Army in Kansas City, Mo., was shot ai killed by J. A. Jones, who was jealous Fremlin's attentions to his wife. Foreign Note*. Japan's Parliment has approved measur providing for developing to the fullest ? tent her military and naval resources.; Tf rorvarfo/1 in PnicoaIq- Pplcilim t V Captain Lothalre has been acquitted of t charge of causing the death of the Engli trader Stokes in the Congo. The Marquis of Cabrinana has been order to furnish SOOO pesetas bail for having t cused the Municipal Council of Madrid corrupt practices. Havana (Cuba; stores are closing in co sequence of the crisis in affair. A terrific storm, with a heavy fall of sno has swept over Sicily, doing a great deal damage. General Baratieri, late Governor of E) threa, Africa, will be tried by a milltu court in Massowah. Emperor William arrived in Vienna. At tria. and was dined by Emperor Franz Josi A new Irish Land bill was Introduced the British House of Commons. Weyler hopes to have at his disposal wil tn '.en days ail the horses in Cuba exc? those now in insurgent hands. Indians massacred women teachers, pri and all town officials of Juc(ulla, Mexico. President Zelaya's troops again defeat the Ni^araguan revolutionists, who attack the Federal forces. A despatch from Nice announces the den at Cannes of M. Trk-oupis, formerly Prii Minister of Greece. Despatches from Wady Haifa and Ca say that dervU >?*s have advanced to wit! fifteen miles of Akaslieh, but that Os.n Digna's prestige is on the wane and tl some of his solJiers are deserting. The Cortes election took place in l Snuniah nn?esslons: there were distil rbam in the Province ot Barcelona; a litrht v was polled in Cuba, there being the can dates of only one party iu the field. Off Wilhelmsbafcn, Germany, two torj.i boats collide.!. One of the boats sank aim immediately and five of the crew wi drowned. The other boat was badly da aged. The boats were uiaklug trial trips the time the collision o;currod. Baron von Schrader, the German not man whom Count von Katzo wounded ii duel, died in a hospital in Potsdam. The Spanish Government is about to se 5000 cavalry to Cuba in response to Gene Weyler'e demand for more troops. The London Board of Trade returas the first quarter of the present year sh tbat the imports have amounted to '$56 I 476.710. against $501,189,301) for 1895. T exports were $306,165,215, against $263,60 I 805 for last year at tbe same time. I SPANISH BADLY BEAT! I ie k Jm Colonel Debos's Battalion Meets Ma- lD ceo and is Defeated. v "J 81 ia " A GUNBOAT TO THE RESCUE. S tt *- - tt >u Schcme to Force an Engagement "With 10 the Insnrzents Tarns Out Disastrously for the Kind's Troops?Encircled by the Kebels?Cannon and an Orderly w )0 Retreat Saved tha Spanish Columns. sH.vvaxa, Cuba. April 15.?News has boon t- received here of a battle near Lechuza between the Alfonso XIII. battalion, under command of Colonel Debos, and the insurRents under Maceo. Colonel Debos reports >y that his battalion, with other bodies of Spanish troons, left 3Iariel, in the province 'Q of Pinar del Rio, for the purpose of Riving j ^ the enemy battle. They met the advanco J j -t .i- - i i-ii? onn Kuaru 01 iuo insurgents, ouusisuu^ u> ?.w cavalry, who opened fire upon the Govern)d ment column. The Spaniards continued their march toward Lechuza, although opposed at every a" step, and every elevation wa* occupied by s> them at the cost of a fight. Upon arriving in the neighborhood of Lechuzi they found . at the insurgents gathered in strong force, and y, the patriots made an attempt to surround t- the SDanish column. m The Spanish troops fought with great desperation against heavy odds, says Debos, ? m but were defeated with losses of many killed re and wounded. Divining the intention of the J* enemy to encircle his column, Colonel Debos ordered a retreat. The Spanish column reJ; tired tc the San Claudio estate on the north " coast, where the troops fortified themselves, ; j awaiting the arrival of other Government columns. General Inclan arrived with his column " 10 very opportunely, and the troops under 2 0r Colonel Debos were also protected by tne JQ gunboat Alerta, which kept tbe enemy at bay. Colonel Debos estimates that the force of the In Insurgents who charged upon his command . ie numbered 5000 men. The official report says a that the losses of the enemy must have Deen a very great, as many men were seen to fall & Deiore iao lire ui iue oymiisu uui/ps* rDi The Government column, according to the S official report, lost four men killed and one ' jj officer and thirteen soldiers wounded; but p J the fact is that the Government losses were ' J very heavy, the details being withheld by r the authorities. ' A civilian who volunteered to carry the