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" * TBMEZHELM CB1S1S ESDS Lord Salisbury Proclaims the Great \7is4itPw nf llnifarl Qto+oe Yii/iuij vji lii^ wjiii^u ukuiwgi ENGLAND BACKS DOWN. Ih? British Prime Minister, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, Says He Believes the Plan Suggested by Mr. Olney Ends the Venezuelan Controversy?The News Received With Immense Applause. London. England (By Cable).?Lord Salisbury announced in bis speech at tho Mansion House Monday night that the dispute between Great Britain find the United States over the venezuewn Boundary nas virtually oeen sectted^Tt has been settied on the terms which United States insisted upon. The whole question is to be referred to unrestricted arbitration. The only condition attached is one proposed by Secretary Olney that the title of bona fide settlers to their present holdings shall, in case the arbitrators' award places them under the jurisdiction of Venezuela. be decided by tho laws governing private titles. m ' x i LOUD SALISBURY. ?_____-^___^__?. Tbe British law provides, anions other things, that a title to land which has been nnassailed for twenty-one years cannot be [invalidated. Venezuela, in other words, will be debarrrd from confiscating property in any territory she may acquire under arbitration. That was the good news in the British Premier's great speeob-. v He announced it at the outset, and it was received with immense enthusiasm. He ventured also to ! oongratulate Ambassador Bayard and the ' United States on the result of the election, j This is an extraordinary thing for a Prime ' Minister and Foreign Secretary to do, but 5 hn axnlained that it hardlv amounted to I inte-ference in the domestic politics of an- ' other Nation to express admiration of '"the ' splendid pronouncement which a great : people has made in behalf of the principles ? which lie at the base of all human society." There was a sumptuous display at the banquet at which the above announcement wa' made, it marking the installation into office of Mr. George Faudel Phillips, the new Lord Mayor of London. The banqueting hall of the Mansion House was. crowded. Among the guests were Prime Minister Salisbury, Mr. George J. Goschen .First Lord of the Admiral- ' ^ ty; Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State ' for India; Lord Halsbury, Lord High Chan- t cellor; Mr. Charles T. Ritchie, President of < the Board of Trade; GeDeral Lord Wolseley; ( Commander-in-Chief of the British forces; i General Sir Herbert H. Kitchener, Sirdar of { the Egyptian Army; Mr. William Court Gully, , Speaker of the House of Commons, and Mr. i Thomas F. Bayard, the American Ambassa- j dor. Interest centred in the speech made by Lord Salisbury, it bein? the custom for the Prime Minister at the Lord Mayor's banquet I ( to mnke a statement regarding the foreign | , , and domestic policies of the Government. , Ambassador Bayard replied to the toast "The Foreign Representatives." i Mr. Bayard, in treating of the community of interests of the Nations of the world, all j being affected by the doings of others, re- < ferred to the Presidential election in the ] U'ited States, saying: < "I am very sure that it was in no narrow < party sense, no merely National sense, that the heart of the people which it is my highest honor to represent was echoed in a verdict that could not be misunderstood, standing as it does for National honor and the continuity of National obligations, making the world safer in the trust of each part, and speaking as emphatically as the human mind and human heart ever spoke in favor of that { honesty which is an essential condition of | ' civilization everywhere." (Loud cheers.) I < When Lord Salisbury arose to reply to the i toast "Our Ministers," he received an ova tion. After thanking the Lord Mayor and the others present for the warmth of the welcome extended to him, he said: . "X thank the Ambassador of the United Stares for his presence here and for joininc a great historio meeting. By the few words ; he has uttered he has raised his own plane t of observation so high above the mere level j of party that, though oontrary to practice to remark upon the internal politics in other , 8tates, I may be permitted, withouj impertinence, to congratulate him upon the splendid pronouncement the creat people he represents have made in behalf of the principles which lie at the base of all human society. ( (Cheers.) "It is rather bathos to have to turn therefrom to the??ather unimportant controversy ( his country and ours have had in r?:cent j months. I only do so for the purpose of expressing the belief that it is at an end. (Cheers.) You are aware that in the discussion had with the United States on behalf of their friends in Venezuela our ouestion has not been whether there should be arbitration, but whether arbitration should have unrestricted application, and we have always claimed that those wh.\ apart from historic right, had the right which attaches to established settlement? should be excluded from arbitration. Our difficulty for months has been to define the settled districts and thesolution has, 1 think come that we should treat our roloutal empire as we treat individual; that the sane lapse of time which protects the latter in civic life from having their title quest;oned should similarly protect an English colony, but beyond that, when a lapso could not be claimed there should be an examination of titlo and all the equity demanded in regard thereto should be granted. "I do not oelieve I am usin? unduly sanguine words when I declare my belief that thi- has brought the controversy to an end. (Lr. ud cheers.) i ".Ve have Lad an anxious year a: too Foreign Office, but we have floated into a pt'riod of comparative calm, and I do not intend to trouble you with matters that have passed away." / California Striker* Pardoned. The President has pardoned