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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
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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
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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
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A WET SPRINC. m?
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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
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BANK LOOTED AT'MIDDAY. en
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Dlinor Mention.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ....