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I_ ipLtHiOlBDEB ous Society Belle Wanted Her rHy Divorced Husband Killed. pSKED A MAN TO DO THE DEED Mrs. Carrie Sinclair Hnntou, or Concord> X. H., Accused of Conspiring to Murder Her Former Husband?Once Noted For Her Beauty ? Friends Think Her Insaae?A Kemarkable Case. Concord, N. FT. (Special).?A sensational episode came to a climax Wednesday in the arrest of Mrs. Carrie Sinclair Hunton, twenty-six years old, well known in society, and at the time of her macriagg._ope of ihcL-belles of the city;"on the charge o?~ conspirasy-^HKlntent to murder her divorced husband, Walter C. Hunton, of whom, It Is asserted, she has been extremely Jealous. She admitted her guilt. At the September term of the Superior Court Mrs. Hunton obtained a divorce from her husband on statutory grounds. From a beautiful bride of a few years ago her grief nas made her , haggard in feature and emaciated in form, so that she had the sympathy of all who knew her. She went to Boston Monday, and at the Union Station accosted a young man, apparently out of work, who was a stranger to her. She asked him If he wanted to earn a dollar, and he replied that he did. She requested him to "put a man out .of the way" for her. The young man, who was William Henry Dutton, of Dorchester, Mass., made an evasive answer. He went home and told his father of the conversation. , \ His father at once sent him to the police authorities in Boston, and they :in turn notified City Marshal Locke, of this city. Meanwhile Mrs. Hunton had written an urgent letter to Dutton, telling him to come to this city at once, and giving him specific directions as to how he was to "do the job." This letter he showed the Boston police, and by their direction he arranged to meet Mrs. Hunton here ^Wednesday evening. Dutton met Mrs. Hunton at the Postoffice here and took her to the rear of the State House for consultation. City Marshal Locke and Assistant Marshal Rand were concealed Inside the State House, where they could observe all the proceedings Mrs. Hunton handed her companion a loaded revolver, a sealed envelope, which she ?ald contained a five-dollar bill as part payment for "the job," and another letter containing a aecoy lener, which was to be given to Hunton in order to lure the latter from his home to be killed. Mrs. Hunton then started for home, and Dutton remained to report to thg police. JL'hey accompanied him to Mrs, Hu'nton's home, where the City Marshal concealed himself near the dooj while Dutton rang the bell. When 'Mrs. Hunton came to the door Dut> 'ton told her that he had lost the decoy letter and could not find Hunton's house. f Mrs. Hunton told him the numbei aud pointed in the direction in whlcfc the house was situated. As she did so thQ City Marshal caught her by the arm. She recognized Locke and went Into hysterics. When she recovered she bade her aged mother and her little child good-bye, and was then taken to the police station. Her friends believe that she is insane. wiAinit a ruruuft'ium utaaLNo.i JD:ssatlsfled French Canadians Will Return to Dominion. Montreal, Que. (Special).?Recent mi grations indicate that the population of the ?*ew England States, but more particularly of Maine, threatens to be reduced by 150,000 or 200,000, and that of the Provlnce^jf Quebec correspond, Ingly Increased early next spring, by the return to their native province o 1 iFrench Canadi&ns, who have, during the pagt thirty years, crossed the border with the hope of bettering their condition. S Of the 200,000 French Canadians in Maine about 150,000 "will go back.tc Lake St. John in the spring Out of 15,000 in Biddeford 12,000 are French Canadians. Fright Caused Death of a Child. , While Cassie C. Decker, twelve year9 old, and a younger sister were sitting on a sleigh at Fairfleld, Me., the horsea (bolted. Both children were thrown out, and Cassie was picked up dead. :Her sister was uninjured. A physl|clan said that Carrie's death was due to fright, as no injuries were found ton her body which could have killed her. < i Consul-General Shaw a Suicide. j W. Irvln Shaw, who had been filling the position of United States Consul at Barranquilla, Colombia, and who jwas recently appointed Consul-General to Singapore, committed suicide in a hotel at Philadelphia. He opened a lemoral artery, and slashed his throat and wrists with a knife. Ill health is supposed to have affected his mind. 800,000 Failure In Baltimore. Isaac Robinson, a canned goods and fertilizer manufacturer, at Baltimore, Aid., has failed for $800,000. According to the statements made about ? $448,630 is secured by collateral and the assets amount to $712,000. Robinson conducted twenty-five packing houses and several country stores. New President of Liberia. The President of Liberia, W. DrColeman, has resigned, owing to the disapproval by the Legislature of his