W. H. Clune, Isaac Ros-s and Philip Stnnwood, of California, sentenced December 6, 1894, to pay a fine of one dollar and to be confined in Los Angeles County jail for conspiracy, the offense being committed in the railway riots at that time general throughout the country. Took Hi* Life lictaiisn Itr.yun Lost. Morris Brown, age J sixtv-lwo years, commifted suicide at the Star Hous'', Columbus, Ohio, by taking morphine. lie was au ardent isryiin infill, uuu Wficj uvci nrjuu s ucivui is believed to have prompted his net. The Labor World. < America has 10,000 union brewers. London factories erapioy 200.000 girls, ban Francisco, Cal., has a Chinese labor Buffalo, N. Y., has an Italian laborers' union. Welsh steel workers won ten per cent, advance. Wag^s of New Hampshire spinners are being reduced. Brooklyn's two unions of knitting workers may consolidate. They are 5700 members of trades unions in Los Angeles County, Cai. Wv * _ / COMMENTS ON VENEZUELA. The London Newspapers Think ?Every? thins Is Serene. LoNDoy (By Cable).?The Daily News, commenting upon Lord Salisbury's speech, says in reference to bi9 explanation of tlie Venezuelan matter that the terms of the settlement as announced by the Prime Minister ire perfectly satisfactory, involving no surrender of essential principles. The solution arrived at will enable each side to claim a vlotory. Lord Salisbury can justly say he succeeded in protecting the rights of the British settlers, and Mr. Olney can claim with literal truth that he succeeded in bringing Great Britain to consent to arbitration. The Post says that the settlement of the Venezuelan dispute is wholly satisfactory to Great Britain and the United States. The Daily Graphic holds that the solution to the vexatious question reflects the high i - 11.. est credit upon an concfirnna. inunj-juauflee the intervention of the United States. The Standard briefly welcomes "the auspicious announcement." The Chronicle says that it finds Lord Salisbury's statement rather puzzling. It doubts whether settled colonists exist in any great numbers, but supposes it is all right. The Daily Telegraph says the terms of the settlement leave the dijrnity and interests of Great Britain and the United States unimpaired. TEXAS SINKS IN HER DOCK. A Remarkable Accident Happens to the United Stntes Battleship. The United States second-class battleship Texas sank at the Cob dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard at 6 a. m., a few days ago. 8he lies in twenty-flve feet.of water, ^nd there are nine feet of water in her lower compartments aft and four and a half feet forward, iind it constantly rises. Six tups and three divers were at once set to work to raise the ship. The damage uannot be ascertained, but as the engines are well under water, the money damage will probably be great. The cau?e of the sinking of the ship is supposed to have been due to the blowing out of the main injection valve or seacock at the bottom of the keeL The ship arrived ten days before from Hampton Roa'ls for repairs. While in the Boad9 she soraped her bottom. She was to join the North Atlantio Squadron in a few days, At 6 a. m. one of the watchmen noticed the boat heel to starboard, and oonoluded something was wrong. He watched the Texas for awhile and concluded she was settling. Then he gave the alarm. The engineers said at once that the boat was sinking. Tne sea invaded the lower deck despite the pumps and the sugines were nearly half submerged all morning. She settled on her starboard side In the mud at the bottom of the dock. Her slant is not noticeable to the ordinary observer, but to the nautical eye she heels as If 3he had "a bone in her teeth" running before the wind. The efforts of the divers were confined to stopping the iDflow of the sea through the hole where the sea-cock was located. It was said at the yard that the accident could not iave been foreseen and that nobody was responsible for it. The Texas is now rastlng easily on the nud bottom at the Cob dock. There were >nly two feet of water under her when the icciaent nappenea. xne oniy damage 10 cue ship will be in the engine-room from water. EXECUTIONS IN CHINA. f la Average of 1600 Mahometan Heads ft .Day. Terrible accounts come to hand with incilents connected with the Mahometan rebellion in Kan-Soo, China. It is estimated :bat 10,000 Mahometans, chiefly women, jhildren and old men, have died of hunger or have been frozen to death In the hills and mountains. Those that have submitted number 18,000, women and chiliren for the most part. Thirty or forty thousand remained under arms among the bills in the southeastern district in the middle summ- r. The business of beheading the insurgents was conducted with wholesale vigor as soon as their strength had been broken in any district. An avorage of 1600 had been dezapitated daily for two weeks in Si-NingFou, from June 16, and as 3000 heads remained to come off, the sanguinary carnival was expected to go on for an Indefinite time longer. Crowds of people watched the axecutions, ana it is easy to conoeive the demoralization that must have resulted from juch prolonged intimacy with this bloodshed. MLLCU HID DM D T OIO I Crlt Jne Child Pours Oil Over Another and SetH Fire to It. Fred Kitz, the four-year-old son of Mr. iad 3Irs. Emil Ritz, of Newark, N. J., while eft alone in the house with his two-year-old iister Jennie, poured a can of kerosene oil >vor her clothing and set Are to it. The little one was burned nlmost to a crisp ?nd died in preat agony. The boy told his 'reuzie.1 mother he did it "ju3t to see Jennie jurn." About 10 'o'clock Mrs. Ritz went out to narket, leaving the two children alone. 