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' ? *1.wm ; ' wy THE com RECORD. Published Every Thursday ?A.T? KIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?B T? LOUIS .1. BKISTOW, Kdltor and Proprietor. In forty-nine no women went to California. The difference between that period and this is strikingly shown, notes Judge, in the fact that thousands of women are going to the Klondike. They have the requisite courage for any kind of business that men can do, and it will turn out probably that they have the endurance, loo. Great are the changes as to ''I -Ll 1.1,. Women WUU1Q lueau mvuiuiauis uiiji ^^yeera. _____________ Says the Chicago Times-Herald: "Mrs. Josephine Henry, of Tersailles, Ky.f solemnly predicts that the United 8tates will yet have a woman preeident, Mrs. Henry is a forceful, brilliant woman, and she is said to be one i of the best public speakers in the oonntry. With the exception of Belva Lockwood she is the only woman who j has been prominently discussed for the presidency of the country, her own ex being her most enthusiastic sup* porter, believing her to be the best . , and most fitting candidate for the greatest office in the gift of the people. For five years Mrs. Henry has been contending for the rights of mar tied women in Ken tacky, and her ef- j forts hare at last been crowned with : success, tHe legislature having passed j suitable laws for the jnst and equitable division of property between husband and wife. In 1890 Mrs. Henry ; was the Prohibition party's candidate ' for the Snpreme Court of Kentucky, i sad it is a significant fact that, a!- : though a woman and a prohibitionist, he polled 5000 votes." In the Fornm Mr. Elihu Thomson, the electrician, gives a summary state- j of fhe electrical advance of the JMktft ten jeers. He makes it very . deer that the progress of civilization ( (which means man's command over * the farces of natare for his own ad- i vancement and ntility) has received a greater pnsh since the year 18S0 than in any similar period since the world began. The most important of these advances are fhe practical development of the telephone (first exhibited in 1876), the "step-up transformer" j by which electrical power can be transmitted over long distances at mall expense; the incandescent electric light; the electric railway in its ; various forms, and the Roentgen rays : by. which opaque substances can be ; made more or less translucent. The use of the step-up transformer has found its largest development in the i service of the Niagara Falls Power , Company, which is now carrying the energy of the falls to the city of ' a -1 E A/Vrt IHUXSlO DJ ujuamua vi i?,wu uuisc|Knrer each. It is a remarkable fact ' that the discoveries in electrical science which hare made this transmission possible in an economical ease, hare been made since the I HiftgaA Company's money was in- j V Vested in the great plant now at work. ? It has been freely stated that the monumental railway enterprise of the nineteenth century will be the trans- , Siberian railroad. Considering that when this tremendous length of line is completed the Pacifie littoral will be brought into direct railway com-' -"'"^"torfileation with the North Sea, one cannot bat pause for a moment to adasire the enterprise of a nation which In some quarters has been looked npon ' ' for many years as one more or less f barbaric. There is no question that Bnssia is marching onward with firm and vigorous steps, and in engineering j bids fair to compete 4ith any of the older, and, presumably, more intelligent countries. Its latest engineering scheme is one which is likely to put into insignificance any other undertakings of a like character. It is [nothing less than to build a gigantic {waterway from the Black Sea to the j e; in other words, a canal deep enough and wide enough to carry | ?argo steamers from the North of jBuesia to the South, or vice versa, j Jit the present time the country of jBnasian Poland in the watershed of the Dnieper is being actively surveyed toward this end, and early next year lit is expected that the work of conjetrncting this gigantic canal will bejgin. The estimated cost is $100,000,iCOO, which includes a system of elec-' itrio lights along the canal's whole length of one thousand miles. j Wnntcd lo Get TilcTi Qu:ck. I "Did your railway make money?" J **No," replied the promoter; "we arouldn't let well enough alone." j There wcs a chance of its being profttable, then?" "Yes; but we weren't satisfied with gelling stock. We had to go ahead and ; Jtry to build the road."