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BANK MURDER AT N001 Cashier J. A. Stickney, of Somen worth, N. H., Killed by a Robber. THE CRIME CAREFULLY PLAN NEl The Victim Was Alone In the Grent Fal National Bank at tlie Noon HourWhen Found He Was Dead, With H Throat Cat-?He Had Keen Beaten 1 nis Assailant?Robbers Secured 84501 3omerswobth, N. H. (Special).?While n dsting the entry of two determined robber <ad during a heroic st ruckle to protei $150,000 in money and securities whic were in the compartments of the open vau of the Great Fails National Bank, of Somer worth, Friday afternoon, Joseph A. Sticl aery, the cashier, was brutally murdered b side the desk which he had occupied f< many years. After murdering Mr. Stickne the robbers ransacked the vault at will, r ass being near, and flel with all the cash : contained, about $4500. The murderers carried off their booty i Join Trianr nf Qorfirai Trftll-lrnoTCTi rnqirli?n * - - * ?? **? of the place. They loTt the bag contalnir Ibe money, the greater part of which was i jrold. in the orchard of Dr. John Hayes, coi ?ra! with a coat. Several persons looke over the fence and saw the coat which ha rbe wealth under it. but were afraid to touc it. They suspected robbery, but not mui dor. The murderers returned to the orchai fence one hour afterward with a teaoj an took the money away unmolested. The earned it several hundred yards to the plac where a horse was hitched in plain view < Arthur Stackpole, a teamster, who was st:in< ing in bis barn door only a few rods away. It Is generally believed here that whoev< ommitted the murder knew the cashier, an that they killed him for fear of being ident fled. Several persons who saw the men wit the bag say they were strangers, and one < tbem looked like an Italian. One of the most remarkable features < the robbery is the fact that 8100,000 i United States bonds which were Kept in on ?I tne drawers oi me ui^; vuuh, auu tvmu the robbers evidently examined hastily, wei not taken. Neither were any of the ceg< tiable paper and securities of the bank. N ?oe was aware of the crime until about o'clock p. m., nearly an hour after the mui ierous work was done. The bank was besieged by hundreds whe the fact became generally known, and gret aumbers of persons came into the city frot Berwick, Dover, Salmon Falls, Rollinsforc Rochester and other towns in this sectioi For the first few hours indignation was ir tense. but DUblic feeling ha3 in u measui subsided. "In addition to being cashier an director of the Great Falls Bank Mr. Sticl aey was City Treasurer. It has been the custom for 3Ir. Stlckne unci trie DanK cierK, .airs. 1'arK.or nwazny, i elose the baak at twelve o'clock every da and go to luncheon, re-opening again at tw ?'dock. On the day of the robbery whe . His. Swazey left her desk the cashier wa looking over the bank's accounts. He usuall emained in the baak until the clerk rc turned, but it is thought he was pro oaring t go out when th? robbers entered, 'the ban 1b situated in the business portion of tb city, and dozens of persons pass at that tim of day. The first suspicion that the bank had bee robbed was aroused at two o'clock, whe Frank P. Reed, a merchant, started into th bank and found that the thick plate glass t the front outside had been shattered. Wltl oat waiting to investigate he notified Cit Marshal Eaton, and together they broke i Hie uuur. lucv IUUUU cviuouura ui aucnpcj te struggle. On the floor was the body c BMckney. His head had been nearly severe from his body and was marked with seven deep gashes made with a blackjack, and tb skull was fractured. The first clew that the police found was ot tained from persons who saw the two me drive away with the stolen money, and froi "West Rochester u report comes that a dar orrel horse, attached to a buggy, passe thore, headed for Salmon Palls River, whio forms the Maine State boundary. This oul lit has mysteriously disappeared. Physicians who hav? examined Mr. Stick aey's body say that it is apparent the victir vbs pounded to death. Another fac brought ou'., too, is that the weapon used t cat his throat was a medium-size knife, th Made of which was very dull and left a deej Irregular wound. Mr. Stickneywas wealthy, and was we knmrn in Vmr Rnclnrid hnntinp circles. R lad been cashier of the Great Falls Nations Bank 'or a long term of years, and had bee with the bank a much longer period. The affair recalls an attempt to rob tb Bme bank five years asjo. Mr. Sticknoy wfl then gagged an l bound. The vault wa locked, however, and the men got nothin lor their pains. DUAL MURDER IN A CARRIAGE. ????? A Mysterious Criino I'erpetrated at Sacfc ett's Harbor, X. Y. The village of Sackett's Harbor. N. Y., wc the scene early Friday morning of one of th Woodiest tragedies known in the history c aorthern New York. Mrs. Wilbur Crouch, a woman who ha separated irom her husband, and Hiss Mar: Bailey were shot and almost instantly kille while riding in a carriage with James Allen asoidier of the Ninth United States Infantr] Allen received five bullets in his bod: Wilbur Crouch, divorced husband of Mrs Crouch, is under arrest for the murder. Mrs. Crouch and Mary Dai ley were em ployed as servants in the officers' quarter at Aladison Uarraeks, where the Ninth lu lantry is stationed. SPANISH TO LEAVE CUBA. 10,000 Troops to be Sent Home Soon an 30,000 More Later. Spain will begin to withdraw from Cut at least a part of the great army she ha maintained there, according to trustwortb information, when the rainy season sets in fear days from now. The initial movement willbetfcm departui ?f 10,00u Spanish troops from Huvana fc Spain, and a short time after that 30,OC troops, it is understood, will follow. Whether this movement 13 to be construe in favor of or against the insurgents is i dispute. (/,., Crisis In Transvaal Affairs. A crisis has been reached in Transvaal a iairs. An American representative of tl Rothschilds, who claims to be in a positic to know, s iys that war has been decided c by England. Seven British warships hai iTived at Durban, Natal. A Tariff Vote in the Senate. A tariff vote in the Senate at Washlngtc ahowed the Republican strength to be ' against 23 on a motion to refer Mr. Vesl resolution declaring illegal Secretary Gagt rvcent order to customs officers in accor ance with the retroactive clause of the Din lty bili. Mr. Mantle vote 1 with the Repub tans, and Mr. Chandler with tha Democral ) The t':?r ? Imposition. President McKinley sont a message Congr ss urging it to take speedy action provide for a lequato toprespntation of t United Stat"* at the Taris Iuieruaiioual E position of 19J0. The L ibor World. Paris carpenters work on Sunday. Great Britain has 53,000 union carp ante: San Francisco, Cal., has 100 Chinese cig lactones. "A Federal Union" is to be formed Washington. The prospeots of the granite Industry Maine are good. Kansas City (Mo.) retail clerks want I Sunday law enforcaa. A Colored Industrial Congress met Huutsvllle, Ala., recently. New York Central Union indorsed the 1 making ten hours a day's work on str xaliwayw J THE NEWS EPITOMIZED j ' Washington I t?m?. I Senator Jl.ison. of Illinois, led an assault upon th<> Senate rules which permit inter? rainable discussions upon every measure be- < ** fore that body. I Secretary Loner left Washington for Bostou, so that Assistant Secretary Theodore Roosevelt became Actinc Secretary of the Navy on the third day of his incumbency of J office. | The House met and immejiatelyadjourned as a mark of respect to the late Represents j tive Milliken. A delegation from the American Federa lion of Labor, headed by Samuel Gorapprs, I, called on Speaker Reed and presented a memorial fiskinir nnnninfmpnt of Reore >3 sentative Gardner, of New Jersey, to the 0 Committee on Labor, and also suggested amendments to the Eight-Hour law. > * Friends of Sugar Broker Chapman, cons victed of contempt for failing to answer ques- V c) tions of a United States Senate Committee, ^ decided to appeal to President McKinleyto !t pardon him. Important nominations sent to the 8enatc ' s were as follows: William A. Jones, of Wis- c sonsin, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs; ? William Youngblood, of Alabama, to be Au- p ditor for the Interior Department; James L. ? Davenport, of New Hampshire, to be First C( >j Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, and Mel- E vln M. Conkiin to be Postmaster at El- i; mira, N. Y t The Senate passed the Agricultural Appro* j priaticn bill. ft A bill to pension the daughters of General * IC George G. Meade?Margaret B. Meade and Henrietta Meade?at S100 per month each, 7, was introduced by Senator Penrose, of . )tj Pennsylvania. ,d Sealing experts representing the American p ib and British Governments will again visit j] r- the Bering Sea islands to Investigate the q seal question. 1(1 United States Army officers sympathize o d (vith Greece, but expect Turkey to win the fi '3 ?rar. No neutrality proclamation is likely fi !Q io be issued by the President unless the J' aecessity arises. The War Department will 1* permit Captain Scriven to accompany the Turkish forces. President McKinley is taking deep interest in the war. , W. A. Jones, of Wisconsin, has been nom^ mated for Commissioner of Indian Affairs. )1 Theodore Roosevelt assumed his duties as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. >f D Domestic. ie The well-known summer resort Tulla11 hcma, Tenn., was visited by fire, nnd the "e place was wiped out. The loss is at least >- jsl00,00t). The entire business part of the ? place was destroyed. James Dever. a well-known young man ol r>u:i.. Ji_ 11 t ui. I.Um*IA ?KA sou irciui uis uiuyciu uuu? i iuo n whepl of an ice wagon and was crashed to lt ieath. n Joseph Kelly, th9 murderer of Cashier I, Stickney, of Somersworth, N. H., was taken l. from Montreal, Canada, back to the scene of t- "its crime, consenting to return without a e itruggle. d There was a serious breaV In the Missis' :* ippi levee at S'uipland Landing, Miss. At Williamson, W. Va., Judge Doollttle * passed sentence on Captain Hatfield, who iome days ago was convicted of Involuntary * nanslauehter in tin killing of John Rutherford la<-t November. The sentence is three a honths in the county jail and a fine of 8300. Y T. L. Carpenter, paymaster of the Pleasant 5. falley Coal Company, was held up at noon o !n the streets of the little town of Castle k Jate, Utah, and robbed of $8000 in cash, e Carpenter had left Salt Lake with the money ,e o pay off the hands at the coal mine. On he way from the station to the company's n aeadquarters, only a few rods, he was met n ty two mounted armed men who presented e jum m ui? urau, iuuk U19 casu uuu ruuo n iway. q i- Judge 8anderson, at Caiskill. N. Y., seny :enced John Kelly, a tramp, to Dannemora ^ n Prison for twenty-four years and ten months, f- Kelly is dow thirty-six years of acre. Cats>1 kill officials said he was the John Kelly d wanted for criminally ussaultine a woman U seventy years old and a young girl in 1894. u Captain Romeyn, on trial before a court ^ nartial at Fort McPherson, Ua.. was forced ~ '' o apologize to the court and to Lieutenant jj ? O'Brien for a comment. n c t Ex-Governor Smith, of Arkansas, who was tj d Iriven crazy by the money question last tall, *j b lied a few days ago, p t- L. H. Reick, City Treasurer of Davenport, ,'owa,confessed to a committee of the Daren- - jort Cleariocr House a shortage in his ac- a n ;ounts of S5000. At a later hour he filed a G it nortgaire upon his property ict $10,000 to o >rotect his bondsmen. e thft vatp Vft?>lr ifieamKtv nooea/1 1LT i. 