8ho ivas careful to plaoa the match box where )he thought the little ones could not reach It and the only fire was in the cook stove. As Mrs. Ritz was returning from the market she glanced up at the windows of her rooms and was horrified to see one of them raited and the boy hanging half way out. Fearing that he would fall she ran swiftly up the stairs. As she reached the room 9he smelled something burning and a low moan broke upon her ear. Throwing open the door with frantic haste :ho tow her Httlw rrirl .TunniA (ilfMntr nn thrt floor in the kitchen apparently a mass of flame. LOST WITH FIVE MEN. The Schooner So:iora Wrecked In Lake O.itarlo off Bnffalo. A report from St. Thomas, Canada, says that the schooner Sonora was wrecked and Ave lfve3 lost In the late storm off Point Abine, about ten miles from Buffalo, N. Y., ou tne Canadian shore. Mato W. Duquett, wno claims to have been the only survivor, curried the news to St. Thomas. The Sonora was lumber-laden, b>und from Wlarton, Ontario, to Tonawanda, N. Y. Those who are reported lost are: Captain James Buckley,of Sarnia; Daniel Russell end James Morrison of Glasgow, Scotland; Malcolm McLood of Toronto: a cook, name un* Knowij, but hailing as "Dumpling Maud." Bread Uiots in India. At Sholapur, India. 5000 men looted 15^0 bags of grain; the police flred upon the mob, killing four men and wounding six. A further outbreak is feared, as Sholapur Is one of the worst famine tracts of the Presi dency. Steamships In Collision. A despatch from Seville, Spain, says that two steamships have been wrecked in collision at the entrance to the Gaudnlquivir River. One of the vessels was sunk and twenty of the passengers were drowned. Most of those lost were wealthy and promlnsnt persons. Died From I.oks of Sleep. Andrew Mas?nusoa died suddenly at Middletown, Conn., of paralysis of the brain. Magnuson was the father of the child who was killed the week before by falling from u bridge, and he had not slept since the ncci dent. Columbian Liberty Bell Attached. The Columbian liberty bell is in the hands of the Sheriff in Chicago. The Henry MeShane Manufacturing Compauy of Baltimore, which cast it, say? that it has never been paid for the work, and tho firm's agent, with a Deputy Sheriff, took the bell from Evanston. 111., to Chicago. ( old liondn Sold. I The 816,040,593.70 of per cent, gold I bonds of New York City, which were offered for sale bv Comptroller Fitch, woro sub owii/wi iu; uiftuj LILuuj u?ci, aau ut uauu- | some prices, ttnis justifying the opinion that the money situation is In a much healthier condition than before the election ' v; *'T ~ . 'r" ''r 7" ')y LOST IN A LAO MCI The Captain Drunk and Six Men Were Drowned. FATAL END OF A DEBAUCH, The Skipper of the Schooner Waukesha Re? fused to Rtin for a Harbor or to Bench Hit Craft?Locked the Signals UpOnly One Man Saved?-Liquor Flowed Even While the Vessel Was Sinking. Muskegon, Mich. (Special).?Ia the darkness and fierce storm of Saturday night, without a soul on shoro being a whit wiser, the 800-ton three-master sohooner Waukesna went to pieces off this port and six men there met their dekth. Only one ma- of a crew of Beven, commanded by a drunken captain, reached shore. The schooner arrhwd off the harbor from Ludington about 4 o'clock p. in. and flew a flag for a tug. The life saving crew sent word uptown and the tug Ryersoa came down, but the men in charge hesitated to go out in face of the fierce storm. The Waukesha gave no other signals and the life savers did not go out. At 1.30 o'clock a. m. a patrolman reported wreokage, and when day broke the lookout eaw only a dark object moving in the heavy Bea about fl mile out. Captain Wood was notified and a surf boat, whioh was sent out found a sailor alive in the rigging of the wrecked vessel. The man was taken to the station and to-night gave nis version or tne wreck in graphlo style. He said his name was Frank Delach, and that there had been seven men on board? the captain, mate, four seamen and the oook, a colored man, but he did not know the names of any of them. The schooner, owned by Captain Duncan Corbett, left Ludington Friday with 600 tons of salt for South Chicago. Almost from thel start the oaptaln began drinking. About ten o'clock that night, with the sea running high, they sighted lights, about the location of which there was a dispute. The boat was leaking badly and all hands had tn cm tn t-hfl nnmna Every now and then, he said, the captain oalled In the mate and a sailor by the name of Fred, and gave them liquor, until the entire party was very drunk. When the vessel arrived off Muskegon the captain anchored, and, further than to hoist a flag for a tug, tefused to send for any help. After fastening the foresail to keep it from threshing, the crew went baok to the pumps and found four and a half feet of water in the hold. They had just resumed pumping when the captain called all hands to luncheon, after eating whioh the pumping was once more resumed. The yawlboat and stern tuckle went away Boon after, and then the bar davit. The oaptain was asked to torch for a lifeboat, but; refused. Then the boat began to sink, and the oaptain and mate, taking life preservers, went up into the forensreing. The 3allors followed as quickly as possible. When the boat had a list of about three teet, the forward mast went over and all fell j off, the cook and the drunken sailor, Fred J being swept into the sea., The other two) mastB went In short order, The captain continued his drinking untilj he was helplessly drunk, and about 10 o'clock: he rolled overboard and sank. An hour later! the mate went overboard. Delach and one I sailor were then all that were left. About 5 In the morning Delach's cocipan-j ion became benumbed by the cold. Delach held on to htm as long an possioie, oat nnauy lost his bold, and the unfortunate man fell Into the water. The lifeboat arrived half an hour later. TREASURY FOR C. N. BLISS? New Tork City .Republican Leaders Say It's Settled. Republican leaders in New York City say that it seems to be practically settled that Cornelius N. Bliss will De l'reiiient dica-inley's Secretary of the