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. FOR Aims IN CUBA, The President Asks Congress for $50,000 for Relief of the Destitute. SENATE GRANTS THE REQUEST. The Upper nouse Passes a Joint Resolution Appropriating 850,000 for the Distressed Citizens of This CountryAction of the House?Bailey, of Texas, vacio m jjuinjjcicuvj A?c9vt?*i>vM> Washinotos, D. C. (Special).?President MoKinley sent to Congress a message recommending an appropriation of not less than *50,000 for the relief of starving Americans in Cuba. The Senate promptly passed Mr. Gallinger's joint resolution appropriating $50,000 for the purpose. In the House Mr. Bailey objected to the resolution unless nanimous oonsent were given to an amendment recognizing Cuban belligerency. The resolution went over. The President's message Is as follows: To the Senate and the House of Iiepre + scniativtJJs ui 1110 uanou otuico. "Official information from our Consuls in Cuba establishes the fact that a large number of American citizens in the island are in a state of destitution, suffering for want of food and medicines. This applies particularly to the rural districts of the central and eastern parts. "The agricultural classes have been forced from their farms into the nearest towns, where they are without work or money. "The local authorities of the several lowns, however kindly disposed, are unable to relieve the needs of their own people, and are altogether powerless to help our citizens. "The latest report of Consul-General Leo estimates six to eight hundred are without means of support. I have assured him that provision would be made at once to relieve Ihem. To that end L recommend that Congress make an appropriation of not less than $50,000 to be immediately available for ? ?tk? riim?nnn nt thft Secretarv of u^e ulluca iuo uuwhivu v* ? ~ ~ ? ? State. "It is desirable that a part of the sam which may be appropriated by Congress should, in the discretion of the Secretary of State, also be used for the transportation of American citizens who, desiring to return to the United States, are without means to do so. William McKisley. "Executive Mansion, May 17, 1897." The sending of the President's message was preceded by a special Cabinet meeting, at which Senator Davis and Representative Hitt were present. As soon as the President's message had been read in the Senate, Mr. Davis of Minnesota, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, favorably reported, with amendments, the resolution introduced by Mr. Gallinger, appropriating '550,000 for llie relief of destitute citizens of the United States in Cuba. The resolution as amended, Is as follows: "Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Conpress assembled, that the sum of 850,000 be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwiso appropriated for the relief of destitute citi?ens of the United States in the Island of Cuba, said money to be expended, at the discretion and under the direction of the President of the United States, in the purBhase and furnishing of food, clothing and medicines to such citizens and for transporting to the United States such of them as so desire and who are without means to transport tcemseives.Mr. Davis asked for immediate consideration of the resolution, and there was no objection. The only speech made was that of klr. Gallinger, who spoke briefly. The resolution was then put on its passage, and without division it passed unanimously, there being no response to the call for the nays. It had taken exactly eighteen minntes for the reading of the message, the presentation of the committee report, and the brief speech and the final passage of the resolution. When the message had been read in the House, Mr. Hitt, former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign affairs, at once introduced a bill for the appropriation of 150,000 for fuel and transportation for the Cubans. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, obIected to immediate consideration, uness an amendment embodying Senator Morgan's resolution for recognition of the insurgents was added. Mr. Dingley objected to the amendment, whereupon Mr. Bailey objected to the resolution, and the Cuban question was sidetracked. Advocates of the belligerency resolution , believe that if it could be brought before the House it would be impossible for the leaders of the majority to hold their side together against it, and they propose to try to attach it to the relief resolution as an amendment. THORNTON'S WOUND FATAL He Shot Himself Because Miss Smith Rejected His Salt. Preston Thornton, who shot himself in the parlor of Milton H. Smith's residence, in Louisville, Ky., died from the effects o 1 the wound. His father and mother, from Lexington, were by his side when death came. Mr. Thornton was a member of one of the leading families of Lexington. Milton H. Smith is President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and his only daughter, Nettie Belle Smith, had rejected young Thornton. Chapman in Jail. Elverton R. Chapman, the Sugar Trust witness who refused to answer a United States Senate committee's questions as to whether he had acted as a broker for any Senators in speculations in Sugar Trust, ? 1 of fhu .Tail Wn.ah UCCUJ'ICO rt VWl C*V bUV ^4^k4?V? VV..., ington, and will continue therein for twenty-five days. Chapman surrendered himself to United States Marshal Wilson, in accordance with an understanding previously reached. ft 1 Edhem Pacha Takes Domokos. The special correspondents with the Turkish forces in Thessaly say: "Edhem Pacha has moved on from point to point, and Anally occupied Domokos. The Greeks have sustained a crushing defeat." Bubonic Plague Increases. The bubonic plague is making fearful ravages in the Cutchmandvi district of Inthpm have been 2000 deaths in a fortnight. Half the population has fled. 12,000 Men.Working on Louisiana Levee*. There are now more than 12,000 men at work on the Mississippi levees south of Bed Biver putting them in condition. Minor Mention. A gold mine has been discovered at Wesl Milan, N. H. New York City now has rubber-tire-J patrol wagons. Spain's four per cent, bonds are selling a' 59 cents on the dollar. Three towns of West Virginia havi