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i ' ' ' \ ; VOL, IX. ts me can ncvuMiniu i nut i uk Kcuniun Arp and liis Children About the Fireside. ALL HIS BUYS ARL AT HOME Bill Mas a Good 'lime Watching: the (irauchitdren Play with Thslr Toys --The Dinner. Thla Christmas is like "lengthened sweetness long drawn out" -at our house, for the boys have gathered from the four corners and brought their love and their rations with them. New York brought a huge box of decorations for the Christmas ttce. It was beautiful beyond description. Dolls of silk and satin and paper, all covered with glittering spangle.*?little angels with pearly wings suspended by threads of invisible rubber, golden harps and hearts and wreaths of spun gla^s in rainbow colors? scores of little waxen candles to illuminate the scene. Oh. it was like a fairy vision, and every limb and twig of the stately long leaf pine was burdened with ChrL-tmns gifts for old and young. There were twenty-four of the family picsrnt. and it t :ok naif the night to unite and unfold the surprise?, for all were remembered ocor and over again by old Sar.tn. Yes. all. even to tl:e venerable old patriarch ? th" "Paterfamilias." the antique ancestor, for he brought me a hall and a monkey Jack and some candy, i < auslie nad heard that I was the bo\ the only bov?about the house. Hut hit r on 1 discovered :i silk cap and a pir of .silpnerB, isoa:e hn:idk? rchiof.- and an ink-taild thai the little gr'.ndehlldrcn can't opill the ink out of if they do turn it over. Little Mary Lou. who is .lo aie's child, get so many dolls ami prrfty things that site looked ti:ol and. drawing a long l>r< nth, aid: "Gahpa, it's loo much, and 1 can't hardly stand it." There were toys and hooks. and \a.es and perfumes, and baskets and gloves, and jewels and other gifts too nun: tons to mention. Mexico brought a beautiful handwoven eastilian shawl for my wife, and she struts around as lithe and gay is Eden's gard n bird. "My boy brought it from Mexico." she *.tys, forty times a day, "My hoy and my i hildren" are always on the tip e.f her tongue. Well, that's all right. They arc her boys, sura enough, and she knows it. There may be some doubt, sometimes, about who s the father of a child, but everybody knows who is it^ mother. Downstairs has all been clothed with mistletoe and holly. Geraniums from the pit are placed all around, and sonic beautiful roses lift up their lovely forms from beautiful vases that olu Mantx Clans brought. Bunches of mistletoe hang from every chandelier, and every time thcco merry, mischievous girls find me .standing under one, they slip up uuawaieu and claim a kiss. Even Mrs. Arp lost her normal dignity and, coming slyly behind nio, suddenly wrapped the drapery of her eastilian shawl around me and claimed a mis uetoe kiss rrom my connubial lips. But the old marble clo.-k that for nearly fifty years lias stood upon the mar.'iel ticking the moments and re cording the hours as they pass diu not stop on thristmas night, and at midnight the happy group retired lo rest and happy dreams. Next day came the frastt?the Chiistrnas dinner. Every leaf was placed on the long extension table. .At each end was a large well-brownrd. well-done turkey, and all the Intermediate space crowdel with luxuries for the inner man and woman. Eighteen of the family were the welcome guests at the table, while six c f the infai.tihs surrounded I a .-mailer one nearby. I never a.ske 1 a blessing with a nt< re grateful In art. for Providence h:: . beer kind, and since last we met no affliction or calamity has befallen us. Verily, th Unas have fallen to us in pleasant p Laces. Would that all our h.ndrc 1 and friends?yes. won'd th .t < .c ry laaiilv in ihf lun.l ti.r. ?. ... . ?... poor?could have a like happy :m:l unclouded Chrntira.s. As 1 survey the h; jKiy enr it is enough i ? lock upon, the serenity of the maternal nnrvsto." its she gazes fondly upon her hoys yes. her boys, who have cone so far lo give her Joy and comfort. Oh. yo boys?ye joung men and rnddle aged, whom fortune or fate has removed fat front a gcod old mother's tender care and solicitude, don't forget her yearnin gj and If you c annot go to her at least on:*o ii year, write to iter every month and comfort her with your loving letters. The papers are full of crimt-3 of all d'scriptions. httt in my opinion, there is none that will more surely provoke the curse of Cod than for a man to negle t or dirtre.