Treasury. It Is understood that the President-elect has expressed a desire that Mr. Bliss accept the Treasury portfolio, and is anxious that his selection shall have the approval of the Republican organization in New York Oity and State. oomun >. bun. So certain is one Republican of National prominence that Mr. Bliss is to be the next Secretary of the Treasury that he said he bad positive information that the appointment had been tendered and accepted. (Vmoiino v mua <a in thfi wholesale drv goods business in New York City, and Is interested as a stockholder and director in several banks and trust companies. For eight years he hns been the Treasurer of the Republican National Committee. There is a provision in th? United States Revised Statutes which might cause him to give up some of his present business enterprises should he accept, the place of Secretary of the Treasury. It provides that no person ensraged in a co-nmercia! enterprise such as Mr. Bliss now carries on shall be elegible to the position to which he is destined by the above rumors. Princeton Defeats Harvard. Princeton defeated Harvard in the annua1 football g.ime, on Soldier's Field, Cambridge, Mass., oy a score 01 iz iuu. it n.uciurouiiful game from start to flni-sh, and the Tigers won on their merits. Fifteen thousand spectators saw Harvard's defeat. The first half ended without either side having scored, although Harvard had a brisk wind in her favor. Princeton's goal was not serious y menaced at any time during the game, as even with the wind against him in the first half Baird. of Princeton, easily outclassed Brown, 01 Harvard, in punting. Fire Destroyers Destroyed. The factory and storerooms of Shnnd, Mason <fc Co., Upper Ground street, Blackfriars road, London, majors 01 nre engines auu un apparatus connected with the extinction ot flr? s, were burne-1. Ttio loss is estimated at 81,000,000. Too property destroyed included 350 engines, two iioftta, 37,090 feet of hose, a quantity of rubber and valuable machinery, llomanco of Poeoinoke City. Roland S, Bevans, of Pooomoko City, Md.( and Mibs Saliy A. Clayvllle, of Snow Hill, were married a few nights ago. The bride is sixty-eight years old, and the groom will be eighty-two In December. Cycling Notes. Japan makes only 500 bicycles a year. Every cyclist should learn to breathe properly. In England footmen and maids on wheels follow their mistresses. In the future Dutch oycllsts will be subjected to a yearly tux of three florins. Many bicycle makers will bnild chninless bicycles to sell nort year at $150 each. A recent count in the Boston park system showed 8640 cyclists and 463 horseback riders. Less than ten years ago it was believed in England that bicyoles would never be popular in this country, owing to the poor condition oX the roads. TALLEST AND SMALLEST IN THE NAVY. The Crniaer New York Has Both > Giant and a Midget Among Its Men. In addition to many other distinctions the fast armored eruiser New York hag in her crew the biggest man in the naval service and the smallest apprentice. The one is Thomas Moran, master-at- arms of the ship. A master-at-arms Is the chief petty officer of a naval vessel, and is chief of police on the ship to which he is attached. Every masterat-arms is familiarly known to his shipmates as "Jimmy Leggs,' and tradition says not why. The "Jimmy Leggs" of the New York UJJCLE SAM'S TALLEST AND SMALLEST TA2S. is a New Yorker by birth. He has been thirty years in the naval service and bears an excellent record. He stands six foot four in his stocking feet, and weighs 178 pounds. John Edward a. est on, appreauce 01 me first class, claims the honor of being the smallest wearer of navy blue in the service. He has been in it eighteen months. He weighs seventy-eight pounds, and was but four feet nine inches in height at the time of enlistment. That was one-eighth of an inch short of the required height. But He? ton had oome all the way from his Missouri home to add his tiny strength to the new navy, und the reoruitlng officers thought It too bad to disappoint him. So the Navy Department was told about the matter, and an order was given to waive the regulation in his case. So i ud wito , THE ARBITRATION COMMISSION. King Oscar of Sweden Will Probably Be the Fifth Member. Information comes from the British Foreign Office that King 03car II. of Sweden and Norway will bo asked to act as the fifth member of the board of arbitration to whioh the Venezuelan boundary dispute will ke referred for settlement. KINO OSCAR II. OF SWEDES.' The officials of the Foreign Office takes exceptions to the statements which have been made that Venezuela will not be represented directly in the arbitration tribunal. The Foreign Office authorities suggest that there Is still doubt whether Venezuela will have her own member of the tribunal. At any rate, Great Britain regards the United States' representatives as apting for Vene zuela. It is understood that Lord Esher will retire from the office of Master of the Rolls early in 1897, and that Sir Richard E. Webster, Attorney-General, will succeed him. 8ir Robert B. Finley. Solicitor-General, will conduct the case of Great Britain before the Venezuelan Arbitration Commission. Sir Edward Clarke is debarred from taking any part In the proceedings, in consequence of his recent speeches unfavorable to tne British contentions, DEATH'S DOUBLE CALL. Mr. and Mr*. Gallolc, Both Deaf Mates, Stricken on the Same Day. A singular coincidence came to light a few days ago in Trenton, N. J., in the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Gulick, of 721 Adeline street. Both wore deaf mutos, and although they were separated by over one hundred miles, both died at the same time on Monday. Mrs. Gulick's death came while she was visiting friends at Sorners Point, N. J., while her husband was killed by a train near Yonkers, N. Y. Gulick, who was at one time employed at the New