'i .'Ixon's bill appropriating 81,250.000 for con- {" inuing work on the Capitol building at Al- H 11 >any, 8800,000 of which is available at once. . J Minnie Bashaw, of Morrisville, Vt., com- g, q .litted suicide in the Almshouse at Hartford, fl -onn. She had been in Hartford some weeks, r, 0 ;ettiug advertisement for hotel placards and j a he like, and living in the United States Ho- 0 a el. She became demented and was taken g o tKe Almshouse. f( The cold wave in New York City broke nil a ecords for this season of the year. The si hermometer dropped to eight degrees below 1 reezing point. At Jacksonville. Fla., Miss Mary Louise G Jato, a beautiful woman about twenty years n >ld, was shot and seriously wounded. Ed* ^ u vard Pitzer, the lover of tho girl. i3 under irrest, charged with the crime, although he P lenied it. Just as the girl was about to en- d >' er her home she was tired upon from &m>ush. tl d Captain Henry Romeyn, of the Fifth In- ? f antry. was placed on trial in Fort MePherd on, Ga., for conduct unbecoming an officer '? ind for knocking Lioutenant O'Brien down f' >n parade. ^ ^ Lieutenant Edward S. Farrow, formerly w >f the United States Army, ha* been indict- t< t. >d in Pittsburg, Penn., for alleged complicity n a n the attempted insurance swindles. n i- Some persons in the flooded districts have G ?een bleeding the Government while helping t in the distribution of relief. Steamboats lired to carry supplies from Vicksburg, Miss., lave cost ?350 each a day. Secretary Alger i ookcd into the matter aud concluded that d he price was exorbitant. He issued orders or two Government vessels at St. Louis to proceed to Vicksburg, and is trying to get b >thcr9 to assist them. e kS A gigantic snows'.ide occurred at Garfield y dine,about four miles north of Brigham Cit y, r; a Jtah, which resulte I in the death of Fred ?! f. Wolhaupter and Edwin Maw. John Dal- 11 .c on of Willard and David Russell and Will- 0 K am .T. Turner were also caught iu the slide, 10 )Ut were rescued uniujurcd. Discharged worklngmon attempted to de- e id itroy Oliver G. Jennings's summer home, in q id Fairfield, Conn., by using dynamite. p There is evidence on every hand that -treat loss resulted in Ohio from the cold wave. In twelve hours the temperature s t- iropped from 59 degrees to 20 degrees, and e ie :hero was a heavy frost and formation of A ce. All through the central West similar 1 jonditions are reported. C ro "Billy" Birch, the.minstrel, is dead in New u x'ork City, from paralysis of the brain and 0 Bright's disease c Little interest was taken in the election ol )u i Congressman in tne Twenty-fifth District, Pennsylvania, and Showalter (Republican) , .vas elected by a good majority. In Law\3 rence County his majority over Hailman will * be about fourteen hundred: in Butler Coun- t d- ty his majority is conceded to bo not less i S* than one thousand, ami Beaver Couafy will 1 ?* dve him about the same. Not more than 1 half the votes of the district were cast. The British cruiser Talbot entered New fork harbor and will participate in the narine demonstration on Grant Day. t0 Reports from all over New England tell of \ he i heavy fros-t, with iee, and much damago ] \x to vegetation. The >!rop In the temperature ) iveraged forty degree.-. The public interest in the election ai Omaha, Neb., was light and the vote remark Ably smal'. Party lines were not sharplj Jrawn. but a semblance of politics was giver the affair by the fusion of Democrats, Popu- < lists, and Free-silver Republicans against i ar the Republican nominees. Frank E. Moores, Republican, was elected Mayor over E. E. , at Howell, Fusion, by less than 200. , Benjamin F. Brlckett, Mayor of Haverhill, | in Mats., died of an apopletic stroke. ;ho For?tzn Not#*. Smallpox has appeared In Cabana Prison, at iu Cuba, and several Americans confined there are in peril. I bill The Japanese cruiser Naniwa s:dled from ( eet Yokohama for Hawaii to protest against the , refusal of the Hawaiian authories to permit < ihc landing of Japanese immigrant^. ideuf ain mm atwai IIUjM H11II LUM. ill ffJIJ The Sultan Orders His Troops t Take the Offensive. BATTLES ON LAND AND SEA Vor Declared on Greece by the Counci of Ministers at Constantinople? Flerc Fighting on Frontler_Greek Fle? Opens a Terrific Bombardment o Preveza---Turks Fight Like Liom Constantinople, Turkey (By Cable).Par with Greece has been declared by Tui :ey. The declaration of war was made follow ng the news of the incursion by the Greet in Turkish territory. The Council of Ministers at the Yildi 'alace recalled the Assembly, gave passporl a Prince Mavrocordato, the Greek Envo Extraordinary and ordered Edhem Pachr he Turkish military commander, to tab he offensive. A. detailed circular sent to the Turkis epresentattves abroad recalls the week's it aslons, and states that the newest incurslo ras pariicipated in by the Greek troops rhich, therefore, establishes war, whioh ha roken out. The circular expresses the hope that th 'owers in a spirit of justice will agree tha he entire responsibility for the war falls o Greece. Turkey has no idea of conquesl nd as a fresh proof of pacific sentiment ffers to retire the Turkish troops on th rontier if Greece will retire hers from th rontier and from Cete. ^IB IOMMANDERS GREEK ARMY OF OCCUP No. 1. Colonel Vassos, Commander of lolonel A. Korakas, commanding 16,000 ins ommanding 6000 Insurgents. No. i, Caj eet In Cretan waters. .The Sublime Porte sent a oommunloatloi 3 the Ambassadors, pointing our that it th freeks succeeded in crossing the frontlet fiking the Turkish positions at many points ; was because Edhem Pacha, the Turkis ommander, desired to carry out instruc Ions to the effect that he should remain o; he defensive in order to prove beyond dis mte that the Greeks were the aggressors. KIRMISH WHICH PRECIPITATED WAR Ireek and Turkish Regular Troops Hav a Fierce Engagement in Greece. Labissa.?Headquarters of the Greek Arm a Thessaly?CBy Cable).?Greeks and Tui ish troops have had their first battle o rreeksoil. The battle began at Nezeros ist within the Greek frontier lines in Thee ily, and due south of Mount Olympus. Tb ghting originated, acoording to the Gree) sports, in an attempt upon the part of th urkish forces to occupy an ubandoncd pos f the Greeks. The movement was opposed by the Greel >rces, whereupon the Turks opened Are an sharp engagement, lasting four hours, en aed. The Greeks eventually receded heir losses are