-s his mother. Yesterday the hoy.-, with their mother and sisters visn I the old homestead?the farm in tl'.e country, where our children grew up to manliood and womanhood where tlx o scattered boys worked and plowed and planted and reaped where they had sown; wh re they labor* d hard by day an I hunted coons and poa-un.s by night: where they went to the nnhoring mill and fl-'ac l in the pond while the grin was grinding; where Carl and Jessie went to school and crossed the creek on a Blender footing, and gathered haws and maypops and wild strawberries on the way. These boys and their simers wanted to revisit the old, scenes and drink water fiom the same j 1 ' t 4 ?RT ? FC o!>: sighing spring. These boys wumtM to see the old meadow where the big trees stood in their majesty?the oak trees that wc had named for itosvoe Cor.kling and Blaine, and the big aycanicre that was named for Voorhces, the tall sycamore of the Wabash. They wanted to see tho old barnyard where they used to i ase old Pete, the Merino ram and incite him to rear on his hind logs and run to butt them as they presented their posteriors in a defiant and provoking manner. Sometimes they got out of his way just in time, but ever and anon they dident, and he sent them on their winding way scratching the ground on their allfours. They wanted to see the grave of old Bows. I that good old dog whom they loved. I I did not go for there was no room, and as I am the boy. I had to otay at home and take rare of Jessie's children. Well they came back in due time and it was amusing to me to hear them tell how everything had changed within thfse dozen years; how the house seemed to have sank into the ground a foot or two and the farm had shrunk up and the fields were smaller and the hills lower and the shade trees shortened at the top. I've been iutcugh all that before, and was not surprised Interspersed with cur daily ami nightly pleasures wo havo music, good music, classical music of the great masters and minstrel music with choruses from all the baud and oven my wife, Mrs. Arp, was constrained to play the "Caliph of Bazdad" with her lirst-horn daughter?her daughter. Music is our family's gift, for they all play on something, and all have voices for harmony of sweet sounds. This gift. 1 suppose, comes from their mother, and her touch upon the ivory ke> s is still as delicate as when she i was a lassie of sixteen. 1 used to ! think that I. too. had a meiodloiu 1 \olce. and s ometimes would venture to J hist the :;:n-> in Sunday school when : the tune liysier was absent ami. like | the crow wl o tried to sing. 1 thought I did it lilti !y. Nobody oh a ever told 1 n;e ,'C. :il!<t ere flr.v mv wife . iiil ??? my v: was a little cracked and if she was me . 1 ? wculd not try to raise the trm < in the church any more. It \\;<3 a revelation that sl'.o i 1 me. and I have never saag in <hureh since, nor anywhere rise. There are voices in church choirs of the ame kind, but noi i ody will t' 11 thom. They are called i lul.-etto. I rarcwell Christinas?farewell old Santa Clan. while we all rejoice, let us net for.m t that Christmas tornmcmora.it the birth of the Savior of men- the nativity of Kiris Uringle. which menus "the little Christ child." it is well enough to rejoice, hut wo should at the fame time reflect and bo grateful.? Hill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. Survivor of Miiluo IHxnxtcr Married. Oscar Anderson, one of the sailors on board the Maine when she was blown up In Havana Harbor, anil Miss Hello llutehln, were married at Riverside. Conn., by the Rev. William Davidson. Aiidroo CJiveti lT|i ax I/OKt. The brother of Andree. the missing aeronaut, says a dispatch from Copenhagen. Denmark, despairing of his return from the Arctic regions, lias dually 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, tiffv mile? west of Juneau, a large deposit of | I irvnsnin has boon .ii<.....