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a mssii to mssw; U. S. Consul Skinner io Treat With King Menelik. WILL HAVE ESCORT OF MARINES The fir.vjt-Oni-.'.il at Marst-illo TliinUj J Tr^'Je W}fl? .M?y?*i:i!a May l!o In- j cri*a*f*1 liy :? f'anfwitr.i W il I; <He Kin;; j ?A Warship W'iM T IIIt-;i. an<> a | Co With iii:n to th?: Capiial. \5Y. shins ton. 1). (\~The report from 2<0EC.:on that Unit\l States Consulv <j?eaeral llcbert P. Skinner. nt Marmiles. is A'cins to Abyssinia to arrange >t commercial {realy with King MoxioJik was confirmed ;;i th;; ^tatc Department. Mr. Skinner has been planning; this trip for the past two months, and has several times consulted with the otti #?frrs of the State Department on the question of trade porfibjlUies in Abyssinia. Mr. Skiuncr is still in this couctry on a vacation, and is expected to return to Washington and perfect his plans for the trip to Abyssinia before departing for his post at Marseilles. According to information obtained at tie Stale Department. Mr. Skinner is of the opinion that trade with AbysHinia may be improved by u personal conference with King Menelik. and that some kind of friendly relations may be established with the Abyssinian ruier to the advantage of the United Slates. The officers of the Navy Department pcknowledsed that then? had been correspondence between the Slate and Navy Departments in regard to furnishing a guard to accompany Consul dinner to King Menelik's capital in Abyssinia, and that it had also been arranged that Mr. Skinner is to go to Abyssinia on an American naval vesKel. The port whore it is proposed to land Mr. Skinner is .TiibUil, and while iK) ship has yet beeu selected for this mission it is considered very probable that the Ma eh fas, now at Port Said, will be used. ...It is explained chat only a small marine guard will accompany Mr. Skinner, and this wil! probably be taken from either the Brooklyn or San Francisco, now at Beirut, but not nnicss they can be spared from these vessels. The Navy Department ofthrers insisted that they did not know what Mr. Skinner's mission to Abyssinia is to be. and that all that has passed between the Navy Department and the State Department was a letter asking for the dse of a warship and a small IkmIv of -?ien to 50 with the United States Coniwl. American cloth is ilio standard of value in Abyssinia, according to au thorities quoted by Consul-Genera I Skinner in bis annual report, published by the State Department in "Commercial Ilelations," 1902. Consul Covert of Lyons, also quotes from tho report of the Italian Consul in Abyssinia, who says: "The population of Abyssinia is about 70,000,000. The products of the coun try. exclusive of cereals, are ivory, sibetb or civet, wax. bides, coffee and gold, the latter abounding in the "mountains, where the mines are merely scratched. In cotton. North Americans have captured the market against England. France and Germany. In spite of the high price of labor and the enormous cost of freight for such a distance, Americans have succeeded in capturing the trade by the low prices of their products. Different nations >iell these geods, but thi$- are all American made." BIC STEEL RAILWAY SWINDLE. Boston tc. Northern Company Defrauded ot 8100,000 by Kojni Transfer*. Boston, Mass.?An extensive fraud perpetrated upon the Boston & North. ern Street Railway Company by the printing of bogus transfer check?, their Kate to conductors of the road at a nominal price, and by them turned into the company at their full value has j-jst been exposed. Five persons, including two printers who printed the counterfeit '-hecks. *>ne conductor who is charged with seliing thorn and two other persons alleged to be the principals in the plot to defraud h?ve been arrested. A large number of fraudulent checks nnd the plates from which they were printed have been found by the oSiccrs. The police have the names of more than twenty other conductors who have been turning in these bogus checks at the? company's office for several months past, and their arrest is soon io be made. It is said that fully KCOO bogus checks per wool: have turned up at he office of the company since last Kovember, anil it is believed loss sustained by the romoany will equal, if r>ot c.vceoi}, $100,000. Lync, Mass.?Two employes of the Boston and Northern Street Ilailwny were arrested in ill is city in connec lion with the extensive frauds perpetrateil upon that company hy means of bojins transfer check.*. The men are Herbert E. Sherman, janitor at the Central Square station of the ?*r>i-nyany, and Herbert Morris. a eomlnr-tor on the Lynn a?>3 liosion division. Sherman admitted barium purchased about ^4,000 worth of Hie counterfeit trans fcrs at various times, while Moms at the time of his arrest had 400 of the bogus check.-; iu his pockets. 1 Killed Singer I"or Her Money. Eugenie Fougor*. a well - known JiYeDch music hail singer, wan murdered in her villa at Aix les-Iiains. A woman servant was als-'u murdered and another so maltreated that she lost her reason. Robbery was the motive for the crime. Football P!ay?r'(i TSuck Broken. 