interior policy. G. W. Gibson, the Secretary of State, was elected President by the Legislature. Turkey Order* the Cruiser. The contract for the purchase of a rrnlspr fnr TnrlfP'r war sltrnArl Jit P.An. stantinople by the Minister of Marine, Hassan Pasha, and General Williams, representing the Cramps of Philadelphia. t Sporting Brevltlen. The Royal Canadian Yacht Club wants the Canada Cup races next year held before the America's Cup race. Four New Jersey hockey clubs, the Montclair, South Orange, Crystal Lake . and Short Hills hockey clubs, have formed the New Jersey Hockey League. v Golf as a winter sport may not have the attractiveness of the midsummer game, but there are several prominent clubs near New York City which have stamped their approval on cold weather play. V'o , ... | tS THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITEMS. The State Department sent the amendments to the Hay-Pauucefote treaty to the British Government, through two channels, one copy being transmitted to Lord Pauncefote. and the other through Ambassador Choate at London, who will present it to the Foreign Office. Purnell H. Miller was appointed Postmaster at New Orleans at the request of the bondsmen of J. G. R. Pitkin, resigned. ^ The War Department decided to take no further action toward bringing volunteers home from the Philippines until Congress provides regulars to replace them. Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Buchanan, PortoRica^-Regimcnt, U. S. V., wa^ssigTIeTtothe "fcemmand of ___ .ttoe'tflstrict of Porto Rico, recently incorporated into the Department of the East Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the President pro tempore of the Senate, died suddenly in Washington. The President said he would go to the Pacific coast in May to attend the launching of the battleship Ohio at the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, and would be absent from Washington about a month. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The latest reports from Iloilo, P. I., say that the Islands of Panay and Cebu, since the rainy season set in, are being rapidly cleared of the enemy/ and that in a few weeks the only opposition encountered will be that offered by scattering ladrones. Officers of the cruiser Newark reported there were supplies enough available at Guam when the Newark left to last three weeks, and the inhabitants would then be dependent upon supplies from Cavlte. A severe earthquake visited Santiago, Cuba, causing panic in the poorer quarter of "the "town. Many buildings were seriously damaged. The enormous yield of cane is creating some talk of a general strike among the cutters in Eastern Cuba, and Governor-General Wood Is preparing to send emigrants to take the places of the strikers should trouble occur. DOMESTIC. Former Governor Wolcott's deathr makes a vacancy in the Massachusetts Electoral College. _ Edward_ V. Hlggins, of Coldwater Canyon, uaL, conressea mat ne murdered hi8 mother and William Sheepherder with" an ase. Many men were injured In a religious riot which occurred in a lumber camp near Flat Pond, in Maine. The Rev. Dr. Charles "Reuben Hale, Bishop Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Springfield, died at Cairo; 111., of valvular disease of the heart. Bishop Hale "was born in Pennsylvania March 14, 1837. Governor Pingree Issued a requisition on the 'Governor of Cuba for Charles Jenner Thompson, who 18 wanted in Detroit, Mich., for forgery; This is the first requisition on Cuba ever issued. The whites at Sitka, Alaska, are fearful of an Indian outbreak. Nearly a dozen highway robberies and one murder in two days aroused the police of Denver, Col. Henry L. Wilbur, the son of H. O. Wilbur, the Philadelphia millionaire, met hie death while riding to hounds near Berwiu, Penn. Smallpox Is raging in the lumber camps of. Northern Minnesota, and great alarm prevails. Several thousand woodsmen have already fled from the camps to escape the dreaded disease. : John W. Keller, Commissioner of Charities, admits that patients at Beilevue Hospital, at New York City,' were abused by nurses. A Tl XT ' ^LDSlOl?LUL KjCiOlllKZk U. AJJL. UCUUtlOUii, of the First National Bank of Greeley,1 Col., who disappeared in July, leaving a shortage of $20,000, has been located' in Mexico. ? * j The police of Omaha, Neb., found the house in which "Eddie" Cudahy was confined by kidnappers while they were awaiting the ransom of $25,000'. . A negro lynched near Gulfport, Miss., for the murder of Marshall Richardson, was a cousin of the alleged murderer, Henry Lewis, who escaped, and was Innocents ? FOREIGN. ' - . ' ' The Pope performed the ceremony in St. Peter's at Rome of closing the "Holy Door" "to mark the end of the jubilee year. General Kitchener arrived at De Aar to stem the Invasion of Cape Colony by the Boers. General Kodama, Governor of Formosa, was appointed