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IMTHi PRESIDENT Extensive Changes Made in the Civil Service Regulations. NEARLY 5000 OFFICES RELEASED. President McKinley Issue* His LonsPromised Amendments?Places Taken From the CliiMlfled Service?Veterans of SpanWIi-Aiuerlcan as Well as Civil War to Be Taroreil. "Washington, D. C. (Special).?Th? Sbanges in the civil service regulations, which have been in contemplation by President AlcKinley for more than a tear, have . been made known in an order issued b v the j President. The President's order affects I aearlv 5000 places. The majority or post- | tlons removed from the classified service I are deputies of bonded officers, storokeep- J rs and gaugers, pension examining sur. i geons, private secretaries and fbe Chief of ! the Bureau of Statistics. The other classes | exempted are military park commissioners | and their employes, postofflce cashiers and J finance c'.erks, special ageuts of the General Land Office, the Alaska school service and superintendents of warehouses, irrigation and logging. Outside of these items the most important feature is the amendm?nt to Rule IV., Section 3, which provides for competitive examination In the classified service. A% new exception clause Is added which gives" the head of a department power to nominate for appointment any person for special 1 or extraordinary service and to waive tlie civil service examination, in whole or in j part. The Civil Service Commission is ordered to grant a certificate ot qualification ! In such cases on evidence to be furnished by the Cabinet officer interested, on approval of the President. It is provided that this class of appointments shall not be transferred to any other position in the classified service except to ! on* that may be filled under like provisions. That is to say, a new grade of eracloves without limit has been established not requiring civil service examination, I because tbe qualifications for their duties i may be considered extraordinary by the head of a department. Such heads can ex- ! change their appointees in the special class t will. The Government Printing Office is not taken out of the classified service. The doors to the skilled laboring class are opened wider to residents of the District of Columbia. Appointments to the positions of printers, assistants, skilled helpers and operatives shall not be apportioned among the States and Territories here- | after. The same rule will apply to plate ; printers and engravers In the Bureau ol , Engraving and Printing, to experts in the Quartermaster's Office, the Pension Agency and other local offices. All clerical positions in the Government Printing Office, typesetters and bookbinders, will, However, he subject to the old apportionment clause. Veterans of the recentrwar are put on the same footing with veteraos of the civil war In amenuea i;uio 1 a., to give suca soi- i diers preference ia original appointments, In reinstatements and to prevent their discbarge before others in a reduction of force. In reference to private secretaries the greatest liberality is exercised. The President and beads of the executive departments are allowed two private secretaries or confidential clerks. Usually one of these Is a stenographer and heretofore in the classified service. Each of the assistant heads of the eight executive departments is allowed a private secretary. The heads of all bureaus appointed by the President, have the same authority to appoint their personal selections. Private secretaries are given to Collectors of Customs where the receipts are i more than $500,000 a* year, and to each of the Appraisers at the po.rts of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. United States District Attorneys get private secretaries. Assistant Attorneys-Qeneral are entitled to a confidential clerk, and, if authorized by the Postmaster-General, each Postmaster gets fi secretary in offices where the receipts exceed $350,000 a year. SOUTHERN CRAVES DECORATED. Philadelphia O. A. It. Veteran! Remember Men Who Won the Gray. Philadelphia (Special).?One of the interesting features of the Memorial Day observance here occurred at the National Cemetery in Germantown, a suburb of this city, where the bodies of 221 Confederate soldiers are burled. For the first time the graves of the men who wore the i gray wore decorated with a flag and a ! floral emblem by the soldiers of the North. The men of the Grand Army of the Republic found and marked with the National colors the graves of other Southern soldiers in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Indian' at C?*ter'? Troopers' Grave*. Hele.sa, Mont. (Special).?Memorial services were held ou the identic il spot where General Custer and the men of the Seventh Cavalry were massacred twenty-three years j ago, aad were largely attended by white men aad Indians, many of the latter being descendants of the perpetrators of the butchery. The Indians took a great interest la the proceedings, decorating the graves not only of their fallen djad, but of :he troopers as well. SAID HE WAS A TRIPLE MURDERER. Shot Bis Wife, Son and a Coinpan.1 ion, But Didn't Kill Thain. Reading, Penn. (Special).?Edwin Lelsy came to Reading and surrendered to tie polict, saying that he had murdered three persons. He was lodged in jaii. Later it was found that the facts of the cuse were not so serious as he Imagined. On the day of his arrest he made a trip to DickJ Woods, five miles below Reading, where he found his wife, his son Frank and Harrj Good. He first shot down his wife. The bullet entered her head near the ear and lodged in her jaw. Ho then fired twice at his sou Frank. Both bullets entered the fleshy part of his head and then glanced off. "Good was shot twice through the i shoulder and his condition is said to b< ! serious. The cause of the shooting wa? : jealousy. The DHhlci'eJi Launched. The torpedo boat Dahlgren, meant to b? the fastest steam craft ever built in New England, was launched a few days age irom the yards of tho Rath Iron Works, a! i Bath. :<Ie. Mrs. Joan Vinton uamgren, 01 New I ,rk, daughter of