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r W IN OTA'S WOES. B RLA(>UE AND FAMINK ARK DRj|| VASTATING THE COUNTRY. |J Millions of Victims?Disposition of I the Deail?A Frcnch Doctor's W Remedy?Precautions in | Tliis Country. T ~TAMINE is carrying off its mill1=/ ions of victims in India, anil J i the plague is not only ravag<T~ ing that land, bnt is beginning to cast its shadow over the world, says the New York Journal. In well-fed America we can hear of the hungry n.illions with a pity not unmixed with satisfaction that we are otherwise. But no nation or class is above the fear of the plague germ. It can travel round the earth in a thousand differentreoeptaoles, is insensible to climate, and, attackiLj inviybly, brings wholesale death. Plague and famine are co-operating in a way that must make the be6t efforts of officials and scientists seem hopeless. The irrigation tanks, very numerous in Northern India, have been reduced by drought to stagnant 1 / puddles, and these have been con- 1 ; verted by diseased men and ammajs ( ( into inexhaustible sonrces of contaj gion. The prevalence of famine has j forced the people to eat the most putrid of food, whioh is in many cases 1 infected by diseased rats and insects. The native quarter of Bombay is 1 practicably deserted. It is strewn 1 with deserted bodies, and its condi/ tion menaces an epidemic in the Euro/ pean quarter. The death rate among j the natives has grown so high that it I I is impossible to keep a reliable record. S The country for hundreds of milee around Bombay is ravaged by plague i and famine. The large port of Karaohi is very badly infected. The most horrible epeotacle in Bombay is presented by the Towers of Silence, the Parsee burial places on the Malabar Hill. The Paraees are fire worshippers, and the most industrious 5 TOWEK OF 8ILENCE, RESTI 6 and prosperous native community in Bombay. W When a Parsee dies biB friends conW Tey his body to one of the Towers ot ft Silence, which are clustered together i in a garden. After the mourners i oomes a man leading a white dog, the < emblem of faithfulness, followed by the ] priests. The procession ascends tbe j tower, in which a sacred fire is always ] kept burning. At the top is a platform, on which the body is left. No sooner have the people withdrawn i than a flock of vultures, which have 1 been hovering about descends. In ten < minutes they pick off every partiole of ] flesh, and at the end of three weeks i the friends return and deposit the < bleaohed skeleton in a central well. < The scenes on the banks of the Ganges, the sacred river of India, are ] awful. In the neighborhood of Ben- 1 ares, the metropolis of Brahmanism, they reach their oulmination. To din t in fKo TrnfoTQ rvf a aoArnrl ftvav t ? I A HINDOO DOCTOR TREATING A PLAQl'E PATIENT. ( 1 is to make sure of future blessedness. \ Of the millions who are starving, as } many as possible orowd here to perish r in the shrinking and polluted stream, j .Benares is famous for its burning ghat j by the river where where the Hindoos ] cremate their dead, but this has long } been choked up. I Among the photographs of Indian scenes reproduced here may be noted the Hindoo doctor treating a patient. His entire medical outfit is a small box which he carries in his hand, and Europeans say that he is worse than useless. It is announced that a remedy for the plague has been discovered by a French physician. An antitoxic serum prepared on similar principles to that used in diphtheria has been employed with success. The Health Departments of New York and Brooklyn are now in possession of millions of germs of the plague. These are capable of spreading the disease throughout the land, but it is hardly necessary to say that they are properly secured. The bacteriologists of these cities have the bacilli and the knowledge necessary to enable them to prepare the anti-toxic serum, The pioneer in the treatment of the bubonic plague appears to be Dr. 1'ersin, a physician in the Frcnch colonial service. He is not thirty years oi age, and has perhaps performed a service which will rank himaiuongthe greatest scientific