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Tp VOL. XI. ,fne a IT was just before the Christinas of lSob i)i;11 four little Alabama trirl^ I were as busy as four little girls? l.ilv Langhorne. Lucy Waller. Mattie Ilurwooil and I.izzie Klla Manning ?could bo. They were to have a dolls* party on the Monday after Christmas, ami they could talk of nothing else. Hal Stanley discovered that the girls had a project on hand. The whispering behind desk lids and around the stove, and the long conferences during: recess, (old the secret, although the strictest silence about their plans was maintained in the presence of the boys. Lily often let slip an unguarded remark about the coining festivity, and then clapped her hands over her inou'.h if -dm saw Hal Stanley near, for i.*::vie Klla had said ovei and over again. "Whatever you do, Lily Langlion u . <1. n't you tell Hal Stanley. I don't want him to know one word allot.i it until it is all over'."" "1 s;;\ s>>. too!" exclaimed MatHo Harwoed. "Why, aren't yor, going to let him come to the partyV" asked Lily, hi a pa thet ':< voice. "I.e. i ;u come!" said Lizzie Klla. "I'm a nished at yon. Lily Langliorne. i n't you know lial Stanley well enough io know we don't want lihn at c.u: party'.' \V!::?i are yott ihinklnjr about" "I thought maybe you'd lot hint conic, after we had finished lixin' our things'.-" said Idly. "Well, you thought wron.tr he shan't coine any time if 1 have anything to do with it." asserted Lizzie Kiln. "lie lets tue ride on his pony sometimes. and leads hint all around the front yard." said Idly, meekly. "Y< s. and pitteb.es you when he takes you olT the pony, doesn't lie':" retorted l.i/.zie Klla. "lie don't pinch me hard." Insisted Idly. "Well. Lily I.nnghortie. you are a strange girl. I deelaro. 1 should think you wouldn't want li'.m tit the party." Answered Lizzie Klla, with a toss of lier head. "Oh. 1 don't want liitu. if you don't, Lizzie Klht. Only he said he was eoinin' anyhow." said Idly. "Very well." said Lizzie Klla. still provoked, "none of the hoys shall eonie if ll.il Stnn'ey Is to come. If he comes I shall not conic, and tny sister shall not make the dolls' dresses, and I won't lav my hand to a thing. 1 did thin!- we could have some hoys and have a dance, hut we'll have girls enough lo make a set." "It would he nlee to have some bovs." said Mattie lint-wood. "Kd. Waller can dance." "Well, we cjin't have them. My mother says we cannot invite tlie other hoys ami not invite Hal Stanley, ami 1 - will not have?Hal Stanley at our dolls' party. Now, you've trot it." said Lizzie I'.l^i defiantly, ns site walked away from the group of girls. And s" it >vas settled that the dolls* party should he enjoyed without the presente of hoys, and the preparations for the event began. The Saturday hefere the eventful Monday the tattle was already decorated with frosted cakes ami fruits ami ramli-s. The dolls in ail tit finery were in their seats. The table was beautiful. The bright colored caudles and the gay dresses of the dolls shone among bouquets and garlands ami bowers. Kwrything had been arranged 10 perfection, and the dote of the v .1 in was closed. After tin dance the girls were to enter the room and stand around the table belli ml the dolls. Kneh girl was to have a mutch. and at a given signal each was {?? liirht :l'c thrcc candles"in front of the doll behind which she stood. They had practiced the inarching and standing until they could do it without n mistake. All were to light the candles at ouec, so that an illumination should hurst over the talde like a Hash. .By -l o'clock Monday afternoon the girls had arrived in full dross. They talked and played games, and every-) thing was delightful. The moment arrived when the procession was to march to the table where the fine foreign ladies in national costumes awaited them. The music on the piano struck up and the girls started. On they went, keeping step to the march until they reached the table and each girl stood in her place. Not a mistake had been made; the girls were radiant with happiness. The signal was given and smith nly the table was a blaze of light. 