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V 1 - \ _= \ EHB OFYOLDNTEER AMY \ N Pai> M ncforlnor Out nf VlUbW V? Miw iiMWbviiiig Fifty Thousand Men Issued. REGULARS RELIEVE VOLUNTEERS * i L * the Cabinet Decides Upon This Step? The Mastering Oat Will Ke Completed IV V: \ "Within a AJonth?.Volunteers In Southern Camps Are the First to Be Be/ tired to Civil Life. (3 "Washisotoi?, D. C. (Special).?AdjutantBeneral Corbin has issued the preliminary Orders providing for the muster-out of flfty thousand volunteers within a month. This Action marks the final passing of the volunteer army, called into existence for the war ' With Spain, as it will terminate the existence of practically all or those regiments tarnished by the States which are now dis tributed among the Southern camps, as iweli as those militia organizations now in Manila, Cuba and Porto Rico, wnich will jwon be relieved by Regulars and returned to their homes. ! The decision to dispense with all the regaining volunteers except about 32,000, temporarily required beyond the bound. fcries 'Of the United States, was definitely Reached at a Cabinet meeting, held a few (days ago, although the project has been lor some time under consideration by the [War Department. Adjutant-General Corbin is confident that the muster-out of flfty volunteer tegiments" will be accomplished by the end bf January, the promptness being due to the fact that the mustering-out organization is now thoroughly experienced, and can proceed with great rapidity. 'In his preliminary orders the AdjutantGeneral directed the work of preparing the muster rolls to be begun immediately all the volunteer regiments in Southern camps. He thinks the ilrat of these trill be completed before the middle of January, and as rapidly as th$ regiments jure ready , for discharge they will be sent to their homes and their men will be released. General Corbin says that so far as bbssible the State quotas will be respected in the selection of the regiments to be retained in the service. From this it is likely that by the end of January no two regiment from a single State will be left in the tervice. /'STANDARD OIL BOOKS BURNED. Employes Testify to Throwing Them in tlie Company's Fnrnaoes. f CusviLAxn, Ohio (Special).?Sensational testimony was adduced at the hearing held , ft few days ago instituted by Attorney-GenMai Monett to locate the missing books of the Standard Oil Trust, which were supposed to have been hidden to circumvent brosecatio&>under thenntl-Trust laws. ? Employes of the Standard Oil Company testified in the special examination concerning the burning of books. The most Important testimony was that of John McNlerney, who is employed in the car building and repair department of the'Standard Oil works. f "On Saturday morning, November 19," he said, "I .was ordered.to go to the wareBouse and get a lot of boxes and take them K> the furnace room of the car building debarment. I did as I was ordered, and (irhen we got the boxes to the furnaces we 'mrled'them open and took out a lot of books. They looked like ledgers to me. pffe horned up the books and then we IHrew a 101 oi loose papers into iub ,anting lurn&cea. Gunny sacks filled with tooks and papers, mostly letters, were ?lso thrown into the furnace on this occasion. I was assisted by a fellow employe whose name Is Moran. I cannot reinem^ per his first name." (Continuing, he told ot a visit to the general office. When he arrived there he said he mot three other employes of the Standard whose names are: Gagelin, Moran and Sehaefele. They went to the fifth 'floor of the building and leeured a lot of boxes and bags, and took them down the passenger elevator to the ground floor. They ware just about to take the saaka and boxes on t Into the street and load them Into drays, when some one ordered them to take the boxes and bags baok to the fifth floor, rhey complied, and were compelled to wait around the building until dusk lu the afternoon before being allowed to pro- l seed with removing the boxes and bags. * On the following Monday morning he said tha't he and the meo were ordered to ' take the boxes and bags to the pump house, where they were opened and the books and papers which,they contained were thrown 'pnto the furnace tnere. I ARMY ORGANIZATION BILL Bonao Committee to Report the Hall Measure Increasing the Army. ; Washington, D. C. (Special). ? The Eou3e Committee on Military Affairs orjdered a favorable report on the Hall bill Increasing the regular army to 100,000 men. The vote was eight to Ave, on party * Bines, as follows: ! Yeas?Messrs. Hull. Marsh. Grlffln, Ketcham, Fonton, Belknap, McDonald and Brownlow, Republicans. | Nays?Messrs. Sulzer, Cox, Lentz, Hay and Jett, Democrats. | The minority gave notice of a minority report and a substitute bill. The main Jeature of the substitute bill will be a Standing army limited to that existing befn** ranant wnr and nnthnrltv tn thA [President to enlist a large temporary iorce, probably 50,000 men, for service In [outlying territory. j. AFRAID TO CO TO CHURCH. VlnliteTi Declare That the Fear of Footy pads Keeps the Few* Empty. i St. Louis, Mo. (Special).?The Congressional ministers of St. Louis, in conference, have decided that the cause of empty pews ?t evening ohuroh services is the fear of -footpads and have appointed a Commltto <>f three ministers to render any assistance lo the police that may be necessary to sup{press the evil. | Bev. Dr. M. Durnan, of Pilgrim Church, iwas seleoted Ctiairman, and Kev. Dr. C. S. (Sargent, of the Central Church, and Bev. pr. C. H. Patton, of the First Church, associate