benefactors of hu- t ' manity. The Bombay authorities have requested him to visit that city, and it is propable that he wiii do so. I A correspondent who has just re turned from Cochin China describes t Dr. Yersin and his work. He is a man i of interesting appearauco, thin t acjd of middle height. He has a long face, wrinkled by the East- { ern climate and hard work in the c laboratory. His bair and beard are a cut short, and ne is full of life, intel- i ligence and enterprise. Here is Dr. c Yersin'e description of the plague from c 1 1 AJ?. personal ODservuuuu. ? "The disease presents the ohemical ^ characteristics of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages. The outbreak is sudden, after an incubation of foor and one-half to six days. It is accompanied by complete prostration. The sufferer is attacked by a high fever, often accompanied by delirium. The ? first day a bubo?generally one only t ?appears. In seventy-five cases out * of one hundred it is in the groin, in ten ca?ea out of one hundred in the armpit. "In the case of the plague reum a , sterilized broth containing the dead bodies of the bacilli is used. This is injected doily into a horse, which in the space of two weeks becomes immunized against the plague. The serum of the horse's blood is then drawn off and serves as a preventative of or remedy for the plague in man." The plague appeared in China in 1896, and Dr. Yersin immediately went there. He started at Canton, but the Chinese population did not wish to be treated by a European physioian. But an accident won him the day. Three seminaries of the Catholic missioo at Canton fell sick of the plague. Dr. Yersin treated them and saved all of them. He then went to Amdy, c where he treated twenty-three persons and saved twenty one. He had then no more serum, but he converted a large part of the population. When he left Amov they gave him an ovation. Hon Pao. a Chinese newspaper, devoted an urticlo to the praise of Dr. Terain and oonclnded by saying: "Is not this a divine art? Who will jjj dare to say that Hoa-to has not returned to earth again?" Hoa-to, it. ^ should be explained, is a celebrated ? Chinese doctor who lived '2000 year3 j ago, and has been turned 'into a god. ( The first man in this country to re- j ceive a supply of the baoilli was Profeasor J. T. Wilson, bacteriologist of j ] r i NO PLA.CE CF THE DEAD. ] 1 the Brooklyn Health Department, i They were obtained from Dr. Yersin c by a snrgeon in the navy, who brought a them to this country. 8 In the Brooklyn Health Department C i Journal reporter had the satisfaction n dI examining a few dead bacilli of the t plague under a microscope ana ot jazing at a patch of living ones reposing on gelatine in a test tabe. What will be doDe to protect New ?ork in case of the arrival of an in- * Fected ship iB an important question. *Dr. Alvah H. Doty, the Health Officer ? >f the Port, says that he is fully pre- " pared for such an emergency. He has ? representatives at Suez, Naples and " >ther ports, who will warn him by jable of infected ships. 81 It will be hard for the bubonic Dlague to come into New York on the S( aody or clothing of any human being, rhis port has now the most perfect md modern disinfecting apparatus in sristence. It would be impossible for :he germs of any disease to pass through it and remuin alive. This apparatus has been constructed cinder the supervision of Dr. Doty. It is installed on the steamboat James W. Wadsworth, which is stationed at Quarantine ready at any moment to get up steam and proceed to the disinfection of suspected persons or ships. Dr. Doty'a principal assistants ?reDr. l'Hommedieu and Mr. Skinner. Uiemtection is eniorcea on persons ?rom abroad at the discretion of the ffealth officer. It will certainly be jnforced on all coining from India or ither ports from which the germs of ;he dreaded plague are liable to be ;arried. The Wadswortli is a marvel of scijntitic ingenuity in its fitting9. The innav ^artlr iu nritran nn fn fV?a rlicin. v*cv?. .a o"l'u "f ?? tecting plant. A series of compartnents begins forward and ends aft. < They are entirely lined with