Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 April 1899 — Page 2

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MAL0L0S HAS FALLEN

AQUINALOO'S CAPITAL TAKEN BY OUR TROOPS.

The Capture Attended by a Strnssle Bat Loss to Americana waa Slight Gen. MacArthnr'a Division Took the City Miacellaneooa Tctcsrapb News.

MALOLOS HAS FALLEN. Filipino - Capital Taken by the Americana. The War Department has made public the following dispatch from (Jen. Otis:

ilacArthur captured Malolos at 10: 15

Friday morning. Theenemy retired after a slight resistance and fired the city. Particulars later. Hall had quite a severe engagement beyond Mariqaina; casualties, 0. The enemy was driven back.' The rebels burned the city before evacuating it They are now in full retreat toward the north, where Aguinaldo and bis cabinet have been for two days.

A Mlsaonrl Uaoapvaav ' E. Bates bo per was banged at Harrisonville, Mo. He refused to have any spir'ul consoler.' Soper fell seven feet, breaking his neck. Ibe execution was witnessed by forty persons. Soper slept soundly and when lie awoke declared himself ready. He waived the reading of tlie death warrant, mounted the scaffold firmly, and when the Sheriff asked If lie had anvlhing to say, he replied : "All is ready." The crime for which he was executed was the murder of his wife and the it two daughters, aged 4 and 8 years. Fifty Uvea Loat The Steamer Roweua .Lee, with about thirty passengers aboard, besides her crew, exploded opposite Tyler, Mo., and immediately sank with all on board except Capt. George Carvell and one of the crew. The steamer left Cairo with sixteen passengers aboard bound for Memphis. At Carntbersville, Mo., shetooK aboard lilteen more passengers. It is estimated with passengers and crew she i hen bad aborrd about fifty people. The cause of the disaster cannot be obtained.

Get VIO, 000,000 for Wedding PreaThe New York Evening World says: 'William K. Vanderbilt has duplicated his wadding present to his daughter Conseolo, Duchess of Marlboro, for his son, William JL Vanderbilt, Jr. Securities amounting in value to 110,000,000 have been turned over to the young man by bis father." Miss Virginia fair, the bride-to-be, is said to have $5,000,000 in her own light. Woman and Her Son Beaten and Cat At Empire, Ohio, three men broke down the door of Mrs. Jane Willis' resilience, beat her badly on the bead and cut her son Dick terribly. Bis face was laid open nearly five inches. They called for assistance whieh came, but the assailants escaped. An aged relative of Mrs. Willis was visiting tier. She was reported to have $600 cash. Robbery was the supposed object. Special Seaalon of the Cabinet. A special Cabinet meeting was held Wednesday to discuss matters postponed daring the President's absence. The proposition to rush mors troops to the Philippines was discussed, and as a reHilt the issue of a call lor volun teers is not so probable as it was. " The Cabinet eon eluded there was no pressing need of more troops in the Philippines. Aimed at Farmer, Articles of incorporation of the United Fruit Company, with an authorized capital of $20,000,000, has been filed with the Secretary of State Of New Jersey. The company is to do a general business as merchants, planters and farmers, and to grow, manufacture and deal in produce, merchandise and property of all kinds.

Perfect Bai

Secretary of Stale Hay held a conference with President MeKinley about the Samoan situation. He declared afterward that the German, English and American Governments were in perfect harmony and wonid work together to restore order in the troubled Islands.

Wreck at Richmond, Ind. The at. Louis fast mail crashed into the rear of a freight train in the yards at Kieninond, lnd. William Donu. a tele graph operator in the caboose, was killed. The passengers were frightened, but no) injured. -j Intended for Barjr!ar. At Somerset, Ky., W. 11. Burdine placed a gttn in bis granary so as to be discharged when the door was opened. His eldest son forgot and opened the .door, firing the gun. He was killed. Derrick Fall a, Charles Cullen was killed and two otb"era injured by the tailing of a derrick from the top of a building at Chicago.

A tor la a Foreigner. William Waldorf Astor, owner of Mk Pall Mall Gazette, when he arrived in New York recently, on tlie White Mai liner Majcstie, in answer to the interrogatories of one of the customs officers described himself as a foreigner and i le-ident of Great Britain.

Alabama Cyclone.. A disaslrou cyclone occurred at Madie,0. roads, near New Decatur, Ala, l vi, ii'.iises were blown to ruins and aide' : nber destroyed. Ed Daitey was t iowu in to a tree top and fatally injured. Marriage of a Famous Humorist. Row J. Bnrdette, tbe humorist, and Mrs. Clara B. Baker were married at Pasadena. Col. Mr. and Mrs. Snrdett r?.: .;.'? their future home in Pasadena, !...r M . Bnrdette will fill the pulpit of i Fir- Presbyterian Church.

Meets Death on the Gallows. .' H- wrck, N. D James W. Cole, wli. ..n Ic. 12 shot and killed his sweet -cea-t, : .(hronia Ford, through rage ami :(. ; . expiated bis crime on the scarLed. '1 h- execution was tbe second legal juging .1 the State.

fiufli.icron Passenger Train Derailed. f.v 1! riington passenger tmin from K..n - ' ity was wrecked at East Leav.'1. Ivan., by spreading rails. Itev. it W -on (Ian Maclaren), wtto wa on the :r:iii. was uninjured.

'Trains Sentenced to Death. . T i; - ka, Kan., John Henry Co linn received the death sentence for the murder of his father with the sacie placid demeanor that has characterized his actions rom tbe first.

DoMe Murder toi Ohio. At Hoytsville, Ohio, G H. Westeahaven of North Baltimore and Clarence Wittenrnier of Hoytsvilie wete tibot dead by Paul and John Zeitner. Th Zeltners

re tat custody.

