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't SUSS7 Commissioner Evans Gives the Showing For the Year. NO DIMINUTION IN NUMBER. Nearly 9140,000.000 Was Paid Oat Daring the Past Fiscal Term?The Roll Exhibit* ILosses of 41)183 and m Total ol 04,073 Added?The Total Number oi Pensions ia 976.014. an Increase WASffiKOTOif, D. C. (Special).?The first annual report of Commissioner of Pensions H. Clav Evans to the Secretary of the In terlor has been made public. He says: "There were added to the rolls during the year the names of 60,101 new pensioner COMMISSIONEB OT PENSION'S IVAH8. and there were restored to the roils 3971 pensioners, who had been previously dropped, a total of 54,072. "During the same period the losses to the roll were 81,960 by death; 1074 by remarriage of widows and mothers; 1845 by legal limitation, (minors;) 2683 for failure to olaim pension for three years, and 3560 for other causes, an aggregate of 41,122. "The whole number of pensioners on the rolls June 30,1897, was 976,014. The net gain over the previous year was 5336. It will thus be seen that the pension roll has not yet begun to show any diminution, though it has been anticipated by my predecessors in office that such would be the fact. 8even widows of Revolutionary soldiers and nine daughters of Revolution* ary soldiers are still on the rolls. During the year 94,454 pension certificates were Issued, of which number 50,101 were orig lnal allowances, ana tne Daianoe were reissues, Increases, restorations, renewals, Ac. "Of the nnmber, 14,671 certificates of various classes were held in this bureau until July 1,1897, and are accordingly not credited to the past fiscal year. "During the same period, 76,234 claims of various classes were disallowed. This number, however, does not Include claims which were made for higher rates of pension. - . .. .. " The amount disbursed for pensions by th? pension agents during the year was 1139,799,242.12, and the amount disbursed by Treasury settlement was $150,475.23, a total of tl?9,949,717.35." TRAIN HELD UP AND BURNED. Desperate Work of Four Bobbers Near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Atlantic and Pacific passenger train No. 2, from the West, was held up by four men near Grant's station, ninety-five miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 7.30 p. m. After blowing open the express company's safe, the robbers wrecked tne train, which caught lire, the express, oaggage ana emolting cars being destroyed. It Is not known whether they were successful in obtaining booty, but it is thought . a large amount of money was carried by the train. The coaches were out off and left at the stockyards. The rest of the train was then taken out a mile and a balf from the station, whera the express safe was rifled. The engine and baggage car ran at a ter< rlflo rate until they struck the coaches, which were standing near the stookyards. The oars were wreoked and caught Are. The passengers bad all left the ooaohes before the collision and none was Injured. Fireman Henry Ablo. who was oompelled by the robbers to run the engine when the ooacheswere left, was killed by the explosion when the safe was blown open. NINETEEN MEN DROWNED. ??? The Steamer Idaho Founder# in a Gala on Lake Erie. ). The steamer Idaho, oaught in the fierce southwester which swept over Lake ?rie( .foundered In eight fathoms of water, twelve -miles above Long Point, which juts Into ILake Erie from the Canadian shore, sixtyfive miles west of Buffalo. Of her crew of twenty-one men two were Bavea. Jtigm hours after the disaster the steamer Mariposa sighted the single spar which marked the grave of the Idaho. Clinging to that 'spar, hardly out of the reach of the fierce .sea, were the tyo survivors of the wreck, almost frozen from the long exposure In their wet garments. One of them had been made insane temporarily by his sufferings. It was no. light task to resoue them from the spar. ' The Captain -of the Mariposa ordered his small boats -down, but they could not live in the sea. Then he tried throwing lines to the men, -but the men were too stiff and cold to hold onto them. After two hours' maneuvring he worked the Mariposa around to the spar and dragged the sailors aboard. The rescued men were William Gill, a deck hand, whose home is in Rochester, and Louis La Force, Jr., the second mate. Mob Law In Bio Janeiro. Bio Janeiro, Brazil, was under mob rule for a time. The mob looted the office of the Bepubllcan, a newspaper hostile to the Moraes Government. President Moraes has Issued a proclamation declaring that he will perforin his constitutional mission in spite of the attempt upon his life. Bering Sea Treaty Signed. The delegates of the United States, Russia and Japan signed the new Bering Sea treaty, to stop pelagic sealing, in Washington. It will require the ratification of the Senate to become effective. Dice Decide Tied Totes. In the local elections in Kansas ties are decided by chance. Usually the contestants draw straws. This year, however, six ties were settled by throwing dice. Four of these were in Bourbon County, and in every case the Populists won. Killed His Son and Himself. Ralph Van Horn, a farmer living near UnHdilla, Neb., shot and killed his son, Ave years old. and then killed himself in the same way. Van Horn's brain was affected. He lost a suit for slander which he had bought against his father-in-law. Minor Mention. Influenza has reappeared in Berlin, Gormany. The American wagon is popular in Germany. A club of 91HW anti-swearers nas peen formed in Brooklyn. The rail lines out of Chicago for the East have reduced rates to meet lake competition. It Is estimated that from $25,000 to $40,)00 a day are lost in the slot gambling machines in Chicago. Out of 100 young men called out for military service in Italy in 1895, flfty-two were excused for physical unfitness or other reasons. "/ :V THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wsshtncton Item*. The American Government in Its last reply to Spain declares that the United States -J ? All uoo uinun iud ^luabosb nuuiia iv ovum uir busterlnjf, and has omployed many officials and expended a large sum of money to that end. The Inter-State Commerce Commission decided to issue an order in compTlance with the petition of the American Warehousemen's Association, requiring railroads to publish on their tariff sheets a uniform time for the delivery of freight of all classes. Experts of the United States, England and Canada met at the State Department to consider measures for the better protection of seal life in Bering Sea. Negotiations for a treaty with Great Britain for the protection of the seals were opened in Washington. The Government has decided to send the Bear and the Thrasher to Bering Sea with supplies for. the Ice-bound whaling fleet. ooureiar.v 01 nar airot win usit uoB(fre?3 for two additional regiments of artillery to man seacoast defences. The Administration decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to th* ralief of tbe whaling fleet imprisoned iii the ice in the Arctlo. Premier Laurier and Minister Davies, of Canada, are prepared to negotiate for a settlement of all the questions in dispute between the United States and the Dominion. Domestic. Charles Roberts, President of the South Chester Manufacturing Company, and Charles A. Weed, President of the Tidewater Steel Works, were killed by a train an the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad near Lamokin, Penn. Mr. Roberts was sixty years old; Mr. Weed jixty-flve. Mr. Robert's death was instantaneous. Indignant oitizens of Philadelphia have asked the oourts to prevent thelease of the oity's gas plant by restraining the Mayor from signing the ordinance authorizing the lease. The feud between the Eppersons and Wllliamsea In Hancock County, Tennessee, growing out of the killing of William Epperson, has broken out again. In a fight a cousin of Williams shot Charley Epperson and seriously wounded him. Both factions are arming for a desperate encounter, and serious trouble is feared. Three thousand sheep belonging to John Donaldson and twenty head of cattle have beep burned to death in Crosby County, Texas, by a prairie fire, which is sweeping over the ranges of the Panhandle country. The damage done to ranches is enormous. Father Henry J. McPake was found dead In the basement of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Aoademy, in Philadelphia. Wounds on his head and face lead to the belief that he was murdered. The Appellate Division of the New York State 8upreme Court, while sustaining Judge Chester in vacating the order to the PaiiI Tmiaf Pt>floMnnfo fallal fa noaa nnnn V/VOl x i Uoi x i voiuvuvO) imiou vv/ pnoo u^vu the constitutionality cl the Anti-Trust law. At Cynthiana, Ky., Leon Taylor, a farmeir aged thirty years, committed suicide twv hanging. Taylor was engaged to be mar^ rled to Miss Mary Bums on October 23, but Bed. Miss Burns, finding that she had been deserted, got a rope and banged herself from a window, and was dead when found. Spotted Hawk who has been on trial at Miles City, Montana, for the killing of John Hoover, the Barrlnger sheep herder vras convicted of murder in the first decree. It was the death of Hoover that saused the recent Indian outbreak In Montana. The National Sound Money League issued an address from New York City declaring against international bimetallism. William Cauldwell, former State Senator, ivas arrested and placed under $10,000 ball In New York City, charged with mlsappro* friatlng funds belonging to the estate of ason Rogers. ' Inspection of tally sheets shows that Perez M. Stewart, Citizens' Union candidate for Assemblyman, and Howard P. Okie, candidate of the same party for ilderman in the Nineteenth Assembly District, New York City, have been elected, Instead of the Tammany candidates, shown is victors in the polloe returns. Charles 8ohle?el. a grocer in New York City, sixty years old.lt Is alleged, murdered his wife ancl then tried to end his own life by cutting his wrists. His son tells of the tragedy. A desperate battle was fought between a United States Deputy Marshal's posse and Hilton Hiokman's band of desperadoes at Hudd Lety, W. Va. The band was surprised while In a church. Milton Hickman was killed and the Deputy Marshal badly wounded. The Philadelphia Common Council voted co lease the city's gas works. The tug P. H. Wise towed the schooner Silver Heels to the Bahamas, and narrowly ascaped foundering near Hatteras. The filibuster Dauntless transferred part of the munitions to Cuba. Three-fourths of tha war materials were captured by British officials. The Commissioners appointed by the Appellate Division of the 8upreme Court to pass upon the tunnel road for New York City approved by the Rapid Transit Commlaolnnora rannrtA^ In fuvnr nf hnlMfnff the road. They estimate the cost at $30,300,000 and say It will not exceed $35,000,D00 at the most. Thero was a large decrease In the number of new yellow fever cases In New Orleans. William Archibald Thompson, a Yale law student, arrested at New Haven, Conn., for stealing a diamond rlcj? from another Yale man, is known to the police of four States. Southern business men predict a quick and general revival of trade in that section as soon as the ft*ost stops the fever and puts an end to vexatious quarantines. Three court officers were arrested in Philadelphia, Penn.. for issuing fraudulent naturalization certificates. Edward Mackin died from injuries received by a fall at a dance In New York City. His partner, a woman weighing 200 pounds, fell on him. The war scare In Wall street, New York City, disappeared, and securities were strong. Foreltrn. Official dispatches from the British camp In the Maiden Valley, India, describe