news of the predicament of the Government ? ** column to the nearest fort rut; the gauntlet ? ~ of the insurgent Are, and was compelled to 5". ^ jump into the water twice to save himself. General Inclan reported that upon his ? >d arrival at Colonel Debos's camp he com- t? iq pelled Maceo to retreat from San Claudlo. ijJ Further details of the engagement show that the>Spanish column occupied two hours l_ in advancing from Mariel to the point where In it met the main body of Insurgents. The re- T ie treat to the San -Claudio estate, which is some distance west of Mariel, occupied seven hours. On their retreat the troops were exposed to a constant Are from the insurgents cj I in the rear an 1 were frequently compelled to jj form squares to resist the charges of the v< j enemy. It was necessary to use cannon to fo open a way for the retreat ot the vanguard. bi The wounded Spaniards were embarked Vi upon a schooner under the Are of the Alerta. it According to the military authorities here, a Colonel 8anchez Echevarria, who had re- ai 'y ceived orders to act in combination with D lD Colonel Debos and General Inclan, tailed to arrive in time to assist the other two bodies ei et of Spanish troops. The authorities sav that rc i- had he arrived in time Maceo's force would ol A hflvn hoftn hart If TrhlnnArl fJolonnl Eehe- nr varria has been relieved of bis command and 0I le ordered to appear for trial before a court ol il. martial. D a N * WELCOME TO YAMACATA. ? G y Japan's Modest Military Hero Arrives In :e New York. jj Field Marshal Yamagata, the conqueror of <3 j- China and the Bismarck of Japan, arrived at ^ r- New York City from the West, on his way to a, Moscow, whore he will represent the Japan- a: ese Emperor at the coronation of the Czar of " Russia. * His journey through the Empire State was a continuous welcome. He was feted in rs Buffalo, received by the Governor in Albany M and escorted by the military staff of the 9C 3e State's chief Executive. 12 His arrival had been anxiously awaited by b" a host of Americans and Japanese. As the ^ crowd caught sight of the slender, wiry K as form leaning upon the arm of Adjutant-Gen- ? ;o eral McAloin, it burst into a ringing cheer, Mnoiworl Mm n Qulvrt f\f hnflfl dan d- *" p , The Fielfi Marshal, accompanied by his 14 *' secretary and the Japanese Minister, went . ?;t once to the Waldorf. Ftom the facade of the big hotel hung the flag of Japan. The le State apartments had been prepared for the <3 88 Field Marshal and his suite of six persons. Slender and spare of frame is this Japanese h, Bismarck. His features are lined with ig strength and determination. The mannet n tie of man he is is shown by the firm jaw, the set 11- mouth and the piercing eyes. His face is long, Hnd his forehead high. He visited the F of United Statos ?even years ago and his wifo is ji by a graduate of Vassar. si A m KILLED HIS OWN BABES. ? of m Lehman Shot Three Children and Com- n a* initted Suicide. ir ad jji of While brooding over a hallucination that his family would die from want, John Leh- tt man, a well-to-do man, shot and killed his three children in Chicago. Then Lehman * kll'ed himself. 81 Lehman had sent his wife and his two c< step-children from tna house on various pro- di iat texts, and his crime was not discovered until m "e they returned. The names of the dead are: Q) sh John Lehman, thirty-eisht years old; Clara Lehman, five years old; Bertha Lehman, ed three years old; an infant four months old, w- not yet named. . of For eight years Lehman had been in the m employ of the West Chicago Street Railway m ,n. Company. Through economy he saved U $5000, which is lent on mortgages. sf This is the fourth crime of the same sc character that has been committed in Chi- u: cago within nine months. The death list pi now numbers twenty-four. se :y- Cl iry Train Goes Through a JTrestle. D P 13_ Passenger train No. 1 on the New Orleans ftj 0f. and Northwestern Railroad went through a rj in small trestle three miles north of Vosburg, ai Miss. The entire train, save the engine and G .v tender, was wrecked. The passenger coaches ki ;nI were well filled, but, strange to saV, nobody aj was killed outright. e: tt est To Defend the Sea Coast. ed ed The House of Representatives at Washington passei the Fortifications Appropriation ^ rth. bill without a division, and in the fofm rec:na' ommended by the Appropriations -Committtse. The bill carries a total of $5,842,337. of 10 iro which $1,885,000 is for the construction of it dn pua ami mortar batteries and fortifications, L !in and $1,729,000 for armament of fortiflca- pi 1!lt tions. In addition to the total direct appro- W prial ion carried by the bill, the Secretary of p1 :h? War is authorized to