Joseph Drexel, ol Philadelphia, and wife of the youngest so:t of Admiral l)ahlgren, named this latest ' acquisition to the navy. The launching waa successful in every detail. Seven Men Droivned In the Yakon. The staaraer City of Topeka, from Alasca, which has just arrived at Victoria, B. C., brings news of the drowning of seven men in the Yukon. Three of them were Conrad Mabarg, of New York; David Peters, of Easlan 1, and a maunamed Rhodes. The party had left for Dawson with a bag of gold. Chattanooga's Strawberry Crop. The strawberry crop in the vicinity oi Chattanooga, Tenn., flllei over 200,00C crate* tais spring, and was valued a> $300,03.'). The Labor World. Kansas City, Mo., is soon to hare a new shoe factory, to ha operated by union lnbor. Oma&a iabor unions are working hard to have their new labor temple realy 'or occupancy. Governor Thomas, of Colorado, ha? vetoed the biil repealing the boycott and blacklist statute. The trades union fund for the benefit of the families of the miners killed in the riots at Virden, 111., amounts to $15,000. The seamen are progressing with Increasing promise in their movement for higher wages out of San Francisco, and success is expected in the very near future. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Wathlncton Items. After n, conference with Senator Han3' brouRli, of North Dakota, Secretary Algci decided to establish a two-company mlli on? nncf of niamnrek-. fn the Senator'* fct^vw. ? | State. Congress appropriated $40,000 foi this purpose, but owing to the demand fox troops in the Philippines the post has nof been established. President McKinley has appointed Third Assistant Postmaster-General John A. Merritt, of New York, to be Postmaster at Washington, to succeed James P. Willett. Edwin C. Modden. of Detroit, Mich., will succeed General Merritt in the Postoffice Department. The Navy Department has made the final payment on account of the gunboat Princeton and she is now the property of the Government. The State Department has received a. despatch from Consul Hanna at San Juan, Forto Rico, in which he denies the report that there is a shortage of American vessels, and that it is impossible to obtain American ships to carry Porto Rican crops to the United States. Sir Cavendish Boyle, Government Secre- j tary for British Guiana, wll'. arrive soon to | negotiate reciprocity treiiues euvonuj; British Guiana and the Barbadoes. These proposed treaties are apart from any other British West Indian negotiations. The Postmaster-General will send a special agent to Lake City, 8. C., to determine whether a postofflce shall ba re-established there. Queen Victoria sent a cablegram to President McKinley thanking him for his birthday congratulations, and expressing cordial friendship for the American people. The Secretary of the Navy has revoked tho order recently issued prescribing a double-breasted coat for the present service blouse of naval officers. This action tvas taken on account of the protests of many officers against the change. linmntic. Forty persons were iDjured a fevr days ago in a rear-end collision between a Harlem race track special and a Forty-eighth street train on the Lake Street elevated road in Chicago. Elmer E. Seatcbard died at bis home at n ? - v J..:.,-i?o In o hi. lu, . x., \ji iujunco igv.vntu iu ?? wecycle accident. While riding his wheel he wa9 thrown off and his head struck the ground. He was thirty-eight years old and a prominent Mason. The United State? cruiser Prairie, with the North Carolina Naval Brigade aboard, arrived at Wilmington, N. C., a tew days ago and the reserves were discharged officially, thus terminating the annual cruise. Fire has destroyed the business portion 3f Curtis, Neb., and the loss is estimated at ?100,000. Over half of the residents had their household goods on the hill west of th3 town when the excitement was over. The American whaling bark Bertha, Captain Avery, has arrived at Norfolk,Va., from Saint Eustatius, Dutch West Indies. Her cruise has been successful. Sho brought in 300 casks of oil, which will bo resbipped from Norfolk. The whaler will reflt and sail on another crulie. CaDdles placed about the corpse of Mrs. Catharine Eck, of Camden, N. J., caused a fire which burned up the body. Mrs. Eck was seventy-eight years old, and was the mother of Mrs. John Dougherty, with whom she lived. The members of the family were asleep when the Are started. Mrs. Louis Castor, a French Canadian, was shot and killed by her husband at the residence of Mm. William Van Ness, at Keene, N. H. Mrs. Daniel Bozarth, of Bridgeton, N. J., was attacked by a pet wolt belonging to her hjasband. The animal was sent to Mr. Bozurth by a Western friend. While his wife was feeding the wolf he attacked her, and twice bit her, tearing the calf of the right leg. Her husband heard her scroam9 and beat the animal off, after which he 3hot it. Fred Reppert, a blacksmith, aged twenty-four years, at Allentown, Penn., choked his young wife, Ella Reppert, to death and then committed suicide by cutting his throat. They were married two years ngo, but their domestic life was unhappy onacjount, It is alleged, of Mrs. Reppert's habit of staying out late nights. Governor Bradley, at Frankfoit. Ky., received a telegram saying that he had been indicted for violating the |iquor laws at Chattanooga, Tenn. Governor Bradley made no reply. Governor Bradley says he and staff took lemonade, and this is not an indictable offence. Officials of the Texas and Paclflc Ballroad, at Dallas, Texas, have received advices that a passenger train on the Pecos Valley Road was wrecked near Canon City, Texas. One brakeman and one passenger were drowned. The entire train was destroyed. . Tbe Presbyterian General Assembly nan ?oted to refer the case of Dr. McGlffert to the New York Presbytery for disposition according to itsjudgment. The Cuban-American League, an organsmtion of Cubans and Americans In New Jfork City, has usked T. Estrada Palma, delegate of the Cuban revolutionists, and Treasurer Benjamin J. Guerra, of the socalled Junta, for an accounting of all the revolutionary funds and