'Augustus Decker was seriously in jnred while engaged in a practice game of football on the T*ake Forest University gridiron, Chicago. He is a stnfJent in the school foi boys. It is believed that his back is broken. The young man is practically paralyzed. He fell and several members of the team fell upon him. May Pren-nl War. A more peaceful outlook prevails in Vnigaria. and it Is tboughl the Powers vie;,- nrevc-nt war. Newsy BreTitles. Th? new crater of Vesuvius is 425 fret across. Hazing lias born renewed at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Labor noon in Eng'ar.d already have thirteen representatives in Parliament. Columbus. Ohio, will soon be the centre of the glass industry of the United States. - France has reqei.-noned a number of steamers for the dispatch of a large force to China. The University of Kansas, at Law rereo. Kan., will have (t chair of jourwtfisro this fall MILE IN HARNESS IN 1.57 * j The Pacsr Prince Alert Makes a New World's Record. | ! Canvas Contrivance FhciI to Shield th?. florae From Wind c F;ictor?Unexpect< <1 Feat ou the Empire City T-'aek. ^ Vow York m i v.?ll.tr :irss rorrr.-i!.-: liavo been sot aside so frequently of j * Sat" that, each now champion scarcely | swoops across the horizon of fame j before a now one appears to dim the I lustre of all thai. lias gone before. It j scenn almost like yesterday that I>n?i j Patch, the pacer, on a cold, bleak day j j at the Brighton Beach track lowered ! j I he then world's harness record that |, had stood for years and put the figures ? at 1 .of), x few days ago the crowd at | ' th? Empire track saw these figures j t wiped ouc by two seconds, and 1.57 j go on the records to the credit of the j pacer Priiicc Alert. The first great factor in the new 1 figures that will surprise the world c wherever the harness liortjo has a fol- 6 lowing is that the equine king lias { long been recognized as the coming ril.uui>iwu. J,UM ^ I ill Ul'. IVUCUIMI llilf I two-minute mark and paced a half mile within three beats of the watch 1 as fast as the middle half of his record-breaking mile. The second im- J portant factor in the great mile was a * track without doubt faster than any a J record breaker ever before stepped 1 over ia a record-breaking effort. Monroe Salisbury look the track in band. r and work on it was kept up almost con- ? tinuously until the horse scored for ' the effort that crowned him king of v harness horses. ' The third factor i* as yet an nn- ^ known quantity, and what share it should have of the credit oniy *thn fu- f ture can determine. When the runner \ came out to make the pace in front r and break the atmospheric resistance ' he drew a cart on which a half circular . canvas shield had been built in front 1 of the seat, with two .apertures for the driver to reach the reins. This ex- 11 tended from one shaft to the other and ^ was higher than the driver's head. !' completely sheltering him. Between 1 the wheels below was another strip of canvas reaching nearly to the ' ground. It was a queer-looking eon- T trivance and caused no end of com- ^ ment. Priucc Alert was close up to the runner and the wind shield when ihe judges started hiui on the journey that r was destined to be the fastest ever * made by a hnrse in harness at a liar- ^ rifiss gait. The quarter mile pole was reached in 0.29V., and it was easy to f see that J. C. Curry, whs was in the 11 sulky, was saving the horse and keep- f ing him in hand. Down the back- J! stretch, over the fastest quarter mile of the track, the pace was faster, and here a second runner joined as a n prompter. * The half mile pole was passed in " 0.58, making the time for the second quarter 0.281/..'. It was plain that the _ horse was still under restraint, and a * shout went up. "He'll break the record!" Then the runner ciosed in on . him and the race began in earnest. l' The three-quarter mile pole was reached in 1.2G'/i. making the time for a the third quarter 0.28%. and for the . middle half 0.537, the fastest half mile j] ever seen in harness on any course. As they swung into the homestretch. * and the crowd read the figures that y meant a new record, the excitement f was at fever heat. Men shouted and a acted like boys at play. The three horses were bunchcd now, and each ? driver was shouting words of eueour- . agement that w(-re takeu up and re- " peated by the excited spectators. When . above the long distance stand Mart Demarest got the runner over so far from the poie that Prince Alert, kept close to the shorter route by his driver, and the runner at his head had the g wind shield equally divided, the three having the shape of a triangle. As Prince Alert reached the wire . hundreds of watches told without wait- N ing for an official announcement that , all former records had gone by the . board, not by fractions of a second, but by two full seconds, and the scene was a stirring one before the judges . hung out 1.57. Enthusiastic friends carried Curry from the sulky and lifted . him into the judges' stand, where he made a brief acknowledgment of the " honor and enthusiasm bestowed upon him. Then Mart Demarest, the regu- ; lar trainer of the horse, was called J*' before the delighted crowd, and last of * all came James Hanley, of Providence, 1 owner of the horse. p KEEP MILITIA REPORTS SECRETS. n v War Officials AY 131 Xot Give Out Facts f About State Troops. li Washington. D. C.?Owing to the confidential character of the reports made by the officers of the regular array who _ inspected the militia organizations of the Several States and Territories with a view to giving them the benefit of the provisions of the Did: militia law. t. the War Department has decided to c withhold the reports from the public. s Copies of the reports will lve sent to T the Governors of the States and Tervi- 11 tories concerned fnr their information s and guidance. BIG CLAIMS ON VENEZUELA. f A Total of 844,399,."59 Demanded by For- ? cipn Nations. . Caracas. Venezuela.?Tee official fig- f nres of the claims presented by foreign r nations to ihe mixed tribunals now sit- <> ting in Can teas, /ire as follows: France, $li!,040,000; United States, $10,900,000: Italy. SS,300,000: Belgium. 