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i Mure mm. ~ n 1 O ... Representatives oannon anu oayeri Review the Work of Congress. INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES. S?le? of tlie House and Conrtesy or the Senate Responsible (or Keeping Ap. propriatlonn Above Lesitlioate Demand*? Increase In Our Navy Also tc Blame?Claims and Recommendations, WiSHiSGTOK, D. C. (Special).?The Congressional Record contains a statement made by the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, JUr. Joseph G. Gannon, of Illinois, relative to the approprialions made by the Fifty-fourth Congress. Br. Cannon's statement is, in part, as follows: The total appropriations of the two pes Ions of this Congress aggregate 81,043,437,818.53. The appropriations ot the Fiftythird Congress, which was Democratic in JOSEPH O. CAWtfON. both branches, with a Democratic Execulite, amounted, according to the official tables, to 5989.289,205.69. To this sum. how sver, should be added 84.400,000 on account f interest and slaking fund charges foi bonds Issued by the Democratic Administration, whloh were not Included In the Kttmates of permanent appropriations, submitted to Congress and stated in the tables, which brings the sum total of appropriations for all objects by the Fifty-third Con Rwes up to 1993,639,205.69, or $49,797,812.8^ leas than the approoriations, including deficiencies, made by the present Congress. "In explanation of this apparent excess ol appropriations by the Fifty-fourth Congress over those of the Fifty-third Congress. it should be stated that the Fifty. j ionrtn Congress made inoreases over its Immediate predecessor on account of fortifications, in the sum of @12,563,467; on account of river and harbor works, including A ^ ? J- ao iffe en/* coniraciB xaermur, tu mo sum ui ?*, *ni,?uu on account of the construction of public boil dint*?, none of which were authorized by the Fifty-fourth Congress, in the sum ol $2,343,894; for the Postal Service in the sum f $11,454,305; for the naval establishment In the sum of $8,947,523, and on account ol * permanent appropriations, mainly to meet interest and sinking fund charges, for the bonds issued by the Administration just leaving power, $24,933,744, or a total ol $62,768,939." Mr. Cannon condemns the practice of the Senate in recent years of amending appropriation bills, notably the General Deficiency ill, by Incorporating provisions to paj claims of every kind andohasacter outstanding against the Government?claims thai bare no status in many cases othtsi than perfunctory reports from committees, mere findings of the Court ol Claims, and recommendations and requests from bureau officers and other officials ol tbe Government. The remedy for this evil be says, is the establishment of a tribunal ol floaljurlsdiotion, whither these claims ma} be sent for full aad intelligent consideration. Mr. Sayers, of Texas, Democratic leader In the Committee on Appropriations, will also make public, under a leave to print, kis views respecting the appropriations for the Fifty-fourth Congress. He says: ' One of the causes for the enormous growth in appropriations of late years has keen the increase of our navy. Since thai work was inaugurated in 1883, seventyseven ships of all classes have been con stracted or authorized to be constructed al cost of more than $130,000,10;). Alreadj ho nnmhur r?f ahina mithorizrtd would ra< quire, it is said, twice the present number o authorized officers and men in the Davy tc keep them all in commission. The cost of thai] daiiy maintenance alone is a severe draugh T-K>n our diminishing revenues. Some o\ the most expensive of these great ships are already classed by naval experts as obso' lete. It would have been wiser if we had heeded the advice urged by maDy in the be> ginning of the construction of our new mwj ?to eonflne appropriations within lines sim^ ply sufficient to keep pace with the progress of modern naval architecture. ! THE TRUSTS IN NEW YORK. < Beport of the Lexow Legislative Commit tee?A Kemedlul Bill, Senator Lexow's Committee, wiiich ha: been? investigating the operations of th< trusts, has made lis report to the New Yorl Senate. The report says that trust agree ments no loDger form the basis of, nor art they a constituent part of the aggregation.' of capital which ar? commonly looked upoi now as trusts. In discussing this question o trusts, the committee finds that it 13 unnec easary that aDsolute monopoly shall exist ii order that the operations of a trust may bi eoored. The committee do63 not quite agree that the trusts and monopolies complained o are a natural result of the progressive evolu tion of the times, and while it does not woognize all combinations of capital a< trusts in the proper sense, it does recog mlze that unless the evils complained o are corrected it will be but a short time be fore a continuance of the operation of sucl combinations will tend to stifle competltloi and place the regulation of supply and the price of product, as well as the business o: the country, in the hands of a few. The Committee is preparing a bill whicl will empower the A'torney-General to in nstigate a trust on the complaint of am sitizen of an alleged violation of law, whicl" Mil will ompower the Attorney-General t< examine witnesses under subpoenas to bi issued on the Attorney-General's ex parti application by a Justice of the- Supre?si Court. ~N?w Treasurer National Republican Com inittee. At a meeting of the Executive Committe of the National Republican Committee it Washington, Cornelius N. Bliss, of Ne^ York, recently m ide Secretary of the In terior. resigned as Treasurer of the Commit lee. and W. L. Canuon, of New York, wa tlecred to till the vacancy. t A Noted Moonshiner Killed. Leslie Coombs-, the most noted moonshine in the Kentucky mountains has been foun - ?iead near H.izard with his throat cut. H was u Confe lerata bushwhacker. He claime thut he taal kiile l fifty men. rnllier an:! Sons Died Together. Orlando Howe, of Little Rock, Art, quarreled with his wife and they decided t wparate. Being without mouey, Howe too his twin sons, aged ten years, aud started t walk to Still well. bio. A train struck th father and two sons on a trestle near Oli phnnt, instantly killing Howe aud one so; mod fatally wounding the other boy. ' To Help Cuba's Wounded. A club has been formed in Buffalo, N. Y by pby.r'cians, dental, surgeons, chemist and pharmacists to provide the army of lit eration In Cuba with the necessary reme lit an t surgi al appliances for the wouudec About 100 mea of high standing In thalr pre Sessions joined the club. a-.* ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WanhJntrton Itema. Robert Gillespie Blaine, the last surviving brother of the !at'> James G. Blaine, died at ; his rt-sitlence in Washington. Ho was about sixty-five years of ago and occupied a small post in the Congressional Library. The special session of the Senate was adjourned sino die, word having been received from the President that no important nomi iuations would be made during the tvook. The members oftheDlplomatio Corps were introduced to Secretary Sherman at the State , Department, and to President McKinley at the White House. General Russell Hastings, who commanded Mitjor McKinley's regiment in the war, was A?/x. K?. ? ? ~ 1 U~A u;? ^ i?iu Ktwi y? a waxwn uuu uim ui? n?vlured just after visiting the President. Secretary Sherman has received a.dispatch from Consul General Lee at Havana to the k effect that Sylvester Scovel, the correspondent of a New York newspaper who had been arrested by the Spaniards nearlvtwo months ago, would bo released. At the first Cabinet meeting all the members excepting Secretary Bliss, of the Interior Department, were present. Secretary of State Sherman intimated that he proposed to negotiate a treaty with Spain defining exactly the rights of naturalized citizens. The House Ways and Means Committee decided to increase the rate of duty on sugar L so as to provide for additional revenues to the amount of s^O.OOO.OOO. Representatives Cannon and Sayere, of the House Appropriations Committee, have prepared statements showing that money is voted recklessly by Congress. The total appropriations by the Fifty-fourth Congress were ?1,043,437,018.53. President McKinley is said to be emphasizing his earnest desire for the prompt ratification of the general arbitration treaty by personal appeals to his friends in the Senate. President Mckinley's first proclamation summoned Congress to meet in extra session on March 15. Crowds of visitors have been throncring the White House to see President McKinley, and ; he has received hundreds of congratulatory I messages. : The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee in the last Congress are hard at work preparing a tariff bill. in tne second session or tne ruty-iourin Congress 128 nominations by the President failed of confirmation. The new Cn')inet officers, with the exception of Mr. Gasre, took the oath of office in the Blue R >om of the White House. Mr. Gage took the oath at the Treasury Department. , Domestic. ' I A bill has been introduced In the Illinois [ Legislature to pay wages to convicts, the ; dependents of conviots to get the money. [ Ralston, a small town in Oklahoma, has J been almost destroyed by a cyclone. Judge Brown, of the United States Dis, triot Court, dismissed the writ of habeas, a In Kr* rtoco r\f .Tnoanh A. Tfiafffl. thft . Turkish Consul in Boston, who was arrested [ in New York on a charge ot embezzlement. At a tumultuous meeting ot Greeks In New York Consul-General Botassi was denounced t for not sending home to Greece the reservea who are reviy to respond to King George's call. Governor Black, of New York, has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of William Youns:, who was to have been | electrocuted at Clinton Prison, for the mur-w ; der of his wife in Amsterdam. [ Joseph N. Dolph, from 1862 to 1894 United [ States 8enator from Oregon, died at Portf land, Ore., in his sixty-third year. He was born in Watkins, N. Y., and went to Oregon in 1862. t Mrs. Rita Lesclade de Ruiz, widow of Rl: cardo Ruiz, the American who is alleged to > have been murdere.l recently In the dungeon of the Guanabacoa (Cuba) Jail by Spanish ! jailers, has arrived in New York with her Ave children. ! Mrs. Louis Duncan threw her baby from ' the top of a burning tenement in Brooklyn, r N. Y., and leaped after it. Both were killed. Charles Goddard, a consumptive, was sufTo" cated, and his wife was seriously hurt by [ jumping from a window. iivangenst v. L. Moony, assisted oy me | Rev. R. A. Torrey, of Chicago, and others, has been holding largely attended meetings j in Music Hall, Chicago. Ex-President Cleveland has gone on ai t cruise in the Gulf of Mexico with E. C. Bener diet on the latter's yacht Oneida. . The New York State Senate passed Senator Wilcox's bill to compel the railroads to carry State officers free. ; J. G. Rinnblad, a Swedish official accused of embezzling Government money, committed suicide in the A3tor House. New J York, just as Federal Marshals burst in the ' door to arrest him. xiuwctn j. nubm:iif luiivicitfu ui hiicuiih inj,' to blackmail former Corporation Counsel J>nlcs, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to Sin? Sing for ten years. John A. Henderson, of Tallahassee, VicePresident of the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, has been appointed United States Senator t>y Governor Bloxham to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of Senator Call's term. General Julio Sanguilv, who ha" returned to New York City after two