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? # F VOL. XI. BILL ARP'S LETTER He Urges the Preservation of Our War Records. CITES NORTH CAROLINA'S EXAMPLE Bartow Sage Says fle is (letting Old and Wants to See Our Noble Mis. tory Preserved. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. Carte8Ville. Ga.?Editor Constitution: I am not well and may not write many more letters for your reads and therefore write this one to you to enlist your interest and uearty cooperation in a matter that is very near my heart and I am sure would be as near to yours if you were twenty years older and had more time. 1 have received the five volumes of history compiled and edited by Judge Walter Clark, now the chief justice of the state of North Carolina. This is no ordinary work. It is on a higher plane than any I have ever seen and is to the land what "Service Afloat" is on 111 eea. For seven years of unremitting tni I I nitcrn r-li-L. 1.-.. ?-1 ' ! .'< <??>* vkii n linn nui ivvu till labor of love without pay or reward save that which comes from the accomplishment of a sacred duty faithfully performed. Of course he has had capable and willing cooperators who out of the 254 sketches wrote 170 of them. Judge Clark wrote all of the others besides a full half volume (fifth) of graphic events and comments that concern all the southern states as much i as North Carolina ami which includes the first published history of the ! North Carolina navy the Albermarte and Shenandoah am! Florida and some ; other smaller cruisers and blockade j runners. It Is worthy of mention just t lu re that Commander Waddell. of tho ! 'Shenandoah, was the last man to keep | the confederate llag at the masthead. : for his vessel was in the mid-Pacific \ ocean and he did not know of tho fall of the confed racy until the 19th of j August. lS<;r?. and had a sea fight with the enemy on June 4. The volumes are beautifully bound in gray and gold. The paper and the printing is of the host quality and their pages embellished with over 900 portraits and 1 lA t tin TU- * ........ ..i-o, incest; ponraus are, or course. a reproduction, eight to a page, of th" old time photographs that the mothers of tho dead and living boys furnished to the engravers. These engravings were reproduced by that patriotic southerner, Major Patton. president of tire University Publishing Company, New York, without cost. Tho volumes arc quite large, containing 800 pages each. Judge Clark selected the best men to write tho sketches of their regiments. TRUTH OF HISTORY GUARANTEED What a guaranty of thuth and culture when we sec in this list of contributors such eminent and patriotic names as General I). II. Hill General Clengnian, Governor Vance and his brother Rob; rt. General Toon Moore (who compile 1 the roster twenty years ago). Dr. Mores Hogo, of Richmond and captains i and lieutenants by the score. And there are ministers and privates mingled in ! whose work is well and ably done, j There were eighty-four regiments and twenty-eight battalions besides the state troops (home guards) and every I regiment and battalion had one or more historian. It is a magnificent work and if 1 were a North Carolinian and lived far away I would purchase a set if I hail to do without tobacco and whiskey for a month, for the price is only $5. There are 17,000 names indexed in these volumes and I would be sure that some of them were kin to me or ray folks. What a wonderful state. Their long forebearing people twice ; sent a commission to Washington to plead for peaceful solution and avoid war, but got r.o promise or consideration, and then they made war as one man?and all the women. They had nnly 115,000 of full grown het of 21 in the state, but they could not keep the hoys out and 125,000 troops were enrolled. What a sad comment must come in here, for it is a matter of record that of these troops 11,000 were killed or died in the service. I have the old roster before me in four volumes containing 125,000 names and appended to every name are significant letters telling when he enlisted and where and what became of him. SOUNDS AN ALARM. But why am I writing so earnestly anout this? Because l wish our own state to do something of the kind