contribution? which passed through their hands. The seventy-flfth anniversary of the American Sunday-school Union was just held in Philadelphia. James B. Gordon, son of Colonel Gor- i ion, owner of the Lee & Gordon MU1 at Chickamauga, was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn., charged with being a party in a mock marriage to Miss Cornelia Williamson. The couple went through a marriage ceremony In one of the high observation towers on Missionary Ridge. The young man is a relative of General J. B. Gordon. The conference of members of the Democratic National Committee held at St. Louis, Mo., whs devoted to the discussion oft)lans of organization. Another meeting will be held at Chicago July 20 to talk over the platform for next year. , Austin J. Devereux, who accidentally 3hot himself on a Long Island ferryboat, died In Bellevue Hospital, New York City, of lockjaw. He was Insured In several companios for $20,000. They are investigating the cause of his death. Foretcii. An attache of tbe Chinese Ministry al Paris, France, Chl-Mln, committed suicide at Berlin, Germany, by shooting himself with a revolver. He was suffering from an incurable malady. ** John Johnson, a farmer, was?lnstantly killed; Petor, his son, mortally Injured, and another son badly hurt by being struck by a Michigan Central train near West Lome, Ont. A train on tbe St. Guillaume-Farnham branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway | was stalled near Montreal a few davs ngo by n horde of caterpillars crossing the track. Where tbey crossed the track the caterpillars are said to have been six inches deep. A dispatch from K Ingston, Jamaica, tc Halifax, N. S., states that the trade between Jamaica and Canada is to be pushed, owing to the "menacing position taken by the United States Government in regard tc tariff relations." i The steamers Corean and Ulundn, which : j have just arrived at St. John's N. F., from [ Liverpool, report immense icebergs drifting across the North Atlantic shipping routes, and seriously endangering steamships. General Gallleni, Governor-General and ! Commander-in-Chief of the French army i of occupation in Madagascar, arrived at i Marseilles on board the French steamship i j Dje:un.\h. Speechos of welcome and I medals were presented to him. The two Galicia:i3, Czuby and Guszszak who were recently found guilty of murdering a fellow countryman named Bojeck and I * _ _i.11n*. Cfr IT??Koln fha AnHMnr U19I0UC CUiiUICll IIL Ql. Ull/Hiu, iuu i settlement in Manitoba, were banged a( | I Winnipeg. The murder was committed tc secure $60, which Bojeck was known tc have. ?**r >u v ! General Reyes, leader of the recent Nlcaraguan revolution, Is lying soriously ill at Becas del Torro, Colombia, from the effect.' of an attempted assassination. He was on bis way home, when parties sprang from ambush ana beat him with sticks uutil he was unconscious. A Madagascar dispatch, recoived at Paris France, says that the l'alafas are rlsln# i near Ikongo, where they have killed < magistrate and a French sergeant^ AMERICAS PEACE PM Delegates at The Hague Submit Their Arbitration Proposal, DIFFERS FROM THE BRITISH IDEA. Scheme For a Permanent Tribunal la Submitted to the Peace ConferenceIts Decision to Be Final?The Provisions of the Plan?When the Treaty Will Become Operative. Thr Hague (By Cable).?The American delegates to the Peace Convention submitted their scheme relating to an arbitration tribunal before the Drafting Committee of the Arbitration Committee. The plan differs from the British proposal. The text of the American arbitration proposal is as follows: Resolved, That, in order to nid In the prevention of armed conflicts by pacific means, the representatives of the sovereign powers assembled together in this conference be and they hereby are requested to propose to their respective Governments a series of negotiations for the adoption of a general treaty having for its object the following plan, with such moditlcatlons as may be essential to secure the adhesion of at least , n,c va? P'* '' 7T' m'. cos THE MCARAC (Map of the route favore nine sovereign powers, four of whom at least shall have been signatories of the declaration of Paris. the German Empire being, for this purpose, the successor of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Italy, the successor of Sardinia: Article I.?The tribunal shall be composed of persons nominated on account of their personal Integrity and learning in international law by a majority of the members of the highest court at the time existing in each of the adhering States, one from each sovereign State participating in the treaty, and shall hold office until their successors are nominated by the same body and duly appointed. Article II.?The tribunal shall meet for Dtganlzatlon at a time and place to be agreed upon by tho several Governments, but not later than six months after the general treaty shall be ratified by the nine powers, as hereinbefore proposed, and shall organize itself by the appointment of a permanent clerk and such other officers as may be found necessary, but without conferring any distinction upon Its own members. The tribunal shall be empowered to fix its place of sessions and to change the same from time to time, as the Interests of justice or the convenience of litigants may seem to require, and to fix Its own rples of procedure. Article III.?The tribunal shall be of permanent character, and shall be always open for the filing of new cases, subjeot to its.own rules of procedure, either by tlia contracting nations or by others that may :hoose to submit them, and all cases and sountereases, with tho testimony and arguments by which they are to be supported or answered, are to be in writing or print. Ml cases, countercases, evide&ffi, arguments, or opinions in expressing judgment, are'to fee accessible after decision is renderod to ull who desire them and who pay the necessary charges of transcription. Article IV.?Any and all questions of disagreement may, by mutual consent, be submitted by the nations concerned to this international tribunal for decision, but avery