TRADE HOLDS STRENGTH. Dun Reports Continued Activity In Nearly All Lines of Business. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Business is not frightened either by t! grcnt capitalization of now companies , liy the wild fluctuations in Wall street. No matter how much the stock operations in New York may count, business elsewhere is large enough to warrant a wonderful expansion oC industries aud that is the thing most important to observe." In no considerable branch has production diminished, but in prao tieally all it has been increasing during the last week. In iron aud stool a little lower price for Bessemer appears at Pittsburg, but with gray forgo "i rents higher there and Southern iron at Chicago 50 cents to $1 higher. Chicago is taking many contracts for building in Boston, New York and Washington, amounting to 4,000 tons, but makers elsewhere are overcrowded with work. The minor metals are all weaker with the reaction of London speculation. Wool is at the doubting point, with large sales ordered from the interior by tired holders, and some coilcessions made to secure transactions at Philadelphia and Boston, though quota

tions show only moderate ilectinc, aim

sales at the three chief markets are ai

most as large as in 1802. Failures for the week have been 200 in the United States, against 251 lost year, and 24 in

Canada, against 21 last year. CAPTURES THREE ARMED MEN. Ohio Youth Surprises and Unaided Arrests Desperate Robbers. Ralph Hoyt of North Fairfield. Ohio, succeeded in tracing and capturing three

heavily armed burglars who broke into

and robbed the postofflce and a store at

Aorth Fairfield a few nights ago. tioyt was alone and armed with n rifle. The

three burglars were tracked to a barn four and a half miles from Fairfield by the prints of new rubber boots in the mud. When found the men were sound asleep in the haymow and were dazed when they were awakened by the call of Hoyt to get up and com along with him. The coolness with which young Hoyt mnde his demand demoralized the trio and they were meekly marched to Fairfield and handed over to the authorities. Hoyt will receive $3600 reward. Self-inflicted shot is fatal. Second Attempt of a Natchez Broker to End His Lire Succeeds. Abram Moses of Natchez died at Cincinnati in the Jewish hospital of a selfinhicted pistol shot wound. He went there several weeks ago with a deranged mind and was taken to the Jewish hospital. From there he escaped by night and jmxped from the suspension bridge into the river, bnt was rescued unscathed. A second time he escaped from the hospital and on the suspension bridge shot himself in the head, from which he died. In Natchez he was a large cotton broker and bo ulcer, president of the street railroad company and the electric light company. SUICIDE OF A NEWPORT MAN. Evidence that O. L. Sypher Jumped from a Boat and Was Drowned. O. L. Sypher of Newport, It. 1., is supposed to have committed suicide between Milwaukee and Chicago some time the other night by leaping overboard from the Goodrich steamer Atlanta. When the boat reached Milwaukee in the morning a new bat was found on the boat and in it were farewell letters addressed to his wife and mother and to ''ol. O. C. Landers, postmaster at Newport. The officers and crew of the boat do not remember the man, bnt there is little doubt that he ended his life in the lake. FAILED TO HOLD CALLICAN. Queer Verdict of Coroner's Jury In Epperson Murder Case. Although James Galligau admitted that he was responsible for the death of Jockey John Epperson, who was fatally stabbed in a saloon opposite tbe race track at Oakland, Cal., a coroner's jury has returned a verdict stating that Epperson's death resulted from a knife wound in the neck indicted by a person unknown. Galligan has been charged with murder in a complaint sworn to by the proprietors oTt the place where the tragedy occurred. Appeal for Chinese Surferers. Citizens of the United States residing in Che Foo, China, have made an earnest appeal through Consul Fowler, at Che Foo, to the charitable in America and elsewhere on behalf of the sufferers from the appalling Yellow river floods of this year. The most conservative estimates place the number of starving at 2.0O0.000 and the time and increasing cold weather will undoubtedly greatly augment the distress. The petitioners say the summer's crops have been a failnre. the seed for next spring's sowing is gone and there Is nothing for these starving millions to hope for iu the future. The natives are doing all in their power; one firm in Che Foo has contributed the equivalent of $70,000 in cash and 10,000 bags of corn, and all classes are contrihnting, hut let us not forget that there are 2.000,000 starving.

Labor Troub'e at St, Louis. A lockout affecting nearly MO workmen occurred tbe other day iu East St. Louis. The trouble was between the contractors and the Allied Building Trades' Union. The ditllcnlty arose tbrongb a refusal of C. C. L. Bosquic, a contractor, to allow Charles Palmer, a walking delegate, to go among his nicu while working. Accordingly the union passed a resolution condemning Bosqnic and a strike was threatened. To circumvent this the contractors, about twenty-five, got together, and when the men came to work they found that all had been laid off nntil they agreed to abide by the contractors' decision. All the men employed on the new cily hall are included. r Fatal Fire at Cleveland. Fire broke out in the jnpanuing department of the Dangler Stove and Manufacturing Company's plant in Cleveland and the structure was practically destroyed. The plant of the Cleveland Machine Screw Company was also destroyed. Three hours after the fire started a falling wall at tbe screw works fell, burying beneath it Lieut. Roth of fire company No. 7. Later in the day Koth'a dead body was taken from the ruins. Cotton Mill Restores Wages. Tbe promised restoration of wages at the Pacific worsted and cotton, mill iu Lawrence, Mass.. has gone into effect, about !,000 employes being affected. It: is understood that the increase is about 10 per cent. Fire Destroys Valuable Property. The five-story brick structure of the Armour Curled Hair and Felt C'ompanv in Chicago was destroyed by tire, with nil its contents. The loss will reach 8230,000. Many of tbe employes had narrow escapes from death. "Young Grlffo" Goes Insane. With little hope of his recovery, Albert Griffith, known the world over as "Young Griffo," tbe pugilist, bas been scut to the Jefferson, III., insane asylum. Excessive use of liquor has wrecked his mind. Port Arthur Canal Is Open. At Port Arthur, Texas, seven miles of ship canal connecting the waters of Sabine lake and the Gulf of Mexico were formally opened with a celebration in which 5,000 people participated. Natives Are Routed. A terrible battle was fought northeast of Caloocau, in which the Americans tost 100 men, including killed aud injured, mid the rebels lost about f00. Aguinaldo' forces were completely routed.