members. This Committee will con per wltntne proper autuorities in regard to suppressing highway robbery. I Former Qaoen Lilinokalanl Protests. j The United States Senate, Washington, has received a protest from ex-Queen (Lliinokalani-against the seizure of the socalled Hawaiian Crown lands. A Boys Guilty of Manslaughter, j Elmer and George Butler, aged respectively twenty and thirteen, of Chillicothe| |Ohio, have been found guilty of manslaughter In the killing of Daisy Brower, a young girl. In the trial it was proved that she had been shot from ambush for no cause "Whatever, xne ueieuse was iuai imaun; 'ran In the Butler family. Currency Legislation Postponed. I Senator Mark Hanna, in an interview in Washington, said: "There will be no cur. ^ irency legislation at present. The country wants a breathing spell." X?wiy Gleanings. i The Government is preparing stamps for Cnba. I An inexhaustible deposit of cement has [been discovered near Owen Sonnd, Ontario, j Daring 1898 Pennsylvania bought 55,000 jacres at tax sales to add to the forest resiervation. I Adjutant-General Corbin estimates that 81,000 soldiers will be reqalred to govern t,*nr oolonles. I The assessment rolls in New York City htT& been completed and show an increase of #800,000,000 in valuations. ' Jobn Gotz, of New York City, has been appointed to take oharge of the Department of Art for this country at the Paris IXxpoattiQtt. HOBSON OF.* FOR MANILA. The Merrimac Hero YFas Lionized by Thonaands at San .Franciaco. San Francisco, Cal. (Special).?Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hofcson has sailed fnr Mia PhJUnrvinrts on the steamer Gaelic. He will report to Admiral Dewey on his arrival and will undertake the work of raising and preparing for service under the flag of the United States the vessels of Admiral Montijo which suffored so severely in the battle of Manila Bay. An immense crowd was at the dock to witness Hobson's departure. His carriage had great difficulty in getting through the throngs of people, who simply would not let him pass in quiet. Cheers "upon cheers were given for him. and he was compelled at several points to say a few words to the people. Escorted by hundreds, Hobson llnally managed to reach the vessel's side, and as he emerged from the carriage the cheers were renewed. Cries for a speech were ignored for some time, but they became so frequent and prolonged that Hobson was compelled to speak to the people. His remarks could hardly be heard save by a few people who stood close to him. tTTl ? At- ' At Htidnti TWflV oil fha tllieu IUB VC35CI J5VI uuuci steam whistles on the water front were elven free play and the noise was terrific. The vessels in the harbor were decorated for the occasion, and flag3 dipped in Hobson's honor as the Gaelic passed up the harbor of the Golden Gate. EXPEDITION SENT TO ILOILO. General Otis and Admiral Dewey Take Measures to Preserve Order. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Administration has ta*ken stops to safeguard American interests in the city of Iloilo. on the island of Panay, one of the Philippine Archipelago, and a military and naval ex pedition has been sent there from Manila. Cable advices have been received here from General Otis, commanding tho military forces in the Philippines, and Admiral Dewey, commanding the naval forces there, showing that they are acting in con- ' cert in the matter. General Otis reported that he had dippatched two regiments ?jnd a battery of artillerv to Iloilo on army transports, and Admiral Dewey informed tho Navy Department that the cruiser Baltimore had ' sailed from Manila for the same nlace. . It is explained that these officers are acting on their own discretion in the matter, and that no official advices have been , received here to indicate that there is any unusual lawlessness in Iloilo. The expedition is more in the nature of a precaution, but active measures will be taken for the suppression of lawlessness if the condition of affairs requires it. ? . HID HER DAUCHTERS' LEPROSY. Two Case* of Several Years' Standing 1 Found at New Lexington, Olilo. 1 C0LUM3U8, Ohio (Special).?Dr. Charles 1 0. Problt, Secretary of th9 State Board of Healtji, -ias Investigated two reported I cases of leprosy at New Lexington, Perry County. He has found the cases to be fully developed leprosy. Tho lepers are Hattie | Garry, aged twenty-two, and her little sister Hannah, twelve years old. For ft dozen years Mrs. Garry, a soldier's widow, has managed to conceal from her neigh- i bors her. children's affliction. Finally, forced by straitened circumstances, she i told the story to the county authorities. The two leper girls will be isolated In a i cabin to be built among the hills out- J side the town limits. In this cabin, i which will be Omio's lope; settlement, the mother will care for her daughters, while food and clothing will be furnished by the county. These cases are hereditary. The father of the girls contracted tho disease in the South while a soldier in the Civil War. Symptoms of leprosy did not develop until after the father's death. For the last few,years the girls have rarely lelt their mother's cottage, and then usually after dark. The elder girl, Hatttle, has the disease in 1 an advanced stage. I BANK STRANCELY ROBBED,. Time Locks Seemingly Fall to Protect at Lima. Ohio. 1 Lima, Ohio (Special).?The American j National Bank In Faurot's Opera House, ; which is situated on probably the most ; prominent street corner in Lima and directly across a narrow street from the cen? A? It-. - ? ? irai police uuice, wus ruuuou auuunj m^ut of $25,000. .Not a clue to the robbery wa left behind. No explosives of any kind were used and there Is scaraly the faintest scratch to Indicate the use of a tool. Still, In obedience to the skill of the thieves, the delicate a,nd complicated time locks operated the ponderous doors and exposed the money within hours ahead of the appointed time. The time locks were set to open at 11 o'clock Monday morning, and the robbery might not have been discovered until then had notone of the outer door3 been left open by the robbers. DROWNED iN A BbSTON PARK. Thirty Children Go Through the Ice and *i.'hrce Deaths Result. Boston (Special).?The joy of Christmas Day was mar/ed by one of the worst drowning,accidents that has occurred in this vicinity for many years. Through the sudden breaking ot tne ice on jueveren Pond, in the park system, thirty girls and boys were thrown into eight feet of water. The police1 and numerous Spectators worked hard to save them, but three of the children were drowned. Thoy were .Tames W. Clattenburg, Jr., ten years old; Arthur Collins, twelve years old, and Emma Miller, fourteen yoar3 old. The two boys liVed in Brookiine and the girl in this city. BIRD PREVENTED A WRECK. Flew Against Headlight. Shattered It and Saved a Train. Austin, Texas (Special).?The northbound passenger train of the International and Great Northern Railroad escaped a serious wreck forty miles below here through the intervention of a bird. Some one had tied a> rail securely across the track. A few miles before reaching the spot a bird, blinded bv the headlight, flew against the glass, breaking it and extinguishing the light, which necessitated running slowly to the next station. The train, at reduced speed," struck the obstruction, +aa?.nn> nr\ tlio trnolr And dftmilffiUC the front of the engine, but no one was^lnjured. American Troops Patrolling; Havana. The American troops have begun the patrol of Havana, Cuba, in order to pre- , vent.dlsorders. A Big Fire in Vermont. Twelve acres containing 11,000,000 feet of lumber, a plaining mill, eight sheds and a large quantity of machinery, the property of the Snepard" & ilorse Lumber Company, ! of Boston and Burlington, Vt., were swept by fire a few days ago at Burlington, causing a loss estimated at $250,000. The entire plant ol the company was practically wiped out of existence, and it was with great uiracuity tnai uujuimu* ^u^orty was saved The amount of insurance on the property is $104,000. About 100 men are thrown out otemployment by the lire. The police have arrested Clement Hurley, Joseph Htunnard and John Lashway 011 suspicion for causing the Are. >"nvy Department Economizing. An evidence of thrift in the Navy Department, Washington, is a general order sent out :t few day9 ago to all of the naval stations that the strictest economy is to be cxerciscd in all expenditures of public money by the department's officers until turther ordors. Railway Collision at Lexington. A Louisville and Nashville yard locomotive aad a Chesapeake and Ohio locomotive palling an extrn freight train oolllded a few days ago near Pepper's distillery at Lexington, Ky Nine men were badly hart, two of whom will die of their lnjaxles. Both i locomotives were deraollrbed. UNCLE SAM'S HAf i - ffl6LWMECMAL|, The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty is Likely . to Be Abrogated. 1 TO ACT AT AN EARLY DATE, I Great Britain ii Willing That the United State* Should Control the Klcaragaan Waterway Under Propei^ Conditions? We Are to Guarantee the Canal's Xeu trail ty and Safegaard British Interests. Loxdox (By Cable).?There seems to be little doubt that Great Britain will agree to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The temper of the Cabinet and publlo opinion, which largely influences the Government's policy, points, to suoh action, though no definite understanding with the United States has yet been reaohed. Great Britain desires that the Nicaragua Canal be constructed, and is willing that the United States should control it if the United States guarantees Its neutrality and safeguards British interests. The reports from Washington that the British Ambassador there, Sir Julian Pauacefote, has been instructed to negotiate the abrogation of the treaty are incorrect, though it Jis likely he will soon receive instructions to that effect. \ The Impression hero is that the British | Foreign Office and the United States Charge de Affaires, Henry White, in- , oldental to his visits to Cabinet Ministers, ' will arrange the basis of aotion. Mr. , White spent a few days with the Marquis , of Salisbury at Hatfield House, and with j his family spent Christmas week with the j Duke of Devonshire at Chataworth House, ( Derbyshire, the country seat of the Duke, who is Lord President of the Council, rhere Mr. White met another influential Minister, Lord Georg? Hamilton, the Secretary of State for India. Negotiations May Be Opened Soon. Washingtok, D. C. (Special).?It is acoepted a9 little phort of certain in the best- 1 Informed official and diplomatics circles that negotiations will be opened at an early day toward modifying the Clayton- , Bulwer Treaty to meet the conditions of the present day concerning American construction and control of the Nicaragua, Canal. Now Secretary of the Interior. ( jc m ETHAN ALLEN' HITCHCOCK, i neeee mi rue i ii^r maoimt uwggt-g l uu uni\t. iiiniiaiii.i Estimated at 82.600,030 and Said to Be Heavier Than Ever Before. Chicaqo, 111. (Special).?Marine losses on the lakes daring the season of 1898 were much greater than during any season pre- ' vious. The estimates of the various