enter into contracts to oi ce.4 the total amount of $5,542,276 for materials fc oto an.1 construction of fortifications and arma- fa diJ rn<"nt, making the aggregate amount appro- tt printed and authorized $11,381,613. u7 Murderer I'ut to Death. -r . ... ,ro! Joseph Ziamel wis put to death iu the m- electric chair at Clinton Prison, Dannumorn, In at N. Y. The execution was entirely success- s<! fill. The crime for which Zlaine'l suffered pi ,le. the death penalty was the murder of Ther- C j a esa Ksimora. his sweetheart, at Johnstown, tti lioth were Slavs and neither could speak <.q ,n,i English. ,t ral 1'renidentN Brother Ketired. a Rev. William N. Cleveland, elder brother *or of the President of the Unitod States, has been retirsd from his charge at Chaunjont, [? " N. Y.. by the Presbytery of St. Lawrence ke County. The reason is said to have been aI V that Rev. Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat,while d< most of hii congregation are Republicans. P' FITZHUGH LEE FOR CUBA, be President Names Him for ConsulGeneral at Havana. The President sent to the Senate the nomlation of ex-Governor Fltzbugli Lee, of Irglnia, to be Consul-General of the United :atee at Havana, Cuba, vice Ramon 0. Willis, resigned. Although It has been susscted for some time that Mr. Williams ould soon cease his official relations with :e Government, this wa3 the first intimation lat his resignation had been accepted. FITZHUGH LEE. General Lee's appointment is known now i have greater significance than is apparent I the surface. He not only poes to Cuba i Consul-General at a salary of $6000 a year, :t is instructed to investigate the strength ! t.*?c contending armies and the progress ade by tne insurgents and send his reports ithout delay to the 8tate Department. It supposed that he will leave for his post ith as little delay as possible, owing to the lxiety of the Admluistratlon to be informed pon the situation. The appointment of General Lee as Conil-General at Havana causes a vacancy in te Lynchburg (Va.) collectorship of interII revenue. Tnis vacancy has been promptly iifd hv f-htt nomination, at the same time. t William H. Fowle, who is now the chief erk of the office under General Lee. Fitzhugh L?e was born in Clermont, Falrix County, Va., November 19, 1835, and is jnsequently now in his sixty-first j-ear. He raduated at West Point in 1856, and was >mmissioned second lieutenant in the Seoid Cavalry. Being severely wounded in a ?ht with Indians, he was in May, 1860, ade an instructor of cavalry at West oint. At the outbreak of the Civil War he tsigned his commission and entored the onfedorate service. He was given comand of the whole cavalry corps of the Army ! Northern "Virgiula in March, 1865, and a onth later surrendered to General Meade, fter the war he retired to his home in afford County. He was elected Governor I Virginia in 1885. A warm friendship exts between Fitzhugh Lee and President leveland. IN HONOR OF JEFFERSON. he Anniversary of His Birth Celebrated at Montlcello. Under the auspices of the National Asso atton of Democratic Clubs, the 153d anniirsary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, the iunder of the Democratic party, was cel&rated at Monttcello, near Charlottesville, a., where the author of the Declaration or idependence lived, died, and was burled, t noon the special train from Washington rrived, bringing a party of well-known emocrats. Among these were: Vice-President Stevenson, Poatmaster-Gen al Wilson, Attorney-General Harmon, Seo!tary Herbert, of the Navy; Senators Jones, ! Arkansas; Faulkner,of West Virginia;Pas), of Florida: George, of Mississippi; Martin, t Kansas; Mitchell, of Wisconsin; White, t California, and Roach, > of South akota; Representatives, Sulzer, of ew York; Washington, of Tennessee; larly, of Kentucky; Livlngton, of eorRi,?. Swanson, of Virginia; Tucker, of irginla; renuleton, of Texas; Tyler, of VirInia; Patterson, of Tennessee: Williams, of iisslsslppi; Law9on, of Goorgia; Turner, of eorgia; McGuire, of California. Also of le party were ex-Governor Russell, of iafsachusetts; Senator Daniel, of Virginia, ad the Hon. Chauncey F. Black, of Pennsylvania, the orators of the ocoasion. Tne guests were driven to Monticello, here Vice-President Stevenson, the Sena>rs and Representatives, and the ladies of ieir party were enteriatned at luncheon by ,1* wcuoi^vu uu l y, a wi vvuui>n and present owner of the masne and tansion. The exercises began with an address by le Hon. Chauncoy F. Blaok. Ex-Governor ussell, of Massachusetts, followed. He paid tribute to the memory of Jefferson as the mnder of the Democratic party, the enunator of its principles, ana a great PresiBnt. Senator Daniel followed Governor usseil