?Washington ?tar 1 t. , - -. *" . MINEBOARDOFINQUmY * \ Survivors Testify Before the Court at Key West, Fla. SEEKING CAUSE OF DISASTER No Indication* That the Conrt of Inquiry Knoiri What Caused It?Nobody Able ' to State IIow Soon It Will Be Able to Make Its Report?A Mass of Evidence ?Secrecy Closely Maintained by All. Key West, Fla. (Special).?The Board of Inquiry, trhich is investigating the cause of the disaster to the Maine, convened at 10 o'clock Monday morning in the United States District Court room in the Custom House building. Testimony was taken from survivors of the Maine. A a tv a a V? n /?o an in TTorena fhn prtofil maintained the strictest secrecy regarding its proceedings, and all witnesses were cautioned not to say a word to outsiders The members of the Board arrived here from Havana Sunday morning on the Mangrove and took quarters on the cruiser New York at Fort Taylor. They saw no one except the officers of the New York, and not even to them did the members of the Board talk of their work in the Maine investigation. The witnesses examined were officers and men of the Maine who came here immediately after the disaster. Divers are working on the Maine all the time. When the Board returns to Havana the result of the divers' work will be laid before it. It is believed here by men who have been in communication with high officers of the warships at this port that the report of the Board of Inquiry will not be made for weeks. Meanwhile almost everybody here thinks that the destruction of the Maine was not caused by accident. The reports that come here continually from Havana are ail to the effect that the weight of evidence hows that the Maine was blown up by an exterior agency, but, of course, many of these reports are merely guesswork. Admiral 8icard telegraphed Secretary Long that it would be necessary for the I UNITED STATES^ court to go back to Havana. From this dispatch two Inferences were drawn: Iirst?That the court dia not know yet what caused the explosion that destroyed the Maine. Second?That the time that would eiap30 before the court would be prepared to make its report could only be guessed at. and necessarily must be more than a day or two. Perusal of a letter from CAptaln 'Sampson, President of the Court of Inquiry, to Secretary Long, suggests that the Court will not undertake to form its judgment until the wrecking companies shall have accomplished some important work upon ths Maine. HOW LIEUTENANT JENKINS DIED. Lost His Lift While Encouraging Two Members of ths Maine Crew. Washisotox, D. C. (Special).?William Gartrell, the only surviving fireman on the KaHlntthin hn? writfpn tiro Ipftpr* home to hi9 brother, George Gartrell, of this city. In bis description of the explosion, Gartrell gives the first authentic aeoount of the death of Lieutenant Jenkins. "About 9.40 o'clock," he says, "I was crossing the third lower deck, and was prebeak admiral sicabd. (In charge of the United States fleet at present in Southern waters.) paring to turn in, when of a sudden a terrific explosion occurred, and when I staggered to my feet, I found myself in tho dark. There was one light in the distance, and I made for that. On the way I met Lieutenant Jenkins nnd a marine named Garnett. "We made for the ladder, and tho ship waa rapidly filling with water. We reached the hatchhole, and the water was gaining on us fast. Garnett said, 'We're lost,' and seemed about to eive ud. but Lieutenant Jenkins, wbt> was the last man to reach the ladder, said: 'Go ahead; don't give up.' Oftrnett squeezed through and pulled me ?p after him. As I fell upon the deck I Mysterious Murder in New York. Nicholas W. Pontius was shot and killed by Emit Guzman on the sidewalk in East Fifty-ninth street, New York City. Guzman sent five bullets into his victim's bod v, and then sauntered away with his hands in his pockets. There is no explanation of the crime. Guzman, when asked for a statement, replied, "Gentlemen, I have nothing to say.'' Klondike Relief a Plot. Secretary Alger stopped the Government relief expedition to Klondike, and will report to Congress that it is unnecessary and -Hurt of a nlot to swindle the fiarsaiaMU 9 heard Lieutenant Jenkins cry: 'My God, 1 am drowning!' and I remember nothing more. "A wardroom boy named McCann saw me lying there, and, picking me up, threw me overboard. The water revived me, and I swam ashore." CAPTAIN SAMPSON'S RECORD. D The President of the Maine Court of Inquiry an Able Seaman. Captain William Thomas Sampson, President of the Court of Inquiry, investigating the Maine explosion, is the commander of the battleship Iowa, is an old and an able sailor and has had