-..t-..i Wind Cave, at Rapid City. N. 1is to be examined i?y tin* < Sovrrntncnl. with a view to making it a nntiona reservation. Tito Moallpox situation in eastern iis hceominj; alarming. Most of the casts arc anions the forei,;n-bon minors in tin* coal camps. Nf.v President nf l.ll>eri;t. The President of I.ilH'riit. W. IV Cole man. litis resigned. owing to tlio dlsap proval by tin* Legislature of his inic rior policy, o. W Oihson. the Seetvtitry of mate, was elected I'resident by the Legislattire. Turkey ?Inters tin* CruUrr. The eonirae; for tl:e pttrciinse of a cruiser for Turkey was sinned tit t'otistantitiople l>y the Minister of Marino, Hassan Pasha. and tien. rtil Willianis, representing the Cramps of Pinhole", pliiti. Sporting Brevities. Tito Royal Canadian Yacht ritib wants the ("nnniiti <"n;> rac s next year held before t he America's Cup race. Four .New Jersey hockey clubs. thn Moutclnir. South Orange. Crystal Lake a.id Short Hills hockey < ltil.s. have formed the New Jersey Hockey l/ague. CJolf r * a winter snort mnt n?i twrn Mu* attractiveness of flip midsummer 1*111 i !i . v;-rnI prominent Hull - ii' ar s w York < it\ which hav s ..i n 1 ih i approval on culil wrathit pin V. N.?li\< H I. ill I rt.siiiTtiir and I'.at film Tlit' !iii Miower.n arrivpil ; Yietorin, IS. with ndviees from IJueenslnnd that a prospector named 1*. KMlitnc has hern killed. and. aecordlm: lo the belief the ship's pro pie, eaten hy the natives. | Mollior and Children I'.uniml to Drntli The residence of Airs, llarriger. in | the villas,)' of Sinai. Penis., was destroyed hy lire, and Mrs. Harrlger and her two dang liters, aged live and 4 seven years, were burned to death. t mil: >RT MILL, S. C., WED? STORM'S iWFUL WORK! I A Heavy Loss of Life Around the British Coasts. MOST SEVERE GALE IN YEARS Mhiiji VfHtli Unahril to I'lrcr* lit Terrific Sens?Thirty-three Go Down With One Ship ? A Crew Swept Front the Wreck In Sight of Shore at Holyhead?Much Property I>aiuugc?l. Loudon (By Coble). ? A great gale prevailed along the English and Irish coasts Friday and caused an unprecedented Interruption of the telegraph service. The chief disaster reported is the wrecking of the four-masted ship Primrose llill, outward bound front Liverpool, which went ashore near Holyhead. A terrilie sea was running, which prevented the lifeboats from approaching the stranded vessel. When she struck three of her masts went overboard, and her hull broke in two. The foremast was left standing, hut in a few minutes this, too, went over the side. Meanwhile the crew lind huddled together on tile poop deck, in a short j time a huge sea hoarded the after part of the wreck and all hands were I washed overboard. Thirty-three were i drowned. The solitary survivor was thrown by the sea on to the rocks, where he was mutilated before lie was rescued. The British ship Pegasus. Captain Bailey, from Sail Francisco. went ashore at Lavernook Point in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequent ; ly floated and towed in to Cardiff. ! i Four of her itow of thirty-throe witI l'?St. | other wrecks occurred on the west coast. Tltc wind Mew with hurricane force. In South Walesa freight train was lifted front the rails by the storm, in other places it required three en gino* to enable trains to make headway against the sale. Fishing heats have heen etist up on the western eoast like driftwood. Seventy I in rates were adrift in the Thames. A steeple was Mown down in Walworth. Surrey. The Channel stearner service was nhatiduncil. The storm was probably the most j furious that lias prevailed in Croat I Britain 111 twenty years. j NURSES ACCUSED OF INHUMANITY. 11 ? 1?I Account aMc I'or Death ??f a I'.iticii in 11 New York Hospital. I New York City (Special).