1 lie pyramid of snowy enkes and the sparkling candles end hrll'lant fruits and rlny bowers and wreaths ORT FOR grzifeuss: COG lie r- j made a fairy scene. A burst of ad- j . miration went round the table. "Oh! ; oh! oh! o'.i!" sounded from one to an- \ j other. They were too delighted to 1 speak, when suddenly a scream | | brought everybody ha tit from fairy j | land. It was Idly Lunghorne. "The , dolls! Oh. the dolls! where are the dolls? Oh! oh! oh!" i Then every girl asked the sain- qties* tlou. except Lizzie 1311a, who shrieked, ' Who did It? who did it?" And where were the dolls? There in lite chair of each one sat a dirty rag doll with a black face and a woolly ! head, wearing a red ealieo turban in- ! stcad of a wreath of roses. "It's llal Stanley, hateful Hal Stan, ley!" screamed Lizzie Kiln. "Hal Stanley!" oelioed all the girls. "We'll never speak to him again!" During the excitement a servant j opened a closet door in a corner of tin* I room. "i.ook nyaii, Misiis," called she to Mrs. Langhornc, "hyah's do dolls. For ;rnslius sake, jos look!" And sure enough there hung tho dolls. The Parisian lady. with hor hands tied behind lior hark, was hanging from a peg; tho Spanish lady was dangling hy hor foot; I ho Switzerland lady was tiod and gagged so that sho oottld not speak olio word: and. tho ladies of ltussia and Holland, Iicumark j and Sweden and Prussia wore hanging in disgrace. Mrs. Langhorne's scissors cut the | gallows, and she handed to each girl her treasure. Tho line spangles and laces had suffered from tho execution, hut the lady dolls were soon placed at the table and the rag dolls were thrown aside with contempt. "Your dolls are not dead if they have been hanged," said Mrs. I.anghorne. "They arc us much alive as they ever ; were." Sunshine followed the storm, and tlie ' girls did enjoy the remainder of the evening. Nobody ever discovered who lntngcd the dolls.?The Household. I RAM'S HORN BLASTS. rr HE true light geta JVjT'' 1 'U cro()kvd Gems are but I /ly< Vyxjejf lobbies without tlie A God ' withholds '*,e ^ovver ,0 glve 1 faithful' \\v T A vorker does nor I fe<s--" * 1 aI^s ^ear the footsteps ,r, if the Master. Humility is the ^ * ? * 'rclude to honor. 1 toasting is only begging for praise. If I do my best He will do tho rest. High pressure in society is not t.i t?f. with low pressure i:i piety, t Our sains depend not on what we | can get but on what we can ? hc. He who has no secret power with God will have 110 public power with man. The plant of piety will not live by being stuck in the soil of prayer about once a \v<_ek. The life wholly spent in the closet is ' as useless as the life without the closet is powerless. The religion that is put on is rosily : put oft". | Each man thinks his match as hit; as the other man's torch. God's pormises are His bonds for the execution of our nravers. j The search for singularity oft involves the sacrifice of sincerity. 1 Civilization is not evangelization. Faith is the fire of all true genius. ; Men need scft hearts In hard times. Mammon is the mother of misery. That half the world are fools is only : the opinion of the other hulf. There is a good deal of difference j between punishment and chastisement, j When the roots of life reach the riv- j er of God its fruits will be rich with His glory. New England Fi6h Harvest. The total harvest of sea fish sold at ! Gloucester and Boston, which are the i principal markets, during the past ! year, officially reported, amounted to j 1(12.218,921 pounds, worth $4,385,102. [ ! of which the Newfoundland banks pro- ' j duced more than 65.000,000 pounds, I while the grounds off the New Eng- i land coast yielded nearly 97,000,000 ; pounds. H /TT1 i / 1 VE 1 i. v _iiL Ja T MILL, S. C VVEDN1 FUNDSIOGURBTHETRUSTS I The House Unexpectedly Votes $590,- ! 