Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 December 1897 — Page 6

:s JAPAN HAS LANDKD 40,l»tM SOLDIERS IN HAWAII IN TEK GUISE OP EMIGRANTS.

elieves Tills Administration Will Hot Annex the Islands—War Will Follow IIL the Near Future—A CongrcHmtiuu .. Crlti IHCII.

About ninety of the officers of the Indiana National Guard convened at the State House at Indianapolis. Wednesday, in response to a call issued by Adjutant General Gore commanding the attendance^f the colonel, lieutenant colonel and nt of each battalion and the comns officer of each company, battery parate corps upon a school of inlasting two days. Other officers vited to attend at their own exense, and many of them came. They und Gen. l.cw Wallace calling upon the ernor. Governor Mount stated that he present he was General Wallace's lg officer., and "commanded" the make a speech. In response to fticial" invitation General Wallace some length on vurious military

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In the course of his remarks cted that the Tutted States would ome involved In a war with Japan awnli. Later the General was seen •eporter and asked l'or a more deexplanation of his views. firmly believe," said he, "that the nest war we shall engage in will be with Japan. There is a country with line naval equipment and a good army Hushed with recent successes and a country spoiling ifor a light, '.i.-ey need a good thrashing and we are able to give It. They have been landing troops on the Hawaiian islands for a long time under the guise of emigrants and there Is now a Japanese army of 40,000 on the islands. Dole discovered the scheme and has tried to put

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stop to the secret landing of this army, but the Japanese already landed are there." "Do you mean to say. General, that .Japan will declare war if we annex Haw:ili?" "We won't annex it. I am in favor of the annexation of the Islands, but you twill see that Ihis administration will not annex them. What we should do right away is to take these Islands when they lure being offered to us for nothing. In lifteen years we shall be engaged .11 a war to get them If we don't annex tnem now. You will live to see that war. I may not, but you mark my word when -1 say that you will see it. Those islands /which we can now get for nothing will •ar-oat us untold money, for there is nothing so expensive as war. "Speaking about our engaging In war," continued General Wallace, "I noticed in -,the papers the other day that Congressman Hillburn of California, had, before ome class in Chicago the day before, lectured upon our military equipment, and, although he is a member of the house committee on naval affairs, he made the statement that while we had some vessels we-did not have In this country eiiough powder to tire the ordinary sa-

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Jkjr- He made this statement to express the absurdity in his opinion of this country engaging in war. "That fellow should be disciplined for that kind of talk. He ought to know that this country has concealed some place in the Allegheny mountains enough saltpetre to make all the powder we would .need In a long war. That statement was ("highly injudicious, and I believe not true.

Even though^ true, however. It but advertises our weakness to the world and invites trouble. Congress should appoint a committee to have that utterance Investigated and if proved to be accurately reported he should be censured—yes, even expelled from the House. He is not fit to represent any one."

THE BUCKET SHOP fcVlI-

Supreme Court Calls Legislature's Attention to It.

The- bupr.-nie Court Tuesday deliver?* another blow at bucket shops when It affirmed the decision of the Montgomery county court in giving Aravella Dill a judgment of $1,607 against the First National Banw of crawfordsville, the sum having been transferred from her account to that of her husband in the course of dealings with a local bucket shop. The judgment is really against one Pearce, who operated the concern. Alter describing the character of Pearce's operations, the court says: "Such deals or transactions are hostile to public policy, and, therefore. Illegal. Tney are of like character and akin to l:ets made on a game of poker or faro, and are equally as uncertain and hazardous. Embezzlements and other crimes -th*#~iiaxt of the public officers and bank officers and bank officials having the custody of money belonging to others have been in the past some of the evil fruits directly traceable to dealing in futures in these institutions, and the question of prohibiting such business, as it is generally conducted, merits the consideration of the Legislature."

PARTITION OF CHINA.