Jersey School for Deaf Mutes, had recently earned a living by traveling about the countrv 3f lllng pictures and books. The funerals of the two occurred from their home in Trenton. Fatal Boiler Explosion. The boiler of Roderick Baker's steam mill, in Perry County, Kentucky, exploded., Roderick Baker ana Jack Francis were killed. The Injured are James Crow, arm broken; Bud Harper, scalded; Dick Marrs, scalded and head cut; Dave Crowder, leg crushed; Mason Falen, foot mashed; Samuel Clark, scalded. Three others were hurt by flying Umber. Perished in a Kansas Blizzard. The first death iu a Kansas blizzard this jeason is reported from Qoodland, on the Colorado border, where the body of J. N. Morgan was found in a snow drift. He had avidently lost his way in the ntght and storm, and. finally, turning loose his horses, sought shelter behind the wagon box. A Bridegroom's Suicide. Prank Hamilton, for years a conspicuous janker at Austin, Texas, killed himself with morphine. Up to a few months ago he was mornhoi- nf 'Riivmnnrl A: Oo.'s banklncr house. He wiia married two nights before his death to Miss Carrio Gray. Partition of China. lathe course of a speech at EnQeld, Engand, Sir Charles Dlike, member of tbo British Parliament, asserted that three Powers lately submitted to Groat Britain a proposal for the partition of China. Great Britain, he added, refused to entertain the proposal. CjcHiib Notes. Soft tiros increase the liability to punctures. Tho French Touring Club now has 42,000 members. ' A census of the cyollsts of Vienna, Austria, showed a total of 20,000, The Royal Arcanum Wbeelmen of New York City now number 125 members. Every bicyclist in France must have his name and address on his wheel, on a metallic plate. Paris is going ahead in the matter of catering for cyclists. In the beautiful Bois de Boulogne there Is now a special avenue, over ;a mile in length, which is exclusively reserved for oyclists. ' / A TRAMP SAVES A TRAIN. Gives a Signal ti? Stop and the Wreckers Shoot Him In the teg. A tramp named G. C. Bynum proved himself a hero a few nights ago and saved a fast express train and probably many lives. Bynnm overheard a cran? of men In a box oar olottine to wreck the west-bound 8t. Louis express on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Rnllway In a lonely stretch of country east of Washington. Ind. The express car, It Is reported, contained a large amount of money. A heavy chartre ol nltro-arlveerine and dynamite was placer! upon the track in such a way that it would exnlode when struck by the enorlne. Bvnum said nothln" nbout the matter fearlnp thf po'Ice would think him crnzv. H< hart no way to slcrnal the exnr?9S train, which he kn?w would he due wiihlna shorl time. It was some distance to the nearest switch, hut he made his way there, and pulled off the slcnal Utrht. Then he went to the place There the al t-tTIn oirrnnl n-a< legen civnainire wh? i-irt'-cii. ?? seen by the approaching train In time. Th< train wreckers. who w?re In ambush, alsr sawtb? slernal, and a volley of shots wa9 flrec at the tramp. He wa? wounded In the lee and a Phot throueh his hat armed his head. After the explosives wer? r?moved 'rorr the track the train cam" to Waahineton.Inrt., bringing the tramp. Th<> 200 people who were on the train crowded about him and praised him. Later a subscription was taken up for his benefit. ^ Bynum's home la in Baltimore, BM. The Washington police are workinsr on a theory that he wa9 one of the trans of rohbers. but that, as the train aoproached. his heart faile! him and he eave the warning signal to the engineer. As he did so. his confederates ehot at him, the police think. STOLE OUT OF A TURKISH PORT. British Skipper Took VdvIceFrom a Yankee CraUer and Saved Seven Armenians. Captain Fisher, cf th? British freight steamship Boyne, appeared before Collector Kilbreth to explain why his ship arrived at the Port of New York two day3 ago without manifests of her cutro. the absence of which renders him 'liable to a /lnp of $500. The captnin. said that ho sailed from thopnrt of Smyrna on October 11 without waitinpr for clearance paners, because two days before he sai'ed sevpn Armenians had come aboard and beejrert that he brlni? them to this country, because they were in dancer of nss*s<d nation bv the Turks. He to?k them on board, and declined to eive them rp. he says, upon the demand of tin authorities in Smyrna, and appealed to the only warship in the harbor, an Italian man-of-war for support. The warship would not meddle, but *u"TT-"-J ?""ioayAfinnoanoiisarrived IUW Uiiliou oimw iu- - v. while he was in this dilemma, and under the advice of the officers of the Minneapolis hp says he sneaked out of the harbor. Tha manifests were sent by mail by the aeents of the snip ia Smyrna, and ?h* case ha? been referred to the Treasurr I)epartmQnt. The Armenians were on hoard when the vessel arrived. Their names areG. Goreladi, twenty-three years old: D. Ralfafades, twenty-six years old; D. Del Shanossin. nineteen years ol?i; A. Shisimanl. forty-two years old, and h:s wife and two (laughters. TENTH FLOOR HOLD-UP. Chicago Robber* in the M*?onic Teinplo Gajr Proprietor and ClerV. J. Herrmann <fc Co.'s jewelry store, on the lenth floor of the Masonic Temple, Chicago, was entered by two armed robbers late Monday afternoon, who secured about 85000 worth of diamonds, a gold watch and chain, and 00 in money anrl escaped. onri n a. Mc? jar. nerrmnuo, prupuom., ? Gurty, a clerk, were the only occupaDts of the room when the robbers entered. They were prepared to olose up the day's business when they were confronted with revolve**. The outlaws ordered them into one corner of the room and then bound and gagged both. While one robber watched over them w'th his pistol his companion rifled the safe of its contonts and slipped a nuantitv of gems into hfs pocket. The robbers then fled. It wa? sevpral minutes before