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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.
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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.
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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&
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4 FILIPINO PEACE PM1
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The Federals Organize and Issue an
Address to the Natives.
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CABLES GOOD WILL TO PRESIDENT
The Object of the Federal Party Is the
Reunion of All Filipinos Who Wish
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For Peace and Are Willing to Work I
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For It ? Wants the Philippines to
'Become States of the Union.
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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.
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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'
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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&.
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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
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^ 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.
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' iirros morris killed
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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.
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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. ' "
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[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?
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