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LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. & Proper,
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A pretty New York deaf and dumb
girl has sued a deaf and dumb man
for ?50,000 for breach of promise.
The young man's father is a millionaire.
The chief witness is also deaf
and dumb. Love, too, is deaf, dumb
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ana onnu, oat money tants.
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Says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
'"The Treasury Department estimates
that the population of the United
States is increasing 2,000,000 a year*
That is fast enough without admitting
great numbers of illiterates from countries
with which we have nothing in
common."
The Gubernatorial election in Missouri
is still three years away and already
nineteen candidates have appeared
for the nomination for Govk
ernor.
The Salvation Army will supervise
Ithe settlement on farms, in the Arkansas
Vallev, of the families that emigrate
to that region from the overcrowded
cities of the United States.
In spito of bicycles, automotor?,
trolly cars, torn-up streets in New
York, and all other hinderanees to
sport, the horso business is reported
to be good, with most varieties of
good horses in demand, and prices of
raw material higher in the West.
A New York family partook of red
.herring, mushrooms and soor milk for
supper, and all were laid low with violent
pains and symptoms of poisoning.
No wonder. That combination
is warranted to kill. Isn't it about
time to give a course of lectures upon
diet in that neighborhood?
JO,,-' ? A man in Iowa invited a girl to go
with him to the theatre. A bicycle
was offered to be drawn by lot among
the audience. The woman won it,and
i the Iowa man?generous soul?claimed
the wheel, as he had paid for the woman's
ticket. The result was a lawsuit,
and the jury awarded the owe to
the woman.
There is an Eminent physician in
London who takes the position that
the health of the people would be, on
an average, better and the duration of
life longer, if there were not a practicing
physician in the world. In other
words, he favors the idea often
tersely expressed in the words: 'Thy*
sicians kill more people than they
Set' core." *
R As France taxes bicycles and trieycles,
the namber of machines nsed
in tho country is known exactly. On
January 1, 1897, there were 320,814
v . taxed, an increase of nearly 74,000
over 1895, which had shown an increase
of 58,000 over the preceding year,
fet The revenue obtained in 1896 was 3,272,830
francs. Paris department, the
Seine, heads tne list with 62,892
bicycles, paying a tax of 626,91G francs.
The. barkentine Catherine Sudden
L was put on tho dry dock at San Francisco
the other day, and a peculiar find
was ma^e in the bottom of the vessel.
g}>. In what was supposed to be a worm
hole was a piece of ihe sword of a fish
nine inches long ana three inches in
circumference. No leak was caused,
as the sword had pierced through the
four-inch planking, had penetrated
five inches into one of the timbers of
the vessel, and had broken off almost
evenly with the copper bottom of the
vessel. The fish had evidently taken
the dark hall of the vessel for a whale.
Harper's Weekly points ont that the
loose ose of statistics makes the crime
of murder appear more appallingly
common in the United States than it
really is. It directs attention to the
fact that the European figures, often
cited when comparisons are made,
apply to murders alone, and do not
include, like the tables for the United
States, all sorts of manslaughters,
justifiable or otherwise. In other
words, in Europe the killing of a man
is not counted as a murder by the
statisticians unless his slayer is convicted
of murder.
The "Mirovye Otgoloski" (Echo of
the Worlds savs: "The time will come i
when Continental Europe will demand
with firmness and energy the evacuaBK
tion of the ancient land of the Pharaohs
by the British, and British interests
will by such a course undoubtedly
suffer somewhat. But this is just the
reason why Great Britain would do
better to save her dignity by evacuating
Egypt 0:1 her own initiative."
The same paper has an article on the
necessity of France taking steps in
Northern Africa to prevent the British
obtaining increased influence in
Morocco.
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GBBiT Ml LONDON.
150 Warehouses Burned With a Loss
of $25,000,000.
aoaiit cri/rM afore im diiimq
mduu i olvlii nunw in iiuikvji
Larsenl Damage by Fire Since the Great
London Fire or 1006?Started by an
Explosion Near a Gas Engine?Under
Control After Four Hours and a Half
?St. Giles's Church Badly Damaged.
