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PATERSOK MURDER CASE ft *our Men Accused of Poisoning l' ,'y Pretty Jennie Bosschieter. |j|L POLICE SAY THREE CONFESSED S The Prisoner* Are Members of Fromif nent Families ? They Are Charged k With Stupefying the Girl First, Then, After She Died, They Left the Body by g the Koad.side?An Atroi-ioxis Crime. W-' Paterson, N. J. (Special).?The last trace of mystery surrounding the kill? <n of Jennie Bosschieter, the seventeenyear-old girl whose body was found : near the Wagaraw Bridge over the l'assaic itiver. the other day. has been cleared away. Four men. members of Isome of the most prominent families in Paterson, have been arrested, charged with having murdered the girl [ ^ with an overdose of a drug, t The prisoners are Walter C. McAlisI tor. Andrew Campbell, George J. Kerr, f and William A. Death. The charge r against them reads that they did wiim fully, maliciously and with malice Bf aforethought murder Jennie BosschieB ter by administering to her a certain 9 powerful potion or drug, from the efB fects of which, after lingering awhile, 9 she died." Death is the pensilty of the J offense wi.n which they are charged, r Three of the accused have made full f;1, ' confessions. The Chief of Police mjuj^/1 I a formal complaint charging aljjfour with wilful murder, and thexJr^ere taken before Recorder SeniojjF They Hma were represented by able coJ^usei. i)U't UBk all waived examinationdgftHwere committcd to jail without bCjj to await the HH|Maction of the Grand Ja?y( now in scsBtS3? mon "?dur aJrest are all well McAllister j* tlie S0Q of jameg BH^fln^WcAllister, a siW. tiirowster. and is KBH^^?isiuess with4F^jg fadier Kerr be MflBHKuffs a brother of former Judge BRHHH^^P^Villiam Death is an advertisIHKMM^^Hblieitor. and is a vouujr married 9^H0K|nnR Campbell was a clerk' in the of John Hand & Sons, silk manuP^^racturers. The arrest of these men was followed Hv , up^by the taking into custody of CJustav H. Scowcroft. who confessed that fit it was in his hack, driven by him, that raff the crime was ^mmitted. He was re? leased on $500 bail, furnished by his k The story in outline of ^hat if revm garded as one qf?the most horrible MR crimes in the history of New Jersey, HI i Miss Bosschieter .was lured to a sa-' loon about 10 o'clock on Thursday night. There she was drugged, placed ZK In a cab with the four men, driven to a ? remote place on the outskirts of the B town, taken unconscious to the gropnd W and there, being thai in a dyingcondl-. tion. was criminally assaulted by three H of her companions. . | When they found she still remained 0 unconscious after being put back in the B carriage and after all their efforts to m restore her failed they drovq with her K. to the house of a doctor in Paterson. Isvho came down to tlie siaewaiK. examined her in the carriage * and pronounced her deid. ' . The carriage cvas then driven to the ? Temote place near Ayer's icehouse and r ' there the dead girl was l.Jted out. car?r!pd to the place where the body was found, thrown down like a dead dog i', and her head deliberately smashed - against the t'agged-edged rock on which it rested when the body was discov. ered by one of Ayer's employes early the next morning. The families of the accused men are -completely prostrated by shame and grief. In jail, Campbell and Death, the younger of the four, are nervous wrecks, but Kerr and McAlister are stolidly indifferent. PROFESSOR EASTMAN IND.CTEP. Tbe Harvard Instructor to Be Tried For the Morder of His Brother-ln-Law. ^?-'?1 -1? /Cnn/.toh "Prnf i| UUIUUI'lUgr, .uooo. (u|nrviu>f. - g Charles R. Eastman, one of the iny'' structors in the Agassiz Museum, whom Judge Almy. of the Cambridge District Court, discharged from custo dv last July after a hearing on the charge of murdering his brother-in^ law. Richard H. Grogan, Jr.. by ihooi ' *' iug him in the grounds of the late Alf van Clark, the famous leus maker, was B arrested again under an indictment found by the Middlesex (Jrand Jury. S A week ago about forty witnesses E , were summoned to appear before the ' Middlesex Grand Jury, including East [ man himself, to give testimony in an investigation of the case by that body. As the case was presented to the Grand Jury it was not In the form of an accusation of any one, but was simply au inquiry into the death ot -Grogan. After being discharged by | Judge Almy, Eastmau resumed his du[ dUes in the interest of Agassiz Museum. i Five Children Suffocated. A tire which broke out in a small ten1 * ement house in Montreal. Quebec, reI suited in the death of five children by | suffocation. The father. Arthur Leblanc, a shoemaker, was badly burned, but will live. The children were in an L/- upper room and were dead before the firemen could reach them. Rfif Vanderbllt'n Men Drovrned. 