much experience in fighting ships. CAPTAIN WILLI AX T. SAXTSOS. He came out of the Naval Academy in 1860 and went into service on the frigate Potomac. He was made master in 1861, lieutenant in 1862 and served on the practice ship John Adams for one year. After ; that he was a lieutenant on the ironclad , Patapsco with the South Atlantic blockading squadron. He escaped luckily from ! that ship when she was destroyed in ; Charleston harbor on January 15,1865. After the war Captain Sampson served on the flagship Colorado and became lieu- : tenant commander in 1866. For three j years, until 1871, ho was stationed at the 1 I [OxitoiTtIrbob. naval academy. He was then assigned to ' the Congress, served a year on that ship at the European station and got his commission as commander on August 9, 1874- He was placed in command of the third-rater Alert, on which he served until 1875. Since then he has commanded the Swatara, has served at the academy, at the observatory, at the torpedo station and in other posts. He was commissioned a captain In March, 1839. Maine Victims to Rest at Kcv West. Key West, Fla. (Special.)?AH the j Maine's unbaried dead will be laid at rest ; In Key West. Orders to this effect were re- i ceived from the Navy Department, and the coast survey boat Bacho will bring back i any bodies found. Fifty cofflhs have | been ordered from Key West undertakers. The Navy Department's order : is said to have been issned under the pres- | sure of publie sentiment against burying > the bodies of the sailors in Spanish soil. ' Rear Admiral Sicanl and his staff have | charge of the funeral arrangements, which ' are expected to include all naval honors. The Terror Guards New York. Tew York City (Special).?With gleaming white sides and burnished guns fore j and aft, the United States monitor Terror cast anchor Monday off Tompkinsvil(p, within a canle's length of the spot where the black sided Spanish cruiser Yizcaya was anchored. Staten Islanders greeted the guardian of the port with a cheer, and ! many small boats put out to the monitor, j It la fully expected, that she will ;stay at her anchorage until the result of tbo in- | vestigation of tbo Board of Inquiry of the 1 disaster to the Maine has been sent to Secretary of the Navy Long and passed upon. : Americana in No Danger. Havana, Cuba (By Cable).?A meeting of American citizens in Havana was held at the Hotel Inglatcrra to protest against the sensational reports sent to New York of Americans being iu danger. Resolu- 1 tions, copies of which will bo sent to President JicKinley aud General Blanco, were adopted, denying the statements that Americans are insulted on the streets. NINE BURNED TO DEATH, Mrs. Knlckuieyer. Her Two Brothers and 1 Six Daughters Perish in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Rebecca Knickmeyer, with her six j daughters, whose ages ranged from seven- j teen years to an infant one month old, and j her two youug brothers, named 0'Neal?< < were burned to death in tenemont-hoffse : fire at Charleston, S. C. They were sleeping on the third floor of the building. The Arc which started on the first floor. creDt , up the stairway and cut off escape. It is thought that the tiro was of incen- j diary origin. There was a distinct odor of j kerosene oil in the building and different j parts of the place were on fire at the same j time. The father of the children, a fireman on night duty rushed home just in time to see the body of his wife brought out. He dashed up the blazing steos and rescued his baby, but it died ten minutes later. Killed Two Chicago Policemen. Policeman Patrick Fenton was killed and Policeman Daniel Carey fatally shot In Chicago by Michael Clark, whom they attempted to arrest. Clark saw his victims fall and jumped through a second-story window of his boarding place. He ran to the Paris Church and gave himself up to the priest, who turned him over to the police. New Secret Service Chief. John E. Wilkie has been placed in charge of the Secret Service Bureau at Washington. Ex-Chief W. P. Hazen has been transferred to the Nev York office. W SPAIN BUYING WASSHffs! Two Cruisers Purchased of the Armstrongs in England. WERE BUILDING FOR BRAZIL l Fund* I'rom Some Soarce at l!ir DlnpoMtl of (lie Spanish Government?General Lee Inform* the President of Hie Belief That an Exterior Explosion Destroyed the Maine?War Preparations, j London-, England (By Cable).?Spain has purchased two cruiser*, which the Armstrongs have been building for Brazil, tho Amazonins and a sister ship, unarmed, of 4000 tons each, twenty-three knots, and ten guns. Spain is also negotiating