years' imprisonment at Havana, intimates that General Weyler planned to have him poisoned. He is grateful to CoubuI General Leo, to whom he attributes his release from life imprison LUCUk, Governor Lord, of Oregon, has appointed ex-Senator H. \V. Corbett United States Sen ator, to All ihe vacancy caused by the failure of the Legislature to elect at the recent session. Mr. Corbett represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1860 to 1872. He is Vice-President of the First National Bank of PortlandTwo more persons died in Boston as the result of the explosion in the subway. This increased the list oWatalitles to eight. A swere shock of earthquake was felt at Niag ira Falls. It extended thirty miles each side ot the river, and caused a good deal of alarm. Open ohargos of corruption were made in s the Oklahoma Senate, and three members, including President Johnson, sent in their designations to the Governor. In tho House * everything was in an uprcar. A cable message was received in New York from the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs 5 calling upon all the Grecian reserves iD this country to return home for service. ' Immense damage has been done by floods in the Middle Western States, the loss of 1 property probably amounting to millions of i dollirs. | Joseph A. Iasigl, Turkish Consul-General in Boston, was indicated on charges of embezzliug upward of ?100,900 by the Grand J Jury in that city. r Foreltrn Notes. % 5 a A court in Montreal has just allowed the 8 claim of a usurer to interest of Ave per cent. 8 a day. There is no law against usury in the Province of Quebec. A dispatch from Athens says that Greece has 60.0 0 troops on the frontier, and that tho Turkish tnd Greek outpostfl are very e close together in places. S a A regiment of artillery has been sent'-fcy the v Brazilian Government to Bahia, to suppress the outbreak in that State. The census of the Sandwich Islands, ju&t s takpn, shows tnat Americans form but a small part of the population. A despatch from Valparaiso, Chile, state* that serious complications may arise in the r relations of tbut Government with Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. b Advices from Manilla state that Spain is j makiDi; little progress in suppressing the rei ellion in the Philippine Islands. The Greek Vice-Consul at Cunea, Crete, lias been esptdlod by order of the Powers. It wis believed in Athens that war between ' Greece and Turkey whs unavoidable, u Japan has not yet adopted the gold standard, as recently reported, but the Ministry . has submitted to the Diet a bill for that pur? pose. a General Antonio Ezota, once Vlce-Presi" dent of San Salvador, died In Panama. An anti-Turkish demonstration in Brussels, Belgium, was broken up by the poliot*. By the flooding of a tunnel shaft at Dover, 3 England, eight men lost their live9. Large numbers of men have been prel3 senting themselves at the Greek Consuli. ates at London, Liverpool and Manches(. ' ter, offering themselves to the Consuls for service in the Greek Army in Crete. , GBBEK AGAINST MOSLBI. Great Powers of Europe Are Helping the Turks, FIERCE FIGHTING IN CRETE, rim Croob Pftnani at fJaneti Forcibly Re moved by Order of the Italian Commandant? Foreign War Vessels 15ombard the Insurgents' Positions?Siege or Kandaroos Raised bv the Powers. Canea, Crete (Special).?The Cretan in-1 jurgents attacked Fort Hierapetra on the refusal of the Turkish garrison to surrender, j Thereupon the foreign wur ships bombarded the insurgents' positions and the latter were forced to withdraw. The Italian commandant here has ordered the correspondents of Greek newspapers to leave Canea, and they will, in case of refusal, be forcibly transported hence to Cerl^o on board a torpedo boat. A similar notice of expulsion has been served upon all Greeks remaining in Oanea. NIKOLAS CHRISTODOULAJII9, The insurrectionary army of 15,000 men 1 Reform Committee's President, but is aotu Sphkia, Chrlstodoulakis. He is forty-flve vei Cretan revolution since 1865, but also in tne brothers were killed fighting against the T are the unconquerable people of Crete, he ! great skill as a general. M. Baraklls, the Greek Vice-Consul, who was ordered to leave Oanea by Commandant Amoretti, under pain ot being treated as a prisoner, and who refused to submit exoept to force, was taken off by an Italian steam launch, with the dragoman of the Consulate, and placed on board a Greek warship. Fighting took plaoe between Turkish troops and the insurgents at the outposts in ikrotlri. Numbers were wounded and brought to town. BtbitLitu iunt\3 nc.Lic.vcu. Those Confined in Eandamos Taken to Cauea on an Italian Transport. Loudon*. England (Special).?The Daily News publishes a dispatoh from Canea saying that the Mussulmans who had been besieged at Kandamos and who have arrived at Canea, were conveyed there on board the Italian transport Trinacria. and that another vessel is expected to arrive shortly witb more refugees. The fore* which relieved the beleaguered inhabitants of Kandamos also assisted 112 soldiers who were besieged in the Spanish blockhouse. The correspondent says the utmost credit ia due to Sir A. Biliotti, the British Consul at Canea, who managed the entire affair personally. Without him the besieged people <>onld never have escaDed. .In the first instance, he went alone to Kandamos after conferring with the Cretan leaders, who expressed doubt of their ability to control their followers. The place was surrounded by 7000 Cretans, who kept up a continuous fusillade, which sometimes was replied to by a light fire. Consul Billotti entered the town &nd remained until nightfall, when, having become convinced of the absolute necessity of employing a foroe'of Europeans to effect the release of the beleagured ones, he returned to Selino, from which place