underwriters vary greatly, but a general average of these estimates will place the aggregate los3 at $2,600,000. Vesselmen protest that these figures r,re l too high, and say that the insurance com- i pariies have not lost heavily. In a list of I 569 losses the causes assigned were as fol- . lows: i Ashore, 123; aground in protected ohan- ! nels, 126; fire, 40: collisions, 90; ice, 16; storinbeaten, 96; foundered, 8; miscellaneous causes, 116. Lake Michigan has been the scene of the greatest number of disasters, with Lake . Superior second. Lake Huron was remarkably free from disasters, while Lake Ontario produoed a larger number of seri- ] ous losses than Like Erie. _The number of boats destroyed is 58. < i'Heir aggregate ronnaga was iuiu. i Admiral Scliley Receives His Sword. { Rear Admiral Schley, while he was^^B Philadelphia a few days ago, was the^^H clplent of a handsome and costly scabbard and belt, presented to him half of the people of Phlladelphj^W and other cities In Pennsylvania, NpjJp Jersey and Delaware. Swindled the Goveip^Veut. The Internal reVenue^rV?era lQ New York City have learne^p that the Government has been swlndiE*W out of thousand: through the mlsuujr&lX Internal revenut stumps Dy einploy^B^s In Wall street houses CsllfornB* Drought Ended. The weather ?tnd crop reports from Call fornla show t^Qay^ good fall of rain hai * * a# fha flfafa roacnea aima^v-<?j ........ and all dang^HE<i drought for the time be lag Is past^^f The rain came at the right time, (or oajvtle have been starving In man} sections, and the ground has been too drj (or tilling^* while water supplies ot man: cities and^Bowns reached a low ebb. A nAw Yorker'* Narrow Escape. Mr. F^Rnk Knaak, ot New York City, wa aoqultt Jed o( lese majeste In Berlin, Ger (or calling Emperor William i sheepijShead, on the ground that he was In toxicaWtod. . -,V;/. ; ;,^v: s'-t .'. ; '*" ' . - ~ . /; ;. } ' U f ' 3PY NEW ?' ? . j PHILIPPINE NATIVES CRUEL. Stories of Maltreatment of Spanish Pris- 1 oness by the Insurgents. 1 Mamla, Philippine Islands (By Cable).? rhe assertion so strenuously made by the natives that they are a highly civilized ra^e is not borne out by facts,, according to Spanish refugees from the north who have just reached here. They say that after the surrender of the town of Aparri the insurgents formed a parade, whose central feature was a Spanish lieutenant, who was carried alonj? the streets suspended from a bamboo pole, to whioh his hands and feet were tied, just as hogs are carried along here by coolies. On arrival at the plaza the procession halted, the pole was placed on two forked sticks, and a squad of rebels proceeded to terrorize their helpless victim b> shooting as close to his head as was possible without wounding him. When the unfortunate man ' was unconscious from terror the procession moved on again. Another story is told of a Spanish officer being confined in a oell wltn his hands tied behind his back, and compelled to eat the portions' of food 'allotted him from the floor of his cell like a . dog. Not satisfied with this, his oaptors are said to have hooked a rope to his swol- < len wrists, and by means of a pulley over- , head pulled him off his feet until he fainted. ' Still another refugee states that because 1 he threw some papers which he did not < ' * * fha WISII reoeis to Ultvo imu ? uraajjuui vuo natives dropped htm Into the hole and com- i polled him to recover the papers. After this he was paraded tbrorngh the streets for hours. The Spanish priests who were captnred fared somewhat better, according to reports. The rebels organized them Into an'extempore brass band to head their procession, and by dint of-kicks and blows compelled their captives to produce plaints of discord, which Highly i amused the natives. The natives lndlgaantly deny these allegations, and their newspapers retaliate ?y printing horrible stories of atrocities practiced by the Span* lards before the surrender of Manila, one of them even publishing the affidavits or the victims. CONSULS IN CUBA AND SPAIN. \ Office* In the Island Closed Pending; the Recognition of Independence. Washixotok, D. C.. (Special.)?The State Department ha^ Instructed Vice Consuj General Springer to proceed to Havana and close up thd affairs of the United States Consulate General there. The Consular offices throughout Cuba will not be abandoned just now, but will be closed temporarily until .such times as, through the recognition of the Independence of the Cubans, it may become necessary to resume business through them. The department tas as yet taken no steps toward reopening the American Consulate In Spain, and this will probably be allowed to await the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. In the absence of the usual treaties of amity and commerce, the status of United States Consuls sent to Spain would be somewhat indefinite, but It * * * lj * ka oor? IS not dOUDteu luai iuoji wuuiu us proper facilities for the discharge of their duties. One, at least, aad perhaps more, of the United States Consular officers in Spain' remained at his post throughout the war, undisturbed. The officer was not an American citizen, but that in itself would not have protected him from th? Interference of the Spanish officials in the making of his usual reports to the State Department. Another curious faot is that there was received without intermission throughout tlie war at the Navy Department a 8panish official naval publication on the exchange list of the department. j FAITH CURIST FOUND GUILTY. Second Conviction Obtained In Ohio ' Atainit the Christian Scientists. Cincinnati, Ohio (Special).?Miss AUle Putnan , a Christian Scientist, was convicted a few days ago by a Police Court jury of violating the State laws regulating the practice ot medicine. Judge Sobwab fined her 4100. She was released on $100 bond pending an argument for a ne^yyJ trial. This Is the second oonvictlo^seoura(;by the State Health Bowd, -vTulch has instated a oruift/ie'agHlost Christian SoldJtists. C. B. MoLelland, representing rM -* kM tlfloa ? .. Doaru, was iiro?tou uy a uiuam xoj alleged stoaiach trouble. 