Minister of War In the Japanese Cabinet, replacing General Kathura, who resigned. < The DowAger Lady Churchill, Senior Lady o? the Bedchamber and an intimate friend of Queen Victoria, is dead. xne loyai cmers nave caprurea xue Ashantee Queen's mother and the rebel King Kokofu, and they hope Boon to capture the remaining rebel chiefs. The Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, was excluded from religious functions, owing to Illness and mental trouble. Prince Chlng received the Powers' Qote in Pekln, China, and expressed the hope that speedy peace would come. The French Senate passed the Am. nesty bill by a vote of 201 to 11. Edmund Barton, former leader of the Federal Convention, accepted the Earl of Hopetoun's offer to form the first Cabinet of Jhe Australian Federation. A Spanish statesman who arrived at Paris declared that the Ministry of General Azcarraga is daily getting Into a more precarious position. A peremptory order was received at army headquarters at Belfast, Ireland, ordering all available cavalry to prepare for service in South Africa. Th*e Colonial Cabinet decided to leave the matter of a new fisheries treaty for Newfoundland to Joseph Chamber tain, imperial secretary tor tne uoionies. Severe storms ?wept the British coast, and there were numerous shipping disasters. Emperor William accepted designs for memorial coins celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom of Prussia, a two-mark and a five-mark silver piece. The Boer invasion of Cape Colony forced the British to abandon the parsuit of General Be Wet II iM POlSOU CiSE" The Authorities Fail to Unravel the * Raihbun Mysterv Dm IPC- uni n UART AS A WITNESS r ULIUL IIULU > . rho :-t? Disclosed by an Investigation ,of the Poison Mj-stery?Both Hart and Rathbun Were Insured in the Name of the Victim'* "Widow?Mrs. Rathbun and Hart Differed in Their Stories. New Haven, Conn. (Special). ? Although the police are far from the solution of the Rathbuu poisoning myscery, sensations enough were furnished Wednesday to stamp the case as the most remarkable on record in Connecticut. The police have discovered a gaping discrepancy between the statements made by Mrs. Rathbun, widow of the poisoned man, and John F. Hart, his fellow brakeman and a boarder in the Rathbun family. Both Hart and Mrs. Rathbun were examined for hours by the police, and their stories were sifted closely. Hart stoutly maintains that he told Mrs. Di+vtiMin Bnvo th(> rlinner nail con 4.VUIUUUU VV v -?~ ^ taining the poisoned coffee on bis return from work, suffering from the poison which both be and Rathbun had swallowed In their coffee. Mrs. Rathbun declares that he told her nothing of the sort, that she took the dinner pail, and after throwing the coffee away washed the pail. The difference in the stories told by Hart and Mrs. Rathbun led the police to decide to hold Hart. He was locked up in the cell of the Central Precinct on an order from Coroner Ell Mix. The police have discovered that three of the members of Mrs. Rathbun's family have, died from arsenical poisoning, while another was Injured permanently. They are her mother, her son Willie, five years old, and her husband. At the time her son Willie was fatally poisoned by eating an apple on which had been placed poison his older brother, Percy, also was poisoned, and never has been since mentally vigorous. Another circumstance Is that the life Insurance policies of both Hart and Rathbun were made ont to Mrs. Rathbun. She has given notice ot her desire to collect the $1000 of her husband's Insurance money, and had Hart not recovered fromithe attack caused by arsenical poisoning she would have received the $500, which is the amount of his policy. The report of the Coroner, after a formal inquest on Rathbun's body, declared that he met his death as the result of arsenical poisoning. $50,000 FOR A COLORADO COLLEC: Benefactions of Dr. Pearsons Now Amount to Almost S3,000,000. Chicago (Special).?Dr. D. K. Pear-" sons has sent his check for $50,000 as a Christmas present to Colorado College,Colorado Springs. ' Within the last seven mf \ weeks Dr. Pearsons AsrJgj has presented $200,000 to one other eduvg'* /^ifD cational institution, >V ^ut declines to ?ive ' ^ Yi**! the name- These two gifts, with $30,000 said to have been i V*1 /# y given by Dr. Pear\ /f / sons for a woman'a I\M' / dormitory in the ' Northwestern Univer- | slty, bring the total of his known benefactions in the last ten years to $2,489,000, though these figures fall far , short of the complete list. j The money given anonymously probably reaches $500,000, making the ] whole amount close to $3,000,000. , i WANT A LAW TO CURE DRUNKARDS l Indiana Legislature May Establish Compulsory Treatment of Inebriates. Lapoite, Ind. (Special).?A bill which 1 will be a radical depurture in Indiana law, will soon be introduced in the | Legislature establishing