- Jesse it. Davis. Fdwnrd U. Dean and Clinton ; Ij. Marshall. tlr.ee nurses connected j with the Mills Training School for Nurses, were held accountable for the dentil of Louis Milliard 011 December 1- while an inmate of the insane pavilion in lJellovue Hospital, liy a jury before Coroner I'M ward T. Fitzpatrick. It was determined liy the jury that llilliard's death was caused by asphyxiation and fractured rllis, as the i ruHuu or 1110 treatment in; hud received I at the hands of the three nurses who | had charge of the patient. Davis, j Dean ami Marshall were admitted to I hnil in the sum of S.timmi each l>y the Coroner, although Assistant DistrictAttorney John I'\ Melntyro protested against tltcir release. Davis. Dean and Marshall will have their cases submitted to the tlrand Jury. At the inquest the testimony showed that t he treat men! of llilliard had l>e? n severe anu unnecessarily brutal. TWO CIRLS BURNED BY BONFIRES A Hoy In Kuril C'n*e Olmrgril With I'mlitni; Tlirni tn?One l?r:nl. llnckensnck. N. !. (Speeiab. llosie Cholovoiskl, agetl s veil, died a few minutes after being burned by a lionlire. Several children were playing round lhe lire near S.. Mary's Church and were jumping over the outer edge when ltosie's elotlit S caught lire, Sllc ran through the street shrieking until she fell, b is eharged that she was pushed into the lire by Frank Wenzol. a boy of twelve, and that she deelared ho <1 i? 1 it. The hoy denies pushing her. He was arrested, hut paroled in care of his father. At about the same time and within a short distance of this accident. Mamie Nobila, nine years old, daughter of Nicholas Nobila, was similarly burned. A lad named John Eckert, son of Adam Kekcrt, was arrested on a charge of pushing lie.* Into a bonfire, and he is in jail. The Soelely for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children lias tnl.-mi il?.. ... > ? < ...i4i>n m>. ium win prosecute four other boys. BnOUGMT THE CAT BACK TO LITE. Klcrlrloltj t ? <! to Kill ntul T1n*n to lievi\< I In- Aiiimnl Two tlourn l.itli-r. St. Joseph, Mo. (Special).?At an experiment in a telephone olllce in tliis city X. SehoUlnscr, an eleetriclati, of (Tilcnjro, apparently killed a eat by electricity, and two hours after tin* heart had ceased to heat reversed the current and the shock restored tin' heart beats, faintly at tlrst. but growing In strength r.ntll finally the cat was released and was as playful en l frisky as it had ever been. To all intents and purposes the eat was dead a few seconds after tiie first current was turned on and remained so for, two hours. 1 L Tj sESDAY, JANUARY 2 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WASHINGTON ITEMS. The State Department sent tlio nineniitneiits to the Hny-Paimcefote treaty to the Hritish tiovernuieut throllxh two ehntlilels*. one eonv lu?ln<> transmitted to Lord Panneefoto. and the other through Ambassador Clioate at London, who will present it to the Foreign Otliee. Purncll II. Miller was appointed Postmaster at New Orleans at the request of the bondsmen of J. (5. 11. Pitkit). 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. Buchhnan, Porto Itiean Regiment. P. S. V.. was assigned to the command of the District of Porto llieo. recently incorporated into the Department of the East. Mrs. William 1*. I'rye. wife of the President pro tempore of the Scuate, lied suddenly in Washington. The President said lie would go to tin* Paritie eoast ip May to attend the launching of tin' battleship Ohio at the I'nion Iron Works at San Francisco. and would be absent from Washington about a month. or It ADOPTED ISLANDS. Tile lntest reports from Iloilo. 1*. I.. say that the islands of Painty and Cehn. since the rainy season si t in. are being vapidly cleared of the enemy, and that in a few weeks the only opposition encountered will he that offered by scattering ladroties. OMieers <>f the cruiser Newark reported there were supplies enough available at Cuain when the Newark left to last three weeks, and the inhab Hants would then is* dependent upon supplies from < "avlte. \ severe <>:? :*i tt< | ti:i K i* visded San li:iir??. Fuha. eamdni; panie in the poorit quarter of J In* low it. Many buildin.