such submission shall be accompanied by an undertaking to accept the award. < Article V.?Tho bench of judges for each I particular case shall consist of as many as may be agreed upon by the litigating na- i tlons?either of the entire bench or of any i smaller number not less than three, to be chosen from the whole court. In the event i of u bench of three judges only, no one of I those shall be either a native subject or J sltizen of a State whose interests are in litigation in the case. I Article VI.?The general expenses of the i tribunal are to be equally divided or upon ' 3ome equitable basis between the adherent powers; but those arising from each particular case shall be provided for as may be directed by the tribunal. The presentation Df a case wherein one or t^oth of the parties , may be a non-adherent State shall be admitted only upon condition of a mutual agreement that the States so litigating shall pay respectively a.sum to be fixed by ( the tribunal for expenses of adjudication. Tka aoioHui nl fhn i>nl<TAa mnv hn 4ft n<i. I justed as to be paid only when they are j actually engaged in the duties of the court. Article VII.?Every litigant before the i International tribunal shall have the right ( to a rehearing of the case before the same , judges within three months after notiflca- j tlon of the decision, on alleging nowly dis- ( covered evidence or submitting questions ( of law not heard and decided at the former ( hearing. Article VIII.?This treaty shall become operative when nine sovereign States, such as are indicated in the resolution, shall have ratified its provisions. PLENTY OF COLD AT DAWSON. Over SI,000,000 Reported to He Heady For Shipment on the First Steamer. Vancouver, B. C. (Special).?Advices roceived here from Dawson state that there is evidence of the largest output of gold ever recorded there. A large crowd of men are waiting at Dawson to take the first boat, nnd half of them are miners who have from *1000 to $50,000 each in dust. The White Pass and Yukon Railway Company has Issued bills of lading on more than $1,000, 00 worth of gold that is to come out on nn? of the first river steamers. There 13 every indication that the river from Dawson io the White Horse P.aplds Is now open. Death of a Siarderar. James Neale Plumb, who shot and killed Alexander Masterton a few weeks ago in New York City died In Bellevue Hospital after having obstinately refused to take remedies for erysipelas and gastritis prescribed for him. He was soon to have pleaded to tbe murder indictment. Not to Prosecutd Hoolejr. The Public Prosecutor at London, announced that he would not procced with the prosecution of Ernest Ternh Hooley, the corporution promotor and speculator, upon the charge of fraud. Prominent reoplc. Herbert Spencer recently entered on his eightieth birthday. Ua ii enjoying a fair measure of good health. Former Representative Ben T. Cable is to turnish mucn of the money for the buildI ing of a chapter-house for the Zeta Psl fra1 ternity at the University of Michigan. Former Senator Peflfer, of Kansas, one of the founders ot the Populist party, and who was ior year3 coiisiuoroa as cmei c.\|?uuoui of populism, ha3 returned to the Republican party. Pope Lao XIII. is said to b:i worth considerably more tcan $20,01)9,000, whi;h, with the exception ot a number of small bequests to relatives, wlU probably be left to tlio church. # THE fflCABM CANAL. | Abstract of the Conclusions of the j% Commission Made Public. ESTIMATED COST $118,113,790. The Childa Route From Brlto to Lake Nicaragua and the Lull Route From | the Lake to Greytown are Adopted? How the Commission Worked?President to Lay Report Before Congress. Washixoton, D. C. (Special).?The State Department ha9 made public an official abstract of the report of the NIcaraguaa Canal Commission as presented by Admiral Walker, the bead of the commission. It Is understood to be the Intention of the President to submit the fall report to Congress at the beginning of the next session. Meanwhile the department states thut It will not be passible to make public more of the report than the synopsis fur. nished to the press. This synopsis says: "Tho commission understood that it was required to consider all routes heretofore proposed having any merit, that new routes that appeared to have merit should be developed, and the entire region of canal possibilities should be examined with sufficient thoroughness to enable a just "3Srl *JMv > v V rica ' iUA. CANAL. d by tbe Commission.) and comprehensive comparison of the various routes to be made, and the most desirable one selected. ' "With this v:?w the commission made a nareful studv of nil data bearlnc unou the Niearaguan Canal question and organized u large force. "Much delay to the work nnd great annoyance to'working parties whs caused by attempts at revolution and by the strained relations between tho Governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The outbreak of the war between the United States and Spain was also a serious matter. "The report goes into minute details in respect to all questions connected with the construction of the canal, and says that after mature deliberation the commission has adopted nnd estimated for the route from Brito to Lake Nicaragua, called the Childs route, and from the lake to Greytown, called the Lull route. This line, leaving Brito, follows the left bank of the Rio Grande to near Bueno Retlro, crosses the western divide to the valley of the Lajas, which it follows to Lake Nicaragua. Crossing the lake to the head of the San Juan River, it follows the upper river to near Boca 8an Carlos, thence, in excavation, by the left bank of the river to the San Juanillo and across the low country to Greytown, passing to the northward of Lake Silicc. It requires but n single dam, with regulating works at both ends of the summit level. The surveys have in general revealed better physical conditions than were hitherto supposed to exist, especially as to the amount of rock in the upper river, 1 whereby It is possibly topriyitly reduce the estimated cost of construction. "JO determine the