he started on his return to Kandamos before dawn with a force of 250 British, 100 Frenoh, 100 Austrians, 150 Russians, and 55 Italians, with four guns. Upon arriving at Kandamos the troops remained upon the outskirts, while the Consul entered the town to arrange for the sortie. Home aeiay ocourrou, owiuk iu it iuuk. ui beasts of burden. The Cretans had ceased their firing and consented that the Moslem soldiers should retain their arms, but when the latter emerged and a start was made for Selino a scene of the wildest confusion and one of great danger took plice. The horde of Cretan insurgents surrounded'the refugees and, whereever a gap occurred in the escort, would dash In ana tear their weapons from the Bashl Bazouks and snatch the bundles which many of the women and children carried. It was with the utmost difficulty that the Moslems wore prevented from firing on the insurgents and thus bringing about a horrible slaughter. During the confusion one girl was kidnapped by the Cretans. The insurgents followed the refugees, pressing in upon their column, as far as Spaniako, where there is a gorge, which was blocked by the escort after tho refugees had passed. This prevented the Cretans from advancing further. Mayer Convicted and Fined Blmself. Mayor Campbell, of Bowling Green, Ohio, has imposed a fine of $5 and coats upon himself tor being drunk and disorderly. "His Honor" had been carried to tte police station beastly intoxicated, and occupied a cell with common drunks. Abolishing Slavery on tho Niger. A dispatch from Lagos, Africa, says a decree has, been issued for the abolition of stav9JCg44the Niger country, the decree to gojiivafoct upon the anniversary of the aTO^TOlttofthe sixtieth year of the reign Fr^^ttn^ilthe Brooklyn Bicycle Club, At t^.v06i$taifebam (England) bloycle track ac^Hit^Hpns are to be provided for There a??jffc$sdi< newspapers and periodicals dirW. fluted ?yc'ing in It is estitn tbitjffifcly fifty per cent, of the application^patents with the Government retttd or indirectly to Experts estlmf^^tlojit'^tepsr cent, of tho whole population twenty-five per cert, of oil the j^HHHrotera of Connecticut ride bicyct?8 ^ - LIVES LOST IN A WRECK. Disaster on the Louisville and Nashrllle Railroad In Indiana. The Louisville and Nashville limited train southbound from Chicago was wrecked at 12.30 In the morning at a point one mile south oi Hazelton, Ind. Five men were killed nnd two seriously injured. Tho accident was the result of the heavy rains in Southern Indiana slnoe Saturday. The White River, noar Hazelton, overflowed, and the backwater washed out the track of the Terre Haute. Trains were running on slow orders, as the roadbed wa* known to be in bad condition. When the "Cannon Ball" train reached the fill the embankment suddenly gave way, and the engine and baggage caraai a part oi the smoker dropped into about six feet oi water. The engine turned over, but the baggage car remained upright. The smoker hung o^oi tke end of tho track. The sleeper remained on the track. Engineer John McOutchan escaped dea:h by jumping, but his fireman, Boleman, was caught in tbe cab and drowned. Conductor Sears and Herbert_Allen, head janltoi: of the Indiana State House, were aiao Kiuea. They were in the smoker with Brakeman Haursen, who was near the door. When t he baggage car went down the jar threw him against the seat, Injuring one of his legs. He orawled out of the door and swam a considerable distance to reaoh land. Two unknown men In the smoker were also killed. yr^ WAB CHIEF OF THE CRETANS. d Crete is under the nominal oominand of the all? led by the commander of tt.e men Iron ira old, and has fought not only in ever} revolution of 1878 In Thessaly. His foui 'urka. As the leader of the 8phkiotes, whe has the reputation of a hero, and has ahowc ALABAMA TRAIN ROBBERY. A Gang of Masked Men Secure 83000 in an Express Car. Bob'Dere halted the Louisville and Nashville train near Calera, Ala., and made of with fl.bout $3000. Two of the robbers, carrying rifles, boarded the engine as the train pulled oat of Oalere and ordered the train stopped at the watei tank two miles north, where four other men were waiting, all masked and armed with rifles and pistols. The bandits attempted to cut off the express car from the remainder of th^ train, but failed. They then ordered the express car door opened and threatened to dynamite it. As they carried thirty sticks of dynamite in bags, the order was obeyed by Messengei Gordon, and the safe was robbed:.. The money packages wore placed in the bag which had contained the dynamite. The dynamite wa9 left beside the track, and the gang took to the woods. mormon;; tarred and feathered. Aggrieved Woodsmen Raid the Elders' Camp In Florida. Six Mormon elders who have been proselyting about MoClenny, Fla., for two months past were seized the other nig;ht by a partj of incensed woodsmen, relieved of part ol tbeir clothing, smeared with tar and feathers and at the muzzle of shot guns escorted tc the county line and told to go. One of the elders was badly wounded by a charge ol buckshot Area as toe party was leaving. These elders had a camp at Ten Mile Creek. They had converted many women, and a! least ten families In the county had been broken up by them. In one case a mothei and four daughters left home to go wltt them. * A mass meeting of fifteen or twenty ag grieved men wns held, when It was deoidec that the Mormons must leave. Fifteen worn en found in the camp during the "crack ers" raid were sent to their several homef with the threat that if they were found ii such quarters again hickory switches would be used, Leadvllle Miners' Bis Strike Ends. The great Leadvllie strike, begun June 19 has been called off unconditionally by th< Miners' Union. Eugene V. Debs told th< Union there was no hope. Many of the