galvanzed iron, coated with white enamelled ^ oaint, and incapable of allowing any . iqnid cr other substance to escape. The " nan snspectcd of harboring germs enters these chambers with all his porta T L FAKIR SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO THK O GODS TO WARD OFF FAMINE. B )le belongings, and both of thorn imergo free from any germs which hey may have carried on them. There ii emains the possibility, of coarse, that h he man may have them in him. si The orew of the Wadsworth undergo if ,hu same process of disinfection as the if; Tew and passengers of an infected hip. After the work of disinteouon a over the compartments are washed >ut with copious water and a solution >t bichloride of mercury. All the Irainings must run out through the tote. A LIVE CANNIBAL KINtf. lis Residence a Structure Composed of Humau Bones. Okirika is situated about twentyive miles from Bonny and in the route o New Calabar, Afrioa. When the THE CANNIBAL KING OF OKIRIKA. )rotectorate treaties were being ligned, making the deltas of the Niger k British protectorate, Ibaniteuku, he King, and his chiefs refused tc lountenance the terms set forth theren, and for several years gave Sii Dlaude Macdonald a vast amount of rouble from time to time, as the iribe held some of the principal oil narkets in the diatriot. When the Bonny men or New Calabar men went ;o trade with the Okirikas their property was frequently seized, and mur ? * -3 At-- U ter lnvariamy iouoweu, mo utmuo ui ;he victims being oarried off to adorn the "Ju Ju" bouse. Early last June Mr. Moor, tbe British Consul-General, sent them an ultimatum, says the [llastrated London News, demanding ;he King should be handed over to aim, and also that tbe "Jn Ja" house je destroyed, or he would bombard ;heir town. Up till the last day of ;he time allowed in the ultimatum ihey refused to come to terms, so Mr. tfoor proceeded in the Government racht Ivy. with 150 troops and three annches, to Okirika. After about wenty minutes' bombardment the ihiefs came ont in their oanoes flying ?hite flags. Some troops were then anded, who, without opposition, deitroyed the "Ju Ja" house, a struonre built of human skulls. The King eas then handed over, and the Ivy reurned to Bonny within twenty-four lours of the time of departure. Ibantsuku was made a state prisoner and onveyed to Degama (the Protectory's conviot settlement), but later " 1 ? u:? T'.a ucceeaeci iu muiiiug uio coi/a^o. .? )kirikas at present are assuming a aore peaceful attitude and trade beween them flourishes accordingly. The Oldest Postmaster. Joseph Strode of Mifliin Coaniy, 'enn., is the oldest postmaster in the Fnited States. That is to say, the ldest in continuous serrice, for Mr. trodo has held his position of master f mails at Strode's Mills since 1815, espite the changes of administraions, political upheavals, war and the ilver agitation. Joseph Strode is in his eightyacond year and is the pride and the JOSEPH STRODE. 'Oldest Postmastor in tlie United States.) >y of the Postoffice Department in Washington, which placed his picture 1 the government display at the World's Fair. he Danger of Tuberculosis From Milk. The apprehension which exists in iie publio mind regarding the danger f receiving the contagion of tuberulosis from infected milk seems to jquire that we refer to the subject, hat the danger exists is no longer enied, but that it is sometimes overstimated is also true. The danger is eidently greatest when the udder is Sected and it is then a very grave auger. Furtunately, the cases in hich the udder becomes affected are ot numerous; in only seven percent, f the animals condemned and killed y us was there any disease detected 1 the udder. ? Report of a Connectint Commission. First Geography. I The first geography printed in this 1 juntry was compiled by Jedediah loss, and published in 1791 r for the ( 60 of schools. The attempts at maps i this publication was extremely rude, and gave a very imperfeot idea f the outlines of the countries they ere supposed to represent. It is said aat only twenty-five or thirty copies f this work are now in existence.? Boston Globe. New