6 $3,003,800; Great. Britain, $2,500,000; Germany. $1,417,300: Holland. $1,048.450; Spain, SUOO.OOO; Mexico, $.">00,000; t Norway and Sweden, $200,(10(1. f The sessions of the French and l>el- c gian tribunals have closed. j N?w Orleans Strike Emti. The river front labor troubles at New Orleans, La., have been adjusted, the j 'longshoremen having agreed to pay T the Kcrewmen $200, which they claimed f from the agents for work performed by |, the 'longshoremen, but which the ^ screwmen contended should have been ^ given to them. P Vciicr CongrmM to Stout Here. f It is practically ceri.-iin that the International Peace Congress will accept p ihe invitation to hold its meeting next p year in the United Stale.*. P Crops Are Moving kate. Treasury officials at Washington say Hint thisi vwip's pmns are beintr bar- p vested very late. They, are able to i judge of this by the demands for t money, which are about one month be- ,] hind the period at whi?.h they are us- ) ually received. c j Sixtcrn Months For Killing Kotdinr. I Sergeant Iluntz of a grenadier regiment in Uini, Wuriemberg. Prussia, was sentenced to sixteen months' iiu- j prisonment for throwing a cooking ] apparatus at a private and causing I ( bis death. i A CHIEF OF POLICE KILLED He and a Captain Shot by an Angr) Detective, IWFUL TRAGEDY IN INDIAN/1 Culmination of n Feud That Has Hi* tractert the l'oiice i'orco or jsvansvuiv, Ind.?After Shootinjj the Chisf and Captain, thv Detective Kill* Kimscll Ecjtide Bodies of Ills Victims. Indianapolis, Ind.?For several years he Police Department of Evansville las been distracted by petty feuds imong the patrolmen and detectives, ind when the recent riots occurred hose jealousies were potent ?u renderng the department Inefficient. It has been customary for one set of aen and detectives to belittle the work ?? the other, and there have been occasions when criminals have escaped jusice because of the efforts of oue facion to circumvent the other. These conditions culminated in a terible tragedy, in which Thomas Hutch*ns, a detective, shot and fatally vounded Frederick Ilouke, Chief of .'olicc, and Captain Frederick Bren.Tnroh Lniz. a butcher, of Joonville, was a bystander. Ono of the'bullets intended for Brenlecko penetrated Lntz's lung, and the loctor, who arrived a few minutes ater, reported that he was fatally rounded. After dealing death to these hree men Hutchens fired a bullet into lis own temple and fell dead. Early in the evening Huichens reiortcd at headquarters and asked Capain Brennccke to excuse him from luty, as he was sick. Instead, Breniceke ordered him to go to the Fair Irounds, where an entertainment was u progress. When Chief Houke arrived Hutchens nade a similar request, but the Chief ustained the captain, and Hutchens eft, muttering something against the wo officers. He went to the Fair Grounds and enered the German village, where he vas telling his troubles to a friend rhen Captain Brennccke and Chief louke entered. "There's two men that I'm going to ;et even with," said Hutchens to liis rieud, and as lie spoke drew a revoler. A shot rant; out. Brennccke Toaned and reeled. Hutcbens heard he groan and it seemed to please him. He dashed toward Erenneeke and ired again. The bullet went into the aptain's arm. The first shot had torn lis Ring.. The captain fell in a heap as 'hief Houke, who was a dwarf beside he massive Ilutehens, ran toward the uirderer to prevent another shot. Hntchens turned \ipon the Chief and ired. Houke staggered and fell. The ullet entered his breast. Patrolman Crowe sprang upon lutchens, but the big detective threw iim off as though he were a child. Anther shot rang out and Lutz, the utcher, fell with a bullet in his breast. Ie was an innocent bystander, one of hundred in the tent. He is a Councilman at F.oonville, his rome. While Crowe was readjusting imself for another attempt to quiet ho murderer, the crowd of men and romen.in the tent were thrown into a c-V*r?;ftlro nnrl (WAona rilloH fWc ir. Houke. Brennecke and Lutz lay in ools of blood upon tho sawdust bod of lie "Village." Hutchens ran to the oor, and with a cry that no one would ver Bee bira tried, placed tbc revolver o his owq head and flred, killing himelf instantly. O. P. DEXTER ASSASSINATED. hot Near Ilia Summer Homo in Franklin County. N. Y. Malone. N. Y.?Orrando Perry Dexsr, about fifty years old, ,*i resident of forwalk. Conn., and the only sou of [enry Dexter, for many years Presient of-the American News Company, :as shot and killed while driving, half mile from bis summer home, which ? seven miles from Santa Clara, N. Y., lie nearest telegrnph office. It is a mely spot in the woods and no one is nown to have seen the