in a brlof speech. CUN EXPLODES AT A TEST. eneral Nelson A. Miles One of Those Who Kscaped Unhurt. An explosion in the discharging tube of 10 Dudley powder-pneumatic gun for irowing high explosives, at Matlnicock oint, Long Island, resulted In serious iniry to one man. Two others received Ight hurts and several spectators were iade deaf. The gun was wrecked and the iss to the Sims-Dudley Defense Company ia tore than S 10,000. Maior-General Nelson A. Miles, Comrnnder of the United States Army, was withl the line of dancer with miny distinuished spectators, and escaped harm. The disaster was an exasperating one for lose interested in the first official test of le gun. because it occurred while dummy rojectilea were being fired at a target, and fter five live shells had bten thrown so moothly and accurately as to thoroughly anvlnce every spectator that the gun is a istlnct gain in ordnaLce, and that no claim ade for it was in the least degree exaggor:ed. Spain's Throne Shaking. "3* Great indication is felt in Madrid over the ethods employed by the Spanish Government in the general election. Newspapers ke the Correro, the Imparcial, the Correwndencia and the Liberal call it a National :andal. which may make it the last election nder tne present institutions. The result is recisely what was expected. The Con:rvative Cabinet has a compact, displlned majority in the Chamber of eputies of over 300?Conservatives, rotectionists and ultra - Catholics ? >1 devoted to Premier Canovas ad ready to defend his policv, at home Ad in the colonies. It is no secret that the overnment Is seriously alarmed, for it is oown that precautions have been taken jiinst an outbreak. The conditions now risting has recalled tc many the 3tnto of le people just before tne revolution of 1868. Objections to Greater New York, The veto message of Mayor Strong, of New ork City, on the Greater New York bill was :ad in the Senate at Albany, when it was >r the first time made public. As soon as was road the message was, on Senator exow's motion, laid on the table to be rintel. The veto me?sage of Mayor rurster. of Brooklyn, and the message of aproval of Mayor Gleason. of Long Island City, 1 the same bill, were also read and tabled >r printing. The bifl itself was laid on the .bio to come up next on the motion to pas.c ie bill over the vstces of the Mayors. Terrific Ptorra In the Northwest. Winter's last kick in tho Northwest enmo , tho shapo of one of the worst storms of the inson. Cars wero blown from the tracks at m.'blo, Col., buildings rueed at Crtpple r?'ek, and railroads generally blooke 1, the innels being filled with snow, blown in for iveral hundred feet. At Lander, Wyoming, shower of black, then of red mud. followed snow storm. Two Hundred .Malabeles Killed. Two hundred Matabeles wero killed by i explosion of dynamite In a mine abanjned by the British South Africa Cominy'3 men. Iff-4 I ' 9 . S1I LITIS FlITOIGB." Minshall Shot Sands and Killed All r His Own Family, ' - c TRAGEDY AT PENTWATER, MICH. ? A Lawyer Shoots the President of the Village, Goes Home, Kills His Wife, Three Children, and Himself?Death of the Village President?Murderer Insane From Easiness Reverses. Pentwateb, Mich., April 11.?S. B. Minshall, an attorney and an insurance agent of this town, suoceeded in an attempt to assassinate William B. 0. Sands. President of the Bands A Maxwell Lumber Company, Village Pfftdduflf an H fVin loariincr man nf fhfl nlaGfi* Sandfl died at his home this evening. After leaving Sands for dead, Minshall went to hl3 home and shot his wife and three children dead, and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Minshall came from Chicago three years ago and was in the employ of Sands & Max well until a year ago, when he began the practice of law and also began writing Insurance. He had a big line of insurance on Sands 4 Maxwell's property, which the flrro cancelled a few days ago. This and other financial troubles Is supposed to have made Minshall Insane. He left letters which showed that he Intended to be revenged on Sands. Mr. Sands had been working In tho office oi ine company aua sianea nome uuuui ?.ov o'clock. When within a few rods of home 8ands met MinshalV The latter had a rifle and demanded that Sands accompany him. Sands attempted to disarm him and Minshali fired, the bullet striking Sands in the npper part of his right arm and shattering it badly. Sands then ran toward his home, but was uuable to get the door open. Minshall, who had followed his victim, fired four more shots, three of which took effect. By this time Sands had managed to unlock the door, and, as he entered, he fell insensible, and Minshall fled to . iis home. f The noise caused by Sands's fall aroused c his family, and help was summoned. A gen- r eral alarm was raised by the use of the j town's flre whistle. A. cartridge was found i near where the shooting occurred, and it was 8 Identified by S. W. Fincher, a druggist, as j belonging to a rifle which Minshall had bor- i rowed from him yesterday to shoot crows. 