for I i.nd will probably secure two cruisers of a similar type, which have been building in France and Brazil. The Amazonius is ready for launching, and her sister ship will be ready soon. me rspamsu uovernmeni is aiso endeavoring to secure guns and large supplies of ammunition in England and on tho Continent for immediate use. Tho Government seems to have funds, for it is understood to be paying a large part of tho purchase-money in cash, giving good security for the balance, these being tho only terms upon which the Armstrongs would deal with them. Several weeks ago Spain attempted to purchase ships and supplies in England, on credit, from prominent firms having close ; relations with the Government here, but after inquiries the firms refused to give credit. Since then Spain has raised funds from unknown sources. Diplomats in 1 London express tho belief that French [ financiers aro helping the Spanish Gov- ; eminent. It is known that Spain is trying to purchase three other ships, which are building by tho Armstrongs! but she has , not vet succeeded in making a bargain. GENERAL LEE'S OPINION. Said to llave Informed the President That It ft'as Xo Accident. New Yobk Citt (Special).?Anthoritativo information comes from Washington that Consul General Lee has communicated direct to President McKinley his opinion that the Maine was blown up by an exterior explosion. In tho event of war with Spain the Dry: Tortugas will be tho base of operations for j our neet instead oi ney nest, xae ieaerai reservation there is to revert to the War! Department and is to be placed immediately in a state ot defence. Theoldtimo Fort Jefferson trill be restored. The reser- ' vation has been under tho control of the Treasury Department sine 1883 having been used for quarantine purposes. Work of the divers on the sunken battleship continues slowly. Only one body ha? been recovered in four days and it is not likely that many more con be brought an. j The report that the Cuban Brigadier-G en- ( eral Yidal Ducasi, had been killed in bat- j tie has been confirmed. He was killed by j a rifle bullet in an engagement with th< Spaniards in Yuelta Abujo, Pinar del Bio. i General Merritt returned unexpected!} I to Governor's Island from his tour of inspection. and projeetiles are being shippec i to Key West, to which point the Genera: will return in a few days. BOARD OF INQUIRY'S PROGRESS. It Has Completed the First Half of Iti ' Investigation* WA8Hrs-oT05, D. C. (8pecia!).?It B officially admitted at the Navy Depart- ; ment that the Naval Board of Inquiry hoi completed only the first branch of its investigation into the cause of the explosion that wrecked the Maine. No opinion is expressed as tp when the work will bo completed, although it is evident that Secre ! tary Long thinks the Board will make s more detailed examination ot tho hull oi the Maine, and examine and re-exam in? witnesses. With somewhat surprising patience Con- | gress is keeping its hands off the Cabai j question in deference to tho wish of tin j Administration pending the investigatior ' of the Board of Inquiry. No attempt ii made to force the question to the frontjir either House, notwithstanding the overwhelming sentiment of Senators and Hepres*ntat ives in favor of some kind of Inter- t vention. $ Captain Fred Sharp, who is in charge ol the wreckers, says it will take thirty days' work before the Maine's guns can be j touched. The removal of the turrets wll j be a tremendous task. This is .because o,41 the immense rivets. PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES. The Navy and the Army Getting Ready F01 Any Contingency. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Plans foi ! four coal sheds at Key West, for supplies ; for the North Atlantic squadron, weri drawn up and the contract for their con- j struction will be let immediately. Thej ; are to be completed within thirty "days. II 1 is understood that Commander Bradford. Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, is soor to mako large contracts for coal to b? shipped to Key West. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Xavj Department is making preparations to re- . snlenish the supply of ammunition of the | United States warships on the Asiatic station. To this end orders have been sent to the training-ship Mohican, now at Mare I.