compulsory treatment of inebriates, morphine users and other like unfortunates. i The measure provides that any ine- | briate can file a petition in the courts i to enter an institution for the cure of < his habit, the only stipulation required being that the beneficiary must exe- I cute his bond to the State to reimburse I it for the expense incurred in effecting his reformation. The advocates of the new law have obtained the opinions of medical ex- 1 perts in all sections of the United States, and the consensus of opinion is that drunkenness is a disease, and is > as curable as other diseases. There are strong reasons for the be- I lief that the bill will be made a law. 1 A Ghastly lUCnrder Mystery, A ghastly murder mystery was dis- ' covered in Golden Gate Park at San' 1 Francisco, Cal. An unknown man was \ found hanging from the limb of a tree ' in a dense thicket, with four ropes around his neck and his hnnds tied be- j hind him. The body was partly decomposed. The man is supposed to 1 have been dead four days. Torpedo Boat Macdonough Launched. The torpedo boat destroyer Macdon- 1 ough was successfully launched at the 1 works of the Pore River Iron Com- ' pany at East Braintree, Mass. The 1 Macdonough is of a new type, and is 1 to be one of a fleet of fifty craft of the 1 same kind. , ( Survivor of Maine Disaster Married. Oscar Anderson, one of the sailors on board the Maine when she was ! blown up in Havana Harbor, and Miss ; Belle Hutchin, were married at Riv- ' erslde. Conn., by the Rev. William Davidson. Andree Given Up as Lost. The brother of Andree, the missing aeronaut, says a dispatch from Copenhagen, Denmark, despairing of his return from the Arctic regions, hns iiually opened his will. Minor Mention, There is a movement on foot in New York City for the periodic disinfection ' of public libraries. On the island of Alaska, fifty miles west of Juneau, a large deposit of | gypsum has been discovered. Wind Cave, at Rapid City, N. D., Js to be examined by the Government, ' with a view to making it a national reservation. The smallpox situation in eastern Utah is becoming alarming. Most of J the cases ere among the foreign-born ( miners in the coal camD& > . - \ ' " > 4 FILIPINO PEACE PM1 F The Federals Organize and Issue an Address to the Natives. i CABLES GOOD WILL TO PRESIDENT The Object of the Federal Party Is the Reunion of All Filipinos Who Wish II For Peace and Are Willing to Work I . 0 For It ? Wants the Philippines to 'Become States of the Union. C Manila (By Cable).? The Federal c party has decided upon a new organl- ], zation, and has published in the Span- t< Ish ana Filipino evening papers an address to the Filipinos. j? "The number of Filipinos who are convinced that the time for peace has p come increases daily," says the ad- b dress. "The object of the Federal party is the reunion of all Filipinos v *vho truly wish for peace, and who are 0 disposed to work for it It appeals to A those who will attempt to attain for v the Philippines the greatest number of liberties under the application of e the American Constitution. "We call ourselves the Federal party because, under American sovereignty, the righteous aspirations of the Phil- t] Ippincs will be to form a part of the C1 American federation as States of the a Union." n Copies of the address have been sent into the provinces. The Executive Committee has cabled ? President McKinley announcing that a the organization has been perfected, c! and tendering an expression of good will. 11 The new paragraph in the platform ?: declaring for American recognition of the legality of some acts done by the authorities of the Insurgent Government is in conformity with precedents g established during the reconstruction period following the Civil War In the United States. |,. ;vi. ? B FRAUD IN THE PHILIPPINES. ^ Hundreds of Illegal Mining Claims En- Y tered in La?t Dav? of Spanish Rule. ? Chicago (Special).?It Is due to an a Investigation set on foot by General C! Otis, now.in command of the DepartiU A T M If An 4-kof A /innanlvanv A LUC lit UL tut; juatt.cc, iuui a v.vuopnu\.j to acquire vast mining claims in the c' Philippines has been exposed. Major e] Murray, aide-de-camp to General Otis, who served in the same capacity in ~ Manila, explained the situation in ? Army Headquarters, In the Pullman J* Building. According to the officer, " the Spanish officials in charge of the !ij mining office, evidently fell in with f: the plans and objects of the adventurers. for a great number of fraudulent ^ claims were admitted to registration. y "Between the time that Dewey Bank the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and ^ the time when the city surrendered to General Merrltt," said Major Murray, Sj ' the Spanish registration office did little else than record deeds to mining lands. During the few weeks between those dates 1G18 claims were