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ish con Representatives Sent to Europe t Work for Bimetallism. APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT United States Senator Woicott, of Coloradc ex-Vice-President Stevenson, of Illinoli and Charles J. Paine, or Maaancho setts, Chosen?Paine Went to Europ With Woicott on His First Mission Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Presi dent announced the appointment of Senatoi Edward 0. Woicott, of Colorado: Charles J Paine, of Boston, and ex-Yice-President Ad lai E. Stevenson as Commissioners to an In ternational Monetary Conference, Tbesi appointments are made under the act, ap proved March 3 last, "for the promotion ol an international agreement for bimetallism," and by its provisions do not require conflr mation by the Senate. rOBXEB YICE-PBESIDENT A. E. STEVENSON It has been generally conceded tha Senator Wolcott would be made a membei of the commission. He has been an activt leader in the movement for a monetary tgreement and widely known as an advocat< of the Silver cause. His trip to Europe lttsl Bummer was generally conceded to be at leas semi-official as the representative of the nev Administration. His" tour extended ove: several months, and embraced tlx leading European capitals. He hat audiences with the more noted financier! and Ministers, and it is believed then laic the foundations for an International con lerence whioh the Committee just appointee will endeavor to bring to a conclusion Senator Woicott is now serving his secont term in the Senate, having been elected tc that body in 1885. While a pronounced bi metallist, he was a supporter of the St. Louii tloket A W k TAT) V f\ TTAT/'rtTT. Ex-Vice-President Stevenson, the Demo cratic memler of the commission, thougt generally known as an advocate of bimetal llsm, was-a supporter of Bryan and the Chi cago platform. He and Senator Wolcott, however, are said to be In accord on th< financial question. General Charles J. Paine, who may bi termed the minority member, Is a Republl can and was a McElnley man. He Is one o the most prominent business men of Massa chusetts, and Is said to be a deep student o the financial question. While he Is classei as a supporter of bimetallism based on inter national agreement, he Is regarded as alllei with the gold-standard faction. He Is i graduate of Harvard, being a member of thi class of '53. It is a fact not generally known thai Gen eral Paine accompanied Senator Wolcott oi his European trip last fall and assisted hln in that work. It Is believed that he wen abroad with Senator Wolcott with the undei standing that he was to be made a membe of the Commission. CHARTER ELECTIONS IN NEW JERSEY The Democrats Make Gains in Severs Cities. Charter elections were held in all the oitle of New Jersey on xuesaay. aunougn cor siderable Interest was manifested, thevot generally was light, but there was littl scratching. In Jersey City, Edward Hoos, Democra' was elected Mayor over J. Herbert Potts, R< publican, by a majority of at least 2000. Tb Democrats also carried eight out of tb twelve wards for Aldermen, and elected the! -candidates for members of the Stroet an Water Board. > In Hoboken Mayor Fagan, Democrat, wa xe-elected by a large majority, and the Cour <11 will be, like the present one, strong! Democratic. Paterson, the home of Vice-Presidei Hobart, went Democratic. John Hinchliff* Democrat, was elected Mayor. Tn'WBTCRrk there was a close contest fc members of the Board of Street and Wat* Commissioners, Aldermen and 1 ho Board ( Education. Van Duyne and Burkhardt, R< publicans, for Street and Water Commissioi ers, won, while the Democrats electe enough Aldermen to Rive them control of tb Council. Trenton. Camden and Rahway went Ri publican, and Bayonne and Orange we: Democratic. TWO DIE ON THE CALLOWS. Marilertr Slackln and Genz Executed I Jersey City, X. J. For tne first time in the history ofJerse City, N. J., a double hanging occurred Tue day in the Hudson County Jail. Paul Genz, who killed hi3 mistress, Clar Arnim, and John Mackln, the murderer < his young wife and her mother, expiate their crimes on the L-allows. Mackin was tho first to be executed. I 10.05 the drop fell and at 10.36 tie was pr nounced deao. Genz was then led to the scaffold, null 11.02 he was jetkediuto eternity. He w; pronounced dead at 11.24. Miner* Near Starvation. Tho closing down of the mines in Plya outb, Tenn., nas caused much destitutic among tho miners and their families. May* Niohols, of Wilkosbarre, yislted the garbaj: dumps opposite Plymouth, and wassurprist to And scores of persons picking throu^ the garbage and runt>i3h ana eagerly seizir scraps of victuals, decayinsr vegetables, etc iu order to keep them from starving. A Centenarian Dead. Abram L. Sanrord, the oldest resident Syracuse, N. Y., Is dead. He was 100 yea 11 months and 8 days old. His son, ILJ Sanford, is a retired professor of Syr^H r I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED 1 WagbJnrton Item*. T Special advices received in Washington state that Spain hopes to end the rebellion 0 in Cuba hv a areneral amnesty decree similar S to one which has been signally effective In v the Philippine Islands. Notice has been ^ given to Spa n of the Cuban policy which the Administration will pursue. ? Representative Shannon, of New York. In trodueed in the House a bill to amend the Anti-Trust law so that it will not prevent railroad traffic agreements. Mr. Shannon's v bill is much less complex than Senator For- , ' aker's. j( ' In the House, Mr. Armond, of Missouri, J appeared as leader of the Demoorats and E Populists who are opposed to the policy of ii e Mr. Bailey. . rt ' The Spanish Minister has received a telecram from the commander of the Spanish forces at Manila announcing the end of the r rebellion in the