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f I THE HBHIffHM IS' Postmaster-General Gary's Annual Review of the Work. FAVORS POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. He Argues That Thej Would Develop Thrift Among the People and Tend to Promote Good Citizenship and the Gronth of Patriotism?.Ho* to Stop Lou in Carrying Second-Class Matter. Washinotok, D. C. (8pecial).?The first annual report of Postmaster-General James A. Gary to the President was made publio. ' Its feature is the strong advocacy of postal savings depositories. Mr. Gary says the time la ripe for the establishment of postal banks, and that the addition of a well-organized system would confer a groat boon upon an large number of persons and ultimately be of Inestimable benefit to the whole oountry. . The estimates of the revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898. are: Estimated revenues, f92,974, 647.37; estimated expenditures, 1899, 198,922,760; deficiency, $6,048,112.63. Mr. Oary in his report touohes on a great variety of topics. In respect to seoondolass mail matter carriage he urges the -?-A??* v-" rin*nmoa nf oAmA mnnaiirfi to OUitUbUiCUl vjr vuu^ivoo Vi uvuiv ? remedy the injustice of the present regulations. "If this were done," he says, "there would be an end to postal defloits and the servioe eould be enlarged and popularized by a broad extension of free delivery without infringement upon the general resources of the Government, and eventually result in the much desired reduction of letter postage to one cent per ounoe." Mr. Gary thinks no method of perfeoting the organization of the Postal Service has proved more effective than the consolidation of Postofflces. He regrets that there are legislative restrictions on its development, and recommands the repeal of the five-mile limit consolidation measure in the 1896 Postal Appropriation bill. Speaking or rural free delivery, Mr. Gary says the system, wherever tried, has been , onnra/ilotAll Rnrl thftt few PT (jOUCiUUiJIJ ?? ? pflnditures have conferred greater benefits, dollar for dollar, than those for this system. The department's experiment in rural free delivery, it is said, have proved a potent factor in attaining what should be a chief aim of government, the granting of J the best possible postal facilities to the farming class. On the subject of postal savings, Mr. Gary says: " Many millions of dollars undoubtedly are secreted by persons who have little or ' no confidence in ordinary securities and monetary institutions organized by private oltizens. j "It is dead capital," Mr. Gary goes on to pay, "but if its owners could be inspired : with absolute confidence in the security of an investment it fs altogether probable that the bulk of this fund would find its way I into the channels of trade and commerce. 1 If the Government undertook this task, I theservloe would undoubtedly be gladly I accepted by the people. Their faith in the ' Government is unbounded. ' "The proposition Is an accomplished fact in nearly every oountry in Europe, in ] the British dependencies or Dom nemispheres, and even in Hawaii. In'Great Britain 7,000,000 depositors have upward of $550,000,000 in savings accumulated during thirty-five years, and in ten years fewer than 10.000 Hawaiian depositors saved nearly $1,000,000. These vast accumulations have been made with the least possible loss to the governments, which guarantee their payment, and with a minimum of cost to the millions of doposltors. "More than a third of the postal savings accounts in European offices are held by minors, and over two-thirds by the most humble callings, It is essentially the bank of this class. Postal savings would not confllot with the savings banks, but would encourage savings rather than accumulations. The conversion of money order offl 0B3 IUIU BttYlUgO uepuiuvilCD nuuiu ouuu < afford Infinitely more facility for reoelvlng < interest bearing deposits than the interest < paying banks do now." Mr. Gray finds the most aggressive op- 1 ponents of the postal bank among the I private institutions engaged in somewhat I similar enterprises. 1 ' Speaking of other oountries, the Post- 1 ? master-General says nearly every country I permits its most popular coin as the minimum amount of deposit, varying from 5 j cents in India to 31 in Canada. Maximum ] deposits vary from $285 in France to $2435 < in New Zealand. Deposits over a certain i amount are non-interest bearing. In sev- t eral countries the surplus is by law in- < vested in National bonds. Both deposits I and accounts are usually small. i 1 The average commission paid to Postmasters' in oountries where the postal bank i is established is one cent per deposit. Any , account may be settled and withdrawn from any depository in the oountry. The telegraph is coming into use as a means of withdrawal. MOB LAW IN NORTH DAKOTA. < ?- . p v i inrce inumns juyncuvu cut mo uv* of the Splcer Family. j 1 Alexander Coudot, an Indian half-breed, ] -and Paul Holytrack and Philip Ireland, 1 full-blooded Indians, the first of whom was 1 sentenced to death for the murder of six ( members of the Spicer family last February, ( ' and had just obtained a new trial from 1 the Supreme Court, and the latter two i . self-confessed accessories in the murders, were taken from the County Jail, at Willlamport, In Emmons County, North Dakota, and lynched by a mob. 