Londox, England (By Cable).?London
bad a blaze Friday afternoon bigger and
more destructive than any recorded In its
annals since the historic lire that followed
the great plague in 166G. Streets a quarter
of a milo in length were involved, 150 great
warehouses were destroyed, 300 important
llrms and hundreds of minor ones were
burned out and damaged at a loss estimated
at close upon 525,000,000. Seven
acres were burned over.
The vicarage of the famous church of St.
Giles, Cripple Gate, was destroyed, and the
church itself, known for its associations
with the poet Milton, caught Are and was
saved Witn mucn mmcuay oy me iirciuou.
The principal damage was done to the roof,
the old windows, the baptismal font, anil
Milton's statue.
The warehouses gutted or laid in ruins
number fully 150. They were filled with
merchandise for the Christmas trade and
employed large forces of clerks for ihe
holiday season. It is estimated that the
number of persons thrown out of work is
at least 2000. This is regarded as the most
serious aspect of the disaster. Many of
these persons lost all their belongings.
Nearly all the British Are insurance companies
are involved, and Are insurance
shares were practically unsaleable on the
Stock Exchange after the lire was well under
way.
Nea -ly 303 telephone wires have neen eut,
thus interrupting communication with
many of the big provincial towns.
The Are will cause au enormous advance
in the price of ostrich feathers, which rose
30 per cent. Two feather Arms alone have
lost ?75.000.
The flames broke out just after 1 o'elock.
p. m. They were fanned by a strong wind
and. fed by the inflammable stocks of fancy
goods and light material, were soon gaining
rapid headway. They owed their origin
to the explosion of a* gas CDgine at 30
Hamsel street, on the premises of Waller,
Brown A Co., mantel manufacturers.
battlesh:
This large factory was crowded with
girls when the fire broke out, nnd it was
Instantly the scene of a semi-panic, the
frightened operatives, with many screams,
rushing to the roof of the building and
thence crossing to other buildings and so
effecting their escape while the flames
were pouring out of the basement. In less
than a quarter of an hour tho flames had
enveloped the adjoining warehouse, and
thence they leaped across the street to an
enormous paper warehouse, which was
alight in less than ten minutes.
For four hours and a half the flames had
their own way, and it was only after more
than a hundred engines had worked an
hour that the Chief of the Fire Brigade sent
out the signal that the lire wa9 under control.
This was at 5.45 p.m. At that time a
rough estimate placed the loss at $25,000,000.
When the good news became generally
known, over 150 warehouses and a dozen
or so minor structures had either vanished
or remained only in blackened walls, a
chaos of fallen girders and smoking piles
of brick and stone.
Following so soon upon the great Are at
Black Friars a few weeks ago, when millions
of dollars' worth of property was similarly
destroyed through the Inefficiency of
the lire department, this event has awakened
London to tho fact that It is far behind
the times, and that its Government in
the practical work of extinguishing fires is
a partial failure, and muy well take a lesson
from New York.
The brigade, too. was slow in getting to
work, and thero was a noticeable lack of
cohesion among the various sections. No
one was injured, but this was print-ipally
duo to the fact that the firemen have not
half the go and pluck the American men
huve, and prefer to work in absohitc safety.
OUR BIGGEST BATTLESHIP.
The Iowa Thoroughly Tried by a Government
Board of Inspection.
After a two days' trip at sea, the Untied
States battleship Iowa, tho first of the
new "sea-going battleships" to bo built
for the navy, dropped anchor off Tompkinsvllle,
Staten Island, nnd later steamed
up to the navy yard at Brooklyn, where |
she was moored to the cob dock. Tho vessel
had just returned from a forty-eight j
hours' eruise at sea. on her flnal accept
ance trial trip. ,
The Iowa Is not only the largest and most <
powerful ship about to bo added to the ac- ,
tive list of the navy, but during the trial
trip proved herself to bo, under ordinary i
conditions, equal. If not superior, in speed (
antl lighting ability to any vessel of her
class in any of the navies of the world.