Philippines. Under a promise of amnesty 22,000 men have laid ilnwn thfilpnrmaan'l hftro hfiftn rtttrdoned. The Japanese Minister in Washington received advices from home contradicting the a recent reports concerning the unfriendly attitude of his country toward Hawaii. [ The Senate, in executive session, coni, firmed, among others, the following nominations! A. E. Buck, ol Georeia, to be Minister - to Japan, and James Boyle, of Ohio, to br Consul at Liverpool. An agreement has been reached among the leaders of the various parties in the Senate under which the appropriation bills which S failed to become laws at the last session of ^ Congress will be taken up and passed. ^ The President has decided to recommend a to Congress an appropriation as indemnity for the killing by a mob of lynchers of three Italian citizen?Lorenzo SaiadlD, Decino Sorcoro and Antjelo Marcuso?at HahnvlUe, La., a suburb of New Orleans, on August 8 last. All were accused of murder. Doraeitlc. C. W. Spaldine, President of the defunct Globe Savings Bank in Chicago, confessed w 'bat he hypothecated the bonds of the Si Illinois University. He was ruined by hi? T pretty typewriter. h: Charles W. Dayton has resigned the office of Postmaster of New York City. 0( Health Board statistics submitted to % Mayor Strong show that New York City is in vj an excellent condition, the death rate being ^ lower than it has been for years. ft John Steel and James Charles, of Alle- tb ghanv City, PenD., wore asphyxiated in the tt pressure house of the Alleghany Heatintj M Company. Escaping gas caused their death, ei The Lone Mead Iron Company and the & V>OUSUUUOCKWU JLUUU Ul ^UUOIIW hocken. Penn., have cone Into the hands of '? receivers. The liabilities will amount to about $300,000. The assets will not be over J1 $150,000. ? The nomination by Representative Shat- . tuc, of Ohio, of D. J. Bundy, a colored boy of Cincinnati, to a cadetship at Annapolis, has aroused some protests. Mr. Shattuc de- ^ Clares he will stand by his nominee. Several thousand razor-back hosrs im- to ported into Iowa from Texas durine the ge past year, have died from what was sup- w posed to be hocr cholera. A past mortem ex- R< ? amination of some of them discloses that J instead of cholera, a worm killed the hoes. * It is claimed that the disease is incurable, " but it is not positively known that it is con- B 1 tasrious. I Five or six weeks apo a mad doR ran " throutrh the neighborhood about Gordon, Ga. The doe bit three children, and they de _ have dbd within a few days of hydrophobia. at They are Joseph Bloodworth, the seven year-old son of a man who lives at Ivey; a ten-year-old boy named Jack Gooden, of ft Stevens's Pottery, and a ten-year-old daugh- 63 ter of Widow Sarah Evanson of the same to place. All tnree were bitten on tne same lay. 01 The State Senate at Albany, 32 to 10, jjl repassed the Greater New York charter over v Mayor Strong's veto. ta Mr. Lalmbeer's bill for establishing a re- it. formatory or farm colony in New York for H ragrants and drunkards was defeated in the Assembly at Albany. The United States battleship Oregon grounded in Puget Sound wbile trying to snter her dook. I'c is not believed that she ig Sc jerlously injured. pt Joseph Adams, convicted of forgery and H sentenced to Sing 8ing, N. Y., confesses that ki be swindlod the Columbia Bank, of New CI fork City, of $580 by a worthless check, ye Alonzo J. Whiteman was recently tried and H: acquitted of this crime by proving an alibi. N< James Evers, of Brooklyn, sixteen years aid. who was run over Monday by a bicycle _ ,1.1 ? u .. t cii i m. i nuucu uy juiuw OUUUU, UIUU i urauay. 6houd Is under 83000 ball. j Lottie Frances Bates, aged seventeen, . ?hot herself through the heart at her home, {" . lit Lovell's Corners. Mass. All the evidence Indicated suicide. She was the eldest dausjh- ar j ter of Henry I. Bates, who is now serving m lime at Plymouth for an assault. P? e On the morning of March 28 Portsmouth, - Va.. was swept by four flres, destroying f 8150,000 worth of'propertv. Including the f Catholic church. On the trial of Frank Linn f and Edward Delman for burglary Linn's wife a i testified that ic. January Dolman, Linn and - Ellis Jobson met at her house, planned sev- a 1 1 eral robberies and concocted a conspiracy to Vf a hum a large part of the city to cover their fo e deeds. th Denutv State Game Protector William o^! * Harris was at Cayuga Lak??. N. Y., entraued a in taking a net out of the water, when he t was shot at from the shore. Seven shots in v all were fired at him by parties concealed in j the bushes near Pickerel Cove. Harris returned the Are with his revolver and ther made his escaDe without injury. , The House of Refuge on Randall's Island, jQ New York City, has Deen condemned by the Board of Heaith as unfit for the reception of ^ '1 inmates. ^ Governor Bloxbam issued a call for a Na(g tional Fisheries Congress, to assemble io {m Tampn. Fla . on January 19, 1898. The National Fishery Commission willtnke a prome inent part in t tie proceedings. The Govern- . ;e ors of the various States and the Fishery Commissioners are requested to appoint dele- m t, gates. y Thomas Dinnen, of Maquato, Iowa, was Ci e robbed by highwaymen on the Douglas fi ,e street bridge pcross the Missouri at Omaha, G ix Neb. He wis thrown over the railing. He ?b d was found on the edge of the river bank, and died a few hours later without regains ins consciousness. The body fell s venty t- feet. He was a well-known man in Iowa, y Admiral J org Montt, former President of W the Republic of Chile, paid a visit to West fe it Point Military Academy. He was met at 3. the depot i.y Colonel S. M. Mills, Com- p, inandant of Catets, and Adjutant Wilder. ^ >* At 5.30 a review of the corps of cadets was jy K given in his honor, after which he returned rc >' to N?