'The lynching apparently had been planned carefully, and was carried out without a break in the programme. Williamsport, where the hanging took place, is about forty miles from the railroad. The crime for which the men were thus executed was the brutal murder of six members of the Spicer family last winter. The bodies of Thomas Spic?r, his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Rouse, and her twin children, and of Mrs. Ellen Waldron, his motherin-law, were found at the Spicer home all horribly mutilated. Fear that the men would escape punishment for their crime led to the lynching. Crashed by an Anaconda. An anaconda escaped in a Philadelphia ' museum, and before it was recaptured killed a pony and broke several ribs of , one of the employes. Philadelphia's Gas Works leased. Despite the protests of many of the people Mayor Warwick, of Philadelphia,signed the ordinance leasing the city's gas works. Yale and Harvard Draw. Harvard and Yale piayea eacn ocner 10 a standstill in tbolr football game on Soldiers' Field, Cambridge, Mass. For two thrilling hours the two sturdy elevens struggled over the white-lined gridiron, desperately disputing every inch of territory and vainly essaying to cross the coveted goal line. It was "a case of two teams, each with a strong defense and weak ground-gaining powers, and the logical outcome of the contest was that neither side scored. Greater New York'* Mortality. In Greater New York 70,000 persons die every year, or nearly 200 a day. Minor Mention. rpu** KnKnnfn nlomio hoa mnn. keys in India. Denver, Col., pays eighty-five cents pet 1000 cubic feet for gas. Wilford Glover, fifteen years old. of Tropico, Cal., has confessed to killing Dr. R. P. Moore, of Los Angeles, for the purpose of robbery. The United State? Supreme Court rendered a decision holding that the ruilroads need not file their rates as against competing water lines. The new Mills Hotel in New York City has this rule prominently posted throughout the building: "Please pay nothing to any of the attendants." . ia laSeSmxi'tzfJl. J / THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Item*. The Cabinet has deolded to send the revenue cutter Bear to relieve the loe-tmprlsoned whalers. f ramie r Launur aun me umm uauauiau ofDoisls left Washington for Ottawa; reports that their mission had proved a fail* ure were officially denied. Ex-Congressman Frank W. Mondell was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office by President McKinley. Secretary Algers favors the transfer of the management of volunteer soldiers' homes to the War Department. ' President McKinley signed the treatj adopted by the Universal Postal Congrosi recently held in Washington, thus completing its ratification on the part of the United States. By orders issued at the Postoffice Department the salaries qj eight-flve clerks of all classes in the main office and stations of Brooklyn were raised, making an aggregate of $8500 increase. The Secretary of the Treasury deoided that sugar produoed wholly la Denmark will be subject to a oounter-valllng duty ol not less than .135 of 1 oent per pound. This Is understood to point to a like decision ai to Dutch sugars. The State Department Anally decided not to surrender Jesus Guerra to the Mexican Government. Ex-Congressman John X. Langston (colored), of Virginia, died in Washington. Domestic. P William Wells, thirty-flve years old. of Northville, and Andrew Poley, aged fifty, of Aquebogue, Long Island, farmers, were found dead in a catboat on the beach neat Squire's Landing, on Peconlc Bay. The boat was about half filled with water. Coroner Nugent summoned a jury and they rendered a verdict of death by exposure. Snow storms have made some of the mountain roads in Vermont well-nigh impassable, and many drifts have been formed. Henry Sherry, a lumberman, of Neenah* Wis., failed with liabilities of $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson made an address at the meeting of the National Grange in Harrisburg, Penn. Edward E. Jones, bead cleric in t tie American Book Company, shot himself in tne New York offices of the concern, leaving no sxplanation for his act. He died in St. Yin:ent's Hospital. The Leather Belting Manufacturers' Association at its annual meeting in New York City determined to advance the price of belting twenty-flve per cent, because of the duty placed on hides by Congress. Fannie Eagle Horn and Eliza Flander, Indian girls, were arrested on complaint of Superintendent Pratt of the Carlisle (Penn.) Indian School, and lodged in jail, on the charge of arson. A mysterious fire broke out in the girls' quarter. These girls started the Are with tho intention of burning down the school, because permisslonto go home had been refused to tnem. Arthur B. Moody, member of a wellknown New Haven (Conn.) family, was arrested in that town for swindling aD English artist and two young society women 'Kl^nr V/M-lr Plfv nnt nt hnndq and monflV la glittering but bogus investments. The Rev. Dr. George H. Houghton, rector of "The Little Church Around the Corner," the Protestant Episoopal Church of the Transfiguration, in New York City, Famous for years for its many theatrical Funerals, died at the rectory, adjoining the ehuroh. The jury at Chattanooga, In the case of Beasley against Chief Justloe D. L. Snodijrass, of the Tennessee Supreme Court, returned a verdict in favor of Snodgrass, refusing to allow Beasley damages for personal injuries as asked. Fritz Meyer, or Constantino Stelger, was sonvloted in New York City of the willful murder of Polileman Smith, and afterward admitted that he slew Bellrlnger Stelz, hut refused to name his aooomplice. Joseph A. Iasigl, former Turkish Consul in Boston, was sentenced by Judge Sheldon In the Superior Criminal Court to State prison for a period not exceeding eighteen lor less than fourteen years. Bishop Doane, of Albany, N. Y., made a peeoh against jingoism. Jean B. Guillemot, a boy whose lavish expenditure of money caused suspicion :hat he had been implicated in the murder >f his uncle, J. B. Leplante, tax collector >f St. Llbolre, Quebec, made n complete sonfession of the crime to the police of Blddeford, lie., and afterward repeated it >efore his parents. Guillemot asserted that lis aunt admitted her admiration for him ind assured him if he would kill her hus)and she would come to Blddeford after a ;ime and marry him. Harry