a "reconnaissance" in force by the British, commanded by Brigadier-General Westmacott, which was attacked unexpectedly by the tribesmen. The loss of the British was 1 Ahrmt flftv men. The Sikhs lost two men and had six wounded.. Francis Kossuth Id thelowerhouse of the Hungarian Diet characterized the action of the Austrian Minister of Finance In threatening a suspension of the Constitution as being contrary to the terms of the Hungarian Constitution. The joiners' union in Glasgow, Scotland, has forbidden its members to hang doors made in the United States or to use joiuerj which has been imported from America. The birthday of the Prince of Wales was celebrated in England with the usual flag hoisting, bell ringing and artillery salutes. He was born November 9, 1811. The French Minister of War has declined to reopen the case of Captain Albert Dreyfus, who is confined on tho Islo du Diablo for treason against France, a? no new evi dence has been adduced. The British forces in India captured the Arhanga Tass with slight opposition. The Ameer of Afghanistan has presented the apolosy of the tribesmen to the Govern* ment and asked for terms of pardon. The Lord .Mayor's banquet was Riven in the Guildhall of London. The Marquis of Salisbury discussed the foreign relations of Great Britain in responding to a toast. The Lord Mayor's procession was a success, and thousands of persons braved the fog and drizzle to witness it. The Brazilian Government announces that it is firmly resolved to continue its ac tivity in the suppression of disorders, and as a precaution the Federal district of Nictli&roy, which includes the city of Rio Janeiro, is formally declared in a state ol siege. Horatio David Da vies was installed as Lord Mayor of Eondon. A band of forty brigands has killed sis Italians and wounded four others In th? Province ot EP^iritu Sauctu, Bra&l. THE GDELDENSUPPE CASE Murder Trial of Martin Thorn Begur in Long Island City. CASE EXCITES GREAT INTEREST, Brief Story of the Crime?The Accused and Mrs. Mack Alleged to Have Decoyed the Victim to a Lonely Cottage and There Murdered Him?Justice Wllmot SC. Smith's Attltdde Towards Talesmen New Yobk Citt (Special).?The trial or Martin Thorn for the murder of William Gueldonsuppe on June 25, at Woodslde, L. was begun at half-past nine o'clook Monday morning In Long Island City. Supreme Court Justice Wilmot M. Smith presided, and William J. Youngs, District 4-ttorney of Queens County, conducted the prosecution. William F. Ho^e, of New fork City, was the leading counsel for the defense. A large part of the space on the floor of the court-room and a considerable part of that in the gallery were occupied by the reporters and artists of the newspapers of this and other cities. Two hundred talesmen filled most of the space remaining in the small court-room, and only a few of the large number of persons whose curiosity had been whetted to a keen edge, were aDle to gratify their eyes and ears. xnorn was Drougnt in at ten o ciock. nis long confinement had apparently not told on him. He looked in good health, and to a oertain extent free from anxiety. Not quite, however; every now and then he would wet his lips nervously with his tongue. For the most part there was a half smile on his face, and he seemed to be rather proud of his prominence. The story of the crime charged against him is In brief: On the 25th of June, this year, It Is alleged, his paramour, Augusta Naok, lured to n vacant cottage at Woodside, Long Island, William Gueldensuppe, her discarded paramour. There Thorn, in hiding, shot 'Gueldensuppe, out up his body in the bathtub and threw a part of It Into the East River and took another part to Ogden Woods, near this olty. Mrs. Naok Is also nnder indictment for murder In the first degree. The proceedings began with the calling of the roll of the talesmen, upon the completion of which Justice Smith announced through the clerk that excuses would only be heard as the talesmen were seated in the witness chair. The case began dramatically. The first talesman that oame to the stand proved to be a new witness to strong facts against tbe prisoner. This talesman was L. 0. Blomqvist. He Is a painter, and lives near the Woodside cottage where Gueldensuppe is supposed to have been murdered. On Saturday, Judo 26, Blomqvist saw scanuing oeiore me cociage me surrey mat played so Important a part in the story of the orlme. More than this, be saw at the oottage Mm. Nack and Martin Thorn, and late in the evening of that day h* saw behind the surrey a grewsome bundle.tbrough the torn end of which be saw flesh and bones. He thought it was a fresh killed pigvand spoke of it to his assistant and to others at the time. The prosecution would never have heard of Blomqvlst had it not been for the aooident of his being called as ajnror. He was excused as a juror and lummoned as a witness. After this incident it was an easy matter to select twelve good men and true, it being accomplished in less than eight hours. This celerity in choosing a jury is without a precedent in the annals of celebrated trials in this State of recent years. In the selection of the Thorn jury less than seventy out of the panel of 150talesmen were oalled for examination, and two or three of those summoned failed to appear. William F. Howe, Thorn's oounsel, and District Attorney Youngs used two peremptory challenges each. A FLORIDA HOTEL BURNED. The San Marco In Ht, Augustine Keel need to Ashes. The Hotel San Marco, one of the finest and most commodious hotel properties In St. Augustine, Fla., was burned to the ground. The loss Is about $250,000, with less than $50,000 insurance. The Are was started by Incendiaries. It was discovered a few minutes after 3 o'clock a. m., and an alarm was sounded with steam whistles, the incendiaries having cut the flrebell rope. Those who gathered at the first call attaohed the