'He paid her ? fee. Tec tfcf usand dollars wa? pledga^^^K wealthy Cinolnnutl Christian who refuses to have his for t?io further defence of A.mo?) Weston, a leader in thejpfpn^T'^ S>;<eoce Church here, said: "The building fund ofJfllK&MifflKSJ^Kv to this church is also^aragH^^KH^^ Putnam's case l^|MHr cose, and ? Court of Confidence. ! Samoa has talcen PTr)dvaMHHulce confidence of the United States ^British Consuls to land guns and raunltiOTis of war and obtain commercial advantages. Tli? United States Consul bas been ordered to exercise greater vigilance. The Sultan's Aide de Camp ftlnrdered. ' Ghani Bey, a notorious Turk, who, for committing varlons outrages, had been rei warded with the appointment of Aide de i Camp to the Sultan of Turkey, was mur. dered in Constantinople. Miscellaneous Sport*. Whist tournaments are in progress at the leading, colleges. ' There Is little or no demand for bloycles [ in Portuguese East Africa. There Are only a few miles of hard roads In Lourenco Mar, quez, and parts of these are very steep. ' The remaining roads are sandy, and it Is an f . impossibility 10 riuo a uiujrmo uiu tuuu*. Miss Beatrix Hoyt will certainly have no capse for complaint In the faoUftles for golf-playing at Sblnneoook Hills next sea9 son. The trustees of Shlnneoock Hill* or. ganizatlon have just purchased twenty ada altlonal acre* of land, and will make the . women's course the longest nine-hole one to the ooutftr/. : * I . .. ..... t . . RmfrtPR mm mid This Country the Commanding Power in Finance and Commerce! MANUFACTURERS ARE ALARMED, i American Steel Kails In Demand Everywhere?The Commercial Supremacy of the United State? the Talk of the Old "World?Yankee Agents Soliciting Bminess In Every Fart of Europe. London (By Cable).?It Is 110 exaggeration to assert that the foromost topic, compelling attention in Europe in general and In Great Britain in particular, overshadowing th9 dreary broils of domestic politics, Is the remarkable, aggressive. coDjmercial prosperity which the United States Is manifesting. Hardly a newspapf.r review or a public speaker has failed to notioe with what giant's strides America is coming Into the first place in the alignment of the powers. It Is certainly the chief sub. ject of conversation on Lombard street and on the Continental Bourses. Mr. James Bryce, In a speech before the Leicester Chamber of Commerce, sounded a warning to British manufacturers. He emphasized the fact that the exports of the United States and Germany had increased 5u/u,uuu,uuu ana siuo.uuu.wu Bespectiveiy, between-1891 and 1897. while Great Britain's decreased $75,000,000. He farther pointed oat that the business of the United States was developing along many important lines, which Great Britain, he added, should have held against all competitors. Mr. Bryce unhesitatingly asserted that the United States cauld produce rails cheaper than Great Britain, and said he saw no possibility of opening new markets except in China. Great Britain seems to have become reconciled to tire capture of the iron markets by the United States. - American firms are uniformly successful in bidding against the British firms. Consuls assert that all Eurooe Is swarming as never before with the agents of American .manufacturers of steel, street railroads, electrical apparatus and all kinds of machinery, who are leading the commercial Invasion. The Dally Ohronicle comments upon the fact that American capitalists "have the courage of their financial opinions if they think they know the European situation better tlian toe canitausts or rue uia World." FOUR OF A FAMILY DROWNED. Three Children and Their Mother Perish In the 9t,'Lanrence River. Alixandbia Bat, N. Y. (8pecial).?Three children of Charles Hagermanwere playing on the Ice off the north shore ol Wells Island, in the St. Lawrence River, a few clays ago, when it broke and they all fell In and were drowned. A fourth child, a little girl, who was on shore, and had just warned the others, ran to the house and notified her mother. Mrs.,Hagerman rushed to the scene, and (a her endeavors to rcscue the children broke through the ice, aud she too was drowned. Those drowned were Josephine Hager man, inirty-iour years oia; ainrsa auger* man, thirteen years old; Addle Belle Hagertnan, ten years old, and Bert Hagerman, seven years old. Broke Through the Ice. Phillipsbueg, N. J. (Special).?Grover Geary, twelve years old. and his two Bmaller sisters, the children of Dewltt Ggary, a railroad engineer, were drowned In the Morris Canal at Port Golden & few days ago. Geary lives near the canal, andihe children were accustomed to play on the ice when the canal was frozen. During the aftornoonthe mother missed the little ones, and, going to the canal, discovered a hole in the ice. Geary raslied to tho canal and jumped in, hoping to find tho children, but he was not successful. The bodies of the three little ones wore found a short time afterward near where they had fallon In. SENATOR MORRILL DEAD The A~ed Vermont Statesman l'assei Away at WaMhlngton. WAamxoTOjr, D. C. (Special).?Justin 8. Morrill, the senior Senator from Vermont, died at 1.25 o'clock Tuesday morning in the eighty-ninth year of his age, after an illness of less than a week. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, which developed from an attack ofgrip contracted about a week before. The venerable Senator was confined to his home but seven days. Despite his advanced age he attendod his Senatorial duties faithfully, and regularly went to the Capitol. His physician thinks that exposure to its rigors brought on the attack of grip. Justin Smith Morrill, the "Father of the Senate," was born in Stafford, Vt.,on April 14, 1810. Morrill was elected a Whig, but became n strong Republican from the foundation of that party. After he had served twelvo years in the nous?, Vermont maut> jhhtiu umisu Btates Senator, to succeed Luke P. Poland, and lie took bis seat March 4,1867, a seat to which he was re-elected iu 1872, 1878, 1884, 1890 and 139G, making Ills service in the Senate nearly thirty-two years, and his entire service iu both branches forty-three years without a ainglo broak. REAR-ADMIRAL SUNCE* RETIRED. Admiral Dcxvtfy Becomes the Commanding Officer of the Xitvy. -g s-uyj&tmBEAmEjSEJJia, and for forty ha< serve^ ?ountr^ f>' 1897," and received BEAB-ADMIRAL ECNCE. bis COlUUliSSiOU Hi a rear-admiral on February 6 last. By the retirement of Admiral Bunco Admiral Dewey becomes tbo senior officer ic the navy. 100,000 Rifles For CarlUts. The Cariist agitation ir. tiie Basque provinces of Spain is daily becoming more active and is strongly supported by tho inhabitants of the French Ba?quo districts, Upward of 100,000 rifles landed ut Froncli ports have been smuggled over tho SpauIsh frontier \ylth cargoes of coal. Klondikcrs Coming JTome. Klondike mall to November 21, the f;r.s! received in six weeks, was taken a fe^ days ago to Seattle. Wash., by Tact: Car.He reports that 2500 miners are ou thrji way out of the diggings, uOO being ut the foot of the chain of lakes. Philadelphia'* Bis Loan. Judges Sulzberger and Pcnnypacker al Philadelphia, Pena., dismissed the bill in equity brought by Messrs. Barr and Yocurr to restrain the Issue of a municipal loan o $11,200,000, which is to bo devoted to cltj Improvements, and of which noa.-ly $5, 000,000 Is to be used to proouro a bette water supply and l,000,0u0 for tne Publl< I Llbtary. This decision establishes tlx legality of the loan, anu it win no ated at once. Eitlmited Cost of Nlcarajraa Cml. The preliminary report of the Nicaragn; Canal Commission {rata the total cost ol th work at *136.000,000. *' - \ >' ' ' . V V' V ' ' ? THE NEWS cmOMttEft Washington Items. ' The papers In the court-martial of O&f* tain Oberlln M. Carter, United States Engineer Corps, have been referred to the Attorney-General by the President for final ievision.' The Attorney-General willren? ;Ier an opinion as to the regularity of the a i.i * Af fhA wuo llllfUUUU11U11 Ul pj^ivatv v* M*? accused officer at the trial. ' Brigadier-General John N. Andrews has been relieved from the command of the Third Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps, and ordered to join the Twelfth In- ' fantry. The Postmaster-General announced the establishment of seven additional military postal stations in Cuba, as follows: Pinar del Bio, Guanajay, Mariel, Trinidad, Las Tunas, Sanotl Splritas, and Cardenas, The Senate Committee jon Foreign Belations reported the bill prbvldlng for the Government of Hawaii, In which many ohanges bad been made. A Marshal's jury declared Joseph W. ' Pearson to be insane. Pearson is the., man who created a sensation by hurling missiles through the door and windows of the British Embassy. The man was taken to the insane asylum. Th<? Pollav rasnlntlnn dfractin? an inves t Jgatlon of the right of members who volun teered In'the Spanish-American war to seats in the Honse was adopted. The seats affeoted are those of Mr. Wheeler (Dem., Ala.), Mr. Colson (Bep., Ky.), Mr. Bobbins (Rep., Penn.), ,ana Mr. Campbell (Dem., The Postmaster-General announced .tin appointment of Major E. G. Bathban, of Ohio, ex-Fonrth Assistant PostmasterGeneral, to take charge-of and conduct* the postal service in Cnpa, with the title of Director of Posts. , ... l>omeittc. " ~ '.. James Mnlholland,'George Knowles and Harry Wllkle were arrested at Paterson. N. J., on a charge of having held up and robbed Jaipes'TanNess, a milk dealer. W. F. Bechel, for sixteen years' auditor of the Paclflo Express Company at Omaha, Neb., was a few days ago acagitted of the charge of embezzling 9200,000 of the company's funds. His trial had lasted a month. John Hedfors, foreman In John P. Bydberg's quarry at Worcester, Mass., was endeavoring to remove a blasting charge' which he thought had failed, when the charge exploded. Hedfors was blown n\any j feet in thfe Air and his body oame down headless. He leaves a wife and six children. Twenty-five torpedo cases havp arrived at Fort Constitution, New Cfcstle. N. H. mi --J-?J u? nr.- I luoy were uiucfcu uy bjuu ivoi ment for .Portsmouth Harbor during the recent war, but the demand for them at other places delayed their arrival. There are now 125 torpedoes and mtnes at New Castle for use In case of emergency. RJlm Balrd, colored, andfAndy Hicks, a young white man, both miners, had a quarrel at the North Jelllco mines, near Barbourvllle, Ky., a few days agp. Balrd shot and fatally wounded Hicks. Balrd was I then shot and killed by some one In the J , crowd. Hicks's '.brother Is charged with committing the deed. Two men were killed in Brooklyn factories a few days ago by being taught in machinery. They were John Guertherman, twenty-eight years old, and John Ehrhardt, forty-six years old. Both' men leave families. A renr-end collision between freight trains near Wilkesbarre, Penn., badly wrecked twelve ooal cars, six freight cars and an engine.