Money for Methodist Schools. At the Methodist mission conference at Cameron, Mo., $72,000 was pledged-SiiO,-000 for the endowment of the American university and $22,000 for the Missouri Wesleyan college at Cameron. Adrift for Twenty Hours. Five fisherman of Sandusky, H. C. Passon ahditis three sons, James, John and CharlesTand Louis Roberts, have reached

their homes there after a most thrllllnf experience ou Lake Erie. They went oii iu a small sail boat to lift their nets aud were caught in a ieirilic s:orm, which car ried away the spur of tin boat and drov the ice down upon them so thai they were for nearly twenty hours drifting helplessly alioul in a heavy sea among crushing and grinding ice Hoes and in m nieiiliiry danger of going to the bottom. They hud a small rovbo;it in tow. Tw of the men started for Marblchcad life saving station in it. They were finally

j fiuied ashore on Cedar Point after a ter i riblc experience and wi re almost deaii I from eold and exiiaiistior. Subsequently ; the tug Silver Spray sighted the three men

iu the suit liiuii mid after hard work man aged to reach the n. The men were in a pitiable condition, being almost frozen ami completely exhausted. CANADIAN INDIANS REBELLIOUS, Refuse to Obey Government Regulations for Election of Chiefs. The Indians of the St. Regis and Cornwall island. Ont.. reserves have refused to obey Government regulations for hold iug elections for live chiefs for a period ol two years. They desire to return to tlu old custom of electing their own chiefs, twelve in number, for 'ife. In August last the Indians refused :o allow the election to proceed. The other day anothei attempt was made to hoi 1 an election under Government authority. Indian Agent Long. Inspector Hognn aud Officer Caatu herlnin, with assistants, arrived at Corn wall, but were refused a Imittancc to the building where the election was beitif held. The police were assaulted. Long being secured and locked up and the others were driven away.

BOUND TO KILL MISS SPRAGUE. Convict Hurley Makes Another Effort to Reach the Young Woman. Convict Otis Hurley was detected tt thf Columbus, Ohio, jienitcu-iary as he lay in wait for his former victim. Miss Daisy Spragne. whom he attempted to murder ir September last. Hurley had been in soli tary confinement, and wore a ball anc chain, bnt with the aid of a steel saw he removed his fetters and t nt his way out ol the cell. When discovered he was in hid ing on top of a safe in the office when Miss Sprague is employed as bookkeeper He .was armed with a stiletto mnde ot half a pair of scissors. Hurley is serving a twelve-year sentence for his former at tempt upon the life of the young woruau of whom he is enamored. FIERCE BATrLE WITH THIEVES. Charles Hendrickson Killed and His Daughter Fatally Wounded. A battle was fought eight miles north oi Dexter, Mo., between Charles Hendrickson and n gang of ihieves, of which he was the head, aud Sheriff Haius and a posse of officers. About 100 shots were lired. Hendrickson was killed, receiving

a wound in the head. His daughter, who was an active participant iu the battle, was probably fatally wounded in tl.e left breast. Hendrickson aid bis gang were fugitives from Franklin County, where they were charged with a number of robberies. Two were captured and five escaped. Looted by Masked Robbers. Five masked men entered the Carbondale Traction Company's car barns at MayfieUI. I'n.. aud sandbagged Engineer Patrick Denipsey, Fin man Frauk Coggins and Watchman William Brokenshire. rendering them unconscious. They then ransacked the office, currying awfy The box with the day's receipts, estimated at upward of $1,000. One robber was afterwards killed.

Guests Jump from Windows. Fire started in the Northern Hotel at Buffalo, bin was under control in twenty minutes. There were about a dozen persons in the building, f .11 of whom were rescued without serions injury. Several of them were slightly hurt by jumping. The loss will not exceed $5,000.

Two Ncgroe? Killed. John Webb aud Will Touey, negro boys about 18 years old, w-re killed and two of their companions seriously wounded at Edgefield, S. C. by four white employes of the Edgefield cotton factory. Two of the murderers are mere boys, probably not over 10 years old. Dice Game Causes Murder. At Cincinnati, Richard A. Roberts, a barroom porter, ran a kuifc into the throat of Charles Prietscb, a mechanical draughtsman, and turned the kuife around in the wound. Death was instantaneous. The bad disagreed about throwing dice. Car of Race Horses Burned. An express cor ou the Santa Fe road, loaded with race horses bouud cast, was burned near Ludlow, Cal. The horses were the property of Dan llonig aud Barney Sclireiber. Seven were burned iu the ear aud five were rescued.

Gasoline Launch Blown Up. A gasoline launch blew up at Folsoni street wharf, San Francisco. George Nelson, the only man ou board, was burned

about the face and lost both eyebrows.

bnt w as not fatally injured. The launch was totally wrecked.

Jail for American Swindler. A (leniiaii-Altieiican swindler. O. W. H. Reif. has been sentenced at Dresden, Germany, to forty-two months' imprisonment for obtaining jewelry from a court jeweler under false pretenses.

Killed by Lightning. Lightning struck J. E. Howerton's barn at Onkvillc, Ky.. killing Robert Petiod and dangerously Injuring Mr. Howerton.