-w York, apparently deligated with his > visit. j A shooting affray occurred at Jordan, Kv., ,a in which Edward Frazier was killed and his 16 brother John badly wounded by Dr. White, (t The trouble grew out of an insulting note. T 9* written to a Miss Faunt. housekeeper fcr Dr. i White, who has an invalid wife. ', ' a! For#!en Not#*. i? Gomez, the Cuban insurgent leader, refused to admit to his camp envoys sent by _ Captain-General Woyler to offer terms of ^ peace. E A terrible dynamite explosion has taken P place in a deep mine at Llanglarte, in the P Transvaal. Eight Engl'Sh and tweuty-sis native miners were Killed. Ten persons were killed fcr an explosion of firedamp in the Oberhausen pit at Essen tj. on-Ruhr, Germany. p Trustworthy reportsconflrm the statement? n it that the Greek irregulars have captured Bal G is tino. in Macedonia. The Turks lost forty men p killed. ii Premier Delyannis asked the Grecian Boulo ! for a war credit of 23,000,001) drachmae. He i a. hoped, he said, that peao would continue, but Greece must be prepared for war, if it )D came. ' h The prestige of the concert of the European Powers is said to be declining. S Reports of insurgent defeats in Cuba cou- * tlnue to be made. Smallpox ha9 broken out in the island, and has claimed 150 victims in *' one town. J1 The English press opposes vigorously the a reopening of the Beriug 8ea seal question, t i and It is doubtful if Great Britain will agree ??it. B 13 Henry Whit**, American Charge d'Affaires r ^o^flBMMugauested the British Foreign ? for indisMw^QMuHgln^H^^eseals. DANIEL W. VOORHEES DEAD. lie Former Senator From Indian* Soe? cumbg to Angina Pectoris* Daniel Woolsey Voorhees, formerly United tates from Indiana, died in his home at raahlnffton of angln.i pectoris. Mr. Voorees had been in poor health for several ears, and daring the last two years of his i? * 1? wKJrth on^aH nn Mawh :riLl IU IUC ocumo, nuiuu VM , he had taken little part in tbe proceedigs in the Senate. Mr. Yoorhees had been a instant sufferer from rheumatism of the eart. His death wa3 directly due to an ttack of angina pectoris. The Senator saves three sons, Charles, Reose N. and ames Paxton, and one daughter, Miss [allie, all of whom except the first reside SWashington. It was decided to inter the ains at Terre Haute, Ind. T- / the i>ate daniel w. v00uhee8. Daniel Woolsey Voorhees In appearand as one of the most striking figures In th< snate. He was familiarly known as "The all Sycamore of the Wabash," by reason ot is large and magnificently proportioned gure. As an orator he had few peers, and jmmanded a magnificent vocabulary. He as born in Butler County, Ohio, Septembei >, 1827, and wa3 only two montns old whet Is parents moved to Fountain County, Inlana. His paternal ancestors came om Holland, and were among le earliest settlers of Now Jersey, te original name being Van Voorheea t. Voorhee3's boyhood was spent on his pap its' farm and in 1845 he entered college, the abury University, in Greencastle, where 3 graduated in 1849. Immediately after aving college he went into the law office ! Lane & Wilson, in Crawfordsville. Mr. oorhees was appointed to the United ates Senate In 1877 as a Democrat to fill ie vacancy caused by the death of OlUer P. orton. He was subsequently elected by ie Legislature for the full term ensuing, and as re-elected in 1885 and 1891. The capture ! the Indiana Legislature by the Republics in 1896 prevented Mr.Voorhees's re-eleci the Senate to a fourth term. His public rvice terminated on Marchjl last, when he as succeeded Dy unaries w. rairoanKf, a spublioao. DEATH CHAIR OUT OF ORDER. reakdovrn of the Dynamo In a Final Test Preparatory to Killing Haaa. William Haas was to have been pat to >alh soon after midnight in the penitentiary Columbu3, Ohio, for the murder of Nxs. illlam Brader at Oourdale on July 3 lost, was to have been Ohio's first electrical cecution. All preparations had been me<de r the execution, and Haas expected to die. While making a final test of the apparatus le of the armature colls was burned out, though the voltage was not nearly so high i in former tests. The prisoners who had large of the dynamo room are suspeoted of mpering with the maohine, but they deny Governor Bnsbnell decided to reprieve aas until April 2L Death in a Train Wreck. A northbound Florida special on the mthern Railway and a local southbound issencer train came together In collision at arrlsburg, N. C., awi three persons were lied and six Injured. The killed are T. intfman Benton, of Charlotte, thirty-flve iars old, postal clerk; Titus Eudy, of Forest 111, Cjoucord; Will Donaldson, fireman on >. 36. Flood Ontlook Hopeful. Nearly 16,000 square miles of land In the Isslsslppl Valley, with 880,000 population, ive been flooded. The flood waters have >gun to recede from the Mississippi Delta, id the outlook In the Memphis district Is ore hopelul; a statement has been preired by the Weather Bureau regarding the fects the floods on agriculture. Tornado in the South. Telegrams from Ozark, Ala., and Valdosta, sl , show that that section was visited by Gulf tornado, ascending the Apalachlcola illey and sweeping northward with terrific rce to the confluence of Chattahoochee and e Flint rivers, where It divided. Trees are uprooted and houses blown to pieces, iveral lives were l03t. Greeks Cross the Line. A. body of 1500 or more irregular Greek >ops crossed the Turkish frontier at Krania d engaged the Sultan's forces. The flgbtg lasted all day, but as the invaders were a forest the results were not ascertained, le entire Turkish army is ready to mov??o e front, and it was believed that war vras cely to become general. Japan aod Hawaii. The Government of Hawaii has prohibited e landing in Hawaii of 400 Japanese im grants and the Hawaiian Court has con> med the action of the Government. The nited States