proper unit prices for excavation, the average of prices actually paid to contractors In the Chicago drainage canal, which represent cdst of piant, prices pnid for work done, and contractors' proflts were taken. To these prices certain percentages were added for the difference in location, climate, etc. "In'obtaining the estimates for the cost of locks, the prices actually paid for build- , ing tbe Government locks at Sault 8te. ' Marie wore taken, and thirty-three per cent, was added for the difference of location. ' "After giving due weight to all the elements of this Important question, and with nn earnest desire to reach logical conclusions based upon substantial facts, the 1 com mission believes that a canal can be Sullf n/irnsii Hm ioflimiia nn thta route for not exceeding 4118,113,700. "Colonel Haines concurs generally with tbe views of tho other members of the commission, but his estimate of the cost is 5131,818,303.;' FILIPINOS CAPTURE OFFICERS. Were Sailing: For Pleainrn, Became Becalmed and Then Taken Prisoners. Manila (By Cable).?Details regarding; :he chpturo by Filipinos of two officers of :he United States hospital ship Relief have lust been obtained. Third Officer Fred Heppy and Assistant Euginoer Charles Blandford rigged a sail 3n one of the ship's boats and went sailing along the shore, on tbe south, opposite the insurgent lines. The boat became becalmed near the shore, and some native uanoe9 with Filipinos on board put out and captured the two men, who were unarmed, and also took possession of the boat. The United States turret-ship Monadnock quickly seut a boat with a landing party ashore, under cover of her tjuns, and j sheiled the shore briskly. Tne natives, however, rushed the prisoners Into the woods before the Monadnock's boat reached land. Persons on board several other I ships saw the affair through glasses, out < were unable to prevent the capture oI . Messrs. Heppy and Blandford. ( News of Lieutenant GUinore. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The firsi j direct news of Lieutenant Giisoretbat has j been received for over a weqk came to tbe ; Navy Departmont a few days ago. It is ] taken by the Department us a hopeful la dlcation of his situation: "Haxila. "Secretary Navy, Washington: "Escaped Spanish prisoner reports see- J ins Gilrnore and some sailors well. Gil- { more allowed horse. 13abkeb." f The Pa?fttilc to B? .Surveyed. About the middle of June the engineer ir eharge will make a survey of the Pas.se.ic I near Taterson, N. J., under authority ol 1 tb<i River and Harbor bill which was In- " serted through the efforts of Representa- J tive Stewart lu the last Congress. Five .Hen Hurt in a Fijjlit With a Shark. Thecrew3 of two sturgeon (lshing boats had an encounter a few days ago with a j ^ whiptail shark in the Delaware Bay. neai Wilmington. Del. Fivo men were1 injure 1 j before tho shark was kille 1. From nosa to ^ tall the shark measured twenty-six fde:. Civil Marriage* In Caba. The decree giving legal sanction to civi mnrrlaffoa in Cuba oniv has i.oen approvef I by the Governor-General. A clergyman o- 1 any church, however, may perform au eu 1 clesiastlcal marriage afterward. By tb< ( torms of the decree a certillcation to th> J consent of parents, made by an ecclesias * tlcal notary, la no louger to be required. j Minister Killed by ? Train. The Rev. E. Hughes, formerly pastor o the Lutheran Church at Saddle River, me death while walking on the Erio track, i near Allendale, N. J. He was struck by ai , express traiu. He was about sixty year ] old. and leaves a wife VERDICT FAVORS DREYFUS Civil Section of tho Court Reports, Urging Revision. rh? Fainom Prisoner Will Fac* a New Coart-Martlal, With tlte Probability of an Acquittal. Paris (By Cable).?The President of the Civil Section of the Court of Cassation, IT. Eallot-Bsaupre, has reportod to the President of the Court of Cassation, 31. ilazeau, In favor of a revision of the Dreyfus trial and resendlng the prisoner before a courtmartial. It Is believed the report Is practically certain to be accepted by the Court of Cassation, and meaus that Dreyfu.* will be brought back to France and retried. From the President of the Court of Cassation the Dreyfus report will pass into the hands of the Proeureur-Generai.M. Manau. DREYFUS'S JOURNEt HOME. Hla Removal From the Ialand Prison to Be Caratloualy Conducted. Lojidos (By Cable).?Tbi correspondent of the Dally Telegraph at Cayenne, capital ofJFrench Guiana, telegraphs the substand of an Interview he has had with M. L. Monttet, Governor-General of the oolony, as to the possibility of the retransportation of Dreyfus to France. The Governor-General said: "The question has been already thoroughly considered. I have received the minutest instructions relating to bis removal from the lies du Salut. wbicb will be personally superintended by myself and 11. Denlel, Governor of the lies da Salut. No person but the State officials and the regular warders will be permitted to witness his departure, wbich will take place in the Roads of lie Royale, without touching at Cayenne. "While on ship he will be invisible to the crew, the jaiiers alone administering tsv klm ?? IU UlUi. FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH. 6oath Carolina Farmer, Hlo Wife and Seven Children All Dead. Habdeeville, S. C. (Special).?About hree miles from this village, on the Oestrelcher farm, a fire in which nine persons lost their live3 occurred. A two-story frame building on the farm was occupied oy Jacob Solomons, his wife and seven children, the eldest aged sixteen yenrs, and ;he younzest, an infant of one year. The Coroner's inquest disclosed the facts "hat the house was shattered in the lower )tory by tbe last autumnal storms, which also carried away the chimneys, and that Solomons had resorted to the makeshift of building two fires, one to cook on aud the other for warmth, inside the lower stories Df the house, on two clroular mill saws, raised from the board floor on small pieces Df iron. The smoke, sparks, and flames escaped as best they could. It was evident that after the family bad retired the breeze that came up at midnight fanned the flames, which were communicated to the partition of the stairway ana sec tae house on Are. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the victims came to their deaths through the culpable negligence of Jacob Solomons in neglecting to build a chimney. TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON. Carl Browne Orgaulzlng Another Army Like the "Commonweal." Wichita. Kan. (Special).?Carl Browne of "Commonweal" fame is "at it again." Ho proposes to raise another army slmilat to that of 1894, having as Its objeot the checking of the trusts. The army will be the nucleus of a new political party, which he calls the "Sovereign Citizens of the United States of America." He says the army will be mobilized here when it starts ' on its missionary journey to the National I japltal. "We will march to Kansas City," said he. "There we will build boats and float down the Missouri Blver to St. Louis, taking ample supplies. At St. Louis wo will embark on barges, and be towed by steamers to Pittsburg." The journey from that , point to Washington will be overland, aud the route will be the same as that taken by the Commonweal In 18M. , He says: "I Intend moving on the nest , Congress. There we shall stay till our pe- i( tltion will be heard. We shall ask for more money and less misery; free and \ unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; condemnation and public acquirement of all trusts engaged in production and distribution, and all public utilities, j and the abrogation of the imperialistic , policy." SOUTH PARK BLOCKADE OVER. Hat Nearly Canted Starvation Along the Line Several Timet. Leadville, Col. (Special).?After a blockAde lasting for four months, the 3outh Park line has been opened, and a train reached here from Denver. The , South Park officials announce that from 1 now on trains will be running regularly. j The blockade has existed since January 1 21 and has been by far the longest In the 1 history of railroading In Colorado^ The 1 towns along the line have suffered severely through Inability to obtain provisions and supplies for the stock. Several times starvation was seriously threatened and ] was only averted through the energj ot :he people in breaking roads through the snow to the nearest points open to railroad communication. I For 125 days the mines along the road lave been unable to ship ore, and with the jxceptlon of development, all work has i jeensuspended. i INSURANCE COMPANIES V/IN. ! Irlcanaas Supreme Court Approves Decision of Lower Court. Little Rock, Ark. (Special).?The State Supreme Court has approved the decision >f the lower court in sustaining a demurrer nterposed by the insurance companies in he anti-trust suits begun by the Attorneygeneral. The prosecution's contention that insur inco companies which belong 10 ranng du- i :eau3 in other States cannot do business in : Arkansas was overruled, aad many of the ! ( iffected companies are already reopening :heir Arkansas offices. General Merriam Leaves Wardner. . General Merriam hns left Wariner. ] [dabo, $nd gone to Denver, leaving Major 1 smith in command of tne United States , 'orces in the Ccur d'Alenes. Three Killed at a Hallway Croislng. Joseph Keller aud Ray Sherman, of Uden, N. Y., and Louis Carey, of Auburn ( Pour Corners, Penn., were killed at , iVeudes Station, N. Y., a few day* a;:o. (chilo driving across tho Now York Central j ttailroad tracks. Their carriage was struck jy an east-bound express train. ' Kuga Bonheur Dead. Rosa Bouhetir, the famous animal painter, *ho had been suffering from an attack of * ^oncestion of tho lungs at Fontalnbleau, ' Pranco, died a few days ago, aged seventy- ' leven years. j Victim of a Kentucky Feud. Thomas Baker, wuose trim uau to ds guarded by a company of militia two f nonths ago in Manchester, Ky., and who s vas finally sentenced for life for the murler of riherilT White, but obtaiued a new r :rlal, lias fallen a victfui to the feud of his j amlly with the Howards. H9 was shot j lown and killed from ambush at his home, lix miles from Manchester, Clay County. -jk?I The Intercollegiate CTiW?j>lon?hip. g The University of Pennsylvania has igaln won the intercollegiate champion- ^ ihlp in athletics on Manhattan Field, New j fork City, Harvard being second, Yala 1 i. ;hlrd and Princetpn fourth. FATMMMWMS' Washouts Cause the Loss of Ter Lives in lowa. V TWO BRIDEGROOMS ARE. KILLED, Moit of the Dead in the Telescoped Pallmar) Sleeper?Many Perions Were Injured?CI otnl burst Canted the Wash' { oat Near Sink Creek?Remarkable Cast of Fortitude?One Train Derailed. Watehi.00, Iowa (Special).?The througt train from Chicago to Minneapolis over the Bock Islund and Burlington, Cedar Bapldt and Northern Raljwaya was wrecked at th? crossing ol Sink Creek. about four milei Southeast of this place. The train consisted of six coaches, Including mall and baggage car, smoking car, two passenge: coaches, and sleeper. Nine persons wer< killed and twenty-three injared. The list ot dead follows: E. L. Arnold, lumberman, Minneapolis; F. S. Carpenter, St. 'Louie; David I. Hamo, Minneapolis' Hawkins, Pullman car conductor: W. X McLaughlin. Muske#opt Mich.; 'William Scholliam, Waterloo; .H. 8chwette, '11ton, 111.; George Watnwright, train conduct tor, and an unknown man. A cloudburst bad washed the xsnd and i gravel roadbed, leaving the track unsupported for a stretch of twenty feet. Th< rails and ties held together, and there wai nothing to indicate the insecurity of th? road. The engine struok tbe washout, and was derailed in the ditch beside the track, and behind it the cars were piled up in a contused heap. Tbe mail car tipped ovei and was telescoped by the baggage car be* < bind, while the rear end of the baggage cat in turn telescoped the smoker. The roof oi the sleeper plowed its way through tbe day coach, while the lower half of the lattei , crashed through the sleeper. Theengineei 1 and fireman jumped from the train und escaped with slight injuries. , Mr." Schwette was on his way to Minne- ( apolls, where he was to be married. H< < asked the physician to telegraph to