notel hose to the well on the grounds and began to fight the fire. An engine reached the eoene, but its work was delayed because the lhcendiaries had cut holes in the suction pipes. Tie flames spread from the woodshed and boiler room to the kitchen, and then to the dining room and theatre. These structures were three stories high, and to the west of, but connecting with, the main building, whioh was six stories high, with towers in the centre and on eaoh wing. The San Msrco was owned by William Beale, a real estate dealer in Boston, and was leased to MoDowell 4 Palmer. The citizens of the citv have offered $500 rewar! for the capture of the incendaries. Death of a Carlisle Indian Papll. Victor Seneca, a pupil at the Indian school, Carlisle, Penn., and brother of Isaac -Seneca, right taokle on the Carlisle football eleven, died from injuries received while returning from the (jame at Philadelphia. Seneca put his head out of a car window and was struok by a telegraph pole. He wa9 eigLteen years old, belonged to the Seneca tribe, and had been at the school several years. His body was removed to his former home, at Cattaraugus, N. Y. Killed by Hit Pupils. Jame3 Allen, teacher in a school in Wheatland, Hickory County, Mo., who was assaulted by his pupils, died. Mr. AlleD kept several boys after school had beeD dismissed as a punishment for misconduct. The boys were very angry, and, after they w>?re allowed to go, waylaid tlie teacher on his way home, assaulting him with stones. Mr. Allen was knocked down and his skull fractured. The Work of Grave Bobbers. Richard Simpkins and Charles Wilser walking through Mount Pleasant Cemetery Millville, N. J., saw that the grave wher Mrs. Phoebe Tllton had been interred foui months ago had been opened and the body taken out. They found the body of Mrs Tilton about 200 yards from the cemetery, It had been mutilated and the heart was missing. Robbed a Whole Town. Three colored desperadoes held up the mining town of Marquisville, Iowa. Thej walked into the poolroom and calling on fifty miners to hold up their hands, one ol the robbers went through their pockets. The miners had just been paid, and a large sum was taken. Durrant Must Hang;. The United States Supreme Court denied the appeal of Theodore Durrant, of Sac Francisco, who was convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamout. The Court afflrmprl thp r*f tliA Snnramo Pah^ of California. Durrunt must hang. A Bicycle Tax Boomerang. The city of Montreal, which tnxes bicycles, is called on to defend an action foi damages brought by a bicyclist. P. D. Ball was riding his wheel on one of the public streets of the city when he fell and was severely injured. He attributes his fall tc the bad condition of the roads and means to lind out whether the city can be made by law to keep good roads. He sues fox *5700 damages. Hunter Goes to Guatemala. The President has appointed W. Godfrey Hunter, of Kentucky, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Guatemnln a r% A Wnn^.irna UiUlU UUU ilVUUUlUJi BERTHA THOMPSON, CITY PHYSICIAN A. Noyel Departure In Official Appointment* nt Oahkosh, Wis. Oshkosh, Wis., has a woman asoityphysioian. Bertha V. Thompson, a bright young woman who graduated in 1892 at a Chicago medical college, was appointed to that offlee recently by Mayor Ideson to eucoeed Dr. R. N. Nlntzei, tne regular cuy pnyBiaian, who has been suspended from duty BERTHA V. TH0MP80IT. pending an investigation. Dr. Thompson is the. first woman to hold the office of oity physician in the 8tate of Wisconsin. She was born in-Neenah, Wis., and was a teacher for a few years, and then served as nurse in hospitals before study* Ing medloine. She is the only woman physician in Oshkosh. PRACTICAL RAILROAD EDUCATION. The Novel Proposition ot An Eastern College Professor. A novel proposition was made not long ago to the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Tne if. ana u. nas a Drancn running from what is known as Alexandria Junction, near Washington, to Shepherd's on the Potomao River, where a car ferry is operated in connection with the lines leading south from the Capitol. A. professor of an Eastern college desired to lease this short stretch of track for the purpose of educating young men in practi* oal railroad work. In his letter he explained that he thought there was a wide field foz bright and energetio boys who could be thoroughly well grounded in the practical side of railroading provided they could be eduoated on a regular lina of road. He believed that by the employment of veteran railroad men as teaohers, tbat the boys could profitably spend two or three yean working as fratnmen, firemen, engineers, switchmen, station agents, and in othei oapaolties required in the railroad servloe, As this branch of the B. and 0. is of considerable value, the receivers were compelled to deoline the offer. MRS. NACK CONFESSES. Keveala the Shocking; Story of the Killing of William Gueldenaappe. Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly indicted with Martin Thorn, on trial in Long Island City for the murder of William Gueldensuppe, in a cottage at Woodside, L. I., has made a oonfesslon. Emanuel M. Friend, the woman's counsel, was asked about the report. "It is true." he said. "Mrs. Nack has made a oonfeHsion." Her confession agrees in every important point with the story told by John Gotha, the barber, who said that Thorn confessed to him, and on whose information the po? lice were pat on Thorn'B track. Gotha's testimony Is a higblj important part of the proseoutlon's case, and Mrs. Naok's story corroborates it. The statement made by John Gotha to the police was that Thorn had told him that Mrs. Naok had lured Gaeldensnppe to a cottage in Woodside, Long Island, where he shot the bath-rubber while Mrs. Nack waited In the garden until the deed was done; that he afterward cut up the bodv into