The trial trip was made according to
agreement between the builders of the vessel
and the Government officials to deternine
the condition of the hull with its var- ,
lous compartments,the mnchi a cry .engines,
boilers and guns, besides the turrets and '
the apparatus for working them, and the
electricial appliances for discharging the
rifles in the larger batteries.
Parricide, Firebug aud Suicide.
.Tobn Kammarer, a farmer, who lived
near Benton Harbor, Mieh., quarrelled with
his son Henry about money. Henry shot
his father and set fire to the house, after
which he killed himself. The father was
rescued from the flames, but died a few
hours later.
Mother'* Heroism in Vain.
While try ing to save the lifo of her sixyear-old
eon, Henry, Mrs. Arthur Fortin j
was struck by a train near the village of
St. Jean Bnptiste, a mile from Valley Falls, !
K. T. Both mother and son were killed- '
Mrs. Fortin was thirty-five years old.
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THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary It"ss File* nn Kxhaustiv
Review of It* Work.
Washington, I>. C. (Special).?Seerotar;
of the Interior Bliss, in his anmal report
submits estimates aggregating $156,532,41!
for appropriations for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1390.
He says that 200,000 pension claims ar>
awaiting adjudication, and it is estimate!
that forty or fifty per cent, of these will bi
finally admitted. If they are rapidly ad
judlcated they will swell the pension rol
from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. When, how
ever, these claims aro adjudicated and firs
payments made the amount of the pensioi
FECBETARY CT IXTERI02 BLISS.
rol' will decrease r.nddly, possibly to J125,OO'J.OOO
or i;130,000.000 the first year.
In considering Indian alTairs the Secretary
says that iu the Indian Territory leading
Indians have absorbed great tracts, to
the exclusion of the.eommon people, and
government by an Indian aristocracy is
practically established, to the detriment ol
the people. From 200,000 to 250,000 whites,
by permission of the Indian government
have settled in the Territory, but art
merely tenants by sufferance.
No government for the Indian Territory
will be satisfactory, says the Secretary, until
Congress shall provide for the establishment
of a single uniform system for the entire
Indian Territory that will place all its
inhabitants in possession of the rights ol
Americun citizens.
The Secretary asks for such legislation
as will enable the people to reap the benelit
of the deposits of asphalt and gilsonitc
on tho Uneompahgre Reservation in Utah.
He recommends that the period for the
allotment of lauds to the Uneompahgre Indians
bo extended beyond April 1,1898, the
time which has been set for opening tin
reservation.
Speedy legislation for the coming tnelftfc
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census is urged, and lack of sufficient time
in the past two or three enumerations is
complained of.
The Secretary recommends that the public-lands
laws be extended to Alaska, and
that additional land offices be created; that
the granting of rights of way for railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines and the constructton
of roads and trails be specifically
authorized; that provision be made for the
incorporation of municipalities; thAt the
legal and political status of the native
population be defined, and that complete i
Territorial government be established and
representation in Congress be granted.
DAMAGES FOR BLACKLISTED MAN.
Ketcham Was Kept Oat of Work Kail*
road Most Pay Him 821,660.
Fred R. Ketcham, a blacklisted freight
train conductor, a friend of Eugene V.
Debs, and a former member of the American
Railway Union, was awarded a verdict
for ?21,666.33 damages against the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway, at Chicago.
He averred he was put on the olacklist of
every railroad in the country.
A score of similar suits, it is said, will be
begun by former employes, who assert
that every means of gaining a livelihood
were taken from them after the strike,
through the powerful Vanderbilt influence.
When the American Railway Union men
were called out to support the Pullman
strike in July, 189-i, Ketcham gave up his
freight train.
All the strikers were dismissed, and when
they applied to other roads they found
their names on a blacklist.
After struggling two years to obtain
steady employment. Ketcham entered suit
against the railway company for 825,000
damages. The case has been on trial for
three weeks, and has been closely watched
by railway employes and officials all over
the country.