Four Persons Die in a Fire. In a fire at Memphis. Tenn., four pc,p! lost their lives and several were aeriuuvly injured. Scdalla, Mo., Residence Burned. At Scdalla. Mo., the resideuce of Percy Marker was destroyed by tire. Loss $t.ooo. . MARKET REPORTS. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, 1RMIO to S-1.I.KI; sheep. I'air to chuiiv. $J!.O0 to $5.00; vbeat, No. 2 red, 72c lo 73c; turn. No. 2. 3i lc lo illc; oats, No. 2, 20c to 28c; rye. No. 2, K!e lo rioo; butter, choice creamery, 20c : 22-: euas. fiesdi. He to 13c; potatoes, choice, DSc to Sc per bushel. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, ?TS.O0 tr, $-".iTi; hogs, choice iight, $2.75 to $1.00: sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.."0: wheat. No. 2 red, Oe to 70c: corn. No. 2 white, ;Mc to Ktlc; oats, No. 2 white, 3ie It) :2e. Louia Cattle. $3.50 to $11.00: hog?. iFo.'lO l: $4.00: sheep, $3.00 to M wheat. No. 2, Tt'.c to 77c; corn. No. S yellow, 34c to aik; oals, No. 2, 2i'u to 20c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 58e. Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to $.",7S; hogs. Sri.OO to $4.25; sheep. $2.50 to $4.7.V. wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No, 2 mixed, 3t!e to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 2!ic to 2i)e: rye. No. 2. f8e to 00c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75: hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 71e to 73e; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34e to 30c: oats, No. 2 white, 31c to :"(: rye. 5!le to tile. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 74c to "nr. corn. No. 2 mixed. 35c to 3tic; oats. No. 2 while. 27c to 2!lc; rye. No. 2. 55c to 57c: clover seed, new, $3.50 to $3.00. Mihvaulici Wheat, No. 2 spring, !c to 72c: corn, No. ", 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 2S)c to 32c; rye. No. 1, 55e to 57c barley, No. 2, 40c to 48c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $11.25. Buffalo-Cattle, good shipping Bteera, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.25: lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.25. New York Cuttle, $3.25 lo $5.75; boas, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 40c; butter, creamery. 17c to 23c; eggs, Western, 13c to He.

FAB ON I SAIi!

American and British Ships Shell Native Towns.

e powers which hold (he joint pro

of Samoa. It has been known

lirst that tJennaiiy's represents

lives in the islands are ravoralile to .Ma

tin la. while the British and American

r-presenhilivcs have stood together in de

f laring .Main a fa ineligible for the kiugliip. It was because the American who

liotds the position of chief justice had dc cided ihai Mataala was ineligible, uliili :he f.V-rhian rtjrcsei,iaiive at fanioa re

bide liv the dec,

'.1 l.i

that the

SAILORS AWE KILLKI).

Attack by Rebels I'nder Mataafa Brings Atom the Cfa$li.

bevcrul Villages Are Destroyed unit o Larue -Nil mini-of Natives Killed and Injured -Three Ifritixli Suitors and an American Sreutry Killed by the Itchcls During n Fierce Attack-German Consul Hefnses to Aid the other Powers.

hTitKKT sri:xi: at apia.

The startling news from &nuna, i abcl to this country from .Auckland, iliitli.r the intelligence had been sent by the usual mail advices, indicates that a sericiis clash has taken place between the official representatives of (Jreat Britain aud ihc I'uitcd States and the native a!hciein of Mataafa. The followers of Mataafa, alter having refused lo disperse iu accordance with the demands of the English and American officials, attempted to make a demonstration against the British ami American consulates. From the fact that the couiiiiaiutors of the British and the American warships, the I'orp.u's-e and the Philadelphia, felt justified in shelling the natives who engaged in the demonstration, it is to he assumed that Ibe provocation offered by Mat ai: fa's followers w as e. I n-me. According to the Auckland dispatches, the chiefs supporting King .Mataafa having refused to abide by the terms nf the tripartite treaty, and -ontinaiug to defy them despite the representations of the

agents of the United States and Crcut ! Britain, Admiral Kant, the American I naval commander, enlivened a un cling of j

disagree able international complications arose. PERISH IN THE MISSISSIPPI.

stcauicr Koivcnu Lec Sinks and 1 hrce People Drown. The managers of the Lec line of steamers announced Thu'rsday morning that only three lives were lost by the sinking of the Roweua Lee. near Tyler, Mo., Wednesday afternoon. The lirst report of tin? disaster which wi.s received said that all ou board had perished save the captain and an under officer of the steamer. It was estimated that between fifty and sixty persons went down. Telephone connection was secured lo Carntbersville, Mo., by the officials at Memphis, and a few minutes later the announcement was made that the Roweua Lee had sunk iu thirty feet of water off the landing at Tyler, and three persons were drowned. Putting out from the Tyler lauding the steamer hit a hidden obstruction, knocking in tiie hull, but succeeded in landing all the passengers aud crew except the three missing. From the best information obtainable the disaster was caused in this way: The river at Tyler is over the banks, mid the boat in landing ran up el most to the street of the little town, hi backing to the landing it is thought the boat ran on to a stump, aud broke in two.

MEN PROMINENT IN TIIE SAMOAN TROUBLE.

the consuls and the senior naval officers ou board his flagship, the cruiser Philadelphia. After discussing the question in all its bearings it was resolved to dismiss the provisional government. Admiral Kantx therefore issued a proclamation ordering the adherents of Mataafa to return to their homes. When the proclamation was published Mataafa evacuated Miilinnn and went inland. II err Rose, the (lerman Consul, then issued a proclamation upholding the provisional government, whereupon the Matuafans assembled and surrounded the town. The British cruiser Royalist had meanwhile brought a number of Mnlietonn prisoners from the other islands, w here they had been confined by the Matuafans. The Americans fortified Mulintin, and 2,000 of the Malietoans took refuge there. The Mataafans barricaded the roads within

r ' COrjBT UOl'SK AT APIA.