000 to Enlorce the Law. I THE LEGISLATIVE BILI AMENDED Not a Mfmli'r or Flthor Putty Itn'up. nti j Objection mill tlu> Attomey-tlnicral i* Expected to Push Prosecution*?S I "ft,. 817,000 Appropriuted For Pensions?A Flare For Alj-or on :? Smiulr Committee Washington. I>. C.?Charles T-. UartInt. a (leurgia Democrat. during eon- ' sideration of the Legislative Appropriation hill in the House, expressly and without warning, sprang an amendment for the sunt of ."?7.~?0,000 to en- | foree the anti-Tinst law and 1 <? direet ( the Attorney-tleneral to proeoed to the i muni <>i ;mi violators or tiic law. i Although such a proposition was plainly amenable to a point of order, not a member on either side of the House raised objection. ltotli sides wheeled into line and all agreed that 1 some such action was advisable. Some i of the Republicans, however, raised : objection to tln? looseness of the bin- j g tinge of the amendment, and Mr. Hep- j burn tlowai offered as a substitute for i it tlie language of the liill he intro- j duced on the opening day of the ses- ! sion to appropriate .SoOo.ooit for the en- j forcemeat of the law. The Hepburn i amendment was adopted. It reads as | follows: "That for the enforcement of the pro- j visions of the act of .Inly "J. 1S!H>. the > sum of ?."?0().00!t is hereby appropriated oiti of any money in the Treasury not heretofore appropriated, to be expend ed under .the direction of the AttorneytJencrnl in the employment of special counsel and agents of the Department of .Tussice to conduct procci dings, suits and prosecutions under said act in the will i> ill nip I llillll Milll's; provided. [ tli.it no person shall bp prosecuted or ! l?e subjected to any penally or for "eiture for or on account of any transnc 1 tion. matter or thing rone mint; which | lie may testify or proiluee evidrn. c. | iloenmentary or otherwise, in any pro eoeding. suit or prosecution Utitler said j acts, Provided, furtlier. thai no per- i son so testifying shall lip p\ nip, fiann i proseentien or pnnishmriu for perjury committed in so testifying. This ap- I propriation shall be immediatolv avail- | alile." The liiil to prohibit military and natal bands from competing with civilian hands was defeated for a third muling ?:tn to 4.".. The Senate passed the I'ension A'?. propriation bill without di-euss'oti. It carries An urg : tit ?!?-tioieney liiil also was passed. Tinamount carried by this bill is $1.1 la. too ] and includes an ilem to stamp out lite foot and mouth disease, which lias become epidemic In the New England States. Mr. Harrows f.Mich.l tendered his resignation as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs in order that bis colleague. Kussoll A. Alger, might he appointed to Cue vacancy, which was done. THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION. A llrpnrl That Arbitration ITnrt Horn l>prldcil On. A report from Caracas said that nr. | Miration inui neon tieeideil on in the I dispute between Venezuela and Eng land and tlermany. T!u? loading eitizons of Caracas addressed a joint note to President Castro recommending that Venezuela yield to superior force and that full powers he given to Cnited States Minister Howen to effect a termination of the difficulty with Croat Britain and tier- j many. The blockade of I.a Cttayra by war- j ships of *he allies went into effect. The ; order applies enly to Venezuelan ships. | In the 1 loose of Commons Prime j Minister Halfour said that a state of I war existed hetw i 11 (Ircat P.ritain and Venezuela, and there could lie no such thing as a "paeilie blockade." The Herman foreign Offieo denied that Herman" contemplated seizing Margarita Island or oeettpying any Venezuelan territory whatever. PASSED AS A MAN FOR 20 YEARS Wonisiii WIiofc Se* W#? Dlnrovcrol Snyn she man Voted Fop Seven Year*. Buffalo, N. V.?The District At tor ney's etliee will investigate the ease of Harry Xnrmau. the woman who passed as a man for twenty years, and whose sex was not dis. -nverd until she broke her leg. At the hospital the woman boasted that she had voted In the Third Ward for seven years and had been a hustler at the polls for Alderman Butler. >'iw >i:<- w ill KO DOCK TO IIOV llsguise when she is released unless tlie police prevent it. and that she is going ir? give a heating to the surgeons at the Emergency Hospital who exposed her masquerade. BLIND CORN POOL BROKEN. Broker* Mn*|>?