the proprietor and the clerk could relerwe themselves, and the robbers had made good their escape. FALL RIVER IS HAPPY ALL OVER. The Biggest rnlltloal Parade and Celebration the Town Ever Had. A great political parade took place at Fall River, Mas?., to mark the election of MoKlnjey and Hobart. From 700) to 10,000 meD, women, boys and girls participated, while seven or eight times that number looked on and cheered themselves hoarse. There were twelve bands and four drum corps in line. Mill agents, treasurers, superintendent and overseere walked sldo by side with operatives In all departments of the cotton mills. Two thousand dollars' worth of red flre was burned along the line, and nearly every house and business block was illuminated. A BABY STONED TO DEATH. Attacked by Two Boys and Lett to Die in a Pool a Few Steps From Home. The two-year-old child of Albert Farrell, | of Forest City. Penn., was found dead In a shallow pool within twenty feet of the house, l The child had been playing in the pool, and it was thought at first to have been drowned. Later investigation showed several bruises on the skull, looking as though they bind been made with stones. Now a little girl has thrown light on the death. She said she saw two boys throwing stones at the child, and heard the ohlld cry when struck. VENEZUELA HAS A NEW ALLY. Colombia Views With Apprehension an Alliance With Ecuador. It Is stated semi-offlclally that a treaty, offensive and defensive, has been negotiated by representatives of the Governments of Venezuela and Ecuador. The treaty, it is declared, has been alreadvslgned. The Government of Colombia views this new alliance with suspicion and some apprehension. Tlte Fogtmaster-GenOTal'd Budget. Postmaster-Genoral Wilson has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his estimates for the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year to end on June 30, 1898. The First Assistant Postmaster-General's office requires $43,542,500; the Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral's oilice, '852,224,500; Third Asaslstant's 'office, $1,359,100; Fourth Assistant's office, Sf8,311. As the expenditures for the service for 1898 are estimated at $97,515,411, and the revenues expected for the same year are placed at $96,227,076, there will be an estimated deficiency of $1,288,335. lUifl. Cnsilo Released. Mrs. Castle, the wealthy woman of San Francisco, Cal., who was sentenced to ;br<fo months' imprisonment for shoplifting in London, was released by tno noiuo uu?::ument oil condition tbut her husband briu;,' ner back to this country as soon as possible. Victim of 11 is Own Gui:. John Iiogers, a :oachinan living near Whito Plains, N. Y.. kliled a laborer uud then attempted to kill Henry Weiss. As he was running after the latter he slipped and hls'guu was discharged. He w-s install: ly killed. Out Oi the Common linn. The number of persons lo iho square mile in England is placed at 4SU; in tue United States ut seventeen. * Wnit-or of stauben Airs. JjOtlUtt iiuiouo .... ville, Ohio, nas been a widow for seventy-one I years. Her age is 101. A female cod of fifteen pounds weight, recently examined by the British Fish Warden, was iound to havo a roe containing 4,t<7X,UUo eggs. Along Butter Creek, Oregon, has appeared a vine that when above the ground will leave the root and cling to any vegetation to whieu it can attach itself and through which it eau idraw nourishment. The seeu id said to have fbeen brought Uiere w.th alfalfa seed from Bait Lake. I ISKl THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WMhlnctOQ Items. Argument has been completed before fbe Unitea States Supreme Court in the Bell Telephone case, in which the .Government claims that the patent for the BfSrliner transmitter should be canoelled for fraud in the Illegal delay in Its issue from the Patent Office. It is expected that a decision will bo rendered during the present session. President Cleveland regards the military situation in Cuba as far too critical to warrant any action by the United States at this time. Admiral Bunce's fleet has been ordered to Venezuelan waters for drills and evolutions. The Administration in Washington is said to be ^apprehensive of grave complications whq opain ana 10 do preparing ior emerg ncles. The Commission, cons'stlng of Admiral Walker and four othnrs, recently appointed :>y the President to locate a deep water harbor at Santa Monica or San Pedro, la Southern California, will soon meet to organize^ Congress aDpropnated $2,900,000 for the harbor and $50,000 for the expense of the Commission.. Secretary 01 aey gave out two letters regarding the Venezuelan dispute. The arrangement of the dispute hinted at by Lord Salisbury is regarded as a diplomatic triumph for Secretary Olney. In the case of Harriet Monroe against the New York World, the United States Supremo (Iia nt +Via Inwpr VVU1I auuuiou IUO VIUVIJIVU v? kuw tvftv. court awarding, her $5000damages for the publication of the World's Fair ode surreptitiously obtained. Chairman Dlngley, of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, ?ald that be had little hope that the Senate would pass his tariff bill at the short session. 