hefore it is forever too late. It Is alarming to rend in Judge Clark's "Review . nnd Conclusion" how many of his contributors died before they had finished their sketches and either he or some other had to take it up and complete it. Now the cost*of this work to tho state is $1 per volume, which is the actual cost of the paper, printing-, binding and engraving. The greater portion U> as readable and fascinating as a romance and will brighten up and fasten the patriotism of our young men, whether they be from Nouth Carolina or Georgia. (low, some of us old veterans wish the Constitution to start this ball in motion. Your great paper can do it. !* ORT F( Kind out how many veterans are members of tlio legislature and how many outsiders like Tip Harrison and Charles Kdgeworth Jones and Governor Candler and General Evans and Evan I'. Howell you can enlist as cooperators. We cannot make as large and complete a book as Judge Clark has made, but we can certainly make a roster, oven though Senators Clay and Bacon and Lon Livingston have to have a bill passed giving our agent the use of the confederate archives. Judge Clark had to do that. Now please take I the lead in this matter, for it is a sac- I red duty we owe to our children and j their children. 1 asked an old private the other day how he could prove his service. \L<Jdi," $aid lie, "there are a i uiiii avico i rail piuv^ u nv. "But when they are all dead and you are dead, how will the children prove that their father or grandfather was a confederate soldier?" Ho looked thoughtful and said: 'I reckon, major, the thing would be lost then." l^et's let tho nigger and TedjJy alone for awhile and work on a bigger thing. But I am not done with Toddy yot?not until he retracts and apologize^, Your friend. CHARL.ES H. SMITH, (Bill Arp.) LABOR WORLD. Strikes are unknown in Japan. Toledo mliiot telephone girls may organize. Pbionsre Janitors to the nuuibu* of ."tor, have formed a union. Do Tt'-'-os in minors" wages in English Federated distrieis aOVeted ".'JI.OOO I mnP. OlnoyvHle it;. I.? weav. "s elaiin that , snlestm 11 ?><" wOoIimi gi ids will strike next. Tel -g.'u<rs throughout the eonntry are organizing and will deinaml higher vagi s Sinn nv iiis in Seollnild io th1 liU'U r op. a i. o v?Iiii.i..ii. tn. in pay 1" < iron :>"d -dee] \v?v';rrs in S*?m'h Wales have 1- a granted an increas ' in wain s. 'l'ln American Steel ami Wire t'otrn:\ny will erect a hospital in < aeh <>f its plants fi>" einergeimy cases. At Everett. Wash.. the sir, of ear company lain voluntarily raised tl?o wages id" its conductors ami motnrmer Ii is believed thai between 171 UOtiand 20.pon nam liave boon brought frntfn England to Panada In I; dp harvest I ho wheal crop this season. The strike of 1 toil or makers at San Bernardino and The Needle- t'al.. has ht?en settled. The men will receive | thirty nine cents an lionr East illnehill. Me., tpiarryinon have i agreed t<> return to work at the scale I offered hy the operators. The strike began May 1. The Norfolk (Va.l building trades ' strike has ended: tlio strikers lost all they contended for. including shorter hours and higher wages. Physicians in Itoaiioke. Vn.. formed | a conihination and raised prices for professional service. This was followed hy 2.1PO mechanics in the railroad shops devising a plan hy which they will employ two doctors for their families at monthly salaries. A lli'llcil in (icriiiiii) Treintury. Tile vJermau Treasury operations for the year show a deficit of .S12.l2o.tKRt. There is a possibility that an imperial income tax will lie resorted to to meet tile difficulty. Mexico to Import our Cercnln. Corn and wli at will have to bo imported into Mexico from ilit* Culled Statfs next u inter. \ Arm I?nb(iv in Grout Deinmid* l.alxii is in unusual demand in the vast farming sections of our country, whence great harvest reports come. Woman M y ?t erloutd v Murilrroil. The body of Miss Olive llrond. who resided on the outskirts of Cornish. I i Mo., was found in a clump of hushes j with the skull crushed. The wounds ! j showed that the woman had been j murdered. Three Kilted in it ISaee Itiot. Iu a race riot at Shannon. Miss.. [ three negroes were killed. Eight were placed