8 Thisturned suspicion toward Minshall as the i attempted assassin of Sands, and the big t crowd whioh had gathered went to hia house. c The house was found lighted, but as no re- i sponse could be obtained to the repeated t knocklngs on the door it was forced open. Mrs. Minshall's body was fouud lying against c the door in the main room. Her throat had * tko hnflv nf Tinhv a sixteen-vear- r UCCLl WUli AA4W ? , ? ? old daughter, and a promising musician, ? was found in a corner of the same room. ? She had been shot through the head. Mr. Minshall's body was found near his wife's. In a bedroom were found the bodies of Georgia, aged four, and a two-year-old baby boy. One shot from the rifle had ended both i of their lives. Minshall was forty-five years old. Sands was sixty-five years old. He was very weak from loss of blood and the effects of having i his arm amputated, and shock caused his | death.1 , One of the letters which Minshall left was written to a friend in Chicago, asking him to care for his family In case they should J survive him. In the letter he complained ] bitterly of the company's treatment of him In business matters. He wrote that he would ' demand satisfaction from Sands, and if he ( did not receive it he would take him olonf with him "to mix with the elements." ' AMERICANS WIN FINALS. 1 Burke, Clark and Curtis Capture Their ' Events at the Oljmpic Gaines. The final heats of the unfinished events 1 of the first and second days of the Olympic 1 games were contested at Athens, Greece. I The 100 metres raco was won by Thomas f E. Burk<% of Boston, in 0.12. Hoffman, tho 1 /iKamninn rrrna aopnnH I UCIUiau ? uuui|/*vu| . The high jump was won by Ellery H. ' Clark, of Harvard, a member of the Boston 1 team. He covered 181 centimetres. The hurdle race of 110 metres was won by Thomas P. Curtis, of Boston, in 17 3-5. Gouldlng, the English champion was second. ( The 8tadium was packed. It is estimated that 150,000 persons wore present. The contests at the parallel bars were won by Flatow, German, and Zutter, Swiss. The contests at climbing the pole were won ' by the Greek athletes, Andrl, Kopoulos and ] Xenakls. 1 The pole vault was won by W. W. Hoyt, ^ of Harvard and the Boston Athletio Associa- . tlon, wbo scored 8.30 metres. A. C. Tyler, of Princeton University, was second with . 3.20 metres. The Payne brothers, of Boston, won the , rifle and revolver contests. In the high jump James B. Connolly, of 1 the Suffolk Athletic Club, of Boston, und ^ Bohert Gariett, Captain of the Princeton team, each scored 1.65 metres. 1 HELPED KILL THEIR FATHER. i ] Charles and Annie Lamborn Admit Their Complicity. 1 Young Charles Lamborn and Annie Lamborn, his sister, who are in jail at Leavenworth, Kan., charged with complicity in the nf their fflther. have confessed that . they assisteed Thomas Davenport, the sweetheart of the girl, to commit the crime. Lumborn was murdered at his ranoh in Fall Leaf Township on the night of February 10. * According to the confession Lamborn and < his sister left home to attend a dance. Near > theii home they met Davenport, and it was agreed that the aged father, who bad forbidden Davenport to vi3it hiB daughter, and I who. though wealthy, made his children 1 druages on the farm, should be killed. i Davenport then went to the house, crept in I through a rear door, and with one blow of i an axe despatched Lamborn, as he sat in a I chair by the fireside. The two men then I burned the dead man's will, by which he had^ I disposed of an estate valued at over $60,000. < After this they joined the girl and the three j went to the dance, where they seemed to enjoy themselves with the others. After the dance they all returned to the house and slept there. In the morning they spread the news of Lamborn's death. Rhode Island for Reed. The Rhode Island Republican State Convention, held in Music Hall, Providence, was a Reed gathering first, last and all the time. The name McKinley was not heard. The platform is for sound money and protection. Condition of Winter Grain. The Department of Agriculture's report on the condition of winter grain April 1, 1896, shows a condition of winter wheat in nine leading States as follows: Pennsylvania, 64; Ohio, 56; Michigan. 82; Indiana, 77; Kentucky, 70; Illinois, 81; Missouri, 75; Kansas, 88; California, 91. Average for the entire county, 77.3; last year, 81.4, and 86.7 in 1894. Tne condition of rye was in New York, 91; in Pennsylvania, 78; in Wisconsin, 77. Average for the entire country. 