French Nickels. ( The new nickel coins to be minted i France are to be pierced with a 1 ole through whioh thoy may be ;rung like Chinese cash. The object i to prevent their being passed on the 1 jnorant foi coin of superior value. REALM OF STYLE. EXQUISITE SUMMER FABRICS NOW AT NEW YORK STOKES. Co mine Fanliions in Shirt Walst9 and Warm-Weather (Jowns-Tailor Blade Gowns Seen at the Opera Matinee. (Special New York Letter.) //"TN time of peace prepare for I war." Which the guardian of | our wardrobe paraphrases 6 thmsly: You'll uot be in high feather If vou iait till warm weather, and so with scarcely a breathing spell aince winter frocks and wrape were finished, we turn to lawns and laces with the summer vista in prospective. Winter goods have been superseded by the irrepressible cotton shirt waists, dainty muslins and filmy parasols in spite of the fact that their time of fiHAfnlnpsa is three or four months distant. "Serpentine" mull is one of the prettiest materials that he.s ever graced tbe drygoods market. It is sheer enc ugb to be dainty and strong enoagh to make a serviceable gown, while it seoms exactly to suit the requirements of the shirt waist. "Edelweiss" is perhaps the most artistic production of ootton staffs shown in several years. It is made of silk and wool?wonderfully fine and sof t?and tbe hand-printed flowers that form the design look far more as thong ti they were hand-painted. Dimitios, of course, come in designs as dainty as the fabric itself, and in ginghams both Scotch and French plaids and stripes will predominate. A good way in which to make a gingham frock is to have the outside skirt arid lining made separately, just fastened at the belt. InthiBwav the dress is easily-laundered and the skirt will be moro apt to keep in shape. Trimmed skirte will prevail for summer gowns of co'iton, but oar tailor-made street snits will atill retain their plain neat skirts now so fashionable. The advance models in short-waists show the separate collars of last summer, but in many cases these are made fancy, either by having a colored edge or arranged in small square tabs edged with embroidery, much on the same stylo as our winter collars are made. Fortunately the sleevea are considerably smaller and iH I -a* NORFOLK COSTUME, MADE OF YALE G BLUE FACED CLOTH. have lost (hat ungraceful, baggy look that characterized the sleevea of last summer's blouses. The fulInB6s below the elbow in laid in half-inch plaits which are either neatly feather stitched or finished by machine. These plaits extend from the wrist to within about ttvo inches from the elbow where the fullness forms the puffing for the top. Cuffs of the material instead, ol white linen will be popular. I have it from s isew iorK autnoricy iuai a pupmur material for summer wear will be printed Japanese silk. Thifi prospect of tbe increased popularity of silk from the Orient should be heralded with joy by femininity, for no other material is so invariably becoming, so cool and capable of most artistic drap- | ing. In light colors and elaborate i^\ HR7.P.N BROADCriOTH TP.IMMED WITH BllAID. designs it is effective aud 9logant, while darker tints and quieter designs make it admirable for service. Howevar, aa half frozen noses aud fingers forcibly remind us that cold-weathcr garments are still necessary, I'll tell i you of some oharming gowns seen at the Saturday matinee at the Metropolitan Opera House. Calve as Marguerite brings out the smartest women c i 13 COAT AND SKIRT OF RED BROADCLOTH, WITH 1<08E COLORED VEST, EMBROIDERED BY HAND. nf foaViinnqKlo aofc TVlia role has heretofore seemed a part of Mme. Melba, bat now that Calve has sang it with sach infinite oharm her Marguerite is doubtless destined to be one of the most beautifal impersonations of the charaoter. One of the neatest and swellest gowns seen in the audience last Saturday was made of deep red broadoloth. The skirt and short jacket were perfeotly plain, the latter, however, was finished with silk stitohinga and a vei\et oolor in a darker shade of rad vtuvafc. The riffht-fittinar vest. OWN OF ROUGH CHEVIOT SEEN AT THE OPERA. MATINEE. whiob, of