The main question before the jury was
whether the corporation had entered into
a conspiracy with other and similar corporations
to prevent Ketcham from earning
a living.
Competitor Crow Free.
In pursunnce of instructions from Spain
Captain-General Blanco released from Cabana
Fortress. Havana, Cuba, Alfredo
Labordo, the captain, and Charles Barnett,
Ona Melton and William Gildea,
members of the crew of the American
schooner Competitor, captured in April.
1896. by the Spanish gunboat Mesagera. on
a charge of filibustering. They were
handed over to the Amerieun and British
Consuls, and immediately took passage on
the steamer Saratoga of the Ward Line for
New York.
Brothers Drowned While Skating.
Oeorgo and Homer Brewer, aged seventeen
and thirteen, respectively, were
drowned while skating on Big Stone Lake,
Minnesota. One brother broke through the
ice and the oilier was dragged under while
trying to save him.
President Yglrsias lie-Elected.
Senor Calvo, the Costa Eiean Minister at
Washington, received nu official cable dispatch,
announcing that the primary Presidential
election for the next period,
1893-PJ02, was held on November 14,15 and
16, amid order and tranquillity. There
were two parties, the Civilist and the Hepublican.
The vote was the largest one
ever taken in Costa Eica, and the Civilists,
with President Yglesias as a candidate for
re-election, obtained a majority oi over
twentv-tliroe thousand votes.
The Philippines Pacified.
The complete pacification of tbo Philip,
pine Islands Is reported from Madrid.
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Secretarv Wilson Submits the Annual
Departmental Report.
TKE E?tT SUUAH INUU5! KY.
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Demand* or ForelEn Market#?An Export
Trade In Horse* May Be Ballt Up, Like
That In American Cattle?Batter For
London Consumption?Xew Method ot
heed Distribution?Domestic Science. ;
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Washington-, d. C. (Special).?ThoSecretary
of Agriculture, In his report for the
fiscal year ending Juno 30 la9t, draws attention
to the purpose of tho department
to give wide circulation to everything In j
the way of experience, discovery or invention
that can interest American farmers.
"The department will in future," he says,
"help producers to find markets for surplus j
productions, by getting and spreading Information
concerning them and concerning
wnat roreign markets require.''
As the result of experiments made la the
raising of sugar beets, the Secretary says:
"There is abundant encouragement to lead
us to conclude that our country Trill in a
few years produce what sugar 'it requires.
The department will collect all the facts
regarding the work of this season and pub- ,
lish them for general distribution. Tho
pioneer work will be pushed energetically >
during the next year. Tho United States
paid $382,000,000 the last fiscal year for
sugar, hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, |
flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, barley, beans,
eggs, tea, etc., 60,000,000 for chicory, castor
beans, lavender, liquorice, opium
poppy, sumac, etc., and 62.000,000 for
bulbs, nearly all of whieh could be grown .
and prepared for use at home."
Tho Secretary believes that wo may build
up as profitable an export trado in "horses
as wo have had in cattle, nnd ho expects in
the near future to inform horse breeders in j
this country as to the reqnlrements of for- i
sign buyorsof horses.
An effort is making on the part of the de- I
partment to distribute?.)edsupon a strictly I
scientific plan, so tbnc none will be sent to
farmors living in climates not suitable to J
their successful propagation. This work !
has been piaced la charge of an officer of j
iclentwlc training.
Or the results of experiments in the plac- i
!ug of fine American butter on the Engii&h
market, the report says: "Butter from tne
most remote creamery districts of the United
States, when property made, can be so i
transported as to be delivered in prime con- I
iition to consumers in England or on the
Continent of Europe fifteen or twenty days
after making. The quality of selected
American butter is quite equal to the best
offered in London from any other country,
although our supply, as a whole, is not so
uniform in character as that from somejotber
sources, notably Denmark. The products
of the United States and of Denmark have
been found to bo the only absolutely pure
butter imported into England, all others,.
Including the product of British colonies,
contain more or less injurious ingredients,
used 03 preservatives."