A ltnsslan Paper States That It Has Actually Begun,

St. Petersburg cable: The Novosti says that the absence of protests lrom the other powers at Germany's evident determination to remain at Kiaou-Chou bay Indicates that the partition of China has actually begun and will proceed quickly. Another newspaper expresses the belief that the United States, among other powers, may object to the permanent occupation of Kiau-Chou bay by Germany. Russian offici circles, however, appear indifferent t3 the step taken by Germany.

Conductor Killed by Tramps. .'leveland, O., special: Tramps murdered a freight conductor on the nig Four Railway at Berea, fourteen miles Mtast of this city, Wednesday night. The train was just pulling out of Korea when the shooting accurred. The tramps entered thje caboose, and a terrible struggle between them and John Ehret, tho conductor, ensued. Earl Delgelsh, a brakeman, was also badly wounded. Eight tramps have been arrested at Berea, but the details of the tragedy are thus far meager. Ehret was sixty years of age, nd had been on tho Big Four road for any years.

ANMIAOl KSHUHAXES.,

Secretary of the Treasury l'rc.MUitH-lllaRe-quest for Appropriations..

Secretary Gage has transmitted to.Congress Uic estimates ot appropriations required. tor the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1&)9, as furnished by the several executive departments. The total amount called for by the estimates Is $*J2,647,8$5, which is about $32,000,000 in excess of the appropriations for 1898, including deliclencies and miscellaneous Items, and about $41,000,000 more than the estimates for 1S07. The recapitulation by titles Is as fodows, cents omitted:

Legislative establishment $ 4,465,532 Executive stablishment 20,025,484 Judicial establishment 687,620 Foreign intercourse 1,$50,428 Military establishment 24,620,043 Naval establishment 29,'.129,539 Indian affairs 7.375,617 Pensions 141.257,750 Public works 78,364,134 Postal service 6.04S.112 Miscellaneous 35.187,402 Permanent annual appropriation 117,836,20

Grand total $462,647,885 These amounts include estimates for rivers and harbors. $4S,72\160, and fortifications and other works of defense, $13,378,571, the details of which already have been published.

The following are some of the principal items not of a permanent character, together with important increases or decreases from present appropriations:

The amount asked for to pay expense.1) of United States mints and assay offices is $S4S,300, a decrease from present appropriation of over $114,000. At Carson City Nev., a reduction Is made from $32,300 to $15,500, these two mints to be hereafter conducted as assay offices. The salary list of employes at San Francisco is reduced $2u.iK)0. An appropriation of $12,200 is asked for an assay office at Deadwood.

For legislative expenses of the territory of Arizona an increase from $2,000 to $25, 000 Is asked for. and $3,C00 for a revision of the territorial records. An increase from $2,000 to $26,690 is asked for the legis lative expenses of Oklahoma.

AXtlRV SPANISH GKNKKAI.S,

Twenty Will ProteBt. Against President McKUiley'n Message,

Biarritz, France, cable: Mall advices received from Madrid (telegrams and telaphone messages 011 this subject being forbidden) say the Spanish military journals, especially the most important, the Correspondencia Militaire, declare that twenty generals have come to an agreement to engineer a protest against President McKinley's message to Congress, which is considered insulting to the Spanish army. It is added that a certain marshal was asked to co-operate, but merely replied that he would consider the matter. General Weyler answered a similar request, saying he desired in the first place, to learn the opinion of certain personages, the law not allowing military men to send a collective petition to the minister of war. Political circles ar*? much excited at rumors of a manifesto to the country which is said to be in course of preparation. The semi-official Correspondencia De Espana only Indirectly alludes to the agitaion.

SOUND MONEY CONVENTION.

Will Reconvene at Indianapolis Tuesday. January 25, to Consider Commissioner's Report.