9K .G. G. Graham, Robert Earwood and H Richara Russell, employes on George ^B W. Vanderbilt's Blltmore estate, were ^B drcwr.ed in French Broad River, nine H miles southeast of Ashevllle, N. C. fi While crossing the river their boat was 33 overturned. < Outlaw and Officer Both Die. United States Deputy Marshal B. A Fushon and Tom Taylor, the most no torious moonshiner in Bell Colinty ^B , Kv.. were found dying near Halsey K each filled with bullet holes. Thej m had fouglif a rifle duel until eacl jflft dropped in liis tracks mortally SHj? wounded. For the past throe weeks Fushon had been on the trail of Tay Indian* Starving^ in British Columbia. Two hundred Indians were repi>rte< ^B < starving at Humberton Meadows, B. gK,.. Labor World. There are 0000 members of tbe Oru" HB of Railway Telegraphers. Curb setters and cutters went o strike at Schenectady. N. Y., for $3 pu Sfln day. About lo.OOO Thames lighterme struck at London, considerably dish eating trade. H^nj^^^kThe colliery owners at Lancashir< BBKH^n^Kngland, do not like the eight-hot nRMmHr,' but the miners are solidly o ^HBa^Hn^kzed and the system seems to wor Hmgnfor all concerned. : I ' , < r' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Treasury Department has discovered a new Indian Head $5 counterfeit. Rear-Admiral Hicliborn. Chief Naval Constructor, advocates the construction of submarine boats and the buildins of war vessels in government navy yards. Major-General Wood. Military GovI ernor of Cuba, called at the White House and was in conference with President M^Kinley. A rigid investigation of the collision between the torpedo boats Dahlgren and Craven, off Newport, has been begun. The annual reports of the SurgeonGeneral of the Army and the Superj intendent of the West Point Military j Academy were made public. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Registration in Porto Rico exceeded all expectations, nearly 100,000 persons qualifying to vote. The Cuban Secretary of Finance describes the municipal governments of the island r.s extravagant, and urges better business management. The Philippine Commission has ap propriateu jroiu. lor uctouei i expenses of the Insular Government. U Testimony of natives taken by tne/ Philippine Commission showed contfn-f ued hostility to the restoration of thgf friars to their parishes. / fb$5rge McCaskill. a wealthy and <most prominent planter "of Rayville. La., was shot and instantly killed by Malcolm Mcintosh, prominent in so-, clal and business circles. The traeedy is supposed to have grown out of business differences. The citizens of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory want single Statehood for the two Territories. The formation of leagues to promote this end has begun. President McKinley reached Canton, Ohio, where he will remain until after election day. Mrs. Ellen Corcofan, who sells newspapers at the Brooklyn Bridge entrance, in New York City, purchased a forty-five thousand dollar house. More than 100 men were hurt in strike riots at the Empire Washery, near Wilkesbarre, Penn. \ Henry E. loutsey. wno ,w?? luuvicted of the murder of,Goebel, was placed In jail at Frankfort Ky. >. Captain John B. Adams, former' commander-in-chief of the, Grand Army of the Republic, succumbed to. an attack of heart disease atBoston. The Russian battle ship. Hetvlzan, the first foreign battle ship; and the largest of her class ever bum' in the United States, went down the ways in Philadelphia. A young man In Augusta, Ga.. on tlie/eve of his marriage accidentally discovered that his fiancee was bald. He refused to marry her: / Captain Peter Johansen and his twelve-year-old son made a ' voyage from Gibraltar to Punta Gorda, Fla., in a small boat. i In a crash of freight trains at Wal-* thara, Mass., G. F. Cooper, a brakeman, A/as killed an<J Fireman Harry Downs was Injured. Replies so far received indicated that the presbyteries would vote about two to one for some change In the Westminister Confession of Faith. Joseph E. Tallis, a newspaper ">an of Tennessee, was killed by falling from a window or tne ucciaeniai Hotel. Quincy, 111. Severe earthquake shocks occurred at Kodiak, Alaska, and one life was tost. , . J Masked men blew up with dynamite the safe of the. Farmers' > Bank, al Nevada, Mo., securing $3900. The attempt to introduce "Readings from the Bible Selected for the Public Schools" into the Chicago schools was defeated by a vote of thirteen te six. Gen. J. W. Fisher, a noted brigade commanaer in the Civil War, died at Cheyenne. Wyo., aged eighty-six years. He leaves a number of chiVdren and grandchildren. v FOREIGN*. The British Government has leased the harbor works of Chang-Wan-Tao, on the Gulf of Liao-Tong, China, for a winter port. * Medical students who attempted to mob Dowie. the Chicago "faith healer." in Loudon were reprimanded and fined by a police magistrate. Fifty persons were killed and mapy others terribly scalded by a boiler explosion on