Potter, thirty-seven years old, wa3 ooking in a 6tore window at Philadelphia. Ele held an umbrella with a steel rod in it ?ver his head. Above him was an electric ire light. The end of the umbrella rod ;ouched the iron frame of the lamp and a jurrent of electrioity passed through bis >ody to the Iron covering of a coal shaft n the sidewalk, killing him instantly. Miss Jessie Irene Peet, of Canaan, Conn., in heiress, became tLo bride of her coachnan, Alfred Herrlman. Seth Low, at the request of the trustees, withdrew his resignation as President of Columbia University, New York City. William S. Wilson, son of the late United States Senator Wilson, of Maryland, committed suicide. ? Two burglars at Woodsburg, L. I., broke Into a drug store, rolled out an 800-pound postofflce safe, and tried to cart it away an a stolen truck. They were detected, md fled. Brown boat the Indians of the ^Carlisle School by a score of 18 to 14 In the'football same at the Polo Grounds, New York City. "n ?^ Tn/IIdna nrnrn hnrllv hllfl". Thft decisions of Umpire Upton caused muoh dissatisfaction. Thomas J. Lyons, a printer, was murdered in Brooklyn. His body wa3 found in a vacant lot on Fulton street with the skull crushed in. Heavy stones were presumably the weapons used. The ground showed traoes of a severe struggle with his unknown assailant or assailants. Henry Phillips, colored, a self-confessed murderer, was lynched in the courtyard at Osceola, Ark., byamoboomposed of prominent oltizens. The cause of the lynching was the murder of a merchant. Foreign. Countess Ulfeld, ft Russian, killed herself with a revolver in a police station of Edinburgh. General Pellieux has been appointed to inquire into the charges brought against Comte Esterhazy in connection with the Dreyfus case in Paris. General Kempster's brigade had twenty-' seven officers and men killed and thirtyone wounded in the recent engagement Id the Maidan Valley, India. A London company bought the old Cunarders Bothnia and Scythia to run from Vancouver to Klondike ports. Spanish residents in Cuba between the ages of fourteen and forty-five have been asked to enlist as volunteers against the insurgents. Princcss Kaiulani was wnrmly welcomed oytbo native element on her arrival in Honolulu; it was rumored that the object of her visit to the islands was to be mar ucu. Vhe Czar of Russia has decided to rebuild the burned Christian quarter of Canea, Island of Crete. He will enlarge the Greek Orthodox Church. Cuban insurgents wrecked a railroad crain hear Puerto Principe with dynamite. The explosion killed twelve person and injured twenty-soven soldiers and passengers. Telegraph advices from Guayaquil, Ecuador, state that the town of Loreto had been destroyed by a hurricane. Only a few scattered buildings were left standing, and it Is reported that the loss of life was very heavy. roiint F.sterliazv. an Austrian, is accused toy implication of "being responsible for the continued leak of French military secrets. The sailors and marines belonging to the German cruiser division, off the coast of China, have made a landing in force at Kiaochan Bay, the nearest port to YenChu-Fu, in the southern part of the Chinese province of Shan-Tun, where the German missionaries were recently murdered, with the view of forcing the government of China to completely satisfy the demands of Germany. / 9 PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW S IILj# i PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW CAPITOL An Imposing Group of Building to Be Erected In Harrlabarg. The new Pennsylvania State Capitol, as designed by Henry Ives Cobb, of Chicago, will be an imposing groap of buildings, so arranged that from every point of view the lame Impression of simple and dignified masslveness will be given. The central dome will be placed at the intersection of Btate and Capitol streets so that four different vistas will open toward it. The legislative halls will be in the central building, and on either side, connected by wings, will be two departmental buildings. The appropriation of $550,000 is not large enough to permit the erection of the whole, structure at onoe,but it is thought that the legislative halls and enough committeerooms for pressing needs can be put up with that-sum, and in all probability completed within a year from the 1st of January. The dome and departmental building can then be erected later. It is proposed by the architect that the exterior of the building shall be constructed of Pennsylvania granite cr marble, the framework of steel and the interior walls and partitions of brick and hollow tile. The legislative building is to be 100 feet high to the base of the dome and the dome ninety-six feet higher. The entranoe to the capltol will be from West State street. A wide corridor leads to the rotunda, where elevators run to the floor above, on which are the legislative chambers. The Senate will have the western end or toe Duuamg ana tue House the eastern end. Eaoh ball will receive light from three sides, Eaoh is to have a gallery, above whloh is a large space for caucus and other rooms. KELLEY PLEADS GUILTY OF MURDER. Aglti Not to Be Hanged Until Hit Contract With the Devil Expires. At Dover, N. H., Joseph E. Kelley retraoted his plea of not guilty to the charge of murdering CashierStlckney, of theGreat Falls National Bank, and pleaded guilty. In addressing the court Kelley said: "This question of retracting my plea all remains with your Honor. If you will fix the date of my execution on January 16, 1899, then, your Honor, I retraot my plea and plead guilty to the charge of murder." Kelley will be twenty-flve years old on January 15, 1899, and it has been his reSeated desire for months that he should not e hanged until after his twenty-fifth birthday, for then his contraot with the devil will expire, he says, and he will go to heaven. Kelley's plea was