<ii<l Through Inability to Murgln thn l>rcriuli(r Ileal. Chicago, III.?W. W. McCleary & Co., a Board of Trade tlrni, representing the St. Louis "Blind Pool,'* which atteiupted to corner December corn, have suspended. Notice to close out all trades for their account was posted in the Board at the close of the day's business. A drop of over live cents following decline, called l'or more margins than the pool could produce, and their holdings were thrown on t lie market. The original line of the pool is estimated to have been between 5,000,000 and 10,OCO.OUt) of bushels. r~ y \ y SSDAY, DECEMBER 2 MAN INAMURDER FRENZY r'aniaoRuns Amuck at Lapere. Mich., With Frightful Results. lie r:stu a i;<aril r, YVouiuIk III* Motlior j 11 it?* - * I rr, un?l Tlicn Commits SuicuU<?Haul ltfcn in mi AhvIuiii. T.an? ;t. Jolni Hi st. twenty-! < i^li' year* olil. :i mail <?l" disordered j u'. imi. r:m a;;uii*u liirough the house. I.. iT3!.laspa: Clegg. a boarder, dangernusly wounding his own mot tier, wouu ting bis s:-1and Finishing by shooting himself dead Rest was commith d to the in>=:?in% ; asylum about a year ago. and six | ii'oiwbs later was discharged as cnreil. He lii si att.irked Clegg with a razor, ne.t'ly severing: the head. The iiiurdi rer then evidently returned to bis own room and went to bed. latter he arose and went to bis mother's retail. He struck Mrs. Host with the damag d razor. Her el?In was nearly out olT. She sprung out of bed, grappled with the erazed man and made her way to the door and ran to a neighbor's, where she telephoned for the Sheriff. When his mother tied from the house Rest went to Ids sister's sleeping room, slashed bar across the cheek, but desisted. probably believing that he bad killed her. When Rest beard Sheriff livers entering the house he appeared with a revolver and began shooting wildly, j lie aimed the hist shot at his own : h ul Jtnd fell dead. BANK R0B3"RS FNTRAPPED. Our Klllrit, Our Mnrtith Injured ittul n | TUIrtl C:ipt 11 rod. Alvord. Tex.a Three men started from Cliieo to roll the hank here, but j tic Sheriff of Wise County heard of II . idill. . ..o ' .... .....i - in iii-|i nu-> n' auarii 11!?? I emit. Tin. otlirors woro seorefoil in the bnihlin:* wl:. n tho wonld-lio voldiors est. roil. A fusilhulr fnllnwod tlio do i.i?ii.I for titonoy. <'Inn?1 * iSoldon. ono i.;' (Iio handifs. who has oftoii lii'on nrrosioil. v iir; !i rod wlion lie saw i lei t ho iraino w.is up. John MoFall stnrto.l i to siirriv.dor. hni was too slow, and n Imllol wounded him so luiil'.v that ho will dio. Tho third to::n. who had horn loft to hold thoir horses. wi killod hoforo ho i ootihl s?ot away. His natno was Frank ! Martin. A trusted friond of tho trio j bctrayod tlhir plans. NEW WHIT ? HOUSE PAINTINC. \V:itlH*? " I.nvi1 unit l.li;lit " llunc in 111* iixecultvo Mansion. Washington. I>. ? Sir Frotloriol; I Watt's paint hue. ontitled "l.ovo and I.ght." whioh ho exhibited at tho t'hi- ! casto H vltihit ion. and whiolt was nit-j mot oifully oritieised tlion on moral grounds, litis boon hung in tho White ; 1 tons'... Sir Froderiek at tho oloso of tho Fhioago Fair gave tho painting to j "Tho Ainorioan people." It was tleolded to send the picture to | tiio TTosidont of tho Fnited Statos. and n \v;is placed In the Corcoran tSallery by President Cleveland. \vln? did not know what to do with it. In the gallery it has been admired by thousands of visitors from all parts of the country. It now hangs in one of the pri- j vale rooms of the Executive Mansion. I A Slate Ktectrlcnl Lnhnriitory. An imporlant meeting of the New i York State Electrical Laboratory Com- \ mission was held at Schcnectmlv. There were present Stale Knglneer Roiul. Harold W. Ruck, ot' Niagara Falls: I*. Ktoinmetz. of Schenectady, and State Architect 1 linos. .Plans already submitted to the commission were approved, and Messrs. Ruck and Stelimiet/. reported on the amount of ' ypnce needed for the electrical apparatus. The cost of the proposed buildings and e<iuipnient will be between SlTio.con and s::nn.un<>. The buildings alone will cost in the neighborhood of 9100,000. Iron Trade Condition* Qnlotsr* Iron trade conditions are quieter ex-i er j.t in rails, plates and structural material. in which production for half of ; J Pi*:: is already sold, and for which ad- j ditional orders of fair volume have I been booked during the week. The 1 price tendency in some directions is1 slightly downward, as the high e ?sr , has heguu to cause a holding hack of contemplated consumptive enterprises, j Ttcilni Mercedes nw Training slii|?An order lias hcon issued at the j Navy Department. Washington, that 1 in i.Miin-i ?->|>;iiiisii cruiser i'.ciIKI .Mel-- | cedes, now at Portsmouth. N. II.. be fitted out as a training ship. Cut When Heftire JLootlnq; ttank. Tlie hank at Clare nee. 111., was entered by burglars and robbed of more than $3T?00. The robbers eut telephone and telegraph wires so that surrounding towns might not lie not Hied. Another Million From Itockofollcr. Another contribution of $1,000,000 from John I). Rockefeller to the University of Chicago has been announced at the university convocation in Chicago. 4301 Student* Enrolled at Harvard. This yenr's Harvard catalogue shows a total of 4201 students in the university, 120 more than a year ago. and the largest number in any American institution of learning. Fire Itavnge* a Nova Scotia Town. Practically the entire town of Liverpool, N. S., has been burned. Several churches and business blocks, the Hotel Thorudyke and several dwellings were destroyed. 4 !4, 11)02. ALLIES AG REE TO ARBITRATE Favorable Replies to President Castro's Proposal Received. BUT THEY WANT GUARANTEES (itirimnr Iio.i?t? Vpoti nn Apology Kro-n Vfiirzufln?The 1'nltcil States Will Not l'ccomo j> (Inaraittoi- I'or tin* UppubHc ? MinUtpr llnven t<> Art a* a lVacemaucr? A I'locUa.lp Drrlnii'il. Washington, 1>. <\ Iler-ponses liavp We:i rei eiveil from IVrlitt :ui<l London to the propositi of President Pastro, made through United Stotes Minister llowi'it, to stvhUrnte tin* difl'oivnces with Venezuela. Secretary Hay has received partial responses from t In* governments of ( rent Hritaiti, (lermany and Italy respecting the proposal to arbitrate the Venezuelan dltlleulties. Hreat llritain is favorable to arbitration \yith proper safeguards; Hertnnny accepts :?rl?itr:ition in principle, hut funis a multitude of small adjustments to he made hefore entering into the agreement; Italy, as the junior partner of the allies, declares that she is favorable to arbitration, hut will probably he hound by the action of the senior partners. To secure these results the American embassies at I.nndon. Berlin and Koine have been working energtically in carrying out the instructions of Secretary Hay to ascertain how the proposal would be received. So far as England is concerned, the safeguards referred to are believed to relate to the question of guarantees, which Is full of dittlculticK. The Herman position presents the j greatest ditlieulties. for not only does j it involve a demand for apologies. i which are extremely repugnant to Yen- | czuclnns. but also presents so many | points requiring adjustment that it is evident that many days, or perhaps ; weeks, must elapse before the adjust- ' tuent can lie effected and the ease pre | pared for arbitration. And