board the steamboat Eugenia, running between Tomsk and BarC!!Knt<Sn iltiui, K<IUCI ia. A filibustering expedition is said to be preparing at Kingston, Jamaica, for the overthrow of the Government of President Sam of Haiti. An American lady, Mrs. Margaret Foulks, was found dead at the Champ de Mars railway station in the grounds of the Exposition at Paris. She was about sixty years of age. Her home was in San Francisco. - * Guerrilla attacks by the Boers are still giving the British great trouble. John Redmond issued a manifesto to Irish Nationalists, calling for a return, to Parnell's policy of aloofness from all English parties. Trafalgar Day was celebrated in the usual fashion throughout England. The Anglo-'xerman agreement is commented upon in generally favorable terms in Continental capitals. The new British Minister to China, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, arrived in Pekin. Russia announced that because ol success in Manchuria it will act witt , more independence of the Powers in China. President Loubet, of France, gave c banquet at the Klysee Palace a) : Paris in honor of King Leopold o! ? Belgium. r It is announced at Copenhagen that King Oscar is out of danger, but tha' he will require a long rest. General Roberts has issued an or , der removing the restriction on exi ports from the Transvaal and the Orange River colonies. Count Zeppelin made another sue eessfnl ascent with his airship ni I'riedrichshafen, Germany. I "Johanna." Barnum & Bailey's famous gorilli. has just died of pueu II monia. at Nuremberg. I General Linares has been gazettec' as Spanish Minister of War, and Gen* " eral Azcarragu as President of tin > Senate. Reports from Colombia are that tin country is l ;ing ruined by the ciri! II war. ? Italy has organized a permanen' commission of experts to prepan trade treaties with foreign Powers. ^ f_ i m ?I mFsaeman is dead. The Asred Statesman Expires at His Home in Washington.. HALF A CENTURY IN PUBLIC LIFE. His Death Wat Due to Old Ajje ? Tribute to His Memory Paid by the President ?His Career as Congressman, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State?His Public Services, Washington, D. C.' (Special): ? John Sherman died at his residence on K street at 6.45 Monday iiiorning. His death had be*n : tytf^eqted tor some days, and loving j&latives and friends gave him tneft TWremitting care^fihd attention to tbfe cn/J. The immediate cause of deafth f9.'described as brain exhaustioiylricideflt to extreme weak-ness duer^fo old age and to several attacks ^f s'ckness from which Mr. Sherrofan has suffered for the past year and/a half. At his bedside when death ftfme were the surviving members of tiis family and relatives by marriage. The news of Mr. Sherman's death" was immediately communicated to the President, wuo -ad fcjen extremely soltnitrvnc oa tA hlrf"former Premier's con d'tion. Mr. McKinl^y Immediately directed that the White House be closed to visitors and the flag over the Executive Mansion placed at half mast. Later the President, as a mark of especial honor to Mr. Sherman's memory, resorted to the unusual course of personally preparing an expression of the Nation's grief In the shape of a proclamation descriptive of the personal' qualities and civic abilities of the dead statesman. MR. SHERMAN'S CAREER. John 'Sherman was born at Lancaster Ohio, May 10, 1823. He studied law in the office of his brother Charles and wa3 admitted to the bar- in 1844. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Whig convention at Philadelphia that nominated Zachary Taylor for President Ity 1852 he was a delegate to the convention' at Baltimore that nominated Winfield Scott. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1854. In 1859 he was the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, but being defeated he became Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Salmon P. Chase resigned from the Senate and Sherman took his place on March4, 1861. He was a Senator until March 4, 1877, when he became Secretary of the Treasury for the term of four years. At the expiration of that time he was elected Senator again, and so continued until March, 1S97, when he was appointed by President McKinley as Secretary of State. Tr. +im rs*ri? w?r htn pffnrta were directed in the Senate to maintaining the public credit and to providing (or the support of the armies Jn the field. When the suspension of specie payments occurred, about the 1st of January, 1862, the issue of'United States, notes becatoe a necessity. There was a great deal of opposition to making them legal tender. Sherman and Chase carried this provision through Congress. , He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Hayes in March,'1877, and set himself at once to the task of providing a redemption fund by means of loans. Six months before January 1, 1879, the date v licb he had fixed for