adopted the curfew ordinance. Philadelphia exported 4,COO 000 bushels o grain during the month of April. The Salvation Army is about to try th Tingree potato patch plan on Long Island Cambridge, Mass., celebrated, the othe a its ten-vear record without a license* saloon. Oranges have been grown in Lyons, Kan the owner of a tree having plucked thre this season. A conservative estimate of tho Florid pineapple crop for the present season 300,000 standard orates. Germany exported last year 2,800,0< pounds of sewing needles, as compart with 1,830,000 pounds in 1805. Western roads report flattering accoun of crop prospects in Iowa, Kansas, Ni braska, Minnesota and the Dakotas. TWO MEN KILLED BY A MOB. Many Shots Flre?l Into n Room Where Woman anil Two Children Were. At the little shanty occupied by Joh: Mitchell and his family, a few miles nort of Mountain Grove, Mo., occurred a re volting crime, committed by an infuriate mob. Besides Mitchell and his wife an two babies, there were in the room Dav Mitchell, his brother, and a step-brothe named Jack Cofman. About 3.30 a. m. they were aroused by i loud rapping, and a fusillade of shots froc revolvers and shotguns then came tearinj through the frail wooden door. Johi Mitchell jumped out of bed, calling to hi (brother that he was shot. Staggerinj across the room to where his brother waa he sat down upon the edge of the bed. By this time the mob had gone arounc the shanty and began pouring a volley o bullets through the little window, striking the already injured man in the face an< chest. As he fell lifeless into the arms o his brother, Cofman rose up in bed only t< I meet a similar fate. Dave Mitchell received slight wounds i ihnnt flm Hovo fhi<j same mob visite( the Mitcheli home, but found only Dave Taking him into a clump of bushes, he wa< whipped with hickory switches until he be came partly unconscious, and was told thai should he be found In the neighborhooc later he would be dealt with much worse The Mitchells, it is alleged, have beei guilty of petty thieving for some time. Th( immediate neighborhood, however, is high ly indignant over the affair, and threater to lynch any of fhe mob captured. Ther< were about twenty men in the mob. THOUSANDS PICK BERRIES. Animated Scenes in the Strawberry Fields In Sarcoxie, Mo. The strawberry picking season has opened up at Sarcoxie, Mo., with the great est and in many respects the most pictur esque gathering of people ever assembled in any community. The Sarcoxie Horti cultural Association, controlling a farm ol 1400 acres in strawberries, advertised foi 10.000 pickers. Their circulars were responded to b} fully 20,000 people, who are now besieging the hotels and lodging houses of Sarcoxie The overflow has been so great that thou j sands were forced to sleep upon the grounc and prepare their meals in hastily impro j vised dugouts, or shanties, constructed o | branches and leaves, The camps exienc for miles up and down on both sides o: Spring River. Some of the men have seen better days but poverty has forced them to leave th< ranks of thousands of unemployed in largf cities. The weather is favorable now, anc the crop is being gathered very fast. Tb< first shipments are going now In carloac lots to St. Faul and other Northern points Train-load shipments will commence in t few days. BANK MESSENCER MISSINC. Nearly 820,000 Cash and a 810,000 Certifl cate Dlsappcex With Him. Albert M. King, the nineteen-year-old messenger of the Boylston National Bank at Washington and Essex streets, Boston Mass., Is missing, togetner wun nearij $20,000 in cash and a ten-thousand-dollai United States certificate, not negotiable except between banks. King started for the Clearing House al 10.15 a. m. to settle the balance existing there against the bank, and on the way, according to instructions, transacted othei business involving something like $45,000 As he did not return to the bank by 1 o'cloci the officials grew anxious and made a searct for the messenger, besides invoking the aic of the police, but they were unable to as certain his whereabouts. King has been employed at the Boylstor Bank about two years, coming highly recommended, and his honesty was never questioned. He has carried as much as 6100,000 of the bank's money at a timo on previous occasions, and has never lost a dollar. $60,541,062 FIRE LOSSES. EIc Ficurea Vrenented at the Annua] Meeting of Fire Underwriters. The thirty-first annual meeting of the National Board of Fire Underwriters was held at the Board Rooms, New York City. Reports of considerable importance were read and adopted from the various standing and special committees,and resolutions were acted upon concerning subjects germaine to the purpose of the organization William B. Clark,' President of the Board delivered an address to the members. The number of Board companies, ho said was now 109. The capital of the eighty three American companies on the roll aggregate $42,520,125, with assets footing uf 3164,940,200, and the assets of the America: and foreign companies together amount tc $218,693,509. The premium receipts of th< 109 Board members for 1896 were "3111,603.124 and their losses 860,541,062. HORRIBLE REVENGE OF TRAMPS They Burn to DeAth a Farmer, His Wlf? an<l Three Children. \Tonra h?? rt*at>hfid Monticello. Kv.. of th( cremation of a farmer, Thomas Biddle, his wife and three children, living on Whit( Oak Creek, across the lino in Tennessee Some tramps had asked permission of Biddie to build a flre in his barn to keep then warm during the night. Biddle refused t< allow them to do this and ordered them t( leave. The same night Biddle's house wa< destroyed by lire, and Biddle, his wife anc three children were roasted alive. It i< supposed the tramps applied the torch t< the house out of revenge. Senate Debate on Cuba. The Morgan Cuban resolution was dis ussed all day in the Senate, the principa speakers being Messrs. Foraker, Cannon Lindsay and Hoar. During a sensationa part of the debate the fact was made publii :hat the names of United States Consul) vho have sent reports on the situation ii r,"kn ft*.