The convention of business men which met in Indianapolis last January and authorized the appointment of the Monetary Commission will be called together again for the purpose of considering the commission's report, lu.s was decided on Wednesday at a meeting of tne executive committee of the convention at the Arlington Hotel at Washington. The new convention wnl be held in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 25. The invitation will go out, as before, to ai. boards of trade, commercial clubs and similar organizations in all cities of the United States having a population of eight thousanu or moi'e. The executive committee determined on this course with a view of crystallzing public opinion in support of the report of the Monetary Commission, in case the plan presented by the commission shall commena itself to the uuslness community.

MEMBERS ARE AT ODDS.

The Chicago Produce Exchange Will Probably Be Dissolved.

Chicago special: After an existence of nearly a quarter of a century, the Produce Exchange of Chicago is on the verge of dissolution. At the end of a long and stormy meeting Wednesday it was decided to distribute the money in tne treasury of the exchange among th« members, which action was taken to mean that the doom of the organization was sealed. A controversy between members of the exchange Is at the bottom of the trouble. The beginning of this fight was in the action of some butter men, who several weeks ago introduced a resolution In the exchange to appropriate $2,500 of the funds of the exchange in securing a strict enforcement of the law which regulates the sale of butterine. This aroused the opposition of the dealers in the latter product and brought about the action just taken.

DURRANT TO BANG JAN. 7.

Fourth Time Blanche Lainont's Slay ex Has Been Sentenced.

San Francisco special: Theodore Durrant was Wednesday morning sentenced to hang on jan. 7 next for the murder of Blanche Lamont. Durraijt's attorneys made a desperate effort to secure a further delay and pave the way for another appeal to the Supreme Court, but Judge Bahrs was inexorable and overruled each and all objections made to the proceedings. Durrant was in court and carried himself with his customary coolness. An immense crowd flocked to the court-room and filled the corridors of the City Hall. This is the fourth time Durrant has been sentenced.

For the Supreme Bench.

The President Thursday sent the lowing nomination to tho Senate: For Justice of the Su^r^me Court, Joseph MeKenna, of California. Mr. McKenna is at present Attorney General of tho United States, but will resign.

liSIUTLE'S, STORY

GOV. MOUNT SAli) TO BE FULLY I,M?ORMED AS, TO VEKSAIJJIJKS LYNCHING.

An Important Decision—Drunkards Raid a Saloon—A Terrllile Collision Near Clinton—State News.

Hostutler's Story..

Indianapolis special to Chicago Record: Governor Mount hits In manuscript the names of the men who, according to Peter Hostntler, made up the mob that lynched the live thieves at Versailles. It was Hostutler who, acting as a decoy in the employ of Ripley county, brought about the arrest of the men who were lynched. Having failed to collect from the county $250 which he says he was promised In case he secured the capture of the thieves, he now appears in the role of the friend of the relatives of the meu whose, lives were taken and proposes to do what he can toward bringing the lynchers to justice. It look him two hours to lay before the governor the information in his possession.

A stenographer, whose presence was unknown to him, took down all that he said. While the majiuscript of the Interview will not be made public, it is known that Hostutler furnished the names at' many men who, according to his story, were in the mob, and he promised that if arrests were made he would find the evidence on which to convict the men.

For a month before the lynching Hostutler, as a detective in the employ of the county, had been associating with the men of whom the people were complaining. He was finally made a member of the gang, and only a few nights before the lynching accompanied the members to the village of Correct, where a store was to be robbed. Two of the men lynched were arrested while in the act of robbing the store. So bitter was the feeling of the relatives and friends of the lynched men against Hostutler that he left the county the day after the lynching, but five days later he reappeared

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Shelbyville special: At a recent session of the commissioners' court in this county Albert Snider was an applicant to sell intoxicants at Fountaintown, in the extreme northwestern corner of Shelby county. A remonstrance was presented to the board and after a trial which lasted a week Snider was defeated. He was determined to do business in the place and opened a quart shop. Recently Harvey Faut, Edward Faut, Horace Faut, William Shank. Tilman Carr, Robert Carr, George Rafferty and Marshall Wliburn drove to the quart shop on the main street of the town of 600 inhabitants. They climbed out of their wagons, entered the saloon, and informed the bartender, Hurry Miller, at the point of a revolver, to step to one side and permit them to take charge of the place. The crowd then demolished the bar, pictures and other stuff necessary to conduct a saloon. An attempt was made to destroy the building, but the blaze was extinguished before doing much damage. The liquors were placed In the wagon, hauled out of town and poured near the roadside. The young men engaged" In the destruction of tho saloonkeeper's property ore friends of Snider and were under the influence of liquor at the time. Officers went after the parties. Snider says he will open another saloon at once.