the resumption of specie payments, he had accumulated $140,000,000 In gold. He saw the "cgal tender notes approach gold in value gradually, until, when the day came, there was practically uo demand for gold, in exchange for notes. . In 1830 he announced himsblf as a candidate for the Presidential nomination. His name was presented in the convention by James A. Garfield. He was a candidate for the nomination for President at the convention" of 1884, where his name was presented by Joseph B. Foraker. He was a candidate foT the nomination for Presi\ dent ln\^8S8, when his name was presented by Daniel H. Hastings in be naif of tne Pennsylvania aeiegation. Since his retirement from public life Sherman lived quietly, alternating his residence between his old home Id Mansfield, Ohio, and his beautiful house on K Street, Washington. ' Sherman ^vas appointed Secretary of State by President McKinley, iD March, 1807. Owing to ill-health be resigned in April, 1808. His fortune is conservatively estimated at $1,000,000 m , Died For Her Lost Love. Because her parents would not permit her to receive the attentions of Lee Harper, aged nineteen, pretty sixteen-year-old Lewelien Sowers took rat poison at her home in Hagerstown, Md. She died before the arrival of a physician. Peace Negotiations in China. The Chinese Minister in London asserted that peace negotiations have al ready begun iu l'eKlu between the Chinese plenipotentiaries and the representative?. of the Powers. Women's Champion Murdered. Thomas J. Griffin, while returning from a social call In Chicago, encountered a man and two women quarreling on the street, and saw the man strike one of.the women. He rushed forwau crying "You brute, to strike a woman." The fellow drew a pistol and shot Griffin dead. lie escaped. The women were arrested. Sailor* Afflicted With Ber'.llerl. Eight sailors taken from the waterlogged Norwegian bark Homewood were landed at Falmouth, England, suffering from beri-beri / . \ ' > ' | &NANGLO-GERIAN DNION Formed to Maintain the Territorial Integrity of China. OPEN DOOR TO BE PRESERVED. ^ the Formal Declaration of tlie Agreement Between Germany and Great Britain ? Other Power* Are Expected to Accept the Principles Involved ? Trade Rights of Nations to Be Secured. London (By Cable). ? Germany and Great Britain have formed an alliance to maintain the territorial integrity of China and keep the ports open. I " The terms of this important agreement, which was arrived at .October 16 between Lord Salisbury and Count yon Hatzfeldt, German Ambassador to Great Britain, are officially given out as follows: "The German Government and Her Britannic Majesty's Government, being j desirous to maintain their interests In China and their rights under existing treaties, have agreed to observe the following principles regarding a mutual policy in China: "Firstly?It is a matter of joint permanent international interest that the ports on .the rivers and littoral of China should remain free and open to trade and to every other legitimate form cf economic activity, for the peoples of all countries without distinction; and the two Governments agree on their part to uphold the same for all Chinese territory*as far as they ?an exercise influence. "Secondly ? Both Governments will flot on their part make use of the present complication to obtain for themselves any territorial advantage in Chinese don&inlon, and will direct their policy toward maintaining undiminished tke territorial condition of the Chinese Empire. "Thirdly?In case of another power making use' of the complications la China in jjrder to obtain, under aoy form whatever, such territorial advantages, the -two contracting parties reserve to themselves the right to come to a preliminary understanding regarding the eventual stefr to be taken for the protection of their oWn interests In China. . . "Fourthly ? The two Governments will communicate this . agreement to the others powers interested, especially Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, Japan and the United bcates, and Invite them to accept the principles recorded In It" There is no eifort to conceal the fact that the., ni?w compact; is practically a,* repetition of Secretary of 'State Etay's "Open Door" note to the powers, though I It is pointed out that general assent to ' a principle differs' greatly from the publicly expressed determination ot> two great powers to tfphold . it at all costs. "i 1 j That Lord Salisbury should.have selected Germany, or vice versd, to be a party to this pronouncement is taken to be highly significant of the close relations betweeD the two' powers ;in question. That the United States will concur In the principles enunciated by the Salisbury-Hatzfeldt agreement is taken here as a foregone conclusion, while the British Foreign Office expects that Japan and hopes France will do the., same. Russia, of course, is a difficult factor in the situation, but it is not believed that she will stand out against ' the world, especially in the face of such a patently aggressive alliance as has been announced. NEW POST FOR WEYLER. flu SlirrAfldi? rumnna fanfaln-nonaral of Madrid?Resignation of Ministry. Madrid, Spain (By Cable). ? General Weyler, the former Captain-General jf Cuba, has been appointed Captain-. 