his father and bis sweetheart. ''Tell her," ha , gasped, "that I have been detniaed by a wreck and cannot keep the nppolatment \ n time. Don't say any more." < David I. Hamo, who is among the dead, was on his way to Minneapolis, where, in two weeks, he was to be married to Mist Laura Morgansteln, a nelce of Admiral > Schley. A striking example of nerve and fortitude was sbown by William Soliolllam, ? traveler for a 8?. Louis tobacco house wbc j made bis headquarters at Waterloo. H< ( was found la the second passenger coach, bis arm crushed between tbe front end oi the sleeper and tbe side of tbe coach. He f did not lose consciousness, but beggedthal t bis arm be sawed off, so as to release him. It was found that there was no possibility ' of releasing the unfortunate man in any other way, so this was done. Scholliam 1 gritted his teeth and looked on while hi: 1 arm -was amputated with a common hand- < saw, not a moan coming from the pool ' aa tho inofrxmonf tnr? lf? wot I through bone and sinew. After he was re- c leased Scliolllam walked almost unassisted ( to a near-by farmhouse. He was terrlblj weakened by loss of blood, however, and died within a few hoars. t 1 Oelwein, Iowa (Special).?The Chicago ] Great Western passenger train was wreckecL. < two miles north of here. The colored por- , ter was killed and several persons Injured.' t The train was running over lowlwds when , the track began to settle, and the train j was derailed. The damage to the railroad , company will be heavy, as the coaches aitcf j locomotives are almost a total loss. s SEVEN KILLED IN SOUTH DAKOTA 1 Buildings Blown to Pieces and Much Damage Done. 1 Chahbeelain, S. D. (Special).?Word ha? reached here of a disastrous and fatal cy. clone which passed across the country Ir I the vicinity of Bijou Hills, twenty-five miles I south of this olty. It resulted In the death I of seven person and serious injury to twc t others. t The killed are Charles Peterson and hi! E six obilriren, the latter belpg three boys and 3 three girls, ranging from tbree to tlfteec j years of age. The wife and remaining t child are fatally Injured. * ? 8 .The cyclone formed In plain view ol hundreds of persons, !and moved In > j southerly course, the first place reached a being A. Coden's, which was totally de- r stroyed, as were a church and a school- t house, after which the cyclone reached thi a Peterson place, where the execution don? n was appalling. The dead and injurod 3 were sttewn all about the premises, whlh 3 the buildings were smasted to splinters, t Muoh live stock was killed. * Killed by Lightning. j Sandusky, Ohio (Special).?Louis Ebert, % farmer of Oxford Township, was killed by lightning at a barn warming near Ills home. About thirty people were In the I barn, and all were prostrated, several of g them being more or less Injured by the T Bboclc. ' ? MURDERED BY HIS CHILDREN. Fonrtoen-Year-Old Girl and T?n-T?ar-01d { Uoy Shoot a Crael Father. a Rapid City, S. D. (Special).?A remark- 11 able murder case has developed bore In ' tvhleh a fourteen-year-old girl, Lena Bouts, f mil her ren-year-old brother are charged D nrlth the murder of their father, Frank ? Bouts. The murdered man was a prominent railroad contractor. The little girl admits the crime and the boy adds that he did what he could to kill 3 bis father. The father Is said to have been very cruel to his family and this appears to have been the motive for the crime. It was committed while the mother was at a neighbor's, and after the killing the girl prepared iUUCU 111 luo uauui waj, uuu nucu the mother returned the three sat down t and ate, while the body.of the father lay a few rods away in the rear of tho house. The rifle of the fatherwas used for the " purpose. While the little boy steadied the T weapon the girl fired it from a rear wln? ii dow. Hor aim was true, and a great hole a was torn in hor father's back. Denth must h have b?en instantaneous. The gun was put away and nothing said of the crime w until the mother became alarmed at tho ii long absence of the father, and the ahoot- v Ing was then admitted. ir The children are qulto bright and seera h to think the cruelty of their parent *7ar- t< ranted the murder. ri Jampt From Brooklyn Bridge and Llvea. To put to the test his theory of the ab? jolute power of mind ovor matter, Howard Kretz, of N'3W York City, a few days ago A' lumpod from the central span of the Brook, ol iyn Bridge. He was rescued apparently tr inhurt. Y Ul << Shot Daughter and Killed Herself. ? J m if? A.U Willie delirious irom lover, iur.-<. uuc Jiayton, at Nashville, Tenn., 9hot and dangerously wounded her flve-year-old daugh- ~ :er. Mrs. Clayton then turnodtbo revolver on herself uud sent a bullet through her P' jrala, death Asulug instantly. ^ Whirl of the Wheel, It is considered a heinous offence to ride i bicycle anywhere near the city of Conitantinople. ^ Five counties in Pennsylvania have al- . eady taken advantage of the side-path j' aw passed through the efforts of the r1 'enssylvanla Dlvi9lcn, L. A. W. ?( There are 3510 bicycles registered for | tL axation la the City of Mexico. The tax p3 a dollar a month, and all wheels must be upplled with bells and lanterns. The question of using cycles In the serIce of the Are brigade nas frequently been alsed, but little progress has been m'ade in at Sngland. Cycling Are-extinguisher? are, wj lowever, used u good deal on the Contl- bl teot- uri VELLOW FEVER STARTS UP/ One Case in New Orleans and Texas Begins a Quarantine. . . r?n Promptly Bars Oat Freight and F?iun(?ri on All Railroad! From New Orleans. i New Orleans, La. (Special).?The Louisiana State Board of Health gave notice to tbe several other Boards of Health, in accordance with an agreement made this spring as to yellow fever cases, that an autopsy showed that Miss Johanna Qrlllo, who died here a few days ago, had yellow fever. The case was regarded as suspicions, but not until after the autopsy could tbe character of the disease be determined with certainty. Miss Orlllo was of Italian origin, but a native of New Orleans. The Board of Health declares that there Is no other case In New Orleans In the slightest degree suspicious, and says there should be no fear q! any prevalence of the fever. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company was notified by the Texas Health Officer that no passengers or baggage from New Orleans would ce allowed to enter Texas. Atjstiw. Tex. (Special).?State Health Officer W. F. Blouut received a telegram from Dr. Soachon, City Health Officer of New Orleans, notifying him that yellow fever had again made ils appearance in that city. Immediately upon receipt of this telegram Dr. Blunt telegraphed Superintendent Yen Vleck of the Southern i Pacific and General Superintendent Thorn \ of the Texas and Pacific railways as fol- j lows: 1 V "Do not sell tickets over your line from \ New Orleans to any Texas point. Do not < bring any person or thing from New Orleans, either by express or freight, into Texas until further notice." Dr. Blunt telegraphed Dr. Souchon as foilows: ^ "We have dcclded :> quarantine against ' all places on announcement of first positive case of yellow fellow." The quarantine established by Dr. Blunt against New Orleans will virtually tie up all traffic on the Southern Pnclfic and tbe Texas and Pacific Roads in Louisiana, as passengers and freight are debarred from intering Texas from New Orleans. Dr. Blunt established quarantine inspec- ') tion camps on the Louisiana border for avery railroad ontering the State. COURTS FOR PHILIPPINES. rh? Spanish Jadlclal System Kevived la the Islands. Manila (By Cable).?A.n order has been issQed re-establishing' the Philippine courts, which have been closed since the American occupation. It revives all the Spanish system, without conflicting with :he sovereignty of the (Tailed States. *4 The Chief Justice is Cayetano Arrelano. rhe Associates of the Civil Branch aw Manuel Araulia, Colonel Crowder and Gregorio Aranita. The Justices of th? Criminal Branch are Itayinundo Melliza, imbrosio Rianzare?, Julio Lorento, Major Sfoung and Captain BIrkhimer. The At* torney-Qeneral Is Florentio Torres. Tbia lorresponds with the American Supreme Jourt. -i The oath prescribed begins: "I recognize and aocept the Rupreme luthorlty 0f the United States of America," etc. The Filipino members are all prominent awyers. Arrellano is the leader of his profession in the islands. In the early itages of the Filipino movement be was \ igufcaldo's principal adviser. Aranlta' km a member of Aguinaldo's first Cab- f [net. Melliza was President of the insurgent government at Hollo. Torres is the i; leader of the local committee working , 'e with the Commission to concllliate the in- * surrectlonlsts. Spanish will be the official langnage of the courts. MARCHAND REACHES TOULON. * Sntbualaatlc Welcome Given to the African Explorer. Toulojt, France (By Cable). ? Major larchand arrived here on board the 'ranch cruiser D'Assas. The hero of : % i'&shoda was greeted with Immense enhusiasm,the ship having him on board leing escorted into the harbor by a large lumber of steamers. At the landing lajor Marchand was received by tbe layor of Toulon and#aeveral generals of he French army, who welcomed him with peecbes of laudation. The roadstead was crowded with vossels lecked out with flags, and ail manner of mall boats were out to welcome the exilorer upon Ills return to France. When he cruiser D'Assas entered tbe port flags UU UUUUK.01UU101S nolo naiou IISIJ iru?>?, ;ad shouts of Vlre 1'Armee!" and "Vive farchand!" resounded in till directions, lajor Marcband and bis companions were :ept busy replying to the welcome, SPAIN'S NEW ENVOY ARRIVES. la Say? Oar Differences Are Settled and We Shall Be Good Priendt. New Yobk Citt (Special).?Tbe Duke )'Arcos, Spanish Miuister to tbe United Itates, accompanied by bis wife, tb? >uchess 'D'Arcos, who is an American roman, arrived here on the Kaiser Wilhelm ler Groose. "I am coming back to tbe United States n tbe hope of a very pleasant stay," said be Duke D'Arcos, pleasantly. ' "I know nd like tbe American people?I Hope to b? Iked by them. My wife Is un American, a& OU IkQUT. 1 am quuc seusiuio ut Lug <mIstanceshe will be tome in malting new rlends. I trust most of my old ones ha?? i0t forgotten me. I shall re-establish the octal entente cordial at the earliest molent. Our differences are all settled. We hall be good friends?for Spain and the United States were friends many leng ears." CAPTAIN MARKS WINS HIS rICHT. Iirneri Agree to P#y HI* Claim In Ordfi to Recover Ihe Venae!. Montbeal (Special).?Captain Marks, of , f he Helvetia, who refused to give up his essel at Valleyfleld until his claim for rages was settled, has come out a victor, 'he Quebec Government having refused to iterfere in the matter, the owners have greed to pay the Captain's claim and he us given up the vessel. Acting United States Consul Gorman 'ent to Valleyfleld audsucceeded in effectig a settlement. Captain Marks left the esse! ami took up his quarters at the hotel i Valleyfleld. He has become a regular ero among the V^Jleyfleld people, owing ) the manner in which he stuck up for his ffhts. Haytl and Santo Douiinjn, President Tire3ias Simon Sam ha3 sailed om the Mole St. Nicholas with a Haytlan Bet to meet Preslden1: Ulysses Heureaux, ! Saato Domingo. The two Chief Magnates will hold an interview, in which they ill attempt to settle the disputed boaaary between the two republics. -7 Nicaragua Canal Iteport Presente*Admiral Walker, President of the Nicar*na Canal Commission, submitted the re- . ^ >rt of that commission to the President at ashington, who transmitted it to the Dairtment of State. Killed by Lightning at a Party. i While a party was being held in a new ; juse in Oxford Township, Ohio, a few ivs ago, lightning struck the building e'wis Burt waj killed instantly. The juse had just been erected and there were irtv or llfty younc men and women at le "waraiins." Twenty persons were rostrated* An Execution at Sine Sing. * Adrian Braun was executed in the prison Sin^ Sinpr, N. Y., for the murder ot his lf? in the prison, while she was visiting m there on May 5, 1898. The ?rime la Itliout a parallel in criminal annals, i i _ J