coarse, was sleeveless, was made of deep roea-oolored cloth and was riohlv embroidered by hand with gold threads and otadded with mock turquoises, a charming contrast to the sombre red and rose of the cloth. I noticed a number of gowns consisting of a plain skirt and a doablebreasted jacket, like the illustration on this page. The material for sach a suit is ? matter ui ittuuy, luuli y muxes preferring plain black, blue or brown, while others select rough cheviote in Scotch mixtures. Mrs. George Gould has a pretty fashion that promises to become quite a fad. This fashion is for theatre toilettes and is to use one's richest jeweled pins to fasten the collars behind, to hold them down firmly, or to pretend to, in order to give excuse for wearing the precions stones where thev p.fin he seen, for if nsed in the | usual way, only the two persons who 1 sit next to you can view them, all the others having their backs to you. Speaking of trimming on the baok of the collar reminds me of something I once read that "The reason the bows on the backs of tho women\s necks Areas large as tney can be, 'And I'll toll you why,' said a maiden fair, As she giggled a sweet 'to he'? 'We like to feol, as we walk, d'ye mind, That a big beau's following close behind.'" Another smart gown that did service as a matinee suit was made of f ale 1 bine faced cloth in a Norfolk jacket style. The exquisitely fitting bodice was fastened with unique buttons and the wearer's waist was encircled with a belt of Bnseian enamel set with a wealth of amethysts and pearls. A becoming jacket that won many compliments from the friends of its fair wearer was made of rich green broadcloth lined throughout with a piuk brocaded silk and trimmed with un edging of braid and large military ornaments down tho tront and on tho collar. This little coat was exquisite in cut and tit and was worn by a young society bud, who, I understand, is soon to be wedded to an English nobleman. It was easily to be seen that our fair young miss was well satisfied with the world in general and with herself in particular; and why shouldn't she be when she was the prospective mistress of one of Old Eugland's stateliest castles and the wife to be of the scion of a family which traoes its ancestry back very nearly, if not quite to William tho Conqueror. The costume* illustrated herewith were made by The National Cloak Company, of New York. w \ TEMPERANCE. \~ . Kx" TAKE HENCE THE BOWL. Take hence the bowl, though suiillDg F( m it radiant face appears, V.m< ine Dwray urop u?Jt;uiuufcj [ow Too often ends in tears, . Take hence those brimming glasses, They have no charm for me, ion Their "coasted joy soon passes icc< To end in sorrow's 3ea. :he M Take hence the bright decanter, r7*1 Which some unwisely drain; oro1 I've known the gay enchanter *mo To wither heart and brain j was To scatter woes wherever renD 'Tis welcomed and caress'd; ?ea Then touch it. taste it, never, Cfy 'Tis safest, wisest, best. 3Un tnas Love not the joys and laughter Q0^ That circle round tbe bowl p.. Lest you may weep hereafter hlJ With sick ahd saddened soul, .u And curse the bliss you covet Mid youthful mirth and glee; Ah! shun the bowl, not love It, J If happy daj? you'd see. 3d ( has TUB CONNECTION BETWEEN ItAILBOAD ACCI- *Ch DENTS AND DlflNK. 3.h The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety says: |?r "Recently, a great railroad corporation sfathered all the facta concerning the men tud the conditions of every accident which uad oocurred on its lines for Ave years. vVhen tabulated, it appeared that forty per sent. of all accidentB were due altogether, or in part, to the failures of men who were drinking; that in eighteen percent there was strong suspicion of similar causes, yet , no clear proof. In one year over a million y dollars' worth of property was destroyed by che failures of beer-drinjcing engineers and J jwitchmen. The company's rules requiring b emperate men for all positions are more / ind more rigorously enforced. Engineers A ind that practically they are unable to do m jcod work while using spirits oven in small A doses. The coolness and presence