in jail at Xcttleton. Miss. One white man was shot, hut not dangerously injured. All the trouble grew out of a negro stealing corn. Shot Wife find Killed llluiKfdf. rmrnged because of religious differences with li is wife, Clin lies ('. Itubsnin, a Bronx business man. shot li is wife and then killed himself at their home in New York City. Elsie Kithpam, a daughter, witnessed the shooting. The couple had for a long time had religious differences, growing out of the fact that Mrs. Emma Uuhanm was a Catholic, while her husband was a Protestant. Huhsatn wished to bring his three children up in the Protestant faith. Kubsain was thirty-eight years old and his wife was forty. To Tree l'rinonem nt (Initio. Acting Secretary Sanger, of the War Department, at Washington, has issued an order for the return of the prisoners at (inapt to Manila. The most important of these military prisoners is Mablni. They are to be released under the terms of the President's amnesty proclamation of July 4. Killed Krnui Aiobunh by Kmploye. William Jlronson, superintendent of the Cummer phosphate plant at lvokouio, 11a., was shot and killed from ambush by ope or the negro employ / . ! * . Mil )RT MILL, S. C WED] A BIG GREEN GDODS HAUL1 Said io Be First Time a Whole Plant; Was Ever Captured. A "COME-ON'' ALSO ARRESTED I Koine of tile Arrest* Were M?tle in New- ! ark, N. .1., ami Some in New York City | ? Victim l'aitl S.too in Cunh For SoOOO in Itill* l'rinteil From Stolen Oovernineut l'l?te>?lloul Siicce**tiil Kaiil. Now York City. -One of the most successful raids ever made on "green goods" operators has just been accomplished through the combined efforts of ilie postotHee inspectors of the New York. Boston anil Philadelphia division. under command of Chief Inspector T \V. Swift, of the local tlivision. The raid was made in Newark, to where several of the operators had been trailed, and following it came the arrest of two prominent "green goods" men. members of the "green goods" trust. As a result of tlie raid Ceorge T. Bradford, alias "Nigger Baker." Elmer Brown, alias "Kid l.olunan;" Samuel (Jottlieb. alias "Sheeny Sam." are in jail in Newark. The tirst two named were held in .*?."< >on bail each to await requisition to this city, while the third is held in Sjnnn hail for examination be iiiri* i uiifii ci.'ncs i oinuussioner Whitehead. The nvn arrested hero are Kdwanl 1 .eland. alias "Sheeny MetJuiro," and .Tames MeVickers. They were commilied in default of hail by I'nited States Commissioner Hitchcock In addition to the prisoners the authorities also have a large ipiautity of | green paper rut in size of hank notes; | small t hesis similar to those given vie- ; tints in which to ship home their supposed wealth after they have heett ] duped, and also several "gold lirieks." j showing t hot the swindlers were work- I ing the "yellow" as well as the "green" j game. All of these-things were found in the (iottlieh apartments in Newark. The parti. nlar prize in the way of evidence that the authorities have is a small \ wooden chest ahout four hy eight ( inches, which Inspector .1. T. t'ortelyoti ' got in the Adams Kxpress olliee in \ Newark. It had just Iteen left there ity j Anthony t'aporissi. of New Ilaven. i Conn., a "eotne-on." wlio had heett j swindled out of hy the gang a few minutes before in the West street house. It ttas supposed to contain ' S.'oito in hank notes, made from plates ! supposed to have been stolen from the I Treasury I tepartment. The inspectors, who had heett watch- ! inc tlic srans for weeks, followed two I of tli > rohr anil tlteir vietlui to the ex- j press otliee. and then, after securing , the "green Roods." followed the pair J and the "eoine-on" to the IVnnsylvania depot and arrested them. The Newark house was then visited. | and from evidence found there and froi i infi rination in hand, the other three arrests followed. Caporissi is beiiiR held as a witness. It is the first time in either police or pustoi'icc history that an entire plant iiad he* n captured, and also with a frontline ''come-on" as a victim Capet'ossi said lie paid $">00 for the money, a. (1 saw SotMMi of it counted tut an I olaced i . the lilt 1<? trunk. PRESIDENT IN NIW