has dispatched the cruiser liladelphia tt> Hawaii and the Japanese overnment also has decided to send a war tip thither. Surrender of Philippine Rebels. Senor De Lome, the Spanish Minister at asbington, received advices that 10,803 ibels in the Philippine Islands have surrenjred. Aside from a few marauders In the rovtnce of Neuva Reija the remainder ol Le islands are quiet. This surrender the iinister regards as practically settling the ibolllon Peru Stops Sliver Coinage. The Peruvian Government has suspended le coinage of silver at the Government mint, he Government has also issued a prohlbion against the importation o? silver coins fter May 10. Durant's Death Sentence. More than two years after his murder of lanche Lamont and Minnie Williams In manuel Baptist Church, San Francisco, ttl., Theodore Durant was sentenced to be anged on June 11. His counsel had exausted every~e?fort to secure delay. Gerwanv Stand* Alone. Germany is the only one of tho Europoan owers that is giving Turkey any encourage* lent in assuming a warlike attitude against rreece, even Russia and Austria being cllsosedtoslde with the other Powers iueasig'Greece's position. Prominent People. Lieutenant Peary says that with ?15),000 e can tlnd the north pole. President McKinley has already distinuished himself by shaking the hands of 395 callers at the White House in thirty-one linutes. Admiral Canavara, who commands the oint fleets at the blockade of Crete, is a naive of Peru. His pareuts were Italians nd his father is a merchant in the city of lima. The London Time3 delegated Rudyard [ipling to act as Its special commissioner in !rete. While on this assignment Reporter ;ipling will draw a salary of $5000 per lonth. FMTI1 THE FLOODS. Fears That the Waters May Not Rer:ii i.. LCUO I III JUIICi ARMED MEN ON THE LEVEES' Louisiana Makes a Plucky Fight, and no Far She lias Succeeded In Escaping Without a Crevasse, But In Jinny I'lacos Grave Fears Are Entertained*?Tragc* dies Caused by the High Water. New Obleahs, La. (Special).?Louisiana's struggle against the floods Is probably unparalleled in any section. The Bavou Le Fourche line was given up two weeks asro, but the planters are still holding it. Ttie engineers declare that nothing short of a miracle could hold the Tensas line, but work has never ceased for an instant. This is but a sample of the work goinp: on all along the river In this State. The city wharves are found too low for the risinu river, which is covering many of them. There is no danger here, for barricades can easily be built and managed, but it will result in the old !evee3 being abandoned and new and higher wharves bein? contracted within the next year. Word came that Rovenwood, on the Atchafalaya River, was about to go. The planters at onre organized and declared th*t the flood should not conquer, no.matter what It cost. The Texas and Pacific road runs alongside of the levee there, and General Manager Thorne communicated with the defendnrs hv telacrn.nh. A loader was slnnf-pri forces thoroughly organized,a sawmill in the vicinity set to work, and soon 500 men wore engaged in the work of protection. Four men in a skiff tried to cut the levee at Davis, on the opposite side of the river, eighteen miles above the city, where the srreat crevasse of 1381 occurred. Armed men pursued them in a boat, but the miscreants escaped. Now twenty-flve ' armed men patrol that levee each night, and tampering with the bank will mean death. The waters of Mississippi are being hurled dulfward with tremendous force, and sevaral thousand men are working night and day in the effort to hold the embankments Intact. Reports from the overflowed Mississippi Delta are not encouraging. Many planter^ express the fear that the flooiwill aot recede until June?too late Jo plant this year's crop. Much suffering still prevails in the Sunflower and Bogue Phalla country, wircrw uuuuruiw 01 coiorou pcuuio jiavu iiw jerted their cabins and are .huddled on the high ground. At Memphis, Tenn., the river is stationary. The river is falling at Cairo, III., but as the rainfall throughout the territory draining Into the Mississippi at Memphis and above lias beisn heavy, the local observer predicts ihat there will probably be a slight rise. A BULL DROWNED SEVEN. Illcked In the Side of a Flat Boat Containing Flood Refugees. Helena, Ark. (Special).? Ail accident ten miles west of this city resulted In tho drowning of a family of seven colored people. Sylv aster Sanders, a tenant on the Joel Higglns farm, where the current has been (0 swift a3to threaten the destruction of tho houses, left with his family, wife and Ave children, for high ground. Unfortunately, he took into his fiat boat a large bull which ne vaiuea nigniy. When near the Oallcott place and within a mile> of the hills, the bull, which was almost famished, attempted to eat the small limbs of the willow trees through which the boat was being laboriously pushed. The animal's action tipped the boat and frightened the inmates, who-made frantlo efTorts to right it. In the excitement the animal kicked the side of the boat to pieces and the entire family was drowned. Federal Reservation Flooded. Kansas Cirr, Mo. (Special}.? Famllles'at Harlem, Armourdale and on Lewis Island, nearttoe mouth of the Kansas River, have moved oat. A warning has bsen sent to the big pac king houses along the tanks to protect their Droperty. A large part of the Fort Leavenworth reservation on the Missouri side is under water, and the Federal prison farm on the Kansas side is covered with lakes. Knormous Losses in Nebraska. Omaha, Neb. (Special).?From all along the river north and south of Omaha coYne reports of flooded bottoms and of squatters Boeing in th* night from the angry waters. The property damage is enormous. The damage is to the houses of the people in eaht or