-1and, to carry the ammunition. The ship was just about to leave for a lODg cruist with the naval apprentices, going as far a* me jsamonn win a a-. iiETHLE3Esr, Penn. (Special).?The armj and navy officers now representing th?! United States Government at the Betlile- 1 hem Iron Company's ordnance works here have received orders from headquarters to be ready on twelve hoars' notice for service. Works on the Government contracts at the works is being pushed as rapidly as possible. ? Washisgtox, D. C. (Special).?Eight war vessels, practically completed in foreign shipyards, have been offered to this Government, and the President Is considering placing options on them. The crnlser Baltimore is to be ordered from the Pacific station to Hong Kong to carry a large supply of powder and projectiles to the vessels of the Asiatic squadron on station there. Ceneral Merritt's View*. New Yoax Crrr (Special).?Major General Wesley .Merritt, commanding the Department of the East, said Friday thai Congress should authorize the enlistment j of two more regiments of artillerv. The men were needed, he said, to care for the 1 new big guns placed in our sea-coast defences. Court Returns to Ilavann. Ket West, Fla. (Special).?The Naval Court of Inquiry into the Maine disastei sailed from Key West to Havana, where it will resume Its investigations. Two duys of Idleness on tho part of the Court at Key West, and the obvious fact that it was in no hurry to return to Havana, have naturally strengthened tho belief, already prevafijug, that there is a clearly-defined intention of gaining further time before the report on the investigation is made. "Black Blister" In Imlla. An epidemic of "black blister"' has ' broken out in the State of Hyderabad, In- { din. Fifty deaths are occurring dally. ' i I ? * / 9 1 i? Mj THE NEWS EPITOMIZ^^^H Washington Item*. A new issue of tbe counterfeit tw^^^^H Treasary note discovered by the^^^^H Servioe some time afro has made^^^H| pearanoe. This note bears check and plate number 28. . B Secretary Alger sent a note to the Committer- on Military Affairs reeomm^^M ins: that the Government's Klondike expedition should be abandoned. Senators Gallinger, Monty and Thurston and Representatives William Alden Smith, of Michigan, and Amos Camming*, of New York, left for Fortress Monroe, where they embarked for Cuba as guests on a private steam yacht. They expect to be absent about ten days. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Sol. Berliner, of New York, to be Consul at Teneriff, Canary Islands. Tbe Sennte voted that Mr. Corbett, of Oregon, was not entitled to a seat in the Senate. TKn Pirll Kill wflC hv the House with the appropriation'for the Paris Exposition stricken oat. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt declares the department has no reason to anticipate trouble, bat it has no Intention of being unprepared in case it should tome. ' Secretary Long has directed that the monitor Miantonomah and the ram Katahidinbe placed in commission. Survivors of jthe Maine's crew will be assigned to the iram. i Tbe President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Captain Henry ;B. ltobeson, to be a Commodore; Captain WInfleld S. Schley, to be a Commodore; jCommander Theodore P. Jewell, to be a Captain; Commander William M. Folder, Jto be a Captain; Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Dunlap, to be a Commander; Lieutenant-Commander Richard Bosh, to be a Commander. Guns and mounts for auxiliary cruisers are to be shipped from the Washington foundry to the New Y?rk Navy Yard, where in a few hours they can be placed on the vessels for which they are Intended. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles J. Haubert to be Marshal of the Eastern District of New York. The President appointed Colonel Henry C. Corbin Adjutant-General of the Army, to succeed General Samuel Brack, retired, on account of age. The PostofBce Department will have a rural free delivery system In operation in New Jersey about Marcn 14 next. Passed Assistant Surgeon Thomas BBailey, United States Navy, wa3 found dead in Washington under conditions which led to the belief that he had commit ted suicide. P?Ditto. Joseph Wilkins and Howard Botler were convicted in Philadelphia of violating the oleomargarine law on three counts and held without ball for sentence. Sheriff Martin testified in the Lattlmer irurder trials at Wilkesbarre, Penn. He says the miners would not let him read his proclamation, and that he was felled to his knees before the firing began. ^ Twelve-year-old Katie Beitzenger was so badly burned at Trenton, N. J., that she died. Her flre-year-old brother set her clothing on fire while playing about the stove. The mother of the children was out at the time and the children were locked alone in the house.. Dr. A. Russell Straehan, a prominent fihysician of New York City, died from inurics