** twithholH hu,-.Rimrt fchft PrflsSdenl l/UUa C*1 V IT ?nd Secretary of State fear they may be a^ jassinated. Mr. Foraker declared himsel in favor of action of some kind, and sah ' direct intervention would be shorter anc more Christian-like than recognition. Tui'kji Ignored the Armistice. News of a fortnight'3 armistice, instoac of quieting Greece, caused a general feel I ing of uneasiness, and the continued move ! ments of the Turkish troops caused panii in many places. The Sultan was informei by the head of the Mahometan Church tha it is the will of Allah that Thessaly be re united to Turkey. The Turks followed u| their victory at Domokos, attacked th Greeks at the Othrys Mountains, dislodgei | them from Aidinitza. and forced them t 1 flee toward Mount Oerta. Ktot on a Mexican Ranch. A riot took place among the peons on th Mendez hacienda, in Mexico, and before i could be stopped by the rural guards flv men had been killed and twelve wounded The trouble was caused by a peon refusin to divide a bottle of mescal with a com _ rade. To Study Oriental Finances. ' Former Senator Dubois and Senatoi t Cannon and Pettigrow will sail July2fc j China and Japan. It is understood they g , ! to study the financial questiou from th ' j Oriental standpoint. Cycling Notes. .. I Tiifi AT.irlhoroutrh House, London, coi [. taius a eycie room, where are kept tt cycles of the Prioce and Princess of Wale j and the family. An old man of seventy-live and his wil of seventy, in an English homo for the agei have petitioned the authorities to let thei * j have a tandem bicycle. I Mayor McKisson, of Cleveland, Ohio, ht 5 I vetoed the ordinance giving the wheelme | of that city the privilege of riding on ti ! sidewalks of the unpaved streets. i General Hastings, the Governor of Peni sylvania, ts a wheelman and a member < the League. Ho is enthusiastic on tt ts I benefits of cycling and promises suppo 0- [ for the_fraternity. . NEW YORK STATE BUILDIN a i \ Jk A Z- . v,iV^A The outside wall9 are of cream colored wood, while the dome Is covered with ci building are threo flno rooms. The ceni New York visitors, and a postal station. Oi on the left one for men. In addition to i room in the Woman's Building, which is in women. TRIBUTE TOWASHINGTON. Magnificent Bronze Monument Unveiled in Philadelphia. i ; PRESIDENT M'KINLEY OFFICIATED r He Palled the Silken Cord That Divested the Statue of Its Covering?Quaker , City's'Proudest Day?Streets Gay With Flags ? Army, Navy and National Guard Make the Spectacle Magnificent. Philadelphia, Penn. (Special).?Under the auspices of the State Society of the Cincinnati, of Pennsylvania, a magnificent , monument to the memory of George Wash5 ineton was unveiled here Saturday. | The city was decorated by thousands of 5 flags, and the streets along the line of march 1 of the procession that preceded the ceremonies at the site of the monument were thronged. At sunrise the batteries of the United States troops stationed in Fairmount Park fired a saluto. Salutes were also tired by the United States ships Texas and Terror and the French frigate Fulton, lying in the Delaware River. I Parade was formed at noon. General George R. Snowden was at the head of the ' procession. The route was from Broad and > Spruce, out Broad to Spring Garden, to r Twenty-fifth and the park. In the parade r were United States forces, the National Guard of Pennsylvania, various battalions of cadets and many civic organizations, t The First City Troop of Philadelphia es, corted the President of the United States. ' The monument stands at the Green r street entrance to Fairmount Park. Presl] dent McKinley reached his stand, facing I the monument, at 2 o'clock p. m. The t Right Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker, Bishop of the I diocese of Pennsylvania, opened the unveilincr ceremonies with prayer. Then Major William Wayne, President of i the State and General Society of the Cincinnati, made a brief address. This all occupied but a few moments. Then President McKinley, accompanied by the trustees of the statue, crossed the driveway. As he did so, a solemn hush fell on the gathered throng. Patriotism stood on tiptoe awaiting the signal for vent. Every eye was strained to the huge figure, apparelled in the Stars and I Stripes. Then a whispered word to the President, and, with uncovered head, he drew the cord and the mighty monument stood revealed. It was a supreme moment. [ Cannon on land and water belched a thunderous "All hail!" Immovable during this outburst loomed ? the figure of the two President's. Almost side by 9ide, as if stretching nearer to each i other across the abyss of time the inanimate bronze seemed to grow sentient as the living man became more tense and , statuesque. The spectaclo was grand. In a moment it was over. The President , was escorted back to the stand, and as soon as silence could be secured, he made his address, reviewing the character of Washington. President McKinley was followed by William W. Porter, who delivered the oration. Major Wayne formally presented the monnmnnt to the eitv of Philadelphia in behalf of the Society of the Cincinnati,and Mayor Warwick accepted it in behalf of the city and transferred it to the Fairinount Park Commission. James McManus, President of that body, received it and replied briefly, 1 The President then reviewed the great military parade, after which he returned to i Washington. I The nigh,t was devoted to various phases of celebration apart from a banquet. The wheelmen's parade, with nearly twenty thousand in line, was the principal feature. Illuminations from tho monument, the City i Hall, the Union League and other points > added to the brilliancy of the jubilee and > closed the day In a veritable blaze of glory. I FINEST GUNBOAT AFLOAT. , > Nashville Wins a Heavy Bonus for Speed for Her Builder. "Fastest vessel of her class in the world," was the verdict given by the officers of the Trial Board at the end of the speed trial of 1 the new United States gunboat Nashville on Long Island Sound. 