not known. Heavy firing between the Turks andth treeks near Nezeros was resumed at 5 o'oloc ext morning. The Greeks,in the meanwhile ad been reinforced with artillerv, whic ley brought into play against the Turkis osts at Kotroni. The latter were eventuall estroyed by dynamite. It is reported that the Greeks occupie iree Turkish stations and that the Turk streated. The engagement extended to th keek posts to the lelt of Nezeros, but it I eported that the firing did not last long. The Greeks finally oaDtured the Turkis ositions from Nezeros to Koutra, and th 'urks are in full retreat toward the interioi rhere their forces are massing. The bat jrles at Menexa ceased tiring at eleven p i., but there Is no official news as yet 01 id apture of that place Several bands o ireeks have entered Macedonia. CREEK SHIPS VICTORS. bey Destroy the Preveza Defences an Troops Occupy That Town. Athens, Greece (By Cable),?The Turkis atteries at Preveza. the north shore of th ntrance of the Gulf of Arta, where, accord agto the treaty of Berlin, the Turks had n Ight to erect fortifications, fired on an unk a Greek steamer, the Macedonia, whil be latter was attempting to leave the Gul f Ambraoia. The crew of the steamer wer aved by boats from the shore, but the cap lin of the Macedonia was woundedseverelj Upon receipt of this news, the Greek Go\ rnment eent orders to the Greek fleet inth hilf of Ambraoia to bombard Prevezn 'reveza, which is in EDirus and eighteej ailes from Arta, was strongly fortified. At 10 a. m. the Shafldaki fort fired a fei hots at a Greek gunboat, which replied ffectually silencing the Turkish batterj it 11 o'clock the Greeks began to attack th ,'urkish forts outside the entrance of th tulf, partly to divert the enemy's attentioi ,nd partly in order to prevent the massacr f the Greeks at Preveza. The Greeks flnail aptured the place. British Anxious to Fight Boers. A formidable British fleet is gathering e fatal. The new Briti?h HlghCommlsslone o Cape Colony has hastened his departur n view of the threatening situation. Enf Uhmen are Impatient for war with th Transvaal. Spain Not to Withdraw. It is denied in Madrid that Spanish trooj vlll be withdrawn from Cuba. Goneral Rni Rivera has nearly recovered from his wounc n the Cabanas Fortress, and he hopes for mrdon from Spain. Arixir Worm In Wisconsin. Official reports received by the Weathf Office from volunteer observers in parts c SVisconsin show a serious condition of th small grains, as a result of unfavorab sveather in January, which froze wint< ivheat, rye, red clover and timothy. Advic< Trom Barraboo say the army worms can t seen everywhere, crawling over the dea leaves. Cramps'g Big Bill. The Cramps have submitted a bill of $138 )00 for the repairs to the United Stat iruiser Brooklyn. Navy Department est mates had put the probable cost of f (1000 I 510,000. "J The German Minister at Athens, Baron t von Plesson, has 'undertaken to protect i Turkish interests in Greece during the ser- r eranco of diplomatic relations between the wi two countries. Throughout the day there were scenes of 0 extraordinary excitement in Athens. The f1 streets were crowded with people eagerly cnt discussing the outbreak of war and the aPF nFnhohlft nntenmB. Thrt pftnornl fAnllntr rcn? A one of satisfaction at the relief from the lrri- the tating tension of tne liist few weeks, which thii I, gradually had become almost unendurable, c and which is ended at last by overt acts, it nn(i is claimed here, upon the part of Turkey, nat II TURKS WIN A HARD FIGHT. \ pet 10 They Capture Nearly tllve Whole of Mllonna Dra si Pas? After a Fierce Battle. t n Foot of Milocva Pass, Thessaly (By Cable).? A flene battle raged in the Pa33 all j'e night. The Greeks, who entered and de- '~r _ soended toward the valley, encountered four ** battalions of Turks, who drove them back, T r" and at the point of the bayonet rescued the Tat force garrisoning a Tu rkish blookhouse, which Par j? the Greeks had enoirded before entering the .. pas?. Ma: Neshad Pasha, sommanding the Fifth Di- B vision, occupied Mount Parna with a great a bl 2 force, while Hairi Pasha, commanding the eou ?g Sixth Division, prepared to enter the Tchal- and shan Pass, ana Huidar Pasha, with the Tej y Fourth Division, occupied the Mliouna Pass. .j. i, Before dawn Edhein Pasha rode out to dl- ,3^ e reot the disposition of these dlvlslens. A gen- Tjot oral engagement ensued. The battle raged , along the entire pass, over 50,000 men being h engaged. t- The combat turned on the possession of the *' n Greek blookhouse, whloh was most obstln- lutl ?, ately defended. Several vigorous attacks s were made by the Turki without success; but ?. 1 finally, about 9 o'clock, by a magnificent "or e dash, they took the blockhouse at t&e point W it of the bayonet. poll n The Greeks bravely defended their posi- har r, tions on the summit of the hill. agr s The Turks fought like lions, and the Turk- Fin Ink KArfihla OTaiinflnn nn^ar tha *1 f 13U Oil. 41IW4J \AAVA *Mw IIJ e command of Riza Pasha. Tho death of p0p Hallz Pasha at Mllouna is announoed. The tffe the con JL, 0 ~ zmr * lL . 1 the Greek troop3 in Crete. No. 2. Lieutenant- pan iurgents. No. 3. Lieutenant-Colonel Lymbritis, wer ptain K. Sactouris, Commander of the Greek her bral He i T i Turks, without calling up the reserves, have jQ e taken almost the whole pass. ,en, , The Turks have occupied Ana and Enl- pjje i, lonna, but they have not succeeded in taking Dr0( h Rata. The Turks destroyed two pieces of ?no Greek artillery. The Greeks captured an <jet| a entire battery from the Turks, Tiaree Greek wot i- offlcers cf high rank were killed. 2ut While this was going on a force of Greeks T crossed the frontier and evidently started frje for Salonica, the Turkish base of supplies, * it nmhnhle that their intention is to cut oil ui? e the Turkish army from their headquarters | jn and thus pen them up in the mountain passes, i GS3C All diplomatic relations between the two R re 7 countries are at an end, and the Greeks have { announced thar they are ready to fight until cla Q the last. The Greek beiief in ultimate suo- t_.