accepted and the jury was discharged. Kelley was pronounced guilty of murder In the second degree by Chief-Justice Mason, and sentenced to serve a term of thirty years in State prison at Conoord. DROPPED DEAD THROUGH GRIEF. Father of Swindler r*acenes ?uuo Dies Because of Hhame. Alexander Pelky, tbe father of the wife of Sidney Lascelies, the bogus Lord Beresford, dropped dead at Fitzgerald, Ga.t his death being hastened by a keen sense of the disgrace of his daughter. Beresford was released from the penitentiary a few months ago and cut a wide swath in Fitzgerald. In spite of the faot that he had been divorced, be captured the heart of Miss Clara Pelky, whose father denounced him as an adventurer and refused his sanction to the marriage. They defied him, had the ceremony performed and took a wedding trip. They returned for a few days and disappeared again. An investigation of Lascelles's affairs showed that he had swindled many business houses. The father of his wife never recovered from the shook, and has gradually declined In health until his death, whioh the physicians say was induced by excessive grief. He leaveB property VAlued at $50,000. As Mrs. Lasoelles is his only ohild, she will doubtless inherit it. Charles Page Bryan Minister to China. The President has appointed Charles Page Bryan, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extra, ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. Mr. Bryan is a young mao. He has been prominent in Washington and Chicago, and his. experience in public affairs bas been confined to a term in the Illinois Legislature, where he was noted for his efforts in behalf of civil service reform. The Princeton Inn Affeir. The Presbytery of New Brunswick. N. J., accepted the withdrawal of Profesor Shields, of Princeton University, who signed the application for a liquor license for Princeton Inn. A resolution was adopted calling the attention of Presbyterians to the rule of the church respecting the liquor trafflo. Yellow Fever Subsiding. The South is beginning to free itself from yellow fever. Muny cities are inviting refugees to return. The quarantine restrictions in North Alabama have been removed. New Orleans has raised the quarantine against all points, but will exact health certificates of passengers from infeoted cities. Politician Commits Sniclde. A. Gilliam, manager of the Jones-Nixon Publishing Company, of St. Louis, Mo.,and Democratic candidate for State Senator at the last election, shot and killed himself. No reason is known for the deed, except that an injury received recently by Mr. Gilliam in a bicycle accident may have affected his mind. Philadelphia Interested In Klondike. A Philadelphia syndicate with a capital of $7,000,000, of which C. H. Cramp is the head, has bought five steamers and will establish a line from San Francisco to the Klondike. A great mining syndicate, with $5,000,000 capital, ha3 been formed in Philadelphia. Durrani's Kcsplte. The California State Supreme Court granted a stay of execution in the case of Durrant, who murdered two girls in a San I Francisco church, because of the error of [ Superior Judge Durrant before the papers in the United States Supremo Court decision had arrived. Prominent People. The Duke of Argylo has held his title for fifty years. Ex-Secretary Carlisle has decided to locate in New York City. Senator Gorman will retire from political life at sixty years of age. Princess Kaiulani bag sailed for Hawaii to look for a missing throne. Major Handy, United States Commissioner to Paris, has returned after securing 200,000 square feet of space at the great exposition of 1900. Mark Twain cables from Europe that the report that he is out of debt is a lie. The genial humorist olaims the right to gloat over his poverty... v.. ^ V -i" ^ v>.eTATE CAPITOL BUILDINCL % r 8fe?*r REV. DR. HEPWORTH'S MISSION. Has Gone to Asia ..Minor to Inreitlc>b the Armenian Tronblea. On the invitation of the Saltan of Turkey the New York Herald has sent "an lnde pendent, fearless and Intelligent commis sioner to investigate the condition of thf Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire and the truth or falsity of the reports ol Armenian massacres, with whioh the worll has been flooded." BIT. GEOBQE H. HEPWOBTH. The Herald's selection for this woric ia the Bev. Qeorge H. Hepworth, "whose character as a Christian clergyman, and whoso Bermons, as published every Sundaj in the Herald (or years, gives assurance ol full sympathy with his co-rellgionists in all demands for religious freedom, while hli experience as an observer, writer and tralnedjournalist, will assure a rigid execution of his mission. Dr. Hepworth has an assistant thoroughly familiar with the country and tbe Sultan's people, and is accompanied by the Sultan's secretaries. He is also escorted by cavalry to protoct him from the roving bands of brigands that infest tbe country." MOB SURROUNDED A COURT HOUSE. Only the Glittering Bayonet* ai the Sol* dlera Charged Dispersed It. The timely arrival of troops at CArrollton, Pickens County, Ala., at daylight thwarted the efforts of a mob to lynch Bad Beard, colored, on trial there for assaulting a seven-year-old white ohlld. The lynchers were just preparing to close In on the Court House, where the Sherifl and a dozen deputies had stood guard over the prisoner all night, fearing that If an attempt was made to take him back to jail the mob would get him, when the Warrior Guards, of Tuscaloosa, drove up in four wagons and dispersed the throng. Excitement was intense and the mob refused to move until they saw the glittering bayonets about to be turned upon them. The soldiers then surrounded the court house, allowing none but officers of the court and others Interested to pass the lines. Court was reconvened at 9 o'clock a. m. and the trial was proceeded with. By noon it was over and Beard had been sentenced b> Judge