1 The speed required by the Government was 13.07 knots. The average speed made ? >? ? fVia d?] was 1R 70fi knots, making an 1 excess of speed of nearly three knots. \^lth t a bonus of $10,000 for each excess knot, r this means a total of 860,000 for the buildf ers. With the screws performing 307.04 a 1 minute, not the slightest jar was perceptl1 ble. At the end of the run the Nashville started for Newport News, Va., where she was built. The vessel will be commanded, aftqr j her acceptance, by Commander Washburn Maynard. Destructive Frost in Franco. ? A dispatch from Auxerre, the centre of t the wine-growing district of the Department of Yonne, France, says there has been p a general and sudden frost, destroying the e crops of vines, fruit and vegetables. The i amount of damage done in tho Department o of Yonne is estimated at 84,000,000. The Inhabitants are in a state of consternation. Philippine Islanders Defeated, e An official despatch from Manila, capital t I of the Philippine Islands, announces that e the Spanish troops have captured TornateI. | Fifty-seven insurgents _and_ twenty-five g Spaniards were killed. The Spaniards, in l- addition, bad 226 ruea wounded. General Welyer's Campaign. General Weyier is now turning bis atten9 tion to American correspondents in Cuba. 'r He is determined, it is said, to stop the o ' publication of the news. A Cuban hospital 10 was recently burned and its inmates perished in the llames. Prominent People. i- J Governor Black, of New York, does not ie serve liquor of any kind to his guests at the ;s Executive Mansion in Albuny. It is reported that Governor Taylor, of to Tennessee, has decided to resign next Oci, tober and return to the lecture Held. m A memorial to Winchester Dana Osgood, ' ?1-ill^rl nrK^ln ln<r fni* f!nl?nn in WUU WOO MilCU ? kAlAX, iv? wuvww is dependence, is to be errected in Houston in Hall by the students of the University of le Pennsylvania. The schedule of the King of Siam'e jour, i- ney includes visits to Italy, Switzerland, jf France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Norway, ie Denmark, England, Germany, Hollandrt Belgium, Spain and Portugal. ? Secretary Sherman celebrated his seventy-fourth^ birthday on^the 10th of May. / IG, TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL I 0, staff, with cornices, railings and columns of Einvas painted a pale red color. Inside the tre one is an office containing a register for 1 the right is a reception room for ladles, and ill this, the City of New York has accepted a charge of a number of prominent New York NEW FREE SILVER SENATOR. Stephen R. Maliory Elected by the Florida Legislature. Stephen R. Maliory, ex-Congres3ffian and Mr. Chlpley's chief political foe In Florida, has been elected United States 8enator from Florida by a vote of 53 to 44. This unexpected termination of one of the bitterest political fights in the history of the State Is the result of an anti-Chlpley combination. Senator-elect Maliory spoke before a large gathering in the House of Representatives. He said that he indorsed all the planks of the Chicago platform, dwelling particularly on the financial question, and advocating the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to I, regardless of foreign noiintrins TTn rliri nnf- firnrAqq dnnlrtod views on the tariff question. Mr. Mailory served in the House in the Fifty-third Congress. Mr. Mallory's election leaves only one vacancy in the Senate, that from Oregon. Mr. Corbett claims title to the seat by virtue of an appointment by the Governor of the State, the Legislature having failed to organize at all, and an election of a Senator to succeed Mr. Mitchell having thereby been rendered impossible. TRAIN ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. Blew Up Two Safes and Secured Between 89000 and 811,000. The wost-bound Southern Pacific passenger train was held cp by masked men and robbed about two hundred and fifty miles west of I3an Antonio, Texas. As the train pulled out of the little town of Lozier three men jumped aboard, and, pointing pistols at the engineer and fireman, compelled the former to stop the train about one and a half milos west of the town. After forcing the doors of the express car I one of the robbers entered the car and blew I up the two safes of the Wells Fargo Express i Company with dynamllie. One safe contained about 'S2000 or 83000, and the other, It Is bell3ved, about 870CO or 88000. The express car was wrecked by the force of the explosions. The top was blown off and the sides and floor badly shattered. The mall was not molested by the robbers, but It was greatly damaged by the force of the explosion. ATROCITIES IN AFRICA. When the Natives Fall to Sopply Rubber Their Hands Are Cat Off. The Rev. Mr. SJoblom* of the American Baptist Mission in the Upper Congo, Africa, has just returned to London. He sold in an interview: "When I left in February matters in the Upper Congo were as bad as ever. The Commission which the King of the Belgians appointed to inquire into the atrocities committed, the victims being natives, has had almost no result. The officials are indisposed to act on missionary evidence, and only a few cases of barbarity were punished. The iniquitous rubber traffic continues. When the natives are unable to obtain rubber the State troops burn the vil- I lages, murder the natives and cut off their | hands, which are afterward smoked and j sent to the 8tate officials. Parts of the ! Equatorsville district are in a state of open : warfare." AN OCEAN TRACEDY. A Schooner Drifting at Sea With Corpse at the Helm. Tossing on the stormy waters of the North Pacific is the schooner General SlgIln, a battered, helpless wreck, with a corpse for a helmsman. The vessel, dismasted and waterlogged, was seen by the sealing schooner Willard Ainsworth on the morning of May 5, 110 miles west of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The body lashed to the wheel was that of Harry Saunders, the schooner's mate. Of the nine persons who sailed on the ] schooner from San Francisco, Cal., not one ! has escaped to tell the story. There were no boats on the wreck, and it is thought the captain, passengers and crew perished after leaving the vessel. A Little Girl Dies After an Assault. Lizzie Buentl, the nine-year-old daugh- I tor of Henry Buenti, a farmer living Ave | miles from Evanfcvillo, Ind., was sent with a younger brothe:: to drive the cows out of an oat fleld. When the brother returned he said he had lost his sister. The fathor found her later In a clump of woods