north Omaha. Most of them are completely submerged. f incDUu iviunuc.no i nntti Family In Kliode Island Killed Whllp Asleep. Murder and arson are indiciited In a tragedy by whloh a family of thrao persons lost their lives in the little farming village of Oakland, R. I. The bodies ot Edward Reynolds, fifty years old, and his daughter, Servilla, twenty years old, were found in the ruins of the Reynolds. hom j, and Martin Mowry, a farmhand employed by Reynolds, is under arrest on suspicion. The mutilated body of Mrs. Reynolds was taken from a blood-stained bed, where neighbors found it while the house was burning. When the neighbors who had been aroused by the fire went to the Reynolds house they found that the flames were confined to one part of the house. This had been saturated with kerosene, and the flames spread rapidly. The neighbors attempted to reach that part of the house where the Reynolds family slept, but were driven back by the flames, and had time only to take Mrs. Reynolds's body out of doora. The appearance of Mrs. Reynolds'? body indicated murder. The head had been crushed in by a n ax and the upper part of the body was mutilated.. Martin Mowry, who worked for Reynolds, slept in another part of the nouse, and the villagers had goue to his room to alarm him. The room was empty. Mowry was found in a neighbor's barn chatting and laughing like a maniac. He was at once arresceu. From the position of the bodies It is believed that Reynolds wag called to his daughter's room by somn unusual sound, and that when he reached the side of h<)r bed he received his death blow. At that time Miss Reynolds probably was killed; how the autopsy will disclose. The murderer then wont to Mrs. Reynolds's room, and, after stabbing her twice in the face, battered her head in. When Mo wry left the house he went at first to the woods, where he shot himself in the head. The bullet only stunned him, however. Mowryis sixty-five years old. ANCELL GOES TO TURKEY. McKlnley Names Michigan University** President for Tills Mission,. The President sent the tollowing nomination to the Senate: James B. Angell, ofMichigon, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister P.onipotentlary of the United States to Turkey. President Angell is n native of Rhode Island, in whicn State ho was born In 1820, but he aas resided In Michigan for the pasi twenty years or more, and Is now at the head of the University of Michigan. In 1880 Mr. Angell was appointed Minister tc China, serving until 1881. Cycling Notes. St. Louis taxes bicycles. Mrs. Langtry is the possessor of a soliO silver bicycle. Riding a high-grade bicycle is no guarantee o.s to the rider. Prince George of Greece is an expert bicyclist and it if. suld rides a bicycle almost as well as he handles a man-of-war. A practical cyclist maintains chat a highgrade machine will last for five year3 without giving any trouble, if properly taken care of. 4iIf you are feoling depressed take an hour's spin on your wheel, 'says a cycling physician. ''You will not return home in the same condition." WILL REPRESENT MRS. M'KINLEY. Important Social Datlei at the TFhlte Hnaw Devolve on Mn. Saltan. Sire. Maria 8axton, on whom, it is be lieved will devolve the ohlef social duties of tho White House In the MoKinley regime, Is the aunt of the President's wife. Mrs. McKlnley, owlni? to her delicate health, will not be able to attend to all of the obligations that fall to the lot of tho mistress of the Executive Mansion. Mrs. Saxton will reside with the McKlnleys at the White House and will In IwflpP MBS. MABIA 8AXT0JT. (An aunt ot the President's wife who will look after details of the household.) all probability not only take the head of the line in state affairs, but will also find It necessary to look after the details of the household?a task which Mrs. McKinley will hardly be able to perform. Mrs. Saxton is an accomplished woman, used to the ways of society, and may be confidently relied upon by her niece to play the part ?f hostess with all the correctness the eminent position demands. E. S. DEAN COMPANY A FRAUD. A Myaterloaa New York Concern Is Now in Trouble. The offices in New York Oity of the E. S. Dean Company, dealers in stocks, bonds, grain and provisions, are in charge of deputy sheriffs on an attachment. The concern has Anna on anrtrmmia hiifrinAqq far flniDA tfmA past, the customers being almost entirely outside of New York. It has made a specialty of "discretionary orders," that Is, tne customers sent in their money for the company tb play in the market as It saw fit for their account The company's mail is said to have been tremendous, letters containing from $10,000 to 820,000 being received each day. A large number of girls were constantly employed sending circulars through the mail, pointing out the large profit that could be made through this manner of dealing. Months ago a fraud order was issued against Dean <k Co. Theconoern advertised extensively in the newspapers, in which the claim was made that they possessed inside information on the proposed movement of stock?and inviting investors and speculators to forward money for investment in pools that were being formed to take advantage of the rise or fall in the price of shares. The offices of E. S. Dean <k Co. have been UUSICgm* CJVOt aiUV/D vuo V,ULU^UU; a wa^/^utv by anxious investors. Some o( them came from New Jersey and far up New York State, hoping to get back some of their money. The deputy sheriff in charge of the office gave them no encouragement It is said that 25,000 investors all over the United States have lost $5,010,000. FOUR LIVES AND $1,200,000 LOST. Firs Destroys the Handsomeit Basln?ss Block la Kaozvllle. Tenn. Fire destroyed the handsome business block between Union and Reservoir streets, on Gay street, Knoxville, Tenn., causing a loss of 