of mind ?l io essential in their work Is broken up by Of. ilcohol in any form. -i'[l "Trainmen, men exposed to the weather, Ifh reach the same conclusion, if they are prac- -Jf. :ical men. The startling mortality of brake- 2 unn is referable in many cases to the use of ? ilcohol to drive out the cold, or keep awake ^ :n long hours of service. Each year the 3uti'S Hnd responsibilities of railroad men Increase, and men more temperate, accurate, prompt and careful In their work are required. Only absolutely temperate men can do this work for any length of time; all others fail and are dangerous In their weak1688. "A Western road permitted an inabrlate, who was really an able man, to continue as * claim agent adjusting accounts against the ;ompany. His drinking whs supposed to be in aid in the settlement of claims with other drinking men. After his death a temperate nan who filled his place saved several thousand dollars a year by dotag the same work, g01 repeating the common experience that inebriates are always more or less incompetent." I tei KINO FBIEMDS DID IT. c0] It was in a cell of the Tombs where we sat ?the condemned cell where we found one . who haJ formerly been a church member F : waiting the hour of his execution for the *0< murder of his wife. He was a drunkard. nP Wno made him so? Did his enemies hate 8aJ Him. and as the most cruel revenge they oould take make him a drunkard? No, he p01 oever had an enemy in his life. He. was genial and klndhearted, a friend to everybody; even the saloonist who sold him the rai drink loved him as much as they could love ^ei anybody. Kind friends who loved him made 0 bim a drunkard. His mother gave it to him; when a baby. His lather in kindness (?) taught him to drink a health. His sisters, and the very wife he loved, yet murdered, often passed and pledged the cup with him. His father's friend must drink with the son at their old friend. His companions. every ? one of whom would have risked their Uvea to save his, pressed him to the party, the, 4ong and the bowl. At weddings and dinners of kind friends passed to him the glass. They ge 9ven laughed at him when first intoxicated,! ' ?nd invitea him to drink again. Oh, he had' I?1 many friends. But while he oould have been ,ile saved kindheas restrained the warning voice. |on He leaned on friends at every step until he cr( lost his all, and died a drunkard and a mur- ce darer. 1 Kind friends did it.?National Temperanoe ?n Advocate. n I i?< MOBE MEDICAL EVIMXCE. ft] The Lancet Atemorial, signed by 911 British he medical practitioners, was as follows: I "We, the uuderslgnol. being members ol; the medical profession, beg to reoord ourj strong persuasion, that the facilities for ob-l taluioK spirits, wines, stoat, and ale in botJ Tt ties, whioh are provided by th3 grooers' licenses, have a most injurious tendenoy.' We believe women, servants, and ohildren of respectable households, who could not or we would not proouro intoxicating drink* at W( public houses, are encouraged to purchase va and use these liquors by the opportunities' y ofTered when visiting the grocer s shop for, P? .11 Oa-.U /tAmiuUn an-nonfa fl.Il Uiucr pUrpU'JTO, J.'OUJ>WO UUUIUOVIL OOITOUIO ?? aro often enabled to obtain bottles of spirits, de wlue, and beer at a 9mall cost, or credit, or Pr as commission on the household bills. We therefore protest against the continuance of Se the licenses." ' , The British Medical Association adopted st? the following resolution, proposed by Dr.' Drysdale, seoonded by Dr. Gray: "This, f?' meeting is of opinion that grocers' licenses w? to sell intoxicating llquow are highly detrimental to the health of the community, and earnestly requests the Government to dis- . continue them." HER TALE OF WOE HAD A GOOD EFFECT. mi James Holt, near Branchville, Ind.. while dlt intoxicated, went home last Saturday night po and kicked the stove over, burning down tht the little one-room log shanty which shel- abi tered his family, after first blackening his iat wife's eyes and otharwise disfiguring her Jo face. The next day Mrs. Holt appeared at kt' the little church where the family occasion- J>u ally worshipped, and requested permission sai to address the congregation, and then shefollowed with a pathetic talk on the evils of ?