the dangei of delay in the face of a blockade which seriously cripples neutral commerce and invites hostile collisions with the Venezuelans cannot lie overestimated. The efforts of the I'nited States, therefore. must bo directed toward hastening Germany's art Ion on the arbitration proposal. Tito Italian position is, of course, of less concern than that of tlio ??tlior alios The Italian Ambassador here tas been extremely moderate ami considerate. giving Secretary Hay the ini ; tression that lie is disposed to second [ my eiTort of tlte 1'nitcd States to tor- , ruinate the present dangerous situa- ! lion. Secretary Hay laitl before the Cabinet meeting lite latest phases of lite j Venezuelan situation as shown by the orrespondenee lie has had with ambassadors and the Foreign Offices at London. Berlin and Home, and also acquainted the members with the substance of the verbal exchanges wliieli tad taken place with the ambassadors Tom those capitals in Washington. After a thorough dismission of tlte question the Cabinet gave its unqiialilled approval to everything done by Secretary Hay and to his plans for the future so far as they were outlined. Mr. Boweti. tlte United States Minister at Caracas! was clothed by Frcslileitt Castro of Venezuela with full power to effect a settlement wltiti Great Britain. Germany and Italy. The allies gave notice of a war bloekido of the ports of La Gtinynt, Porto hollo. Corn. Maiaeaibo, Carupan and ! Barcelona. It is announced that the United ' States will not guarantee payment of laiins by Venezuela. A scini-oMieial annoniieenient now places the Italian claims against Venezuela at $2,000,000. WORTH S 100,000, BUT BECCED. riotfilnir of Sinn Who IMimI ii CliHrity t'atii-ut Contained Weal III. Toronto, (tut. Kli Ilyntan. who begged for admission to the General Hospital here a few davs ago, is dead. V n : ? i.t ' ? - > 11. <ii hi* emitting roswicd in finding in an old handkerchief scrip worth In the lining n his pocket oilier scrip lo the value ?>)' ?1-1.(Win was revealed. Oilier pnpe showed Ilynian's income from i Block and other transactions to ha heen Mill ihe last year. In all tin late, it is expected, will ajjcrreci $100,000. For twenty years ITyinati had ill sheds and stithies. |Jp sold 1 .* and l.edited money and food. !' ' as i a wife and a daughter, who live, it is i thought, in San Francisco. 40C.0C0 FINS ARE STARVINC. Torr?V.1r Ifootltution I'nllnwi tlio I uilurn ! of 1t?o Crops. Sr. Petersburg. Ilussin.? Four hundred thousand persons arc reported to he destitute anil starving as a result of tlie crop failure in Finland. The Anglo-American Church here lias undertaken to feed ami clot lie the school children of four Finnish parishes, and Pastor Francis has Issued an appeal for assistance in this work. Pastor Francis say the conditions today are worse than those of 1SG7, when 100,<X)0 persons died. A nlr|h?l?y Present of -1ISO Pennies. Squire Herbert celebrated ids eightieth birthday at Hiawatha. Kan., and received from llfty-six relatives eighty pennies each. There were coppers enough to fill a coal basket. To lie certain of tlie amount, Mr. Ht rhc-t counted them, consuming four hours in tlie work. He found t'je total to he 41 SO. , .So NO. 40. Arni T rv/7 rr^s^rr WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Interstate Commerce Oomnils* Finn hoard areunionts by railroad managers iu support of increases in freight rates. Ueprosenlativo U. f. Rlnekbnrn. of North Carolina, was married in Washington. to Miss Louise I.evaun Parker. The President and Mrs. ltoosevelt gave a state dinner at lite While House in honor of the Cabinet. The Navy l>epartnu?nl approved Admiral Deivy's orders for the disposition of his lloet. so as to avoid an undue concentration of warships off the Venezuelan ooast. The House passed lulls providing for Hie erection of a union railroad station to cost !?t.uiui.uoii in Washington, an'l appropriating IG.OOO to light the cattle disease in New England. The American Institute of Architects, in session at Washington, re-elected its officers and adjourned. Navy officers and administration officials look upon the Venezuelan situation as showing the need of a larger United States Navy. Secretary Hoot made an argument for lits general stall' plan before the House Committee on Military Affairs. Argument on the so-called lottery cases, the decision in which may havo an important bcarinsr on iii.