( cess is based on a universal rising of the (fie Macedonians and Epirotes as soon as the e Greeks ?ucceed in winDins? nny br.lliant vie- gU0( k tory anywhere over the Turks. abj( ?t . cha GREAT CAPTAIN IN NEW IUMB. ; mui : | hus 1 The Body of Ulysnes S. Grunt In Its Final j f'?' Resting Place In Klverslde. In the presence of three raombers of the A e hero's family, and without pomp or cere- seel k mony, the casket containing the body of j* Clysses S. Grant, twice President of the ag0 [j United States and the Comman ling-General i was ? of the Union Army in the Civil War, was 3J transferred from its temporary resting place } fror fj to tho beautiful now monument at Riverside a r 3 Park. New York City. Bre e Colonel Frederick Dent Grant, eldv st son ing* [s of the genoral, superintended the removal, slxt With him were his brother, Ulysses 8. Grant, drei h Jr., and his son, Ulysses S. Grant, third. e The guard of honor which escorted the -p r body of the great captain from Mount McGregor to New York City twelve years ago . -all grizzled veterans who served under e Grant?was present, too, and convoyed tho f remains to the new tomb. T Though there were no religious services or ceremonies in connection with the transfer of tha body to the monument, the scene Fe& when the casket wan taken from the lempor- poh nrw hWek winlt- nnH parrlad to the massive t granite structure which had beun erected to * mark a Nation's gratitude was deeply im- I s h pressive. ~?Jj e ^The coffin was not opened, but the un- ca?| [. dertaker's men lifted tbe heavy, load lined 2?? 0 oedar case to tholr shoulder, carried it from r* d tho temporary tomb through lines of police 0 to the new monument and placed it in the If sarcophagus. All unacriainity as to whether e this would fit in the opening hollowed out of " the red granite was set at rest. There was Coli r- perhaps half an Inch to spare all around. it ^ .1 The leaden box wis then closed, und tho hiui e top of the cedar box was put in position. aljp u Next the massive slab of granite which forms beei q tho cover or the sarcophagus, and which was ^ht swung by a derrick, was lowered and cement i0S3 v laid with a silver irowel sealed the sar1 cophagus. The trowel was pressnted to r* Colonel Fred. Granc, and will probably be ? e kept eventually among the relics in the por0 tlon of the monument set aside for them. etKI a con 0 Congressman Mllllken Dend. and y Congressman Seth L. Msllikon, of Maine, Qui died a few days ago in Washington. Minor Mention. it The removing of last winter's snow from r its streets cost Berlin, Germany, 3300,000. "c'a: e J. R. Allnn, ol Fairhaven, Vt., recoived the p .. first Postmaster's commission signed by Mc- m ;e Kinley. 'eh Orange3 have been grown in Lyons, Kan., latc the owner of a tree having plucked three j,er this season. trar Six million bushels onions were Imported ami s into the United Kingdom last year valued at abh iz about ?3,401),000. Is It wasannouueed inthe French Chamberof a Deputies that immoral songs, pictures and A journals are to be suppressed. iug Antelope are abundant out in the Garden City neighborhood, Kansas, and sportsmen have given the nimble jack rabbit a rest. p . Canada will retaliate upon the United ej?i States for passing the Dlngley tariff bill, .8 making efforts to divert her tirade to Great le Britain. *r The women of Kansas wero an important p , ^ factor in the late elections and a large per f rentage of the vote averywhere was polled by women. It is estimated thai the shipments of iron ore from Lake Superior to the lower lakes " during the coming season will amount to at T least 12,000,000 tons. a ' T)r ^ Winter has been so long in some of the i- Washington State valleys that :it is saidbthat 11 10 no hay will be left by the time tho spring e< , crops are in. au unusual condition. . Jua 7" . AT THE HEAD OF THE POWERS' FLEET Admiral Canavaro, In Command of tfcg Ships Blockading Crete. WHAT CONCRESS IS DOINC. lemoorats in the House caucused on the t policy to pursue against the Republican iority. a the House Mr. Simpson (Top.. Kan.^ ici3ed the policy of Speaker Reed in not irlntlng committees. . late canvass of the Senate showed lhat peace treaty lacked one vote of the twords necessary for ratification. ertain Democrats, Silver Republicans 1 Populists in the Senate formed a combiion to dictate committee assignments, [r. McMillan presented In the Senate the Ition of the Washington Board of Trade ytng lor tne immediate completion m ut 3hington aqueduct tunnel. ho Senate adjourned for a day owing to death of ex-Senator Yoorhees, of Inda, who. until a recent day. was a con 5U0U3 member of that body. h* Senate sub-committee engaged on the iff Bill have found It necessity to pree practically a new .bill. It is not beed that they can flnish their work before y 15. :?presentatlve Ball, of Texas. Introduced 111 appropriating 8125,000 to aid and enrage the holding of the Afro-American [ Interstate Exposition in Houston, :as, next year. h? paoer on Hawaii which was recently d by Mr. John W. Foster before the Naial Geographic Society was presented to Senate by Senator Morgan and will be ited as a document. enator McMillan introduced a joint reioon directing the Secretary of War to pare and submit to Congress by the 1st lext December a project for the reclamal of the Anacostia flats. [r. Bailey met with opposition in his Icy of giving the Republicans a free ,d". and the Democrats held a caucus to ee on a policy at the close of the session, ancial legislation is demanded, ir. 8lmpson. of Kansas, leader of the )ullst9, declares that he will carry into A*. klrtrtlr *%nrr Kncinuaa ttrhlflh V-i. U13 lULOai IU U1VSVO. Ulij uujiuvuj UM?v? House may atteniot to do by unanimous seat before the Speaker has appointed imittees. number of Western Republican Senai, more particularly those from the iky Mouuntalns, have united in a moveit to make sure of securing certain conlions in the