Lucy Bean Defends ller Land. Lucy Bean, a spinster, residing on a farm six miles east of Wabash, shot and seriously wounded John Webb Wednesday afternoon. The farm on which Miss Bean lived had been sold at sheriff's sale some time ago, and was purchased by Emanuel Beltman. An agent had granted Webb permission to cut some fallen timber for wood about a month ago, and when he went after the wood Miss Bean irove him olt tho farm. Wednesday afternoon he called at the farm again and Miss Bean shot him with a rifle. Dr. John Reunor, of Lagro, was called, but could not locate the bullet.

An rmportnnt Decision..

An important building and loan decision, which may affect many thousands of dollars in loans, was handed down at Anderson Tuesday in the caso of tho National Home Building and Loan Association of Illinois, against W. W. Black. Judge McClure sustained a plea of abatement, holding that the building and loaji association was an outlaw and had no standing in court, inasmuch as it has failed to file the necessary $100,000 bond with tho State auditor as required of all building and lvan associations lliat fire non-residents to the State. This relieves the borrower from all liability, and payment cannot be forced.

Tho suit was one of those which has been attracting a great, deal of attention. It was brought under the recent court decision which holds that non-resi-dent building and loan associations are not entitled to more than 6 per vein., and cannot collect additional lines and premiums, which in some cases brought to light have run the interest up to about 20 per cent., or dor.bled, and in a few cases trebled the loan. This decision is farreaching. Utner pleas of abatement will immediately be filed in Madison county uid in others, it Is stated, and many of tlieso building and loan associations will not be able to meet the requirements and will lose their loans, if the ruling is sustained. There are a number of companies which have been operating on this basis over the State and have been gathering in big interest that will be closed out for goid. Many attorneys consider the building aJid loan decisions handed down in tho courts of Madison county within the last few months the most Important of any that have come up in the State, as tho moneys Involved run Into hundreds of thousands.

Terrible Collision.

Clinton special: A disastrous wreck occurred Thursday morning at the big grade east of this city, and near Lyford station. Three trainmen were killed and six others injured, Tho dead:

J. D. ROUS1I, engineer of passenger ••rain.

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JAMES D. WILLIAMS.

Governor of Indiana, 1877 to Nov. 20, 1880.

with a revolver In each hand and has been in the county ever since. Last Saturday he appeared in Osgood, called together the relatives of some of the dead men and announced that ho intended to be their friend that he had been mistreated, and that he proposed to go to Indianapolis and lay before the Governor the names of the men who did the lynching. He walked from his home to Madison, a distance of twenty miles, and took a train for this city.

Drunkards Raid a Saloon.

G. I... BREWER, fireman of passenger train. C. I". DlfiKTER, fireman of coal train.

The Injured: WILLIAM F. RABB, mall clerk. HENRY CADWALADER, mail clerk. GEORGE FOSTER, engineer coal train. C. E. ATCHLEY. express messenger. LEWIS S. COONS, Chicago, conductor of coal train.

CHARLES S. MITCHELL, Chicago, traveling salesman. The wreck was caused by a coal train and a passenger train coming together. The engineer of the coal train had been given orders to sidetrack at Atherton, but forgot his orders. He admits he was the cause of the terrible smash-up. The conductor .of .the coal train slates that he did all in h.s power to stop the passenger train, but worked to disadvantage, because the headlight on his engine was out. The engineer of the passenger failed to see the coal train until almost upon !t. If the passenger had been a minute late the trains would have met on the trestle. Both engines, two mall cars and four loaded coal cars were piled In a mass. Traffic was interrupted for several hours.