She floated down the river some distance and sank, aud will prove a total loss. WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DIO. Statement Prepared Giving iu Figures Kcsult of tlie Work loue. B. S. Piatt, enrolling clerk of the Sen. ate, has prepared n statement giving in figures the results of the work of the last Congress. The statement shown that 1,457 bill and joint resolutions became laws out of a total of 1S.403 introduced in Loth houses. Of the measures Introdotvd I2.0OS were presented in the Hu.use and 5,855 in the Senate. Of those which became laws 042 originated in Ihfe House and 515 in the Senate. There were ouly two direct votes during the Congress, one of these applying to a Senate bill and the other to a House measure. There were in addition to these four IM.cket vetoes bills which failed to become laws becaase they were not approved by the President. The record shows that the Senate passed 1,173 of its own bills and that the Hiitise acted favorably upon only 517, or fewer than half of them, while of the l.OSl House bills passed by the House the Senate acted favorably upon 046. A larger number of bills were introduced than iu any previous Congress.

the municipality and seised n number of houses belonging lo British subjects. An ultimatum was sent to their leaders, warning thc-iu if they did not evacuate the municipality by 1 o'clock, March 15, the place would be bombarded by the American anil British warships. To ihis ultimatum the Mataafans paid not the slightest attention, but, on the contrary, began an attack ou tlie Malietoans. Komburdmcnt Ir Begun. American Consul Osborn ami British Consul Mnxse consulted, and at their instance, a half hour before tile ultimatum expired, the Philadelphia and the British warships Royalist and Porpoise opened fire on some distant villages. The Yankee and British gunners had great difficulty iu locating the enemy, owing to the dense forests in which liny were concealed, 'i'he lire front the warships, however, soon set lire to some of the shore villages i.ud caused much damage. A defective shell from the Philadelphia exploded near the American consulate, and the marines who were standing guard outside had a very narrow escape. A piece of the shell went through ihc Gorman consulate, causing great destruction. The Germans became nhit-iucd and boarded the German warship I'alke. The rebels made an attack on the town at night and killed three British sailors. A British marine was shot through the legs accidentally by a British sentry. Another was shot in the feel. An American senfry was killed at his post by the natives. Tlie bombardment continued slowly for eight days. Mataafa and Mulicloa Tanii were the rival candidates for king. After the election Chief Justice Chambers decided that Malietoa was legally elected. Coder the treaty agreements the decision of the Chief Justice was to he final in such cases. Supported by the German consul, .Mataafa revolted against this decision and attacked Malietoa's men. The outbreak was suppressed, nod it was announced that the three consuls had agreed to recognize Malaafa as king. This was afterward denied. Mataafa established a provisional government and attempted, with the aid of the German consul and Dr. Fnffel, the (.Senium presideiit of the council, t" oust Chief Justice Chambers from office. This attempt failed through the activity of the American and British consuls and Commander Sturdc of the British cruiser Porpoise. Affairs continued in an unsettled state, the government of Mataafa being tyrannical. The gravest aspect of the matter, of course, is involved in the possibility of further complications iu the relations of

The regular army of the I'nited States will be recruited to full strength. 105,000, by May 1. Gi-n. Gomez will go ou distributing the SMKN'MKRj to his soldiers, as if the Assembly did not exist. Charlie Wah-Hang, otico king of Boston Chinatown, a notorious character of national reputation, is dead. A hundred years ago tbe Hawaiian Islands were said to have bad 400,000 population: now 30,000 is a high estimate. In Philadelphia, 15-year -old Sadie Lurlin committed suicide by drinking laudanum on account of her inability to obtain employment. 'illiam Morrison, an lS-year-oUl printer's apprentice in Bostoii, has fallen heir to .VJO.i 100,000 by the death of an uuelc in California. The grand jury at Lexington, Ky., indicted Col. .lack Chinti for "common nuisance," grow ing out of his abuse of Hon. C. J. Bronstou. Iu the Philippines the insurgents' control is now confined to the island of Luzon, where their forces are split by tbe American lines. The London Daily News says that the real culprit in the Dreyfus affair is Count von Mohrenheiiii. the former Russiau ambassador at Paris. A .sack of burned bones, part of the remains of Mrs. Becker, who was murdered by her husband in Chicago, have been unearthed by the police. The Spanish geueral, Tornl, is tinder arrest in Mail rid. ami will be court martin led ou charge of unnecessarily surrendering to Gen. Shaffer at Santiago. Near Emporium, Pa., a pet bloodhound attacked an aged couple named Jackson, mingling them terribly, and only the timely arrival of a neighbor saved their lives. The late Judge R. M. Dorsey of Howard Couuty. Mil . was born in a snowsturui. rode twenty miles through one to be iiairnl, ami was buried iu the midst: of the last blizzard. (Sen. I.ee and his wife occupy only part of a house ill Havana. Their breakfast consists daily of coffee and rolls, the latter brought from a little Cuban restaurant across the street. Welcome A. Bulk in, husband of Cordelia Botkiii, convicted of the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning of Dover, Del., through the agency of poisoned candy sent through the mails, applied for a divorce at Sun Francisco, on the ground that bis wife had been convicted of a feiouy.

Byjlhe Duchess.

CH A PTER X --(Continued.)

"So he it," says he. with an assumption

of relief that is verv well done. "After

all, I have worried myself, 1 dare say,

very unnecessarily Let us talk of some

thing else. Miss Matipbant. for example,

with a little glance at her. and a pleasant

smile. "Nice girl, eh? 1 miss her.

"She went early this morning, did she?"

says Joyce, scarcely knowing what to say,

Her lips fool a little dry: an ngoniz-?d cer

tainty that she is slow ly growing c-imson

beneath his steady gaze brings tbe tears

to her eyes.