^s w? re seriously damaged. The enormous yield of en tie is erentin^ some talk of a general strike nuioiiK the euiters in Kasteru Puba, and iJovernor i leneral Wood is preparing to send emicranis to take the plaees of the strikers should troublu oeettr. lion t ist i c. l'ornnr Governor Woleott's : li makes a vaetaiey in the Massachusetts Klectorai < "ollejje. Kdward V. niacins, of Poldwater Panyon. Pal., eon leased that lie murtiered his mother and William {Sheenherder with an axe. Many men were injured in a religions riot wlileli ne uirred In a lumber camp near Flat Fond, in Maine. Tin* liev. l?r. Piiarles lteiilien Hale. Itishop Coadjutor of the Frotestant Kpiseopal dioecse of Springfield. died nt Pitiro, 111., of valvular disease of the heart, ltishon llale was born in Pennsylvania March 1-1, 1S.H7. (lovcrnor Filigree issued a requlsi nun on i in- iiuvt'ruur ?>i Vjiiiui lor Charles .Tenner Thompson, who is wanted in Detroit, Mich., for forgery. This is the tirst requisition on Cuba ever issued. The whites at Sitka, Alaska, are fearful of an Indian outbreak. Nearly a dozen highway robberies and oiie murder ii? two. days aroused the police of Denver, Col. Ilenry L. Wilbur, the son of IT. O. Wilbur, the Philadelphia millionaire, met his death while riding to hounds near Berwin, IVnn. Smallpox is raging in the lumber camps of Northern Minnesota, and great alarm prevails. Several thousand woodsmen have already tied from the camps to escape the dreaded disease. John W. Keller. Commissioner of Charities, admits that patients at Pollevue Hospital, at New York Cily, were abused by nurses. Assistant Ca-hier lT. M. Henderson, of tlit* First National Bank of (Ireelcy, Col., who disappeared in July, leaving a shortage of sjo.po.), has been located hi Mexico. .. . The police of Omaha, Nub., found the house in which "Eddie" Cudiihy was confined by kidnappers while they wcie awaiting the ransom of hi. A negro lynched near Gnlfport. Mies., for the murder of Marshall Klchnrdson, was a cousin of the alleged murderer. Henry l.cuis, who escaped, and was innocent. ^ KO PRION. The Pope performed the ceremony in St. Peter's at Borne of closing the "Holy Door" to mark the end of the jubilee year. (Sonera I Kitchener arrived at Po Aar to sit id tli" invasion of Cape Colony by the 15ticvs. (?encral Kotlania, .overnor of Formosa. was appointed Minister of War in the .Ian: ii> so Cabinet, replacing tSonoral Karbtira. who resigned. Tlie Powagcr 1 atly < linrt lilll, Senior l.atly of the I!r if'.iamhei- and an inii male friend of Queen Victoria, is doatl. The loyal chiefs have captured the A 'lar.teeQn . u's mot lie:* and the rebel King Kokofu, and tliey hope soon to rapture the remaining reliel chiefs. The Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela. was excluded from religious functions, owing to illness and mental trouble. Prince Ching received the Powers' note in Pekin, China, and expressed the hope that speedy peace would co me y L [MES , 1901. MiPLlSSB A Jealous Society Belle Wanted Her Divorced Husband Killed. ASKED A MAN TO DO THE DEED Mr*. Ciirrii* Sinclair lluntoti. of Concord. N. II., ArcuM'd oT ('on?|>iritiK t?? Mnr.lcr Her Former lItiHl>au<l?Once Noted For Her llcmity ? FrleiidH Think Her 1 limine?A Item urkalile Cine. Concord. N. II. (Special).?A nensatioiiiil episode cauie to n climax Wednesday in the arrest of Mrs. Carrie Sinclair Ilunton. twenty-six years old. well known in society, and at the time of her marriage one of the belles of the eity. on the charge of eouspiracy with intent to murder her divorced husband. Walter C. Ilunton. of whom, it Is assorted, she has heen extremely jealous. She admitted her guilt. At the September term of the Superior Court Mrs. Ilumoti obtained a divorce from her husband on statutory grounds. From a beautiful bride 01 a few years ago her grief lias made her haggard in feature and emaciated in form, so that she had the sympathy 01 all who knew her. She went to Boston Monday, and at the I'nion Station aceosted a young man. apparently out of work, who was a stranger to her. She asked him if he wanted to earn a dollar, and lie replied that lie did. Sh.e requested him to "pui a man out of the way" for her. The young man. who was William Iletirj I union, of Dorehester, Mass.. made an evasive answer. He went home and told his fat iter of the conversation. His father at otiee seni lull! to the ponce auumritics in '".osinn. :in?I they \ in turn notified < it.v Marshal I.ocke. of this city. Meanwhile Mrs. 1! 111*t | li;nl written an urgent letter to l?