Pratt to hang on December 10. LOCOMOTIVE KILLS THIRTY. An Entire Wedding Party Ground to Pieces by an Express Train. A terrible accident bos occurred near Bielostok, Busslan Poland, resulting In the death of thirty persons. A wedding party of that number was returning from the church to the home of the bride. All were in one wagon, a huge vehicle, drawn by eight horses. The road along which they drove crosses the railway track on the level, and the driver, either through carelessness or ignorance of the train schedule, pushed his swiftly moving horses upon the crossing just as the express was coming up. The locomotive struck the vehicle squarely, killing many members of the party outright and mangling others so that they soon expired in frightful agony. Not a member of the party escaped. Greek Invaders Badly Beaten. Some Greek bands whioh crossed the Thessaltan frontier, between Diskat and Domenik, have been repulsed by the Turks, who killed many of the invaders and captured a large number of prisoners. The Turks also seized 160 rifles and 170,000 cartridges belonging to the Greeks. Klondike Corner In Food. A miner from Klondike says that the food supply at Dawson city is cornered by a few men who bought up everything in sight last summer and are holding it' fox fanoy prices. The food supply is insufficient at best and this corner only adds to the Inevitable suffering. New Sealing Conference. Conferences with a view to settling the* questions at issue between the United States and Canada were begun between Premier Laurler and Secretary Sherman at the 8tate Department; President McKinley gave a dinner in honor of the Canadian visitors. Rumla'a New Minister. Russia has recalled Mr. Kotzebue from Washington and has appointed as her new Minister to the United States the famous Count Cassini, who has long and shrewdly represented her at the court of Peking. Mysterious Assassination. Captain George Farley, a wealthy mill wright of Wood Glen, N. J., was murdered in a lonely road by an unknown robber. Spain's Monetary Supplies. The Rothschilds and othor great financiers of Europe wholly cut off the monetary supplies on which Spuin depended, Labor "World. Our railroads employ 827,000 men. Russia employs 41,000 coal miners. The National Free Labor Association ol England has 182,000 members, opponents of trade unions. The Pullman Company has 9000 men on Its payroll. Of these, 4000 are employed al Pullman, Chicago. It is satd that 55,000 persons will directly and indirectly draw pay from the first city administration of Greater New York. It is estimated that as many as 60,000 farmers and others In France make theii living by the manufacture of Roquefort thoiua. . v -^ '> " ' > v 7: - *?,y | < . v ".r .vr J"V:; V GERIANS LAND IN CHINA. ^ - " . 3 Srlmirol nioftarlrhc Takp<! Pnsspsslnn m - yvjiiiii mi i/ivuviivii?i i muvw vwvwwiv?< ? of Kiaochou Bay. fur eo CONSIDERED AN ACT OF WAR. S _____. ab Ei rho Kaiser's Demonstration to Afenc* g0the Bfnrder of Missionaries?1The Ad- in mlral Occupied Kalochou With 600 Tars Unopposed?The Chinese Garrison tei at Once Skedaddle Over the Hills. P? th 8hanohai, China (By Cable).?Admiral Diedorichs, commanding the German 0; Asiatic Squadron, upon arriving in Kiao- of ohou Bay, on the Shantung ooast, whither m* he had been ordered for the purpose of ob" wa talning satisfaction for the reoent murder be. of two German missionaries, found three Ei - - - In forts occupied by Chinese troops. He ar- ^ ranged his ships opposite the forts and oo< trained bis guns upon them. Then he sent let an ultimatum to the Chinese oommander> sailing upon him to evacuate the forts In ] three hours, after whioh be landed 600 men atl with six guns, who marohed toward the oa forts. wa The Chinese watohed the sailors and pr marines for a few moments until they be- an came convinced that the "foreign devils" 1 were advancing in earnest, ana then the W1 three garrisons bolted across the hills be- he hind the 'forts. The Germans quickly oo- ph cupled the positions and hoisted their flag, which was saluted by the warships. The Chinese General and his family alone did not flee, and It is said that they received M| German protection. Official Chinese here consider that Germany, by landing an armed force and cap- [ turlngthe forts, has committed an act of ?0 war, Dut tney ao not believe tnat tne renin Government will treat It as suoh. 'mi British and American warships have Le been ordered to prooeed to Kiaocnou Bay to to watch developments there. It Is said - foi that the region is immensely rich in mln- tu erals. The harbor is one of the best on the . ] whole coast. It is believed that the Ger- br mans intend to stay there. tti It is now asserted that the murder of the Be two German missionaries near Yen-Chu-Fu nf( was not the work of bandits, as originally Up understood, but was deliberately planned be by Li Pung Hmg, Governor of the province, m( prior to his departure for Seet-ChouaD, of ] whioh he has been appointed Viceroy. jji Shantung is one of the largest coast 8h provinces of China, and about a third of it Vf forms a very large peninsula jutting out into the Yellow Sea. This peninsula gives oa" Shantung an unusual proportion of sea j0f coast. The Great Canal from Pekin to Be] Hangohow passes through the provlnoe. i0, If Germany were permitted to possess her- jja self permanently of a harbor in China, she 0f could hardly make a better selection. ] Steamers in Klaochou Bay are hardly more jul than a day's sail from Tientsin, the port of th, Pekln on the north, or from Shanghai on the south. Itis true thatBhantungabounds ^ with minerals, but little has ytit been done be to develop the mining lntereet.. ha ; Pa LORD ASHBOURNE. wt He Will Probably Be Canada'* Next Governor-General. v Baron Ashbourne, acoording to an Eng- Ri llsh paper, is to be the next Governor-Gen- 1 eral of Canada, and the Earl of Aberdeen