in a dying condition. She had been assaulted, and (lied while her father was bending over her. Suspicion Is directed to a tramp who was seen later to enter the woods where the crime was committed. Explosion Kills Four Men. A sawmill boiler blew up at Reelfoot River, thirty miles from Tlptonville, Term., killing Ed Patterson, Dink Hodges and two colored men, Warden and French Dad& Three other men were terribly mangled and will die. They are the two Frederick boys and a man whose name could not be learned. The mill was blown to atoms, and the bodies of the victims were blown in fragments about the woods for two hundred yards. s lOO Dead in a Railway Wreck. A military train on the Valk-Dorjew Railway in Russia was derailed. Sixteen cars were wrecked. One hundred of their occupants were killed and sixty were injured. ILexington Court House Burned. Thei court house at Lexington, Ky., was burned, but the records were saved. Hart's beautiful statue, "Woman Triumphant," bought for S5000 by Lexington women,was in the rotunda, and was destroyed. The court house was built ten years ago and cost $120,000. The Are started in the jury room, which was vacant. The county school superintendent was conducting an examination of ilfty school children in the court room and they were all rescued. A G. A. R. Colonization in Georgia. A Grand Army colony has been ostab" lished upon 12,000 acres of land in southern Georgia. Lnlior World. Chicago has 40,000 railroad employes. London has 10,000 union compositors. Illinois convicts no longer make cigars. Cincinnati has a Women's Union Labor League. Belfast (Ireland) compositors average $10.50 a week. A metal trades goction h,is been formed at ' Cleveland, Ohio. A new Colorado law prohibits blacklisting and boycotting. .Leeds (ungiana; wooien operatives gei i from $3 to $5 a week. Leadville (Col.) unionists may start o. cooperative department store. Silver -City (Idaho) miners' union taliis of erecting a hospital for its memhaxa. ? > TRIED TO KILLM'PHERSON A Blind Man Attempted to Assassinate the ex-Senator, HE DEMANDED ' RESTITUTION. William B. Van Aken Arrested in Xew York City on a Charge of Threatening the Life of the Distinguished New Jerseyman?Demanded Immediate Settlement of a Lawsuit He Had Drought. New York City (Special).?William Tan A.ken, who long ago was rich and powerful, but who is now aged, destitute and blind, attempted on Tuesday to murder John R. McPhorson, for eighteen years a United 3tates Senator from New Jersey and since 1875 a oonspicuous figure In National affairs. Years of brooding had Imbued Van Aken with the belief that the man whose life he tried to take was the author of all his misery. That his desperate effort failed was because of his blindness and because of the prompt action of Edw. T. Low, Mr. McPher son's Private Secretary, who fought with the crazed man for four or five minutes and wrested from him the revolver he was trying to use. Thfi hllnH man rtrnc arrnatari and fq lnp.kfld up in the Tombs. A friend of his, who is unknown, and who may or may not have known something of Van Aken's intent to kill Mr. McPherson, led the old man to the former Senator's office, where the deed was attempted, but he escaped during the struggle. Senator McPherson is now president of the Western Stock Yards Company, with offices on the fourth floor of the Aldridge Building. Ho oocupies an inner office on that floor. The outer office is used by his secretary, Edward F. Low. It appears that Van Aken has a long standing grievance against McPherson. As far back as 1878 McPherson bought some land in New Jersey from Van Aken and paid him for It. Van Aken appears to have been content with the bargain for nearly twenty years, for he never said anything until about three months ago, when he started an action against the ex-Senator for the recovery of something like $283,000, which he alleged was owing to him. Mr. McPherson was astounded at the clatm and n XCpUUlUbCU lb. He had never seen Van Aken until he pre* sented himself In his office in the Aldridge building. He did not recognize his visitor when he came in. Van Aken and his friend walked straight into McPherson office. Van Aken took a seat close to the ex-Senator, and his friend seated him himself in a far corner of the room. "Look here," said the blind man. "I've come to settle this suit. I don't want any counsel or lawyer to do my business. I want to come to an arrangement with you." Ex-Senator McPherson replied that he did not desire to discuss the matter. Then Van Aken remarked in a menacing tone: "If you don't settle it, I will." The ex-Senator suspected something and immediately jumped up. He was proceeding to the office of his secretary, Edward F. Low, when he says Van Aken grabbed McPherson s right arm with his left, threw his body, left side on, against the ex-Senator'a and with his right hand felt In his hip pocket for a pistol. The Secretary saw the impending danger and qulokly grabbed Van Akeu's hand while It was still in his pooket. He pressed with all his strength to keep it there, while TT k 1 ~ f/> V ttU ttJLUU VVUS oquuujr uobo;uuuou uu the pistol clear of his pooket. "Lot go or I'll Are," shouted Von Alien, but Low pluoklly held on to him and got the third finger of his left hand between the guard and the trigger so that It waa Impossible to discharge the weapon. Van Aken pressed the trigger so hard In hla efforts to discharge the pistol that tho flesh of Low's finger was badly laoerated, Van Aken's companion did not Interfere one way or the other, exoept to say to Pherson: "Let him go. Ho won't hurt you," After that he made bis escape. Van Aken was arrested and arraigned before Magistrate Kudllch In tho Tombs Polloe Court on a oharge of, attempting to bhoot ex-8euator McPherson. Van Aken, who Is a middle-aged, stoutlsh man, with a olose-cut gray beard and thin hair, pleaded "Not guilty" to the charge. ARMISTICE IN GREECE. Turkey Yields to Russia, Backed by Bulgaria's Troops. There was a sudden and unexpected change In the Oreoo-Turklsh military and political situation when Russia qulotly showed her hand and thereby forced Germany and Turkey out of the game, to all Intents and purposes. Turkey, supported by Germany, was practically