shootinc. Mr. Dexter has been for years enaged in litigation with properly holdrs in that part of Franklin County, nd owns large tracts or land in me nvns of DJckinsou, Santa Clara and Vaverly. He has made many bitter nemies and it is said had been warned lany times by his friends that his life ras in danger, but he always said he ould take'care of himseif. liis father tcs in New York City. SUICIDE FOLLOWED CONFESSION. '. S. Deputy Marshal Was Implicated In Plot. San Francisco, Cal.?W. P. Gamble, he United States deputy marshal who onfessed complicity in a plot to subtitute old Chinese for young Chinese rho had been ordered deported, committed suicide in Buena Vista Park by ending two bullets into his brain. Rather than face the disgrace of a rial and possible conviction in thy ''ederal courts he left his young wife nd killed himself. Several days ago Gamble confessed lis part iu the sehernc to defraud rue lovernment to United States Attorney Voodworth and United States Marshal Ihine, thinking that lie was assuming he role of State's evidence, thereby aving himself from punishment. ?i Tolo Ball Kills L. F. Swift's Son. Nathan Swift, son of Louis F. Swift, he millionaire packer, died in Chicago rom the effects of a blow ou the temile with a polo ball at Onwentsia Field iuring a game. Wheat. Loks i.1 Great. Board of Trade men at Duinth, linn., say the damage to the Northwestern wheat crop by rains will not all below $10,000,000. They say the dss will be sustained through reduced jades. The wheat crop is estimated n round numbers at -00,000,000 bushIs in Minnesota and the Dakotas. >naraatine Affulnnt Now Lnrorio, Mexico. The Texas State Board of tlealth has stablished a rigid quarantine against few Laredo. Mux., because of ouspeetd yellow fever. Negroes Want Carnefjie Libraries. Andrew Carnegie is to be asked to stabiish free libraries in Cliuttar.ooga, 'enn., and several other Southern cities or the exclusive use of negroes. Frank r. Wheaton, a negro attorney of New fork City, and other influential men >f his race, have sent a memorial to Ur. Carnegie. Tirltisk Army Auvsr.'canlzeri. Captain Mott, United States Military \ttaehe at Paris, who witnessed the British manouvres. sapj that the English Army us adopting American meth His. ' ' ' " ' '' I | SENATOR GREEN'S ARREST | New York Politician Accused of Com! plicity in Fostal Frauds. I VOI . I it ( lie is Cliarjjed With Tayln- Bribes Order to Famish Time ICecord- ! i crs to Coverutncnt. I COt ^ I ill j tli; Bingharaton, >?. Y.?Senator Georga ter E. Green, President of the'Interna- ! i tional Time Recording Company and ap* 1 Chairman of the Republican County ^ : Committee, was arraigned before : _ United States Commissioner Charles S. : ?jt Hall on two indictments rocontiy found tio against him by the Federal Grand Jury ; lot in Washington, charging Mr. Green i jointly with George W. Beavers, of ch Brooklyn, with conspiracy to defraud j du< the United States Government and j gen ehnrcins Mr. Green with jrivimr bribes I ni?i to Beavers. r The Government was represented by S{a United States District Attorneys G. B. ^ Curtisa and T. L. Arms and by Inspector Mayer. Mr. Green was represented by .Tames T. Rogers, the Broome , County Assemblyman and Republican ,, leader on the floor of the Assembly. .a A plea of not guilty was entered to lfj both of the indictments and bail was ~u set in $5000 on each indictment, Jonas w M. Kilmer qualifying as surety. S A formal examination into the am charges brought against Mr. Green Wf will be held before Commissioner Hall, bal Mr. Green will at that time be reprcv arr sented by John B. Stnnchfield, a Demo- i oratie attorney, of Eimira, and T. IJ. the Tuthiil, of this city. The Indictment Ba recites that Green, as President of the poi International Time Recording Com- ucf pany. undertook to furnish and did Br; furnish, large numbers of time record- -wa ers to the Tostoffice Denartment St.i through George W. Beavers, find in so -j doing committed several offenses , against the United States. Cq| The indictment then sets forth that Green and Beavers, on December 31. 1901, entered into an unlawful agreement, whereby Green undertook to pay Beavers ten per cent, of all sums paid to the Time Recording Company for tm nil ciocks and supplies furnished the err Government, and that on the same clay 8P( Green gave to Beavers a personal check C for .$325, drawn on the Knickerbocker rnn Trust Company, of New York, to in- Ja< fluence Beavers' decision to the detri- Hi: ment of the United States. # 1 It is further charged that on'January pli, 13, 1002. Green gave to Beavers a draft pla on the Seventh National Bank of New rio York for $381.18: another check on coi April 20, 3902, for $418..