Battle Near Muncle,

Muncie special: At tne home of farmer Jacobs, northwest of Muncie, a pitched battle occurred at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, shotguns and revolvers being used. Mr. Jacobs was awakened by a noise in his chicken coop. Calling his son. the. two, armed with shotguns, opened fire on the three men, who had a vehicle and wero after fat Christmas fowls. The thieves were taken unawares, but returned the volley, and more than a dozen shots were exchanged. "Dad" Keifer, a neighbor, coming to the rescue with a revolver, shot one of the trio as they were leaving the wagon, but all escaped and have not been found.

The police authorities of Terre Haute are boycotting the slot machine. John Messer, of Swayzee, gave his four-year-old son carbolic acid, thinking it was glycerine, and tho youngster died in twenty minutes.

Charles Shearer, of Hobart, one of the gang plundering Porter county farmers, has been convicted under the indeterminate sentence law.

Paddy Toner, thirty-four years old, a glass-blower of Alexandria, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat, assigning as a reason discouraging news from ills home at Pittsburg.

55TH CONGRESS.

(REGULAR SESSION.).

The House Friday passed the pension appropriation bill without amendment, and adjourned until Monday. The amendments offered by the Democrats to correct alleged existing abuses were all rulod out 011 the point of order that they were new legislation. As passed, the bill carried $111,263,880. The debate covered a wide range. It touched not only the question of our pension policy, but that of civil-service reform and the receipts and expenditures of the treasury under the Dlngley law. On the latter question Mr. Dlngley made an important statement, in which he expressed the opinion that the receipts would equal the expenditures before the close of the present fiscal year, and predicted a surplus of $10,000,000 next year. The civil service law was savagely attacked by several members, notably by Mr. Brown (Rep.. Ohio) and Mr. Linney (Hep., N. C.), and was wat.-ily defended by Mr. Johnson (Rep., ind.).

In the Senate, Monday, Mr. Lodge made an effort to secure an immediate vote on his immigration bill, which is substantially the same measure that was passed by the Fifty-fourth Congress and vetoed by President Cleveland. Mr. Allen, the Nebraska Populist, objected to an Immediate vote and suggested that the final vote 011 the amendments and the bill be taken on Monday, January 17, at 3 p. m. This suggestion was accepted by Mi. Lodge, and the order for a vote at that time was made. Mr. Butler spoke at length on amendments he offered to the |blll which he had previously introduced providing for a postal savings bank system. Such a system would, in his opinion, insure greater comfort in the homes "of the plain people of the land, as a great majority of them would certainly become depositors in such banks. This would cultivate among them thrift and economy and enable them easily to provide for themselves In Illness and In old age. As another argument In favor cf the system

Mr. Butler declared that if the system were established there would never be another issue of bonds by the government In time of peace. It would give men of small means an opportunity to Increase their capital, would place a greater amount of money in circulation and afford benefits to all the people of incalculable value. Mr. Wilson present*-?, a resolution directing the Civil Service Commission to transmit to the Senate a statement by fiscal years since 1890, showing the total number of persons examined, the total number passed and the total number appointed in the several branches of the government service, and the total number of persons on the eligible lists of the several branches of the civil service at the beginning of each of those fiscal years. The resolution was agreed to. At 2:40 p. m. the Senate adjourned.

The entire session of the House Monday was consumed in adjusting a personal dispute between Mr. Hepburn, of Towa, and Mr. Norton, of Ohio, which grew out of a controversy that occurred last week during the debate on the pension bill.

The House, Tuesday, after a session of about two hours, adjourned out of sympathy for the President, whose mother was buried at Canton Tuesday afternoon. The time of the session was devoted to consideration of the legislative, executive find judicial appropriation bill. It was decided to postpone consideration of the item providing for the maintenance of the Civil Service Commission until after the other features of the bill had been concluded. It was apparent from tho remarks made that tho entire subject will be exhaustively debated.