ENCLAN". irnOTt.ll Heartily (ireeteil l>v Immense Crowds on Hi* Tour. Hartford, ('mm. President Itoosevel; begat his t nir of New Km land amid ^ scenes >i* remarkable enthusiasm, i I .a: m1 in tr from the yaeht Sylph, at New Haven. It is progress to this city was a , continued ovation In tlie eveninjr lie I addressed an audience of more than ! r.O(H) persons in the Coliseum here. touchiiiR upon national questions. * At all three places where the President slopped elaborate arrangements 1 had been made for his reception. At .New Haven Mayor John I'. Stiidlcy. with his secretary, and a coimnitlc<- ! from tlie Hoard of Aldermen, greeted him. and conducted hint through a roped passageway to the carriage in ; waiting The New Haven program provided for nothing hut a drive, and i the progress of it took the distinJ guished visitor through the slums the factory quarters and the centre of the I city. The city was gayly dressed in . flags and hunting. Meriden was reached at .1 o'clock. A I salute of guns was tired and the hells in the town were rung, while 120,000 poo- j : pie lined the streets. The program in' eluded singing hy 1O0O school children stationed on the lawn in front of the Methodist Church and a greeting to the President hy the local veterans of the (irand Army in front of the City llall. Just liefore departing President Itoosovelt addressed the crowd briefly from the rear platform of his car. the Mayflower. thanking them fcr the reception tendered him. On his arrival at Hartford the President was welcomed hy a committee of representative citizens, and then taken for a drive around the city In a handsome victoria automobile. He was enthusiastically cheered all aloug the route. The President expressed his satis faction at the substitution of drives foi conventional handshaking. This method of entertainment seems to have given the people the opportunity desired of seeing hint. In Pope Park the President was greeted hy 10,000 workiiiginen, who presented him with a magnificent ttornl horseshoe inscribed. "Workingmen's Welcome to Our President." . * V 9 \ T ^ -V-L/ J NESDAY, AU(il"ST 27 GEN. FRANZ SIGEL DEAD: Famous Fighter of the Civil War Expires in New Ycrk City. lip Wim u I.emlrr of ArmioN in III* Nu- j tive l.Htnl Hint Adopted Counlrjr? A Noted (iprmitn-Aim rican. Now York- mtf_fIn.wo.nl I.' - gel. a dislinguished figure 011 the Union ; side in tli?? Civil War. ami one of the j leaders of the revolution in Southern ' i derma ny during tin- days of ISIS, dioil | at ins homo in tlio Rrotix. tJeneral Sigel was a restless spirit, a man of varied experiences. ami lie impri'sscil his personality on whatever lie undertook. He had been a soldier, politician and ditor. and his career oil two continents was a remarkable one. Known as the hero of the battle of l'ea Ridge, the tieneral was promoted to tlio rank of Major-tletieral by reason of his brilliant assault <01 the enemy in that engagement. During the early days of the Civil War he was joiued by hundreds of Hermans who. like himself. had fought for liberal principles in Uermany. "I light uiit Sigel," was one of the rallying cries in those days. tJeneral Sigel would have been seventy-eight years old in November. 11 is j death is ascribed to general debility. ] Although lie had been led only on liquid food for two weeks, his vitality I was so great that it was hoped that his life could lie maintained for many months longer. Around the deathbed were gathered Mu ch' of tSciiornl Ki^el's suns Robert. P.nil Mini Rudolph and liis widowed laughter. Mrs. Leila Seln-hl. TlietJon?r:il. almost to liis last, was able in reeiirnizc and converse with lliosn aroMiid liin. Finally lie sank into a deep sloop, 'roin which ho never awakened, lie oa vos a widow. <>i><>vwiI Ki.ro) look a proininont part n the tJorinan rovnlniion of ISIS. In |si7 ho was challenged lo a duel. so- J rerely wuiindod liis antagonist, then resigned from the army, lie oanio to li" 1'niloil Stall's in 1K.VJ. AI the outbreak of the t'ivil War lie "iccanto Colonel of the Third Missouri; n May. lKtil. was oninmissioiied Krijrtdier-t1 eneral. and avoii the hattlo of Part Imp* on July ."i. lie was made a MaJor-tiVnoral in March. l.StiJ, and 'outrlii airainst