3eneral of Madrid. F S-y* f ' zr s>OZNEBAL WEYLEE. . _ Senor Silvela, the Premier, had an audience with the Queen Begent and formally announced the resignation of the ministry as a protest against the appointment of General Weyler as Captain-General of Madrid. ' Subsequently the Queen Begent received General Azcarraga, president of the Senate, whom she intrusted with the formation .of a new ministry. The Alabama Put In Commission. The battleship Alabama went into commission at Cramp's shipyard in Philadelphia with simple ceremonies. British Capture Fifty Boers. The Britisfc re-entered Boerahof, near Kimberley, Orange Biver Colony,_ unopposed, and-captured fifty Jcrrs. Four Killed at a St. Paul Fire. Second Assistant Chief William H. Irvine of the Fire Department and thrtee firemen were killed by falling walls at a fire in the McCormick Harvester Company's warehouse at St. ' 5 ? T.mii'S J Paul, Minil. xne neau men Wagner, Frank M. Edy and Bun I Irish. J Got Deed of Lincoln's Mother's Grave. Governor riount, of Indinnn. lias received a uc. 1 of sixteen acres of land around the grave 0f President Lincolu, in Spencer County, Indiana. Blluor Mention. There will be 5200 polling places in this year's election in New York State. A course-of debating has been added to the Princeton University currij culum. The Government of Venezuela has annulled the Orinoco Compauy's iniuitfg concession. The International Peace Congress has condemned Great Britain's course in the Transvaal. Property valued at a quarter of a million dollars has been burned in the lijffiljer district of Oskosh, Wis. .1 / ISpGOFiiiim Revolt of insane Criminals in the Mai&awan State Asylum. Ktff-ERS WERE OVERPOWERED. The Trouble W as Caused by the Overcrowding of Quarters and Inadequate j Provisions For the Guards?The Insane Men Fought Desperately With Plates and Cups as Weapons?Rioters Subdued ' Newburg, N. Y. (Special).?One of the j most daring escapes in the annals of prison history of the State occurred at the Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal Insane when a large bod5 of desperate Insane criminals made a dash for liberty. Seven of the madmen succeec'cd in making their escape while the others were finally repulsed, after being beaten with clubs whllo scaling the wall. In the melee several of the keepers vrera injured, two of them very seriously. > The Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal insane was duui 10 accommodate about 550 patients. They have been sent there in such numbers, however, that the- place held 752. To relieve this congestion, which has existed for some time, a hospital was ordered built at Dannemora. It has just been completed, and is about ready to receive patients. The authorities had in every way tried to keep the plans of the proposed removal from the prisoners, but they had seemed to learn of every movement It had been decided to make a heavy draft from the State Hospital to Dannemora immediately after election. ThJrf intelligence seemed to spread through the big building like wildfire, and there has been, for several days a noticeable feeling of unrest about the big institution, still no serious trouble was anticipated, although a number Qf new keepers were placed on the pay roll. The men ate their supper as unual at 5 p. m. Therj was that same feeling of discontent noticeable, but it had not apparently increased in fervor. After supper the prisoners were taken to their corridors and were about . ready to be taken to their cots for the night, the' time for retiring being 7 o'clock. ' ' At . 6:45 William - Kelly, principal keeper, who was appointed to the position but a few weeks ago, made his rounds. Kelly Is a powerfully built ' man, standing over six feet and weighing about 240 pounds. As he passed through the ward known as "No. 2, south," In which about forty convicts were kept, he saw a crowd of .them earnestly /copversing, and greatly excited. , He separated them and went on bis way. , There were four "keepers in the room?Doyle, Stack, Clark and Maher. The head keeper passed into Ward No. 3, south. Finding everything quiet there he came back through No. 2. ' As'he opened the door a large body of convicts pounced upon him. He struck them down with his flsts for a time, but there were top man^ agajnst JL1IUI* The keepers ?t the asylum are allowed to carry no weapons or arms, so that his resistance was slight He called , for help, but none came. The convicts had already overpowered Keepers Doyl?,> Slack, 'Clark