j will not be succeeded by the D uke of Leeds, mi as was reported some time ugo. Lord hli Ashbourne's chief qualification foi jQ, bis new post, Is a charm of mannei ^ ^ N th | LORD A8HBOUBNE. ] El which batf made him popular with eventhe gj( most vehement of his political opponents. ] He is now Lord Chancellor for Ireland, q( and will probably be sacceeded in that of- cu flee by Gerald Balfour, at present Chief i Secretary for Ireland. jjc The Bight Honorable Edward Gibson, pe Baron Asbourne, was born In Dublin in 1838. He entered Parliament in 1875, and in 1877 was made Attorney-General for Ireland. He was the chief spokesman for the Opposition irom 1880 to 1885, when Hi Irish questions were under debate. He received his title upon the , accession of Lord Salisbury to offloe in 1885, and, in addition, was made Lord a < Chancellor of Ireland, a post whloh he was ed given a second time, when Salisbury again c became Premier in 1895. s bo NEW JERSEY GAMBLERS DEFEATED Court Refuaea to Order a Recount on the ^ Anti-Gambling Amendment. Justices Van Syckel, Dixon and Collins, or jn the New Jersey Supreme Court, denied the to application for a recount of the votes on the anti-gambling amendment to the State 00 Constitution. The opinion, whioh was v0 written by Justice Van Syokle, represents the unanimous sentiment of the Court. In the opinion no view Is expressed as to , . the power of the Court to order a recount. It is held, however, that the matter of hav- oej ing a recount is not a matter of private or re< individual concern, but is one of public fai policy, and concerns only the Government, be This leads to the conclusion that the appli- ag cants have no standing In court. The opinion oo goes on to say that the matter, being one of ph public policy, the Legislature had a right to say how the vote should be canvassed and a nronlamatlon of the result made bv I the Governor, and the canvass having ' been made and the Governor's proclama- ba tion having been issued in accordance jn with the result of the canvass, the matter is now closed. 52 Japanese Warship Sink*. Advice from Japan says that the Japan- , ese man-of-war Fu-So ran on a rock neat ^ Nagahama, after having been in collision j with another ship, taking part in thenBval j on manoeuvres, and sank on October 29. The I Fu-So is an iron ship, built in England in | of 1877. She is 220 feet long and of 3718 tons j pe displacement. j all The Sultan to Give Satisfaction. The Sultan has declared his willingness i to give Austria full satisfaction for the j ] Mersinn incidents, averting in this wa> i Pe the threatened bombardment of that port j by the Austrian fleet. j jjr Cycling Notes. At Sydney, Australia, on September 15, Bill Martin, it is saldt rode a mile on the j highway with the wind at his DacK in l.iy | The road was a slight incline. { JIc Somebody wholikes to juggle with figure? | p0 has computed from some basis?he doe? Th not say what?that there are 10,000,000 gei bicycles in use in all the world. Ci, At a recent wodding in Bellport, Long th< Island, four generations were represented, all bicycle riders. O. H. P. Robinson, the chief celebrant, is eighty-six years old. The Italian rider, Fontana, recently rode ? from Florence to London and baok in m( eighteen days thirteen hours, the distance . being 2625 miles. He rode only in the daytime. . .. . . ' * OR. THOMAS W. EVANS OEAO. i* Famous American Dentist Expires J in Paris. Dr. Thomas W. Evana, the famous Ameriu dentist who facilitated the flight of the f a press Eugenie from Paris in 1870, .died ddenly at Paris, France. He never revered from the shock of his wife's death! ? died of angina pectoria after twentyar hoars' Illness. No American has ever had a more remarkle career in Europe than Dr. Thomas W. '{ins. He was bora in Philadelphia about..? venty-flve yeara ago, and went to Paris ] 1842, where he soon became a favorite royalty through his advanced methods d skill in his profession. He atided to the teeth of the Emperor Naleon. Empress Eugenie, the members of eir court and household, and, excepting teen Victoria and the Bultan of Turkey, every sovereign In Europe, as well as many royal personages. He was a man j graceful manners and many accomplish* snts. When he went abroad in 1842 dentistry 1 is in a crude state, and Europe 'was far I hind America in its advancement. Dr. < rans practically introduced gold fillings teeth in Europe. Dr. Evans accumulated a fortune of (35,),000 largely through the favor of Napa- 1 >n, and resided in a magnificent house, Bols de Boulogne, which is one of b landmarks to Americans in Paris. Dr. Evans visited this country in 1876, to tend the Centennial Exposition, and be me again last summer. His last visit ks to make preparations to leave the inclpal part of his fortune to charitable d educational institutions. Bis wife died a few months ago in Paris, hen he came to this country he brought r body with him for burial in Phlladelia. They were without ohlldren. BANK FAILURES SPREAD RUIN. irriages Stopped, Bride Deserted and Small Depositors Despoiled. Three-fourths of the people of Perry >nnty, Indiana, have been afflicted and my ruined by the failure of the banks at avenworth, Marengo and English. Five wns in Perry Connty suffer, and perhaps r twenty miles along the river in Kencky are soattered victims. President Willett and Weathers, his other-ln-law, have fled, and in good ne, for the people would lynch them, ith spent much time in the banks at ;ht, and all the banks received deposits to the time of the failure, and it is lieved the bankers have carried off much sney. [t is feared Mrs. Willett will die of grief. )r husband left a letter for her saying e would never see him asain. Weathers is a 8anday-sohooi Superintendent. Pour weddings have been postponed bouse the prospective bridegrooms have it their money. One bride has been derted because her