received in a heroic and successful attempt a week, before to save a woman and little girl from being killed by a Broadway cable car. Dr. Straehan was seventy years old, and was noted for his courtesy. Miss Annie L. Edwards, who resided at Jamison, Penn., a short distance from Doylestown, was found murdered in her bedroom. The woman was beaten to defth'. There Is no clue to the murderer; neither is there any evidence as to the time when the murder occurred. Fire destroyed nearly the whole business portion of Wutersmeet, Mich..including the Commercial House, John Kelly's dry goods store, and a number of buildings adjoining. Ingrain carpet manufacturers plan to establish a trust with a capital of $10,000,000. Cyrus E. Breder, who was the cashier of the First National Bank of Bethlehem, Penn., was sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement. Breder pleaded guilty. The steaaier Manitoba arrived at New York with 600 reindeer for Alaska and a colony of 113 North Europe people as caretakers. Government agents have secured evidence showing that Sampson, the elder of the two Indians burned at Mande, Indian Territory, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mrs. Laird, was also innocent. Floods and avalanches have partly destroyed the town of Monte Cristo, situated in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, Wash. Three buildings of the National Tobacco Company in Louisville. Ky.. were destroyed Are Friday. Loss, 9350,000. Two .men received fatal Injuries. The new steel strut for the tOrpodo boat Porter, now lyiug disabled at Mobile, has been sent to that eity from the Herrashoff works at Bristol, R. I. A schooner from Gloucester, Mass., has arrived at San Francisco with a party bound for the Klondike. The trip took 129 days. Thirty American locomotives and 1G00 tons of railroad iron left New York by the steamer Cbafgearn for China. Dr. Henry G. McGonegal, who was sentenced to fourteen years in Sing Sing Prison October 15, 1S90, for causing the death, in New York City, of Annie Goodwin, died in the prison hospital from senility. An assessment amounting to $133,000 will b? levied on the policy holders of the bankrupt United Life Association by the receiver. Adam Weaver, of Bursonville,Penn.,shot and killed Erwin Mondeau, a Deputy Constable, and Constable Atherbolt. The Portland (Me.) Chamber of Commerce passed resolutions urging Congress to withdraw the bonding privilege from the Canadian Pacific Railroad. The monitor Terror left the Norfolk (Ta.) Navy Yard under sealed orders. Forelra. The spirit of the French bar Is shown by tl^ statement of the Oaulois, which says that M. Zola is unable toobtAin counsel to defend him in his appeal from the findings of his recent trial and must be satisfied with the counsel appointed for him. Bulgaria's attitude concerning the Macedonian troubles is causing anxiety at the Yiidiz Kiosk. It is believed at the Talace that Bussia is backing Bulgaria, and that rumors of impending war with Bussia and Bulgaria are in circulation. The French gunboat Loyalty was sunk in a hurricane which devastated New Caledonia. Emperor William addressed the naval recruits at Wllhelmshaven, and referred to the colors of the German flag, black, white and red, saying that black represented work, white represented rest and peace, and red represented blood, "which was necessary to cement the others together." The Emperor also exhorted the recruits to discharge their duties faithfully, and reminded them of their comrades at KiaoChau. A man named Kardilza, who confesses that he was one of King George's assailants, has surrendered in At hens, Greece, and two of his friends have been arrested. i' - flj ^BBH^^^Bpeedwell, Captain a., for Key West, was st^H|^B^^H ^^^^H^nhile Marquesas, elght^^^^BH^H Bfl^^^Key capsized. ^^^^fl^Rons were drowned of ^^^^ told on board. Among the vfctim^^^^^H| M^Pfne three children of Captain CollierJ^^^^^H George, Tom and Wilbur, respectively fourJ^^H^H six and eight years old, and the entlxwt Nichols family, Bradley Nichols and hl? wife, their son and the son's wife and two* grandchildren. The family was from. Bridgeport, Conn. Those saved are Captain Collier, 8amuel; Cates and Jesse Green, deckhands, and ILf W. Bates of Myers, Fla., a passenger. The Nichols'family is said to bare been* fHHH| well to do. nAU had been staying for a IM^^a month or two at a small hotel kept by Cap-, W 9 *"u ^An,/>- *? mjiA ?Knw *eoea r>n rl iaiii VUIIIOL m* ?ueu.cvs, ?uu wuvj wv*w VM their way home. \ , > The survivors say the Speedwell, which ,yu a small vessel of about tweiity-flvetone,? was making slow headway this mornlagj against a head wind. About 7 o'clock Cap-' tain Collier was at the wheel and the Nichols! family and the Collier children were In the1 cabin asleep. Suddenly a squall came howling up abeam. Cates and Green rushed to take in the sail. V As the jib flagged loose the squall caught 7?