and Maher; and had* Succeeded In binding and gagglng-'Doyle and,locking Wm in the bathroom.' i >| ' j Maher and Slack finally succeeded in liberating themselves and ran to {he aid of Kelly, but the desperate criminals overpowered them again, took away their keys, and leaving them locked in the ward, ibade their way to the dining hall. The battle in the dining room, where there were a number of keepers, was terrific. Broken, furniture and crockery littered the room at its conclusion and the bruised and beaten keepers were covered with blood. It seemed a miracle that none were killed outright. . They were all overpowered, and the shriekihg madmen reached the yaiJ which surrounds the hospital. There is a fence fourteen feet high rtround the yard. Thei men started to scale the fence. In tne meantime an alarm had been sounded throughout the building and all of the available attendants rushed to the yard. TTTHU Al.ikn r,4-l ^T-r, LU Willi UUWJ auu dtivjtis tuejr uual flown many- of - tliera and returned them .to the hospital. Seven of the men succeeded In getting out and escaping. They are: James Clark, aged twenty-nine, of New York City, committed for robbery; John Flynn, aged twenty-two, of New Yorjc City, committed for burglary; John McCarthy, aged twentytwo, of New York City, committed for grand larceny; Peter Foster, negro, aged twenty-five, of New York City, committed for highway robbery; William Johnson, aged twenty-three, of Schoharie County, committed for grand larceny; Patrick Geoghegan, aged thirty-two, of New York City, committed for grand larceny, and Patrick .Murphy, aged twenty-four, of New York City, committed for murder. All these men, wh?n they escaped, were dressed in blue striped shirts, blue coats and trousers and wore slippers. American Steel Canting Company. It is stated here that all the plants of the American Steel Ousting Company, of 3'iaron, Penn., are to be consolidated. Coal and Gas Near Sit. Joseph. Coal and gas in paying quantities were found east of St. Joseph. Mo., at a depth of a little more than a 1000 feet. Snow in the Adirondack^. The first snowstorm of the season occurred in the vicinity of Plattslnirg, N. Y., and was gene/al in the Adiron dack region. About two incues of snow Tel!. Uprising: in Snn Domingo landed The uprising iu San Domingo is ended. The tribunals are occupied with the prosecution of political prisoners. Conlidence is re-established and business is reviving. Cycling Notes. The L. A. W. is planning side path improvements in various parts of the country. New life, It is said, will be infused iu the club movement for wheelmen next season. A rnfre spectacle that is seen in the large cities is one of the old-fashioned trievcles exhibited and marked "For Sale." Several fvrrns of outdoor amusement, notably golf and the automobile, are bringing about a decline In bicycle rid Inc. ? ? SENTRY SHOT WRONG MAN j Civilian, Mistaken For a Deserter, i Instantly Killed by Guard. . Army Employe, on HI* Way to a Voting Woman, Became Confuted and Kan ? Missing Man Taken. Sandy Hook, N. J. (Special).?John Sorrensen, a young Swede, was shot and killed by one of the sentinels on guard duty at 7ort Hancock. Sorrensen was walking along the beach near the fort and was taken for a^m>tc who had escaped from the n&rracks while under arrest. Private Brown, who was detailedjto the Hospital Corps recently was,Wis alleged, caught robbing 4 comntfe and placed In tue guardhouse. HeSuJAiaged to escape from there, but walK|captured. His trial was set for Tuesday. He managed to escape again before he was taken to court. As soon as his escape was discovered the guards were doubled at all points. John Sorrensen came here eight years ago with his parents, hi? father being employed on the workfe. The young man grew up in and around the fort, and had for several years been steadily in the employ of the army. After supper he left his home, which Is near Fort Hancock, bound for the home of a yoting woman to whom 'some say he was engaged to be married. * As Sorrensen walked along the beach he passed 01 e of the insl'de sentries at some distance., The- command to l?:ilt was given and repeated. Sorrensen did not hear the challenge, or, hearing it, did not heed It, as he kept on. After again calling on the man to stop the sentry fired. The bullet was not aimed at the man. but passed close to him. Sorrensen, instead of stopping, started to run. The sentry then fired again.' The bullet entered Sort-ensoul . side.' The sentry kept his post until the Corporal and the files, turning out on the alarm, arrived. They found Sorrensen dead. -The Lieutenant of 'he guard caused the body to be carried Into the fort. The officers refu.r - to allow the sentry's name to be given out pending the official report -^ot *the department. Brown at noon surrendered at Fort Hancock. He said he Was forced by hunger to give up his attempt