82.9. Dry weather at seeding time, from which scarcely a county was exempt, largely re'arded or presented germination. Rye suffered In mnct Santos le? than wheat. The Labor AVorld. The South has 400 activo cotton mills. Detroit's House of Correction earnod ?35,000 in 1895 from the labor of its inmates. Bricklayers' National Alliance was granted a charter by the American Federation of Labor. The Centra! Labor Federation i3 trying to Organize '.he artificial flower makers of New York City. The Vienna (Austria; firemen's striko has collapsed and the men have returned to their posts. ^For somo weeks past an Indianapolis (Ind.) bicycle company ha* been working its men fourteen hours. Last week the coai"mv out on a dav and nicbt force. , ' UNIFORM OF THE "VOLUNTEERS." low the Women Soldiers of the New American Salvation Army Will Dress. The women soldiers In Ballington Booth's tew army, "The Volunteers.'' wear a untorm varying considerably from that which lothes the forms of their sisters in tbe Id Salvation Army. It is thought by oany to be prettier than the eld uniform, ilthough there are others who will pre MAUD BALLIXOTOX BOOTH. (Clothed in the uniform of the new American Salvation Army.) er the familiar hat and simple attire of the iritflnal. The new uniform Is of cadet blue, nade on lines that fit the figure snugly tround the shoulders, waist and hips. Tho )odice is made after a pattern somewhat reemblinc a Norfolk jacket, with three flat >laits back and front. The gored skirt is tarrow. The sleeves are skin tight and ibout the olose wrists are set folds of white isse. a little fold of which appears at the hrnaf (rtvinf? the onstume a daintv. trim. luakerish aspect. Mrs. Booth lookscharmng In her new religious livery and her roops are very proud of her. The Volunteer Gazette, which is to be the >rgan of Ballington Booth's offsnoot of the Salvation Army, has made its appearance, rlr. and Mrs. Booth, over their names, disilaim any purpose to antagonize th9 old irmy or its work. DEATH TO HUMAN PLAGUES. Wonderful Results Got by the Application of Koentgea Kays. Professors W. P. Pratt and Hugh Wightnan, respectively electro-therapeutist and mcterlologist of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, have practically proved that the Roentgen rays will kill: Bacilli of cholera, . Dacllli of diphtheria, bacilli of Influenza, mcilli of glanders, bacilli of pneumonia, bacilli of typhoid, bacilli of tuberculosis, bacilli of anthrax. Hereafter, epidemics will be impossible, rhe professors have put the germs of these sight most deadly diseases through the test. k week has elapsed, and the germs have been red and nurtured with the greatest care, but they have failed to propagate or spread, proving they are dead, or nave beenstunneJ. Diphtheria was slain outright. There is no ioubt of the effect in this case. It is admitted by the two physicians, who have spent day and night in the laboratory, that they have been startled by the dlscovsries. They have worked with the germs in the test tubes. They maintain that success secured under this disadvantage predicts cauoh more marvelous effects when the same ittack shall be made upon those enemies lojated in the humai. body. The method will le tried at once. CHICAGO GIRL'S DOUBLE CRIME. Shoots Her Friend and Then Commits Suicide on the StTcet. Miss Mary Linnet, of Chicago, shot and injtantly killed Miss Elizabeth Trowbridge, a prominent young woman of Elgin, 111., and then killed herself, shortly after 8 o'clock the other evening. The double tragedy took place in South State street, the principal residential street of Elgin, and when the police reached the spot b?th girls were found fyini? dead on the sidewalk in a pool of blood, while in the hand of the murderess was grasped a large revolver. Miss Linnet was sent to the Insane hospital less th<tn a year ago and was discharged from the institution as cured in December last. Miss Trowbridge was an attendant at the hospital nnd had charge of Miss Linnet, who became attached to her. Her great regret in leaving Elgin was that she must leave her friend behind. She returned to Chicago, where she remained at her home. Her friends believed her entirely cured of her mental troubles. LYNCHED ON SUSPICION. 