defying Russia. France. Austria. Great Britain and Italy, insisting upon the annexation of Thessaly, In addition to a huge war Indemnity, and was determined to maroh upon Athens. Then came a rumor that Bulgaria was preparing to mobilize her forces. This caused alarm at the Sultan's palace, and the feeling of consternation was Increased when the Porte received ofllolal advices announcing that orders had been Issued for the partial mobilization of the Bulgarian Army. There was a hurried consultation of the Ministers. The war party was for further defiance, but In the end pacific oounsels prevailed, for orders were telegraphed to Edhem Pasha, the Turkish Commander-inChief in Thessaly, to cease hostilities. The peace negotiations will now be undertaken in real earnest, and the Greeks will most likely be spared any further humiliation. A DRAMATIC SCENE. A Perjurer Falls bows Dead In a California Court. A dramatic scene occurred in a courtroom at Hollister, Cal., a few days ago. A man had been murdered, and Joe Pincado, an ignorant Portuguese, was suspected of the crime. He was taken before the District Attorney for examination, and upon being questioned made several damaging admissions. When he saw that he was involving himself sweat poured from his forehead and he sought relief In declaring (..no* nmntmalo fttr.iln and ncraln that he had not killed As3euro. Finally ho rose from his chair, and, pale as death, lifting his hands, he said solemnly: "May God strike me dead if I am guilty!" Like an answer to his appeal Pincado's frame shook as from a spasm. He clutohed the air for a moment and then sank down at the District Attorney's feet, dead. The doctor said it was heart disease, aggravated by exoitement, but those who heard him cannot be convinced that he was not killed by the hand of God. All tlie Camp Destroyed. Zealand, ono of the largest lumber camps In the White Mountain region, of New Hampshire, has been completely destroyed by flro. The camp consisted of three large mills, boarding-house, store and several dwelling houses, and was operated by Van Dyke A Sons, mo loss is estimated ar, 3100,000. Sluto Treasurer Impeached. In tho Florida House of Representatives a resolution impeaching State Treasurer C. E. Collins for malfeasance in office was adopted by a vote of 4S; nays, none. Two Bojs Killed by a Trolley Car. Two small boys, aged Ave and six years, respectively, sons of John Tajunski and George Germando, roles, we^e killed by a trolley car at Scranton, Penn. Tho boys were coasting down tho asphalt in a toy express wagon. The tongue droopped from their bands and overturned the wagon, throwing the boys on the tr^ok directly i/i front of the car. It was impossible for the motorman to stop. Salisbury')* Ultimatum. Lord Salisbury, England's Prime Minister, said that Europe could not permit Christians to be made subjects of the Sul. tan of Turkey - ? : ... *,?. ^ ' ?: . *.<>.? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. The President sent to the Senate the fol- " lowing nominations: Joseph H. Gaines, to be Attorney of the United States, District of West Virginia; Myron H. McCord, to he | Governor of Arizona, and Charles yt. I , Akers, to be Secretary of Arizona Territory. The President nominated Justice William M. Morrow, of California, to be United State* Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial Circuit; George Morgan Thomas, of Ken-tucky, to be Solicitor of Internal Revenue; ' Frank H. Elbridge to be Chief Engineer in the Navy; Samuel G. Morse to be Agent for the Indians of the Neat Bay Agency. Many Republican leaders heid a conference with Senator Piatt in regard to the question of representation In the Greater New York. The President nominated Zenas R. Bliss to be a Major-General in the Army, and Frank A. Vanderlip, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A number of firms and individuals of New York and other cities sent a memorial, to the Seoretary of State, setting forth that their interests In Cuba are suffering through the war. Domestic. There i9 talk in Japan of retaliatory measures against the new American tariff. Five cannon, captured by General Scott 'rrim rionornl Santa Anna dnrinff the Mexican war have bean stolen from the West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy grounds. Judge Chester, at Monticello. N. Y., declined to vacate the order granted May 11 with reference to changing the place of ( taking testimony in the proceedings | against the alleged Coal Trust. He did j grant an order, however, tending to delay the beginning of the investigation. At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has < oeen struok at a depth of 600 foet in a well on the County Court House grounds. j Mrs. L. C. Elliott, of Nashua, N. H.. died j of excessive bicycle riding, according to physicians. She spent much of her time on ' her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal men- I ingitis developed. ' By a Are in Jersey City, N. J., six houses 1 wure destroyed, eleven badly damaged, . and seventy families were rendered home- : i li lAof 'PKo Insa ia ?aH. ' ICSS* IIXJ uvoa no;o ivjv. xuu ?ve? m vm?* ? . mated at 4100,000. ( Miss Fannie Richardson, a reclu9e and [ miser, died in Taunton, Mass,, worth 850,- ( 000. No will has been found, and as far as \ is known she had no relatives. , The Pittsburg jury returned a verdict of J acquittal in the case of Lieutenant Edward S. Farrow, charged with conspiring to de- i fraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New Y<*rk. The members of the United States Bimet- ! allic Commission are in Paris waiting for , the appointment of French delegates by President Faure before they proceed to J England. # / Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced on ( May 25, 1895, to two years' Imprisonment , with hard labor, was released from Hollo- ( way (England) Prison. He refused $5000 ( to write his prison experiences. He will do literary work in London under his own J name. ^ Superintendent of Streets Thomas F. i Maloney, of Buffalo, N. Y., was convicted < of attempting to bribe Superintendent of t Police W. S. Bull by offering him 6500 to ] protect the Goeiet Gambling Club last July, \ The Presbyterian Union