tariff "bill. The articles which Senators have especially in view are >1, hides, coal and lead ore. The tenoy isjto ask a ohange. [r. Hoar introduced in the Senate a resoon directing the Secretary of State to jrtain and report to the Senate from time ime the following particulars in regard each of the nations with which the ted States has diplomatic relations: The >unt of tnxes or excises and the mode of ectlng the same. Statistlos of exports imports and methods of collecting du. Tariff law*. Several objects of public endlture. Jadicial system. List of aes, offenses and punishments. Mem) of the army and navy. Police or other ingecnents ror preserving toe peace auu >rclng the law. The administrative ihanism. Public indebtedness. Method nactlng laws. The character of leglslai chambers; the public officers who have Btlcally the determination of what laws 11 bo pat upon their passage. MRS. E. R. TILTON DEAD. ulng Away of the Woman Whose Haiind Prosecuted Henry Ward Beecfaer. [re. Elizabeth R. Tllton, wife of Theodore on, who prosecuted the great preacher, iry Ward Beecher, on the charge of havalleaated her affections, died la her le, No. 1403 Pacific street, Brooklyn, N. a few days a^o. ts. Tllton had beeu very ill for the last weeks. She had been stricken with alysis. Her daughter and a few fri?nds e with her at the last. Theoiore Tilton, husband, went to France after the celeted trial. Ha took up residence in Paris, still lives there. he Beecher-Tilton trial, which was begun January, 1875, was one of the most sational in the history of this country, i reputation and character of the foremost acher of the land wore placed in the bale, and while the proceedings lasted the ills aroused the interest of the Christian M fr\t? \T> Rao/ihof txrna txroll Irnnnm in ope at the time of the acanilal. heodore Tllton, the plaintiff, had been a nd of Henry Ward Beecher for years. ? great otergyman had united him and wife in marriage. They were worshippers his church. Later Mr. Tllton became >clated with Mr. Beecher in the editing of iligious journal. 1 his bill of particulars Mr. Tllton deed that his wife and Mr. Beecher had le h confession of guilt to him. To all accusations of the plaintiff Mr. Be6cher wereri with a sharp denial. Mr. Tilton i to recover $100,000. The jury was unj to agree upon a verdict, and was disrged. In 1878 Mrs. Tilton was excomaicated from Plymouth Church. Her band wu9 forced out of the church at the a of the trial. The confessiou which Mrs. on was alleged to hnve made to her husd whs denied by her. tter the trial Mrs. Tllton endeavored to ude herself from the public as much as sible. About five years ago her eyesight sd, and she was nearly blind, until a year , when an operation was performed. She i overjoyed when she regained her sight. '.rs. Tilton. subsequent to her expulsion n Plymouth Church, became amemoerof eligious sect known as the Plymouth rbron. The sect held most of the meeti In Mrs. Tllton's home. Mrs. Tilton was y-two years old. She had seven 9hila, of whom several are living. WO BOYS KILLED THEMSELVES. sy Were Brothers, and An cry Because Left at Home. wo young sons of a Mr. Hereon, living r Fayettevllle, Ark.,aged nine and fifteen re respectively, committed suicide by son. he boys were angry because their par), coming to town, left them at home, h youngsters bathed themselves, put on r best clothes, wrote notes to their par>, swallowed strychnine und went to bed. h boys died before their parents returned le. Receivers for Big Mills. eceivers were named for the Bennett and iimbia mills in New Bedford, Mass., when ras discovered that $2,400,000 in notes been issued, of which no account has eared, and that more than ?100,000 had a charged to the account of the plant. >n it should bavo appeared as profit and France and Brazil to Arbitrate. Hanotaux, the French Minister for For* i- Affairs, informed the Cabinet that a vention had been signed between France Brazil for the purpose of arbitrating the ana territory which Is in dispute between two countries. The Landing of Roloff. n expedition from the United States, imanded by General Roloff, the Cuban lister of War, has safely landed at Mulas at, Cuba. A force of three thousand indents under General Callxto Garcia rered the expedition and carried the arms > the interior. Seven wagons and a numof horses and mules were employed to I isport the large quantity of arms and nunition, three cannons and a consider: quantity of dynamito. Our German Sugar Import*. merlca imported 450,000,000 pounds of . ar from Germany last year. . ( Prominent People. ostmaster-General Gary is the father of lit daughters of marriageable age. ustice Field will retire from the Supreme irt of the United States in July next, he largest land owner In Germany is j ace Wittengenstein, who holds 3,000,000 es. he least known and quietest of all the ited States Senators Is Horace Chilton, of cus. he most popular pictures in London shop idows now are those of Cecil Rhodes and Nansen. t Is now shown that the Grand Duke of sklenburg-Schwerin committed suicide by iping from_a bridge^ Admiral Napoleon Canavaro, the naval officer In command of the joint European fleet engaged in the blockade of Crete, is one of the high officials of the Italian navy and one of the most efficient commanders aflbat. Although a trusted officer under the Government of Italy, the Admiral is not ADMIRAL NAPOLEON CANAVABO. a native of that country. His father Is the owner of a large sugar plantation near Lima, Peru, and it was there that he was born. While he was a lad his father sent him to Italy for his education, and he entered the navy as a youth. By hard work, attention to dutv and innate capacity Canavaro rose through all the grades in the service until he reached his present high position. He is just flfty-nlne years old, and it was owing to his seniority that he was chosen by the admirais in Cretan waters to command the combined fleet. WAR AFFECTED MARKETS. Newt From Greece Sent Stocka Down; Wheat Hashed Up. Tbe Graeco-Turkish war