> < ? question, wns begun in the United States Supreme Court. OITIt ADOl'TKD ISLANDS. Tlie Hawaiian voleano. which was active recently, seemed to have completely subsided. The industrial condition of Porto liieo was never better. A relentless warfare is being waged against lndrouism in the Philippines. Coventor Taft received the Coventors of three-fourths of the provinces who visited Manila to study the census system. lie demanded the immediate suppression of ludronism. DOMESTIC. Highly eoal barge.-: at Cincinnati, Ohio, were swept from their moorings and most of them sunk. Tile bank at Clarence. Hi., was entered and $.">000 taken by burglars. llosen M. Knowlton. a former Attorney-Ceneral of Massachusetts, who was stricken with apoplexy recently at his summer home at Marion, Mass., Is dead. The postofliees at Coleman, Kcstler and Dowuy, (la., were destroyed by lire. Senn Hall, the new building for the medical department, of Chicago University, was dedicated. The Kentucky Court of Appeals granted .Tauies Howard a new trial. Howard is under scnu nee of life Imprisonment for the Coehel murder. The United State-; ?t?>?i ?<? ?- ?? * a }IU1?111UU Announced tin* purchase of the Union and Sharon plants, involving n bond issue of $40,000,000. Suit was begun in Trenton. N. J., against the Asphalt Trust for a sale of its property and securities, the proceeds to apply to the payment of Its gold certificates and the defaulted interest thereon, amounting all told to more than $:i2,ooo,oti(i. The cabinet of the exposition at St. Louis, Mo. was completed by the appointment of William i. ltuchaunu as Director of Kxplo 'ation. The Kev. S. A. Archer, a Baptist minister, was killed at Decatur, Ala., by t'asey Ilolhird, in a quarrel over a load of wood. flermau societies in New York City nre trying to obtain a National pension of $21)00 a year for Mrs. Kllsc Slgel, widow of .Major-Ccnernl Franz Sigel. A largo the in the Sewall Block, in Boston. Mass., was disastrously aided by the snow, which impeded the lirelnen its their work. Catile in New York State are still free of the hoof and mouth disease. lit avy r tins in the Mississippi Valley caused many streams to overflow their l a\with much damage to railroad ;.iu| oilier property. \Vv York hank* rs formed a pool , , sr.*i.initi.iii 10 to props i Wall Street i . . in ii mini'., M nii^ciicy. l!??i Wc.iji'i.i!. charged with rob1 11liis ;nitr i (| employer, < I 1 I ".vli. iij Xi'w York City, was dis? ii : ,*< ?l from cm-tody. \r.ny engineers are planning new fuiiiii alinii- l'or New York iiarlior. n :i "t-^sa-y Ity the improvement of A morose ' 'lianii'.'l. t'OR KKiN. Russia is pro iiin; China 1o assent t'> i establishment of customs ant! I < .11 services under Russian superv!: ;?? f a: the principal stations of the Main huriiiu Railroad, t.'iffli A ho a intra neteil ;i? cnilinfttlmp at the christening of the infant, son of l!io Diikp ami Duchess of Manchester at the Chapel Itciyal, St. James, London. The Madrid Ifcrnldo said that Don , Carlos purposes to retn?uuee his claim to the Spanish throne in favor of ids son, Don Jaime. The Herman Dundesrnth approved the tariff hill in the form in which it passed its tliitd reading in the ReichStag. tleneral Xord. having been proclaimed 'resident of Haiti by the Army. too!, possession of the National palace. . r.'eueh authorities dropped the case against M. Jean de Kydzevvskl, a friend of Mrs. Kllen <'ore, being convinced that her death w?m