tlcricral Price at Pea didire. Mo.. AViuniiiK the battle. In IStlT he removed to tliis city. ? In 1N71 tlenoral Sijrel was appointed j r'olle -tor of Internal Revenue. and in ! lie same year lie was elected Register ! if New York County on the Committee At Seventy ticket. in 1NSC. he was lindc pension agent by President Cleve- J 'and. lie was for years Preside it of j '.lie Society of ( 'ermati Patriots SCHWAB SAILS FOR EUROPE. Dpnlm That lie liitrinln to Itenlc" I'renlilnncy of Cor|>orution. New York City.Charles M. Schwab. President of the I'liltetl States Steel I Corporation, sailed on board the j "Tench liner T.a Lorraine for Kit rope. .hi. oi-uvi iiii uciiieii lion 110 HIT onus | :o resign :is President of tin* Steel 'orporation. anil saitl that ho was filing ?ni his vacation, anil that ho did not know how long ho would ho awav. ilc tiink with liim liis ohauft'our. as ho xpocts tu tour Franco in an automobile. The report that ho was about to form 1 Kuropean stool trust Mr. Schwab characterized as absurd. Mother Kilt* U?hy mill Self. Mrs .11'sse Uiiinaek. of Sharpsvillo. Ind., Killed her one-year-nhl haliy ati.l herself while insane. Cut on Ilia Wife'* Until. James Ilupe, a fanner, living seventeen miles west of F.ufaul. was arrested at .Muskogee, Ind. Tor., having confessed to ill.- murder of hrs wife, lie had forbidden tlie woman to join a certain secret soeioty. but she ignored his toinmnnd. anil when she returned home from the lodge at night he met her at the dour in their room and chopped her liead oil with an axe. Army Autumn Mitneuvrn*. Both regular and State troops will go into eamp at Fort Ilile.v, Kansas, lor autumn maiiouvres ft u .v.n -- * -? l?* V.? c-ii t1JU I the President will review them. Minor flentioii. Brooklyn lias signed First Basemen Joins, of York, l*a. ltrnnsiield ran bat well either rightUninleil ot left-handed. Tenncy, bong and Carney have resigned with Boston for next year. Piteliet1 Jaek Taylor, of t'liieugo, is one of the best pitieh hitters in the profession. If it has stimulated popular interest in a wholesome anil exhilarating spun like lawn tennis, the ping-pong fail lias, lone at least one bit of admirable work. Wheat Prices Advance. Wheat prices show an advance for the week of one to two and a half cents a bushel, due eliletly to the crop situation. The tJovornment report indieated a total yield of spring and winter wheat of 050.000.000 bushels. While general exportation has placed the production at somewhere near 750,000,000 bushels. I'ulma Opposed to C'niian I.nan. President i'alma is opposed to the proposed Cuban loan of .Sua.ooo.ooo, and it is doubtful if an attempt will be made to Host the issue. I riME , I !?<>->. HI I STATE PRISON inree murderers Attempt to; rorcp Kentucky's Penitentiary. HELD GUARDS AT BAY FOR HOURS llnriiiK llio Itlnt Tliroe Convict* Wcr* Wounded, One Fitfully?Ttie ItrKpern(Inm Finally Ylrlilcil In file Warden and Slx'y Men Who Had Surrounded Tliem?ICIncleader sliol For Treachery. Frankfort. Ky. Klred l?y n desire to paiin t lieir freedom. Wallaee Uishop, Thomas Mulligan ami Idifayetto Krooks. all murderers arid desperate criminals. m.iilc a fntilo attempt to escape from tho Stale penitentiary. As a result Hisliop is dead from a Indict wound through liis heart; I?rooks is shot through the shoulder, and Alfred Itnnsniiie. eolored. a laniisvllle murderer who for n few moments essayed to follow tin- ihree diirimr leaders, is snf fering from a wound in tin* shoulder. Tin* mutiny, which lasted for four and a half hours and elided in an ignominious surrender by the eon v lets, eaused great excitement within the prison and among the people of Frankfort. The eonviets chose the breakfast hour for their dasli for liberty, when the.v Imped to stampede a large number of prisoners. The rioting started while brooks. Mulligan and bishop, one of whom hail a pistol concealed about his person. were leaving the dining room to answer a hospital enll. < hie of the convict.