leaders urged that the strike be kept up, bu the vote stood 1100 to 30J to declare it off Dissatisfaction in the union and lack o money caused the surrender. ( Weyler Abandoning Towns. Captain-General Weyler has ordered al regular Spanish troops in Cuba to abandoi the towns where the merchants and landed proprietors do not provide, free of cost t< the Government, three volunteers for ?vur Government soldier of the garrison. (stunned by a Meteor. Farmers near New Martlnsburg, Ohio, an excited over the fall of a meteorite near tha place. It shot across the sky about noon ant burst before reaching the earth. Many per sons were stunned, and one farmer, Danie Leisure, was Insensible for several hours Some pigs were struck by pieces of the me teorlte and killed. A Gold Mice Sold for 85,000,000. The famous Le Rol Mine of Rossland, Brit ish Columbia, owned by Senator Turner an< othors of Washington State, has been sold t< a syndicate of British capitalists for $5,000, 000. Facts About Greece. The kingdom has a population of 2,187,208 About one-half of the people are farmer and shepherds. No part of Greeca is forty miles from th< sea nor ten from the hills. The area of the country is about 24,97' square miles, or half ths size of Pennsyl Vrtnia. About 70,000 of the inhabitants speak thi Greek language only, and all but 20,000 pro fess '.he Christian leligloc. For purposes of local government, Greec? is divided into thirteen nomarohies, unde officers called Nomarohs. It: has an excel lent legal system, based upon the ol< SAtuti law MRS. BEECHER DEAD. fflilow of the Famous Brooklyn Dlvlnl Pause* Away. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher died at the horns of her son-law-law, the Rev. Samuel Scoville, at Stamford, Conn., where she had hovered ! between life and death for many weeks. It was just ten years asro, and almost exactly the same hour, that her husband passed away. Mrs. Beecher was born at West Sutton, Mass.. in 1812. She was of English descent. Her father was a physician. Dr. Bullard. He named his daughter Eunice White, malting her full maiden name Eunice ! White Bullard. She was educated in Worcester County and Hadley, Massachusetts. > Mr. Beecher was at Amherst College at the ; same time with her brother, who invited him to spend a vacation at West Sutton. Thon i Miss Pullard and Henry Ward Beecher met for the first time, when the young lady was seventeen years old. The lovers were en I prated seven years, not being married until 1837, when Mr. Beecher was pastor , of a i church at Lawrenceburg. InrL, nis first charge. Within a few days after the marriage, which was celebrated at West Sutton, Mrs. Beeceer and her husband went to the home provided for her at Lawrenceburg and | 3ettled quietly to her life as a pastor's wife. They removed to Indianapolis in August, | 1839, waere they remained eight years, after which Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, engaged Mr. Beecher as its pastor. i Of Mrs. Beecher's ten children only four are living,one daughter and three sons. During the last tenor twelve years Mrs. Beecher contributed articles, chiefly on domestic subjects, to various periodicals. Many of these have been published in book form, making three volumes. 8he has also written a work 9ntitled "Letters from Florida." Her book, "From Dawn to Daylight." so named by the ..imlnloian/tOQ Af hflP fl rflf fjuuiiauor, uuuiuius loaiiuuwuvwa v* years as a minister's wife. CAPTAIN HART SENTENCED. Two Yoarg* Imprisonment and a Fine lor Filibustering. Capti,in John D. Hart, who was several days ago convicted of aiding In the fitting out of a filibustering expedition to Cuba on the steamship Laurada, was sentenced by Judge Butler at Philadelphia to two years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5000 and cosl: of prosecution. The cost of the prosecution will amount to about .85000. The Captain was taken to prison immediately after sentence had been pronou aoed. As he sentenced the prisoner, Judge Butler said, among otherthlngs: "I regret that it is my duty to sentence you, but I believe that you were convicted after a fair and impartial trial. The offence you commitced is a grave one. involving National honor and National peace. You entered upon the commission of it with full knowledge of its gravity. You took the risk for a price and must bear the consequences." * The court was crowded when sentence was passed and a great deal of sympathy with the Captain was expressed. Hart is a man of about forty years, and he has been encaged In the fruit importing business for about fifteen years. When the Cuban war broke out he leased his steamships, the Bermuda and the Laurada, to the Cubans, who sent several cargoes of arms and munition of war to Cuba on them. The vessels did splendid service in the Cuban cause. Captain Hart's case will either be appealed to the United 8tates Supreme Court or President MoKJnley will be asked to pardon him. OLDEST MAN ON EARTH. He Hat Jait Died In Gaadalajara, Mexico, at tlie age of 154. Jesus Campeche, of Guadalajara, Mexico, thought to be the oldest man on earth, died on Friday, and, acoording to his affirmation 1 and other testimony, he was 154 years old. ) He said he was born in Spain in 1742 and . came to this country when he was twentyJ four years old. He was living with his j great-great-grandson, and bad copies of the church register at Yalladolid. 