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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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\
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE , DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST V .
IN MANY WAY& *
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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 .