admitted s to registration, although In the centuries of Spanish occupation preceding the entrance of Dewey's fleet in Manila Bay only 481 concessions had been ? grafted." ? BUSINESS MAN HELD FOR MURDER. J E. H. Knight, of South Berwick, Me* b Charged With Killing a Woman. ? South Berwick, Me. (Special).?Ed- ^ win H. Knizht was arrested at his borne at SoutU Berwick Junction on a warrant charging him with the murder of Mrs. Fannie Sprague at South Berwick last May, and arraigned before Trial Justice Lord. Counsel for a Knight announced that he would of- a fer no defense. Accordingly the prls- ^ oner was bound over to the January J term of the Supreme Court at Saco, *1 and committed to the jail at Alfred v without bail. k The murder was one of the most hor- d L'ible in the history of York County. ? rhe mutilated body of Fanny Sprague " was found in a heap of rubbish in a barn on the Knight farm at South Berwick Junction. An attempt had been made to burn the body, but the J! 3moke was seen and the fire extinguished by two men who were sent to n the barn on an errand. After putting P out the lire the men found the body. 0 Knight is forty-one years of age, a na- ? tivc of South Berwick, and a successful business man. c MANY SEAMEN DROWNED. Dense Fogs on British Coasts Cause DIs- i aster to Shipping. i n London (By Cable).?Dense fogs on P the coasts have greatly Interfered e svith navigation, and several wrecks * have occurred. , tl T)nr\Anfo flwif oAtTAwnl CSftflnnrl fiahtnr* to 111II l OC?CUll uutuuuu uouiuf) boats were In great peril from the d storm aDd had probably been lost are ti confirmed. Only one boat out of Ave a has been found, and it is known that no fewer than twenty-two fishermen . bave perished. The British steamer Brunswick ti grounded in the British Channel, ti ieeled over, and sank. Seven of her f< :rew were drowned. I' tj Minister Conger Sign* the Joint Note. ti Secretary Hay, at Washington, has t< received a cablegram from Minister e: Conger, at Pekin, announcing that he bad signed the agreement reached by the foreign Ministers, but had done 30 with a written explanatory state- P1 ment setting forth the exact positioD ? 3f his Government. C Robbers Burned Their Yictlm. At Gober, Texas, J. J. Johnson, a prominent farmer, was murdered by n robbers. His body..-was found in the ^ ^ard badly bruisedfand the flesh burned fl from his breast/and arms. It is sup- ^ posed the bandits burned their victim r< in an effort Iff force him to tell where his money was hidden. Two arrests were maa&. / tT Mormons Keep Joe Smith's Day. V< Mormons In Utah on Sunday cele- d brnted Joseph Smith's birthday in P' place of keeping Christmas. el Labor World. Jreat Britain makes 300,000,000 yards of. linen a year. Alaska advices state that Dawson ? [s overrun with idle men, many of whom are willing to work for their t! board. The New York Postofflce has been authorized to employ more clerks to handle the phenomenal business now being dojne. ei The lilcKenna Steel Company, at r< Joliet, I4I., which rerolls old rails, has re^umedjt operations after a long period cj of idleniess. d \ ./-v.- . ' , :V: yf ' WWSIP ^ SON'S SAD DISCOVERY :inds Medical Students in Possession of Mother's Body. Ie Had Been Searching For Ilia * os1'arent, and Dlseovcra Her Eemalns on a Dlsuectlnz Table. Cleveland. Ohio (Special).?Mutllatd almost beyond all semblance to Lulanlty by the Instruments of a class f medical students, the body of Mrs. lary Bryerly, of Ashtabula, was resued from the dissecting table of the Ileveland Homoepathic Medical Colige and interred in Woodland Cerncery. Last summer she disappeared from er home in Ashtabula, and came tn Jleveland. On August 15 she was ound dead In an upper room in a poor art of the city by the police, and her ody was taken to the Morgue. The body later was turned over to he medical college, as is the custom rith unclaimed bodies. At the time f his mother's disappearance from iShtabula her son, Henry Bryerly, ras away from home. When he rearned he began a search for his mothr that lasted until he found her body 1 the dissecting room. He traced her > the house where she had died, and jarned from the Coroner's verdict Sat she had committed suicide with arbollc acid. It was not until shown photograph of her body at the lorgue that the son found a clue. The son's grief at the fate of his lother was pitiful, and it was some ours after he found the body in the issecting room before lie was able to ontrol himself. The horror of the ituatlon was added to by the fact that vo students were at work on the body C the mother when the son visited le room. COLONEL GARDINER REMOVED. overnor Roosevelt Ooit* the District At torney of New York County. Albany, N. Y. (Special).?Governor ioosevelt announced that he had reloved from office Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner, District Attorney of New ork County, on charges preferred by eputy-Attorney J. H. Hammond, and ppolnted Eugene A. PhJlbin, a Demorat, to fill the vacancy. The charges allege that the District .ttorney failed in his duty to proseate offenders against the primary and lection laws. After a seven hours' hearing the lovernor decided that Asa Bird GarIner could not continue as District At>rney. In a lengthy memorandum the rovernor sets forth his reasons for ?movini? Cnlnnel Gardiner. Eucrene .T. 