Theological Seminary graduation exercises were held in New YorH City, and Miss Briggs, daughter of Professor C. A, Briggs, received the degree of Baohelor of Divinity, being the first 1 woman graduate of the seminary. I A diver discovered that the leak In the ] big navy yard dock at Brooklyn is caused ' by a ten-foot-square hole In the apron out- ' side of the caisson. Much additional damaging evidence has been found against Adolph L. Luetgert.the rich sausage manufacturer, of Chicago, j III., who is accused of murdering his wife , and burning her body. Phineas B. Smith, a well-known citizen 1 of Roxbury, Mass., died of heart trouble resulting from overexertion in climbipg a hill while riding a bicycle. He was fifty- | nine years of age and was a lawyer. Governor Black, of New York, has signed the General Tax Rate bill. The State tax rate,for the yea? is 2.67 mills. The revenues from direct taxation are estimated at 1 812,003 792.92, and from Indirect taxation at $10,048,708. ' T'Ka TiUnrtia "Dofflnflnl/l f!nmm laainn hftfl decided to erect nine monuments each at Lookout Mountain and at the north end ot Mission Ridge to the Illinois regiments which participated in these battles. The Government Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was opened. In New York City Helen Horsford, left an orphan by the death of her mother, grieved constantly, and committed suicide by hanging. George Bartholomew, an engineer for the Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyl, Penn., was blown to pieoes by the explosion of a boiler. Bartholomew is supposed to have, fallen asleep and on awakening found the boiler dry and turned on the water, thereby causing the explosion. His sister,when she learned of ner brother's death, attempted to commit suicide by throwing ( herself Into the burning boiler house. , John Farrell was fined 55 for planting i potatoes on Sunday at Nanuet, N. Y. The Holland, a small vessel owned byhei Inventor and designed for submarine warj fare, was successfully launched at Eliza* < i bethport, N. J. i Mr. Bissel, a farmer llvinging oast of < Carthage, 111., having no faith in banks, i I keot his monev hidden about his farm. 1 The other day he hid It up a flue. The I next day his wife put up a stove and started a Are and burned up ?3000 in bank i notes. ' Three men, one of them James Franci3, 1 son of Maine's famous guide and hunter, were drowned in a lake by the upsetting of | their oanoe. John Reiohart, a railroad brakeman, saw j a child In the water as his train was pass- ] ing the Allegheny River at Pittsburg. He I jumped off the train and into the water and I i both were drowned. Martin Wicks and wife, who live near ! j Gresham, Wis., left their home to look after j some stock that had strayed away. Dur- i , ing their absence forest flres spread over the farm and destroyed the house. Three small childron who had been left alone | perished. The Coroner's inquiry in,New York City , Into the Loona Are horror, by which thirteen persons lost their lives at sea, resulted , in a verdict by the jury exonerating the , captain and crew of the Leona and management of the Mallory Line from any , blame in the matter. , Judge Gibbons in Chicago pronounced 1 the American Tobaoco Company an illegal | combination and forbade it doing business j in Illinois. < Governor Black signed the act changing ( < the Civil Service system in New York State. I < There was a $25,000 run on the Framing* I ham Savings Bank at South Framingham, Mass. Twelve thousand tailors of New York City forced their leaders to order them to I < strike after they had decided to organize j I to avoid a strike. J Henry Van Cuskirk, of East Stroudsburg, | Ponn., fatally shot one of three men who \ i attacked his wife, and then received a fatal { ' | wound. , 1 :! Foreign. A Mil intended to divert German em!- j > j ^ration from the United States to South < America passed the Reichstag. '.Jt Owiug to a short coffeo crop a financial | crisis has arisen in Venezuela, and the J j banks refuse all commercial operations. j Laforce Langevin, the only son of Sir 1 , Hector Langevin, ex-Minister of Public j ; Works iu the Cabinet of the late Sir John | Macdouald, committed suicide at his I father's home in Quebec, Canada. He was j a man of peculiar disposition. He took an active part in the labor agitation, and of j late has shown sigus of despondency and j ill health, and to this his suicide is attri- j buted. Former Premier Sagasta, leader of the j j Spanish Liberals, drew a gloomy picture in ; < the Spanish Cortes of Spain's condition, j ] and broke the truce that has existed for ] two years between the Liberals and the I < fiourtrnment. Ha attacked the policy of | i | Prime Minister Caaovas a* to Cuba. .. . | on A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. FHE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IB IN MANY WAYS. jH rhe Reformation of John Demmi-A New York Police Inspector Says That Pob- 'V He Intoxication la Diminishing In Spite of the Increase In Population- ^ Trthn nrna a hnf.hfllnr Who used to drive a hock; He lived on Coney Island, but " 8ometime on Coniac. He loved a sweet teetotaler, Who told him he must stop, Drop every habit that was bad j And no more take a drop. r But John replied that he should die i Without the cheerful cup; t a He had to put some spirits down To heep his spirits up. It warmed, he said, when he was cold JM Or wet from snow or rain; ^HB When dry or hot he needed it To cool him off again. "You're always ailing," said the maid, "You're getting thin and pale; You never will be hale again ' Until you quit the ale. ? You must not rush the liquor, dear, H For surely, if you do, You'll send for beer until at last jflB The bier will come for you. Then sign the pledge and I am yours, With love both deep and strong, iS If you will be my Johnny true, H And not u demijohn." H ?Edwin Carswell. V The Drink Habit. 