81,200,000. The register of the Hotel Kcox, In which flfty-sixpeople were sleeping, was burned. A. E. Weeks, of Locke, N. Y., agent for a Rochester stamping companv, is known to have perished. R. W. Hopkins, a St Louis commercial traveler, was last seen In the bnrnlng building. Edward Robinson, of Pulaski, Tenn., Is also missing. Several ??Inlitporl In Inmnlnu frnm thfi pci^uuo noio w hotel. The flro was discovered at 4 o'clock a. m. in the wholesale grocery store of the Mc. Nulty Grocery Company, adjoining the Hotel Knox. A general alarm was turned In, but the efforts of all the local fire companies, aided by several from Chattanooga, could not save the block. It bz^ame necessary to have the walls of one building blown down by cannon to cbeck the spread of the fire. A mountain howitZHr of the Knoxville Legion was called into play and o load of canister did the work, at the same time tearing up some residences in a different portion of the city. 8. E. Williams, a capitalist, of Springfield, Mass., a guest at the Hotel Knox, has not been seen sinoethe fire. His relatives have -".I. ?T fi 06011 QOUUDU Ul Ilia p;uunuiv UQHIUI v v. M. Bogle, of Memphis, was badly burned. WILLIAM J. BRYAN INJURED. Fell With 400 Persons and Was Picked Up Cnconsclons. William J. Bryan addressed a crowd of nearly three thousand persons from tho piazza of the Hotel San Marco, at St. Augustine, Fla. At the close of his speech citizens flocked about him in a great mass, and so terrible was the strain that a section of the piazza, forty feet square, fell in, throwing four hundred persons to the ground, fully twenty feet below. Mr. Bryan was picked up unconscious and carried to a nearby offloe, where medical aid was Riven. Aside from a badly cut faoe and some bruises he is not seriously nun. a score or more persons received cuts, bruises or sprains, but no one was seriously hurt. Vetoed by Mayor Strong. Mayor Strong, of New York City, made public his message to the Legislature refusing to approve the Greater Now York bill and asking to have the charter amended. He declared himself in favor of a single Police Commissioner, with a separate Board of Elections, and the right of the Mayor to remove heads of departments at will during his whole term of office. With his message he sunt amendments which had been drawn up to meet his views, and he deolared that if those amendments were adopted he would sign the amended bill. A College's 8540,000 IVIIsfltng. Endowment bonds to the value of $400,000 belonging to the University of Illinois are missing. They were intrusted to C. \V. Spalding, President of the Globe Savings Bank, of Chicago, which closed a few days ago. Mr. Spalding was Treasurer of the university, and held over 9140,000 In cash and $400,000 in endowment bonds. President F. M. McKay, of the Board of Trustees, admitted that the Board is absolutely in the dark so far as the '3400,000 endowment bonds are concerned. Of this amount $2')0,00J worth of bonds are said to be negotiable, while the romaider are stamped in such n manner as to make It next to Impossible to hypothecate them. The Labor World. There are 10,000 union seamen. Boston has only one union band. America has 3,000,000 working women. Memphis, Tenn., has a colored carpentei union. The Louisville Board of Trade is opposed to convict labor. The St. Louis union sent $1150 to Chicago's striking cigarmukers. Some Indianapolis (Ind.) molders have been on a strike two years. The Colorado Legislature passed a bill re quiring horseshoers to be licensed. The Washington Legislature has passed a bill providing for a State Labor Bureau. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANAD* The Duke of Leedd Will Sncceed Lort! Aberdeen at Ottawa. The Duke of Leeds, who will succeed Lord | Aberdeen in June as Governor-General of lal Canada, assumed the title and the estate of m' the family about a year ago oil the death o* ^ his father, tho ninth Duke. The present Duke's name i3 George Godolphin Osborn, ti and is a second son. His elder brother died in 1861. The future Governor-General is only thirty-four years old, but has already won a prominent name for himself in politica He has been In Parliament, where he sat for Lambeth. He was formerly honored with post of Treasurer of the Household, which B1< he t?ave up, according to custom, when he retired from Parliament. Iu 1884 he married w DUKE OF LEEDS. (He Is to succeed Lord Aberdeen In Canada Lady Katherine Francis Lambeth, a dauqh- fa< ter of the second Earl of Durham, and they have four pretty little gir:s. The Duke, fri when he was fn Parliament as the Marquis sa of Carmarthen, was the youngest member in ba the Commons, and the youngest looking un- wl til he grew a beard. The Duke is a popular tr? member of the House of Lords, and his ele- th vation to the distinguished position of Gov- wl ernor-General of Canada is not much of a or surprise to those who know the inside work- t m< ings of the Government, ' gr liv dr A WET SPRINC. m? dli Crops. Have Been Seriously Delayed by br Rain*. Ce 8e The Weather Bureau, Washington, has re- wj sumed publication of Its weather crop bull?- all tins. In a review of orop conditions during wl the month of March It says: "Farming opera- ^ tions have been retarded by wet weather in thi the States of the central valleys, and the season is somewhat backward generally. Some 3t? corn has been planted as far north a? Ten- oa nessee and the southern portions of Missouri , and Kansas. Farther south greater progress pu has been made, planting In Texas and north- og ern Louisiana being about completed, and n0 in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas the early al< planted crop is up. an "Cotton planting in Texas has progressed favorably, and some has been planted in tui South Carolina, but In other States of the wi cotton belt practically no planting had been an done up to the close of the month. In Ala- ^ bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma preparations for seeding are in progress. "Winter wheat is reported winter-killed to some extent in Missouri. Iowa. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, and while the crop has sustained injury in Ohio, the outlook in that in State is reported a3 not discouraging. The ye early sown in Kansas is excellent, and in tw Oklahoma, Arkansas an 1 Texas the crop is tw reported as promising. In Michigan and In- th diana the orop has been damaged by floods. ? Spring wheat is doing well In Kansas, and & preparations for increased acreage are in dr progress in Iowa. In the Dakota3 and Min- w< nesota preparations for seeding have not yet At begun. wl to BANK LOOTED AT'MIDDAY. en ac It Was at Yunkero, N. Y? and a Very ^ Clever Piece of Work. m. The Tonkers Savings Bank, one of the on oldest Institutions in the city of Yonkers, N. Y., was entered at noon Monday by rob- ne bers, one of whom held up the aged cashier w< with a revolver, and, after taking 14420.45 out of the cash drawer, succeeded in making his escape. The bank is situated in the busiest part of ^ the city, only two blocks from Police Head- be quarters. The theft was one of the coolest jja and most daring that have ever been at- jja tempted in the vicinity of New York. m. Cashier Cobb, aged seventy-five, was alone tjj In the bank at noon. A well-dressei man ag entered, attracted his attention by talk about ^ business, and gradually drew him away from ^ his desk and out of sight of the door. A man slipped in and took the contents of v|, the cashier's drawer, $4400. When Mr. Cobb pe got back to his desk this man covered him ?a with a revolver, concealed his leatures be- an hind the bills he had stolen, backed out and W( got away before the gentle Mr. Cobb had re- re covered his wits. There is no trace of the ne robbers and no clue to their Identity. R0 ci< CREEKS TAKE KRANIA. PJ Tories Lose an Important Strategic Point in (je Slncedonla. f0, The Greek insurgents have captured so< Kranla, an important strategic point about fifteen miles northwest of Elassona, the general headquarters of the Turkish army. They j pursued the defeated Turks to Cipria, only a , two hours' travel from Grevena. 30l The victory followed the occupying of mJ Baltino, a frontier town of Macedonia, west fcri of Elassona, to prevent the Turkish troops on u.1wannlno> \ n fhflf (HpflfitlOn. < The Turkish garrison at Baitino, numbering 800. was surrounded and besieged. The ( Turks finally succeeded on the fourth attempt in cutting their way through the insurgent lines, losing thirty men in the dash. yo The flphting was stubborn trj Havoc Wrought by Floods, 7? by A conservative estimate of the havoc W| wrought by the Mississippi floods places the Is loss of life at 200, the number of thosa made De homeless at 150,000, and the damage to property at more than 3100,000,000. res Snnwslide Kills Three Miners. Qr A snowsllde occurre 1 at the Corinth Mine, y? In the Slocan, British Columbia, killing three men and carrying away the head of the aeria ou tramway recently erected th?re. by Eagles in Connecticut. It costs a 925 fine to kill an easrle in the , State of Connecticut, and oagles, according- jnJ ly. seemed to have move 1 oa Connecticut as Rc a safe camping ground. The Legislature is loi now being exhorted Oy the farmers to put a cli bouncy on the killer of eagles icsread of ila- to< lug the killer. to ? ^ yo Dlinor Mention. oy | There are 2,000,000 dogs on the Britlsn cu j isles. The great plague of India is decreasing in wii j violencp. . ful I Georgia has adopted a new State flag. ^ 1 There are 691 posts in the Germany conj sular service. Turkey wants to borrow $1,0)0,030 to invest in cannon. wo California oranges arc bringing $1 apiece nt Circle City, Alaska. ^ Mr. Duncan, a white trader, was killed , and eaten by natives of the New Hebrides. ,g Upward of fifty miles of railway lines are ' laid in Krupp's factory, at Essen, Germany, It is said in New England that B:?th, Me., , has more smokers than auy other to?vn of similar size in that country. P The measure providing for a tax for a free J library building in St. Louis. Mo., received jj}| 17,000 less than the necessary two-thirds vote 111 In the late election. sta ^ m flBH ILMfEKAJSlE. M THE DBCKIABD'8 LAMENT. [The following poem was written by the^HEj te Richard Lyle, "one of the brightest tmbem of the New Orleans Bar," and it to M trt Ka fhn nnthaHn rtf hla nrwrn v* tvr wo wuv |/u?uviiv uiv;ij vt vnu Ined life.] lavo been to the funeral of all my hope? And entombed them one by one. V Not a word was said, ^ Not a tear was shed, 1 When the mournful task was done. 3'i jwly and sadly I turned me round And sought my silent room. And there alone, By my cold hearthstone, ^ I wooed the midnight gloom. |fl id, as the night wind's deepening shade Lowered above my brow, V I wept o'er the days J When manhood's rays V Were brighter far than now. 1 le dying embers of the hearth T via<o uui lucir ultKctiujj ii&m, } As if to say. This is the way Thy life shall close in night. 7ept aloud, in anguish sore, 1 O'er the blight of prospects fair, While demons laughed And eagerly quaffed S My tears like nectar rare, rough hell's red hall an echo rang, I An echo loud and lonar, \ vAs in the bowl V ^ 'I plunged my soul In the night of madness strong. l id there, within that sparkling glass, I knew the cause to lie; This all men own From zone to zcrne. Yet millions drink and die. ' . /eg THE D2IKKIN0 PBOBLEM. [n a recent address, after referring to the st that there are people who will drink to cess in spite of every effort made by thetf j ends to restrain them, Dr. T. D. Crothers ' J id that heredity, occupation, mentality,\ ' .bits, training, education, etc., are factors J lich are all considered in the study and^?