to escape. ' ' ViS/' ^ The reg-.tration of voters in Hawaii numbered 11,891. .' Longshoremen In New York ,City formed a "Bryan and Odell" Club.' The total registration in Chicago this year was 401.403, th# largest in the city's history. Matth Stanley Quay visited every legislative district in Pennsylvania and asked for votes in his favor for Senat'/ ;>.. Senator Hanna declared that his Wester.. stumping tour was a vindication of his reputation as a business and .public man. Former President Grover Cleveland declared that he had made no statement which would justify the report that he favored McKinley. Any man who was born in the United States more than twenty-cne years ago can vote for President regardless of the nativity of his parents. The only Bryan paper in Philadelphia is the Times, of which Colonel Alex McClure is editor, and that was for McKinley up to a few weeks ago. It is estimated that 3,000,000 young men this year cast their first Presidential vote, or about twenty per.cent, of the full voting strength of the country. Governor Roosevelt suggested that suit for criminal libel be instituted against parties who circulated in Kansas false quotations from the Governor's speeches. The Republicans of South Carolina nominated a candidate for Representative m Congress in each of the seven districts of the State. Three of those named are negroes. Former Postmaster-General John Wanamaker made nis first political address in two years at Pottstown. Penn., when he cpened a short tour in the interest of the candidates for the State Legislature who are opposed to Quay. CO-OPERATIVE FAMILY COOKING. Loogwood, III., Driven to Experiment bj the Lack of Servant Girls. Chicago (Special).?The little village of Longwood, near Blue Island, has adopted a new method of settling the servant girl problem. Owing to its quiet and distance from the city, servant girls refuse to stay in any numbers at Longwood. A dozen of the families in the village recently organized the Longwood Co-operative Cooking Association. A large private residence was secured and quarters were provided for a chef, two dining-room waiters, a dish washer and an assistant cook. Family meals are served in this building, each family that holds a membership sharing in the expense. Each family has its ow*i table and sup pnes its own linen, aisnes, Knives, forks and spoons. An executive committee has sole charge of the establishment two of its members attending to buying provisions. The results so far indicate that the scheme is satisfactory and effects a saving over tlu? old method. This Store la Hobbed Regularly. For several years past, a store' .11 Cornish. Me., has been robbed regularly in the spring and fall, a complete outfit of clothing, shoes and hats being taken 011 each occasion. The serai-an. nuiil visit;iYloti lias just taken piace, with t e usual result. Combination of Wfdtfrn KailromU. The /Western railroads are forming a combination to withhold orders t'oi uew rails until the price is reduced. Nemiy (Jleiuiincs Tiie foot and mouth disease has bru ken out in -lie Berlin abattoirs. President Diaz has appointed Rafael Rebollar At^ruey-Goneral of Mexico. The Congress of Ecuador has arranged to pay the entire foreign debt. The complete suppression of the revolution in Santo Domingo is officially jannoun^ed. Honolulu has contributed $3300 to the fund ior the relief of the sufferers ut Galveston From present indications at Washington the cost of the present census will be $15,000,000. frr I III II * TELLE! STOLE $708,000 fj Trusted Employe of a New York /; ?] Bank is a Heavy Defaulter. A CLERK MADE THE DISCOVERY v.M The Note Teller, by a System of False En- . tries, Plundered in Security For Some Time?He Lived Luxuriously In Monnt ' Vernoa and is Said to Have Gambled ' . .1 Heavily?Statement Issnedby the Bank Neir York {Jlty (Special).?The First Natioi^U Bank at Broadway and Wall ' / street hjx& been robbed of $700,000 or tbereifl&tata ,by Its note teller, Corne- $ lius MMVord. Alvord had been in the! empMrffi the bank for something like twelHHpr^and had always enjoyed vffl a goB^jrfe^fUUoafe The formal statement re&tfdCTy t? bank announcing "^1 the defalcation follows: "The note teller, who has been In the a employ of the First National Bank for n nl+nn fa a 1 op/vo LA 1ULIJ J cat O, 19 it uciauuci u; a. tai^c jmh amount. His operations have contin- ,2s| ued for a considerable period, and have been skillfully concealed through a >5 manipulation of his balance book. The. discovery was made by one of the / ..Wa bank's employes a m days after the . Jj| completion of an exafonatlon of the .*3S bank by the United* aEtes examiner. ' "During the continence of his peeplations periodical examinations hare been ihiSfe jJ dgVfcral distinct Cor|M$>f , J examijapra^Jeprpsenting -the Contt?j- JM ler's WjpRinent, all expert account* '-'fl antg. ^g theJbank has also had fre<? w queft^tfliaifpeataiit examination^} noile 'HW of wjiicl} hare developed any" lrregt*- ? larify. 