8pain, showing the date of his oirth and bapt;sm. According to these papers he was born December 12.1742. He" related inoidents which occurred In the last century, showing that he , had told the truth or had stored his mind well with the happenings of tbat time. A priest in the church which he attended, wlio is now eighty-four years old, says he f remembered Campeche as being an old man when he was a Jittle boy. I , KILLED FOR WITCHCRAFT. i A Woman In Indian Territory Shot on I That Charge. The particulars of the coia-oiooaeu luur( der of a woman charged with being a witch i at Stonewall, Indian Territory, have just 1 been made public. Mrs. Mary Gilchrist, a daughter of Judson Collins, died and it was charged that her , death was caused by witchcraft. Lucy Fac, tor, a woman of the neighborhood, was , named as the witch whose masric 9pells had done the evil deed. Mr. Gilchrist, husband of the dead woman, and a friend, went to the home of the woman and shot her to death. . A.11 are Indians. Gilchrist and his companion were arrested by the tribal author!una nut- snnn released, not even being bound over for trial. I Four Men Killed by a Snowsllde. r A heavy snowslide started from the noun^ f tain peak west of the Morgan Mine, neai i Park City, Utah, and struck one of the Dnlj > Mine bunk houses, which was shivered intc > atoms. Nine men were sleeping in the house t at the time. Five were rescued alive aboul an hour afterwards. Late in the afternoor the dead bodies of Nicholas Peffls, James t Keating and Nicholas Puffeto were recov i ered. Joseph Zucca was the fourth victim. ' Four in a Family Die of measles. All the children in the Palmer family o! I T/mh.io til. have died from measles. Will iam was taken sick with measles and died it less than n week. He was buried Friday February 27. The three other brothers wen . stricken down with the measles a few day* later. Edward died Friday morning, Thomai died Friday night, and Silas, the youngest died Saturday. The three brothers wert buried sunuay. i 3 PWncess Von Hohenlohe Kills a Bear. ) Princess Maria von Hohenlohe, wife o ' Prince von Hohenlohe, Germany's Imperial 1 Chancellor, has performed the notable feal of killing a boar while hunting on her estates in Russia. The Princess is sixty-eight yean of age. ^ Two Men Burned to Death. Charles J. Knowlton, forty-three years old [ and Crosby Lakln, flfty-flve years old, los j their lives in a Are that destroyed a dwolllnf f house, at East JafTrey, N. H. Inauguration Surplus to Go to Charity The Inaugural Committee at Washingtoi t estimated total receipts weuld foot up abou . $5000 over and above expenses. The surp'.ui will probably be turned over to local chari ? ties, as has heretofore be3n done, andtht guarantee fund will be returned to the sub scribers. Another Torpedo Boat Beady. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bristol, R. I., has almost completed work or i United Slates Torpedo Boat No. 7, and sh< j will be taken out of the shops in a week oi . two. The boat will be launched soon. A Midget Kuns for Mayor. "Colonel Joe" LefTel, the famous midget of Springfield, Ohio, has formally annouucst' his candidacy for the Republican notnintitior a for Mayor, and is actively working to secure , it. The "Colonel" was once a City Couucil 0 man. He Is three feet ten inches hik'b weighs sixty pounds, and is forty-three year j old. A Fanatical Outbreak in Brazil. A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro, by way o 9 Pari9, says that a band of fanatics, led b; Uonselheiro, have killed Colonel Morelri Coesar, three officers and 200 soldiers ic 3 Baliia. Tbere is much excitement in Rk r de Janeiro, where the populace has pillaged and burned the offices of the two Monarchls 1 papers. I NAMED AN1G0NF1SME President McKinlev Formally No inates His Cabinet. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OPE^ Upon Receipt of the First Commanlcat Ft-om the New Chief Magistrate Senate Went Into Executive Sesaloi Mark Hanna Sworn In?floral Tl "*? filrfln tn *h<? Vfltr Washington. D. C. (Special).?The op ine proceedings of the first session of Fifty-fifth Consrross-were witnessed bj very large assemblage of spectators in galleries of the Senate Chamber. The Sec was without the legislative partnership the House of Representatives. The Republican side of the Chamber loo as though the contents of a conservatory i been deposited in it. Flowers had b placed on the desks of numerous Senat who had just taken the oath of office, as ^ as on that of Vice-President Hobart. WILLIAM E. MASON. (United States Senator from Illinois.) The new Senators, who had been sworn on the previous day, are Edmund W. Pett Alabama; Alexander & Clay,Georgia; He: Heitfeldt. Idaho; William E. Mason. Illim Charley E. Fairbank, Indiana; W. O. Har Kansas; Samuel D. McEaery. Loulsla George L. Wellington, Maryland; Thon C. Piatt, New York; Joseph B. Forat Ohio; Boles Penrose, Pennsylvania; Jost H. Earle, South Carolina; George Turr Washington; John 0. Spooner, Wiscon: and Joseph L. Rawlins, Utah. Mark Hanna wa9 sworn In as Senator fr Ohio, in place of John Sherman, resignec \f nXT i n laxr aATlf tf\ fh? Sflnatu following nominations: John Sherman, of Ohio, to be Secretary State. Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois, to be Secret of the Treasury. Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, to be S retary of "War. Joseph McKenna, of California, to be torney General. James A. Gary, of Maryland, to be Pi master-General. John D. Long, of Massachusetts, to Secretary of the Navy. Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, to Secretary of the Interior. James Wilson, of Iowa, to be Secretary Agriculture. The Senate, immediately on receipt of nomination, confirmed Mr. Sherman as f retary of State. A recess was then tali the other cabinet nominations having b MforrnH /-> fh? nroner committees. ' committees retired to take tbem under c sideration.' The immediate confirmation of Mr. SI man was the following of the usual cust 1 of the Senate, to confirm without refere to a committee any man who has bep member of the Senate. The Senate resumed its session at i o'clock, and all of the Cabinet nominati were favorably reported and confirmed. 