| the schooner and blew her dean oxer on' the port side. \ Collier, the deck hands and Mr. Bates were swept into the seething sea, but; caught the rigging just in time to sarei ''J themselves. The wind, rain and surges 7!ju drowned the dying cries of the imprisoned' Nichols family and the Collier children, j The men lashed themselves to the rigging. After being there for two hours theses subsided. Then they got the dingey loose, baled her out wltn a bat, broke n thwart in two pieces, and with theee for oars rowed toward Marquesas. After gbingthree miles they were picked up, exhausted,.' by a fishing sloop and taken to Key West. OLDEST MASON AND ODD FELLOW." The Late George Lord, of California, EnJoyed That Distinction. George Lord, familiarly known as "Undo George," the oldest Mason in the United' \ '1 States and probably in the world, and also; the oldest Odd Fellow In this country, died! at his home in San Bernardino, CaL, the- ] other morning, from a paralytic stroke. j i OZOBOK LOBD. George Lord was born in Kew York City- \kjfj| Jane 27,1800, and first came to California In W 1849. After mining for some time at Steeps -? Hollow he returned to his Iowa home ana v married Miss Arabella Singleton. Again coming to California in 1852, he settled In San Bernardino, which had ever since been " his home. Though latterly rather feeble- . 4 physically, his intellect had not been Impaired by the corrosion of time, and he always fondly hoped to see tho dawn of a. new century. ' LOUD POSTAL BILL BEATEN. House Refuses to Meddle With Existing Second Class Mall Privilege*. J* The.Loud bill to correct alleged abuses of the second-class mail matter privilege, which last year passed the ?Iouse of Bepre- \ ^ sentatives, at Washington, by a majority of 144 to 104, was buried under an overwhelming majority by the Hoose on Thursday. The vote was not taken dlrectly upon the bill, but upon a motion to lay lit on the table. By a vote of 162 to 119 the motion was carried. Forty-seven Republicans joined with the Democrats and Populists la so- \ complishlng this result, and ten Democrats- with the majority of the Republicans. The refusal of Mr. Loud to permit a vote on amendment at the last minute was responsible in a measure for the resalt, bat the stranirth of that mnaanrA nndoabtediv waned throughout the three days' debate. > The announcement of the bill's defeat was-greeted by a burst of applause. PERISHED WITH <100,000. Two Returning Klondlkers Froce* Death h'ear TagUh. Passengers arriving frost Alaska that several days ago two Canadi^^^^^^H mounted police canto into Saaguay two sleds in towJ over which were strappe^^^^^H| two dead The attention of the mounted police Tagish was attracted by the dismal . ot a dog. After a short search they foun<^H^^HM the bodies of two men. They bad been^H^H^J frozen to deatn. It is said they were re-^H^^^H turning Kloudikers and had in their session 9100,000 in paper and gold Their names are. cot known. Lottery Record Defeats Deraai. The United States Senate Committee o? Commerce decided by a unanimous vote to 1 report adversely the nomination of Henry \ Demas to be Naval Officer at New Orleans. I There were many charges against Demas, \ reflecting upon his general character, 1 but the one which seemed to influence \ the committee most was a charge that \ while a State Senator he had been in tho I employ of the Louisiana Lottery. 1 Perhaps Last Breath a Prayer. Mrs. Joseph Bain was bnrned to deatfr \ by the explosion of a lamp at her home to Bridgeport, Conn. Her body was found in a kneeling position. Her two-year-oI<f baby lay asleep in a cradle nearby and was unhurt. Mr. Bain rescued the little one, but did not see his wife's body until li? stumbled over It. A Revolt in Venezuela. TheStato Department, Washington, hasbeen informed that a small revolution ha? broken out at Valencia, about 200 miles from Caracas. Capital of Venezuela. Thla is evidently directed against President An? drade, wbo was only a few days ago inaugurated as tho successor to President Crespo. Quarrel, Fratricide, Suicide. Shep Wood, a young farmey, sh-i and killed bis brother Thomas at Cordeie, Ca. gMfl On seeing the result of his shot he tarned the gun upon himself and sunt a bullet through his brain. The brothers tad quarrelied over business matter*. I