-, suddenly drew a weapon and cmnpiMh d tJiinnl A. II. bill to give up his arms. tittard F 1". burst, who rushed to < Jill's assistance, also was captured by tlie eonviets. Captain Mat Madig.iti. acting warden, then rushed forward with -t\ guards, who tired an ineffectual volley as the eonviets ran j across lite yard. At the entrance to the eh.iit factory they captured -Charles Willis, a foreman. blueing him between themselves and the guards they retreated into the chair factory, from which place they coultl command a. good view of the i utile yard. At a window t hey stationed W illis, and brooks, with a revolver in his hand, took a position just behind the captive, resting Use muzzle of the weapon on the foreman's side. They then dolled Warden l.illard. shouting that they i would kill the foreman at the lirsi | move made against them. by this time several hundred citizens, | llblllV ??!' t I) ? ?111 !??% ? V i 1 \* iii'imiil ]?.?.! .roil. "1 "" """ 1 "* ; ered :il the prison gates. but tin- warik'ii denied admission to all. He issued orders l'or all the shops to elose and for nJl the prisoners to lie returned at once I to their cells. He then placed a guard of sixty men around the building, in i which the desperadoes had harrieaded themselves, and called oil them to stirrender. At SI o'clock the convicts offeted to surrender if the men were insured safe delivery to the cell house. Later tlicy agreed to surrender, lirst sending their weapons down liy Brooks. 1 Warden Lilian! prepared to accept j the terms, and. accon anicd by eight I men. proceeded to the loot of the stair j way. The prisoners emerged as they had promised, with hands up. but as they proceeded down the stairway Bishop dropped his hands to his side as if to draw a weapon, lie hardly had made the motion when one of the Warden's party tired, th> bullet striking Bishop in the breast, indicting a fatal wound and also wounding Mulligan. Brooks and Mulligan begged the Warden to save their lives, and at 10..'50 o'clock tlio two desperadoes. heavily shackled, wore placed in their t ells and quiet had lieell restored. BURNED HIS FLYINC MACHINE. IIvo Wnitli of an Ohio Inventor ltceiiuno It Wouldn't Kly. Ciiiciniiati, Ohio. Skimming above the grotui I for alioiit tifly feet a flying niaeliliie. invented by M. Mallory, a | pattern maker at the Itullock electrle ! plant in Norwood, dived suddenly to ilie ground ami was wrecked on the lawn of Youoiitc Inn, Kennedy | Heights, a suburb of this city. The i disgusted inventor, unhurt, carried the machine to the I.ouisville and Nash- i ville station and sent it up again, this j time in smoke. The wings, twenty-five feet from tip | to tip, were made of glazed calico, ! stretched on cotton >/cod frames, cov- | ered with a network of flue wire. These and a rudder were operated by j both hands and feel. During the (light the machine rose about live feet from the ground. The inventor says he failed to loosen a guy wire. ALGER OUT FOR SENATOR. If Mic-liiRitii Wants Him. He Says, He's ! Willing to lie Chosen. Detroit, Mich. (Jeiicral It. A. Alger has issued the following formal statement concerning his candidacy for the vacant Seiiatorship from Michigan: "1 will not seek the appointment or election to the "office of I'nited States .Senator to till the vacancy caused by the death of Senator McMillan. The otlice nhd honor an* too great to be thus gained. Should, however, the people of Michigan, through their Legislature, see lit to ele *t ine to that high otlice, 1 will accept it and till it to the best of my ability." The announcenica". followed a consultation of the < d uctal's political friends and advisers, and is ;akeit to mean thai a vigorous campaign will at ome he instituted. ;s. NO. 23. 3A.MBLING ib PKOHlbllED leoretary Shaw's Order the Treasury Department Clerks. rhre<> K?Mlu?-tMl i" Sirtiiry ?nd TrniiHfrrre.l Kmimx ? < Over liulul Rrncp in I'okfr-Horrowprn M ar.lfd. Washington. T"? C.?There Is In bo ntT end to poker and t<> the playing of I lie races by clerks in (be Treasury Department. AM games of elinnee aminil gambling are to be abolished Secretary Shaw lias issued a general edict against practices of tiiis sort by clerks in the department, where each person employed lias great financial responsibility. Consternation lias been caused in the department because of the recent reduction of salaries of three clerks who hare been too fond of poker, and who have also been transferred to positions of less importance. In case of a repetition of the offence they will be dismissed frotn the service. Tn one instance a clerk who had been drawing a salary of ? 