| jatment of an individual who is a victim of 1 e drinking habit. In 100 drinking men ' 10 drink to excess, fifty-two have moderate excessive drinkinsr parents and twenty nre have a distinct history of drinking ^ and parents. From sixty-five to seventy- : e per cent, have, therefore, a history of ] inking ancestry. Then there are fifteen ore who acqnire the drinking habit from jease or injur}'. Then there is a class of ain workers or those whose brains have reived a great shook through grief or injury, ven or eight out of a hundred are men -> lose environment Is such that theynatury take to drink. The boy or young man 10 goes to drink voluntarily Is probably ' >ak and irresolute. There Is a uniformity out the habits of drinking men which shows . at the habit is a disease. One hundred men 10 are drinking men will teach similar ipes at the same time, ami the results In ch case will be practically the same. Alcohol is not a stimulant It is a narcotio, re and si do pie. The new studV of psycholy in Germany and Encland, by actual exriments upon temperate men, shows that sohol diminishes the brain action, sight d hearing,affects muscular action,quickens i heart's action and reduces the tempera* re. It also affects the memory; all of ilch have been approved by experiments A ah/tTV fVinf a1/*nnn1 4a a nam11r.Ar a rcotic. STRONG SB IKE AND HEBEDITY. Fbe hereditary consequences of strong Ink are sometimes appalling. A specialist children's diseases, who has for twelve are been carefully noting the difference beeen twelve families of hard drinkers and eive families of temperate ones, reports at he foand the twelve hard drinking famia produced in those years fifty-seven chllen, and the temperates sixty-one. Of the inkers twenty-five children died in the first >ek of life, as against Biz on the other side. nong the children of the drinkers were five A io were Idiots; five so stunted in growth as j be really dwarfs; five when older became 1 illeptics; one, a boy, had grave ohorea, J ding In idiocy: five more were diseased id deformed, and two of the epileptics be me by Inheritance drinkers. Ten only ol 5 e flfty-sevQU were normal In body and Ind. On the part of the temperatee, two Jyshowed Inherited nervous affects; Are ed In the first week of weakness; while ur In later years of childhood had ourable irvous diseases, and fifty were In every . ly sound in body and mind. LATEST FOBM OP DBUNKZNNES8. The very latest sort of drunkenness, says e Chicago Journal, is that which, it has en discovered, comes from the constant inilatlon of smelling-salts. So great a hold is the smelling-salts habit gained upon the ad era woman tUat when she is deprived of nm she experiences ail the cravings that diet the person who dearly loves liquor ?' id finds himself deprived of it Some of( ? > e salts are of excessive strength and proice a sort of stupor most gratifying to the Btim. More than one woman has been suscted of drinking when really her inebriety is resulted from a too liberal use of the lelling-bottle. Not long ago a titled lady is carried from the cloak-room at a grand ception in London in a state of helplessss. A bottle was found in th? folds of her wn containing matter of a strength suffljnt to take away the breath of an ordinary rson. The rumor spread with wonderful ecislon that my lady was a confirmed' unkard, the smelling-salts theory being rided by the majority, and the victim and it necessary to withdraw from the sial circle she had Ions? graced. THE ALCOHOL HABIT. rhe following story is from the New Cru3e: A lady who was a guest in the home of physician and somewhat troubled with inmnia, asked him to give her something to ike her sleep. As he handed her a dose of omidia, he said, ' ! am sorry to start you fhn hrnmtflla. hnhit." "But, doctor," she exclaimed, "one dose bromidiadoes not constitute a habit." "No." he replied, "but one dose consti-? tea the beginning of a haijit You will qp well to-night, and to-morrow night, if u do not sleep well, you will remember effects of the bromidiaau I will probably 4 r another dose, and so on until you And urself unable to sleep without ii, and then . and by unable to sleep with it. So you ! 11 be a victim of tbe bromidia habit, and it J absolutely certain that if tbe first dose is ' ver taken the habit will never bo formed." TEETOTAL PB03PEHITT. 3ome interesting facts have been published ipecting the teetotal colliery village of Roe een, in Lancashire, England. Twenty-live are ago the houses of the village belonged nost exclusively to the Brldgewater trus?s. who employ most of the men. To-day, t of 140 houses, eighty-one are inhabited their owners. AT THE QUEEN'S TABLE. Some years ;ico a British peer, when dln; with the Queen, was challenged by a iyal Duchess to take wino with her. His dship politely thanked her grace, but den^d the compliment, stating that he never >k wine. The Duchess immediately turned the Queen and jocularly suid: "Please, ur Majesty, here is Lord , who declines take wine at your Majesty's table." Every a was turned to tho Queen, and not a little riosity was evinced as to tho manner in tich the total abstainer would bo dealt th by royalty. Wkh a smiling and gracoexpression Her Majesty replied: "There no compulsion at my table." TE3IPEEANCE NEWS AND NOTES. jag of whisky costs more than a jag of od. V.n old coat is usually found upon an old inker. Hake it right to sell whisky, and nothing e can be wrong. >Vhen men begin hard drinking, they gen- A illy stop deep thinking. __JB bill to orevont the sale of liquor on credit ssed the Montana Legislature, it i3 a mistake to suppose that you ore ing yourself with happiness when you are ing yourself with whisky. You are simply tering into partnership with the devil to >rt a sna> e ranch. ....