1 The statement is made on good authority that is has been decided that an extra session of Congress, just afterthe inauguration, cannot be avoided. Chairman Hanna, of the Republican National Committee, decided to locate the permanent National headquarters in Washington. Chairman Butler, of the Populist National Committee, issued an address declaring the People's party sure to win four years hence. President Cleveland went for a couple of days' duck shooting on the Potomac marshes in the neighborhood of Qaantico, Va. He was accompanied by Dr. O'Beilly. The annual report of the First Assistant Postmaster-General was made public. Domeatlc. Kitty Martin shot and perhnp3 fatally wounded Henry Kirohner in New York City and then triea to kill herself. They bad been lovers, and he wanted to end the acquaintance. The National Farmers' Congress, fn 'session at Indianapolis, Ind., adopted resolutions favoring international bimetallism. Allen, the colored Republican candidate for Governor's Council in Boston, Mass. ,won on tbe recount by a small majority over his white opponent. General Master Workman Sovereign in bia annual address to the Knights of Labor in session at Rochester, N. Y., urged them to carry on the fight for free silver and an income tax and proposed the creation of a new ciegreo, tne minuie-meD. General Harrison sent a letter of congratulation to President-elect McKinley. George H. Morrison, the defaulting Treasurer of Rensselaer County, was sentenced at Troy, N. Y., to len years and five montb9 at Dannemora by Judge Parker upon bis plea of guilty to two indictments. The Grand Jury of Queens County, New York, indicted Mayor Gleason, of Long Isl? and City, for violation of the Election lawn. A fast freight train at Gibraltar (Penn.) grade crossing ran into a carriage containing Charle* F. Bright, a wealthy citizen oi Reading, Penn., and Catherine Boyer, a nlneteen-yenr-old working arirl. unmarried. Both were instantly killed. On Bright's person were found $10,000 worth of bonds. Cora Abbott was burned to death in her father's house, in Hilton, W. Va.,in a fire which it is alleged was started by outlaw? for revenge on the young woman. A complete canvass of the vote of New Jersey made by the County Clerks shows McKinley's plurality is 87,505 and his majority 71,620. Napoleon Sarony, the famous photogra pher, died at his homo in New York City or paraiysis. The twelfth annual National Horse Show Exhibition was opened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with the usual fashionable attendance. The monster steam dumping scow Cinderella for the New York Street Cleaning Department was successfully launched. The dead body of Fritz Galenius, of llorristown, a little settlement one and a half miles from Matawan, N. J., was found in the cellar of his home. An examination of his wounds proved beyond a doubt that he had been murdered. The entire business portion'of the town of Spencer, W. Va., was wiped out by fire, including the bank, two hotels and thirty-nine business places Onlytwo stores are left in the town. This same section was burned In 1888. Hupo M. Fiedler, assistant bookkeeper of the City Comptroller's office, shot out his brains in the City Hall building, Chicago. Financial troubles are assigned as the cause of the suicide. Alfred L. Hartridgc, a well-known broker, fcoo Viuan nrrpQtuH nr Snvaimah. Or.. charged with forgery by raising Southwestern Railroad stock scrip. The amount involved la between 520,000 and $30,000. The Germanla Bank, National Bank oi Savannah and the Savannah Bank and Trust Company hold the scrip in various amounts. Ten boilers in tbe Centralia Colliery, near Hnzleton, Penn., blew up at once, creating great excitement and killing three men. "Cap" Hatfield and his fourteen-year-old stepson ate in jail at Huntington, W. Va., for the murder of two McCoys on Election Day. Edward W. Wtilling, formerly a well known commission merchant, became insane and terriQed the citizens of the town of Keyport, N. J. "Fred" Conkllng, a driver at the State Reformatory, was struck and instantly killed by a trolley car between Rah way. N. J., and Woodbridge. Conkllng attempted to cross the tracks but fell, tbe car passing over his body, cutting him in two. He leaves a wife and three children. A colored man named Johnson was shot dead while robbing the house of his former emDloyer, Hoopes, a ChPster County (Pennsylvania) farmer. He had three razors in bis pocket. At Wellsville.N. Y.,lwo men and a boy who were stealing a nue on no r.rio lumcu with irot) piping were instantly killed by the jarring of the car by a :wltch engine and the shifting of the pipes. One of the men was identified as Dick Allen, a colored man of Boston. Mass., acd tho boy ns Harry Baker, of Athens, Penn. The third body, that of a large colored man, remains unidentified. Hugh Reddy jumped in front of a railroad train at Bridgeport, Conn., and saved two children from being killed. At Plattsburg, N. Y., J. Quincy Edwards, a well known resident, committed suicide by taking strychnine in a glass of cider. He expired in ten minutes. Despondency is said to have been the cause of the deed. Gustavo Schwartz, a farmer living near North Tonawnnda. N. Y., was held up and rnhh?d of 3200 by four highwaymen while on his way to his homo from Buffalo at 1 o'clock a. m. There is no clue to the robbers. The famous steam tug and alleged Cubao {Minister Three Friends was seized at Jacksonville, Fla., on telegraphic advices from the Treasury Department, charged with a violation of the neutrality laws. Little Bertha Graff was attacked In a New i'ork cellar l?y an unidentified man, who, when the child summoned aid by her screams, killed himself. Seven war vessels in commission are now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Foralsro Notes. The Transvaal Government will claim an indemnity of 85,000,000 from the British South Africa Company. An attempt was made in Russia to wreok a tr:dn on which the Dowager Czarina and other members of the Russian Imperial family were traveling. Advices from Havana, Cuba, state that the political parties in the Island have united, forming a eoalition under thetitle of a Committee of National Defence. - -" t..-. . Y?'