%. arj another pei on October 8, 1902, for $842.88. j The second indictment is worded much the same as the first and contains eleven rnnnts. e'tv * fpoi The fourth count sets forth that . Green and Beavers conspired on Dc- .: cpmber 18, 1001. by sending out an of- *?. ficial letter notifying certain officers ' that time recorders lmd been ordered . for them, the letters having been unlawfully signed with Beavers' initials. ' The tenth and eleventh count deals '811 with a check for $3042,88, which, it is ^|e aliened, was given to Beavers by Green "a on behalf of the Time Recorder Coin- C pany on October 8, 1902. Yo Senator Green has been Chairman mo of the Broome County Republican Com- be mlttee for eight years nud served two i terms as Mayor of Binghamton. He is shi the geueral manager of the Yaqui am Paper Company of Mexico, with offices wa in New York; is the owner of the Dorr- Ooi mus Stamp Cancelling Company of c Washington, which has figured pvomi- bgI nently in the recent Postoffice Denart- ( ment investigations; is the President of six or eight largo, industrial corpora- "*? tions. director in about a <lo:ten others. * and in many ways hns for years been the most prominent business man of offi this city. 1 WOMAN KILLED A BRIDE. an< Jealouiy {Probably Wai the Canse of k C Tonnesfice Crime. era Nashville, Tenn.?1Tht wu'e of JoT>n W. E. Wilson, a detective, was shot and cra killed at her home, and M}ss Louisa tle? Cunningham is in jail charged with the T murder. Several years ago Wilson lift married the sister of Miss Cunning- La ham. who went to lire with them and cla continued to make her home with her ^ brother-in-law after the death of her sister. yV'i Wilson married Miss Alice Carey, of ]tij] Louisville, and brought his bride to Nashville. No cause is known for the deed other than the statement made by Miss Can- f ningham that providence directed her the to commit the crime. She was prob- En ably jealous. t we CAR RAM 105 MILES AN HOUR. ^ Hlglisst Speed Ever Attained Itcaclioil on OUl German Bond. au iiernn. itcrniany.?ah eiccinc car t ran at ihe rate of 106 4-5 miles per cut hour on the Zosssn military road, sale! am to be the highest speori ever attained. / but engineer8 in charge expect 123 n i miles per hour will be reached. a{1( It was found last year when a speed * T of 99VL> miles was reached that the 70pound mils and ordinarily ballasted 1:. roadbed would net stand the strain. *~j, Since then the roadbed has been re- , constructed with broken basalt and closely set with pine t!e3 faced with ^ oak, so as to have the springiness of the pine and the hardness of the oak. bin The new rails are a little over 100 lin pounds. wa Mysterlonsly Killed In a Bedroom. pjlt Lawrence F. Adams, twenty-one years old, was shot and killed by Will- , iam H. Reed, aged twenty-eisht. a * clerk in the Atlantic City postoftice, at j PJ their home in Atlantic City. N. J. The .. ahnotincr took nlaco in Adams' room on the third floor of the house. Reed was f arrested. He says the shooting was ae- Til cidental. The police say. however, that ve' they have been informed that the men P''t quarreled before the shooting. Vencxnela "WanlH Peace. General Hernandez, the Venezuelan his Minister, at Washington, has received ^ a telegram from his Governnieut say- ga inj; thar the reports in American news- tlu papers of the likelihood of war between Venezuela and Colombia were not true. | ' Venezuela, the teieprain said, was at I at peace and wanted peace. r?J Trials of Submarine* Postponed. W Further general trials of the sub- * marine boats have been postponed u::- 'f .til October 15. ":t / Sporting: Urevitiea. Frederick Parks' Major Delmat bel trotted a uiilo at Syracuse, N. Y.. i:i b? 2.00i/2. in Billy Buck won (he Charter Oak trot- ] tiug stakes, or $iu,uuu in siraijjuc lients. do; The St. Louis National League Ciul> ^ lias released Pitchers O'nrrie ami (ll( Ithoades. m, Catcher Charley Farreil is negotiating for the. Worcester franchise iu the g ^ Eastern League. Tom Daly says Isbell is the greatest ^ . first baseman he ever saw. Well, Dalf i t has seen a few. [ J esngation os. ttie xuuoca charges to > Attorney-General. t was learned that no New York y banks were on the list of addinal depositories to which will be nltcd $4,000,000 of Government funds, t was said in Washington that nrlcs .T. Bonnparte, who will eonit the inquiry into the Indian lands ndal, would ask Mr. Bristow for the . of posloflico inspectors. 'ostmaster-Genera! Payne issued a tement defending his removal of ss Todd. OCR ADOPTED ISLANDS. l census of the Philippines shows it the total population of the islands approximately 0.07(5.574 persons, inding about 630,000 members of ikl tribes.'' aid to be short in his accounts SS000 1 in his supplies $3000, James VV. ilsh. Jr.. constabulary officer at Mas:e. Province of Viscayas, P. I., was ested. 'lie Philippines Governmeutinformed j War Department that David P. rrows, of California, has been apntefl General Superintendent of lidition In the Philippines. E. H. yan. of Indiana, whom he succeeds, s obliged to return to the United ites to preserve his health, 'he Director of the Mint purchased 000 ounces of silver for Philippine nage. DOMESTIC. .'he Farmers' National Congress a? nbled in Niagara Falls, N. Y., with rty-eight States represented. Gov jor ftdell and T. L. Woodruff made >eches. Jurtis Jett was found guilty of the irder of Town Marshal Cockrill. of :kson, Ky., and sentenced to die. s counsel will appeal the case, .'he Canadian Soo is in a desperate ght on account of the closing of the nts of the Consolidated Lake Super Company; 1600 employes of the npHiiy were expected to arrive there auiless and hungry. ohn D. Rockefeller, it is said in sveland. will put up fifteen office [ldia?s there, at a cost of more than >.000.0<>0. Llfred Moaely came on the Philadelta, being the first of a committee of tingui.sbed English educators, who > to study American education, to are in the United States. ohn M. Hall has announced hie rpslation from the Presidency of the V7 York, New Haven and Hartford ilrorid. Cardinal Gibbons, arriving at New rk Ciry from Rom*. intimates that re Cardinals in America are soon to created by the Pope, n an altercation between Russell srill, on the one side and Thomas 1 Chal White on the other, Shnrilt s almost instantly killed in Rowan jnty, N. C. >ne child died and six other menv 8 of the family of William Grower, I Cresee, Wis., were very ill from eat- j : canned meat. urglars secured $1049 ia cash from ! safe in the Wells-Fargo express ce at Santa Barbara. Cal. 