sections, and that he ana Mrs. Nack together disposed of the pieces. M DYNAMITE DICK" KILLED. He Said He Preferred to Die With Hit Boots On and ne Did. Charles Clifton, alias Dynamite Dlok, the notorious outlaw, was killed at the kAiinA A# Ql/1 YXT 111 ( o m a mllna AI ! UV'UOC VJL giu TT 1A11 BUlOp U 41WUU UiUvij TV WOW Vi Checotah, Indian Territory, by Deputy Marshals. They had been on his trail for three weeks and chased him all over the Cherokee Nation, bat his knowledge of the ' country enabled him to elude them. Clifton refused to surrender and said he preferred to die with his boots on. Clifton had been the terror of the Indian country for several years, being the head of one of the boldest outlaw gangs that operated in that wild country. He got the name of Dynamite Dick because he used to bore holes in his cartridges and fill them with dynamite, whloh would explode with deadly effeot after striking a solid sub* stanoe. He was Implicated in numerous bank and express robberies. MASSACRE OF SIKHS. Thirty-Five Soldiers and an Officer Killed by Insurgent Indians. The report that a native officer and thirtyfive Sikhs belonging to the British Kurram column had been intercepted by tribesmen In a ravine in India and slaughtered is officially confirmed. It appears that they were assisting in a reconnoissance up the Kurmana JRiver. Taking a short cut down hill, they came to a ravine where the grass of the jungle was burning. The flames spread so rapidly as to eompletely cut off their retreat, and the tribesmen, seeing their predicament, Bwarmed on the higher ground, hurled down rocks upon them and closed round the men until the whole thirty-six were shot or cut down. The Sikhs fought heroically until the very last, their officer killing two of the rebel chiefs with his own hands before he fell. Oklahoma Stage Robbed. The mall stage running between Cheyenne, Oklahoma, and Canadian was held up bv highwaymen, who rifled the mail pouches and secured about $400 in money and valuables. James Wilson, the stage driver, has been arrested for supposed complicity in the robbery. Physician Arrested For Counterfeiting. Dr. Thomas Edgar Rogers, a well-known physician of Haralson County, Georgia, was taken to Atlanta charged with counterfeiting. In his house was found the complete paraphernalia of a counterfeiter. He manufactured gold pieces of the denomination of $10. Philadelphia's Gas Works Sold. In the face of charges of bribery and corruption the Philadelphia Select Council approved the ordinance leasing the city gas works to a private corporation. Citizens will appeal to the courts. Insane Asylum Destroyed by Fire. The building for colored people of the State Lunatic Asylum at Milledgovillo, Ga., was discovered to be on lire at half past twelve o ciock p. m, xuestuiy. ine i east end of the builiiing wns completely | destroyed, and the flames did great dam- j age to the rest of the structure. The seven j hundred patients in the building were | snved by the heroic work of citizens and firemen. The origin of the lire is unknown. The loss is at least $35,000, which is fully covered by insurance. Number of French Votes. There are in France about 10,000,000 electors. . mm CONFESSES lA/rtinan A/?rrtninl'ro Telle In Pnnrf Mn\ ffViiiu.. nvwiiipiivB .v..*.., ???.? ..v, Thorn Murdered Gueldensuppe. A SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Crowds Besiege the Queens County Com House to Hear the Story of the Hoi rlblo Deed?To Save Her Own 1.11 Mrs. Nack Betrays Her Partne In Crime?Tarns State's Evldenc< New York Citt (8pecial).?Goaded b terror and remorse, Mrs. Augusta Nac went upon the witness stand In the Queen County County Court House at Long Is] and City and confessed that she and Marti Thorn together had plotted the death c William Gueldensuppe, the Turkish bat attendant, who disappeared on June 2 last; that she lured him to the place fixe upon for his assassination and there walte ntil the deed was done; that, with he accomplice, who'had dismembered th body, she helped to dispose of the dreadfc avidenoe of the crime. It was an Intensely dramatic recital?be gun fn calmness, and ending/ in frenzj Step by step the wretched woman told c the proposition made by Thorn that Guel densuppe should be slain, of her horroi stricken rejection, of the constant persue aion and her final yielding, and the prepa rations for accomplishment and oonceal lent. Aa she went on, Mrs. N.ack raise her voice, until at last her phlegmatlo, im perturbable nature could stand It nolongei and she almost shrieked, "I am glad thl day has come. I am here before the pec pie and before my God. I free my cor science." Her face became contorted, and dow ber cheeks rolled scalding tears. Sob oonvulsed her, and for a moment she coul not speak. Then, looking up, she ooc tinued: "No matter what comes of thlf no matter what hangs over my head, don't care what happens to me; they cai hang, they can kill. I tell all." Martin Thorn, the prisoner at the bai was sitting sphynx-llke when Mrs. Naol entered the court room. His usually pal frfce became paler still as she advanced t the witness stand, but the only other slg of emotion he showed was a oonvulslv movement of the throat and a moisteninj of the thin lips. He seemed to be maklnj a desperate effort to attraot Mrs. Nack'sat tent Ion, but her eyes never once looked lnt his. Showily dressed In Bilk, and with dcbu of lace about her throat, she took he plaoe In the witness chair, and began th story of her life from the time of her mar riage In Germany up to her meeting wit Gueldensuppe, and later with Thorn in thl sountry and the awful events that followed The woman was on the stand about fou hoars. The other witnesses of the da (cere mostly men who knew Oneldensupp and who had Identified the parts of th body. The owner of the house at Wood side testified to renting the house to Thor under the name of