1 "Do you know that public Intoxication is 1 llminishing rather than Increasing, and 7 that, too, In spite of the Increase in popular tion?" asked Magistrate Deuel, of the New fork City Police Court, recently. When asked to what he attributed the dojrease, he replied, as follows: ! "Well, there may be, of course, many reasons. In my opinion the chief reason ii) to be found In the increased and constantly Increasing general sentiment against public lutvAiuaiiiuu, auu x ucuovo (.uio oouinwout jrows, not so much because our standard of morals has been so much raised as besause of the constantly Increasing requirements of all business and all professions. fears ago, a man who got publicly drunk once in a while, or twice In a while, was not bo greatly frowned upon. His ability ^ to do business or practice his profession 1 was not a question on that account. Now- I adays it is very different. Let it be known that a man conducting a large business is dissipated and mark how quickly his busiaess goes to the dogs. "We had an example of that not long ago. There was a firm that carried on a very large business In this city. Rumors went abroad that members of the firm were ' Intemperate and otherwise dissipated. What happened? The firm's credit began bo decline, although it was generally known that there was a great fortune behind it. rhings continued to go from bad to worse, until the great house went down. Let an employer hear that one of his employee is drinking, and that employe is served with dismissal, without a letter of recommendation, so quickly as to take his breath away. A. professional man known to be a heavy irlnker finds himself in a very short time without any clients. So far as the social side goes, let a man appear on the streets or elsewhere in the sight of his fellows in a itateof intoxication and from tnat moment lie loses caste, even with those who drank frith hira. Alcohol In "Brandy Drops." Confectioners who sell "brandy balls'* (rill learn to-day whether they will have to stand trial for disposing of those toothsome sweetmeats. Recently the Women's Christian Temperance Union complained to the Police Board that these brandy balls were intoxicating children and were giving them an appetite for drink. The complaint was referred to Chief Conlin and he notified the captains of the various precincts to collect evidence. It was shown that "brandy drops" were mostly sold in Eighth, Ninta and Tenth avenues. Captain Schmittberger, of the West Thirty-seventh street station, and Captain Walsh, of the West Twentieth street station, obtained considerable evidence. In Captain J Bchmlttberger's precinct ten confectioners j Bold the candy. It Is s'milar to the usual chocolate cream, the o:ily difference being the hole inside whioh contained the brandy. The shopkeepers were arrested on the charge of selling liquor without a license. 1 ?New York Herald. Drugging: Liquor to Commit Robbery. One of the worst forms of crime Is the drugging of liquors by evil-minded people, who wish tjius to take advantage of their unsuspecting victims. An Investigation of the recent death of a man who was known to have been in the company of notorious characters in a drinking saloon discovers that one of the devices for drugging victims for robbery is to engage the intended victim In a drinking bout, and to propose the touching of glasses before drinking, and while touching them to drop a "penny pill," which has been held concealed in the Angers, into the stranger's glass. This pill, dissolved in a glass of beer, is so medicated. with morphine as to speedily induce unconsciousness, after which the robbery is easy. Drugging is resorted to to accomplish a variety of evil ends, and drinkers should be everywhere forewarned as to th$ danger Involved. The wise and safest way Is to abstain altogether from all intoxicants* A Wise Lad. A schoolboy of Australia put his youthful enthusiasm into an effective essay on total abstinence, as follows: "I. abstain from alcoholic drinks because, if I would excel as a cricketer, Grace says, 'abstain';' as a walker, Weston says, 'abstain'; as an oarsman, Hanlon says, 'abstain; as a swimmer, Webber says, 'abstain'; as a doctor, Clark 3ays, 'abstain'; as a preacher, Farrar says, abstain'; asylums, prisons and workhouses repeat the cry, 'abstain.' " White House Abstainers. Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland were total abstainers during tbeir reign in the White House. Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland never furnished wine to their guests, except at state dinners, when their husbands wished wines to bo served. It is said Mrs. Grant was the first woman to move against having wine In the White House. Mrs. McKinley is a ^ total abstainer. Bine Glass. "Have the hard times affected the sale of alcohol in the drugstores?" I asked. "Not in the least,"'replied the druggist. 'On the contrary, the retailing of whiskey under various disguises in drugstores Li rapidly increasing. .Men who could not afford to be seen in a saloon will unhesitatingly enter a drugstore and ask for a blue glass.' The color of the glass effectually hides the color of the whiskey, so that It would be almost impossible to detect the deceit unless you were near enough to di??~-? 3ern the odor of the stuff which both ;heers and inebriates."?Toledo Blade. Without Character or Honey. Money Is Independence. Money is freedom. Money is leisure. Money is the gratification of taste, benevolence and public spirit. The man is a fool or an angel who does not try to make money. A clear conscience, good health, and freedom from want are among the essentials of a good, joyful existence. Still, unfortunately, It too often happens that people who have an abundance of money are destitute of character. While it is desirable that men should have both, notwithstanding all the advantages of money it is better to have character. The drunkard, however, usually ias no character and no money. Temperance News and Notes. When about to take his llrst drink, the poung man should remember that every Irunkard once stood where ho stands. Little Go Steep Has lost his sleep jm By drinking deep until daybreak,, Soon he'll come home, 8j^H All covered with loam You can't scrape off with a hayrake. ^ When in danger of drowning in a wild H river which he had attempted to ford a H German of Indianapolis prayed to be saved? H promising that if he was rescued he woula K never'again drink beer, and he was pres-J H sntly hauled ashore. He hae kept hM H promise up to last accounts. ? HE r