The Senate was In session just fifteen minutes Tuesday, adjournment being taken until Wednesday out of respect to President McKinley, who was in attendance upon the funeral of his mother. The motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Hoar. "All Senators," said he, "are aware of the great calamity that has overtaken the chief magistrate of the nation. He is to-day in attendance upon the funeral of his mother. Out of respect to him and as an expression of sympathy for him in his affliction, I move that the Senate do now adjourn." No business beyond the introduction of bills and resolutions were transacted. Among the bills introduced was,one by Mr. Kyle, to change the Immigration laws of the United States. He gave notice that at the proper time he would offer the bill as a substitute for that which Is now pending before the Senate.

The session of the House Wednesday was devoted to the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bills. Eighty-nine of the 112 pages of the bill were covered, and only one amendment of Importance was adopted. It reduced the clerical force ac the Pension Office by ninety-five, involving a reduction in salaries of $115,000. The civllservice question was the chief topic of discussion and the proposition of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Vanderllp to retire clerks for age was made the text for denunciation by Mr. Moody, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, both of whom are defenders of the civil-service law. At the opening of tho session a resolution for tho holiday recess, from Saturday, Dec. 18, to Jan. 5, offered by Mr. Dlngley, from the committee on ways and means, was adopted.

Proceedings of the Senate were enlivened Wednesday by an intersting debate on the bill presented by the foreign relations committee providing for the prohibition of pelagic sealing by Americans. The provisions of the measure were explained by Mr. Davis, chairman of the foreign relations committee, who said that it was in aiu of negotiations now pending among the representatives of the government of the United States, Great Britain, Russia and Japan. Mr. Pet.tlgrew, of South Dakota, sharply antagonized the measure, saying that this country had already suffered more than enough humiliation on account of the seal business, and that he favored the settlement of the question by killing all of ho seals as 11 "y appeared at tlio rookeries of the prot 'of islands, if by the 1st of June next, Gr Britain also had not agreed to the pn ibitlon of th.e pelagic sealing. Ho offei 1 an amendment to that effect, but it was defeated. The bill was passed by a vote of 37 to 14.

The House Thursday passed a bill appropriating $175,000 l'or the relief of the people who are in Yukon river countries, alsj the bill passed by the Senate to prohibit pelagic sealing by American citizens. Thef ormer bill encountered practically no opposition. As passed the sum carried by It is to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War for tho purchase, transportation and distribution of subsistence stores. It provides that these subsistence stcres may be sold at

prices fixed by the Secretary of War or donated where the people aro unable to pay for them. It empowers him to purchase reindeer and employ drivers not citizens o£ the United States and afterwards dispose of the reindeer.

Mr. AVolcott, of oClorado. chairman of the commission appointed by tho President to secure, if possible, the co-opera-tion of foreign countries in an international Conference on the silver question, said in the Senate Thursday that tho commission has not yet made a report it» the President, and It was uncertain wh0n a report would bo made. Negotiations for a bimetallic conference, ho said, are still pending, but Mr. Wolcott assured the Senate that the commission had no intention of prolonging its efforts beyond the point, where reasonable hope of surce»s should exist. In tho course, of a speech by Mr. Stewart, he said the utterances of the President and Secretary of the Treasury proved that this was a gold-standard administration. This statement brought Mr. Chandler to his feet. Ho said that Secretary Gage had never announced that the present administration was in favor of a gold standard and he did believe that the Senator from Nevada desires to misrepresent tho administration. Mr. Stewart disclaimed any intention to misrepresent President McKinley or Secretary Gage, bul he insisted that the words and actions of the Secretary established the truthfulness of his statement.

TRIED AND ACQUITTED

A Mississippi Mob Srant8 Three Negro Suspects Fair Trial and Finally Sets Them Free.