patrimony was swal* wed up, and manv a tot will look for nta Claus In vain this winter. Hundred* honest men oannot pay their debts. Eli Van Winkle lost $1000 pension money Bt deposited. Simon Bay and wife sold elr farm to live in town, put everything ey had in the bank there and lost all. rs. Bay walks the streets moaning and gging for her money. Miss Queen Bird d saved *190. It is gone. Miss Carrie .tton, a nurse, had saved $200, which is taken. LYNCHED BY COLORED MEN. iff Wm to Have Been Hanged, Bat rought so Hard They Had to Shoot Him. S. mob of exasperated colored men at dnight, frustrated la their plan to hang n, riddled the body of Josh Buff, a crimil, with rifle ballets and left it lying in 9 pablio road, a mile from Gibson, Ga. tzekiah Norris, a colored man, confessed it he shot Baff, and it is known that was the head of the mob. It inspires that Buff, who had jost en dismissed from the penitentiary, d assaulted Norris's daughter and reatened to kill Norris if he betrayed in. He robbed the others, and so tyransed them that they formed a secret comct to kill him. They had a rope and >uld have hanged him, bat he foaght so sperately, wounding several of them, at they were foroed to shoot him. Norris held for trial, but has implicated no tiers so far. FOOTBALL'S DEATH RECORD. 3hrue Bowles, Ootober 18,1896, Lonlsle team, in Louisville, Ky.; kicked In Benjamin Bioh, Ootober 19, 1896, in Tyre,Penn.; internal hemorrhages. 1 Bert W. Serf, November 14, 1896, Doane liege team, at Lawrence, Kan.; concas>n of the brain. Joseph Kapp, November 14,1896, Alerts, Brooklyn; hemorrhages of the langs. Louis Cordova, October 24, 1897, In .yonne; fractured skull. Andrew Stafohe, Ootober 26,1897, a New >rk eleven, at Casino Beach; broken neok. Robert Orange, Ootober 29,1897, West id Juniors, in Sewlckley, Penn.; conous>n of the brain. Riohard Von Gammon, Ootober 30,1897, >orgla University team, In Atlanta; con* sslon of the brain. William J. Keating, November 9, 1897, >rth Homestead team, in Swissdale, nn.; internal injuries. MUST READ ENGLISH. iseats Some Wyoming Officials Elected by Foreign-Born Voters. rhe Wyoming Supreme Court decided, in sounty contested eleotion case, that the ucatlonal requirement of the Wyoming institution, whioh declares that no foreign rn citizens can vote in Wyoming unless le to read the Constitution, means that b Constitution mast be read in English. Heretofore the numerous Fins and Huns mining camps who oould not read the institution in English, but oould read it their own language, have been allowed vote. rhe decision unseats several Republican unty officials who were elected by this te and gives their places to Democrats. i A Great Food DUcovery. experiments in the cross-fertilization of reals and other food plants have been jently made at the Earl of Winohilsea's rm in England. The prooess, said to have en discovered by Mr. Garton, an English rlculturist, will, it is claimed, convert mparatlvely worthless cereals into food ints of the greatest value. "Feetball" "Wins In Chicago. Mderman Plotke's famou9 "anti-feet* 11" ordinance met an ignomlnous death the Chicago City Council. There were y mourners, and the defeat was decisive, votes against and 5 for the ordinance. Resentment Against Sagasta. rhere 13 a feeling of resentment against e Sagasta Cabinet in Spain and in Cuba account of the attempt to establish tonomy on the island, against the wishes the groat bulk of the population. Anxation to the United States is presenting elf to all as the best solution of Cuban Bculties. Pennsylvania Monuments. Monuments were dedicated in honor of nnsylvania soldiers who fought at lickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Orchard iob and Lookout Mountain. Mt. Kanler's Altitude 14,528 Feet, rhe latest computation of the altitude of >unt Ranier placos Columbia, the highest Int, 14,523 feet above the level of the sea. iese figures have been deduced from obrvations make by*Professor Edward Mcare, who lost his life while descending i mountain the night of July 27 last. America'* Gain. rames Bryce, Liberal member of Parlia> mts, said in Aberdeen that several inches of British engineering had alidy gone to the United States as a result the big strike. 1 iMinienRU. MATTRR^ UUillUVUiuuuu "* ** ~ * ii r . 'V : ' Secretary Wilson Submits the Annual Departmental Report rHE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. nAmftndi VAMI?H HC^ylrmtm? BMII fc* Trade 1b Hone* May B? Built Up, Ilk*' 1 {, That In American Cat tie? Batter Tor . . London Coninmpti<m-K?w Method of Seed XHatrlbatlon?Domeette Settaee* Wasbxvotov, D. 0. (Special).?TheSeere^^ft tarr of Agriculture, In his report for the dual year ending June 90 last/dravifct- retention to the purpote of the department/ t/> sin tM? olrnnlntton to tnnililu IB'-i .$? the way of'experience, discovery orinTenHon that flan interest American farmer*. "The department will in fat are,*' he say*, . "help producers to find markets forAt^n* productions, by getting and spreading information ooncerning them and concerning what foreign markets require." As the result of experidotts ma<ie in thf raising of sugar beets, the Socretarypiytt "There Is abundant encouragement to lead us to conclude that our oounti^-wtjl in ? low ycoto yiuuuuo vruow buku itnunupir. ?