'he safe of the Douglass State Bank Enid. Okla. Ter., was blown op?n 3 - ? in l liver yowv liucu. i tompiissioner Richards, of the Gen- j I Land Office, dismissed Chief Cleric j E. Murphy, of the Surveyor-Gen- i i's office, in Arizona, for irreguluri- ! ' 'he Canadian patrol steamer Petrel ed about $2000 worth of nets in ke Erie belonging to Americans, iming they were over the bouudary. Lfter killing his daughter-iu-Iaw. 0 had been divorced from his son, lliam Howe, at Noblesville, Iud.. I led himself. FOREIGN. ''our travelers, who were climbin& ! 1 Scafell Mountain in Cumberland, gland, fell down a precipice and re kiiled. irthur R. D. Elliot. ex-Financial Secary of the British Treasury, came t flatly for free trade, and predicted early general election. Mans for iinancial aid for Cuba, in j >e the loau of .sso.wu.uw laas, were j nouncetl. I French Socialist Deputy completed j till to separate completely the church I i State. Yinee <;hing, tht. c..:r.e?e Foreign nister, conferred ou Mauchuria with nister Conger. China, it is expected. II not comply with Itussia's latest nands. i (lennan lieutenant bns invested a j stem ot' moving targets that tire ! ink cartridges upon the attacking e, simulating conditions of actual r. "csuvius fails to bear out the probacy of rrot'essor Stenr.el of an erup- ! a destined to he historic. 'mperor Francis Joseph of Austria j nounced that he will never give up i rights as supreme commander of | ; army. i.n American writer in the London nes favorably reviews business delopment here and concludes that >sperity will continue until after the evidential election. luch criticism adverse to Premier It'nnr lias In?pn caused bv the sale of tariff pamphlet. i. sharp earthquake took place at ; QtLii.no, Cuba, causing a panic among > inhabitants. No one was killed. Iatred is being shown by the natives ! Fez against foreigners, and it was j >orted that ail were to be expelled, ^rauco has decided to scud at once a j lisor to Turkish waters. )owager Quoen Margherita of Ital.v j being carefuly guarded because o! I eatened assassination. ulvices from London said that the j orts of the Powers in ease of a wat I tween Bulgaria and Turkey woult' i devoted to avoiding an active part ) the struggle. rioree riots between Jews and i ristians in Russia resulted in many iths. ["he British Foreign Office stated tli.il *re was no necessity for the appoint;nt of a Borneo Commission. icivjcos riouj r niucr, i (1 that thirteen deaths from plague j d occurred. Che Czar asked for two months' timo i solect arbitrators in the Venezuelan ses at The Hague. ' ifHSHf' WASHINGTON ITEMS. loar-Admiral ETans disapproval U:*1 diet of a court-martial, pronouncing Jisgraceful. t was announced in Washington it President Roosevelt would not rele from his stand for .11. ' open shop" tbo Government printing office, and it labor unions might carry the :natinto the Presidential campaign, lolines Conrad and Charles J. Bon* ft v : "* ' DAZED BY HIS SENTENCE Embezzling- Cashier of Southport rational Bank Gets Ten Years. Stall Pennlf.r of the Law?He Hart Mi*ap? propi-tuted Funds and Semrities to firm A mnniit of Rt OO OOO. New Haven, Conn.?Charged with misappropriation of fund:: apd securities of the South port National Bank to the amount of $100,000, Oliver T. Sherwood, former easliior of that institution, who was brooglit back from Panama, was sentenced by Judge Piatt in the United States District Court to ten years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty. Sherwood appeared very nervous in the court room, his face and hands twitching convulsively, and he heard the sentence as if dazed. Iu pronouncing sentence, Judge Piatt expressed regret that an unpleasant doty had falleu to him, and said tnat he had tried hard to convince himself that it would be possible to meet the ends of justice by giving the prisoner a sentence of less than ten years, but he was unable to reach snch a conclusion. He/asked Sherwood and his counsel to remember that the court had it within its power to take into consideration all the three counts. ?nd that since he chose to take only one of them, he was exercising forbearance as far as was consistent with the circumstances. He then sentenced the prisoner to ten years in prisou. ALL HOPE FOR THE CANAL GIVEN UP Govprrncent Conducfe* Treaty Dead, mid Morgan Soya It is Well. Washington, I). C'.?When the State Department closed its doors at 4 o'clock Tuesday it was agreed the Panama canal treaty was dead, although eight hours yet remained within which the Colombian Congress might take affirmative action upon it- Xo word, however. had been- received from either Minister Beaupre iu Bogota or Mr. Herran. the Colombian Charge