1 TVhlte Farmer Foand Hanging to a Tree In Tennessee. York Douglas, a white former late of McHlnn County, was found hanging to a tree >n Long Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn. The lynchers are unknown. Many horses, cattle and mulos have died :he past winter, all showlnc symptoms of having been poison?d. Strong suspicion rested on Douglas. Recently a fine barn belonging to the Douglas Brothers was burned md circumstences seemed to fix upon York the crime of incendiarism. He was decoyed from his home and carried into the mountains. Another theory is that he had inourred the anger of moonshiners by informing officers of their hiding places. The New Jersey Elections. The elections'held in the first and secondolnss cities of New Jersey result in Rains for the Democrats. They recaptured all departments of government in the two firstclass cities of tbe State. Newark and Jersey City. In most of the oiher places the result waa rhe same.as a year ago. James M. Seymour, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Newark over JullusA. Lebkuecher, Republican, by about 3500 plurality. The Weather Bureau's Crop Report. The Weather Bureau issued its first weeklj telegraphic crop report of the season. Cotton plan'ins: is now well advauced. Winter wheat is reported in excellent condition in Nebraska an 1 Eastern Kansas, and is much improved and looking well in Iowa. Missouri Arkansas. Tennessee and Northern Illinois. Less favorable reports are received from Wisconsin. Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and portions of New l'ork, in some of which States it has b:.-eD badly winter-killed and Is generally in poor to fair condition. No corn htis yet been planted north ot the Ohio Kiver. In the Southern States corn planting is practical!'-' completed. Out ot the Common linn, lJr.i7.il grows half the coflfec crop of the world. a 111 iv*1 it to recover pew rent was brought | last week l?v a oiiureli in Shoo, Mo. A chestnut tree ou M.?unt Etna hasu clreuinferonoe ot 100 feet, and is over 20UC yours olil. Host on claims to have the longest paveu street latin- world?Washington street, which is seventeen and a hair utiles in length. The results of advertising were illustrated in Bath County, Kentucky. A man there advertised for tue return of a lost cat. Ie loss than a week 332 them were brought to his house. SEAL FOR One of the Hott Artistic Possessed State in the Union. One of the necessary tasks of the pre^H^^H Legislature has been the selection of a grea^^^H Beal for the State of Utah. The selection of^^H the design has been made, and Utah will have one of th9 most artistio seals of anj H State in the Union. A number of designs were submitted, the successful one being the work of 0. M. Jackson, a newspaper man. B The seal will have an eagle In a defiant at- H titude, holding in its talons the shield of the, Nation, through which, at the top, are thrust the emblematic arrows. The background for the shield is formed by two draped American flaj 3. At the top ot the shield, under the arrow?, is the word "Utah." A beehive is in thecntre of the shield, surrounded with H sego lilies, the State flowers. Under the hive is "1847." The seal is emblematic. The beehive has always beea taken as the representation of Utah. A large beehive was pla'ced on the top of the Eagle Gate, at one time the only entrance in tne great ston? wall that ran all around the north foothills and enolreledj the church offices and Temple and Tabernacle, as a safeguard from the attacks of the! Ute Indians. It was the emblem seleoted by Brlgham Young, and the Mormon people have always olatmed that it represented the busy people of Utah. The sego lily was selected as the Stat# flower some time ago by popular vote. It grows abundantly among the sage brush on the dry foothills above Salt Lake, and als< out on the dry benches to be found in othei parts of the State. It <s very beautiful, bul has a value for Utinia'is above that. In th4 early days of privation, when the Mormon pioneers had insufficient food to last them until they could harvest their orops, the sego Illy was used for food, and was found to b# very sustaining. The date "1847" represents the year when Brigham Young led the first parties of eml' grants into the then barren and uninviting valleys of the Great Salt Lake. Another date, "1896," to represent the beginning ol Statehood, will also be placed in the de* sign. i CHARLES H. VOORHIS A SUICIDE. Was Formerly a Congressman- and a New Jersey Judge. Charles EL Voorhls, a well-known lawyer, shot himself in his office in the Davldsod Building, in Jersey City, N. J. He placed the muzzle of a pistol just below his right temple, and, firing, the bullet passed almost through his head. Death must have been in? 3tantaneous. The body was discovered bj the janitor. It was upon the floor. The pistol was lying by his right hand, the left hand being folded across his breast. Upon a table was found a letter addressed to his wife. In It Mr. Voorhls said that he Intended to kill himself, bat gave no reason. He also Inclosed $5. Charles H. Voorhls was born In Hacken*ack sixty-four