>it-| ton. telling him to eoine Jo this city 1 at once, anil giving him speclllc direetions as to how lie was to "ilo tin* joh." j This letter he showed the l'oston ) police, and h.v their direction lie arra 11 ceil to meet Mrs. lli'.nton here Wednesday even inc. i Hit ton met Mrs. Iluntoii at the Postolliee here and took her to the rear of tin' Slate House for consul atiop. City Marshal l.oeke and Assistant Marshal Kami w. re concealed in side t lie State llotise, where they couhl observe nil the proceedings Mrs. llunton handed her eompauion a loaded revolver, a sealed envelope, which she said contained a tivo-ilnllar I>i 11 as part payment for "the joh." and another! letter containing a decoy letter, which 'was to he given to lliinioti in order; Vo hire tlie latter from his home to he! killed. Mrs. 11 union then started for home,! and Dutlon reinalneil to report to the police. I'hey accompanied him to Mrs. Hnnton's home, where the City Marshal concealed himself near the door while Dutton rang the hell. When Mrs. llunton came to the door Dntton*told her that he had lost the ileeoy letter and could not lind Hnnton's house. Mrs. llnnton tohl him the number and pointed In the direction in which the house wan situated. As she <li<] so the City Marshal caught 1 ior by the arm. She recognized l.ocko and. "went into hysterica. When alio recovered she bade her a Red mother and her little child jrood bye. and was then taken to the police station. Her friends believe that she is insane. MAINE'S POPULATION LESSENS. French Fiuiiiiliiinn Will !> turn t<> Dominion. Montreal, Que. (Special). Iterant mlgration.s indieatn that the population of the New Knglund States, but ; ?rc particularly of Maine, threaten:; to by reduced by loO.Ooo or l!tMi.nn<). and that of the Province of Quebec correspond- j itiRly increased early next spring, bv j the return to their native jtrovince of, French Canadians, who have, during; the past, thirty years, crossed the hot- j der with tin? hope of bettering their ) condition. Of the 200,000 French Canadians In Maine ahout I'.u.nbn will <? back in I.ake St. John in tin* spring. "ut of loJiOft in Hlddeford lit,000 are French Canadians. Fright Ciiospit Dentil of 11 < lilld. tVlillo Cassia C. Docker, twelvej old. ::tid a younger si-ier were siring in a sleigh at Falrlichl. M 11?? horses I tolled. both children \v. th'-.-wu out, 1111(1 t'a-sie Was pi !' ! lip ih"1 1. Her sister was- uninjured. A phy.;ielnn fail I thai Carrie's .1 - . 11 i we - i i?? to fright. as no injuries w.-;*e 1 or; I on ins* llOlly U'Jlii .. en'lld li l\f l.'h'ed her. f'oiiHiil-Cnicr.tl slinv. :i ' iili'Iilr. \V. Irvin Slinw. who 1; 1 i> 11 1 11; l; tins position or I'nileil S ill Ihirr.inipiilln. < 'olosnbi;;. - i:i . ho was reeenily appoint, d '"on- ; mm-r:i 1 to Singapore, committed snichle in a hotel at Philadelphia. lie opotc .1 a femoral artery, and si !. <! his t'.-oat , and wri-os with a knife. lil health is' .supposed to have affected his mind. Shoo,000 rnlluro In Vlnl t imori*. Isaae Robinson, a ennned '.roods and fertilizer nianufaetnrer, at Haltimore, Mil . lias failed for $NOO,O0O. According to the statements made about $4tH,IJ30 is secured by collateral and the assets amount to $712,000. Robinson eondueteil twenty-five paikintr houses and several country storet J'.V .j NO. 42. EDUCATION IN NEW YORK Spends More Money on Public c?l 1,. T1 i TV.I CI.1. ouiiuuis t uuu any vjnior otitic. t'allH OIT in Fartliiip*, However?Spvrral Stilton l.ciiU in l*or Capita Knp*<inli< liiri-n?Iinva'n Capital Sliotvini;. Washington. 1>. C. (Speclnl). ? Although more money Is spent on the public schools of New York than 01* those of any other State the statistical tables which accompany the annual report of the Commissioner of Education Indicates that in proportion to population the public schools of New York are behind those of several other States. In the point of school attendance In proportion to population New York comes far down on the list of States, having only 10.114 per cent, of the population in the public schools. Kansas has 27.87 per cent., the highest of any State. Utah follows with 20.7S per cent., and Iowa, with 'JO.42 per cent.. ' while Pennsylvania, with a smaller population, actually