here. President Roosevelt now may elect to oroceed under the Spooner act and take up the Nicaragua route or lie can permit affairs to drift in the hope a way may be found to straighten the path of the Panama route. ' Montgomery, Ala.?On hearing that the. (State Department had lipard nothing from Minister Beaupre concerning the Panama canal trpaty, United States Senator Morgan said: "The treaty has been dead for twenty-live days. Nothing could have resurrected it. Thtr action in Bogota means the building of the canal by the Nicaragua route. President Roosevelt has no discretionary power. It turned out exactly as I expected. It is the best thing for this country and the world." WHOLESALE ARMY DESERTIONS. General >I*cArthnr Reports 1344 IJn-na\ray? From Department of California. Washington, D. C.?General MacAr thur. commanding the Department of California, in bis annual report, says the importance of an artillery reserve for the Pacific Coast cannot be overestimated. and he recommends that the entire organized militia of all arms, situated, within easy distance of Son Francisco, be invited to participate In a course of coast military training at the Presidio. He has the following to say on the subject of desertions: "One -thousand three hundred and forty-four men deserted during the fiscal year covered by this report. Of this number, 914 were from the permanent garrisons in the department, and represent, approximately, 19.42 per cent, of the main strength thereof for the year. Tbe remaining 430 were from recruits, casuals and regiments passing to and from the Philippines.'* HONORS OLDEST NAVAL VETERANSecretary of Xnvy Visits Koine on Seaman's 100th Birthday. Philadelphia, Pa.?Secretary of the Navy Moody inspected the United States Naval Home in this city. Pie came from Washington and was the guest of Captain CMark. Commandant of the Naval Home. He said bo had selected this date for his visit as a tribute to William MacAbee, the oldest American naval veteran, who celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. In his address to the inmates of the home the Secretary said: "You must not think you are objects of charity by receiving the shelter of this home. You are here in the most honorable sense and nothing is a gift to yon. Yon earned all you are receiving by your scrvicc under the flag." Koy Dir.* of School fnitiatiou Injuries. Halph McBride, aged seventeen, died at Bhiffton, Ind.. as the result of initia tion into a high school secret society. Ralph and four other students of the Biufftou high school went through the initiation last spring, find It is said the ordea! caused injury to the bone of MoBride's leg. The immediate cause of death was septic inflammation of the leg. The Grand Jury returned indictments against nine students in connection with the affair. Quickly Joined Dead Husband. .Tames L. Ferriere. a well-known newspaper man of New York, died in Paris, France, as the result of a paralytic stroke. Hi6 wife in a lit of distraction soon afterward tool; her life. Mr. Ferriere was formerly for several years an editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald. Au*trian Army Plans Stoleu. Plans for the mobilization of the Austrian army in Galicia were stolon from the cavalry headquarters at Lemberg. Two Indiana Hanks Fall. The Edison banks at Topoka and La Grange. Ind., have suspended pay (UtMII. JL1 It" 1411 Mil CO V*II uicau UJUVU hardship. for most of the proceeds of the recent harvest, amounting to about $?.00,009. were in deposit in tlie two bank*. Both wore controlled by Rollin Ellison, of La Grunge. Cistro Iiajtorlls American Interests, A decree of President Castro of Venezuela suspending the mining cade was said to imperil American plants in that country. '1?T?.??? PurnlinjAa S1iniVM<n^lr TF Captain Lcin Miller's partner in the purchase of the Shamrock II. is Captain Cbnrlps Harr. v.*ho sailed the RoIianc.'. The two captains have worked together in the defence of the America's Clip for several years, and now they have purchased one of the yachts they were instrumental in defeating, and will have her broken up and soW for the old metal in the hall Military Post Abnndoncd. The Government has abandoned Ifort Yates. N. D.. as a military POot. tin? I troops beifg sent to I'ort Liucoiu. Neb. HUSBAND . ASsflgSSSS Arrest ot Widow the^H^HBHH Midnight Shod^BBBBBHI /wo Alleged Accomplicei Up, One Being Tier Admirc^^^BBHH^HBH hoacd* Failed on Scenl^HSBflBfl Suffolk, Va.?Charged witli VHRH beeu an-accessory to the midnigln^^^^H sassination of Peter Winborne Oriol^HH the victim's widow, Ida. is a prisoao^^H in Courtland, Va. In j?fll with her are SB O. A. Alley, who is accused of' the H crime itself, nr.d Grover Blow, the ture of whose alleged connection wlt& ~?1H the killing of Odom is not clear, but who is said to have been cognizant of MS circumstances said to have preceded! H the act. It Is said Alley had been at* B| tentive to Mrs. Odom, and that Blow, on a previous occasion, had tared Odom HI from home b9 tue husband's reputed S| rival might visit the woman without HM fear of detection. m| Mrs. Odom was arrested in her home- gjjj The seizure of the woman was a result |H of stories of her former alleged rela?. H tions with Alley that reached the an?