-,? The department will colleot all $he fact* regarding the work of this aeasoa aad pufc^ -4v-^: Hah them for general distribution. The pioneer work will be pushed energeticallydaring the next year. The United State* ' paid $882,000,000 the last fiscal year ft* '. sugar, hides, fruits, wines, an! maw, rice, flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, h/irleyvheaa#, eggs, tea, etc., $6,000,000 lor chicory, castor beans, lavender, llquorloe, opium poppy, sumac, etc., and $3,000,009 fos. bulbs, nearly all of which could be grown , and prepared for use at home." .. The Secretary bellerei. that we may 5bulM up as profitable an export trade In horse* as we nave had'in cattle, and hs expects In ,j the near future to inform horse breeders In,,>/ this country as to the requirement* of toti eign buyers of horses. An effort Is making on the part of the dfl* ^ part meat te distribute seeds upon a strictly sdentlfld plan, so that none will be: sent to farmers living In climates* nbt suitable to . their successful propagation. TWs. has been plaoed in ohawre of an oflloer of J>v< scientific training. Of tbe results Of experiments in theplac* lug of fine American bnttiron theXoglish market, ?he report says: "Buttet from -the most remote oreamery districts ofthe United 8tates, when property made, can be to , transported aa to be delivered in primacondltioh to consumers In England or oa the Continent of Europe fifteen or twenty day* . after maldng. The quality of selected American bntter is quite equal to the beat. \ offered In London from any other country*, although, our supply, as a whole, Ja not nnlform in character asthat from some]otb4gr': '* sources, notably Denmark. The products of the United States and of Denmark have been fonnd to be the only absotatelytture - . batter imported Into England, all others, , Including the product of British. cofoiftetr contain more or less injurious ingredients, used as preservatives."- ; The Secretary devotee considerable .at-. tentlon to the matter of teaching domeette soknoe to farm women, and expresses thd j desire that there maybe opportunity-tor , v the undertaking of some definite Jtnee of work In this direction. The appropriation for meat Inspection ' has been Insufficient, though duuv 'tl)? 1 year all the beef and a great part of $he pork and other food products exported to Europe hare been examined aooordlng tola v. The meat of anfmak Blaoirhterad for Inter-State trade has not all been inspected* J. The work.of the Bureau of Aulmal Indus- - , try "requires," says the Secretary, "the : use of an experiment station whew slderable number of experimentalanlmalf V . can be oonstantlykept." He recommend* V( that suitable grounds for such a station b? .,;. j The appropriation for the weatner. *ey- ; Jj vloe for the current yealr Is $888,772, whtohj Is $109,748Jess than the cost of the^rvlee 4 In the fiscal year ending Jane 80,1884. The 1 appropriation for the current year is declared to he "Inadequate to mapt, t& demands of the people for & 'material extwt-. don of the benefits of the sferriee. It is only with the utmost care, and by requltf ing from nine to twelve hours' work.every / dav In the year, including Sundays and holidays, at a majority of oar stations, tftht - -,~ the important duties of the service can. be . performed/' One of the more lnteres ting parte ofttf. ;report Is that devoted to the chemical study of typical soils. An investigation of the disposition which Is made of street sweepings and other refuse of cities has been undertaken by the chemical/ division and will be prosecuted vigorously during the eomlng year. The division hae plaoed Itself In comimtiilofttion with all the cities of the United States . .. having a population of 10,000 and over.- It has also perfected arrangements for obtaining Information In regard to disposition of street sweepings ana sewage In the luMMi ?# YA fKaf * latgTOl UllrlOS u; XiULUpC, XI 10 uvpuu kUM ? material advantage will aecnie from this investigation, both to the oitlee, in respect of the method of disposing of the revise, and to the farmers, in respeot of tomuttf a new fertilizing material at a lowprloe. ; Drowned Herself In a Reservoir. . The body of the woman found in the recer*. voir at Hartford, Conn., was identified that of Miss Alice I. Patton. She had considerable means,and made her home ?t the Hotel CapitoL It is believed that she was ^ slightly deranged. Miss Patton's family < came from Waterbnry, where her father was well known from keeping a famous book store called the "Bookhnnt." Daughter of ? Revolutionary Sire, j' Mrs. Mary Todd Hall died in Keridan* V' Hnnn & faw rlxTfl Kirn Mrs Hid] wu Ih* daughter of Thelus Todd, of-Northfpxd, i 3 soldier in the Revolutionary War. 8hewa> born February 1805. Her father was draltod J' -I when sixteen years old and wa* Sent. to J Fort Grlswold, New London. _ j Hit Killing No Crime. | Julian Guinan, the boy who shot and .1 killed Dlstriot Attorney Charles Jones at 1 Carson City, Nev., recently, was exonerated $ by the Grand Jury. The shooting wa* done beoause it was alleged that Jones had ruined the boy's sister. . ' >'ij A. P. A. Headquarters Closed. J The A. P. A., as a national organization, ; J has ceased to exist. Its headquarters at $ Washington has been olosed and the prop* J erty has been sold at auction to satttfy a debt. -i Maimcred Thousands. A special dispatch from the Niger region, West Africa, says: In order to punish the inhabitants of the town of Kong, capital of the Kingdom of Kong, in the Mandingo region of Upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply his troops with provisions, Chief Samory has razed the town and massacred several thousand natives. Turkey and Germany Allies. The despatch stating that a military con* ventlon had been concluded between Turkey and Germany has excited profound Interest and speculation in European capl- ? tais. | Agreement on the Sealing Question. 1 The conference of sealing experts in J Washington resulted in a complete agree- ^ ment as to the situation in Boring Sea. A 9 meeting of the diplomatlo representatives of the United States, Great Britain and V Canada was held later, at which the Cana dians presented a proposition for the ap-^^ pointmeDt of an international commission to consider all the questions In contro-: versy. Postal Needs of Greater New York. Postmaster-General Gary will appoint a commission to consider the needs of. Greater New York with reference to postal J Berriee. J j