Hazelhurst, Miss., special: In an open field without a house In sight, on a high hillside, with a crowd of eager men awaiting to avenge the terrible murder that has taken place in Lawrence county, In case a conviction was reached by the impromptu court, the scene lighted by flaring pine-knot torches, held aloft in the hands of the waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles Berry, Will Powell and Tom Wallen, were standing trial for their lives last Saturday night at Bankstone ferry. According to reports received at this place from a messenger who arrived from the scene about 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the quickly constituted court did not arrive at a conclusion Saturday night. Tho negroes were arrested with Lewis, who was lynched Friday, at the time of the original crime, but were released on their promising to appear next morning as wit-' nesses. They did not put in an appearance when the trial was ready to begin, and search was made lor them by the mob. The search was successful, and the negroes, when caught, were brought back.

Then the suspicion occurred that they were Implicated with Lewis in the original. crime. Assuming that Lewis was guilty, suspicion naturally pointed to these three negroes. According to their own story, they were with Lewis tho night before. The three men testified that they slept in a cotton house about a mile and a half from tile Smith house, where the butchery took place, and that Lewis wan with them all night. At least, ho \YHH ihero when they went to sleep.

There are about two hundred men In the mob constituting committee for tho trial. Reliable reports received here froj a messenger who left the sxcne of the trial state that the mob Is very moderate in its mien and has cooled down cpnslderably from Its former frenzy. The negroes, though considerably scared, main-. tain their denial of any complicity in tho' crime with unswerving firmness. A telephone message from Hon. Walter CatchIngs, of Georgetown, states that two more negroes have been arrested on suspicion. The other three, according to another report, .have been declared not guilty, but given Until Monday to leave the country.

CASTELLAStS MAT PART.

The Count i« Squandering Good Portion of the Uoulti Millions,

London cable: The World's Paris correspondent says: A rumor is whispered in the select circles of Paris and London that serious trouble has arisen between the Count and Countess Boni Castellane (Anna Gould), over the lormer's insensate extravagance. It was reported somo weeks since that even the vast fortune of the late Jay Gould's daughter was proving unequal to the drain made upon it by the financial follies of Count Boni. It is now rumored that the question of a possible separation by mutual consent, or If not by legal divorce, to be applied for by Countess Castellane, is being discussed by relatives and lawyers acting on behalf of both husband and wife. Matters appear to have been brought to a head by the absolute refusal of the countess to advance any more money to meet tho constantly Increasing demands for tho accomplishment of Bonl's colossal folly ot building a replica of the Grand Trianon in avenue Du Bols de Boulogne.

The construction of this lordly pleasuro house has been lately Interrupted becauso the countess, acting by the advice of her relatives, declined to give anything mora toward the enormous funds necessary for its completion on the scale of grandeur* projected by her husband. The mere outlay on the costliest marbles alone Is said to be fabulous, while It was proposed that the palace should Include a theater gorgeously decorated by the principal living artists, provided with almost perfect modern scenic appointments, and an auditorium large enough to scat five hundred guests. The extravagance of Count Boni In all possible directions amount really to a mania. Everything he gets must bo several degrees more costly and rare than is possessed even by his wealthiest friends. It would take the wealth of a Monte Crlsto to satiate his Gargantuan appetite for throwing away money

Klondike King Married.

Plattsburg, N. Y.. special: Joseph Ladue, tho pioneer of tho Klondike, was married Wednesday evening. Tho bride was Miss Kittle Mason, of Schuyler Falls. The wedding was conducted very quietly and no one outside of the immediate families were cognizant of the approaching marriage. It is said that the couple became engaged years ago, when Laduo was poor. Mr. and Mrs. Ladue will visit New York for several days, where a suite of rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria has been engaged. After visiting the principal cities they will return to Plattsburg to spend tho winter.

Comptroller HHWM,

Charles G. Dawes, of California, has been nominated by the President for Comptroller of the Currency.