*fl thorities at various times after Wed-^K nesday, when the murder was com* SR mitted. It was told that Odom Ie?tbifjS| bedroom shortly after midnight to SB certain the cau3e of a strange noise? outside his home. He carried, n gurir jgfl but whether he had opportunity to iree .Ifl it is a disputed point. The wld?w says ~A| he did. The police hold the opposite Following the sounds of shots Odon^^Bj the back of his> bead bored by two buI-?j^H lets, was found in the yard. He watr^H dying when II Hod from the ground an&^HR too far gone to tell the story of theHQj shooting. It was said at the inquest next day. Before the Coroner coultf reach the house the victim was dead. H Taking the bloodhounds ta&he spat BB where the dying man wa^ found the Hj detectives vaiuly sought to^sa^ko the^H dogs follow a trail. Sniffing the hounds ran around the yard seterat^M times, noses to the ground, apparently-; unable to get the scent. If they foutaT traces of the murderer the tracks did not lead far. for the dogs would not leave the place. It appeared to some.'< ,who watched them they were at a Ioae; fl others believed they had found a trail fl that led to the house instead of awajt n| frAm fhrt n^ntr* V?r\rr*A 41VU1 U1C VUUU1 UV1UU> Berry Odom. a brother of the daati^Hj man, sought evidence day and night j| He collated all the stories bearing oir V Alley's reported attentions far Mrs. SB Odom, and from them developed a the- V ory on which he swore out in n I MllMH for the arrests. No difficulty was e*-''' perienced In taking the woman iittfr :. m custody beyond the pathos attending ^ her separation from two little daugfr%>V/H ters, but a large and heavily armed . posse was deemed necessary .to capture of Alley. Some or me known men in the county aided theHR Sheriff to arrest the alleged slayer of Wm Mrs. Odom is thirty-three yeawopii and above the average of comeUness.^&aM MEETS HIS FATE IN TENEMENT?jS Politics Leads Boston Society 11 an Cupid's Snare*. ' Boston, Mass.?One of Cupid's prettf est romances i? contained ifit the an-',? nounct ment just made of the engage-' Jfl merit otf-BIlery H. Clark, amateur aife rial round champion of America, clubman ; J social favorite, politician and lawyer,.. M to Miss Victoria Mary Maddaleoa, H pretty brunette of humble Swiss ori~ * m Politics led the scion of wealth anrtMB Back Bay society into the very heart MB of Boston's tenement district. He won JIM the goal of his political ambition, that of School Committeeman, bat lost t<^^flH Cupid. While working for votes Clark f- J met, wooed and won the girt; not yet out of her 'teens, who is to become hi* M bride this fall. ; :M To better conduct his campaign Clark ' I took up his lodgings in a cheap over a saloon, and close to the ele^HH vated. There he fell victim at first jH sight to the charms of the prettjvbr*- 4 nette. She is the oldest of four children of Danie! Maddalena, who came B to this omintrv from Switzerland in H 1878, and soon afterward married. . VB TO DISARM YJEW YORK TOUGHS.* fl Recent Shootlm^ Affray by "Hlont* East* Krm inan'ji Gan-j Stirs Up Policc. H 'New York?The New York tou^^B roust give up Iris gun. The recSHH bloody affrays between East Sidl^H gangs have called the attention of the^M police to tlie faqt tbat the ronghs -and loafers of that .section of the city go |H| armed with revolvers. In a, fight one night this week 100 shota were firrto^Hj by members of the gangs. Now th^H| thugs will be disarmed. The police have planned a/systematic jH campaign. The first move 'to he made fl is to relieve the toughs of their re- flj volvers. Permits have to be obtained u from the police for the right to carry weapons, and the department does not issue such Hermits to men like "Monk** Eastman, "Piggy" Donovan And thetrkH followers. A sudden descent on tbe^^S various notorious gangs is to bo maoerl^HS and all men found carrying weapena^H will be arrested. Police Magistrates HE will then be asked to irflict the fuftflB SALT TRUST WRECK CO^PLETEJ?? Ha? S3",300 Unencumbered Anets Out or 811,000,000 Capital. jS New York.?If the story told by cor- ,<fl tain stockholders of tfce National SaH! B Company bo true one of the most re- H raarkablc cases of trust wrecking ever brought before the public is to be aired IB in the courts. The company is an $11, 000.000 corporation, and yet at the sale of the assets they brousrht only $337,- HI 500, and it now develops that there Is MB a claim of $300,000 asuimst the proceedd of the sale. 298 Co mites* a Socialist. JJjH A sensation has been caused in man court circles by the discovery the Countess Adeie Oriola, who dv^^H recently, was socretly a Socialist, sub-^BB scribctl immense sums for the Social is- HE tic propaganda / Lynched l)j Hi* Own Bacei i^Uj Negroes overpowered the Sheriff at^BB Luxor a. Ark., took a negro named Hel-HH tr-m and hanged him to a water tank, HE where his bouy w:;s left dangling. Hoilr>m was charged with assaulting two HB nogro girls aged live end ten. MM Labor YVorM. 9fl F.orlia, Germany, is uueu wnn swea*^ shops. Boston (Mass.) bill posters demand H a uniform wage scale. v HS raltern makers at Milwaukee, Wis., mH fcave asked for an iucrease in wages. Five thousand men have been loclA,sB oui. iu the Sooth Wales tin plate ind'Js : Portland fOre.) plumbers damand an H iucrcnsc of wages from $4.30 to *T? per ttfl da v. ? There arc 237,185 tailors iu England K9 and Wales, of whor. 117,040 we fe? H r