0gltJMkgrega.te of the false en- | tries, ftgiogjpng to 9700,000. has been ?; ShMdHgflBoft .the books of the bank S; ? preserve fund, without disurplus ,and profits ofN torj reported in its last pub"It is expected that the shortage will * be materially reduced -tiM^batantial . " sum of which there is fHr pt-ospect of recovery." , r' The defalcation is the biggest, in the history of the Street. -The Qank of thd Manhattan Company was robb?i . jr <y by a defaulter of about flGS.OOG. 2nd ? the Ftaoenlx National Bonk of about " 5300,000. Samuel C. Seely got 5354,-. 900 from the Shoe and Leather Nation- . al Bank, and only a few months ago . completed the tevrn pf Imprisonment -'-JX which he served for his theft. ' *<& Cornelius L. Alroi'cT, or Cornelias L. -jj Alvotji/Jr., as s^ted In some i^jgijlr- M ter?, Jt 19 Sam W?S JI aepnew w iiivs. \ .? B. -ASytfrd, formerly LleutertMdgfifovernor o*' thin State. , CornelluflkAlvord came here from the country something J like twerty years 'ago, and ifcitt to, Jm work in the Fitit Natfonal Bank7 as a clerk. ,' s Alvord Is fiftjr j&n old. tall and portly, weighing nearly 300 pounds. -,'M He has a wife and three children. The family lived in a pretentious house in fvj Mount Vernon and entertained lav- - . r Ishly. He al?o had extensive apartments at Saratoga ln;rthe United States Hotel, * where Me lived Inst summer at the rate-yjffflM of $300 a day. His vacation wasspent 1 at Saratoga, where he cut a wide v.i* swath In JRe: gambling houses. It baa been Iearnie^ that he plunged on the races and frequented rooms where ron^i lette and faflo are played. In Wall sfrefet Alvord .was exceed* /Jl Ingly well known, and his friends supposed he had made money in specula- '..ril tion. His salary was $5000 a year, his ' living expenses at least $20,000. Most" fl of the stolen money, it is supposed, . y was lost in gambling and unlucky speculations. Attorneys for the bank' announced that they had located 8200,- '\"w 000 in securities and real estate in Al? fi vord's name which they will attach. 'a Although the peculations exceed the . DflDK S $OW,WU uapimj, IUC iaoi DU.^ ,_ ment showed a surplus of $5,000,000 A and profits of $4,000;-060, so that -the >J thefts are comparatively only a drop .'J? In the bucket The directors will make 'J good the defalcation. . ;-a SPENT MONEY LAVISHLY. ':'k ^ Bank Tellei Alvord Lived Like- a Man ot . Wealth. Mount Vernon. N. Y. '(Special).?Cor- j| nelius Alvord, Jr.'s, home In this city. .-02 was on Chester Hill, where he had a ' jS $25,000 house, surrounded by flnp r? lawns, and with a big stable. He purchased the properly in 1S93 from the Lucas estate, and since then j ,fl Alvord and his wife have done a great deal of entertaining, and their lavish use of money has been a town topic. A year ago Mrs. Alvord created a -,. sensation at the ball of the Westches* ,Jj i? TT-I.ht- TT-i.nrin<T n X1500 lace ICi rr ucciuicu uj .?vM.9 ? T?r- ; . gown aud all her diamonds, which, ac- ' ffl cording to the neighbors, were worth J $25,000. ' ''?39 Mrs. Alvord explained to her friends ' V-J that her husband, although only a sal- ,j[ aried employe, was in a position where '< he received valuable information about jj the stock market, which enabled hitn to make $40,000 a year by speculation. ; Alvord kept seven fine horses in hla : stable and as many carriages and em- jj ployed two coachmen and two foot^'Sa men. -? . Hobson on Rear-Admiral Sampson. Lieutenant Hobson in a speech at Birmingham, Ala., defended Reared- I miral Sampson, declaring that 3he } Rear-Admiral was broken:heartedjctfer jj the treatment which he had received from the American people. Lieuten- .31 ant Hobson said that he had the per- # mission of Secretary Long to make the v statemeur. Nine Killed by a Tornado. //mj In the tornado in Northeastern ->''5s| Texas nine lives were lost aud two persons were badly Injured, 'l'lie loss of life was confined to Cass County in gffi the vicinity of Lodi City. The prop-erty loss was very heavy. ? A Monument to Morris. p ' ^ The erection of a statue to Robert V'&H; .Morris, a signer of the Declaration of k, - v* Independence and financier of the Rev?^^ olutiun, lias been decided upon by the ' Fairmount Park Art Association at "^ Philadelphia. It is to cost if 13,000. Creek Indian* in Dcfmnt Mood. Much uneasiness is felt over the alleged suspicious actions of Chief Chitto Ilarjo and a baud of Indians in the Creek Nation. Indian officers have been sent to the scene. The Indians are said to be holding a council, in defiance of the laws of the Creek Nation, and trduble -s feared.. - ? 99 Population of Alabama. ' The Census Bureau at Washington announces that the population of Alabama Is 1,828,097, as against 1,513,017 in 1890. The Increase was 215.U89, or 20.8 Der cent. > %