F. Braun, and said tha Thorn introduced Mrs. Naok as Mrs Braun. He Identified Thorn and Mrs. Nac In court. Mrs. Nack's oonfession necessitated a rad leal ohansre in the lines of Thorn's defens< William F. Howe, his counsel, began b denying that Gueldensuppe had been kille or that there was any conclusive evidenc on the subject. Upon hearing Mrs. Naok' story he abandoned this theory. He had long, earnest consultation with Thorn, wh gave an entirely new version of the affali insisting that the woman had killed Gue densupp'e with her own hand and began t haok him to pieces before life was extlnc Thorn's trial was adjourned late in th afternoon on aocountof the sadden lllnej of Magnus Larsen, one of the jurors. BISHOP FITZGERALD CHOSEN. Ocean Grove Aasociallon Elects Hli President to Succeed Dr. Stoke*. Tlie annual meeting of the Ooea n Gro\ (N. J.) Camp Meeting Association has ju< been held in Ooean Grove. Almost tfc first business was to choose 4 new President to succeed the lal Dr. Elwood H. Stokes, Bishop Jamc N. FltzGerald being unanimously eleotei SIBHOP JAKES X. FITZOXBA.LO. (Distinguished Dignitary of the Methodic Church Elected President of the Ooea Grove Camp Meeting Association.) Bishop FltzGerald was spending the sua mer in Ocean Grove when Dr. Stokes diei and preached an eloquent funeral sermoi referring in glowing terms to the record < the deceased. The Bishop was then r quested to temporarily assume the dutl< of the President, and, until the close of tt summer season, presided at all publlo se vices In the Ocean Grove Auditorium. Bishop FltzGerald is sixty years ol He was a lawyer in early life. In 186 when a great revival occurred In the Cei tral Methodist Churoh, In Newark, t was converted. The law was abandonee and he became an itinerant preacher. ] 1881 he was elected Recording 8ecretai of the Methodist Missionary Soclet and his duties assigned him to woi in New York. For seven years he he] this position, and in 18SS was chosen gei eral superintendent. His career as a Bi hop has been marked by much ability. ] February, 1890 Bishop FitzGerald was a] pointed by his colleagues to be Preside! of the Epworth League, in which capacit he served for more than six years. Richard Folsom Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, of Princ ton, N. J., have named their boy Richai Foisom. xuo Doy is namuu unci uu m ternal grandfather. Fatally Injured at Football. William J. Keating, twenty-one years age, living with his parents In North Horn stead, Penn., died from the result of an ii jury received in a football game at Swis vale ten days before. He was Injured will playing halfback, and had been ill evi since. His death came rather uuexpectedl and the case is being investigated by tt Coroner. Freedom For Competitor Men. The Spanish Government has cablf Marshal Blanco, specially authorizing hii to includo the Competitor prisoners in tl amnesty granted to Cubans now imprison* or waiting trial. Cycling Note:?. "Jimmy" Michael has earned 525,000 ( bis bicycle this year. A new cycle tire made of extremely ill ateel nas recently beon patented. The League of Ameelcan Wheelmen ht a membership of more than 100,000 and now by far the largest association of its kir in the world. A now 200-mlle road record for the Sta of Massachusetts has been established I It. C. Bell, who made the distance in fou teen hours and ten minutes. Reading, Fenn,, claims the honor of co: structing u bicycle for the future Emper* of Japan, Trince Yoshihito, who is a your man of about nineteen yejirs of age. " '.'.- / " It 'ii' A " '* '( ' i ATTEMPT TO KILL MORAES.' 'i Brazilian Soldier Fires on the President and Stab* the Minister of War. A dispatch from Bio Janeiro, Brazil, says: y "At 1 o'clock Friday afternoon a soldier tf the Tenth Battalion, whloh constitutes part of the local garrison, attempted to shoot President Moraes of Brazil with a pistol. The President was just landing at (- PBESEDENT MOBAES. r. 1 [' the Marine Arsenal after ylsltlng the 1- steamer on which General Barbosa, Minls'* ter of Marine, had returned to Bahla. * - "The bystanders frustrated the attempt; >- but Colonel Moraea, the President's nephew, L- was slightly wounded In disarming the I u soldier. General Betanooart, Minister of War, then Interfered, and was himself f? stabbed. The wound was so serious that 3 he died soon afterward. The attack has '* caused the greatest agitation throughout i* the city." 5 LIKE A WESTERN LYNCHING. d , l- Mark Twain Describes the Austrian >; Belchsrath's Sitting. a The last all-night sitting of the Austrian Relchsrath in Vienna was the most disor"> derly ever witnessed in any Parliament, g Some of the anti-Semite expressions were o of such an improper oharacter as to a defy reproduction. The most frequent q Insult bandied about was the g charge of drunkenness. Three-fourths g of the members appeared to have gone ravlng mad. "Liar," "Disgraceful scamp," o '.'Drunken olown," "Glnshop hog" and a similar villainous expletives and suggesr tlons were common remarks. Herr Wolff e called Dr. Lueger (Burgomaster of Vienna) "The Vienna Thimble-rigger." h M. Verestchagln, the Busslan painter, 8 and Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) i. were In the visitors' gallery. The former r made sketches of various scenes and said y he regarded them as good substitutes for e street fighting andthe barricades of former e days. Mark Twain said it reminded him of "? 4?imaAffniv f.n nnnfflh [- tux Ailiouuau ljuvurng ?v a a horse stealer," adding, "I suppose some,t body had been hanged, bat I was not there I., long enough to make sure of It." He asked k Herr Looker to give notioe of his next twelve hoars' speech, and said he wonld be [. there and sit it oat. Herr Looker took the ). observation seriously and replied that he 5 hoped next week to repeat the performance and, perhaps, improve upon It. e J MURDERED TWO, KILLED HIMSELF. 