years ago. He organized the Bergen County National Bank and the Hackensaok Savings Bank in 1868. Be was elected' to Congress in 1878. While he was in Congress both the banks, of whioh. he was President, failed, causing widespread disaster in Bergen \ County. Tflo losses were about 82,000,000. Mr. Voorhls was indicted upon the allegation that he was criminally responsible for the failure of the banks, but Joseph D. Bedle, his counsel, set up the plea that the offense was barred by the statute of limitations, and be was acquitted. He leaves a wife, one inn ftnfl tarn rtmiffhtfln. , BLAND IS A CANDIDATE. rhe Missouri ij)emocracy Will Name Him at Chicago. The 535 delegates to the Missouri Democratic State Convention at Sedalia were almost unanimously in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1. "SU< , ver Dlok" Bland's name was cheered at 1 every mention. Tno action of the convendon was a strong expression in favor of free coinage and of Bichard P, Bland, Governor Stone, and Senators Cocltrell and , Vest, whom Missouri decided to send as ielegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention. Bland addressedtbe convention,.with-1 drawing his name as a candidate for dele-j gate to the Chicago Convention, and per* sitting it to be used as a Presidential candiiate. A fourth delegate to take the place of, Ur. Bland, who withdrew, resulted in the /" alection of George M. Allen, of St. Louis, ill are pronounced free silver men. Sealing Treaty Ratified. Altera discussion of a litt'e more than balf an hour, the United States Senate in iJ_ 1 i.1 n ?Va Wmaan executive sesamu lauusu mo ncaiji unirtvu the United States and Qreat Britain, proTided tor the appointment of a commission to assess damages alleged to have been sustained by Canadian sealers whose vessels were seized by the Government of the United States tor alleged illegal sealing. The treaty provides that each Government 3hall appoint one commissioner, and it they cannot agree the President of -the Swiss Republic is to select a third. Tornado la South Dakota. I A tornado passed through Faulk County, South Dakota, resulting in two deaths and several injured. Considerable damage was done at Cressbaid, Millard and Burkemere. 8everal houses and barns were blown away. The residence of E. T. Evans, near Cressbard, was completely destroyed, killing his children and badly injuring himself and wife. At Burkemere the Winona Mill Com* , pany's elevator was demolished and the Cressbard Church was moved from its foundation. Nebraska Republicans. The Nebraska Republican State Convention which met at Omaha to select delegates to the National Convention was the largest gathering of the party ever held in Nebraska. ' It endorsed McKinley for the Presidential nomination, and pledged the party to whatever platform the National Convention should adopt Killed by a Windmill Fan. H Frederick G. Dillman, of Madison, Wis., was Instantly killed in an unusual manner. I He went to Milton, Wis., to repair the com- S panv's windmill. Mounting the platform, he ' put his head through the manhole. One of the large steel fans, blown by the wind, came H in contact with his head, outtlng through his B skull like a knife. In an instant he was ; hurled to the ground, a distance of sixty ( feet, a mangled corpse. Cheap Bona. jfl Six head of fair slzsd, entirely sound H horses were sold in the town of Lakeview, H Oregon, recently, for an average of $6.50 H each. One of the horsee brought only $1.50. Cod Liver OH Supply a Failure. H The Scandinavian supply of cod liver oil la H said to be an almost complete failure. Com. H paratlvely few codfish were caught during H the past season, and those that were cap tured were found to yield only an. inferioi H quality of the oil. The yield for the past H three years shows a rapid decrease. In 1S93 H - * oirt u ;r% 1 QO.4 IB It amouuiea to 20,010 wiid.9| >u dropped to 18,500, and lost year it was onij 12,68a barrels. The Only Eclipse. The only eclipse visible iu North America in 18% will occur August 22-23?a partial 1 eclipse of the moon. \ Fromlnent People. The Prince of Wales is to be installed a? Chancellor of the University of Wales during the summer. President Diaz, of Mexico, has received ae a gift from foreign bankers and manufacturers doing business in that country a servlct of gold plate costing $80,000. <ni u t T.nirrVifi-m mnrlo 1r\ta nf J.UIJUJCI1 uuiu ? ? money in his lifetime, he was not good at keeping it, aud his house and art treasures will have to be sold to settle his debts. Sir Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian army, in command of the Dongola expedition, Is forty-five years old and holds only the ran& of Major of Engineers in the British army.