- Conductor Peter Stark and Flagman Lyman Zepbers were fatally hurt and Engineer Harry Fulton badly injared. * Boderick Chlsholm, an electrician, of Chicago, was slowly buniedjtodeath a few " ciays ago wuub auspouucu maui.y above the ground. Several hundred people saw him suffer without being able to render assistance. ' William Steele, former casher of the wrecked Chestnut Street National Bank, of 'Philadelphia, was sentenced by Jud?e Butler, in the United States District Court, to Ix 'years and six months' imprisonment and 9300 fine. David Shea, an ex-oonvlct, fatally shot. himself In the bead at St. Louis, Mo.- In a pathetic letter left by Shea he says he was driven to death by a private detectiveagenoy. Sh?a declares he was unable to obtain work to sustain himself honestly and be decided to die. Frederick von Hartmanh, aged twenty even, son of Baron von Hartmann. of Cologne, Germany, has been sentenced to five years in the State Prison b^ Judge Buck, of Kalamazoo County, Indiana, tor burglary. Dr. J. 0. Camobell. a DtfDular physician of Elmer, N. J., was arrested for forgery. He was taken to Mayor Hetchnert office, l at Brldgeton, and while confined there committed suicide by shooting himself In the bead with a revolver. The two attempts on the life of Andrew -J. Smith, Governor of the Soldiers'Home at Santa Monica, Cal., have frightened him Into.resigning, and his resignation, to take effeot Msroh 31,1899, has been aooepted. Thomas Jones, living near Greer, W. Va., attempted to light a fire with crude oil. An explosion took place, which wreoked the room and ignited the dresses of his twin daughters, aged six years. Jones himself was injured so badly that he could not assist the children, and they were burned to death. Harry Davis, aged about nineteen years, son of George Davis, a farmer living near Three Bridges, N. J., accidentally blew out his brains while attempting to kill a hawk which was trying to catoh his father'3 chickens. David Dilliplane, the thirteen-year-old son of Irwin C. Dilliplane, a well-known resident of East Township, Pennsylvania, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. The cause of sul-iide Go vernorMj^t, r^j j 0f Mississippi, has pardoned^HL^ the famous Marlon Purvis was hangftd Purvis BB^^^rfecued and hidden Hinftlly surrendered, and his jtwBaEM^M^ominuted to life imprisonP^inel Edwin S. Barrett, President o( eHmeiSons of the American Revolution, fell P^rom his window at Concord, Mass., and i died about an hour later from his injuries. Three moonshiners, Jacob Lambert, one Greer, and an unknown man, were killed, and several of their companions wounded, in a battle with revenue officers In Knox County, Kentucky, a few days ago. The officers were not hurt. ic nrimnrUv resnonsible for the death oi Franklin W. Waters in the railroad aocif dent at Sharon last August, In which five persons were killed and many others in1 jured, Daniel W. Getchell, an engineer. convioted of manslaughter,-was sentenced by Judge Sherman in the Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., to two years at hard 1 labor in the House of Gorreotion. Foreign. The United Stateslwarships J3oston and 1 Petrel have returned to Manila from Chii nese ports. The French Chamber of Deputies adopted a bill imposing a stamp duty-of one per t cent, on foreign securities. The Grand Duohess Xenla, slf.ter of the Czar of Bussla, has given birth to a son. The Marquis of Anglesey was fined 8100 at Liverpool, England, for bringing a 1 French bulldog fro? New York la^t Ootober r without securing the necessary license.. The steamer Colon arrived at Cadiz, Spain, from Havana, Cuba, with 2000 . Spanish troops. Princess Louise, of Cobnrg, daughter of the King ot the Belgians, has beoome insane. : Emll Bitter, a commercial traveler has L been sentenced to six months' imprison' raent at Frankfort, Germany, for having embraced and kissed a young woman passenger on a railway train. Frauline Anna ' Sohmitz is the complainant, and the offence was committed w&ile the train was [ passing through a tunnel near Frankfort, 9 Serious trouble is feared in 8amoa in . connection with the election of a king, the supporters of Mataafa having beoome war< like. Mr.W. I. Buchanan,the American MinlBtai to th? Argentine BepubUo, has bMn named a u arbitrator In the boundary dispute b?e frwew Argentina and OhlU. | ; - --^^Hl The' Five Envoys Return to^^H Country With the Treaty a ? ,WM ;H H DOCUMENT IS IN WASHINGj^H A ' VS^I rhe United States Peace Camniliila| Arrl?? From ParU?They rrocMd?a to VulUactos' an^^|H ented the "Treaty of Pari*" ) Prealdent?Seaator Frye'a Hlal Kmr Yoex Citt (Special).?The B Commissioners for tha United BtS 'reached this city. Saturday marnto# American Line steamship St. Lon'la, M^R| an absenoe abroad of two months, brings! H with them the "Treaty of Pari#*'' nw.? "l r i_?J im *ur mjh? JUUUU MV* after 9 o'clock. As the big liner washeM# docked the bind played "The fl^^H Spangled. Banner." Senator Fr/e, lam R. Day and Interpreter FergUwSjfl were among the first to croaa the JTOjflflfl rlc. and they were -soon foil?!!? the rest fit the party,. conalraj^H la all of forty persons. Ttte five'OcM mlssloners?ex-Secretary of the 8tate WMfS lam B. 3>ay, Senator Cnshmaa K.DvKpw9| Minnesota, Senator William P. ]? Maine, Senator George Gray of P*&WMj|^D and Whltelaw Held of this otty lWfrUB companied by their wires. The Commissioners hadf agreed *alV Vault Annnnn^ad f{||? ^k/lfMflfl2y^lH soon as lie was approached ty repOMg^^l "We have nothing to say about tbetWgB until It 1b turned over to the PrtftdclC^H said Senator Feje. ' % ...j&Mm In response to further questioning, MB9 ever, and when a published txaualatMnjJ 'the treaty, as Riven out In Mo4rl4^nui^^H was at eea, was shown to, him, SfrpjPB '"Every artlole of the'treaty waa itaufl for by Ihe United States Oommls3lonerMjg stubbornly resisted by the Hpaal*h>V*|N?