0 Jealousy Caaaed a Man In Texai to Slay J] His Klval and the Woman In the Caao. o James B. Boswell shot and killed William Barton and Lizzie Meidman, and then ,3 killed himself at Dallas, Texas. Bosweli, acoordlng to his written story, lived at Temple, Texas, several years, having gone there from Holly Springs, Miss. He had a wife whom he married under a different n name, but left her to love the Meidman woman. Barton alienated the woman's affections and he followed them to Dallas. He spent 3t the day writing the story of his life. After te dark he went to the home of Lizzie Meld-, m man and found Barton there. Without saying a word he oommenced firing. :e Boswell Immediately turned his weapon >9 apon himself, the bullet ploughing a frightful hole through his chest. A REJECTED SUITOR'S REVENCE. 9a Harder* the Olrl and Her Father After Killing Twenty Sheep. Mannal Garoia. of Durango, Mexico, killed upward of twenty sheep and two dogs on the sheep ranoh of Pedro Lopez, and in the evening entered the home of Lopez and killed him and his daughter nineteen years old. For several months Garcia has professed to be deeply In love with the girl, but she and her father refused to recognize his suit. On Tuesday he was told that he must offer no further attention to the girl and must keep away from the Lopez home. This was the oause of his crime. He cut the throats of both his vlotlms. TO RESCUE ANDREE. Steamer Victoria Will Search For the Ext plorer. n The steamer Victoria, fltted out by the Governor of Tromsoe, under Instructions ^ from King Oscar, of Sweden, has left Trom3 soe Island in search of Andree. She carries 1, a crew of fifteen men, inoludlng PaulBjoerot vlft, the explorer. e- The Victoria is provisioned for eight 9s months and will search Daumandsoeren, le Advent Bay, Cape Thordsen, Prinz Earl r- Foreland, and possibly Danes Island, from whloh point Andree's balloon ascended in d. July last. On her return trip she will ex? 1, plore the southwest coast of Daumand a- uoeren. ie d, Money From the U. P. Sale. ^ The Treasury Department has arranged yt to deposit the money received from the k sale of the Union Pacific Railroad In sevld eral New York banks In order to balance a- the heavy withdrawals of the Reorganiaa3 tlon Committee and prevent disturbance of In the money market. The Government's p- share of the purchase money is $59,448,it 223. ;y Young Girl a Suicide. Cielle Guimaraes, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy man of East Orange, . N. J., committed suicide with a revolver ra because her father had reproved her for a- hor fondness for young companions. Her body was found near her home. o( Turkish Consul Guilty. e- The Superior Court jury at Boston, Mass., l' which has been trying the case against Jo nhfipffpH In sepn A. IBSIRI, CI-IUIMJII uuuou., . a? 3r with embezzling $140,000 from the French y estate, reported n verdict of guilty. 10 Coal Gas Kills Three Persons. J(j Peter Chewper, his Infant daughter ^ Auna, and John Stohlma were asphyxiated ae by coal gas near Lancaster, Penn. Mrs. ;d Chewper and a boarder named Simon were found unconscious. Prominent People. William B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of >B the Treasury, was a messenger boy in the department fifteen years ago. ie The Duke of Westminster lias more children than any other member of the British I TTn frrrinn mnrrlp/l is peerage, .no um .n.w ?. i? Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith has been chosen President of the Board of Education of Atlanta, Ga., by the unanimous vote te of its members. y According to the Westminster Gazette, r" the reason no biography has ever been written of Mr. Deiane, the late editor of n. the London Times, is that the proprietors j: of the Times have always forbidden it. Relg cently a fresh appeal was made to them, but, it is said, without success. ' ' '' A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE , DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST V . IN MANY WAY& * 1 . -'.j ' - : the Present Need ? Startling Statistics Pre tented by the Enemies of Aloohoi What the Census off 1890 STu W Use of Alcohol Spreads lmon( Women. Have you heard In the crowded oity - ^ The orphan children cry, . v /% Has your heart been touohed with pity < - | At the soand of the widow's Sigh, '1 \f. . ^ Have yon seen by the face of a mother J The grief that Is hid wlthlii, * - ' ? Or a sister weep for a-brother Astray In the ways of sin? r ,' ' -j Oh, then let your soul awaken [ To the needs of the present hoar, ' Let the wall of the ones forsaken Inspirit and Rive you power? Remembering ltves so wasted And held in the devil's thrall. To put from your lloe untasted The drink that's the cause of all. ';; A Startling Statistics. ? The oensos of 1890 shows that 45,000 'i 'lhji deaths were directly due to drunkenness. The death of every American was hastened on an average seven andthrea-tenthsyeaa by drankenne8s. The earnings of 40,000 ; pi men at 1854 a year for seven and three- 45 tenths years amounts to 1110^89,000, whieh. ' I- *1?a AA?*n^OT> *k?AMMh fluk Jliuifll fit 19 1V9I) bU fcUU UVUUllJ tiUVURu ?i?w uvwvu. ? . the drinkers. There were 8,760,000 hard drinkers at that . time, and reoent investigations show that the number has nearly doubled. The use of alcohol is spreading with alarming rapidity among women. ; A total of $91,841,480 1s spent annually by the State and local governments of New fork (or police courts, jails and poorhouses (or caring (or criminals and paupers. Investigations show that serentyflve per cent, o (these cases are due to drink -V; and alcohol poisoning. In France, where great quantities of alcohol are consumed by all elmset, the ' [Uty number o( deaths la 1895 exceeded'the >:?v births by 20,000. French scientists hold alcohol poisoning in a great measure ttsponsible. j M. Bergeron and M. Laborde, of the Prenoh Academy of Medicine, in a set of ? < resolutions presented to the aoolptyinl896t wrote: .. V ;; -t "Science has demonstrated both by ei- 'cgBM perlment and by chemical observation that the most Impure and poisonous alcohols can be oonverted into the pureet and least poisonous alcohol, which la none thelt?