"Too early. I quite hoped to be up to

see her off, but sleep had made its own of

me and 1 failed to wake. Such a good,

genuine girl! T'niversal favorite, don't you think? Very honest, and very" breaking into an apparently irrepressible laugh, "ugly! AX well! now," with smil

ing self-condeuinatiou, "that s really a littie too bad, isn't it?" "A great deal too bad." says Joyce, gravely. "I shouldn't speak of her so.if I were you!'1 "But why. my dear girl?" with arched brows, and a little gesture of his handsome hands. "I allow her everything but beauty, and surely It would be hypocrisy to mention that in the same breath with her."

"It isn't fair it isn't sincere." says the girl, almost passionately. "Do you think I am iguorant of everything, that I did not see you with her hist night in the gar den? Oh!" with a touch of scorn that is

yet full of pain, "you should not. You should not. indeed !"

In an iustant he grows confused. Some

thing iu the lovely horror of her eyes un

does b.ltn. Only for an instant after that

he turns the momentary confusion to good account. "Ah! you did see her, then, poor girl!"

says he. "Well. I'm sorry about that for

her sake.

"Why for her sake?" still regarding him with that charming disdain. "For your

own. perhaps, but why for hers Beauclerk pauses; then rising suddenly

stands liefore ber. Grief and gentle in

dignation sit upon his massive brow. He looks tbe very incarnation of injured rectitude. ; "Do you know, Joyce, you hive always been ready to condemn, to misjudge me," ays he, in a low. hurt tone. "I have often noticed it. yet have failed tu understand why It is. I was right, yon see, when 1 told myself last night and this morning ;hat yon were harboring unkindly thoughts toward me. You have not been pen with me, yon have been wilfully secretive, and. believe me, that is a mistake. Candor, complete and perfect, is the only jrreat virtue that will steer one . clear through all the shoals and rocks of life. Be honest, above board, and, I can assure rou, yon will never regret it. Yon accused me just now of insincerity. Have you been sincere?" There is a dead pause. He allows it to last long enough to make it dramatic and to convince himself he hus impressed her, and then, with a very perceptible increase

of dignified pain in his voice, he goes on:

T feel I ought not to explain under the

circumstances, but as it is to you" heavy emphasis, and a second affected silence.

'You have heard, perhaps, of Miss Mall-

phant's cousin in India ?"

No, says Joyce, after racking her

brain in vain for some memory of the cousin in question. And, indeed, it would have been nothing short of a miracle if

she could have remembered anything

about that upocbryphal person.

"You will understand that I speak to you In tbe strictest confidence," says Beauclerk, earnestly; "I wouldn't for anything you could offer me, that It should get back to that poor girl's ears that I had been discussing her, and the most sacred feelings of her heart. Well, there is a cousin, aud she you may have noticed that she and I were great friends?" "Yes," sys Joyce, whose heart is beating now to suffocation. Oh! has she wronged him? Is this vile, suspicious feeling within her one to be encouraged? Is all this story of his, this simple explanationfalsefalse? "I was, indeed, a sort of confidant of hers. Poor dear girl! it was a relief to her to talk to somebody." "There were others." - "But none here who knew him." "You knew him then? Is his name Maliphant, too?" asks Joyce, ashamed of her cross-examination, yet driven to it by some power beyond her control. "You mustn't ask me that," says Beauclerk, playfully. "There are some things I must keep even from yon. Though you see I go very far to satisfy your unjust suspicions of me. You can, however, guess a good deal; you saw her crying?" "She was not crying," says Joyce, slowly, a little puzzled. Miss Maliphant had seemed at the moment in question well pleased. "No! Not when you asw ber? Ah! that must have been later then," with a sigh, "you see now I am betraying more than I should. However, I can depend upon yonr silence. It will be a small secret between you and me." "And Miss Maliphant," says Joyce, coldly. As for me, what is the secret?" "Yon haven't understood? Not really? Well, between you and me aud the wall."

with delightful giyety. "1 think she gives a thought or two to that cousin. I fancy," whispering, "she is evea in eh? yon know." "I don't," says Joyce, slowly, who is now longing to believe in him, and yet is held steadily backward by some strong feeliug. "I believe she is in love with him," says Beauclerk, still in a mysterious whisper. "I shall say nothing, of course." says Joyce. "Why should I? It is nothing to me. though I am sorry for her." Yet as she soys this a doubt arises in her mind as to whether she need be sorry. Is there a cousin in India? Could that big, jolly, lively girl, who had come into tbe conservatory with Beauclerk last uight, with the light of triumph in her eyes, be the victim of an uuhappy love affair? Should she write and ask her if there is a cousin iu India? Oh, no, no! She could not do that! How horrible, how hateful to distrust him like this! What n detestable mind must be hers! And. besides, wby dwell so much upon it? Why not accept him as a pleasing acquaintance? One with whom to pass a pleasant hour now and then. Why ever again regard him as a possible lover? A little shudder runs through ber. At this moment it seems to her that she could never really have so regarded him. And yet only last night And now. What is It? Does she still doubt? Will that strange, curious, tormenting feeling that once she knew for him return no more? Is It gone forever? Ob! that it might be so!