struck this country in two spots. One was the Board of Trade in Chicago, which is the great wheat speculative whlrlD00l. The other was the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Its millions upon millions in securities moving up and down in value under influences from every quarler of the globe. Wheat went up in a skyrocket fashion; stocks dropped down In i heavy, dull way which indicated a widespread fear. Wheat went up under the manipulations of a group of operators who argued that in case of war large supplies of bread stuffs would be called for with local sources near the seat of war cut off. and that in the eagerness to buy big prices would be secured. There was an advance of 6% points In half an hour's trading. Later there was a reaction. Speculators are talking about "dollar wheat" CHAPMAN MUST GO TO JAIL. The Supreme Court Decides Agalnat the New York Broker. In the matter of Elverton R. Chapman, thd New York broker who was convicted in the District Court at Washington and sentenced to Imprisonment for thirty days and to a fine of $100 for refusing to answer certain questions asked for by the Senate Committee investigating the obarges against the alleged Sugar Combine In connection with che passage of the Wilson Tariff bill in 1894, the Supreme Court, in an opinion read by Justioe Fuller, affirmed the judgment of tbe lower oourts, and the broker most go to jail. Under this decision, Messrs. Havemeyer and Searles, of the Sugar Trust, and Messrs. Edwards and Shriver, newspaper correspondents, who have also been indicted, are subject to prosecution and punishment for their refusal to answer questions in the same inquiry. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BEREA, OHIO. The Business Portion of the Town Burned o/ m. taiupp. The business portion of the town of Bereat Ohio, was nearly wiped oat by fire. The wind prevailing made it almost impossible to check the flames. The heaviest losses were ou the Shumway block and the Miller block, which will aggregate $20,000 each. The total loss will reach $80,000. Berea has no waterworks. A detachment of the Cleveland (Ohio) Fire Department, With fourteen men, secured water from a branch of the river about a quarter of a mile from the town. The contents of most of the stores were saved by the heroic efforts of citizens. The fire was attributed to tramps. To add to the excitement a dog went mad and bit several people before it was shot. MASSACRE IN ABYSSINIA. An Italian Expedition Has Been Annihilated In Menellk's Land. The Paris Temps publishes a story saying that an Italian expedition, under Major Bottego, lias been annihilated in Southern Abyssinia. It appearstbat the Ethiopian General commanding at Baro requested Major Bottsgo to bait until the expedition was authorized by the Negus to proceed. The Italians, it is further stated, flred on the messengers bearing the flag of fruie and killed them. In the flght between the Abysalnians and the Italians which followed oaiy iwo or me latter succeeded In escaping. MODOCS ON VERGE OF STARVATION. Iteuinant of the Once Powerlal Tribe In s Pitiable Condition. The remnant of the Moioo Indians, now living In Modoc County, California, in the neighborhood of the scene of Captain Jack's treachery and General Canbv's death in 1872, are in a pitiable condition,verging on actual starvation. In all there are about two hundred families of the tribe. The winter has been severe and the Indians have been unable to obtain the necessities of life. It is reported that their number has been reduced one-half by deaths due to starvation and exposure. The Indians do not occupy a reservation, and as a consequence an appeal for aid cannot be made to the United States Government. Cashier Stlckney's Murderer caught. Joseph E. Keller, accused of the murder of Cashier Stlckney, of the Groat Falls National Bank, of Somersworth, N. H., has been arrested at Montreal. Canaan. He was wearied with the long chase, and when the officers took him he broke down and admitted the crime. A large amount of the stolen money was found upon him. Cremated bv the Cubans* Two defeats of the Spaniards are reported from Cuba. In one case a band of guerillas was entrapped and cremated alive. In the other a foroe of Spaniards was beaten by the insurgents. American Greeks Anxious to Fight. Greek Consul Vlasto made arrangements for reduced fares to Athens for New York Greeks who desired to return to thoir home to jpin the army. Half ot the Greek colony in New York will return if transportation is provided. Whole Family Is Dead. William Hughes and wifo anl two sons, an entire family, living near Mifflin, Ind., ate freely of wild parsnips, which were mistaken for sweet anise. The father and one son lived four hours, the mother and other son died in forty-eight hours. All suffered great agony. CHILE'S SPJ.ENDID FLEET. She Bids Fair tn ftlval That of the States. From Plymouth there has just set sail most powerful naval squadron that ev^^^H crossed the Atlantlo under any South Amer-^^? lean flag. Its destination is Valparaiso, ana it constitutes the recent additions to the fleet of the Chilean Republic. The squadron Ij composed obten vessels, namely, the armed ^ oruleer Esmeralda of 7000 tons, the Ministry Zentono of 4000 tons and the Admirant? I Simpson of 4000 tons; the transport And* mos of f000 tons, four torpedo destroyers, capable of making thirty knots an hoar, and a couple of large torpedo boats for ocean use, with a speed of twenty-seven knots. Tha Esmeralda is declare i by naval experts in England to be one of the most powerful iron* clads afloat. Beside? these ships Ohile ha$ still building In England an ironclac^bt nearly 10,000 tons, which is to bear the oaimfl of O'Higsrins, a schoolship and six torpedo boats. With the fleet that Chile has already afloat, and the Missals now in coarse of cjoustructton, Chile bids fair to become In tia&ea powerful rival of the United States for the naval supremacy of the Western Hefcl. sphere. | DIVERSITY IN FARM PRODUCTS^ It Will