- i-i ? ?if.t/N Strong urillK, muKiug iuuuj uuuaiuup IK uot own battered features ia proof of %v'hat she j was saying. In the audience was "Bud" Robertson, the only whisky dealer in the . township. After she had concluded, Mr. r1* Robertson approached Mrs. Holt and ten- 110 dered 810 toward re-establishing her in a *n. home, and he vowed that he would never again sell another drop. That evening he emptied the contents of his several casks on ?e the ground, despite the pleadings of a dozen thirsty friends, to whom he refused a drink. 13 ?Indianapolis News. WHAT A DRONKABD WILt DO. j A drunkard will sleep anywhere?on a [,a| bundle of rags thrown in the corner of an unfurnished room. He will be content with un any sort of food, will allow his family to go {**' about in rags and will be reduced to such aD ?}f abject state that he will work on any terms, ?rt will accept less ihan the market rate, will {[" undersell his fellow workers and supplies JJ0' the cheapest labor that is to b3 got. "ul snc TEMPERANCE NEWS AtfD NOTBS. The brewer'3 horse is kept fat by food T taken from the poor man's child, says Ram's * Horn. Ne "That man has evidently bad an eye- poi opener this morning." "I should say it was mo an eye-shutter from tiic looks of his battered *ft face." Thi "I can leave off when I please," } fou Were the words that he said, "thi And to prove it, stopped drinking noi The day he whs dead. fuc Dr. J. Rosenthal. Professor of Physiology and Hygine in Erlangen, says: "So long as alcohol remaiDS in the stomach, digestion is 1 suspended. In that case the food remains abc undigested for hours." cot Francis Murphy says: "If you want a drink take it aiono, and don't ask some other fellow who can't resist." As long ago as 1847 Dr. Turner declared the inebriate had suffered a compound Irac* seD turo from the crown of his head to the soles ter of his feet, so great is the assault made by thi alcohol on the human system. ugl General ilawlings once dined with a man wno partook of wine rather freely. Fiualiy the latter said, speaking of somebody, ''Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!' Your enemy," said Uawlings, pointing tc car the bottle, "doesn't write books." ani Two gentlemen were eomplimeuting eucfc other on their habits of temperance. '-Did you ever, neighbor," said one. "sou me with more than I could carry?" "No, indeed,' ,, was the reply, "not I. But I have seen you when I thought you had better goao t wic? ( after it." ' - .v;v v'' i\ v *' . ; v ' * - < 'j'1 , ./ . " , PORTFOLIO FOR WILSON, Conjrreatrann From Iowa Will Be Secretary of Agriculture. jrmer Concjressmim James Wilson, of ;s, Iowa, Professor of Agriculture in the a Agricultural College and Director of Government Experiment ^ration, anncedthathe ha<l been offered and had jpted the Secretaryship of Agriculture In McKinley Cabinet. r. Wilson was born in the parisn of van. Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1840, aud was ught to America by bis parents when a til boy. The first settlement of the family i in Connecticut, from which State they loved to Iowa, in the fifties. For many rs Mr.. Wilson was a teacher in the couaschools. In the course of time he aclulated money enough to purchase the ;nificent farm of 1200 acres, which he r owns in Tama County. [r. Wilson wan a member of the Twelltb, rteenth and Fourteenth Geopral Assems of Iowa, has been State Railroad Comsioner. President of the State Tempere Alliance and has held many other imtant public offices in the State. In 1874 tvos elected to Congress and was re-eieotn 1876. For several years Mr. Wilson been professor of agriculture fQ the 8tata ool at Ames and, in connection with hla er duties, has edited a farm department the newspapers that has been published ill the counties of the State. ?, Next Secretary of the Treasury. LIMA^ '^0^ MRS. CAREW CONVICTED. . atenced to Death for the Harder of Hw Husband. tfrs. Carew, aa English woman, was aea- i , iced to death at Yokohama, Japan, on lviotion or