CHAPTER XI. "Dull-looking day," says Dicky Browne, looking tip from his broiled kidney to glare indignantly through the window at tbe gray sky. !'H (n't be always May," says Beau-

clerk, cheerfully, whose point it is to take ever a lenient view of things. "I suppose we ought to do something today." says Lady Baltimore presently. "I was thinking that if we went to 'Connors Cross' ft would be a nice drive. What do you say, Beatrice?" "1 pray you excuse me," says Lady Swausdown. "As I leave to-morrow, I must give the afternoon to the answering of several letters, and to other things besides." "I'll drive you there this afternoon. Miss Kavanagh," says Beauclerk, in bis friendly way, that in public has never a tincture of tenderness aliour it. "We might start after luncheon. It is only about ten miles off. Es?" to Baltimore. "Ten," briefly. "I am right then," equably: "we might easily do it in a little over sn hour." "1 should like it," says Joyce, in a hesitating sort ot way; "bat " "Then wby not go, dear?" says Lady Baltimore, kindly. "The Morroghs of Creaghstown live not half a mile from it, and they will give you tea if you feel tired: Norman is a very good whip, and will be sure to have you back in proper time." Dysart, lifting his bead, looks full at Joyce. "It is settled, then." says Beauclerk, pleasantly. "Thank you ever so much for helping me to get rid of my afternoon in so delightful a fashion." "It is going to rain. It will be a wet evening." says Dysart. abruptly. At half-past two precisely, however, a dog-cart comes round to the hall door. Joyce, running lightly down stairs, habited for a drive, meets Dysart at the foot of the staircase. "Do not go." says he, abruptly. "Not go now," with a glance at her costume. "I didn't believe you would go." says he. vehemently. "I didn't believe it possible

or I should have spoken sooner. Never

theless, at this moment I entreat you to give it up." "Imposible," ssys she, curtly, annoyed by his tone, which is perhaps unconsciously a little dictatorial. "You refuse me?" "It is not the question. I have said I woidd go. I see no reason for not going. I decline to make myself foolish in the eyes of everybody by drawing back at the last moment." "You have forgotten everything then." "I don't know," coldly, "that there is' anything to remember." "Oh!" bitterly, "not so far as I am con--cerned. I count for nothing. I allowthat. But he I fancied you hid at least read him." "I think, perhaps, there was nothing to read." says she, lowering her eyes. "If you can think that, it is useless my saying anything further." He moves to one side as if to let her pass, but she hesitates. Perhaps she would have said something to soften her decision, but. a rare thing with him he loses his temper. Seeing her standing there before him, so sweet, so lovely, so indifferent, as he tells himself, his despair overcomes him. "I have a voice iu this matter," says he, frowning heavily. "I forbid yon to go with that fellow." A sharp change crosses Miss Kavanagh's face. All the sudden softness dies out of it. She stops leisnrely, and disengaging tbe end of the black lace round her

throat from sn envious banister tha'

would have detained her, without further

glance or word for Dysart, she goes up the

hall and through the open doorway. Beauclerk, who has been waiting for her out

side, comes forward. A little spring seats her in the cart. Beauclerk jumps iu beside her. Another moment sees them out

of sight.

Dysart'a prophecy proves true. At four

o'clock, while Beauclerk and Joyce are

still some distance from their destination,

the ram comes down m torrents. They seek shelter in the nearest hamlet, and, fortunately, find in it an Inn kept by a

Mrs. Connolly, who was a nurse to Joyce

and her sister when they were infants.

All the evening and far into the night

the storm rages so furiously that Beau

clerk and Joyce are compelled to stay tt

the inn until morning shall come. Mrs.

Connolly baa promised Joyce that she will

accompany them back to the castle to ex

plain her absence and nip in the bud any

scandal that might rise from the mishap.

Rising from a sleepless bed, Joyce goes

down next morning to find Mrs. Connolly

standing on the lowest step of the stairs

as if awaiting her, booted and spurred for

he journey. "I tould him to ordher the thrap early,

me dear, for I knew ye'd be anxious," says the kind woman, squeezing her hand.

An now," with an anxious glance at her, I hope ye ate yer breakfast. I guessed

ye'd like it in yer room, so I slot it up to

ye. W ell come on, dear. Mr. Beauclerk

is outside waitin . I explained it all to him. Said ye were tired, ye know, an'

eager to get back. And ao all' ready an' the horse impatient."

In spite of the storm yesterday, that

seemed to shake earth and heaven, to-day

is beautiful. Soft, glistening steams are rising f- -a every hill and bog and valley

as the b. . sun's rays beat upon them. The grass looks greener for Its bath, all dust is laid quite low, the very lichens on the walls as they drive past them look washed and glorified.

The sun is flooding the sky with gorgeous light: there are "sweet smells all around." The birds in the woods on either side of the roadway are singing high carols in praise of this glorious day. All nature seems joyous. Joyce alone Is silent, unappreciative, unhappy.

the nearer she gets to the Court the more perturbed she grows in mind. How will they receive her there? Barbara had said that Lady Biiltimore would not be likely to encourage an attachment between her and Beauclerk, and now, though the attachment Is impossible, what will she think of this unfortunate adventure? She is so depressed that speech seems impossible to her, and to all Mr. Beauclerk's sallies she scarcely returns an answer. He had kept up a lively converse all through the earlier part of their drive, ignoring the depression, that only too

plainly was crushing npon his companion, with a view to putting an end to sentimentality of any sort. Her discomfort, her unhappiness, was as nothing to himhe thought only of himself. CHAPTER XII. "Oh. my dear girl, is it you at last?" cries Lady Baltimore, running out into tbe hall as Joyce enters it. "We have been so frightened: Such a storm, and Baltimore says that mare you bad is very uncertain. Where did you get shelter?" The very warmth and kindness of her welcome, the utter absence of disapproval in it of any sort, so unnerves Joyce that she can make no reply; can only cling to her kindly hostess, and hide her (ace oa her shoulder. "Is that you, Mrs. Connolly?" soys Lady Baltimore, smiling at mine hostess of the Baltimore Arms, over the girl's shoulder. "Yes, my lady," with a courtesy so low that one wonders how she ever comes up again. "I made so bould, my lady, aa to bring ye home Miss Joyce myself. I know Mlsther Beauclerk to be a good support in himsel' but I thought It would be a ralsouar thi"g to give her the company of one C ' omen folk besides." V