1 action was followed by adjournment u Monday. BLOWN UP IN A STREET CAR. Six Persons Killed by an Explosion in I ton, Ma*a. An explosion of gas which leaked from ; two great six-inch mains that cross the J way at Tremont and Boylston streets, ] i ton, Masa, killed six persons, injured 1 probably fatally, and hurt neatly fifty oi 1 persons, at 11.45 o'clock Thursday morni 1 A boom like that of a cannon was folloi by a thick cloud of smoke, and then fla shot upward and blazed in the midst of * thoroughfares, where there is more tr; than anywhere else in the city. Horses dead on the pavements, panic-stricken ] seuarers were endeavoring to escape v their lives from the interior of turning c and fire engines were on the scene poui tons of warer upon the flames. The gias the buildings wns shattered along Trem r street as iar soutn as xj^rau^o sum, i north beyond the Tremoot Theatre, eas ) Washington street, and west almost to P t Square. The list of dead follows: The I i W. A. Start, bursar of Tufts College; G. j Blselor, conductor; Miss A. Matilda Bh William E. Vinal, secretary; Benja Downing hack-driver, dead; D. H. Sib -tarriage-driver, burned beyond recogntti r KENTUCKY'S^ NEW_ SENATOR. Governor Bradley Niunes A. T. Woo; I succecd .Senator Blackburn. < Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has j pointed Major A. T. Wood, of Mount SI .? in?, to succeed J. 0. S. Blackburn as Un i States Senator. With the appointment ! also given out the call of an extrasessio tho Legislature, to convene March 13, election of.a Senator being among the jects named. f A. T. Wood hau been a Republican let i in Kentucky for many years, and made race lor Governor against John Yo t Brown in 1390, J Tbe Labor World. Paris has 300 toy factories. Germany has 1,000,000 textile workers. , Washington printers organized in 1815 t New York has a Workmen's Polit j League. _ Hocking Valley (Ohio) minors don't a' age $5 a month Canton, Ohio, has put the unemployed j improving roads. Wages of 8avaunah city detectives v reduced and one struck. ' A Pontiac (Mich.) carriage factory is r J uing twenty-four hours a day. Cleveland Italian laborers have organl and will take a hand in politics. Employes of the Newark (N. J.) street r way wi re discharged for pambling. Many of the cotton mills of Canada ' ti'nd to ciose down for three months. Large workrooms for unskilled fen a or have been opened in New York. Brooklyn city authorities oppose the requiring stationary engineers to be licen; Minimum pay of Erie (Penn.) pain this year will be twenty-flve cents an ht 1 Practically ninety-two per cent, of 1 wage workers of S:. Paul, Minn., are uni ' JStS." A New York baker's union has decided ' raise a big fund for its unemployed m * bers. An international congress to consider islation for the working classes will mee j Berlin, Germany. f The Brewers' National Union warned j workmen in its ranks of a threatened 1< l out Iq and about Now York. ) New York Central Labor Union will c 1 sider the scheme to have the unemployed t the cities colonized on idle public landf the West. l I TEMPERANCE | A MODEn:? FBEEBOOTHX jB Man's life is a warfare?-'tis hard to withstand The foes that assail us by sea and by land; To meet their attacks let us wisely combine; ^ Ana pray witnour ceasing lor succor cuvine; ^ And that we may not suffer shipwreck or ]C loss, 1 J* Let faith be our shield, and our standard the cross. ion The passion for drink, so degrading and the 1<m* Has become for the millions the mightiest n? foe; ib? On life's stormy billows this pirate pursues The best laden vessels to plunder their crews, jrs. xill. pillaged and wrecked, in mid-ocean they sink. en- The most holpless of beings, the victims of the drink! . All Christians should ever this enemy fly And, like true disciples, the flesh mortify? ^ate Should fly what is sinful, and gladly ab-, of stain, To conquer the demon, the goal to attain; j \ , , Should fervently pray for assistance the , ked while, s uou ouu uy an muuigtjuue ucgrauiug auu ?no. een ors SOCIABILITY AND SUCCESS. _eli A fellow must be sociable to get along. \ This i9 one of the commonest excuses for bad habits among young men. If he drinks to ? excess on some occasion, if he stays out un- V reasonably late at night, or doe3 anything \ else for which he is properly chided by those '' who naturally have an interest in him. the A first thing tne yonng man pleads Inself-defense is the necessity of sociability. Hemu?t be sociable to get on! A moment's sober reflection would show even him the foolish- ^BE ness of this excuse. What does he under- flBI , stand by sociability? He probably ooald BB| ' not define what he means bv the term if be ^DB \ 'i, were asked to do so. Certainly, hd would JS( Y, utterly fail to demonstrate how the cuitlva{ tlon of bad habits becomes contributory to 1 success in any worthy application of the I word. One of the first fruits of yielding to HH i temptation is the stimulation of guild, and / the person who stoops to do a mean and shameful thing will not hesitate to lie to M s, cover his tracks, if he deems it convenient or expedient to deceive those who question his acts. We would say, continues the Cathollo American, IU an juuux porcyua, nuaiovoL their conditions or surroundings, begiq your habits of sociability at home, practice amiability and cheerfulness there, cultivate these >' virtues first of all for domestic use, and they will serve you and promote your welfare in a practical sense where it will do the most good. But above all, do not be dishonest with yourselves, false to your best friends and disloyal to your own highest purposes of life by masking the oulture of vicious and dangerous habits under the specious ploa of sooiability. Misanthropy Is a thousand us, time& better than that love of companionship nry which finds expression in dissolute acts, sis; ris) WE MUST LIVE. Qft; "There was an old lady," says Sir Wilfrid rf. Lawson, "whom I knew in London a couple , -? -1. ? nt j_u" Ul y OtttO VYiiU WOO t? ^ uyuiau ui vuv v? the large unions in the west of London. ( : ' There came a man on the licensing day to ' have his public house license renewed, and this good lady oame and said: 'Don't renew j the license, your Worships. The old women ..v. from the workhouse where I am guardian ro over there and get drunk, and it causes a . . deal of evil;* and the chairman said: 'Well, what have we to do with that? Do a great many go?' 