The Secretary devotes considerable at-,
tention to the matter of teaching domestic
science to farm women, and expresses tho
desire that there may bo opportunity fotf
the undertaking of some definite lines of
work in this direction.
The appropriation for meat inspection
has been insufficient, though during tho
year all the beef and a great part of tho
pork and other food products exported to
Europe have been examined according to
law. The meat of animals slaughtered tot
inter-State trade has not all been Inspected.
The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry
"requires," says tho Secretary, "the
use of an experiment station wb?re a considerable
number of experimental animals
can be constantly kept." He recommends
that suitable grounds for such a station be
purchased.
The appropriation for tho weatner service
for tne current year Is (883,772, which
is (109,748 less than the cost of tho service
in the fiscal year ending June 90,1884. The
appropriation for the current year is depln
red to ho "Injidpnvmte to mwt the do
manda of the people for a material extension
of the benefits of the service. It ia
only with the utmost care, and by requiring
from nine to twelve hours' work every
day In the year, including Sundays and
holidays, at a majorityof oar stations, that
the important duties of the sorvlce can be
performed."
One of the more interesting parts of the
report is that devoted to the chemical
study of typical soils.
An investigation of the disposition which
is mado of street sweepings and other
refuse of cities has been undertaken by the
chemical division and will be prosecuted
vigorously during the coming year. The
division has placed itself in communication
with all the cities of the United States
having a population of 10,000 and over. It
has also perfected arrangements for obtaining
information in regard to disposition
of street sweepings and 6ewage in the
largest cities of Europe. It is hoped that a
material advantage will accrue from this
Investigation, both to the cities, in respect
of the method of disposing of the refuse,
and to the farmers, in respect of securing
a new fertilizing material at a low price.
Drowned Herself in a Reservoir.
The body of the woman found in the reservoir
at Hartford, Conn., was identified as
that of Miss Alice I. Patton. Hbe had considerable
means.and mado her home at the
noiei t/apitoi. xi is peueveo tuai sue was
slightly deranged. Miss Pattern's family
came from Waterbury, where her father
was well known from keeping a famous
book store called the "Bookhunt."
Daughter of a Revolutionary Sire. ?
Mrs. Mary Todd Hall died In Heridan>
Conn., a few days ago. Mrs. Hall was the
daughter of Thelus Todd, of N'orthford, a
soldier in the Revolutionary War. She was
born February 1805. Her father was drafted
wlun sixteen years old and was sent to
Fo.-t Griswold, New London.
His Killing No Crime.
Julian Gain an, the boy who shot and
kllied District Attorney Charles Jones at
Carson City, Nev., recently, was exonerated
by the Grand Jury. The shooting was
done because it was alleged that Jones had
ruined the boy's sister.
A. P. A. Headquarters Closed.
The A. P. A., as a national organization,
ha> ceased to exist. Its headquarters at
Washington has been closed and tho property
has been sold at auction to satisfy a
debt.
Massacred Thousands.
A special dispatch from the Niger region,
West Africa, says: In order to punish the
inhabitants of tho town of Kong, capital
of the Kingdom of Kong, in the Mandmgo *
region of Upper Guinea, for their refusal
to supply his troops with provisions, Chief
Samory bus razed the town and massacred
several thousand natives.
Turkey nnd Germany Allies.
The despatch stating that a military convent'on
had been concluded between Turkey
and Germany has excited profound
Interest and speculation In European capitals.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wanlilncton Item*.
Sixty employes in the Topopraphiea'!
Bureau were laid off because the Board ol
Apportionment reduced the appropriation.
The Secretary of tho Treasury has issued
a circular to employes to tho effect that
clerks receiving a stated salary who ne
K' to )Hiy tlieir UfUia, uuuunctru iui uir 1
necessary support of themselves and theii
families, without presenting satisfactory
reasons therefore, will not be retained in
office.
The Cabinet has decided to send the revenue
cutter Bear to relieve the ice-imprisoned
whalers.