Be Encouraged by DUtrlbatlLra , of Seeda Free. \ Secretary of Agrioaltare Wilson ham Initiated a new system of seed distribution^ in his department. His aim is to diversify so far as possible, the farm prodacts of the % country, and to this end he Is making a ^ specialty of selecting new and valuable seeda from all parts of the world and putting them 1 in the hands of farmers likely to use them to -x- J advantage. Such an undertaking, the Secre- \ tary Is aware, cannot be ^accomplished quiokly. He has begun the work with sugar beets and leguminous plants of illj sorts. While sugar beets are now widely, cultivated in the West, the best seed at pressnt comes from abroad, where scientific improvement in speoles has been fostered by the French ana German Governments for yeara. A large supply of these high-grade seeds has been ordered. A LARCE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM. \ The Average Number of BfeMage* Ha? 1 died on the B. and O. System. ! Superintendent Charles Selden of the Baltimore A Ohio Telegraph said the other da; that the average number ot messages handled every day on the Baltimore <fc Ohio system was 53,000. exclusive of train orders. The Baltimore & Ohio has 22.252 miles ot telegraph wire, of which they use 7210 for company's business and the balance is leased: to the Western Union. There are 384 telegraph offices on the line of which 284 are reporting Western Union offices. Mr. Selden employs In his department 750 men, ezclu- > jive of linemen. He also has charge of tho Block Signal offices which east of the Ohio River average one to every six miles. The service of the Company's plant is considerably augmented by the use of several multl-' plez systems. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS* Cornelias Van Cott Made Postmaster of New York City. ^ The President nominated Cornelias Van Cott to be Postmaster of Hew York City,' rice Charles W. Dayton, resigned; John A," Merrltt, of Lookport, N. Y.f to be Third Assistant Postmaster-General, and Frank B. Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Brooklyn district. Messrs. Van Cott and Merrltt were Mr. Piatt's own selections. Mr. Moore was an original McKinley man, Indorsed by the other antl-Piatt leaders of Brooklyn. Cornelias Van Cott is a native New Yorker. He was born in the Fifteenth Ward In 1838. In 1887 he was elected State Senator and two years later President Harrison made him;. Postmaster. Frank R. Moore is a teacher In' the public sohools of Brooklyn. PI FP.TRir CHAIR USED IN OHIO. Two Murderer* Killed In a Manner En-} ^ tlrely Satisfactory. i j WllHam Haas and William Wiley, murder-' ers, were killed by electricity In the penlten* tiary annex at Columbus, Ohio. This wa? the first time the electric chair was used in' Ohio. The execution in each case was entirely successful, death being apparently painless and practically instantaneous. No burning* 3r abrasion of the akin by the electrode? oonld be seen. Sixty-five persons saw the axecutions. William Wiley shot his wife in Cincinnati on July 22,1896. William Hats killed Emma! Brader, wife of his employer, at her home' In Cincinnati on July 5,1896. He had first nade an assault. Wiley was twenty-six years old and Huas only saventeen. Both sonfessed their crimes. CRATITUDE OF A WIDOW. ] Left 86000 to an Editor Because He Once Betrlended Her Hasband. P. C. Boyle, editor of the Oil City (Penn.) i Derrick,while in New York recently received! a telegram to return home on urgent business. It turns out that Mr. Boyle's presence at home was required that he ,mteht look after the probating of the will of Mrs. Rose Harrison, of Pittsburg, the widow of a former employe, who had bequeathed to him her estate valued at $6000. Mrs. Harrison was the wife of Charle? C. Harrison, formerly on the editorial staff of the Oil City Derrick. He died of Bright'a disease, and for a year before his death was unable to work. During this time Mr. Boyle assisted him, and it is out of gratitude that Mrs. Harrison left him her property. Frost Does Great Damage. Great damage was done by the heavy frost wbloh fell throughout New Jersey and Southern New York. Ice formed an inch thick and ice was reported in many sections of New Jersey. Early strawberries have been destroyed, while much damage has been done in the peach belt. The temperature fell on an average of 47 degrees. Garden truck and flowers, as well as early fruit, suffered. In scores or cemeteries and paries the flowers had been set out for the season, and all were destroyed. Victory for the Turks. The Turks, having won a complete victory In Milouna Pass, preparel to advance by forced marches upon Larissa, the Greek army headquarters. Every man in Greece able to bear arms was summonel to tho defense of his country. Mitvlene and Solo, islands off Asia Mi'mor, were occupied by Greeks alter fierce fighting. Gentry Escapes the Gallows. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons voted the commutation of the death sentence imposed upon James B. Gentry, the actor, for the murder iu Philadelphia of Madge Yorke, the actres?, to imprisonment for life. Gentry w;is to have been hanged April 22. The Mississippi Falling. The flood situation in the Mississippi Val. ley is Improving; no more breaks of consequence have occurred in the levees. The rivers are falliug and the work of caring for the destitute is progressing favorably. Bicycles Hurt the Railroads. A.t the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, io London, England, Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, the Chairman, referred to the disastrous eN feet of bicycles, of which, he said, 10,080 were used in Toronto alone, on the railroad receipts. Referring to the auti-trust decision ^ of the United States Supreme Court, Sii Charles said he believed the railroad managers Intended to maintain the rates undex all circumstances. Fanner Killed by a Bull, Harvey Rumsoy, one of the wealthiest farmers of Reading, Conn., died a few daya ago from being gored by a ball on his farm*