| points" whloh'the Spanish restated orouslywere the loesofthe Phil}p3?vn| and the assumption of the. CaM?59I When the two commissions metthe tytuflH Commissioners',, first uroposltlott tho Americans get out of Manila, the lataB of Luzon, and disclaim ail intention* dflffl quiring the Philippines, and thea.TTMW begin our negotiations.' After <x>naffl| able parrying we made them undeiptflB that the negotiations had better..jwwiM without such a sweeping-condition or.tiflj might not proceed at all. : .J the United States to nssnme all the indebtedness. We had to tight hardtOiO^U vince the Spaniards that we did not tkuH it.right to Impose such obligations, on. tS American people, but after a hard tMU/M days and, days our opponents our oicums ana sigaea me ire*ij>jrawp?^^* have no doubt will be approvedfcy che?^6M dent and ratified by the Sfehate." . : J COMMISSIONERS IN WASBlVQ^n Jadpe D?r Present? the Treaty % f President of the T?hlt* JKotW. jj Washington, D. C. CSpeciftl).?TheAmS lean Peace Commissioner* arrivedJa;WHHH ington from New York Shortly ttbHiWk o'clock 8ataxday afternoon. Tti?tfr driven in carriages to th? White BCofcB and at 4.40 o'clock were received byJPcB ident McKinley in the BluePkrldr, tojjrt? .with all. the attaobes of the Cqatpiail^^H - All the Commiwloners wei? pnj?jaP^H Wlliiam B. Day, Senator Cushman IL DaVS Senator William P. Frye, Senate* O?orgfl flrav ajrvd Mr. Whlhfllnw ft.ilrl. fl%? treaty was brought in a separate o&rrujfl "by Mr. John Bassett Moore, the Commission, and Mr. MlchawT'viBijl^H Clerk of the State Department, who the party at the' Pennsylvania Baltrotifl Few persons were nt the White HopmB when the Cftmmlssiorrew and.other Tawjl^H bQrs of the party arrived.. There was no formality in the reeepttQM^B by the President. The CommlasiObflH wfl m&lned half an hour, President Day ot ttufl Commission presenting the treaty, wTiTritJ was brought In a good sized wtoh/wM President MoKlnley ooiyjratuJatedw Commissioners on the result ?I tbeir/flfl sion In Paris and for each one h?d i :$pm olal word of commendation forth?' ful manner In which the delicato nogotfiH flons leading to the peace settlement INDIANA ' HAS A LYNCH INC. A Mol> Hang* ? * * Who AttoaqM^H Wife Harder. ; Scottsbdbo, Ind. (Special).? T&tijM Tyler was placed In jail here several ago, the resalt of an attempt on his pac^^B Shortly alter midnight a few daya agjB mob was formed. All were mas iced. hurried to the Sheriff's resldenoe ln.'.M jail, called him by name and, covering? ana hla sons with ffuha, the leader dems^^B ed the keys of the jail. The demand was refused, but the bftsame so threatening and detennu^^BB thaf the Sheriff and hts family w^^H frightened Into telling wbwi the could be found. The mob toot tb^MM| went to' the jail where they prisoner and hanged him. On Novembers Tyler shot and serta^^lH wounded his wife and then made aa fectual attempt at snlolda. , His last trial was to have taken platN^H January 13. '. This Is the first hanging in the ^er^^Zr^thtaihWian7 orOH era. . CADETS SOON TO CRAoB^^^B ' l.PoAntor. Will End Their . WASHi^oTojrTl^^r^^ctaf^lgJpPHB has been sent to the headquarters ot .tful army directing that the first class of cadffcfl at West Point be graduated In FebrtuerfJI Instead of the following Juno. This v?I In accordance with a recommendation? made some time ago by MaJor-<&M?fl Miles and now approved by Secretary AIMS A United States army officer and offloufl of the War Department explained that aortfl object of General Miles in maklhg-tblfl 'recommendation was to supply thej>nrtfl log need now of youug officers. Many a^H ill or on staff duty, and from other caua^H the line is depleted. In the Third CaxjU^H there are only five officers on duty. assignment of the new second Ueutenn^H wbo number about fifty, will do muohj^H , relieve the ,situation, and keep ooJt of?^l service manv civilians who werer unlit, I^H who might otherwise, through polltical^M fluenoe, be appointed to second RARE TREAT FOR SOUTH AME^^B Gunboat Wilmington to Exhibit Glory" to South. American ContftriM^HI Niwpobt News, Ya. (8peclal).?The little gunboat Wilmington, which did good work on the blockade during the BH cent war, has left Hampton Roads on,^H unusually interesting trip. IH The Wilmington will take the Amerl? flag to the innermost rivers of South An^H loa for the purpose of exhibiting It natives or tne loutn country's repuof^m i The object of this trip is to Indues ml frifndlv relations, commercial and wise, with the countries of South A Boy's Awful Crime. Frank Nulty, a postoffloe clerk, ninet^Hj years old, of New York City,- shot, and stantly killed his former sweetheart, k Retnley, a few days ago because she Wo^H not marry him. The girl was seyent^M i years old and lived with her parent*. killing her he turned the weapon uMH himself and fired two bullets into his ; A Gunboat For Bay State Naval MUi^H| , The Secretary of the Navy, Wajbiag^^M i has directed the transfer to the Ooro^^H of Massachusetts (or naval mllltla flHfl poeeg of the auxiliary gnnboat Inca^^M marly the yauitf ot Ut* same nam*