naving poisionea ner nuso&oa, liter Raymond Hallowell Carew, the Secary of the Yokohama United Club. It: >k the jury only bait an hour to agrea ? on a yerdlot of guilty. The sentence to t>ject to revision by the British Minister. Che trial attracted much atteation on munt of the prominence of Mr. and Mrs. rew in society, anil been use of the slmtlarof soma features of the case to th? nous Maybriok trial, which resulted in the iteneing of Mrs. Florence Muybrlok. aa aerican, to imprisonment for life in Engi(L IDAHO'S NEW SENATOR. , snry Heltfelt, Populist Farmer, Will Succeed Dubois. Fhe Senatorial contest in the Idaho Stat* glslature has terminated by the selection Henry Heitfelt, a Populist, to succeed nator Dubois. Tho last ballot was as folffs: Heitfelt, thirty-nine; Dubois, Silver,!,,, ipubllcan, thirty; T. P. Nelson, Populist, .e. Twenty-five Populists, thirteen Demoats, and one Republican voted for the suossful candidate. ? . Senator-elect Heitfelt It forty years of a?e d is a farnler in Nez Perce County. H? a several times represented his County la e State Legislature, and is at present a jmber of the State Senate. He Is, of oourse, Free Silver man. Senator Dubois, whom succeeds, is a Free 8ilver Republican. | NEWSPAPER MEN DROWNED. ' ' ieir Boat Sunk While on a Mississippi River Assignment. Harrison P. Hester and H. B. Blessine, two t ill-known newspaper men of New Orleans* >re drowned by the sinking of the steam ' cht Argo, while following the Congress mmittee , now visiting New Orleans, to exline the crevasse in Passa Loutre and to termine as to the advisability of anapprolation. Heater was the son of Henry G. Heater, cretary cf the New Orleans Cotton Exange, and was probably the leallng cotton itistician in this oountry. He was a cor- ? ipondent of several papers at Washington r some time. He whs mirried. Blessins . is only twen"y-seven years old, of a wellown Creole family. To Prevent Extermlnatiou of the Seal. Professor David Starr Jordan, the Comssioner appointed to investigate the conion of the fur seal, recommends in his rert to the Secretary of the Treasury that j open season for the killing of females be olished to keep the Pribilof Island herd act. The estimate made by Professor rdan of the number of seals ot all claasea led last summer is 410,000. About 27,000 ps died of starvation, and pelagio seaHn/jr used the death of 29,893. The Itlble a Defence for Harder. \.n excited crowd gathered arouna tne jau Wayne, Neb., threatening Clarenoe Rash, ? wealthy farmer, who wa3 arraated at his me, surrounded by the bodies of his wife d three children, all terribly- hacked and ttered. He said when arrested that the Me was his defence and would prove that but did his dury. Rash had been attendr revival meetings and had grown enthusi* io over religion. A Colored Man Lynched. lynching occurred In Bibb County, Alalia, near Briarfleld. A colored man, name known, assaulted a young white girt med Battle. A posse went in pursuit of n, despite the bitter oold weather, and era long se?;rch captured and brought n up for identification. On being identii, he was started toward the County Jail, . f, as related, was "lost somewhere in the >w." Buried the Wrong Man. * I Jy a ourioua mistake in the records of a w York hospital a man was recently retod dead. His brother went to the rgue to identify the body, but foun I it, ar the autopsy, almost unrecognizable. ey bad it buried and shortly afterward ind out that a mistake had been made and: ,t their relative was not dead. They are iv endeavoring to recover the costs of the leral. Oklahoma Stops Gold Contracts. 'he Oklahoma Legislature passed bills )lHhing the militia an<} prohibiting gold ttracts in the Territory. 100 Year* for Burglary. 'homas Jackson, a colored burglar, was fenced at Chicago by Judge Ewing to five ma of twenty years oaoh. Jackson is rty-six years old, and of indescribable liness. Street Railway Taxes in Baltimore. 'he street railways in Baltimore, Md? ried over 54,000,000 passengers in 1896, 1 paid $243,000 in taxes for the support oCj i city's parks. Minor Mention. ["here's a coffin trust. Colorado coal is $3_a ton.