"Quite right, quite," asys Lady Baltimore. "Oh! she has been so kind to me," says Joyce, raising now a pale face to turn a glance of gratitude on Mrs. Connolly. "Why, indeed, my lady, I wish I might ha' bin able t do more for her; an' I'm Borry to say I'd to put her up in a small, most Inconvenient room, just inside o' me own." "How was that?" asks Lady Baltimore, kindly. "The inn so full, then?" "Kegs, 'twas that was tbe matter wld it," says Mrs. Connolly, with a beaming smile. "Crammed from cellar to garret." "Ah! the wet night, I suppose." "Just so, my lady," composedly, and with another deep courtesy. Lady Baltimore having given Mrs. Connolly into the care of the housekeeper, who is an old friend ot hers, leads Joyce upstairs. "You are not angry with me?" says Joyce, turning on the threshold of ber room. "With you, my dear child? No, indeed. With Norman, very! He should have turned back tbe moment he saw the first symptoms of a norm. A short wetting would have done neither of you any harm." "There was a storm, a violent storm; yon must have felt it here." "No storm should have prevented Ida return. He should have thought ouly of you." A little bitter smile curls the girl's lips; it seems a farce to suggest that he should have thought of her. He! Now, with her eyes effectually opened, a certain scorn of herself in that he should have been able so easily to close them, takes possession of her. Is his sister blind still to his defects, that she expects so much from him? Has she not read him rightly yet? Has she yet to learn that he will never consider any one where his own interests, comforts, position, clash with theirs? (To he continued.)

PAINTING SPOTS ON CIGARS.

Choice Tobacco Leaf la Ctoaely Imitated by a Smart Little West Stder. "Please give me one of those cigars with the spots on," said the man as he leaned over tbe case and began looking over the stock with that air of the expert that every man assumes when buying cigars. The box of speckled cigars was handed out, and the patron, really pitying men who can't tell tobacco when they see It, ailed his pocket and retired where none of the ignoramuses should even have a whiff of the second-hand smoke. "A man's got a right to think he knows it all," said the clerk, as hepushed the speckled cigars back into tbe case. "You see that chap ha been told by some one that the choicest leaves of the weed In nil the world are those which come from one section In Cuba and are tbe bottom leaves on the plants. The rain pounds the sand Into these leaves, and the sand makes them speckled. The speckles don't make the leaves any better, but It happens that the speckled leaves go only Into the very best goods. "The smokers who ask for the speckled cigars with the green spotshave heard about, this way of telling good cigars, and eo they try to work It, A wise little man on the West Side noticed this fad and started to think on it. He told his firm about a plan to make a dye which would look like the sand spots on the Cuban leaves. He worked and finally secured a solution, which makes tbe deception absolutely safe and perfect. "This compound sells to cigar-makers for about $3 for two ounces. It is sold under a copyright like a patent medicine, a little of it Is mixed with ammonia. The cigars are laid out Is & row before being boxed. The spray from a fine brush is showered npon hem and there yon have the flit speckled tobacco of Cuba or Connecticut. It's a good game, because It puts the price of the cheap article up 7lth that of the really best. A large trade is done in the bogus speckles." Chicago Times-Herald.

When They Made Tbelr Debut. Dickens bas told us of the keen emotion that overcame him on seeing In print his first "effusion," as he styled It, which be dropped stealthily one evening, with fear and trembling. Into, a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a. dark court in Fleet street, and how, when it appeared next morning, he went for half an hour Into Westminster. Hall, "because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could, not bear the glaring light of the street." Charles Mathews the elder describes; the delight with which he gated on tbe first proof ot his translation of the Princess of Cleves, which appeared Id the Lady's Magazine, as "boundlesv" and how he fancied the eyes of Europe, were upon him, and' that the ladles who subscribed to that periodical would unite In calling on the editor to Insist on "C. M." disclosing his Identity to ths world. Poor Haydon has left a vivid record, of the flutter of elation with which he greeted the result of his having dropped a little composition into the letter-box of the Examtuw. "Never," he writes, "shall I forget that Sunday morning. In came the paper, wet and uncut; In went the paper-knife cut, cut, cut. Affecting not to be. interested, 1. turned to pages open to dry, and to my certainimmortality beheld, with a delight not to be expressed, the first sentence or my letter. I put down the paper, walk, ed about the room, looked at Macbeth (a print on tbe wall), made the tea, buttered the toast, but In sugar, with that Inexpressible, suppressed chuckle of delight which always attends a condescending relinquishment of an anticipated rapture till one Is thoroughly convinced that he Is perfectly ready, Wbo has not felt this? Who bas not done this?"--Saturday Evening Post.

Oeneala of the Cocktail. The cocktail was the invention of Colonel Carter of Culpeper Courthouse, Va. Many years ago In that locality there was a wayside inu named "The

Cock and Bottle," the semblance of an old English tavern, aid which ' bore

upon its sign a cock and bottle, meaning thereby that draught and bottled

ale could be had within the "cock," Id

old vernacular, meaning the tap. He,

therefore, who got the last and muddy portion ot tbe tap was said to have received the "cocktail." Cpou one occasion when Colonel Carter was subjected to the indignity of having his muddy beverage put before him, he threw -it angrily upon the floor and exclaimed: "Hereafter I will drink cocktails of my own brewing," and then and there ho dashed togethor bitters, sugar, the oil of lemon peel and some old Holland glir and thus and then and there was the original cocktail concocted. Waterbury American. Queen Victoria, though in every oth. er respect a remarkably tearless woman, has a horror of fires. Her Majesty Is particularly nervous upon the point when staying abroad at some place to. which she Is unaccustomed, and fo this reason a couple if fire extinguish era art Invariably sent In advance, ta, be fitted up In her temporary rest dence. There Is no genius In lite like thegenius ot energy and activity. D. Q Mitchell.

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