'Oh, yes,'the lady said,'a great J many.' 'What does it matter to us,' he said, , 'if hundreds go? The man who comes for the license must live.'" .. Now we have the whole thing In a nutshelL Men engaged in the liquor business t say. "We must live." To all such we might reply, as Dr. Johnson did to the beggar who b urged the same plea, "We must live. <-We see no necessity at all for that" Ceru(, tainly the community would lose by the death of some people, but when did It ever . 0l go Into mourning for the death of a rum' seller? The man who cannot live but by the the ruin of others had better not live at all. It ; jec_ is a libel on the character of God to suppose j ~ that men cannot live under His government j k86Q and support their families without contina- i ing to be knowingly and voluntarily aoces- , on. sory to the ruin of their fellow-men. . 4 Ifsaloonlsts must live, better the comie_" munlty tax itself for their support than tax orn Itself to support, as it now does, both the sance loonlst and his victims.?National Tempern a ance Advocate. twf) keep torn top cool. ons It Is reported of Artemus Ward that he' 'his once offered his flask of whisky to the driver ntil of the stage on which he was riding through a mountainous section. The stage driver refused the flask In most decided tones. Said he: "I don't drink; I won't drink. I don't,like io?. to see anybody else drink. I am of the opinion of those mountains?keep your top . cool! They've got snow, and I've got brains; that's all the difference." iub- There is a prreat deal of wisdom in his re3os mark?"Keep your top cool." Without a t sound brain man is not of much use in the world. Alcohol, whether in beer, cider, :her ^ine, brandy or whisky, is a foe of the brain; mg. and when it gets there inflames it and ren 7eJ ders it unfit for use. Be like the honest stage aies driver and resolve to "keep your top cool." the ?Youth's Temperance Banner. ivel lay ATHLETICS WITH AND WITHOUT ALCOHOL. An ex-President of the Cambridge Uni__. versity Athletic Club, whose letter appears ' in the Temperance Chronicle, <?ays: s jjJ \ "I am nojt now a teetotaier, but a very oat strone advocate of temperance. When at antj Cambridge, during my first year, when 1 did mv best 'times' in long-dlstanco racin?, I arlc was a total abstainer, and trained entirely je'v without alcohoL Darin# my last two years 3' I drank alcohol occasionally and very modes'. erately, chiefly in the form of beer, claret, min an(* sometimes port; but the stubborn fact l(ev remains that I never beat or equaled the 'times' I accomplished in races, of very severe bodily strain, when I took no alcohol In any shape or form. If I were to go in * training now for a ion# race I should be strongly inclined to do it entirely on water 1 to (as far as liquor is concerned) as of yore." ap_ AN AGGRAVATED PUBLIC NUISANCE. ter|. More than two thousand years ago the re' " jults of alcohol on the body were compared / itea tQ tjj0 jj|tQ ot a s0rpent and the sting of an waq adder; and alcohol has not ohancred its na- , a 0f ture since. At the present time alcoholic . the beverages abused are certainly the most in0b. jurious, deceptive and dangerous elements of death and destruction that exist, and the l(ier annals of criminal courts prove that the inthe temperate are an aggravated public nuisance ung generally. W. C. T. C. WOBK nf MEXICO. Mis3 Frances E. Willard writes that Mrs. Helen M. Stoddard, President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Texas, has been appointed National Organizer of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance i?tl Union for Mexico as a result of her recent trip to the City of Mexico, where, in conference with the missionaries of that country, Irer* .-stended plans were arranged for introducMK the ribbon movement into Mexico. 1 at EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. rere Dr. A. Baer, of Berlin, says: "Alcohol is not a food in the sense that it gives one the Un. power of endurance or preserves strength and health. It rather produces the opposite ellects, for it destroys the body and ruins Its z0^ health." Instead of being a preventive of malaria, cholera ana other diseases, alcohol ail- actually predisposes one to these evils. The mental and moral effects of alcoholism are in- beyond description terrible. "Alcohol destroys the individuality of men, paralyzes the . will and the physical energr, makes the ine dividual a slave of his passions." bill TEMPERANCE MEWS AND NOTES. seil. The saloon is sin's chief agent, satan's ter9 hoad servant. >ur. The saloon is the corrupter of politics, the the t00'of politicians, the dictator of misgovern[0n; ment. Double, double! [ t0 Vice and trouble em. Come to man When he sees double. lejj. The women in Jackson, Mo., have themt iu selves assessed so that as taxpayers they can sign the remonstrances to Drevent the I saloon-keepers from securing licenses. A k_ watch or a sewing machine will do to make ? " them taxpayers. There are more breweries in California * j than thnre are in Illinois; more distilleries i in Massachusetts than there are in Kentucky, and more cigarettes manufactured ia New York State than In all other States of . tJje_couatry combined, saya the Lever.