Premier Laurier and the other Canadian
officials left Washington for Ottawa; reports
that their mission had proved a failure
were officially denied.
Ex-Congressman Frank W. Mondell was
appointed Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office by President McKinley.
Secretary Algers favors the transfer oi
the management of volunteer soldiers
homes to the War Department.
President McKlnley signed the treaty
adopted by the Universal Postal Congress
recently held in Washington, thus completing
its ratification on the part of the United
States.
Bv orders issued at the Postofflce Depart
ment the salaries of cight-flvo clerks of all
classes In the main office and stations of
Brooklyn wero raised, making an aggregate
of $8500 increase.
Domestic.
John Burgess, a youth of nineteen years,
shot and killed George Hart at Merridan,
Mich. Hart, who was engaged to marry
Burgess's sister, disguised himself as a
cowboy and tried to frighten Burgess, who
killed the supposed tramp.
A sensational suicide occurred at Augusta,
Ga. William Moody shot himself
through the back of the head while in bed
in bis room at his boarding houso. He
was one of the best-known men in town.
About two months ago Moody married Miss
Maggie Puryear. The two quarrelled and
the wife went to her parents' house to
s) end the night. When Moody awoke ho
killed himself.
A robber who was carrvine wheat from a
barn in Newbern, Vi.., was killed by two
men who had been employed to watch the
place. He proved to be John M. Feagles,
Postmaster of the town. When his rooms
were searched a quantity of stolen goods
was found.
The magnificent new Anchor Line
steamer Bluflf City, one of the finest and
nowest boats on the lower Mississippi,
which loft St. Louis bound for New Orleans,
with forty passenger.? ^.nd one thousand
tons of miscellaneous freight, was
burned to the water's edgo at Chester, 111.
Morrow Brothers, of Clarksville, Tcnn.,
have secured the contract for tobacco for
the Italian Government. About fifteen
million pounds of dark tobacco are required
for next year.
At the Allen Farm, near Bryan, Texas,
whiie gambling for pecans, a colored man
named General Cbetnam, was stabbed and
killed. Another colored man, Tom Sweat,
was arrested for the crime, and while being
eonveyod to Miilican by a posse was
taken from his guards and strung up to the
limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to
have been colored men.
!' William Wells, thirty-five yeare old. cf
NorthviUe, and Andrew Poley, aged fifty,
of Aquebogne, Long Island, farmers, were
found dead in a catboat on the beach near
Squire's Landing, on Peconic Bay. The
ooat was about half filled with water.
Coroner Nugent sumtnoned a jury and they
rendered a verdict of death by exposure, i
Snow storms have made some of the
nountaln roads in Vermont well-nigh impassable,
and many drifts have been formed.,
j Henry Sherry, a lumberman, of Necnc.h?
Wis., failed with liabilities of (1,000,000.
' Secretary of Agriculture Wilson made nn
iddress at the meeting of the National'
3range in Harrisburg, Penn.
Edward E. Jones, bead clerk in t he Ameri an
Book Company, shot himself in the
Sew York offices of tho eoneern, leaving no
utplanation for bis act. He died in St. Yin-'
rent's Hospital.
The Leather Belting Manufacturers' Association
at its Annual meeting in New York
City determined to advance the price of!
pelting twenty-five per cent, because of the
luty placed on hides by Congress.
Fannie Eagle Horn and Eliza Flander.
Indian girls, were arrested on complaint of
Superintendent Pratt of the Carlisle
Penn.) Indian School, and lodged in jail.
>n the charge of arson. A mysterious Are
rrokc out in the girls' quarter. These girls
darted the Are with the intention of burnng
down the school, because permission to
jo home had been refused to them.
Arthur B. Moody, member of a wellinown
New Haven (Conn.) family, was arrested
in that town for swindling au Engish
artist and two young society women
>f New York City out of bonds and money
s glittering but bogus investments.
The Rev. Dr. George H. Houghton, rec:or
of "Tho Little Church Around the Cor-:
ler," the Protestant Episcopal Church of
;he Transfiguration, in New York City,
'amous for years for its many theatrical
'unerals, died at the rectory, adjoining the
jhurch.