* always and fundamentally a poison." . T. - r; Ex-Superintendent Thomas Byrnes, cf the New York Police Department, says: ;tWE "Drunkenness is the prollflo mother of most ityi of the evil-doing. Alcoholism Is the prime cause of all the trouble." Out of 881 Inmates of the Connecticut State Prison in the year 1895, 46.8 per dent. were willing to admit that alcohol had S/ ruined them.?New York Journal.. Danger of the Cap. A wall known Congregatlonalist minister, who was for many years pastor of am* of Boston's Congregational o&uroliM, while . .j? addressing a large meeting in tiae' interest of temperance in a church, of which the \\ editor of the National Temperanoa Adro- ! oate was at the time past or, made this thrilling and impressive statement: "Ton are talking like silly idiotstwhsa Mn uv thrn la nn /Innffflr in th? inn. >1, ft. (enow from, the blood of five generation* of > V ;,j older-drlnklng ancestors in my veins the danger there la In the thing. There 1* not a scent of liquor that la not pleasant to mo, that woald not be a precious drop to my tongue. Look at me. Do I Took, like a man easy to be overcome by temptation? Do you know my life? Gobaok and learn it, and see what I have suffered; and yet I say to yon, with this background ol evidence? I declare to you, aa I value my manhood, and yet my standing, and my soul?-I would not dare to drink for three weeks a glass of liquor a day, The chasm, yaxns at your feet and at my feet. Tho*e who say there Is no danger in that first glass of " ""jj liquor do not reoognise the peril ofnetell-. .-.spa tary weakness." Organise the Children* Bev. Alexander P. Doyle says with refers enoe to the annual convention of the Catholio Total Abstinence Union,, of America, held recently in Scranton, Pens;: "The convention did more real work for temperanoe tban any previous one er*r did, because it determined to make special efforts to gather children Into the organisation, thus establishing their future Midi the future of the movement. This world will be accomplished by the formation of . '< > juvenile societies. Ail the bishop* of tha country now pledge the girls and boys at! confirmation to abstain from Intoxicating: liquors until they are twenty-one years old. When the bishop leaves the parish after, confirmation the responsibility rests wfth the parish to see that these boys and girls are organized into Into total abstinence so-' cleties, and the sentiment'Is encouraged , and strengthened in them. This work will be began immediately throughout the country, and the practical result will be that by Christmas thousands of ohlldre? who have taken the total abstinence pledge will have been enrolled In a great Juvenile ''. ' temperance army." Intoxication No Excuse. Not long ago a Judge in one of the West- . ?rn nnmtnunittafl held that when a man do Ilberately filled himself with liquor until he lost oontrol of himself he was legally responsible for whatever he did while he was Intoxicated. We do not know whether this is good law or not, bat It Is good sense. Any other rale woald make It too easy for criminals to escape pnnlshment. A burglar might plead that ne was intoxicated when he robbed a hou&, or a murderer might plead that he was mad from drink when he killed a man; but such an excuse would not restore the dead to life nor would it protect the oommunity from a repetition of . the crime. Intoxication may sometimes be an explanation, bnt it ought not be considered a defense.?Brooklyn Eagle. Pat'a Bargain With the Saloon Keeper. At a temperance meeting, where several related their experiences, a humorous Irishman who spoke was acknowledged to be the chief speaker. He had on a pair of fine new boots. Said he: "A week after I j signed thej>ledge I met an old friend and 1 ne sftia: ia?m 9 a uue pair ui vwu jv? bare on.' 'They are,' says I, 'and by the same token 'twas tbe saloon keeper who gave them to me.' 'That was' generous of him,' says be. 'It was,' says I, 'bat I made a bargain with him. He was to keep bis drink and I was to keep my money.' My money bought ny? these fine boots. I got the best of the bargain, and I'm going to stick to it.'" . What is Temperance? , ' True temperance is tbe proper use o! good things, and total abstinenoe from \ bad things. Under which category would you place alcoholic beverages? ' Remain Away* If you have taken the total abstinence pledge you should not frequent plaoes wherein drink is 9old. No doubt you rely on your strength of will to keep you from falling. But it is better to remain away from such places. We pray to God to "lead us not into temptation" and we are commanded to avoia tno occasions oc evu. Therefore, let us not think ourselve? stronger than we are. Temperance News and Notes. Strong drink does not make one strong. In ilrinking health to others, bo careful lest you drink ill-health to yourself. Alcoholic drink is not necessary to health. Nor is it indispensable in the matters of wealth and happiness. Don't allow drink to obtain a foothold in your home. The seeds of drunkenness * are easy to sow, but hard to eradicate. ^ You may lessen tho sum of human mis- V cry by subscribing to funds for charity. ^ You may lessen it in another way by being sober yourself, and using your influence to make others so. Canon Basil Wilberforce can claim to be one of the most ardent temperance reformers In the British isles. When moving for the first time into his canonry, he had all the wino In the cellar poured out into the street, and he convened ine cenar into a dinlnpr room by opening out two windows onto Dean|s yard .