'hllbin, the Democrat appointed to fill ae vacancy, has been closely allied ith public Interests for a number of ears. The Governor also announced the apolntment of John Proctor Clark, of few York City, to fill the vacancy aused by the death of Justice Henry l. Beekman. ROBBERS GET $5000. ucceasfal Hani of Bank Safe Wreckeri In Hal ton City, III. Haltori City, 111. (Special).?Four Dbbers made a rich haul In this town few days ago. They broke into lie City Bank and dynamited a suposed burglar-proof safe, blowing part f the door through the-side of the uilding. The burglars then secured 5000 in currency and gold from vaults nd escaped. Citizens who were awakned by the explosion and who ran to be bank were awed by revolvers. Two Highwaymen Killed in Chicago. Policeman Timothy Rlordan shot nd instantly killed Edward Dunaven, highwayman, at Chicago. Dunavan ras trying to escape after robbing ohn Danenmann of $12. Dunaven i?i lie sccond highwayman shot dead rithin a week. "Red" Corbett waH illed by Officer Grady. Before Rioran shot Dunaven the man had fired everal shots at him, one grazing bis ead. 'our Men Drowned at Virginia Beach1 A forty-five mile gale blew off the rirginia coast and did some damage, 'he schooner Jennie Hall went ashore ear Virginia Beach and went to ieces afterward. Captain Lamson, f Boston, her commander and three f her crew were downed, swept overoard by heavy sea6. The life saving rew rescued the five others of the rew who were half frozen. 30,000 Men Oat at Antwerp. The dock laborers' strike at An. rerp, Holland, growing out of the dlsut between the shipowners and their mployes regarding night and Sunday rork, has become general, and it 13 es' imateci that 30,000 men have quit rork. The coal men have joined the ock laborers. Mounted police are paroling the streets and quays on the lert to suppress disorder. "CHIT Dwellers' National Park." Representative Lacey, of Iowa, in:oduced in the House of Representaves at Washington a bill providing jr a "Cliff Dwellers' National Park." t provides for setting aside a large ract of public land In New Mexico for ie purpose of preserving the prehls)rlc caves and ruins of the cliff dwellrs and other relics thereon. Governor of. a Philippine Province. H. Phelps Whitmarsh has been apointed Governor of the Province of lenguet, Luzon, by tne Philippines ivil Commission. Four Children Perish. Fire destroyed the residence of Conid Rutf, a dairyman, at San Jose, Cal. our small children perished in the ames. Mr. Ruff and two other adults ere badly burned in attempting to ?scue the children. ound Guilty oT Poisoning Her Husband The jury in the Sarah Kulin murder ial at Sigourney, Iowa, returned a erdict of guilty of murder in the first egree. Mrs. Kuhn was charged with oisoning her husband. Trial lasted [even days. JJewsy Gleaning* Louisville, Ky., has a vice crusade. A serious landslide has occurred in [eligoland, engulfing thirty houses. All available British mounted infan v hns hopn nrriorprl tn Smith Africa. A seat on the New York Stock Exhange was sold a few da:s ago for 17,500. Professor G. W. Tyrrell has dlscovred rich forests on the so-called bar?n lands of Northern Canada. The French Government has ordered ases of Chinese loot sent to Presle^t LfUbet embarsoed at Marseilles. "< - ' ' iirros morris killed v \ ?? ? War Department Official Shot Down in Washington. ACT OF A DISCHARGED CLERK Fancied Wrongs Said to Have Canaed Samnel ST- cDoaald to Commit the Deed?The Murderer Afterward! Made Two Attempts to End Hli Own Life ?Both Men Came From Ohio. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Frank H. Morris, the Auditor for the War Department under Secretary Gage, was shot and almost instantly killed In his office by Samuel MacDonald, a former clerk in the department. After sending the bullet through Morris's heart MacDonald attempted to pnrt hu. own life with a shot. and. falling In this, made a second attempt at suicide by slashing his throat in the neighborhood of the Jugular vein. The first intimation the clerks in the department had of the tragedy was a woman's piercing scream resounding through the building at 2.25 p. m. A general rush for the corridors was made, many believing that the woman who screamed had been $aught in the elevator. The shots thati MacDonald fired at Morris and himself apparently were not heard. MacDonald was found seated on a bag of cement in the hall, near the