The jury at-Chattanooga, In the case of
Deasley against Chief Justice D. L. Snod?rass,
of the Tennessee 8upreme Court,
returned a verdict in favor of Snodgrass.
efusingto allow Beasley damages forpcrfonal
injuries as asked.
Fritz Meyer, or Constantino Steiger. was
jonvicted in New York City of the willful
nurder of Poliieman Smith, and afterward
idmltted that he slew Bellringer Stelz, but
refused to name bis accomplice.
Joseph A. Iaslgi, former Turkish Consul,
n Boston, was sentenced by Judge Sheldon
un the Superior Criminal Court to State
prison for a period not exceeding eighteen
lor less IUBU luurwru y raie.
Bishop Doane, of Albany, N. V., made n
ipeech against jingoism.
Jean B. Guillemot, a boy whoso lavish
jxpenditure of money caused suspicion
that he had been Implicated in the murder
of bis uncle, J. B. Leplante, tax collector
of St. Libolre, Quebec, mado a complete
confession of the crime to the pollen of
Biddeford, Me., and afterward repeated it
before his parents. Guillemot asserted that
his aunt admitted her admlrhtiou for him
and assured him if he would kill her husband
she would come to Biddeford after a
time and marry him.
Harry Potter, thirty-seven years old, was
looking in a store window at Philadelphia.
He held an umbrella with a steel rod in it
over his head. Above him was an electric
arc light. The end of the umbrella rod
touched the Iron frame of the lamp and a
current of electricity passed through his
body to the iron covering of a coal shaft
in the sidewalk, killing him instantly.
Foretell.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Asch,
FalkenAU and Carlsbad, Bohemia, and in
Saxony.
The confession of Inspector-General of
Police Velasquez, in Mexico, asserts that a
mob of the common people lynched Arroyo,
the would-be assassin of President
Diaz.
Forty men were killed recently in Bogota,
the capital of the Colombia Republic, in an
election riot.
Countess Ulfcld. a Russian, killed herself
with a revolver in a police station of Edinburgh.
General rellieux has boon appointed to
inquire into the charges brought against
Comte E9terhazy in connection with the
Dreyfus case in Paris.
A London company bought the old C11narders
Bothnia and Scythia to run from
Vancouver to Klondike ports.
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GEBHANSLAKBINCHDfA.' I
Admiral Diederlchs Takes Possession
of Kiaochou Bay. v*J
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CONSIDERED AN ACT OF WAR. '
The Kslier'i Demonstration to At?|*
the Murder of Missionaries?'Tha Admiral
Occupied Kalochott With 60#
Tars Unopposed?The Chinese Gsrrliea * i
at Once Skedaddle Over the Willi.
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Shanghai, China (By Cable).?Admiral
Dicdcrichs, commanding the Germaa J
Asiatic Squadron, upon arriving In Kiaochou
Bay, on the Shantung coast, whither
he had been ordered for the purpose of ob*
taining satisfaction for the recent murder
of two German missionaries, found three
forts occupied by Chinese troops. He arranged
his ships opposite the forts and
Gained his guns upon them. Then he sent
an ultimatum to tho Chinese commander. ?
calling upon him to evacuate the forts la. ;
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with six guns, who marched toward tb?
forts.
The Chinese watched the sailors and- y
marines for a few moments until they be
came convinced that the "foreign devils'* <s
were advancing in earnest, and then the
three garrisons bolted acro99 the hills be- .
hind the forts. The Germans quickly oc- ?
cupied the positions and hoisted their flag,
which was saluted by the warships. The 5
Chinese General and his fnmily alone did
not flee, and it is said that they received 1 German
protection.
Official Chinese here consider that Germany,
by landing an armed force and cap-| ' ^
turingthe forts, has committed an net of.
war, but they do not believe that the Pekln ^
Government will treat it as such.