has a larger number of pupils curollcd than New York, the figures for Pennsylvania being 1.1S0.14S. against 1.1711,351 for New York. In the proportion of teachers to pupils New York stands higher than many of tile States, hut is surpassed by Iowa, which has an average of n fraction more than nineteen pupils to one teacher, while New York has an average of more than thirty live to one teacher The cost of t he schools pop capita in New York is.51.U3. which is higher than in any other Slate exi'i>n' \1 <i ggtii-liiuol tw \tlii?f.? It I ^ 117 Nevada. where ii is ami Cnlifnrnin, where it is $l.t>P. The smallest per capita is i;i North Caroliun, where it is only tlfty-three < ?nis Although New York is behind some of the other Stntos in tin* percentage of children in tlic public schools and in the facilities growing ottl of having coin pit fti t ively few pupils under one teacher, the value of her school property is much greater than in any other Slate, it lining STo. 1 o.'l.t' 1 o for New York, against only S !t?. 1.".S.721 for Illinois. which ranks second. DHIYFUS DEMANDS JUSTICE. Will SocU l.egnl KcrognltIon ??f III* tn? imri'iiri' to tlis I.list Itri-utli. Paris tliy Cable). Captain Dreyfus has written to the Premier, M. SValilcek ltousse.au, demntneing as another falsehood a recent statement of Henri ICoehefort. in l.'Intransigeaiit. that he t Dreyfus) had sent to Ktnperor William of Certnany in IS'.)I a letter afterward stolen from the Herman Kmhassy at Paris, and which, annotated by the Ktnperor. constituted formal proof of the crime. Dreyfus adds: "M.v .nnocenee is atisolute, and legal recognition of tliis innocence by a revision 1 will seek to my last breath. 1 am not despoiled of all my rights. I still retain that of every man to defend his honor and have the truth proclaimed I. tnerefore, have the right to ask you to order an inquiry." SHOOT A CHIEF OF POLICE. X Italian A n a relit At* in Ki?rri?, Vt., Attack Tli?*lr Victim From Ambunli. Rarre, Vt. 1?. An attempt l?y Italian Anarchists to murder Chief of Police Patrick Rrown occurred in this city :i few days ujjo. Brown received three bullet wounds, two in the abdomen ami one in the foot. The Chief had been called to a ball in which sonic Italian Socialists were holding a hall to quiet a row. Scv- / eral persons were driven front the hull. I The Chief was shot from ambush on his way back to tin* station. Otto Bernaeclo an t l.ttijii Sr.ssi have been [ arrested and ideiititied by the Chief as beinu eonneeted with the attempted as-assination. A. Frcd'-n an I S. tiuiseppe nave also liecti arrested and held its accomplices. MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY. i*. tto-r, ll.it .t n it K reivi-it HCiJOO. Killed iii :> I.oncly Woods. Philadelphia. P< mi. (Special). The I >ii.> of I'Idlip Palter, a crippled veteran of the Civil War, was found in : p. < !? of woods bclon^iUrt to T. I icary Ashnry at Mi I rose, on the line of toe Kcatiiti'4 Itailroad. There i tip iloitld that the man was murdered and robbed. Around bis neck buried deep in I he llesli was a thin cord, and on bis head there was a deep cut He recently received his pension aud a few weeks a^o received tSo'HM) from ; lie Pnioit Traction Company in settlement for tin accident iti #* ? \ .ii li be bad I. foe rill ofi" 1 le was :ii? >;ii sisty-llve yi.ir-; old and lived in <uideii, N. .f SHE TRIES TO 7/RECK A BARROOM u , <* 1'. i . v. oii-. ui kiiiiih :v 1 *.?{i:11 >vc ?ml r.ic.'.!:-> :i Mirror ill Wirlii'.it. Wi'-liita, Can. ?Sj .iii Mrs. Carrie # *' Naiion, IT? iiii-ni < ? ]'.uli?r County \\ ouiati's < "iiri> i inn Tempera nee I nioii, entered the Carey Iloirl barroom ami with a stone >:n :siu tl a Soli.) painting and a mirror valued a: Sine. Mrr. Nation 1?. minor:! in (wo it: room in Kiov. a. hi .i?? some months ago. and sa.d 'lion* ia no law under which hli?> i an no prosecuted. She was lodged in the county jail charged with malicious destruction of property. IlrtttHli Solilli-m Murdered In I'ckln. British soldiers liavo l?ccu found dead outsiue the Temple of Heaven in I'ektn, China, with bullets in their heads. The murders are believed to have been committed by Chlueae. i I / A