door. Blood was streaming down his coat from a gash in the throat and he was rapidly growing weak. "I shot Morris," he said to the startled clerks gathered around him. "I shot him and then shot myself." Officer Evans and Sergeant Sullivan put in an appearance in a few moments and arrested the sinking murderer and ordered him conveyed to the Emergency Hospital. MacDonald was discharged from his position In the Treasury by the Sixth Auditor for the Postofflce Department, Mr. Castle. He projbably believed that Mr. Morris was at the bottom of this, as he believed he also was responsible for his deposai from aiorrls's office last February. As he left the office where he had been employed a fellow clerk remarked: "Wish you a merry Uhristmas." "There's nothing in It, old man," replied MacDonald. He was not seen again until he appeared at the door of the Winder Building, in which Mr. Morris had his office. Watchman Cusick, who knew him well, was at the door. "Is Swan in?" asked MacDonald, inquiring for the clerk who now occupies the position MacDonald himself held before being reduced. .> "Yes," replied the watchman. MacDonald then entered the office, and a minute later the pistol shot rang out. Morris had been Auditor for the Navy Department, but was transferred to his present post a year ago on account of his good record. MacDonald is a bachelor, and came from Steubenville, Ohio. He Is a veteran of th? Civil War. Frank H. Morris was from Cleveland. Ohio. Mrs. Morris, who was at home here, was Immediately notified of the death of her husband. AMERICA'S SHOW AT PARIS. , Commissioner Peck Sayn It "Was a Most Effective One. New York City (Special).?Ferdinand W. Peck, Commissioner-General to the Paris Imposition, arrived aboard the American liner St Louis from Southampton and Cherbourg. He said the Exposition was peerless in many respects. In regard to the part the United States took In the great show Mr. Peck said: FZBDTCAXD W. PZCK. "It is freely .admitted that the dis* play of the United States was the most promlnfent of the foreign nations. Outside of France, we occupied a greater area; we had many more exhibitors and erected more buildings than any other nation. The real test of the relative positions taken by the exhibitors or toe unitea oiaies in me Exposition lies In the fact that they have received a much largef number of awards than Germany, Russia, Great Britain, Austria or any other nation foreign to France, thus showlug the quality of their exhibits. We feel that the commercial interests of our nation have been enhanced, our export trade Increased and our International relations strengthened by the part which we have been able to take in the great event in Paris this year." Arizona Applies For Statehood. Governor Murphy, of Arizona Territory, and Delegate Wilson appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Territories and made arguments In support of the bill for the admission of Arizona as a State. Natural Bridge Sold to a Syndicate. The Natural Bridge In Virginia has been sold to a syndicate for $G0,000. Colonel Henry C. Parsons owned the property, which since his death has been managed by his widow. Prominent People. Dr. Otto Nordenskiold's Antarctic expedition will leave Norway in Ail gust. Consul Goodnow, at Shanghai, has sailed for the United States ou leave of absence. General Pierola, until recently President of Peru, has formally retired from public life because of the result of the Peruvian elections. The statement that General Horace Porter, the United States Ambassador at Paris, intends resigning is an absolute fabrication. : ' ' ' Vn| ' PIONEER PREACHER'S STORY. ' Sold a Five-Dollar Horse For Uwd Ko? j ; Worth SflO.OOO.7 . , The Rev. A. Johnson, of Richmond, ^ Ind., is now visiting in Wichita; and hf. #?? recites many Interesting Incidents of y.p ?? 'in Waotorn hnnlpp. Mr .Johll U1C UU kut HVBfcVlM MV. son came to Shawnee Mission, Kan, in 1845, as a Quaker missionary. On <3 the 26th day of November In that yea* . he was invited to dinner by a Rev. Mr, < Barker, also a missionary among the jS Indians. "You see," said Mr. Barker, in tendering the; invitation* "we New M Englanders have a Thanksgiving Day, vsl and, Its observance being a good ens-.. ' $ torn, I have started it in Kansas." This : ?( was the first time Mr. Johnson had heard of the custom, and beyond doabi it was the first thanksgiving feast la ;:*k Kansas. "When I first came West?' said Mrt Johnson, "there were Indians living o^ ^V the outskirts of the present Kansa* fj& City, and it was not an uncommon sight to see great herds of buffalo roaming over what is now the prlnclpal portion of that big town." \ In the course of a few years Mr.' Johnson located In Kansas City. It 2? was a small town then. Kersey Coatee 'r,j was running a store, and upon the r* present site of the Coatee House ha laid the foundations for a hotel. Mr. Jj. Johnson tells an amusing incident re?"t^ garding real estate values In the dowi* v town district of. Kansas City In the early days. - ?