1 SOU a year was reduced to . spMHi. Ho and one of tin* at Iter clerks were employed in a bureau where the currency of the country is handled. The wife of the man who was reduced to $ 1 ftOO called at the Treasury several days ago and requested that jwrt of the salary of her husband be paid to her. as sin* was actually deprived of household necessities. Another of the clerks wrote to the Secretary complaining that a clerk owed him Sir. and would nni pay him. Tile clerk alleged to owe the money stated that he and the complaining man had been in the habit of going / out of the city each afternoon to play poker, that they had lest considerable money, and had a difference as to a proper division of their losses. In vesligaton revealed that" three lories used to fake a f rolley car out of tile city nearly every afternoon to play poker, neglecting their families to indulge in the game. They would probably have been dismissed altogether Ion for consideration of neglected wives and children. se> they were reduced and transferred. Others of the clerks have been in the liabit of "playing the races" at the iracus. tnrougli I no pool rooms, and elsewhere Tlicsi' clerks iirvcr seem lo will iiidI :i! ) perpetually borrowing money from their follow clerks. which thoy ?In not pay hack. Mr. Shaw has his eye on this evil also, anil is going to lake measures to stop the borrowing mania among the Treasury "sports." A number of these have been warneil to stop borrowing or get reaily to leave tlie departniont. FIVE LIVES LOST IN FIRE. Tim Women Hint Thrw Clitlilrcii lliirttril lo llt'iilli ill New York Otty. New York City. In a tenement fire on tlii- east side two women and three children were burned to death, another woman was burned severely about the body and fiioc and a man had three ribs broken by jumping from a window to tlie pavement. The injured woman is Mrs. Ttosa Moses, and tie name of the man who jumped is Jacob Moseovitz. A woman named Mrs. Hannah Ralothin could not be found after the lire, and it is believed that one of the burned bodies found was hers. Nathan l.iebowitz reported to the polie that his four children. Moses. Julius. Louis and Sallie. respectively three, live. si\ ami eight years old. were missing, and a search of the building resulted in the timling of the badly burm d bodies of two children. I | |.. I I- lill'llllll II/, 1111' 111 II I V of :ii I'liii rly woman al>o wns found The cl:iii!;iu'i' m property is estimated :it S HUM I. NEW YORK FlRE CH EF i.AID OFF. C'rokcrV So|>l?i?\v Simpt*I rom I>nt? I?y C*??iiiiiil*Hioii?%r Stur^i*. New York City. ? Kdward Crnker, Chief of the Now York City Kiiv 1 ><? l>;iriiiit-iil wns suspended from duty iiy h'-re <'oinmissioiu'r Sturgis Mr. Crnker who is a nephew of Richard Crnker. had been absent on :i vacation, hut returned to ihc city unexpectedly, saying he did so to resume his duties, on iidviee of his attorney. Mr. Crnker said tliis advice was given because his name had heen mentioned in connection with the hearing of charges against Chief of Construction Ryan, of the department. The Chief found his hooks had heen carried away Tmiih Shi-plmril Killed l?v n Meteor. Ramon Cruise, a shepherd, was struck on the head and killed by a fragment of a meteor while herding his thick near Kllis, Texas, in Kdwards < 'ouuty. tSwrl of IMullev Sworn In. The Karl of J*utllt>y was sworn in as I.old Lieutenant of Ireland (in sticcession (o Karl Cadogan. resigned!. in Hie Council Chamber of the Castle, in Dublin. I.nrgn Cr?murrj> Foil ore. The failure of the Klgin Creamery Company. operating l.'{."> creameries in three Western States, was reported, with 10,000 creditors, mostly tanners. Snow on Mount M hhIiIiikIoh. At Mount Washington, N. II.. rain turned to snow, and there was half an inch of snow on Hi" ground, with the thermometer at thirty four. Hotter F.\|?lo?loii Kill* Three Men. The holler in Simpson's saw mill at New Liberty, 111., exploded, killing tiuy Huberts, James Jeffords and l.ester | Johnson, and live others are seriously Injured %