-. IRELAND'S ORATOR COMING. i ' : ? John E. Kedmond, Leader of the HoUV ?j Ralert, to Visit the United States. v J',] John E. Bedmond, the brainiest of Irish Parliamentary leaders, is to come to the "i-j : United 8tates during November, and will ri - >if i main here while his lecturing tour proves : > I profitable. His mission is not to raise funds :7 ! or to say anything that will widen the breach ^ I between the two wlngB of the IrU>h party. &>.'] I If. k.,... ia 1 U. l.?knil?ilM X M xu.i. xrcuujuuu uoa oauuuup i uio xorr uuaiuw ! and his private fortune In (Tiring his services I to the cause of his native country, and takes. i i advantage of this period ot political lnactiv- fi , ity in British affairs to make a lecture- tout 1 of the American continent. He is a voting : man of pleasing appearauoe, Is a polished :t ! speaker and 3 soand thicker. f jL , JOHN Z. BEDMOJtD, K. V. ; John E. Redmond, like his brother William, began in the Irish oanse before ho was V !twenty-one years of age. He was one of the . , ablest lieutenants of Parnell and Michael ) Davi 11 In the early days, when the Irish Parliamentary party was a unit In all thlngai ,- t Mr. Bedmond'e lecture here will' be "Flftepp J Years In the British Parliament" ; ' ' " < . $ A COLD CONGRESS. The Republican# Get Control of Both ' ^ Branches. Washinotow.D. C. (Special).?Results of th? election indicate that the combined Bepublioan and Democratic gold standard men will have a majority in the United States Senate after the 4th of March, 1897. , Free silver has now 49 votes in the Senate. . / $ i It will have but 44 after March 4,1897. The Republican victory includes probably the Legislatures of several other States now represented In the Senate by sliver Democrats. In a few States gold Democrats will be elected to succeed silver Democrats, and Ji 1 at least one State (Pennsylvania) a gold .Vv Republican will succeed a Silver Bepublican. With the majority secured by the Bepub- : < i llcans, that party will be able to carry any political legislation it desires through the , ? i Senate^ The House or aepresentauvee wiu oe an}>ublIoan by nearly, It not quite, 50 maority. The Democrats oome out of the election with very few solid-delegations to the n?xt House. Arkansas, Florida. Georgia, ? Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, form. & the short line of' solid" Htatpg. The Popu- .4 lists have certainly doubled their strength in . the present Congress, and it is possible they may increase by contests in olose districts. , MR, M'KINLEY'S CABINET. ????? Speculation Already Betrun an to His OflU olal AdTlMn. From now uatl! March 4 speculation will' be rife, and slates win, of course, repeatedly > be made and broken, hut until that time ft jjJ will be impossible for any one to definitely >' know who will comprise the President-elect's . ' political household. This is the first proph<.' . ecy by Mr. McEinley's friends of thosa -> most likely to compose his Cabinet officers: Secretary of 8tate?Thomas B. Baed, o? :? >** Maine. # Secretary of the Treasury?Cornelius H. Bliss, of New York. V ? -i.? IT ri.o Vnana rtf rUOVLU19iO? UOUOl Oft u? V4MJ Tennessee. Secretary of the Interior?John 1L Than- . ton, of Nebraska. Secretary of the Navy?Daniel H. Hast tags, of Pennsylvania. Secretary of War?Eassell A. Alger, of >. *' Michigan. Secretary of Agriculture?Cyrus Leland, of Kansas. Attorney General?ChArles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio. -?J BUSINESS REVIVAL GENERAL | Everv Section of the Country Ite porta Im? ,1 proved Conditions Prevailing;. The revolution in business conditions resulting from the cessation of political aglta* / tion is increasing daily. ji Special despatches from the principal elites of the country indicate that every VI branch of industry has received an Impetus. -U and that thousands of idle men have been ; I Sven employment and as many more had I .eir incomes doubled by being enabled to I work full time, while scores of employer* fl have made voluntary advances in wages* I Manufacturing nas lett iuo spue uvn m tally, but building, mining and banking hay* /.ifl toeea included in the improvement. ' DIVES TO DEATH IN JAIL. fl A Heartbroken l'rlooner Plunge* From Lolty Gallery Id (Haflalo. Michael Winters, a heartbroken blaok fimith, fifty-Ave years old, committed suicide I by throwing himself from the walk that opens into the sixth tier of cells in the penitentiary fl at Buffalo, N. Y., to the stone flagging below; fl He dived head first and struok the flag* I ging with h crash. His skull wai fl smashed and his neck snapped like a pipe* stem when he struck the stones. Death waa instantaneous. He leaves a widow and -|fl eight children. He bad been arrested for disorderly conduct and had only three dayr H to serve. Woman Saffraee Win* In Idaho. H The woman suffrage amendment In Idaho seems to have secured a majority of votei cast on the question. The State Board has held that a majority of all participating in the election is necessary to oarry the amend* DM ment. Hoarded Gold. n| It is estimated that of the $65,000,000 of gold brought into this country since tho Dj recent export movement began folly $45.000,000 has been hoarded away in smaU amounts. Industrial Farm for Convicts. flfl The Salvation Army's industrial farm foi discharged convicts is a 312 acre tract in San Ramon Valley, near Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, Cal. ? District of Columbia Expense*. The District Commissioners completed their estimates of District expenditures for the fiscal year, ending Jane 30, 1898, aggr? gating $8,416,362.38. strike or >ludKefl. Circuit Judges at Grand Rapldn, Mloh., ^9 threaten to resign if the cut lns&larieu stands He Foand the Venaii of Hllo. Henry Brest, through whom the Venus ot 31110 cnme Into the hands 01 tne i'roncn in 1818, has just died, over 100 years old, oaths island of Mllo, where he had married a H9 Greek womaa. He was present when the E^H statute was unearthed and bribed the peas? ants to keep the discovery secret until the ^flj French Consul had arranged for its delivery SHE to a French man-of-war. ' EH a Prominent People. M Theodore Thomas put in his vacation chopping wood at his cottage in the White MM MVum+alna an ra if {? aim oaf A a trnod A I- fl^Hl erolse as directing an oroheetra of Wagnerian