$ "In 1861," said he, "there was a be-, - $. lief general among Northern people ^0 that the war movement was only a bubble and that it would soon die out Not thinking that the war would last long I moved to Qlathe, after storing my household goods, Intending to re- ' turn In a few months. When the war became a certainty, and after it was shown that it would last three or four years, I was anxious to get back t? Indiana, my old home. , I started to y. Kansas City and offered everything I ; possessed at a great sacrifice. I managed to sell everything but a sorrel horse. Money -vfas scarce, so I tried to get a trade, but failed. - I met a mao finally who said he wanted a horse. I |u offered the animal to }rim for $5. He couldn't spare the money, but he toJd'J? me he had a twenty-five foot lot In' McGee's addition to Kansas City. 44 'I'll give you a good title to the .) vj property for the horse,' said the man. I accepted his proposition and took the ;.1'| deed in exchange for the horse. I went East, and about five years late* I was riding on a train, going from Kokomo to Richmond. I happened to /*^ sit down. beside a man, and In the course of the Journey I asked him where he hailed from. 'Kansas City,V- ' ? was the reply. Then I thought of mjr real estate. I told him my name, the size of the lot and the .location of If ;; & as best I could. He looked Interested,' 'Why, I bought that property fdfMg taxes,' he said, /and have since bull# a two-story brick bakery upon It' "Of course, I was surprised, and ! ^ told him I still had a claim, upon the property. Before we reached Richmond I had made a deal with' him whereby he gave me $500 for a quit* W: claim deed. That lot was the down^- '? town district on what \1s now Grand avenue, I think. I'm most sikge $50,000 wouldn't buy it, and still I got It for ? horse that I would rather have SOU ; I for a five-dollar . bill."?Kansas . (Mo.) Journal ' V * Engineer Was Too Falthfal. ? } oJ, , j This Is the story of a mean man." flt'V-j? may not be the meanest on record, but Vvlj he carries a very fair brand of close- . : j. fistedness. He has a contract to supply a certain amount of crushed stone. ' . ^ The machine he used could turn out all the work he *ould get by running eight hours a day. , ?. ^ 'Thn rmflon mon fioH r-i onMllMr who * - X UC LUVUli IMWM uuvt ? V?... , was a genius. The genius went to' .! his employer one day and said thought i>e could make some Improvements in that machine so It would do ^ more wont in less time. The geniufl. .> was paid by the month. / , J He worked on-tlie machine for several days, taking it apart and putting it together again. When reconstruct- ^ ed, it proved to have greater efficiency. than before, so much so, that it did the same amount of work in one minute and a half what it used to take. , four and a half to do. The mean man, however, could get no'more contracts than before". Hecould fill all his orders by running about three hours a day. The mean ' man then went to the genius and sa*dr ' ;' ? "See here, Henry, I've been paying - ' ^ you by the month, but there isn't air much work as there used to be?not -'f enough to keep you busy. I shall have * to pay you by the hour after this." Henry demurred. He had been too faithful, but he didn't think that ougbf i to reduce his earnings over one-half. His employer was firm, however, and Henry resigned.?New York Mall and Express. ' " IS [Fluhlltht on tli? French Field Gnn. As for the new French field piece, everybody knows that its superiority I. lies entirely In the fact that the breecb contains a brake which completely?. "' ?* Indeed mathematically?nullifies the fj effects of the recolL There are not more than ten people in France, including officers and chiefs o* Government workshops, who knrw In all de- * .<N tails the secrets of thi; hydropneu- s matic brake. The piemen or wnicn 11 4 is composed are manufactured separately. When they are adjusted there ir ' remains still another thing to be done ( which cannot be accomplished by means of a plan or any kind of do(^iment, because the feat requires a savoir-faire, or rather a tour de main, which can only be acquired by experience. As soon as It is accomplished. the brake is closed up in a \ steel case."?Statement of a Staff Officer in L'Echo de Paris. Sir Arthur Sullivan's Charity. Of the late Sir Arthur Sullivan's I charitable doings many Instances are foi coming. One secretary of a Sun* ^ rifir-sphnnl In n nnnr Westminster dls? trict relates that he risked a penny stamp on an appeal to Sir Arthur for a subscription to the school's annual day In the corntry. There was no special claim on the musician, but the latter sent a half guinea, and thereafter nerer forgot to repeat the gift year by year? J