British and American warships hare
been ordered to proceed to Klaochon Bay
to watch developments there. It Is said Y.
that the region is immensely rich In mln- vaS
erals. The harbor is one of the best on the '^3
whole coast. It is believed that the Germans
intend to stay there.
It is now asseited that the murder of the
two German missionaries near Yen-Chc-Tn';
'was not the work of bandits, as originally
understood, but was deliberately planned. * ,JE
by LI Pung Hing, Governorof the province,
prior to his departure for Seet-Chouan, of -*??
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WUIVJU uu uua IM:OU appuiuiyu liizvzijy. . i
Shantung is one of the largest coast
provinces of China, and about a third of It 7 *j
forms a very large peninsula jutting out ^
Into the Yellow Sea. This peninsula glvea ?
Shantung an unusual proportion of sea
coast. The Great Canal from Pekin to
Hangchow passes through the province. !
If Germany were permitted to possoss her- . |
self permanently of a harbor in China, she
could hardly mako a better selection. 9
Steamers in Kiaochon Bay are hardly more u ' ! J
than a day's sail from Tientsin, the port of
Pekin on the north, or from Shanghai on ;.jg
the south. It is tme that Shantung abound* fig
with minerals, bnt little has yet been done. . "TO
to develop the mining Interest. J J]Sk
LORD ASHBOURNE.
He Will Probably Be Canada's Xext Gov-, '
ernor-General. J ^
Baron Ashbourne, according to an English
paper, is to be the next Governor-Gen-,
eral of Canada, and the Earl of Aberdeen! ' ^
will not be succeeded by the Duke of LeedsJ
as was reported some time ago. Lard! ' *' ^
Ashbourne's chief qualification for ^
his new post, 1* a charm of manner;
LORD iSHrorEXE. > ^
which has made him popular with even the
most vehement of his political opponent*.
He is now Lord Chancellor for Ireland, _?A
and will probably be succeeded in that office
by Gerald Balfour, at present Chief ?
Secretary for Ireland.
The Bight Honorable Edward Gibson,
Baron As bourne, was born in Dublin in 4
1838. He entered Parliament in 1875, and
in 1877 was made Attorney-General for Ireland.
He was the chief spokesman for
the Opposition from 1880 to 1885, when
Irish questions were under debate.
He received his title upon the jjj
accession of Lord Salisbury to office in
1885, and, in addition, was made Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, n post which he writ,
given a second time, when Salisbury again
become Premier in 1895.
NEW JERSEY GAMBLERS DEFEATED
Court Refuses to Order a Recount on the V
Antl-Gainbling Amendment. /
Justices Van Syckel, Dixon and Collins^ of j
tho New Jersey Supreme Court, denied the *
application for a recount of tho votes on .
the anti-gambling amendment to the State
Constitution. The opinion, which was
written by Justice Van Sycklo, represents
tho unanimous sentiment of the Court.
Iu the opinion no view Is expressed as to I
the power of the Court to order a recount.
Tt la h?M hnT?ri>r tlmt the mutter of hst* i
ing a recount is not a matter of private or
individual concern, bat is one of poblio
policy, and concerns only the Government.
This leads to the conclusion that the appli-!
cants hare no standing in court. The opinion
goes on to say that the matter, being one of
public policy, the Legislature had a right
to say how the voto should be canvassed
and a proclamation of the result made by
the Governor, and the canvass having. V
been made and the Governor's proclama-1. .
tlon having been issued in accordance j * j
with the result of the canvass, the matter
is now closed.
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Japanese Warship Sinks.
Advice from Japan says that the Japan-;
ese man-of-war Fu-So ran on n rock near' , <
Nagahama, after having been In collision j ?
with another ship, taking part in the naval [ .*
manoeuvres, and sank on October 29. Thej
Fu-So is an iron ship, built In England in,
1877. She is 220 feet long and of 3718 tons}
displacement.
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The Saltan to Give Satisfaction. S
The Sultan has declared his willingness; :A
to give Austria full satisfaction for the Merslna
Incidents, averting In this way
the threatened bombardment of that port ^
by the Austrian fleet.
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